skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "I never felt that an organization had the right to prevent me from accessing a piece of our culture because they have a piece of paper."

All paintings, music, theater, opera, digital photographs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera: So this is all free then? Sounds good to me. I mean, if you're telling me I'm entitled to all of this, I guess that's pretty cool. Not sure my friends who went to film school will like not having jobs, but if that's what the world owes me... too bad for them.

>> "Which is all to say: it isn't the paying for it that makes people oppose copyright. It's who we'd have to pay."

You don't like music executives.

I don't like banks.

But if I want to buy a house I'm going to have to go through one in all likelihood. Because I hate bankers, that does not entitle me to a free house.

And what do you do professionally? What if a large part of the country decided they don't like your industry, and that you shouldn't be paid for any of your services or goods?
That is your opinion, many disagree. Your morals may not be my morals and many reject any notion of information copying being wrong in any way. You're still trying to call information property that can be owned, apparently not realizing that the very concept is being rejected, information is not property and the concept of ownership simply makes no sense.

The very notion of ownership stems from physical scarcity, the concept does not logically transfer to digital information.
I've frequently done this, usually bringing up something I remembered later, clarifying something or asking additional questions. It's particularly useful if you can reference something that will associate the email with the person.. I usually go for 3 to 7 days after the interview. It's the "i'm still interested in working for YOU" email that also keeps you fresh in their minds.
Because starring something and watching something are different things both conceptually and in how people use these functions.
There are so many APIs for Auth.net, and its the cheapest way to process cards.
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Your central thesis seems to be that drug laws do have a problem but they could have picked a better example, that's not much of a thesis. Besides they do pick better examples, they are just reporting this one as well and he was significantly harassed by an agent of the state ringing up every place he applied to for a job (a point you pass over in silence). Your whole schtick here about how it's not a pure doctor who missed out on crossing a 't' and dotting an 'i' when prescribing a drug and then was subsequently raided by a SWAT team that shot his puppy is a non-argument, they are just reporting data as it comes in to fit with a wider campaign you seemingly agree with on many points. I would guess going by your comments you've had a bone to pick with Reason for a while now and you are using this as your platform to express it. However, take note of the number of replies you are getting. I mean I just think you are just being argumentative and weird (copyright notice in your about page? wtf) but someone even called you hateful.
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Thanks for that! Now for a benchmark... :)
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He is not the 1%. If a 1%er kid got pulled over with a bunch of drugs in his pockets it would be a totally different story. He would probably not consent to a search because his lawyer would have already told him not to. Even if he had consented to a search, the cop probably would get a call from the sheriff, governor, attorney general, etc.. telling him that the kid should be let go. Even if the kid was arrested, a team of lawyers would be searching for loop holes and connections to the DA to get the case dropped. Even if the kid was convicted, the lawyers would appeal. And large donations would be made to the election campaigns of govenor,DA, etc.. to try and get a pardon or retrial.

And his ex-CIA-chief daddy would get all of his criminal records classified so that no one would find out and he can run for President. Apparently there are some damning things about George W. Bush in Dallas Observer police blotters from the 80s; anybody here have a copy of those?

You're right, though, this guy was a ten-percenter. He's still white and wealthy and not the intended target of the drug laws.
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About 10 years ago, I cancelled my account with Sprint and switched to AT&T. For 5 months afterwards, I was billed by Sprint, called Sprint, re-cancelled (orally and in writing) and watched the cycle complete. Eventually I gave up and said "fuck it". Sprint trashed my credit report.

Had I not been as fortunate as I have been, that trashed credit report easily could have cost me the most lucrative tier of jobs available to me, because employers routinely screen applicants based on credit history.

Being screwed over by Sprint is not a felony. Similar screwups have no doubt cost thousands of people jobs.

I'm not sure what the appropriate public policy response to this situation is. We benefit enormously from employment- at- will. There are people on HN who will also convincingly argue that we benefit enormously from credit reports and credit scoring (among other things, the system we had before credit scores was overtly racist). It's a complicated issue and I have no glib answers to provide.
One of the main problems of previous texture compression methods like DXT2 was that they were encumbered in software patents.

This made implementing OpenGL in opensource quite problematic.

Does anyone know if this is also the case for ETC2 / EAC texture compression? I didn't really find any details on this.
iOS 6 was announced at WWDC on 11 June this year.
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I like the distinction. I am used to "Star"-ing something in other web apps and I can quickly tell whether or not I am watching or bookmarked a repository when they are two separate things.
My thesis has more to do with _Reason_ than it does with drug laws. In fact, I'm not sure my thesis has anything to do with drug laws. Our drug laws are transparently retarded.

The guy who called me hateful also wrote a haiku about me. Think of that whatever you will. I'm just procrastinating on HN (I a client meeting today that keeps getting delayed, so I can't sink my teeth into anything). I do not see this thread as any kind of epic battleground in which social justice issues are going to be resolved.
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that scene in the movie Soapdish where Sally Fields

Umm... dude...
The marginal cost of the second ticket to see my favorite film (Scarface, Al Pacino) is a few cents. The marginal cost of the first ticket is $25 million.

We could switch over to that system - it's not unprecedented, historically many rich people have been patrons of the arts and commissioned new works. You might find the art market shifts so it aims less at the man on the street and more at the millionaire in the boardroom. Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is a matter of opinion.

What do you think?
Watched repos show up in notifications, starred don't.

So you can show support without being swamped with notifications.
From their announcement email:

> We're sending you this email because we love you.

Anyone else reminded of "Welcome to Costco, I love you" from Idiocracy's distopia? Intentional parody?
This is a great post, written with honesty.
As a sidenote, there is a Rickroll in the latest iOS 6 beta release notes when discussing the YouTube changes.
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(More anecdotal evidence) Patrick Collison also helped me out when I was implementing Stripe on my site, and I am just a regular joe.
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Good points. I see that you are well informed and care a great deal, and I really appreciate your thoughts.

I think you may be overstating the degree to which my optimism in our ability to advance the technology is harmful, or a disservice.

I look at technologies like TOR, and FreeNET and I think to myself "Wow. Human ingenuity is such a beautiful thing. We are rapidly approaching the day when we can freely speak and say and share whatever we want. We are building a world where every voice has an equal right to speak and cannot be silenced, but only amplified by curation and consensus. We are approaching a truly digital democracy, and its effect will reverberate across the world. Old authoritarian regimes will collapse - and have already begun to do so, thanks in part to these new technologies."

I don't think it's much of a stretch to imagine that we can achieve whatever we set our minds to, and perhaps it is premature to say these technologies are 'available', but the pieces are mostly there, and roads have a funny way of being formed without a roadmap. Sometimes they start as a path, with footprints that wear the ground.

Sometimes you need to believe you can do something in order for you to work up the energy and motivation to make the attempt.

I don't think betrayal is an appropriate word here. And I don't think it's necessary to solve every problem or point of attack to make major progress.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Was there a warning about this update? I heard about 10 minutes of commotion in our office due to this update. Mostly surprise at the timing which was the middle of the work day on a Monday.
It is symptomatic of a larger problem, the inability to characterize risk coupled with the demand for action. Some characterize it as a tragedy of the commons, personally I agree with Schneir that its simply bad parenting and bad luck.
How many instances of groups of very smart people with a great product vision and the technical ability to deliver it are there that set up non-profit companies to give us all their brain-child for free? I'd prefer it if they wanted to do it in a non-profit and give all the excess revenue to 3rd party devs but this is much better than waiting for a unicorn to turn up.
Vaios are expensive? They certainly don't come close to the cost of Macbook Pros.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-SVE1511M1EB-CEK-15-5-inch-Lapt...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-15-inch-MacBook-Graphics-GeFo...

They are UK products, couldn't find a reasonably sized VAIO on Amazon.com. The VAIO has lower specs, though.
I mean I totally agree. Being able to favorite something without getting updates is great. I just think that changing the default behavior (aka coming to the site one day and having nothing new in your feed) is a little bit strange.
The other reason it was built in was at the time YouTube videos were all flash and it was too big a site for Apple to ignore.
Published a Hacker News app for Android (ICS and above only). Feedbacks?
10 hours? You've never written a line of code in your life, I gather.

Seemingly simple features can be incredibly complex to implement, especially when you're operating at the scale that GitHub is.
Why does the HN community get so upset when the GNU is violated and a company uses GNU code in a proprietary application (remember the wordpress thesis themes)?

Because they're plagiarizing and profiting off someone else's work without sharing in kind.

It's the same exact principal as pirating apps.

It's generally not.
K. I'll pass it around internally and see if the sales guys have any interest.
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I guess if you don't want to manage a db by yourself, it's usually still more convenient to use one db-aa-s in the cloud platform you are using for the rest, e.g., using postgres on heroku, RDS on AWS, mysql on appengine etc.

You win on integration, latency, management, billing etc.
This concept was also used in russian lighthouses because it would be cold enough in siberia to create the delta difference needed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
All true. JPL has been a world leader in development of visual odometry ("VO"), which is key to estimating slip, which in turn is key to not getting stuck in sand.

The method hinges on establishing correspondence between visual features in before/after images. Then, since you know (through stereo ranging) how far away things are in both images, you can match points and see how far you've gone. This works better the more visual features (tiny edges and corners) you have to cue off of, and presumably these treads are generating more distinguishable features. They ran VO on Spirit and Opportunity, and they will on Curiousity as well.

A summary is in the first page of this little white paper:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsconcepts2012/pdf/4053.p...

and one full description is here:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.104....

The good thing is that VO requires no extra hardware, because you already have stereo cameras.

By the way, they do make commercial velocity sensors of the kind described in the GP comment (special camera looking down):

http://www.corrsys-datron.com/optical_sensors.htm

These may not use VO, they might just use optical correlation. Sometimes they're used in robotics.
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Exactly what we need - more bad iOS games :)

I'm kidding, in all seriousness it would be a great experience for the kids.
I'm guessing that either they were in negotiations for a potential renewal / extension to the license or (far more likely) they didn't want headlines about their feud with Google taking attention away from the product announcement.
I agree completely, so I try to buy music on bandcamp as much as possible. I basically see it as a donation to the artist and to a service (bandcamp) which I think does a good thing.
During the NATO protests in Chicago a cop stopped me and asked to search my bag, and I came up with "Sorry, but I'm carrying work equipment and my employer does not allow me to consent to searches". I'm not sure how wise this response was, but it worked.

It's good to have some rehearsed answer to that question. Explicitly invoking the Constitution will work, but can be combative. As annoying as it is to my inner idealistic 25 year old, I try to be as obsequious and polite as I can to police officers; they deal with genuinely unpleasant people on an hourly basis, and being nice to them often works a kind of mental jiu jitsu on them. It probably never matters but I figure the habit might someday save me a lot of real trouble. Also, it gets me out of a _lot_ of tickets.
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The "everyone caches everything" economics of Usenet are all wrong for the modern Internet, though.
Strange, for you. A lot of us are unfortunately leechers (and there are more of us than yours). We don't (sadly) participate in big- (or medium-) sized projects and mostly do our own stuff and thus don't really care about specific commits in Node.js, homebrew or rails. When there's a new version we're excited and will use them, but the internal and day to day operation and progress of those projects are of little interest to us.
Is radio communication with the rover even possible at night? We only have line of sight to mars during the martian daytime.
Your solution would just mean that I would have had to go through and unwatch 99% of my watched repos. I think they chose the right option.
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Sorry, sounds completely made up. Have any sources?
I don't believe that things happened as they are being presented. This is (ex-)Gizmodo we're talking about, people who have a long standing grudge with Apple.

In the middle of a 'major crisis' this guy finds time to type up a story, on a computer? He can still access work machines to submit? And then the hacker is kind enough to tell him what happened? And oddly, there is no mention of involving the police or the FBI?

This episode is either an inside job or a complete fabrication. My prediction is it will fall apart within the week, rather like Gizmodo's exclusive story based on the purchase of stolen prototype equipment.
Wikipedia goes down thanks to cut cables
I guess I didn't mention space being the focus in the first post. Obviously a propeller wouldn't work there, but I'm not sure something like compressed air would work either, because you'd have to create more air, I believe, for it to be successful.

I'll hvae to read more about the ion engine though.
Direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
Wow, that was fast! https://twitter.com/reustle/status/232537914410668033
They are not distinct enough to be 2 different actions. Especially having 2 totally different pages is a horrible thing(notifications and news feed) Why not just combine 2 of them together and create more polished feed?
Quite amazing that a pair of cut cables can bring the wikipedia down...
Interesting analysis, once I got it to work. (I have my zsh configured to put history in ~/.zsh_cache/history, not one of the default files. I don't use oh-my-zsh, either.)

If I get to the point where I want to play with this, I'll probably fork it and propose some changes back. It also strongly suggests that I should blow away my history because there's some unusual values reported because of my work.
It's possible "stacking on penalties" is the author's interpretation of what was a totally normal set of probation conditions; the author's way of pointing out, "you think probation isn't a big deal, but look what it actually means".
That blue notification alert should be next to the user name/toolbar.

Questions:

- All my own repos are now "Starred" by me. Should I unstarr them?

- Why can't I watch a repo from the Starred list?

- Whats up with the "Watch + Ignore" setting, isn't that exactly what Star is?
Perhaps the product he speaks isn't music, but the recording agencies. What do they need to exist for when social media has knocked big media off it's throne? In an age when the internet and torrenting have made the costs of distribution megs a minute (in a river of petabytes a second) instead of the legitimate costs of making an actual record (the big vinyls) or radio towers (actual radio, versus internet radio).

The recording companies are what come to my mind anyways... shrugs
Agreed! I was just thinking the other week, "I really don't want to see checkins on all these repos- I just want to bookmark them for future use".

A separate RSS feed for Watched and Starred repos would totally work for me.
Proponents of the GPL don't see it that way. Rather than seeing it as the creator's right to choose the terms, they see it as the consumer's right to access and modify source code.

That's the fundamental split: copyright normally gives the creator the "right" to take away the consumer's rights; the GPL merely prevents this and maintains the consumer's rights.

As others have pointed out, the idea behind copyright is to give a creator a limited monopoly over some information (ideally in order to encourage arts and science). The GPL subverts this: not only does the initial creator give up the monopoly, but the license ensures that nobody can subsequently reclaim a monopoly on the work in question. That is, the GPL involves not only giving rights to your consumers but also making sure as many people as possible cannot take those rights away again.

Essentially, it shouldn't be the creator's choice at all. The consumer has some rights (like being able to see and modify what runs on their computer) and these rights should not be infringed. That's entire core of the GPL and that's why it's the opposite of copyright normally: it protects the consumer and not the producer. The fact that it happens to be implemented on top of copyright law really is an implementation detail--if it was possible to pass a law protecting the right of every computer owner to be able to access and modify any code running on their system, the FSF would surely support it.

In summary: the GPL is about the consumer where copyright is normally about the producer. That's why they are different.
>But it bears pointing out that this is much like comparing a pogo stick to an F-22 / Boeing 777 / Mercedes E-class.

Well, more like comparing an early horse drawn carriage to the latter three. A pogo stick has always been a toy - never designed to get work done, however inefficiently. Primitive command lines were still attempts at letting you get work done, they just weren't as good as what we have now (or, in some cases and for some purposes, contemporary graphical alternatives).
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I like the change in notification behaviour, but now I'm missing the list of watched (or now starred) repositories on the feed page that used to sit underneath the list of my own.

I literally used this list numerous times everyday to get quick access to certain repos, now I have to click the 'starred' tab to get a similar list which means an extra page load.
I don't understand how this is unethical. Maybe I'm missing something.

Back in college, one of the guys I worked with would manage a 'numbers' game for one of his 'uncles.' He had an encyclopedic knowledge how the state lottery worked, and how to prevent oneself from falling afoul of state laws with regards to gambling.

Like any gambling, the house always wins - in this instance, the house is the state or whatever corporate entity that the state leases its legalized stupid tax operation to.

It says they had 8 million in winnings, but they spent nearly 40 million dollars to secure that 8 million in winnings. That's 20% ROI over seven years. They could have put the money in a CD and earned almost as much or more.