skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're correct as far as the photography rights go. And I think we all know what their decision means. I just find it hard to believe that their legal counsel said "post a stern textgram photo with X-Pro II so they know we mean business."

It all seems less about rights and more about drama.
The fact that 95% of sites get it wrong doesn't detract from the fact that this implementation is broken, and trivially susceptible to brute force.

If 95% of people believed in demonic possession, we'd all bemoan how crazy, dangerous, and fucked-up the situation is. But when a developer knows the solution recommended by real live cryptographers and chooses to discard it for his own broken version, we shrug our shoulders because, hey, everyone else gets it wrong too.

Fuck that. Bad code is bad. Bad developer attitudes are worse.
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If there are not relevant discussions at:

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/index.php

I suspect you could start one.

These people are in the space:

http://www.pdf-publishing.com/

I used their Drumlin to DRM some study guides I wrote few years ago. The Drumlin product is here:

http://www.drumlinsecurity.com/index.html

I will say that they appear to have their roots in publishing and are using technology to further their domain expertise rather than trying to work the problem the other way. A lack of publishing domain expertise is, in my opinion, likely to be a major hurdle for certain types of work. For something like Scribd, not so much.
The user has to accept the endorsement - it is not automatically displayed.
I'll also add, it punishes citizens with jail time or fines for not following unconstitutional laws until they are invalidated...which takes a long time, at least in the United States.

So the desired chilling effect occurs regardless. In fact, the goverment can (and does, sigh) play the game like this:

1. Pass an unconstitutional law and enforce it.

2. Wait years for the inevitable legal challenge to make its way to the Supreme Court, at which time it is invalidated.

3. Change the law slightly (minor variations in wording are sufficient), pass it, and enforce the law.

4. Go back to step 2.

The government can do this as long as it wants, without any problems (i.e. there's no fine for passing unconstitutional laws, and those who vote for them don't lose office, etc.).
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I'm having a hard time visualizing this.

If I am standing directly in front of this mirror and slowly reach forward with my right hand until I touch the mirror, will my hand be touching its mirrored self?
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Besides, from abroad, it very much looks like Americans are more concerned about keeping hold of hard core military weapons in their homes to be used against the odd burglar, than freedom, health, etc.

If the U.S. government does decide to finally completely abandon the 5th Amendment (not an unrealistic possibility), we might need those 'hard core military weapons'. In reality, that means semi-automatic variants of standard infantry rifles, which is what many police in America keep in the trunk of their patrol car.

Also, it's possible to be concerned about all of those things you mentioned. Many of us are. I think if these odd lunatics had access to better mental health care, we wouldn't be having the 'assault weapon' debate every 6 months.
If they had goole adverts they would have to follow google content guidelines. That would be awful.
Civilians haven't been able to register fully-automatic weapons in America since 1986. I suppose they could buy a grandfathered-in weapon that was on the registry before then, but if that's the case, you have some seriously wealthy friends.

Perhaps you're thinking of the semi-automatic versions available to civilians, but once you turn an 'assault rifle' into a semi-automatic it's no more lethal than a semi-automatic hunting rifle, and the label is largely cosmetic.

The AR-15 that lunatic recently used certainly looks scary, but since the rounds it takes are significantly less powerful than those used by your typical boring old hunting rifle, what's the point of the distinction?
I just went through this exact situation a few days ago. The designer of the app chose Avenir, which is included in iOS 6 but is not part of Android, so I reached out to Linotype to find out how to license it for an Android app. The responses were confusing and inexact (and slow - apparently they only have sales staff in Germany, and I'm in California, so the time difference means every go round takes a whole day). After 2-3 email exchanges I gave up trying to get a coherent answer and we're using a bundled-with-Android font. Oh well!
TLDR 2; Stop inventing your own cryptography. This doesn't just mean "cryptographic cipher". If you're passing data into cryptographic functions and the parameter names don't conceptually match what you're putting in them, you're probably doing voodoo cryptography.
Maybe there's a lesson in this for us: if you can tie your marketing to current events then you'll get greater recognition. I'm no marketing guy, so I bet this is pretty much marketing 101 and I'm probably quoting the already-well-understood.

I don't think you need another doomsday, use any current event; and you don't need to have your product be related to the event in any way. Sitepoint[1] always do a Christmas sale, for example, and web design books and Christmas have nothing in common.

I think anyone could tie anything to themselves:

- "have a look at our Olympic offers"

- "we have Royally stuffed ourselves with this great offer" [Royal Wedding]

- "we have stuffed ourselves with this great offer" [Christmas / Thanksgiving]

...er...er...you get the idea.

[1] http://www.sitepoint.com/
restaurants and bars are workplaces.. that was the rationale in most places. no need to separate them.
That's great, gracias!
The specific laws which concern me have mainly been passed in the 1980s or later; I'm not arguing that we're less free (in law) than we were in 1800 (even though in practice the structure of the economy, technology, etc. did effectively give people more freedom in a lot of ways).

PATRIOT is a big one.

The intelligence wiretapping authorization (especially as expanded in 2001 and 2008)

CDA and COPA (which were later overturned, but are great examples of Congress passing inherently unconstitutional laws "for the children")

I guess right now I'm concerned about the potential for more 2A restrictions -- I'm doubtful that the 1994 AWB was constitutional, and wonder if it would hold up under the current court post Heller and McDonald.

CALEA seems to be at odds with the 4th, but apparently not.

DOMA (which I guess was fixed)

Aside from the recent gun rulings, I'd prefer the laws of 1975 I think.
Is the purchase confirmation email working?
When I read the text of the amendment, I think that they very much would have considered it to cover everyone.

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger;"

Our declaration of independence says that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" -- ALL men. Not just American men. I think those two, taken together, imply that the founders would have meant for the 5th amendment to cover American men, Englishmen, Frenchmen, and natives of foreign lands which they had not heard of yet.
No kidding, the farmers (who grew up in the heartland of america) of the constitution knew that only god fearing american citizens were worthy of the rights specifically enumerated to them by the state via the bill of rights.

I don't know where people get the idea that these rights extend to everyone, or that there may be more rights than specifically listed in the bill of rights.
It's interesting to look back over them and realize how many of those ideas we DIDN'T do! The hard but important part is cutting stuff that's not essential until you have something simple.
I know I'm missing something, but looking at the landing page, I can't perceive any way to capitalize on this. Is Draw.io always free, so this is a joke, or am I missing something obvious? All I see is the "Don't Sign Up" button at the bottom.

Granted, it's an early day for me today, so I'm not exactly firing on all cylinders
Stripe has something similar to IPN? Many users have been asking us to build integration with Stripe so they can use have better fraud prevention but I didn't see an easy way to do this. If they have something like IPN, it might work.
Demanding a Plan and Google Trends
I work at a company that prints tens of millions of photos every year, and that has a Facebook integration app.

Actually, the image quality you get from FB through their API is dependent on both the photo size that is being uploaded, and the quality you ask facebook to save your photo at. A high resolution photo that is uploaded to Facebook in high quality mode is a good photo for a 10x15cm print. Any bigger print size and you start running into resolution issues.

The trick here is to show the user which photos he will have low resolution issues, and which he won't.
New Relic (http://newrelic.com) - Application monitoring

MongoLab (http://mongolab.com) - MongoDB-as-a-Service
Isit: python helper for environment runtime detection
I would argue that it is the crippling lack of appetite for change and innovation that stifles breakthrough technology that would create a data standard and a thriving interoperable service ecosystem.

The success of an innovative idea will attract the other members of a data ecosystem. ( Your example proves that!) So you need to have innovation first - not standardization. Standardization may follow.

You were right to abandon IT as a VC --- this is an industry that is not about ROI. The only reason I do it is I can afford to subsidize it, fueled by the letters we get from patients thanking us for making their lives better, or saving them a tremendous amount of pain and suffering.

The MDs at the hospitals I know don't do it for the money. Despite the outrageous prices in US healthcare, they get paid pennies on the dollar for 24X7X366 work (they take it home!) and little thanks (and lots of lawsuits). Often their own institutions don't support them. I would never recommend my child be an MD in the US, at least not for profit. (Advice a family friend and physician once told me when contemplating med school, which I took to heart.)
You may want to read about the discovery that earned three researchers the 1998 Nobel prize then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_quantum_Hall_effect

Though, you usually need to take graduate level solid state course to get to understanding it.
Oracle buys marketing automation firm Eloqua for $810 million
Maybe a [1-5] rating system would be best... although it'd need some kind of scale.

I agree that the current is flawed - my Dad has recommended me for everything from Python to MySQL, and he's an artist!
That's true, and I'm not averse to change. I'm hard-pressed to believe that scenes involving dialogue and little movement will seem improved by any framerate increase, but I would be the first to applaud the movie that shoves that in my face.
when calling JS code from CLJS, you have to translate arguments that aren't primitives from CLJS datastructures to JS datastructures. (Functional languages implement their datastructures differently than imperative languages.)

here's an example: https://github.com/dustingetz/getz-bootstrap/blob/datomic/sr...
Intercom looks pretty cool - is it intuitive for business users to use?
Though Gauss famously remarked, "What we need are notions, not notations." :)
I don't get it:

http://www.jgraph.com/mxlicense.html is a non-free license, but
https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph/blob/master/license.txt
is non-commercial Creative Commons

Can I get a perpetual commercial license for mxGraph today?

https://www.draw.io/about.html says

"As Pro Plus® ++

Unlimited Users
Unlimited Drawings
Full Source Code

$0 / diagram / cpu / user / hour"

And how did you get permission to display all those customer logos on your page? -- Fortune 500 usually negotiate compensation for using their logos like that, which a vendor of a free product wouldn't have time/incentive to deal with.
Oh, thank god: http://i.imgur.com/omi1z.png
Oh sorry, yep, you're right
>...and we need the experts to come up with a strategy to help keep ALL weapons (not just guns) out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Stricter background checks and checks for private sales is a great start, but I'm skeptical of trying to control gun access for the mentally ill. Most people with mental disability or who are not neurotypical are not violent or have violent tendencies, so where is the line drawn? It should also be noted that mass shooting events have been perpetrated by people who didn't have outwardly violent personalities, so would something like this really even help? We may be better off tackling health care access and social problems rather than increasing stigma about mental disability and illness.
Experience in the exact same role at the exact same company is going to be maximally valuable in that role, at that company. It translates to deep understanding of the problem domain and of the existing systems you are maintaining and building upon. It's completely perverse and backwards that you get a raise for switching companies and don't get a raise for staying put, because most of that understanding becomes irrelevant when you switch companies.
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People do this thing where they say the Constitution plainly says X and then quote it where it says Y.

What do you think the clause

except in cases arising in the land or naval forces

means?
I sort of agree: You don't automatically lose anything. But once you sue to enforce your trademark, the court looks at the body of evidence - and may determine that the trademark has been diluted and has been lost. There is no AFAIK predefined threshold (or way to measure, for that matter) the dilution of trademark - a different judge/jury may reach different conclusions.

And basically, that's why most trademark lawyers will act on even the smallest unauthorized trademark use - they do not want to leave it to chance.
Do you charge for shipping? 50 cents per photo seems pretty high, unless you have free shipping. Or maybe that is just the right price and I shouldn't compare it with our prices here in Brazil (we print millions of photos at where I work, in an HP Indigo printer, for less than a quarter than that, though we charge for shipping separatedly).
Ask HN: Just received Google verification code on phone but I didn't ask for it
Hi all
Just wondering if you have received this before. I just got a text message on my phone from a number 657-201-6208 saying "your google verification code is xxxxx". I am concerned if someone is trying to access my google/gmail ? trying to check with wife if she is the culprit but in the meanwhile, i just wanted to hear your views.
They don't go into details, but I assume the implications for communications are new ways to make entangled particles for quantum cryptography, not FTL communication or something else that's considered impossible. Right?
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This is something that I was also confused about. Is it exactly the same, or almost the same, and if it is not, then what are the tradeoffs? After a bit of googling I found this on PyCharm's confluence site: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/PYH/PyCharm+vs.+Inte...

I decided to just get PyCharm, considering that I will not need Jython intergration, interface is less cluttered, and IntelliJ Python plugin does not handle Flask projects natively, whereas PyCharm does.

One other thing to consider is that If I don't need most of IntelliJ's features, paying $100 a year for updates is a bit wasteful if all that I need is covered by a $59 PyCharm renewal.

edit: typos
This is a joke... I'm not sure why but every time I'm seeing the word ninja/guru in a title I'm 99% convinced that what I'll be reading is the most basic stuff.

PS: (not connect with the product) for Mac: http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/
Cool, I'll open an issue on GitHub and I hope I'll have time to do some research for this over this weekend or the next one.
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."--Thomas Paine
If you map both x to -x and y to -y (in addition to mapping z to -z), then you still get a reversed (chiral) image. From the pictures, it looks like it maps x to -x, but y is kept the same.
Same App, with very minor modifications, running on NeXT, OS X, and iOS
Apparently it's not true that it must pre-exist in the list. (A) I never even knew there was a skill endorsement system; (B) I never listed a skill of "cloud computing".
Considering I've been waiting over 2 years for my patent, it's clear the office and its procedures need a massive overhaul.
I can't tell if you're joking. Please tell me you are.
I'm failing to see what all the fuss is about regarding the UI on this site. It's relatively minimalistic, easy to navigate, and the header condensing to a smaller version was slightly unexpected but I wouldn't call it "jarring" or a deal-breaker by any means. Someone mentioned that Mashable has a great UI and I'm going to have to strongly disagree. Mashable's UI is horribly cluttered and much harder to decipher, while I had no problem whatsoever navigating and understanding the Quartz site.

I did notice, however, that the header will drop back down when choosing another link or scrolling back up to the top of an article regardless of whether it's the top of the scroll area. This seems more like a bug than anything, not something intentional to the UI.
An app that lets your remotely control monitor on/off & sleep/hibernate/shutdown/wake your PC.
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I guess it is spam. Just found this:

http://www.reversenumberdatabase.com/657-201-6xxx
Garbage collection was left to the application, the way it is on iOS before v5 (if I'm not mistaken), C, C++ and many other languages. While it does increase mental load on the developer (compared to gc languages e.g. Lisp, Java, C# or Python), it is not too hard. It's still the norm in C++, for example.

And like node.js, they tried to avoid blocking APIs (and mostly succeeded), but provided a very simple way to "outsource" them to other threads. You can do that in C or Java as well, but it's not as easy or as pervasive as it is in BeOS.
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Most people don't realize how bad the patent troll situation is. You can be hit by patent trolls for operating a boring online store with nothing more sophisticated than a shopping cart. Happens all the time. Here's just one example:

http://ia700401.us.archive.org/3/items/gov.uscourts.txed.119...

At least some of those defendants ended up settling and paying off that particular troll by the way. Petmeds is a public company and mentioned that in one of its 10K filings.
One neat trick that I think is worth adding to the discussion: URL templates.

Returning URL templates as part of your API response can give you the benefits of having a clean way to access sub-resources, without the headaches and bloat of having to enumerate every possible desired sub-URL.

For example, in DocumentCloud, a document's canonical representation has a unique URL for the content of every page as plain text, and as an image, in several different rendered sizes. Instead of doing something silly like this:

resources: {
text: [
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1/pages/page-1.txt",
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1/pages/page-2.txt",
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1/pages/page-3.txt",
...
],
largeImages: [
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1/images/page-1-large.png",
...
],
thumbnailImages: [
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1/images/page-1-thumb.jpg",
...
]
},
...

... where you might have 5,000 pages in a document, you can imagine how unacceptably large that response might become. Instead, a single URL template can do the work. (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570) The spec has a whole bunch of goodies in it, but we just need the most basic interpolation feature for this case (real example, you may have to scroll sideways to see the complete URL):

"pages": 5058,
"resources": {
"page": {
"image": "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/pages/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire-p{page}-{size}.gif",
"text": "http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/pages/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire-p{page}.txt"
},
"pdf": "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire.pdf",
"published_url": "http://documents.nytimes.com/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire",
"related_article": "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/politics/05court.html",
"search": "http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/search.json?q={query}",
"text": "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire.txt",
"thumbnail": "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/pages/sotomayor-s-senate-questionnaire-p1-thumbnail.gif"
},

Basically, all of the simple URLs a Viewer might need to use in order to browse the document, search the text, and view related resources. In the past, when we've needed to change or expand the number of resources (adding HTTPs-only support, changing the URLs at which the page images are stored, or adding larger sizes of page images), it's been relatively easy to do, without breaking the viewers, or invaliding previously-valid JSON representations of the document. Here's the complete link to the above:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21939-sotomayor-s-sen...
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Awesome resources, thank you.

I haven't given thought to DRM. Books that I buy typically aren't DRM'd, and honestly the only ones I've seen are usually textbooks.
Demonstration time:

Write something on a piece of paper. Hold the paper up to the mirror.

Now replace that with a transparent piece of plastic.
If they ask for donations, it seems fair to know what their operating costs are as others have pointed out. As a point of reference, all of the non profits I donate to have annual reports that specify exactly where the monies go, and are audited. People will indeed donate if they believe the money is going to a good cause and there's adequate transparency. See Kiva.org and the job they've done in that area.
Why the entertainment industry's release strategy creates piracy
Well, someone definitely knows your number and did this to have fun.Unless someone has a masterplan to steal your phone also hehe.Or perhaps it is just spam...
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Could you make just a small change to the app to show who will win tonight?
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