skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The author no longer receives value for it. Per another comment, allowing the paid transfer of copyright, but limiting it to a small amount of time since creation/publication (i.e., 14 years), to allow the owner of the copyright to milk it, still provides plenty of value and incentive, while also allowing things to return to the public domain as part of our shared culture.

2. So with copyright it's super hard for artists to live off their work. How is that defending copyright? If you're claiming "Well, it'd be even worse -without- copyright!", you haven't actually made a case for that. Certainly, if we want to fix the fact artists have a hard time, perhaps an alternative monetization scheme, irrespective of copyright, is the right answer?
It requires a configuration file to even compile? How's that work?
I noticed twitter was down, and my first thought was "Oh, man. Wait until I tell all the people on twitter!"
I don't see a ton of point in bittorrent for anything smaller than a movie file or Linux live-cd, at this point. I've got 250 mpbs down, and while I only ever get that much bandwidth from the speed-test sites, anything that is in the tens to low hundreds of megabytes downloads in seconds.

It's a far cry from the early days, when you'd start downloading an album of compressed mp3s on LimeWire, and hours later realize you got some pieces corrupted and they wouldn't play.
Give me an example of something that is ethical but unfair, or fair but unethical
Thanks for the kind words, although I also appreciated your way of putting it.
Because they turned 26..?
Mods: The title is wrong; this was written in 2001.

Citation: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html
WP auto update is nice...until a WP update breaks the functionality! Lol. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/02/broken-auto-update/
Bingo. They're going to pull the same drain and rake in money in the short term. They'll buy their next competitor and rinse/repeat.
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German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
They have that. Facebook Local is events + places. https://www.facebook.com/local/
My advice is to stay the course and scrape by. Scrounge, beg, delay, do whatever it takes to get over the next hill. A nine to five job will not solve any of your current problems in spite of its appeal. What's worse a high profile role will exhaust you leaving little or nothing left for your project.

That's not really true. This particular 9-5 job will take him from being broke to being rich.
And how long until Instagram suffers the same fate?
Feel free to use ethics as your legal defense when you get sued... as for me, I'll stick with a solution that's both ethical and legal.
> You are going to be a good experimental physicist eventually.

He switched to CS and now gets paid to work on A-list videogames all day: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html

Edit: Oops, LinkedIn says he's now at Google.
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>Cause 5: VPN Usage

>The real problem here is that there’s no way to know just how much of VPN traffic is growing or how much of it is BitTorrent. Though different traffic studies look at the internet from different vantage points, some simply would not be able to see VPN-obscured BitTorrent traffic.

I'm on a VPN all the time, and torrenting without a VPN, to me, is living on the edge. I'd constantly wonder: how long before I receive a stern letter? Every day would be a desperate roll of the dice. I'd turn to alcoholism to dull my anxiety. That kind of life's not for me. So the hundreds of gigs in shows and movies I torrent (can't purchase those anywhere without DRM, can you? And paying for them indefinitely to get them [if the licensing doesn't run out] with streaming compression seems silly instead of just downloading them once) is obfuscated! Yay!
One of my favorite points about SQLite which hasn't been addressed yet in the comment thread is that its databases are just single flat files. Need to copy data from a server to a local dev machine? No need to log into the server, make a dump, copy the dump file to the local machine, and import the dump. Just copy the database file as you would any other file. That's it.

Making a backup before trying something risky (and then restoring the backup when something screws up) is similarly trivial.

Maybe to some of you it's not worth that much, but it's a legitimate timesaver in my opinion.
The point I was replying to was either equally flippant, or it was incredibly naive. I am assuming someone on HN, posting about copyright, is the former, not the latter. If the person was literally so naive to believe that the only way for a creator to be paid for their work is to have the copyright system we currently have, then I apologize for my tone.
I'd like to know the ratio of "legitimate" viewers to pirates for Netflix and major network shows. Does the quality and convenience of the Netflix player reduce piracy?
I had a client who would have his secretary print out all of his nonspam e-mails. He would hand-write his response on the print out, and then have his secretary fax it to us.

Eventually they decided to get more modern, and his secretary would scan in the response and send it as an e-mail attachment.
My wife's dad is 80 and has been programming for work (and play) since he was 26-ish (1965). Good stories.
It's a huge waste of resources, IMO.

I've setup Raspberry Pi's that sync photos between myself, parents, siblings, and some friends that care.

We can, from our phones, drop them on the local Pi, and SyncThing powers the sharing.

But of course to share cat pictures, we should fire up thousands of machines running 24/7 in data-centers, and rely on tricks of psychology to keep people coming back as justification for keeping those computers on.

Services like FB are akin to a TV show -- not a broadcaster -- novel at first, but the story/characters don't change much (or for the worse in more cases than not), it grows stale for the masses, loses ratings, and eventually it'll end and only die hards will care.

And their real contributions, large scale compute cluster knowledge, is relatively well known and copied by others.
Among other things, it would be expensive (in a ton of ways), a digression, require providing direct end user support in a way they aren't good at.

It also would have significant export restrictions: Neural network related asics are very tightly export controlled:

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/pdfs/1245-...

(search for neural network)

My 2c: It would be an expensive waste of time for Google :)

Though certainly, not gonna disagree it would be cool for the sake of progress.
The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users – Not Buyers
> I don't yet have that feeling about snapchat, though the new design is annoying.

I tried to try it out but even on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 when it came out it was unbearably slow and even not using the camera drained the battery (IIRC it is/was because Snapchat kept the camera on during the time the app was open in order to avoid the 1-2s lag of camera setup). I can't understand why and how kids and young people like it so much.
>Look beyond those selective statistics, FB.com is dead.

That's a bit of a strange conclusion when their financials show increasing revenue and increasing profit, quarter over quarter and year over year. From 2016 to 2017 their revenue grew almost 50% as did their Net Income[0].

It's not all roses of course, but it's hardly dead.

[0] https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB&fstype=ii&a...
> ... the federal agency projecting 10 percent of new cars and trucks sold in 2030 would have to be hybrid or plug-in electric to meet the standards. Under the Obama administration proposal, the figure would have been 61 percent.

I'm lost for words. Why accept the future when you can legislate yourself back into the past?

Seems to me that American cars are not competitive (outside of America) not because of excessive big government legislation, unions, liberals, George Soros or whatever. It's because they are large, fuel inefficient monsters.

But times have changed. It's kind of funny how the people introducing these changes do so under guise of "being more competitive", as if harking back to the "good ol' days" is anything other than rose-tinted mastrubaion.
Can confirm, the recruiter spam I get is now only Alexa and AWS - the retail section has all but stopped.
Yep but if you want to support other payment types, such as paypal then you need to deal with that too.

Suddenly you need to write payment abstractions on your back-end to handle both and most pre-written libraries that try to do this fail because they don't handle cases you may need.

That only handles the mechanics of accepting a payment too.
Yes, these are the "features" that really bog down the excitement when trying to launch -- user invites, user profiles, billing, transactional emails, password reset, file upload, PDF conversion, free trial capability, coupon code capability, shared accounts, PERMISSIONS, etc. Then you get to the next level -- search, caching, deploying.

Not exactly in the same vein as the others, but I've never seen soft-deletes done really well either i.e. the user can "delete" something but it still lives in the database. It's one of those features that sounds good but when it comes time to implement, it ends up being more trouble than it's worth.
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Process emotions faster and free brain cycles for more computation. Very much hypothetical example. If a friend or loved ones is dead, one approach is take a lot of time to morn the passing or train your mind in advance to such a degree to process the emotions(not detach because its not possible) faster and move on.
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I'm surprised that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is being eliminated; it reimburses states for the money spent housing unauthorized immigrants pending deportation.

Isn't the administration's plan to deport a bunch of people? This shifts the burden of deportation costs from a federal level (where all states share it equally) to a local level, where states that have more deported people pay directly.

So if you're Texas, Arizona[0], or other states with high percentages of unauthorized immigrants, you're going to lose a federal subsidy of hundreds of millions, and either lay off a lot of corrections workers or pay that cost yourselves through increased tax revenue?

[0]: http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/unauthorized-immigra...
Also worth noting that the article doesn't say anything about re-hiring, or transferring. Just laid off. I wonder why..
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy center booster lacked ignition fluid to re-light engines
"enforce its commercial appropriation of European culture, history and stories"

How do you actually mean by this? It seems to me that the vast majority of big Hollywood movies are of US origin and not European. For example see here, http://www.businessinsider.com/highest-grossing-movies-of-20... where only Beauty and the Beast could argued is "appropriation of European culture". If anything, it seems like the EU not enforcing copyrights is an attempt by the EU to itself commercially appropriate US culture. The US populace generally isn't spending its money on imported films from the EU. The reverse on the other hand happens quite a bit.
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There's a HTML5 browser interface. With some basic scripting/"programming" skills and some front-end magic anyone could build such a service. More important is a good network and security engineer to keep it safe and stable for everyone (around the globe).
Agreed. Its a ludicrous claim. Bitcoin manages ownership of coin, not debt. There's absolutely nothing about bitcoin that stops over exposure. Even if you have the coin reserves, there's nothing showing other loans you've taken so even if the coin is in your wallet, that doesn't prove no one else has a claim to that coin.
That development didn't happen overnight. Our species gradually evolved into one where babies are born helpless because it apparently made evolutionary sense. Logic dictates that it was a gradual change enforced by the survival of the fittest.
It seems to work just fine.
>b) Languages.

It is so damn hard to find media in other languages, and there is no reason for it. The US and Germany are both very technologically advanced countries producing a great amount of media in their own majority languages, but as a German speaker in the US, Harry Potter is about the only German language novel I can reliably find. I like Harry Potter, sure, but I like other books too. I shouldn't have to fly to Germany to find them.
Absolutely. I don't care if they stumble across it but I never want to broadcast a comment, at least not to people who wouldn't already have seen the post. The worst is when public groups use Facebook as the only way to contact them - I once posted a question about leaving a coat at an event and then got a message from a friend suggesting that I hadn't invited him to the event (it wasn't the kind of thing he thought it was, though). Why. Same for the profile picture change. I accidently put my profile picture to the wrong one of two and haven't changed it since I noticed a few days later that it was wrong and was embarrassed to broadcast this fact to everyone not once but twice.
As a male I'm pretty sure this is an illusion. Go to Pattaya Thailand and walk down the infamous Soi 6 every day for a week. I've been there, done that. Tell me how many nights you will last until you don't want to go there anymore.

I understand you, it certainly feels good in your imagination but once you get hit on every day it becomes annoying. E.g. it is extremely annoying if you just want to walk through Soi 6 to reach the beach and every yard another woman walks up to you and tries to grab your hand or get hold of you.

It's even worse if you are trying to get some work done. Imagine that every time you want to grab a coffee while you are still thinking about a problem, some lady walks up and starts a chat "Hey honey, how is it going?"
Overall I really like Instacart and quite frankly, I've come to depend on it. Shopping with kids is difficult... it's much easier to plan ahead and shop when I have a little free time. So congrats on the funding!

I understand some of the frustrations about replacements. Originally the shoppers were pretty good about calling. Recently the app was updated for 1-1 chat and interactive replacement choices. However, it seems the shoppers are to busy to use the feature... I've had a few notifications for replacements, only to click on it and find the shopper has already checked out.

Personally, I accept that limitation of the platform and make sure I choice "no replacement" if there's any chance I'll be disappointed.
My photos from 13 years ago are all still there.
Why is it bizarre, its passionate, its enthusiastic, its physiscal, its brutal. A violent ballet with operatic storyline. Bizarre? No.
This fails to address that Stansted is far out of the city centre, while St Pancras could hardly be better positioned
...aaaand it's back up!
I've been tagged for torrenting things which were broadcast over the air. The way I saw it, there was no way to get the show on my device and on my schedule, and the content provider was actually getting someone watching their program--with ads intact--for no additional effort or expense on their part. Financially, they won. They didn't see it that way :)
Thanks! That's true. And it is pretty annoying, because regular developer has no chances to remember all the shortcuts.

Actually after we started working on it, we found five projects, attempting to solve the same problem: foragoodstrftime.com, strftime.org, strftime.net, strftimer.com, strfti.me

None of them were ideal though. We analysed them, took the best parts, threw away the worst - this is how strftime.guru appeared.
Thanks for responding here. I'll submit our project soon. We're hoping to have plans submitted and scheduled for the first hearing soon. We met 1:1 with 2 board members last year to solicit feedback, and we've made extensive changes already based on their input.

One point of contention has been ADU parking. SB1069 65852.2 states that ADU parking should be waived if the unit resides within 1/2 mile of public transit which our unit will. However, city staff made the decision that because the city's public transit is subject to seasonal schedule and occasional route changes, they will not allow it to be considered for ADU parking waivers. Instead, only the county (OCTA) route will be considered which services PCH only and is well outside of the 1/2 mile range for most of the city. I find this to be a very convenient way to get around this requirement, which effectively eliminates many potential ADUs due to the unfeasibility of onsite parking - e.g.

https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/lawmaker-presses-laguna-move...
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Yes, California has the weight to throw around to ruin nice things for the rest of us, if they want to.

I'm still bitter that I can't buy the old gasoline cans that actually work anymore.
Torrents don't really work for music. Soulseek is your friend there, super old-school but great community and it has basically everything.

I also buy almost everything I find on Bandcamp. Excepting those über-hipster techno artists with 100-copies vinyl-only releases (but those you can usually still find rips on Soulseek.)
A couple of times, I've heard Gerry Sussman at MIT (SICP author) give a talk on how bipolar transistor circuits are actually designed. You don't use SPICE or mesh analysis except in unusual circumstances (e.g. non-linear circuits) or to fine tune a completed design.

As an example, a bias design goes something like this: "Let's see, I'll pin the base at five volts with a resistor divider. The emitter will be 0.6V below that. Then the emitter current will be (5.0 - 0.6) divided by the emitter resistor. The collector current will be essentially the same, so I can pick the collector load resistor to give me an appropriate quiescent point and make sure the output impedance is less than a tenth of the input impedance of the following stage (so I can ignore the latter)."
I may have gone a bit beyond what SQLite is useful for, but I just wanted to try this. I built an experimental application-level file system (so not FUSE-like, you can't mount this, it's just within an application).

https://github.com/kokes/sqlfs

Haven't had much time to finish it, but it's been fun to play with.
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Don't worry, you can enter 16 characters, but it only will care about the first 8, everything else can be random when you log in.

Also, if you have an a, b, c, or 2 in your first character, you can use any of them in place of that character index to log in.
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Since the tool is for building and designing cross-platform UIs, is the plan to also have the design tool be cross-platform?

The tool seems nice and would be lovely to have on linux. There is not a lot of tools that support my choice of platform, but if the aim is explicitly to support a lot of platforms, having support for the three major OSes would be nice.
You're worried about being tracked yet you don't think someone who would track you wouldn't go through the hoops of digging through the chain to do it?
> Kids won't be ruined because you didn't pay attention to them once, or did pay attention to soon, or attempted to engage, or were disengaged, or whatever.

That depends on who you ask. Pretty much every kid will claim their parents have "fucked them up" and it will be in totally unpredictable ways. Either a specific toy you refused to buy them or that time you didn't let them play in the park. Ultimately the most you can hope for is that they have kids themselves one day so they can watch themselves make the same "mistakes" you made.
> Netflix figured this out a decade ago, and I wonder how many people have ever "given up" on Netflix to go torrent a show? I can't imagine it's a lot.

I did as Netflix had continuous problems with keeping high quality stream at all times. Playing local file I have guaranteed HQ content without stops to buffer more data. Even with 250 Mb/s connection (measured using Netflix's own fast.com).
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Yes. Seneca writes in one of his letters when you are incapacitated to take care of yourself and are a burden to someone else or your self dignity is under question then you should be prepared to lose your body although you must take care of your body well when you can.
There is a lot of evidence of the potential bitcoin has for remittance. This doesn't mean that it has been adopted by ALL the migrant workers in the US but if the transaction cost is 0 and the competitor charges 15% its only a matter of time before it is adopted by everyone. The links below only scratch the surface. Aside from the references below most of my previous post comes from on the ground experience in developing nations.

I sincerely doubt there is a formal study showing the exact numbers since there is no incentive for migrant workers (who may be undocumented) to expose themselves for capital flight.

My overall point though is that while you, as an American, may have complete faith in the current financial system there are certainly places in the world where this is not the case. The financial system is global and the US is no longer the biggest player.

[1] Krygyzstan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/kyrgyzstan-bit...

[2] Africa
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bitcoin-is-b...

[3] Tajikistan
https://eurasianet.org/node/68272

[4] General
https://riskmagazine.nl/article/2017-09-15-bitcoin-the-perfe...

[5] South east asia
http://inc-asean.com/editor-picks/bitcoin-disrupting-southea...
https://imgur.com/a/RySeB
I believe this is a terminological mistake. In the original formulation, all of the generals are "Byzantine" because they all work for the Byzantine Empire.

In the original paper by Lamport, Shostak, and Pease, the problem is described this way: "We imagine that several divisions of the Byzantine army are camped outside an enemy city, each division commanded by its own general. The generals can communicate with one another only by messenger. After observing the enemy, they must decide upon a common plan of action. However, some of the generals may be traitors, trying to prevent the loyal generals from reaching agreement."

A common way to describe the participants in such a scenario is simply "honest" and "dishonest". The term "Byzantine" has become used in distributed systems research to refer to situations in which we can't be sure of participants' honesty and intentions. However, it doesn't correctly refer only to the dishonest participants.
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In the app settings you have a list of languages and the user selects the ones they speak. When CC is on subtitle everything, when CC is off subtitle what is not selected.
I think this is some excellent work, and anything that can help extract items of interest from the background is going to be useful for a lot of different scenarios. That said, I can't help by imagine the mayhem of this combined with the deepfake stuff where one might put a target person's face on a porn actor, and then that scene is transported to a place where that person might actually be found by replacing the background. Scary indeed.