skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After Effects is one of the best. You can download a fully functional version from adobe for 30 days, or get a months worth subscription for 30 to 40 dollars. Of course there's a bit of a learning curve. Good Luck.
Think of it more like plant evolution from seeds that travel far and wide, it might be closer to the truth.
AFAIK, the kind of safety certificaitons applied to RTOSs are all about development process, and have nothing to do with actually proving correctness in a "mathematical" sense. I know very little about IEC 61508, but for DO-178B/C, it is all about development process. No certification agency wants to claim that software is actually correct, because they can't actually show that, and then they'd be blamed if something bad happened.

I have talked to people in the preempt_rt Linux community that believe Linux will come to dominate the RTOS market just like it has a lot of other stuff, and I think they have a compelling argument. Once preempt_rt is mature enough, it's hard for me to see any reason for going with something like QNX.
These days, Twitter seems to be a "let's piss everyone off, we're big enough that they can't do anything about it" company.

I've been a member since 01/2007 and have been developing against their API for nearly as long (though for what I imagine are rather obvious reasons, I haven't been near it recently). I've seen more fail whales than I could possibly count. I've sent 5000 tweets over the last nearly six years. I'm even listed as a contributor in the original O'Reilly book on Twitter API development.

I've seen it slowly become less and less useful and usable. I've watched them make their developers and contributing users hate them as they struggled to find a business model (who else remembers the #dickbar ?). I'm now watching them destroy their ecosystem as they try to execute on their chosen business model.

Twitter, I am disappoint.
At what age then, do you feel people's lives should be terminated?
Oh that's cute :P
Do you have access to a wide range of media in English that isn't dubbed or translated from an early age?
Um, I don't think I completely understood your analogy. Plants can have multiple parents. Why can't languages?
Its interesting what you can adapt to. I've got a small 'class B' motor home (which is a converted van) and while it is quite small you get used to it on long trips.
>It'll be really sad if the Internet becomes just another weapon of war.

Anything of value can be turned into a weapon of war. Think about what a weapon is - it is a tool to disrupt something delicate. A missile destroys a plane. A knife stops a heart. A virus stops a computer.

It really concerns me that a private US citizen was personally attacked by a sovereign nation. It seems to me that the US has an important duty to protect it's people, whether the attack is virtual or physical.
I really think you don't understand what wtvanhest is saying.
Business is a really big subject. They don't go to school for two years to change from being an accountant to becoming a controller.
It is much more equalent to going to school for two years to change from electrical engineering to chemical engineering. Sure the basics are the same but after that they are worlds apart.
For what Twitter is today, I'm sure they are. They are essentially the world's largest chat room except every participant gets to curate their own experience (plus it's all indexed). Maybe their revenue stream won't be directly a tech product but will certainly be the result of one.
It sounds scary, but it's misleading. Comparing a century with 12 years is meaningless.
As far as I know, there isn't a pm facility on HN and I don't see any contact info in your profile.

My email details are in my profile, if you have time to share some details of how exmap was/is used, I'd be grateful.
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That is different then. The parent comment was about money and a smart phone being enough to remove the possibility of picking up a gang banger. Having a credit card on file is a whole different thing.
Hah, cool! Thank you. Learn a new thing about your birthplace every day. When you're in Amsterdam walking along the Singel it's easy to recognize because there are always a lot of people in front of it making pictures of each other.

What I like about this is that both the house in TFA and this one are 'leftover space' re-used by someone that figured it's wasteful. It's a pity the house from the article can't be legally occupied, I'm sure it would be an interesting experience to live in a space like that for a while.

Hide-and-seek would be quite boring though!
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I can photocopy or scan every page. It may not be easy, but it's doable, and the publisher does not have technology that actively prevents me from doing this.
Tired of cost analyses that completely ignore price of wages and maintenance. Does NASA have to staff hundreds if not thousands of little shops in order to keep its product moving?

Then there's good old confirmation bias. "Hey, let's assume the mars rover was constantly transmitting at the maximum rate the entire time!" - never mind finding out the actual number, just assume that the maximum was the average. Yeah, that works.

Not to mention "Only next door!!!!!" when the same prices apply to "The other side of the continent". If you're really feeling ripped off about sending short messages to the people next door, just open your window and shout instead.

Oh, then we'll also say "transfer across the wire is only 25c!" when SMSes are definitively not meant for transfer only across the wire.

Then we'll italicise words like personal insult, which is egregiously amateurish.

I wonder if the author would go to a lawyer to handle the paperwork around a housing purchase, and the complain that he has to pay far more than the simple costs to lodge the papers. "What? $1k? But lodging the papers only costs $50, I looked it up!"
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The US 2012 election is expected to have cost over $6 billion when all is said and done.[1] Canada's election cost $45 million.[2] The difference is 90% less per captia. Americans spend a lot more proportionally.

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/2012-election-spendi...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...
Apart from the unverifiable security blunders (this is a Bloomberg article, not a Full Disclosure post), I have to say I can't feel very sympathetic towards somebody in the censorship business being harassed by fellow censors.
This lawsuit seems like crap, and it makes me feel really uncomfortable -- what if I don't have millions in VC funding? It basically means that a random person with enough resources can tie me down with a bogus lawsuit even if I have a legally-sound contract that is supposed to protect me.

I agree that Twitter backtracked on their API and platform, but a bogus lawsuit is the exact opposite of the right way to fight back. Even though App.net and others have their flaws, that is the "right" way: developers have to steal people's attention away from Twitter instead of going for a lawsuit that doesn't make sense.
There was a lot of trade between the two countries for some time. Norwegians would travel around to Bergen or other coastal towns on the west coast and then would trade with the Dutch and the Germans.
Unless you have customers requiring the same web site works the same way in IE as well.
After a search I think you are talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Levin ?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Things_That_Dont_Make_Sense#... ?
I have another word for similar policies, sleazy.
A friend of mine works in a company where the managers demand every nagios alert gets SMS'd, no matter how minor. They literally receive multiple hundreds of SMSs every week. Expanding into the US, the tech in the SF office had to upgrade his cell plan. Later in his first week, he had to upgrade it again. Then again. Ops keep telling management about just how bad this policy is, but management like have a paper-trail for blamestorming.
Finally the truth is plain to see - humans are merely the first step to the true masters of the planet - genetically engineered immortal mice. King Dangermouse will soon take his rightful place.

In all seriousness though, curing Huntingdons or cholesterol and many other research h vectors may seem old hat to you, in the industry as it were, but for the layperson you are at a cutting edge of science benefiting all of us - take some of my perspective and you should be far more proud of your work than perhaps your comment suggests

(Of course when the mice do inherit the Earth prepare to be kept as part of a slave army)
It doesn't help when the telcos are dishonest about their pricing structures/rules. E.g. claiming that the early termination fees were 'to recover the subsidized cost of the phone' when the ETFs were a flat fee (no matter if you terminated the contract when it was 10% complete or 90% complete).

You can say that it's 'their prerogative' to charge a fee for breaking the contract, and that's fine[1]. It's when they try to twist the truth to make it not sound so harsh that it really irks me.

[1] The contracts also don't have to be so one-sided. If I need to be penalized for early termination of the contract, why isn't the telco also penalized if they terminate the contract early? AFAIK, there is something in the law about contracts needing to have equal consideration for both sides. If a contract is too one-sided, then it (or at least parts it) can be ruled invalid.
On most of our plans, you will start paying per-SMS once you send a few hundred of them.
I would blame this on a badly designed system rather than deliberate attempt at DRM.

i.e. Product owner goes to dev: We want to make sure that customers always have a valid credit card on file so that when they go to purchase it doesn't distract them (etc, etc).

Dev makes it so that you can't do anything with the website until you've updated your expired credit card.
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"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter.
A forensic analysis of the malware by Joe Stewart, a threat expert at Atlanta-based Dell SecureWorks, identified the intruders who rifled Solid Oak’s networks as a team of Shanghai- based hackers involved in a string of sensitive national security-related breaches going back years."
Professionalisation of management is what happened when managers started getting hired and promoted on the back of merit rather than their belonging to the family of the owner of the business.

It's actually a story arc in the most recent season of Downton Abbey where the middle class lawyer/businessman Matthew Crawley bails out the old-money estate and with it it's undisputed master, his father-in-law, the Earl of Grantham. Looking over the books (which, it's implied, is beneath his new status), he realises that the estate is mismanaged, running a deficit and multiple avenues of efficiency are left unexplored. He faces stiff opposition from the Earl with reference to "that's how it's been done for generations". Eventually, (spoiler alert), Matthew, his brother-in-law, a mere servant (gasp!), and the Earl form a coalition to turn the estate around.

The triumph of "the world of business and the law" over "that's how it's been done for generations" is the professionalisation of management.

Whether it's the single biggest factor is of course disputable, but it's very big.
There are quarterbacks in baseball now? Now I'm confused.

(Seriously, though: let me just put in a plug for the Language Log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) which is full of juicy linguistic discussions. Worth it just for the eggcorns.)
You can strip off DRM from an ebook. It's as illegal as photocopying every page, but slightly less cumbersome to do.
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And yet nobody seems to complain that all of our other utilities are charged based on usage: electricity, gas, water, landline phones (remember those?).

I'm aware that it's a lot harder to judge data use than it is for water, so there's a reasonable objection to usage-based billing for data services. That being said, the only reason I've gone out of my way to keep my grandfathered unlimited cell phone data is because the blocks of pre-metered data a) are hugely overpriced, b) excessively penalized for overages, c) not tiered in a way that's relevant to real-world use, and d) seem to increase in cost over time rather than decrease, despite plummeting costs for the provider (while usage patterns increase)

The unlimited psychology is utter nonsense. None of these services[1] cut you off completely for going over your allotment, they just charge punitive rates. They're still "there for you", as long as you're ok getting reamed in the wallet.

[1] except prepaid phone minutes, but that's because there's no card on file to charge for overages.
Interesting. I had never heard of QK, and I'm slightly surprised about that.

people should no longer be surprised when a small-but-meaningful codebase is certified correct

For the size of codebase you're talking about, I'm not really that surprised. But I still think that formal methods don't scale to multicore RTOSs, which is the area I study (I'm a CS grad student).
This is pretty much how I feel. In a word Twitter has been a jerk, but being a jerk isn't illegal.
@pilif, you're allowed to backup CDs and DVDs, why not books?
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While I can't speak to the DRM issues here, I can say that it's definitely silly to me. Valve lets me download games and films for gigs as much as I like. The idea that I could do that with ebooks? Why, I could rack up... Megabytes of bandwidth for them! Maybe even a Gigabyte!

Okay, maybe that's a bit assholish of me to phrase it that way, but it really does seem like an odd decision to me as a user.
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> It basically means that a random person with enough resources can tie me down with a bogus lawsuit even if I have a legally-sound contract that is supposed to protect me.

yes, that's pretty much the state of things in the US. Anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason; granted if someone files for something stupid it will almost certainly be laughed out of court immediately, but you will still have to spend time and money defending yourself from it.

And this is in no way limited to companies. You can be sued for asking the guy behind you in line to talk into his cellphone quieter. That'll almost certainly be dismissed with prejudice, but you'll still need to either research the law yourself or contact a lawyer to deal with that idiot.
What are we supposed to learn from this?

I love Reddit, but I find their story depressing. Everyone has fun personal projects that they make, but a lucky few will have them become wildly popular without much planning for reasons they can't foresee. I don't feel like I can learn anything from that, and it makes me feel very unlucky and that fate is largely out of my control.
Your experience is with ereaders is nearly the complete opposite of mine (putting DRM aside, like you).

I love that I don't have to remember my page or use a bookmark, I love that I can change the font size, I love that I can select a word and get an instant definition for it, and I love how light it is to carry around and much more comfortable to read with. I prefer them over real books in every way (though, I'm from Australia where a hardback is $50 and a paperback is around $20-$25, so ebooks are cheaper for me).
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> The drawback is that the "interchangeable gears" idea really doesn't work in practice.

No, it's not just a part you can replace overnight, but interchangeability works like it does for software engineers. If a software engineer's career takes him from a bank to Google to an airline, nobody lift an eyebrow. A professional manager can take the same journey.
If you had to pay to get something for free, then you didn't get it for free...
Occam would probably disagree with you. Absent evidence of malevolent intent, I'd chalk this up to a mediocre designer who didn't ask enough questions of himself or his subject matter experts.
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Somewhat. The person filing the lawsuit has to be able to convince a lawyer to pursue the case. In other words, that person needs to have money.

In a situation like this, people should be publicly shaming PeopleBrowser (people publicly shamed Twitter for going back on their API!), and I'm happy that the tone of the TechCrunch article at least portrayed PeopleBrowser in a negative light.

Where the legal system fails, social pressure is the next best option.
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Just found MathematicaLink [1] while researching ExcelLink that allows access to Mathematica from Excel.

[1] http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/excel_link/feat...
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25¢ to receive a message is not something I'm willing to pay; it's something I literally have no way out of if I want a cell phone and don't want to cough up even more for unlimited SMS. AFAIK there's no way to just turn off SMS entirely, which I'd be more than happy to do as I've completely replaced it with various data-based services that I'm also paying for in my monthly bill (email, IM, iMessage, google voice, etc.)

Even if I am able to disable SMS completely (without screwing up the parts of my plan that I actually like, at least), it's problematic because of the handful of people that do text me, they'd have no way of knowing that I never got the message (unless the telco would automatically respond on my behalf saying that number can't receive texts; I doubt this is the case). Some SMS-based services don't work with Google Voice and MMS is completely unsupported by it, and there's absolutely no fallback let alone a graceful one.
> Valve lets me download games and films for gigs as much as I like

only if you have a valid account with them. Which is the exact issue the original article was complaining about. Now, a Steam account stays valid even after the credit card has expired, but if you lose that account for whatever other reason, all your content is gone.

Which is worse than many ebook readers because they will allow you to continue to access your content even once the account is gone. Steam OTOH doesn't. No account? No login. No login? No content (their offline mode is too unreliable to be called that).
So that's generally true--Babbage's solution to the Vigenere was one of my favorite things to learn in basic crypto--but amusingly I'm not sure it would be easy in this case!

In particular, while I don't know the .mov file format backwards, the last step (after lossy encoding) is probably a lossless encoder, either LZ-type or some sort of entropy coder. This means that the plaintext is going to be a very good approximation of IID coinflips; in other words, a one-time pad _key_.

"Decoding" the repeated-key XOR also decodes the one-time-pad encryption of the repeated-key interpreted as plaintext. This is, well, hard.

(mov may have enough frame structure/boilerplate that this doesn't apply; I don't know.)
Where is it illegal to make a photocopy of your OWN book ? As far as I know, you are in your right to make a copy of something that you own for private use.
What about the cats?
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Wrong. Photocopying for personal use is legal under fair use provisions. The only reason why it's not legal to do so with DRM-encumbered ebooks is because of the DMCA.
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I like that it doesn't require any JS frameworks and still being lightweight.
I believe pg summed it up nicely on this exert:

It’s just getting easier to raise early rounds and harder to raise later rounds,” says Y Combinator’s Paul Graham over email, hewing to the latter view that this has merely become startup life in the Valley. “Investors will pay to see how an experiment turns out, but they are brutally unforgiving, if it doesn’t turn out well… What used to be an obelisk is now becoming a pyramid.”
Why do we do business with those sleazy bags? Just to save a few bucks on our next gadget? No. I guess we have to thank the Wallstreet bonus whores for dropping this f-bomb on us. Not even Bin Laden would've done better. Thanks boys, you rock!
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Do you mean uninhabitable?
That's a pretty fair description and I hate to disagree with it but I have to, a little. ;)

Yes, they need a credible threat, but the threat is merely that they'll continue with this policy a little past the inflection point instead of right up to it. And, at least to me, the inflection point doesn't seem all that far off.

I think 8 years is a better upper bound than a lower one.
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You can photocopy every page of your ebook too. Probably even easier to accomplish!
Hello Max, is this a free offer to help or do you plan to charge money or ask for commissions ? I'm asking this because of your Note:

"I'm not charging anything pre-sale for teh first few startups I work with"

Can you please clarify? Thanks
It doesn't matter. The main problem here is not hacking. It is piracy as the Chinese government stole their software.

I wonder what would happen if Anonymous decided to target China over matter like this. Sure would be impossible to bring a government like that to their knees. But at least the public would gain some awareness on this matter.
Theres no cost to send a text[1], because they are sent thru overhead comms channels built into the network standard.

> Pricing of texts == jedi mindtrick

______

[1] to the carriers; no bandwidth is used.
agreed. Honestly, I'd be more worried about a laywer than anyone else because the lawyer only needs to convince himself and is always willing to work this case pro bono.

"What we didn't know about <him> was that he was a retired lawyer, and which is one of the dangerous breeds of lawyer because they have nothing but time to crawl right up your ass"
-Stephen Colbert [1]

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
I've wasted a fair amount of time on it so far!
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Good work Mike,
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Well, maybe he's just using Xenix...