skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spot of light seems very small, They should have it focused on another reflector in the square to light-up the surrounding area.
"There will not be crazy flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever."

Sounds like they promised not to do annoying flash pop up adverts. I don't see how this breaks that promise.
I guess you're saying that even though Nintendo say it's illegal to copy SMB, it's still technically possible?

It's probably illegal where you live to break the lock on someone's front door and enter their house. That doesn't mean you can say "Too bad my hammer is stronger than their door".

To take the hyperbole further, it's illegal to murder. Too bad these humans are so soft and squishy.

Is the point that something being easy to do has some kind of impact on its legality? Or is this to do with how easy a law is to enforce?
Why would it be impossible to comply with GPLv3, and allow people to change or replace one program with a new one?

US car manufacturers are legally forced to provide documentation so car owners can repair their car and replace parts. If a car owner want to change or replace the car's breaks, they are legally allowed to do so. Why should it matter that the software that then controls the break is made of 1 and 0 and not of steel and plastic?

Do we really need a Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair software Act? Do we need one more law that says "we got that one previous act, lets copy paste that one and add the word "software" to it".
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What's interesting is it not just illegal in NYC, it is illegal in the entire state of New York.

I can kinda see where it might be a problem in NYC because it is really easy to overvolt electric bikes, a 20-25mph model can become a 30+ mph flying machine that never gets tired.

But why not allow electric assisted 3-wheel vending carts? Or electric 3-wheel taxis.
The Battle for Power on the Internet
What's untrue about Arch? /usr/bin/python is python3 by default in there.
I think the real story here is the European sense of community. Let's face it, this project is not really a necessity (and it provides light to a very small section of the square) but the town decided to pool their money together and do it anyway.
It would be interesting if you share the results after ending the get a free copy campaign.

Thanks for the free copy.
This comment happens quite often, on HN and elsewhere.

It's probably due to the decades it takes for space research invention to spread into consumer products (and even then, people don't realize it). You can find the same kind of comments about theoretical physics being useless, for the same reason (but even worse).

The amount of research done for putting people in space that end up "actually benefiting people" in tremendous. The current research for extreme water purification for the ISS alone is worth it, given the renewed importance of clean water now and in the next century(ies).
He'd rather see millions of VC money being put into the next SnapChat, which has obviously much more benefit to humanity than space exploration!
It sounds like you've decided to dislike go without ever having actually used it for anything in the "real world".

There is a difference between a string and a byte array. A string is a string. A byte array is a []byte (byte slice). You have to explicitly cast from one to another. Neither are inherently utf8. A string is represented by a byte array under-the-hood, and string literals in your code are read as utf8 encoded. Strings themselves are not necessarily utf8 encoded, and if you need to use a different encoding there's libraries for that (unless you're using something really esoteric).
Hmmm, no, to mimic the analogy I am saying that just because something has teeth doesn't mean it can bite like a shark. Just because something has wings doesn't mean it can fly like an eagle. A budgie with a jetpack, however, can probably fly better than an eagle. Or something.
Microsoft pulls WP8 ‘WebApp’ after failing to notify content owner it existed
Cool article, explains how you can do anything using Python, although doesn't mention Mapnik. However, for most people, these days I would recommend to try TileMill (https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/) to make a map. The CartoCSS can let you style anything based on attributes and it also lets you add and style raster data.
I think the law (by accident) has a good point. These things move fast and people on bikes are pretty awful at paying any attention to traffic laws. (Mostly because the roads aren't engineered for them) These things are great until you get run down by some idiot cutting a streetcorner on a sidewalk.

These things should be registered like any other motorized vehicle and have a license plate.
I've read the Matasano whitepaper on why you can't count on Javascript for security, as I imagine you have, and it makes sense. Use https.

That being said, look at something like blockchain.info.

It adds javascript security on top of https, and for (what seems like) excellent reasons.
Can you really trademark a name such as Mario?
You'd have to be pretty stupid to think this is exploting some sort of PHP bug.

OMG! Did I just defend PHP? Gotta go take my medication.
Facebook tells how it makes its MySQL cluster ‘almost run itself’
4 NewgTLDs Launched Yesterday Marks Dawn of “DNSSEC From The Start” TLDs
We had a gym teacher named Mr. Bigott who got fired for a racially charged incident, no lie.
300 Million Chinese Men are Descended From Three Stone Age Grandfathers
Nfu: Numeric Fu for your shell
U.S. Accused Of Spying On German Chancellor by NSA
My first experience of Elite was on a PC. It truly deserves its reputation as one of the best games ever made, not only from pure gameplay, but also because technology-wise it was just in another league for its time.
Lawyer in the article suggests game mechanics are copyrightable, but that is definitely not the case. Game mechanics aren't protected by anything (and shouldn't be). Art and music you can make the case for.
Debasement is a silent shift of wealth (aka "purchasing power") from one group of people to another. The more savings you have, the more you are punished compared to those who have less. Since in monetary economy biggest decisive power is in hands of those with savings (aka cash, aka most marketable resource), power is shifted from those who earned and economized their money to those who have political power to print and distribute money to themselves and their allies.

You may think that "regular wage earners" who have no savings are not affected at all, but that's a double mistake:

1. Folks without savings are highly depended on those who have (aka capital, aka infrastructure, aka ecosystem). They depend on their boss having enough money to sustain ups and downs and not go bankrupt. They depend on productivity of the producers around them who make food and goods - those have to save to invest in the future development to increase quality and lower prices. The less wealthy people you have around you, the less comfort and service you get (obviously). In the middle of Sahara any bum is much less safe or wealthy than on Manhattan.

2. Folks without savings can't even start having savings when they are heavily taxed by debasement. Thus existing class of powerless people stays powerless and those who have depreciating savings join that class over time. Which is understandable: continued debasement simply moves all the capital to the very few close to the printing press leaving everyone else in the powerless "workers" category.

Extra twist is that folks without savings are bribed to support the system by offering low-cost artificial credits (created from printed money, not from someone's savings) and it only adds insult to injury: at the cost of destroyed local productivity, risk of hyperinflation, 3rd world hate towards them, people not only cannot save money, but have to pay some interest rate to get at least some stuff to preserve whatever money they got right now.

If you look at the whole picture consisting of net receivers and net losers in this great wealth transfer, it's very-very sad.
#2 is what's killing me, so these past few weeks I've deactivated all social network services (Facebook, Twitter, etc), deleted all of those apps off my phone, and the result has been refreshing. I feel so....free...my mind is more clear and more able to focus. Sure the messaging situation is a bit broken up right now (a mix of iMessage, SMS, and Hangouts, whereas before I only used FB), but I don't even mind.

We'll see how long it lasts before I feel the need to switch them all back on, but so far I haven't been missing them one bit! I might just give them up for good because I really do feel great not having to check up on my Twitter/Fb/etc. I'm no longer being pummeled with a sea of content that I then inadvertently consume. I spend more time looking around my environment in my moments of free time (like when standing in line) instead of automatically opening up Fb or Twitter like a cruel nervous twitch.

The only social network app that I kept is Instagram because I like taking pictures a lot and Instagram is just fun for that purpose :) Plus it doesn't notify me too much or require too much of my attention even when it does.
You can copy a game in terms of it's rules and so on without any issues but the artifacts involved can't be copied.

So you could create a clone of Monopoly which plays identically so long as you draw your own board, design your own pieces write the wording of rules yourself, give it your own name and so on.

I suspect the issue here is that it looks (and sounds?) identical.
> For php.net, it reports only mere 4 trojans. So php.net is almost 100 times safer that google.com, according to this tool. That sounds pretty good :)

Compare how many google.com pages have been tested and how much php.net pages have been tested and stop with that non sense.
Not pictured: The factories in china that make most of the parts.
Hi,

pricing is not yet fixed but will be similar to other services like Zoho. API support is on our roadmap (we are developers and developers will love Direct Invoice ;-)
"ARM does not reduce its inventions to practice."

"Reduce inventions to practice?" First, I don't think that my country has any such legalese in our patent law. Second, what does that make NVIDIA? Or ATI? They don't make their own chips either. Third, I believe that what is protected by most of these patents are neither HDL files nor the chips but rather specific implementation techniques for parts of the HDL implementation of the ISA. If the chips were patented, it would be worthless because you could do an independent design.
Just said this below. Game mechanics aren't copyrightable but the artifacts are.

The issue is that this looks identical - if it looked different but played the same I suspect there would be no problem.
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Yes. Increasing the housing stock, and creating opportunities for people to make money servicing the middle class helps.
> What other problems would you rather focus instead?

I'm not sure the grandparent's comment was about finding someplace else for their government to spend a pile of money. We do not have to centrally plan this.
The video is an advert.
I actually played Love Plus (there's a unofficial translation) for curiosity. I'd just read the article of the guy that married one of the game's girls and was wondering what made this game so popular.
I had played some other visual novels and dating sims before, so I knew what the game was about and how it worked. I was looking for the small details that made the difference.
(I played this about 2 years ago, so my memory may be a bit fuzzy)

You start by creating your character and quickly meet the three girls: A small 'lolita type' tomboy; a tall serious girl, with good grades and great at sports; and a kind of normal girl that enjoys fashion and pop songs.

You meet them at school, talk to them, go on dates and may start a relatioship with them. The typical japanese girl stereotypes, high schools life, normal stuff. But here's what the game did right: (I only played the courting phase of the game. Stopped when one becamy my girlfriend)

- While in the start I tried to be neutral and natural with the girls, there was one that I liked more. The game noticed this and increased the rate of encounters with that girl.

- I don't remember any of the girls being angry at me for one of my actions or choices. They sometimes were sad, but it wasn't a deal-breaker. In other games is easy to mess up a relationship with the girl. Not in this one. In fact, it is highly probable it is impossible.

- This is a big one. The girls change according to what you want/like! You, as a player, chose the girl according to her looks/stereotype/voice/whatever but, by playing the game, she responds to what you do by gradually becoming more suited to what (the game thinks) you want.

- The game is on the Nintendo DS, so you can always carry your "girlfriend" around. This is important for the next point.

- When a girl actually becomes your girlfriend, the game switches to realtime. You have to go on dates with her at a certain time, and this means you have to turn on the DS at that time of the day or she would be pissed.

When it got to the realtime phase I stopped playing. I didn't want to play a game that demanded that from me, and I already had a (flesh and bone) girlfriend :)

But what I learned from this is that, where in the other game you have to make an effort to actually achieve the girl you want, in this one is the opposite. You simply play the game and it adapts the girls to you! No effort involved.

The game is enjoyable, and the girls are well designed, different and interesting. Give it a shot if you have the means.
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Andy Ory Leaves Oracle, Talks Thinking Phones & Acme Packet Sale
See, for example, http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/the-19-most-ironic-fact...
Are Today’s Good Practices... Tomorrow’s Performance Anti-Patterns?
There is yet another category of people who find it difficult to summon both types of will powers.

Takes a bow
I worked for Pfizer, for 2 years in clinical trials to get Linezolid on the market. This was for treating MRSA infections. I was in close contact with nurses & doctors who seemed to think it worked well. Back then (around 10 yrs ago), there was almost no MRSA resistance, unheard of from what I remember.

Then I left and lost track of it all. Wikipedia now says it's 100USD / pill.

If there's really a lot of resistance to Linezolid, that would be quite shocking.

In my project there was a lot more MRSA in "poorer" parts of the country, in hospitals with lower hygiene standards. Hospitals also refused to report their MRSA stats ("it doesn't exist here", not wanting to be known as a place where it's found since it is related to hygiene).

Interesting stuff.
I use bright (static, non-flashing) lights for this reason.

It's not that people cannot judge speed, but there seems to be an uncertainty principle at play that is created by the assumptions of the person.

The key assumption is: "It's a bicycle and therefore moving at barely above walking speed.".

So the 50ms glance is not repeated and no actual attempt is made to assess the speed (and direction - must be the predictable one parallel to the road!) of the cyclist.

Using lights changes this.

By making oneself more visible, even in bright daylight, to the point that the light catches the attention. Then the person looking will look for a longer period of time and get a sense of speed and direction.

It's important not to use flashing lights as people tend to be crap at determining your location accurately and that throws off any calculation about speed and direction.

As a cyclist the effect is very noticeable. Cars no longer pull out from side roads in my line of travel, and pedestrians wait where they previously would've thrown themselves into the road.

I don't see why NY couldn't just mandate that all electric-assist bicycles be fitted with non-flashing lamps that must be permanently lit whilst the electric assist is activated.
In theory wouldn't game mechanics be patentable? I can't think of any case of this though.
Well, crystal meth is not jumping out of its container to do a facehug either, but we do talk about it ruining people's lives.
As a pedal- and motor- cyclist in Oxford (city big into bikes in the UK), these electric bikes really get to me. We have lots of amenities for pedal cycles to improve their experience of the roads which are (rightly) unavailable to the faster and more dangerous to pedestrians motorcycles. Seeing these electric assistance bikes caning it along at an unrealistic speed by disinterested and distracted riders makes me think they should be classed as motorcycles with all the restrictions/responsibilities.

Edit: For example, riders of a motorcycle or moped must carry insurance and wear a helmet. Anything over 50cc and you need to pass a training course to teach the rules of the road and basic manoeuvres. Cyclists do not need to pass anything (or pay vehicle tax...). I'm unsure about my opinion on making human powered vehicles abide by licensing/insurance requirements, but powered vehicles really should do.
For those who upvote Linux, could i know what kind of software you make? I rarely hear people who build desktop app for Linux.
Like The Great Giana Sisters?
A good way to get folks to make the switch.

I just wish Python 3 didn't benchmark so much slower than Python 2 in some of my use cases (though I still aim for compatibility with it).

Couple of relevant search results:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14911122/same-code-slower...

http://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/python-3-is...

Has anyone else experienced this?
Most of these articles seem to largely overestimate the size of phenomena because the journalist doesn't understand what's actually happening.

It's not like everyone in Japan is an otaku or something, they happen to be more visible but you're just as ostracized there as if you were a super nerd in the West. And most of them (at least the ones I talk to) aren't disinterested in sex or having girlfriends or whatever. Just going to large events like Comic Market and the number of otaku couples you see prove otherwise.

The people like those in the article are basically the same as that one nerd who, through a combination of social inpetitude and bad circumstance, ends up being completely unwanted by any girl. In the west you'll get the same sort of people , and they end up turning into women-hating MRAs or something. In Japan they get a different outlet through dating sims or whatnot. Different outlets for the same problem.

A more benign reason for people not getting married or having sex or whatever is simply that people don't seem to have the time. In Tokyo especially, people are beyond busy. The Japanese elite must be proud of themselves, because they've seemed to trick an entire society into thinking that working 80 hour work weeks, and only taking 2 weeks vacation a year, is normal. It's bizarre and depressing. At least in my experience, Japanese want to have fun just like other people (the fun is usually more benign but still), it's just they have no time.
Former Apple CEO Sculley mulls BlackBerry bid
A good example is Capcom suing Data East over Fighter's History being too similar to Street Fighter. Capcom lost the lawsuit.

http://www.patentarcade.com/2005/08/case-capcom-v-data-east-...
Branson recalls tears, $1 billion check in Virgin Records sale
Two quick notes:

1. s/for it's time/for its time/

2. Instead of using _underscores_ for emphasis, on HN you can use asterisks, like this:

asterisks, *like this*
True in Germany as well. You're just mixing the two separate issues. We did a documentary a year ago for EU market and we had to commission a cover of a song that would be used as an intro for said documentary. It was explained to me that we don't need a permission to commission (make) a cover, and band that made the cover can perform that in their concerts, but we can't use it for commercial purpose (documentary) without asking for permission from original author since it's essentially the same as with original work. What we had to do, legally (and what we did), was to secure rights to use the original song for our commercial project (author and publisher waived royalties though, but doesn't matter), and then we also, in parallel, commissioned a cover from some band and we secured rights to that cover so we can use it.

In a nutshell, cover is treated (it seems) like a reproduction. For example chopin's music is now royalty free and accessible for any purpose, but you need a reproduction rights from whoever has performed that.

I am sure something is lost here in translation since english is not my first language, but I think you can get a clear idea from it.
You are confident enough in Google's ability to have perfect security on all pages that you think the tool is broken when it says that is not true?
> I seriously doubt BlackBerry would pay for reviews

Why is this such a stretch? Other large hardware companies have done the same. [1] This isn't to say they have or haven't, just that it's a feasible option to think they went a little overboard on Mechanical Turk or similar.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/24/5023658/samsung-fined-340...
We could just put all the books in one, big room, just aisles and aisle of shelves, everything numbered sequentially. We could even build a library as one long hallway -- one single line of books.

But we choose to divide our buildings up into rooms. We choose to create that hierarchy.

Edit:
I suppose, though, that our minds evolved to operate in physical space. Go hunt some zebra, go climb a tree... things like that...
You're right. It dawned on me once I have commented. Parodies are in different legal space, so I'm not sure about commercial exploitability of it. See my other comment, based on my experience, how regular covers are treated legally within EU.
Americans should consider retiring abroad. It is possible to find a country like the Philippines or Thailand where you can live comfortably on a $1200 social security check.
For a very detailed take on the subject I suggest "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by
Nicholas Carr.

A notable fact about this book is that 20% of the entire volume are references to various scientific studies used throughout the text to substantiate the author's position. It's not a fluff piece.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393339750
Seems similar to Freshbooks.com fwiw.
DMSAAS

Dead Man's Switch As a Service

Cool!
> And in most cases, you wouldn't sit into a car with somebody who's got 20 hours of driving exercise.

Well, in Portugal you get your drivers licence after 25h of driving classes (and passing the driving exam).
Fedora 22 is ... 3 releases out? So we're talking about 12-18 months depending on how soon F20 is due to be released. Still, I'm surprised, and I've been a Fedora contributor since FC5.
Original: How to ruin a concert for everyone Drake
Yes, indeed, if I can get enough interest then an external API is a big chunk of work I want to add.
According to the quote I provided from the article, failure of the Zookeeper cluster will bring down their entire architecture.
Didn't Nintendo already beat that theme to death?
Does this apply to FlyKly? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flykly/flykly-smart-whee...
Here - go waste another season :) http://oolite.org/
Anyone find Hootsuite new extension invasive
does anyone find hootsuite's new chrome extension invasive? it's crashing the party everywhere, even inside our web app.

when you click one of our RSS content streams the Hootsuite app pops up: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhr0g83nuqo135d/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-24%20at%209.05.19%20AM.png
'Lorena Bobbit' is cheating - she is the Source of that term.
People might be thinking of scripts here. I did when I first responded.
We are discussing the Queen's English and you refer to a silly slideshow on Buzzfeed? I think we should pretend this discussion never happened.