skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't he sue the government for this somehow? Presumably they have laws for false imprisonment/arrest in england.

and if they have that recourse why aren't they taking it? (I'd guess they want the attention.)
Sounds like there's a business idea here.
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Huh? Tiebreaker goes to the creator? Then you would have no fair use, parody or any of the sorts.
It wasn't a cease and desist--Andy had to pay Maisel $32k for him to go away. Perhaps a polite note or actual C&D would have been the way to go.
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We've had that implemented since... I dunno, about six months ago maybe? (screenshot: https://skitch.com/jacobian/fgjmc/django). Not sure why you didn't see it. I wouldn't be surprised if Trac somehow didn't show it to you; it's a bit of a mystery to me some times.
Your (Ruby) code is broken, and Ruby can help you fix it
Highlights:

* Better Maven integration. Includes starting Maven builds and maintaining pom files.
* Jubula provides automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML.
* Xtext 2.0 makes it even easier to create domain specific languages.
* EGit 1.0 provides tight integration with the Git version control system.
* WindowBuilder, a popular GUI builder, is now open source and part of Indigo
* Drag to Install support with Eclipse Marketplace Client.
Illustrator has a scripting interface baked in that can use applescript/javascript/vbscript, but I imagine scriptographer abstracts things in a beneficial way. The adobe DOM is as depressing as the browswer's.
This would be like making a Porsche out of Legos for an art project and then getting sued. No one is confusing one with the other.
If you don't learn from history, what are you planning on learning from?

Debian solved this sort of problem by forking Firefox to produce Iceweasel, which is a stable FF version plus security patches.

There's nothing to prevent someone from doing the same for a Windows build of Firefox. There might even be a plausible business plan in providing support and updates. The releases would be free, but you can charge a fee for integrating and writing new patches, plus .msi installer scripts, plus answering questions. Cygnus was doing this for a bunch of GNU projects up until their merger with Red Hat.
Wait, so what does the ad network have to do with the fact that he's selling an album on a website with no advertisements?
Stuff changes. Corporates need to get used to that.

Add to that the motivation for buying software is usually either a bonus for completing a project or cash backhand from the vendor rather than on the merits of a tool.

Also, I know a certain large company that used paper envelopes for asset tracking. They bought in a fantastic electronic system to handle it and all the staff sabotaged it because: A) it made them accountable ... B) it made people visible of what they were doing.

TBH I think most corps are deranged as are any groups of humans with N > 5.
> it is their right to decide where the line gets drawn

No, the whole point of fair use is that certain uses are protected EVEN IF the artist doesn't like it.
To be honest, they all suck roughly equally. They all want to sell your ass as quickly as possible at the lowest price you will take the job. I worked with a bunch in NYC, they are all capable of finding you a job - Talener and JobSpring are pretty big in web development.

One thing I would recommend against is the daily rate. Some recruiters prefer it for some reason. Hourly only.

If you can get a direct deal with the employer, you can get much more money, but you must know somebody on the inside to do that.

p.s.

Always, always negotiate the overtime rate. In most places you can get 50% more for any hours over 40 per week.
The author took it down and will repost it in a bit with all the small edits included.
While they are at it they should also make them state the actual price of the service instead of adding them on your bill.
I am tired of having random charges on my phone bill.
So, if I took a picture with a magic camera, that "copied" a Porsche, and magically "pasted" another one in reality, I should have to pay for it again? I mean, this is already an issue with 3d printers and small items. It'll happen with larger ones soon enough.

I understand a little under a decade of copyright protection when you had to horse and buggy your manuscript to a printer and they shipped it by train and boat around the nation to salesmen who again went by train or carriage to sell it... But in the world of one-click publishing? A hundred years plus? Really?

The window of protection is now less a window, and more a gaping wound in the side of creativity, as seen here.
pretty much, compared to an integrated terminal like *nix, im a big fan of things "just working"
1) Proper citation: the person who creates a derivative work cites the source properly.

2) Free as in beer

3) A social structure where it is about ego/glory rather than money

Btw ... this is loosely how academia works. Most scientists are in it for the thrill of discovery and glory (we know we can get paid better elsewhere). We kill ourselves trying to get papers at the top conferences - because that gives us and our work the highest visibility. We mostly give away our knowledge for free (this is contentious because of high undergrad tuition and patent happy universities - that said, this doesn't directly go into the scientists pockets).

An excellent related quote (I think from Liar's Poker): Money doesn't matter. That's just how we keep score.

Academia is essentially the same. Replace money with # of citations, journal prestige, h-index, etc.
broken paths, broken experience - need to constantly nuke npm caches. I finally got it working but it's tacky.
He was using the same terminology as the comment to which he was replying. I don't see how semantic quibbling would have added all that much.
The magazine leads one to believe that the "street art" isn't really condoned (and may actually be a legal hassle for him), it's just inevitable in that area of Manhattan.

Gruber made, I think, a somewhat asinine point about this being an example of how spectacularly well-off Maisel is and how much of a dick that makes him for enforcing his IP rights. But Maisel bought the place for a pittance in the '70s and doesn't collect rents on it. I'm sure he's much better off than Baio, but he's not a mogul.
Its a vast improvement for web developers who have to develop for 1 version of chrome versus 4 versions of ie, Its a vast improvement for web developers who get to use new functionality to deliver better experiences to their users, Its a vast improvement for users who get a faster, smoother, more featureful web experience.

The only people it sucks for is large corporations who for some reason have applications that are tied to 10 year old technology and for extension developers, its a shame but certainly not worth holding back the web for
Let's make closures easy:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/10/...
I thought the same thing. It would be a huge slap in the face if the N9 turns out to be very popular. This leak feels like "damage control". Which seems silly, there is no reason you can't release phones with WP7 and MeeGo.

The release of the N9 and demo videos really brings Elop and Co's statements about the emperor having no clothes with regards to MeeGo into question. Looking back that appears to be negative marketing to justify the ms partnership.
I was planning to work on something like this during the summer holidays, but you've spared me the effort!
This looks really nice.
I think that pegging RIM's future to QNX is a mistake. There is no single technology that will return RIM to it's former status. iOS isn't the reason Apple is succeeding, it's simply one piece of the puzzle.

I keep hearing the same thing you wrote, that QNX runs nuclear reactors so it must inherently be good as a smartphone OS. I fail to see the connection between the two.
This. Also proper tagging for once.
I'm not commenting on the subject matter of legality, so you're barking up the wrong tree with all that.

I'm questioning the classification of crimes. Felonies are serious and primarily intended for removing violent criminals from the grid. Felons can't vote, can't buy guns/ammo, can't obtain most vocational licenses, can't obtain visas abroad with most US partners, and can't easily find jobs anymore.

Felony status should be reserved for people who are a danger to society, not just a danger to a record labels and publisher contracts. Socially acceptable (accepted by society) crimes shouldn't be felonies -- that's a direct collision with the purpose of a felony! And a special interest group shouldn't be able to lobby for elevated crime classifications like this.
That's incorrect. Microsoft, I believe, is only allowing low level access via drivers that have been checked for safety, and most random drivers from vendors are NOT allowed such access (even those that pass the normal driver certification).

The article from the Google guy a few days ago said their approach is that they an include in WebGL workarounds for all the buggy drivers. That approach has no chance of working.
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It's an interesting conundrum that the artist is forced to settle a lawsuit involving a derivative of a photograph from which he made (presumably) little or no money. Meanwhile, he can use both the photograph and the derivative in a medium that generates ad revenue with no fears of copyright law.

In the first case, he created something interesting, and his arguments for the symbolism of his piece and the entire project were compelling. Yet this is reasonably likely to not be considered fair use. In the second case, he blatantly displays the creative work and offers commentary on the issue, and profiting here is perfectly fine. This seems somewhat backward to me, so I think th0ma5's comment is interesting.
that is very slick. simple enough to ajax/json the facets in as well. might try my hand at a backbone-friendly fork. Thanks for the cool tool!
I can't wait to be able to buy one of these.
> Its a vast improvement for web developers who have to develop for 1 version of chrome versus 4 versions of ie, Its a vast improvement for web developers who get to use new functionality to deliver better experiences to their users, Its a vast improvement for users who get a faster, smoother, more featureful web experience.

It would be a vast improvement if any of those things were actually true, but unfortunately none of them is.

Web developers aren't developing for one version of Chrome or Firefox now, they're developing for one version every three months. That is far worse than supporting, say, IE8 and IE9. (Please can we drop the IE6 nonsense now? The remaining market share is negligible and the arguments are academic outside of niche markets.)

Web developers can't use the new features if they can't keep up with them, and in any case they are typically not portable, robust or future-proof enough for production work when first released.

That means users don't get a more featureful experience. If anything, they get less, because trendy web sites use trendy CSS3 features and the like to save time, and those features don't work for a very substantial proportion of the web-surfing public where the older but tried-and-tested techniques did.
>Github is an example of this, it does a lot on the web.

I agree, and not really enough actually -- they seriously need to work on their UX and it's disappointing that this is the direction they're going.
i like the favicon, though the site (all be it a 1day project) could do with at least some styling, _cough_ no center align
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Well, just because it's hard to decide exactly where to draw the line doesn't mean he can't cross it. I actually had the opposite take on this question. As I read, I wondered where the author would draw the line -- a grayscale version, one with pixels half as small as his, a 16-bit version? He didn't include intermediate images between his and the original, just between his and the extreme.

The truth is that his version just wasn't that different than the original iconic image. He used the image in exactly the same context, derived value from the similarity (that was the whole point), and derived revenue from the sales. So how is this okay?
Surprised that Microsoft would support V8 as a server side JavaScript engine instead of doing something with Chakra.
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Have you ever downloaded something from bit torrent? I hope they send you to jail.
Maybe part of the problem is that specific subreddits like that have specific rules that enforce this:

"Editorialized or biased headlines will be politely requested to resubmit.

Submitters of summarized primary research that do not contain citations in the article are highly encouraged to include links to the original, peer reviewed sources in the comments. This is to allow interested redditors with expertise to fact check the summary author.

Please don't submit breaking stories that have already been submitted from different sources.

Submissions that are not directly about scientific research (e.g., science education, science policy, educational videos, etc.) need to be non-editorialized and substantive."
I really didn't expect this to happen within 10 years. I'm amazed that this happened so fast.
Secretly, they hope they're Just Like Mark(tm).

Openly, the fact that silicon valley attracts these sorts of people is why I stay very far away.
Apparently, Google had been lobbying the state of Nevada for this.

It's very interesting to read this Scientific American article from late May (mentions Google's lobbying efforts):
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-driv...

Edit: NY Times article talking about this more directly ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11drive.html?_r=1
Here's an example of what I'm talking about (notice the border):

* Finder in 10.4: http://miki.samborsky.de/files/article/2008/LeoIcon/Tiger-Fi...

* Finder in 10.5-10.6: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/3-blog-pics/mac-finder-places-m...

* Finder in 10.7: http://gavinsmith.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-Shot-...

And whitespace is one of those things that really helps to make ui usable and clean.

You missed "the right amount of" before "whitespace".
Agreed. But it's such a dick move. Instead of just saying, "hey, please don't do this," he hurts the guy.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/maisel-mansion
A language cannot be "wrong", especially a language without a strong central controlling authority.
I worked in industrial machine vision from about 1990-2005. What we saw happening was a gradual shift from dedicated systems with DSP and specialized hardware to PC framegrabbers with most processing on the host to firewire and cameralink cameras with everything on the host. The libraries from Cognex and Matrox as well as open-source solutions have become so good and easy to use that some of the mystique of machine vision has disappeared.

I think there are still tons of interesting machine vision applications but the systems development itself has become largely commoditized.
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same."
-- Carlos Castenada

Take a complex product like a distributed database or a queue or a browser (or whatever else takes your fancy) and build a competitor.
You'd be tackling disk structures, concurrency, query parsing and evaluation, distributed programming, encryption, compression, the works.

Make sure you don't spend all your time on learning what others have done. Think of how you'd do it from scratch and then you'd be able to understand the various real world algorithms and tradeoffs that go into it. It is a fantastic challenge, and when you come off that exercise, you'll be up there with the big boys.
This is great news! Nevada is pretty consistently willing to be the reference case on a lot of forward-thinking ideas.
> That's easy to say when you're not responsible for a system where an hour of downtime comes with a seven-figure number in brackets on this quarter's review.

In particular if you have such a critical system, you should have a plan on how to upgrade, test, and deploy it.

Releasing a browser every three months (or constantly, such as Chrome) does make a lot of problems go away. And having reasonably-well written web apps does help as well - just because you're developing in-house tools doesn't mean they have to suck and only work on IE6.00.14.13 patch level 3 with the right fonts and ActiveX version installed.

Corporate IT can learn a lot from how application development works on the web, the web is the more robust IT architecture you're asking for.
Google Earth, or Google Maps?

From everything in the description (except the name) it sounds more like Maps... And Maps would be more useful, too.
It's actually built on top of Backbone.js -- each facet is a Backbone.Model. So, no need to fork.
Captchas are evil and need to go away
Clickable:

http://tabsr.com

By the way, I got a page that already has links on it... is it not supposed to give me a unique numbered page?
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Yeah makes sense. Still, I'd be a bit gutted :)
So your theory is that, to avoid inbreeding, we developed a "KILL KILL KILL" response to differences and diversity. Somehow, I don't think that that makes sense, unless you're thinking of it as a way to get societies to reject people born as a result of inbreeding. Neanderthal predation is a much better explanation, at least in my opinion: a intrinsic fear of things that look very like us but different because, not so long ago, things very similar to us were trying to kill and rape[1] us.

[1] Ellyagg mentions a study that showed that humans have some male neanderthal DNA, but not female neanderthal DNA. This, to me, suggests rape. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2688389
Another impressive release from the DocumentCloud team. Thanks for your excellent contributions to the open source community, they are always useful and appreciated.
The minTTY terminal helps a lot. Windows console is, indeed, a horrid environment.
Well put. I kept thinking this as I read the article. The notion of species is useless in understanding the phenomena the article discusses.

I'd go so far as to say that the word "species" causes significant confusion even among scientists, since it so biases the way one thinks about collections of similar organisms.

My hunch is that the "species bias" comes from the heavy influence of religious views of "creation" rather than "emergence" in Western culture.
You're not joking, jsherry. From the article: "And some of them will be cable TV subscribers who should be able to watch shows but can’t deal with the hassle of proving that they’re entitled."

Amen. I DO subscribe to cable, and I usually use Hulu rather than my DVR (that I also pay for) because I don't bother setting recording on it... But this kind of silliness is just enough to drive someone to piracy.

I know this is obviously a "first world problem," but I completely fail to understand how an industry that made its proverbial bones by giving away content for free thinks the smart move is to erect a pay wall. I'm really curious the number of views a show gets on average the first month it's on Hulu. (At least those put up the day after air.)

And that doesn't even touch on the region-blocking and delayed broadcasting in other nations.
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> shows (to me) a form of malice, spite, arrogance, and a complex of superiority. Here's why: you already believe that this person is a criminal, that all illegal immigrants are criminals and should be treated as such.

What bothers me about your attitude is that you invoke a sense of moral superiority to defend what is nothing more than breaking the rules to get ahead. It shows more compassion for the people who will take what they want than the people who work to get it.

I can have compassion for people who come to this country looking for opportunity. But I have 10x more compassion and respect for the person who is stuck in their own country because they can't get a visa than the person who decided to break the law to get ahead.

I'm pretty sure that I would feel the same way if I had been born in Mexico. I've always been a "wait in line" kind of guy, and I'm pretty sure I would resent seeing the most impassioned defense of immigrants directed at the line-jumpers rather than the people who are still waiting in line.

> Another folly in your history books. See: slavery, colonialism, trade blocs, etc. Unfortunately for some, opportunity has literally been taken away and societies forever changed.

Ok, I've let this slide up until now, but this is a very poor attempt at implying that America has been a primary perpetrator of crimes throughout history or has somehow obtained success by "stealing" it from others.

Present-day Mexicans are mostly descendants of the Spanish and the indigenous tribes like the Aztec and Maya. The Spanish conquered and colonized the Americas for 400 years, destroying entire civilizations and enslaving the people. The indigenous people practiced human sacrifice as well as slavery. No civilization has clean hands when judged by the standards of today.

And what exactly do you think the USA did to "take opportunity away" from "some" (this turn of phrase conveniently implies a general feeling of guilt without being specific enough to evaluate). Canada seems to be doing fine, so how are you going to pin Mexico's relative poverty on the USA?

> By "most of the world enjoys", you probably mean the privileged elite.

No, I mean "most of the world." People who are forced to leave their home are called "refugees," which are estimated to be 62M people worldwide, or 1% of the world population.
Can IT Help Lead Innovation? Not when it's seen as a barrier.
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Haha, I can code like a machine, but design I just don't have a clue about. 3 weeks ago it would have all been Comic Sans. Yeah, that bad.

Any further tips on the design?

P.S. Clicking on the sign up button is all you need to do to use it. No password or anything required at all. The design once you're "in" is a little better :)
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http://orium.homelinux.org/paper/turingai.pdf
I came in here to make the same point. I can attest first-hand that having software distributed by the app stores does not in the least make them pirate-immune.
I don't understand which problem you're referring to.

The moderators of /r/science all come from scientific backgrounds as well, so it's a tightly run ship. This isn't as easy to do with other subreddits.
It might also be worthwhile to mention that the 20th century has seen a nice collection of wars and atrocities done by nation states upon other nations.
I highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard for autotagging. I went through tagging somewhere around 70 gigs of music with it, and the entire experience was rather painless. It will also rename and organize the files for you as a bonus.

It looks up the data (as it should be), so you rarely will have to enter anything yourself. It sometimes helps to add data for 1 track for horribly mistagged stuff, but after that you can usually drag and drop the rest of the album.