skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you easily pirate CS? From what I remember when you connected to a server it would authenticate a CD key with Valve, and while I'm sure there were servers that had that disabled it was easy to avoid playing on those. Likewise, there were no doubt pools of stolen CD keys, but that was probably pretty hit or miss for those using them.

It also wasn't too hard to find servers with good a "culture" where there were so many well behaved regulars it didn't really matter.
because the definition of registered is precise, the definition of active is fuzzy.

sure it makes the company look better, but its also nice to avoid the arguments over "what is an active user"
Don't guilty corporate clients already spend heavily to defend themselves necessitating a concomitant response by the righteous(?) plaintiff who can't afford it? At least with loser pays, the plaintiff has the option of finding a lawyer who will accept the case contingent on recouping his presumably huge legal fees.
Anathem was the first thing I thought about when I read this article. A quick Google Search shows that Neal Stephenson was unsurprisingly inspired by the Long Now Foundation, so the parallels between this project and the novel are not remotely coincidental. (To me that makes it all the more cool).
This article discusses a recent decision to allow Apple to also bid on the Nortel patents. For those of you who aren't following this skirmish in Patent-a-geddon, what is at stake here are some key patents for implementing 4G radios and phones.

Google has an opening bid of $900M on the table. This will go up. I expect Google to pay between 6 and 8 billion dollars for the patents.

The strategy here is pretty clear, if you have patents which you can use against Apple in the phone business, then it mitigates, or even completely neuters Apple's ability to come after you with their own patents. Basically the table will be 'license us everything you patented about smartphones or we won't license you the ability to play in the 4G market'.

Apple on the other hand if they get these patents has an even stronger hand and can keep non-Apple smartphones price incompetitive for years and years.

The number 6B comes from it being 10% of Apple's 60B in short term cash and cash equivalents [1]. If they were to pay more than that in cash they would have to put it up for a shareholder vote and it might get out of hand, Google on the other hand pretty much has to own these patents. So Apple bids 6 and Google bids > 6 to force the issue.

Amazing that in 'life' Nortel was never worth so much :-)

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/18/apple-reports-record-1q-...
Those are all perfectly valid complaints, but they largely apply to the entire history of every web browser too!

I'm not for a second arguing that Adobe don't suck, they are amazingly good at never quite reaching their potential but even if they always fall short they do enable some awesome stuff.
They're public documents, too.

But this is why the RECAP project exists - to jail-break the PACER documents you pay for: https://www.recapthelaw.org/
The truth you can tell is only a fraction of a larger truth encompassing the entire universe of facts for a case the government may be investigating. Even if your portion of that truth is completely free of any wrongdoing, when combined with the rest of the facts that may include lies or mistakes by other witnesses or incorrect analysis of physical evidence, you can end up getting into trouble for telling the truth.

But we have never held, as the Supreme Court of Ohio did, that the privilege is unavailable to those who claim innocence. To the contrary, we have emphasized that one of the Fifth Amendment's "basic functions ... is to protect innocent men ... 'who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.' " Grunewald v. United States, 353 U. S. 391, 421 (1957) (quoting Slochower v. Board of Higher Ed. of New York City, 350 U. S. 551, 557-558 (1956)) (emphasis in original). In Grunewald, we recognized that truthful responses of an innocent witness, as well as those of a wrongdoer, may provide the government with incriminating evidence from the speaker's own mouth. 353 U. S., at 421-422.

-- Supreme Court in Ohio v Matthew Reiner, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US...
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-par...
What's with the downvotes? Is my statement not true??
In truecrypt, the volume would report 2GB, not 512MB, and you have to be careful not to put in more than the invisible limit, otherwise the hidden portion will be corrupted/overwritten.
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Pretty convincing value proposition.
Basecamp seems to be designed exactly for a web design shop that wants to take on bigger projects and present an organized appearance to clients. More client management than project management.
Then perhaps 37signals need to make exporting existing Basecamp data for easy importing into the "next step up" products. As far as I know they only provided a raw XML data dump.
Very good point, we moved from Unfuddle to Fogbugz exactly because of this. We grew out of Unfuddle (they are kind of following 37Signals about simplicity choice) .
Self hosted Wave-in-a-box.
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Exact story was submitted 9 min before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694187
I explained this exact point to a friend today at lunch. He vehemently disagreed with me.

No matter what the niche, or the market, there is always room for the simplest solution. Always.
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That's why there are lawyers who take cases on contingency. And while some of them are quick-buck artists just looking for a quick settlement, most are looking for real cases with a high likelihood of success, with plaintiffs who simply couldn't afford to bring their solid case otherwise.
IANAL, but TFA states that this would also happen here in the USA because many states have a one-way loser-pays.
Ask HN: How Reddit and Hacker News store their news and comments?
I have some doubts about how Reddit and Hacker News manage to store such amount of news and comments while keeping all their rankings updated. I guess they must keep everything in memory using some kind of Tree structure, right? (news are parent of comments which are parent of other comments, etc.). Do they keep all news in memory? or just the last ones? do they constantly update all news ranking? or just the last ones? Hope you can help me. Thanks!
Honestly, anything is better than a dead Godaddy domain.

I have a few dead domains that I basically registered during a drunken binge; http://widgetsex.com/ is a good example, the dog you'll see is my friend's and his name is widget; if you let it refresh long enough, you should see an easter egg.

If you want real content, I'd probably just put up some links to information about Anathem, the clock, and the Long Now foundation, with maybe a contact form that accepts suggestions that are better than mine :P
Won't work. "God is testing our faith!"
Admittedly, I think that something was lost in translation during the conversation. We are working with the writer to update that phrasing.
A big corporation can run up an awful lot of perfectly legitimate legal fees. And the challenge remedy is not going to be much comfort to an indigent plaintiff as it's unlikely his lawyer is going to take that challenge on contingency.
Ask HN: Review our app - LiveBite
Hi Hacker News,

For the last couple of weeks we've been working on an app that surfaces the most "popular" articles from social networks in an easily digestible form. We're deliberately targeting the ADHD crowd.

http://www.livebite.com

We're a couple of iterations in, and have more improvements coming. There are some rough edges, including occasionally poor image selection, dodgy snippeting, and so on, but we're iterating fast.

We'd be grateful for any and all feedback. Design, content, anything, so we can improve the system.

Thanks!
Could you provide some assurance that that appeal form will actually lead to some fruitful response? From the posts on your forums, it's quite clear that every single "appeal" thus far through the provided mechanism has been automatically rejected as final by a non-human process without any valid explanation.
hacker news and reddit are both open source

http://arclanguage.org/ (stored plain text files which are hot loaded into memory I believe)

https://github.com/reddit/reddit (probably a database)
Yep, that's always been the problem as far as i can remember. The same thing happened with facebook requests, notifications, profile boxes. If something can be spammed, it will be spammed. However your solution means that apps will have 0 exposure, as the stream is the last channel that facebook has left open. A better solution would be to bring back notifications, which are less intrusive and feel temporary. They might reinstate the quotas they used to have on the number of notifications per app per day they had based on spam feedback.
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Technically incentives are not allowed, but most apps resort to emotional tricks. Best applied psychology experiment ever.
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"Only"?

How else would you have it provided to you? That's pretty well the most versatile form of the data you could get, I'd think.
I don't! That's the problem, but I would generally ask on Twitter if I want something that's good quality, or one of the many Stack Exchange Sites.
It would be fairly difficult to create most of these problems if I wasn't writing the bulk of my game code in C or C++. If I wanted to rapidly develop a game worth shipping, I'm not sure why I would write more C++ than what's necessary to expose the APIs I'm using to some other language.

That is, writing 90,000 lines of the product in C++ is likely a case of premature optimization, or precisely what I was just told I shouldn't do. If not, it is at least a decision to spend hours upon hours of my life waiting for things to compile and days more messing with bugs that only show up if I don't compile with debug flags, which doesn't seem very life-efficient either.
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Reddit's open source so you could actually look:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki

Edit: daleharvey beat me to the punchline.
I have nothing against Foursquare, but this 'We copy no one' is a blatant lie.

explore = copying yelp

specials 2.0 = copying groupon

Foursquare's vision appears to be looking backward. Dennis Crowley's been thinking about this space for 10 years?
LoseThos uses compression, not encryptian.

God is God. The term is "miracle" not "magic". This passage, http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians14.h... , clearly indicates some phenomina happened.

God says, "sowing separateth Ergo proudly descend resolutely Nebridius'
fatherless anyone ."
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At least in Germany, what is a reasonable fee is strictly regulated and tied to the total value disputed. At the very least, you'll know the cost (roughly) at the outset of the case.

Good luck trying that kind of regulation in the US.
The problem with applying complicated algorithms to an infographic is that it makes it more difficult for the reader to know what exactly they are looking at. I think infographics should always have a "transparent" quality where a reasonably seasoned person could explain exactly what each individual point of data means. When you start applying sophisticated kernels to the data, this becomes hard to do.
That probably won't work: you need the combination of the algorithm + the key to get your data out. Of the 4 possible combinations, only 2 will yield valid data.

If you give a password, the cops will know what algorithm they must use (2 trials at most). Even if they don't know before hand which algorithm points to the real data, they can notice that it doesn't use all data.

With your method, you can at best cast doubt: is the data not extracted real data encrypted differently (algorithm or key), or random data that the software insert by default to give everyone plausible deniability?
We've had similar problems. We have a variety of apps running stuff like posting scores to profiles. Recently we've had some apps disabled by what looks like automated bots. We asked for an explanation every time and only got a few vague template answers and a link to the policies. A colleague of mine got banned from the developer app. He can't create new apps anymore and can't reach a Facebook employee to correct it.

Facebook loves being invisible.
heh, that's most certainly not Tekton, which is very recognizable.

The script in the figures shown is Zapfino. They're both inspired by hand lettering, but stylistically are nothing alike.

It's a pretty crazy error for a post on typographic expertise.
"Loser pays" doesn't seem consistent with libertarian philosophy, in that it advocates government interference in what should be a private economic matter: how one pays for one's legal representation. It is consistent with corporatism, however, which I suspect is closer to Reason's true philosophy.
Thanks! I have found both sources but I am java developer. I guess I should learn python or arc to find it out.
Google has only existed for 12 years, so it doesn't seem like it would be fair to talk about Apple failures from 1988 in this context.
I honestly don't get why 4sq is worth 600M. As far as I know, their biggest asset is their user's location data; which is all in the past!!

At least Facebook has 'friendships' that can be leveraged as value creating entities for which users go visit the site. 4sq is not even that. I use the app to check in to places, rarely every visiting the site.

Someone please explain to me how is 4sq worth $600M?
I think ease of spelling was the problem I was getting at, not memorability, but after visiting Flippa, I can see your point.
It's considered better etiquette on HN to post the full link, rather than a shortened version. If the link is too long to be displayed, HN will elide it.

http://blog.pachube.com/2011/06/how-google-powermeter-got-it...

Edit: I also consider it useful to claim ownership of any of your own sites you link.
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First, there isn't enough information to know what it is this person has (or has not) done.

Secondly, the fifth amendment of the US Constitution allows you to refuse to provide testimony which you feel may incriminate you. Generally encryption pass phrases do not count as testimony, the legal system treats them as keys. And that would be covered under the fourth amendment which says the government cannot compel to you to give access to your property for search unless they have probable cause.

If they do have probable cause, they get a warrant which gives them the power to do the search temporarily and only for what they think exists. So if you get a warrant to search your hard drive for something, you are compelled to give them the password just like you are compelled to let them into your house if they have a warrant to search for something like drugs or guns or counterfeit plush toys.

However sometimes the courts do see it as a fifth amendment issue [1] and that has been under debate for a while. (As far as I can tell the legal theory is similar to the police not being able to compel you to tell them where you left the body in a capital crime.)

Disclaimer I am not a lawyer this isn't legal advice, and I've not followed up the cited case to see if it made it to the supreme court or not. Any circuit level decision would not be binding on different circuits.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9854034-38.html

Follow up on the Boucher case:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States...

Where the fifth amendment defense was overturned.
The NASL finals will be live

http://www.nasl.tv/News/Article/20110602nasl-finals-informat...
The password that you are requested to provide to the court is not incriminating. There is no law against having passwords or using passwords. The Fifth Amendment doesn't apply. The incriminating part is the data on the drive ... and you are not being requested to testify ... it's there and has already been confiscated by the police using a legal warrant.

This situation stinks, for sure. If you want to protect yourself, use shadow volumes. Far better solution than questionable legal arguments.
That's true. I've no strong opinons on the veracity of the man's claims, but I'm certainly not intending to write any letters without extremely strong and verifiable evidence that his story is as he claims. My point was just that the nature of the charges in the case and our ability to find anything about them have next to no bearing on principles in question, nor does the moral composition of the author, and I think there's danger in the idea that they would.
You didn’t integrate the Writeboard into Basecamp.

Worse, it hasn't been papered over well either. I can't load a Writeboard from Basecamp without some weird 1990s-style "we're loading your Writeboard" page hanging around for a couple of seconds. UI-wise, I'd be satisfied with it being separate if it weren't for the extra page coming up wasting time and making me think something happened.
The fact that NASL isn't live is far from the worst thing about it...

I'd love for NASL to be awesome, but it just isn't and there's little indication that they care what they community thinks.
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Redmine is great after Basecamp. Minimal, fast wiki. Repository viewers (svn, hg, git). Access control, which can be used to create public pages quite easily. Nested projects.

GitHub's nice if you're focused on building software. Project wikis, home pages, code review, huge open source community.
This is a really good point. 37signals approach make a lot more sense with that in mind.

Still, it's a painful transition to outgrow a tool you've become dependent on and need additional functionality to do your job.
Yes it was a nicely worded email but without a file-level log of what was accessed and when it's hard to know if you need to worry about this or not.
I was expecting the author to say something to the effect of "37signals added too many new features and now the software is confusing." So I was a little surprised to read on and learn that, no, 37signals kept their software somewhat basic, just as they said they would.

I have a feeling the author will write a similar piece in a year or two after using Podio -- no software is perfect.
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Good summary, the only difference between this and the house key example is that you can "forget" the password. When you "forget" there is nothing they can do besides say you are unstable and hold you in contempt of court.
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Just left Basecamp for Apollo for a few reasons:

1. Apollo has great customer service, and listens.
2. Apollo's interface doesn't look like Windows NT
3. Apollo is moving forward, while Basecamp seems to have stagnated/rested on its laurels.

I think Basecamp is a good product, but it's not that good.
There are probably quite a few regulars at Bistro Elan who could buy the building and become their new landlord

PG: Have you considered buying it yourself? I'm assuming that you are one of those regulars and can probably afford it. You said the business was doing well in another comment so I assume they could continue paying you rent at their current rate.
explore = Personalized recommendations just for you based on where you + your friends have been in the past. Lots more powerful than a generic suggestion. Think "You've been to Aquagrill a lot, maybe you'd also like Lure Fishbar down the street cause it's pretty similar." LOTS of work to be done on explore for those with a background in search quality, machine learning, statistics, or infrastructure.

specials 2.0 = much more flexible than a one sized fits all groupon. Venue owners can create specials around frequency of visits, checking in with a bunch of other folks (friends or non friends), being the mayor, and many other criterion. We're also, as you may have seen with our recent AmEx announcement trying to integrate our merchant tools with 3rd parties to provide value to both users and merchants on the foursquare platform.

We've got lots more coming down the pipe as well.

"We copy no one" might be a bit overstated[1] but it really is how we try to think about things. Not everything we do is revolutionary, a lot is evolutionary as well. That's just the nature of building a real product. It can't all be mind blowing (but we try!).

Even if we don't succeed 100% of the time at making things totally new and awesome, I think having that as a conscious goal is a good trait to have in a company.

-harryh

1. I'll admit to being overly dramatic at times. Sorry about that.
Indeed, the old maps and the original Demoman with is bomb pack were awesome.
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True, and shredding a key would be no different than shredding evidence. You could be charged with destroying evidence but not the crime the evidence supported.