skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you'd end up with every bill having a name like "The Job Killing Health Care Bill". It would just be biased from the other side. That might be good in this case, but when a bill you want to pass comes along, and gets renamed into the "FCC is taking over your internet and will burn sites like Hitler burned books", it may seem less attractive.
How is that any more free than closed-source, proprietary software? You could just as easily say, "Don't like the terms of Photoshop's license? Go write your own then!" And unlike a GPL software vendor, Adobe couldn't turn around and sue you for creating a derivative work (because your brain hasn't been infected by any virally licensed source code).

Anyway, the question of freedom between GPL and BSD is this: Does freedom include the ability to place restrictions on other people? The GPL tries to maximize freedom for everyone at the expense of freedom for each individual (the range of things you can do with GPL software is less than with BSD), while BSD allows the licensee almost total freedom to do what he wants, but doesn't guarantee that the freedom will be spread to others. It's kind of a quantity vs. quality thing.
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What would the zeroth law be, then?
> Nobody uses CreditCards in Europe

WTF are you talking about?

Credit Cards are a part of everyday in Europe just like everywhere else. And yes, I live in Europe too.
From the article: "In other words, you now have one less reason to fire up your bloated copy of Adobe Acrobat."

Using OSX's Preview PDF reader, I haven't used Adobe Acrobat for years. Preview is fast-loading, and has all the features one could want in a desktop PDF reader.

But for a browser-based reader, I could see Crocodoc being useful and certainly the interface is well-done.
Ok, let's contrast several options and see where the freedom lies:

First, the GPL software. It's copyrighted, but you can use it in spite of that if you follow the rules of the GPL. If not, then you have to obey copyright law.

Second, proprietary software. This is copyrighted, and when you use it you usually have to agree to a contract and pay money for it. If you don't follow the contract, then it's copyrighted and you can't use it.

Third, you write the software yourself. Well, you wrote it. It's copyrighted, but since YOU own the copyright, you get to decide what you use it in! The best, most free deal of them all, right?

Basically if you don't like dealing with other people owning the copyrights, the ONLY option is to make it yourself.
The Ato guy in the white top hat looks exactly the same.

Pretty cool.
Interesting that they managed to use "marketwatch.com" as the display URL at the bottom of the ad. If the link is going to the goldfellow URL first, then then the display url should match goldfellow. It is another violation of Adwords policy if your display URL and destination URL are different.

(Although in this case, I guess the destination URL is marketwatch.com.... eventually. But if they are using the redirect this Adwords user did not enter a display URL that matched the destination URL they entered.)
I didn't say the GPL increased freedom. Only that it doesn't decrease it.
Via which retail store? They need someone to actually sell the product, and Google has no experience with end-customer product sales.
I believe it changes over time?

I used to be able to downvote as I hit the 200 mark, but now I am well over 300 and can't downvote.. Perhaps it is related to the time spent on HN?
I don't mean to shatter your dream of how security firms are run, but on the whole, I'd bet we're no better than the industry at large.

If it's ever possible for me to hire a security firm that has higher standards than this, I'm going to do that!
> It needs to have higher specs, as it is running a knocked off Java

What? This makes no sense at all. How are those two thoughts related at all? And Android runs real Java, not "knocked off" Java.

> And as good as honeycomb cereal is, Android is pretty sluggish and ugly compared to iOS. iOS is <I><b>gorgeous.</b></I>

Oh I see, you're a troll. I'll respond anyway. Android is not sluggish compared to iOS; especially given that Honeycomb isn't even out in the wild running on real devices yet, this statement is totally unfounded. I'll grant you that iOS is gorgeous, though. But so is Honeycomb. :)

> Nobody bought the iPad because of specs, aside from the battery life. If you think they did, you still do not understand the market, and are probably baffled that people are not buying Intel based tablets.

iPad was a new product in a new form factor. It was a "game-changer". Nobody bought it based on specs because they had nothing to compare it to. I'm definitely not suggesting that people will buy new tablets based on specs either, but it will matter that the two devices are in the same league.
No worries, I forget that humour doesn't travel well online - http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law ;)
Yes, unfortunately, nobody really uses either one in the grand scheme of languages.
maybe myspace fan page should do that now.
You are mistaken. There are JIT libraries for C++. There are also dynamic profiling compilers (intel).
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Well, everything is a trade off. It depends what you're running.

I use incgc with very good results compared to the defaults.
The defaults usually result in pauses (Not good for something like mibbit), also defaults simply can't keep up with object churn.

So, anecdotally, incgc works wonderfully.
I see these apologist comments on every HBGary article and, please, it's not rocket science.

When you call yourself a "security company" then it is not too much asked to please not expose a half-baked PHP Application to the public. It is not too much asked to have your team adhere to the most basic password practices.

A defender needs to constantly monitor, test, review isolate and basically never make any mistakes.

This is bordering on FUD.

No, as far as your network presence is concerned there is a very finite number of attack vectors. For most companies there is no reason to expose more than a very small set of services to the world. Hardening these services is well understood.

If I only open Port 22 and 80 to you, and the webserver will serve only static files, then you'll have a pretty damn hard time owning that box, unless you have access to very rare and precious remote exploits for the kernel, OpenSSH or nginx. And unless I make very basic mistakes in configuring these things.

Moreover good security is layered. It's absolutely ridiculous to try to come up with excuses for a security company having their CMS broken into and that being enough to effectively travel their entire network.

Any admin worth their salt will put the company wordpress on a separate server, with zero trust-relationship to the rest of the infrastructure. It's a no-brainer.

Yes, incompetence is widespread. But please call it out for what it is and don't try to come up with justifications.
- Convincing/forcing their users to use separate passwords per system.

I have to disagree that this one is really a best practice at all. I have dozens of different accounts on different computer systems, if I didn't do at least some password reuse I would have a hard time writing them all down, and remembering them would be totally impossible.

With that said, I absolutely think passwords on critical systems must be unique and strong. But I have maybe three systems I consider critical and dozens that not. My bank password for instance is unique and long. But I am more worried about being able to remember my passwords than whether or not someone who gets into the account I use to play Go online can also get into the account I use to play chess online.
Is this a potential win for independent iOS developers?

If the SaaS provider isn't the supplier of the app, but they fully endorse (and promote) its use, does that create a loophole?
We were just talking about implementing something extremely similar for my company. So great to see Node's progress make everyone's lives better.
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Who cares about the specs?
Does it offer better experience than iPad? If yes, then ok, it has the chance.
It's easy to embed, it also has (had?) a Javascript-syntax mode.

Racket is what most people recommend for learning.
From the recent developments we have been hearing from Quora, maybe it is TED that is trying to break down Quora's walled garden. I am impressed that TED went out on their own, just hope they try and keep it as open as possible.
someone else had a SQL injection bug on the same box and the hackers defaced every site on the box. The difference is that we did a risk analysis beforehand and decided to never to store sensitive data there nor use the same credentials for that account anywhere else

And that's precisely the difference everyone should look for when hiring a security company.
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If Google can't match $600-800 dollars for a tablet device, that's just embarrassing.
It's a bit oversimplified, but thinking of there being four areas helps for me. Physical, mental, financial, and emotional/relational. "Nerds" tend to do fine in the financial and mental areas, but they are generally lacking in the physical, and tend to be terrible at relational (which is arguably the most important for attracting women.)
Wow, completely amazing pricing. Going to get the wi-fi version. This completely blow away the current iPad. Has front/back facing camera with video capture, better resolution, dual-core processor with graphics acceleration, HDMI, USB, microSD, Android 3.0 etc. Good strategy of going after the high end. After all, in another 6 months you will be able to get the current iPad like specs on the low end for $300/$400 from commodity players.
If I shop at Wal-Mart, the money leaves my local economy forever and basically just goes to shareholders and overseas manufactures.

This is only the case if no one who gets money, either directly or indirectly, from Wal-Mart wants to buy any of the stuff your local economy was making. Think of all the people all around the world who get money from Wal-Mart. If none of these people want to buy anything you and your fellow townsmen make, then you are absolutely right that the money leaves your local economy forever.

But this points to a deeper pathology. You want something people outside your community provide (through Wal-Mart or whatever), but you refuse to give back an equal amount of value for what you extract. Because of this expectation, you rail against anything non-local. This is how trade deficits get started, and the solution to them is not to scream for a reemergence of isolationist economic policy, which is essentially your concept of a self-circulating local economy. The solution is to realize that other people want you to do things for them when they do things for you, and to get over this quaint notion of historic mainstreet town life if you really want the things that a big box style economy provides. You can't have both unless you want to go broke.

I also think local merchants are more likely to sell goods/services that are better for their local economy than a big box retailer that is completely disconnected from the local economy.

Can you back this up, or are you waxing sentimental?

As far as the flow of capital is concerned, a big box retailer provides a lot for a local economy because people spend a lot of money there. They're winning as far as cash flow goes, which means they are giving people what they want, even if they whine about getting it.

If nothing else, I think this shows that local economies aren't as special and unique as people claim they are; it's like the Lake Wobegon Effect for retail. Your local economy is not that special, your locality is not that special, and your fight to remain isolated in all the ways you think matter while becoming interconnected with other communities in all the ways you are willing to tolerate is going to backfire, because you come across expecting more from others than they are allowed to expect from you. If you want that money back, then do something that makes people want to give it back to you. It's as simple as that.
Consider the "local economy" as the entire planet. There is no reason to expect that "local" has to mean your own country. Goods, currency and labour are all placed on a global platform for competition. If you are concerned with trying to sandbox your bit of currency into a particular geographical area then you are fighting a loosing battle because there is no real reason to do that.

I don't see any reason why a local merchant would be interested in selling goods/services that are somehow better for their local economy. They will attempt to sell what sells best. As will the big box store.
I love Preview, but have found that when I use the annotation feature and send it to others who use other PDF viewers (FoxIt, Acrobat Reader, et al) that the annotations don't always behave like they should.
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counterpoint: the publicity may have benefited them, especially early on, then as a reminder later.

Jokes are the original viral delivery system.
Ah, but that's the thing - it is a trade-off. While both the GPL and BSD (and other Free Software licenses) are certainly better than closed-source, the GPL is a promise to the user at the expense of the developer (a reasonable expense, to be sure), whereas the BSD and BSD-like licenses are promises to the developer, perhaps at some expense to the user (i.e. if something uses it it's not guaranteed to be Free Software).

Given that most people are developers, not users, I myself prefer BSD-style licenses. That said, I also think the GPL keeps developers honest and is healthy for the FOSS ecosystem as well.
The best web stack is the one you're most familiar with and/or have the most fun working with.
Kind of disappointing to hear that Watson basically ignores the FJ! category, if true. Especially when being far in the lead on a first-day tournament. That is a great chance to rack up some serious points depending on the confidence in the category.

Also, the "gee, it could be wordplay" aspect is a convenient excuse. First off, Final Jeopardy rarely has cutesy categories.

Plus, we know they mined the J-Archive. (Aside: has anyone else? Got a zipfile? I would love it.) I mean, look at this, it's not like "U.S. Cities" is an obscure category, even counting only Final Jeopardy! appearances:

http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1680
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=695
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=132
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2040
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2034
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3107
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=287
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=691

There are probably more but you get the idea. Any category that comes up that often is going to be pretty indicative of the subject, and Watson can see that the responses in this category pretty strongly fit the subject.
Can you elaborate on how stating that a "business plan exists for a reason" is illogical or arrogant?
It sure would be nice if the government just didn't know about the internet.
I'm very much against integrating an integral service of a website without understanding the pricing structure of the service. I know it says Free, but until what limits, for how long .. ?
A message to anyone still believes the specs have something to do with the success of a tablet, against the iPad:

Only two things matter: The price, and the OS.

No tablet is even coming close to competing the iPad to this day only because of these two things. I'm not sure I actually have to dig into the mass grave of all "iPad killers" to prove my point.
I think what he is getting at is if you have all of this experience and presumably have built up a solid network (especially if you have people emailing you money) then you shouldn't sound as clueless as you do.

My guess is your idea is technically infeasible and you should find a trusted technical source to review your idea with before you start accepting money from friends.
Or you can live up to the challenge posed by American women. If you can manage that, Brazilian and Columbian women will also be interested, so you'll get to pick.
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The 15 and 20 year returns are stunning.
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But the point the article makes is they didn't apologize or provide a partial solutions at first. That's what the rules say you should do and that's absolutely not what Apple did

(Unless "hold it differently" is the partial solution you're referring to)
The link is actually "geeks with an agenda", which is a decent description of an Aspie looking for UFOs.
I see TC is trolling Dave Winer again
Because of what you said, I went through about 600 photos I have on my iphone 4(some hdr, some not); I don't notice the problem you mention. Perhaps you just got a defective piece? You should probably go to the apple store and ask them about it, before assuming all iphone 4s have the same problem.
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Yes, the array bounds checks are inefficient, but IIRC, they're there to prevent buffer overflows that are/were prevalent in C applications.
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300 mill is less than a year is just nuts. Could you imagine what that money could have done for other ventures?
I've been a beta tester for a while now and I gotta say, these guys really listen to their users' feedback.

For me, I've use it to critique websites and essays. The annotations are great. I've also used it simply just to load a large PDF 'cause it scrolls through it faster (35MB limit).

Congrats Crocodoc Team!
Not at all! 'Batty' means even a person who doesn't know the right answer can tell they're wrong. Even very bad people at Jeopardy¹ usually draw candidate answers from a more plausible set than is shown in Watson's logic/errors.

The best case I can make for Watson is that perhaps the alternatives shown are each actually the top option based on totally different understandings of the question. So in fact many other plausible answers are folded up just behind its right answer. The shown alternatives are meant to be: if the question means something else entirely.

¹ eg Wolf Blitzer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVC28oemocA
I'm pretty sure that the book was sent to the relevant government people to be vetted, before it was published. The first time around, someone in the government must have missed the details.

The second time around, I'm sure they combed through it and pointed out the things that they would prefer the author left out. After that, the modified book probably got the green light.

I don't see why you would want to be an ass and just republish the book again without talking to the people.
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My writing group uses Crocodoc when we exchange drafts and provide feedback. Keeping all of the annotations in one place means that I don't have to worry about having 4 different copies of a document (each one commented on by a different person) floating around my e-mail or hard drive.

In fact, this is a service I'd gladly pay for if the folks at Crocodoc would give me a way to do so.
re: http://i.imgur.com/Vm1on.png Amazingly, EE seem to have doubled in the last 2 years. Not a zero-sum game.

aside: has SO found a profitable business model yet? They have ads, including for jobs, but last I heard, it wasn't yet actually profitable.
I can understand that - to be honest we're still trying to work all of that out. I'm going to try to write up some more details to address this concern. The short answer is it will be free as long as you are "small" although I need to define that and what happens after that. We definitely plan to have that in writing (for both parties benefit) before going ahead with anyone.
Excuse my ignorance, but why does being pregnant specifically cause an aversion to taking out the trash? The smell?
I imagine you could hand out a million dollars to 300 random people and see a much better return rate.
Sane wire transfers, direct debit, and a multitude of other things. Credit cards are on the rise though.
This is just a micropayment system from Google? Or am I missing something?
One of the things I hated about EE in the brief time I saw it before the paywall was that it is really, really ugly. And cluttered. It's actually even worse now... SO, on the other hand is clean and the content is easy to find. Even if EE stopped being sleazy, my eyes would rather go somewhere pleasant.

(And what's up with the people without eyes? It makes the site feel really impersonal. A little odd for a forum.)
>>> Any tablet with a higher price than the iPad fails to generate any kind of lasting interest, I don't see why it will be different here

Which tablet higher priced than the iPad failed to generate any interest? Xoom should the first Honeycomb based tablet. Given how close the Xoom is the current iPad in price but blows it away in specs, hard to see why it should be priced lower than the current iPad.
iStockPhoto background and Facebook account required?

Bawhaha. Smells like a phishing attack.

Edit: Stock Photo was removed and you no longer need a Facebook account to play.
there are 15 and 20 year columns in the table under that post
The government has been doing things like this for ages. Like they say, "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride". In this case, they might close down a website and you can get it back after due process, but not before your business and good name has been ruined. Same thing would happen if they walked into your business and arrested you for something.

If you want a more modern problem, look at drug forfeiture. They regularly take physical property and cash from people who are often not charged with crimes or even arrested, and even worse, distribute the cash and proceeds from sale of the items seized among the law enforcement agents themselves.

Personally, I had a vintage car seized because of a situation with a college roommate unrelated to me. I was not arrested or charged with a crime, they said my car was cool and maybe they could use it for drug investigations, and just took it! After 16 months of stalling, they gave it back, for a fee of $1000. My car sat in the sun in an impound lot all that time, and required $4,000 of work before it started again.
Yeah - it's full of really dated cultural references - I'm not exactly a spring chicken and Serutan meant nothing to me until I looked it up.
$299 for the 3g, $250 for the wifi, then we'll talk.
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But they are marketing your app by marketing the platform. Those commercials you see with catchy tunes and hands swiping and flicking apps, those make people want an iOS device to run apps. Everything Apple does is to make consumers want to come to the platform, and based on their numbers, it is working. Then you, the developer, gets to put you app in the only marketplace available to those 100M+ users. That is the value Apple is bringing.

It is the same value other market places bring. People sell on eBay because they know there are eyeballs there. Same with people who sell on Amazon. eBay and Amazon market their platforms to bring that value. No one creates their own webpage when they want to sell some stuff and hope people find it through Google. They go to where the hard part, bringing people to look, has already been done.
Data lock-in. They've got my tax info from the last 11 years. They pre-fill a bunch of stuff based on that.
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