skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed one:

Hulu - pays a fee to creators for use which it recoups/profits from ads

Aereo - pays no fee to creator, still profits from ads
Yep. Also the "munitions" line became false something like 17 years ago when encryption export controls moved from State to Commerce.
Yes, it's a paid service, because they used their initiative, knowledge and finance to physically build their data centers. If that's what you are referring to by 'owned by Capital'
> along with the notion that encryption algorithms are considered munitions worthy of export restrictions?

Simple: The same way an agent can't open your car trunk even if it may contain one of 1. groceries or 2.war weapons.
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I would say it just looks really old fashioned and outdated. But of course this is a matter of perception.
Yeah, been there, done that, although my first step is to umount and dd onto another volume so the sectors don't get reallocated and obliterate the data - and that's generally a sane first step for ANY recovery of this ilk.

You haven't lived until you unwittingly run rm -rf on a nfs mount of / on a remote box. Which happens to be the fileserver for a trading shop. In the middle of trading hours.
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Broadcast television contains inline ads that compensate the broadcaster, who then compensates the creator.
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It's more cogent I think because I'm a fan of both languages and have done non trivial work in both.

The thread was short on people with both experience in Go and with knowledge of the motivations for Go.
Does anyone know why Ubuntu still ships with version 3.8 as standard, and Eclipse 4.x isn't in the repositories at all?

My searches show some rumbling about 4.x performance problems a few years ago, since resolved.
N.C. leaders were outraged by climate predictions. So they changed them.
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Does it not sound ridiculous to you that we have to go to these length to prevent Facebook from having information we don't want them to have? The techniques that have been suggested are beyond the understanding, if not the capacity, of probably 90% of internet users. How are they to keep Facebook from knowing about them if they don't want it to?
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ST has been out for six years. That's not going to be comparable to emacs (mid 1970's - now) or vi/vim (1976/1991 respectively). I haven't jumped on Atom, or any of the other brand new editors because I want to know they'll have some staying power, but I don't think 5+ years is short enough for me to be concerned. I'm certainly not changing editors every month. I also do most of my editor exploration in my free time, and it's fun for me, so it's not really a waste of time (again, for me, in that context).

I should say that I can't really settle on VIM right now because I'm doing full time .net work at this point. I still use it reasonably often when I'm mucking about in C at home, and I used it as my primary editor for at least five years prior to that, but my use-case was me trying to get a decent haskell environment up and running on a fresh linux VM as quickly as I could. ST2 worked really well for that.
Cassandra cannot lose more than 10s of data because it will slow down writes as necessary to make sure it does not. That's why comparing to a system that allows arbitrarily high data loss is unfair.

People can and do run Cassandra with full durability. When people understand the tradeoff between performance and data loss on power failure, you'd be surprised how often they'll chose real durability. (And by batching concurrent writes into the same fsync, the penalty isn't nearly as high as it would be in a naive implementation.)
Exactly! I've read a lot of posts recently claiming the 'free-market' is the problem. Well, I can't think of many countries in the world who have a currency not owned by the state, a banking system entirely independent of the state, a country with a real, none-fiat currency, a country with minimum to no forms of tax etc. It just isn't the case, and it's not heading that way by and means either. I'm not sure where people are getting this from
Different area of the law. Deals with search incident to arrest. Unrelated to NSA litigation or surveillance authority.
> You may incur a substantial liability

No, you don't.
Nitpick on the nitpick: You could not take a German text and change the font type to get proper Fraktur typesetting. It involves using some different rules (final s and inner "s"), ligatures that are context sensitive as well as different punctuation and font "markup" (no bold font but Sperrsatz, etc.).
Yes, you could change the scale. But the processing power ratio stays the same. At the price per 1k you listed, it's still cost-effective to crack this captcha at 1 per 10s automatically. But noone will accept waiting 100s to post anything.
Instead of avoiding all those optimization killers, a much more higher impact approach is to fix this in the V8 project. You not only make your own code faster, you make thousands if not millions of pieces of code faster.
You're missing that broadcasters transmit to a select geographical location, so they can still sell the transmission to cable and satellite networks. By making it cheaper to watch those channels outside of the areas covered by OTA broadcasts, they're making it easier for current cable subscribers to "cut the cord".
Vimeo is great, in response to the question near the end of the article.
Last night I discovered Koa (https://github.com/koajs/koa).

> Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express,
> which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust
> foundation for web applications and APIs.

I decided to try it out by making a simple JSON-serving app that deploys to Heroku, talks to an AWS Postgres database, and has a simple DB-backed session/authentication system.

I pushed up my progress to https://github.com/danneu/koa-example.
Yes, that's in the FAQ too.
That feels immoral when I say it out loud. Do we not worry about intent and spirit of the law anymore?
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> The Supreme Court is wrong- the reason cable companies are treated as a 'public' performance of a work is that their distribution medium is shared.

No.

What makes a cable company "public performance" is that the company is selling services to the general public in an arms-length transaction. The shared nature of the transmission medium is irrelevant.

They could send streams directly to individual subscribers using IPTV, as AT&T does with U-verse, and it would still be a public performance.

That is why Aereo needed the individual antennas to try to take advantage of a perceived loophole. Aereo with one big antenna would not have made it to the Supreme Court, because it would have been so obviously in the wrong.
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There is a narrow exception for free over the air TV.

Are you saying that NBC does not pay anyone for the rights to broadcast a movie?
Do you have any idea how email works?

You could as well just publish your users passwords at your front page, and claim that if a user has a password compromissed because of that, it's his own fault, you should be able to trust them not to use insecure services.
I'm not sure what the price point is, but I'd pay non-negligible dollars to add this kind of tech to my '99 Accord. I don't even want the full $10k package with "self-driving," just lane assist, warnings, adaptive cruise control, etc. I think many of us would be onboard if someone can work the value proposition so that buying such a kit/package is a better idea than buying a new-ish car.
Don't forget that while users want to watch video entertainment, quite a lot of users have no specific preference as to what they watch. Each consumer has no more than 24 hours in a day to devote their undivided attention to something.

Studios are in a competitive environment. Not only do they have to fight other current studios for monetizable customers, they have to compete with the entire corpus of existing works. Fringe has to compete with X-Files. Law and Order: New Episode has to compete with Law and Order: Rerun.

In order to make money from customers, there must be an intact distribution path between supplier and consumer. In the world of physical goods, you cannot sell a Chinese widget to Joe Merica without a cargo ship, a stacktrain, an intermodal truck, a big-box store, its parking lot, and the roads between it and Joe's house or business. All that has to be paid for. It is completely unreasonable for the overseas manufacturer to expect that he be paid by all those links in the supply chain for the privilege of carrying the goods.

The manufacturer has to pay them a portion of what he earns from Joe on the sale, because without them, he cannot get Joe's money at all. The transport network provides value to the manufacturer because it increases the potential size of his market. Likewise, the manufacturer provides value to the transport network by giving it something to move. Neither one can even try take the whole pie, or it ceases to exist.

The distributor has to pay the supplier. But the supplier also has to pay the distributor.

In the case of broadcast television, the problem of who pays whom is partially resolved by advertising. Advertisers pay the supplier for access to their customers' attention, and the supplier can therefore pay distributors in proportion to the number of customers they can provide.

This is why broadcasters pay so much for licenses. Over-the-air radio broadcasts can bring in a huge number of customers with relatively low infrastructure investment. As long as they are paid by advertisers on a per-viewer basis, there is no reason why they should be getting any additional money from anybody for rebroadcasting rights... except one.

If the rebroadcaster is not providing the same number of consumers for the advertisers as for the entertainment content, the supplier is not getting paid for them. Enter the commercial-skipping DVR. The advertising model breaks down. The advertisers have to assume that every person not watching a show live is skipping their ads, so they only pay for the live audience.

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

If any necessary part of the supply chain is not paid for, the money dries up for everyone. And the advertisers are paid with statistics. Aereo probably could have made this go away simply by offering up timestamps and button presses, to identify the number of customers actually watching the ads.
The main criticism relates to eavesdropping. Wrapping Basic or Digest authentication in TLS eliminates that issue.
Some useful tricks in there.

Also, this:

ggVGg? : rot13 whole file (toggles)

So g?<motion> applies ROT13 to text. But... why?

Edit: Make that "a couple of useful tricks in there". These are the ones I can actually see myself using:

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Hence our mentioning that the user must receive a mail notifying of the password change.
SiliconDust has been selling this sort of product for years: http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hdhomerun/
I'm not convinced myself that it wasn't just pure PR, but wanted to point out:

> why doesn't Amazon use them inside their warehouse? It is a controlled environment

The fact that it's a controlled environment is precisely why they're unnecessary in their warehouses -- the flying robot delivery method would theoretically allow them to bypass the uncontrolled variables in the real world: road traffic, pedestrians, etc.
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It's not about allow, it's about stop.

Most politicians in DC have no interest in stopping what the NSA is doing, so it isn't going to get stopped.
For those interested, the distinction is between the "obiter dicta" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiter_dictum) and the "ratio decidendi" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio_decidendi).
Also the officers can presumably stick it in a $19 RF-shielded pouch to avoid a remote wipe by a confederate of the arrestee.
Item #1 is arguably a subjective thing to measure. When I say Elixir improves on it I mean in the sense that it appeals to the general populace more and therefor has a greater chance of gaining popularity.
The question I recently have asked myself was this: on these structured or productized pages, should we push the customer to a low friction gradual engagement lead generation action, or close the sale with a payment? I'm now trying out the former. Thoughts?
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I quickly discovered the same things about SVG/Canvas when I tried to use it for a game board. It was a casual project so I didn't search too hard for other options but I'll take a look at your list you provided. Thanks!
> The kind of condescending 'get over it' comment from grecy is utterly beside the point - regardless of whether you deal with it well or not, out-of-timezone sync support is more difficult to do, and that is something worth mentioning in a list of hurdles an Australian startup might face.

You know, Australians are very well known internationally being being complaining so-and-sos.

I can't believe a thinking person would actually complain that Australia is in vastly different time zone. Next you'll be complaining it's too hot, then that it's to sparsely populated (oh, you already are). It never ends with you, does it?
Good idea. Implemented.
Now I'm totally confused.

e.g. "a confidential source" that we saw on here yesterday.

That implies some confidential source was featured on HN yesterday. Linking to that post should do none of those things.
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"Exploiting a loophole in the law" - does that phrase really mean anything?

For the general public, sure, all citizens may advocate for different laws. In the context of a Supreme Court decision, it's much less clear. Is the court really charged with deciding what the law should have been, if only those idiot legislators hadn't mistakenly put in yet another loophole? (Aside: does anyone really think these are mistakes?) Surely the court would be on firmer ground interpreting the laws as written.
They give two antennas for each user (one for live stream and one for DVR). And since they were still adding new users, it is reasonable to think that they had, at any given time, more pairs of antennas than current customers. If one antenna failed, I imagine they had a backup one they could switch to.
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I was hesitant to submit this because I don't want to start a gun control flame war. Pretty please, if this does make it to the front page can we keep it civil?

Personally, I find the intersection between tech and law in this instance very interesting. It is an instance of a law whose writers wanted to promote a technology having the opposite effect and hindering it instead.
If the backend is based on http://www.hashcash.org/ then it should be trivial to do so.
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Ok so the library performs a kind of timing attack to detect whether it runs in a legitimate browser or not, and phones home { bot: true }. I make a bot that detects the script on the page and sends { bot: false }. You could try to obfuscate the signal by sending the raw collected browser behavior data but I still could reverse engineer its format or replay data from a legitimate session. I still don't understand how this could possibily work.
Material Design is Google's new visual look for Android, Chrome OS,
Was it heavily functional? I've found the compiler works great for regular OO stuff plus heavy use of closures.

Most of the reports of compiler problems seem to arise when people use more functional idioms.
No, the previous statement accurately captured the U.S. government's position: "Most people "all over world" are not US citizens and therefor not covered by bill of rights "that our founding fathers fought for" (according to US Government)"

Note I'm not making a normative statement here; rather I'm agreeing with the previous statement that this is FedGov's claim about the extent to which the BoR applies to non-US citizens abroad.
I have the right to receive over the air broadcasts, using public spectrum that broadcasters have been permitted to utilize. Where my antenna is, who owns it, and how I retrieve, view, or store that content is irrelevant.

Sometimes, the law is wrong. This is one of those cases. Aereo attempted to comply with the law, and was told they failed. Fine. Keep fine tuning your business model until you're just within the confines of legality. That is how the law works, no?
I don't agree with that. I like artists, not businessmen. Turning artists into businessmen, or simply making businessmen don the apparel of an artist is not "good for the consumer", it's not "fundamentally sound" either.
If memory serves me right, fs=gs=0 in DOS mode, and 46C is a tick counter of some sort.

And on a C64, addresses 53280 and 53281 change text background and border. Don't know why I remember these things.
its an easy misconception to have. Luckily there are charting libraries written with D3 like nvd3 and rickshaw.
Ya, I read this book in a spare afternoon several weeks ago. Most developers can skip the background/introduction chapters but jump directly to the core (but the basics) of d3.js library.

The author has clearly explained how people misunderstand this library because of the fancy sample list. Moreover, d3 is more likely a data abstraction layer rather than a graphics or plotting tool. It gives an interface to represent the data by SVG graphical components.
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Patents were originally invented in Venice in the 1400s. They were widely used all over the British Empire well before the US existed.

Copyright law was also largely invented by Britain dating back to when the printing press was invented in the 1600s.

Trademark law is even older dating as far back as the Roman Empire. The first modern Trademark system was actually set up by France.

Your assertion about this stuff being American inventions is wrong.
The antenna is cheap, but that's not the whole cost. You need the 8VSB reception stage, and then a slice of a server to transcode that 8VSB into H.264 or whatever format they chose. Then you also need disk space for the DVR stuff.

It's not the array of antennas that boggled me the most, it was the racks and racks of servers encoding the exact same show hundreds or thousands of times in parallel.
I keep getting "[fail] Proof of work not calculated" as my Public Key
I'm curious if they are attempting to make a push for connecting Siberia, or if this is also due to an increasing userbase in Russia as well:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/05/18/russias-...
> Well, the problem is that Aereo probably could not have prevailed at SCOTUS, because SCOTUS looks to precedent. In this case, their interpretation of the precedent itself (Copyright Act of 1976) was accurate, even if that precedent is out of date in our eyes.

You are confusing enactments (things like the Constitution and statute law, like the Copyright Act) with precedent (prior rulings of courts applying the same law). These are fundamentally different things, thought the court looks to both
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In the US the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of how the law is interpreted. So, off the top of my head, there are at least 2 ways the effects of a judgement can be reversed. 1) The law can be specifically amended by congress and 2) the Supreme Court can make a future ruling which is different than it's original.

Of course, there are intricacies here. Especially in case 2 where the weight giving to legal precedence makes it unlikely.
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I think if you put finance at the top of the list, we'd be in agreement.
The author's assertion that D3 doesn't work with Angular is rather fishy seeing as there is a book specifically written about using D3 with Angular: https://leanpub.com/d3angularjs
It can be in your interests for businesses to know things about you. However it is always in your interests for you to be in control of your own personal data and how it is used, which is not how Facebook operates.

Whether or not FB as a platform is useful is irrelevant to the issue of data ownership. Where people have a particular issue with FB, it is, ignoring Mark Zuckerberg's own statements, that as a business they are reliant on what you might call adversarial data collection: i.e., they will take whatever they can get, not just what you explicitly give them.

Contrast that with say, Google, who have been heading in a similar direction for a while now, but they don't predicate their entire business model on it.

If Google stopped collecting your data today they would still have a very viable business selling advertising based on search terms. If FB stopped collecting data, the company would shut down. Thus any utility you get from Facebook is being paid for by a specific model of data collection that happens to be contrary to your best interests.

You might be happy with that trade-off but a lot of people aren't. I for one an unhappy with the fact they have become a defacto standard that's getting increasingly difficult to avoid.