skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be pointed out the Neil Armstrong was US Navy and Chuck Yeager was US Air Force, so there is a bit of inter service rivalry. Chuck Yeager did tweet '"Too bad we lost one of our good pioneers. Neil (Armstrong) was a good friend and we'll miss him" - General Chuck Yeager'. Yeager's comments seem to jive with a lot of others that Armstrong was a great engineer.
In this case there happens to be a big difference. Try putting this book on your Nook or any other eReader that doesn't have a Kindle app.
Over Usenet? Very unlikely that a casual leecher will get caught unless your ISP is doing deep packet inspection. Consuming Terabytes of data a month might arouse suspicion at your ISP, but that's regardless of Usenet or Bittorrent. 90% of good newsgroup providers offer SSL transfers these days anyways, but if someone is sniffing your line and inspecting your data, you have bigger problems than how to download the new Avengers movie securely.
..."affirmative action is racist" and "taxation is theft". This is not what conservatives believe...

You must not get much chain email. Not to disagree that some examples of lefty dumbness would have improved the article. Plenty of dumb in the world to go around. But I've seen those exact points argued by conservatives on Hacker News, let alone the fox news discussion forums.
No, it has the button to play audio through Air Play. It's a different icon for video.
Extremely interesting. I wonder: when does it "commit"/create a new rev?
My family has adopted a single rule. Never buy anything with sugar on the ingredients list. I am of course aware that a little fructose would probably not kill me not even long term, but the biggest problem in dieting IMO is keeping track of your inputs. This rule alone rules out enough crap to make us eat reasonably healthy as the correlation of added sugar to crap food is pretty high. So I understand why simple rules are important I just believe they don't have to be, never eat any carbs.
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There is a big difference between dreaming about something and actually doing it. For example, everyone knew what a flying machine was, centuries before it was invented. Clearly this doesn't mean that creating that machine was actually obvious. With computing it is similar, there are lots of "inventions" dreamed about by science fiction writers that are simply not possible today. When such innovations become possible, they will need to be protected.
This line from the article made me laugh: "The transformation would make sense in a dialect with weaker support (both compiler and social) for assignment."
Try this? Triage the list; recopy it weekly, collecting notes from the previous week; write broad items at first and break them down as you go.
redistribution in a non-compatible license is also a GPL violation. Source present or not. You can't release a forked GPL product under e.g. the BSD license
I've had some IFTTT-esque ideas with http://noflojs.org/ as well
Thats awesome. I remember when you launched on HN not long ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141
If he is going to use GPL, a licence with almost nil chance enforcement when violated, how naive is he when he so surprise that scummy people try and commercialise his software.

There isn't necessarily anything "scummy" about commercialising F/OSS. I mean, do you think Red Hat are scummy for selling Linux?
Selling (or for that matter, distribution of any kind) GPL software under a different licence is not allowed. If you want to sell, you have to keep the GPL licence.
Well, here's why HBO doesn't do it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/11/why-hbo-cant...
Forking, calling it something else and selling it is okay by the GPL. Using a different license isn't. A piece of code that's under the GPL must remain under the GPL unless the author (copyright holder that is) decides to change the license. At least that's how I understood it.

So while you can fork it and sell it, you can't sell it under a different license, which is what those guys did.
Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/15.0/releasenotes/
In other parts of software as well: the use of lines of code, and various modified LOC metrics, to quantify programmer productivity is fairly notorious.
It bugs me that it has to be in this stupid base64 encoded format, which is wasteful. Also, the binaries have to be cut up chunks of a certain size; it's all rather hacky. Instead of providing Usenet servers it would be better to offer something like bittorrent caches.
That's basically what I said: The GPL violation can happen on redistribution - but it doesn't happen on forking the project.
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I don't like to use Chrome. Updates for IE are not available because I am still on XP. Safari is also not updating itself for Windows.

So what are the options left any more?

It seems things are getting pathetic in the browser market.
Russian search giant Yandex joined W3C
What makes you think I don't know?

The balance of payments crisis was a long time brewing, and books have been written to do it justice.

Heres how it went -

Rajiv Gandhi was murdered in 1991.

That year a "stop gap" intellectual was made Prime Minister, The now un-lamented Narasimha Rao.

He chose Manmohan Singh, a quiet intellectual to be his Finance Minister.

Manmohan was the planner, and Rao the force that allowed him to follow his goals.
Manmohan in turn broke the task down and gave it to several different competent people to implement.

At one point, over 3 days, the devalued the RS by 20%.

Following that he told the new commerce minister, P. Chidambaram, that he wanted to abolish the export subsidy, because the lowered RS was enough of an incentive.

That would have ended his Chidambaram as a commerce minister, since it was his only way to encourage exports. Yet he had to agree in the end.

So he asked if he could also announce a formal trade reform at the same time.

He and Montek Singh worked to demolish the import licensing raj and had only 8 hours to manage it. They settled on an exim scrips, which allowed market forces to help settle currency trades, and removed the bureaucrat from the process.

40 years of red tape, vested interest, a wounded economy, and under the hardest of deadlines they managed to slice off a huge chunk of that.

If you think, the details of that are trivial or obvious, please spend some time to read the document.

When asked, Manmohan Singh said that it was worth doing, and Narasimha Rao signed the bill.

Thats how a good team works. They had a good FM, a PM which was willing to do the task, however reluctantly, and well ordered subordinates.

Other countries have faced easier challenges and failed.

And thats only the dismantling of the export license raj. They dismantled the industry side of the raj. Then they went on to abolish the MRTP act, opened up everything from banking to airlines, allowed foreign investment (remember Coke buying thums up?), reduced tax rates, and on and on.

This happened over 2 years. They didn't have to beyond a point though. They could have said "this is well enough".

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When you say
> Those who have studied Indian Economics will know that liberalization was forced on us.

You make it sound like a trivial task. As if one were breaking an egg.

Ask Russia how it went for them after Yelstin, in contrast. I never saw tanks having to protect our Parliament from a coup.

The theory du jour is to reduce the importance of Manmohan Singh to the reform process. But these reductions first don't understand the role he played in the first place.
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But if patents worked then as software patents do now there would be fewer of those patents, quite a bit I would imagine. Because they would have claimed ownership of the method of controlling the direction of the vehicle with no example of how it actually works. Therefore no one could take the first patent and improve on it, or in other words innovate. The first patent would own the outcome.

"Yes, I understand that my steering wheel is 'round' and your wheel is 'square' with a completely different mechanical system involved. But I own the patent for steering moving objects, so go away."
Region locking, launch day delay, cross border licensing , etc all amount to a pile of dung that limits their profits.

Global distribution that steps over the above is a first step to a solution. Country ISP level firewalls and DRM are not.
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>Although the comparative lack of hands-on control led some astronauts to call themselves ‘spam in a can’, these missions called for both the highest order of technical skill and the steeliest of nerves. Aldrin’s pulse-rate at blast-off was only 110 and, within minutes of landing on the Moon, Armstrong’s was down to 90.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n17/steven-shapin/what-did-you-expe...

Man, I sometimes have a hard time walking around my office when it's pitch dark and no one else is around.
It's a bit of an overkill for my purposes- I've only copied out (and modified) a little of the packfile/ packfile index generation code from git.git. Plus, dealing with the actual code is a great learning exercise :)
I feel like people who want to rename this type of role are either people who haven't worked with marketers very much, or look down on marketers--or both.

Marketing at big companies has involved intense data analysis for many years now. We don't need a new name for that.
It's also not a patent. It's a patent application.
Except Meteor is clearly prior art. The patent was filed Jan 24, 2012 and Meteor's first commit was in November 2011.
Aaron Shepherd's Plan B (an update to POD for profit).

Selling to B and N with a 55% discount from lightning source should make the books appear with a 40% discount off the list price. Amazon generally matches those discounts.

The list price will be $44. 44 * 0.6 = 26.4

Using the Createspace royalty calculator, $44 with a 300 page book produces a royalty of ~$22.

Amazon discount don't reduce Createspace royalties. I may be overlooking something, or some part of the plan might fail of course.

https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/
One, thanks for reading (and whoever posted, thank you). I agree with you, personally I think it's a combination of needing more local success stories, as well as recognition by the Nat'l Startup community that we have something to bring to the dance.

Folks like Steve Blank seem to be taking note of the region's efforts. We hosted him last month and his investment into the Michigan eLab (Venture Fund) in your neck of the woods (Ann Arbor) seems to be a strong indicator that something is here...
Presumably, and topically, you might try Firefox. Alternatively, you could try to rally developers to write a native-behaving browser based on the Cairo webkit port. It needs substantial love but it would be a project that would really better the options for a modern browser on Windows.

Writing a new web rendering engine is, of course, both virtually impossible and foolish.
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When you modify a file and save it.
THIS IS NOT A PATENT. This is what's known as a pre-grant publication. This application has been filed, but it has not yet been examined. Chances are quite low that it will issue as a patent in its current form.

Yes, the claims are broad... but this is just a published app, not a patent.
A logical fallacy does imply that an argument is wrong. It doesn't mean that the conclusion is wrong, but it means the argument is wrong. If an argument rests on a logical fallacy, then it does not provide evidence for its conclusion.
Wow, awesome project!
According to the member order calculator, they charge $4.45 for each copy of a 300 page book that I buy.

https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/
When you chose to stay on a decade old OS, 3 major revisions behind what is currently out there, you sort of chose what sort of support you were going to get.

Nobody is supporting Ubuntu 6, yet you seem to expect people to support the Windows equivalent.

I know XPers refuse to admit it, but they run an antiquated OS, and if you insist on running antiquated operating system software, don't be surprised when the rest of the software you can run starts rusting as well.

Sorry.
I did further down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4443294

Personally I think it's better too.
It's also not a patent, just a published patent application.
I only intended to comment on the first part. Decided against cutting the quote mid-sentence. (Which led to me learning something new from masklinn's comment. =))
Do you know HTML5?
I was asked this today and I wonder if it is even possible to answer this question with a straight face?

HTML5 is a very vague term for a wide range of constantly evolving browser features.

* You may be an expert of in-browser storage but clueless about WebGL. Does it mean you know HTML5?

* You've implemented web socket servers and clients, but you know nothing about IndexedDB. Does it mean you know HTML5?

* You've mastered the file systems API, but are a WebRTC dummy. Does it mean you know HTML5?

--

Do I know HTML5? I've worked with some parts, I've consciously stayed away from others while being too scared to explore the rest.

Be specific. What are you referring to really? Define what you mean by 'HTML5'.

I'm a programmer not a marketing exec. I cannot lie and I only have 24 hours in a day so I'm not an expert of it all.

Nobody else is either.

--

Oh well, at least people asking me are better off than a very experienced (15+ years) colleague of mine who just dismissed HTML5 as a "bunch of new HTML tags".

HTML != HTML5

HTML5 is a bucket term for a wide and extremely diverse range of browser capabilities. Not a 'bunch of new tags'.

Argh. /me out
Oh, I'm sure you could, but most don't seem to bother because it would be too specific and might possibly make it easy to create a workaround to the patent. Why be specific to control a small part when you can be general and control the majority?
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Or role your own off QtWebKit, which is surprisingly full featured and works mostly pretty well.
Let's check the some facts. (Conclusions: the author seems right.)

The application author claims that, among the others, a "DocuManager" application bundled its software and sold it with 1) disclosing that the original software is his "Mayan EDMS" 2) abiding to the licence (GPLv2).

Google tells us that there are two DocuManager applications:

1) http://www.evolusoft.com/documanager.html

2) http://documanager.co.uk/

3) http://www.documanager.de/

Point 1: Mayan EDMS is not properly credited.

A search for "mayan site:X" did not find anything in any of these sites. The author seems right.

Point 2: GPL terms not respected.

One of the GPL terms deals with the fact that you must distribute the licence text itself or offer a way to do so. The string GPL must, thus, appear somewhere in the site.

The query in this case is "GPL site:X". Site 1 and 3 have no page with the term GPL inside. Site 2 instead seems to talk about a GPL version and a commercial, extended, closed version: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

As is for point 1, author is right about point 2 for all these three applications.

We do not know which software the author of Mayam EDMS was referring to when he wrote "DocuManager", but, in any case, none of the three surveyed applications seems to fulfil the licence terms.
So you're basically saying that Apple innovated but it shouldn't be granted a protective patent. Isn't this what the patent system was created to do? I see a lot of complaints about when patents are wrongfully used, but this is the first time I see someone complaining when they are correctly used.

The story here seems to be that Apple did the right thing buying a company that developed an innovate technology. In other words, the small company the created the technology was compensated by its development. Now, you think that a company like Samsung can just say "no, this is obvious" and start using that same innovation without any compensation or agreement? This is what seems crazy to me.
No, it expires based on when it was granted not the priority date. However, different parts of the same patent can have different priority dates if they where not in the initial filing. So, some prior art after 1998 may still be relevant.
OP here.

Yeah, I deliberately took the title as the headline from the FT article. The planet money podcast and the FT article have somewhat different content, but both are well worth consuming. The FT article goes into more depth on the story.

The reason I found it worth posting was because Norway set up specific rules that most other countries don't consider when they find oil (heavy taxation on the oil industry so that the oil profits benefit the whole country, only invest the interest not the principal, don't drill all the oil at once, get a higher percentage out of the ground than elsewhere, agree not to use oil as a political tool around elections). It's important to note that strong institutions like a stable political system, and strong, independent judiciary are needed for these rules for even be considered, let alone enforced.

It's also interesting to note that at a time when so many sovereign balance sheets are weighed down by misguided bank bailouts, Norway has managed to build up a sovereign wealth fund such that for each it's citizens it has a positive $100,000 value.
If you find yourself frustrated with the Kindle walled garden, and want the book in another format (PDF, EPUB, etc), then you can convert your kindle books to PDF/Whatever format by following this procedure. Please note - This may not be legal, and is demonstrated for educational purposes only!

1)Download and install Kindle for PC (Or Mac, if you have a Mac)

2)Download and install freeware Calibre (Open Source)
(http://calibre-ebook.com/download)

3)Download and install DRM removal plug-ins for Calibre
(if you use Kindle for PC app, you will just need to add the Kindle plug-in to Calibre)

4)Download your .AZW (Amazon's proprietary format) ebook onto Kindle For PC

5)Run Calibre

6)Find the folder with Kindle for PC ebooks (My documents/My Kindle Content)

7)Select DRM-protected AZW files and drag-n-drop them onto Calibre

8)Calibre will remove DRM protection from AZW ebook(s)

9)Convert your DRM-free MOBI ebooks to any other format (like ePub/fb2/LRF/Mobi/PDF/PDB/TXT/RTF/LIT) using Calibre if needed.

10)Enjoy reading the book in your new format. This is another way to say 'fuck you' to walled gardens like the Kindle.
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I assumed there were actual violations, which would make the perpetrators scummy.
I need to start seeing things that way. It's really hard, though, when I'm reading The Daily WTF and I go "that doesn't look so bad. I've written code similar to that".

At least I can look at ideas I had 6 months ago and say now that that was a really stupid idea. Progress...
I agree that it's not easy to do mail right, that's my daily business. But that's also the reason why i was wondering.
I probably just don't like the marketing speak of the website (as if it would be something unusual to do SPF or mail routing or filtering or regex, etc. etc.). On the other hand it is hard enough in this business already. You need to point out that stuff, ok..

Anyhow, i have been downvoted for a serious question. Sorry i did upset people with a question....
Being WebSocket-based only has the unfortunate consequence of not working well on cellular networks, because some like Verizon will often blackhole WS connections.

This means that if you are building a real time app that has any chance to be used on mobile, you'll always need a fallback.
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The GPL has an excellent enforcement history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation#GPL_en...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html
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Wow! I din't notice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

There are plenty! If you want a specific one, Midori's pretty good.
Ah, OK. I thought you were implying that scumminess was a direct result of trying to commercialise F/OSS. My bad.
I like it.

There's an interesting question of scale that comes up: this tool helps me understand the behaviors of a handful of named users. Is that best for high-margin businesses with only a few users or for the most-valued users of systems with tens of thousands of users.

Given the fact that the big claim at the top is that you triage CRM, I assume the latter. In a way, this is kind of applying the Klout methodology to CRM (impose some sort order on "importance" and use that to triage personal attention).

What do the hooks look like for a developer?

nit: the blue circles are visually confusing until you realize they represent popup comments.
Opera, Chromium, WebKit (yes, there's a Windows build ... no idea if it's OK on XP). Plus derivatives of the popular browsers. Safari. What are you looking for?
And don't tell anybody about your new riches, either.
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This is why a lot of patent trolls would drag their feet as long as possible in the hopes that someone would actually research, prototype and bring to market what they've "invented". These so-called submarine patents then surface to sink the company who's done all the work.

It's my understanding that the USPTO is trying to limit the ability of companies to do this though.
The Free Software Foundation Europe and gpl-violations.org might provide advice and assistance:

https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ftf.en.html

http://gpl-violations.org/
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Calling it broken is a relative statement. On a technical level, they had to do something to prevent mirroring from functioning as the article wants. So, they implement AirPlay, but audio only. But, I'd argue this works exactly as HBO wants it to, so it's not broken, it just doesn't do what you want it to.

HBO's business model isn't terribly friendly to watching their programming on a TV unless it comes via cable or one of their heavily licensed, and generally stationary, partner products. You are a lot less likely to take a Roku or Xbox to a friends' house to watch Game of Thrones, but you always have your iPhone. Of course you could have them over and this falls apart, but you could do that with their cable feed as well. They're trying to slow the bleeding since they can't stop it.
The inotify script likely has a race condition; if the directory is modified while an update is running, it won't pick up the second modification, and will wait in a dirty state until it is modified again.
If anyone wants a race-free solution, you should check out my NCD scripting language [1] which has an integrated command to receive directory change notifications (last example in Blockers section is a race-free solution to this problem).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD
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Yes might be a mistake... as far as I know there's not much you can do about it except e-mail pg or simply create a new account.
I really don't think tablets have a lot to do with this slump. Software isn't driving hardware sales the way it did a few years ago. Personally, I haven't had to purchase a single upgrade in over 3 years. In the late 90s and early 00s, I was upgrading almost every year because new software and games ran poorly on older hardware. Once software pushes my current hardware, then I will have a good reason to upgrade.
Fair enough (though I think the Nook is pretty much the only eReader in that category)