skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not property. That is the entire point of copyright law: That property law does not apply to something intangible. You can not steal something without depriving the owner of use.

As such, copyright law established an artificial, temporary monopoly which from the outset it was acknowledged was separate from ownership.

And unlike property law, which is frequently (though not universally) seen as codifying "natural" rights to ownership and use, with copyright the bargain is explicit:

The copyright holder is granted restrictions on the rights that would otherwise be held by the public as an incentive to contribute to benefit society as a whole.

There is no inherent right for a creator of a work to expect society to limit the spread of information for their benefit. To grant copyright, society is limiting our freedom of expression to conjure out of thin air a commercial monopoly.

To argue that the bargain is fair is one thing, but confusing copyright with property is something else entirely.

> the creator should have the sole right to set the terms of use and transfer the terms.

The creator does not have the sole right to set the terms of use and transfer under any jurisdiction today. If you argue for that, you argue for a regime so restrictive that we have never seen its like. What you are implying is even far stricter than what applies to actual property.

For example, almost all countries have some system of compulsory licensing. All countries I'm aware of have expiring copyright terms (moves to try to perpetually extend the stated duration notwithstanding). All have exceptions of certain types of copying.

All puts limits as to the extent which the creator of a work may limit (even contractually) usage, even in cases where the creator explicitly avoids selling copies and instead merely licenses or leases instances of the work. (E.g. very few jurisdictions would allow the creator of a work to limit use by race or gender).

It is up to society to set these restrictions because these rights only exist because of the intervention of society in the first place. If a creator does not accept the bargain with wider society, they are free to never release their work. We are not obliged to support rent seeking - the bargain must be balanced accordingly to make up for the self imposed restrictions on freedom of expression that it creates.
Mediatek (MTK) was for many years the SoC of choice for ultra-cheap feature phones like these, but they seem to have gone up the scale (their Android platforms are good value) while others like RDA have filled in the ultra-low-end.

I think one of the ways in which they were able to undercut MTK was to use a different CPU core - the $2 MT6250 in bunnie's phone still uses an ARM core, which means licensing fees to ARM are some part of the cost (I'm not aware of any "pirated" ARM cores) - and in such a cheap SoC, could be a significant fraction. The RDA8851 is "MIPS-compatible" so they aren't paying ARM and likely the other IP on it was either designed by RDA or others in China.
Frequently when I open a new app I need to do something with it immediately, but would like a chance to watch the on boarding information later. This is almost as useful as being able to access it inapp.
Just read an interesting article on boingboing (I know, I know) about this. http://boingboing.net/2014/11/20/for-god-for-country-and-for...
As someone who is Asian, I've just kind of accepted this kind of casual racism. The stereotype of Asian men are that we are better at math, science, and logic (sadly enough, this is where I spent most of my working career) and everyone kind of laughs about it and jokes how it's great this stereotype is so positive.

Except, of course, that it leads to these kinds of policies. Just like Jewish people are ascribed the stereotype of being good with money leads to other policies that have occurred in the past and probably still continue to this day.

To me, though, this is just another example of why higher education is becoming a parody of itself. To become personally angry about decisions that are based on the angle of my eyelids is a waste of my time; and this reaction is overwhelmingly common in the Asian community. It has been for decades since Korematsu v. United States, too. I'm not sure it's the "best" approach, but I've learned to live with it, knowing that others have it a hell of a lot worse. Is that rationalization and "giving up?" Perhaps. But I just can't bring myself to care.
Here's the PDF version: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
For those complaining about the paywall or for whom the usual paywall bypass tricks failed, Google "harvard asian lawsuit" or "Students for Fair Admissions" (that's the group that is suing) and filter to limit the search to article in the last week.

That will give you a few other sites that have covered the story. Some details might differ from the WSJ coverage, but it will give you enough to be able to appreciate the comments here and participate meaningfully in the discussion.
But if it had become sufficiently popular then someone would probably have just bodged X onto it (as unpleasant as that is to contemplate).
Web-based HTML5 Adobe Photoshop Clone
It's ok, and I didn't downvote, but it's an extreme viewpoint, so it is unsurprising that he's been downvoted.

He is promoting a view of copyright that extends far past the rights granted by any extant copyright system, in a forum where a lot of us are very aware of how much of culture is constant remixing and borrowing, or outright "stealing" of past content that has only been possible because copyright law is not nearly as exclusionary as the property law principles he seems to believe should apply (and as I pointed out elsewhere, in his other comments he hints at support for a degree of control which does not even apply to any property law system in the world) .
Reverse Engineering the HD20
IA has 4 copies of this page. 3 are CAPTCHA challenges, and the 4th throws an error message. Why on earth did you think this might work without testing it yourself?
Your comment is spot on for a lot of things but arguing you don't know what the MCAT is isn't one of them. It's a niche audience and those who want tutoring for the MCAT would know. Those who don't aren't going to have a need for it.
Care to elaborate? Does FreeBSD make assumptions about the root user's shell that Linux doesn't?
The Dalai Lama's ski trip
HTML5 editor similar to Adobe Photoshop
> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user

Wait, what?

https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H

This isn't some custom repo or anything, I'm just running stock Arch and have startx in my bash profile. It runs in user mode, and has for about the last half year.
Except all those dire predictions turned out be wrong. We didn't run out of food or resources, and birth rates have now declined in almost every country in the world. Population growth is basically now a complete non-issue. In retrospect, ignoring the Paul Ehrlichs of the world turned out to be the right move - a far cry from mankind's greatest shortcoming.

If we run out of lithium we'll figure something else out, just like we would for any other resource.
It's just too bad they don't support ZFS or any similar filesystem. Their reasoning makes a lot of sense, but there are a lot of useful features that would be nice to have.
It's not a key component, but it is a significant benefit of their system. The main reason though is that the primary benefit of this system is flexibility of placement. By locating grid storage close to where it's used most, you save significantly on transmission losses (and infrastructure). Finding sufficient vertical cliffs would be even more difficult than finding suitable locations for pumped hydro.

Also if you expose the weight to open air and wind the whole system would be much trickier than using an enclosed shaft.
I noticed the article compared Harvard's admission percentage to Caltech (19% to 25%). If you're going to make that comparison it's worth noting that a significant fraction of Harvard students are athletes and the admissions criteria for athletes is different. Anecdotally, Asians seem to be under represented in athletics, so that probably explains part of the difference.
You mean apart from the fact that you can't install it locally to reduce latency and save the many megabytes you were hoping to save by uploading the optimized files later?
It still ships with OSX, albeit it is less apparent than how buying a Windows computer to run Linux (hic, Lenovo fanboys) how antithetical to your cause buying the machine is.
Shrug.

The anti-European ruling class of the Western world is unintentionally hurting Asians as well. No kidding. But they really didn't want this to happen, and any Asians hurt by these policies should try to understand: You are just collateral damage--the real enemy is people of European descent. This has been going on for a long time.

I'm sure they'll straighten it out. Trial balloons on the topic are always going up.
Actually this may improve soon as it looks that Google ventures is paying attention to the opportunity of investing in a country with great weather and high-qualified engineers: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-set-to-open-campu...
The most charitable interpretation I can come up with for "hey, it's a free country" is that a person is entitled to start an organization which discriminates racially and sexually.

If you really want the downvotes and accusations of racism that come with asking provocative philosophical questions, ask whether unpopular private organization of the week can do the same. Is it morally/ethically permissible (as opposed to legally permissible) for Uber to discriminate in favor of Asians?

Note that once folks have no glib answer, they will attack you.
There's a lot of things more complicated than building a house.
AN ASTRONAUT REVEALS WHAT LIFE IN SPACE  IS REALLY LIKE
Uh oh, you mean the blog post? I just fixed one of them, but couldn't find the second. Hopefully it did not distract you from reading the post, and you were able to focus on the content too :)

As a non-native English speaker differentiating between "its" and "it's" has been a bit of a challenge, but I do appreciate whenever an error is pointed out as it allows me to correct it now and be more attentive in the future.
It would be an interesting exercise for someone to go down the list and try and contact each of the seemly dead companies to confirm.

Not sure if there is a way for people to contribute updates to yclist? For example just clicking through from the oldest first I see that the company snipshot was acquired at some point but can't see any tech coverage on it apart from a page on the acquirers website.
Amazon VPC is far more complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5hsL-JNY4 (excellent talk from one of the creators of VPC)
Probably... but it's still an intriguing idea! Especially since their pressurized gas proposal already calls for a sealed cavity; maybe there actually is potential there. (Of course, there would probably be a significant PR cost too.)

That said, they can already get more weight by making the weight taller, so density likely isn't a huge benefit. Whatever's the cheapest cost/kg (and without the other issues of Uranium) would probably be best.
I'm reminded a little of Guy Steele's talk, "Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution; or, foldl and foldr Considered Slightly Harmful" (http://vimeo.com/6624203).
In 1992, 19.1% of Harvard’s admissions offers went to Asian applicants, compared to 25.2% who were admitted to the California Institute of Technology, a school that doesn’t use racial preferences. In 2013 Harvard made 18% of its offers to Asians, while CalTech admitted 42.5% Asian students.

It is an interesting choice to compare Harvard's racial admissions with that of CalTech. I would think that Harvard vs. MIT or Stanford would create a more convincing argument. So, here are the numbers:

Stanford class of 2018: 22.6% Asian [1]

MIT class of 2018: 30% Asian [2]

Harvard class of 2018: 20% Asian [3]

It looks like the writer of the article chose the school with the highest percentage Asian population to make this comparison (excluding Hawaii). [4]

[1] http://facts.stanford.edu/academics/undergraduate-profile

[2] http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/profile

[3] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

[4] http://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/colleges-with-the-hi...
Here's a $10 phone sold in India - http://www.flipkart.com/k-1300-pk/p/itmefh68fqtqcnzq?pid=MOB...
> If you're going to make that comparison it's worth noting that a significant fraction of Harvard students are athletes and the admissions criteria for athletes is different.

Another significant fraction are legacies.
If you don't live along Ottawa's Transitway, though, your experience may be quite different. It is popular for Ottawans to beat up on OCTranspo.

With all of that said, it will be interesting to see how the LRT changes things. Right now it is causing headaches, so the proof will be once the line is up and running.
Diversity in education may be more valuable to Harvard (and, probably, the rest of us) than a few tenths of a GPA point or handful of SAT points. This seems perfectly valid. (IMO) Diversity helps creates better solutions to better problems than you're likely to get with slightly higher performing but less diverse populations.
Facebook has released designs for everything from servers and racks to entire data centers as part of the Open Compute Project (which has many more member organizations than just Facebook): http://www.opencompute.org/

A design for network switch hardware and software was recently announced: https://code.facebook.com/posts/681382905244727/introducing-...
In this context I'm wondering about the theoretical possibilities rather than the practical risk; I think the analysis that I'm referring to assumed the probability was negligible in practice (or can be made negligible in practice), so the question is whether it is still true that there is some analog input (even from a key on the keyboard) that in principle makes the machine misbehave even though no physically realistic process can typically actually generate that input.

The debouncing examples in the article you linked to don't seem to eliminate the risk in a theoretical sense. The RC circuit is taking an analog function of an analog function to apply some smoothing and significantly decrease the effects of transients on the observed voltage at the ADC, increasing the proportion of the time it will spend in a well-defined range if driven by a noisy switch. There must still be some set of analog inputs that would keep the voltage in an ambiguous range, though. The SR latch can itself experience metastability. (And the software solution should be right out, because it starts from the assumption that each individual digital measurement of the switch state has produced a well-defined binary value that can be safely used as input to expressions and functions at the software level.)

Wikipedia says that chaining latches together merely (dramatically) reduces the probability of this behavior, rather than actually eliminating it, because each latch could in principle (though with ever-decreasing probability) introduce and maintain metastability in the latch following it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_%28electronics%29#Se...

Wikipedia cites to this article

http://ibm-1401.info/AnomalousSynchronizer_ChaneyMolnar_IEEE...

which seems to say that it was understood in the 1960s that every interface between digital circuits with no common clock (as well as every interface from an analog to a digital circuit) presented a theoretically "fundamentally inescapable" risk of introducing metastability which could propagate into the digital system, and that this was thought to be a source of some practical errors in computing systems in the early 1970s.
about $200 total

Shows just how extreme the economies of scale and integration can be - putting together a working system based on loosely-coupled off-the-shelf parts (it looks like his effort was mostly only expended on the "gluing" of these parts together) can cost more than 20x that of the tightly-integrated, mass-produced product with equivalent functionality. The speaker, battery, and display for the Arduinophone individually cost more than one of these entire cheap phones.

...and $200 is more than enough to buy an unlocked, contract-free, Android smartphone with several times the processing power and functionality.
can you explain how this works?
We're "represented" in tech, but not at the upper echelons where we're substantially under represented...

Do you have data on this? Anecdotally it isn't hard to think of Asians in the upper echelons (e.g. Satya Nadella). A quick glance at google's management team finds Asians to be overrepresented at 4/18 Asians (6/18 if you include middle easterners).

http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/

Microsoft (2/16) and Twitter (2/14) seem similar:

http://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-senior-leaders/

https://about.twitter.com/company/leadership

(0.8/16 is what would be expected based on proportional representation.)
I always wonder why the first browser to misidentify itself as something else wasn't sued.

I mean, I sure couldn't slap a "Internet Explorer" or "Netscape Navigator" splash screen on my shareware, but that's what they're doing in the User-Agent field.
but can we please come up with a less pejorative term than "lifestyle business" to describe non-"shoot for the moon or crash" type start-ups?

FWIW, this is the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest "lifestyle business" is an inherently pejorative term. I don't consider it a pejorative in any way, and I don't know anybody offhand who does. That said, I've heard tell of VC's and other people who are deeply invested (no pun intended) in the "shoot for the moon" approach being somewhat dismissive of lifestyle businesses, and perhaps couching their discussion of them in pejorative terms... I just haven't known anybody who holds the phrase to be intrinsically pejorative.
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that that wasn't the case?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_...

Unfortunately, to be able to run xorg in unprivileged mode, it needs to run inside a session. So, right now the handicap of running xorg as user service is that it must be run with root privileges [...snip...] It seems likely that xorg could be modified [...snip...], and then it could run unprivileged from a user service outside a session.
A quick Google search found me this for Stanford. I haven't checked for MIT.

>While Supreme Court justices question the role of racial consideration as a factor in the college admissions, Stanford remains committed to upholding affirmative action, arguing that the policy helps to ensure a diverse student body. One Stanford professor has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court defending the practice.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/10/16/stanford-administrat...
This is probably locked to Target or whoever they use.
The head of my (STEM) course at a university in the top 5 of most global rankings (not Harvard, though) once told me casually (I am white) that she was upset at the high percentage of Asians in her course since they were "great at tests, but really bad at leadership" and "never move beyond middle management" which looked bad on statistics and (implied) wasted seats. So, anecdotally, another example of that "casual" racism.
Caltech is fairly unique in that it explicitly does not use non-merit factors in admission (no racial preferences, no legacies, no "we want someone from all 50 states").
Behind the scenes of a drone orchestra
I contacted the author on Twitter, he said there are some licensing issues preventing him from open-sourcing it, but it's in the plans.
Funny, I just finished Peter Thiel's book. In the final chapters, he discusses the cleantech flame-out companies of the 2000's and how many were run by old suits. He contrasts them with true technology innovators (like Elon) who are "t-shirt and jeans" people.

Interesting to scroll down and see suits at this site.
who were admitted to the California Institute of Technology, a school that doesn’t use racial preferences.

FWIW, this line from the article is wrong, according to CalTech's CDS statements over the last decade or so: http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds (see section C7 in the filings).

(this is assuming that "racial preferences" is being used to mean "racial/ethnic consideration" or "affirmative action")
... damn lies and statistics... and bad journalism.

The numbers apparently conflate Asian-Americans with Asian foreign students. A breakdown of the two groups would be more useful to work from given the huge numbers of wealthy Chinese fighting tooth and nail to send their kids to the most prestigious American schools.

The numbers are also skewed by simple geography. The West coast has more Asian-Americans and would be more desirable for foreign students in terms of quicker and cheaper travel between home and school. California schools can't be equitably compared to the East coast.
>Diversity in education may be more valuable to Harvard

And fair to those who have no control over their genotype?
A dedicated lane for buses seems like quite a waste if there aren't many buses sharing that same route. Dedicated lanes on a road like El Camino Real with plenty of traffic lights won't help too much either. I've lived in a city where there were dedicated lanes for buses and it was a nightmare if you were driving, especially if you had to make a turn that takes you across these dedicated bus lanes. There's also issues of bottlenecks where the bus lanes end and merge into regular lanes.
That's 1992. "In 2013 Harvard made 18% of its offers to Asians, while CalTech admitted 42.5% Asian students." "Though the number of Asians applying for admission [to Harvard] has increased, the percentage of offers has barely budged."

Funny, what you say about Asians and sports "anecdotally" is exactly what was said to "explain" discrimination against Jews in the Ivy League.
Not true according to CalTech's CDS filing (see my other post upthread).
losethos' new account?
Radical molecular flash memory could store massive amounts of data
Caltech is known for having the most meritocratic admission process with no racial balancing.
http includes a referer field that tells a webserver what page linked you to it. It is therefore possible for the server to disable the paywall for visitors who arrive through google.
Yes just with ads.
Students for Fair Admissions v President and Fellows of Harvard [pdf]
This is strange, I opened it from Firefox, but without bothering going into incognito mode. I tried multiple times from the direct link I had the paywall, from Google's search everything was fine.

If it can help anyone access the article, I use the Disconnect, Adblock plus, and self destructing cookies add-ons.
I wonder if it is possible to rent out (motor)bikes or mopeds so people can commute short distances without needing to wait for a bus. For example, it would be great to have a (motor)bike from great mall to other parts of milpitas or nearby places in San Jose
Managers create the BS, so they can hardly be credited with shielding people from it. They also create a lot of BS for their own reports such as playing the "your job is to make me look good" game, or having devs do a bunch of leg work so they can present everything as their own ideas.
I think that if you want google to be able to index the article text, then the article has to be accessible from the search result - you can't show different pages to google's robot than to human visitors or they'll block you. So the paywall is not allowed to kick in if you are coming directly from google. (Works for the NYT as well, probably anywhere else that is indexed on google too).
Whoa, that paper is fascinating!

I'm trying to improve my intuition for why the physical exmaples in it are right. I found the examples of inevitable crashes and collisions disconcerting.
New ProgeCAD Update Improves AutoCAD Compatibility