skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's obviously no right to get paid for copies that don't get made. And that's not what people are insisting on when they talk about their right to get paid for their work. What they're talking about are the copies that do get made without any payment in return. That the real bone of contention. And really, it's not even the copies that artists and publishers care about. What concerns them is the money legally owed but illegally withheld. See the problem?

If you - personally - feel something is overpriced, leave it on the shelf. That's how you send signals in market economies. I mean, do you honestly think your rights are being infringed upon if someone refuses to sell you something at a price you're unable or unwilling to pay?

As an aside, copyright protection isn't limited to the making of copies. It also covers the creation of derivative works (i.e. adaptations) and the sale and / or distribution of copies and derivatives. FYI.
> Too bad CentOS is still stuck on TLS 1.0 and apparently will be for quite some time

Perhaps on a vanilla install, but it is not impossible or even difficult to build OpenSSL 1.0.1e+ for RHEL(s). Either build yourself or use Avixo[1]. Granted it's a pain in the ass/maybe not permitted in some environments, but doable.

[1] http://rpm.axivo.com/
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shutdown -h 20:00
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Oh, okay. While you're here, I had one other question that I might as well ask: why can't I install VLC on my Nexus 4 using Google Play? I've installed a nighty APK, and it seems to work fine on the device.
I like the (very subtle) OSX interface polish I can see. Also, perhaps it's just me but it seems to open faster than 2.0.8 did.

Thanks for all your hard work anyway. VLC has been my default media player for years now. I can't think of another piece of software that I've used so regularly for such a long time.
That would be ideal. Its sounds like it was more than preventing changes to the account information tho.
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Thanks for all of your hard work. VLC is a great example of open source software that "just works" for normal users.
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Obstacles could also be incorporated into the race.
I applaud the writer for his approach to making his own hub for his team. However, this is not a real 1-1 swap. In terms of pure functionality this may be an even exchange; his own platform might meet his needs just as well as GitHub. Yet it lacks major benefit - the community/public aspect of that environment. Duplicating that factor would take too much time an effort when you could just pay 7 bucks a month for the same thing.

Sometimes, while its fun to reinvent things, it just makes more sense to use what's there.
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Publisher Growth at Virool (YCS12)
Virool is a fast growing video promotion network.
Virool is rapidly growing its publisher network that contains almost 15,000 sites, apps and games promoting Virool videos.

We are looking for exceptional person to oversee and lead this growth

Publisher growth person will be in charge of:

-Developing new relations with publishers

-Publisher happiness: working with existing accounts- support, integration, help, billing

-Collaborating w tech and marketing teams

Skills and requirements:

-(Required) Strong communication and negotiation skills

-(At least!) basic tech skills - html, databases (sql) scripting languages like ruby or python, os shells

-(Desired) At least 2 years experience in ads / publisher relations.

Offer:

Competitive salary and stock options Opportunity to work in a small, but fast-growing startup and become key factor if its success. Nice loft/office in SF,SOMA with lots of free food and other startup perks.

to apply: jobs (at) virool.com subject: 'publisher growth - HN'
Ok, then looking is not an adjective, it forms an adjective compound with another adjective.
Valve have at least been thinking about that problem for awhile. Back in 2011 they were planning for CS:GO to have cross-platform play between Xbox, PS3 and PC. However, the idea got ditched in 2012.
> There's no (specified) retry mechanism — and POSTs aren't meant to be idempotent.

The semantics of the data exchanged by POST can be such that the request is effectively idempotent even though that's not an HTTP-level expectation (it's not wrong to have a layered-over-HTTP protocol in which methods are safer than HTTP requires, it would be wrong for them to be less safe than HTTP requires -- e.g., non-idempotent GET.)

If you are sending updated notifications over POST with the actual data then needing to be retrieved by a request the other directions, the first POST is effectively idempotent.

If you are sending the content in the POST without a key to prevent duplication, then there is a problem with retries.
The data Google give back to you in Analytics may be "anonymized and aggregated", but the data you're allowing them to collect from your users on your behalf is certainly individually-identifying and specific (and shareable with the NSA either wholesale via some PRISM-like means, or at the very least via court order or NSL)
https://github.com/visionmedia, one of the most prolific node developers, works for cloudup.
RubyMine and PyCharm feel more light weight, meaning quicker and less resource use.
That series was also pretty long, and went to a lot more cities.
Ask HN: UML-like diagrams for Lisp?
After some years programming in Java and OO languages, I'm looking for a change and started learning Clojure and LISP.

When designing a new application in Java or another OO language, I can sketch on a paper or imagine some UML diagrams that help me get an overview of the most important parts of the application. I find them useful, sort of a "mind map" for wrapping my mind around the whole application. These diagrams (class, component, objects) give me a high level of abstraction, allowing me to focus on the most important concepts and helping me exclude details that only cause an information overload when understanding the problem at hand.

Now, while learning Clojure, I can't find an effective way to do the same thing. In OOP, objects and classes fit nicely in an UML diagram, but Clojure/LISP functions in an application are many, smaller and so much more difficult to fit in a small, clear diagram.

How do you Clojure and LISP experts create a "mind map" diagram for the applications you are building?
Environmental concerns about displacing protected wildlife can be mitigated by installing relatively inexpensive things. Ditto for concerns about displacing low-income families. The real problem is that electricity in California is cheap and it is impossible to build a profitable utility-scale solar farm without monetary government incentives or a down-round. The former is winding down and the availability of the latter is constrained by a negative feedback loop.

The expiration of federal, state, and utility incentives, mainly ARRA Section 1603, really screwed up the solar market in most of the US. Uncle Sam used to give developers of renewable projects (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydro, etc) 30% of the total cost of the project in cash within a month or two of completion. Congress refused to renew that program after Solyndra, even though it was probably responsible for building several nuclear generators worth of renewable capacity. Companies can still get tax credits, but these newly-formed single-asset corporations that typically own the farms don't have any tax liability to offset. They can monetize the tax equity by doing some screwed up partnership flip structure, but that is time intensive and costly.

States also used to have incentives which ranged from state tax credits to RECs. These tax credits are even harder to monetize since now you need to find an equity partner who has a multimillion dollar state tax liability in, say, North Carolina. The market for RECs collapsed right after the utilities came close to meeting their renewable portfolio standards.

Most of the current pipeline of utility scale projects in the continental US involves a cramdown of the initial investors and developers. Everyone is looking for "broken" projects where someone else already spent the time and capital to get the project shovel ready. At the smaller end, there are even some contractors who financed the construction loans themselves and are being crammed down by the takeout guys. At the same time, many lenders have discontinued new lending and monetizing tax equity is expensive and difficult.

There are some exceptions such as Hawaii where 90% of their electricity is generated from oil so electricity prices are sky-high (think 5x+ California), but the local utility can't keep up with the requests for permits so projects wait in an ungodly long queue.
I want you to convince me to learn Perl
* New port to iOS, from iOS 5 to 7, on all iPads and iPhones after 3GS.

Is there any way to actually get VLC on iOS anymore?
Unless "shuffle" means something other than what I think it means, I don't see how it should even be possible to mess it up. What sort of issue is there?
I'd argue people don't hate CrossFit, they hate CrossFitters.

I don't hate Triathlon, I hate triathletes, I don't hate Apple, I hate Appholes (or fanbois or whatever you want to call them).

I've done Crossfit for about 8 months, it got me through a 3-day 4 stage mountain bike race when I hadn't been on a bike in a year. I truly feel there is no way I would have survived had I not built up my strength and endurance, and for me, Crossfit was just the ticket for that.

HOWEVER, I am always concerned when people identify so strongly with a brand/experience and feel the need to push it on everybody they meet. I've seen triathlon take over a guys life to the point where his wife left him, and took the kids (I think he may have lost his job too, but it was long ago, and I can't remember). All because it was so important to him to identify himself as an IronMan.

I've done Ironman, it was an ok event, far from the hardest thing I've done in my life, but you know what I couldn't stand about Ironman? The people. People who spent every waking moment trying to figure out how they could save 30 seconds on their time so that .... well, exactly, there is no point to it. But they'd go spend hours and hours on end trying to "improve themselves". But what are they really improving?

Now, Crossfit is a different animal, but for many people, it is still this addictive "I can be a better Crossfitter, I can be more competitive against other Crossfitters, I can talk about how much protein vs carbs I take in and how that affects my..." It's inane, it's boring, it's egotistical.

Did you regularly talk about how much you were lifting at the gym before? How many reps you could eke out at x amount of weight. If you did, that was pretty damn boring too!

There are lots of interesting things in the world, your gym habit isn't one of them.

So, put down the ego, and build something, this is HackerNews, not... well, something that none of us care about.
Ask HN: building your own CDN - how to do it?
Let's say that you can't use AWS or other cloud-based systems out there and that you need to roll your own CDN. You need to:

1) Have multiple cloned servers in 3-5 locations

2) Have a way to route a specific customer's address to the location nearest them.

My thinking is to use a managed DNS service like UltraDNS or Route 53. Any other thoughts?

Thanks -
> This is basically pub/sub messaging, but over the internet?

Its basically hubless pub/sub messaging over HTTP ("...over the internet", sure, but there is lots of much older versions of that); there's also the with-a-hub version, PubSubHubbub.
I'd just like to point out, though, that in the real world "vim navigation" is not very hjkl-heavy. (Much more w, b, f, t, search, etc).

Having said that, go play nethack anyway :)
Inconsistently consistent with the rest of iOS 7 though... :)
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One of the core features of this release is improved latency, but if latency was ever bad enough to cause Twilio to time out, I consider that a critical issue. Please report it to me if you ever encounter anything like that in the future.
I just applied to the SF one. It would be great if I could get into one of these. It would be my first in person Apple event.
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OpenGL can introduce a lot of overhead, especially when moving data back and forth between CPU and GPU. As just one example, OpenGL gives you no control over texture swizzling, which can be a serious performance issue during texture upload.
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. What you say is a 100% true. After watching how a laborer was treated in Dubai, I refuse to fly Emirates, Qatar, Etihad or any middle eastern airline. And I hope I never have to set foot in these atrocious places for the rest of my life.
The ray traced demos have always been the most realistic. As far as I can tell we have millions of geniuses wasting their time and talent on hacks to get around a fundamentally inferior rendering model. Eventually large vendors will realize that and put out graphics hardware that does ray tracing. That and procedural generation are the things that I am waiting for AMD and Nvidia to do. At this point with the capabilities of electronics engineering we have now everything that delays that stuff is basically masturbation based on outdated concepts.
It is faster than 2.0.8 to open on OSX, yes.

And yes, a bit of polish has been done on the OSX interface, but there is a bit more yet to do :)
Direct link instead of AOL's rewriting of AOL's summary of it -

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5900
Because you are in the USA. This will change in the next month.
Yes, use the AppStore.
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Yep. Noone seems interested in fixing that...
I bopped around in it for a few minutes on my Atom/Intel graphics EeePC and found it unbearably heavyweight compared to Awesome. I don't know what they are doing wrong, but merely interacting with a bunch of xterms with it was unbearable. Maybe you are just use to it.
http://mirrorbrain.org you're welcome :)

Learn to setup and use haproxy as well.
Use the srspos extension :)
Nope, with over 200K miles and multiple trips across the continental US (I don't care if I ever cross Nebraska again), I don't feel a whole lot differently. In a car, sure, I'll try to maximize efficiency and minimize stopping. On a bike, it's not going to ruin my day to pull over and take a 5 minute break to look at a map/phone. I'm not on a bike to be in a hurry, or even to hit a particular destination a lot of the time.

I've used a GPS on a bike since the mid-late 90s. To me, the use case is completely different than in a car. I'm not driving a rental from the airport to the hotel, and I'm rarely trying to find something in a major city. On a bike the GPS is a nice-to-have tool. But it is not so essential that I'll spend a lot of money, or require it to be constantly displayed on my visor.
New Kindle Fire family with instant live personal support
The app store.
In article it says you don't have to touch AppleTV. They were able to pair from 8 inch distance.
wait... you mean make government more efficient by making everyone fill out everything in duplicate? :)
Wait until you hit 40. I wonder if my old eyes could even focus the HUD at all.
IIRC, they were going to keep LearnBoost running but without continued development on it. I wonder what the acquisition means for LearnBoost though - did Automattic acquire that as well, and if so, what will they do with it?
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Like all inexpensive ssl certs, the only guarantee of identity is "domain validation" -if you can read mail going to webmaster@, hostmaster@, Postmaster@, or the email address in a Whois lookup for the domain in question, they'll provide you with a signed key for that domain.

There are higher levels of validation - "business validation" usually involves faxing someone copies of various government supplied paperwork and receiving phone calls on publicly available phone numbers (which is just "outsourcing the identity guarantee" to yellow pages or Dun and Bradstreet.) "EV" validation ( for "green address bar as well as padlock icon" security requires all that plus spending lots of money.
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Think of it as a sort of QoS for FOIA requests. The offices that have to deal with FOIA requests have finite resources, and each individual filing requests should get a fair share of those resources, especially if they aren't filing requests that are going to ever generate useful results (e.g, the crackpots BWStearns refers to).
Yes, it's also now on the Verge (they were slow):

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769658/stanford-scientist...
is supposed to take at most 6ms. Thus the requirement for 4S or later iOS devices.

I don't follow the causation between the first and second sentences. Are iPhone 4 not fast enough or do they lack the proper BlueTooth technology?
Without SNI, SSL works on an IP address level rather than a hostname level, just like HTTP/1.0 worked at the IP address level and HTTP/1.1 works at the hostname level with the Host header.

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication for more info.
It's funny... for all the hate that gets heaped on Java, you can't deny that it "just works" and works damn well for quite a few use cases. In the past, it was popular to suggest that Java was popular only because of the money Sun spent on marketing, but I don't think that was ever entirely true. Java isn't the best language in probably any single regard... but it hits a real nice sweet spot of "good enough" in enough areas, that it's earned it's popularity and endurance.

Now you kids get off my lawn!
Follow some of the top-end OpenGL developers on Twitter sometime; you'll change your tune quickly.

There's a significant amount of overhead in the existing OpenGL API, which currently can only be mitigated somewhat through vendor-specific extensions. But extensions alone aren't sufficient to address some of the serious issues that the OpenGL API has today.

OpenGL forces you to maintain a tremendous amount of state information that significantly increases overhead.

John Carmack and many others have explicitly mentioned this in past discussions.

While I'm horrified at the idea of revisiting the days of 3DFX glide and installing my own client ICD into a game driectory, if Mantle drives the OpenGL ARB to start seriously addressing those issues and increases competition, then I'm all for it.
Update: Normal work drained the battery to 10% in a little over 2 hours. This included having Visual Studio running, 10+ browser tabs, some chat Windows, PowerPoint, PowerShell, Steam downloading stuff, LINQPad
See also Matt's recent post on the relaunch of Simplenote:

http://ma.tt/2013/09/on-the-new-simplenote/
Keep in mind one of the categories on this list is "Needs to be Assigned to a Permanent Fee Coordinator". In other words, they're free to file FOIA requests, they're just filing enough of them (and consuming enough resources in the process) that they've got an account with the office to handle those fees. I strongly suspect this is the category Gawker has fallen into.
Benchmarking HipHopVM against PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu 12.04
There is absolutely no hyperbole found in the title of this article, promise.
Building the tools to build the Internet of Things
I'm completely unaware of the VLC shuffle issue, but a surprising number of media players implement "shuffle" in non-obvious ways. Some shuffle your playlist and always play through it in that order (over and over again, if you've put it on repeat), others grab a random track only when the "play next" event happens, others will shuffle on the "play last" action as well as "play next", .etc

Just because something seems intuitive doesn't mean all developers will implement it the same way.
People from the Emirates, Etihad, or Qatar, and those who have vacationed/worked there also visit this board, and are no doubt not happy about this being pointed out. Even just visiting a place makes you feel connected to it, and angry when something like this is pointed out. Like I said, I don't expect saying things like this to make me popular. Still, the more people are willing to be unpopular, the more chance there is for change.
iBeacon is done with BlueTooth LE. I'm curious as to whether or not Apple is to cripple this like the rest of their protocols by making it an Apple only, closed protocol. They seem to constantly cut their own throat with their fear of competition. It's especially annoying when they base these proprietary protocols on perfectly good open protocols (iMessage,iBooks,FaceTime/XMPP,EPub,SIP). As a developer I find it amazing that other software developers will even consider their products.
Then pethaps the parent post could have read 'A LOT... to me' because it sure sounded to me like it was generalizing.

I also view parental controls as contrived and harmful, and dont use them personally, but I'm certainly not going to critise someone else for doing so.

However, I honestly doubt that parental controls will have any significant impact, generally, on the viability of the steam boxes.
Sounds like a reinvention of Pubsubhubbub anyway.
That review doesn't refute a any of Hiutchens' points. In the question of association with unsavory characters, the reply is to accuse him of having done the same, which might have made him an hypocrite but doesn't refute his claim.

On the matter of convincing the victims to forgive their aggressor, they confirm what he says.

As for the Albania issue, they cling to an incorrect but completely irrelevant historical fact he gets wrong, avoiding having to deal with the actual point, which is whether Mother Teresa actually supported it or not.

I don't know if Hitchens was right, but if the best her supporters can come up with is a reply filled with deceit and red herrings, I'm starting to think maybe he was on to something.

What is the most telling is the response to Hitchens from the order she founded, on hearing about his death.

That's the same reply any Catholic organization gives whenever someone dies, except maybe for cruel dictators. I'm not criticizing it, but it tells us absolutely nothing.
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Congrats on the release!

Can you give any high level updates on the VLC for Window 8 effort? I've been following the Kickstarter updates and know it's been more difficult than expected, just wondering if there's any new news.
YouTube launches library of royalty free music
In-game app fees face OFT [uk] consumer protection crackdown
Yes, we're almost near porting the core: http://people.videolan.org/~funman/win/wack.xml
Will this fill the void of CSS frameworks for rapid WebApp development?

Bootstrap is fine, but even in Responsive mode it is not made for developing sound application interfaces on the mobile form factors. The grid adjusts, but the elements do not do a good job of resizing for touch over mouse use.

RatchetUI (http://maker.github.io/ratchet/) seems to be the best hat in the ring currently (one of the lead devs is one of the guys from Bootstrap and another is from Zurb); but the commitment to project leads me to believe even the founders aren't sure what they want out of it.
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Iran. Crippling economic sanctions and concerted isolation.
Awesome! Great to hear, and thanks for the quick response.
Thanks for the breakdown. VLC is my primary but maybe now I'll even be able to uninstall mplayer and the others!