skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite obvious that the DVD market declined due to a combination of low perceived value, unreasonable inconvenience, and extremely fragile media.

Assuming people are like me and rarely watch a movie more than once unless it's exceptionally good, why pay $20-$30 or more for a DVD when you can rent it at RedBox for a buck or watch it on demand or on Netflix.

OK I bought the disk, but I can't make a backup copy or skip the ads and previews?

Oops, I dropped it or my kids got ahold of it, and now there is a little scratch on the disk, and it's entirely unplayable. Tapes were far more rugged, if slightly bulkier.
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When will they admit that they killed DVDs themselves due to their fear of piracy? The more copy protection they put on them, the less likely any given DVD was likely to work. In the 90's we rented a lot of DVDs. By the time Netflix came along, we finally gave up even trying DVDs from the video store, instead watching whatever drivel was on Netflix only because we had a reasonable expectation that it would work all the way through without a microscratch triggering the anti-piracy circuitry.
It helps to hang around with people smarter/more skilled than you.

One risk with doing things in isolation is hitting a local maxima. That is, getting really good using an approach that will only get you so far before super-human effort is required. For example, mastering VB 6.

It really helps when there are others who have gone ahead and made assorted mistakes to tell you when you may be following a poor path.
You can write all phone conversations to storage and still only closely scrutinize 300 numbers.
I guess my use case is probably an outlier, I'm thinking about living in one of these countries and checking out which options might work and where (which could be anything from freelancing to taking a corporate gig). But I'd unscientifically guess there could be a market in idle speculators, rather then people with a clear plan to do a startup in a specific country (who might already have gathered a lot of this info to have got to that point).
Nice casual use of racism you got there.
Would you feel better if they weren't white? What's race got to do with it?
OP name is Omar, so clearly this is a terrorist act.
>Unless of course you want to show me the non-trotskyists who weren't in the pay of the U.S.S.R?

Are you kidding me?

Maoist parties (prevalent in Western Europe, especially with younger people) were against the USSR.

The New Left was anti-USSR.

In the UK too, the prevalent notion was anti-USSR.

As were tons of other communist party genres (like those based on the "Frankfurt School" of thinking, or those influenced by "Worker's councils" etc etc).
Didn't the PRISM stuff all have NOFORN though, rather than REL FVEY?
IANAG but at large companies like Google, you're bound to see proprietary internal systems for handling a lot of problems like remote services, package management, deployment, load balancing, etc. Part of that is massive scale. Another part is that, while small generic programs and libraries do well in the wild, having a standardized, integrated system is more cost-effective inside a large business.
Throwing in degrading comments at SWM is the new hip liberal thing to do. I see similar things on hacker news and my facebook feed regularly.
Recommendation: have the demos use web workers if they're available, so you don't tie up the main thread when the numbers get really large.
The biggest risk is one of the X.509v3 certificates for various Certification Authorities (CAs) is compromised.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/firefox-adding-trusted-ca/

Discussion of SSL on cryptome:
http://cryptome.org/0005/ssl-broken.htm
>What the NSA means by this is that it has root access on Google, Facebook and friends.

This just simply isn't true. The article doesn't say that. Your support for this claim below is that this is what they meant by "direct and unilateral," which you cannot know to be true.

If Google et. al. setup dedicated servers which aggregate the relevant user data the NSA wants, and gave the NSA FTP access, then this would be--by definition--direct and unilateral access. FTP falls under any reasonable definiton of direct, and Google would not have to be involved in any data transmission, thereby making it unilateral.

And can't we all just agree that the idea of giving root access is so outright ridiculous that nobody would intend that as a meaning? Maybe read only access, but root access? Ridiculous.
They issue the update while the phone is powered on. They can then change the behavior of the "shut down" element in the UI to black out the screen and refuse calls but continue to transmit GPS or audio on the radios.
YMMV. In my life I've had one DVD that failed to play due to scratching and I have no way of knowing whether CSS contributed to that or not.
> “They said to me, ‘We don’t even know how to run a P&L right now.’” The look on his face expressed the sheer madness of that statement. “ ‘We don’t know what our P&L looks like because we don’t know what the DVD number is!’ The DVD number used to be half of the entire P&L!”

> “What are the implications of that?”

> He looked at me incredulously, as if to say, Haven’t you run a studio? Then he said very emphatically, “The implications are— you’re seeing the implications—the implications are, those studios are frozen. The big implication is that those studios are—not necessarily inappropriately—terrified to do anything because they don’t know what the numbers look like.”

What does this actually mean?

Is there simply high uncertainties in P&L predictions, due to the difficulty in predicting international sales? There's a hard limit to the number of foreign movies some countries, notably China, allows so there could be massive fluctuations depending on whether it's good enough to send to China; and international tastes might be hard to predict. Or is it because the profit forecasts for every movie they do a P&L for falls short of what they can accept, and they put a magic "international sales" estimate in to push it over the line?
I wasn't trying to make some kind of statement with my comment - I was merely pointing out an identifiable trade-off.

That said, if and when an easy-to-use, truly secure p2p communication system ever gains real traction then action against it will probably be on the table. Banning won't really work, as you say, but it can probably be made inconvenient/unpalatable enough to discourage most users.

I think most people agree that there do exist legitimate cases for governmental wiretapping, as long as the rules are agreed upon and followed strictly. Genuine untappable comms will be a threat to that legitimate government function and I don't think, barring some radical shift in popular opinion, there will be much opposition to such a ban.
Since the exploit lets you easily root the install, couldn't zamfoo just patch all his users machines themselves?

That would make about as much sense as everything else they've done....
I wonder if House of Cards has a lower cost structure.
This is pretty neat. I'll definitely use it for awhile to see if I can get used to it. One small nitpick: After I imported all my feeds, I had to rename my feeds which is not a problem because the names of my feeds are terrible by default. But when I tried to rename them one by one, after each time I changed one of them, the sidebar on the left hand side hide the rest of my feeds. Don't think that's a good practice. I have all this big space[1], why does it have to cut off? I don't think this is good for browsing as well. I wouldn't want to click "show more" every time I log in to the website to see if there's any new items on my feeds that are hidden.

Couple of other points:

- Thanks a lot for the folder support. I've tried a lot of good Google Reader alternatives lately but none of them (for some strange reason) had folder support. That's such an essential feature.

- Chrome/Firefox extensions would be great. Nothing too complicated. Just one to let us know how many unread items we have.

- It'd be much better if you place the notification window right below. It sometimes gets in the way.

- I couldn't see any export option. Am I missing it or it's not there?

- Drag and drop would be much more practical to move the feeds between folders.

Best of luck!

[1] http://i.imgur.com/xJjFOnY.png
>Well, that was sort of my point. We were so hell bent on fighting an enemy we'd created in our minds (and vice-versa for those in the USSR) that we lost all rationality, it seems.

No, the foreign policy actions were very rational. It's not like they got duped by some dictator posing as "anti-communist".

They knew what they were getting and what they were supporting (as all historical accounts and de-classified documents show).

They just wanted to gain influence to those parts of the world (for resources, trade routes, military bases etc) at any cost.
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What does the NSA/privacy issue have to do with your switch? I'm curious to know how using free software could possibly protect you from the current NSA issues that have been brought to light. You are still using the public Internet (services such as email, web/http etcetera), which has nothing to do with free software. You are using telephony (well, perhaps you don't have a phone) systems provided by private companies which provide the info to the NSA. Security is still a two way street in every case. Sure, everything I use might be 'secure' but how do you know that every one you collaborate with is just as 'secure' as you? Once you send data to anyone, it's out of your hands.

I'm just asking questions. I respect the switch. I've tried several times, but I still like OS X too much to dump it. I know freedom can come at a price, such as having a lessened user experience (in some cases). I really don't feel, and have not been shown, that Apple has been reading all my data and sending it to third parties. So, on the security aspect, I've no reason to get rid of the OS that I work on and that contributes heavily to my income. Now, I use an awful lot of free software but I just can't give up OS X at this time.
People who use cpanel should not be allowed near computers.
Probably not. A certain hubris, as Mr. Wall has noted, is a Good Thing, but so is some amount of discontent or feeling that you've still a lot to learn.

I'm sure the Dunning-Kruger effect comes into play here.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Thinking you're great before you are, in fact, great, will surely hold you back.
Point of obvious fact for you. When I provide a citation, that's not an unreferenced claim. And, unlike you, I'm not cherry picking my references.

What do I mean by cherry picking? Let's take your Wikipedia link, one sentence before the travel and leisure survey. New York City accounts for only 1% of United States greenhouse gas emissions while housing 2.7% of its population.

This is all consistent with what I said. NYC has a ton of people. Having a ton of people, it is inevitably an environmental eyesore. However, per person, it is environmentally better than the alternative.

Let's look at your garbage claim. NYC produces 12,000 tons per day of garbage. NYC has about 8.3 million people. That's 2.89 pounds of garbage per person. From http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html we see that the average American produces 4.5 pounds of garbage per day, of which 66.8% is sent to landfill. That's 3.01 pounds. Again, per capita, NYC beats the rest of the USA. Of course this is slightly unfair. Again, as you note, NYC has mostly outsourced its manufacturing. Manufacturing generates lots of garbage. I don't see an easy way to quantify that. However I do note that NYC has a high density of very rich people whose consumption can be expected to be above average.

I've lived in the country. Based on my experience, people who live in the country create tons of garbage, it is just not centralized.

It is true that Mexico city does better. However Mexico city is also poorer. Poor people, out of necessity, cannot consume much.

Next let's move on to your points about raising water. First of all, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper#Environmental_impac... makes clear, it is true that it takes energy to put stuff high in the sky. But there are tradeoffs and it is not at all clear whether a skyscraper is or is not environmentally efficient.

But that's irrelevant. The population density of NYC doesn't require high skyscrapers. I've lived there. It is really dependent upon having small apartments, packed closely together. Most of the city is made up of buildings that are 5 stories high. (Because at 6 stories you need to install elevators.)

As for your general hate of cities, I submit that the facts don't support it. It is true that cities are unnatural, expensive things. However, per capita, they tend be more efficient. But fundamentally there is no way to support an unlimited number of people in a finite world.
The difference between Bitcoin's vulnerability and democratic systems is pretty clear: in a democratic system, 51% of the participants control the outcome; in Bitcoin, a single participant doing 51% of the work can control the system. It is equivalent to allowing every single voter to fill out as many ballots as they can on election night, using whatever equipment they happen bring with them.
I wonder if the whole article was written sarcastically:

> so many families were being tossed onto their lawns by bailed-out banks that had bullied them into bullshit mortgages.

Yes, banks put a gun to people's head and said: Borrow my money and nobody gets hurt.

The article makes more sense sarcastically, but it's a poor attempt at sarcastic commentary if that was the goal.
Just to second this point, most people just have no conception of what semiconductor manufacturing is like and this article seems especially misinformed about the manufacturing side. For example: "The ARM collective simply show up to Samsung or TWSC, or TI or Global Foundries, ask for a zillion processors to run off the manufacturing lines and wonder if they can have them by Tuesday?" which is just total bullshit. The reason Apple had to buy so many processors from Samsung for so long is because setting up a new processor is expensive and difficult, whether it's an Intel or Global Foundries and it sure as hell doesn't take less than six months, let alone a week before you can get a reliable shipment of chips for a consumer product. (and before you can talk about volume of ARM vs Intel, compare the dozen+ companies that can manufacture 24-60-something nm to the ONE company that can do 22 and lower: Intel)

There are many competitors in the semiconductor manufacturing space because COMBINED they don't have the manufacturing or scientific resources of Intel (TI and Qualcomm have massive R&D arms but they're more concerned with wireless and other electronics). Intel's first mass market 14 nm facility is supposed to go live this year and Samsung just BARELY got their 14nm demo out this year. Intel's plant was $5 billion and started in 2011 which means that Intel has years to improve their power, bus speeds, and reliability before any manufacturer will even be able to sell their first processor. As the technology nears sub-10nm, the gaps between performance and power consumption between the architectures will be more and more obvious.

All of the other semifab manufacturers are extremely reliant on third party suppliers for their factories whereas Intel helped develop a huge portion of their technology, many times outright owning part of the equipment manufacturers (for example, http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132604-intel-invests-in...). 14nm was the point where they hit a lot of physical phenomena that prevent e-beam lithography and some of the other methods from working and Intel's pretty much the only one that can really push this technology forward.

Edit: Also, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-processor-5nm,175... - it's over. Notice how Intel said they're going to push their SoC's to their current processes? Hopefully this means that in 2015 we'll have 10nm x86 SoCs (at which point ARM will be, best case scenario, nearing end-of-life 22nm)
..this is news?
Someone's been just about to beat Intel at the high-performance CPU game, any day now, for a couple of decades. The AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola) alliance was very fond of hockeystick graphs showing their planned crushing of other CPUs (shown as a flatter line, usually coyly labeled 'CISC'), for instance, back in the early 90s.

It's not an impossible thing but given the track record of such claims and predictions, the only comment they should elicit is 'Shut up and show me the silicon'
Ironically, they didn't seem to take the time to summarize the terms of service for their own service. In fact, I can't figure out what the terms are for tosdr.org at all.
Bugs often represent mistakes and miscommunication in areas that the programmer has no input in. If the goal of the project was to draw a circle there is still room for error. The PM might have wanted a red circle with a fade in render.
+1 for sprintly, been using it for almost a year at Moveline. business people know exactly what to do when a bug comes in, and can accept/reject, comment, screenshot, etc. when a Dev marks it as complete
It's already known that analysts can access metadata without a specific court order; that's how the system is designed.

In the FAA 702 process, the DNI and AG first sign off on a "Certification" that designates a target; that Certification is confirmed by a federal judge.

Once the Certification is obtained, NSA analysts can cause FAA 702 "Directives" to be issued. Directives are pursuant to 702 Certifications, which are court-ordered, but the Directives are not themselves individually confirmed by a court.

Directives are what providers see. The counterbalance on the fact that FAA 702 Directives aren't individually approved by a court is that providers can (and as the NYT reports, have) refuse to comply with the Directive; at that point, everyone sends lawyers to the FISC and the Directive becomes a court order.

Target -> Certification -> (Many) Directives -> (Possible) Refusal -> FISC Hearing -> Court Order
This article is a bit of a copout, but you can certainly lower your footprint.

Using Tor or a VPN are definately good things to obfuscate traffic, but you basically have to use them ALL the time otherwise your activity can be corrolated.

Using your own IM isn't a requirement either, you can use OTR for semiprivate conversation.
> Unless of course you want to show me the non-trotskyists who weren't in the pay of the U.S.S.R?

> EDIT: "pay" is probably the wrong word there, maybe "under the ideological command of" would be a better description.

The biggest obvious exception are Maoists, who were quite numerous Communists but very much not under the ideological command of the USSR.
This has nothing to do with cPanel. It's about a third party plugin created by someone with no affiliation to cPanel who wrote bad code and refused to fix it.
It's a bit like saying that they're going to install cameras linked to a spy agency into every home, but don't worry because only a few homes will be scrutinised closely.
That's nice. The rest are only recorded for posterity, but not "closely scrutinized", right?
problem: not everyone has an iPhone.
Systematically lying to data-harvesting services
Julian Sanchez has been doing great work covering this stuff. I think the evidence strongly suggests the answer to his question about analysts "[plugging] in any selector and start collecting on and just strt getting material" is no:

* Google and Yahoo have categorically denied that it's so

* The Guardian has released a follow-up story recategorizing the NSA's access

* The full court order linked by the NYT in the Yahoo FISA case shows the court having to demand Yahoo turn over material, which wouldn't have been necessary if NSA had direct access
I develop ios apps. I need mac os.

There are many user experience issues in linux.
"Some of those forces are ones that burn crosses"

An evil chapter in the FBI's history.
Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy
JIRA is missing from the list.
Money quote:

"But new technologies like artificial intelligence and online education, increased domestic energy production and slowing growth in the cost of health care have prompted Mr. Cowen to reappraise the country’s prospects."
Typewriter That Prints Landscapes
That's the point. That's exactly what the form is having you do.
Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
No it's just funny.
This is actually not a very helpful answer, even though it contains lots of interesting technical detail, because it fails to point out that the questioner shouldn't be asking this question.

In general, it's not a good idea to use GC-triggered finalizers the same way you would use destructors in C++. They aren't guaranteed to be called at any particular time, or even to be called at all. Use try ... finally instead.

Just about the only valid use of a GC-triggered finalizer is to release a native resource associated with the object (a native heap object, a file descriptor, etc.).
>Well, yes, but if this is a result of some common form of human weakness, Google is exploiting that weakness.

One can argue that, sure. But Google does not have a monopoly in their field. They may be the best, by some measures, but there are choices, and those choices include the ability to use someone else's services (or no one's)

>Obviously, anyone seeking power will try to exploit whatever weakness they can find in those they try to gain power over. Both sides of the equation are "natural". It is therefore the government's duty to try and prevent that.

We can't exempt government itself from the dynamics of power and how it affects people. The problem I see here is that, when the checks and balances that are supposed to rein in government abuses fail, we're in trouble. You can walk away from Google's services, but that level of choice doesn't exist when we're talking about government.
I guess I’m of the very few ones in this thread who know how to pronounce this name :D
let's see...

you can listen to a CD more than once in quick succession without permanently distorting it

you can play a particular track on demand

you can reproduce a disc without quality loss

rewinding a DVD is pretty quick

DVDs include subtitles; tapes didn't

CDs and DVDs are significantly smaller and easier to store than records and VHS tapes - I have a pocket-sized container that will safely hold a couple dozen CDs, but that would be fairly difficult with records.

In summary, CDs and DVDs are both vast technological improvements over vinyl and tape. And I have no idea what you're talking about with "And they were far more fragile."
We've all got a language in our back pocket, haven't we?

My first thought on seeing this name was that I ought to rename my project "Ç".
Wonderful book.

For additional opinions also see:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fonc@vpri.org/msg01614.html
Depends on the situation, and how it is being used.
It does take a serious amount of time to set up, but it is so flexible that if you take the time, you will never leave it.
It also integrates into everything, and has a very verbose API, so if it doesnt do what you want you can extend it.
Shows a LOT of maturity for a core dev on an open source project to discuss the "bad" and "ugly" parts. Everything has them, but to pretend they don't exist, or that they are features like some of the other CMS-y OSS people is unhelpful.
i like jira :-)
What do you mean "without their knowledge"? You didn't know?
I'm using jira for something close to 80 projects, most of them code projects, and others for Recruitement, Ideas and Writing.

I'm surprised as many others that Jira is not on the list