skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-Strike is actually one of those instances where DRM adds value to a product for paying customers. Counter-Strike is a very popular target for cheaters using client hacks like like aimbots and transparent wall hacks, and one of the ways to avoid those players is by hiding behind a pay wall. Every time a cheater is caught and banned, the only way for them to get back in is by paying $10 to re-buy the game. Adding DRM to the client ensures that this pay wall remains intact, meaning that cheaters can ruin my multiplayer experience constantly only if they are willing to inject a fair amount of cash into the system (and very few are).
I'd like to disagree with the USPS that a paper letter has never been infected with a virus. Remember the anthrax and uni-bomber eras?
Think back to CW circa 1997. The internet is too complex to find the most relevant results by machine. These things must be hand-indexed. There is no better way to do it.

All Google does is guess as to what the "most relevant" results are. What you and your friends say/do/click/whatever is just another data point in the model. Presumably, it trains itself based on the results you/others actually click.

Google will almost certainly model how much a particular friend influences a particular search. It almost certainly will help, and certainly can't hurt (in the long run, if the weight goes to zero).
Not to be pedantic, but the proper currency symbol for Lira is (or was) ₤.
Is it on spec? Somehow I doubt there's an actual teapot involved anywhere in responding to that request.
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Very eloquent refund request.

A far cry from what would be commonplace in today's world. :)
Impressive example. However, as hinted at in other comments related to composing, this style of composition is really quite hard to hold in your head all at once.

It's certainly not a path I would relish having to follow, and I would not expect everyone to be able to program at this level.

I'd certainly not go so far as to criticize their programming ability for not being able to intuitively do this.
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From what I see, obtaining and then maintaining your welfare payments requires ongoing make-work... Standing in queues, applying for jobs you don't want or can't get, regular paperwork and meetings with some bureaucrat that hates their demeaning job more than you hate talking to them, doing employment courses (how to write a resume, how to do an interview, etc.) or skills training (that may cost money or debt, but often has zero chance of helping you get work), etc etc.

The system is abusive... Intentionally... it's goal is to "improve the numbers" by pushing people out of the system (onto the street, onto relatives, suicide, illegal jobs, whatever).
Good idea. Also, I'd like to be able to send electronic documents via the mail and for the USPS to introduce a legally acceptable signature they can put on the document. That way I can do all of my legal stuff easily through the mail or send that letter to grandma who's off the grid.
enqueue is very nice looking and seems like a great piece of software but it has bugs and has a lot of free alternatives.

Compare Enqueue to something like fantastical which is much more unique, bug free (AFAIK) and constantly saves me time - an easy $20 purchase that I still feel good about.
Maybe it is relatively easy to crack compared with games, but non programmers like me don't even know what host files are. That being said, if it is relatively easy to crack you are probably right. It would be financial suicide to compete with them since you couldn't limp in with a weak program. Great point.
> As far as SPYW goes, it's all about giving the users more relevant results.

If it was about more relevant results, than Google would be delivering results for the competing social networks already indexed in the search engine.
When I worked at Geek Squad during college, we used to joke that Norton Internet Security had decided the internet was too dangerous and automatically disabled it.

You have no idead how many internet connection problems I solved with the Norton removal tool.
I'm a bit lost. What do you mean they acquired a project of yours? How did they find out about it and what made you sell (?) it to them? Did they threaten you or did you offer it to them?

In future you should tread carefully - you can't have it both ways, and it looks like you may already have set a precedent that may be difficult to defend legally speaking, if they wanted to grab your next project, and they may be in their rights to fire you if you start a company with another founder to pursue this new idea.

If you are nervous about ownership keep it secret until you can launch and then resign and go at it full time or get another job with another company on different terms.
HTTP status 418 is an "official" status code released in the traditional yearly April Fool's Day paper[1] of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It was the joke for 1998.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_P...
You are being pedantic. :) Both are acceptable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira
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I prefer all-encompassing READMEs over incomplete scattered documentation.
It's a reference to an April Fools joke from 1998: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_P...
If you know any plaintext, then you know the OTP that corresponds to that one section of the key, and you know the salt that was used for that one hash.

Since I will never use, or accept, that portion of the OTP again, this doesn't gain you the ability to decypher a message, or fake a message without detection.

If you both know the plain text, and you have prevented transmission of my original message, then you have that many bytes of OTP that you could use to send that many bytes of faked messages.

If there is another cryptography system you would like to use to encrypt the plaintext, before sending it through my proposed system, then knowing just the plaintext would not help you.

Making fun of people who THINK they're using OTP is the time-honored tradition.

I'm proposing to ACTUALLY use OTP. I acknowledge that someone who intercepts all of our messages can prohibit us from communicating. But they can't fake messages. I acknowledge that if someone steals our key, we are compromised - but that is true of any system.

I acknowledge that transport is hard.

You do not accept QC. Okay, I'm not going to win you over.

If you accept QC, then I offer up that physical transport of a OTP is just as secure, and orders of magnitude cheaper.

Whatever MAC / transport systems have been used for QC, can be used by my proposed system. I am no better, or worse, than they are.
This may sound overly paranoid, but it is an explanation for why some might not want targeted ads on their private pages. If they click the ad, the company that bought the ad gets some information. At a minimum, it gets their IP address and an identifier that identifies which of their ads was clicked. The advertiser also presumably knows what they were targeting the ad to.

So now the advertiser has some information that can be used to infer that whoever is at that specific IP address is in the demographic they were targeting. Suppose the advertiser decides to sell a database that gives demographic hints by IP address.

Now toss in social networks, and the ever increasing use of them to provide login services for other sites, and you have an ever increasing number of sites that can potentially map your IP address to your identity, and that might sell that information.

Combine that with the demographic data from ad clicks, and that targeted ad on a private page can end up telling other sites about your private interests.

A few years ago I would have thought this was ridiculously paranoid--but now that we've seen the impressive feats the data miners can accomplish I'm not so sure that it is paranoid to be worried about EVERY information leak, and a targeted ad is an information leak as soon as you click on it.

You might not intend to click on these, but just having them there runs the risk of accidentally doing so.
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"3d printing today is basically useless for anything larger than jewelry"

That's not true at all. A single print is expensive, but costs go way day when you mass produce (defined as ~1000). My company sells 9 inch statues for $70 that are 3d printed. https://store.uberent.com/images/products/assassin.jpg https://store.uberent.com/images/products/pit_girl.jpg https://store.uberent.com/images/products/assault.jpg

And here's another statue by the same company (Ownage) I found randomly. http://paulnelson.cghub.com/files/Image/037001-038000/37397/...
I wrote a Windows program for my dad about a year ago. It would have worked great. I was thinking about selling it, actually!

Except, the antivirus flagged it. I called the AV vendor and they (probably the first-line tech support) said unless that my dad called the vendor, they could do nothing.

The only false positive that might be remotely reasonable is my executable name is identical to a virus. rte.exe or something similar, as I recall. Whatever. A binary difference should have demonstrated substantial difference between my exe and the virus.

So, my dad didn't get his program, and I got left with a renewed awareness that AV vendors are ruinously unhelpful, and I'd rather work on moving my family and friends to Linux or OSX.
I translated it to js -> https://gist.github.com/1679611
Earned 1 line, and packed it with a cheap implementation of zip :3
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FTA> Can the government acquire private companies? I imagine you could. Take your commercial money you are blowing on this crap, and start acquiring companies doing innovative things with mail.

AHAHAHAHAHA. No. It would take a lot to drive me away from Google, but this would definitely be the fastest.
Fair enough. See also chopping off your leg, fire, etc.

When I said "the only known method", I meant within the universe of things normal people attempt with the goal of losing weight.
I see this a couple ways. If you pull binaries off the internet, it's hard to say you can just ignore it and don't need any protection. That is exactly the kind of thinking that got us to where we are with malware in the first place. I just can't see a downside to scanning your system once a week after hours or something like that; most of the time it will find nothing but if it ever finds anything it's probably worth it.

Then I look at the products out there, there are a lot of them and they all seem terrible. We've got giant computers compared to 10 years ago and this software still takes them to their knees at times and you just want the crap to be invisible. In part I think it has to do with the all encompassing "security suite" concept where they try to be all things to all people. It does seem ripe for some disruption.

I mean, like maybe using some virtualization software to have multiple "zones" or something, trusted, suspect and untrusted and some clever reverting and snap-shotting to let you run programs in untrusted environments fairly seamlessly or something. Scan it with some uberscanner and then promote it to trusted. Or something, the OS vendors will have to help and MS has created an AV cesspool.
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The law game is generally about solving disagreements and disputes between people, but you already have a good idea of what comes into play if you are a logical thinker.

You can mostly second guess the issues, although lawyers are there to add the experience (case law) to what you may already know. Some of it is surprising and that's what can wrong foot the amateur.

I would never advocate not having a lawyer, but as I say thinking about what could already be a point of dispute is already ahead of the issue.
I kind of see this issue from 2 perspectives:

1) You're perfectly in your right to ask for code samples. Given, you have to make sure in some fashion that they wrote it.

2) From the perspective of someone without sample code -- I can't show you what I make. I can count a number of reasons why it wouldn't be available: NDAs, trade secrets, company owned code, and even government classified work. In this situation, I would prefer a whiteboard test or code up this problem in a few days and submit it with your resume.

You might logically ask, why no other code outside of work? To that I would respond work-life balance. If you insist on "free time" code you'll get a whizz bang coder probably. You'll exclude the people who strive for balance (which may not be what you want, you just have to know you're excluding these people). These people have other interests outside of work and I might argue be more well-rounded individuals than someone who codes for 8 hours and then goes and hacks for 6 more on their side project.

Obviously this isn't a hard and fast rule, I'm just giving you the other perspective.

I work in IT. I like to code, and I code at work (which means I can't show it to you). I have some sample code from some school projects, but older individuals wouldn't.

If you were to do the same thing with IT you would ask "Why haven't you set up a webserver and configured the database." Maybe because I don't have a use for that outside work. Maybe I have other interests or other time commitments that prevent me from doing that sort of work. In respect to coding, maybe I don't have a problem that can be automated, and I would absolutely hate to spend my time implementing an idea that is probably worthless. If I bother to validate it and do my homework, you're looking for an entrepreneur to give up their work in order to join yours as less than a founder.
Needs more teapots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/418
CERN's phone # has a Swiss prefix,

+41 22 76 761 11

their physical address and entrance are in Switzerland,

CERN CH-1211
Genève 23
Switzerland

and their website is a .ch

http://cern.ch/

but the web was invented in France since one building was in France?

As a Swiss citizen I'm not buying it!
It doesn't matter how many people pirate content vs buy it. What matters is whether DRM would have increased or decreased the total revenue. More than likely it would have caused it to decrease. The people who pirated it would not have necessarily been paying customers, and fewer people playing the game overall would likely have led to less publicity and fewer total sales.

Edit: a lot of game makers are adopting this sort of model as an intentional business practice by going "free to play". Having a big installed base is great if per user costs are low (which they can be if everything is digital) and can improve average perceived value for multiplayer games, all of which can make it easier to pull in more revenue from a small subset of players who voluntarily choose to pay for certain things than to attempt to charge everyone a flat fee.
Great takeaway, jrockway. For his other example, I encourage people to take a look at caolan's excellent async library:

async.waterfall([
function(callback) {
async.map(ids, db.getById, callback)
},
function(posts, callback) {
callback(null, posts.map(templating.render))
}
], function(err, results) {
console.log(results);
});

EDIT: Fixed example.
You're not subsidizing other people in that case anyway. First class mail is subsidized by the bulk mailers.
this is the most pervasive myth in health care. standard economic analysis shows this is wrong and that we would save significant money with more people using emergency room care vs preventative care.
Yes, drop-down menus are a drill-down system, but after the first click, you can see each subsequent menu's drop-down by simply hovering.

In a touch-oriented drill-down scenario, there's no concept of a hover, so you have to touch once to see every level of the menu.
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Hi Paul. I was referring to LogoLifter, the comment I replied to, not Ookaboo. LogoLifter's images are from Google Image Search, not from Ookaboo.
The sort of people who write these sort of posts don’t seem to have actually worked in real technical computing. Its interesting that the article mentions Newtonian mechanics. Years ago (early 80s) I worked for a RnD organisation and we where analyzing the efficiency and droplet dispersion of water sprinklers used in fire suppression.

They had come up with a neat solution involving really tight depth of field and doubly exposed file with two different colour filters a short time apart. So we had a slice though the droplet cloud.

I was told oh we have brought an A0 digitizer (costing about twice my salary at the time) work out how to interface to that PDP and develop a system to locate the droplets in the xy plane.

To solve that you actually have to know real engineering to get this to work the actual programming is the easy bit. I also had to work out how to write a interrupt driven driver to interface the tablet to the computer – Luckily RT11 did have some basic multitasking functionality built into it.

PS we did also use prolog on other projects so it does have its uses
On a related note, 'personal' (that is, software) firewalls are worse than useless:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100204074441/http://samspade.or...
Here's a very simple fact: what you know is very highly correlated to who you know.

Probably everyone on Hacker News would agree that learning Python is usually easier and a better career move than learning FORTRAN. But how do you know that? From the social influences in your life...people, the places you hang out on the internet, etc. But most business people couldn't tell you the difference between any two languages.

The difference is even greater with soft skills. Look at the job or salary negotiating advice that a typical career office or google will provide you, and compare that to, say, Ramit Sethi's or Patio11's advice. You're talking about a massive difference in value.

The more you are in touch with highly successful people, the more you'll be on the cutting edge of this kind of news, when it's the most valuable. If you have a weak network, though, you'll frequently be years behind without knowing it.
(disc: I'm from that country) Why did you have to highlight the country in the HN title? Even the original article only added that as an afterthought. It's just going to bring those arrogant, chauvinistic assholes out of the woodwork (and I even realize the irony of having taken the bait!).

The Web was invented as part of an international scientific effort, there's no need and usefulness to link it to one flowerpot over another.
Google's an AI company. If they are guessing wrong, then they're doing poorly as a company and will suffer financially. They have every incentive to make sure it guesses wrong as infrequently as possible. You have many interests, but a finite number, they can all play a role in the model of you. Similarly with people you know.

Now, if you're suggesting that for some reason there's an inherent "you will never be able to predict me with >x% accuracy", that's another topic.
This would not be allowed to trade on the NYSE or NASDAQ
Link [2] looks very nice and IMO would be a much more interesting topic than the trivial ruby implementation.

I apologize for the dismissive rudeness of my first comment... I am tired of the many "I saved a function and its arguments into a list, and then wrote a method to evaluate that list" implementations which seem to be so exciting. Although I guess this isn't a new trend (see lisp in awk [1]).

[1] http://chasen.org/~daiti-m/etc/awk/walk.pdf
done! https://github.com/h5bp/html5please/issues/108
I think all-in-one-README works well for some things, but some of our projects at work would result in HUUUGE readme files. Not so pleasant if those were a single file. We have started using gollum-site[1] for our stuff that grows beyond a medium size length.

The single-long-readme length issue appears to be alleviated by the nav construction in documentup though. Pretty slick.

https://github.com/dreverri/gollum-site
In the long run you cannot make some serious decisions without knowing what the Law is or is likely to be. Neither can you call your lawyer to advise you at every decision.

Large companies operate on the "what we can get away with" principle, which of you put it in the context of this forum is a Law hack.

For example earlier today the telephone company O2 in the UK was lambasted for including people's telephone number in the header of all http requests of every site visited on a mobile device. Someone somewhere made that decision not knowing it was illegal, perhaps not even stopping to think about it. Or alternatively they made the decision in full knowledge that it was illegal, but so obscure that Joe Public would probably not find it or understand the implications even if they did discover it.
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I'd love this too. A bit of clicking around discovered a company in the UK that does this, but it couldn't look more shady [1].

I'd happily pay USPS $50 a year for such a service, which is certainly a lot more than they'll get in stamps from me.

[1] http://www.ukpostbox.com/
If pricing stays volatile it will force people to innovate away from oil.

If oil prices stay consistently high it will lead to increased production of expensive sources like ultra deep water and oil sands.

In either event world economic growth will hickup and continue on.
> You'd portray him as a Muslim.

Or a Muslim sympathizer. Better, and yet worse.
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Nice, but wasn't chicken scheme the flagship of scheme-to-c compilers? http://www.call-cc.org/
I plan to switch back to weight training around March and give that a try for a couple of months to see if I can find a way to make that work better.

Try Starting Strength ( http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp... ). Most people (read: me) dick around in the gym with bicep curls and nautilus machines, which is a mistake.

I got basically no results while doing that, and my improvements have been dramatic since I started SS.
If you're looking for a more mature service, particularly if you're already using Sphinx, checkout http://readthedocs.org/ which includes nice things like full text search, PDF generation, versioning, etc. and supports other hosting sites and version control systems.
Update with protest vids and photos:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511980
Indeed. We never seriously considered DRM as an option for For the Glory, nor will I again in the foreseeable future. If I would hate something as a gamer, it's a good bet I won't be doing it as a developer.
You're right; I think it can be compared much more closely to a framework like DoJo.
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Wait, really? That's surprising to me. A very cursory search seemed to indicate that prevention is better. Do you have sources? I'm interested.
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