skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can, I was just trying to get across the usage cases/types of products.

We've had one user crowd fund for a childs trustfund through us.
Dudes in europe selling rare coffee beans.
Contracts invoicing for their time through the platform.
The generic digital sales cds/ebooks/etc

We cover a wide spectrum of products.

We're trying to create a framework/platform for longtail ecommerce. Not just a platform for people who want to sell digital things they create.

There is definitely overlap between us and groad, but its not our primary focus, for certain things you want to sell its just quicker to sell via them, and thats cool.
Crowdsourcing the cloud to find cures for rare and “orphaned” diseases
They should probably have an "achievement" for passing each of those hurdles; turn the task of running a game into a game itself...
The Cellphone Records, Officer? You May Soon Need a Warrant
I don't think video capture is the problem, it's bigger than that. Google Glass has hardware for not only capturing video (like CCTV does), but also audio, timecode information, and GPS coordinates. All that data combined, linked to the user's Google account, that makes for a data mining wet dream.

I wasn't suggesting humans will be looking at all the footage like with CCTV monitoring, Google has millions of servers to do that. It already analyzes the content of each and every YouTube video -- it provides automatic closed captioning, translations, it recognizes soundtrack and links to music stores, it displays ads depending on the video content, etc etc.
Understand Your Beer Part 1 - What is Beer Made Of & Ale vs. Lager
They implemented a DRM scheme where you have to be always connected to the internet, and their servers. Servers fail. Game does not game.
So... where is the copied CSS?

All I see is a low resolution screenshot of two pages that are significantly different.
The service itself is an ad for Teamviwer for corporate. The same way join.me is really an ad for Logmein.
New York City announces finalists in payphone redesign challenge
but piracy seems to be our only guaranteed method of preserving them

You aren't going to pirate Sim City 5.

This is the future of gaming. Companies are just going to avoid all the grief of piracy and weird DRM by either moving to locked-down platforms (iOS and consoles) or into games that have essential online components.

It's a classic prisoner's dilemma. I'd love to by a game and install it on my PC without it taking things over, and the publishers would love to write that and not worry about DRM. But we can't get that because each of us doesn't trust the other party to defect.
Just an FYI, the A/B testing link here is broken: https://trychec.com/ab-testing
30 Weeks of Game Development
Sure, but this still doesn't work:

$o = (object)[
'foo' => function(){ print 'bar'; },
];
$o->foo();

You have to do it this way:

call_user_func($o->foo);

Or this way:

$foo = $o->foo;
$foo();

Which doesn't work when foo is defined as a class method.
Power your Chrome Extension with Firebase
Great, but the one sample of the woman going "I shouldn't!" over and over is pretty distracting.
Once I discovered the suitcase was empty, I would have left it open on my hotel bed, and then I would leave the hotel, fly home, and then call the local police as soon as I was out of their country.
I think that's part of the charm of the story. There's really no definitive answer to your questions and it's up to the reader to arrive at his own conclusions
Buying something at a low value from one market and selling it in another for a higher value.
We Need to Worry About Wealth Inequality
Hmm, this is cool. Spin up an EC2 instance and bam you've got access to developer tools.
How do you handle charge backs and fraud?
Slideshow: Y Combinator hardware hackathon's prize-winning designs
Oh yeah? Cool, I'll check that out. I hadn't heard of NoVNC before...
Is there a way to order more than one product at a time?
On HN it tends to be, though. I think it is kind of implied by "news" which are things one didn't know before reading about them.
Now if we could just get automatic app updates and defaults ios would be the clear winner
I'm glad I don't live in Japan. I don't think I could ever give this kind of commitment to an employer.
Checkout how airbnb does this. It's technically not posting directly, but directing user to the right page and populating the post information in a nice looking format. T&C compliant :)
Google doesn't admit to anything. This guy is simply parroting from an article at Apple Insider.

Even MPEG LA's press release only says that it's patents may cover WebM technology...
Or http://thefeature.net. - formerly Givemesomethingtoread.
This is Marco's, or is associated with him somehow. It has great stories, and they tend to be the right length for the evening situation where lights are out, but I want to read before I sleep.
Steam Box is exciting - but don't expect it to be "Open"
February unemployment report: What kind of jobs is the economy creating?
If we're going to replace HTML as a "poor man's interface" then we need to do better than VNC. Perhaps NX or RDP.

Well, I certainly won't argue against that. But at least with VNC it's being used for the purpose it was developed for. Personally I feel like trying to build complex application UIs with HMTL/CSS/Javascript is trying to shoehorn a square peg into a round hole. Browsers are great at, well, browsing hypermedia. I'd like to see that continue and the adoption of something like RDP, NX, or $NOT_INVENTED_YET for remoting interfaces.
> You aren't going to pirate Sim City 5.

I'm tempted to believe that due to the simulation grunt work being done server-side. But people also said the same thing about WoW and Starcraft II, yet you can easily play either of those for free with fully functioning multiplayer (just not on Battle.net).
Tvcmd: a command line interface to track tv episodes
tvcmd is a command line interface (CLI) to keep track of tv shows episodes. It has a functionality similar to websites such as myepisodes.com followmy.tv or mytvshows.org but for the command line
The latest, just released, version of SimCity includes a form of DRM which basically involves hosting a part of the game's functions on a server, so that the only way to play the game is to be connected to the server. Due to whatever reason, likely poor capacity planning, a huge number of people who have bought the game have not been able to play it at all due to the servers being overloaded or inaccessible.
This Week in Type #4 
This week was… sweet. Yes, that’s the word. With all these articles about chocolate and typography, we just couldn’t keep our hand off the sugary treats. Among other things we took a crash course in anatomy (of web typography!), wallowed in tutorials, fell in love with a typo-classy-workspace, played with word animals and so on. But enough about the joys of typo desserts, let’s just dig in!
How to turn bad App reviews to a great new product (watch video)
First blog I've seen on posthaven. Is it literally the exact same as posterous w/ the monthly fee?

Trying to figure if I should just import it to a WP blog or if posthaven is worth it (and will still be around down the road)
as is the blog link: https://trychec.com/blog
It's a case of the OS being way more secure than it once was. The new kernel that came out with vista helped quite a bit, as well as the constant stream of updates.

Because the OS is more secure, other parts of the system (ie browsers, flash, java) are now (in comparison to the OS) easier to exploit than they were.
heuristics & 3 strikes with chargebacks and we lock your account.

But we've got a lot to do here.
Poland’s Kaczynski pulls iPad stunt, goes viral, fails to unseat government
Here's an example of

a svbtle page: http://benyu.org/net-worth

obtvse page: http://jackdempsey.me/migrating-to-obtvse

wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/

I believe obtvse at the time of the dispute was more directly ripping off svbtle than it is now, but I could be misremembering.

The unintentional pretentiousness of svbtle was amusing at the time and I can remember the urge to create a clone and replace the dammned kudos hover trap with a fontBomb[1].

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208102
You're riding along in your self driving car, and it suddenly veers off to the side, killing a pedestrian (or a pedestrian jumps in front, killing himself in the process). Who is at fault there? It's not black and white, but I'm going to say it's more on the manufacturer than the owner - either way, someone is getting sued and we need a legal/financial system that can handle the new paradigm.
Hopefully it won't be plagued with ITEC moongoo fiascos ;)
Yardsale (app) does an awesome job of posting to Craigslist as well.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding/howHIV...

While there is no definitive study that shows a direct correlation, there is enough evidence to satisfy Koch's postulates for infectious cause (even if the ultimate cause of AIDS is not singular or an incidental byproduct of HIV). Show me a double blind study indicating that HIV is not a cause of AIDS and I'll show off the science.
Yet is there an international, violent, criminal cigarette mafia? No. It's the level of Canadians not declaring their cheaper shopping goods from the USA when they cross the border to avoid tax.
Yes. That's the basis for HAART, the current mainstay of HIV treatment. It's a good treatment, but not a cure.
We're rewriting Posterous from scratch, so it's a brand new codebase. If you liked Posterous (pre-Spaces), I think you'll like Posthaven. I was the main designer behind the earlier Posterous and also wrote much of the software too. It's easier to write things the 2nd time around.
All right, I hear you. If the concern is that there will be automated algorithms looking through the video/GPS/etc. data, that is way more plausible of a concern.

So let's suppose the best case scenario for Google. Suppose they have all the access to 24/7 video, GPS data, facial tracking, etc. basically as much information as can potentially be gathered. And suppose they have all the computational power needed to process it in any realistic way they desire.

Can you suggest in what ways that might be bad for me? So perhaps Google can target me with the most relevant ads out of all ads. Is that a bad thing? I wouldn't mind seeing relevant ads rather than irrelevant ones anyway.

But what other hypothetical problems could come out of this?

I can imagine if I were a criminal and tried to hide something from others, then this would be a concern. But suppose I don't have much to hide, only personal private stuff (which, if exposed, wouldn't be much different from any other person's personal private stuff).

I'm interested in hearing what people have to say about this.
"It's an online game. Pirating it is about as feasible as running a pirate copy of google.com"

What a silly, untrue statement. A better analogy would be "as feasible as running a copy of World of Warcraft offline", which people do.
Reduce communication overhead through more dynamic channel choice
how does iOS or consoles prevent piracy? Piracy is rampant on iOS and every console to date.
I'm baffled by your comment. The article is defining the notation that is used when one performs an analysis of an algorithm, but is not talking about any specific algorithm. The notation is equally applicable in all the cases you mention.

For the avoidance of doubt - I'm not the author, I'm just trying to understand your comment.
Just an FYI, your layout has about 10% white space on the right hand side when viewed on iPad mini. Caused by the card fan lower down the page.
It's a good thought, but if that were true, then HAART, which keeps viral load low, would lead to a cure.
I've work for a company that lets people write their own Selenium scripts to test the performance their website. They use our service to monitor their website at 100 different locations.

We solved the while(true){} by limiting the number of instructions the javascript program can run. To do this we use Rhino which is a Javascript implementation which runs in the JVM. It provides us a hook to get the instruction count.

We had to figure this out, since we let our customers run their own scripts on our network. If they write a script that never terminates, then they've hosed a machine on our network.
I wasn't aware the game didn't release for Mac until later this Spring. I bought it, tried to install it and contacted EA after realizing my mistake. After waiting for 45 minutes for a person to answer the LiveChat, then 5 minutes after that, and I had my refund. I've rethought my purchase and probably won't buy it when it comes out for Mac. (Unless they make major changes to the Mac version because of the backlash. nudge nudge EA)
You fail to see the importance of anonymity because you're set on proving that anonymity is of little use or harmful.

A historical comparison is irrelevant and fallacious - we didn't have modern surgery hundreds of years ago and despite people dying society ticked on. If all you see is the forest you can pretend the pain of the trees doesn't matter.

And the internet is just a playground for the technological elite too (you need a computing device after all) so I suppose you see no need for it either.
meh, punk rock was a counter culture. counter culture always lives on, simply in different forms. the hep-cat, the rockers, the hippies, the punks, grunge, the goths, emo, hipster. Culture moves forward, get old and grow out of it. Punk died long ago, and the new trends went over you head, deal with it.

bottom line of the article is, sounds like the author got old, looked back at those old photos of himself, and thought "boy was I stupid back then" Every generation that grows up does this.
Yeah just noticed that one, same in IOS. Working on fixing it up.
I pirated Ultima IV, but in fairness it was on a Commodore 64 in 1985 and I was 13 years old. I assume the statute of limitations has run out, but if not will I still be tried as a minor?

I guess I can flip the guy at least $10 for the best RPG I ever played in my life.
We'll take a look !
> The fact that people see the game as single player seems to make a huge difference.

Indeed. And there's also the fact that MMO are — for the most part — "long term" experiences. Now single-player games can be as well, but for the most part are not, the majority of Diablo III buyers have probably moved on already to some other games, where a WoW player will be in it for years, so the rough few first weeks aren't much of an issue.
You are correct that lower viral loads reduce the risk of transmission to others. [1]

[1] = http://www.aidsmap.com/Viral-load-and-sexual-transmission-ri...
> An alphabetic list isn't

And this, and nothing else, is what we're talking about.
AT&T: We’re fine with smartphone unlocking (just as long as you pay your bill)
Server woes are a necessary evil with MMOs, and people buy the game knowing they'll have to deal with some amount of downtime due to maintenance, overcrowding or just plain growing pains.

Try telling FPS players that their game will be unavailable every Tuesday morning for 6-12 hours and they'll probably riot -- that's standard downtime in the MMO world though.
>moving to locked-down platforms (iOS and consoles)

Where piracy is rampant?
that's what they say... but the first rule of business is that you will get fucked if it's hard for you to switch providers. I'm already in that position with datacentere space. I've been in that position with bandwidth, too, and it's super painful.

Also, nobody is going to give a shit about your three customers way out in the middle of "nobody cares" that can't reach your stuff 'cause cogent and at&t refuse to upgrade a peering link that is also in the middle of "nobody cares" - If I'm controlling it, I at least have a chance of doing something about it.

Also, the cost is 3x to 10x what you get direct from the super-low end big guys. Everyone fucks it up, and with two up-streams? It's my fault when it fucks up (and I can do something about it.) I guess having that preference is kinda stupid, but it is what it is; I am the network Engineer I've got... not the network Engineer I wish I had.

(that, and in my experience? competency of tech support does not scale with price paid. Neither does quality of routes.)
Apple follows Amazon with patent for resale of e-books, music
> did they just take some random piece of work offline for 10-14 days without any consequence?

As stated, in this case it's very unlikely there would be any consequences because perjury convictions are rare. However, it's worth noting that if any individual made a habit of this behaviour (false DMCA takedowns) then the probability of facing a charge would likely escalate.
Maybe not OPEC, but reading about oil companies behaviour in places like Nigeria and the similarities with Los Zetas are there all right.
I think what LayerVault has done is awful too! I wasn't trying to defend them at all. I just didn't agree with the idea that designers are less open than developers. Flat-UI and LayerVault may be riding a trend but neither one can claim ownership of anything except the exact assets they've created. There might be a fine line where a color scheme is used in such a way where it can be construed as plagiarism or maybe the icons were recreated from scratch to look exactly like LayerVault's but still preserving plausible deniability and those cases I might be able to get behind Layervault being upset. I liken it to Queen suing Vanilla Ice for using their riff in 'Ice Ice Baby' or how that one One Direction song sounds almost exactly like the Clash song whose name escapes me right now. In those cases it's just plain obvious the artist was trying to sample someone else's music but changed the riff just enough to be able to call it their own. And that brings me to the subjective part. The developer in me hates that there's not an exact answer to the question "When does inspiration become plagiarism" but that's life.
Never mentioned OS X. Parent did, I didn't. OS X's "soft target" status would explain why Pwn2own offered a lesser prize for Safari on it, but iOS is a different beast altogether and more likely to be carried around by Apple devs on their mobile devices. Hence my theory they may be after trade secrets.
Quip seen on Twitter [1]: "Disabling features of SimCity due to ineffective central infrastructure is probably the most realistic simulation of the modern city."

[1] https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/309756131155271680
> NoSQL is to RDBMSs what Unix was to Multics.

A simplified version that will eventually have to re-invent a lot of what it stripped away to become so much simpler?
Of course, but those are more diffuse and long-term issues, which EA finds it convenient to ignore right now. Just as all companies which burn their user base in service to short-term profits do.
I love this, and I hate this. I certainly see the value in simplifying, mental and financial, but I don't think it eliminates the value of physical objects. For now, we are still physical beings. I love the benefits of digital media, and I love the simplicity offered by the cloud, but when I'm home, I'm going to crack a book (preferably an old one). I might even put some vinyl on the table.

My point is that we don't need to be extremists. We can simplify our lives yet retain our grasp of reality without shunning one or the other. I like to travel, but I also like to garden, which requires all sorts of tools and clothes. I think fluidity is more important than simplicity in our current age.
Casper.js (and Phantom, for that matter) has been pretty buggy and difficult to work with for me. Had better luck with Selenium, which makes me unhappy because I'd rather use something more code oriented.
The GDP growth rate chart is interesting; The overall trend line does point gradually downwards, but the big spikes in both directions seem to have flattened out a lot, rather than just the positive ones going away. I wonder what would cause that.
You may want to try searching LinkedIn profiles first, to get a better idea of the potential pool of applicants. Mostly this will help make sure you're not looking for a unicorn.

The job description is a bit vague. It doesn't really describe the position well. Why would someone want to work at StopBadware? How big is the team? Who else will the web security technologist be working with? List some specific technologies that you use and applicants should know.
> You aren't going to pirate Sim City 5.

If there's interest in it, it'll be done. The connections will be sniffed and reproduced and/or the online component will just be cracked out entirely, but if somebody wants to do it it will ultimately be done.
Many good points, though I'd take exception to this line:

incidentally, it should be a big red flag for growth when the brightest young people start going into finance, since they aren’t actually creating any more wealth, just redistributing it

A modern finance system does more than "redistribute wealth" - or rather, perhaps better phrased, redistributing wealth is fundamentally important to growth and wealth generation. Wealth isn't generated in a vacuum - it's a product of capital and work. The capital can be in all sorts of form, and a modern finance system does its best to keep that capital liquid and keep it in the place where it gets the best return.

Having a faulty banking system would be a bit like having a faulty memory allocation system in a computer program. It may not be the most directly related to performance/growth, but if memory is poorly allocated (e.g. a method that should use just one memory allocation call has to use 10 billion calls), performance will suffer.

Of all fields, technology, with its VC, capital-fuelled madness, should have a pretty clear understanding of the importance of capital allocation.

That said, overall the article is very sensible, or seems so to me. I'd only add that this is not just a US problem, it's a world problem. The whole world is connected together now, and any worthwhile solution cannot be purely US-centric.

We must figure out ways to make growth happen on a global scale, for all countries taking part in "the game".
>as you're trying to dictate who is or who isn't an entrepreneur by an artificial and entirely subjective $$$ funding basis.

No I am not. I am saying it is unfortunate that what was a way for small independent projects who could not get funding through normal channels is being taken over by rich people using it as a platform to avoid having to take any risk.

>Try putting a price on his reputation and time.

The last time he made a game that didn't suck was what, 1992? If the garbage he slapped his name on since then hasn't ruined his reputation what risk does this carry? And he isn't investing his time, he is the name put on the project, he isn't actually sitting down and writing the code.
what he password?
please..!
Zero Todo ~ Todo workflow for inbox zeroists.
You forgot that JavaPolis first renamed themselves to Javoxx, thinking that would save them. But no. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09...
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The simulation is client side. Regions and saves are server side, nothing else. It'll be cracked
Posthaven is outstanding!