skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can (and has been) modeled using future value analysis (from economics). Since future payments are discounted (based on interest and inflation), extending copyright means that the value now of creating a new work increases but by smaller and smaller amounts. Somewhere in the 15-30 year range is about "right" according to most studies -- the additional value of even an infinite extension is minimal at this point.

Then there's the economic value of a work: very few copyrighted works have an economic life of one year, let alone a century. This is particularly true since copyright protections were extended to all works rather than just those which were registered with a copyright office (this post is copyrighted, however my economic interest in it is nil, still, it will extend for the next 120 years).

The real argument for extensions is copyright term in works of enduring value whose copyright is about to expire. This is the "Mickey Mouse Copyright Law" in the US. Walt Disney's first Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" (itself borrowing very heavily from earlier works) was published in 1928, and there's been a strong trend in extension to prevent works from at least this date from ever entering the public domain.

This results in the exceptionally strong protections of copyright being extended to a huge volume of valueless (and often ownerless in the sense that no true owner can be identified or contacted) to protect a very small number of works of enduring economic value, though by no means does this promote the directive in the US Constitution "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (other nations have their own justifications).
Anterior pelvic tilt is caused by tight hamstrings and weak posture muscles which are side effects of sitting all day. Weighted barbell squats fix this problem more effectively than anything else I know of. Walking is important, but a strong core is probably even more important for long term back health.
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It would be nice if it was mentioned somewhere.
This is a great article but your headline distracts from it. I know using "HackerNews #1" in your title might increase click-throughs, but what does "HackerNews #1 Groove on branding" even mean?
Some feedback...

I told the site I wanted to go from Milton Keynes in England to Chattanooga TN. I selected the nearest airports to both (Luton and Lovell Fld) and it told me there were no routes.

Maybe if it would help out by automatically selecting different airports, gradually going farthur out from my selected points until it finds a hit, which in this case would be Gatwick or Heathrow to Atlanta.
I walk around plugged into my iPhone, portability isn't the issue, perturbing my physical state is. If I have to pause to think to move around or have an alarm that does this for me, I'm going to lose flow instantly.

Edit: Point being, I've never been in a state of flow that lent me the presence of mind to be able to tell myself, "Time to get up and move around", and any attempts to do so would destroy it.
Saying that you're no worse than everybody else is not the same as saying you're worth applauding.

If you've only worked with phones, you might have an inflated view of what "Long Term" means. The servers here, for example, run for 5 years between reboots. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Does anyone know if this supports the the vmwgfx Gallium3D driver for accelerated opengl in linux guests?

UPDATE: VMware responded (within 6 minutes) on Twitter and the answer is no. https://twitter.com/#!/vmwarefusion/status/11402734522400768...
3 Powerful Roles I Played as a Government Intern
So this is why I find myself cycling between 5 different "productivity apps"
In Chinese, the win sound means plague... so you fill in the blank.
Plague 95, Plague 98, Plague XP.

XP is even funnier, X is pronounced as "Cha" and it means to insert or to penetrate. P is pronounced as "P" which means asshole in Chinese. Again you fill in the blank.
If Oracle would be generous enough to offer it under a compatible license, I have little doubt it would be very welcome, despite some of its architectural incompatibilities.

Oracle is developing Btrfs for Linux, I'm not sure they have any desire to make ZFS more attractive to Linux users.

Also, didn't Apple roll out ZFS on OSX and then abandon it? Does anyone know the reasoning behind that? Perhaps ZFS was over-hyped or is only useful in certain scenarios.
Failures and mistakes are good if they are numerous and quick, preferably not committing the same ones over and over again. You learn faster and move on this way. The worst kinds of mistakes are the protracted ones. Sometimes it takes too long and the damage is irreversible. The key is keeping an open mind and always be vigilant. Listen to those around you and ask for advice.
Hopefully this works out better than their partnership on Google TV.
Like many of the other features Facebook has announced recently (friend lists), this is a redesign of a feature they've had for years.
I got it.

EDIT: modified your tweet message, though.
The problem with the current daily deals market is over-saturation with companies that "invest to acquire customers". Consumers are getting unsustainable and unprofitable discounts and this will go on until the investment mania in this sector cools down. After the shake-out the remaining players should be able to tune their models to run profitably.

This is not so different from what happened to original e-retailing back in the nineties.
"The enemy is retreating the wrong direction!" :-)

The fact that Yahoo grew a bit seems to imply there's more at play, like you said.
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My favorite part is that the first quote in the article is "This launch system will create good-paying American jobs". When an election isn't coming up they at least put that below the nationalistic/visionary stuff.
It may be good to hide solutions behind a pastebin link, rather than directly including them in a comment & spoiling things.
Windows Server 8's secret mission: Kill VMware
Cornell's standing desks study: Are we passing around a misleading sound bite?
HuffingtonPost, Patch recruiting bloggers as young as 13
Yes, it is often the non-programming tricks that allow me to be a more productive programmer. Watching other programmers use a few powerful commands in vim, plus a cool flag for grep I didn't know about, plus how to efficiently organize things in directories to quickly find things, etc. All these little tricks I learned from a couple programmers my first year probably doubled my productivity as a programmer.
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I agree. I use sed, but it's not a part of my 'top of the head' workflow. I have a few things I use regularly on a cheat sheet. Usually when I need to do something new I have to struggle a bit. Same goes for awk, actually.

The intro has a very nice conceptual feel to it. I look forward to going through the book.
Doc here. Anterior pelvic tilt is a fancy way of saying "slouching". Slouching isn't bad. An Olympic squatter can slouch with the best of them. Slouching for 8 hours is bad. Stand. Walk. Just don't sit all day.
I recommend using ExpanDrive [I write it] - it works great on Lion and does some aggressive caching to make this a much more usable solution.
> when I worked on the Apollo Project

Wow!

I was a toddler when Armstrong walked on the moon. While I was too young to remember the live broadcast (my mother says I did watch it with interest), growing up with it certainly had an impact on my decision to become an engineer.

Thank you for being part of something that inspired and continues to inspire so many of us.
I was very fond of the idea that hackers cannot do design, because I am primarily a designer. It's good to feel special and look down on an otherwise very competent group of people. But if it were true it would mean I couldn't be both an awesome hacker AND an awesome designer, so after a while I rejected the idea entirely.

It doesn't hurt even for the amazing embedded system programmer to learn about design. If anyone tells you that those skills are mutually exclusive, turn 180 degrees and start running.

If you lack the eye for design, the strategy I would recommend to develop some sort of proficiency is to "harvest" materials and ideas (good fonts, well-proven rules about proportion, color palets etc). Treat it as a repo, throwing stuff out and putting new stuff in. Ask feedback from designers on your choices, and try art. Really, try art. The whole art vs design debate is for decadent old men, but just exercise your creativity in different ways.
Are you referring to the preview or is the Kindle version out?
Link for the UK store: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-B...
Nice points in the article, but at the end of the day it boils down to one thing.

Is applying predictive analytics can make your business more profitable? This broader rule can allow for lots of exceptions to your guidelines.

Of course to know if predictive analytics can improve your profitability you'd have to test it or at least find examples of how others applied it to similar problems.
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Lots of all of the above. I'm only vaguely acquainted with the literature myself.

One of the more interesting reads I've had is of studies of leaded white paint and childhood brain development pathologies leading to numerous psychological problems, including criminal tendencies. This was known in at least part (similarly to health effects of smoking) for well over a century, but it wasn't until the 1970s and 80s that lead paint was outlawed. Subsequently there's been a dramatic decrease in associated crime rates. Much of the advertising and iconography of paint companies (the Little Dutch Boy of the National Lead Company, a/k/a Sherwin-Williams) was aimed at making the public comfortable with the idea of using lead paint in areas used by children.

Unfortunately, slow housing/building stock turnover means that there are still many buildings with significant lead toxicity, though the problem is slowly getting better.

And this is one of only very many environmental factors. Other contaminants, psychological trauma in infancy/childhood, and genetic factors do all appear to play a significant role.
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So, who actually Leila Lopes? Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes (born February 26, 1986) is an Angolan beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Angola 2011 and Miss Universe 2011.
Sony Playstation Vita to release in Japan on December 17
Why not scour gitHub for "technologically difficult" projects to contribute towards? That way you can pick ones suited to your expertise/field-of-knowledge.
The TTC (Toronto) has been pretty good about this, especially lately. Initially releasing real-time APIs for our streetcar routes and now every single bus route has realtime, GPS based methods.

Info found here: http://toronto.ca/open/
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat
So if I express myself by writing I get life + 70, but by playing I get a flat 50? Why the differing value judgment?

I'm a firmly amateur musician so this isn't relevant to me, but as it happens I do as much improvisation as formal writing; there is a distinct anomaly exposed here, to my mind.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the copyright system, I strongly feel that the level of rights a creator receives should be equal regardless of their means of creation; the moral logic for preferencing one form of publishing over another in law seems entirely absent, to me.
> XFS has absolutely terrible performance for lots of use cases (deletions, for instance).

And has outstanding performance for lots of other use cases (handling large files, for instance).

Just like any other FS out there.
Ever since HTML5 Boilerplate was launched, a whole plethora of projects have been popping up which were inspired by it. Thanks to all the main devs of H5 Boilerplate and projects a like. Makes learning easier and fun!
I've thought a compromise would be nice, where after 14 or 28 years the works would become available for reuse and derivation, but the creator would have a limited right of refusal for e.g. political or pornographic derivative works until after their death.
Do you still read the copy in Groupon emails?
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You do realize that there are desktop word processors other than Word...?

WordPerfect is equally powerful, but uses a completely different paradigm that most users find far more intuitive (and correspondingly less annoying).

And there's WordStar for DOS, still highly regarded, and considered by some to be the best word processor ever...
It appears that it doesn't like CRLF. Maybe the author didn't test it on Windows. ;)
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That's also an option. I will go through that. Btw, any recommendation for such projects at gitHub?
Forgiving Your Child's Killer
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If you send a friend request to some one, and they don't respond (it happens) - you still get to see their public posts in your news stream.
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If English is not your first language stating as much will keep potential employers from being put off by grammar/spelling mistakes.

I would suggest looking in the "jobs" section.

If stated differently, your question would make a good general discussion about the value of generalists in startups. I happen to think they are valuable and necessary because they require less babysitting and have, by definition, broader experience and are proven adapters.

Specialists are great if they specialize in your area of innovation. Everyone else should be a generalist.
The post author did not reference it, but he may have been following up on this other recent piece:
An iOS Developer Takes on Android,
http://nfarina.com/post/8239634061/ios-to-android
This is going to be great for folks who’ll have iOS devices and Mac OS X “Lion” on desktops and laptops. So looking forward to it.
Man, rough language, but if forgiveness is part of your soul, then you gotta do it.
Windows Server 8
BuzzData's API now in beta and ready for testing
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Apple released a ZFS read-only driver. They've never offered support for it as a writable format as far as I'm aware.
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Techcrunch founder vs. new Editor turns ugly
This does not cause any "backtracking" when tracing the code execution with the gray interpreter.
I disagree. Commercial launch systems are just beginning to unfold and for example SpaceX has already announced plans for heavy lift versions in the very near future. Contrast this with the SLS, which is the umpteenth attempt at rediscovering how the mysterious and ancient Saturn V worked, and which will probably be cancelled within three years without ever producing something that can actually get off the launch pad.

Programs like these are completely superfluous and most people involved know it. NASA is not even hiding what this project is for: it's a job program, says so right there in the article. And when they say "jobs", they don't refer to real companies like SpaceX or even themselves, they mean huge defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Also, in a vacuum does white still absorb the least amount of heat energy from light?
"If they've been working on that nonstop since the iPad launched..."

Sounds like you've got it figured out.
I like it. Sounds like the English name and means 'buy a lot'
But as mygengo is a revolutionary translation service not a retail store.

On the other hand...finding a Chinese name really is a pill for all companies. This may be the best name yet.
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The mathematics of clock making
Not the author, just a general question:

There's obviously no replacement for a real copywriter, but is there some service I can possibly run my site(s) through to try and automatically catch stuff like this? Maybe with an API to ignore certain technical words that they think might be misspelled? I could definitely see using that as part of a test or integration step.
GA and Reinvigorate.
fix the forgot password emailer, doesn't work.
I user Chrome 14 and updates take over 5 secs to be synced across different tabs. Some kind of a bug or the backend app polls the db regularly to push new messages ?
The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
I love the thought of encouraging better education, especially through technology, but I have to wonder if that's a wide enough base to support the incubator? It seems a rather narrow vision.
Hackers vs. Consultants: How not to find an idea (Part 1 of 3)
Sent you a present. Check your inbox. :)
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Will be a useful feature for notable people that have a 'profile' and a 'page' and don't want to manage two properties. Now you can have as many 'followers' as nature will allow, where as you could only have 5k 'friends'.

That said, I think Facebook is trying too hard to be everything to everyone, which is a turn off for me.
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ActiveScaffold is the lost art of administry. I found no other plugin to mach it in terms of features, instant gratification, configurability, code modularity etc. Volker made a titanic job porting to rails 3 (in production on my project), and now official branch is also pushing to rails 3. Only downside is a hard learning curve (ironically it does nothing special other than you usually code Rails apps, just injects methods in controllers and a few other nuts and bolts)

Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546199

I find admin_assistant to be similar to AS but does not compare in terms of features/customizability. I wouldn't call them "generators" more like "code injectors", code that you can override (a natural thing in OOP).

Another big + for AS is the plethora of plugins/bridges (that also have the same philosophy of instant gratification):

https://github.com/vhochstein

https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold/tree/master/li...

For example add CanCan to Gemfile, define abilities and BAM - user are restricted accordingly.

Shameless plug:
CanCan bridge and a few others are contributed by yours truly.

Oh, and it's also highly documented (thanks Sergio & team) https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/wiki

Anyway, Puffer looks nice.
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Yeah - I had lots of troubles with MacFUSE in the past as well...so far (only a couple of days really) I've had no problems with OSXFuse though.
A Baker’s Dozen: Tips for Successfully Managing Your Brand on Facebook (Part I)
About six paragraphs that need to mention "cost" or "jobs created", only one at the bottom that has some actual scientific goals. How far we've fallen
Expand on this, please.
Facebook Launches Subscribe Button for Following Anyone's Public Updates
It's a symptom of the times. People don't care about science today, they care about jobs, and NASA is trying to play that tune to keep themselves afloat.
Actually 2 weeks could be enough to gain some information and make quick and necessary changes. The early days of a start-up would be the most unpredictable and if you haven't learned anything in two weeks that you need to change or improve upon then you haven't been monitoring your project carefully. It's not the length of time but the level and intensity of activities you went through that counts the most.
totally agree.

meta-feature is like a magic, which is behind the scene and plays a big role.
I don't think so. Buggy gestures or minor UI issues such as tiny touch zones are not the consequence of poor product design or direction; they're the consequence of having significantly large software in a very early stage of development.

I imagine that people who think bugs in a preview release are somehow a reflection of a company's overall vision or understanding of how their users interact with their computer probably are not going to be very accepting of anything Microsoft does regardless of its merits.
I personally haven't seen it on the Kindle, and consuming it that way sounds painful (there are so many illustrations). But, some seem to think it looks good on Kindle Cloudreader http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997007

(I am the author)
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Intel: 75 Million 2nd Gen Core CPUs Shipped
This must be intentional. I can see how it makes sense, but IIRC there is a way to detect whether a user has caps lock on using JS, so that might be a better way forward.

Either way, it's not a ton of use unless you know the person's password in the first place.
For dcaldwell: maybe consider working with reddit somehow? http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/if-youre-nonprofit-organizati...
They've added:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Advanced Layout

CSS Regions
CSS3 Multi-column Layout
Flexible Box (“Flexbox”) Layout
Grid Alignment
Positioned floats

CSS3 3-D Transforms
CSS3 Animations
CSS3 Gradients
CSS3 Transitions
CSS3 Text
The text-shadow property
Hyphenation

Panning and Zooming
Removal of style sheet limits

Document Object Model (DOM) support

Advanced Hit Testing APIs
CSSOM Floating Point Value support
Media Query Listeners
Pointer and Gesture DOM events

ECMAScript 5 (ES5) support

The strict variant of ECMAScript (“ES5 strict mode”)

F12 Developer Tools (Not available in Metro style apps.)

Improved support for workers

HTML5 support

Asynchronous Script Execution
Application Cache ("AppCache")
Drag and Drop
File API
Forms Validation
Progress and Range Control
History
Parsing
Sandbox
Web Workers
Channel Messaging
Web Sockets
Spellcheck

Indexed Database API ("IndexedDB")

SVGSVG Filter Effects

Web performance APIs
Awesome- thanks- made my day. (glad you told me as it landed in spam bucket.)
I should've searched for Smalltalk. My bad. This link might still be of interest to people who want to get started in Smalltalk :).
I don't believe that a living creator should have to suffer their creations going into the public domain.

I've never understood why that's such a horrible fate. And even if it is, the purpose of copyright is not to protect the feelings of authors.
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I was talking about downloading their update code from their repositories and setting it up. That's not easy and you can see the discussions about this on their forum.
This bit sort of describes Macs/PCs around 1985:

Instead, I had to make conscious decisions to switch over to IM and respond to several people at once, or go to IRC to see what the rest of the staff was up to, or go back to Writing Kit to dedicate another hour to uninterrupted writing. It's a different mental process for a typical computer user, but it worked out a bit better than fine if personal productivity was the metric.
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Even worse - you know that they originally wrote "well paid jobs" and a team of media image consultants decided that "good-paying American jobs" sounded more homely and folksy and would play better in social groups XYZ in congressional districts ABC.