skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exemption process is part of the DMCA, and it produces "rules", not as weighty as laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac... has an explanation:

> In addition to the safe harbors and exemptions the statute explicitly provides, 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1) requires that the Librarian of Congress issue exemptions from the prohibition against circumvention of access-control technology. Exemptions are granted when it is shown that access-control technology has had a substantial adverse effect on the ability of people to make non-infringing uses of copyrighted works.

> The exemption rules are revised every three years. Exemption proposals are submitted by the public to the Registrar of Copyrights, and after a process of hearings and public comments, the final rule is recommended by the Registrar and issued by the Librarian. Exemptions expire after three years and must be resubmitted for the next rulemaking cycle. Consequently, the exemptions issued in the prior rulemakings, in 2000, 2003 and 2006 are no longer valid.

For a more authoritative and detailed source, the Copyright Office's rulemaking statement begins with several pages explaining its authority and process: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/2012-26308_PI.pdf
Yes, let's make internet freedom a joke. But we already have anonymous for that.

Edit: The real tragedy is the people excusing NK so they can have their way. I'm not saying they are dumb, just unlucky at thinking.

Edit2: No defense of hackivists making a mockery of themselves? How much does TPB make?
Then I'd have to say you might as well be wrong. Unless you are offended, or you have someone next to you saying "hey, that guy's a jerk, and this is why," your opinion of what other people should be offended about really isn't relevant.

People who overreact will always be offended. If you're not one of those people, stop acting on their behalf. All you're doing is intimidating people with the prospect of other people being oversensitive.
I did a very quick translation—it does contain some important information, as it turns out.

The gist seems to be that there is 11B DKK in additional income that is subject to taxes and interest, 5B and 0.8B DKK respectively, totalling the 5.8B number we’ve come to know.

In your own words, Skat appear to allege that the deal was underpriced by at least 5B (real 2013) DKK.

https://gist.github.com/ndarville/5081765
For what it's worth, you would have gotten no data from me. My email client will not load anything external and will not even attempt to render HTML mail.

Also, I am in a minority with this, but when I receive an HTML message without any plaintext portion I delete it; if it is an unsolicited message I mark it as spam.
> The entrenched powers-that-be are only entrenched because we, as an electorate, keep voting for them.

99.9% of federal employees are not elected. That's the true entrenched power - the permanent bureaucracy. They'll be there regardless of who gets elected.
Thanks, we agree!

There's a lot of work that still needs to go into building the app library into what we're really envisioning it will be. We don't want to talk up more than we've got working, but I can say we're absolutely planning on expanding that aspect of the service over the coming months :)
That was one of my main take-aways, too.

Logging. I do it, automatically in my chat clients, because otherwise I will totally forget little details about everything. Mom's address? Friend's anniversary? Details of X problem and its requirements? Logged.

A document retention (And deletion!) policy seems like it's important to have, even in personal use cases, as this article pointed out.
Wow, +1 for grabbing Monsanto before I even posted. ;)
Sending and Receiving Binary Data with Ajax
I'm having trouble understanding how a wrapper for an arbitrary executable can be called "RESTful". Are there resources? Are there long-lived URIs?

In the end, doesn't the implementation of the executable partly determine whether it is really RESTful?
There may be plenty of issues with X, but it runs fine on the n900 and n9. It's not too slow to run on current phones.
Hang on, what have we got here?

TD;LR Linux is not one thing. Various projects are not mutually exclusive

We have GNU/Linux with a huge array of applications all licensed in such a way as to allow forking and customisation.

We have different groups of users of desktop/laptops; sysadmins; developers; scientific users; people who use administered desktops at work (e.g. French police &c)

We have a smallish and very pushy company in the UK (Canonical) who want to build on GNU/Linux to produce an operating system (Ubuntu) that will work on TVs, phones, tablets, fridges &c. Their target audience won't be developing alternatives to X, and probably won't be writing bash scripts or anything. (That isn't to say that some their users won't be doing those things).

We have a much larger company in the US (Redhat) who provide a stable conservative desktop as a compliment to their commercially supported server OS (RHEL). They part fund a desktop system that has changed radically recently (Gnome).

There is a German based company that make an enterprise desktop OS and server OS and who contribute to the development of a different desktop environment (KDE)

We have a not-for-profit foundation type entity who push out a version of GNU/Linux that can run on a huge range of architectures (Debian)

There is this thing called 'upstream'. Small projects push out all kinds of applications including alternative desktop environments.

So Canonical does its thing, some of the stuff they do may get back into the mainstream GNU/Linux, some may not. Some hardware manufacturer may or may not take up the system. I may be able to dock my phone to a keyboard/mouse/monitor and write documents in LibreOffice and edit podcasts/photos in a couple of years or 5. (bring that on).

The others carry on as they do now. You may have to choose the graphics card more carefully in future but I hope not. I suspect workstation class computers with separate monitor/bases will get more expensive and specialised anyway, and I imagine someone will do a 'high end workstation-OS' just for them.
If you'd rather go meta, there's a metal song about moshing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWdgCqh-1g

"Toxic Waltz" by Exodus. Great song, fantastic album.
Now it seems they have also added fake lag to TCP port 80.
hlds@machine:~$ tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se 80
Selected device venet0, address 5.9.249.8, port 41774 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) on TCP port 80 (www), 128 hops max
128 thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15) [open] 751.198 ms 735.700 ms 767.937 ms

This wasn't the case an hour ago. I was able to get 50ms RTT from TCP port 80 but now they probably added fake lag with tc(linux traffic shaping tool)
This is sweet. I can imagine this being woven into some great stories.
AFAICT there is no solution on the receiving end. Your feed is going to be filtered or delayed by the Facebook gremlins and there's nothing you can do about it.

The internal heuristics generally seem to get it right eventually: I see true friend and family posts with essentially random delays of sometimes up to 2-3 days, but I don't actually miss any (I don't think).

I don't even bother trying to follow stuff I'm interested in on Facebook anymore. G+ does that sort of thing better anyway, at least for all of my interests.
Writing a canonical server security document is difficult because it depends so much on what the server is doing (what kind of application is it running? how is it accessed?) and where you're starting from. (barebones install? something pre-rolled by your VPS service?)
If I understand your position correctly, you have offered a false dichotomy: designers must either remove a feature entirely or leave it in and clutter the UI.

Here is a simple UI:

http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/

Here is the same software, but with a "cluttered" UI:

http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/guru.shtml

It is entirely possible to make simple things simple while adding rich complexity for advanced users. It does, however, take more forethought and planning during development.
"As least in Scandinavia, we don't feel MOOCs are a huge threat to us, because there is no tuition, so there is no real financial reason for students to prefer MOOCs."

At least the best Stanford MOOCs, Machine Learning and Databases, were taught much better, and the material and exercises were much more carefully planned, than most of what I'd expect at least in any university in Finland.

Now, I hear Coursera has also some bad quality MOOCs, but as long as the very best courses by the very best lecturers can be offered to the whole world as MOOCs, their better quality should be a strong reason the prefer them over some mediocre course in a local uni.
s/reasoning/trolling/
Ok, true, you've got a point, having an accelerometer isn't completely useless. Granted.

But I was talking standard PC, not appliance and in that sense, that reusability of drivers _today_ isn't very high. Makers don't put accelerometer on mobo. So to me the argument is kind of moot, IMHO.
Visualization of Regular Expression Character Classes
[Show HN] Mechanical Clock Work in Progress
"Military-industrial complex" doesn't vote. People vote. If people refused to vote for congressmen that enact stuff like DMCA, this won't happen. But most of the people think as long as their congressman "brings home the bacon" and doesn't steal too much money and doesn't cheat on his wife (this one is the most important for some reason unless you're Clinton), it's fine.
That's not my argument. It's a cycle. People tried to contribute to gcc, but eventually reached some limits (real or imagined, it doesn't matter) and created something new. egcs was another, similar crisis with a slightly different outcome. This is all part of the process. It's never easy, but progress is made. And we all enjoy nice things between the big upheavals.
And don't forget, Oakland is at the forefront of the anarchist revolution! It's the new Wild West!

"Oakland’s crime problems have gotten so bad that some people aren’t even bothering to call the cops anymore; instead, they’re trying to solve and prevent crimes themselves."

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/arcadia-park-res...
Ask HN: Coworking/Hacker meetups in NOVA?
Hey gang, I just moved to Alexandria, VA. Was wondering if there were any others here from the area and if you all do any meetups/coworking sessions?
In an ideal product, this would just be left up to the user to decide. You should have control over your own news feed.
I think this is a hint to the real opportunity for App.net.

Yes, Facebook and Twitter have pioneered the 'feed'... but they're also abusing it. To mix some metaphors, they're polluting the feed with inserts and glitz, or strip-mining their audience's attention. Some necessary innovation in how feeds could be sorted/filtered, strictly for the user's benefit, has been foreclosed by their business models.

Perhaps it's a little like the first generation of search engines and portals: a haste to monetize has caused them to overlook how deep and universal a user-centric feed-service could be. They are locking up their proprietary 'sources' of events well, and thus slowing the emergence of alternatives. But at some point a 10X-plus-better uncorrupted competitor could emerge, first among geeky early adopters, making people look back at Facebook and Twitter like they were Yahoo/Hotbot/Altavista.
Here's an entire thread on this from a few weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229185
There's something to be said here about the constituents of the Webkit Project and to compare it to Kernel.org.

Somehow I feel secure knowing someone like Linus is in-charge. Maybe because the Linux project isn't maintained by people whose ultimate goal is profit?
Spurious Correlations Everywhere: the Tragedy of Big Data
Obviously you're entitled to your opinion.

But I think the fact that users opt-in to HTML emails and engage with them far more frequently than text opt-in and engagement indicates that your opinion is an outlier.

I like HTML email. I opt-in only to companies that interest me enough to do so. Those times when I'm opted-in accidentally by not unchecking a box or whatever during checkout I just unsubscribe from and move on. What I have left is useful content in my inbox, some of it more directly sales oriented, the rest more generally informational.

Similarly, for certain senders, I chose to tell Gmail to always load their images — including tracking pixels. It's not a violation of my privacy any more than the numerous pixels on any other website I read.
Same thing happened to me, and I reloaded before I read this post...I'm starting over now and I'll post the output if it happens again. Loving it so far!
The dynamic legend and narrative bar are really great additions to roguelikes. Did you have inspiration for these things? I don't know that I've seen either of them done before.
> I'm not entirely sure I would classify Google Glass as a "big problem."

It's novel, it opens up new applications not possible with smartphones and it can get widespread adoption. It might not be hard because most technology necessary is already here, but I think you can say it's big by the amount of disruption it can introduce.
As always - it depends. I had none of these issues when I worked at home. First, you have to be disciplined (or sloppy enough, like me) to tolerate the dusbunnies. And when I had young kids, my kids didn't stay home while I worked. The younger one still went to daycare and the older ones still went to after-school care. My kids weren't confused at all. But working at home allowed me the luxury of. . .choosing 1 or 2 days a week to help with some after school activity, using my lunch time to tutor at school once or twice a month, letting my kids sleep later in the a.m. (since I know longer had the commute), etc.
There is a whole moral debate around the words "good" and "bad"; and I think that words like "developed" and "growth" have to be weighed in that sense. "Developed" might mean better quality of life, but it could also mean pollution,noise, stress, depression and dehumanization. To whoever wants to change the world I recommend to start by changing their own back yard. There are enough challenges in developed countries as it is, "underdeveloped" countries are facing their own challenges. Travel the world and you'll find problems and solutions, listen to the media and you'll be a blind man serving someone else's interest.
I wonder if the "basic income guarantee" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee) applied at something like country-level wouldn't dramatically increase the number of people working on "big problems" and of entrepreneurs trying "big problem businesses" - with no personal risk of failure, people would actually start chasing the "big problems" simply because they are FUN, and with no adrenaline from our little economic rat-race, this could actually become the only source of "fun" (besides hard-drugs for now and maybe some virtual-reality based entertainment) for creative and problem solving types. I don't advocate this - it would probably fail miserably and be "globally unfair" if applied at the level of a wealthy nation, but I always ponder on the consequences of such a thing. We're so "knife to neck" in this race for profit that only very few lucky and smart people have the opportunity to ponder the big problems without any other worries - maybe quantity (as in number of brains involved and pumping up ideas good and bad) as opposed to quality (very few very smart and well funded "geniuses") would yield better results on these so called "big" problems (I think of things like "general AI" or "cure for cancer" kind of problems). And the funny thing is that such an "arrangement" has never been tried in the history of mankind, so it might as well "work" (in the sense of "accelerate" the solving if "big problems").

...and traditional market forces have never been known to catalyze work on "big problems". The only good catalyst I can think of is war (think the nuclear weapons problem or the race to the moon fueled by the cold-war).
Are you a lawyer or do you have extensive experience with the US law?

You're making some pretty blanket statements there and I'd appreciate knowing what's backing your statements up.
this is same as cocaine/heroin producers putting acids and other toxic compounds in their products,

the user doesn't give a shit, they just wanna get high
WHOIS tells you where an IP is supposed to be located, but BGP determines where the IP is actually located. They don't have to agree and both can be hacked/spoofed.
Checking a User Exists in Active Directory using C#
Fascinating. Looks like there were only 10 of those f/0.7 lenses made, 6 of which went to NASA to photograph the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
Oracle ships emergency Java 7 Update 17 to patch two vulnerabilities
Words have meaning, I'm not "wanting" a semantic debate, I'm simply telling you that the way you're using the term is bound to be misunderstood because it doesn't mean that. Take it how you will, but no you didn't use the term correctly even in the political sense as I gave you the political science definition from Wikipedia, that is the political sense.
Except that people actually support Wayland and everyone is angry at Canonical about Mir.
The link is resulting in a 404 for me
Because the biggest problems are the most expensive problems, and the most expensive problems require the deepest pockets, which belong to the government.
Fab uses Sailthru to deliver their e-mail. See here: https://www.sailthru.com/clients

I'm in the process of moving my e-mail to Sailthru. I'm really impressed by their capabilities, though the transition hasn't been quite as smooth as I would have liked. I'm finally starting to dive into doing stuff like this, and I'm really excited about using data to improve the experience from people who get my daily e-mails.

Not only can I stop bothering people who are no longer reading my e-mails, but I can also cut costs by removing users who aren't engaged. It's a win-win.
Free Software Supporter Issue 59, February 2013
Tell HN: My apology to Bitino
A few days ago, Bitino unveiled their online provably fair card game involving Bitcoin:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5303633

I played all my games in different browser windows, and kept track of the private URLs, thinking this would allow me to withdraw later. When it didn't (the game stores information in cookies), I impulsively jumped and called it a shady business. I think my comment was at the top of their post for a while, so in retrospect it probably hurt their traffic.

Today they sent me my balance, so I would like to apologize, and say they're indeed legit. Good luck guys!
I'd rather let the paper simulate this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuiZTV39Mh0&feature=play... :)

edit: Oh well, 2007 was a much better year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0LvyuiqjM&feature=play...
As long as what Ubuntu is creating is open source and easily adopted by others (if it's good), what's the problem?
Where I work we run a batch job that looks for inbound clicks from an email without a corresponding "email opened" tracking pixel being fired. Gives us an idea of how many people are engaging with images turned off or some other form of tracking pixel blocking.

Our analytics wizards then use that and other data to come up with some estimates on how many users are opening our emails with images disabled.
Compilation time is of course only one of many things to be taken into consideration when choosing a programming language. What always surprises me is how many people in commercial software engineering underestimate the consequences of slow compilation: it has a dramatic impact on productivity. A modern IDE for a language like C# or Java or what have you is like a spellchecker. Your compile-time errors are pointed out to you as you go along. Compare that to sitting around endlessly waiting for your C++ source file to compile. (C++ IDEs have just started to do a little bit of that "spellchecking," but it's not the same. And besides, you still have to compile to be able to run your program.)
Well they do have a specific feed for pages.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/feed
LLVM was created by one person, just like Linux. Both projects would not be where they are today without the efforts and monetary contributions of many others, including corporations. These are examples of the system working, IMO. Giants can be felled, tools and infrastructure can be improved for all.
Even if the whole world is against you...continue.
I can still get a fast response:

# tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se
traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 128 hops max, 60 byte packets
128 thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15) <syn,ack> 38.726 ms 39.877 ms 39.333 ms
Hmm, isn't the Korean subnet allocation fixed? If an IP falls in that range, doesn't it belong to the Korean ISP? How can someone be assigned that IP by someone other than the ISP who owns it?
Thanks for the link!

I did a quick google for "ubuntu having problems with wayland" and some interesting links got returned regarding developers struggling to get wayland working, so it didn't get dropped suddenly.

It seems that the mir spec is a public statement that after 2 years they are giving up for a alternative, with reasons and a alternative.

With some individuals up in arms with the discusion, but how should Ubuntu have handles it differently, while keeping to a deadline.
Whether it actually gets enforced doesn't matter, what matters whether people refrain from engaging in the activity (or aiding others in doing so) because of the risk that it could be.
Placating the tech crowd by giving away fragments of low level code is really just marketing and a way to retain talent that would otherwise refuse to work for them. It's not as if their users can actually use any of that stuff to change how their macs work (without switching to a different OS or browser).
reads better than `<file grep searchterm` and is minimally wasteful.
If you're concerned by slums, I say start by looking at solutions for the ghettos in your own country. The third world is not very far. Kudos for your intentions and beware of the media.
Google Cloud Endpoints: App Engine Connected Android Project
It is indeed rather ironic that an article touting the beauty and simplicity of Unix would win the "Useless Use of Cat Award". For those unfamiliar with it:

http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html

The purpose of cat is to concatenate (or "catenate") files. If it's only one file, concatenating it with nothing at all is a waste of time, and costs you a process.
Galaxy S 4 eye-tracking - Has anyone implemented this in a browser?
The dynamic legend I have not seen before, but this game must be based loosely off of nethack (which includes a narrative).
I'm not sure that's comparable; that's rewarding ads for being more relevant to the original search (or penalizing ads for being less relevant.) CPC services get paid for clicks but have views for inventory, so it makes sense they'd favor showing an add where the chance of a click is higher, raising the CPM.

On FB, you're getting charged just to show the post, so it's more of a CPM model.