skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tradition VS Innovation: Television Industry Trading Current Revenue For Future
Make is a way of defining dependencies. It's relatively far from a free-form shell like language.
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Wouldn't be much fun when you change it, though.
Here's an interesting graph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_2_velocity_vs_dist...

Looks like Uranus gave a tiny boost and Neptune a negative boost -- not through any intrinsic property of the planet, mind you, just the constraints applied when you want to tour the whole solar system without burning any fuel.
FWIW, I read the comments first to make a decision whether to read or not the linked article.
Naively, it seems like a settlement offer should only be legal if you have actually filed suit. Filing requires you to put your cards on the table, and opens you up to countersuits for wasting everyone's time. Otherwise, you're essentially trying to claim support from the legal system without involving the legal system.

Is there a reason that wouldn't work out well?
Obscurity. If you're not a significant target, you can get by with simpler methods.

Deciphering obfuscated text is one of very few verifiable tasks that humans can do which computers cannot.

Alternatively, you can look at other methods of identity verification. If you ask for $5 to create an account, you'll have few spam problems.
ah yes, that does explain it nicely, thanks!
The mental impact of having to wade through the messages is a different matter, of course

That mental impact is, I'm guessing, a big deal, and I'm having a hard time coming up with a good takeaway.

If you're a person who feels legally infringed by a beloved internet celebrity, should you be able to get legal representation? Sure, this particular case doesn't appear to have any merit, but if I were a lawyer, I sure wouldn't be very eager to take on any clients who would go up against the angry hordes. Would that have a chilling effect for legitimate cases?
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I believe this is the same distinction the movie/music industry uses between what they rip off and what their potential customers use.

I mean I'm sure right now the RIAA is taking down most of their electronic back catalog until they figure out how to compensate the original artists behind the Amen Break sample.
> they have to maintain backwards compatibility

Well, no they don't. They can drop any legacy client whenever they wish. Microsoft could even try to make it sound like they're doing a good thing by removing unmaintainable legacy stuff they inherited from Skype.

Microsoft is not really required to maintain backwards compatibility with Skypes legacy stuff. It is possible they updated the Linux client for exactly this reason; update what you can, depreciate the rest for the good of everyone else.
Here's a picture of Google Glass from a different angle:

http://i.imgur.com/iOlcx.png
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Even pirates usually think that the original creators deserve credit, and many frown on taking other people's creations and earning money from them.

As an example, some people have called Inman a hypocrite for downloading Game of Thrones (because he couldn't find a way to pay for it), but still complaining about FunnyJunk. But there's a difference between
A: watching Game of Thrones for free, and
B: removing all credits from it, rebranding it as "Funnyjunk's Game of Thrones", and distributing it with Funnyjunk's ads.
Brain tumor.
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I once read somewhere that the after a certain age, like 50 or something, the less quality you sperm is and hence your kids. So would this be the trade off?
Agreed...why would someone bother filing a patent for an idea they fully intend on sharing freely?
Actually, it's more like you buy all the cheap mineral rights to land in North Dakota, and then develop fracking to extract oil and natural gas. Just because everyone else failed in North Dakota doesn't mean that you're now required to grant all the other energy companies access.

No one holds a gun to your head to buy an iPhone/iPod/iPad. There are alternatives to these devices, some with more freedom, some with less.
Looks amazing to me. Personally I wouldn't wear that. But given how small they already are they will probably be indistinguishable from normal shades within 2 years. And then I will wear that.
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Interesting, tortious interference might be a good counterclaim after an action like this.

The lawyer and his client don't have standing to interfere with the business relationship between IndieGoGo and Oatmeal. (eg. if there is a violation what does it matter to FunnyBusiness)
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IIRC, building for 14 or above enables hardware acceleration for everything automatically: that can cause problems. Try disabling it manually in the manifest.
It's a rebuttal to an argument with flawed assumptions anyway. "Internet vigilante" is a stereotype and we have no way of knowing that the people supporting Inman are the same people who complain about unspecified copyright holders taking down unspecified content from unspecified sites under unspecified conditions.
If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had none of these problems. None. Zilch. There are several markets. There are several stores. You can install standalone APKs if you like.

The nature of the platform protects you from the likes of Apple.

That there are options doesn't make Apple any more right here. I'm not saying that. But there are other platforms than Apple's closed circus. And people should consider them.

With time I hope people will see that value in an open platform. That these people, those who have their daughter threatened to be re-muted by Apple, that they still insist on using Apple's hardware is a mystery to me.

You would at least think that they saw why choosing Apple is fundamentally wrong for any person who considers himself free. If you're not free to do with your own property as you please, how much of a free being are you really?
No, but they know how to estimate the effect of an inhomogeneity in the interstellar medium on radio wave propagation.
Extensive technical training? Seems like it's something a kid can do...

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/18/1209941/kid-writes-iph...
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Somebody should write a Google Go to C transpiler. Mostly Google Go features are limitations or different styles in order to 'improve' C, so it should produce fairly readable C code. Then you could use any compiler, linking type, combine with any language, etc. You could probably even use LD_PRELOAD to replace coroutines with pthreads.

For instance Russ Cox did coroutines and channels in his C libtask in a few thousand lines of code. It's not pretty but it works. Include something like it behind an API as 'libgrt.o' with a few other features and the rest of the code transpiles cleanly.

...but say this existed. What would be the point of writing Google Go code? A more compiler-friendly syntax, less flexibility to make simple memory/pointer mistakes? Would that be enough or would you, with perfect C linkage, just end up writing most of the code in C and Lua? It certainly seem the effect of creating their own compiler (worse than gcc), an opaque "go" tool that does everything, project layout and hosting rules, complicated FFI, etc is to make a 'toolchain island' locking you into writing everything in Google Go, where you might not otherwise.
I don't think the iOS APIs are flexible enough to allow Glass the full access that it requires. Might be wrong though, I'm no iOS developer.

Really though, if Apple brought these out would you expect them to work with Android? :-)
> If you don't consider that hard work or decision-making abilities at least factor into the subsequent states of existence in which people find themselves, what good would data points or arguments be?

Hard work and good decisions are important of course. But there are good "data points" showing that people struggling with difficulties can't make good decisions. And to do hard work, you need to have an environment that allows it; for instance think about these American travellers of the 19th century shocked by Japanese laziness: we quite well know now that Japanese are hardly lazy, but in the 1840 there was simply nothing effective to do.
At the individual level, hard work and good decisions matter; at the society level, not that much.

> I'm still curious when I see people express opinions like yours, though.

I find less surprising that people express such opinion as yours, because they usually attribute their own feelings a bit too literally onto others.

> With all those preconceptions, what kind of affinity would you have with a site like Hacker News that glorifies the success of the entrepreneur?

I'm a successful enough entrepreneur (depends upon your metrics of course). And I'll keep my misconceptions rather than John Galt's, if you don't mind.
"Threatened to be re-muted?" Let's try to avoid the hyperbole. Apple doesn't uninstall applications from your iPad.

"If you're not free to do with your own property as you please, how much of a free being are you really?"

Freedom is an illusion. Name one piece of property you can use as you please without restriction?
I was juggling between knockout and Angular for my next project, after watching some demo's Angular gets the win.
It's also fairly typical for them to take their time in carefully crafting a response in situations like these. We may see something from them yet on this, I think it's too early to say.
Typo in the title. Nice.
>If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had none of these problems.

No, they would still have the same problem. Google has the killswitch ability. Amazon and Google do remove applications from the store on a regular basis for copyright violations.

EDIT: And the ability to install an APK from anywhere still doesn't mean that they'll be able to keep selling it while the court proceedings are going on. This problem isn't a technical issue. It's a legal one.
I agree. I don't see anything wrong what he did, but somebody should offer to submit counterpoints that better emphasize what Go is able to do.
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MS has been on a major/minor release cycle with Windows for years.
I can't remember where I read it but one journalist wrote something along the lines of "how Google Glass looks doesn't matter - that's nothing that a partnership with Armani won't fix". Whoever they were, they were right. I just hope that Google partners up with a variety of brands to make a number of different designs.

Anyway, no matter what they look like I will be there on day one. I don't normally subscribe immediately to new tech like this. Took me a year or two to get a smartphone and I still don't have a tablet, but Glass is different.

One more thing - I really, really hope that people will find a way to load new OSes onto Glass. The technology is fantastic but it won't reach its full potential if it's locked away.
Duh. "Done" and "easily done" are different things.

Structs with functions isn't the biggest deal, and namespaces can be simulated with a couple underscores. But I have a hard time with error handling if you don't have exceptions, any time I have a call stack more than 3-4 deep I find myself confused about how to treat certain errors. Then there's concurrency.
> detrimental to society as a whole

I wish just as much as the next computer geek to be able to side-load any app into my iOS devices, but millions of zombie machines and a slew of critical private information harvesters are way more detrimental (and even more in your phone which may become your credit card and whatnot). I honestly sleep much better now that I know my relatives won't download, install and execute some random app, since they conveniently have all they could wish for right in the App Store, reviewed and signed. It's not an invincible fortress, but it's way safer and more secure for them than a full-open (or even half-open) situation.
Put your wireless router on top of a microwave then start a Skype call. Before your Hot Pocket turns molten, let me know how good of a connection you have.

It's not a far stretch of the imagination to say radio waves can suffer from interference and even reflection off magnetic fields. It happens here on Earth; bouncing shortwave off the ionosphere is a very common way to communicate long distances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave
Because it would be nothing other than a subsidy for lawyers and a further drain on the court system. There are many thousands of disputes every day that are settled with informal settlement offers, and many hundreds that are settled with formal settlement offers. Most of these never make it to court.

For example, if a tree from your yard falls into your neighbor's yard, they might have a claim against you. Instead of forcing them to file a lawsuit, you offer to pay for a new fence and landscaping to replace the stuff that got squished. (Or, the neighbor demands that you pay for the fence and landscaping instead of filing suit.) There's no reason for the neighbor to have to actually file a lawsuit against you in order for you to work out the issues. The threat of a lawsuit is always there, but making a lawyer actually fill out the paperwork and pay the filing fees is a pure subsidy to lawyers.
For interesting research here, see:
Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited,
Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, J. D. Tygar

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/keyboard.htm

"We examine the problem of keyboard acoustic emanations.
We present a novel attack taking as input a 10-minute sound recording of a user
typing English text using a keyboard, and then recover- ing up to 96% of typed
characters. There is no need for a labeled training recording. Moreover the
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passwords: In our experi- ments, 90% of 5-character random passwords using only
letters can be generated in fewer than 20 attempts by an adversary; 80% of 10-
character passwords can be generated in fewer than 75 attempts.
I don't see that leap seconds are the problem here (?) -- it seems like the problem is that we're planning to roll clocks backward instead of having 23:59:60 happen as planned. In contrast, we don't just repeat February 28th once every four years; we call it the 29th. Why are leap seconds different than leap days?
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Though perhaps if they had killed the Grand Tour then we might have sent an orbital probe to Uranus or Neptune by now, and we might know a lot more about them. We have literally hours of direct observation on both these planets put together -- there's some really interesting data and it would be fantastic to get back there and do some better observations, because at present we know sod-all about them.

Unfortunately, a probe to Uranus is still a fairly low priority for NASA. I think the worry is that we'd be spending a billion dollars on funding obvious toilet humor.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

I'm going with "no" ;-)
Approaches like Pregel have been the canonical way of dealing with large graph problems for many years. Unfortunately, most interesting graph analytic problems do not fit into that model because the "graph-like" aspect is still limited to problem sizes that fit conventional algorithms.

For example, if you can reduce a trillion-edge graph analysis problem into a billion-edge graph plus some other stuff (usually materialized document structures) then you can fit that into something like Pregel. That is how almost all real-world graph analysis is done today.

But by doing so, you've lost the ability to do graph analysis on the other ~trillion edges for the sake of tractability in a narrow case. You can't do relationship analysis across the attached documents. There are many, many graph analytic problems that require a true graph that is orders of magnitude larger than what can be partitioned even after accounting for graph reduction techniques such as those used in Pregel.

The Holy Grail is still the ability to run ad hoc graph analytic queries against a massively distributed graph representation. There are no shortcuts around this for many interesting applications. Right now, we are limited to mere billions of edges for most practical purposes and all of the hacks and workarounds are designed to keep the number of true edges to around this number even when the data model is much larger.
I don't condone attacking this guy either, but frankly he and funnyjunk are equally to blame for the mass disapproval aimed in their direction.

Lawyers like this aren't dying for work, they pick and choose their cases.
Especially if a Dvorak user is forced to use Qwerty on another person's computer. At that point, they become completely unable to log in via this method.
Maybe you could provide some of your favorite resources to those things, then?
I've gone ahead and reformatted his code using `indent -kr` and `gofmt`: https://gist.github.com/2932444
For ReCAPTCHA, you only have to type the known word almost-correctly. You can just type anything for the word they don't already know. Even if someone had tech that could pass visual ReCAPTCHA reliably, it wouldn't need to be capable of doing useful work.
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For anyone trying to understand midwest & technology should read Tom Wolfe's master piece on Bob Noyce:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html
I really wish we could do away with the whole "www." convention. It had a time and place, but not anymore.
Oh, I'm pretty sure they won't work together without some real collaboration between Apple and Google. Well, they have a year or two to sort their relationship out, I guess.
But you can still install any APK you can download. You don't even need a store. You, as a user, are protected from this modern-day corporate censorship.

And that makes the platform infinitely more attractive to anyone who values freedom.
> Name one piece of property you can use as you please without restriction?

That depends entirely on how large your private security force is and how willing you are to bribe certain officials.
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Is this an argument that future web services may depend more heavily on identity/reputation services?
The New Horizons RTG puts out 300W of electrical energy (and more as heat). The solar arrays on Dawn can supply "10 kW at Earth and 1.4 kW at Ceres". Wikipedia says the NSTAR thrusters on Dawn requires 2.3 kW.

How do RTGs help?

Let's say they somehow do (perhaps I have the numbers wrong). How much more delta V would you get using an RTG? Twice the delta V as solar panels? Note: momentum transfer goes as the square root of the energy, so you would need 4x as much power as Dawn uses. On the other hand, you wouldn't be carrying heavy panels.)

If so, 20km/s is about what a Jupiter or Saturn flyby gives. So RTG+ion thruster+Jupiter is about equivalent to the Jupiter+Saturn part of Voyager. Except Voyager also used the outer gas giants.

My point is that to get the same speed you'll need at least both of Jupiter and Saturn lined up right, and preferably at least one of Uranus or Neptune. Your proposal isn't enough.
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But on Android one can install a secondary application downloading service, or even download an application from a web site and easily install it.
Sorry I stand by my initial statement. The problem was that you knew the numbers were no good, not that you needed to be a better actor.

When I was younger i would have agreed with you. But now that I've been a founder of successful companies and in management at a major Internet company, I know from experience that sales
projections can range from a total wild-ass guess all the way to rock solid numbers that you can bank on.

Investors love the latter and hate the former. Sobriety is much admired by VCs and cocky posturing is a losing approach. The more experience you have, the more you will understand how to soberly and realistically estimate an opportunity.

Some opportunities really are sized with more digits than others, and this fact has nothing to do with culture.

Read the recent article titled something like "VCs lie, and I do too". He points out that it's really hard for VCs to give candid feedback about shortcomings in the team. I have no such difficulty: your team is woefully inadequate, today.

Get going. Dive in. Make stuff happen. Be extremely realistic and especially honest with yourself about the opportunity you're addressing. I was a naive punk once too, and remain a slow learner. You have a lot to learn but if I could you definitely can.
you make the point very well.

I think you make my point just as well, you're just directing blame at the wrong people. The problem you and I both see is a lack of Linux drivers. Rather than blaming the Linux developers though, I'm blaming the people responsible for making their drivers Windows-only, as well as making them closed-source binaries so Linux developers cannot make it work on their own.
It depends on how the matter is worded, if you ask for 20K not to sue it could be an issue of barratry and extortion.

If you ask for 20K to settle the matter and one of the terms is that both parties agree never to sue each other over the matter then it's an offer of settlement.

Not a lawyer, but that's my crude understanding.