skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call bullshit. Absolute bullshit.

If I gave you a credit card that gave you unlimited access to digital content you probably wouldn't be complaining. Certainly not if you live in the US or much of Europe.

If you have a $69 AppleTV then iTunes is a spectacular user experience. Search for almost anything you want and hit play. If it didn't cost $5 to rent a movie it's superior to torrents.

This is where someone chimes in with something snarky related to offline viewing (airplane) or not living in the US and having access to less comments. This is true. It's also largely irrelevant. If you think those are the primary reasons users torrent then I'd challenge you to back it up with statistics.

For Americans in particular the primary reason to pirate content these days is selfish greed.
There are other options. This thread interested me enough to start sketching out a different approach. I don't see the point of the maintainers of the exoskeleton generating an unbounded set of permutations.
> Also in part because of that, the F.A.A. has close to fifty thousand

> employees—an order of magnitude more employees than we do. We have six hundred.

Am I missing something? 50,000 vs 600 is two orders of magnitude difference.

Perhaps the person quoted was speaking colloquially, but I would argue such a quotation should have a [sic] in it.
I highly recommend https://github.com/NixOS/nixops, which is good for deployment in general, but especially good for Haskell since the Haskell infrastructure was rewritten this year.
A better one:

"For though I sedulously followed the rule of taking nothing and leaving nothing, it suddenly seemed to me that my very being on the island, and my later decision to record my impressions of that visit and the impressions of earlier visitors, had resulted in a series of entirely unintended and unanticipated consequences—consequences that were as inimical to the islanders’ contentment as if I had plundered or polluted there.

"I had no understanding whatsoever that by repeating that naval officer’s memoir, I could hurt the feelings of anyone. To my clumsy, unthinking, touristic mind, the notion seemed quite absurd. To be sure, old Kenneth Rogers had explained it to me kindly—but I had chosen to ignore his warning, to dismiss his assertion of feeling. I had failed, even for one second, to consider what he and his fellow islanders might think—because I held to an unspoken assumption that as a visitor from the sophisticated outside, I knew better, and that I had something of a prescriptive right to do with him and his like, more or less as I pleased...."
Steam Removes Paid Mods Feature
A book that splits the difference very well is The Linux Programming Interface by Kerrisk. When I did network programming in class I leaned on it at least as much as Stevens.

It's a great book for all kinds of stuff, too, not just network programming.
Good linked list site
Facebook isn’t a charity. The poor will pay by surrendering their data
Learning functional programming is arguably more about unlearning all the terrible hoops other languages make one jump through.
Oh, I see. I thought you were trying to prove something different.
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Outside of math and logic, in the world of science, not only is proof by contradiction necessary, it is the ONLY way of proving anything.
Removing Payment Feature from Skyrim Workshop
$600 is still $400 less than a Surface. I'm not sure how much they compete, though.
This is a really awesome product, I'm going to see if I can make some room to get one. Great job
> The described technology is independent of the source of the torrent.

This also applies to bittorrent.

> The moment Popcorn Time adds Ads, there will be a fork without them.

I understand what you mean. You're thinking I'm claiming the ads would go inside the client? If you look up the chain of conversation, I said that the ads would go on the website that hosts the magnets/torrents.

We see the same thing with bittorrent. Ad free clients. Ad bannered websites. We should expect the same with popcorn time websites.
Well, except the backbone has no alternatives, and the whole point of something like Tor is to mitigate one's lack of trust in the people running the backbone. If Tor is insecure, all you're gaining by using it is letting a bunch of three-letter agencies know that your traffic is potentially more interesting than the average.
Agreed, also the Bison is interesting because the Russian's put their state of the art (which might not be the wests, I'm not sure) equipment into a plane that first flew 59 years ago and went into service 56 years ago.

That it turned out to be extremely capable is very interesting and compared to the stuff the west is building very cheap.

As I think Lenin said "Quantity has a quality all of it's own".
Probability:

- I experienced lots of gifted geeks doing stupid things with key signing party (like creating fake ID for their cats);
- I experienced IT specialist from the security unable to use GPG with their mailbox to send their forms to RIPE so we used clear text passwords in mail (yes they were of course security experts);
- I know for real secret services care more about who talks to whom secretly than what is the secret. And using GPG/PGP is like a smoking gun.

I did too lost all my floppy disk with my revocation key.

I do use my PGP key to sign my python packages. But this UI/UX is hellish.

So yes, GPG sux and is unusable by mere mortals, and even me who advocated for it in the late 90's think that I will not let anyone try to drag any relatives of mine close to this hell, because I would have to do the support, and this product sux big balls.
My argument was, of course, rather flippant. To put flesh on the skeleton, but remove the wit of brevity:

I cite Jane Austen here not so much because her English was seen as exemplary in her time, but because we widely hold her as a premier role model today.
Wow, that was harsh.

Why is the rationale for Americans pirating 'selfish greed'? People, in general, pirate because it's free and really, really easy.

There are many cases where services like Spotify and Netflix have reduced piracy. People are lazy, and if you can make it easier and more seamless than pirating, most people won't mind shelling out a couple of bucks a month for paid service.

http://www.slashgear.com/netflix-piracy-rate-goes-down-when-...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/21/canadian-tech-leader...
Alternative version:

Writer was banned from remote British island with 275 inhabitants and a gene pool restricted to 7 families. Apparently he wrote about a lieutenant's memoir in which he mentions being interested in a local girl during WW2. The woman is still alive and her husband did not like the story being written about.

The writer is not satisfied with this rather simplistic ending to his article, so he creates a narrative of insensitive tourists that make natives sad. The final message is that tourism is a plague on society and we should all just stay at home.
This guide was how I learned the Posix networking APIs so long ago. Thanks, Beej!
Contact charities and organizations that deal with groups that have people with such impairments, they mostly all have websites and newsletters.

I have syringomyelia which depending on location and severity can cause paralysis so they'd be a natural start you can find US orgs here

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/syringomyelia/org_syringo...

British ones (I'm British) here.

http://www.annconroytrust.org/what-we-do/education/british-s...

A quick friendly email and a link would probably do it, these days such groups are heavily connected internally and stuff goes around really quickly.
Toyota released an independent analysis of their electronic throttle system through their press website:

http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?a...

It's a fascinating report that includes a code review with PolySpace and hardware-in-the-loop testing. TL;dr, Exponent didn't find any hardware or software design defects that could cause "uncommanded acceleration". Barr's analysis in the linked article sounds like he found problems that should have been caught by their coding standards and design reviews, but it doesn't sound like he found or could suggest a specific event sequence that could lead to an UA.
iTunes is missing real-time release of TV, and timely release of movies.

For instance, I have a season pass to Mad Men right now, which airs on sunday nights. I don't get the iTunes release until midnight, so I end up not watching it until Monday (even though I pay for it!). If I used torrents, I could watch it Sunday night with everyone else. Other shows have it far worse!

New movies usually enter the iTunes market in a buy-only mode for the first month after release. I'm more than happy to pay $5 to rent a movie, but I'm not spending $20 to buy it. So I wait weeks or more after release of a new movie before I can rent it online. If I used torrents I'd probably be able to watch it for free weeks before release.

iTunes has a good catalog (so does Amazon, and others I'm sure), but movies/TV are not the same as music on iTunes and still have farther to go before they're truly competitive with piracy in terms of user experience.
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I can't comment on why other people copy digital content, but I use eg: youtube-dl to save content from being banned from youtube - most likely due to dmca takedowns. That's for music. I also buy some music via bandcamp. As for streaming services, I was an early Spotify-user -- and the experience was pretty bad: it was a roulette to see how much was left of any given playlist each time I logged on. To be fair, Spotify has gotten better, but they don't have anywhere "all" music I want to listen to. As far as I know Apple don't serve my platform (Linux) in any reasonable way. And at any rate, if you need two or more services for "all you can eat", it's no longer "all you can eat", it's a mess. And you'd need third party apps to creat playlists that cover the content you want.

As for tv series and movies, Amazon has some, Netflix has some, HBO has some. Many independent/international movies can't be found in either place. Amazon won't (legally) let you watch all content outside of the US -- so I could pay for Amazon prime, and use a proxy to circumvent the geo-proteciton -- but then I'd still be breaking copyright law.

For the hypothetical user (ie: not me) that lives in the US -- is there really a service that provides access to both national tv series, as well as foreign-language content?

All that said, I'm sure a lot of people simply enjoy getting stuff for free. But at least for me, the freedom to lend a copy of a good show I watched a couple of years ago to a friend is at least as important as the "no cost" bit.

As mentioned, if you give me access to high-quality (encoded) content without DRM, I'm willing to pay for it. If not, you're simply charging for an inferior product.
Or at least, come up with an analysis why all the solutions you can come up with don't work.
I agree about the quality issue, but I was answering a comment that was specifically about licensing terms.
I thought it was abrupt and reaching. It felt like the author has this tidbit about Carter laying around that he'd been holding on to, but wasn't sure where to use it. He thought it could maybe fit here, but it just was jarring. Not to mention that Carter isn't quite recent enough for me to really have any context about the comparison (what policy decisions set Carter apart?). Finally, the injection of race and religion in this otherwise unrelated article was just out of the blue.
On the other hand, the lived experience of transgendered people.
From my understanding - a large amount of the hate mail are from people who think mods should be free.

Mod creators could still release their mods for free but could opt into payment if they felt they were deserving of pay. So the people who thought mods should be free could just not purchase any mods for sale. Instead they took to complaining to Steam about opening a venue that might encourage mod development and create more content for everyone.

Correct me if I'm wrong... but it sounds like a bunch of reactionaries got mad over something that would largely only have a positive effect on them. In fear of pissing off its consumer-base, Steam took a step back.

Am I missing something here?

E:
Reading through the comments on the scenario. Seems like there was a bit more corporate muckery going on. I'll have to read more, I've only been following this drama loosely.
If the NSA really is tracking all internet traffic, maybe we could just build a "media tax" into the federal budget, and distribute the revenues according to NSA-verified download numbers.
Try finding Star Wars on iTunes. Or many other movies or series. And what if you don't live in the USA? Then it's just Too Bad (TM) right?

I really do not mind paying $3.99 to rent a movie. Many times I find myself simply unable to find it!

And don't get me started on the latest HDCP racket. I have a 1080p projector but there is NO WAY anymore for me to play HD movies that I PAID FOR using it, because it doesn't support DHCP in the latest way. So I am simply prevented from watching movies in HD on my home theater system. How do I get around it? I bought a chinese made splitter that doesn't support HDCP protection, and that seems to work. Wow I'm such a bad boy, wanting to use the hardware I bought to watch the movies I rented! With Popcorn time there is no issue.
I don't think it was stipulated that this beggar was starving. Have you been a beggar and have you had people offer to buy food instead of giving cash? Not saying you are wrong, but I don't understand why you say that my explanation is off base.
Could you elaborate how this is more secure?
Which was monitored and documented in the study he references, no?
"Enclosed but not encrypted" is a nice article about bad encryption.

http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...

> A new generation of inexpensive disk drive enclosures using hardware encryption and RFID keys do not fulfil the promises of their publicity. The adverts claim 128-bit AES hardware encryption, but they don't tell us how it is used

She does a nice write up.
> does anybody know if they're going to try controlled recovery of today's launch vehicle?

Not today but on June 18th.
You don't need to access any website to use Popcorn Time.
Somewhat related, if drm-free, pay-what-you-want, torrent-distributed original content is your thing, check out vodo.net. Eg:

http://vodo.net/joshbernhard/pioneerone/
Or running it.
Interesting. I happen to own a patent that I would be interested in licensing to Google, but I'm not willing to sell it outright, since in that case I wouldn't be able to use my own technology that I invented.

I wonder if there will be other options besides handing over all rights in exchange for some amount of money? For instance, I might be okay with selling my rights if, as a condition of the sale, Google is required to allow the patented technology to be used in any open-source application.
It's true that Just Landed hasn't been updated for a while. That will change later this year. We've been working on Patchmania (http://getpatchmania.com) for 2 years, which launched recently.

Honestly, if you're reacting to the video showing iOS 6 I think you're probably focusing on the wrong thing.
> Ad free clients. Ad bannered websites. We should expect the same with popcorn time websites.

This is what you're not understanding: There are no "Popcorn Time websites" (except for a source to download the client)

Popcorn Time is a combined torrent-client/media player/search engine. You don't have to go to any websites (with ads or otherwise), you can click on nice pretty movie-poster images or search from within the program itself. There aren't any ads in Popcorn Time, and you don't have to leave Popcorn Time to go find media. It is one unified, seamless user experience, equivalent to the Netflix app.
It's fascinating that people are arguing so vehemently against you and yet iTunes (and later Spotify and friends) did exactly that. My friends who all subscribe to Spotify or Rdio now say they haven't downloaded a single song since (anecdote is not data etc, yes I know).
I've seen at least one exit node present an invalid certificate for any requested https:// url, but that's loud and obvious.
I have a strong suspicion you are mixing up different categories.
The bar for a "science" couldn't get much lower.
Yeah, I'll probably swap our download button for an App Store badge when we next update it. Sadly it's unlikely that I'll ever build an Android version – can't make the economics work.
The purpose of telling the story the first time was for selfish reasons. The purpose of retelling the story now is for selfless reasons.

I'm betting he thinks the islanders can tell the difference.
That shouldn't be done in a web request. Not only can it lead to wasted time in the request handler, but it can lead to race conditions like double purchases.
it would be great if an html5/JS interface existed for MP4 videos. I think it's possible
An avocado just got its own SSL certificate
> Firstly "computer" used to mean the people that did computations, so, that untethers computation from the material doing those computations.

But it is called computer science, who / whatever is doing the computation, not computation science, so I'm not sure that (either part of) your response applies.

Actually, I disagree with the grandparent (hence, I suppose, with Sterling) differently: I think that it's rather common to name sciences after gadgets, depending on how flexible you are about what is called 'science'. The first example that came to mind, just because I have a colleague who works on it, is cryo-electon microscopy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryo-electron_microscopy). It's fair to argue whether that's really a 'science' as opposed to just a 'technique', but I'm confident that there are other examples that are more clearly 'sciences'.
WTC7, which was not struck by a plane and was only subject to office fires, went down like a kabuki drop. https://i.imgur.com/kob2Lz1.gifv

Official explanation (http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/faqs_wtc7.cfm)

How did the fires cause WTC 7 to collapse?

The heat from the uncontrolled fires caused steel floor beams and
girders to thermally expand, leading to a chain of events that caused
a key structural column to fail. The failure of this structural
column then initiated a fire-induced progressive collapse of the
entire building.

The acceleration of gravity in New York City is 32.159 ft/s2. WTC7 had 2.25 seconds of literal freefall, this is equivalent to approximately 8 stories of fall in which the falling section of the building encountered zero resistance. For any object to fall at gravitational acceleration, there can be nothing below it that would tend to impede its progress or offer any resistance. If there is anything below it that would tend to impede its progress or offer any resistance, then not all of the potential energy of the object would be converted to motion and so would not be found falling at gravitational acceleration (where did every single structural supporting columns go, instantly, at the exact same time?)

Just compare the collapse of WTC7 to these actual controlled demolitions [1] that cost a LOT of money to make sure the building drops in a controlled manner - because, in the real world, large steel frame buildings do not fall straight down without some careful planning [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eem7d58gjno

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuUR7l3bgc
The value of endangerment laws to society, to the extent that there is any value, is to deter the offender and deter others as well. In the story here, I don't see how you can apply that ethic. I don't want to live in the society in which every low-probability danger is made into an offense. Life has some sharp edges.
Is the idea that the program has a means to search, verify and download torrent files outside of centralized magnet/torrent websites? I did not get this from the article.
Dependently typed languages like DML, Epigram, ATS, Coq, Agda or Idris supports these kind of types. Unfortunately it quickly becomes difficult to work with this kind of typing when you introduce more complex properties.
Earhorn allows you to tweet live audio
>>people are not going to pay for what they can always get at better quality for $0

This is precisely why I think Apple won't last much long in the mobile/watch battle. Android is like the Windows of the 90's and early 2000's. Available for free, with hardware largely being a commodity, and all Google caring about the traffic and market penetration. Apple will have to growingly fight to push their products into the market which is flooded with cheap android devices offering the same features/capabilities.

In fact this is already happening in India and China.
Thank you. I hate these things... fancy UI shit that does nothing but degrade the UX.
I'd argue that region based licensing is killing the industry, along with the reluctance for content producers to serve content through Netflix or something comparable.

Netflix just launched in Australia. If it had all the shows I wanted, I'd sign up in a heart beat. But it's still missing a good chunk because of the licensing deals that already exist over here.

I want to support the Netflix model and content producers that support them. I've considered signing up and not using it at all because my combination of usenet/sickbeard/kodi is far superior to anything else available. I pay about $150 a year for that setup, so I'm not adverse to paying.
> removing the info of the creators

More accurately it was about importing code changes manually without attribution, thus forfeiting authorship info in the commits. I believe it's all resolved now. The person is a kid (to me), I had no idea, so when I learned this I see this differently now, he was just being misguided. I originally thought I was dealing with a fully grown adult, so I did not hold back on the criticism. My own mistake was to not consider I was maybe dealing with such a young person.
Like in "Snow Crash".
I see. Thanks for the reply.
From elsewhere i have gotten the impression that some central legal figures within the business have some kind of stuck up idea about counting copies.

There was a company trying to offer cloud based DVR service, and found that the only way they could get big media legal approval was to not use deduplication of any kind. This meant that their storage costs skyrocketed.
http://web.archive.org/web/20150202020035/https://www.kerbal...
Evidence trumps theory. A theory can be as clever as you like, but if it disagrees with the evidence, the theory is wrong.
never... because it should always be tested first as it's usually a quick proof.
In other news, fractal antennas don't work any better than any other antennas when immersed in a bag of salt water, which is what a cell is.
I see. I did not get that from the article (it looks like I misunderstood).

Thank you for clarifying further (without more downvote nukes).

It appears that adding ads, so long at there are many competing clients, would be difficult.

I was very wrong.
This is a great strategy. As the dozens of popcorn time forks have shown us it not only does not work, but it is also taking intelligent nonviolent programmers and ruining their lives in prisons around the world. The MPAA and friends couldn't look more evil if they wore a fake mustache and tried twirling it.
if anyone wants to play with, i wrote a client for python, https://github.com/ybrs/pydisque
[Mozilla Developer] Mihai Șucan: Touched
Well, there are RF antennae that shoot our kilowatts or even megawatts of EMF, and there's no mechanical stress at all.

As a HAM radio operator, you could literally hang a copper wire between two trees and pump 1 kW into it. No mechanical stress whatsoever - the EMF frequency is too high to generate elastic waves in the wire.