skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I was a bit confused that this is supposed to be new information, I installed StarCraft on my android about a year ago using winulator.

It even supports a bluetooth mouse, (which I went and bought the same day I installed and got working). Works perfectly. like having a '96 gaming PC in your pocket(s)

I even changed the winulator icon to StarCraft icon then went to the pub and pulled the mouse out of my pocket, setup my android and made all my iphone-owning friends $#!^ bricks. Good times.
People to mention "Hollywood" like it's a single entity that can easily decide the fate of everyone in the movie-making business. In reality, there are lots of companies doing lots of different things and with lots of different interests.

The only solution that allows them to compete with pirates is to have one monopolistic mega-corporation that controls all the content, so it can sell it easily without licensing issues. Any new content producers are somehow forced to participate in this corporation. This is even implied by piracy advocates who say "why can't Hollywood just do this"...

But I'm not sure that's really what we want.
That was an exceedingly difficult article to read and understand. I've read a few of these lately - more characters and subplots than a period drama.

I am not sure what the solution to the writing dilemma is - exclude everything but a couple of people central to the story, fill in the rest with sidebars, work in an info-graphic...not sure.
It doesn't require it, but does make the swarm weaker. Some torrent clients allow streaming but it tends to be looked down on by the community.

See here: http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad
How can anybody who values freedom at all think it is a good thing that people can lie about their political opponents without repercussion?

The current system favors entrenched elites who can use their money and media connections to smear opponents.
While I'm reflexively inclined to disagree, one must remember how Einstein's casual pantheistic use of the word was twisted and distorted by others. The word 'god' is so overloaded with meaning that it's best to avoid even when the intent is honorable.

So yes, your rewording is a distinct improvement.
Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope
That technique is patented.
I don't know the details, but a bit torrent client can request arbitrary blocks from its peers. If this wasn't possible, doing things like resuming a partial download, or only downloading a single file from a .torrent that contains many files would be impossible.

I guess this app just requests blocks starting from the beginning of the movie, and once it has enough buffered, it starts playing.
Electronics likes being in a steady thermal state, and mechanical devices like a hard drive have less wear when continuously spinning. It's the spinning up and down that causes a lot of the wear.
This quote conveniently leaves out that the pirate's product doesn't cost the end user any money. When would the pirate's service not be more valuable?
In my limited experience it seems that torrent clients were all trying to migrate towards this and be a media browser first, torrent client second. The end result was user flight to the next upcoming torrent client.

So was this a torrent client to start with?

For the end user how does this compare to websites like stream-tv.me which aggregate links to tv shows? Those links lead to generally poor resolution shows, but not unwatchable. TV resolution with some HD resolution. Have there been cases where content providers go after the users of those sites? (I have a friend who uses them...)
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I'm watching netflix from NZ, bandwidth caps here are killer, netflix scales down to 300kbit and no seeding, so it beats torrenting in a lot of cases for me, but then, I know how to configure a VPN, so I can understand why torrents are super appealing for most.

Also, where is the redbox clone? Quickflix is a joke as a netflix competitor, and there's no redbox clone that I know of. 40GB bandwidth caps? 80 for $100nzd/month? Even piracy is hard at that level.
Look, spin it however you want. The point is. it's not there today.

And as far as Google is confirming, it won't be available any time in the near future.
Popcorn Time fills a void the film industry has neglected. Unless major change is done developers will continue to challenge the legality of piracy.
Incidentally, if you're a decent Perl [on Linux] programmer and work well with teams, my company is hiring in Columbia, Maryland. It's been fairly difficult to find qualified candidates.
Yet Steam is introducing region locks recently as well as region-pricing. I hope they realize they are creating a service problem on their own.
There is nothing to stop a request for a specific block of the data (i.e. one close to the start). It does mean that the network is not as efficient in the case of high demand (As your more likely to have the same chunks as others and rely more on seeder). I'd assume the client (depending on how conscientious it is) just prioritizes filling a buffer and then downloads other parts of the file with any excess bandwidth.
Node-based process manager: nproc
I have a few issues with OVH. In no particular order:

- In summer 2013, they used their customers as beta testers for their anti-ddos service. This was mandatory for ALL customers, there was no way to opt out.

This caused false detections on some of my servers and ended up blocking ALL dns requests until I uploaded the deb for PDNS (because apt-get wouldn't work anymore) and configure TCP dns lookups.

- Multiple times in August and September all servers that detected a DDoS attack in the past 24 hours became disconnected from the internet or the US for an entire day.

- Also in summer 2013, they upgraded their offerings as usual. Their website said it would come in a week but I waited for over 60 days before I finally told them to cancel the order. This was for their midrange server.

- They removed the ability to pay for less than a month because everyone was extending the rent on their old server until their new ones arrived. This was very scummy coming from OVH.

- Later I found out they were complaining about "turnover" even though when I asked support if I could upgrade my server, they said the only way to do that is to cancel the old server and get a new one.

- They removed e-mail support for Kimsufis even though some of them cost more than their new mid-range line that has it. Now they expect you to use a forum where responses have gone unanswered and everyone can see details on your server. They didn't even reduce the price.

- There have been a few sporadic cases throughout the year where the server just lost connection to the internet for a minute. Support had nothing to say about this, but sometimes I could find some related message on travaux.ovh.net (this page gets more updates than status.ovh.net)
finding a virus-free torrent with up-to-date patches and enough seeds to download at >1megabyte/sec may take more time than people are willing to invest to save $2 on a steam sale for something that guaranteed works and is up to date.
Just curious - why do you disable bluetooth? Does it have an impact on your battery life?
Thanks for sharing ftfy. I have had several issues that this little library appears to address perfectly
Yes. I remember arguments about the way the numbers were taken, but really the measurements for pollution in the air were only useful to state that no explosion was occuring anymore.

During the blowups, the worst thing that happened was clouds picking up radiation and bring it down with the rain.
The level of radiation in the air got down really quick, but the rain left persisting peaks of ambiant radiation in Chiba and other regions, and these could only be solved by taking away huge amount of radiated soil, when possible.

An exemple of an article describing the phenomenon: [1], but for every news worthy hot spot, there would be a lot of "mildly" dangerous level of radiation areas that would be found by residents buying detectors. Of course during that time reports of the air quality were still the rage with a few reports of the hot spots on the side.

Focusing on how clean the air is at 20+m in the sky while part of the soil was infected really catches up the viewpoint taken by the media. That's part of the reason a lot of people are still taking the "it's ok, the numbers prove it's safe" arguments with very big grains of salt and sometimes point the middle finger.

[1] http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/radiation-h...
They're presumably only open eight hours a day, so you can probably cut two thirds of that number. Also, did you consider the birthday paradox?
The real pirates are the hordes of lawyers with the WIPO, IFPI and the like, as well as their national backers, who have subverted the public contract on copyright and related monopolies to carve a nice niche for themselves.

When talking of "piracy", this is the first problem that needs to be tackled.
I got a 1024 and a 512 playing alone, then somebody appeared and screwed the game in 10 seconds. The "Twitch plays pokemon style" is an very apt.
Do you see phenomenon A and B occurring today?
This project has come a long way in the last year.
You can always use other threads, and on most systems, you can do lots of useful I/O with reasonable performance while an fsync() is going on.

No, you can't. At least not without knowing what you're doing and careful planning.

My day job is PostgreSQL DBA, and I've been doing that for most of a decade now. As the kids on the Reddits would say, "I've seen some shit." I have some rather large servers, with some rather powerful IO subsystems — my production environment has SAS SLC SSDs under hardware RAID with a ginormous cache. I still see the behavior described in TFA far more often than I'd like. Linux really is pretty dumb here.

For example, because of this fsync() issue, and the fact that fsync() calls flush all outstanding writes for the entire filesystem the file(s) being fsync()'ed reside upon, I've set up my servers such that my $PGDATA/pg_xlog directory is a symlink from the volume mounted at (well, above) $PGDATA to a separate, much smaller filesystem. (That is: transaction logs, which must be fsync()'ed often to guarantee consistency, and enable crash recovery, reside on a smaller, dedicated filesystem, separate from the rest of my database's disk footprint.)

If I didn't do that, at every checkpoint, my performance would measurably fall. I learned this lesson the hard way, at an old job, where my postgres clusters lived on a SAN — it wasn't just my db instances that were being adversely affected by this IO storm. It was everything else that lived on the filer, too.

That's how bad it can be.
Maybe because such an impression is the reason Cosmos host is trending?
But, this one is nano size :-) I haven't seen how mobile browsers handle the progress element, but this visual is very well suited for showing background activity progress in mobile.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pr...
I believe that is the will of the publishers that are using Steam, not Valve.
> This quote conveniently leaves out that the pirate's product doesn't cost the end user any money.

This is not necessarily true. There are people who spend more on a seedbox or VPN each month than a Netflix + Rdio/Spotify subscription cost.

Furthermore, private trackers have restrictions on them (ratio limits, etc.). Depending on what kind of content you're looking for, it's not exactly "free" either in money or time to be an active Bittorrent user.

It just so happens that that cost is still less than the "legal" alternative - if a legal alternative even exists (look at pippy's comment about accessing content in New Zealand).
Of course they don't think about, and obviously they don't want to offend, and that is why some good people point this out, so that people think about it and pay attention. Sometimes biases are so entrenched that we don't feel them. They feel natural, and therefore neutral. But, if you want to make a change, than it's precisely those seemingly natural things that you need to change.

You can keep using "man" or not, but I think it's helpful to pay attention.
As an American a strongly regional American Midwestern or Rural Canadian would probably be pretty nice. weird enough that it just sounds odd rather than machine-ey.
What Your Activity Tracker Sees and Doesn’t See
Street Fighter the Movie – what went wrong
I hate that quote. I don't think it's a service problem or pricing problem at all. The problem is that humans are incredibly selfish. However Valve has very cleverly come up with a service and pricing solution to that problem.
The Dunbar's Number theory doesn't seem to hold as people thinks it does. Yes, organic groups become trust-sparse instead of trust-dense as they get bigger, and there may be reasons for the threshold to be around 150 in "organic groups" (i.e. those that come together without a direct purpose, such as an emerging tribe) but a corporation is not an organic group. Inorganic groups follow different rules entirely. They may fall into trust sparsity very quickly, or not at all despite scale. (Note: trust density doesn't mean everyone trusts everyone; it means that the prevailing attitude is that people trust each other to be basically valuable to the group. It's about the default setting of the "bozo bit".)

Open allocation takes work. The paradox is that it does actually require management (of a non-traditional form) but the management is exerted to protect the open allocation system (and, to some extent, to protect people from each other). You'll still have political issues in an open allocation environment. Management has to address them in a fair way without becoming extortionist or meddling as one gets when the conflict of interest between people management and project management is unaddressed.

Open allocation isn't a panacea. Open allocation has a million problems. So why do I advocate for it? Because closed allocation has all those million problems-- and a billion more that come from a corrupt, self-serving edifice ripe for abuse and that (except in an immediate, existential crisis where every decision must be made and executed fast) has no purpose.

You should think of closed allocation as like programming in assembly code instead of a higher-level language. If you actually need that extra 1% in execution speed over certain special cases, go ahead. Usually, you don't. This typically premature optimization of closed allocation will usually create incidental complexity that becomes permanent and corrodes your company.

You might argue that VC-istan is open allocation, but with extreme (and unacceptable) social inequality, bizarre income effects that can damage future jobs, and reputation-based extortions that make it, nonetheless, dystopian. It is a market culture, but a deeply manipulated one reminiscent of the blatnoy elite of the Soviets.
Writing OOP using OOP
"Made with <3 by a bunch of geeks from Buenos Aires"

Oh not again...
Have you ever lived outside the US?
The only thing I could see after a quick look at the source is that

tooltip.node()

is called twice in the top left quadrant, vs once or never in the other quadrants.

Can't imagine that being the bottle neck, but it seems to be the only non-symmetrical code path. Might try and profile and see if anything pops up.
The night vision system in most military helicopters nowadays have light interference filters that remove lasers.

Switzerland seems to be equipping all of its first responders with laser protective eyewear as well.. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
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Also:

Science is what produce the worst of the worst possible things, and make the worst, better. Is what build the weapons, the pollution, the asphalt-jungle, the climate-change, the dictators in steroids, the NSA. Is what will lead humanity to distopia (or worse).

And will not build a better world.

Everything wrong, is stronger with science. Science is the slave of tyrants, military, politicians.

Science could be sell to the higher bidder. A peasant rarely can benefit, directly, from a scientist. From preacher? yes. For somebody selling a dream? yes.

Bastard ask for a way to torture and kill with efficiency, and scientist say "I could do it better than you tough".

P.D: This is about what could inspire fear in people, so take that in account about this...
Price discrimination is a hell of a thing.

The majority of revenue comes from rich regions such as USA and Western Europe. Many regions, such as Russia and Eastern Europe, will buy software but only at a significantly reduced price. Look at average income by country and it makes total sense.

If you sell your game for $50 in the US and $5 in Russia then everyone will just change their region to Russia and buy your game for $5. Or Russian keys will be resold to Americans for $10.

You could sell your game for $50 in Russia but then no one would buy it so it's a waste of time. You could also sell your game for $5 in the US but then you won't make your dev costs back.

Yup.
Yo, I heard you like world population data:

3D using WebGL -
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe/

By latitude & longititude -
http://www.radicalcartography.net/histpop.png
Ask HN: Sites with primary colors and white?
I'm designing a little webpage for a Bitcoin tipping project I'm working on, and I really like the simplicity and color scheme of http://square.com/cash

I've seen a few other examples of sites with this theme posted on HN, but I can't remember what they were. If anyone can recall any, I'd really appreciate it, as I'm trying to get some design ideas for my own site.
5000 pts just doing up, down, left, right

I scored worse by actually thinking and applying strategy. this IS a difficult game.
I'm not sure how the birthday paradox would apply here, since we're matching up two events per person, not matching up nearby events where you're looking for pairs among multiple people.
Bandwidth caps? I pay $130/mo for unlimited data on a fibre connection through Orcon. Even if fibre isn't available yet in your area you can still get a standard broadband connection for $100/mo with unlimited data.
When the risk of of obtaining content by illegal means is not outweighed by the cost of doing so by legal means. If I can pay USD 1 or Ɖ1500 or some other small amount to watch a movie not listed on Netflix instantly I would gladly do so. The risk of getting a "friendly reminder" from the RIAA or some other entity that $UNIVERSITY is required to disclose who I am and that I've been a bad boy completely outweighs such a low cost. However if it costs me $5 or $10 or I run Linux (which I do) and can't even use any of the legal services then it becomes worth my time, effort and risk to find three proxy services which I halfway trust and run a Torrent client over some combination of them.
http://scrapy.org/ is more systemic than these ad-hoc solutions, and http://scrapyd.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ is the daemon into which one can deploy scrapers if you want a little more structure.

The plugin architecture alone makes Scapy a hands-down winner over whatever you might dream up on your own. And with any good plugin architecture, it ships with several optional toys, you can always add your own, and there is a pretty good community (e.g. https://github.com/darkrho/scrapy-redis)

http://crawlera.com/ will start to enter into your discussion unless you have a low-volume crawler, and http://scrapinghub.com/ are the folks behind Crawlera and (AFAIK) sponsor (or actually do) the development for Scrapy.
WhatsApp’s Founder Posted This on a Forum 5 Years Ago and No One Cared
> Furthermore, private trackers have restrictions on them (ratio limits, etc.)

You know, I've never understood the point of private "community" trackers. Anything mainstream will be on TPB. Anything extremely fresh will be on the release group's own (almost-always-public) tracker. And for the really long-tail stuff--unpopular nonfiction books from the 80s, for example--they've just never been digitized at all. What's an example of the sort of thing people find private trackers uniquely valuable for?
just spent a few hours on this. I'm in love-hate relationships with the author now
The problem is that humans are incredibly selfish.

Given the choice between spending time or spending money, people usually spend money. It's one reason Steam is so profitable. So it can't be true that most people inherently want to steal.

It seems like people want convenience. When faced with a choice, people usually choose whichever option is least bothersome. That implies a goal for content creators: be the least bothersome option, and users will pay you.

Unfortunately for the movie industry, Popcorn Time is currently the least bothersome service. It's free, decentralized, and tastefully designed. The industry should clone Popcorn Time, because that would put them in a better position than they're currently in.
When I clicked the link, I was certain it was going to be Stephen Wolfram. Glad to see I was wrong :) Nothing against the man. He's a genius - it's just that he's EVERYWHERE.

In all seriousness, this looks really cool. It is yet to be seen which technology will be most cost effective and performant, but between optical computing, 3D transistors, and technologies such as this, the exponential rise in the price/performance of computing power looks like it is not going to stall out any time in the next 10-15 years.
really?

Have you considered how difficult it is to obtain media legally nowadays? Even Netflix is a pain in the butt, what with ISPs purposely throttling it in addition to an incomplete library due to licensing and incompatibility due to silverlight.
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On a related note, what's the story behind MovieTube[1]? It streams many movies that are still in theaters. I can't find out anything about it, but word about it is making its way around my neighborhood and I'm telling people it's not wise to use it.

[1] http://www.youtubeonfire.com/
Sort of like the Four Color Theorem, in that it's something that was proven with computers and brute force. I remembering hearing mathemeticians were upset about it because it just felt wrong to prove it that way (this was the 70s, it may have been the first proof that was done by machine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
This is cool. It looks like the developers are reading the comments so I'll add a quick suggestion. Something that I found to be insanely helpful with my own product development was being able to track memory swapping.

I went to great lengths to tune my Java Virtual Machines so that they would work well in a minimum RAM environment. And being able to track swapping was critical for my decision making. Now I can run my product on a 512MB system with 1GB of swap space with no problem. Below is how I'm tracking swapping in real-time.

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/track-swapping.html

Since your solution is focused on capturing a period of time, you'll be able to provide a better view than I am.

With SSD becoming more common for cloud hosting, using swap space in lieu of getting more RAM will probably become more common. And before anybody points out that SSD is still significantly slower than RAM, I know. Depending on your product, using swap on SSD may be practical. I know using swap on amazon's infrastructure wasn't.
TPB is crossed out
First try scored 2908 Its a very addictive game! Good work!
"[torrenting] isn’t necessarily safe unless you’re using a virtual private network to mask your whereabouts."

I find it really frustrating that TIME can publish such incorrect information that could directly lead to the detriment of its readers. I've also seen a couple people in HN saying a VPN is the "safe" way to torrent. Unless you're sure a VPN service won't comply with subpoenas or you've paid in bitcoin, it's not safer than not using one.