skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure--but a faithful photographic reproduction, like a faithful text transcription, isn't something that can be really different from another faithful reproduction. Sure, I guess a few pixels would be subtly different based on scanning techniques, etc., but those would only be tangible differences to a machine, not a human.

How can a person tell I was using the museum's faithfully reproduced image, and not one that I scanned myself?

That's the crux of the Bridgeman v. Corel decision in the US: If I make a perfectly faithful copy of a PD work into another medium, have I really created anything? And US courts decided that no, I just copied something, and thus I don't get to enjoy my own new copyright as merely a copier of an already copyright-free work.

I admittedly know nothing about German law--I certainly hope you're right in guessing higher courts will overturn it.
Yeah, that's why I'm waiting on numbers (per edit).
Tack onto this the extreme increase in boldness from SNP - they're no longer taking about just a second referendum, but about negotiating directly with the EU about how Scotland can remain in, and about talks with London.

And the instant demands for a referendum on Northern Ireland.

And the fact that we now have a small but serious (amid a much larger signed-a-petition-for-the-hell-of-it crowd [1]) starting to work towards independence for London - it's too early to tell if it will turn into something lasting, but there are people working on drawing up plans to create an actual political party.

This will be a circus. And it's virtually certain at this point that the UK will no longer be united in 5 years time. The question now is whether it'll be just Scotland that leaves, or if Northern Ireland and Gibraltar will follow.

London won't happen anytime soon - most of those signing the petition for London independence will have forgotten about it in days -, but expect substantial further devolution to all the major cities over the coming years to try to prevent such movements from actually gaining traction.

Westminster will have the choice between being left stripped of power or stripped of land.

This referendum will be remembered as the start pistol for the dismantling of the UK.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independe...
Because all of the details of the above, and plenty more besides. It's a cluster of clusterfucks, each of which contains another, smaller, clusterfuck.

I believe you call that fractally clusterfucked.
Also in Africa and same with elephants. At least 20,000 were killed for ivory in 2015 and are in serious decline, as lions, rhinos and other big fauna from Africa
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Deciding between user or not is the most simple case though. The most monstrous function I have by far considers things such as

- is the user logged in, and maybe even owner of the profile we're at?
- are we looking at all nodes, or the subnodes/subtree (don't ask) of a node?
- do we want to display tags/authors/sources?
- are we filtering by tag/author?
- what's the display mode: list or full?

There might be more too, that's from the top of my head... Yes, it's messy, but also kina DRY. To "unroll" that would be even more monstrous, that can't be the way D:
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"There's another one that everyone's been sticking an extra syllable in..."

Are you thinking of "aluminium", the U.K. version of "aluminum"?
You cannot. The German Urheberrecht is something a creator automatically is entitled to and which cannot be taken away from him.
I've been able to reproduce it with different browsers on the same computer. I'm not sure of the exact strategy, but it's just a big UX problem that I don't know what I'm sending another user.

... aaaaand now I want to make a malicious image host that always shows you your uploaded images but serves up goatse to anyone you link it to. Or maybe just flips the images, upsidedownternet style.
Forgive me, in the US copyright exists immediately when a work is created (I'm unfamiliar with German law, I'm a US citizen residing in the US). You can still register your copyright to make it known with the US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/sl35.pdf
Do you have any data on that? How would you know that the food that would be marked up by Whole Foods is sent instead to regular groceries to be sold for cheaper? Maybe the good produce grown locally at small scale is sold to local stores but given the extremely lucrative agricultural export market, I find it very hard to believe that the good produce is sold cheap locally instead of shipped elsewhere at a huge markup. California avacados or oranges, for example, cost significantly more in Florida or New York, far beyond the extra cost of transportation, spoilage, etc. and this profitability fuels the California agriculture industry.
> If you write some code, then you have just written an ORM.

What? No, I've written code to query a database. Not an Object-Relational Mapper.

my $q = $db->prepare("get_my_stuff_by_name(?);");
$q->execute($name);

or with fancy metaprogramming:

use DBMagicStuff 'postgres://…';
get_my_stuff_by_name($name);

That's not really an ORM.
I'm intrigued as to how you 'pronounced' that. Did you say "open parens" and "caret", and did they understand what you meant? Also, is having to divulge your password really the best way of verifying your account? Do they advise you to change your password immediately after going through this rigmarole?
The Internet Archive has a "lending library" of post-1923 books where we own a physical copy, stored in a shipping container in a warehouse, and loan one digital copy at a time for each physical one that we own.

https://blog.archive.org/2010/06/28/digital-lending-library/

https://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary&tab=about

We're hoping to get libraries to join with us to make their books in remote storage available in a similar fashion.
As odd as it sounds, microphone cables weren't standardized until 1992. Before then companies did all sorts of stuff.

Here's a Neumann mic from 1952 that could be set remotely. http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/Neumann/M-49

Today it is increasingly common to put the analog stuff as close to the source as possible and remote control it.
More to the point: Airbnb shifts regular, tax paying renters into a grey market -- non-renting, non-tax paying economy.

If a city/country wants to base its rental units on a day-by-day, airbnb model, then fine. The problem is when airbnb comes into a regular market and "disrupts" that market by not paying hotel taxes or following local subletting laws.

I say that as someone who very recently used airbnb for a great deal in NYC, and was admonished by the host not to talk about our situation in the lobby, the elevators, or anywhere else someone might overhear.
Rereading this again, I am still annoyed by the pedantry argument. We try to have discussions and conversations here, try to be precise to make that process clearer - and dismissing such attempts is not helping the goals. So please, don't make throw away dismissals. And be ways of assuming people of course vote the same way as their friends.
That's the ultimate crime here. This was really all about the personal ambitions of Cameron, Johnson, and Gove. They were using the vote to gain control over the government. It's doubtful if they're even particularly Eurosceptic.

What they've actually done is broken apart the UK, destabilised Europe, and rocked the world economy. All for personal gain - and now they've won it, it has turned into something they really don't want to deal with.

Honestly, they should be imprisoned for this for the rest of their natural lives. The most applicable crime is treason. Because if this isn't repaired, the UK will literally be over - politically, economically, socially, and culturally.

The absolute best that can happen here is that the EU reconsiders some of its neoliberal arrogance and becomes more accountable, the UK has a referendum or election with an honest promise of a new relationship, and somehow everyone moves on, with some new and more reasonable faces in charge.

The absolute worst doesn't bear thinking about, so I really hope we don't end up there instead.
That's how analogies work. They evoke an image which emphasizes the attribute that is pertinent to the situation.

It doesn't explain why it is bad because it explains the situation and leaves the judgement to the reader.
The way international relations work nowadays there's no default of free trade. You need specific deals in place for trade to occur. Britain is, like pretty much every country, very dependent on trade and now that it isn't getting trade deals as part of the EU it will have to suddenly negotiate its own.

Also, a lot of recent British prosperity comes from London being the banking center of Europe. Countries tend to handle most of their banking internally but the exceptional connectedness of the European system let Britain take over more of the market then it would otherwise be possible to do, across national boundaries.

But on the other hand, stock markets in France and Germany have gone down further than those in Britain. And stock markets in Southern Europe even more so. So it looks like a lot of the market is really concerned about what this means for the recent Eurozone trouble and whether there'll be more countries leaving. Or more likely there are reasons that aren't clear to me.

But as a famous Brit once said there's a lot of ruin in a nation and this won't be the end of the world for Britain. I can imagine someone looking back on this in 30 years and saying it was all for the best, possibly. But 5 years out I don't think anyone will be saying that.
While I agree with the premise, I do find it ironic that his blog platform's header sporadically drops down to block the content I'm trying to read every time I scroll down. >:(
I agree that there is some legitimate ambiguity in the term sharing. For instance, if my pal and I decide to order the extra large sandwich and pay for it jointly, it's part of the vernacular to say we are "sharing" it.

However, I couldn't disagree with you more that this is a good way to describe a pure quid pro quo money for services transaction. If this is sharing, then all commerce is sharing.

Unlike you, I almost can't think of a better example of something that isn't sharing than airbnb. It's a rental. If I let you play my violin for $5, I haven't shared my violin. If we purchase one jointly and use it, then sure, but that's not even remotely what is happening with airbnb. The line may be a little fuzzy at the margins, but airbnb is a mile away from this fuzzy zone, squarely and unambiguously in the realm of commerce.

Disagreements about airbnb do get contentious, and I don't enjoy adding to this. But I'm honestly bewildered that you can't think of a better term than "sharing" to describe "I let you stay in my house if and only if you pay me $100". Seriously? It's "hard to think of a better term"?
It's fat models vs thin models, just with fat database vs thin database. You have to be careful.
> Because a large chunk of the "Leave" voters (I don't have percentages, I expect they'll show up soon) are regretting it already. They're the dogs that chased a car and caught it and don't know what to do.

This was the one that really blew my mind when I started hearing about it.

Your vote does not contain the information that it was cast "in protest" of something!* It's not "Yes LOL because fuck the man (j/k)", it's just "Yes", and it still counts as "Yes" the next day.

Please, for Pete's sake, vote honestly!

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*Unless you actually cast a protest vote, i.e., spoiling your ballot.
"Registering a copyright" doesn't exist in German law (and if I remember correctly, it only makes enforcement easier in the US, but isn't necessary).

Once you create something above the "threshold of originality", you own the copyrights to it and can freely license it if you want to (if it is a derivative of a protected work, the owner of the rights on the original gets rights as well and could potentially stop you from doing so, but in a case of a public domain work that doesn't matter). If just creating a 3D model of something is above this threshold depends on the details, generally an as-precise-as-possible replica doesn't require originality though, so probably not.

For photographs there a exists a category where this threshold doesn't apply as strongly, and the court argued that in this category, the amount of expertise and work necessary to create it was enough to make it a work of it's own.
This potentially conflicts with older decisions, that did not grant pure reproductions copyright protection.

EDIT2: after reviewing the old case I had in mind: It denied protection to a copy of a photo of an original, explicitly citing that it is not desired to allow infinite copyright extension by creating copies. We'll see in the next round if removing one layer of indirection changes the situation.

EDIT: I use "freely license" above because the concept of releasing something in the public domain doesn't exist in Germany. In practice, licensing it as e.g. CC0 is the clean way of achieving the same.
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A lot of people in the UK's more deprived areas have been relying on EU money to keep some semblance of economic activity going.

These areas literally have nothing. There used to be industry, but the Tories killed most of that and sent it abroad because they could make more money by selling and/or offshoring it.

There's some tourism. Maybe some food production. A little light industry. And that's pretty much it.

These areas had some of the strongest leave votes. Today they've woken up and demanded that the UK government continue to give them the same level of funding they got from the EU.

Which is never going to happen. So - regrets - they have a few. But then again, certainly not too few to mention.
In Germany, a lot of people still buy vegetables from farmers markets, or try to only buy locally grown stuff in supermarkets.

Luckily, the production country and region has always to be marked, so people can make an informed choice.
Maybe I read to much into this but until the UK invokes article 50 I would expect the EU to remain neutral.

My impression is that the EU wants this to happen fast to stop the market turmoil as well but I'd bet it'll just get an extra boost once Article 50 gets invoked
> 2. If you're not using an ORM, then you ultimately end up writing one. And doing a far worse job than the people who focus on that for a living. It's no different from people who "don't need a web framework", and then go on to re-implement half of Rails or Spring (without accounting for any CSRF protection). Learning any framework at a professional level is a serious time investment, and many student beginners or quasi-professional cowboys don't want to do that. So they act like their hand-rolled crap is a badge of honor.

As a professional cowboy -- I detest layers; if it's running on my server, I need to support it, even if i didn't write it. An ORM or a web framework adds thousands of lines of codes and usually two or three layers of indirection. It's way less effort to just output some HTML, or just make a database query, than to learn a framework or ORM, and as a bonus it's usually faster too. Also, it's a lot easier to fix slow queries when there's one place that has the whole query (with placeholders where possible -- I may be crazy, but I'm not insane).
Not so simple. Every big enough place will be a disjointed mess of cross-cutting concerns. The ORM (usually another custom mess on top of some open source thing) ends up being owned by everyone and in effect ends up being owned by no one. So then you end up going around asking each team in turn to fix stuff but each team consists of domain experts and not ORM/SQL experts so no one does anything. So then you bring in ORM/SQL experts but they don't have any domain knowledge so they just chip away at the edges and end up making no improvements and you still are stuck with an ORM nightmare.

The bottleneck in fixing technical things is never the technical stuff. After all, most of this stuff is 70s tech to begin with and the science has been worked out by much smarter people already. The social stuff on the other hand is a different matter entirely and once you're in an ORM quagmire it is impossible to get out.
Terrorism is about terror and fear, not necessarily hurting and killing.
You are talking about hobby robot arms, not commercial robot arms.
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Backblaze is another company that does this, which is infuriating when you're entering your long private key into their client. CTRL-V doesn't work, but surprisingly, right-clicking and selecting paste does. I didn't realize this until I the second time I had to enter the key.
Awesome!

This was my goto magazine :)

Much more code per issue than Byte, and easily modifiable games, which were great for learning.

Thanks to the Archive for scanning! If there are any issues missing, I may have them and be able to help contribute.
"That’s the “Alternativ für Deutschland”, Germany’s only Eurosceptic party. Its leader, Frauke Petry, got herself in hot water when she pointed out that German law allowed police to shoot refugees at the border"

That maybe needs a bit more clarification, Frauke Petry got repeatedly asked questions by a newspaper seeking specifically for this answer. She said something like "I know you want this answer from me, but our party doesnt want to do that in any case, however the constitution recommends shooting in extreme cases in order to protect the border" ( which isnt wrong btw )

The newspaper went actually forward and produced the headline "AfD wants to shoot refugee children". Sad!
Frankly they're lucky that Cameron didn't just resign on the spot. "You break it, you bought it. Cameron out."
There’s some more things Germans accept as seasonal: Plums, Strawberries and non-frozen raspberries.

Especially strawberries – during early summer, on every street corner there’s someone selling strawberries from a small camping trailer painted red with green roof.
In Go I only need to annotate the column name of the struct variable to have it load automagically from DB using just SQL and a little bit of tooling (sqlx). 95% of the convenience of an ORM, none of the problems.
Anyone with enough hardware can observe this sort of problem:

http://www.evanjones.ca/tcp-and-ethernet-checksums-fail.html

When The CRC and TCP Checksum Disagree:
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2000/conf/paper/sigco...

Alternately, just look at "netstat -s" for any machine on the Internet talking to a bunch of others. Here's the score for the main web host of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

3088864840 segments received
2401058 bad segments received.
Oy, I wish I'd kept a listing of the Algol W snowflake curve program I wrote up for Creative Computing and that they published in the Nov-Dec 1978 issue. The printout combined with the scan makes it hard to read. Ah, well; I did it to myself.
Intelligence Squared[1] did a debate on this topic. It's definitely worth listening to.

To summarize a couple of the more compelling arguments in the camp _against_ extending lifespans:

1. Turnover of ideas from the older generation to a new generation with fresh ideas. This turnover is healthy and benefits our society's ability to progress.

2. Negative impact on our decision making processes. We construct a narrative of our lives and often the decisions we make are based on how they impact our personal narrative, knowing there is an 'end' to our story makes us value each decision we make, and thus make better decisions.

[1] http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1... (warning: video will autoplay)
"If it sounds good on NS10's it'll sound good on anything"

I have fucked up a few mixes by using $5 headphones. But yes properly monitoring gear will point out flaws rather than make something sound good. When I get to the end of a mix (using Sony MDR7506's for example) and I think "man this sounds SO CLOSE but it's still a little shitty" then I'll go and check it on iPhone headphones or something and it'll sound fantastic.
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Do you have an ALDI or Trader Joes near you? Can you compare price and quality of their products?

I’d be interested.
Are you joking? Or are you contending that this satisfies a reasonable and thought out explanation of why Britain's referendum will have negative results:

> It's like Britain just drank some poison, then went into a shop and said
"Hi, I drank some poison and you're the only person that sells the antidote, What kind of deal can you give me on that?"
That background image (2000 x 3225px) makes the scrolling really laggy for me. Please remove it or make it smaller.
No ORM is building query bits from user input with string concat.
Interestingly, I'd agree with you if you'd left airbnb out of that list.

I see something more menacing in airbnb, probably because I've witnessed families getting outbid for single family homes by owners who turn around and airbnb out the "spare" rooms - in a city where I grew up and where the percentage of children has plummeted from about 22% to below 14% in my lifetime (yes, I'm talking about San Francisco).

Airbnb and related services do convert the housing used for children, who don't pay rent and cost a bundle, into short term rentals for tourists. This isn't the only harm it does, but it's the one that worries me the most.

If this isn't true, by all means I'd love to see the data, provided airbnb doesn't scrub it of all evidence first, ahem.

BTW, I like airbnb style rentals fine if they are regulated properly. 75-90 days is a lot of time to get to rent out a house that is zoned for long term residence. If I go off on vacation for a couple of weeks, and I rent my place out, I don't see much harm there. But if a former kid's room is converted into a revolving door for tourists, one more kid is displaced from SF? There is tremendous harm if San Francisco ceases to be a place where people are from.

The problem is that airbnb is lobbying fiercely against meaningful regulation. I'm personally not against zoning to ensure a proper mix of housing in a city. I don't think that these regulations are obsolete just because someone wrote a rails program that allows you to type in your address and click the "Create Hotel Here" button.
By the way, in Cupertino there is a restaurant called "Shanghai Dumpling". They serve some of the best soup dumplings I have had. The soup is not too salty and does not leave an oily mouth feeling. The service is poor, but food fast and delicious.

10895 S. Blaney Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014
It's gone from apocalyptically bad to horrendously bad.

I have no idea where they thought any of that UX would be even remotely a good idea. Everything about it is misguided to such an extreme I'm left wondering if there's a single human on their development team.

1password may not be perfect, but their attention to usability is obvious!
Mostly, because there’s competition.

Most normal supermarkets act like a cartel instead.
Not a coup. More like the continued ass kicking of labor by capital.

I had a leash (pager) in 1992 that was tugged often. The fur really flew if I didn't call back immediately. eg I almost got fired because I was in the shower at the gym (at 7:00am) and took 15 min to call back.

From what I can tell, since pretty much everyone I know has done a tour of duty at Amazon or equiv, things have only gotten worse.

"means they don't have to hire someone else"

Natch. But I see it more like someone else's failure to plan creates an (recurring) emergency for me.
Could you link to something that verifies your claim? I don't know German well enough to find something on my own (sorry).
Thanks, will optimise it.