skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under this interpretation, wouldn't (say) a collection of Facebook photos with statues, in aggregate, constitute a database and therefore become illegal? At what point does the size and structure of a collection become sufficient to cross the legal line? Would an individual Facebook user therefore be liable? Would Facebook as whole? etc.

It seems that the law has created the unintended consequence that the organization of the depictions in question matter more than the actual depictions themselves. Or in other words, of imputing commercial intent to any such collection of copyrighted works, whether intentional or otherwise.
Having kids speeds it up... Totally worth it though.
I did mention the possibility of Polynesian contact in my comment. But neither this nor the Chinese contact has been comprehensively proved, especially not with archaeological evidence.
Don't forget "flyover states", to be uttered in the same tone of disgust as "southerner"!
Well I was pointing out his logical fallacy in assuming I supported someone because of where I was from. That is a ridiculous assumption, so I made an equally ridiculous one, which he immediately understood. Then we got on really well.
And there are 999 people competing for a $100/hr job, and 1000 people competing for a $1000/hr job
TextExpander has always been straddling the markets of "casual consumer with $20 to spend on an app that reduces pain" and "professional customer willing to spend $199 to reduce major time costs." It looks like they've decided to focus on their professional customers... I hope that this works out well for them.

As someone who doesn't need $5/month of TextExpander services, this also leaves me in the market for a new solution.
> Newfoundland is an island! I understand that there may be an implicit assumption that they most likely had to touch the continent before getting there but this isn't neither a fact (only a speculation) nor "much further into the continent".

Then look to the Icelanders that made repeated trips over hundreds of years to the east coast of Canada (Labrador coast) for timber & trade with the locals. Newfoundland is interesting because it was a permanent settlement, however brief.

But by that logic I suppose we should stop considering British history to be part of the European tradition.
I still don't think Windows will become the best dev platform for everyone even with Bash support, even though it is a great addition to the OS. But I think Microsoft is headed the right direction.

Windows really needed a better "native" CLI. This truly solves that issue.
True - it's impossible to know every detail of his situation. That's why I put the disclaimer about his health. Regardless of those things though, for most people making a decent salary, they can put themselves in a good position for most scenarios by:

- Saving as much as they can of what they're earning. Ideally at least 50%

- Avoiding debt

- Investing their money in low cost index funds
I'd like to see a concrete defense of the position that going into management gives you greater influence on the outcome of situations. I'm inclined to believe in this quote from "Days of Thunder" (1990):

Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099371/quotes)
When I moved to New York City after living in Florida and North Carolina, I was really surprised at the blatant bigotry here. I've had people respected in this industry for their open mindedness look at me without irony and ask me if it's really as bad as everyone "down there" calling everyone else ... (looks around nervously) ... the N-word.

Todd Barry has a great bit on this (language might be offensive to some) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNnM2aYsWo
I worked at Yelp, and I've lived here for nearly a decade, and I'm here to tell you: there are maybe ten decent restaurants open in all of SF at midnight. On a good day. You're screwed on a Monday night.

Even if we lower the standard to include fast food and/or greasy post-drunk food, the number jumps to perhaps 30, on a weekend night. So there might be a late-night restaurant in every neighborhood, but there's definitely no more than one. If you want something good, you need to eat before 9.
If what others are saying about overheating is correct it's surprising it happens so soon, as Laguna is only a couple of miles.

Then again, the car is probably configured more to cruise at a constant speed instead of hammering around a circuit with lots of violent speed changes
Beyond apps: What's the future of mobile?
I tried both recently and noticed that some drivers also use both. Depending on time of day, demands, other factor they will alternate between being Lyft drivers and Uber drivers.

Also noticed Lyft-only drivers are friendlier or just more content. Is it because they encourage tipping? Some claimed because company treated them better (those who started working for Uber). One driver switched recounted he picked up some scary drunk and disrespectful passengers when working for Uber and he found little recourse by talking to company. So that was the moment he jumped ship.
No. Street View does not offer a list of all artwork, and a way to find the images of them. Thus it would not fall under the "database of artwork" umbrella mentioned in the law. There is no metadata such as author of the work etc. that would make it a database of artwork.
No you can't. Those $1900 apartments of 2013 are now $2500+. But still, there are far more options in the NY metro including those with reasonable commutes. The Bay just seems like a big headache if you don't work near your home.
Lest you think that this is some oddity that does not happen in the US it is an issue in Portland, OR. The Portlandia statue [1] sitting in public display and on a public building. The artist retains copyright. Raymond Kaskey, the sculptor, sued the studio that made Body of Evidence which used the statue in the background of some shots and won. While I can understand the artist's desire that the work of art is respected and the high likelihood that chotchkies and such would not pay to use the likeness. It is at conflict with fair use and parody.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(statue)
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My biggest regret as a programmer is having to work for businesses who neither value nor understand the software development process. Who simply aim to milk, milk, milk and milk some more till you ate burnt out and sapped.

Programming itself, I will never give up on.
I make nearly 3x the median income of my area but my expenses are far from being in a state of luxury living. Housing is one of the highest in the state here due to price inflation by retirees (cash buyers drive prices up which is counterintuitive to me) as well as the sheer lack of housing inventory let alone ones affordable to the service worker caste. Then comes my spouse not working in a lucrative field while medical expenses keep accruing for various maladies that years ago would have been as alley percentage of income. Furthermore, my parents are aging and will likely need support in time or capital as well as my spouse's which can preclude me from taking opportunities that require a lot of continuous time dedication or are intolerant of random, non-negotiable interruptions. Constantly moving for my household to try to find living situations that can balance both our careers is extremely difficult (not so difficult if both are fine wine metro areas but then living costs go up once again quickly).

But beyond that, if you can't practice appropriate fiscal frugality to meet your long term goals (really common I've found) you're looking at increased expenses on luxuries like island vacations, eating out frequently, discretionary travel in general, and so forth.

It's really hard to explain to those that are typical American consumers how you could earn $180k+ / year but are trying to live like you earn $60k.
why not just move this project outside of the jurisdiction of Sweden?
Well, in the 3rd century BCE, Eratothenes calculated a fairly accurate circumference of the earth. I don't know how widely accepted this measurement was, but, given that measurement, and the general distribution of land vs ocean observed by the ancients, it's not a huge stretch to assume that there must be something out there on the other side of the world. Some of the early world maps were remarkably accurate, at least for the areas that were well-known to the geographers, even given the very limited tools at their disposal[1].

There's also the curious case of the apparent Roman-era shipwreck that was discovered off the coast of Brazil[2]. It's a little tinfoil-hatty, and possibly a hoax, but it is interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

[2] http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1042040/pg1
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>No, I mean closer to Segregation

lolwut
He wrote the same stuff two yrs ago (look at his blog entries). That he now gets to the first page of HN shows how many more people resonate with his feelings. More evidence that capitalism neglects humanity. Though it is so far the best model for quantifying human interaction, the code of capitalism needs to be revised to adjust the quantities transacted. Long term value needs to be added into the calculation of price. Perhaps deep learning and big data (big learning?) can provide these adjustments.
Indeed, in this presentation given by Geoff Hinton[0] (video uploaded 13 oct. 2015), a similar system to this is explained very simply. And by the time this was recorded, and how it was presented, I get the feeling it was not ground-breaking or cutting-edge -- but still a very good example to show.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOMKXAw5VA
Tensorflow + Inception is about this accurate. For high level categories and popular items it's pretty good, but if you want to dig deeper (e.g. identify the type of animal in a picture) it'll need more training.

Google Photos is a lot smarter in that it can identify what a set of photos contains. As an example I noticed all pictures of my graduation (which had no metadata saying it was that) have been grouped into a 'Graduation' album. It's also kind of scary...
Very possible it's obvious and I'm just not seeing it, but are there examples of (static) streams and related code the maybe processes to get a sense of the workflow, data, code, etc.?
The current borders are irrelevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire#/media/File:WestAf...
Lua is widely used and well respected in the game industry (WOW for example [1]), for its efficiency and embeddability.

[1] http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua
The law allows photos of artwork as long as the photos are not part of a catalogue of art. And Street View is obviously not an art catalogue.
George W. Bush played up the good ole boy from Texas image. Even though he was from a wealthy East Coast family and went to Yale.

He was definitely trying to project an image of being from a lower social class, and he played to issues that lower social classes were more likely to support.
"Never mind that the grid is getting cleaner all the time."

Ah yes, the typical Tesla rationalization that attempts to excuse present-day behavior.
Clinging to this rationalization is the equivalent of murdering someone and then saying "don't worry about it, in the future homicide will be legal". No, homicide is illegal today and you're going to jail, and no, the electrical grid is made up of about 70% fossil fuels and you're heavily contributing to air pollution.

Not only is the amount of pollution from the electric grid important but also the basic economics that come with it. Any adult with half a brain can understand that as the usage on the electric grid increases, the incumbents gain more profits (coal, gas), which they can then reinvest into their infrastructure, in effect reinforcing their current entrenchment and preventing progress to a cleaner grid.
This is very true. I had my first full time internship last summer and although I wouldn't say I was unprepared, it opened my eyes to all the things I don't know. Code reviews take some getting used to when you're coming from a purely academic world. From reading hacker news I knew there would be blindspots in my education. It felt good filling in some of the blanks.
Background there is a Swedish highest court ruling that bans photos of copyrighted art.
http://www.thelocal.se/20160404/wikimedia-breaks-copyright-l...

It has not been tried in the European court yet so it may not be illegal in EU if the EU court over rules the swedish court.
Can you come up with a better analogy on the spot that would have worked in that situation?

SEJeff obviously isn't saying that Trump support and IRA support are exactly equivalent. He's saying they're both subgroups in a larger population that outsiders stereotype as representing the entire population, to the disgust of many of the people stereotyped. It's an excellent analogy because it references a situation that's intimately familiar to the person he's speaking to.
Definitely exists. I remember seeing a post a few years ago about a porn site that had "Type in these characters to get the next image" and had people solving captchas for them.
>respect that soldiers aren't actually responsible for said wars, and are doing a horrible job in horrible circumstances.

This doesn't really hold up, there are more dangerous jobs than "soldier" and they get no respect. No holidays. No parades. No ceremony.

Militarism is a cult.
Isn't the police recording itself increasingly? In jurisdiction where it is the case, surely there would be no reason to ban third party recording?
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Why's that? Assuming all the info is public, they've done what any person could reasonably do.

Put another way, with absolutely no snark or malice intended: Information about you is not necessarily owned by you.
The most common reason for a data breach at companies
It would be fun to reimplement Lua in http://terralang.org/
I tried to find the original source of the quality-vs-quantity pottery class story a while back. I think it originates in the book "Art and Fear" but in that book it reads like a parable rather than a factual event. I'm highly suspicious of whether this event actually happened. Anyone have solid evidence?
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I find it interesting that many of these types of cases seem to be unique to Europe while the US seems to get the brunt of the copyright criticism.

Why is this something artists in Europe sue about? Do they want their work hidden?
re Debian: your best bet is one of the chroot on Android apps. With some more skills you can get closer to just Debian on a phone that shipped with Android. Unfortunately with the way mobile devices are created, you'll probably never get a new device from mass-market mobile device vendors that will run mainline Linux and so Debian will never support mass-market mobile devices. OTOH, you can run mainline Linux on ancient devices like the N900 or on expensive not yet built devices from non-traditional phone makers like the N900 or Pyra.

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile#Articles
http://elinux.org/N900
http://neo900.org/
https://pyra-handheld.com/
In this case it's BS, but NYC has plenty of budget for this project they are just spending it on other things.

In the wider context it comes down to politics. A congress critter can buy more votes per million in Georgia than New York. Thus, wealthy areas trade political power for money. Arguably, most people agree with this by caring less about a subway stop than healthcare reform or whatever.

Also from an economic standpoint shrinking NYC is a good idea. We are better off spreading investment to other areas than trying to build ever taller buildings and ever deeper subways. People look at the 'big dig' as horribly wasteful, but large projects in huge old city's are simply vastly more complex.
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If you don't find value in a product, don't pay for it.

If you find value in a product and they charge for it, pay for it.

Bitching about how someone shouldn't charge for a service they created is juvenile. I suggest OP a) finds another service which has a price they can agree with or b) build their own since it's so trivial.
The grass is always greener on the other side. I have another story... I started off as Unix admin, a programmer, about 15 years ago became a technical manager, director, vp and so on.

Frankly, looking back at it, I wish I never made that choice and stayed software developer or admin. Trust me, its much more fun.Unfortunately it is a one way street. Paperwork, schmoozing to get funding for your team and sitting in various meetings all day, not so much...
Bourdieu and Weber are "rando bloggers" compared to Marx, perhaps we should write them off too?
Glad to see Mark explaining what a screen readers is to millions of people :-D
$3M seems low for something that is being made to sound like the next big thing?

Hopefully this doesn't turn into the next Theranos.
The Legend of Zelda in JavaScript
I care about safe, convenient, and efficient/economical in personal transportation. All other things being equal, sure I'd like for "happy" to be part of it, but not at the expense of the first 3 measures.
True. You have to design for failure with AWS. Which does have a large amount of cognitive overhead. If you don't design for failure you're going to have a bad time.

However, designing for strict SLAs is not impossible with AWS. You just need to have multi-region redundancy and you can get very very good with multi-availability zone redundancy.

I have no excuse for the IAM outage, it sucked for our ops team. I guess my only two consultations are:

1. We haven't had a customer-visible outage due to AWS in years because we follow best practices (which does cost more - but see my previous point on more smaller machines vs many large machines)

2. If we were running our own authentication and access control system similar to IAM, it too could have an outage.

But I agree, that is a bad thing about AWS.
Show HN: DNS Check – A tool for monitoring all your DNS records
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It's a question without an exact answer.

It depends where your origin is, where your users are (near 1 PoP? 2 PoPs? spread evenly globally?), how frequently files that can be cached are requested, the capacity of each PoP, the contention of each PoP, etc.

A few years ago when the customer and traffic growth rate exceeded the network expansion rate the answer was probably "not big enough", but we've since upgraded almost every PoP and added a huge number of new ones: https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map/

The answer now is "more than big enough".

We cache as much as possible, for as long as possible. The more requested a file, the more likely it is to be in the cache even if you're on the Free plan. Lots of logic is applied to this, more than could fit in this reply.

But importantly; there's no difference in how much you can cache between the plans. Wherever it is possible, we make the Free plan have as much capability as the other plans.
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Ask HN: Does your company consider your office secure?
At my present company, I am not permitted to leave my laptop at work when I leave for the day. The security team considers this a risk, as they have had computers disappear before and are of the opinion that if I take it home, at least they know who has it and where it should be.
I find this immensely disruptive, as our computers are rather sub-par and hardly work coming out of suspend mode, therefore I have to straight up close all applications, tabs, open files, etc, and shut it down each night, so each morning I have to spend 15 minutes restarting local servers, reopening tabs, etc.

Has anyone encountered a similar policy? Is your office considered a secure location to leave your computer?
They're doing exactly what you recommended by speaking with their wallet and letting others know about the bad business decisions.

There's nothing juvenile about sharing an opinion.
Is it legal to tweet the picture?!
Hi, I'm Matt, the creator of this tool.

I created DNS Check because I wanted to be able to easily import all my DNS records (not just the A and AAAA records) into a tool that would automatically monitor them, and notify me if they change. I couldn't find any existing tools that do that, so I created one.

If you have any questions, or suggestions for how to improve this tool, I'd love to know.
That depends on what version of G+ you're using, what he stated was true for me until I "upgraded" to the new G+.

http://imgur.com/a/5eqEf
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Parking spaces are probably as feasible as we'd get before energy model for vehicles changes. Parking spaces can be retrofitted versus having to rebuild transportation infrastructure. Plus, being a stationary discrete position simplifies the problem significantly.
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Beyond reasonable doubt is the standard at a criminal trial. To conduct a search, you only need probable cause, which is a lesser standard.

But if it is not reasonable to believe that an IP address is connected with a person, it is not justifiable to search or seize anything else that person may own or possess, beyond the particular device identified by the IP. I don't think an IP address alone is sufficient to even meet the probable cause standard.

It is also possible that someone with authorized access to his computer used an unsecured browser to view a compromised advertisement on an ordinary website, which recruited the machine into a botnet, which used infected machines as a distributed filesystem.

It is also possible that a wardriver with a cantenna brute-forced his Wi-Fi WPS PIN and extracted the WPA password, obtaining easy access to the network.

It is also possible that the ISP regularly refreshes its IP leases, and gave the cops identifying information for the customer who had the IP at the time the request was made, rather than the customer that had the IP at the time the suspicious traffic was logged.

None of those scenarios are necessarily exculpatory alibis, but they may cast doubt on any hypothesis that purports to connect an IP to a particular person.

In practice, warrant-signing judges seem to believe that an IP address is analogous to a postal address, possibly because it also contains the word "address", which may be conceptually ingrained into their minds as a permanent physical location.
Huh? The pretty rainbow is a perceptual mathematical model. The reason is it looks nicer than the HCL rainbow is that, unlike a HC rainbow at constant L, it includes luminance in its model of perception
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11439568
If you enter 'statue' in the search, it'll give you a list of famous statues. If you click any of them, you are shown the artwork together with a description.

This seems to fit the description of a 'database' given elsewhere in this thread, but it may be that some detail in the law allows things like this. Perhaps because it is a database that contains other things than art as well.
To ignore seasonality requires assuming it has roughly the same effect on both groups. If they move in different directions or by very different amounts, you can't actually ignore it.

Simple example: you're comparing your standard site's theme with a new pumpkin orange theme. In October, the pumpkin orange theme might go great, whereas in December, it might perform worse. There's clearly a seasonality interaction you need to account for.

What you're thinking of is more like testing e-commerce button colors right after Christmas. After Christmas, it's likely that all your groups perform worse, but equally so.