skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The .io project is a different fork from the original project than the one referred to by this post.
I haven't installed or used popcorn time.

I can't see how the number of clicks to install it and start watching a copyrighted movie could be less than required to install a web browser and start watching a copyrighted movie.

Surely they're both: click to download -> click to run installer -> click to start watching the movie....

Like I said, I have no experience doing that in popcorn time, but I can 100% say I could do that in a browser.
There's tons. My wife found one for about $20 that also has a fancy basket thing, so we don't even need the "reusable coffee pod" junk for normal coffee
Debian leader says users can continue with SysVinit
Sure, but automation is not free. Supose you could design a machine to make it twice as fast for 10 million and sell them at 10,000$ a pop. Your world wide market would need to be ~1,000 of them a year which is probably not even close to realistic. You can't really charge more as the hand made approach is reasonably fast and nobody is going to dump 20+K to buy one if it's only saving the, a few hours a week.

PS: Feel free to play with the numbers but there is a reason so much of the world is sill not automated.
Please lose that picture of the stupid bimbo looking like she's about to bite her own tongue off. It's making me cringe!
I think that the Aztek is uniquely ugly as pictured, but you should find one without a color matched bottom. The ones I saw on the road has this taupe-colored plastic on the bottom half of the vehicle and it looks really terrible. I found a version of it with the grey bottom and the optional tent attachment. I think this is basically the ugliest configuration of any car that was commercially available in any era: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2006/10/in-praise-of-the-po...
Alerting and monitoring is not about logs. Applications export interesting signals directly in a way understood by monitoring service like Nagios. It stores the samples, draws nice graphs and supports flexible alert definition logic.
I think some people were embarrassed by German after WWII given that Germany's behaviour during WWII left something to be desired. My father and his parents emigrated from Germany, Anglicised their name and switched to English.
"it is crazy to ban knives because you can stab people with them."

That's true when looking at kitchen knifes, but to stretch your analogy: popcorn time is to other media applications as GI Joe's Combat knife is to other knives. It's not made to butter your bread: it's made to stab people.

Popcorn time was made specifically to infringe, that's not to say that the copyright system is not hopelessly broken, but imo this is a legitimate takedown notice.
ISPs sell uplink to businesses. They don't want folks operating a business out of their bedroom and not paying for it.
Nissan seems to be pretty consistent in their terrible designs. Every time I see a Juke on the road I wonder what sort of combination of poor taste and good fortune allowed someone with no design sense to make enough money to buy such a bug-eyed monstrosity.
You're on the money here.

Of course "predominant use and purpose" eventually boils down to "I know it when I see it" [1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
> German is criminalised in 23 states. You're not allowed to speak it in public, you're not allowed to use it in the radio, you're not allowed to teach it to a child under the age of 10.

I found that striking - how could someone just ban a language? - but then I remembered learning about Romanian being banned during the Hungarian occupation of Transylvania (where I currently live). I'm sure there are many other examples throughout history.
This should be all corporations.
It's definitely an exaggeration to say this of the US in 1933 or '39. It might be pretty accurate to say of the US around 1870.
If there exists a browser which, when freshly installed, starts playing infringing content as soon as you launch it, that would probably get in trouble too. But no mainstream browser does that.
I agree with this except possibly one thing.

Saying "Sure, people shouldn't care how pretty your UI is." mischaracterizes user interface design as being about prettiness rather than interaction. But that might in fact be your very point and you might actually talking about the mischaracterization of others.
Google "[moviename] streaming". Click a link, hit play.
Some machines have had an MMU or equivalent device between peripheral and memory, to provide memory protection. IBM's channels did that. Some early UNIX workstations (Apollo) did that. But it has sort of disappeared.

Both FireWire and PCIe over cable expose memory via a pluggable interface. In the FireWire case, it's not really DMA; it's a message, but the ability to patch memory is there. FireWire hardware usually offers bounds registers limiting that access. By default, Linux allowed access to the first 4GB of memory (32 bits), even on 64-bit machines. (I once proposed disabling that, but someone was using it for a debugger.)
> You can employ Paxos to replicate the centralized server. In contrast, it is often much harder to design and add fault-tolerance to a distributed system.

Ok am I missing anything. So we are employing Paxos to replicate the centralized server. Are we replicating it to itself? Because if we are not, we got ourselves a "distributed" system.
This Rental Market Is Messing Up Relationships
> So by this logic

That's just it. The IP system (and more generally, the entire legal system) isn't based on logic. If you upset the people with political power, you'll find that your actions are "illegal." That's the real spirit of IP law: it's illegal to upset powerful IP lobbies.
"So by this logic...the source code for any web browser, torrent client, media player etc. etc. should be subject to these notices because they can be used to infringe copyright?"

No. And as the complaint makes clear, it is not being filed in response to potential infringement, but clearly demonstrable instances of actual infringement.

Big, big difference.
By the way, I used a simple query on purpose to keep things simple for readers (and for me, the author!). By using such a simple SQL statement I was able to avoid complex optimizations and algorithms I would haven't been able to follow - and that wouldn't have helped readers much anyway. I wanted to get the basic idea across to people who have no prior knowledge of DB internals.

Plus I wasn't interested in comparing one DB vs. another, as much as I was interested in understanding how any DB works.
You are not alone.. after playing around for some hours with CentOS7/RHEL7: https://i.imgur.com/sCiqS2O.png - The bug is fixed now (nmtui: changing the hostname crashed all of NetworkManager...) now I'm always a little scared when using a freedesktop.org project ;)
How about observation bias as another reason. There are plenty of research papers written in Russian and Chinese (fewer every decade of course), but they aren't considered for Nobel prizes and they aren't reported on in the Western media because people in the West aren't exposed to them.

A famous example is stealth aircraft, that's based on a Soviet research written in Russian and took a roundabout way to reach the US aircraft manufacturers.
Wow, time sure does fly. I was discussing Guile and Emacs 5 years ago on StackOverFlow. The 10 year old article that I referenced is no longer there.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663627/guile-and-emacs

That's 15 years of talking. My personal feeling is that sometimes it's just better to abandon projects that stagnate. There's an open source Go version of Sublime, for example. It would probably be easier to maintain.

https://github.com/limetext/lime
How a Convicted Felon Built a $3M Startup Straight Out of Prison
It's sad that there isn't a studio exec out there who can make the leap to realize that there is a impedance mismatch in the market that they can capitalize on. Netflix resoundingly proved that there is an appetite for streaming movies and TV, and the studios' response has been to...withhold content, and when they do license it, to do so at enormously exorbitant rates. Do they actually think that if they just make it difficult to stream that people are going to be content to go back to buying DVDs at $25/pop, or driving to rental stores to rent a DVD that you have to return the next day?

There's a huge vacuum in the market ready to be filled. The first mover to start making new-release movies available for streaming at decent rates (Hint: $20 for a digital movie that has effectively zero marginal manufacturing cost is not a decent rate in this day and age) is going to need an aircraft carrier to carry all their cash. Killing Popcorn Time, etc isn't going to kill the market desire. People are still going to stream stuff, and the genie is out of the bottle - there's no returning to the mid-90s distribution model, no matter how much some crusty old suits want to.
"it's illegal to upset powerful IP lobbies."

Demonstrably untrue. See "Google / continued existence of" for a case in point.
I'm well aware of that quote, having learned of it a few years ago, which filled me with joy.

If you think a better language is one that holds on to its words unchangingly, and harshly judges and beats up new words, then you have free choice between the languages that came from Latin, especially the last flower of Latium.

I have abandoned that netherworld of arrogance to bask in the uncertainty of a language that admits to not knowing what words we might need in the future, and that isn't afraid to follow them down alleys to capture them. That seems to me more in line with intellectual honesty, always learning, revising mistakes.

As for the Latium flowers, the groupthink is that they should be preserved, whereas for English it is that it should continue to evolve. I've picked my favorite. :)
I am quite sure whole EU has a net-neutrality law.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26865869
Introduction to Docker: “Do Your Own Docker”
> better developers than I really do know "how to do it better".

They don't. They're just selling something. Not to say some approaches aren't better than others, it's just the only way to know which approach is really better is to implement the same problem space in both and compare. Anybody telling you that X is better than Y at Z without personally using both X and Y to do Z is just trying to sell you something. Beware.

It's also why the best test when deciding on a programming language or framework is to look at what others have actually created with it.
> It just didn't seem particularly important to bother with...

That's on you.
Bad or fake link, go back, click link, hit play, repeat until you give up.
I'd really like to see this functionality built into existing password vault apps.
Interestingly, the site breaks on vertical monitor orientation. Rather than attempt to render it complains and asks the user to maximize the already maximized window.
There is no mainstream browser that automatically directs the user to a list like /r/fullmoviesonyoutube. A browser is a generic tool that can be made to visit infringing content, but does not itself encourage the user to do so. If there really were no difference between Popcorn Time and a browser, nobody would have used Popcorn Time, because 100% of its users already had browsers.
I haven't check the src, but its very easy to just use SOCKS to redirect app specific traffic.
Please tell me what part of the source code infringed copyright?

The statement calls out instances of the running application infringing copyright. Nowhere does it say the source code was infringing copyright (and I am not sure how source code could unless it was either stolen or had the lyrics to "A Whole New World" in one of the comments.)

Which means the DCMA notice was targeting a tool of potential infringement not infringement itself.
Maybe making the branch a fork will not be that bad for all parties.
The time taken parsing the query is insignificant compared to the time planning.

Not sure if it's exactly what you're getting at, but SQL Server has a "USE PLAN" hint that lets you set the entire query plan (using an XML string).

PostgreSQL's policy is strongly against hints, so we're unlikely to see anything like that in Postgres.
Where did that URL come from? That's what I meant by "clean install". You can really get from zero to copyright violation in three clicks and no external knowledge by using those applications.
Ah. Good point. This is under the DMCA act? I guess the problem then becomes defining what exactly constitutes a tool that aids in infringement.

A debugger is potentially a tool that can be used to circumvent copyright (let's say, by means of bypassing a very weak protection scheme). But it's obviously not only for this case, so you might argue that if the tool's sole purpose is to circumvent copyright it would have a leg to stand on.

But what happens when this tool can also be used for something else? Like someone said elsewhere in this thread, what if the tool is changed such that it could be used to stream movies from, let's say, remote places (you go to your cabin in the woods and stream your legally owned movies, directly from your house, but also from your office, from your parents' house, etc), but it's only one config file away from streaming illegal content from torrents.

Then what? Is the tool at fault here? or is the configuration at fault? And these are honest questions I really can't even begin to try to answer, but I guess the point still stands that making this law able to take down tools is a slipery slope to say the least.

Edit: Typos
flexbox support for mobile browsers is still pretty terrible.
I disagree. Manning gave everything to wikileaks and they (Assange) and the chosen publishers curated it (somewhat badly). Snowden leaked to Poitras and Greenwald and they seem to be curating with much more care.

This is smart because Snowden can't have access to the archive because it isn't safe for him to have a copy whilst in Russia. It is also smart of Greenwald because the USG are looking for any tiny chink in the armour to be able to descredit Greenwald and by association, Snowden. That's why Greenwald has still only released and estimated 1% of the archive. Each release needs to be analysed, reviewed and judged for release before carefully timing the release for maximum impact. Any damage to the safety of US personel on the ground is going to become a propaganda coup for the USG. Greenwald only has his integrity. Once he loses that it is very hard to get it back, which is why I hope he hasn't made a mistake choosing his FirstLook backers.

There was a reason that Snowden chose Poitras and Greenwald over Assange. Firstly he did his research well. He hoped that these two in particular were noble enough for the task. He knew that both were somewhat ostracised from the US and certainly targets for sigint, and both were living outside the US.

Snowden also let slip his opinion of Assange in the NZ-Dotcom presentation. He said:

"I think its wrong of any politician to
take away the public seat at the table
of government and say you'll simply have
to trust us and you know what, its not
in the public interest to know about
these programmes, unless it threatens my
reputation, in which case I'm going to
throw documents in the air like I'm
Julian Assange. No offence there Julian"

Assange and Poitras/Greenwald are substantially different beasts. What is impressive is that Assange would have been Snowden's easy route. Instead he chose two people who had zero knowledge about sigint and no history of dealing with such a leak. What they did have was class and integrity and luckily that won him over.

They don't throw documents in the air like Julian Assange (for personal reasons). The documents should transcend personal issues.
run `zcat /proc/config.gz > ~/kernelconfig` (i believe that's the right filename for the average Gentoo kernel; haven't booted Gentoo in a long time) and you'll end up with a full list of all the options you chose for your currently running kernel.
Querying elevation data from drone imagery
I'm just gonna go full Poindexter and say that Richard Gabriel did try to distance himself from worse is better, at first, but then he veered wildly in the following years between the two positions.

And, the fundamental idea of Worse is Better is so incredibly older than UNIX, even in the field of computer science; John Von Neumann said himself that the Von Neumann machine was a temporary workaround and that a better architecture would quickly replace it.

I live in a near constant fight in the rebel factions of Better and so far, I have to reckon we get constantly massacred by the Empire of Worse.
Celebrity Programers with RSI: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html

Hopefully, programming by voice can't be too far off.

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
In Brazil German, Italian and Japanese were also banned during WW2. This was also done so that the immigrants and their descendants would integrate into the Brazilian society faster
I always thought this was an echo of the "sport" look of consumer electronics in the late 80s / early 90s. For example, the Sports Walkman:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2590/3820969452_8b0da67f1f.jpg

That extra dark plastic around the unit suggested an outdoorsy/rugged mode of use, even if the unit wasn't built to handle that.
As the other replies say, git is already decentralized. What we need is a decentralized way to recognize one of those mirrors as the main one. I think gitchain: http://gitchain.org/ was supposed to solve that.
Never said otherwise. You this hard on everyone or just fellow UTD alumni? ;)
Owning vs. sharing: Don’t get caught in the ugly middle
I love reading these kinds of stories. Although, I'd like to hear exactly how they made it so ugly. Just like I'd pay to read about Windows 8 -- how did they ignore all the feedback? Did no one use it internally and realize it's terrible for desktop use (open a PDF attachment in Outlook, and get transported to a full screen app!). I'd also love to see transcripts of meetings where MS decided not to leverage MSN into a social network, for instance. Or exactly how Google decided the "see if phone is active" permission should also give access to the serial and called/calling numbers.

It's neat to see these stories and just see, from the inside, how things end up broken or out of control.
Your hypothetical isn't very much like the situation at hand, so what is it meant to reflect on or reveal? Do you want us to try a case over the Internet that looks almost nothing like the topic under discussion here and is based only on vague description?
But as the article points out. Industry experts don't always know what they're talking about.

>He writes that there is no part of the car market where an existing product can't do the job.

Sure, for Bob Lutz's understanding of the definition of "job". And remember Lutz and Waggoner oversaw GM's demise from... whatever it once was.
The actual law (1) says that it is illegal to create (or obtain) a computer program that has the purpose of making it possible to gain access to data (2) which is not meant for you and is accessible only via 'access security'.

It is also illegal to create (or obtain) a computer program that is intended for performing a such crime.

1: http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/202c.html

2: http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/202a.html
Ask HN: Home automation + data science tool?
I plan on working on an open-source project that seamlessly integrates home automation with the Scientific Python tools. The goal is to enable actual smart home apps, beyond basic if-this-then-that rules.

I would appreciate any thoughts as to whether this is interesting to people. Thanks for any feedback!

http://www.kasa.co/
Netscape Navigator turns 20 today
Indeed: it's estimating that a single row will be returned from the seq scan. That will clearly take no time to sort!
Not sure why India is red. I mean its a pretty crazy country to be in, but no one censors your shit like China.
Did this guy just call German 'the language of Ibsen and Hamsun'?!
EtherSheet Got Me Laid!
I would have to agree. I know it's only one segment of science, but look at the US pharmaceutical industry prior to WW2. The discovery and mass manufacture of penicillin is only one example.

I would argue that the German pharma industry at the time had a much longer lineage, but I would claim that the US had "a lack of formal education".
Who wants to be forgotten?
Yes, it's a similar to gun control arguments. Some guns are more for self-defense, or hunting animals, other guns, like assault rifles, are designed for war.

The reason I said a DCMA takedown doesn't make sense is because they are usually to take down actual media, like a youtube video, not the source code to a tool. But I think they didn't really have options and wanted it done quickly.
Nomyx, the game where you can change the rules
Good question, and I don't know the real answer; Ars says that cable providers can offer speeds up to a gigabit per second: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/why-co... but IIRC doesn't specify whether the upload caps are a technical or business issue.
Yup, let's face it, RedHat have bet the farm on systemd and the facilities/programs that go with it, so it will have to work and work well for 10+ years minimum.

RHEL7 and the clones have systemd v208. Debian Testing just had v215 arrive. Freeze is quite soon, so it looks like 215 will be the systemd version that ships, so the packagers will have to backport security fixes to it for the life of Jessie (say 2 years or so). Just wondering how much work that will be if systemd continues to iterate at the speed it is doing...

PS: why so many 'machines' (desktop clients, workstations?) running an unstable Debian I'm idly wondering...
Keep in mind that Russia helped beat back the Germans due to the US lend-lease agreement. Without that, I would argue Russia would have had a hell of a harder time.
German doesn't simply adopt english words but uses English word-stems to build things that don't exist in English. Handy for mobilephone, beamer for projector. We also kind of like our shitstorm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitstorm
Why do you keep saying "potential infringement"? Are you actually so unaware of the details of this situation that you are unsure whether anybody watched content through Popcorn Time without authorization from the copyright holder? There have been users in HN comment threads who admitted to doing so, so you can set your mind at ease that there was actual, non-potential infringement here.
Had I known you were a woosher, I'd have been harder :)