skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was one of those people who manage to inspire emotion in others.

A lot of bad, but she garnered (and still does somewhat) a huge amount of respect.

For someone who has so much public hatred around her, you have to remember she still managed to win elections while all this was far more raw and happening around her.
Thanks! This also started as an experiment with the goal of being very lightweight and simple to get started with.

Looking forward to seeing your public repo, apparently you can get a great discussion going on HN by putting it out there :)
if you're citing lewis carroll's (well, Tennyson's graphics) work as the artist's inspiration then why not a line from LC to Disney, bypassing the artist entirely?
Oh my... https://github.com/oguzbilgic/hivli/blob/master/lib/Loader.p...
Is it because the employer isn't paying employees enough or is it because the employee made poor life decisions (had kids too early, didn't learn any marketable skills, etc)?

WOW! This is not only textbook false dichotomy, but also a fundamental attribution error [1].

"Had kids too early" - what if their pregnancy was a result of rape, and they could not afford an abortion (or it was illegal in their state)?

"Didn't learn any marketable skills" - what if they weren't born into a good family and didn't have the role models that could teach them what skills are marketable in the first place.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
God is just, turn the other cheek. Maybe You get love.

Zynga got too many people... now, they're screwed. Making payroll must suck.

Marriage between equals is best or one will dominate.

If you get paid too little, you will dominate your boss.

If you cheat, you will get in over your head.

God is just.

God says...

15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in
my love.

15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full.

15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
loved you.

15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.

15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

-----

God sucks at tic-tack-toe.

God says...

23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what
is before thee: 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man
given to appetite.

23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven.

23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats: 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so
is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with
thee.

23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose
thy sweet words.

----

The peperoni was good. I had to choke-down the cookie-dough ice cream. I eat a lot of ice cream and lots of the flavors I'm really sick of... understatement.

Mmmmm.... peperoni.

God says...

August, 1989 [Etext #10]

The Project Gutenberg Etext of The King James Bible
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Further proof that large media companies don't actually care about intellectual property. They care about their property.

Whether it is Disney stealing lions[1] or Fox stealing songs[2], their concern for your property is non-existent, but they are willing to throw you in jail if you think about using theirs.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion

2. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jonathan-coulton-glee-...
In cancer treatment, timing is everything. Catching it early and getting treatment early is key.
It's not quite that simple; many US states have a "public policy" exception to at-will employment that allows you to sue if you're terminated or constructively terminated in retaliation for whistleblowing.
As she mentions elsewhere, she is British. And "Disney have used it" is perfectly valid in the Queen's English, even if it sounds odd to us yanks.
Yes, honestly I read down to that point and began writing my comment, assumed there would be lots more bad advice to follow, then the article went and ended on me. The README is the correct solution in this case.
You may be in need of a libertarianism sensor recalibration.
Then why doesn't every income-motivated mediocre person try to get a job in banking? The banks would have their pick of candidates, and they'd save on employment costs.
This is the sanest discussion of this topic I've seen so far, having this here adds something.

This place isn't just for tech news anymore, whether that's a good thing I'm sure people will disagree over.
It will not be good for your SEO. With a normal website every asset like images, video, text, links and even audio can be used for SEO promotion.
>My main point is: being a farmer is hard, the pay isn't all that great. Try to understand what a farmer has to do on a daily basis.

That's no excuse to mistreat animals.

> but there are many farmers that treat their animals properly.

And there are others who don't. They are the reason why laws need to be in place to ensure animals are treated fairly and why videotaping them being cruel should not be outlawed.
That person is obviously bat-shit crazy. I am very surprised to hear that Excel or any other spreadsheet program will open multi-gigabyte files without exploding.
Until we start killing them (it will happen).

Equilibrium is inevitable.
I don't have the full picture here but by moving away from an Excel format you are also potentially taking away a lot of control they have themselves over managing the data and working the data which Excel is extremely good at with little to no programming.
Before they take down the cosmetic bag entry at http://www.disneystore.com/alice-in-wonderland-cosmetic-bag/...

Screenshot here:
http://i.imgur.com/tr2FZ3c.png
Relevant snippet:

"On Monday, Apple confirmed to AllThingsD that AppGratis had been removed for violating not only clause 2.25 of the App Store Review Guideline — the clause stipulating that apps cannot promote other apps similarly to the App Store — but also clause 5.6. Clause 5.6 states that apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind."
I'm not 100% sure I can parse your question, but the answer is that the handbag appears to be an exact copy on the inside, with some Disney graphics on the outside. The Disney painting is, as others have observed, much more ambiguous and would be harder to prove (although perhaps not impossible, given the presence of the handbag, if for instance the same "artist" did both).

(In fact, the handbag is quite bad as a result of this mixture, if I say so myself as a rather poor judge of design. The tone of Katie Woodger's work and the tone of the original Disney animated piece are at odds with each other, and the juxtaposition is rather less than the sum of the parts.)
It also lets you edit them (press e on a hunk)! I love that command. And it was clearly inspired by "darcs record". I also use commit-patch[1] quite a lot, it comes with Emacs integration which makes it heavenly (vc-diff then edit the patch to your liking, then commit).

[1] http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/
Mutually beneficial does not mean "perfect". Lots of trade may be unfair, especially in hindsight, but at the time the trade occurred, each party sees benefit in the trade. Otherwise, why would they trade?
PetaPoco (http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/) and ORMLite (https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite) both work with Postgres.
People don't stop their ISPs from tampering because they have a reasonable expectation that the ISP won't tamper.

But, now they've seen their ISP tampering those people might switch on encryption for their email, and everything else.
Postgres and MySQL are SQL servers; SQLite is not, but it's still a SQL RDBMS. Similar with Gadfly. University Ingres was an RDBMS server, but it didn't speak SQL, so it wasn't a SQL server either. Generally speaking, software that's written to work with one SQL server is pretty easy to retarget to another, but retargeting it to work with SQLite or University Ingres would be pretty rough.
To that point, you can even still buy the 2 bladed sensor excell blades.
It is rather nice.

You guys ought to try it.
I'm of course just guessing but this seams more like the result of a lazy (unscrupulous) designers hired by Disney rather than a corporate decision to ignore copyright.

This doesn't make the situation of the author any better, the author should at least talk to a copyright layer IMO.
It's not my field, but by "worldwide license" I meant a single lump sum that covers everything they might want to do or already have done -- i.e. "this is the amount that you can pay to make this go away and avoid bringing in your expensive legal team".

My naive guess would be that somewhere USD $5k-$10k is that amount: small enough to be within budgetary authority, large enough to make it worth the artist's time to chase up.

In reality, I'd suspect and hope that the artist already has an e-mail from Disney's brand protection team, or whatever they call it, with an apology and an offer to pay immediately. Disney's surely one of the most brand-conscious companies in the world.
OK, you made some good points I will have to think about more. I would think the type of deflation we're discussing had only a small role to play in that crisis, but I admit it probably played some.

Of course the irony is that monetary policy causing unreasonably low interest rates (i.e. controlled inflation) was a large factor of that crisis as well.
"Proximity to money"
Imagine a city on the confluence of two rivers, with a series of locks making it a major trade center. The leaders of the lock operators union come to the city fathers requesting they be paid a percentage of the trade passing through the locks rather than a regular wage.

The city leaders ask why, since they didn't build the locks or create any of the system that makes it all happen, they should share in the wealth above others, and above the work they do.

The Union leaders reply that the small percentage they're asking for will pay total about the same as they're getting now, and it better aligns the interests of both sides. Of course the city leaders eventually agree. And of course, the "modest percentage" steadily grows over time, with a multitude of clever, more complex shipping arrangements.

That's the financial system we have. They didn't build it; their brain power goes to make it more opaque, and siphon more to them. And with regulatory capture, the federal gov't abets it all.
She is British (it says so on her site). Using plural verbs with organizations ("the police are coming", etc.) is perfectly correct British English; same for "at university" [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-at-University-Phyllis-Creme/...
> It is socially acceptable to kill animals, which involves some level of cruelty.

Yes, but its not socially acceptable or lawful to be excessively cruel and torture them. Animals aren't people, and most people don't think they are. However they are alive, they do feel pain, and they do deserve to be treated with some level of kindness and respect.
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Yes, my point regarding 2 was whether you would be willing to participate at the valuation/cap that they are raising at, unless you are completely price agnostic.
1.35 / 2 years
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Jason Silva has lots of great videos: https://vimeo.com/jasonsilva
I'd contact a lawyer before communicating with them in any capacity. You wouldn't want to risk giving their attorneys an angle.
I have had similar experiences with the Disney IP teams. They mean serious business in all directions, from protecting IP to ensuring they are not infringing. They make sure everyone in the company or affiliated is very aware of IP issues. If the painting is indeed the original work and it somehow found its way onto some merchandise, I'm sure Disney will be amicable.
The whole problem here for the broadcast networks is that Aereo sets a precedent for the cable companies to also avoid paying the retransmission fees by setting up a million tiny antennas instead of one big one. Nowadays, the broadcast networks get 70% of their revenue from retransmission fees, and only 30% from other sources, such as advertisements.

Aereo and its users themselves don't matter - they're totally insignificant. But the court ruling does matter, because if the cable companies stop paying the retransmission fees, the broadcast networks are fucked.
IRS considering taxes on free food at tech giants.
Maybe your client was wanting ubiquitous Excel-compatible export/import - not for the back end to actually be Excel? Making any table in your app exportable to at least CSV is pretty straightforward.
This is seen all the time in Accounting departments. GAAP and STAT financials in spreadsheets with millions of linked documents and macros. A large amount of this deals with business logic being tied directly in Excel. Their data and the constraints around it are embedded into the spreadsheet. Segregating the data from the spreadsheet means adapting the business logic from Excel and maintaining it in two places. (Source: I work with an accounting department that regularly deals with spreadsheets that take anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours to load/process/filter).
To save me a lot of reading time, is spring batch and integration more or less a drop in for SSIS?

I am looking at Postgres at the minute and the biggest stop for me is mass data imports from our customers on a nightly basis.

I've been keeping an eye on Postgres since version 9 as it has (reportedly) the same features as SQL but for a lot less.

We currently pay £250 a month per processor license and this shoots up costs a lot when you have a cluster of servers. If it's unavoidable then we carry on paying but if there are free alternatives out there then I'll jump at the chance.

The rest of the DB is used for serving sites, no other BI work done really.

EDIT: Typo
Actually, that line turned me off to the whole plight. She clearly has a case, why would her first though be complete hopelessness?
T: command-line todo list manager
Let's give Disney qua Disney (as opposed to one artist somewhere, which is all we know for sure at this point) some time to respond before we unleash the mob.

Past history certainly gives a non-zero probability that Disney will just try to throw their weight around, but let's give them the chance to do the right thing before we bury them. It makes the moral outrage that much more moral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ
0; 16 years. I am taking a break from work to go back to school at the moment.

Before I quit work: 6.4; 15 years.
Well since I am technically running my site with it (which i'm also not posting since it's just some bootstrap pages right now) I should probably get around to it sooner or later...

I guess people will need another excuse to post Veekun's manifesto.

It's not 'rails inspired' though since I don't know Ruby/Rails.
Your service may be valuable, but if it is REQUIRED by someone to do their work then you can't get away with requiring them to change browsers.

>With adequately modern browsers being available for Linux/*BSD/etc and XP, and being free, faster, better and more secure, you don't have to have any sympathy for users sticking to old IE versions.

Sure you do, when you want to have happy users. If even a minority of your users are older/non-technical, asking them to change browsers to view your site (which they may be required to use for work) is a great way to get them to hate the damn application, provided they can even figure out how to change browsers in the first place. It makes complete sense as a designer/anyone concerned about security to force people to update their browsers, but don't forget that to the 60 year old used-to-snail-mail grandma that can totally ruin the experience.
You're just showing how bad your grasp of the English language is!
This.

When moving from a mostly broken .xls data export system to a CSV file with the same data, we got lots of complaints from customers that it was too hard to use.
That line is in the "Programming and Scaling" talk: http://www.tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/
I seem to remember Matherly saying that he charged larger institutions who need lots of data for legit research. He also (as of a year and a half ago) said that he was basically breaking even.

I guess a university security researcher is looking for monetary gain in the form of grants, though.
> "Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English.

Is it even a matter of US vs. British English? I thought collective nouns could be treated as either singular or plural when conjugating the verb.
EFF Remembers Aaron Swartz with Week-of-Action to Reform the CFAA
I also think it's important for the artist to remember that Disney doesn't have a team of employees surfing the web looking for ideas to steal. The more likely scenario was a single designer was having trouble with a project and got desperate.

It's not excusable, but also isn't as conspiratorial.
I don't think the second one is more complicated at all. It's straight up non-infringement.

But I agree, the bag is straightforward copyright infringement.
Except that here in the UK we've gone from being held hostage by the miners to being held hostage by bankers - why is one better than the other?

[NB Of course, I want neither!]
Yes, they are great.

But someone may initially think that Redis can find all items that have 'cactus' in the text, which is not true.

One could say Redis is 'almost' a DB (as per the common conception of a db like MySQL, etc) and more like a 'build your own db' kit.
A new tool for pulling tables out of PDFs was released recently by Mozilla Open News http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing...
Also see Stuart Halloway’s earlier talk, Simplicity Ain’t Easy. There’s a fair amount of overlap with Rich Hickey’s talk, but both are worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cidchWg74Y4

And also his talk Radical Simplicity: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/radical-simplicity/...
On the back of the liver he janked by being a billionare able to own property near all the major transplant hospitals. Not to mention, 9 years of torture and misery with the last 2-3 more or less being a housebound invalid.
How does refusing to govern like a Democrat imply a sale of his soul?

Just to take one example: Where do you think that Federal money comes from?
It is painful and pointless.

All you need is a photo of the outside of the restaurant so I know what I'm looking for, maybe a photo of the inside so I get an idea of the general ambience, the menu (or, if it changes regularly, a representative sample) so I know what I'm going to eat, a map so I know where I've got to go, and contact details so I know who I've got to call.

You really don't need any fancy crap that gets in the way.
The reason that I won't putting significant amounts of money into Bitcoin
The "D" in PDF does not stand for data, but for documents.
Varnish doesn't do HTTPS... so you have to put something that does SSL in front of varnish, which sits in front of your real web server:

SSL -> varnish -> backend
varnish -> backend
It's interesting to watch people here defend git's interface as if it was all a very deliberate, intricate design that is well justified and thought out, when it very clearly grew organically. Not that there was "no" thought, but it's not like there is a huge poster on a wall in Junio's office (I checked) or the surrounding whiteboards, that have git UI principles that are being enforced on new commands/patches.

Basically, people are wrapping stuff up in justifications that didn't even exist when the commands came to be.

That doesn't make it bad, of course, but uh, retroactively justifying things is always a bit odd to watch.

I actually could care less about either git or mercurial; having helped write subversion, the majority of us were/are glad that we were replaced by not just one, but two things that people like more. The fact that it "destroyed" our software is irrelevant, Subversion made what we set out to make, something better than CVS, succeeded, and then the world got even better through git and hg.

The fact that git and hg proponents seem to simply enjoy fighting about which VCS is better/worse, rather than concentrating on making actual progress, is fascinating to me.
Andrew Tanenbaum presenting on Minix 3's architecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3KuE7UjGA.

Regardless of one's opinions on microkernels vs. monolithic kernels, it's a very interesting but accessible talk for those interested in lower-level systems and fault-tolerant architectures.
You do realise those things dont just happen. They happen through progressive social and economic policy.
Because Disney is enormous and extremely well-lawyered
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5512477
scratch that one off the list ...
Cosmetic bag looks like someone re-sketched it and added characters.

It might actually fall under the "significantly modified" arena. Same with the tshirt - while it's the same pose, it's clearly a different drawing.

Besides which, she may have actually been the one infringing Disney's trademark.

These kinds of ambiguities outline how fucking important it is to reform our copyright system.
And yet no desktop toolkit has ever approached the ubiquity and deployability of the web. However much of a hodgepodge the web is, it can and will continue to improve incrementally, whereas the a GUI toolkit no matter how technically superior can never cross the chasm to ubiquity, wring your hands though you might.
I would guess the fair price would be: 1) typical licence for image on a global website, and 2) some percentage of sales of that particular bag.

I concur with others that have suggested just contacting Disney's Consumer Products division directly. I am sure they would want to fairly compensate the artist for her work.

They will also want to reprimand the company from which they sourced the bag.

https://www.disneyconsumerproducts.com/Home/display.jsp?cont...
When it's used as a HTML page with interspersed PHP, you just convert the HTML to strings. Look at the phc parser (http://phpcompiler.org). You can definitely get good static analysis info (I wrote the phc static analyser).
Non-sequitur.

The Walton's fortunes are built by trading for our labor, benefitting both. This does not obligate the Waltons to pay "living wages" where the value of one's labor does not rise to the cost of one's living expenses.
Coursera Takes a Nuanced View of MOOC Dropout Rates
I find that my rather extroverted wife compliments my introversion rather nicely. Fortunately, she understands my desire to limit large social settings, and my need to "recharge" after, and often leave early. After 16 years, she can even tell, at a glance, that I'm nearing my exhaustion point. I rarely have to declare that it's leaving time these days (she does it before I have to).

On the other side, she often says, "I'm going out for a few hours, I'm taking the kids, can you do x, y, z," and it all gets done.
Good catch! It's the 3x BLAS that's 1/2 of Haskell's speed.

The 1x BLAS that uses 2x RAM gets shafted, presumably by cache lossage.