skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is called escrow, and it is a longstanding industry.
Young person who dresses in a non-boring way = hipster, apparently.
So would it be illegal if my team of emus, pecking 0s and 1s at keyboards, collaboratively created a file that, when packed into segments of size 8 and converted from ASCII to binary, is bit-for-bit equal to a decrypted a DVD?

I hope not! It probably is illegal considering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_numbers.

Man, the law just isn't rigorous enough for me.
> “The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly lawful to take a CD that you’ve purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."

Why are we letting record companies tell us what's lawful? (and by extension, what's not)
The following is not specific to startup funding (which I have no experience with), but general advice when it comes to financial offers:
Whenever someone promises you a seemingly very large amount of money in exchange for a comparatively small up front fee (paid by you), there is a very high chance that something is fishy as this is a SOP for all kinds of fraud. If you still want to go ahead, ask for the fee to be deduced from the payment you will supposedly receive. If the offer is genuine this should not be a problem.
The button bar + notification bar looks strange on a 10" screen. It was OK on the Nexus 7, but does cramp the screen in portrait. I wonder what their rationalization for it on a 10" screen is.
It's always important to remember the difference between a syncing service and a backup service. A syncing service sometimes feels like a backup, because you can use it to recover files if a local device is destroyed or lost. HOWEVER, any service capable of syncing files is equally capable of destroying them.

It's important to have an automated one-way backup system that you can manually restore from. Something like Tarsnap [1] looks like a really good possibility (I haven't used it myself, but it seems solid)

[1] http://www.tarsnap.com/gettingstarted.html
The significance of this should not be understated. This shows compelling evidence of real voter fraud that swayed the republican primary in Romney's favor and could easily sway a close general election.

Can anyone offer up a legitimate reason that the % of votes for a particular candidate should correlate with precinct size?
Hi - I work at Public Knowledge and coordinated our exemption request. While our exemption request was specifically about DVDs, the Copyright Office's rejection was much broader. Essentially, the Copyright Office found no evidence that space shifting as a practice was fair use. That means that, as far as the Copyright Office is concerned, space shifters are infringing on copyright. That would include anyone who copied a work from one medium to another - regardless of whether or not it was protected by DRM.
And a center tag too :)
Not all episodes... RIP Super Best Friends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends
And if a million people join the group, they'll know they're onto something.
Using Vagrant/Chef to Achieve Dev/Prod Parity
Dropbox for syncing.

Crashplan for backing up.

That combo hasn't failed me yet.
Your FAQ/Learn More page still says "currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates"

http://developerauction.com/for_developers
While one should design things as if it is, hacking is not, in fact, inevitable, and its possible to run properly-secured money-handling services.

Speaking from personal experience.

I realize this is a common sentiment in the Bitcoin community, but its not true and its one of the reasons why security has not improved over there.
Almost as good as grass fish, though given some weather events they do make an appearance once in a while. I did do a image search of "octopus in a tree" on google and saw more results than one would of thought, which goes to show that on the internet you can always find something to back up your imagination as reality - scary.
Because you can make more money selling four+ tablets than one desktop monitor at sizes/resolutions that continue to have very low total sales?
Analogy time. If one left a partisan alone with unsealed boxes of ballots, I would think they would be considered spoiled (correct me if I'm wrong). I agree with you that leaving the electronic ballots in a partisan's computer with no mechanisms to detect tampering should similarly be considered spoiled.

A strong paper trail seems to be the answer. It doesn't matter what the hardware and software tries to do if the machine has to produce a paper record (checked and approved by each voter) that is spooled for later checking against the electronic total.
Interesting note at the bottom for those who may have missed it (Donald Knuth on the organ is very distracting):

>The only thing missing was electricity; the building lost all power just as the presentation was to begin. Thanks to the creativity of the Archive’s engineers and a couple of ridiculously long extension cords that reached a nearby house, the show went on.
It seems like these services are moving to a model where they get their user's trust by storing the majority of funds offline, which means they cannot be hacked remotely.
Check up the compatibility.js file that comes with pdfjs. We edited some portions according to our need to have some PDFs render properly. Although we're not totally there yet too!
I've been a very happy Backblaze customer for over a year now.

http://www.backblaze.com/
No, as m4a files are not protected by any copy protection mechanisms, which is the factor in play here. Did you by any chance mean the obsolete .m4p/Fairplay files that Apple abandoned several years back?
Cringley: H1-B Visa abuse leads to lower wages and lower standard of living
Defaming sovereign leaders is against the laws of many other nations - laws as popular as Anglo-Saxon copyright laws.
Fantastic news guys! I use it every time I'm in San Francisco, and I can't wait until it's more ubiquitous.

I also love that you guys have an Android app now. Makes it much more accessible!
My apologies. I think of my comtemporary peers' mocking of my phone when I hear others make the argument and forget that circumstances may vary. I can see why swappable storage would be valuable, especially in places where an Android phone may be a more primary computing device.

I know it's still a compromise, but that all having been said, the Galaxy Nexus can be a USB host device so you could use a reader or a jump drive or other USB devices (mice/keyboards/etc)
They're not always the only options, true. But sometimes they are.
This is only one of several things that make me think and hope that this isn't the version to actually ship to consumers.
That doesn't help in cases like these.

In order for it to help, a company or individual would need a way to say, "only contracts held in escrow are valid from the period from x to y" and have it hold up in court.
For digital signals, 0 dB usually means full power. That scale is typically denoted dB FS ("full scale"). Other scales are dB SPL ( "sound pressure level"), which is what you where probably referring to.

So in other words, you are probably saying that reducing the signal loudness is reducing your signal-to-noise ratio and thus your audible dynamic range. However, your noise floor is probably far higher than 0 dB, more like 20-30 dB SPL (if you're lucky!). A normally-loud (that is, non-damaging) music playback will probably be at about 50-80 dB, so your usable dynamic range will be about 30-60 dB, which translates to about ten bits. Most environments will be worse.

0 dB are actually pretty hard to come by. Even well-insulated acoustical measurement chambers only go to about 10 dB. Only several meter of acoustic foam and a solid foundation and a purpose built air conditioning can go down to 0 dB. So, umm, 0 dB is usually a rather useless figure for non-scientific purposes.
You have to give the trend a name so you can refer to it after it becomes boring itself.
The unexpected importance of geography in a digital world
My content is fine, I have about 5.5 GB of content, and usually push content using the Windows client.
Firefox uses 150% CPU and freezes in Ubuntu 12.04, had to kill the process :(
CPU went up 100% :) and internet radio stopped working :))) had to close it. Complete overkill, but very creative overkill! :)
Because the Republicans are not proposing the elimination of government by any stretch of the imagination, and you can see that from the link you provided.
Yet another "Yay!" for pandoc. It is just so good.
American individualism is hardly a natural born trait, we are all influenced by our environment. What people value and how they act in the interest of those values is what culture is all about.
I love my Nexus 7. The build quality is phenomenal and then rubbery feeling on the back is great.

About the only thing I'm missing is the ability to insert a SIM card in this model and the 10 inch update seems to have the same limitation.
Same here. 16.0.1 Windows 7. CPU didn't max out but it was high and the browser was unusable. I managed to close the tab but the CPU was still high and browser was unresponsive. I had to kill the process.
It is totally fair. People (especially in the valley) tend to think small is better/more efficient than big. But what are the statistics on actual failure rates?

Start-ups that 'succeed' (buyouts, etc) for their founders can still fail before making any real difference in the actual marketplace.

Nothing against Instacart, but that first picture must become like the second before history will call them 'successful'
Considering it may have been binary, and binary would make up the majority of it (images, sounds, video are large), I'm guessing 0x00.
I really love most of javascript. I think it's a great language. But there are things that need to be improved syntactically. Also, syntactic extensions could vastly improve specific apps, depending on what they are doing.

I agree that there are concerns about debug-ability, but as any Lisper will tell you, you just need the tools to support it. That's why macros need to be native. All the debuggers will be aware of them, so it should be a non-issue.

The whole point of macros is to make code more readable, too. I'm not sure how you can argue that its less readable. Most people agree that the tradeoff is readability/debug-ability.
Apologies, but the point stands that the court didn't demand an apology, it demanded that Apple post and explanation of the ruling including a number of specific points.
- The Ultimate Sales Machine: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842158/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
- Spin Selling: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070511136/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

and this is a very good article on the general topic:

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/sales-lessons
I know the claim of running Amazon.com on AWS was initially bogus, but did anyone notice trouble on that site with the recent AWS outages? It would be instructive to know how much they have integrated it since.
This is true. This is hardware-specific, which you may have hinted at when you said "on one of my cards". The onboard Intel sound card on my Debian system shows 0dB at 100/100 in alsamixer.
One I hate, too, so easy to miss. *10^ or x10^ is better.
You obviously don't understand smartphone tech because it's just a computer.

> Why can't we tackle people during a soccer game? Same shit.

Not really. There are no rules against complaining about Apple's rules. Customer complaints change rules. Apathetic people such as yourself, who just roll over and take it, are part of the problem.

> My phone is a fucking phone! It's not a damn religious crusade.

Then why did you respond to my original comment, as if I had offended you in some way?

I said "I don't want to have to go through anybody to be able to get my app to my customers. This tendency towards closed-off app stores is really depressing."

How exactly did my comment affect you? It sounds to me like you're on a crusade to get me to think just like you. I simply stated an opinion in response to someone else who shared my opinion. You, on the other hand, started off sounding like you were on a crusade.
Ubuntu on Nexus 7
Show HN: Host your 3D printable projects with version control
You should both distribute your file you want to keep to several devices, as well as a service who's job it is to back things up.

Dropbox is only the former.
They may not want to give names of everyone because it makes poaching employees by headhunters easier.
Google does not have just one hiring committee, and anyone can be on hiring committees if they want to and one of the committees has a need of new members (IE it's not invite only).

So this is like saying "ex-Python-dev mailing list member".
Are you a developer? I find it funny that the first thing you think about is maintainability of the page. :-)
Github Notifications API
For one, the nexus is pentile, so the actual vertical resolution is only 2/3 that, and upsampled.

At the same resolution, bigger pixels are still harder to manufacture correctly than smaller pixels.

Androd devices are subsidized.
Good to hear that RE2's constant factor doesn't seem too large, I know the Rust guys were looking to potentially use it as the regex engine in their stdlib, but were torn on whether that constant factor would prove troublesome.
Although Dropbox isn't a backup service, it offers file versioning, so you would think you could recover from such a situation. Google Drive also offers file versioning, but the devil is in the detail - they do delete older versions:

https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

For RAID like protection with Dropbox and other providers, you can roll your own BRIC (Redundant Bunch of Independent Clouds). I did this using Tahoe-LAFS to stripe data across storage providers. Requires a bit of set up, has some caveats, but does work. If you use with duplicity you have versioning on top of a distributed, encrypted, redundant store.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4689238
Front facing speakers, finally.

On iPad I presume speakers are not facing front due to form trumping function. On other pads, I presume it is due to copying Apple's focus upon form?
Mint was a read-only consumer of banking information. Nevertheless, the access Mint required from banks was so unusual that they were written up all over the news media for doing that, and apparently operated their own secure data center to hold that information. Further, Mint attested to doing quarterly external audits.

I'm not trying to militate against using Coinbase; I'm just saying, Coinbase and Mint aren't directly comparable for more than one reason.
To be fair, a good sync service with history is supposed to be a backup at the same time. I'm using git rather than dropbox but if I push something, it's there forever. So, I'd have to think that Dropbox being able to completely destroy files is a bug, not a feature. Maybe a more experienced dropbox user can correct me?
And why quite a bit of Africa speaks French...
I am currently visiting/working in NYC and staying on the Lower East Side. Seriously, everyone here dresses like that--this hipster thing goes way deeper than I could have imagined...
It turns out that Steve Jobs was not in fact an opthamalogist.
dude ! where is the nexus7 3g ?
My point is that they desugar directly to data structures (instantiated in Java, in LispReader) instead of operation forms that evaluate to data structures.

See vector creation: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/52633274225370dfb058...
If backblaze backs up my dropbox folder and this dropbox bug affects my files that are getting backedup, if I don't catch the 0 byte files within the 4 week backblaze revision window, won't I still lose my files?
I have a backup on a USB, but updating that daily is a hassle hence why I used DropBox- their added 2 step auth was also a big bonus, but if I lose that file I'll have a hard time getting my passwords back..

As jpadvo said, I might look into making some one way backups to S3 or something.
(offtopic): I can attest that the current echonest t-shirts are the best startup shirts I've ever seen. Wear mine with some frequency.
> For most people, natch. I'm sure the discussions of devices at "higher than retina" resolutions will fill up with people claiming better than 20/20 vision, or uniquely short arms, or whatever.

I wonder, will we soon see a group of "visiophiles" (visual-philes? videophiles?) emerge to take their rightful place besides the audiophiles?
Probably not, though it wouldn't surprise me if it has JTAG internally yet unexposed, since it's on so many ARM boards.
Check out https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade to see a long list of pretty much all the services that allow you to trade in bitcoins.

My personal favorites:

http://bitmit.net - an auction site that allows you to buy and sell goods with bitcoins.

http://coindl.com - Download digtal files, and pay the content creator in bicoins. Many downloads have "pay as much as you want" pricing. These micro-transactions are only really possible with bitcoin.

Bitcoin Magazine - There is so much drama in the bitcoin world, and they do a great job of summarizing it and making it fun to read about.
A large contributing factor to the current trend of Turing fetishism is the fact that so many people in a range of fields read "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in University as an introduction to the problem of artificial intelligence. It was the first paper assigned in at least 3 of my classes.

For many people, this is the first time that they consider such issues and so Turing is solidified in their mind as: 'old mathematician guy who invented computers and the idea of artificial intelligence'.

Given the authoritative atmosphere of university and an absence of any of the surrounding history, it's easy to imagine that people would get attached to a singular figure. And indeed they have.
Why would a good sync service with history be a backup? They don't store a history indefinitely. Of course destroying files and history is a bug, but something that instantly replicates changes to those files from machine-to-machine shouldn't be considered a reliable way to recover them weeks or months later.
When you learn your customers aren’t just API calls
I quite like Crashplan, but they have lost data for customers before.

http://jeffreydonenfeld.com/blog/2011/12/crashplan-online-ba...
Buy a time capsule and back it up locally or get a subscription to something like crash plan pro.
Yep. And your wife will divorce you.
It may be something forums in particular have yet to evolve. Now if only I could figure out how...
From the Department of 'Just Shut Up'
> Internal projects are not something that I can judge the importance of, so pointing out that they use Go in internal projects is asking me to take their word that they are taking Go seriously, but all I'm saying is "show me". Show me on a project I've heard of.

I assume you have heard of YouTube. From the first paragraph in the email:

> YouTube’s open source vitess project (http://code.google.com/p/vitess/) is one high-profile success story...
A black eye for the firm, for sure, but no lasting damage. Plausible story. Compelling legal position (if true). Big, fat and vulnerable defendant, with a ready-made villain at the center. And (I assume) a big, fat potential contingent fee in the offing. It likely proved irresistible for a Big Law firm trying to slog its way through a steep downturn.

Still, it is bad judgment, as I see it, to take on a high-profile representation of a guy with one conviction already under his belt on what would seem to be a very opportunistic claim ("Yeah, I know innocent investors put in millions, and the company is now worth billions, but I am a ghost from six years’ past who can pull out a piece of paper saying I own more than half of it because of my $1,000 investment.") If you are going to step into this pile of whatever as a law firm, you had better do some strong due diligence to make sure it holds together. I suspect that wasn't done here, much to the firm's ultimate regret.

That said, DLA has a great reputation and the bad effects of this will prove ephemeral, especially since it high-tailed it out of there once forensics showed it had been caught with its pants down. Highly embarrassing, but nothing more.
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I've noticed a cycle here. Media companies donate tons to campaigns. They act out during electoral season because they know that people they write checks to will not dare talk back to them, and if possible will pressure regulators to back them to keep the money flowing. I saw a spike in this stuff in 2008 and in 2004 - articles, pushes for lawsuits, regulatory announcements that were otherwise baffling. Don't remember 2000 well, or rather it's overshadowed by other memories of that election. Anyway, I may be wrong of course but my point is I'm not surprised at seeing an announcement like this during election season. I think the balance of evidence is that regulators in this country work with significant political interference, regardless of claims to the contrary - if nothing else they're sensitive to the winds in Washington. Just a thought.
So there is an interesting bit you're overlooking perhaps, which is 'gamut'. The additional pixel density can be exploited to provide "pixels" which have more subtle variations in color. In color printing the printer is capable of some number of dots per inch, but there is another number (sometimes called the 'screen resolution' as a kick back to the silkscreen printing process) where the color gamut peaks (the maximum number of different colors the printer can print). Generally screen gamut in 'sub-retina' displays is fixed by the ability of the electronics to modulate the component colors, but with additional pixels you can 'squeeze out' more colors by using a group of four, or nine, pixels that are colored to simulate a single pixel.

Not a huge deal yet, but no doubt it will become one with '4x' and '8x' oversampled displays.
Yeah. People aren't understanding what this is running. It's serving up files to a CDN. That's not that exciting.
Dropbox does have "Packrat unlimited undo history" for $4/month. I wonder if he could have recovered these files if he had this option.
I don't give a shit that Facebook updates their software literally every day. Software is great because it doesn't need to last.
Would love to contribute but unfortunately have just been tinkering with Go; not using it for paid work, and therefore don't have much time for it. I like the look of revel though, and will be spending more time looking at it.

Re Mustache versus go templates, I preferred the restrictions and clarity of mustache, because it forces you not to put any code in the view, all you can have are the basic constructs it provides, but it doesn't miss anything major IMHO. Here are the things I needed, which it provides:

* loops

* partials (with the neat {{> partial}} syntax

* nested contexts

* escaping by default

* clear named keys, no '.' prefix, though I guess . would be OK between keys for subkeys (not possible in mustache as yet)

* limited contexts (so that it's obvious what is being called)

The differences are not major, and frankly either is a fine choice, but I actually preferred the limited syntax of mustache, and found the go template setup needlessly complex, in particular when including partials, I didn't spend too long on the decision though so perhaps I just misunderstood...
The trend has been named for at least a decade.

Oh, I see what you did there.
How many of you is this affecting? I'd be curious to know how many keep the only copy of their file on dropbox, or any cloud service for that matter. I've never trusted any service enough to be solely responsibly for my important files.

I use Dropbox primarily as a tool to synch content between my desktop/laptop/phone, but any significant change I make to those files gets saved locally 100% of the time.

I am not a very trusting man.
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