skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you asked for clarification on the terms of the addendum?

I'm guessing the situation is that networkable cameras have been installed and that they're being accessed remotely by management or a security company they hired.

I'm also actually surprised they even bothered to notify you and have the addendum. It'd be nice if they just said that or offered that as an immediate explanation. But they probably just got boilerplate text designed to be as broad as possible. Nothing necessarily sinister but lazy/cheap.
But they [releases] are required to sell the video to 'clip show' producers (exemplars "Caught on Tape", "Outrageous Videos", Etc). One of the complaints in the 'stupid person falls in the fountain' case was that the security camera footage did not include a release.
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I need to look into ie9's support for CSS transforms, but if it supports that it should work. It definitely took me back to my high school days of 3d hacking :)

EDIT: Currently, it also needs to support linear-gradient background images because that's how I draw a triangle with a div. I don't think IE9 supports that unfortunately.
Most likely they "broadcast" the footage over the internet to a security company. There may be issues involving consent to record in your state that your apartment owners are trying to make sure they don't get in trouble over. If you are concerned over where the video ends up or what safeguards are in place to protect your privacy talk to the owners.
Can good ideas come from evil sources? From slavery to the Sale of Goods Act.
It's difficult to know. It only takes one complete horror story to drive a lot of patients away, and the person telling the horror story may not necessarily know what he's talking about.

At least when I read hotel reviews on tripadvisor I know enough to tell when the one-star reviews are based on real complaints ("Cockroaches all over the room") or excessively picky customers ("Desk clerk rolled his eyes the third time I requested to be shifted to a room with a better view").

But if I read "Doctor Smith botched my surgery, and I lost both my legs" I'm at a loss. Did Doctor Smith really botch the surgery? Or did Doctor Smith's heroic and brilliant surgical intervention just manage save the life of a patient who otherwise would have died? I don't know, and the patient really doesn't know either.

If I knew more about medicine I'd probably have a more realistic example than that, but the fact is that some patients always wind up with outcomes from their medical treatment which are worse than they expected, and they're usually pretty ignorant about to what extent the blame lies with "crappy doctor" vs "crappy luck".
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As I understand it, the answer is the same for a C Corp as it is for an LLC: it depends on the nature of your business. If you do a lot of business in your home state, I believe most business attorneys advise incorporating in your home state. If not, like a typical dot com company, than it is fine to incorporate in another state.

For many small businesses that usually opt for LLC structures, I've heard anecdotally that Nevada and Florida are good states with LLC-friendly laws - as opposed to Delaware and its C-Corp-friendly laws.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. I would recommend consulting a lawyer to get a more definitive answer.
But they're reporters. Getting at the truth, or something close to it, often helps them do their job, but it isn't their job. Their job is getting attention. How that attention is monetised is an ever changing thing, but it's attention not truth that they're after.

How much personal exposure have you had to journalists? They generally are smart enough that they could get a facile grasp on a technical issue in the limited time they have if they really wanted to, but it's rarely a wise use of their time. Human interest, nearest cliche, drama, all of these bring more eyeballs. High quality journalism will get you better quality (richer) attention but there are a lot more people who read US News, or the Sun, or Die Bild than read quality press.

tl;dr Journalists sell eyeballs, not truth
Just call the dentist and ask or have the form faxed. Then you have first hand experience.
The Kindle's screen, at the cost of some functionality and elegance, is not only relaxing to the eyes, but also completely kills the low-grade but omnipresent anxiety of a touch screen. Which means you don’t have to worry about triggering a destructive action by accidentally brushing the screen somewhere and grip-placement is a lot less restrictive, i.e. if it's most comfortable to hold by a corner of the actual screen, you can. The physical buttons mean that I know for sure when I've made an input.

Not only that, but part of what made the iPhone's touch screen so much better than all the touch screen interfaces that came before it was it's insistence on a 1:1 direct manipulation paradigm, which simply isn't possible with current e-ink technology. This is more like a touch screen gesture based interface, which simply isn't that much better or more satisfying and is in some ways worse than physical buttons.

I find that the non-touch screen makes for a remarkably relaxed experience, but I'm afraid it's probably not enough of a concern for device makers to resist the whizz-banginess of the touch screen.
This makes that BitTorrent client really make sense. Distributing video podcasts really has to be done via YouTube or not at all for a lot of people because it's such a pain to distribute the video due to bandwidth costs. BitTorrent helps, but many people aren't savvy with BitTorrent or are freaked out by piracy concerns.

I'm a huge proponent of more legitimate BitTorrent usage. It really is a good distribution protocol.
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Looks like a malformed submission. In case seanp2k doesn't get around to fixing it, here's a clickable:

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...
First distro release with Gnome3. Worth checking out.
http://blog.zx2c4.com/605#comment-5889
Google announced more features for WebP at Google I/O (including lossless and animation amongst others). I've not seen any Mozillan response to that as yet.
If you want a reminder of what a stud Shannon was, remember that his masters thesis (A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits) proved that you could use boolean algebra and boolean arithmetic to analyze the circuits and relays used in the telephone networks at the time. It then went one step further and proved that the inverse was also true, you could use relays and switches to perform boolean logic operations -- this was the key insight that made digital electronics possible. Not too bad for work that did not even get him a Ph.D. :)
very cool. i haven't been tracking Palantir, which is a shame because their approach is orthogonal yet reminiscent of the MDM vendor SRD (since acquired by IBM, and the former employer of Jeff Jonas). and clearly they're successful with their large government contracts.

still, it doesn't appear on the face of it that these contracts will be sufficient to propel it onto equal footing, financially, with the likes of IBM, Oracle, et al.

there is money to be made in software, but i still believe it's unlikely that the big money will come from licensing/sales/support only models.
You can also use water for a quiet(er) PC rather than strictly an overclocked one. It's not that expensive nor labor-intensive to convert a regular system to a watercooled one.
I concur with tptacek's (and your) comments on this one.

Trolls are pros at one thing and one thing only, and that is working the litigation system (well, maybe also at "monetizing" IP in negotiating forced licenses under threat of lawsuit). To go against them in this way is like sending amateurs out to do a job for which they are highly likely to be overmatched. I thought this piece was thought-provoking and that is why I posted it - but, I am skeptical about an approach like this working, at least when the players are small, independent businesses who have nothing in common with one another besides a desire to resist the threats of the troll. Too much financial pressure, too much risk, too many uncertainties to keep people with disparate interests banded together over a long haul.
Thank you. This isn't the first time I've heard this, but it's going to be something I will have to keep reminding myself of, I'm sure.
Thanks for pointing that out. Here's the full article for context: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-2...
Monster.com? We never considered that route but It cant hurt to post. I like your thought process. We have a developer from Orbitz on board that will help translate the "simple CRM app" haha ;) but thank you. Do you know what a salary should be for low end market right now? $20hr?

After reading HN for 3 months, I got the feeling developers enjoyed working for an equity bonus. But then again if this is not a partner then that doesnt make sense. Very useful stuff, thanks for your time.
It's almost definitely a joke. It's ridiculous. Would never happen.
There's a word for people like that: pricks.

They're running a business at the end of the day, especially with so many of them arguing against public healthcare options.
Thanks for the feedback!

I'll work on making the games list more prominent. As for "many more", I'll be posting a poll to see what gamers would like to play first.
its impossible to progress without breaking standards, tech demos are the perfect place to do that.
Opera allows you to search from the URL bar, and customize these searches. By default, you can type "w foo" to search wikipedia, "g bar" to search Google, etc. You can also very easily remove the search bar, which is separate by default.
"the products use icons similar to those used by Apple," according to the report.

Can you patent icons? Aren't US software patents business process patents? I've read some number of software patents and can't remember a single one patenting things like a 4x4 grid of icons or colorful square pictures with rounded corners. Didn't Lotus v. Borland set precedent for a lack of look and feel copyright? [1]

Said another way, WTF?

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lotus_Softwar...
I think it was around 250k pageviews per month. I don't recall the uniques as I don't pay attention to them (unless the visit-pageview ratio is really weird). It looks like they have it up to around 600-700k per month now: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm2snippets

The butt fell out of Adsense for many areas in 2008-2009ish though and I've never had any further success with it in the developer space (though I did very well in the mass market up till about 2009). I run some other reasonably successful sites in the developer space and Adsense is basically a no-go - results as bad as you've mentioned.

If I were in your shoes, I'd dabble with some affiliate programs. I've already been doing this and having success on my developer focused sites. Only high quality stuff but latest books, e-books, courses, events, etc. I notice you have Carbon on there and if I recall correctly, they approached me and the CPM was laughably bad (though this may have changed..), I want/need to be making $5-10 CPM overall from display advertising.
Funnily enough, Daring Fireball just had a bit on the 4:3 aspect ratio today: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/24/tall-and-narrow
Thanks!

I've just fixed the broken links - the image links are based on the valid start time that the SPC puts on the outlook, which is supposed to be 20:00 (UTC) for this outlook, but they put the start time on there as 20:40, so the links were pointing to files that didn't exist.

tl;dr - I manually fixed it. :)
Indeed: http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/

Though it seems that the photos were faked by low-level partisans on the ground, not by high-on decree from Reuters itself.

Reuters isn't significantly better or worse than anyone else, in the scheme of things, but it's a bad idea to have too much faith in any news outlet, regardless of how sophisticated it may currently make you sound when you brag about how you get all your news from Al Jazeera. (Personally I get all my news from Taiwanese animations.)
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I said nothing about pre-destination, and Warren Buffet is free to take as much credit as he likes. I'm supporting the gist of the article, which is that complex phenomena like economic systems are much more like coin flipping than they are like dropping an object and predicting it will hit the ground. Contrary to what you say, the coin-flipper's actions and decisions do influence the outcome: he has to decide to keep playing, and he has to decide whether to call heads or tails. The difference is that the system is comparatively simple, so we easily see that chance alone determines the outcome. Barring cheating or a systematically biased coin, we can't imagine how it could be anything other than luck. On the other hand, investments are wrapped in much more complexity, and it's easier to imagine that there are skills that could confer an advantage, even if there aren't.

[Y]ou're suggesting investors could use coin flipping to make all investment decisions, and that makes as much sense as trying to decide by other means...

I'm not suggesting it, but now that you mention it there are some studies that do. I suspect there are real investment skills that can be learned and applied, much the same way a blackjack card counter gains a small edge that can be exploited over time.
This is a really cool idea.

I started a game server hosting company years ago, and my biggest challenge was renewing existing customers. Customers rarely lasted for more than 2-3 months or so. My business's biggest enemies were customers' parents (a lot of gamers are under 18, after all), and in-game clan/community politics (groups break up, people switch games/communities, etc.). I know these things seem petty, but it's hard to achieve growth without strong renewals.

I suspect that a lot of potential customers hesitated during the buying process for these same petty reasons: they were uncomfortable with the risks of prepaying for a month (or 3 months or 6 months) of services, knowing they might lose interest in the game, have their clan break up, or get grounded by their parents.

If this is as serious an impediment to finding new customers as I think it was 7 years ago, then on-demand game servers may be the solution.

Good luck!
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I know what you were trying to say, and I agree, but this comment would have been a lot better without its mean and condescending tone.
Sure, but it's not hard to see when you get replies right now. It's impossible to send/receive messages to people on the site right now.
I've been reported-on by Wired News. Same guy who invented the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. He wasn't fired for either story.
This happened in Canada.

The truth was reported. My mother said that. She could not honestly claim to have been misquoted.

The quote was slimy, misleading, manipulative, and many other derogatory things. However the one thing that it was not was illegal.
For those interested, KFOR in Oklahoma City is streaming live coverage of this tornado outbreak on their site:
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There's another saying that goes "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

I guess switching from being the underdog to the new 800 lbs gorilla in a market changes your views on these things substantially.
Random reviews are encouraged? So these sites are encouraging people to post reviews on anyone, regardless of whether they'e actually received a service from them? Or do you mean something else when you say random?
I find that Jeff Muizelaar's argument (not Arstechnica but what they talked about) very weak. He said WebP is not good because:

* Jpeg has some fancy features not seen in WebP (4:4:4 YCrCb, CMYK support, etc)

* Jpeg's compression is "good enough", and nobody cares about diskspace (cited Facebook 85%, Flickr 96% quality level)

* If WebP, why not Jpeg XR?

* WebP has no alpha channel support!

* There are "low hanging fruit" in Jpeg optimization such as progressive encoding.

Each of these points in isolation may be valid, but together they give me the feeling that he was arguing surgically. He said Jpeg is already very good, Jpeg is actually bad but there are low hanging fruit to improve it, and whether Jpeg is good or bad doesn't matter because nobody cares.

Personally I feel the "75% is already very good" argument to be the weakness. Facebook pictures are very poor compared to the original, and if diskspace is not a problem they would have increased it to 96% like Flickr.

I hope Mozilla supports the format and let the users decide.
"Why would this thought process be confined to one area?"

It's obviously not, you can find any number of books on Amazon about how the standard of care in virtually every area of medicine is horrifically awful. The one thing these books have in common is that virtually none of them are selling more than 10,000 copies, and of course number of physicians that actually read and take the time to read these books and understand them is only a small fraction of that. The vast majority of doctors can't even name a single recent finding in their own field, let alone the most important ones.
Firstly, I should say there's less to worry about than people might think.
I know how Sarkozy governs : he or his government create a big buzz. People are obsessed over it for a few weeks and talk about nothing else. Then nothing really happens and we move on to the next big buzz.
Sarkozy's presidency can be summed by this : much ado about nothing.

Though there are a few exceptions, and although indeed we must fight against those who want to destroy freedom of speech on the internet, it is not as if concrete terrifying things were about to happen.

As for French culture, there's this great obsession in american and british media of the decline thereof and our alleged lamentation over it, but actually, noone in France cares. (see http://superfrenchie.com/?p=1410)

To understand, it is important to compare french and american treatment of culture.

France has the religion of culture. It's an exaggeration, but it's quite true. In France, there's this idea that art and philosophy are the best, highest things someone can do, and that art must deliver deep truths about life, death, and choucroute. While the best artists can be good artists and manage that, it also attracts a lot of pretentious people who have nothing to say, like Bernard Henri Lévy.

America, on the other hand, has the worship of money. Again, an exaggeration. Culture is treated like any other kind of product, and it works pretty well. Hollywood is to movies as Akron is to rubber. Again, the best artists can manage to be good and make money at the same time, but here, it attracts a lot of greedy people who will milk money out of anything that has any kind of success, for example through shameless plagiarising.

"Spreading" fits in the capitalist logic that prevails in America, but not in the snob logic that prevails in France. Here, having popular success is not important. It may even be a flaw.
Read it just too fast. I actually missed the exclusion, thanks for the correction.
I thought the present version was something about copying what Apple did during the last year? (Phones, tablets, etc.)
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/microsoft-unve...

A bit clearer information. I've had one now for a while and I do enjoy the phone. It seems slightly limited but hopefully Mango will push it further, and we'll see tighter integration with Windows 8 next year. Zune software looks better than iTunes, but some of its configs are lacking. The current phone is probably between the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but you don't have that feeling of App Silos, however I use the Facebook integration less and less. I think I will be leaning towards iPhone 5 instead though, as the apps are significantly lacking in this phone (and app development API/SDK access is terrible). Marketplace needs a big overhaul and move to something different than an App Store mimic.

The worst feature is Bing Maps. Last night I typed in location X and it said not available. So I typed in located X suburb Y and it still said it could not find it. So I typed in location X suburb Y and state Z. It then relocates to the centre of the state Z and points out that state Z is here.
Just to play devil's advocate, you might be able to handle this by hacking types through Erlang's pattern matching syntax.

Thus, you might have a function assign_activity(("KeeferUser", user_no), ("KeeferActivity", activity_no)) and rely on the compiler to match the "type" in the first field of each tuple you pass. It's not pretty, but it is possible.
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Thanks for the reply.

I actually have read those. I admit, part of my reaction was purely personal. I want to found a company so much it hurts. I'm smart, resourceful, creative, and determined. But I wouldn't say I'm used to getting my way, and breaking rules -- even in service of a higher goal -- makes me very nervous. (Think Hermione Granger.) So reading this was like getting hit in the gut. Not that it will stop me, but it highlighted how important the emotional aspects to founderhood are and how far I still have to go.

I've seen this trap with a lot of people who did well in school. For 12 formative years you're rewarded for performing tasks to spec and following rules, and you grow up and find that the things you really want to do involve transcending all the traits that got you where you are. That's the element of Google I'm referring to, I suppose. They make almost a cult of academic success, and for some people that was a kind of shining hope. And you, frankly, fit right into that. So to hear you say that guts might matter more in the end than brains hurts, even though I know you're right.
I've been thinking about something similar by using LXC with minimal capabilities. Using git, etc.. with 'stack' specific allowable file modifications (configuration and what not), is this how dotcloud works (minus the distributed FS and flow replication for HA)?
Did he explicitly make you say the direct opposite of what you actually said? Because that's really weird and unusual even when somebody is explicitly lying (as opposed to just mischaracterizing something, which is something people do in conversation all the time).

And is this one guy somehow the "standard"? Because it sounds like you had one or two bad experiences and decided to generalize your feelings to an entire profession. We've all run into a bad ______ who we can't understand how he still has a job, but that doesn't mean ______ as a whole are bad. (Fill in "journalists," "programmers," "waiters," "doctors" or pretty much anything else.)

I'm not familiar with that guy or with Wired's editorial standards in general, but I do think you're being unreasonably broad in a way that you wouldn't be if, say, you'd met a bumbling computer scientist.
You are talking about a peace time military. A war time military is much more focused on results. It's an important distinction.