skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would anyone care about this?

If one person can rip a DVD or bluray and put it on Piratebay for others in an hour or two, then there's a perfectly acceptable free alternative.

Weeks of work for specialists really sounds over the top, as I doubt that anyone can tell the difference between a competent pirate version and a specially produced Netflix copy.

It's pretty obvious that the main thing prohibiting streaming / download releases are licensing and other legal requirements.
Except for the lack of ssl on the smallest plan, prices and limits seem reasonable.
Hey folks! I am one of the authors of Readonomy. We launched the service earlier this month. I just pushed a new version which allows importing and exporting HTML and CSV files (allowing you to import your browser or delicious bookmarks) so I think it is finally ready for hn.

We've had lots of great feedback from our early users and I hope that this thread will not disappoint!
I want to know why walking away from such a toxic deal made this developer feel like that would make them the bad guy in the partnership. It seems like the other party wanted everything and was giving nothing in return. I was disappointed to read the developer gave the code away in the end.
Nope. The agency that deals with missiles and such is the DRDO [1].

ISRO is a totally non-commercial, purely research-oriented organization.

[1]: www.drdo.gov.in/
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Is it about balance or the truth?

Of course, eventually you want to do something important. But since we are talking about starting a startup, I just can't see how sama's advice aligns with this, for example:

I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You'll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward.

The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

I read Thiel's book and class notes, in which again he talks about having a vision and big idea. Sounds great until you stop to think about how Thiel's own startup Paypal came about.

Quoting Max Levchin from Founders at work:

I think we didn't know what we were doing. I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal—at least the way I think about entrepreneurship—is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.

If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever any clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie."

Paypal didn't follow any of Thiel's recipe for a great startup:

They didn't start out with a very clear plan or big idea. They pivoted lots. They had intense competition.
Somehow I expected first response to mention Nazis...
Anyway, renting a flat is just a contract between two people, not a public service. You need to trust the other person and feel comfortable with giving them access to your property. I dont care about minorities or majorities - its my property and I'm the one who's entitled to do anything with it. Laws won't make me accept _any_ offer if I can choose the best one from a large pool. Just introduce some stupid regulations and I bet you won't find any appartment because nobody will be renting.
The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting

It is a brand new, $1000 consumer device. As haughty and rich as we all present ourselves, it really supremely sucks if you're the person whose brand new device got bent -- regardless of your available spending cash, it's a major bummer, moreso if you have a 2 year contract ahead of you and a dead device. That is why there is a "hysteria".

Gorilla glass (not sure if the iPhone uses that brand specifically, but they use ion enhanced glass which is what it is) famously bends.

This story got knocked back to page 3 for having too many comments to upvotes, as an aside.
A nice time lapse video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PHJ...
I was going at first to agree with you based on my experience with Berlin: when the ads there give a particular date in which the apartment will be shown, those interested have to fill a form right after seeing it. So in this situation there's no incentive for the owner to check the e-mails.

However, that doesn't explain why both the Italian girl and Hanz from Munich got over a 90% answer rate - if they didn't check the e-mails, the response rate should have been lower.

So while I agree about that one flaw, I don't really think it affects the results that much.
what's funny about this is that if you use google mail through the web browser, you can't do email signing or encryption, but your IP address isn't visible to the person you send mail to. but, if you use a 3rd party MUA so that you can use signing and encryption, then your IP address is visible.
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I can confirm. I discovered this fact very quickly when I was looking for a flat in Munich in 2009. Almost no replies to emails, I got a pretty good response rate when I called or texted the people. I spoke some German so getting a viewing wasn't that complicated but the competition was big - sometimes tens of people queuing to view the apartment when I got there and I could tell they would typically prefer a German person over a Czech guy speaking imperfect German.

Reversing the problem is also a good idea, I know some people had success buying an ad in Sueddeutsche Zeitung. At one point I also put up printed ads in supermarkets in the areas I was considering and while the response rate was very low, I got at least some response.

There are also some agencies that in fact own flats and rent them without requiring the 2.5 x rent fee.
the money was raised to buy back shares. That is actually a better investment (saves on dividents, and you don't have to bring back any cash to the US). But yes... what if interest rates rises... either buy back less shares (or sell them again), but that is not really an option with the EPS target.

Maybe some IBM exec can answer this for us
Tips from Bootstrappers Who Made Something Out of Nothing: Part 2
Nothing of what you said is wrong, but your example has no compelling narrative.

There's no example of proof of value, and there's no story behind it, relating it to something your prospective customer cares about as part of their own business.

Your one-sentence condensation is factually correct, but it's all about you, not your customer.
I'm in the business of renting out flats. Not in Munich. Sadly, I'm in a lower-demand market, and I wouldn't rush to classify this as "discrimination".

It is very very difficult to deal with bad tenants. They exist, a lot of them. And it is very very difficult to know who is a bad tenant through these websites and Facebook groups. The problem here is an information problem. If these sites gave the person applying for a flat the chance to give information to prove they are good enough, that would be a blessing, both for (good) renters and for landlords.

I am not talking about financial information. I would be pretty happy with some references that would indicate the person is honest and serious and easy to deal with, even if they don't have much money; some access to Facebook profile and posts or other data available at the internet would do the job for me.
"I've had dead CF cards, USB sticks, SD cards, the lot and corruption after only a couple of years stored in ideal conditions. Then there's the old Sun PROM crapfest to consider as well."

The story goes back much further with solid state if you talk to "retrocomputing enthusiasts" unfortunately eproms reading all 1 awhile is depressingly common. You only need a single bit error of course for software failure.

Another interesting point to bring up is it is Very well known in the retro community that the details of eprom programming technique and certification (or lack thereof) of eprom programers has a dramatic effect on burn lifetime, like multiple orders of magnitude difference in burn lifetime. Anyone can make an eprom burner that verifies an hour later. Much harder to make an eprom burner that verifies 10 years later.

This affects more than stereotypical retrocomputing due to embedded devices. Plenty of PBXes and machine tool controllers and scientific instruments and classic video arcade machines get scrapped because the eproms lost their minds.
Perhaps off-topic, but recently it's appeared that NYT pages have had some sort of JS memory leak when left open for a long time in Chrome.
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Looks like it is possible, but takes a pretty decent amount of force: http://youtu.be/znK652H6yQM
Well you are more likely to read a seemingly handwritten letter then a printed one. That alone will expose a greater proportion to the content, where they'll be primed to certain keywords more likely to be picked up at a later through a mass broadcasted medium. And by that time, perhaps they'll relate that keyword to some personalized source, hence, a greater effect. You know, just like coupons relate a sense of favor to keywords/logos and therefor have a greater effect on persuasive power of a given proportion of the population.
Why the Scroll Event Change in iOS 8 Is a Big Deal
I once got to experience the other end of that: Being on a ship while it's going through a tiny canal. In my case, it was the Kiel Canal in Germany.

(When you're standing on the deck of a ship, you can't see the small gap -- between ship and land -- unless you stretch your neck over the rail and look down.)

So imagine this: You've spent many days on the open sea, with nothing but water in every direction. It's become so normal to you that you forget there's other life out there, beyond the steel hull.

Then one morning you wake up from a deep sleep and step outside, and... You're surrounded by land! You can't see the canal beneath you, but you can see the beautiful park you're in, with joggers, mothers with strollers, and couples holding hands.

It's very bizarre, and I'm not sure I'd get used to it either.
youtube.com

Most of the places it is used are not public facing stuff they are low level network systems which is what it was designed to be good at.
> My co-creator, an EMBA student, and I are taking the course as a way to iterate through our product and process. She is in charge of the business model, and I am doing the coding. Our professors urged everyone to start talking about equity splitting as soon as possible; and my co-creator had a really simple answer to that: "I should have 100%," she said.

That sounds like a bad deal already. Good thing he didn't sign the agreement. But i wonder what the agreement he drafted up contained.
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Not if it's a matter of a persons typical usage patterns exceeding some sort of structural limit. If 0.02% of people typically put too much pressure on the phone in their pocket, and 99.98% of people do not, then the 0.02% will have any iPhone 6 rapidly fail, and the 99.98% will see failures only after an unusual incident or after receiving a weaker than normal phone, and thus at a much slower rate.
Note for non-Indian readers: "Auto" here is "autorickshaw", the ubiquitous (and cheap!) rickety three-wheelers that zoom about in all of India's cities. And the current official starting fare in Delhi is indeed Rs 25 for 2 km!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw
I know that http://www.codewars.com/ does keep track of how long it take someone to write a correct solution and could compare the different languages on that metric, does Rosetta Code have that data available or is that not measured?
Nothing is forcing you to read someone's personal blog. If you don't like it, don't read it.

I quite liked the prose and the way it was written. Regardless, it was extremely well written and taught many of us non-bee keepers something new.
This gets asked for occasionally. The thing is though, there are not that many people who truly have no idea where they want to live. Most people have at least some idea based on where their friends already live, where they will be working, etc

Over the years I have seen numerous services that allowed people to search the way you describe. They all typically die out after a year or two, as all evidence suggests there just isn't enough volume of people searching the way you describe to sustain them.

So it's not something we'll focus on. Sorry, I know that's probably a frustrating answer for you.

Good luck with your hunt.
Thanks for making me aware.
Apple IPhone Lust Revives Underground U.S. Market Joining China
I pay less than €800 for my 45m² 3 subway stops away from the central station. And I found it by talking to people within 3 months ... :) Paying more than €800 for a small room means even by Munich standards just that you are getting ripped off.
That they needed to step away from "everything possible async loaded" in order to avoid having the page move around in front of the user's eyes, and that this resulted in 'objectively' slower page loads (more time to DOMReady), but an actually increased perception of performance and load speed from users.

At least I think that's what they were saying. Always challenging to deal with a slide deck meant to be presented by a human, but without the human doing the presentation.
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Can you use the law to punish someone for not responding to an email from 21 year old Mohammed asking if he can rent your apartment?

Renting out an apartment can lead to some very difficult situations (basically because the law isn't going to help you get out of them).

Everyone I know that rents out properties here in Belgium applies a very strict filter when selecting tenants; I would do the same and not feel bad about it for a second.
I don't know, but he ended giving up the code for free. I would've gone solo in that situation.
https://xkcd.com/793/ Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>. Easy, right?
Congratulations on the launch.

I am not sure if some of the drug types are appropriate though.

Antibiotics for example.
If someone was prescribed an antibiotic for an infection, read your site and decided to stop taking it after a few days to avoid a side effect while waiting for an appointment with their doctor to find a suitable replacement, then it may increase resistance. Worse, they might stop the treatment and not bother finding any alternative if they feel "better enough".

I agree that discussions on medications are good for the majority of cases but antibiotics should be considered firmly in the domain of the specialists who "should" take into account local resistance rates, etc.
Ask HN: From contractor to permanent
I currently work at a Fortune 500 software company in the UK doing a lot of greenfield software development.

Lately I have been considering leaving my permanent role and moving into contracting, mainly due to substantially higher net salaries.

My concern however is; should I do this for a few years, and then wish to move back into a permanent role at companies such as MS/GOOGL/FB - would it be frown upon? In other words, do companies prefer to hire people that have been working steadily in a code base for prolonged periods of time?

Thanks!
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I think if this is causing you this much anxiety there are more significant issues than this credit card application.

Seriously; do you know how many people lie or exaggerate on financial documents when they're trying to get money?
Well, I find myself in a funny position, as I'm not much of a corporate/big industry apologist, so I don't really have a motive to be disingenuous. These questions are earnest head-scratchers for me.

To answer your first question, consumers care about manufacturing costs every time they agree to pay the producer of a good the producer's asking price. But, this is not so much about caring about manufacturing costs as it is about respecting ownership rights.

In any case, it's really splitting hairs to say that it's copyright infringement vs. stealing. In fact, I believe that making that distinction is what is disingenuous. To the extent that a copyright has value, it's because people respect that it represents ownership of a thing and, thus, the right to capture any value that the thing produces. When we don't respect that, then we have effectively taken any value from the creator for his/her creation. Meanwhile, we enjoy value from the creation, whether we use it for ourselves, re-sell it, or otherwise. How is that not stealing?

I do get that people have always made a distinction between copyright infringement and stealing, but my question is why is that so? Actually, my original question extends further than that to ask, why is it that people additionally feel entitled to do so?
I hope so. It's done on AirBnb, you're perfectly within your rights to refuse a request if something feels fishy.
Disabling buffering in the file library should provide for a similar mitigation outlook. If the OS accepts the writes it WILL make it to disk unless the some part of the storage sub system(or the os itself) fails. So if the process dies recent writes should make it to disk regardless. But if the process triggers a complete system crash then you're kinda stuck needing fsync's :|
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And now iPhone bends too.
Yet another graphical representation / demonstration of the comet:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/GoldbachComet/

(requires CDF player to manipulate the slider unless you're content to look at the animation)
New smartphone app gauges mental health
How do you "tell" there was something on kernel level without offline forensics (which means the machine is put of the grid anyways)?

A compromised Kernel can lie to you about everything, including the malware.
> 1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?
Cooking gets me very concentrated in a way other than programming. It feels like a harmony of concenstration and relaxation.

2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?
Yes, mainly so won't I have to go to the grocery store more than once a week. I also make sure I don't buy too much so I won't have to waste food.

> 3. What kind of things do you cook usually?
Ecnhiladas with guacamole , Salmon,

4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.
I am trying to eat exactly what my body needs. The exact amount of carbs, fats, ...

5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?
Look up some of the 'pro' ways to use a knife. It makes cooking more fun.
Improvements like that at Nytimes.com have had me happily paying for my daily news for the first time. The user experience is just orders of magnitude better than anything I've found that's available for free. Almost reminds me of when Google maps came out and completely changed expectations for a map site. The iOS app also impressed me: it's great at caching stories, so even in crappy network areas it feels like a "broadband" newsreading experience (kind of amazing how long it took for a news app to accomplish this).
You can strip the sender's entire connection from the Headers in the email, and make it look like your SMTP server originated the mail...

With sendmail redefine RECEIVED_HEADER in sendmail.mc:
define(`confRECEIVED_HEADER',`by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i; $b')dnl

I've been using this to get around the spam filters when sending emails to my clients from my residential IP.

http://www.devside.net/wamp-server/removing-senders-ip-addre...
The exact amount of time you should work every day
Do you scrape those sites, or use their rss feeds or ... ? I think it's a great concept, just wonder about the legality of it.
What are the others doing wrong that these guys are doing right? From the marketing page, it looks to be as simple as Heroku, except I already have an account there, and most of my apps run for free already.
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Anti-discrimination laws just mean people get punished for openly discriminating; it doesn't change the culture, at least not until the law slowly turns into a societal norm. Which, for some people or societies, just won't happen in this generation.
No, not at all. I don't have anywhere NEAR a billion dollars of net worth, but apparently being within oh say 5 or 6 orders of magnitude is close enough!

Most broadcasters in Canada broadcast on a few channels. The cable companies operate a few hundred, but they make no decisions about the programming of any one particular channel; they're aggregators.

In order to argue that Netflix is a broadcaster you have to fit them into the "channel model" because that's what makes "broadcast" broadcast. On a particular channel only one thing is playing at any one particular time, and it's the same everywhere. So trying to shoehorn Netflix into that model you have to make some crazy assumptions about how their service works (that aren't right) and then you get a channel count approaching or exceeding a million.

That's patently absurd which nicely makes the point that Netflix isn't a broadcaster. Do you know how much bandwidth it takes to broadcast a TV channel? It's 8MHz. 8Mhz * 1mm channels = 8 Terahertz of total bandwidth if they're broadcasting over the air, which according to all folks who are reasonable, is what a broadcast is.

If Netflix is a broadcaster than so is anyone who operates any website which doesn't block Canadian visitors. If they are going to go after Netflix I would appreciate them applying the law evenly and going after literally everyone else on the internet too.
If I had to summarise Go; I'd say it does most things better than most languages but doesn't do anything significantly better than specific languages.

Which isn't very exciting but it is generally what people want. Something that's a good enough multi-purpose language to cover normal use cases. And in the rare examples they need something more niche, then there's other languages that will serve those functions better.
How do you handle the large bias in internet-based surveying (Internet users aren't demographically representative)? What about the general problem of recall-based reporting (people may report taking meds when they didn't)?
I use this all the time. This is the command I use for coverage with mocha:

./node_modules/istanbul/lib/cli.js cover -- ./node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha -R spec

Always in my Makefile as make test-cov
There go, Apple. If people want it, they're still going to get it no matter where they are. And yes, resellers are still getting the phones from them, but all that extra profit they'll get is not something they might want.