skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Such a situation doesn't make sense in a rational market." Tell that to philosophy majors. :)

I can also turn on the radio and receive music for free, with ads. TPB has plenty of those (but isn't distributing anything themselves, so arguably isn't infringing... Perhaps they are facilitating, but if so they are largely facilitating non-commercial infringement; I can't imagine anyone downloading a movie and selling it would be common). Radio stations usually pay royalties, otherwise they would be commercially infringing copyright. I mention elsewhere that I can sympathize with commercial copyright enforcement.

Non-commercial copyright infringement is harder to value IMHO. In the case of commercial copyright infringement, there is positive income, and the profit can be fought over. Now that we have dropped boxed distribution media and gone digital only for most types of content (and, importantly, I pay for my ISP), the "profit" to the infringer, and the cost to the originator, from any given copy is at best very ambiguous. The profit to argue over could be positive, non-existent, or negative (heck, they might be wasting their life, watching Game of Thrones, when they could be creating value). There is nothing obvious to fight over in the case of non-commercial copyright infringement, except the copy itself (whether the copier had the right to copy). But preventing copies needs a system similar to a cable TV network, not an amoebae-like Internet.

I like the Internet and the ability to speak freely, and to mix what I find, too much to enforce copyright (even my own) anymore. It's taken a long time for me to get here, and I used to want to be a professional artist.
Because waaaaaaah!
The demo for Linux said something like ‘coming soon’ earlier (the page seems a little slow at the moment) and I was unable to find any information whatsoever regarding hardware and software requirements before being asked for my credit card details.
Why don't you use macros?

Additionally, source control tools make deleting code much more convenient, no?
You might be surprised the amount of spam a site with no real visitors can get by exposing a form.
nobody thought to build a sewer system
Do they really expect people to solve 8 queens in under 45 minutes? Even if you already know how to approach the problem, writing out the code to do it would take most of that time it seems like.

Maybe they were trying to ascertain something else about their candidates. Like how they approach problem-solving in general?
https://www.aippi.org/download/commitees/215/GR215norway.pdf

It seems it's a Norwegian case - they seem to have pretty strict laws for trade secrets laid out in the above pdf. The claim is given in Norwegian Krone.
1. Joel's List: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

2. Culture

3. Stance on refactoring vs. feature delivery

4. Off Time - I'm personally against companies that demand overtime, unfortunately this trend is increasing and developers (especially juniors) don't stand up against it.

I recently had a CA based startup ask for 60 hours a week (probably because I am Indian). Had to politely refuse.
Ruby: catching the obvious bugs earlier
The H also has an overview, but I usually prefer KernelNewbies too:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-...
Everyone with a syntax highlighting editor discovers this trick sooner or later. Why spoil the fun of the discovery and post the solution? :)
It might actually work quite well. "Can you beat the crapcha? You are hired!"
There's nothing disturbing about protecting trade secrets, if this is what it is. Now if this was about a non-compete clause, I might agree with you...
"Ghost is an Open Source application", tiny github image link in footer and organization has no public repositories.. (https://github.com/tryghost)
Call me when it's ready...
> In most parts of the world (even the "western world"), addresses are hopelessly ambiguous

And yet, astonishingly, you get your mail. If the mail can find its way to the right point, so can this type of URL.

Your counter examples are interesting but not what this example is showing: a nice URL for a physical mailing address. Presumably one would fall back to lat/lon if one is trying to do something other than find an address.

> just as conveniently

Contrary to the OPs example, having to look up lat/lon first in order to pinpoint an address on a map seems not convenient at all.
This is certainly interesting but I agree that most pirates won't purchase anyway. When I was younger I pirated EVERYTHING. I downloaded music, pc/console games (modded every console I ever could), movies, software. There was no way I could afford to buy all these things at the time and neither could my parents.

Now I have a nice paying job. I buy all my games. I pay for software. A few days ago an artist I like released an album on iTunes and other sites for free. I paid the $9 for it.

I'm not saying that pirating because you don't have the means to purchase something is right, but I am saying it happens.
This is terrifying!
There is an HN convention that post titles are not editorialised but posted "as is". I suppose this could have had something added in brackets (like one would do for an old item) but I can see that might have undermined the approach of the piece in question.

I am at a loss to understand why people are annoyed.
LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed
And to compliment it:

http://jsbeautifier.org/

Maybe the two could be merged for an awesome developer web tool?
Leaflet more maps and Leaflet markercluster tutorial
Can you give me more information on such simple javascript-baed spam protection techniques?
Despite Google Image search existing, perhaps there's still an opening for a site where you register your work; thus creating an easy place for people to check when looking for owners (i.e. if an image is used all over the web Google may return thousands of results leaving the originator hidden several pages into the results; assuming the places which have used this content haven't provided an easy means to get back to the original / haven't included copyright info this may be hard to track). Image search engines could also use metadata from this site to provide a side bar summary about the image's ownership and licensing info.
Drag n' Drop In Raphael.js
Good points and examples but my fear with the 1st argument was more along the lines of home based businesses. "Oh, you say I can't run a home based cyanide process metal plating business in my basement, and dump the waste in the (drinking water) river? Well I'm a job creator and I'll just move to someplace I can!" That kind of thing could cause, oh, about a billion times more damage than an occasional short drive to the alps.

From my old chemistry days, there's a dude active in the 40s to 70s named Max Gergel who pioneered advanced organic chemistry in that era, unfortunately safety and environmental concerns were kind of dark ages, just pour stuff out in the backyard type. Google for "Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide" and there's pdfs floating around. Its kinda popular, sorta, in comparison analogy to the BOFH legend. Unfortunately in contrast to the BOFH its all true stories if anything somewhat censored down. I'm pretty sure the old factory site is/was a superfund site although I don't remember.

There's another classic chemist book about "questionable" behavior called the green flame of boron or something like that, basically the manufacturing side of John D Clark's "Ignition" book (which I still own a copy of). That's another enviro hair raiser.

I think the TLDR for pretty much any pre-70s era chemical plant (and, maybe to the current date) is you really don't want to live downwind or downriver if at all possible.

One interesting CS/IT/tech lesson is these guys didn't think they were doing anything wrong which is part of the strange otherworldly appeal of reading their books. Its fun to contemplate what contemporary "data hygiene" practices will be looked back on with horror in perhaps as little as a generation. Sharing executable files? DRM? Tracking? Social networking? Who knows, but evidence from other fields is that things we don't blink about doing now might make our kids recoil in horror decades later.
I'm trying to imagine a world in which there isn't a guilt inducing shortcut folder on my desktop:

"Games I haven't played since I bought them in a steam sale"

Maybe if I was a student again...
The two features they list as "extra" by going with them are automatic backups and updates, both of which are hosting features, not software features.
It sounds like the problem here was the OVH account's password was reset without the account owner's authorization.

Why isn't critical infrastructure for Bitcoin hosted on a first-rate, known, trusted provider like Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Rackspace, Terremark, Joyent, etc.?
The problem with the previous work done is that could be difficult to show or check. If you worked on a regular company, the work done is not available. I agree that a discussion about previously done software can be very interesting, but that could be gamed too...

I'm afraid that interviewing is never going to be easy for both...
Using physical associations, think less of a "game w. rules/goals" and more of a "toy" - many great videogames actually function more like toys.
Hmm, how did you get the data? 100% user added wikiness, or did it pull from some other 'tree' sources like Neurotree (http://neurotree.org/neurotree/)?

I was able to find my girlfriend, which was pretty cool.

One piece of feedback from her to have in the tree itself, is each person's institution.
Many of the people you mentioned will just get grouped into the "pirate" category when sales slow.
I don't think that's what they're saying at all. I think they're saying there are some features that are going to work best on an integrated hosting platform, just by their nature
There’s Ghostery for Google Analytics and similar shenanigans (not to mention that I expect data to be send to a website when I am online) and I don’t know of a single application on my computer that phones home – apart from Skype checking for updates, because they somehow fucked up their repositories after version 4.2.

Similarly, I am rather positive that none of the applications on my phone phone home, since that would trigger a ‘Do you want to allow this while roaming?’ question each and every time.

Edit: Correction: Steam probably does that. I use it once in a blue moon or so. :)
Am I the only one who feels that the kernel releases have been more frequent during recent times? Or is it that they have changed the version numbering like firefox?

About an year or so ago, it was something like 2.6.x. Then, it jumped to 3.0 and now it is at 3.9.
Everyone would have been deterred with a tiny percentage of the weapons that eventually ended up being deployed - no political leader in the West or in the Soviet Union could ever have contemplated a single city being hit by an H-bomb. The Soviets, more than anyone, knew what it was like to lose tens of millions to a war - for all their faults they had no desire to repeat this experience.

MAD was the only possible strategy. However, the insane level of weaponry that was actually in place was, in my view, completely unnecessary. If your opponent is deterred by one level of force then having a hundred times this level does not make you safer.

[NB In case anyone interprets my position as somehow being in support of the Soviets - they were, as far as I am concerned, a criminal regime just as "evil" in their own ways as the other nightmares of the 20th century. However, the level of strategic threat they posed was wildly overstated for political ends.]
DMCA take-down orders are regularly made on flimsier grounds, despite this being technically perjury. Also, google image search and tineye still seem to be surprisingly specialist skills. Average computer users don't know them. Judges ... even less so.
It does.

http://crapcha.com/

http://mashable.com/2013/04/17/crapcha/

http://www.crapcha.com/

http://thomaspark.me/2013/04/crapcha-completely-ridiculous-a...

Except there does seem to be one old duplicate of the exact `http://crapcha.com/` one. Perhaps it allows a re-post after enough time has elapsed.
People with RSI would probably be happy to switch from keyboard and mouse to a BCI.

"I can't think of a single thing I could control with my brain, that I couldn't do more accurately, and consistently, with my hands, voice, etc."

Your brain is controlling your hands, why would being able to control a mouse cursor directly be less accurate or consistent? You're removing two layers of indirection (your hands and the mouse).
There is also another important figure that is routinely ignored: The number of honest customers who get screwed because game companies can not profitably release a big game anymore, so they won't.

The CEO of Square Enix was fired because he produced the latest iteration of Tomb Raider, and it arguably is the best iteration of Tomb Raider ever, and plainly didn't make any money.

Also your argument about 20 years ago is plain incorrect. 20 years ago DRM was way more strict and customer screwing than it is today. 20 years ago if you wanted to play a top of the line game, you would have to buy a Nintendo Entertainment system. Arguably the most restrictive walled garden system that has ever been in the market.
This should not be used. I would reject the code review if this came by me and recommend using ifdefs.

Compilers are not uniform in their interpretation of nested comments.
Their own Blog has no RSS-Feed. I'm not convinced. Looks good, though.
This is how you should start to learn Vim.

P.S. I didn't know about <C-j>, <C-f> and <C-b>.
Great design on the site as well as great UI/UX for the app - amazing how powerful HTML5 apps are becoming.
A visualization-enhanced graphical UI for geospatial resource discovery
"The fallacy with this argument is that if everyone behaved if you did there would be no games."

> In the past artists (and scientists) had patrons but today we have kickstarter. It is possible to fund the creation of large projects (movies, TV shows, games, hardware, research, etc) without as much risk to the people carrying it out.

There would most certainly be games, IMHO. I am also not trolling. I have been trying to rationalize copyright for over a decade. I just can't justify it anymore (and don't think that should mean I should have to ignore what my peers are talking about, and what tools are current, either).
During debugging, there's often the need to temporarily disable a few lines of code to see the effect it has. I'm certainly not going back-and-forth with source control for something so trivial.

That said, macros do make sense in this case- you can #define a single flag (e.g. FLAG) as a 0 or 1 and simply #if FLAG ... #endif, but it's certainly more typing to set up.
I think the poster might be referring to using finicky, unreadable line noise. Expressing program logic this was will inevitably lead to misunderstandings.
Music is the absolute easiest thing to pirate, yet iTunes is huge. People are willing to pay for the simplicity of iTunes. It's still slightly easier than searching for a decent torrent.
Does that include people like PG?

My honest feeling about it is that opposing (much less violently so) people because they are rich or well-connected is just as wrong as what the upper-class is doing. That's just envious malevolence and I can't support it. I don't know enough about PG; he sounds like a stand-up guy.

My ideology about the class war is pretty simple. If you're well-connected and rich, good for you. No, not everyone who's rich deserves to die. By world standards, I'm well into "the 1%". However, the minute a powerful person decides to "pick up a phone" and make someone unfundable or unemployable, the targeted person has the right to destroy that adversary (through exposure, or violently, up to killing) and is doing a heroic and hygienic act if he does.

It's extortionists I want to expose, humiliate, and demolish-- not successful people in general. I want to be successful and I hope I will be some day.
"This trick below can be used to toggle between two sets of code, with one symbol in the code with no additional short-keys to learn, and no tool dependencies!"

So can #ifdef TEST / #ifndef TEST , which also has the advantage of not being horrific.
Yes, every device would need to be able to read smart cards, and everyone would need to have smartcards. Other than the card, everything would just look like normal public key authentication; third parties would not need to store anything other than what they would store if this were done entirely in software.
Programming Memories
Pull requests this late in the -rc cycle should contain only important bugfixes, other changes should normally wait for the next kernel release.
For example Linus ignored some pull requests sent for 3.6-rc2 that didn't really belong there:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/16/577
Next-nearest neighbor searches with sphere-knn, with a Leaflet-friendly API.
They say we must wait a little longer...
It's a reference to a famous quote by Sweden's trade minister in 1999, who said "Norway is the last Soviet State"
Pretty sure you can't copyright ideas anywhere.
I agree. Many of these first day players will be tweeting, blogging, facebooking, or whatever other cool social thing do to is. A majority of the people who played on the first day had a bad experience. That won't look good for the game.
Linux jumped from 2.6.39 to 3.0 because the numbers were getting too big. He also decided that as the middle digit wasn't being incremented, he'd drop it.
I also disagree with adventured here, but your response is not useful.
Amazon? Trusted? Don't get me started. I got my credit card info and e-mail addresses stolen from Amazon database twice in the past 5 years.
Django Software Foundation calls for board nominations
If you must have a login, use an existing ID system, don't roll your own. Its too much of a security risk these days; use Facebook, Google, Live ID, or whatever.

I was going to fill in the tree beneath my adviser, but I really can't afford to come up with yet another password for a one off account.
for any vim users I would recommend having a look at NERDcommenter, from the author of the very popular NERDtree

https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter
Meteor, Leaflet and creating custom reactive data sources
Huh, I use chrome, I thought unchecking on that popup would allow that third party site globally, not just ont he present site.

You're sure?
I spent several weeks during the Summer of '82 living in dorms and taking college courses at UCF. My suitemate, John, was writing Petman in machine code, on and for his PET 16. An enduring memory for me and one which reminds me that there are programmers who are 100 more productive than others - I was at the stage of typing in code from magazines.
Have you used Lua for MapReduce?
It's a fairly subtle way to dramatically change the behavior of your code. Frankly, it's a timebomb threatening to run testCode() in your production site.

The low cost makes it useful for quick development, sure, but for stability's and sanity's sake, please remove when you start promoting this above your own playground.
Compressive Sensing in Light Field Photography and Hyperspectral Video Imaging
In Eclipse you can hit CTRL+/ to comment and uncomment a block of code you have selected.
Wasn't this posted just a few weeks ago?
Do you think that tiny sites get less automated spammers? In such sites the spambot registration attempts far outnumber the real users.

If you have a decent site, you can afford to review/delete/block spam afterwards, but if you have a small site and don't babysit it every dey, then a tough captcha is an absolute requirement.
With the built-in len function.
> > But today, my Steam collection is worth over a 1000 dollars

> That's a very long-term game;

Maybe, but it is working for some. The players who are copying today will be (largely) the ones who are buying in a few years time. The ones who are buying today are like the grandparent poster.
Redesign Snapchat in under 10 hours
We did a quick redesign of the popular Snapchat app on iPhone. Yes, it features a cat.
They've had problems for one week until last wednesday due to a db crash, and service was sub-optimal. Everything's back to normal.
Paseo de la Estación turns into paseo-de-la-estacin, which is not very pleasant.

Don't just strip these! paseo-de-la-estacion would be better.
Similarly, how about context. If there's a photo of someone on the web and you can't find the owner/subject's contact details you could put this in a post about STDs; if that post becomes popular the subject's image is then associated with the content despite them having no relation to the subject matter and not having given their consent, which could lead to awkward scenarios for that person.

(I won't say a Facebook photo as this will be in the uploader's album, therefore associated with their account and thus can be considered non-orphaned).
Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in 1982 as I recall.

While negotiating with TI for an investment, for 2 months we were told our monthly paychecks had been cut but were stored in the safe; working was of course optional.

For whatever reasons (I could afford it and Lisp was (and still is) something of a crusade for me), we continued working and got those paychecks when TI made their investment. (They were sufficiently serious they also bought Western Digital's workstation unit; LMI's processor was a 4 card system that plugged into its NuBus and used the rest of the system's infrastructure.)

Can't source it, but as I recall Nolan Bushnell said you aren't a real entrepreneur until you've made a payroll out of your credit cards....
> They were playing the game, getting immersed into it, trying to win, and they got stuck.

Stuck without any reason. Looks like shitty experience to me.
just replace assembly/C in his complaint with math. That's what he is talking about, he doesn't know math / doesn't want to learn it and use it, which is what most of demo coding is about.
Even in European countries that are much more laissez-faire than Norway has tax rates much higher than in SimCity. A friend here in Ireland¹ noticed that the income tax rate can only go up to 20% in the original, and at that rate, the population were very annoyed.

[1] Barack Obama refered to Ireland as a tax haven recently http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/obama-forced-to-retract...
But I’m still able to lose myself in, say, Patrician II or Pharao or FreeCiv. Maybe I don’t like modern graphics? :P
ID Security: who pays for the mistakes?
Shape-Shifting Mobile Devices
You have numbers/references to support your assumption that piracy never destroys games/game developers?
the paper: http://www.anneroudaut.fr/papers/roudaut_chi13b.pdf
Looks like Medium.
I used an East German version of the KIM (LC80) for lab experiments. In 1999!
Tying in code was slow and debugging even slower, but the hardware I/O was easy, no fuzzing around with RS232. Ahhh, good times.
You should come over here. I think you would like Israelis.
I'm not sure mail is a good point for comparison, since it's essentially using just ZIP to get it to a local post office, at which point it is sorted by humans.
The Kickstarter link's the one they've been sharing, I just saw this and thought it had a good rundown of features
Is it bad that I first saw this trick on NerdParadise.com?
Really? You are going to ask this here?

You can get a proper copy of the game from the developers themselves for eight dollars.