skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fair Use always trumps the DMCA

This is not necessarily the case.

> However, in a number of cases involving DVD decryption courts have held that there is no fair use defense in circumvention cases. In Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294, 322 (S.D.N.Y. 2000), the court stated that "[i]f Congress had meant the fair use defense to apply to such actions, it would have said so."[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#Fair_Use_an...
The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter
Show HN: Gru – Open source solution for better technical interviews
This case is well-planned activism. Bunnie and EFF team certainly know more about free speech and copyright than you or I do. Perhaps you don't likr the press release, but that necessarily simplifies and reduces the detailed arguments they will have to brief before the court.
So you're telling me Andrew Huang's business model is to make derivative content devices, for profit, without permission or compensation from the original creators and/or rights holders?

I don't find this litigant to be sympathetic in the least (the second one, Green, is much more reasonable - though redundant to the John Deere case going on).

My initial impression is that I might actually want Huang to lose, if the implications of what he wants are as stated. He's trying to justify "remixing" for profit without compensation to the original rights holders. That's hot garbage in my personal opinion as a content creator.
Big Chinese tech firms may not always be the first to come up with a good idea, but they certainly are able to refine an idea (which is often innovative). They also will run with bad ideas.

There's a story on TechDirt today [1] showing how the large Chinese firms have been putting together massive patent portfolios and have started litigating... in East Texas.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160718/06573135006/just-...
Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
> Part of the commitment of being a software engineer is living in a place with lots of other software engineers for a little while.

Why? I am a professional software engineer with a job that involves working with the some of the latest trendy tools for building distributed systems (Kafka, Zookeeper, etc). But I've never lived in a tech hub.
This is anectodal evidence, but I personally saw a CNIL inspection at a previous workplace (semi-big company in France, ~2000 employees at the time). 2 inspectors came in unannounced one morning and snatched a DBA to see what personal info was in all of our databases (Dev,Staging and Prod). They also did other inspections regarding our handling of personal data.
> convince the church hierarchy to dispatch 20,000 Mormons to the middle of nowhere, assuming they could do that.

It's interesting, Mormonism originally encouraged its members to move to a central place, but around 1950 then prophet (i.e. leader) David O. McKay told people it was fine to remain at home [1]. There are some interesting pockets out there as a result of this "gathering attitude", though, like (AFAIK) a fairly substantial group of Polynesian Mormons in and around Independence, Missouri (a key area in Mormon theology)[2].

[1] https://www.lds.org/manual/presidents-of-the-church-student-...

(search the term "where they live" in the article)

[2] https://www.lds.org/ensign/1979/06/saints-in-independence?la...
We'll see about that. We can revisit this case when it goes further down the line, because I study copyright extensively and follow these cases often. It's not that I don't like the press release, it's that it contains factual errors and if you want to believe them, then that's not constructive.
Oh totally. I assumed that unicode bs immediately. And anyone would make this mistake easily. That's the point -- gotta have it imprinted in the brains, that regexes are for finding things in files, not for your production code.
I've used them myself, but I'd like to think that when i type that regex in i stop and thing whether i will be feeding raw user inputs into it.
> But it takes only one guy who thinks "they will never get me as I'm smarter"

And fortunately for us, Eastern Europe is full of the these kinds of people. :)
NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier
For instance?
Please don't do that with banana or orange peels, they remain present for a long time. I have no problem personally with people tossing apple cores in more remote, little-visited areas (though it still makes sense to crack down on such things a bit more in heavily visited areas like National Parks) but various peels don't rot well and remain in place.
What's next?

Are you going to account for the cost of making water? Not the bill you pay to the utility for use, but the actual cost of formulating water?

What about air?

How about the cost of creating a sun if you rely on solar power?
https://community.ringcentral.com/ringcentral/topics/anyone-...

Yup, looks like it's dead.
It's all the man files in /usr/local/Cellar/curl//7.49.1/share/man/man3/
> The biggest surprise of the 21st century...

The century is only 15 years old. Give it time.

Social revolutions take decades to hatch after the conditions become right, and decades more of "happening" before there is any certainty about what they turned into.

The only thing that was ridiculous was the idea that a country with 1/3 of the world population would stay irrelevant forever. But outside of that, the future is incredibly uncertain.
I grew up in Vermont. Friends that still live there have been telling me about this. The biggest potential problem is that he will be able to take over the town and outvote those who have lived there for years. Like many places in Vermont there is likely only one road that runs through the town and many are worried there will be issue once this man owns all the land around it. But there is quite a few other established cults in Vermont. I assume it will end happening and not being that big of a deal. Vermonters MO is to leave people alone and let them do what they want.
Plagiarism is a distinctively American problem
Illegal immigration reduction is not xenophobia. Or is immigration law xenophobic ?

Islam is not a race or an ethnicity it is an ideology. If Scientologists started killing people, what would happen ?

What if the security guards at HSBC started killing every 1,000,000 customer? Would HSBC get government attention ?

Participation in NATO is a financial issue. Spinning non participation in multi-country deals as being caused by not wanting to engage with foreigners because they are foreign is ridiculous.
The LDS Church builds temples in an area _after_ there is a large enough group of members in the surrounding area to ensure the temple will get used.

There are very specific numbers used to determine where temples should be built. It is only an endorsement that there were enough nearby members to justify building one, not that members should move there.
I had more clarity in my thoughts regarding this but it's been a year since I worked on the chrome extension and the startup folded. Thanks for your contributions to OSS.
I never said anything about Trump. We're talking about his supporters.

You cannot make blanket statements about the intentions of tens of millions of people.
Okay, that's a reasonable point. I recall that issue too, but forgot they used the DMCA as the lock-up point, re: copyright. I think the scope is extremely limited in that case though, which is an excellent point of contention (because I don't agree with DMCA > Fair Use in principle).
I've noticed some form of existential malaise seems to be very common among people with ADHD.

Let me also recommend popping-pills. It's not enough by itself, but it can help you do the yak-shaving that is needed for getting out of a dead-end job. At least speaking for myself, without medication, updating a resume, practicing interviewing skills, and researching job prospects (or alternatively doing market research, developing an MVP, filling out paperwork for a business, and seeking seed funding) could take years.
Yeah, I hope it was obvious that I wasn't seriously advocating that. I'm just pointing out how this stuff is embedded into our society, and it's hard to root out without taking extreme measures (which will likely have even worse unintended effects).

Also, it doesn't help that most of our kids seem to be raised by people who are either uneducated and poor (and thus don't pass on to girls the idea that they can get an education too and be good at math), or by people who are conservative and/or religious (and who actively discourage girls from doing well in math and science because of their traditional sexist values). The people who do have liberal values about this stuff aren't having kids (or not very many), so we just have this almost religious belief that our liberal values will somehow pass to these kids through societal conditioning (which they do to a certain extent thanks to the media and internet).
The Blended Learning Puzzle: Having the pieces to make it work
> That's what you do in a pop culture, not in an engineering one.

According to Alan Kay, the whole computer industry is a pop culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956430

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
Maybe @sama needs to take some hint from him for his new cities project!
I can imagine tinkering with a Tesla could cause some heartburn for Elon. There are safety issues, which are real. What happens when some maniac changes the software to make autopilot into full self driving, then plows into a minivan on its way to Little League practice? Also interesting, recently heard about a guy who can reprogram some diesel trucks to get better performance (probably at the expense of NOX emissions, like what happened with VW). Still thought it was pretty cool that the truck was not locked down to prevent tinkering in this manner.

NOTE: I am talking about what the company's perspective may be, not my own view of the risks.
the new AdWords UI: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar...
UpLabs (YC W16) Is Hiring a Front-End Developer in Europe
Creating a Beer Recommendation Engine
>They must disclose and inisist on the risks of a product.

By giving me a 50+ pages brochure. Just like EULA's hide the nasty stuff among huge amounts of text.

Sure it's better than nothing, but still far from perfect IMO.
Two Big Questions for Elon Musk
> If you want to work on a yacht, you have to move to Fort Lauderdale until you are established.

No you don't. Marina Mile may have the highest density of yacht builders and dealers in the country, but it is far from the only place. Plus, yachts are a pretty small subset of boatbuilding, which goes on in all coastal areas.

> You can be a doctor anywhere, but if you are going to do medical research you have to be in New Orleans, New York Boston, DC / Maryland, or Chicago, maybe the Cleveland Clinic.

Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Memphis would like a word with you.

> If you are doing aerospace engineering you are going to be living in Virginia, Southern California, or Washington.

Dallas, Boston, St. Louis, Tuscon, Atlanta, Denver, and Melbourne would like a word with you.

> It is stupid to think that someone who wants to do 'web/social/mobile' can get a decent start outside of a place without lots of other people doing it.

First, it is stupid to think there do not exist a whole lot places with "lots" of people doing web/social/mobile.

Second, it is stupid to think web/social/mobile defines the tech industry. I have spent 14 years as an electrical, systems, and software engineer. I have never worked in that segment, and don't plan on it.

> I don't think that there is anyone on Hacker News who can say they succeeded getting their start in the industry outside of a 'software' tech hub.

"software" != "web/social/mobile"

Plus, despite the slightly hyperbolic way I sometimes bitch about my career path, I have spent my entire career in Dallas, and if I could learn to stomach either going back to the defense industry or jumping to enterprise development I could spend my entire career here.

> If someone wants to be a serious software engineer they are going to have to commit to living in SF, DC, Boston, Austin, or Portland at some point in the beginning. It is disingenuous to tell people who are starting it is otherwise. Part of the commitment of being a software engineer is living in a place with lots of other software engineers for a little while.

That is ridiculous, unless you define "serious software engineer" in a circular fashion such that one, by definition, needs to. Then your definition would be ridiculous.

> It is not fair to anyone starting out to say they don't have to move to where there is a lot of activity. It is so unfair.

No, it is not fair to anyone starting out to tell them that they must get their first job in one of the self-described software meccas and that they are a failure if they don't.
Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torrent site
I have a friend who is a psychologist, and she hates it when someone refers to anti-depressants as "happy pills" for this reason.
David has said that he in no way intends this to be a Mormon community, that such an idea is the insular failure of early Mormon community-building efforts. I tend to agree with him on that notion, though history is a different topic. But New Vistas is certainly not a "Mormon" effort, just inspired by an early and obscure Mormon document. That said, the idea of community building is doctrinal to Mormonism, so there's that.

But again, he has no intentions of transplanting 20,000 Mormons into Vermont and thinks that would be a failure of the project.

As to the feasibility of transplanting 20,000 people from all walks of life? Completely different matter. In his grand vision, they would all eat, live, play, and work in the community. Is that possible? There are larger cities, some planned, some more organically grown from immigration.
I think I may be a single person to provide counter-data. I live in a small mountain community. The closest thing resembling a tech hub near me is Irvine followed by Los Angeles. Easily 2+ hours away. I commuted out to near Irvine to start my career (about 1.5 hour commute, and still do the commute half the week). I know I am in the minority, and I would recommend that others increase their odds of getting a start by living near a tech hub for a couple of years, but it is not impossible.
You tried DE and it didn't work? I'm a little surprised. Men have been using DE razors for generations (they first came out in WWI). Are you sure you just didn't give yourself enough time to learn to do it right? Also, there's different blades out there, and different razors, some more aggressive than others. Many recommend getting a variety pack of blades and trying them all to see which work best for you, and many have serious preferences for the razor (handle) too, because their design and the distance between the safety bar and the blade can have a huge impact.
I had to chuckle a little that this mentions Grand Rapids. I grew up there and moved to Silicon Valley 18 years ago. I hated it there: brutal long winters (Google "lake effect"), hot humid summers, mosquitos, and a socially conservative monoculture. I definitely understand people's frustration with the real estate situation around here, but there's more to an area than just jobs and houses.
Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillance
The part that gets me is that there was a pre-existing crisis, the escaped patient playing in the street, and one guy working to resolve it. Enter the police and instead of helping they shoot the guy trying to solve the crisis.

How does anyone enter that situation and interpret the need for violence? It's very difficult for me to imagine much grey area in this particular case.
I read that and thought "MongoDB users typically store images in the database? Interesting"
Someone determined enough to rework autopilot to work everywhere is not going to be stopped by the terms of a EULA.
Component Rendering Performance in React
“Now they manufacture without our oversight”

I know several people who's job is overseeing Chinese manufacturing. They need constant oversight and quality inspection otherwise everything falls apart very very fast.

I'm currently living in South West China and, while this may sound culturally insensitive, there is a very very serious cultural problem with quality and attention to detail. People will work really long hours, but will always do the very bare minimum. It's at times absolutely staggering and infuriating. The reason manufacturing is in China isn't so much because they know how to do things, but because they will work long hours doing mundane work (because of very strong commitments to supporting their families) and because the supply chain is located here. If you need 10 thousands units of some widget by next week you can get it. Its quite likely it will be defective, but you can just buy another 10 thousand from the factory next door. The same infrastructure doesn't exist anywhere else

The reason innovation will happen is because Chinese people are doers. They just go and do things instead of talking about it all day. And sure, they do a lot of dumb things, but at the end of the days it all seems to work out. Thats why they own half of Africa already
As an user let me tell you what I think : React sucks.
Watching this I'm asking myself about what I'm enduring today because of some js paradigms and developper happiness : my worst user experiences on the Internet today are on Facebook (Where I need 5-to 6 seconds to see my notifications) and Coursera (where I could wait a minute before a page is displayed after a click ) So my experiences with React are pretty negatives now. If anyone a has a posterchild to recommend me so I can reconsider this framework I'm open.
They need tools for remixing though, don't they? Who will make the tools if it's illegal?
Exploiting HTTPoxy Vulnerability
I've use it a few times to drive from downtown to my apartment on the west side of town, and payed <$5 for 3 miles. I used it once to try to get from my apartment to downtown, but I found it really difficult to find a parking spot downtown during rush hour.

It was slightly cheaper than Uber when they were still in Austin, but not by much.
20k people per square mile is about 28% of the density of Manhattan [72k per square mile].
Those improvements are presently not done because of cost. Grid electricity is a lot cheaper than diesel.

I guess electric trucks would still put a lot more effort into avoiding air resistance because of the lower energy per unit mass of batteries (the aerodynamic improvements can be pretty directly traded for either range or cargo capacity).

I think present day solar cells are a combination of too expensive and too heavy to bother with. That could change in the future.
I think this is one of those situations where if you play with fire you are going to get burned. See http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/exxon-mobil-under-... where the attorney general of New York subpoenaed records from Exxon. Given how Exxon's stock has performed, I think you would find it hard to make a case that investors were hurt by anything Exxon did.

The Exxon subpoena was basically a blatant attempt to chill free speech by people that are skeptical of climate change. Even though, I think the skeptics are wrong, attempting to chill speech is not a good look for science.

Now people who supported the Exxon subpoena are getting upset when they get subpoenaed.

The whole fossil fuel and climate change debate is more about policy than individual choices. As it is about public policy, everybody should be free to advocate freely for whatever position they support, and donate money to people who advocate for such. Any other way leads to loss of free speech in the long term.
What's the dropbox part for?
Many companies will want to adjust your salary downward if you are moving from the Bay Area to a lower cost of living location. This article seems to gloss over that fact.
TeX has its own stackexchange site [0], and so does Emacs [1].

While both TeX and Emacs Lisp questions are still treated on StackOverflow, it probably explains why TeX in particular appears to be such an outlier. (It's sure not because people aren't having trouble with it. The stackexchange site is indispensable.)

[0] http://tex.stackexchange.com/

[1] http://emacs.stackexchange.com/
There are plenty of libertarians who support overthrowing the state's monopoly on use of force with violence. Of course there are plenty that don't as well.
Ask HN: Interview tomorrow – How to learn whether an org is “healthy”?
Recall the NYT article describing Google's team culture case study. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=0).

I am being recruited by a manager & two technical leads for a leadership slot. They want to replace the existing manager for vague, but apparently real, "communication" problems - details forthcoming. 3 teams on 3 continents, perhaps 30 people total.

I know & trust the two technical leads, but want to have solid due diligence in place before accepting any offer. What questions can I use to learn whether the dev teams play well together?
Had the same thought, that would be quite the feat.
Have you investigated any of the existing GUIs? [1-3] I'd love to hear your thoughts on their pros/cons. I do plan to integrate a nice GUI framework if I can find one.

[1] https://azkaban.github.io/
[2] https://developers.google.com/blockly/
[3] http://nodered.org/
Hey folks! My team made this as a visualization side project. Let me know what you think!
It's not possible to disable telemetry completely, even on enterprise. You can select between "Extended", "Normal" and "Basic" (I think those were the names anyway).
It is very unusual for any such election not to be a sham election with a preordained winner, but in any case this scenario is straying pretty far from the one we started out discussing.
Exploiting httpoxy vulnerability
I documented something on exploiting httpoxy vulnerabilities here http://goo.gl/MXbe4x . Feel free to add more :)
What litle trust they had from me was obliterated by their practices over the last year.

Never buying anything Microsoft again.

I will begrudgingly continue to use W10 as I am a heavy-duty PC gamer but I've locked that shit down as tight as is humanly possible.

All my personal computing and development will be done solely on Arch from now on.
Discussion on designing C++ image processing libraries
What's new in PyCharm 2016.2
Minetest VR – Visgraf / IMPA (wip)
I studied section 1201 thoroughly during law school and I think this post doesn't give a fair characterization of it. The reason this statute exists is because companies were unable to devise protection for copyrighted works that hackers were not able to immediately circumvent. As a result, the government stepped in and created 1201 to make it illegal for someone to circumvent some form of access control that a company used to protect their copyrighted works. The purpose of the statute isn't to destroy <insert Internet activist claimed right> but is to make it much less expensive for a company to protect its products. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Thank you. Apparently RSS never got the memo that it "died" ;).
> Other people like to live in the caves of steel, with a seething mass of humanity flowing all around.

Funnily enough, that's what every suburban Walmart feels like.
That's a good point, I think I overstated the need for training data.