skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I get it. I just think it's not relevant to TPB at all, and that the linking of the two things is a giant exercise in changing-the-subject.

(1) Destroy old business model.

(2) ... hand wavey magic happens here ...

(3) Utopia!

I question #2 categorically. The magic never comes.

Historically people have to struggle to be compensated fairly for their work. It was true for labor in the late 19th century, it's true for Chinese sweatshop workers, and it's true for content creators. A rising tide does not automatically lift all boats, and models of fair labor compensation do not appear without a struggle.

Let's be totally clear here. I see the piracy issue as an issue of labor fairness vs. labor exploitation.

If programmers were the ones on the chopping block, none of you people would be talking like this. You'd all be up in arms and talking about what can be done. This is entitled elitism of the first order; only some professions are entitled to compensation or for their wishes about how their works are used to be respected.

Why is it that there are a million hackers working on new alternatives to The Pirate Bay, yet I see almost nobody working on new ways for authors, musicians, and artists to connect directly with their audiences?

TPB doesn't connect musician to audience -- it distances musician from audience even more than the record companies ever did! Piracy is the ultimate in passive consumerism. It's consumerism so passive there isn't even a twice-removed economic connection. There's no connection at all. You -- the viewer or listener -- might as well not even exist.

If the goal is to get the scummy record companies out of the loop, why aren't hackers working on that? Why doesn't somebody create a distributed, censorship-resistant medium for people to publish creative work that incorporates a transparent and direct-to-the-creator Bitcoin-based mechanism for payment? I'm not even talking about DRM, which I agree doesn't work. I'm talking about a simple mechanism. On TPB, Popcorn Time, and any number of these other things, I don't even see a way to pay the artists if I want to. There's not even a "tip" functionality. I think the intent is clear from the absence of anything like that in the design.

This is about free, not freedom. You're appropriating a bunch of high-minded rhetoric, but the reality is you're just cheapskates who want free labor.

I'll reserve my respect for people who actually make things of their own and put them out there to advance the cause of freedom-- people like Linus, or DJB, or pretty much every original OSS software author out there.
Risks of transparency:

- sharing roadmap, gaining support for it, then changing your mind or failing to meet deadlines ("never promise what you can't deliver")

- sharing roadmap, gaining support, then having better-funded/faster-moving competitors steal it

I see a lot of advantages as well, but those are the two biggest risks in my eyes.
That's exactly how I solved it. I'd consider myself a pretty decent programmer, but I did poorly in algebra and calculus at middle, high school, and university level.

Give me "x + (x + 1) + (x + 2) = 69" and I wouldn't know where to start. I could probably turn that word problem into that equation, but I would have no idea how to actually solve the equation algebraically.

But given the word problem alone I knew to divide by 3 and add the neighboring numbers. Now, actually dividing by 3 I'd need to use a calculator or spend a lot of time with a pencil and paper, but at least I knew the steps to solve it.

I'm awful at rote math and mental math, which is why I'm thankful I can make the computer do it for me.
>But they're mature enough to kill for and be killed for the national military (sometimes against their will), contribute to governmental policy decisions, and have children?

I don't think they are mature enough for that, no. We weren't arguing that part (at least not yet). 21 would be a much more reasonable age for that, but 25 would probably be best. There's a reason that you can't rent a car below 21 and that you have to make a significant extra payment below 25.
>> "iTunes is great for mainstream stuff but that's about it."

OT but it's funny to hear 26 million songs described like that :)
You're right, but it's worth recognising that few people realised what bad businesses Spotify or Pandora actually are. The margins just aren't there, and so for film/tv you're going to see a persistent effort to continue to "add value" which really means adding value for the seller, and not adding value for the consumer.
I agree with the concept of buying a license to the actual content and then consuming it however you want, which ought to be the way the world actually works.

However, if you don't actually stream the content from Prime / Netflix / et. al., my guess is that they probably aren't paying out accordingly on the back end.
I can second the Ubuntu motivation. Chrome is buggy and unreliable on Ubuntu, and I was tired of the Aw Snap several times a week. Firefox appears to be much more stable, and Developer Edition looks better too.
This is the bit that runs inside the EC2 instance to make a box EC3S enabled.
I use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my search.
This is a very broad statement. I use both browsers because each has slightly different behavior in some edge cases that I prefer. To me, firefox is occasionally an upgrade, and chrome occasionally is.
The book, "How Google works", is an arguably self-glorified interpretation of a rare success story. This article, is a re-interpretation of the interpretation. I seriously doubt if there is any value at all.

I think HBR is a major source of management BS. I haven't done the research yet but I bet it has published tons of articles in late 90s about how Apple's culture sucked, and then after its resurrection, how it worked so wonderfully well.

My point is, go create your own billion dollar business, and let HBR package your culture later!
Can any one confirm, this incident is the only time, Mr. Page wrote something on the kitchen walls? or he may have written several times, several things but only this got noticed and worked upon? In any case, this example as some "indicator" of Google's way is exaggeration with the level of available details.

There are lot of details we do not know and we may never know about what/whom led to what/whom precisely. Hindsight always appears precise. So please do not get fooled by hype/halo effect/propaganda/marketing...etc.

Conclusions may give wrong sense of comfort that inputs and the reasons provided are complete,sufficient. But it is doubtful and to write such a article, you can go backwards i.e. you may pick some evergreen conclusions/facts, take a popular success related to Apple's iphone or Google's search engine ...etc, pick a obscure/bizarre incident related to that, add relevant story lines/hypothesis in support of those conclusions and you may have a valid article.

Please note that, I am NOT saying this article is written in that way but getting those conclusions from a minor incident like writing on walls, attributing the solution -entirely- -only- to that incident appears like a stretch of imagination. Several past articles in the main stream media can be seen, where both successes and failures in the life attributed to strange/bizarre incidents rather than real hard work, sweat,planning ...etc.They appear like a part of Hollywood movie rather than reality.

APPEND 1:

What message should we draw?

If you are CEO of small startup, rather than talking to your team directly about real issues, write on kitchen walls or do some unconnected/unexpected thing where employees may not notice or understand the gravity/criticality of situation? If you do that and fail, some other management expert may write an article, criticizing your way of doings, which explains only success counts/matter but not methods for some people.

If you are an employee, then should we start looking at walls of the facilities for communication on important stuff rather than usual emails...etc and if by chance, some thing is noted, how do we know what level of importance should be attached to it or focus on it while ignoring the committed items in the pipeline?

Since Google became successful, that incident is lauded but if it failed, CEO and culture of the company will be criticized for insufficient communication. i.e. please avoid such communication to increase probability of success.

APPEND 2:

Downvoters: Please provide reasons so that if my reasoning is wrong, I am ready to be corrected. Downvoting without reasons won't help since I do not know what caused disagreement. Thanks.
> If it's an MP3, and it's under my music directory, it's pretty clear what it is.

Putting files in a directory is semantically equivalent to applying a tag. But directory structure is no way fundamental to computing, and indeed tagging is more general and flexible solution to organizing files.
How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate
"Speading misinformation" ahaha.

I think you missed this two parts of my comment:

- "Genuine question: [...]"

- "ain't we [...] ?"

As you may now understand, I am asking questions.
Questions are asked in order to obtain informations, not to spread them. But thank you for your bit of infos regarding silk road's sites rules.
I tried to rent an HD movie (the family man (hey, its the holidays)) on amazon but was told my device (27-inch imac) is not "compatible". Super WTF. A torrented version gives me none of that BS. And its free.

Piracy is mostly a matter of market. The more DRM BS you try to force upon me, the more I'm going to do to not give you any of my money at all.

Even if most people pay for content, any level of piracy is "unacceptable" to these companies. It's not enough that they make a buck, or make quite a few. They have to crap all over the experience in an attempt to stop piracy, which is a fools errand and hurts the people who DO pay for content.

I'll start being reasonable when they stop being unreasonable.
Just to point out, you can do the same thing those larger groups do to, just being a little more creative. Take the deal, get the monthly recurring revenue for yourself and find a freelancer, intern or other person capable of backing you up when needed. If you offer a reasonable rate to do it and there are a lot of people that will work with you.

If you are interested in taking/bidding for the gig, but want some backup/help let me know, maybe we can help back you up. Contact details are in my profile.
Isn't Google's internal maps editor named "Atlas" as well?
Installing extensions can dramatically slow down browsers. I wonder if the lack of extensions is responsible for the quickness users experience with a fresh install.
Scan for Convicted Sex Offenders in Facebook Friends List (Iowa)
I feel like I would think this was cool if I understood it better. I think it needs a more clear statement of value. Since the videos are mostly just a guy talking, I would consider transcribing them into a tutorial or Getting Started format if you want to promote adoption.

Also, the HTML markup in the "paragraphs" doesn't render on my machine. Some of them, anyway.
I wish this study had been a multi-center study, so that children from more than one place were assessed. At least the study is longitudinal, measuring blood levels in the mother late in pregnancy, and then following up with the children at age seven (a very good age to choose for a first IQ test, because by that age child IQ scores on the WISC are stable enough to use for research of this kind). I see this is research funded by the United States federal government. It will be good to look for replication of this finding, especially in samples from other countries, to see if the finding generalizes to populations outside of New York City, the place where these children were assessed.
I remember using IRC quite a bit, there were even sites that you could search and then go join the channel and talk to the bot for the ftp transfer etc. In hindsight FTP ratio requirements were sort of like the torrent ratio requirements some trackers implement.
>I would be all over Hulu expect I refuse to pay for a service AND see ads. I would rather pay $20/mo and not see ads then pay the $10/mo and see them. Almost as bad as having to see ads in the first place the ads on Hulu are painfully repetitive at times.

You are going to have to make a better offer to the studios that are currently charging customers $80/mo AND forcing them to see ads.

Hollywood would have to slim down significantly if it was going to go Netflix-model primary on all its content.
> compete in an area where garbage collection has its greatest competitive advantages (namely, long running server processes)

I thought it was the opposite that was true. A garbage collector can/will leak memory over time (days) and will use up to 6-8 times more memory and can have performance problems etc. All long running server processes I know of (database, mail, http servers) manage their own memory. Exceptions are VM based systems and it is not unheard of to have a trivial Tomcat app use up to 1GB of memory.
spectacular.
What exactly are the "concurrent multi-core programs" you wrote in Go doing? Do you have any examples of concrete problems you had that became easier to solve when you used Go's concurrent multi-core features?
There's also the ill-fated Soviet Revolutionary Calendar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
> * Don't be fooled by the employer hiding half the cost from you.

You can't count it as a cost on you without adding the value of the employer share to your base income.

> Every progressive subsidy is mathematically equivalent to a progressive tax.

Wrong. You've basically made the same error as you did with employer share of payroll tax -- a progressive subsidy is arguably analogous to (but "mathematically equivalent" is still too strong of a term):

1. An addition to your income (whether or not you receive the benefit, maximum or otherwise) equal to the maximum benefit provided, and

2. An additional tax equal to the difference between the maximum benefit and the amount you actually receive.

Its absolutely not even similar, much less "mathematically equivalent", to the latter alone, which is how you presented it.
Curating in the Open: Martians, Old News, and the Value of Sharing as You Go
This is some of the cleanest code I've ever seen. What ide/editor do you use and plugins etc?
Awesome site. Very beneficial for user.
Even questions like "What's the date of friday next week?" can't be quickly answered.

Fortunately we don't have a very pressing need to answer these sorts of questions; we have tools galore to handle them for us: smartphones, calendars, messaging apps, meetup etc. Topics like these often remind me of one of Einstein's more famous quotes:

[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

We used to spend an enormous amount of time teaching our children mathematical tricks which have now all been made completely obsolete by the scientific calculator. Only the most rudimentary of arithmetical strategies have survived, if only for the fact that it's still a little inconvenient to reach into your pocket when scanning and counting objects with your eyes.
Spotify only allows mobile playing for paid accounts, but PC works unpaid with ads. That wasn't for DRM purposes but had the same effect, introducing the kind of platform segmentation you and the article are complaining about.
Another example: hulu plus still shows ads. I'd happily pay for hulu but not if it means I still have to watch their ads. Classic corporate double-dip. Fuck that, and fuck hulu.
I was using Firefox in the past few months because Chrome felt slower after the new update.

I am back to using Chrome however. It's really hard to break the habit even though I made it a conscious effort to use Firefox and have enjoyed it thoroughly.

My only gripe with Firefox would be watching youtube I see a Adobe process that takes up a lot of memory even though I force HTML5, it seems to revert to Adobe.

All in all Firefox is the Chrome browser I once loved, but now that Chrome is working back to what it was doing, I forgot about Firefox.
Pretty big confidence intervals, unclear what the true test space is. I'm just going to leave this [1] here.

[1] http://www.tylervigen.com/
The studios and middlemen that bring content to people's doorsteps have created this incredible Gordian knot of contractual obligations and agreements. This industry showed up in the dark ages of connectivity where content was produced for a local market.

If someone else wanted to show this content in their jurisdiction, they'd just create a one-off agreement for it and be on their way. They honestly don't know how to sell to the entire world at the same time.

Piracy is the Alexandrian solution to this. Untying the relationships and legal contracts would take decades, but the threat of piracy forces them to offer solutions today to compete.
but then there would never be a Friday the 13th, which is also a problem. When would Hollywood release all its horror movies?
What was poor about it? Could you cite instances?
Are they really that hard I have done iq tests administered by professionals I can't recall it taking that long.
Fantastic! Why have never heard of it before?
It's not really an edge case, is it?

Does a netflix subscription give you rights to torrent movies that exist on Netflix?

If so, what happens when they no longer exist.

Does the parent commenter check Netflix first before downloading a torrent?

I'm not passing judgement, but merely pointing out that a netflix subscription doesn't grant you the license to download and store content, in fact, it's likely expressly forbidden in the TOS.

ETA:

Not to sound self righteous, I torrented a copy of TES4: Oblivion for the PC day-1, after buying it from Amazon. It was being shipped, but I wanted to play it immediately.
I'm using Rust at my startup. The prototype version was written in F#, but that means you're anyways fighting memory allocation, which was the single biggest performance issue in my program. My system works on network traffic at line rate, so every allocation per packet is noticeable.

C programs doing what I'm doing have traditionally had security issues. Since our code often runs in privileged locations, that's an unacceptable risk. Plus, Rust is vastly more expressive than C and not messed up like C++. And abstractions are cheaper, too. For instance, we use Generics + Traits as a way to keep flexibility and a plugin model per frame, while keeping the performance of static dispatch. C wouldn't be able to do that in an easy way.
Nice list. I programmed in Ada for eight months in 1997 when I was on a co-op at Rockwell Collins, working on their simulation testbed for their general aviation flight management systems -- I recognize several of the planes listed in the Commercial Aviation section.

I ended up really enjoying programming in Ada and was unhappy about having to return to C++ when I went back to school that fall. It was a bit more work to write, but it was easy to read and when it compiled it usually did what you expected it to. It's a language that makes it difficult for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
On my Linux MINT machine, chrome keeps doing something[1] that ends up locking up my whole machine and I have to hard-reboot. It got to a point where I actually had to set up Ctrl+Alt+K to issue "pkill -9 chrome" so as soon as I see the mouse-pointer movement become non-smooth or music start to skip, I slam on those keys to kill chrome before I have to restart my whole machine. Then I just went to Firefox developer edition[2]. Is it better? I dunno, but I like its cool dark theme, my system hasn't locked up since and now I got all those cool extensions back again.

1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2203672

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio...
A lot of JavaScript optimizations use 32-bit ints internally, specifically bitwise operations will truncate to a 32-bit value before performing any such operations... not to mention improved cpu overhead and benefits from the asm.js subset.
> In California, Medicaid + MediCal is substantially better than most private insurance

Medi-Cal is the name of California's Medicaid program, so "Medicaid + Medi-Cal" is just counting the same program twice. Which, if you could actually benefit that way, would probably be fairly generous, but the state actually makes a significant effort to prevent that.

Did you intend to say Medicare + Medi-Cal, perhaps?
An R^2 value of 0.33 does not even come close implying linear correlation.
Went down the rabbit hole a bit (thanks Google) and found this thread from 2003 where someone said "real men use vi". https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2003-Jul... I take it to mean real men do difficult things for no reason, which is not really a positive thing. A 2008 article updated the phrase to "real men and women use vi", still as hyperbole. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/10/01/vim-tip... I guess the posted article didn't get the memo and still used the men-only version in 2011. But I guess you're right about this particular article, it's too easy to read it "straight".
Yeah, it sucks the personality out of marking time like metric sucks the personality out of measuring space. I like personality in my dog and my friends, not in my systems of measurement.

Dates are almost impossible to reason about, and yet people are so used to our current broken system they aren't even aware of how badly they manage it. It is routine for date-time packages to produce bizarre results like "a month before a month from now" not being "today" in all cases because no one has any idea what anyone else means by "month", although everyone who has never thought about these problems is certain that everyone else means exactly what they mean in all ambiguous cases.

Anyone who has worked on date-time problems (not even libraries, just trying to correct for the special cases, cultural differences or just plain weirdness that the library of your choice doesn't deal with) will recognize the horrible truth of the joke, "I used to be in favour of space-travel, then I realized what effect it will have on date-time libraries."
Correction: '~' is legal. '/' is actually ':'.
It just rolled out in the last update, you have to set it yourself in the settings as far as I know but yeah its not just in nightly releases anymore
"It's complicated."

As the announcement notes, we have multiple tiers holding different data horizons. The most active, and large, tier is the one holding the last six hours of data. That tier, being the most critical one (we try to train our engineers to only need 6 hours of data to understand how their system is working in the worst case), is mirrored. Right now, each of those mirrors is about[0] 756 r3.2xl instances.

[0] For a very exact definition of "about," though that exact number could change in the next 5 minutes, or 5 hours, or 5 days, or not until we see another metrics increase.
A real IQ test takes at least 2 hours of 1-on-1 time with a psycholigist to administer, so in the event that someone actually wants to do real iq testing the marginal cost is quite high.