skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's really up to those other products to develop import routines for BC data. Wordstar didn't develop 'save as MS Word' functionality, but MS did WS imports just fine.
The bigger issue is that the mobile market is moving from one where operators decide on the browser to when where it already comes with the OS.

Apple - included.
Android - included.
Windows phone - included.

That's not to say that there isn't a role for after market browsers like Firefox and Opera, but the opportunity has significantly diminished.

Given that mobile and operators has been the major source of revenue for Opera, the company might have some very challenging decisions to make.
Maybe any publicity is good publicity in this case? When was the last time a professional editing software package was dissed on a popular TV show? Or any TV show?
Source please?

Only one mill in the world is allowed to produce the "paper" for US currency. Paper mills in general have equipment that works well for wood pulp paper, not the specialized equipment required to prepare and process the cotton based paper used in US dollars.

Because of the mandatory security costs involved and the fact they have to buy additional secret materials other than cotton and linen from the government, the profit margins on currency paper are razor thin. The only real benefit they get is a huge reference customer for their other secure paper business.
"Does US law require me to open the door of my house to the police if they have a warrant?"

Its a good question, you are required to co-operate with the authorities in the lawful execution of their job. The term 'lawful' is, of course, subject to legal interpretation.

Police have arrested people for filming them arresting others, typically the scenario is "They ask the person filming to stop while they are doing their job, person doesn't, they arrest them for interfering with an officer." (sister-in-law is a public defender, I get to hear all the excuses). So far the California lower courts are still fumbling around this issue. I expect it to make it to the ninth circuit sometime later this year or early next year.

The question of "Can you make a house that the police can't search without your co-operation?" is a good one, and I'll ask my lawyer friends if that approach has been taken yet. Generally a subpoena is the court ordering you to co-operate and generally you must (or be held in contempt of court).

So I expect such cases would go "give us your hard drive" followed by "give us the key", followed by a refusal, followed by a subpoena, followed by another refusal, followed by being in jail for contempt.

If you did shred your key so that you literally cannot decrypt the drive, then I would expect you to spend a few days in jail (so that the prosecutor could prove to themselves you are serious) and then they would return your drive after re-formatting it. How they would justify that I do not know but I know that they would try.
They have this installed on the 28th floor by the elevator bank over 4 or so large screens. Its pretty damn awesome. You can access it via your iPhone on the network and control it. I wish I'd had a chance to play with it more.
They seem to have deleted the post. Nice journalism...
Aussie here. Polymer notes are probably a bit harder to handle for a cashier. They don't flatten well out after being folded up. They have lots of benefits to make up for it. You won't find yourself taping up torn bills as much.
I think the quarter should be the smallest unit. And phase out dollar bills for coins.
This could be a Very Big Deal in the Marketing/PR 'industry' where it is extremely difficult to quantify performance of PR departments and individuals. I can easily envision a "Cascade score" of a particular press release or press conference being a hard metric of influence & success.

If I was running a PR department or agency, I'd want this application as soon as possible, at any practical price.
RIM doesn't need a third CEO, they need one CEO with courage and a vision for the future.

If they don't get one soon, they're finished.
India has a "Technology Enhanced Learning Program" called NPTEL. It includes video lectures for courses on many kind of engineering programmes, and everything is en English.

- http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

Not too long ago I wanted to get a little deeper on analog electronics and found their classes where more useful for me than the ones in OpenCourseWare. MIT's program I found better for Computer Science.
Apple products are not simple. Apple products are extremely complex. Their genius is in making extremely complex things usable, so much so that they seem simple.

If I make the world's simplest todo list, I have not made an Apple product. I have made a toy. If I make a phone into a tablet computer that is immediately understandable to a child, I have made an Apple product.
Apple files new lawsuit against Samsung
Not unexpected. Opera has a giant issue with remaining viable going forward.

On the cost side - There is an increasing investment across the board by other browser vendors. Coupled with more extensive marketing.

On the revenue side - They have negligeble share on the PC side. And the mobile market is moving from an operator controlled (where Opera thrives by charging operators) to one where browsers are already included.

Opera needs to find a way to be relevant in the new and inevitable future.
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That is correct. Differently sized bills enable blind users to differentiate them without having to rely upon the honesty of a cashier or a complicated filing scheme (and, additionally, allow sighted people to more-easily differentiate denominations in low-light conditions).

Edit: specifically, I learned about this from Gordon Legge[1], the chair of the psychology department at the University of Minnesota when I took a graduate level course on human-machine interaction from him back in 2002 or 2003. I lucked out and had a very forward-thinking advisor in the Computer Science department who let me apply Professor Legge's class to my Senior year electives ;)

[1] see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Legge and http://vision.psych.umn.edu/users/legge/ for more on him.
MTurk over Machine Learning
Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
I saw Paul Graham's post today (http://paulgraham.com/saveelan.html) about how someone should buy the building a restaurant he likes is located in. Isn't this sort of like a capable developer complaining to the core team of an open source project that they should implement a new feature. Why the heck doesn't he just buy it?

I don't mean to single out PG, who is a hero of mine. I'm more confused that this kind of thing seems to happen a lot: you'll see prominent, successful people mention that someone needs to raise $25k to X or $100k to Y, and I know that if I owned 5-8% of 300+ startups, I'd be cutting a lot of cheques.

Buying a car or a house in cash is showoff-y, singlehandedly saving a cause makes you a hero. Why doesn't this happen with regularity in SF and beyond?
I just found this comment from Walter Bright on a previous thread on this topic. I think it's brilliant:

Loser pays can work when the amount the loser is liable for is the minimum of his legal fees or his opponent's legal fees. That puts the maximum he is liable for under his own control.

I love this idea, as it completely prevents the scenario where a well-financed plaintiff uses the most expensive lawyers and runs up a huge bill, just to add to the defendant's risk and encourage a premature settlement. Under this rule, if you want to spend a bunch of money on good lawyers to improve your chances of winning the case at all, go ahead, but you won't collect more in fees by doing it, unless your opponent does the same (as they presumably will if they can afford to).
If you really don't remember the passwords for your encrypted files, you might want to take the prudent action and delete them. It's not like they're of any use to you now.
I do get annoyed at some of the span that hits my feed, but really, it's facebook. If apps don't post, why would you put them on facebook?

It looks like facebook wants to get out of the whole platform game, and simple be an OpenID provider, message platform, and photo host.
Jer Thorp is the guy who built the visualization tool. He also designed a tool to help layout the names on the 9/11 memorial.

He's got other interesting stuff at his blog, http://blog.blprnt.com/
Meta note: It's not clear that your last name is Terretta but that's what I'm assuming. Also, saying "the email system most of us use" on your profile is really confusing.
Spending 25k is a sure thing, and you have insurance in case of an accident or loss.
25k into a startup that can't raise vc or angel money is very risky.

If you can make the individuals popular, let's say by getting a frontpage article of them, or naming your startup after them, the investor would get something besides a ling shot to make money. Don't forget that 9/10 startups don't make it.
My point is that the two largest video distributors both provide and maintain html5 players. The fact that they're putting in so much effort means that there is demand for HTML5 video and that people are actually using it. Furthermore, Apple mobile browsers don't have Flash, and their browser market share is steadily increasing. I don't have any hard figures, but even that says something; Adobe has every reason to release stats that support Flash, which suggests that it those stats don't exist.

Either way, HTML5 video adoption is certainly not descreasing, and there are several signs that it is increasing.
not surprisingly, SHA2 for example is something like 7th (if i remember correctly) degree linear system in its core with 2 highly-non-linear (and non-continous, bitshift type) components added to 7th and 4th degrees i.e. something like this:

X(n+1) = I X(n) + Y(n)

where "I" is a shifted diagonal identity matrix and Y(n) is vector with 7th and 4th components being non-zero.

As one'd expect and require for a good hash function - such dynamic system is highly chaotic.
This may be a hoax. There are only two occurrences of his name on PACER, and both are discharged bankruptcy cases. Also, the federal inmate locator (http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp) shows no one by that name.
Of course not, you're supposed to consult your legal counsel(1) before signing such documents. What? Don't you have the mad cash to pay a lawyer to give such an important document its due consideration right after graduating and joining a startup?

(1) Everyone, everywhere should have an attorney at all times in order to check every single thing they do, say, or sign in a public or legal forum. That's why the advice everyone always gives in this sort of situation starts: "Of course, you should check with your attorney..."
Providing a password is not testimony. You're not testifying to anything.
I am a lawyer, and have studied copyright law, and in my opinion Baio's work is not even close to transformative.

Or course this is a matter of interpretation and we are deciding on degrees, but here is an example of what transformative is:

The case that Baio is relying on is Blanch v. Koons. Here is the original work: http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/silksandals.j...

Here is the work of the subsequent artist who was found to be "transformative": http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/koonsniagara_...

Can we agree that Baio's work doesn't arise to the level of transformativeness that the Koons work did?
He omitted the word "tech" in his quote, implying the statement should apply to all employees. That's minimal, but he is saying something.
I'm not going to defend PG, specifically, but you've got to realize that being a building owner/manager is a specific skill set. It takes a lot of time, too. Why would anyone who isn't passionate about commercial real estate put his money into it? It's kinda the principle of sticking to what one knows and is passionate about running/operating/building. In some way, Paul IS doing something awesome by putting his money where his mouth is AND mentoring entrepreneurs.
Why we get fat? No, really, why?
Damn, this is exactly what I've been looking for!

It's like Basecamp under active development with CRM integrated! It looks friendlier for external users/clients too!
It's a change for Australia to export something that hasn't simply been fed grass or dug out of the ground. Hopefully we'll make lots of money making money :-) And btw, the notes work really well, can't imagine using tatty bits of green paper after 20 years with the new technology.
Oh this is just too cute.

Check out the photo used on the Jay Maisel facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jay-Maisel/132844546752374

The photo facebook chose for his automatically generated 'community profile' just so happens to be a low resolution side by side of the two images in question, with no caption explaining that they're in fact different pictures.

So now Maisel has accomplished exactly the opposite of what he intended to. By suing Baio, he brought prominence to what would have otherwise been a very low distribution album, and now his facebook photo is the very image he was trying to bury.
Just like it happened to whatever previously available natural resource they used to build the pyramids? :)
Presumably there is some evidence that it does exist, or the judge wouldn't be asking for it. If you send an email to a buddy saying "I've got some great stuff on my encrypted hard drive", the court will likely be interested in seeing some of that great stuff.
If a corporation operates a big oil platform in a reckless manner and causes billions in damages, who is "starting the court case?" Corporations are far more likely than individuals to cause widespread harm, and they're also far more likely to use a cost/benefit analysis rather than morality to guide their decision-making. After all, contrary to the what the law says they're not people---individual responsibility is too dissipated in a big corporation for individual morality to influence behavior.
That's not what it would look like. VLC would have a link to D:\pirate_movie.avi but when you decrypt the volume, all it shows is a bunch of text files on D:\ ... because the password provided is a trigger for the software to show a bunch of text files, not your pirated movie collection.

Granted, if we were working for the prosecutor we would be able to put 2 and 2 together ... but ... these are the same morons who just a few days ago grabbed an entire rack instead of one server, not being able to tell the difference.

You're giving them too much credit.

Anyway, as of right now, cops/prosecutor only get real excited if there's naked children involved ... and frankly, you shouldn't be doing that sort of shit anyway. Just jerk off to normal porn like everybody else, problem solved.
My grandfather was blind and had to resort to his family telling him what the denominations were beforehand and then he folded the bills into different sizes. Apparently one day a cashier attempted to scam him by claiming the bill he gave was too small. Different sized bills would be helpful in that situation.
i really need to start working on lensdb again. blah!
"Supposedly the same argument could apply to a safe combination, hence a defendant cannot be compelled to reveal a combo but can be compelled to open the safe."

Can the defendant even be compelled to open a safe? Suppose you have a case in which the defendant has either specifically disclaimed ownership of the safe in question or disclaims any knowledge of the combination or has flatly refused to either confirm or deny ownership of the safe or knowledge of its combination on fifth amendment grounds. I'm no lawyer, but I suspect the standard procedure in such cases is that the judge issues a warrant that permits police to access the contents of the safe and no burden is placed on the defendant to do anything at all. Rather, because they have a warrant for the contents of the safe, the police are entitled to open it and they do just that, using a locksmith or mechanical means to force it open. The analogous situation with respect to encrypted data would be that the police are welcome to crack the encryption themselves by whatever means they deem appropriate, but the defendant isn't required to do their work for them.
Leaving His Mark
Animals being dicks.
Your "thin-layer" analogy sucks. I propose one instead that I think is about 10000+10 times better.

How about instead we take your 10kloc of code, and replace every char with a randomly-chosen char with the same rough shape ("w" => "w" or "m", "l" => "1" or "l" or "I", etc). And we publish that.

The new product has some interesting properties. Information-theoretically, the new product has less entropy than your code, so it cannot be converted into your code. It doesn't do what your code did (like let you recognize Miles Davis if you didn't already know it was him). On the other hand, it's clearly derivative, because it uses _exactly_ the same whitespace, and the same line-lengths. If you hold printouts of both of them side-by-side, from far enough away, you can't tell which is which... but if you get up close enough the difference is obvious. One is obviously a technically-detailed work that had some specific requirements and took a lot of skill, the other is obviously and evidently less so (but still took a LITTLE skill, or at least effort). If someone already knows the original, the derivative will call it to mind, but if they don't, the derivative is uninteresting. The derivative clearly is a comment on the original, because otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Actually, I think I've got a pretty tight analogy here.

Why on earth would you be pissed off?
"UI/UX is all about keeping things intuitive/similar so new users pick it up with ease so there is no training required. "

Thats a fine objective for _some_ software. Twitter clients should be like that, the majority of what email clients or web browsers can be like that.

It's possible (probable?) that fully featured project management software can't be like that. There's too much external system level understanding required to expose everything the user needs to know about how and why to use the system in optimal ways to be able to encode it all in beautiful UX/UI.

Try and work out, as an exercise, how you design a UX/UI for a git client that'll allow a cvs or subversion user to "pick it up with ease". Some things "just don't work that way", and I'm reasonably sure project management, at least at medium and large scale, require user training (whether formal or self-trained-via-google, or through many iterations of trial and error).
> You know, where you put some light sensors in front of something you did not create yourself and pretty much just collect the photons that bounce off it.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the original in this case was a studio shot, in which the lighting, background, angle of photography, and positioning of the subject were all chosen by the photographer in service of the vision that yielded the artifact generated by "collecting photons". Even outside a studio, a photographer has a lot of control over all of the variables. Weather is about the only thing they don't.

To reduce photography to such extremes is akin to saying coding is pretty much typing. By the time that happens, a lot of creativity has already been spent.
The new $100 bill... which costs $105 to make! jk ;P
The same thing when they request a document that was lost in a fire: hope they believe you.
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"Loser pays" isn't aimed at changing lawyer behavior, it's aimed at changing plaintiffs' behavior. If the case is good the plaintiff will always find a lawyer, the question is whether the plaintiff can stomach the risk of loss even if he has a case that he's 90% sure of winning. Would you take a gamble where if you win you get $2M but if you lose you pay $100K, even if the chance of winning is 90%? It's not an easy decision if your net worth is less than that $100K.
Not only in Germany. The Social Security online tools have "hours."

No, I'm not joking. I discovered this trying to estimate my mom's benefit late one night.
I'm seeing the page still there. Has an update now though.
Was Skype reincorporated after acquisition from eBay?
Some countries have legislation deeming "artificial reincorporation" to prevent aggressive tax planning and tax avoidance. There are should be something similar to protect rights of employees.
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The new bills ($100, $50, $20, $10, $5) are colored differently.
Also, Eve especially has problems with continuous commitments to your alliance. No spaceholding alliance would give up defending their space to protest vanity monocles and the possibility of microtransactions.
An Afghanistan War Never Again
I'm guessing that most (rich) people do one or maybe two "awesome things," since doing one thing to the degree of "awesome" is really, really hard to the point of almost everything else being a distraction.
To answer StavrosK's question, they're two separate things: the monthly fee gets you access to the "playpack" set for the duration of the subscription, while buying (the "Full PlayPass" in the jargon) the game gets you the game (approximately) forever. There's no base fee to be "a member".
LulzSec will stop if Obama wears a shoe on his head for his next "big" speech
If I were "Microsoft", I'd be thinking more along the lines of "if they went out of their way to sneakily screw over their employees like this, what hidden traps lie in store for us?"
I would love to see a well done course registration system. I go to the University of Michigan and from what I understand we have one of the better registration systems but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Just a few minor improvements would make their system a ton better. I'm not positive about this but I'm pretty sure UofM's system is made in house.
Not illegal. Infringement. As in you do your damndest to clear every right and follow every legal precedent in making your neat little 8 bit music tribute (that you had no intent to even profit from) and some rich asshole can call it infringement anyway and steal just about everything you've got because you can't afford a "defense".

The system has (d)evolved to exclude you from participating in it completely unless you're already a wealthy player.

And yeah, my hat is damn comfy. Its top of the line.
If only I had some trash with which to create an Internet. I guess there is a downside to clean living.

What they did is okay, except: "The public hospital, which houses the endpoint of FabFi Afghanistan's longest link, has become a shared community resource, providing downlinks to a growing number of locations in the city center." It's not a good idea to give a major facility a large role in the network, because such a facility represents a big target for the government. It's a good start, but in the long term, any serious attempt at resisting censorship must use the utmost in guerrilla tactics.
Intentionally making your data inaccessible (by encryption or otherwise) without a means of recovering it to attempt to prevent it being used against you in court could be considered destruction of evidence. If convicted of that, expect far more than a few days in jail, depending on how annoyed the judge is with you.