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Where are you seeing this? From what I read in the blog entry, they pulled the article at least two hours after he published the original complaint.
Not FB's fault.

That may be, but it certainly makes a case for not using FB in the first place.
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Hey Felixchan, its an opensource JQUERY plugin called isotope: http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
Oddly enough I'm one of the photographers listed in one of BJP articles (Kate Middleton related). My experience of the situation was that they were willing to negotiate but admitted no blame, I priced high and negotiated down to a reasonable settlement.

The interesting thing is I'm in favour of copyright review, I believe the current system as it stands is inherently flawed, for the single reason that it favours the biggest boy in the gang rather than the creator, so whilst the law is technically on your side it can be tricky to navigate.
"In any case, nothing about it is heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space, since the whole thing is voluntary."

If you read the information on http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html, you should understand that FB uses individuals' data without their permission or even their knowledge - in clear breach of EU privacy laws.
Just created a page for HN: http://beta.inboxi.us/hackernews . Right now we only accept pictures, just email them to hackernews@inboxi.us
+1 for XSLT being cross-platform. I recently started rewriting a Perl application in NodeJS. It sends out HTML emails. The HTML is constructed using XSLT. This meant I could just continue using the same template. If I'd written it in something like Template Toolkit I would have had to rewrite it in EJS or something.
If I were forced to reduce the entire problem of tech punditry down to a single sentence, I think I'd try this: "Internet time", the incredibly-accelerated pace of everything, is a modern myth, a lie we tell ourselves. In fact, meaningful change takes time, perhaps as much time as it always has.

Three years? Come back in, say, seven more years. By then maybe we'll know if Apple's store has a systemic, unsolveable problem or is just suffering growing pains from its overwhelming flood of success. Half a million apps and billions of downloads: It's a wonder that the system isn't considerably worse than it was a few years ago. Just think of how much stuff has needed to be scaled out and scaled up. They're probably running as fast as they can just to remain in place.

Apple's "problem" is that they have a fairly small team that can only accomplish so much at one time, and yet they allow that team to invent bold new things that are minimally functional, then release them, then succeed so overwhelmingly that it's a struggle to keep up with the traffic. But does anyone have a better idea? This is what innovation looks like.
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Thanks marcamillion, your advice is befitting and makes a lot of sense.

We're already halfway done on a totally new glossy look (themed blue & green) and a much more intuitive UX. This should be up in a couple weeks.

We're a small team of devs with no major funding, so we do the best we can given the resources we have. Our idea was to launch early, launch often and keep fine-tuning along the way. Guess we overshot on the programming effort and left the UX work in a little bit of a backlog.

Btw, for better or for worse, Java and C++ are still the most popular programming languages being used in the industry till recently :) (http://langpop.com/)

Rajesh
How would Jeff Bezos spend his billions?
in a world where you only seem to get respected by using osx, vim, nodejs, python, ruby etc. its refreshing to see someone with so much influence working with Java and Eclipse on Windows!
OLPC made big claims that never materialized. They originally promised battery life that "measured in days." I never got more than a few hours life out of mine. But really the biggest problem with OLPC was that they were too proud to admit that their custom distro "Sugar" was a POS. If they had gone with an established Linux distro that was useable they might have had a chance. Any criticism towards the machine's usability was dismissed as "this was designed for children, not adults, of course you don't understand it!"
Ask HN: App Stack for Digital Video Production
Aside from a bit of After Effects experience, I'm new to digital video production (specifically interested in 2D animation) and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a stack of apps for the different components of the process (storyboarding, illustration, editing...)

Thanks!
The comparison to a trader or hedge fund manager doesn't stand, as the market cannot decide to deliberately move against him out of spite, a need for power, or boredom.

Others in the company can and often do. You seem unfamiliar with corporate politics.

Public school administrators would be more concerned about 'liability' and eliminating a source of 'hassle', than with the quality of the product.

This is why I favor holding them responsible for outcomes as well, and allowing them to be fired if things don't turn out well.
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I don't think you could ever go wrong with "____ for lazy people". This looks great.
And the success is proven by the fact that we are leaders in our segment, reviews are good, customers are happy, and we are profitable.

Government run schools do not have this feedback mechanism.
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Hey, author here.

I just want to explain myself here. My most basic complaint is not that there are a lot of junk apps, nor am I suggesting that Apple remove them from the App Store. I'm merely pointing out that it's a problem, and causes problems for legitimate developers in the same way that newsletter clutter makes it hard to read emails from human beings when your inbox has 10,000 emails.

I think this would not be an issue if the App Store's search functionality was not piss-poor, and if Apple had better discovery mechanisms in place for people to find the gems, which often are not present on the top charts. Hopefully the Chomp acquisition will help with that.

The other thing I want to point out is that I'm not posting the list as a current list of complaints, more as a way to point out how sad it is that 3 years later, only two of these complaints have been addressed: rate-on-delete, and outrageous review times.
It is an implied valuation, not a real valuation. The implication being if you payed $50 for 50% of the stock, then the company value (100%) is $100.

But, and its a huge "but", VC investments are almost always (especially series B like this one) preferred stock. This preferred stock gets (you guessed it) preferential treatment when compared to common stock, which is usually what founders have. Those preferences are numerous, arcane, and very significant.

For example, suppose an investor wants to invest $10M in a company for 50% of the stock. The entrepreneurs say, "no, we'll give you 30%. The investor says, "Fine. But I want a 3x liquidation preference. They do the deal. Later, the company is sold for $50M. In this case, the investor gets $30M (3x their investment, or 60% of the company) and everyone else gets $20M. So what was the real value the investor paid for? It's tough to tell because it depends on what happens next.

Now go an pile up several other terms like that and you can see how hard it is to truly imply the total value of the company from the price paid for preferred stock. In fact, it's impossible unless you know the terms (which are rarely public), and even then you're guessing.
FB is an American company, and the crime of which the article speaks happened in the US, and the article you cite says:

"The United States does not have any Internet Service Provider (ISP) data retention laws similar to the European Data Retention Directive. All attempts have failed:"

THEREFORE: Under what law was FB required to retain the data, which was eventually handed over under subpoena?
Ha, thanks rdl for the great feedback!
I've had password auth disabled for many years, and it's quite liberating. Only a handful of times in all those years have I wanted to log in and not had a key handy. None of those times it was critical. It's interesting to listen to people give excuses about why disabling passwords is nice but won't work for them. None of them hold water, of course. Carrying physical keys for my house, car and office is a real pain. But I'm used to it and it's well worth what I get in return. So it is with ssh keys, but more so.
76 is plenty for this. Read the paper before complaining.
Another way of looking at it - which I believe was not covered in the article - is observing chip areas.

If you look, top-of-the-line server chips (Xeons, etc.) pretty consistently hit 300 mm2. On the other hand, mid-range desktop chips usually are about 100 mm2. Besides marketing, pricing also has to do with process yield, which is not linear: 3x area is more than 3x more expensive.

What to do with that area? Given the shrinkage that allows multiple CPU cores, the answer that gives best price-performance is cache, after the first 4 or 6 CPU cores ...
You're welcome!
It's words of encouragement like these is what keeps us going :)
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Reminded me of https://xkcd.com/224/: "honestly, we hacked most of it together with perl"
you are joking - or at least I'm reading your comment like you are based on your second line.

However, it's worth noting that if you'd have a job that Notch is willing to take and you are not hiring him into that role then it's practically a factual statement that your hiring process is broken. Admittedly that's a contrived scenario as he made tens of millions from Minecraft and founded a gaming company who's chief reason to exist is to finish the games that Notch starts.
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Thanks, much appreciated.

As an aside, I just posted about my redesign and my motivations behind it: http://kswizz.com/post/20668660473/redesign
Techdirt (of course) acts like the forfeiture of MU's assets is unprecedented, but SCOTUS established more than 20 years ago that the direct proceeds from illegal enterprises can't be used to fund the legal fees of the accused:

A defendant has no Sixth Amendment right to spend another person's money for services rendered by an attorney, even if those funds are the only way that that defendant will be able to retain the attorney of his choice. Such money, though in his possession, is not rightfully his.

And, of course, the case against MU is far more straightforward than Techdirt implies.

Stories like this (the Slashdot "Your Rights Online" stuff) are the only things from Techdirt that routinely make it to the front page of HN, but it's worth noting (and I'm not the only person to note it; I got tipped off to this by 'tzs, who went to law school) that Techdirt sucks at legal analysis.
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Good point. Obviously this becomes implausible once the mean reaches 3.5 (as it apparently did in the n=74 single die followup, with 3.4).

And yes, the data should be available for download.
All rights end up as meaningless when they are impractical to defend. Rights are ideas and do better in some environments than in others.

The good bits of copyright are about fairness and the idea that someone is entitled to a certain amount of respect of the intention they have in how what they have produced should be used.

This guy had put copyright watermarks on the images themselves. For profit groups in media should respect that, not out of niceness, but because that is the world they choose to inhabit and well informed photographers can make them look extremely bad and still get paid.
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Cool HTML5 Facebook App
I need internship in app development company.
People eating healthy food and living a healthy livestyle (outside as much as possible especially during winter, go by foot instead of driving etc.) do not need any extra vitamins at all.

If you need them you do something wrong.

A healthy livestyle improves live much more than superficial vitamins can ever do.
There’s no way to contest or respond to an erroneous review. There’s not even a way to respond to a review saying there’s a problem with the app with a solution, or a "that’s coming in the next update—hang tight."

As both a developer and user, that's one of my main complaints with the Android market as well. Is there a good reason to not allow this that I'm overlooking?
I've found hanging around on StackOverflow and the #emberjs IRC channel to be very useful, if only just to try and answer every question I see as an opportunity to learn.

I didn't know about the dashboard so I've just added it to the Tumblr, thanks!
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You mean that the most likely explanation for us hearing about this study is publication bias, right?

But we're talking p<.01 here, so most likely you're wrong. You'd have to believe that 100 similar studies have been performed and we only heard about the one winner.
But there is no decreased demand.

Of course there is - the quantity demanded at a fixed price is set to go down by (according to the DoE) 280,000. I.e., the demand curve has shifted left.
"Swinging for the fence entrepreneurs. We should be supporting them. Instagram opportunities are once in a life time."

This is exactly the type of thinking I think we need less of. We shouldn't be encouraging people to play the lottery in hopes of a big, very-rare-chance-of-happening win.

We should be encouraging people to work hard to build real, profitable businesses.
I don't want to take words directly out of anyone's mouth, but here's a link to yesterday's discussion that sheds a lot more light on what is actually happening with the "summarization":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804640
The headline claims to explain why the TSA "fears" 13 in laptops, but does not do that.
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Oh dear. I don't know what lurks behind the signup page. I hope the strategies are scrupulously legal and kept up to date.

I'm a tax lawyer. I have seen a lot of train wrecks, let's just say.

If the promoter is suggesting anything remotely out of bounds, expect the Department of Justice. You will go bankrupt defending yourself if the DoJ decides to grind you.

Anyone signing up for a tax planning device has become trivially easy to find and prosecute. Subpoena the promoter for records. Find customer list. Launch prosecutors. That's how it worked in the tax shelter days 30 years ago and it still works like that.

I hope the developers have killa legal and tax advice.
Probably more relevant to say this experiment was done on college freshmen, but yes, it would be interesting to see differences by country/etc. provided you can provide uniform experimental conditions (at a minimum, keep participants in the dark as to the composition of the experimental group, the fact that it's being done worldwide and comparisons will be made of their nation vs. others, etc).
As I've said before, Ticketmaster's reason for existence is to be hated. It allows events and venues to charge close to the market-clearing price, while pointing to Ticketmaster as the bad guy who is "gouging" you.
I don't quite understand something. If I'm not mistaken, defendants in an US court have the right to know what evidence will be used against them in a timely manner. It's called discovery. So if MU were to destroy the evidence now that would me both the prosecution and defendant would have no evidence, right? So I'd assume the prosecution has a copy of any evidence and that would be disclosed to MU's attorneys before the trial. So MU wouldn't hold on to the evidence but it'd be out there somewhere.

Right? I feel like an idiot. I feel like I've noticed something so simple that somehow it was already explained but I'm still not getting it.
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Yes, that is interesting and true. The Economist article is a bit lame.

76 was enough to convince me that the effect isn't all publication bias (P<.01, and it's intuitively plausible). I would rather see a more diverse population (than college freshmen) than larger numbers.
Social might become a bit of a negative word online in a few years.
My guess: immediate temptation to cheat for $10 if you think you can get away with it.

On reflection, caution accelerates:

1. The gain is small.

2. Maybe people will find out via mechanism X I didn't think of (hidden cameras?)

3. maybe my report of 6 will be suspicious. maybe a 5 ... no, may as well just go with my original 3 ...

4. How will I feel having cheated? How good will I feel going away having a story of how I was honest even when it cost me?

5. I want to impress my psych teacher with how honest we college freshmen are.

6. Now that I've hesitated so long, I feel even more cautious. I've spent so much time deliberating, when I could have just taken the extra $5 immediately ... I must actually not want to cheat.

Perhaps also noteworthy: the above experiment was with 3 dice rolls, but the instruction to report the first. In a second experiment with only 1 die roll, the averages result claimed by both the hurry-up and take-your-time groups was 0.2-0.4 lower. This suggest that people in the 3 die roll group felt more comfortable cheating by reporting the 2nd or 3rd roll, perhaps in their mind lamely equating it with what could have been the 1st roll, or having a justification ready of having honestly misunderstood (I doubt anyone did honestly misunderstand). A difference of 0.2 is surely significant (comparing between N=76 and N=74 freshmen under the 3-dice and 1-die conditions).
The piece I find most interesting about this is what isn't there.

For example, what pages or friends did the user look at, without posting or sending messages to?

That there isn't the entire 'browsing' history is either a sign that Facebook didn't hand over as much as they actually have or that they aren't tracking it.

My bet would be on the former, so kudos to Facebook?
He's not even putting Eclipse's keyboard shortcuts to full use. If you have a passing knowledge of a few important key combinations you can move quite a bit faster than he is.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/megaupload-e... seems like a better source
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Never said "that's dumb", I just believe the valuation to be "frothy". More often than not, in the current environment value has nothing to do with price.
Same applies for changing email settings.
To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignment”—a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.

This is significantly different than actually creating open textbooks from scratch (e.g. the CK-12 Foundation). I'm not suprised they got sued.
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Paying technical debt
one way a company can end up paying for technical debt
Please link directly to the RT article mentioned on slashdot

Here it is for easier access
http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/
Just a point of information: he can't do that here because the Java/OpenGL interface is all static Java methods (which only get loaded when the class loads the first time).
And using deprecated OpenGL APIs, no less o_0
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Is it possible that a client behind a NAT logged into facebook and facebook recorded the clients local IP address?
A more detailed specification to dcpu 16 virtual machine
Even though is W.I.P. it can help someone which wants to implement this vm and have some basic doubts.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/dcpu16/wiki/Documentation
HN News makes it look like everyone uses apple and javascript or some fairly new and obscure functional language.

A hell of a lot of people are doing really good work with Java. I use Linux, Eclipse and Java at work and I know a lot of other people that do too.
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I do agree, if you want information to be kept private you should keep it private.
It brings up the question: why did posterous stop doing this? Even before they pivoted to the spaces idea, they slowly deemphasized the email-to-blog feature and then removed it from their home page completely. What kind of problems did they get into with this approach?
This general argument pioneered by ESR against RMS is something that you hear a lot: the idea that open source software is just better. (And it is that too!)

#1: it's too hard to say whether the free software movement would have evolved without RMS. We do know that Linux was able to bootstrap from GNU which was founded some 7 years earlier and without that, it probably wouldn't have taken off the way it did. By the time Linus came around, the only thing missing from GNU was its kernel. The Berkeley people got bogged down with the BSDi lawsuit, and you might ask yourself how that happened if their license was so freedom preserving. If it wasn't for that, I imagine that BSD would be in the place linux is now.

#2: People say it's divisive not to have one way of thinking about open source, but why this need to do it one way only? Surely there is a place for the GPL for some projects, and RMS isn't forcing anyone to GPL their software. The FSF counts lots of other licences as GNU-compatible.

RMS just wants people to understand that if they license their software restrictively they're not doing the hacker community any great service, even if they claim otherwise.

#3: "To rms, one ought to act ethically, and anyone who does not do so is essentially evil."
That's not just RMS who thinks that. You're going to have a hard time justifying why unethical people who harm others are essentially good. You make it seem like it's radical to stand on the side of ethical behavior. Maybe it is.
> A long time ago I read a very interesting book on business failures. I don't recall the exact title. It was something like "Why good companies fail".

That would be "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen.
Hey Waleedka. I dont recall exactly whether posterous ever enabled the creation of emails like hashtags and public pages. I think the approaches are quiet different. But nevertheless, great questions.
What is the music in the stream?
If you click these settings, do they do exactly what they say on the tin? Or are they a bit leaky?
A year or so ago we discovered this at work and copied the URL for the setup for this from someone with DVDs to someone who didn't, and they were able to set it up for instant streaming, even though they didn't have the UI presenting the feature visible. I'm not sure if it still works, but it was an interesting bug to find, nevertheless.
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> How much have algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, history, geography, philosophy, etc. changed over the years for all but the most advanced levels of study? Not much, if at all. You could easily argue that, by now, a subject such as Trigonometry --where nothing new has happened for quite some time-- ought to result in free or near-free books. Nothing new needs to be written.

Textbooks are more than just reference manuals. They're meant to teach. Teaching practices have most certainly advanced over the years.

I agree the price of new textbooks is ridiculous considering most editions change very little year-to-year, but please don't say "Nothing new needs to be written." It's not so much what is written— it's how it's written.
What are some examples of shortcuts you recommend?
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