skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Renting does not have to involve a lease, as in being time-limited. Renting can be open-ended.

The key differentiating characteristic of renting vs buying is that in renting ownership of the expected good has not changed or has not fully transferred.

When you buy a good, legal ownership (whatever that means in any given jurisdiction) of that specific good has been transferred in full.

Entities using DRM are exploiting not the ownership transfer but the expectations for that good. The corporate, as it almost always is, transfers ownership of a substitute good which requires a license/renting to access the expected good.

The end users therefore have not bought the expected good, but a substitute good plus an access license "option". With DRM, this "option" can be (technically or legally) revoked or is callable at any time thereby disabling access or removing the expected good.

So, the obvious solution is not to buy a substitute good + callable option when you actually want the underlying (expected) good. Otherwise, you are just creating demand for substitute goods and all the fancy methods to create the callable options.
not precisely visit, any CSRF technique can be useful. <iframe, window.open
Corn and wheat were domesticated from their wild ancestors thousands of years ago (agriculture dates back about 10000 years), so nobody could get a patent on corn and wheat in general: there's prior art that predates the existence of patents by thousands of years. Copying something that's in the public domain is certainly not theft.

Now, if you're talking about specific varieties of recently genetically modified corn or wheat, there might be patents that apply to those.

Also, patents eventually expire, so we don't owe royalties to the heirs of patent holders forever.
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I thought copyright included the right to authorise someone to make a copy?

Are you saying that you don't need the permission of the copyright holder to view a web page?
Hopefully not too oddly: Facebook was one of the first OAuth 2.0 implementations and the additional benefits of requiring stricter pre-registration was not initially apparent. An unfortunate oversight. For kicks: compare section 5.2.3.5 v00 with v01

Changing the implementation at this point is a daunting task (for both Facebook and our developers) but we do hope to offer it as part of a future migration.
I think there is :) this Norwegian brand is essentially bottleing tap water.

(That said, I'm sure their tap water is just as good as any bottled water. For some reader (e.g. people in the US who buy bottled water) this may sound alien, but 100% of the Swedish and Norwegian populations drink their water from the tap.)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voss_(water)
My only requests would be to ask the government to strip away barriers and to step further away. The only real issue I can think of is tax on stock options, and there are two ways to get around that, both of which I have used and both of which are in active use today with startups in Australia.

Australia is too closely ranked to other countries with successful startup ecosystems in the major market and freedom indicies. The USA is now going through the long-term capital gains issue, and nobody has suggested that less startups would be founded, or that there would be less innovation because of it. As Warren Buffet says, he has never known an investor to turn down an investment opportunity because taxes are too high.
Nicely done.

I wonder how much longer this will hold true. Irrespective of my financial situation, for quite some time now I've found a rapidly decreasing need to consume stuff. It feels like the internet is all I need now... I moved almost a year ago and have yet to unpack. I actually don't even remember what I own anymore.
the US government is running a large ring of puppet accounts as part of Operation Earnest Voice (OEV)--a practice commonly called “astroturfing”...

Operation Earnest voice is built to allow 50 real users to manage 10 fake accounts each. These 500 accounts appear to be from anywhere in the world they user would like, “replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent.” What it does, effectively, is create a network of online personas that, when working in a coordinated fashion, can control the tone and direction of just about any online conversation.

This brings to light an important consideration about the current state of social media and whether or not these massive social networks are really the answer - could be argued that it is better to be apart of smaller-scale, referral based, private networks where there is less likely to be 'infiltrations' of the variety stated here.

Unfortunately, I suspect, that HN is no exception to a program like OEV.
There you go: http://www.guardtime.com/
I think you are projecting onto the OP. In fact, I feel you are completely disregarding what the OP is trying to explain, by suggesting that the problem lies with him "not actually liking what he does for a living". I'll agree that if you are stuck doing or studying something that is uninspiring to you, that it could cause a lack of motivation, and in turn make you procrastinate. But that is a completely different beast all together.

At least, that is what I believe, based on the assumption that the OP and I are very similar in this regard. Everything he wrote rings true to me, and nothing is off. Yet, I never had the slightest problem in sticking to, and finalizing my degree, nor disliking my work or profession. In fact, the parts where I have found myself procrastinating the most, is when setting out to do my own pet projects, the ones I would LOVE to do. And why is that? The exact same reasons stated in the article, the fear of imperfection, of trying, coming short and experiencing it as a personal failure.

So, I disagree on the notion of "whatever you do when procrastinating, THAT'S what you should do for a living"-notion.

As for the last bit of wisdom you provided. Right on! Keeping a "Done-list" as opposed to just a "Todo-list" can be really useful!
Thanks for the mention :) I'm Kurt, founder of eCommHub. I think it was an editorial mistake, so hopefully we'll get included in the guide soon.

Just to give others some background, we started as a Shopify app a few years ago, so our whole platform is built around dropshipping (with Shopify). eCommHub helps with automating the inventory management and order processing, which can otherwise be quite manual and tedious. Some of our clients are automating as many as 5,000+ orders per DAY through Shopify using eCommHub.

Anyway, this truly is the ultimate guide on drop shipping, so congrats to Mark and Andrew for putting together such a great resource!

Here's our app listing if you're interested in checking out more:
http://apps.shopify.com/ecommhub or http://ecommhub.com
You're assuming that all (or most) divorces are due to basically "finding someone else." Another major factor is the relationship turning sour, specifically due to money issues/troubles (which would be more likely among people with only a high school diploma).
1.) Why are you running your business out of your house.
2.) It's not "someone". It's "customers".
3.) Your product is Free!*
4.) Ads are annoying
5.) You cannot put the genie back in the bottle. Hackers and people with some dedication or desire to learn will always win, no exceptions.
6.) As most people have already mentioned, this seems to be a pretty glaring exception of the "Don't be evil" social contract that Google likes to throw about.
Sadder yet is that the 'surveillance apparatus' itself may be actively involved here on HN. Heck, could be happening in this thread for all we know! That is the reality of today.
Patio11 doesn't reveal financials for AR because he's thinking about taking on investors for that project.
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O_o

Is this a bot in development? Comment history is awfully strange, always linking to http://news.ycombinator.com, suggesting it is a placeholder for later links.

... Maybe I just need my morning coffee... or internetdude313 is high as a kite, with a crush on lisp.
As I keep the root account disabled (for interactive login), yes, it bugs me too.

But my inherent laziness is exactly why I keep it disabled. If I left it enabled I'd constantly just su instead of thinking about what it is I am doing and sudo only the relevant bits.
Odd, there was that old Magpie RSS php library...

I think calling this app Ravens has a better ring to it.
There is no implicit agreement that you must view any content, but there is usually an implicit agreement that you must not modify the content. For example, the New York Times Terms of Service [1] says "You may not modify...any of the Content".

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-se...
S3 mini: gtalk crash 
in the article is described how to solve crashing gtalk app.
I haven't seen any mention of this yet: how does this impact battery life? Is the front camera on all the time, periodically, only for certain apps, only for certain interfaces of certain apps?

Honestly, one notable feature of the 4 that looks promising is AirGesture, or being able to wear gloves or slightly hover above the screen instead of pressing and swiping/tapping.
That second link should be the experiment I was referring to. I remember reading an account of it that one of them did run into some vitamin deficiencies which they realized were because they'd been excluding a particular type of partially-rotten fish dish that normally provided them.
You aren't wrong, but by that logic are we ever really cured?

I mean you "kill" cancer: But yet cancerous cells likely remain either in the general area of the tumour or in your blood stream.

You get "cured" of a deadly disease, but many continue to remain in your body for sometimes the remainder of your life.
If nobody should "produce goods without
compensation", doesn't that make abstention immoral? They're producing goods and not getting compensated.
One perspective that I've taken to recently is this:

Maybe life just isn't exactly what I want it to be.

In other words, maybe if I go around expecting to have fun all the time (or enjoy myself, or be stimulated, or do what I want, or however I think about it), I will be perpetually disappointed and confused.

I don't know but I speculate about the role of the ideology of consumer capitalism in all this. (No, really!)

It's not that I think life ought to be dull or boring, but it shouldn't be controversial to say that most of us have lingering expectations about life that are out of tune with reality.

Maybe it just comes down to being willing to endure doing things that feel boring and/or stupid compared to the other myriad fun things that are always available to us affluent people.

Some relevant quotes from David Foster Wallace:

"This is the great thing about it, is that probably each generation has different things that force the generation to grow up. Maybe for our grandparents it was World War Two. You know? For us, it’s gonna be that at, at a certain point, that we’re either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how much time do I spend doing stuff that actually isn’t all that much fun minute by minute, but that builds certain muscles in me as a grown-up and a human being? And if we don’t do that, then (a) as individuals, we’re gonna die, and (b) the culture’s gonna grind to a halt."

From fictional characters in his The Pale King:

“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”

“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”
"Of course Apple had the market share lead with the iPhone. But the category was not "smartphone". ... The iPhone became the new state of the art for smartphone."

You're contradicting yourself, there. Were pre-iPhone smartphones not smartphones? Were Windows Mobile 6 phones not smartphones? Where's your line? And anyways, Gruber's not talking about your personal definition of smartphone, he's talking about the commonly accepted category of smartphones.

Besides, what in Gruber's piece is factually inaccurate? You said his arguments "sound logical but are just wrong" but don't actually point out any inaccuracies.
Ego depletion is largely a myth on a day-to-day basis, anyway. It's not a fixed reserve, it's a skill. Practice doing things that are difficult and you will get better at doing things that are difficult.
For those who are totally confused as to why an access token is being shared with an end user and why it's transmitted in a URL fragment, I think I figured out what's going on. Facebook appears to have a flow for logging in client-side in the browser [1]. In that flow, the access token is meant to be delivered to a JavaScript client in the browser, so a URL fragment makes some sense.

I don't know if any of this is covered by the OAuth spec. (I'm only familiar with the so-called "three-legged" OAuth protocol.)

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/client-sid...
Usually the 'work better under stress' is a fallacy that procrastinators use. Timothy Pychyl puts it this way: 'It's not that you work better under pressure, it's that you only work under pressure.'
But - I like your coping mechanism theory, that's worth exploring.
As far as fighting procrastination (and more generally: akrasia) I'm a big fan of going straight for the nuclear option: commitment devices! Here are all the startups I know of that offer commitment devices: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors

Disclosure: Mine is one such startup!
This is meant to be run in Node.js on a server, not in client-side JavaScript within a web browser.
Deep learning is so attractive to any AI and machine learning practitioner! The results are beautiful to witness or read about. This is clearly another step in a direction that many of us have been waiting (or working on) for a long time!

That said, AI, like every other sciences, experiences trends and bubbles. If you give a decent look to usages and problem solving with machine learning, deep learning techniques are not exactly the final answer. Typically, they're slow to train, to my knowledge there is no good 'online' algorithm yet to train them (i.e. for autoencoders, recursive autoencoders, Boltzman machines). Many applications, and a trend toward 'lifelong learning'[1], require fast incremental learning that yields results in near real-time, or at least in minutes rather than days.

I've compared a couple of unsupervised machine learning algorithms with recursive autoencoders: the latter can learn deeper, very often, but at a computational costs (days vs seconds). Deep learning computation will improve, for sure though.

[1] http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~eeaton/AAAI-SSS13-LML/
Particularly as he himself used to argue that iPhone was like iPod and was going to remain dominant in market share.

Its also worth nothing that no-one gives a damn about 'handsets' (I.e. all mobile phones including dumb phones), except Apple boosters who can use it to make Apple stats look better, or Samsung stats look worse (since unlike Rim and HTC they make both in great quantities.)
Right, I worded that poorly. You need some other vulnerability for the attacker to pull this trick off. But, like homokov says, there are a lot of possibilities for that. Obviously, such a vulnerability is bad on its own and the site owner should prevent it, but FB should be better about mitigating it from their end.
http://prserve.com is quite good.
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It’s not macros that are harmful, it’s abuse of macros.
Agreed. I was previuosly excited by it, but at this price point, I am no longer. It puts it out of the impulse-buy-to-try-it-out range and squarey into the "I can do without it".
I don't know if the article has been edited since Gruber first read it, but there appear to be sufficient statistics to back up Gupta's assertions:

> "Samsung had 30.3 percent of the smartphone market in 2012, up from 19 percent a year earlier. Apple's share was 19.1 percent last year, up from 18.8 percent in 2011."

Gupta's general tone is eminently reasonable:

> "That onslaught, coupled with growing uncertainty about whether the U.S. giant can sustain growth in coming years, has contributed to a 30 percent decline in Apple's stock since its September peak."

I don't see a “Oh, how the mighty Apple has fallen” narrative - Gupta is commenting on the market's bet against Apple. If the market is really knocked off 30% of their value based on media scaremongering, you've got (a) a huge market failure, and (b) a sure bet in Apple.

Gruber's only contribution to the discussion appears to be hand-wringing about the way poor old Apple is being treated.
Going by the headline I was hoping he would finally anounce that he is officially ceding markdown leadership thus making the life of the people actually working on it better.
I don't remember an agreement, but to post a title with no commentary is low-effort content, and isn't setting up a specific discussion.

HN's a dog's breakfast these days.
The website needs updating:

"Note: The submission deadline for proposals for talks and tutorials is April 1, 2012"
Apple never was a market share leader. They take a huge chunk of the profits from the mobile industry. And still do.
So, why buy any media then? I'd rather just pirate it and be on my way. Xkcd/488 makes a great point: buying and then freeing from a dying system is just as illegal as copyright violation.

So, media types that use any DRM: why should I buy your product?
His main point (and the title of his article) is that people are stating as fact that apple has fallen, whereas their profits are still stronger than anyone's. This is true, and he must feel like hes in a world of crazy people that its even necessary to point this out.
That guy Jan supported plain anti-democratic dictatorships and the use of espionage and murder until surprise surprise! he fell out of favor and had to suffer the same ordeals he made others go through, hardly what could happen to the average guy living in a democracy.

Put simply, he played with fired and got burned.
Has to be the first pro-Lisp troll in the history of the net :)
But it's not just about maintaining pressure. Osmotic pressure can do work, and pushing against it requires work.

Here is an experiment you can do in your kitchen to demonstrate this:
Take an egg, and peel a bit of shell off one end so the membrane is visible but unbroken. Push a straw into the other end , and put the egg (straw upwards) so the membrane is in contact with water. Osmotic pressure will force the contents of the egg upwards against gravity out through the straw.

The osmotic pressure has done work (lifted the contents of the egg) and water has become mixed with the egg contents. To obtain the water back, you would need to put in at least the same energy.
I hate to be rude, but you haters are some amazing douchebags. I'm not a Marco fanboy, but he's a successful person who thinks a lot about the things he does, as evidenced by any listening to Build and Analyze and Accidental Tech Podcast. Do I always agree with him? No. Is he smarter than me, and has he accomplished more in terms of his career and technology? Yes, I'd say the evidence says so.

It's one thing to disagree with people, but to hate them and be a total jackass for no reason is just wasting your life on the internet. MANY web sites have sponsorship. MANY of them. Marco is no more of a sellout or in the business of selling you out than any of them.

What a tool.
Perhaps you're not a very technical person then. Or you have some bizarro ideas about testing new apps.

If an app is "not responding" after one hour, and it's not doing physics simulation or renders a 3D movie for Pixar, then you kill it and try again. Damn, I wouldn't even let it stay stalled for 10 minutes.

If you genuinely want to test the app (instead of only being interested in Google Sync), you'd also try how it does some other stuff, like adding some RSS feeds directly.
I'm not sure if a high school diploma is correlation or causation, but it looks like you're dead on.

http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/10/15/the-states-of-marriage...
Send me an email if the site gets traction. I will write a blog post about it.
If the kitchen is dirty, I'd rather order in. When I absolutely have to clean dishes (so we can eat), is when I hate it the most. Plus, I hate knowing that the kitchen will be dirty again straight after cooking. I'd rather do them some where in the middle, start or end of the day when there's no pressure and I can just use the time cleaning to think over my thoughts.

(with you on the other points)
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>> The oft-repeated cry that 'everyone should learn to code' is wrong, wrong, wrong.

It is right, right, right. We don't tell our children, it's ok to stop at crayons and comic books.

Yes, DSPs and CAD are much more productive at their niches than coding in a "normal" language. I find Chrome more productive than "telnet 80" - but knowledge of coding helps me structure my excel spreadsheets more usefully than those produced by intelligent people who cannot code.

Code literacy is important not just because there are faster or easier ways to express ones ideas in a given domain. Literacy is not about using one language - it's about learning to structure thoughts and express them in the best way possible - something learnt cover thousands of years and code literacy is the same - we epxress our thoughts better if we are literate.

Having said that, I cannot wait to try this out,
No they don't. This is the reason why this is such a hell. Yes, the account acknowledges the alternate name, but Google keeps publicly replacing it with the primary name as soon as you do anything.

This is not just ugly and confusing from a marketing and branding perspective, it leads to all kinds of complications with software that reacts to email-addresses, or services that are coupled to Google Apps.
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I enjoy his writing, but I don't take his writing as gospel. As with anything anyone says, we should exercise some judgement on the validity and biases of their ideas.

In 2011 in Marco's podcast he stated that 7" tablet devices don't make any sense, but then in 2012 he had changed his mind when the iPad mini was approaching its announcement. I am not calling him a liar, but just pointing out that opinions change and... opinions are just opinions.

I share his concern that each new feed reading service will use a different sync API, and am happy others will be reading this blog post. Regardless of whether Marco has jumped on the popular story bandwagon or not so he can make a few advertising dollars, this post is of value to enough people to up-vote it.
You're actually strengthening his point:

1. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota, so it comes from academia as well

2. Part of what killed it off was the University trying to make money from it through licensing fees
>This reads like a populist piece, trying to convince people with arguments that sound logical but are just wrong.
Of course Apple had the market share lead with the iPhone. But the category was not "smartphone". They had a dominating lead in the category "mobile phone with touch UI and great web browser" from 2007-2010.

Yes. I see how if you redefine words to mean some bizarro new concept you have made the article is wrong.
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