skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about two different things, really: You're saying that RMS was concerned about copy protection and locked-down devices in general back in 1997. That's true, and nobody has said anything to the contrary.

But RMS and the FSF didn't, as far as I remember, oppose the DMCA! It's not because they were in favor of it, but because few people in the tech community outside of the DFC were paying attention.

If you look at the FSF's web site a few weeks after the DMCA became law, it talks about the fixing the (bad) Communications Decency Act, fixing (bad) software patents, and fixing (bad) crypto laws, but it doesn't even mention the DMCA: https://web.archive.org/web/19981206082742/http://www.fsf.or...

BTW, late 1998 wasn't exactly exclusively Usenet/phone coordination days. Slashdot with its Your Rights Online section had launched a year before, and Wired had already been publishing its Netizen section, including my contributions, for about three years. EFF had been around for almost 10 years, and there was VTW, CDT, EPIC, ACLU, etc. also in the mix. Even my Politech mailing list.

We were there. I was there. We were indeed outgunned. But also the politicians voting for the DMCA's "anti-circumvention" language never intended it to be wielded against farmers with John Deere tractors.
I should have been more clear about this. I read the full article, and if I though that "But the overall standard of living will be raised unilaterally for all individuals" was a sufficient answer to my issues with PG's piece, I wouldn't have written a reply!

I think there's tremendous value in preventing our society from dividing into two spheres so far away from each other that merit-based mobility is practically nonexistent - a world of "haves" and "have-nots." Because if you do split society that way, then even if the "have-nots" are arguably at a higher standard of living than today's working class, they're still not in a place where they can contribute innovative ideas to the cutting edge of technology - which requires the "luxurious" education that the "haves" have. And I'm arguing on the basis that it's short-sighted to dismiss the innovative ideas that could arise from the "have-nots."
Almost all my downvotes seem to be because I am too rude or because I am poor at communicating.i am just guessing there though.
It's not a catch-22 when being able to assert personhood on their own would free them. It's only a catch-22 if doing so would not.
This is awesome! I'm currently working through a machine learning project for one of my classes, and I was using flight data (which is also super interesting), but the inner astronomer in me is pushing for me to scrap everything I've done and pick a dataset from here.

But, even if I don't, I foresee many experiments with this data. Awesome.
That's not how it would work. The feds clearly won't even impose "are you here legally in the first place" restrictions. Bush and Obama have made that perfectly clear.

Anyway, the whole idea stinks of shit like the propaganda line "jobs americans won't do." You really think Americans are some sort of idiots that couldn't make use of the land and infrastructure in Detroit given proper reforms? Apparently we're too dumb and need some foreigners to lead the way.
Author here. Suggestions?
Will there be an API for this data to allow business owners to extract it?

One of my clients is building a dashboard that correlates data from various sources, and this kind of data for physical businesses has long been a dream.
> At first glance I thought this read "NSA data API".

They already have a lot of contractors on it, thanks anyway.
Scrolled to the bottom and there was no elevator.
please, please don't modify scroll speed, it's a system wide option, not per website setting
Your argument is essentially: The barriers you insert, even if they block optimization, will never block optimization in a way that changes behavior. This is demonstrably false, since you are, among other things, taking the address of a variable, which means escape analysis won't do things to it, etc.

You can argue "The behavior it changes doesn't matter". As i've shown,
1. it does in a threaded environment (like, you know, go)
2. It depends on whether your code is buggy or not.

IT's certainly true that it never, on it's own, causes bugs.
But as i've shown, it can make bugs appear to come or go.

If you don't think that will ever happen, i don't know what to tell you, other than "It has happened in literally every compiler that has ever had barriers like this".

Without any evidence why Go should be different here, i don't see why go will be different here.
For those looking for more talks and interviews, I compiled Paul Graham, Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston's videos (as well as many by other VCs) into timelines on my site:
[1] http://newslines.org/paul-graham/
[2] http://newslines.org/sam-altman/
[3] http://newslines.org/jessica-livingston/
The persistent misconception about containers on hackernews is unfortunate. The open source Linux container project (LXC) dates 2009, has been supported by Ubuntu since 2012, and has mainly been developed by Stephane Graber and Serge Hallyn. They have now developed LXD that builds on LXC.[1] It's far away from a 'me too' and to suggest so is an disservice to the folks working on the LXC project over the last 7 years. LXD uses unprivileged containers by default and is designed to support multiple hosts and live migration out of the box.

The LXC container project only matured with the 0.9/1.0 release around 2013, around the same time that Docker decided to use it as a base to develop a read only app container built with layers of aufs that LXC supported. Docker has not contributed to the LXC project or even attributed properly, it's website still refers to the LXC project as 'low level kernel capabilities' which in many ways is partly responsible for the widespread misconceptions about LXC in the docker ecosystem.

These 'low level kernel capabilities' are namespaces and cgroups that were mainly developed to support containers. The LXC project used these to provide userland containers along with container management tools and OS templates. This is what Docker used untill version 0.9 when it switched to its own libcontainer format to directly interface with kernel namespaces and cgroups. Referring to the LXC project as 'low level kernel capabilities' when it was as functional and in many ways easier to use than Docker is as inaccurate as referring to Docker as low level kernel capabilities.

Docker is a funded project and could take itself to market and gain adoption much more aggressively than the low key LXC project. This is something for open source projects to think about.

Immutability, idempotency and restricted single app containers made of read only layers are not the only way to use containers. They provide benefits for some use cases but also add complexity. It makes business sense to try to own the 'format' and there is an unfortunate tendency even for the technical minded to fail to consider not everyone needs these deployment centric addons, and disregard the complexity it adds.

For the average user used to VMs and complete OS environments, LXC containers are far easier, simpler and straightforward to use and offer a gentler transition. They behave more or less like your VMs, only more portable and lightweight. Immutability, idempotency or grappling with the complexity of single app containers of read only layers can be saved for later when and if the need arises.

Containers as a fast and lightweight alternative to virtualization with easy to use tools now across hosts with LXD and a wide choice of container OS templates seems to be an good option to have. Upstream features like unprivileged containers and live migrations is icing on the cake.

Disclosure - I run flockport.com that provides ready to deploy LXC containers.

[1]https://linuxcontainers.org
I think you're absolutely right about not wanting to bog down your salespeople with old relationships. Here's why:

It seems to me that a lot of companies who are at the point where they'd hire a full-time sales staff struggle with their early clients and not-quite-clients. In hiring salespeople, companies are defining themselves as established players with an established product to sell, whereas the relationships with early customers centered much more around being the new guys on whom the buying company is taking a risk and often getting a say in feature development and a discount compared to the competition.

Re-framing those early relationships, especially "with middle managers from dinosaur companies," is a very long and frustrating process for all the parties involved.

I could absolutely see why you'd want to avoid your news sales staff getting sucked into those relationships and instead do what they're fantastic at: parachuting in, developing new relationships quickly, and pivoting those to closed deals.

(Background/assumptions: I do bizdev-ish things for a large tech company. From the tone of the article, I'm assuming that we're talking about B2B businesses with products priced such that the relationship with individual clients takes time to develop.)
Colocation cost a couple grand a month. Its almost exactly the same price I paid for tier 1 internet colocation during the first dot com boom.
Can someone (OP?) please ask this user to upload this content to the Internet Archive (archive.org)? They love this kind of stuff, and it'll be stored much more permanently there than it would be in a random Dropbox account.
> He'll make $22.60 an hour and start on May 6. If all goes well, Clemans will stay on as a full-time staffer.

Uh, seriously? This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML ($30/hr, and that was in the 90s)
I actually feel the opposite - I much prefer to not have to fiddle with pagination - if (and only if) the following conditions are true:

* I won't lose my place if I click on something and go back to the page in question (though this is easily resolved by tabbed browsing; middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab on the majority of modern browsers)

* The footer of the page is always visible (it's rather annoying when one can't actually access a footer's links because it keeps on being pushed below the stuff that's being infinitely-scrolled)

The Reddit Enhancement Suite is on the right track with the former part by serving as a wrapper around Reddit's pagination and by preserving some reference to pagination in the URL as one scrolls; that way, if you leave the page and return to it with the Back button, and for some reason your browser forgets where you were scrolling-wise, it'll still know where to plop you down at thanks to the URL.
Yes, but I also see one between person and chimp.

And all such distinctions are, by definition, 'speciesist'.
Looks interesting, however this article needs to improve the section where it talks about how this compares with Docker, etc. The difference between "system" and "app" containers doesn't say much to me.

What is better here, the design? I like Docker, but find the command-line (and maintenance) a bit awkward, will this project improve on that?
What's Next for Moore's Law? For Intel, III+V = 10nm QWFETs
> That's not how it would work.

How politically things are likely to work is a different question from what is Constitutionally required.

EDIT: also,

> The feds clearly won't even impose "are you here legally in the first place" restrictions. Bush and Obama have made that perfectly clear.

George W. Bush's administration engaged in some of the most extreme uses of every federal power available (and more)over immigrants since WWII in the wake of 9/11.

They may not have used that power where you want them to, but that's a different issue.
Yes. Actually, that's our model. We designed the hardware to be cheap enough to be free (situation dependent) and then we monetize the resulting data.
“I’ve been working on crews for three years, and I’ve been abandoned 11 times,” said Stephanie Dobbs, a mother of three who worked with another company, Young People Working, LLC, until being stranded in Cloverdale, Indiana, last month. “But I keep going back. I’ve got to do something to support my kids, and this is fast, easy cash if you’re a good seller.”

Ummm... After getting abandoned 10 times, wouldn't you nix the 11th trip? (If you're good enough for easy cash, you won't get left behind. If you're not good enough to get the easy cash, how is it profitable?)

It's pretty awful exploitation.
How would you make sure 50k stay in Detroit for more than a day?
What would be the enforcement mechanisms?
probabilistic modeling is gaining popularity here for some reason. Alias algorithm is used here to create a discrete distribution https://github.com/jliszka/probability-monad/blob/master/src...
Nanex recommended the following to fix the problem back in 2010:

1. Quote and trade data must be time stamped by the exchanges at the time it is generated. This will ensure delays can be detected by everyone.

Reasoning: Changing the procedure to time stamp at the time a quote or trade is generated is a near trivial exercise. It probably comes as a surprise to many that time stamping isn't done that way now.

2. Quote-stuffing should be banned.

Reasoning: It is a manipulative device designed to overload the quotation system. Quote and trade dissemination (data feed) is a finite resource, and should be treated as such.

3. Add a simple 50 millisecond quote expiration rule: a quote must remain active until it is executed or 50ms elapses. If the quote is part of the NBBO, it may be improved (higher bid or lower offer price) at any time without waiting for the expiration period.

Reasoning: The exchanges must protect the integrity of the National Best Bid/Offer system. What is the point of having a National Best Bid/Offer, if not everyone in your nation (apologies to Alaska/Hawaii) can reasonably execute a trade against it? 50ms is approximately the time it takes light and electronic communication to travel from New York to California and back. It is impossible to transmit information any faster. This rule would not limit quote/trade rates. So long as trades are executing, quotes can update thousands of times a second. Only a small percentage of quotes today would be affected and the potential for catastrophically high rates would be eliminated.

Source: http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_CompleteTex...

My 2 cents... the CFTC/SEC/DOJ have suffered too much embarrassment to ever adopt these sensible recommendations. Sadly I think we'll need to suffer a few more flash crashes before something is done.
Javert,

Thanks for the clarification. Email me at 1000app@gmail.com so that I can email you my thoughts on this. From a black person's point of view. I suspect we will have to go a few back and forth. Maybe.
You can get a 30% discount http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2015/04/21/celebrating-the-...
And now you will die and your children will have the full authority to give birth to something new and different.

And that is the whole debate here. Are we willing to let humanity end so AI can give birth to a better AI? I think not.
1) Totally fair: average speed from DC to BOS is half of Berlin-Hamburg.

2) That's not my Acela experience at all; last time I took it (a few years ago) it was no more involved than boarding a Metra train in Chicago.

3) Totally fair.

I guess this is just knee-jerkism on my part. The topic comes up on HN every once in awhile about how backwards the US is w/r/t/ rail transport, and while you could still make a lot of strides on DC-BOS, there are good reasons why most of the country doesn't have rail connectivity. But that wasn't what was being argued here.
>And all such distinctions are, by definition, 'speciesist'.

not. Recognizing difference in sentience level not necessarily means "specie-ism", for example between a human with severe autism and a "normal" human.
> If the officer had reasonable suspicion to do a dog sniff, then he would not have needed to ask for permission.

An officer may seek permission for a search that he doesn't require permission; if nothing else, consent secures the evidence produced by a search from exclusion by a court that disagrees with the officer's own view of whether he had the requisite basis for making the search.
It's much broader than that, "(f) interference with critical infrastructure;" which can be interpreted to mean First Nations protests that delay pipeline construction. I heard from a representative of the BC Civil Liberties Association that protestors have already been placed on no-fly lists.
Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich
I probably just don't know enough about acoustics, but could vibrations with a subsonic period travelling through the earth cause resonations in smaller air-filled cavities (e.g. underground air pockets/caves; the insides of buildings; bodies of water) that would then result in audible vibrations?
First, r/K selection is a theory, a controversial one at that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory#Status).

Second, there is no contradiction between the two theories. According to r/K selection, long life-span is a typical characteristic of K-selected species, while short lifespan is typical for the r-selected. The theory I espouse would simple add that the continuum between K-selected and r-selected species would tend to correspond to a continuum of evolutionary rates.

If you still disagree, please follow the link and point out flaws in the argument.
Which is why you never consent
Also, that random dropbox account is now spitting out an error instead of a download.
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications?

If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely they need to do some manual QA before pushing a release to prod, and surely that is more expensive than bandwidth.

That being said, it's a really cool project and I'm not at all arguing it shouldn't exist because it does improve the user's experience.
One of the things that motivate people to work on academic research is the possibility of doing what you suggest should not be done. Academic researchers love reading and writing precise papers, the same way that classical musicians love to read and write complex music. Do you really think that they should measure their work by other people standards? If you don't like what academics do, just write your own layman versions intended for public consumption. Also, in many cases that is not even possible: most papers are just making a small improvement in a very complex issue, so it is very difficult to provide a concise version that is intelligible to non-professionals.
No, I am not "conflating creation with publishing/marketing." I am making the point that creating work of any consequence is a time and cash intensive prospect, and that absent the IP protections that gave artists access to financial support outside the patronage system, the elites of pretty much every civilization since ancient Sumer have used their economic power to sharply control who does and doesn't work, and what does and doesn't get produced.

The absence of work from the historical record cannot be explained solely by the dearth of preservation or advertisement on the part of elites. It's also a product of active suppression by the elites of anything that may challenge - or even lead to a challenge - of their power and authority.

The best way to ensure that stuff like this never saw the light of day was to take full control of the means of production. This meant limiting access to both the tools of production and the training needed to use them well.

As far as our recent liberation goes, IP laws that allow creatives to finance their own production are only part of the picture. Other important innovations include the concept of human rights, the idea that freedom of expression is one of them, and legal systems that respect and protect those who engage in free expression.

None of this suggests that the desire to create freely and independently isn't a deeply felt part of the human condition. The point I'm making is that, until very recently, most people suffered under overbearing systems of governance that went out of their way to ensure that this creative desire was carefully controlled in the few cases where it wasn't brutally suppressed.

Saying the patronage system "worked" is a bit like justifying slavery on the grounds that mansions in the Antebellum South were remarkably beautiful, or that imposing the miserable conditions endured by peasants in pre-Revolution France was "redeemed" by the glories of Versailles.

It's possible to appreciate the artistic genius in work commissioned by monsters. But it's foolish to think that the mere existence of these transcendent efforts means we needn't worry about the conditions that produced them, or those who would allow these conditions to return.
Why is Q not part of the system anymore? Isn't the Q carried by the 2H₂O molecules (or the solution/matrix/whatever)? Doesn't it just represent that the energy is of a different form?
The concept of vegetarianism is new to you? Where do you live anyway?
How can you give away 30,000 SMSs when Twilio charges half a cent each?
Here's a meta analysis that says that exercise does help for weightloss. It also agrees with you about the health benefts of exercise, and that people get those health benefits even iftheir weight doesn't decrease.

But it clearly says that exercise combined with diet changes is better than either alone.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD003817/ENDOC_exercise-for-overweig...

> The results of this review support the use of exercise as a weight loss intervention, particularly when combined with dietary change. Exercise is associated with improved cardiovascular disease risk factors even if no weight is lost.
I don't know why there's so much empty space at the bottom but I did notice my phone allowed me to continue playing the song if I dragged up from the bottom. It's four full minutes of sweet, relaxing elevator music.
I believe that any creature capable of asserting personhood would be able to show indicia of moderately advanced civilization. If there were good evidence to be uncertain, I could understand caution.

I do not have such evidence regarding chimps. As best I can tell, the studies where they attempted to teach them sign language show otherwise.
That's really just speculation, and it wouldn't likely sound like a "hum". Tinnitus and/or mains hum seems a much more likely explanation.
Specifically it's "App Nap" -

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/13/
> If "spoofing" was really only outlawed in the Dodd Frank act then it seems likely that most countries wouldn't have any laws against it, and an extradition would fail on the grounds that what Sarao is accused of would not be a crime in his country of origin.

"spoofing" has generally been outlawed since forever - at the very least since 1934. Dodd Frank may have defined spoofing better, but "intent to execute" (which, in imprecise language is the complement of "spoofing") has been a requirement for much much longer, and in every regulated exchange in just about any country.

But even if it was only outlawed in 2010 and only in the US - Sarao was trading the CME -- that's the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, thereby putting himself in the jurisdiction of US trading laws.
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