skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recent learned from a PM friend of mine that a good response to features you have no intention of implementing (better than a flat no) is: I'll take that into consideration and see where I can fit it into our development timeline.

The end is the same result (no feature) but with a bit more comfort for both parties.
He does work for a company selling a competing product.
Very low friction? Can you buy a stock in the next 10 minutes and get a dividend payout daily? You can't even buy middle man claim to a stock without signing up for an account over multiple days. To fund it? 4 days for checks to clear. To deposit your dividends...

This doesn't even go in to the implications of stocks not being able to be sold in a fractional reserve style, taking out all the middle men etc.

The financial services industry is 8% of the entire GDP of the US. That is close to 8% we could get back since there is very little that can't be hugely automated.
Somewhat tragic, right?
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Comcast's speedboost means the connection will be 2Gbps for for roughly the first .03 seconds of your download. Then it will be about 2Mbps for the entire rest of the download. The only way to sustain anywhere near that speed for more than a second or two would be to have like 500 torrents downloading at the same time.
Microsoft does not accept Bitcoin -- BitPay accepts bitcoin and Microsoft accepts dollars.
If you take into account the fact that Android runs on Linux you could be right.
The wages of all those people wiring up form fields to databases for cat sharing companies are propped up --- drastically propped up --- by scarcities engineered into the economy by copyright.
Here's a PR showing off a different visualization, that of parallel painting of tiles: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4969
I would not say it's clear that we can provide 'food' 'education' and 'shelter' for everyone. For starters, those are categories and say nothing about the quality of food, education, or shelter.

Secondly, are you sure all work can be done by currently-existing machines and people willing to do that work for fun? For example, maintenance on a broken sewage system. I think there's going to be some jobs that machines can't yet do, no one wants to do, and yet still need to be done.
On the other hand, as a Lisp is the True Way type, I believe there are very good reasons to learn a Lisp early in your study of programming. While Scheme has a lot going for it in this domain, Clojure is not bad at all, and it happens to have a lot of good solutions for concurrent programming.
This comment doesn't deserve those downvotes. You are right those pictures are much more important than those I take, but to follow that to its logical conclusion then we only get those amazing pictures in the public domain if the public is willing to pay a lot for them. In theory that could be done using e.g Patreon but in practice that probably has to be done using the, admitably broken, copyright system.
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If this comment was made about music it would have been up-voted.
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It is not easy to reproduce capturing beauty. If the product is information than any random bits will do. What we care about is aesthetic bits, which his is the provider of.
I think a lot of people conflate the rent-seeking behaviors of the larger media conglomerates that acquire licenses to creative works with the monetization seeking behaviors of small-time content creators.
> But we don't do that. We don't want to pay taxes to let him fly around the world and photograph things for the good of the commons.

I want that. Many people want that. And my tax dollars do do this already. Provincial and federal governments actively fund the development of news, education, and artistic media in many jurisdictions.
I think anyone that's built a complicated system before gets it implicitly.
It's also faster because it's native, not JavaScript.
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>All providers listed here are operating outside the USA, accepting Bitcoin and using OpenVPN.

While I applaud this decision, NSA is known to have a dedicated group of people working to break VPN traffic[0]. I'm wondering how many of these non-US providers are any more secure than US-based ones. Just how many talented security professionals can there be in e.g. Seychelles, a country barely twice the size of the NSA?

Furthermore, any NATO country can't really be trusted, even if they're not part of the so-called "5 eyes" alliance. That rules out Italy and Iceland, as their governments will surely raid datacenters if asked by the US.

The Assange shenanigans showed us that the Swedes will kowtow to US interests if under sufficient pressure, so that rules Sweden out.

Gibraltar is surely subject to the whims of GCHQ, being a British overseas territory.

The Panama Canal being a strategic geo-political hotspot means I'd be absolutely shocked if US intelligence wasn't running all over Panama's tech infrastructure like ants on a mound of sugar.

That leaves Malaysia and Switzerland as the only sane choices.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/nsa-has-vpns-in-v...
What is Servo?
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The grandparent said it was smaller, and I was merely observing that it is not. If you want to talk about colours, the colours used in both locations are the same: one is white on blue, the other is blue on white. I suppose you can claim that one is closer to the centre than the other, but this feels like splitting hairs.

When I look at this page, these buttons both seem quite readable to me, and I don't feel that either of them is concealed or hard to press. I do not believe that this page is deceptive or misleading in any way. It clearly and directly tells you what it does. And let's not forget that it's not doing a bad thing, it's offering people a feature which appears to be popular. If you're particularly concerned about adding another layer of privacy defence on top of the already fairly formidable ones that you get by default, you can add your own passphrase to encrypt the information locally on each device, and you can examine the source in chromium if you want to be sure you know what it does.

If you're complaining that the people who designed the feature are trying to encourage people to use it, then frankly I think your complaint is unreasonable.
Having done an equivalent course in Australia I can say: despite being a struggle at the time to get my head around the content, in hindsight knowing this stuff is invaluable as you continue with your degree.

Discrete Mathematics has been invaluable in Formal Languages (Turing machines), Algorithms and Data Security.
Wikipedia's explanation is pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_%28layout_engine%29
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Ugh, I really wish the marketing people would pick different name for this evolution of SSD drives then NVMe. At least the NVM part stating: Non-Volatile Memory.

The current iteration of what we call NVM is just SSD on PCIe busses so they are not bound by the speed of SATA/SAS controllers.

Maybe it's just me but when I think NVM I think of Non-Volatile Memory something like RAM that doesn't go blank when you hit the power button. And like RAM can be mapped into (kernel or user) address space. And access to them go through processor caches (L2 or L3) strait into NVM.

The current SSD+ drives very much behave like the block devices of the old, just with a different host interface. Most importantly they can't be directly memory mapped without going through the page cache. That still leaves a lot of performance on the table (double copy, requiring RAM for page cache versus working set).
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> You are right those pictures are much more important than those I take, but to follow that to its logical conclusion then we only get those amazing pictures in the public domain if the public is willing to pay a lot for them.

That conclusion does not follow. The pictures will become public domain if and when the copyright expires on them. Assuming that happens.
>Personally I think we'd be fine without that law, and anyone who wants high-quality amazing photos can pay to have them captured.

You haven't a clue how much those photos cost if you had to pay the full price for their creation. Think a trip to a foreign country + plus some seriously expensive macro lenses, lights and a very good camera. Plus the photographer likely would want some salary as well.

That means those images are going to cost at least 10k, which is likely too much for e.g BugsBeGone to use one for their website. The price would of course come down if more people could share the images, from which the natural conclusion is to allow all people to share the image, provided they pay a fee for the right to do so.

>at the cost of its peoples' freedom of expression?

This is copyright, not patents. The existence of these photos doesn't in any way prevent you from taking whatever photos you want to take, nor limit how you can edit yours. Sure you can't take his photos, but you couldn't do that without copyright either because they wouldn't exist in the first place.
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I don't think you understood zeidrich's point in this case :) There's no tragedy of the commons for copyrights because the commons doesn't get reduced by usage. Tragedy of the commons as I understand it applies to things like air, which is free, but which people can deplete. (Externalizing pollution costs.)

Things like research can end up belonging to the commons but there's no tragedy of the commons argument about it. Instead your parent in this case I think was just pointing out that this is stuff that wouldn't exist at all if it weren't commmercially protected.
If someone enters the area when you're not at home, you get an activity alert on your phone and you can check out the live stream to find out what's up. If the first thing the robbers do is to take out your home wifi, you still get an alert for camera getting disconnected. You can alert the neighbors or the cops in either case.
You do realize that anyone can create their own crypto-currency correct? Right now you can't really choose what currency to use. When you can, you can choose an inflationary currency. Most people I would think will not.
speaking from a similar perspective here, I'm jealous of your long list of contributors
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There are certainly good arguments for the existence of books for specialized purposes and audiences, like, say, “Python for Data Scientists”. However, this case was simply about “if you really want to get into make deeply”, and for that specific purpose I would think that the obvious thing to do would be first to go to the GNU Make official manual.
Thanks for the note! This looks like a good place to start: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/probability-and...

Would you agree?
I can be proud of my employer's substantial efforts to address NSA warrants, and would challenge you to find any single entity that has done more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25910694

https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/google-2015-will-be-the-...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/31/apple-face...

http://dcinno.streetwise.co/2014/11/17/google-microsoft-appl...
New browser engine from Mozilla. One of its prime objectives is to build an engine that can leverage the multiples cores we have to day and work stuff in parallel. It still not ready for prime use but its growing really well.

IIRC its built with Rust and maybe some unsafe C/C++ code (unsafe in terms of Rust) for things such as the JS engine.

More info about Rust at http://www.rust-lang.org/

More info about Servo at https://github.com/servo/servo#the-servo-parallel-browser-pr...
I agree. But activity alerts are pretty good. You can set Dropcam up so that if someone enters the area when you're not home or the camera loses network connectivity, you get an alert - and if you do, you can alert the neighbors or the cops.
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Not really. You can't copy SAAS (assuming we disallow e.g hacking into servers, which seems fair in so far as you also can't read my diary, since it exist exclusively in my house). You can't copy a cloud system and you cannot meaningfully copy hardware.
Is that supposed to make Americans feel better about going into crushing educational debt? Articles like this make me think I should be packing up and heading to Germany ;-)
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>As long as people have a need for photographs, we will fund their development.

Please explain how.
Your "great startup idea" has been done. Google for "righthaven", "US copyright group" and "prenda law". There are a couple of other law firms doing the same thing. It seems to end badly, for some reason, which I suspect is "bad karma", but your mileage may vary.
No problem. Here's an open source implementation by bitpay https://copay.io using their open source framework http://bitcore.io

This isn't pie in the sky tech. It's real and accessible from your mobile browser today. Pretty exciting times I think.
Thank you for the source!
Are multiple cores being used to draw a webpage? If so, do typical webpages need this level of performance for a satisfactory user experience?
I understand the opposing argument as, "Yes the guy 'needs' to be able to make a living. Just like I 'need' a private jet. He needs to make a living, but NOT at the cost of bringing bits into existence that I am not allowed to copy!! That is supremely unfair. It's better if those bits don't exist at all. I just can't stand the existence of bits that in any sense 'belong' to someone, and it's better if he doesn't create them at all. If you create some bits, and I can view them, then I REQUIRE the right to copy them. THis is my inalienable freedom. If infringing on this freedom is what allows for the economic creation of amazing bits, then that system is flawed and those bits shouldn't end up getting created."

The above is honestly how people who are currently greyed-out in this thread seem to feel. (Though they don't say it as clearly.) It really is a supreme case of entitlement.

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Edit: last sentence originally read supreme sense of entitlement; to be clear, the last sentence is my own personal judgment. I don't agree with these people, and I am fine with the existence of bits I am allowed to view but not to copy, i.e. that in a sense are owned by someone else who has an exclusionary right to them, that they can use to keep me from doing certain things without their permission.
All of this work is really making Servo look more and more like it's going to be the future of browsers. I'm amazed that they're able to get the layout as parallelized as they are, and with the painting being like that I think it's got a great shot at being one of the more performant browsers on mobile.
I think a lot of the backlash against Tidal was the way it was presented.

Having all of these rich and famous musicians complaining about how they're not making enough money isn't going to go very well with the general population.

What does Tidal do to help unknown and struggling musicians? The whole thing seems to only really be about protecting the revenue streams of the musical elite.
The one thing that I think everyone can agree on about software architecture is that it involves abstraction - and often copious amounts of it.

I've heard "the job of architects is to add abstractions to a design; the job of developers is to remove them"... possibly in reference to this article:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
It's hard to get damages when the infringement isn't commercial. If the violator isn't getting a profit from their use, then there's not much argument that you were going to get money from it - no 'damages', because you wouldn't have profited there anyway.
My friend had 3 dogs shot and killed, just so they would stop barking :(
In addition, get Israel Gelfand's books (http://gcpm.rutgers.edu/books.html).
The attacker would then intercept that scrypt hash sent from the client and use it to authenticate.
I'm aware that it has history. The version I quoted is Pratchett's ;)
So go ask him how much it would cost for him to sell you the rights to the photos, so you can do just that.
Annoyingly, this results in an error rather than an attempt to redirect to the https version of the same site.
I remember a photo of my grandfather with the Italian army in Africa, alongside his camel. Must've been the war in 1940. It didn't occur to me at the time to ask in-depth about what role the camel played specifically. He seemed reluctant to talk about war there, though I got the impression that he hadn't played an aggressive role and had mostly been moved from base to base rather than in any front lines.
We do. It's called abstinence. Works every time.
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> What do you do when petrol consumption diminishes to the point that it's no longer a good revenue source?

... Survive?

I mean that's the goal of it, it's to decrease the consumption of this resource if it's considered harmful to the biodiversity (in the case of petrol) or wasted (in the case of water). At no point is the goal is to make the govt richer, that's why I said income tax should be reduced thereasmuch.
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"You think the Law should be used to determine how to properly incentivize the commerce of photographs, at the cost of its peoples' freedom of expression?"

I think this is a false question, as you never had the rights to the work of others in the first place.
YES! :raised_hands:
It is well-known and well-documented that our ability to infer tone from electronic communications is poor, so your chances of being correct in judging his tone are not much over 50%: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239121

That's better than chance, but not really enough to pass judgment on someone. This may be why you have been downvoted. It may also be that others read his tone (with 56% accuracy) differently.

The tone of this message is meant to be neutral and informative.
They work fine with Perl, C, XML, and YAML. I wouldn't know about Erlang, but I'd imagine they work with that, too.

It seems as though you have an idea in your head that you're unwilling to research, and when I present you with information, you're unwilling to accept that you could be wrong.
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Fixed now - whatever you did worked.
Yes multiple cores are being used. It's not that typical webpages need this level of performance, but by doing this you can actually save battery life and power usage on things like mobile devices and laptops. Since you can render the page 2-3x faster (numbers pulled out of donkey) you can use a burst of more cores at a lower speed to accomplish the same thing.
Define non-profit, a foundation, a private - public funded service, etc?
Levy apparently has lots of connections and tends to write sympathetic accounts relying on inside access to companies. Explaining how insiders think is a useful form of reporting. If you want an outside view, go with someone else.
You're mistaking companies for monolithic hive minds with a single opinion and goal shared across all groups and employees.

Google did not "decide Angular was the way to do web apps". In fact relative few public-facing apps are built with Angular compared to other proprietary frameworks. Likewise, Google has not "moved on to Polymer", though most of those of us working on Chrome think Web Components are the way to go.
> Are multiple cores being used to draw a webpage?

Yes. There is coarse-grained parallelism (e.g. script, layout, painting can all happen simultaneously) and fine-grained parallelism (e.g. every render object is restyled and laid out concurrently).

> If so, do typical webpages need this level of performance for a satisfactory user experience?

It depends on the site, of course, but preliminary results show that multicore style recalc and layout result in large improvements in many areas that feel slow today. Examples are loading new items on "infinite-scroll" pages and CSS transitions that require layout (e.g. "top", "left", "margin-right"). In particular, Web developers frequently write animations that require layout, so large improvements there have the potential to benefit apps a lot.
Code size does matter for websites and web apps, and for high-traffic sites, the difference between 1 byte and 4 bytes is significant.

That said, if you've gotten to a point where you have high traffic, you've had lots of time to implement something that optimizes your assets anyway.
You're calling for a "patron" model of the arts, in which artists collect a one time payment (from one or more individuals) in order to create new artwork.

That's fairly inefficient in several aspects, and by "inefficient," I mean that it's not likely to lead to artists creating the works that people want to consume.

First, this reduces the artist to only producing works that a single entity (person, company), or a small group of entities, wants to commission. If a thousand people each want a picture of a wasp $10-worth, that's very different from two sponsors each paying $5,000 for that image, and everyone else paying zero.

Second, it makes it nearly impossible for an artist to create work "on spec" and then collect payment on it later. Again, the artist is taking a ton of risk since he/she is looking for a massive payment from one or two patrons, vs. small payments from many consumers. Also, how is a photographer to advertise his or her work online, if anyone can just copy the image to their hard drive?

Third, it restricts authors to only extracting value from their art at the time of creation. If a photo becomes wildly popular a year or two after it was created and sold the first time, then the author can't get paid for it.

Fourth, as a potential patron who is a rational actor, I have a strong incentive to comb the Internet for a free photo before I pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to commission a new one. Won't this stifle the funding for creation of new works of art?
Why hasn't US press picked up this new video compression announcement?
>We're all adults here

And even if we aren't, kids have sex too!
> They were never incentivized to improve the official manual in the first place.

On the contrary, if they had read the official manual, they would have had the incentive to improve it. Just like with software.

> There was no expectation of funding to the original software authors in the first place

Yes there is, if the original software authors are (like in the case of GNU Make) also selling the official manual in book form.
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