skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong, I have no love for the members of a 4 letter content producer organizations, or the over-expansion of copyright they push. My point is that copyright in some shape or form is important for less scummy players in the content business.

For example, the direction Patreon and Kickstarter are taking the indie media scene is very encouraging, but these little fish would be even more screwed if copyright completely evaporated.
Why would that be disappointing? (Unless you own stock..)
> Thus the semantics of "theft" do not apply

The semantics of "theft" absolutely do apply

Definition of theft: the act or crime of stealing.

Definition of steal: to take (something that you are not supposed to have) without asking for permission.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stealing

So the people trying to get through the not stealing it is copying due to a technical definition of theft are wrong. Stealing is having a copy that you didn't get permission to take.

My other ethics brain is wondering how NOT taking property but a copy seems to also allow sneaking into a movie theater, concert or sporting event to watch something. You are neither taking anything or even copying you are just watching. Is this also not theft?
Because the photo is purported to be from after the "end" of the Lincoln County War, my understanding is that Billy the Kid and the other Regulators were not hiding out when it was taken.
Little-known real-time standard impacts broad span of Java applications
I've live in New York and I've literally never been to a single bar or grocery store that accepts American Express.

Anyone know why this is?
ResourceD – Toolkit for helping DevOps to write automation tools
Hi all,

ResourceD is a pair of agent-master daemons that can help you write automation tools. They are written in Go.

There are several events in the past that inspire me to write these:

* Writing SSH based checks is annoying, HTTP checks are a lot quicker to write and there are plenty of tooling around HTTP.

* I want an agent that automatically take care of things based on conditions similar to Monit. But Monit DSL is somewhat limited, I want something more flexible.

* Nagios NRPE starts to show problems beyond 10k checks. I want something that can perform much higher # of checks (100k range) and backward compatible to Nagios Plugins. Caveat: ResourceD feature for alerting is not quite finished yet (almost there).

* I want a fast server facts database with easy-to-remember query DSL.

* I want to be able to export all sorts of server information to any graphing tools.

I hope folks here find this toolkit useful for day-to-day DevOps work.

URL: [resourced.io](http://resourced.io/)

Agent: v2.0.3

Master: v3.0.0
I agree; a zero of a film. Those that like it, were impressed by some actor/actress' performance (or they had the hots for them anyway). Not by the actual movie, which was a heavy-handed fable that thudded across the screen.

Though maybe I was blinded by the nonsense, to a wonderland of interesting screencraft. But I don't think so.
But did RMS offered some technological solutions regarding solving those pain points? The article sounds as if Amazon was the culprit here, but imho Amazon needs to comply with what publishers wants, and also to protect copyright rights of the authors.
I'd say the blame is on their editors for not caring enough for the authors to try selling their work wherever possible. If I can't buy their work, I won't, so they won't see any money from me. Whether I saw their work - from the authors' point of view - is irrelevant.
Or block flash on all except whitelisted sites using flashcontrol, free in the chrome web store:

https://goo.gl/Q0hLm
Specifically: http://dberkholz-media.redmonk.com/dberkholz/files/2015/04/h...

(Graph of mentions of popular CM/orchestration tools on HN.)
Can education tech be an economic engine for D.C.? This company thinks maybe
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for pointing that out and fixing the problem.
What blows my mind is how many people I know who watch football on Sunday on broadcast stations in SD because their cable box isn't HD. When I tell them they could get HD with a $20 antennae their minds are blown.
Sun's "desktop productivity" tools for OpenWindows supported core dumps really well. The file manager skeuomorphically showed a core dump as a red bomb. You could effortlessly double click on the bomb, and it would predictably attempt to load it into the XView text editor, which would then intuitively explode, replacing the core dump with an even bigger, more sophisticated core dump.
It fells like the Ouya console story all over again, except with an even more closed walled garden.
Whenever something like this comes up (item bought at flea market and the like sells for millions), this question or similar gets asked. But why is that? The purchaser bought the photo at $2, which is what the store priced it at or was willing to part with the item. That's the only obligation the purchaser had. Pay the store money.
"Hard drive from junk shop found to be from an old facebook server"

I do wonder how digital archiving will work in the future. Hopefully something better than "the archive.org volunteers decided to archive it"
Allot of people hunt for "treasures" in thrift shops, yard sales, and even auctions and then get them evaluated by more knowledgeable experts.

When you buy enough "junk" that just looks old and or unique you'll eventually hit jackpot, I'm really not sure that the guy who bought the picture knew exactly it's value or it's historical significance, he just might had enough experience to estimate that it's more likely than not worth more than 2$ and got really really lucky.

An original old-western picture could probably get more than 2$ on Ebay and the likes as just decorative art so even without it's historical significance it could've been purchased as an "investment".
Also see the FAQ, which answers (more or less) many of the questions that have popped up in these threads: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/faq-red-hat-acquires-ans...
Higher fees than the competition. Otherwise known as their "brand premium".
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They charge significantly more off the top vs Visa/Mastercard, and they want their money before you get yours.

I appreciate it because its good for me as far as consumer protection, but I fully understand smaller businesses not wanting to deal with the added expense/hassle.
For regular businesses, the transaction fees (both % and per transaction) are higher for AMEX than VISA or Mastercard. So a lot of small businesses don't take them.

With some processors, there's also a monthly fee if you take any AMEX, so it's better to not take it all.
Y Combinator will fund later stage companies
Show HN: Restful.js 0.9.3 is out. All is here to build some debug tools
There are entire classes of information use which are exceptionally poorly served by the present pay-as-you-go (if and only if it's available, for your platform) model: the poor, children, researchers, the unwired or poorly wired, those in poor countries (see up-thread comment), and more.

There's an exceptionally strong argument for a simple access fee or tax (built into broadband service provision or income tax, preferably scaled to wealth), for which you have all-you-can-eat access to content, with authors paid based on a pro-rated basis of usage of their works, based on some cost-of-production scale (algorithmic computer-generated music really shouldn't be rewarded on the same basis as high-calibre investigative journalism or technical research). Possibly even taking the concept of payment for work out of the equation and providing some number of professional slots rewarded on a sliding scale based on measures of talent or quality. After all, what matters in producing considerable content is occupational stability in doing so. Periodic (annual? More or less frequent?) assessments could be made to compensation, number of openings, etc. Yes, it's complex, but then, information goods are too.

Oh, and that argument's compelling enough for Amazon to consider it. Don't buy their DRM'd crap myself, but those I know are being offered $10/mo all-you-can-eat access. O'Reilly's Safari service has had a similar offering for years (though at a different price-point as I recall).
> Facebook's counterargument is money. Which argument do you think they support and will listen to?

The heavy hand of law! I don't understand why people are so worried about introducing regulation. Asking to argue against money is like asking to argue against gun. You can't have a meaningful argument with such an entity, because convincing on arguments assumes the other party is not a psychopath.

That aside, there are many options. I think "having a choice" is a good argument. Or they could allow to actually use pseudonym which you could link your real name or not (so the FB would know the connection but other people wouldn't).
Drivers still like VW
Accusations of shillage without evidence are not allowed on Hacker News.
The Young Thug reference raised an eyebrow for me
Steve Ballmer Says He Owns 4% Stake in Twitter
Amex charges higher fees per-transaction. Because they're a charge card, they make their money off the transaction fees, and not off the interest rates a card accrues. Conversely, this means they have to charge more on the front-end to maintain profitability.
YC takes on $700M to keep funding its startups
Of course it's true that there's no hard obligation to enable security research under new copyright regimes, but neither is there a hard obligation to crack down on it.

What there is in the TPP is:

* No suggestion anywhere that security research involving circumvention should be restricted or regulated in any form

* Affirmative requirements that new copyright laws make room in some form for fair use, research, and criticism.

You certainly wouldn't get that impression from breathless secondhand stories like this one.
You could use the internet on a web on a phone in late 90's. The post 2000 smartphone was more an evolution than a specific capability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_browser

EX: BlackBerry 850 (1999) was very email centric.
sidenote: puppet is migrating to clojure.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2687553/devops/puppet-serve...
Jinja is great as a templating language. I find yaml by itself to be clean and readable. Cram all of it in to the same soup, mix in the global variables, and it quickly turns into a nightmare. It takes what's already a problem in a dynamically typed language and amplifies it.
I re-read Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive a while back, and was absolutely struck by how accurate his view of the future was. I mean obviously many nit-picky details were wrong, but the general feel of what the 21st century is shaping up to look like is something he nailed. I consider him to be the most accurate and prophetic of all science fiction writers.

IMHO he went through a bit of a mid-career slump, but his most recent work is back to top form. The Peripheral is excellent. But none of it approaches the prophetic density of his earlier work.

His prophesy is not necessarily a good one... he achieved his incredible accuracy in part by being optimistic about technology but pessimistic about human nature.
2.5% transaction fees instead of 2%.

The average grocery store has a profit margin of 1% to 3%, from what I understand.
Is there any proof that a PID is worth it?
I'm not sure why we need to discuss the process, since the actual wording of the TPP's copyright section is right there for us to analyze.
Article references Costco getting bummed that their customers could use VISA in plenty of places and that's correct. However, I'm an AMEX cardholder and I've yet to run into a place who doesn't accept AMEX.

However, Costco is right AMEX is just a vendor and if they can find cheaper or better vendor with benefits then more power to them.
they also did a great Hounds of Love cover
Patches available: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
That might be unfortunate, but we've set fire to priceless manuscripts intentionally far more often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_...
> As a ""cybernat"" and Wings reader

Heh...me too :)
As a former librarian I say YES!

The typical librarian actually doesn't fight for the access of materials but fights to enforce copy right stricter than the copy right law even calls for. At my college I took down the sign that said "No Copying of Books" at the photo copier and I put in place the actual copy right law. I can't tell you how many visiting librarians were "shocked" I did that. Well we also allowed bottles of water and talking in all areas except the study rooms and areas that had doors, but that is another story.
Yep. As someone who had a very public coming-out a little over a year and a half ago, I can say that I wouldn't have been able to do it without Facebook.

All I had to do was post one little essay and change my gender to "Female" (and my name a week later), and suddenly I'm out to almost 200 people. It was so much easier than coming out to people one-on-one or in small groups, which I only did for a small handful of people.

A whole ton of people I don't really see much anymore like ex-coworkers and high school friends found out that way, and I probably wouldn't have been able to come out to them at all if not for Facebook.
Higher fees.

FWIW I live in Chicago and rarely find a place that doesn't accept AmEx.
Yeah, this struck me as odd:

> Who cares what card you have if you’re paying for your expensive meal through your smartphone’s digital wallet?

Digital payments didn't kill Amex-as-a-status-symbol, the productization and growing availability of credit cards of all brands did. A status symbol brand doesn't send unsolicited junk mail asking for people to sign up for its product.
Interesting. A similar thing happened when I moved to New York City, it might just be a new node appearing in a network.
Costco was giving away 0.6% swipe fees to AMEX. If they accepted AMEX as "just another payment method" without the partnership, that rate would quadruple.
They also offer credit cards. They differ from VISA and Mastercard in that they underwrite many of the lines of credit themselves (they make about $5 billion per year on interest).
Amazon allows and enables DRM on their ecosystem. They provide no easy way to search only for books unencumbered by DRM. As the largest seller of ebooks, therefore the largest promoter of DRM-crippled ebooks, they are a perfectly legitimate target for criticism.

Keep in mind, you as a reader are not the customer of publishers. Distribution companies are. They are who can meaningfully exercise the pressure to affect the market, not you.
If you buy a winning lottery ticket would you give part of your winnings to the store you bought it from?
[Off Topic]

I can't help but think this will help me win the internet.

Here is a photograph of Billy the Kid
playing croquet.

Therefore my argument is valid.
Most AMEX cards are credit.
I have been paying more than $100 a month to a cable company for a long time. So, I feel entitled to watch whatever I want, wherever I want because if I haven't already paid for it, I probably will soon.
In Dublin this is starting to ring true for me.

though i don't agree with classing them as reptilians.
They're trying to survive in a industry that forces them to things to survive.

I'm also skeptical this will last or will Tech bubble 2.0 burst soon?
Sending samples to reviewers. Announcements on relevant websites (such as HN). Making it available in catalogs and product search engines (Amazon, an app store, Etsy, Orbitz, etc) where people will encounter it in search results.

Aren't those all forms of advertising?
Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle
I think the problem the OP is pointing to is exactly where one draws the line between "this law is broken, backwards or wrong" and "breaking this law gets me what I want at zero cost with little chance of penalty."

Actually walking out of a store with a physical copy of a book (or a CD or a movie) is something most people would agree is theft, but making a digital copy of the same book or CD or movie without paying for it is... something else. By this point anyone on HN can enumerate the salient differences, which all revolve around digital copies having zero marginal cost.

The problem is that we too often ignore the salient similarities. The reason you want this particular book or CD or movie has nothing to do with the marginal cost of that particular copy. The bulk of the value always lay in the creative work; in digital media, all of the value lies in the creative work. If I want to sell you a novel and you don't like the price I've set, you'd never think that justifies walking out of the store without paying for a physical copy. Why does it justify you making a digital copy without paying for it?

DRM is a terrible "solution" to this problem, but I think its worst feature may be that its existence obscures the actual value of creative works by focusing attention back on the medium. My hypothetical novel's value, or lack thereof, ultimately has nothing to do with whether it's a trade paperback or an EPUB file. The principle of "you give me money in exchange for my work" remains the same even if my work is not fixed in a physical, tangible form.
Full Text of Appeals Court Decision in Authors Guild V. Google
I really would like to hear his opinion about this. Is this how he imagined Ansible when he started this project?
How can I incorporate existing LLC company in USA online?
I would like to incorporate my LLC company currently incorporated in Egypt in USA.. I want to know what is the best way to do that online and what is the best ways to open a bank account for the company online also without a physical presence in USA?
It seems like a hit piece from Bloomberg - someone must want AmEx's stock to drop this week.
Not really. Before AMEX, Costco had an exclusive deal with Discover. That's the definition of inconvenience. This new deal will result in a Costco branded Visa but Costco will be accepting ANY Visa card. For the vast majority of consumers this is much more convenient.

FWIW, AMEX has been doing the hard sell trying to get me to switch to a new card. So far, I haven't seen any offers worth my time. It's a shame really. I've been a cardholder for 15 years and even worked for them for a few years. Personally, I see no reason to continue the "relationship".
That form also includes a couple of very relevant fields whose presence should explain why this form is necessary:

> Link to applicable law or legal authority regarding inmate social media access

> If you're unable to provide this kind of legal context, please let us know if there are specific reasons why granting Facebook access to this particular inmate poses a serious safety risk.

It's not for shutting down the accounts of every inmate, just ones where it's illegal for them to access social media or if there's some kind of security risk associated with it.
Yeah, but I'm in the demographic being discussed in the article: I'm an AMEX cardholder for the sole purpose of being able to shop at Costco. The AMEX doesn't otherwise come out of my pocket, for the simple reason that there are places that won't take it and I'm too lazy to turn around and look for the sticker on the door. When the Costco contract drops, I'm almost certainly going to cancel the account.
Who is this author? This Erica Joy? Is she real? While the story told by the author sounds plausible and real. I can't verify if Erica Joy is the true author nor if Erica Joy is a real authentic person.

Before you dismiss me, I ask these questions because who's to say that some sexist white men realizing that women were organizing to stop sexism didn't come up with a propaganda ploy to cause division and diversion among women. How can I verify that this story and article is not controlled by someone employing a provocateur?

How did the extremely wealthy capitalists maintain more control and slow down the rise of the labor force? They pitted the workers against each other...

How can I verify Erica Joy (without spending vast amounts of time)?

EDIT: I see she has a twitter account. And her posts and info appear real. But think about it how easy it would be for some sexist white men to setup a web of fake information to infiltrate these media outlets in order to start a fake fight between white and black women in an attempt to keep women divided (and looking bad for fighting)?
Either it's a strange coincidence or someone spent a lot of time and care creating astroturfing accounts. All are old, have comments and submissions, seem like real people.
The Drone Papers - Leaked Classified Documents on US Drone Program
Awesome. Will watch this weekend. Thanks.
My ire was directed at those who (like the author of the post I responded to) pirate things just because of minor inconvenience (e.g. not available on Netflix). In the case where there is no way for you to get the content otherwise, we're talking about a very different situation. As far as I can see, if the content provider makes it impossible for you to access the content legally, then it doesn't make much of a difference to them if you pirate it or not. That is one huge disparity between a good which is easily duplicated and something which is not that I'll agree with.
There was a bunch of research when Facebook started becoming big around what could be determined just from who your friends are. Basically, Facebook can already figure it out based on who your friends are, even if you didn't check it off in their interface.
Yeah, it's as simple as that. When their product that is 25% more expensive than competitors and less useful (accepted at less retailers), they deserve to get knocked off their pedestal. No one cares about the Amex brand. They are a commodity provider in the payment market.
I don't know much about the English market, though I occasionally get their spam overflow. Still, I have to question how you regularly get into those kinds of relationships with anyone without being needlessly mean and disrespectful in initial interactions.

With recruiters here, I generally decline the job they were thinking of and tell them what I am interested given that it has to significantly beat my current work. After a few times back and forth, that eventually brings the conversation to an end. The nicer ones tell give me some local companies that wont pay third party recruiters but might be a closer match.

Really, I think recruiters naturally tend to over represent employers who are incredibly bad deals since the better the job the less often it is empty and the easier it is to fill for free through networking (I.e. you have employees who wouldn't see guilt/risk in recommending it to friends.)

Given that recruiters are sitting in that skewed perspective of the market, they should naturally get bitter and irritated with people who turn down their "best" positions while being rude throughout the process. Probably they also feel all the more helpless in their role since I can only imagine the bizarre feedback they get from their most rewarding/difficult/longstanding customers on what were "good" matches.

If recruiters were replaced by neural networks, it may kick off the first AI rights campaign to protect AI from poor input abuse.
Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps
The AmEx brand is—or, at least, originally was—aimed at people who don't care about the cash or discount rewards most other cards offer, and would rather have massages in airports, on-call concierges, personal shoppers, and so on.

Just getting the mystical Centurion Card (aka the "Black" Card) requires being personally invited by the company after spending at least $21,000 a month on AmEx cards. They have no credit limit at all, and some people have made multimillion-dollar purchases using them.
I might give them a tip if I'm a regular customer, but it's not as obligatory as tipping waiters. I think it is customary to tip the dealer when gambling, though.
For server-side frameworks. Agent-side development is moving to C++. Plugins for Puppet are still written in Ruby.