skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I've actually been thinking about this a bit as well.

I think you can just avoid the torrent file completely and use a merkle tree hash like how new torrent files work and then you end up with just one torrent file per file. And have peer acquisition work through DHT

Directories would be simple and just a matter of creating a new "file" with hashes and names of the contents like how git directories (extending on this you can have a version control system like git).

A noticeable change is that each individual file is uniquely shared. This I believe is both a feature (avoiding duplicate torrents for the same file) as well as means that anyone can see whos downloading a file a solution would be another key hash which causes the dht id to be hashed again to allow individual darknets.
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In Japanese magical girl shows you get the same issue in reverse: they're very careful to make the show as girly as possible with very few male characters (often none at all), because once again advertisers want a segmented audience. E.g. after Heartcatch Pretty Cure took a more serious tone and acquired a periphery demographic the next two series were made deliberately more girly and lost the dramatic arcs.
No mention of Orson Welles? Citizen Kane is the first thing you'll be asked to watch in any half-decent film course. Also you can't think of the evolution of cinema without mentioning Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Murnau, Dziga Vertov ("Man with a Movie Camera")...

And it's quite debatable whether Kieslowski belongs to this list, something you're clearly aware of... or you wouldn't have put a note in to justify yourself ;)
UK "Porn filter" to block proxies, anonymizers etc.
For me that depends on how you define MOOC. I think that there is great scope for teaching the rote learning parts of the curriculum using online resources. Khan Academy have been doing some really interesting trials with schools along these lines.

In the next few years I think we will see more schools move towards a model where they have content primarily delivered through digital media and a teacher's role becomes more like that of a surgeon; fixing individual student's mistakes in their conceptual models.
OK. But to fill in the form I have to give HTML names which may not (and most likely won't) have anything to do with what the user experiences. This is very much unlike Helium's approach.
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There was a bug in the (Windows, 1.3.something) JVM around 2003 where if you had more than 1024 files open (eg initialized the velocity templating engine on each request as a random example) then it would delete any subsequent files it opened.

Needless to say that was a bugger to debug. We didn't believe what was happening until we literally saw a jar disappear before our eyes.

Sun fixed the problem pretty quickly!
What excellent docs, I don't think I've ever read all the release notes like that. I'm wooed, gonna install this on something.
Here are the torrents: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

x86_64 DVD: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-20-x86_64-D...

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:724bcc8a53b854daa844e6bc204b95124a1074d6&dn=Fedora-20-x86%5F64-DVD&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.fedoraproject.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

i386 DVD: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-20-i386-DVD...

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d6d123d9a9b108971ecb09ca6593d2593cd564a4&dn=Fedora-20-i386-DVD&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.fedoraproject.org%3A6969%2Fannounce
Nice job. Is it a problem with the state of webdev that the thing I was most impressed by was that your website didn't break my back button? Seriously, good work.
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> they distributed unix source code without giving away the rights, then took them back

I always found it ironic (or perhaps subversive, not sure which) that the guys in the Unix room later based 8th Edition Research Unix on 4.1cBSD.
I'm gonna be That Other Other Guy and say....stuff like this is the reason why most programmers I meet take ages to do anything custom. Evey body uses this framework and that library and make bulky code that could actually be implemented with 2 far more efficient lines and will struggle when the need to customize presents itself. Learn Regex...you will have a crazy powerful weapon in your arsenal.
The time regex is, too. In German you can expect to encounter the text fragment

> um 6:00 am 05.12. (at 6:00 on 12/05/..)

If i read it correctly, the time regex would extract "6:00 am" as time, but the "am" is wrong (German uses 24h format).
A couple of years ago, Event Sourcing / CQRS was a really hot topic in the DDD enterprise world, especially within the .NET community:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554200.aspx

http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2010/02/13/cqrs-and-event-so...

http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/2011/05/why-i-still-love-cqrs...

http://vimeo.com/28457510

LinkedIn's approach sounds fairly similar in a lot of ways.
The Eight Hours Monument stands opposite the Trades Hall in Melbourne: http://www.thecollectormm.com.au/gallery/photography/City/sl...
> Quirky, a web company is working on an experiment to shut down operations for four weeks every year

He may want to see how this experiment worked in Italy for the last 50 years. Most companies completely shut down in August for a few weeks.
Even those which want to stay open would do so with nobody else to interact with so they close too.
Beautiful read! Reminds me of last years Toyota with a similar 'issue' ;-)
Most companies don't run data centers.

Most companies don't build transistors. Just sayn'
Tweet-for-license is working well so far, we'll see how it goes. And the required tweet "Trying #helium web automation (heliumhq.com)" is imho really not that much of a compliment. But obviously, we want something in return for giving away free(!) licenses.

I can see your point of creating a "vacuum". Since we are giving away licenses for free now, the challenge will be to not let such a vacuum happen, yet create enough demand for businesses to pay for licenses.

I really don't see us offering a hosted SaaS platform at the moment. I can see the advantages for the subscription model, but we're busy implementing Helium for languages other than Python, so don't have time to set up a platform. It's just not our core competency.
One thing you don't get from that first photo is that they're sitting round a green baize table. Like poker players.
Great to see Opera back on form.
Yes, and yes. It was also a neat collectible card game in the 90s.
In this particular case the kernel binary loader was dropping half the binary on the floor, so code would sometimes work and sometimes not in a way which depended on both the environment and the layout of the compiled binary. I'm not surprised the author ended up randomly futzing with things to see if they could find a reliable cause! (This error could have come straight out of the logout; essay that was linked on HN a week or two ago: "I have no tools because I broke my tools with my tools!") Personally I think the reason she was emphasising that changing these things made a difference was because it was so surprising.

Now in your infinite and sagacious wisdom you've told us all how she should obviously have been able to debug this problem in a trice using your superior methods. Me, I'm happy to cut her some slack, and recognise that systems development can be a complete nightmare!
I can see the attraction of JetBrains' style of license. We'll look into this.

It's not our first foray into licensing and we actually have offered a "floating" licensing scheme which seems to be what JetBrains offer before. We just have not implemented (=coded) such a scheme yet for Helium.
Both John Adams and Benjamin Franklin appear to have believed in the "Blackstone's formulation":

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation

Do you have a citation for who said your quote - I'm not an American but that really doesn't sound like something one of their founders would have said (of course, I could well be wrong!).
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The info wars have begun. No surprise that GB is the first country, they don't even have a Constitution.
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a number of jurisdictions don't recognise "sweat of the brow"

A number of juristicions do though. Including (maybe) the UK.
Also note, this is the first Distro (that I know of) that is resolution-independent out of the box -- thanks to Gnome 3.10.

Retina and retina-like users rejoice!
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>That said, we still can't really agree on cooperating unless you believe in private personal residences.

Does anyone not believe in a right to personal possessions? I mean, honestly, do you really think there are unreconstructed Bolsheviks and kibbutznikim around?
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The United Kingdom constitution is embodied in many written documents, not just one.
When I think of streaming my first thought is that this is a cloud service that processes audio and video in real-time. But none of the example use cases mention that is a possibility. I'd love the ability to stream and convert audio then forward converted files to S3 in a simple way.

Currently it involves running an EC2 instance which only converts after the audio is received in full. Then when it's done, transferring it to S3 is... slow.
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While on the topic, does any one have a good strategy for building the gstreamer-bad/ugly plugins on Fedora? I don't like the rpmfusion repository as it always seems to mess up the system sooner or later.
In my experience, comments are moving from Facebook to apps such as whatsapp.
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The price of which is regulated. It's still considered high by the ISPs that rent it.
The Register is a fucking awful source. This incomprehensible story mixes up several things. That's a shame, because the UK filter system and proposals are important enough to warrant careful scrutiny and write ups - allowing people to protest against what's actually happening rather than what some garbled turd of an article suggests.

1) This is voluntary - but is opt-out.

2) It will be on by default for new users, but not for existing users.

3) Some sites are blocked because court orders require them to be blocked. You cannot opt out of those blocks, although you can access those sites via proxies etc.

HN would be better without articles from the Register.
It's much easier to realise the perfect debugging strategy with the benefit of hindsight!
When dealing with this general problem, the proper tool would more likely be language/culture detection + Named-Entity Recognition.

Simple regular expressions can be good enough if you're aware of the domain restriction though.
Any idea where to find a good designer co-founder?
I have finished code of my startup idea few months ago and currently I am still stuck cause my crappy web design skills.
It's not much of a war when you can opt out of the filter.
It's quite an audacious release note. As if millions of users are suddenly going to forget about cat, head, tail, more, less, grep, awk, sed, fmt, etc. etc. that are only still useful if you learn how to journalctl and convert those binary logs back into plain text.

I'd like to install Fedora 20 and use it as my main desktop, but both systemd and journald will somehow have to be avoided and worked around because I don't want to touch those with a ten foot pole.

As far as mainstream Linux distributions go, it's like choosing between 2 evils nowadays:

* Ubuntu: decent base system, lousy desktop

* Fedora: lousy base system, decent desktop

The former is almost fixed by Elementary OS, but the latter I'm still looking for a spin or derivative that fixes it. What attracts me most to these mainstream distributions is the vast amount of available packages and their ease of maintenance.
That seems a bit inefficient to me, you'd end up with both binary and textual log files.
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The foundation of the UK's unwritten constitution is that you may do anything that is not prohibited by law. You do not need someone's permission to exercise your free will - your freedoms are not "granted" but fundamental. A lot of people misunderstand that.

Having said that we do see such freedoms being eroded (particularly over the last 20 years) by the "something must be done" style of legislation that now seeks in curb activities that are disapproved of by the establishment.
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> And this does not look better or easier than PHP: https://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts

That has tracebacks on error and HTML escaping, so I'd say it's considerably better for a tiny increase in difficulty (but you're right that no matter now tiny the difference, PHP is still easier)
Thanks for those links. I was convinced otherwise.
I still have to pay a monthly "line rental" for a phone number that I don't use, in order to pay someone else for ADSL broadband. I didn't know (until seeing the various replies to this post) that it could be someone other than BT.
Phona data? Who uses phone calls these days... :)
It was obviously sarcasm. The style, the connotation, the number (?! which is preposterous).

I guess the old adage about sarcasm being indistinguishable from regular internet posts.
Also works for me, Chrome 31, Linux.
you might need to look into http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ if it can satisfy your use-case
Why not grab the SRPM and just rebuild it yourself?
You can't opt out of all the filters. First they came for the child porn...
One day our soul will be quantified !

For the better : if you quantify you can improve.

And for the worse : The NSA will spy our soul :-) (oups, it is already the case...)
I think he meant it facetiously.
> people not suspected of a crime walking on a public street.

But they are suspected of a crime, because of their demographic category.

I should have explained the thought experiment more: Suppose future sociologists identify some identifiable cluster of traits that corresponds with a 99.9% likelihood of committing a mugging on any given day--if you see someone with these traits, it's overwhelmingly likely that they've either just mugged someone, or they're just about to mug someone.

With that level of certainty, you're either in favor of unreasonably searching them and seizing their mugging weapons (or some other intrusive measure like constant monitoring), or you're in favor of unnecessary muggings.

The reason this is a thought experiment is that no real-world identifiable group is that likely to commit crimes. But there is a measurable likelihood ratio, even if treating everyone equally is more important than it.
I can, however, again, it's a pretty poor direction that only serves to fragment systems. Many of the complaints that drove the creation of journald could have been better solved through a better default syslogd configuration. Additionally, the journald solution for needs such as remote logging or logging to multiple locations means that you now need to pipe through a process that has a near sole job of piping to another process. It just gives a very bad feeling of hackishness to me.
Thanks.. fastmail.fm is pretty good
The main discussion is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6918174 (arstechnica.com)

There were three submissions made with no discussion before that one finally got some traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917604 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6915290 (theregister.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6914280 (theregister.co.uk)
For a while now I've had the feeling that I should stop watching Hacker News, and other online time suckers.
I made this. It's a little bit like the program discussed here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879667

This lets you use a web browser (or multiple browsers) to view the current output of a command, updating in real time. An old-school idea with a new twist.
Use YAML instead of Javascript to write linkedin/hopscotch introductions.
They might be, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the full legal power to pull the plug on this and that nobody else on the list has that.
I don't usually have the need to check syslog in my desktop, unless I'm doing development, and in that case I will install syslog-ng (and systemctl enable syslog-ng). Not a big deal.

As for servers, I wouldn't use Fedora. Each release is supported for only 13 months and upgrades are not as seamless as in Debian.

So for me Fedora is a very decent desktop if you want the new shinies with ease of use. Most of the time works and it's great (even with the "Gnome 3 surprise factor", that keep _breaking_ things every now and then).
How many visitors you'll need to have to make some sense out of their behaviour?
> From what I can tell that's a lot more than the global supply.

Where are you getting that from? Wikipedia says 17,000 nukes (4,100 active), and IIRC modern weapons tend to have ~30x the energy of the one that was dropped on Hiroshima.
There was a time when TED talks were mostly academics squeezing their usual hour long presentation into 20 minutes by simply talking really really fast. Those were fun.

After the first couple of ones that were public and on the internet, the usual self-promoting psychobabble-spouting androids moved in and now it's entirely worthless. Someone spins 30 seconds worth of insight out for half an hour, and you still somehow feel stupider when you've finished watching it.

In one of the recent Gladwell threads, someone on here coined the phrase "insight porn". TED is basically insight dogging.

EDIT: to be fair, if TED is insight dogging, this place is a sticky floored insight dungeon in some godforsaken soho basement...
Looks really nice! How jarring are non flat designed windows such as chrome/evolution etc? Do they look a bit "too" ill fitting?
Mars really doesn't seem that bad; it's just too cold and you can't breathe the air.
The audio file must exist somewhere, it offers no live audio support. So the bottleneck would be at the beginning rather than the end.
Well used PayPal as payment option. Seems to be the easiest.
Here's the browser compatibility info: http://caniuse.com/css-animation
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Of course, nothing unconstitutional ever happens in the US tech/intelligence sector, does it?
I submit that Astrophysics run on the model of American Idol is a recipe for civilizational disaster.

In other news, Zuckerberg and others launch a new $3 million Breakthrough Prize stating, "The Breakthrough Prize is our effort to put the spotlight on these amazing heroes. Their work in physics and genetics, cosmology, neurology and mathematics will change lives for generations and we are excited to celebrate them"

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2014-breakthrough-pr...

So... yeah we're already there in some sense for better or worse.
Well, that's a nice feature, but as you bring it up, deep linking isn't possible ;-) There are various techniques to enable it though, pushState(), hash fragments etc.
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Oops - my sarcasm detector failed to fire.

BTW You may be thinking of Poe's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

"Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
I always have rpmfusion (http://rpmfusion.org/) enabled, and I've never seen it mess up anything.
It is also possible that there are a number of other explanations that nobody has considered. Ruling out shadows doesn't confirm water.
You can do "yum install rsyslog". However I agree that it shouldn't have been removed.
Great article, good naming is powerful but it is damn hard.

Lately, I've been working on a project called Office Garden (officegarden.lu). It's interesting to see how people react to my pitch depending on when I give the app's name.
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You should clarify that this is a TEDx conference (the 'x' is the important part). It's not really "TED" in the truest sense and is just a TED-like conference hosted by a third-party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#TEDx
It sounds exciting but I don't fully get what this is good for.
It sounds like a stream (of "records") on this would be the equivalent of a queue and messages in Amazon SQS? only Kinesis is lower latency and billing is both capacity-based and quantity-based rather than only quantity-based in SQS?
Prizes are also essentially worthless to promote science, people need money from the beginning to do science, if they don't, then there isn't going to be anything to receive the prize for.
The Register tends to use a distinctly UK style of criticism - much like Private Eye at times. It tends not to translate particularly well to no-UK readers who think it is just being frivilous or outrageously sensationalist.

However, there is a serious point here. This 'filter' is being sold as protecting everyone (expecially the children) by most reporting sources. The Register has done some more in-depth analysis and found that far from simply blocking porn (which some people do want) it blocks additional legitimately use-able systems like proxies and anonimizers which were not mentioned in the original debate and show a distinct 'creep' in the implementation.

It is not clear you can actually use proxies to access blocked IPs as the whole point of the filtering is to stop access to proxies (as well as porn). This is the creep and the point I submitted the article.

I'm not sure what an 'infowar' is (I've not google'd that yet) so I'm not sure if that is a real thing or not. But feature creep and ever increasing control of internet (and hence information) access is real and something which should be discussed and debated much more intelligently and maturely than it is currently being.
I agreed with a lot of what the article said , but then the author seems to go full-TED-bullshit-buzzword towards the end with little evidence or citation and falls into the pseudo-intellectual knowledge-lite trap that he's criticising:

> Part of my work explores deep technocultural shifts, from post-humanism to the post-anthropocene, but TED’s version has too much faith in technology, and not nearly enough commitment to technology. It is placebo technoradicalism, toying with risk so as to re-affirm the comfortable.

> The most recent centuries have seen extraordinary accomplishments in improving quality of life. The paradox is that the system we have now --whatever you want to call it-- is in the short term what makes the amazing new technologies possible, but in the long run it is also what suppresses their full flowering. Another economic architecture is prerequisite.

> The potential for these technologies are both wonderful and horrifying at the same time, and to make them serve good futures, design as "innovation” just isn’t a strong enough idea by itself. We need to talk more about design as “immunization,” actively preventing certain potential “innovations” that we do not want from happening.
Previous discussion & article about why you just shouldn't bother with email regexes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763327
Unfortunately very CPU intense, compared to SVG-based indicators
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