skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence? What am I missing? Does someone have a link to the Flat UI icon he's referring to? The impression I got from his message is, Flat UI included a verbatim copy of the DN icon.
Note that the matter of the "newspaper" icon is not the reason for the DMCA request, but a sidenote.
Definitely well-conceived and fun! As others have said, very well done on the web-based version. It's too bad it's not on the Play store, though, any plans for an Android version?

[edit: Asked and answered below. As an Android user (and obviously this is anecdotal but it's all I've got), I spend more money on in-game purchases -- reasonable ones, not FarmCityWhatever insanity -- than I do purchasing them outright. For something like this, level packs seem like a good IAP.]
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There's also a SPDY indicator add-on for firefox, which shows up whenever you are connected to a site using it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...

Edit: sp332 beat me to it.
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Can't wait to see this with more cats and reaction to keywords: ruff, bark, bowwow, dog will cause the cat to flee away.
My best guess is that most designers are young ones(contrast perception decreases with age) using (retina) Macs (which make fonts look thicker than in Windows). They then assume it looks good everywhere(or plain just don't care about Windows/Linux users users and/or older folks).Also, I think this design trend was started or made popular by Apple.
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https://routebop.com and http://geoflickr.jit.su are basic sites I've put together.

Nothing too ground-breaking but great for helping me to learn. Full code is on Github also.
Take a look at the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium talk (EE380) talk for March 6th, 4:15PM Pacific.
http://ee380.stanford.edu. You can watch live or watch the archived presentation.
They're not claiming to own the style or colours, they're claiming that some of illustrations used in FlatUI are illustrations that LayerVault owns the copyright to.
Ask HN: EU firms: Data Protection compliance if processing credit cards in USA?
Startups based in the EU:

If you are processing payments or storing/vaulting credit cards using US services, how are you complying with the Data Protection Directive [1]?

Is the service Safe-Habor-registered? [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC_on_the_protection_of_personal_data

[2] http://www.export.gov/safeharbor
While that's undoubtedly part of it, I'd say there's definitely other advantages too.

For instance, as danso says at [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332448], it forces orthogonality, because you have to think how a function can be tested independently of the external objects that may use it; if you have to write your code with automated tests in mind, it's almost inevitably going to be more modular, because poor modularity turns writing those tests into a massive pain.

Also, the tests can act as something like a formal specification; in the process of writing tests, unspecified edge cases may become apparent that weren't noticeable in the natural-language spec.
Really cool idea and site. How do you guys differ from CashieCommerce.com ?
I agree with you , the anchor tag is not supposed to do all of this. It is much easier to link to a text or inline element then a whole block, yet it allows you too. I don't know why you are complaining.
Not to mention, he even says himself that it was " ... the similarities are a bit more than striking. That's not a huge issue until you release everything together - the icons, the colors, the UI elements, whatever."

DMCA notices are to enforce against copyright infringement only, not as a tool for organizations to abuse in order to remove content which they think is "too similar", if this was the case, businesses would simply send their competition DMCA notices for being "too similar."

He also stated that because DesignModo "removed some icons" which LayerVault thought were the most blatantly infringing somehow implies guilt, as opposed to just someone trying to handle a dispute in a friendly manner.

I'm not a designer, and I haven't heard of LayerVault until now, however unless some very damning evidence is presented, I feel like every statement he's making is essentially digging a deeper grave.

EDIT: Having looked at the examples of the claimed infringement which are now surfacing, this is even further evidence that this is misuse of the DMCA. At most, this would be a civil / trademark dispute.
Just posted this here a few seconds ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=5332515

Your title might be better than mine though :)
Culture has a lot to do with it.
US only. And it's quite hard to figure out. This is all I could find>

http://cropup.com/help/merchant

What about international buyers?

Yep, no problem. You can accept payments from international customers.
(I do product at CropUp.)

Correct, great observation. PayPal Masspay charges the payment sender a fee, but it's free for the recipient. So these payouts are free for our merchants.
> 2. Router: at the edge of each of our PoPs is a router. This router announces the paths packets take to CloudFlare's network from the rest of the Internet.

Umm, just curious, but I thought you used a set of redundant routers at each POP?

Or is the single router used highly redundant on its own?
Does anyone have a active subscription to Layervault?

Here's the Flat UI designs:
http://designmodo.github.com/Flat-UI/

LV is saying that illustrations/artwork was the reason for the notice so if anyone have artwork on the dashboard they can compare that'd be great (cause I can't find any copied artwork from their main site).

Layervault
https://layervault.com/

The issue is artwork/illustration.
absolutely, its probably our highest priority for the next month or so, we focused on just iOS for release since we have a small team.
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Sure thing. It was just so weird before that they had implemented the NPN extension into their ServerHello, but only advertised http/1.1. Its possible I'm just in a big A/B testing group, but unlikely. Really should have a way to poll hostnames and look for changes like this
mondrian - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mondrian&aq=0&um=1...
Google's chart API also supports ssl: https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300...
Ask HN: Any interest in a boutique HTML email design service?
I'm looking for ways to open up new income streams and have been considering opening up a boutique HTML email design and coding service. I've been involved in high-volume email marketing for a number of years and feel that I can offer a premium service at a good price. Is there any market out there for this?

I've seen other places offering similar services, but not a whole lot of them. The closest competition would be something like http://psd2email.com, which seems overpriced. I wouldn't want to just undercut them, but provide a valuable service to people at a good price.

The service would be to offer HTML email designs and code, with options for building out templates for major ESPs - Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, ExactTarget, etc. Quick turnaround times, tested in all major email clients. Possibly provide extra consulting as well.

Any interest out there in the HN community?
I did the first few level on the website and I think they are a bit too easy
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I like this game, good idea!
Is there a list anywhere of all of the technologies that people use in a web stack and what the status of their SPDY support is? For example, we use Jetty, nginx, and ELB, and I imagine they all need to support spdy before we can allow our users to.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9718

You'll need to do some soldering.
"... they even managed to kinda lift the old DN icon ..."

I think you misunderstand. I'm not arguing as to whether the Flat UI guys copied them or not, but like the larger argument, the icon he is putting forward as copied work is itself conceptually very similar to other existing icon work(s). As a designer I would be more than a little miffed if that design appeared if I had created the Noun Project's version and not openly licensed it.

If that is the case, it somewhat undermines the claim that the assets are fully owned by them or even that ownership can be so quickly claimed.
Coolest thing ever. Adopted.
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TuneCrawl [1]. Simply put, TuneCrawl is a lightning fast way to stream any song on the most popular music streaming websites.

Still a lot of features I would like to implement, but I'm proud of it so far!

[1]http://www.tunecrawl.com/
I am asking in general, but am specifically interested in Spreedly.

They are storing credit card data (which counts as "processing" "personal data") for many EU firms but don't appear to be Safe Harbor accredited.
Thanks for this insightful comment. I hadn't known how encodings in filenames are dealt with by CLI utilities.

It looks like some versions/builds of rsync are encoding-aware (e.g., http://blog.gimpe.com/2009/09/13/tip-use-rsync-to-convert-fi...), although some recent builds may not be (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00467.html).
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What I personally don't understand is that if DesignModo did actually copy assets from LayerVault, why doesn't LV name said assets and possibly include screenshots or whatever in the DMCA claim? Or make a post about it. Or really, anything that would include the specific information so that people wouldn't be left guessing. As evident by the reactions, not being specific here only serves to make LV's claims seem unsubstantial. I'm personally rather doubtful about their validity for the same reason as well.

Also, I think it's pretty ridiculous that a DMCA takedown can even be "valid" without specifying what exactly was infringed - "I am the exclusive rights holder for the artwork contained within Flat UI, Free Web User Interface Kit" isn't exactly saying much.
He only mentions that it looks similar - which isn't enough to file a DMCA takedown. When does it become problematic? When there's an identical icon in both sets, which I haven't been able to find so far.
If the intelligence/SOE component of WWII interests you, I cannot recommend enough the book "Bodyguard of Lies" by Anthony Cave Brown. Some of his conclusions and theories have been proven inconsistent in the light of new information (declassified since 1975) but it remains the most comprehensive work on the subject I'm aware of.
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Great work! The UX/Design is really great.
For the 0.1% case where he actually would have needed math, he got away with it and just asked a friend. Nothing wrong in focusing on the 90% of the 90/10 and asking for help if you're in that 10% part.
(I do product at CropUp.)

Hmm. I'm not following, can you please explain? It's not US only and that's what the FAQ says / is supposed to say.
In my view, it depends if you want the end product or the experience of building your idea. If you're in it just for the experience, sure, go for it anyway. If you want the end product, ask yourself: does the existing solution fit exactly what you need, 100% perfect? Or are there things missing, or the smallest detail that bothers you for some reason? Most of the time it'll be the latter. In that case, build it. It may not make you rich or famous, but you'll have something that you love to use and you're proud of. That's enough for me, at least.
I am not sure I agree with it being worse. Would you rather have code with no tests or code with tests even if they do verify what it is doing? Most regression tests are brittle because they never change and get hardened. In my previous life, I was majorly behind model-based testing which is very similar to concepts of TDD in that it forces people to think of your entire component and then it generates tests or can walk through your reference implementation to verify your actual code. However in smaller companies, I personally feel that it is important to first test the right "it" before building it right. (As Google Engineering Director Alberto Savoia used to put it).

No one is advocating releasing broken stuff, but whats the point of releasing something perfectly tested that no one wants? I think the answer lies somewhere in the continuum. And in my own startup (wello) we do go back and write tests, because testing everything manually does hurt once the feature is working well and users actually want what you are building. So we do carve out time and write tests and often times then build it right. You could argue that this is inefficient, but I could also argue that for many features we removed because users did not want them, we saved the time needed in upfront TDD.
I'm prob missing something but isn't this what the DOM inspector is for?
This applies to more than just code comments. I have a tendency to write out decisions I make so that I can come back to them later. In particular I write not just about what I've decided, but why and how I arrived at the decision. Often I've forgotten these things months later and the written reasoning either helps me change direction intelligently if necessary, or gives me reason to stick to my original resolution.
That could be done. But what I wrote about above wasn't the only idea I can think of that could use heavy bandwidth, and the quality and richness would be better with local rendering anyway.

What I'm ultimately talking about is a "640k is enough for anyone" mind-lock mentality around bandwidth. There are all kinds of possibilities when you have hundreds of megabits or more to work with.
Being the dumbest person in the room gets real depressing real quick.
What he's claiming is not the perfect copy of the shape, but the style. It's a clear "copy" too, very very similar. In the end, if you change a pixel from that you can make a "not the same" icon, don't you think?

We can discuss on how many differences but it will end on nothing. I can express that, 2 o 3 differences are not enough to claim "different" and you can claim than 1 will not be enough too.

To me, they're clearly wrong. But if the guy copied the art and pasted it, that's another story.
Seems like Facebook doesn't turn on SPDY for all its CDNs yet. I only see SPDY turned on for sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net and photos-a.xx.fbcdn.net, which only serve a rather small portion of all the static assets. The lion share of its assets are mainly served through fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net, fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net and other *.akamaihd.net domains, which aren't SPDY-enabled currently.
That seems like a contradiction: it was caused by a calculation regarding velocity, but that calculation served no purpose once in the air.

Based on the quote I* have to agree with the developer then: this particular 'horizontal velocity' figure would never be large enough to cause overflow, it would always be zero since the rocket should still be on the platform.

So maybe the existence of the routine was the root cause, and not so much the potential for overflow inside the routine?

* I am not a rocket scientist
Did you keep going? They get more challenging.
Does your re-starter program which listens on the named event have any sig checking or similar?

First thing I thought when reading it was Hmmm ability to run something as another user.
Not to detract from the fun of the game, but I get a strong feeling that this is probably a very studied problem in topology - and that thought keeps on nagging me to write a solver script :)
Mostly because they don't want to be considered spammers
Nice game. Please post any monetary results, once you have some data. I thought making serious money from a game in the app store today is very difficult.
Having worked with a female co-founder on two startups I would add a 4th thing which is being aware how others are feeling (not thinking). Women have much better (in my experience) radar when it comes to what other people feel at any given time and therefore know almost in advance how will they decide or act in certain scenarios. That's invaluable.
It was probably a combination of not thinking it was worth actual money (it was the first time I'd made anything for Windows), and my early Linux era free software mindset.
I don't think they all need to support SPDY - as long as the proxy closest to the users supports it the stuff behind can run on regular HTTP (unless you're doing websockets stuff). nginx for example has a SPDY module, so if you put that in front of Jetty you can serve SPDY without any problems.
Hey I'm curious as to what you mean by a purchase notification API?

Would you imagine something like a pub/sub system or something that you would ping?
I think inline comments are fine for when you are doing something really weird (for, say, performance reasons) that needs explanation, but if you want to document the why of the entire codebase, I feel the test suite is a better place for that.

Not only can you explain the why and demonstrate usage in a logical manner, but you get some consistency checks from your documentation for free.
Well, LV said 'They even managed to kinda lift the old DN icon :)'

Don't know if 'kinda' is being used to soften the accusation or it's not a straight up copy - I can't see the icon they are talking about.

http://designmodo.github.com/Flat-UI/

Edit: Found them and slapped them together for side by side comparison http://imgur.com/rli5IVU
DHH leaves professionalism and personal pride out of his analogy.

I try to do good work even for bad employers. Instead of reducing the quality of my work product, what I would do is quit and find a better employer.
I agree homebrew is great for installing web stacks, but I am guessing they may be asking about repos for less technical software.
I like some of the things you are doing with the new debug stuff. The ui however is way too large, when it comes to debugging in the browser I want density of information, less whitespace in between your controls, more information at once. Basically more like firebug is right now.
For the web based version, I might save the last color they clicked on and then use that when they click on a white square because I've found the game a little harder to play with that feature missing on a laptop with a trackpad.
HN posters being reactionary to hot topics like DMCA when all the facts aren't out? Say it ain't so.
Absolutely not. Yes, you might be able to hack something with outside help but knowing math it is the mind set that would allow you to build something like this in the first place. You can imagine solutions to problems because you might visualize how they can be solved.
I can find icons that kinda look a bit like those that were removed (http://dribbble.com/shots/875799-Designer-News, http://dribbble.com/shots/800428-LayerVault-icon-set-for-del...) but nothing that's a direct copy.
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You absolutely could understand Windows by studying the CPU, you latch on to some of the traces and record all the signals going by. That's what electrophysiology is. Oh, there's KERNEL32.DLL, I wonder if that's important, let's look at the contents. We constantly study signals within the brain, not just the dry physical connectivity.
(I work at CropUp, I'm the designer there.)

Thanks! That's a great point and we're in the process of creating a few more product screenshots and possibly a video demo to cycle in that header area. In the mean time feel free to take a look at it here: http://crop.to/fW
Other than the fact OS X is a certified UNIX and the NT kernel isn't UNIX, yes...
Does anyone notice a striking similarity between the "Debian swirl" and the e in Designmodo?

It's obviously not a copy of it, but rather an "inspired version" of it. With that being said, it's definitely possible that designmodo didn't copy layervault, but rather was "inspired" by them. Not sure how that would stand up legally, but I would say that if I were designer, it would be "ethically annoying".
I agree! Congratulations!
I don't see any specific comparison or illustrations in the two links jgj posted. Do you?

Those tweets sound like classic whining in face of collective pitchfork stabbing.
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"I don't write tests for one line functions or functions that are obviously trivial. Again, they'll be tested indirectly."

The funny thing about this is when I read this bullet point I thought, "Bob Martin would disagree with this". His rules for TDD ( http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.TheThreeRulesOfTdd ) would force that method to be tested whether he wants to or not. Then I scroll down to see who wrote the article... Bob Martin

EDIT: But maybe he meant to emphasize "indirectly". Maybe it was under test at first but then got extracted into a simple method under refactoring.
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"The average European went from a free citizen of Rome to a serf, laboring under conditions that bordered on slavery."

~30-40% of the population of Roman Italy was made up of (real) slaves and most Europeans did not have Roman citizenship until so late in the Empire that it didn't really gain them much (it was actually disadvantageous to most -- Caracalla only instituted universal Roman citizenship so he could raise the taxes on the new "citizens").

I agree that serfdom wasn't much better. IIRC, one of the few advantages of serfdom was that you couldn't (in general) be sold away from your family. Serfs were considered part of the land.
(I do product at CropUp.)

I'm not familiar with them, but I'll check them out now. Have you used them? Do you like them?
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Nice, but the DMCA needs more reform than that. There is a severe imbalance in the fact that parties who feel that they have been infringed can serve financially disastrous take-downs that must be complied with immediately. The only recourse for served parties is a long expensive legal process.

Something needs to be done to bring this into balance.
Aren't media backups, including DVDs, already legal under Fair Use? Is there any legal precedent to the contrary?
Similar perhaps in that they both compress the stream. Onavo creates a VPN between your device and their proxy server, but it still uses the traditional TCP/IP stack. Google's solution will hopefully work better. Onavo only worked over cellular data and in my testing it was noticeably slower. The advantage was only in the amount of data. I'm hoping, and from the sound of things, this solution will reduce bandwidth and return data faster than an unproxied connection.
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I don't think the OP was talking about breaking backward compatibility with Win32. More like releasing a version of "Java" that produced bytecode that wouldn't run on anything but Microsoft's virtual machine. Or just the general and continuing behavior of Microsoft's developer tools to produce and encourage developers to write software that only runs or runs properly on Windows.
Right, that's what Yahoo is saying now. It would be interesting to hear if there were a lot of people working from home a couple of days a week, or if that was forbidden before the new policy. Because if this really only affects 200 people... why does it even matter much to Yahoo matter whether they do it or not?
If that works for you, it's fine. For me, sometimes I write tests first, sometimes last, but always in the same commit as the feature. If I'm working with someone that's all I can really ask of them, and if you adopt the same practice you can protect your code from inept managers and salesmen.
I no doubt he knows very well what TDD is. Even if he is being as dogmatic as plinkplonk claims I still think his advice has merit because this and the last post are great justifications for automated testing. Attacking dogmatic TDD seems beside the point to me.