skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) there is still enough to do, see http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/status/7964...
Usually an 'extern "C" { .... }' declaration is easier if you control the C++ library code.
At least according to some past journalism about him he's a genius. An evil genius, but a genius nonetheless.

This isn't about shorting stocks. It's about aggressive price discovery. He went up to an unreasonable price of $750 per tablet so that he can then bring the price down to the point where the public outcry stops. What's certain is that at the end, the price will be far above where it started, and he'll be extremely rich. He's essentially negotiating with all of us to set a price that the market will bear and which makes us hate him and his company less. The goal is to find the absolute highest possible price for this drug. It's not like the world stopped needing this drug when he did this - while he adjusts the price the drug is still sold far above where it used to be.

Lesson: It's easy to make a billion dollars if you don't give a shit about what the world thinks of you.

That said, I'm sure a lot of people could make a lot of money from this by buying shares of the company Retrophin, which he founded, and whose value dropped 10% just today. But if you're like me you can't in good conscience profit from his sociopathy.

What I worry about is other companies seeing that they can get away with this and upping their prices as well.
I loved the concept of it, but when you read how much they gave the inventor... it was crazy...if you have a great idea keep pushing for the right things to come together, not a rip off deal of your ideas! And that is why it is where it is.
Here's similar commentary by the Times
http://nyti.ms/16UBfHL
Sounds like you are describing SkyMall.

R.I.P.
Trade secrets are indeed protected under California law yo.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-trade-secr...

- "California is unique in that its laws expressly establish that the employer owns trade secrets created by an employee (Cal. Labor Code Sec. 2860)."

- "Federal rules also apply in California. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 makes the theft of trade secrets a federal crime."
I think it's more like they're part of the "Android ecosystem" where you have a lot of choice around fundamental components, as compared to the iOS ecosystem.

I get your point that Android, broadly, is a competitor to Apple. But, I think he's not just highlighting that the world needs an Amazon alternative (it has several).

I think he's saying the world needs a more open ecosystem where they have the choice of best-of-breed components from different companies. And, in that world, you might be able to pick the world's best compute stack from one company, use Cloudflare as the world's best edge/networking stack, etc.
It seems like fixing the software problem is a more reasonable response than buying and maintaining significant numbers of a new air frame.
> On stealing "ideas," do you have some advice here?

IANAL, and esp. I am not from the US so I don't really have a good grasp of the spirit of the law there (except that from the outside it is constantly surprising and scary!)

however, here in the UK i have some experience, esp because i want to ship software which directly competes with my previous employers in the future...

one thing to remember is that working somewhere enables you to gain knowledge about their workings and that the employer allows this at the time for its own benefit and not for yours.

its very difficult to prove/disprove if this happened though, and the contract signed when working there might turn out to be critical. whilst non-compete clauses are frequently so poorly written that they can never be enforced, the precedent here (in the UK) is that if you want to be safe and be able to point at past cases in defense then you do not compete for two years, poach employees, nor compete on your former employer's doorstep geographically. afaik there have been zero successful claims by employers if these criteria have been met...

remember this can be anything, from having beers on friday, to using a particular software for time-keeping - all the way through the the source code that you are so willing to allow to be searched. if you want better luck with this approach of being open - open every thing up, not just the code, but the working practices, software used, internal hierarchy, which cleaning company you use... everything.

on the other hand i know plenty of companies started by (naive) people who left and started immediately with their buddies from an old job and directly competed with their former employer within a year, using knowledge and skills that they improved on the job. they meant no harm and felt that what they were doing was fair, but imo they took an incredible risk by not researching what has happened in the past with such cases, and are lucky to have gotten away with it.

i hope this goes well for you. be ready for the media and naive readers to not read the detail of what has been written, and instead to slam you for nicking code to start up a company.
Then let me be the first to draw clearly from the public domain:

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday dear [someone]

Happy birthday to you!

(I hope the ruling doesn't get reversed and let Warner come after me)
Go back and watch their weekly review sessions. They were all publically streamed and had inventors pitching ideas to a panel of Quirky folks like their CEO.
But that's exactly the point: "point guns at law enforcement and you'll likely get killed" isn't quite as outrageous as "not paying your taxes gets you killed". Conflating those two only clouds the argument.
What was his level at the company? That will help answer your question / be your answer there. It is often in the contract before you are hired.
Adjustable chunk sizes would be beneficial as well.
>But open advocacy of a surveillance state is only a few degrees away from fascism according to our modern political mores.

There's a reason for that: we know what fascism looks like. Historically, oppressive regimes have depended on surveillance, both directly through the state and indirectly through a culture of informants, to enforce ever more fine-grained and brutal policies, and programs of oppression against religious, political and ethnic populations. You seem to be describing privacy as the product of a cargo-cult mentality, as if there were no credible precedent for that point of view. Those "modern political mores" didn't just emerge from a vacuum.

Bad things do sometimes happen when powerful entities correlate deanonymized personal data in aggregate. Your utopian description of the benefits of a ubiquitous surveillance state ignores an entire dimension of human malice that privacy as an ideal seeks to avoid. Although you may be right that this ideal can be taken further than necessary, you haven't really disproven its utility.
Note the words "can qualify" and "may include". It's not a matter of secret keeping. It is a fact-specific analysis turning on the nature of the product and the specific information on the list. Whether or not one could theoretically gather the information from public sources, sources outside the list, is also a factor. A simple list of buyers for a simple product may not qualify regardless of attempted protections. Not all lists are protected. Imho, given the various rules, I would say the default in California is still non-protection absent exceptional circumstances.

I totally dismiss the linked Fenwick PFD. According to my pdf reader that document was last updated on "Tue 05 Apr 2005 04:49:08 PM PDT". It's totally out of date and therefore untrustworthy as to specifics of current CA law. I'm a little shocked that it is still on their server.
Wow, that autoadvancing website is a deal breaker.
So we can finally see birthday songs in television and movies now instead of the awkward work-arounds. Good.
sandworm101: do you think those laws apply when someone reinvents something that was in their head, or only when documents were retained/copied/passed as in the Chung/Boeing case?
The law of customer lists being trade secrets is literally centuries old.

Perhaps you're remembering a recent case about whether LinkedIn contacts could qualify as trade secrets, which tested where to draw the line:

http://blogs.orrick.com/trade-secrets-watch/2014/10/27/new-s...
its also a death trap in winrt when combined with templates in the way they do.

debugging that typoing a callback signature results in nothing happening in asynchronous code controlled by the ppl task library is a massive pain for even an experienced programmer.

auto is nice in principle, but it is introduced in such a powerful and dangerous environment that there are subtle gotchas in real world use cases. including targetting a major platform by using its system libraries.

programming is about thinking, not typing and programmer convenience. i don't enjoy auto for that reason either... if it were to save me time it would be little. i find using the stl algorithms and avoiding the nasty stl iterator pattern like the plague means the problem you describe just doesn't exist for me as a day-to-day case.
Great, experienced inventors go to places where they're well compensated. Low compensation = attracting inexperienced inventors.
Ok, so let's say you forget to pay your Glacier bill because the IT guy left and the credit card changed and the alert emails go nowhere. Bye-Bye-Glacier! No payment, no customer data, Amazon might delete your data due to a tiny administrative screwup.

My point stands: if you don't mind losing your data, store it in one vendor. But if you would REALLY lose your business and put 10 people out of work if the data is lost, storing it in Amazon (or Backblaze) without a second copy backed up somewhere else and a third copy backed up in yet a third location (with a totally different vendor with a totally different payment system) is irresponsible.
Two-factor authentication by SMS broken in Android
I have a little desktop clock that synchronizes to WWV every night. My iphone5S is about 6 seconds fast.
No. The tradition is old. The law has been revisited and updates many hundreds of time.
nothing, and in fact the idea behind auto is sound if you take it out of the context of C++. in the context of adding to such a powerful and already overloaded with features language it creates subtle gotchas... i've hit them and seen them being hit, so i don't use it.

the usual examples of it shortening iterators are not a problem i have day to day... i also find arguments about typing less and avoiding typing mistakes seem to miss what programming is really about in the wild. i spend 20% of my time at absolute most actually converting my ideas into code and typing them into some document...
Assuming this ruling stands, does anybody know if the people who previously paid for a license to use Happy Birthday can get their money back?

EDIT: See below. Apparently the plaintiff's attorneys intend to try.
Because it isn't clear what MOD is for a non UK resident (me)
Phew! Now I can start singing "Happy Birthday" to my friends and family instead of Stravinsky's "Greeting Prelude!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJAEepA0nPk
For 'eternal' products like Coke I guess it's impossible, but for other still moving markets I thought a simple N-years NDA clause was enough to let ex-employee not screw you until you have enough head start.
that would be cool actually, but where would one find such a list?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251637
> Your post indicates that you and your co-founder quit your jobs at Smule to start Shred.

Are you insinuating that 2 employees quitting a company together and starting a company in the same "general space" is reasonable grounds for a lawsuit?

> If you believe that your defense will be successful because you can prove you didn't steal code outright, you are being incredibly naive. It's not that simple.

And that's to the shame of our legal system, and to the detriment of our country's economy.
I liked the CloudFlare concept (protecting good people) until I found it protects bad people as well: scammers, thieves, cybersquatters, phishing. CloudFlare makes it very difficult to contact the web host cloaked by CloudFlare.

CloudFlare is helping the scum of the Internet. They need to be held accountable for what they're serving, if they're not going to reveal who is hosting the site. If there's a way to find the originating IP of these scumbags, I would like to know. Obviously traceroute doesn't work because the IPs show up as CloudFlare.

The way I see it, CloudFlare should be required to publish who is hosting the websites they cloak. Otherwise you're encouraging a lawless Internet where anything goes without any consequences. I sincerely hope these larger companies address this problem.

I hope some journalists dig into this because I think there's a good story here. Maybe CloudFlare doesn't have the staff to review the activities of the sites they're protecting? That's a serious problem, in my opinion, because their cloaking technology is very effective.
The Business Strategy Robot
This sounds a lot like a non-compete claim masquerading as a trade secrets misappropriation claim, and if so should be dismissed as a matter of law unless Smule can allege what specific trade secrets were stolen.
I bought their original iPad case, which was highly hyped, but it turned out to be way too heavy and over-engineered. It pointed toward the flaws of community design. I ended up with Apple's much simpler solution.
Which store?
Ya, it's in FreeBSD and OS X, but it's Sun that's the problem here.
wasn't this already 'de facto' invalid?
Something doesn't have to be true to hurt you. It just has to be plausible and difficult to disprove.
This sucks. I use ChucK for composing and Ge Wang's CCRMA class notes are fire. I was under the impression he was a pretty chill guy. Is he really down with this course of action as a co-founder?

ps comp vision on mobile is the future so no matter what keep on building ;)
i think i know what you're talking about, but do you have any youtube links or know any search queries to find them?
> If this isn't matter isn't settled, the legal process provides the means to sort it all out and you'll have the opportunity to evaluate the evidence supporting Smule's claims as part of the discovery process.

If they even make it through the discovery process without going bankrupt, which is the explicit, admitted goal of their opponent.
Selfies are killing more people than shark attacks
If they could demonstrate that the licensor knew that the copyright was suspect then they might have a case for misrepresentation or fraud. Given the potential amount of money involved I'm sure some lawyer will give it a go.
NoScript FTW
Palmerston: The Island at the End of the Earth (2013)
I'm sure if you guys emailed the EFF with your idea, they would be happy to help put one together.
Hack The North's official statement supports the cations taken by MLH.
http://hackthenorth.com/hackthenorth-response.pdf
Yeeesss... but ultimately, Go is also a pragmatic language.

Dynamic linking is coming to Go, like it or not; because it's a feature that is needed in certain circumstances, and that has been acknowledged, even by the Go team.
A cryptographic hash is pretty much as fast as anything else, and lets you be certain. There's no good reason to use anything else.
https://vimeo.com/55555820

Or just Google "TV Birthday songs."
Coursera did studies to show that Coursera is useful. LOL
Seems they're currently reorganising RunAbove and merging some of the projects back into the main OVH product line-up. OVH Public Cloud[1] is being rolled out at the moment, but not yet available in all regions.

[1]: https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/storage/object-storage.xml
Indeed. I have heard it said that the French Revolution marked the end of the Enlightenment.

No doubt that the founders of the French Revolution didn't quite have the intellectual framework they needed.

Neither did the US Founding Fathers---their "natural rights" (granted by a "Creator") was extremely close, but has not withstood the test of time.

edit: I wrote a long and thoughtful response to a grandchild of this comment, but then could not post it because I am "submitting too fast"---fuck you too, HN.
California trade secrets law has not changed drastically since 2005. If you have actual information to the contrary, by all means, point to it.

You're correct that there's more to it than just keeping something secret:

- It has to also be valuable because of the secrecy, so the number I'm thinking in my head doesn't count. But customer lists typically do have value because of secrecy.

- Trade secrecy can be destroyed if the secret gets out.

There's no reason to argue in the abstract. Here's how California law actually defines "trade secret" -- Civil Code 3426.1(d):

(d) “Trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:

(1) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and

(2) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...
i appreciate this downvote, but millions of people have violated this copyright unknowningly... afaik this makes it invalide 'de facto' if not 'de jure'.
Thanks, this is tremendous. I was doing my own comparisons recently, but without a nice aggregated set of benchmarks to check against.
@Aqueous, I agree with your post. There will be copycats even if he is exposed with this absurd behavior. His tweets are protected now so his PR machine must have stepped in to stop the outrage.
Glad to see Khan Academy supporting Android! This is definitely the better way to reach the majority of the world at the moment.

Would really love to see AndroidTV / AppleTV apps too!
Who? What did they do? I can't tell from the first page.
Um. That "old" "tradition" is binding law until it's overruled. It hasn't been.

Again, here are the current California trade secrets statutes:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...
Namecheap.com just as cheap as godaddy without all the up selling and ui mess.
I see what's being talked about now. I misinterpreted meson2k's original reply, so haven't really been on the same page as you or him.

If current C++ to C transpilers don't handle naming well, that's a problem that should be worked on.
Darwinism
Bingo.

Good theory can only come by looking out at reality, which is what empiricists like John Locke promoted.

In France, the disease of theorizing separate from (and eventually in defiance of) reality started with Descartes, and then spread to many subsequent German and French philosophers.

Decartes was really just riffing off of Plato (who may have been riffing off Pythagoras), though.
1) The statistic is utter baloney 2) see "The Climate Corporation" for a real version of this. Founded 2006 by ex-Googlers, real tech, acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B, and best creepy-corp name ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Corporation
Why is that? Getting the CMS out of their way is one of the primary reasons they outsourced development (or implementation, or whatever) to someone else (agency, freelancer, whoever).

If what they're using day-in and day-out is in their way or not "simple to use", its hindering (to various degrees) their progress in doing what they want to do.

If I make a website for a musician, they want to probably publish musician / band related stuff and go on making music; if they're having to figure things out or call me every time they log in... I've done a very, very bad job at giving them what they need.

I can't say I've ever had a client comment to me that the system was difficult / non-obvious, especially when using WP (even the first few I pushed that used almost vanilla WP admin).
Show HN: Locate your friends at festivals with BTLE (Couchbase and bonjour)
They bolted a wifi radio to a window air conditioner, making an IoT AC. Also a power strip.

They were also very effective at separating the Schenectady NY economic development agency from a lot of money!
This includes "Happy birthday, Mr. President"?
The copyright will end in December 31, 2016 for the EU
If you wish to brave the San Francisco Superior Court's abysmal court records website, you can plug in case number "CGC 15 545359" to see the docket and view the documents in the case.
That was the point of the class action mentioned in the article.
Sorry for the double-post. I should have put this under 'Show HN' the first time around.
> Recursing is definitely not the answer, yet it gets brought up a lot.

Speaking as someone with an apostrophe in his name, I'm not sure whether this makes me want to chuckle and reach for the popcorn, or bang my head against the desk. The answer to multiple (un-)escaping bugs is never recursion.
Interesting article, I would like to comment two parts

> The French fondness for abstraction appears in its most paradoxical (and perverse) form in the absence of precise statistical information about their Maghrebi minorities, as it is illegal to collect data about ethnicity and religion in France

I don't think that's the reason at all. My guess would be it's a scar of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Tulard#The_Tulard_f...

> an over-reliance on abstraction, and a fetish for semantics

There is a domain where this is and has been a good thing: science. There is still a strong french mathematic (and more recently computer science) tradition going on, with specific fields pioneered and developed mostly in france.

Our ministry of education is actively trying to kill all that with the latest school reforms, though....
The Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty
My beef was with exactly that - too many things that do system tracing, none as good as DTrace. But I will take your word for it that eBPF will finally make it possible to have something closer to a good tracer like DTrace and all the other incompetent attempts will die off.

Also: Thank you for working on Linux tracing - your blog posts have been very valuable to keep track of where it's all headed.
I think this statement highlights something I'd assume some didn't consider when debating the issue on Errington's article, or Errington and the other poster didn't consider when making the joke.

It is the Universities obligation to ensure the safety of its members, it has these black-and-white rules to ensure mistakes don't happen through lack of direction, inaction or uncertainty.

In these situations, whether threats are real or just a joke, the faculty doesn't gather a panel and sit down and debate the true nature of the threat, they act immediately to ensure the safety of their community. Knowing their policy is a complete evacuation, and likely realising that the comments were a joke, simply evicting Errington and the other poster was likely a cool-headed reaction in lieu of a proposing or interrupting the event.
I liked the comment about most apps "are the smartphone equivalent of the bookmark bar"

Based upon that, all that really needs to happen is for iOS to allow bookmarks on the home screens and for these bookmarks to send notifications (is this possible now?) and there will be little point in the majority of iOS apps.
Yes, if Sun could've dual licensed it like many other things (BSD/GPL) this would not even be a situation.
Minimalist Renderings of Children's Book Posters That Test Your Knowledge
Not if you wanted to use it in a film or TV show - failure to license it correctly would make it impossible to sell, and expose one to triple damages claims in theory, though they never brought any action - but 99.9% of producers would rather just pay the licensing fees.
One example is the "egg minder", a battery-powered, zigbee-enabled egg carton.

http://www.amazon.com/Quirky-Egg-Minder-Enabled-Smart/dp/B00...