skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you download the video files for the shows you buy, DRM-free?

If not, you don't "own" them at all.

The encryption on DVD and blu-ray discs is easily broken, so that's still a reasonable way to "own" your favorite shows. As far as I know, 4K blu-ray hasn't been cracked yet, so avoid those.
The still existing pay gap for men and women, when women make 105% of what men make for the same job title and experience?

You need to study more.
If you're comfortable enough to dive to the bottom of a 32 foot pool unaided, I would suggest you give scuba diving a try, assuming you have the opportunity to partake. It can indeed be somewhat scary at first, but again, assuming you're comfortable in the water, it can rather quickly become incredibly relaxing and fun. Being underwater, even at shallow depths, and yet still being able to breathe, is such a weird and unique feeling that I think everyone should get to experience it.
Maybe you are referring to some material from the opening like:

> The programmer is initially concerned with
satisfying himself (or proving) that his program
correctly solves the problem. In this analysis he
is concerned with the way his program makes use of
the abstractions, but not with any details of how
those abstractions may be realized. When he is
satisfied with the correctness of his program, he
turns his attention to the abstractions it uses.

I can imagine how to a modern reader the usage of the male pronoun here might sound excessive, but I think it's useful to note that this would be standard academic writing for the time. If I'm not mistaken, the switchover—away from using the male pronoun as a gender neutral pronoun—began (very slowly) in the late '70s. I remember reading an article Douglas Hofstadter wrote about how it bothered him once he became aware of the issue, but he'd mostly been oblivious until it was brought to his attention. The article also discussed various solutions to the problem, many of which are now common place (but if I'm not mistaken were fairly novel at the time). I think that article was from '79.

Edit: I was looking for the actual date Hofstadter's article was published, but I'm not sure since all the references I can find to it are from his '85 book Metamagical Themas whose contents was mostly (but not all) re-printing stuff he'd written starting in the late seventies. I noticed (just now) his article was included in a bunch of academic histories of gender in language, so it may be a decent reference point after all. So it looks like the idea to not use the male pronoun this way was pretty novel even in '85, probably.
The Lunar X prize competition is really neat, and I'll follow raptly. But it's unlikely to do much for actually space exploration, just as the original X-Prize did little to advance access to space.

If SpaceX sends a manned Dragon around the moon, that's only going to be a thousand times more important than landing tiny rovers on the moon.
For people who seriously care about performance like me, git is by far the superior product.

I don't care much about the github website, because 99% of the time I use git from the command line.
Receiving a signal would be one of the more chilling things the Earth civilization can ever experience.

Good thing if these guys would be on approximately the same stage as we are, but chances are slim. An answer from someone who knows about radio for 1000 years in much more probable than from someone who knows it for 100 years, as we do.

Meeting the technologically more more advanced European expeditions did change the lives of the natives of the Americas, probably to the better, after a few centuries — if we ignore certain details.
At the moment the left is more of a threat, but this shouldn't really be a left-right comparison.

A better way of framing it is authoritarian-libertarian. Some authority is useful, but too much is highly corrupting.

Currently a section of the left is rather authoritarian and dogmatic. In the past the same has been true of the right.
Technically you're saving 15 dollars a month, so it's not really "hurting" per se.
I had a revelation while playing the Sims, and this code lays it bare. I found I was spending more time managing these values for my Sim than I was for myself. I have not enjoyed most single player games since.
On Living and Thinking in Two Languages at Once
The problem is there is going to be a minimum monthly fee of around 10$ to keep the lights on. So, fragmentation just increases prices without any net benefit for the consumer.

The real killer IMO is most young adults just don't watch much TV in any form. If your watching ~10 hours a month then paying for more than one streaming service is just a waste. Don't forget it's the median viewer that's important not the average of 0, 1, 2, 3, 100.
Three separate services, each hosting segments of a file that have to be put back together in some way. Either those three sites will have information on how to rebuild the file (revealing the reason they're hosting it in the first place), or there'll be a 4th party involved that provides the information. It starts looking like an organized conspiracy, if a court ends up looking at it. And that's the answer: The target companies file suit against whatever sites seem to be involved in the conspiracy.

Either that, or it ends up being so obscure that the target company(ies) never notice.
you'd have to differentiation between a legitimate DMCA takedown vs a false claim...may be some NLP on the work being taken down to see if it falls under fair use?
Winning is also about picking the right case. I'm thinking they picked a good case, given the poor kid was clearly a victim of entrapment.
With something like ImmutableJS or Mori, or any other persistent data structure library that doesn't use native JS objects, there's just a lot of general friction during development that can seriously slow down both developer productivity (dealing with interop, losing access to object destructuring, spread, being limited to data access/mutation APIs provided by the libraries, difficulty in debugging, etc) and actual app performance (converting to or from JS is often expensive and can completely negate the perf benefits of the persistent data structures when overused in the wrong places, and it's extremely easy to overuse it in the wrong places if you're not familiar with React/Redux's inner workings).

If you manage to avoid all performance pitfalls and can accept some degree of loss in dev productivity, then the performance benefits from structural sharing and laziness can still be worthwhile for a sufficiently data-heavy app. For most other cases it's a very costly premature optimization though.

The Redux docs actually has a very thorough document on the pros and cons of using persistent data structure libraries with Redux: http://redux.js.org/docs/recipes/UsingImmutableJS.html

I'm still hoping for native JS persistent data structures to make it into the ECMAScript spec at some point in the future. The only thing I've found so far is this: https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ecmascript-immutable-data-str...

And I'm not sure if it has gained much traction.

Until native JS persistent data structures get implemented and gain widespread support, I think something like seamless-immutable might be a reasonable compromise.
"Small boats" manufactured in industrialized nations have flotation built into the hull. You can get them underwater by knocking out a hole, but they won't go to the bottom without significant damage.
OMG - I am so old school I can tell you!

You can have functions iterate through the array. You may want have special functions for each indexed item, but if there is something you want to do for all of them -- say save or load, you can iterate through the list.
Are you talking about spaceshipone?
> From a developer or security standpoint having a plugin that can do this is insane.

Where do you see the security implications, i.e. what is the threat model here?
Most likely you can infer a really complex set of events from this logic. For example, perform a "dice roll" while at a certain level of hunger (similar to how there's two dice rolls in the linked code that can cause the sim to freak out if stress goes too low). Additionally, the type of food can be inferred from the severity of the sim's state and time of day (e.g. snack vs breakfast vs dinner, etc).

All these "tricks" together, combined with a human's tendency to rationalize observations ("X must've happened because of Y"), can make for something that seems alive. :)

It's also quite mesmerizing to watch the relationships between the different numbers (e.g., the alertness value fluctuates, causing energy to either fall slowly or rise quickly), and all these layers add to the apparent complexity.
eBay sometimes sends out emails with auction countdowns in them that do something similar.

The first time that I saw an accurate countdown ticking away in an email, it surprised the heck out of me.
> shouldn’t we insist that it only cite studies that specifically speak to the tails of the distribution — to the actual pool of women Google draws from?

Yes. If women fall on a bell curve, and Google pulls only from the far right (x-axis is skill, y-axis is number of women), then the research used to change Google's hiring practices should be based on that selected portion of the curve, not the whole population.

If Damore was really just questioning Google's hiring practices, he should have sought out research that looks only at the pool of candidates from which Google draws. And, if he was questioning all affirmative action policies for women, then he was being disingenuous by targeting Google.
You don't want to run your own mail/web server. At least, you do not want a lot of people doing it. Because most of the will get the security part wrong. Horribly wrong.
You can't rent tanks or get your own tanks filled without some sort of certification.
“ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. „

Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
Prof. UR Rao was instrumental in developing space applications, launch vehicle technology, cryogenic engine project, space science missions of Indian space program. He was also instrumental in setting up ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation[0], which provides space application and launch services worldwide and generate revenue for ISRO. Most recently, he was laying out plans for ISRO's Venus mission. Now, payload selection is going on for Venus mission[1]. Before coming back to India, Rao was one of the prime experimenters of NASA's Mariner 2, Pioneer 6/7/8/9, and Explorer 34/41 missions. Godspeed, and rest in peace.

These are some interesting interviews of Prof. UR Rao:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJ1yRrNRO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6aZXl-eLEQ

ISRO's tribute to Prof UR Rao: http://www.isro.gov.in/update/28-jul-2017/tribute-to-prof-u-...

[0] http://www.antrix.gov.in/

[1] http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/isro-mission-to-...
Here's what my take on the script would be in bash (albeit untested):

https://gist.github.com/binaryphile/3cf01870516d5fffafbc84a0...

Whoever wrote the initial bash script was clearly in a rush. I don't hold that against anyone, but it makes it poor fodder for an example of why bash is "bad". In particular, for the kind of task illustrated, it's a far better choice than python and I say that as a (formerly) unabashed pythonista.

It takes some time to get chops in bash, especially since there's no culture of developing shareable libraries, but it's no harder to learn bash via stackoverflow/google searches than it is to learn python. Use python when you need data structures and objects. Use bash to automate what you would normally do on the command line. Is that so hard?
word. unlicensed content delivery platforms still vastly superior in terms of quality and depth of content after over a decade and billions spent by netflix, hulu, etc. if you really want people to pay for a product you should offer better quality than the people who give it away.
99% Invisible - Really great mix of interesting topics you wouldn't normally think about.
Ravens, octopus, canids, dolphins - surely behind us in intelligence - but we aren't the only brainy lifeforms Earth has brought forth
I think you got it the other way around.

I am 29, and single...

But I am single BECAUSE I am nowhere near owning a home, in fact I don't own a home, or a car, or anything, to the point I stopped looking for a girlfriend because... why bother? It is not like I can even take her to a cinema.
And please explain, how would you regulated them? They have nothing in common with how utilities work, so none of the utility regulatory models would work.

What are you actually proposing?
What is functionalclam?
I can't speak for China and Indonesia, but I've lived in Japan for a number of years. Tofu is not super common as a dish, mostly as a filler in small portions of some side dishes.
Use a blockchain to store it.
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Plus I don't want to manage subscriptions in a bunch of different places. For instance, on Amazon I can add/remove things like HBO and Showtime and have it all in one place.

As much as I like Twin Peaks, I'm not sure I would have signed up for Showtime to watch it weekly unless it were right there with the rest of my content.
I have often heard it refereed to as, Not A Space Ship One.

Even 160 kilometers has quite a bit of atmospheric drag, and Spaceshipone only just broke 100 kilometers.
Ignoring the obvious link to current events: Charlottesville also has a lot of wealth per capita. That kind of thing correlates strongnly with happiness.
Any object that floats presumably may be moored at any sufficiently large dock?
1) filing an amicus brief is not "suing"

2) A FOIA case isn't exactly criticizing the administration on policy.

3) 4) and 5) the NSA suit originated against the GW Bush Administration. Quoting their own press release: "Specifically the EFF wants the government to make public a secret court ruling that found that the feds had broken a 2008 wiretapping law that was intended to legalize President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program."

To be intellectually honest about the public stances they take on issues they claim to support and rights they claim to defend, compare their press releases[1] from during the Obama Administration versus during the Trump administration (or GWB administration) with respect to identical, specific acts by the Obama administration.

Note specifically their silence on Internet Privacy (lost under Obama, then reimplemented in a weaker way and delayed) and on Net Neutrality (also lost under Obama and limited to a half-assed after-the-fact regulation change).

[1] https://www.eff.org/updates?type=press_release
Before you can ask these questions, you have to define what "intelligence" is. And it's not at all obvious what the definition would be. And, indeed, whether it's even a quantifiable thing, or a smooth spectrum.
awesome - it would be good to publicize this process, and also to post about those experiences. Far too many are intimidated into compliance without knowing their rights.
Aw, hell, I misunderstood for YEARS. You can run your own local listener, but it delivers to devices through APN. Sorry.
i think that has the bad side effect of not disputing invalid DMCA takedowns. Instead, we ought to be fighting these invalid DMCA takedowns, and increase the cost of making a false claim. In aggregate, it will make DMCA less abusable, but will require a tough fight. Making bad press for companies that make false claims won't hurt either.

Moving information to outside the US juristiction will only allow abusers to continue to harass those who can't move out.
I just moved to a place where I can get gigabit fiber and spent a lot of time looking into how I want to get TV. So far the cord-cutting options that look most compelling to me are Hulu Live TV (Beta) and YouTube TV (sadly not available in my area yet).

Things I care about are: ability to watch live TV, access to the major TV networks, ability to DVR, ability to watch things from other devices (like "I'm traveling but want to watch my DVR'd program).

Sling was looking good but doesn't include the major networks and only some of its channels can be DVR'd.

I thought about using an HD antenna and getting a hardware DVR like a Tivo or Channel Master DVR+, but then you can only DVR the major networks. If you try to supplement that with Sling, you're back to the same problem that only some things can be DVR'd. Also the hardware DVRs don't generally let you watch remotely, and the ones that do aren't as good at live TV.

Hulu Live TV seems good so far. You get access to live TV and DVR and you can watch from anywhere. But it also gives you access to its existing streaming library, so you have access to a lot of shows even if you didn't think to DVR them before they happened. At $40/month it seems like a pretty good deal (that gives you 50 hours of DVR). It's $44 to have "No Commercials" (this removes commercials from the streaming content I believe). If you want to skip past commercials in content you have DVR'd, you need to pay an extra $15/month, which seems kind of lame.

I wish I could try YouTube TV but it's not available in Seattle yet!
Only after the New York Times (of all places) reported on it first.

And they didn't even bother writing a press release on the subject[1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/updates?type=press_release&page=1
There's typically no wind indoors.

http://awesci.com/the-role-of-wind-in-a-trees-life/
> It's naive to think that any one form of human organization, be it governmental or corporate, is somehow less corruptible than another.

You don't think any organizations have ever been any more corruptible than any other organizations?
> If you look closely you can see huge swaths of that today.

Oh yes, most dystopian fiction still uses it.

And this is also an old rhetorical trick. In political speech it takes the form of putting two words as close as possible together to make people unconsciously do a link between them. "I will strengthen our borders to prevent immigration. Crime is the main focus of our policies." <- No links were formally made in that sentence between crime and immigration, but the words seem linked.

If you make a whole speech about Obama that also talks about the problems of lobbying and corruption of the elite, people will associate Obama with these concepts.

It is very easy and very effective.
If I'd write an algorithm for a self-driving car that just drives it in a straight line with high speed.. I'd be still responsible if the car kills somebody and couldn't just say that "whoops it was just the silly algorithm" even though I didn't specifically intend to kill somebody.
Make sense, you might be seeing a real trend, but maybe not. You can evaluate things from personal experience, and even a small amount of negative individual experience can hurt a business, because of word of mouth. You should also calibrate your experiences once in a while though. A restaurant you had a bad experience at when you went might still be the best restaurant in town.

If fraud was a huge part of their business, they'd kill the 3rd party sellers from their platform, but I doubt it is. I think it's a net positive as a whole, but a small number of customers hate it. What they need to do now is improve those quirks you mentioned. That's much more reasonable then killing the whole marketplace.
I assume the reason why GP is asking is beacuse they want to be able to distribute a repository, i.e have people know where it is. Without a git host then you need to run a http/ssh server from your computer, which isn't an option for many people. And then you'd still need a website to list a link to it, if you want people to find it at all. And that website is just as liable to receive a DMCA for listing the allegedly infringing content, just like torrent sites are.
the problem is when the safe-harbour entity doesn't actually try to protect their content creators, but blindly accepts any takedown. Youtube is notoriously obedient - to the point where it can threaten content creator's livelihood (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0 for a famous one).
Most of the misery we know about isn't beyond our own atmosphere either.
Thinking about this, I think you're right that this is perhaps less useful than billed. If anything though, I'd rather have both warnings.
I have great hopes on Team Indus. Hoping they'll pull of this mission. They've signed a PSLV-XL launch contract with ISRO, and they seem to be on track with spacecraft and rover development[0]. Japan's X-prize entrant HAKUTO will also be ride-sharing on this mission[1].

It'll be an exciting 2018 for us, we have two moon rover missions from India - Chandrayaan 2 from ISRO[2], and Team Indus.

[0] https://medium.com/teamindus/teamindus-missionlog-august-67e...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14023336/google-lunar-x-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2
i am not sure that it is directly tied to monopoly. paying for a subscription reduces friction for watching individual shows/channels so it increased total viewership and total consumption. every pay point you add adds more friction so will reduce consumption. that is true whether you have monopolies or not. you could have 5 competitors and they would all maximize profit by selling bundles.
It's because it's spelt "Ku Klux Klan".
What a gorgeous site! The Internet is an amazing place; thank you!
They also can "scream" by giving off a pulse (that humans can't hear) when attacked and can "talk" to each other by giving off chemicals when attacked by insects, thereby warning neighboring relatives to start creating protective chemicals to defend themselves.
don't forget that producing all this content costs 10's of billions per year so someone has to pay for it. both the cost of production and the amount produced keeps increasing so prices need to go up to.
There's some comments that add literally no value. I've received comment replies on other sites saying things along the lines of "I want to kill you." At that point we're past freedom of speech, this is almost the equivalent of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
I see, sounds interesting. Are the names namespaced? And how would a method know its compatible? Do you type the properties a method needs instead of the object name?
I get what you are saying. A lot of media has been "oh this was fine" under Obama but "oh no this is horrible under Trump".

The TPP is an interesting example given a lot of liberal media was very against it until it became a Trump issue and they flipped.

However this doesn't apply to the EFF that I've seen. The EFF is very consistent in their principles and they don't play partisan politics.

Building cases and maneuvering takes a long time and they have to be efficient with their funding.
MLK sent a letter from a certain jail in Birmingham rather than oppose the arrest

How, specifically, do you propose that a black minister demonstrating for civil rights safely oppose an arrest in 1963 Birmingham?
The quality may be better, but can you stream pirated content on, say, an iPad app or on a pre-installed TV app? Netflix and other legal providers seem to have a real value proposition versus illegal providers, but I'll admit it's been several years since I've taken any interest in piracy.
99% sounded like a made-up statistic, so I looked it up [1].

What do you know, it's more like 60% combined. What's the purpose of throwing out numbers like this? It only hurts whatever point you're trying to make.

(Edited for tone)

1. http://www.adweek.com/digital/u-s-digital-advertising-will-m...
Fuck.

Copenhaguen Suborbitals was a fantastic item to talk about to convince people that hobbyists can do great things. Now there will be a crime investigation linked to it? Damn.

That feels like when I read about Pistorius crime...