skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does the band get from me buying a CD of theirs used? Is it substantially more quantifiable than talking about the band?

I would argue that the profit from first sale has already been made, and the terms of that distribution include the ability to resell. They've already made money off that CD, and you are paying the person who owned it originally for it now, not the band. Since they produced the CD, they agreed to these terms when they sold the physical media.

> I'll admit I'm trolling with the questions, but it's hard not to when you're attempting to divide pirates into "cool people" and the other kind based on categories you yourself seem to not have thought out very well.

I wasn't actually trying to imply group A is cool and group B is not, 'cool' was just the verbage I was using to indicate that I didn't really have a problem with what group A was doing, as they were following the spirit (if not the letter) of the law and were attempting to compensate the band for their efforts. I apologize if my poor choice of wording called you 'uncool' by accident. :-)

I will return the upvote for the civil reply.
Once you are dealing with more than, say, two hundred pieces of information, you kind of start needing to classify that information and have definite ways to find it.

If tags are a way that you can definitely find and specify a given file, then tags will form part of a new, distributed file system.
If tags wind-up just being half-assed, uncertain hints to where files might be, then they will form part of a new, disfunctional distributed file system. And the later case seems to be where things are going. This "hints but no certainty" approach to file location indeed works great most of the time and fails frustratingly significant percent of the time.

But even here, this is a file system even when it is often dysfunctional.
Soon, we will have a time machine built...
Ok that's fair. But in that case, I don't understand what compelling way DDG is differentiating themselves from other search engines besides a few cool, nice, thin value features.
Resist the temptation to create DuckDuckPreview.
Because all the connections between ideas within a domain have already been mined for everything worthwhile. By connecting two domains, you're exposing a whole new set of connections between things that are rarely connected.

There's a theory / definition of creativity that says that it's simply the ability to connect seemingly unrelated things. This is an example of that.
Okay. That's what I was thinking too but I couldn't stop wondering if there was anything more to it.

But he is not a hacker of any of the following?

OS X

Linux

Emacs

C++

C

Python

Sh

Haskell

Go

Network

Computer

Prolog

Scheme

The 3,4 seems so limiting that it kind of vitiates the witty/cute aspect of the tagline...
If you want to get semantic, breadcrumbs don't really give you a "sense" of place, they just tell you where you've come from. These sheets actually make you feel how many levels deep you are—without having to parse a string.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. It still costs $99 for an ADC account to release signed apps through the Mac app store, however, now with Gatekeeper you will also have a free option in case you want to distribute signed apps on your own.
> (well, apart from google being default search provider)

That's a rather significant difference, you know.

But control over a given user's browser has incredible potential value for Google. Controlling both client and server means that you no longer have to sacrifice performance in the name of standards compliance (so long as you have a standards-compliant fallback mode for other browsers). What that means if you're Google is that a visitor using Chrome can 1) cost you fewer resources, and 2) walk away with a smoother, more satisfying experience.

Does Google currently take much advantage of this potential? I can't say for sure. But we are talking about a company that omits the </html> on its homepage in the name of performance.
I think you were looking for something that Gruber never set out to write. That is, you wanted to read something like the article that Engadget wrote (from what I would guess was the same presentation and early access).

But Gruber has never really been that guy. And I don't think that's ever been a secret. You could drop this criticism on any of his longer-form pieces and making it just makes me wonder why you bother reading him.
Unfortunately it probably still won't be enough to improve the atrocious third party support.

Still no netflix, skype, rdio, etc...

Shame since I find the tablet and OS to be very nice.
The Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water#Requirements) is also worth a look.
I've studied the matter in depth, ive tried to talk sense into someone ready to jump off a 4 story building onto concrete or drive into water with handcuffs on the wheel. I was unable to fix them. I left this guy to his own devices when nothing I did helped, I said your brain has some destructive feedback loops going on and you need to go and fix it. He's alive today. Im no expert but I sure have opinions!
> It's bad enough that the USPTO will rubberstamp everything with the right fees

Clearly you have never prosecuted a patent application. Yes, examiners make mistakes sometimes, and patents issue that shouldn't. But your statement is just nowhere near being true.
Let's not get out of hand here. This didn't happen because it was in the US, this happened because the domain was on GoDaddy.

Having your domain hosted with a reasonable registrar would have been enough to prevent this.
Understanding smartphone leases: buying is better (Part 3)
Akka Future vs. Twitter-Util Future [Akka-User ML]
At first I thought maybe I was a little hasty, in calling you a fucking idiot. Now I'm glad that you have reaffirmed my initial suspicions.
Why an NDA (or Any Small Contract) is Worth Your Time
Spark tablet pre-order registration is now open
Actually, fat is quite a long-term satiating macronutrient, at least compared to, say, sugar dissolved in water.
Like any sector that hasn't been totally disrupted yet, it's inevitable that technology will change the game. But subject matter expertise and relationships do matter a lot (especially in fashion) so we brought on a director of biz dev who's worked at Chanel and other fashion brands and we are pursuing partnerships with top names in fashion.

Plus, my Stanford/Google background notwithstanding I actually do enjoy fashion :)
It's not Gruber's job, nor is it interesting to readers, to post his guesses about things which are NOT in the new release; what's more interesting is what IS there.

He _literally_ guesses that other journalist will receive the same personal briefing he gets.

Gruber TOLD us what is "different" now; what's different, clearly, is that journalists are being given briefings like this to spread the word in advance about OS changes.

You fell for his writing. "This is an awful lot of effort and attention in order to brief what I’m guessing is a list of a dozen or two writers and journalists." He never asked the question "How many other people will get this private presentation?" or anything equally basic.

An Apple VP specifically targeted Gruber's fanclub. He's a trustworthy sycophant.
I hope the answer is "yes", but it's a challenging question.
I only picked articles that made their source clear.

"We can report on Mountain Lion a half-year before it ships because Apple, for the first time, decided to give the computer press a look at a new OS X version long before its release. Normally, we see a new OS X version at most a few days before the shipping date. The early version of Mountain Lion that Apple gave us is substantially the same one that its registered developers will be able to download starting today. After using Mountain Lion intensely for a few days, I'm deeply impressed with its new convenience and security features, its subtle interface improvements, its cloud-based file synching, and its compatibility with software written for earlier versions." http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400311,00.asp

"For the past week, I’ve been using an initial demo version of OS X Mountain Lion." http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/os-x-mountain-lion/

"We got our hands on an early version of the OS -- so early, in fact, that it's something of a pre-developer build. (Heck, there isn't even an image of a mountain lion to choose from in the default wallpapers.) The version available to developers today should address some of the kinks we encountered during our testing, not that we suffered all that many hiccups." http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/16/apple-os-x-mountain-lion-...
>> What a crackhead was going to do with my budget headlight I don’t know

Wow. Nice one TechCrunch.
Chrome does this, but IE does not. That alone means that a much higher proportion of Chrome users will use Google than IE users. Then factor in the relative name recognition for the two search engines...
Wow thanks; I had not realized there were 10.7.3 related updates to the Sandboxing Guide.
Both the Canadian government[1], the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Human Rights, and Amnesty International[2] have condemned this fast-track conviction/execution. I don't think the US government echoing an ally nation and a human rights organization will spark a war. However, it does help put international pressure on them which might make them hesitate to perform the same action again.

In any case, if you believe it's wrong you should speak out against it, no matter the consequences. Staying silent only allows the abuses to continue.

[1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jskeJOMwe...
[2] http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/iran-must-halt-exec...
> By the letter of the law, Mac App Store apps are to be sandboxed, which means no /Library access, which means no plug-ins.

I don't understand: What prevents an app from having an "Add Plugin..." dialog that uses the sandboxed file browser to locate a plugin library in whatever sensible format?
I love the concept (and the speed, my God!) but one thing that really bugs me is the to-do list area -- it seems as though it could use a similar treatment as the discussion area. The long line lengths plus the inconsistent comment badge locations make it look really tough to scan.
You're probably going to do a lot better automating data collection based on DDG/!g searches. I really don't know how you'd score for quality, but at least take this as an example of a search whose results were not satisfactory.

Might also be the sort of thing to look at with a specific focus group. I know that the trend is to use a naive audience, but you might want to specifically recruit self-selected power-users.

I'd also design such a study to blind the result sets. I know Microsoft raised a bit of a stir claiming that their search results in blind testing were better than Google's a fair bit of the time. Problem at least personally with those results are that the two things I care about in search are relevance, and credibility in protecting user interests.

Microsoft have a very poor track record in that latter. I don't Bing. Period.
The Element of Surprise
If the average user was sparked to initiative by their annoyance, we wouldn't have the DMV.
Apache Embraces Cloud with Deltacloud Approval
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I'm doing something similar with Dirty Hot Productions (one of my clients). We use MySQL on a separate CMS Rails app to store everything, and all of the websites communicate with the CMS via an API. We use Redis to cache all of the API responses, so effectively everything except the first read (or the first "dirty" read) on a particular query is coming straight from Redis. It works amazingly well, and it doesn't use nearly the amount of RAM I thought it would.
Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm'
Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing 'Perfect Storm'
And if you don't like pollution and global warming, stop complaining and trying to make things better, instead colonize your own planet and make them pollution-free.
While I may agree with your sentiment, I don't agree with your argument.

If the empirical results from eating so much rice are actually good, it doesn't matter what the glycemic index says. It's just a proxy.
HP Bets On The Cloud With New Gen8 Servers
HP Bets On The Cloud With New Gen8 Servers
I really hope they don't try to converge the interfaces too much. The design elements in Lion that were very iOS-like were IMHO the worst.

The thing is: pads and phones are fundamentally different kinds of devices. Their UI paradigm is designed around frequent but brief and relatively shallow interactions, while a PC is for deeper longer-term interactions. Trying convergence here seems like something very easy to botch horribly.
Oh my god, can you imagine if it were your job to listen to pitches like this all time? I'd probably kill myself.
Microsoft Have Internet Explorer Performance Lab to Reliably Measure Performance
Has someone done a quick sentiment analysis of the resulting articles? I'd enjoy seeing a quantification along those lines.
FTC staff issues report on mobile apps for kids
This may be a bandwidth issue. I remember my friend having major issues streaming 1080 to his tv box over wifi. He had to get an N router just to support it. This may be a compromise.
Or, far more accurately, "You can get these all apps from the developers directly. We don't support them on the Mac App Store at this time, and we don't discuss future product directions".
I honestly can't get if that's sarcasm or the poster really believes such things. I think Poe's law applies here.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
That was my feeling. If you know Apple, you know there's no question you can ask that they'll answer with any more information than they wanted to reveal and put into that presentation. So digging is pointless. And writing an article full of unanswered questions wouldn't serve any purpose beyond trying to impress us all with the writer's cleverness. You can't differentiate yourself that way.

Further, a dozen other sites were getting this presentation, with the same embargo date and they were going to write the articles that their audiences expected. So absent a unique take that might interest Gruber's particular audience, there'd have been no point to his writing anything.

If not this sort of approach, he might as well have just linked to Engadget and called it a day.
The word "consolidation" makes a difference. Each of the colonies had its own government and bureaucracy, consolidated under British rule. We of course didn't like the policies of the British Parliament, both temporal and ecclesiastical. When we formed our own national government we first tried to minimize consolidation, via the Articles of Confederation, and then when that proved unwieldy we formed the current national government, which started the consolidation.

I know less about the European democracies. Did the French revolution, and return of democracy after Napolean, keep the existing bureaucracies in place? What about after the German Revolution of 1918–1919? I'm pretty sure that they did not devolve power but instead transferred control from the aristocratic regime to the democratic one.

(Post WW2 separation and latter reunification of Germany might be a counter-example. Iceland had local control, then control by the Norway and by Denmark, so might be another counter-example. Perhaps Belgium as well.)
I think maybe Brushwood really was Teller's long lost son. Only Teller and Brushwood's mom knew the truth. This fact would explain everything.
Five Ways To Decide What To Build
And Bump is still not profitable.
@recoiledsnake: (for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to reply directly to you)

You're comparing Apple's ecosystem to Earth's.

Apple is a private company that makes products that are sold on the commercial markets. The Earth is something entirely different. If Apple made planets, then yes – they could decide how to manage the atmosphere. That's how business works.
I read the Gruber article too and I'm not totally at ease yet. In terms or UI I don't mind the new look of things but I do worry about things like iCloud. It's a really excellent idea but I'm not sure if I want my file system in the cloud. Not for security but just for control. I've been in love with the Mac for over five years now and I'm starting to worry. What if I want a different cloud file system other than iCloud? What if I want no cloud file system? Sure, right now it's no problem but what about the future?

It's no secret that Apple is basically creating a hardware software empire where everything from the physical computer to the peripherals to the software and even web services are all Apple. I've been fine with that because the Mac never tried to force things on me. I've always had the option to use a different email client, Dropbox, music player, etc. without any trouble but I'm afraid Apple will move OS X in the direction of Windows where the OS assumes you're going to use its preferred software and services and if you don't it either makes it a hassle to use alternatives or it continuously throws up those annoying notifications.

All that aside, I'm most afraid for how friendly it will be to developers. Snow Leopard was the last OS X that was perfect for me as a developer. In Lion I have to deal with things like LLVM as the default compiler outdated command line tools, some Ruby gems give me problems, the system won't allow you to save hidden files (i.e. ".htaccess") and the list goes on.

I know that developers and power users are in the minority and that for average folks who are all about media and entertainment with a little work thrown in Mountain Lion will be aweso,e out of the box. I'm glad they're making such an awesome system for those people but I feel like they're leaving developers out and not even giving us a way to switch off some of those default behaviors.

I'm only 25 but I feel like I sound like the old guy who thinks things were better "back in the old days". Maybe I am just resisting a good thing and I hope I learn to love it.
How is this the lack of due process an argument against the death penalty? It doesn't follow.
Heh I wanna see someone stream a double-1080p over internet. It would suffocate the pipes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes) and knowing netflix and similar services this would be pretty bad. Also I think my wallw ill have to have a TV painted on it to actually fit something big enough into my house. 720 is good, 1080 is already above any reasonable need, and anything above that is just visual masturbation IMO. I watch 720p with no noticeable quality loss. Maybe it's upscaling but still.
There's a detailed Django tutorial in dotCloud's docs: http://docs.dotcloud.com/tutorials/python/django/
> During all my years at MSFT, employees were always told that patents were necessary for the reasons Paul Vick stated - you had people like Eolas and zillions of other trolls trying to get you and you needed a portfolio to play defence.

No, that can't be right. I hope you're just misremembering that, but the whole problem with patent trolls is that you can't use your own portfolio for defense.

A large patent portfolio is a good weapon against other giants in your industry: IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, (and once upon a time) Sun. Those people basically can't sue you for violating one of their patents if you have several thousand of your own: they're bound to be in violation of at least one of yours, and it's a mutually-assured-destruction scenario.

A patent troll, on the other hand, doesn't do anything. They can sue you with relative impunity, since there's almost no chance that they're doing anything that you can use against them. The size of your own patent portfolio doesn't even enter the picture.
MAS applications are not disallowed from supporting plugins.
Traitor to the open source: I just re-signed up as a Mac OS X and iOS developer
@cooldeal: Nope, I'm dead serious. There's no fundamental human right that entitles you to tell Apple (or any other device maker) what it can and can't sell you.
Hey did you guys check out the comments section with that one guy calling BS, saying regular people didn't have access to email way back in 1995? Good stuff. I love how people assume their tiny reality is the reality.
> Written in 1998.

And I assume that we're seeing a cached version of the site, which is probably the joke.
To be clear, Mac OS X is UNIX certified, not just Unix-like.
A hierarchy (i.e. a file system) is for many people the most natural way of classifying documents. There are other ways including tagging and search, and maybe those will become powerful and second nature, but right now classification like Linnaeus makes sense when you are dealing with lots of files.

I saw that iCloud file storage will support folders like the iPhone home screen, but I have no idea if they will support nested folders. This isn't only the case with nerds and geeks. My mother, about as computer phobic as they come, is a minister, and she saves all her sermons for future reuse. They are categorized by specific topic using folders. Also related documents from different applications can use folders to be organized together.

There are a lot of features of filesystems that we take for granted, abstracting it away without providing a usable alternative is problematic.
How much faster can we expect Dart apps to run with the VM vs JIT'ed JavaScript? If we can get a 5x-10x boost, I think a lot more will become possible in the browser. At some point, I would hope Webkit and Firefox would adopt it. Why not?
Respectfully, you are wrong. The realities of human biology don't all fit into neat little boxes.

With no evidence presented you dismiss the entire body of scientific evidence which backs the rather basic idea that depression, like any other biological process can be caused by a wide variety of sources not just external factors.

Being very sad because of an internal reason and clinical depression are not the same thing though to an outsider they may appear the same. Much like being overweight because you eat too much and sit all day isn't the same as being overweight because your thyroid isn't functioning properly aren't the same thing. What you're doing here is the intellectual and moral equivalent of blaming people with an underactive thyroid for their weight gain because you can't tell the difference by looking at them.

You're right on one point depression is the symptom not the disease and there's huge room for misdiagnosis here. Likely our understanding will ultimately split clinical depression into many different diseases that cause it as we learn more but its simply foolish to dismiss the disease possibility out of hand.
Apple and Motorola is suing each other. The 2.25% claim against Apple is from Motorola. Google has stated that they do not intend to drop it. Even if Google were unselfish angels, dropping their claim without getting a cross license agreement first would be plain silly.
Looks great. Any plans for a Wordpress based theme revolving around this or a plugin?
Imagine what it feels like to know the whole world is aware you're about to be murdered and no one is likely to stop it from happening.
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As JF said, you can't really fully judge the sheet UI idea until you see it in action for yourself. I'm one of those people who opens a new tab while using Basecamp for each item of interest. To me, these sheets could either solve that for me, or create an entirely new problem where it becomes jarring if I still prefer my old habits.

The one thing that stands out for me is how this effects the developers who work with the Basecamp API to bring the same experience to mobile, or other devices. I feel like developers who make a Basecamp app for iPhone, for example, are going to struggle trying to find a way to make these UI elements work the way they have been intended. And yes, developers will try to emulate it.

I'm reserving judgement, but for those working to bring an experience like the web-based version, I think there will be some long-game challenges. We'll see.