skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Following deliberation, the Copyright Office ruled in late October 2003 that four exemptions should be added to the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, to be valid until the next Copyright Office rulemaking in 2006, including two that are related to the Internet Archive's original comments: [...]

It's past 2006 now. This text seems outdated. Furthermore, it states:

> In 2003 the Internet Archive, as part of research into vintage software archiving, discovered possible archiving issues involving the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. This could make it impossible to legally archive early computer software and games, even for accredited institutions wishing to store limited amounts of non-distributable, archival images.

I don't believe we're looking at "non-distributable archival images" here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085800
Are you sure that's the real problem in Turkey?
Whatever we need, I've come to feel that Facebook is broken on a fundamental level in that it does not accomplish its implicit goal of connecting people. Interactions between Facebook users are comically if not dangerously (as we've now seen) vacuous.
Pretty wild we potentially have technology to photograph a black hole and accumulate 1024 HDDs of data pertaining to something light years away but not have the tech to transmit them electronically on our planet.
Do you know how well NextCloud works in a home environment? Is it really easy to automate the punching of a hole in the home firewall to allow access from anywhere? If you know of a project that automates this punching, it's a great combo to nextcloud.
That would probably be preferable and more difficult to missenterpret, as some users above pointed out my setting could be, however I don't know how/if it would fit the landscape they're placed on.. Wouldn't want the girl to face oncoming traffic instead of the bull...
Carbon credits operate on a voluntary basis and are not a tax.
All that can be done with transparent iframes, cursor tricks achieve nothing.
IMF: “Technology is chipping away the share of income that goes to workers”
You are correct. I was looking for a stark contrast in business performance that would be assured of having the same employee base. I think it is still true in companies where the business has run its course and sales are declining over time that the business performance can reduce engagement. The more time that passes, the more employee turnover and it's therefore less direct in causation.
No, I was indeed referring to OpenSSH which has had its share of security vulnerabilities too.
What's the story with gas stations in the US? Are they dying out / being replaced by something else as well?
You have a terrible style of writing.
Ugh, shiver. I've seen a variety of "problematic" data analysis behavior by very senior people, so I have no trouble believing this story. Nor do I blame you for not elaborating to random internet people. Although it is sad that his intimidation was not only rewarded, but apparently intimidated you right out of the field.

But IME, they usually try to cover their bases by (fake?) incompetence, rather than this kind of thing. That is, they claim to be unable to see severe problems even when the evidence is placed right in front of them. Plausible deniability, I guess.

In your example, it would be like "I don't see why we can't build Skynet. And if we claim to have built Skynet and have overstated our case, we can just fix it in future work. Anyway, who cares what we claim as long as we made a good-faith effort and get that next grant funded."

Personally though, I doubt whether most fabricated data is fabricated by PIs themselves, but by postdocs etc put exactly under the kind of impossible pressure you're describing. Then, of course, they can take credit for the successes and pretend to be shocked and outraged if the fabrication ever comes to light. The VW scandal probably happens somewhere in science daily.

I agree with your conclusion. Also, the distribution of "credit" or "popularity" is highly exponential in any field, so this proposal would just exacerbate the already rich-and-senior get more rich-and-senior phenomenon.
What strikes me is that Excel almost hasn't changed. Yes, they added some colors.
"Media is" sounds funny to me too, despite its ubiquity, but I wouldn't normally make an issue of it. I don't, however, agree that lutusp is "plain wrong".
Most if not all of my burners from the late 90s are just fine.
They CAN, sure, but they MUST coexist...

and that is less guaranteed considering market forces and network effects.
"its long term"
CAN-SPAM only requires a link in the email, but nothing about a working link. Often times, those links do indeed trigger a "someone reads this mailbox" and add you to other mailing lists (yes, plural). I worked with a dev who had been at a "marketing" company and explained this stuff.
Trust fund kids do exist, of course, but those are usually not Fortune 500 CEOs (or at least not for long, unless they worked hard for that).
That's the way I feel about broadcast television. At some point there are just better uses for the spectrum.
CoffeeScript 2.0 Beta Released
> This does not damage or physically modify the original art.

Surely, but we're not talking about tort lawsuit here. We're talking about art. From art point of view, it doesn't really matter if you drew it on original or on a reproduction. Well, if you are into performance art it kinda does, but that's not relevant here.

> You don't even know the name of the investment fund that paid for this statement.

Ah, but now I do. That's the point.

> The main point obviously wasn't to push the fund

Or was it? And why would I care what the intent was - it's the result that is interesting. When Homer performed his rendering of Iliad, he probably didn't intend to create timeless classic to be studies thousands of years since. He probably was just trying to earn his evening meal. Who cares? The point is not what they wanted to do, the point is what they did. At least to me.
Recognition is one thing. In the case of the MIT CRISPR patent, US8697359, that patent recognizes Feng Zhang as the inventor.

The patent also recognizes a LOT of prior art, in particular, publications from UC (A CRISPR Approach to Gene Targeting, ...) and UC patent applications (WO2016011080A3, ...).

Assignment, however, is another thing entirely. That patent has been assigned by Feng Zhang to The Broad Institute (MIT).

https://www.google.com/patents/US8697359

So pretty much the world is already the way you want it to be. Multiple researchers are getting recognized at multiple levels for their work. But know that there's a huge difference between recognition and assignment of ownership. For example, Transmeta did some innovative work in low power x86 emulation. But I don't think that anyone recognizes Intellectual Ventures for their now owning Transmeta's patent portfolio.
Cool. Can I use a raspberry pi & one of those RTL-SDRs to replace the functionality of a typical hardware police scanner? Has anyone created images with all the software set up or is it easy-ish to get it set up. I have unix experience.

Aha! Now that I look at github, it's all pretty clear. Great work!
Isn't AM where Sports radio lives?
Has anyone else noticed the common application of the term 'prophetic' to minority-writers? First the New Yorker article on Atwood, now this one. We don't read great writers because they're prophetic, we read great writers because they're great writers. Like, the subtext is always that the solution to our current political issues is looking for people who we can construe as "having seen it coming." It's so silly.

I doubt that the guy who wrote Giovanni's Room would particularly appreciate having the term "prophet" applied to him, as if it were some sort of award.
start locally. spam flyers at the local companies. have a first round. dont expect much engagement. go from there and keep improving. when you have a good working concept you can go state or national and do it professionally.
The Dark Castle games are what I intend to try first when I get BasiliskII[0] set up on Playstation Vita.

[0]https://github.com/meetpatty/basiliskii/releases
The Restoration of Early Unix Artifacts [pdf]
Agreed! They should also refocus on the Education market which was, in the past, a prime Apple mover. They are currently losing, with increasing frequency, the elementary education market to Google. Chromebooks are simultaneously easier to manage and massively cheaper to purchase. They also encourage development and experimentation. Recently I taught a group of 8th graders how to build an iOS app, and while it was easy to build a simple app it required way too many resources. XCode barely runs on the Mac Mini, requires too many weird permissions (developer account, etc.) and you can't even push it to an iPad without jumping through multiple, complex, hoops.

We are moving to Chromebooks next year and I fully expect to teach every student how to build a simple app, on the device, and shared with their friends in the first 30 minutes. You simply cannot do that on iOS.
In web-apps architectures, you have a choice: multithread or multiprocess. Multithreading is far more memory friendly, and occasionally a bit faster, but many interpreted language runtimes aren't prepared for multithreading. Python / OCaml have a big global lock on certain things (interpreter, garbage collection) that are needed frequently enough that even requests aren't really interfering at the DB transactional level will block one another under multithreading. So instead you have to take the hit of multiprocessing, where each web worker has its own memory space and set of locks.

So if you're going to justify writing a webapp in OCaml, it would be helpful if the language was more efficient than whatever your alternative is.
The most critical element for survival with any diet - particularly with low calorie intake - is protein. Eggs just happen to be the easiest form factor. Personally when I'm on a weight loss regimen, I take in more canned Wild Pacific Salmon than eggs. Salmon, containing less mercury than many other fish, is a fairly safe bet for frequent consumption.

I'm curious how someone with a constant diet of something like eggs and biscuits for 5+ years fares regarding severe deficiencies in truly necessary vitamins and minerals. I do think the body is a miraculous machine that will successfully adapt to many diets that experts would otherwise claim as being dangerously deficient.
Right which is totally out of scope of Facebook's capabilities right?

Give me a break. You can pile up an infinite list of capabilities for any kind of ide, engine, editor etc... Point is, if anyone can do it its Facebook and it would be great for the dev community.

Take that chip of your shoulder for a minute.
Something is indeed spooky with Facebook and their other products. I am friend with a guy on Facebook and a person with the same name ended up as a suggestion on Instagram - ok maybe not so spooky. But(!) this guy looked like my friend except like ten years older. So I guess the combination of same name + looked like my friend (Facebook Face recognition) made Instagram suggest this dude to me.
If there are ads at all, somebody sold those & got paid.
The argument that future generations won't be able to read old texts is much less valid in a computerized world.

Google Translate can already translate text live through your phone camera. Merely transcribing an alphabet is a much easier task.

Now imagine where computers will be when these future generations have actually grown up.
Well, i couldn't read article because it's behind paywall, but PwC is surely a place for young people. It is a sweatshop where you get paid a pittance, worked till you drop, but learn fast and earn a good line in resume, as well as build industry contacts quickly. Great place to start but if you are stuck there for long, something is wrong. If you are over 40 and under the partner level, it makes no sense to stay there.
The fix is easy.

The root cause is the like/retweet/upvote/view count and the instant gratification it produces.

The social networks like FB/Twitter/Youtube benefit greatly from all their users being addicted to these counts. They know this. Its like a drug they peddle that produces a false high.

So whats the fix?

Rather than giving their users instant feedback and gratification if they just delay it for a bit or change the signaling(ie replace the numbers with color gradients,number less charts etc), most of unintended consequences we see of social networks (like fake news, celeb-worship, attention harvesting, mob rule, re-enforcing echo chambers of hate/rascism etc) will not disappear but get more controllable.

Expecting Google and Facebook to do this by themselves is like expecting Wall Street to self regulate and the NSA to come out with a road map to ending secret data collection. Its not going to happen.

They have to be strong armed, forced and publicly shamed into it. And that is going to happen sooner or later whether they like it or not. Because the consequences are pilling up.
Patents are awarded to inventors not funders. Grant agreements rarely require the transfer of patent rights, but employment agreements often do.
I've done it when writing translators / compilers for school. If you're pattern matching against an AST, its easy to to have a pretty big list of possible types the AST can contain.

Probably this is a code smell that should be rearchitected.
This of course is hard to know. My open rates are in the 30% to 35% range for normal weekly stuff and shoot up to 60% for special events.

I don't think too many people have blacklisted me yet.
The implementation of region code silliness is enforced by only licensing CSS/DRM-relevant patents to hardware vendors that agree to restrict their customers in that way.

That's one of the reasons the industry insists on DRM technologies, even if broken, and tries to encumber them with as many patents as possible. It allows them to exercise control over the end-user experience.
Has the OpenBSD Foundation looked into registering with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization? The IRS probably has 10-12x more tax payers than the CRA which would make it easier to cover the required overhead.

It looks like the requirements are a $275 application fee, an EIN (so the Foundation would need to apply for one), and an annual information return. No need to incorporate or form a separate US entity.
It's the classic death spiral. Fewer viewers means less money from advertisers, which in turn means less money for content.
Wow. That's one hell of a story!

It's like those hollywood space stories.... Only real.

And then... A station-to-station transfer?!? That must be really hard. I mean, I'm no astronaut, but even in KSP it's a hard operation. Can't even begin to imagine what kind of skills and calculations that required.

Both stations need to be on sinilar altitudes I guess? Otherwise the amount of fuel needed would be prohibitive, no?

Could any one shed sone light on this manouver? I mean, if that's the only obe time this has been done it's probably because it' very hard and I'm guessing it's not something terribly useful. Or is it?

Any write ups on this?
Observationally: No. If parent was referring to less vehicles due to advances in transportation technology and pattern optimizations...I think broadcast TV dies much sooner than gas stations.
Things I've Learned Doing Internships
It's really "because most users don't care". When go out to buy a TV or a car or a fridge, I just get the best one out there. I don't do research on whether they are based on open specifications/protocols. I don't even do research on if most of the product is made in my home country (instead of China).

And I say this as a free software developer. I imagine this is the same flow of purchase that non-techies are making. They don't know, understand or care. They just want to use the best product. Unless these interconnected networks provide a benefit (UX or some feature) to the common non-techie, they won't succeed.
Absolutely awkward. You can load the site with JS enabled, but if you disable it then suddenly the entire page disappears, and yet it still scrolls. What's the point?
Whistleblower. Announce it annonymously, or just do it. Seriously, we can't get bullied like this. If we let this go, we will repeat the fraud research Harvard scientists did after getting paid by the sugar industry and hundreds of other scientists willingly to write paper with subjective evidences and conclusions because they were paid to write in certain way. We need to stand up. I am willing to support you if you have concrete evidences.
I think, every democracy should have always a "versioning" system, where if 2/3s of the people vote for a return to a certain law revision (in direct vote, on the village center) - the goverment, the jurisdiction, military, finance and/or the totalitarian president are overruled and dispossable.

Are there any democratic islamic countrys left?
Are we looking at the same video? The video should be the Onyx BOOX Typewriter. It's the size of a tablet and a keyboard cover. It's a HUGE improvement over the last entry I saw in this space, the hemingwrite[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfbhcddyb8Q
Although LOC metrics are always questionable, converting code from one language to another at 100 lines/hr seems absurdly optimistic to me.
sounds like the companies who get your soul in addition to your brain do better.
Bitcoin Unlimited Creator: Only On-Chain Scaling Helps Real Life Use Cases
We need to reduce administrative overhead.
You have a point, especially since the language would remain the same, only the script is going to change
As an optimist, I hope the NN disappears as a policy and creates the catalyst to enforce it technologically instead. It's a hard problem to solve but I think the pieces are there.
Three kinds of code
What a misleading title
OCS is not as completely foreign to Russian speakers as Old English is to English speakers; I would compare it more to Chaucer than to Beowulf, although whether you can understand a specific text depends very much on the subject and the context. Since Biblical quotes and expressions are so common, OCS terms may be familiar to even secular Russians.

Note, however, that OCS does not have an ancestral relationship to Russian - it is a Southern Slavic language, most similar to ancestors of today's Bulgarian. Old Russian texts (such as The Tale of Igor) are written in a different language - Old Russian (which existed long before the split into Russian, Ukrainian and so on, so the name "Old East Slavic" is sometimes used).
> TV, as a live broadcast medium (eg, emergency news), will never die in that sense: I can watch Presidential addresses via the White House's Youtube channel via Youtube's Live feature as well as many local OTA broadcast channels.

I think that misses the point a little. Live events will always be a thing, and we're seeing a huge push for that on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. But many of these events are not available on those platforms yet, and that's the problem.

TV networks hold onto these events as a reason for people to buy a cable subscription, but I would rather watch it on the Internet, and I'd happily pay a fee for it. That's the missing piece that hasn't been figured out yet.
So in other words, more and more people are using DVRs and subscription services?
The problem with those listening tests is the playback medium is not controlled: ie, what were they using (what headphones, what headphone amp, what DAC, etc; or what speakers, what speaker amp, what DAC, was the room properly treated, etc); and what is their level of hearing damage (ie, their age)?

If everyone is taking their test on their phone with low grade earbuds plugged in, or exceptionally bad car audio systems, everything sounds bad, ergo, the same.

I own a pair of Stax, among other higher end headphones, with the proper gear to drive them. I can tell the difference between modern-LAME-encoded 320kbps MP3 and lossless, albeit just barely, in an ABX test. Everything 64kbps sounds bad unless it's something like Opus doing conventional speech.

I know I'm setting the bar high, but I don't think I even have "golden ears", I think anyone can reasonably hear the difference, they just need to quit bothering with low end gear.

I mean, people just on HN buy Tesla Model Ses for $100k+ without even thinking twice, I find it hard to believe they won't also drop $1k on headphones and headphone gear at the very minimum if they care about audio.
I found myself mindlessly scrolling through my newsfeed so often and seeing nothing but the clickbait meme crap. I finally got rid of the app on my phone and it's been great since.
The tennis ball summation is perfect.

However, you can go further with it. UC Berkeley has the right (or they will when their patents issue) to exclude Harvard/MIT (and anyone else) from manufacturing tennis balls. Harvard/MIT also have the right to exclude UC Berkeley (and anyone else) from manufacturing yellow tennis balls.

So UC Berkeley and Harvard/MIT will have to have a sit down and do a deal in order for anyone to get any yellow tennis balls manufactured. It's in their best interests to do this deal but first there will be some legal preliminaries.

(NB: we are ignoring Design Patents here.)
Is the Library Card Dying? (2016)
sorry English is obviously not my native lang.
It's not the outcome, but the referendum itself that's undemocratic. Removing usual safeguards by half the voters is just asking if democracy should be liquidated.
So they Kevin Bacon it? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon) Has anyone generated enough fictitious people to determine the number of degrees they'll go to? I would imagine at 4 hops the list gets huge and well outside your personal circle but it'd be interesting to see some studies.
> Most gamers use Steam, not WebGL, and the internet hasn't fallen apart.

> People can survive using Roku/FireTV/AppleTV/PS4/XB3/standalone PC app for their streaming movie services.

I don't understand the analogy, or what you're proposing here.

Steam is a pile of proprietary code, full of DRM. AppleTV/XB/PS/etc are all proprietary binaries, equally full of ad-hoc DRM.

So yes, the internet hasn't fallen apart because of this; companies found ways to deliver what users want, using their own closed and proprietary standards. The only thing in common here is the use of IP as a transport mechanism; everything else is a pile of proprietary crap.

This means no modifications, no reverse engineering, no using this in an unauthorized device, etc.

For the so-called "web", there are basically three options:

1) don't include anything in the standard, and let companies figure out individually how to deliver what users want, while still complying with their policies, and eventually reinventing the horrible experiences we had in the past [1]

2) embrace the app-ification of the web, with browsers becoming renderers of proprietary binaries -- just like the examples you mentioned: iOS, Android-based devices (FireTV, Roku), XB3, PS4, etc. With mobile driving the majority of the traffic, and WebAssembly as an emerging standard, one may argue that this is already here.

or

3) take the red pill, embrace that DRM as a necessary evil, and at least create a reasonably unified experience for users, getting companies to play nicely in the sandbox and reducing the risk of shenanigans [2]

From everything I read so far, Tim's effort is to avoid #1 and #2 from becoming reality. He's not in favor of DRM; he's against the "web" getting reduced to a pile of proprietary code running over IP and using HTML5 (internally) as the markup language.

[1] http://boingboing.net/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-dow.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...