skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's your claim -- that youtube won't take down videos within their TOS in order to blackmail rights owners -- so don't roll in here, make the claim, then demand people provide evidence to the contrary

oh, and given their well documented behavior with regards to handing large rights holders the ability to take down videos because of music without issuing DMCAs and with no review from youtube, not hard to believe [1] [2]. (See how I made a claim and I substantiated it?)

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-yo...

[2] http://gizmodo.com/5932089/nasas-official-rover-landing-vide...
'the money was delivered but the police lost track of the culprits'

A solid showing by the Helsinki police
slava @ rethink here. I forgot to add `r.args` (http://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/#args) to the blog post! People have been requesting that feature for a few releases now, and it should make lots of code much less painful.

FYI the upcoming 1.14 release is scheduled to include a distributed file system and geospacial indexing (probably the most requested RethinkDB features of all time).

If you have any questions about Rethink, I'm here all day to answer questions. (We can also grab lunch or coffee if you're in the Bay Area).
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Sure but I'm not clear on how this would be made worse by in-browser crypto.
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Hmmm I might be wrong but I think that's a very specific test... they're only comparing 200W panels. SunPower make 20-21% efficient panels already.
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> Your support will allow hiring another developer to build new features and give me the time to focus on making every single icon sub-pixel perfect.

How do you make something sub-pixel perfect? Is there some tool you can use or do you need to test on many different monitors/computers?
Recommendation for Mac users:

'Verify disk' in Disk Utility from time to time. I usually get error messages and have to boot from the recovery partition to repair my system disk (Command-R).

According to the local Genius Bar, that's normal to a certain degree. For one MacBook Pro, I got the mainboard and the SSD repaired on warranty.

I am wondering if these issues are related to HFS+ or to the reduced reliability of SSDs …
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>Most people using it are just stupid.

Attacking the strawman. No one man will revolution JS crypto. Not you, not Turning. Mathematicians are involved, when they all agree on stuff generally they're right.

The systems your proposing do nothing. And you know they do nothing.

>that means that they may be useful to people who are aware of the security

But you don't care. Its a false sense of security. Your selling rice paper advertised as bullet proof vests. That's my problem.

Yes these programs are entertaining thought experiments, but in the real world they're useless. And if you advertise them as being anything other then useless, you're no different then an 1860's snake oil sales man.

:.:.:

Also you mentioned assumed risk. Assumed Risk is understanding that there exists OpenSSL exploits you don't know about, you have no way of fixing, and no way of preparing for. You have to assume this risk to achieve any level of security. You have to be mindful that the landscape of security can change at any moment, and maybe render you insecure.

Assumed Risk does not mean your using a broken cryptosystem, and you know its weak points that exist BY DESIGN. And are fundamentally impossible to patch out. That's just called broken crypto.
Regardless of whether Youtube has a history of removing content, my (non-lawyer) reading of the Terms indicate that they definitely reserve the right to remove videos at their leisure. The agreement grants Youtube a license to all submitted content, but, as far as I can tell, makes no guarantee about how Youtube will display that content, if at all.

Even if they haven't removed uncontested legally uploaded content before, the Terms seem to say that they can, and this might constitute the first time they'd want to. (See x0x0's sibling comment for cases where they've removed contested legally uploaded content, but I think you're probably talking about uncontested videos, right?)

(Incidentally, the EULA/TOS distinction feels really pedantic to me. The name isn't the issue here; we're concerned about the content of the agreement.)
I like this post, but the font size looks janky.

It's a nice overview for noobs. Thanks for doing it in Ruby!!!!
Or just clone it and put the company out of business.
This reminds me of a jQuery plugin.

It should really be a directive though, so it adds all the required markup on its own.
Elixir is still a moving target (as the number of deprecations and changes in the announcement show) so if you are building something that needs a stable base then I would not recommend Elixir just yet. You are still using a lot of Erlang libraries for things outside of the core, so you still need to learn or at least understand Erlang and its APIs. OTOH, I love it and I think that the costs that I mentioned previously are more than made up for by the lower cognitive load Elixir imposes on people coming from outside the functional world and the macros and protocols are very cool. Elixir is a language to play around with now and get used to and in three to six months I think it will be a serious contender for any new product that slings packets or has to handle massively concurrent loads.
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Old is remembering it as sound blaster, young is remembering it as facebook.

So begins the gap.
It's almost out of a movie. One of your larger national companies is being extorted and you fail to follow the people doing so?

It also had to be a pretty big vulnerability for them to have to pay that much in the first place.
The crux is " Again, that's painful-but-tolerable in a server-side application, where you can always call out to native code as a workaround. It's death to a browser."
Guess what; it applies to desktops too.

TLS/SSL delivers js as expected. View-source is not required for desktop apps, and a lot better than the situation with desktop apps.

Bottom line: as far as i'm concerned this is NSA propaganda OR programmers trusting desktops for no good reason. Client side crypto is just fine. None of the concerns mentioned are any different on the desktop, or are just plain FUD.
First handheld Steam Machine revealed
> morality and self-restraint.

... and hope.

Note the lack of hope among so many skeptics. Start talking to them about the future and you quickly discover that not only is life meaningless and success essentially random, but human civilization is doomed to extinction due to ecological overshoot soon so who cares...

This lack of hope can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It causes people to disengage and stop investing in the future.
Looking at the RDA you need probably 100 uG of vit A per banana to eliminate all chance of illness. Less would be OK, or better than nothing. More would probably be highly unwise to prevent vit A toxicity.

For the sake of argument I will make the ridiculous claim that vit A synthesis is 10000x less efficient than carbohydrate synthesis. This is absolutely laughable but I want to error on the extreme side of caution. So you trade the photosynthesis energy that could have been 1 g of banana mass for some micrograms of vit A.

A typical banana (whatever that means) weighs about a tenth of a kilo, or rephrased a bunch of ten weigh about a kilo. So a banana will weigh about 1 percent less. Bananas aren't all that calorie dense so figure a bit less than a calorie per gram.

So enough Vit A to prevent significant disease will cost much less than one calorie per banana. The numbers I chose were intentionally ridiculous worst case, so it should be far less than one gram per banana.

Some folks who have not done the research or math seem under the impression that a Vit A enhanced banana must somehow be 1/10 the size of a normal banana or something equally unlikely.
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Well, not really. It's depressing that HN is being so credulous about this, but saying that Youtube is "blocking" or "removing" videos from indie labels that don't agree to the licensing fees is as accurate (or more) as saying that indie labels are blocking their videos from Youtube unless they give in to their demands for higher license fees. There's an ongoing negotiation over the license fees, and if indies decide that the value of having their videos up is high enough that it's worth it under the current license fees, there's nothing stopping them from accepting it.

To put it another way, if it's "VERY bad news" for them then they wouldn't let the negotiations get to the point where they pull their videos from Youtube.
Yup, an urban legend designed to exploit the taboo and stigmatized reputation of "sex-change" surgery.
Ask HN: "Fake" users and activity for your startup
Hi -

I am running a service for new online communities and Web sites to "fake" users and their activity on the site. Basically, we act as content "filers" as well as early stage user study.

I don't have a large team to scale, so we don't advertise, but we have quite a few requests so far.

I'm wondering how many of you would be interested in getting this for your startup or community? That would be a sign for me to start "automating" parts of my business.

Thanks for feedback.
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I'm a crypto novice, but from my (layperson) reading here is how the Google approach addresses the points made in this article:

- chicken and egg problem: being a browser extension, the code for End to End is distributed up front, when you do (presumably) trust the server. If the server is compromised in the meantime, you are not affected. Also, you could download the extension from a source you do trust and then use it on websites that you don't trust.

- content-controlled code / malleable runtime: End to End, as a browser extension, isolates itself from the code/content of actual websites.

- no RNG: "CS-PRNG is available thanks to WebCrypto."

- secure erasure: "The threat model we are trying to address discounts adversaries with physical access and users with malware outside the browser. Chrome’s design means that extensions should be safe against other extensions. Adversaries with this level of access have a plethora of attacks available to compromise data even in systems that control their memory carefully and wipe it."

- no secure keystore: ? (I don't know)

- timing and other side-channel attacks: "End-To-End requires user interaction for private operations in normal use, mitigating this risk. Non-user-interaction actions are rate-limited and done in fixed time. End-To-End’s crypto operations are performed in a different process from the web apps it interacts with. The End-To-End library is as timing-aware it can be and we’ve invested effort to mitigate any exploitable risk."
Govspeak
> Except no one has figured out how to drive in the snow or even heavy rain.

I thought the advise for human beings trying to drive in the snow or heavy rain was always the same: don't.

If you do, you're taking a huge risk, so don't go anywhere unless you have to (e.g. need groceries or else will die).
Plain old clay.
I watched a guy who had just gotten out of prison trying to make it back into society. A lot of things cost more for him. One example: Car insurance. He didn't have the money to pay 6 months of insurance in one chunk, so he had to buy it one month at a time. Well, the insurance companies charge extra for that.

He couldn't afford a decent car, so he got a car that was cheap, and which (no surprise) broke down a lot. When it broke down, he had to pay to have it fixed, plus to take the bus to get to work.

And so on.
Father of “net neutrality” runs for office, wants to block Comcast/TWC merger
What keeps them from installing their system in every states or even Canada?
Designing Email Sucks
I have in mind a database that provides a simple extensive cache API that can double as a search engine.
No offense, but I found the voice of the engineer difficult to listen to seriously, found the video too humorous.
Host your own videos with MediaGoblin[0], and this will never be an issue again. Don't rely on for-profit companies to provide you with a free service.

http://mediagoblin.org/
It makes it sound like it was the keys to the castle.
A great custom tailored environment that can be adapted for whatever you might need in the future. I used to balk at it because it seemed like too big of a hassle to setup such a customized system if you changed machines (so i stuck to vanilla vim), but ubiquitous version control makes this less of an issue. If you are good with vim install the evil package and you will be ahead of (some of) the curve.
YouTube is becoming OurTV.
It shouldn't be a problem to boot a Linux from a read-only device.
Steward.io – centralized cron and periodic task monitoring with alerting.
It is tough to keep up with all these changes. I mean Rethink was pretty feature complete for me like four or five releases ago.

I don't know how I feel about the http command but I am digging the other changes. Keep up the good work.
Fair comment. Some of us are using Elixir in production, and there's a cost to migrating the code base from one release to the next.

But overall, even for a new fast moving language, the stability of erlang benefits it pretty well.
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Interesting, and dead-on. The zip code it chose for me is the one that borders my current zip code to the west, and happens to be the same one the article's author mentions. #3 is the one I currently live in, and #4 is the last one I lived in.

also, in case anyone cares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_(Seattle)
Only with a thin client, defeating the purpose of Bitcoin. The Blockchain is currently over 18 GB, more storage than any cheap phone I've ever seen, and takes days to download.
> Cult leaders and con artists are opportunists who read the times and the ever-changing culture and adapt their pitch to what will appeal at a given moment.

Multi level marketing, in particular a company called Nerium [1] is the closest thing I've seen to a cult lately.

[1]: http://www.nerium.com/
Managing Pricing
Swift Still Won't Replace RubyMotion
I don't get all the recruiter hate. You're the pretty girl/handsome guy at the dance, for now. The unsolicited attention will fade with age. Enjoy it while it lasts.
The catch is a pretty big deal, and by deal I mean a deal breaker for me.

Why do I have to share something back with someone in order to see what they've shared back at me? I understand it's great for engagement but who would use this over Snapchat or Instagram.
It's about the difference between designing just for 14px as well as a variety of larger sizes.
Ah! I think this gets lost somewhere in the telling of the story.
This is a pretty cool idea, but how are they going to regulate nudity/profanity being added to this public story?
On the flip side, what if you're terrible at negotiating? For those people, even s theoretically reduced salary may be higher than what they'd get for themselves.
I always wondered how you do paperwork for something like this. It must be a nightmare from an accountant perspective. What is the bill code for "blackmail" when you file the income tax and you write a 6 figure expense. In the end your cash has to balance out, you cannot not declare it. Anybody with experience in something like this?
Pricing is super hard - I love this framing of the problem but there are so many other good references. I'm also a big fan of Neil Davidson's very brief book "Don't just roll the dice": http://neildavidson.com/download/dont-just-roll-the-dice/
If it was not marketed at "eat like a caveman" I think it would have more adoption. Paleo is really just about eating more natural foods (less processed foods). It works well.
I'm pretty sure that, technically, that Service should actually be a Factory since it's returning an Object.
"This is one of the developers of the app. The Android version will be available in the following month. We are planning on running the experiment on Android devices too!" - OP.
Care to explain what you mean by "sound blaster"?
> every day for 5 years

Or, in some OLTP scenarios, every few minutes for a month or so.
If possible, remove CO2 in the atmosphere and storing it in a stable state underground [...] what I would class as planet-level terraforming, and is going to take more than just Elon (without some sort of additional technological breakthrough).

We already have nanomachines that work in harmony to do this: tree-and-mushroom networks (among other organisms) known as forests. I wish there was something like http://www.treesforthefuture.org/ but commercial that I could invest in.
I actually think this is one of the great problems of our time (how wealth inequality lowers productivity by suppressing people who might otherwise contribute to society) and have experienced it acutely at times. One of my mottos is that you can have money or time but not both, but if you do manage to achieve both, then you are in a position to change the world.

I'm not sure I would quite take the matching approach you propose, but I've often thought that a better contracting service like fiverr (where people could make money quickly for the skills they truly excel at) could change the world by giving people alternatives to things like credit cards and payday loans. But there needs to be no little or no friction to make it feasible. Right now it's a PITA to make money through most of the online freelance sites because it's too hands-on, and technology doesn't do nearly enough.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi because this is something that I would like to work on also.
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If you app has sections (say...a news app) this actually is a big issue. Not every app is about sharing photos.
I hope you're joking. If you do plan on doing this then please do it in a suitably strong wire cage, power it on remotely, make sure it is tied down very solidly and make sure nothing you care about (including you, significant others, co-workers, children, pets, possessions etc) is in the plane of rotation because this will fail spectacularly. Keep in mind that if the grinder becomes dislodged or unbalanced that the plane of rotation may vary rapidly. Too rapid to get out of the way. The iphone will desintegrate due to the forces involved and the shrapnel will cause serious injury.

Please do not do this unless you really know what you're messing with (and if you do then you won't).

On second thought, simply please do not do this. Spinning an iPhone up to 10K rpm or higher is a very bad idea, the label reads 11K rpm max, 850W, those things don't usually have soft-start so it'll just fire up and start throwing things.

Appeal to authority fallacy comes free of charge: I've had a pretty serious metal workshop and have seen several interesting interactions between angle-grinders and various objects in otherwise controlled circumstances, it is astounding how fast things can go wrong. Just having a grinder disc shatter on you can take you completely by surprise even if you know the danger, this is far more dangerous, it is Darwin award material.
The classic stuff that is extremely common is apricot scrub. They grind up apricot pits for the scrub.
What sort of thing are you working on that is well-suited for the Erlang/Elixir languages?
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The very abundance and ubiquity of solar energy makes it practically impossible that any Rockefeller could come out of that industry.
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When an article hasn't had significant attention in about a year, reposts are usually ok (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). So you're good.
The Met museum's cafeteria. You have to pay to get in, but how much is up to you.
Facebook Slingshot
you can do this with quip now too - correct?
The current efficiency record for research panels is around 44.7% [1]
but commercial companies are above 22% (Sanyo, Panasonic, etc) [2]

[1] https://renooble.com/blog/2013/11/solar-panel-efficiency-new...
[2] https://renooble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nrel_ef...
I see the "catch" as a never-ending chain, and the conversations will end quite awkwardly.
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Tired of watching the #VAscandal. There are easy fixes to this, not going to be quiet any longer. Appreciate any support !
will evaluate this thoroughly , needed something like this .
Seems like they're trying to create more interaction and it sounds like it would be fun...for the first couple of times.

Who really wants to go out of their way to make a new video or photo to see something? We've all become accustomed to the instant gratification that the internet offers, why would we suddenly opt in for a slower experience?

Or it will turn into people sharing the same generic useless video / picture over and over just to see a video a friend sent, but then at that point why use this product at all?

But maybe I'm wrong and it will take the preteen / teen world by storm.
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Just like Paper this appears to be another 'US Only' from Facebook.
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Besides the obvious Starbucks choice[1], my personal recommendation: PieFace. Their cafes are throughout midtown and have good coffee + outlets + seating + great food (Australian meat pies and pastries).

They claim to have wifi but I usually use my phone's hotspot.

1 - for those who want (need) Starbucks, the one at 39th and 8th Avenue has tons of room on the second floor seating area.
Wow, that's rough. Not much you can do against a vulnerability that'll destroy the trust of your entire customer base. A DDOS is one thing but I probably would have paid the millions in this case.
I had the same question. That doesn't even remotely mirror how an actual conversation works.
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isn't there something fringe like 'theft' or miscellaneous losses?
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I can fully see how this could happen. Too many companies don't understand the value of keys like this, and won't until they have a similar situation.

I wonder how exactly the criminals came to have them in the first place, but would be willing to bet it was ultimately incompetence by someone at Nokia.
You can't exactly arrest them without one of their partners releasing the key. Following them might not end well either.
Still, his voice seems better than many other software developers. But, I know what you mean: I've had problems listening to some UK developer videos. (I'm US.)

On closer inspection of the video: I'm jealous of any company that lets their employees walk around the office with their shoes off. Not only are they super-smart, they're cool too.

(Sorry for this shallow, superficial observation. I'm still learning about databases and programming.)
What about JS Cryptography over SSL? Another security layer to protect against those who can break SSL, or is it just useless?
I really hope I get to use Rethink in anger before I die. Last time, I had to move on because we are multi-tenant SaaS and it seemed the compound indexes just were not up to that task, does this release fix any of those issues? (I seem to recall I was having to use a between query and not being able to sort, but it was a while ago and I quickly got back to work with old reliable (postgresql))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster

It's a family of sound cards from the Win 9X era.
Backed, if for no other reason than to support something I've used on countless projects for years.

It will be interesting to see the new weights/styles, and better scaling of BlackTie.

Good luck Dave!