skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, yes, we've found a way to look at this law and find an issue that needs addressing - claiming these individual small works.

The aim of this though is to rescue all of the orphaned works that should be in the public domain but are wrapped up in all kinds of mess. If you are contactable as the owner of a work then your rights are not in question. But there are tons of orphaned works that are locked up because of the complexity of assigning copyright and identifying holders.

The real enemies of this bill are big media companies who recognize it as a first step at revitalizing the public domain after decades of encroachment by industry friendly bills. They'll couch the arguments like this when lobbying - it hurts the little guy - but they don't care about the little guy.

If your pictures are on your instagram account there's a simple way to contact you. You are clearly identifiable as the content rights owner.

The constantly increasing levels of copyright are a far bigger threat to our freedoms than figuring out how to meta-data tag instagrams to clearly identify the copyright owner to stop some mythical entity reproducing your picture of your cat farting.
The percentages aren't market share rather percentages of companies using the product. That is a company which uses both Azure and AWS could contribute towards both percentages.
Details on Jony Ive's 'Very, Very Flat' Design for iOS 7
I see your points but I think your characterization of this attitude as lazy or stupid are overly hostile.

I'm not going to defend the mindset but I can see some appeal in having one company to deal with. Anyone who's ever faced a problem where multiple vendors are blaming each other for your ongoing woes knows how frustrating that can be.
I run several services on it. .net/C# compute services. No VMs. No complaints.
>Explicitly, i think laws should say what they actually mean.

Just to be clear, I agree with you. I was pointing out the way I think things are and probably will continue to be.

>It often seems that discretion is used to protect the powerful from any consequence.

It does seem to have that effect.

>Yeah, i'd rather err on the side of everybody gets a day in court.

That, in itself is another freebie to the wealthy and well-connected. In Texas it is almost always possible to get a traffic citation dismissed by showing up in court with an attorney that specializes in such things. Or, if you're a working stiff, who has no more days off, you can plead no contest and pay the citation with a credit card. Cost is about the same in my experience (minus the day off).
The sad thing is that I was actually needing to use IE5 in February. A Windows 2000 Server machine in India which had been unused for a few years but was being pressed back into service. And Windows Update seemed to need IE6 to be able to install IE6. With a separately-sourced IE6 installer, I did finally get it up to IE6, but I couldn't manage to get it up to IE6 SP1 even then.

IE5 was certainly rather painful to use. Google did not work correctly under it. Microsoft's sites were just about the most painful to browse.

Owing to some malware on the system hijacking some DNS things and some further DNS misconfiguration I couldn't even get Firefox for a while... but I did eventually restore order to the machine and get Firefox 10 ESR installed on it. (The latest supported version to work on Windows 2000.)
I don't know if it was JSON that started the ajax craze... I remember it being Google Suggest that brought the potential of Xmlhttprequest in to the mainstream (and there being a brief period thereafter where no one could decide whether to call the technique "xmlrpc" or "ajax"). JSON sprung up in a mainstream way a year or so after all that (or my memory is crap... which is quite possible!).
Any service which allows purchasing Bitcoins with Paypal should immediately throw up a huge red flag. It's a sure sign that the people starting the service don't know what they are doing. You can't build a service where you allow people to purchase an e-currency with Paypal. Not only will Paypal shut down your account (Paypal doesn't allow trading of e-currencies,) but you will get hit with a mass of fraudulent purchases.

Any service which allows purchasing Bitcoins with Paypal should immediately throw up a huge red flag. It's a sure sign that the people starting the service don't know what they are doing. You can't build a service where you allow people to purchase an e-currency with Paypal. Not only will Paypal shut down your account (Paypal doesn't allow trading of e-currencies,) but you will get hit with a mass of fraudulent purchases.

ETA

The opposite direction (cashing in Bitcoins for Paypal) is a bit of a different story. It still violates Paypal's policy but it's less risky for everyone if the service is trustworthy. The biggest risk for the receiver is probably that the exchange Paypal account gets shut down and the service falls short on funds for returning money and / or can't withstand having funds locked up in Paypal.Another risk is that doing a lot of Paypal transactions with a Bitcoin exchange service might put you on Paypal's radar.

If all these issues don't make this a bad idea, then the high fees involved will probably scare you away.

Note that Bitinstant offers cashing in Bitcoins for Paypal but not the other way around.
Well, Visual Studio probably has the best Python plugin I've ever seen.
> MS did a lot to turn their lame "DOS command prompt" into a command line terminal; not enough, but a lot.

Then they made PowerShell, which removes any complaints one might have!
>you'd also have to register the copyright

But you can do that after the infringement has taken place, as long as you do so within some period of time (60 days I think?) after you become aware of the infringement.
I don't get what your objection is?

It's obviously a mini-essay question, a chance to show your opinions and reason about ideas. Seems good to me.

Do you not like it because it's not a yes-no question? Welcome to reality, where not all questions have simple answers, even in CS. That's probably why it's a top-tier university!

Whatever you do don't look at this exam paper from Cambridge - it will blow your mind http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/u_grads/Tripos/Ethics/Past_Exams/1.... Example question "What makes death bad?"
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How to create helpdesk tickets from Google Calendar
You're not being dumb, it's currently limited to the top 10 results.
Agreed, it'll probably settle down in a few seasons to something moderate (i.e., neither the garishness of apple's calendar, nor the usability nightmare of the WP8 app on windows.) I just wish we won't forget the lessons of these experiments, but most likely we'll just be reinventing the whole thing again and again. (Recent example: the horrible 90's emoticons craze is back in messaging apps these days, except they're now higher resolution and are called 'stickers'.)
It's strange, because it seems to be a regression to Visual Basic and Hypercard aesthetics in some ways. Embossed buttons? Pshaw!
That entity would probably be the Linux Foundation in this case.
Erdo: A new Java key/value store
1) no
2) people are doing this today so this hasn't changed
And especially how a good sales team can inflate revenues in that market...
Adafruit explains how to build your very own HAL 9000 for less than $100
I'd suggest learning Ubuntu - it's popular and widely used as both a desktop and server OS, and it's great for running Python.

Run Ubuntu inside a virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) and you can simulate your exact deployment environment on your local laptop.
I like how HN is so blatantly anti-Microsoft, but Reddit is overly Microsoft supportive. Which hipsters do I believe in?!
Does automobile design really churn? I know occasionally companies try to revive classic styles (the PT Cruiser or Ford Thunderbird) but those don't seem to catch on and spread into a general fad. What you think of as the 50s style, or the 80s jagged style haven't been revived and I very much doubt they ever will.
My first thought as well, but what about photos that aren't in the database?

Either you consider those orphan works which would mean everybody has to submit every photo (or implicitly "license" them as orphaned).

Or you consider them non-orphaned and fall back to all rights reserved, which would make the database little more than a public version of a photo licensing catalogue, several of which already exist.
One thing that's interesting is that this realization can itself push multiple ways. Denmark has for the most part concluded that the country is, in effect, a little company in competition with the rest of the world. But it's not only (or even primarily) competing for rich people. Rich people in themselves are just some finite wealth. More importantly, Denmark is competing for market share in various markets, such as services and high-end manufacturing. In some of those markets, just like in tech, a higher-cost, upmarket strategy may be superior to a lower-cost, compete-on-price strategy. So it may be worth goign with higher taxes and a highly educated workforce. I wrote a bit about that elsewhere on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5548497
By that logic, the introduction of the Brushed Metal look in 1999 signaled Apple's many subsequent years of decline and abject failure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627309
different question: if you aren't why not? Amazon hasn't exactly been the picture of reliability and Heroku has had some important unanswered questions raised about its dispatch system.
I don't know if that is true...I haven't noticed any particularly bad captchas recently myself, but I was constantly getting really incomprehensible ones about 6-12 months ago. I think perhaps the developers have realised that it was getting too silly and they've toned them down a little bit.
We're At An ‘Absolute' Low Point In Startup Quality
Sure, but that has less to do with tax rates.
I am not attacking her personally, just criticizing her actions. I was careful to make that completely unambiguous.

What gave you the impression that I was attacking her?
You can use a GUI-based programming system. An example might be Devpac (68000 assembly language editor/assembler/debugger) on the Atari ST.

(You could get command shells for the ST, because it was a programmable computer, so of course you could make it do pretty much whatever you wanted if you were willing to put the effort in. But the system didn't ship with a command line interface and (as I recall...) most of the programming environments - at least the ones popular in Europe - didn't include one either.)
I have various Google products under my account, which is my real name.

One time I gave feedback to Google, from a Google feedback form, and gave my real (and had been in use for years) googlemail account name on this Google form.

The form rejected it, because my real name has a mild swear in it.

That kind of thing is vaguely disappointing.

I did suddenly have to change all the answers to my 'secret questions' when I realised that I'd have to read them out loud if I needed to get back into my bank account. Lots of profanity snipped there.
Downloading the new Google Search app for my iPhone re-activated "Location History" for my account and tracked me all day until it sent me an email (privacy notice) about how my location history was on.

What the fuck, Google.
Wow, you must be some sort of L33T H4X0r or something. You're the real deal. Everyone else is just playing with toys.
The flat "metro" style that Zune/Windows Phone have is best when it's clear that it's a UI you're meant to interact with. There's no need to show button-like things on a list that says "music phone contacts" - the fact you're in a touch UI means its obvious you're going to touch stuff.

For non-touch and complicated UIs, it's a lot less useful. See Office 2013's mess of a UI, which also added ALL CAPS as a design element that literally conveys zero information (there's no common trait caps has across the applications, it's purely a random design change for the sake of some really poor design sensibilities).
Seems like yet another data point in favor of the viewpoint that taxes on the rich in the U.S. are far too low. That goes for Obama, too!
There are actually games written in Clojure that run on Android quite well. A bit slow to start up, but not nearly as bad as I had expected. Take a look at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.friendlyvi... and check out their development blog.

EDIT: The guy who did NightWeb talks about Clojure on Android here: http://nightweb.net/blog/clojure-on-android.html
Erasing History in the Internet Era
I don't think it matters. If Azure is challenging AWS, Azure is challenging AWS. Who the buyers are is irrelevant; HNer dollars don't double when you deposit them in your bank.
Show HN: Added quests to my HTML5 game
This reminds me of Steve Jobs iPhone first presentation and hackers jumping onto the platform. However, Jobs had vision and charisma to follow. This doesn't make me as excited.
Yeah, MisterBastahrd is wrong about an MBA helping that much with accounting anyway.

An MBA is really an introduction to a lot of different business topics rather than helping an individual master them (bad name IDK?). In business/life etc. it is as important to know what you don't know, i.e. that you are shitty at accounting, or that investing is a very deep knowledge business etc. than almost anything else.

An MBA really helps you learn what you don't know so you can study it later. Accounting is complex and to be really good at it, it takes years to master. Reading a balance sheet is straight forward until you realize that you don't know exactly how everything on there got there and you don't know how the statements link together, nor do you know what a healthy balance sheet looks like over a non-healthy balance sheet etc.

Technologists on HN wildly misunderstand the world of finance and business just like we misunderstand the world of programming.

I comment on business topics and read without commenting on technical topics. I can't imagine hiring someone without an MBA for a business position unless it was really basic or unless they had deep experience in the same field. An MBA can seriously jump start business knowledge. Getting one in your mid to late 20s is a huge help at that point in your life if you are interested in business.
"If you know C, a lisp variant (although I prefer an ML variant), and a decent scripting language (I learned perl first, but I sort of hate it), you're not likely to get surprised by much"

I think a person with that knowledge set might be surprised by this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming

New programming paradigms emerge over time, and force us to rethink our approaches to solving problems. I think the key is not learning many languages, but learning many paradigms, and becoming skilled in the use of one paradigm before moving on to the next. Learning several languages with the same approach to programming is not as useful as learning several languages with completely different approaches.
I think its about time.

That said, a complete UI overhaul is.. I just see it as unlikely all at once, more of a gradual thing.
Hmm, champagne. I wonder what the characteristics of such a ride would be. After the initial 2-3 minute burn I imagine they would spend most of their time in free-fall right? Maybe they could serve champagne in those "capri sun" bags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capri_Sun_Apple_1.jpg
It's happening on my Chrome for iOS for a week or so. I like it.

I also have new cleaner homepage that has almost no header

http://i.imgur.com/bw4KpgC.png
"deservedly well deleted"

Under a critereon of "notability" that works great for dead trees but is largely irrelevant to an online primarily text reference.
Ok, obviously you're right about that, but I was thinking just in terms of the human-machine interface. Even then, automotive engineering is much less "stale" than fashion, and any new technology may push towards more radical change.
Unsure why you were downvoted - Apple has borrowed heavily from Dieter Rams in the past decade or so. Heck, the current iPad Music app is a straight lift from the famous Braun SK radio/record players.

That being said, there's no real reason why Apple has to use textures anywhere. Dieter Rams designed physical products which by their nature must have some texture or another. Having texture is purely optional in a digital product.
* I hope such a thing wouldn't be allowed in EU with the stricter waste laws*

And that's why I'm happy I don't live in the EU.....too many people with this nanny-state attitude, who want bureaucrats managing every little detail of their lives.
Microsoft needs to buyout and then supply a stupidly simple, easy to use, password manager.

They need to test is against hoardes of naive users.

They need to encourage those users to have one long strong password to unlock the safe, and then to have strong random passwords for everything else.

Having seen how some computer users operate I guess any OS supplier has a hard job here. See, for example, the 'power users' who turned off UAC.
cue-cat didn't retail for $1500
Oles posted on Twitter that he will send an email about what happened tomorrow (Apr 30th): https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/328882263913811968
I make a quip, and all of a sudden it's something to believe in? Humor me more :D
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One of my favorite mods for OSX is to revert the dock back to "2D" mode. The mirrored table effect is not to my taste.
Kiva is probably not the best example, since they make even the worst tech startup look like a paragon of virtue. (Seriously. Their business model is based around convincing wealthy Westerners to lend them money interest-free, puportedly as a loan to a specific individual in a third world country, then actually handing that money over to a partner who uses it to make loans at substantial interest rates to whoever they consider profitable. Some of the loan companies have really unpleasant collection tactics too.)
Yes, I think it becomes THE licensing site, at least in the UK. I guess in my mind it would leave less wiggle room for infringers. NOTE: not a copyright maximalist at all but I can imagine it sucks to finally get your one great shot out there and . . . no credit given.
So yeah puts a burden on artists to register there works but if it's free to do so, seems like a reasonable way to protect your work.
What does a computer display look like? It looks like whatever is on it. When you have ultra high res displays with 32 bit color, well, what do you use all that for? Certainly not a 4 color 100% flat interface.
You must have loved the podcast app, then.
> Look at iTunes 11 for visual hints.

Welp, we're boned.
> I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike extreme Flat UI) but I've decided to embrace it after--

--after Apple declared it to be in style.

No, that's not what you meant, but it rings so true in the tech buzzosphere.
The US has waste management laws too. Try throwing medical waste out with your trash sometime. Darn those meddling bureaucrats!
> if you ruin someone's career with a bad reference . . . it should be legal for that person to use violence, up to killing

It should be legal to kill someone for giving you a bad reference? OK.
I think that you are confusing backwards/forwards compatibility with the point the OP seemed to be making: Microsoft never bothered to follow the web standards.
It's an interesting question. So far, Facebook Home is the best example of Android-first development because you just can't do it on iOS.
I don't buy it. If your design philosophy is rooted in "this time is different" then it's a pretty shallow design philosophy.

In other words, debates about "flat UI" vs "skeumorphism" (which is a false dichotomy imho, but I digress) should not be based upon things like "this era of instant gratification", it should be based upon how well the design serves the purpose of all design: effective and enjoyable use by humans.

The reason skeumorphism exists as an idea is not because it is used to draw the eye to something, it's to create affordances to the user by leveraging their past experiences. This can range anywhere from "this sticks out on the page and can be pushed" to "this reminds me of my real desk calendar."

Insofar as the Flat UI concept neglects to create these natural affordances it fails. The only argument one can make that draws upon the current status quo to defend it is if the world has moved on so fast that natural affordances created by depth and shadow can now be made just as effectively to most people by drawing a colored square instead. I'm skeptical that this is true, since three dimensional vision is pretty core to the human experience and human biology.

I think what we'll see from Apple will not be an abandonment of skeumorphism in general but instead (in typical Ives fashion) a distilling of it down to its core. Expect depth and shadow, but with a laser-like focus towards using it to create affordances instead of add unnecessary flare. Expect its use to be toned down both in prevalence and also in degree. The cliched example of the leather nav bar has never served any real purpose wrt affordances, so I don't think Apple will be clinging too tightly to it.
Saying that the release means nothing to developers is probably more of an exaggeration than the headline in question.

Even if it is legally required it is still interesting that it has been done for those who are following the device.

I'm guessing the code release contains drivers etc. specific to the device, which would be very useful for hacking.

(Note also that they explain that the entire stack's code wasn't released early in the article.)
Considering the pricing on their server software, I imagine at $1 billion revenue they must have a solid 10 happy customers.
Can you elaborate? Which parts are missing?
It's more like programming is still an art, not an established engineering field, and there isn't a right or wrong to art and we haven't gotten to the established engineering point yet. We will eventually.
Thank you for contributing such a thoughtful and valuable comment to this discussion. It really serves to improve the signal to noise ratio and raise the level of intelligent discourse here.
hopefully this will be a bit more personalized, sometimes amazon takes to heart those stupid links i click and thinks I like shirts with wolves...
The irony of when I tried to add their blog to my feed reader (http://www.rivered.io by the way)...it said there was no feed...

Guess RSS doesn't belong in the future.
Ask HN: Have companies given up on CRM? 
CRM has a long history of over-promising and under-delivering. Have companies given up?

As a new startup focusing on making a meaningful impact in the sales software space, we're seeing a lot of followers into the SFDC camp even though everyone seems unhappy about it.
David Ascher here, I oversee WebFWD. I'm happy to take questions here if the HN crowd has them.
Are you a fucking idiot? What fraud did they perpetrate?
Pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy
Dumb question: let's say I want to link gchat with twitter, and all the text after "tweet " I send to the zapier bot I want to be tweeted. Naively, I set things up (pretty easily, too!) to tweet ALL of the text I sent to the zapier bot. Is there an easy way to be able to tweet just parts of text? (maybe following a regexp, altho that's already getting too sophisticated for something so simple, especially since you guys just posted into turning gchat into a command line)
You know you can use something for debugging without committing, right?