skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ebook DRM is way more scary.

I'm curios about your use of the term "scary". First of all, is the assumption that ebooks are a more valid form of information transmission or artistic expression than video? If it's purely a question of information, then I'd argue that ebook DRM is largely irrelevant because the Internet has surpassed books as the primary information delivery tool (see: Wikipedia). [side note: I think it's curious that as our access to some content has become more restricted, are access to other content has exploded. A person would never have had access to something like the Wikipedia outside a library 20 years ago, now you can get it on your phone wherever you are].

And it's not like print books have gone away, nor like they will in the near future. Indeed, publishers are desperate to continue to sell them to you because they have more control over the distribution chain. This applies to video as well, for that matter.
Not talking to the police wouldn't have helped the 5 people from the article (although having a lawyer would have helped). They would play a prisoner's dilemma against you, or tell you "your 4 buddies confessed and implicated you, just confess and get a lighter sentence".
This was one of the things that made OSX horrible for me when switching from Windows and Linux. I have since learned the tricks to get around many of OSX's windowing quirks, but I do wonder how things like this have not been fixed.

I love my OSX setup now, but if I was a "non-power-user", I think it would be completely unusable. Watching a typical Windows user try to maximize a window in OSX is pure pain.

Hit the + button: window gets a bit bigger, but not full screen.

Drag the window to the top: nothing happens.

Try to get to the edge of the window, and drag it out: RSI inducing frustration.

Windows seems to dominate as far as basic user usability goes on the windowing front. I would still find it completely unusable without the help of a windowing app like spectacle[1] or slate[2].

[1] http://spectacleapp.com/

[2] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Unreferenced refunds are generally frowned upon by the card networks. We'll talk more about what exactly we're doing eventually, but I'm not ready to explain it all while we're still building.
I have this theory that some animals (e.g. cats and dogs) do in fact recognize that mirrors are reflections, but they just don't care about what's in the reflection. We are fascinated by the idea that we are watching ourselves, but that's a somewhat meta concept and animals just don't care. Just because an animal doesn't care about reflections doesn't mean it necessarily feels like it needs to rub red paint off its reflected self or even really make that connection.
>It we did want to fight it, we wouldn't use products with EME and we would get our non-techie friends to do the same.

I think if I tried to do this, I would have way fewer friends. I don't get invited to many parties to begin with.
Wow, didn't know this! Do you have a source? I guess I can always whip up the inspector.
If you press stop a few times, then play. This normally skips directly to the menu (works for me).
Optimizely is vulnerable to spies
http://goo.gl/JVuP2J

Saw this on reddit. Drag the line below to your bookmark bar and click it on an optimizely customer's website. I never knew how publicly all experiment code was! Crazy!

javascript:window.jQuery && jQuery.getScript("//gist.github.com/optimizelyspytool/7a7f573ec1657fb7db97/raw");
This sort of filtering should also be put in a mouse driver
I think that while those tests do a good job of proving a certain amount of self-awareness, I don't think that a non-reaction by the animal disproves it.
>I think the mainstream popularity of smartphones was inevitable

I don't. I'm not a fan of Apple, but they really transformed our conception of a smartphone and made them a desirable device for the mass market. As I'm sure you know, early versions of Android looked nothing like it did once the iPhone was revealed. Even relatively modern smartphone platforms like WebOS completely failed to resonate with the public.
The Typesafe blog regularly includes case studies to give you some idea of Scala in the wild: http://www.typesafe.com/blog/CaseStudy
Idaho just hosted the best political debate of the year
> Fine, we'll use your definitions. That's cool.

Under your definition, Apple received an $18 billion subsidy between 2009-2011. What did the public get in return for that subsidy? Is that a dumb question? Yes, because your definition of subsidy makes no sense.

> http://www.pcworld.com/article/242713/fcc_votes_to_end_telep.... "The FCC will cap the broadband fund at US$4.5 billion a year, the current budget of the USF high-cost program, funded by a tax on telephone bills." Over 6 years.

USF is not a subsidy to the telecom industry, because it is funded by a tax on the industry. It just shifts money from certain telecom customers to others.

> And like any other market, Exelon isn't having trouble turning a profit from regulation

Excelon is a terrible example of utilities turning a profit, because it really isn't one. When the energy industry was deregulated, the regulated electric monopoly in Illinois, Commonwealth Edison, divested itself of its generation capacity. This entity became Excelon, and it is not regulated S a public utility the way ComEd is.
I haven't. Though, the reason I like podcasts though is I can pick what shows I want to listen to and when to listen to them.
Pretty much every Pg related post on depesz.com is a gold mine. You should read them all, especially where he explains upcoming features in new Pg releases. I've learned a ton simply be browsing through his site, which is very readable with great examples to put the concepts into practice.
The expected effects are the large foreign cash reserves and strong exports.

The unexpected effects have been the massive growth of China's underground banking system and the housing bubble. To keep exchange rates low China needed to keep interest rates low. They did this by legislating Banks' deposit account interest rates. In turn this caused everyone to look elsewhere to invest their life's savings.

Thus we get large ghost towns and ship yards acting as unregulated banks. I expect this tactic to burn China bad at some point in time.
they have an office next to where I work... I've had to reach them twice and everyone I dealt with was high/mighty/rude right off the bat... I overhear them after hours in the local bar as well... bratty

granted I've never used pinterest, but seeing this valuation cracks me up... I've learned from past experience, dating too, if someone is a jerk to strangers (or the waiter) drop them

battle google? go for it, and this may be even more off topic, but I've run into googlers around the city and they have always been friendly/polite/ almost humble for working at google... no way they compete in my mind
> They must somehow find meaning in their predicament

This helps you keep your sanity, but when the same thing happens on a large scale, it can also cause all sorts of social problems.

There are many cultures that valorize unnecessary suffering for the sake of suffering, just because it has always been a part of life. Often this takes the form of a rite of passage, such as genital mutilation, mandatory military service, and ridiculous amount of cramming in high school (especially in East Asia). Work that serves absolutely no purpose other than putting food on your table might fall into this category.

People often romanticize such activities, they think there's some profound meaning and honor in enduring them, and they even feel ashamed if they fall short of the societal norm. But in many cases, the illusion of honor is just a collective coping strategy. Koreans valorize studying 18 hours a day because they know of no other way to learn. Americans valorize full-time employment because most of them are stuck doing it. Soldiers everywhere brag about how brutal their training was because it makes them feel like their dick is bigger. In every instance, the valorization and romanticization gets in the way of progress.

If you as an individual discover meaning in something that everyone else ignores or takes for granted, that's great, you've become a better person through that experience. But if you see a bunch of people doing it together, it's usually a recipe for conservatism. The ultimate strength of humankind does not lie in our ability to endure pain. It lies in our ability to change the world so that nobody needs to endure the same kind of pain anymore.
very interesting. but even in this introspection it's still a very consumer-publish model. wikipedia is as great as the internet in impact.
I imagine Facebook will try to acquire Pinterest - if there is any money left.
While everything that is said in the article is true, the end result is that the control that the distributers want to have is circumvented by pirating. Therefore, by continuing to try and control the content more, what is actually being done is increasing the demand for pirated content. I know of many people who buy content legally and then in addition acquire the pirated version to use as they please. Therefore, as that process becomes easier (lookup popcorn time to see how easy it can be), the purpose of the control becomes more meaningless.
That's fair, but Jersey's not really very good at many of those individual things. It's not a great tool for a JSON API unless your consumption target is pretty much the same domain library on the other side because you'll end up neck-deep in @JsonProperty. It's not great as a frontend because Freemarker, StringTemplate, and Velocity are all pretty gross.

Play, for me, gives me good tools for doing stuff, and I can make individual services as big or as small as I want.
>If Adobe's CDM can run while completely sandboxed from network and file access

I'll admit this isn't my area of expertise, but how would this be possible?
That might be pretty difficult for members of online banks with one or no physical bank locations. I can dispute a credit card charge by email, phone, or even the web.
I'm afraid you don't know what you're talking about. The bills are paid by the social insurance (and mutuels if you have it,) however the providers are mostly private.
Free markets always win. The markets have a very good history of correcting themselves and it just happens to be that corrections are always rough to most people, and highly profitable to a few. Ex. the 2009 housing bubble in the US. A few people made a ton of money of this. Same with gold coming off its all time highs.
How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden
Similar to Jradd, for me, I'm working on creating a training environment (based on an existing Python app) using docker. Using docker for containerization lets me launch instances with a preset disk/mem quota and also handles forwarding ports from the host to the container automatically.

For a single application, docker doesn't add much except for portability. For a single application with many components, docker adds process isolation (and quotas, and ...).
Stock would go up regardless of any other change. Just getting rid of Ballmer was enough for that.
Maybe those rulings or laws won't happen in the US, but in some major markets of the planet those rulings will happen – partially this discussion has already happened in the EU.
Google Play Store Adds Wallet Rival PayPal As A Payments Option
Pinterest adds considerably more value to my life than any other social network.

It provides inspiration that plans my meals, my vacations, my clothing, the style of my home, etc.
There can be multiple alternate paths. I would much rather see Mozilla live to fight another day and GNU and FSF fight the battles.

Many important battles are fought with multiple tactics and multiple loosely aligned parties with a common goal.
Preemptive multitasking makes this much more valuable than you portray it. Play also makes it really easy and you don't have to seriously think about it.
Alternate title considered... "Pinterest adding $200M to it's debt"
I got this from Schneier's blog:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/new_al_qaeda_...
You see this right now in the internet community around the Disney Movie Frozen.

Most people there own a BluRay of the movie, but we're still using the torrents or video streams for all kind of remixing or for watching them together because we don't have to care about the DRM this way.

Most people only buy the BluRay to give Disney further reason to produce a second movie – so more like you'd donate to an OpenSource project.
Gmail for Android hits 1 billion users
I'm not well-versed in modern sleep research, but our habits today are shifting drastically for the first time. Because of electricity, we're no longer bound to the sun cycle, as species of past millennia have been, and the typical day-night sleep schedule is no longer required.

With alternative sleep cycles popularizing (i.e. biphasic, dymaxion, everyman), I wonder if we'll find that more efficient/healthy systems exist. It's very possible that our modern habits evolved in spite of best health, reacting to more immediate issues instead. But now, with a counter to the danger of darkness, we have an opportunity to experiment with otherwise-unrealistic cycles.

But then again, the 6-10 hour blocks we're acclimated to may be so deeply engrained that our health would face consequences in any other situation.
The Hand that Rocks The Cradle
New ideas are often just old ideas applied to new problems.
The book chapter aside, I think you might actually have it backwards. Hopefully I'm not misunderstanding you terribly! The reason why PG has to spend as much time as he does warning programmers about hidden ways in which Common Lisp mangles your data structures (nconc, for example) is because Common Lisp does not come with immutable data structures out of the box. My impression is that he's telling you how to work as well as you can (strive for purely functional code) with the tools at hand. Clojure, on the other hand, was built so that you could code without having to worry about that stuff by default.

Also, you say that lisps have "always had shared structure." I'm not sure what you mean by that? Clojure implements _structural sharing_, which is what allows it to have persistent, immutable data structures. Common Lisp certainly doesn't do the same.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Lisp went on a journey to Java and was transformed by the experience." I think you're saying that Rich Hickey designed Clojure to be a lisp that's more Java-like? Could you explain how? My impression is that Rich Hickey thinks OO is broken (see the talk "Are we there yet?"), as is the notion of mutability as implemented by Java. Clojure's interop with Java is a great convenience, but the emphasis is still on functional programming. I don't think I understand what you're saying, or maybe it's just that we disagree?

Finally, from clojure.org: "Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs." Maybe it's these state management features you're concerned about? If so, then I would suggest that vars, atoms, refs, and agents are not as inspired by Java as you're saying. Or maybe we just disagree that, the majority of the time, you should be writing pure functions and using immutable data structures in Clojure?
Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work
To be fair, a visual mirror is just a special type of wall.
Here is the take away. "As it turns out, Margaret Thatcher was right..."
Me too. I use it to get inspired at work (for UI design) and home (me and my significant other have a board for backyard ideas) and creative pursuits (like graphic arts).

The space is also very monetizable.

I think Pinterest is going to be bigger than Twitter.
"Arrival of the high speed stream at Earth also coincides with a small (~1%) but rapid decrease in galactic cosmic ray flux...."

Wow, I guess that means a sufficiently increased density of protons from the sun such that 1% of the "cosmic rays" (very energetic protons and atomic nuclei) collide with them.
Where did you read that the $200M raised was debt financing?
> A new CDN node is a new privileged route.

How? Adding any new node to the Internet does create new routes to and from that node, but that doesn't give those routes any privileges over other routes.

> Netflix did buy a new route, replacing the one they were previously buying from Cogent.

And the difference between the new one and the old one is that the new one only carries Netflix traffic, and only goes to Comcast customers. That is what makes it privileged, and what CDNs in general, including the CDN Netflix was previously using to distribute its traffic to Cogent, do not do.
If anything, those numbers are low. I don't know a single engineer in SF who makes < 80k, and I know several junior level engineers.
Because it so happens that two important browser vendors: Google and Microsoft also distribute DRM content. They have as much to "gain" from this as Netflix does.
Prismatic: Making Good Design Decisions
I'd like to recommend the WWW Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. It explores the thoughts behind the instilment of conciousness and awareness. A highly thought provoking read that has a lot of neat parallels to this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW_Trilogy
I couldn't agree more. I'm looking for some pithy name for this fallacy so I can more easily point it out when I see it. It's exactly this sort of thing that leads people to believe that e.g. the patent system is a good idea.
1 billion installs does not imply 1 billion users.
Your underlying assumption (which is unfounded as it turns out) is that drivers are (you imply always, maybe you meant majority... both are wrong) at fault. Bicyclists are often found as the CAUSE of accidents due to erratic (and illegal) road behavior, leading to a finding of no-fault on the driver.
Community Supported Curiosity (indigogo campaign to help kids explore science)
I don't want to install it (because I don't know you, I don't trust you), and I have no idea what is going on. The description is vague, and the website you point to does not seem to have anything related to it.
I think you're just making that up, and that it trivializes the real trauma the article is about.
What's more important, DRM should never be used. Because it never makes pirating inconvenient to the 99.99...9% of the pirates. The 0.00...1% which go through the trouble of breaking that DRM redistribute DRM-free copy to all other pirates, who never deal with that DRM altogether.

What it makes inconvenient is the usage of that service / product for users who actually pay for it. It's a brain dead idea.
I've used portage on Gentoo (a long, long time ago), yum a little bit on Fedora, apt-get a fair amount on debian (a long time ago) and on Ubuntu (a tiny bit, recently), the Cygwin gui package manager on windows (a medium-amount of time ago; shudder), and fink and macports on OS X (a medium-amount of time ago), and I will say this...

Homebrew is, by far, the most pleasant package manager I have ever used.

I couldn't even tell you why, but it's just nicely designed, and shit just tends to work. Part of it is that it targets a very well-defined system (MacOS), and it has an explicit aim to integrate with that system as well as possible. (I guess this could be true of e.g. apt on ubuntu, but ha ha ha.)

As an example, most package managers have some funky, one-off , more-or-less shitty way to update the packages list. Homebrew has...git! Which works great.

I highly recommend checking it out.

Another example: Most package managers say, "you're installing random software off the internet? Better give it root access!" Homebrew installs as the current user, no root access. Much saner default policy, IMO.

Or maybe you want to see a list of installed packages? "brew list". Oh, you wanted one-per-line, that's "brew list -1", just like ls.

Or maybe you want to install some software from a 3rd party repo? "brew tap $somewhere; brew install $something".

It's just a very thoughtful, well-made piece of software. Strongly recommend checking it out.
Bank of England thought they could achieve the Impossible Trinity [1] and failed:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
So it seems that everyone knew the pound was mis-valued, the only thing stopping them from just revaluing was politics and the egos of politicians.

They were a bleeding man in water and Soros was a shark; I don't praise or like him for what he did but he was not the main cause, he just acts as you would have expected him to.
Show HN: Onstaged: first iOS app – let content reach people first
Wow. I wonder what would happen if you wrote "you really murdered me on the golf course today, here's your 20 bucks".
> However, in traffic scenarios, I tend to fairly studiously adhere to the rules of the road. Why? Predictability...

As a driver, THANK YOU! This is the #1 problem with bicyclists, predictability. I drive in DC and I have literally NO IDEA what the hell a bicyclist is going to do -- which makes them little road terrorists to me.

I have watched a rented bike (in DC) ride from pedestrian walkway -- onto street (along side) -- into middle of road, then slow down and ride through a red light -- then stop at the next red light. This was inside of 2 minutes. Very scary from a driver perspective.
Pathfinding Demystified
I find it hilarious how Snapchat is mentioned in the same breath as AT&T and Amazon. The bubble is real.
Look at the address bar in your browser while on the site. No padlock icon. If you switch the URL to https://, you're redirected back to http://. You don't need any special tools.
Copyright law was insufficiently specific about copied media, which I guess wasn't much of an issue when pressing discs way back the, and in retrospect it's clear the Congress hadn't been captured by the RIAA, heck, I suspect back then they weren't too popular, so it took quite some time to close.

This was big enough to be covered in US News and World Report, the general weekly news magazine my parents subscribed to back then (competitor with Time and Newsweek). Time period would be in the early to mid-'70, or at least that's when my family started doing this for a few years.
For echolocation to work, you'd basically need some sort of mold of the animal itself that moved in real-time to match it.
Markdown editor Mou.app is for sale
Cmd-? is so much better than arrow keys. It’s like having M-x everywhere. You can also use that instead of Ctrl-F2.
And this is why proprietary lock-in is wrong.

Adobe seem to do all they can to screw up the computer their software is installed on. On a Mac you are supposed to drag an app into the Applications folder; to delete it, drag it to trash. Adobe software doesn't work like this. To install a trial of their software you have to install multiple apps, that can't be easily removed, and put up with their stupid Adobe logo in the title bar even when you're not using their software. You can't even use a trial without signing up for a "Creative Cloud" account.

Adobe's "Creative Cloud" is a great example of how to alienate and annoy your customers.

(Don't get me started on Flash)
A small amount of "constructive feedback" drowned out by the excessive pessimism that one can only find in HN comments. Let me also mention that we don't live in a world where everyone can(or even wants to) get brain surgery.
Wow, that is damning for RTOR. Makes intuitive sense, but damn.
A CDN only carries traffic for those who’ve paid to be on it. That’s privileged, and not neutral.

If the CDN is on Comcast’s premises, or primarily feeds a single last-mile network (which would de facto be true on a local level), then same.