skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it would never fit a real world use case, if isn't designed in and for the real world. Software built in a secret lab and trotted out to people after the fact is not the way Open Source works. We build the plane as it flies. It's always been that way in Linux.

I'm surprised there's still so much rage about systemd. It's not a bad solution to the problem. I mean, hell, just the move from procedural to declarative for service configuration is huge. The size of that improvement really cannot be overstated.
> Likewise, the quality of work produced with the economic incentive of copyright tends to be better, often much better, than what is produced based on other funding models or a voluntary basis... (Some people may disagree, but I consider this point so obvious by now that it's rarely worth engaging on.)

Sorry you find this tiresome. The history of popular and culturally relevant music can be seen as basically a history of uncompensated outsider art becoming coopted and repackaged into dull derivatives.

You may find, for example, Elvis clearly superior to the mostly uncompensated African American traditions he pulled from, but that's hardly a position so universal as to be obvious.

I know you caveated with especially things people don't do for fun, but basically all art attracts people doing it for art's sake.

> That seems like decent evidence that no-one has found a reliably better way to incentivize creating and distributing new works so far

The overwhelming majority of artists will never see any return for their works. There is such a long tail of garage bands making music for fun that it's hard to imagine the need for financial incentives to encourage greater saturation of that industry.

Financial incentives don't encourage great art, they only incentivize commercial art. There are overlaps, but we can't pretend those are both the same thing.
I don't see how site scraping is a "data release".
Since a fusor normally runs on deuterium fuel, wouldn't the output be helium-3 with a mass of 3 grams/mole?

Not that it makes a big difference - producing helium with a fusor remains extremely impractical.
OK can someone ELI5 what is the fallacy of the "it's already public so it's ok" argument?
I definitely understand that legal != ethical; but i suspect this is not clear cut at all in this case. I think it is similar to the responsible disclosure vs immediate disclosure. Sure, people get hurt by this and it is real and is a problem, but on the other hand could the educational benefits outweigh that impact? People need to learn that they are being watched and understand how stuff works, and m.b. that lesson needs to be painful.
Is it perhaps better if the data is just accessible to everyone and everyone knows about it then if it is only accessible to the highest bidder and you don't even know about it.
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OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind."

That's "name-calling".

But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting those.

Please accept my apologies for any incomvenience I may have caused.
IIRC, this data was all simply scraped from profiles, not socially engineered out of people. While it might be morally grey, you need to half expect stuff like this will happen when you post it. If you don't want things like your sexual preferences to be public, then don't put them on a free public dating website profile.
In going from dev to manager, I'd say:

Knowing salaries - good

Respect/status/more say in the org - good

Chance to mentor and help your staff - good

Having to field complaints about your staff - not so good

Firing people - not so good

The different skillsets you use - varies I think, some technical people don't like the managerial tasks
Dating from 1960 ("the systems are about 56 years old"), and especially given that the system in question is likely an IBM mainframe, Fortran would be my guess.

Fortran can actually be surprisingly pleasant, at least as pleasant as C, but I'm guessing their particular code is not.
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Is it time to think ethics education? Maybe we just to spend a little more time and effort on ethics in education.
The author is right, just because it is legal, doesn't mean it is ethical. That is why we have ethics.
As far as data being public, I would claim it has to do with expectations of privacy. Phone numbers in the white pages are public and really accessible. Relating that information doesn't change anything.
On the other hand the license plate of the car parks in the parking lot is also public information, in the sense that anyone can go down there and record it. But the owner has a certain expectation of privacy. Plus that data isn't really accessible (will before license plate cameras) so releasing that info changes is accessibility. The issues with big data aren't really new. People have to consider that the data they have involves real people.
>Coinbase's insurance policy would respond in the event that bitcoin stored in Coinbase was lost or stolen as a result of a breach of our physical security, cyber security, or as a result of employee theft

Potentially not covered:

Non-theft malfeasance

Negligence

Bankruptcy

Seizures by foreign governments

Technical problems leading to loss of data

Someone at Coinbase not liking you and wiping out your account

Unauthorized access to your account that doesn't count as a breach of security (your link specifically mentions this one as not covered)

Violation of terms of service leading to forfeiture of account and balance

And probably tons of others I haven't thought of. I know most of these are unlikely, but still very possible. Someone losing their FDIC insured bank account balance due to any of the above is virtually unheard of as long as the consumer exercises their legal protections. Keeping $25k at Coinbase is just as risky as keeping it at Paypal, and we all know how much Paypal loves permanently freezing accounts.
Thanks. I removed this because I felt it was unfair on Windows. Windows has strange things in it, but then Raymond Chen will write a post clearly explaining it, and they are strong on backwards compatibility. Everything you say is true. But you can read docs and write in C and work to a conclusion. Systemd is shaping up to be a layer of complexity that constantly shifts underneath you. It is going to be a nightmare for people who build on unix. The unix api and conventions are our bedrock. This is not sustainable.
What a waste.

Yup.
Google copies API from Oracle, yet I still have to come up with my own solutions to get a job at Google?
Fuckin' Google.
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I have spent some time talking to different people I meet/know who have security clearances.

EVERY one of tells me that if they had done what it appears Hillary did, they would fully expect to be in jail for years.

In researching this, I find that about 4.5 million Americans currently have, and maybe 1.5 million more did have in the past, security clearances.

I find it hard to believe that in Washington DC, surrounded by people with security clearances, this was unintentional and just an accident. It's like Hillary had to look far afield to find people without security clearances so that they would set this up for her.
This is meaningless. It's saying Coinbase keeps their money in, surprise, a bank. It's not stuffed under the CEO's mattress, but it also doesn't give any guarantees to the dozens of other ways a Coinbase customer can lose their money stored at Coinbase.
No, people don't need to understand anything about "data they have", because it is not people that have data, it is corporations, and they don't "understand" things, they make profit. What people need to understand is that they are data and that data is a product that can be used against them.
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Mascara ads on HN is ... interesting ad targeting.
It seems to me that many of your examples are more symptoms of today's often absurd implementations, rather than the basic idea of copyright itself.

As I argued in another post, I don't think copyright should ever become an artificial tool to limit communication or interoperability, and as such work necessary to that purpose should indeed not be subject to copyright. It already isn't, to varying degrees, in various jurisdictions.

False takedown claims and the problems that result are more a symptom of allowing centralised hosting of content than anything else. YouTube and the like have no obligation to continue hosting anyone's content if it causes them trouble, regardless of the legitimacy or otherwise of any complaints. As long as there are also no real penalties in law for malicious or negligent actions by big rightsholders, you're going to get this sort of problem anyway.

There are already supposed to be provisions, under banners like fair use or fair dealing, for various applications of works that don't prejudice the original intent of the copyright. Here again it's clear that regulatory capture is hard at work undermining the system, but likewise here again that's due to weak political leadership rather than an inherent problem with copyright.

The areas you mentioned where I'm not so sure are things like remixes, fan works, and mods. In many cases these derivative works do depend on the original creative assets for most of their value, and as such perhaps they should not be exempt from the normal copyright provisions.

In short, I don't see any of those as particularly compelling examples against the basic idea of copyright as a temporary monopoly on reproduction of creative works, subject to reasonable limitations of scope. Rather, I think they are compelling examples of how badly copyright laws have been captured and distorted over time by powerful special interests, particularly in the US, and to some extent of the dangers of giving up control of our own content to third party hosting or distribution services with their own priorities that don't necessarily match our own.
Not sure I understand what you mean "zero ability to add an answer." Why can't you answer the question that does not already have an answer? Or ask the question yourself and then answer it yourself?
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PT before work, PUxN entering the kitchen.
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If you're the sort to believe it's just a conspiracy to make you buy unnecessary quantities of drugs, then why wouldn't you also presume that the story about antibiotic-resistant bacteria is also part of the conspiracy?
Crossing my fingers for a Lego sorting robot...
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If you send them something of economic value, there is no way to prove that it was thrown away. There is also no reason to throw it away - they should just pay you.

If you work for free, you are... working for free.
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I'd guess these are coded in assembler, or possibly Fortran.
Your parent poster said 'it is right', not 'it is /a/ right'.

You're attacking a statement that didn't exist in the parent post.
At the point when you decide you don't care about accessibility or actually rendering any interesting text.
Could be PL/I
I made something almost exactly like this 6 years ago. Called whyspam.me

Good luck.
I'm Latino and it has been available to me. I don't want a "Latino Only" day any more than I would want a "Whites Only" day.

It feels belittling that anyone would think they're doing me a favor by banning the white competition. Real helpful, since my race is obviously a huge handicap. Right? Stopstopstopstopstop. Just stop. You're not giving me an equal opportunity to compete if the competition is segregated.
It astonishes me that people would be prepared to acquiesce to authority when a doctor tells them to ingest these drugs that they really know very little about, but draw the line at accepting the advice about taking the whole course of drugs.
I also had every username I tried come up as taken. Even ones I found on main stream sites.
> She then tells me that Uber had changed the job from direct hire to Temp to Hire and that they now want 500 people. She said she did not know how this was even possible and it doesn't seem like they want to hire anyone.

This is not incompetence.
Also, any company that would be willing to hire you under these circumstances would be breaking numerous laws, and thus would probably not be very trustworthy. If they decided they wanted to not pay you for work you did, it would be very hard for you to get your money from them.
Not sure I'd agree. Seems like her voting record aligns more with neocons than liberals (war, traditional marriage, super predators, etc)
To be honest I am always amazed how many homeless folks and dirty the place is. You hear billion dollar raises all the time but the city seems very fragmented. Vancouver on the other hand is insanely expensive but very well put together.
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I'm pretty sure google and amazon can afford scrubbing centers (not to mention their apps are load balanced) to avoid attacks.
This is good news. I used to work at Goldman IBD, and the rankings system was really dumb.

The problem was that you had to rate people on a 1-9 scale. As you might imagine, this rating was done via a web survey where you clicked a radio button under a corresponding integer, and under the numbers were verbal cues. The one under 9 was something like "One of the very best people I have ever worked with".

When you get your review, they give you your score for each assessed area, along with the mean score for your position/group (e.g., "associates in IBD").

I distinctly remember that most of the mean scores were between 8 and 9. One was as high as 8.7.

Clearly you had a lot of grade inflation that made the data points of dubious value. Whatever system they chose to replace it is probably better.

DISCLAIMER: I can't get over the paywall and some of the above points might be in the article.
Exactly, I was in China and had a fairly bad sore throat. I didn't really think it was bacterial, and it ended up being just a cold. I went to a doctor (roll up door in a street). He shined a light in my mouth and decided that I should take vitamin C and some antibiotics. I paid about 2 USD for the whole experience, pills included.
I actually agree entirely, but factory farm meat will continue to be cheaper so long as corn subsidies are so high, and those aren't going anywhere any time soon. Which means that for the time being, meat consumption is the less environmentally friendly option.
So like console.log for cellular biology?
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And what is the significance of this? Seriously, is there going to be some consequence to Uber by doing this? Is this practice illegal? Or it is just morally condemnable?
With snapshots, it should be instant.
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You're making a false equivocation between arbitrary demographic "groups" and demographic groups that have faced well documented systemic discrimination in America, both historically and continuing in the present.

And to preempt a counterargument via your chosen example, yes, you could argue Jews have and do face discrimination in America - but garden variety American anti-semitism is not of the systemic, historical nature that makes a random Jewish American more likely to be passed over for a job because of their name, or treated drastically differently by the average police officer, or less likely to have become engaged in tech earlier in life, etc.
Granted that with certain exceptions, such as following a large van or truck, it is not possible, but good defensive driving means _also_ paying attention to what's in front of the car in front of you. I often react to things before the driver in front of me does (which means I'm not reacting as abruptly, which means the knucklehead 20 feet behind me also doesn't hit me).

EDIT after watching the gif; yeah, this was pretty much the opposite case: big van stopped, clearly visible over the compact car in front. Gross negligence on the part of the driver to not see this and respond _before_ the car did.
Could you guys stop doing new features and write some unit tests for core modules please? So many regressions.
It seems to me that you've moved the goalposts. I certainly agree that a less broken system of copyright would work better than the one we have. But the question at hand was whether there existed cases in which copyright has harmed works that might thrive more in the absence of copyright, as a part of evaluating whether it makes sense to consider the state of "alternative models" given the current legal system directly supporting the primary copyright model and in many cases harming those alternatives. You've then reasserted that you want the "basic idea" of copyright as a means of dismissing these examples, but that wasn't the question at hand.

In a model without copyright, it wouldn't matter whether a work was derivative, or whether it depended on the "original creative assets"; what would matter is whether people found it useful, interesting, and worth supporting/promoting.

(As for the comment on decentralization of services, I'd agree, but at the same time that particular set of problems also wouldn't exist in the absence of copyright.)
More accurate title: Tesla successfully emergency brakes to gently tap the rear end of a van instead of ramming it in what would be a potentially fatal accident
One useful thing to note is that a gigantic amount of information is publicly accessible, but in one or more of the following states:

* Requires effort to access

* Is in out-of-the-way places many people don't know about

* Is in a form that's difficult to consume

Even though it's "public", in many ways it behaves as if it isn't, since until one of those conditions is removed people don't really bother to access it, pay attention to it, or try to consume it.

In other words, it's one of those "if a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it" situations.

So information which is only available to someone with an account, but on a system which grants accounts for free to anyone who wants one, typically is thus seen as "private" or at least in a "not really public" state until such time as someone massively aggregates it and makes it available to people without accounts, as happened with OKCupid.
They rated the statement 'my predecessors did the exact same thing' mostly false. Editorial choice -- they could have rated the statement 'none of my predecessors followed proper procedure for email either' and found it true.

Powell maintained his own email but without the server in his house, Rice claims she avoided all email, so we have exactly 0 secretaries of state who've handled email 'the right way' in 220-some-odd years of this fine country.
Well you decided to live and work where you do, not the government.

You could have, and you still can, move to a different country where the laws are more favourable to your views.
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But what if I don't have root? Like on production let's say.
Spy shot of Tesla testing Autopilot 2.0
Are there really tons of companies hiring freelancers to make map, music and messaging apps at ~$40k/4 months?
PNG will always do a bad at compression. PNG is deflate encoded, but without the ability to rearrange pixel data to work with deflate's strengths. It will pick RGBA, which mixes the "entropy" data for each color channel together. PNG was born out of the necessity to replace the (at the time) patent encumbered GIF. PNG has a different purpose, and was designed to get something working fast.
As is often quoted, resumes with black-sounding names get far fewer calls for interviews than resumes with white-sounding names.

That is an oft-cited conclusion from an old study that has not been reproduced in the tech industry (the classic one is http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873, a 2003 study in Boston and Chicago where they submitted resumes based on newspaper ads), where there is a devastating lack of supply and vicious competition for minority candidates.

Someone should repro this in tech, though, it would be quite useful to know how things look here and now!
The NSA isn't subordinate to the State Dept.
If you didn't want the bank to let someone else have all your money, you shouldn't have put your money in a publicly-accessible bank anyone could visit. And you certainly shouldn't have trusted the bank's promises that it would impose rules on who can access money and how.
Sure there is. If they ask you to do something that they would legitimately ask an employee to do, there's a good chance they're looking to get some free work (or maybe the interview is genuine but they want to get free work out of the people they decline). As an employer, if you're trying to come up with a good work sample to request, you need to request something that's obviously not "real" work. In the case of the marketing manager, you could ask for 2-3 ad campaigns, but have them be campaigns for an obviously fake brand (ideally one in a different line of work entirely).
This has worked well for many years. Most of the intermittently failing tests are older, from before we had robust dependency injection, and they get incrementally improved this way.

False positives are also super costly for us, as everyone works on trunk (by design, to avoid skew) and deploys all ckeckins directly to production. "Best out of two" is sufficient for the old tests, and if someone creates new intermittent tests, we follow up with education so that isn't a persistent problem.
It would be theft if you didn't use any state infrastructure at all. But you do, your community uses it, your loved ones use it, and you depend on it for personal safety.

Private philantropy does not work for maintaining infrastructure.

A lot of countries have tax rates much higher than the US, but they don't do the whole War on Drugs thing or Civil Forfeiture. This argument has no logical connection whatsoever.
Like I said, I think both mentalities are necessary but there's a heavy focus on the wrong thing. The message it sends to people is wrong. The signal is that there are systemic problems that can't be changed because people in power are guilty of having power. This is a hopeless signal that doesn't help anyone. What we should be saying to people is that they should strive to be better because that's the only sure way they can hope to improve their situations. Waiting for other people to help you isn't going to do anything. The only thing you have control over is your own life. If the public discourse around these issues focuses solely on how other people have control and how you have no control, then the situation only becomes worse because then people have an excuse to not try, and they don't.
I'd agree with this assessment. I went from being a developer to being a manager for several years, then went back to being a developer because it was burning me out (and what I really enjoyed was being a developer).

Other things I'd add:

Sitting in lots of meetings - not so good.

Having to shield your staff from bureaucratic bullshit so they can get their work done - not so good.

Being responsible for the work output of an entire team of people, not just yourself - stressful.
Record your interviews and rain down a shitstorm on anyone who tries to pull this.