skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> an extra tax on storage

Who cares about due process and the market, just presume everybody is liable and tax them to guarantee profit to an industry? What a complete perversion of basic capitalism and rule of law.

> It'd be nice to see more countries going with solutions like that

It's nice to pay an extra tax to prop up a poorly-run industry?

>>> There will also be an exception for private copying.

While it's not clear precisely what is meant by "private copying", time-shifting was ruled a fair use in the Betamax case, without the need for a levy.
Plus one for deterministic software. It's an incredibly useful property when you want to test something. Particularly when doing major version upgrades and when replacing entire systems.

Unfortunately strict determinism and test coverage often go hand in hand. Either the developer gets it or (s)he doesn't.

Fortunately you often do get a least a moderate level of determinism even from the most awful software.
Great list of top 10 Augmented reality App companies, Another one great Top Augmented app developers showcase here: http://bit.ly/2oDnH34
The fault in your argumentation is comparing a language (PHP) to a framework (Django, Jinja, Rails).

Your argument is valid too for any PHP framework, it's hard to do XSS in laravel, symfony or zend framework.
It's not like SCUMM is synonymous with the orginal Scumm instruction set emulator. It's more an umbrella term for "simulating old school adventures" (See here: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Engines). I don't see why this shouldn't work the other way around.
On the futility of comments on blog posts
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600$/month for a SaaS "Basic" plan is questionable, to say the least. Get your pricing right. For 600$/month I can easily allocate resources within my company to come up with a tailored solution for my needs. Maybe check what the competition is doing:

https://papertrailapp.com/plans
https://logentries.com/pricing/
https://www.loggly.com/plans-and-pricing/
I think it's great that MST3k can find new life in the next century. But it's certainly a disappointing reminder that so much funding these days goes towards nostalgia/reboots/sequels and not new, original content.
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The same is true for AMD's new Ryzen CPUs, ECC support is enabled. You still need a suitable motherboard though.
Episodes 2, Wild Wilderness is my favorite new episode so far.

I think as far as running times go, this is the longest netflix original release with 14 episodes around 1.5 hrs each.
I don't think there are implementations of twig outside of PHP, so this isn't useful for the op
I don't understand how this is news.

This entries are years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...

Unless stated otherwise, NSA is there, even here.
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While I agree that it'd be nice if Intel didn't use ECC as a server/desktop delimiter, AMD's stance (at least for AM3 and AM4 parts) appears to have been "the CPUs support it, but we haven't run any validation tests on it; if the motherboard manufacturers want to validate it and turn it on, great".[1][2] Which is not quite the same as it being enabled on all parts.

[1] - http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...
I've kept my account because I joined a local music gear buy and sell group, and the experience blows craigslist and kijiji out the water.
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is already removed
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I love this quote: "If philosophy struggled to make sense of life, what could it possibly offer on death?"
jwz isn't exactly a fan of "Hacker" "News". You may want to open that link in incognito mode.
PHP has lower overhead still. You don't need to import, explicitly define route, etc. PHP Built-in dev server doesn't require anything extra either.
I am from Brazil, that is a agriculture powerhouse.

1. Young people here don't want to be farmers either, the ones that do want (me for Example) can't afford the land price anyway.

2. Because exporting the same thing over and over again is way more profitable than selling food to locals, most farms focus on those, we have regions where people eat poorly in the middle of gigantic eucalyptus fields that replaced all farms.

3. Point 2 is so bad we actually import lots of food, most notoriously most of our wheat is imported, some places even sell imported pasta, and most of the imports are mass production crap, for example giant apples with no taste, wheat that only works to make very soft crappy pasta that never befome al dente and has excessive amounts of gluten.

I actually envy Japan and other countries that defend their food security.
What happens if you use a USB-C->USB-C cable to connect your Nexus and Pixel? Does one charge the other? Does nothing happen? What about charging a Bluetooth keyboard that's USB-C? Is that possible with either of them? (I'm not being snarky, these are genuine questions, but the answer probably depends on the devices, keyboard, and cables used.)
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I was the one interviewing for a job! If I get it, then maybe I can invite you. For now, precious is mine!
Ask HN: Your approach to security on the Mac
Other than running only signed apps, using a password manager, running regular updates & using a firewall, how do you secure a Mac?

I'm not a fan of running active AV protection, but would run regular scans.
>Really? how does wikipedia function then, why do lots of people create meaningful content in web for free?

I get the impression that sometimes it's barely getting by; very few months I see a banner at the top of its webpage suggesting that it's close to running out of money and pleading for donations.
Big differences, with shared php hosting you get: (Yes, I'm sure there are exceptions, but they're... exceptions)

Payment per month not per usage. Normally there are usage tiers and a "you reached your limit" page rather than scaling.

No versioning beyond standard file operations.

No routing. You get all traffic in a single endpoint.

Only web traffic, no integration. Serverless in many cases is FaaS, with multiple event sources, not web-request-handler-aaS.

Sure, there are some similarities. But the use cases are completely different. Nobody is seriously considering "should I use AWS lambda, or GoDaddy shared PHP hosting?"
As I recall, the mouse sets acceleration, but not the position of the gamer's piece, so it is possible to have movement even if the mouse is left alone.

FWIW, I just tried the emulator on MacOS Sierra and Chrome and it works just like I remember it.
That's because a lot of folks on HN come from Harvard or Stanford or MIT, where it's drilled into you that this pedigree is super important. There are companies that will not hire you for an engineering role if you don't have a CS degree from a short list of universities unless you're part of an acquisition (and even then).

This gets ignored the second they get $800k in VC money but for some reason the same idea never translates to "real science" or academia.
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Unless we want to start playing semantic games about what counts as a "real" democracy that isn't really true.
Oh for fuck's sake. AI could also be a liberal's dream, or a socialist's dream, et cetera. Stop trying to treat technology as having some innate political orientation, and take responsibility for the degradation by humans of our politics.
My exact thought. Good thing I Control + F'd "800" before duplicating your comment.

800 employees is especially insane for a serial entrepreneur like Stuart Butterfield who should know better. Then again, the Twitter guys including Ev Williams were serial entrepreneurs and yet the overhired too. It seems an interesting coincidence in the technology sector that viral user growth often can lead to viral hiring.
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Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for those who are ignorant as I.
>a complete perversion of basic capitalism

I'm pretty sure that was the whole point. Capitalism is not a magical faery solution to everything, it obviously was not working in this industry so they are trying someone new.
Yet another article equating nationalism and conservatism with white supremacy and fascism? Pathetic.
Is Whatsapp a good comparison in terms of product? I remember reading the engineering team there before they got purchased was less than 50 members.
In the same vein, here is an interesting DEF CON lecture titled, How To Overthrow a Government:

https://youtu.be/qbTPkKB9Ffc

One of the key elements of the lecture is pwning the central bank of the target country in order to frame political oponents by creating false transactions to terrorist groups.
Can we kill off this "Kodak died because it didn't see digital coming" meme, please?

> I imagine Kodak said something like this in the 90's: "Hobbyists might use digital cameras, but pros will still use film."

It's quite clear they were not saying this in the 90s, because Kodak was selling insanely expensive professional digital cameras for all but one year of that decade.[0]

They were ahead of their competition in adapting to the digital era. They lost because Nikon and Canon ate their lunch with vastly superior digital cameras.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS
It has always been like that. Thinking this is new or trending is a really naive point of view. The business world is unethical, immoral, frequently borders on the illegal, and hardly ever does the right thing. If you think any of the tech companies are any different then you drank the kool aid.

They are not too big to fail. The bubble we are in makes it seem that way. Cheap money makes valuations soar. Won't last much longer though. A good thing because thats when you can really make some money.
The effect you're describing might be a temporary anomaly. If startups are consistently damaged by tech giants copying them, startups will get lower valuations. If startups get lower valuations, tech giants might as well just acquire them rather than bothering to copy. It may reach an equilibrium.
> show me a popular web programming language that prevents the problems you called out (at the language level, not the framework level).

Golang? https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/
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Oh these are great, thanks so much for the links and detailed response. I can't wait to play with these. I had one questions about this comment in regards to compresses ASTs:

>" If you know how fast Go is, then you'll know what we lost when it got ignored"

I am intrigued by that statement but I don't understand it. Can you elaborate? Cheers.
All my memory is ECC (other than my barely-used laptop). Been there, bought the t-shirt, decided non-parity can go jump in a lake more than a decade ago.

http://i.imgur.com/uz2inSy.jpg

I encountered this going through a copy of my photos stored on a pair of WD Greens using NTFS 3-4 years ago. The original copy on a ZFS machine was fine. I found a few others, and promptly stopped using those drives.

Two years ago I had repeated bursts of ZFS checksum errors from a pair of SanDisk SSDs. Evidently TRIM didn't quite work perfectly 100% of the time, and caused data corruption - luckily ZFS was always able to repair it, and it being detected meant I could do something about it early - I updated firmware and the issue went away. Last year it came back after an OS update, and I just turned TRIM off completely (I guess it was sensitive to TRIM patterns and those changed).

Last year I also had a Toshiba HDD forget how to IO properly, and got a constant stream of ZFS checksum errors from it until I yanked it from the hot-swap bay and reinserted it. It resilvered and scrubbed fine.

These aren't the only times I've seen checksum errors and silent corruption, they're just the most recent. ZFS lost a file once, and was very noisy about it - the status message for the lost metadata stayed until I recreated the pool. NTFS, UFS2, ext2, all were completely silent on the fact that they were showing me data that was clearly wrong.

I don't trust disks, or IO controllers, and I don't trust filesystems that do. Neither should you.
I think I've spent more money on Rifftrax and MST3K than anything else in the last 9 years.
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I am saying that people who are struggling in their job blame their boss as the cause. If you put a person into a job that is beyond them they will find an external factor to blame. In my experience this is most commonly management. This is something both young and old do.

While I am not claiming to be a perfect boss (far from it), most of the causes of rapid change my employees have faced are external factors totally outside my control. Small companies are by their nature prone to being buffeted by outside forces. It makes things exciting, if not predictable.
> but it's also incredibly easy to copy.

I used to have same attitude but what I have learned over the years is that sometimes the big Co just does not get it. Just look at Google with its 100 chat applications, it's like watching Titanic hitting an iceberg in slow motion.
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Would it be possible to add in-memory LZ4 compression in xi-editor? For those huge log, XML, csv, etc. files?

Maybe it'd still be possible to maintain good response time while enjoying 4-10x memory savings.
Honestly, having seen maybe three or four episodes, I've never liked it. The jokes just aren't good enough to make a bad movie worth two hours of my life. There are so many other things I'd rather be doing. I try an episode every few years, because everyone talks so highly of it, but I always regret the decision or just quit halfway through.
That's why humans are not very good at finding non-local maxima, and why a lot has to do with the luck of where on the terrain you are randomly dropped for your initial climb.
so how do they check they are alive ?
The problem with this is that dexterity beyond a certain level is very specific to what has been trained.

I have a friend who is an eye surgeon. I'm definitely better at playing guitar and piano than him, probably equal at things like juggling and card tricks, but absolutely inferior when it comes to cutting people's eyeballs apart.

It doesn't invalidate your point completely, but just because someone is good at plaiting hair doesn't mean they'll be good at surgery!
I think I explained myself quite poorly, because I agree with you.

I meant "get" it in the sense that I can tell when I do or don't need a lawyer, rather than my friends and family who moan about Google for (c)-ing a photo of the sky ("They don't own the sky!") or what trademarks and patents are even for ("How did Apple get a patent on putting the letter 'i' in front of every product name?", to paraphrase).

I'm no expert, but I'm not a n00b either [that said, I think the monkey should own the copyright on their selfie, not the camera owner, but that's opinion not law. :)]

The rest if my examples, well… I don't even know enough to know if they are hard or easy. Which should be a good sign that I don't have the skills to run a business in its own right, so I'm not sure why other people are telling me I'm wrong about not being able to.
i've been using spark on all my apple devices and i love it. reminds me of sparrow, before google gobbled them up.

https://sparkmailapp.com/
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I'm not in the field of machine learning, or AI or even know how to use these terms with any expertise. It has, however become a lingering thought that there will come a day where everything we have clicked, liked, linked, saved in email, posted on walls, left in caches, and perhaps even said in audio or mouthed in video, will eventually be distilled and converted into some hashcode that instantly exposes our true selves. Our private biases, our religious, sexual preferences, our kinks, our racisms, all our private inner thoughts are possibly one powerful calculation away from being public. And I dont know if an open person can appreciate the type of hell that would be for a shy person.
PHP is a web framework. It's just one that requires another framework on top to mitigate its shortcomings.
There weren't PHP6 though.
I mean, it's "different", but I think it's a stretch to say lower. PHP overhead is suddenly a lot higher when you need a route with a dynamic ID in it if you're talking pure out-of-the-box, for example, which is a reasonably trivial use case.
Is there some mad outbreak of fascism I don't know about? Anyone who regularly reads the Guardian and takes it seriously is probably locked up in a seed bunker somewhere.

I certainly agree there's been a slow erosion of civil liberties in the US since 9/11, but I've yet to see an epidemic of doors kicked in for outspoken opinions against the state.

Maybe calm down on the fascism talk.
Yes the principle-agent problem has yet to be solved [1]. I wish I had a solution other than keeping the company small and the shareholders involved as managers.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
Another relevant story from today:

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...
Like DRM is not a perversion of basic free market anyway... (and you are mixing capitalism and free market which are not synonyms).
Yup. But I suppose a diff of uber vs uber+lyft might make a good shitlist. Thats on top of tracking its drivers when moonlighting, perhaps giving them more valuable pickup location and frequency data. Uber is a data company, transport is just the means, self driving a distraction.
I don't know about AI but the deep learning algorithms the article mentions can certainly be used for evil purposes. In truth, the people being governed by algorithms need to learn that computer says does not imply correctness and that the power is in the people governing whatever the tools they use. Actually, I think that genuine AI which is smarter than the current set of politicians could be a benefit since it should not have the same limitations and actually be able to think things through to a generally better outcome, rather than pandering to its own biases and prejudices (see: The Culture)
Everyone I've moved to Fastmail has found its spam filtering to be superior. It was the first thing my wife noticed.
Nothing new here. Look at Netscape, eventually being surpassed by Internet Explorer. (Which in turn was surpassed by Safari and Chrome)

It's very hard for large companies to do large scale decentralized R&D, so they copy and buy companies that are doing it. This isn't an awful thing. In many cases the original technologists get acquired. If the market is big enough, big players will want in too.
We do really need accountability and explainability for ANY algorithm - AI or not. I see a lot of organizations wash their hand off the results by pointing fingers : "Hey, we didn't do it - the machine did it". It's a potential disaster in the making - not just for people but also for technology itself. The potential impacts of an algorithm should be studied and a decent attempt has to be made towards this aspect before you permeate them in every minute of your lives. It's a disaster waiting to happen and once it does, people will mistrust technology.
Regarding the customers example, they generally always win.
Indeed, sure would be a shame for anything to happen to your data because you chose not to use drives equipped with iStoreSafe(tm) technology by Apple(tm).
I agree it's decades off but I disagree that the alarmism is not justified, simply because we are not set up as a society to at all handle the side effects of the last good paying job that you can attain without really any high cost/long term training (truck driving) going away, and that's not even taking into account the multitude of businesses that were built on the backs of truck drivers; diners, motels, truck stops, service centers, practically any business that operates right next to a highway depends to a certain degree on truckers.

Plus truckers themselves are risky as workers, they have issues with exhaustion, the turnover is insane, they have accidents and they steal things, I'm not trying to demonize the profession don't misunderstand, I'm just saying that if there is one job that companies would LOVE to get people out of, this is it.

Also I really doubt it's decades. Maybe two of them, maybe but I'd say it's closer to 12-15 years depending how the DoT keeps pace, but with so much money and so many interest groups involved in making it happen, I think it's something we really need to start putting serious thought into.
Well, in principle, that makes sense, but, to trot out a well-rehearsed example, what are we to make of Ireland continuing to export food during the potato famine in your framework? An unfettered free market will get food to people who can pay the most for it -- which isn't necessarily the same group of people who most need it.

Admittedly we are getting away from the example of Japan here where there isn't really a serious danger of famine either way without a drastic change in material conditions.
I worked in academia for a couple of years. I don't get it. In addition to the horrible pay, the politics are horrendous and are an order of magnitude worse than private industry. Those pensions are nice though.
so who buys slack ?
One lesser discussed reason for this is the amount of power centralized control of big data & the cloud allows to the massive companies that leverage it. Companies are leveraging it before they really even have it. Control of the data is a big part of controlling the ecosystem. Everyone likes to make fun of how technologically illiterate legislators are - but it seems we simultaneously expect legislation to make a safe space for us. It seems more reasonable that developers & users together figure out how to take back control of our data!
That's a great privacy policy! It's brief and clearly worded.

I'd been holding off on using Vivaldi because I wanted to know exactly what information was being collected. I tried to find the privacy policy on their site, but could only find the one regarding the data their website collects.

To the Vivaldi team: You might consider making this privacy policy more prominent on your site. Not being able to find it was literally the only reason I hadn't tried your browser until now.
> These packages exist in a state of permanent insecurity because they don't keep up with the ~6-week browser update cycle.

I was expecting this to be a list of known issues of some severity that hadn't been fixed. This seems to be a general criticism of projects, one of which has seen its maintainer step down.
I often use the archeology analogy to describe my work to others. I like how you become familiar with your predecessors and their strategies for solving problems. It's a way of getting to know them even if you never actually get a chance to meet them.

Some of the best parts:

1. Trying something totally new only to realize that one of your predecessors has attempted to do it before. Bonus points if you can solve it this time around.

2. Digging around and realizing that your predecessor was in fact yourself.

3. Randomly encountering one of your predecessors in real life and becoming instant friends while reminiscing about old times. ;-)
Cabs are harder though. Cabs need to negotiate the complex and often extremely busy city routes. Most truck driving is LTL to warehouses on the edge of cities, and if a truck had sufficient fuel, it would have no reason to ever leave the freeway.
Am I the only who likes Ubuntu's latest decisions ?

It seems like they are refocusing their efforts on their core, rather than being stretched.