skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think some of the evidence in support of torrenting is more than a little suspicious, I do question whether or not heavily fighting it can provide value.

That is, I don't know how many folks that torrent stuff do buy stuff. Anecdotally, I actually just don't know that many folks that torrent. Of the few I suspect do torrent, they wouldn't be buying anything anyway. At worst, they would have been fine with crappy taped copies from the radio. Or music videos on VHS. (Heck, as a kid I probably watched more VHS stuff than anything else, and we bought videos.)

So, my hypothesis is that the amount of money and effort that is extracted from and goes into fighting music torrenting eclipses any supposed money that was lost in the crime.

I'm definitely game for any links. Or ideas on how to explore this hypothesis.
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I always assumed that every developer has a local dev environment, it seems I was wrong :)
And, I guess, Bill Maher is a right-wing nutty? He believes Mars and Moon missions would be a great waste of money.

The Bible isn't holding us back....it's our lack of imagination and lazy jokes and the conflation of capital and fiat currency.
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Ask HN: Any H1-B developers, who successfully own startup?
I'm currently on h1-b, and this type of visa allows me to stay in US only if I'm employed by my employer.
But I work on my own startup, and it looks like I will not be able to raise any funds and generate revenue, or apply to Y Combinator unless I get green card.

If there are any advice or experience that HN can tell me about?
10% of the ticket to fight it.
Paying fee is a regular Stripe payment processing fee of 30 cents + 0.31%
That's nice work. Do you have plans to add a web interface?
I think at least for viewing/commenting posts. That way posts could reach a larger audience
It's incredibly cool that you got a by-line, and the lead position for that matter. Is that due to the work you did coding the project, or because of your role coming up with the idea, mentioned in your other comment [1], or because of some other journalism you did on the project that you haven't mentioned?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986383
Yes, I used to be an avid Chrome user but recently feel like it has becoming less and less pleasant.
> Fill out the form to get code you can run in your terminal without verifying its security.

Great advice. I hope this is supposed to be a joke? Other than that, why not make it a shellscript where you can give it the paramters using arguments?

And last but not least I think just checking the TTL of the DNS record and then sleeping for that amount of time would be more elegant.

sleep $(dig google.com | grep -A1 "ANSWER SECTION" | tail -n1 | awk '{ print $2 }'); echo -ne '\007' # or bark.sh
Future, meet past

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
It's working now! hooray!
What's interesting is that torproject is misspelled in anonymizer/tor/torpoject_visit. I suppose bugs are a universal constant.
When a single PC circa 2014 is more powerful than the entire world's combined computing power circa 1990, and a smartphone is as powerful as an XBox, it's probably suboptimal to worry about execution performance. Generally, it's best to wait until a profiler indicates there's a performance problem before changing your coding habits.
DJ is the quickest and easiest to set up. It's a great option to start with.
Math is a tool used in programming, programming isn't defined by math though (there are plenty of non-math activities that dominate the process). What is so hard about that?
Might be a good idea sdegutis, to have sample configuration that replicates the setup from Spectacle, Moom, etc., similar to what you did with Zephyros (I think?).
Thanks for checking it out! Will consider adding a web interface once I get a sense of the app's usage.
publication: http://m.sciencemag.org/content/345/6192/75
Mind linking to the particular layout workflow you're talking about? Or is it now built in? I currently use spectacle, but would prefer to use Alfred.
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One of the primary ways (though not the only one) is by being part of an "Accountable Care Organization." These allow health systems to share in the savings they create for Medicare patients.
Will do from now on, thanks dang!
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Ideally it should be possible with a scenario script, I know that feature isn't that well explored though.
He does not have one of the worst reputations. That's utterly ridiculous, you don't know a thing about the history of constitutional law if you think so.

Buck v. Bell was one of his worst moments, as well as the rest of the country's. Holmes didn't create the eugenics law in VA, and he didn't hold a gun to the head of the other 7 members of the court who voted with him, though. Eugenics is disgusting and is rightfully in the dustbin of history along with debtors prisons, lobotomization, slavery, and a number of other common practices we currently & correctly view as backwards and evil.

He stands heads and shoulders above the idiot "originalists" polluting the bench right now.

edit: You might as well say that Richard Feynman was a reclusive and socially awkward man. It is not a matter of opinion, it's just false - plainly incorrect. OWH is routinely on the top 10 most influential justices of all time. He remains one of the most widely cited in other SC decisions. But to pin him down on a couple of specific cases and overlooking his enormous influence on contemporary judicial philosophy is ignorant. Don't believe me? Just spent a minute of your time to research it and you'll see how silly it is.

edit 2: Most of what I found to make sure I hadn't lost my mind is even kinder, considering him the 2nd or 3rd most influential justices behind Marshall and closely tied with Warren.
And what if someone else wanted to come and live in your property. You don't know them, but they just show up in the garden one day. What gives you the right to demand a levy from them or move them on by force?
All open source software licenses rely on copyright to have any effect, not GPL in particular.
Yes. A demo would be really nice!
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moralizers like yourself are why people should be very very afraid of data collection like this.
I would say 30% chance as it stands now, but depending on total level of interest...!
>Surely it can't be cost effective for people to be repeatedly parking, selling the spot, then driving until they find a new one, but that's the only real abuse I could see of the system.

This is would be the abuse and main concern. The parking situation is bad enough as is without cash incentive to keep a spot longer to see if they can get money from it.

People have brought up in other posts about how it's not worth a person's time to squat/hoard parking spaces. This is very subjective, but the comments are understandable since there are a lot of developers on this board. Last time I saw, a person can sell the space for up to $20. That's a good chunk of money for most people if they can do it once an hour. If people choose not to disclose this extra income they won't be taxed on it (disclosure: I'm not sure if a reporting feature is built into the app).

$20/hr tax free is equivalent to ~$35/hr pre-tax. That's a fair amount of money for most people. I do realize that at $20 a person can just park in a parking garage so it most likely wouldn't be that high unless the driver is spending the entire day in SF.
Haven't decided that yet actually.. currently no though.
This is wonderfully written. It reminds me of a condition called visual snow [1] where sufferers develop continuous TV-static-like tiny flickering dots in their entire visual field. Makes you appreciate the things you have.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/head.12378/full
What that seems to come down to is a pragmatic argument about land use rather than an absolute one about morality.

In which case libertarianism is no more fundamentally correct or moral than any other system, we're simply arguing about the extent of the state and personal vs. group rights.

Which is fine by me, so long as libertarians stop proclaiming to have a consistent and correct system.
The description is not exclusive, I'm not arguing that. Your last point makes a lot of sense; most people/groups who do nasty things do it using off-the-shelf components.
My issue is with the description painting TAILs in broad strokes as comsec for extremists. Yes, they've got National Security in the name, so they're looking at the software from a national security perspective. There is a wide gap, however, between describing software and its dangerous potential and describing software only in context of its dangerous potential.

If an analyst who hasn't heard of TAILs reads that description, it would sound to them like the program is something that's passed around extremist forums in much the same way malware toolkits are disseminated in warez forums, rather than what it is, which is a Debian fork that routes things through Tor. I say this because that was my first impression, which seemed off, leading me to google, then to wikipedia, and then back here in a huff.

Now, some examples (in order of ascending silliness) of why describing something in the context of one use case is harmful when many use cases exist:

* A lot of people use nmap to explore their home networks or as part of their jobs, potentially in the computer security industry. A lot of crackers also use nmap to case out potential targets. Calling nmap a "network scanning utility advocated by computer hackers" makes illegalizing nmap sound a lot more attractive than it actually would be, even if the statement is true.

* In the real world, certain products are systematically abused for less-than-kosher purposes. Still, we never refer to canned air as a household inhalant without mentioning its dusting use-case first. Potassium nitrate is fertilizer first, rocket fuel second, and only tangentially mentioned as an oxidizer for explosives. Other oxidizers, even the ones that are illegal for consumer sale, are written about the same way.

* Reductio ad absurdum: There's a lot of general purpose software everyone uses. I wouldn't be wrong if I said "Microsoft Word is a text management tool used by terrorist groups to hatch evil plots" or "SMS is a communications technology used by insurgents to detonate bombs" or, extending the idiom, "The Quran is a book used by militant Islamist groups to justify killing and brutalizing civilians." These descriptions are all, however, deeply misleading.
It's very handy for development instances of your apps/services too. Often nicer/faster than using Vagrant if that's your bag.

Something I plugged together recently - a W3C HTML5 validator instance in a Docker container: https://github.com/magnetikonline/dockerhtml5validator proving to be really useful vs. my old method of spinning this all up in a VirtualBox instance.
I don't see how market movements of -13%(digital) and -15%(albums) equal a plummet.
Bylines are alphabetical in this case.

Since folks seem to be curious, here's the division of labor:

I pitched the idea, stitched together some Landsat photos as a proof of concept and a rough design, built out and implemented the page, worked on labels and city outlines, and helped out with picking some locations and editing.

Karen did most of the reporting and research on this. She's also responsible for much of the reporting on the ongoing map stack graphic.

Derek helped out with the Landsat color toning and burning in city shapes, built the locator map and the Baghdad odometer, and confirmed some of the statuses.

Archie worked on a ton of the writing, polished the design, and did a mountain of editing to boil it down to the essentials. He also kept everything coordinated, as a good Graphics Editor will do...

Nilkanth did some yeoman's work on tracing city shapes...

Bostock provided the final projections for both the Euphrates and Tigris maps, fixing my original broken projections.

The Baghdad bureau confirmed Karen's reporting, and added helpful notes and suggestions which were incorporated.

(apologies in advance if I forgot anything...)
Setting up a vagrant file would really make this an easy thing to install (perhaps a little longer than 20sec).
Just to extend the thread, another Brit in the US, "Paul" gets turned into "Pole", "Poll", "Bull" etc.
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Kid: 'Aaron Swartz was right'
I know this kid. He's pretty smart. i dont understand some of what he tweeted here and for some reason I feel hes trying to show he's smarter than everyone cause I don't think I'm that stupid. Can someone who understands this stuff share their thoughts??
This reminds me very strongly of older moveable-type fonts. No, not the blogging engine, but physical moveable type made of melted tin and lead hand-set in a press.

The letterforms are influenced by the dies from which they're cast, and are further worn and damaged with age, both softening the overall shape and introducing quirks to them. You'll find print from older books -- generally 19th century and prior, sometimes much prior, tend to look like this.

I like the effect.
Something I asked @docker on Twitter - where are these newer builds for Ubuntu 14.04/12.04?

https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/

Would love to be able to move to at least the 1.0 stable.
If you have a tolerance for risk, you can do it without the riches and fame of a Matt Cutts.

You also have to have a tolerance for that nagging feeling in your head that you are not being productive, while your peers are getting ahead in their careers.

I took a year off in my twenties to backpack, after I'd been out of college and working for six years. I had some trouble finding a job when I came back to work again, but it wasn't too bad. I fell behind some of my peers that worked the whole time, but I don't regret my experiences.

Again, now in my late thirties I took another year off to pursue a business venture that is high risk. Again, strictly financially speaking, I should have stayed with my previous employer. What I'm doing only makes sense if you think about life as a series of experiences, and not strictly about getting the highest corporate title (or most money) possible before death.

I'm not wealthy enough to stop working. A lot of people would say that what I'm doing is irresponsible. But you only have one life.

As a side note, the way the tax system works here in the states, working every other year, from June to June, would probably put you in a better position with respect to taxes, than working from January to December every other year.
By that you mean php dev environment? That would be more of a safe bet 10 years ago.
There is plenty of music which is only recorded in an audio form and cannot be encoded as sheet music, and is original work of the intellect.

I don't see any difference in a book and an original music recording in terms of why one should be subject to copyright and one not.

Whether recordings or books are protectable in practice is another matter, as it is very easy to make digital copies of both.

But if one takes the stand that an author of a book (be it an e-book or a printed one) has the right to set a price for a copy for her work, and benefit from protection by copyright if she so chooses to, I don't see how a recording of an original piece of music is any different.
Ah not a bad idea, thanks! Will look into it.
Is there a way to do XMonad style layouts with this system? Since moving to OSX, I've missed Xmonad badly. The big thing that has been lacking is the ability for newly opened windows to automatically be placed into a grid, according to the layout that is currently defined, and then have the ability to shuffle windows around within that layout.
Just curious, but what country/part of the country do you live in? Virtually every store I walk into either has a loyalty points system, a credit card, or both.
I was referring to the id that I give you after you fill out the form to add your hook.

Don't worry, if you send me the webhook url I can also find it back in the db and activate it for you.
This looks like a really great tool. It's a shame Github doesn't have more fine grained permissions though - I'd love to give it read/write access to repos it creates, but it requiring global read/write access means I'll probably never use it.
That should be a really easy config, especially after events are added in 1.1; I'll see what I can do it create it and add it to the wiki, unless someone beats me to it :)
Music usually performs a different function to non-fiction books in terms of conveying practical information, but an analogue for a quality reference book could be an original composition recorded by a master musician/composer. That recording can be a key tool to a another musician or composer learning her trade, no?

Whether the book or recording is digital or not doesn't really matter
Does anyone think it'd be a good idea for browsers to support more than one toolset? Right now it's just HTML+CSS+JS, no matter what languages people build on top of that assembly.

Elm seems like a neat idea, but based on Paul's post, I dislike the fact that it compiles down to CSS. It seems a disingenuous way to present the language. I'd much rather a browser was simply told this was an application/elm or something and ran with that properly.
Thanks!

The only reason I made it that way is because it let me produce something playable without yet implementing techs, the economy, real AI, etc :)
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One disadvantage of technology...
Checking in to say thanks for making this happen. The most interesting part of HN just got a huge boost..
Thin white text on bright red background at the bottom is just unreadable and user-hostile.
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Ask HN: Remember Steorn's Free Energy Thing? What happened with that?
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See my answer above on why I think it would be worth it, also consider the unemployed/underemployed.

I don't think the app had been out long enough to get a large user base. I only saw it a 2-3 weeks ago and then the gov't acted pretty quickly. So no data on my end. I think most people that read the article about the app imagined the worse case scenario, which in my opinion was likely to happen.

Another scenario would be for tenants who have reserved parking to park out on the streets, wait for someone that's will to buy the place in their apartment. They would then move their car back to their reserved parking space until they see an easy open space to take that's near them. This scenario doesn't take much effort from the person abusing the system.
>you're not distinguishing between observed effects of changes to the minimum wage vs. what people believe about changes to the minimum wage

The observations are plainly evident. Those who a minimum wage affect are largely the unskilled, which over proportionally includes young people and minorities. The rate of unemployment in black teenagers is currently somewhere around 30%. http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/minimum-wage...
I would be happy to limit copyright protection to recordings of "music which is only recorded in an audio form and cannot be encoded as sheet music." Despite the fact that I've been published by several major book publishers and I'm a "real" author with representation and the whole nine yards, I have not defended the continuing copyright protection of the written word, either. One of my publishers uses no copy protection (except for Kindle where they have no choice), and they distribute a large part of their backlist for free. The whole notion of copyright and publishing needs a rethink. Some publishers are farther along this path than others.
Somebody is seeing U2 in concert, they are making hundreds of millions per tour. Merch licensing is also huge income now compared to 20 years ago.

Music producers are also getting paid, Andy Samberg used to buy his SNL shorts music and Lonely Island beats from producers on twitter selling and leasing their songs directly.
Browsers are struggling to support 1 toolset as-is. Imagine the message of multiple tool sets.
So what does it look like to define a layout in elm?
"Does anyone think it'd be a good idea for browsers to support more than one toolset?"

Some people do. I do. But it seems to be a minority opinion; most web developers seem to live in this weird cognitively dissonant state where the HTML DOM+CSS is always the right tool for the job because it theoretically allows for platform-independent layout to "any" browser while then spending most of their time dealing with getting their layouts to actually work on about a handful of real-world browsers which all treat the same layout code differently (in ways from subtle to large); resulting in piles of frameworks, pre-processing systems and general hackery to get everything working, mostly, most of the time.

If there were a second toolset that were more rationally designed to solve the real-world problems of modern web apps, giving you layout via binding similar to what you see in Adobe Flex, WPF, Qt/QML, etc (not advocating any of those as the specific answer, just stating that I think they are all individually more sane than HTML/CSS/JS for app/UI layout) and just accepted the fact that the vast majority of websites are designed to be laid-out in a fairly constrained way (while still allowing for responsive layout for different sizes/dpis) I think web technology would be a lot less terrible.

And just to get it out of the way, there are some good hacky solutions that help the problem I described, like React.js, Angular, Dart, etc, but they are all built on a shaky foundation which always manages to show through because we're stuck with HTML/CSS/JS.
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Great App! There are a lot of productivity apps out there, but most of them are overloaded with useless functionalities, this one seems to be very simple and solves the major needs.
Let us know once Freemium version is out.
I actually like CSS as it is now, and it's getting better (cough, flexbox). Am I the only one who finds CSS incredibly hard to master, though? I've been writing CSS for years and I still feel like a newbie sometimes, and feel like I'm just tinkering with random attributes until it looks right.
I'm reminded of Kevan Davis' "Smaller Picture" web experiment that has been running since 2002. Using a grid of random bits, readers could choose to vote to flip a bit forming a given letter or picture. You can also view a time-lapse animation. Unfortunately, the letters ("Typophile") are no longer online. :(

http://kevan.org/smaller.cgi
I've always wished that the front page had 1 or 2 "Show HN" and 1 or 2 "Ask HN" posts on the front page. Removing them faster off the front page has puzzled me for years.
Sorry to reach back to the mid-aughts, but I found myself clicking through Wikipedia and landing on Steorn's entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn

What was up with that? Srsly. The Wikipedia entry is unsatisfying. Rational Me says, "Yes, they're obviously a fraud...and they found some gullible people to behoax" but Irrational Me says, "How can I get me some of that?" Interpretation of "How can I get me some of that?" left as an exercise for the reader.

tl;dr::someone pays a lot to get everyone excited about (another) free energy theory, hides proof behind paywall. Is this a viable model for the unscrupulous?