skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be pedantic, but Vevo would not face criminal charges for showing one stream to a few people at a bar. To create criminal liability they would need to be infringing on a commercial scale--like Frontrow.tv and TuTele.tv do by hosting the streams with ads next to them.

Vevo would be open to civil liability but it is up the copyright holder to decide whether it's worth pursuing.
Then you'll need a native app.

You may be able to use the Google Hangout API.
If the NFL does not file suit here I'm assuming they're ok with streaming as long as you see all their advertisements on the stream as well.
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I don't think this is correct. When you share/download torrents you aren't paying the user at the receiving end. Yet it is still illegal.

By your logic, I could stay in Times Square giving out copies of Avatar and Inception as long as I give it for free.
"Have they shown any unwillingness to support W3C standards once published? No?"

Unfortunately for your argument, the answer is indeed no. Apple is unwilling to support standards for touch events, due to its patent war against Android.

Sources:

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/19/apple-submits-invalid-patents-...

[2] http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/12/is-apple-using-patents-to-h...
Reminds me of the CRT simulator for Stella http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml
I think you're misinformed by what "the rules" are.

W3C standards are not, in fact, an innovation speed limit. Vendors are free to implement whatever they'd like.

The only way a vendor should be encumbered by the W3C is that if they choose to implement a feature, they should also support the W3C incarnation of that feature. That's it, full stop.

The problem with IE6 isn't that it did extra things. It's that it did a variety of things (some extra, some not) badly, and then Microsoft refused to bring it into compliance. That's not a problem we have with Webkit. So what are you saying when you try to tar Webkit with the IE brush? How familiar are you with the development process behind Webkit?
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I'd just like to say: Thanks for running such an awesome site!

I use FlightAware to hack airlines by trying to locate the incoming flight that is to be my outgoing plane. Any plane landing ~60 minutes before my departure whose make and model matches my flight is a suspect. I can usually predict whether or not we'll have an on-time departure long before announcements are made.
This is why large scale companies will most likely never move to an Android based device. Sad but true. Blackberries they control through their BES Server and set the failed attempts to anything they want. Its like having Active Directory on a phone system.
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Digg Digg has been beneficial for a lot of client sites who need something easy to manage social buttons on their blog posts. Hopefully the acquisition will bring about some more developer-friendly changes to allow for easier styling and management. All in all, it's cool to see a company like Buffer making this type of acquisition though.
This is one of the coolest things I've read about Facebook.
It constantly amazes me how many people do not understand this. So many web standards advocates will cry foul the moment any vendor tries something out that has not already been standardized. Even Brendan Eich cried foul about Dart even though JavaScript was out in the wild for a year before Netscape even submitted it to a standards body.

Committees are not the right process for innovation. 10 years of overly complicated and unneeded standards from W3C should have taught us this.
I will never trust bookdepository. Last year I bought a digital book which was DRM protected. For some reason DRM failed to work so I contacted them within 2 hours of purchase but they just refused to understand my situation.
After that incident I stay away from DRM too.
Did the W3C standardize touch events, and Apple prevent Webkit developers from implementing the standard?
I've made sure to tell all my friends about it. Gladly paid the tiny $10 (would have paid $50) and also wrote a glowing review for you on the app store. LOVE THIS APP.

I think one of the bits of hesitation for people to start using the application is how it will fit into an existing build system.

I personally don't use any of the neato 'compiler' features because I already have that setup with my IDE.

Also, I tend to be on the bleeding edge of the various compilers (Less/CoffeeScript), so I'd never use your app for the build step since I can't be assured that your version is the same version that I'm using.

Really, the only feature that is important to me is the live reload aspect.

Maybe one way that you can get more people interested in your application is to put a bit more focus on the live reloading. Show them how just pointing the app at the 'htdocs' folder and adding some JavaScript to the page is all it takes.
If you read the article referenced, web-kit isn't being picked on especially. The concept of using vendor prefixes is being questioned.

There's a valid rationale to not using vendor-prefixes, because it could potentially add confusion and erode standards.

From my understanding, in effort to display web-pages at their best, some browser manufacturers are starting to honour the browser prefixes used by other vendors. I can see how this could create problems.
> It's worth noting, with sober consideration, that exactly the same argument was made to support Internet Explorer during the ugliest days of the web. This could have been cribbed verbatim from something a Microsoft advocate would have said in the late 90s.

I hate Microsoft, but the argument you mention was made because it was mostly right. IE "won" because it provided a better platform and better user experience, not for any other reason.

The focus on IE in antitrust battles has been a disgraceful waste of resources. There are far better things to attack Microsoft for than providing a better browser than the piece of shit later versions of Netscape turned into.
If you follow to yesterday's article about this you'll see at the bottom:

Update, 2/10:: ESPN says it will not be pursuing legal action. A spokesperson gave us the following statement:

“We’re disappointed the exhibitor took this route, especially at a festival for an industry whose jobs are most at risk if we are not able to curtail stolen content.”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/music-labels-joint-venture-...
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I disagree that they're terrorist acts, but I seriously just downvoted you because of your tone. It was uncivil.
You can download a free version (with some effects locked) from the Secret Geometry web store: http://store.secretgeometry.com/download.php?id=7

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
I would say it's extortion, does that make it better? Or does give the right idiology one a free pass to extort and have fun at the expense of others?
You obviously don't live in australia. Free Shipping to AU makes bookdepository super popular for physical books.
They showed an "unwillingness to support subsequent standards for those features", by blocking the creation of a standard in the first place. Stop being obtuse.
He's right.

People really need to stop wasting their time writing pointless articles. As Windows 8 approaches release, for example, we're going to see a bunch of stories like this:

"10 Reasons Windows 8 Will Fail"

"10 Reasons Windows 8 Will Succeed"

If you find yourself reading these, kick yourself in the butt and get back to work.
perfect for this obligatory reference: http://xkcd.com/932/
Brendan Eich cried foul about Dart because other browser manufacturers, and web developers themselves, said they didn't want it, and Google did it anyway.
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Wow, another fantastic feat by an intelligent group.
If you read the article referenced, you'd realise that web-kit isn't being picked on. The concept of using vendor-prefixes is being questioned.

I'm not tarring webkit with an IE brush. I'm stating that without the W3C or similar body to set standards, we would in a far worse situation.

The article spectacularly misses the point.
Thank you for the correction and interesting information. I was mainly trying to indicate that even though I'm generally pretty lax with "grammar rules" (e.g., "Never end a sentence with a preposition") this mistake was still jarring to me.

I suppose I was playing a bit fast and loose with those terms, though, and shouldn't have. So, thanks.
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Absolutely. It really feels like the book has a lot of useful information, but after the first couple of chapters it becomes almost impenetrable. (And I am used to reading technical papers!)
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I think yours is the obtuse argument. The W3C has proceeded at a glacial pace on everything, not simply touch events. Is it your argument that Apple is preventing the W3C from standardizing corner radiuses?

Either way, I can hold two thoughts in my head at the same time: that Apple is indeed retarding standardization of touch events, while the W3C is retarding... everything else --- and then complaining about it.
I had been wondering when Harmony was due. The end of NEXT year? Wow, that's a long wait.
Would running through a socat tunnel (http://freecode.com/projects/socat) defeat the DPI?

If yes, you could setup a tunnel on port 80 and then run openvpn through it.

I did this for a friend in China and it worked.
I don't think Microsoft was acting "not nice" - most of their extensions were submitted to the W3C (and even ActiveX was standardized by X/Open, however pointlessly). However, the major vendor, Netscape, simply was not going to adopt any IEism under any circumstances.

The biggest issue with being frozen on IE6 was not so much the standards but all the terrible bugs.
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I would certainly hope that nobody is blaming Boehm. He's provided a valuable tool that has some practical limitations, which are probably mostly due to the nature of conservative garbage collection.

However, it's worth noting that you can't easily mark/annotate all data structures, especially when large third-party libraries are involved, and it's not guaranteed to solve the problem. Implying otherwise might dangerously mislead people.

As an example, look at Mono, which gives the GC very precise information [1]. Even so, at least some projects suffer ever-increasing memory usage when run under it [2], which the Mono team are fixing by writing their own garbage collector.

[1] http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Runtime#Garbage_Collection
[2] http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_ASP.NET#Memory_Usage
It's a little hard for me to avoid the impression that W3C partisans hate vendor extensions because they make it easier for websites to handle cross-platform support for extensions. -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius is ugly but nothing more; conflicting definitions of "border-radius" is a showstopper.

Which, if you're cynical, is how the W3C probably wants it.
Even with multi-engine they can't run over water for the certification?
NaCl is not part of WebKit.
I wouldn't accept this. First it will be optional. When the insurance companies (or government) sees how much they will be able to watch us, it will be mandatory.
brian d foy is something of an unique individual - I've run across him in StackOverflow threads, and inevitably came across his "name style guide":

http://www252.pair.com/~comdog/style.html
Browser developers are going to innovate new features. A standards body doesn't drive innovation. Innovation is not a top-down process. A standards body exists to ensure some level of interoperability between browsers.

What Prefixgate shows is that a W3C standard is not a rigid set of laws like the 10 commandments. Rather a W3C standard is like a peace treaty - all adherents agree to respect certain protocols and behave in certain ways, buy are free to pass whatever laws they want within their own boundaries. Assuming that these proprietary laws do not conflict with existing treaty stipulations.

Peace treaties give us access to the best of both worlds: vendors are free to innovate as they see fit, yet they still commit themselves to some level of interoperability. Innovations influence the standard and the standard ensures that all vendors adopt the best innovations at some point.

The comparisons between IE of old and Webkit are incorrect. Microsoft has a history of implementing standards incorrectly (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html) and bullying standards bodies (http://techrights.org/2011/09/06/michel-levy-comes-out-swing...). When it comes to standards Microsoft does not act in good faith.
Yeah, I was talking about the physical copy as well. I'll get my digital version from amazon.
Judging by the roles that I'm currently working on, having Ruby is a definite plus. Another strong option would be Python, from what I can tell the syntax is similar but most clients are definitely looking for one of those two in addition to your Java.

It also depends what types of companies you want to work for. Most of the startups I work with are looking for Ruby and Python with a Java background where as most the larger older companies are fine bringing on someone with just Java.

I hope that helps a bit and wasn't too much of a ramble.
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Do you have something to say about vendor prefixes? That's what we're talking about. I'm not particularly concerned about what particular blue ribbons we affix to the W3C. They're great. Now what?
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So... Facebook doesn't run on PHP.
The alternative isn't to stop using the properties - it's to stop using the vendor prefixes. That's all that's being suggested.

I think your aggressive anti-W3C stance is really misguided. They're not the bad guys.

If you actually read the article referenced in the dcurt.is article, you'd see how vendor extensions are actually becoming something more than just ugly. Which is the whole point of the suggestion.
I (believe) the main issue with torrents has been the fact that you are also distributing when you download. This is why (AFAIK) very few people have been fined for streaming or downloading from services like Rapidshare.
"then nothing can ever go wrong."

What about the key "_proto__" (forming "__proto__") [1]? That will screw up your dictionary badly.

It's not so easy. Which is why you want Harmony Maps and Sets in the first place.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
You just totally changed what he said. He asked "Have they [the WebKit team] shown any unwillingness to support W3C standards once published?" Let's review the facts of the case you're talking about:

1. The WebKit team wasn't involved

2. Nobody was failing to support a published standard

Was somebody pulling a dick move in the article you posted? Yes. But it was a different group pulling a different dick move than the one tptacek asked about. If you want to argue that Apple's lawyers are a disagreeable lot, I suppose that's a valid point you could make, but this is not the thread for it.
I've been a part of the beta of inbound.org, and have been really impressed with the community thus far.

It's still very immature and small, but it brings together some of the brightest minds in inbound marketing.

Rand Fishkin (SEOMoz) and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) deserve a lot of gratitude for getting this community started.
This is only to block the attack. The thinking is when the attackers run out of PC's they will give up. You lose some customers in the short-term. If you don't do any blocking, they will just keep attacking and attacking.
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I had to go through this exact same process in High School. I almost shot my self. I ended up getting a D- on the paper.

The process is so deeply flawed here is one example. I have my sources, my note cards, and my outline. Each note card had on the front of it a single sentence and on the back of it the source written perfectly according to some standard (I lost many of my points because I would forget a period or comma). Each note card then had to be perfectly ordered (and wrapped with a rubber band and with each paragraph having a paper clip on it) and have the corresponding number written on the back and then circled.

If I wanted to change the 2nd sentence in my paper, I would have to completely renumber all the note cards.

If I wanted to change a word in my paper I had to cross out the word on the note card with ONE line through it and then rewrite it on the notecard and then change it on the computer.

If I wanted to change the structure of my paper, I had to go back and rewrite the outline. I've always considered the outline the "black dot" of a painting. It's hard to start painting on a blank canvas, but as soon as you put a black dot on it you have something to fix, build off of, whatever. The outline puts the first 2 -3 paragraphs on the paper and the rest of the time you ignore it.

Retyping this and thinking about it has made me literally feel physically sick.
This is my first experiment with the Twitter API. It was interesting trying to work within the constraints of their request limits.

Also, JavaScript is not the best language to be doing this type of mining stuff with. An account with 10k followers usually takes about two minutes to completely sort and display.
These links [1][2] provide some reasoning behind not using vendor extensions. The second is referenced in the article we're commenting on. I find it difficult to understand why much vitriol needs to be expended.

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_p...

[2] http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2012/0...
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Actually, I used Python a bit before getting into Java, I think at this point Ruby seems more appealing, it would be nice to find a role at some point after I learn Ruby to where I can still benefit from my Java experience. Just doing Java, though, I guess I'm starting to feel a bit stifled.. just reading job ads for Ruby vs. Java is such a world of difference, most employers looking for Java devs def have the 'old school' mentality
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I've also been a part of the beta testing and think it will be a great tool. I love HN for the technical and startup material and have found some amazing material here. I hope Inbound.org is the start of other awesome crowdsourced communities in the HN-style model.

Hats off to Rand and Dharmesh.
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And soon it won't even need MacRuby, just the Ruby that ships with OSX.
Garbage collectors have no problem with reference cycles.

A GC works by finding all objects that are reachable (referenced by some other object or a root), then discarding all other objects. So a cyclic data structure is completely discarded as soon as there are no live references to any of its objects.

As usual, Wikipedia has lots more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_sc...

GC roots are generally things like: static/global variables, active stack frames (function parameters and local variable), CPU registers.
BDW GC is a tracing collector. It doesn't need to have any special handle of cycles--either a cycle is reachable from the root set, in which case it is marked and considered alive, or it is not, and is never even seen by the collector before being reclaimed.
Any idea when the book will actually ship? I know it goes to press Feb 14th, but when can we actually expect it in our mailbox?
Just another attack that looks more and more as them trying to get attention rather than doing something constructive.
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Copy/pasting from Twitter, but this was a really good read: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/where-were-you-on-saturd...
Still broken on Chrome 28.
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It's worse than that actually - hold your mouse over it and you give the author "Kudos." I find that particularly offensive /rant
I find it funny that that rant holds up as an example the magic bit of CSS animation on the right which treats a brief hover over it as a "kudo".
That is overly conservative. A perfect garbage collector that always runs in reasonable time is provably impossible. What sambeau said is that it often holds on to [an allocation] for too long, which is true to varying extent of all garbage collectors.

To leak memory is to fail to deallocate it at all.
Read:

TITLE II--ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS TO COMBAT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c112Ggu...:

PS: You replied several days after that post, but on the off chance you see this, I figured why not respond.
Yeah I am shocked to see repetitive content on HN.
Tcl's pretty cool, and I think it could have kept going interesting places if things hadn't fallen apart in some critical ways. Especially back in the day when the competition was stuff like PHP or Java. But it's no fun to be working with something that's not headed anywhere.

It's great to see someone using Rivet, though. Damon Courtney and I wrote that something like 10 years ago, with the occasional input from Karl. I wish I had half the business sense that Karl seems to, he seems to come up with a lot of good products that also make money.
That's unfair, it says right at the top of the page that he's a superhero not a web developer.
I can make an intro to one of the founders for a chat...
That QuirksMode article you posted includes an update acknowledging that it's wrong. I think the stance in the newer post it links to is more reasonable, though I'm still not sure it's all the way there.
As fans of HN, one thing we know is that what makes the whole thing work is the community. So, thank you.

We're hoping to make the same kind of magic for marketers that HN has been able to do for hackers.
When Quantas had a San Francisco -> Sydney non-stop it was 14+ hrs. It was the longest flight I had been on up to that point. Fortunately I was in business class and could stretch out, but I remember watching two movies, taking an 8hr "nap", and then STILL having another 2hrs of flying to do. A looooooooooooong way to go.
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And also completely wrong. Anonymous being a hivemind, they "forget" the moment they stop being entertained by the actions of their target.

Target of an anon raid? Ignore them completely. They will go away.
Consider the time frame of funding for every single other project. On average, it takes a month or two just to raise a few thousand dollars of funding. Even the biggest projects only raise about a million dollars in that time frame, and those are rare. A project raising thousands of dollars per minute is exceptionally rare on kickstarter, why would they build a tool who's use case is specifically targeted to such an unusual and unprecedented event?
I don't want leg braces! Wouldn't it be easier to just learn how to use a wheelchair properly?
after seeing the article i waz gonna say the exact same reference to XKCD :)
That's true, they do give a shit about their users.
Blamestorming is not root cause analysis.