skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I'm not the only person that thought that the evidence of malicious suppression was lacking. The basic facts are that the EU Commission commissioned a study on the displacement of sales by piracy and did not report the results, and that this study found that piracy did not appear to have a significant impact (one way or the other) on sales. From these facts, the conclusion is reached that the EUC intended to show that piracy was killing sales, found otherwise, and buried it to save face, which sounds a lot more like projection of the reporter's viewpoints than logical reasoning to me.

It's not clear from the original tender (which I wouldn't call an "announcement") if the study was ever intended for general publication. It's also not exactly news that piracy isn't the cause of declining sales--there are studies a decade ago that you could have pointed to that would have debunked the "piracy is killing music/books/movies" trope.

> Actually, there's no such concept as "copyright" in France/Germany and other European jurisdictions with Code Civil heritage.

Uhhh... Berne Convention disagrees with you. The only original common law signatory to the convention was the UK, and the main instigator of the convention was France. For all practical purposes, copyright in the Anglo-American sense is the same as the droits d'auteur in the French sense.
It's pretty much 'apply' for shell arguments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply

use it many places instead of a for loop:

for x in ;
do <cmd> $x
done

is:

echo |xargs cmd

Assuming 'cmd' can take multiple arguments.

If not, use 'xargs -L 1 cmd' to run cmd 1x per arg.

GNU xargs has -1, but -L 1 is portable to xargs in the BSDs and others.. plus it's good to know -L in case you ever need to -L 2, etc.

using echo as a driver is not the best example, but anyhow.
AFAIK the same living standards the most advanced 2nd world countries (SI, CZ, SK, DDR) had in 1989 they reached at around 2005, so it's like almost 20 years wasted on reaching the same quality of life, and that only on average. Before those societies were much more equal, e.g. income difference was around 5x from highest level to lowest level, nowadays it's 1000000x (fueled often by corruption and dysfunctional Rechtstaat), so on average majority of the population likely had their living standards decline (in terms of debt, mortgages that didn't exist before etc.). So just looking at GDP and nominal value might not tell the whole story as inflation was about the same. It's probably like laughing at Russia and how much do they spend on army, but ignoring the costs might be 10x lower than in the US. We in Western Europe tend to have pretty biased optics when ignoring local realities.
Those are some very good points, but I think some of them are wrong or do not apply for most uses cases.

1) "Do not serialize JSON, or use msgpack or protobuf - write your own protocol." - Why should you write your own protocol insead of protobuf? If your game has more than 10-20 types of messages/objects than it becomes very hard to implement your own binary encoding for each object. Plus with protobuf is easy to use and the packets generated are really smaller (most likely smaller than your own protocol).

2) "Measure everything with realistic load - i.e. I've found out that it's more costly to calculate world entity deltas to send to client, than to send everything in his view." - Profiling is something that you should always do, with both synthetic and real loads. In your case, my guess is that your diffing code was inefficient or that the load was so small that both computing the delta and sending the message were almost instant, so comparing them would give inaccurate results.

3) "Prefer fixed entity speeds." - I think this is a game design decision and you shouldn't limit your game to this if you don't have too. Also, I don't think there's any issue with entities being able to have a different speed each tick.

And, a question. What VPS are you using? Do you recommend any specific VPS for hosting Node.js game servers?
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There is another one today - 6.2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/23/mexico-new-ear...
Yeah and that is what people have been doing. But it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the best chocolate you can get is generic-label chocolate from Carrefour. Or, if you're lucky enough to live around one / can afford to shop at a place that imports foreign products from UK / Germany outside of the regular distributor network.

On the other hand, in Germany, you can buy a Milka pretty much anywhere and it is a good chocolate.

Also, this is not really about Milka, it is about thousands of products across dozens of categories, so we can't just ignore this as an isolated, one-off issue. That is why people are pissed.
To help increase security through action, whenever friends send me their flight details that include a PNR I logon to the airline website and book them a middle seat and special meal choice 'bland meal'. Just doing my part.
There's some research. Most of it simply says "we're really bad at this." [0]. One way to fix it is to use a sort of lottery [1].

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/36/11335.abstract

[1] http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/2/e00422-16.abstract
also of note is:

-t : print the commands being run

-I %: interpolate file name in command string.

e.g. ls .mp4 |xargs -t -L 1 -I % scp % me@somebox:/movies

to scp individual files (replaced in %) to a destination, one at a time, printing each command as it is run.

Again, not the best example since you can

scp .mp4 me@sombeox:/movies

or rsync, etc.
but you get the idea.
…if you can stand recompiling and re-installing your apps every 7 days.
If you don't mind performance, using socket.io gives you stay-alive on the ws connection. If you don't mind writing the 5 lines of code it takes to implement stay-alive for normal websockets then socket.io makes no sense anymore.
I don't know for sure, but I would think that there is likely some kind of difficulty in sending high-speed signalling through a magentic field like that. I think there was a reason Apple only ever used magsafe for power.
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Yes, but they aren't called "black cabs". An American wouldn't know what you meant; they'd understand "yellow cab" for that, depending on where they're from. And a "black car" service is something completely different, just to add to the confusion: they're limousines that you have to pre-arrange and can't simply hail on the street (though many of them try to cheat when they can).
This. Airlines are not a favorable model.
Airlines irrationally invest, deal with fuel costs they have to partially hedge, can't store capacity... the list goes on.
I like the appeal (and the book) but I recall, when researching diceware, reading that this is a terrible idea in practice since the entropy is lowered dramatically by using natural language that's already in the public record. Even if they can't put every printed phrase into a lookup table, the probability of certain words following others wrecks the entropy.
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Related: CGP Grey's "The Trouble with Transporters"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI
“friends”
For security questions for sites I dont care about, I pick the subjedt of the question and use that:

"What city were you born in" == "city"

"what was the name of your first pet?" == "pet"

etc.
Aslo called a "weak patent retaliation clause" vs React's (current) strong patent retaliation clause.
I found the explanations in [1] to be very helpful to understand patent clauses.

[1]: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...
The difference is that addicts are actively malicious to their family members and broader society.

Depressed people and diabetics are hurting themselves either through action or inaction, but I've never been threatened by a diabetic or depressive outside a Circle K. I have been threatened by a criddler outside a Circle K. Similarly, few people get all of their stuff stolen out of their house by a diabetic or depressive. They do all the time when their son is addicted to heroin. Depressives don't prostitute their kids to drug dealers for crack, etc.

Drug addiction is one of the few diseases where the patient actively attacks all of the people who are in a position to help him. That generally alienates people who tend to be otherwise generous toward the down-and-out. The laws reflect that, and it takes a superhuman effort of rationality to say, "Yes, addicts do terrible things. Other solutions produce better results than the natural impulse of doing terrible things back to them."

Edit: We see this in the nastier forms of mental illness, too. People are generally compassionate toward those with OCD, eating disorders, and so on. Those with borderline personality disorder or bipolar disorder tend to be relegated to "batshit insane" and viewed with utter contempt. Again, the difference is that someone with anorexia nervosa isn't going to pull a Carrie Underwood[1] on your car, but someone with BPD might.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSy8yy-mr8
Pre GPS it was a requirement that cabbies have a massive list of places and routes through London memorized (that guy taking 3.5 years to study and pass the entrance exam is pretty par for the course).

There's a 1996 documentary on the process that's pretty interesting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvFKh_3evC8

Separately, this is the kind of non robots doing manufacturing automation that I think it's important to think about when we have discussions of future work, etc.

Because on the one hand it's stunningly fantastic that what used to take someone 4 years and a series of examinations to achieve is now included for a negligible cost in the pocket supercomputer (of 1996) that we all carry around in our pocket. But, it's also a huge shift for all these industries.
It's like that Ninja Turtles branded mutagenic ooze that was supposed to turn me into a mutant ninja, but it was actually just cornstarch, water, and food coloring.

You need a similar level of naivete to think a warm plastic extruding machine can print metal.
If anyone from Google Scholar is reading this, please, please, add a DOI field to the BiBTex citation. It is required in every serious journal and it's tiresome to copy the citation, then open the article page and look for the DOI to add manually.

This small change would be more welcome that any other UI refreshment, I guarantee it.
My experiences scootering around in Southeast Asia wasn't much different. Traffic flow was surprisingly efficient in many quite congested uncontrolled intersections. The downside was that accidents were common.
I visited Prague at the beginning of the year; after a week I had stomach issues from the food I bought at their "Albert" supermarket. It was not as bad as when I visited Rio de Janeiro, but definitely put a question mark on what people there have to eat. And the prices were more-less same as in Germany.
> The population density doesn't support the economy of scale required to make daily fresh produce profitable.

Yet strangely, before mass-market supermarkets existed, people in rural areas ate fresh produce directly from farmers without having such 'economy of scale'.. and the people in the city had trouble accessing them..

when the 'economy of scale' is devoured by the middlemen creating it, it is neither economical nor scalable..
Incidentally, I did work on a backup program for Windows and Unix-ish OSes some years ago. There are indeed locked files, there are hardlinks, symlinks, junctions and other types of reparse points that will give HFS+ a run for its money, there are alternate streams, DACLs, SACLs, there is a monstrosity called volume shadow copying, there is a lack of support for created times on some file systems, times that are supported are truncated differently, some file names are not supported here, but supported there, etc. Lots and lots of cruft accumulated over past decades.

But it's not a nightmare. It's just a very large pile of mostly trivial stuff.

Also none of this should require a "complete rewrite" if you are to add support for yet another file system. Saying something like this means that either existing program is a bowl of spaghetti code _or_ that someone is being coy and exaggerates implied difficulties. Are you going to argue with that? Because that was the point you were commenting on.
There are two kinds of problems I spontaneously see, I assume there can be found more.

For one it has to be clear to the user. Is he granting one time access or repeated access? Which sites are getting the access? Is it actually the exact page I see or some code loaded from elsewhere? etc.

The other part is the sandboxing part. Sandboxing access to file systems is hard. How do you deal with symlinks, hard links, ... (maybe there is a different vulnerability allowing to create those and both techniques together lead to an dangerous exploit?) what amount of the path name etc. are available to the application (this might i.e. link the username, which might be derived from a full name, think about /home, /Users, C:\Documents and Settings\ but might be useful to show) and then, again, the related real-life user issue: not all users have all their music in a distinct folder structure, but probably mixed with other files, and oh, they want to play the files freshly put into "Downloads", too ...

Granting such access is a can of worms ...
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In the US, unlike most cities in Eastern Europe, you at least have the option to pay a premium and get high quality food.
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I have no idea who is downvoting you; this is perfectly correct. In fact, one of the (minor) plot points in the quoted book is a cyphertext getting broken because the person generating one time pad keys looks at the letters!
By "they" do you mean the board or the company as seen by accounting documents?

Google revenues can be viewed in several ways, in one of them it is not diversified at all as in 2016, 71% of their revenues came from Googles sites.

In another interpretation, they are very diversified, as this 71% revenue stream comes from a set of diverse sources. In yet another interpretation they are quite diversified as the USA provides quite half of their revenues.

Accounting could tell very different stories with the same numbers.

For the board, if the revenues are steadily increasing it shows they understand their world, which is not a trivial thing at all. It is basically the difference between strategy and post mortem analysis. One is easier to do than the other.
>What I can't appreciate is why people are using things like vinyl and cassette tapes.

It's like mechanical watches: an objectively inferior product that's appealing because it's full of complicated moving parts.
> Why are we going after Big Vern when there are more pressing crimes to deeply investigate?

This is a silly argument, it's not an either or situation, law enforcement can and should pursue all crimes. By your logic, why go after any financial crimes where there are still unsolved murder cases? Do you see how absurd you're being?

> The coins were numbers to me, not dollars.

What your feels tell you has no bearing on the law; bitcoin is a commodity of value and like all commodities of value it's subject to law.
One solution would be to randomly generate security answers with human readable words. Diceware does this. You can use a dice, or you can use an open source tool like this one:

https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware
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> Funny Ceaușescu was considered "too progressive" in Warsaw Pact and wasn't invited to all top-level meetings.

Don't have actual insight here, but 'progressive' to a soviet bloc communist would likely mean 'ultra communist' e.g. hard line stalinist..
Alibaba and Tencent Set Fast Pace in Mobile-Payments Race
What a silly argument, this is the top one percentile in net worth and income. You're confusing the behavior of billionaires with what rich actually means.
1) Demonstrably not so, in my case. Devising and implementing a protocol flexible enough for me was, along with test-driven implementation of that particular aspect, a joy and more performant solution than any other out of the box. Yes, I've tested against msgpack/protobuf (and I use protobuf in production on other projects) and found it to be less optimal, for both implementation (you're never as flexible as with blank board) and runtime resource usage, across board.

2) Sure, I might go the way of the delta one of these days - it does still smell like good design. That's why I was underwhelmed to see it underperform first time around.

3) Yeah, design and implementation are never separate. Neither is content and presentation. :)

DigitalOcean works for me now. Wouldn't mind slightly better CPUs, as even High Compute droplets are not all they're cracked to be.
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My dad is currently using SeaMonkey for email and and editing his website.

It feels very wrong but after 20 years and 100 GB of pop3 email, it's hard to switch I suppose.
Just use your laptop's mic jack to make an oscilloscope.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-Your-Laptop-as-Oscillosc...
In the US the title reads as "i am a black (cab driver)" rather than "i am a (black cab) driver". It is a race thing.
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> Bitcoin and alt coins, just like WoW gold, are not stocks.

Not relevant, securities doesn't mean stocks. A security is basically any financial instrument of value, and crytpo's are most certainly securities and obviously always have been.

You need to get over this notion that "new" things are somehow not subject to existing laws. Slapping a new name like bitcoin on a financial security doesn't suddenly make it not a security; the law is not so trivially circumvented, the law doesn't need to mention a thing by name for it to apply to said thing.
Related: "What Makes You You?"

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html
well i kinda need something as relevant as possible to take my mind off crap while I recover from a recent injury that'll give me the best chance of becoming a fu kung fuck mechanic
There's a whole section in here about how people do stuff while being transported, and then about energy beings. This is just fiction, people! The philosophical issues from the start of the article are just made unrealistically complicated if you also posit that teleportation has to obey the demands of the plot. Make sure to be clear about the difference between "is teleportation in Star Trek a death sentence" and "is teleportation in principle a death sentence". [As has been rightly pointed out, I really mean "teleportation by beaming". There are other possible means of teleportation which don't require disassembling one's self and reassembling it elsewhere: for example, travel through wormholes.]

Teleportation in principle is not a death sentence if (like me) you're a reductionist who believes that the mind is a pattern which happens to be encoded on a physical substrate. To copy the substrate perfectly implies copying perfectly the pattern encoded on it, and hence (since I'm a reductionist) copying perfectly the self.

No comment from my end about teleportation in Star Trek being a death sentence.
lights going out isn't that rare, at least where i'm living, and people know how to handle it. it's just if you have enough lanes of traffic, it's too much coordination to treat it properly like an all-way stop.
Why do Facebook and Twitter and etc. permit posting of airline QR codes and credit card photos without a safety warning and an option to safely blur out the sensitive bits?
Diceware is memorable but not guessable.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff
With a population of 11,776 it's only a town.
Why? Just you beging copied and your first instance dying doesn't make the copy a p-zombie.
Decentralized exchanges can make regulation easy. When you cash out, you have to provide the transaction on the blockchain where you purchased those coins, and at what cost basis. If the transaction was private, you have to provide the means for the government to view the private details.

You can choose not to do that, and if you do, the IRS will assume the cost basis was $0.

I'm have been buying crypto for years, and I'm perfectly happy with that - it gives me the option for privacy, but at a cost.
Probably meant 'Soviet-bloc'.. but anyway.

The statement still presumes that culinary culture essentially didn't exist before communist times..

I would wager that pre-wwII food quality in France vs Romania was probably fairly similar..
Find has exec as well. I tend to use this when searching for things.
Alright, then "dangerously regressive" would be a better term ;-)
This really isn't a problem anymore if you don't store coins on an exchange. Just get a hardware wallet and you have incredibly good digital security.
Given that the wealth gap in the US seems so much bigger than any other country, I'd wager not.
Yeah I've been meaning to add the K240 as they're quite good and popular. I'm not immediately familiar with the HD 598 but Sennheiser generally makes good stuff at each price point. They have a habit of changing model numbers periodically though for seemingly no reason.
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Thanks for the feedback. You got me thinking I should be more critical of Zanders and whether they actually pay out. I'm gonna check with my insurance agent and see what he offers , at least he would be an advocate for me.

FYI: banks are liable only for PERSONAL accounts. If you have a BUSINESS Account that gets hit by fraud, the bank is not liable. Thats where fraud insurance is most important
Equifax's primary customers are the banks and other people who want to check out a persons credit worthiness. They did not leak credit reports. Just think if that information was copied and in the wild, available as a torrent. They would have a lot fewer customers. If you were renting out a place, instead of paying Equifax hundreds of dollars to check the credit of a dozen people, you could just check them out for free. That would be pretty cool. Sort of like the Sci-Hub situation.
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> Technical innovation is not the only type of innovation happening in the crypto space.

It's the only kind that matters; all other innovation should be built on top of those using the technically innovative base as a building block. Launching "new" coins that are merely clones are simply going to lead to failure. Bitcoin is not like Apache, you can't just grab its code and use it and think you've got what bitcoin has. Bitcoin is not its code, Bitcoin is its network, Bitcoin is like Facebook, network effects dominate, and you must use actual Bitcoin, not just launch a Bitcoin clone, to benefit from it.
I visited Germany a week ago and had the chance to compare German foods with what's offered in Eastern Europe. The prices were about the same, some things (like chocolate and candy) were cheaper. Overall, the quality of food was of much higher standard.
LOL. Then whoever is supplying the anecdotal experience you've gathered evidence from. :-)
Reportedly it took a lot of convincing to get Jobs to OK the release of iTunes for Windows.
I don't think anyone's really claiming that Vue is a 'next big thing' to switch to from React. Vue/React/Angular are all competitors of the same generation.
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