skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one could discuss if this encryption is for vendor lock in or for preventing someone from dumping the raw-data stream of DRM'emd material. remember the time the airport expresses and airplay for music came to market all music files in the store had fairplay DRM.

and while it might not be illegal in all countries, it's clearly against apples terms of use.
> Can you write/submit an end-user programming app like Scratch?

Yes, you can. e.g AIDE : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
Consider browsing the criticism of Data Analysis with Open Source Tools(O'Reilly) for suggestions. Many people, including myself, expected a book that would have been more in line with what your book is probably trying to accomplish.
If you just want Google results with privacy, you could try https://startpage.com
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Ah, the good old days.

It was 1999, we had just moved to Seattle, and all these people I had just met who were in their early 30's were retiring from Microsoft. Not just from MS -- they were retiring. Near the millenium, with the stock sitting at about $120/share, a good friend who had started at MS as a receptionist and moved all the way up to program manager (a rather common title, in those days) decided to call it quits. She cashed out, worth some $7.5MM, bought property on the Baja in Mexico and left town. Never saw her again.

Then, after the bubble popped in March 2000, I can recall people losing their million-dollar homes in Queen Anne because they had secured the purchase with options on IPO stock. All the sudden, their paper was worthless -- and a lot of people were left scrambling.

I remember stories of people who leveraged all this paper wealth, only to be left upside-down in the blink of an eye.

Such foolish times for people with resources.
My comparisions, in case anyone ends up in my predicament and searches up on this:

Highwinds

- Price under NDA

Akamai

- 0.18/cents public price. Private price under NDA.

Webzilla

- 0.5 cents/GB

Fastly

- 0.12/GB to 10TB

- 0.08/GB from 40TB

- 0.06/GB from 100TB

ValueCDN

- 0.05/GB from 5TB
- 0.04/GB from 30TB
Voxel.net

- $0.10/GB to 50TB
- $0.07/GB to 500TB
- $0.05/GB and up

AdvanceHosters

- Starts at 0.04/GB

Constant.com

- 0.05/GB through 0.03/GB depending on package

I'm going to test out ValueCDN, Voxel, Constant and Highwinds. May the best CDN win.
Seems like the upload a bot link is down...
The contact list is part of Facebook's open API. They give it away for free.

As far as Facebook being trusting in terms of commerce, well... I don't buy it.

http://threatmetrix.com/study-reveals-only-a-quarter-of-cons...

Also - anyone remember Facebook Marketplace? Me neither. It's been stagnating for years.
Let's take it one step further: all products of any taxpayer-funded research are public domain. This includes patents, articles, and datasets.
I like your notion of bedrock abstraction. I don't see the connection between it and the idea that emulators don't cut it.
Which service?

Taking the Bing API, building a frontend, a parser for few shortcuts and get some VCs to blog about me?

Sounds like a project from a 48h hackathon.
Oh no doubt their network as a whole can handle it, but I honestly doubt they'd let that much bandwidth go for $20 a month. They would be losing money with me as a client, and the moment I'm no longer worth the publicity or good will they'd cut me to balance their books.

I prefer the safety of knowing that my interests and my CDNs interests are aligned.
Why was I downvoted for linking to previous comment threads about this same story?
Perhaps there's something here I'm missing, but this doesn't make sense to me at all: "Going from a 14 mpg car to a 17 saves exactly as much fuel (and carbon) as going from a 33 to a 50."

As the driver of a car, I want to go more miles on less gas.

If the car uses 1 gallon of gas to go 50 miles, and another uses 1 gallon to go 30, then it seems obvious that the first car is much more gas efficient. More miles on less fuel.

If car A gets 17 miles to the gallon, then it will take ~2.94 gallons to make 50 miles.

If car B gets 50 miles to the gallon, then it takes 1 gallon of gas to drive the same distance.

So comparing 13mpg to 17mpg and saying that its the same as the difference between 33mpg and 50mpg just doesn't make any sense at all.
Beautiful?? Beautiful??

You have got to be kidding.

Blinking eyes - balloons blowing up: it doesn't have the visual appeal of a Roadrunner / Wile E. Coyote cartoon, let alone something like the mother of all demos.
Wait...when you say fail are you saying they fail to produce something optimal or fail to produce working code?
> but it is intimidating to see your "do not use my photograph/short story/program without permission" on the ominously named chillingeffects.org, and this is not an accident.

Considering how not-enforced the "knowingly materially misrepresents" clause has been on false DCMA takedown notices, I really hope it is intimidating (though the chillingeffects database has always been so low, it's pretty frustrating to use).

The name isn't an accident, it was chosen very deliberately, but as jrockway already said, Chilling Effects predates Google's contributions. For those who didn't click through:

"The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a unique collaboration among law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Conceived and developed at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society by Berkman Fellow Wendy Seltzer, the project is now supported by clinical programs at Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics, and the EFF."

According to Wikipedia, Google started submitting the takedown notices it receives a year later, after the whole Scientology/Xenu.net DMCA thing[1].

Not to pile on too much, but this was too funny to skip:

"Helena Kobrin, lawyer for the Church of Scientology, stated she took offense at the name of [Chilling Effects], saying: 'It implies that the First Amendment gives people some special right to infringe copyrights.'"

:)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Clambake
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Yea I was thinking the same. The JavaScript nation thing was a bit far fetched but JavaScript in the kernel is simply absurd.
>developers only like visual studio because either they haven't had much experience with anything else, they use languages that require massive amounts of IDE to be practical or they paid for it which results in 'money bias'.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

Your assertions about why developers like Visual Studio are nonsense... I like it over Sublime Text, RubyMine, WebStorm, gedit, XCode, and a slew of other tools / editors I've used. Why?

Because it has a great extension ecosystem (ReSharper, dotCover, TestDriven.NET, Git Extensions, VisualSVN), has by far and above the best live debugging tools on the planet, the best code completion, IntelliSense, and a slew of other features that make my development faster and easier.

And I say this as someone who's done plenty of C# in MonoDevelop too, without the aid of many of those VS features.

So no, Visual Studio hasn't jedi-mind-tricked me into liking it - I like it because it gives me the best experience and makes me more productive.
At scale, I think running a creative servies business is much harder than a typical tech startup. Mapping billable hours to bodies, some of who you haven't even hired yet, is a difficult process that's hard to scale.
As someone who's been deaf since 18 months of age (Meningitis), I feel your pain David. I'm fairly lucky, as my hearing loss means I'm just within the bracket of being able to use a hearing aid, which are the most powerful ones on the market, but I suspect within a decade or two I'm probably going to need a cochlear implant myself.

The difficulty for me is being between two worlds, I can speak well enough that most people don't realise I'm deaf, which creates its own problems as they won't compensate for speaking to a deaf person, even if they know how. Since I was always able to hear with hearing aids, I never learnt to sign as I and others didn't feel it was needed. Lip-reading and a degree of hearing as enough to get by. So when you can't hear well enough to be completely at ease among normal people, but you can't sign either, so you're barred from the totally deaf community too.

I'm in my 30s now, and I've been through the denial, self-loathing and social ostracisation through my teens at school and 20s in University that made life pretty hard. As you've pointed out in your article, people don't intentionally exclude you if you're deaf - but if you miss every other word in a conversation it gets embarrassing asking people to repeat themselves every few seconds! A work environment isn't too bad in my experience, social environments are a whole 'nother thing though. Pubs? Clubs? Even a quiet cafe usually has too high a level of background noise to understand someone...

That said though, don't be disheartened when it comes to relationships. I've had 3 'proper' relationships over the years, the first wasn't until I was older than you are now. All of them have been positive, and my girlfriend in each case has never had an issue with my hearing. If someone wants to get to know you, they will make small sacrifices, small changes in their behaviour if that's what it takes to get to know you. If they're not prepared to make any changes, well, chances are they're not worth knowing in the first place! Simple things like "face me when you're speaking", "Don't talk with your mouth covered", "Make sure you have my attention before you start speaking" are not that hard to do, and remember: It says a lot about the person in question if they can't even be bothered with such simple things.

Sadly, you may find that your deafness will shape what kind of job you ultimately feel most comfortable in. It'd be nice to think that in this day and age, any job should be open to someone with a disability, but that's certainly not going to be the case. Personally, I'm self-employed with my own company after dabbling in the Biotech industry after leaving Uni.

The key thing is, there are awesome people out there who will be good friends. It's just harder to find them for you than it is for normal people. I'm lucky in that the friends I made in High School are still, 15 years later, the best friends I have ever made. Even if it sucks to go into social situations because being the guy "sitting quietly in the corner" gets old very fast, know that every so often you will hit it off with someone and it'll make up for all the crappy times!
In this case though it wouldn't work out that way because the topic is pretty arcane.

Unless the issue can be reduced to a catch phrase that actually encapsulates the idea, or people see some obviously valuable thing which is clearly being taken away from them; then its very hard to sell this.
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I'm not sure if that's right. You won't get google for inducing infringement or whatever, but there is:

"A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the provider referring or linking users to an online location containing infringing material or infringing activity, by using information location tools, including a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link, if the service provider--

(A) does not have actual knowledge that the material or activity is infringing;

(B) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or

(C) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;"

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#d
I don't understand what people are moaning about - it's well written and has valid points. To me MPG is like Kg/£ price labels - not that intuative at all.
Freelancer devs will spend the money on the full version of the tools instead of just using the free version. You have to be a pretty small potatoes freelancer to not be able to afford visual studio in some incarnation. See also: graphic artists and photoshop.
WebVan was profitable in the SF Bay Area from early on, and profitable in Southern California as well. So yes they had a lot more than "vision". They expanded too rapidly and the losses in those other geographic markets is what did them in.
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Cars with AI, yes. Powered by Google, I sure hope not.

You have to remember that they're an american company, and thus required to comply to their govt's every whim, like all others.

Goes without saying I'd much prefer a product NOT related to the US's internal and external policies.
Free news is unsustainable just like free software is unsustainable.
Really? They have a patent on this??

This simply does not seem like a hard problem to solve. Certainly easier than, say, many Project Euler problems.
Indeed. A company that is taking in $26 billion a year in profit that is still being led around by investors is doing something very wrong.
Programmers write code, musicians create music. Code is usually different from whats out there, music is usually not.

You have music pouring out of every speaker on earth. Its kind of hard to ask for money for that. Its like selling sand in Sahara.

I can honestly tell you that if all the record companies would die over night, I wouldnt even care one bit. The artists would find other ways to get together and put out their music, and without getting screwed.
This story is from 2008.

Instead of reading this mediocre article, I suggest actually reading his letter -- which is quite fun: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/10/17/17194/andrew-lahd...
You mean the same Zynga whose stock price has dropped 50% in 60 days?

Let's assume you are right and I am wrong.

Let's assume FB is not "free" entertainment.

And in fact all those people who sign in to view/edit/upload profiles, photos, statuses and messages who do not also spend money on games and virtual goods are actually "freeloaders". Because they are using FB as if it's some kind of "free" service.

To save costs, shouldn't FB drop all the freeloaders? The ones who sign in to FB and do not spend any money. They are just wasting FB's resources. (This is a very old question that has been discussed many times.)

If FB is not "free", then why is FB letting all these users sign in and use FB's computing resources when these users never spend any money?

But here's the question I really want you to answer: Why are all these users signing in and not playing games and purchasing virtual goods? How do you explain this? Is FB some kind of "entertainment" to them? Some sort of recreation? I don't get it.
Bingo. Use chromium if you don't want Google to see everything.
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If Person A buys a song, rips it, and puts it on bittorrent, when Person B downloads one or more copies he has not stolen anything from anyone nor broken any contract with anyone.
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It does, but Gabriel (the guy behind it) described the issue with that approach quite well here, http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/code-icebergs.ht...

Keep in mind quite a few people have done this before, bitcircle, 4hoursearch etc... spring to mind but DDG has actually done some innovations in the space and is still around. The fact that people know it will still be around next year encourages you to at least play with it.
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Usually I care about how far I can go in my car before I need to refuel. This is exactly what MPG tells me.

The only time the inverse is useful is when buying cars on the basis of fuel efficiency. That's a much rare occasion since I drive every day but only buy cars every ~5 years.
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Was there something wrong with "hello, world"?
Are add-ons keeping you on Firefox 3.6?
This makes me wonder if there is value in someone creating a Facebook Like button, Google +1 button, etc. widget set that doesn't keep any tracking data and only sends information about a user to Facebook, Google, etc. when a user explicitly clicks on the button.
Seriously? AOL is a bit better funded then the average library, and he did have those privileges its much more akin to using an expired gym pass.

It's a kooky story nothing else.
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When we talk about a car’s fuel economy, what we want to know is how much fuel does it use, not how far does it go.

Now I grew up with the metric system and I would not generally agree with that statement. The function of a car is to transport me, so its output is distance. Measuring the output I get, rather than how much a standard unit of output would cost, makes sense to me.
But that is mostly a function of the size of your gas tank and not so much about fuel efficiency.
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Really great image however I was confused by one comment on the page suggesting there are more than 892 variations.

"I was confused at first because so many partitions are not on the poster. I see that this poster has culled horizontal and vertical symmetries, but the entry is titled “the 892 unique ways to partition a 3×4 grid.” Given this, I think a poster with all 3,164 partitions would have been (counter intuitively) more elegant. Or if the poster had just been titled “892 unique ways to partition a 3×4 grid.”
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Has anyone done a cost analysis on Prey? Seems like FUD.
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He has stolen the time and effort of the person who created the song.

This is not hard to understand. You may choose not to understand it, but you're playing a game with yourself that the rest of us are not obligated to accept.
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My question is, why do they have this page at all in the first place?

If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If there's a known-bad client, it seems reasonable to me to show a notification of that fact on the "front" page. (Not being a Facebook user, I don't know how they might set it up.)
If they want money, maybe they should spend this effort to make their site works well on mobile and tablets.
It should be mentioned that you need to register in order to submit. That was my issue.

However, while my bot was compiling, I moved away from the page. Later on trying to resubmit, I kept on getting errors, until I changed the name of my bot submission.

More helpful error messages would greatly improve the whole process. :)
That's pretty much how it works (as explained by reddit co-founder Steve Huffman in Udacity 253 course - sorry I forget exactly which video he says it).
Anything concrete about why cassandra is bad?..
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I don't feel this is a good presentation. Text is too small in many places. The solution is not made obvious from the graphic.

What I found original and nicely intuitive is the way to show fragmentation of the playground field. But it is missing a clear view (in a snap) of the cause of this fragmentation. Because the next slide is supposed to explain how to solve the problem.

Making critics is very easy, making the art is very difficult.
I would add that an advantage of Matlab for number bashing is a much more native handling of linear algebra. Let's say you have two matrices A and B, in matlab I could write:

A*B*A'

Whereas in python it would be (approximately):

dot(A, dot(B, inverse(A)))

so matlab can evaluate everything in the right order (right to left) whereas for numpy I end up writing a little recursive function to dot a list of arguments together from right to left, which feels a bit cludgey and more of an impediment to getting your ideas down in code. Especially when your equations get very big as they often do with stats!
Having coded in javascript for 4 or so years, and a recent love for NodeJS in a couple of internal projects, I'm a bit torn between giving coffee a proper go or not.

Can any one employee give a gist of how used it is in production? From what I've seen I would love to use coffee (I've actually used coffee in reverse, to tweak out a javascript function), but I'm wondering if I'd be lowering my productivity.

What I mean by that is, if I wrote coffeescript, but everyone else worked in javascript (or compiled coffee), then it'd be silly of me to continue doing so. Similarly I've watched a lot of node module development over the past year, and only once I've come across a module written in coffee.

I do of course realize NodeJS in itself is not "very" widespread yet, but are there any node users who can shed some light on the possible future of coffee in node?
I agree the presentation is ineffective. On my read, anyway.

There is a logical sequence to the pitch but that is not reflected in the visual structure. The top horizontal menu keeps the "Problem" disjoint from the "Solution". The precursor to this pitch deck was the DressRush pitch (http://investors.dressrush.com/), which does a better job at showing the logical sequence of a pitch, from Intro to Team to Problem to Solution.

But even DressRush is missing a key mechanism: a simple Next arrow that cycles you through all the content. After all, we are only talking about 10 screens or so. There should be no need for fancy navigational mechanisms that get in the way.

Some of the screens get truncated at the bottom but show you an arrow on the right side. The user is torn between scrolling down or scrolling right. (Violating the UX mantra: "Don't make me think").

It almost seems like the Piccsy pitch is trying to get the user to meander aimlessly through the content. And in that respect it is successful. I went through the path I thought they wanted me to follow, but then when I skipped back I found I had missed some important charts and data.

The visual appearance is over-designed and over-fontified (a made-up word) at the expense of readability. Perhaps because it is at the end of a long day for me, but at this hour I don't want to puzzle out coy infographic-style design when looking for basic numbers. The journey is not the reward.
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The whole direction Microsoft is taking with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 seems kinda disturbing.
…and most people aren't asking that question. Gasoline is an incredibly inelastic commodity.
Don't we all?

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Ive never seen so many bearish articles about a company before. That's probably a good sign if you are bullish on FB... Here in Sweden we have brokers who market how to short FB big-time!
"Overall, Google received 1.24 million requests from 1,296 copyright owners for removal the past month. They targeted 24,129 domains."

Must be a full time job to fill out all those forms.
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