skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
considering http://www.diybookscanner.org/ and the speed with which illegal texts of books popped up on the internet even before drm-breaking of ebooks was a thing, i think it's like demanding access to the source code of an unobfuscated python program you've already been given. getting the source isn't hard; the only hurdle is a legal one.

i find it hard to believe that 1) amazon would violate contracts on something like that or 2) if they did, hachette would somehow suffer financially, but not notice, or be unable to do anything about it.
Has The End Of The Banana Arrived?
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Gamifying crowd sourced intel about traffic patterns?
"White identity" is a historically incoherent concept advanced almost exclusively by neo-Nazis. "Whites" are descended from an entire continent of rival nations, all of whom historically hate each other.

A better analogy would be, I dunno, Croats? No one begrudges the Croats their national identity.
There's no agreement outside of the contract that says we were contracted to write the software according to provided specifications. But you are correct we offered an exclusivity to the client but they were not interested in paying the price.

Ultimately, I believe the company(dev shop) has decided to sit with the customer and offer exclusivity or some kind of partnership on the software one last time this week take it from there.
Love it and was looking for something like this. Wish there was a cheaper plan though (more keywords, without the SMS etc). I'd require an email as users can easily make multiple accounts and never pay. This is a free service on metareddit[1] as well for one-keyword

[1] http://metareddit.com/monitor
"Let's completely forget the centuries long history of white on black oppression that has led to the unequal socio-economic conditions between blacks and whites. I'd, you know, cut them some slack."

By saying "cut them some slack" you are implying that I am doing the opposite. IE, I you are implying that I am being too hard on black people. How is this case? I pointed out a legitimate problem - black-on-white crime. Is it not a problem that multiple friends and people like my friends (ie white or Asian) were assaulted or killed in nearby neighborhoods? Is it not a problem? Should I just be silent about these problems? What on earth does "cutting them some slack mean"? I'm not endorsing stormfronts views on the matter, I am just saying that the base of their hatred there are some real, legitimate problems.

"You do realise that every generation has claimed that the "youth of today" are nothing compared to how things were "back in the day". I mean, really?"

Yes, I realize that. It also true. Most of the people who ever complained about the decline of the youth, were in fact correct. That is how the rise and fall of civilizations works. Civilizations explode out of a small tribes of ultra-militant, ultra-fertile, ultra-patriarchal, utlra-disciplined people. See for instance, the Puritan settlers of America who had fertility rates of nearly 10 per woman, who conquered New England, begot 16 million descendants and established the American empire. Each generation was slightly more decadent than the previous. But the momentum from the starting culture was so great that there was a lot of expansion before the cultural decay becomes apparent, and the decline phase sets in. Eventually, the society becomes too decadent and corrupt, and a new hard-core tribe comes in and conquers. So the cycle goes. How many years before ISIS rules us all? Hopefully it won't be in my lifetime.

One side note - the decline is not uniform or all one-way. Within the broader trend there are ebbs and flows among subpopulations of being more or less vulgar, more or less decadent, etc. Vulgarity actually probably decreases for a while as the break-out tribe becomes more "civilized", and then starts to rise again as order declines. (I think the 1950's were probably an absolute minimum of vulgarity in the U.S.)

"I would jettison the rest if I were you."

Is that a threat?
I'm surprised that you're using forwarding instead of giving your clients access using the gmail app and/or IMAP/SMTP. I've found this works better than forwarding, primarily because I don't then have to maintain my own reliable authenticated SMTP service.

Anyway, my personal experience was that the warning messages before deletion were over-and-above what could be deemed reasonable. They were sent to the domain administrator, and also to the email address specified when creating the account (i.e. to a different domain). The text was something like:

"We noticed that you haven’t used your Google Apps account for the domain [redacted].com in over a year. Please let us know if you’d like to keep this account."

All I had to do to keep the account was log in via the web, just once.
Deep links are just links: Blurring the lines between web and apps
Yes, delivery systems must be considered. Wonder what the Allies would have built to deliver a 10,000 lb bomb in contested airspace if one had been ready well before the B-29.
I've wanted to write a detailed blog post about the problem I needed to solve and what I ended up doing; the fact that you have said this just increased the likelihood of me doing that "soon" quite drastically.
Not if they work the night shift.
Thanks! Self-selecting for categories could get tricky because we're regularly creating and deleting categories as we see fit. We'd rather stay on top of that than put the burden on vendors. But we usually do make edits if a vendor asks.
It's too bad almost none of the old VRML communities still exist. I wonder if there are backups of CyberTown worlds floating around somewhere...
Related 99% Invisible episode:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-08-99-free-par...
The thing being parodied has no subtlety either.
waffle.io is hyperdope on the Bug/Issue Tracking side too. Makes GH issues look like trello, and allows boards for multiple repos.
This has been discussed here before, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813776
This article is just like all the e-mail updates they send. Long winded excuses with no results. "X is broken, we are trying to fix it so that we live up to our high standard. We are excited to see what is next and will ship soon."

They have been singing the same song for 2+ years.

Personally I could care less about their delays. My beef with the company is that EVERY update they lead on customers, saying "We're almost there!". No, you're not.

I cancelled my order after the 4th delay.
and it's already down
> Almost no one thinks of it in these terms, neither Israeli Jews or American Jews (Einstein did, but he was in a minority). Israeli's (and American Jews) typcially describe Israel is existing for the protection of Israel identity, religion and culture, not the physical protection of individual Jews.

I'm an American Jew who does. It's also not all that rare of a belief that having a country with a majority Jewish population is essential to the protection of the Jewish people. While people certainly talk about this argument less these days, it was one of the key justifications for the creation of Israel in the wake of the Holocaust (what you get as a small minority in every nation on Earth).
And a lot of data coming from foot and bike that Maps wouldn't provide. I also wondered about submission of POIs though in my experience the portals (POIs) in game are a mixed bag of traditional POIs and more liberally defined POIs, e.g. graffiti, sculptures, small memorials.
> Such lists would be meaningless if they contained anyone who wandered onto the site.

Unfortunately I have no faith in the ability of the government to be discerning in the people it targets as subversive or dangerous. See the terrorist watchlist with over a million names on it.
Two things I'd like to have, an Oscar-E and a complete Ettus SDR setup. That said, I believe they discovered the propellent pressurizing system was out of gas and the probe could not execute the trajectory course correction. Sad but an excellent effort all around.
I don't have a preference. Just stating what will almost certainly happen.

It's happened all throughout history before. In fact, I'm guessing most members of stormfront might be a bit surprised if they had a DNA test done.

We are all product of generations of rape and pillage and countless secret affairs behind tents. But now we can move about faster and communicate better.
"This language also refers to computer programs, such as Napster, et al., and by extension to the websites that host them.
"

No, it doesn't.
Napster itself was not the subject of a DMCA take down
It was the subject of a copyright lawsuit. Nobody filed DMCA notices about the hosting of Napster binaries.
Napster in fact, sought protection under 512 for other reasons.

"that is, on its face, valid under the law as presently written."

I don't know how many times i have to say this DMCA notice is not valid on it's face.

Do you think if i file a DMCA notice, and tell you to take down something because it is infringing my patent or trademark, that it is a valid DMCA notice?

Assuming not (because if yes, there is simply no hope for this discussion), what legal difference do you believe exists between that, and a DMCA notice also not targeted at something statutory to DMCA, like this one?

"They can't do this until and unless GitHub fails to properly respond to the DMCA notice. "

False. This assumes they were going to sue for direct infringement of a user hosted file. They weren't.
It's been where it's been for a while, so there's some sentimentality.

Hotel Pennsylvania is also incredibly cheap. It's also very crappy -- you don't even get what you pay for.

(I'm speaking at 11p Friday if anyone is interested, and will be in town Thursday to Wednesday. But not staying at the Hotel Pennsylvania.)
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Sorry. I removed it. It caused too many annoyances, to be honest (though i'm generally happy to chat with people from HN, it's not too hard to find me :P).
Which component freezes in position halfway through, the lock itself or the Lockitron?
I just happen to know that at work where I do VB6, the loaders are inefficient if it is to probe for a load address, so it is best to give one that doesn't collide with other dll/ocx's that are loaded.
I suspect you've missed the point - it's about how during an unusual period of China's history, amidst extreme pressure and confusion, a random item took on incredible and I intended significance.

The American flag is a bad comparison - it does have a fixed meaning, it is intentionally imbued with significance that is widely recognized.

The religious example similarly bad. You're talking about people who already have a strong set if beliefs that are being directly challenged - not randomly assigning meaning to meaningless gifts.

I think we can manage to discuss China without it being an attack on China, or without trying to bring up comparisons with the US to 'balance the scales'
The best conferences, IMO, are every 4 years -- HIP/HAL/etc. (Dutch, 2017), and CCC Camp (German, 2015).
Linux.

Emacs and git with the magit package.

Node, meteor for fun projects.

apache, postgresql, and php for less fun projects.
Yes, but nothing I ever say on HN is a statement or position by my employer, unless I specifically say otherwise :)
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Ask HN: Help for a beginner game developer?
Ok, so me and my friend have always been interested in game development and we have started to dedicate some time into it to see if we can actually make a game so we can finally reach one of our goals. We have decided to start out with java and making some mobile games on android and for this I began using Kilobolt's tutorial (http://www.kilobolt.com/game-development-tutorial.html). I'm here to ask for some tips for this new guy here. I'd like to read a good book for introduction or good material on game development for a beginner like me. Which language would you recommend to move on with after doing a couple of mobile game just for fun? And even though money isn't our priority here, can one make good money out of small game apps? Thank you in advance for your time.
They're terrible with providing updates. I'm amazed. My dashboard still says that my unit is anticipated to ship in May 2014, and this is far from the first time they've gone past the shipping estimate without a word to me.

How hard is it to write some code that checks for shipping estimates that are about to become false, updates them, and notifies the people in question?
I usually type so fast, that that start menu just flashes on the screen. Example: I'll press the Windows key on my keyboard, type "aur" (for Firefox Aurora) and then hit enter. Aurora is the first search result, and starts up, bringing me back to the Desktop view. All that within 1/3 of a second. I haven't even upgraded to Windows 8.1 because I don't want a start button on my task bar.
I've worked at a couple companies that build hardware. In my experience you need at least 1 mechanical engineer on the company payroll. I don't think you need to own the tools or the factory, but building hardware is as difficult if not more so than software. No one would fund a software startup where they didn't have a single FT software engineer, yet for some reason people think that "it's just plastic" so you can contract it all out. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a lot of nuance to getting an injection molded design right.
In the end, I think writers, publishers, and Amazon alike will all lose in their efforts to profit from the sale of information. Information is moving closer and closer to being free. And that's a good thing.
Fan Loyalty changing during world cup (Facebook analysis)
> Yet you remain blissfully and completely unaware of any contextual relevance of what you are linking.

They're all about the complex carbon footprint of burning wood. Perhaps you might try explaining why they're unrelated.

> Wood burning creates soot and particulate when it is oxygen starved. The solution is to have a fan to feed it a steady supply.

Wood doesn't completely burn... when it doesn't completely burn. There are a lot of factors and a small fan doesn't solve all of them (this should be self-evident or the reduction would be 100%). Obviously, the comparison has to be made to stoves/generators using other fuels (ie gas/alcohol/petrol if you really want) because that was the original comparison - wood to other fuels, not wood burning stove to other inefficient wood burning method. Please refer back to the original post.

> Do you understand that we are talking about people burning twigs that have fallen to the ground? Do you understand how incredibly specious it is to talk about industry biomass production facilities.

If you'd bothered to read anything (the first article and associated reports go into a lot of depth on this), you'd see that burning dead branches sparingly (and correctly - this stove still has a lot of pollution relative to industrial methods) is one of the better methods. However, you have to be very careful about the type of wood you burn, the condition it's in when you burn it, the way you burn it, how much of it you remove, ect.

It's very complicated and in general it's done less efficiently than alternative fuels atm. The "ZOMG BURNING WOOD IS INHERENTLY CARBON NEUTRAL" thing is short-sighted and has been outdated for a good two decades now.

Do you want "facts" or not? Because you're not reading any of the ones I reference.
> Part of the issue is that payment processing is a brutal and painful battle.

Bitcoins might be a viable and less painful option
Probably not. The MPAA knows how to well form a notice for this, the fact that they didn't in this case doesn't mean they won't in the future.

Expecting Google, GitHub, or anyone else to protect you when you are writing an app/service like popcorn time is dumb.
But that is a different argument than the one being made here.

The question here was whether ISP's or hosting services can ever push back. They can.
During the night shift there is probably parking available.
I agree - I use Reddit and I was still confused for a little while. I ended up finding another site [0] that did a similar thing and they explained it well.

"monitor all new comments, submission titles and self-texts
posted to reddit for a word or phrase."

[0] - http://metareddit.com/monitor
I'm not a doctor but I don't think that is true for most people. One of the most fit people I know has a resting heart rate of 40-50. Mine is usually 60-70 when I'm calm - when it is 80 or more something is generally off and I need to exercise more.
The Genesis was a success, nothing to really write about there.
First, people certainly will begrudge Croats their national identity, when they get around to it. I'm sure you're familiar with the battle against English identity or Swedish identity (at least when they are defined in the same way as Jewish identity is).

Furthermore, I think that you are simply defining anyone who talks or thinks about White identity as a "neo-Nazi". Jews are given space where they can think about and consider their identity. Whites are only permitted to feel shame about theirs.

The onus is on you to explain why people with common appearance, ethnic background, language and culture, do not form a well defined group simply because they are more numerous than Jewish people are as a group. Or why, the European disapora, having intermingled in the US for 500 years, must completely give up their identity and accept anyone from the world as like them, simply because they don't originate from a single country.
Could anyone tell me what PCB/schematic software that is?
That fine, so long as you've figured out a way to provide authors food, shelter, and health care via alternate means. Otherwise, we will see people less willing to put the work into making great literature.

It isn't that the author is motivated by money as much as great work is all but impossible when fit between the gaps of everything else. Professional authors spend months of full time work to put out a book.

Worse, we will still get works, but they won't be as well-edited, well-researched, and those take a toll on quality.
For reference, here's a demo of google's buttons implemented in polymer: http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper-elements/dem...

Note that google's appear to have a soft gradient and respond to the length of time for which the button is pressed. IMO this creates a less-jarring effect.
Beethoven's Creative Strategy
I wouldn't mind it if I had to mechanically charge the other side of the lock from the outside. Attach something to the door knob so I can "jiggle" it from the outside to wake up the unit and have it do its thing.
You misread that email. I'll quote it here:

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As we are now less than one week away from the biggest HOPE conference ever,
the time has come to close down our discounted preregistration service. This
is necessary in order to ensure that everyone gets their tickets emailed to
them in plenty of time. Due to the nature of this year's program and the
increased interest level overall, we can't guarantee that we won't reach
capacity at the hotel. Those of you who have preregistered are guaranteed
entry to the conference. If you have not already done so, we advise visiting
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I'm not a lawyer, but how can San Francisco possibly have jurisdiction over this? Could someone with more legal experience explain?

MonkeyParking is not located in San Francisco. MonkeyParking is not even in the United States (the company is based in Rome, Italy). The founders aren't US citizens. If the mayor of some random Iranian town demanded an American app shut down, because locals were using it to coordinate protests against Islam in violation of Iranian law, there's no way in hell an American software company would listen. Do US courts simply claim that their laws apply to everyone, everywhere?
KICAD?

http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Su...

(from the submitted site, clicky the cct diagram to get a PDF, in lower right corner KICAD is mentioned)
When I lived in a suburb in Texas, there was no natural gas available in the neighborhood.

Now I live in a Northern city, and could probably generalize to a reasonable extent: Cities are plumbed for gas, and newer houses will have gas appliances. Many older houses -- even in neighborhoods with gas service -- were heated with oil, and most but not all have been upgraded. Quite a lot of people I know buy a house and discover that there's a gas furnace but everything else is electric.

For instance while living in one house, I extended the plumbing so I could install a gas clothes dryer. Folks tend to prefer gas stove. In my house, running gas to the kitchen would require quite a lot of drywall trauma, and I learned to cook on a gas stove, so it's not a big deal for me.

In rural areas, it's mostly propane.

The house I lived in during grad school had a coal chute.
You'd think they'd be doing that already, really.
I can tell you that my case was atypical. Most people do want at-will employment. They don't want a contract. I usually want at-will employment, and as it turned out, the contract I proposed would've ultimately come back to bite me if it had been implemented. I'm currently employed and I don't want a contract with my current employer (unless my role was completely changed). Again, we don't need to jump right into "business people are evil moustache-twirlers" every time employee-employer relations come up. At-will employment was put in place for Good Reasons, and there are employees (like myself!) who usually want it.

I've done a reasonable amount of interviewing and hiring in my time, and I never had a candidate propose a long-term contract. I know some of the people I hired would probably think it sounds good at the outset, but they would be quite upset when the employer doesn't do the "polite" thing and let them out of their contracts whenever they want to go somewhere else. They would then come on HN and try to name and shame this company that hates its employees and resents their professional development, and is keeping developers in iron shackles while they have to pass up opportunities to make way more money! Then a bunch of social justice warriors will call the corporate heads monsters, claim their actions violate obscure elements of obscure laws, burn effigies, etc.

Others are like me and almost always want the freedom to leave when things start to go awry. There's no need to stay aboard a sinking ship any longer than necessary.

Almost nobody really wants employment-by-contract.
That weapon is so weird. So incredibly weird. Just what you'd expect from a Pennsylvania dentist-cum-weapons researcher, I guess? Thanks for pointing it out!
The Penn5000 rooms aren't that bad, and if you timed it right, very cheap by NY standards.
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