skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I didn't check your numbers, but I'll assume you're correct. However, in my experience, film does not even come close to approaching those theoretical lp/mm numbers. This test, done with Ektachrome instead of Ektar, reflects my own findings: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/iq180_vs_8...

2. Ok, you're right. Some films will certainly outperform some digital. But, the new MF backs will shoot 13-15 stops as well, so who wins? I'd argue that, on average, digital trumps film. I've shot mostly velvia (the most popular landscape/wildlife film for 30 years?) and provia, and those can't compete with even my 3 year old dslr. (see http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/dynamicrange2/ for tests done with an 8 year old dslr)

3. Get a color checker (http://xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?ID=1192). No filters necessary, and precise color no matter what lighting conditions. And, you'd be able to eliminate one of those miserable fucking peripherals.

FWIW, going digital has tremendously simplified my workflow and allowed me more shooting time with less dicking around with equipment time, and much better quality prints (and I make really big prints). Cheers.
Bank in Africa hacked - $6.7 Million stolen electronically via ATMs
No kidding? If I just edit $HOME/.vimrc, it will start syncing? Or do I need to do something special?
Maybe, but now I might be more concerned about the current laws. I don't want to go out and taut that the current laws are already sufficient; I don't to give the impression that we approve of them.

As others have pointed out: German citizen arrested in New Zealand over... US copyrights... copyrights... from the US.
This is at odds with "corporations are people".

Also, IIRC /People/ were arrested, not just websites.
There were indeed some awful things that happened back then, but if we act as though nothing else can possibly compare to them then we won't have learnt anything from them. It could be that things continue to get worse, and eventually are as bad, but by the time we get there it's too late - which seems like exactly what Niemoller's quote is trying to point out.
Your entire post can basically be tl;dr'd as "It's Apple's product so they can do anything they want and therefore there is no reasonable discussion to be had about whether or not it makes sense or is offensive or the right thing to do"

There are real issues with gpl code that makes other derived works also gpl and there are reasonable discussions to be had about it besides "the person who created it can do whatever he wants. End of story". Same thing applies here.
The MQ versioning repo is separate from the main versioning repo. So I don't see how one follows from the other here. You can perfectly modify history in the main repo and version that editing in the MQ repo. The main repo will look clean because the history editing is versioned in the MQ repo.
Also, besides a reticence to talk in the abstract, one thing that puts serious doubt in my mind about people is self-help books.

Any particular reasons?
OK, that too.
Latency. And for those who aren't 'almost always online.'
Apple is worth more than Greece with $400 Billion plus Market Cap
Why is MegaUpload not protected under DMCA for user uploaded content?

Very much related: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/appeals-cour...
Don't see the problem here. The app makes iBooks—not eBooks. The iBookstore sells both iBooks and eBooks. Publishers can sell their book in iBook or eBook format. If you want to sell iBooks which only works on iOS, you have to go through the iBookstore. Nothing prevents them from selling eBooks instead.
Ask HN: can't we say that Y-Combinator has find the truly first startup recipe?
... in history.

I think a kid can go to his father now and say: "no dad, google is not an exception, and there is even a recipe for it".
You don't necessarily need a lot of bandwidth to take a site down. Slowloris, hash collisions (http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12286), or simply a lot of HTTP requests to pages that consume a lot of CPU time are generally sufficient to take a site offline temporarily.
No, I do not think it would be a derivative work, at least not in the way the term is normally used.

For an anology, consider MS Word. When I create a document using MS Word and save it in one of Words native formats, this file includes all sorts of information generated by MS code and includes MS specific formatting information. That does not, in any traditional meaning of the word, mean that my essay is a derivative work of MS Word.
In other words, they don't bring cases that they can't win. If you are Federally indicted, it's because they have more than enough evidence to convict. They don't like to lose cases, so they don't bring cases that are risky.
In search of "soulful" data
Like Kodak, Amazon was making too much money off the analog format to seriously consider a move that would kill the current cash cow. Dabble in the digital alternative, yes, but ready for massive game changes from near-unexpected competition and overnight adoption by customers, not so much.
Interesting... you realise you are in the latter group you are calling retarded?

Can I ask why you think that? And why you buy into US propaganda and apply it so readily to other groups?

N.B By propaganda I mean applying the label "terrorist" to anything I want right wing support for.
Dropbox support would be nice. Its the only reasonable semi-'filesystem' option
West Coast Men Get the Best Deals on New Cars
This is also a valid argument against SOPA and PIPA since DMCA + regular old due process provides all the relief required.
The Construction of The Golden Gate Bridge (In Photos)
Actually the history is kept by reflog for 90 days by default I believe (and you can change this). This covers the large majority of cases where you have completely screwed up your history rewriting and need to go back to a state you remembered you were in.
good point, in other words its a bunch of guys without girlfriends.
I can't argue with that in general, although I wouldn't describe the folks at the National Review as particularly tech-savvy. I thought their stance was well-reasoned and principled, and avoided a lot of the hype from both sides.

News Corp is an interesting case - they often take conservative stances, and I'm usually a big fan of Peggy Noonan, but they're happy to call for government intervention when it benefits their own business. Not so unusual, I suppose.
I agree completely, I just thought it was awesome that right now many of the headlines are focused on the U.S. which aligns with the "Painful" learning of the Americans in the context of the game ;)
GPL violations are copyright violations. Where's the hypocrisy?
Thanks for letting us know; you are correct- I didn't see the indictment. I read the article quickly and came here to see what people were saying. I saw a lot of debate about "% of piracy," so I commented.

Wow the executives were deep in blatant piracy. It's fair that the site was shut down. Amazing, not surprising though.
I haven't seen a single Google+ link yet on the more popular subreddits, where did you find them?
> I don't understand why it would be reasonable to think that he should not be interrogated by the Swedish police when accused of a crime (whether guilty or not)

He offered to talk to Swedish prosecutors in England, which they refused to do. I think the fear from his camp is that once in Sweden they can put him in solitary confinement and then start pulling out new charges on different issues, including extradition to the USA which is according to the article probably easier than from England.
You make some excellent points. However, there is room to critize Apple for not making that particular clause absolutely crystal clear instead of merely including it in a EULA which the vast majority of users will never look at.

Also, while your anology to the FSF is technically correct, I think it is safe to say that the FSF as currently governed would not do that. So, while your point is valid, it is a bit misleading to identify them by name.
Indeed, there's a new ebook-production service (still in beta) named Vook which aims to give authors the ability to produce ebooks in all the major ebook formats, including EPUB, Amazon's formats, and now whatever Apple calls their new iBooks 2 format. An author would use Vook's software, not Apple's, so the iBooks Author EULA wouldn't apply. Smashwords offers a conversion service similar to Vook's, and is much older. (Disclosure: I have no association with Vook or Smashwords. I've just been researching the ebook industry recently.)

Ref: http://www.vook.com/blog/2012/01/ibooks-2-another-opportunit...
Apple & the Ivy League: Reinventing Education
Have you looked at how all the popular open source media players handle bug reports? Pretty much all of them don't care whether the file in the report is pirated or not and a surprising amount of bugs seem to be found and fixed because they break pirated content...

Also, trying to take every pirated copy down has a huge false positive problem.
Actually, there is already precedent for these ideas in the copyright laws. The creative work is the input and mechanical transformation is not something that can be copyrighted in of itself. A compiler itself is a creative work. But the mechanical process of compiling a file is not a creative work. It seems pretty clear cut.

I imagine only true AI could hold the copyright to something -- and even than, the laws may currently be limited to human creativity.
I know of a high level marketing consultant who, in the mid-late 90's was presenting to Kodak management. The presenter before him gave a 'rah rah' speech listing all of Kodak's core competencies. Prior to starting his presentation, the consultant offered some frank words for his audience. He said that all of those core competencies were fine, but that if Kodak wasn't fully focused on digital within the next few years, they would be in deep trouble. Management didn't like hearing that and invited him to leave the conference despite it being a multi-day engagement. That's the nature of large organizations - they tend to insulate themselves from painful truths and challenges by discounting or ignoring them.
"An eye for an eye ... ends in making everybody blind."

The fact they're taking down webs does not automatically legitimate us to take down their pages. Also, they've the right to take down MU cause it is (or should be) a judicial process, not some arbitrary decision made by a group of people.
I think the key quote from the article relating to this is "Legitimate authority is important. All human systems require authority, but authority must be granted as a result of the informed consent of the governed. Presently, the consent, if there is any, is not informed, and therefore it's not legitimate."
> But the higher price comes in the form of a higher processing fee, which retailers are contractually bound to hide from consumers

That's no longer correct. As part of an antitrust settlement with the Justice Department in late 2010, the card associations agreed to drop that. Retailers can now charge different depending on whether or not the card is a rewards card or not.
90 days, or any other finite amount, isn't a solution for what I want. I don't need a quick undo if I erred, I want to see the development process that went into creating some code that later was committed into trunk (and perhaps much much later turned out to have a bug).
extradition != arrest
I agree about watching out against abuses by corporations or by the government, but megaupload was never the answer simoly because it didn't fill his purpose, which ideally should be to replace music and video brick and mortar stores. Netflix was better at that,and he was fighted for that too, unfortunately.
"But if you give me the name of a VC and tell me to go raise money - where do I start? How do I approach him? What will burn bridges and what won't?"

Of course there are many ways to handle this but one way would simply be to practice on another VC or four in order to get comfortable.

In the 90's I was able to get two different VC's to show up at my office. They wanted me to meet them at their office. I told them I was ready to make a decision and didn't have time. That I had met someone else and had an offer on the table. That only got them more interested.
From my understanding, you can create as much "DRM" code as you want, but you must provide the cryptographic key along with the source. This extends to the platform that the code runs on; for example, "Tivo" can't distribute a GPL3 binary in their set-top boxes, lock it down using a cryptographic signature, and fail to distribute the signing key.

It would be impractical for the GPL to determine what counts as DRM and what does not; so they merely require "free modification of the Software".
A nodejs module to shard/reshard Redis
Sounds like a trick to make us _like_ terrorists. ;-)
> HN is retarded for not coming out strongly against them.

Just how many are supporting this? I do not condone their SOPA-like tactics one bit. These actions are purely harmful to us.
You are being obtuse. It is immoral if you bury onerous terms (such as "you will give us the sole right to distribute your works") in an EULA that you know ordinary people have no hope of comprehending (such as this one).

For all the other examples you give, society generally knows the implied contract. These terms are not part of the contract that society expects from a free tool used to compose documents, and you know it.
Confirmed on Debian Testing
Matt Glassman on the anti-SOPA outages
A monopoly is defined as a seller with no competitors (in their market). Facebook would be a monopoly if its user were _forced_ to log in to facebook, use its software, or give it money.

Ergo facebook is not a monopoly.

It's ironic that I would have to define monopoly here - I personally have a great deal of distaste for facebook's actions. In my opinion they engage in highly deceptive business practices. Their users are unaware of the damage to their privacy stemming from facebook's actions.

But unethical or distasteful practices do not imply a monopoly. Google does not have a monopoly either - if you prefer not to use their services, use Bing or Baidu or DuckDuckGo ...

I understand that facebook and google embed javascript on other pages. So download the requestpolicy firefox addon. Or disable javascript. And cookies. I think you can see my point: you, the customer, can spend your money and your bandwidth (= money) other places if you prefer.
Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree
drchrono needs Healthcare Hackers Join us to kick healthcare's ass
GOOG nosedived 8.8% on Q4 results
Actually the Windows division of Microsoft is still the second most profitable division of Microsoft. The Windows divison is 3rd in revenue, 2nd in cash.

The title is misleading.
... however since twitter is under https, all of them end up being "t.co". And even if it wasn't https, a double redirect would lose the referrer
>Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests

Really? Because that statement completely goes against what people are currently saying over on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/feds_shut_...)

Some examples:

>I'm a DMCA agent and this may well make my job harder. Megauploads was incredible with their response time to DMCA notices.

>They swiftly remove violating content, which will inevitably appear due to their business model. They do not condone piracy, and comply with DMCAs.

>The funny thing is that they TRIED to prevent this. They allowed record labels and movie studios to search through the files and delete anything they found as a copyright violation.

So someone's either misinformed or lying.
The Dynamic Pie & Growing Stakeholder Value
I was under the impression that Anonymous was just kind of a brand that anyone who wanted to could assign credit to for their activities (since they have the publicity infrastructure in place)
Sad, that we've made country distinctions such that one word can mean the difference between caring about whether this man lives or dies and/or whether my country should do something about it.
What does "MM" stand for? Million Monthly? I see this term everywhere, but cannot find a definition.
I read that one, I liked the fact that he builds up each example from first principles. It's hard to find explanations that bridge theory and practice.
Initially I had an unfavorable opinion on this. But I started thinking about game engines: When you use the Unreal or Unity game engine authoring tools, you don't expect to be able to sell your game without giving the game engine company a cut. It might be a flat rate, but that's basically the same thing.

Apple are providing authoring tools for their "iBooks 2" engine and are not out of line expecting a cut of the profits...
Yeah, it's fine to steal from stores because they budget for it, it's fine to steal from people's homes because they have insurance, etc. Nobody loses!
Sen. Ron Wyden also promised to filibuster the bill back in November: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/wyden-pipa-filibust...

Two Senators willing to filibuster plus the amount that backed out after yesterday's protests will make it very tough to get this bill to a vote.
The correct way to do it is to attach a toolbar to the top of the keyboard that contains any special keys or commands that one needs, such as "Esc".
However, these textbooks are more than just formatted text. They're interactive; they are essentially a specialized website of sorts. You can include your own HTML and JS based 'widgets' and presumably use Apple's HTML/JS based widgets. The inclusion of Apple source code embedded in the book I believe would technically make the book a derivative in the way the term is normally used.

Whether I personally believe in my gut if it is right that these books be deemed derivatives is a separate issue.. ;)
Do you honestly think the constitution was setup so the congress and the president can simply ignore the Constitution with Treaties?

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. This statement binds Judges within each state to uphold the Constitution, Federal law that are in agreement with the Constitution, AND Treaties.
How are you supposed to code without backslashes? Are they anticipating never needing to escape anything?
For your information, half of my father's family died in Auschwitz. Luckily, my grandparents came here before war started and they saved their lives. So that's why I have very present what that quote means. But I also live in Argentina, where 36 years ago a Dictatorial Government killed people passing laws, just to arrest and disappear the ones who opposed to them. And what was the reaction of the rest of out society? Just say to their children: "Don't get involved in that." "Just leave well enough alone."

So no, I don't compare piracy with holocausts. That would be mad. But I have present that passing laws that allow the government to monitor everything you do online, may gradually and eventually lead to a dark future. And I dont want to get there seeing this moment as where it all started, and having done nothing about it.
Quora 's question pages are community-built public pages. If they have private urls in account pages, they should limit referral protection to them. Also, i wonder, doesn't the 200 OK code confuse search bots?
HN, What are you willing to be arrested for? Seriously, what does it take?
Rights are won -- never given. If you're not willing to defend them, they're not your rights. Which leads to the next question -- what rights are you willing to fight for? And by fight I don't mean bitch about on the internet -- but actually getting of your ass and willing to go to jail for (ex, non-violent civil disobedience).

In the advent of SOPA/PIPA/NDAA/Enemy Expatriation, it's time to make a game-plan. Parties are grappling for the right to censor our information, cut off our communications, declare us enemies, revoke our citizenship, and imprison us without trial in secret. This is no longer tin-foil territory. We can all disappear because someone stands to profit.

The only rights you have are the rights you're willing to defend. So I ask again. At what point is enough enough?
Bo Zhang charged in NY Fed Reserve software theft valued at $9.5M
Being firm in your position and rooted in your values, while open to suggestion is different then being combative. When you come into an interview thinking "I'm gonna show these guys they can't push me around because I am smarter than them" you are hard communicate with. That is not to say that you have to know the answer to every question. When you come across a tough question, you have to answer it with either facts, or from the position of "these are x scenarios we are researching now to figure out the best answer to this question, this is what we found so far."

Bottom line, you first need to appreciate the opportunity of even getting an interview and when it starts speak truth, speak slow and be real.

Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a planted post based on real thoughts and observations designed to get feedback. YC is clever that way. Part of the process is meant to be chaos in my opinion, at least the interview. If you cannot handle 15 minutes of Hell's Combinator, what will happen when your company faces significant challenges that could determine the life of your business? That is not to say YC knows it needs and is trying to get better. It is so much more than a snapshot. Certain situations require certain action and are designed to get a certain type of result.
That's the thing - they probably did look over it. The EULA clause may or may not be bad business, but that doesn't make it unenforceable. There doesn't look to be anything that is legally out of place here. By agreeing to use the iBooks Author software you are agreeing to those terms - it's a contract. That's been settled law for a while now.

The only reason it would be unenforceable is if the terms are unreasonable. Unreasonable is pretty specifically defined in the common law, and it doesn't just mean that you and I don't like it.

In this particular context you would probably have to prove that there is economic duress, which might be a valid argument if Apple owned a monopoly on all textbook producing software and electronic textbook sales - which as of right now, they don't.

So barring something else more monstrous lurking in the EULA I'm not convinced that anything can be done about it (in court).
I've been meaning to organize my emacs libraries for awhile, so its not inconvenience at all.
"Does Microsoft charge you a fee to develop and sell an app?"

If you want to sell your mobile app in Microsoft's Marketplace, then yes. They charge the same as Apple does in the iOS App Store.

If you want to sell your desktop app in Microsoft's Marketplace, then yes. They'll charge the same as Apple does in the Mac App Store.

If you want to sell a desktop app outside of Microsoft's Marketplace, then no, that's free. Just like it is on the Mac.
It can't quite be the Golden Rule .. "Do unto others as you'd have done unto you". I'm an atheist. I have zero holy places to profane. And yet I do think it is immoral to profane someone's holy place, despite my belief that it is a social creation.

I don't believe many serious people would ascribe to this 'GR' moral logic: "I don't care if someone appropriates my creations" (because I give mine away, or I have none) ergo "I am morally sound in appropriating others creations."

I agree with you that it may be pointless to argue piracy is immoral with someone who thinks it is moral. However, I don't think it is actually condescending to have that as a base assumption.