skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your outrage at the super injunctions and I don't believe they are the best way to handle the rampant gutter press. However - where do you get your facts from that he cheated on his wife? Supposition and rumour I suspect.
If you read the court documents - http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2011/1232.html - he definitely appears guilty of being stupid, naive and manipulated by a money grabbing woman, with an over inflated sense of self worth and fake celebrity.
I'm no fan of the super injunctions - I believe it would have all blown over very quickly had he not have gone to the courts.
But you are stating categorically that he cheated on his wife and that she is the innocent party. Based on what evidence? If you think carefully this is exactly the type of behaviour that we should be trying to deal with, guesswork and gossip being reported as fact.
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Surely this would be easy to counter? Where would you even begin creating, say, a website without using any OSS?
some news here, the german pirate party has just made an official complaint at the district court Darmstadt.

http://twitter.com/#!/Piratenpartei/statuses/717265175871569...
Suburban mom caught up in believing the Family Radio May 21 prophesies tries to kill kids, self, before 'Tribulation' comes. In spite of his right to free speech, I can't help but feel the guy behind these theories (Harold Camping) is somehow responsible for promoting this. I realize he has done this before but some people continue to buy into his theories. When it comes to mass media (radio, tv, internet) should we have responsibility rules similar to those applying to yelling fire in a theater?
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You can't easily 'emulate a cell tower'.

To verify that the device isn't indeed transferring any data as part of any background Apple process they should put it on WiFi and monitor traffic through the router. It should be zero.

I'm logically assuming that any background process that would transfer data over 3G would also do it when on WiFi network.

They could also get a data modem from AT&T and test it by connecting to the tower but not transferring any data. If AT&T is overestimating data transfers or has phantom data then it would be across the board and would also show up on transfers through their data modems not just their iPhone plans.
Digital Restrictions Management has the advantage that it isn't really a renaming, but an upgrade of the descriptiveness of the term. It isn't snotty or obviously juvenile, it is actually more accurate. It is the only expansion I use, because "Rights" is actively deceptive.
Supporting ePub doesn't mean that Amazon is switching to it.
I can understand Google's reason for making and promoting WebM, but is there really a need for another image format? Yes, it may be X% smaller than JPEG for the same image quality, but does that really matter? Compared with video, the bandwidth for serving images is practically nothing, and even with universal adoption by browser and operating system vendors it will still be years before you can rely on all your clients having WebP support.
It is totally different. Try and sell your used eBook if you don't believe me.
If you want to be pragmatic about it, the targets of such celebrity gossip are generally rich. The only people this excludes are the 'human interest' types - perpetrators and victims of some crime or tragedy - and the stories tabloids like to run on those people are better served by libel laws anyway. So really this isn't a big deal.
That sites background is terrible on the eyes.
Apple Orders Technicians to Feign Ignorance About Mac Malware
Through the nose? I deal primarily with MS software and I've never had to pay through the nose for OSes, internet servers, programming languages, SQL, or Visual Studio. I pay a crazily small amount compared to the sums I make off the vast amount of tools I use.

I'm just trying to put your post into another perspective. I can pay for the tools for a year with a days work. Seems a bargain to me. Perhaps OSS has driven that cost down, we can't a/b test worlds unfortunately.

While I do love using OSS, a lot of it is very user hostile compared to commercial software. Yes mysql, openoffice and gimp, I'm looking at you.
I'm sorry. That's simply not true. For instance a program that takes one bit of input and always outputs the 1 bit. This can be trivially proven correct.
The Take Control books are DRM-free as well. I bought my wife some of their books when she bought an iPod Touch.
It could be, but according to some sources very familiar with superinjunctions (Private Eye) apparently they were all BS.
Your second link does not support what you are citing it for.
Steve Jobs speaking at Microsoft PDC in 1996 (previously unseen footage)
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PNG had similar issues with browser adoption. The huge thing about WebP for me is it's support for transparency (which it was planned to support last time I checked).
I don't think there's any reason not to try to improve something even if its satisfactory. Image formats are no exception - I don't think JPEG is the best that can be done and I hope we have better options moving forward.
I was relieved when the scores disappeared. The less unnecessary information the better, I find. Besides, I think score visibility just promotes groupthink.

I don't use score sheets with my friends. Moderation becomes necessary in a pseudonymous environment, but there's no reason for it to become visible where it's not necessary. Reply-order shuffling and grey-out seem to be a pretty good fit there.
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I'm not sure why you are downvoted for that, that's exactly what happens; the press get contacted telling them who they can't talk about.

The general public isn't informed (that's the point of a superinjunction) but how would they know about this anyway if they didn't know the subjects personally? Presumably there is some protocol for people who may be aware of what's censored, but suggesting that people can "accidentally fall foul of the law" is as realistic as suggesting a room of 7 billion monkeys randomly hitting typewriter keys will come up with Shakespeare.
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And all of those invalidate that patent because they are friggen obvious uses of tech.
How do you get invited to Foo Camp when you are just in high school?

I am awed.
> We don't know that republishing the information is in contempt of court

It's clearly not, since republishing information (in this case, a statement from an MP using parliamentary privilege) is how we knew about Trafigura and other issues covered by a superinjunction.
Yup, using Google adsense. Took a couple of months to tune it. That's really it. I tried 'seeding' the product by mentioning it photo forums and the like but it wasn't worth the time.
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What exactly is the term that this group of people would use for themselves, in a context where they want to be clear that they are referring to nationals of the USA specifically?

(On reflection, how does "US American" strike you? This seems analagous to "South Korean" or "Mainland Chinese")
This is fascinating for many reasons. For one, I've never seen Steve do a talk on primarily developer technology.
The "Whole Program" Fallacy
Jobs on the importance of saying "no"
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Already discussed elsewhere on HN
For us MobileMe/.Mac users, the usernames are in the format user(mac.com)@aol.com, and presumably user(me.com)@aol.com. Unfortunately, not @mac.com/@me.com.
Staying too long in a comfortable job and not leaving solely on my own terms.
PCI requires anti-virus on "all systems commonly affected by malicious software". It is not required on every system involved in credit card handling.
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So would something like creating the product on a simple lamp stack on an AWS instance be a good start?
I trust my judgment better with the lack of quantified information on how the group as a whole has behaved. Perhaps I'm just projecting but I trust the judgment of others better under the same circumstances.
"If AT&T ... has phantom data then it would be across the board and would also show up on transfers through their data modems not just their iPhone plans."

Why?

Their modems might be programmed to operate or need to update differently.
Do the math on this in your head --- many/most? of the Global 2k don't need a full Twitter feed; what's US Gypsum gonna do with it? --- and you're left with a total addressable market that doesn't come close to justifying their purported valuation.

I'm not being down on Twitter. Just, whatever the monetization plan is, this can't be it.
is this a forum web community or something the required a custom app to support the community?
It's always been like that, sadly.
I'm really liking Fantastical now, after a few days.
17 of this person's ~20 submissions from the last year have been about Bitcoin, many (like this one) from "Bitcoinweekly", a site the submitter actually runs.

A bad thing? I dunno. Just, maybe I think worth noting.

'kiba, you said earlier, "I hope I'm not being spammy". Maybe start to worry about this a bit more now.
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Try our product DivCraft - http://www.divcraft.com - built by the MockFlow team

Tool for building flash like HTML5 web content.
Until they sort out the video tag and the audio tag they should keep away from messing up the img tag in the same way.
it was my 44th birthday yesterday. i write software. i've written/edited/deleted various answers to this question - i'm not sure what i can add that's relevant on a personal level. seems like you are really looking for some kind of statistical answer. but if there's anything you're curious about, feel free to ask here or by email.
Aren't there free apps that do the exact same thing?

Yes and no. There are free (ad-supported) apps that do similar effects, but in my entirely objective opinion they aren't as polished, and I haven't seen any others that record video. And my free version (no ads) does everything the paid version does except save pictures and video.

this just seems like something that nobody would pay for

It surprised me too, especially with the constant claims that Android users don't spend money. But as the poster above said, it's fun to show to your friends, and then if somebody wants to take a picture, $2 is less than a drink...
here's another point to consider, since the debate is open again.

I just counted how many replies there are to each comment on this page and this is the result:

21 replies: 1 thread (main thread)

13 replies: 1 thread

6 replies: 1 thread

5 replies: 1 thread

3 replies: 1 thread

2 replies: 8 threads

1 reply: 39 threads

That means the 39 comments that are the only comment in a thread I have no idea whether they're good or bad, save my own judgement. The threads that have 2 replies don't fare much better: Since there's weighting towards users with high average karma, time decay, etc. it's hard if not impossible for me to infer whether these comments are good or bad according to the community.

In other words, in this thread there are 55 comments where I have no idea what the community thinks, and since they're all children to other comments they might show up anywhere in the thread. I have no way of parsing these comments without reading the whole thread through, including all the fluff.

The comments that are replies to comments with 3 or more replies count to 48. This means that in this thread more than half of the comments might as well have been without votes. It makes no difference - you can't see the vote, the comments doesn't rise to the top since there isn't anywhere to rise to, and it might appear anywhere on the page.

This begs the question: If you can't see the votes and can't parse out the interesting information inferred by these why have voting at all? I'm encouraged to read through the whole thing. Voting is then just a token gesture with no real effect. And then you're back to newsgroups...
Or more likely, decide against visiting the UK.
It doesn't matter. Get over it. Leave it alone. Let it go.

There is a need for better image formats for photography, for gigatextures, for voxels, for specialized cases, but not for general web use. This problem is solved. Move along.

ASCII has served us well, it's still used now, and even though it's broken in a lot of ways, UTF-8 addresses most of those to a degree that's satisfactory enough we don't need people inventing new character encoding systems.

Between GIF, PNG and JPEG you have what you need. Don't cry over a few wasted bytes or a few smudgy pixels.
I've been helping friends and friends of friends get their ebooks published for some time now, and I thought I'd put out my shingle and have a go at it.

I realize the page is a little plain, but I hope it's informative enough to get my message across. What do you think?
I don't think I voted well either. I think you may have set up a false dilemma here.
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744237 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746621 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745801 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2507700

It may be X% smaller than JPEG for the same image quality, but does that really matter?

If the bandwidth cost saved is greater than the cost of adding WebP to Chrome, then it's a net win. Or if it makes some Google page load 10 ms faster, that would also pay for it.

years before you can rely on all your clients having WebP support.

That's what content negotiation is for.
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"guns and knives have no legal issues"..?
Thanks, glad you like it! At some point I want to tweak the matrix mode so characters "fall" from the top; right now each frame draws random characters, which still works surprisingly well.
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Are they really that bad? The biggest problem I have with them is that most of the comments are from people like yourself, a disinterested individual complaining about the submission. That's not a judgment on you by the way, I've complained about submissions too. (For a hypothetical comparison, I might get annoyed with a certain level of submissions over Apple's new iShiny since I find Apple fans cult-like. It's newsworthy yet more popular than it seemingly ought to be.)
Right, the efficacy of GR was being tested, and the control was Newtonian dynamics. GR was found to successfully predict the results observed. The control is to attempt to predict the results with Newtonian dynamics and check that that prediction is less accurate.

If you accidentally did an experiment where GR and Newton predict the same thing, the control would kick in and tell you that you hadn't proved anything.
He was on Techzing - more info there - http://techzinglive.com/page/187/techzing-38-pete-michaud-re...
And of course that vulnerability would not exist here, in that the information would not web accessible, but rather only accessible to the local operating system.
Errr ... can you explain the reasoning behind your reply? Did you feel that the average reader would not be intelligent enough to notice that you did not actually answer the question? (why did Dave quit/was fired).

If anything your post has gotten me to trust your service significantly less, because it looks like you think you can get away with duping potential customers with some polite doublespeak.

Can you explain how it is you are being open when you did not in fact answer the question?
Or just look for the gun shops and liquor stores.
Flash has a number of issues in addition to the fatal ones you've mentioned.
I can offer a few more:

Inability to recognize and use the operating system font preferences like hinting, resulting in AIR apps looking ass-ugly on some systems.

Tendency to grab focus and have its own dumb hotkeys that don't match (or overlap) common/native conventions of the platform.

Its own set of security vulnerabilities and its secondary tier of cookies which browsers have no control over.

Flash not only has issues with "mobile devices", it severely hurts everyone who's trying to create new platforms - any kind of platforms. If you want to tinker with a CPU and a pair of micro-controllers, after some soldiering and bootstrapping linux on it you'll be able to run any web app you want on your very own platform, which is cool. Flash prevents this from happening in the first place.

The last paragraph is by far the #1 reason why Flash should not exist. I wish Mozilla and Google would simply drop NS extensions support one day, and the plague will be gone the day after.
Thanks, I enjoyed reading your article. That doesn't mean I need to own a copy of it ;-)

I actually do have a handful of dead tree books that I own for emotional reasons, so I can appreciate that aspect of ownership. But I love my Kindle. I do far more reading now that my books are electronic. It's no exaggeration to say that switching to the Kindle has improved the quality of my life.
Someone said that WakeMate was heavily publicized here before their launch.

I, though I had high hopes for the product, have been fairly disappointed.

First the USB charger fire warning with no refund or replacement. Then the failing units that they needed returned to fix. Now this...

an email sent to 65+ users requesting a return of the defective units (without a shipping label or return envelope) that was sent with all users emails in the clear.

Grrrr.
No offense, but you come off as a bit of jerk in this whole thread. I think that speaks more than the supposed drama of your departure.
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Amen, brother.

Most of the comments where I feel like I said something insightful or genuinely useful end up with a score of 5 or 6. The others are higher or lower (depending on timing.) I don't have any 50+ comments though, I haven't posted much and I try to avoid making the kind of low-signal comment that I expect would get that kind of result.
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The 'obviousness' test is (unfortunately) more about rejecting trivial patents; not rejecting things that are clear logical extensions of what has come before.
I could say the same thing about H.264. Why should we bother making better video codecs for general movie viewing use? Let it go. We can just add more data layers to Blu-rays.

And it's not like JPEG or ASCII or UTF-8 or anything we use today is going to suddenly disappear if we add new browser support. Why not strive for excellence?
This is a measurement, not an intervention experiment. A control experiment in this case should be performed on another universe with no GR. Of course, i guess they did test it on neutral regions as well. Since are no other known forces acting out there, and the agreement to theory is so remarkable, its fairly conclusive the effect was due to gravity.
There is no ambiguity in 'American'. At best, there exists among some people the belief that there should be ambiguity where none exists.

Go strike up a conversation with anyone in the world and refer the people from the New World as 'Americans'. That person will assume you are referring to US citizens. Now, should the issue be forced somehow you will have to explain that, in fact, you were referring to folks from the New World all along, not so-called US Americans specifically. That person will then probably roll their eyes a bit.

So it's a moot point. You're trying to resolve a confusing situation that has virtually no chance of ever actually occurring, where in fact your solution would actually introduce confusion.
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Actually, it is doable. I met a guy that had a whole SDR plus GSM stack. I was able to pair my blackberry with it. He runs a cell network at Burning Man, apparently.
It's not when, it's if, and often you know it won't happen. Being a good engineer requires understanding when k use which model. acting as if there aren't a lot of cases where singel process, shred memory, concurrency is the only good choice for almost all cases is wrong
Oh, brilliant, everyone's crush from the fourth grade gets recorded. The least mature among us, given the power to blow their 'internet history' for the rest of their lives. What am absolutely fantastic idea.

If someone wants to support education, they should try a different startup, one dedicated to improving education, instead of providing new ways to distract onesself in class.

Anecdote: I used to TA - occasionally I'd sit in on the main class. Only the 'front row nerds' would be taking notes on the computer, as a rule. The rest of the laptoppers were on facebook/myspace.

Admittedly, I don't like Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare and the rest of the self-surveillance systems. So I'm biased.
Wait. I think I get it now. They're like mint, but with account management?
I initially read this "Einstein was right, announces results of epic space-time experiment", which would have been epic and a much more interesting story.
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Clearly this guy's test was incomplete and guaranteed to give the result they sought...

However, I have worked in capacity planning at a mobile telecom, and it's scary how confused that alleged experts are about "bytes" and "bytes per second."

Given that experience, I'm not surprised that AT&T would get "bytes transferred" wrong, but I think it's more likely due to incompetence and not malice. I wouldn't be surprised if they underbilled people also.
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To some extent, I think it's wishful thinking to suppose that improved algorithms can significantly forestall HN's reversion to the mean comment quality of the internet.

It's a question of size. With ten people in a room, it's likely that none of 'em is a complete doofus. But with a thousand people in the room you've got a bunch of doofuses. And hugh3's Fifth Rule Of The Internet is that doofuses will inevitably dominate conversations. They do this in two ways:

1. When a perfectly sensible article is submitted, some doofus will make a completely unreasonable comment about it. Three or four sensible people will carefully piece together responses detailing why the doofus is wrong, each of which sets off its own thread, and pretty soon the single dumb comment made by the one doofus is starting to dominate.

2. Other doofuses have agendas. They're not here to find out interesting stuff about all fields, they have one particular hobby horse that they really want to push. And that hobby horse is generally stupid, but if you've got a few people really into it then. (I'm not gonna name any names, but there are certain things which do show up on HN awfully often...)

Anyway, you can't force doofuses not to be doofuses. And you can't make doofuses go away. And you can't make the doofuses lose interest in the only outlet they have for their doofus ideas. So aside from starting a new site and hoping you'll get a few years before the doofuses take over, what can you do?