skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two major components to DMCA safe-harbor compliance. The first is that you honor takedown requests; unfortunately for software entrepreneurs, this seems to be the only DMCA component that is widely understood.

The second major component is that you not operate your service with direct knowledge of infringement. A simple way to illustrate this is that if you have a screenshot of your application being used to play Madonna tracks, you are obligated to hunt down those tracks and remove them yourself. If it can be shown that you purposefully don't do that, you can end up forfeiting safe-harbor.

You are probably happier in the long run for shutting this project down. While you clearly want to believe that you aren't infringing copyright, which is an admirable sentiment, you obviously aren't taking advantage of "fair use" by giving your users direct access to copyrighted music under your own branding.
Previously the story was "the chinese are inserting backdoors". Afterwards the story was, the NSA is spying everyone. Now the story seems to be that the NSA is spying and planting some backdoors. How many? 1% of devices? 10%? 99%?

Let me clarify two things for you:

- We do not know how many backdoors the chinese are planting. Maybe none, maybe in all devices.

- We do not know how many backdoors the NSA is planting. Maybe just in some devices, maybe in most devices.

In light of this, how are you so sure that "these two situations aren't even in the same universe." Do you have any other knowledge that you would like to share?
its a 52% combined marginal rate,

Exactly. The. Point. Go read the my comment in context... Not only do I set out to illudtrate the marginal tax rate, I expressly not that it is not the average rate. There is a reason for that, which I mention earlier...too. Which I won't repeat myself to point out here.
Yes, but the anger at the Google buses and the people who ride them is misplaced. These people really don't want to be paying $3000 per month for housing, and they have no power. In fact, many would be happy to live in low-COL regions (instead of cramming into SF) if it weren't for the career-limiting effects (at least at Google, you have to work in MTV if you want a decent shot at getting a real project; there are good projects elsewhere, but far fewer of them.)

Google's rank and file are not the bad guys. Irritating them does no good to anyone. When poor proletariat fight somewhat richer proletariat over their rides in "luxury buses", the real bad guys win. Divide and conquer.

The real bad guys aren't "techno riche". They invest in and manage software companies, but they don't know (or care) about technology. They couldn't write a line of code to save their lives. Those software execs making $250k++ per year while working 11-to-3 are MBA-culture colonists (Damaso Effect) who came in because we, as technologists, failed to prevent them from conquering us and drawing off almost all of the wealth we produce. We're very good at busting our balls (and ovaries) to solve hard technical problems, but we're terrible at protecting our own interests, especially as a group.
Copyright is traditionally an area of law that has been served by moderation. The government offers some protection to creators, but not absolute rights. For instance, songwriters have a right to receive royalties when someone else records and distributes their song, but they don't have the right (in the US) to set the price of that royalty, or to veto a particular artist covering their song. It's a balancing act.

On the one side, if you don't have copyright at all, it severely limits the ability of creators to monetize easily copied works. This became a problem with the printing press and copying has only gotten easier as technology has progressed.

On the other side, there are a number of problems with granting an absolute, indefinite copyright. One is that you stifle the creation of derivative works. Another is that obscure works can easily fall out of print and be lost forever. A larger philosophical concern is whether corporations should be allowed to hold control over the shared cultural heritage of a society long after the actual creators have died.

Almost everyone sees the need for some kind of compromise here. Personally, Canada's life+50 years sounds pretty reasonable to me.
WTF is TRP?

And I'm a she. Thanks for misgendering me.
I'm trying to learn about both suicide and backend development conceptually, so the actual development will start soon. I'll shoot you an email about it soon :)
Can the NSA Spy on iPhones using DROPOUTJEEP, Apple says No way
9 Predictions for the Games Industry in 2014
While not a solution per se, an alternative exists. If the license for current works are unacceptable, start celebrating other works! Notably, works with a Creative Commons license.

Some Creative Commons cartoons
http://www.seosmarty.com/15-cartoonists-that-allow-using-the...

Creative Commons Music at Jamendo (see the FAQ http://www.jamendo.com/en/faq)

edit: 'per-say' to 'per se' (thx ansimionescu)
In general, the argument here is "Fucking rich people!! They're ruining it for the rest of us!", which I don't think has ever been a successful way to get anything you want. Moreover, they're missing half of why this is happening: their beloved shitty neighborhoods are being cleaned up by new business and new housing.

If they got enough political control over the zoning board or the city council they could make it impossible for new businesses to be approved, make it harder for the ones there now, and generally make it difficult to impossible to create new condos. Either they suck at local politics or they're being too anti-authoritarian to accomplish their goals in a meaningful way.
Did SO get everything right? No.

Is SO the best code Q/A resource available? Absolutely yes.

Remember what was used before SO? Pure shit. Open-ended help forums scattered throughout the web that had little/no moderation and no indication of where the solution could be found in the discussion, or if a solution was ever found at all. SO's aligned everyone's incentives to post the solution & the site's formatting makes it trivial and find the best solution provided.

I've personally experienced times where my questions/answers have been affected by wikipedia-esque moderation, but at the end of the day I still click on SO results first in Google & and I still visit from time-to-time to see if I can help anyone out.
My kid knows who Mickey Mouse is. He is two, and mickey mouse is by far his favorite.
none of that is required by the DMCA though
The nuclear arsenal is for Russia and China and self-defense, it's useless in WW3 unless mutual assured end-of-civilization is desired (or as a one-off response to someone like Iran or Pakistan using a nuke or a small number of them). That arsenal is no more risky in the US hands than in, say, the hands of Russia or China or Britain or France.

The military industrial complex wants money and power, not global annihilation - always remember it's run by people, and they want what most people in power want. It's not a complicated beast, it's mostly about the world's largest slush fund, $700 some odd billion up for grabs every year, and they want all of it and more if they can get it. The military people want to play military, and the industrial people want to play industry, and they leverage each other to that end.

Yes, I think they'll force more wars. Something that big and powerful, in a state of desperation for survival, is scary indeed. I think that's what the play in the 'sandbox' (the middle east, aka where you can launch wars and suffer no domestic enemy retaliation and you can't hardly 'lose' in a classic historical sense) has been largely about, excuses to spend large amounts of money and build & experiment with shiny new war machines. If it had been about economics, oil for example, we'd already control most of the oil in the middle east (we'd have taken Saudi Arabia and Iraq's oil through force). I think that explains Wesley Clark's shocking admission about the Pentagon planning all the wars far in advance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSL3JqorkdU
I found a bottle of Teething Tablets for my 10 month old labelled "homeopathic." I threw them in the trash, pointing out to my wife that placebo effect can only occur if the patient is old enough to comprehend that they are receiving a treatment.
You only have to look at past wars to see this is clearly not a total lack restraint.

During WWII, the US purposely burned down entire cities (not just small villages, some of the biggest cities in the world) just to scare the shit out of the other side.

In Korea and Vietnam millions of civilians were killed by artillery and air raids on villages and cities. By some accounts nearly all buildings in N. Korea were destroyed by bombing.

Even in Iraqi and Serbia, the US was bombing civilian targets like bridges and power plants.

LOL at FDR being against drones. He was overseeing the purposeful destruction of as many German and Japanese civlians as possible.
It's partly Disney (and the Gershwin estate) but the 56-year term was extended in 1976 to bring the US in line with the Berne Convention life-plus-50 term used in the rest of the world. The current life-plus-70 term originated in Germany, spread to the rest of the EU and then was adopted in the US for "harmonization" with Europe.

Harmonization is not necessarily a bad thing. Pre-1976 US copyright law had some outright bizarre restrictions - a book could forfeit its copyright status if the publisher printed it outside North America and imported it - that we're better off having eliminated. But when everything has to be harmonized, it's rare for anyone to question why the policies we're harmonizing with are in place.
Everytime I google a question and get a stack overflow result, it is always an unanswered and locked question for silly neckbeard pedantic reasons.
In my view, a copyright system could reach a middle ground between libertarians and the rest of us. Limiting the term of copyrights is such a middle ground.
You should do the homework yourself, rather than relying on an article whose motivations you can't be sure of.

It's awkward to match the Apple machine exactly because of the non-standard graphics hardware. The D300/500 are approximately cut-down versions of W7000/8000 with reduced VRAM.

I specced up a machine on newegg and other sources for the CPU. E5-1660 V2 (3.7Ghz with 15M cache), LGA 2011 motherboard, 64G ECC RAM, 2xW7000 graphics, 480G PCIe SSD (2x240G), and a CPU cooler / case / power supply to round it out (not looking to buy the most expensive options here). Came to about $4800.

An Apple.com Mac Pro machine with 3.5Ghz / 12M cache CPU (worse), 64G memory, dual D500 GPU (worse) and 256G PCIe (worse) comes to $5200.

On the pro Apple side, you get a very nice case and a lot of integrated wireless stuff, Thunderbolt etc. On the anti Apple side, you get much better expandability (the option to go dual socket in particular) and upgradability, and an overall more powerful system for nearly 10% less.
>>The problem is that there are few other nucleation sites that a viable tech community can condense around.

What? There are lots of places that could fill this role.
The author writes about how corporate shuttles insulate tech workers from transit problems, and how if this weren't the case, there'd be powerful forces pushing to make public transit better.

She misses an opportunity to make a similar point about antidevelopment San Franciscans being insulated by their rent control, but she comes close to it when talking about the Ellis Act. What makes this law so terrifying to longtime, usually antidensity, residents is that it puts them on equal footing with all the new arrivals. It forces them to lie in the bed they've made.

It's like how the draft can turn hawks into doves amongst people who wouldn't otherwise have children in the military.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986155
What is Engineering culture and what makes it great?
Haha you aren't getting off that easy. Could you please tell me, say, 3 that come to your mind?
Hey, just wanted to clarify- I was not manually getting links and posting them. When someone posted a search query on my website, I would use 3rd party APIs and run the same search query on those APIs, then return results from those APIs to the users. All done programmatically.
Here's the thing:

Every country that CAN collect data IS collecting data.

If they are manufacturing anything that can be hacked to collect data and they can feasibly get away with it (read: there is no independent oversight), you can bet it is being done.

Germany is no different than France is no different from the US is no different than China etc. etc.

The only difference is they haven't had their Snowdens come out of the woodwork yet.

I can guarantee the US intelligence apparatus is right now trying to figure out how to out a few of these foreign programs so that the US does not look quite so bad in comparison without causing a diplomatic meltdown.
> But you can do broken commits just as easily with svn - I've seen people commit all changed files, forgetting to add a new file and making an unworking commit.

If you do that, you've made a mistake. No tool can save you from all mistakes (though they can help you out with warning messages and such).

Partially-staging a commit in Git is doing the same thing on purpose. It's functionality that explicitly helps you make this mistake.
Great to look back at the year and realize how much you've learned and all the growth that's happened. Hard to believe how much one year can change everything!
What exactly does "uses all the broadband" even mean?
It's not symmetrical at all. The border patrol and homeland security are charged with defending the borders of the USA. You, as a traveller approaching the border, are physically on USA soil interacting with government agents/citizens but in the eyes of the government you have not entered the USA yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
That's prospective, not retrospective, thanks tho :)
In terms of introducing new mind blowing things, I agree that 2013 was not good at all (the new consoles deserve a special mention for completely failing to generated any enthusiasm at all) I also think though, that it was an incredible year for bridging a gap - specifically, the number of people becoming comfortable with using technology in their daily lives, and much more common than 2012. The sheer number of gadgets I see on a daily basis on my commute is unbelievable and very exciting. I think we have finally jumped over a hump where even grandparents have at least one decent device (ipads seem to be the most common). The coming years will only be more exciting because of the legwork done by this year.
Points ain't fully imaginary; they sometimes give top~100 users stickers or t-shirts (;
I agree with you, the point I was trying to make was that since the project is open, using unity3d would be free, since everybody builds their own build. If at some point someone wanted to distribute and monetize the app, then yeah they'd have to pay the license fee.

But in any case, the app is being written in c++ which I think is a harder but better language to write games in, mainly for performance reasons. I am not familiar with libRocket, but I am curious how well it will deal with a large scene graph, whether or not it support level of detail or culling, or if you have to handle that yourself.
Where is the author suggesting that Cryptocat be shut down?

He makes the very valid point that advertising a insecure product as secure to people who need security but don't understand it is very wrong. He's asking that the advertising be corrected.

We're not worrying about your credit card getting ripped off - this software claims to solve life or death problems.
"And I have other friends who are homeowners, but the majority of people I know are renters, and I keep teasing my friends who are economically vulnerable that maybe they should go to Vallejo or Stockton, which are in economic crisis, and create a great, thriving bohemia there."

I think she's on to something here... A smart community activist in conjunction with a pro-active real estate developer with a really long term vision could 'organically' help create neighborhoods ready for gentrification (and profit handsomely) and help create great places for artists, writers and activists to live at the same time.

All that's needed is a website that organizes groups of artists, writers and activists to tell them where to go live next, flash mob style. Once the artists, writers and activists have sown the seeds of gentrification, the developer can then provide the members some financial (or non-financial) reward to move on to the next neighborhood and start the process anew.

Basically it'd be comp'ing the group for all the work they have done to create a live-able, dynamic neighborhood which is not happening today.
The tablets were supposed to have placebo effect on your wife, not your kid :)
Certainly my points have counterpoints, but I included at least 3 reasons for indefinite copyright protection.

1. Indefinite protections encourages the creation of new works vis-a-vis encouraging investment in new creation/distribution.

2. That just because there is indefinite copyright protection, does not mean people can still create derivative works, engage in fair use, ect...

3. Finally, just because indefinite protection exists would not prevent works from being voluntarily entered into the public domain.
Someone really need to write about all the side-effects of the technology and finance workers leaving San Francisco. What will the real estate prices be like? How will it affect local businesses? City taxes? Crime? How about we see the truth from all angles?
> I think it's misleading to say "more secure".

I think it's misleading to insinuate that security is an absolute, but, again, you're missing my point. I'm not telling anyone to use Skype. I'm saying that the added security didn't come at a cost to usability.

> for the NSA to intercept everyone's messages while it was more distributed would have required releasing a version update and waiting for the supernodes to pick it up, but that's not a high bar.

I would say that your bar is very high, then. This would defeat nearly everything that exists and is in use today.

Also, there's probably no one in the world that can actually defend themselves against the NSA if the NSA is determined to know what they, specifically, are doing.
"Considered Harmful" is supposed to be humorous, please do not attempt humour on HN.
I would like to thank everyone who posts these failure stories. We get too many effortless success stories here and often forget that failure is the norm and not the exception. It's a bit like how those books on software anti-patterns are so helpful. Sometimes it's more helpful to focus on what not to do.
Honestly, I'm surprised Jason Fried and DHH haven't picked up on this news trend to point out how bizarre it is that these companies still bus people around at 40 MPH instead of their communication at the speed of light.

Isn't this just another argument for the innovative promise of remote work? That both the old centralized model of the company town, and the hub-and-spoke suburban campus model, impose all kinds of costs and limitations on employees and the community as well as the company? It's surely impressive that certain companies have become cultural forces in their region, but it's not always eventually a good thing (see the Great Lakes area), and the inevitable cultural conflicts are bloody and never-ending.

Also, I wonder if other parts of the continent (whom would probably buy Google the buses to transport people in or out of their city) laugh or cry when they read about these first-world-economy problems.
Is there any possible justification under 'national security' for wiretapping Merkel or the president of Brazil?

Unless people think that Merkel is secretly in cahoots with some kind of extremist group, it's obvious that this kind of spying is done exclusively to get an economical edge when negotiating treaties.
I really want one, but $5400 is too much for the base ($3000) and the disk expansion via Thunderbolt 2 ($2400 for the 6 bay one).

I'm currently looking into a hackintosh that'll set me back about $1700:

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/envoy510/saved/3dCe

I just can't justify the $5400 vs $1700, even though I really do love the design of the new Mac Pro. Also, mine has 32GB of RAM instead of 12GB.
Michael Bolton? Is that you?

His setup is defective. He can either complain and live with it, or he can fix it.
What?

edit: so you were just restating what you already said. It wasn't persuasive the first time.
From my time in China, I would say that the anti-spitting campaign was either not successful or not long-lived. I would routinely encounter spit on the streets or sidewalks, and would hear the telltale sound of spitting about a dozen times a day. Considering the air quality, I can't really blame them -- I felt the urge to do so quite often, and only held myself back because I didn't want to cultivate a habit that could be potentially embarrassing upon returning to the States.

(I will also mention that of course this is mere anecdote, I was in China from 2011 to 2012 and don't have firsthand knowledge of how much spitting there was before the Olympics, and I was generally in a "third-tier" city in Guangxi province, rather than in Beijing.)
Much better than I expected. I've been concerned that they're making lemons recently with the total black box MBPs. iPads I can understand being sealed/disposable but not MBP line machines. Good on Apple for friendly engineering design this time.

Unfortunately for me though, I both can't justify one and can't afford one anyway.
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From this article, going with the D700 saves you over $6000: http://architosh.com/2013/10/the-mac-pro-so-whats-a-d300-d50...

The D700 is equivelant to the AMD FirePro W9000 which is listed at $3,399.99 on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/AMD-FirePro-Retail-Graphics-100-505632...

AMD really wanted their cards in this machine I guess..
Ok - what about the NSA paying RSA 10 million dollars to use a flawed algorithm for encryption that they had a backdoor for?
"Without Linux there would be no Android and Apple would by now own 95% of the smartphone market(1). "

You cant conclude that at all. The manufacturers would have had to do something else, and they obviously would have, as in many cases, they were. Android/Linux was an easy, convenient, perhaps even lazy, ship to jump to.

Which also means that one could make a case that the presence of Linux for Android use has distracted from innovation and competition.
Why I'm Interested in Bitcoin
At no time was customer data "leaked" between accounts. This would require that a user not scrub their volume after destroying their server; in this instance data would be recoverable and should be considered not sensitive.

Is it just me, or is this contradictory? "Data wasn't leaked.. but if it was it was because you didn't check scrub, so it must not have been important." These are two completely different things. Even if the data was not sensitive, it could still be leaked between accounts (which is what happened here).

Kudos for committing to fixing the problem though.
There are actually a lot of new units coming on the market soon. This article from August claims there are twice as many units "in the pipeline" as the number that made it to market in the past decade:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2013/08/all_48000_san_fra...

I'd guess that there are NIMBY building costs that prevented housing construction until the rent got so high, but it does look like an end is in sight.
About 20 years ago I was in Orlando (not to see Disney World, though we did). When the done-up characters came through the room where we were having breakfast, you could see the eyes get big as quarters on some little kids at a table over from us. I have to think this was recognition, since otherwise it should have scared them terribly.