skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it more likely that the harm done to your goal is not caused by public announcement of that goal, but rather announcing it is evidence that you aren't as committed to the goal as you are to other goals that you're better at sticking to. In other words, if you're having trouble with achieving something in particular, or working towards it, then you are likely to acknowledge that to yourself in the form of "needing to set a goal" and thus "announcing it to the world", thus automatically ensuring that announced goals are less likely to be kept by the very nature of the fact that they needed to be announced in the first place. If you want something badly enough, you are more likely to "just do it", thus foregoing the need to announce it to others.
This describes the kind of place I want to work. Employees want to be there for crazy hours because it's such a fun environment, and employers push back to prevent burnout.
This is one of those times when I read just the title and smack myself in the head because it was so obvious I missed it. Sure not all of the TODOs will make sense to me but it at least helps
Very sexy. Wish I could get this for Android.
How does that work, when DNS always resolves to the paywall IP?
>babof.com is available

Yey !
> 5) As others have pointed out, why would a
> photographer want to shut down someone who
> is helping to spread the word about their work?

So long as attribution is retained; otherwise, it's just another random photo.
From 2011.01.31.
Title should probably read "ipad is the new ie6 in regards to html5 video". Not really anything too interesting in this post, but the author does list out specific bugs and hacks required to fix them here: http://blog.millermedeiros.com/html5-video-issues-on-the-ipa...

However the above article references iOS 4.2, so I am wondering if any of these are fixed in iOS 5
"domain squatting was shut down"

No such thing as what you are saying. You are probably referring to the penalties that are assessed for domain tasting whereby a registrar is penalized if they return to many domains relative to the ratio of registered domains (registrars also pay more money to ICANN depending on how they handle this as well).

Much to much work to do the way you are doing it. You need to get a copy of the zone files there are people with access to that (we have access but we don't sell access others do though for nominal charges).
>> This is a very good point but I don't think that offsets the downsides.

The downsides of out of date documents are 1% of the total cost of construction. A project may have 1-3% margin for a GC, so this is an enormous number. You save in three big ways with PlanGrid - we are cheaper than printing, faster than dealing with paper for sharing and note taking, and eliminate building from outdated drawings.

Our current set of users love having it in the field. We have superintendents tell us they can't believe they are using an iPad everyday. They have all the drawings all the time and they are always up to date - something people in the field have never had before on large projects.

Several of our customers have purchased iPads just to use PlanGrid. It's true that some will break, of course, but the cost savings offset it.
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Unfortunately, none of these reasons really holds up in my (non-professional, non-legal, non-advisory) opinion.

1) That commentary rule would hold up if someone posted entire movies and then left comments or groupings attached to them. I don't expect that to work for still pictures either.

2) That argument is null and void as a reason to continue using pinterest.

3) As long as they have sufficient funds to wage a war against me, that's all that matters. I don't have many funds, and none to get into a copyright battle over my scrapbook. And if they're an agency, who knows their resource level?

4) This is your best bet; the principle is similar to the search engine vs. photographer case mentioned in the article. However, the low-res version is still copyrighted by the photographer/agency. If pinterest created a lower-res version for pinterest, then this defence may work.

5) Why do some websites have 'terms and conditions' that forbid linking to them? Why do some people launch a bunch of crazy lawsuits seemingly as a hobby? All it takes is one self-absorbed or mistaken nutcase and your life becomes difficult. Sadly, 9 out of 10 nutcases are either self-absorbed or mistaken. The ratio gets even worse if, for example, the comments listed above say things like "OMG, what a talentless noob! This photograph is shit and the person that took it is a fucked-up idi0t!" And, by Gabe's Greater Internet Theory, this will happen somewhere.

I like pinterest and I love using the internet to discover new and exciting pictures. I've been following interesting picture soups, tumblrs and even Live Journals forever and I don't want pinterest to die. I don't see why this lawyer is so scared though; the DMCA should force the holder to contact pinterest at their abuse address and they should be able to remove the offending image directly, no? Isn't this whole thing a storm in a teacup and an over-reaction?
I'm not sure that apple itself has nothing to offer.
I have a feeling it is only a matter of time before apple releases something that is of serious interest to gamers.

It may not be a games console as such but think something with a large screen , an app store and some new input method that lends itself well to gaming.
what is this CreateJS that he keeps referring to ? I found only http://createjs.org/ ... which seems to be a simple editor...
I know the gut reaction is that it is unbelievable that someone with $50,000 isn't "worth" having as a customer, but there are 2 things to consider:

1) JPMorgan is saying that future regulation is what is driving those customers to be unprofitable.

More importantly:

2) For someone making business decisions, it is important to really look at your customers to determine which are profitable. There is a consistent flow of stories from startup founders about the dangers of trying to satisfy every customer.

This should be an example of a calculated way a company looks at their profitability and customer mix responsibly and with careful analysis rather than gut feel.

*As a caveat, we don't really know whether those customers would be unprofitable or not, and JPMorgan may be making a political statement about future regulation through their financial documents.
It's also the lack of unionization.
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"That commentary rule would hold up if someone posted entire movies and then left comments or groupings attached to them. I don't expect that to work for still pictures either."

The fair use rules are completely different for movies, so it's not really analogous.
Yeah, definitely avoid domain name hacks. It's a huge gamble and even if your product is successful, it probably would have been more successful with a better name.
I think we make too much of video games and movies.

They don't make us violent. We're already violent. That's why we buy them.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
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Should it be illegal to use different browsers to see if the price changes on Amazon? http://brightviolet.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/amazon-coms-pri...
Yeah, it is so hard to edit and type from Android. The best times to read and comment are when I would be unproductive like riding a metro or train or sitting at an airport, but it is so hard to type and edit.
The Milgram experiment is the other member of the "top two" that I refer to in the post.

I could be mistaken about the ethical approval being brought forward, but that is what I recall being taught while an undergrad at Stanford. The Milgram experiment occurred years before the SEP, and I seem to recall that the fact Zimbardo was able to get approval for this experiment (including getting the local police to help) led to a huge crackdown at universities.
Hmm, what I described above is how a client certificate signed by a certificate authority is created.

Random site that describes the procedure is below. What is the right way to do this?

Exporting the private key of the certificate

Enter the password of the private key, and then export the client key onto the generated client certificate using the following command:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out client.pfx -inkey client.key -in client2.pem

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v8r1/index...
Agreed. I can't believe anyone is taking this seriously.
We need some copyright reform. There are many many things that are illegal that shouldn't be.
It's probably worth knowing the limitations of the platform you're developing for before you start developing for it.
It all comes down to in most cases to what the court deems "reasonable expectations", which that would likely not fall under.
I think the difference is knowledge and intent. He knew that they were using the User Agent string to differentiate iOS devices, and he used that knowledge to get a cheaper price. It would be different if he were randomly browsing the web with that User Agent for kicks, and didn't realize that he had gotten a deal.
Contract law is complicated and IANAL. In the end it's up to the judge to decide. There are numerous rules of thumb that apply to contracts, like it has to be mutally benefitial, must be a meeting of the minds, both parties must consent, etc.
What about non-video features? From my (poor) experience, it worked without tweaking on the ipad. I guess a big difference between IE6 and this is how one would want to build a different web experience for the ipad but would expect ie6 to just work.
Unfortunatly it's up to a judge to decide if that's the correct interpretation which partially depends on what the lawyers convice them of.
App looks very nice. Just one issue: How can I see comments? This is a major point for me and a better interface would help, it's impossible to read comments on a small screen via the web interface.

The scrollbar could also use more visibility.
I disagree with her interpretation on fair use. Adding something to your favorites is "commenting on it"; inclusion is an implicit comment along the lines of "I like this."

A court would have to decide if that's good enough. In the mean time, ignore obscure laws and enjoy your life. The worst case is that you'll get a nastygram. The best case is that you'll be able to make other people's lives more enjoyable by curating a list of good work.
This article is over a year old, and some big points in it weren't even true at the time of its publishing.
It's not just in regards to video. We are porting a very complex application from flash using Google Closure framework (which was meant to be maximally cross-browser). The code is still sprinkled with if (iOS) {} statements. Our app embeds as a widget on third party pages, and setting vertical iframe size is a nightmare on iOS, just to give you the most recent example: it took a week of my time (takes about 10min in Flash).
Why are people voting up this story? There is no useful information in it.

Also, what's with the "X is the new IE6" meme. Six months ago it was Firefox 3.6 is the new IE6. Guess what, Firefox 3.6 has dropped to around 3%.

I guess my point is that a lot of articles really add little value, and there are only so many minutes in the day.
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Surely this can be classified as one of the many cognitive fallacies, which one though?
The attribution is not next to the image. A pinterest user would have to click on the picture to be taken to flickr and see the author/username. But how many people will do that if the photo is right there, full size, for viewing/downloading/repinning right on the pinterest page?

Most photographers who publish on flickr have a keen interest in their stats: how often their pictures have been viewed etc. With pinterest, the flickr stats do not reflect reality anymore. Thousands of users could enjoy and share the image on pinterest without the author ever knowing about it.

No image on the web is safe from copying, but I find it strange that pinterest makes a copy of the image and chooses to show it without clear, evident author attribution (including the "All Rights Reserved" notice, if applicable) when Flickr allows hotlinking and provides an easy api to pull the author and license information.
Solution: use a fake email address.
These banks have grown incredibly large in part by leveraging fees for otherwise "unprofitable" accounts. What they're saying is they can't maintain their current size without the extra billions of income. They feel entitled to that additional money.

Of course, from the outside it sounds just fine if they have to shrink to match their actual deposits.
Many really good people who love to program, though, don't necessarily love to spend 100% of their time programming one thing. Lots of strong, motivated programmers work on open-source projects and other side projects in addition to their day job, and try to avoid companies where excessive crunch-time would make that impossible.
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There is a fair amount of regulatory posturing happening here; the Durbin Amendment to Dodd-Frank, that regulates various consumer fees, is still being written into implementation.

What is not being said is:

1. We are in an abnormally low and compressed rate environment. As those numbers go back up smaller deposits will become profitable.

2. Small deposits turn into big deposits as customers age - this is the rationale behind college checking accounts.

3. The banking infrastructure is a largely fixed cost. I don't know how they accounted to $100k, but I'd you wanted to inflate the number one could ignore the fact that the variable cost of most customers is virtually non-existent at the margin.

4. You can just charge fees to customers below $100k to make them profitable. Checking accounts are historically cheap, in real terms.
In what way are they different in law? Because surely that's the point, isn't it?
I think academic languages don't succeed because the incentives aren't aligned. A mass-market language has very different requirements from a research language: performance, similarity to existing languages, compatibility with existing code, good marketing. Research languages need to be novel, to have genuinely new ideas. They don't have to worry about how hard it will be to teach a million Java programers to use this thing.

Especially at big companies, we're very risk-adverse. We know you can build high-scale applications in Java and C++ because it's been done. You can probably build a high-scale Haskell application too, but would bet millions of dollars on it?
We've been trying to make it easier for newcomers to contribute to The OpenPhoto Project. The approach we're taking is to identify issues and label them as "Beginner". These issues are ones which have very little probability of breaking some other component in the system.

https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues?labels=Beginner...

In addition to that we're working on creating the unit test for the contributor to uncomment before checking the fix in to verify that it does in fact do what we had intended when creating the issue.

We've also set up a contribute section on the site to help. I'd really love to know what more helps new developers that want to start contributing to an open source project.

http://theopenphotoproject.org/contribute
The key word is interpretation. Why would she risk facing the justice system simply because someone else's interpretation differs from hers?
Apple bug tracker sucks, you can’t even see if anyone reported the same bug before

I generally don't report bugs to Apple because of this. When I do, I put nearly zero effort into the report because I have no idea if it is a waste of time or not.

I'm also not positively impressed when "Engineering" requests more information me that is clearly so generic and irrelevant to the problem at hand that it is almost certainly a bot.

Just this week I didn't report a sandbox related issue that they should have liked to know about.
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There are a number of uniform-ish things that I wouldn't mind an advocacy group handling. For example, I think as an industry we could get better terms in employment agreements, e.g. less onerous noncompetes, claims to own out-of-work IP, and no-contact rules, if employers had to negotiate with a union over those things, instead of every individual employee having to fight an uphill battle to strike out lines in the agreement.

Although an alternative, seen in California, is to bargain at the really collective level and deal with it through legislation that outlaws some kinds of terms entirely.
How to contribute to an open source project: write documentation!
4. is one of the points that's being addressed by the amendment you're mentioning. In particular, it'll limit the fees that can be charged for things like debit cards, checking accounts, etc--the fees that made unprofitable customers profitable.
I don't think your position would be very compelling in court. By analogy you could argue that adding a movie to your hard drive is 'commenting on it' because its inclusion represents an implicit comment of liking it. And the courts have already ruled on that. Basically I find it hard to believe that you will get away with copying something by arguing you like it and that's a comment. If you could anyone could copy anything.
In linguistics, the study of human languages, a big deal is made about how while there are supposed rules about how languages work ("you must never end a sentence with a preposition"), the real object of study is how humans actually use language, which is frequently pretty far removed from how people even self-report their behavior.

Programming languages as a subset of computer science are a purely mathematical thing, where we can use Turing's ideas from the 1930s today to inform type systems. But they're used by humans and humans are fuzzy; they choose "objectively bad" languages like PHP. That doesn't mean to say that science no longer applies -- it just means whatever metric we're using to judge PHP as bad is not the metric that causes a language to succeed. That is still an area worthy of research.

(Not a direct response to the article, sorry. Got a bit carried away.)
We see this in the UK too, people getting upset about overdraft fees pressuring politicians to change the rules. The thing is, I like overdraft fees. I like this idea that the irresponsible fund free banking for the others - one of the very few occasions in economic or political life that this happens. The alternative is a monthly fee for everyone.
The gut reaction is that no one wants to hand over money to someone who isn't appreciative of it.
It's a lot more difficult to claim fair use for movies. I don't know the exact laws offhand.
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If it really sucks, people will tell you. So build something and ask for feedback.
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It's the name of Adobe's new technology/plugin.
Maybe, but we also have standards actually coming to the fore, such as HTML 5. I actually think it is getting a lot easier.
That has to be the worst summary of Fair Use I've seen in a long time. It's such a short section too, it's a wonder they didn't copy-paste it verbatim like a proper reporter should:

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
I believe the idea is that the Wiimote will continue to be used alongside the new controller in e.g. local multiplayer games. At least, that's what they had set up in some of their E3 demos last year.
In other news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3660341

Makes one wonder who the fuck is running this site.
Why doesn't App Store strip the app for each platforms? The DRM already blocks sideloading, so there is no concern about copying and app from Pad to Phone.
That's true, but sometimes

1) you don't have access to that type of information because either it is unknown, or it is unpublished.

2) you have no choice because the people selling your product have already made a promise to the customer.
My first instinct was that 100k is a ridiculously high number, but then I checked http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in... - rates for three year treasuries are only 0.41%. That would yield ~ $410 not including significant interest rate risk. Fun times.
What happens when its no longer economically rational to service clients with small deposits - people forced to put money under their mattresses ?
Fining someone £30 for an 'overdraft' that they didn't want, because you've explicitly set up the functionality to allow that to happen is predatory. The idea that that 'funds' free banking for other people - rather than being money gouging - is naive at best.
Nice site. Can I request TLD choice? I'd use com/net/org/co.uk
Show HN: Stash, a graph-based cache for Node.js and Redis
Last night, while trying to figure out the best way to implement caching in my app, I had an idea for a dirt-simple caching system based on a dependency graph.

The premise I started with is that one of the hardest things to manage in a cache is dependencies between entities. In order to cache items effectively, you inevitably have to duplicate "child" data inside of "parent" entries. Then, when a child is changed, you have to invalidate the child and its parents, and its parents' parents, and so on.

To try to help this, I hacked together a simple Node.js library called Stash, which models the cached values as a graph. When you invalidate an item, Stash will walk the graph and invalidate any items that depend on the item that was marked as invalid.

The code is available here:

https://github.com/nkohari/stash

I'm not suggesting that this is by any means a revolutionary idea; it just started as a mental exercise and now I'm wondering if there's any value to continuing to improve it as a library.

I'm also interested in what you find to be the most difficult part about caching, and how Stash could be improved to help.

Any feedback is appreciated, but bear in mind this is just a few hours worth of work and it has quite a few rough edges. Thanks!
It does make sense to me. How much do they make on small transactions and how much does human intervention cost? These firms have tons of internal overhead too.

A customer with 100mm is possibly only 10x as hard to serve as one with 100k.

I suspect the endgame is 100 pct automated services for most of the market. This won't be provided by the big firms who struggle to get my credit card and checking account on the same screen.
There are tons of modern web technologies, often doing similar things, which are very complex.