skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The policy will only affect Justin.tv, not Twitch.
It's more correct to describe the collusion of the publishers as a cartel than as a monopolist here. They work together in collusive price-fixing arrangements.

Amazon may have just enough market power as a customer of theirs to break this arrangement, however it would be quite a stretch to call Amazon a monopsony.
Hmmm I guess its about time that Greece starts claiming those copyrights! Who knows we might exit crysis at the end of the day! Lets start by copyrighting Democracy!...
I'm sympathetic to Github's aims of addressing women's issues and increasing diversity. But as a general rule, in direct proportion to the extent that HR are permitted to step in and formalize something at a place, I am less likely to want to work at that place. I understand the need for processes for handling certain situations or deeply-ingrained challenges. But the more structured things are allowed to become, the more constraining a company feels.
It was: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/
Reports of user data being compromised could lead to a consultant being hired...

So right there, there's a good chance that it wouldn't get reported and there's less of a chance that management would understand the implications and hire the consultant.
Engadget mentioned this in 2009: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/29/ultrathin-algae-based-bat....

I wonder why it hasn't reached the market yet. There's gotta be a reason if the technology is as amazing as people claim. Does anyone know what the hangups are?
There is a very real difference between people voluntarilly sharing the information they have, and breaking and entering into someones personal networks to steal stuff.

When you torrent a file, you are never participating in an involuntary transaction. And very little torrented material is procured through breaking into secure networks - an example of that would be the half life 2 prerelease source break in.

These are people performing legal valid transactions with businesses (be they physical discs, or digital downloads) and then they share the information they now posses, but under copyright do not own (you never own it unless you are the creator or rights holder) with others that want that information.

Like I said, if you break the encryption on someones private network to steal their data that is still a violation of their property rights because you are breaking in. You aren't stealing, but the act of breaking in is still violating their property rights, or in this context their right to security.

In movie terms, it would be fine for a movie studio to create a film, and never distribute it. Then it is theirs, privately, and nobody has the right to forcibly take it from them, even if the encoded information is valuable to someone or useful. But when they start selling DVDs outside the studios front door, and you buy one and go home with it, rip it and share it on TPB, there is never a violation of voluntary exchange or property rights besides you breaking an implied contract with the media distributor that nobody understands exists and thus no market in the world is operating without it. People also break contracts all the time, and that usually doesn't result in a jail sentence, it results in a secession of business. And IP is ridiculous in how you enter perpetual contracts by having a sequence of polarized magnetic splotches on a composite disk.

Hell, when people try to release software public domain (like sqlite) there is a massive legal morass and their disclosure license is pages long just to cover all the corner cases.
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I guess I mean some union or intersection of information systems and information technology.

The enormous private employment sphere -- a substantial part of it being significantly sized corporations -- where so many graduates go off to have "careers". It's not "sexy" employment, and careers aren't what they used to be, but there's still a lot of it around. (U.S. perspective)

In other words, Scott Adams could probably write a clever strip or three about latency. Perhaps he has.
> This is what the LAPD is doing, and it makes sense.

No, it doesn't. LAPD is not the fucking army. The army on foreign land during an invasion has to treat everyone like a potential enemy that can take their lives. The police does not and should not act the same way against American citizens. Their job is to protect the citizens, not see every single one of them as a potential enemy.

The police is being paid well. But what do they do? They don't hire more offiers with the money. Instead they buy tank-like vehicles, anti-air rockets [1], drones and train and equip the current officers to become more militarized (more SWAT teams, but also for regular officers).

As an army man, have you ever thought about why the army is not allowed to act on US soil? Because the army is a much more aggressive brute force sort of authority, and that's not acceptable in a democracy (unless you want to inevitably live in a civil war-like zone, as a response to that from the population). That's why we have the police. If the police becomes the army, then that kind of screws everything up.

[1] - http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nypd-shoot-planes-weapon/story...
My remark wasn't about the software tools, it was about the human processes around them. There are major knowledge gaps in every organization I've ever interacted with (hundreds) that use certificates.

For example: How do you get the private key to a second IIS server, if you are doing poor man's DNS load balancing with the same hostname?
> If You Can Type the Problem into Wolfram Alpha and Get an Answer You Aren’t Doing Math

If something can be computed with WA, it's somehow a waste of human time to do by hand. I could only hope, eventually, someday, we'll teach those aspects of math somehow combined with algoritmization and programming. Like, "Read on algorithms that could solve this class of problems, understand those (how they work and why), implement them, run the problem sets to see how it works in practice."
It is not much of a market argument to say "there is this legal framework to artificially restrict information transfer, and if people don't obey it someone might not make revenue from nothing".

Most of the IP abolitionists (myself included) would just argue you should be doing free market information creation, and charging for scarce resources and not erecting some artificial framework mess to destroy a potentially enlightening capability of the information age. If you want to make a movie, seek funding to make the movie. If you want to write software, seek those who want software and ask them to give you money to make it, etc.

That is really inevitably the only way this ends, because IP is incompatible with the modern forms information can take. The ease, rate, and speed of transfer marginal expenses have collapsed to zero, so treating it as a scarce good is only systemically harming society with artificial scarcity.
It's a paid piece... Notice how the author builds up the case against tablets and laptops, introduces the surface then lets you conclude that its the perfect device to fill this gap.
Why did the author license IEEE to sell the book in the first place if he didn't want them to use their exploitative pricing model?
This is really nice. Any chance of making it work for other Amazon sites (regions) than .com?
Indeed. They're not doing anything hobbyists like yourself can't do anyway. We can't expect the government to be less capable than ordinary people. The problem would be if the police can legally use drones for intrusive purposes that are illegal for normal people. But if so, that's a problem with the law, and it's the law that would need to be changed.
Ask HN: Startup as a worker cooperative?
The longer I work for someone else the more interested I become in alternatives for my future.

Worker cooperatives seem ideal from my perspective: all worker-owners decide together what are the business priorities, everyone shares both profits and losses, etc.

The thing I'm not sure about is applying this kind of thing to a startup or even a web dev agency.

Any opinions or experiences?
That's not really fair. Should all developers implement this? Only for gmail or also googlemail? Maybe yahoo does something similar? This will get messy quickly.
A high school tradition?
As a senior at Forest High School I wanted to create a new tradition on campus... -Taking the senior song and making a lip dub video out of it-

Enjoy the video!

What are/your high school traditions?
It's in the book 'nightfall'. Should be still in print.
I think that the notion that "we" (working- or middle class) are so well-off that we can really consider a higher education as mostly a broadening of horizons, and life skills being kind of something that comes automatically along with it. We've already spent around 13 years in learning institutions at that point - what do people find so horrible about then looking for some kind of education/training that is more directly applicable to, um, surviving?
The electric buses constitute only a small fleet of one bus company, out of the handful operating in Seattle.
You're right, of course. The reason for this is that digital entertainment is long-lived, cheap to produce and practically free to distribute, even moreso than film and literature. As the demand has increased, the supply has exploded, and the market has responded by emphasizing infungible goods, perishable goods and rent-seeking (franchises can be argued as all three).

As supply exceeds demand, prices tend towards manufacturing costs rather than utility provided. Suppliers therefore have to either increase demand or reduce supply (big publishers), or segment the market (small publishers) to maximize profit.
The problem with this is we've got a bunch of 50+ year olds who don't really understand that they are basically handing over the ability to observe every aspect of our lives, in a cost effective manner by state and federal standards, even if we are not suspects.

And guess what? Even if you have strong regulations, they'll close ranks and cover up for each other.

That factor will lead to cameras mounted the officers body, but does anyone here really believe those tapes wouldn't get 'erased' and/or end up being protected by 'national security' with no real fact checking by the courts at this juncture?

I think the next 20-30 years are going to be a real problem until people who understand exactly how much power we are handing over get into power and make it stop.

Until there is a major generational change to the Supreme Court, Congress, and the Presidency...I don't see 'more regulation' actually doing us any good because it'll get ignored when its convenient. I think everyone under 35 needs to band together and say we won't sell out. :/
That is very interesting. I was surprised at how easily the discussion was getting off-track at first (flashlight), but it does pick up in the end. It seems the judges try to distill the issue by a process of adversarial questioning and taking things to extremes.

Also, Justice Souter is killing it.
So if I understand correctly, your system can prevent Heartbleed, except that it cannot analyze OpenSSL as written and that Heartbleed is a specific OpenSSL vulnerability.

Does your system prevent Ariane 5 from exploding too?
I find it hard to get too wound up about an only copy that has been turned over to a third party. I get that the user understanding the situation well can be a problem, but it isn't a very careful thing to do.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/05/apple-re...
But... maybe having a huge archive of user videos and being owned by YouTube might be mutually exclusive.
Well, a self-signed certificate still offers that encryption.

None of my arguments about X.509 / CAs are about government actors in particular, though. There are enough root CAs trusted by the major browser vendors that breaches can (and have) happened with minimal resource expenditure.
It is unclear if this is legal to redistribute in this fashion.
His share of the pie is smaller but the pie is much bigger. What terms he negotiated with his label has nothing to do with the fact that labels serve a purpose and are aligned with the interests of the artist.
It wouldn't surprise me that the plastic had been carefully chosen to lack the plasticity to stay in one piece when dropped from counter-top height; bet that increases profits for the company (at the expense of wasted resources for everyone).
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And yet despite it having no legs, here it is doing real damage to real people trying to sell real products they designed, while spending their real resources to fight this obviously toothless claim in the courts.

This is one of the many reasons why the US legal system is broken, and backwards.
Actually no, what I'm saying is that what I choose to say to a friend should not be subject to a third party that demands to listen in. If my friend betrays my trust and shares the contents of that communication, then I can't do much about that.

You're right that I've described a tradeoff and simply assumed the case is closed - I mean, where does this right to privacy come from even? And to me, the answer that settles that question is physics - as long as one-way functions exist, then so does encryption (and it's generally believed that one-way functions exist). So preventing this privacy means restricting general communication, and we all know how that works out.

(PS. It's easier to have an honest debate when you don't knock down straw men with dismissive snide marks like 'Hilarious!'. You might even end up understanding a different point of view - and don't worry, that does not mean you need to agree with it.)
By "washing" I think you mean driving dirty clothes a small distance so that immigrants can wash them for you while you take a cut. Much cushier gig than actual washing.
ghc -e 'interact $ unlines . map reverse . lines'
Assimil is superb.

I have used their system for multiple languages.
Far better than Pimsleur, easier than Linguaphone and pretty cheap.
Small bite sized lessons entirely in the target language, with parallel text.
Quirky humour.
As long as you don't end up like HP and Autonomy:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/may/07/shareholders...
> As an anecdote, a few weeks ago, a very good Indian friend of mine started work at a hot SF startup (their backend is in Go!). In her second week, she was asked not to heat up her food in the microwave because her food 'smelled'.

That's a hard one. I personally don't see that as a cultural issue. Startups are usually within small quarters. Big Co's typically have isolated "kitchen areas". I think it's important when working in small quarters organizations to be respectful of the workplace and sensibilities of your coworkers. It's somewhat analogous to BO when someone refuses to wear deodorant or the likes because of their convictions. Unlike noise that can be drowned out with headphones, you can't really drown out smells.
It is not difficult to come up with new business ideas or ways to improve on businesses that already exist.

(As a side point, you don't really need to come up with new ideas or even make an improvement, you can just enter an existing market and be successful at selling.)

I come up with new business ideas probably once a week. Maybe several in a day.

It is orders of magnitude more difficult to actually effectively execute a business idea. And also often extremely difficult to successfully market it.

The reason it is relatively easy to come up with a new idea: you just need to make a loose identification of a product or solution. To actually implement it, you have to fill in all of the details and refine them. A simple concept can encapsulate a huge amount of complexity and engineering work. For example, the OXO cup. Once you have that idea, you need to work out exactly what design to use and where to place the measurement labels. Then you need some kind of manufacturing. Manufacturing a product can be very complex. You need distribution.

And then you need marketing. There are many reasons that marketing hard. For one thing, people are bombarded with products. There are so many new options that people have built up a tolerance for amazingness. Even if your product is absolutely incredible it may not break through into someone's consciousness for more than a moment. Also, people are busy and they have a limited capacity for learning new things. Even if your product makes things much easier, it is still a new thing for that person to learn, so they have to make an investment of their time and effort. And unfortunately with status quo bias there is a tendency for everyone to undervalue innovative ideas. And for your product to really become popular then you need to access network effects, i.e. move the entire herd.
You may want to put a disclaimer for self-promotion.
Typically the observation is made that if you are a serial murderer you are not really to be considered sane and into closed treatment you go, not coming out until you are sane again which I guess is not ever if the crime is really gruesome.
Oh, that's even weirder. I thought the page changed after you posted the link, not the other way around.
Defining culture at Coursera
This is just a mishmash of sentiments. Calling out a ripoff site design as unethical is very different that siccing the police on the people who made a torrent index. Start complaining about hypocrisy when someone goes to prison fro a GPL violation.
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I think this is more about the case for turning some universities into traditional grande ecoles. Engineering and business schools with a practical emphasis and a minimalist approach to theory.

I'm an engineering student and by now my brain has learned to tune out whenever the words "rigor", "proof" or similar are uttered. I really, sincerely don't care about the formal stuff. If I get the intuition then I'm satisfied, and I'm sick of the formal stuff. Someone's got to do it, but I don't want to be one of them. This doesn't mean I don't want to learn about advanced stuff; it just means that I'm fine with a shallower treatment with an emphasis on implementing and intuitive understanding rather than proving. I would like a school more to my tastes, but university is where all the smart kids go, so I go there as well. I would like an alternative, and I think I'm not alone.
Also, in regards to "any murderer", I belive that there really isn't much beyond the perspective of those asked that separate (some) terrorists from soldiers from murderers...
Wrong - Amazon was behind it: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/12/amazons_bogus_anti_apple_cru...
>But why not just have two devices?

I would ask: but why have two devices? Why have a laptop and a tablet with separate storage and settings, when you can have a laptop and a tablet with the same storage and the same settings, just a different interface depending on the use case?

They keyboard doesn't fold into another dimension, but it does detach. On things like the Yoga, the keyboard doesn't fold into another dimension, it folds against the screen, making the tablet much thicker and heavier than it needs to be. At least with the Transformer T100 the keyboard can just go away.
Indian food isn't BO. It's a different kind of food. For me, personally, I didn't like the smell of bacon at first. But guess what? I sucked it up and got used to it. That's what cultural sensitivity is. If you can't stand the smell of Indian food, then at least be honest about it and don't hire Indian people as a policy. Why this pretense about diversity?
>a tablet + a keyboard is not cutting it compared to a laptop.

But the point of a Transformer T100 is that you don't have to choose. It's not a tablet + a keyboard, it's a PC that detaches from the keyboard. I love my Thinkpad Tablet 2, but the biggest problem is to turn it into a laptop, I need a desk (not a lap). 2-in-1 convertibles solve that issue. It's the best of both worlds.
The person who wrote it is Stuart Cheshire, who invented Bonjour. I think he knows what he's talking about.

For example: say you need to send a message from Earth to Mars, currently it is 0.794 AU away. This means it takes light 6.603 minutes to travel this distance. It doesn't matter how many routers or satellites to put along the path, it will take at least this amount of time. Having more routers is just going to make things worse. That's why he mentioned the speed of light in fiber and the actual latency. Of course you could wait for the distance between the planets to become closer since they are on different orbital paths around the sun but that's a different argument altogether.

Or maybe until we get networking based on quantum entanglement but I don't know enough about the subject to make any comments on that.
Fantastic experience using this site! I love seeing what $50 extra bucks gives me and I more often than not splurge the little extra.
I think in their position they have the choice between making it crystal clear to current employees that they need different moral standards, or doing cycles of firings->hirings to get new employees aligned with their new policies.

If I were a Github employee happy with my job and current colleagues, I'd prefer the former solution.
Not too bad, I hadn't noticed that one before. It's a shame companies are building things more along the lines of the Yoga and less like this. I would love a Thinkpad Tablet 3 that docks into a keyboard and folds into a clamshell.
There are several mistakes here. The biggest is not answering the speed vs. memory question up front. Why read in all the data at once when this problem can be solved with a for loop? If the csv's are huge, you need to at least think through the impact of loading them into memory. If speed is your primary goal then showing you know about Pandas or at least Numpy would be preferable. If you then choose to implement the comparison by hand, great, but in the every-day case, knowledge of shortcuts can be the difference between a productive programmer and a slow one.
What if the person committed that crime while under the influence of a prior mental illness that he or she has since sought help in correcting, and now recognizes their previous intent/action as criminal? What if the murder was due to a drug addiction that lead to mental illness, which has since been corrected?

It's my opinion that a society cannot simultaneously hope to 'cure mental illness', while also simultaneously locking up people who do the same things as the mentally ill without them ever having any hope of rehabilitation (life imprisonment). I have never felt as if the judiciary system should be an extension of personal vengeance; to take two people out of the active society as a murder/life imprisonment does seems more unhealthy for the society in the long run than if the person in prison had a realistic chance at a productive life through means of rehabilitation.

The placement of blame is just all wrong. I wouldn't feel bad as a psychologist releasing a would-be-future-murderer, because as a psychologist I would understand that it was my job to assess the chances rather than make the person. Of course they know there is a chance of 'relapse', because even a sane person has the outlying chance to snap and become psychotic under the right conditions. I am sure that the psychologist would be saddened at the relapse of his patient and at whatever damage was caused by the patient, but I would surely hope that the psychologist would not feel personally responsible for the actions of their patients.