skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's worse is how snotty some of them get when you tell them no.
Yes exactly - imagine all that. Because its all going to happen. This is a watershed moment, with new opportunities both to help people, and to abuse them in new ways!
> The recurring pattern is that these people committing acts of piracy had a larger goal/conclusion in mind.

So an action by the likes of a nascent Spotify, cable company, or radio station (or whomever) is OK as long as the long-term ends justify the short-term means?

> The vast majority of pirates don't have such ambitions. They just want free movies.

How do you know what they want? Can you read each of their minds?
There is no reason you should be that badly paid up here. Look around for a new place.
You could keep Postgres in an immutable image, with only /var/lib/postgres in a separate volume. Upgrading the PG config would just be a matter of unmounting it, replacing the image and re-mounting. (Docker automates this with its "data volumes", but you can do it manually too).
My experience in the midwest is much different. I know of a number of folks who were hired as developers with no coding/whiteboarding required.

That said, I would expect an interview at Google or Amazon to be tougher. Given their name recognition, they can afford to be choosy. The vast majority of companies cannot.
I used to be product manager of a popular online dating site serving the German-speaking countries in Europe. I and my team were in New York, the developers were in the UK, and who knows where the servers were. Safe Harbor made it very easy for us to work this way, but if we had to locate the servers locally today I don't think that would be a big deal.

It didn't matter to us where the data was, and for that reason I don't think it's going to make a difference to customers either. You have safe harbor because the organization gives a shit about keeping the data safe, not because a regulation makes it so.
I need to disagree with you.

In my whole life pirate content was present, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I live in a third world country, with poor access to outside culture, and the culture present here is not that interesting to me (example: the most popular music genres, bands and groups all talk about extremely pornographic sex, and has heavy percussion emphasis, with little or no melody, the biggest national party is focused on that same music genres and debauchery).

When I was a kid, the ONLY way to get computer stuff, was pirate it, sometimes some shareware software was for sale for about 10 USD (yep, I paid 10 USD on a SHAREWARE copy of Wolf 3D, having only the first episode), even to get pirated stuff sometimes was extremely hard (to get a copy of Doom 1 and 2, my dad made some engineering services do Kia motors, and agreed to give them a discount if their CEO, that was a known Doom player, gave us a copy, the guy gave my dad a box with about 20 floppies or something).

So, just because I was born here, I have no right to have foreign culture? Because I was born here, I am supposed to settle for a culture about percussion music, debauched promiscuous sex and soccer?

I have no right to coding books? Research papers? European music of all genres (from french eletronica to austrian classical)? I can't see excellent TV series from UK (like Sherlock) and instead must settle for local TV programs with melodramatic plots that praise villains that are adulterous swindlers and con artists?

I seriously don't understand people that think that culture, knowledge and information is not a right, that think that poor people, or people from distant places must resign themselves to remain ignorant.
> Did you actually have a need for those products before hearing about them?

Yes. As a mater of fact, a prime example from earlier this week--I live in an area with very active clays and we've had a serious drought this year which has shifted foundations around like crazy--whatever, that's what active clays do and you learn to live with it. But the annoying part is doors that stick or won't close or closets that won't open. So, I fixed a few last weekend by putting spacers behind hinges and moved some strike plates around and was getting ready to learn how to plane the doors that couldn't be fixed that way and for the first time and I saw an advertisement for an "adjustable door hinge". Whoa. best. idea. ever. Test batch is in the mail and I have high hopes. Why on earth these things aren't stocked in the local Lowe's or Home Depot is beyond my comprehension.
Sorry. Here, have your information back:

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If you read this, you are a thief, you just stolen that information from me. Do you agree?
Arguing about labels is stupid, but so is misusing a word for financial gain.
Been doing the same. "Sure, ask them if they'll be able to give [1.8x-2.3x my current salary] and relocation." I haven't gotten any replies yet either.
This is Facebook's inmate account report page.

For me, it was hidden if you're logged into Facebook, with a message that says:

"This form is for people who can't log into their accounts, but it looks like you're logged in."

This makes it essentially unsharable.

Facebook is garbage, I'm ashamed I'm actually still on there.
This is actually true only for the US market and possibly the UK one. In other countries it's vastly different. Of the hundred+ books I have on my reader only three or four are coming from Amazon.
Hm recruiters are fine mostly for entry-level jobs. As time goes on, dealing with middlemen is increasingly irksome. Not only that, but then you need to deal with an up-to-30% paycut because of the middleman.

It's a shame really. At my last job we would invite recruiters to send us candidates for entry-level PHP/MySQL web devs, and largely they sent people who had been working with Wordpress too long, or only knew how to function in <insert framework>. The mismatch was worse than putting the ad out and filtering through the resumes, but it was less effort. I also saw some of the ads the recruiters posted, and I never would've applied because of a) wording (rockstar/ninja crap), b) ridiculous skillset (10 years PHP experience... really?).

So the author here is a little harsh, but largely on point. Way too much slime, but sometimes necessary if you're entry level
Because it's illegal is (IMHO) not a reason at all, on its own. I'll also agree that copyright is not an intrinsically moral concept, like material theft. However, I think copyright (in some form, not necessarily in the way it is practiced today) is a key piece of positive law. Absent of copyright, there is no reason to pay anyone for any easily duplicatable product, except out of the goodness of one's heart. Now, if those producing the content didn't need money (e.g. some sort of post-scarcity society) then I would see any kind of copyright as pointlessly restrictive, except maybe for some claim of (non rights reserving) authorship.

The sad fact is that we don't live in such a world, so some form of compensation for authors is necessary, if you want them to keep doing what they are doing. Copyright isn't the only model, but I don't see any practical way to pivot back to a patronage model, especially for content which isn't considered high art. So, I don't think it is fair that one should be paid for making cars, but not be paid for making software, since both consume money to produce. The fact that software doesn't consume (much) money to produce more units after one is produced means that the model of compensation may be different, but I don't think it means there should be no compensation at all. It is easy to go too far in the other direction (e.g. the behavior of record companies and movie studios, who exploit the real authors), but I don't think that invalidates the concept entirely.
Oh I'm not finished yet, but this is a hilarious read! Lots of moments I was belly laughing out loud at the author's wonderful use of metaphors.

Yeah in the USA, 2015 recruiting industry is far better than the author's depictions. I have no idea what its like in the UK.

The indian recruiting market is not unlike this.

Its still a funny read either way
In the fall of 2002 (after the dot-com bubble burst) I was laid off and looking for a job. One of the more memorable job postings had a requirement of 5 years .Net experience.
Hmmmm... I never took online reviews / ratings too seriously. Why would I bother about some random website?
Every place I've ever worked where I had any visibility into hiring, at the start of the search the company makes a decision as to who they want to deal with: hire an inside recruiter, retain a single outside recruiter (or several), or accept referrals from all outside recruiters. Once they've made that decision, when a recruiter sends them a resume, either the recruiter they're willing to work with and whose fee they've already decided they're willing to pay, or it isn't. In the latter case, they respond saying "we've got our own recruiting arrangements, thanks" and toss the resume. In that case, if the same resume comes in through a different channel later, they're under no obligation to the recruiter, and they'd be perfectly happy to hire you.

I suppose if they were working with a recruiter, and later ended the relationship, that could cause the problem you describe, but I haven't seen it happen (as a job seeker, a member of many interview panels, and as a hiring manager a couple times).

In theory, the recruiter isn't supposed to send resumes without the job seeker's approval, which means that when they do so, they've probably broken any agreement they have with the hiring company, so the company probably isn't bound by that agreement any longer. Whether you'd be able to convince the hiring company to take the risk of a lawsuit (that they'd presumably win) is another question, of course.
Yeah, this. I don't see how they could possibly verify that this is actually an image of BtK when the face is so obscured and the provenance of the image so uncertain. Kagin's is being very cagey about it too: "Any qualified individual wishing to review the authentication dossier and discuss the potential acquisition of the Billy the Kid Croquet Match Tintype are welcome to contact..."
I feel somewhat pleased that they mention the "Hacker News" community :)
How do they condescend? The phrases were undefined in the original email.
"You can put a DRM-free ebook on Amazon if you choose so."

Absolutely, and many do so. You can spot the ones that don't have DRM by looking for "Simultaneous device usage: unlimited" in the description.

Most indie books and some major publishers (O'Reilly and Baen have been mentioned here) don't use DRM, even on Kindle.

Blaming Amazon for DRM is pointing the finger at the wrong party, IMO.
I never made a dime or had any positive experience with Linkedin. Just recruiter spam and "friends" begging for endorsements... so I don't think you're missing out on anything.
You must have pretty specialised knowledge to look at that photo in the junk shop and say to yourself, "You know, that might be Billy the Kid. I should get this appraised."
"coupled with a kind of fog that comes with reasoning about your programs" - could you elaborate on this at all?

I've noticed patterns changing in my coding. I can't believe it's only just properly dawned on it's burnout related.

Thankyou for your valuable input =)
This reminds me of part of The Lathe of Heaven, which I just read after a recommendation on here a few weeks ago. Interesting that they can both start and stop REM sleep, from what I can tell.
>Oh! Well! I'm so glad to hear that all your friends have jobs, Cloud!

The funny part being that often it is the case that all of the tech worker's tech friends do already have jobs.
> "resume in Word format"

FYI, this will filter out a few companies as well. Qualcomm, for instance, insists on all resumes being Word or RTF for some reason.
Your advice is pretty off to be honest. I'm sure your grandfather was a wonderful man and I don't mean to belittle him by belittling your point, but what you're saying isn't helpful at all to OP. For example, I also got a job out of school, except mine was during the financial crisis at a company where I routinely was working 65-70 hours a week. My salary went to paying bills for my family, while I helped with my fathers foundering business because the economy was so terrible, and treatment for my mother who was having a breakdown caused by her having a serious debilitating illness. Eventually our house was foreclosed on. I remember packing all of our things into plastic trashbags the night that we were foreclosed on and waking up the next morning to go to work. I didn't have the luxury of stopping, even for an instant. We fought our way out, but it's not like I didn't come out of things unscathed. It's not as impressive as your grandfather and I certainly don't mean to compare myself to him, but everyone has a story to tell. You can't just wave one anecdote in someone's face to invalidate their experience.

It's a nice meme to say that burnout's all in the mind, but you don't know anything about OP, and you certainly don't know anything about the mass majority of people who've had to balance immensely stressful work situations with immensely stressful personal situations. Maybe you should be more measured in your words instead of being presumptuous about OP's drive or character.
Again, my advice is to take some time and learn the tools before discussing their strengths and weaknesses.

You missed more Ansible strengths, like detecting changes and restarting only affected services for example. Show me the idempotent shell script which does apt-get to install some dependency, updates some configuration file, and then starts or restarts a service depending on both the current state of the service (was it already running?) and whether the apt-get or config file change actuallly modified things.

Then scale that up. A lot.

There is even more. If you care to learn it before dismissing it.
Whether they like it or not, they're competing with free. The poster stated they prefer to pay for convenient services, but they have no qualms about free and convenient when they find the paid product is more inconvenient than the free product.

This is what 'content producers' are competing against. You may not like it, but that's reality.
Does vulnerability also affect Google Chrome's builtin Flash player?

EDIT: Answer is YES. The link provided by 0x0 says it also affects Google Chrome's Flash and there's an update for it.
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The POTUS already took sides and handed Apple a "get out of jail free" card in Apple vs Samsung.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-10-08/did-obama-ju...

Does this agreement do anything to address the double standard? Is a local dictator still allowed to overrule whatever findings a court makes?

I really don't see how this chapter will be enforceable. If it isn't enforceable, it's hardly free trade. We just enter an era where tariffs are now decided by a court and approved or denied by local government. Much more uncertain and potentially much more expensive that way. "Oh, you sold a bunch of phones? Well, now you owe us a billion dollars. Didn't plan for that? Sorry, take it up with a judge."
Rent seeking means taking a percentage without bringing any value. I'm on board with many of the complaints about Amazon, but it's clearly not the case to say they don't add value.

Of course many/most recruiters will also bring value, but it's a question of degree. If someone is recruiting for a technical position and they don't have the technical understanding to make any meaningful judgment of the candidate, it's reasonable to ask whether they are worth their fee. Obviously the extent to which that applies depends on the individual, the company, and the local business culture.
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Why not bring back the WPA? The program was enormously successful and was only disbanded due to the need to focus on the WW2 effort.
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No it is not a good idea.

The whole "we're protecting you" argument is a line of garbage intended to sway meatheads into thinking that being denied access to ownership and prosperity is a good thing. That these these opportunities should only be given to already wealthy people and that the peons are too stupid to understand concepts like "this is pretty risky, you'll probably lose it all, but if it hits you might make a bundle."

In the meantime, the lobbyist for every other way to lose your shirt have made sure that all the doors are open to everyone. The poor little peons too stupid to understand if Facebook might have been a good risk are still able to: blow all their money in Vegas, invest in penny stocks, buy Apple at a top and sell at a bottom, buy a virtual spaceship for $10K, buy a house with maximum leverage into a bubbly market, have $100K in credit card and vehicle debt, and on and on. There are a million ways to shoot yourself in the foot and they are all perfectly fine, but if you want to put $1000 into Google pre-IPO then WHOA we gotta protect you from that!

I don't know what world you live in, but the accreditation barrier limits investors to the top 1-2% of the US. Very few people make $200K/yr single, $300K/yr married. Plus they changed the net worth provision to exclude home value. How many people do you think there are that have $1M net worth exclusive of their house?
The security bulletin has now been updated, and says the update will be available on Oct 16 (today).
> in the UK, we're not used to people just lying directly to our faces

Ahem, speak for yourself. Go check out your local newsagent's daily national press shelves. Pages upon pages of lies and spin.

Hell, the Scottish versions of The Times, Express, Mail and Mirror group papers print contradicting headlines, one version for Scotland and one for England and Wales.

I hate to do the "we're less gullible in Scotland now" thing, but since the referendum we can spot bullshit from a mile off now.
Considering how long it took me to get a friggin' Covox Speech Thing (aka. Sound Source) "clone" working (aaages ago), I think I'll pass. Great workout for your soldering skills, though.

Can you get Tripath amps this size these days?
For some architectures & compilers, you need -ggdb, not just -g.
To me it seems pretty obnoxious that this O2 design has licensing terms. Most people just freely distribute their schematics and board layouts without a license. I would say that in the DIY community this "open source" amplifier would be considered more restrictive than nearly all others.
Why would we have only a hundred or so left?
You know what's funny? You are essentially confirming everything the OP has said.
Shameless plug here, OP:

My project prm [0] might be helpful in the case of project initialization, as frustration with this (and jumping between projects) is what spurred its creation.

[0]: https://github.com/eivind88/prm
When I was a freelancer in Germany (i.e. up to last year) most "recruiters" were scum. I can't speak about the ones that focus on permanent positions but nearly all of the "Projektvermittler" (i.e. glorified temp agencies) were trying to guilt me into lowering my rates for them (because they'd charge the client 2-3x on top of that), tried to get me to sign NCAs far beyond the scope of the project (which is legally unenforceable but backed up with serious threats that would make anyone think twice) and were about as dishonest and intransparent about the entire process as humanly possible.

Oh, and of course they would keep bombarding me with Java/XML projects just because my CV (which they doctored and redacted before sending it to the client) mentioned that I had once worked on a Java project (but specialised in something entirely different since).

The one project I actually followed through on turned out to be a total disaster. Other than that, all my work had been directly for clients without a third party -- and that worked out far better.

If you're an inexperienced solo freelancer and want to work for big corporations, sure, recruiters are the way to go. Other than that, IMO you're nearly always better off skipping the middle man and taking the entrepreneurial risk (which is fairly manageable if you don't allow the client to build up several months worth of outstanding payments).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9753537
If the server can parse served html, it could preemptively also send along other required assets (css, images, etc) before the client has time to parse and request them. This would help remove necessity for optimizations like image bundling.
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> Jack the ripper thought

It's not about what someone thinks. It's about arguments and principles that can be applied universally.

> he very much disagreed

It's not about disagreeing with arguments. It's about refuting arguments to show them wrong.

I am less sure than you are that Jack the Ripper has ever produced refutations to the universalized principled arguments against the initiation of force that so many have written about through the ages.

According to my argument, it would be fine to use lethal force against Jack the Ripper initiating violence, since it is morally OK to use violence for self-defense (according to universal arguments, meaning that all participants can abide by this principle without contradictions arising).

Without wanting to sound condescending, the difference between what I am saying and what you think I said is that you think I am considering the ego of the persons involved. What Jack the Ripper's ego "thinks" and "agrees with" is irrelevant. What is relevant is facts that don't involve the ego - namely, did Jack the Ripper produce a universalized principled argument to justify his actions? The answer, so far as I know, is no.

It's not about what an ego thinks, it's about whether an argument exists.
Are you suggesting Facebook is your friend?
>Clearly that part means, ideas are exempt from the possibility of theft, under the law?

Lets try again, because while I used "idea" in the Bernard quote to demonstrate how non-physical can be taken without depriving the owner, GP was talking about more than an idea, but a digital good:

Act:
An unlawful taking (idea or physical good)

Intent:
1. Dishonesty; (idea or physical good) OR
2. To permanently deprive (physical good only)

You would be right if the intent was only (2) with intent to permanently deprive as the argument, but that is not the case, it is OR (1) taking dishonestly.

Lets remove "ideas" and put it into perspective with a "good", for clarity. I steal your car and chop it up and sell for parts (a unlawful taking with intent to permanently deprive = theft); alternatively, I steal your car at night, go joyriding and return it in the morning before you even know (unlawful taking without intent to permanently deprive...would you say that is not theft? If so you would be wrong even though I never intended to permanently deprive, because it is an unlawful taking and my intent was dishonest = theft)
The ideology of the free rider.
I learned this a couple years ago. I'm not sure what's new about it now.
They can google farming techniques? Maybe figure out how to make clean water.
To your point on #2, Augur (augur.net) should overcome a lot of that risk. Probably not all of it, since the oracles can rule against your win, but at least you know no one can make off with your money.
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