skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The root cause of this trend is that the police are allowed to lie about the law, they are allowed to say anything they want in order to manipulate you into giving them what they want. The police know the areas of laws that apply to them extremely well; and yet they are not compelled or even encouraged to share that knowledge with you. This leaves you, citizen, up a creek if you don't know the law cold.

I can see (Californian) LEOs gleefully referencing this case with suspects, scaring them into thinking their silence is evidence of guilt.

Leverage, leverage, leverage. Law enforcement is always looking for more leverage, always pushing the boundaries, to move more easily from "suspect" to "criminal" to "prisoner". They would repeal the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments if they could (along with modifications to the 1st and 2nd), because it would make their job easier.

Using information asymmetry to trick people is no less coercive than "roughing them up" in an interrogation. It's time we make it a crime for a self-identified police officer to lie about the law or the suspect's rights.
The takedown claims copyright violation. They also say that copyright violation can be avoided by adhering to the license.

I don't have a general right to distribute Emacs; I must distribute it in terms of the license. If I were to distribute Emacs in a way that FSF didn't like, they would come after me for copyright violation.

NB: I'm not saying anything about the accuracy of their copyright claims.
It looks like Mike Perham wants to bring the repo back up, but due to the DMCA request. It'll be at least 10 days [0]. He also says that he never looked at the code for Monit [1].

He has also filed a counterclaim with GitHub [2]

[0] https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519164948887257090

[1] https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519165523473358848

[2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-10-06-tildes...
re-writing an open source application in a different language is not a copyright violation.

see Oracle v. Google.
You can also use this resource http://www.globalshellshock.com to check if your IP address is vulnerable to ShellShock.
I wasn't "offended"; I was making an observation. You don't have to agree with it, but there's no need to inject an emotional aspect into it simply doesn't have.
http://www.lazygamer.net/pc-gaming/is-phil-fish-about-to-be-...
I'm based in Toronto as well and this sounds pretty cool, can we grab coffee?

edit: email: yk.he @ live
It was interesting the first few times watching them. Sometimes the commands are not even authenticated so you could do fun things like write a text file saying their computer was infected and then open it with notepad... or other things.[0] You aren't going to find many large scale botnets that still use IRC though. It is really amateur hour CnC.

[0] It probably is not really advisable to do even 'helpful' actions such as that, but when you are young you do careless things.
Scientists successfully grow human penises
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I came to the conclusion it is impossible to do agile in the enterprise, the best one can hope for is when sprints are seen as a kind of "mini-waterfall".

And even then, no one cares about unit tests, tdd, or whatever is the testing flavour of the month, besides the integration tests at delivery dates.
> It is simple: science does not pay off.

I'd take it a step further: The problem is that our economy does not allocate resources well, either to people who need the resources (e.g., people who can't get health care or obtain decent education for their kids), or to people who will provide good return on investment to the rest of society.

The 'free' market, the invisible god that so many worship as an arbiter of value, doesn't do a good job. (It's also not free in many senses.)
It's a copyright violation if it isn't cleanroom, that means you don't get to re-license it under different terms. It will count as a derivative work under copyright law.
While interesting, I found it interesting that Mr. Zdziarski libels that the original article by Violet Blue on ZDnet was written in angst over his religious views despite no evidence other than a few loose tweets unrelated to him or his religious views.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-apple-backdoor-that-wasnt-700003178...
"That year (2008), according to the website Babycenter, 11 out of every million babies born in America were named Bacon." ಠ_ಠ
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Depends on the kind of rewrite. Automatic translation - that's effectively the same code. Written from scratch - that should definitely be allowed. Otherwise Linux would have to be licensed the same as previous Unixes (it's similar enough, isn't it?), Microsoft would have rights to ReactOS, we'd have only one owner of copyrights to all shells, and one to all DNS servers, etc.

What Monit does is a defined interface, anyone should be able to implement from scratch something that does exactly the same thing.
There is not, and never has been, any enforcable means of claiming a whole root namespace; the demise of the registered modules list hasn't changed that at all.

Basically, just upload the thing, and document whether you want other people's extensions to live under the root namespace or somewhere else - e.g. DBIx::Class extensions are mostly just under DBIx::Class:: whereas Moose extensions live in MooseX:: - and a hybrid would be Catalyst, where certain types of extensions live under e.g. ::Plugin::, ::Model::, etc. and then things that don't fit in any of the usual extension namespaces go into CatalystX::

You'll find, generally, that people writing an extension to your code will respect your choices, and that any violation of them will usually be an accident and quickly resolved by filing a bug saying "hey, could you follow the policy please".

I did, honestly, mean to email you off list explaining what was likely to happen wrt the registered module list (starting a thread about it at the time on modules@ would likely have been ... unproductive).

Unfortunately, I completely forgot, a failure for which I'm hoping my responses to you today will at least partially compensate :)
Microsoft’s FlexSense Project Is a Thin Sensor Layer to Make Your Tablet Awesome
I am one of the most reliant users on Sidekiq, and when I first started using it, I was angry at how certain features didn't work as I expected.

Sent an angry email to Mike, and he responded kindly, answering all my questions. From that day forward, I bought Sidekiq Pro, and have been a fan of his since. So you know whose side I'm supporting here.
Ask HN: Do you have spare domain names?
A recent post [1] reminded me that I have a couple of domains that I don't use and which would be perfect for somebody else.

If you'd like to have either of the following two domains, and are willing to initiate a transfer process I'm happy to lose them for free:

* redirected.email

* transient.email

If there are other people with spare domains feel free to list them here.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8414597
As someone who also loves food and preparing it, I am also a consumer of Soylent.

While it takes away the joy of a well prepared meal it gives that back in time and convenience. I can't help but spend too much time in the kitchen when I'm making something. I go overboard and over do it to a fault.

With a food like Soylent I can get in and out in minutes. Eating Soylent does not mean you can't spend time making a great meal when you have the opportunity too. After several weeks on this new food I appreciate my home cooked meal much more than I had in the past. Win-Win as far as I'm concerned.
"It's petty, troubling procedure to be forced to verbally invoke a primary Constitutional right before one 'obtains' that right"

Which right are you referring to here?
As has been pointed out, the right to remain silent does not appear in the constitution. :)
Only the right to not be compelled to be a witness against yourself, which is not the same at all (and does not need to be invoked)
Analogies between novels and code bases are misleading. For the former, the consumer experiences the copyrighted material directly. For the latter, many different expressions (which are protected) result in the same effect (which is not).

That Inspeqtor works with Monit configuration files is definitely not proof of copyright violation. Neither an admission of "heavy influence". As far as I know, the only thing that would prove that this is a derivative work (and therefore possibly a copyright violation) would be a comparison of the source code, one demonstrating a number of features in the Inspeqtor code base that show that Inspeqtor's implementor was doing something more like a port to Go than a compatible implementation.

That's sure not part of the takedown. From the way it's worded, I worry that Monit's authors are not totally clear on the distinction between patents and copyrights, and that they have not taken the advice of a competent IP attorney before taking this step.
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It does seem like there's an awful lot of energy being expended on stopping 14 year old boys from being assholes. I suspect it's about as likely to work as efforts to stop teenagers from having sex. At least quixotic quests are entertaining from the sidelines.
It appears (IANAL) that Monit is alleging a copyright violation which would be eliminated if the License was followed, thus the two words can probably be used interchangeably.
I am not sure I get your meaning. A license is how you access a copyrighted work. Therefore they are speaking about the same set of laws.

Antirez is taking a very narrow copying must include a figurative Ctrl-c Ctrl-v. Where as tomp is taking the wider and I think more legally supported(at least as far as art goes) stance that a work can be 100% your own effort but still be a derivative work if it was inspired by an existing work.(i.e. taking a photo of a sculpture is a derivative work )
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> Maybe this is where patents come into play.

No, it's a copyright issue. Patents have nothing to do with it.
That's correct only if the implementation was made without using the original implementation - for example, made off of a common specification, or using only the inputs and outputs of the application. (AKA, a "clean room" implementation)

If the reimplementation was made by perusing the original, it can be considered a derivative work subject to copyright.
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If you are still looking for project ideas, feel free to contact me (info in my profile). I'm working on some cool stuff. Good luck and have fun!
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Are they unclear about what copyright means?

Something I've learned over the years is that, when it comes to legal issues, things are rarely black and white. In this case, whether or not Inspeqtr should be required to adhere to the AGPL probably comes down to whether or not it is legally a "derived work". And I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there isn't a large body of case law covering the situation where a product is completely re-implemented in a different language. But it certainly seems within reason to say that a court could find that this is a derived work, and therefore in violation unless the AGPL license is used.

Now, whether or not this sort of thing is covered by the spirit of the GPL/AGPL is another question. But it probably is, if you consider the stance of Stallman and the FSF vis-a-vis Free Software. Remember, they basically consider all proprietary software to be a sort of immoral, unethical affront to humanity.
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Ordinarily I would file a website bug, but this happens so often I'm mentioning it here to hopefully stop others from doing it, too.

Please don't use fancy quotes or the fancy apostrophe for code examples on your webpage. It looks out-of-place with the rest of the fixed width font and, most importantly, it stops folks from being able to copy-and-paste your examples into their terminal or editor.
The spirit of the license is irrelevant, since the question is whether the license applies at all. Assuming it is in fact a clean-room implementation - and I have no position on that regard -, it doesn't.
Ah, the "I'm not the biggest scumbag in the world so it's fine" argument.

That might be a reason for you to not do something even worse. But it doesn't make you less of a parasite.
It makes more sense in non-verbal cases, I think. I read the suggestion somewhere (that "Illustrated Guide to Law" linked in a sibling comment) that Al Capone could have "plead the fifth" on his tax returns, instead of just not submitting them—and that the government would be required to accept this as a valid return, and do their own investigation of his tax status (whereas they wouldn't need to accept e.g. a blank return.) that sounds contentious to me, so I'd really like to hear what another lawyer thinks of it. If true, it almost explains the need to submit paper forms that are looked at by humans: special-case exceptions like this that override all normal "parsing" of a legal form using a plain-English statement.
"I am upset and angry that you keep making the same mistakes."

No, remember the context: you've already used nice, direct words, and Kai has ignored them multiple times. Now you need to shake Kai's cage. Linus might have gone overboard, but his technique has more chance of success than yours.

Also, this is not a sterile corporate environment. The LKML is more like a dive bar than Applebee's and that's the way they like it.
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This is an unfortunate double-standard in the DMCA -- to file all you have to state under perjury you are acting on behalf of the party whose work is claimed to be infringed. The claim of infringement itself does not have to be stated under penalty of perjury.

On the other hand, in the counter-takedown notice you have to state under penalty of perjury that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification. It's a scary thing to do unless you can afford a lawyer.
My friend recently tried "do you know how fast I was going" with his best smile of course. The officer responded something like "yes, but I want to see how honest you're going to be with me" with his best smile of course. This was probably a slam dunk for the officer, but my friend got off with 5-over, a hundred dollars, and no points. They were just out to generate revenue on a holiday weekend - and maybe get people to slow down - and I think we all knew it.
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I was responding to your overall premise:

> Somewhere along the line, we gave this up and became a culture where feelings matter more than results. I think the solution here is for the tech world to regrow the thick skin it once had.

I disagree that the solution is to regrow a thick skin and if you ignore the differing experiences that tech women have, you're overlooking a gigantic problem in the current tech industry and tech culture.
If you said that the purpose of fiction was to help us understand others, you'd have a lot of authors very mad at you.
America needs China and the Saudis (for investment/loans/manufacturing and oil respectively). It does need Cuba so can happily pretend to be principled by bullying them.
What's upsetting here is not that the state can revoke your driver's license. Operating a 2-ton 100+ HP motor vehicle requires due care and observance of traffic law. It's super dangerous to everyone around the vehicle.

What's upsetting is that losing your right to operate heavy machinery is seen as "ruining your life", and often is in many places due to the built infrastructure requiring driving a car to go to work and buy food.
so it's like casperjs except a piece of shit?
Fantastic explanation of [cubic] Bézier curves
I used to do that for fun. It was a lot easier back when SDBot and AgoBot was the shit.

The trick I used was to go on some xdcc network, change nickname to one similar to the bots and just wait. Sooner or later one of the botnet owners tried to authenticate and soon after I would exit with a ping-timeout.

Then you could just log into one of them, get a list of processes and download the one with a random name. It was pretty easy and you could get your hands on a few thousand bots in a weekend.

Oh the joy of running "!uninstall" while the owners was in the chatroom...
Cuba now has roughly the same life expectancy as the USA - a bit more than 79 years.

I.e. it doesn't seem that they sacrificed a lot.
The Fifth Amendment protects people from being forced to witness against themselves, i.e. give testimony.

Evidence is not covered by the Fifth Amendment. If you have papers that would incriminate you, and a warrant is issued for those papers, you cannot refuse to surrender them. If you destroy them having received the warrant, you'll be prosecuted for obstructing justice.

Orin Kerr's interpretation[1] is that a phone is evidence, and contains evidence in the form of digital data. The only need for testimony is to establish that the phone is actually yours. You can't be forced to admit "yes that is my phone." But if the fact that it is your phone can be established in other ways (say, with the testimony of your wireless provider), then you can be forced to unlock it.

You can't be beaten or tortured until you type it in, of course, at least within the U.S. But you can be jailed for contempt of court for your refusal. And the limits of contempt imprisonment seem to be pretty murky.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...

Edit: to clarify the source of my argument
Contrary to his claim, OP is clearly not a white hat "ethical hacker", since he does not have consent from the owners of any of these systems.

> they will not differentiate between this and black hat intrusion

Should they? This reads like textbook unauthorized access to a computer system,

> A quick `ps aux` on the box yielded...

This isn't just poking at web servers to see what secrets they freely reveal, this is trespass.
" You have a right to remain silent, as the Supreme Court has codified it;"

So let's a few things things straight :)

1. This particular right does not explicitly appear in the constitution. There is nobody who argues otherwise. The history of the fifth amendment does not support any other reading than being about compulsion to testify (IE torture, etc).

2. The Supreme Court are the ones who say you have to invoke it explicitly

So the Supreme Court, who you say "codified" this right, are the very people saying you need to explicitly invoke it.

So it does make sense to talk about invoking it, since the same people who have explained this right have said, as part of that explanation, that you are required to do it.
Basically "that it is your right to invoke your silence".
Not "you have an unabrogated right to silence and not have that silence used against you".

"You don't have to declare "I invoke my First Amendment rights" as a magic spell to avoid being prosecuted for writing something on the internet."

Of course, you can be prosecuted for plenty of stuff you write on the internet, because the first amendment is not absolute, as the Supreme Court has codified it.
There are still phone booths in NYC? Without reading the article, just seeing the headline above, my first thought was that a reporter discovered strange, long-forgotten devices with handsets and number pads and coin slots, collecting dust in the booths.
Looks good, but my god that site is hard to look at.
Hi-Tech Disruption in Healthcare- Autism Diagnosis from Months to Minutes
I currently only have experience using CasperJS which also wraps-around PhantomJS. This has different goals (simpler) and therefore a simpler API, though. The use case at Segment (automatically generating vector logos from a given graphic) is even cooler though, I think! Thanks for sharing!
Imagine a non-technical judge or a random group of people that forms a jury, and imagine asking them if the two written utilities are two different programs. What would the reply be?

inspeqtor would likely argue that the programming language is different and no copying happened, while monit will compare it to a translated book. Which argument will be strongest, and what will be the central question of a lawsuit? Would art, interface, configuration language and API affect the question? Is the Twitter message relevant for the narrative?

I personally think inspeqtor has a decent defense since technically, no copying of bytes has happened. That said, legal theory is not so clean cut and context always matters.
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This refers to default apache log files. IP address is needed for spam (abuse) prevention / captcha activation (e.g. too many new accounts per time). A warrant canary is a great idea, thanks... I will add it.
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Eloqua was doing this... 10 years ago?
This will be sorted out quickly I guess: Monit's DMCA notice claims this is a rewrite of Monit. This tweet[0] claims the opposite. (I take "rewrite" as a manual translation to Go as they also say it's not a clean-room implementation).

It remains to see if the part where they note the similarity with the configuration syntax can actually be covered with the AGPL.

[0] https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519165523473358848
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I agree, there are other methods to accomplish the same thing without the toxic side effects. That is not in question. The question is if those methods produce superior outcomes, as a lack of the side effects in question does not by itself represent a superior outcome.

Remember, the goal of an open source project is useful code. A friendly and emotionally supportive community is only desirable if it aids in achieving that goal.
I'm not really sure deindividuation is the process you are looking for here. Typically, that is when the aggressor has more or less delegated the awareness of the consequences of their actions to another party. In this case, the aggressor is not delegating that awareness to anyone; they are still very much an individual who is choosing to make these actions.

This is closer to dehumanization, where the aggressor simply fails to be self-aware that there is a human that they are abusing, due to the impersonal nature of the communication channels being used.
Cuba is a brutal communist slave state. But so is China. I think the shameful thing is not that we have sanctions against Cuba, but that we do not have sanctions against China and some of the other barbarian regimes out there (e.g. Vietnam, Saudi Arabia).
Looks cool, I was thinking of doing a similar thing. Are all the images public domain? I see that the homepage one is.
>2) We don't know, in advance, who the next Einstein is going to be. Giving as many children as possible the chance to make great discoveries is just good odds.

Problem is, an opportunity to make discoveries is not a degree, it's a stable job as a researcher after the degree.
Totally fair solution. Some folks like to roll their own, some folks like to use ours. Important bit is the app is validating the data is sending and receiving.

Param ordering changes in your framework can definitely hit. I've caught similar bugs when upgrading frameworks before hitting production with some validation unit tests. Here is an example if that is helpful: https://github.com/RobSpectre/Twilio-Hackpack-for-Heroku-and...
I'm surprised this story isn't seeing more traction on HN this morning. The stock dropped by 90%. I'm sure Apple isn't particularly interested in being in the sapphire production business, but given the importance of GTAT's product to their next big thing, I'm sure that's a topic of discussion this morning. It's not like Apple has another supplier for this, right?
I ask you for greatness and this is the comment you leave?
I was under the impression that a marine biology degree got you a job making Age of Empires. ;)