skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is ridiculous. It has cherry picked statistics and misrepresented them. In 2011 digital downloads of music (through legitimate services, eg: itunes, spotify) GREW almost 20%(!!!).

The reason that the overall statistics show a drop is because of physical media being included and that has fallen a huge amount:

> Internet music growth was insufficient to offset falling sales of music on physical supports, down 11.5 percent to EUR 412 million, with the overall recorded music market falling by 3.9 percent in 2011.

If you ONLY consider the digital side:

> Download revenues grew by 18.4 percent compared to 2010. Streaming and subscriptions grew by 73 percent to EUR 39 million. Subscriptions services such as those from Spotify and Deezer grew by 89 percent to EUR 26 million.

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/french-online-music-worth-e...

So when the author says:

> So if piracy is down massively in France, one would expect that the revenues are soaring, right?

He is being deceitful. Revenues are soaring..., they're up almost 20% on 2010. If the aim of the three strike rule was to stop digital piracy and increase digital sales that is exactly what it has achieved, they've dropped piracy 50% and increased sales 20%. You can't include the physical media sales in the latter to make a point...
Still waiting for a god damned "disable swoosh effect" defaults key for switching between desktops as you could in snow leopard.
Hi stfu, thanks for the comment...

Consider these simple examples:

* Flying for the first time to Australia. Expedia gives you a price from Sydney to Perth for $500. Unbeknownst to you, there's a discount airline called "XXXXX" who does this leg for $150. Sure you could find it if you searched enough, but why not just pay $29 to crowd-source it? Most travel agents will not volunteer budget airlines, neither will many OTAs.

* You're flying from Buenos Aires to Toronto. It's Xmas and Kayak is quoting $1400. You can't find better anywhere and seats are disappearing fast. You put up a contest for $29 and an expert suggests booking to Ottawa and hopping off in Toronto to save over $400 each. They also suggest going to Montreal instead, paying $40 for a bus, and saving $900 each. Again, you could work this out yourself eventually, but why not just pay $29?

Consider these edge-case examples:

* You are relocating to another country but need to take your 3 cats. It will take you 5+ hours to find out exactly how to transport your cats. There are lots of regulations, especially when flying during winter. Why not just pay $29 and get someone who's flown with pets to save you many hours. (This is a real example from Flightfox.)

* You are flying with a group of 20 people from the US to Australia. You pay $29 and an expert gets in contact with an agent who has specific consolidated stock with an airline. You save $600 per person compared to the absolute cheapest price online. (This is a real example from Flightfox.)

Then of course there's premium class and using FF points. We've saved $5,000+ on exactly the same flights for business class travellers. Also, people don't realise the power of FF points. You can get RTW for 140k. But most people use 120k for simple return flights. If they do 2x return coach flights with FF points, they could almost have booked a RTW in _business class_ and flown many more segments than the 2 flights put together.

We love this stuff! Can you tell? :)
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You'll probably get used to the maximise button. It will expand the window to fit the content. If you realy want fullscreen, use the fullscreen button. I usually have Safari in fullscreen all day. One three finger swipe to swap between desktop and Safari.
I don't understand what you mean by 'focus follows mouse issue'. Please explain more, maybe there's a solution to that (whatever that issue is!)
"But 2 Bros. has a security camera. Winding back to the night in question, the night of the sudden 21-cent price drop, a manager found frames that showed the front of the two stores. And there it was: Bombay/6 Ave. Pizza’s 79-cent sign when 2 Bros. was at $1. Mr. Patel and Mr. Kumar had made the first move."

Bombay Pizza made the first move to lower price.
Before I saw this gist I had been completely unaware of the fact that Snow Leopard disables subpixel font rendering on non-Apple displays. Font rendering is something that drives me crazy if it's not done right. It's one of my main gripes with Windows (YMMV).

Thanks to the respective hack my Samsung 24" has suddenly become acceptable to work on again. Awesome.
Missing 'ñ' and 'ü'. ¡quiero leer español!
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It's useful for when the physical clicking mechanism on Apple's trackpads eventually die. Though you still need a mouse to drag/draw things.
Many thanks bullseye.

If you think you could get value from experts do the searching and giving suggestions, then give it a try and we'll refund you if you aren't satisfied. But if you're just flying between two large cities, you really are better off going to AA, Southwest or whomever.

Flying domestic in your home country really is not the best use of Flightfox. You know all the airlines, you've heard the anecdotes regarding cheap prices, and prices are already low for domestic.

On the other hand, if you fly RTW, to a different continent, using FF points, to many cities, etc, the expert skill and local knowledge of our experts can save you a small fortune.

Hope that helps.
A good idea would be to make a typespeed clone: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/

Or any kind of game where you have to type words to advance. In fact, while we're already on the Space Invaders idea, you could make a clone where the invaders represent common words and to destroy them you have to type them out. Oh, and the invaders shoot single letters or two-letter combinations which you can type out to defend against. Also, you have to defeat the invaders from bottom up and to shoot at one you have to move into it's line below it, So you have to choose between dodging by typing out an invader in a different line or defending against a shot.
Great video! Here's a nooby question though, why don't the oceans settle down? Is it to do with the moon? And does this mean oceans on planets without moons are perfectly calm?
Cheers for that, I've been mildly annoyed with the resize button for years but never enough to look for a solution. This works great.
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I had envisioned what I think is a more solid defense against CSRF ... I just haven't had time to build a proof.

Earlier commenters have noted that each request back to the server should include an unguessable token that cannot be derived by mining other pages on the site with cross-site AJAX requests.

My hypothetical solution is to embed that token in the prefix to the hostname after logging into the given site. The token would then be sent in the Host: header for all dynamic requests.

Step 1: You log in to www.somesite.kom.

Step 2: You are then forwarded to dynXXXXXXXX.somesite.kom where XXXXXXXX represents a unique, dynamically-generated token tied to your session.

The attacker must now know XXXXXXXX to properly form up a GET or POST request to attack your account.

The site itself could then use relative URL's for dynamic content or could use the appropriate templating system to ensure that any dynamic URL's ( either in HTML markup or script text ) contain the generated hostname.
On Linux, whenever you hover the mouse over a window, that window has focus. On OS X, you have to click in that window in order for it to gain focus.

Steve Yegge mentioned in a rant[0] a while back.

[0] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/settling-osx-focus...
In focus follows mouse mode, moving the pointer onto a window gives it focus.
In places like Africa you buy phones from a stall in a market square. No contracts, because they're not enforceable.

I think the only credible (and very real[1]) competitor to low-spec Android handsets is Windows Phone, which with the Tango update will run on really low-spec hardware. Nokia is playing a solid game here.

[1] Real because Nokia rule the feature-phone market, not so much in Asia but very much in Africa. Nokia have a reputation for quality there that Android, as the new kid on the block, will have a hard time displacing.
Ask HN: How to prove I'm right?
Hi everyone,

Here is the situation, I'm a grad student of 2011, and even before the graduation I didn't liked the idea of working for someone, I want to work for myself even if I get smaller salary. But everyone around me (family and friends) think I'm either stupid or crazy (maybe you too), and they do everything possible to prove it, I stopped applying for jobs months ago, but they started applying in my place, till now no problem, but if I get a job interview, problems will rain.

I applied for YC S12, I know that YC is one step forward, but for me it's a giant boost, as it can show them that I'm in the right path, and if I'm not accepted in this cycle, I won't give up because it's not me, but I'm afraid they could get into my head with their consistency (there is many of them and one of me).

So now, I don't want to prove they are wrong, but I want to prove I'm right, how can I do it?

Thanks in advance.
Bad article. "Slaughtering a sacred cow" and "mixing oil and water" both can be formula for great movies. Which leaves us, not surprisingly, the third reason "produce a genuinely awful product" as the lone one.

On a side note, I think not having a wow moment is one recipe toward movie disaster. The other one might be: not being able to stir up emotions of the viewers.
Interesting. I'm actually using Java on projects, but via Groovy. Others I know are coming from Ruby in to Clojure. So, "Java" as such isn't the direct factor, but JVM is a common one. Will it be enough to keep it from COBOL-status?
Ubuntu boots on 8-bit microcontroller
You can drag windows by double tapping the titlebar, then dragging.
My thoughts were similar. If you want equality between the sexes, just stop exposing the inequalities. Treat everyone the same. An article about "women in tech" makes no sense, it just promotes thinking about "men in tech" and "women in tech". If I were a woman running a company, I would prefer not to be featured in an article like that.

I think these kinds of contradictions are more common in the U.S. than elsewhere. I have always wondered: if race plays no role, why does it figure as a question in the census and in most college applications?
In case it wasn't just a mind-typo: stenographer and steganographer are two different things. (Although I guess one could argue that they are quite similar)
There is problem with phonetic alphabets: people have different accents, and so something that is obvious for an Englishman is confusing for an Australian, or an American.

When I was (briefly) doing some linguistics, there were several times when I spent minutes trying to work out what a certain set of IPA symbols were. (I was pretty good normally, but words with multiple/varying/regional pronunciations are very confusing.)

Obviously, with more practice it'd be easier to read, and if the alphabet were in use around the world, pronunciations and accents would converge.
Show them results.

That's probably the only way they'll be convinced
Hey joshwa,

The experts tend to keep their methods to themselves. Some have trade secrets, but in the simplest cases, it takes time to find the best airports and connections, so they'd rather not share the info. They've even suggested we hide the dates because it takes time to find the cheapest dates when someone has flexibility.

MrHyde is relatively new. The winners go in waves. As you can imagine, our experts keep flying around the world and neglecting Flightfox :)

I just added detailed examples to another comment on this page. Please see below (or above).

Most of the best examples involve better routing, special offers or FF points. We've saved people $10k+ on group bookings, $5k+ on premium class, $1k+ on multi-city, etc, etc, etc. And in one case, a customer beat our experts by $700 by finding a glitch on Expedia. Of course we refunded him and offered a free contest if he dared to return.

On average, we save people 20%+ on long-haul multi-city flights. This isn't a guarantee, but the results from a test we ran on real flight contests.

We have a lot of work to do to find the best balance between the amount of info we show. We're looking for another engineer right now in the hope of being able to iterate much more quickly.
A great point. I'm actually the opposite. I can do detail-oriented things best early in the day (8am-noon) but I'm often at my creative after dinner and into the evening (6pm-10pm) when there tend to be fewer distractions.

This can make multitasking harder or easier. If tasks mesh well you can work on whichever you're better suited to at the time.
Which part of 'on-contract' you didn't understand? The full phone price is in the price of contract with interest.

Of course you can buy sub-$50 phones on contract too, in which case the monthly payment would be much lower than AT&T's $99 iPhone plan, of which about half goes towards the phone payment.
This article is obviously biased toward extolling the advantages of iOS's uniformness, yet the best example it takes to argue against Android's fragmentation is an application that fails to support only 7.8% of the Android market! How is this a proof that fragmentation is causing a "shocking toll"?

For the curious, I decompiled this "Temple Run" app. It requires Android 2.2 or higher, because its AndroidManifest.xml declares the use of OpenGL ES 2.0 which was introduced in that version of Android. (And the app's minimum API level is Android 2.1.) The app also needs android.hardware.sensor.accelerometer and android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch, but virtually all Android 2.2 devices have these capabilities.

So, effectively, Temple Run works on any Android 2.2+ device, which represents 92.2% of the devices in the wild: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... When the developer says they support 707 of the 1443 unique devices on Android Market, this means that these 707 devices represent 92.2% of the market, whereas the article tries to present this as "only half the market is supported".

Yet another article written by an iOS fanboy trying to unfairly depict the state of the Android ecosystem... Nothing to see here.
Relevant xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/438/

(I like this one. It's a lot more poetic than the "someone is WRONG on the INTERNET" one.)
Measuring and plotting. Whiskers, running deviations and other countermeasures.
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Huh? There's no reason to highlight "The Men of YC". There's nothing remarkable about a bunch of guys trying to get tech startups off the ground.

This is true. From an information theoretic perspective, this story more interesting than the converse would be. However, I've been told many times that information theory and probability is not a defense against charges of sexism.

For example, consider the question "do you plan to have children soon?" From an information theory perspective, it provides useful information when making a hiring decision. And the information is more notable for a woman than for a man, since a woman who gives an affirmative answer is far more likely than a man to vanish from the workforce. Yet it's normally considered sexist to ask this question, particularly if you ask the question only of women.

How do you reconcile this difference?
Fragmentation is not that bad of a problem because the distribution is far from even: you can still support most (as in 90%+) with just a handful of types. You van also restrict support by limiting the minimum OS version. The 707 devices supported cover more than 90% of the devices used.

The article is linkbait. And less than stellar journalism. Looks like someone had to fill the weekly quota of articles and took the easy option.
Amazing old things that still work
Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: 'You Are Their Product'
thank you so much for sharing!
Google JS Test: Lightweight JS unit testing using the V8 engine
Oops, I missed the "not" in devs1010's post. Thanks for the correction.
Click one of the function calls listed a little further down the page.
Actually seems it is not yet.
or just enable drag with three fingers in the trackpad preference panel.
Does Microsoft lack of UI designers?
First of all, anyone wishing to misuse the data probably doesn't care about legal penalties, as they're inevitable should the scheme be uncovered. What can anyone do with enough of your data? Well, how about "impersonate you, make a huge debt in your name, disappear with the money, leaving you to pay it"? Note that this is actually an optimistic scenario.
Effects are a function of time. The war on piracy is only now hitting its stride; the war on drugs started more than 40 years ago. Given the same amount of time, i can see WoP resulting in mass convictions, ruined families and a black market, which inevitably brings escalating violence in the long run. We didn't have Mexican cartel wars in the 60s either.
> Women or no women, I'll be an ass and say what I think.

Excellent point. I think the key to true equality is to disregard the differences (gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc) and just look at simple things, such as performance, execution, success, value creation.
I'm still waiting for the "Quit asking me to retype my password every time I try to do anything" setting. You'd think that the fact I typed it in 30 seconds ago when I logged in would be sufficient proof that I'm me.

This is the type of security that actually leads to less security. Eventually I'll get so sick of not being able to hit the back button on my browser (or whatever similarly impactful action that OSX decides is going to destroy my machine) without special one-time-only admin privileges that I'll just remove the password from my account altogether.
When anyone has identified themselves as a founder, I look at their profile, their business and their blog. There has been no uncertainty.

I'm sure there are a lot of great anonymous posters here but I don't follow them.
I think you may have missed his point, he's actually saying the same thing you are.

He uses the total revenue metric because that is what the industry has been using in its lobbying and PR efforts for many years. The industry has claimed that the decrease in total revenue it has experienced is being driven entirely (or almost entirely) by piracy. If this were true, then the piracy reduction in France would lead to higher total revenue.

Since that has not been the case, the link between piracy and total revenue seems to have been overstated by the industry.

The author then suggests that the drop in total revenue has been caused by new, less profitable formats, which is exactly what you pointed out (with evidence), rather than piracy.

I agree that the headline and some of the language are a bit sensationalist, but the point of the article is valid and in agreement with your points.
What? The only posters I've found interesting are the identifiable ones.
Totally missing the point with The Producers. In the movie the "Springtime for Hitler" play becomes an (unplanned) success. And the movie itself became a success, showing that you can indeed "mix oil with water" with enough audacity. The article presents it like it is obvious that Hamlet or Lolita will never work as a musical - presumably because the material is too serious for showtunes - but Jesus Christ Superstar was a huge success.
They're largely harmless. Some of them seem pointless or purely resisting-change, like disabling menu bar transparency. Subpixel font rendering could look pretty bad on the wrong screen.

A lot of those Finder options are just going to increase noise on the screen. It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.

Disabling the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog seems just wrong. Confirming once per program downloaded from the net seems like a sane default.

Anyway these are pretty subjective things. Good thing they're so easy to pick and choose from and revert.
The myth that programming experience does not matter
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I was also staring at the title for half a minute, puzzled as to what's the deal about failing to designing a CPU with a megaflop...
Instead of adding people 1 by 1 from their profile connect button, you can send bulk connect message to more than 1 email addresses.
Linkedin -> Contacts -> Add Contact ->Enter Email Addresses

Dont forget to add me to your Linkedin connectioons. I am number 44 on the list.
It's absolutely PR-ish, and it's a bit annoying that the update could leave the naive reader with the impression that everything's been fixed when actually what's happened is that the visibility of the problem has been removed.

So far I've only once been threatened with being "reached out" to, by Oracle after I tried to ask them about one of their products. I found the expression vaguely sinister and was kind of relieved that they never actually got in touch.
> I see this as a replay of the 1980s. Apple was the dominant player with a premium option on nice hardware

No they weren't. In Job's first stint at Apple he was beaten by Commodore.

Commodore were vertically integrated. They owned the company who designed the chips in early Apple computers. They focussed aggressively on price, and they won the battles with the Vic 20, C64 and early Amigas. After a bunch of crazy decisions at the end of the decade they eventually lost the war and died a death in the mid 90s.

As they say, it's the winner of the war who gets to write the history books, and in Cupertino they're done an excellent job at it.
The moon does have a effect on Earth's oceans, but the biggest reason why oceans are active, is the variation of temperature both in the atmosphere and in the water(This also creates a variation on pressure). The difference on air pressures, will create wind, which in turn create waves.

Ocean currents exist because different places on Earth are at a different temperature, and therefore the water will feel a pressure force to go elsewhere.

This is quite a generalization, but meteorology is a complex science, and there is much to dig in.
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I think the idea was to highlight the most obvious use for apps like this. The very idea of how easily one could be made by connecting easily available information such as Foursquare checkins, Facebook profiles, tweets, Instagram photos, all neatly tagged with addresses and geographic coordinates allows anyone with such disturbing inclinations to piece together a fairly accurate picture of whoever they want. This app offers a nice menu of easy targets.
Ahh, that must be it :)
I agree the article is one sided, but rather than your view I still think its a moot point. Internet sales grew 18.4%, whilst overall sales were down 3.9%. I'm not sure either of these figures are so far out of line with what is happening in other countries for either side to claim they say anything about the impacts of this law clearly.
Sadly, Secrets is a bit outdated. Lots of useful hidden tweaks aren’t listed there.
Thanks for the clarification. I felt this app very threatening, btw, and the NYT article says you already revoked their API access.
This isn't about google's new graphing ability, it's about the function 5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))cos(30((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))) and the graph this function produces.
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Java JSF: to set a backing bean property you need a form
Here’s my reasoning: I assume all files in my Dropbox get synced correctly; if something goes wrong, I’ll be able to tell by the red warning icon anyway. Why would I want the green checkmark icons? They only add visual noise.
Which is better than 85%.