skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That process takes a dramatically longer amount of time than one email to Uber's support. A lot of times it isn't worth the hassle.
On a purely numerical comparison, the article mentions 27TB which really isn't much in terms of size, especially compared to what some of the companies using AWS produce daily.

EDIT: according to comments below, looks like its about 20+ petabytes which is actually a fairly large amount.
I am a musician as well. I don't make money out of it, and I understand how hard it is to make money in arts.

The question is, should these sorts of economic incentives exist, and to what scale, given their downsides? Any incentive will drive people into playing the game and optimizing their take, driving the global legislation problems we are currently facing.

Art has always been a poor man's game throughout human history. I think the age we live in now is an anomaly with respect to personal arts and IP-based commercial funding. Historical economic success I can think of would be found in notable performance artists, instrument manufacturers, conservatory instructors, and patronage. None of these are really IP related, but personal skill related and involved in the trade of tangible goods & services found from a particular individual or group, regardless of their ability to be copied.
This is being done by Jason Scott and the rest of the team that runs archive.org. Presumably they're ok with using their own bandwidth!
Well, it has to be slightly more complicated than that. After all you are going to be emitted as hawking radiation a lot earlier than the end of the universe.
In case anybody else is wondering, Steamboat Willie currently will expire in 2023. If the timing of the previous copyright extension acts continues, we should see a new copyright extension act within the next three years or so.

Assuming, of course, it isn't entirely coincidental that the copyright extension acts tend to pop up every time Steamboat Willie gets close to entering the public domain.

I wonder how Steamboat Willie entering the public domain would affect the Mickey Mouse related trademarks (e.g. the mouse ears and such), considering that most of it is simply derived from the character first publicly introduced in that film. I know that trademark law is orthogonal to copyright, but it would certainly allow diluting the brand.
That is a strawman argument if ever I saw one. Nobody outside of "the society" is forced to pay taxes, even if membership is not completely voluntary. So yes, the majority should be able to force their will on the minority, within reason.
Perhaps approaching this with LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)[1] or a LOCKSS-like system would be a good idea.

[1] http://www.lockss.org
Oh, so Toyota makes shit cars too. Cool.
Jonny Ive and his team spent 18 months perfecting the 'tap' notification for the Apple Watch. This attention to detail has everything to do with Usability and nothing to do with design. So, as with other commenters on this topic, I strongly disagree that design has always taken prominence over usability, to me it't the exact opposite.

It's not all 'roses in the garden' however. Apple have really let themselves down with OSX, which in terms of Usability doesn't hold a candle against Windows OS. Agreed, some will argue that Windows evolved out of OSX in terms of interface - but for me, the usability attributed to Windows is far superior.
Haha. This really reminds me of the very first webpage I ever made, in... 2000 I think? I created a series of images of a lens flare turning a magenta background into a white flash, turned it into an animated gif and used that as the background tile. Eye-watering stuff. I knew I'd finally found what I wanted to do :P
It's a cool project, but I think it needs more examples on the front page. The class example might as well have been a namedtuple.
These days I study in 90-minute chunks with 30-minute breaks in between.
You don't have to agree to it, because it doesn't matter. You don't have a choice so you are in slavery.

In modern states, you don't have a lot of choices either. But at least, even though you are "forced" into a society, you eventually get the right to participate politically.
Exactly. The thing is, a big advantage of going by train is that you can do some work, the travel time is not completely wasted. Why wouldn't you want to have that in a car, especially as a busy consultant?

I think Audi is over-estimating the 'fun' component - for many people in my generation, driving is a dangerous and annoying necessity. But maybe thats just the IT bubble I'm living in.
Travis said they tried it 6 months earlier and the battery life of the current gen phones couldn't handle what was required, even while plugged in.

Only one of the reasons however.
Why is Mytho's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9603201 marked dead? That was the first comment from the user and it appears to be on topic.
https://digital.audi-presskit.de/en/ces_asia_2015/das-piloti...

Selected Quotes;

"In the future system for piloted driving, the radar sensors will remain an important component of the sensor array. They will acquire information from the zone in front of the car as they do today. A video camera with a wide angle lens detects the lane markings as well as pedestrians and objects, such as other vehicles and guard rails. Up to twelve ultrasonic sensors are used to monitor the immediate space around the car."

"Piloted parking from Audi will let drivers exit the vehicle and conveniently control the car remotely with the remote key fob or a smartphone."

"Audi conceptualized this central control unit, which will be introduced to the model line-up in stages, together with leading international technology partners that include TTTech, Mobileye, Nvidia and Delphi. Delphi will be the future system supplier."

"The zFAS board is equipped with both the EyeQ3 mobile processor from Mobileye and the new Tegra K1 from Nvidia."
Some of these things look really nice. I'm particularly impressed by the tracing macro:

with trace:
sum = 0
for i in range(0, 5):
sum = sum + 5

prints

sum = 0
for i in range(0, 5):
sum = sum + 5
range(0, 5) -> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
sum = sum + 5
sum + 5 -> 5
sum = sum + 5
sum + 5 -> 10
sum = sum + 5
sum + 5 -> 15
sum = sum + 5
sum + 5 -> 20
sum = sum + 5
sum + 5 -> 25

This would save a huge amount of boring typing `print(...)` when debugging,
and since it's only for debugging you don't even need to have MacroPy as a
dependency!

Unfortunately python 3.4 support is not quite ready [0], and attempting to
install it with `pip3` just fails.

[0]: https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy/issues/32
There's also For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, although its use doesn't seem to be limited to birthdays, so it's probably less iconic.
Mont-Blanc Largest Panoramic Image in the World (365 Gigapixel Photo)
The link into 300 Funston Ave is 10Gbit. There is no shortage of bandwidth.
Meat – Free Git collaboration platform
Large black holes have life expectancy so much larger than universe age that it's not even funny. They're not going anywhere AFAIK. No, you will stay there and watch.

"The power in the Hawking radiation from a solar mass black hole turns out to be a minuscule 9 × 10−29 watts. It is indeed an extremely good approximation to call such an object 'black'."
I have a feeling, in time, detection of of even very small snippets of copyright infringements will be very easily detected by RIAA.

In time, RIAA will be one of the biggest entities on the planet?

In time, they will be sending every offending individual isp a demand letter. The fines will be low of course, at first, but will rise like traffic infractions have in the past twenty years? (I've heard this is alwready taking place?)

In time, we will still use the Internet, but it will end up being so filled with so many potential fines, it might not be worth going on? Notice in the mail from RIAA, "We see you visited www.ingringement of 1-1-2020. The blog had a copy written JPEG on the landing page. Since you looked at the picture, please send us $20.00 and we won't collate all infractions of isp 255:255:255.01 and take you to court."

I see the day, when you hear people saying, "Yea, It's just not worth the risk of a fine."

If I'm alive to see it. I could picture myself saying, "I never should have gotten rid of all my physical books, and I should have kept all those disks of music and entertainment?"
They are collectors items now--who would have thought?"

I would like to see every isp provider purge history immediatly, if technically and legally possible? I'm not sure if ISPs like Comcast, Version, and AT&T could provide access to the Internet without keeping track of individual isp addresses. I don't know why they need to keep a detailed history of every isp we clicked on? Something like TOR, but a commercial version, that every customer would be required to use according to TOS.

Right now they(Facebook, and Google) could be proactive, and start deleting just some of our data on the servers--instead of buying just more space? (and yes,
I know you own the information.) Start with deleting the information you keep on us that over 10 years ago? Please? We might remember the act of kindness when you are begging for customers in the future?
"What I do not understand is why the US is the military for wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia."

Could it be as simple as we are basically protecting OPEC in exchange so they can sell oil to us? I can't find any other reason.
I wonder if the end result could be fed into a compression algorithm. The algorithm would need to have a low data overhead as the snapshot sizes are around 32 kilobytes (256 kilo bits).

It would be interesting to know what compression algorithms work well for this kind of application. One example I can think of is Run Length Encoding. Or perhaps an algorithm that is trained on example datasets and finds bit patterns that repeat often.
The article mentions 27TB so far at a point where they appear to still be focused on making their tools better. 27TB is a tiny proportion of IA.
Would you feel the same way if GlaxoSmithKline went around hiring entire university cancer research departments so they could work for them instead? This is the robotics equivalent.
Yeah, I'm sure Google holding copies of vast archives of other peoples' published copyrighted data is something they want to avoid.

Oh, wait.
Cloud Gaming Demo with Amazon EC2 and Steam – InHome Stream
It looks like the new XPS models have a single trackpad soft-button area (as all new laptops seem to). Have you been able to middle click to paste in X with this configuration?

Thanks!
You do know that crappy Minecraft videos are a direct result of people pursuing money through systems strongly influenced by copyright legislation, right?

YouTube's financial incentivization optimizes towards crappy Minecraft videos moreso than high production value content, since they started rewarding time spent watching over total number of views/subscribers. Such videos are the easiest to create in terms of effort per posted minute of video that is attractive to (enough) viewers.

One of the popular groups (Game Grumps) even explicitly have said so in their videos. Arin/Egoraptor is an animator, but animations are hard work to create and aren't rewarded financially on YouTube anymore, so he specifically went into something where he could make money (doing Let's Plays).

Basically, what you see popular on YT is not because of what people are passionate about, but rather what YT's schemes optimize people to do with their financial carrot.
This is a best way to learn ROR for new user.
http://railscasts.com/
Let's stop xenophobia on the internet
I think we agree on what the system offers (ACC at least). I'm driving manual, so it cannot do the same for me and that's obviously not the fault of Audi. That system works reasonably well, as in 'slows down and accelerates', which is what the GP found out about this 'new' thingy that is advertised prominently on HN.

The random brakes I was talking about (and the annoying beeps) are from the Pre-Sense tech or whatever they tend to call it. The "I detect that you'll have an accident in the next moment" assistant. Which in my experience either beeps just because (you're driving around a corner and the car seems to believe that you drive straight in the rails or something) or randomly (only if below 30km/h, thank god! Above that it "just" beeps) hits the brakes to avoid a collision. It's a nightmare. The rest of the car is in similar shape. So ACC: Yeah, kinda works here as well.
That would seem to lose at least some of the benefits of creating tools and getting people involved to create properly distributed backup not just in terms of physically distributing the copies but making it independent of any single entity.
How is hiring (poaching isn't accurate whatsoever) talented people to aid in advancing technologies which will save millions of lives and billions of dollars 'sleazy'?
'That is what the headlines of the last year describe', it isn't wise to analyse a situation based on press headlines.
For the "loss" of $6K compared to seeing your creation die and the loss of reputation for ditching your users I'd say it's worth it.
Articles like these are great reminders to question everything you think you know.
Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid? – HBR
Waiting for Fedora 22?
Considering how much culture seems to have accelerated (via mass media, long distance communication and so on), it would seem obvious that if 28 years was enough back then, it should be more than enough today.

The only thing the current copyright length is helping with, is establishing and perpetuating monopolist corporations. It's killing innovation and cementing the status quo. Even from a market standpoint this is a bad idea -- not to mention what it looks like from a social standpoint.

It's anti-capitalist and extremely un-American, really. Speaking as a "socialist" European.
Martin Fowler has two opposing opinions on everything.
> it didn't live up to it

Why? It was a very fun game and the narrative arch was a work of beauty. The creature editor and Sporepedia granted unlimited possibilities. My real guess is that entitled players were simply out of touch with the industry capabilities.
So these engineers shouldn't be allowed to act with their own volition?
Now their technology will most likely hit the market sooner, this benefitting consumers sooner.
I think you can make "Good riddance Time Warner" fit to the tune...

Good riddance - Time Warner

Good riddance - Time Warner

Good riddance - Because you're evil

Good riddance - Please die
That isn't really about the "term of protection" though, but rather the validity of the copyright claim.
We all know the answer is HN.
Their argument [0] against namedtuple is that the namedtuple implementation is basically a hackier macro anyway (format a string then eval it). But I agree that it's not the most impressive example of what you can do with macros (see my other post).

[0]: https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy#skeletons-in-the-closet
Parallel Universe (YC S12) Is Hiring a Developer Evangelist in SF
Parallel Universe is building next generation server-side open source infrastructure software, that lets developers write simple, performant and scalable code.
We believe while hardware architecture changed drastically almost a decade ago, software hasn't caught up. Current software clashes with hardware, and requires more effort to be expended on scaling rather than on business logic. The problem is most severe in server-side software that ingests real-time data, and needs to respond to a very large number of concurrent requests at low latencies. It facilitates software that is harmonious with modern hardware -- with multi-core and multi-cache, with the storage hierarchy and the IO-to-processing ratio -- rather than software that fights the hardware at every turn. The result is applications that require far less hardware, while at the same time provide much greater performance and headroom for growth.

As a developer evangelist, your job would be to help drive adoption of the Parallel Universe stack. The job is a mix of marketing, coding, sales, and geeking out. On the job you will:

* Write demos and benchmarks, and blog about them

* Write introductory blog posts and tutorials

* Speak at (and organize) developer events and hosted tech-talks

* Study the problems facing potential users, and help direct our software to best address those problems

* Provide support and guidance on technical forums and social media

* Provide on-site support and guidance for customers

* Build and cultivate relationships with US companies

Requirements:

* Experience writing software for the JVM, especially in Java (knowing Clojure is a plus)

* Strong familiarity with modern server-side architectures

* Participation in developer communities

* Strong technical writing skills

* Public speaking experience

* Strong social skills and an outgoing personality

* Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area

We offer a competitive salary (with benefits) and equity.

To apply, email jobs@paralleluniverse.co
It'd be great if they would, as an extra copy! However, reliance on charity from any single commercial entity would be somewhat against the spirit of the project. Companies (and their PR budgets) come and go.

Archive.org has about 22 petabytes of archived material – and growing. Even at AWS Glacier's cold-storage rate of $0.01/GiB per month, that's $220,000/month, $2.64MM a year.
LOL, Is it great news on hackernews ?
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time. (Snow Crash, Chapter 15)
Don’t Build Anything Until You Have a Clear Startup Mission
But didn't most writing systems evolve from accounting systems?
HN time is not wasted.
Building a Train App
Or the info they have open while working on planes. And some of them are not diligent on locking them if they have to go use the toilet. Not to mention taking it up a notch by attaching a bug.

And why stop there? Listening with lasers is easy, even through windows, right? Shouldn't be hard to rent a few places (or just covertly drop off equipment) and monitor tons of offices. Of course this will probably be prosecuted harderthan an unsympathetic crack dealer.

But the individual value of any one compromise is probably low. Unless there was a marketplace where sellers and buyers could list what they have or want. If it was popular enough, then the random "FooCorp: Baz proposal 2015.docx" might be worth something. But that would probably get more heat than Silk Road. And there's an even harder trust issue, since every item is different and proving authenticity is difficult.

I do wonder how much corporate espionage goes on. Do all the big companies we know have a secret division trying to illegally get info on competitors? Do they send employees to go work at competitors to spy or sabotage? (Hey, we'll promote you to VP of DB Engineering for a year, then go get poached by X and convince them an XML-based storage engine is the hottest thing.) Or is it just nation states stealing industrial info for their own companies and a few rogue employees flipping for cash?

Even if you did work at Intel designing the next cool chip, it's not like you can just call up AMD and offer to sell secrets... Right? I'd imagine buyers would be super scared of something so potentially toxic being offered to them.
Protect your hearing and your vision.
Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive

> As of October 2012, its collection topped 10 petabytes.

I'd be curious what it's grown to since, but google didn't immediately tell me.
The Thinkpads on the ISS isn't really a criteria to measure innovation or design. Those T60s are there because that's a standardized piece of equipment with a proven process for radiation hardening and for installing active cooling on them (traditional cooling doesn't work because it relies on convection which doesn't work in microgravity.) However, the people on the ISS are free to use personal devices (phones, tablets, etc.) and guess which are the most popular?
Ways to start your own Mechanics Business
How is it sleazy? there's great deal of free will in everyone's choices. Also, it's likely Uber has more resources to get whatever they wanted to do done faster.
I don't think he still builds anything, I have read him tell that his know how is completely obsolete today.
You are writing as if the topic of group's research has changed. It has not. Actually those people were working for humanity as whole. Now they are working for Uber.

I agree that this situation hard to avoid, and its hard to blame Uber for being a better employer then public but still, there is nothing to celebrate about the fact that CMU got stripped of its research lab and that the tech will land in this company's sleazy hands.
Indian city to use drones for crowd control
Maybe around once a month, on a MacBook Air.
Building Performance at a Glance with the LEED Dynamic Plaque
Oh engineers can do what ever they want. They are found in places like Facebook, Wall Street and the NSA doing pointless things with talent anyway. The problem isn't really the choices engineers make.

When the smartest people work for the richest people, to make the richest people so rich that hardly any of that wealth can ever get spent in even ridiculous ways, it automatically makes the system more unequal, less stable and secure for everyone involved.
Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions
Interesting to note that this specifically says several times that it's free, but it doesn't appear to be open source, and the only availability seems to be an OVA [1] file.

Have I missed something, or is this a non-open free-as-in-beer tool?

I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing - I absolutely support the goal of companies/teams/groups having more control through better self-hostable tools (and any change that might have on the current mindshare-monopoly GitHub has)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format
I think gizi's point is pretty good (I upvoted it), but he misses the case where a company has to do some heavily customization on its product to satisfy the customer's needs, which is often the case in enterprise sales. In this case, especially if the user is not technical, it's better to have face to face meetings to understand what the customer needs.
Ask HN: Should I learn Elixir or Erlang first?
I quickly checked Elixir and I was surprised by how beautiful seems the language. I have been attracted by Erlang since ages, now I have the time to learn it. But Elixir seems great, so: should I go Erlang first or can I jump directly to Elixir? What do you suggest?
The grammar isn't a problem (at lest not for the compiler). Scalac is pretty fast at giving you error messages. It's when your code is legal that you really have to wait. I'd speculate that it's the code generator that's the problem.
If you try to sell them, you'll realize that it's not. On their day most of these game were as close to realism as it gets (on a portable device).
The complete 2015 learn to code bundle?
Would any one of you could share their experience about the 2015 learn to code bundle, currently on sale for 59USD? It's very cheap, but is the content worth it?
About 21-22 petabytes: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK