skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if they want to benefit from DMCA safe-harbor and the user-generated content defence, then they or the host would also have to remove content expeditiously following a DMCA-request, which rather nullifies the extortion element of the related site.
If Forstall was let go for not getting along with others then I doubt Sinofsky will be spotted in Cupertino.
im confused about paying $50 for a dictionary app
PI has this particular value only in a particular geometry.

http://www.learner.org/courses/mathilluminated/units/8/textb...

This is not just academic, the geometry of the space we are living into is not flat, and thus the PI we measure is not the one you'd expect.

The effect of this space time distortion is what keeps you from floating around, and keeps the air you breath stick to the sphere you call home, which btw has that shape for the same reason.

So, even though the PI value discrepancy caused by earth gravitational field is very small, it shapes our lives and our origins in a dramatic way.
Transferred, yes. Synchronised automatically to my calendar, apps, phone?

I think automatic synchronisation and periodic backup are two things you really should look into.
It is a bit verbose, you are right. Let me explain why all of these are necessary. (BTW, argparse is almost as verbose [1]).

server - this is the section/module. I could grab this from the name of the current module, but that means you must use unique module names, and not change them. Otherwise, your config files would stop working.

daemon - required, obviously, since this is the name of the option.

type - I can't assume a type for you. By default it is a unicode instance, so you can omit this parameter if that's your use case.

cmd_name/cmd_short_name - I can try to assume that cmd_name is the same as the second positional argument, but once again, there could be a conflict. For example, if you want to have options.db.filename and options.log.filename, you can't use cmd_name = 'filename' for both. cmd_short_name is even worse, since here you may want a specific letter to be used (such as an upper case D instead of d). Note that these parameters are optional, since most of your values will likely go in the config file, not on the command line.

An alternative API might look like this:

define_opt_int('server', 'shutdown_timeout')

define_opt_bool('server', 'deameon')

define_opt_cmd_unicode('server', 'pid_file', cmd_name='pid', cmd_short_name='p')

With a fallback to:

define_opt('log', 'level', type=lambda x: x if x in LOG_LEVELS else 'DEBUG', cmd_name='log-level', cmd_short_name='L')

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

[1] http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html
you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class.

I wonder why the phone is so much cheaper (both in absolute and relative terms) in the US than it is here in Sweden. Here it's exactly the same price as the SGS3 and the iPhone 4S and quite a bit more than the HTC One X.
Yep, Mono works on Mac. And there's MonoDevelop, which is a reasonably pleasant IDE.

(I don't know about NuGet and ASP.NET MVC; I only have Mono and MonoDevelop on my Mac because occasionally I modify C# plugins for a Windows app and I like being able to see compiler errors without having to install it on a Windows machine.)
An useful web app: gander.cc
You are welcome. I hope you do end up using groper in other projects. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
There are an endless amount of average developers on the market. There are a sizeable number of decent developers on the market. There is a very limited amount of great developers on the market.

Guess which one of the three most companies are chasing.
Intel’s Xeon Phi – GPU level power without the hassle?
> 2. Their power train is simple. They didn't make the decision to use an extender like Volt which requires three hydraulic clutches

A Volt-like extender requires ZERO clutches. It requires nothing more than a gas engine driving a generator which charges a battery which powers an electric motor.

The reason why the Volt has three clutches is straightforward: unlike Tesla, GM is trying to squeeze all the efficiency it can out of the car by taking advantage of the fact that the car actually has three motors in it. The Volt runs in four different modes:

0. The battery-powered traction motor drives the car (the default).

1. The gas engine drives a generator which, with battery support, powers the traction motor to drive the car.

2. The generator disengages from the (turned off) gas engine and performs double-duty as a second battery-driven motor.

3. The gas engine attaches directly to the drivetrain and helps the traction motor drive the car.

Each of these is maximally efficient in different situations. For example, if the battery is nearly depleted and the traction motor is spinning fast (over 70MPH), a gas engine directly assisting the wheels is more efficient than generating electricity for the traction motor.

Here's the dirty secret of the Model S which no one seems to have touched on: despite Tesla's aerodynamic puffery, it's a fairly inefficient electric vehicle. The EPA rates it at just 89MPGe with its lightest battery, compared to (for example) 98MPGe for the Volt, 99 for the Leaf, and 100 for the C-Max Energi. The Model S doesn't really need to maximize efficiency because its battery is big enough to handle range anxiety. But people who really cared about oil independence (as it sounded like you did) would pick the Volt over the Model S.
Most likely, their "piracy detector" was nothing more than checking for "MobileSubstrate" (a library present in all jailbroken phones) under the silly assumption that jailbroken = pirated.

Booby trapped software is NEVER a good idea. No matter how clever you think you are, you're not clever enough.
I understand you. But perhaps you are not familiar with the Chinese shopping habits and the situation now they faced with. High price good with heavy tax in the physical stores would be only sold with 50% discount in taobao online shops. If US could have such discount percentage, I believe that $5.6 could just be a small change
You have a very odd view of welfare in the UK and the standard of living.

The standard UK pension is £107.45 per week for a single person, £171.85 for a couple. If you think that's allowing people to live the high life then you and I have a very different view of what the high life is.

£9,000 a year (and this after a 40-odd year working life paying tax) for a couple to cover all living costs doesn't stretch to much in the way of hot springs vacations once you've paid for food, heating and so on.

Benefits are a safety net, they're not some route to easy luxury. Living on benefits is hard and not a whole bunch of fun. Yes there are some people who abuse them (though fewer than many would think) but that's the price we pay for having that safety net there. To get rid of them would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Sorry Eugenio, I obviously didn't make myself very clear or I'm misunderstanding your need. They are automatically synchronised with your Android phone and available in Calendars, Apps and the Phone. I bet you wouldn't even notice the difference from using Google Contacts.

With regards to backups, already done! We have full versioning so that you can roll back to anytime you want and backups are done continuously.
Doubt they need the $40k at all (and the movie should eat a big chunk of it) but I don't see anything in the Kickstarter guidelines they're doing against the rules.
I did some more digging to check that Tracey as above is in fact an employee of the company who makes this app and indeed she is:

http://www.being-a-broad.com/2010/11/tracey-northcott-of-enf...

There are lot's of other verification links on google, just look for "tracey northcott enfour"
Why we have never hired an MBA
Last year I joined a big Chinese startup and, after eight years in China, I discovered something: the best hackers in China are not those you would find in places haunted by foreigners, they would not be working for foreign companies, they don't necessarily like to speak English, even if they follow closely what happens outside. Under these circumstances, many people naturally mistake the cheap and shallow folks they shake hands with in bars for the normal Chinese geek, and conclude it's not that impressive. It's an observation bias. There are many top level Chinese nerds, they are very busy making sites like taobao work.
If the site operators exert any editorial control at all, including accepting money in exchange for removing entries, then they are probably exposed to extortion charges, which is a felony. To extort a victim, you have to communicate a threat to harm, steal, or disgrace them unless that victim carries out some act (like paying you) against their will.

If the site offers accept money under color of an "independent" scrubbing service, or as lawyers when they are not, they are even more exposed to wire fraud. Fraud is easy: it's a knowingly made false statement of material fact ("I am a lawyer", "this scrubbing service is independent") made with the intent to deceive a victim who could reasonably rely on that statement (ie, "oh, you're independent, I'll pay you" as opposed to "oh, the sky is polka dot orange, I'll pay you") into taking some action against their will.
Disappointing! I just signed up a few weeks ago and have happily used Loosecubes several times to find some great coworking spaces. They introduced me to the good folks at PARISOMA in SF and Buro in Miami.

So sorry to hear about this. Of course, I didn't pay them anything for those intros (and I would have, btw) but I imagine that in general has something to do with their decision to close up shop.

I'd be interested to learn a few things: 1. What was the story behind their (hoped?) business model, and why did they decide to close the doors? 2. I wonder if someone will pick up the mantle where they left off -- perhaps not at the same scale -- but there is absolutely a need for this sort of coworking directory.

Perhaps a side-project-in-waiting for someone...?
I'm not buying that:

Genetics are only part of the story. Environmental factors contribute to intelligence too. If you had to be working an a factory 12hrs a day as a child in the 1800's, you could've been genetically "intelligent", the environment would never have nourished that.

It is through abolisment of child labour, institutionalised education and dedicated parental support that the average joe got the ability to develop himself and become more intelligent than his parents.
If you're an iOS app developer...

The correct way to check if your app has been pirated requires two steps:

1) You must be running on a jailbroken system. Check this by trying to read from outside the sandbox.

2) Check if your app's signature is invalid. Checking this is fairly involved. Look around for code.

If either of these two are false, then you've not been pirated (point (2) will be true when your app is checked by Apple but point (1) will be false).

For Mac App Store apps, only point (2) is required.

The author of the app in the article has only checked point (1) (and additionally checked an irrelevant point by checking for Installous).

Incidentally, the preferred action if you've detected a pirate situation is to exit(173).
Is anyone really THAT surprised, though? I feel like indie game developers who are using HTML5 techniques still mainly target modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox). There might have been a hope of say "it will be awesome if everything starts to work on IE", but I highly doubt those developers were dying for IE. Plus, if you look at the majority target market for HTML5 gamers, those users will most likely be using modern browsers anyways.
HTML Pong
It's distressing to see such colossally poor judgment on the part of Enfour. Besides developing the ODE app from TFA, they also produce the American Heritage Dictionary app, which is one of the better if not the best name-brand dictionary app for iOS. I would like to support this app because I don't care to see the professionally edited dictionary go the way of the encyclopedia, but nonsense like this is hard to pardon.
I'm Irish, just signed up this morning using that link.

Here's a screenshot of what I see, I put a red box around the link: http://i.imgur.com/e7dKT.png

Edit: I would link you dorectly to the form but unless you click on it from the Spotify page it doesn't work.
That's the Windows 8 Explorer copying files.
UK has 33 million vehicles and spends ~£12 billion on Road Maintenance excluding all construction costs. So £12 billion / 33 million = £363 per car and truck. So, sorry your clearly wrong even before looking at construction costs.
The subjects of many nude photos do not own those photos and cannot use the DMCA to get them taken down.
This is a topic which should be covered by audiologists, not cognitive psychologists. In fact, I'm pretty sure there's some previous literature about this topic.

Where is the discussion on the physics of audio, the chords harmonically generated by instruments, and their effects within the ear? These aren't just chords which "sound unpleasant", there's an actual physical way to describe this.

Is this study just more scientific noise?
Closer look at Reddit's Y Combinator application
> A company, acting "morally" as you define, pays more tax than it is required to under the law. In so doing, it incurs a loss so severe that it must cut staff in order to remain viable.

Usually not an issue in this case, since corporation tax covers profits. If anything, corporation taxes encourage greater employment.
the lightbox is to light. For my eyes.
Forrester Confuses “Best” with “Most Accessible”
Like many things, the rain is great when you don't have obligations.

When you do, it's frustrating in many ways.
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Does anyone have an idea what the use of this might be? Altimeter? Weather forecasting?
He's not there yet. Give him time.
This one http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-920-003390-Tablet-Keyboard-An...
Wire fraud was my first thought when reading the OP as well.

I can't tell you how many friends have come up to me with some idea for some great scam on the internet (usually just as a joke) that they think would be legal.

People readily forget that when you accept monetary transfers over the internet you still leave yourself open to wire fraud, which rather defeats the purpose of housing your scam on the internet.

Edit: If I'm not mistaken, they often use wire fraud to go after child pornographers. Could there be a precedent set there that could effect this case?
Tests Still Slow? Might be bcrypt
Drew Houston will be the youngest ever MIT commencement speaker
From what I understand, piracy on iOS isn't an issue. The only place where it's really significant is China. And there are two points to keep in mind there:

1. Stopping piracy of a single app in China is very unlikely to result in increased sales of that app.

2. There's no Twitter in China.
If only the authors thought of looking at income brackets. If they did, they might have included the data on page 2, table 1.
You can also program 8+bit PICs in JAL, a Pascal-like language.
We can also see that there's no connection in the lack of up-to-date Android on Motorola phones.
Soocial is an existing service that does almost exactly this:

http://www.soocial.com/

Soocial is a contacts sync service. They have a free level and a paid "premium" level of service ($5/month). I use Soocial (paid service) and I really like it. There is a major problem with Soocial however: the company was acquired in November 2011 by the French company Viadeo (blog post: http://blog.soocial.com/2011/11/29/soocial-has-been-acquired...), and the future of the service is unclear. You can still sign up for Soocial (I did!), and it works great, but this is a major worry for me as a customer.

I want to describe my experience using Soocial, because I hope that Columns will include all of the great functionality that Soocial has. The most important feature for me is that Soocial syncs my contacts between two different Gmail accounts (home and work), with Soocial acting as the "main" contacts storage location. I use this feature to keep my home and work contacts separate, while my iPhone has access to ALL my contacts. Also Soocial allows me to sync contact groups to my iPhone, which is not possible just using the MS Exchange server provided by Gmail. This setup allows me to keep a contacts "archive". I have a bunch of contacts (friends from college who I don't contact any more, ex-girlfriends, etc.) that I do not want to have on my iPhone, but that I do want to keep for archival purposes. Soocial allows me to keep those contacts in a central place (the Soocial web app) where they are accessible, but they do not get in my way day-to-day. Actually, having now described all the great features of Soocial, I've come to realize that I really really REALLY like Soocial.

I sincerely hope that Columns is successful and that I can eventually switch from Soocial to Columns. I would much rather be using a service that is being actively developed than one that seems to be coasting.

Question for the Columns team: What is your level of personal commitment to continue this service? Is it your intention to continue Columns as a service "forever", or do you intend to build up a great service and get acquired by another company?
28 'scientific experts' who greened BBC revealed
Wikipedia Atan2 article
It would be obviously wrong and illegal for a stranger to come into your home, secretly inventory all physical items in your possession, and then impersonate you on, say, a global TV broadcast in which you're wrongly accused of stealing things.

It should also be obviously wrong and illegal for any app secretly to inventory everything in your phone and then impersonate you on a Twitter broadcast in which you're wrongly accused of pirating things.

Evidently, the people who made this dictionary app think it's perfectly legal to do that, and must not see anything wrong with it.

Our laws, regulations, and societal norms have a long way to go before they catch up with technology.
In functionality, I believe that is correct. The key difference, though, is that his techniques are closer to using macros in Lisp to create new functions, rather than using function composition.
> Taxes are not some external force that the evil government is applying to us. They're part of the social contract binding a society together.

Which is orthogonal to whether it is moral to arrange your affairs to pay only what is legally owed.

> The more effort people spend avoiding taxes, the more complicated the tax system will get as it attempts to close those loopholes.

Which is also orthogonal to whether it is moral to arrange your affairs to pay only what is legally owed.
The last Nexus phone had the same- I remember someone on HN showing off a crowd-sourced weather app they'd made. Basically, everyone added their phone to a sensor array that picked up barometric changes across the city and worked out what that meant.

Sadly, I didn't have a Nexus so I couldn't try it, but the tech is fascinating.
amazing hack! I'll copy this project and do it for my house. The umbrella hassle must be solved once forever! :-)
If corporations are paying extremely low tax, then the shortfall in government finances has to be made up elsewhere. It doesn't matter whether it's a race to zero or not, if government is not earning on corporation tax then it comes down to personal taxes on the people of that country. How is it fair for a multi-billion pound company to pay near-zero tax, and the shortfall to be made up by individuals? All this will do is increase the gap between the richest and the poorest people, and have a negative effect on social mobility. Frankly, I don't want to live in your future.
I thought IE10 was a "modern browser"?
I really hope you're right. The idea that someone in that sort of condition, apparently beyond further harm, could actually have been conscious for all those years, makes the average horror story look optimistic.
i always reduced the number of workspaces in ubuntu to 1 until i got my hands on a macbook pro and figured out the gestures. it's incredibly easy to manage your opened apps especially on small displays. if you assign your programs to run on specific workspaces like <<plantain>> said you might be surprised. i know i was. and it only took me a couple of days to get used to them.

the biggest problem i see is the interface. gestures on mac saves you a lot of trouble as switching a workspace is only a three finger swipe. so, on linux, no gestures, this means keybinds -- god! i hate keybinds (i work on win, mac and linux and i get confused sometimes :)).

maybe a combo of mouse gesture + click/keypress could ease our lives in linux.

any ideas?
> What if I want to sit in the car with it off?

You can either not bring in the fob or tell the car to turn off via the touchscreen.

> What if the passenger has the key in their pocket and gets out at the airport?

Why would the passenger have the key and not the driver? The car wouldn't start without it in the driver's seat. That's even how it works for my Prius.
Good point! Although that would undermine Randazza's proposal in the article to sue for copyright infringement, on the basis that the owner of the copyright photos has presumably granted permission to utilise the photos.
I like his ideas about biological life not being suited to spread throughout the galaxy, that it's going to be mechanical or at least completely engineered.

If that's the case, why would engineered life ever want to land on a planet? It seems easier to take everything from asteroids and stay near shining stars and away from other gravity wells. Visiting/colonizing planet Earth doesn't make much sense, other than the challenge.
Using the CSS property pointer-events
As a long self-proclaimed /
hacker-poet I'm ashamed /
to have never considered /
A poem editor wizard!

---- (luckily I'm a better hacker)
Let's just assume you're right -- you're probably not based on what I've read at other links in this thread, but let's assume.

Then what? Innocent people get to have their genitals spread across the internet? And sure, some of them put themselves in a situation where they were irresponsible. I don't think that should leave them with no legal recourse if someone is committing de facto extortion against them. If that were the case people would basically be left to take the law into their own hands.
why? :'-(
Certainly, but that's very, very different to the question of morality that you asked.
Sorry to hear this, but in my experience, coworking spaces are able to manage their own marketing (web) and payment (square) systems, rendering the LC discovery/reservation/transaction model a tenuous one.

On top of that, I think there's just less demand for short-term, drop-in work space than LC seems to be predicated upon.

I'm sure LC learned a ton of valuable lessons and I hope they'll share.
you are so superficial.
I'm not sure how you're categorizing "modern browsers", but this is disappointing for any developers who hope to reach audiences on Windows RT or Windows Phone 8 without needing to make an app for those platforms.
Yeah, a "why" is definitely lacking. They must have had either a monetization plan or an aggressive growth plan when they raised that money, and 5 months is a short time to prove either.

Could be internal struggles or personal reasons.
On a laptop, close the laptop lid, or you can unplug the monitor, or some apps blank the second screen (games for example). Decompressing files you just double click them. Your requirements sound... unusual, so I'm not surprised you are not satisfied.

The way you feel about Mac OS is not a universal truth or even a common experience, and your claims about a skin deep UI are off the mark - Apple has hisorically paid more attention to consistent and predictable ui than any other vendor.