skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last paragraph was biting and very powerful - side note: Who sends a copy of 1984 to Peter Sunde in prison?

"My feeling of some life-altering insight might be nothing but rants on the spoiled, lazy and naive parts of our internet community. And maybe I'm using those terms just to piss people off a little bit more. But hey. I went to jail for my cause and your TV shows. What did you do? You want that copy of Orwell's 1984 returned? I'll take one of the 25 copies I got sent to me in jail and send it back to you. Maybe you'll read it instead of just sending it to someone else to take care of."
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Well, they're British - maybe that's the way they say it?
Here's the original Jepsen post on ElasticSearch for reference: http://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
Keurigs are not for individuals, they are meant for workplaces where people like different flavors of coffee and it's impractical to have someone manage the coffee pot.
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It doesn't have to be a big memory hog though.

At my day job I create apps for TV decoders. Most of those render and run in browsers.

The boxes have 1 GB memory, the browser uses just a small fraction of that. A lot of the browser memory is used for graphics (think bitmaps), the JS-heap is only 4 MB, not sure about the rendering engine.

Granted, we use SVG, not HTML/CSS, for most of these apps.
So, by that definition, it's not illegal.
"If there is no 'will of the people', then there is no consensus"? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Groups make decisions all the time, but that doesn't mean those decisions were all endorsed by everyone in the group. Was splitting off from the Catholic Church to form the Anglican Church really the will of the people of England? Because there was a consensus.
How are the people who created Facebook compensated?

I see no reason why ad-based free distribution couldn't be used for e.g. music and movies. People want convenience more than they want free - nobody uses Diaspora, everybody uses Facebook.

Also, there is a lot of money to be earned by selling concerts, cinema performances, memorabilia... (I also wouldn't oppose some reasonably short copyright term, e.g. from a few months to a few years, that would allow authors to more effectively monetize e.g. cinema.)
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Free speech or theft?
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Complaining about a Category Theory lecture being too abstract does seem a little like complaining about a river being too wet :)
This is terrific.

Would be great if someone could do the same favour for Jungle music, another genre that had many tunes exist solely on dubplate.
Thanks! We're stoked with the great feedback this is getting.

We will have more docs + examples up in the coming weeks, aside from that we're currently using it in three commercial apps at Thinkmill so what's there is pretty solid.

The projects we're building with it include a Bitcoin wallet (built on BitcoinJS), a cinema voucher scanning app and another I unfortunately can't talk about yet. It's holding up really well across the different use cases and UI designs.
Oy. Ajax is not a language. It always annoyed me a little when people say what you can "do" with a language. You can make games with any of those languages, and webapps, and "virtual tours".
as a matter of fact I code a lot in groovy, with no grails, but spring, but I hear you. There's a request to add support for hashtags with language choice https://github.com/softwaremill/jvmbot/issues/1 so it might solve your issue. Adding support for Clojure is more then welcome ;-)
Theft is a concept that originates from our definition of "property". I oppose the legal definition that copyright == property; I agree that a reasonably short copyright term can encourage the creation of art, but what we have now is outrageous and I don't think the trade-off makes sense for the public.
Can you check their usage stats? Were they using the service at all in the past 12 billing cycles?

If their site was up and having visitors, did it change at all in 12 months? Whats the traffic stats like?

Most importantly, is this money worth the risk of possibly losing customers if this guy is loud?
And he never was jailed for theft, he was jailed for aiding copyright infringement.
A few reasons off the top of my head:

1) We're still interested in the nodes being as reliable as they can be. With RAID 5, we need two simultaneous disk failures to brick a node. With RAID 0 (to increase usable disk space), any of the 3 disks can brick the node.

Even with 12 nodes and RF of 2, an order of magnitude more node failures would be more likely to disrupt our service. Perhaps this makes more sense in a larger cluster with a higher RF factor?

2) We're using commodity hardware from a dedicated server provider, which uses RAID 1 or 5 configurations exclusively by default. We haven't reached the point where we felt that was enough of an issue or gain to investigate changing it.

3) Having more CPUs/disks in the cluster (12 nodes rather than cramming all data on 6) can be a good thing... as FDB scales fairly linearly.
Yep. Personally, I trust DFT about as far as I can throw it, and think that spending time worrying about functionals is fairly pointless and likely to end up over-fitting data, especially if they aren't incorporating new physics :)

That last paper does say, however:

> We used the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) generalized gradient approximation density functional, which is well suited for very high-pressure studies, as the charge density is more uniform than at low densities, and it obeys the uniform limit and gives a good account of the linear response of the electron gas to an external potential

but also

> DFT studies of high-pressure phases of hydrogen have been performed using several approximate density functionals, and a significant dependence of the results on the functional has been noted. The enthalpy differences between phases are so small that changes of only a few meV per proton can make a noticeable difference to the phase diagram

so that's some physics. They seem to end up using DMC for the static lattice and DFT for the vibrational corrections on top of that.
This is a good debate to have.

My hope is to get more people making music and thinking more deeply about how notes, scales, chords, etc. are all related for creating new songs. The formality of sheet music is secondary, and naturally most people that really get into an instrument will inevitably learn how to read/write notes on a staff.

But initially, I think the formalism of sheet music gets in the way and is discouraging to lots of people who may otherwise enjoy learning to play an instrument. Getting someone to sit down and start creating a new song with any kind of depth, phrasing, or chord progression is a feat itself.

I believe that forcing sheet music to be a primary focus bogs down the initial excitement/drive. It's like teaching color theory before playing around with crayons first. :)
It is common to use ARC and unsafe shared memory access in Rust. This defeats the purpose of this complexity. You can't isolate unsafe memory access. You rather write only memory safe code or end up with fully unsafe codebase where some nasty things (buffer overruns or segfaults) are possible. If somebody needs memory safety - managed languages with GC is the only real option.
Well, I get paid to create that information and help use it. Others get paid to distribute it personally, usually in a stage. Others yet simply get money from public grants or private donations.

There are really too many ways to list here.
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You can see for yourself in Google Maps; http://tinyurl.com/jvm8owu
Hey cheeaun, this is using an older version of your api, I plan on updating it this weekend :D
We can determine exactly how many builds you'd need by looking at the master snapshot file: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/snapshots....

According to this, there have been 290 snapshots in total. And keep in mind that you would also need to rebuild LLVM quite a few times as well during this process, as Rust has continually upgraded its custom LLVM fork over the years.
He mentions Snowden and Manning, but he left Dread Pirate Ulbricht off the list of comparative figures. A real shame because that may actually be a more accurate comparison.
The willingness to die for your ideas is the main subject of Camus's philosophical writeup "The Myth of Sisyphus".
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What is your opinion of the people who shared the DeCSS key?
If "46DCEAD317FE45D80923EB97E4956410D4CDB2C2" is free speech, so is a magnet URI
Non technical users also don't care about encryption/security and what not.
> (I assume minors cannot easily get a paypal account)

They can, very easily. I've had one of my accounts banned after applying for their debit card, but I was able to open another one with the same SSN and still haven't been caught.
Worth noting that us in the Security industry are regularly seeing malware using Google's cloud services as command and control systems for their botnets (at least in terms of the IP addresses seen).
> I think programmers don't usually have girlfriends, do they ? I mean, do you ? Does it distract you from your work ?

That's just not true, on either count. And work is work - it's absolutely normal for couples to have separate careers. Are bus drivers distracted from their work by their girlfriends?

Unless of course you take your work home with you... but then I think you have other issues. :-)
I think it is understood pretty well by those large organizations, and also the politicians that they are in cahoots with.
No matter what you think about it, copyright infringement isn't theft.
Nope, still illegal. You're paying for something you can't legally do.
> I see no reason why ad-based free distribution couldn't be used for e.g. music and movies.

It could be; whether it's ideal or not is another question:

* It likely wouldn't make as much money as having people pay for it.

* Imagine how much product placement there would be. If you think it's bad enough now...
> "What people reveal, what people fight for, are major causes. Freedom of information. Liberty. Democracy. Governmental transparency and due process."

I have a really hard time trying to link this with my experience on TPB. It's all about downloading stuff without paying for it. Honestly, that's it. I'm not proud of that, I'm not saying it's a noble thing to do. I really don't get what trying to "determine" what should or shouldn't be free by sharing other people's stuff without their permission has to do with freedom.
If you accept the principle of live-and-let-live (raised above), there's a chasm between what constitutes a right and anti-right. If you don't accept live and let live, you've got some explaining to do. It goes back thousands of years, it's well-entrenched in the new testament (defines women as being equal to men; repeatedly scorns class-based rights) and then reiterated in each of the various rights documents that have helped shape western culture since then.
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Copying is not theft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7axyrHWDQ
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You don't have some fucking inalienable right to my code. If I choose to open source it fine. Just because some cracker asshole gets a copy of it doesn't make it a right.
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What I did was finance a feature film and get it released on DVD. Shame some people think that they can just take all my investment and piss it on to the internet.
Yes!

Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that health professional are taking a look at drugs that are taboo. There is a wealth of potential in a lot of those substance!
> I see from another comment that this release first happened, and then, afterward, the release was pushed to its “official” Git repository.

You misunderstand. The release was made from the official open source Mercurial repository, and later pushed to the official Git repository, because this release coincides with the project's migration from Mercurial to Git.

Every single change of this release was written in public, reviewed on public mailing lists, and committed to a public version control system. You are misinformed and spreading FUD. Please stop.
You have understood that wrong. In those countries, private copying is legal, and the private copying levy is a tax on recordable media to collect some money from the people who legally practice private copying.
with bitcoin you are your own bank, you dont need a bank to give you an account. You create your own and people can send you money and you can send them money at very low cost. sure you dont get traditional services such as overdrafts, or bank charges but for the underbanked this is part of the problem not the solution.

A user in the Phillipines can create a wallet for nothing. Their relative in the US can send them bitcoin, then they exchange it for cash in the phillipines. they dont need a bank just a local trader who will trade bitcoin for cash, this will become more widespread as adoption grows so finding someone to trade with will be easier.
> If your databases are not more than a few tens of megs each, the same is true for 32-bit processors as well.

Why is that ? Shouldn't 32-bit processors give you enough space in the range of hundreds of MiB ?
> I freely admit that I do not know the intimate details of Go development ... How much that is actually true is almost irrelevant until the perception changes.

Since you freely admit your ignorance, can you please stop making uninformed statements that spread FUD about Go? Those of us in the Go community that invest our lives in this project don't appreciate your senseless negativity.
It is only 30 kilowatt for the moment... let see the next upgrade to 15 kw!
I like your thinking, what about MTGOX? I know just the frenchman in Japan who could code it for us.
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Cheers! We're fans of Ionic ourselves (and use their excellent icon library)

I think the biggest differentiating factor between it and TouchstoneJS will be the platforms they're built on.

Ionic's heavily invested in Angular, which is great, but we're big fans of React and wanted to create a new mobile framework that builds on that.
How well do they pay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVbQo3IOC_A
why do you need it to be anonynous to buy Xbox live credit/points?
Ask HN: Why does this YouTube video title has different style?
I was watching this video:

http://youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8

When I noticed the title was completely different from the Youtube's default title. It had it own style:

"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #e6d140; font-variant: small-caps; transform: skew(-5deg, 0deg); text-shadow: 1px 1px #000, 1px 1px 0.1px #000; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.DropShadow(Color=000000, OffX=1, OffY=1);"

Why is that? How can I do that to my videos? Is that a new feature?
Oh how I love running into Java applications on the internet. It seems every time I do anymore I am told I need to update Java.

Nevertheless, this was worth it.
Do you believe that content creators should have some say in how their work is distributed?

Should they be able to choose whatever monetization system they feel is most appropriate for their work?
As others have mentioned, Rust does indeed support cross-compilation (and has from day one). Sadly we still need to document it fully, though our spotty docs haven't stopped community members from getting Rust code running on FreeBSD and iOS and all sorts of ARM things. For the moment it may be enlightening to read the recently-implemented Flexible Target Specification RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0131-targ...), which you may have seen in action via Rust on the PSP (https://github.com/luqmana/rust-psp-hello).
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Is there any chance we might see an updated index for the Common Crawl? I've tried using the dataset before, but I found it difficult given that you have to process the entire thing in order to find the particular pages you are looking for.

As an example, I was trying a project to look at the top news sites, like BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, etc. Then matching articles about the same news topic on each site, before finally fact checking for differences between the stories (ie. 20,000 homes were without power vs. 50,000)

That kind of project requires a load of crawling, but I can't look for specific pages without processing the entire CC set first.

I love the project though, so thank you for doing it!
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the miner that includes your transaction in a block. the first miner to do so gets the transaction fee, hence you can pay a high fee and guarantee it is included or pay a standard fee and it will probavly be included in the next 2-3 blocks or if you are not in a rush you can send it with no fee (providing it meets a few other criteria) and it will get processed usually within 24 hours.

the miners are the people that produce new bitcoins and secure the network.
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>> "I oppose the legal definition that copyright == property"

How about a definition like - "If I create something, I own it and have the right to profit from it." Why should my right to profit from what I create have a limited term? Why should it be ok for someone to copy it just because they have the ability to?
this is incorrect, the transaction fee is paid to the miner that first includes your transaction in a block. this is their incentive for including transactions in blocks.
Theft is theft, but copyright infringement isn't.
I'm an employee at Immobiliare.it and yesterday we've released for the first time some internal software to the public on github. Just wanting to share our work :)
Desktop apps from the late 1980s to around 2004 or so were very usable. There were clear UI standards in place for most platforms, and thus a high degree of consistency between applications, even from different vendors.

Even Java's AWT, which came at the tail end of this and pretty much only targeted UI functionality that was common between different UI systems, could create desktop apps that were and are much more usable than the inconsistent web-inspired desktop apps we deal with today.
i dont think the value is as important as the transaction size. I can send 10BTC for free, especially if the coins have not been moved for more than say a week. In fact smaller transactions are usually more costly (as a % of the sum being sent) than large transactions, see the recent US marshalls auctin as an example, $30M sent for $0.37.
Screenshot:
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> It is common to use ARC

What is unsafe about using atomic reference counting?

> and unsafe shared memory access in Rust.

That should be provided with a safe interface, or an unsafe interface if calling that code is not safe.

As for it being common: I think they are working on minimizing the need for unsafe code.

> This defeats the purpose of this complexity.

Like having a VM implemented in C defeats the purpose of the VM for that language being safe. No, not really - that C code has to be really vetted, just like unsafe code in Rust has to be really vetted.

I guess we might - eventually - be able to formally verify a language implementation, thus really proving that a language is safe (that goes for those managed languages, too). Maybe that will be feasible in a few decades, if ever. Alternatively, you can use the ATS language, where you can prove that unsafe usage of pointers etc. really is being used in a safe way.

> You can't isolate unsafe memory access.

Sure you can - owned and borrowed pointers in Rust are represented as raw pointers at runtime. It's a safe abstraction. And if there turns out to be a bug in that interface, and they aren't really safe, then that will have to be fixed promptly - unlike in C/++, where one would be forced to say "Well, that's your fault for not being careful".
companies such as MS want to get involved in bitcoin however they need regulatory clarity to do so. By using BitPay they get to be involved with a modicum of insulation from unclear regulations. I would expect that MS are not taking all of the payment in $ but are keeping some in BTC.
This[1] emacs inspired editor, written in Go, also uses termbox (pure go port: https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go) - great little library.

I'm rewriting a python command line utility using it and it makes writing text based interfaces much easier.

[1] https://github.com/nsf/godit (screenshot: http://nosmileface.ru/images/godit-linux1.png)
I hear ya. So it's a primary app? Right now it has 0 relation to any instrument at all. So if after spending some time with this app they walked over to any instrument at all they would have no idea what to do. No notation... Ok, but have something that at least looks like/relates to notes a little so that they can eventually get there. A good music app is hard to find and you are obviously a good programmer. I found people learn best when you compare it to something or tell a story or get them to use their imagination. Right now it's just grids.
Why should the person who first arrange a series of words in a particular order have the power to prevent other people from arranging words into the same order, in perpetuity?

Copyright prevents the free speech of others. There's some justification for it doing so. But it's not a natural, or absolute, right.
>with bitcoin you are your own bank

A bank isn't a vault to store money, it's a service provider. They provide services for money, including the assumption of risk. Whether those services justify the fees charged is another story. But you certainly aren't "banking" with bitcoin any more than putting cash in your wallet is "banking".
I don't need them for Xbox. It was a general comment since they seem to become so popular that even MS is using it.
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I adore them for their pronunciation skills if they literally shared it through speech. (Sorry, I had to :) )
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Ha. I am a 25-year old Indian founder of a startup in a semi-ramen phase. I have no credit-card - Its hard to get a credit card in India without a consistent income (and you need to show your previous year's tax receipts to prove it). No CC means no access to Amazon AWS or any of its international services. Indian debit cards are useless because the Reserve Bank of India has made it compulsory for all banks to use 3-D secure to authenticate debit card transactions online. So no Google Play, iTunes, Paypal, Steam, Alibaba or pretty much every other international website.

The losses from this would easily be in the tens of millions and possibly in the hundreds of millions. We are lucky (Our company account has a credit card) but this is the biggest roadblock facing every young hacker/freeelancer/startup founder, especially those starting at the college level- You can't even open a Google play developer account. On the other side, there are millions of Indians who are blocked at the last mile while trying to purchase apps, ebooks, music on the Play store or iTunes (Microsoft Store seems to work but i cannot confirm this) with no explanation given other than a cryptic "Transaction rejected by bank" . If you are an app developer wondering why so few purchases come from India - this is the biggest reason why.

It is quite baffling why the likes of Google or Apple can't get off their butts and implement 3d secure (which is becoming widespread everywhere but the U.S.). People are begging Google and Apple to take their money and being rudely turned away.