skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how does what the apple legal team know change the legality of the download?
Contract, for-hire photographers aren't employees. Freelance programmers give up their copyright willingly. Just because you negotiated badly doesn't mean photographers have to as well.

Go buy your own camera and learn to take photos properly! I would encourage everyone to do that. The exact moment that you grasp mastery of photography will be the day that you understand why photographers don't give up their copyright or hand over digital files to you.
The problem is that a lot of people (up in the thread) seems to think that it was just "criticism" and not abuse. (Whatever the real facts may be)
I think people are talking about multiple phenomena here. Yeah, there's the whole blunt/direct/borderline asshole behavior when someone is making a mistake and someone else is trying to correct that mistake in the most efficient way possible, hopefully educating the person making the mistake and maybe being a jerk about it to highlight for everyone what a huge mistake it is so everyone else remembers not to do that thing.

That's what the Linus defenders are usually standing up for, at least. Maybe in his case it's an effective way to run his project, I don't know. He's the boss and it's up to his contributors whether or not they want to deal with that kind of thing.

I don't think that's the phenomenon that's being discussed here though. You say it's refreshing to be told when your ideas suck by someone who knows better, but in my experience that's not the case in most programming communities. Most of the time, the people who are going to tell you that you that your ideas suck are not actually that much more experienced and may not even have better ideas.

When I first got on Usenet in the early '90s, I was just starting to learn programming. I thought the people on comp.lang.c and elsewhere were just the smartest people in the world (some of them were, of course). I loved it when they skewered people asking dumb questions or proposing dumb ideas, and I felt like I learned a lot from reading their posts. In hindsight, they only seemed to be so smart because I knew so little. Looking back on it now, many of them just seem like bitter and pedantic people that knew a lot of technical minutiae but didn't necessarily know or care about creating software that actually did things, that other people could use. They were smart and knew a lot of useful things, but just as often they would make very personal and subjective observations about things, but mask those observations as bold, objective proclamations about This Is How Software Should Be Written. Unfortunately, in my larval hacker stage I couldn't tell the difference.

Anyway, what I was getting at was that it's good to learn things from people who know more than you do, but just because they're assholes about it doesn't mean they're right (it frequently means the opposite). Programming communities tend to be dominated by the assholes though, because they're the most motivated post comments and get into arguments with people about technical minutiae. It's the way it is, but it's not necessarily a good thing.
Or even better "I'm not sure about your idea because..." as that leaves the door open to it being a misunderstanding on my part, which is always a possibility.
I don't know why the parent comment got down voted (other than being a bit harsh). I agree that too little is being done to cure cancer directly. Unfortunately, I see two main causes for this:

* Too many successful people (especially founders) end up having an "I've got mine" mentality. They take the money and run instead of seeing their wealth as a grant from society, in other words a kind of debt that they should pay back by applying their skills to really helping others.

* Everyone is in denial about aging and illness. So the real causes of cancer - alcohol and tobacco, too little regulation in food, pollution, and the real kicker: the inequality that causes the social ills that amplify these problems - are not being attacked by the population at large. To me, the sense that we are powerless as individuals to do something about disease is an indictment of capitalism at large.

I think the worst sin, as far as the golden rule goes, is to reach a position of privilege and power and do nothing to change the system that got you there. By that measure, the vast majority of people of influence are failing. I never see myself having a net worth of more than perhaps a few hundred thousand dollars (enough for a home and family), because I know in my heart that society has done more for me than I can every hope to pay back. So I plan to be rolling any wealth I acquire into disruptive technologies and giving grants to people who have a shot at really making life better instead of distracting us.
Microsoft unveils its next game console, the Xbox One
hahaha right this one is huge..
Did you read the article? This is an article about a Canadian issue. In Canada. Your comment is almost entirely irrelevant.
Senators blast Apple for keeping most profits overseas in hearing
Sophomore year, I scored highly on the ACT. Before dropping out, I was given conditional acceptance, as long as I completed a GED.
It seems like an irrational objection, but I doubt it's uncommon. Can't say if it's a common enough objection to be a problem for Nathan.

I felt the same, actually. I find I absorb information better from paper.

But I know this is more a psychological than real hurdle. I did buy the PDF, as I'm an author and figure it's got to be worth at least $29 to me.

But I almost didn't, for the same reason. Some may have hesitated the wrong way. I only bought because I saw it a second time here on HN and reconsidered.

I probably would have preferred some kind of '$40, get both the book and pdf' option.

Of course, that adds complexity to the checkout process, so any prospective author has to figure out what segment of their market is like me and the grandparent.
New XBox being announced live
How much economic damage has Rob Ford done while being the bumbling mayor of Toronto the last few years?

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist has called Rob Ford "the worst mayor in the modern history of cities and the most anti-urban mayor ever to preside over a large global city.".

This is hardly an isolated incident. Anyone who has follow Toronto politics is well aware of the numerous scandals and antics of Rob Ford. Read the Conflict of Interest trial and Other Controversies portions of his wikipedia article.

$200k is well worth it to further expose that he is unfit to run a city the size and importance of Toronto, Canada's largest city.

How much is the drug trade worth in Toronto? 10's of millions or more. $200k is a blip on the radar. It's unfortunate that this money has to be paid to unsavory characters, but it's a small price to pay.

Toronto could be much greater than it is. Toronto deserves a better mayor.
Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
I was frustrated by a similar studio who took my family's shots. They tease you with 50 great photos and your budget dictates that you need to entirely discard 40 of them.

It's not like they were doing individual editing of the shots. They had some pre-made filters set up which we could choose to apply to the photos of our liking.

As a photographer, I wasn't particularly impressed with the digital files I received. They didn't seem to be as high quality as the camera they were using should be producing. And the sharpening/NR wasn't custom to the pictures.

So whenever I do shoots for people, I sit them down mid-shoot to see what the shots look like, and maybe even attempt to fully edit their favorite shot on the spot to show them the expertise that I put into the post-processing. I let them rate all the photos themselves so that I know what they like, and then I give them exactly what they asked for.
My boyfriend is my partner, but not my husband, though we've been around for longer than many marriages. For some reason, I don't think Chris would have had a problem saying wife were it so.

I respect the fight, but we don't all fit into the marriage binary either.

(And hey, maybe someday the two of us will be married too, heh.)
There are two often overlooked reasons why this happens:

1. Thoughtful, contributing comments take a lot of effort to write, and people who write them can do other productive things. Pretty much every time I put effort into a thoughtful comment it gets ignored. It's particularly upsetting when it's "ask HN" or "show HN" type of thing - not a reply, not an up vote, do you even listen when you ask? So I stopped writing thoughtful comments ( * ), except for my own benefit - when I need to write something down to really think it through.

2. With the post title like you had I assumed it was celebrity gossip and did not even click the link. You can imagine the type of people that did click the link anyway. By choosing a subject you're choosing the audience.

( * )Ironically, this comment took me some effort to write. :)
Yes, that has occurred me today, now that Google is migrating to InteliJ.

Currently I am actually also looking into C++ (I do like it to certain extent) as it also allows me to target other platforms.
You're new here, so you may think people are downvoting you for what you're saying. They're really downvoting you for how you say it. We try to put a premium on being civil.
I guess everyone gets bored of their passion after a while.
Why is it OK? Because most people agree to it when they sign the contract.

You can have a contract where they pass the copyright over to you, but most photographers wouldn't sign that contract without raising the price significantly.
I think this is really the case...and so we could easily turn this into a discussion over lines-of-code as a misguided metric for judging programmers.

But your comments remind me of Picasso...it's fair to say that some of his work could be physically done by an amateur. But Picasso was prolific at drawing, including realistic figures. One of the best exhibits I've seen showed how he started with drawing realistic objects and then, in later drafts, deconstructing them to the surreal, deceptively simple forms that they eventually take in the final product.

But I think the illusion of parity is especially strong (and deceptive) in photography. Because you can literally know nothing about a camera except how to push the shutter and you can still produce a fantastic photo...whereas with drawing/painting...the physical act of just doing them is a barrier, nevermind actually making something.
You're right. Everything is relative and you can do whatever you want, exactly as the poster whom you've responded to but completely ignored pointed out. The point is that he's calling on people to either match his values, or else risk losing his favor and those of the communities he mentioned. You may not care much, but the evidence of the downvotes on your comment suggests that the HN community agrees with him and not you. So you may find that your message of exclusion ironically helps to effect your own exclusion from a community that you apparently care about, since you're posting here.

>feminizing men

The thing with edgy, weird opinions like that is that it's unlikely that you hold them because you're wiser than prevailing wisdom. Apparently, Real Men antagonise strangers over the internet.
I would drop the double duck and just say "duck go it".
When you forced to pay $300/night in Manhattan at the W hotel, Atlas Shrugged.

Not a AR fan btw, just saying both sides of the fence have their pros and cons. I'd place higher value on an apartment complex that explicitly did not allow short-term renting within their contract.

The other problem is... what's the difference between me using AirBNB and me knowing a friend who let me stayed at his place for 6 days and I just happened to give him some money as a thank you gift?
'zork' would be a nice addition.
I'm not sure what he's proposing. If he means let site owners specify that people not be able to submit their sites to HN, I've actually daydreamed occasionally about doing that myself for paulgraham.com. But it might not work in practice, because determined submitters would just mirror the text elsewhere and submit that.

He's right though that Twitter has a big advantage in that it's easy to ignore jerks. It might be a good idea to introduce some form of following or blocking here.
The world isn't built for left-handed people or sideways monitor people :)
Apple Legal is just going to C&D them and the leaker.
Thirding 4Chan as a healthy community. My buddy insists it's a great community because the content is always being deleted, and thus, 4chan reinvents itself every day.
The particular quote doesn't ring particularly sexist or homophobic. It's NSFW, but the linux kernel is not exactly kindergarten material.
Ask HN: In building your startup, what are your biggest pain points?
If your neighbor has a friend stay with them, and their lease allows it, you have no say in the matter. It's their property rights, which flow to them from upstream property/rights owners.

This is no different. Your right end where their rights begin, which I'd say start right around where their property lines/walls are.
Sony a99.
Why blog then?
Good luck with that. Got a few years?
I tried sending you an email but there seems to be a problem with the MX record associated with your domain. Mail is being rejected.
You tried to defend yourself in this post, but I think you accidentally ended up making his point for him.
Not sure how you get this. There are plenty of people, like the others mentioned in these comments, who simply do not know how to react when presented with a security problem.

They simply overreact and lash out.
This may be true, but in many cases, they're also providing a replacement for the regulation. Having a reputation system, holding payments in escrow and such make it harder to get away with fraud or providing low-quality services.

It's not absolute, of course, but neither is regulation. No matter what, a few people will do bad things, and a smaller number will get away with it.

It seems like relaxing the laws about these things to see if new models provide better solutions to the old problems might be a good idea.
It seems impressive, but now one more company is going to know my viewing habits etc etc.

Price to pay to ease of use?
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1129/

In all seriousness, though, calling from a local area code does make a huge difference.

If you don't have a local phone number for some reason (recently moved, etc.), then you can still call and identify yourself by name and say that you're a constituent (note: say "constituent", not "voter").
The reason this is a issue (in san francisco, at least) is that long term, elderly and protected tenants are getting evicted from buildings with whats called a 'ellis act'.

A ellis act lets you kick everyone out of your building with the restriction that you cannot 're-rent' it for 5 years.

Since a 30 day stay is not 'renting' per sf code, unscrupulous landlords have been using BnB sites to profiteer evictions.

That is one of many reasons why its against almost all city/state codes to do this.

I thought about this before- AirBnB and VRBO themselves are not actually committing the 'crime' however they are certainly with knowledge of the use that is happening. As such, I am sure any landlord wronged by either site would have a absolutely fantastic case for tortuous interference to them (AirBnB interfered with the contract between a landlord and tenant)

I think it basically comes down to this. Certain things are illegal, like it or not. Lots of people think prostituion should be legal country wide, like nevada. But its not. Setting up a site to let you sell something that it knows is going to be illegal is riding a extremely fine line.

It reminds me of a old trick used in a terms of service for a filesharing website back in the day. "You agree that by continuing, you have received a written, expressed waiver from warner, nbc, fox, [etc...] to download their content "

The service knows that absolutely nobody has such a warning/waiver but by shifting the blame to the user, they think to be untouchable.

I am not a lawyer though, so what do I know.
Calling Celery a distributed task queue is like calling leather seats in a Mercedes a Formula 1 race car driver.
FBI sponsored Ragebooter DDoS attack service - The Hacker News
If we think about it as an isolated case then I completely agree.

However, I think that if we can get this video out there, it might help start a discussion about corruption "raise awareness" and all that kind of hard to measure stuff.

My feeling is that the positive is that this doesn't just go away because a couple of people weren't compelled to do the right thing and just release the video. It's not a totally clean victory having to pay these guys, but IMHO well worth it.

Then again, maybe people just don't care, see: Marion Barry.

Edit: toned it down a little.
I still can't figure out why you think 'lives in Texas' means something other than 'Texan', other than successful left-wing advertising and right-wing propaganda. Texas is pretty much a microcosm of the US with an independent streak and a strong geographical affinity.
You can here him say it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer

It is Wine-r (like the grape beverage with an r on the end)
It's worth pointing out that you can't renew existing pro accounts manually, only accounts that are set up with recurring transactions will renew automatically. For some reason this doesn't include my account, as far as I can tell. I'm a little annoyed about this.

As I understand it, accounts that were originally a gift, like mine, don't get the recurring transaction treatment. This makes sense, but only up to a point, that point being where the owner of the account renews it with a different credit card and it becomes truly "theirs".

I am not sure that flickr gave this scenario due consideration, there must be a lot of people who received pro as a gift but have since paid to renew it will be unable to benefit from the reduced "grandfathered" price of $25.
I shot a wedding as a favor for a friend of a friend, and even though the entire wedding party was a joy to work with, it was some of the most intense and exhausting work I've ever done.

I've loved photography for my entire life, but I don't envy the people who shoot weddings for a living.
AWS Import/Export - you send Amazon an external drive, they slurp it onto S3/EBS/Glacier.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
http://taxfoundation.org/article/2012-state-business-tax-cli...

There's NY, ranked right behind NJ as #49 for second least favorable state business tax climate. That's right. Worse than California for business owners. I have no idea of the legitimacy of this graph, it only took 10 seconds of Googling to find it.

Not saying anything about Upstate vs The City, but my dad has lived in NY for near to his whole life, he's actually from Long Island, and (what do you say next? we have Jewish friends?)

It's easy to say they're federal issues, but NY has reasonably high sales tax and income tax, and yes there is property tax. If you're from New York, you wouldn't argue that we're not highly taxed. I happen to be near enough to the poverty line, recent college graduate, high student loan debt, good payment record, so I only know what they want me to see insofar as taxes go. I fill out TurboTax and usually get most of it back.

I've actually received larger income tax returns than what I paid in total, once or twice, with no plausible explanation other than "Dad paid for it," so you'll have to understand, I am influenced / biased also based on that.
Oh, hey! That's my bot. :-) Tapster is usually powered by Arduino, but I modified it to run on Raspberry Pi for PyCon this year.

The source files (3d printable files and code) are on GitHub. https://github.com/hugs/tapsterbot When I'm in-stock, you can pick one up here: https://www.tindie.com/products/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-...
what language / framework did you use to make this?
nice job btw!
My only pet peeve is with the photographers who still think it makes sense to price by the print.

Please just set a price for your services and then give me the files. Printing used to be a value-added activity. It's not anymore, unless you're doing something unusual.
I have no personal experience with either, but this dtrace guy does not like SystemTap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8#1:13:00

The whole presentation is a nice and impressive dtrace showcase.
I just had to look into this for myself. If it's not spelled out in the contract, generally the contractor owns the IP.
Rendered alright in the Chrome PDF viewer. It did have PRELIMINARY all over it, though.
Commencement Speaker - Jon Lovett
Linking is not a privilege. If you put your stuff out on the internet you can't choose who gets to discuss it.

I don't approve of HN's conduct at all, it's one of the things I detest about internet communities, and HN, though the best of them, is no exception. But asking HN to change because someone was offended by the most predictable behavior is silly.
All the sensitive card information is stored with Stripe
In case anyone else wonders why the day-fraction seems to increment once per second: 1/24/60/60 = .00001157

EDIT: Watch it closely and you'll see the bug.

EDIT2: Okay, not really the bug, but @op: how about changing setInterval to 864ms? It really looks nicer ;)
I'm not trying to have a holier-than-thou attitude, however I personally find video games pointless.

Speaking of free time, especially since I already spend unhealthy amounts of time in front of a computer, why would I want to spend some more time in games, when I can prefer going out to the movies, or taking walks in the park with my son, or go out for beers with friends?

You know, those software devs that you found with this attitude, they might be on to something ;-)
Correction: your git commit email (used in public repositories) is public.
In San francisco at least, no contract language can bypass rent control provisions. With that, you better hope you are in a non rent-controlled building
if someone owns the property, they should be able to rent their house or condo. Illegal sounds like city is trying to protect other businesses such as established hotels. Define, the rules, so that people can follow them.
As someone who is doing a startup to try to develop cures for cancer, your project may not necessarily directly help mine, but somewhere along the line, there is someone who wrote an IDE that enabled tools that enabled what I'm about to do. I remember when I was younger, my dad stumped $500 for borland turbo pascal, and $1500 for MS visual C++, later. Now that there's competition for these things, it's to where I can afford one for development on a meager budget and, eventually for my children, too. Programming, in many ways directly influences the way that I think about things, and I'm incredibly glad to have learned how to do it, even if I haven't made anything of consequence (made an android app in the early days that netted me $300).

The adversity is an asset thing I completely understand. Although I was trained as a biologist/chemist, I always shied away from ideas like "curing cancer/AIDS" but when my "adoptive grandmother" passed from cancer, and a cancer drug development project fell into my lap, I took it as a sign and now my resolve is steeled. I also never imagined I would be running a company (or a nonprofit one, at that)... Yet, here I am.

We're rooting for you.
So if I see you walking down a PUBLIC street and you are talking loudly, it's acceptable for me to smack you round the head with a baseball bat for being too loud? Or do we expect people in a civilised society to have some higher standards of behaviour?
industry standard to use gildan/jerseez/hanes. hanes is cheapest, followed by jerseez, followed by gildan. we offer other brands as well. some people don't need AA.
Surely law enforcement will act in favor of the public good and not their corrupt politician buddies, surely.