skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are analyses that say many contradictory things. I haven't read that analysis and don't know whether I would think much of it. But let's suppose that if I did then I would be convinced that the economic effects of copyright extension are better understood as that type of protectionism.

That doesn't change the fact that I still have evidence that Disney is explicitly involved both directly and indirectly in lobbying for copyright extension. And they start lobbying for it like clockwork as soon as Steamboat Willie starts threatening to slide into public domain.

Therefore no matter what the economic arguments, I believe that the people actually changing the rules are changing it to keep Mickey Mouse under copyright.

That said, I think little of the position taken in that analysis. It claims that the public is forced to buy potentially-inferior modern IP. To the contrary, I believe that the public is free to not buy IP at all, but instead to find other ways to entertain themselves. In fact I believe that if modern authors and artists could freely draw on iconic past IP, they could create compelling new works drawing on the old ones which would increase consumption of IP. Thereby making the public happier AND content creators richer.

Therefore I believe that the net effect of copyright extension is to increase the rent that current content owners can get from past content at the cost of both the public and current content creators. (And yes, this holds true even though there are content creators employed by content owners.)

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As to "nobody benefits much", I remember one of the briefs that I saw for Eldred v. Ashcroft that demonstrated that over 99% of the possible present value of a work is captured by the author under the terms of the 1976 law. That is, if we take the possibility of public domain away and assign perpetual copyright to authors, we will not add more than about 1% to the compensation authors can expect.

Turning that figure around, today's content creators would be better off with the 1976 laws if they in aggregate could increase consumed commercial content by more than 1% from having full access to past content to work from. (Exactly like Walt Disney did with works like Sleeping Beauty.) I believe that this is quite possible. A number of economic experiments have found that increasing availability of free content increases consumption and ultimately increases revenue to artists. See, for example, http://www.baen.com/library/prime_palaver1.asp for one of them.
It is quite easy to make the case that breaking bad rules is moral. In this case, ridiculous region-based restrictions on copyrighted material are the bad rules being broken. These are paying customers, after all. Why should it matter where they watch what they paid to watch?
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Yes, in the UK version the person poses a risk of very real harm to officers. People could die. Despite this, police manage to subdue him, and arrest him. They can do this because an officer didn't shoot him within six seconds of arriving at the scene.
This is why I recommend Ruby over Python for web development. The difference between a blog posted code snippet and the wealth of mature, multiple contributor projects like https://github.com/propublica/upton
The Wikipedia articles related to computer science seem to be fairly decent, and have references that you can follow up for further reading. For example, here's the article on virtual memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory
If you use an actual VPN, and not an SSH bastion host, continuous deployment works seamlessly. You can use a client like Viscosity to ensure that you're basically always connected to the VPN. In some ways, this setup is actually more convenient than the standard "SSH to each of the boxes" setup.
It's a strange spectrum we now have in terms of business communication. The older population prefers to simply call you. The youngest population seems to prefer IMs or social media based communication (like company Facebook pages). The middle prefers e-mails.
Man you are a good troll. Cheers to you. I lol'd at the "Death in menial labor, while undesirable, at least prevents one from fattening the elites' wallets with their brains".
There are some people who are using "free basics" now that wouldn't have any Internet access without it. Now, you could argue and I'd probably agree with you that it's bad in the long term, creates a distorted market etc.

But if a foreign company offers a net subsidy to access a part of the Internet shouldn't that drive down the price of Internet access for everyone? I.e. you could access "free basics" and also have a complimentary Internet subscription that could be offered at a lower price since your Facebook traffic would be subsidized.
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The answer is yes. Because Disney did it with Snow White, Cinderella, etc. A more recent example is Tangled--all those stories are derived from public domain characters. Don't even try to make the case that Disney wouldn't have made Tangled if the length of copyright was rolled back to the previous standard.
When masses break rules it's often a sign that there's something wrong with the rules.
I think Altera had more to do with generic user modifiable compute. They have been working with FPGAs for a while now (http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/18/intel-mates-fpga-fu...).
https://threadmeup.com

We are a distributed custom merchandise fulfillment platform. We are profitable and growing. What more can you ask for?
So Oracle supports OpenJDK. They even hope to ditch their flavor of Java in favor of the open one. What's the fuss?
Do you have this up on Github?
It's really cool project with a ton of potential.
I'd be curious about your tech stack.

I really like the look of the UI.

I think maybe having sort of like a simple user profile like Github has, with a pic and some basic info would be good to. Along with the ability to make some recipes public and view other users.
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Totally. I'm the first to admit that I'm a lazy bike commuter and with a little grit could greatly reduce my commute costs.

The point I was trying to illustrate for anyone reading is that uber is cheap, not expensive, when used to obviate the need for private vehicle ownership.
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> more mentally ill

Nice stigma. People with mental illness are not violent; mental illness does not predict violent behaviour. That's about as offensive and ignorant as saying "has more black people and/or drug addicts".
Was there any discussion over implementing a hypercall interface for the userland and writing drivers in Rust that are rumpkernel-ready? Instead of writing yet another OS-specific network stack, be able to reuse the Rust drivers for BSD and all other rumpkernels.
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Anyone old enough will remember the time hard drivers were correctly marketed with access time in milliseconds as the main speed indicator. This ended around 1994() when pretty much all the drives reached ~10ms access time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_performance_ch...

I did a quick scan of old computer magazines (infoworld, pc mag etc).
It sounds like Indians are being forced to choose between two sides of a false dichotomy. Aren't cellular data networks realistic?
Aside from the usual difficulties in defining a word so politically loaded, this is a problematic heuristic. The Pan Am Flight 103 bombing was claimed by at least three groups, before being traced back to Libya. Gaddafi, for his part, didn't acknowledge responsibility until 2003.
The “more rigorous criminal checks” part made me laugh. (And the next thought in the article, which is: These “strengths” are real, but the stupid public is slow to realize them!) Ha! Before Uber, I took a lengthy (probably $40) cab ride (with a stop in the middle to pick up a friend) in San Francisco. Now, I stupidly left my iPhone in the back seat, somehow. However, I immediately realized this upon exiting, and immediately used my friend’s phone to call Yellow Cab with the cab number of the taxi I just exited to request they send the driver back. They said they would “try.” They failed, despite my follow-up calls and pleas. (And the driver could not have gotten far, as this was in a less dense area of SF.)

A day or two later, I made the trek to the Yellow Cab offices in SF (which took time, Muni + a good walk). I then spent a long time waiting to be seen, only to be told that Yellow was “just a co-operative” that wasn’t liable; and, infuriatingly, they refused to give me the identity of the driver in question. I had wanted to file a police report naming the driver.

I never got my phone back — or an ounce of justice.

This is not a rare or freak incident, as anyone who has ridden taxis enough times can attest. I lost another pricey personal item three years earlier in an Austin cab, and was similarly left without recourse when the driver failed to acknowledge requests for its return.

It’s obvious the accountability that drivers have in any ride-sharing platform far outweigh the supposed criminal checks done by slimeball companies like Yellow Cab. If that same driver tried shit like that on Uber, not only would his rating drop, but he himself would be dropped because Uber itself would actually give a s--t when a customer reported this sort of incident! (And they wouldn't have to hike over to Uber HQ to do so!)
Looks like it has already happened. Getting a "We were unable to process your request" - haven't done any more investigating though.
Ordinary people do this all the time. People have Chicago pizzas shipped to LA, and Lockhart barbecue shipped to Boston. When you go to touristy "destination" dining spots, they almost invariably have signs saying they ship food.

This being the case, all Magic is really doing here is helping you find out which restaurants will ship, and perhaps making some phone calls to arrange shipments that aren't advertised.
Sometimes I think i'm too dramatic because this kind of things really pisses me of, i mean REALLY, imagine all kind of artistic AND scientific works we've lost due to the stupid IP laws that the world has.
And don't get me started on acessibility, because the fall of these laws would give us a huge increase in globalization and acessibility to 3rd world countries.

Even, this things only serve to profit rich people based on blocking everyone from making progress, and by progress i mean both technology and art.

I sincerely think some action is needed for yesterday, we need to take this down ASAP.

Also, Aaron Swartz may have made me a little extremist about this.
Nope, you just install plastic tubing which you can then use to run the fiber. The US federal government has already passed the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act to that end.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/new-bill-wants-fi...
Not the same likes. At some point Facebook added a "like" button in the Messenger, which immediately sends a slightly-different thumbs-up. On Android it replaces the "send message" button when you haven't entered any text yet, and it also features as an action if you expand the new message notification. Both of these make it super-convenient to use it.

(Though personally, I don't use it at all; a thumbs-up icon feels disrespectful for me, I prefer to acknowledge by typing out "OK" or even a smiley.)
Yeah I understand it's entirely relative. I made that comment based on my immediate reaction. Compared to an incandescent bulb, LEDs are like the Lamborghini in my analogy
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Humor HN: 10 under 10 (Parody of Forbes 30 under 30)
uhm, js??
Among the many reasons you're being downvoted is the fact that you said black people are "only" 26% of police shooting fatalities in the US without acknowledging the fact that they make up only 13% of the population.
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While I happen to agree personally, perhaps this comment would be better with some explanation of why he's so far down the ladder?
Said overlord should probably avoid tinfoil hat territory.

You don't need complete accurate information to do any of that - just go to your local Wal-Mart, and count the number of pickups with gun racks.

Or check the local gun store's tax returns.
> Never mind the fact that trademark is a better fit for how they use it...

I'm not sure about this. I think trademark would prevent you from publishing a work and calling it "Mickey Mouse" or something similar, but it wouldn't stop you from producing work which incorporated Mickey Mouse somehow, and calling it something else e.g. "I Hate Corporate Mice" or something.
And where is the reference / source of this claim?
I'm kicking myself for not picking up one yesterday. Adafruit had a hundred available, but by the time I had found other things to let me justify to myself paying the shipping charge, they were all out.
For a guy who doesn't take himself too seriously, he sure creates a lot of sockpuppets to argue with his detractors and sing his own praises.
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Not here in Portugal (thankfully). Only shows for children are dubbed here.
Hi Nick,

No GitHub available, and thank you for the praise. As far as tech is concerned, NodeJS + VueJS + RethinkDB. I have a lot planned, but alas this is a one man operation, so I'll be releasing new features as quickly as possible. Certainly there is a lot to be desired regarding a more social aspect of it, but I wanted to nail down at least the core idea first. My initial intent of this was more of a private recipe manager, but I can see the appeal, as I've enabled simple "publishing" so far, which puts the most recent recipe revision on the front page. More to come for sure!
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I would buy an artificial candle that flickers when it detects air
Link to the paper:
https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/https-bicyc...
If you end up with the same amount of traffic as before, just at two airports instead of three, how does it make the airspace more efficient?
> You don't get to decide whether 911 dispatches police.

Maybe America should fix that, because in most other countries you get to ask for the service you want, either when you dial the 911 equivalent number, or by dialing the specific service emergency number.

Some countries have an emergency psychiatric numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu...
You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. Even in the full article they only mention a confidential source, which makes sense because even if it was real, it's very easy to cause a crash without leaving a trace in the app. For instance, the server might purposefully send a malformed response that causes the client to crash.

full article mirror: https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg
Haha I remember hitting the boss key in Leisure Suit Larry 1, I think it showed a fake productivity graph or spreadsheet or something. Surely no one actually used that to pretend to be working!
Huh, I thought the book was pretty good. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) I couldn't put it down for the first 500 pages. Things got a little slow in the second part of the book, but I thought the character development in terms of the races of Eves was a really interesting twist. You still "knew" the characters based on their ancestors. I do wish he had fleshed out the history of the Diggers and Pingers, but that could be an entire book in itself.
This is great, but not a "Show HN".
Part of the appeal for some people is just to get out of the house. You get to go somewhere and do something. Don't discount that.

I'm not big into movies and I don't care for the cinema "experience" at all but I do like to get out of the house once in a [great] while to see a movie with friends. The actual movie we go see isn't too important to me as long as it isn't terrible.
I thought they were emphasizing the fact that, under the previous scheme, authors had to do something to renew copyright, which meant that unexploited works automatically lapsed into the public domain. Under the current law, even works whose authors do not care remain under copyright.

Previously, the default state was public domain. Now, the default state is copyright. This means that for a huge majority of works, their remaining under copyright benefits neither the uninterested rightsholder, nor the public who are now prohibited from reusing the work.
> If you're a smart guy with Robert Heinlein and copyright is more limited to a few years would you ever have written Starship Troopers? Or would you have gone into something like the real estate business which can last generations and keep your children and grandchildren happy & fed after you're long dead?

Uh, you know you still get to keep the money you make, right? Like, we're not going to confiscate any unspent proceeds from a work after the copyright term is up. If you produce a work which is a huge success and makes you rich, then you're still going to be rich.
They did have the Global iPlayer going for a while, but it had a lot less current content, with some archive material. It also was only available on the iPad, and only available in certain markets (not the US, due to pressure from networks threatening to drop BBC America). It limped along as a public beta before being killed off half way through last year. Although apparently they're going to launch something else soon:

http://www.rethinkresearch.biz/articles/bbc-reawakens-plans-...

They say a BBC streaming subscription service is going to launch in the US this year.

Unfortunately I'm not sure the BBC have the entrepreneurial spirit to throw in their current international contracts, and try to launch themselves as a global network. I suspect they'll wait until the VoD market is much larger, which will mean that their competition will be very strong.
> I'm not advocating 14 years; I think 28-56 is fair.

As I said I don't agree with the current state of copyright and think
it should probably be much shorter, but it's interesting that
discussions on this matter are rarely backed up with data. Why do you
prefer 28-56 over 14, or 28-56 over 18-46?

Before you mentioned that "every artist on this list is dead" as if it
were patently absurd for copyright to survive the author. Maybe it is,
but to use my previous example why would a talented author is his 80s
with young children write another novel if that were the case instead
of going into the real estate business?

> Yes, a Starship Troopers movie would have been released with
> shorter copyright terms. It is cheaper to make a movie if you do
> not have to pay for the IP.

You have to factor in movie studios being reluctant to base their
works on public domain work because it makes it harder to create a
franchise out of it. With a big hit like Starship Troopers being in
the public domain nothing's stopping some other studio from releasing
Starship Troopers 2, or selling action figures with that name etc.

It's sometimes advantageous that a work you want to use is
copyrighted, because that means you can secure exclusive rights to
publish a derived work based on it.
Sounds like you got hustled. But it's a lesson learned, so at least there's some value there.
But they paid Alec Guinness very handsomely for his role.
I didn't understand the parent comment either. For what it's worth: this is the first project I've seen that really made me want to start playing with Rust.
Is someone claiming otherwise?
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This is probably the most idiotic argument against the critics of Facebook and it is not even original.
Looking at the rapidly flickering LED image I imagined an engineer showing the data to his manager, "well, a real candle looks like this: kind of sedate and boring." Followed by the manager insisting that it gets a little livelier, saying something like, "if people can't see it flickering they'll thing it's broken. Make it very obvious that it flickers. I don't care if it looks real. I care that people can tell it's flickering"
Interestingly, Mussolini also hated the book.
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I do not think that necessarily relies on cognitive dissonance.

For example, there are plenty of example you can point to of an American conspiracy to overthrow governments, but it is not not cognitive dissonance to believe that a particular American was not involved in it.

The only reason that this logic does not apply to Jews is that their is no central hierarchy to Judaism, however it is still possible to believe that there is a shadow organization that is running the world and happens to be Jewish.
linked in the article: https://www.theinformation.com/facebooks-android-contingency...
Chicago has great service to both airports. ~30 minutes to both o'Hare and Midway. So much better than dealing with the headache of a cab.
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Feature flags at Behalf via LaunchDarkly
I guess JS really is the new PHP
The lede in the source seems to focus on contingency plans for Android Apps around the Google Play Store. I suspect something is being misunderstood by the linked author.

EDIT: User gruez posted an image of the article here https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg. There is one line from a single unattributed source describing a "one-time experiment several years ago"
The lede in that story doesn't even mention intentional crashes, anything not behind a paywall?
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There may not be good and evil, but there is right and wrong (factually). Indeed, if I were to grant Hitler that everything he proposed as fact was true, then I would be complaining that he failed to solve the Jewish problem.
But the consent decree didn't impede the creation of non-web-standard crap, and in fact XHR was made after it was signed, so how did it help?

Remember that "the decree does not address any of Microsoft's applications software." It only regarded their dealings with OEMs.
If your need to get onto reddit is so strong that you have to do it at work and hide it, you have problems other than whether someone sees it over your shoulder.

If you get on reddit at work for work-related reasons, you should be fine - and if you won't be, this isn't going to help with the problems in your office.
>$10/mo. is incredible value for Netflix

Let's see what the price is when they are entrenched as a global monopoly with a vast catalog of culturally relevant content that you can't get anywhere else. It may very well act as Hollywood on steroids.
Sales? How much of an edge does being a competent developer anyway provide you when it comes to high margin software selling?
Why nerd culture must die (2014)
+1

Unless you legally restricted from doing so, there is no reason to protect these assholes. Tell everyone who did this and for which works.
The author has just decided to roll their own half baked script for some reason, there are plenty of libraries to help. Python is good for scraping, I released my own library recently[1] that I think hits a sweet spot but there are many others.

Python and Ruby have their places, I wouldnt say one is clearly better than the other.

1. http://tomforb.es/scraping-websites-with-cyborg
I think that was perhaps the reason they gutted our their cool queue system that was so popular. After they obliterated most of their catalog to cut the cost, people would have been horrified by number of things thatwould have dissapeared from their list. The current UX on Netflix is absolutely horrible. It's even hard to find your own list on tablet devices and do basic functions like prioritize it. The recommendations are same-old same-old stuff that never gets refreshed.