skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet every article (including this one) seems to compare raw numbers of pirates to number of sales, implying they think the former.
Radio waves are non-ionizing.
Japanese scientists build baseball-playing robot with 100,000-neuron 'brain'
I'm all for sharing data and code but don't you think that someone as determined to cheat as Stapel would have simply been a bit more careful in preparing his spreadsheet? Publishing carefully crafted fake data does not help, only replicating the experiment would but you can't do that for every publication. You can also demand that some kind of notary is present while performing the actual experiment, but ultimately you need a large amount of trust in science.
The title sounded very promising. The "proof of identity" system we use in the "non-web" is very crude: Handwritten signatures are about the cheapest and most easily forged type of authentication you can think of, and yet they are (combined with your full name), usually legally valid and binding. A picture of someone holding up a purse with his driver's licence, back of a debit card, passport or identity card is all it takes.

But it turns out they mean "non-web" as in "ssh, imap, etc."

I keep waiting for someone to come up with something better than handwritten signatures; a (H)MAC of some sorts seems the way to go. It just doesn't come... And yes, I've also tried to devise my own system to cryptographically sign documents, but it's not practical yet. Basically you're converting the document to a digital format before generating a 128-bit signature (that you can then put on the paper as 16 Unicode characters), which is not really ideal.
At the same time, popular copies - paid or otherwise - become more well known and potentially much more profitable. One may not be voting with money, but one is voting with time (and "time is money") by accepting it, using it, and sharing/promoting it to others. Microsoft used this strategy in China (Gates said something like: if they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours...). They have done less well recently.
Well, the stated purpose of this law is to make it easier to exploit the work of others for commercial gain without permission and compensation (edit: actually it seems you have to pay, even if it's an orphan work and the money is kept for rights-holders who come out of the woodwork later, which further reduces the chance of someone stealing your facebook photos).

And generally the community are alright with that because they're targetting "orphan works", stuff that got swept up into hundred year plus copyrights just because Disney didn't want to lose Mickey. But is now "culture" or "history", yet it is presumed to be owned by someone or something that can't be traced and found to ask permission due to death, bankruptcy, poor recordkeeping etc.

The people protesting this law seem to be making the dubious claim that you can now steal the copyright to anyone's digital media (film, music, photo, books) you find online just by stripping some metadata. This seems, on the face of it, absurd. And if it's true then there will be better things to steal than someone's facebook photos. Why would those big nasty US coporations steal your family photos when they could steal stuff with actual value from other big nasty US corporations?

edit: a UK government response to previous scaremongering from the same source:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121205183318/htt...
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Cool, thanks for being open about it
copyright reform that takes away from the people and gives more to the big corps? that's a shocker.
As StavrosK says, this is patently false. If you really can't tell the difference you owe it to yourself to upgrade your speakers/headphones/soundcard, or perhaps get your hearing looked at.

As someone who eagerly pays extra for FLACs when given the chance, I'd rather a poke in the eye than a 128 kbit/s mp3.

EDIT: Just to preempt the righteous nerd-anger crew, I'm aware that higher bitrate MP3s are transparant; I value the bit-for-bit archival of the original record that flacs provide.
Almost every rule you can think of will have many exceptions in the uk as postcodes are an ad hoc scheme covering areas of varying size - my block of flats has no number, many houses have a name, not a number, many rural houses don't even have a street name or a number, just a name and hamlet name, and many rural houses share a postcode but are not on the same street or even sometimes in the same village. So postcodes are not unique to a street, nowhere near it. Here a quick search for a rural location in Scotland sharing a postcode:

http://www.192.com/places/ph/ph34-4/ph34-4eu/

There happen ( by chance ) to be two addresses sharing a number and postcode there in the first 50 addresses, but that's the least of the problems for a scheme using no + postcode as a unique id I'm afraid!
that's not the right priority
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This doesn't factor in the number of people who have illegally copied it but would have paid something for it had an illegal free copy not been available.

It isn't equal to total illegal downloads, but it isn't equal to zero either. It's probably also not uniform across different game genres.

There isn't really such a thing as "enough" customers either. The more you sell the more budget you have to produce the next game and the more confidence you have that it could be successful.
Interesting how many people have admitted to letting others use them when Google has expressly forbidden that. I think at this stage they'll be shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

I'm not surprised Robert Scoble loves them, he's a hardware lover and an early adopter. I'm not surprised audiences at places Scoble has been too love it. I'm not sure my parents would love it. I think they'd actively avoid it for the most part, and whilst there's lots of geeks like me who'll get them to at least experiment I'm still unsure of whether it's got significant mass market appeal. Maybe v2 or v3, but it'll take time.
I tried to get a trial with them, their signup gateway 500'd out every time and a couple of hours later I got a bunch of emails to say my trial was ready...meh.

By the time they got back to be on my ticket I'd gone with Hetzner, so far can't fault them and the price is pretty much the same, extra bonus I signed up for an i7-2600K/32Gb and got an i7-3770K/32Gb, pretty nifty increase (I figure they have a mix of 2600's and 3770 so it may be random which you get).
It reminds me of the way From Software dealt with people who tried playing Dark Souls before official release: the player received in-game invasions of overpowered black phantoms who he has absolutely no chance whatsoever of beating.
Couldn't the pool article and the nazi newsletter be considered derivative works? If so one could use a ND clause for the license.
This is one of my pet peeves too. I really cannot understand why Android's "Expand permission" box doesn't have a "deny permission" or "prompt before accessing" button.
Well imgur does that and if you have fans copying images to imgur to share on forums as to not ddos the author you might see this problem.
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Yep, I've always found ridiculous when pirates claim they don't have the financial means to buy a $3 game to play on their $600 smartphone with a $30 per month data plan.
You may want to check out Sygic. I use it and it's fantastic, and it's around 30 pounds for all Europe maps and unlimited upgrades of both app and maps.
Can this title be edited? It's an outrageous title based on the content.
if they drew her a mustache or painted the sperm, then it would be derivative.
That said, I do support artists and research, etc, only I do it after I evaluate them and feel like I got something - similar to how I choose to upvote/downvote on HN, only there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like.

And luckily, a lot of games (this one included) come with a free demo, so that you can try them before buying them. So fortunately for all of us as customers, we don't need to download a cracked copy. We can play through the demo, see if welike it, and buy it if we do.
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How about I use those photos in my ad-supported private blog, or my ad-supported private youtube stream. Or in some way that indirectly increases my profits in the future (say buying fame instead of money)?

Does that count as fair use?

(PS: genuine question)
I would go with Hetzner, but principle tells me not to. I was with them for about 3 months. I was talking to an account manager (or w/e the official title is) and asked them to cancel my account for a short period of time until I need to launch (and remove the server of course.) They agreed happily.

Then 3 months later, I found out they were still charging me. I forwarded them the conversation and they just kept responding with canned messages refusing to acknowledge the wrong on their part. It's a shame because they are by far the best value :-(
I wonder how long until the headshot photo requirement is finally put to rest. The only use I've seen for it is a bunch of guys ogling over female CVs, basically trying to hire the prettiest or least ugliest candidates; actual qualifications be damned.
If you are a game developer, the fact that several hundred thousand hours have been spent playing your game isn't helpful to eating or financing your next game if you have no way to monetize those hours.

There are of course business models that are aided by copying (such as those based on open source software).

The difficulty is how the video games industry can adapt to this. The route they seem to be increasingly taking is to sell games as a service rather than a product but then this is decried as "always on DRM".
obviously you'd use the 3D printer to print the 2D printer that prints the magazine
I'm reminded of Derek Sivers' post about Japanese addresses:

http://sivers.org/jadr
You don't want too much Government in that department. But, it really is easy to fix by a simple Government regulation. Folks in Singapore used to litter a lot. Like really a lot. The place used to be extremely polluted too. So polluted and littered. We're talking about 1960s. At that time Singapore probably didn't look better than Mumbai looks today. Simple regulation: fine of $100 or more per each piece of paper you drop. Great income for the city, so hell yeah they would make sure to enforce it. And don't give me "cultural" differences stories because Singapore has rather large Indian population and they had to adjust to this too.
How to get rid of pollution? Look at the UK. You know how Thatcher famously solved problem of pollution coming from big factories? She passed a law that said that the factory had to have its water input right below its waste water output. And factories need really clean water to operate and not waste water. In other words if the factory didn't invest in the top-of-the-line water treatment plant they could as well go out of business. Because waste water would enter the factory processing machines and probably brake them.
You see, simple solutions work. Especially those that bring financial hardship on offenders. Hundres of buraucrats with their political agendas will just make matters worse.
Usually these kinds of data are not part of the publication or up for review. I don't know why exactly, but I suppose it is a combination of:
1) paper publishing tradition, where distributing this material is too much work.
2) too much work for reviewers to comb through raw data, the real solution would be to require sharing of the raw data, so readers rather than the reviewers would find mistakes, but this is often difficult because of privacy issues. E.g. videos of the Utrecht train station study would make fraud more difficult, but publishing the videos would probably require permission from all participants
3) Trust in the authors' integrity. Most scientists would not make up data, but they might make logical errors in their reasoning, or use bad procedures. Peer review can find these errors, but if the authors lie about their procedures, it is very hard to check. Peer review is about internal consistency.
They claim that was their inspiration, but the gameplay is very different. [0] I don't think we can judge that from the screenshot.

[0]: http://leviathyn.com/games/pc/2012/12/04/interview-greenhear...
It heavily depends on the market. When my startup failed in 200x after popping of the dotcom bubble, the market for programmers was terrible and I was lucky to get a job at a state funded research institute.

Comparing this to today, where I get at least one offer a week, this was completely different.
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Sounds like a terrible waste of our finite resources, actually.
In practice, does this apply only to pics created by UK citizens ?

If yes, how can they identify the citizenship of the author since we are talking about orphan works ?

If not and it applies to every pics, how does it not conflict with other legislations ?
Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M
It looks like the kernelnewbies.org page is getting stampeded and is unreachable. Too bad, they usually have a nice high-level overview of the new kernel features and changes.
Land Warrior was restarted in 2008 and is most certainly being used and extensively developed.

The current version of Glass is for early adopters, if you are not purchasing a device to explore it's potential then you are not an early adopter.

Wave is still somewhat alive (donated to Apache). Google made it clear that Google Documents (and it's collaborative editing features) would be the replacement for Wave and would be more useful.
One of the first things I do on a server is disable root logins, disable password authentication, install sudo, add my_user to sudoers, and copy my public key to the server, as well as only allow connections from my IP address.
There don't seem to be any properties in that list that violate the rule? The rule is house name or number and postcode. In the cases above, there are no houses that conflict on names or numbers that I can see?
This is a false equivalency. Musicians can opt out of having their music played on the radio. If they do choose to have their music played on the radio, there is a genuine attempt made by radio stations to track how often their music is played and make a commensurate royalty payment to the artist. (source I worked on college radio).
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How exactly is this any nicer than what Google Maps already does?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=199+Valencia+St,+Mission+Dolor...
No doubt, but that is already saying a lot about the device in itself.

If it generates such interest and attention the way the first mobile phones or the first iPhone did, then it might really be something that in a few years will be a "common sight".

I think it's really something that excites the imagination, and rightly so, it remains to be be seen if it will be a substantial improvement in terms of functionality compared to current mobile devices.
Previous discussion of same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617165
The article mentions: "The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing"

Does your username in the URL e.g. instagram.com/username, constitute "information identifying the owner"?
I do. The original comment talks about living without a car. You may need to walk 20 or 30 minutes to get to the public transportation to get you to your destination, and this is what I have been presenting all over.
1., This is Scoble. He hypes professionally, literally anything. Try following him on Twitter or G+ and say goodbye to your newsfeed.

2., Valid critique - wearing Google Glass is like wearing Bluetooth headset all the time. Which guys like Scoble probably did, way before anyone else. Anyone being pretentious assholes.
You have a point.

But in my worst case scenario (i.e. I take a picture of a starving African child, and a hypothetical neo-nazi racist politician were to use it in saying "this is what god intends for black people"), there would be a moral outrage on my part. However, I wouldn't be outraged at the free (mis)use.

Rather, the moral outrage would be at the misrepresentation of the photo. That would fall under the likeness laws I believe. The subject of the photos I believe would probably have cause to sue in that case (of course in the case of the starving African child, it probably will not happen)

Perhaps you can think of something worse
My bad, indeed. I have this as my wallpaper I misremembered it for another image (of a specific galaxy).
Being in Beijing it is amazing how many customer focused e-commerce companies there are and the amount of delivery vehicles from them going around everyday.

Amazon.cn, Taobao, 360buy (now JD.com)... just to name 3 of the biggest.

And the feature I like the most, pay by cash on delivery! :)
Well, that sends a signal to the market to produce more Xbox games and less PC games despite the fact that PC games are popular.
Not quite, in rural areas, most houses have a name. If a name is used instead of a number then the name must be unique. Obviously this doesn't affect those houses on normal suburban streets which have a number but also a name, in those cases the number is the identifier for the house.
1% is not totally unreasonable. See belorns post about conversion rates in freemium games for an explanation.
We are in the twisted age when a 16 year old, farts in his bedroom and someone buys his ideas for millions of dollars. Or every looser has a mobile phone in his pocket and hopes one day to take "THAT" image which will bring him glory and fame, then we have miserable creatives, who remix everything they can find on the internet and hope that this will make them valuable too. Online community is suffering from hard case of schizophrenia, as at the same time they are consumers and creators. They want to take, but don't want to give. So corporations just use that to their advantage. I would suggest calm the f* down, and decide what you are good at and make money from it, not hope you will one day make it big from being in a right place in a right time. And if you give more than you ask, humanity will only benefit.
I take it you didn't read past the first few paragraphs.
The much bigger problem is that nobody tries to repeat findings, because there is no incentive to do so. There is an asymmetry between positive and negative findings. Say I make a study that shows that X causes Y. Then someone else tries to replicate that. They find no statistically significant evidence that X causes Y. Now, in medicine this may be a result in itself, if X causes Y is a well established result. But, in many other fields, such as computer science, a negative finding is usually just because the researcher made a mistake (bug in code etc.), so you have to work really hard to prove that there is no relation between X and Y, and it is hard to publish these kinds of results unless you can somehow rigorously prove the opposite result.
You are actually arguing that the developers should have made an effort to have their game appeal to those who take a copy of it without permission?
If you are attending a sporting event (or anything really) and missed something, then you could rewind and view it or save it. The recording would not distract the user at all, it would be taking place in the background and would never be uploaded to the internet (by default). It's like having a photographic memory upgrade, except you can also share it.

Maybe have a feature that records up to X minutes of video and overwrites it unless the user decides to manually save part of that video.

Even during sexy time, overlay a face of gwyneth paltrow onto your partner.

How about threat detection? Any snakes or dangerous creatures could automatically highlight in red and a warning message could pop up "Don't step here!".

The "dorky" argument is just a societal norm. They have many plans for less dorky looking versions. The eventual use of this would be built into your eyeball or a contact lens. Yes, it's a halfway scary future but our children will not see it that way. I'm not saying it's the right way to go but it's worth discussion.
Hadn't seen that one. :-/
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> there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like.

A 30-day money back, no questions asked, guarantee would offer this. Then you can take a risk on a game, evaluate it to your heart's content, and if you didn't like it then request a refund. That would be a useful downvote indicator.

For the recent SimCity, a stream of refunds would show as the product not being fit for purpose at launch, and as the refunds taper off and the sales continue to grow, that's a confidence indicator that the game has reached an acceptable playable standard.

Though, it would be more useful for unsolicited/open-ended feedback as to why the refund, so a company could do something to improve their games.

Granted, that system can be initially gamed by serial refund-requestors - but those people are further along the spectrum of "will not pay" anyway, but at least they've taken the step of purchasing, that's one step closer to making inroads into the pirate instead of purchase segment.

By making the refund rates public, and some sort of identifier, it should be easier to target the non-regular refund-requestor with special offers and promotions. A company should have the ability to reward loyal customers too.

From the company's perspective, people will be less inclined to ask for a refund after they've purchased a game that works and provides a decent gaming experience. That's just the nature of people who believe that they have received value on their purchase. That is one improved step beyond the "need to evaluate before purchase" mindset.

I guess this will mostly prove that the "evaluate before buying" mindset is a self-rationalisation for piracy. The Radiohead "name your own price" album is unsurprising in that it was heavily slanted to as close to free as possible, rather than reflecting a demand versus supply equilibrium.
Sim City is another good example of this. Even as a child when I first played the original, I remember reacting to the tax model in the game and how it affects net migration, as it was nothing like what I knew from Norway (and indeed, it bears little resemblance to how things works in most of Europe). A newspaper in Norway recently had to social economists play the most recent Sim City game to review the economic model, and their response was pretty much that they saw it as what in Norway would be considered a far right populist fantasy based on a range of economic assumptions that pretty much only the furthest right party in our parliament believes in.

So to successfully play the game, you will need to accept a range of economic theories far outside the European mainstream, that to a certain extent is directly contradicted by real-life experience. I found that unsettling even at an age when I didn't know much of the politics, given that the manual even of the original presented it as a simulation and went into great detail about the techniques they'd applied to make the simulation more realistic...
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Citation needed.

What happens to the muscles, blood flow and eyesight of people that need to wear glasses every minute they're not asleep? Why their eyesight and general eye health doesn't deteriorate over time if it "can lead to weakened muscles, worse blood flow and worse eyesight"?
Well I still don't own a smartphone because I ask myself the question "Why would I need a smartphone". And when I look around a lot of people don't need it. So in a way "I don't get" why a lot of people "need" a smartphone.
How do you work out how many elements are in your set?