skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And how should the people who take the time to create that 'information' be compensated?

Why should they be compensated? Putting in effort does not equate "getting compensated" and it should not.

If they can't find a way to be compensated, they should find other work to do. Just as if I can disrupt an industry with some new cool gimmick, and thus put potentially thousands, if not millions of people out of work, why shouldn't I? Why should we play protectionism?

Why should we try to build things like DRM just to protect something which itself has little to no intristic value? As if we acknowledged that yes -- "the industry is vulnerable in this new world we live in, but actually adapting to the reality would mean billions, if not trillions of lost revenue, we should rather fight tooth and nail to protect it." I see no sense in this.

Yes, it is a race to the bottom. In the end it just means that goods and monetary compensation gets distributed differently. Obviously, those who right now benefit from the said compensation fight tooth and nail to keep their position, but as I do not -- and I say this as a person who spends considerable amount of money on actual physical CDs (along with misc. merchandise) still, most of which I do download illegally before bying and will keep doing so -- I see this as counterproductive.

I suppose some people see this first and foremost as an argument about whether or not one should get compensated for the work they do or not. And that's greatly, greatly oversimplifying the matter of immaterial property and copyright laws and wars.
Did iOS 8 add something that allowed this app to be created? Tasker has existed on Android for years, so I assume that there had to be a technical limitation as to why a comparable app wasn't created for iOS.
Remember from the article that AFL is being run from a VM. So, my guess is that OS X (host) doesn't know anything about whether what is being written on the VM is a small file or not. There are two possibilities: 1) either the OS X activity monitor is actually measuring disk+cache when it says "disk writes" or 2) disk writes really are happening as fast as shown in the graphs. My bet is the later. What saves things here is the usage of the RAM disk on the guest, since at least that is a clean mechanism for really only using RAM instead of disk - and that carries through from the guest to the host.
No "lost potential sale", when the sale wasn't even a realistic possibility?
I believe you and the parent post have fundamentally different views of what's right, just and moral, and any discussion between you and him/her or anyone else with the same views will lead to nothing.

Copyright discussions in a nutshell. That's why I only play for sport.
Agreed with the rest of the folks here. I'm assuming that you're in the age range of high school, and I'm here to tell you that once high school is over (and that can take a year or two into college/work), everybody has to figure their own lives out and these labels do not matter. They don't matter now either as long as you pay no attention to them. Just be sure to get out and be social. You can't date a person you never meet!
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Raymond Chandler had an interesting take on this. Basically he set aside four or five hours each day, during which he did not have to write, but he was not allowed to do anything else constructive. He could lay around or stare out the window, but no reading or paying bills - it was write or do nothing. Everything else, he said, came of itself.
You have it backwards. You don't have some inalienable right to government-backed control over what I do with my copy of some code. The original will always be yours, but my copy is mine, and actually I do have a close-to-inalienable right to do whatever I want to with my own property.
Well, I had an implementation of termbox for `bisschen` (a mail viewer on top of notmuch), but that was pre-cargo and I don't work on it anymore:

https://github.com/skade/bisschen/tree/master/src/libtermbox
That is a good point. White has an advantage at least statistically, and in a match I think that your color is decided by chance.
Some similar thoughts:

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
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Indeed, a very interesting development and I already see the government back paddling in a few years time. Imagine a large part of the Spanish receiving the bulk of their news from Mexican news outlets - the Spanish nationalists will go furious. It'll be a very ironic watershed moment.
I wouldn't say that. I'd say they care about encryption/their personal security, but they don't care in the slightest what the implementation is.
Hearing this news makes Bitcoin that much more legitimate.
Having Microsoft, a company known for its money and its practices to obtain large amounts of it, accept Bitcoin will affect its value in a big way. Or at least one would believe.

I kind of wish I bought Bitcoins when I heard about it a year or so ago (just like I wish I invested in Facebook). I did read an article explaining Bitcoin. Parts of it made sense, but other parts still left me confused. I wouldn't say that should deter anyone. As many things out there that we want or have, the results of the product is sometimes more important than its inner-workings.
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You can choose not to sell a thing, or you can choose to sell it. You can even offer it via a contract where people are permitted to do some things with it and not others. But what is really poisonous is the government-prohibited-by-default position of copyright, where people who come into possession of e.g. old, out-of-print books are forbidden from copying them even if noone knows who would or could "own the rights".

If you want to keep a work to yourself, trade secret protection is adequate. If you want something that behaves like modern copyright, then you can sell copies of your work with appropriate contracts. But it should be your responsibility to track violators, just like if you sold me some land with a proviso that I had to maintain the orchard on it. Copying should not be guilty-until-proven-innocent the way it currently is.
Using mmap well takes great care. MongoDB was careless. There's good reason to believe the MDBM designers were careless too.
While I have no opinion either way on your post, I felt that I should point out that Spain's government is not socialist.

The party in power (Partido Popular) is on the right of Spanish politics, and sits with the right wing EPP group in the European Parliament.

For what it's worth, while the US tends to think of Europe as being socialist, I can't think of any EU countries with socialist governments except Austria and Denmark.
Why? Nobody is saying that copyright holders should be forced to distribute their work for free. Only that people, after having acquired copies, should be able to share it with others.

If you want to distribute copies of all the work I've ever published, or work made by me and published by the company I work for, you're free to do so. It's all under Free licenses.
> It's like saying designer clothes should be free.

I wonder if it's not more like "designer cloths shouldn't be copyrighted" - which is actually true in the fashion world. And because of that tens if not hundreds of millions of people can get "cheap cloths" that look good.
Rust has several specific areas where it is faster by default than C and C++, thanks to knowledge of ownership in the type system. The most dramatic example of this is that almost every pointer in Rust can be automatically and safely proven not to alias any other pointer, which is the equivalent of sticking `restrict` on every pointer in a C program. Sadly, Rust isn't actually passing this information onto LLVM just yet, so it's not generating code nearly as well as it could. :P

On the other hand, Rust also has specific areas where it is slower by default than C or C++. The most dramatic example here is that array bounds access is checked by default, with an unsafe method call for doing unchecked access. It strives to bypass this restriction by leaning heavily on iterators, which are an abstraction that allow you to safely omit the bounds check.

In the end, all that matters is that both languages offer zero-cost abstractions, so the ultimate arbiter of speed will be the optimizer on the backend. Saying that Rust is "faster than C++" is definitely premature at this point; I'll reserve that judgment for when it at last starts making use of all its free aliasing info.
There are several elements that make up ethical, effective support for a cause. Willing to put the cause ahead of your own well-being is sometimes one of them. Also important is to change strategy/tactics as a result of new information; to consider new ideas/arguments; accepting that the ends don't justify the means; and be willing to live for the cause, rather than die for it.
They both are great browser. I am not trying to say one is good and other is bad. What I am trying to say is that because of the reasons mentioned above it has been hard for me to adopt to Firefox. Chrome is Google's platform they want to push their services and has become more of an application platform with Chrome only apps and less of a browser. I would like a browser that promotes a free web.

For example, Diigo's addon doesn't have overlay icon so it is impossible for me to tell if I have already bookmarked a page or not. Like many addons on Firefox Diigo has both sidebar and toolbar. So basically they have developed 3 UI elements and none of which work well. There is clearly Diigo's fault here but applications are as good as platform.
My friend in the US has bought and paid for a show, and wants to send me a copy. Why shouldn't they be able to? The one who wants to prevent that is the one who's entitled.
I interviewed for a DevOps role at Clever a few months ago and the interview was 100% python algorithm questions. I did it correctly and was told how do I make it faster.. So I did and was told.. how can I make it faster.. After 30 minutes of a skype interview I told the guy I wasn't interested and thanked him for his time.

Seems they are more dev then ops for devops role.
So then does the same apply to the copy of your emails that travel across the internet? Once the NSA obtains a copy, do they then have a close-to-inalienable right to do whatever they want with what is then their property?
The very idea of idea ownership is a dangerous one. Because most ideas are compositions of other ideas; should you pay if you write a poem because someone else invented the concept of poems?
The Big Bang was the formation of the entire universe. About ten billion years later, our solar system, and eventually the Earth, started forming due to gravity pulling various bits of matter together. Ten billion years is a really, really long time! The two events are completely separate.

If you're interested in cosmology, there are a ton of fascinating popular science books on the topic, and research is very active and ongoing. As an introduction, I recommend Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It's a bit outdated these days, but the main points hold and it's a fascinating read from start to finish. Alternatively, if you prefer video, check out Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's an up-to-date retelling of Sagan's original idea.
Are you aware of any attempt to compare cross generationally based on game trees? Find game positions that both players have faced and see who made the better move?
If you had invested a year ago, you would have lost 70% of the money you invested. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't.
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My problem with that is that we have the internet - a system that lets us, the people who derive benefit from the content to compensate the people who created it directly. You want to add middle men that don't need to be there. When it comes to profiting from other things (performance etc.) you are forcing people to do something they may not want to do. What if I create a great album of music but don't fancy uprooting my life, travelling the world on a tiny budget, and leaving behind my family for 10 months of the year? With the internet I could have charged a fair amount direct to the consumer but you decided information should be free.
>Why should my right to profit from what I create have a limited term?

This is a much broader question about the rationale behind copyright law and the concept of intellectual property. It is really beyond the scope of the question posed (is copyright violation theft?).
> writing books is your only means of putting food on the table

That's a strange assumption. Many authors fail, or only produce works in their spare time and work other jobs. I mean there's no fundamental right to be a successful author who can live off selling books.

Of course as a society we find it desirable to create an environment where artists can make a living from their works and create more art. That's why copyright exists. It's a tradeoff, all citizens are required to respect the creations of others in exchange for the opportunity for everyone to dedicate their lives to it and make an income with it. (Note: It's just an opportunity to make profit, not a right to profit)

But that societal contract gets perverted by commercial interests to the point where people stop seeing copyright as something positive and instead will refuse to adhere to it.

The internet making copying so much easier than ever before also skews that tradeoff by making it much more difficult for everyone to respect copyright. Breaking copyright is even easier than jaywalking and I don't think private citizens will stop anytime soon.

So ultimately that scheme to incentivize people to be creative used to be "fair", but now that view has somewhat shifted. And the system needs an overhaul.
When a generation grew up doing it, and found that civilization did not collapse, found that in fact content was getting better and better?
I came to conclusion many years ago that in order for a planning routine to have staying power for me it had to be:

1. Real simple
2. Require minimal effort

If it fails both of those criteria, chances are you won't stick with it for too long. The planning itself becomes something you have to plan into your schedule, for example from the post:

"The bulk of my weekly planning takes place on Sunday evening."

Sorry but that's not going to work for me.
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That could be resolved by clarifying (3rd party app) in the title.
I fully understand what you mean. I saw you're from Brazil too, so you know how awful Netflix is around here and how much we pay for games, for example. I download mostly due to the reasons you mentioned. As much as possible I avoid downloading books and I try to pay for music when I can (some stuff is just too expensive to import and many times really hard to find). I also rely on Steam and digital copies to avoid stealing (I have no problem calling it that) games.

But by the end of the day, despite being hard to find or expensive or unavailable, it's not mine to take. I understand I have no right to just rip The Flash S01E09 and make it available for free, IMO. Even though I downloaded and watched it yesterday.
Inheritance isn't a property of what code does, but how the programmer chooses to do it. There is no problem that is inherently inheritance-heavy.
My problem with C++ was not its syntax, but the lack of a common library
In case of Firefox, it works. Its single app that runs the UI in a XML based markup thing.

Issue comes when the whole operating system would be run on top of some XML thing...
I'm not sure if your first sentence is very accurate. Where did you get that information?
The problem is google news could link to news sites outside of Germany so there were already a large number of 'defectors'. The same thing applies to Spanish media.
> This is also false. If you get memory unsafety outside of an `unsafe` block, it is a by definition a bug in the compiler.

All `unsafe` memory access in Rust performed in separate address space? I'm asking because if it isn't - this can't be called `isolated`.
Jetpacks have arrived
I specifically said everything produced, under any circumstances. Not just work. Everything. After all, if you believe in the free sharing of information...
I see that the app lets workflows create their own apps on the home screen. I wonder if this had something to do with it? My thought is that it's a web app with a scheme to open a specific workflow. I bet Apple didn't like that.
I only just finished Amanda Palmer's "The Art of Asking" (read by the author), but I already find it invaluable.

If you're an aspiring freelancer or working on creative projects of your own, in particular, then her story has a lot for you.
How to Find the Core Features of Your Product Using Kano Surveys
Ask HN: Backup/Archival options for large collections of Pictures and Video data
I recently took a trip to east Africa with a few friends of mine and within two weeks, we generated almost 250 GB worth of pics and videos (DSLRs and GoPros). I wanted to ask the HN community what are some of the good options to backup such kinds of data. As cameras get better, I'm finding it difficult to manage proper backups / archives of all the data.

I am considering Amazon Glacier with a syncing client but currently data is just replicated in multiple external HDDs.
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You can't have everything be ad-based, in the end someone has to actually sell something to make money that pays for the ads. I always felt that this is a flaw in the ad-based model, you try to compensate for you own product not having any value by pushing other peoples products.

Anyway, if we're purely taking music, downloading it of TPB or listing to it on Spotify more or less makes the artist the same amount of money.

Software and books are different, because you can't really compensate for lose of sales with performances. Movies I'm unsure of, cinema could make the money needed to cover the prodution cost, but I don't know if that's viable.
The Application Developers Alliance Calls Out FTC Ruling
I'll give you some brief thoughts from my experience working at FoundationDB, but if you really want the in-depth answer to what makes our simulation framework an enabling technology for everything we do, you should take a look at the talk my colleague Will Wilson gave at Strange Loop [0].

Everything in our core is written in Flow, our asynchronous programming environment. The architecture of our server is essentially single threaded, with (pseudo-)concurrent actors allowing a single process to satisfy multiple roles at once.

The interfaces that these actors use to communicate -- with the disk, over the network, with the OS in general -- are abstracted and implemented in Flow as well. Each of these interfaces not only has at least one "real" implementation, but at least one, and sometimes more, simulated implementations.

Since we run multiple actors in a single process all the time, running yet more actors, pretending to be different machines, all still in the same process, was an obvious step. These workers communicate with each other via the _same_ network interfaces that real-world workers do in real clusters.

In the end we are able to become our own adversaries, pushing the limits of the system in ways that just don't happen often enough in the real world to test and debug in the wild. Our simulated implementations are allowed to present any behavior that can be observed in the real world, or justified by the spec, or implied by the contract. And they can do so much more frequently.

But most importantly -- as in, without this our system would never have been developed -- we can simulate these pathological behaviors in a completely deterministic fashion. Having the power to run a million tests, simulating multi-machine clusters trying to complete workloads while suffering from the most unbelievable combination of network partitions, dropped packets, failed disks, etc. etc., all while knowing that any error can be replayed, stepped through in a debugger, in a single process on a single machine... without this capability, we would never have had the confidence to build our product or evolve it as aggressively as we have.

tl;dr: We're not making simulations _of_ the system, we're running the system _in_ simulation, and that makes all the difference.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
You're still confusing "freedom to share" with "obligation to share". Being for the free sharing of information and choosing to not publish some stuff is completely coherent. Nobody says copyright holders should be forced to publish their works.
Aaah, that makes sense!

If it spoils faster in the heat, that would affect both. Thank you!
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Ask HN: How to become a freelancer without using a third party website?
A lot of times I've read comments here, about how looking for projects through oDesk, Freelancer or such websites leads to getting bad clients and to the devaluation the work you do. So if not through this websites how do you get clients? If your starting the obvious thing to me would be to build a portfolio, distribute your mobile apps, use a VM to host your sample web apps, upload code to GitHub, etc. This seems like common sense to me but what comes after that?
Yes they do. I would argue for privacy laws, specific exceptions to that right, just as I support trade secret law. But it would be an exception, a deeply unnatural change to the legal norm, and I would have to make the case on its merits that the value to society of such privacy laws was worth that extraordinary curtailment of the NSA's usual rights.
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Indian court orders Xiaomi smartphone sales ban
So you support spreading the hacked nude photos of celebs? Once someone obtains a copy they should be free to share?

And "Nobody says copyright holders should be forced to publish their works." should be a warning flag to you. Once you get to a position that twisty, you should think to yourself there's probably something wrong with it.
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>There is no software method to "find obstructions on my route".

Hmmm, how much do you suppose someone would pay for something like that? ;-)
It nay not become popular among existing, heavily invested mobile devs, but they aren't the only devs who might target mobile. And the fashion of class-based OO and languages that require heavy IDEs seems to be increasingly less accepted as the one true way.
it may sound complicated but when you consider it is probably 30 minutes sitting at a computer (something you are probably already doing) it really isnt.

A very easy way:

Go to localbitcoins.com

find a seller

buy bitcoins using your bank account

send coins to HELIX/Bitcoinfog or another mixer of your choice.

*Retrieve coins from the mixing service.
> You mean other than in jewelry and electronics?

Again, it's perceived and agreed value. Gold is valuable because we decided it is. Jewels are as valuable as the fashion agrees them to be. In fact, you can find jewels worth thousands of dollars that are made of steel. Their intrinsic value for the material is a few cents.

> Even money has no value whatsoever. Money is a promise from a government to grant some goods or services.
I think you are using a strange definition of "no value".

What I mean is that the value is just what the system agrees on. If the system decides that the US are insolvent, or can't back their currency (which is a _promise_ to deliver) its value goes down, potentially to the value of the paper it's printed on.

In the end, the value of something depends on what people agree it's backing in terms of goods and services. It's an agreement, a child's game among adults, and can change in a whim.
Similar tools for Windows:

http://scan.sourceforge.net/

http://dtsearch.com/
HockeyApp Joins Microsoft
Perforce is not Git-style, it's got a single central repository.