skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's much easier to streamline something when you don't have to follow any of the rules. The movie industry has to think of distribution agreements, localising content and maximising profit - just like any other business. When you have nothing to lose you can do what you want. I guess they've gotten close to this with Netflix. There are still geo-restrictions there and not all content is available but for most people with access there is enough. Also if you want the latest content (which isn't on Netflix) you can probably buy it from iTunes. Again not available everywhere but available in quite a lot of places.

When you look at how easy this content is to access now compared with 10 or 15 years ago when you had to have a video store membership, hope no one else had rented the copy, pay crazy prices, and remember to bring it back when you were done, I find it hard to believe people's biggest problem (and main reason for pirating) is ease of access. It's price plain a simple. People have the option of not paying so a lot of them won't. I've done it in the past and it was almost never about ease of access. It was about money.
I learned to touch type a few years ago when I was 23. What I found was that it kills your productivity for a few weeks. It's hell trying to write a document or code when you need to split your brain power between what you're doing and where the keys are. It's just about perseverance.

The only tool I used was http://phoboslab.org/ztype/ which is a pretty fun typing game.

I found the trick is to spell words out in your head. So when typing necessary you'd go 'n-e-c-e-s-s-a-r-y' internally. This forces your brain to better associate a character with a finger movement; the better you get the less you have to do this. Remember it's about building muscle memory so practice is the only thing that is going to turn you into a touch typist. Another trick is making sure you always use the same finger for each key.

Writing documents is really good for getting to learn the character keys really well. Whereas coding will get you to learn grammar, capitalization, special character, and number keys.
Akosha Gets $16M from Sequoia to Help Companies Handle Customer Questions
Discoverability. With fish i would have to type something that would be a good match to the command i want to re-run before pressing up. With bash i type ctrl+r and start typing and i can continue to type until it's narrowed down to the correct command.
Cloud systems engineering at Meteor: port Kubernetes to AWS
It's back to the good old Whac-A-Mole game. Here is a list of blocked domains in the UK, which has grown insanely in last year alone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the...
>> Everything right? Except of course monitize it.

And funding/creating it. Anyone can take something they don't own and give it away for free. Investing in its creation and ensuring that investment is successful is much more difficult and limits your options for distribution.
Apple Safari URL Spoofing
Don't forget SBT - Simple Build Tool, the most hideously complex build tool I've ever had to use.
Time for old-man-stories about CD-ROMs? Oh, oh!

In high school, I loaned my best friend my life savings, $7000, with interest, $6k of which was used to purchase a CD writer, which he was planning to use to run a data backup service for local businesses (the other $1k was used to buy RAM... I think maybe 16MB?).

Personally, I find several facts in that paragraph kind of remarkable.

In retrospect, I think the interest rate did not reasonably reflect the high level of risk involved. The CD backup business didn't work out, and we had to renegotiate the terms of the loan, but he did pay me back.
djb? Probably a while; after all, he does have tenure...
AOL gave these things away in droves. They'd lose in court even if they tried.
Is that actually $30 or subsidised $30?
"procreate and provide the best environment for their children to grow in, all the while keeping a high social status and level of respectability"

This is the bargain they've made. It's a rather simple exchange. "Parasitic" is a loaded term here, by applying it you're displaying that you have some sort of political axe to grind.

This was also the sentiment being expressed above, when someone said that what you said sounded "judgmental" -- an accusation that you dismissed by being, or pretending to be, oblivious to it's true intent: "you're attaching pejorative terms to these women, without enough information to make a fair case for it."
He doesn't actually work for Verizon.
How about pcap++? Compiler would be invoked with pcappp
Adults' obsession with science fiction causing society to become infantilised
I'd like to see other concepts also covered by file descriptors. Example: semaphores, mutexes, condition variables, timers.
“Energy-Generating Rubber” Combines Flexibility and High-Output
Not working on Chrome on Mac OS X 10.9.5, either.
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>> all sorts of interesting additional functionality

I'm not sure I see the value proposition in paying 5 times over the odds for the smallest possible amount of bitcoin....
Go and help/work for/talk to/ random people who need it. It will make a difference.
(I am in love with the pixel art)
And I wonder what the problem is exactly? Getting internet to the poor?

How about the mobile network providers first stop robbing them blind with numerous scams and offers with hidden costs and ambiguous claims?

"New offer! Reduce your call charge to .9 Rs per 60 seconds when when you charge[1] for 350 Rs".

--Charges with 350 Rs.--

"Congratulations. Now you just need to charge again to enjoy the offer you just paid 350 Rs for!!"

Yes, that is the kind of exploitation that can happen with things like this, and there is not one damn thing that the poor can do about it.

[1]. Around here in India, "Charging" refers to adding prepaid talk time to a mobile connection often by purchasing a coupon.
Because it is not web based.
I guess it depends. For example, not if the Go interface would be used merely for the websocket part, while the raw content is still served by the C code alone.
Given the technical restrictions on sharing illegal content, due to copyright laws shutdown of websites etc., sharing illegal content isn't that easy to do. That someone has managed to do it in as user friendly a manner as they have, putting everything in the industry to shame (apart from Netflix) is in an indication of the failings of the industry.

Netflix is a great product that falls down only in terms of content. If Netflix had more TV shows as box sets, and new episodes of currently being broadcast TV seasons, I would happily pay 10 times as much as I do (no exaggeration) and never use anything else legal or otherwise. The resistance that the established industry has to making deals to enable that sort of service is the reason that Popcorn Time can beat them.
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Every few months, someone builds a site like this. It lasts for a few days (or weeks) at best before it's shutdown due to legal pressure or sheer cost for the owner.

I'm going to ignore the piracy aspect of this site (since I don't support copyright infringement) and just talk about the implementation. This site is connecting to a centralized service to fetch the torrent data. It's not P2P, it's easy to censor, and it likely won't be around for long.

What we really need is a true P2P implementation of BitTorrent in the browser. I'm working on just such a project: WebTorrent (http://webtorrent.io).

You can see a demo here: https://instant.io

Here is a link to watch Sintel (Creative Commons 3.0): https://instant.io/#c6642b73cf82dc52b5d538fabfdf9c8e3d9e850f

WebTorrent is powered by WebRTC, the de-facto standard for connecting two peers in the web browser. It even works in desktop apps (via Electron or NW.js) and mobile apps (via embedding the webrtc.org library).

With WebRTC, we can connect all types of endpoints (desktop, web, mobile) directly and completely P2P. This is the underlying transport that all future P2P protocols should be built upon.

Right now, the primary limitation of WebTorrent in the browser is that you can't just paste in any random magnet uri or .torrent file and have it work. The torrent must be seeded by a WebRTC-capable client, i.e. webtorrent-hybrid (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-hybrid) or https://instant.io.

We plan to build a desktop client (soon!) that can connect to normal BitTorrent peers, as well as WebRTC peers. These long-running peers will ensure there's lots of content available in the network that the shorter-running web peers can access.

This is the vision: All torrent clients (desktop, web, mobile) talking directly to each other. If you're interested in learning more about the idea of "WebRTC everywhere", here are some links:

https://github.com/webrtcftw/goals/issues/1

https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/13
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Me too :)
It's made by a friend, Plus, you may have a look at his tumblr:
http://pluspixels.tumblr.com
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I remember my dad, who was an IT teacher, buying a CD-ROM drive for a computer at school. The computer was from roughly 1993, and probably had a 210MB hard drive [1]. That site also has the pre-IDE expansion card the external CD-ROM drive was connected to [2].

At the time, linking IT to other subjects was in vogue. He bought about 5 educational CD-ROMs, for science, geography, history, etc, which had far more image and video content that anything we'd experienced before. I spent hours browsing them.

It was 2000-1 when someone in my class had sufficiently useful broadband for him to download DivX films and sell CD-Rs containing them, for about 50p per disc.

[1] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/A5000.h...
[2] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesA2G...
L’héritage Du Jacobinisme – La Cliothèque
I think maybe the main issue with this rhetoric is the assumption that it's any of our business what facebook does with mobile characters in somebody else's country.

This is probably none of your business.

That being said, it would be nice to engineer a way to meet the bandwidth and content requirements without losing cryptographic integrity, but that's of secondary importance to getting another billion people reading Wikipedia.
I had a job with MCI (hell that screams old right there) back in the early 90's. They were developing a new project (Perspective, I believe it was called) that would revolutionize the way that billing was done. So instead of shipping a truckload of paper bills to a company like JCPenny, they would just burn the information onto a CD and deliver it. I recall being told that the CD burner they had bought (which was a box the size of a nightstand) was 100k+.

oh and I think the media cost like $50 per burnable cd (or something like that).
The problem with streaming film services is distribution rights not software.

Even netflix, the poster child of film streaming, struggles with this same problem.
Good luck getting a lucid discussion about this on HN.
Couple of other articles about Z3 which may be also interesting:
http://yurichev.com/writings/z3_rockey.pdf
http://blog.yurichev.com/node/86
Must be Northern Africa. I live in South Africa and have never seen or heard about that phone.
But can it parse and output a proper CSV yet?
FBI claims security researcher hacked an airplane while in flight
Japan security council approves bid to build Australian submarines
I think Tecno sells mainly in Kenya and Nigeria
Works on that combo for me. In what way is it "not working"?
But that is only a problem that the movie industry itself keeps alive because it refuses to move past the idea of creating false scarcity.
Far, far too much truth in this... I laughed/snorted drinking my coffee when I read about their 'deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy'.
At least they have shown that it's possible to distribute movies on a massive scale with a minimum of infrastructure. When distribution cost is close to free, it could open up a lot of possibilities that could potentially benefit customers and film makers.
The code used for this bug is very simple:

setInterval(function(){ location="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html?random=" + Math.random() }, 10)

I assume this is what happens:

It redirects to a new URL every 10ms. The page isn't loaded within these 10ms and it's already redirecting to a new URL.
Safari immediately shows the URL's domain while the page is loading.

The random part is probably required because Safari wouldn't cancel loading if it's redirected to the same URL twice.
Only the small part of humanity which has the most money would be allowed to survive though.
Show HN: Bootstrap3 Adapter – write BS2 syntax, use BS3 flat styles
No, it was the Nationalsozialismus party. "Schoolhouse" isn't a type of "house", and Nationalsozialismus wasn't a socialist party. Their main political enemies were the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party, both left wing.
> At this special point in history, a typical hard-drive could store maybe one or two CD's worth of data at most

Not even that. IIRC 2GB drives were around but very expensive. 4GB units may even have been commonly available, but certainly not affordable for home use.

I think a little before then I got a 250MB drive to upgrade a PC that had 100MB in total (40MB and 60MB) so even counting it all I didn't have a full CD worth.

The race for size really seemed to heat up soon after though, the growth in multimedia content increasing consumer demand high enough to bring prices down (starting a spiral as people generally having more space encouraged developers and publishers to use more and higher definition content). IIRC 1GB drives (still only one-ana-bit full CDs worth) were fairly common in home PCs in 1996 (the year before I went to university), and a couple of tens of GB was common by 1999.
> People have the option of not paying so a lot of them won't.

But a lot of them will. They will pay for ease of access, legal access, and a good user experience.

If the industry had focused its energy on those willing to pay instead of those not willing to pay, maybe the UX Popcorn Time provides today would have been available as a legal subscription based service.

Just look at Spotify. Yes, a lot of people still don't pay for the music they consume, but a lot of people do. Pirating of music has certainly seen a decline, even if we may never get rid of it completely.
I very much enjoyed Netflix while staying with family in the US. In Belgium, however, the available content is so limited that it's just not worth it. Not even Friends, Simpsons, X-Files, nothing.
What's the purpose of benchmarking HTTP requests to a 6Bytes contents?
HTTP contents are more between ~50KB on the web no?

The difference is not so obvious when file size increase compare to nginx.
If you don't get a formal internship for the summer, I suggest you try to build something useful that you could show a prospective employer. Given your background, this will probably be a web site. Two and a half months is enough to build something real.

Does either of your side projects solve a real problem that people have?

If not, look for some sort of frustrating inefficiency that you or your friends at school run into all the time. Then build a solution.
What's on the AOL CDs?
See how the "Cookie Consent" button overlays the "scroll down" button?

Don't do that.
An API for backlinks in realtime
"if you really need" = do loads of work you can't afford to do

"it just works!" = means you will actually use it

Your post is one of those that is both technically correct and practically useless.
I really don't think this is a better experience than Netflix or pay-per-view on my tv. The only thing that is better is that I don't have to pay for it. The movies actually take a lot longer to load on this.
Note that it's easy to get a false dichotomy here, to think it's just between "paying" and "not paying" - if forced, people also have the simple option to "not watch".

I think what's needed is something like Steam or GOG, but for Movies. Preferably with un-DRM downloads because fuck if I'm watching movies in Flash. (Same goes for Silverlight - mplayer or fuck you. Torrents let me watch with mplayer. On finicky graphics drivers who occasionally fail at vsync, choice of player matters.)

Why is it that in 2015, I can't go to a site, give them money, and get a high-quality mkv download - but I can go to a site, not give anyone money, and get that download anyways? Movie industry, why do you not want my money? Hell, set up an "indemnity service"! Select a movie, pay them, and they promise to not sue you. Zero distribution infrastructure required.
I miss more art projects using source code. Movies is one of the few exceptions.
"freedom of speech, except you can't lie under oath in the witness box"?
That was written in 1920, before they even adopted the name "Nationalsozialistische". It's better to look at what they did while in power. About a year after getting power in 1934, was the Night of the Long Knives when the party assinated the more left wing higher ups in the party who wanted wealth redistribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives_(1934)
"I’m told the focus remains on Europe and specifically “high-growth emerging markets” - um, not really a surprise given the general lack of public transportation in the US...
Do you mean monetization and making a business are the main goals?

I thought they were means? Means to accomplish progress in human society.
4th year CE major based in bay area also looking for internship here
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The movie companies enforce the rules and could easily change them however they are stuck in their old world distribution model which is no longer relevant in a digital society.
If freedom of speech is absolute, then it means that any contractual clause purporting to restrict it is void.

In the same way that any contractual clause purporting to enslave a natural person, even with their consent, is still void.
>Why yes, the perfect IS the enemy of the good.
Ok, that is their choice of course, but this is not about making money (from the numbers I found they cannot be making much of that) or they would be working on something else?
3 years using Fish shell now, and wouldn't go back to anything else. The autocompletion (including fuzzy matching) feature is just so vastly better than in other shells.

I must say I am not a huge shell wizard and use only a handful of custom functions, but I've found shell to be very pleasant to work with and would recommend it to any web developer who doesn't get "dirty" with shell scripting a lot.

The only problem I had was that I had to explicitly set the shell used by vim in order to make vim plugins / configs work properly by using this line:

set shell=/bin/bash
While those problems are real, they are also self inflicted by the movie industry. I don't agree it's about money. Recently Netflix became available in my country (the netherlands) and many people I know stopped pirating content. It simply was not available legally before Netflix. You had to wait two years to watch a TV series and then you had to watch it at a time when some TV station decided to broadcast it. It was the same for games. When steam came lots of people stopped pirating games. Same for music.

For some it's about money yes, but for lots of people it's about the user experience or simply about availability in the first place.
If i had a Kickstarter Genie
If you had the Opportunity to have one CrowdFunding campaign fully funded no question asked .

What would it be ?

London's Finest
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/663083493/londons-finest-showcase
There's no way I can see GBP vs EUR instead of EUR vs GBP, or is it?
Here's a PDF link to the slides: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.05.08/slides-djb-20150508-a4.pdf
Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?
I want to do some contracting the next few months but I'll be honest, I have no idea how to go about starting. How do people find their first client?
> Coinado is a remote torrenting service. We do the torrenting for you, worry
about seeding, keep your privacy and deliver the file over an encrypted
connection. Requesting a file is simple. You just append the info hash of the
torrent to the Coinado domain and when you start the download, the torrenting
happens transparently on our servers and a minute later the file starts streaming to you.

That sounds like a solid idea all around. I though this was the javascript torrent client implementation, instead, it relies on yet another service that can be taken down.
Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_Germany

:-)
Well, I was expecting some actual analysis, maybe some actual studies/cases. But the article is quoting an actor (famous for movies like Shaun of the dead, Hot fuzz, Paul) in the title. This is a fluff piece, not something worth discussing.
It being open to anyone isn't bad. It allows groups not formally incorporated as charities to have them, and many of those groups are befitting of a .org domain.
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A Curious Property of 82000
Over hyped.
Amazing stuff! Thanks to all the Fish team for your amazing work. I've been a Fish user for 3 years and wouldn't use anything else. The vi mode is a killer feature for me, so cool!

I couldn't find any information about the team though, maybe it would be a good idea to include some kudos on the website / on github just to show that real people are involved in this project. Personally, it always makes me be grateful.

Cheers!
Tech giants don’t want Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data
Can someone explain or provide an educated guess about what is the google's strategy with kubernetes here? Surely containers are hot now and it is nice to have a stake in the game but borg has been one of their key competitive advantages. What is the profit in making an open-source alternative?
The only discussion to be had about the article is:

"Since when has comicbook superhero garbage counted as scifi?"
"It still doesn't."

End of conversation.
> Or I could just burn the file to a BD-R

I find your lack of faith in the internet disturbing.
The most extreme instance of this being the adults who watch (and take rather seriously) My Little Pony? Something I've always found unsettling.
No, I don't believe in a God/Purpose/etc. If you do, and take from that a greater meaning, then it's a good thing! I'd question why such a being would leave humanity to spend thousands of years in suffering before reaching the general happiness part - but I'm glib.

Death is not worse than struggling to survive imo and death can be a perfectly rational choice, I simply choose to go on because of family and a sense of responsibility for their pain.

Why do you refuse to entertain the possibility of aligning "the world as we might wish it to be" with "the world as it is"?

I don't argue against change. I don't impede action. Occasionally I giveto/support both. I think that when your expectations of what life really is are unrealistic then you're doomed to be unhappy. I think that's the reason religion focusses on rewards in another life that is un-knowable, because that does not result in unhappiness in the short term due to being "short changed" (and indeed improves the acceptance of current lot in life).

This is all perspective, it's all my point of view. I'm no great/deep thinker - and I don't claim mine is the only way. I do like discussion though :)
Due to DRM, I usually have a better user experience with the pirated version.

That goes for videos, games, and music.

What the fuck.
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I guess the main problem is that browsers are not allowed to connect to random IP addresses using anything other than standard protocols. Otherwise, every website could potentially turn itself into a botnet.

This problem is not likely to go away very easily, I suppose.