skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply meant to compare with Google Analytics hits, not to say anything is absolute proof, but being on a tracker or DHT is certainly a better indication than GA would be.

Though if you personally join the peer queue and serve over 30s of a movie to them, you've just proved that someone using that IP is pirating that movie. Even if you own the movie elsewhere, if I recall correctly many jurisdictions do not protect the personal transfer you're talking about. The laws are quite stupid here, but that's just how it is.
Nationally representative, assuming the entire nation is on Mechanical Turk?

EDIT: What's with the downvotes? There seems to be some selection bias built in to the sample. If not, please explain.
Whether or not it's a debate has nothing to do with whether or not your example is valid. I was just pointing out that it isn't.
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However, I've locked myself a few times so it was impossible to go on without using 'up' (or whatever):

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where at no point the same numbers next to each other allow collapsing. Maybe it's the problem not growing from the corner.. hm.
New movies get DVDs for special screenings or for the Academy.
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Yes, it is different when it happens to her. She represents one of the three branches of government. It is not within the authority of one branch to seize stuff from another.
Would you continue watching it if you had an unused ticket for that movie?
The only reason to use MySQL: that you have to run an application heavily optimised for MySQL, where any other DB is an afterthought (e.g. MediaWiki, Wordpress).
I don't think he's equating the people themselves with zero, rather the benefit to them. A good example where technology has really helped in Africa are cell phones. So many stories of fishermen being able to call and ask "who needs fish?" and they're able to get to the right markets with better fish.

I didn't see these as having that 'killer app' for the populace where it noticeably makes life better, immediately, for the people they're given to.

Even in the sanitary-pad case above, the man said he was illiterate, IIRC. The computer wouldn't have done much there...
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I have no idea what kind of money companies get from DVDs, but if we where to go to a world where I would have to go to cinema to see every movie I'm interested in then I'd just stay home and watch horrible Cam rips. I have no desire to go to cinema and pay ridiculous amounts of money for movie tickets and whatever shit they are passing as food these days, I want to stay home and enjoy the movie not listen as some kids giggle next to me.
I'm a prisoner of MySQL. Of the top of my head at least from my own experience I can name these features that are present on Postgres and not on MySQL: PL/Language (stored procedures written in "3rd party" languages), custom data types, Arrays, JSON, dynamic SQL in triggers, better regular expression support, etc.
Didn't the XO basically kick off the netbook craze?

While not the intended effect, it was certainly a catalyst for a not insignificant market shift. I'd also argue that netbooks helped pave the way for tablet popularization to a small extent (much less than, say, smartphones, but still not unappreciable).
They do pay pretty big bucks; both CBS and the local affiliate groups tend to have pretty long drawn-out conflicts over those fees. Yet their signal is still broadcast for free.

Yeah, I don't get it either. :/
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That's nice & snarky.

IT looks like this genuine misconduct on the part of a paranoid intelligence agency trying to cover themselves from an investigation. This is what many allege the NSA was doing w/ bulk collection- individual people actively snooping around.

W/ the NSA program, you're just a row in a database, if you're not a terrorist* and do not associate with terrorists nobody has time to give rat's ass about what you're doing unless one can relate you to another suspicious character. That's national security stuff, sorry if ya don't like it, but tough.

THIS is different. This is real domestic spying by spies.

*"But how do we define terrorism, isn't one man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter wahhhh" -Tsarnaevs & people like them? Those are terrorists. Bad guys, got it?
One thing that will help a lot: type (source f) to see the source code for a function or macro. Also (doc f) for documentation.
That's why software organizations need to be modularized, just like code, so the small teams can work efficiently. But on the other hand, doing that just pushes complexity around. Instead of having a team chaos problem, you have an API and requirements chaos problem.
I think you are misunderstanding. If you give a laptop to a kid that is getting a good standard of education (and nutrition) at home and at school, it will probably have more of an effect than that same laptop would have on a kid with limited access to good education which is the norm among potential recipients.

If a school has 50 pupils in one class, the cost of 50 laptops could instead be used to split the class in two (1 extra teacher) and provide students free breakfast for a year, even at a cost of $100 per laptop. Both of these are proven to have big effects on attendance and achievement. 25 well fed 10 year olds in a class vs 50 pekish 10 year olds is a big difference.
I think you mean redbox.
Why does this require a blog post I though this was obvious to everybody.

A recommendation from a friend will outweigh any bullshit a founder will spew at you.

Actually selling at that point is counter productive since if you are trying to sell too hard he will get suspicious.
Even for the tech savvy, the user experience is very important.
That's simple not true.

apt-get ensure that application will get the right version of a library for its execution.

'Untaring' doesn't mean the application will work OK with their dependencies (since there's no verification).

So anyone could do a dpkg -i --force-all *.deb. Its the same thing.
I use this - and it's great with my slow internet connection. It's totally transparent, and I only notice it if my vm running it is down.

And despite the name, newer versions work with yum too (although I found I had to disable the fastest mirror yum plugin to get reliable caching).
> it should not be so easy to benefit from someone else's hard work without compensating them.

Nonsense. I benefit from the work of Mozart and feel no need to compensate anyone. There are real issues with funding mechanisms and creative work in a shareable digital world, but we can reject the idea that you should always pay for anything that is beneficial. If you want to give gifts to creative folks you like, you can go ahead.
Limited bandwidth coming in, limited bandwidth for the end user.
Is there a way to contact you or follow up on this? There is no contact info in your profile's "About" field. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=20andup
To stonogo's point, the security systems for XO actually model that threat, and do a fair bit to reduce the risk.

Foremost protection against theft is that the laptops are brightly colored and made of shiny plastic, like toys. In a successful deployment the sight of children with their laptops is normal but an adult with one is quite unusual.

The technical security in the OS (wiki link above) is remarkable. I think it inspired many aspects of other security systems we use today (Gatekeeper/Sandbox, for one).
woah looks cool,

any reason you choose bitbucket over github?
just curious...
Can someone confirm that the .exe I download is the compiled version of the github repo?
> From a short-term perspective, increasing the bottom end of the pay scale is not an isolated event. All levels of the scale must be adjusted upward to offset the effect of condensing (in this case drastically) the pay differences between positions with different levels of responsibility.

Prove it.

> From a short-term perspective, increasing the bottom end of the pay scale is not an isolated event. All levels of the scale must be adjusted upward to offset the effect of condensing (in this case drastically) the pay differences between positions with different levels of responsibility.

You're correct, and this is why we need to raise the federal minimum wage.
We have the same 'private copy' tax in France. It is a tax on ALL storages (proportional to the size) to take a fee in the case you would use the storage for copyrighted stuff.
While it does not make download legal, in my opinion it makes it ethical. I paid a tax on it, I might as well use it.
forget design, from what I've seen of these systems, physicians would be happy to have a system that doesn't require them to log in 4 times in some rube goldberg contraption of a VNC in order to actually open the medical record...
Can you explain your reasoning behind

> Hollywood studios (should) make their money in cinemas

I'd be just as happy if all movies went straight to streaming, I'd even be ok with higher prices closer to the release if they did drop down to reasonable levels after a period of time. I personally have grown to hate going to the theater, I find it much more enjoyable to watch movies in the comfort of my home without people talking, babies crying, and teenage girls on their cell phones the whole time. Not to mention I refuse to pay for concessions which are extremely over priced.
Just to be sure I've understood correctly, what you're saying is "Bah, humbug!" Is that right?

Edit: OK, sarcasm aside, I can't see how this comment amounts to more than "I don't need anything fancier than shell scripts." Fine, you don't. But there are lots of people out there that do.

For several years, I ran a cluster that consisted of 10 or so EC2 instances that had to rebuilt and replaced every day. Shell scripts didn't cut it for me. Chef and Puppet were painful. I ended up using Fabric, boto and a pile of custom Python code.

And 10 machines is nothing. How do you maintain a 1000-machine cluster with frequent application deployments, configuration changes and variable load? If you've got a bunch of shell scripts that make that easy, that would be fantastic news. I kind of doubt it, though.
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That's not the only downside. The other is there's a tax on storage hardware even if you never do anything with copyrighted anything. And all the tax ends up going to wealthy corporations anyway and smaller artists will never see anything.
I've spoken to several people / new grads entering the startup job market but for many it's difficult to know how to get that first job w/o experience. I haven't read this yet but it's an important, demanded topic.
Doesn't it pretend? The screenshoot shows very old movies. My initial impression from the web site was that this application provided a nice interface to some repository of freely redistributable movies.
Paul, YC is a very notable exception. You are on a league of your own, and the article acknowledges that. I also happen to agree. :)
One of the biggest problems here is that spindles usually don't handle oversubscription well. They service requests quickly up to a certain queue depth, and after that I/O times become significantly longer and more erratic. So if you've got a RAID5 system swamped by a large streaming write workload, an fsync that triggers even a single write may take hundreds to thousands of milliseconds to complete.

ZFS does a few things here:

- On fsync(), the filesystem only records intent log records to disk. It doesn't record all the filesystem updates needed to implement the change. This cuts back on I/O.
- ZFS supports using a separate physical device only for the intent log (called a "slog"). Even if a huge (non-synchronous) workload is slamming most of the spindles, writes to the slog can still complete quickly. This helps even if the slog is another spindle, but it's a huge win if it's an SSD.
- ZFS throttles writes to avoid issuing so much to disks concurrently that they start behaving poorly. For more on this (and recent work to improve it), see http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2013/12/27/zfs-fundamentals-the-....

This may all apply to ZFS on Linux as well.
And Banking - Am I the only one waiting for Holvi to open up for citizens outside Finland?
this is free software. Even if they did that, someone would fork it to bring back the illegal content.
What did professional music look like before radio? Before audio recording? I'm not convinced that business models that emerged due to technological change should be protected from future technology.
He left out Cfengine. That's a big gap. It's been around since 1993. He also focused on package management and the provisioning process. I feel like there is more to automation than that. Continuous deployment, process management and distributed scheduling come to mind. As a plus, he does seem to get that just using system images (like Amazon AMI's) can be pretty limited.

I think the complexity of automation is more a symptom of the problem space than the tools. It's just a hairy problem. Computer Science seems to largely focus on the single system. Managing "n" systems requires additional scaffolding for mutual authentication and doing file copies between different systems. It also requires the use of directory services (DNS, LDAP, etc…)

I like the analogy of comparing the guitar player to a symphony orchestra. When you play the guitar alone, it's easy to improvise, because you don't need to communicate your intent to the players around you. When a symphony does a performance, there is a lot of coordination that needs to be done. Improvisation is much more difficult. That is where Domen is right on target, we can do better. Our symphony needs a better conductor.
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The Austin program has a great star: Jason Seats. I used to mentor for him at TechStars San Antonio, and I liked him so much that when he moved to Austin, I decided to mentor for him there. Amazing guy.
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Exactly true.
There are quite a few more than 21 million children in the world.
I originally started the project on bitbucket, and never ended up moving it to github. I should probably do that, seeing as it is targeted to a github project.
These are not real hurdles. The whole point of education is that kids learn the things you describe.

If a kid builds a microscope, takes orange peel, and recognises that they don't see anything because it's opaque, that's great - it's frustrating but they learned something.

As a child, we weren't allowed to mess around with the microscopes because they were too expensive. But messing around with microscopes is exactly what kids should be doing.
It blows my mind that it's 2014 and we can't do this. We are locked behind garbage cable boxes, poorly built custom software, and region locking, all of which is from a different era.
"W/ the NSA program, you're just a row in a database, if you're not a terrorist* or associate with terrorists nobody gives rat's ass about what you're doing unless one can relate you to another suspicious character. That's national security stuff, sorry if ya don't like it, but tough."

This "if you are not a terrorist don't worry" reasoning is flawed. GCHQ was capturing all Yahoo! webcams. That's not anti-terrorism, that's fodder for blackmail. You also don't surveil WoW to find terrorists. The Snowden leaks have shown many projects that have nothing to do with "national security", but if you say those magic words nobody can oversee what you're doing.

The CIA, NSA should be disbanded and replaced with new institutions. Those institutions should have limited scope and much tighter oversight.
Well, she's not just complaining about inter-branch stuff.

> And she said that the CIA appears to have violated the Fourth Amendment, which bars unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as various federal laws and a presidential executive order that prevents the agency from conducting domestic searches and surveillance.
Yes but you could also argue that there are many many many more artists making money in the music industry now, and that consumers have much more choice.

Sure they're not all making millions, but I'd rather see an industry with more players each making less money (i.e. more choices for me), than a smaller group of pre-selected artists (and the machinery behind them) that take home tons of money but put out less varied produced-by-committee content designed for mass consumption.

So I think it's arguable whether it's better or worse for the industry, but it's definitely better for the consumer.
Oh such surprise!
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I'd love to see a list of the included materials that you're talking about. Browsing the wiki, I'm not impressed.
The CIA is explicitly banned from spying within the US. That's FBI territory.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publicat...
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My first thought was that "affluent people" (investor types) would choose people most like themselves.

And if that means more investors are men who consider themselves decent looking, that means more invested ideas are from men who are above average too.

Another thing not taken into account is differences between the "men delivering the pitch" and "women delivering the pitch". Are the people delivering the pitch equally experienced at presenting? Gender is not the only change when you swap presenters.
While there is a lot of piracy, it's relatively small compared to the overall entertainment market. It's still been generally limited to the tech savvy crowd. Setting up bittorrent or usenet is just too hard for the average person. They could learn it, but they are unwilling to even try to.

An app like this? Which is just download and it works? That is a huge threat. My grandma could use this.

So while a small amount of piracy isn't harmful, everyone being able to pirate everything with total ease, is harmful.
Movies and music are a luxury item, not an essential. So it is very difficult to construct an ethical argument that supports piracy of newly released works, as there is basically negligible harm to the consumer in not receiving such items for free.

(Compare this to, for example, patents on medical products being used to induce scarcity. The stakes here are life and death - so there is a strong ethical case in favour of ignoring the patents to produce cheaper generic products so they can be supplied to those who would otherwise be unable to pay. As has been done with certain drugs in the developing world.)
Noob to Ruby here...any thoughts on why gem_original_require is screwing me up? Thanks for the cool looking tool!

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- json (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scout_realtime-1.0.1/lib/scout_realtime.rb:23
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scout_realtime-1.0.1/bin/scout_realtime:4:in `load'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scout_realtime-1.0.1/bin/scout_realtime:4
from /usr/local/bin/scout_realtime:19:in `load'
from /usr/local/bin/scout_realtime:19
You mean for SHARING. It seems somewhat unethical to try to say that people interested in sharing are "pirates".
Well, I've started on a landing page for an email course. It's pretty rough around the edges, but I suppose I could take this opportunity to solicit feedback. ;)

I would also be thrilled to get my first signup. :)

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Accidentally? Yes.

When I'm at work, I only watch TV as background noise. I rarely get a chance to go to the movies proper nor do I get the time to sit and watch a movie at home. This is the only reason I have Netflix.

This is specific to me and I wouldn't claim to generalize this to a whole population.
On a similar topic, years ago I used to download video from Chrome, and as it was downloading I could watch it with VLC, so long as the download stayed ahead. Then that stopped working. Is there a way to recreate this functionality?
Which makes TPB different from Popcorn Time, which is the point.
> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages

Yep, in the form of "retransmission fees" paid by the cable companies. CBS currently makes about 250M dollars a year from these fees, and they project that'll be up to 2B by 2020: http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmiss...

Of course that projection may be inflated for their own selfish reasons.
Thanks for creating Scrapy, I have used it before many times and it is a great tool!
The musicians/recording engineers/conductor/support staff don't deserve to be paid?
Some people 'cook' their configuration into packages because they aren't allowed to change the configuration on the target. You can also generalize 'automation' to mean configuration management, package management, job management, bug management, change management, deployment, monitoring, continuous deployment/delivery, continuous integration, and many other fields.

In practice, everybody screws something up, whether individually or part of a small/big business. The tools are typically not the problem; the humans and how they use them, are.
You may be mistaking the details and results for the plan and the movement. http://one.laptop.org/community

OLPC (org and community) works on the scale of deployments. Villages and sometimes entire countries are organized around educational technology access and infrastructure is found or built. Volunteers orgs stand up to help translate content, support and repair laptops in situ, and help the local teachers, students, and parents.

Also, they make/design the laptops. And Sugar Labs makes the Sugar software. Check out the blogs on http://planet.laptop.org/ for more on all of this, including the OLPC news article tat kicked off this HN thread.
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My ideal product is the Netflix interface with, essentially, every movie and television show ever made. I imagine there are a lot of other people out there who also wish that product existed. It's hard to say how much I would pay for it, but I'm currently spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $150/month on a collection of services (Netflix, Time Warner, Usenet) that, in the end, only provide a very poor approximation of that ideal.

This product is the closest I've seen to matching that vision. So despite its very obvious illegality, I appreciate the authors' efforts to try and push the UX boundaries around content viewing. Hopefully instead of Hollywood suing the pants off of the creators, they'll use it as a template for what might be possible if they could collectively get their shit together.
That's like if the parent post said, "The invention of the web allowed many more people to communicate, and was an economic boon" and you replied, "Microsoft would disagree."

Just because the old toll collectors, middlemen, and gatekeepers are worse off doesn't mean that's true for society as a whole.
It doesn't matter how legal your tools are if what you're doing is illegal. And this particular tool is pre-populated with copyrighted content. They don't show it in the screen captures (why? </sarcasm>), but all the films in the popular tab are 2013-2014 major U.S. theatrical releases.
Additional links also relevant for this crowd:

https://github.com/steeve/torrent2http - turns magnet links into sequential HTTP downloads

https://github.com/steeve/libtorrent-go - Go bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar

http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/ - 'efficient, easy' torrent library
Wouldn't be a legal defense, but can we say ENTRAPMENT??

That would be the MPAA actively encouraging infringement in order to then attack the infringers.