skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dichotomy is in perception. Rental can be formally called "buying rights to use it for limited time". Still there are two distinctly perceived use cases (even if not fully formal) - "buying" and "renting". Buying implies owning it, renting implies limited usage (not owning it). Distributed content is presented to people as "purchase", while DRM attempts to limit the use case to "renting". It's misleading and unfair. As long as it's presented as "buying", people should treat it as buying.

Explicitly presenting it as "renting" decreases the attractiveness, that's why DRM inclined distributors mislead their users with avoiding the usage of the "rent" term. But it only strengthens my point - since they rely on implicit perception of buying to attract people, people should treat this interaction as buying and these distributors should not complain when their DRM is scraped.
If you're going to reap the benefits of scale in business, then you also have to be prepared to accept the drawbacks.
It's the worst launch show I've ever seen, by far. Corny, tacky, misogynist, and not a single line anyone said sounded natural.
Would be nice if the site offered a valid SSL certificate. Maybe they should bid on a better sysadmin?
Wow, this is great stuff. Thank you for sharing it.
Your proposal to plan better would make more sense if airline travel didn't require an order of magnitude or two more advance planning than weather forecasts can provide.
Just today I was going through the shopify pricing page to figure out if there was any option that didn't have a fixed fee in return for a higher per-transaction fee. Why have you guys decided not to scale down more than 14$ a month? That's not a lot for any "real" stores but I've considering setting up an online store for some very low volume stuff and paying 168$ a year just to be online has always put me off. Tictail may very well be the answer to this.
I associate my performance in everything with my own value as a person, to an absurd extent. If I'm playing a multiplayer game such as Starcraft or Street Fighter and I make a mistake, I can't help but think "Wow, I'm really stupid". It's silly, but I can't help it. You can imagine how I feel in regards to things that actually matter.
Related (root shell with hardcoded credentials): http://websec.ca/advisories/view/root-shell-tplink-wdr740
"You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything."

I disagree.

My reasons for procrastination go like this:

1. I don't know yet how to tackle the problem. (and I munge on it in the back of my mind while procrastinating)

2. I am tired, but don't want to admit it. (and procrastination is faux rest)

3. I'm pushing off committing to doing X because finally jumping in is scary. (it closes options to doing something else and humans would rather do nothing and have many options than do something and have no options)

4. X just isn't that important to me right now. (it's much easier to clean the kitchen before cooking, than randomly in the middle of the day)
For the specific case of air travel, your description of the system you want almost perfectly describes the system that actually exists today, the United States Department of Transportation consumer complaint database & process.

In this specific case, the Department of Transportation does maintain a database of complaints about air carriers: see http://www.dot.gov/airconsumer/file-consumer-complaint#Airli... . The DoT publishes frequent reports about these data.

Anyone can file a DoT complaint about an air carrier. In my experience, United treats the number of DoT complaints they receive each month as a core key performance indicator and they take a very strong business message from every DoT complaint they receive.

The one time I've filed a DoT complaint about United, I got a personal phone call within days from a UA executive in Houston who understood the scenario exactly and gave me evidence that the situation had been resolved. They were clearly documenting this not only for me but also for the DoT to prove that they had resolved the complaint appropriately.
I flew united this week, and had zero problems. The TSA on the other hand...
I'm inclined to believe that they saw the equally ridiculous Qualcomm CES 2013 opening[0] and were inspired by it

[0]http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ce...
You tell 'em Barrie.
If supervising unaccompanied minors is too hard, they're under no requirement to offer the service. They offered the service and then they screwed up delivering it. I don't see why you should be sympathetic.
Have the person providing the plant indemnify you against future litigation.

Someone knows whether the material is patented or not, but they are up the sales chain from you. If they agree to indemnify you against patent litigation, then they know it's not patented. If they won't, then they either didn't do their job in getting similar assurances from their supplier, or they are hiding something.

In general, you work backwards through the stream of commerce indemnification clauses.

It's ridiculous overhead for gifts between friends, of course. That's why, for other areas of the law, like theft, we realized hundreds of years ago that you should give people some automatic protections if they were good faith purchasers. (Not 100%, jurisdictions vary, civil and criminal are different.)

Not sure why we don't borrow similar provisions for patent law, but I guess Bowman v. Monsanto could do that (if it's not simply remanded on a technicality).
Testing an ad-free microtransaction utopia
Linux-powered soundbar also streams Internet music
Disclaimer: I work at 2600hz, the open-source cloud telecom company.

I don't understand what the credit is for... Is it for SIP end points to SIP endpoint calls, or to help offset the plivo tariff on external carriers? If you can't use the money to buy DIDs or make calls or send SMS, what can you do with it?

Genuinely curious.
"But they obviously went to a lot of effort to take care of the kid, putting her up in a hotel to wait for the next flight, with a UA employee of the same sex chaperoning her."

How is that a lot of trouble? Isn't that what they were paid to do? Isn't that the minimum obligation? Sure they could have put the kid in a suitcase and kicked it down the Mississippi, but that seems like a high bar for outrage.

If they don't intend on informing the parents they should let the parents know, "Over the next 2-24 hours you may or may not know where your child is and we have no obligation to let you know as long as they eventually get to their destination". But I'm sure that may not fly with a lot of parents.
Those all sound like some form of fear to me. 1 sounds like fear of incompetence: You don't know how to solve the problem, but that's just because "you aren't really thinking about it", so you protect yourself from the idea that you might actually be clueless. #2 happens to me a lot, and it's being afraid that resting/sleeping will prevent you from getting work done (which may be true, but if a nap is going to make things late, it's already too late)
In any perfectly competitive market, prices will be driven down to the marginal cost of the product. This is basic economics.

To the extent that companies are able to make a profit, it's because markets aren't perfectly competitive. People identify with brands, large capital investments are often required, regulations have to be overcome, it's illegal to create a product identical to one already being sold, etc.

But still, many markets come close enough to cause trouble. Insurance may be one. Airline travel certainly seems to be another one. There's an old joke that the way to make a small fortune in the airline business is to start out with a large fortune. In aggregate, the industry appears to take a loss, long-term, but they manage to keep going through bankruptcy, new entrants, and the occasional government bailout.

A lot of non-US airlines are national airlines which are somewhat governmental in nature. They tend to have regulatory advantages and may be outright subsidized by their government. Their motives may be less about making money and more about providing services, showing a good image of their country abroad, and whatever internal bureaucratic motivations they end up with.
I'm not sure things would go well if we started having third-parties take over all personal business like this. There are lots of things to worry about, and it's double the work for the company.
Google not indexing Craigslist – SearchTempest switches to Bing
IE6 Virtualization: VMWare ThinApp vs. Symantec Workspace Virtualization
So, now we have merchants with no store, no warehouse and no inventory... what exactly is left for the merchant to do?
Hey Andrew, I didn't know you were on HN. I've been following your blog for a while now and I can vouch for you (for as much as that counts) to the community that you a) are very successful at what you do and b) are very helpful to others in the community.

This guy loves to share and I think it helps him succeed by knowing that he has to share what he's doing. It's a confidence-success loop.

And you're right about 'copycat' - just because you know the process doesn't mean you have the same niche or drive. That's like saying teaching MBAs is teaching a bunch of copycat to all run the same businesses.
"My nails are wet!" "Sticky fingers!" "Sunscreen!" "I really don't want to put down this drink!"
How and why the government is stalking you
Yes, this was cheesy and over the top, but hey, it's Radio City, it's New York, it's theater!

The tongue-in-cheek show might not be everyone's cup of tea but it was a refreshing change from the usual routine.

Also it kept me entertained/interested long enough to learn about some of the new software features and their potential use cases.
Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 makes its debut
I agree with a lot of your sentiment, especially considering some 3rd party that doesn't hold a ton of credibility is acting as the mouth piece.

Out of curiosity, are you a parent? I'm not, but as an uncle that loves the shit out of his niece and nephew, I'd have a hard time telling their parents to chill out when their kid is not sticking to the plan, and UA's response (3 hours) seems minimize the importance (to the parents). To be fair, I'm not sure my sister or brother-in-law would allow a 10 year old to travel on their own, either.

Sorry, you asked for perspective :)
Samsung shines the spotlight on the new 8-core, eye-tracking Galaxy S IV
All they had to do was notify the parents. Why was that so hard?
New Samsung Galaxy S4 Features and Review
Surely this guy doesn't think the answer is to vote in the liberals who will shut down the fibre to the home goal of the NBN? Is that really a good way to advance Australia's startups?
Heh, I'd forgotten about that one :D. I've had the idea kicking around for a long time, and have spiked it in a few different languages (the Haskell version was mainly to try out FRP and reactive-banana; I've got the furthest on a Python one that hinges around agents tied to RabbitMQ as my current "production" deployment).

I'll try and get the Elixir stuff cleaned up and published over the next week :). The only source I've implemented so far is inotify (for eventing off Dropbox, so I can rebuild my blog); so far I've spent most of my time digging into the vagaries of the OTP and Erlang as a platform, rather than implementing.
Samsung Galaxy S IV Hands On: Everything New Is Old Again
"As I mentioned, on Monday I will begin... [a] direct attack on my procrastination problem."

Does anyone else see the problem here?
But how much data are they collecting that we DON'T know about?
RIP Digg. I think if they had just downgraded from v4 they could've retained some users (the "twitter killed digg" meme is overstated), sure they would've lost face but they at least would've kept some users.
TP-Link TL-WDR4300 can run OpenWrt [1], a highly modular Linux distribution meant primarily for routers. If you have one of those routers and you're at all familiar with Linux should really consider upgrading to OpenWrt. Once you've got the web UI set up administering it becomes very similar to configuring "normal" routers.

Unfortunately, stock firmware that comes with a lot routers has just been no good even if it lacked gaping security holes like this. Fortunately, there are community-developed FOSS alternatives that offer a better user experience; I imagine that having more eyes on the source also helps their security. I use TomatoUSB [2] on my main router (Asus RT-N66U) and OpenWrt on the "experimental" one (TP-Link TL-MR3020) and can highly recommend both distributions.

[1] http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300

[2] http://tomatousb.org/
1. Google hiring X is not the same as X's model being scientifically valid.

2. Model X for intelligence being highly technical or cool in some mathematical way is not scientific validation.

3. Google hiring X is not the same as X's model being successful in the industry. I have long switched over to DuckDuckGo for technical queries.

Anyways, what AI people should first address always is point number 2.

AI has always jumped from one cool thing to the next without answering whether that cool thing has any scientific basis.

Don't bring another AI winter ;)

It is always cool to see excitement over research in AI! (As long as it does not drown out other competitive approaches which might bear fruit in the long run.)
Getting stranded is a fact of life when flying. Especially during winter. Especially with connections. Especially when flying to airports with very few flights where one missed connection breaks everything.

If, going into the trip, the possibility of her daughter being somewhere overnight was unconscionable, Ms. Neff-Aguilar could have originally planned to meet her daughter in Montana and travel home together. Or compensate a family member / friend in Montana to accompany her to Nashville.
HN's dupe detector is so weak that you can just add ?reposting or something to the URL and it will get another chance.
Release Pogo from his Exile
How to cloak your online persona
Interesting theory but I'm not sure it's the whole picture.

Personally, while I definitely identify with the "fear of failure" personality trait, I find my procrastination is down to two things: depleted willpower and inertia.

To help with willpower, I try to keep my home environment as tidy and organized as possible (which doesn't come naturally). There's not too much I can do about my dayjob other than minimize my emotional investment (which also doesn't come naturally).

I find inertia is the most important and possible variable to change. A yoga teacher told me once: "it's not so hard. Just start... then continue". Once I actually push past the hurdle of starting a project, and make sure I put some time into it weekly (even if it's only 30 minutes), over time my mental resistance aka procrastination diminishes, and I start to enjoy myself.

Start... then continue.
I think the problem is when you get into more complicated nesting of code than a simple function. For instance:

(setf new-links (append new-links (link-scanner (cu-body url-hash) (parse-uri cu-url url-hash)))))

That's a quick one-liner I wrote for part of a webcrawler. In Lisp you don't need to know anything much about parsing that syntax except that after an open parenthesis, you're going to have a function/macro followed by parameters.

Going by your example I could either do:

setf new-links (append new-links (link-scanner (cu-body url-hash) (parse-uri cu-url url-hash))))

or

setf new-links
append new-links
link-scanner
cu-body url-hash
parse-uri cu-url url-hash

or

setf new-links append
new-links link-scanner
cu-body url-hash
parse-uri cu-url url-hash

In the first example I've hardly improved anything, just removed a single pair of parens.

In the second example, I've split each new nested function call onto a new line and indented. This leaves "raw" parameters on the same line as the function call, whilst moving function params to the next line. (Note that Lisps don't make any distinction between the two usually).

In the third example, I've gone for some unholy mix where I've left the first nested function call on the same line as the first "raw" params, but moved the next params to the next line and repeated with any following functions. This is a mess...

Personally I think the 2nd example is actually quite readable. But here's the catch; this was 1 line from a 60 line function. If every line was multiplied by 5, is a 300 line function still as readable? And that's before you even get into any considerations of how to implement macros and other potentially complicated constructs.

EDIT: Admittedly, not every line is going to grow by a factor of 5, but it'll still be enough to turn a one page function into a multi-page function.
Ionic Backup - Dropbox Clone - Total Rewrite of MatchBox
Relevant: how to cloak yourself online: http://www.slideshare.net/jonathanwhunt/cloak-or-feign-your-...
Flash + PHP = Live Matrix in your Terminal
Interesting that that's from 2011, whereas this post is 2013. A rehash/rebooted blog, perhaps?
The only thing that is illegal are immoral laws, besides, the culture that DRM laden companies bring to the world is utter trash anyway, we the world can easily do without that.

Nothing of value is lost.

Edit: it seems that again my post ends up as the wrong reply, it's for the grandparent, not the parent. :-S
I disagree as well. My reasons for procrastination tend to fall around artificially creating a high stress situation. You see, I perform very well (very high productivity) under stress, to the extent that high performance may actually be a stress coping mechanism for stress.

I certainly do not procrastinate because I'm lazy, or have poor work ethic, or even risk averse. You can ask my family about that one. None of them would describe me as risk averse.

For me, it really comes down to stress as a motivator. Procrastination means doing things at the last moment, which creates an artificially stressful situation.

It may also be interesting to note that I do not suffer from any traditional high stress related health issues. My doctor recently commented that I am in exceptional health for my age (mid-thirties)
Of course, there's always the "Johnny Lingo Method" of negotiation and deal making: http://nobudgetbudget.com/be-a-master-negotiator-with-the-jo...
How App.net could be helpful to next generation RSS readers
> You can absolutely control your device.

> You can download apps, or not download apps.

How is that absolute control? only having control over installing apps?
I am curious as to what in the Samsung Galaxy S4 looks cheap to you?
It's all redacted.
"You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything."

What's most cutting reading that paragraph is how true it is, and how much of my self-worth I feel diminished by admitting that.

I've got better recently, but that post really hit home.
Google offering Presale for Google Glass at $549.89
Me and a friend constructed this early version of this today.

We are very excited about it and would like some feedback.

It is a youtube video of it running in action.

The entire thing is open source and requires only PHP 5.4+ to run, it is verified to run on OSX and should run on Linux.

Source : https://github.com/prggmr/matrix/tree/code
I wish they would make it less ugly.
People (like me) notice this, and don't appreciate it.
Samsung unveils, Galaxy S IV, successor to popular Galaxy S III
> "Over the next 2-24 hours you may or may not know where your child is and we have no obligation to let you know as long as they eventually get to their destination"

That is actually pretty close to my expectation? Isn't it close to yours? Let's rewrite to remove the snark:

"We will transport your child safely from A to B, accompanied by our staff at all times. We expect it will be according to the itinerary provided but due to operational reasons, there may be changes, which we will attempt to notify you about"

And who knows, maybe they did try to call the mother? Everything in the airline industry comes down to checklists; I'd be surprised if there isn't one for this situation, and equally surprised if "try to contact the guardians" isn't on there somewhere.
My biggest source of procrastination is the fear of making a change that can't be undone. I find this particularly challenging on projects around the house like putting in a new door, and having the door ready to be hung on and knowing if I screw up the hings placement I need to get a new door. Blam! I procrastinate the crap out of taking the irreversible step of routering in the hinge mounts. I have to sit down and give myself permission to buy a new door if I screw up, and even then it's painful to move forward.

I never really thought of it as a judgmental problem (self worth related) so much as a sort of efficiency problem (hate to have wasted all that resource (time, money, whatever)). One of the weird things about quitting World of Warcraft was that I played hours on that game, so I could pretty much do anything and it would be less wasteful of my time than that. So for a while that was a great crutch, "We'll hey, I didn't get much done but if I had been playing WoW I wouldn't have gotten anything done."
It's not the stranding itself that was unconscionable, but rather the stranding plus the not telling the parents plus not being reachable by same parents.
It's much easier to redact something than take responsibility for it.
I think NearlyFreeSpeech.net is probably about as stable a forwarding host, and cheaper. (I host my http://www.gwern.net on Amazon S3/Cloudflare at ~$4/month or $48, so pobox.com wouldn't be cheaper in toto unless you meant web hosting rather than email.)
Does anyone know how a good solution to this.

http://superuser.com/questions/566201/google-reader-export-i...
This seems somewhat common now. First Qualcomm's Kafkaesque E3 keynote, then the PS4 launch (which is seeming sane now), and now this. What goes through these people's heads when they put these things together? Do they have so little faith in their products that they think they need to outsource these things out to people more clueless than them? Or are all these ideas cooked up by some high up exec that everyone is afraid to defy? Or is it group think? I just don't understand how anyone could watch this ahead of time and think "this is perfect for our launch". Especially because I think the features of the new phone are actually pretty impressive. Just show those... like on a slide or small demo. That's all you need.
all goes for me also.
but
For some bigger things I need extra prepare time. Specially communicating with strangers, its mentally exhausting. So phone call might take me 24h instead of 10 minutes, but then I am not out of energy, after that call. I am really good at talking with strangers and organizing and nobody knows, but it takes huge amounts of energy.

And often, procrastination helps. With bigger plans or things, mind subconsciousnessly tackles problems, while I am "resting". And after that procrastination period, I know the answer I didn't know before.