skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, Scoble was cajoled by Plaxo to run this script against his account under the premise that he could then import all that data into Plaxo. Scoble got caught running this automated script, a violation of the terms and service that he'd previously agreed to. This became a PR issue - I guess this is what Plaxo was hoping for, except Facebook merely reinstated Scoble's account on condition he didn't run that script again (couched in terms of not breaching the T&C again).

Plaxo is nowhere to be seen these days, so I guess the PR backlash against Facebook didn't give Plaxo the boost they needed.

Later on in the Gilmor Gang Scoble defended his actions by suggesting Facebook was just a Rolodex of contacts, and thus he has the right to export all the data of his contacts for his own purposes; pointing out that how is a crawler bot different from him copying over his 5000 contacts into Outlook one at a time (IIRC, Facebook displayed email address as an image on profile pages, so there'd be no paste).

Only today the story has changed that this was really Scoble fighting for the survival of the common web. That's an interesting position to take 4 years later. I don't recall him bringing this justification up before. Perhaps he has in closed networks like Facebook.

If that indeed was the true reason Scoble ran a scraper script against Facebook, then I'm surprised he went through so much trouble to get his Facebook account re-enabled, and then do nothing to safeguard his data against other Facebook reactions to future violations.

Now he's on Google+, and yet this Facebook data still isn't exportable, and I've not seen any complaint from Scoble about not being able to move all his contacts data from Facebook to Google+. I don't recall Scoble using "the common Web" as justification for uprooting from Facebook to Google+, or from moving away from his blog to Google+.

Not sure I approve of this revisionism. If an common Web is important, surely not being dependent on a closed platform is an obvious strategy?
Yes - it's very simple:

contacts.txt - in order of surname, firstname

Surname, FirstName, Primary telephone number with code, Email address so:

Joe, Bloggs, 02033345545, joe@bloggs.com

I only keep a single number for people, but you could extend it to two numbers if you want.

cal.txt - latest dates at top of file:

2012/02/02 16:00+ What to do # time specific event
2012/03/03 --:-- Someone's birthday # all day event

When something is done, the line is deleted. If something is not done on the date, it is just left as "overdue" at the top.
Interestingly, Webkit on iOS devices CAN play back DRMd content via the HTML5 video tag. As far as I can tell, the web server can request a special Apple-signed client SSL certificate. With this, either the whole video can be streamed via SSL, or you can gate access to the keys used to encrypt the video (via Apple's HTTP live streaming encryption).

The latter is of course nonstandard, but cooperative browser vendors could easily implement the pure SSL authentication. I can't imagine Flash or Silverlight video is any more secure than that. There's of course no way a truly open source browser would be trusted in this way; the certificate would have to be hard to extract.

(This comment might make me sound pro-DRM. I'm not, just making some technical observations)
I am not sure how you take away "alcohol is something you drink in moderation" from being given it at an early age.
As soon as you are providing "fallbacks" you have lost.

There is no "web-app" standard which is why providing a "web-app" solution is ALWAYS a losing prpposition.

HTTP is NOT an applicarion delivery protocol. Stop treaing it as such... as m uch as the cocksucker pg might try to convince you otherrwise.
The middle at the moment. There's no point in owning anything with wheels larger than shirt buttons in the south.
Some of it is actually pretty close unfortunately.
http://f-droid.org/ looks very interesting, just having a play with that now ... the flexible listings criteria (open source apps that track or contain ads are listed but flagged so you can choose) is good.
Man, I wish I could take you to some beer bars so we could see if you really hate beer, or if you've just had bad ones. A friend of mine was positive that she hated beer; then I introduced her to gueuze and now it's gotten to the point that she's planning a trip to Belgium to drink more of it. By chance did all three of the ones you've tasted have Bud, Miller, or Coors anywhere in the name?
Running Windows?

I was using a 633MHz PIII until about 3 y ago, then using it again recently when my main computer died, and its gotten a lot harder (on Linux) over those 3 y.
I think there are two possible assumptions (or axioms) here.

Suppose there's a work X licensed under the GPL. You've assumed that if I create a derivative work Y, then everyone else has an automatic right to Y. If I were to restrict Y, I'd be taking away this right, and so the GPL stops me from restricting it. In fact, it severely limits what I can do with my code, but enforces everyone else's freedom to use my code.

Let us assume the opposite: that a work does not belong to the public domain until its creator chooses to share it. Then any work X that has already been shared is fully protected (by any free software license). If I create a derivative work Y and keep it secret, I in no way limit people's use of X, so I have not violated any of their rights. Similarly, if I make a restrictive license on Y, I still haven't violated their rights. They never yet had a right to Y, only to X. In this case, the GPL is violating my rights to do as I choose with my personal work, Y.

So we have two opposing assumptions and two different conclusions: If you think a work you create immediately "belongs" to the public, then the GPL protects people's rights; if you think it "belongs" to its creator until shared, then the GPL violates people's rights.

I myself am in the second camp, so I think that the GPL does not technically qualify as a fully free software license. Perhaps the distinction could be phrased this way: I believe that a potential author of a piece of code should be able to do whatever they want with it, while the GPL is predicated upon the belief that all potential -users- of a piece of code should be able to do whatever they want with it.

But I don't think you can have both. You either have to allow restriction of the users' options (if the author so chooses), or you have to restrict the author's options.
I'll make you a deal: we get rid of the H1B visa quotas as long as we start rigorously enforcing laws against collusion among the big companies to keep salaries down.
The Prestige is complete fiction that merely uses his name because he is recognisable as a practical genius.
"If you’re on FB and you friend me and you allow me to see your name and phone number, I can copy and paste it manually."

At the time of the Scoble/Plaxo scraping thing, you couldn't copy and paste the phone number. IIRC, it was an image of text, to prevent it from being copied. It could only be transcribed at that time.
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You make an excellent point. I believe in free software, but I choose not to impose those beliefs on others.

I think there are times when freedom needs to be enforced through law, as the GPL does, because the consequences of losing the freedom is too great (injury or death included). The GPL was and still is important, it helped popularize the free software movement. Twenty years ago the GPL might have been required, maybe the software landscape was such that non-GPL free software would not succeed. I think now, in 2012, it is not required for most projects. I will concede there are projects where it is still important.

If you look at some of the most successful and thriving open source projects you'll see they succeed without laws enforcing their freedom. Things like Apache httpd, nginx, Hadoop, Chromium, and X.org. People and companies contribute to them even though they are not forced to.

If think there comes a time when societies and ecosystems no longer need such strong enforcement of freedoms, and freedom is actually increased by not forcing freedom.
Most large players in heavy load content ( like live video streaming ) run double failover systems these days. Even if your running systems on S3 piping it through Akamai, you can't guarantee that they won't drop you when your load gets too high. So you have to setup a sister chain going through another origin and cdn.

But even at that if you start talking 100k+ clients you can't offload them all at the same time so you end up having to create this custom origin/mid tier distribution system...

Very annoying. I'd like to see CDN's being held liable if they go down or drop you entirely.
Scoble is lazy. If you really care about a contact, you will copy the information even if it requires typing each individual character.
> Richard Stallman believes in the freedom of software, not the freedom of individuals.

Stallman believes in freedom of indivisuals, _including_ the freedom of individuals down the stream. The BSD increases only your (egoistic) "freedom" to cut off other people from water supply, while decreasing everybody elses freedom to get to the water source, so it maximizes only one single peak of freedom, while everybody else loses. The GPL levels the access, it maximizes the total amount of freedom available in the ecosystem.

> That to me is true freedom.

According to that logic, a democracy is "unfree" because you are not allowed to turn it into a dictatorship, which is the "true freedom" then.
Well I'll admit I don't have the experience in this area as that of Prof. Norm Matloff, but I've heard this story many times before, and it usually turns out to be the same; if you're complaining about foreigners taking your jobs, it's almost certainly because they do them better than you.
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Isn't the whole point of his choosing that particular laptop that it has Free firmware as well? Similarly, he chooses to use gNewSense because it doesn't include any firmware blobs or similar. That suggests to me that firmware is also something he cares about - because if you run Free software on top of a non-Free firmware, it is possible that the firmware could undermine your freedom - for example, a firmware update might remove the ability for you to install other operating systems.
ShowHN: ShareVideos MVP
http://173.255.221.38/ShareVideos/splash.php

ShareVideos is an easy way to send and view a number of videos without creating a playlist in youtube.

Hi guys,

After lurking on HN for so long I decided it was high time to kick myself in the butt and create something. So here's my MVP. It would be nice if you could give me feedback on whether you would use a simple tool like that, and the features that you want to see in such an app. I'm journaling my entire process of coming up with an idea to the actual implementation and marketing of a product, so yeah, stay tuned!

Thanks in advance,
Derek
Honestly, this ain't love what you have with your mom, not even close. If she'd love you, she'd want you to be happy. Instead, she drives you crazy with her obsessions.
France is exactly like parenting in the 50's and 60's, and in some ways that's better but in the vast majority of the ways, that's much worse. We've made huge progress in our understanding of parenting and France throws it out to do it the way their grandparents did it, to their general disservice.

I'm an American living in France, raising my child here. The two big things the French get wrong (that the 50's got wrong) that outweigh everything else they get right are:

1. Corporal Punishment. The French beat their children. Innumerable studies have been done and the results are remarkable consistent: Don't do it. Don't spank. Don't hit. In the 50's it was acceptable to hit your wife and kids. Let's not turn the clock back on that. Please.

2. Children should be seen, not heard. Like in the 50's, the French don't interact much with their kids. This is a terrible mistake. Yes, kids need some alone time -- that's a cop out. They'll make it clear when they do. The big mistake was that we started thinking that good parenting was karate classes and doing puppet shows, but this is like baking cookies: fine occasionally, but don't over do it. Take time with your child, let them direct their play, mainly watch. This is huge for them and one of the best things you can do as a parent. See your child. Understand your child. Be there for your child.
While of course his 'main idea' is solid; you don't need drugs (alcohol being a particularly addictive and unhealthy one) to have a good time, but saying that he never had “Wow, I’m so glad I did that thing I did last night. It’s significantly improved my life.“ => that's crap, at least, I am not him, but I have had that, so did all my friends. Of course you don't wake up and think 'it's significantly improved my life' (who thinks that??), but certainly 'i am so glad i did that last night'.

When forced to think about that, then yes, it significantly improved my life; I met great friends and girlfriends (which I wouldn't have met in such short period otherwise and at the time that mattered to me), had conversations with friends which were far more honest than we would've had without drink.

One case for instance I was at a very boring party, everyone was ready to go home at 10pm. I was together with my gf and we decided to drink some cocktails and go home too. After feeling a nice buzz, we started dancing alone on the big dance floor with almost no-one around (and surely no-one dancing). Another couple joined in a bit later, we started talking and that guy is now my best friend. This is over a decade ago. This would not have happened if both couples didn't drink; we would've gone home. I know there are people who can 'do this' without alcohol and now my wife and me can too, but back then it was just 'boring party, waste of time, bye' when sober. And I wouldn't like to have missed that for the world; there is almost no chance I would've met him otherwise (I know that in hindsight).
Try any of the vim keybinding plugins if you like keyboard navigation. I use vimium with Chrome.
I was also wondering why the kindergarten aspect was completely missing in the article, as if it did not happen.

It could well be that French children do not see their parents so often and are ready to do whatever is needed to have a comfortable atmosphere during the few hours they see them, in particular if their parents don't play those games.
Artificial scarcity leads to piracy. Shocking. Why can't they make these games legitimately available online for a fee? During NCAAF season, there are too many teams and too many games to show on TV, but disappointingly, most of them weren't available online anywhere except illegally. I don't buy the existing arguments of licensing fees and advertising. Some revenue is better than no income (piracy).
It does not actually tell you what files got changed; it tells you what directories saw at least one change.

Programs will still have to inspect those directories to find out what file(s) changed.

To quote https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwi...:

To better understand this technology, you should first understand what it is
not. It is not a mechanism for registering for fine-grained notification of
filesystem changes. It was not intended for virus checkers or other technologies
that need to immediately learn about changes to a file and preempt those changes
if needed. [...]

The file system events API is also not designed for finding out when a
particular file changes. For such purposes, the kqueues mechanism is more
appropriate.

The file system events API is designed for passively monitoring a large tree of
files for changes. The most obvious use for this technology is for backup
software. Indeed, the file system events API provides the foundation for Apple’s
backup technology.

IMO, only telling users what directories changed is a smart move. It means that the amount of data that must be kept around is much smaller. That allows the OS to keep this list around 'forever' (I do not know how 'forever' that actually is)
I much prefer the Guardian's "Digested Read" version of this book: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/29/digested-read-fr...
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DRM shouldn't be promoted, period.
On a similar note to this, I generally like to open links in new tabs, so that I can refer back to the original page without losing my place, or to refer to the linked content after I finish on the current page. This does not work when you are using styled buttons, or pages which rely heavily on JS/AJAX to do their thing. Inevitably in this case, I must navigate away from the original page, look at the content and then use back, hoping that I return to the correct location.

Notable examples of this include the Facebook "Show more comments" link, g-mail's email links and "Add to Cart" buttons which redirect away from the product page.
A few comments that may or may not apply to you...

1. Majority of all first time entrepreneurs and especially non-technical cofounders all think they're good at business, selling, product dev, etc... They are not. Most suck and don't even know it.

My advice is to stop thinking you're good at something you've never even done and focus on learning. After all, most people who think they're good at something mostly never bother improving since they think they're already good at it. Don't be that person.

2. I don't know the exact details of what you're building but from the vague description, it doesn't sound world changing either so don't knock on your buddy for his ideas. Most ideas are not "world changing" and they don't need to be. Everyone is different and even if you prefer something else, respect his choices. Don't make it sound like you're working on a world changing idea when it's most likely not.

3. You should talk to your cofounder and set things straight. I don't know if he knows you're already looking for a replacement. Not to mention you guys should have a formal termination of service for a few reasons.
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Because the laws of entropy show that's not quite right?

The notion that we have the ability to save everything doesn't seem to account for the placement of such technology in a wider context. For example, take dimensions such as the political and economic - which are themselves subject to physical entropy such as fundamental communication and informational limitations manifested by the physical laws underpinning our 'reality'. It seems to me these are examples of some significant hard barriers to reaching such utopia’s of permanence.

So we have a socio-political-economic system that gives rise to things like intellectual property, which in turn leads to allocation of social energy in endeavours such as prohibiting, rather than facilitating, the perpetuation of the content for posterity.

Of course this is a gross simplification, but hopefully functionally illustrative. Down with IP!
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What is a race-realist?
Apparently I need to turn on Javascript on my Mobile Safari to view this page... even though I'm running Firefox on an actual computer. How odd.

(And kicking the two divs which hold that warning out of the way with Firefox 10's web inspector and a "display: none" gives a perfectly reasonable page. Why not just show that all the time?)
Officially.

Yet many of them will live on in "pirated" digital form.
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Oh, you mean Richard Dawkins? I'm an atheist, and his hateful extremist brand of atheism certainly does not speak for me.
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Treatment of hair color it will give your hair color to look pretty at have long time and colors not fall.
People who have VHS should digitize. There is a lot on Youtube but for how long... Old films/series are lost and will be lost forever that way. It's not even actually only VHS: some things never made VHS and is rotting on tapes in dark vaults under tv studios. Possible already damaged beyond repair. Stuff like 'secret valley' (AU tv series) is unfindable. Xenon (Flemisch scifi) is only in the BRT vaults; I mailed them about that and they responded that it would cost E49 per episode where you have to order per post PER episode (you cannot order multiple at the same time) and only for private use. I just would like to see an episode for nostalgia sake; if I could buy / view it online I would, but E49 per episode and all the hassle.

What does it matter to THEM to just have some students digitize EVERYTHING and put it online for free or a small fee? I imagine there are 100s of 1000s of these series and movies around the world going to waste. No matter if popular or not, what DOES IT MATTER to put them online, it's not as if it's expensive to do so esp if you charge some monthly or one-off fee to watch them.
And many of them don't.
There is evidence that collusion in the job market does not necessarily have an effect on wages: http://ideas.repec.org/p/esx/essedp/626.html. Interestingly enough, the research "provide[s] strong evidence of a negative effect of collusion on labour productivity growth"
I agree. I'm not trying to promote it.
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Python: Mostly harmless.
>If you take this nonsense seriously, you conclude that massacring your neighbors and using their territory for "living space" is good policy.

Come now, this is just a rather poor slippery slope argument. One can act in his own interest without infringing on other's rights.

The economy doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is not random that the semiconductor jobs are in America vs another country. The people in this country have all contributed to the economy that supports these businesses. Thus Americans should be the first to benefit from the jobs we ourselves are responsible for creating.
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I suppose it depends on whether you think there is an inherent right to access the source code of every software you use. The whole positive vs. negative rights issue comes into play big time.
Same observation in China: all the heavier drinkers seem to be foreigners (me included).

Now we have to question the cause/effect relationship. Do we have higher age limits because we have alcohol problems or do we have alcohol problems because the age limit is high?
I hardly post comments here but I have to thank you bub! I quit drinking for 3 years and unfortunately started it a year ago again.

I quit drinking because of my aunt who died because of liver cirrhosis (result of alcohol addiction), started it again because the last year wasn't an easy one for me. :/

I was very proud that I could stop drinking and still having fun. I had the exact same moment you mentioned, where some random girl told me that I was sooo drunk yesterday and I just replied.. nope, I was sober. :D

During my time drinking I lost extremely much of my former productivity. I have to admit I don't regret every drunk evening, there were some really good too! But I definitely lost mental strength during my drinking time.

I had to lough at the point where you wrote about the lost money and in my case gained weight. That's all true too.

I'll quit drinking again, one more time. :D
I'm married, so unfortunately I don't know.
When I moved, a couple months ago, I packed up — not a series, not a tape — the box I have that can turn VHS into digital video thinking, "Maybe I should just throw this out." I hung onto it for purely sentimental reasons, I think. I can't really remember the last time I saw a VHS cassette, let alone used one.

And yet there must be hundreds of thousands of hours of human creation which will, without preservation, be utterly destroyed. There's definitely something tragic there.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the wretched work of copyright. This is the still-unfulfilled promise of the information age. Let's not forget that.