skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piracy fixed some issues (like extremely inflated profit margins in the Music/Movie industry) but it also created some others.
It is no longer possible for small producers of movies or documentaries to fund themselves. It's also not possible to distribute software for people to run on their own machines and still get paid.

The piracy era was incredibly beneficial for society because it gave a lot of people access to software tools and knowledge they previously could never afford to access, but when it proliferated too much, the companies and individuals that produced software and books and video could no longer sustain themselves financially.

This doesn't mean piracy is inherently bad but instead we need a better system that can provide income to those producing useful material while ensuring access to that material to everyone that needs it. It's hard to achieve but it's certainly not impossible.
But why would you even download files through something like Telegram?

This looks like the perfect distribution network for any kind of viruses etc., so wouldn't you just be better off going through TPB or other torrent services?
> You're thinking a lot further in the future.

That is what every pyramid scheme expects out of its victims.
Another example of physicists selling their basic research by linking it to cryptography in a way that makes no sense. Generating quantum random numbers is not solving any real cryptographic problems. It's just marketing ploy or ignorance.

DJB: Is the security of quantum cryptography
guaranteed by the laws of physics?
https://sidechannels.cr.yp.to/qkd/holographic-20180312.pdf

DJB: Security fraud in Europe's "Quantum Manifesto"
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160516-quantum.html

Schneier: Quantum Cryptography: As Awesome As It Is Pointless
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/10/quantum%5Fc...
Plus unfortunately Musk is fairly well known for underpaying his staff. So you have to choose to take a paycut to switch from Google / Facebook. To be fair all of Apple/Amazon/Microsoft do at least sell actual products.

Perhaps this is why Google / Facebook open source so much of what they do, so that talented engineers don't just have to say 'I get paid to make people click'.
Don't knock it until you try it. It's actually quite a good application of "social media" for a company because the domain is so specific.
> It's maybe me but I don't get it. Treating employment as subcontracting tilts benefits massively to the employer and reduces unionisation. It's anti worker. It's retrograde. It's going to increase dependencies on state benefits due to the lack of savings, depressed lifetime income and absense of 401 self funded retirement.

No, you get it.
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Doesn't it also mean that Telegram is a database of copyright infringing users associated with a phone number and all their actions cryptographically signed(can't claim you did not shared/viewed something)?

You can argue if the copyright laws are good or bad but infringing these laws un-anonymously seems needlessly risky to me.
Slack CTO Interview: On Terra Ignota, Anders Hejlsberg and the ZX Spectrum
Nothing is impossible of course because it is all bits.

But perhaps they are using something like Oracle BI where you assemble some blob in a UI on Windows then upload to the server.

You could commit the blob to VCS. Or maybe serialize it to XML (supported in some versions).

But try and convince the DBAs doing development to do that commit. Good luck.
Article mentions that web is just too complex and ridden with ads. Telegram is simpler. One click download.
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What (if any) is your favourite book on event sourcing?

I've seen tech meetup lectures (one particulary fascinating one was a guy who worked for the NHS) but I'd like to understand it better than I do.
Both. We all compulsively sleep, eat, and hydrate, but those are not a addictions because they're good for us.

With running I suppose the effort to do it, even if it's a habit, prevents most people from getting addicted to it. And then those that have some psychological 'dependence' on running would not generally be considered 'addicted' because running is mostly healthy.
In many countries including mine, it is the state that pays into drugs companies anyway.
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Or "As long as you've clocked 40 hours in a week, we don't care when".
Good hardware generators are based on Johnson–Nyquist resistor noise, that is just as unpredictable, and generated by thermal circulation of charge carriers in conductors.

In real life, RNG attacks are against the implementation not the noise source, even something as "predictable" as "atmospheric noise" is random enough for all practical applications.
Does anybody else worry about having Wall-E kind of situation, Commercial space launch being cheap, We might end up having lots of space junk. At least with the previous price point, this was less probable.
Only a guess, but at that time wasn't the GPS signal intentionally degraded for non-US-military use, with reduced accuracy? Perhaps they're talking about the more precise signal, which the US didn't let them use.
> tilts benefits massively to the employer and reduces unionisation. It's anti worker. It's retrograde. It's going to increase dependencies on state benefits due to the lack of savings, depressed lifetime income and absense of 401 self funded retirement.

Yes. At this point we have to assume it's intentional.
Quitting Facebook Leads to Drop in Cortisol Levels, Australian Study Shows
The top comment is from someone who put 370 days straight into Duolingo and completed the content for multiple languages. Is that indicative of someone unwilling to "simply [put] in the effort"?
I like to think we need both
I have never heard of the business version of facebook before. Is it common anywhere?
Carbon, as per GP ...
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The trouble is that those who remember those basic values in more complex competitive environments tend to loose competition against those who dont. Not always, but often enough.
Non-paywalled link: https://www.mpamag.com/news/zillow-to-begin-buying-selling-h...
Bear in mind that The New Republic may not be an entirely unbiased source on the subject of Facebook. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2014/12/08/369402128/new-republic-owner-...
Now I'm just waiting for GPS chip manufacturers to add support. Should increase resolution for those in the subcontinent :)
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Most common axiomatic geometry is Desarguian. Its projective.

https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Desargues_assum...

When light is bent while passing by a huge mass, this axiom fails so does the geometry.
Yes, "selective availability" was still in use then - but I can't see how its use or not would disclose a GPS user's position.
I have an essay about this entire topic: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
Wait a sec, Gilead made $12.5B in 2015, $4B this year, on a single drug, and that's not enough? Gosh, I remember when $16.5B was a lot of money.
While it's fun to take potshots at using Facebook for work, this is also a clbuttic issue in stodgy corporate environments based on crap like Lotus with overzealous "anti-virus" and anti-profanity filters
That will probably create another industry sector, so I’m not worried.
It also helps spread content, like a modern version of word of mouth. Assuming every download is a lost sale is a debunked myth. I agree there's a problem, but the solution isn't prosecution but education.

Also, piracy is, most of the time, a master of convenience: Netflix/Steam have reduced pirating way more than any anti-P2P law.
> They're just very polluting to mine

Why exactly is that? I can't see why some polluting process would be common to all of them, and unavoidable.
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Its not about location of foot soldiers. Although the article highlights about GPS, it is mapping in general. India wanted terrain and altitude data for making strategy.
https://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/How-Kargil-spurred-I...

This seems to have moderately more information. It seems like maybe they wanted to use GPS capabilities in their guided weapons systems, and the US would not permit it or perhaps threatened to disable the system in that theater? It’s a bit confusing and fuzzy.
Choose any two but not all three:

- Governments can disrupt communications by child abusers, hitmen and terrorists.

- Governments can disrupt piracy, consensual online sex work and other behaviors which may be illegal but are widely regarded as benign.

- Citizens enjoy privacy of their personal communications, and can express non-mainstream political views.

Time and again it has been shown that if you clamp down on piracy, you chase users on to hidden/encrypted/anonymous platforms where they provide great cover for people doing much shadier stuff. The only equilibria are either for governments to monitor all communications by everyone ever, or for pirates and amateur pornographers to be left alone.
Slack does not even scale to corporate size, instance sizes are too limited. Also, they have no corp sales plan to speak of.

Finally, wrong kind of comms - chat is ephemeral, and messenger is only a small part of what is needed or corp facebook offers. And Slack is lacking the necessary controls for a corp environment.
Right. This makes sense as to why it is a problem for Kafka users. I must admit I was in a bit of a hurry when I looked into Kafka to see if it would be a better fit, but it seemed to be more about the scaling than I cared for.
It's interesting that they're following the lead by Opendoor---the startup that pioneered the same.

What I don't like about this business is it's very capital intense with low ROI. Sort of like high frequency trading for homes.

Plus, transaction prices are all public. Sellers get pissed off when they see how much profit you made off of them. They assume they could've made that 10-20% themselves (in those rare cases), leaving the flipper with bad reviews on Yelp.

Does it make more sense to turn this into a fund, a long(ish) term investor in homes... say longer than 6 months or 1 yr? Essentially creating a medium-term hedge fund. Basically, capital needed to flip shouldn't be mixed up with firm's equity (else you constantly need to raise huge sums)?

Wonder what others think about that.
Thanks for the tip, downloaded!
10 years ago at school I could not search for documentation about strings or "insert" clauses (sql) because that would trigger the firewall. Fun times.
Some more fun information here: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2018/03/graykey...

It looks like it runs third party code on the device. Only needs to be connected to the black box for two minutes and then unplugged for the remainder of the process.
It is funny that my essay on this exact topic don't seem to get much coverage, even though I have been working on the problem for a while now.
By actively seeking conflict you are increasing the risk of retaliation. That's the opposite of protecting yourself.
> Let's be real

I think what you mean is "let's speculate on what's going to happen over the next 100 years"

From Musk's various interviews it's a race between getting ~1M people living on Mars vs WWIII

There is the common knowledge amongst major powers that the next World War will probably be an extinction level event, so where as it's probably inevitable there's a reasonable chance that it won't happen for 100 years.

Musk estimates that it would take ~50 years (2070) to get a self-sustaining Mars base. Where as lots of his Tesla predictions have been off, his Space X predictions have been pretty good (e.g. re-usable rockets, expected launches per year).
"Targeted Advertising" in my opinion is just gimmick of those advertisers.

Sure it do works sometimes, but it is not panacea for all.
Welcome to capitalism, where its never enough to please shareholders and we require unlimited growth on a limited world.
Confluence and a lot of other products allow the company to install the product on their company server. Not on the server of some "startup". A lot of industries does not allow you to just store think on Google Drive, think any industry working with sensitive information like healthcare and the defense industry.
Why is storing junk data for all eternity considered clever?
I think perhaps this article's headline is a bit click-baity and it riles up people. Understandable. I also felt this way.

But then I read further. The report cited in the article suggests that companies should focus on treatments for things like common cancers, which has a renewable pool of patients. It also suggests diversifying the portfolio of cures.

It does not say companies should not bother with curing Hep C like illnesses since there's no money in it.
There are many scenarios, but here's a simple one. Boots on the ground.

You have men on the ground who can see the enemy position, they need to know exactly where they are to be able to know exactly where the enemy is. Without GPS you are relying on visual points of reference against maps of shaky providence.
Unfortunately not. The only Indo-Aryan language I can find listed on DuoLingo is Hindi and that hasn't yet started beta testing.
Worst case you have to pay (a lot of) fines (at least in the jurisdiction where I am jail time is not an option for stuff like this). That just makes the price go up by however much the fines are and doesn't solve anything. In the end, people are free to do what they want.
Why couldn't have they made a public statement that they do not endorse the Daily Stormer, reasserted that Cloudflare's business is not political activism and warned them that future claims like this would lead to termination? After all, Cloudflare's CEO describes the act itself as "dangerous", as a one-time act that would never happen again(at least, until someone else does the same thing?), etc..

The CEO doesn't seem to agree with you on this being 100% justified:

> Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision. It was different than what I’d talked talked with our senior team about yesterday. I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. … It was a decision I could make because I’m the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...

(I was unable to source the claims that the Daily Stormer made about Cloudflare supporting them. I seem to remember the Daily Stormer denying they made those claims. It seems pretty important to know the actual catalyst for a major breach in company policy, but it doesn't seem to be reported anywhere I looked).
Indeed. The post seems to assume that all event sourced systems cannot tolerate the deletion of events on a per aggregate root basis.
As far as I can tell, all the online reports have been written 15+ years after the fact, and they all just quote one another; I suspect the journalists may be mistaken.

It's worth bearing in mind the Kargil War took place in 1999, and GPS Selective Availability wasn't turned off until May 2000. It might be that India asked for the SA seed key so their own forces/missiles could navigate more accurately, but were denied?
Facebook takes up to 90 days to purge my information from their systems (if ever, I am quite sure a ghost account will always remain and it will be a strong one as well since they've collected so much information on me throughout the years). They have my email address, they could just email everyone whose data was shared.
Show HN: Your personal notification endpoint
> I remember reading/watching in the news how Rusisa wants to outlaw Telegram, not because of piracy, but because the gov cannot spy on its people...

It is actually happing now. Telegram can be blocked even today: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h...
The 'ideal' drug from a business point of view not only not cures the patient long term, it offer a short term mitigation while increasing the risk on relapse and thus future recurring consumption of the treatment. At the same time it can be IP protected to block alternatives and has an insured third party collective payment coverage to guard against the treated running out of funds to afford the perpetual dependency.

This realization goes beyond medicine, and is key to understanding why we live in an 'economy' that produces masses of landfill junk while our technology and manufacturing processes keep on improving.
I don't develop cures for diseases at all. Is this moral?
If I may go out on a limb and speculate, you don't develop cures for diseases at all either. Is this moral?

If someone is going to dedicate their careers to searching for cures to diseases, but only if they can earn a competitive salary doing so, are they more or less moral than us?

For the equivalent case for investment, start with "I don't pay people to search for cures to diseases at all. Is that moral?"
There are already companies our there that track all this junk (a percentage of it at the moment) and even companies proposing ways to clean it up.
>This line is particularly condemning:

Given the scale at which Backpage operated, it really is not.
They have to secure a expensive Uber approved vechicle. (I have known people who declared their first bankruptcy because of this pustule of a company.)

Minimum requirements:

"Model year 2006 or newer unless otherwise stated (NOTE: Some vehicle models have a higher minimum year requirement)
4-door car or minivan
Seats and seatbelts for at least 4 passengers and a driver
Good condition with no cosmetic damage
No commercial branding
See below for a list of eligible vehicles."

1. This Uber requirement to drive has always struck me the wrong way--when you claim Independent Contractor status. (I believe they recently lowered the age of the required vechicle?)

2. If a vechicle is safe to drive, and carry passengers according to the state it's in; Uber shouldn't have a say to what vechicle shows up. If the state says my vechicle is safe, Uber needs to just add the vechicle to the app, if they are truly hiring Independent Contractors? I have no problem with a safety check. I have a problem when they tell drivers what vechicle is necessary. And it's a aesthetic requirement--usually.

The Nervous Nelly, "Oh my goodness--what if a ugly/unsafe vechicle arrives?"

1. That's why most states have a regulated taxi laws. End of debate. (It's just when you have money, and something people like; you usually get your way, usually at the Side Hustler's detriment? But why are they signing up? The real economy is horrid, and this is a step up from begging.)

2. Plus, Uber definetly has the tech to allow the customer to view the vechicle before hiring the drivers. Swip--swip--until a Independent Contractor's vechicle strikes the customers fancy?

3. The strict vechicle requirement is my biggest gripe when they claim Independent Contractor status.
It is probably going to be used as an experiment internally, just how the rainbow profile pic filter was used to analyse behavioural patterns in their users
How does this compare to the Americans GPS? Is it as good or was it designed with different constraints in mind?
food? in usa? where?
I think we'll achieve singularity level mind uploading before anyone physically goes to any other planet. And, to be honest, makes a lot more sense to do it that way. Carrying humans around, with limited lifespans and feeble bodies, makes space travel wasteful and stupid. All those problems dissapear once people are only software. I even think trying is a waste of time, I wished Musk was focused on brain research, not rockets.
Totally agree, the least of my problems with the tracking are ads - they're boring, but mostly harmless. All the other analytics that can be extrapolated from the same data records are far more scary to me: political views, health issues, sexual interests, business and personal relations and all the other confidential info hidden in a plain sight within our meta data.
I quite often encoded code snippets sent on Skype with Base64 to avoid formatting until I found out eventually they support markdown syntax for preformatted text. I see it is also supported by Facebook at Work, maybe this would help here? https://www.facebook.com/help/work/541260132750354
As a user, that use facebook. Facepalm.
I can't agree with you;

What you are taking about is exactly what the "Targeted Advertising" sellers tell you;

When back into real world, do these "Targeted Advertising" really help you?
Or you really trust the ad, just because they are what you are looking for?
If you are looking for something, you will do research for the thing, not for the ad.

ADs are annoying not because they are irrelevant, it is because they are disturbing.
Yea thanks, that is exactly my point; warped space produces illusory concepts of reality.

So, an apparent illusion of disagreement seems to have occurred ;-)
Proof-Of-Concept exploit for drupalgeddon2
I think it's a bit of both, and maybe more. For one thing, I think there are historical ties to asm.js (i.e., some of the same people went on to develop WASM), and asm.js should compile nicely to WASM. Once they have GC figured out.

For another thing, I think there is the long-term goal of using WASM as a way to migrate away from JavaScript, if desired. Once you can compile all (or most) of your JavaScript logic to WASM, you can start transparently replacing parts of that code with code written in other languages that compile to WASM. If the interfaces remain unchanged, the remaining JavaScript won't notice.
I think the market will try on its own to price discriminate if it's allowed. My wild guess is that it's illegal today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Apple slapped with $502.6M in damages in ongoing battle with Patent Troll
Could you explain what features make it so good for your use case?
Please provide example URLs (or these don't exist?-).
The better way seems to be to make sure all events carry only references to users, and move user data off an event sourcing system. That way the records that something happened to user no. 42 can remain immutable, but if user no. 42 leaves their account be tombstoned and all their personal data effectively deleted.
> run a forked codebase on isolated servers[...]

It's not forked at all, when you use the business version of Facebook you can even URL hack public Facebook URLs to share the same global IDs to your "private" instance, and you might even see public comments from public Facebook users.

It's also possible to invite public Facebook accounts to your groups in your business instance, to them they're just browsing another group on Facebook.com.

So the Facebook Business instances really aren't separated out at all more than just being the equivalent of an aggregation on private groups on facebook.com + custom domain etc.

Edit: I just tested this by taking a random post of Zuckerberg's and replacing www. in the URL with <mycompany>. and sure enough, Zuck then shows up on our "internal" Facebook, albeit with a notice saying it's a public post. You can then "share" the post and get the same behavior as on public Facebook when you share an existing group post to another group or message.
Why did you include Gates?
http://ai-mayor.com

Website of the AI's (owner's) campaign site.
Bringing new drugs to markets is expensive:

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

(These costs include the other 90% of drugs that have probably failed at some development stage)
It's absolutely irrelevant what container it uses (HEIF/ios/mp4), more over from my experience it was pure pain in the ass to deal with all these boxes and different ways different products produce them. I would never use it for an image format. Last time I checked it seemed like Nokia was a sinking ship, why would anyone board it?..

Keep it separate: make something that encodes image data separately and then use some container that to wrap it nicely. Same shit that works for jpeg should be reused IMO, it just works (all that metadata), simply replace coded image data with a better encoder (AV1)
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