skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built apps that integrate closely with known popular video streaming services (hint, hint), and I've dealt with both their legal departments.

1. Most people are clueless about the law / their rights. Companies will try and bully you into taking your site down, without any legal basis.

2. Read up on nominative fair use of a trademark. You are allowed to make use of a competitors trademark, even for commercial purposes.

3. You probably didn't have to make any of those changes. While I'm not a lawyer, both legal departments backed off after sending them a well-argued reply to their bullshit (sorry, that's the only way to describe it) arguments. I do work with an excellent IP law firm, but I didn't even have to contact them to handle this.

4. I highly doubt a tech company would sue you in a meritless case. Even a simple case will cost them $30-50k. The in house lawyer contacting you is often a paper pusher that has to scout the internet for "possible infringements" of the mark. They'll need to get approval to sue you, and risk vs. reward will be considered. If you're based outside of the US, even better. They'll usually have to sue you in your local jurisdiction.

5. Obviously, be prepared to fight if they do come after you.
Employee found dead at Apple headquarters identified
If you make a perfect copy, the identity has branched. There are now two distinct entities (with continuity) that are starting to diverge, why would any of them accept to be shot?
"never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough"

You were originally implying stupidity but now it is bad intentions.

I don't disagree with your analysis beyond that
Another reason to make 2d games with haxe! It already has some great frameworks and libraries for it. So its great from a practical perspective if you want to build something like that.

I have found the language to be a bit quirky. Its powerful but an odd combination ocaml features and actionscript cruft.
Wow, that explains a lot – and fits exactly to my (and your) initial comment :) Thanks for digging this up.
No no, I respect a lot of people I do not agree with.

What I'm saying is that even if you disagree you can respect only if you recognize the motivations behind someones labor.

To say that GNU is good technology but don't agree with its premise is disrespectful because, by definition the design has failed if you don't agree with the agenda.

So you could say that you respect the effort but think it has failed, or you can say that you like the result but don't really respect its origins.
One notable example is Unreal Engine 4:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine#Unreal_Engine_4
Yes, it's sad that he would be put in jail for such a "crime" whereas the likes of the CEO of Volkswagen are actually being rewarded millions for much severe crimes in the name of punishment.
How would hydrogen work instead? Or is it not trustworthy enough if there's an oxygen leak inside and a spark occurs?
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Primarily in life sciences. In other disciplines, you have arxiv, or simply publishing in commercial journals doesnt matter that much.
The social and cultural value of something is related to the cost of production, not the cost of distribution.

The fact that the distribution cost is close to zero is irrelevant.

The problem with copyright is that a big proportion of the price charged is basically cartel/gatekeeper protection money, and has no useful relationship to the true social cost/value of creative work.
So one commenter said that "Journals are used as a proxy for quality", another that they loose so much time browsing through low-quality papers. Isn't the root issue that we need an open and standard way to review, sort and rate all those academics papers ?

Developing voting, flagging, moderating mechanisms, that's what many developers have done for years now on the web. Obviously you wouldn't rate papers like reddit comments but plug arxiv/sci-hub to a system allowing researchers to say what papers they reviewed, what their degree of approval is, eventually where it's been published, who references this paper etc. Seems like Arxiv has an endorsement system but as they say "The endorsement process is not peer review", just a way to reduce spam. Isn't there anything done on this subject ?
Is Instagram's problem that they think people might accidentally think Littergram is Instagram?
Because we increased the number of jobs in the public sector, because we instituted a healthcare system where we get less for paying more into it (and one that makes it attractive for business to decrease permanent labor), because our tax policy makes it more attractive for business to hold money overseas, and because government through regulation continually makes it more difficult for individuals to succeed and produce a good or service.
This very wonderful news and meaning travel to space become cheaper and more easy!
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Tell me about it. I currently have a four month old Seagate Archive 8TB drive that is failing all over the place and returning corrupted data. And it looks like I'll be having to make threats under the Consumer Rights Act to get it replaced.
This is a good summary of what happened. He struggled technically as a developer (aptitude?), but was awesome with our customers - very well liked. It wasn't hard to find a role more suited to his talents.
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I live about 30 minutes drive from a Nazi concentration camp. Shit is very, very real. If you want to continue the delusion, go ahead. But don't complain when the next US President uses his apparatus for heinous purposes. It won't be so easy to smell the flowers, then.
Depending on your industry, you may not get any reference anyway.

My references for the last 3 jobs over 6 years has been "Yes, he was employed here from $startdate to $enddate as $jobtitle"

And that's it, to avoid any risk of there being any liability issue.

It's gone from "you're not allowed to give a negative reference" to "why bother doing anything more than the bare minimum" in a number of industries I've been in.
There is a misconception: Light cannot escape a black hole for gravitational reason (not to mention that gravity does not exist, it is a not a force, read up General Relativity). The real reason is that the space-time curvature does simply not provide a way for the light to go back. Same reason you can't go to the end of the universe if the universe would be a sphere.

Also if someone likes to talk about black holes it is good to remind people that it is not a hole...as the article mentions its a region, to be more precise it is a region in space-time that is cut off from ours. The whole issue is not just spacial but also temporal, that is usually the point when your brain gives up understanding the whole problem.

A good description would be: a black hole is the collection of events that do happen outside our space-time/universe. This also explains some of the paradoxes near the event horizon.
What everyone’s missing in Apple’s earnings drop
@lispm see the reference I made to FEXPRs in reply below (http://axisofeval.blogspot.co.id/2011/07/meaning-of-forms.ht...)

You seem to be a lot more knowledgeable than I on Lisp. It seems there's a divide on FEXPRs and macros when I look into further references. What's your take on it aside from the Pitman paper you cited? Is is possible something useful was thrown away from CL, or Pitman's argument holds?
PicoLisp seems to implement FEXPRs a bit from my limited knowledge. I am currently in a death spiral of LFE, Chez Scheme, PicoLisp, Extempore (xtlang), and Shen, not to mention my necessary forays into elisp, since I use spacemacs! I need to choose one, only one. Thanks.
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The problem is, your states' security apparatus has all the means it needs to hide the evidence... by design.
I guess that soon governments will start forcing ISPs to ban access to Sci-Hub, just like they did with Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents. It's still trivial to type into google "pirate bay proxy" and access it quickly, but I can see some legislation happening against it soon.
From experience, I would say so. In various arrays I've worked with, the Seagates always seem to be the first to fail SMART. Also they are really noisy when compared to a WD or Hitachi (not really an issue in a Datacentre, but I'm long in the tooth enough to automatically associate 'noisy' with 'failing drive').

WD have been using helium for a while on their 8TB drives:
http://www.wdc.com/en/8tb/Default.aspx

And they have a specific model for Datacentres:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1670
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If the company is big enough to have "other parts" it probably means those other parts have different missions and different tasks/skills to carry out the mission.

But, having said that, it takes some rare managerial skills to pull it off. I've worked with someone who had those skills and it was fascinating to watch it happen. It took an ability to be bluntly honest to the "problem" employee without tearing them down, an ability to figure out their strengths, and then knowledge of where those strengths could be applied elsewhere in the company.
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Well, what I don't know is what publishers charged third parties for reprints. Or what license fees were for universities etc. As an author, I paid $0.50 per reprint, and I was allowed to give them away. Anyway, I'm confident that there's been huge price inflation.
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i stopped buying digital ps4 games because of steam family sharing.
Yep, this is my bête noire too.

It gets even worse. I am working on software that confirms to guidelines set by the Dutch government for handling healthcare data. These Dutch national standards were actually (and justly!) made free instead of available at a fee because they became requirements instead of just guidelines. But these standards are (naturally) based on international standards. This is fine for the RFC's that are freely available, but for the three (!) relevant Dutch standards (NEN 7510, 7512, 7513) you would need access to another forty-ish (!!) ISO standards that may, or may not, be relevant to the section you are dealing with.

Of course even a single PDF for these healthcare ISO standards costs up to €100, to be paid in Swiss Francs…
Which is given with strings attached, depending on how people use it.

Also the commercial games that are sold with it surely don't come with source code.
Social Media Content: We need to talk about trust
About 88% of people don't trust what they read on Facebook. This article explores the main issues affecting people's trust when reading news on social media.

Hacker News community I would love to hear you thoughts on the topic. This is my first time writing on this topic and would love to get some feedback. Best, Gus

https://cronycle.com/2016/trust-credibility-social-media-networks-content/
I would object, obviously. It would be murder of a human. You have duplicated me; that doesn't give you the right to kill one of me. The original remains sentient, and I would quite possibly care for it more than I would care for other family.

Analogy: impregnating a woman and (eventually) causing her to give birth - that is, "duplicating" her, although the copy is actually not very like her - doesn't give you the right to kill her.

I'm fine with teleportation, if that's what you mean, but I go into that with the intention of the death of one of the copies. It's effective suicide, not externally-imposed murder.
How... generous?
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Yeah, there's a lot of problems with measuring economic productivity. Almost to the point where I wonder if it's informative at all. In Australia, we've had a 10 year slump in measured productivity (MFP). During the same period, commodity prices were at all-time historical highs and we were raking in a tonne of national income (as our exports are heavily weighted towards commodities).

Guess which sector has been the biggest drag on MFP? Yep. Commodities. Because market prices were so high, it was profitable to throw a crap-load of inputs to extract fairly marginal outputs. Hence the drag on MFP. Now that the 'mining boom' is over, our national productivity will probably rise while our living standards fall due to the sharp reduction in national net income.

Productivity should not be seen as an end in itself, although it seems to dominate political discourse on the economy. I wonder if there are more sensible (and calculable) metrics that we could use...
I agree with you. But the "question" of the parent post was "I have no idea why this doesn't happen more often, it's not difficult to do in any reasonably sized company", and I was just trying to give a possible answer. While it's really not a good indicator, there'll eventually be some correlation.

Bottom line is: I'd totally understand a manager not accepting a guy that failed elsewhere in the same company; he would possibly be wrong in doing so, but - really - what would you do? I'd eventually try to interview the guy but, in the end, if I got two "final" candidates and one of them already failed in the company, I'd go for the other.
... not to mention, each of them might feel some small measure of empathy for the other!

What if one did this regularly? Would battle-hardened cloners become insensitive to "retirement" of their doppelgangers, or as the last survivor of the series of slayings would they start to feel hunted?

Really feels at least a few centuries too early to even gauge whether it is possible to substantially capture (let alone reproduce) the state of a brain. Sure would be disappointing if it turned out you could get 90% of the functionality with a ten-state DFA featuring frowning and pooping, but it would make cryonics a whole lot easier. "Just leave me enough brainstem to get home."
If you have a piece of business logic that you want to make available in N languages/platforms, is Haxe a valid option? The only other alternative I know is to write a library in C/C++/Rust and use the FFIs in your target languages to call it.
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I find Javascript is quite a good reason not to write in Javascript, but YMMV...
All *book words should be banned because of Facebook trademark.
Or you can just enter "31.184.194.81 sci-hub.io" into your /etc/hosts, so the certificate will match up with the domain name.
If the employee had stopped complaining and pretended to be happy in the job, then I don't think he would have been fired. Yes, he would have been miserable, but he would have been able to keep a job if he needed it. That's a huge difference. It's sad, but lots of people hate their job, but continue to plug away at it in silent resignation, because they think it is the best way to support themselves and their family.
Trouble for ULA is that they are used to cost-plus contracts. E.g. "I'll pay you 120% what it costs you to make." The incentive to maximize profits here is to maximize costs up to 80% of the highest amount the customer is willing to pay. For example, use obscure materials and manufacturing methods and lots of people in the assembly line. Better still if the rocket is built in parts in lots of different states and shipped around in pieces. Now with competition they have to go back and cut all those costs, which is not going to be easy.

(I used to work for Lockheed, although not in the missiles and space business. I wouldn't hold my breath expecting ULA to match SpaceX's prices.)
I would disagree that ES has classical inheritance. ES6 has syntactic sugar over prototypical inheritance that resembles classical inheritance in other languages, but it's still prototypical under the hood.
Have a look at pandoc.

And you should definitively go for LaTeX
Do any universities offer something like "passive studentship"? i.e. you pay only a small fraction of the tuition, it does not include any courses, but you may attend the facilities and specifically the library and get access to the university network. If that existed, hobby researchers and the like could get access to all these journals for a probably smaller amount of money.
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Can you explain who is the target audience for Lua target? What can I do with it?
For the price differential we're talking about, it works out in the customer's benefit.
well there is one way to rate academic papers that has proven pretty successful, and that is citing the paper in other papers - however sometimes that can take a long time to find the quality.
I'm not really a fan of such comparisons, and I don't think yours fares well, mostly because you are talking "top of the top" performance when you talk about those two. :) That's not the reality in most jobs and positions. We're certainly not talking about the Cristiano Ronaldo of software development most of the times.

As I said in other comments, I agree with the general premise of what you say. I also do, on the other hand, have some experience of the common workplace to know that sometimes, low performance is low commitment or carelessness. And both will very possibly transfer to other position. Again, previous performance is not a great indicator; I understand, however, that people might have to resort to it sometimes.
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I think this has more to do with European employment regulations then what is 'fair', and your company doesn't have much choice in the matter. Think of it from another perspective, if someone isn't culpable of flagrant misconduct then whatever issue management have with them could be for a number of reasons including sexual or racial bias, I think forcing the company to enact due process is needed to help eliminate some of the ugly politics in firing someone.
A-12 is the SR-71, no?
Going to jail at all would have been an injustice. What would it have achieved?
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> in tune with contemporary English

Contemporary American English, sure. The former form is still quite popular in British English
Having access to information contained on disks that is considered illegal to access is strong evidence that he was involved in the crime.
It's transpilers all the way down.
I think this is more likely to happen than not. With all of their cards on Apple Pay I can see them turning the banking industry on its head, which wouldn't be a bad thing. Have you been to a "real" bank lately? My local PNC branch generally has 2 tellers and a 3rd "greeter", even when the line is 10 people deep.

Then there are things like charging for deposit slips and other necessary forms, and their online presence is terrible. I can't pay bills between 2AM - 7AM because: the system is down, or my loan balance is $0, or isn't in US funds anymore. WFT?! And the security is laughable (at least for a bank). When will they incorporate MFA? I think this is where Apple could really shake up the world, just like they did with cell phones and GUI computers before then.
Looks like Facebook wants to be next "evil corporation" in developers minds. Microsoft already knows how difficult is to wash out this reputation.
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I'm more appalled at Alexander Graham Bell for his blatant ripoff of Apple's "iPhone" trade mark.
Why not using electron on top of the api? it's not overly complicated UI anyway, and it will build on an api that other can use.
Why don't I have the new Outlook.com yet?
> The plane has to handle every contingency of war

And all of those problems are (supposedly) solved by the time the plane is being manufactured.

Your argument regards R&D costs, not manufacturing costs.
> (c)that the photograph [F5or pseudo-photograph] was sent to him without any prior request made by him or on his behalf and that he did not keep it for an unreasonable time.

I can't find the citation, but there was a case brought up in my uni it ethics/law module that noted that visiting a website that then downloaded something like that in the background was sufficient to disqualify that condition from applying, as there was a prior request to visit the webpage that delivered the image. even if the website wasn't visited with the intention of the image.

and the person involved was jailed. they may have gotten out on appeal mind, but again, i can't remember more details than that to verify
will decrease the over all quality of golang libs

Really? How exactly this will decrease the quality of open source libraries?
If the paper is retracted, do the publishers give a refund ?
See http://retractionwatch.com/ to see the massive number of retractions that happen.
You're right, generally. In this case, though, I'm talking about someone hired with a temporary (1 year) but automatically renewable contract. Where I live, it's just a matter of not renewing it (giving notice one month before the deadline).
Because that’s literally what they say?

Amazon’s physical stores and Amazon’s online retail business are not profitable. They are selling below price. This is per definition predatory pricing.

They are only able to offset this because AWS is making more profit.

This is evident if you just look at the numbers.
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100 years of track record publishing the least amount of junk.
> I just came from a project where Rust was a cult. Everything was rewritten in Rust even though much of the C code base worked very well. Because Rust!

I'm not saying anything specifically about this case, because clearly the information here is very limited, but there is a case to be made for rewriting projects that work to increase maintainability in the future. Most newer languages do have an edge in this department, as they are more conscious of those issues.

There is sometimes the benefit of a rewrite regardless of language, as well; cleaning stuff up, organizing stuff better because you now know better, etc..
You are right, of course – but like all things, the decisions taken by the development environment can shape the community!
Bloody limeys, think they have English ...
I did not imply that I'm happy with the situation, but sadly it is a fact scientists have to deal with right now.
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You should find this of interest because this is how USE is written in Rebol:

>> source use

use: make function! [[
"Defines words local to a block."
vars [block! word!] "Local word(s) to the block"
body [block!] "Block to evaluate"
][
apply make closure! reduce [to block! vars copy/deep body] []
]]
Sure hope they never go through a merger...
Large companies resemble governments in some ways since they have people not directly connected to 'market validation' mechanism: administrators, bureaucrats, people dedicated to keeping thing going etc. Internally, the larger a company is, the more it begins to look state-like and socialistic.

Corporations themselves are also in practice intimately intertwined with government. They depend directly or indirectly on procurement, but also the legal system. The more complex regulations, the bigger the economy of scales a corporation can use. There are also specific laws that make competition illegal in some fields like telcos and friendly tax regimes for big players only.

You may note corporations are the biggest defenders of free markets when it suits them, then quickly turn the page when they require some special subsidies, bail-outs or laws to hobble their competition.
This is the modern version of tabs vs spaces.
That's not what I meant when I called your photos rubbish!
Two years late.
HGST has been shipping helium filled HDDs since 2014.
As long as you have government power (public funding) in academia, you'll have rent-seeking.