skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> any more than stealing a car is

It's the biggest logical fallacy to compare stealing digital content to stealing a car. It's a shame the word "steal" is used in both cases. The original owner of a stolen car no longer has his car after it's stolen. That is not true of digital piracy.

Can we instead compare it to illegally duplicating your car?
Using existing air systems for these seems like a nice hack. It's something that's easily implemented, though I fail to see airlines implement it any time soon. There's no financial benefit to them for this. Someone having a cold will hardly stop them from buying a plane ticket.
You are mistaken about the cost structure of the internet.

For all practical purposes, all of the cost for providing internet services at scale is in the last mile. In other words, it would not cost internet.org anything significant to extend the service to cover the whole internet. It makes very little difference in cost whether they backhaul the traffic to their datacenter or their closest peering point.

If the requirement is to only provide a low bandidth service then it is trivial to restrict the bandwidth usage per end-user, even if it provides access to the whole internet.
Regarding a living will, one I've seen that I really like is Five Wishes (https://www.agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes.php). I have one filled out that I've been procrastinating giving to friends and doctors, which is a mandatory step for having it be an effective document. Thank you to GYST for reminding me I need to take care of this.
Kind of disappointment, they are still replacing NVidia chips by AMD. M370X, M290, M290X, M295X...

AMD R9 series are known for heating too much. M295X (The high end option for iMac) goes up to 105C under recent games and starts throttling. (The clock reduces to avoid melting introducing shutters and frame drops.)
All the other comments are right, and in Rust this is referred to as "the builder pattern", and is used quite commonly. Here's a guidelines link[0] describing it in more detail.

[0]: https://aturon.github.io/ownership/builders.html
Well, it will if you run a VM :)

I still don't see the $700 difference.
This discussion has more participants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567176
I tried FOVE during one of their demo events here in San Francisco. Simply amazing.
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It's depressing how little has changed. I'm not Love's biggest fan, but she absolutely nailed the labels' shifty greed back in 2000: http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
They were trying to create a tech ecosystem, of which IBM and startups would be parts of. Not creating startups from luring IBM. But yes, this was totally predictable.
I'd hop on meetup.com -- most of the tech / startup events are around Shoreditch. Things like 3beards, open coffee (tot ct rd way), don't pitch me bro, etc.

Or see what's on at tech hub, innovation warehouse, etc.
I actually participated in the program a couple of years ago. You used it for 6 months and it monitored your driving looking for things like rapid acceleration/deceleration -- I assume that's what leads to most accidents. It also tracked time of day as an indicator of how risky you are to insure. When I used it, it was only used to discount your insurance if you were a good driver by their metrics, not increase any premiums.
This is an incredibly useful post for anyone looking to implement their own custom client-side performance metrics and error tracking. I've worked on solutions to both these problems before and needed to piece together a solution from multiple half-baked, error-prone sources. Having a reference implementation in one post is very helpful.

Thanks, GitHub team!
I'm actually looking into meteor at the moment, and the financial backing is a big plus, as it gives me some guarantee that the project will keep being maintained for the foreseeable future.

It is indeed a breeze to prototype applications with it, but I am a little bit concerned about the costs of getting an actual production ready site with it.

For intance, when is it ever OK to let your client write directly in the database, even for their own data? If you're going to pass their calls through a deny and allow call, why not just expose RPCs to the client that will handle any writing?

It seems that a lot of the light versality you have at prototyping time is lost whenever you have to get it production ready. There is definitely some value in light prototypes, but it looks like a real pain to go from prototype to production.

Likewise, I'm confused about how to get around the limitations of mongodb. Say you run a store with a finite inventory, how do you handle concurrent purchases? How about a website to enroll into classes? How about a webforum which can have exactly 5 administrators?
I have a portable USB DVD drive that I can attach for those moments when I really need one. Even those are starting to be hard to find, since they're based on laptop drives and laptops don't have them anymore either.

Blu-ray drives never made it into the "cheap" category, so if you don't know then it probably isn't.
In Australia, we have a set of clear privacy principles outlined in law. These are called the Australian Privacy Principles, and there are 13 of them.

The first principle is "Australian Privacy Principle 1 — open and transparent management of personal information", and it states that every organisation must publish a privacy policy and it must state "the purposes for which the entity collects, holds, uses and discloses personal information".

That's legally binding. If the company violates it, there are massive fines and the Privacy Commisdioner can investigate.
>If you don't think the other participants are going to mostly be reasonable and that staff are going to be reasonable about dealing with mild complaints, don't attend!

This should be a wake up call for you to reconsider your position.

"If you don't think the other participants are going to mostly be reasonable and that staff are going to be reasonable about dealing with mild complaints, don't attend!"

Can you guess HN reaction to your comment if you would offer same advice to a woman in the context of "sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes"?
Quote by the teen who won the competition: "Basically a lot of this work is master's or PhD-level research."

I believe it! Which makes me think ...

We spend a lot of time giving high-school students a general, liberal arts education, but I think there's room in secondary education, at least for highly motivated students, to drill deeply into one particular domain.

You've probably seen mattmight's famous "Illustrated guide to a Ph.D.": http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

I wondering if we shouldn't do more to encourage self-driven learners to extend that tentacle out earlier than we currently do.
Data logging software has been around for a long time that does exactly that. Some quick searching for your car should turn up some results.
I don't know the case's specifics, but doesn't typically the bankruptcy court decide what assets are to be sold? The former management and staff (what we are thinking of when slate.com writes "RadioShack Sold...") has no influence over this and should not be blamed. The bankruptcy court is the new management, they can do what they want and must according to law to satisfy creditors, blame them.
You have to wait 3 months after a movie has been released to DVD for it to even have a chance of being on Netflix to "help encourage" DVD sales.
It allows 5K monitors? Does that mean it's HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort 1.3? Both?
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Well. Our comments are being flagged because our 1st amendment rights to have a contrarian opinion don't apply to internet forums like this one full of north americans.
then just have him demo in flight, still pretty easy to prove one way or other, just less easy.
Is it time to go SPA only?
well, there's a jump from make install/wgetting/brew install and just trusting your distro's repo (eg: Debian).
> They all look down upon Russians and are easily offended when people refer to them as such.

It is more complicated.

Being ethnic Russian is not same thing as speaking Russian language.
Speaking Russian language or being ethnic Russian is not same as being pro-Russia politically.

Yet, Russian propaganda implies this things are same and Russian govt represents interests of all people who speak this language.

As result (some) people abandon language, distance themselves from Russia or don't consider themselves Russian anymore.
Is anyone hiring Meteor developers? In the Bay Area?
128GB if you use slower ram.
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I'm using this book by Nolo and it's great! Covers the basics plus a lot more and comes with a computer program to generate the documents for you:

http://www.amazon.com/Quicken-WillMaker-Plus-2015-Software/d...

Nolo is a well-known established company, like LegalZoom for books, and I've also used their stuff for business setup and contracts.
Why not a proper github.com domain? First moment I saw the URL I thought "fake".
I should imagine it would be easier to use the cesium seconds for UTC and just bundle everything else into the time zone offsets, which everyone is already using to turn scientific timekeeping into something "meaningful" for human consumption.
And unlike Berlin, it is very expensive to live and work. That being said I <3 both, but think Berlin is a much better place for startup culture.
in general, trying to prove that the software was going to work right, leaving the engineers with very little time to write the actual software...

Sure sounds like the way it should be to me. Maybe it needs to be made easier to prove your software is correct, but to me it seems like for systems like airplanes, code that cannot be proven correct is worthless.

Considering most programmers are said to produce 6 lines of good code a day, maybe it's not even actually slower in the end if the formal verification process filters out every other line you would have written that day.
COBOL was created 1959. Singly it out as an example of a DSL in this context is a bit like arguing against cars by pointing out the faults of the Model T Ford compared with a Tesla. It just isn't a very good or fair place to start the argument.

I'm not arguing, of course, that we should go back to using COBOL. But lets get the facts straight. By 1997, according to Wikipedia, "there were a total of 200 billion lines of COBOL in existence, which ran 80% of all business programs." It was, in other words, a massive success. How does that prove that DSL's are no good?

It's a little hard to wrap our heads around the state of computing in 1959. I'll just say that at the time it was a difficult even for academics at big universities to get good access to computers. Most of the readers of this site weren't even born yet. Yes, of course, COBOL's out of date. If it weren't that would be a miracle.

DSL's may or may not be a good thing, but bringing up COBOL is perhaps not the most effective way to reach a valid judgment on the subject.
The article title is "My Ukraine", highlighting the distinctive personal-perspective nature of the piece.

Mrs. Freeland's long-duration take on the situation makes it most worth reading.
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Most of the people in that IBM operation were probably help desk or equivalent. There's not the base skills to create a startup there. If they had the skills, they'd have moved, not taken a 46k/yr (mean) jobs from IBM.

That's the recurring story with just about any small rural place. You need a critical mass to get going and it's just not available locally. Maybe given a large university with a strong tech program you can jumpstart that but Dubuque has got only small liberal arts university run by churches...

I say this as someone living half the time in a rural place (PEI)... I work remotely for a Montreal company however when I'm there.
Hmm, I didn't know that apps that use websockets needed a different kind of auto-scaling and monitoring.

That's interesting. Thanks!
What is the level of granularity on Apple's Force Touch?
Before you seek idea validation and ask business plan questions, may I suggest you spend time understanding the co-founders?

It's not that ideas don't matter, but from my own personal experience, ALL startups over-estimate the uniqueness of the idea and under-estimate the effort and capital required to go to market.

So ask yourself these questions:

#1: Can I work with these 2 idea guys for the next 2-3 years? Are they the kind of co-workers I'd enjoy working with? What do they bring to the table that I don't?

#2: what do I know about their perseverance, fortitude and willingness to work? This is hard to prove or establish objectively, so answer this question honestly.

#3: Do you trust and respect the co-founders? Do they understand marketing and finance? Do you guys "jam well" with each other?

#4: How are they painting the picture of the future? Is it all yachts, expensive cars and visions of cashing out? Pay attention to that language carefully and then see if you believe in it.

#5: Are your co-founders former entrepreneurs? If not, I'd suggest you wait it out. You want partners who have experienced the pains of managing tight cash-flows, living without paychecks for 6 months or more.
Don't die without a will. If you do and you appoint an executor, you are giving them a very dirty job

This is one of the reasons I've been putting off completing a will :-( Is there a good option for going about this without naming an executor?
Yep, on the other hand the previous 750M was essentually the same chip as 650M (+ a few Mhz) as well, so the discrete GPUs in rMBPs are kinda dissapointing for a few generations now :/
While it may be traceable, I don't think you'll get in trouble because Coinado is the service doing the actual torrenting.
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I don't think the college would be able to detect it as normal torrent traffic, but it would be pretty trivial to catch you using this specific site/service once your campus hears about it.
This is a valid point -- Matte used to be standard for design work and is still useful today. Gloss is nice but reflectivity and color accuracy can be problematic.
There is no need to bring up personal attacks in an HN discussion. If you disagree with his points, then you can provide counter argument; if his comments are just insults with no backing argument, then down vote him.
They collected and stored data unnecessarily, so former management absolutely shares blame.
Maybe so. But I'm not saying you shouldn't criticize Russia. I'm saying it's stupid to make blanket statements about people who don't demonize all things Russian.

Besides, a lot of anti-nonheteronormative politics in Russia likely have more to do with political tactics than with actual convictions of Putin or anybody else. For example the Russian Orthodox church is still immensely powerful in many parts of Russia and condemning "sexual deviants" is an easy way to score points with them and the corresponding demographic (and thus voters).

There's a nice phrase that was introduced by a Jew documenting the trial of one of the organizers of the Holocaust: the banality of evil. Most acts of evil are either well-intentioned or simply "accidentally" evil -- the evil itself is merely a consequence or side-effect.

Yes, you should oppose repressive policies. Vehemently so. But "Russia" as a whole is far more complex and complicated than any individual policy or group of policies.

I'm strongly opposed to a lot of what the US is and does, both as a government and as the people that elected and sustains that government's actions. But it would be absurd to deride people who say anything good at all about the US or Americans simply for not immediately qualifying their statements with criticism.

I wouldn't want to live in Russia or the US. I think both countries are guilty of all sorts of crimes against their own citizens and mankind in general, each in their own uniquely horrible ways. But that doesn't mean they have no redeeming qualities.

Heck, even Hitler was a vegetarian and had an affection for dogs.
"Like UTC but without adding leap seconds" already exists; it's called TAI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time)
Look, you don't want to pay for it. For you, free is better than having to shell out money.

I wish people would just stop with their dumb moral workarounds. The show costs $X. You don't want to pay. You know how to get the content via other means. And so you do.

Don't embarrass yourself further by claiming you're somehow helping HBO out by going against their wishes and pirating the show they produced. You don't know what effect you (and other pirates) are having on HBO's business.

You apparently work for a company that aims to empower musicians. I would expect you to have a deeper understanding of how difficult it can be to make a living producing entertainment in this day and age.
> When my boss comes to me with the next story , I can't tell him
> that, "Hey , I think I need two weeks for this as the system is
> becoming overly complex. I think I need some time to refactor
> the system into something simpler and more reliable .. "

Sounds like you should blame Zuck, not Dijkstra.
I've never used zsh, so a sophisticated configuration for it would be a blind leap in a random direction, like e.g. Emacs Prelude.
Instead, can anyone recommend good reference documentation about zsh configuration files? Going through all options and deciding how I want them is my preferred approach to configuring new software.
A Brazilian, how could you possibly know what's really happening on the ground in eastern Europe?

edit: spelling
If there was a statement published by a group making it clear that the intent of the group was to make sexist, racist and exclusionary jokes, I would be perfectly comfortable suggesting that people uncomfortable with the topics should not attend the group.

I might separately be critical of the group for the exercise, but it would be highly contextual and depend on what their aim was.
> We spend a lot of time giving high-school students a general, liberal arts education, but I think there's room in secondary education, at least for highly motivated students, to drill deeply into one particular domain.

I don't know if I agree, I think it's very important to have a well rounded education by the time you come out of high school. I, for one, am very grateful to have been exposed to philosophy, literature (in more than one language), art. All stuff that I probably would not have chosen for myself. You have all of your life to specialize in a domain, what's the rush?
Dubuquer here. This was totally the City of Dubuque's attempt to grow (establish?) a tech scene. Dubuque doesn't have enough computer science graduates to support it. I'm at the biggest "software" company in the city, and we can't find quality talent within an hour commute.

As others in the thread have stated, this place was a glorified call center. No research or development going on. I have friends who still work there, and I've watched their careers completely stagnate.

In Dubuque, IBM was where you went when you couldn't get a tech job elsewhere in the city. Not anymore. The article says that the average pay at IBM was $46,000 but I don't know anyone who actually made that much. IBM said they'd bring 1300 jobs, but they barely cracked 1000.

Anyone who thinks they'll still be here in 10 years is kidding themselves.
OT: Does anyone know what sort of calendar Martian rovers use? Is there a NASA calendar for solar system operations?
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Greetings everyone,
This is something i'm working on for independent artist. I Recently applied to Ycombinator with it and got my First rejection haha. Its very limited right now and only on android right now, but i would like to hear some feedback if i should continue to develop it as a business? the artist i interviewed seem to like and would want me to expand it more. What do everyone thinks?

Webapp URL: www.delistening.com

https://www.crowds.io/project/evaluation/54621b9b07b72c020018cbf3
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This is all true. I do wish there were a flag you could set like searchp:"/etc/apt/sources.list"
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Engineers only very rarely make decisions about contractors. If you're trying to do this stuff, you need to talk to managers.
That's how one should make a video service. Simple, user friendly and DRM-free. Until the backwards thinking film industry will learn this, they'll remain in the dark ages.
This may sound kind of weird or even quaint, but this is exactly the kind of awesome archiving work that Jason Scott is fantastic at preserving. Why is it important? Literally tens of millions of people were first brought on-line and connected using software from these CDs. They were connected, often for free, to first AOL's information and other people connected through AOL, and then to one of the greatest human achievements in history, the internet.

I still have friends who have aol email accounts, keeping them alive simply because the switch cost for them is too high.

AOL also helped anchor the tail-end of the East Coast's version of Silicon Valley, the Dulles Tech Corridor/Netplex...a place where literally half of the world's internet traffic passes through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor
They did ship just prior to the Retina models with Nvidia graphics which many found to be more stable and better performing; the one on my desk has a 4g 780m chipset having moved off the 6870ATI set I had earlier.

I guess its one of those back and forth battles between the two little guys and Intel. Intel never has offered an integrated system with any gaming performance but it does not seem many care.
I thought user data was one of the most valuable assets of a business.

When I worked at Company X, one of our competitors was failing and offered us to buy them out. The most expensive part of the buyout was calculated basically by #users*<some price>. And really that's all we wanted, was their userbase, since we already had the product they wanted. We could absorb their users and immediately grow our business.
Yes, after thousands of years. What percentage of humans will still be living on Earth by the time that happens?
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I have no idea how often leap seconds occur, but if we were to say that there should be one leap second every year and we instead ignored them, it would take 43,200 years before that happened.

It would take 60 years of skipping yearly leap seconds before we saw even a 1 minute offset.
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Maybe not the place, but where do people buy their cheap term life insurance?
>>corporate taxes should be zeroed out for everyone

I'm probably stepping into a pre-existing argument, but forming a corporation allows me to gain benefits that would be difficult or impossible to obtain as an ordinary person. (e.g. limited liability, special tax treatment) It's not unreasonable that a corporation's owners pay additional taxes.
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Some sort of collection of relevant rules and regulations, or even an article outlining the process of setting up a small business (SaaS, small scale, if it's relevant) in Germany.

For the UK there's pretty good guides online, and gov.uk has some useful information for Britain. But I know (assume?) the process is quite different in Germany.
Support for up to 5120 by 2160 resolution at 60Hz on a single external display (model with AMD Radeon R9 M370X only)

is listed under "Thunderbolt digital video output" & HDMI max output is

Support for 4096-by-2160 resolution at 24Hz.

So it must be DP 1.3?