skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to check the license again. (Haven't read it in a long time.)

The thing is: you don't really own any game. Yes you own the manuals and the case and the physical media, but it's still licensed to you. Just like a Steam game is.

The only real difference is that Steam can actually revoke that license and enforce that revocation.

However I thought the license stated that if Steam ever went out of business your games would retain offline functionality and be locally playable. (e.g: You get to keep a copy w/o Steam DRM and Community.)
Checkout Zipstream if you're looking to zip in node (Stream and pipe compatible).

https://github.com/wellawaretech/node-zipstream
They are, and I think that's really the root of what people have been trying to say. However, because of the boom in mobile, and the shift in adoption away from Blackberry and toward iOS and Android devices on the Enterprise level, there has become a somewhat unrealistic expectation of both what can be accomplished with these devices or how fast something can be accomplished on these devices. I've experienced it myself.

Of course they're capable of great things, and any competent development team should be able to accomplish these things in a reasonable amount of time. But that's the issue. Reason is being thrown out the window. I believe a large part of these "Dear people," articles RE: mobile development have been a mix of venting these frustrations, while trying to bring the discussion back to a rational place.
I think this ESR is purely about extending the release schedule/security fix lifetime. Enterprisy features can be added in the normal releases just as well.
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We’re looking for a UI/UX designer in Melbourne, Australia.

Full-time preferable; part-time or intern possible.

We’re a startup based in Carlton. We’re working on a web/email app that makes it easier to write documents with other people. It automatically keeps track of what changed and who did the work, without requiring people to modify how they currently do things, whether it be by passing attachments around by email or by sharing documents in dropbox. It’s not launched yet.

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Pity one can't pay using paypal.
I had a similar idea, this might be interesting to use server side with node and a scraper for flickr, imgur, or photobucket.
And thus forcing the rest of us to pay for the API.
Every previous bundle has included Steam keys, which aren't DRM free.
> Mine has a niche for the washing machine but nowhere to dry the laundry, for instance.

Are you sure it's not meant for one of these? http://i.imgur.com/e4sMH.jpg
The other question is how well some of those tools would scale if everyone were using them.
Valve is a case study in what sorts of evil shenanigans you can get away with if you manage to build up an unassailable sterling reputation in your target demographics (gamers, in this case). The majority of gamers still think Valve can do no wrong.
I think the search functionality could even be integrated back into Bittorrent clients, back to a system close to what eDonkey2k was in the good old days.
Larry Lessig (the same guy who single-handedly designed Creative Commons) has spent the last 4 years investigating how to "stop this racket", and summarizes his thoughts in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/...

If you want to know what to do, a nice first step would be to buy and read Republic, Lost.
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No they aren't sent plain-text:

>https://subdomain.sharefile.com/rest/getAuthID.aspx

Notice the https. The facepalm is just that there's no additional security in using POST vs GET.
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torproject.org isn't blocked, is it?
There are M-x shell and M-x eshell to run shells within emacs.

See http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/11/01/running-sh... for comparison.
Not only is it a badass iOS programming course "co-taught by top industry developers" (hint: they work for a large company intimately familiar with the platform), but the main focus of the course is also on using the iPad for visualization of large datasets. It's a pretty creative and exciting course in my opinion (disclosure - I'm the TA). The course website is here: http://hci-ipad.org
What is the difference between that behavior, and groups of people deciding they don't want to donate to representatives who don't represent them anymore?
Ask HN: What accounting software do you use?
I am doing some research on the available accounting software. We are currently using Peachtree and was wondering if there are any other better solutions available. Thanks.
Emailed you and got:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

hiring+yc@qubitdigital.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
But High School isn't the same kind of commitment as your average project, because High School is compulsory. He might have just been waiting until he was old enough so he could commit to his actual ambition.
The difference is the "quid pro quo" - I give you something if you give me something.

It's perfectly fine ethically and legally to provide financial support to candidates who support causes you believe in.

The problem is when there is an express or implied exchange of official acts for the contribution, as when one says, "Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,"

That is an exchange of contributions for official acts. That is unethical and illegal.
In what way is it not compliant?
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Yes, I was just now reading the PDF book excerpt and came to note that there are no quotes in the example as it appears in the book, on page 4. The book looks like a great balance between fun and sheer density of information, a reference book that manages to be a delight to read.
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Because it was an assignment for my 'Information & Communication Security' class and I had to do it without SSL/TLS! And it was a fun little project - I learnt how to use JQuery and worked with PHP, MongoDB and JavaScript. I usually code in Java and ObjC and it was a fun break...
There is something called "darknet" which apparently runs as part of the freenet. I have heard about and read a few articles. This may be the way forward.
But the implied meaning is hugely difference between

"GAME X sold 50,000 copies" or "GAME X sold 50,000 units"

and

"GAME X sold 50,000 licenses."

Call out the game companies on the fact that they are not selling items most people would understand it
The company, or me personally?

Yes to the first, no on the second.
POSTed values won't show up in typical server logs, whereas with GET their plaintext password would normally be logged on every request.

And POST over HTTPS keeps the POSTed values hidden from those who might listen, whereas with GET over HTTP it would just be out there in the URL.
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Ideally, I'd pull a "Shawshank Redemption" and get Morgan Freeman.
If it is a peer to peer network I believe it would get more robust as more people join in. Plus, if a ton of people are using it then it would reduce the bandwidth and load of each node if I understand correctly.
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"""[citation needed]"""

Sure, however I doubt I am far off. The site is called The PIRATE Bay. Shall we play a game of spot the legitimate content? http://thepiratebay.se/top/300

"""The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free."""

Of course it isn't however the owners are making no attempt to remove infringing content. They know their business is helping to distribute copyrighted digital content and they profit from it. Sure, they need to cover their costs but they don't run it to be a beacon of freedom. They run it for the $$$.

Take WikiLeaks, before it started publishing unredacted content they served a purpose. They broke some laws but they set information free. There was a positive reason for it's existence.

What has the Pirate Bay done of value over the last decade?

"""And? Is it written anywhere that people with deep pockets should not be insulted? If anything, their position of privilege should make them less prone to knee-jerk reactions."""

Knee Jerk reactions? Really? Content owners file DCMA take down requests and take other actions. The pirate bay respond by goading them.

http://thepiratebay.se/legal

There is little doubt that TPB is costing content owners real money by helping people access torrents. The amount is obviously up for debate however when you insult, goad and cause losses to Billion dollar companies you are asking to be engaged by an army of lawyers and politicians.

The Pirate Bay could just quieten down. "You do your thing, we do ours." They don't though do they. Instead they adopt the. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha you can't get us."

Well sorry but you know, if millions of dollars of copyrighted content is being accessed via your company. Large content owners will work to lobby and pressure politicians to take action.. this isn't knee-jerk. This just natural escalation.

"""I think you should talk to your analyst about that complex, hating extrovert people is quite the negative attitude."""

ROFL.. sure because that was exactly what I was saying...
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I do understand that mobile apps are just software, however the way you approach an embedded app is very different from a web site.

I'm not against your idea of viewing both the same, but in your post, there are many loose pointers, let me list a few here:

* You mention creating of RESTful API like it's a walk in the park.

* You take 2-5 days to create the flow of app and jump from mockups straight to testflight!?

* You have a visual designer to implement your app?!
You hit the nail in the head: It's a license. A contract. You are allowed to use the software under the terms described. The user never "owns" anything.
Note to self: buy all future Steam games with AmEx.

Things like that and the warranty extension they provide are why I got an AmEx card.
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The query string and headers ARE encrypted in https. And forms auth, that's just a post and a cookie. You can't require API clients to support cookies.
Ah, this is one of the clever bits of StratifiedJS which differentiates it from a lot of the other async extensions out there.

In the case you describe the CNN request will automatically be cancelled by honoring any try/finally or try/retract clauses in the http.get function. (try/retract is a new SJS thing).
To see how cancellation/retraction works check out the slides starting at http://onilabs.com/presentations/ugent/cancellation.html .
Makes sense to me, MBAs would be looking for companies to run, engineers build things and find themselves running companies.
As for as intellectual discourse goes, politics seems to be one standard deviation above celebrity gossip.
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> "I don't have faith in automated nudity detection as a whole (which, as a programmer, may seem stupid)"

I don't see how this is stupid. Personally, the more I understand how technology works, the more I find myself not trusting big parts of it. In particular, I don't expect nudity detection to work well at this point in time, especially given that typical image processing algorithms are heuristics that feel like smart hacks at best.
> They've been bought and paid for (although not necessarily in cash).

More specifically, the US entertainment industry bought the US foreign policy to threaten Sweden with trade sanctions unless... See the wiki leaks files.
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On microsoft.com/dashboard you can organize all the personal data you have on Microsoft. Shame on Google for making it more difficult.
It is a great success story but it is also a story of someone being in the right place at the right time. Instapaper was in the app store the very next day after store went alive. Seems like a typical story described in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29
You have no way of knowing what they log and don't log. If their server logs are compromised, you should be assuming their username/password database was as well.

And HTTPS requests are encrypted. The whole request, including the "GET /someurl&password=s33krit HTTP/1.1" part. As I said, using POST doesn't add any additional security to this.
Court rules that theft of virtual goods is theft
Why is that a hack? I've done that a few times, and vice-versa. Not really for karma, but because I thought people would find the stories interesting.
IPad 3 photos show quad-core processor, Wi-Fi and global LTE options
Forwarded same email to careers@qubitproducts.com, this one seems to be working
Custom headers should be prepended with "X-".

Also, the top line should read
POST rest/getAuthID.aspx HTTP/1.1

Correction: Use of "X-" has been depreciated in a draft resolution.

Edit: As mentioned below, it isn't compliant in its use of the verbs (GET/POST etc).
If you're using SSL then form data in a POST request will be encrypted. HTTP headers are always encrypted using SSL. What wasn't clear to me from the documentation is whether the 'username' and 'password' are form data, or are actually custom HTTP headers. The latter choice would certainly be a facepalm.
I find code that does more with less to be beautiful and valuable. Note that I'm not including code that does the same with less. As with all things beautiful, this is tough to illustrate, so I'll use an analogy here from Physics.

Page "xv" of the book "A course in mathematics for students of physics" (volume 2) by Paul Bamberg and Shlomo Sternberg contains a table (do a "look inside" on Amazon) that shows four forms of Maxwell's equations as they evolved over the course of history. Each change expresses what the previous one did, but contributes something more that wasn't possible or was very difficult to express with the earlier form.

The first form explicitly uses cartesian coordinates. The second form is the vector notation, which helps conceptualize and work with the equations in any coordinate system appropriate to the problem (circular, cylindrical, etc.). The third is the relativistic "four-vector" formulation, which, though it says the same thing as the vector form, allows extension to curved spacetime. The fourth exterior calculus formulation (which just reads "dF = 0, and 𝛿F = J"!) covers all of the preceding ones, and also takes exactly the same form when applied to circuits (the kirchoff laws, etc.) which is not something you can say for the preceding forms, while allowing generalization to higher dimensions. The mathematical machinery invented for that simple looking expression is incredibly beautiful (and that book does a great job of its exposition, imo).

This kind of beauty in software is very desirable in my opinion and we do have examples like MapReduce to show for it. Yes the machinery to do a distributed MapReduce is complex, but the concept is simple and flexible and has a bit of the "exterior calculus" fragrance to it. Another is continuations in Scheme - which not only can replace any "mundane" control transfer (break, continue, throw, catch, and ilk) but can do much more than just those and lets you roll your own too.

I believe that is the kind of beauty we should be striving for in software, not just the "pretty code" kind.

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I can't believe it's the year 2012 and we still can't do Game Distribution correctly.

Despite the fact that Steam knows how long we've played a game or if we've even launched it, we can't get refunds on games that don't work. THIS is what's hurting PC gaming.

If I buy a microwave from Walmart and it doesn't work in my house for whatever reason, I can take it back and get a refund. But if I buy a PC game from Steam, Games for Windows, Best Buy, and it doesn't work, I'm fucked. Which is basically a scam. Period.

How can publishers expect consumers to pay for games when they have no guarantee that it will work?
Gamification for e-mail
Does HTTPs encrypt headers or just the body? Are both things they're offering secure?
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I agree with this completely - it's too branded and shackles you in development. I am working right now on a solution that gives you the ability to quickly prototype with nice looking styles, but is much more flexible and modular and gets out of your way when you need it. It's going to be a pretty huge project (and will borrow some pieces from bootstrap), but will post when it's done
Well, when someone e-mails you, telling "transformers 3", in your film category, is in fact transformers 3, and ask you to take it down, you could do so.

Instead thepiratebay tended to just laugh, and insult people who sent them letters, claiming what they were doing was perfectly legal. It turns out, it appears, that they were wrong.
Yeah, the Steam TOS calls games a "subscription".
Toronto: Many companies I know are hiring. FreshBooks, 500px, Rocketr, Mozilla, HireWinston, Endloop, Viafora are all hiring developers. Most are also hiring designers (Rocketr and Viafora are not).
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We're looking for a Java expert with web mapping knowledge. We do open source geospatial software, and have lots of cool projects.

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Yes, some Steam games are available only in particular regions.
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Can you describe differences between this and the Stanford course outside of iPad focus and data presentation?
We use EX4 from Hetzner along with Amazon's Cloudfront for static files and we're REALLY REALLY satisfied.
TLS is one layer below HTTP. So yes, both headers and body are encrypted.
Well well, there seems to be an issue with their SSL certificate. It still says .org even if you try to access .se domain. - fail.
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As @artanis0 (kind of) mentioned, it'd be great to see a HN post sometime soon called "How to write a good 'REST' API". Or even just some links to good tutorials that could get me (and others) started?
I've recently built a DB driven site that could possibly be extended with an API, and it's a good chance to learn something with a purpose behind it!