skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is definitely a violation. For example, here's (http://pastebin.com/GvFVfWHV) an iOS crash log (found via a quick google) that shows (on line 77) that the WAKWindow code is, in fact, inside the WebCore binary (statically linked in).

As static linking is covered by the LGPL, the source code for that (and other) classes must be made available, yet they are not. How is that not a LGPL violation?

(You can also see via the "class-dump" utility that there are many more WAK classes inside the WebCore binary. No source code has ever been released for those classes.)
(A) It fits into peoples agenda.

(B) Most people know almost nothing about statistics. Even those who use it on a every day base. Honestly, I'm afraid, I'm not really an exception.

I think if you have to guess between human evilness and stupidity the latter is more likely, right?
Yeah, and no other governments do, especially not the french...
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Irony: Sitemaps.org doesn't have sitemap.xml
they do protect the Government...
this just might be the most elaborate example of Godwin's Law I've ever seen.
Hear hear! Utter bull. Undermines the entire infographic.
No, I do not want to receive an answer. That would imply that I asked a question in my OP.
People are quick to demand bug fixes or better security, but they never seem interested in actually doing the work.

I don't use Chrome or Windows, so I have almost negative personal interest in this story. However, some people probably do use Chrome and Windows, and those people's demands should be tempered by reality. If they didn't find this bug, why did they expect Google to?

I think everyone who says "go fix it, it's open-source" should instead be required to come back with a diff within 24 hours.

I think everyone should be required to give me a pony.
> I just had a momentary burst of willpower that allowed me to get rid of it.

Actually it's taken many bursts of willpower for my family to stay TV free. People keep pushing them on us as soon as they find out we don't have one. My brother in law sent us one for christmas one year despite being told we didn't want one. We gave it away. And it seems like every scond person has an old they want us to have because "you can't not have a TV!"
> Its interesting that they don't mention Usenet.

Well, that sort of is the first rule of Usenet.
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DAMNIT, JULIAN!
From the author's about page, he says he went to Southern Illinois University.
The person you replied to did not demand anything but instead theorized about a way to fix it.

I love how you assert that literally anybody could check out Chromium and fix the sandbox, a sensitive security-essential part of the browser, with very little effort required to appreciate the source and all of the moving parts.
Those without NFC-ready phones can still check-in regularly or scan QR codes on these posters.

Picture of the QR code, please.
Fascinating, and interesting similarities.

I did not know much about Usenet, so I went to the Wikipedia page and found this:

ISP-operated Usenet servers frequently block access to all alt.binaries. groups to both reduce network traffic and to avoid related legal issues.

This was the case years ago on the old news.iol.ie server; forgot all about it till now. That whole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Legal_issues section is quite interesting in light of the above; a recommended short read.

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In general it seems that the network on which any system runs is pretty vulnerable to legal challenges. If not the ISPs, then maybe those pesky fibre and copper owners between them, for aiding and abetting copyright theft! Or maybe the ISPs might be coerced to only permit "Accepted" packet formats (ie inspect-able) to be used.

So far ISPs seem to not be caving in too quickly, but there have been some awful exceptions: the recent DNS seizures in the US, and a little closer to home our backbone-less Eircom being the only ISP in Europe to cave into the demand a few years ago to block access to piratebay.org (ex govt, careful).

However I shudder at the idea of a seperate darknet, it just seems so... unnecessary! Not to mention: "What are you doing honey?" "Oh I'm connecting to the Darknet." "Gee, isint that for pirates, hackers and perverts?". Though the ability for the common Jane to download mp3's and movies on it might have everyone secretly supporting it... hmm. I can only wonder at what the Internet will look like in 20 years time.

Personally I hope we all get UN mandated rules for unregulated Internet - China, North Korea and Iran being some of the leading examples for why this is so important.
It would have been trivial for them to patch Process Explorer to hide whatever they wanted anyway.
Didn't WB take a big dive in its latest earnings report? Google should have left those creeps bleeding.
Most people know almost nothing about statistics. Even those who use it on a every day base.

The same could be said of English.
YouTube is trying to compete with Hulu here, aren't they? What a turning of tables.
People who are into this kind of thing will probably like "Your brain at work" by David Rock. It covers this topic and a few more - it's pretty interesting stuff for developers and knowledge workers. There's also a tech talk here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M

Also, get Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt. Also covers these topics and helps people understand learning, creativity and how to exploit the way you work and think to, well, learn better.
stackoverflow, linkedin profile are helpful. A lot of startups prefer generalists, showing breath and flexibility on your resume is a plus.
IBM article explaining why Tomcat and Apache are better then Node.js
As you are researching I'd check out the writing and thoughts of Norwegian Philosopher Arne Næss. He has a lot to say about different levels of rationality which are quite interesting. He began his philosophical as a hard-core rationalist with the Vienna school but later in life expanded rationality to include a larger rationality and human feeling. Also Christopher Alexander has insight here about including human feeling as an objective instead of solely subjective part of decision making.

http://www.amazon.com/Lifes-Philosophy-Reason-Feeling-Deeper...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_N%C3%A6ss
Diving Slate: http://www.amazon.com/Scuba-Dive-Underwater-Writing-Slate/dp...

Get one of these, and jot your ideas down in the shower. (Don't forget to buy cleaning fluid: http://www.amazon.com/Biodegradable-Dive-Slate-Cleaner-Refre...)
Nice - lets hope there are more worldwide!
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Child porn falls into 'reasonable limit on free speech' category because kids are harmed in the making of it. Has nothing to do with IP.

I think non-digital IP is a bad idea as well and serves established publishers, not content producers. Trying to pass off someone's work as your own is already frowned upon socially. There's no need to make it a legal issue. It's sad that we as a society feel that we need the state to referee every single transaction. If you are able to produce something of value, you can find a way to profit from it whether others can copy it or not. If a lot of people want to copy your work, that is actually a good sign and gives you more opportunity for profit. You just have to be a bit more creative than the RIAA.
"Against the idea of the Internet" is not like being unconstitutional, but that seems to be the kind of weight you are giving it.

Maybe they don't like the idea of the Internet?
I hate a me-too comment just as much as everyone else, but people need to read this before getting tricked (perhaps not on purpose, but by not noticing it's a loan they're getting into). I know these guys want to help as many companies as they can (actually, i hope that's the reason), but 6% for a loan sounds like a bad deal unless the mentorship/advice/connections they're getting it are extremely valuable.
Do you mean creating an ARM chip and manufacturing it in Intel's fabs? If Intel would consent to it, and if the design could be brought to market fast enough, that could be a killer combination for the company that manages to pull it off.
Yeah they have done their first round of companies. A friend did it and it seems they got a fair bit out of it. Only time shall tell if it was truly worth it for them or not.

http://www.startmate.com.au/
It's remarkably hard to get this right. pwdhash notes[1] that being a browser plugin stops JavaScript grabbing the password, but it's still possible with Flash. Third-party ports to other browsers don't even have the JS protection.

pwdhash still leaks the length of the password since it aims to give users visual feedback of characters being typed.

Then you've also got the issue of automatic update of plugins being compromised. The question is really: is it more secure than the alternatives?

1: http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/pwdhash.pdf
* If you manage to make a single tab commit that much memory as a delta without Flash*

Not 100% sure, and I haven't tried it, but I suspect it would be possible using this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25047
It's a symptom of government to reduce one's freedom and human rights.
How do you find time to work on personal projects after all the school work and possibly part time job? I have so many things that I want do but there just isn't enough time after all the assignments and the job.
Given a sitemap.xml, that could be used to index static site without the need for a feed.

http://www.sitemaps.org/

Since sitemap is a /standard/ (sic!) document hence no need to reimplement the wheel for true static sites.
But "easy" is relative. To geeks like us who know to search Google with "how to replace Unity" (a phrase that would never, ever come to mind to Grandma) and know that we just have to change a dropdown setting, it's easy.

If you tell a "regular Joe" user that by clicking a dropdown you can change how the operating system fundamentally works, they'd probably think you were lying--the thought is that alien to them. There's a slim to none chance they'd discover that option on their own (not in small part because they wouldn't even know the option existed), and an equally slim chance that they'd know how to search for it.

To you and me, "Unity" is the "well, duh" search term. To regular people, it's tech gibberish.

So again it all comes down to the average user--they don't like change, they don't keep up with Ubuntu news, and they aren't interested in fiddling with configuration options to have a usable desktop. I don't think that you can have both fundamentals-shattering releases and also a ppa-based/milestone-release distro at the same time.
This is an important computation. It's even scarier if you suppose that you are not in any way special. It is likely that you are not one of the first 5% of humans to ever live. Thus, given that such a great proportions of all humans who have every lived are alive now, the implication is that the human race hasn't got long to go even if the population remains constant! Or you could just assume you are special.
Not to be missed. Learn a lot, have fun, and best of all, meet some really great people.
This is what I never understood about Asian over-achieving kids. My high school in Minnesota was full of them. They were trying so hard to be perfect, forced by their parents to take violin and piano lessons, score perfect SAT scores, get into Harvard and MIT. But what happened to them? I've been to my high school reunions, and the truth is, none of them turned out to be anything remarkable. None of them are particularly wealthy or famous. They all got regular jobs and are slaving away in corporate America. Not that that's a bad thing. It's just not that different from anyone else.
Seems likely there's more going on here than meets the eye. Somebody's playing games. Either:

1. Anonymous does, in fact, have enough of a centralized leadership that they can pull off this kind of thing as an attention-getting disinformation tactic.

2. This "rogue admin" is working with the feds as part of some kind of deal. By releasing some info they get some people to panic, drop their defenses, generate chatter, and then they observe who's talking to whom and who's wiping their disks.

3. What do you know? Anarchists have their power struggles too. Anonymous may fail to maintain enough of an identity to remain relevant.

4. All of the above.
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Luckily for me my job of 20 hours a week has been quite flexible working in my free time. It's also not been terribly challenging Rails development which makes things easier. Aside from that I have pretty much spent my last semester working from 9am till 11pm all 7 days a week. Glad it's over now though! :)
This is great info if there ever is a zombie apocalypse. Eight heads each people.
Well I am barely getting things together in my startup and far from hiring anyone yet. The key thing people are looking for aren't on a resume, what have you created? What are you into? Show what you have built, if you haven't create anything, better start. Yea, a resume can look great and have some big names that look good, but when it really matters its what you have actually been apart of or created.
Thanks for the info. Arne looks like a really interesting character.
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perhaps, but how many of them are poor?
Not defending anyone here, just playing devil's advocate
That's correct, and while I did have a lot of trouble finding people of similar mindsets at school, attending a couple conferences and meeting people online worked out just as well. Having friends who are just as motivated as you makes all the difference.
Happy watching Triunfo Del Amor Capitulo 141 as well as be happy. We also should loose time waiting for the next episode. loose time waiting for Triunfo Del Amor Capitulo 142 plus Triunfo Del Amor 143.
If the state is left out of it, the market will select against crappy DRM systems and either the whole concept will go away, or producers will find a non-crappy way to implement DRM.

No one is forcing me to watch their movies, but laws that get passed stop me from copying a string of bits when absolutely no harm is done to the producer if I do so. This basically presumes that everything I say or do should be monitored by the state, since I could be breaking IP laws in the process. How about instead, the law protects actual property from actual theft, meaning something has only been 'stolen' from you if you don't have it anymore, and industries that create easily copied content get with the 21st century and stop bitching.
You are mistaken. US visa does not limit your stay in the US at all. Immigration officer at the port of entry make this decision.
I would bet intent is part of the law.
I was going to comment exactly this.
Interesting. Cheers for the concrete info.
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It's just amazing to know everybody is getting ideas in showers - I used to think I was the lonely weird one...
Here's the Amazon page for the book - http://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Bea...
Light switches are just as confusing initially- why is up on and down off? Once the convention is established, it becomes more natural.

Plus, since the action is a toggle, it matters less which is which. For the most part I don't care if it's left or right, I just want to toggle it.

Of course radio buttons are explicit, but real estate is also at a premium on an iPhone.
I think people are a bit sick of the topics.
Maybe Apple is missing an opportunity. If they were to start accepting their 30% in bitcoins, it would sure give that form of payment a boost.
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I wouldn't say Hulu who does first run TV shows. More Netflix and Amazon.
Here is a list of the startups. Does anyone else find it odd that they would disclose the whole batch at once?

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1DocWay, St Louis, MO: video-chat based doctor’s office with back-end automation

Admitly, New York, NY: Admission pipeline to US schools

AfterSteps, Boston, MA: Online end-of-life planning platform. Store your wishes and important information securely in the cloud, and access expert advice on how and why to prepare for the worst-case scenario in
advance. Experts include estate, financial and funeral planners.

Class.io, Honduras: Online classroom communication, helps teachers share assignments with students

Clothes Horse, New York, NY: Data-driven platform that makes fashion fit

Cognection, New Haven, CT: Online retail optimization
CustomCoup, Philadlephia, PA: Demand-driven deals, focusing on local, aiming to give the user the power to determine prices on the things they want

Hoot.me, Austin, TX: Interactive knowledge network; put Facebook into study mode by connecting you with friends for homework and projects.

KeepRecipes, New York, NY: iTunes for all-star chef’s recipes

LearnBop, Pittsburgh, PA: Online adaptive learning platform

LetsGiftIt, New York, NY: Social gifting platform; a way for friends, family, and coworkers to contribute towards the purchase of a gift for someone special

ListenVoice, Boston, MA: App creation and distribution platform, allowing individuals and organizations to launch any form of content using mobile and web applications without prior programming knowledge

New Quill, Los Angeles, CA: Mobile publishing and collaborative learning

SocialAdMX, New York, NY: Social and mobile app publishing and advertising

TakeTheInterview, Boston, MA: Cloud-based video interviewing platform for employers to more efficiently screen candidates
how about labrea.com then?
Not every poster here calls English his or her first language. If you send me corrections, I very much appreciate it.
I guess someone decided to ride the split?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat_takeover
I like the idea of hedging your bets. People always poo-poo working on your startup "on the side," but for some people it makes a lot of sense until you've gotten something built... and it keeps you alive. FeeFighters was largely built on the side, with our CEO working "full-time" as a management consultant to pay the bills (allowed us to hire a designer to gain some leverage, etc)

Somewhat related: reasons to leave the corporate world for a startup:
http://feefighters.com/blog/5-reasons-to-leave-the-corporate...
> “If you’re East Asian, you need to attend a top-tier university to land a good high-paying gig. Even if you land that good high-paying gig, the white guy with the pedigree from a mediocre state university will somehow move ahead of you in the ranks simply because he’s white.”

That's false. The mediocre guy moves ahead of white geeks too. The problem, as with white geeks, is that Asian-Americans disproportionately aren't learning how to bs, how to promote themselves and their products, how to become salesmen. See Jobs vs Wozniak, etc.
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There is also no robots.txt - http://www.sitemaps.org/robots.txt
By that calculation, no human should assume they are in the last 5% so the human race is immortal.

It sounds like nonsense; the people actually in the first 1% are not more special than the people in the 43rd 1%, but you have to be somewhere in the distribution.

No point is special in the sense that you have a stronger than usual reason to assume you aren't there and are more likely elsewhere.
Batteries(maybe not these but definitely car batteries) are typically rated at the 20hour drain rating. If you increase the current draw you will increase the power dissipated over the resistance inside the battery and reduce the amount of available power in a non linear fashion.
If something tangible is stolen as a result of copying, that is an issue of fraud, not IP. 'Potential profits' are not tangible.

The people who put hundreds and thousands of hours into making content aren't the ones who benefit from IP laws. It's the big cartel-ish companies with a zillion lawyers and friends in government who own rights to the IP and pay artists small royalties that rake in all the cash. IP is not necessary for artists and content-producers to make money. This should be fairly obvious by now after the success of the Grateful Dead, the rise of the indie recording industry, free and open source software, etc.

I'm not necessarily arguing that copying content isn't a skeevy thing to do in some circumstances. It's definitely a lot more noble to support an artist. But IP laws inject the state's jurisdiction deep into our private lives, and the result is things like continent-sized firewalls and searching of laptops at borders. In this case the solution to the problem is much, much worse than the problem itself. It doesn't even have to be a problem at all--a smart producer can use copying as an advantage.
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http://youtube.com/movies

It is linked from the blog post..."the addition of thousands of full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios available to rent in the US at youtube.com/movies"
I love the fact that more companies are getting in on the content delivery game. I just "cut the cord" pretty much the same day that Hulu Plus was available on my Xbox. Total savings per year is about $1,000 and I don't miss regular television for a second.
Here are a couple posts questioning the impact of infant mortality on ancient lifespan estimates, http://santafereview.com/chronicle/2011/02/01/ancient-mortal..., http://www.wonderquest.com/LifeSpan.htm both referencing this paper, http://www.animalsimulation.org/index.php?option=com_content....

A few statistics from the paper are the mean lifespans of the Kings of England and Scotland between 1000 and 1600 were about 50. This was also about the mean lifespan of people at court. In a monastic population studied only 5% lived past 45 and excavations of anglo-saxon cemeteries dated at 600-1000 CE found no one older than 45.
Why do you assume they're kids? Or that they haven't already been living their life?
Where is this in any way shape or form an endorsement of Apple’s UI design decisions? There is no reason whatsoever to drag Apple into this, the author certainly didn’t.
+1 but with Emacs.

Given there are well established debugging tools in Emacs (and Vim too?) I cannot imagine this being terribly difficult, assuming the protocol is reasonable and consistent.
That certainly wasn't my intention specifically. I mentioned htmlspecialchars because it was the example being used upthread, but any API with analogous functionality is potentially subject to similar provisos, and if any surrounding cultural element encourages its use without thinking through the syntax layers, it can have a similar effect. I assumed this was implicit.
"on an everyday basis." <shared in the spirit of learning and mutual respect. Not snark>
Not really. You shouldn't assume you are in the last 5%. Statistically, by definition, it is most likely (though not certain) that you are not.
Please don't editorialize headlines like this. The comparison to Apache and Tomcat is a small part of this article.
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