skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USPTO is currently taking "reply" comments on this very matter (and other similar matters) http://copyright.gov/1201/

Proposed exemptions: http://copyright.gov/1201/docs/list-proposed-classes-1201.pd...

The initial comment period has lapsed. (Reply Comment Period Closes May 1, 2015)

>>USPTO Solicitation for comments on proposed rulemaking:

>>Section 1201 Exemptions to Prohibition Against Circumvention of Technological Measures Protecting Copyrighted Works: Second Round of Comments

>>The comments below were filed by parties who oppose the adoption of a proposed exemption. The initial round of comments were filed by proponents and other members of the public who support the adoption of a proposed exemption, as well as parties that neither support nor oppose an exemption.

http://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/

>Due Dates for Public Comments and Associated Evidence

>The first round of public comment closed on February 6, 2015, and was limited to submissions from the proponents (i.e., those parties who proposed exemptions during the petition phase) and other members of the public who support the adoption of a proposed exemption, as well as any members of the public who neither support nor oppose an exemption but seek only to share pertinent information about a specific proposal. Any associated documentary and/or multimedia evidence was due by this date.

>The second round of public comment closes on March 27, 2015, and will be limited to members of the public who oppose an exemption. Opponents should present the full legal and evidentiary basis for their opposition. Any associated documentary and/or multimedia evidence must also be submitted by this date.

>The third round of public comment closes on May 1, 2015, and will be limited to proponents and supporters of particular proposals, and those who neither support nor oppose a proposal, in either case who seek to reply to points made in the earlier rounds of comments. Reply comments should not raise new matters, but instead be limited to addressing arguments and evidence presented by others. Any associated documentary and/or multimedia evidence must also be submitted by this date.
Overall, I enjoy the redesign, but one criticism... having the secondary nav open above the primary nav bar is very strange. Any reason for this decision?
No videos at all with flashcontrol. Seems a must have for a limited connection user?
They're just repeating Canonical's messaging. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd "The new hypervisor isn’t a hypervisor" — that clears it right up.
The airlines are already responding to this by using more efficient scheduling/ticketing (when was the last time you saw empty seats on a plane?) and "upgauging" (using larger aircraft to replace regional jets).
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I read the title to the the post here on HN. Then I read your comment, every bit of it, *except to the last line, when it finally hit me I was probably misreading the text and it said nose, not noise. This is all on top of me having had the same problem a week or two when this was reported here then. It's crazy how much of reading is whole word pattern recognition using context, and how weird it can get when it fails.
The way I use dpkg-scanpackages is to have a single, central repo machine, with independent repositories for different projects. Publishing a .deb is the same for any project - scp, then ssh and run make in that project's directory. I have a very short shell script called publish-deb which does exactly that.

It could be that I've just not bumped into problems which require them, but I've not found a project which offered features above the set this gives you where the trade-off is worth the complexity. "Everything works this very simple way, there's almost nothing to learn" is very persuasive.
I'm always confused by nginx's version scheme. What does "mainline" mean? Is mainline better or worse than stable?
Sorry if it upsets people, but Ownership has been gradually been destroyed over the years and this is just another example.

I could go on a Libertarian rant, but I'm sure you've already heard about cars being raided without a reason or private data being exposed.

Sad to live in a world like this.
Js updates are backwards compatible
Which town? I'd imagine this is pretty common in places near Des Moines/Cedar Rapids suburb type towns. My observations come from living in Blakesburg, IA -- town of 400 people.
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And that 1668 acre farm is not a corporate farm, it's a family farm run by a single operator without hired hands.
This Chart Explains Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Net Censorship
> implied license to use iOS

The license isn't implied. It's right there in the EULA to which you agreed when you opened the box and turned the phone on for the first time.
Why the key to your company’s success is in how often your employees smile
It was a while ago but I think it was PHPMD: http://phpmd.org/rules/codesize.html
Contrast this with the Caltrain that chugs diesel and barely goes at 80 mph taking over 1 hour and 40 minutes to get from San Francisco to San Jose (the hubs of modern day technology). At this point the only advantage that Caltrain brings to the bay area is that you don't have to worry about parking in San Francisco.
Annoying? Likely, but once you have seen the abuses that have taken place over the last 50 years you will see why that is necessary.
Why do you want/need an incubator? Pleenq seems like an idea that's very easy to bootstrap.
In an ideal world, we'd only be getting packages built on integration test passes, and automatically pushed from CI. I've got that for some cases, but it's still a manual push process for others.
MyGola has been acquired by MakeMyTrip
Congratulations to the Swiss authorities for their reasonable attitude and decision. I wonder how this would have played out in the US? Also, it's curious that they were more concerned about the recreational drug than the fake passport.
This[1] RAND paper indicates perennial polyculture farming could increase yields for poor, third-world, subsistence farmers. Which is a very good thing.

But it seems unlikely to approach the yields of annual monoculture farming. (One quote: "The biggest difference, however, comes from considering perennial cereals. Most of the cereals that people eat (such as wheat, rice, oats, and corn/maize) are grown in annual plantings and often in monocultures. Since cereals account for at least half of dietary energy world-wide, converting that production to perennial polycultures with mixed intercropping would be a significant change in worldwide agriculture.") That's a bad thing; I'd like to see more use of these techniques, for all of the primary benefits mentioned in the paper. (The yield thing for subsistence farmers is a secondary benefit.)

[1] And it would help if I added the link: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/... [PDF]
http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/ explains it
Why the Bubble Question Doesn't Matter
d00d, I was running Slackware on 0.9 kernels in a business environment when half of HN was trying to figure out how to remove their own diapers. I know Linux quite well enough. I use OSX for my desktop because it's the least awful desktop experience. If I'm coding, it's mostly command line tools, and there is no technical difference between running bash on a Linux desktop and running bash via vagrant ssh on my Mac.

What is different is that my Vagrant instance configuration is 100% programmable and repeatable. There are no surprises. There are no differences between development environment and production environment, in terms of installed software or patches. I'm not hacking away on some snowflake environment and then trying to grok wtf is wrong with my code when it gets deployed to the next environment.

But the original post isn't about this, even... it's about Docker. Dockerized applications are 100% binary-level compatible from environment to environment. I can easily localize from dev to test to production using environment variables - a proper 12 Factor App. Why would I not want to do this in my development environment? Why would I go back to some crude 2003-vintage development model that I know good and well is going to break things later?

And it gets worse. Lots of us have to deal with heterogeneous environments. What if I'm building for both CentOS and Debian? With something that's OS patch-sensitive? Do I test in production to see if it survives? No, I use Vagrant to test every platform I want, and Docker to guarantee consistency whenever I can.

How hard can it be? It can be much, much harder than a proper, modern Vagrant/Docker environment.
No, the way to end it is to build an alternative that is better in the eyes of the people willing to pay money for the devices. Spend your energy on building something rather than tearing down.
Inflation and deflation were terrible when on the gold standard [1], and the terrible volatility was a reason every single country in the world left gold standards. The research from the great depression demonstrating that having one's currency tied to the rate one can dig up metal, instead of tied to the needs for trade, put the nail in the coffin. See also the list of US recessions, and the behavior before and after the gold standard was removed [2].

When volatility is high, everyone has to have higher prices to help plan for an uncertain future, so it is a drain on all aspects of an economy. If inflation were zero, then planning could be perfect, and there would be a much more efficient system. However, zero inflation is nearly impossible to do, since there are accidents, demand shocks, wars, and other events that shake an economy. History has shown that deflation can lead to a deflationary spiral, seriously damaging an economy and putting everyone out of work, so the Fed targets slight inflation. This provides protection against runaway deflation and also provides stable, predictive economy so people and businesses can plan. See, for example, the Great Moderation and related literature [3].

The CPI is quite accurate, and matches multiple other places that also measure inflation, such as the MIT based Billion Prices project [4]. If CPI and actual inflation were vastly different, there would be a host of financial products one could invest in that capture the difference, since many items are tied to formal CPI. Knowing people that work in places that would create such trades, if CPI were as far off as you claim, I've asked them, and they say there is no arbitrage. Can you show me where people are consistently making money trading with their "better" knowledge of inflation versus the standard CPI? Finally, if inflation were 10%-30%, as you claim, then prices would double every 2-7 years, which is clearly wrong. Using your claims, prices from 1971 till now (2015-1971=44 years) would be 80 =2^(44/7) to 4,000,000 = 2^(44/2) times higher, which is clearly false, bordering on ridiculous.

You're also wrong about who benefits from inflation: basically borrowers (you and me and mortgage holders, etc) owe less money in real terms, and lenders will get paid back less than they lent, in real terms. Over the life of a loan, future fixed payments are easier to make, not harder.

So inflation transfers value from lenders to borrowers, not the other way around. Inflation hurts banks and benefits borrowers. You have your claims backwards.

[1] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~ekerschn/courses/c150042/lecture...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unite...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation

[4] http://bpp.mit.edu/about-us/
This is so cool, nice work!! This could integrate nicely with my own project: https://statusgator.io

In your terminology, I could build a "Registry" of items and allow people to add each one to their Blinkenlights dashboard?
Southern Johnson County, south of Iowa City. Nothing suburban about it.
I'm not going quite that far, but I am suggesting it is realistically possible.
You don't care in terms of looking at your own situation, sure.

But as a social problem for people less fortunate then you the problem is compelling.

Note that the problem is actually growing. If the gap keeps growing faster then your wage grows, it will be a problem for you too.

As for your anecdotal experience about women I have to say you're wrong. No women will ever call herself a gold digger that's why they don't tell you wealth is on their priority list. The truth is, it matters a lot. See below. The content of the link kind of doesn't fit with HN, but the the evidence fits as an anecdotal counterargument to your anecdotal experience with the puppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbYNAZxcWh4
From http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd:

> And it’s going to be a real hypervisor?
> Yes. We’re working with silicon companies to ensure hardware-assisted security and isolation for these containers, just like virtual machines today. We’re working to ensure that the kernel security cross-section for individual containers can be tightened up for each specific workload. We’ll make sure you can live-migrate these containers from machine to machine. And we’re adding the ability to bind storage and network interfaces to the containers, just like virtual machines.

Maybe that's not the specific meaning that you had in mind, but they're definitely going beyond a plain old LXC container.
The filter you see is actually compiled and sent to the server. The client isn't doing any filtering. This is actually one of the more powerful features in RethinkDB, IMO. The query language mimics local javascript.
Mainline is where new features arrive. Think of it kind of like what used to be Firefox Aurora. Stable is snapshots of mainline taken less frequently that are considered suitable for long term use.

Mainline has newer features, but isn't quite a nightly build. Stable has fewer features but is more stable. I use mainline for my needs, including in production.
Specialty crops depend on the availability of somebody to buy them. My brother tried that last, before he gave up.
Thanks. So the 1.7 mainline version on the downloads page should be "1.9 mainline" soon?
I once worked at a place that had pair programming as a rule as well. Fix button size CSS for IE6? Two programmers, one computer. Change First Name, Last Name to First Name Last Name? Two programmers, one computer. Being stuck on something totally trivial yet essential where you depend on someone else? Two people sitting on their hands instead of one.

So this is what it ended up being: one guy doing the work or sending HipChat messages to the guy required to get unstuck while the other one was browsing Facebook. Then in the end the guy that was picking his nose all the time looks at the other guy's work quickly and you say "yeah....that seems about right....merge it!".

Sure I can imagine it's great to work out the architecture of your new framework together with a few guys and a whiteboard and then starting to work on the code together. But why would somebody need to watch how you're doing some kind of trivial CRUD?

Unless literally every problem and feature they're doing is super exciting sooner or later somebody is just colouring between the lines to get the application finished and a quick code review when it's time to merge the pull request is all you need.
One hopes that if farmers really care about this, then JD's competition (http://seekingalpha.com/article/2523975-john-deere-versus-th...), will dive in and start providing an alternative, at a profit.

We'll see if farmers really care about this though, or whether it turns out to be something like "Replaceable Batteries" or "SD Flash slots" on smart phones.
nginx lacks of many good improvements and fixes which does not accepted upstream devs, so nginx has so many 3rd party modules which most of them are invalid because of nginx version changes or requires old buggy nginx version to run

openresty well it is standalone product, it is build on top nginx with many 3rd party modules and many improvements accepted/not accepted by upstream, and of course big Lua support
Sure, every farmer left is incorporated. My Dad led that movement in the 60's. I count a family farm as one that a family lives on, owns and works.
yep but not for banking since the failure happens after you login. HSBCNET is probably the worst online experience ive ever had hands down. Their UI is from 1994
Elementary schools could have less classroom time and more outside time. Some countries that don't start serious schooling (classroom time, homeword, teaching pre-defined curricula, etc) until ages 7 or 8, do just fine on those standardized tests that compare students around the world.
Of course, geography plays a HUGE part in this, but even then, more time outside would still be better.
Of course. And they don't earn "wages," they are contractors.
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These China bubble stories on HN are very amusing. I can remember a few in the past suddenly filled with commenters writing in broken English that there was no bubble for X, Y, Z reasons. While I did not at the time, I now wonder if some of our commenters here are employed by the Chinese government.

I've been following Michael Pettis quite closely. Great analyst, understands and explains the global balance of payments very well, lives in China, etc. His opinion has moved from 'China needs to rebalance' to wording that sounds like he's not sure there is going to be much growth for a long time.

China's growth for some time has been the result of malinvestment on a massive scale. At minimum since 2008, possibly even before that. The factories that we think could be productive and producing things people really want at the right price could be in that position because of very negative inputs (unaccounted for pollution, interest rates being subsidized by someone else, etc.) Fundamentally, when you have an economy growing at a rate above the interest rate, many companies can just overgrow their debt while taking on new debt. Unprofitable operations can be hidden for decades.

It is now within the realm of possibility that China could see 1-2% growth for decades ahead. In short term, I would expect negative GDP growth. Based on what has happened to the price of oil (and other raw materials), and the drop in high end consumption due to a 'corruption crackdown' this could already be underway.

In general this should be a good thing. Certainly it is for the environment and climate change.
I wrote a book on it too, https://leanpub.com/NewDataAFieldGuide.

It mentions ArangoDB twice. Once in the Document Store and once in the Graph sections.
Back in the 70's air travel cost triple what it costs today, and there were many fewer people who could afford the ticket.
Give us all your personal information so we can consider you for citizenship, and steal your identity. Best phishing scam ever!
That part of the comment was directed at some newspapers that seem to not get the fact that family farms understand liability, taxes, etc. to incorporate. I've seen some really dumb statistics on the subject.

kudos to your Dad
Yes, what about it? How does this makes Google's behavior any better? 2 * bad != good
"The fruits tend to be more of a mixed bag that is best distributed & consumed locally."

Humorously, I grew up in the Texas panhandle, an area with significant agricultural production due to modern irrigation techniques. There aren't a whole lot of fruits grown there, though. The irrigation requirements would be truly ridiculous.
I mean a basketball player earns 10 million a year without writing code OR books.

Cool article dumb title ;)
If you've already set up up a VPN client, why wouldn't you simply download torrents rather than directly funding hostile businesses that wish to destroy the Internet?
Globalization is Zero sum;
The really interesting point is that nginx considers mainline to be more reliable than stable because stable does not receive all bug fixes, only the critical ones.
I don't know about apple's offerings, but Chrome on Android has an option in the menu to request desktop version.
I did the same, and just started skipping classes and going to the library instead. It made getting a job harder, but I don't regret it one bit.
yes, exactly, that would be awesome! if you make a registry I can add it to the community list.
Kibana is a pretty big one:

https://github.com/elastic/kibana
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> What this ideology calls "greed" is what every business, from the local small bakery shop to a multinational has to do: Optimize for profits while delivering product that satisfies customer needs at the right value and quality level.

I don't believe that every single business in the word cares about "delivering products that satisfies customer needs at the right value and quality level", and I doubt that you can find evidence that would convince me.
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Google ranks websites using hundred of signals with different weights. I bet a more relevant website is always going to trump less relevant ones, regardless of how mobile friendly they are.
I don't understand how the concept of EULA's and licenses bundled with physical products you buy can cooperate with the legal concept of fit-for-purpose. If I go to the store, see advertisement or get a sale description of a thing and then buy it, shouldn't the thing then be usable without having to go through a second agreement at some late date?

From a consumer protection side, it sound obvious that whatever the deal is between buyer and seller, it should be made clear at the point of purchase. If you can't use the machine, the car, the ithingy without being limited by a untold second contract, then its not fit for purpose and should not be sold.

Worse, from a market perspective, tricking customer in this way makes for broken competition and horrible incentives. Any companies that do not use DRM and licenses to limit unofficial repair parts and similar consumables goods will loose to those who permits its. The more you can trick the consumer, the more you can earn money on products after sale, money which the competition has to earn by making a more expensive competitive product.
If you want to help poor people eat, you should give poor people money to help them eat, rather than paying farmers to make one specific type of farming easier and distorting the market to artificially favor something that's actually less efficient (and may have all sorts of crazy side effects on the rest of the world).

Favoring direct intervention to fix the actual problem should be axiomatic, really.
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How many people do micronations actually have the capacity to harm? I mean in the real world, going from real world performance, not in fevered day-dreams of what "could" happen.

I don't think the "rest of the world" really has any stake in it at all. A few hundred people do, at most. These people may not be completely harmless, but they also lack the capacity to hurt people in any significant numbers. If you can be hurt by a micronation, perhaps you need to reevaluate what your government is doing. How badly do they have to fuck up to the point that a micronation becomes relevant in your life?
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What's wrong with competing with CoreOS and Docker's orchestration?
Been waiting for this: "backend SSL certificate verification". Thank you nginx team.
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I'm not sure that legal innovation obliging people to pay monthly for everything that comes with a EULA is really the most consumer-friendly way forward here...