skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm going to start selling shirts that say "Today I Broke The DMCA".

That actually happened with DeCSS.

Many many years ago, in an internet far far away, some clever hackers determined how to decrypt DRM-protected DVDs. They even built a decryption program and named it DeCSS. Several court cases followed, usually based upon WIPO CC, the treaty that the DMCA implements.

In DVD CCA v. Bunner, a California court issued a preliminary injunction against a website owner for hosting DeCSS. As an entirely predictable result, the internet responded by disseminating it far and wide.

Some people even put it on t-shirts: http://www.design-reuse.com/news_img/20080804_1.gif
American civil war is probably the clearest example. That was a war to defend the private ownership of the means of production. Then there are atrocities committed by capitalist governments, for example the Tasmanian genocide. [1]

Since I am headed for bed, let me preemptively quote from the Georgia's declaration of seperation [2]:

>> The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War#Characterisation_as_...

[2] http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/dec...
It probably started as a hobby project to fill a need and grew way more than they expected it to.
Here are the options I see:

1. Pay a reasonable amount for a reputable service like FastMail with a good user interface

2. Use a free, reputable service and make your peace with them selling ads off your email (they have to keep the lights on somehow)

3. Use a super cheap or free service that doesn't work as well as FastMail or Gmail (you get what you pay for)

4. Host your own and risk deliverability issues, and spend time maintaining a server.

There is no magic solution here that works great, is free or super cheap, doesn't require lots of time on my part, and doesn't have an ad-based business model.

I value my time too much to consider #3 or #4.

If I didn't want to pay for FastMail, I would just use Gmail. Realistically, I don't think Google's algorithms reading my email would have a noticeable negative impact on my life, but I would notice bad UI or failed deliveries.
The WordPress-Editor-iOS GPL license should be invalid, because it includes the sources from the ZSSRichTextEditor project which is MIT licensed.

Which specifically has a clause:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

edit: reading the readme.md in the WordPress-Editor-iOS project, they list the following projects that were used in the codebase:

ZSSRichTextEditor (License MIT)
CYRTextView (License MIT)
HRColorPicker (License BSD)
jQuery (License MIT)
JS Beautifier (License MIT)

Instead of retaining of the licenses for the projects. They removed the licenses, and replace it with the GPL license.

IANAL - I think that is not how you re-license someone elses project.
There's nothing modern about a website that does nothing without JavaScript
obligatory joke: I traced the OP's IP address, its coming from the HRC campaign. (or DJT campaign. arguments for both.)
Yup, it's great. $100/year. Watch "full" games (minus halftime show and commercials, so it's only like 2h) and "condensed" games where they cut out the timeouts, replays, and time between plays (which can be a bit jarring, but watchable).. and only 35-45min per game.
This is a classic 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. If you would like to avoid the fallacy, you could make arguments such as 'more socialist systems are associated with _ positive outcome', or socialism is more moral because _. I lean strongly against socialism, but would prefer everyone made better arguments for their causes; G.A. Cohen is a good starting point for moral/ethical arguments in favor of socialism.

Update: parent comment was substantially changed since my comment was written. It originally said something to the effect of: 'but true socialism has never been implemented'. Perhaps I should have quoted it to avoid this confusion/deception.
A clear example of the Streisand effect in action.

More recently, this happened with the decryption key that starts with 09 F9...
It is sad to hear this. As arts are a form of expression, and their appreciation makes us more open minded and connected.

Having said this... You can also study abroad. There are other countries, with universities in term, you don't have to pay that much you know.
How many more millions of test subjects must die before you accept the negative result?
30 for 30 is by far the best ESPN original content in the past 10 years.
I'm trying to conceive of a t-shirt that would, merely by reading it, cause the reader to violate a copyright law. That one's difficult.

Maybe one with a custom EULA, "By talking to me you acknowledge that you are agreeing to these terms. Should you not agree, say nothing further."
Progressive enhancement isn't about people with JS turned off. It's about resiliency to failures. That might be network congestion, it might be a mistake in your code, or something else.
All this story did to me was remind why I don't read twitter. Short messages, interspersed with some random people's comments... I'm sure whatever did happen was downright magical, but the medium destroyed it for me. Can someone pastebin the story?
> Self-hosting option came out to one Linode machine, plus one other VPS provider machine

So, that’s what “self-hosting” means nowadays? Because of course we can’t have these infernal machines in our homes; what are we, savages, to sully our hands with manual labor and physical hardware? /s

Note: Your home is the only place where you can host your server and be reasonably sure that the government is at least going to show you a warrant when they want all your data.
Also, 30 for 30 was another Bill Simmons idea...and he's gone.
Right, but the question was about the batteries, which hang on the wall in the garage. Nobody has the expectation that such an appliance will last the lifetime of the house.

Solar panels also degrade, roughly 1% per year, and commonly have a 20-year warrantee. That is less than the 30 years a good roof will last, but in the same ballpark. I doubt anyone knows the long-term resilience of these solar-panel-tile-roofs, but it's unlikely that they will have the extreme longevity of the clay tile roofs they imitate. In the right climate, those clay roofs can last a hundred years!
>Marcin Wichary, the lead typographer and designer at Medium,

Yet we had to read what should have been a blog post in a series of tweets. :)
Innocent people don't deserve to be shot, least of all by thug faux cop wannabe "neighborhood watch" goons.

When you twist all common sense to package together an incoherent set of arguments, it makes your legitimate points seem as crazy as your race war fantasies.
I realize this is a sample size of 1, but i've had poor experiences with Rackspace's cloud offerrings. Unlike AWS and SoftLayer, both of which I also use, it was very difficult canceling Rackspace's services. Some residual block storage would get left behind, it would not be referenced anywhere and you'd keep paying month after month. It took almost a half year of calls before i was able to cancel all the services. Discussions would be as follows:
- Me: I want to cancel all services
- Them: OK done
- Me (month 3): I want to cancel this other service I still got charged for
- Them: Oh, that one too?
- Me (month 5): I want to cancel this other residual service I still got charged for
- Them: Oh, you want it all gone?
> We survived having RJ45 jacks

We survived the 90s in general. Every damn cable was basically designed for one task.

RJ45 wasn't the worst one in my experience. The worst cable was the Serial cable. Null Modem, male-to-female adapters, DB9 vs DB15, and every combination thereof.

Some of the serial cables would work for mice, others for modems, others for printers, some for gamepads. We lived, we learned how to swap cables and label them.

---------

And once you got the right cable, then you may have to configure the right settings. 9600 8N1 is common, but maybe there were 2-stop bits, or maybe the baud-rate was 4800 or some other value.

Uggghhhhhhh.
Do you think the wide photos might have been taken using a slitscan technique?
And you can satisfy being treated as second class with low speed memory, Lowe processor, leser ports etc.
I just watch sports, I don't see the controversy you do.

When you endlessly read politics into every last thing, you're bound to be unhappy and spiral into paranoid conspiracy theories. If anything, it makes you more like the SJW you rail against.
Similar project in python if that's your jam:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities
>you get this staunchly anti-government/libertarians who are also incredibly pro-IP.

Actually most libertarian are strictly against any form of IP and patents. They prefer trade secrets over state regulation.

But then again I don't know if you mean real libertarians or just crypto-statists calling themselves libertarian because they don't know better...
Everyone who wants to be on TV has to be an entertainer, otherwise he/she has no business being on television and should instead write papers and books.

The rest is just your opinion, which you are obviously entitled to. I happen to disagree and I think most would too, otherwise he wouldn't have that kind of viewership.
Steve Jobs on sales/marketing vs. product/engineering driven companies
Temper tantrums are fun. I get it. It's better to use numbers though. Diesel produces roughly 37 kwh/gallon [1] a powerwall can supply about 12kwh "all day" [2]. A powerpack is more like 100kwh.

So, let's say 10 gallons an hour. you'd need 30 powerwall 2s to cover power needs.

I think you're underestimating how well electric motors do in low speed high torque situations. I'd bet there are some efficiencies to be gained from those characteristics. Simpler mechanical linkages. One motor per application rather than a big hydraulic system and a funny transmission, for example.

On the down side, batteries are HEAVY. You probably lose most of the weight savings from simplification to added mass in batteries. Back on the pro side, simpler systems are simpler to repair and maintain.

But, i get your point, it's probably not there yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall
Communism is a very specific ideology with a well-known, well-documented content and intellectual history. It isn't "just a process" for anything.

Communism is evil because its ideology has no relationship with reality and will inevitably be a practical disaster anywhere it's implemented to the degree that it's implemented as a result. There's no escaping it any more than you can escape the laws of physics.
Hi there!

Thanks for the comment. I apologize if I did not express my frustration in proper way. I have been here for 5 months only. It will look bad on my resume to abandon ship in the middle. Do you have recommendation for adapting my communication style or dealing with feeling my of annoyance?
Seconding this recommendation. Their email hosting also lets you set up multiple accounts per domain, and a huge number of email aliases for those accounts, so that you can easily create service-specific addresses or addresses that forward to multiple places.

If you want more storage than their default 1GB, I suggest running your own IMAP server and running getmail to download all your mail continuously, while still using their SMTP server for all incoming and outgoing mail to avoid having to worry about deliverability. getmail supports IMAP IDLE, so it can download new mail and add it to your IMAP server the moment it arrives.

(Or, if you don't want to do that, you can pay Gandi for more storage.)
Thanks everyone. I don't know how I wasn't able to come up with it given the reference to the Ecuadoran embassy.
FastMail or Zoho!
I understand that, but unfortunately my provider at home is blocking port 25 (both directions), so that's not an option.
"The Naturalistic Fallacy": Simply because something is natural does not make it good.

Lava is natural, and food coloring is synthetic. Of which would you prefer to eat a pound?

Version 1.2
All you're saying is that attempts at communism have all had major problems. That's true, but it's not enough to be conclusive.

If you want to pick examples that point various ways, you can note that Cuba has corruption, lack of democracy, is an impoverished island suffering the effects of significant economic embargoes in the global system and yet still vies for having one of the best health care systems. They even a top country in providing doctors to serve abroad in troubled places!

And the Soviet Union was a horrendously corrupt place that failed in most
respects to live up to communist ideals and yet still managed to compete
technologically with the richest countries on the planet despite being
economically far far far weaker in fundamentals. The U.S. only barely beat the
Soviets in the space race etc while being massively richer. The Soviets had
many orders of magnitude more losses in WWII also.

The history of Communism is one where anti-communists did everything they could
to undermine any success, the trials were full of corruption and abuse, and
even still they had notable successes.

The kibbutzen failed not strictly because all the ideas were unworkable. They
failed because they had to function economically in a larger context. None of
them had wealth along the lines of successful capitalists either. Capitalists
have only ever operated capably by controlling a lot of capital or getting
subsidy, at least in the form of law enforcement that serves the side of
capital.

We can conclude that all attempts at communism so far have had serious flaws.
We can also conclude that capitalism has always had serious flaws too. Anyone
who takes a polarized one-sided view on this stuff can be rejected as just
being dogmatic. Piketty is not one of these one-sided dogmatic people, he's
actually interested in studying empirical evidence and not concluding more than
the evidence can truly support.
Epic troll lol
People are being hyperbolic when they say Apple is "Getting rid of the ESC key" right? You guys know it's still there on the touch bar right?
https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/EscKey_TA-1...
Apple's interface guidelines warn against fun things on Touch Bar
Seattle's minimum wage, once fully rolled out, will be tied to inflation.
> MIT [...] removes freedom to look and modify code from the end user.

Er, what? What's stopping the end user from just downloading the source code? The MIT license applies to them, too. Sure, they aren't guaranteed the source code of a derived work, but they are informed about the origin of the MIT-licensed source code (per the terms of the MIT license).

The problem with distinguishing between "publisher" and "end user" here is that - under the free software and open source philosophies - the two roles are one and the same. Anyone end user can be a publisher. It's thus nonsensical to claim that the MIT licenses (and other non-copyleft free software licenses) themselves somehow "remove" freedom from anyone.
Are you saying that someone took MIT licensed source code, removed the copyright, and then licensed it under GPL?

[edit: I guess with your edit that is exactly what you are saying, so how can it be legal to pull that stunt?]
Seattle doesn't have a job shortage, Seattle has a housing shortage. Not to say it's easy for poor people to acquire a job, but it's a lot easier to find a job in Seattle than it is to find a place to live.
It's about "distribution" of the software - which means that if a WP site is modified, and then given out to people to serve on their own servers (like a product that is based on Wordpress that contains for example, a ready made/installed curated set of plugins + themes), then this entire product must be opensource with the GPL.

If you are a person just running a WP site, using some custom plugins, BUT are not "Distributing" it, then you are ok.

The loophole of course is deciding whether sending out the html/css/js output of the site over the web to a visitor of your site counts as "distribution" (which is current "Not" by usual readings / interpretations of the GPL)
Not sure why there are two views, but the 'moments' view is missing a ton of tweets with photos that are included after the last tweet on the moment page. Worth checking out the tweet-stream version.
Myths about AI
There are no states in communism, quoting Lenin:

>> Only now can we fully appreciate the correctness of Engels' remarks mercilessly ridiculing the absurdity of combining the words “freedom” and “state”. So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Lenin, The State and the Revolution, 1917
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/c...
In the contracting world, I get one of these people every year or so. They jump onto projects often, are discovered, given warnings and improvement plans, and usually find another project before they're actually fired.

Their big asset is that they can be billed at high rates but only get paid minimally themselves, allowing the contractor to pocket large profits. The bean counters love to hire them, and just expect the good developers to carry the dead weight.

Not to appear to be misogynistic, but 3 out 4 of these, at least in my experience, are women. Usually they can coast far longer than most men because there is always one easily manipulated male dev on the team who gets suckered into helping her do all her work. I was that dev once early in my career.
Central planning of all production means that the central planners controls everything in society.
It depends on the amount - dose maketh the poison.
National Socialism (i.e. Hitler) was based fundamentally on nationalism and racism. We can reject it because the principles themselves are unethical. We can reject it even if it had succeeded economically!

If you want to make an argument that the principles of communism are unethical, that's an independent argument from the claim that certain historic attempts had various atrocities and therefore you reject the principles (even though many of the atrocities are not related to the principles — Stalin disappearing his political enemies has no basis in communist principles…
This isn't a no true scotsman, that commentor is correct. The state building ideologies of the 20th century are inherently authoritarian, but if you think they're the only components to socialist thought then you're simply uninformed. There are a multitude of anti-authoritarian socialist schools of thought, most notably anarcho-communism. There's also mutualism which is a market based socialist system.

Socialism isn't about state control, the socialist states that existed (and still do sort of exist, notably Cuba) see themselves as transitionary states between capitalism and socialism, up until the time they're no longer necessary (I don't defend this approach, there's multiple reasons why I believe this is wrong). These states never claimed to be practicing socialism, but they remain socialist states because of their end goal.

If you're interested in stronger well structured arguments for socialism, from an anti-authoritarian perspective I recommend reading the writings of Bakunin and Proudhon for more theoretical looks at property and the state. Kropotkin is great for anarcho-communism. Here's some books I recommend with free links:

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin (Check this one out first) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-c...

What is Communist Anarchism? (Or this one first, they're both great intros) By Alexander Berkman https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-wh...

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchi...

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutua...

And not particularly an ideology book, but an interesting firsthand recount by George Orwell of his time fighting with Socialists and Anarchists against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War which is called "Homage to Catalonia"
620k subscribers didn't bail because they disagreed with Colin Kalpernicek (sp?), they bailed because ESPN is still acting as if cable channels still have a future.
Wow, This is an interesting idea. It looks like using wires for I/O will be be outmoded in the not too distant future and who knows, maybe in 50 years they may be outmoded even for recharging. So this could truly be the last universal connector standards.
/edit: Typical case of "just read the headline and replied". Sorry for telling you about Fastmail while you ruled it out.

I'm currently using Fastmail [0]. No issues so far (5 months in).

Switched initially because they support push on the native iPhone mail app while Google forces you to use their Gmail app if you want push. (Even if you have paid for Gmail for business service).

I'm using FM with my own domain. Setup was trivial. There's also a lot of material on the web about setting up fastmail with different software packages. (My MBP's postfix uses my fm account to send out cronjob messages).

Can't say anything about their webmail because I never really used any webmail front end. But from the little contact I had with FM's webmail frontend it looked tidy and was responsive.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com
IANAL, but these guys are also not (but I think wix.com did consult them).

The WordPress component in question is based MIT license which might not included in valid way as GPL and Wix.com is using that component. I assume Wix.com's layers told them that this component cannot be protected under GPL so they are ok to use them.
I think Amazon is still trying to bill me for an EC2 instance "seized" by the FBI in 2013. Perhaps it's still running somewhere without networking.

No amount of contacting them seemed to help, so billing departments unable to deal with edge cases isn't restricted to rackspace.

Oh, and Softlayer sent me a bill a few days ago for a server cancelled 6 months ago.
However. In the meantime the main issue was solved. The famed "Old Books Smell" is available in a bottle. You can spray it on your reading device.
Thanks for the help. Might be time to grab one of them before they're completely gone on ebay.
> Europeans also convinced a starving Zambia to reject the generous US gift of life saving grain. Let people starve cause hypothetically something could be bad for them is the height of hypocrisy.

Zambia wasn't starving; as far as I can tell there was a regional famine, while some areas were actually experiencing an above average output. According to government sources the main issue was getting aid to affected areas inside the country, not the inability of the government to procure food from other countries.

I've tried to search for any evidence that anyone starved to death, but couldn't find any. It's telling that when searching for info about the Zambia famine, you mostly get articles talking about GMOs and can't find any (at least I couldn't) talking about anyone who starved.

This is one of those topics where whenever it comes up you can usually expect a ton of disinformation thrown about from all sides.
https://mailbox.org/en/ is my goto provider for email. its 1 euro a month, even if you have your own domain, and also does stuff like calendar and address book if you want.