skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We obviously need a secure, private, P2P domain name system."

We obviously need the government to respect the laws and the Constitution. Technological fixes are not the solution to corrupt government. If the government can't seize someone's domain, they can still seize their assets (as in the Megaupload case).
Thanks for that, added! It looks pretty promising.
Search the Internet for 'twitter firehose license' and you can see for yourself.
Does anyone know what the initial --add is for? I'm using z-fish and I'm wondering if I can elide it.
That really lags.

Software should be protected by free speech guarantees.

It looks like the developers just use open news data for this - nothing wrong with the doing this.

Pardon the self-plug here but I blogged today about why I hope not to buy anymore Apple products: http://blog.markwatson.com/2012/09/can-we-agree-to-stop-buyi...
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HN is readable to some extent. Not comfortable or pleasant, but ok.

That blog is just totally unreadable.
As a matter of principle I consider it wrong that a company that has absolute control on a market exerts its influence on political grounds that effectively stifle freedom of the press. Whether it gets one complaint of a million is not relevant to the question. Ask yourself what would happen if this was the case of ISPs blocking access to a website of the same sort.
Some things are also just a matter of taste. If you're really into theatre for instance, it's hard to beat NYC. If you don't care about that but you really hate cold weather then obviously you're going to choose differently!
I meant "not as useful" as "not as efficient". Of course you could do everything you could do in Python (or whatever) in C++, since Python is basically a subset of C++ (I assume Python is written in C/C++).

It just seems weird to make beginners start with a complicated tool when there are easier tools that can get the same results.
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Everyone would just move their money out of the UK.
Will you pleas stop with the mis-information. Read the linked article by Nilay Patel. It explains exactly why you are wrong about pinch to zoom.

"It may make Samsung differentiate further but at the same time they have to create unintuitive gestures to avoid Apple patents." Or in simpler terms, it forces companies to innovate.

"Can you imagine being a "little guy" trying to get into mobile development?" Sounds an awful lot like "Won't you please think of the children!" to me. Let's not forget that IBM, HP, Apple and Microsoft all started out at some point as the little guys, as did Google.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3279628/apple-pinch-to-zoo...
I think you're overstating the importance of investors. With the exception of a few firms (Sequoia, Accel, Union Square and maybe 10 others) whose mere name probably brings you some advantage, most VCs are not all that special (look at the returns data for proof).

If you're partnered with a middle-of-the-road VC, the reality is that not all their children (portfolio companies) are equal in their own eyes. Investors are generally aiming for "return the fund exits" and of their own admission, of 10 investments, it might be 1 company that does this.

Given they are in it for a financial return and they have limited time to allocate to companies, they will as self-interest dictates spend more time with the winners in their portfolio vs. duds.

Your celebrity analogy is a good one except it breaks down because investors have to be promiscuous. You are not the only special snowflake in their world that they'll take to parties and if anything, they're going to want to show up at the party with their "trophy portfolio company" -- not some broken or even doing ok company.

There is immense survivorship bias in the ecosystem. Those doing well get even more attention while the others shrivel up and go away. The thing is those companies that die get little attention as founders and investors generally don't want to advertise failures.
Bingo. The YouTube app on iOS is a pale shadow of the one on Android. Often my 3-year-old daughter has to come running for my help because the iOS YouTube has inexplicably decided to not do anything. Often this takes the form of multiple nonsensical pop-up alerts about access to the video being denied or other nonsense.

If you want to know what YouTube by Google will look like on the iPad, you need only pick up a Nexus 7 and look at it.
I was really hoping for a stat regarding how many streams were sent to datacenter vs consumer IPs. In other words, how many people outside of the UK were watching the feeds by using a proxy or VPN service?
As much as I spend my time "fighting the good fight" against Apple (and thereby am not in any way their friend or someone who agrees with many of their decisions, especially when it comes to the openness of their device), their marketplace should not be treated as someone's art project: putting products in the ecosystem whose sole goal is not to be purchased or even downloaded for free but to make someone browsing the store feel bad about themselves may be an interesting conceptual goal but it is not something I believe that anyone, much less Apple, should have to tolerate.

In a perfect world (where Apple did not have sole control), you could download it from this artist's website or even from a random alternative marketplace, but in that world this project doesn't work as it doesn't get the attention (at which point, he may as well not distribute it at all and still claim it was interesting, as it would be a nearly equivalent result); instead, this is just an artist attempting to troll Apple in a way that will cause some press, make even more people feel bad about themselves and, in addition, have some subset get angry at Apple for not letting them feel bad about themselves (which brings me back to asking after the point).

Stories like this, then, simply give the people who are trying to get these devices to be more open a bad name in the larger community, as we end up associated with all of these projects that large numbers of people find distasteful. Now, it would be one thing if the majority of the problem with Apple were things large numbers of people find objectionable or sketchy, but in fact the jailbroken ecosystem is mostly built out of entirely inoffensive things like "better multitasking", "improved address books", "download files in your browser", or even simply "replacement icons that look different".
Although I don't think you could watch any videos with ads through the YouTube app, because YouTube are only able to serve ads through the Flash player, not the plain H.264 feeds.
HaXe and HaXeNME come pretty close. Especially NME with which you can create GUIs and games compile to c++, compile to html5 using jeash, create native phone apps, and compile SWFs all from the same code. With HaXe itself the code usually needs a bit of modifying depending on the target. They added java recently to it which is not yet available for NME. If anything; it's fun to play with.
Even simply coming to a safe halt is problematic. What if some troll traps a self-driving car with a few empty cardboard boxes?
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I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make. Are you saying that it's not desirable to reduce the load on your backend web servers?

I'm neither a Lua expert nor an evangelist, but my clear impression is that Lua is much more suited to embedding in a web server than Ruby or Python. On the Lua website it is described as "a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language" - that's not a description I would ascribe to either Ruby or Python. I also know that Lua has a long history of being embedded in games, embedded systems and other servers like Redis. Perhaps somebody more experienced in Lua can help me out here though.

In this case there seems to be good evidence that Lua is the right tool for the job.

One minor point- in your first comment you talk about interpreted Lua code, but this is not accurate because Lua can be compiled down to byte code before being loaded into Nginx.

Finally - "Embedding Python in a web server is quite doable". I would be interested to read a blog post about your experiments in this area ;)
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The greyed text of HN is used as an example.

I agree - the grey text is hard to read. Mostly that's by design; down voted comments are supposed to be hard to read. But when someone starts a thread with a comment, instead of an external link, they grey text is weird and hard to read.

The normal text of HN is fine for contrast.
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#666666 isn't a light grey but they set the font-weight to 300 (light) which is the key problem.
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Yes, I was using a US viewpoint, given that I'm a US citizen, HN is hosted in the US, and most of the participants are also under US copyright jurisdiction. The US doesn't have moral rights like what other countries have. Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. is the Supreme Court example showing that works which have entered the public domain can be edited, and in doing so, remove information about the original authors.

Moral rights, as I understand them, only apply when something "would be prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation." However, modification depends on copyright. These are two separate things, and I think you agree with that.

Scalia, writing for the Court in the 8-0 decision, points out that Dastar "could face Lanham Act liability for crediting the creator if that should be regarded as implying the creator’s “sponsorship or approval” of the copy." Because Dastar did not include mention of Fox as the original author, there is actually less chance of the new work being 'prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation' and less infringement on moral right.

Therefore, I don't understand how your mentioning of moral rights affects my "one of 250" scenario. Since different countries seem to have different view on what exactly moral rights means, could you explain what the specific principle is and how long that moral right would last?

When you do so, could you also comment on how moral right would change the Dastar case, and how it might affect the following circumstance, also quoted from Scalia's Supreme Court judgement?

"A video of the MGM film Carmen Jones, after its copyright has expired, would presumably require attribution not just to MGM, but to Oscar Hammerstein II (who wrote the musical on which the film was based), to Georges Bizet (who wrote the opera on which the musical was based), and to Prosper Mérimée (who wrote the novel on which the opera was based). In many cases, figuring out who is in the line of “origin” would be no simple task."
Yeahh Youtube is business no other thing, All us viewed TV with ads all life and now stay here, share knowledge and opinions. If you have all Wallstreet over your shoulders, sure you search the form to increase the revenue. For other side if you don't want to pay viewing the ads, simply install adblock plus.
This point and similar ones are made in the book "Willpower" by Baumeister and Tierney. They provide references to the research.
This is exactly what I thought when I heard the news about the YouTube app too, with respect to my own daughter.

But then I realized I never upgrade iOS devices and just buy new ones, so she can milk out our existing iPads for at least a few years yet.. unless they'll totally disable access from the old YouTube app(?)
You can see the whole source here : https://github.com/shaunew/Pac-Man/tree/gh-pages/src

I wonder how he compiles these files into one though ? THis is the main drawback of javascript to me at the moment : having to write everything in one big file.
Scripting Nginx with Lua
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Either buy Apple (and accept their model of the market) or don't. Seems fair to me.

Last Apple product I bought was a gen2 iPod.
Just put the mic and speaker on the sides too!

http://i.imgur.com/zCzGe.jpg
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Sure, especially when all the ingredients composing a deodorant can are extracted, synthesized and produced by magical gnomes that ship their product directly to you using highly efficient automated unicorns receiving 5 bars of 4G pretty much everywhere in the world.

That's horn antenna technology at work.
The beatings will continue until everybody shares the same thoughts? Now what does that remind me of?
The UI/UX is great. The music is great. Triple thumbs up!
Hmmm... And I'm sure the BBC want to tell the IOC (and the world) that they massively failed to meet their contractual requirements to limit distribution to the territories they have licences for.

Edit: PayUpPal below claims to be BBC employee and says not contractual terms were breached. I would have expected there to be requirements to effectively secure the content to the territories the IOC sold the rights too. Maybe specific security measures were required and applied. Either way indicating massive international access may lead to stricter conditions next time.
Dan Pallotta wrote an article titled "When My Business Failed". It included a quote that explains the Apple/Android war perfectly:

> I've learned that the adage about innovation is true — that at first, people say your idea is absurd, then they say it was obvious all along, and then they say it was their idea to begin with.

That's exactly what I've seen with Apple since Steve Jobs returned. Remember all the "giant iPod" comments when the iPad was released? Or the "this will fail without a keyboard" when the iPhone came out? Those people shut up now. With each product Apple released, people dismissed it immediately.

Now people are saying they're "obvious" ideas. The argument that Apple shouldn't be allowed to defend their designs all center around how "obvious" they are. Of course, they weren't obvious when Apple released them. They're only "obvious" now that other companies have copied those ideas. I won't get in to design with most of you because you aren't designers but the simplest solutions are usually the hardest to come up with. It's easy to make something complicated. It's very, very hard to make it simple or intuitive.

You can't rewrite history. When the iPhone was being developed, Android looked like Blackberry. Those are the facts. What should be obvious is that Eric Schmidt sat on Apples board and suddenly pivoted Android before being removed for "conflicts on interest." And you wonder why Steve Jobs was pissed? That's a serious breach of ethics.

Most of the anti-Apple comments are absurd. Like the Xerox thing: Apple didn't steal anything. They paid for something Xerox didn't believe in and weren't going to develop further.

If you have an issue with patents write your congressperson. Donate to not-for-profit organizations trying to fix the patent system. Contact the companies that abuse the patent system (especially if you're a shareholder or large customer) and tell them what you think. But don't use patents as an excuse to attack companies you irrationally hate.
Which in some sense is still wanting the money!
I'm hardly an anti-tax guy, but I can think of no valid reason why should low bandwidth subsidize high bandwidth users, coupled with eliminating competition.

For service providers, profit based has been working fine to drive down prices, and I have no reason to believe that's a real impediment for any new competitor.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to be harsh with you: that's an incredibly ignorant comment.

Everyone would not move their money out of the UK, because:

- £3trillion is in UK property - that is going nowhere
- a small proportion have wealth
- those few who try to relocate will be replaced by many more economic migrants because this taxation is cheaper for those who work and expensive for those who don't

So no, everyone would not just move their money out of the UK.
Awesome eBook for free is awesome. Just bought it for my Kindle and for sure I'll be reading this during the weekend.

Thanks for the tip! ;)
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You don't get your money back from a lottery.
Dunno. I thought the thread had wandered away from a specific case and was making a general comment. But yes, I believe that's something considered before proceeding in absentia.
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> In PHP now when you define a function, and then call that function; it may or may not execute the code inside that function, depending on whether later on in the function there's a `yield` keyword. That's insane!

It's exactly how it works in C# and Python. When you call a function, you don't care how it does what it does -- only that it returns a result. The syntax and design works this way in all sorts of languages because it's easier to reason about. I've only used generators in C# but it's amazingly simple to use. The point of an abstraction is that it hides the details. You're overly concerned with the details that are neatly and logically hidden away.
We can talk about it. We are very flexible when it comes to people we want, it's really about the fit for us (+some openness to switch to full-time eventually)
Industrialization made cars finally feasible, not the other way around. It takes cleverness and tinkering to maintain a car (less so when new), but operating it is not a human-level task; I'm pretty sure a monkey could be trained to do it.
Looking at the code, I'm pretty sure the contents of each file is just dropped into an IIFE. A pretty simple Ruby script would take care of this.
Exactly. The product doesn't matter, the users are resources to advance the founder's personal fortunes. It IS all about the gamble. How is making hundreds of millions of dollars a failure? It's about you.
Mathics (http://www.mathics.org/) is a pretty useful online algebra system (with MathJax display) for symbolic computing à la Mathematica, backed by SymPy for most tasks and Sage for advanced stuff. You can check gallery and docs at http://www.mathics.net/
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I live in Jacksonville, FL. It's not known for its booming tech scene. Although there are a few folks doing some interesting things, I don't know anyone in the area that might be experiencing some of the same things as I am and no one I can sit down and have a beer with and talk shop with someone who understands.

Any ideas, online or otherwise?
That changes everything. Go learn RoR then. It will be lots of fun. Boy, do I envy you! Rails is definitely a joyful ride. Just don't listen to much to the fanboys and their absurdly complicated solutions to simple problems. Good luck and keep me posted. I'd love to hear about your progress.
I think they would be beaten by the tactic that killed Fleet Street (where newsprinters got rid of all their personnel by moving their business, but leaving outdated personnel such as typesetters behind. See http://www.mediauk.com/article/32718/the-fleet-street-revolu...): secretly buy your driverless trucks, and replace all your drivers overnight. That way, you won't have employees that can strike against the change.
Is going to? Try "already did".
No. Not that I know of.

But you save that feature for when it gets into the store -- it will properly piss of people anyway.
Because interpretability may not be the key concern, attractiveness might be a more important criteria for the creator.
I'm surprised that people have zeroed in on the tiny mention of ads in the blog post. It's mostly a minor point, and isn't really about not wanting to pay.

Let's make the quote generic:

> And now, presumably, $COMPANY will come out with its own version of a $SERVICE app for $PLATFORM focused on sharing to $SOCIALPLATFORM, and advertising, and all the unnecessary crap that my sister doesn’t really want. She’s going to have to transition from something easy, and useful, and fun, to something that’s most likely subpar and not as good as an older version.

This is a valid complaint, and it happens to a lot of stuff from a lot of different providers.

But, if we're talking about adverts: I'd consider subscribing and removing ads, but that's not an option that Youtube offers. Because I like the content I watch, and wish to support the creators, I watch the ads. And often they're lousy. There's no option to tell Youtube to stop showing me this ad that I have zero interest in. (I AM NEVER EVER GOING TO BUY ANYTHING FROM FUCKING JACAMO) I might even buy something from an advert if it was relevant to me. I'm one of the most ad-tolerant people I know, and if Youtube is getting it wrong for me then they're failing hard.

Also, Youtube keep showing me ads that probably are non-compliant with advertising codes in the UK. That's a problem.
Claiming that that's what I said ... would also be lying.
At least you can smash it with a rock and continue to go where you want to go, when you want and how you want.
Thank you! We're trying our best and having a lot of fun. We will see. :)
Sweet, I look forward to reading this. Thanks
Right, forgot about that completely. Their API usage did grow considerably since then. I would love to find some data on what were the results for that licensing experiment
Capital flight is a really big risk with this idea. I don't see the ignorance in that comment but then I am not an economist.

Land wouldn't be moved but what about the other taxable wealth items such as insurance, corporate stock and bank deposits.
Not in the UK - why TF not?