skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case Fred could simply pay her back the $500 and she would value it at $600 (ie, deflation). He has to pay her back $100 more in real value than he borrowed, so sometime between t and t+1, someone in the system must produce $100 in new wealth.
I've started a hardware company before and went down the patent route. What we did, with success, was to file a provisional patent before raising money - which is far cheaper and less time consuming. That satisfied investor questions regarding IP protection and then we used investor money to file the actual patent itself.

Regarding your proposed step four - if you truly intend to have a limited role for yourself in the future, disclosing this to investors (as you should) might make fundraising more difficult. If you are the visionary behind the tech/company - they'll want to see your continued involvement.
This is the [in]famous "dancing baby" case in which Universal Music issued a takedown request for a home video of a baby dancing to Prince's Let's Go Crazy. The notice resulted in the video being taken down and then, eventually, put back up after a flurry of DMCA counter-notices. The creator of the video, Lenz, then sued Universal Music for making a bad faith DMCA takedown request (the actual legal claims were for tortious interference--for nominal damages--and for a declaratory ruling of non-infringement).

The rationale here is that the DMCA requires takedown notices to include a "good faith belief" statement that that the targeted work "is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." The opinion essentially holds that if you don't think about fair use, or if you know about a viable fair use defense, then this "good faith belief" statement is actionably false.

Note that this standard is quite high. If the copyright holder can show that it formed a subjective belief that the targeted work is not protected by fair use (even if that belief is crazy), then it's not liable.

So, an interesting opinion, but it's pretty hard to see how a properly-represented defendant could lose under this legal standard.

Edit:
Ars Technica Coverage - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/eff-scores-a-win-...
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You are almost certainly not the only one, but I can't say I agree with you. In an age where we're bombarded by information and it is a struggle (if even possible) to stay current on technology trends, TL;DR's give a summary allowing you to make a more informed decision on whether an article is worth your time - titles just aren't usually sufficient to determine that.
> People in Peru don't have faith in the police.

Another Peruvian here. What some people in this thread miss is that the police may actually be complicit in the crimes. This happens in cases like short-term kidnapping. I know someone who this happened to, and since her father worked in the police department, she actually recognized one of the accomplices from being one of her father's peers.

Cell phones have been so incredibly powerful in making things safer for everyone. From using services like Glympse to show a family member where you are when you jump in a taxi to taking pictures/video to ensure accountability.
A larger scheme makes enough money to pay off those who might attempt to prosecute it. It's also generally more sophisticated, and has the means to hide misconduct.

Look at those who are successfully prosecuted - mostly traders, small firms, 'rogue' employees.

In one of the larger cases, SAC Capital, only a small number of SAC employees were convicted, despite it being 'common knowledge' that they engaged in insider trading, to the point that it was a central tenet to the firm's strategy, and traders brazenly collected insider information. And yet somehow, Steven A. Cohen has managed to escape punishment, as have the large majority of its traders.
Appeals court strikes a blow for fair use in long-awaited copyright ruling
One of the big "sells" for WebDAV was transparent access like a network drive in Windows clients without the need to install additional software. As a power user, accessing WebDAV isn't much of an issue. But as, say, a software developer wanting to provide a WebDAV service, it's another story :-/
That analogy makes no sense, what with evolution having no volition or intelligence.
Two mexican nobel prizes (chemistry, literature) in the last 30 years. One for Brazil or Costa Rica.

And also one point for the indian tribes with Rigoberta Menchu in Guatemala (peace). Not bad, much better than Argentina, Colombia or Spain in the same time in fact.

Enough said.
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I went on a classroom tour at Princeton. I was there for a confrence of Librarians. On the tour there was construction happening in all the classrooms.

Princeton removed all their white boards and replaced them with black boards. Reason the professors kept using permanent markers on them and the person in-charge replaced all of them that summer. (2007)
Hey robmueller, I think it bears moving this paragraph on proxy.jmap.io

The service is not running with all of the security measures employed on a production site such as FastMail, so DO NOT USE THIS PROXY FOR ACCOUNTS WITH SENSITIVE DATA.

above the "Oauth to a gmail account or log in to an IMAP server below".

Of course it stands to reason that one shouldn't grant access to third parties to one's gmail, but you may save some heartache from people who are enthusiastic-past-the-point-of-reason if you move that bit up.

I would have just sent you a PR but proxy.jmap.io isn't hosted on github pages.
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> memory allocation done in more efficient way than other libs.

That's one way to see it ... They are relying on a very ugly hack that makes everybody cringe, including Engineers from the Android Graphics team.
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No, you can't argue that code can be treated as a patent because then you could argue that poetry can be treated as a patent and you'd wind up in a nonsensical hell of never being able to write another line of code, poetry, or prose because you'd be patenting coding and writing itself, essentially. It would be illegal to write a "hello world" program, for example. Actually, that's not that far from what's currently illegal under patent law, so I should say that you can't argue that code can be treated as a patent and make a rational argument out of it (Congress can argue that, in other words).
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This is the exact article that taught me decorators. Simple, to the point, well-written examples with helpful sample output. A very efficient way to learn decorators.
The boards that are 50" HD TVs are much better with a touch matrix in front of them. Brighter, cleaner and no burnt out bulbs.

Black boards are still better for certain uses. Most "Smart Boards" are just Power Point players.
Just FYI, The expression is "rite of passage."
I have to imagine vigilante justice is how justice systems begin in the first place. I mean... at it's essence, what is a justice system but either A) the arm of the masses or B) the arm of the powerful?

So ya, this is terrible. But it is a clear example of why having a fair and effective justice system is so important to a society. Because failing that, this is the type of thing we will eventually get.
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This calls to mind the office scene in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash in which Y.T.’s mother reads a directive from her employer. She self-consciously scrolls through the dull text — aware of her employer’s automated surveillance system as she does so — pausing and returning to an earlier section of the text to create the impression of careful reading.
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Unfortunately, that ship sailed[1] in the early 1980s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Naisbitt
This comes down to the really interesting point in the article, which sadly is hidden a ways into it (just after the "Main Course" section begins):

"If the flow of energy is fixed, but we posit continued economic growth, then GDP continues to grow while energy remains at a fixed scale. This means that energy—a physically-constrained resource, mind—must become arbitrarily cheap as GDP continues to grow and leave energy in the dust."

It goes on to describe the paradox that if we can generate arbitrary wealth in such a system (through software, for example), it becomes possible to just buy all the energy[1] and break the system, which means that this doesn't constitute a really valid economic model.

And yes, it goes on to say that you can still have growth, perhaps even something that can be called "economic growth," but we've placed a fundamental limit on the growth of the GDP- the natural way economists would consider economic growth today.

[1] "Corner the energy market," if you're an Alpha Centauri fan.
From the first section, basic principles:

"any signal" huh?
"spatial frequency" 2x huh?
"a "DC term" corresponding to zero frequency" #seriously

This is intuitive only if you already know this stuff, which I happen to, but I have also tried to explain this to undergrads taking history and english. Terms like these are not intuitive at all.
I'm intrigued but do not quite understand exactly what you mean by tile-swapping. Do you mean that you can take, say, FATE on the board and swap out an L in your hand to make it LATE, taking the F for yourself? I assume you could then in the same turn, say, play an R off the LATE? Tile exchanges are not scored?

Do you have problems where the slightly better players find ways to endlessly re-use the high-scoring tiles, thus annoying the heck out of the other players? ("Oh, geez, there he goes making JINX on a triple-word score again.")
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The article highlights exactly what you're advocating -- discretion is the better part of valor.

Collecting data != harassing employees, not by a long shot.

It would be the height of foolishness to use this data for any critical decision making, and (as was mentioned in the article) there are policies in place ensuring the employees are the ultimate owners of the data and as such it would be their decision to voluntarily provide the data (for strictly educational/constructive purposes).

Remediation is the name of the game here, not ostracizing socially awkward individuals or empowering psychopaths.
I understand you have a point you want to make but... do you actually know anything one way or the other whether it's actually copyright infringement? It's posted in a José Luis García-López fan club, and he's an artist that has had a long running relationship with DC Comics. It's entirely plausible that it was posted with permission. Why are you jumping to the assumption that it's copyright infringement?
I feel like what matters more (unfortunately) is that you know a bunch of people who you can get to immediately vote you up.

What might be more interesting is if HN used Facebook login and its front page ranking algorithm only counted votes from people outside your friend network.
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Thanks for the feedback!

I thought about a feature similar to that (just to extend or edit the default markup for the kitchen sink), so it's good to hear that other people might want to do similar things!
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The amazing thing about this to me is realizing how massively undervalued Stripe is if things like Relay are actually successful. The networks effects created by Relay would be massive.
Bringing his Asberger's into the story? Really? Spending pages talking about Hayes' superhero bed sheet is offensive to him and demeaning to the real story here: LIBOR is decided by a bunch of banks calling up brokers at random?!

Journalism, especially long-form journalism, is just a spectacularly bad medium for talking about systems problems.
>The state of dav clients is a mess, FWIW last I checked, getting it to work sanely on Linux, either with Gnome, or davfs -- was easy enough. Trying to get it to work reasonably from Windows was hopeless -- I never tried OS X -- I'd hoped that they actually had a usable client.

Nonsense, the reason I use WebDAV when non-tech people need a file sharing service within my company time and time again is because it works so easy on Windows and Macintosh. Their two favorite OS'.

On windows you mount it as a regular network share, you can even authenticate with AD if it's in your network. On Mac you just Cmd+K in finder and use the same URL as on Windows. On Linux I've recently learned it's equally simple.
Yes true, and to be clear, I think React is fine on it's own. It's just that from my view it's not fundamentally so superior as to warrant rewriting a decently structured app written in one of the other JS frameworks from the past few years. Especially if folks then go and have to reinvent/relearn, well, everything.

A lot of "React" excitement folks shared with me had more to do with using Webpack and ES6, which you can use with other frameworks.
Brewster isn't considered forward thinking because he's from San Francisco and worked on a startup. He's considered forward thinking because he's selflessly and tirelessly spent an enormous amount of time and money working to prevent a Lost Decade for human knowledge, while the rest of us (including me) were sitting around letting it erode away. I've met web researchers that have told me they sometimes spend 80% of their time on the Internet Archive. That's how bad the problem is, and how important it is that Brewster has worked to address it.

The Library of Congress, like every library in the world, needs to not only get serious about digitization of content and archival of web content, but also about providing access to that information for the public.

This not only requires the right kind of technology for data archiving (which the Internet Archive has developed and used successfully), but it also requires a step forward for the nature of things like HTTP, and how we federate and distribute data. With the right technology, we absolutely can and should archive as much information as we can to preserve our true history for future generations, not just the "New Books" section of Barnes and Noble.

I've been doing some work on that front, and Brewster was right there advocating for it (http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-...). When it comes to getting things done, I bias towards the people that show up to do the work. Brewster showed up, but I haven't seen any "digital library world" people around lately, except for when they tried to lock up Aaron Swartz for opening up JSTOR, a company making a profit off the public funding of research by locking the public out of the information it paid for. That's not the future of information, and that's not how things are going to be. All that is is a data cartel that's run out of ideas working to push out competition.

I think the only relevant question here is "does Brewster actually want the job?", but I think he's perfectly qualified for it, and there is not a single person on the planet that is better qualified for it.
It's used in a lot of mission-critical commercial applications which I think is a stronger indicator. It just so happens those aren't open-source. This ranges from mission-critical enterprise software to internal infrastructure tied directly to revenue generation. There is a serious cost to failure there (money, liability, jobs, etc...).

Few software uses these advanced techniques in general, and it isn't so much about Concurrency Kit. There is a barrier to entry as folks have to invest non-trivial amounts of time in learning more about these techniques.

Some open-source examples:
http://www.machinekit.io/
https://labs.omniti.com/labs/reconnoiter
https://github.com/Litres/turboxsl
Aerospike

I'm sure there are others, if there's anything I'm missing, would love to hear.
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> but this really is over-the-top copyright infringement

Oh no! They're losing money now that people don't have to buy it! Won't someone think of the poor, starving Time Warner?
> ... a one time cost of a little over $3000 (or a little over $2200 if you subtract the tax deduction) ...

How do people still not understand the difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit? Deductions reduce your income, not your tax burden. Even at the highest 31% bracket for 1999, that deduction is only worth $248.
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Gattaca doesn't really show off any technological problems so much as it does a new kind of racism. Which, frankly, is not a problem so unmanageable that we should avoid genetic engineering to prevent.

Basically, Gattaca's problems could be managed by passing a couple of well-designed laws.
The reason for this gap is that these are unnecessary conveniences. There's a reason the US care actually never rank very well on WHO rankings, despite the availability of extremely advanced care.

You can get most stuff done immediately in the UK too, by paying for private insurance (incidentally you'd still pay less in taxes + private insurance than Americans pay in taxes towards healthcare alone) or just going to a private clinic. Most people don't, though, because as much as people might complain about waiting, they also tend to accept that the NHS prioritises by clinical need and will provide treatment when necessary. Including through buying capacity from private providers or sending patients abroad if serious enough.

The result is that when you need it, you generally get treatment rapidly, regardless of your financials. When you don't need it instantly, then yes, you get to wait (or pay).

If anything, this situation in the US reflects how distorted the market is by having a system where healthcare providers are have an incentive to find every means of charging sky high rates as most of them are not paid directly by patients, and insurers have little reason to push back (because the occasional experience of high medical expenses provides a massive reason for people to well covered by insurance, and they're competing with other insurers that will use unwillingness to cover certain types of expenses against them).

But ultimately this is also part of why so many Americans have been poorly covered by insurance: The system has been geared towards people who can pay higher premiums. Had the US system focused on affordability, and left luxuries to top-up insurance like in the UK, the US could have paid for universal care out of current taxes and still have (lots) money left over.
I agree. Such an article would be more emphasizing use-cases for different advanced synchronization techniques in context of Concurrency Kit. You may just not have a use for it too.

I'll put up a presentation soon that may be helpful in these regards.
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Oh please no, do not link it to facebook.

If anything, analysis of past voting should give a clue to accounts who game the system.
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Somewhat unfortunately name conflict with https://facebook.github.io/relay/
Blog post: https://stripe.com/blog/relay

This is interesting. How does this work with Apple not allowing purchases unless they go through them?

Edit: deleted the part where I confused square for stripe. My bad =/
That's an interesting point—on the face of it, seems police around the world would improve their performance if they were directly responsible to their local citizens, as opposed to the layers of management, unions and politicians. What are the downsides?

Perhaps varying quality of service, or ability to pay for good service, if you're in a lower-income neighborhood. Or a selective enforcement of laws—you know that your citizen bosses could fire you if you go after them instead of "intruders".
...and their camera doesn't contain dead pixels, off-colors, watermark patterns or EXIF serial numbers that ony matches one profile on Facebook.
I think you overestimate it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/14/th...
Exactly.

Yes, sometimes if you have six out of a seven-letter word and just need one, you might do several swaps to get that last letter you need for the bingo. Which is why, since the turns can be longer, it takes first-timers some getting used to.

I believe ultimately the game becomes more fun and playable. It also tends to smooth out the "luck" of drawing a Z or an X, since as you point out these letters get re-used by all players throughout the game.
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FWIW, all of the lecture halls and most of the tutorial rooms at Carleton University still have blackboards. A few labs have whiteboards, every room has a projector or two, but the blackboard is still ever present here.
I hadn't actually looked at Lilypond until just now. Seems like it has a lot of extra features (clefs, time signatures, lyrics, etc.) that Alda doesn't have yet. Maybe I'll look more into it in the future.
HN does have some vote ring detection. I have no idea ho effective it is.
Meh, there are only so many words. The two things are in quite different segments, so it should be fine.
Stripe and Twitter do not have the same CEO, you are thinking of Square.
tomasien: For some reason your comment is being marked as a [dupe], even though it's the only one of yours in this thread. There's another deleted thread[1]. What's going on here?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216136
He did "enter a “supergrass” (informer) deal in the U.K." and ratted out everybody.

After ratting out everybody (and avoiding extradition to the US), he withdrew from the plea deal and gambled that the UK jury would be sympathetic.

On Oct. 9, as the SFO was finalizing its case against Hayes and his co-conspirators, a white envelope arrived. It was from Hayes’s lawyers. “As a matter of courtesy we are now in a position to advise that Mr. Hayes will plead Not Guilty to all Counts,” the letter said. “Accordingly he now formally withdraws from the process.” Having avoided extradition, the natural born trader was taking the biggest risk of his life, reneging on the deal and entrusting his fate to random jurors in a London courtroom.
The introspection argument is rather difficult... do I intend to see the descriptor of the wrapped function or the signature of the wrapper? In the case of stacked decorators it can get a little murky.
Discussion from a bit over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949995
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So I read the whole thing. Are the only people being prosecuted the ones that influenced the bankers to lie about the borrowing rates? Why would you prosecute the ones who made the request, but not the ones who fabricated the rates?
Good idea, it would make a more memorable position for every letter.
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