skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused, 3 comments above this you say he is proving their point because the majority of people can't break the DRM but instead get a version that has already had the DRM removed.

"Their point" to reiterate was "Realistically, DRM keeps the majority of users from pirating content".

Yet then right here you say "I don't believe that anyone thinks DRM effectively protects content, even the companies employing it."

Which is the exact opposite of the point they are making....
good luck trying :)
Is Elon's claim, "the effective combustion potential is only about 1% that of the fuel in a comparable gasoline sedan", accurate?

AFAIK, all the Lithium Ion Battery electrolytes are flammable (they are pressurized in the battery container too). Depending on the chemistry of the Lithium-ion battery that Model S uses, some (I.E. LFP) are safer than the others, but still, 1% potential?

EVs like Chevy Volt, Fisker Karma and even Boeing 787 Dreamliner and UPS/FedEx freight flights had been caught Lithium fires in air before.
SNMP is dead
Obamacare’s web site is really bad
I might try for 30 minutes, but maybe I'm just stubborn.
A market cap after n years is something different from a valuation derived from venture capital raised in prior years. Such a difference is precisely what makes for a good investment.

Salesforce revenue in the year of their IPO: $96M. IPO: $110M

MongoDB revenue last year: $36M [1]

[1] http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Data_Vendor_Revenue_and_Market...
Because then they can't control the toolset like they do currently. Or anything else, really.
I feel like you've just invoked Godwin's Law, and yet in this case the comparison actually seems apt...
There's already a pretty well known monitoring-related project called Bucky.

https://github.com/cloudant/bucky
Looks like the NSA invoked the HN.RemoveArticle method.
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The JetBrains guys build incredible products and have a wide range of products all of which seem to be updated on a very regular basis, they are some intimidatingly efficient developers :).
It does if you think having an iPhone without a Maps app by default is unacceptable.
Ah, that chart on the bottom is on a log scale. I wasn't expecting that... and if I didn't look closer I would have completely misinterpreted it (for example, it appears that the DoD is mostly shut down).
>So we run BGP [Border Gateway Protocol] all the way to the top of the rack. A lot of the big guys are doing that now – Microsoft, Google

Can a more knowledgeable person please explain what he means by that? I was under the impression that BGP was only for inter-ISP (or "Autonomous Network") connections, and that its slower than spanning tree.
Whenever I get stuck on a problem, I try to clear my head. That usually involves tackling another task, getting some fresh air, or just going home.

I noticed that going home early and tackling the problem early the next morning helps more than the 2-3 hours I spent with no success.
It's the percentage of time that the government was functioning for the last year. So, if they are "down" for 36.5 days, their service level for last year would be 90%.
> Do you want to live in a world where buying a simple OTC sleep pill at Walgreen's exposes you to the risk of ingesting heroin or some other decidedly narcotic substance?

I'd prefer to live in a world where I could choose to use any medicine I wish to use.

It's the liberty/security thing all over again. I prefer the insecurity of liberty to the security of having an overseer. My opinion has always been in the minority through all of history, btw.
I thought the wiki article was a good read and (as almost always when I read wikipedia) I learned some things I didn't know before. I was just confused at to to it's presence on the home page. Thank you for clearing that up.
And: warrents -> warrants
Shuttle Launch Detected.
But how many of those users would need to use NVIDIA's drivers? As I understand it, the benefit of NVIDIA's drivers over Noueveau is performance, not basic hardware support. If all you need is many monitors for web browsers, then you should not have a problem using Noueveau.
Thanks for finding that, not sure how I missed it. The language regarding orderly shutdown can be found in FN 12 on page 9.
So a truck driver who couldn't be bothered to secure his fucking load just cost Tesla shareholders $1b+?
NSA still working. Damn.
iOS is starting to regain marketshare from Android. Now that Apple is making serious downmarket moves with the 5C, it may soon be time to rethink whether Android was ultimately successful at competing with Apple.

Within two years, non-iPhone smartphones will be niche players with partisan user bases, but the bulk of mobile development will be once again for iOS.
Certainly, many would. Would as many though?
I don't necessarily see anything unethical about offering short term, quick turnaround loans. Or is there some part of their business practise that makes them shady?
I was not aware of this, thank you for informing me. Do you know if this is like Facebook+Spotify (and only a couple other FB apps that can use password) or is it much wider-spread in the Twitter ecosystem?
not sure why drivebyacct2 is dead, but his comment was useful

> UEFI+SecureBoot can be implemented on ARM devices. And already is in almost every case, it just isn't turned on except for, as an example, most Verizon/ATT variants of phones.
It took me a sec too. It's a confusing application, since the intent is to compare to adjacent rows.. the first one for example is "half furloughed" but only a slightly smaller red line. Visually confusing.
Feature request: hover pop ups explaining what each of the acronyms mean.
Shhhh, there is more to come ;)

We use Harp to power our development platform that has Dropbox integration. It is currently in public Beta and I'll definitely be talking about it in the future.

There is no mention of it in my article because we didn't want our business to get in the way of the open source initiative. We believe in Tim O'Reilly's guidance "Create More Value Than You Capture".
At least as good as Adsense for me, but payments outside of US are horrifically slow. It can take even up to 4 months to receive the checks. It's like Amazon has never updated their affiliate program since they started it a decade ago.
No, jittery shareholders transferred $1b+ to their less anxious peers.
Microsoft Earned $1.51 Billion From Android Smartphone in Q2 2013
Maybe speculative, short-term shareholders.
It's too bad the http://www.usdebtclock.org/ isn't updated for Furlough, it would show some pretty happy numbers right now.
Interesting. I wonder if non-virtual credit numbers are patented (i.e. the very idea of credit cards)? I'm sure I could look that up, but too lazy.

Pretty ridiculous though.

On a related note, I just came across this:

http://storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/the-big-three-cr...

>Visa, MasterCard and American Express proposed new global standards to replace traditional account numbers with a digital payment “token” for online and mobile transactions.

So, either they are licensing it from Orbiscom, ignoring the patent, or it doesn't apply here.

In any case, it's good news. Looks like some semblance of virtual numbers will return on a standardized, more global basis.
Ask HN: I want to detect when arbitrary things come into a video stream
I have seen some javascript implementations of 'object detectors' but they all seem to be limited to just faces or hands or some specific type of gesture.

Is there anyway I can just show "it" say.. some little statue I made when I was a kid and have "it" tell me if it's in an video? I want to basically: have a video stream loaded (for example, the webcam on my laptop) and then, if some _thing_ that I have predefined comes into the video, then do something with it.. basically make an HTTP call to some other service I have written.

Is there any "it" that can help me do this?
How is it apt? If the genuine national security aims pursued by the NSA can be aptly compared to those of the Gestapo, we're well past the point where it makes any difference exactly what techniques they're using to achieve those aims. If their aims are more reasonable, then, again, what's wrong with a spy agency trying to spy?

In other words, the U.S.A.'s national security interests bear little resemblance to those of Nazi Germany (I can't believe I have to type that).
I misstated that.

For whatever reason, that community generally believes that it's a liability to have the drugs sent to a false address or PO Box. I think they're relying on being able to plausibly deny that the drugs were mailed to their house by mistake, which doesn't hold up if you're observed collecting drugs from some other location.

Regarding your question about the mailbox services, I don't think there is any mailbox service that escapes the reaches of the DEA. I've actually been wondering what the next evolution of the Silk Road would look like if law enforcement decides to target the mail. I think this is interesting because whatever method the SR community works out has the potential to lower the cost of fairly normal economic behavior in totalitarian regimes by introducing the threat of a cheap black market, thereby undermining the government's power to tax. It will be fascinating to see mechanisms and effects of a technologically coordinated black market, delivery and all.
Dividend paying stocks outperform non-dividend payers over time, so you're on the right track. Giving the owners their money back keeps mature firms from wasting it. (This is very different from high growth firms who have a high cost of capital)

The upside on buying shares back is that it doesn't force people to reinvest in the company - it just shrinks the ownership base as the company shrinks.

The OP deserves the credit. He did the harder thinking.
The Cloud Platform Support team is here to help
Why would anyone want to live in SF with that kind of prices is beyond me.
Author here. That's more or less how I define it. "stuck" means "completely stuck," as in "no forward progress."

More importantly, by the time a person realizes they're going in circles, they've actually been going in circles for probably twice as long.
tptacek, I'm not sure I understand: do these new revelations really indicate indie developers don't have a fighting chance against Iran?

U.S. - absolutely, no fighting chance.

China - chances look slim.

Iran, Belarus - are you familiar with the technical achievements of their NSA equivalents, and so came to the conclusion they're likely as good as the NSA? Or maybe what the NSA did is just generally easy to do in your opinion?
Actually myself, a combination of OpenVZ + prebuilt VMs for each of the OpenShift components needed, would be perfect.

Then I could run it on the free ProxMox, which has built in clustering for up to 16 hardware nodes.

Given how powerful today's servers are, and how much RAM they can hold, you could spend $200K on hardware(about $10K per server with 256GB RAM, plus Infiniband switches and cabling) and have an amazing PaaS setup to offer (or use for yourself).
Microsoft existed long before Windows, if they make Windows a perpetual requirement it will be their ultimate downfall.
I see no valid reason why the expected price should be higher in the case of a purchase for digital data. As was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6496579 the main reason why rent price is lower for physical goods, is because it's based on reusability of the object. The reason to limit the time of using it is pretty straightforward as well - to allow the next user gain an access to the object.

All these reasons have completely no application to digital goods. So what's the point in renting them, or making the purchase price any higher? I see none, except someone's potential greed may be.

You can say, that renting an object more often produces more profit, in case when one time fee is charged for each renting, so that's the reason for the time limit. But then again, this is only valid when the resource is limited (physical object), and each user prevents others from renting it. In case of the digitial data which costs nothing to duplicate, the resource is unlimited, so this reason doesn't apply. And if we are talking about the same user renting it again and again, then what's the point? Purchase makes more sense again.

The bottom line, I think that renting of digital goods is a pointless idea. And since as we see it causes DRM in result - it's a bad idea too.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss weird behavior with submissions. Would you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008267
It's easy to forget how far Apple had already come by this point. I re-discovered this super-insulting dude asking an obnoxious question to Steve at WWDC 1997: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497475
Extending JavaScript Natives
>The most interesting thing about Melatonin isn't that it makes you drowsy or helps you sleep, it's that it increases the _desire_ for sleep.

Exactly! After having tried almost all Hypnotics/Sedatives for a sleep disorder that has lasted better part of a decade, it was so refreshing to find something that:

Doesn't have any hangover,

Doesn't make you feel more crappy if you are unable to go to sleep after taking it. The headache/light-headedness that follows if you don't sleep after taking other sedatives/hypnotics is generally very annoying and sometimes even unbearable.

The quality of sleep is much better too. No nightmares as such. More dreaming, yes, but that may be just because of better sleep quality.
The prices are because so many people want to live in SF.
> But how many of those users would need to use NVIDIA's drivers?

That's a good point; I cannot say. Perhaps they think they are dealing with people who think 3D performance is necessary, or dealing with people (IT organizations?) that prefer 1st party drivers to hardware savings.

I don't think Microsoft is really involved in this though.
Wasn't there some controversy about Elon saying the Dreamliner specifically didn't have the right kind of firewalls/compartmentalization and that Tesla could help them?
So you mean if you make use of other's "intellectual property", you derive no benefit from it? If not, why do you make use of it? Maybe there's a reason we as a society have accepted the concept of Intellectual Property

Also: if you don't make use of it, why do you care what they do to protect it? Firefox and Chrome are open source, and as the refrain goes, you can always remove any DRM bits you don't like and use that.
Indeed there are some serious issues with Twitch in Europe. For about a year streams were crystal clear with no issues. Then they started to mess with stream qualities, I guess they had to do some interesting optimizations in order to deal with increasing userbase.
So since this summer I've only been able to watch streams on highest quality a couple of times. Problem with second highest quality is that whenever there's movement in-game, stream looks pixelated, some games look especially bad:
[ARMA: DayZ on Twitch High quality] http://imgur.com/a/x2Ahr

Another interesting thing is that even if stream lags on highest quality, I'm still able launch multiple concurrent streams of second highest quality and none of them lag (I launched 5 streams, after which CPU usage maxes out, so I didn't try more). But watching a SINGLE stream on highest quality? Nop, not going to happen, while audio is fine, video stutters every 5-10sec, freezes for 2sec, rinse&repeat.
2005, interesting
Like BOFI?
I have some experience here. With Nouveau, XRandr works out of the box -- great if you have one card. With the proprietary driver, no such luck (last I checked). On the other hand, my workstation has two cards, and XRandr is not up to the task; it was back to Xinerama and playing with xorg.conf.
Yes, I would. You probably know less than you think you do about what the people running HN are doing/trying to do.
Now if only they make it crouch down and wiggle its ass before pouncing on something/one, it'll be perfect.
This is exactly what I was going to recommend. Maybe a sentence or two describing what the department does as well. I'm sure most non-Americans (and even most Americans) don't know what the DOI does, for example.
Except that Windows Phone is currently doing very well in some regions. For instance, in the largest European economies they currently have 10% of the smartphone sales. And quarter over quarter growth is good. It's only a small chunk of the pie, but numbers that start to matter. For reference, the share of the iPhone in these economies is currently around 16%.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-cellphones-euro...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa...
I haven't seen the debris but it could have been part of the trailer itself. Not that it makes it any better. Things should not be falling off of trucks. Just saying that it might have been a maintenance issue or some kind of freak accident.

That being said, If that part had punctured a gas tank of a petrol vehicle the damage could've been explosive or caused a fire also.

I like how they have calculated how this happened because that most likely means in the next revision they may improve the skid plate or the battery wall to protect it from such things. Or recall them and retrofit, if needed. They aren't being mysterious like I've seen from other auto manufacturers. But then again, not every company dives in $1B in worth after a car has an accident.
Lego Adventure Time BMO Raspberry Pi Video Playback
Google doesn't really make Windows Phone apps though, why would they make SamsungOS apps?
Nice dashboard :) Out of curiosity, where did you get the data re: who is furloughed from which departments? I have been working on a similar data graphic but had to collect that data in a Google Doc by hand with a couple colleagues from the OMB's list of contingency plans. I'd be curious to compare my data with yours.

FWIW I'm working on visualizing it with a treemap instead of bar charts - my progress is here but still has lots of design work left to do:

https://github.com/dandelany/shutdown2013

http://cognitiveharmony.net/experiments/shutdown2013/
I don't know. ATI has been "playing nice with the Linux community" for several years now, and their free drivers still don't approach the performance of the proprietary drivers for most cards (cards 3-4 generations old are starting to perform comparably on both drivers; newer cards are still much slower with the free drivers).

I think it's more about resources -- NVIDIA and ATI have lots of money that they put into driver improvements and maintenance, and the radeon and nouveau maintainers primarily have free time after work, occasionally with one or two full-time contributors. If we are serious about open-source driver platforms, we need to figure out how to allocate comparable resources. Some easily accessible tutorials on 3D driver development would probably be helpful.

Neither company ever plans to see an open-source driver rival their proprietary within a few years of a card's release, despite their "commitments" and "assistance". ATI's officially stated strategy is that they provide documentation so that the OSS drivers can provide basic compatibility and functionality, and that their proprietary driver should be used by anyone who has actual performance needs. They're basically offloading the onerous maintenance of previous generation hardware on the community.

The point is that nvidia is not especially bad. They've graciously given us the only consistently decent video driver on Linux for 10+ years now, despite its closed nature. Let's try not to be too hard on them.
Yes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/boeing-tesla-idUSL...
For an initial stage startup for a mid-level person it actually doesnt sound incredibly off when leaving out equity although it is perhaps on the lower side.
Could you add comma formatting for the mouseover bubble numbers?
Or rather, gave some of us the opportunity to buy more TSLA at a ~$20/share discount.
I have lived north of the circle for most of my life, and the feeling I have is that 13 C in October and having winters where it is more days with around 0 C than -15C is not what most peoples associate with north of the arctic circle. The difference is that we have warm water coming with the Gulf Stream creating a completely different climate compared to other places north of the circle.
> Criminals, by definition, seek to use fraud or force to get their way.

No, criminals, by definition, commit crimes -- violations of criminal law.

> Not all things deemed illegal by the State are crimes by any definition except the State's

Nothing is criminal except in regard to a particular code of law. That's what "criminal" means.

Criminal neither implies, nor is implied by, "morally wrong".
Infinite loops - they'd have to pay themselves royalties...then it gets messy and confusing...
Why You Should Try a Tiling Window Manager
It'd be nice to see a percentage of the Federal government shut down. I heard it's only around 18%.
Ha I know..

"Hey boss, I can't work because it's building!"
"OK, It's done building.. but I can't work because Github is down"!
"Ok Github is back up... but I can't work because StackOverflow is down!"
"Ok StackOverflow is back up.. but it's 5 PM and I only get paid to work 9 to 5!"
Hulk Hogan Launches a Web Hosting Company
Hardware is the new software? Nope, says Marc Andreessen.
What if it's happening on a small scale many times over? Thousands of links, posted to forums in all kinds of languages.

And we're both assuming that the people running those mirrors won't work out a way to disable the watermarks in real time. I've not read up on digital watermarking technology, but it's hard to imagine that it's bulletproof.
I really don't care about "it would be worse if it were a gasoline powered vehicle". That statement is simply trying to redirect attention. Leave statements like that out of the problem diagnoses and simply concentrate on what went right.

Otherwise it looks like making excuses and that is bad.
Seems you knew about the the YC company-related submissions being boosted. What makes you think nothing strange is happening to any other submissions?
In contrast, the combustion energy of our battery pack is only
about 10% of the energy contained in a gasoline tank and is
divided into 16 modules with firewalls in between. As a
consequence, the effective combustion potential is only about
1% that of the fuel in a comparable gasoline sedan.

It seems he's dividing that 10% by 16 and rounding up based on his confidence (presented confidence or real confidence I don't know) in the firewalls.
Weird, I coulda sworn I talked to people on my iPhone 3GS. I guess I was hallucinating.
The eBook Copyright Page is Broken
Well, I'm gonna try to hang on to it; it's what my parents used when I was growing up.
>predator/herd dichotomy creates a needless dichotomy

"predator" is a role, it is the one who uses force/violence as a tool.

>predators and prey obviously don't agree in the state of nature

exactly. It took about million years of evolution for humans to get to the state where they became able to produce current agreement between predators and prey (i.e. some kind of government and society). Once they did, the humans took over the planet.

>the natural state of our existence is a very bloody anarchy

nope. At least during last hundred thousand of years (and well before), humans (the Cro-Magnon we're as well as other humans) have pretty much always had tribal organization. As you said yourself: "How I tend to view things is that humans are inherently pack animals. " Pack/tribe isn't anarchy. It is first and explicit step away from it.

>See, e.g., the French Revolution.

that isn't natural state. That is exactly what happens when predators transgress beyond the patience limit of the herd and the herd gets angry enough to throw out the agreement. It is also shows that such unnatural for humans situation wouldn't go for long, and the new pack would naturally emerge and the herd would rush into new agreement.