skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't it a jump from that to "remote root on every Android device that has market installed" and "If your device is online, it's a few hundred bytes over an always-on socket away from remote install/wipe" (remote install yes but wipe?)
It is incorrect. I guess that after he realized it himself, he got discouraged and didn't bother to tell people about it.
They are providing the service of making your money available for payment without you having to think about the logistics of moving the money (plus credit facilities, chargebacks, fraud protection (If I have a wallet full of money and someone spends it I'm down that cash. If I have a wallet full of cards and someone spends with them, I'm covered.)). It only seems fair that they get paid for their work.

Whether the amount they charge is worth the services they provide is another question entirely.
Google CEO Page: Apple’s strategy hurts users most of all
I don't know, if you browse certain subreddits you will find a lot of user submitted content which was submitted for free.
"How I Hacked My Way Through Harvard With Top Grades:

Hack 1: Choose major that interests you

Hack 2: Read and memorize all the course literature
..."
> And besides, as it stands now, you can buy from other stores, for example, Cydia. Of course, you have to jailbreak your phone, but that is legal in the US, so there is no argument any more.

> If you want to keep your warranty, you have to use the App Store.

You just pointed out one argument.
Given the fact that you are losing value on savings due to the central bank increasing the supply of money, you also have to take into the account the amount of time it took you to save up the 100K.

You may very well actually saved 100K to buy the apartment, but the real value of that 100K may have already decreased by 10K.

The question is whether the rate of value loss by currency inflation is outpaced by the interest you'd pay on a mortgage.
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Article seems gone. Here's a cached version (though some of the pictures won't load):

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:justina...
DMCA counternotices violate the DMCA? See http://www.chillingeffects.org/question.cgi?QuestionID=132
>Parody is considered to be "fair use". Commercials aren't.

How about when parodies generate money? Weird Al made millions doing that.
Why Are Dead People Liking Stuff On Facebook?
The benefits of investing in individual properties are:

- Other people's money (leverage via loan)

- Tax write-offs (interest deduction, expense shelter, depreciation).

- Appreciation.

- Equity growth.

- Rental income.

The first two probably can't be obtained via REIT.
I don't see how you can make that deduction. You must be some kind of commit-nazi. Working hours do not correlate with the size of the commit. There might have been a number of hours just thinking about the implementation, designing the solution, fix, whatever, before writing a single line. The actual commit can then be e.g. 10 lines of code. There are many, many reasons why a single commit can take several hours of work. And it's perfectly fine and normal. Don't be judgmental like that.
Huberty: Apple could sell 13 million TV sets at $1,060 each
> a bike using technology found on the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope - gyroscopes

Holly cow, gyroscopes! The technology of space travel!
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No reason to downvote me (whoever it was). The PDF

http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf

has _scanned_ pages with text layer on top of it. That's the reason why it's so big.

I applaud retyping effort, as it's always better to preserve real content than images of it (even if OCRed), but I cannot say that I'm happy about troff being used for this purpose. It can be a matter of taste, but I don't like the way formatting is done in troff/nroff. That's why I never use it directly (e.g. using ronn to convert markdown text to man page, etc.).

But I understand it's done that way to preserve "the creation process" too, which is also appreciated. And the book is about troff/nroff, so dogfooding is present. ;)
Interesting to see such a widespread failure in a system built to have high redundancy. My software reliability final exam is in an hour, this came at a good time :)
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4037645
Screencast: Concurrent Programming Using Dart Isolates
Looking at the code changes, the headline is just fear mongering. The main change is a check for the datatype; it wasn't checking for it earlier:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/sync/engine/...

It was a simple logic bug. From the crash traces, it was an out of bound exception:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range

But I don't think reporters are going to take the time to talk to someone who can analyze it and give them an accurate picture, even though chromium is open source and issues are discussed and fixed publically.
Bonus points if they are "curated".
Needs more automagic and a possibility to give urls (instead of file upload).
Well, sure. It's more that you posted a comment not that there's a typo but that this typo makes it so unbearable to read that you were simply forced to stop. But anyway...
Anyone else spot that the program typed in is not the program that's executed?
The Young and Hungry Designer
As an American who lived in the UK for a number of years, I can attest that we Americans are much more wary in these post-politically correct age of using the word Christmas for the holidays than the Brits. For better or worse, I dunno.
Might be a personal bias here, but I would never use those buttons to share your website/product/blog with my friends. I'd just copy and paste the URL into Facebook/Twitter/whatever and go from there.

Judging by its usage rate in previous projects I've been a part of, many other people operate the same way or simply ignore any sort of sharing aspect.
Google reviews for prisons: cheap and cheerful lodgings for those on a budget
Of course it's a minority, sorry about the misunderstanding. I meant "some Swedish people", not "the Swedish people".
You're still dependent on your Intenet service provider's decisions. If your ISP decides to have some downtime while you've got a critical deadline, there's not much you can do to make your e-mail flow. And Google probably has less downtime than an average ISP.

Of course ISP maintenance doesn't keep you from using your local office applications and such, like Google downtime would if you used Docs.
Did Weird Al pay royalties to the songwriters for covering their songs? By law (in the US at least) you're allowed to cover any song as long as you pay the statutory royalties (or a lesser amount if you can negotiate that)
Putting customers first is closer to the Stakeholder capitalism model, in which you take into account all parties involved in the long term success of a company.
What about things like critical deadlines coinciding with security updates? The constant background effort of supporting email is a rather unfavorable return on your time.
It seems reasonable but pulling a $10 blended CPM on YouTube on this many views on the same content has probably never happened.
Of course it's a jump. The original claim seems like pure FUD to me. If you don't have a Google account on the phone, then the Play store does not work.

If you have a Google account, then you trust Google. If you don't trust Google then it would seem silly to have a Google account.
> It seems to me that the only difference between Google and NZBMatrix et al is that the media companies NEED one more than the other.
Well, that might work - if companies allow working from home. In Germany a lot of companies don't allow this, as this would mean loosing control, how long a worker is actually working.

A lot of corporate culture here is not so much result-focused, but sitting on your back, doing your time.

And in a lot of cases, this might work. If I were the typical product manager, this would work. But having found the bliss of automating things via scripting, I feel more and more like a maker and can more and more understand, not to disturb the makers and what it costs to be the disturber. But here most product managers are more managers, then makers - so the live and breath a manager-schedule, being able to cope with interruptions quite easily. So no problem for them, but a problem for our developers (and to some extent guys like me)...

... but as it is mostly my problem (and has been in previous gigs as well), it is something that I have to deal with obviously, as I am part of a minority here.
It's been 13 years. Has there been any cryptoanalysis? I can't tell if the problem Paul Crowley found in http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/ is sufficient to sink it.
You could argue that if that said presentation was clearly stating to use hacker news as a marketing tool. (Which would attract the wrong people from the get go anyway).

On the flip side, bringing hacker news to the attention of the mass could have also a positive effect especially if these people can contribute relevant and good content.

Additionally I feel that HN has a good algorithm to stop most of the people who wouldn't be a good fit anyway. Posting a post on HN and then getting people to vote won't get you to the front page (and if it does, getting dropped off it is pretty easy if the content you posted is not relevant).
As can be seen there are people who like noise and those who like quietness. Actually this problem can be resolved as long as a company has enough sound-proofing rooms: for type 1, just lock yourself in a big room with those who like noise, if there isn't enough people, there are a lot of noisy local/Internet radio stations to play with. For type 2, the solution is the same, stay in the room for quietness.
Oh yes...
I gave up after three tries.
Really really great. Thanks for posting!
Mentoring & Apprenticeship for Software Engineers
This Year on Twitter
This is why I'll never cross the street. You could get run over. Instead I've built my own shopping mall in the back yard, to keep everything local.
Many of the parodies I see on the net keep the original song or lyrics. Weird Al keeps most of the original musical sound but not the lyrics.

So how do you parody a music video without changing the song? Does fair use of the music video via parody give you right to use the music behind it intact? (color me confused)
Non-obvious time-management hacks
I'm not sure I understand the disconnect. If I wire up a machine that produces rainbows and unicorns to a button that primarily initiates thermonuclear destruction, is the button somehow less dangerous?

The simple fact is that there is a socket connected on the phone to my left, with exactly the features I just described. Just as it can produce apps at my leisure, similarly it can be used for less desirable actions. In the past, Google have used this legitimately to remove malware, but it's not Google I'm concerned about. One nationstate (China) has already shown Google's production environment little more than a few nasty PDFs sent to the right e-mail addresses away.

As for remote wipe, that's a feature of the platform – search for 'android device administrator'.
The expectation that customers should act in a way to basically create the conditions for a perfectly free market is misguided. Not invoking legislation just makes things painful for everyone. Sure, I can switch to Android - but the cost of buying everything again is rather high. Tomorrow I might have to switch back for similar political reasons.
Performance of Inlined Virtual Method Invocations in Java
I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone. Can you reveal more about the usage rates you've seen?
Indeed, the only real protection the "legit" porn industry has is to wave the 2257 around and try to use the thread of child pornography to get other sites shut down.
It's ridiculous to call this FUD in a thread about a few million Chrome instances being accidentally DoS'd by the same company.

The ultimatum you describe (which is also the present reality) isn't the only possibility here. Even a simple confirmation dialog box is enough to prevent a situation where an evil actor could silently mass-install malware on every Android device, or for that matter an authoritarian actor installing legal spyware outside the device owner's control.
The Pursuit of Simplicity in Web Development
Bored of this now. It already got posted two or three times yesterday.
Building a simple app with Corona - Part II
> right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're
> working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0

What's the impetus for this? Losing patent protection and gaining strict GPL2 compatibility seems like a strange decision.
Would be nice if it had some samples of what it did so i can be wow'd into trying it.
Akamai also doesn't service porn at all.

(S)limelight seems to be what a lot of sites use.
How Two Hardware Geeks Leveraged Kickstarter for Serial Success
Fred Wilson hasn't done a 2012 deal
Elon Musk-Backed SolarCity Seeks IPO Multiple of 19 Times Peers
Points 1 & 2 are somewhat in conflict: it's almost certain that 30% is artificially high but since there is a significant value for a well-supported, widely trusted payment system it's likely that they'd still see significant revenues. Most of the competition would be Amazon or Square, not app developers setting up their own credit card processor.

Competition would simply force them to actually deliver value to developers & users as well as allowing for business models with Apple's service isn't structured allow.
We have tried monetary incentives and found people are less interested to scout for there peers. Friend helping a friend and/or colleague internally recommending previous acquaintances we find encourages better recommendations.

The syncing job queue was hanging, I've restarted it and the remaining syncing jobs have completed.
Talk about link bait! There was no self-destruct code.
The IPO is scheduled for today would value the company at about $1 billion, or 8 times sales. Public competitors are valued at 0.4 times sales.
Got scared off by this in the T&Cs:

As between you and Conduit, you retain all rights in your Content. However, by uploading, submitting, or otherwise transmitting any Content via the Holidizemylogo Website you hereby grant to Conduit a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, display, publish, perform, transmit and access your Content and the Customized Content, as applicable, for promotional and marketing purposes, at Conduit sole discretion, in any media formats and through any media channels during the term you use the Holidizemylogo Website and/or Services and for the twelve month period following the end of such term.
We've had low margin businesses forever, that's not going to change. I agree with what you said, single party billing is great, except Apple also sells software on their platform, and is exempt from the cut.

So that means that Apple is the only one able to sell ebooks on their platform, because who would go to Amazon if they had to pay 30% than in Apple's bookstore both on the platform and off of it (note that Apple explicitly forbids charging more on the app store than elsewhere). Do you think that this is reasonable, considering that Apple has owned a major part of mobile devices over the past 5 years?

If this was just Visa, it would be fine - the playing field would be level. But it's not, and Apple uses this to give themselves a massive competitive advantage. If Toyota bought a bunch of gas station chains and said that non-Toyota cars had to pay 30% more for gas, but made the billing system really straightforward, would you be okay with that?
They only finished making the first episode of six hours and there were a dozen hours filmed/planned?

First episode is called "Insert Coin" It's the premiere of the first episode (the only one which is complete up to now) 45 min Shown Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8pm

So they never finished it. Maybe ran out of money to produce it? Definitely out of time by Feb 2012

World Premiere: Screening of the first episode "Insert Coin" of the brand new documentary, 8-Bit Generation. Playing the Revolution“ with interviews with veterans of the game industry (A Junk Food & BasicNet production / Written by Tomaso Walliser Lorenzo Faggi / Directed by Davide Agosta / Special consultants Massimo Temporelli, Bruno Grampa and Cecilia Botta).

8bit Generation documentary series out in February 2012

Junk Food, a "content for humans" production company, proudly announces 8bit Generation.

This forthcoming 12 hours documentary series is divided in two main stories covering the birth of the personal computer and videogame era: each story will be 6 hours and 6 episodes long, starting from the mid 70's all the way through the 80's and the first 16bit machines.

With something like 50 (and more to be added) original and unreleased interviews to the fathers of the modern world, 8bit Generation is going to be, by far, the most complete, accurate and the biggest video product on retro gaming and retro computing for years to come.

Interviews feature Apple founder Steve Wozniak, Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, tv game inventor Ralph Baer and many others.

8bit Generation is going to be released worldwide February 8th 2012 in DVD/BD format and in 5 (plus 1) different packages.

Find out more information and news and watch video trailers at www.8bitgeneration.info where you can also pre order your favorite copy. - Tomaso Walliser Junk Food C.E.O.

After digging around a bit, I found one of his domains still working lostinfashion.it and it was renewed to 2013 recently - check the whois for email and phone number

You can also get the "who we are" page to work in the archive if you change the date http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111128013424/http://www.8b...

All sorts of leads on the "who we are" page.
I'd like to invite you to have a look at my blog post detailing on how to customize the new Mac UI to suit your needs:

http://feepk.net/customizing-vlc-for-mac

If this isn't enough for me, create requests on https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ so we can see what we can do!
As a guy with some experience in platform crypto . . . facepalm. I can't believe they did it this way, it's like they didn't even try.
Win 1 of 3 ThemeFuse Themes – a Christmas WordPress Giveaway
Proof for the downvoter: http://www.amazon.com/Rovio-Mobile-Angry-Birds/dp/B004SBQGHS...

and

http://phandroid.com/2011/03/30/after-brief-amazon-exclusivi...
Do you have a reference for an agreement between Apple and Dropbox? My take on the whole thing is that Dropbox is operating exactly by the rules by not offering an IAP option nor link to outside subscription purchase from within the app.

Poof, approved.
A year of WebGL on the iPad - so what?
How to invest in Russian startups: An investor’s guide
Any video of the presentation available?
great, practical advise.
It's worth noting that while these are all very Heroku focused, the idea behind many of these can be applied to any host. Here's my non-Heroku List:

1) Offloading Assets Cloudfront+S3 pretty standard for any app these days. Rackspace's cloud files is a good option as well. They also offer cloud drives that function similar to EBS.

2) File Processing Cloudinary seems to be the best overall option here. Blitline.com works as well, but doesn't offer a CDN

3) Background Jobs Iron.io covers this space quite well

4) Offloading Search I've used Searchify on a medium sized site, it's one of the better performing APIs I've worked with.

5) Application Cache Memcache(d) is the obvious choice, Couchbase server offers a quick and easy Memcached server. Memcachier and Amazon ElastiCache are valuable options

For number 6, your mileage may vary depending on your chosen language. For PHP, I prefer PHP-FPM on nginx using sockets rather than TCP.
FWIW:

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I almost believed it would take the full 48 hours...
I was going to try it, but the T&C gives Conduit fairly broad marketing/promotional rights. And strangely, it only grants me license to the output for 12 months.

I'm not comfortable with that.
“Growth Hacking” is BS…It’s All Just Marketing
Thanks Alan.
Not yet very soon.
> App Store did a really bad job on app discovery and promotion

You think most app buyers found their apps outside the app store? Unlike folks reading HN or tech sites and trying new apps thanks to app launch news, the normals I know find their apps only within the app store (other than the occasional app roundup in a mainstream printed magazine).

If you look at the CC processing industry, ranging from 5% fees for the most basic service (transaction + cc + merchant + bank) to 15% fees for an end to end service that cuts you a check, the 30% to also manage the user authentication and customer service is a reasonable deal, completely aside from marketing.

Finally, as a user, I don't want featured apps to be the ones paying to be featured. Not cool.
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RECEIVED MESSAGE "Quota Exceeded. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/websearch.
HUMAN READABLE: "Mountain View, we have a problem."
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Sadface :(

Great experience though, props to those who made it!
Right; however, with a parody of the sheet music that you recorded yourself you have fair use on the sheet music and no concerns about the recording. If you want to do a parody of the recording from the substantively the same sheet music, you may or may not be able to get by with nothing, but you would almost certainly be ok with a mechanical license, which the studio is required to give you for a known (small) fee.

In comparison, if you want to do a parody of a music video--a work that is considered to be on top of the music piece, as opposed to included with it, and thereby requiring a special "synchronization license" to make--using the original recording (which obviously implies the original sheet music), you are then going to have to negotiate with the studio, and they may simply not have any internal mechanism by which you can license it at all (even if individuals there think it makes sense).
I wouldn't be so sure. Working in GBP that bike would cost me £7K. Say I had it three years, I'm looking at it costing £2.3K a year. Given that with my current commuter bike (a BMW R1100RT) I already have an annual cost of £1250 in fuel alone. That's before considering all the other costs you get with owning a bike.

Add to this that this is considerably more comfortable, more weatherproof, and not a 10 year old like mine it seems a fair price.
Yeah, but UTF8's not acceptable to the IETF Secretariat.
Somehow I can't imagine lab-produced gold being worth less than naturally occurring gold for jewelry, etc. I imagine the only potential difference would be the distribution of isotopes. But I suppose it could still happen if large players would benefit.
Driving through tunnels just North of San Francisco, everyone honks their horns.

Not angrily, or at traffic, just because.