skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the College Humor parody of "Photograph" by Nickleback called "Look At This Instagram" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4).

I've seen many comments in this thread from people who believe this is a passing trend, however, I have a hard time believing that. I think that this is going to continue because the oversharing and posting everything is a way for those with low self esteem to make themselves feel better. It's a way for those who feel like they have no control to have some control over what their perceived life is like.
Who cares about % of piracy? The only value that matters is the absolute number of sales, not what the non-customers did or didn't do with that game.

DRM hurts sales of many products. If one more extra customer pays for your movie because the DRM-free service is better, then it outweighs a billion of freeloaders.
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This seems like a bit too much extrapolation from one example, and I don't think it renders the entire position 'bunk'...
I've found the dynamic warm-ups to be very helpful. I use variations of the following prior to running:

http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&video_id=84...
http://strengthrunning.com/2011/07/the-standard-warm-up-vide...

I do stretch a few problem areas after I run (hamstrings, for instance).
The bait statement was:

"Or are you claiming that C++ is in fact particularly well suited for parallel development and inherent avoidance of data races?"

I answered the c++ memory model was certainly sufficient and the implementation was left to libraries until C++11 when it was standardized. I did not mean to imply that the c++ memory model underlies that of Rust.

And I agree these are great points to illustrate. Would make some great text to use on their introduction page in place of the trolling. Still, I believe the same deficiency exists regarding compiler enforcement for Rust since the "unsafe" keyword allows for manual management, correct? I can't intelligently comment on the compiler optimizations to which you refer. If you could provide some reference to further analysis? Regardless, the two same two people are downvoting my comments so I won't be commenting further.

Although you clearly understand, I'll throw in the token links for people who may not understand what a memory model is or how the c++ memory model has been formally standardized. To be honest, I don't know why I bother.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_model_(programming)

[1]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/popl085ap-sewell.pdf
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The government could sell contract insurance (priced at some low percentage of the contract's total value), which would be required in order to initiate legal action in civil courts.

The surplus from this would be more than enough to pay for the other essential government functions: criminal courts, the police, the military, the legislatures, an executive, and offices pertaining to maintaining property records, including copyrights, patents, deed registrations, etc.
I think his point was that people aren't pirating purely because it is free, but because the experience is superior in every way measurable, even to the point that people will pay for pirating.

User experience counts. You'd thought companies like Apple and Google had taught us that by now.
fair price

Where "fair price" is an amount that's so low as to be effectively free or at most substantially lower than it costs content creators to produce it.
Yup, I have both installed in Firefox and use whichever one isn't broken by the most recent FF update.

FF has the best plugin system, there are some FF plugins like Ant (flash downloader) that have no counterpart on Chrome or Opera, and of course Firebug for web dev.

I tend to use FF, Chrome, and Chromium for web development, and Opera for browsing, and test on all four.
> The reality is that most people use offshoring as a hedge against insolvent governments

[citation needed]

And what does this actually mean?
How do you define insolvent governments?

If you are thinking of one-off cuts when the state is actually going bankrupt (latest cyprus thingie, italy's cut in '92 etc) these don't seem to offer a different security from keeping money in a foreign non-offshore bank.

And these events don't seem so common to me.

Or are you considering governments insolvent in the sense that they just waste money and taxing is stealing etc ?

I am unsure how the situation is in these specific cases, but way way way often offshore accounts get found out in my country (italy) related to _massively illegal_ activities.

This is not a case of avoiding messing up a tax form, it's accounts used to pay bribes for falsified trial witnesses with money laundered from drug smuggling.
Can someone confirm these are safe for work?
Wouldn't it be a little strange for the network creating the show (HBO) to air it after some other network? The author says Sky could have aired it at 10pm in England, but this is hours before HBO would air it in the US. You could maybe make the argument that Sky should air it at 2AM -- simultaneous to HBO's airing. But premiering HBO's show before HBO?
The secret to player engagement: never release a sequel
Does 80% really qualify as "some level of piracy?"

Clearly there is a group of people who will always pirate what they want, regardless of the price or what it is (movies, TV shows, games, Photoshop). If that's the case, then I think it's also fair to say that there is a certain group of people for whom even the smallest bit of DRM would cause them to either go without the movie/show/program (I think the most likely) or buy it outright.
Do you have any idea in what amounts jellyfish usually appear? Probably the weather changed and they moved off, or died due to changing seasons etc.
Just wait, Google Glass is coming soon :)
No, please don't do this:

If a visitor goes to http://domain/some/url they should not redirect to https://domain/some/url - it makes it harder to catch pages that use the wrong protocol.

Better to redirect http://domain/some/url to https://domain

Edit: if you're logging referrers from your own domain with non https:// urls AND using secure cookies, ignore my comment!
Earliest known version of the saying is Latin "Noli equi dentes inspicere donati" from Saint Jerome around 400 CE/AD. Most European languages are going to have a version. I agree the modern English is peculiar, it likely derives from Middle English. Would that be closer to the German?
It's just a flag, should be SFW. Edit: Oh and a goofy poster. Nothing crazy.
Vimperator and Pentadactyl actually give you a vim command line.
no worries they are - it's only a screenshot of the flickr account so it won't change as well...
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Dependent Types, A New Paradigm?
The Technologic Fallacy
I torrented all the DvD's I own a few of months ago, because they are too much hassle to watch compared to a simple .avi file in my neatly ordered media folders. There is no place in my life for physical media anymore, it just doesn't fit.

The solution, for me, is to integrate movies and series into Steam. When it airs, it becomes downloadable through Steam. I probably can start watching about 5 minutes after everyone else, only instead of adverts I pay ~$1-2 for the episode.

If I want to keep it on my hard drive, I can. If I want to dump it, I know I can re download at any time. It offers the exact freedoms and ease I get from torrents, but without needing to be a pirate.

The key thing, though, is the delay. I won't wait 2 months after the series ended to be able to buy it, because I don't want to and I don't have to. Compete on speed and ease of use, and price becomes less of an issue.
I pirated it as well. I could have watched it on tv, but I opted for my laptop. The content creators were paid long before I made that decision. They would not have received any more money had I turned on my tv or not.
The blog post presented a supposed solution: make it easy for people to acquire something legally and they will acquire it legally. However World of Goo is a perfect example that this is just not the case, even if the product is literally perfect piracy will remain rampant. Why would a company bother investing huge amounts of money into creating a "perfect" tv/movie distribution platform if it's going to make barely any difference to the amount of piracy? I wasn't suggesting DRM is good (I don't like DRM) I was suggesting that piracy is not a result of a poor product it's a result of the consumers desire to get stuff for free.
Zeptolabs Spying on You?
HN discussion on cgdb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492376
Didn't know this. Looks really really interesting. One feature I found especially nice was the text-message/phone-call spam-protection.

Looked for me to be something like an ignore-list. Something I wish I had here in Germany, when using feature-phones 16 years ago.

Why nobody ever invented a feature inside their phones, I do not know.
DRM hurts sales of many products

For the few who consider DRM to be a moral issue or to those who use DRM as an excuse to pirate harder or distribute - but in reality, unobtrusive levels of DRM like those used for DVDs prevent the masses from making near free copies of movies to distribute to friends and relatives.
As someone who is going to launch a SaaS all-paid (no freemium), I can certainly understand their decision :-)
Pretty simple take: I admit, I've grown bored of listening to most people justify pirating. Is it a big deal? Not really. Does it likely hurt content producers? Probably. Do I personally pay for most of the art projects I'm interested in? Sure.

But I like this article. He's already paying for the show, why not watch it when it's out? End of story.
Look over there! The Point! Oooooo you missed it.
Definitely, and I agree.

Going back to OP’s post: just because I pay for cable (which I hardly watch) doesn’t give me a pass to download freely. Netflix is a good alternative, but it’s unfortunately not available where I live. My only legal option to get the TV shows I want to watch is iTunes (which is fine, but it doesn’t have everything, and sometimes you have to wait.)
Does anybody else feel that less than 3 weeks is not enough advance notice before permanently destroying applications?
Can even Flickr keep open an account made by the North Korean govt? Isn't that sanctioned by the US Govt?
In the UK we pay £145 per year [0] - call that US$250.
For that we get 3 HD channels, 2 SD channels, 2 kids channels, a 24 hour news channel, a dozen national radio stations, and a bunch of local stations. All FTA via your aerial.

Oh, and you get the BBC websites.

All without adverts.

Totally worth it.

[0] http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/tv...
This line of reasoning is quite standard, and for many purposes, quite valid. However, in my particular case, it is not. Each language served a specific purpose that could have been accomplished by another, but with greater effort. Sometimes, it's better to use multiple languages in a system than to use just one throughout. Unfortunately, I can't go into more detailed reasons, but I assure you, it is not for "toying" around.
Yeah, but you also already have to trust the certificate authority, your ISP, your employees who have access to the server...the list goes on.

Furthermore, I believe the way it works is that clients make an SSL connection to CloudFlare, who makes another SSL connection to your service (using different key pairs.) Granted, they still get to see all your traffic unencrypted, but it all just comes back to trust.
What is the purpose of this post? I read these styles of submission on Hacker News often, with the jargon, and the charts, and the definitions. I usually leave them feeling that the author has tried to persuade themself something, not me. In this case it seems justification for the pricing he chose. What is worrying is how post-hoc this all is. He casually dropped the phrase "long game" and worked backwards to a fully-formed rationale. Scary.
Netflix does under certain circumstances does provide a better experience than piracy.

* You don't have to wait 5 minutes to watch the show, it starts playing instantly.

* You don't have to worry about storage or codecs.

* If you don't know what to watch, netflix can help with that.

* If you are on a train or bus, generally you can get netflix and watch movies on your phone. I do this quite regularly.

This isn't to say there aren't serious advantages to piracy or legal downloading (it doesn't work on linux), there are. Steaming can be a disaster if the internet is having a bad hair day. It depends on circumstance and goals. I invested in netflix the day I saw someone unwilling to wait for a show to download and use netflix instead.

Steam combines the best of both worlds. I just wish they would add a DRM free at 365 days from launch feature + price drops to 5 dollars.
"Years and years experience"

This is not always the case. Lots of marketing/PR companies started off in the pre-Internet days, and simply added websites to their list of services and rely solely on the experience of their devs to handle the rest. I was a contractor for such a company and to cut costs (read: to save on paying me), they hired a junior developer with no formal education, who specialized in copy-paste programming to do many of their large sites. He's since left, but the damage he's done still lives on in the countless sites he built for their clients, which are full of horribly insecure code (especially #1 on the HTTPS no-no list).

The good news is that, following his departure, I got plenty of work doing clean-up jobs on all the sites he built. :)
Even in nonprofits, salary is highly idiosyncratic. There are plenty of nonprofits with very well-paid employees and, in particular, executives.
I won't tell you which one I recommend reading first, but I would recommend reading 4 or 5 before hitting "Against a dark background".

That book is really hard on the emotions. I have a feeling it may have been a bit of an experiment for Iain as it reads a bit differently from the rest (I think I've read every book he has out currently, including "Raw Spirit"... Brilliant book)

Oh, and the top comment in the sibling thread you linked to is a very good recommendation.
The obvious, delete-all-the-code approach would be to leave more money in the hands of the businesses by lowering taxes.

I'm a left-libertarian, so what I want to see is a basic income and low levels of regulation. Taxes can be high. I'm fine with that as long as it's spent on useful things (more cancer research, less war). The tax rate we pay in the US is about right. What we get for our taxes is disappointing. We should have universal healthcare, for example. The current system is expensive and doesn't work.

You can tear out a lot of regulations if you have basic income in place. For example, you no longer have to support so many farmers with price floors. If market value for their produce declines, they're still OK; you don't get the cascading effect of rural poverty (1920s) that eventually impoverishes the whole society (1930s).

I also support a flat tax. Morally, I'm okay with the concept of progressive taxation; but if we get our house in order with a basic income and a certain basket of always-provided goods (food, education, housing, and healthcare at affordable prices) then it really doesn't matter that a billionaire is playing 40% instead 70%. He'll, I'd be happy just to see the billionaires pay the percentage that I do!

For example, I hate the concept of minimum wage. Before you conclude that I'm an asshole, hear me out. Without basic income, we absolutely need one. But what is a minimum wage? It's a clumsy basic income that's financed by low-end employers. How do they respond? They cut jobs.

The good of a minimum wage (which, again, is essential if you don't have basic income) is that employers have an incentive to automate the lowest of the low in menial processes. However, you'd still have that incentive with basic income because people just wouldn't do low-yield, unpleasant work for next-to-nothing. Right now, poor people can't get a fair wage because they are fucked if they are jobless, giving employers all the leverage. Basic income allows the market to find a fair value for work.
Do you think it would have been supremely popular without all those extra players?
"I would happily pay a reasonable price for the show"

The price they are charging is the bundled price. The fact that you do not get enough value from the bundled price means that you don't have to pay for it, but it also doesn't mean you can steal it.

If you go to the store and someone is selling a 30 pack of toilet paper but you only need 5 rolls because you live alone, you can't simply take 5 rolls, and say, "the price I would have to pay to get 5 rolls is ridiculous, so I'm not paying".

"HBO doesn't offer an option to do that" because they have determined that the revenue/profit they earn from bundling HBO with cable is higher then by selling HBO alone since cable isn't as desirable as it used to be.

The way to think about it is, HBO costs $600/year and you get some crappy free TV with it.
I don't read that as he feels morally superior, but even if he does it's only over pirates, not everyone
it's actually the account of the government's newsagency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriminzokkiri
Seems to be a problem with the site - it's just redirecting me to the home page.
>What are some other good free (tier) PaaS options out there?

Cloudbees for JVM apps. You can get started with a free tier git repo, Jenkins build service, db (MySQL default, Postgres available), Tomcat or JBoss instance, and custom domain, and set it up for continuous deployment whenever you push changes to your git repo.
I'm pretty sure that Grade A bonds, CDs, and IRAs, among few others, accounts are the only types of investments that one should consider putting more money then they're willing to loose into.

Bitcoins is a ForEx market, and like any ForEx market, you can lose money, quickly.
My dad, the mobile phone early adopter
How do you get so much prelaunch buzz on your product like what mailbox app did
The percentage of piracy demonstrates that there is a demand for the product but the consumers don't want to pay for it. World of Goo is the example I used because it's a "perfect" product under the check list provided in the article: great product (90/100) affordable ($20 for a game that takes >10 hours to complete) same price in all markets, unrestricted, same availability everywhere.
Good article.

I must say that a unique benefit about Scotland for entrepreneurs is that higher education is free. This reduces the debt burden of a new graduate significantly that helps with any new venture.

I do agree that the money spent on bureaucracy by government bodies that are meant to boost enterprise is wasteful, although the new gov.uk web project suggests that sometimes projects can be done well at a decent price.

I echo nthj's comments in saying that tax breaks are the easiest way to benefit all small enterprises, from tech start ups, to new retail shops, plumbers starting their first business etc.
PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
Yeah that Morrissey gripe has really been sticking in my craw too.
Sure, would be fun :-) I don't know many technologists around so far, but a good idea!
cgdb looks promising. I really, really liked the Turbo Debugger in the 90's. No debugger has offered me the same experience since. It was fast, the text-based windowed interface allowed efficiently jumping to assembly as well as to the source, view registers, editable hex dumps of memory, view watchpoints etc.

gdb is super-powerful but was a bit of a setback interface-wise because everything has to be done on a plain command line. And the GUI-based wrappers around it don't appeal to me much (don't know why, the ones I tried felt somewhat clunky).
I think the most interesting thing here is that this has a clear precursor to Facebook in it("The Web") but it was never brought up during the lawsuit w/ the Winklevoss twins.
All the more reason to hurry up with those ocular implants! Never miss the stream while you record it. ;)

But seriously, the genie is out of the bottle. There's no going back to the pre-sharing days as we've come to notice our memories are fleeting... as are our lives. In essence we're the culmination of our expriences and these days, we're (I think) subconsciously leaving evidence of our existence, just in case everything else of our proof of impact on the world is lost.

I'm not happy that we've completely substituted interraction with persons in favor of the interface, but I don't think leaving behind the sharing culture altogether is the solution. We'll (over)share, as long as the technology exists. I think the only solution is to make it as unobtrusive as possible so as to not miss input of the real world with our own organic senses.

In a strange way, I can see this as the true appeal of Steve Mann's EyeTap or Google Glass. Absorb your surroundings with your synapses and NAND. What your synapses will miss, the NAND will store for decades or more. All the while augmenting your sensory reach.
It's even shorter: 4 days before you cannot update your staging server if you have one. The people who forwarded me this announcement were really surprised about that (they use sandboxes as staging server).
I think this is extremely stupid. Usually I like anon plans, but this one is poking a tiger with a short stick.
The thing is, it's easy to upgrade a sandbox account into a paying one. I would recommend that they make sure that the upgrade path from self-hosted to dotCloud be as simple.
The point is moot when it comes to Game of Thrones. HBO is an advertisement free channel.
I'm more impressed that angelfire still exists. Also AOL Progz? This is taking me back.
"This update fixes a high-exposure security vulnerability in versions 9.0 and later. All users of the affected versions are strongly urged to apply the update immediately."
Poking a tiger with a short stick is extremly dangerous - what danger do you see in Anon's actions?
Security Release FAQ
> "write once run anywhere managed environment"

that is not even remotely what that is.

A sufficiently advanced graphics library will do considerable amounts of non trivial interaction with system dependent and even hardware dependent libraries. The parent cited SDL. Which sits atop other libraries. Which imposes certain runtime constraints.
This is one of promises of Ripple. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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That's a case where Apple has to optimize the heck out of Safari until it is workable on that particular new machine, otherwise it would get terrible reviews and hurt the overall brand.

Chrome doesn't have the same incentives to get that particular machine working well, especially since the next revision of the Retina Macbook probably won't even need special handling since it will surely have a more powerful GPU. They can just wait it out, similar to what happened with the iPad 3 vs iPad 4, where people had to optimize for the iPad 3 and then those optimizations were unneeded on the iPad 4.
I always have this conversation with my girlfriend:
- My point, being her experiencing everything through a small lcd screen, no matter how much pixels or which fancy word like retina is using.
- Her point, she will be able to keep memories as you can forget something, but the picture would be still.

On one side, I do agree I would like to have pictures and videos from my childhood and my experiences as a teenager. Going further, I would really enjoy to have them from my grandparents.
On the other side, we have 2Teras worth of disorganized pictures.
not to be too off topic but it seems to me that he's great live when he's not acting all kinds of crazy because two weeks ago someone in the vicinity of the stage ate meat.
At least the Polaroid had the self-limiting factor of physical media & manual processing for each photo taken.