skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok let me try again. In the following, 'Auteurswet' is the Dutch copyright law. Also, there are three parties in the example: 'the uploader', the one who provides the work and is assumed not to be entitled to do so (for the example); 'the downloader' who makes the copy; and 'the author', the holder of the copyright.

Also, 'nemo plus iuris' is an abbreviation of 'nemo plus iuris transferre potest quam ipse habet' which means 'nobody can transfer more than he has'. It's a cornerstone of property law which, in the context of physical goods but also of other property rights, means quite obviously that if you don't have rights to something, you can't transfer those rights to someone else. This may seem obvious but it comes into play when rights are retroactively discovered to have never existed at all (which is much more common than one might suspect; for example in cases of bankruptcy, non-payment with a reservation of ownership clause, ...). Then transfers of goods can be invalid and this has serious implications for purposes of ownership, repossession etc.

Anyway, back to the case at hand. First we need to distinguish between two things that can be transferred: the rights to the software, the 'copyright' (this is not a license, forget about 'licenses', it is the copyright itself.) and the software itself that is transferred. Because in English both are described by the word 'transfer' it is extra confusing; the copyright (can be but isn't in this case) 'transferred' ('overgedragen') in the same way a deed is transferred, while the software is merely 'transferred' ('gekopieerd', copied) over the wire. 'Transferring' a copyright needs to be done in writing (art 2 sub 2 Auteurswet), for example, 'transferring' some software over the internet doesn't, obviously.

Now then, the copyright is a 'property right' ('vermogensrecht'), and is with the author (in the case of the example). It is this 'copyright' that the nemo plus iuris sees to; and since 'the uploader' doesn't have it in the first place, he can't transfer it. Which makes sense.

Why then isn't the making of the copy covered by this nemo plus iuris? It's because there is no transfer of any property right going on at all. The downloader doesn't get a property right. The Auteurswet merely says that this specific making of a copy (for personal use, etc.; details are in artt 15 and 16 of the Auteurswet) is not a copyright infraction. That doesn't make the downloader holder of any copyright, or of any property right at all. And that is why the nemo plus iuris principle is not in play here.
Without the entrepreneurs and executives organizing companies and the engineers designing products, there'd be nothing for everyone else to work on but subsistence farming. Should providing something for the rest of us to do go unrewarded?
Ok, that is awesome. You had me hooked at "Apache License".
I'm happy to define invention as the making, and innovation as the making+people wanting. But he's defining it in terms of intention: an inventor creates something for its own sake; whereas when an innovator creates for a market need. It means the same act of creation could be called invention or innovation, depending on the intention.

A deeper objection is that being market-lead only leads where the market already knows it wants to go. It is a problem in search of a solution. But there's the other, more interesting engineering-lead innovation, which is a solution in search of a problem. The Innovator's Dilemma has examples of the latter, such as tiny disk-drives and offroad minibikes.

And I think Steve Jobs is famous for not being market-lead (which is how the article presents him). The iPod wasn't market-led. People didn't say "we need an iPad", in fact many had doubts about it. It is true, however, that he intended and planned it to be a market success - he wasn't just "inventing" without regard to widespread adoption.

I think better definitions are that invention is creating new products, and innovation is creating new businesses. Invention can be a component of innovation. An innovation can target an existing or imagined market need. However, these terms already have meanings, so perhaps we're better off just saying what we mean.

PS: I looked at one inventions he mentions, and it seems cool: Liftaem, a bed-to-gurney hovercraft. When I've seen patients transferred manually in hospitals, I've thought it looks shockingly primitive. http://tincmag.com/2010/12/09/smart-medical-technologys-lift...
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Yeah, not bad advice for investing, especially if the bandwagon effect is strong there. Just don't be the last one in.
Oh my...

These are the comments that have bounced most up/down in voting I've seen. (Possible worse are when complaining about meaningless language wars on HN.)

I guess some can be ascribed to non-native English ability so I'm not understandable, but still:

I argue against someone that made claims he obviously didn't have support for (a specific point about Al J's position about that sermon in the beginning -- and in the last comment he make a different statement.)

How the Hell can that be voted up like that?

I'll ascribe this to that intelligence and rationality isn't really that connected -- ideology gives brain damage. I hope it isn't part of a degeneration of HN.
Well, I was trying to err on the side of caution with my sources, and I may have overdone it. There are more direct articles but from less reputable sources, like this one [1]. I don't know how to justify that something is well-known; Bing has 12 million hits for "bbc anti-israel" (without quotes), if that helps.

BTW, the BBC is a public organization, not a private corporation. It's estimated that they spent 200,000 pounds to keep the report from being disclosed. I don't know why they'd spend that kind of money to hide a report that didn't reveal bias - though I'm open to alternative explanations.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451138/Report-BBCs-a...
No, I just have a Dutch law degree. I'm a programmer by day (I also have what is more or less the Belgian equivalent of a Business Information Systems degree). I did my law degree as a hobby. I haven't decided yet if I want to move into the legal profession.
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As an ex-immigrant (returned to India now to start something), I believe this is true. US immigration policy weeds out the chaff. The immigrant populations from countries like India tend to also be homogeneously upper class/caste.
EventBrite is the most credible attempt at eating them from the bottom up. They're doing very well and they're much less evil.
By the way, as I understand it, there's a difference between "the whole industry" and "the industry as a whole"
So were they human-controlled or autonomous?
The price they paid was $181k in Series A stock. The return to the investor after the company sold was something like $2 million.

http://thinkvitamin.com/asides/aaron-patzer-on-how-to-take-y...

I think that's actually somewhat low as a dollar figure for the domain. It probably could have been sold for at least $300k in cash. Having Ron Conway and First Round Capital as your investors probably gets you better deals.
I criticize the Indian government all the time. But I find it strange that for my criticisms to be taken seriously I also have to criticize all other countries equally. I may be the most anti Indian person in the world, but should that discredit my criticism if its valid ?

I got thrown off by the terminology "anti-Semitic criticism". From the context it seems to mean: criticism by an "anti Semitic" person, you probably meant "criticism that has no truth in it". Why cloud matters then, with terminology that is already too loaded to begin with ?
> The GitHub folks are pretty hardcore!

What gives you that idea? I run several cronjobs that deal with their service, and it's down a lot compared to other similar services. My jobs deal with that gracefully, but if I wanted to I could easily set up a more reliable service than GitHub if my only goal was to host *.git repositories, not have any of the other nice things they provide.
I seriously doubt this was of his own doing, more an indication his PR team is working hard on rebuilding his public image
Ask HN: Thoughts on PHP frameworks?
I have only depended on a PHP framework once. I was just beginning my work in PHP and was looking to choose a framework with social networking features. The framework I chose ended up having a HUGE security hole and my site got hacked, thus setting off a downward spiral of my user rate. It literally killed the site.

I haven't used a framework since.

I have become complacent writing everything from scratch. I have a ton of PHP code that I reuse in a lot of my projects which saves me a lot of time. Scaffolding is a time saver too. Here are my pros and cons of each.

Pros
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1. More secure. Your code isn't available for the world to see. If there is a hole, it will take a lot longer for an exploiter to find it.

2. You know every character of code...since you built the darn thing!

3. If you want to know how everything works, you don't have to look over some other dude's 10,000 lines of code.

Cons
---------------
1. Not as simple to code (most of the time)

2. Cool features specific to that framework have to be implemented by hand

What do you guys think? Am I too independent with my code?
Turn your webcam on, point your remote control at the camera and press a few buttons.

I recently had to do this to figure whether a new remote was working or not. Worked a treat.
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Utah recently installed variable-toll express lanes. It seems to me they make overall congestion worse by creating traffic jams at the entrances/exits to these lanes.
He even made the sites functional with facebook, which I thought meant for sure there was no reason to question him.

Why does adding a FBConnect button make him more trustworthy? I see several things wrong with this sentence.
Ninjas are stealthy. Carelessly adding four globals and modifying prototypes is not stealthy.
My current favourite B2B/SAAS websites are

http://Zendesk.com

http://www.webtrends.com/

http://nutshellmail.com/

http://www.springmetrics.com/
As much as I hate the idea of The Social Network, that was actually really f'ing funny. Good one Zuck!

If you haven't seen it, check out Jesse Eisenberg in Holy Rollers - IMHO his best movie.
Obviously this is a throwaway account for possibly obvious reason that I don't wish anyone in my life to know this... yada yada yah....

... anyway, I'd like to add to your comment about people killing themselves because they have mental health issues. Please note this isn't some attack on you and it isn't aimed solely at you it just happens that your comment raised was relevant.

It strikes me as odd(not really) that people think that just because you would dare do such a think that you must be mentally ill or be on drugs etc. That is sometimes not the case. I'd describe myself as generally happy and a nice person to be around(this is what I've actually been told) but to be honest I don't want to be here, I never have and can't wait to go. It's possibly hard for you and most people to understand but when you feel out of place often you just want to leave. To give you some context; I don't live luxurious life and I actually don't want one I often give-away most of the extra money I have but I still live comfortably. I love my job and the people I work with. I'm not the greatest communicator - it's not really a problem I just don't like interacting with people (I prefer to listen and observe). Yet I've always had close friends and is always popular with everyone everywhere I go(numerous schools, university, work).

By now you probably are guessing that the way I'd like the world to be (simple, happy and loving, etc.) isn't the way the world is, and that's very much the reason I don't want to be here. As I said I just don't feel like I belong here and I don't want to be here, if it were not for the fact that people would be hurt I'd be gone a long time ago.

In the past I've talked about my views of life in a discussion similar to this, I asked if that means I also and I also had a mental illness that was causing me to think like this and I was told that yes I do. But noone can tell me how or why that answer is a 'yes'.

Perhaps you can, provide a reason for a yes or no nswer, perhaps not but I'll ask away and see what happens.

With the facts given above, is it not possible that I'm just one of those people that see life differently from the norm. Do I have a mental illness? can you give a reason why you think I do(or don't)?
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I was with you until the last sentence. I'd use it the other way: Have my body exercise while my mind goes on less painful pursuits.

It's all wishful thinking though. There are serious disadvantages to putting hardware in bodies. Upgrading or fixing broken implants would require surgery, which is risky and expensive.
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How the story of Jersey Shore Season 3 Ep 6? ... Reality television about eight young people who share a place in one house, where they demanded to mutual tolerance and respect, on February 3, 2011 This enters Jersey Shore Season 3 episode 6.
I have a theory:

In the good ole days, taxation consisted of the lord owning the land (the means of production) and taxing the peasents.

This is pretty much what happens when you're employed - someone else owns the means of production, and you are paid less than the value that you create (hopefully for the company, anyway). For me this is a form of taxation - The main difference is that insead of being paid the gross amount and being hit for x%, you get the net amount.

On a macro level, it's similar. The country IS the ultimate means of production, and you pay a tax to use it.
“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied.

Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up failing on the technical side of things (can't deal with thousands of concurrent requests).
Anything you plot in the USA that has a strong correlation with numbers of people ends up looking like the distribution on your map.

http://www.mapofusa.net/us-population-density-map.htm
Probably not. But I imagine that when it comes to the details some angels might be a better fit than others for certain companies due to their networks, etc. Also, if I had a company that needed about $200k and I had one offer for $150k from Yuri and one for $200k from another similar investor I might only take the $200k instead of both - it would represent a (hopefully small) difference in available shares once it was time for Series A. This is all speculation though - while it seems like fun, I haven't yet been on either side of the investor equation.
I end up on Google's page when I try to open either wikizu.com or crushtease.com . Some sort of redirect happening?
I just saw a similar service here: http://www.tradency.com/en/Strategies/Performance.aspx
while they worked for BBC, they were unbiased; but the moment they started working for AJ

The BBC is generally regarded as being anti-Israel: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/bbc-fights-to-sup...

When people say a news source is "unbiased" they really mean "agrees with me".
There would almost certainly be huge implementation problems with such a device. Would the camera face straight out of your eye? If so, then the incredibly rapid eye movements would make for sickening video playback. I suspect even the jitters from walking (which your brain no doubt compensates for in real time) would all but ruin the video.

I would be more interested in a way to capture and interpret the raw visual information from the eye(s) before it gets processed by the brain. Perhaps the optic nerve would be an ideal spot to capture such information. I presume that there would also be great difficulties in this endeavor, not the least of which being the fact that everyone's individual "format" of visual information (the exact distribution of rods and cones, pathways of nerves, etc.) would likely be too different to make the production of digital circuitry feasible.
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The area of Italy is 301,338 km2, the area of California is 423,970 km2

According to a list of US States by size (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territo...) Italy is larger than all but four US states (Alaska, Texas, California and Montana).
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Well, are you Indian or Pakistani? The unspoken condition of that test (which I already stated is imperfect) is that the person not have a direct personal connection to that country. I wouldn't necessarily call a Palestinian preoccupied with criticizing Israel anti-Semitic; I'd be a little more inclined to wonder about the motives of, say, a Belgian.
Defense spending is a jobs program: There are about 1.5 million people in the armed forces! (Down from over 2 million 15 years ago.) And an even large number are employed indirectly.
All races are equal under Israeli law.

From that I can conclude that you are either ignorant or a liar. Because races are NOT equal in Israeli law. Either in theory OR practice.

Let me give some examples. The Law of Return only applies to Jews. The military draft does not apply to certain ethnic groups, because Israel doesn't want most of them in its military forces.

And that's in theory. In practice it is much worse, as was documented for the Israeli government in the Or report.
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For past 6 years, I have done the same thing as you. Coding everything on my own, and now have a file with 1.2K of line code containing the functions I have created over the years.

Now (more like, since a week ago), I have started to use a template system. I am still writing most of the code myself, since the template is used to organize the code into in MVC manner.

The site I am using it @ http://peri.me/2B1A/

Even if you don't want to use a framework, there is no harm in using a template system. I use http://www.twig-project.org
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A lot of desirable brands are Italian - Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, Ducati, Moto Guzzi, Aprilia, Armani, Diesel, Maserati, Ermenegildo Zegna...

Not to mention food, wine, tourism...

And that's just stuff that I can think of - they also export things like high speed trains etc.
Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service
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"Helpful"? I run a Greasemonkey script on my desktop to get rid of those. :-)
Power does not always centralize. For instance the long-term trend in Canada has been towards decentralization. According to the Constitution there are many things that the federal government has sole responsibility for that in practice have been moved to the provincial level (with the blessing of the federal government).
Yeah, and where's the funny? The way to the two moves more into camera after the other guy left makes it look even more scripted.
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That happened to reddit too, three years ago I had a story sitting on the frontpage in the number one spot for more than a day.

It got me more than 200 karma. Today most of those who post have ten times that number.
It's interesting how the same (or worse) environmental conditions would produce a slight dent in production (or perhaps a greater demand for irrigation), or at worst a need to import, whereas in a subsistence economy it produces starvation. Things are so good, comparatively, that we can afford to pick & chose, and throw away more than half the food.
Of course climbers think about and prepare for falling and other dangerous scenarios. In the "heat of the moment," though, too much mind paid to the negative can certainly outweigh concentration on the positive.

In the same way that nauseating conversation can disrupt a meal, I've had a few of my attempts at technical bouldering problems disrupted by friends conversing nearby about climbing injuries. In one case, hearing talk about dislocated shoulders and elbow injuries while I was working on a problem involving odd shoulder and elbow orientation made progress very difficult.
I had never seen that so am thankful that you did.
Sorry for the meta-discussion, I only want to help berntb understand.

> I argue against someone that made claims

No you don't, because ErrantX only stated his opinion.

In this thread, ErrantX has shown that he has watched, and is watching, several different news channels. From that experience he has formed the opinion that English Al-Jazeera is one of the best news channels around.

You on the other hand seem to have no actual experience with English Al-Jazeera, and you are dismissing them outright. That is the opposite of intellectual curiosity, and that is why you are being downvoted.

> I'll ascribe this to that intelligence and rationality isn't really that connected -- ideology gives brain damage. I hope it isn't part of a degeneration of HN.

Now you're saying that everyone that disagrees with you is stupid, and since a majority of HN readers disagree with you, that they also are stupid. Really?
Another option is to have story submissions not count towards karma. Presumably one should submit a story because they think the community will benefit and they want to share it. If you give people cookies every time they submit something, you'll end up with people who only want the cookies.

See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066572
Following up on my earlier response: drawing conclusions from these photos isn't possible without correcting for the sampling bias. On the one hand, one would find more fields near train stations, not the other, the north of North Korea does not have the best climate for agriculture, and, I guess, does not have the population density to work any available fields, either.
But you see, everyone has problems with BBC. Israeli think it's anti-Israel, Putin says it's anti-Russian. In reality though it's simply not pro-Israel or pro-Russian. Just telling the truth infuriates lots of people.
:!git commit -m "change"
A salient note about how government austerity works: the Department of Energy labs have decided that as a cost-cutting measure, they will enact a 2-year pay freeze for all employees (except the top-level managers who work for Lockheed, not DoE). Hail the great cost-cutting measures! Except the government will still be putting the same amount of money into the labs andyway; we've been getting emails talking about how they're now trying to come up with ways to spend this windfall of excess cash. So far it sounds like they're going to go for some pseudo-green initiative; maybe we'll just get a new Greenification Department, which inspects all of our workspaces and penalizes us when we're not green enough. (This particular pay freeze is because Dr. Chu wants to make Obama look good. Good policy for a Democrat, screw the researchers but keep the $2 million salary for the head of the lab... wait isn't that what Republicans are expected to do?)

The talk about an across-the-board 10% cut made me think of that--unless it's specified that employee wages and benefits must not suffer, such a cut will probably just end up boning the minions.
This is -- pardon my french -- either the most dishonest or the most uninformed argument that has been made on this topic so far.
Seems as if it isn't that hard to bypass the "trial" period of HN. In addition to minimum karma requirement, applying 3 months of newbie time would probably be somewhat helpful as well. If the user has earned his badge of negative voting after the end of the rookie period, his understanding on the site has matured to point where he knows where the site is at, and he would be more than willing to keep it that way.
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