skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no excuse for killing innocents - in the name of whatever - America lost more than it gained by that single inhuman act of dropping Atom Bomb. War machines are still rattling - world peace is farther - But hope of a humanity not obliterated by the narrow confines of nation states and their propaganda and marching towards the goal of being at peace with itself and the universe lingers and that is what drives people like me.
Other than the UK (which I also compared it to) it's the one country that most people on this American website will have familiarity with.

Why, who should I comparing it with instead? Ecuador? Papua new guinea?
Any security feature in a video decoder is going to be designed for rightsholders. :)

If you're concerned about content protection, the inevitability of hardware-assisted content protection as hardware security improves is a valid concern.

But since TZ is (a) a technology with more non-DRM uses than DRM uses and (b) a fundamental part of the overall ARM architecture, not extending it to other ARM IP blocks would have been an odd choice. That's all I'm saying.
In which countries exactly do you assume CNN to be independent?
Another timeless option would be The Mythical Man-Month
Wonder how much battery it burns to do the decode compared to a non DRM video.
correlation/causation.

E.g. Italy does not have baby boxes, and child mortality went from 60/1000 to 3/1000 in the last sixty years too.

This happened basically everywhere, and either cardboard boxes play a big role and are used everywhere, or the effect is quite limited.
In the 90s when boo.com imploded (you might not remember them but they were huge) my company wanted to hire some of them. I prevailed against it then. Boo collapsed because they partied their way through their investor's money. Regardless of any other skills, they all had a spectactularly poor attitude to other people's money. You don't want that kind of culture to take root in an organization.
"Get a quote", I bet you it's not easy to get one display from them. Maybe if you buy >100...

IMO RePaper should buy a batch of them and let me order it with a few simple clicks.
The best way to understand TZ is to understand how virtualization works (that's not what TZ is, but still); think of it like a hardware chroot(2) jail.
Did you learn of the PNG situation from the article that was submitted to HN?

Did you know that since that article was shared here, the PNG govt is trying to push forward very tough laws to clamp down on the nastiness that goes on there. They're bringing back the death penalty, and it will now also apply to rape, violent robbery, etc.

> The prime minister also announced that the government would repeal the controversial 1971 Sorcery Act, which acknowledges the accusation of sorcery as a plausible defence in murder cases

> Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said violent crimes were becoming too frequent and that "draconian" measures were required.

> "There will be maximum penalties that have never been seen before in this country"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22366075

> Parliament last week resurrected the long-dormant death penalty and approved five methods of execution: hanging, firing squad, electrocution, lethal injection and asphyxiation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22698668
It doesn't sound like anything new. The current SoC specific solutions typically have dynamic firewalls configured on a per IP block basis interacting with some crap in trustzone.

I suppose the thing that is new is ARM offering this kind of IP off the shelf (maybe).
According to http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub...

"The infant mortality rate in the United States showed a
consistently downward trend between 1935 and 2000, with
the rate declining from 55.7 per 1,000 live births in 1935
to 6.9 in 2000"

So Finland is doing better, but since the US has seen most of that improvement as well very little if any of it seems to be attributable to the box.
To a first approximation, TZ is just an extra bit on addresses. So, probably not so much.
Definition of terrorism:

> The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=definition+of+terrorism
Just render software unpatentable from now on.
Android has a more iterative state of mind. I would do that.
Also, It is becoming much more popular, has more users, ... And seems to be winning the fight for mobile phones.

Once you get the product right, you could convert it to iOS. But it takes longer for having an iterative development process there... (long approval time = long waiting for feedback, ...)
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What happened to NASA Stirling car engine? Anybody?
Yes, I know. And then he switched back to the OP as if the two were the same thing, when in fact they're entirely unrelated. That's the dictionary definition of a red herring.
>I'm very curious now to hear a credible counterargument.

Well, Hirohito himself mentioned the bomb and its 'incalculable' destructive potential in his formal announcement of surrender.

So at the very least the bomb played a very substantial role in ending the war in the Pacific.
But atom bombs represented one thing that Stalin and fire-bombing did not: the end of Japanese culture.

What does that mean, and how is it supported by the historical evidence in the article or elsewhere?
I hate reading substantial things on any kind of backlit screen. Somehow my attention seems to wander. But I find that I can focus somewhat better on pdfs than webpages. I suppose it's some sort of philistinic nostalgia for the ultimate static and non-interactive medium that is the paper book.

That said, this idea looks awesome. I'd still appreciate a pdf to supplement this, though :).
Even when they're right about how heinous the latest legal and/or technical stunt the Copyrights Über Alles crowd has gotten up to is, when is Torrentfreak not hyperventilating?
If we lived in a world where journalists knew the slightest bit about critical thinking: Hmm, I wonder if the cardboard box cuts Finland's infant mortality. Maybe I should look up infant mortality for Norway and Sweden? Oh, it's exactly the same as Finland's? Can't be the box then.

I'm willing to bet that U.S. infant mortality is the same or even lower -- for people of Finnish descent.
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Not sure if it is the best, but here's tent.io. https://github.com/tent/tent.io
It's not about "assuming" things. It's about severe performance degradation beyond any expected levels. Yes, there are solutions to workaround these things. But it will cost way more than a dedicated hardware setup if you account all the costs (software licenses, OPS salaries, etc).
I could write the same about Rackspace Cloud - in 2009/early 2010. I suspect (but cannot confirm) this isn't relevant any longer either.
Linkbait.

> Facebook's newsfeed did to your social life what RSS did to blogs.

Blogs used to contain unique and valuable information. Correct me if I am wrong but social media blurbs were rarely unique and never really valuable.

I understand Facebook-hate is cool these days, but this article doesn't seem to say anything interesting.
I'll concede the point then.

However, it seems like the paywall only works because it's so leaky in the first place.

I'd imagine before the internet, you may have sneaked a peak at a friend's issue of the WSJ or read one at a coffee shop. I suppose the leaky paywall is the modern equivalent.
And everything else for that matter.
Me. I thought it was bad news. I saw this in frontpage a few times today. I just read it because I don't have something to do. And well, that was refreshing. It's cute.
So we can expect a break (possibly via PubKey replacement) for it by some hacker adept at machine code in 10... 9... 8...

Meanwhile, what would really determine whether or not this is scary is adoption. Until a fair number of TVs, set top boxes, smartphones or what have you, actually start to carry the thing, there's nothing to worry about yet.
Ask:HN How can I learn Postgresql? 
Read: Rails newbie, Unsuccessful importing a '|' delimiter text file to Postgresql database

I have a project that I am developing on rails which will need an extensive pre-populated database. After reading from several sources that to test a MVP, it is easy to deploy on Heroku without much sysadmin work and it uses postgres.

For last few days I have been trying to import a '|' delimiter text file to a postgresql database table and so far unsuccessful. I am using PostgresApp and PgAdmin3 to import the table and it says extra data at the end of column. The documentation on Postgresql is not favorable towards novice.
So what choices would be a better option in long term?
1. Should I outsource the work to a database developer on elance or Odesk?
2. Should I take time to learn more SQL in depth and start from there?
Actually, when I submitted the article I changed the title to "Singapore Institutes New Rules to Control Media/Websites", as the original title was also not that good.

HN moderators came up with the current butchered title.
It's not necessarily true that TZ in video = DRM. It could also be used in secure UI scenarios.
>If your motivation for pointing out that America has some extremely poor properties, even when held in comparison to Singapore, was to somehow reassure me about anything concerning Singapore

My motivation was not to reassure you about anything.

My point was to dismiss one of the more popular misconceptions about this country (that it is a police state/dictatorship) by comparing it with one that most people on this website are largely familiar with, and largely agree is not a dictatorship or a police state.

>I am confused as to why you are making comparisons to other countries, not why you are making a comparison to America in particular.

I am making comparison to countries that most readers of this site will be familiar with because most will not be familiar with Singapore.

I am confused as to why you are confused. This all seems painfully obvious to me.
I'm on the first chapter, but I can tell this is the perfect book for me. Very well written. Easy to follow for a non-mathematician and overall, a perfect introduction to a field I'm very interested in learning. I've worked through books such Programming Collective Intelligence but this closes the gap between blindly following along and actually understanding the fundamentals which that book lacks.
The line is drawn where the invention stops being a part of the useful arts, and an algorithm on its own is not useful, but a system using a new algorithm is indeed useful, and that's where the distinction between algorithms and software lies.

Patent thickets are indeed an issue, but they've been an issue several times in the past and the world didn't stop turning. See http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/69a96688-b776-11e2-841e-00144feabd... for a brief discussion. I completely agree the patent system is not perfect, but I do believe it's important to allow the small guy to come up with new inventions, be it software or not, and be able to protect themselves from having the big guy steal their ideas with nothing in return.

The patent system is a man made system, and all man made systems will be exploited by man if it is in their best interest, and that's exactly what big corporations are doing. But without the system, the little guy stands absolutely no chance against the big guy and with it they do. This is how innovation is encouraged by the patent system. You bet your arse that when a small company funded by those here gets their ideas stolen that people here will be up in arms. But if they have parents, they have a real method of recourse, whereas without, all they can do is call them out on it, but have no guarantee that they'll get anything at all. Without the patent system, we'd get rid of patent trolls, but we'd being in the much worse "Idea theifs", who steal the work done with other's time and investment to produce products for their own profit.
Qualcom has been working on Mirasol [0], an alternative to ePaper for a long time now. I saw it 4 years ago at Mobile World Congress and it really looks nice. Full colour screens and the more light you pump in, the better it looks.

Sadly, so far they are nowhere near a commercial rollout.

[0] www.qualcomm.com/mirasol
Maybe they have good reason to hyperventilate?

The notion of hardware DRM -- the movie industry controlling your device at a hardware level is frustrating enough to me.
Thanks. It would be interesting to hear Ward's take on that; he must surely address it in the book the article was taken from.

On the other hand, according to [1], Hirohito also cited the Soviet invasion when convening the council to discuss surrender.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u6qqo/there_h...
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I hear what you are saying but it is NOT simply hindsight. Many of us from the beginning were very critical of sort of games developed by Zynga, it is definitely not a case of looking back. This is not to say that all the developers were there to rip off previous games and create digital crack but Zynga is what it is and we did say it from the beginning.
This point would be rather more salient if you weren't from America and the commenter above you weren't also from America.

I think I might actually be the only person in this thread not from America.
Yeah I have some Linode, Rackspace and DigitalOcean servers, and yes they all seem to be a lot faster than the tiny EC2 instances. Never tried a small EC2 though.
I thought it was a very well written piece. I've seen lots of debate on this subject. The author brought a lot of evidence and work to the table for this. While its implications can be debated (what lessons can we draw from this?) a very strong case is made for the invasion being the cause for the end. Thanks for sharing. =)
Well, decryption has costs - and the question was DRM and not TZ specific. But yes, doing the work in the secure world is as cheap as the normal OS
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For replacing government agencies/services, look into the concept of a "commons trust". The basic idea is that the organization for managing the resource or providing the service holds a property title over the necessary resources, but holds it in-trust on behalf of the general public so that they have strict, legally-enforcible limitations on what they can do with the resource and to whom the benefits must accrue.

In general, we can actually make a lot of progress on what I would call "engineering socialism" once we get our brains out of the "individual capitalism versus government socialism" paradigm, a paradigm they only got trapped in by the peculiarities of the Cold War.
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Large American institution with a history of infringing on people's rights attempts to enforce a design of a commercial computer chip? Hmm, where have I heard of that before...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
I'm willing to bet that U.S. infant mortality is the same or even lower -- for people of Finnish descent.

Why?
I also have this question. I'm not contributing to open source (yet). It is because I have more fun in developing my personal projects. But most or all of them are not in Github (well, they are in BitBucket, but in a private repo).
A video decoder block? What's an example scenario there?
It doesn't say the box cut infant mortality, it says that in the period 1940 to 1960, a combination of the box, encouraging visits to doctors and the national health insurance system cut infant mortality.
The last section of the article actually argues against the article's stated conclusion, and it supports the statement you've replied to. This section, in particular:

> Attributing the end of the war to the atomic bomb served Japan's interests in multiple ways. But it also served U.S. interests. If the Bomb won the war, then the perception of U.S. military power would be enhanced, U.S. diplomatic influence in Asia and around the world would increase, and U.S. security would be strengthened. The $2 billion spent to build it would not have been wasted. If, on the other hand, the Soviet entry into the war was what caused Japan to surrender, then the Soviets could claim that they were able to do in four days what the United States was unable to do in four years, and the perception of Soviet military power and Soviet diplomatic influence would be enhanced. And once the Cold War was underway, asserting that the Soviet entry had been the decisive factor would have been tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Logically, this section asserts that the atomic bomb, though not successful in doing physical damage, actually created a political situation that allowed graceful surrender, and it aligned with the Japanese government's desire to preserve Japan's culture and forms of government. It's very difficult to speculate what the Japanese response would have been at this point had Hiroshima and Nagasaki been destroyed with conventional weapons. However, their way of life would have been more at risk without a clear way to appease the enemy, which we have evidence to suggest was on their minds.

It's important to note that the entire last section is speculation and offers no facts at all to support the claim that Japan consciously blamed the atomic bomb with these goals in mind. Yet, this is the crux of the article -- the idea that the atomic bomb won the war singlehandedly is a myth supported in part by the Japanese government's desire for self-preservation.

I think that's what the original reply author means when he says "all taken together." The atomic bomb clearly did not put a dent in the Japanese leadership's attitude, but, according to the article's speculation, it did allow them to make a life-saving decision more easily.
But every bit of power counts with smartphones.
I couldn't agree more. The content has been relevant from day one and it's been looking even better ever since. I've passed it in a few lectures already and people really love it already :-)
As long as the device is properly integrated, TZ provides protection against software attacks - the hardware prevent accesses to sensitive areas by the regular OS. Machine code skills won't help unless the implementation is flawed.
That's not necessarily true.

We use ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) with an auto-scaling group behind it. The instances get added or removed based on the latency reported by CloudWatch/ELB. During the course of a day, the number of EC2 instances running can vary from 8 to 25.

Usually 8 is enough, but when spikes happen or when the capacity of instances to process stuff drops (which does happen in cloud-computing, based on what neighbours you have and what they are doing), then new instances are started in a matter of minutes.

And this billing by hour does save us a lot of money. Because 8 instances is enough, until it isn't and the traffic is so huge that it can choke and freeze 8 instances.

Incidental, this ability is one reason we moved off Heroku.
At the end of the article the author describes how (assuming his previous arguments are true) Japan's leaders would still have publicly cited the bomb as a strong reason for their surrender as it "served to deflect blame" from themselves.
> one that most people on this website are largely familiar with, and largely agree is not a dictatorship or a police state.

You picked a poor country to compare it to then.

Congratulations, America is burnt toast and Singapore prides itself for being "better than burnt toast". Quite the sales pitch.
Do the different regional CNNs normally all run the same story at the same time?
If working has taught me something, it's that every job is "selling your time for a living", including entrepreneurship of any kind (selling your time to your clients, not your boss, but it's not different), and unfortunately that's a necessary evil if you want luxuries like a steady amount of food, clothing or shelter. Also, that every job is a day job, or becomes such after not many months. If you don't think so, you're either deluding yourself, a very boring person without a life, or extremely lucky (and remember, no matter how much do you believe this last option represents you, it's still extremely unlikely).

Also: don't fall into the "be passionate" trap. Be passionate about your life, and don't conflate your work with your life. Keep your job out of your life, and if possible, consider yourself unemployed from 5pm to 9am.
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Really? In "most cases"? My wife and I, and all our friends who have kids (which is the majority of our friendship circle now) used the baby bonus(es) to buy, you know, stuff for our babies. Like clothes, sleeping gear, safety stuff for round the house, prams (one for the first and a dual P&T when the second came along ... both off gumtree). We used it to pay for the ridiculously high electricity bill caused by having a heater running all the time to keep the temperature optimal so our baby would sleep properly in our shitty rental house in winter. We used it to pay for proper car seats, to have those seats properly installed, to install a metal grate so crap doesn't fly from the back of the car into our children's faces when we stop suddenly.

Whilst there were some pretty high profile cases of misuse (especially when it was given as a lump sum payment when it was first introduced as pork barrelling measure to gain ground amongst "Howard's Battlers") I think your claim that it was misused in "most cases" only goes to show that you don't have kids.
If we lived in a world where HN readers read thoroughly the articles they comment on...
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I'm not sure if it's just me, but the first sentence;

> NextBigWhat records with sadness the demise of Atul Chitnis, a passionate technologist who spent much of his lifetime popularizing free and open source software.

To me sounds awful. Demise always sounds like what you expect some evil genius to say in a film or something.

Anyway, RIP Atul. The Open Source community owes you a great deal.
Perhaps. ...but I think you're fooling yourself if you think this doesn't happen in the real world.
The rules on protest certainly seem pretty close for both the UK and Singapore, as do the rules on libel. And I'm not a fan of either one in either country.

This is not even counting the frankly brutal treatment that has been doled out to British and American protesters in the last 5 years (take the death of Ian Tomlinson, or the OWS beatings for example).

While Singapore's rules might be a bit more restrictive, I still think the idea that it pushes them over the invisible line from "democracy" to "police state" is pretty ridiculous.

>And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law this law is considered an impediment to free speech in most modern world and is not practiced much in the US

Definitely. Still doesn't invalidate Britain's status as a democracy, however.
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