HugThem

Lots of confusion in this question. Where do I even start ...

First of all, what do you mean by "this"?

You mention Napster and Limewire. These are things. Things cannot be illegal. Actions can be illegal.

A certain action is illegal if there is a paragraph in the applicable jurisdiction that forbids it.

It might be illegal to manufacture, own, fake, destroy or distribute a thing. But a thing on its own cannot be illegal. What would that even mean.

So who did what, which jurisdiction is applicable and which paragraph forbids it?

Because pc laptops can run Linux.

After one hour and 23 comments, you are the first one to notice it.

Shows that even on HN, the vast majority only reads the headline of an article.

    I’m not too willing to take a different
    job given my sweet gig.

"A human mind is too precious to be wasted"

Reading Google's point of view on what happened in Spain they had yet another model over there:

"Legislation in Spain requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not."

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9609...

Maybe it is similar to that? I wonder who defines what "news" are? If part of this text I am writing ends up quoted on a website owned by someone in Spain, I would be forced by law to send them an invoice?

I think making the commit summary the "id" of this workflow is actually interesting. It is a step towards doing project management in git itself rather then an external tool.

My point is that you cannot "lend" bits. Nor can you "return" them.

The meaning of "digital" is that the original never moves. Otherwise it would be "physical".

Is this about copyright? Aka "If you copy more then X words, your violate the authors copyright" so that one has to negotiate with the author about copying more then X words?

Or do they force Google and Facebook to publish those snippets and pay for them? Making media kind of state controlled? If so, who decides which news have to be included?

Or what is this about?

Have they been sued over digital lending in general or because they lent out more digital copies then they owned physically?

Either way, I think that there is no legal "digital lending". What makes people buy things is that they can not get them for free easily. Copyright is there to benefit the author. It puts a certain burdon on the consumer: They have to buy a copy. Or - if they want to breach the law - they have to find someone who illegally makes a copy for them.

"Digital lending" would allow the 3rd party to legally make a copy to the consumer. Because bits are not lended. They are copied. That is not how copyright sets the balance between author and consumer.

I would be surprised if the IA wins this.

This is an example of a comment that should be downvoted.

When does it happen that two branches share random commits? I never had that happen in my use cases.

Summary:

He published a 14GB file and one day there were 2700 downloads resulting in ~30 Terrabyte of traffic.

He had the file behind CloudFlare, but since CloudFlare does not cache files larger then 512MB, all the traffic went to his S3 bucket and Amazon billed him $2700 for that.

That is a really long article. Looks like a lot of work.

I will wait until there is a phone where I can just open a terminal and type apt install whatever I want.

Have you done that?

What are the "easy" steps to "overlay a separate read-write filesystem over the readonly system partition"? I would not even know where to start.

I wonder why one would chose a phone with Ubuntu Touch over some non-linux phone.

With Ubuntu Touch, you can not install anything on the phone. It has a read-only root filesystem that gets updated over the air.

So just like with the locked down phones (iOS, Android), to gain control over the filesystem, you would have to root it. But then your changes would get wiped with the next update.

This seems just as far from a "Linux Phone" as Android to me.

I am looking forward to one day having a phone that runs Linux. But then I want the same freedom I have on my laptop. To install whatever I want from the Debian repos via apt-get and update via apt-update / apt-upgrade.

Strange, nothing in the article tempered my expectations.

    statistics is about explaining an observed
    outcome in terms of its causing factors.

    You should mostly treat it as a black box

   only the following is stored in ibdata1

Just look at the very page you linked to. It's a totally confusing concept that befuddles users and causes questions "we often receive", starts "panic", can "unfortunately" not easily be analyzed and you might need to "kill threads" and initiate "rollbacks" to fix the problems it brings.

MyISAM got that right. One dir per database.

Has anybody ever measured the impact of share buttons? Do users really share the page more often when those buttons are present? And if so, how much more often?

To me it seems like this function is not something the page should provide buttons for. Just like it offers no buttons for saving, bookmarking, printing, resizing, scaling, scrolling etc. That is stuff you do with the page. Not something the page does.

I hade the same suspicion. Especially since the provider indeed runs a nightly backup of the VMs. But even after turning that off, the VM stalled the next night again.

A flag with that name exists, yes. But it does not seperate table data into one file per table. It will still put stuff related to the tables into the central ibdata1 file.

Google "ibdata1 one file per table" to see all the pain it causes.

    Is there any reason to ever use it

I tried sleeping 0.1s every 5s or so. It did not help. Still crashed.

I don't think swapping would even occur since neither mysql nor php grow their memory usage over time.

It's not an SSD. It's good old rusty HD.

I fire the queries sequentially. So there is never more then one query running.

I witnessed MySQL bringing linux servers down two.

In my case it happens like this:

I have a long running PHP process that constantly fires away mostly SELECT but also a bunch of INSERT and UPDATE statements and also some DELETEs.

Since the DB and the key files do not fit into memory, its all disk bound work.

All tables are MyISAM.

Like clockwork, this stalls the virtual machine once per day.

All I can do is to hard power down the VM and restart it. Afterwards the table data is corrupted beyond repair.

Not sure it is related to memory though. Because the memory usage of PHP and MySQL seem to be constant. Most RAM seems to be used by Linux for caches.

But can't anybody sue anyone for anything anytime? Does that mean anybody can bankrupt anyone at will?

As far as I know, being bankrupt means you owe someone more money then you have.

At what point does this situation occur?

I would think at first a court needs to accept the plaint and order him to write a rebuttal or to appear in front of the court or something? I wonder what exactly would happen.

You write:

    They know they could bankrupt me
    without breaking a sweat.

They already started taking action but as I understand it, you are not bankrupt yet.

If you put the links back in place, what would they do next? And at which step would you be bankrupt?

    you're still transmitting/redistributing
    the content

So they provide a service that includes storing your content in it's entirety.

Has this ever been tested in court?