skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. Tons of people would love to publish negative results. But when you're in the situation with something not working, the actual mechanics of proving it doesn't work is a much harder problem.
I'm not using Windows as a server - I'm using xrdp on Linux to access remote X sessions, since it's MUCH faster than any alternative (nomachine, vnc, etc.)
Ask HN: How legal is it to translate another website?
Most of the things I read on the web are in English.

And some of those resources are really famous, but only available in the english language. Being French, I often hear a lot of frustration from people that cannot read english properly.

I was wondering how legal it would be to actually translate some of those websites, cite the source each time and try to get some traffic going.
It isn't front running, stop being a dick
Poland is part of the EU.
Recent graduate, I have the same experience. On the technical university I've met people who can't add two rational numbers correctly. High school programs in maths are setting lower bars every year. Since a few years ago, derivatives are no longer being taught in the high schools even in "extended math" path. And then you come to the university and have to catch up with incredible amounts of stuff to know what the physics professor is talking about.
It's not a "genuine, lower priced alternative", it's about 15% cheaper as an unsubsidized phone. As a subsidized phone it's maybe around 9% cheaper.
This is not as relevant as you're implying - if there are cyclic effects on long time scales, you're implying they're highly exponential - long periods of no warming, and then sudden periods of rapid warming (oddly correlated with the rise in human CO2 emissions at that).

There's no postulated mechanism for how this could be the case - where is the extra energy or heat retention coming from and managing to come into play so suddenly since the 1970s?

Whereas, if one accounts for anthropogenic CO2, it explains it superbly.
Uhm, concatenating user controlled content into SQL queries? Do black marketeers today learn nothing at code school?

It is a good thing he took the site down promptly, else it would have been exploited in no time.
iOS in China is down to 20% vs. 23% last year. It is still Apple's second largest market though (even compared to the EU as a whole); on track to be the largest next year or the year after.

Nokia dominates developing world markets for some reason; that's the whole point of Asha.
it's a good start. but it's not anything more than that.

so i guess you followed the "release early" advice well...

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> 1. Mir is a huge mistake (My opinion)

Defaults. Kubuntu developers have said that they will not be using Mir. Thus I expect X/Wayland to be available in the repositories and used by default by alternative flavours.

> 2. Unity (Well I am tiled window manager (i3) guy now so all DEs) I really don't like the flow of OS X and it is starting to really look more like OS X. DEFAULT an easily be changed.

Defaults. Alternative Ubuntu flavours provide alternative DE defaults.

> 3. Lack of community between the Linux ecosystem. Millions is spent on Ubuntu but seems like little makes it upstream.

I addressed this separately.

> 4. Software Center. They need to just take OpenSUSE's one-click model and get rid of their current model of App Store and the horrible app model. (My model)

Defaults. You can use whichever front-end to apt you wish; Software Center is just the default. If there's an alternative available in Debian, Ubuntu has it. Examples: Synaptic, gdebi-gtk. Sure, they aren't complete replacements. But if a suitable Free alternative is written, I expect that it will be packaged in Debian and be available in Ubuntu.

> 5. Their Developer SDK to "Write once, run everywhere."

Defaults. You don't have to use their developer SDK (except perhaps for apps that will work on Ubuntu Phone through the default app store; but then other distributions have no answer to that, do they?). Traditional dependency and package -based development is still available and is not going away.

Ubuntu are adding to what was there previously. They are not replacing things, except that they are using their new stuff as the default. Your complaints are about what Ubuntu are doing; except that all the traditional stuff that other distributions have are still available. This is why your arguments still boil down to arguments about defaults.
I'd like to point out that the competition would have to offer a whole lot more than the current device people are using before they would consider a switch.

Isn't that why WinPhone has yet to actually gain any traction? The market of smartphones is pretty saturated. People by large who want to use smarthones compared to "dumbphones" most likely already use one.

Especially with Apple and them being first in the app store market, people who have been with them since the beginning have invested a lot on the eco system. And if you have bought so many apps and devices over the years, as time moves on, it would get more difficult to just up and leave for another eco system.

Which, incidentally is also why I think the design of the iPhone has not changed that much since the 4. I think starting form the first iPhone to the 4 they have really found a great design. And judging by the sales of the 4 and up, a lot of people feel the same. Personally, I don't want the next iPhone to feature a radically different design just for the sake of change. I saw what change for the sake of change gets us with Windows8.

If people want to switch phones on a whim just cause there is a "new sexy device" coming out, then Android has been their first choice for a long time now. Most iPhone users I know chose it because a) No tinkering needed, b) Always had a smooth Interface, c) A lot of apps available and d)A nice clean phone design.

I don't think Apple runs a risk just cause they don't suddenly convert their entire approach to mimick Android companies and releasing a plethora of different phone designs and specs. iPhone is iPhone and the variety we have now is sufficient. It would have to happen a lot before I would consider a switch of eco systems. But that would be more on the side of "what apple might do that I don't like" and not on the "what other android companies do that I might like". So, the "competition" increasing, to me, is only of interest for people who just now are in the market for their first smartphone. Or people who exclusively only get free apps. For those, the choice of eco system is entirely free to change on a whim. For me who has invested several hundred dollars in apps over the years? Not so much.
Folks at MxM: This is exactly what we have been looking for at Huddle: a decent WYSIWYG -> Markdown editor. Thank you so much.

Good job.
> for a website.

No, for a complex web of third-party integrations underlying byzantine business logic. With a web site as the end-user interface.
Uh, I can't see how that is relevant to the specific points I raised. (It isn't relevant to talk about someone else using the IBC data in a way IBC don't recommend. And there were lots of criticism before, see the first Lancet report. It is not good with a political motive either -- timing reports to influence an election.)

1. So you have no answer to the Iraq Body Count reality check and just ignore it? (E.g. where is the conspiracy needed to hide all the missing maimed -- and make their prostheses?!)

2. Nothing to say about the scathing criticism of lacking integrity in the second link?

3. Considering your lack of answers on 1 and 2, you might want to retract the claim that others put their heads in the sand. :-)

4. And a new point: You are aware of that Beth Osborne is a Lancet Report critic? She has documented integrity since she got problems from "too high" mortality values in the first Gulf war... And many other heavyweights in exactly the right field?

5. A second new point: Wikileaked papers also contradict the numbers -- and there is no sign of a big conspiracy in WikiLeaks to hide point 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak#Total_d...

Since you have just ignored my references and arguments, I guess there is nothing else to say? (The point 1 I have asked about since it was reported, never a relevant answer.)
Naw. One of their assets built it
Unbreakable Apple's iMessage encryption is vulnerable to eavesdropping
You're right. We humans should stop developing and testing medicine.
Whats the liability difference between the systems at work and the systems for the general public?

Strong crypto is, and should be, available to everyone.
You should be fine dude...

Has there ever been a case in history of someone getting sued over translating something?
Writing a desktop music app in JUCE right now, in fact.

It's not bad but it shows it's age. A lot of it could be updated to use standard strings/collections/shared_ptr etc.
Yeah physics departments should share this article with incoming students, to help them see where the field is going. Although one thing missing is that I would want to find another article that illustrates the ways that physics research is improving and helping our lives today.

I started out in physics, was interested in relativity and the like, but thought ahead to a career in physics and saw that folks were into string theory, which didn't really appeal to me, and I wasn't seeing how physics research was helping people today. I should have done more research into the field before leaving it, but, I went into physics and science education research and cognitive science. Ironically, a similar article like this one got me into cognitive science (before I even started college), an interview with Patricia Churchland by Bill Moyers.
Have you fully secured your home and office against arson attacks? No? Don't even know how to do so? Didn't think so. Does that mean you deserve what you get if you end up bankrupt in the event of such an attack?
This is known to be false; Apple will restore your iMessages if e.g. you replace your phone.
Open Source voice blasting and telephone survey platform
Css get minified by removing whitespace because the keywords are important.. Javascript can have some magic done to it to reduce character count because only the consistency of the keywords matters.
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> If you read the modern scientific literature on research, the rabbit hole goes vastly deeper.

On indeed. Heisenberg used to say, "data does not imply theory."[1] Once you deeply internalize that, you realize you can't really be that, ahem, certain about anything in scientific thought outside of the limited domain of how scientific truth is defined (namely that the model has predictive value, which is entirely different from whether it has ontological value).

[1] http://archive.org/details/PhysicsPhilosophy
I have a heap on my plate right now but will hope to do part 2 before the end of the year. Glad you enjoyed it.
> We're very lucky to have been born at a time were we get to see it.

And yet utterly unable to conceive things being any other way!
Looks good. Should slot into quite of lot of interesting applications.

Strange name though. Since the author is british, I assume it was named after this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_McDonald

Edit: "Brought to you by ITV.com" kind of confirms it
These stupid scenarios are direct consequences of software patents.

I remember an article that used Haskell to show how absurd software patents are by showing how any piece of software is actually just a mathematical formula that turns some input (however big) into some output.
It's not much different than most people rarely using Greek characters as formulas or constants.
Thx for the answer.

Ok. So I suppose this would also be completely legal to put ads on such a website?

This sounds just a bit tricky for me to make money on translating something without having the agreement from the original author first.
You actually touch on a good point: because educational success of a country is measured in the number of university* graduates, governments incentivize universities to, well, produce more graduates, which they do both by lowering standards for existing fields of study and by creating new fields that attract a lot of students but which don't really teach anything worthwhile.

The result is graduates are far, far less well educated than their predecessors but on paper (including, I would presume, PISA) a much larger proportion of the population is "highly educated", making the government look good.

To give an example of lowered standards everyone here can probably relate to: up until about five years ago, students at the school for applied information science where I work were required to learn (a bit of) assembly so they understood how computers work at the CPU level. This requirement has now been scrapped, resulting in applied information science graduates who don't know the first thing about how computers actually work. On paper, however, our school looks very good, because, after all, it is producing a larger number of "knowledge workers" than before.

* this goes for schools for higher vocational training as well
> Forgetting to change the code that consumes the API means that things don't work, which is visible right away.

Oh how do I wish this were the case!

> Documentation that can break visibly when things change is better than static documentation.

Agreed, but I would not call your average run-of-the-mill unit tests "documentation", nor can all documentation can be programatically tested.
Well, Yahoo doesn't agree with you :s

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130118040357AA...
Always return on events is faster, but why?
My opinion and anecdotal experience is that the first priority in teaching children should be foreign languages. The younger you start, the easier it is to learn to speak and think in a foreign language. Almost everything else of any relevance can be taught basically as a side effect of language immersion.

I'm Finnish and went to a French-speaking school. I didn't understand any French going in, but at the age of 6, you pick it up quickly as long as it's a friendly environment. Later during the standard 12-year education, I had English as a third language, then Swedish (it's obligatory in Finland) and also German.

All the other stuff taught in school is such that a reasonably smart kid can learn it on her own as needed. But foreign languages are not like that. Thanks to computer games, I was somewhat fluent in reading English even before the classes started in school, but I couldn't speak a word -- you just don't learn pronounciation and conversation from games and TV shows, you need to have a real teacher.
Entirely illegal. Your work would be a derivative of the original site, and as such they would have a copyright claim on it. If you're profiting off it as well that's probably enough to make it criminal rather than just a civil matter.

(Whether anyone would do anything about it is of course another question)
Looks just like the editor in Concrete5..
Python with NVD3
Well actually, looks like we're getting there.

The problem is seemingly solved by OS X app sandbox and Mac App Store review process (the sandbox alone is not enough, because it allows to declare 'exceptions' like full disk access, so human reviewers are needed to watch out for those).

The sandbox may occasionally be causing some pain (in fact, would be very painful if I had to support OS X 10.7), but at the same time my app can no longer access any user data that the user hasn't explicitly whitelisted, which is a good thing.

Windows Metro apps also live in a sandbox, but they are sort of a different platform (no access to the file system at all, as far as I know). Over time, I can see them gaining some access to a subset of the file system, perhaps via SkyDrive.
Looks like it heavily inspired by medium.com editor.

Off topic:
Does anyone knows if there is comment system like medium have (individual comments for each paragraph)?
This is incorrect. If you go to http://www.google.com/analytics/, even having just logged out from analytics with cookies present, you get the splashscreen. (Unless they're A/B testing it and you're seeing something different from me.)
I get redirected to http://www.groovehq.com/start and get a login screen.
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> Fifty percent of mothers said they would prefer to work part-time

The actual quote from the report is:

Among women who say they “don’t even have enough to meet basic expenses,” about half (47%) say the ideal situation for them is to work full time.

which is very different. 'Ideal situation' based on economic conditions, not a preference.

The report summary keeps on referring to economic considerations:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-...
I don't see any (English) subtitles, do you?
C# solutions on the other hand builds way faster (in my experience).
>it would be same as if you read a French book and wrote it in your own words.

Which would be copyright infringement. See e.g. The Wind Done Gone.
Wrong. Items used on that day were items that were permitted through security. They weren't "missed".
What The Consumer Really Thinks Of Data Privacy - Infographic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date#Magazines
Those households will then sell off those smartphones in open market for 50% of price.
Not heresy; it's risky. If you do it and stuff goes wrong, your boss will ask you wtf you hired this puny company and not a large one. No matter the reputation of the large one (bad or good) or the reputation of the small one (bad or good).
Ok, I don't know anything about analytics. What I said is true for mail.google.com / gmail.com.
I would say the same, it's quite a shock read such a statement. On the other side I value my education I had in Poland only because it was hard sometimes and I was looking into how to hack the system and outsmart teachers' questions/assignments (math especially). Education system I had ten years ago was focused on memorization, "soft" subjects and skills (languages, first language) while math and physics weren't valued that much.
On a maturity exam in 1998 we had an option (for the first time for everyone in the country), to choose between old style exam (Polish and second subject) and new style with obligatory math, much more tests and subjects, everything you could easily pass if you just know how to think. Old style was all about evaluation of how much did you remember from past 4 years... I was the only one in the whole school to choose the new form, where everyone else picked up this dumb but safe archaic form.
I could also say a lot about technical universities in Poland.. I didn't graduate actually, after spending over 8 years there, failing stupid, uninteresting subjects, fighting stubborn teachers. Had great scores in subjects that actually interested me. This education system forces you to learn unnecessary things, to remember results and less to know the thinking process. Angry and mentally ill teachers making you suffer for minor or no reason at all. I know plenty of fellow countrymen similar process made them stronger but saying our system is good is far fetched.
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Most of you're points I agree with but we tried Native it's not the answer.

With native you have to redo your work multiple times that is not efficient java had the right idea but their implementation is a nightmare.

We need something that would be as simple as using a browser but would act more like a java interpreter under the hood.

But I wouldn't want java or javascript as a language.

We need something that trows exceptions every time you attempt to do something the wrong way like Python because a log of beginners will try and if the language allows it there's going to be a lot of messed up code.
"Every major intelligence agency believed that Hussein had WMDs."

Just because you write that sentence - does not make it so. [1]

[1] http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
>You only get redirected to this page when you have no previous cookies.

Nope like I mentioned it does this even when I am logged in, so no chance of cookie clearing. However I tried it again just to be sure, no luck. Two tabs opened, the second one a few seconds after logging into the first one, still lands me on marketing page.
That's not really going to fly with a consumer level product like iMessage though.
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I agree with you. I prefer the concept of undoing because I personally don't like to be asked if I really want to perform each action I intended to do. It makes also the application feels faster because it require one step less.
Yes, but if they have their crypto stuff together, it might not gain you much.

Someone here mentioned the encrypted versions of the files are the original size + a little extra. To me that indicates that they use a public key (of which the private component does not reside on your computer, and never has, but which you can buy). The public key is used to encrypt a key for a symmetric algorithm (AES, DES, ...), which encrypts the data, and the RSA-encrypted version of that symmetric key is then prepended as a header of some sorts.

So using a debugger you'd be able to see the public key, which I suppose is infected-useraccount-specific. It's not useful for decryption, you'll need its private counterpart.

You'll also see the symmetric key, of which a new (random) one should be instantiated for each file that is being encrypted. Should, but might not... if they slipped up, the latter might be reused (for your user account). In which case you can win, if you can observe it encrypting a new file — you'd be able to decrypt the other files too.

They'd have to be quite stupid to slip up like this, but it happens.

Update: Reading a reverse engineering report¹ it appears that it indeed works as described above. And yes, they didn't slip up; a new symmetric key is generated for each individual file.

¹ http://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2945
Apparently this is about PISA rating and Poland's "swift rise" in it - so:

1) it's verifiable

2) it's probably more about having good average than having some students be super-smart

3) it says more about PISA than Poland
This is a quite interesting, it also displays the native Bold/Italic/Underline formatting in Safari on iOS when you select text which I don't think I've ever seen before on a webpage. Is that just part and part of having something contenteditable?
Why were you astounded? I don't think I follow.
That's him - Sir Trevor is a much loved British personality (ex-news anchor); he's enough of a fixture to have been parodied for many years by Lenny Henry (a British comedian) as Sir Trevor McDonought.

He's best known for being a good communicator, clear and concise, informative but never patronising. Which makes him quite a good 'patron' for a writing app.
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Blix I know about of course, a good source. But he did work for the UN, where quite a few of the parts still are taken over by dictators not criticising each others. (See UNHRC on Wikipedia, for instance. It is the less bad successor of what existed 2001...)

The other claims... well, they couldn't know. The real information was (is?) stamped secret. Downing Street wouldn't release that.

>>Also, not that the didn't have to plant evidence of WMDs in Iraq after the invasion; people found out that there were no WMDs, found out about the Downing Street Memo, and yawned. The media didn't care; the US media barely reported on the Downing Street Memo.

Uh, no.

There is still credibility problems, e.g. recently regarding claims about chemical weapons in Syria. They had to send the UN team there; the claims about listening in to Syrian army communications, etc were not accepted.

I am willing to believe the Bush administration didn't care if they kneecapped the credibility of the next few president administrations. But pure incompetence do seem more likely.
> That would be a game changer on how I'd develop.

Why? I'm honestly curious since I can't imagine any big advantages over more "classic" setups ...