skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is also true though is that The Pirate Bay or Megaupload are about as poor of a choice for content creators as it gets. As far as I know, the amount of money The Pirate Bay and Megaupload have paid content creators is diddly squat, and the amount of original programming produced by these two places is zero.

There are certainly reasons for not liking DRM, but "freedom to pirate" seems like a pretty poor one.

You are right about investors retreating to "safe low creativity", especially in times of downturn. Traditional movie theaters are in decline, so of course traditional cinema is playing it safe for now with reboots and sequels. Netflix, on the other hand, is more awash in investor cash... so at the moment, they are able to take greater risks.

As far as cutting out the "investor" side goes, it would be interesting to see a content host that is explicitly non-profit. Beyond major content hosts, I think the Soundclouds / Bandcamps / Patreons etc. definitely have their place, and have been helpful for some not-so-commercial / hobbyist artists. Even these platforms however seem to struggle with the conflict between making a profit vs serving the artistic community sometimes.
I'm surprised they don't provide a checksum, or a PGP signature, or both. Did people forget about Handbrake already?
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> It's a lot more productive and clearer

"There can be no integers which are both even and odd", sure. Such a number cannot exist because the properties can not be co-instantiated.

> Well the property of interest is having x^2 == 2.

Sure, but that property is possessed by some x. The interlocutor in the article seems to resist not that this equation could be satisfied, but whatever satisfied it wouldnt "count" because it didnt possess some touchy-feely "existential" property.

cf., at the end where concession is only given to defining existence within some system as opposed to some prior intuition of "Existence" which was being denied to sqrt(2).

My point is that whatever this intuitive notion of existence is it's basically unhelpful. It is embedding properties into the very criterion of there-being-a-quantity of something.

As in, it is not merely good enough that an x can be defined such that x^2==2 but that it must also possess the Property of Reality (whichever that might be, eg. spatial location, abbacusy, ..).
Paul Ford has a great riff on that: https://medium.com/message/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c

> Here’s a polite person’s trick, one that has never failed me. I will share it with you because I like and respect you, and it is clear to me that you’ll know how to apply it wisely: When you are at a party and are thrust into conversation with someone, see how long you can hold off before talking about what they do for a living. And when that painful lull arrives, be the master of it. I have come to revel in that agonizing first pause, because I know that I can push a conversation through. Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: “Wow. That sounds hard.”

> Because nearly everyone in the world believes their job to be difficult. I once went to a party and met a very beautiful woman whose job was to help celebrities wear Harry Winston jewelry. I could tell that she was disappointed to be introduced to this rumpled giant in an off-brand shirt, but when I told her that her job sounded difficult to me she brightened and spoke for 30 straight minutes about sapphires and Jessica Simpson. She kept touching me as she talked. I forgave her for that. I didn’t reveal a single detail about myself, including my name. Eventually someone pulled me back into the party. The celebrity jewelry coordinator smiled and grabbed my hand and said, “I like you!” She seemed so relieved to have unburdened herself. I counted it as a great accomplishment. Maybe a hundred times since I’ve said, “wow, that sounds hard” to a stranger, always to great effect. I stay home with my kids and have no life left to me, so take this party trick, my gift to you.
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I, for one, do not actually exist. Sorry.
[Citation needed], especially for the minke whales.
It appears there were no crashes in the commercial Airline industry in the US in 2017. There was 1 near miss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_accidents_an...

AI and software engineering probably have a long, long way to go before they are in the same category of dependability.
Oh, yeah, it’s immeasurably more influential than anything else either wrote. I just dispute the “mentions of name in classroom” and “who is probably intended by a bare, contextless reference to one ‘Shelley’” metrics.
The answer is obvious - AI shouldn't enforce victimless crime laws.
Summary: She liquefies the brains to measure the numbers of nuclei, thus accurately extrapolating the numbers of each type of cell in the brain, which was hard to do with previous methods due to the differnet concentrations of types of cells in the brain.
My awareness used to be like a clenched fist. I used to be like a clenched fist. Focused and concentrated all the time. Always obsessed. Always in my head. Disconnected from everything.

Now my awareness is like an open hand, fingers spread. I see a lot of stuff that was invisible to me before. My world is bigger. I am out of my head.

I'm not saying its perfect. And obsession calls like a siren. But you could say that I am aware of the options now, and can choose intelligently, where before I was only aware of one option and called it reality.

The technique that I use is what the Buddhists call Vipassana.
Doesn't most of the JS fatigue come from the build process? I don't see anything about that in this post.
1.

Release finally my timetable generator application for highschools/universities https://github.com/karandit/confetti/

2.
Finish my other long pending project, a REST API game inspired by the detective game Cluedo
https://github.com/karandit/rest_dojo_web

It was used as a motivation for me to learn elm http://elm-lang.org/
... for single events.
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Probably for performance reasons, allocating a whole new state each frame is pretty expensive.
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> They don't even carry money anymore.

I have yet to go to a branch that does not "carry money". In fact, I occasionally use human tellers when I want specific denominations of bills for some reason.

> Like, what would you even DO in a bank these days.

* Loan origination paperwork

* Cashier's checks

* Notarization (I get it free for being a customer)

* Needing more than $400 cash

* Depositing coins

These are not things I need to do often, but each has come up at least once in the past couple years. I have also noticed that in Manhattan it is common for banks to have ATM lobbies in place of full branches. I hit one of those at least once ever couple weeks.
What she leaked didn't hurt the deep state or the plutocracy, nor did it help the people. She is either hopelessly naive in all of her actions, or controlled. Probably the former.
No problem! You can use nnn in the Linux subsystem on Win 10. Some of the users reported it works well.
Tricks to make yourself look like a sleazy salesman to anyone who sees through your bullshit. It's like the "developing your 'personal brand'" concept those without personalities use on social media, but applied to real life situations.

I prefer not to interact with people who need to use "tricks" to make themselves seem trustworthy. The fact that you're faking a personality (aka lying) already tells me all I need to know about your trustworthiness up front.
Ask HN: Music listeners.. why do you listen music today?
This question is specific to music listeners who have listened to music for 15+ actively knowing they love listening music.

Why do you listen to music today? (Anything concrete in your mind about music now?)
Try writing tech articles for money. You have to produce them quickly and to point. Interviewing people takes time. By the time the subject recieves the request and gets permission to talk to the reporter, the dealine has passed. An interview might also overturn the theme of the article, a theme dictated by a manager/purchaser based on thier brief reading of a few other articles/blogs. If the reporter wants to be paid they better generate the story as requested and on time. It isnt good jounalism but it is how you make rent.
looks like we have some gem authors that need to update their stuff...

google-protobuf-3.5.0-universal-darwin requires ruby version < 2.5, >= 2.0, which is incompatible with the current version, ruby
2.5.0p0

[update]

looks like this is resolved by forcing bundler to compile instead of grabbing the precompiled versions.
Also banks are big and take the losses. Small businesses can’t.

You can never blame the customer. They can’t find it at the price they can afford, they’ll move elsewhere.
It's also worth mentioning this [1] blog post from 2014 on orderbook visualization. It has a great explanation of the methods and insightful analysis.

[1] http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/
tried harder

It's not about trying harder, it's about trying better, and with support. Habits of mind are tremendously powerful; yes, there is a biochemical component to addiction, but there is also a psychological habit component.

As far as I understand, this is part of what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is designed to handle. A CBT practitioner works with the patient to come up with specific goals and a specific strategy for achieving those goals, including building and reinforcing new habits of mind.

Some people, like the GP, get lucky and figure it out for themselves. But in general that's not something you are expected to be able to do on your own.
I've actually heard a lot of people say this. At least a couple Ph.Ds, though I can't recall the links.

How many failures in journalism are attributed to "lazy journalism" where nobody will even leave the building these days to even ask someone involved in the story or topic. How the internet made it "easier" but they've become so over-reliant on it that many journalists fail to include information that isn't already online.

Then again, Netflix is probably a phone call away, so that may be a whole 'nother level of lack-of-followup.
Casting bytes to a structure is tricky! First of all, unlike C, Rust doesn't define struct layout. We change the internal layout every so often to add optimizations, and we can only do this thanks to that guarantee. We do have a way to say "use C's layout", if it's a struct you're defining. Also, you have things like endianness to worry about, portability is tough here!

Depending on your sitaution, you don't have to use unsafe yourself; for example, the byteorder crate can help here, or any of the serialization libraries that can serialize to a binary format.
Follow up, I was on my phone before, this is what working with Vue typically looks like:

<template>
<p v-text="message" class="some-class">
</p>
<button v-on:click="reverseMessage">
</button>
</template>

<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
message: "Hello Vue.js!"
};
},
methods: {
reverseMessage(){
this.message = this.message.split('').reverse().join('');
},
},
}
</script>

<style>
.some-class{
color: black;
}
</style>

The thing to note is that there are other objects which can be added to the component definition which add a lot of utility and keeps things standardized: created, mounted, computed, watch, etc. There's a bit of magic behind the scenes to make it work, but it's worth it for the standardization/organization in my opinion.
There's been some work on GraphQL and Rust https://www.gjtorikian.com/posts/2017/08/15/wrapping-rust-in...
This is the crux of it - the world doesn't stand still. So if you're in a small team in a space that's fast moving and very competitive then the comfortable life wont last long...

If you're in a space where the addressable market is very hard to reach or fragmented, a venture based run will probably run aground. Whereas a small player hitting a niche might be great for a long time.
Not a problem, sure California residents have this right of self determination. But then stop using my tax dollar to enable your rent seeking behavior (prop 13) and paying next to nothing towards local development (again, prop 13) while shifting that burden to the renter (higher rents being partly used to fund libraries, fire stations, etc. when really, your local taxes should have been paying for those, not my continually rising rent).
Why would it? This isn't a post about javascript fatigue , but how the top three “modern” frameworks are all component based and are very similar.
America’s health insurance industry is too deep inside GOP for this to be a thing at least in this decade.

With the latest tax cuts it’s very evident that this country favors Large corporations over small businesses.

May be it is a good thing, but I bet in the next 20 years, America won’t have the highest GDP if some of the things don’t reverse.

Also expect a crash by 2020.
How is F# development on the Mac? Visual Studio Code with Ionide is mentioned: http://ionide.io

How does this compare with native Visual Studio on a PC? My impression that you’d be a lot more productive in Visual Studio: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-...
I red-circle the style-guide violating unexplained CDN acronym because the author titled the work from which this is excerpted “Explain Like I’m 10.” I have no objection to using terms-of-art in articles written for experts.
The row and column limit is more of a guideline, not a hard and fast rule.
4. NVidia changes the EULA again to forbid $X ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You could try a grocery store’s customer service desk/center. They may have rolls of coins that they’d use for change.
rspec’s internal DSL is based on Ruby’s multi-line anonymous functions. I don’t know how you achieve a similar design in Python where you don’t have those in the same way. How do you write the equivalent of ‘it ‘does something’ do ... end’ in Python syntax?
>> Do you fault country’s coast guards

> The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a private organization [1].

Private entities are allowed to enforce the law in international waters, actually.
> The advantage of having three regions is that any one region can fail, and the other regions will step in handle all the members in the failed region.

At a previous employer, we met with AWS engineers who told us that this sort of thinking wasn't correct. Availability zones are for failure tolerance. Regions are conceptually different and for things like moving compute closer to clients, mitigating political instability or ensuring that data is held in a certain jurisdiction. To back up that claim, they told us that amazon.com ran out of a single region, us-west-2.

As an aside, another interesting point from that meeting was that autoscaling wasn't a good strategy for scaling up in the event of the loss of an availability zone. The reason why is that in those scenarios, a lot of other customers will be trying to fail over as well and autoscaling can get very slow. Instead of autoscaling, they recommended that we run 150% of our per-AZ capacity in 3 AZs so that if an AZ went offline, the remaining two would already have the necessary capacity. We still used autoscaling, but it was for responding to spikes and troughs in our own load, not failure scenarios.

I'm curious whether these two observations are correct since it seems like a lot of people view regions and autoscaling through a failure-recovery lens.
A harsh fact is not mentioned. Good looking people have it easier than others. There's a natural charm in for looks.
So we'll build a wall? Right?
Indeed. When i reach for MC or the like, it is more often than not to deal with gnarly file deletions or transfers.

This because they allow me to pick the individual files i want to deal with without potentially screwing up wildcards or such.
Hell, Borders had Amazon running their website at one point.

I can only imagine Bezos had to leave the room during negotiations because he was laughing too hard.
I fully agree with this, but maybe a little tweak.

When the commercial space goes vacant, increase property tax by the monthly average of the rent charged over the past 7 years (excluding months with zero rent).

If rented to a commercial entity with more than 100 employees (including part-time and temp) the property tax does not decrease, otherwise if to a mom/pop type business the tax will drop.

Maybe this will encourage 'livable' rents.
Pfft. If you were a TRUE American, you would of course use the one true, correct and proper measuring unit.

The Library of Congress.
When you are in this situation fine, sat at your desk, relaxed.

If I pretend to be your friend make you feel amazing then crank up the pressure before you realise what’s going on you’re being quizzed at a pace by someone who doesn’t even give you time to breath and starts making threats about your future well-being. Sure, you might forget the lawyer the first time this happens.
I don’t think you can call monkey patching inelegant or a hack. Monkey patching is the absence of extra rules - not allowing a method to be defined more than once - and the prescence of consistency - all methods can be redefined.

It’s certainly problematic when used! But the feature itself is elegant and the opposite of a hack. Disallowing monkey patching requires extra conditions and rules, not less.
I would argue that it is obviously worth it for the simplicity of being explicit what is the next state.

This kind of performance optimization, especially outside of game engines seem unnecessary.
Children watch 2.6 hours if TV / day ?
That sounds too much!
Once you become aware of how many people on HN are part of that LessWrong AI immortality cult it becomes pretty obvious why they are so defensive.
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But in this sense, the length of the diagonal exists but you cannot measure it with your chosen unit which is the side of the square. If you take the diagonal as your unit you cannot measure the side either.
I'm referring to the policy of still maintaining the systems necessary to launch on warning, past promises about how the systems will be used are just PR.

It's not like in a hypothetical scenario where Russia has launched hundreds of ICBMs at the US in a first strike scenario Trump (or any other president) is going to feel beholden to some promise Clinton made in the 90s.

The president has absolute power over when and how to launch nuclear weapons, and can do so at a moment's notice, as has been covered extensively in the media in the last year where people seemed shocked that the president had this power since they didn't like the new person in office, even though the power itself hasn't changed in more than half a century.
Anyone else noticing syntax ruby parser regressions?

e.g.

class FooBar < Foo
prepend_before_filter only: [:create, :destroy] {
request.env["hello.skip_timeout"] = true }
end

was valid in ruby 2.4 but invalid now in 2.5
https://github.com/antoyo/relm is almost that, except elm-inspired rather than react-
I guess trying the Ubuntu package via WSL could be an option.
I've always found VLC's UX very awkward. Very happy with mpv.io. On Windows, MPC-HC until it's been abandoned recently; Replaced it with MPC-QT, which is a mpc-hc-like UX but implemented using libmpv.
Yeah, none of the managers I've met with that sort of negative attitude have been successful. I hope that he straightens himself out and gets it together soon, especially if he has a family that relies upon him for income. He seems to have some good thoughts in other parts of the essay though.
Do you think you could fool a human intelligence with some paper printouts taped to your face?
Ben Franklin thought, wrote, and practiced a lot on this subject, you might want to see what he had to say about it.

My two cents: know what you want to communicate, don't deviate from it. Organize your writing or speaking like this: 1) tell them what you're going to tell them, 2) tell them, 3) tell them what you told them. In other words, have an intro, subject, and conclusion, even if you're only writing or speaking 5 sentences. Speak slower, allow pauses, that way you can think through things.
This is not the pentagon but the former pentagon employee. Doesn’t carry as much weight as the pentagon implies

Would like to see international confirmation - Russia and China admitting that there are flying objects that can’t be identified to rule out some advanced esrthly technology.
That is intentional most of the UN bodies are structured around the geographical groups for which each group would elect a member.
Due to how the groups are structured you have effectively only a single group which is for the most part nearly purely democratic and western that is the Western group which includes NA Most of the EU/EEA, Australia and Turkey.

The Eastern region is basically Russia its newly formed vassal states and a few EU countries that got shafted they like Japan also want to move into the Western group.

Then you have Africa which gets its own region.

APAC which is the dominated by the Arab Peninsula, China and India and Pakistan and the Latin American region which shifts constantly from being ok to being quite loony.

The 5 region basically elect representatives to the various UN bodies like the human rights council since the elections are internal it’s basically regional politics and rotation of the crazy for 3 out of the 5 regions.

This is how you get Syria on the Human Rights Council, China as the monitor of press freedom and Saudi Arabia as the champion of Women’s right in the UN.

Israel was not a member of any group as the Arab states blocked its membership to the APAC and the African blocks, in 2013 if finally got to be a member of the western block which meant that it was the first time in 65 years it could send a representative to be elected to a UN position.
Nothing you said here changed my view, I feel like you’ve just obscured the point.
Your English is garbled.

It's Christmas music.
Got it, thanks. Yes, there can be such issues, with any project, but to some extent or in some cases, more with open source projects, particularly those without funding or good management - though of course closed source projects are not immune to such issues either.
For F# development I would choose VS Code with Ionide over VS for PC (haven't tried the Mac version yet) any time.
Which is just another form of 'rent', renting money. Working to further enrich the capital holders.
It's a fine line, isn't it? Ha! You're correct of course.

To anyone with fear of being creepy: my good friend shared a video with me recently on vulnerability. It forced me to rewire my brain:

https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

One item I'd add to the article on being charming: be vulnerable. Vulnerability is relatable, it's genuine.
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