New iPad Tops Three Million - <AUTHOR> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/19New-iPad-Tops-Three-Million.html <comment><USER2> From people I've talked to in my family and others (non-technical folks) the idea of purchasing an iPad when it first launched wasn't incredibly alluring for anyone who's not an early adopter. Regular buyers like to wait until 1) reviews are available, 2) updates are out to fix bugs, and 3) the vague "quirks" are worked out in a device before pulling the trigger. $500-800 is a big investment for people buying a device to use on their couch, casually.

But now that the third generation is out, and it has an amazing new screen, great battery and extremely fast wireless (and, presumably, no "quirks" that people might think had been present in the earlier models) it's thought to be a safer buy. It's not the first model, it's been out a few years, Apple knows what they're doing by now, they've seen commercials and know people that have one, etc. So what were they waiting for? The new one to come out. And it has.

I think the buyers this weekend weren't merely Apple fans with iPad 1s and 2s who wanted to upgrade, but lots and lots of new owners who have been waiting patiently for a good reason to whip out their credit cards. For this reason I think overall sales of the new iPad are going to be totally insane.

<comment><USER3> I'm a new owner myself. I've been following Apple since I bought the first generation iPod (paid way too much for it) when it first came out. I noticed how fast and often Apple releases their upgrades, and I taught myself to wait (hard to do) whenever I decide to buy a new Apple product.

I didn't get an iTouch till it's 3rd generation, didn't own a smartphone till iPhone 4, and didn't get a MB till the Unibody design came out.

And now I will own my first iPad in an hour once I get home from work. The delay due to getting the engrave option.

So yeah, count me as one of those that's finally getting an iPad :D

<comment><USER4> Apple and other companies offer a free engraving option, because you can not return them afterwards. Still, why would you return it anyway, it is a great machine.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> For contrast, they sold 5.2 million macs last quarter. [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports- Firs...](http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-First- Quarter-Results.html)

Also, the iPhone 4s sold 4 million in its opening weekend. [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First- We...](http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First-Weekend- Sales-Top-Four-Million.html)

I couldn't find an apple press release for the iPad 2, but a lot of news outlets reported that analysts had sales pegged around 1 million units. [http://blackfridaymagazine.com/apple-claims-record- weekend-f...](http://blackfridaymagazine.com/apple-claims-record-weekend-for- ipad-sales/03036)

<comment><USER6> It's pretty impressive that an unsubsidized mobile device in the $500+ price range is putting up these numbers. Does anybody besides me think this indicates consumers are replacing their old "real" computers with iPads?

<comment><USER7> You are exactly right. Non-ipad PC sales have been flat to declining basically since the ipad was released. People are not buying as many PCs as you'd expect, they are buying ipads instead.

<comment><USER8> How much is that because they already have a PC and don't need to replace it as frequently as previously?

How many people do you personally know who's computer use is all on a tablet and don't use a PC anymore?

<comment><USER9> A year or so ago, I knew none. Today I know about 6 for whom the iPad is their only "computer" (people like my mother in law). It adds up over time.

<comment><USER10> Are all the other 5 relatively old?

It's hard for me to see someone who grew up around computers switching to today's tablets. Producing anything (even a simple email) is radically faster on a computer. Consumption is even faster on a computer (key bindings, indirect input that doesn't block the screen) and more comfortable, at least while sitting down (head positioning). For the old market it seems like they could benefit from something like a chrome book just as well -- a really dumbed down computer where you don't need to install things, have windows, or anything us hackers tend to expect computers to do.

<comment><USER11> Not sure about that. I know lots of people under 40 years old who can't touch type. Hunting & pecking on a multi-touch keyboard is no worse than a physical keyboard. Probably better thanks to predictive typing and universal spell- check.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> When I picked mine up from the package room of my apartment on Friday, the guy there said that 15 had been delivered that morning.

That seemed like a pretty high number for a single apartment building in Washington D.C.

For what it's worth, I'm incredibly happy with it so far.

<comment><USER13> Residents tend to be reasonably well clustered in terms of socioeconomic factors, and we know that at least one resident exists for whom this is a reasonable purchase.

If we assume the 3x10^6 sales are all US (false, but good to some order) and estimate the US population at 300x10^6, then the expectation is roughly 1:100 that a random person will order a unit. Conditioning that on socioeconomic factors should yield a reasonably high probability that if you ordered one, so did several of your neighbors.

<comment><USER12> That's probably true. I wish I had better data ;)

As a contrast, I was the only resident who had an iPad 2 delivered during the launch weekend.

There are 300 apartments in my building, and I'm actually in the minority demographically (my building is ~ 1/3 diplomats, 1/3 graduate students, and 1/3 "other"). I suspect for the "other" though, that we're all at least in a moderately similar socioeconomic bracket.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> But the processor isn't quad-core! But it weighs more than the iPad 2! But it's thicker than the iPad 2! But they didn't say how much RAM it has!

<comment><USER15> Just another part of the Apple Product Cycle (<http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/>):

"The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like, "Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?" become matters of life and death."

<comment><USER14> Ha! Exactly.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Assuming an average price of 600 - that is 1.8B in revenue, in ~3 days.

Or, $25 MILLION PER HOUR.

EDIT: assuming that is in 48 hours, that equals 37.5 MM per hour in revenue.

What company has produced such revenue in some other space. Any?

I am sure the revenue for the Oil Industry is higher, globally, but for one company? That is insane.

I sold my apple stock at $200 :(

<comment><USER17> Don't feel bad, I sold mine at $38 :)

<comment><USER18> I have only a few that I got at $21 before the split.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> There's been plenty of reports lately, that average people cannot tell the difference between an iPad 2 and 3. What do HN users who have both think about this? Are these true or exaggerated? If it's true, then what does the new iPad breaking sales records means? That apple can pretty much sell anything with the right marketing at this point, no matter how innovative its technology may or may not be?

[1] <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iox5Q2nWi-Q>

[2] [http://gizmodo.com/5894094/we-people-an-ipad-2-told-them- it-...](http://gizmodo.com/5894094/we-people-an-ipad-2-told-them-it-was-the- new-ipad-and-they-loved-it)

[3] [http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn- differen...](http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-difference- between-ipads-20120319,0,5898212.story)

</comment><comment><USER20> I wonder how much revenue AT&T/Verizon are booking because of data plans for the iPhone and iPad. The total combined revenue from iOS hardware, data plans, and apps from the App Store must be frighteningly large.

</comment><comment><USER21> How usable is it if you don't own any computer running either Mac OS X or Windows? Doesn't it still need iTunes to upgrade itself etc, or can you buy it as a stand-alone computer for casual browsing and games?

<comment><USER22> It still needs to be activated on a computer, but I believe the Apple Store will do that for you.

Otherwise, it's very usable without a computer, now with over the air updates.

edit: oops, I guess I'm wrong.

<comment><USER15> As of iOS 5 you can activate it over the air (WiFi or 3G) and optionally use iCloud for syncing your stuff instead of iTunes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> It will be hard to find a press release that has more feature-related buzz words than this:

 _CUPERTINO, California―March 19, 2012―Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all- day 10 hour battery life while remaining amazingly thin and light. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA._

Then again, it's Apple so it doesn't matter :)

</comment><comment><USER24> Today would be a good day to own stock in AAPL, methinks.

<comment><USER25> A great business does not necessarily imply a great investment.

<comment><USER26> I think in this case, it does.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> what's the asp on ipad2s?

$750 per?

$2.25B in revenue in a weekend. not bad.

<comment><USER28> ASP for iPads has been ~$600 in the past. It might drop a bit, now that Apple has lowered the entry price point (or could rise, as LTE pulls more people away from WiFi only).

$1.8B in revenue in a weekend, still not bad :P

<comment><USER29> It costs them around $300 (Can't say exactly, however the LTE version was pegged at $330, could be less depending on volume deals) they are making a sizable portion of that 1.8bil in net profit.

<comment><USER30> cost of parts for the device != cost to manufacture/design device

<comment><USER29> You're of course right and that's why I said "A sizable portion" ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> Does anyone else find high resolution text alongside up-scaled graphics (both in app and on the web) obnoxious?</comment>


School officials unite in banning Wikipedia - <AUTHOR> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004025648_wikipedia21.html <comment><USER2> What a cop-out. Those teachers are banning one of the greatest sources of information on the Web today just so they don't have to teach their students the concept of 'caveat emptor' (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor>). All sources have some error and bias, not just Wikipedia. You want to deal with that, teach? Require more sources.

How much you want to bet those same teachers go home and watch Fox News at night?

<comment><USER3> Being used to a life of consumer goods, 'caveat venditor', and hordes of ambulance chasers, maybe each passing generation forgets how to practice 'caveat emptor'. It's probably called 'critical thinking' in the educational circles.

A lot of students no longer use the index, or table of contents. Or at least <http://scholar.google.com/> if they don't have access to the LexisNexis, or something similar. Or maybe they are just going through the motion, practicing being a mindless drone.

But that just points out the failing of the teachers, not the students. Warren Buffett has an interesting perspective on this: [http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/investment/WarrenB...](http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/investment/WarrenBuffett.html)

\-----

Q: What is your view on education?

A: Bill Gates thinks we're [America] falling behind. [Mr. Buffett speaks with Bill Gates frequently]. I had a great advantage when I went to public school compared with kids today. When I was in school there were very few career opportunities for women, so an enormous number of very talented women became teachers, and I benefited from their instruction. Today there are many more career opportunities, and as a result the pool of potential teachers has shrunk.

\-----

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Change the assignment to include identifying Wikipedia discrepancies, fixing them, and tracking the changes for a period of time.

<comment><USER3> This is a really good idea.

I remember reading about an university professor assigning a paper that had to be published on Wikipedia. I don't think the professor made the students track the changes though.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Peer-reviewed academic books and papers can be inaccurate and/or biased in some way. (Hopefully ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer- review#Criticisms_of_peer_...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer- review#Criticisms_of_peer_review) ) less so than Wikipedia.) That doesn't mean they should be 'banned', only that there is no way to avoid critical, reflective reading whenever it matters to you that the information and arguments you are putting together are right.

</comment><comment><USER6> There should be a way for the readers of wiki to know which sections have been there for a while (therefore probably more accurate), and which parts are frequently changed (therefore more debatable), so that they can get a better picture of the reliability of those information.

<comment><USER7> I've often thought that certain revisions should be marked as "more-or-less correct" meaning that there is no vandalism or any obvious mistakes. A cookie could be placed for readers who only want to read such versions. This might mean that there's one-more-damn-thing to constantly administer, but it would keep cross dressing pictures off the GWB page. (Oh, wait, that really happened...)

<comment><USER3> Or at the very least citations should include a specific revision. When citing from a journal or a book, you always include the revision image (publisher, edition, year-published). The idea is to allow the reader to check up on your sources rather than fulfilling some arbitrary administrative requirement (homework). As I mentioned above, that points out the teachers' rather than the students' competence.

We could compile together the list of suggestions generated here in this discussion, open up a new Wikipedia page on how to actually cite and use Wikipedia. Then get the word out.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Life before Wikipedia was alright. Banning shouldn't really matter much.

<comment><USER9> Life before the web was alright, but I would be unhappy if it went away.</comment></comment>


Compiling Expressions – Crafting Interpreters - <AUTHOR> http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/compiling-expressions.html <comment><USER2> My build script tells me the book is now 132,991 words long and only 56% done. I knew I was running a marathon with this one, but I didn't quite expect it to be an _ultra_ -marathon.

But it feels good to be one chapter closer to the end!

<comment> tony-allan An excellent project. I've loved reading along as new chapters emerge!

<comment><USER2> Thank you! :D

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I've read the first few chapters and really liked it.

I'm going to wait till you finish the publication and purchase a hard copy. I enjoy preserving books I enjoy in a physical medium and it'll sit nicely next to your game programming gems on my shelf.</comment>


Why I don't git-rebase - <AUTHOR> https://twitter.com/ketacode/status/906961336868974592?mobile=false <comment><USER2> Ah yes, simplicity. That easily quantifiable value of a singular dimension, whose definition we all agree upon.

<comment><AUTHOR> Finally someone agrees with me! Yey!

Kidding aside, git-merge is simpler because you only need to know 6 commands: co, add, commit, push, pull and merge. I believe that these will help you achieve everything you need with git.

</comment></comment><comment> Ruud-v-A I've seen histories full of arbitrary fork points and merge commits that are definitely not simple.

<comment><AUTHOR> Imagine what these people would do with a tool like rebase going wrong</comment></comment>


Steve Jobs on Xserve: Hardly Anyone Was Buying Them - <AUTHOR> http://mashable.com/2010/11/08/steve-jobs-xserve/ <comment><USER2> Frankly, the Xserve was not an innovative product. When it was PowerPC based, the performance/power ratio was actually quite good, thus the supercomputer built with them. After the Intel switch, that really went away, and their hardware was no longer that much different from something you would buy from HP or Dell.

I'm betting this will go one of a few different ways:

\- Apple will allow OS X Server on a small number of validated hardware platforms and/or virtualization environments.

\- Apple will focus on HA clustering in it's software. This is already available to some extent with certain portions of their software stack, but this is often dependent on coherent storage (Xsan) which isn't available without a large fibre channel outlay, which rules out the Mac Mini Server.

\- I doubt Apple will get rid of OS X Server as some are suggesting. It's implemented as a package that installs over OS X client, and is quite easy/efficient to install and admin. At worst, they'd likely open source more of it and let people roll their own (currently many of OS X Server's individual components are available on <http://www.macosforge.org/> )

<comment><USER3> You're right that it was not that much different - but it was no worse or notably more expensive than HP or Dell solutions. And it ran OS X Server.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Apple has the weirdest communication strategy ever. CEO comments via alleged emails to customers? Bizarre.

<comment><USER5> I allows Steve to say informal and brash things while maintaining plausible deniability.

Also, it's fun.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Maybe if Apple cared about selling servers they would have. It was obvious to anyone that they never actually tried to build a real server offering. Apple did a good thing by killing this product, preventing a few people from making the mistake of buying these things.

</comment><comment><USER7> You can't convince people the shinier product is better when they're buying servers based on actual numbers instead of whatever their impressionable peers say they should have.

</comment><comment><USER8> Steve missed the point with the Xserve. Like all his other projects he should have create a unique solution that integrated with the Mac and iOS platforms.

And if Xserve _did_ provide a unique solution then this is a marketing failure. Regardless Steve didn't follow his standard operating procedure for product development.

<comment><USER9> The compute density of the XServe was just too low, everyone else had double the number of sockets/U.

<comment><USER8> It's not about the processing power for Apple customers. It is for most server buyers though. Apple should have targeted the Xserve as a seamless network tool for Mac labs, and later as an enterprise integration tool for iOS. Something only they can offer.

Bottom line they didn't make it special enough. Instead they competed on pure specs. Something Apple has never done will.

<comment><USER9> It's _all_ about the processing power. Jobs should have known this from his days at Pixar. A compute farm based around GCD and OpenCL could have been a killer product.

<comment><USER8> The iPhone is not about processing power, the iPad and the MacBook are not about processing power. The iPod neither.

Jobs knew that if was to fight the _how fast is it_ battle he would lose. So he changed the fight to one of ease of use and style.

Changing the positioning of the Xserve is what Jobs _should_ have done, he didn't. So yes in the end it was about the Xserves lack of speed and power. But you miss the point (Jobs too) that it never should have competed on speed and power to begin with.

<comment><USER9> Well you say that, but 3D on the iPad is _very_ impressive.

The XServe was a server product, its job was to sit quietly in the background doing work that for whatever reason desktops couldn't do, or would be suboptimal for. What to Apple desktop users with significant compute needs (e.g. movie makers, CAD users, scientific users) do? Maybe they can use Mathematica and submit the jobs to Linux boxes running the Mathematica back- end (or whatever) but why not provide the seamless experience?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> My guess is that Apple will open up OS X server up to a _small_ number of non- Mac units. They did something like that when they discontinued the Xserve RAID: <http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/>

That way they can keep their server software around without having to spend money building immediately uncompetitive hardware.

<comment><USER3> I think there is a huge difference between a SAN and a Server OS. Specifically, I don't think Promise RAIDs do anything clever to work with XSan. (it's just a SAN with fibre?)

<comment><USER2> The expense on Xsan is in validating the solution for performance and correct functionality, thus why Apple only recommends using the Promise units purchased from them with specific firmware revisions.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I've never used Mac OS X Server so can't comment on its worth, however... based on the hardware specs and the prices, I can't work out how they ever sold a single one (except to huge lovers of Apple who wanted to look geeky and hip at the same time by having one of these in their home.)

edit: If the price was only a _bit_ higher than what I'd expect to pay for those specs with 5-10tb storage in it, then I'd probably be ok buying it as a home storage device, much the same as I'm ok buying an iPod as an MP3 player. But there's a point where "sexiness markup" becomes "double the price and slap on a bit more".

<comment><USER12> Having an Xserve with Mac OS X in a company that uses Macs because it all integrates and it would provide email, chat, directory, wiki, and other enterprisey stuff. I've also seen universities with full racks of them to use for distributed computing (I believe using the Xgrid utility.)

<comment><USER13> Just because it's interesting -- The University of Illinois has a cluster of 768 G5 Xserves: <http://www.cse.illinois.edu/turing/>. It doesn't appear to actually run OS X though (Fedora instead).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I administer a Mac Server, and actually I had already made the decision to replace it with a Windows Box. We're using it to serve up content to a grand total of two Mac Minis, and the rest are Windows machines, for whom it's serving as domain controller, file server, DHCP, DNS, and backup. All in all I can't see the use case here.

I'm also generally concerned by the lack of a community around the things. You need a lot of people using them to properly debug and test network stuff, and Mac Server just doesn't have the install base.

<comment><USER15> I'm surprised that you haven't switched already. Mac Server is generally only useful if your network is above 60% macs that are managed. If it's something small, you could just stack an Airport Extreme on top of a Mac Mini, fire up the mac-centric services, and call it a day.

Running Exchange takes away about half the benefits of a mac server, too.

<comment><USER14> I started two months ago, and I'm the only guy managing a network of 24 machines that hasn't had anyone managing it full time for about a year and a half. I've been trying to focus on obvious improvements, and avoiding touching things that mostly work. Though it's a little flaky, it's a little less pressing than replacing 6-year-old laptops and upgrading machines running XP SP1.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> The biggest problem was that (other than the redundant power supply and 1U size) the Mac Pro was a much better value. It is a lot easier to buy storage for the Mac Pro.

</comment><comment><USER17> That's the funny thing about the server market, Steve, companies just don't buy them as often.

For example not a year goes by I'm not replacing scores of Apple desktops, iMacs, MacPros, Minis for all our users.

Meanwhile, the Xserves in the server rack are older than most of my friends' kids. There's no business case for replacing them as they do exactly what we need.

I understand all that Steve. The part I'd like you to understand is how creeped out my sysadmins get when we have to stuff our server racks with ill- fitting boxes such as Mini-servers and full-sized towers. I'd expect a company that pays as much attention to aesthetics and design to have at least picked up on that by now.

</comment><comment><USER18> It would be really nice if Apple allowed OS X Server to be virtualized on bare-metal hypervisors.

<comment><USER19> They do! (Read the OS X Server license.) The "bare-metal" just has to be Apple-branded metal. :-)

<comment><USER20> After this, the only servers will be Mac Mini servers. Maybe they'll open up licensing for other servers.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> <idle speculation> With Apple about to open a giant data-center in North Carolina, they've clearly put some thought into what kind of servers they will be running in there, and there's little chance that it will be full of Xserves. If Google goes to the trouble of building its own servers, then a hardware company like Apple would almost certainly go to even greater lengths.

My theory? Their data-center runs on low-power iOS servers with custom- designed ARM CPUs and the same small Flash-SSDs that go into the new MacBook Airs.

The Xserve probably looks like an antique to Apple staff who have seen whatever cool tech is appearing in their new data center.

</comment><comment><USER22> I see some discussion around virtualization. 1-2 years ago I filed a radar and also sent a message to Jobs about allowing for Mac OS X Server in a virtualized environment and it was shot down, to say the least.

We ended up abandoning Mac OS X Server and our xserves. It was easier to deal with Macs and Active Directory than to develop an enterprise strategy blocked by Apple's Iron^W"Brushed Metal" curtain [1].

My sources from the inside mentioned that there were months of some pretty heated engineer-readable-only discussions on my radar #. And things change, but.

[1] Don't get me wrong, I swear by OS X and Apple hardware as a user OS.

</comment><comment><USER23> Virginia Tech bought 1100 of them, then the world's third fastest super computer:

<http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2004/01/2004-233.html>

<comment><USER6> Except that was one cluster, no one else tried it probably for good reasons. Had that cluster been replicated I'd believe their claims. I don't see what they meant by innovative management software.

<comment><USER24> More than just VT tried it.

<http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/>

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> The German hoster regfish offers XServe based servers: <https://www.regfish.de/cloud/macosx>

I wonder whether they'll continue offering OSX servers.</comment>


Show HN: Screenshot.rocks – Create browser mockups from screenshots - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/daveearley/screenshot.rocks <comment><USER2> For all commenters who do not see the value, these types of images are often used in marketing. If you share a screenshot without a device, it doesn't really look that good or marketable. The context and frame around the screenshot simply looks more professional and stands out better.

Toi could always throw the screenshot into figma and use a plugin to generate the images but this seems much simpler. As one commenter said, do one thing well and this seems to do it.

</comment><comment><USER3> Think I misunderstood the description. Correct me if I'm wrong, with this we can add nice looking browser toolbar on top of the screenshot, right?

I was under the impression that once the screenshot is uploaded, the elements in the page are extracted and can be moved around i.e. we can play with the buttons, form fields, texts or any identifiable element that can be separated by its boundary.

<comment><USER4> Thats two of us.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> You made a tool that makes screenshots but you don't have a single screenshot on the site and you have an unviewable purple rectangle as the only "image" on the git repo? I don't get your logic.

</comment><comment><USER6> I use BrowserFrame[0] fairly often for creating tutorial screenshots etc. This looks very similar. Was it inspired by that?

[0] [https://browserframe.com/](https://browserframe.com/)

<comment><USER5> Do any of these tools support gif animated screenshots?

<comment><USER7> Self-plug but [https://animockup.com](https://animockup.com) does :)

<comment><USER5> Super - this will certainly come in handy at some point, though I was primarily looking for browser screenshots at the moment (which I think your animockup doesn't do today)

<comment><USER7> Awesome. And indeed, I do plan on adding more mockups + the option for people to make their own (selecting the area where the video would be placed). It seems like there is some demand.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Don't ne disheartened by the comments asking the usefulness of this. I have been asked by lot of product guys to include browser in the screenshot so it looks better in their presentation.

</comment><comment><USER9> Everybody is doing screenshots the same way these days.

The only options missing are: show Apple laptop and cafe latte next to the laptop.

</comment><comment><USER10> I have possibly found a "bug". Not sure. Some websites, especially that take a while to load simply won't have the complete screenshot. Here's an example, the below link will only have the header in the screenshot without the header image :

[http://www.tusifahmad.com/](http://www.tusifahmad.com/)

</comment><comment><USER11> This is incredible! Love the simplicity in the UX design. Gonna post it on Twitter in a bit - would love to tag you but I can't find your Twitter.

One suggestion - a way for people to share the link directly or just copy the PNG file without downloading it will reduce friction for people who don't really have space on their devices.

Great job, Dave!

</comment><comment><USER12> How am I supposed to paste? I put an image on my clipboard, and so far all I've got by focusing all the focusable things and pressing Ctrl+V is the image filling the fake address bar.

My attempts at dropping images (from the same browser) are also failing to do anything.

Firefox, Windows.

</comment><comment><USER13> Would be nice to see more browser and operating system variations. Don't forget mobile browsers.

</comment><comment><USER14> It says Drop, paste, or click to upload an image, but pasting doesn't do anything.

</comment><comment> onion-soup So an entire tool to add "slick" macos browser top bar? Umm, thanks I guess... lol

<comment><USER15> Do one thing and do it well. Seems useful and I appreciate the simplicity.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> Very nice, maybe there should be a way to change the border color.

</comment><comment><USER17> It's nice. Im curious to know how does it work?

</comment><comment><USER18> Nice start; what are you plans for future (killer) features?</comment>


Show HN: Gratia – Share and Collaborate on Research - <AUTHOR> https://goodwill.zense.co.in/ <comment><AUTHOR> Hi HN,

I'm Gaurav, the creator of Gratia. Gratia began as a research project at IIIT Bangalore where we were experimenting with social networks and influence and engagement of individuals. One of our core findings was that existing social networks ignore lurkers/observers as being important. All the focus is on users who create content, upvote/like, share or comment. Users are known and measured by how much karma/upvotes/comments they receive, ignoring the lurkers who may not have done any of the actions but merely spent some time viewing the content.

This behaviour compels users to perform one of the actions for their presence to have some effect on the measuring points of other users. This is very different from real life where observers form an important part of communities.

For our research, we built a prototype pre-print management social network for researchers, similar to arxiv/researchgate incorporating our findings. The amount of time people spend on a research publication/pre-print is counted as a point to the author of that pre-print. This gives a deeper insight about how engaging your content was, compared to other metrics like upvote, views etc.

We are opening this out to the world. Please give your feedback.</comment>


Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients - <AUTHOR> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-magic-mushrooms-reset-brains-depressed.html <comment><USER2> The disturbing aspect of depression treatments that "reset" things is the meaning of reset at a nervous system level. In a lot of cases, that basically means "memory smoothing" or "neuron unlearning". Imagine how great it would be if all your traumatic memories felt mild or you forgot them entirely? Consider the downside of that with respect to positive memories. Especially those nice feelings you get when you conquer something was previously impossible or very hard for you. SSRIs do this even more aggressively. Most of the time negative memories are easier to recall than positive ones. Unlearning negative memories can have really weird and bad consequences though in the context of learning. Presumably at least a percentage of negative learning is useful. That goes away when you "reset" your neurons in this manner.

<comment><USER3> from the article:

 _" In a paper, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers describe patient-reported benefits lasting up to five weeks after treatment, and believe the psychedelic compound may effectively reset the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression."_

 _" Functional MRI imaging revealed reduced blood flow in areas of the brain, including the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped region of the brain known to be involved in processing emotional responses, stress and fear. They also found increased stability in another brain network, previously linked to psilocybin's immediate effects as well as to depression itself."_

The phrase 'reset' is being bandied around a lot, but it sounds like the scope of the therapy is much smaller than the concept of 'resetting your brain'. Not to say that there isn't a negative impact like you say, but I think the compartmentalization of the brain is more complicated than "good memory/bad memory".

Imagine a drug that just reduced the impact of memories with (for lack of a better wording) 'chemical metadata' categorized as being a negative experience or negative feedback. That seems to be the goal with these types of research into the chemical intervention of PTSD and depression.

> _Presumably at least a percentage of negative learning is useful. That goes > away when you "reset" your neurons in this manner. _

Well, maybe not. The learning that was the result of using the negative feedback is already in-place. It may be more difficult in the future to recall the negative feedback that lead to the learning taking place, but I have a hard time thinking that all the learning that is a result of that negative feedback will be nullified post-facto, since it was already positively reinforced.

I guess we'll see!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> The key point from the paper [1]:

>Decreased depressive symptoms were observed in all 19 patients at 1-week post-treatment and 47% met criteria for response at 5 weeks.

Small sample size, but definitely an interesting result. I was hoping they'd test again after a few months have passed, though.

[1] [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7)

</comment><comment><USER5> Fuck, I'd try this right now. Just stopped mirtazepene because it was less and less effective. Now I'm back to the black dog. I know of a university in the US that has someone with the even more magical DEA exclusion certificate, wouldn't trust informal economy's supply-chain.

<comment><USER6> Fwiw, at least in the places I've lived in the US,

The informal supply chain for such things is usually well established, and easy to find (and triangulate) quality within.

These mushrooms grow readily and in many places naturally in abundance (though as with all mushrooms of course you wouldn't want to pick them without being certain of your own abilities).

Erowid.org is a great resource for self-education btw.</comment></comment>


Startup Cities Index: best cities for startup employees - <AUTHOR> https://www.nestpick.com/best-cities-for-startup-employees/?currency=usd <comment><USER2> Genuinely curious about how Tel Aviv, Israel, is considered safer than Toronto, Canada (4.13 vs 3.93).

Yes, a city that is under threat from terrorist rocket barrages and who's national army is currently occupying a foreign state is safer than a city that barely sees homicides.

<comment><AUTHOR> Terrorism is fear word.

If you look at the raw numbers, Terrorism is just minor nuisance, even rocket barrages.

<comment><USER3> > _Terrorism is just minor nuisance_ [sic]

If you look at the raw numbers, only _3 people_ died in the boston bombings. But if you look at the economic costs,

\- The entire boston transit system was shut down for security reasons, disrupting the entire city

\- Large numbers of people did not go to work the next day, costing hundreds of millions in lost productivity

\- An enormous manhunt ensued, at the cost of over 300 million

\- Entire parts of the city were shut down, preventing them from going to work

\- 10s of millions in costs to the victims

\- Tens of thousands of hours of additional work for public employees

\- Billions in lost productivity nationwide as people focused on the media saga

All this cost the terrorists only $200 in explosives. In your words, billions of dollars in economic damage "is just minor nuisance".

<comment><USER4> In Israel the rocket attacks are a large motivation for collaboration between the military / tech sector and there's plenty of startups that actually focus on providing services around this, there's an app for example that warns people when some rocket attack is supposed to happen.

What you're identifying as cost here is actually a service that a business can provide. The close military connections (also supported by the conscription) are actually an asset for the country in terms of technological progress. Think of it like a messy version of the cold war.

<comment><USER5> That kind of brings us back to the original point. If there is enough demand that someone has created a rocket attack warning app, I don't consider it a safe city in any sense of the word.

<comment><USER6> Demand is proportional to perceived threat, not actual threat. This "ROI" is one of the reasons terrorism continues. A city can be quite safe even if its residents are not rational.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I think people significantly underestimate the economic power of the United States. For quality of life, income, and opportunity, you'd almost certainly want to be in, say, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City, or St. Louis (none of which are on the list) than Lagos, Nairobi, Bogota, Bratislava, or Bucharest (all of which _are_ on the list).

I know, I know. You think of those as _nowhere_ places. But that's because, again, you're vastly underestimating the economic power of the United States and its cities.

<comment><USER8> I don't know, I would much rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest than Pittsburgh (the only one out of your list I've been in) in terms of quality of life, income, and opportunity.

Language is a different story though...

<comment><USER7> As a St. Louisan, let me just say I'd rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest, too! Sounds super fun!

But, I don't think this holds up if you discount the novelty factor. In purely economic terms, you'd want to be in Pittsburgh.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Great resource.

The methodology seems pretty good, except maybe in the quality of life group.

If you're black, I can guarantee you that while your colleagues will treat you with respect, you will endure frequent incidents of racism outside of work in Helsinki.

While Singapore is safe, it's not without its problems. The Government there limits freedom of expression and assembly quite heavily.

It would be cool, if would be able to weigh the different categories according to your value system and what you see as a priority for yourself, and see how that affects the rankings. It seems as if the categories are currently equally weighted.

<comment><USER10> >If you're black ... you will endure frequent incidents of racism outside of work in Helsinki.

I've never been, but I've always heard that Scandinavian countries are usually far better about such things. Gotta say, I'm a little disappointing to learn that I've heard wrong.

Would you be willing to share some details?

<comment><USER9> I'll mention three things both of which received quite a bit of attention in the local media. Two are directly related to race, one is directly related to immigration but really about race.

About a year ago a Finnish mother of an 11-year-old son, who was adopted from South Africa when he was 6 months old, wrote about the experiences of her son. The son speaks perfect Finnish since he's been raised in Finland. He takes a school bus, but for some reason the school bus frequently doesn't stop for him, if he's at the stop by himself. He was in a national morning TV show telling about his experiences with children AND adults calling him names, exclude him socially and a woman living in the same building told him to leave his own playground. I'm not really surprised by what kids call each other, but adults calling an 11-year-old names is over the line.

The second story is about quite a few stories about people of color using public transportation in Helsinki. That's apparently an environment where racists feel especially emboldened to "express" their viewpoints to minorities. One of the most egregious examples was of an middle-aged woman yelling at full volume at a teenage girl (half white, half black) to leave the bus accompanied by liberal use of the n-word. Finally the woman also threatened to send her dog at the girl. The girl asked the woman to be removed from the bus. The driver refused, so the girl left instead in fear of her well being. Again, an adult threatening a child just because the child was black.

The third incident is the roughly three-month "demonstration" by neo nazis in front of the central train station in Helsinki. These Heroes of the Fatherland (bah!) decided that they'd demonstrate the current immigration practices by having an around-the-clock demonstration. That would've been probably ok, and the police really didn't intervene UNTIL several complaints about the neo nazis instigating fights or straight up assaulting passers by. Quite enlightening of the general attitude of some people in Finland is that the "camp", as it was called in the media, was visited by the Minister of the Interior of the Finnish Government. She is in charge of the police force in Finland. She was photographed giving the neo nazis a thumbs up.

Somewhat related is an incident where a member of another neo nazi organization killed someone in the same area. During another demonstration and counter-demonstration, a 28-year-old Finnish man walked by the neo nazis and spat on the ground in front of them. While he was walking away, one of the neo nazis chased after him and kicked him in the chest causing the man to fall down and hit his head. He died a few days later.

There's a very vocal and increasingly violent portion of the population in Finland who are racist and actively violent against people of color.

<comment><USER10> I concur that children hurling racial insults is... "acceptable" isn't the right word. Children can be monsters. But holy crap, adults saying stuff like that is inexcusable. Doubly so when they say it to children.

Overall, you paint a very troubling picture. Are these recent developments? By that I mean is this a situation that has gotten worse recently, or has it always been like this?

<comment><USER9> I haven't lived in Finland for 20 years, so I can't say for sure. Following the developments through the lense of the media, I would say it's gotten worse. Finland, for the longest time, was pretty insular and people's attitudes towards people of color were mostly just being curious.

The neo nazis have certainly become more visible, and more active for various reasons. It's the usual stuff...downtrodden people trying to find things to blame for their situation ("them" is always a good scapegoat), unemployment is high, there are more refugees coming to Finland like every other European country.

And then there's the one political party that is pretty brazenly taking advantage of the situation and advancing more or less pure racism as a policy. They scored big in the last parliamentary election cycle and actually manage to finagle themselves into the coalition that formed the Government. Their popularity has sunk lately to very low numbers, so they won't be anywhere near as vocal or influential after the next parliamentary elections.

There's also a definitely new development where "entrepreneurial" racists have figured out how to organize and profit from the situation. There are a few "for-profit" agitators that mask themselves as "Voices for the Silent Majority" and "Free Speech Advocates of the Highest Order" while spewing hate speech, encouraging violence against everyone disagreeing with them (incl. journalists and critics, or people appearing in viral videos on the "opposing" side) on their own blogs, online magazines or Facebook. These are the people who in the past would've been stapling their manifestos on light poles and other "billboards", but with the Internet they suddenly have a national/global audience. The most visible of them was operating from Spain and was arrested in Andorra for inciting violence against muslim immigrants last week. His trial will be a circus.

That being said, this is obviously not how the majority of people feel or act. It's just that it takes just one person in a bus full of people to ruin it...

<comment><USER10> >It's just that it takes just one person in a bus full of people to ruin it...

I think you're understating the problem. It also takes a bus full of people, driver included, to do nothing about it while it's going on.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I appreciate the effort that went into making this but the startup ecosystem ranking is nonsense.

Berlin - 2? Beijing - 26?

I'd like to be constructive but it appears to just be randomized.

<comment><USER12> Additionally, Dubai (#29) is above New York (42). As a woman, that does not compute.

<comment><USER13> As a person who's lived in both, this definitely makes literally no sense. The startup ecosystem in NYC is leagues above Dubai (which is honestly 90% joke, useless startups). NYC is by any reasonable metric (funding, unicorns, exits, etc.) in the top 5 startup ecosystem worldwide.

<comment><USER14> Agreed. The NYC JS scene is huge, entertaining, and very nicely knit. I've visited offices and been to meetups all around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (and even Jersey). We have our own conferences (EmpireJS and EmpireNode). There are great companies here in a variety of spaces. I believe that NYC, as a city, is extremely conducive to the "startup life".

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Happy to see my home base in Austin doing respectably at #13.

But London at 43? Seattle all the way down at 21? I find those results surprising. Is South Korean truly better in terms of gender equality than the USA? Many asian cultures are very male oriented.

<comment> mark-ruwt I was happy to see it there too, but if Cost of Living for San Francisco is 2.91 and Austin is 3.71, I'm having trouble putting much value in their metrics.

<comment><USER16> I stumbled on that one too. But of course a high cost of living results in a low score and vice versa. Probably should have called it affordability.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> For the Tech section; Vancouver, Canada has a lower salary for the experienced column than for the entry level column. I know tech compensation in Vancouver is poor but I don't think it gets worse with experience.

</comment><comment><USER18> I recently used [https://teleport.org/cities/](https://teleport.org/cities/) when comparing different options on where to move (it also has a startup scene section).

</comment><comment><USER19> Best is subjective. I've been in Helsinki and Berlin, and I find very difficult to rank Helsinki above Berlin. There's more than just work for example.

</comment><comment><USER20> As an Englishman, what gets me is how high the cost of living is in London relative to the salaries which are low when you compare them to the US or Switzerland. Us Brits like to think London is a world-class city with great tech but we just don't pay our people well whilst expecting them to rent tiny rooms... I've lived in the US the last 3.5 years and it has been fantastic. You earn way more over here...

</comment><comment><USER21> Here's the thing this chart misses. Metros. The value of SF isn't just the city itself but the entire SF Bay Area metro i.e. Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Oakland, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, ... I'm still missing a lot of cities but you get the picture. It dwarfs most of the places on this list except for maybe Seoul and the other US metros like LA and NY

Also a lot of people who work in SF don't actually live in SF.

Another big thing missing from this chart that you can't put into numbers are local 'attractions'. For example, if you live in the Bay Area you have relatively close access to Lake Tahoe, Napa Valley, and other really nice spots. With a place like Singapore, you pretty much seen everything over one weekend (Malaysia imo is boring).

</comment><comment><USER22> The lack of a column for family/child related benefits is pretty symptomatic for startup culture. Interesting nonetheless.

</comment><comment><USER23> How is tuition $30K in China? It just is not. It's more like $1000 per year at most.

</comment><comment><USER24> The relatively good affordability of SF compared to Berlin lets me doubt the methodology for that part of the score. Seoul and Hamburg are also not similarly affordable, but significantly more expensive than Berlin.

</comment><comment><USER25> Did anyone even try to scrub the data? Vancouver entry-level and experienced average salaries are $64,916 and $58,029 respectively. So the average experienced tech worker earns less than entry level?

</comment><comment><USER26> This site is extremely jarring on mobile. Please whoever made this fix that table at least. It renders only two columns at the time and does it terribly.

<comment><USER27> try swiping, it works

<comment><USER28> might be better on larger screens, it's extremely compressed on mine on portrait view, and standard view only shows two columns at a time

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> London is got to be much higher for sure!

</comment><comment><USER30> Doe's sorting on columns even work? It looks like for the most part it does, but then for others it doesn't...

</comment><comment><USER31> Well, clearly this is incorrect because San Francisco isn't number 1.

<comment><USER32> it is if you sort by 'startup ecosystem', but i think is deranked due to COL

<comment><USER31> To me that just means the weights are wrong.

<comment><USER33> It's the "best cities for startup employees" not "best cities for startups"

<comment><USER31> Right, so it still has the weights incorrect because San Francisco isn't #1.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Dear HN: Stop referring to women as a monolith. Thank you - <AUTHOR> Today I read a handful of comments that included a sentence starting with "women" as if women are a monolith.
For example, there was an argument about whether "women like bodybuilders" or "women don't like bodybuilders" — there are billions of women in the world, with dozens of intersections across race, class, culture, and sexuality to name a few. The argument doesn't make sense.
"women" are people who read our comments. I roll my eyes when I see women treated as objects or stereotypes or monoliths on hacker news. Today I thought I'd do something more.
Thanks for reading this post. Now we all know that referring to women as a monolith, as if speaking only to other straight men (who we falsely assume are ok speaking about women this way), is as rude as referring to "the gays" or "the [not-whites]" and as eye-sore as writing "you're [possessed object]".
Anyone else feeling this way? Thanks in advance for the thoughtful discussion. <comment><USER2> That happens to every group of people (e.g. "Silicon Valley," "investors," "Democrats," "reddit," "4chan," "politicians," etc.). It's not very logical, accurate, or effective, but I don't think it's supposed to be dehumanizing.

Edit: People like to find patterns, and use them to describe groups.

</comment><comment><USER3> Even better, stop considering genre/sex to define someone. Humans are complex, period.

</comment><comment><USER4> This isn't bad advice, but it's not really specific to women in particular. Essentially all generalizations we hear about different groups of people tend to be just as problematic.

</comment><comment><USER5> Not even between individuals, the same person feels differently depending on day, mood, the last movie they watched, the last person they talked to, the last thing they ate. smh.

</comment><comment><USER6> > Anyone else feeling this way?

Yes.

I strive to continually learn better ways to treat my fellow humans well. As a kid, I was told to treat others as I would like to be treated. That advice is better than nothing, but works extraordinarily poorly in many situations. Other humans have different desires and perspectives than I do.

I'm _very_ aware of the weirdness and variety of humans. My grandfather is a black man who joined SNCC in the 60s, left because of anti-semitism, and now supports Trump. I grew up as a mixed-race kid who alternated between pride and loneliness at being weird.

I was later advised to treat others as _they_ would like to be treated. That advice works better for personal relationships, but is missing a few key things:

1) Balanced Assertiveness for your own interests.

2) Clarity on how to learn how others like to be treated.

3) Mnemonics on how to _remember_ how any given person outside your 100-closest relationships likes to be treated.

4) Prioritization of what habits to follow to _prepare_ to treat others well while building relationships that meet your needs.

But earth has 7.5 billion humans who are way too busy to explicitly describe all their desires. So I've found it useful to make generalizations like, "Women I see at the gym strongly prefer to be left alone to focus on their workout". Sometimes I err in inappropriately applying a generalization. There's no ironclad 100% way to avoid that -- knowing when not to apply a generally-true statement requires fallible judgement of ambiguous information.

I think you know all of this.

\----

I think the core of your objection is to situations where it seems _obvious_ to you that a generalization is being over-applied and you'd like a way to say "Hey remember, not all women do/think X and this is meaningful in this situation because Y." and for HN to be a community which would habitually respond "Good point! We should account also for Z..."

I'd like that too.

I can only say that #notallmen here lazily throw around overbroad generalizations about women. But among those that don't, some of us find that the rhetorical tools we'd use to argue against those generalizations have been discredited.</comment>


Web2.0 HOW-TO design style guide - <AUTHOR> http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm <comment><USER2> Pretty decent tutorial. One of the few that actually explains why certain features in the current web2.0-trend are good.</comment>


Intercourse has been renamed to... - <AUTHOR> http://murrayhurps.com/post/74125863192/intercourse-has-been-renamed-to

<comment><USER2> Murray, I am glad you renamed it to Feedback Fast. This was one of those cool things that I wasn't very comfortable sharing on my Facebook, Twitter, and among my family members. I hope you'll get more traction on this.</comment>


Nate Silver Unloads on The New York Times - <AUTHOR> http://www.cjr.org/analysis/fivethirtyeight.php <comment><USER2> Silver got lucky a couple times with predictions and people believe everything he and his company says now. Now that they have clout, they use their predictions to push an agenda, which is why their predictions are so innaccurate.

<comment><USER3> [https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data)

You're welcome to use their data and come up with your own analyses or just not read what they write. It's not like they're particularly influential, even if they are highly regarded.

I'm also semi-interested to know what agenda you're talking about. I read every political article they publish, and I'm actually irritated by how neutral they are.

<comment><USER4> They sure dropped the neutrality when Nate Silver got mad at Jim Rutenberg for saying Silver missed the mark on his predictions. He definitely returned the high school lunchroom attitude back, and doesn't handle being wrong well at all.

<comment><USER3> We're definitely talking about different kinds of neutrality.

In previous comments, I was talking about neutrality in his articles, particularly the political ones. That kind of neutrality is what people usually call "journalistic integrity".

Responding to Jim Rutenberg was a personal issue and had nothing to do with journalistic integrity. Silver perceived an attack and responded with an attack. You can definitely argue that it was immature, but it has nothing to do with his political commentary.

I also think this is a relevant quote:

> _And this is someone who, by the way, doesn't talk about that we were > colleagues together at The New York Times, a person who cherrypicks the > facts he's looking at. So he mentions that in our Indiana prediction for the > Democrat election, the underdog won [i.e., Sanders over Clinton], but in > fact the favorite has won 51 of 56 times in our polls-only forecast. To me, > that's dishonest and unethical, frankly. And he doesn't really take the time > to truly understand what's going on._</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Vue js 2.1 Released - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/vuejs/vue/releases <comment><USER2> I'm really excited about the Scoped Slots feature. Finally it's really easy to create components that can be customized by the user from the outside. For example, it's now really easy to create a data table (with features like filters and sort), and with each row showing not only the data text, but also any other feature you might want to embed in it.

I believe there was a way (probably a complicated hacky way) to achieve this previously too, but I never investigated it too much. Now it's really easy.

Kudos to the Vue team for this release!</comment>


Vote Leave's 'Voter Intention Collection System' (VICS) Now Available for All - <AUTHOR> https://dominiccummings.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/on-the-referendum-20-the-campaign-physics-and-data-science-vote-leaves-voter-intention-collection-system-vics-now-available-for-all/ <comment><AUTHOR> So much good stuff in here it's hard to know where to start. If it's not true it's simply _great_ science fiction!

 _If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is – hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and never believe what advertising companies tell you about 'data' unless you can independently verify it._</comment>


Neymar seems to use Popcorn-Time to watch "Game of Thrones" - <AUTHOR> http://instagram.com/p/xh1R91Rtmq/

<comment><USER2> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neymar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neymar) : : Neymar Jr. is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and is the captain for the Brazil national team.

for anyone who was wondering</comment>


The Ugly Indian - <AUTHOR> https://www.facebook.com/theugl.yindian <comment><USER2> They have chosen to remain anonymous as the names and identities of specific individuals are not important.

Their philosophy: "Kaam chalu mooh bandh". (Stop Talking, Start Doing.)

Their guidelines are: 1\. No lectures, no moralising, no activism, no self- righteous anger. 2\. No confrontation, no arguments, no debates, no pamphlets, no advocacy. 3\. Don't step on anyone's toes, don't take sides in any ideological debates., 4\. Support existing systems and improve their effectiveness for the greater good. 5\. Basically, get real. Treat everyone with sincerity, respect and dignity first, and the greater good will be an outcome.

<comment><USER3> Wow. That is one of the most insanely good manifestos I have read.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Any Indian HN users have any more info?

<comment><USER5> Some info from a tedx video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo)

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> This is so cool! You guys are setting a great example and doing an amazing job! Kudos to you!

</comment><comment><USER7> I should take notes. My city is dirty and I am ashamed.

</comment><comment><USER8> Context?

<comment><USER9> Context: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIUBSmy5stAc2t5dGZCWDFDNTA...](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIUBSmy5stAc2t5dGZCWDFDNTA/view)

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> That's brilliant, really. A beautification movement.

You don't have to be wealthy to have clean streets, manicured gardens, etc. It starts with a lack of tolerance for substandard conditions.

<comment><USER11> Absolutely right. There are many cultures where despite poverty, public areas are well organized and clean.

Inner city USA and much of India, sadly, are not so.</comment></comment>


Site that lets you record and automatically phone-blast SOPA supporters for you - <AUTHOR> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/reverse-robocall-campaign-lets-citizens-phone-blast-sopa-supporters.ars

<comment> nick-dap Activism needs to be reinvented.

Legislators are already not paying attention to email, because so much of it is automated. At best, some legislators tally email, many of them don't pay attention to it at all.

Automating phone calls is an inevitable continuation. Right now, phone calls have _some_ impact. Unfortunately, technology will make calling less effective.

On one end we have software, on the other we have the poor Congressional staffers who have to pick up the phone every time it rings. Eventually the staff will become numb to phone calls, stop paying attention, and turn to people sitting in their offices for guidance (lobbyists, who get paid to be there, or, less likely, people like you and me who find the time to actually go and talk to them.)

We have a disconnect between taking the smallest step (sending an email, calling) and the next one, physically going somewhere. This is why we -- we the tech industry, in partnership with visionaries from the non-profit space -- have to reinvent activism. To make the transition from the online to the offline world smoother. And to make the time spent online more meaningful.

Increasingly, people look online first. The dozens of petition sites -- Change.org is a full social network type of deal -- are making it easy to confuse "doing something" with "doing something effective."

<comment><USER2> >Activism needs to be reinvented.

No, activism is effective (see: GoDaddy, Arab Spring, Montgomery Bus Boycott), but it's hard and takes real work. It's the political system that needs to be fixed. Those lobbyists _should not be out in the lobby_. The fact that they have more clout because they are right there is the major problem. Saying we need to get boots on the ground so we can compete with lobbyists is to miss the core problem that we shouldn't need to compete with lobbyists. We should be able to email, call or walk into an office and have our voice heard. Our vote should matter more than money.

In the meantime, yes, we need to be active enough to change the political system, but changing activism should only lead to the larger goal of changing the fact that activism shouldn't need to be changed.

<comment> nick-dap Activism can be effective, but certainly not by default. Non-profit campaigns fail about as well as startups.

When I say reinvented, I mean that we need innovative ways to use technology in the advocacy space. Like you said, activism takes real work. Clicking "Like" on FB is giving people the false impression that they have actually done something.

Where we agree is that the political system is broken and that it is a much more important issue.

I've been fighting for a particular bill for nearly a decade (see my profile, if you care to know) and the thing that I've heard consistently, regardless of what season or year it is, regardless of who controls Congress, regardless of who is the President, is this: "now is not a good time to make the push, because the election is coming up." If there is ANY election in the next two years, Congress simply STOPS. In other words they are in a perpetual election cycle.

We make the push anyway, we inch closer, but fail (always due to filibuster and votes splitting evenly along party lines, regardless of actual stance of specific legislators), then we spend YEARS in the election cycle. I've seen this happen too many times...

I'm starting to think that all progressive organizations should drop their pet issues and focus on campaign financing reform first.

<comment><USER2> >I'm starting to think that all progressive organizations should drop their pet issues and focus on campaign financing reform first.

We certainly agree on that point. I believe publicly financed campaigns and term limits will bring the United States greater change than any other two policy changes can.

That said, I don't think slactivism is really a _change_ per se. It's hard to believe that people who click the "Like" button on Facebook would be out picketing or writing their congressman on any issue. What you could argue is that it at least forces them to consider a position that they might again consider when they are standing in the ballot box.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I can't imagine this having much positive effect– if I were a politician, I'd just hang up as soon as I realized it was a robocall.

If anything, it'll probably make it more difficult for actual people trying to talk to their representatives to be heard.

<comment><USER4> "Sir we're getting all these calls about this sopa thing. They're automatic but there's a lot of them and they're all different. Its starting to tie up our phones."

...is a hell of a lot better than "no mention at all about that entertainment lobbyist's bill I rubber-stamped and then never heard anything about. Must not have been important."

<comment><USER5> I could see how if this starts happening for a lot of issues and becomes a popular thing, they would make this sort of thing illegal.

<comment><USER6> That sounds great for the telemarketing and political system, to me! I tire of calls about my political stances on random issues... as well as telemarketing calls.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Direct link to set up a SOPA/PIPA robocall:

[http://www.reverserobocall.com/products/sopa-and-pipa- propon...](http://www.reverserobocall.com/products/sopa-and-pipa- proponents-301-offices)

</comment><comment><USER7> Robocalling strikes me as somewhat pathetic, regardless of who uses it. Sort like spamming people.

<comment><USER8> There are plenty of legitimate uses for it where you just want to get a point across.

<comment><USER7> >There are plenty of legitimate uses for it

Name one.

<comment><USER9> In my town, tornado and blizzard alerts, including road closings and school closings are delivered by phonebots.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I especially liked this part:

"SOPA isn't the only target of Reverse Robocall, and it's not an issue that the site specifically takes a stand on. In an interview with Ars, Dakin said that the site is a non-partisan, for-profit effort aimed at providing a service for advocacy groups, in the same vein as the petition site Change.org. But the service, launched in beta just before Thanksgiving, is also an outgrowth of Dakin and Titus' work as privacy advocates to work against robocalls by politicians, he said."

Why not take a stand on it, rather then just worrying about your bottom line.

</comment><comment><USER10> I really hope an idea like this will make an impact. But I have a hard time thinking the politicians won't simply ignore the robocalls like we do and then think it still makes sense to robocall us.

<comment><USER11> I'm not saying it's an effective method, but to be fair, if the politicians are going to ignore it they (or one of their minions) will at least have to confront that decision.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> What do they hear?</comment>


"Pawn Stars" Teaches How *Not* To Negotiate - <AUTHOR> http://infochachkie.com/pawn-stars/

<comment><USER2> Many people that look to pawn items look at the item as opposed to the economics, where the pawnbroker is looking at the economics, they have no attachment to the item nor value. Even if the person presents a good deal to them, one has to realize that there will be another person that comes along that will settle for a 30-50% discount on the actually value of the item. Sure it is a different item and not "the" item that that person is selling, but the pawnbroker does not care, the item could be total junk so long as they can make their massive margin. Once you realize this and that the pawnbroker has limited capital and store space you then start to see the picture that there is no way you are going to get a fair price minus a decent margin. Because the next better deal is literally waiting behind you.

You are actually in a better position to reduce their margin when you are on the other end of the transaction. When you are standing with cash in hand, trying to chip away at an item that they have for sale. In this situation you hold all the cards so long as you do not reduce their margins past their absolute minimum. In which case, if it is a niche items that will not sell to just anyone, it is better to negotiate, walk away, let the item age on their self and then come back and negotiate again. Time is the best negotiation tactic, when dealing with shelf inventory, the pawnbroker will try to compress your time, your goal should be to expand it because expansion of time means that the pawnbroker eats up margin that he cannot recoup. An item has a fixed price and time eats at the margin built into that price.

Unfortunately Ebay has become kind of an insurance safety net for pawnbrokers and reduced the ability to negotiate for a portion of the deep discounts that they receive, but it cuts both ways too, it has also provided a medium to avoid the pawnbroker entirely. I cannot fathom for the life of me, why someone would pawn, with the exception of hot goods and emergencies in which a person needs cash right now.</comment>


Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint - <AUTHOR> https://torrentfreak.com/hacker-mods-old-calculator-to-access-the-internet-casio-files-dmca-complaint-200523/ <comment><USER2> This isn't the only bad PR tactic I've seen from Casio lately. There's a piano reviewer on YouTube who noticed a flaw in the action of a new digital piano they make, and their responses varied from claiming he was lying to _reportedly_ spamming his videos with negative comments. Here's the 3 relevant videos where he first raises the issue, responds to Casio, then just straight up dismantles the piano and proves it:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xHgXFEJUE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xHgXFEJUE)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKAfScFK0QU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKAfScFK0QU)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqNK3w-2C6I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqNK3w-2C6I)

<comment><USER3> Whelp, Casio has officially made its way onto my list of brands to never buy.

<comment><USER4> whelp

noun

the young of the dog, or of the wolf, bear, lion, tiger, seal, etc.

<comment><USER5> Dictionary error. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whelp](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whelp)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> The following changes should be made to DMCA:

1\. Forbid delegation of enforcement to third parties. If you're the copyright holder, you or your actual attorney may be the only ones to file a complaint. The copyright holder is solely responsible for such DMCA complaints.

2\. Complaints found to be invalid shall result in reimbursement by the copyright holder an amount equal to three times the costs incurred to defend the complaint, including time, legal fees, etc., to the aggrieved party.

3\. Three strike rule: if a copyright holder commits a false complaint action three times for a particular work, that work's copyright is immediately invalidated and shall revert to the public domain.

<comment><USER7> 1\. There's no reason to prohibit agent relationships, as long as liability attaches to the rights owner.

2\. Strict liability is a good idea, but the exact amount should be up to discretion of the court. Some cases are more egregious than others.

3\. This needs to be a ratio. If thousands of complaints are valid, it should require more than 3 mistaken ones. And the penalty is too harsh. Instead, they should be required to actually sue to enforce their copyright, instead of filing complaints.

<comment><USER8> Yeah, #3 sounds like an invitation for abuse... keep submitting work designed to trick rights holders into submitting claims until you get three. If you have infinite chances, you will eventually get them to strike 3 invalid claims.

<comment><USER9> Can rights holders be tricked into committing perjury?

Seems like they'd have to do this on their own with no prompt from anyone else.

<comment><USER10> They can be made to be convicted of perjury. If you have enough trials, you're going to be falsely convicted a few times.

<comment><USER9> Sure but not at all what we are talking about here

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> > I am writing on behalf of CASIO [...] The code the repository contains is > proprietary and not to be publicly published. The hosted content is a > direct, literal copy of our client's work. I hereby summon you to take > expeditious action: to remove or to disable access to the infringing content > immediately, but in any case no later than ten days as of today.

The code is not even for the calculator, it's for a "esp8266-12E" which is an arduino-like board. This has more to do with the plastic case than electronics or code:

If you watch the video of the modification to the calculator at the bottom of the article you can see the only thing the calculator board appears to share is a power source - this is essentially a duct tape mod that went to the effort of fitting a separate computer and display inside of the case. If you can find a fork (git links in the comments) you will also notice that it's all arduino code.

Casio simply dislikes the mod because it adds a separate computer to their exam-approved calculator case, turning it into something only suited to formative assessment while being difficult to differentiate from the original. However the repo has pretty much nothing to do with their calculator other than the fact that it was once used on an arduino board that was glued inside of a casio calculator in a youtube video - IANAL but pretty sure DMCA has no ground - their statement certainly seems to be a lie based on the fact that the code is not for the Casio, then again they probably also have no legal grounds against people using their own plastic casio calculator cases for something that's not a casio circuit... so this is quite possibly a willful abuse of DMCA processes on Github to get it illegally removed.

[EDIT]

On closer inspection it should be possible to invalidate the complaint on the spot... the full complaint is included in the article, including a link to the supposed "original copyrighted work":

[https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=004&pi...](https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=004&pid=729)

It contains some generic example formulas in a simple looking expression language which I expect runs on their calculators. Not exactly something you could set up a http connection with, and definitely not a "literal copy" of the arduino code in the other repo.

<comment><USER12> "... to their exam-apporved calculator case" is a very good point, this calculator is basically used by every engineering student in their exam. And it clear that they feared that their sales might get hurt.

<comment><USER13> The first thing I thought when I saw that is that they are scared this will affect their certification. That fear, I think, is understandable even if the response is too heavy handed.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> > Neutrino informs us that he has already filed a DMCA counternotice with > Github to get his project back.

I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the balance of knowledge/power/experience in the counter-notice process. The repo owner is at a huge disadvantage when going up against the experienced and expensive lawyers filing these claims. Even when the law is on the developer's side it's almost an unwinnable battle.

<comment><USER7> In this case, Casio is unlikely to file a frivolous lawsuit, so the content will go back up.

The only disadvantage is if the rights owner is willing to file a frivolous lawsuit, and in that scenario their lawyers can get sanctioned by the court.

Look at e.g. Richard Leibowitz for an aggressive copyright attorney who's been sanctioned by various courts.

<comment><USER15> Responding only to this part:

> The only disadvantage is if the rights owner is willing to file a frivolous > lawsuit, and _in that scenario their lawyers can get sanctioned by the > court_.

It's difficult in many jurisdictions for a defendant to actually get even their lawyers' fees covered by a frivolous litigant, much less sanctions for the litigant and/or their lawyers. Especially if, as the initiating party, they pick a friendly jurisdiction without anti-SLAPP laws.

<comment><USER7> I'm not quite sure about that framing. Every jurisdiction reserves the right to sanction attorneys for frivolous cases.

The framing I'd prefer is that there are meritless cases that don't quite rise to the level of frivolous; the legal terminology here is "a good faith extension of existing law." I think the legal system properly doesn't penalize such cases. If a case isn't sanctionable, we need to accept the consequences as a trade-off for allowing everyone access to the courts.

That being said, I support stronger anti-slapp laws - and I say this as someone who's faced a meritless and possibly frivolous anti-SLAPP motion myself (discussed in other recent HN threads). Personally, the anti-slapp laws have only hurt me, and I still support their expansion.

<comment><USER15> They reserve the right to sanction, but it _rarely_ happens, even for repeated infringers.

And I disagree with your framing. There are plenty of truly frivolous cases brought to harass or compel poorer entities, and it mostly works (maybe less well against speech in jurisdictions with anti-SLAPP).

<comment><USER7> I feel uncomfortable with an alternative world where it's significantly easier to sanction attorneys. I suspect many legitimate cases would not end up being brought, and legal costs would go up. There's a trade-off to be made.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I,ve seen the video at the bottom and the guy uses at most the calculator plastic case to house a oled display and a ESP. How can Casio (or someone on their behalf) find any plausible argument to file any complaint at all?

I guess if people had to pay at least one dollar to file a complaint like this, you'd have less.

Also, why did github removed the repo before checking things out first?

<comment><USER15> > Also, why did github removed the repo before checking things out first?

This is how they absolve themselves of liability for user content under the DMCA.

<comment><USER16> Guilty until proven innocent...

<comment><USER17> That's what counter-notices are for. It's more like guilty until you say "No, I'm not".

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> From what I was able to see on YouTube and read in the repository's clone, the author of the original repository did not use the calculator's electronics or software at all. They only slightly modified its hardware by removing the solar panel and then installed some completely independent electronics in there.

Yet, REACT (also known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Network), which represents Casio, claims that:

> The code the repository contains is proprietary and not to be publicly > published. The hosted content is a direct, literal copy of our client's > work.

I would be interested to know which of their products uses WiFi and connects to a Firebase database.

</comment><comment><USER19> I don't know about you, but I observe that when a company's legal filings outweigh its product innovations, its management is sleepwalking on autopilot, being caretaken by lawyers, and is soon to be fed to the private equity wolves.

</comment><comment><USER20> What in the actual fuck! I laughed so hard at this video just to watch in disgust how the DCMA and it's lackey GH would take down a repo that has nothing to do with Casio other than the name perhaps. Where is the freedom to tinker? If I modify my Toyota Corolla to take a Ferrari engine would Ferrari or Toyota come to my house and take my car away?

Fight for your right to repair:

[https://www.eff.org/issues/right-to-repair](https://www.eff.org/issues/right- to-repair)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k)

<comment><USER21> The right to repair (and mod) has been a part of contemporary car culture for around a century (at least in the US), and it's also why there is a huge aftermarket for it. If anything, I think Tesla is currently the only automaker who would disapprove.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> All the modern calculator companies are hostile to their user base. Their actual customers are the textbook companies, standardized test firms, and school districts, it seems.

There is an exception, the SwissMicros people[1]. But that seems to be about it in this modern era. HP used to be excellent as their main market was engineers and scientists and other professionals. But the Prime is obviously made for the school calculator market.

It seems that large companies have decided the school market is the only one which matters now, and compliance with standardized testing rules is more important than other considerations. That's probably why used HP calculators from the golden age cost as much or more than a new TI, Casio, or Prime.

[1] [https://www.swissmicros.com/](https://www.swissmicros.com/)

</comment><comment><USER23> The easy solution to all these source-code DMCA problems seems to be self-host your git repo in a sensible country. Why don't projects do that to begin with ? Every week some github drama makes it to the front page. github is not the same as git. If enough people host it elsewhere, maybe somebody in the US will wake up. There isn't any other solution to it.

</comment><comment><USER24> What are the penalties for wrong DMCA complaints?

<comment><USER7> It's very difficult to establish the bad faith required to win a 512(f) misrepresentation case, but it's doable and you can win damages.

<comment><USER25> In the UK you could sue for libel, because this suit potentially defames the public character of the accused and could cause both personal and professional losses.

It would put the burden of proof on Casio, requiring convincing proof that the claims in the lawsuit are true and neither vexatious nor frivolous.

That would be interesting to watch, because I get the impression Casio's legal team have no idea what they're doing. They're really trying to protect Casio's status in exams, but _to do that_ they're talking about source code and using the DMCA as a legal gambit.

I doubt they're really interested in whether source code was used or even what source code is. Someone on the team thought "OK - sounds good - we can make that stick" and here we are.

If it's really not true - which sounds likely, from the comments - it's sloppy and lazy work and leaves any number of open goals for countersuits.

<comment><USER7> In the US you only can't sue for libel because DMCA preempts all federal and state causes of action - instead you sue for misrepresentation under 512(f).

But for false claims of infringement that don't involve copyright, a libel claim can work. I've previously mentioned my own 8 figure lawsuit against tp- link for false claims of counterfeiting; I have antitrust, tortious interference, declaratory judgement, and defamation (i.e. libel) causes of action. I know of at least one similar case with a multi-million dollar jury award from 1999 (see Alexander binzel v nu-tecsys.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Have they even watched the vid?

He doesn't touch the computing part of the computer, he just fits a micro controller with screen, battery and wifi in the case and removes the solar panel and a bit of plastic for that.

Sadly that makes the whole project a bit less exciting, but still :)

</comment><comment><USER27> I think this is to keep the calculators in schools. Teachers may start freaking out if they think students could cheat using this hack.

<comment><USER28> If a student could go through all the soldering and programming involved, they should automatically pass some freshman college engineering course.

Casio missed out on a new market for tinkers...

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> "This week REACT wrote to Github, "<snip> "CASIO may somehow feel it's in the right here but it does seem just a little bit petty."

More likely REACT reacted on their own as that's what their entire existence is about. This was probably yet again some lawyer working for the group that has no knowledge of coding, see's the trade name of a company they are representing, and took action.

Of course, I'm just playing armchair QB and have no knowledge whatsoever either way. He said, EvilCorp said, He loses.

</comment><comment><USER30> The twitter account @CasioMaths seems to the be last remaining active Casio calculator twitter account (appears to be UK based) I can find. I've already tweeted them to point out the error of their ways. Perhaps others could follow suit, but obviously in a polite and civilised manner, let's not have an abusive pile-on.

</comment><comment> daniel-thompson It's shitty behavior, for sure, but it's rational given what I assume to be their incentive: to stay in the good graces of the people who set calculator policy for standardized tests. The College Board has an explicit whitelist and general guidelines here: [https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the- tes...](https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the- test/calculator-policy)

> You are not allowed to use any of the following items as a calculator: ... > Models that can access the Internet, have wireless, Bluetooth, cellular, > audio/video recording and playing, camera, or any other smart phone type > feature

<comment><USER31> > It's shitty behavior, for sure, but it's rational

Can we just reflect on that though? The College Board states on their website that, "We value critical thinkers who assess the accuracy and relevancy of data and use it to support ideas and solve problems; who communicate clearly and concisely; and who make it a point to master the technologies relevant to their work." Their job is helping to identify which students possess the knowledge and reasoning skills to succeed in higher education. And yet, it is rational to assume that the College Board itself will not use critical thinking nor a mastery of calculator technology in this case. Instead, they will respond bureaucratically, banning a model of calculator, because a hobbyist hollowed one out and stuffed some electronics inside. When did the absurd become the rational?

<comment> daniel-thompson To be clear, I was saying Casio's behavior is rational, not the College Board's.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> Does anyone have a clone of the original repository?

<comment><USER33> Here's a fork [https://github.com/rida1148/Hack-Casio- Calculator](https://github.com/rida1148/Hack-Casio-Calculator)

<comment><USER34> Don't you just love the Streissand effect? :-)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> Somewhere, someone in Casio is so done with life that they figured that this was a reasonable way to spend their time and company money...

<comment><USER36> Pretty sure this was done at the behest of someone who was afraid that calculator could lose its exam certification, something which is a Big Deal for them.

</comment></comment><comment><USER37> One product I absolutely loved from Casio was their Japanese electronic dictionaries. At some point they replaced their black and wide LCD screens with backlit full-color LCD screens and the hardware became much slower. I've been looking for resources on reverse engineering or jailbreaking the late 2000's models, but haven't been able to find much.

</comment><comment><USER38> _freedom-to-tinker' proponents throwing their hands up in despair wondering why big corporations have nothing better to do._

This is not about Casio really, this is about React who need to justify their existence to their sponsors. Casio probably wasn't even aware this was happening at first.

</comment><comment><USER39> It is concerning that big companies have such undue influence on industry and engineering of an individual who legally bought a product, and was not in any way stealing it.

</comment><comment><USER40> Wasnt aware Casio was running their calculators using ESP8266. That would be the only plausible reason for copyright claim ...

</comment><comment><USER41> Quite sad, company providing calc tools to learn .. most probably aiming at future tech heads.. bashes on guy who does tech.

</comment><comment><USER42> I think in this case, the calculator circuitry remains the same. The only thing modified was the case.

</comment><comment><USER43> His big mistake was using the words "Hack Casio" in the name of his project. heheh.

</comment><comment><USER44> Intellectual property is anti-competitive and monopolistic which is anti capitalistic. It started out as a reward system for authors and inventors. What we now have is an obscenity becauase we are rewarding corporations that neither produce nor invent anything. The legal loophole that a corporation is a person is false. Adam Smith did not have that in mind when he was extolling the virtues of capitalism. We need to force liability based capitalism without personhood and breakup all conglomerates.

<comment> kube-system People who have rights individually should still have those rights when they assemble.

The practical consequences of removing personhood would be disastrous for the rights of individuals who work at a corporation and the rights of individuals who want to contract with a corporation.

If you think it's hard to sue a bad corporation now, just think about how hard it would be if you had to individually name each of the owners in a suit.

<comment><USER44> Find an email thread that links them ?

For people thinking you need limited liability to be a big company ... you don't. Bloomberg is not an LLP as far as I know.

<comment> kube-system Don't think that thread exists for any public companies, most email servers can't handle that many recipients.

Bloomberg is an LP which must have at least one partner with limited liability.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER45> WT actual F??

From GitHub's policy on submitting a DMCA takedown notice[1] on what the complaint must contain:

> _(7) Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that use > of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is > not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law. I have > taken fair use into consideration."_

> _(8) Also include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of > perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am > the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an > exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."_

The claimed " _original content_ " (preloaded programs for a fx-FD10 Pro) cited in the takedown notice[2] isn't even remotely relevant to the physical host that the hack targets (a fx-991MS). After watching the 11 min video and without even looking at the repo contents, it's so obvious that REACT couldn't possibly have submitted this DMCA takedown notice " _in good faith_ " given the standalone hack has _absolutely nothing_ to do with the target host's firmware/software--or anything published on Casio's website--to begin with!

So " _under penalty of perjury_ ", React is exploiting how GitHub passively handles these DMCA takedown notices...I mean seriously, an irrelevant download link that clearly wasn't reviewed by anything that constitutes human intelligence can nerf an entire repo?? Unfortunately, this has been the meta for as long as I can remember and this pragmatically non-existent qualifying bar is just 1 reason why I don't play on GitHub.

But the part I find to be the most egregious that it appears no one is really talking about? To defend himself, this guy has to satisfy GitHub's counter notice policy[3], in particular:

> _(3) Provide your contact information. Include your email address, name, > telephone number, and physical address._

The policy doesn't even require explaining to GitHub why the takedown is bullshit; it's just to signal the other side that you're willing to defend the thing under scrutiny against further legal action. The guy already pulled the counter notice trigger, but without dedicated legal representation and/or the public media on your side, it's difficult for any 1 dood in the capacity of private citizen to expose personal identifiable information and embrace the threat of a legal harassment campaign by an organization of legal professionals. React knows they don't have anything, but if the victim doesn't have balls + legal counsel + disposable income, the gambit is that they really won't need anything either.

[1] [https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to- submi...](https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submitting-a- dmca-takedown-notice#your-complaint-must-)

[2] [https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-2...](https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-20-Casio.md)

[3] [https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to- submi...](https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submitting-a- dmca-counter-notice#your-counter-notice-must)</comment>