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The suit alleges fraud and abuse, not copyright infringement. I.e., Hotfile bemoans WB filed fraudlent takedown notices on content it did not own, harming the company and their users. If you asked me, this is theft of the copyright itself, as opposed to `plain' copyright infringement.

(...) and surely the real rights holders would want their intellectual property removed from Hotfile if they knew about it.

You don't know if the uploader of the books has license to publish them, and you cannot act under assumption they lack one.
An awful lot of very desirable things get manufactured in Italy and they have an economy that is roughly the same size as California's ($2,112,780M for Italy, $1,911,822M for California):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_...

They also are number 5 in terms of international tourism (France being top):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings
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Excellent post. I did this recently when I redecorated my room. It used to be filled with all manner of electronic gadgetry - there was a computer, an FM radio, a DAB radio, mobile phone chargers protruding from every wall, it was like sleeping in a Best Buy. The only thing I've never had in there is a TV.

Since I redecorated, there's been just one clock radio by my bedside, with an auto-dimming soft blue display (Pure Siesta[1], if anyone's interested, highly recommended) and a charger for my Android phone, plugged in out of reach of my bed to avoid the temptation to check emails, websites, Twitter etc in bed. (Incidentally, I've also self-banned the radio station I work for from my bedroom. Too much temptation to tune in, check what's being broadcast, and being woken up by the voice of a co-worker is vaguely creepy. I always listen to other stations in bed.)

I'd highly recommend doing it, if you have another room to put your electronics. Lots of things on standby can create noise, flashing lights, glowing LEDs, mains hum, and it's not conducive to a good sleeping environment. A quiet space, disconnected from the distractions of the outside world, is essential for relaxation.

[1] http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-60907...
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Really beginning to hate it when the author themselves submits their own article to HN. There should be some sort of insta-ban for submitting your own articles outside of "Show HN" articles.
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Says you. I've heard that some people with G1's have gotten some great performance with Cyanogenmod...
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I bought a sunrise alarm clock [1] to do something similar to this. It's not nearly as fancy as rjd's setup, but it works really well for me. I put blackout curtains on the windows in my room. I usually wake up at 7, so I'll set the clock to reach full brightness at 6:50, and then the alarm on my cell phone goes off at 7. It works really well, especially in winter.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00196LFGW/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...
Sorry to be even more nitpicky, but... in what sense is it not the other way around?
+1 for the design and what everyone else have said. I would lower the price to something like £3 - £4 and don't create the illusion that the app has been discounted. It tells me you've tried to sell it and it didn't work. Now you're lowering the price creating an "Is the app any good?" mentality.
We have it then. A Lehman is a term of measuring crappy financial situations and is worth $613B.

So, a correct use would be like "Don't worry, our national debt is only 25 Lehmans."
Could the android houses band together and create their own fork with a shared software repository and a shared cloud? That could be a much better tactic than going it alone from a cost perspective.
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Greek banks own a lot of Greek government debt.

How has there not been a run on Greek banks yet?
They're really hammering in the great evil monopoly that is Microsoft, which really this isn't the case as it was when they began work on ReactOS. That said, always nice to see new players get some clout.
I'm using a G1 and the latest Android, and it has fine performance... It supports the latest apps and still does everything it did on release day.
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It's pretty sad if 3 years is the longest stretch that apple is willing to support their hardware with updates.

Of course the turnover in the mobile phone world is a lot higher than with 'general purpose computers' but imagine if the whole electronics industry had a three year time to replacement.

Pretty sad. Especially since the biggest component of a smartphone is the software. The argument that newer phones have faster hardware is a non-starter for me because I believe that it should be possible to comfortably get the kind of functionality that a typical phone displays to the user out of something a lot more anemic than the kind of hardware found in the average phone.

Manufacturers that push for their users to upgrade their phones before they die due to unfortunate events are all guilty of pollution and resource depletion.
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Great idea for an experiment. I'm make sure to highlight it in this weeks Hacker Newsletter.
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Does this mean he's barred from making purchases online with credit cards taken out in his name?
I'm surprised that you chose to use actors to parallelize your code. I always thought they were more valuable for concurrency. Back before Scala 2.8 came out with parallel collections, when I need parallelism I wrote my own pmap-like functions. It was really easy, probably easier than learning the whole concept of actors, let alone an implementation of them, and I got the performance speedup I was looking for.

It sounds to me like you got a large code reduction because in Scala you used a heavyweight concurrency solution to a lightweight parallelism problem.
Fragmenting Android even further would only kill their competitvness. None of the developers want to go back to times when you had to build your app for each manufacturer's phones separately.

Forking Android would just push more quality apps back to Apples consistent platform.
this would make it a bit more difficult, but it's hardly that simple. an easy way around this would be to make sure turntable loads your modified scripts instead of their own.
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5% is actually pretty huge. Here's my simple heuristic, I call it the Income-Loss-Wince-Factor: How would feel about a 1% decrease in income next year? How about 5%? 22%? Ouch.
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We are gauging interest with Folksy, and have more stock than Folksy will let us list. We will have more colours, more options, etc. soon if people buy some!
Can you please email me the details of the specific skill set you are looking for.

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That'd be a sideways move. The handset manufacturers are looking for a way to stand out. They need something that you can't get elsewhere. The problem is, none of them are really sure of what that "something" is. Simply moving to a non-Google version of Android doesn't differentiate anyone, it just creates a level paying field where handsets continue to become commoditized.
Unless pageview is a pointer or an array index, or a value used to calculate a pointer or array index, there's no way incrementing it can lead to a buffer overflow. Maybe an integer overflow.
Does buying existing bonds help prop up the Greek govt? Remember - they don't get any money from that transaction

Well in some sense... if you create demand for the existing bonds then you create confidence in them, and hence drive down yields on the next round of bonds that get issued.
Samsung buying WebOS? I wish they would. It's great.
I'm not questioning the profit-sharing, that's a great incentive (the best IMO) and I'm actually working in a company with that incentive. I'm questioning automatic prizes.

Bonuses are incentives, and they only work if they make you work differently that you would if there wasn't any. That's not what happens with seniority.

Maybe the incentive is not to work better but just to retain the seniors in the company. But retention is a completely different problem altogether. Bonuses tied to profits may not be the best way to retain people if you have a bad year (no profits). I think competitive salaries are a much better incentive for keeping people in the company (better pass the message that you want them to work with you, regardless of how well the company's done on that year).

And sure, performance reviews can be unfair but that's not a reason for dismissing them - just keep improving the way you conduct performance reviews. At a certain point, you'll have to have some kind of peer review, better start now. There are many companies where these reviews actually work well.

The problem is that almost everyone who had bad experiences with performance reviews in previous companies (which seems to be the case of peldi) tend to dismiss them instead of improving them.
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Georgia used to have very strenuous assignment/non-compete rules (your entire contract was thrown out if there was any wrong clause in the non-compete, therefore companies were careful to not over-reach). I'm saddened we happened to amend the constitution of the state to allow the non-California style "take it to court and let judges alter crap ex post facto"
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Unlike astrophysicists, climate science has some very vocal members trying to form policy decisions. The result of these decisions can mean spending Trillions of dollars.

So we don't get to have dispassionate debate in the facts, as the stakes are extremely high and incorrect conclusions can have enormously expensive consequences.
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sure but how often is it really defaulted on except through currency devaluation which isn't really an option here.
You may be interested in "The Camel Has Two Humps": http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf and other work by Saeed Dehnahdi: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/

He thinks that only about a third of the populace can learn programming at all, and that may be the difference between teaching someone who knows the basics of programming vs teaching programming to a non-programmer.
Oh no! That means he can't use Google +!
It doesn't matter; either is great. 85-120 degrees Farenheit would be like it is today, while 85-120 degrees Celsius would be how earth was like during the age of the dinosaurs. Either temperature is ideal for life (as we know it).
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Yes, but this game isn't just about random workplace suicides. It's about workplace suicides in the context of manufacturing phones. It's about the specific plant that manufactures these phones. That context is important to understanding the game, and taken outside of that context, yes it would be absurd.
Well, the only methods implemented in this class are the __init__ method, which is a constructor and the __str__ method which tells Python what to spit out when print is called.

Since Python has the capability of duck-typing, if I had an instance of an artist class, and a string with the artists name in it, I could use them in the exact same way with regards to the functionality implemented in the artist class. That is, I could type "print some_artist" and either would print out the name.

But, my larger point was that lines of code is tied in to a much more complex relationship that the developer has with their language and the problem domain. And that this is kind of a silly example to claim that Java is 1.7x more verbose than Python.
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/app-store-lessons-....

"Published 2 years ago"

And I think in all fairness, one should add that from that article it looks like this comes down to certain accounting requirements and regulations that Apple was not able to meet (at least back then) - not from them not wanting anyone to give to charity.
That was a mistake. Wrong commit. Sorry for the confusion.
Unless his credit card only has his first name on it, no. Did you read the article?
Fair enough, the real rights owner may have uploaded the books and videos themselves. I just think there's some irony here that Hotfile suddenly cares about copyright.
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The resale value of iPhones also makes them less likely to end up in a landfill. A two and half year old iPhone 3GS can still fetch around $400 on eBay if you unlock it. This is unheard of with android handsets.
memory hungry framework? Got any data to back that up?

according to the discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4882217/play-framework-me...

shows that you can serve a site on Play that serves 100k requests/day on just 64mb VPS. That's pretty damn good.
I emailed friends and former co-workers. I have never used any of the freelancing sites, but from what I understand it is difficult to charge higher rates as you are starting out.
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Discovered that my site creeso.com got "hacked".
How do I root cause it? What's the right course of action to prevent such attacks in the future? Does anybody know of their MO?
I'm currently scanning for keyloggers on my mac.
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While I've seen arguments about the robustness of the hockey stick graph under different data analysis assumptions regarding bristlecone pine core samples from California, I've also seen retorts that say that the hockey stick remains. I don't know what to think about this anymore.

But I do know that it can't be called an obvious "fallacy or bad experiment", so I don't know why you named it as an example. Even if it happens to be wrong, it's not an example of a bad experiment or scientific fallacy. It's an example of a screwup that you certainly could NOT have identified at a glance.
I have just boundless respect for these games. I can understand how the code could be done in 48 hours, but how to tweak the gameplay in that time is just amazing.
To me, a country defaulting sounds worse than a bank going under. Does the inability of Greece to raise capital have greater indirect costs and knock-on effects than the failure of Lehmans?
That certainly offsets costs of living in SF.
Showing the ratios is fine: your meaningful total is their total.

For instance, showing revenue breakdown while trying to explain that some department pulls more than the rest. Here, without normalization (via pie charts, percentages, stacked bars) it becomes more difficult to compare the ratios. This perfectly mirrors the idea of sufficient statistics for a particular inference.

I'll also argue that pie charts are still terrible ways to display "data of bounded measure". The primary arguments are (a) people are quite terrible at doing accurate comparisons with area or, worse, arglength and (b) it tends to destroy the consistency of you labels since there's not a clear preferred ordering in a pie chart.

In this case, I'd say that stacked bar charts or empirical empirical CDFs do a much better job displaying bounded data, and, if you can suffer removing the bound, then simple bar charts or dot plots do it best.

I'd be amazed to hear of a time that a pie chart is actually optimal. I think perhaps the best argument going forward is if ratios are sufficient for your story even with the labeling obscured (it just adds noise). Here, the ambiguity of the ordering on a pie chart might provide exactly the right vehicle.

I still wouldn't know whether it should be computed by arclength or area, though.
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I travel between Australia and Thailand. I will be raising my rates with the next quote I do. I have only been back in freelance work for a few weeks now.
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I think groovy is out of the map for Play v2.0, in any case it's going to be a while for it to be production ready, so I guess the current version still has some life on it.
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"Highest clock frequency." Not "fastest processor." I am correcting the article. I like the headline's "clockiest" description.

Edit: surely I did not mean "cloak"
I spent almost the full 48 hours watching Notch - and I thought his game would do better as well.

The thing that I like most about his effort (which of course has no bearing on the "goodness" of the game) is that he did it completely and entirely from scratch. Most of the other entries were "flash game using game library x with physics library y and random libraries i,j, and k".

He started with a blank project and added everything from his brain (not even consulting Google once!) It was absolutely amazing to watch.
I wonder in what situation such a service can be used? Thanks.
Out of curiosity, what did you use to make that?
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Appreciate your reply, do note I am not the downvoter.

However, my claim still stands. Editing for typos and reposting on a blog that has A LOT of advertising on it is still blog spam.

Call me weird, but I'd prefer if the original source was posted to HN, in all of it's typo glory.
It seems to me as soon as they forked it, Oracle would be suing them. Again, they would still have to pay for it. Maybe if they got together and purchased WebOS, that would be a more viable option. I wonder if Amazon has dealt with Oracle over the their fork of Android?
Personally I find books are just as capable of engagement as TV or the internet, and I actually have an iPad in my bedroom for the same logic as jgc has a kindle.

On it I have TV shows that I've seen many times (a few favourites such as The West Wing), to the point that I still enjoy watching them, but at the same time know what is about to happen. These are great for getting me to sleep, and because I'm not having to actively concentrate on what I'm reading, I can fall asleep as soon as I'm ready to, while the iPad plays on in the background - unlike a book, where I have to actively decide when to make the switch from reading to sleeping.
<i>If evolution were false, then pretty much all of biology is suddenly very difficult to explain.</i>

There are plenty of areas of biology that would survive evolution being 'cancelled'. Biology encompasses a lot more than heredity. Heredity is a very important section of biology, but you're moving the goalposts here - claiming biology is 'pretty much' totally dependent on evolution when it's not.
That's the one I was looking for, thanks.
I wasn't defending the original title, just saying simplifying a title is not always the way to go. Sorry if I misunderstood your suggestion, I agree with all your points.
There are only 128 ASCII characters.
> 85-120 degrees Celsius would be how earth was like during the age of the dinosaurs.

Are you sure about that? I know that some extremophiles can survive temperatures in excess of 100 degrees C, but they're all single-celled creatures. I don't think complicated organisms can survive temperatures at which water boils.

EDIT: The Earth was anywhere from 2 -- 8 degrees C warmer when the dinosaurs were around than it is today. But that's still very far from boiling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png
The way that Rework is quoted seems a little out of context. I think it should be more clear that they DON'T endorse that style of work.
Not to be a jerk, but you don't have to go anywhere.

That said it makes me sad that open source authors should be relegated to begging for handouts like this.

Those who wrote 'closed, commercial programs' for a living probably won't shed tears over it but I can see that if you have to go and ask for handouts after giving the world a chunk of your life that it feels a little weird.
Only MS can improve and fix the Trident engine, for a start.
I understand that, but couldn't two different files encrypted with two different keys theoretically share some identical blocks. Obviously this is way less likely than two unencrypted files sharing blocks but still it could happen.
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If 5% of users utilize a feature, and it's pulled, you're going to lose a fraction of those users. Being afraid to lose a few users sometimes leads to horrific swiss-army-knife products where the existing users are placated but you lose new users to some simpler product that comes along and covers 50-70% of your use cases but has a much simpler and more efficient UX.

I've seen this firsthand too many times: the loss of users when removing a feature is more concrete than the gain in simplicity (particularly because new users are generally not well represented in feedback vs. old users) so there's paralysis over removing features that just never really got traction.
It's not sad, that's simply the reality of how fast mobile technology is currently changing. We're doing more and more with our "phones" each day and thus are demanding more power from them.

Even if you only play games and such the old phones don't have gyroscopes, compasses, and all the other goodies that newer phones have.

Anecdotally I have a Nexus One and it feels just as dated as an iPhone 3GS (which I previously owned). To me that indicates it's not a problem with any manufacturer, it's the industry moving forward at breakneck speed.
May be a nit-pick, but please consider having a favicon on the website.
Nit-pick: that's not an ASCII character at all, since ASCII is a 7-bit encoding it does not contain a code point with the value 255 (or 256).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%B8#Character_encodings.
A presentation is someone telling a story. it's an emotionel Endeavour, not a presentation of facts. if it was you could just write a report or send out a memo. As a presenter you need to bear this in mind.

Not always. For instance, a scientist gives oral presentations at conferences, and goes to see oral presentations by others, because verbal communication with visual aids is a more effective form of communication than written. I can get a better idea of what someone else is doing by having them explain it to me for ten minutes than by spending ten minutes reading their words on paper... even though I can read words far faster than they can speak 'em.

I hate being overwhelmed by slides, so I've tried adapting some of these sorts of techniques to scientific talks, but I just can't. I'm not selling something, I'm trying to communicate huge slabs of information in limited time. A talk with visual aids has a greater information bandwidth than one without.

Besides, redundant text on your slides is an important insurance policy, to make sure you don't forget to say something. If you've got time to practice your talk over and over then this isn't important, but if you write your slides two days before the talk and practice it once in your hotel room then they're helpful.
You're right, I should have said Extended ASCII
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Then you must also find irony in Warner's actions. They care so much about copyright and the law, but they can't even follow the rules.
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Nit-pick: That's "clock", not "cloak".