skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you would simply stop consuming all of these things //

If he continues to consume those things at the same level (ie spends the same amount of money on them) then the argument still stands IMO.

I've seen articles saying that those who download a lot are often also ones who consume at higher levels; a movie buff can spend a huge amount of income on movies and still torrent.

Removing the torrenting won't necessarily increase the amount spent, indeed it could decrease it under models that come readily to mind.
It's contested whether Spotify really supports the artists though.
You skipped right over where I said "in the general case," as I am certainly aware that there are exceptions as you are pointing out. Specific legal advice is almost universally dangerous. Specific technical discussion is almost universally not.
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> Most, yes.

Then the answer to my question is “no.”

Even if you would stop, I don't think most pirates would. They'd probably consume less, and be a lot more discriminating, but I do think they would buy.
I built my last desktop to be fairly quiet, low RPM fans in the case, a power supply and video card chosen for their reputation for quiet. Unfortunately I routed the front panel audio cables next to the SATA and until I re-routed them, I had a faint, high pitched audio drive activity indicator.
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You did give legal advice, dude. Here's some legal advice for you to protect yourself in the future, a disclaimer you can place before you do something similar in the future: "The following [X] is/are not legal advice. It/They is/are intended as background material for use in preparing to knowledgeably discuss the situation with the lawyer who will be representing you in this matter."

I know for a fact that this language is sufficient in the Sixth Circuit. YMMV, but a disclaimer is a very handy way to shield yourself. Jsprinkles may disagree, but I've seen and handled cases in which disclaimers were the only thing saving someone from a ruinous malpractice suit for stuff they posted online (or published).
So if I understand correctly, according to this, nirvana can offer advice without bothering to add any kinds of disclaimers (although he did), and everyone thinks that's completely fine, and can have no possible repercussions.

On the other hand, jsprinkles and I, when we offer comments about our personal experiences, and pass on to nirvana advice that we received from our actual lawyers, we're somehow in the wrong.

Just wanted to be clear. I will now be much more literal about the advice I got from my lawyers and comment no further on these matters.
it's actually quite difficult because people have a tendency to look at the cursor rather than look past it...causing a never ending 'chase'
I’m extremely, extremely, extremely wary of the methodology employed here. The author selected the photographs from individuals on Facebook “who self-identified as straight or gay” living in “11 major cities,” all of whom are white.

I.e., this experiment is already selecting for individuals who a) have a high degree of control over their appearance to the author; b) exist within a system—Facebook—which rewards personal disclosure of one’s sexual orientation in vastly different ways. Identifying as gay on a public forum like Facebook—in a manner so that this information is even available to strangers—requires far more deliberation, and often presents far more social costs, than identifying as straight. These disclosures do not bear the same weight—even in a major city.

What the author should have—and could have—done is gather photographic data without selecting for subjects who self-disclose their sexuality.

Right now, the one evident conclusion this paper supports is that certain the certain details of the way one represents himself on Facebook correlate with a propensity for self-disclosure of sexual orientation on Facebook. (Which, remember, doesn’t require that self-disclosure—or a profile photo, for that matter.)

However: if we accept (as this author does) that sexuality correlates with facial geometry in a certain way, then it is quite possible that the facial photographs employed by the experiment are taken from individuals who are very aware of their appearance, and choose to self-disclose their sexuality based on it.

In fewer words, this study seems to suggest that humans can determine if an individual is gay or straight, based on facial features alone, when said individual elects to disclose his sexuality, and maintains personal control over his outward appearance, regardless of that appearance’s fidelity to reality.*

*What I mean here is that people have extraordinary control over which photos represent them on Facebook. The author, I’m guessing, has no way of knowing if any of these photos were manipulated in any way.
really, what approach are you taking? I've written some stuff on eye tracking and have found basic methods like correlation work best
The device software reads data from flash and renders it in pixels on the screen. It is absolutely possible for it to modify the text as it does so.
HN is dead.
While I've never given the boat-burning scorched-earth exit interview, I have given professional-yet-candid opinions on the occasion that I cared enough to do so and had someone who cared enough to listen.
Where pushbutton == 2, 36 != 24
What? Nothing is broken. They don't let you mute ads, because they're ADS. This is the intended behaviour. If you don't like it, pay. Of course it's a matter of removing ads, your post details how to silence them when Spotify have built the software to not allow you to mute.

Of course I read your facile little article, and I stand by my post completely.
No, I agree, I just think relying solely upon a disclaimer is dangerous. I certainly respect your take more than my own, though, as you do it for a living, and I'm definitely paying attention.
If pushbutton is neither 0 nor 1.
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Given that your advice is at odds with advice I have received in the past, I will now make no further attempts to share my experiences in these matters.

Thank you for being clear and specific.
I mostly agree with you: Using IntelliJ (Java) and Rubymine (Ruby) is a great experience, however PyCharm (Python) provides the same nice dev experience.

All that said, I contributed fairly early on, and I wish that they would concentrate on just Clojure. The reason for my preference is that the LT devs are going to be exploring new ways to code and experimenting with just one language seems sufficient.
Ask HN: why did the movies.io submission get killed?
There was interesting discussion going on.

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054568

I'd love to know the reason it was killed twice.
Great job, Chris!
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Interesting, but not sure how this is different than resizing the browser (save for the ability to see the current dimensions and jump to various breakpoints). Would love to see things like a resource calculator that could run a simulation of wifi, strong 3G, and weak 3G and let me know which resources are potential bottlenecks. Cool to see FF trying out dev tools like this.
I thought the whole budget was rather low compared to the total value that is to be created.

Sure, 100k for 1 language sounds odd, given that 200k was enough not only for 2 languages, but also the entire framework. Still, the overall price point is more than fair.

You have to take into consideration that Light Table aims to be specific; adding further languages will likely result in more efforts than merely adjusting an IDE a little bit.
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"... Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. ..."

Take your pick ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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That child's doctors personally examined the child, have expertise to deal with the situation, and are aware of any details which are important. A HN commenter has not personally met either party, in most cases is not a lawyer so he does not have expertise to deal with the situation, and most importantly, are only aware of what one party has told them. There is a significant difference.
Nice, I had not heard of RubyMotion. How does it work? Is there anything similar for Android?
Other than one major feature request, I haven't got too much to contribute. The request would be sorting by Tomatoes score would be an excellent way to (optionally?) display films.

Aside from that, I don't have any critiques - clearly there's more that can be done, but already this is an excellent product! I will certainly be using it to help me decide what to watch :)
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Because nobles in the feudal system would patronize great artisans to produce work. All the great composers were basically salaried employees of various lords, majors, dukes, etc.
You should probably review a statistics test -- under 40% is great. In fact, under 40% is better than 60% (assuming statistical significance). All that would mean is that people see homosexuals as more heterosexual than heterosexuals (which would be quite funny). Any statistically significant deviation from 50% implies successful visual differentiation abilities.
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That's an awful game plan. If you can't debug it, chances are you aren't going to be solving it, unless you reliably write bug-free code on the first try.
I prefer this:

if
if
else
if

else if

else

In other words, I prefer CoffeeScript.

Good procedural code is factored into short functions, which would make some of the types of programs the article is alluding to easier to read.

Also, object oriented programming can be a good option for reducing cyclomatic complexity in a lot of different situations where the system you are modeling lends itself to a class structure. And CoffeeScript makes this easier also.
Researchers to release a truly anonymous BitTorrent Client
Slow HN load time (only when signed in)
To be fair, most stories on HN these days mention politics.

I see no sign of crime, sports, disasters, nor cute animals.

I'm pretty sure no TV news channel would feature this website.

Since it shot up to the top three spots and stayed there for a few hours (now at 305 points), I'd say calling 'off-topic' is pretty lame.
They screwed up the address its movies.io the actual link goes to movie.io... the former works the latter is for sale
I'd like to hear more about how they had samples already submitted but some process caused them to ignore them, and what they're doing to prevent that omission in the future.
"Interesting, but not sure how this is different than resizing the browser..."

I'm pretty sure it isn't any different, but it's great to have this built in to the Web Developer tools instead of having to use a bookmarklet/website/resize the whole browser window to do this.
>how would you feel, if you operated a subscription website, if someone came along, and swiped your code and content, and put it up for free //

Well if it was 15-20 years after I created it and it had already paid out for me then I'd feel mighty fine about it.

For me this argument works at the short-term and for the artists but fails to speak at all to why the government of a country should get involved in protecting the assets of those who have already received their living wage many, many times over for something that may well have been created by their great-grandchild's employee 100 years ago.
I believe in this! Screw collaborative filtering, it is garbage. Good job - you should win the Netflix challenge retroactively.
Played through the tutorial, it's pretty good save for the moon gravity jumping.
It's what Chomsky calls "asserting the opposite," a psychological method to counter opposition. Essentially if "you assert opposite, it eliminates mountains of evidence" toward your own actions.
No offense to you personally, jellicle, but why is this the top comment and why can't I downvote it? This is more of a tangential provocative comment than a response.

This is a rather extreme argument. You really think the impulse to share is universally stronger than the impulse to be secretive, the exact inverse, for example? Specifically, what about private data?

How far does this ethical obligation to share go? How much effort is one ethically obligated to expend to share? Before I knew what I was doing with HTML and CSS, some stuff I did didn't work due to what I am now quite sure were browser bugs. Was it unethical for me not to share that knowledge? Is it unethical now for me not to be trying to figure out how to reproduce those bugs again to share?

Is it unethical for artists, writers, coders, even mathematicians not to share unfinished works, code and proofs?
People really ought to stop and examine this idea that copying information is somehow underneath unethical -- and that the special word 'unethical' can be uttered and that will tell people to behave.

Information is a nonrival good: it is an abundance with respect to access -- how on earth, in any rational conception of morality, can free access to an abundant good be construed as intrinsically immoral?

It is unethical only pragmatically: only in that (it is proposed) the economy will function better with some restrictions on copying -- which is the main purpose of the law. That is: it is unethical no further than it is illegal.
That only works if you contend that every single person who pirated something would not have purchased the thing otherwise.

First, downloading doesn't prevent purchasing.

Secondly, otherwise how? Either you download it or you don't. Do you mean, if it wasn't available to download? But that's not the "stealing" part. That's uploading/sharing, which is a different issue.

Thirdly, "hurting" potential sales is not inheritly wrong. In fact, that's what many - most? - startups try to do.

And while there are plenty of studies that suggest piracy might help sales, there are also plenty that suggest that it does not:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-digit....

That's not a study, that's a joke. 30 movies of an extremely biased sample over just a three year period?

I'd rather have a more global view of the movie industry: for example, the five years of consecutive record profits that the MPAA had right during the Bittorrent boom.

In fact, while the issue is plenty debatable I'd say that most of the evidence comes down on the side of "yes, piracy hurts sales, just no where near as much as the MPAA would have you think." (Though even the article above suggests that piracy wouldn't be as much of an issue if movies were released worldwide simultaneously.)

Most studies are paid by the industry. It'd be extraordinary if they said otherwise.

Furthermore, "hurting the creators" needn't necessarily be financial. There are many, many artists, programmers, etc. -- not big publishers, but creators -- who hate piracy with a passion. They often feel under assault by Internet companies the way that people here feel under assault by the MPAA. I think they're misguided, but it's irresponsible to just say "fuck you, this doesn't hurt."

I'm pretty sure file sharers feel offended by your inacurate accusations too, but that didn't stop you.

So no, "hurting the creators" is not false, probably not financially

Again, not buying is not buying. Whether you "pirate" or not is irrelevant - it doesn't affect the creator financially either way.

and certainly not ethically (you're doing something with their work they don't want.)

And I'm pretty sure MS doesn't want me to install LibreOffice on "their" work. So what? We, content creators, are not gods that have a right to demand whatever we want from our users. Is it unethical to lend or sell your car if e.g. Toyota doesn't want you to?
It is not irrational to love someone after their death, but it is fairly irrational to refuse to love anyone else after your wife dies and it is very irrational to write sealed letters to a dead person.

It shows that Feynman was quite willing and able to surrender to irrational behaviour when he wanted to. The difference between Feynman and the superstitious man was not a rejection of things irrational, but a conscious control over when to give in to the irrationality and when to remain scientific.

Of course, you might say that this is only sensible - but many people who take a reductionist view ("there is nothing beyond the material") explicitly reject this balance.
What the HELL are you talking about? Insecure much?
I'm not saying 300k is a lot of money for LightTable. Sure, it sounds fair.

I'm just saying they claim to be "highly extensible" and yet, support for a new language requires a development effort of 100k.

It's sad since I mostly code in ruby or scala, these languages won't be supported and I don't think anyone is going to make a 100k development effort to support them.
"I doubt it makes a difference to the populations affected whether they were an intentional target, or the gps on the smart bomb that just leveled your house glitched out."

You're wrong.

If an airliner (or even a weapon) goes astray and kills my family, I am going to be angry, no doubt about it.

If you've deliberately targeted my family, my anger is going to be greater by several orders of magnitude.

For example, this case that was in the news today:

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/156366185.html

Suppose the phosphorous did get there through some type of negligence on one of the nearby bases (seems plausible, at least).

Are the woman and her family going to be angry? You bet.
Are they going to file a monster lawsuit? Almost certainly.
Are they going to declare war on the United States, or (try to) kill a few Marines? Not a chance in hell.

Intent matters.
Glad I got in when a license was $15. If there's one feature I'd like in the future, it's extensibility. Let dev communities write their own plugins for languages, so it doesn't all fall on Granger's lap.
Are you using an in-house made Google Reader API access or an open source lib like https://github.com/brutuscat/googlereader ?
Wilson's "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.47.2...) is what you want: an excellent survey paper of fundamental garbage collector designs.

I highly recommend the Jones/Hosking/Moss book, but it assumes familiarity with the basics. Pick it up if the Wilson paper intrigues you. The previous edition of the book (Jones & Lins) is good, too, but the new one adds a lot of important material on real-time GC, concurrent GC, and interactions between GC and runtime systems.
Because it is undead.
I'd be interested in the NSA's API...
who cares about innovations in corporates?
I think the reason Rotten Tomatoes is successful in because by in large, most reviews are negative. The true good movies actually stand-out.

For Smugg, when the homepage consists of all reviews in the 80-95 range, you can't tell things apart. It's just another generic review site that says everything is "okay", when in reality, the baked-in, out of the box experience of a device usually sucks in day-to-day use.

I don't know how you're getting reviews, but you could honestly seed this yourself by critically analyzing Engadget reviews and really focus on the flaws of the product, instead of the "features" for generating your scores.
Not all legal liabilities arise from crimes.
"You place a lot of emphasis on intentionality. While it's an aspect worth considering, I don't find it as nearly as persuasive as you seem to."

You are in a very small minority there. Sorry.
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How to pitch, and how not to....
Two responses:

First I understood that you were not seriously proposing this sort of I/O code, but as someone who has been around the block my share of times I know that such code both exists and is in production, almost exactly as written. The memories are like a war veteran who can't forget the trenches, I wince now and then :-).

Second, my comment was that code which has a 'boolean' flow is probably boolean code, and not arithmetic code. So any refactoring that 'assumes' boolean and uses arithmetic becomes a landmine for some future coder to trip over. MUCH better to refactor the code as such into:

led = (button)? 12 : 24;

Than "assuming" that true is '1' and false is '0'. When reading old code I've trained my self to read the statement

if (variable == 0) {
// this code assumes the variable is zero
} else {
// this code has to work for all non-zero values
}

Which may not have been the programmer's intent, but it is what they wrote.
Link to a democracy bragging about intentionally targeting a civilian?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4055622
hah, yeah, the physics was a lot of back and forth for us. we tried to match the original super mario bros. physics, but clearly we're still missing the mark. the plan is to update our engine periodically with versioning control, so we can fix issues without breaking old stages. thanks for the feedback!
>it is very irrational to write sealed letters to a dead person.

It seems irrational when you presume that the only purpose of a letter is to be read by the recipient. But writing a letter can help clarify your own thoughts and feelings, which is a perfectly rational thing to want to do.
Android's had this solved via intents for years now.

Applications register to say "Hey, I want to handle this action". When the user initiates that action, if there are multiple apps that can handle it, the user is prompted to choose which app to use to handle it, with the option to remember the choice.
I apologize for insulting you. That wasn't my intention, and I do see now how it can be interpreted that way.
This is not a constructive comment. Care to explain the distinction and how that distinction is relevant to a discussion about digital piracy?
There's no explicit API to pin objects from the C side. Ok, so there's an implicit contract on which pointers to internal VM objects are still valid, once the C side has gotten them (const char *lua_tostring() is the biggest offender). But this contract a) does not lead to a practical implementation and b) is violated by plenty of C modules for Lua, because Lua didn't have a moving GC, so nobody bothered to follow it.

Now ... the interesting objects, that benefit most from the defragmentation effects of a moving GC, are the variable-sized objects. Sadly, userdata cannot be moved at all and strings are the only other interesting object type. Well ... see above.

[Table objects are not variable-size. Only their array and hash parts are. But these are singly-linked from the table object and can easily be moved around, anyway. The addresses of these memory blocks are never exposed by the VM.]