skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/research-optima...

The purpose of copyright is explicitly stated to be "to promote the sciences and useful arts". Copyright's temporary monopoly over works is designed to compensate the author for having written them. Without public domain, there is no advancement, as future authors cannot build upon earlier works.

If I ever reference the sword Excalibur, or the outlaw Robin Hood, or the raising of Lazarus, I am using cultural references. Under the reign of permanent copyright, these references, which can enrich a work considerably, would not be allowed. In 100 years, authors will not be allowed to make reference to Harry Potter, or Frodo, or Luke Skywalker, a great cultural loss.
If only. I'm not sure how one defines what the 'right' term is - some artists don't find their audience straight away, and it would be a shame if someone's work were to become wildly popular after years of obscurity, while the author languished in poverty with no way to legally benefit. So I'm not opposed to 'life of the author' terms for individual creators. On the other hand I see no reason why a dead author's survivors should enjoy the proceeds of both the estate (if any) and economic rents for an additional average human lifespan (ie the 70 years provision in the US and other jurisdictions).

Where a work is the creation of an artificial corporation - like a motion picture, which is almost never the sole creation or intellectual property of an individual - I feel a shorter term should apply. After all, a corporation enjoys full legal rights of contract etc. from the day of its 'birth,' and its 'needs' are highly attenuated compared to those of a person - typically a small annual fee to maintain registration and fulfillment of an obligation to file a tax return. Its commercial 'life' might therefore be thought of in terms of a business cycle or some standard established in law, like some multiple of the traditional 6-year laches term in equity law - a limitation on the time in which civil claims can be made.

There was an interesting case about this earlier this year, in which the Supreme Court held that the doctrine of laches did not apply in copyright claims, because the statute displaces it: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/09/federal-supreme-holding....

...so anything like this would have to be put in place by Congress, which means the property interest of the general public with continue to come dead last for the foreseeable future.
The color of an egg yolk is based on what the chicken ate and has no bearing on how idyllic their lives were. There are plenty of pasture raised chickens without the deep orange color because the plant material around them (you can get nearly white colored yolks from a hen that has literally miles of pasture around them).

If there a lot of capsicum peppers around for instance, the yolks will turn almost red.

How firm it is relates directly to how old it is and how it was treated, regardless of how they are raised. You can get an ultra-firm egg yolk from a factory farmed hen. The eggs you get in a supermarket however are typically several weeks old - long enough for the egg yolk to start to lose its firmness.
I think focusing on the city mileage is misguided in this case. Yes, hybrids get much better mileage in city driving than non-hybrids, but they also have substantially better highway mileage than non-hybrids. This is exactly because they have a smaller engine that can operate at a more efficient power point during highway cruising. Normal cars are ridiculously overpowered for cruising because they need to be able to accelerate. When the extra power comes from an electric motor, you don't need that. (It's not about the CVT, a non-hybrid can benefit from that, too.)
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But Google drily noted that in some cases Web users are overestimating just how much of the online space the company can control: "Sometimes we even receive requests to remove content 'from the Internet,'" the company reports. Google might have a great deal of power over what happens online. But not that much.

Removing something from Google search results effectively does remove it from the Internet. If you can't find something, then it may as well not exist. It's a bit scary how much control Google has over the Internet.
Apple- and Microsoft-backed patent group ends its war on Android
I lived in New York for 7 years.

Yeah, there are things I dislike about the East Coast. (Oddly enough, I'm moving to Chicago in January. I'm really looking forward to it.) I'm not a fan of DC's culture. As for Boston, I like the younger crowd a lot, but there's definitely a lack of progressivism that I see in Boston companies.

New York real estate is obnoxiously expensive, but yes, the people are more down to earth and less pedigree-obsessed than their counterparts in San Francisco. I won't pretend that pre-existing social class doesn't matter in New York; it's just not as big of a deal on a practical level. It matters if you're trying to get into nightclubs or exclusive parties, or to get your wedding published in the Times, but it doesn't infect your work life nearly as much. If you flash pedigree at your job too often, you become a pariah. I know a trader who was mocked after his wedding hit NYT, and I've known other people to be fired (in finance) for having too much visibility (for non-work "society" shit) in the press. Whereas in the Valley, you have to become a celebrity to have a career.

The difference between Stanford and Berkeley is founder with 30% (after the first round) vs. engineer with 0.5%. The difference between Harvard and Cornell is a $100k hedge fund job with a $20k signing bonus and a similar job with a $15k signing bonus.

On Chicago and the Midwest in general, I'd love to see the Midwest take off in technology, and I think it can. It's an underrated part of the country. I was just, for this purpose, comparing the blue-blooded noblesse oblige East Coast mentality to the monstrosity that's grown up in Silicon Valley (it's unfair to apply its stereotypes to the rest of the West Coast).
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There was no news, no actual information. Only a series of random pictures, screenshots of other apps, and vague comments about whatever what on the poster's mind.

Social news will always have a near zero signal to noise ratio.
Something about "East Antarctica" confuses me.

I hear you, because of course the continent of Antarctica straddles the South Pole, so it seems hard to establish what part of the continent is east of the remainder of the continent. But "east Antarctica" is a standard geographic term, at least in English,[1] and I frequently see the term in news reports about climate research in Antarctica. I see that the presence of the Transantarctic Mountains makes it feasible to distinguish different parts of the continent for a label like this.

[1] "East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying on the Indian Ocean side of the Transantarctic Mountains."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Antarctica
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/research-optima...

With copyright's explicit purpose of "promoting the sciences and useful arts", one can derive the ideal length. It must be long enough that there is incentive to create, but not so long that future generations cannot use it as a platform. Based on this professor's calculations, 14 years is ideal. 28 years, then, should be perfectly sufficient.
>those supposedly stodgy and "conservative" investment banks are far better places to be a woman, or minority, or just over 40, than VC-funded tech in the Valley.

Numbers, please.
Are other search engines complying with this EU court ruling? Or do other search engines just not matter?
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I think that politicians should just admit what they're doing, extend copyright only for Disney Corporation, and leave the rest to enter the public domain.
Nice, I was actually testing on my server hardware which is obviously lower end. This is hopefully useful for people though.

For me 1 second seems pretty aggressive, that's CPU time/latency per login.
The point stands that there is a well-established, well-funded and well-connected group protecting copyright, so going against it in any form will not be easy.

If a citizen tries to get copyright law amended through the courts, they will face an epic battle from all sides.
I'm pretty ambivalent about it, because after 25 years of seeing methodologies come and go and come again with the same ideas wrapped in different names I believe projects that succeed, succeed in spite of the chosen methodology, rather than because of it.

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=99bb5987-e08d-4e8...
It's just keyword linking, not complete URL removal from search.

You can ask that your name keyword in search doesn't go to the page with your competitor's company, but keywords for your competitor and/or for your product/service will still route there. It's still whack-a-mole. Users looking for reviews will start searching within review sites as opposed to google searching.

The worst impact here is that politicians could remove links between their names and articles that are rightfully criticizing them.
That reads like a who's who of Pipeline's "not going to work with" segment.
Age 42 is the sunset of their careers? Really?
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Can you talk about performance? Having written both vanilla non-js scrapers (which get you far enough) and js scrapers for those pesky web pages, I can confirm that our js scrapes took 10-20x the time.

Also, I am assuming dynamically changing IP addresses when you may get blacklisted is built in?
Well, yeah, but I imagine "what the chicken ate" and "how idyllic their lives were" are pretty closely related. In any case, I've never once found a firm orange yolk in my eggs — supermarket, farmer's market, or otherwise. Joel is probably doing something right here. (Or maybe his eggs are just really fresh, I don't know.)
"When it comes to animals, GMOs tend to have much poorer quality of life and tend to be completely incapable of surviving without constant support (chickens who can't stand on their own, cows who can't go more than 48 hours without milking, etc)."

I am sure we do not we need genetic manipulation to create such animals (regular breeding does 'wonders', too) and do not know of any case where we used GM here. Care to elaborate?
Admittedly, I can kinda-sorta understand becoming a libertarian if you grew up in Northern California: its local/municipal/regional governments are a special kind of stupid that you only get when combining lower-class reaction with landowner chauvinism with new money elitism.
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Seemed interesting; however I uninstalled after a few minutes of use. I think the idea certainly has potential - but the people around me just seem to treat it as a status update or Instagram post.

This would be a great technology to spread important information but I don't know how you'd filter that without defeating the purpose of "infecting" people.
> Also on a sidenote, who's downvoting all the comments and the thread itself?

The thread itself, no clue, how can you even see that? I'd assume there's quite a bit of people who get tired of hearing about bitcoin though. It's a bit like how I really, really didn't feel like hearing about social media being the biggest thing ever years back, until it became something actually substantial recently.

As for the comments, all I see is 'oh cool, awesome'. HN doesn't like that, you just use upvoting to show appreciation.

Anyway, I can't help but say it's pretty awesome, too. Bitpay's definitely been doing some great open-source work to create a bitcoin library that works as well (and similarly) in the browser as server side, it's really nice to work with and very comprehensive, too. I wish they had a little showcase page going where they point you to projects that use it, though. Their own Copay does for example, a shared wallet which I've tried a couple times, works very nicely.
> The intuition that, “if you are accused of assault by multiple people, you’re probably guilty” is often accurate. Importantly, even if you were to choose settings where someone who has been accused once is more likely than not to be innocent, the probability of innocence often drops dramatically if they have been accused twice.

This doesn't account for whether or not the accusations are independent of one another, which in this case most were not.
There's some truth in what you're saying, and I don't entirely disagree, but here are where I see you being overly optimistic on the matter of SV's meritocracy.

> You don't need a degree to get into tech.

As soon as the market draws back, the non-BA programmers are going to be shut out (and most will have to go to school). I wish it weren't that way, but that seems to be how these things work. The more pedigreed you are, the less you fall.

That said, a bit of blue-collar street smarts can also serve you well. The people who really take a dive are the middle-class earnest types who aren't high enough on the socioeconomic spectrum to be protected, but were never low enough to learn how brutal the world can be when resources are scarce and contracting.

> Talent has the opportunity to present itself in an abstract way. You can create an anonymous github account and prove your skills, and no one would know any demographic information about you.

You can get an engineer position, but you won't become a founder that way. There are no blind auditions to raise VC.

> In tech, some people benefit from mentors, but there are also lots of examples of people that have never had a mentor and do very well.

What would you call the guy who offers the first introduction to the first investor?
Isn't this what an incubator does? It kind of shields you from "going it alone" and provides a pathway for growth by maximizing benefits and minimizing risk?
Heh, I wonder what the correction force is here? So Fox news says something that is false based on bogus tweets, but gets more viewer engagement. At what point does the FCC require they run a crawl that says "This show provides for entertainment purposes only." ? I kind of get it when my Dad's octogenarian buddies forward me some email thread claiming that half of California's population consists of undocumented workers. based on random hate blogs, but nominal 'news' sources like Fox should have at least some accountability to the licensing authorities right?
I don't think that's true. You can create more elaborate works in less time thanks to technology, but you could sketch or compose a copyrightable work in minutes a century ago.

There once was a property case
which was wildly absurd on its face
A camera, an ape
and an unforeseen jape
fell outside copyrightable space

^ 3 minutes of creative work. Refers to http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-07/internet-goes-ape-over...

Now this is not such a great thing that it deserves protection until 2084+my remaining lifespan, but my point is that verses of this sort could have been composed and committed to paper in 3 minutes in 1814 just as easily as in 2014.
Some centuries ago, there were periods when many people would get accused of consorting with the devil, and multiple witnesses would be brought forward to substantiate this, and many people were burned as a result.

That's not just a problem of ancient superstition; as recently as the 90s, a number of people were convicted of Satanic Ritual Abuse, with multiple witnesses, and some of the real victims (often women working in places like daycare centers) have been in jail for decades on the basis of clearly unbelievable and coached testimony.

Whenever one of these periods occurs, it's not a one-off act by some individual, nor even a matter of any specific religion. It's a clear indication that the justice system has been fundamentally compromised in the way it treats evidence and renders a final judgement.

This article might have good intentions, but its method could be applied to witchcraft or Satanic Ritual Abuse, and obtain the same kinds of conclusions: If you're accused of witchcraft by multiple people, you're probably guilty. This is still mostly true if we don't believe that witches are a separate kind of people. Increasing our certainty that witches are witches is even good for the people who are accused of being witches.

Counting up the number of accusations is clearly a wrong standard for determining that someone is guilty. The available evidence in each case matters, and accusations are not necessarily independent. The general presumption of innocence until proven guilty is still necessary and still applies to rape as to other crimes.
You can't have constant load -- the power needed is dictated by the conditions. But what is known is that you want to operate at full throttle to be the most efficient, so the way to vary power is to vary RPM. (Propellers are also generally more efficient at low RPM, but I don't think that's what was referred to here.)
Culture can't exist without reuse and adaptation.

The natural state of affairs would be that anyone is free to see or listen to (etc) some content, and then make marks on paper, or patterns of bits, or sound waves that are more or less faithful copies of that.

Copyright is unnatural. It's not worth hashing out the arguments for or against it, or for or against any particular length, here. But the onus is clearly on supporters of long copyright terms to show how the benefits offset the downsides of restricting everyone else's freedoms in this way.
My team, who writes those tools for the 'IT Team', but really the entire company ends up consuming them.

Our company's bread and butter is low latency stuff and we're a small team of webdevs who exist in the IT side of the company, but code fulltime. I quite enjoy it actually.
We run in-house data extraction structure very similar to this (spiders, phantomJS, ocr, anonymous proxies, etc), and it indeed takes some time to set it up properly. Main problem I see with turning this operation into SaaS product is that no matter how big IP pool you have, if you have significant number of clients, those IPs will eventually all get blacklisted. Unlike the small players who create small amount of traffic and can run below the radar (and thus offer the same service cheaper).
There's a interesting essay by Stephen Breyer, from before he became a Supreme Court justice, that comes to the opposite conclusion.

He points out that because technology was slow in the 18th century, there was little need for copyright. When a new book was published, for example, by the time those who would make copies could set up their presses and go into production most of the market for the book had been satisfied by the original publisher. The faster things get, the stronger the case for copyright.
> I've yet to find an egg like that, though I've heard you can get them if you raise backyard chickens.

As a former back yard chicken owner, I can confirm the startling difference between typical store-bought eggs and fresh eggs when grass/greens are in season. They taste cleaner, as well.

The nearly-neon orange/yellow yolks are quite a sight. Over the past 15 years or so, I've noticed many mid-range egg brands seeming to have darker yolks, likely from some additive to the feed explicitly for that purpose -- kinda like dyeing cheddar cheese orange.
I would just like to thank Swannodette for all the amazing work he has done for Clojure and its community. You are the best.
What does this say about the Chinese language, then? Chinese has approx 10,000 words in regular usage. Does the apparent low word count have an impact on thinking? It would appear to me that the relatively low word count (ideographs) has not impeded Chinese from thinking about the world around them in a negative way...
Moving to Chicago in January. Man, just hope that we have a warm winter, unlike last year. Take it with a grain of salt. I'm a east coaster born and raised. I only moved to chicago a year and a half ago. Something I noticed about Chicago: I met all of my neighbors within a week of moving in. I had never known my neighbors let alone was able to acknowledge them beyond a nod while on the coast.

If you want to go for a beer sometime after you move in. I would be willing to do that. Also, take a look at the CJUG, we're pretty active. I've heard good things about the Erlang and ruby group. It also seems that the code and cans meetup group is taking off.
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Coinbase has easy integration of that does it not?
It's not very effective, but I don't think it's that bad.

In the end as a developer your job is to solve problems, and getting hired is simply another problem (solving which has self-evident benefits, so you shouldn't lack motivation).

It's not like the hiring process for technical jobs is shrouded in mystery: there are tons of resources on the internet about it.

You know what kind of questions will be asked, you know how you are expected to answer, the rest is just study and practice: a successful interview should be at least proof for the employer that you are able to grasp that process and carry out the work necessary to see it through.
I always find it quite indicative of American attitudes that this article took "number of companies founded" as a metric of success, and ham-fistedly conclude that the men are "ruling".

Why not take "happiness with current quality of life" as one? Incorporate that into your survey, and see how many men and women report back as being satisfied and happy with their lives.
I went to whole foods and bought a bunch of different brands of eggs and cracked them at home to inspect them. I noticed a big difference between the ones that said "pastured" from all of the others. These were usually the orangest and firmest. The yellowest and weakest were the "omega 3 flax fed" ones. Words like "cage free" and "free range" didn't seem to make a difference.
Congress is corrupt and inept. More so - if possible - in this case than in general.