skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent the last few months talking to artists, and I've managed to convince a B of people to release stuff into the creative commons.

see: http://mercbay.com/#search/gendale

The films are now on BitTorrent, and all include both license information and BitCoin addresses where you can pay the artist.

I'd like to use a service like this to provide streaming of these files. But I don't want to use a service that has a business model that relies on transferring copyrighted files.

I wouldn't mind self hosting this, because the data transfer should be relatively low, and all the content would be legal. Does anybody have any input in this regard?
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In Germany at least, downloading is not a big problem as is sharing and uploading.
The bits aren't scarce but the idea and content is.

The idea of intellectual property is no more artificial than real estate property or personal property. In my opinion it is even more defensible than real estate. The IP was created out of nothing by the creator. Land? The universe created it and someone just took it by force.
Something I've always wish the Social Security Administration offered was an executor service of sorts.

They're the canonical reference if you're dead or not, so upon my death, I could have configured in their web interface:

* who to notify, along with documents for each person (personal letters, etc)

* who to turn bank accounts over to

* a whole long laundry list of other stuff I have to find someone I trust to do if I do sooner than expected

What organization is typically entrusted to do this sort of task? I don't mind paying for my loved ones to be secure and guided after my death, I just want an org that I can 1) trust and 2) will be around for 100+ years.
It depends on who you ask.

For the consumer, it's a pain to have to manage several identities just to have a shred of privacy when using the internet.

For the company, they always want the most accurate data, so that it can be cross-referenced and properly analyzed (specific aged males like X product better than Y).

I assume that most customer data is accurate, at some companies I've done some verification of customer databases just to identify the "95% accurate" verses the "mostly inaccurate or unverifiable" data, so that it can be excluded in certain instances.

Me personally, I have a wide variety of methods of obscuring data and confusing LexisNexis type companies, I'm not sure how fruitful it is, but it would be foolish to not at least try.

Many places required a verifiable address, which can be difficult to obscure (UPS store works for many things).

If you see a random form online, don't enter your real info dummy. If you see a website offering to lookup someones information, don't give that site your information and credit-card info (I've seen it happen many times).

You also don't want to make it obvious that you are using false data. Using an alternative version of your name and slightly different numbers will do more to confuse data-correlation efforts.

Just for the record, US national security is a completely different issue and I do not support attempting to provide misleading data to those relevant organizations. I've always been on the fence about the data-privacy topic. Humans can do bad things, 7+ billion humans with increasing influence and power slightly worries me. If you order lots of a uncoated fertilizer and do not have a garden or any land, then yes, in my opinion it is acceptable to build a system that raises a red flag on that person to be subject to an unbiased and transparent investigation.
Thanks for posting this. This is not an upgrade, this is the same old crap from two years ago with a little more polish
They may happen now in Russia-occupied and war-torn areas and boarding areas, but don't happen on the South that is controlled by government and where Russian-speaking and people of Russian ethnos also live.

Yet, at Donbass and Crimea Ukrainians and Crimean tatars are threatened.

So yes, there are ethnic tensions now, thanks to Russian govt.
I just gave you my twitter handle. There is a link to all my social media accounts. Not trying to hide. People like you are the reason the contrarian pragmatic class is already fed up with this hyve murica mentality.

even John Kerry already told Poroshenko to think twice.
I think the key here is that Uber is no longer treating all drivers equally. It's differentiating based on your loyalty and hours spent as a driver. In the long run they will adopt self driving cars. So will FedEx and the Post Office though and we're not demonizing them.
Would that actually alter the spin of the Earth? I assumed that you'd be more likely to have more success by making a few passes past the planet with a sizable asteroid.
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But Felipe, in Russia, you are the mainstream!

Heh.
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> Frankly I don't see why the HN crowd would upvote a site like this -- I'd bet it was ring votes that got it to the front page. Or maybe it was just the snarky domain, who knows.

My guess is it struck a chord with people similar to myself - young family and minimal EOL planning. (although the snarky domain definitely helps)

For us, the biggest problem has been deciding who should take care of the kids if something happens to both myself and my spouse. The only members of our family that aren't shitty people or very flaky are elderly or have medical issues preventing them from caring for children. (And all of our close friends have kids and full lives of their own.) I would love to hear if anyone has suggestions for determining the least shitty choice in a situation like that.
I appreciate your reasonable and thoughtful counterpoint, unlike bill's malarky.

My presumption is not true for all people, but it is true for a great great many. I think you vastly underestimate the amount of prejudice that exists, from the overt "I don't like people of other colors, gender or sexual orientation" to the subtle but insidious "I am not prejudice, but I just feel more comfortable sitting next to a person of the same color on the bus." A Yale Law Journal study found that "Black taxi drivers' tips averaged 33 percent lower than those received by White drivers."[1]

In this day and age of GPS navigation (It's built into the driver's Uber app!), you don't need to be even close to a native speaker to exchange destination information. And if Uber the company cared enough, they could make it even easier by allowing riders to enter their destination into the app on their phone. Uber wouldn't have to reveal it to the driver until the driver accepts the trip.

A agree it's not just an American thing. In rare cases it works in reverse. I lived in Taiwan for about 5 years. There and in China, an American taxi driver would be such a novelty or even celebrity they would be in great demand.

All I'm saying is that for the world to get better, we need to actively work against the Matthew effect[2].

[1] Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald. (2013)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect. The Matthew effect is pervasive, even among scientists: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthew1.pdf
>>For a marginal startup founded on a Mastercard

If you're funding your startup using your MasterCard you shouldn't have any employees besides yourself.
As per the usual, there's a relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1451/

Seeing any sort of code, hacking, programming or just about anything computer related in movies is always interesting, I've always thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and create a visual one-click method of "hacking" movie style. The closest I've seen is zANTI, a phone app with fairly basic MITM exploits, and stuff like shellshock- all of which can be done with a couple buttons.

I mean, you can never get away from the versatility of a terminal, but sometimes blinkenlights are cool.
Ivy Bridge to Haswell is a nice bump even at the same clock rate, but I'm in the same boat of having a three-year-old retina MBP and being thoroughly underwhelmed with the upgrades available.
Could you provide a reliable source with a more or less unbiased information about Russia then? And please don't mention Russia Today :)

Because any I've been reading a lot of information on the matter from a large number of sources, and couldn't help but draw a conclusion that Russia is indeed a pseudo-democracy trying hide its totalitarian essence.
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I read a lot of Paul Grag Roberts and he as written tons of articles on Ukraine. He is an great american who tells the truth. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
I am sure sometimes truth is hard to swallow.
US paid 5.00.000 dollars to foster a coup though Nuland in Ukraine.Period
1. Crimea was Ukrainian from 1954 until Russia's invasion.
2. The election held after Russia invaded was neither fair nor free. Non-citizens were allowed to vote and militias coerced voting.
Even if UTC were redefined the number of the time-related bugs wouldn't decrease.
Is this the attitude in France?
Folks are working on it: https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg. Also there are plans for core support down the road.
I'm replying to you from UC Browser . It strips all JS and converts everything to plain HTML thats only a few KB. This is nothing new and has been done by many other players.
I would nope the hell out of there.

1) You are not convinced the idea is disruptive/feasible enough

2) They want YOU to do all the work, yet only give you 1/3rd equity. What do they have to bring to the table? Probably nothing.

3) You don't need them. Ask yourself: would I build this if I would get 100% equity? Since you also have plans of your own, the answer would most probably be no.
Or even just leaving the money in people's pockets. I'm not a person who thinks that all government destroys value, but this is a pretty clear example of a time when the government extracted millions of dollars of productive resources and poured it into an idiotic scheme.

Everyone would be better off today (except IBM's investors) if the city officials responsible for this fiasco had just been given a free lifelong vacation starting the day they started planning it.
As far as I can tell, Facebook is offering free access to websites whose operators agree not to be burdensome on the network. That is nothing like cigarettes, and analogizing poor people to children seems a bit degrading.
It is standard in bankruptcies to dissolve existing contracts (after all, the point of bankruptcy is that you can't fulfil all of your existing contractual obligations). So it's not surprising on face that privacy policies would be included in this.

(This is distinct from "selling / buying the company" which usually means assuming all obligations).

For a class of contractual obligation to be "special" in the context of bankruptcy you typically need some kind of legislative protection (some states have rules about "outstanding payroll gets paid first", student loans are nondischargable, etc). Or some kind of bankruptcy cour ruling that liquidating the assets in this way would be somehow inefficient or against the public interest, which looks like how the FTC is approaching it. But in a circumstance where a huge portion of the business's assets were "private information", I could see a bankruptcy court ruling the other way - this doesn't necessarily establish binding precedent.
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Because it's hard to find developers and recruiters have the network?
Ha !

See. It happens everywhere.
Totally agree, I've used it for some projects as well. The only thing I wasn't able to grok (which still kills me to this day), was that I couldn't get it to handle EPS files correctly. If anybody has done that with VIPS/IM, I would love to hear about it.
Clock speed by itself is no longer a relevant measuring stick for modern CPUs and this will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
They're working on a paid hosting platform called Galaxy that will be designed for quick, easy deployment of Meteor apps. If you work with the framework now, you can deploy to an early version of Galaxy using the command `meteor deploy` (yes, that's it) from your project directory. The goal is to keep that level of simplicity, but offer a platform that's production-grade.
It wasn't legal, but that didn't prevent them from running off with the money. Nobody wants to get involved in a lawsuit over porn movie piracy, so many people just pay the fine.

And when you pay, it's almost impossible to get the money back, because you basically admit your guilt, even when the claim was not legit.

There's more to this case, you can read about it here:

https://torrentfreak.com/viewing-pirated-streams-is-not-ille...

tl;dr: They got users' IPs through ads and misled the courts into thinking the users committed a crime by watching the videos. Courts ordered the ISPs to give out the users' info, the law firm CD'd the users and ran off when shit hit the fan.

The same thing can happen with JS torrenting and it's even easier to do.
At root, this is all just a quibble over terminology. The fundamental problem is that there are two reasonable time standards for different applications: mean solar seconds for ordinary day-to-day timekeeping, and cesium seconds for applications that require a precision of more than a second per year. These two standards drift, so you have two choices:

1. Let them drift

2. Introduce a computational complication (leap seconds) to synchronize them

But the dispute is not over which of these is "right", the dispute is over which of these two options gets to go by the label "UTC". This could be easily resolved by simply defining two UTCs, one with leap seconds, and the other without. You could call them UTC-L and UTC-N (or UTC-S and UTC-N if you wanted to mollify the French ;-).
> Hollywood can learn a lot from Popcorn Time (but as history has proven, they won't).

This happened to the music industry with Napster, but they learned a little too late. Now Spotify is the dominant force in the music streaming business.
We aren't lacking ideas neither content, quite the contrary. And they aren't created out of nothing but that's a whole other discussion I am glad to have in another thread.
As a counterexample, Yesod (A Rails-like web framework for Haskell) uses (very appropriate IMO) external DSLs for defining URL routing and the data model. These are not runtime config, they are parsed into Haskell code, typechecked and compiled ahead of time:

models: https://github.com/snoyberg/haskellers/blob/master/config/mo...

routes: https://github.com/snoyberg/haskellers/blob/master/config/ro...
I know it's difficult to believe, but people do willingly choose to use Windows.
Oh I know, the guys are very open about the roadmap, they have a Trello board. I'm counting the days where I can finally go all in with Meteor. Everyone I know IRL is excited for Meteor but Mongo is what kept everyone sort of away.
"proximity to China"? We're not significantly closer. We get our parts by ocean or air shipping with roughly the same costs.

But we do have WEEE and CE regulations which make selling small-batch electronics a huge pain. I'm very impressed that Arduino managed it, and Pi had a last-minute CE approval near-disaster.
It may be something as simple as partners who don't tolerate someone without a "stable career". It's not that people look down on you but that subtle signals yell people to steer clear of "risky" career choices.

Maybe working for known companies hold cachet for young professionals and people looking for jobs look for that approval.
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Did you seriously copy and paste this twice? Doesn't help your argument.
Not true. This is all caused by the Ukranian Nazi junta.
sometimes noscript notifites about domain names that leads to nothing when I google it/go directly to it... how do you know if a site is legitimate?
You have the same problem in XML with that amount of nesting. Then you pretty print the XML or JSON and problem solved.
Yes, Mongo dependency is a dealbreaker for many people who would like to be using it.
But the safety net requires companies to absorb the risk that start-ups pass on to the work force.

How would a small company get around the cost of doing business where labor is actually valued?
This is ridiculous. At the time of me posting this 'felipepiresx' has 19 out of 49 comments in this thread.
Yeah, getting on those happy happy fun fun lists would be one concern.
The shortest explanation would be that the curve can be introduced to lower the average difference between the official time and the adjusted time.

bjackman "never worked on an application that would care about this kind of thing," fine, but for those that do care, the curve is obviously better.
Quite a lot of the labour regulation has small-company exemptions and is even more onerous on large companies.
>but does anyone use L2TP/IPSec or IPSec

IPSec is still the enterprise defacto standard. Its pretty much everywhere.

Yeah, it a little different for the FOSS home hobbyist, but for companies with a budget, its a trivial addition to their infrastructure (Cisco, Sonicwall, etc). FOSS IPSec implementations seem to be pretty non-existant in practice from my own experience and I only see FOSS-only shops using OpenVPN, which is OpenSSL based (which, of course, suffered from heartbleed).
Valve almost beat them to it with the steam controller's haptic touchpads. Was there some public research or something in this area that got everyone working on it at once?
> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode

I'd pick CloudFoundry over any of those at a large enterprise shop, and BlueMix is a legit implementation. (As is Pivotal, if that's your bag.)
I've never accidentally watched Game of Thrones, or unintentionally been within earshot of it - I had to explicitly choose to include that programming.
You know, they kept saying the same thing way back when I still gave them second chances. But they never delivered on their promise, over and over. :(
I don't believe so - earthquakes should only affect the number of days (rotations) that occur during an orbit.
His situation was markedly different. He actually took up arms against the United States. That isn't protected by the First Amendment.
Ha! The long version will get MUCH longer once we have the procedures in place. I'm going to need to do some experiments on my upcoming cruise, as well as coordinate with the manager.
I doubt these documents would be worth anything without getting notarized. Among other problems. Getting something notarized runs from free-around $2 so it's hilarious they expect you to track down two impartial witnesses but don't even mention a notary public.

If you are familiar with the current pending Supreme Court case DeBoer v. Snyder (which for the Supreme Court was combined with 3 other cases) you'd know in many cases you can't just appoint any guardian for your children upon your death. Basically the facts are: a lesbian couple has 4 children - 2 adopted by one woman and 2 adopted by the other. All children have been raised together as brothers and sisters by both women. No children we ever being raised by only one parent. They found out that they couldn't guarantee that the other parent would keep all 4 children in the event of the death of one parent. Under Michigan law, in their case, the courts would be free to appoint guardianship of the deceased's two children to whomever they choose no matter the paperwork the couple drafted beforehand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/us/one-couples-unanticipat...

>Their close call with the truck that day in 2011 led them to a lawyer, Dana Nessel, who advised them that she could draw up guardianship papers, but that they would be nearly worthless legally. She urged them instead to file a federal lawsuit challenging the adoption law in Michigan.
In the Netherlands there's a company that calls itself a "Maatschap" (The Future Group). It's a company that helps freelancers find work. Perhaps such companies exist in your country as well.

The "Maatschap" has several sales people that try to find jobs. Jobs are then proposed to "Maten" (freelancers working for the "Maatschap") and the can choose to take the job or not. Of course, the freelancer will pay a certain percentage of his wage to "The Maatschap".

Then there are companies like ComputerFutures and Qualogy that provide more or less the same options and I think both companies operate internationally. I've been placed at my current job through ComputerFutures, while still being a freelancer.
Using C/C++ on these projects is idiotic. If Airbus used C/C++ then they deserve all the financial loss in the world. They have blood on their hands.
And many more that were flagged. Also, same with goerge1980, a brand-new account less than an hour old as of this writing (most of his comments are gone, but a few are still floating around).
"cloud computing, which allows IBM’s corporate customers to fix problems online rather than deal with human beings"

That's a new definition of "cloud computing". And you'd think that Bloomberg would have figured it out by now, since the term has been around for years.
"Paying money in return for receiving goods" still works fine. Most people are willing to pay if given reasonable terms and ease of access. Steam is a pretty big flagship of how to make a business that competes with pirating.

Media companies are stuck in the dark ages where instead of trying to increase value of their product/service, they instead double down on increasing revenue per viewer with horrible anti-customer policies like 10-minute unskippable ads on a DVD you bought.
One of the reasons the GO legal council insists on all code being under the CLA is that if google ever wants to change the license of the go codebase they can do it without asking the contributors. If any code is not under the CLA, changing the license becomes complicated.
SQL support is the biggest ask on their Trello board.

https://trello.com/b/hjBDflxp/meteor-roadmap

There are some good packages on Atmosphere for PostgreSQL, but I think that it needs to be officially supported/integrated for many people to be comfortable with it.
> The trick is to destroy the taxi industry before that happens. Because if self-driving taxis appeared on the market tomorrow, the existing taxi companies could make a comeback.

That's evil enough to make sense and be close to the truth
Another engineering blog that people might not know about:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/
> I don't now what to tell them .

You have to manage expectations. Not just do whatever it takes to get things working, until they don't work/can't be changed anymore. It all looks the same to the people who haven't taken a look at the plumbing themselves.
I feel more connected to them to, say, my 50-year old working class neighbours

.. and vice versa, I'm sure, which is why some of them are voting for anti-Europe parties.
Meteor's hosting platform will be optimized for websocket-oriented always-connected applications, with monitoring/auto-scaling features for that sort of app.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567176
How about a prepaid Android phone for $10? So, technically it is subsidized, but there is no contract to sign.
Right now they've got an idea to jump on the trending app sector, with you doing all the work. Run, this will end badly for you. They bring nothing to the table but inconvenience.
IPSEC is a usability nightmare, mostly on account of the implementations.
Not to detract from your points but being an object of curiosity, a kind of clown for a show, is not what I'd call a desirable state. That's almost like a fetish. I mean, if us uber "fares" started to see the drivers as objects of curiosity, I think people would feel upset at that, probably rightly so.
Which is why I qualified with Chrubuntu.