skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8 years ago I bought a small DVD player for my son from US. I can't use it for any of the DVDs I bought from here, in Romania. But the AVIs will play just fine.
The problem isn't hierarchy or authoritarianism (though the latter is a symptom of it), but the distribution of power in any organization (or society), regardless of its goals. The point is simple: shying away from a clear power structure results only in an unfair and unmanageable distribution of power. Companies like GitHub, that believe in "self-organizations" would often fall into this trap once they grow large enough. Julie Ann Horvath's story at GitHub demonstrates how events unfold when the power structure isn't explicit.
The examples should be the other way around. Very safe and simple to drive but slower and not that powerful: bike an a proper bike lane (Python). Reasonably safe & fast: SUV (Rust). Really fast and you can do crazy things (drive on one wheel at 200km/h) but also enormously dangerous: Motorcycle (C/C++).
If the original statement was made by a man it would be ground enough for another diatribe against the X-deficient gender, clearly hell-bent on diminishing the other gender's capacities.

It is as if history has made a full cycle and we'll soon be back in the 60's - cold war included. Panem et circenses for the masses, I assume?
The only thing that doesn't work on my late 2013 13" MBPr (11,1) is the builtin webcam.
The old approach: "Stores! Stores! Stores!"

A new approach: Anchor stores, entertainment, utility, accessiblity, asthetics, a spectrum of economic appeal, grocery stores. Owners can be demanding of rents to some extent, but when they drive out (or never had) a movie theatre or grocery store, they are losing the "single destination for lots of what you need" and "nice place to go" value.

Of some LA malls, I think the Fallbrook Center [1] has rebuilt itself well, regarding:

* Entertainmnet-wise, AMC Theatres rebuilt the old shoebox-y 7-screen multiplex with way fewer seats. Moreso, every movie theatre seat is a wide-width, electrically-powered recliner including footrests! What used to be 20 rows of seats is now 7 or 8 for one screen, so prices are a bit higher. One can /reserve a seat/ via Fandango over the Internet (fee refunded by AMC) so one doesn't have to come early and wait in line for "a good seat"; they're all good and one can book them in advance. The theatre feels much more full, and seems more popular.

* By "spectrum of economic appeal", specifically, Fallbrook has /three/ full grocery stores (a "Ralphs" (Kroger) supermarket, "Sprouts Farmers Market" luxury grocery, and a "Trader Joes", plus two more department stores that include grocery sections: A Target and a Walmart.

* Utility-wise, it's got a Home Depot, a 24-Hour-Fitness gym, a Chuck-E-Cheese (hat tip to Nolan Bushnell)

* Accessability-wise, there are street lights at mid-block entrances for auto traffic, and bike lanes on the streets for bicycle traffic, and bike racks (though I'd like to see more of those).

* For asthetics, there are planters and small stand-alone buildings facing the street (urban-style). This broke the ugly old impression the prior desert-of-asphalt a hot summer's day brought.

* Instead of a food court, the small buildings facing the street are a mix of stand-alone and multi-tenant places to eat, both sit-down (indoor) and walk-up bar with outdoor seating. Market diversity here too: Starbucks, Jamba Juice, IHOP, a lobster specialty franchise, and a non-franchised grill (Tikka grill) and non-franchised Vietnamese restaurant.

They're doing fine, there is such a diversity of things to do as well as things to get there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallbrook_Center

Edit: grammar, clarity
Here's a Go rewrite that excels in safety over it's C++ original especially when working with the raw bitcoin protocol for multi sig transactions https://github.com/conformal/btcd
It would be great if they could build a version for music streaming. Something like spotify...
>Now, you can deal with all those things. There are ways to manage, mitigate or avoid them. I'm well aware of that. But frankly, I shouldn't have to...

This is very common with a mismatch in entitlements. People don't know how to handle the things they are used to getting for free.

Realistically though, you can just pay to have someone do your taxes and you will never have to worry about penalties and you will likely get extra deductions that you didn't know were available. Yes, it would be nice if the government provided this service already, but they don't and even including this in a reason not to move to the US is sad because the cost of having a professional do it is so negligible.

The legal environment depends on what you would be doing here. If you are just working for a company, you will effectively never have to deal with it. If you are starting your own company, then yes, it's a pain but I haven't gone down that path so I can't elaborate on that further.

Finally, for health care it depends again your situation. If you are working for a good company, you will get good health care and it won't be a concern. You might have to pay small fees on visits to the doctor, but these are usually <$50. When looking from your perspective, keep in mind that the US health care debate is always going to bring up worst possible case scenarios that aren't representative of the norm, especially if you are a skilled migrant worker good enough for a company to get you an H1B.
Dell Precision machines are other worldly (hope Dell doesn't go under, got an M4700 for development and a couple of R610s in colo, yelp).

Linux support for PC laptops should be pretty decent across the board these days, IMO. Will require some tweaking for things like trackball and trackpad, but otherwise basic system functionality should be there out of the box.
No, I think you missed my point.

We now how a set of people who think they're judge, jury and executioner on terms they don't think other people shouldn't use.

Not only that, they are hiding behind the political correctness flag. Let's call it for what it is shall we? Bullying. Plain and simple.
I've tried that and failed. Few problems to expect: switchable graphics, external screens, crazy DPI, wifi drivers. For more details have a look at my blog entry: http://doppnet.com/2013/02/running-linux-on-2012-macbook-pro...

I've ended up going for Asus U500. It's good but not ideal.
Now, let's stop telling Google it's going to eat itself. You're going to give it a googleplex.
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It's weird that the absolute best video experience right now seems to involve Plex plus either piracy or purchasing huge numbers of Blu-Ray and ripping them yourself; it's pretty much your own Netflix, seeded with first-run content, no spying, etc. But you need a seedbox, membership on private torrent sites (which requires either starting from semi-open sites and moving up, or getting direct invites from knowledgeable friends), some effort paid to keep ratio in line, etc.

That's a pretty substantial investment; for $100/mo or more, it's hard to believe the "legit" industry hasn't come out with something like "Netflix that doesn't suck".
so someone tell me the real risk of me getting sued (or even threatened) by a movie company, by my ISP, by my police department, and then I will use it. maybe
Thanks for the input Don. People love these homes!
Only if there is nothing coming out of this research. Many things are often discovered when looking for something else.
Göbbels committed suicide with his wife and his five little children. There are photographs publically available of their semi-burnt bodies.

Why wouldn't he also have escaped if the other asshole got out?

ERROR> Conspiracy denied.
Wait, why are people so quick to download and install these binaries? This is an excellent opportunity to piggyback a virus onto a ton of people's computers, and the "Yify" github profile seems to have no other prior history: https://github.com/Yify

EDIT: Nevermind, it's headed by jduncanator who seems to have done a lot of public work. They also contributed to the original popcorn time.
No, I think it comes off as sarcasm.
One does that in Lisp, too. But often we want to avoid that. Lisp programs are often written in such a way that interactive modification is painless. There are a few very large Lisp programs which would take too long to compile/load each time. Thus we learn to deal with changing running programs. A Lisp system is often like a big collection of objects.
No need for the sensationalist title (currently "Popcorn Time is back with a vengeance"). "Popcorn Time build 0.2.7" would suit it fine.
Seems we'll be learning evolution the hard way. Weeeeeeeeeeeee!
Look at the list of contributors at the end of the release notes of the upcoming 0.9.0 release of the bitcoin reference client[1]. Or look at the activity of other projects, e.g. the bitcoinj google group[2]. There's a lot more than 5 people working on bitcoin.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/test/README.txt

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/bitcoinj
OP here. I agree, but sadly they've botched the keyboard and trackpad in their latest iteration.
I have been looking at the T5XX line, but I just don't want something that large! I travel quite a bit and very much prefer a 13" max system. I have X220 right now and the X1 would have been perfect if they didn't completely screw it up.
Yes, let's bully another group of people in the name of "oppressed minorities" because two lefts make a right, two wrongs must make one. Right? Right?
Yes, it has been described as such. A main difference/interesting property of this VM is that end users write programs in Forth by extending the VM's instruction set (= the set of dictionary definitions). While in interpreted mode or at compile time (i.e. when the user types words in the terminal), the instruction lookup is slow, through one or more linked lists. At run time, definitions simply consist of lists of pointers to other functions.
Zuckerberg is also an awkward case because he effectively did do a very traditional liberal-arts degree, complete with learning to read and write Greek and Latin, and extensive study of classical poetry. He just did it earlier in life, because he went to a famous private boarding school, the Phillips Exeter Academy, which followed that model of education. He's definitely not the product of some kind of modern technically-focused vocational education: Phillips Exeter is not exactly a "learn-to-code camp" place.
Aveation Leaks article is much more informative: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article/PrintArticle.aspx?id=/ar...
No solution, but I share your hate for the new keyboards. Last I had to replace my laptop I went to a lot of trouble to buy refurbished gear just so I could get the old model.

I'm hoping that Lenovo gets their act together before my current one dies, but it is a pretty forlorn hope.
That's a very good point. +1
APP IDEA: Are you afraid to share source code with external contractors?
Imagine hiring an off-shore contractor to do your HTML and CSS for you. You don't know the contractor so sharing the git repo with source code is out of question.

So the contractor creates the initial version of the HTML and you waste time integrating it yourself and keep integrating the stuff they write while growing your app.

I'm thinking about creating a tool that will make the process much easier by sharing only selected directories of a git repo (e.g. the front-end CSS and HTML) while letting the contractor preview their changes live using a development version of the app under development.

Do you think this tool would be useful?

Would you pay for it?
I played around with the original a bit, and I couldn't find this anywhere; does Popcorn Time support/allow me to require encrypting my torrent traffic?
I don't if it's the same dude|lady|group, but Yify is well known in the torrent scene.
The point is, in the lean management organization you don't really have someone to take you aside and tell you to stop being a dick.

This is especially problematic when trying to overcome culturally calcified gender discrimination. What you're describing as being a "blunt bastard" could very well come off as male-privileged locker room talk. In the sports world there have been numerous attempts to contort locker room talk as somehow gender neutral, just a function of personality, some women talk that way, not all men do, and so forth. These arguments miss the forest for the trees: there does exist a culture of male privilege that is overwhelmingly less welcoming to women.
I'm going to replicate the comment I made on the reddit thread here:

Strongly recommend against [System76]

1) They only test against one version of ubuntu, and they seem to patch the acpi bios specifically for that one, so good luck changing distros or versions.

2) Their bios has fun bugs, like how my serp7 (Serval Professional) turns itself off after 20 minutes on battery because it thinks it's about to die, even though the battery itself thinks otherwise. (It's not happening at the OS level, I already have that part configured correctly, it's the bios coordinating with the EC itself).

3) They don't bother to actually hook up the acpi bios correctly, so many of the generic acpi platform functions (e.g. get_brightness/_BQC and set_brightness/_BCM) don't work correctly. Instead, they rely on (going back to #1) the platform map that Seems To Work As Detected except that it's detected as something similar, but not correct. I had a bunch of things break on kernel upgrade due to the mapping having a bugfix to make it work correctly for the hardware it was intended for, which made it work incorrectly for the serp7 that was squatting on it.

4) When I called support about #3, their answer was "reinstall the ubuntu version it shipped with and try again." I asked for enough documentation to actually solve the problem- I intended to implement a system76-specific acpi driver (think "thinkpad_acpi.ko"); I was informed that that information was proprietary and would not be released under any circumstances.

5) These laptops are fragile. My company bought three different system76s (on my recommendation, ugh) and of those, only mine still works.
In the United States, the FAA is implementing a program called NextGen Air Transportation System that would feature two-way, GPS-based satellite communication. There are numerous benefits outside of an accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportat...
You can pay $8 for Netflix because they pay movie studios the prices they ask for the content. You can't watch those same new movies on Netflix because the market value of that content is higher. The DRM allows companies to exploit the price difference between "early adopter" customers and those that will get it later on Netflix.

Same price strategy occurred with hard and softcover books and their release schedules.

Studios should be allowed to charge more for their content when it's new - they'll keep doing this until it's proven the streaming model works out to more money over time. Popcorn Time only hurts that argument as it stands, but could be an interesting Netflix competitor in the pay for play space (peer to peer would save on infrastructure costs)
"One button mouse is crap as well"

Is this something to do with the driver, because the current Apple mice are not one button unless you call multi-touch that.

Also, is the "fn + delete" not mappable in Ubuntu as that is the OS X mapping for a real delete?
Yeah, I couldn't remember exactly what was around, when. But I meant warehouse stores and the like. Home Depot, perhaps? Or in my case, Orchard Supply. Which really shows you the Valley's origins.
+1 For the Dell Precision, although it's very much a 'portable workstation' rather than a truly mobile laptop. Think of it as something you will use with a docking station in place of a full tower.

Also, you'll probably want to know about this fix: http://askubuntu.com/questions/50491/detect-touchpad-as-touc...
Obligatory: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html
There's: https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy ...
Interesting, Yify picked it up. If you don't know, Yify is a movie release group.

https://torrentfreak.com/yify-torrents-announces-retirement-...
It's not. You will detect that in many cases it is a language issue, too. If you look at Lisp, you can see that the language definitions are optimized for interactive use and have a lot of facilities defined at the language level: incremental definitions, evaluation, effects of loading code, a robust interactive error system, ...
https://wzrtr6gpencksu3d.tor2web.org/

It's just a .onion github clone to pseudoanon share booters/LOIC and other "evil" code. It was called GitTor but I guess they recently changed the name.
Certainly not.

If the wife has a formal, executive role at the company, then that's a completely different matter. I'm just speculating based on the usual way of things - I could be completely wrong.
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If you look through the comments here, you'll see several people specifically mentioning agent orange as what's wrong with Monsanto.

A lot of the current activism against monsanto is due to pressure groups who have hated them for a very long time. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (both of which I used to be a member of until I realised what anti-science crap they were spouting about GMOs) have both had long-running campaigns which have strongly affected the public mood about GMOs. The 'Frankenfoods' Greenpeace campaign set the UK down a particularly crippling path.
But those "obstacles" and "hurdles" can themselves be exploited in some cases. If they're software-based, then they can just end up making the attack surface much larger.
Modula-2 was a possible alternative around the early 80's, back when C compilers were still slower than dumb written Assembly language on micro-computers.

Sadly UNIX spread into the enterprise and with it brought C to the masses and spread the doom of security we still enjoy.

C++ is way safer than C, if one use modern C++ instead of C underpinning that allowed the language to become mainstream.

Now, we have to hope languages like Rust and D might recover what Ada, Modula-2 did not managed to become.
Popcorn Time (or the next leeching app) isn't good for torrents and sharing in general. If everybody switched to this type of software, there won't be enough seeds. Or maybe seeders will predominantly be those with some commercial interests (malware, ads?); and torrents will no longer be truly peer to peer.

Add: The old FAQ is gone, but quote from http://www.ibtimes.com/popcorn-time-movie-streaming-netflix-... : "According to Popcorn Time’s FAQ, you do indeed seed (upload) parts of the movie while you watch. Popcorn Time does state that ‘your movies will stay buried in a secret folder somewhere in your drive until you restart your computer. Then it will be gone for good.’"
However, the guy who declared his love for her despite knowing that she had a boyfriend, and then started sabotaging all her code when she shot him down, is very much sexist bullshit.
People breaking the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Digital rights management protects the artists and the publishers from having their rights violated by the criminals who watch movies using Popcorn Time. Furthermore, the creators of Popcorn Time are subject to being accessories to the crime.
That's true, but when that leads to the (hypothetically) more powerful spouse taking on a shadow role at her husband's company, then it can lead to potential abuses, as it may have done in this case.

(Disclaimer: not an insider, wildly speculating, etc)
Having worked for a major mall owner many years ago, this is the primary reason why malls 'fail' and was completely omitted by the article. Shifting demographics affect Malls in both ways: the design and build of a Mall serving a low socio-economic area is significantly different from 'A-Class' Malls as they are now known.

Where I worked, they had taken a multi year (decade actually) play to purchase two older malls in socio-economic areas that were trending down. They then acquired the land only a short distance (relatively) in a burgeoning new upmarket area and was able to build a new Class A mall (without objections from the other malls ... that they already owned). They then migrated the higher end stores to the new mall and began to close one of the old malls (and were actually able to sell them off!!!). This is evolution, not the death of Malls.
Lisp Machines were mostly stack machines.
Interesting... Do you have a link to more info about this? Specifically regarding the malware?
Actually. Those that are watching the movies are actually seeding those movies at the same time :)
I think we agree that the law should be changed - the point I'm making is that companies that have lobbied are in no (moral) position to complain if the law is changed harshly in their disfavor.
What a retro look, I dig it. As for the actual content, whatever.
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Google's Chrome Web browser was successfully exploited by VUPEN on March 13 with a use-after-free memory flaw that enabled a sandbox bypass.

Am I right in thinking that would be only the second Chrome exploit that escape the sandbox (if we ignore exploits that relied on plugins)?
I imagine that big part of that is the large percentage of the US population that leaves on or near a coast. Major underground excavation isn't really possible when ground level is only 10m or so above sea level/the water table.
it's also a node-webkit so while one could inject some code in the nodewebkit runtime, most of the code is just html js and css.
I am sorry it fills you with dread. I am actually extremely encouraged by my recent experiences on HN and pleasantly surprised to see this piece discussed in earnest. I hope that, over time, I will be able to blog about some things that have been helpful to me personally in hopes of getting some solutions in place. Since some people here are taking my premise seriously, that looks a great deal more do-able to me than it ever has before.
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It's really unusual though to have a seed ratio of 1 by the time a torrent has finished downloading. There's no way this is sustainable unless you make the movies hang around after they're watched and continue seeding into the future.
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This is incorrect. By design, torrent participants both download AND upload at the same time. If you don't believe me, check your network activity using the tool that comes with your OS. You'll see significant upload transfer. :)
I agree with the pricing differential stuff, but I'm suspicious about the DRM claim. Is there any evidence that DRM allows companies to exploit the price difference? I always thought it was studios' better marketing and distribution. E.g., people buy real copies of The Incredibles not because DRM keeps it out of the hands of criminals, but because criminals can't sell movies on Amazon or at Walmart.
As a long-long time XBMC user, this has been my main movie/tv setup for years. Things have changed, I do spend $7 bucks a month on a seedbox, private trackers are the way to go, and yea ratio is pretty key. So way less than $100/mo or even $15/mo on Netflix. And for ratio isn't too hard to maintain if you are always getting the latest content (new movies/episodes) and let them seed for a day or until next weeks show airs your ratio will be top notch.
Really?!?

Modula-2 was created in 1978! Just to cite one memory safe systems programming language.
1. Provide for your own i.e. grow your own food and customize your own manufacturing.
2. Develop a strong ethic of value add to your interactions with other people.
3. Empower,not just encourage, other individuals to be creative rather than consumptive, thus generating freedom and accountability.
Honeypot trackers log your IP and big media send ISP notices in batch. So you may or may not get a 1st strike warning in the future.

Better to just using a private tracker with semi-lax rules, such as ILoveTorrents.
I like anonymity because it puts a focus on what you say rather than who you are