skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not 'fair use', because it is not copyrighted in the first place.

'Fair use' is a legal defense to make copies of copyrighted material. Yes, it is copyrighted, but it is a fair use anyway, if X, Y and Z.

Facts and factual statements are not copyrightable in the US in the first place. Nor does copyright, in the US, prevent someone from comparing something to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. So you are correct that there is no legal basis under copyright to prevent such a comparison, but it's not about fair use.
Alternate client: http://montanaflynn.me/mashape/world-chat/
> In some ways, they already have. To the best of my
> knowledge, you can no longer obtain the Google Talk
> Android app from the Play Store anymore. It has been
> replaced by the Hangouts app.

That's not the same as shutting down support. The Gmail app doesn't use IMAP, but you can still connect to Gmail with any IMAP client.

> Sure, you can use a third party XMPP client on Android,
> but the writing is on the wall here.

That's like saying that google.com is going to drop support for HTTP because Chrome has support for SPDY.

You're complaining about Google doing something bad before Google has announced any intention to do it. If Google actually does drop support for XMPP -- that is, if they announce one day that people will no longer be able to chat with federated servers from a standalone XMPP client -- then go wild.
Of course it's a feature. Either go to Manage > Import, or just use the intro welcome dialog, where OPML import is an option.
Oh God, I have had a similar experience with #C. I know very little C, it was four in the morning and I was trying to get something finished, but it wouldn't work for some reason.

I joined #C to ask for some help, but people were trying to get me to discover the solution on my own, which is well and fine if you want to learn, but at that point I just wanted the trivial fix (it was something about an incorrect type, it was a 1-line fix and anyone with C experience could see it).

I asked them if they could just tell me how to fix it, because it was late and it wasn't really a good time for me to learn C, but they said something about them not being my personal tutors or something, and then just refused to help and treated me like an idiot for not knowing C.

In the end I just left the channel with very high blood pressure and asked a friend on IM who told me the correct line, and that was it.

#C: not even once.
That said, being the 41st person at a startup is not exactly risky and I wouldn't expect you to be taking a below market salary in exchange for shares at that point. So market salary + $371k bonus isn't a bad deal.
I moved over to newsblur after the reader news. One of the main features was that it was open source so what happened with reader wouldn't happen again, I could always self-host. After seeing how easy it is to move from one service to another I'm not so sure.

Right now I'm a frustrated customer. All the effort seems to be going into flashy features and redesign while the actual function of a rss reader is not there yet. The basic feed stream doesn't work properly and never has. Items show back randomly after I've already read them and the infinite scroll doesn't work reliably. Bugs about this go ignored. I'll be trying feedbin.me next as I saw several recommendations on hacker news today and it seems to be a no fuss back-to-basics feed reader.
Thanks for that, I always felt the same way even though "couldn't care less" seems to be the more grammatically correct version.
Study Finds No Benefit From Daily Multivitamin, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/study-finds-no-bene...

Is This the End of Popping Vitamins?, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020464450457665...
I think it's a product with HUGE potential as it would replace my separate Gaming-Console/AppleTV/Browser devices; also looking forward to gesture interactivity done right (ugh, Samsung's Smart TVs are terrible)..
"Maybe Soylent is okay. Maybe. But there are well established, scientific methods to evaluate these claims. I know it tempting to want to believe the claims in the video, but they have done NONE of this!"

That sounds like a pretty reasonable argument to me. Pointing out that the soylent proponent's "evidence" does not stand up to scientific scrutiny does not sound like "argument from authority".
Twitter patents 'Pull To Refresh'. Defensive purposes only
Does anyone know of a secure (like lavabit) web mail service (that doesn't look like crap) that integrates chat (irc, google chat, etc)?
A server could easily implement it, there must be some plugins that do exactly that. Disclaimer: I'm pretty much opposed to any type of hellban except in some very specific circumstances (that wouldn't apply to HN).
Treehouse is really, really good for beginners. I used it for a couple months and thought it was invaluable.
This Daft Punk article might be a suitable replacement for the author.

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/
Snow Fall (video/images) is protected by copyright, but ‘The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour.' is nominative fair use. He might have to say something about not being affiliated with the NYT in any way, but he should be able to make that claim. Truth is a perfect defense.
Please note, PrivCo is super scandalous. Remember all the crazy crap they did to LivingSocial? http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/21/privco-may-be-wrong-but-liv...

I don't trust them at all.
Some books appeal a million people, you can ask $1 for those, and be quite ok.

Other books appeal a thousand people, if you get $1 from everybody that thinks about buying those, you'll get $1k at the bank.
Could you elaborate on how or why it doesn't fall under fair use, or is this just an angrily expressed opinion on the matter?
Support is handled every single day and I take these kinds of bugs very seriously. You should email me your username if you are experiencing this issue. Neither my error graphs nor my support forum show issues like unreliable infinite scroll or random stories. Please email me your info so I can get it fixed. I want everybody to have as positive an experience on NewsBlur as I do.
No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not by public data is slander.

That doesn't sound right. Sounds more like divulging a trade secret. Slander is telling an untruth about someone.
"I've been working on removing myself from the Google silo ... Replacing Dropbox doesn't seem practical right now."

I must have missed something, did Google acquire Dropbox? Dropbox makes their money from the Dropbox product which is exactly why you should use a company like them instead of a borg offering. I prefer Sugarsync but there are no shortage of options.
Yea, after doing the research it seems like the only choice is to suck it up.

Thanks for the reply.
Thankfully, in a representative democracy, individual votes do not directly make laws.
If we combine our machine-potentials of a factory with the valuation of human beings on which our present factory system is based, we are in for an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty.

It took 50 years but we are finally starting to be forced to take this problem seriously.
No - the copyright in the Snow Fall article indeed protects him from _copying_ the Snow Fall article (unless it is fair use). Yes, he may have violated copyright by doing so.

The copyright in the Snow Fall article does not give anyone the rights to prevent someone from saying "The NYT spent hundreds of hours hand-coding 'Snow Fall'. We made a replica in an hour." That quote from their letter is the part I was referring to.
What Big-Data Stories & Barbie Have in Common
I do not know what type of fiscal policies Apple follows. I know other corporations have found ways (i.e., sometimes legal, sometimes gray area, sometimes blatantly illegal) to shift profits, losses, non-cash assets, cash and other financial items from one country to another.

I would think that any question and/or answer to these potentially complex issues should include disclosure of any type of transfer to and/or from different countries.
Show HN: Accountable - HIPAA Compliance Made Easy
A lot of healthcare startups have trouble understanding what is required for HIPAA compliance. Accountable makes this process easy.
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The takedown was for a video of the making of a technical reconstruction of a news feature. It was not a takedown of the reconstruction of the news feature. It's a little bit like a takedown of a paper airplane made of the new york times.
This is equivalent to a Youtube video where someone demonstrates how to play a popular song on a guitar.

Anyone against that is not on the same team as me.
Some of the methods were summarized in all the previous threads. The people saying that Soylent were not being rigorous enough with the science were told that it's just someone doing a personal project and of course it doesn't need to be scientific.
> Why not educate people, rather than call them wrong?

http://www.businessinsider.com/rob-rhinehart-food-substitute...

> you attack based on the idea that someone might get hurt, when you don't have any evidence Soylent is dangerous

It's like talking to a brick wall. How many times do I have to tell you? The burden of proof is on the people making Soylent. You can't just apologize after the fact, when people are already in the hospital.
Not sure if its much worse than genetically modified food tbh.
Certainly the testing isn't all that different.
Also notable is that he ran exactly pi miles.

e: AND called that an "irrational improvement." That must be a joke or something...
That's called marketing. When a business does it, you take it with a grain of salt. When an individual says something like this, you have to take it a little more seriously otherwise you're not giving the person their due.

But I do appreciate your point and you did make me scratch my head when I first read it.
You are confusing your legal theories.

It does not violate copyright, it is true, to say "The NYT spent hundreds of hours..." It is not 'fair use' though, because it is not a use of copyrighted material in the first place. 'Fair use' means fair use _of copyrighted material_, it is a defense against using copyrighted material without permission.

'Truth' is not in fact any kind of a defense against copyright. If you really _do_ copy someone's copyrighted work without permission, and it is not fair use, then it is completely irrelevant whether the text you copied was 'true' or not. But if did not copy someone's copyrighted work, then you can't possibly have violated their copyright.

For instance, if someone else had first written an article that began "The NYT spent hundreds of hours...", and went on, and you copied that entire article yourself without permission, and you did not have a fair use defense -- you would be violating their copyright, regardless of how true or false the article was.

'nominative fair use' is a legal theory of _trademark_, and what you say may actually be more applicable to trademark, aha, okay. Important to be clear though.
and the rest of the 178 employees will each receive $371,000.

So they get a one-time mid-level banking bonus, and now they work for a completely different company and almost certainly in positions lower than what they used to have.

VCs would quit given year-end bonuses like that.
Setting up email servers, especially ensuring that they don't get blacklisted by other servers, is a huge pain and definitely not worth the trouble for an individual or a small team. If you're concerned about Google, there are lots of other providers out there, and whatever they're charging is probably a bargain relative to rolling your own.
Why aren't there better testing tools?
The Quickest Way to Do Nothing
No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not by public data is slander.

No it is not.
> It's interesting to see everything went from supportive on soylent to very negative after they published this campaign. I wonder what has changed?

There's a pretty big difference between "I'm trying this new nutritional approach out for myself" and "without any serious testing, I am trying to get investors to sell this nutritional approach to the public".

I suspect the difference you observe in responses is tied to the that difference.
Writers/editors from major techh publications don't seem to trust Privco's data or practices either it seems - https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/336949975634296833
Ok well then...

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=41478...
Startup that thought of Google Now before Google
I must have missed the memo about fragmentation being bad.

However, if the Android folks really do want to zip the stack up (from the kernel to UI) all the way to a common interface, for example, they are going to have to start with the kernel in a way carriers seem unlikely to get behind - namely getting bleeding edge drivers into the mainline tree in a coordinated way that would make desktop ARM distributions on phones much more likely. If not, separate houses will just go on keeping their forks alive and maintaining their increasingly separate interfaces, since the forks start lower. At the moment, that doesn't seem to be what is meant by fixing fragmentation however.

IMHO, the Android UI should just be a packaged environment like Unity or Gnome or KDE. It seems unlikely that we'll see a Debian package for Android any time soon though, but that would be a move in the right direction.
They put half of my important mail into Spam.
The shortcuts is used to mark all spam as important as fast as possible.
seems news papers resemble entertainment companies closer and closer. Sad to see NYT - respectable News publication stoop this low. It is that or legal makes the company look like that.
This post adds nothing to this conversation, and additionally makes some very controversial assumptions.

Pretty disappointing.
It's still supposed to be the case that the private key is protected by being secret in addition to being encrypted. This removes one layer of security.

Not that I think it's really a big deal in most real-world cases, but distributing your encrypted private key is violating the contract, so you don't get the same security guarantees.
I'm no longer convinced that this is a problem in our industry, so much as a systematic characteristic of it.

People notice when a car performs badly. Its horrible to drive, and likely will kill people.

Horribly written software, however, can be made to perform well under common usage, even if it fails spectacularly for every single edge case. For most edge case failures, chances are the user is going to be blamed, because most likely, the user doesn't know the correct way to hold the mouse.

And the more endemic problems with horribly written software: maintenance, and difficulty of upgrade, are both easily waved away by those making software decisions from a business perspective. Difficulty of upgrading software is a non-issue (assuming that business data is stored in a db somewhere, sanely), it just becomes a business decision of when to completely replace their current system with the best technology on the market 5 or 10 years from now. And maintenance in the meanwhile is largely a non-issue if you don't plan on steadily upgrading and improving your software, which really, most large places simply don't. The C-level exec isn't the one using the software, and really, as a result, many of them simply don't care.

If you look at it through that light, the IT process the OP describes makes complete sense. Send in an architecture team that proposes the world to the customer, and gets the largest possible contract signed. Send in developers, and minimize cost everywhere, only actually deliver on things you know the C-levels will check, because you know they won't check almost anything, and they certainly won't care about a source code report. Then send in your QA team, to make sure the company who built the software meets bare minimum contractual obligations, and where they haven't, the customer won't notice.

... sigh
In fact, most doctors would say that you should trust yourself more. Our bodies are generally pretty good at self regulating and telling us what we should or shouldn't be eating.

If you look at something and find yourself salivating / very hungry, it's probably your bodies way of telling you it has some nutrient you're missing.
Whoa - this is so spot on.

We get lots of I'd be willing to pay X and we always send them a link for exactly that amount. And they never pay. We even follow-up just to give them the benefit of the doubt and they still never do.

Being the low cost provider for software (at least those targeted at corporates) is not the way to go. When people are spending OPM, it's more about the problem you solve for them then the cost. (note: of course, cost can't be insane but you get the idea. OPM = other people's money)
I think you're applying a a value judgement to a technical issue. "Open" pertains to the nature of certain software and standard. It's not inherently good or evil; you're just choosing to assign that value based on how it correlates with the world you'd like to see. I'd prefer things be more open too, but I don't agree that being less open is somehow inherently "more evil." You can have an entirely non-open company that's totally "good" - good/evil is about the actions of the company, not the wording of its license.
Lavabit. I use lavabit and either run a desktop IMAP client or I run a roundcube [1] instance for webmail. Lavabit also provides an XMPP server and address to its users, so you can use any XMPP client for chat. Since lavabit supports IMAP you can use any IMAP client, not just the minimal web client on their site.

[1] http://www.roundcube.net/
> 'nominative fair use' is a legal theory of _trademark_, and what you say may actually be more applicable to trademark, aha, okay. Important to be clear though.

This part is the only part that matters here: the second C&D about the use of New York Times mark is entirely about whether it's fair use to use it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
The use of copyrighted material for criticism or comment (e.g. "to make a point") is, in fact, considered fair use:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Additionally, the video was educational (it demonstrated how to create something), further bolstering the claim of fair use. The NYT is entirely out of line with the C&D, and it is particularly troubling that a newspaper -- which frequently engages in fair use, frequently reproducing material as part of their journalism and their criticism -- would send such a letter.
Lookup, did they hide the "https://? And why NOT hide the "http://?
Oh, I see, You are kidding right? :D
Can you elaborate on the blacklisting part? I've had my mailserver for a little over a year now and never had any issues with my mail going to spam, but my uses for that mailserver only revolve around 2-3 email accounts.
I don't disagree in principle, but as a fellow biomedical/hacker hybrid I'd like to point out that the notion of doctors and nurses saving lives is probably too simplistic for the purpose of this discussion. I see research as the sole enabling factor for saving lives and healing people in general. It's very important that there are people out there applying our knowledge, but it's also painfully clear that we still have a long, long way to go in giving doctors the tools necessary to actually save a patient from cancer.

We have managed to make some modest gains in life expectancy of cancer patients, but it bears repeating that there is no cure. Modern medicine likes to gloss over the fact that there is no cure for most serious diseases, sometimes the desire to finding a cure can even be ridiculed as "unnatural" by some practitioners. With a few notable exceptions, hospital doctors don't do a lot of scientific research - if they're researching at all it's mostly what I would call engineering research. Not that this isn't important, too, but the potential to actually save lives largely rests in the hands of other people, such as biomedical researchers, but also increasingly computer scientists.

Of course you're right in asserting that without implementers such as doctors and nurses there would be no lives saved. But let's de-emphasize the romantic notion of the life-saving doctor a bit, because scientific advances are really the force that makes all medical treatment possible.
Tim Cook rebuts $9 Billion Apple Tax Avoidance Claim
Is DDG reading this?
I wouldn't count on them providing an exhaustive list. They already claim Soylent is allergen free, despite using whey protein. Yet beta-lactoglobulin is a well known allergen present in whey protein.
What boundaries is it pushing?

Liquid feed is not new.
Wow there is a lot of hate in this thread...

A lot of the arguments here seem to boil down to "Much smarter people are working on this and they haven't solved it, who the hell does this KID think he is?!?"

That's pretty depressing for a website that, at least originally, was to help startups talk to one another. Shame on you, hacker news. You're smarter than this. By this logic, never ever trust your data to anybody other than IBM because those dumb hacker kids don't know what they're doing!

Second: "He's violating ALL KINDS of FDA regulations! [none of which I can name]"

Oh is he? Because if you actually look at what he's doing, it appears that he is taking things are already approved from human consumption, and mixing them together. This would be akin to a baker taking eggs and flour and mixing them.

What he's selling (although selling is a bit of an incorrect word here) is effectively a big power bar, except his comes in powerdered form. There are some hippies that sell power bars at my local coffee shop. They are terrible. What sort of advanced degrees do you suppose the hippies have? None? Possibly some experience in "baking"?

Finally: this is being presented within the context of "an experiment". If you start eating soylent, and you get sick, STOP EATING IT!

I'd imagine that I might have similar results if I ate nothing but the hippie vegan power bars at the coffee shop.

Personally, I'll be in for whatever the $65 level is.

1) Because I think this is neat

2) I want to encourage people to experiment with the world around them.

3) I'm not an idiot, and if I start feeling sick as a result of not eating any "real" food, I'll stop eating soylent.

Geesh.
When evaluating communication services you should give extra credit to hosts that are located in a different country than the one that you live in in order to get some privacy from government spying. It might not stop spy agencies like the NSA but it should at least stop the local police, and in some cases even the FBI, from casually snooping your email at their whim.
Horrible? Try genius. Instant recognizability, causes tons of comments. Any press is good press.
Are you generating $99 dollars worth of value? What makes you say that? And, are you sure it isn't higher?

If your starting point on pricing is too low, you're going to be measuring below your noise floor. Running what is effectively a reverse auction on your price won't help you, because your prices are already arbitrary.

If that's the case, consider solving the problem with some mechanism other than pricing.
Whey allergies are a thing, so a product cannot both "use a whey protein" and be "free of all known allergens".
Rand Paul: Apple Deserves Apology From U.S. Gov't [video]
I empathize with that feeling, but would point out that if they were people, Intel would be getting yearly prostate screenings, Accenture would be retired, and Nintendo would be dead.
Me too. But it would need to be open source, super easy to install, and vetted by a 3rd party with experience in security related issues.
Creator of GIF Still Adamant About That Soft G
Except that if someone claims to be the best in something I'll also trash spam the email. There are many other ways to spin a tagline.