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(a) I've checked everywhere I can find on the site, including the sign-up, and the copyright status of posts seems very clear: it remains with the poster, and no-one else (including HN/pg) has the right to authorise redistribution elsewhere.

You didn't find anything mentioning it, correct? I'm ignorant of the law here, could someone who isn't please clarify what sort of implicit granting of rights takes place when we submit content to a website? This seems to be the crux of the issue. Clearly we're permitting it to be made available here even though that's not explicitly stated.

(b) This behaviour was only "fairly well-known to have already been done" if you happened to see that discussion a few weeks ago, and in any case wouldn't apply retrospectively to earlier posts.

SearchYC is fairly well-known and it has restributed HN content for a few years. Perhaps less well-known: it has also had them available in JSON for most of that time.

(c) This isn't really about the legal status anyway. Assuming this is all based in the US, anyone who wanted to register their content with the US Copyright Office and then record evidence of redistribution...

I don't think I understand what you're saying here. How is that not about the legal status?
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Here's a link to a video from 1972 of the experiment:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PGnHHnRMk0

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzYAdGl_0mA&feature=relat...

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSiMM_GIiyA&feature=relat...

In total it's about 45 minutes long.

Here's the part from the transcript on that site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PGnHHnRMk#t=10m0s
The main fear with this is that those who are going to be protecting other people are very unlikely to see this coming, nor to be especially prepared for it.

Why, you think working in security means not reading a newspaper? I rather suspect that the people with the high-stakes jobs hold them because they are actually proactive rather than the sort of people who stand around waiting for something to happen.
Surely the problem here is emblematic of the entire motion-picture industry. Streaming, attention competition, piracy - all these things are hurting the major mainstream studios. With porn, you can add to that the fact that there is still a social stigma with the physical purchase and (seemingly) a willing set of amateurs who are happy to produce for free.

I've certainly wondered how any porn company can stream content at youtube-like levels and become profitable. Surely the conversion rates to a paid alternative are pretty meagre once the 'job' is done?
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You can vote for both homeschooled and something else.
I dunno man, disfluencies like "um" are an integral part of language. I'd put my money on them being plenty common in everyday language 45 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disfluency
Until you go back, it kinda is.
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The idea would be that human vision is more responsive to ligh intensity than color intensity, and so, to optimize a display medium, we can use more bits for lightness and less for other color information. And to do that, we need a color space that treats lightness as a separate coordinate.

Secondly, designers need a color space that conforms more naturally to human vision.
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Now this is neat. I spent a bit of today reverse engineering the Better HN chrome extension to see how it looked up url's on HN (http://json-automatic.searchyc.com/domains/find?url=%s, for anybody who wondered, I can't find this API documented anywhere). Now, if this API holds up, it seems like there might be a more sustainable way of doing what I was planning.
I struggled with several parts of the post trying to make the wording clear. You quite correctly found two of them.

I'm talking more about the cultural attitudes that are represented in the comments than I am about the actual event (since I wasn't there and don't want to wade into something I know little to nothing about). The comments, however, are indicative of what many people in our community seem to think is an acceptable attitude. That callous and insensitive attitude is what makes our community hostile to women.

I'm not just talking about conferences - although the alcohol-fueled hothouse atmosphere certainly exaggerates the issue - I'm talking about the entirety of the working environment. The mail lists, fora, IRC channels, etc. where hurtful or inappropriate behavior serves as a strong disincentive for women to join or continue to participate.
Here's a much better picture of the team:
http://www.rockmelt.com/thanks.html?dl=b9068e9a4c500efc8de47...
I find that HSL is intuitive when I'm trying to get some similar colors together for a UI element where I need kind of a gray version and a highlight version in addition to the base color. The grey is just saturation dropped and the highlight is some extra lightness. If the hue stays the same then everything matches nicely. That's much harder for me to do directly in RGB.

What do you think is a more intuitive model? I'm always happy to learn something new.

I think the wikipedia page is great--I've used the math on it to write conversion routines in the past.
Dropped out of high school, currently in uiversity. Fun times.
Sorry. I'm not a lawyer. I didn't phrase that sentence well. I had originally said "no means no" there, but felt that that was equally easy to misunderstand - we shouldn't be waiting until someone physically assaults a community member before we step in.
Heavens, we have nearly as many Uni dropouts as current students. I never would have guessed.
The question implies that the option you choose reflects your ultimate level of education, thus only one answer should be chosen. I picked three anyway, but I think your poll could be more carefully worded.
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In this case, the Germans. The engines were maintained by Rolls-Royce Deutschland.
I've always been surprised none of the "teachers" participating threatened to call the police. (I would probably have gotten arrested for assaulting the experimenter, myself.) I would expect the vast majority to comply or politely leave, but I would expect a few percent of people to have a past association with torture or abuse and thus to respond directly.
It almost doesn't matter - BP in the US is a separate operating division too.
If you just drop the HSL "saturation" to get a gray, you quite dramatically change the lightness in many cases.

More intuitive models:

Munsell Color System (related to rigorous experiment in the "Renotations" of the 40s. Many later models were attempts to model Munsell space with a closed formula instead of the lookup table that defines the Munsell System itself): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system

CIELAB, the de facto standard for many decades in colorimetry, used for example in many color management modules, defined in the mid-70s. (pretty weak article) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space

IPT: I have no great links handy, but there's a mention here http://documentation.apple.com/en/color/usermanual/index.htm...

CIECAM02, the 2002 recommendation of the technical committee scientists studying this stuff, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIECAM02
Which option I wonder should be chosen by a non-American who completed school to the required level, but didn't continue on to the level required to go straight into a university? (For example, those who left school after their GCSEs at 16 in the UK.)
... have never suffered a fatality since becoming a jet airline. It had quite a few fatalities during the pre-jet era. [1]

One Qantas flight was even shot down by the Japanese in 1942!

(Apologies for the pedantry)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qantas_fatal_accidents
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Absolutely. I have run an SSL-only site (https://domize.com) for a few years now.

Other than Google Analytics I can't think of a single other widget/embed/analytics app that has supported SSL out of the box. It's a real shame, but on the other hand I'd bet good money that the web will be 99% SSL within the next 24 months.
I completed my B.Sc some 10 yrs ago... Considering doing a Bachelor of Laws. :P
They're "irrelevant" if people can easily switch to a similarly-priced competitor and have everything keep on working as it did before. Once the network is abstracted, the companies providing that network become interchangeable, and therefore about as relevant as the company that picks up your garbage each week.

That's the grand hope, anyway.
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Dropped out of high school and got my GED.

The full story is that I grew up in Belgium - I moved to the States during Sophomore year, and the schooling was so far behind that I wasn't engaged and quickly became bored. After a year I just couldn't take it anymore and dropped out.
they built their system in 1976, and the article seems to suggest it's still running the same codebase?!

Can anyone comment on what it might be written in, and why their infrastructure seems to hold up so well to such high traffic spikes?
The image proxy won't work: Google's js APIs are throttled per IP to prevent abuse.
Good to see that Kinect has been hacked that fast. It's a shame that he's not willing to share code but this is a good indicator that open-source drivers are coming fast enough.
Maybe the "Graduated High School" choice would be the closest for that.
But does "Graduated High School" imply "finished the standard education expected" (equivilent to GCSEs in the UK) or "finished the education required to move straight on to university" (equivilent to A Levels in the UK). If the latter, maybe "Dropped out of High School" is a better choice.
I must acknowledge your superior knowledge in this space (and upvote!) and perhaps excuse my effort back then by saying that the publishers were after something fairly accessible - perhaps a shortcut to creating something attractive despite not being a designer first and foremost. If I were introduced to colour/design via the link you provided, I would've run away screaming. :)

When I design, the colour choices just come naturally. I've never consciously made decisions based on the schemes listed (though they often fit those), so it's one of those things that's difficult to describe in a single chapter within a 10mm thick book, or even at all.
Don't be a fool - stay in school.

Anyhow, I too dropped out, got my GED and am doing quite well for myself. Any company that has had an issue with my educational background without taking in to consideration that my work experience now fully outweighs educational experience, is a company I just wouldn't want to work for in the first place.
My brother has "some university". Though now that he's 37 and working as a cook I think it's safe to say he dropped out.
If the shared key is known, it's also trivial to install a rogue access point with the same SSID and a transparent, tampering proxy without a realistic chance of anyone noticing.
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There's also Alfred: http://www.alfredapp.com/
Wouldn't posting it here make it premeditated and less "self defense"?
Or like any other language implementation with a language-oriented virtual machine: Java/JVM, CLISP, SQUEAK, ...
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I personally see django vs flask (or other microframework) as this:

- Use a framework that has adequate components that are well integrated and quick to get off the ground, but where you might hit snags with the bundled components later and have to monkey patch them to continue working within the framework.

- Use a micro-framework where you can choose to glue in excellent components (SQLAlchemy, for one) at the cost of the time spent writing glue code.

I personally really like django. Even though it is considered monolithic, I agree with a lot of design decisions and a lot of the components are "just the right amount" extensible. Most of the third party apps that I use work well.

That being said, I'm using flask now and enjoying it :) I hit a snag pretty early with django's ORM [1] and couldn't figure out a way around it other than raw SQL. SQLAlchemy's flexibility won out in the end. I chose flask over other micro-frameworks because of its documentation, extensions, design decisions, mailing list seemed active etc.

Now that I have switched from django, I'm really enjoying the flexibility of picking up 3rd party modules (or flask extensions) and using them instead of having the decisions made for me. It is very marginally more work than django.

[1] Query multiple tables (books, cds {subchildren of products}) for products that were updated in the last month.

Using an abstract base table (products), django's ORM required multiple trips to the DB. Using a concrete base table meant that getting any single product would require a join. SQLAlchemy handles this scenario with unions.
I hate it that the first thing you got to experience in the US was our crummy education system. My condolences. :(
graduated uni
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The key word there is if (in the first sentence). I doubt it.

Telcos/ISPs are headed the way of utility companies. They are natural oligopolies because the barrier to entry is too huge for there to be many competitors and it's in everyone's interest to have them functioning well and at least partially profitable, so don't be surprised if they get subsidized or even nationalized.

The companies that pick up one's garbage happen to be cities in most cases. So as stated above, here you might even be right--if by irrelevant you mean, that we take them for granted yet are still extremely important (eg, without electricity we would have little, without garbage services we would die sooner, etc...)
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I think it would have been neat if someone created a browser-extension that let users contribute such data, but I guess preventing abuse could prove to be an impossible task, since there is no way that I can think of for a third-party to check whether the user really performed an action without having to perform those actions for the user, in which case we would have to trust our login-details to that third-party.
Sort of along those lines: http://www.manpacks.com/
I found ZeroMQ via mongrel2 as well. It's absolutely brilliant. It's the simplest and most versatile way to do async, load balanced services I have ever seen. Even for plain request/response it's way simpler than TCP alone and it does all of that without some huge bloated messaging middlware server infrastructure. It's just a simple in-process library. It really doesn't get much more complicated than what is shown in the article, even for things like pub/sub.

mongrel2 makes use of it in a very smart way as well. You don't need to tell mongrel2 about each and every backend process you're going to use. It's the other way around. The backend processes you start just connect to mongrel2 via ZeroMQ and bang they get their fair share of requests. The protocol is incredibly simple. You could implement it for a new language in an hour. The mongrel2 + ZeroMQ combination was really an eye opener for me in terms of how server-side processes should interact. This is going to be big.
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Suggest to HN: Less civil liberties discussions on HN
Guys, I'm a big believer in civil liberties personally, and I think the vast majority of people here would have positions on various issues like that. It's a thoughtful community of intelligent people.

Still, the line gets really close to politics, and the discussions can become heated and nasty pretty easily, or on the other hand echo chambers very easily.

I also think those kind of entries attract visitors to the site that aren't interested in hacking or entrepreneurship, and then their preferences start to spread throughout the site.

Don't get me wrong. I think they're very important issues. But there's dozens of other sites to discuss them - maybe as a community we can decide to discuss it less on here, even if we feel outraged or agree with the article submitted?
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Interesting, thanks. I've never noticed as I have Flash disabled by default. :)
$3B is an outlandish valuation, especially considering they were valued at less than half that ($1.3B) in a round a mere 6 months ago. Sure the 50% revenue split makes it look like a cash cow on paper, but that kind of division seems unsustainable given how few merchants are willing to repeat groupon promotions or report that they were profitable endeavors.

If groupon really does take cash in at that kind of pre-money level it will really only mean that interest rates are so low and available investment money is so high that we're officially in another bubble.
I think we should be doing most of this math in floating point, so it's not about optimizing numbers of bits (modern buses are getting fast enough to send 12 or 16 bits per channel per pixel to the display, so we don’t really need to optimize bandwidth there either necessarily), but mostly about helping everyone (designers, photographers, regular people) use models which are related to the way we see, rather than computer reproduction technology.
I don't run irssi on my desktop, so no. Alerts are provided in the form of rcirc-track-minor-mode. No, there is no sound, but it's Emacs, so just implement it.

The deeper issue is, what are you doing at work that can't be done inside Emacs? You don't need sound if you are already in Emacs!

(Why not ERC? Read the code. That's why.)
it's too bad nobody neutralized the authority figure and liberated the prisoner.
Seems underwhelming for 2 people and 28 years. I am curious what heavy social media users think, though.
renttherunway.com does it for designer dresses and thredup.com for kids clothing
It's not surprising that words in a public forum are misappropriated, just like it's not surprising that a Mercedes with the keys in the ignition will be stolen. But that doesn't make either act any less illegal or deplorable. The law is clear in this case. Without any agreement to the contrary, the copyright still remains with the author.
Brilliant observation. People respond very differently to the same fundamental numbers if you present them differently.
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No, I totally agree with you, but there was a very specific period a handful of years ago I noticed people seemed compelled to fill any dead air whatsoever between thoughts with literally strings of "um"'s... So much so they'd still be saying an "um" after they were ready to say the next word (you could tell by their face and speech)
From a cursory look, it appears they wrote all the new functionality in C++ (and ObjC for UI on the Mac). That's a lot of work. Why they didn't do the bulk of it in JS/HTML/CSS is anybody's guess.
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You don't Have to do anything, you have the choice.

Please make a disclosure that you are not a webdesigner/UI, when you critisize the work of a professional webdesigner and I'm fine with the red.

Sorry if any of this sounds harsh (not meant to be)
The entire concept of the SSL icon is so that a user can trust a third party (web developer) that they don't know. If it's up to you (the web developer) — it's all up in the air again. And the icon/warnings are pointless. Which is where I've been trying to go with this…
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In the last 16 days, TechCrunch stories have been tagged with 284 unique companies a total of 482 times. 50 of these companies were tagged in more than one story, with the most popular being Facebook (tagged in 32 stories), Google (28), Twitter (18), Apple (16), Amazon (10), Groupon (9), Microsoft (8), and digg (7).
Why did you go for the mass market headphones when you could get high-end audiophile headphones for the same price? (Sennheiser HD650, Beyerdynamic DT880, etc.)

Also, Easynews is a lot easier than Giganews. Visit web page, type name of TV show, download. Very easy. If you are willing to deal with NNTP, then you have unlimited bandwidth. Great service :)
For the record, neither MySpace (headquarters in Santa Monica, CA) nor News Corp. (New York) are from the "valley."
This is problematic with services that have limits such as maximum connections per day from a single IP
This is all true but it is somehow different from the topic: one cannot do this kind of attack easily just using Firesheep kind of tool.
I think sometimes these discussions are carried away to far.
Don't underestimate the ability the entrenched players in the disrupted industry to fight back via non-technological means, e.g. lobbying the government to ban your disrupting technology.
The US military has these already. Quiet, small and carrying an explosive charge designed to kill one human target.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/01/micro-uav-assassination-rob...
Their data marketplace is pretty expensive. For any data you sell through their marketplace, they get a 50% cut.
Often, manual allocation is even slower.

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I read this, logged into the AWS console and grabbed a fresh snapshot of my EBS volumes. Problem solved.
Speaking of interest rates, I'm not sure how Groupon's model works, but it's possible that their payment terms let them generate interest income on all of the revenue. If they continually generate 30+ days of float, that's potentially interesting, especially if rates go up; although, I doubt it would register in this valuation.