skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is also stabbed on its back by Android OEMs and carriers for replacing many Google services with 3rd-party alternatives. This is especially true in China (2nd largest market for Apple) where almost all Google apps have been replaced/eliminated by local Android brands due to censorship and blocking.

Economically the whole Android strategy doesn't make any sense to Google. From a user's perspective it would be much better if Google provides the backend service coupled with Apple's portable devices. Now we end up in this frustrating market with two options: 1) good services + mediocre devices, and 2) mediocre services + good devices.
I recently implemented a similar feature on chrisboulton's php-resque: https://github.com/jasonbosco/php-resque#forcing-workers-to-...
Obviously, you know nothing of the Iceberg Theory and understanding subtext. Dickens is good, but he tells the entire story, leaving nothing out. There's no ambiguity or room to fill in the empty space with your own experience. That's why Old Man and the Sea was so great-- it's not about a man fishing, it's about anyone who has every accomplished something only to have it torn to shreds. Read between the lines. That's what makes Hemingway so great. It isn't the sound of the words, it's the sound of the silence between the words.

To those that lack that ability, I'm sure "Hills like White Elephants" is a story about a train station and "The Sun Also Rises" is a story about drinking.

The best writers know when to shut the heck up and let their stories resonate beyond the words on the page.
I don't want to speak in Stripe's name but I suggest emailing Stripe and asking for an account based on EIN.
Devil's Advocate here. The phrase "owning the rights" applies to the physical world as well as to media. You "own the rights" to your land. You then get to restrict what other people do on your land. This is just as arbitrary and artificial a construct as copyright.
It's difficult to record the police if you're handcuffed and sitting on the hood of their cruiser, which they have the right to do for just about any reason. Whether this actually happens or not seems to depend mostly on the officer -- some are really cool about it, some are really not.
So if I take a GPL'd program, make a few minor changes, refuse to release the source, sell it for a profit, and make a billion dollars.. that would be ok?

the gpl is only enforceable BECAUSE of copyright.
Defcon's badges were really fun this year as well and were also part of a game; some of us are still playing with them. The crypto game in them was designed to get attendees to meet new people and work together to problem solve.

Here they are: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?141494-Article-Par...!
> I don't have any solutions, but that doesn't justify piracy and make it acceptable, or something that should be allowed. Piracy should be illegal.

No. Technology changes markets. The market needs to adapt, not ban the technology--banning the technology is just a shortsighted, temporary move. In the long run, the people who adapt to the new uses of technology are the ones who are going to survive (in the marketplace). "Buggy-whip manufacturers" and all that....
If I reload the page, it always fixes itself for me.
> The "it's not theft" argument is pedantry. There are lots of ways to obtain things for free that aren't technically theft: extortion, blackmail, fraud, etc. Illegal copying is one of those ways.

Disagree. Even in the extortion, blackmail, and fraud cases, you're removing ownership when you obtain the thing. Copying never removes ownership, so it is not in the same class. It is not theft, and it it not pedantry to claim it is not. It's incorrect to state it is something that it is not to make it sound worse than it is.
Drinking alcohol before you are 21 is not a felony. So, no, not remotely analogous.

Oxy is more or less prescription heroin. It is at the heart of the illegal prescription drug trade, in a way that valium, ritalin, and adderall are not. Oxy is not comparable to adderall or valium. It has a far, far higher abuse potential.
Good riddance, the YouTube app was terrible. (And that's from someone who regularly watches YouTube videos.)

Because of its insistance that I watch YouTube not in the browser but inside the app, it's the only default app I forcefully removed by turning it off in parental controls.
IMO, at the time, he had to say that. If Apple had promoted an optional stylus on an iPhone, the UI would either not have been usable without one, or have been derided as 'a toy; they could have made fit more on a screen'.

Also, once the App Store opened, I think we would have seen a zillion straightforward ports of applications that did not work with a finger at all.

Now, times may have changed. Perhaps, customers are savvy enough to see which apps work nicely with fingers, and which require a stylus.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people who wonder whether Microsoft makes the right choice with Surface, giving developers the choice between TUFKAM (The UI formerly known as Metro) and supplying straight ports of Windows apps.
Android is a long play - keeping the mobile space open is far more important than short term revenue from Apple that could disappear at the whim of Apple, and which likely would have disappeared or diminished soon enough anyway if Apple was in an even more powerful position.
This comment is pure misanthropy. Some of the people expressing their concern in this thread are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE YOU SCOLD US FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO. You're telling the victims of drug prohibition to not feel bad for other victims of drug prohibition. You are a hateful person.
You must not make your money writing and selling software.
I agree. StatusNet (Identica, etc) already does this.
Western culture is quick to dismiss the abilities of teenagers, mostly because parents perception of kids lack their actual ability by quite some time.

Mostly, however it is because the teenagers have never really had to show responsibility nor have they ever been allowed to really do something real.
Every time someone uses the words "nemesis" I'm reminded of this amazing video. Caution: somewhat loud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2kovsuvfqg
Checks don't exist in Japan for the most part either.

On the other hand, rent in Japan is usually paid by bank transfer at $6 per transaction (done at the ATM or online). Checks, in the USA, are free, no transaction fee
It's never too late :p
Did Apple somehow manage deliberately to restrict Youtube search results of songs to live performances in its Youtube app? I rarely get the music videos as first search results. If Google can get around that in its iOS youtube app, then I'll be a happy man...
That weird TV icon says it all about YouTube app.

Its makers parted ways and it was left unloved.
Hundreds of thousands of people with postgraduate degrees who have never committed any felony are currently working menial jobs because this economy cannot employ the skills they invested in.

This person, on the other hand, "had his life almost ruined" because he went from stock broker to exactly that same kind of job after committing a felony. Note well: the rest of his punishment was "watching movies twice a week at Narcotics Anonymous for a year" and "9PM curfew for a year". The criminal record itself was expunged.
I think I know why I got this wrong. There are multiple levels of PCI compliance, right? I think we used services that allowed us to not have to be compliant with data at rest (since we didn't store it), but only the data in transit (or whatever the equivalent term is).

This is by no means my area of expertise (as I have accidentally proven).
Apple confirms native YouTube app is gone in iOS 6
I fail to see why this is "too much". Pragmatically, for a competent typist, all of these duplicate commands add up to a grand total of what, like 2 minutes a month? You will easily spend a few months of savings performing the analysis and crafting the aliases.

Not that I'm against aliases - even minor time savers are indeed worth it - I just wouldn't call it "too much". I bet that a lot of people wouldn't care that much.
It's a travesty that consumers still think producers must relinquish all rights to income post-digitization. You don't have a "right" to culture. If it weren't for the risk and expense of marketing the corporations invest in the success of the music, you probably wouldn't have ever heard of the music to download it.

I am glad the courts have consistently ruled in favor of the producers over the privileged consumer class. We need more creativity and production. Production should be rewarded.
The Uphill Climb of Linux Gaming
I understand strategically why Steve Jobs stood on stage and slammed the stylus, but I never really understood the practicality of being against a stylus. For many people, quickly jotting notes is natural, quick and easy.

I've spent a lot of time with Windows Tablet PCs and latency issues aside, they have excellent recognition capabilities, even reading my slop. Aside from latency, it would also help to get the digitizer physically closed to the actual display elements.

I'd kill for an iPad with a truly high-resolution digitizer. It would finally replace carrying a thin stack of index cards everywhere.
I think latency is one reason.
Piqued your interest, just as an aside
This is unfortunate news, since the Youtube app was the last place to consume my content without ads filling up the videos or even annotations popping up every few seconds to click to a different video. Youtube on the web is a whole different experience, and with Google trying to monazite this mobile market, I can't see Google's own app being a better experience.
Haskell community surveys and reports have been going on since the early 00s
It should be soon. I don't remember the exact dates but pretty sure its coming up within the next month or so.
Ever heard of a sunk cost? From the perspective of the NJ governor, it's free money.
Github added a "Star" option to projects (in addition to "Watch")
Might be A/B tested and gradually rolled, didn't see anything on the blog / FAQ or online... so I guess it's silent at first to see acceptance...

Nice feature in any case...
A little late and I don't work there but I know I've seen at least Sun gear/monitors at JPL and Houston.
I never really felt that I was entitled to media that I didn't produce myself.

That's not the question. The question is whether you're entitled to prohibit people from sharing media with each other.

If you don't feel entitled to the media, nobody is saying you must get it. You're free to remain media-less.
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>>>Carrying around one of the most famously illegal prescription narcotics

Rush Limbaugh did much, much worse and how has he suffered? This guy had one freaking pill and that he was dumb and agreed to let the cops search him -- as everyday Americans submit to even worse searches by TSA -- is justification for what he went through?
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Yeah, to be honest, I'm not a super fan of the AppleTV Youtube app. The only way to find good content is to use subscriptions and those are hidden away on your account menu, and you need to select each one to find out if there are any new videos.
I've actually been thinking about how I'd like this for all my typing, but it's difficult to imagine how to do it.

One trick I've learned, if you want to make sure you get the benefit of this sort of approach, is to ensure that the new alias is not just possible, but mandatory. If you map "git commit" to something, you should make it no longer possible to type "git commit" instead of your new alias, and doing so should pop up the correction. This can also be used to move keys around; turn your Caps Lock into a Control key, you'll never use it, but if you unmap the left Control key at the same time, you'll find you've adjusted in about 5 uncomfortable minutes. It's fast enough to be worth experimenting with.
How much "market liquidity" is too much?
> it exposes the core concepts at the data level

But it exposes them poorly, from a user interface standpoint. The beauty of UNIX, actually, is that it provided a few simplifying abstractions (block files, character devices, pipes), and everything used that. Imagine if catting the contents of something from /dev was different than piping the contents of a tarball. That's the sort of UI/UX frustrations that TFA (and others) rant about.

This is not a "DVCS vs. SVN/CVS" issue. This is about git's usability.
I don't need to comment on US corruption, as I assume that most of you live in that country, and can easily read any book from Chomsky. Here's a little anecdote about Chinese and Russian corruption.

The mayors of the Russian city xxxsk in the Far East and its Chinese sister city xxxhui in the Heilongjiang province, get together once a year to discuss worldly affairs.

The mayor of xxxsk comes to visit the mayor of xxxhui, and find that the mayor of xxxhui is living in a luxury apartment, with a fine BMW in the garage, and even an "er nai" in an adjecent apartment. The mayor of xxxsk is impressed, and asks: "how are you, as a public servant, able to afford all this?" The xxxhui mayor gestures towards the floor to ceiling window of his pad, and responds proudly - "you see that factory complex - 800 million yuan (that was about 100 MM USD at the time I heard this joke) project, and I skimmed 10% of it".

The next sunmmer, the mayor of xxxhui visits xxxsk at the Russian mayor's dacha. The dacha was filled with resplendent decorations that would not be out of place in Odintsovo. There was a black Mercedes Benz in the garage, and several devki frolicking in the swimming pool. The Chinese mayor was duly impressed, and asked his Russian counterpart - "how are you able to afford all this?" The Russian mayor proudly gestures towards the woods - "you see that over there?" "No, I see only trees!", replies the Chinese mayor. "Well, that was supposed to be the eastern end of the new Trans-Siberian Highway - 3 billion rubles project, and I spizdel vse - took all of it."
BoA SafePass sucks. I had to sign up for it to make a transfer > $1000 to my Simple account ('cause I was moving banks) and it broke for 48 hours. Couldn't log into my account, yet alone transfer my cash. I was better off without it.
Good lord can we quit having this same argument every single time a story on HN is posted related to copyright infringement?

When someone says theft in relation to digital music, movies, etc they mean copyright infringement. Do we really need to have these repetitive and anal retentive trips down the rabbit hole every time this topic comes up?
Also see an old article of mine titled "Working with git? These aliases will save you hours!":

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/git-aliases/
http://www.nu.nl/gadgets/2877081/galaxy-note-101-week-koop.h... claims €479 for Wifi-only, and €599 for 3G.
Unless of course you only need to write one line. Not every use of git requires complex formatting in commit messages. Almost all of my git repos are used by me alone, and one line is enough. Obviously this isn't the main purpose of git, but I'm guessing I'm not the only developer using it this way.
Tower Records has gone out of business.
The problem with App.net (as it's currently described, anyway) is that it's halfway between what people who love Twitter want and what people who hate Twitter want, which makes it less than an obvious sale for both.

People who love Twitter want... Twitter. App.net doesn't interoperate with Twitter; it's another, separate silo. There's no guarantees that your Twitter friends will move to App.net with you, which limits the appeal if you live in Twitter.

People who hate Twitter hate it for a variety of reasons. App.net doesn't address most of these. If you hate Twitter because they kneecapped their developers, guess what, there's no guarantees App.net won't kneecap their developers five years from now either. If you hate Twitter because it's a centralized, proprietary system, guess what, App.net is centralized and proprietary too. If you hate Twitter because of its scaling problems, guess what, there's no guarantees that App.net (which, as noted, is as centralized as Twitter is) will be any better at dealing with that stuff. And so forth.

Personally, I fall into the latter category; I have lots of problems with Twitter. But nothing about App.net screams to me that here is the solution to those problems. Instead it just feels like Twitter with a different owner and a subscription fee -- which are just about the only ways at this point you could take the idea of Twitter and make it less appealing to me.
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More accurately:

"How to let a single oxycontin pill nearly ruin your life."
Yes, I know about that and I've even considered going all RAGEQUITSTEAM!!!111 for a few hours :) . But really there are two ways of attack on your cloud "posessions":

1. Corporate abuse (just like Valve did recently and thousands others do every day) - you can't do anything about that. No really anything. The most individual can do is strike corporation where they don't expect, that only work once and for one individual. In all other cases it is pointless - there is just way too big weight difference. And no, the class action suite would only make big corp smile. Valve done this and nothing can be done about that.

2. Individual abuse (download hash table, find passwords, do whatever) - you can confront that, but only in equal conditions. Hacker uses his tools, knowledge etc and user uses tools provided by cloud (in man vs. man case clouds tend to try being all good and protect user). So when Amazon made this security hole they took some of user tools, namely account-content link. This was done not by some evil plan to force users to buy second copies, that would be absurd, but because Amazone didn't care enough - "they want delete feature? fine, enable it for everything and everyone".
You are forgetting that artists have to pay for equipment, eat, have a place to live, etc.

And then there is the cost of a renting out a studio, a good sound mixer, additional musicians to play parts that your main band may not be capable of, etc.

The cost of reproduction may be close to zero, but the cost of production is most certainly not dropping. Technology may allow some genres of music to be one man bands, but that is certainly not true for all music genres. Orchestras cost money.
Many people don't want it in north america either.

To me democracy feels like the illusion of choice. We're given one vote every four years and have to select between evil and evil.
The GNU is exactly the opposite of normal copyright.
[...] The idea behind normal copyright--what some people
here do not like--is to limit others' access to
information. The whole point is that you cannot copy
something without the right-owner's permission.

As I see it, the idea behind copyright is that the creator of a work gets to choose the terms of reproduction.

They might choose the GPL for the reasons you state - or they might prefer a different license, like the Affero GPL, or GPL2 instead of GPL3. If we think that shouldn't be the developer's choice, whose should it be?
Github revamped notifications (link will work if you're logged in github)
Definitely true, but it appears like the DoJ opinions are viewed as strong suggestions to local law enforcement. I guess the question is whether you want to risk fighting a case which you will probably win.
Dreamhost down again
In 3D: http://i.imgur.com/PyxeK.jpg

Edit: colorized version as it might look on Earth, with significant artistic license taken (the Martian sky is less interesting [0]): http://i.imgur.com/oRCVX.jpg (updated with wheel colors)

I've distorted and level adjusted the images to my aesthetic taste, and assembled the rear hazcam images into a stereo pair for RDS-style viewing. Zoom out in your browser or image viewer, get close-ish to the screen, then look through the monitor until the red dots (or any other parts of the images) are in alignment. Continue to zoom in or out until your eyes are somewhat comfortable.

It is a privilege to be one of the first human beings to see this section of Mars in 3D photos.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_surface_color
cameras with a focal-plane shutter also "scan", more or less.
Public version of that software is here: http://eyes.nasa.gov/
The ads I get on twitter and Facebook are not a dealbreaker for me. I dont understand how its an improvement over either service with the exception that there are no ads and will likely protect my data better. (Thats another issue im not particularly worried about).
While not comprehensive, keep a watch on http://lanyrd.com/topics/hackathon/
I don't believe there would be a legal basis for taking down a site cataloging metadata about files. The information would be just as useful to copyright holders as it would be to copyright violators (e.g. tracking ownership, issuing takedowns on the basis of hash collisions, etc...).

To be very careful, we might decide that no URLs to a hash be cataloged in the 'wiki'.

As far as quality control - take a look at wikipedia - it's a beautiful mess. People make edits to entries all the time, some malicious, some not - there is a change tracker, and a community of editors. The consensus and the truth win out over individual acts of malice.

If shut downs were truly a concern, the database entries could be stored locally by the user making the entry and retrieval of entries would be like doing a query on a decentralized p2p network (gnutella). But then, that's messier and less scalable.

I think we should just make the wiki, and see how it goes as a first step. Establish its usefulness, build a community, and then support it.
I hope we can be a small part of enabling kids to do real things. Personally, the experience of building something that impacted other people's lives (albeit in a small way) at the age of 16 really shaped my outlook on life. We hope to expose more kids to this experience as it will give them a unique sense of fulfillment.
What's the case law on this? I thought they were only allowed to cuff suspects in custody, not simply being detained.
This semantic argument really needs to die. The legality and/or morality of the act is not determined by its label. Stealing or not, it is immoral and illegal to appropriate digital goods for oneself without honoring the financial stipulations set forth by the creator/owner of the property.
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That's a good point... while in theory is probably could drive at night, it probably isn't a good idea to have a rover on a different planet driving around in the dark.
That's ignoring the fact that piracy increases the raw number of songs acquired. Whether I pirate 20 albums a month plus buy one, or just buy one, the money received by the music industry as a whole is exactly the same. Which artist precisely gets my money is a bit different, but that's irrelevant to the industry as a whole.

Now, I'm not saying that everything is nice and clean, and I believe that the amount of money spent is actually decreasing. But, frankly, it's been what, 12 years since Napster ? The music industry should, and probably does, takes piracy into account when planning their sales.

Scare tactics are a way to protect their business. I understand that. I would prefer it if they used different tactics to convince me to give them money, though.
I don't see a whole lot of new artists in the Hot 100 list who are making it big going at it alone.

Maybe they are't as pissed off at the labels as you think?