skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think every Adam Curtis documentary link should also have this appended to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
Email is the only truly successful decentralized protocol which is why the OP's statement mentions it.

A) Wide global adoption

B) Decades of use
I wonder how this study was conducted...if the questioner was asking questions about dating, attraction, etc before this question got asked, it may have primed the respondents to view the dinner as a romantic one.
I have multiple years of experience writing production Python code - is this book for me(new to 3)? Or is it more generally aimed at new programmers. Cheers!
Mozilla Launches Project Things IoT Framework on Raspberry Pi
When nobody (aka the privileged class described here) has real problems or responsibilities anymore (no kids until late 30s, if then, no shortage of money for healthy food and housing) you focus on the trivial problems that earlier generations would have laughed at.
> Build a site that attracts and builds an audience first

Who will never find it because you didn't post it anywhere to raise up in ranking because "backlinking is gaming the system and bad".

> SEO is for shitty sites that don't offer anything of value in and of themselves.

Good luck not putting relevant keywords and having PageSpeed score under 50.
Nothing forces web browsers to run any code except perhaps market pressures. Keeping EME out of the standard would have sent a political message, but since everyone is already shipping it, kind of a useless one.

I am sad too. Perhaps there was a window of time when we could have gotten rid of NPAPI plugins and not added DRM to implementations and forced media companies to come along. That didn't happen though.
> It may have worked for him because the broker was amendable to changing their agreement but by not having representation the person above may still have overpaid by 2%.

Or you might have representation and still overpay by 2%. It's kind of how investing in a mutual fund with a 3% load doesn't guarantee that you'll beat the market.
You would (will?) be very surprised.
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Has DRM ever actually stopped piracy?
> Some solid tips on here and OBS is a surprisingly good piece of software but it can be a resource hog at times.

"Hog" implies bloat to me? Video's hard work, though, and OBS will chew a CPU but it really needs to (unless you use a GPU encoding solution like NVENC, but there are quality concerns there). I have a second PC--actually a pretty nice 4U rackmount in a 6U wheelie with my audio interface--dedicated to video crunching and audio mixing for when I do livestreaming events for folks.
Realtors have for the longest time seen other realtors as competitors. Its time they recognise that the true competition is from large sites like Redfin that will use tech to gain an advantage over them.

I realised this after several conversations with realtors about this open source project I've created to help them build decent websites:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

Most of them figured if it was open source then any of their competitors could use it and be just as good as them. They would say this even if they recognised that my product would give them a better website than they currently had. Pretty strange way of thinking if you ask me....
Please add Gigster to the list of companies hiring (www.gigster.com). We're hiring for Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, Product and Ops. Open roles are here - https://jobs.lever.co/gigster.

Roles are in SF and in some cases remote.
You've stated 'data shows'. So my question was - was it a proper double blind study?

Because it is definitely possible to do it properly. Substitute the results (or partial results) of the interview with rnd(), use it for hiring decision for a subset of candidates. Keep this information confidential. Establish if parts of your interview process don't perform better than randomness a few years down the line.

It's possible to do. Only I don't think this was done. And if it was not done, and the method was some 'data shows' with hand-waving - it would be under definition of pseudoscience.
Pretty much all of this. And I'd add that we not forget about sovereign debt, which is another lever for exploiting poor nations (think World Bank and IMF). So, we're not just pumping wealth into poor nations to extract more wealth; we're billing them for the privilege. That is, we're really pumping debt into these countries.

It's a racket. And it is not a flaw in the machinations of the free market; it is the definition of our current free market.
It is actually just a logical outcome of a policy that investors absolutely can sleep with people they are investing in.

You may not care, but most of society does care. They want money to be invested in products that will do good things for the world, not in products started by people who are simply willing to sleep their way into power. If rich people want to pay for sex, they can hire sex workers. This is not a good way to do business and create something of value. It means the wrong products are getting funded for the wrong reasons.
At the risk of sounding glib, watching the documentary itself would answer your questions, no? If you're interested in the topic, as you seem to be, they are likely worth your time.
It's for people who can't code
it seems most people use this as a camera bag. I can't seem to tell if it is open in the middle or if there is some sort of camera padding setup.

Also, you mention a lot of gear fits. Do you have this gear just tossed in there or are there enough compartments for the list you mention?
You will not gain anything from it.
Coming from a background in real estate as an active broker who has worked with Redfin agents, I'd like to point out a few things. Redfin's biggest asset is their website. It's a good user experience and grabs them a lot of leads. However, Redfin agents tend to be subpar agents when representing sellers and or buyers. Most wouldn't survive in a regular brokerage setting. If I am hiring an agent, I want a hungry service oriented agents, not someone who is fine with receiving a salary. Discounts are enticing to consumers, but from what I have noticed these discounts come at a cost to their clients. Rather than list a bunch of examples, from what I have witnessed, Redfin agents are not all that skilled in negotiating. They are actually horrible. Redfin needs to train better but training is a multi-faceted issue. They need experienced brokers who have been beaten up and have seen it all. I was lucky to have a mentor who played a significant role in redefining the industry back in 2001. Let's just say, nobody knew what the concept of Exclusive Buyer Agency was during the late 90s. Anyway, in order to have great agents, they need to learn from smarter battle tested agents in the office. An agent needs good instincts to represent clients well. This takes time - 10,000 hours easy and they need to see a lot of deal flow. You learn from the ugly deals, not the smooth ones. Fortunately, for Redfin most Redfin buyers/sellers won't realize how good their agent is until they have something to compare it to. Redfin does not have top agents nor can the attract high-quality agents. In order for them to succeed in the public market, they will need to increase fees because the cost of maintaining and attracting talent isn't cheap. Discounting gives companies a good chance to obtain market share. But market share will go down once they raise fees. Historically speaking, discount real estate companies don't do well in public markets. Let's look at one example of a company associated with discounts, Zip Realty. I think they did an IPO in 2004 or so. Over the years things didn't go well so they were forced to merge. Now, you might say, REDFIN is different. This is somewhat true but I am sure if you read the Redfin S1, you will see some of the concerns I have addressed.

This is coming from a non-traditional broker. I have always gone against the grain. I believe Redfin will need to evolve a lot to get the public market to embrace them. If I had to guess they will become a little more "traditional" overtime.

I hope Redfin trains better and figures things out. Otherwise, they will need to merge post-IPO.

Sorry for the long comment. I could write forever on this topic. I may do this on my site when I have a couple of hours.
So the mere existence of Redfin has lowered their fees. Good for you :) and an example of the market at work.
Well, people spend 35+% of their waking life at work(assuming sleeping 8 hours/day and working 40h/week), so 10% does seem low relative to that.
Oh sorry about that. The free tier is obviously free, but once you need to scale up, you just pay for how much memory you need whether that's 1 big instance or many small instances.

This may help since it has some examples. http://gigalixir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main.html#pricing-...
The server can send an encrypted blob to your browser which hands it off to the DRM module which can hand it off to the system's ring -2 PAVP/Trustzone/etc. stuff that only runs signed firmware which passes it encrypted over the PCIe bus to the gfx hardware which passes it encrypted via HDCP2 to the monitor.

So in principle fully encrypted paths that can'e be screengrabbed exist. Not all DRM makes use of those components because it excludes users which don't hardware which supports it. But it is there.
Further, Google Ventures invested hundreds of millions of dollars early on in Uber's life -- The eventual sale price would be discounted by their percentage ownership. E.G. if Google owns 10% of private Uber, and they offer $10 Billion for the company, their net would be $9 billion.
It's not CC. The scale of value is off by several orders of magnitude. Drop me in any large city in the world and I can hunt those things down in a day for less than a $1000. Heck, I could probably do a limited run of mix tapes for that too.

The story in my head is the sampler was a thrift store find or a high school graduation gift and all the vinyl is from their dad or uncle (rare 70s grooves). Poor people can have nice things too.
Free browsers can't play Netflix anyway, because EME is just a standardized interface to a proprietary CDM, which one must license from a vendor (Microsoft of Google mostly).

What giving in achieved is a reasonable security story around the CDM module as opposed to the free for all of NPAPI plugins. It still totally sucks, but at least hte capabilities of these CDMs are quite limited.
The trade secrets part of the case supposedly has legs, just not very long ones given Uber didn't use the trade secrets Levandowski supposedly stole.

When Waymo first levied the case against Uber I was of the unpopular opinion that it wasn't as strong as it looked. Nonetheless, it ruined Levandowski's career and counted for about a gallon's worth of gasoline on the fire of negative public opinion and investor rage against Uber and it's leadership. Even if Waymo loses in court, it's still a win.
I find it even more strange that this "phenomena" happened with one of the few startups outside the Valley that did mass layoffs.
I would be very surprised if teams that large actually functioned coherently.
People who save money for their families are "greedy hoarders"? I imagine in your eyes, then, people who want to take other people's money are somehow virtuous and charitable?
> By not making it a standard we'll make sure that Neflix never, ever comes to Linux.

Isn't the EME a system binary that would be specific to each platform? There's no guarantee tat they'll be a linux one for each provider.
I'm a big fan of Spideroak Hive.I mostly use it to sync my work files (everything except source code) between my desktop and laptop. I really like the fact that the files are encrypted and according to them can't be retrieved without my password. Sync.net is a similiar service that has a better UX but sadly doesn't have a way to ignore specific patterns, which I need to certain directories.
If only there was a morality play somewhere we could have learned this lesson /s
You should start a patron page. I feel that a significant number of people would be willing to support the work you do, and this would allow you to both keep your education free while earning from it.

Just my two cents.
I learned python 2 by reading an earlier version of the book. I already knew how to program in general (20+ years experience), and the book was a little basic. Still, as an intro to a language (I was new to python entirely) it was worthwhile. I also like the author's writing style.

I was going to say that they're free (or pay what you want), but that's apparently no longer the case (or won't be as of tomorrow). I support the author in this decision, but I guess you have 12 hours to skim the book and see if it's worthwhile and then buy it if you like what you see.
> Since I released the book in 2010 I have given it freely to about 12.5 million people.

Amazing, what an achievement!

> Before my books there was this general belief in computing that only “special” people could learn to code, and that it was pointless to teach anyone who didn’t start when they were 12. ... Before I wrote Learn Python The Hard Way programming education books either patronizingly assumed you were a child, or assumed you’d already been programming for years.

Hmm, I don't think this book was as revolutionary as described, but that doesn't take anything away from how good Learn Python the Hard Way is.

> Then I recently found out that members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) have been actively trying to have my book removed from other books and websites. I received several chats logs from trusted associates that show PSF members contacting authors and demanding that they stop referencing my books. Believe it or not, it’s because I said Python 3’s strings suck or that Python 3 sucks. I’m not kidding. They are so petty that they are actively trying to destroy the one book that is potentially helping the most people become Python programmers simply because…I don’t like how they implemented Python 3.

WWWWHHHHAAAATTTT???!! If this is true, the Python Software Foundation should be ashamed.
Learn Python the Hard Way was one of the first ways I tried to learn programming. It didn't end up working for me. It focuses on repetition rather than a conceptual understanding of what you're doing. But when I finally took a class and realized what I had been doing with all that practice I came to really appreciate how comprehensive it is. I won't use it myself, but I'm glad that something like Learn Python the Hard Way exists
I think that solving the technical problem is in the same order of complexity as the IM problem actually. It is solvable if you have some strong backers and not just the nerdy volunteers doing it in their leasure time, the ones who are telling you to use XMPP since 2004.

Actually the XMPP protocol already has a distributed social graph, and there are micro blogging extensions (eg. Movim), so we can get a functional distributed social network basically overnight.

The problem is that (a) you can't monetize an open, distributed network, so the incumbents will do everything they can to prevent federation, and (b) the only driving force that remains are the nerdy volunteers, who have a limited impact, even if they are able to tackle the UX challenges.
Great post! Interested, how it's related to, for example, Scheme or Lisp.
There was three issues that prevented monetization:

- The userbase cannot grow enough without publisher, because the requirement of asking people to upload their rom is too much complex for most people.

- With no publisher by my side, I fear advertisers will not invest in a platform that is on the grey side of the legality (Start9 is legal, since we clearly state everywhere that only people uploading their own roms can use the service, but some might see this differently). Especially for the low amount of user (cf issue #1).

Everything comes down to publishers ...

The bitter part of this is that some people put together shitty implementations of this concept, but without any vision, any regard for the legality of the project, or even the future of the platform. They just make an html page with a flash emulator, add a bunch of porn and/or blackjack ads on the thing, and call it a day. They certainly bring more money than Start9, and they'll never get shut down by Nintendo ... go figure.
> My bad, we're actually pretty good at shrinking the realtor commission, we never pay 6%.

Maybe a better wording:

A good agent is worth 10x their (extremely?) reduced commission.
The fact that Tragedy of the Commons is a subset of game theory defection problems does not change the fact that its defining requirement is the existence of a "Commons."

The Commons need not be an overgrazed pastureland; it can be any open access resource. The best modern example would be Earth's atmosphere and how its being filled with pollution. GGP has not specified a Commons and the existence of one is not implied in his comment.
I get a "sorry you can't use this page on mobile" ...

While connecting from up-to-date chrome on win10 desktop!! You are probably weeding out a good chunk of users for no reason.
No, but maybe we need to look at it from relative numbers.

Example: DRM music hasn't stopped music piracy, but better models for the content distribution (i.e. DRM music platforms like spotify, etc.) have demotivated more people from bothering to pirate music.
Linux didn't become particularly useful or relevant until folks spent a whole lot of very businessy time and money on it. That's why RedHat even exists (not that they were alone, but they survived).
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Ask HN: Meeting with acquirer / competitor. How much tech to disclose?
I'm CTO of a startup. Hoping to find a few people who have been around this block.

We're worth around $20M at the moment, vs our competitor's worth of around $100M. They're ahead of us in some ways, but we beat them on others (including some of our analytics). They've expressed interest in acquiring us, and we're giving it fair consideration.

We have a getting-to-know-you meeting in a couple of weeks from now. How much tech detail should I extend? We have NDAs on both sides, but obviously (at least to me) those are worthless in terms of protecting us from them implementing disclosed ideas. CEO (who is non technical) isn't as concerned.
Sad for Berlin.

But what great times we live in actually, a community caring for people they don't even know.
I'm sure there is! Sega announced last month that it would be releasing its catalogue online[1], and let's not forget the success of the SNES Mini, released last year. I was just on the market too soon, and especially without any connection to the people that could make the dream come true (hence why we applied to Y Combinator - more than the money, the network would have helped us). Oh well. :(

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/21/15846752/sega-forever-net...
That's pretty cool! It would be nice if the API allowed writing to io.Writer instead of taking filenames.
Bill Gates Made These 15 Predictions in 1999
Cruise sold for >$1B. If he thought his company was better off than that, it is supremely irrational to not put up with the pain of the NHTSA. Hell, just hire a lawyer to do everything and you don't even need to think about it.

No, from my guess, Hotz copped out when he realized that his prototype, while fun, was no where near production ready and would be completely illegal to ship to any customers.
It .... depends.

Given I worry about this sort of thing for a living and am a partner in the firm: I think in terms of backup, DR, BC, availability and more. I have access to rather a lot of gear but the same approach will work for anyone willing to sit down and have a think and perhaps spend a few quid or at least think laterally.

For starters you need to consider what could happen to your systems and your data. Scribble a few scenarios down and think about "what would happen if ...". Then decide what is an acceptable outage or loss for each scenario. For example:

* You delete a file - can you recover it - how long

* You delete a file four months ago - can ...

* You drop your laptop - can you use another device to function

* Your partner deletes their entire accounts (my wife did this tonight - 5 sec outage)

* House burns down whilst on holiday

You get the idea - there is rather more to backups than simply "backups". Now look at appropriate technologies and strategies. eg for wifey, I used the recycle bin (KDE in this case) and bit my tongue when told I must have done it. I have put all her files into our family Nextcloud instance that I run at home. NC/Owncloud also have a salvage bin thing and the server VM I have is also backed up and off sited (to my office) with 35 days online restore points and a GFS scheme - all with Veeam. I have access to rather a lot more stuff as well and that is only part of my data availability plan but the point remains: I've considered the whole thing.

So to answer your question, I use a lot of different technologies and strategies. I use replication via NextCloud to make my data highly available. I use waste/recycle bins for quick "restores". I use Veeam for back in time restores of centrally held managed file stores. I off site via VPN links to another location.

If your question was simply to find out what people use then that's me done. However if you would like some ideas that are rather more realistic for a generic home user that will cover all bases for a reasonable outlay in time, effort and a few quid (but not much) then I am all ears.
Facebook and Google will participate in next week’s big net neutrality protest