skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other thing worth mentioning: Publishers (and authors) were notified of the change today. It's akin to an app store suddenly announcing a major shift in the business model and payouts to app developers, effective immediately.

For my company, the single-title sales are often greater than Safari subscription income, and I am not sure sending visitors to Amazon is going to make up for the lost sales on O'Reilly. I would have much preferred if O'Reilly sent customers directly to my publisher's website, for people who want to purchase PDFs or ebooks from other vendors besides Amazon.

Reading utility nonfiction/technical titles are not the same as binge-watching Netflix or plugging into a Spotify playlist all day. Readers have very specific needs and learning priorities, and the all-you-can-eat model doesn't work for everyone.
The link is broken, it points to a PNG file of a bus.
I guess you'll have to lie to your prospective employers about "why you left your last job", then. Not wanting to put with inane policies is one thing. But very few companies would want to hire someone who resorts that quickly to that kind of aggression in the workplace.
Amazon selling PDFs? Brick and mortar selling PDFs?
Relevantish studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22331240 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28185844
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532045614...

And the worst one of all: https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2016/Glyphosate_V_glycin...

So yeah, not only does it cause cancer, it causes a wide range of diseases: literally any one that can be caused by protein misassembly in ways that the body can't easily clear the protein (or if it does, the glyphosate can end up being reused instead of flushed out of your body) can be linked to this.

So, in around 5 years, if they come out with a study that Autism is caused by, or greatly enhanced by, glyphosate exposure in utero
or during nursing (glyphosate concentrations are extremely high in breast milk in mothers exposed to the chemical), I will not be surprised whatsoever.
It is funny how while reading this article establishing Guardian's screw up I was nevertheless asked twice to give them money.
But you can still buy their digital copies elsewhere like on Amazon or eBooks or Google Play.
Thanks dear Medya. its brilliant.
It's way easier after you eat. Or at least it's way easier after I eat.
i wouldn't be able to tell that the chair in the first few seconds of this isn't real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKb9hRYbPA

on the blue ray dvd of pixar's finding dory, closely examine the sand and water (ignore the living creatures) in the first few minutes of the short film piper. you know a-priori it's not real, but i'd like to hear people describe what they think looks off with the environments (not the creatures). try to normalize that with the intent of a director trying to craft an identical ambiance from a recorded video (color temperatures may be made warmer in post, increased saturation, more vignetting, etc).

in big hollywood vfx house showreels, there's a lot that's obviously cg (again, we're still off on creatures), but what about the environments within?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnfdpgDDLc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SabPuZ5coKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i0XuA9KLEo

in particular, i don't think people watching that night-time sequence of deepwater horizon in theaters would identify it as entirely computer generated.
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Is it unethical to keep a chair warm when my boss didn't give me new tasks to do?

For other areas of life (immigration), I need to get more years of continuous relevant work experience.

I come to an office every day, but my boss just doesn't have enough to keep me busy. My job title is "Project Engineer", which is vague enough to cover everything from DLL debugging to Node.JS programming to network monitoring to evaluating Advanced Planning systems. The latest task is to do some online course in machine learning, even though he didn't specify how the company will need it.

On bad days, I feel useless. But I reconcile the situation to myself by saying it's basically a "basic income" (the salary is not high; the minimum that people on my visa can have). I could think about changing after I have the years of work experience, but years just come with patience, not with productivity. I feel like my situation isn't "fair" because my friends are so much more stressed, but I need the years, not the results.

I also do a lot of side projects and post them online (e.g. learning Chinese - http://pingtype.github.io ), but my contract and visa specifically state that I can't have any other paid work. So all my projects must be free and open source.

If the author of the automation scripts wants to comfort his conscience, I suggest reading more about Basic Income theories.
Kinda. Thing is that with PCs and smartphone it is really the first time that the smarts are at the edges.

With electricity it is in the transformers and the power stations. The kit at the individual home and office is downright dumb in comparison (and can be operated via local generators in a pinch).

Similarly the analog phone network has its smarts in the switches. Not in the phones in homes and offices.
Amazon sells Kindle versions so there's DRM. But, Google Play store offers PDF and ePub versions of O'Reilly books.
O'Reilly author here. This is the email we got today. Sounds like they also plan to offer courses through Safari as well.

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I'm writing to let you know about some changes—including new opportunities for you—at O'Reilly.

First, as of today, we are discontinuing fulfillment of individual book and video purchases on shop.oreilly.com. Books (both ebook and print) will still be available for sale via other digital and bricks-and-mortar retail channels. Plus, every book and video will still have a product page on oreilly.com, offering customers two options for getting the content they want: Safari membership (starting with a free 10-day trial) and, for books, a "buy from Amazon" button.

Why the change? It's clear that we're in the midst of a fundamental shift in how people get and use content. Subscription services like Spotify and Netflix are the new norm, as people opt for paying for digital access rather than purchasing physical units one by one. We've already seen this in our own business—the growth of subscribers on Safari far exceeds the individual units previously purchased on oreilly.com. That's the reason for the change.

And with Safari, O'Reilly is uniquely positioned to give our customers the choice and convenience they expect. When we launched Safari back in 2001, we knew we were investing in the future of publishing, and today, that future is here. Since 2014, when O'Reilly became sole owner of Safari, we have refocused our business around its potential as a membership platform. It's working—just this week, Outsell Insights published a report on Safari that gave us a "Strongly Positive" rating and noted that, "Safari shows that continuous reinvention through the addition of new tools onto a solid content base provides an extremely strong foundation on which to build a business. As an example, it also shows the kind of timescales necessary to build a strong reputation for quality content, one on which a more tools-focused solution is possible."

That's where "new opportunities for you" come in. We've developed successful new products like Live Online Training and video Learning Paths, available exclusively on Safari, and we have more in the works. We'll be in touch soon with more information about these new ways we can work together on Safari. And of course, we will continue to publish books and videos that are available both as stand-alone products and on Safari.
Sidenote: It's remarkable that Amazon happily provides server services to Netflix, who is a huge competitor!
Context is important here. I'm guessing it got lost on you?
>Pretty sure most of the improvements we have made for the common man, at least in the US, have come at the behest of those born with nothing standing up and saying "we won't work unless the rewards are distributed better/we get a 40 hour work week/we get cleaner and less dangerous work conditions/etc."

Yes. These improvements were won through the most thoroughly and deeply market behavior possible: raising the price on what you're selling.

Labor price-gouging capital is a beautiful sight to see. Usually only capital remembers it can do that.
> Was it really necessary for him to refer to his Twitter follower count so many times?

I was wondering about the same thing. Sounds like "Twitter Humblebrag" * to me....

> I’m now (end of Wednesday, 60 hours since the check-in counter) at 3000 more twitter followers than what I started out with this Monday morning. This turned out to be a totally crazy week and it has severally impacted my productivity. I need to get back to write code, I’m getting behind!

* = http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=humblebrag
You got any fidelity advice for me?
> * Unlike American law, which permits preferences such as affirmative action for racial minorities and women for the sake of diversity or redressing discrimination, Facebook’s algorithm is designed to defend all races and genders equally.*

This is inaccurate as to the allowable purposes for affirmative action. In Bakke, (1978), the Supreme Court held that diversity was an allowable rationale, but redressing past discrimination was not. As described in the NYT:

Diversity isn’t just one rationale for creating or maintaining a racially integrated student body. It is the only rationale. Ever since the Bakke case nearly four decades ago, no other reason for affirmative action has passed constitutional muster in the view of the Supreme Court’s majority: not equalizing opportunity, not redressing past wrongs (the flagship Austin campus was formally all-white until 1956 and functionally segregated long after that) or opening previously closed doors. Only “diversity.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/opinion/the-supreme-court... (an opinion piece related to the Fisher case, which pertained to affirmative action in university admissions)
Horrible though this is, it's (bizarrely) better than the pre-ESTA alternative. My brother was denied entry to the US in 2003 while traveling on a visa waiver. At this point he was detained (without access to counsel) until a suitable outbound flight was available, and deported. The red stamp in his passport renders him ineligible to apply for an entry visa until 2018. This is all on the discretion of one immigration official, with no recourse for appeal. The justification is that when you sign the visa waiver, you agree to all this.

Edit: my brother is not entirely innocent in all this, but knowing before you fly is an improvement
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Google Play store offers O'Reilly books DRM free in both PDF and ePub format.
> It would happen in the United States if the victim decided to sue for libel

This is simply false, and a bad understanding of United States libel laws. Firstly, these were verbal statements which would make them slander and not libel.

Secondly, these were _not_ false statements of fact (which is the only thing that constitutes libel or slander in the United States). Joking that the child was ugly is an opinion, which is protected by the first amendment. Joking that the child was not dead, and "wouldn't die" also isn't a statement of fact.

It's simply not factually true that the comedian would be exposed to any civil liabilities for those jokes were they made in the United States.

All that said, I agree with the vast majority of the people that those jokes were in extremely poor taste. I would encourage people not to support or listen to a comedian that mocks people in that way.
Of course shaming can be abused or misguided, just like almost everything in this world we live in. The idea that we shouldn't use something just because it can possibly be abused is ridiculous. Like everything, it has a degree of risk that we weigh and judge as moral agents.

And we all live in a "reptilian brain context". I'm not sure what other context there is. It makes no sense to reason about society as if we weren't all half a chromosome away from a chimpanzee.
I just use chrome as my primary Flash program now, as it seems to bundle it's own version regardless of what I have installed.
In large part because of companh and government cost savings via off the shelf parts and BYOD.
Curious. Why is it a problem?
Thanks, Yes currently online purchases only. We are finalising the mobile payment integrations and will be launching our app and the instore capability in August/September this year. Feel free to drop me a line at daniel@divipay.com and we will let you know when we go live with mobile payments!
Let's go to the science: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201510/shopp...
I mean programming is already ASCII art. That's why we indent as opposed to directly writing minified JS and why { and } are mirrors of each other. Self-limiting beliefs like those expressed in the comment you are responding to are more a function of what timespan the author was born in than anything else.
A collective list of APIs. Build something
I can see their thought process—

"Netflix will most likely exist even if we don't provide them server services as there exist other cloud providers and / or Netflix is big enough to roll their own, so we might as well have a piece of our competitor's success by having their infra spend come to us."
Yep, it's just like ssh so as long as you can make a TCP connection to the server you can use it from behind a firewall.
I'd have to assume Facebook is using well over 500TB/mo of outbound traffic. I'd Assume on the order of 1-2Tbps or more on average.

Disclamer: I work for AWS.
You can run tmux/screen inside a ET session
Amazon is a terrible place to buy books. Its difficult to discern which books are encumbered by drm and further even if the publisher provides the book drm free its damn difficult to get at the unencumbered ebook file. I bought such a book and spent an hour of my life and talked to 3 separate employees and the best I could do was a refund after talking to 3 apathetic employees.

As far as I'm concerned there is not one thing good about the entire platform. I hate the reader, I hate their tablets, I hate their ebook store, I hate their reader app.

They don't provide a damn thing that isn't inferior to other options and have no particular benefit to helping you use their wares in an open fashion. They are only interested in options which lock you to their platform.

Its as if walmart was only interested in selling you dvds that work only in terrible walmart branded dvd players that require you to use walmarts subscription service instead of netflix.
I'm always confused why the shareholders in these tech companies don't throw a fit over the very expensive locations that the big SV firms occupy. A huge chunk of their engineering talent comes from the Midwest and overseas, so why not relocate to Nebraska?

I suspect the upper management really doesn't want to move because they already have nice spots in SV.
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The question is how much value should early adopters reap. Before bitcoins first halving, way back in 2012, almost half of all bitcoin were minted. Between then and the second halving in 2016, about another 25% of all BTC was mined. As of now, well over 75% of all bitcoin ever has already been mined, yet bitcoin has a market cap of around 42B - not even a third of McDonalds, which is around 130B.

If bitcoin ever were to become a universal currency, its market cap would need to grow into the tens of trillions. That represents at least a thousandfold increase in participation, and even right now 1% of all wallets hold 99% of the money. The richest wallet right now holds about 315 million USD in bitcoin. Is it truly reasonable that the person that controls that wallet, if bitcoin were to grow a thousandfold to encompass a large part of the global economy, be worth more than the current top four richest people alive? Wealth inequality is bad enough as is.

I think everyone can agree that it would be a disaster for bitcoin to take over traditional currency systems with its current design, where the total money minted ever is already almost all in circulation. By 2020 about 88% of all bitcoin will have been produced. That is just preposterous for anyone considering trying to grow it into a global currency of substance.
Isn't that what BFQ scheduler was designed for ?
I'm a Safari online subscriber myself, but I think this decision is a huge mistake. I also own books that I purchased from O'Reilly and I still use those books. Just because I don't continue to re-purchase them doesn't mean I don't use them or will never purchase another. I use them on a daily basis. I also use Safari on a daily basis. Why can't they see that there is a need for both models?

I rent things, and I own things. Just because I rent some things doesn't mean I want to rent everything. By the same token, just because I buy things every day doesn't mean I never want to rent anything.

We are truly living in the Idiocracy.
Fwiw, I can vouch for cloudron. been using it as my primary email server for over a year now. Works really well
The fastest way to cure that idea as a programmer is to pick up one of the environments that was designed to make it "easy to program" in and try to work with it for a while.

Many people have tried to "make programming easy". It turns out to be a fundamentally difficult problem.

Of course, if you believe that all attempts were stopped by the Programmer Complexity Mafia, feel free to try yourself. It would certainly be a lucrative product if you can solve the problem.
> Google Play store offers PDF and ePub versions of O'Reilly books.

Oh, interesting, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
An appropriate comic from Poorly Drawn Lines:

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/welcome-to-work/

"Welcome to work. You'll spend your time here in two ways: overwhelmed and underwhelmed."

"Is there a third option?"

"Well, there's 'whelmed'. But I'm not sure if that's a word. So no."
Reminds me that one of the first things that would happen during uprisings in the past was the burning of the local bank's loan ledgers...
> I don't understand why the person who does the more needed task is paid less than the person who does the negligible task.

If your garbage man cost the community $80k per year, there would probably be 100 other dudes, all just as good at collecting refuse, offering to take his job and only charge $50k. That doesn't mean the disposal of all that waste disposal is not worth $80k (or $250k) to the community, but competition allows the community to pay less than the value it places on the service.

I bet there are also 1000 people lining up to underbid Oprah on whatever deals it is she is making with her partners(broadcast networks? advertisers?). But none of those people will attract nearly as many eyeballs. From the partner's perspective, it's simply a matter of choosing which TV personality will bring the most revenue (over and above their fee), and that's Oprah.
> It lets you define types for more safely interacting with other Javascript code

You define types for everything.
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What I meant is that "economic" phenomena encompass a much wider range of phenomena you might be thinking of. It's the opposite of being restrictive: any problem at all where have something like an agent which has to choose something over something else might be considered an "economic" problem, at least from an economist's perspective. If anything like a ranking of choices can be defined as well as a set of possible choices, that's something an economist can work with.

About the Roman bit, the real issue would be how much of any direct monetary gain from conquest ended up in the hands of the Roman state rather than in the hands of private citizens.
Whether there is DRM on a kindle book is the publishers decision. For example, none of Tor Books' titles have DRM which means you can extract the beautiful screen resolution illustrations from Brandon Sanderson's books.

Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but not on anything Kindle related
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It is the basis for pay for most over-the-road truck drivers, who are paid by miles driven.
Netflix absolutely should roll their own system. At the very least as a meta layer on top of the major cloud providers.
I was grieving for my "lost" father for a couple of years before he died. Fucking heartbreaking for me, but whoever he'd turned into seemed at peace and satisfied with life for almost all of that time.
The nicest thing about parser generators, IMO, is that they can warn you if your grammar is ambiguous.
I know I'll get downvoted for this but I really don't care.

Everything here is dated; it's not really that great that it's free now... there's much better resources now that are more up to date

Ember.js tutorials written in 2013 don't have as much value in 2017... sorry
Do you know of any place actually using microservices at scale ? ( 400 Million + users )
But still critical enough to make it impractical. How would you do maintenance on a hydrogen airship without risking the people doing the maintenance? And you'd never be able to fly over populated areas.
That's exactly how Netscape and others approached the problem of competing with Microsoft.

"We can't compete, let's make an anti-trust complaint"

"I can't run as fast as Bolt, so I'll shoot him"
It's not supposed to be about guilt. It's supposed to be about empathy towards those who don't get that privilege.

(Side note: the word "privilege" is really poorly chosen, because in practice it has a strong implication of blame and guilt assignment in our culture.)
Definitely https://cloudron.io. I dream of a world where everyone has their own server to go with their smartphone. Also, sandstorm as has already been mentioned elsewhere
The $399/yr doesn't make sense for a lot of people. It definitely is too high a price point for me as I only read 1 or 2 O'Reilly books a year at most. It's nice to have a copy lying around for reference years later.

On the flip side, I totally understand them going DRM-only for digital publishers. O'Reilly PDFs are way too easy to find for free with minimal Google-fu.
Have you tried cloudron.io? It solves exactly what you are talking about
Reading this, it felt pretty strongly like the person wasn't asking for genuine input as much as they were asking for permission from strangers. He defends the "don't tell" side of the options with a fervor that strongly suggests he's already made up his mind but needs peer approval to assuage his guilt.

I can't blame the guy. I've lived in areas where tech jobs are thin on the ground. But what I would do if I were him would be to start looking, and try to find a new job as quickly as possible so as to minimize the amount of time in this state. I can understand a fear that it may take a while to find a new job - and if he has that fear, he should start looking now instead of assuming that coasting like this is okay.
I only meant to speak about the people I know personally. You are correct that everyone was there due to having no other options. It takes a lot of energy to make other options for yourself and factory work is not conductive to that at all.

Of the people I knew who frequently read or studied things in their spare time, one quit to become a pharmacist and the other now works in IT last I heard. And then there's me.
Thanks for the correction. I certainly don't intend to spread falsehoods. I edited my comment.
If you don't use FB why are you paranoid about this? I don't, and I'm not.
Can you link me sources for your entire last paragraph?

Also there is no 'Charter of Rights' in Canada. If you can't even name the document how can you puport to understand it?