skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would quibble with your definition of stealing in the case of copying a content company's product. Certainly it's not in the content company's best interest for one person to purchase a CD and then make a copy for his neighbor. But what makes it stealing? The legality of shrink-wrap licensing can be debated, but in many people's minds the action is not disimilar to loaning the CD, or making photocopies of books at a library. Of course the moral behavior would be to respect the publisher's wish to receive payment from each possessor of a CD with those same arrangements of bits, although that course of action might be morally overridden due to certain extenuating circumstances (such as those encountered by the author).
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This is true of course, but the power plant is very very simple. Its a fission powered tea kettle. All the 'complicated' bits, the steam turbines the engines, operate outside the tea-kettle part and have been maintained and kept up to date. I don't know if they have done any long term radiological studies on metal fatigue but there aren't a lot of moving parts to go wrong. No reason to think you couldn't continue to use it for another 100 years. And since it goes about 20 years on a single fill up, you'd probably get 50 years out of a refueling if it basically stayed in one place.
I coach full-time at Facebook, and I coached for various clients part-time for a decade before that. We work a bit on technical stuff like how to design, test, or refactor, but honestly the technical work is mostly to establish trust so we can work on more personal issues--time management, multi-level thinking, communication skills, principles of programming. For example, a couple of recent students had ADD. We worked on finishing one thing before starting the next, mostly using techniques that I developed for my own use. After a month of daily one-hour sessions the change was noticeable.
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Could you please provide an example of flash that replicates the above example? I'd love to see the code and compare the two.
I'm one of those people who would pirate just because I could. It was almost a game, trying to amass as much warez as I could, to the point that 90% of the stuff I got I either never used, or used only once.

That changed over time. As my time became more valuable, I couldn't spend all day fiddling with software anymore. I became more focused, downloading only stuff I used a lot. And then it hit me: It would be far easier to just buy the damn thing for $10, $20, $50, whatever and not have to hunt shit down, find a keygen, or in the worst case crack it myself.

So now I don't pirate anymore. It's not out of a feeling of moral obligation, but rather because I appreciate the convenience. And, realizing that pirates are people at various points on the price/effort spectrum, I don't even worry about my own software being pirated. Why should I, when I get income aplenty from it even with pirates in the equation?
FWIW, in normal operation my Raspberry Pi mounts everything but the root volume from NFS. Very few writes are left to go to the system.
Venkat Rao at Ribbon Farm has a great post on this topic: "Welcome to the Future Nauseous" (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-n...).
> Why would we allow individuals to have such power?

Who is this "we" that has either the power, right, or wisdom to overrule people on such things?

> So the issue of gun ownership is the same issue as freedom in technology

Wonderfully said.

Power is a zero-sum game. Either I have the right to { own a gun | duplicate a file | mix acid and water in a test tube | print a part on a 3-d printer } or someone else takes that right from me and holds it themself.

There are wonderful deontological arguments as to why it is wrong to take rights away from me (or you, or you, or you), but even at the utilitarian level: why should we expect better outcomes if a right is removed from individual A and given to individual B? Was Germany better off when the Jews and Gypsies had their right to firearms ownership transferred to the state? Was China better off under Mao when individuals had their right to plant, grow, harvest and sell their crops transferred to the state? Was the United States better off when each person had their right to make decisions about alcohol consumption taken away and transferred to the state?

I argue that restricting rights is wrong on both deontological AND utilitarian grounds.

The utitarian argument for these sorts of things tends to be "give me the power, and I'll make better decisions". The incentives don't usually support the fulfillment of that promise.
So, by this logic, BitTorrent piracy is a $0 problem? Doesn't sound right to me. Not that I'm really pushing the $495 figure either, mind you.
Did you look at the source below the globe? That entire thing is 73 very short lines of code, plus a plain HTML wrapper and some super-simple CSS.
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"Number two market share goes to Windows pirated, or unlicensed ... That's a competitor that's tough to beat, they've got a good price and a heck of a product, but we're working on it."

-- Steve Ballmer, 2009 http://www.osnews.com/story/21035
> an eye-popping multiple of 12.6 times Autonomy’s 2010 revenue

Is 12.6 really "eye-popping"? It seems that similar companies (SAP, Oracle) go for about 4 times sales (Microsoft is just 3 times sales, probably because they are seen to be in decline). Expecting a growing company to quadruple sales (presumably also quadrupling the number of salesmen) isn't really that crazy, is it?

And it's a good way for HP to push their new sales + consulting strategy.

It sounds more like a perma-bear whinge about over-priced IT companies. There's good arguments about why IT companies are often overpriced (they do tend to be risky), but I can see where HP was coming from.
I still use Chrome on my OSX MBA, but on my Ubuntu desktop I switched back to firefox because I found Chrome to be buggy. Also, the flashplayer implementation on Chrome is terrible.
It uses about 40% of one CPU here which isn't so bad.

Yes HTML5 isn't a Flash replacement on it's own, but with the right tooling it's getting there: http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/
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Watch it character-by-character in bash:

while true; do c=(╱ ╲);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}; sleep .0001; done
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He doesn't mention the smartphone, a pocket computer connected to the Internet that may settle an argument at his dinner without recourse to the library the next day. It may also enable finding out where the friends who are running late are and guide him to the address if it isn't familiar.

The smartphone was probably predictable from the early 2000's at the very least.

Having said that I'm not that I currently see any similar major leaps coming in the next decade. More accurate and indoor location data could bring useful (and in some ways almost invisible) functionality to the smartphone.
Cubase was, by far, the hardest program to find a crack for. I remember a buddy of mine hooked me up with a cracked version that actually worked, but then I reinstalled and lost the files. Never found it again and stopped using Cubase. A year later I just purchased Ableton Live. I know so many people that use Live now because Cubase was too difficult to crack.
Sometimes the only defensible market position is #1. it's a natural winner-take-all market with strong network effects.

You could end up #1 in Germany against a #2 who is #1 in the rest of the EU - when by moving faster you could have been #1 in the entire EU.
At some point, you'll be so big that most large ISPs will want you to install cache nodes inside their network. You - as them - will both save cash because you can relie less and expensive transit traffic and the ISPs customers are more happy with the service. So - all in all, the ISP usually ends up with most of the bill, but that's okey for them, as their users want to access this content anyway.

This is not some scheme to "get rich fast", they have just figured out what all other CDNs do, and found a way to game the system to become more relevant quickly.
By the end of the first month Windows 7 passed 5% of the market, so Windows 8 sales are 5x slower than for Windows 7. This is pretty bad for Microsoft and I don't think it will get much better from here. In fact, they were supposed to get a boost in the launch quarter, and so far they haven't as PC sales have fallen by 21% compared to a year ago.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/30/windows-8-hard-sales-numb...

And by the way, this shows Net Apps' data is not to be trusted yet again. NPD has already said the sales numbers are 58% for Windows 8 for new PC's sold this month, while Net Apps says it's 68%. I for one trust NPD more, because they actually measure sales, not traffic data through weird methods.
I think that there is no such thing, a "Japanese Alphabet" ... Japanese uses a syllabary, not an alphabet.
What a terrible article- it's like it's written for children.
> Unless you have somewhere to store that solar

You could hollow out a mountain and pump water up and down -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

Better still, adjust demand to it changes with supply by having electric cars with removable batteries, the batteries being recharged when there is excess power.

> Sure, you can couple wind and solar, but that still doesn't help when we get a valley fog inversion for most of January that reduces sunlight to 30% of already short days and no wind is blowing anywhere nearby.

Utah is connected to the rest of the USA. Is it ever not sunny and not windy everywhere?
I've been using CloudFlare for a site with >20m hits per month.

4TB of bandwidth saved in the last 30 days for a measly $20.

I do have small issues that arise, mostly false positives and occasional outages, but nothing too bad at all.

Compared with the costs of any other CDN and I would be looking at a rather large bill.
In addition to gaining experience through the use of pirated software, I think there is also a lot to be said for knowledge and experience gained through the process of committing piracy and attempting to do so undetected.

As a matter of course, pirates often find themselves becoming quite knowledgeable about topics (audio and video encoding, protocols (FTP, NNTP, BitTorrent, etc.), tools such as BNCs and VPNs, encryption, storage methods, etc.), all of which have valid uses aside from committing piracy, that they would otherwise have little motivation to explore.

The desire to commit piracy undetected acts as a motivation for people to gain a deeper understanding of the systems they are interfacing with, and this is often a good thing.
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Strangely enough the problem might be 'too much' energy. If you take some hydrogen and fuse them together several times to make iron you liberate a lot energy, its how stars work. The tricky bits involve starting it off (you do need energy to start fusing Hydrogen into Helium, then you can use that energy to keep fusing helium in to carbon, Etc. And directing it, which is to say if you've got a hot plasma of Iron, Nickel, and Carbon atoms how to coalesce them into stainless steel, and in the shape of a dinner fork? Quite the challenge that.
> "Who is this "we" that has either the power, right, or wisdom to overrule people on such things?"

The same "we" that has existed since the beginning of our species, when groups of humans decided to live together.

"We" is an expression of all people - not biased by East or West, Black or White. In all societies the price of living in a group, and enjoying the benefits thereof, are concessions to personal freedom, and the recognition of some authority that is capable of making the decision.

It's also important to note (because it's so frequently confused) that "we" is not necessarily a government. In the absence of a government, "we" will manifest itself in other formats, most frequently tyrannical.

The only way for you to extricate yourself from this (by your implication, malevolent) "we" is to live entirely without dependency on any semblance of society.
Here is a good submission by saurik, highlighting some of the risks involved in using CloudFlare:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235893

The blog post is titled "When 'Dumb Pipes' Get Too Smart"
You mean they will be forced to use their imagination?
LEDee is meant to be about one thing: having fun and using your imagination to hack.
Nowhere. OEM's bought the licenses in bulk, and now they won't be able to get rid of them fast enough.
> Microsoft spent how many billions of dollars and how many man hours to improve Windows

Who cares how much money was spent? What matters whether they have improved something or not.

> but for $40, I can still conclude that it's worth

No, you have to judge the claimed improvements based on their merit alone, not on the price attached to them.

When you identify the merits, you can decide whether they are worth the price asked, but from knowing the price, you cannot deduce how big the merits possibly are, thats a fallacy.

As somebody who is using XP and 7 simultaneously for years now, I honestly do not see why any random end user should invest effort to upgrade to 7. They can just wait till their XP machines break and then just get whatever is preinstalled at the new machine they buy.
Even now that i can afford it, i'd still choose pirated software over DRM and phone-home license checks.

Pirates always get the better product (with the possible exception of AAA online multiplayer games).
If you cannot make spending $99 dollars more appealing to your target audience than going to the pirate bay and messing around with sketchy-ass cracks, then frankly you just suck at selling software and really have little business doing it.

The people actually in the market for $99 dollar software in the first are not going to do all that nonsense (unless you have done something terribly wrong with your legitimate distribution channels...), and who cares if people who aren't in your target audience pirate it?

Photoshop is the classic example. The people who pirate it are jobless students, while the target audience for Photoshop is undeniably professionals (who buy it). This is evidenced by the lengths that Adobe doesn't bother to go to to prevent piracy.

Similarly, with video games people either pirate them because they are not in the market for things that cost $50, or because someone royally fucked up the legitimate distribution (with draconian DRM, or by not offering it on Steam, or whatever). Gamers who are in the market for games buy games.
Huh. What am I missing. I see a bunch of sfw images. Unless... Colors are not safe at your work.
You seem to think it's impossible for people to genuinely believe that copying is not theft. You're wrong. There are a lot of people who genuinely believe that sharing is not theft, and far from being something that we should persecute, is something that makes humanity richer and the world a better place, and many of those people do not believe it simply in order to feel better about copying stuff, since they don't actually 'pirate' copyrighted things.
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I agree with your last sentence, but not everyone (who could eventually be a great speaker) can be convinced to do that.

90% of the battle can be won by becoming good at recording videos (without 101 takes), doing live webinars, or even setting up a regular YouTube channel. New speakers often battle with the responsibility of speaking and being the target of multiple people's attention for a solid block of time. These battles can be fought virtually. (I'm a conference chair and have seen these battles fought and won.)

There'll still be work to do once one gets up on a stage or speaks "for real" but if one can get over 90% of the fear and do a lot of the work virtually, it could be a big win, especially for people who are initially too hesitant to attend something like a Toastmasters group. Virtual pep talks can work to a point, much like self help tapes.
I'd like to know the answer to this too.
Again, abandonware does not justify pirating Photoshop, a product that is constantly updated by a very active company.
You can disable the captcha-feature, as far as I know, and this is just a way to mitigate DDoS. You'd think Google would recognize that you were serving your content via a CDN, it's not like it's something new or anything.

And I'm not buying into that you could have law enforcement on your doorstep. How on earth would they tie it to you? The IP-adress is registered to CloudFlare, not you. If they have the means to find a "kiddy porn"-site, they also have the knowledge to see that it's distributed by a Content Delivery Network.

Are you really comparing a globally distributed content delivery network with a squid installed at one location on one provider?

CloudFlare might not be worth the headache, but for entirely different reasons than you have listed.
> it doesn't recognize more than 3.11 due to some hardware limitation

Probably because it's a 32-bit OS. This isn't an issue with 8 (or 7 or Vista, for that matter), since it has a functional 64-bit version, which by itself is a great reason to upgrade.
Not the OP, but it seems that my comcast IP stays pretty stable (for months on end). Also, I know that namecheap (and possibly others), provide a dynamic dns type api to update their nameservers if your ip does change.

Certainly you wouldn't want to host something too important on your home network, the odd mumble server or webpage shouldn't be too big of a problem.
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While CloudFlare has some features that might be available on other CDNs, don't use them, if you're worried you'll ever have to leave the platform. It is really simple to migrate between CDNs with feature parity -- DNS CNAME. The article is putting CloudFlare up against CloudFront; the article is positioning CloudFront bills as exorbitant; their is no reason one can't move back to CloudFront and start paying bills again, in the event CloudFlare raises prices.
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I thought the Amazon-affiliate link was a bit Ironic.
I did it with

python3 -c "`echo -e 'import time\nwhile True:\n print(u"\u2571\u2572"[int(time.time() * 100)%2],end="")\n time.sleep(0.001)'`"

The neat thing about it is that the randomness comes from the inexactness of time.sleep
There is also an interesting argument between Roger Ebert and Kellee Santiago (the co-founder and former president of Thatgamecompany) on this topic http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_neve...
In the past century or so a similar thing has happened at the level of nations. Technology has allowed nations to reach the point where they are capable of causing unprecedented damage to not just other countries, but the world.

Now, maybe MAD works better with nations than it does with individuals, but maybe we've just been getting lucky.
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I think you don't even guess how much people here in europe envy your right to wear firearms ...

If you have arms, it means you do not have to fear the stronger ...

It means that if the state wants to take the power by the force, you can oppose to that ...

You really don't know the lucky you are.
He picked the perfect example of his point.
Unfortunately, CloudFlare requiring root authority for a domain is simply a non-starter for me (or $dayjob). However, I understand why they do it -- DoS protection and ease of maintenance on their side.

I do wish they supported taking authority of a subdomain, or simply required a CNAME like many CDNs.
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Raspberry Pi should be able to happily serve up to 50-100 requests per second for static files. That's up to 360k requests per hour.

Didn't Raspberry Foundation website run on Pi itself?
>the developers just get a smaller check at the end of the month.

..Only if you were going to buy it in the first place and decided not to.
Exactly. I'm already planning on building chunky a case. If people can spend money on organic pets, why can't I have a silicon one?

I also have a remote control car laying around somewere...
:)
Some cloudflare cons:

Cloudflare makes websites unavailable if you use services like unblock-us.com (see below)

High amount of 404 I get from cloudflare when browsing /r/pics makes me wonder who is to blame.

Cloudflare is short on locations.

Cloudfront is cheaper if you use SSL.

============

➜ ~ dig cloudflare.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> cloudflare.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 3675
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cloudflare.com.	IN	A

;; Query time: 4847 msec
;; SERVER: 208.122.23.22#53(208.122.23.22)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 1 18:42:43 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 32
taligent seems to be hellbanned. Here's his response:

https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-it-Works
It's more than just aborting a request. It also handles caching with different fallback modes, collapsing multiple requests, monitoring and most importantly it provides a consistent model for handling service integration.
Probably not the most innovative thing in the world but definitely useful if you do have a large SOA system.
Sometimes I'm asking myself the same thing: why pay Akamai the bill when CloudFlare is so much cheaper. However, the cost of the unavailability is far greater. I guess the old saying that nobody got fired for choosing IBM still applies in a different form. It isn't bias. Just a business decision. Running CF for personal stuff though. Guess it's a proper tryout.
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This is, surprisingly, a warning for entrepreneurs worldwide. You should read it.

"After I left finance, I started attending some of the fashionable conferences attended by he new class of technology intellectuals. I was initially exhilarated to see them wearing no ties, as I used to live among tie-wearing abhorred bankers."

"But these conferences felt depressing. It took a while for me to realize the reason: a profound lack of elegance."

Take its message as a humbling lesson: "Technology is at its best when it is invisible."
And the difficulty is in determining the limitations that we allow the "we" to impose on the individual. In most cases agreement is easy to achieve, but in some cases there is a difference of opinion that is insurmountable. Without the possibility of agreement, it may be that the only option is to separate the group into those that believe option A and those that believe option B. Then individuals can move into whichever group fits their beliefs. This would be an iterative process.

Given the way that humans have handled one group separating into another, I think this might be a devastating experiment to try. But in theory, it seems plausible that after a number of iterations you would belong to a group that fits your ideals perfectly.