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What's with the attitude that torrents == piracy? Torrents have many legitimate uses and is great technology for decentralized sharing, for example, you can download some Linux distributions via torrents from the official site what in turn reduces cost for the maintainers. It's the same as saying that all Tor users are pedophiles. I expect people here in HN to be more technologically literate and less biased than average Joe.
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When was I extradited anywhere exactly?
Sure sounds like you're blaming antirez for people on Twitter taking his tweet out of context and running with it. It's also completely unfair to say "Twitter was awesome in this very explicit situation so you obviously did something wrong in your situation".
I'm a little confused - if you purchase an ebook, but aren't allowed to download it, how are you meant to read it?
Today. http://oneget.org/oneget.zip
Failure can contribute to longer-term success, there's no doubt. But it's not a measure of success in its own right. Even re-reading OP's post today, that remains my interpretation of both what he said, and the more general sense in which the failure-related 'wisdom' is getting spread about the startup community.
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I like not having to make room for all of my books in my house, but when you can't access the book you bought, that kind of makes the whole thing not work. I have bought hundreds of ebooks, but I still am uncomfortable with not really owning them. I de-drm my books so B&N can't just take them back (without a refund) whenever they feel like it, but it sucks that you have to break the rules just to have any rights to your own purchases.

On another note, I like to go to B&N to browse and just hang out. The last time I was there, the coffee shop lady hassled me. It was a very unpleasant experience. I heard from a friend of mine that she had the same experience. Apparently, if they see you there and not spending enough money, they start harassing you. Ironically, I was in the process of buying a book on my laptop when she came by to inform me that I needed to make a purchase if I wanted to keep using the internet there. Were they going to kick me out if I didn't buy coffee? I was only there for my lunch break, so I never found out. I think in the future, I'll just go to Starbucks where they still leave me in peace.
So it seems.

Well, I was just stating the information I had.
Will this still collect hidden SSID's?
I think there is a huge missed opportunity here. I mean, it's good that Microsoft is finally adding functionality that went mainstream in the late 90's. But why don't just skip the flawed approach most of the current Linux distributions use? In my opinion they should have been looking at a more declaritive approach, such as the Nix package manager uses.

I will agree though that this oversight is not as bad as TFSVC. Where they were building a centralized version control system when the whole world was switching to decentralized VCSs.
People learn in different ways, and I remember reading, perhaps in [Pragmatic Thinking and Learning](https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learn...), that your tactile sense is as important for learning as your visual and aural senses, and so on.

I like the smell of books, too.
How amusing that, for me, this is an demonstration of The Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon [1] : viz https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8514310

[1] http://www.psmag.com/culture/theres-a-name-for-that-the-baad...
Terseness is a learned skill. Verbosity is too. They're not mutually exclusive, you can apply them where they work. And they're both useful.

(That's exactly 140 characters for you :) )
Yeah, the blackout period Sprint holds them to has shrunk over time, but if you're riding the bleeding edge you won't be happy with the delay.
I believe so. crankycoder1975 was asking for some pointers on #fdroid irc a few hours back to help build 1.0 for F-Droid. Hopefully any issues will get ironed out. While I appreciate my siblings comment about the app auto-updating - I'd rather have apps managed by a central area (F-Droid on Android, package managers on desktop Linux).
Can you say more about your privacy concern here? I'm not seeing it.

As far as I know, the sole use of this database is to say, "if you can see this set of wifi networks, then you are probably at this GPS location." It's literally the same thing, except at a different electromagnetic frequency, as saying "if you can see houses with these addresses, you are probably at this GPS location." Kind of like a street map.

I definitely think that privacy concerns can emerge when you aggregate public data -- is there something I'm missing here?
I entered an engineering school 5 years after Ariane V.

Each single professor explained us why their subject was the reason for Ariane V to explode. The physics one went about how the imperial/metric discrepancy was the cause, the mechanics one went about how error margin management wad the cause, the CS one about integer overflow... Each of them made it clear that their course was the center of the world, but altogether it didn't look smart.

I chose that the CS guy was right ;)
Life is not worth spending on trying to position DIVs properly or locating a JS typo.
I've been restricting what stores I purchase ebooks from because of DRM. Fiction from Baen and Dragonmount, CS from O'Reilly, etc.. I've been thinking of building a book scanner to make my physical collection more portable.

Interestingly, I have no problem buying games on Steam, though many are via GOG and Humble, where I can still download a copy too.
Hey, author here. I'll update the post with that if that's the case. Thanks!
Err... I was just hoping for a short discussion about monetizing HTML apps. What is the problem?
No, that is on the people who did that. If anything I would blame antirez for getting flustered enough about this non-Twitter specific problem to write a blog post.
You are meant to use one of their sanctioned devices. Those devices connect to their servers, do some arcane handshake and receive a copy of the book.
I doubt tactility (from a learning perspective) really comes into play while reading a book, as opposed to on a screen. That's not to denigrate paper book reading as an enjoyable experience, but let's not go overboard :)
There are a surprising number of malicious repackages of common FOSS utilities like VLC and 7zip i've seen non-expert Windows users install. It's actually not all that uncommon.
I think a real-world example might help to describe what you mean. Perhaps you could normalise the data in a way (on the server-side) that would remove the need for this setup?
The page here has 13.5MB in assets for the initial load, including a 7.9MB top html file. Takes 29.5 seconds to load, assuming all extensions and plugins like adblock are disabled, otherwise it seems to never complete loading. In both cases, it pins one CPU at 100% while it loads.
The older I get the more I ignore. I'm not missing out on anything by not following twitter and it's really just a distraction from my goals. I sink way more time into HN than other social media, and I don't spend that much time here. My goal is to be completely off in my own world a decade from now, focusing strictly on what is important to me.

Now if I can just kick my HN habit..
Is the old one available anywhere? ;)
This is how <1% of the search market looks like: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
I love it. Bring on "sudo apt-get install."

Somehow, folks have been led to think that the command line is a scary place, just for geeks, but it's so easy to lead someone through a slightly complex manual installation by just giving them a few commands to copy and paste into the terminal.

And as a somewhat casual user myself, I even find it easier to follow a command line installation than to wade through several pages of "open this window, click on this, click on that," especially when the instructions and the actual installer don't exactly agree due to revision divergence.
Hey, author here! I was actually thinking of continuing the article at some point by adding lolcommit-style error messages onto the pictures. I think it's a great idea!
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i didn't say i didn't know how to secure against something like this or that it was not legal.

my point was that this approach to data collection, consent, and privacy sharply and directly contradicts claims mozilla makes to users about being committed to their privacy. i think this reflects the opposite.

maybe a better analogy would be someone from the ACLU photographing everyone they saw in public: legal and easy to defend against, but hypocritical/not cool in my opinion and it might make me question the organization's priorities.
I'm going to try getting an F-Droid build out today, but we've got some build issues with the fdroidserver. In any case - it will get to F-Droid real-soon-now.
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> In general, twitter conversations are quick back-and-forth affairs. If you need more than 2 tweets to express your thought, you're either using the wrong medium or thinking too far.

Hmmm. I'm not sure how to respond to the suggestion that people who can't fully express their thoughts in around 300 characters are thinking too far ... or the subtly implied pejorative of 'too-far-thinking'.

Aside: I note you used 1386 characters to describe the benefits of terseness.
> Localizing your app's metadata (keywords, description and screenshots) is the easiest way to increase your downloads, and should be done as soon as you have optimised your keywords. David Janner managed to 7x his downloads by localizing his app.

Very interesting. Maybe anybody has figures like this on translated meta-data of 'ordinary' websites ? I mean not in particular for any downloads, but for the impact on the number of website visitors.
It's not the NixOS approach and it needs some work to make it more palatable, but they already ship DSC with PoSH/WMF 4, which goes some of the way.
i never disputed the lawfulness of doing this--in fact i explicitly acknowledged it in my last comment.

i'm not making any legal claims to privacy--just pointing out that collecting everything that's lawful to collect runs counter to mozilla's policy stance of being committed to users' privacy.
I think it's actually the exact phrase we should be using. I work with helping beginner programmers learn to code and if they want to know "javascript" (they don't even know what that means) they are always asking for ember/angular/node and when I ask why they want to use these technologies or what project they are working on that would benefit from that style they blank. It's definitely cool kid syndrome.
Do brain games work?
I like both approaches, because they offer different advantages. I tend to like reading physical books in natural lighting and mostly fiction. Like today, frosty morning with clear blue sky when sun comes through a window and illuminates the room I can't resist lay on the couch and read some physical fiction book in calm environment, it's quite pleasing. On the other hand, reading from ebook/tablet/desktop gives more interactive capabilities, I can get translation of some words, create bookmark, I can do search within book or on the internet etc., so it's more convenient for technical stuff or when I'm trying to improve language skills. So both ways are interesting, and I sure hope physical books won't die out.
Help me build a game which will rewire your left-righ hemispheres connection
The Bioneer - Become Ambidexterous - Increase Creativity http://www.thebioneer.com/become-ambidextrous-increase-creativity/) Left hand is controlled by right hemisphere, right hand is controlled by left. The part of the brain connecting them together is Corpus Callosum. MRI/EEG brain scans revealed the longer person spent time playing particular musical instrument, the bigger C. Callosum become (up to 15% compared to normal peple in one study). It looks like that A. Einstein has C. Callosum extraordinary big and it made him extremely creative - he was a leftie and played violin from age 4. All lefties are considered more creative, and I think it is because normal society forces them to use their right hand which causes as a side effect ambidexterity.

OK, not many people are creative geniuses, jugglers, self taught pianists or posses a handpan. But many people do have computers :-) Why we dont have games which uses two mouses?

Game Ideas to program:

1) Pong (Table tennis game) - simply using different hand for each paddle
2) Catcher - Catch the balls fired on the screen but each time use different hand
3) Patterns - My favourite inspired by handpan playing and due to all possible variations. Simply draw presented shape periodically with one hand - it can be segment, triangle, rectangle, star.. determined by peaks (joints) and on each joint player should click the mouse. So even if you have to do this with only your opposite to dominant hand it can be challenging, now assume adding also other hand and draw different object (or catch randomly appearing dots). It all can be timed/controlled by metronome. I love it because there is unlimited possibilities and it can be really quite challenging simple looking game and there are no borders how far a person can go..

Whole text: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/74400-ambidexterity-games-ideas-developer-desired/
The web stack is not just about the web anymore. I'm seeing it being used in all sorts of customer-facing products.

For instance TV set-top boxes very often use the web stack for their GUIs. Though, to be honest, they often use SVG for markup instead of HTML.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/12/google-street-view-settle...
Agree! I got really surprise when I tried to translate to my native language via Google Translate. It made me realise how crappy their translation really is.. :P
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This might be a stupid idea, but maybe use pairs of translator to get the text translated forwards and then backwards to the original language, and compare how much of the message has been lost? I think this way you can also get a hint of how that native person would interpret the translated message.
I don't know about that even, I know some professional philosophers of ethics who are extremely passionate about veganism, but I wouldn't say they were less well-informed.
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Most people don't see the lack of control over their mobile devices as a problem. Instead, they see it as a good thing, because their mobile devices are a lot more worry-free than their computers.
I'm using React. My server-side rendering is essentially `React.renderComponentToString(App(data))`. The only difference between how I invoke my app on the server vs on the client is that instead of `React.renderComponent` I use `React.renderComponentToString`. On the client, React just uses the pre-rendered HTML and binds itself to that without re-rendering a single DOM node.

All my scripts are in `package.json`. I don't use Grunt or Gulp. If I want to re-bundle my client, I invoke a script that essentially does `browserify -g uglifyify lib/browser.js > dist/main.min.js`. My JSX build script and the bundler script are automatically invoked by a watcher.

This[0] is my entire build script and the only reason it's verbose is because I like to be able to execute each task separately if I want to.

The only problem with React is that it is only a view library. It only does components. The blessed solution is a Flux-like architecture as implemented by Fluxxor or Reflux, but you can integrate React into nearly anything you already have. I like the immutable/unidirectional approach React and Flux share and ended up writing my own library[1] because there were things I didn't like about the existing Flux implementations, but you don't have to do that.

I have to admit that Flux has a steep learning curve. And if you've never dealt with immutability before it can really melt your brain. But I don't see how Meteor is any easier to pick up, especially considering that it comes with its own entirely separate ecosystem (the only non-node library I use in my React app is an XHR-wrapper that replaces `request` on the client).

[0]: https://gist.github.com/pluma/61a1639906e188be8423

[1]: https://github.com/foss-haas/flox
I think the most interesting twist about this, is that even though at first glance it turns out there was just one guy who tends to use capital letters more than others, his hypothesis that "shouting" was the reason for the caps turned out to be wrong. It just turns out to be Faulkner's writing style, possibly influenced by his background as a lawyer.

The twist of course, is "Fedor researched the issues on this year’s ballot much more thoroughly before voting. He actually ended up siding with Faulkner on a few counts. After all, they both dislike ballot measures."
fake: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-confirms-earth-will-experience...
Sounded as though you jumped to the conclusion that it has to be monetized, above all else. Not everything has to be monetized, and some things are made just for fun and learning. That's how I interpreted your phrasing, at least.
i'm mostly with you on this; i don't think anyone working on this project for google actively intended for lots of additional information to be exploited, even in relation to the project.

however i'm much less sympathetic to the notion that google didn't know that lots of additional information would be collected before they started collecting it.

so i think they may not have intended to use it before they started collecting, but i think they intended to collect all of what they collected.
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Just to give some background, the main use case for this site is for small groups to have discussions around places - in a similar way to how small groups will use doodle.com to discuss times.
Often such discussions do not need to be private and can be valuable for other people to know about. I will add more support for private conversations soon though.
I am also planning on adding a feature soon to allow people to easily create a poll of places.
I believe there is an in-band solution to this.

First, Agree on a reply latency -- say, 1 day.
Then, instead of simply replying to a message, you have an irritating four-step process:

1. Wait until one day after you received the message.

2. Send a digest of the message and your public key.

3. Wait another day.

4. Send the message itself.

All that sending would be using PGP.

The receiver must make sure that the delays for receiving the digest and the reply body are what the expect. This method requires a MITM to either anticipate what the message is or introduce an extra day of latency, which the receiving would notice.
Barnes & Noble is missing the biggest opportunity in ebook sales. They do little to nothing to show the ebook value to shoppers visiting the store with the purpose of buying a book.

The physical store has limited space for books, so they only have the newest and most popular. BN needs to stock the self with paper leaflets of 2nd and 3rd tier books that could be bought in the online store. The leaflet could contain a QR code so shoppers could buy the book right then using their phone.

This would expose more people to the online ebook store and draw them into titles that BN can't stock physically. They could even give them a "free" first book to incentivize people into signing up. Educate the staff to help non-technical shoppers sign-up and get their book.

The overall experience would be to teach people how to use the nook app to buy books. Once people are comfortable with the process they will be apt to buy more books through the app.
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Those kind of figures would be very interesting, indeed.

Google will most definitely crawl all your localised pages, so you'll at least get more local traffic.

Dont have any numbers though..
Since you are underlining the provenance of Mozilla's budget, I guess that when Google stops financing Mozilla everything will change for you. Otherwise you are just lining up words to make a big impression but without any meaning or clue at all.

Don't you want everyone to observe your SSID? Hide it. You are cluttering the public's ether, so you are subject to public scrutiny. Don't you want to add "no_map" to the end of it? Shut up.

Or just do what Buckiminister Fuller told you to do: do not criticize a system but build a new and better one to obsolete the one that don't work. I promise to print your form if you start with a better approach. Unless you are not a complete idiot and understand that it is a theoretically possible way to deal with the problem but not a feasable one. Anyway, go on, just complain and talk nonsense: it will help. A lot.
Which is understood by all those people when they purchase insurance. This isn't news. Spreading the risk around is why people buy insurance in the first place.
That's a fair point, and one I don't disagree with. Where I do disagree is the idea that failure is a measure of success or even the potential for success.

It's a potential indicator of either the difficulty of the task, the abilities of the people performing the task, or both[1]. It's also an indicator that no matter how many things were done right, one or more things were done wrong.

I feel that your original post and subsequent reply reflect the pervasive perception that failure is a requirement for doing something big successfully. I think that's a misconception that's running rampant in the startup community. Failure can happen and it can be learned from, but success is possible without it.

1. In this case I'm going with 'difficult' and 'some things not done right'. Strongly suspect incompetence was not a factor :)
Most people probably fall into the using the wrong medium category. If you are taking are taking over 140 characters to say what amount's to 'Who want's to go to Olive Garden?' then you are thinking too far though.

And he specifically chose a medium which was not twitter to describe it.
Prohibiting strong crypto would create a huge contraband problem. That is, if you wanted to make strong crypto popular and attractive, you could hardly do better than to ban it.
>The last time I was there, the coffee shop lady hassled me. It was a very unpleasant experience. I heard from a friend of mine that she had the same experience. Apparently, if they see you there and not spending enough money, they start harassing you.

I'll take "Things that will make me spend even less money in that store" for $800, Alex.

Between this and shuttering DRM based services after promising you can buy the tracks you love, etc... I really have to wonder why companies haven't stopped and asked themselves why what they are doing isn't working.

Nah, it can't be us, they'll think... so let's double down on the restrictions, pressure selling tactics and blame the dirty pirates when our bottom line continues to slip.

Meanwhile, those dirty pirates aren't dealing with any of this bullshit.
Sometimes solving a hard problem is simply hard, and trying to treat it like an easy problem by shortcutting is the wrong approach, but you might not realize it until too late. Take building your own rocket technology vs. using old Soviet engines from the 1960's. Ask Orbital Sciences today which approach might have been better.
Do you know wether people from Portugal react negatively on brazilian portuguese? I have sticked to brazilian portuguese, as we get much more downlads from Portugal than Brazil.
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In general, Russian rockets don't have the same range safety mechanisms that American and European rockets do.
Hungarian - loosely transalted:

Over 100 thousand people go over the
Elizabeth Bridge in protest against
the internet tax.