skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point do a series of angled lines become copywritable? After two lines? Three? Can I copywrite two lines meeting at 67 degrees, and then claim angles 65-69 as like works? Can I then claim that your maze contains my intellectual property in several places? (And would you still feel your rights were violated had kraft taken two of your mazes and glued them together?)
Rock Climbing and Development – Problem Solving at 200 Feet
> Make it a challenge to see if you can go a full day without eating. What do you have to lose?

A lot, actually. Some medical conditions may be seriously affected by not eating for an entire day. As with any medical advice, you should consult your physician before attempting fasting.
I also had a lot of wins by pushing at random. So there's that.
List only has (the neat) Hirefire under Heroku tools, here's a list of 60 separate Heroku tools:

https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/the-hot-and-heavy-list-of...
Thought this was going to be a service or app.
I've been living in Stockholm, Sweden for the past 3 years and I never owned a car until this May.

Now I can testify based on my last 3 months usage that owing a car in Stockholm is more expensive/headache than the public transport + membership with some X car service.
In homage to Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun", I propose it be called "fuligin."
Luckily, neither the essay nor anyone else in this thread are talking about theft.
IANAL, and I can't really say whether a court would hold them to have been reasonably responsible for vetting this in their review process. But I do know their review process exists, and that it's very extensive, and that a court would probably not be inclined to give them a pass for ignorance -- even if they had no idea. Even if a freelancer committed fraud against them in passing this off as his own, they are economic beneficiaries of the artwork. So I don't think (?) they'd get a pass. (Would actually welcome a lawyer's input on this thread w/r/t that scenario. EDIT: A lawyer has joined in.)

Whatever the case may be, Kraft should do the right thing here. That probably means paying KrazyDad a fee or royalty of some kind, commensurate with the standard that they'd pay a typical artist whose original work graced their package. They should also issue a formal apology and pledge to improve their review process.

If Nickelodeon / MTV Networks was also involved, things get messier, and maybe there's a he-said, she-said dynamic that plays out. In any event, none of these folks are dummies. I sincerely hope, and would even expect, that they'll contact KrazyDad to make remedy.
Place nobody wants to be longer than 10 minutes.
First result I found discussing the issue:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2013/09/13/friday-fun-autonomo...
US doesn't seem as clear as you thought, maybe!
Ask HN: What is your critique of Scitr.com?
If you find an interesting research article, you can paste the DOI into Scitr.com and leave a comment. Then others can find the most interesting scientific news, but instead of a middleman news site, it links directly to the research article.
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Which, in particular?

Also, note that he explicitly mentions that "A normal healthy adult should not have any problems when fasting for 24 hours."
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MSVC is actually called MSVC++.

Microsoft is committed to C++, as a means to improve systems programming safety with more modern languages.

Besides, the code makes use of GCC extensions.
Thought the page was broken but you have to click to close some kind of popup....
Heh, yep. Good times.
From TFA:

> If you’re gonna steal a maze, you might want to try stealing from maze book #47, and do a horizontal swap on it before you rotate it 90 degrees.
Articles in this category are popular for the same reason articles in the "don't make these extremely elementary mistakes" category are popular in business magazines. Everyone knows that you need to eat less to lose weight, and everyone knows you need to have strong internal communications to run an effective business. But people have consistently have trouble doing either thing, because they are hard and require a lot of discipline. So people want to read about coping strategies to overcome their natural impulses.
Server vs. client side rendering (AngularJS vs. server side MVC)
A bit late, but I'd love to know about the ethernet port - is it still connected via usb? Can you max it out?

Great site by the way.
Compound literals are valid C; compound statements, used in the macros in the article, are a GNU extension.
I see literally thousands of mazes generated on the site, and (unless I"m mistaken) they are all simply generated output from a computer program. Its cool, but is it even possible to copyright something like this?
I think it's lame that your comment was downvoted, and you're right to question my assertion that these policies were definitively opposed to employee interests, but none of your adjectives debates the existence of a major wealth and power disparity between the two sides. Any exploitation of that sort of disparity is pretty suspicious, regardless of the outcome.
I think it is an interesting article as a lesson on how macro expansion works.

It is however, a terrible example of how to write good code. Any code that hides the language or manipulates for syntactic sugar only adds complexity, bugs and decreases the maintenability of the code.

As someone already said, a solution in search of a problem.
I have a danalock and it's been rock solid. Undercut the lockitron on price, and it shipped. I've been using it for 6 months and so far the only hiccup was bluetooth compatibility until my phone got an update. I'm surprised there isn't a "Nest" for portable locks. It seems so simple. Turn a tumbler, that's it. It's not rocket science. The danalock isn't perfect, and there's an added cost for Z-wave but I think it's one of the best options out there for someone not wanting to replace their entire lock. (apartment or renters)
scrapping ?
I will warn you, Metareddit keeps loosing your tracking, unless you come back to it every now and then. Its absolutely terrible feature they have.
Diabetes is one of them
Good test design is hard, especially for an amateur. But it seems the remedy ought to be "have better tests" instead of "don't test."

There are good tests out there; the AP tests have a significant multiple-choice component that resists simple trickery.
Education, crime, employment, these things are linked.

For an alternate perspective: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/06/25/smartest-kids-... . The book is worth reading too.

Also: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/why-cant-we-solve-p... .
I'm sure the graph is not strictly monotonic. But are you actually claiming the curve isn't that way?
Yay let's solve problem that doesn't really exist ;-)
And some cities provide special parking spots for hired cars (and those that don't surely will in the vision of the future offered here).
Self-signed certs for itself or for the endpoint site you were connecting to?
RFC: Bitnom, decentralized name registrar [pdf]
A number of people have attempted to claim copyright on the output of programs. One of the most infamous examples is how Wolfram claims copyright over the output of Wolfram Alpha.

http://yro-beta.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/2055221/how-wolf...
You describe Timely and iOS snooze interfaces almost identically, and praise one but not the other. I'm a skeptical kitten.
It's a matter of arriving at the result. In other words, what matters is whether you used the original (and with what intent), not whether you arrived at the same result. Unfortunately, both of these are hard to prove.

Not exactly intuitive, I'd agree; see e.g. this: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

(Oh, and it's "copyright")
Ironically, standardised testing is a prime example of a system choosing to solve an easy problem instead of the problem it has.

Hard question: are our schools meeting the educational needs of their pupils and society?

Easy question: did enough pupils fill in enough of the right circles on this test for us all to not get fired next year?

If you exchanged test scores for production figures and teachers for farmers, this article could be a story directly out of Soviet agriculture in the collectivisation era. I'm finding it highly entertaining to watch you, of all people, defending this system so vehemently.
This sounds very similar to tir / mongrel2.
Smartphones are arguable exposed to theft risk in more scenarios than laptops are, and the security on a smartphone is generally weaker than on a laptop (at least one with whole-disk encryption).
There are quite a few VPS services out there that offer IPv6 only.

With those if you want to make anything on the services accessible via IPv4 you need to do it via another route, such as a VPN (or even just a port forward) to/from somewhere where you have an address to spare or for websites perhaps somewhere where you run nginx as a reverse proxy. In fact some infrastructure-as-a-service companies like CloudFlair offer this as a service: your users talk to them via IPv4 or IPv6 but they always talk to you via IPv6.

Some offer IPv6 with "IPv4 NAT" which allows you to call out via IPv4 as normal and may include calling in but not on standard ports (i.e. not 80 for HTTP, 22 for SSH, and so forth).
Ahh yes Dina! I tried it out long ago but have been using Consolas since its release. Just installed Dina and I have to say it looks rather lovely at 8pt on a dark theme! Is that a custom theme you have in VS or something from vsstyles?

The animations in Bvackup are very OS X like. They are beautiful. It has been a very long time since I clicked a button in a Windows app and went "ohh that is sexy!" haha. Also your /wip is very interesting. The level of detail is impressive. I ended up spending about half an hour reading every entry.

Are all the animations completely home baked then?
What, exactly, do you prefer about 2048? Why do you think it's the superior game?

Let's ignore price for the purposes of this.
Does Microsoft own my powerpoints?
The evolution of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
In these circumstances, the company will have committed the copyright infringement also by virtue of reproducing the maze on the packs, and will therefore be exposed to a potential suit (assuming the other requirements of copyright infringement are able to be shown).

At the same time, the company will have taken an indemnity from the freelancer which means they can go against the freelancer for costs arising from a third party claim of infringement (as is the case here). This would give the company the ability to settle with the third party and then go against the freelancer for the sums.

The principal problem with this is that the freelancer is unlikely to have assets to back the indemnity (unless as a condition of their provision of work they were required to have in place insurance). Even with insurance of course, it may not be available if the freelancer has behaved fraudulently...
Floating in water in such a room might be usable as a lot less scary sensory deprivation tank.
s/copywrite/copyright/

With regard to your question, it depends on whether it passes the Threshold of Originality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
I had the pleasure of speaking to a close advisor of Nick Clegg about these new regulations. He spoke at great length of the added protections which are being introduced as part of this bill.

While I'm still sceptical of the need for large scale surveillance I'm glad to see these regulations being moved from shady interpenetration of existing laws to being out in the open.

- The Bill includes a termination clause that ensures the legislation falls at the end of 2016 and the next government is forced to look again at these powers.

- Between now and 2016 we will hold a full view of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, to make recommendations for how it could be reformed and updated.

- We will appoint a senior diplomat to lead discussions with the American government and the internet companies to establish a new international agreement for sharing data between legal jurisdictions.

- We will establish a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on the American model, to ensure that civil liberties are properly considered in the formulation of government policy on counter-terrorism. This will be based on David Anderson's existing role as the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.

- We will restrict the number of public bodies that are able to approach phone and internet companies and ask for communications data. Some bodies will lose their powers to access data altogether while local authorities will be required to go through a single central authority who will make the request on their behalf.

- Finally, we will publish annual transparency reports, making more information publicly available than ever before on the way that surveillance powers operate.

Taken from here:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/jul/10/cameron...
If you're winning 15 times in a row, you're not moving fast enough. The appeal of 2048 is that you move so quickly, it feels cathartic. If you're not moving fast enough to make the occasional mistake, then of course you're going to get bored. If you're not making mistakes, you're also missing out on the fun of digging yourself out of a hole.

And as I mentioned in my original post, the goal for me to get 4096 or over 50,000 points. 2048 is easy, 50,000 points isn't.
I'm not sure myself, but I'd wager it's when the brainstorming and iterations are getting less significant. When you're changing less and less through each iteration, then you know it's getting close to being done.

That being said, at some point someone (preferably someone wise and smart) makes the decision to ship. And they do need to make that decision.
tl;dr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4I9mmd-2Rc
s/would/will ?
I feel like this is the case for most economics studies I've read (note: not nearly an expert). I enjoy the types of studies done and think they have value, but am concerned they can be taken as direct, strong supporting evidence when by their nature they make controlling for confounding variables impossible.
Do you have a serious medical condition ? A General statement is not Universal. So, if it is applicable to say 80% of population you can cut that guy some slack.
That depends on the complexity of possible inputs and the complexity of possible outputs - if your text editor would only allow for single-character documents, I imagine its output might not be copyrightable ;)
Jiminy cricket. Copyright violation isn't theft, but saying you "stole" a maze isn't a literal accusation of theft either.

"Good artists copy; great artists steal." -- someone a long time ago
"UMMMMM, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY THEFT!" --you.
What is said and what is done rarely have any relation in politics.
That's just too easy and doesn't make sense.

OTOH one could argue that the maze itself does not fall under the scope of the Urheberrechtsgesetz because its threshold of originality is too low (no offense, it is after all auto-generated). But I'm no lawyer and this is just a spooky idea.
My only problem with the iOS alarm is that alarms and timers are inconsistent. You tap to stop a timer from telling you that time is finished, but tapping on an alarm does not stop the alarm, it merely sleeps it. Instead, you have to swipe for alarms. To be fair, you can also swipe for timers, but the timer flat-out says "Tap to stop" on it.

I hate the sleep function (ten minutes of sleep is hardly going to be productive sleep), so this drives me nuts.
Really good technical review: http://www.linuxvoice.com/raspberry-pi-model-b/
A Diabetic is not healthy individual but the best part is Intermittent fasting and cold-showers are some of the few things that help with insulin and prevent diabetes.
Obviously, rotating your phone is going to be shakier than keeping it still.
Those are very bland and generic criticisms that can equally be leveled at many other authentication schemes.

Does this sqrl improve on the existing security offered by alternatives? Likely not. It just offers convenience and keeps many of the existing downsides.

Honestly 2/3 of those criticisms can be leveled at ANY single-sign-on scheme (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc). And the password reset issue would be trivial to engineer around.

So using it to explain why sqrl is a bad idea is a little confusing, are Google accounts also a bad idea?
Then you can list them on desquat.com :)
I do get tired of comments like these. Obviously diabetics aren't going to take some random person's advice to fast for 24 hours. Do you think they need you to tell them that?
Martin Fowler's Design Stamina Hypothesis and Video Compression
That'd be a fair comparison if Powerpoint generated powerpoint shows for you without any work on your part.
If there is a program that sucks and the maintainer is unwilling to merge your changes that (according to you) make it better, then what choice do you have but to compete? Or are you willing to just let it be and try to live with the shitty program?

Competition is not a choice, you can't just say "please don't compete with me because I'm not motivated by it" and hope it will work. Competition is just something that you have to do if you want your idea of what is right to remain at the top of the ladder.
> I can't think of any better way of describing black.

That's probably the most precise and scientific definition of true black, but it's not how most people imagine a black material.

Any black material you'll encounter in everyday life is still quite reflective in comparison to this high-tech, superblack material. If you see a man in a black suit, you can still see the buttonholes, the lapels, the wrinkles, and the three-dimensionality of the man's body. That's because it's actually reflecting a lot of light.

But if the suit were sufficiently light-absorbent, you wouldn't see any of that. It would look like a homogenous blob of solid color--just a silhouette. One can simulate that experience to a certain degree with photography:

https://atowninblackandwhite.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/big...

In person, one can also get a sense of that by looking at an extremely high-contrast scene, e.g. a person in a black outfit with strong backlighting. But such a picture feels much more natural to us than would a suit of true black in a room with normal lighting.
Are you sure this kind of web browsing is really relaxing?

In my personal experience, office work involves a lot of pure time wasting, time I'd rather spend doing other things than browsing reddit in my cubicle: grocery shopping, being in the sun, exercising, reading, or anything else.

At the Gothenburg office I worked in, literally everyone I talked to about a 6 hour work week saw it as extremely desirable. I didn't ask the manager, and she'd probably work more anyway, but I don't think she'd oppose it if it made employees happier.
Yes sounds like a hard-core CS guy who's not done any traditional engineering class's inverse square law was covered at my high school physics class at 15-16.

If you want to grok wifi get the Cisco press books.
The success of 2048 is some good evidence that minimalism in design and minimalism in aesthetics are both good ideas.

Simply put, 2048 is more elegant than Threes. It might have flaws that the developers of Threes have solved. It turns out that those flaws don't really matter.
The endpoint site. Then I hit reload and it was gone. SSLStrip probably would have been more effective. But, yeah, I think the people using Tor to provide "security" for an insecure wifi are making a huge mistake.
You don't actually need a mobile at all. You could have this run as a browser plugin, but the point of having SQRL on a mobile is that it's seperate from what you're trying to log in with, if that makes sense..
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Note for Americans and other non-UK persons: if you're running any kind of service which involves "messages" or "communications", any of which are offered to persons in the UK, this bill would oblige you to comply silently with interception requests; or, concievably, face extradition.

(What would happen if the UK government actually tried to enforce that is anyone's guess, but it's what the Bill says.)
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Just because Wired is reblogging Threes' own piece on 2048[1] doesn't make it any more legit.

[1] http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/#letter
How Wall Street's rental scheme blew up in its face
I got my first computer because of a MUD. It was a a group of kids in middle school talking about the MUD they were playing that completely lit my imagination and led to me wheedling my parents for months until they agreed to get one. Of course, I wasn't cool enough and those kids never would tell me what MUD they played on. But I found my own and spent way too much time in it, contributing to my first almost-failing grade in high school.

MUDs were also how I got into IRC.
Most mobile devices draw much more power than 500mA over micro USB as well, I was assuming this was in-spec now, it certainly seems to work fine. And many people have spare 1A+ chargers lying around as mobile devices tend to break before their chargers (ramshackly plug notwithstanding). Those chargers are usually really tiny, as well.

So I think micro USB is a fine choice. It also lets you draw from the fairly rich ecosystem of other USB power gadgets such as external batteries. I'd be really annoyed if they switched to a "normal" round plug.
I love how the Nintendo Animal Crossing series handles this: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/04/23/re...
Great article, except it ends on such a short-sighted note:
> To be sure, Helsinki is not proposing to go entirely car-free. (Many people in Finland have a summer cottage in the countryside, and rely on a car to get to it.)

I've never understood why people are so hung up about renting vehicles (not hourly rental; traditional, daily rental). Considering the cost of buying, maintaining, depreciating, and parking a car it is SO much cheaper (and easier) to simply rent from a traditional rental company for these long road trips. Need a 4x4? Rent it! Want a convertible for that coastal road trip? Rent it! Want to race on a track? Rent it! (this last one is still prohibitively expensive though).

In fact, some companies (Enterprise) will even pick you up at your home, making the rental process that much easier. If you have a good credit card it often includes insurance, which reduces the cost considerably (making daily rental competitive with hourly-rental services over a few hours of use).

Combine daily-rental vehicles with this sort of Helsinki plan and I literally can't see a reason why anyone would want a car.
Cool but your biggest challenge will be adoption. If you expect users to be repeat ones, I would consider some sort of browser extension or work with sites to integrate your button on their site much like how twitter/facebook share buttons are pervasive these days.
When I was young, my dad would take the back off the TV, which was a bit dangerous due to the serious capacitance, and take out several tubes. We'd take the tubes to the store, where they had a test machine. It looked a bit like a video game console. Dad would plug in the various tubes, the machine would indicate which was bad, we'd buy a new one, take them all home, dad would plug them all back in, and, et voilà, working TV again.
But isn't that you having to add a level of challenge to the game that it doesn't have?

House ruling is fine but shouldn't that level of challenge (either through an enforced time limit or some other means) exist in the vanilla game?
I guess he means the output of a program that has no creative input (other than writing the program itself).

I'd argue that if I wrote a program to generate a novel, that novel should be copyrightable.