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>I would love to release my data in an open format. But the software I'm using is proprietary - and the format is therefore closed.
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>Here's the problem: Scientific software sucks. It's stuck 20 years ago. Usually a pain in the ass. Barely works. Crashes. Proprietary. Hacked together. And worst of all - ridiculously expensive. And if it's not proprietary, then it was written by me. The script is just good enough to do exactly what I need it to. I've hardcoded file directories and tab-delimiters.

Release the data and code anyways. I feel your pain with the proprietary formats, but ImageJ is pretty good about dealing with bizarre formats (and other scientists are more likely to have access to the $10k software, or at least know someone who does).

I feel your pain with the hacked together scripts. After sharing an analysis program with some collaborators, I had to go through about three rounds of testing to figure out all* of the unreliable assumptions I had made based on one particularly well-formed dataset. This process will make your code better, though, and it will make you a better coder. It will also help other people who are, like you and me, muddling through, trying to find any kind of usable starting point.

[*] Okay, "some"
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Google Analytics is just as irritating.
I see no evidence that this incident has anything to do with the DMCA.
An interesting article popped up on G+ the other day, outlining the effects the Cablegate release has had:

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/28-2

TLDR: US Government got mud on its face, but dictators around the world faired much worse, and the fallout for them is ongoing.
Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigns Over Latest Breach
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ce...

"But we must acknowledge that this incident would not have been possible if Stratfor had implemented stronger data protection mechanisms - which will be the case from now on. Indeed we will immediately move to implement the latest, and most comprehensive, data security measures."

Seriously? These people were emailing what they considered the most sensitive information straight out of their organisation, the only "security" being a caveat in the subject line. I wouldn't trust them with a cookie jar let alone preventing leaks ;)
If typesetting is the publisher's "technical expertise", then they are already dead.
I guess I wasn't very clear. Does it test on the readings of the kanji?
Naevity is prevelant, chase your own story.
To a large degree I agree with this standpoint.
The problem with the Stratfor case is, that it was by and large a private research company who's only "crime" so far was selling information for money. And the idea of running an investment fund based on geo political informations seems a pretty smart idea. But what investment fund doesn't want to consider potential problematic externalities in their investments?

The statement including $1,200 a month paid to the informant from the Wikileak's press release seems an almost ridiculously low amount, even when payed regularly, when in contrast other media outlets are paying thousands, and in some cases even millions for access to some temporary celebrities or access to other irrelevant banalities of public life.
They don't throw it away

Of course they do. WebSockets are stateful - immediately less scalable and reliable, since a client is tied to a server during the session -, they can't be cached - much less efficient for images, videos, etc -, are tied to particular implementations instead of standards and aren't linkable.

they just don't add the unnecessary cruft and overhead to get their stellar latency and response times.

REST doesn't have any "cruft". In fact, REST only restricts, it doesn't add anything.

There will never be an enviable end-user Single Page Application built on a purely REST architecture style since REST/HATEOS promotes the idea of dumb clients driven by a single server view, in a page-by-page mode Netscape 4 would be proud of. This is great if you're building one of the turn-based games of the 90s but the REST of the world has moved - and the talented kids who can cut stellar client side apps aren't doing it with a restricted HATEOS mindset.

You're mistaken. Nothing about REST or HATEOAS prevents a web application from serving Javascript that then calls a RESTful API dynamically, using PushState to change the current resource URI locally.

In fact, pushing and running code on the client (code-on-demand) is one of the constraints (albeit optional) of REST, as specified in Fielding's dissertation. Your claim that REST promotes dumb clients is wrong.

So while Google makes arguably the best REST client with Chrome, they're not wasting their time trying to restrict their Single Page Apps around HATEOS constraints. Instead they're investing heavily in trying to move the web forward with technologies that actually improve end-user experience like WebSockets and SPDY

What Google service uses Websockets, exactly?

And there's nothing unRESTful about SPDY. You don't seem to understand what REST means. REST is not HTTP.
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Don't comment until you read the post. This wasn't a DMCA takedown.
Have you looked at ConTeXt?

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt
Maybe I'm seeing through some powerful nostalgia goggles, but I remember Time as a serious magazine running well thought out and enlightening articles by informed people fairly frequently not so long ago.

Now look at the top links - 10 Weirdest Theme Parks! Top 10 Fashion Ad Campaigns! Elizabeth Taylor's Killer Beauty! ''It Gives Fart Jokes a Bad Name": The Six Harshest Criticisms of "Jack and Jill!" Worst Oscar Dresses Of All Time: A Gallery Of The Academy Awards' Biggest Fashion Flops (PHOTOS)

I think that the self-imposed infantilization of the average consumer is the biggest trend that I didn't see coming until it was here.
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He is on the right track as of 2012.
Edit: Accidentally put 2011.
A useful element of Dropbox is the shared folder stuff, as a way of passing files which are too big to email to someone else, without having to deal with web hosting. If you tell someone "go spend $X to sign up so I can send you a file", it pretty much kills that feature.

Admittedly, I'm not certain that this is actually essential as a core element of Dropbox.
Will look into it in detail shortly, but would it make more sense to treat the links I upvote as the ones I "liked" rather than the ones I open? Or, is this how it already works?
Tablets are not the future for all types of computing. Someone else can make Photoshop for the iPad but it doesn't mean that it will be a success nor that Adobe will go out of business.

I don't think Adobe has much to gain OR lose by doing this as they have the capital to develop a side mobile app.
Websockets of any reference are implentations of HTTP

As parent said, they only implement HTTP for handshaking. Then you switch to the websocket protocol.

To quote websocket.org:

The protocol switch from HTTP to WebSocket is referred to as
a the WebSocket handshake. (...) The browser sends a request
to the server, indicating that it wants to switch protocols from
HTTP to WebSocket. (...) At this point the HTTP connection breaks
down and is replaced by the WebSocket connection over the
same underlying TCP/IP connection.

The rest of your post is just argument-free personal attacks, therefore I'll refrain from replying to it.
There's http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse for the command line.
"Youtube is only complying with DMCA safe harbor by doing this." … "YT is required by law to do this."

I'm pretty sure that's not the case here, but I'm also pretty sure that's the intended interpretation of intensionally misleading messages sent by Google/YouTube/Rumblefish.

As far as I can tell (and as mentioned in previous comments) there has been no DMCA takedown notice issued. That means Rumblefish hasn't crossed any legal line over the DMCA (but might still be acting fraudulently), and Google has no obligation under DMCA to take the video down.

Google/YouTube _do_ require you to agree to terms and conditions that say they can take down _anything_ you upload for any (or no) reason.

So Google have no obligation to host/serve your videos for you.

Google also have a business deal with Rumblefish (and many businesses like them) saying "we'll attempt to automate detection of uploads of copyright infringing material with your content and place ads on them and give you a cut, and we'll let you adjudicate disputes", presumably with something in return along the lines of "and you'll agree to ask for takedowns instead of suing us over things our automated systems miss".

It's obvious that the relationship with power is the one between Google and large-scale rightsholders, not the one between YouTube and the free uploaders and downloaders.

(Queue the old "The advertisers are the customers. _Tou_ are the product" line.)
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Or this little gem:

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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

An oldie but a goodie.
Why? Birdsongs are actually copywritable music, and since they all sound fairly similar it's certainly possible that the software confused his recording with something from the Cornell lab of ornithology, which licenses their bird recordings to Hollywood, toy makers, musicians, etc.
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Well, that's the main purpose of cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output.
"With that being said, it seems appalling that it is possible on Rumblefish side to claim copyright on bird songs, assuming that they have vetted the audio personally."

Two comments:

I wonder of Rumblefish intentionally err on the side of false positives, and use that stance in marketing their service to copyright owners? Cynical-me thinks perhaps this is just some viral marketing scam - with the birdsong being used on purpose since there's no legal-entity who could be said to be "the copyright holder" who could file fraud charges?

Secondly, I wonder if there's some recourse available to audit Rumblefish over this? If they're accepting payment from Google for their alleged copyright interest in the birdsong, how exactly are they disbursing that money and to which "copyright holder"?
Being behind a paywall isn't helping with its publicity. On the plus side, this reminds me I really do need to sign up for the ACM! :)
I'm surprised that you trivialise it like that.
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If you pay $3/hour in the US, you are going to get the people who can't even get a minimum wage job. I doubt a lot of companies want to hire those people for any price.

All you are saying here is that the min wage is harmless because it's set below market rates. I.e., it's like setting a $0.25/gallon price floor for petrol, or passing any sort of "keep doing what you are already doing" law.

But if that is the case, then why would wages decrease if we eliminated the min wage?

As for the pent-up demand for $3/hour workers, you can see it every time a company outsources or offshores. My company (located in India) wouldn't exist if we had to pay $7.25/hour, for example. (Of course, market rates for the people we need would probably be higher than $7.25 in the US, so the min wage is a moot point - lowering it would not affect our costs or our hypothetical US employee's wages.)
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I get that tac exists and is useful for concatenating and printing files in reverse.

Neilk was just humorously pointing out that since cat stands for concatenate, its reverse should be truncate, and since cat is often abused to print a single file to a terminal this fictional trunc should "unprint" it.

Arguably you could view 'comm -3' as the reverse of cat.

# output is all the lines of file1 and file2
cat file1 file2

# output is the lines in file1 not in file 2, and vice verse
comm -3 file1 file2
Do you think the Singapore method at one point was a fad (or new math teaching methodology) and if not, why or how not?

Secondly -- You say "Teaching math is easy." What does that mean? Just from personal experience, 10 years or so ago I took Calc 1 and 2 in high school, and calc 2 again in college, and did well in all, and know how to integrate and differentiate and use various formulas due to a recognition of certain inculcated patterns, however would I say I am skilled at actually using calculus as any sort of real life thinking/problem solving tool? Absolutely not and not even close. Is this a success? Absolutely not. One of the most important things was completely overlooked by the "traditional" method I was taught in.
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I totally agree. Just because Steve Jobs said it doesn't make it true. You want to take a classic negotiating ploy for gospel be my guest. The fact that DropBox is committed to providing a solution across desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) OSes and mobile devices is what makes it worth paying for.
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I couldn't help laugh at how accurate that was.
> "How are the Crips different from the LAPD? They both drive

> around Los Angeles and carry guns ..."

... and they both enforce laws, and they both initiate the use of force against peaceful citizens, and they both take funding from unwilling people by the threat of violence.

I'm not sure you're making the point you intended to make, unless you're an anarcho-capitalist like me ;-)
To expect all students to take calculus is prioritizing. There has to be some give and take.

In any case, I believe the OP was asking why it's important that every student takes calculus? I'm very curious about that as well. Why again is that so important?

Here as well - please don't just down vote but please explain why you are if you are going to.
Unfortunately, I don't see any timetable for release of the entire corpus; if they're going to release 167 emails per day, that's going to take 82 years.
Are link-bait articles inevitable on Hacker News?
One difference is one makes money doing it and the other loses money doing it. One silos information in order to extract wealth from people who are interested in that information. The other releases it for free. One in moving in the direction of more secrecy and information hiding. The other is moving in the direction of more openness and transparency.

I disagree that this is not "fundamentally different". It doesn't get much more "fundamental" than the ideological difference that drives the two organisations.
Maybe, but it's just another paywall, selling a PDF for $39.95.
I agree. I'm in the process of trying to finish a journal on my research and have struggled with workimg on it at night. I keep falling int consumption mode by researching probably more than i need to. I definitely will consider this method.
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So which one is it?

* Fuck yeah, america!!!! killing our own troups just because
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In SV it's very popular to assume that people are poor because they don't want to work.

This is more or less true. Go look up labor force participation rates of the poor - most poor adults don't have a job, and aren't looking for one.
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I'm honestly not sure why there was even a discussion along these lines. If you understand hardware, you'd get that it would be hard for Apple to revolutionize hardware before the hardware existed.
And by a lot, what like 20? 50?
...to reinstate slavery, only this time around it will be voluntary.

Go look up the definition of slavery. Your post is internally contradictory.
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It's amazing how quickly and thoroughly Google has ceded the lead in this area. I know that the Android market supports application and data backup, but IMO the implementation is not as slick or simple as iCloud at this point.

This is especially true for those of us with multiple Android devices (Phone + Tablet). But the lack of a comprehensive solution for photo synchronization is telling as well.

I am glad to see HTC addressing the issue, but the lack of leadership on Google's part is really unfortunate.
Or we can assume that the company that does the hiring via 60 second challenge is not ran by complete idiots and they do keep track whether those hires end up being effective employees for them. Let's give them the benefit of a doubt.

Your argument seems to be that there are only two possible programmers: effective designers that are slow to code or fast coders that are bad designers (designer in terms of code architecture, not graphic design, of course).

I claim that there are no good architects that are slow coders i.e. all good architects are also good coders.

When you look into research of skill acquisition, or even common sense, in order to become good at something you first have to master the basics before you master higher-level skills.

In the field of programming, being able to implement a piece of highly constrained code are the basics of our craft.

Once you're really good at that, people move up to tasks that have less constrains and are therefore high-level: choosing an implementation language, designing how pieces of the whole app fit together etc.

But you won't ever get to do that if you were not able to quickly and confidently implement a function that someone else specified, just like there are no chefs who can't cut vegetables very quickly or basketball players that are brilliant tacticians but can't run very fast etc.

Mastery of basics is not a guarantee of mastery of higher-level skills but it is a prerequisite.
My bad. I've actually clicked the "Quick View" link; the possibility of being unavailable didn't cross my mind.
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The by line explains why the article feels so spot on: "Vinton Cerf". The big glaring mistake is that we call "WIDGETs" Smartphones.
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Some source - with a lot of comments - that claims to implement the algorithm:

http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=inplace-me...
I'd love a "click on this to add it to your vimrc" feature.

There are a couple of thing you'd have to be careful about getting right for a script like that (IE, all the from-vimbits parts should be grouped together and documented), and the script that runs on my computer should be one that I can easily verify myself does only what I wanted.
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(The 4 static IPs were pretty awesome too)
> There need to be better protections against this sort of thing

There is always a better protection against this sort of this: host your own content.

It is regrettable that as the Internet has grown, and services that offer hosting for free in exchange for attaching ads have grown, a lot of people have forgotten that you're under no obligation to host a video file on one of those services.

If your blog/pictures/videos/whatever are important to you, look for a self-hosted solution. If enough people are interested in doing that, businesses will appear to help the less technically literate do it as well, just as there are numerous businesses today that will make you a web site, register you a domain, and host everything on their servers but otherwise under your control.

Unless that starts happening, all the big video sites (not that there are many of them in the grand scheme of things) can impose more or less any terms they want, including claiming all kinds of rights to use any content you upload and not giving any guarantee that they will continue to host it or that they will not modify/corrupt/ad-splatter it.
"Gnupg is pretty good"???

Wtf? Pretty good? You have complaints with gpg?
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From my experience watching people trying to start a business (not as a entrepreneur since I'm also first time entrepreneur but just as an observer), I found out that it is very very hard to get traction if you have a day job.

However, during day job you can do a lot of market research and customer development and get to the point that you are confident that startup will succeed (or at least it will not fold immediately). Basically, find customers first (use demos and prototypes) then build a product.

And what I found out is that some people will actually stick with you as customers/users even if your product sucks - they believe in you. In other words, finding some normal people to believe in you and what you are doing is much easier that finding investors who believe in you.
Yup. I used to read Time Magazine all the time when I was in my teens... then I picked it up recently and I'm like "was I an idiot when I was a kid?" But I think it's really that Time Magazine became trash at some point...
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I'm not a lawyer but I know contract law does sometimes recognize third-party rights. Not sure if would be applicable here.
still now?
STRAFOR has a commercial interest in keeping its collected information limited to its customers. Wikileaks exposes its information to the public.
> Some mathematical software that's not impenetrable (a la MatLab/Mathematica).

The Sage project is what you're after: http://www.sagemath.org/
since they all sound fairly similar

That's not how copyright works. If you make an original work, it can be identical to a copyrighted work and not be infringing. It's only a problem if you make your work from the copyrighted one.
The word "steal" still obscures the true nature of the problem, which is one of demanding services they have no right to based on a flawed law. That's not theft, though it could be described as fraud, extortion, or racketeering.