skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that this whole debate is a bit sensationalized, because, whether their copyright expires or not, Disney will still hold a trademark--which exists indefinitely--on the likeness of Mickey Mouse. The issue at stake is their hold over the copyright of the original Steamboat Willie films--that's what the copyright is set to expire on.

Yes, it would be very hard for Disney to exist if they lost IP rights to the likeness of Mickey Mouse, but they won't, because he's trademarked, and trademark exists to ensure that companies retain rights to the branding and art crucial to their operation and the identification of their business. Should Mickey Mouse slip into the public domain? I don't think anybody would argue that. But should the Steamboat Willie cartoons, a cultural landmark now nearing a century old, become common property? A lot more people would argue yes.

My outline here is probably lacking some accuracy and precision, because I'm not an expert. If there are any details I've missed, please do let me know.
Which goes back to "non standard cabling is likely to remain expensive for quite some time".
I live in Portland, I'll see if I can spot it tonight...
Yep, I too have added Medium to my subconscious spam filter, along with BusinessInsider, TechCrunch and many others.
That's a lot more ingredients than "1", and many of those things spoil very quickly. Soylent is exactly one thing to buy, and keeps for >6 months, meaning that you can stockpile it and not worry about running out.

I already basically live on milk-based shakes now, and it's a pain having to replenish my milk supply twice a week. Soylent would solve that nicely.
If Mickey Mouse is the most original idea that can be thought of and it's not possible to create new art without repurposing it, I'd say we already are that significantly poorer society. Why is it so necessary that artists be able to remix Mickey Mouse? Go make something better.
The third book was released earlier this month. Since then, nothing new.
It doesn't help if you need to use satellites, but you cloud use microwave. Microwave is line of sight, which would usually limit you to 40miles, but if you were to have a big blimp tethered to a big barge, then you can increase the line-of-sight distance.
Not sure if you meant Instagram was not about to IPO, but rexreed meant Facebook was about to IPO (acquisition: April 14th, 2012, IPO: May 18th, 2012).
And I bet that percentage for L.A. accounts for people that answered in the believe the questions were about roads they drive their cars on. As it is the only public transportation the vast majority has ever seen there.
The article didn't get its facts straight about who did what. Adobe owns/makes/ships Flash, not Apple. Apple doesn't ship Flash with the OS. It is not Apple's job to sandbox Flash.

Apple provided a sandboxing system since 10.7. The question is not why Apple took so long, but why Adobe took so long.
Glad to hear you have never bought anything that was pre-made and can live your entire life assembling everything you need from parts yourself.
I feel your pain every time I go to the grocery store.
Maybe. But that goodbye post is a joke. No facts, no reason, just a friendly fuck you.
I prefer bugherd which doesn't limit submissions and is based on file storage instead.
Where did you look for consulting? Just anywhere and everywhere that seemed relevant? We're just joining the accelerator now, so we aren't going to have much to pay out for living expenses for the team. Up front, it's probably going to be funded with my (minor) savings, and student loans if I can't get freelance work.
Is Salesforce extremely profitable?

http://beta.fool.com/boriskabinov/2012/08/13/will-salesforce...

http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applicati...

Looks like the answer is... not yet. (maybe never?)
My response would be that violence-enforced monopolies on scarce resources like land and physical objects are more "natural" than those on non-scarce resources like digital media. Note that I don't mean to appeal to nature, because I'm not concluding that one is more "right" than the other. But considering territorial animals practice monopolies on scarce resources enforced by violence, it's clear that government is not a strict requirement for violence-enforced monopolies of scarce resources (unless we propose a very loose definition of "government" that includes the social activity of territorial animals).
Does anyone know if Soylent actually makes you feel full / satisfied after consuming it? Would the effect be similar to eating a bowl of soup or something? I recall many years ago I used to get something called Instant Breakfast, but I still needed an apple or a couple slices of toast to feel like I actually ate something (might be that psychologically, I need the recent memory of chewing action in order to be convinced that I actually just ate a meal).

On a related note, for those that are looking at this class of products due to lack of time / skills to cook at home, would anyone be interested in my list of "bachelor chow" recipes? Basically, this includes anything that can be easily prepared (minimal active preparation time, even if it has to cook all day in a slow cooker), along with the ability to be good leftovers for multiple days. Examples include chicken fried rice, ham/noodle/cheese casserole, "skillet" breakfasts, beef stew, etc.
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Not sure, but I think this is the expected use case. Soylent is supposed to be something you can eat exclusively, but also, I don't think even soylent creators expect their users to eat it and nothing else ever. I plan to replace "mindless" meals with it, but eat delicious, healthy non soylent meals when I have time and inclination. Many times I eat stuff I dont want that isn't healthy due to time constraints.
Adding onto justinsteele and numbsafari ... I've been working remotely since 2007 because there aren't a ton of jobs up here except for large-shop Java and .net work, and that really wasn't for me. It's kinda surprising how many people live in Portland and work remotely, and it seems like I keep discovering more all the time. But as far as startups go, I think numbsafari nailed it. I worked for a smallish company back in the mid-2000s, and it's likely that things have changed, but back then the tech-related investors wanted you to move to Boston, and the local investors didn't really grasp how to value software - they were more interested in how many forklifts you had as collateral. :-/

But I do get the sense that things have improved a bit since then.
Sort of, but we normally think of monopolies in terms of controlling a market.

If I own a car, I may have a "monopoly" over a subsequent sale of that particular car, but it's an extremely limited market with n = 1. And the rationale for protecting my property rights here isn't just theft of my car would deprive me profits from resale, but that it would deprive me of actually using the car and driving around.

In contrast, intellectual property concerns the control of a particular market where n > 1. Copyright isn't necessary to protect my ability to use a particular copyrighted work -- I can still read my book, write sequels, etc. even if someone infringes. Rather, the rationale for copyright is to enable me to capture 100% of the profit from any market for my copyrighted work -- i.e. a monopoly.
I am referring to the the remote connection which uses remote.utorrent.com. Of course I'd favour the webUI too.
Google's Underwater Cable Ambitions Expand: http://gigaom.com/2009/12/11/googles-underwater-ambitions-ex...
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Just as the women who want to settle down have no right to complain about the men who want to date around, just as the women did before. Yet we have respectable newspapers calling those men assholes.

I'm honestly puzzled at how someone could fail to see the symmetry even after it has been laid out for them. The double standard must have been hammered really deeply into your psyche.
Also, if anyone is interested we have an API into this data set. AOL Autos uses it here http://autos.aol.com/best-deal
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Indeed, there are a couple of site that don't work at all or require an extra step; if I remember correctly, most of them mumble something about CSFR and are based on Django. For example I can't log in to Launchpad [1] or Coursera or I'm required to push "I'm a human" button on the Fedora Accounts System website.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider/+bug/...
I can conceive of property existing without government.
> but creators typically are not motivated by the thought of royalties 80 years down the road.

But they probably wouldn't be less motivated by longer expirations.
Yeah, by that time they might even have the right sort of motivation to actually read it.
There was a long discussion about this ~2 months ago. Most of this wording is necessary for them to do business, if overly formal legalese.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6347673
>Some people will always prefer to eat real food.

I wouldn't count him out either. "Some" is likely going to be the overwhelming majority of people for at least another century.

I honestly hope I'm not around to see the day when actual food is too expensive for the average person to eat.
But we would not say "let's allow any shoe manufacturer to use the Nike swoosh, because competition is always good." There is economic value in being able to reliably identify Nike products, and the only "innovation" other firms could bring to the swoosh is to mislead customers. Copyright is like trademarks in that it is part of the brand of the firm.

On the other hand, I completely agree we should own our history. For example, the purported owners of "Happy Birthday" are pure rentiers. They have no brand to protect and add no economic value. The copyright on that song should have expired long ago.

I think a good compromise is "use it or lose it." A copyright expires after some period of disuse by the holder. At that point it can be said to have passed into history, and is owned by everyone.
I didn't help build it, and I too, would be disappointed.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/09/a-loo...

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-microsofts-chicago...

Everybody else is doing it...why not google?
It happened to me with http://blog.bodhizazen.net/ because of some stupid anti-spam Wordpress plugin.
> Hereby it is manifest that, during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.

As there is no global government or other power, we can observe the relationships between people that have no common power and prove his assertion false.

For example, there is no one common power that controls all American and British people. Yet Americans and British people travel to each other's homes, have relationships with each other, trade with each other, and sometimes even move from one country to another. All of this is done peacefully, with no common power that controls both sides of the equation. Same thing with relationships between Swiss people and Japanese people, or Chinese people and Egyptians, or Brazilians and Indians, or anybody else that you choose.

If Hobbes' idea was true, wouldn't the relationship between two average people that have no common power be rather warlike rather than the mutually beneficially peaceful relationships that we see every day?
I had a 170lb St. Bernard at one point and she sort fit into a subaru outback. This was a while ago.

Fitting a 200lb dog is a matter of perspective too. What do you mean by fitting? I have a 100lb dog right now and he fits into my crv just fine, but he fits into our Odyssey a lot better. He can lie completely spread out, doesn't have to curl up, etc.

Sites that have tried to do things like this in the past have been very cumbersome and ultimately unuseful.

You need to decide if you dog can fit into a compact SUV or if you need a medium sized SUV/crossover. There is a big difference in size/mpg/and cost between those two categories of vehicle.

If you want a compact SUV look at ford edge/subaru forester or outback/mazda CX-5/toyota rav4/honda CRV or subaru tribecca on the compact, but larger size. The CRV will have your best real world mpgs there, but gives up a lot in power.

If you get into larger crossover/SUVs you should look at the honda Pilot/toyota highlander-4runner/subaru tribeca/mazda cx-9/ford explorer or flex (if you don't care about off road at all).

The problem is they all have their good and bad things and some of the stylings are way off. Also, reported mpgs and real life mpgs are sometimes very different. The best thing to do is to troll user forums for these vehicles and learn as much as you can. Good luck!
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I'm assuming there is a background process that monitors the folder for changes. On my machine there is about a 3.5 second delay between moving the file and getting the warning. And if you click "OK, move to trash" it only trashes it in gdrive, you still have the file wherever you moved it. It's not a finder dialog box and can get lost behind other windows. It's bizarre UI.
The place where I live China and Iran make lot of news.
I didn't know about this, and it's awesome that it's posted here. I'll definitely go through it.
You're asking why anyone would pay money to have a service performed for them?
do NOT
"Our number-one priority is that every person who has received their Soylent is able to reorder more for immediate delivery."

Odd. I'd expect their number-one priority to be "ensure Soylent is healthy and safe".
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I find Silicon Valley's obsession with teens fascinating. Why is teen usage a benchmark for the health of a startup?

Do teenagers spend money online? Is there any research on that?
Passing on such an abstract concept, generation to generation, with safeguards against rogue cousins coming in out of the woodwork? I wonder what the world would look like today if this Intellectual Property Feudalism were implemented centuries ago.
The Founding Fathers didn't. In their view, government exists to secure rights, not to grant them.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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If I own a huge piece of land, it is also true that many people may use that property; but that does not make my right to that property expire at some point. There might be an argument in the limit as the marginal cost of reproduction drops to zero, or even that the cost of reproduction is borne entirely by the consumer.

The purpose of "intellectual property" protection is a valid point, though. I think that the greatest victory of the pro-"intellectual property" is simply calling it "intellectual property", thereby tainting it with thousands of years of philosophy of what "property" is.
I understand and you may be right. However, I almost got the impression that 79 students weren't as 'stupid' to enrol in Academia because of the prospects, only the 'women' was. But I'm probably reading tea leaves. Without context, the remark ' a women' is meaningless and almost suspicious. And I think that's my point.
It's startup/incubator space: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/4148978964.html
Nope, not understanding it at all. He moved files out of his google drive, but the files aren't files, just links to the cloud. So even though he still has the files, they have no data in them.
If you can find any.
I'm curious. Isn't the breeze you get when biking enough to cool you down? I live in Denmark and we don't often have that kind of weather, but the breeze that you get when riding your bicycle can be really nice in the summer.
Not exactly. The government rules by consent of the governed.
What double-standard? If a woman actually refers to a man as an asshole because he prefers to date around, she's being a jerk.

However, I completely disregard what "respectable newspapers" or magazines print in their Trends or Culture sections, because frankly I stopped regarding them as anything except daily reflections of the collective mind of the wannabe-intellectual population who can think precisely one layer deep into things and no more. "Respectable newspapers" are not where you think original thoughts, they're where you keep score in the public ideological battle between existing thoughts.

Admittedly, I've known some very, very smart journalists, but almost uniformly their format and their funding sources keep them from conveying anything very deep or appreciate of reality's subtleties to the public. Cheap, meme-dense pap it is, then!
It's less about forcing other people to make something newer and better (which happens all the time) as it is to force Disney to make something newer and better, instead of just continuing to cash in on their original idea. That gives them a huge advantage over newcomers and disincentivises the creation of something new inside Disney.
They shoulda searched craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/off/4148978964.html
I second that. Love love love it.
Is it a rethorical question?

Because recently a growing portion of late-30s women are single, and it's not because now more of them have chosen so, but because now more of them are unable a [suitable] partner, so they themselves perceive it as a problem. Of course, not every one of them "needs to" have a parter, but a majority does want a partner.
You could make yourself a DIY Soylent customized for your needs. There's an app to make things easy for you:

http://diy.soylent.me/
Does anyone mind sharing what they see as the advantage of this vis-a-vis a Redis, LevelDB, Mongo, etc. (realizing those are all very different)? Is it principally read throughput, write throughput, interfacing, space efficiency, scalability to very large datasets, or something else?

I ask as friends and I are doing research into very space-efficient (read: probabilistic) key-value stores. We have a few scientific use cases, but I'm curious if others would find the ability to scale to very large key- and value spaces (~1e9+ key-value pairs) in a space efficient way practically useful. Or, if interest is principally academic.

Apologies for the (pseudo-)hijack.

Ps. Looks very interesting, I have it on my to-dos to install and check it out more deeply.
Hong Kong did not revert to the public domain. Britain leased it from the owners.
Well now you've identified one of the great unsolved problems in asymmetric warfare. How do you know that someone is an enemy without spying on them first?
First because the probablity distribution itself would have to be pulled out of thin air, and make the results questionable.

Of course. It's just a more systematic version of manually tweaking parameters in a spreadsheet (which are also pulled out of thin air).

With libraries like PyMC, it's one extra step beyond writing an assumption->outcome formula. You write the same formula, but then set variables to probability distributions rather than floats .

And if you need to convince someone else afterwards of your conclusions, then for 99% of audiences you anyway want to use 'specific plausible scenario story'...since it's well researched that the first kind of evidence works better in convincing homo sapiens about anything at all.

Fair enough. This is solid dark arts, but useful.
I just arrived in Tokyo last night. Every time I come to Japan there's a major quake within 24 hours. Last time Fukushima, this time this.
Teens represent the near future. They'll grow up and maybe carry their allegiances forward.
or their mothers, right?
ac·tion·a·ble ˈakSHənəbəl/ adjective

1. giving sufficient reason to take legal action.

2. able to be done or acted on; having practical value.

Up until about 10 years ago, it was nearly exclusively used in the first sense. The second sense was popularized by pop-business gurus promoting with proactive dynamic enterprise synergistic actionable best-practices...
Are you so sure?

Disney would have had far less material to lift.
So, I'll take the domain if you don't want it anymore...
Problems seem to be server side, too much load most likely. The browser side seems fine, sends requests, but the server (goinstant.net/engine.io) is not responding. So not a browser compatibility problem I am guessing.
Keek.

65 Million active users and they just laid everyone off due to lack of funding, including all the senior staff. Zero revenue and no clear path to it. The site is still up and running but no one is steering it.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/streetwise...
Nor do I.

I'm just pointing out that the antibiotics aren't strictly being used for disease-prevention (hence better hygiene alone might not eliminate their use).
Pretty much it means working no stop for 30 days. But if you want to work in this space his is a great opportunity to launch your app.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://goinstant.net/engine.io/?acct=NinjaOtter&app=NodeKno.... Origin http://piwh1000.github.io is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
Ummm... Map-Reduce is a system infrastructure based on functional programming. It has applications in Machine Learning, but it isn't fundamentally based in machine learning.
Is that the case? I thought social contract theory was primarily a response to the moral crisis experienced by Enlightenment philosophers upon the realization that government does many things which appear to be clear violations of "natural" rights.
Why wouldn't you want to see it paid for by people who want to use public transportation?

I think people should pay for whatever they want to use.
That's unfair.

The comment is made within the context of a manufacturing update. Besides, you could respond to anyone that says they have a priority, "I'd expect your number-one priority to be feeding orphans."
Tried to signup for facebook several times today and it kept asking for my phone number. I wonder if teens are less willing to go through that hassle.

Compare that to twitter's new onboarding experience, which is (arguably) very well done.
Umm, it's not purely the woman who is making the decision - while some of them do marry this way (one of my friends has a 15 year older wife), you'll clearly see that a majority of 25 year old men significantly prefer 25 year old women to 35 year old women, and 20 year old women to 40 year old women.
Um, since Instagram is Facebook, by my estimate Facebook owns 46% of that graph and is still most popular by a long-shot.
You only need to make the calculations once though. Preparation time is 5 minutes tops if you use pills instead of pure powder to achieve your micros.
actually, I take it back... what you're saying is not the expected use case. you want to use it as a snack food (maybe), when really its intended to be a default food, but that doesn't mean you should only eat soylent ever. They want to make something that you can eat exclusively workout endangering your health. I don't think they actually expect everyone uses it to only use it exclusively.
Oh, and if you're looking for recommendations on new features:

1. Colorize submissions that have had X% increase in votes/comments (with different colors) since last visit when in top X mode (specifically in the past 48-72 hours).
2. Allow a user defined point/comment threshold over which submissions are colorized.
Healthcare.gov supposedly will be fixed by late November
Looks great - will try and test out as I REALLY need this service automated :)