skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the following three scenarios. They all start with Artie writing a song and offering to sell copies of it for $1.

1) Fanny copies the song from a friend (or downloads from a site for free)

2) Fanny agrees to pay Artie for the song, but then reneges after she receives the song.

3) Fanny pays Artie for the song, but then sneaks a dollar out of his wallet while he's not looking.

The end state of all 3 scenarios is the same: Fanny has a copy of the song, and both have the same amount of money that they started with. However, #1 is copyright infringement, #3 is theft, and #2 is either a contract violation or theft (IANAL, blah blah blah).

This doesn't mean that copyright infringement is theft in the legal sense but I think it does suggest a degree of moral equivalency, as well as supporting the assertion of the article that this particular debate is avoiding the questions that really matter.
So does cooked fish. Awful.
I can confirm this. I have T-Mobile with an unlocked Nexus One - $66/month after all taxes and fees, 500 anytime minutes, unlimited everything else.

In addition to getting it cheaper for prepaying each month, I get $5 off for letting them bill my card automatically.

(Incidentally, T-Mobile is a German company).
I really wish I could tell the colours apart, I would prefer if it were plotted as an actual heat map rather than just a bunch of dollar symbols.
Some background on this:
Jacob Appelbaum obtained a copy of Haystack and found serious vulnerabilities that could put users at risk. He convinced Haystack to immediately suspend operations.

From what I understand, there was a diagnostics mode that allowed an attacker to identify running copies of the program -- essentially the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do. Even with Haystack's proxy servers shut down, there may still be a risk to any user who has it installed.

This could have easily been prevented. Many people with security backgrounds, including myself, contacted Austin Heap and asked for technical information. He declined. Instead, they went ahead and distributed it to vulnerable live testers.
I don't think you can assume a constant rate for the speed of sound.

Sorry, not trying to add new parameters, but the question is based on a real-world scenario. So air density has to play a factor (although it's certainly fair to assume density changes evenly with altitude instead of the much more complicated real-world situation)

I would have brought up density, but it was one of the gotchas, and I was curious to see who spotted it first.
How is this different from BitTorrent Inc's DNA?

http://www.bittorrent.com/dna/dna-overview
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Rvbn07LhvMC&lpg=PP1...
>(Just because I can rate control going out, doesn't mean I can rate control what's trying to come in from the other side of that pipe.)

Rate control of what's trying to come in from the other side of the pipe is half the point of putting voip traffic in its own QOS class. (The other half being rate control of data going out.) You may not be able to for some reason, but any good QOS system should let you do that.
It is really true. As you would know if you'd been on a team that needed to fire the wrong hire.

As for why not to try people before you hire them, a lot of experienced people already have jobs. They aren't going to want to accept a "maybe yes, maybe no" position without a really strong incentive.

That said, a number of companies do have policies of liking to hire contractors, then make some of them permanent. This kind of works. But the best contractors they'll find generally are contractors from choice, and so aren't likely to want to make the transition.
You are right, "identity theft" would be more accurately called "identity copyright infringement". Funny.
Smoking is disgusting, smells, and infringes on the rights of others to breathe clean air.
I'm inclined to agree with you regarding accountability. But, I dunno, I really don't want my company or business ethics judged by stuff I said to friends in college... through IM. People say stupid stuff all the time.
70% for you, 30% for Heroku.
The fact it exists encourages it.

It's a shame there seems to be such a big pothead culture in the US. Very odd how some really clever people choose to rot their brains with drugs.
Not much of a nitpick, IMO. It's a pretty big oversight.

Curiosity: does any easy color-cycling software for monitors exist for color-blind people? It seems this could be solved by just rotating the color wheel until you can see the difference (even if the result is fugly).
Phone manufacturers do provide telephone support. I worked for Nokia's tech support and the same outsourcing company did Samsung and Motorola.

The call volume is less than the network will get, largely because the average person can manage to pound '333' (or whatever) on their phone but won't find the number for Nokia.
Man, grahams sound awesome.
In fact, we were basically the trader’s little bitches, and any quant who’s honest with himself realizes that.

I wonder what it is that traders do that they can't be replaced by software? How do they manage to generate more value than quants?
If the creator must pay for the shipping of the pennies, it is a definite yes.
Classic shell will give you back your up button as well as the path name in the window title:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

You can pick and choose what options you want. My explorer is currently configured to be a bit of a cross between Windows 7 and XP.
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No SQL overview - written by and for DBAs
spent the day working, but made it to the afterparty. seemed like a great event/crowd. thanks for the summary of the talks.
Or, if you don't feel like internalizing a bunch of "responsibility" and watering yourself down, get ready to be misunderstood and torn to pieces. And get ready not to care about people who don't care to understand you.

I understand that having integrity (a public face no different than your private face) is better than being a hypocrite. But it's better to have real, strong opinions than to have milquetoast integrity.
"The wireless interfaces which utilize HDCP revision 2.0 so far include: Digital Interface for Video and Audio (DiiVA), NetHD, Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI), and Wireless HD (WiHD)."

In other words, no equipment that anyone has.
Time to light up the Bunnie signal.
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Just the same, the people who up hugely successful by most people's standards, which is to say "rich," have a much higher probability of having gotten there at someone else's expense.

You're wrong. Or at least, we have no reason to believe that you're right, other than small-mindedness borne of jealousy and self-righteousness.
I actually think there could be some objective quality measures, but you would need someone with a fair range of experience to judge. Perhaps number of buds per ounce in the mix or a simple color/image chart to select from?
Objective-C Tuesdays: string comparison and equality
Your example is 5%, but if reality is closer to 0.00000000000000001%, am I still depriving you of something with those odds? How do you establish those odds and what do they even mean?
EarthNC launched a new Android boating app (partnership with gaia GPS)
Would these do?

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/08/entertainment/et-bos...

Original article:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html
I'm guessing they need people to solve the sorts of questions they're asking, so filtering out the sort of people who find those problems "boring" or "takes too much time" probably makes a lot of sense.

Your questions would be more useful if you're looking for more of a high level concept architect rather than a low level algorithms hacker.
Are those interviews so frustrating that you are willing to take 2 low-paying jobs instead?
Dude, calling your users dumb is fine. But saying you're going to 'fuck them in the ear'? When would that be cool? He wasn't 14 btw, when he said this...
Direct link to demos:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/demos...
I can't find a link right now, but I remember an interview with David Simon where he mentioned that Omar was originally supposed to appear only in a short arc (and then be killed). The actor (Michael K. Richards) was so good that they had to keep him. (Still can't find a link to the David Simon interview, but here's a link to an interview with the actor. He says 7 episodes was the original number.[1])

My point being: that character had to die. As awful as I found it to watch his last episodes, there was really no other end for him.

[1] http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2005/08/23/one-on-one-with-micha...
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Consider this:

I buy a book. I then loan it to 5 friends. Then it turns out to have a misprint, and collectors are willing to pay top dollar for it. So I sell it at a profit. I end up with more money than the author for that book. 7 people have gotten the utility for the book, and the author only got compensated for one reading of it. Does this make me a thief?

What about your local library, hundreds of people can get the utility from one copy of a book, and the author gets nothing.

Now, a book an song are different, and copying allows me to potentially get simultaneous utility from the song (I listen to it at the same time as my friend). However, I bet we don't both listen to it on continuous loop, and further I bet the time spent not listening to the song by both of us in copying situation could be mostly mimicked by a complex sharing agreement. There have been many times when I had roomates where we avoided paying tons of money on music CDs by pooling in just such a scheme -- it was as if our music collection was effectively 3 times the size (before burning was common and cheap).

So when does it start being theft? At the copying? At the depriving of some theoretical profit? At the point where I deviously get 66% discount on my music by sharing a piece of plastic? Why is the library not considered the moral equivalent of the song sharer?
publishing the standard deviation on the normalized price would go a long way towards making the numbers more useful. If you get enough samples you can do a simple fit to attempt to quantify the discount rate.
I agree. It's amazing how much I have to police my coworkers not to say the wrong thing, but I don't consider them evil. They say stuff, but they are just joking around. Sometimes I must seem to be a PC prude to them.
That was not caused by too much self control. If you did make the wrong choice (and I stress the if since which is better is highly context dependent and you did not describe the situations), then it is simply that you made the wrong choice.

The self control permitted you to make that choice, in either direction, instead of having it made for you by impulse.

(As an aside, a less brave person could easily have the opposite experience. They hypothetically did not have the self control to overcome their fear and fight when they should have. They gave into the impulse to be passive/surrender.)
David Simon at USC[1]:

In what seemed a preemptive nod toward any outraged Omar fans in the audience, Simon also leaned on the same source to explain the fate for some of his show's most popular characters. "Those who want to know why Omar had to die, why Stringer had to die," he said, "Strap on a helmet, get in the game and read Antigone. Read Medea. It had to happen."

[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/03/the-wire...
A couple of interesting UI techniques at Flickr
If it were just generic stuff, I would completely agree. I say stupid stuff to my friends now.

However, he was talking about his customers, the people using his service. That gives much less leniency, in my book, especially when everything else is taken into account.

I guess I see it much the same as I'd see an investment advisor who open talked about screwing his customers out of their money. FB's financial value comes from the data that Zuck is talking about screwing people with.
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> Don't build circumvention tools.

Could the entirety of your arguments against cryptosystem design not be applied to SSL in its infancy? Aren't the resources of the attackers always larger than the resources of the developers?

There's clearly a large gap between what currently accepted protocols can do, and the capabilities of zero knowledge proofs and secure multiparty computation. It's certainly smart to reuse existing blocks rather than recreating their errors, but that doesn't mean all crypto protocol design work is antiquated.

(although please don't think I'm saying distributing Haystack to users in repressive regimes was anything but criminal malpractice. Even TOR says to not rely on it for strong anonymity)
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For those of you interested in the history of intellectual property, copyright, and its "evolving principles", may I suggest the book Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership.

http://www.amazon.com/Common-Air-Revolution-Art-Ownership/dp...

Also, since we love hypothetical situations, how about this:

I create a replication device that can create an identical copy of any physical object.

Walking down the street, I stop in front of your brand new Lexus and make a copy of the car for myself. I then drive away in the replica.

Now, did I steal your car? Is that larceny? Or did I violate some other law? What if it was a Model T manufactured in 1908?

Of course, if new laws need to be created/revised/abrogated to treat IP violations as acts of larceny, clearly the original laws were never intended to equate the two. Otherwise, additional legislation would not be necessary (DMCA, ACTA, etc...)
> Do you have this irrational hatred in other areas too?

Yes. I don't like tattoos (though I love art in general). Don't like piercings either. Can't complain about lazy people (unless it severely impacts me), and I'm perfectly happy with religious people, as long as they don't try to push their views on me. I'm sure I have a bunch more of these things, my ex-girlfriend would probably be very happy to remind me of them.

I'm not about to restrict anybody to do anything. I certainly used to be much worse about this sort of thing (to the point where I didn't speak to my father for about a year until he stopped smoking (that was quite a few years ago now, I think I was ten or eleven)), but since college and since meeting a bunch of new friends with better outlooks on life, I've tried to simply live a drama-free life. One in which I create no hassle for myself or for others, which includes not openly criticising people for their choices like I used to.

However, I won't enter into a relationship with a smoker (even a little bit once a month), heavy drinker, and I'd think long and hard about someone with tattoos. Couldn't really tell you why. Not much of an issue these days either. Game development is such a woman-friendly career choice. ;)

Not sure if I answered your questions there, just typing as I think. :)
Sorry about those bugs. They've been fixed now! The slowness was caused by scaling issues which have now been resolved. Everything is super-fast again.
Oh, I never meant that you should fake it.

You will just have to grow up a bit quicker if you plan on being a player some day.

And if you hold strong opinions be prepared to apologize with grace.
More demos:
http://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/
We have lots of national parks forests in Washington, and BC is very similar terrain. I have a feeling pot is grown on both sides of the border. (I know lots of pot is grown within the state: see pot siezed near twisp,yakima,etc.).And Im sure lots of pot is probably smuggled across the olympic peninsula. So more than likely, pot is just very easily attainable on both sides of the border, equalizing prices.
Contracts for JavaScript
lots of websites require continuous optimization.
I know very little about the price of weed, but I think some of the data has to be bogus: $1000 for 5 grams in Palo Alto? When I lived there all my neighbors had their "ten plants" growing in their back yards, nobody I knew who smoked ever _paid_ for weed.
I've been here for more than a year, so I hope the general public will not mind me voicing a concern. In my opinion, something unwelcome is happening in the last couple of days. I think there even was a pun thread the other day...with upvotes.

Being a lurker by nature, I don't possess the power of the down arrow or the flag, so let me just say that now is not a good time to let these tools lay idle.
You could have given the same arguments 50 years ago to say Europe would never have a successful political union, continent-wide military alliance, or currency, and today they have all three.

Incidentally, I don't know about "a lot". Many European countries formed as unions of smaller states not that much longer ago than the colonization of America--the UK, Spain, Italy, and Germany all formed this way, Germany after the United States and the UK only a couple decades before. And nearly every country on the continent of Europe has already had its constitution rewritten within the past century.
EarthNC also did an iPhone/iPad boating app with us earlier. Flight Charts is on the horizon too :)
I built http://phonetapapp.com during DjangoDash a few weeks ago using the Twilio API. The whole thing is available on GitHub as well. http://github.com/bnmrrs/PhoneTap
Watch How an iPad Was Used to Paint This Stunning Hologram
Zed Shaw talked about it some time ago on The Changelog. See the blog post for more details and examples:

http://thechangelog.com/post/1097381443/vexflow-html5-canvas...
No, thank you.

It's refreshing to see that people won't just immediately attack me for the opinion. It's such an uncommon view here, especially in my age group, that I get a lot of flack for it.
Google Engineer Allegedly Fired For Accessing Private User Information
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Kudos to MS for a smart move. It would seem like you'd have tech companies falling all over themselves for the chance to host such a group. The PR value would be far higher than the marginal cost of using space that would probably be sitting empty anyway.
Google's HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up
An ounce is ~28.3 grams, and an eighth is ~3.5 grams.

For the most part, the US Imperial units are just division units when it comes to marijuana sales, not actually measurements. When it's sold, it is more commonly weighed using the metric scale than imperial units inside the United States.
The funny thing is that in practice US must be the most flexible developed country regarding immigration.

There are more than 12 millions illegal immigrants in US. Illegal immigrants owns houses, driver cars and go to college. I find it amazing. In Japan, if you're an illegal immigrant you're pretty much relegated to the underworld.
Example of a document in which they're useful?
3D printing of metal is here, if expensive. With that technology in mind, a computer-file gives you the ability to print a specially shaped piece of metal. A piece of metal that turns your legally owned firearm, and turns it into a fully-automatic cop killer that mows down entire preschools.

By the time that idea is exposed to mainstream society, hopefully society's knee-jerk response won't damn the entire industry. (The fact that the piece of metal is easily made today doesn't escape me. Society, however, is not known for acting rationally in response to danger, especially to children.)
A network that acts open most of the time, but can actually be controlled at any time (by say ICANN and Verisign) is even more valuable.
Hat's off to Microsoft on this one - they've earned it.

I don't use Bing for my day to day search but I've used their travel search and it's not too bad. It's definitely no Hipmunk, but it's clean, minimal and pretty snappy.

They've made some effort to take a dull product, make it useful, improve its design and differentiate it from the competition. Yeah, the logo is hideous and embarrassing. Yeah, they've also spent a lot of cash on the advertising.

In the end, though, they've expended more effort in making their search product worth using than Yahoo has recently. So bravo.

Meanwhile: Boy, has Yahoo just lost its fighting spirit or what? What are they doing over there? There's never any interesting news from their corner. Stuck in the mud. They don't even own their search results or PPC product anymore. It's a shame, they've got a good and trusted brand.
Or, as anyone with kids would tell you, it's a million times more likely that the baby used to throw the peels on the ground, until her parents taught her to give those to them instead of throwing them.
I know nothing about music notation, but I was very interested in LilyPond’s explanation of how and why it does some of the stuff it does: http://lilypond.org/about/automated-engraving/big-page

I wonder how much of this sort of work will end up in VexFlow.
If you had $6k to promote a PC utility product launch, how would you spend it?
If you had $6k to promote a PC utility product launch, how would you spend it?
All the top dogs seem to be leaving EngineYard, no?
I've said much worse things, both online and offline. These are a teenager's IM's. Nothing to see here, move on.
The post you're referring to is here:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...

and the argument is that you should try to "only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees", rather than just hire people better than the worst you have.

I find the part where he talks about hiring for project vs. hiring for the company a bit more interesting.
That really is a much better example. The first example implies some sort of correlation between impulsiveness or lack of self control and a willingness to perform criminal behavior.
I'm not colorblind and they are still not instantly distinguishable.
Specially if heated the microwave. Stinks!
Do you really want the future policymakers of America to base their ideas on hollywood movie scripts?
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Goal is, not surprisingly, largest number of paying customers.
Yeah I skimmed through article and missed the point of tonal test..
I posted this before (we auto-kill Gawker apparently, good for us) and found an alt-link, and 'yanw called me out for promoting a story that trashes a guy based on Gawker reporting. He was right. Can we wait for someone else to confirm this?

[edit ... and Google just confirmed it. So, there you go.]
The temptation to leave Facebook is motivated by principle, not pragmatism. Of course whatever personal information I have submitted to websites over the years has been snooped at some point or other. That doesn't make mean we should meekly accept such behavior.

EDIT: To clarify -- I am comfortable with the personal information I have shared. Such comfort does not imply permission for the holder of that information to snoop it.
> "Training users to recognize URLs is vitally important"

This raises an interesting side question. What kinds of things should present day computer/net users be aware of? In other words what would you consider 'basic training' for your average user?

The reason I find this question interesting is because I'm sure many years ago that a grasp of the command line was considered important (but then 'average user' also meant something different).
If they split it up, they didn't split it up so you could combine the calls arbitrarily again. So, I'm leaning toward the latter. But, I don't work there so maybe someone else will have a better answer.
"Steve Jobs Stopped at Japan Airport for Carrying Ninja Stars" Hoax
Wow. The web is soon to become a very different place, with a lot of interesting development opportunities. I can't wait!
In Vargas's story, Zuckerberg admits he wrote the IMs and says he "absolutely" regrets them.

http://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuc...