skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let's go in order.

a. I didn't downvote you. I don't meet the karma requirement, and even if I had the karma, downvoting is for "mean and/or stupid comments." The comment I'm now replying to qualifies. Your original comment did not.

b. You were right that Hollywood has a reputation for stealing a script if they like it. What isn't true is that Hollywood actually steals scripts.

I'll give you a comparable example: Catholic priests. Catholic priests have a reputation for molesting children. But what percentage of Catholic priests actually does so? How does that percentage compare to the percentage of molesters in the rest of the population?

Follow that down the rabbit hole and you'll see the problem with your hasty generalization.

Now, to your links:

1. Sounds like a legitimate claim. The lawyer saying "screenplays are stolen all the time in Hollywood," on the other hand, does not. That's just a lawyer posturing in the interests of his client for media coverage. I've followed many similar suits. The vast majority of them are completely bogus.

2. This one is a lot of FUD. You can't get around copyright by "simply tweaking a few details." The actual standard is a "sufficient degree of similarity." That's why, if the first article is accurate (not a given) and Reed Martin isn't stretching the truth in his explanation of the similarities, he has a good case. Without hearing more about the "stolen" version of Rounders, we can't say whether Jeff Grosso isn't just paranoid. Most likely the similarities between the two boil down to "guys playing poker," give or take. Maybe he should sue the creators of 21, Shade, et al., too?

3. The Supreme Court declined to hear a case, as they do with most of the cases that come their way. There's no support for your claim here.

4. It isn't at all clear from this case that any theft took place. What is clear is that there were sufficient similarities that the studio should have paid Buchwald regardless.

5. http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp Nope.

If hearing all this makes you angry, I recommend going for a jog. It's better for your health than fuming at the keyboard.
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'We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO

Ok, I'm impressed. That is a literally almost 200 tons of cash when printed in 100 dollar bills [1]. I sure hope they go back to paying dividends.

[1] If you can believe this source ... http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=441929
The stuff that's big (rich media) already has its own native compression. The stuff that's relatively small (text) also already compresses pretty well without shared-dictonaries.

I think that's the reason: it's not that big a win over the total traffic of a modern browsing session. For example, I doubt jgrahamc's experiment yields a 90% savings over the entire browsing session with BBC News, when getting images, and if gzip is already enabled on the HTML/CSS/JS. I'd guess closer to 10%.

Updated after taking a quick look at BBC News homepage in Firebug's net panel:

The BBC News homepage has about 150KB of HTML/CSS… but they haven't even bothered to turn on gzip, which might bring that down to 30KB. It has about 230KB of images, which wouldn't be helped by a shared dictionary.

If they turned on gzip, text would be about 30/230=13% of the bandwidth. Even 99.99% compression – a dictionary of exactly today's content already on the client! – could only shrink the homepage download by 13%.
I'm seeing a whole lot of hyperbole around here for what still seems to be pretty much a non-issue. Don't like SPYW? Don't use it. It's one button. Click it, and move on. Between the Don't Be Evil script stunt from facebook/twitter and the content-free blogspam from Sarah Lacy/pandodaily, it seems like there are a few people out there who really, really want this to be an issue.

It isn't. Get over it.
Web design shift: read “Responsive Web Design”
There might be a market for keeping your keys on some service "out there". Boot your computer, type in your password, your computer sends the password to the key service. If the password is correct they send back the key, if the password is the destruct codes they delete the key.

No amount of hard-drive cloning will stop this. Paired with some other optional measures ("we delete the password unless you send an email every week" etc) and it's almost foolproof. You might still have a hard time arguing against destruction of evidence, though. I guess if your "don't delete the keys" email was "Please delete my encryption keys" you could be completely honest and they wouldn't believe you, resulting in your keys being deleted despite your complete cooperation.
Where's Infiniti in the make list?
That's because eyeballs are what matter, not accuracy or responsible journalism.

TV journalism's decline in America took decades before we got to the current trash; the exact same process happened to journalist blogs over a couple years in the mid-to-late 2000s.
I'm not sure who their audience is. There are other people making much more usable desktops for the general populace.

I like gnome2 because I can customise the hell out of it and have things like separate task bars on each monitor.
If you build it, they will come? I hope so. This seems like a very risky venture.
I totally get and sympathize with the enthusiasm part. But the CL-specific parts (to an outsider) reek of megalomania and no-true-scotsman.
Yep, my father used to work in high-security (think live nuclear sites)... the standard answer was to use a drill press to ream out any camera lenses on cell phones that needed to be on-site.
Why are big leaps good? Why not small iterative steps?
from a SEO stand point it is a decent name, From a branding standpoint it is not good. It's probably worth a ballpark of what they are asking.
This is mighty impressive. To put things in perspective:

Apple's profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google's entire revenue ($10.6 billion).

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/fmanjoo/status/161932440737296386 (via gruber)
I oppose the concept of Intellectual Property as we know it. It is something up with by the entertainment industries to line their own pockets, and it stymies progress and good art.

For the majority of human (art) history, no such concept existed. Ideas were communal (for instance see Bach's famous "Goldberg Variations", which borrowed a lot from popular songs of the time). In what sense is an intangible idea property at all? In what sense do I "own" a riff if I randomly strum it out one day on my guitar? It didn't create it. It existed prior to me playing it.

It has been shown the monetary incentive is not required for great things to be produced. Projects like wikipedia are testament to this, as is the immensity of excellent fiction, music and other art that is available for free on the internet.

The concept of Intellectual Property is outdated, and the world needs to realise this as it adapts to deal with the incredible implications of the developing internet.
Agreed a mate who used to work for Qinetiq - he commented that buying a new phone was getting to be a problem as taking a phone with a camera onsite was strictly forbidden.
Benchmark tests?
is this:

http://paste.ly/pastes

intentional?
What’s great about OS X’s approach is that it’s always there, in every app. (Some apps disable it which is a good way to make me angry.) Especially when you open up a brand new app or one you are not using frequently it can be frustrating to get your bearings. I can, for example, never remember where I can lock or group objects (I’m not even sure whether those commands are usually in a consistent place), the search is a good way to find out whether that functionality is available and where I can find it, also for future reference. Scanning menus for a specific command when I have no idea where it is is very frustrating for me.

This wouldn’t really work if every app had to implement this feature on its own, probably in different places and with slightly different behavior. Even if the behavior were consistent you still could never be sure whether you can search in the first place, that uncertainty is in my experience a good way to make sure a feature will never get used.

This seems like a great OS level feature.
Apple earnings call – Q1 2012 ‹ Where Am I?
It's hard to say this without sounding like one of those condescending security people, but I highly recommend avoiding that guy.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

To balance that with something constructive, if you are already comfortable with software development, I'd suggest checking out these to get started with playing around:

https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2009/07/19/exploit-writing-... - Part 1, they go to 11.

https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/ - for web app sec
There has to be a better introductory to tree codes than this. One that doesn't assume you work in error correcting codes but can actually explain things in terms of basic math and information entropy.
Cory's novel Makers[1] deals with the same thing in longer form.

1: http://craphound.com/makers/download/
Serious, you're going to try and get me to use an interface by using a website that has justified paragraph text that spans 70% of my 1920 x 1080 21" monitor?

Much like these comments on HN, it's hard to read long, wide paragraphs. It makes me question the usability of a HUD's interface
Before you do much crawling of car dealer websites, you should talk to the companies who build the sites. (Dealer.com/Vinsolutions..etc) They have systems in place that package up the car listings for their dealers and send them in csv/xml format to many sites like Autotrader/Cars.com on a daily basis.
If you google it, it's currently the 3rd and 4th search results.

Now, if you google SPYW on Bing then it's nowhere to be found, and that's ultimately why I continue to use Google for search regardless of whatever nonsense they put in the side bar.
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Leave Google, kill Hollywood, AND Start something new.
SPYW may have some hints of efforts toward innovation in search but its much more predominantly a defensive move by Google as was Google+ against leading social networks (obviously most notably Facebook and Twitter). Defensive moves are necessary and good in business terms but honestly when you start playing defense all the time your getting to be on the other side of the hill. Its just part of the natural evolution of successful companies.
I once read a programming book on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, which was invented by Dr. Neal Koblitz. So the book said - whatever is in the next 200 pages is considered trivial by mathematicians working in number theory. If you write it in the form of equations, this entire book will occupy less than half a page. It is basically a lemma and a few theorems. But this book is 200 pages long. Why ? Because it tells you how to implement that lemma and those theorems using C++.

So that's how that is.

Just yesterday I described to an intern how to generate the nth term of a Halton sequence in base k. So if you want the 17th term in base 3, well, decimal 17 = ternary 122, reflect 122 to get 221, then ternary 0.221 = decimal 0.926. So the answer is 0.926. Its very, very simple. High school math. The nth halton term is in fact given by a 1-line equation in mathematics.

Now he came back with scala code to do the same thing.
Look at this monster:

def Halton( n:Int, b:Int):Seq[Double] = {(1 to n).map( x=>Integer.toString(x,b).reverse.zipWithIndex.map(y=>(y._1-'0')*pow(b, -(y._2+1))).sum)}

Now it works & its functional programming & computes a million Halton terms in any base in 5 seconds and so on, but still, look at it. Is it anywhere close to the one line equation ? If I express what I want declaratively, will it be any simpler ? Not really. Why not ? Because a declaration like "1..n" means an imperative loop, a declaration like "convert 17 in decimal to ternary" means a whole bunch of divisons and remainders and aggregation, then a reflect means reversing a string, which implicitly means iterating over a character array and allocating new space for the reversed result, then a reconvert ternary to decimal means an iteration with powers of 10, where a power means other iteration over multiplication....jesus! This simple 1-line equation in math becomes hundreds of thousands of loops in practice. There's no getting around that. If you've gotten around it, you've just invented math!
From what I gathered Truecrypt provides plausible deniability through hidden volumes that appear to be random data. AFAIK it doesn't allow you to have a partition that when you decrypt with a certain password transforms to alternate content. So if the feds know you have something encrypted you might be in trouble.
My guess is the event had nothing to do with the launch, it seems more likely to be the weekly TGIF meeting (http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/culture.html). I don't really see much strong emotion. It is a CEO saying this is the direction we are taking, so if you don't like it then you are going to continue to not like it.

Of course, Lacy's take is the direction = SPYW as it was launched (as it is the news of the moment), which I more charitably interpret his words as direction = unification of Google products.
Are you sure? A day or two ago someone on HN said that newer MacBooks had the LED wired in series with the camera's power supply.
I was wondering something similar: how much variance is there between same-brand batteries?
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How on earth are they going to get into the touch space?

It's already fragmented enough, not to mention that most tablets/phones are locked down and will prevent people installing an alternative OS anyway.

The only way would be to produce their own hardware since they won't make any money licensing their OS.

If they're as good at hardware design as they are at software.. I think I'll pass.
Developer Ted Gould's description of how search the menu works: http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Searching_menus
Great Work! Nice feature set, looking forward to using this in the future.
Ideally wouldn't it find the best result? G+ and farm.* seem equally likely to be poor. I did an image search for something like Empire State Building and my G+ results showed first. The results sucked.
You can line up every element in your design without figuring out and writing widths and margins for every element by hand. You just assign one of the provided class names and you automatically get the desired result.
I wonder how long it's going to be until the monster in DC wants a bigger slice of Apple.

Big oil gets targeted constantly for windfall tax proposals. As Apple marches toward $50+ billion in profit, it seems impossible the government will just leave the world's richest and most powerful corporation alone.
Open source is improv, so say “Yes and” | Andy Lester
Here's the roundup of estimates, even the rosiest forecast is below the actual quarter:

http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/scr...

Just revealed on the call: they sold 1.4 million Apple TVs this quarter (vs 2.8 million in the 4 previous quarters).
Astounding indeed. But, sorry to say, I personally also find them scary, considering the recession/crisis period we're in...
“Computer generate for me the sequence of all possible steps I could take; highlight moves that results in high economic and emotional payoff. Feel free to use alpha beta pruning and dynamic programming to reduce the time taken to polynomial time. Also, constrain possible moves to reflect my personal proclivities. Also, highlight a path were I'm dating Alicia Keys and Drake is with Nicki Minaj.. hate to see him beg on a music video.” [1]

My dream programming language should be able to run this. Good luck.

[1] http://chestergrant.posterous.com/your-favorite-programmer-d...
Bagels. Really? That's what it takes to make life at $COMPANY awesome?

What about working with smart people on interesting problems?
It's not even 1st of April today.
Gross margin for the quarter: 44.7%

Holy shit.
Seems like maybe you should make this to solve the need rather than consider getting a palm treo!
You're very vulnerable to CL shutting you down.
Trello technically has support for downlevel versions of IE, but only through Google Chrome Frame.
I disagree with your premise. The two previous "compromises" you cite are both examples of giving you what you want, instead of what you said you want. While your anecdotal data says that you are annoyingly misled by that, I'm sure there's a measure of selection bias there, and I'm sure Google has a lot more than anecdotal data.

I'm a bit confused by the recent outcry about relevance. Do people disagree that social signals can add to relevance? If not, then how does Google get these social signals, if they're locked out of FB and twitter?

It seems like a pretty clear strategy to me of simultaneously trying to grab as much social signal as possible by creating a meaningfully competitive social product, while also demonstrating to its competitors the value of allowing Google access to social signals.

I find it strange that everyone seems to want Google to just keep doing what it's been doing, to, in a word, stagnate. I, for one, am happy to see Google continue to do big things, undertake big initiatives, respond to a changing world.
They are not straying, they are pivoting.
So, over the years I've played with many things that claim to be "declarative", and here's why I now shy away from them like the plague. There's no such thing as "declarative". No matter what you type into the computer, at some point it's going to turn into instructions that do the thing you want done. Trying to create a declarative language is a way of making it extraordinarily opaque as to what the machine is actually going to do. It looks great in four lines, it crashes and burn on any real sized problem, because you inevitably hit the following sequence:

1. I encounter a problem; a performance issue or a bug.

2. I can not practically proceed past this point because everything I might need to figure out what is going on has been "helpfully" obscured from me.

Yes, you can still thrash and flail but this hardly constitutes a "fix" to programming. You simply can not help but create an abstraction that not only leaks like a sieve, but is actually multiple leaky sieves layered on top of each other in opaque ways. (And letting us see in is in its own way a failure case too, with these goals.)

Part of what I like about Haskell is that it helps bridge the gap, but doesn't actually go too far. A map call is still ultimately an instruction to the machine. It's not quite the same type of instruction you give in C or C++, what with it being deferred until called for (lazy) etc, but it's still an instruction and it can be followed down to the machine if you really need to without only marginally more work than any other "normal" language. (It may be a bit bizarre to follow it down all the way, but hardly more so than C++ in its own way.)

Contrast this to SQL, which is declarative, and you never have to worry about what the database is doing to answer your question. Except it never works that way and you inevitably must actually sit there and learn how indexes work and how queries are parsed and how the optimizer works to a fairly deep level and then sit there on every interesting query and work out which synonymous query will tickle the optimizer into working properly except that you actually can't do that and you end up having to turn to weird annotated comments in the query specific to your database and then you still end up having to break the query into three pieces and manually gluing them together in the client code.

And I don't even care to guess how many man-millenia have been poured into that declarative language trying to make it go zoom on a subproblem much simpler than general purpose computing. (Well, except isasmuch as they've more or less grown to encompass that over the years, but it's still at least meant to be a query language.)

So, if you think you can fix that problem, have fun and I wish you the very best of luck, no sarcasm. This is the problem I've seen with the previous attempts to go down this route before, and I feed this back in the spirit of helping you refine your thoughts rather than yelling at you to stop.
What rsync.net actually says:

"This simple offering gives you complete control over organization, compression, deduplication, versioning and meta-data. You are NOT locked into a particular application or protocol, and there are no constraints on file sizes, retention, or access."

Which is great if you can find something that will do deduplication for you and encrypt and handle that the disk isn't actually local. I couldn't.

Also, rsync.net is significantly more expensive than tarsnap in my experience.
Disregarding all the other discussions going around about Google, I think this is a great approach to get the user to know the TOS, I hope many more companies follow this path.

In fact, now that I think of it, it is the first time I have fully read a TOS agreement (as a user), I thought it was simple and clear, though IANAL and I'm not sure about the legal implications.
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Any chance it might have something to do with Steve Job's death? Edit: Why is this being down voted? There are typically record sales following the death of cultural icons (Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, etc.). Steve Jobs is arguably one of those icons.
Humility not a exactly any wikipedians strong suit is it.
Apple's Profit Was Higher Than Google's Revenue Last Quarter
Apple Reports Blowout Earnings
In fairness, that was probably just about the time Google Calendar clipped Kiko's wings, which may have smarted. Also, back then, you probably may not have realized that the new method of funding you were pioneering would create an incubator for Google acquisitions. (i.e. you may not have realized you were poking your own customers in the eye.)
It was agonizingly slow on my iPhone 3G for a while until a recent update that makes it palatable.
I think padmapper's two-tiered approach of allowing one unauthenticated and then authenticated use for access to bookmark and sharing features is elegant, and doesn't annoy people who just want to check the site out or use it lightly.
Wait, what? It sounds like you are defining success or failure solely in terms of whether there is a big-money exit or not. That seems so... sad. What ever happened to "provides employment" and "provides value to its customers"?

Anyway, I'm an ex-Googler who started a company after leaving. It's still too early to say whether we'll be "successful" by any metric, but I'm really enjoying it so far, which is enough for now.