skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first claim is untrue - you must be the owner or their authorized representative. The good faith part only applies to your claim that the copy is unauthorized – you still have to describe the work precisely, and a responsibility to be accurate.

Here's a good intro:

https://www.copyrightalliance.org/2012/03/in-plain-english-a...

The law is far from ideal but a large part of the problem is the penalties for false claims are rarely enforced so there's been little corrective force against the companies which robo-spam claims. Additionally, companies like YouTube have invented additional processes which are often Kafkaesque and, since they're just arbitrary business processes, aren't subject to the normal legal process.
Is it really too hard to send some AT commands to a serial port nowadays? Talk about reinventing the wheel.
Node isn't a very complicated piece of software though... 30,000 lines of C++ and 20,000 lines of Javascript. We're talking about a top tier Javascript engine here that weighs in at closer to half a million lines (only a fraction smaller than v8) where open source efforts are already split over three other mature engines.
There's no reason why you can't have Heroku to connect to a RDS instance or a DB you manage yourself. It's not has easy as using the Heroku way, but not very difficult either.
I was pretty much living on German time during the conference, despite watching it from Australia. Even on a fairly pathetic connection I was able to stream the SD streams during the day, and the HD streams during the night. I was even able to fall back to audio-only via Skype for about an hour when they had technical issues at the start of the streaming.

World frickin' class, indeed.
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We've seen drone-cameras take off, including the
ingenius ones which follow you (e.g. Lily)

Literally have not seen Lily take off. It doesn't ship until summer.

GoPro is of course trying to diversify. The question is, what will their selling point be as the marketplace gets crowded? Will brand+distribution be enough?
I'll copy a reply I wrote to a similar question elsewhere.

This is a reply that was written in response to a comment on this post: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th...

And is copied from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/40uevh/lunatics_t...

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> The system is forced onto Canadian Citizens, there is no way to opt out.

This is not entirely accurate, you can certainly opt-out by leaving Canada.

Canada is a group that has chosen to play by these rules.

So long as the rules reflect the interests of the group members, there is no problem.

The problem occurs when a substantial portion of the group membership feels no longer represented by the rules and wants to play by a different set of rules (and mass-migration is not an option).

It is not about making taxes voluntary per se, but about allowing new groups to form. If a portion of Canadians wish to form a new group, separate from Canada, then they should be allowed to. They can opt-out of paying Canadian taxes, but they will lose all of the benefits that you refer to, and I'm sure they will miss them and therefore decide to implement their own taxation system that they feel represents their interests.

Does that address your question?

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Perhaps delay purchases for a year? I didn't realize switching manufacturers wasn't possible.
I'd recommend getting a different username on HN.

That aside, you just need to check the rules of the hackerspace. Many will frown upon using the hackerspace as a co-working space.
> Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Frena (1993) and Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. MAPHIA (1994). Both were held liable for unauthorized copies uploaded by users.

...in much the same way as Grokster and Napster, DMCA notwithstanding.
You have a chance to help change the way the culture works there.
Thanks to mobile phones we can at least pace around and talk to ourselves without appearing crazy.
Despite arbitration clauses in the EULA, there are people who can sue. The buyer of the device may be barred from suing, but other parties who suffered damages can still use. Roommates, guests, family members, people who live downstairs below pipes broken due to a Nest failure - they can all sue. They didn't agree to the EULA. Regular negligence standards apply. If you can show that a lot of the things failed all at once, that's a pretty good case for negligence.

This can also come up in landlord/tenant situations. If the landlord put in a Nest, and its failure caused the tenant problems, like having to spend the night in a hotel, the tenant can probably sue Nest.
Would you be willing to share which area you were in while in Australia?
Actually it's quite unlike car parts breaking. Car parts have infant/random failures and wear-out failures. These kinds of failures are usually a very small percentage of the total number of devices shipped.

Fitbit's HR monitor fails to provide accurate readings whenever you move on almost everybody. What they don't do is advertise that you have to be still to get an accurate reading. Fitbit is marketed in such a way as to make you think it tracks HR during motion, I'd say it's not the same as a car parts that break at all. It's more like lying by omission.
"It's really inexplicable. They have nice industrial design, good brand recognition, no shortage of money behind them, and they screw up at every conceivable turn."

Ipso Facto. They can't not screw it up.

A critical component of infrastructure should not be IP addressable. It should not be "on your wifi". It should not have a login or a password. It should be as dumb as possible and as simple as possible - and as anti-fragile to all of these events as possible.

It's not possible to have this "feature set" and not have this pain. It's a fools errand to pursue it.
> What if I dont want the regulation as a citizen ?

You move.
Here's why their Linux ports, at least for open-source won't necessarily become second class... if they're used and popular with developers... that's it.

The DevOps trend, and developer mindshare is paramount regarding their cloud initiatives... Azure AD and Office 365 will keep things floating, but only Azure as a whole will keep it alive beyond XBox...

Microsoft is very good at tracking and keeping with developer mindshare, as well as adapting. They're also a large corporation with many nooks and crannies, so there are exceptions to everything. The change lately is the acceptance that windows is waning... and they have to shore up other areas even at the cost of windows for the larger company to survive... this is a colossal shift that can't be underestimated.

As a result initiatives that may have never seen the light of day around .Net as a whole, VS Code (with great go and node support), and a slew of other nice things coming from MS would never have seen the light of day. I am surprised how much I like using VS Code on OSX, I switched from Webstorm and Sublime, even with some rough edges in es6/7 syntax support. DNX and .Net Core stuff has me considering .Net and Mono again when I'd all but written them off.

I was forced to work with Azure late last year, and after writing some simpler wrappers using some of their APIs have to admit that I liked using them more than AWS. It's really interesting that the less I rely on MS, the more I appreciate the work they've put out there.
My point was that they are equal from the fstrim perspective.
I wonder if VIA hardware could be supported. There are modern CPUs/motherboards coming out there, and even if they are on a different performance level (being embedded-focused hardware), in 2016 they must beat Intel-from-2009 and should get close to AMD-from-2013...

(disclaimer: I'm working at VIA)
Two excellent books on the subject are Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin (for beginners) and Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments by Ronald Doerfler (more advanced).

The Mind Your Decisions blog (http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/tag/mental-math/) has a lot of neat mental math tricks, but they're not really organized into a unified presentation there as in the books above.
I see your website doesn't work without JavaScript.
For a measurement device, "accurate" and "reliable" aren't binary conditions, they're continuums. Not every sensor in the world has to be medical grade. There are plenty of applications where a less accurate sensor at a much lower price point is the right choice.

Remember, I'm talking about situations where the company actually says "not for medical/diagnostic use". They're not trying to get away with selling lemons.

To use your analogy: If I sell you a small LED (say for use as a power indicator on a computer) and you try to use it as a desk lamp, you shouldn't be able to sue me on the grounds that "you should have known I was going to use it as a desk lamp and made it fit for that purpose". That's what seems unfair to me.
Exactly--it's about what your time is worth to you and what you would prefer to spend it on. These services make it possible to just be a software developer and not have to either hire or be a sysadmin. But if you can't afford PaaS or enjoy being your own sysadmin, that option is still open to you.
I have found that vim-go is effectively unusable if you are editing files over a few hundred lines long or on large projects. The time between :w and regaining control of the editor is just too long. Much of this is probably due to the execution time of the compiler for Syntactic checking, and has extended significantly in Go 1.5.

Colleagues tell me that neovim alleviates some of this, but during the time before that was stable I switched to emacs (specifically Spacemacs) with evil mode instead.
Not saying that you're wrong, but SD cards for example assume that they're going to be running FAT and make assumptions/optimizations based on that.
> with that addition, it's jaw-dropping.

absolutely right. So for instance, it's the difference between a high-quality mechanical watch costing $5K versus one that costs $100K.
AJ+ is all the worst things about social media. These bite sized share friendly hip news clips about complex issues lacking tons of context. Their Israel coverage is fucking terrible. I have to hand it to them though. They are very clever for coming up with it.
And how many of these anecdotes do you have going here? BTC is not simple enough to allow regular people to send remittances to other countries.

Also you're willfully ignoring the fact that Bitcoin doesn't scale. Are you telling me that people who send their money overseas are going to wait for BTC to process their payment which may take an insane period of time seeing that right now Bitcoin can only process 1-3 transactions per second?

What is in place right now works fine for those who want to send money overseas to their families. Hell, it doesn't require a day's worth of electricity consumption by an average home to do so.
Wouldn't an android phone be a superior platform for these kinds of things ?
Older modems are /dev/ttyUSBx or /dev/ttyACM but newer modems might be using the MBIM [1] standard and don't really expose AT interfaces to the user.

1: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim...
Haha, yeah it's a one-page app. And truthfully, we regret splitting up the front-end/backend-API in the day 0 of development. It slowed our dev pace down. Lesson for startups, start with a monolithic app, split it later.
Needs bash and gawk, bash you can avoid by changing

cmd = "bash -c 'read -n 1 input; echo $input'"

to

cmd = "saved=$(stty -g); stty raw; var=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null); stty \"$saved\"; echo \"$var\""

all credit to izabera from #bash on freenode
The First Sunday Doomsday Algorithm is the simplest way to calculate the day of the week for any date in your head.

http://firstsundaydoomsday.blogspot.com

It brings together a bunch of great mnemonics, like the new "odd+11" rule for calculating the 2-digit year code, as well as Conway's classic "I work 9-5 at the 7-11" for the month code.
> will run for 30 minutes

And thus a challenge is created.
>That they aren't publicly sheepish about it suggests that the guys in charge don't even notice the differences.

My impression is that part of the 'being in charge' job is not acting sheepish, no matter how bad your product is, unless you have a solution that is dramatically different at hand.
Hey, maybe you're the right person to ask - why does `arguments` so easily deoptimize in every major engine (well, V8 and SpiderMonkey, at least)?

It seems that engines could easily detect the most common munging of `arguments` (such as [].slice.call(arguments), Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments). Array.from(arguments) and the like) and allow those to be optimized. Doing so would speed up a very large amount of code.

Do you have any insight on why that still has not been done after so many years?
Here is some sage advice: don't worry about it.

A good leader doesn't have to be best friends with the workers. Do your best work for your team, and hopefully they will respect you.

Make friends outside of work. Are you married? Somehow it didn't sound like it? Are your workers married? I used to be the most gung ho person in my office, and didn't relate well with my married coworker that had children. Now I am married and I see how priorities change.

Bottom line, chin up. You are obviously good at what you do, so just keep crushing it. And don't believe everything you read on HN
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Oh the stories I could tell you of some old Nokia phone that was actually in a datacenter for an app I worked on. There was no cell reception in the new datacenter location, so that method was decommissioned.
And Deis, Kubernetes, CoreOS/fleet, Tutum, etc.
Yep, that's Irene.
Hmm. I'm probably going to have to rewrite or supplement the essay to account for these other dimensions. So, what do you think of it's primary intent to show that belief in security or no subversion come down to trusting a reviewer and methods put in rather than source access? In general rather than for, say, a project whose source you personally would review in full for every kind of security issue, etc.
Nest could fix this easily by including two fixed-temperature safety thermostats, devices which cost about $0.25 each. One is hard-wired to turn on heat below 55F. One is hard-wired to turn off heat above 80F. With that, no matter how badly they botch the software, the temperature will stay in a safe, if not totally comfortable, range.
Why do we insist that good people must be punished for doing good?
You should be supporting good works, not sacrifices
Hmm. I wonder what kind of person I'd be if I had the privelege and luxury to be by myself without having to talk to anyone or be a slave to mt phone, for ten damn days. Imagine!

I want to go to there!
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Quoting from within your self-quoted reply:

Does that address your question?

Perfectly, thank you. It seems we're rather in agreement: play along, or don't — where "don't" isn't just a matter of not paying taxes, but still using the roads, or whatever. I'm, personally, not interested in going back and forth on the notion or merits of internal secession, or "home rule" or any of that; that's orthogonal to the point I was trying to make, and with which you appear to concur.

EDIT: But, for the record, I agree that it should, in principle, be possible. In practice, I think it's a far bigger deal than pretty much anyone who'd want to undertake it is probably prepared for, and that's likely part of why it's not allowed. Vanishingly few people have the resources to start their own wholly self-sufficient society.

Further, I submit that many, if not most, of the people who would want to would be doing so in order to perpetuate some prejudice or other. Witness the neo-Nazi group that tried to take over a town in North Dakota as an existence proof of the phenomenon. That's the kind of thing you'd explicitly have to allow, if you pursue the concept to fruition.
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Here's the thing about a con artist, "there's no cheatin an honest man"
Palantir sells tools to tyrants. Why would they care about preserving their local community?
The bug probably affect the Nest's ability to do low power charging using the fan wire. Evidently, as long as the fan runs, the Nest will charge at a lower rate than you get with the common wire hooked up. That is, unless you release some bad code and didn't do a full CI/CD run on a test unit and wait 2 weeks for the battery to go dead to figure out there was a bug.

Which hit me on the 8th at exactly 9:29AM. It was FREEZING in the house. Dead nest. Took me about 10 minutes to look up the issue and 5 to hook up common.

Any code that touches battery or recharge methods should throw a red flag immediately and have a 1 month wait time slapped on them. Also, there should be a dedicated Test Nest for each release known to be "in production".
200 years ago when IP had volume costs associated with it, where there was no way for creator to interact with consumer, they were useful. Flawed, but served their purpose.

Today, the purpose is lost, and the use is exploitative.
Nice write up! Thanks for sharing. I attended a similar retreat in Australia and it's definitely a nice way to decompress and reflect.

However trying to bring it into everyday habit/life is a lot harder. In the end I found that isolation tanks/floatation filled that need perfectly. My write up here: http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/local-california/float...
Have you tried floatation?
"I guess people using BSD... burn an image to a USB stick..."

I always thought "burn" referred to optical storage like CD-ROM?

Not sure about others, but when I do BSD installs I do not have to click any buttons. I do not need a mouse.

I can lazily use something as small as an 8M stick for the install image. It couldn't be much easier.

With the size of today's RAM (500M+), using the install image I can make the custom image with my personal kernel configs, utilities, and settings entirely in memory without needing to write anything to a HDD. Then I just dd the image to the removable media. That is the slowest step.

My custom images are quite small too, under 16M, and need no access to a HDD. The system runs just fine in RAM, no swap.

I guess I could do the same setup with "Arch" but I imagine it would take considerable work undoing pre-configurations based on assumptions about how I would want my system configured.

Easier perhaps to just compile my own custom Linux kernel and "initrd". Build from the ground up.

I like the flexibility and control with BSD. Not to say Linux does not have flexibility and control, too. It certainly does. I just rarely see ordinary Linux users making use of it when installing. Instead many if not all decisions have already been made, and everything is pre-configured. "One click..."

Kudos to the OpenBSD folks for the network drivers.
In my experience you pay a ton more for the same amount of resources when it's PaaS so it makes sense that providers are going to push that over just configuring your own blank VMs.
During the debate of the DMCA the media lobby was bribing congress to insanity to make sharing copyright material online a felony, and that any site enabling it be liable as an accomplice and enabler.

We might not be in great shape in terms of intellectual freedom, but things could have gone much worse if big media got their way.
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Yeah like when they removed macros /sarcasm

Sarcasm notwithstanding, that was a terrible decision that still annoys me almost daily when I want to automate a repetitive task in the text-editor.
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The effect of fragmentation on file systems on SSDs is minimal, and fragmentation is not related to TRIM. http://askubuntu.com/a/537211/1624
The user experience on the Surface machines is pretty good right now. I would be very interested to see how Apple would end up doing it too.
I meant that it's a spec, my point wasn't perfect, but there really aren't OpenSource chips.
JSP is simple, functional, and has already survived longer than most trendy JS and Ruby frameworks ever will.
Unlimited containers and meteorapp.com hosting for Galaxy Developer Edition
I don't claim to be an expert but I have a forced hot water system (converted at some point from steam) and AFAIK it uses a "standard" thermostat. At least when I upgraded to a Honeywell programmable thermostat 15 years or so ago, I don't remember it being anything unusual. I bought a thermostat at the home improvement store and an electrician who was doing some other work installed it.
It's possible that experiencing the extreme makes the "milder ways" much easier to make a habit.

When you've just meditated for 11 hours a day for 10 days straight, 30 minutes a day seems like nothing.

I think the retreats are often just a way to gain perspective or a "crash course" that you can then apply to your life once you leave.
My yard, should I decide a drone is a bother, might just become sort of a hazard. Odd failures here and there.
Well, all great, but my issue is 15-30 minutes per purge or distribution update and also the inability to have to distributions with the same CNAMEs and switch easily between the active. Anyway, this minor update is welcome!
The military knew. That record didn't need to be sealed. What you friend went through was most likely a diversionary program. Proceedings were stayed, and eventually dismissed, prior to him being formally charged (or convicted, depending on the exact procedure). So there is an arrest record, but not a conviction per se. The military doesn't take issue with arrests.

That said, someone in the military looked over the case and oked your friend. Someone knew. A judge cannot force the army to take someone they don't want, nor hide information from them. The army is also not a dumping ground for criminals. Someone saw value in your friend, something that the military could use. He probably did well. Most young recruits from such alternative enlistment paths work out great.
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You can't blindly trust automated tools. They also don't replace protocol.
Interesting...that's a pretty small boat for nuclear deterrence (not that it needs to be big). Depending on which web site you believe, these guys are somewhere under 2500 tons displacement. The US Ohio class nuclear deterrent sub is about 10 times as big. Different strokes.
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The old have lots of money and political influence, and a money making supermachine (look at Disney's copyright lobby, and then look at their box office revenue this year, and then consider they own pretty much a huge portion of all entertainment period) to fund perpetual bribery of politicians to maintain or further enact their will (see: TPP).

This is not something that will organically happen in our lifetimes. If it happens in the next fifty years, it will be a divisive war, not a slow decline. And at this moment there are four camps - the ultrarich perpetuating the system for profit, the apathetic masses that make up 99% of the population who do not care, do not know, or do not give a damn, the portion who defend the old guard on false pretenses that because this is the way it is this must be the only way that works and thus the best way, and lastly, in a tiny fraction of a fraction of people, who do not have the power or influence to push reality onto the rest, are those who fight against draconian IP policy.

It will take a lot more involvement and effort to actually reverse the tide. If any of the new age free thought IP out there ever became a tangible threat to the established media empire, it would be swallowed up instantly for the time being. And those in power are not unaware - there is a reason these companies are spending a large portion of their war chests buying patents and IP themselves, to produce an endless morass of bullshit ownership of ideas to drown anyone who threatens them in.
A home costs more than this in California...