skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must admit I'm surprised at this verdict. I agree he probably has broken US copyright law, but the crown also broke several laws while conducting the case - data from his servers was sent to the US without legal authorisation, for instance.

From a non-legal perspective, many Kiwis are uneasy at the level of force that the police used in the raid, and also at just how far NZ police bent over backwards at the behest of an overseas commercial entity.
Considering there isn't a way to calculate the amount of money lost due to piracy in any accurate way it's essentially a made up number. Are the people who downloaded their content from mega likely to purchase the content if it isn't available from mega or is it more likely they'd use yet another piracy service?
The New Zealand government spent $5.8M NZD prosecuting a man for a law that holds a maximum fine of $150,000 in the country he's being prosecuted in.

Bollocks.
I have to agree, from direct experience on some long-lived projects.
Code entropy is a surprisingly strong force, and needs a strong technical culture to balance and keep a code base healthy.
It's not. It's the other charges they slapped on top to justify it.
The original federal indictment of Dotcom.

https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/vaed/275314/1-0.h...
Yeah. I have used it with love. Moonscript is compiled beforehand to Lua, so it works the same. Lua's syntax is very nice, but the conciseness of Moonscript is nice for a lot of things.
Here’s How Poorer Shoppers Are Charged More Over Christmas
No it's not just you. I find it hard to explain but GitHub does have the right amount of white/empty space to make consumption of information easier. I've always hated the simplicity of GitHub's layout, but after studying their commits and branches pages for my product, I've grown to appreciate their simplicity.

It's the little things that GitHub does, that I've found makes the difference. Take GitLab's branches page here:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/branches

vs

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/branches

By limiting the number of branches shown and by creating strong visual breaks/barriers, they make it way easier for the user to focus. Seeing a wall of branches is okay ... when that's what you want, but as a default, by organizing it the way that GitHub does, they make their branches page significantly easier to consume.

I also find the buttons too be a little too big in GitLab and they don't have enough definition to them, to help you focus on them. Creating merge requests and comparing branches is the focal point of the branches page, and they should make it easier for your eyes to lock onto them.

Like I said, it's the little things that I can't explain that I've come to respect and I don't think it's just because we are familar with GitHub.
Federal indictment of Kim Dotcom
There is this: https://projecthawkthorne.com/ which is based on an episode of the TV show Community.

It is open-source and based on community effort. https://www.reddit.com/r/hawkthorne https://github.com/hawkthorne/hawkthorne-journey
Yes you have.
But .NET definitely struggled with cultural issues around making APIs virtual. Because of Microsoft's strong 'no breaking changes' rule they were extremely cautious about adding virtuals- in my experience it was not unusual to see it costed at 1 week dev/test time for a single virtual on an existing method (in WPF).

C++ is also non-virtual by default and I think it's worked out OK.
I'm psyched. I'd be even more psyched if it was Telegard. :)
Startup Personalizes Books for Children, with Robot as Co-Author
I've got to say that this looks like it was fixed to me. The judgement was predetermined at the behest of the US government and the MPAA, a commercial entity.

I confess that I'm not well traveled, and that I've never been to the Southern Hemisphere, but how independent is the NZ judiciary?
Everything I Needed to Know About Writing Software I Learned While Being a Software Engineering Intern and Occasionally Reading Hacker News

(1) Write code

(2) Follow good software engineering principles

(3) Have a public profile

(4) Negotiate a higher salary

(5) Never forget that dispensing wisdom through perhaps tenuous analogies is an integral aspect of (3), and arguably also of (2).
Turnover: the amount of business transacted during a given period of time.
How much BitCoins change hands in a month, for example. Actually, plotting that in dollars is even more correct, as electricity costs are not paid with BitCoins.

Ultimately, that is a graph of dollars moved vs dollars wasted. (I explained the difference of "spent" and "wasted" in a different comment.)
How to Convert Video to PVP
PVP, short for portable video player, is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media like audio, images, video files, etc. It is a very secure and convenient way to carry your favorite movies along with you for enjoying anywhere.
Sothink Video Converter has collected various PVPs into its profile library, and provides you the easiest way to convert video to PVP and astonishing output quality. The whole process only takes you three steps. Move on for the details:http://www.sothinkmedia.com/video-converter/convert-video-to-pvp.htm
Really tired of seeing this point raised every time there's a security flaw, proprietary platform takes an action people don't like, etc
Put Facebook's Free Basics Service on Hold, TRAI Tells Reliance Communications
This is the end of the dotcom era.
Yeah, that is the thing, as a Kiwi, I'm very uneasy about the influence of US law in NZ.
I've got no problem with dot com going to Jail, but under the laws of the countries he does business in. They are stretching the extradition treaty pretty far on this one.
No one is saying Kim is a saint, but I'd like to think as a New Zeland citizen my country would not give me up the US for breaking US laws, while on NZ soil.
We are completely independent. But that doesn't stop our political leaders from bending over to make a good impression with the United States. I wouldn't be surprised if the United States threatened trade agreements to have things bent in its favour.
How to control your HR contracts
- I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.

Riiiiight.... Not conflating at all....
I think it's really silly to make this about organic or sustainable ingredients. It's a simple matter of food safety, handling & cooking food correctly. All the talk about "smugness" smacks of ressentiment. Not a good look.
Is it possible to write a DownThemAll!-like extension?

I'm still a bit confused on why I should continue to use Firefox when all the features of extensions are stripped to be compatible with Chrome. What am I missing?
GitLab Pages (EE only)

That's it. I'm pirating GitLab EE.
This is exactly how I feel about it.

It's not just this case obviously. I used to be proud to be a New Zealander, but the last 5-10 years have made it dreadfully obvious we're actually being operated by foreign and commercial interests, and local/national leaders have no interest in changing that.

Sure, it's probably not as bad as certain other places, but it no longer fills me with pride. I'm tired of this country :(
Extradited for copyright infringement. Brilliant. This is what we've come to.
As another kiwi I couldn't agree more. It has been sickening to watch NZ bend over backwards to serve the USA. This has nothing to do with copyright infringement, and everything to do with bending over for the USA to maintain its benefits.
Would you rather your country act as a safe haven to criminals in exchange for money?
Normally they are pretty good here, but there have been a growing number of law changes that seem to favour the MPAA. It seems like there are a few strings being pulled.
I can't find the link but the reason pricing is hidden is because you do this

"It costs $10,000"
...if they don't balk:
"per month"
...if they don't balk:
"per user"
...if they don't balk:
"per CPU"
What is source code? Defining the concept of “source code”
Even bringing a literal gun onto a plane wouldn't help someone hijack it now. The only reason 9/11 worked was because the threat of it happening was unheard of, now everyone would swarm them before they had a chance of getting anywhere near the locked cockpit
Shady guy, shady service, shady investigation, shady trial, shady judgement, shady result. Did I miss anything?
He's being extradited now, which means that it's US laws that apply now. I don't think this particular fact is evidence of any law breaking, unless the email the user sent said they were pirating the show. Because it's hard to prove that Kim knew what "Dexter" was, and even if he did, it's hard to prove he didn't assume it was uploaded legitimately (by Showtime, for example).

That said, there's a little more to it than just promptly addressing DMCA takedown requests. In order to be eligible for the DMCA safe-harbor, a company must not be aware of specific cases of copyright infringement on their website without taking some action agais them.
Thanks for the varying levels of explanation (thanks to viraptor too). I think part of the reason I was confused is because GitHub's web hook setup allows for a supplied shared secret which, based on what I understand from above, is not as secure as it could be unless the user ensures the shared secret has sufficient entropy. If I'm still not getting it please let me know. Thanks again.
Refutal for Dark Matter (2011)
I believe you've misunderstood his English. If it takes 1 Joule to accelerate the mass from 0-1000km/h, it will take 4 Joules to accelerate the same mass from 0-2000km/h.

Elon is calling that four times as much as because he's considering the total energy required to accelerate from 0 in both numbers. I think you're just accounting for it differently by saying it takes 3 times as much as the original energy input to go from 1000km/h to 2000km/h.

I'm a complete physics novice, I'm open to being schooled on this if I'm completely missing both yours and Elon's concepts here.
I only see them via Google News (which I've also cut down on, considerably). The articles are calculated to get maximum viewership. I don't need to read most of them to know what they'll say.
If Facebook really had good intentions they would use the money they spend on these 'marketing campaigns' towards actually providing free internet access. These guys are disgusting. For once I hope the quirky and unpredictable Indian legal system actually turns on the crazy full blast and summons Mark Zuckerberg himself to answer ...

</venting>
I wish that were true.
Wikileaks found some evidence of this, if I recall correctly?
Did you work a year full time in a relevant field before you did your masters?

I am saying I would rather employee someone who had worked for a year in my field than someone who had done a Masters straight after their Bachelors.
I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but criminal copyright infringement has much worse penalties than that in the U.S.
He made $100 million via (alleged) illegal copyright infringement. If that isn't worth it, how much would be?
Why did it take 4 years, then?
In a perfect U.S. -- one where jurors weren't routinely disqualified from serving on a jury simply because they are aware of the concept of jury nullification -- I might agree with you.

But our system is badly broken here in the U.S.

Appeals to the law as it currently exists and saying essentially, "You broke the law; now pay the price." are ignorant and stupid since our whole concept of justice is predicated on the idea that any sufficiently unacceptable law should be able to be nullified by jury.

This is still true in theory, but in practice, one of the major checks in the grand balancing scheme of our system of justice is non-existant.

Fix that. Then worry about who broke what laws.
Progress on JMAP, better standard for synchronising mail, calendars and contacts
I thought that when House of Coolness got busted, but he came out on top by offering user data to law enforcement.
This was lovely writing, and successfully enlightened me on a few points, but my mind immediately saw the marble deform the sheet. I'd suggest a ping-pong ball and a frictionless sheet for a less perplexing thought experiment.
It isn't possible to downvote articles on HN.
I think people here do not really remember or weren't around when Kim Dotcom was not internet hero of piracy, but he was "Kimble" with a website showing him in jets and with women. He has basically lived his whole life with schemes of dubious legality all to profit himself. He stole credit card information, and ran pump and dump schemes.

I don't really like how the arm of US law is so long, but I also do not like Kimble very much either. He was too blatant and when you run a piracy scheme where everyone and their grandmothers can easily access it, it is going to be a matter of international diplomacy. The entertainment industry is a large export for the USA, so when it gets to a certain scale there will be diplomatic pressure. He was greedy and is now paying the price.

Edit: In before the extolling the legitimate use of Megaupload... Let's face it, a vast majority of the business, traffic, and links there were for pirated content. If it were not for the proliferation of pirated content on there, he would have made a fraction of the money he made.
Unrelated, but does `Bollocks` mean anything to people outside of NZ?
You don't make something that people want, rather you make something and then sell it in such a way that make people want it.
But it's only pointing out that Chipotle makes a bit deal about its ingredients and how they are good for you --which is well and good, but they overlook the food safety side while stressing the benefits of their ingredients which they market as being superior....

So, perhaps they use superior ingredients but it's immaterial if at the end of the day their food safety suffers. Additionally, it points out that on a good day, local (within 350 miles) supplies only account for 10% of their ingredients and they tend not to advertise the fact that they use the same supply chain economies of scale whereby their beans, meats and salsas are prepared by third parties then shipped to restaurants.
I believe they were referring to the profit by Megaupload, not the loss by infringed-upon rights-holders.
Apple Abandoning Headphone Jack
My point is: banks are not driving around trucks full of gold bars (like some other commenter suggested). These days, it is mostly electrons moving. They also minimize the number of people involved.
I believe, the remaining people are doing something useful. Like answering my calls and investigating incidents, for example.
It's different levels of VMs. I use Vagrant + Docker. Because docker have some problems on Mac OS with shared folders. So I run a Vagrant image with Ubuntu configured as docker machine. Also I can setup few Vagrant VMS with Docker containers inside, to simulate cluster.
This is about the extradition. I'm sure there's something in your comment history that would be considered blasphemy in Turkey, should the US extradite you if we further assume you have never visited the country?

Dotcom has never been to the US. I personally don't want a world where I may be extradited to a country I've never been because of something accessible on the internet and the political stars happened to align with my home country.
Yes. Most people from the United Kingdom and the US will recognize this vernacular. I'm saying this in response to your question, I don't expect all English speakers to understand it.
Lol, the evil empire strikes again. These corrupt people who control the government understand nothing but power and violence.
Microsoft acquires Talko . But Why?
I just checked the Talko's Android app , they just have 1000-5000 downloads.
Looking at the features and UI,there are far more better apps.
Then why Talko?
Sir, I wish all teachers (and parents) learn from this. Well said.
That is really cute. I think this is a really well done landing page.
It is my opinion that Kim Dotcom's actions are both unlawful and wrong. They could have been unlawful but not wrong. Or lawful but wrong. Or even lawful and not wrong. However it is my opinion that they are simultaneously unlawful and wrong. Both the unlawfulness and wrongness are arguable on their own terms and merits without reference to the other.

You're free to disagree with me. You may hold a different opinion. That's perfectly fine. However a dissenting opinion does not mean I conflated the situation. It does not mean that I'm acting irrationally. It's simple a different opinion.

I don't mind downvotes for disagreeing with the HN HiveMind.
It's a common expression throughout the commonwealth, since it is British in origin (and quite old, to boot).

It's uncommon in the US.
Mine is http://www.boxo.coffee - monthly coffee exploration.

Started this while living in Hong Kong as a way to bring in coffee from the popular roasters in the USA, and expanded to the states within 8 months. Good times so far, and it's still a side project. Used the profits from the HK side of the business to launch USA side.
Devil's Advocate: Has anyone been prosecuted for the 2008 economic collapse? And you don't even have to extradite someone from NYC.

But a few hundred million from a guy in New Zealand? Nail him to the cross so the MPAA gets what they want.
I have been using this app for a while, it's pretty useful. It combines the private room aspect of services like Mumble/TS/Vent with the feature of giving a link to someone so they can do a one time join to the room. Good for friends and pick me up games. I like their persistent IRC-like chat-room too.
Waitbutwhy did a few in-depth articles about him and his companies after Elon invited him over for interviews.
And Google has made billions from infringing content through YouTube. Are you going to say that Larry and Sergey should be arrested too?
Kim Dotcom Eligible for U.S. Extradition, N.Z. Court Rules
We have 8 employees and a "nap couch" from Ikea tucked into our tiniest conference room.

Same diff. :)

P.S. Your company's domain is for sale?
Ahh, so they're fraudulently charging him in order to justify it.

Why haven't the US attorneys responsible for this been disbarred?
Yes, in Australia and the UK it has a lot of meaning.
I prefer mandatory static types + type inference. It is a productivity boost if you're allowed to skip entering type names for local vars. If you ever want to change anything meaningful in a large system, you better have meaningful compile-time checks. The only downside is longer build times, but tools are improving. Outside of legacy projects (Linus loves C! and fantastic library ecosystems for scripting languages) I don't see any future for languages without static typing + inference.
Literally, it means testicles, but more colloclially it means bullshit in every English speaking country I know of.

edit: Apparently not. Just messaged my American buddy, and he thought it might be a wig for cows... So, maybe not Americans.
No rest for the weary.
That article raises an interesting point I really hadn't considered, who owns the first stage? If you pay "full price" for a launch and SpaceX recovers the first stage to re-use, did the person who paid to launch it own it or does SpaceX? It was presumed lost of course. No doubt there is language in the contracts about that. Would be interesting to see a launch contract.
> It's a "problem" even for people on wired net connections

Legacy DSL is indeed a problem for that. High end games (and PC ones are even more so than console ones) are huge.

As I wrote below - DRM free games can solve this with services which will just ship you a game on flash storage on demand. DRMed ones however (and most current consoles are sick with DRM) would have an issue with such method. Your option could be ditching such consoles and sticking to DRM-free games and platforms.
"It worked at least once before" is more track record than any rocket fresh off the assembly line.
I wonder which corporate sponsor they lost and what the reason was? Was it just a co-incidence or was the sponsor supportive of VMware's alleged GPL violations?
For all but the most basic attack, you really want a script putting these IP's into iptables. Using the application itself to block them still requires the connection setup/teardown resources to be used, as well as the application itself.
Blogger: Trang tổng quan Blogger
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/01/us-customs-and-border-prote...

Politicians continue to support a war effort which has murdered millions in the ME, they continue to turn a blind eye to torture, and hold the innocent in jails without trial.

So yeah, all three groups are about as bad as each other.
There were many confirmations of N-rays too.
"120 other scientists in 300 published articles"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray
I read the underscore source code a few years ago. My memory may be failing me, but I don't think it altered any builtins.
Cheaper than recruiting the engineers individually? I didn't see terms but if it's small, it could be a bargain to get the team and tech and roll it into Skype. Also, the better apps might not have been for sale.
In his interviews with Tim Urban from Wait But Why, there's a bit of detail about what he read leading up to his founding of SpaceX. They're all hard science texts – Rocket Propulsion Elements (Sutton), Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion (Oates), Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Bate). From everything I've heard, he's well-versed in the material in a way that not many CEOs are.
Lol, reflexive down votes from those who defend state power and corruption, way to go HN.
Negotiations and bribes sometimes take awhile? Especially when you are trying to not make it look like those things.
None of what you say addresses my main point, which is that a list is always extra overhead, so making a list the default means everyone incurs the extra overhead whether they need it or not. You may not care about the extra overhead, but you're not the only one using the language; making it the default would force everyone who uses the language to pay the price.

Or, to put it another way, since there are two possibilities--realize the list or don't--one of the two is going to have to have a more verbose spelling. The obvious general rule in such cases is that the possibility with less overhead is the one that gets the shortest spelling, i.e., the default.

Also, if you've already realized a list, it's too late to go back and un-realize it, so there can't be any function like make_generator(list) that saves the overhead of a list when you don't need it. So there's no way to make the list alternative have the shorter spelling and still make the generator alternative possible at all.

As far as your sqlite3 example is concerned, why can't do_some_calculation(rows) be a generator itself? Then print_some_calculation would just take do_some_calculation(rows) as its argument. Does the whole list really have to be realized in order to print the table? Why can't you just print one row at a time as it's generated?

Basically, the only time you need to realize a list is if you need to do repeated operations that require multiple rows all at the same time. But such cases are, at least in my experience, rare. Most of the time you just need one row at a time, and for that common case, generators are better than lists--they run faster and use less memory.

If you need to do repeated operations on each row, you just chain the generators that do each one (similar to a shell pipeline in Unix), as in the example above. This also makes your code simpler, since each generator is just focused on the one operation it computes; you don't have to keep track of which row you're working on or how many there are or what stage of the operation you're at, the chaining of the generators automatically does all that bookkeeping for you.
I wonder its implications for terrestrial travel, though? We are in a post-Concord era, after all, but suborbital flight could get you to any point on the planet pretty quickly if the price is right.