skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Err, what a joke.

> The Expendables 3″ was widely seen as a litmus test for the impact that piracy can have on a film’s prospects.

How? By what metric? A movie that no one wants to see, that is predictably bad tanked. Trying to blame piracy so that you can justify increasingly anti social measures against your customers is ridiculous. Indeed most people would prob want to be paid to go and see this rather than waste 2 hours on it.

I know a filmmaker and they are fully aware that the marketplace for bad content is very small. Due to internet word of mouth failures are exponentially worse because people these days go to see specific movies and rarely go to see whatever movie happens to be on. They teach courses on this stuff.

This is a studio trying to save face.
Ah yes, there's that as well

Starbucks is a good Wi-Fi provider, worldwide.
"A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades"

hmm ... what are the chances of that?

;)

Seriously though, why is the null hypothesis not considered? Wouldn't it strengthen their case, to reject the null hypothesis that this increase is just happening randomly?
An evil organization may build a CAAS (crime as a service, TM since now :-p) and the little burglars may buy a 1.99$ app to know if there is a free house nearby.

Mmm, this may work...
If anyone here has seen this movie or any of the other movies in this series then you would know piracy is merely a scapegoat here. It flopped because, well, it's a bad movie with an expendable storyline.

To be honest, I think the studio deliberately leaked the movie because they knew it was going to flop (studios aren't stupid, they loosely know the numbers before a movie debuts) so they could blame piracy instead of the bad storyline and lack of plot.

The inner conspiracy theorist in me thinks the studios leaked the movie so they could push for tougher anti-piracy legislation and lobby harder. Before this, the studios had no real argument, but you can't deny the numbers are atrocious and on paper, it's easy to blame piracy for this instead of the real culprit. It feels very deliberate.
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Wow. It sounds like you are experiencing being satisfied by your food. Very good. Also worth thinking about is how much of junk like high fructose oil hydrogenated components that you are not consuming daily.
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Since Expendables 3 supposedly sucks, I bet a high percentage of the losses were due to people pirating/watching the film and telling their friends how shitty it was, resulting in them going to see something else.
What's the big impediment to just making all websites https, all the time? Technical? Financial? Honest question.
What Ballmer brought to Microsoft was a different skill set. It was no more about an MBA class or two than it was about the CS classes Gates took during his year at Harvard. Running a business was something that interested Ballmer analogous to Gates interest in programming.

Diversifying the skill set of the core team was probably a key factor in Microsoft's successful growth over the next three decades
Fascinating how the different times to renew bones (15 years for the femur, ~3 for a rib) provide info about average diet during those times. Good read.
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Anybody know whether studios are insured against leaked films? If they realize they're not going to make their budget back in ticket-sales, maybe they're seeking to cover their costs using other methods.
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My experience has been exactly the opposite. When speaking or reading Spanish, German or French, I never think "gee, if only I knew more grammar" but almost every day I think "well, it sure would be nice if I knew the word for ___."

It seems your advice is directed towards language learners who think they might get away with just learning words and not bothering at all with grammar, collocations, expressions and all of the other things you need to truly grasp a foreign language, like practicing listening comprehension. For those people, your advice makes sense. But realistically, even among flash card aficionados, how many people do you figure think learning a language is as easy as just learning words? Do those people even exist?
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When a studio allows movie reviewers to see a film before release, are they allowed to influence/censor the reviewer from telling others that the movie is bad?
Unity has alt-tab weirdness as well. Simply tapping alt-tab only selects program groups, so if you have four gnome-terminals open, it will bring those four to the front. Selecting a specific terminal takes additional effort.
No, it probably flipped because it's a ridiculous and bad movie. End of story.
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What is that image?Any answers from anyone in HN?
Well, the thing is Gladwell and Taleb are neither on HN, nor on this discussion. So one can be a little tactless against them. Not that describing a writer as a "hack" or his book as "out-Gladwelling" was intended as an actual insult anyway.
It's just a blantky put negative accessment of the nature/quality of their work.
Maybe there are better ways to reduce piracy...
How about a global, cross-platform release date for films? Pay to stream a movie to your device, or watch at a cinema.
"Expendables 3" scores 35/100 on Metacritic [1]. The original scored 45/100 [2] and "Expendables 2" scored 51/100 [3].

Perhaps it's performing poorly because it's a very poor movie. Or perhaps the leak let people find out in advance it's a very poor movie.

[1] http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-expendables-3

[2] http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-expendables

[3] http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-expendables-2
Are you actually trying to imply that having a DVD quality leak come out far before the actual movie even hit theaters isn't going to have any effect on the box office results?
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Hmm, I guess it's a good thing I proxy through Google Calendar then, huh?

The Google/TripIt connection may be unencrypted, but I'm assuming (and hoping) that Google Calendar feeds are sent over HTTPS.
I'm not sure why it's including this in the export, but this is one of the default "Image Fills".

http://f.cl.ly/items/1X0M2o0V0f3A463c0a2H/Untitled_numbers.p...
For small sites it's mostly certificate and dedicated IP price. Wildcard certificates price is especially egregious.

For big sites - probably their load balancers can't handle the https load.
TLS is more than just encryption; it's also a mechanism that enables you to, in theory, verify that the content is from the source it says it's from.
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Did he commit it as assault?
Thank you, what you write makes sense.

It is indeed very tricky, better men than me have argued back and forth:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/

It seems that I'll have to agree with you and smtddr, then, that it is a right.

Once the child is born, it should be accorded all the human rights... and that's where we run into trouble.

Some interpretations of the "right to life" include the "right to survival",

http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=159

I'm probably missing the right bibliography, if someone can point me to which books I should read, I would be very grateful :)
On that site the author is the same one as listed on the infosec article, and they claim he's a researcher for ISI.
In "Latest known good" column in "Supported Motherboards/Laptops" it says "Unknown" for 5 Intel x86 Chromebooks. http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops

I understand it means that to the best of Coreboot developers' knowledge (and who knows better than them, right?) noone ever tried to run open-source builds of Coreboot on these models. Consequently, it is overwhelmingly likely that Coreboot (the open-source version that we have access to, not the one in the Googleplex) won't work. Am I mistaken?

I considered using C720 Chromebook with open-source Coreboot, but, alas, it says "Unknown" for it, too.
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Dedicated IP? I thought SNI was supported just about everywhere by now. Also, if all you need is a certificate for one subdomain (or maybe a couple of certificates for one subdomain each), a StartSSL certificate is free. It's not SuperDuperSign Extra Validation Plus Platinum, but it's accepted by all major browsers ;)

EDIT: Wikipedia tells me "As of November 2012, the only major user bases whose browsers do not support SNI appear to be users of Android 2.x (default browser), Internet Explorer on Windows XP and versions of Java before 1.7 on any operating system." - a small company should be fine.
Julian: They have been trying to take you down at every step alone the way. Now that they've broken you down, you should take them down with you.

Distribute the insurance file passwords before you exit the embassy!
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It's probably technical - this is exporting to external calendar apps. I think it's perfectly plausible that a large number of broadly used calendar apps just don't support HTTPS imports, and probably fails in desperately graceless way - and so the decision is between supporting the feature insecurely, supporting the feature securely, but dealing with tons of customers, many of them both paying and technically unsophisticated experiencing a failure that they ascribe to TripIt and maybe do, maybe don't contact support about - or not supporting the feature at all.
The first comment on the question itself makes the most sense to me.

Edit: Sure, downvote me ;)
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Is TripIt referencing these http urls? If yes, then you have the same problem (the eavedropper just has an extra step to follow the URL).
Please, continue...
I think education is one of (if not the) most important thing for a coutry (or society, call it what you want). I put it on the same level as health.

As a result I am obviously in favor of free education, or as free as possible.

ps: I am french so my point of view might be biased a little bit.
Thanks for the explanation. I can ASMR but never knew it had a name. I like whispers, the sound of scissors cutting hair, light footsteps, bonfire crackling noises, pencil against paper...

I'll read more about it, but thanks for getting me introduced!
A streaming podcast webapp called flapcast.com. It uses a CodeIgniter backend and I just can't bring myself to write PHP anymore.
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I wrote a decorator-driven library to do optional type checking at runtime with no need for a special interpreter :)

https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure

(Having optional static type checks in the core interpreter would be nice, though Alex Gaynor's concerns linked in another comment are very valid.)
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Just don't use the "export" feature, or use it securely, eg. by exporting to Google Calendar.
I guess it's just a Rorschach test for the Internet.
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lhorie's comment still applies here: Mithril.js does more than this library, and it weigths 10 times less, minified and gzipped (~5KB vs ~50KB, with dependencies).

http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
I have read of securitization [1] as one way but am not very sure about insurances.

Much of it was before the 2008 era but still think a lot is happening behind the scenes for it to flourish in the secularization markets overall.

[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-markets-credit-...
[2]:https://www.moodys.com/research/MOODYS-RATES-MARVELS-FILM-SE...
I am not sure how you get from the PDF to the confirmation. The first page of the PDF says it is from “Infosec Institute” and “Darmawan Salihun”. If you want to show plagiarism, should you not be linking to a version that has the same contents but with different authors?
Alt-Tab works perfectly fine for me in Gnome Shell (I was initially annoyed by Alt+` to switch windows within a program group but now I find it useful). I find the app overview also clear and very usable. And it's nice that it's JavaScript-based so I can tweak some minor things easily (hot corner on external monitors).

For Unity I'm probably simply not in the target group, I don't like it.

I left KDE many years ago because I found it buggy and bloated. Maybe it's time to give it a look but I'm happy with my Gnome Shell (in a very nearly out of the box configuration).
Edward Snowden worked for Dell, maintaining NSA infrastructure. They NSA is deep into Dell, easy access to specs and maybe the NSA even engineered those backdoors themselves.
No, they do so much more.

For example with KDE activities you can save states of your desktop (which apps are open, their position on screen, their open tabs, files etc) and restore them whenever you want.
So you have ready layouts for your usual tasks and you can start/stop or switch between them in seconds.

Another small example that exists since KDE 2 maybe: you get a clipboard with history. How one may live without it?

Also you get all the small perks like easily setting your keyboard layouts, shortcuts etc.

You get a very fast search utility. Navigating to a file through your file manager is so ineffective when you can type a few letters and find the exact file or folder you need. Searching through your email with gmail (or better) speed from your system tray without having to go to your browser is so useful.

There are a ton of small nice apps, like a ruler or a color selector or a screenshot utility. You may connect to a VPN with exactly two clicks or send your music from your speakers to your bluetooth headset.

Your music or video will autopause when your Android phone rings. You get notifications synchronization with your Android.

Your archive utility can preview any type of file even with color highlighting if it is code. Your apps can edit directly any file on remote file systems (even ftp or ssh).

There are so many things a well designed desktop environment can do for you.
most of what I've since learned to see as 'coke vs. pepsi' arguments I first learned in the form of 'mags vs. cockers'.

vi vs. emacs, chef vs. puppet, mysql vs. postgres, it turns out for the rest of my career the arguments would sound almost exactly the same as teenage boys arguing about play guns with the nouns swapped out.
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You should avoid sex too, just in case.
You mean Queens and the Bay Area.
>Both parties save on time and fees.

Of course it's good for the Googles and Facebooks, who have the resources to in-source teams to do the deals. But is it equally good for the small companies, the "acquired", the WhatsApps et al, to be relying on Google's in-house team? I'm not as sure.

I have to laugh at the "who needs bankers?" tone of the article, when the companies mentioned rely on ibanks to provide them with the talent pipeline they need to staff their in-house M&A teams.
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Often early screenings come with an embargo date. Basically by going to the screening you agree not to publish anything before that date. I've even heard of studios forcing reviewers to sign an actual NDA.

That being said I've never heard of a studio suing a reviewer for breaking the embargo. The worst that often happens is that the reviewer gets some angry calls from a studio PR person and then the reviewer and/or the reviewer's employer isn't sent any more early screening or industry party invitations for a while.
It doesn't happen to me. No strange image gets included when saving the spreadsheet.
Shell and browser. That's all I need.
There is no proof that I have read that says that is not true. Do you know something I don't which proves that having a leak stops people from going to the theatre?
This is a nicely detailed post of uncovering the flaw (Thanks Wireshark!) and explaining the implications.

My biggest concern with this post and the entirety of the blog is that I'm not sure as to whether you're performing full disclosures before the shaming. It'd be irresponsible not to give the team time to respond and remedy. It'd be a quick addition to the footer to blanket that you do full disclosures and give an adequate amount of time before posting.

Edit: not sure if this post in particular had the disclosure statement added after my comment, but most of the other blog posts are devoid of disclosures.
Oh, I didn't know that. Well, that's a good reminder that pt and pt-BR have several vocabulary differences. A few more I can remember would be the words "bicha" (pt: queue, pt-BR: male homossexual) and "durex" (pt: condom, pt-BR: a kind of adhesive tape).
Isn't Expandables 3 nothing more than a movie attempting to suck the last marrow out of someone's stardom to make a quick buck?

The instinct to watch a movie like this is like being in a waiting room at the doctor's office and picking up a two year old copy of People magazine. I might read it, I might even enjoy it, but there's no way I'm paying for that.

If people are pirating this movie, it means that people want to see these actors regardless of how bad the movie is. The entertainment industry could probably make more money skipping out on the huge production costs and doing Shakespeare with rehashed sets/costumes starring Stallone as Brutus.
It would have been interesting to see if you tried this while logged in on a Google account not belonging to a security researcher.

It's a remote change but maybe it brings up totally random results that are then passed though your accounts search bubble filter. Hence sec related topics.
I don't use a DE (I use the dwm window manager), but I'm always on the lookout for better ways to use my computer. You make an interesting point about DE development enriching the system as a whole, but that's not an argument for actually using a DE. What can it do for me that's worth devoting the extra gigabyte or so of memory, plus the extra CPU cycles? You mention some things about shared global state, but, as you acknowledge, they do also work without the DE. Can you be more specific about how having a DE installed can provide me with some significant improvements in workflow?
A cleaner KDE4 is exactly what I was hoping for for a new update. I'm glad they stuck with what they did well and improved on this. I'm a VFX artist and I actually need the bells and whistles a good DE can offer, but I don't need one that acts like a tablet. In this day and age it seems we have 2 extremes for different uses of computers, but people in multimedia, vfx, 3D, ect... need something like KDE which offers a great middle ground of features, stability and robust power-user features. Dolphin imho is by far the best file explorer out there.
Maybe it's a default that the user's set (say as part of a user style)?
Did you even read the entire post?

> Only my own information was accessed in these screenshots, and I manually changed the name from mine to John Doe. I contacted TripIt / Concur Technologies about this issue via e-mail and Twitter NINE MONTHS AGO and never heard back. A similar TripIt calendar feed security issue was brought up on the TripIt-maintained Get Satisfaction website OVER SIX YEARS AGO, with no resolution.
It doesn't seem to be explicitly associated with Numbers, but with Excel: http://www.it-volpers.net/2011/03/21/disassemble-xlsx/
Not sure if the author added this in response to your comment, but it is there - see the last paragraph.

Only my own information was accessed in these screenshots, and I manually changed the name from mine to John Doe. I contacted TripIt / Concur Technologies about this issue via e-mail and Twitter NINE MONTHS AGO and never heard back. A similar TripIt calendar feed security issue was brought up on the TripIt-maintained Get Satisfaction website OVER SIX YEARS AGO, with no resolution.
This is nearly a good idea, except that by adding a random string and hashing it a few times, you can get an image that is approximately the same. Its might be reasonable to assume the NSA gets 100,000 to 1,000,000 attempts at low expense, of which at least a few hundred will be a similar color, and one of those will have a similar-enough pattern that people are less likely to notice.

It does create another level of protection for the user, and another hurdle for the attacker, but it still requires user diligence.
Been following Quandl for a while and really love where they are going with Premium dataset. I've been looking for a while for good fundamental stocks data via an API. There's xignite but they are overly complicated and expensive. Much better solution then scrapping all morningstar website for 10years fundamentals.
That's a shame as that would be where most of my music came from.

If I hadn't already spent countless hours battling the Spotify API I'd attempt to help...
I use XFCE because it's the only one (except KDE which I just never seem to get on with, I dislike the default styling, the button spacings and text spacings always feel inconsistent and cramped and none of the themes seem to help) that allows me to have a taskbar per screen with only windows on that screen in the taskbar.

The others all seem to insist I have one taskbar or even a dock for all 3 screens which is just not how I've worked all the way back to Gnome 2.
This sounds like a problem with your current phonon-backend. If you're on linux, best is if you remove phonon-gstreamer and install phonon-vlc. On OSX and Windows, you may be better off in your case by trying one of our latest nightlies: http://www.tomahawk-player.org/download.html
I remember playing a game very similar to paintball back in the 1970s. One of the other participants has written about it on her blog: http://www.chicagonow.com/soapbox-momma/2014/06/my-friends-a...
In general, you have to put a certain amount of trust in your doctor.

They are helping you make pretty life altering decisions. Now, there is a bit of a cultural barrier where they aren't used to the idea of patients being as involved in their medical care, but on the whole, they are there to help you.

If you're really all that worried about your doctor writing lots of secret notes and not letting you see them, even once there's a system in place to allow you to easily collaborate with them, maybe it's time to get a new doctor?
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