skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it is actually affiliated, given that the group's email is github@yts.re
> But you need a seedbox, membership on private torrent sites

I'm running a fairly automated Torrent+Plex setup without the need for a seedbox or a private torrent site.
The app is terrific. Can't wait for a revision that includes all the popular tv shows.
for those interested, I did look at it a bit and before I touched it was 116k~ lines. After I removed all the "bot", "spider"(but not "google" or "mozilla" or anything that might be used by real useragents)(and yes I am aware chrome doesnt use google and mozilla is used 99% of those strings, I just couldnt give any better examples) It went down to 1k~.
I scrolled thru and most of those requests came from "216.151.137.36" so I removed that too. I had 500~ that wasn't "obviously" coming from bots. After this I stopped as what I wondered was "did this site get significant amount of real visits?" and the answer at that point was clearly no, or if any, less than 500.

Btw, does anyone know who this ip(216.151.137.36) belongs to? All I get is spam reports when I google it and doesnt seem to belong to any (major) spider. http://stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/216.151.137.36

Also on another question, how does google deal with web apps that have unlimited pages(dynamic urls based on get and so)? As in, how does it say "this is legit" and this site here is not. Surely backlinks are one thing, but these can be "faked", too?
It has been tried before.

One example I can think of immediately is Grail, which was implemented in Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_%28web_browser%29

Another is HotJava, which was implemented in Java by Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava

The results were less than stellar. Neither browser was really comparable to contemporary browsers written in C or C++ in terms of features and performance. Those factors are just too important to overlook, even in the name of security.
I actually thought the music was perfect.
I think you're missing his point.

The success of bittorrent as a swarming protocol is that each client tries to download the least available snippet of the file it wants. This increases the chances that other clients will be able to find 100% of the pieces of a file as they go through the download process.

With popcorn and other streaming-torrent hybrids, the clients requests are biased towards the snippets of file that the user is about to watch. This makes the beginning of the movie widely available (as all clients start there to begin a stream) but increases the chance that bits of the middle or end of the movie aren't available when a given client needs them.
I feel like I'm actually happier with this arrangement than many friends who either have cable or grab torrents of stuff as soon as it comes out. "Don't you wish you were getting to watch $show for the first time like I am?"
Fully agree, mankind would be better without C and C++.

But given they are the current mainstream options for the time of applications they are used to, better use modern C++ like you are advocating and stay as far as possible from any pure C constructs.

Additionally use static analyser, enable all warnings as errors and turn on pedantic mode.
Like Apple, Google may eventually earn more that it can spend/invest, and then pay a dividend, or be bought back by Google corp.
Isn't this just piggybacking on normal torrents on TPB. There are tons of seeds already by people that want to keep a copy locally and seed for months.
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What's a -80 hour workweek?
Sounds to me like this is the UAV follow-up to the U2 programme rather than the SR-71. It almost certainly flies s-l-o-w-l-y as per a B2 rather than at SR-71 insane-mega-speed. It has 24 hours or so of loiter time with no in-flight refuelling.

Good luck with that, flying over the Crimea, with Russian S-400 missiles just a few kilometres away. Imagine the consequences, anything up to full-on war just because they shot down one of our drones.
That's not sexism; he was acting maliciously because she turned down his advances, not because she was a woman.
That's why I feel like they should just not allow hula-hooping in the office. As someone who has been to both gay and straight clubs, I know that "grown-ups hula hooping" is a lot less like innocent fun and more like rapid pelvic thrusting with a hoop thrown in.

The problem is that a "no hula-hooping" rule sounds ridiculous, and really even splitting hairs on the topic itself seems tedious. Instead, any disruptive behavior should be off-limits and it should be up to the managers to enforce the rules. There are "fun police" at your place of employment for a reason, because honestly this whole situation could have been avoided if the hula-hoopers had kept their hobbies at home.
HN isn't the place to ask for this type of situation.

If you look into sites like: http://tomshardware.com you will find a lot more info.

Right now, I can't actually think of any workarounds, but you could possibly do a workaround through the BIOS (again, that is just an assumption of mine).

As per your partitions, there's too many (for me that is). It makes sense to keep your failover on an external HDD.

>"4 GB RAM and i5 processor became slow as hell."

That is somewhat of a powerful machine, I'm surprised things like that slow up. One of my machines still runs on DDR1 RAM and it works pretty quick (for me that is).
What you describe as "ceremony" I take to mean socialization, that you are shopping with the public in a market atmosphere and I think that's something absolutely intrinsic in all human cultures and isn't going anywhere. The mall is the perfect style of market for shopping for clothes, media, fast food, housewares.
Kinesis Freestyle 2 http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-mac/ with the VIP tent accessory and a trackball between the spilt (raised up so it's at the same level as the edges of the keyboard. Being able to keep my hands straight and minimizing movement to move my cursor is great (I keep a apple wireless keyboard around for if other people need to use my computer)
I do EXACTLY this. Another thing I do in addition, is when I break (leave a cafe, leave the office, or stop working for the night), I write down a summary of exactly what I was in the middle of doing when i stopped, and what I should do next to finish that work. That makes it easier to pick back up when I sit down the next morning to work on the project.

The task list in the notes.txt file is also something I add to as I go. Sometimes if i'm doing something that requires a keeping track of more than i can remember in my head, I'll have little lists within the .txt that keep track. It's basically a stack data structure so I can keep track, and when i pop stuff off the stack, back up to a higher node, i have to add more to the stack to keep track of my progress deeper into another branch of the tree.
> the BitShares Domains model <snip> highest bidder

Is this like rent? It may make squatting expensive but it would also make non-commercial websites impractical.

I hope it fails.
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The Popcorn Time "catalog" isn't composed of the sort of long-tail movies that need more seeds to stay healthy, though. It's the head of the distribution: the movies which already have thousands of seeders each, and at most 100 leechers at a time.
The claim is that it's way to expensive to retrofit existing planes due to regulations:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/03/10/why-dont-we-ha...
AmericanExpress This is an epic fail.
NTIA to move DNS management to ICANN
The 'line' seems clear to me, the company/not-company boundary.

And I wasn't disparaging words. But if I pick some post and comment 'freedom is good!' I'm not contributing to productive discussion no matter how many people agree.
That may be the case, but they may perceive otherwise, at least initially.
As with every company that maintains 51% private ownership, they have value because in the future someone might buy them from you for more than what you paid for them.

Or, to put it another way, they have value because people will pay for them, and people will pay for them because they have value. Isn't finance ridiculous?
yes, the kickstarter is expired, but https://twitter.com/Mebotic indicates that the project is still alive.
I don't see the usefulness in this. On my Mac it runs very slowly and once you start playing it takes an eternity to jump forward or rewind a little bit. If you just download the movie with torrent in 20 minutes you can jump around instantly and use the much lighter Videolan Player.

I can see the convenience in searching movies though.
Indeed, using public trackers works pretty brilliantly if you watch mostly "popular" movies and TV (not necessarily what everyone watches, but things that people are generally aware exist), and avoid anything less than a few months old.
I guess it would still have value for those who want to go long, and sell at a higher stock price.
Cosmos: A spacetime odyssey (the reboot)
Ask HN: Why are some people sharing links to 'blocked' sites?
I've noticed a couple of nytimes/ft.com and other sites being shared as "things to read" on HN, yet some of these sites have a paywall now running.

Although it's easy to bypass some of these 'paywalls', it would be kind of unfair to these companies. Perhaps we could have some way to address this problem without 'flagging', unless flagging isn't as taboo on HN as it would be on other sites.
It's weird neither on reddit nor here does anyone mention the HP laptops, I wrote it up on reddit so I will just give the tl;dr version here: the Zbook 14/Elitebook 840 G1 (same machine, different GPU) comes with Suse Linux, user replaceable everything, fairly decent keyboard and a full HD anti glare display. How come noone mentioned them?
I just bought an Acer C720 chromebook as a second machine and am absolutely blown away by how nice it is for $200. You can run Ubuntu (with your choice of window manager) side by side ChromeOS with crouton, or completely replace ChromeOS with chrubuntu. There are some quirks if you try to replace ChromeOS, so IMHO stick with crouton and either xfce or unity.

The screen is low end, and the track pad nothing to write home about, but the battery life and portability are unbelievable--a true 8 hours of usage in a machine about 2.5 lbs. heavy. ChromeOS itself isn't bad for just using as a browser and then crouton to fill in the gaps of missing stuff like a good text editor, development tools, etc. Even with just the basic 2GB memory and 16gb SSD version I have no issues with memory or disk space (about 8gb free once a basic ubuntu + unity install is added).

I really can't say enough good things about this setup. I wouldn't use it exclusively as my only machine since 11" is kind of small, but as a second machine for portability or browsing the web it is fantastic.
Not really. If you can get past the AR paywall (which is a bit erratic) you can read one of the original statements of the movement here:
http://www.architectural-review.com/8603840.article
Slightly contentious recent discussion of the broader style here:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan...
Hi there, as a member of the LGBT community I fully support this endeavour because, hey, I don't want my sexuality marginalised when all I'm trying to do is read some code on github!

Please tell me more about how feeling insulted and marginalised is a good thing.
In Pakistan, personal vendettas are sometimes carried out by accusing people of blasphemy, thus deputizing the state apparatus in your service.
http://www.fides.org/en/news/32696?idnews=32696&lan=eng#.UyY...

Thus, we now see the use of 'sexism' as simply a masquerade for bad shit that goes on, to deputize the internet hordes to serve your cause.
That background is incredibly distracting.
I was speculating that if everybody switched to streaming torrents, nobody will bother seeding. Except those who have some interest in being a seeder.

I do think that many (non-technical) people being unaware of seeding or ratios helped torrents a lot. They watched movies, and they became seeders.
Bit of a nitpick, but

> given how important mobile browsing is to every site

I find my own sites get ~5-10% mobile visitors. It's even pretty simple text-based stuff that renders fine on mobile (at least on my own Android phone), so I don't think I'm scaring them off. But I just don't get mobile visitors, either on my academic sites, or on some commercial side projects.

So while I do check how things render on mobile, if only because I occasionally visit my own sites myself, I don't yet consider it an important demographic for my own work. And the proportion of revenue it provides on the commercial sites is even more paltry, typically 2-5% of ad & affiliate revenue, less even than the usage share.
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The Wellness program at my job is ridiculous (Kersh Wellness). They mandate that we cannot having vending machines with snacks (chips, candy, etc) but they are perfectly fine with us having 2 giant vending machines full of 240-calorie soft drinks.

How does that make any damn sense? A Snickers and a cup of water are going give me more energy, and more of a 'full' feeling than a bottle of Pepsi.
It sounds more the issue that the guy in question has an extreme lack of social skills.

I've successfully done stuff with co-workers before, but it happened in undertones. I did not go to anyone's house to profess my love. That's creepy no matter who's doing it.
Ask HN: Do you take food supplements?
With all the controversy around regular food supplements usage, I was just wondering if any of you took food supplements to enhance or support your body, and if yes which ones and for what.

I personally take Magnesium on period of stress, as its level goes down during time of anxiety, leading according to studies to more anxiety from magnesium deprivation.
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This is a really weird issue. Why is she making a big public splash without naming names?
If your $LANG is en-us does your sense of humour go amiss?
For a B2B product - identify five people to whom you can honestly say: "You would be stupid not to buy this product" These should be real people you can name - not hypothetical people. If you cannot identify such people, but think they are out there, do everything possible to find them. Go through Linkedin and see who in your extended network fits your target market and find someway to talk to them. Email people or message people on blogs or social sites that seem to have the pain point you have identified. In reality, you will need to talk to far more than five people in order to narrow it down to five people who clearly need your product.

Once you have found a set of people who need your product, get their feedback on the idea, show a mockup or prototype, and ask if they would buy it. If a bunch of people say "yes", time to go build! But as you build, make sure you check in very regularly with potential customers, so that you stay on a the right track.

Keep in mind there is a big trap you must avoid in this process. Many prospective customers will be positive about an idea, but they overestimate their own willingness to get through the friction involved in adopting a new product. So the prospect says the idea is good - but then you build it, and they don't actually use it, because turns out email and excel had a bunch of hidden benefits that make them better than your product.

As an entrepreneur, you need to implore people to be brutally honest in their feedback, lest you build the wrong thing. You should focus more on identifying their pain-points than on pitching your own solution. You also have to make your own judgements about how big the pain point is, rather than just blindly trusting a prospect when they say they would buy your product. And you should to some extent reverse pitch - ("Did you think of solving your problem by doing X? Do you really need me to build a product to help fix this?")
I think you have a lot of good points. Let me just point out that aggressiveness in management is present IN EVERY INDUSTRY KNOWN TO MAN. I faced it pretty hard in the news business. Just because your boss is aggressive, and he's a man, AND you're a woman, doesnt mean shit for evidencing sexist behavior. People need to realize that aggressive management != sexism.
Most broadband is asymmetrical (ADSL) so the downstream bandwidth is at least an order of magnitude more than upstream. As you download, your upstream bandwidth is saturated just with the acknowledgement traffic (non-payload ACK) of the download.

You can verify the effect yourself by comparing the network upload statistics from your operating system with the seed statistics of your bittorrent client.
I wonder if it's the real Yify who did the dev on the popcorn app revival?
My understanding is that BTS domains are owned for life (like .bit domains, which must be renewed, but at no cost), but it is up for auction for a fixed window of time after the first bid starts.

However, at the moment it's purely in the planning stages.
“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
What's with all the hate for brutalist architecture in this thread?
Rust is a brilliant idea. Apply some of the last 50 years of programming languages advances to a low-level language. And they're enthusiastic about incorporating more of them, as they have time to implement them.

Go is just another language that ignored the last 50 years of programming language advances in order to not scare C programmers who are afraid of learning anything new.
This may be true, but on my network it takes less than 5 minutes to download a 2GB file and 20 minutes to have 200% upload. I usually stop uploading after that. Now if I were to use Popcorn Movie I'd be uploading for much longer period.
I just have to ask. If it really is that way, what would prevent the maintainers of open source projects to issue (more or less worthless) "shares" of their projects? Could this be a way to pay open source developers?
I don't think it's fair to group measures that have a valid security justification along with those that do not. Code signing, secure boot (including TPM when used as a part of that), and patch protection do, and can be disabled. Linux distros really should probably have more rigorous protections along those lines, but manage to avoid it because nobody targets Linux (not because it's that much more secure); Chrome OS has them anyway, despite almost everything being open source, including Chromebook bootloaders, and I like that fact.

Meanwhile, proprietary software and closed hardware specifications have nothing to do with security and should be criticized more harshly.
Oh give us a break, my Mum 60+ calls her friends 'girls'. The word hasn't been 'women' in ages. You people, sheesh.
That's a tough one - and an interesting challenge! Almost everything I could think of either didn't come with a risk of disaster (or at least, no risk of major disaster), or has had major disasters.

The best I came up with was determining longitude based on the lunar distance. It could be disaster for a single ship that got it wrong, but I don't think there were major disasters during the 80 years (2-3 generations) it was in service.

I can think that a fleet might have ended up in the wrong place (like the Scilly naval disaster of 1707), so there could be a major disaster, but a fleet also has enough independent people doing their own reckonings that it would be self-correcting. I looked through the UK and French lists of ship disasters, but found no multi-ship disasters based on location errors during 1767 to ~1850.

(If you want a physical technology, rather than mathematical technique, then Hadley's octant, integrated with Vernier's scale, which made the octant precise enough that sailors could use to judge longitude usefully. In turn, it was effectively replaced in the 1800s by the sextant.)

But I don't know enough about nautical history to know if there were major disasters caused by octant/sextant use which were comparable to pre-lunar distance methods.
Thanks for the input, I also corrected attribution of the script, thanks for pointing that out :)
Who’s More Famous Than Jesus?
Not going to get rid of the span of control problem - this is like streamlining the army by doing away with NCO's.
If you find this amusing, you should read the book "devil take the hindmost," particularly the section on the south sea bubble.

Tldr: in the south sea bubble it did eventually lead to a stackoverflow
Unfortunately a subset of the population likes to hide behind their anonymity and act nasty to others.
You're reading this entirely wrong. This is an opportunity to submit requests (you know how pull requests aren't automatically accepted, right?) to help clean up the vile bigotry that exists within people's repos.

If you honestly believe this to be "bullying" or "vigilantism" then you're rocking one serious persecution complex with this issue. For people like us, this shit is actually important. You're complaining about generic curse words like "fuck" and "shit" and entirely missing the point.

Slurs like those mentioned in the article aren't just words, for people who have had to live with those insults our entire lives, they have history and they have been used to insult and oppress us. Get the fuck off your high horse because _you're_ not offended and perhaps put yourselves in the shoes of someone who has had these words used against them, spat with bile and venom, for decades.

Also, in "your day" you ended up with broken bones, well that's great, I've got two dead friends who committed suicide because of words like these over the years. This isn't a dick waving competition, this shit has serious effects on people.
I agree that's true, but I think that's more or less the problem this essay is tackling also (which I guess is why it ended up here). There is a pretty long history of anti-authoritarian political movements running into the problem that the first step of abolishing formal titles and declaring that your group has a flat hierarchy with collective leadership is... not enough to remove the actual existence of authority. If anything it can sometimes be worse because now there is a boss but it's not explicit, and you have to be "in the know" to even know who calls the shots. While at least with a President or CEO or Supreme Leader the actual boss is labeled, and everyone has fair notice of who he/she is. So the problem is what to do about that: abandon the flat-hierarchy idea, or try to push it further into a really-flat-in-practice organization?
Ahh awesome. I'm more a lego/technic enthusiast, but don't quite have the space for lego anymore, so I just enjoy reading the lego blogs and seeing other peoples creations.