skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the East poets are sometimes thrown in prison – a sort of compliment, since it suggests the author has done something at least as real as theft or rape or revolution. Here poets are allowed to publish anything at all – a sort of punishment in effect, prison without walls, without echoes, without palpable existence – shadow-realm of print, or of abstract thought-world without risk or eros. ... America has freedom of speech because all words are considered equally vapid.
— Hakim Bey http://hermetic.com/bey/taz1.html
Ask PG: Resubmission of same article?
I noticed that the cease and desist from abovethelaw.com appears to have been submitted twice, with nearly identical URLs;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907732

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5902628

I think this is because if a URL is submitted with a trailing "/", the same URL can be re-submitted by truncating the / later. The converse is not possible, however. This may be deliberate, though if so I'm not sure why it would be.

[This is so petty I feel kind of dirty]
> The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted

From the moment you saved your recording of your voice, you were granted copyright protection to that work. The only recordings for which a copyright doesn't exist are those old enough to be in the public domain. Even a recording that infringes someone else's copyright is still protected by its own copyright rights; you can't distribute it without causing damages to the other rights holder, but the author still has exclusive rights to their creation.
Yes. Those studies are one-sided. It is as I indicated in another post a point of contention among the professional cycling community whether or not helmets do more harm than good (both in accidents and sociologically). Here is a study that was very much talked about in recent years.

http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/

A Google search will reveal other similar studies as well. Wikipedia is not comprehensive.
That quote has to do with the authorities presenting bad things as good things. In order to apply it, you must first establish that what is being presented is bad.

If you agree that what is being presented is good, then this quote does not apply. Instead, then, we have to have a discussion about what policies need to be in place to prevent the things that we agree are, in fact, bad.
Too many affiliate orders from the same affiliate from the same IPs would probably cause some flags to raise at Amazon.
Basically, this just needs to be sold as beneficial to the region as a whole: less congestion on the roads for people that choose to drive, less air pollution for everyone, more of an ability for businesses to hire people that don't have cars but need a way to work, etc. As long as it is framed as "public transit riders getting something for free" it will never work, especially given the racialized face of poverty in most US cities. But if it as framed as creating a cleaner, less congested, more equitable metro area where people can get around safely, effectively,and freely, it might fly.
Food stamps are implying that the government doesn't trust you, just because you cannot afford stuff (due to a large number of possible circumstances for being in that situation), I find that prospect demeaning.
Ah, nothing like a PRISM article to bring out the nerds circle-jerking about how the stupid things they like are so much better and more important than the stupid things other people like.
Look at the situation from the perspective of someone who doesn't believe that the US government is tyrannical, and instead, represents the best, most just system in the world.

From that perspective, why wouldn't Snowden stay in the United States, since he's guaranteed the right to a fair trial? Why not face the music at home, instead of fleeing to HK?
WTF is a .htm file, I'm feeling all nostalgic, I haven't seen one of those in a decade. I wonder what version of CGI those developers are using.

Seriously though, wow! that's really awful.
Ah, but what is freedom if I can't watch American Gladiators because I want to?

Or, in my case, what if I want a grilled cheese sandwich with tater tots instead of filet mignon and caviar? I hated Sundays on the boat because that was always "Steak & Lobster" day, and I was the one asshole who didn't like steak and didn't like lobster.

I agree that people should probably take an interest in civics. I agree that people should have the information needed to care deeply about civics, if they wish. I don't agree that people should feel compelled to care civics or anything else that Bill Hicks or any other self-righteous prententious jerk tells us to care about, any more than we should be compelled to care about what the government tells us to care about.

If the freedom to do as we please leads to people actually doing as they please, and that offends you, then perhaps freedom isn't what you were looking for in the first place.
Saw this a while back. It looks like a fun little project for Docker. What I'd be more interested in is seeing a more robust version of something like this (and the author mentions it on his Github). Things like scaling ability and similar would be cool. It certainly would move it from the realm of 'smallest PaaS', but for my uses at least it's not very useful without being able to do any sort of multi-tenancy/multi-host type stuff.

If anyone is aware of a Docker project being worked on like that. I'd be very interested in seeing it as well.
At least they could have added a meta robots noindex to the page. That would have kept it out of search although not eliminated the security hole.
Live HTTP Headers
same here. was looking forward to read but scribd is blocked at where I am
You can't refer yourself, else the program wouldn't work -- everyone would sign up, everyone would click their own links, and Amazon would effectively have dropped its prices across the board while adding a rebate-processing overhead to every order. That's why program agreements virtually always prohibit this.
Watch John McAfee uninstall his antivirus software
The strange tale of John McAfee keeps getting stranger. In a video posted to YouTube last night, the antivirus software founder and part-time fugitive callously sends up the program he helped create. Framed as a four-minute instructional video, "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" features plenty of green screen, degraded women, smoking, drugs, partial nudity, and firearms. In the "humorous" skit's last act, McAfee finally gets around to explaining how to remove his former company's anti-virus software. Enjoy a bizarre NSFW four minutes and 26 seconds you'll never get back.
We use mostly automated processes, with manual intervention only for rare edge cases. One thing that's surprised us is just how many (i.e., non-rare) edge cases there are when you take into account shipping exceptions, order constraints, etc. We believe we are on solid footing both legally and technically, and this has been supported by three years of reliable operation.

Unfortunately we're unable to use most affiliate programs. At the same time, we're mostly interested in building a framework that easily scales across to all merchants.
If you use the national ID for it, the encumbrance is still there. Similar to what i mentioned about credit cards and free trials: even people with credit cards dont like to enter those!

For truly massive use being free and unregulated for the user is great. For the compnay, however, that could report they had "20 million visitors today" and ask for more funding for that.

Maybe im too cynical, but it happens. I still suspect the bus lines as the reason why coins are in shortage since 2007, when coins started to be valued more for their mint value than their nominal one.

Charging people means the bus company has to be able to account for it with money (say, we had 1000 passanger, so 1000 fares income), so it is itself a tool for regulation.
I strongly disagree with this. 1984 fits much better and is much less far-fetched. The society in 1984 is very similar to real-world society at the time; the only real differences are the ubiquity of government propaganda, rationing of resources, the state-sanctioned class system, and telescreens, and even all of these are already present in lesser ways and could conceivably be intensified to 1984 levels in five or ten years. I frequently experience things that are virtually identical to events in 1984 (e.g. government lies that society immediately accepts, people regurgitating pro-government phrases that are hammered into children's brains in public school, justifications for war and militarism, demonization of political dissidents, the newly-prominent surveillance, etc.).

The society in A Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction fantasy world that is a far cry from any society that has ever existed.

I think both books are good and offer important warnings to society, but 1984 is simply a much more grounded and realistic view of a conceivable totalitarian state in the near future.
> Sometimes you're just looking to get to work without having to put on a show of saving the world.

Agreed. You do not need to be in "Save the World!" mode at all times.

> Homelessness is a problem for the homeless. Homeless people sleeping on the buses are a problem for commuters.

Disagreed. Homelessness is a problem for everyone. While homeless people exist, they will necessarily cause problems for the rest of the society. Here are my takes on it:

1. Homelessness is a spot in society. If you take all the non-homeless people in your community and move to a brand new piece of land that is completely isolated from the rest of the world, new homeless people will appear. This is because being homeless is inherent to certain societal setups and the percentage of homeless population can be determined "at compile time" via static analysis of the rules and initial state of the society.

2. The homeless/poor/hungry are a problem for everyone and everyone pays the cost. It is rarely direct (e.g.: not everyone gets mugged), but often indirect. For example, your car or renter's or homeowner's insurance is higher. You have to pay for a security guard in your apartment building. You have to pay for your bus ticket. You have to buy a more expensive bike chain.

3. Given #1 and #2, it is in everyone's best interest to solve the problems of homelessness/poverty/hunger.

I am not saying that we should drop everything and not stop until it is solved. I am saying that it should be a pretty high priority and that the question of whether we tackle it should be "yes".
UV fluorescents make it harder to find a vein.
Your opinion of course. This is Leaseweb's side of the story. I imagine that Kim's side sounds very different.
Certain lighting (most often used in public bathrooms) makes it very hard to see your veins & shoot up.
It looks like their customer service ticketing system is wide open too:

http://www.google.com/search?q=www.clkbank.com/viewTicket.ht...
I agree with you, there's great potential good for this tech.

The evil that is coming from it and will continue to come from it is perpetrated by those that, as said earlier, accept the premise of the State/government that they work for.

If it's a person's job to use technology such that it results in innocents being killed, injured or sucked up into a byzantine legal system and that person keeps doing that job, that's an example of the banality of evil.

Making quads to replace manual labor isn't banal or evil.
That would be offering the end user an incentive. Forbidden by Amazon affiliate program TOS Item #14 as far as I can see:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...
It'd likely be possible to come up with that information using git, but I don't think github has an interface for it. If it makes you feel better I'll probably be starting a site with the repository at some point which would reflect that, i.e. allow you to search for recipes with commits by a certain author via parsing git blame output.

Right now I just want to build the repo.
I always thought they should have applied all the new DRM features to digital downloads only. In that context, sharing and selling does look consumer friendly and if they make it convenient consumers will move away from physical media.
This is a fantastic idea, and I wish other services (I'm looking at you Twitter) would follow suit. Your Yahoo ID becomes a part of your identity when using their service, so it seems reasonable that people will feel happier and be more inclined to use Yahoo's stuff when they have an ID that they feel good about and aren't embarrassed to share with their friends.
Anecdata: I am homeless. I will not go to a shelter. I have a compromised immune system. I am on the street to get well. I have goals. Etc. I do my best to avoid most other homeless people. They are typically unclean, unhealthy, have super poor boundaries and think I should want a hug merely because I am also homeless...etc..ad nauseum.

I run a small website where I am trying to put together ideas on how the homeless can solve their own problems. I am not looking for a handout. I think one of my biggest problems is the Othering of the label I have. But I had that problem long before I had this particular label. Anyway, I think on that a lot and learning to "behave normally" after a lifetime of never managing that looks to me like one of the big things I most need.

Edit: The homeless website whereof I speak:
http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
Apple didn't invent Objective-C. It was adopted by NeXT 25 years ago. It wasn't used to create lock-in. Of course Apple is going to improve the language. It was badly in need of some improvements. They are the only company that has an interest. I don't think they keep any changes locked up at Apple in order to prevent other companies from adopting it. In fact, it would be great if someone got it working well on Android.
Yeah--I think HN blocks Google URLs from being submitted.
Not to mention, the outsider is a complete unknown. Are they an upstanding white hat? Or are they the darkest of greys? You have no idea.

At least an internal employee is on your payroll, and has been screened with a background check. You don't get to screen which people get to discover vulnerabilities.
yes, but a person in the bus weighs (person's weight) but a person in a car weighs (person's weight)+(weight of the car) which is about 10 times more. And since road damage is proportional to (at least) the 4th power [1] of weight you get 10.000 times less damage from person travelling by bus. And that doesn't even count the worse effects - pollution, parking places, streets necessary for the cars to get to downtown, ...

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_axle_weight_rating
I remember back when I was 16, I did a web page about my home town, claremont nh. I did this site: http://digitalsushi.com/midashi/claremont/ I was working for an ISP in town, and someone with the town called up the ISP to ask whom owned the site. Since I worked there, I was simply transferred the phone call. You can imagine how contextually confusing that would be, to be handed a call that technically had nothing to do with working there, and also, being a dumb 16 year old on tech support.

Well, the guy was asking all sorts of questions. I felt very intimidated. I remember clearly a phrase he left me with: "Well, this is just Big Brother checking in and making sure you're acting in good faith." He decided that I was, that I was not on a mission to sully the good city of claremont, and that was the end of it. But it really stuck with me, probably just out of my young age and the authority of a city official grilling me. 17 years later, the troll I have turned into would have loved the chance to bring out the worst in me, so it's probably good this happened when it did.

This article really brought me back to that time. Also, it's terrifying I have web content I published over 50% of my entire life ago. I know some of you have worse percentages, but that middle mark... yikes.
You can search from DDG by appending !g to your search
>you might infringe if you were singing a copyrighted song

Or if your video happens to be one of those which youtube partners don't like. Youtube, apparently, has a deal independent of the DMCA, which allows big media compan(ies) to ban any video on youtube.

There was a discussion earlier today on HN, in which I said I still trust Google. This is one incidence where Google could have tried to follow its motto of "Do not be evil". Youtube exists because of DMCA safe harbour. Even though DMCA has shortcomings, without it youtube would have to face a lawsuit for every infringement. But, Youtube still chose to overturn DMCA, which allows the user to file a counter-claim. And apparently, Youtube made a deal with media companies allowing them to ban any video whatsoever without any repercussions, which is downright evil.

http://torrentfreak.com/youtube-deal-with-universal-blocks-d...
It's even harder than that to compute, if you're trying to estimate the net value to the city, because you have to account for further effects beyond road wear and tear.

Like increased pedestrian traffic to shops, thus increasing tax revenue. Or less land dedicated to parking.
Super king burgers, reality TV, NFL, wrestling, facebook, MTV, in essence all pop culture is SOMA of nowadays

soylent, youtube, hacker news, reddit, 4chan and other internet pop culture, some of which are actually made in SOMA nowadays.
I'm surprised at the claim that many readers skip the appendix. Is that really the case? I read 1984 in 7th grade, and the appendix was one of my favorite (or at least most memorable) parts. It's like the maps in some publications of medieval fantasy novels—I would be very surprised if a significant number of readers skipped it.
The founder sure knows about technology:

"As a research scientist for the NSA, Dr. Tim Barber was..."
Let me rephrase it. It allows me to be in control when I want it. If I choose to run something it THINKS is malicious, it will let me. It is decently hidden menu for a casual user, but easy enough for people who need it. With AVG only way was to allow certain directories and it was buried under menus.
Inventor of MRI has found possible cause of Multiple Sclerosis
Just came across it in the Fourth Edition of the C++ Programming Language book that was just released, in fact.
TokuMX 1.0: MongoDB with transactions, compression, MVCC, clustering indexes
Xcom: Enemy Unknown iOS app is priced at premium
We can't share all the specifics of what integrators are building, but some are very clever and surprising. Some are automating business processes and other are creating niche resale stores, but the most fun are the creative/novelty uses we've seen.
Now that we have online publishing, and all scientists around the world appear to have email and Web access, we can do much better. Jelte Wicherts is a young professor of psychology who would like to clean up peer review and scientific publication practices in that discipline and other disciplines. In Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience (an open-access journal) he and his co-authors give a set of general suggestions

Jelte M. Wicherts, Rogier A. Kievit, Marjan Bakker and Denny Borsboom. Letting the daylight in: reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 03 April 2012 doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00020

http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.338...

on how to make the peer-review process in scientific publishing more reliable.

"With the emergence of online publishing, opportunities to maximize transparency of scientific research have grown considerably. However, these possibilities are still only marginally used. We argue for the implementation of (1) peer-reviewed peer review, (2) transparent editorial hierarchies, and (3) online data publication. First, peer-reviewed peer review entails a community-wide review system in which reviews are published online and rated by peers. This ensures accountability of reviewers, thereby increasing academic quality of reviews. Second, reviewers who write many highly regarded reviews may move to higher editorial positions. Third, online publication of data ensures the possibility of independent verification of inferential claims in published papers. This counters statistical errors and overly positive reporting of statistical results. We illustrate the benefits of these strategies by discussing an example in which the classical publication system has gone awry, namely controversial IQ research. We argue that this case would have likely been avoided using more transparent publication practices. We argue that the proposed system leads to better reviews, meritocratic editorial hierarchies, and a higher degree of replicability of statistical analyses."

The practices recommended in Wicherts's article would have made an incident like the earlier retraction from Nature reported here much less likely to be necessary in the first place.
I was talking to somebody in the Docker IRC channel that was using some of the same Dokku components to build a more distributed version of Dokku. Not sure if it's released yet.

Part of the goal of Dokku is to define some components that would work just as well in a distributed fashion if the components were distributed. By deferring that complexity, I can focus on making something simple and modular that should be easier to do as a distributed system later.

My involvement in Docker in the early stages was with this same thought in mind. Docker was designed to be a component to build things like a PaaS, as well as many other things. Much like the other components of Dokku. The end result is a loosely defined "toolkit" that you can build your own variation of a PaaS with whatever requirements you might have.
There is no one on the streets. here in Amsterdam. There are plenty of free shelters (the whole red light district is basically only red light windows and shelters) and it works
"Busses became makeshift homeless shelters, which probably ended up driving away actual commuters."

As someone who used the free ride busses in Seattle almost every day.... that's really not true. Yes, sometimes homeless people were on them. But you know, sometimes there are homeless people in the subway in NYC - that doesn't really stop people from using it.

And the 358 is a great example of a bus that isn't free, but has lots of homeless/druggies on it.

It definitely did not drive away commuters from using the bus.
Here's a statement from MS http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update (may need a refresh or two to load) looks like they are removing the feature of being able to play a game without the disc in the tray, which pretty much was the root of all these drm issues IMO
For back in the day that's actually a fairly well-designed site.
There's no payment card information besides what's acceptable to show (last four and card type). Full name and email address is PII, but not necessarily in breech of PCI. I don't believe SOX has anything specifically mentioning full name and email PII either. If that's the case, the only thing that would make it a PCI or SOX violation is if the company says in their data privacy policy that they will protect this PII. I work information security but I am not on my company's compliance team, so I'm familiar with PCI/SOX but not steeped in it. I believe the above is true, but I'm not an auditor.

As far as trying to gain a copy of the information in the email, it might be possible if you were willing to put your own email on record as being part of this data breech. It's also possible that the only thing contained in the email is purchase confirmation (aka, what is shown in the printable invoice).