skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
B) and C) are basically "It's on the internet and a studio paid for its production". So they're always true.

Now we only need an argument that you were doing it for private financial gain, to satisfy A). If you have adwords on the blog you're embedding the youtube video on? Sounds like a felony to me.

The word "felony" should really be reserved for crimes that hurt people.
An article on Wired gets read and forgotten. An article about passwords in the NYT gets dismissed as "newfangled kids". Ten million credit cards stolen - one of which is yours - gets remembered. Having your FB account manually and maliciously defaced changes your life. That's visibility that no article or book can sell.

Consumers are supposed to start using tools like KeePass or LastPass. Adding symbols to a simple 6-character password doesn't help. Adding symbols to a high-entropy 20-character password and never using a password twice makes you basically immune to this kind of thing.
Is the answer in the domain name?
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In other words, if you work hard and fail, there's the presumption that you're innately not very talented.

Work by its definition is something that you don't enjoy doing. The real risk is that you spend a lot of time doing something that you don't enjoy when you could have been working less and enjoying yourself more.
>unauthorized streaming for commercial purposes (for profit) will become a felony, not "personal" streaming.

I don't think that's the intent at all. This bill is an extension of the 1997 NET Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act) which was specifically designed to make it possible for non-commercial copyright infringement to be prosecuted as a criminal offense.

Also read this testimony, in particular the mention of "private financial gain" which is a very broad definition: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat060111.html

Anyone claiming this can only be applied to commercial infringement is blowing smoke. The title of the bill "Commercial Felony Streaming Act" should be changed to "Felony Streaming Act".
Sorry, yes. nddrylliog and romac are doing heroic efforts to keep the servers up. But we got slashdotted.
Alec Baldwin was the celebrity in question referenced in the article in case you're wondering.
not sure if that is entirely true - this bug is still open http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1618

Again, if they still used a non-smartfont technology for compound scripts (I think that's what they call when two alphabets join together to form a new alphabet), it wont really solve the problem.
Oh, I'm sure there would be a few unfortunate "drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime" incidents, but with an automated Hungarian Phrasebook[1], we'll eventually learn to get by.

More to the point, though, we have no reason to assume that dolphins, any more than, say, apes, have the ability to "chat" -- to communicate about things displaced from the here and now. It's worth a go, of course, but our expectations shouldn't be too high going in.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao
I have read the proposed law (it's literally like 200 words long, it modifies an already-existing law), and it's because you didn't set up the stream with the explicit intent to make it a commercial enterprise. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s978is/pdf/BILLS-112s9...
Software development job that encourages challenging work in IR/Semantic Web/ML/Data mining.

Where ? you mean place ? I don't mind moving anywhere in united states if the work is good.

Thanks for your wishes.
I don't know, I would guess that some sort of Audio API might be keeping it from running (like in Webkit).
I wouldn't be to worried about it, and here's why:

For Anonymous, they're driven by strong moral convictions in their attacks these days (e.g. look at this puppy killer, let's fuck him up). The wayward person on the internet is of no interest to them. I've had my info posted on 4chan in full - address, phone number, email, facebook, screen names for other things, etc, with no lasting effects. Got spammed a bit, had some strange things arrive in the mail, but nothing malicious. They'll only be mean if they think you deserve it.

LulzSec is out there with a different purpose - they want publicity. The ddos attack they just ran wasn't to strategically take out services, it was to gain publicity by temporarily taking out unimportant but socially obvious targets. The CIA website was the public facing one, the only purpose it served was to be a PR job for the CIA. Smearing their PR site gets people looking. Smearing some random guy on the internet does not.

Basically, you're not important enough to warrant attention, nor am I, and nor are most people.
I wonder what this means for the OLPC tablet?

$35-50 to equip kids with this thing at two to three times the volume of a $100+ XO3 (which to this point is vaporware apparently, I can only find concept art) seems like a good idea to me.
Definitely not. Especially since the involved structures are either between the hemispheres or at the base of the brain.

You can reconstruct the source of neural activity using EEG (it is an example of the inverse problem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem), but you need at least 64 channels if you want any semblance of precision. 128 or better, 256 channels give better results (although, at least a few years ago, the 256 channels machines often were an overkill (diminishing returns)).
The author did give us the keywords to find this out on our own.
Yes. Good programmers must also be humorless drones that post disapprovingly when others are clearly enjoying themselves.
...or not. Article notes that blog post came out as only 63% likely to be male.
They copied everything about YC as it originally existed down to the application form. If that doesn't count as a clone nothing does.

TechStars has only recently started trying to replicate their model on a wide scale. They're very far from proving that they can.

The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.
I tried... but that's a description of what now I consider my sad-teen-years.
Just want to mention that I just watched "The Cove" last night and it was really well done doc. (About Dolphins being mass slaughtered in Japan). Just watch it, its on netflix instant.
As dolphins hearing or seeing system is 3D their mind is very different from ours. Before trying to communicate we should be able to imagine what kind of society we could construct with this 3D sensor system.
Except they didn't say that they are doing this to bring attention to security issues. They are doing it because they can, and because it brings them some entertainment – that's the point the gunshot analogy was addressing.

They only bring up all the silent malicious hacking that happens as an argument that we shouldn't care so much about what they're doing.
To put it in in entirely vulgar terms it's a class III misdemeanor (aggravating circumstances aside) for me to beat the shit out of someone in the middle of a movie theater. But streaming a clip from that movie could net me a felony rap? And this sounds reasonable to you? Do you have ANY idea how thoroughly a felony conviction fucks up someone's life?
One man's unintended consequence is another man's tool in the power-(ab)using chest. What makes you think the effects are unintended?
I pay for publications like The Economist and The Atlantic (both of which I read entirely digitally) for exactly that reason. I want quality content when I sit down to spend my precious reading time on something.

I can hardly imagine spending that time reading insipid, content mill junk. Who puts so low of a value on their time?
AOL's plan to "beat the internet" with a content farm isn't working out so well yet?
I own both the iPhone and the Nexus One and, IMHO, iOS still beats Android despite all its limitations. It's just so slow and buggy...
How can you write an article about talking with dolphins without linking to at least one John C. Lilly interview?

http://www.futurehi.net/docs/Here_To_Alternity.html

http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/lilly_john/lilly_jo...
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Puzzles subreddit.
I knew nothing of sony security practices. I knew about well know market practices.

about attention to my little protest, I assure you, they pay more attention to sales volume than media noise.
Quick, someone write a bookmarklet that posts tracklists from discogs
" There will be a day when "programming" ... is as natural part of the user experience of machines as browsing facebook might be today."

Are you serious? Like how everyone changes their own oil?
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You'd still have to pay for all the computing time to remain available during the attack. Its probably not worth it to try to stay up in that kind of storm.
i guess it will be the same as talking to mentally disabled person.
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I realize that, but I figured I would stick it in the comments in case it helped anyone.
There doesn't appear to be anything in that about intent. Hell, you don't even need to make money off of the stream - it applies if the cost to license whatever works are being used exceeds $5000.
Can you tell the difference between art that sells for $100 vs 100,000?
Your sarcasm detector is working normally. :) Not sure why your irony detector is going off, though.
It sounds to me like you are too single focused. Get some hobbies and by hobbies I mean the outdoor kind. Take up fishing or para-sailing or rebuild a classic car or something. Get away from the feedback loop. Some kids your age decide to party to get out of it, others take up a hobby. I personally think that a hobby is more constructive but the point is you need to make the world that matters bigger than a single focus, in doing so you have more to divert your mind from constant focus on a single issue.
Well that's pretty neat!
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I found the side-by-side comparison of the two images of the Parthenon one of the best arguments _for_ the golden ratio I've ever seen.

The part followed by:

> One of these has been stretched vertically 20%, or reduced vertically 20%. Which one do you find most pleasing? Most dramatic? Most like the real thing?

The one on the left is more pleasing to me. The one on the right looks garish. The one on the right is the stretched one right? In fact they both look distorted to me, I believe the images also are being scaled to irregular proportions by the HTML. A direct link to the source image of the one on the left looks correct to me:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/nashv.jpg
But I'm no expert and maybe I'm making a fool of myself.

But going back to the author's intention, I read the sentence I quoted several times, and I still don't know what his preference is. The fact that he said "most dramatic" makes me think he prefer the one on the right?

With respect to using the golden ratio in design. I am a designer. I've never used the golden ratio, but I understand the desire to. As design is discipline with very few rules, we latch onto anything concrete, whether the benefits are real or imaginary. Otherwise it just feels like shooting in the dark. While I'm agnostic on whether the golden ratio is actually objectively attractive or not, the benefits of using a framework like this I find to be invaluable.

Here is what I mean: lets say you use the golden ratio to layout out a blog, i.e., place the logo, main content, sidebar, etc... Then you use the golden ratio again to layout an individual blog post, i.e., the header, the text of the post, maybe a pull quote, and some inline images. Now you've done something I can attest to the benefits of, because you've created a harmonious repetition of proportion through-out the design. When I look back at my own design work, the strongest dividing line between the work I am proud of and the work I am no longer proud of, is just this. When I started using a concrete system to repeat proportion through out the design, to my admittedly subjective eye, the quality of my design work greatly increased.
Where were you commuting from?
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You will need to subscribe to the Apple service if you want to use your existing collection there. So that's not so far from the Spotify solution.
"The word "felony" should really be reserved for crimes that hurt people."

Oh, I agree and don't agree with the law. Just stating that it's not as overreaching as stated by the linked article.

I do not know much about the law I believe this comes down to interpretation by a judge which I hope will use their best judgement. I know there are cases where judges have been ignorant but that's why we have an appeals process.

I'm certain that if court rooms are filled with bloggers embedding videos that these will either be thrown out in most cases or the law will be altered.

I'm more worried about letters from lawyers to bloggers and others trying to bully them around with this law. The lawyers may know they can't win but may be able to scare someone enough to cough up cash to not go to court.

Personally, I'd like an anti-bullying law to prevent companies from sending templated emails for profit.
I find your comment profoundly unappreciative of the skills needed for a good physician. I really hope you never get treated by an idiot with equivalent expertise to the one expressed here.

Doctors do not blindly apply "stuff that is created by someone else". For the most part, they use known techniques within the context of each individual patient and each individual ailment. The techniques are mere tools, used to diagnose and treat cases. Some cases are routine, but some others are really challenging.

Programmers, not surprisingly, use known techniques writing the context of each individual project and each individual requirement. The techniques are mere tools, used to design and implement projects. Some projects are boring, but some others are really challenging.

A minority of physicians or programmers develop a career in research, where they push the limits of their respective professions. But most people end up working on operative, day to day, jobs. And the skills are not transferable. Excellent researchers do not necessarily make excellent practitioners, and viceversa.
Lulzsec is a bunch of psychotic kids playing with massive customer-driven online services the way a child plays with ants and a magnifying glass. And you want to give them government jobs?
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Link / video to said presentation please?
Taking a step towards better web typography
which means anyone embedding a disputed video on a page with adsense then is profiting from it?
I hate to see lawsuits like this, but unfortunately it is the only way to get captions on the majority of content. TV would not have captions if it weren't for the brave fight of some deaf activists.

I never really appreciated captions much, but my wife does not speak English as her first language, and not having captions on a movie sometimes means she will be bored and unable to enjoy it with me.
Interesting. Seems like a less flashy version of instant.fm:
http://instant.fm/p/90
Show HN: location aware hourly weather
html: http://hourweather.com

android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hourlyweather

All summer I start my computer each morning just to check the weather for my commute(bicycle/motorcycle).

I tried some android weather apps but nothing fit. I didn't want the current weather or the afternoon weather I needed details and I wanted them at a glance(widget).

Also my phone know where I am so don't ask me, just give me the weather regardless of if I'm on vacation or at a friends.

Using the same code to make an html 5 geo based version as well.
Firefox 4.0+ AND Chrome 13.0+ are supported.

However, Web Audio API doesn't seem enabled in Chrome 13 by default, just go to 'audio:flags', check "Web Audio", then click the "restart browser" button and it should work.
I understand that subscriptions are required for the best features of these services - my point was merely that I would rather pay to have access to my own library from anywhere than a semi-complete library that I can't control.

I listen to a lot of music that isn't on iTunes or Rhapsody or <insert service here>. Having the ability to access a more complete library of what I actually want to listen to presents a huge value to me. Hence my willingness to pay for a locker over a streaming service.

But believe me, I know not everyone is as picky as I am.
Reddit has quite a few stability/uptime problems. Probably not his fault, but a scary prospect nonetheless.

EDIT: Did I get downvoted by someone who thinks Reddit is stable? It clearly isn't and anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. I guess I'll stop going against the HN hivemind just to keep my account in good standing. This place feels more like Reddit every day.
'It's not what you do it's who you are'?

I would like to politely disagree.
After a hiatus I fired up Spotify here in the UK today. It's awful.

The software works just fine and the number of songs is commendable, but there are audio ads every couple of songs, intrusive display ads and free users only get 10 hours a month of listening.

Sure, you get what you pay for, but it's certainly a much, much worse experience than I had remembered it.
I don't really see the point in making an explicit effort to avoid doing meaningful work. If your GPA is really the only reward you're getting in all of your classes, maybe you're going to the wrong school. Sure, I lazed off in Computing Ethics because it was a total joke (easy A, unqualified prof, poor course design). But I definitely got more than a letter grade out of my classes on algorithms, GUI design, best development practices, etc. For the courses with real value, I might as well get as close to 100% of that value as I can, even if I only get `credit` for the first 90%. Maybe it's just because I come from a working class family, but it seems so wasteful to throw that last 10% away on purpose. (University doesn't have a lot of money involved...?) Yeah you can learn it later in your own time, but why not just learn it right away and spend that time later diving deeper or exploring other areas?
Cut Pandora some slack
It's funny that an article about "better web typography" has a really annoying font. The small "a" looks absolutely deformed.
I'm a heavy Spotify user because it is so much more convenient than the alternatives. I love not having to care about buying, downloading, uploading, sorting, tagging and generally messing about with files.

Most of the time, I don't even have to make my own playlists: I just find someone else's that looks interesting, mark it for "Available offline", and listen to that for a while.

I'm not interested in "owning" music (whatever that means these days). I am interested in listening to it, and Spotify makes this very easy.

In comparison, the whole "locker" business seems very messy, and rather unnecessary. I can't for the life of me see what the advantage would be.
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Depends on who's doing the intending.

The companies hiring the lobbyists know exactly what they're doing.

The lobbyists are too blinded by dreams of cocktail party cachet to care what they're doing (on this or anything).

And the legislators have only heard one side of the story. They're too busy dialing for dollars most of the time to actually read up on this stuff.
None of this addresses the DDoS attacks. I agree with you in regards to the SQL injections / URL parameters, but your post fails hard to defend Lulzsec's DDoSing of anybody.
Oh man.

an RPM I had at one point had / as one of its trees. There's a reason I moved to debian.
AOL has a responsibility to its shareholders first and foremost. Making employees write about stuff they don't know about is not exactly slave labor... if they don't like it, then just quit, it's that simple.
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NaCl bindings to HW accelerated 3d share the same issues (like any other technology using GPU acceleration including Molehill, Silverlight or Unity).

Carmack tweeted the same:

"doing GL ES from NaCL is clearly just as dangerous as WebGL"

http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/81767700447236096

In theory, you could do software rendering in NaCl, but that wouldn't produce as good results as GPU, despite NaCl being more powerful than JavaScript (for example SwiftShader DirectX9 SW renderer scores 620 on 3DMark06 on pretty beefed up quadcore [1], my 2 year old notebook GPU scores over 4000).

So the question is not "is WebGL secure?", question is "are benefits of HW accelerated 3d on the web worth the risks?".

To which IMHO the answer is resounding yes. Problems are minor, benefits are major.

[1] http://transgaming.com/business/swiftshader/faq/
I recently had a similar problem. Users wanted to export a highly normalized structure to a csv file for munging in a spreadsheet. They were limited to 200 rows, because a thousand rows would bring everything to its knees. My first cut was to move from Hibernate to pure SQL, but if I tried 1000 rows it went away for a long time. I dont know how long because I killed it after 15 minutes. The real killers seemed to be lef outer joins.

I then split the query into several temporary tables. The first table contained all the rows that I was interested in. The other tables replaced the left outer joins and nasty beasts like group concatenates and queries that turned aggregate results into separate fields. The temp tables were used to update the first table. Runtime went from a significant part of an hour to under 5 seconds.