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I'm pretty disappointed in the direction Chill has gone. Social video is an incredibly interesting area. Chill, however, didn't iterate too much on the idea of Turntable for videos, and now they've pivoted to a Pinterest for videos.
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To this day I have trouble starting a sentence with anything other than "maybe".
Also, asking for forgiveness is far easier than asking for permission.
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I just got an email from Amazon Web Services telling me that I'll need to start to pay local sales tax on my AWS services.

This will immediately add ~9% to the cost of running servers for all WA state based companies using this infrastructure.

There are exemptions available, but I'm not using them enough to work out how what they are or how to get them
I wont get this heavy a punishment if i go ransack a music store and steal all the copies..
While I agree this would often be useful, I think READ_LOG permission for a crash report is a bad example. That's the sort of thing that could be dealt with using an OS-level crash handler (with a prompt about whether or not you want to send logs to the developer of the app).
For the curious: if you want to make a bookmarklet or something: just add &tbs=li:1 to the end of the URL to enable "verbatim" mode.
Do you guys think this is a common feeling? I don't.
Excessive punishment, even if it's a theoretical maximum is a travesty of justice.

Take a look at the USA where mandatory minimum sentencing [1] is in effect for drug offenses - once a ludicrous maximum is set, all it takes is another measure to put a more "reasonable" minimum and make it mandatory... the Overton window [2] principle applies very well here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_sentencing#Arguments_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
What are some of the components you think it's missing?
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As I wrote one of the more popular sound editors as an undergraduate (Resound), them's fightin' words. SoundKit was still quite good, even if MusicKit sorta died with the DSP.

I think I'm mistaken about OpenGL, my memory is fuzzy. As to Java: what I was thinking of was OPENSTEP/NT and NEO both supporting Java (WebObjects had Java as early as '97), but I believe it was never released on NeXTSTEP. I guess that doesn't count.
Though the gov't might want research to be distributed, the underlying problem here has more to do with the scientists themselves than anything else. We've had ArXiV around for a long time and yet I ask who's adopted it other than mathematicians and (many, but not all) physicists? Why hasn't it been adopted by NIH-funded life scientists?

The fact that years ago, life scientists easily could have adopted an ArXiV-like model for publishing, and chose not to, is quite telling. It suggests a far deeper problem with incentives in (general) academic culture to publish and that article availability is not going to affect that at all. As someone who spent >6 years Ph.D./PostDoc (bioinformatics, stats and CS), I can say that the vast majority of researchers have no genuine incentive to take action. Protesting against Elsevier online in the comfort of your office is one thing, but having to publish X>10 papers/yr to get tenure/brownie points within your department is another.
On my Kindle, the Back button works perfectly well in this case, returning you from footnote to the point where you followed it in the main text.
Forget skimming!
In ebooks I can search for words and phrases, that feature alone weights up any inconvenience.
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It didn't do jack for addressbook stealing apps though.

You are representing it as though Apple asks for user's permission for every sensitive resource.
umm, http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design
That makes sense in theory but from what I've seen it doesn't always work that way. Most people don't stop using something and complain really loudly. Luckily, so far the people behind the sites or apps or whatever hold their ground and in this case I can certainly get on board with the popular opinion that apps should ask for permission first. I wasn't condoning that kind of thing but simply wondering what if it really was something frivolous like G+ not allowing naked profile pictures or something and they ended up giving into the pressure? We talk a lot about slippery slopes around here and I just applied that kind of thinking to this sort of thing.

I also wonder how much of this outrage is genuine and how much is just people thinking they should be outraged. Personally, I'd have no problem with apps getting the contents of my address book. Of course thats conditional but what I'm getting at is that this sort of thing isn't okay or not okay by itself, it's how it's framed that often makes it looked at this way. In this case it was framed as a terrible invasion of privacy with lots of room for security issues. What if it was framed as being awesome because it totally enhances the experience of the app? Maybe around here we're qualified to say "this is okay, that isn't" because of our knowledge and backgrounds but think of regular folks playing Angry Birds on their phones having no clue what a iOS is. I'm not sure they really have an opinion until you give them one and thats exactly what we're doing. So when you say they'd be just as content knowing its going on you're correct but I'm not so sure they'd come to the conclusion that it was bad while they didn't know totally on their own. I can totally picture a lot of regular folks finding out and saying "oh, they upload the address book? I didn't notice. Whatever." and continue on with their day. Of course that won't happen now because of how this is reported.

Anyway, I'm sorry to see so many people having such strong negative reactions to my original comment. Maybe I didn't make the point clear enough or maybe my thinking really is just way off on this one. Either way, I still maintain that these what-if questions will really get you thinking differently about this stuff.
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Interesting stuff. I'd certainly be willing to dual boot my phone to try it out when it is available.

The first video in the story is really well done; it reminded me of why mozilla is important.
A good implementation I've seen of something like this is a responsive version of data tables. Essentially, the data in the table is prioritized, and shown or hidden based on the available real-estate, along with the ability to override the defaults.

Demo available here:
http://filamentgroup.com/examples/rwd-table-patterns/
Yes, and it has a full stack too, so you can, for example, look up the dictionary definition of a word in a footnote, and then follow another link in that definition, etc., and then, when you're done, just repeatedly go 'Back'.
yeah! the "unsync" part is supposed to come from your personal playlist.. if you don't like the current song, u can switch to your playlist.. but probably, it's not evident/intuitive enough?
After thinking about it for a moment, my response is this: if the same idea can be delivered in fewer (words|paragraphs), then show the reduced form.

Tighter writing is clearer, and thus easier to read. If you can trim, you should be doing it anyway; leaving the extra amounts to cruft in most cases.
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Jesus Christ.

With so many people syncing with their corporate groupware with their iPhones, how is this not a howling, category 10, shitstorm yet?
there's no way to currently hide the video. as it is Youtube videos after all. we will definitely explore integration with other services like Soundcloud for a sound only version ;)

thanks for the support and compliments!
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This AnandTech?

"Back in October SandForce announced that it had discovered a firmware issue that resulted in unexpected BSODs on SF-2281 drives on certain platforms. Why it took SandForce several months to discover the bug that its customers had been reporting for a while is a separate issue entirely. SandForce quickly pushed out the firmware to OCZ and other partners. Our own internal testing revealed that the updated firmware seemed to have cured the infamous BSOD."

Yay!

"As luck would have it, our own Brian Klug happened to come across an unexpected crash with his 240GB non-Intel SF-2281 based SSD two weeks ago when he migrated it to another machine. The crash was an F4 BSOD, similar in nature to the infamous BSOD issue from last year."

Oh. This was written 2/6/12.

...

"Whatever Intel has done with the 520's firmware seems to have fixed problems that still remain in the general SF-2281 firmware."

...

"While it's nearly impossible to prove most of this, the fact that we're still able to reproduce a BSOD on the latest publicly available SF-2281 firmware but not on the SF-2281 based Intel SSD 520 does say a lot about what you're paying for with this drive."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5508/intel-ssd-520-review-cher...
You don't need to use the symbol list to type numbers — alt–Q will give you a 1, etc. That still doesn't make the process you describe good, but if you must do that, this should at least speed it up considerably.
Actually, the swastika is used to bless things in Hinduism. When my parents bought a car, they put a swastika on it while the priest prayed over it. I had to point out that they might want to move that indoors somewhere before they got reported to the police by someone who didn't know what they were looking at (when the Nazi's stole the symbol, they mirrored it).
In app is the way to go. It matches value creation to revenue reasonably well -- much better than blindly charging for the app or giving all the content away for free.

Also, be very defensive with the upgrade marketing copy so you don't get negative reviews.

P.S., I am glad that you are joining the club of quality educational content producers that charge for their products. There are plenty of us that make good livings doing it, and producing great pilates instruction will make millions of men's wives/girlfriends slightly hotter, and for that you deserve both admiration and compensation. Cheers.
Back when I took a VLSI class my professor showed an awesome animation of clock distribution at various frequencies.
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/r/restle/Animations/DAC01...

Check out the animations under "Clock Distributions" (numbers 19 to 25. It shows how the propagation of the clock across the die is affected by frequency (When a part of the fabric/tree is up or down it represents 1 and 0 respectively).

My favorite is the SymTree and Non-Uniform SymTree (23 and 24) which shows how having a non uniform load at various parts of the chip and a fixed tree structure affects how long each part of the chip is at a 1 or 0 state (i.e. a low load part of the chip will spend more time at a stabilized 1 or 0, while a heavy capacitive load at one part can not even reach a true 1 or 0).
I think a lot of time people do notice; they just don't care.
why so racist? I guarantee you that 1 million Caucasians download copyrighted files.
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I must have worded the question wrong to begin with but the button you were referring to was exactly my line of thinking.

Situation: I'm at home and feel like meeting up with a buddy of mine and am having this problem. I launch the app and click a button that says I'm bored and would like to meet up with one of these people I'm 'following'. This then bring up a list of the followers that are free as well and the SMS option would be available. I could then message them and possibly meet up with them.

This was just an idea I had come up with that could possibly solve this problem I'm having. I figured it would be worth sharing if someone was looking to build something like this. I was hoping somwthing like this existed already though because I believe I would use it a lot. I completely understand there's no magical program that can know you're definitely bored and would like to meet up with a friend hahaha.
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Very true. We tried to accomodate for audiobooks and podcasts by adding 30 second back button and a larger slider that's easier to scrub. It isn't perfect, but is much better than the Music app.

You're right though, an app especially for audiobooks with bookmarks, notes, etc. would be great.

Thanks for the feedback!
Those of us behind the relative safety of a western keyboard may have more of an obligation to convince people in Iran to use tools we write that claim to keep them safe but instead pinpoint them to the Iranian security apparatus?

I wouldn't criticize someone using circumvention tools in Iran. I might criticize an American who tried to make a name for themselves by building half-assed tools for Iranian dissidents. That was my point.
My comment wasn't asking for anything. I was pointing out that an "allow access to address book" dialog wasn't going to solve the underlying problem, which is that unlike location services, the data you are giving access to is someone else's.
While I think that is one response to this, you seem to be diminishing the importance that extra cruft has upon the effective message conveyed. Simpler is more economic, but it also eliminates those ephemeral things communicated implicitly. A TLDR is certainly an adequate substitute for those not interested enough, but an abbreviation can never capture the full expressive thought contained in a larger, well written text.

Effective visual communication, whether it be anything from body of text to an icon, is not necessarily contingent upon its complexity.
When I moved to Washington, the Metro farecard machines were not nearly as good they later became. If you tried to feed in a dollar that was not all but starched and ironed, you could find yourself holding up the line, missing the train, trying to crease it longways, etc. I'd have loved the option of feeding in Susan B. Anthony (or Sacajawea, or etc.) coins.
Racist? Isn't being able to download without risking serving time in prison a good thing?
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God forbid you sneak in the back door of a movie theater. How many years should you get for that? (of course, it's harder to "scale" that sort of crime, but it still seems ridiculous, so let the ridicule begin)
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I've owned 5 SSD's over the past 3 years. 2 OCZ, 2 crucial, 1 intel. Both OCZs failed, one after a month the other after 9 months. The oldest, a 3 year old crucial is still working fine.
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I, too, find this strange. This does not seem like an event with a specific objective in mind (beyond taking down DNS). It seems like a release of internal psychological tension onto the external world. Smacks of Jung's shadow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
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I think you're providing a lot of examples of things that Wikipedia is also largely fine with.

Meanwhile, the author of this article did original research, generating knowledge that was not only new to the field but that actually contradicted the field's best known sources.

Wikipedia (justifiably, but not particularly gracefully) told him "go write a journal article and then come back and cite it". Which is what he did.

This makes sense for a variety of reasons, some of them having to do with the charter of an encyclopedia, others simply as a matter of pragmatism: 9 times out of 10, when someone contributes original research to Wikipedia, their work is crazy.
Not sure if you're aware, but the big "fork me on github" link at the top right isn't pointing at github.com/atdt, it's pointing at github.com/you.
That wasn't very nice, and you didn't add anything particularly helpful to the conversation. Regular HN readers will be familiar with thinkcomp's problems with this legislation and don't need you volunteering to police him; irregular or newer readers might find one of his comments informative, or might not, and either way, still don't need your help in pointing out his "coatrack".

We're mostly all adults here. It would be nice if HN police limited themselves to matters of civility and trusted everyone else to figure out the rest on their own.
Hasn't this submitted some time ago?

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Sle...
i think you can get free downloads of music from sony, warner, universal and emi using google in china. never been there but i have seen it mentioned in articles from time to time. a quick search turns up http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30/free-legal-music-downloads-...
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Cute idea, but my understanding is that each individual's sleep cycle can vary a fair bit from that average. I know for sure that the amount of time it takes me to fall asleep varies widely.
Try reading a multi-page footnote or manually exploring nearby footnotes.
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Mandatory minimum sentences (as most people think of them) were actually struck down by the Supreme Court seven years ago in US v. Booker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Booker). The legal arguments are technical and sentencing policy remains something of a gray area. An excess of leniency in past decades led to an excess of punishment later, and inconsistencies in sentencing standards led to the creation of a national commission to establish uniform sentencing guidelines, which were then struck down in Booker for being too inflexible. It's a complex problem, not least because there's no objective metric for deciding what is 'excessive.' For that matter, there isn't even much consensus on what is effective.
There is still democracy. Join the pirate party. You'll get materials, information, etc, to present to other people.

If there's enough mass of people realising that the government and copyright cartels are bullshitting and using pirates as a bogeyman for economic problems, then the people will vote them out.
The MPAA, RIAA, and their overseas counterparts are ratcheting up the contempt with which they are viewed by society. DIY gravediggers they are.
It's a fair one, I just don't know that it's reason to refrain from doing so. As a theoretical Iranian dissident with a typical end user grasp on technology I'd definitely rather have such tools available than need to resort to creating them myself.

I think the chances such a theoretical user who will engage in subversion at any rate no matter the risk level is much more likely to be less capable of creating a circumvention tool than say the tor team.
Yes. Wikipedia is not for original research. Do the research, publish it, and then update Wikipedia.
A lot does depend on the actual circumstances for the bad RNG. If you had a good method of recognizing the valuable sites (anything involving money or maybe email?) it might be more practical considering a botnet would be just fine for this sort of computation.
There's a few of these lists, depending on what aspects of science/engineering/coding you're interest is

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If you read through the comments there's a lot of angry users demanding refunds and questioning the service. There's a fair chance that they won't be able to bounce back after this. Especially if the domain doesn't come back up within a day or two.

In other words, this might very well kill a company that someone worked hard to get off the ground. And if you have any usergenerated content it might happen to your company too. Apparently without due process, and without warning.

This is preposterous.
Some places in the world, there's no exemption for non-commercial copyright infringement. A grandmother sending an old wedding picture (without a copyright release) to her grandchild is liable for up to $73,500 and 5 years of jail in Australia.

Also, the police have the potential to bring up non-commercial copyright infringement and seize all electronics. And I mean everything that has a CPU/RAM/etc.
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Too bad jotform.net is also registered via GoDaddy. Should we be talking about registrar diversification now?
Not lawsuits right and left. Just people getting hurt once in awhile landing, twisting ankles and stuff. Not often. But there's always a lurk of lawyers waiting to help you "get what you deserve." It's a physical sport.
No, every piece of software released to the world, with or without patent protection becomes prior art. It slams the door shut on future attempts on anyone's part to patent the same technology.

The US Patent Office doesn't reject software patents based on prior art. The PTO is constantly issuing new patents on long established technologies.

Officially prior art and obviousness are supposed to disqualify a patent but the PTO doesn't care. Otherwise there would be no (or almsot no) software patents issued. Instead there are tens of thousands each year.

Proving that a patent was incorrectly issued costs about $5 million to go to court and depends less on technical invalidity than on how good your lawyer looks in a $5000 suit. No wonder it's usually better to settle if you can.
If you want anecdotal evidence, I have filed 21 bugs since September 2010. Around half of them were marked as duplicates since then, one bug has been fixed. And even that bug is still marked as a duplicate of an "open" ticket.
Technology can change things.

If digital printers and scanners get good enough we may need to switch from current physical currency, back to gold, silver and copper. Trying to legislate around the technology to protect the current model may simply not work. I am not trying to get into the controversy about fiat currency, I am just talking about the stuff you carry about, you can still have lots of fiat electronic promises.
Interesting thought. Pretty useless for people like me - it takes me 2-4 hours to fall asleep usually. It would be helpful if you could include an option for setting how long it usually takes one to fall asleep, and adjust the calculations accordingly.
I'm looking at pretty graphs that seem to indicate that excessive sentences in USA is standard.

Amount of inmates per 100,000 is rising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

Crime rate per 100,000 is going down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
You can argue that the usage of that term might be prejudicial, but calling it incorrect is at odds with the enlightened linguistic descriptivism we're all so enamoured of. :)

I get what you are saying, but this is a bit hypocritical. The very act of arguing and pushing for new terms, and trying to clarify language is in fact OK and even encouraged, even if one is a descriptivist. Even the most passionate "let language do what it will" person will agree that at some point you can't have every word collapsing into every idea.
I don't know if it is because of Godaddy or not but boy I am glad i moved away from them.