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That is a good point. It works pretty well once heated up or if you time when you pull your shots.
In Austria, a small tip (keep the change, basically) seemed pretty normal, whereas almost no one tips in Italy.
> So I really feel like I'm entitled to watch and listen to what I want to, how and when I want to.

Did the cable company lie to you and say that their contract covered indefinite access to their content after termination of their service? Because if they did, you probably have some serious grounds for a lawsuit. If not, how would you feel if your employer decided he paid you for years, so he is justified in just stopping.

Ah, but I forgot! You're dealing with a corporation, which means that you can m̶o̶r̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶ justify doing anything when they are involved. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
What fraction of the time does adding a new road slow down traffic? Or, equivalently, what fraction of the time does removing a road speed up traffic? If this fraction is high we should be experimenting with closing roads: that's a very cheap way to improve infrastructure.
You don't consider Orphan Works to be subject to Fair Use?
Have you read/reread Bruce Sterling lately? I reread Distraction recently, and it's scary how much closer real politics have come to his satire since publication.
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A librarian's always been an adviser and guide. Curation is a huge part of what a librarian's task is. Librarians are also detectives, tasked with finding those obscure resources where you know of them, but not where to find them. There are times, for example, where one needs a specific edition of a book. A librarian would have a much better grasp of how to find that than a search engine.

We've got the resources now to put libraries in our pocket. Phones, tablets, etc can do so easily. At the same time, a library is more than the sum of its books, and needs more than just metadata to properly operate.
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Yeah, I agree. We were ready to ship our AAA game on Windows, Mac and Linux and had tested with all versions, but now that this distro came out we have to spin up the test farm again and re-hire all the testers... Not to mention updating the graphics so it gracefully degrades from playing it on 8 monitors on a couple of the latest nVidias to playing it on the console over ssh. And let me tell you, getting specular reflections to render properly on a braille terminal was a real bitch.
I would understand the material better if it were presented as an armadillo analogy. http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3892
This comment is doubly a non-sequitur, since nothing I've said anywhere would give you evidence about what I believe about fair use, and orphan works have nothing to do with this thread --- the term appears nowhere in the Slate story, and, speaking as a security researcher, has very little to do with security research.

Moreover, the part of your comment concerning orphan works was added to your comment, without remarking about the update, after I wrote the comment you just replied to.

Please stop doing this.

(I fleshed this comment out after writing it and then noticing that you'd asked me to respond to an edit you wrote after I wrote my comment.)
I have done one or two books using the glass plate + camera method: camera mounted on a tripod, book opened up halfway, and a glass plate to hold the pages flat while taking the pictures. I think my workflow was 5ish seconds per page.

If I were to do more and had the space, I would have gone the diybookscanner.org route to improve the quality and processing rate. At one point I belonged to a hackerspace in Oakland that had one available.

Post-processing workflow was much easier, and involved using scantailor (awesome free software to batch align, crop, white balance, etc the pages) and then Acrobat for OCR.
Anecdote: In BS school, we had 48 hours to write a "C-with-some-kind-of-objects". My code ended up being 75% macros and we got bonus points for abusing the preprocessor.
I had a recruiter here in Toronto create a CV for me despite the fact that I no longer keep one (I keep my LinkedIn profile up to date and can replicate a CV if I want to, but I don’t want to). I fired him the next day, saying he was not going to represent me because he didn’t listen to me.
Living in Sweden, it's relatively common to read the news that Ericsson has sold networking equipment to some company in country X where the required feature "lawful intercept" has been used to something horribily bad by a corrupt regime.

If Ericsson would block the sales of network equipment to those kind of countries on that ground, Huawei would jump in and gladly accept the deal instead. :/
That is probably true in most cases, not just of pirating, but of all interactions. We act, we feel, then we justify why we acted and felt such.
"Drivers still like VW" at the moment, before any fixes have been applied.

It's a bit abstract right now. Let's see what happens after the fix is rolled out, the owners need to schedule their appointments for the recalls, deal with (possible) lower fuel economy and performance, and (possible) lower resale values.
>Scarcity is something companies have consistently used to control values of products.

Manufactured scarcity is not something I approve of. So to answer the questions that follow: No and no.

I don't approve of manufactured scarcity of "more important things" like food/water/electricity - why would I approve of it for entertainment and other trivial things? It being "non-essential" doesn't give them moral justification, in my opinion.

Just because they can doesn't mean they should.
You said that word, not me. Everyone is free to channel their autism the way they like.
My take for what it's worth.

If the company is successful, the cost of paying else someone to manage the details of a Delaware corporation is almost certainly going to be much less than the opportunity cost incurred when a founder manages that level of detail regardless of where the company incorporates.

Or to put it another way, since using a UK LTD instead of a Delaware Corp. is unlikely to effect the odds of the company's success, there's not a clear business case for expending energy on it in the context of YC. That's not to discount personal values or world views only to recognize that those values and world views represent some misalignment between the founder's interests and YC's business model. YC, like any investor, invests on terms with which they are comfortable.

In the end, if the benefits of incorporating as an LTD outweigh those of YC's investment, then that's the way to go. If they don't, it isn't.

Good luck.
OK, ok, I get it. It's not foolishness. Appraising is actually a respectable profession and not an ingenious method of money laundering. BTW I have a very rare picture to sell. It's called "Die piggy piggy die die". At $10 million it's practically a steal !!
> "Piracy is just fucking theft, period."

Why are "piracy=theft" people always angry?
Looks nice, but I'm getting two audio tracks playing at the same time (Chrome on Windows and watching Horrible Bosses 2).
> to say I'm still a bit offended at having been called a bigot.

Why? Why would you be offended by this, and what will it take for you to learn to not be offended by it? Do you understand this part of your own psychology?
A Lunar base & ISRU effort was not just a theory that existed, but the predominant conventional wisdom in NASA's planning, ten years ago.

And it was a bit silly even before they did the typical NASA thing of underfunding and cancelling essential bits in the bureaucratic infighting. ISRU on Luna is likely to be an effort with comparable scale to a Mars mission, with questionable amounts of translatable techniques. Most anything we can do on Luna other than ISRU, we could do in LEO. Luna is seen as a sort of cheaper prize than Mars by Lunar proponents who don't advocate 'stepping stones', but the cost of operating on Luna via Constellations is higher than the NASA HSF budget today, and would likely prevent serious attempts at Mars planning in the same way the ISS/Shuttle is doing today.
>> As another commenter said, I really don't care about "the deals and tricks between giant corporations and the Government".

Well you should care a little, because the result of the "the deals and tricks between giant corporations and the Government" can impact you financially in both a positive and negative fashion.

On the positive -- the financial incentives that VW is offering as a result of the scandal -- IIRC, up to $6K -- make it a great time to upgrade or buy.

On the negative -- public perception of the scandal could lower the resale price of any diesel VW you might own.
4 of the top 100 iOS apps are STILL using ASIHTTPRequest? ಠ_ಠ
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How far away are we from malicious "putting words in someone's mouth" a la "look - a video proof of my sociopolitical nemesis saying something utterly reprehensible!"?
Yes this is the cause of many crazy Internet stories of Instagram or FaceBook now own your photos.

Photos on a public web page are implicitly giving you permission to view the photo and the technology need you to have a local copy for viewing. That does not mean you can grab the photos from say National Geographic and re bundle them put them on you website surrounded by adds. They are not giving you permission to do anything but view the pictures.
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Couldn't load the Neo4j instance. Refreshed 3x. Latest Chrome + uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger.
It starts out simple. Then gets copied. Competition brings feature wars. Features become bloat. Simplicity becomes attractive again.
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I only buy clothes made in sweatshops by 6 year old children because it's cheaper, and as another commenter said, I really don't care about "the deals and tricks between giant corporations and the Government"
An extension isn't needed for that. Make it click-to-play ("Let me choose when to run plugin content") and then you can add any site you want to the exceptions list. An icon displays in the address bar when a plugin is on the page, click it and you can easily add the site to your exceptions list.
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From my perspective, that is Qualcomm's problem.
I've been an AMEX user since 2002. I have a MasterCard also, and use it where AMEX is not accepted. However, I prefer using AMEX because:

1. It has a rock solid dispute system. I've disputed charges where the merchant didn't deliver on promise and AMEX took really good care of it. Same thing with a Visa card didn't go very well. You can do everything off the AMEX website and over email. With others, you have to call them and deal with lousy customer support.

2. They have a really good website and overall user experience. Its a pleasure to go to the website to see the charges, or to get a well laid out annual spending report. Their mobile app is also the best as compared to others.

3. They have stellar customer service. I rarely need to call them, but when I do, the wait times are in seconds.

4. They support mobile payments - Its the first one to be on Samsung Pay and I happen to have a Note 5.

FWIW, I just have the "American Express Blue Cashback" card, which no annual fees.
Sorry, I did not see your response until I had finished writing/editing my incomplete comment. I'm on a mobile device and editing is slow and requires partial saves, in case the browser flushes the tab from RAM. There are three quotes on Orphan Works, the first one was there from the beginning, the other two were added as fast as I could.
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I laughed out loud at that one. Clever.
Yep, he definitely deserves it. The second biggest reason I chose Ansible over Puppet was that he answered my questions directly. There's nothing quite like having the founder of a project help you directly that really inspires confidence in the product.
I take your point, and I don't expect any legal action against Augur until (if?) it grows big, by which time it will have less of an obvious core. But there will still be identifiable promoters, e.g. anyone hosting a website advertising/facilitating Augur. I'd guess that these people would be the ones at risk, rather than the individual bettors.

Anyway, I'm watching its development with interest, but I suspect that it won't become a big success.
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Maybe Ericsson could try to get privacy-protective technical features into the GSM specs. (The best time to do that would have been between 1999 and 2001. It will be harder now.)

GSM is a privacy and security nightmare.
What do they mean by encrypted? Do they just mean to support https?

Also, sounds good I think.

Project wonderful ads seem pretty good to me, do they fit this standard?
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disabled those extensions. ctrl+f5 refresh. still not loading.
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Interesting sidenote: I saw a reply to this post on Twitter where SourceDNA commented how the makeup of the top 100 apps differs from the long tail of apps:

https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247709655547905
https://twitter.com/SourceDNA/status/652247927289544704

"CocoaPods is less popular in the top 100 apps than the long tail. We see ~180K apps with AFNetworking."

"CocoaPods more popular in apps that aren't top 100. Top apps more customized, less third-party code."
I find your story interesting as it's the only one that relates burnout not to excessive hours and huge amounts of work piling up, but to the opposite, a too quiet work environment where everything is dealt with at a slow, steady pace, without great excitement. This is the exact situation I find myself in now, complete with the dislike for the job and the environment. Luckily I've just quit my job and looking forward to a a couple of months of holidays and, maybe, general rethinking of my career..
Thanks!

They are trying to collect small monthly payments for a service that is better than the service these people/businesses already use.

Currently distribution works using mobile payments:

1. Customers pay using telecom companies:

2. A voucher sms is sent out.

3. This voucher can be entered into automated distributed distribution center that will release what the customer bought.

It works surprisingly well, but sometimes they are tempted to use scratch cards in some of the markets.
Here's a curated list of Swift libraries:

http://www.ioscookies.com

And some cool new Swift/Objective C libraries:

https://www.ckl.io/blog/9-trending-objective-c-and-swift-ios...
It does make things cheaper -- whether in time or money.

I don't get it how your statement about Facebook's customers not being the users isn't consistent with the idea that it's 'free.'

Everything costs resources. Facebook isn't 'free.' You use Facebook in return for allowing Facebook to spy on you on behalf of their customers, and give those customers chances to influence you through various forms of media.

There are plenty of communications alternatives which are more private and expensive. Phone companies offer various tiers of paid service. There are tons of messaging apps that permit you to mass message people. You can send electronic mail to anyone in the world. Whoa! So many options!

Facebook is pure frippery, and most people's lives can be improved by quitting the service in the same way that unsubscribing from Publisher's Clearinghouse improves people's lives.

However, plenty of people are willing to give up their attention in return for low price entertainment. People can go to the movie theater for $10, or they can spend two hours clicking Buzzfeed for $0 and two hours. Advertisers pay Buzzfeed's bills so they can remind those readers to buy more tacos from Taco Bell. It costs the advertiser maybe $0.03 per page view for that user owing to Buzzfeed's excellent rates -- so a cool $0.60 for a 20-listicle binge.

The readers spent two hours, but plenty of people are willing to make that trade. Others aren't.

Free web services need advertisers way, way, way, way more than advertisers need those free services. If those web services can no longer provide value to advertisers, then those web services will need to start charging users rather than advertisers to fund the service. Else, you can lobby the government to fund GovernmentBook -- hopefully with co-located servers in that Utah data farm. Then, taxpayers will pay for a continually degrading monopoly service, and you'll get government ads instead of commercial ones. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Hmm, that's weird. I don't know why it happens but it does. I think that's an issue with VideoJS, you may want to open an issue with them. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. It doesn't happen on other movies, as far as I know.
Where is this magical store where you can get (say) American TV in non-potato resolution, the day after it comes out?
One word - Lawsuit

Every time any of this is spoken it is in terms of job security. If the place you are employed at is sued you could then easily lose your job. It happens not a lot but enough to scare every librarian. When I proposed we leave the $4 a book library management system to a Open Source Evergreen the words spoken behind the companies was hysterically wrong but enough to scare anyone from using them. Back then Open Source meant evil and bad to librarians due to companies selling them goods spreading FUD.
How is that any different? Right off the bat, it assumes I must know what argv, argp, wide chars and junction points are. Which is to be expected given it's a POSIX layer for Windows, and so you should expect a minimalistic Linux distro blurb would need some prerequisite knowledge.

You're on a vendetta for no reason that I can discern. Nothing about Morpheus' front page is hard to understand in the slightest.
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Read my Lawsuit reply in this comment thread.
No, but I'd probably go back to the shop and see if I missed anything else!
Releasing movies and TV shows simultaneously around the world would cut piracy a lot. That's one pretty clear criteria: the content is sold in a digital format somewhere but not in your home country.

Take the Sherlock TV series for example: who wants to wait for two years for a new season, and then an additional two months for it to arrive in your particular country? In Finland the series is shown on a state-funded channel who don't even get any money from you watching the show on their channel.
Read my reply where I start with

> Thus the semantics of "theft" do not apply
End users don't want simplicity, they want ease of use. Simple beautiful software is out there aplenty with diverse features, you just have to desire to use it.
there are literally millions of recruiters in the world. You think knowing a couple hundred means you know how they all act, or even a majority?
Is there a bank or credit issuer who doesn't act substantially the same?
Surprisingly, there are many quiet parts of the Conservative Party who think this sort of thing has gone on too long. Especially the (increasingly small) Libertarian branch. People like David Davis (the former candidate for party leader) are a good start. Ditto reach out to people in the House of Lords, whatever we may think of the institution, there are many very influential voices there. Baroness Manningham-Buller for example, though the former head of MI5, is actually a surprisingly strong critic of such surveillance. Esp when it's over seas.
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If you've worked in industry and/or programming PLCs, you've probably come across PID loops before.

Maybe not as accurate, but a simpler explanation:
http://plchowto.com/plc-pid/
Sure. That's roughly what I tell telemarketing operators. But a) talking about exploitation is still ridiculous; and b) what do you suggest? Do you propose passing a law forbidding unsolicited contacts? Via which channels?
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> Apps are no 99 cents.

Anecdotal evidence here, but I have a successful app on Google Play (which is commonly viewed as a less-willing-to-pay audience) at 5$+, despite the fact that the app is FOSS and you can download the binary from the home page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aprsdroid....
> Their work is available

Sometimes no, it's not.

Just this morning I was talking with TeMPOraL and we were recalling how the software market looked like in Poland in the nineties (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397694). My "walk down to the store" then would have to be to another country, a thousand kilometers or so; through two or three national borders. It's not that I didn't want to pay with what little money I had, it's just that there was no one who wanted to take my money (besides "pirates", of course).

This is the context for my statement above. Of course, it's rarely that bad nowadays, but it still happens. And how hard getting the content has to be for you to consider it not available? There being physically not one "legal" copy of Windows in the entire country (been there)? Is it enough for the nearest place offering content to be a thousand kilometers away? 500km? 200km? (and no, nobody wanted to even ship it via snail mail, because uncertain laws and such).

As for entitlement... well, that's trickier and I don't want to go there. I can only say that both sides of this argument have interesting and convincing arguments.
Because they're not going to rewrite or replace code that already has been tested and works in production.
There are tests that are done lab on chip but not everything can be done this way. Even a basic chem panel for your blood is 20 analytes. The mechanism for these tests are all different. Also the pre-testing prep for the blood is different. Some tests need whole blood with anti coagulant, some need serum spun down from whole blood, some need other treatments.

This is a 50 billion dollar industry. If it was easy to prick someone's finger and run an entire comprehensive panel you better bet it is not going to be found by some teenager dropping out from college. Sure software has been done like this before, but this is hard science and engineering.

If someone would have posted on HN that a college dropout without a computer engineering degree is making servers that run on 1/10th the power, people would laugh them off unless they really made one.

As mentioned too cost is a big factor. It is at the point now where a basic blood panel is reimbursed at the same cost as a meal at a fast food restaurant. Even if this technology was not vaporware, it would have to be around the same price.
I think it's so weird that cooking robots don't exist. Most tasks that you perform to cook are repetitive and mostly foolproof, and I say this as someone who trained as a cook. Certain things maybe can't be automated, like seasoning to taste. But I mean...It's weird that you can't throw a bunch of raw vegetables into some sort of box and soup pops out an hour or two later. Wash, peel, chop, heat, simmer, bam. Slow cookers are cool, but the actual cooking part is easy regardless, it's the prep which takes up most time and seems automatable. They obviously automate it at an industrial level.

Maybe there's just no demand for it.
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Great post on the structure of core files.

It feels like a lot of people have an allergic reaction to core files. (Maybe because they remind you that your program just crashed? Or because they seem to take superhuman understanding to work with?) What's great about them is that they decouple the debugging process from restoring service. In production, when something's broken and you have a hunch will be fine if you restart it, you can save a core file, restart it, restore service, then debug it. In dev and test, when another dev or tester runs into a bug in your area, they can just send you a core file instead of waiting for you to drop everything and debug it right away.