skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants -- David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes -- for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation."

is that last part a typo? or is my ignorance of legalese showing?

edit: ah, so apparently they were given a suspended sentence, but absolved of the defamation part.
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gr8 startup guys ...
3 guilty of 'failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.'

0 guilty of 'criminal defamation'

Two separate charges.
Doesn't tell me enough about what it actually does before asking me for my password, so I bailed. Sorry!

It searches my stream, but for what? Anything I'm looking for? Or follower-specific info?

How does it manage people I follow that is different to Twitter's implementation? Does it include info like etact does for email/SMS (follower vs following, number of RTs, most recent DM)? Does it just provide more items per page? Does it provide shortcuts like "people I'm following who aren't following me" or "people who were following me, but aren't any longer"?

I think you need to spell it out a lot more before you ask for a password.
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Either way, the "first" world is ripe for a revolution. The internet has opened the eyes of a lot of people to a kind of freedom and self-government that was all but forgotten. Combined with the entitlement bomb that's ticking under the entire system, something will change soon.

I'm not referring to a 70s-style revolution with public executions of the ruling class etc., but I'm predicting some radical changes in the democratic/political system. Transparency, accountability, fewer and simpler laws and significantly smaller government.
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Precisely because they had such a successful product. Initially that product wasn't Steam, but Half-Life 2. Once other studious picked up on it as a distribution model (because who doesn't want to take advantage of the entire HL2 install-base to market their game?), they were golden.

Also, despite its lack of overall polish, occasional crashiness, and the inconsistent and slow UI, for the most part Steam works exactly as advertised. It lets me install my games anywhere as many times as I like for free, I can play them offline if they're single player, and online I get a lovely Xbox-Live style server browser and social management right in the client.

The worst I can say about it is that I'd be a little happier with it if it were more polished, and I'd kill a man for a Mac port (including, obviously, the games I care about).
We had manual test case for "page looks correct" test. It consists of more than 10 checks, i.e. "no JavaScript errors", "no miss-spelled words", "consistent look across pages", "no broken links", etc.

More than half of that list is already automated.
This is a confusing title, they're using Cassandra, but to say mysql isn't open source is well, not true.
> The inability to quickly navigate between documents and view two or more documents at the same time also frustrated users.

On my eBook reader (not a Kindle, btw) the bookmarking is also woefully inadequate. Only six bookmarks in total, and no way to see to which document they link, or when that document was last accessed.

This is definately an area to improve eBook reading software.
> I think these 'privacy concerns' are just a cheap way to use a disabled person to garner sympathy for the crusade against big bad google that is offering Italian consumers alternative video content that does not come from 'Papi'.

Exactly. The main concerns of the government right now about internet are YouTube and Facebook, because they are the main channels on which news spread.

Mediaset, the Berlusconi Company owning all his televisions also sued Google for copyright of content published on YouTube. Every television in the world is working with Google to remove this content or to profit from it. Berlusconi is the only one who attacks it to take it down.

This week there has also been a similar case on Facebook, for a stupid group on down children. The government is trying every now and then to find excuses to pass laws against internet freedom.

> Berlusconi ought to be the one in the docket. But then he'll just pass another law that exempts him...

The saddest thing about this is that it is true. He already passed 19 laws just to avoid jail, and he is about to pass another two...
See also: Eubonicode http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/prog.html
I definitely consider this a bug, not a feature. I don't want to live in a world where authorities can arbitrarily pull people over. That leaves a lot of room for corruption.
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Indeed. It is perverse that in order to be a good citizen, one must break the law.
Yes, it looks like manual test.

BUT, when QA team found problem, you can create automated test case, which will look for that particular problem only. Right?

For example, QA noticed "clicks" every few seconds in resulting sound. Is it hard to create automated test case for that?
While I totally respect 280North for what they've done for the web, and for their insanely talented engineers and designers, I can't help but think homogeny between web applications on a large scale is necessarily a good thing. At what point do you lose a sense of identity for the sake of adhering to a standard set of UI elements or some HIG document? Just my 2c.
Strictly speaking, for Python to actually be a subset, it needs to recognise when a keyword is meaningful. Like:

hey = "hello world"
print hey

Can it do this? My assumption is not, because you'd get issues like

so anyway just = "hello world"

but you could make an exception for when there's only one of them.
And how many universities write their own software for those laptops?
Post-modern, really. We have long ago exited the modern era, which was rational, progressive, and all that. Or even, according to some far-out academics, completely by-passed it, and gone directly to the all-apearance and buzz post-modern.
I don't get the title. Summary: Guy writes app in college, it's pretty good, applies to YC, doesn't quite get in, builds it anyway, gets his own VC, launches the site Feb 8th.

Site is: GoodCrush.com

Save the trouble of reading.
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>During an extended stop, it is common for drivers to get out of their cars and chat, referred to as an Autobahn party.

Awesome! I feel sad and deprived now, given that we don't do that in America.
I guess the bigger point I was trying to make is that if you are running on a small-ram VPS, you almost certainly will hit performance problems due to disk I/O before you will hit performance problems due to CPU usage, so being able to compare CPU is of, ah, limited utility.
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Agreed. It is a good thing to remove the limit and force the driver to consider for himself what is safe given his condition and vehicle. He should have been doing that all along.
I agree with you about people not changing, people seldom change and it is a very long process, not something you can just choose and do in one day. On the other hand, I believe there are some things you can do about it in this case and try to play to your strengths.

Anyway, I'm struggling with pretty much the same problems as the OP, a few years ago I was diagnosed with ADD and was given Ritalin. I didn't like taking Ritalin and it didn't help very much anyway. The thing is you create bad habits, so even if you are taking some meds, you still have those habits and repeat them.

I have now decided that I'm not flawed, but only lost. It seems there's not much place in the world for ADD people. But I'm not giving up, I don't want to change who I am, I want to find where can I fit in and use my strengths.

I just bought the book "Delivered from Distraction" and got it yesterday. Today I read the intro and seems like a good read. I hope it helps.
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What is interesting is that large corporations like google are taking on national governments more and more like equals. First it was Google v. China, now Google v. Italy. These are interesting times we live in...
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''The officials who were found guilty are Peter Fleischer, Google’s chief privacy counsel; David Drummond, senior vice president and chief legal officer, and George Reyes, a former chief financial officer. They executives, who were named because Italian law holds corporate executives responsible for a company’s actions, received six-month suspended sentences.''
Why are there no big applications written using functional languages?
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Nothing like debunking a political debate by writing an op-ed favoring your side of the argument.
One obvious issue with this argument: The claim that higher tax rates can reduce GDP is from Arthur Laffer and his Laffer curve -- and relates to the total tax burden, and not the marginal rate.
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You are also underestimating the differences between people, because if it's worked for you, it doesn't mean it will work for the OP. I did what you suggest, wrote some code, started a blog where I wrote 2 tutorials and now, in spite of getting comments of people saying the want the 3rd tutorial, I can't get myself to do it, don't ask me why, I just can't, I'm a professional procrastinator!
What were they sentenced to, by the way? I didn't notice any mention of that.

Edit: found in the neighbor thread.
"The three received a suspended six-month sentence for the conviction on violating the youth's privacy."
(expanding on this) nginx uses a buffer-chain architecture internally. This means that if your data comes in chunks when you read it in (remember, nginx is event based) then it's stored internally in fragments that correspond to those reads. Almost all the operations on it work on those chains so often times the data never has to be copied until it's written (I believe using iovectors) back out.
Memory is managed in request pools which minimize memory fragmentation, and are just faster/safer than calling malloc/free directly.
I collected them using the web form on www.spambotlove.com

It's a totally unfiltered web form with no captcha or anything, designed specifically to be easy for spam software to submit into it.

I was thinking about using it input for generating images or something. As a random seed, maybe. I don't know.
Hi, I'm one of the programmers. The site was bootstrapped with help from Pivotal Labs, so two of the programmers listed are from there. I'm currently, as of a week ago, the only programmer on the project, and one of the two people working full-time on the site.
He is contradicting himself but doesn't realize.
The whole 'points' system is completely artificial and unreal, and is / will be designed for you to consume more crap and not for you to be self-sufficient or self-aware.
It will be a no-go except for retard wanna-bes.
It is true what he says about Avatar though, there is a demand for 'real', and the sense of what is really real will get more accute in the next few years.
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Perhaps to better emphasis the abnormal structure of this company.
Hi there! There are only two of us working full time on it (Jason & me, the only programmer at this point).. The site was bootstrapped by Pivotal Labs, but those two developers aren't working on the site anymore.
Standard Interface is intended to make it easier to rapidly prototype and build web applications based on a good looking default style. The goal is not to create design homogeny.

The goal is to make the leap from unformatted, unstructured raw HTML to something presentable and easy to use automatic. Then you can customize it. It's very similar to the way the iPhone UI works with interface builder.
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For people with trouble doing stuff like the OP, it is very hard to enforce an incentives or disincentives way to work, since it depends on you. And why would you punish yourself if you don't have to? or why would you delay gratification for something if you don't have to?

I can tell you that if for example I were to buy a chocolate and tell myself that after doing something I could eat the chocolate, then if I can't do it, I will just say f it and eat the chocolate anyway!
I've had experience of putting what I'm trying to do on Twitter and having a company send me a message offering their service. I'm not sure if it was a bot or not.

It occurred to me that maybe in a few years time we won't be googling for stuff by rather just "asking twitter" and automated bots/crawlers will respond based on where I am, what I asked for and details from my profile.

If twitter could bake in some kind of spam prevention (or reputation system?) it might just work.
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Shooting the messenger, eh?

Why don't they convict the ISPs, Internet Cafe's or the Computer Manufacturers?

They have the same responsibility as Google has on this issue.
I think this is a bit of a naive post from dotcoma... Twitter haven't waited this long to just spam adverts at people randomly.

Twitter are smarter than that. I think they will be more Hyper-targeted adverts that will be way more subtle than annoying. That's what I would be thinking about doing.
It is about the idea/message/whatever, but it is also a startup. Currently, other than Cindy, there are only 2 of us on it full time (Jason & me), with a user experience person coming on full-time soon.
Also there's a complete lack of a baseline, the GDP growth in 2000 vs 2008 is much more down to global economic conditions than US tax rates.

What would make a more reasonable comparison is if you compared similar US States with different tax burdens in over the same time period.
You are right about "asking Twitter".

That is something that Facebook have been teasing Google with for years, that they could be a better search engine because results would come based on your friends results.

I think this is very realistic reaction, people listen to the people they trust more than someone on I'm feeling Lucky. I'm basing my own startup on exactly that ethos.
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They were for me yesterday, but seem to be fine now.
I'll wait for the TonidoPlug colocation service. Like a huge powerstrip that runs the length of a warehouse or something.
I actually think flashing your headlights at someone is going to have the opposite of the intended effect more often than not.
Ok, let me rephrase: why is emacs still the largest example to date?
I'm the developer for the site, although I've only been on the project for a few weeks. The initial vision, as I understand it, was to not bombard people with what they _could_ do, but let people find it themselves. We've since gotten a lot of comments about just wanting to see an index, which we're put up at /action_platforms for the curious. This page is in the works, which is why there's no link to it.
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What's especially heartbreaking is that most of what's bad about Italy is entirely self-inflicted, and quite possible, if not easy, to fix. Many of the good things about Italy, however, are special, unique, and not at all easily replicated elsewhere.
Realistically we have all been creating NoSQL applications for some time. For years we have been hiding the SQL away from the Objects. EJB is a classic example of something that tries to keep the SQLugly away from applications.

But NoSQL is like a breath of real-time fresh air for me. RDBMS have become stale and the flurry of NoSQL out there is exactly what the real-time web needs.
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Lisp's macros are a lot more expressive. They don't look weird (unlike Template Haskell) within the language, they look like normal constructs. And they're native to Lisp. I miss Lisp in Haskell because I can't define, e.g., my own macro to do this:

case fileExists "sausage.txt"
True -> putStrLn "Gonna do something with the sausage."
False -> putStrLn "Woop."

And/or

if do fileExists "sausage.txt"
then putStrLn "Gonna do something!"
else putStrLn "Woop."

Or lambda with alternate lambda cases.

(\case of (Just a) -> a; Nothing -> b)

I wrote a little mini-lang to do this to see how much I liked it. I liked it a lot, Lou!

But Haskell is terse and predictable so one puts up with not having macros.

The Computer Language Shootout Haskell samples are low level, if you read them. Some are high level but many are nearly C, using malloc and such. But this is a good thing; you can write the "tight loops" that you need within Haskell.
Don't forget that there's also an O(1) closed form solution (and in fact you can derive a closed form solution for any linear recurrence relation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_relation).

This is more useful though for things like calculating the size of a mortgage balance after N repayments.
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Was the video played in the courtroom as part of the trial? Why don't they convict the judge?
It's essentially a fast interface for viewing, grouping and sorting people you follow. It shows people you follow in groups of 100 and allows you to filter by; "not following back", "inactive", "talkative" and "quiet". It allows you to filter only people who have mentioned a word in their last tweet. It allows you to instantly unfollow blocks of people (background processes actually do the talking to twitter so you don't have to wait).

Also if you screw something up, it lets you undo all your unfollows :)

The lack of information was a design choice. One button on the page, few distractions. The tool essentially does one thing - makes it easy to unfollow people. Admittedly trust is an issue, but I'm not sure how to compromise on that.
How well does nginx work with Java stuff? I'm setting up a new server, and want to run Jira and Confluence from port 80 (issues.site.com, wiki.site.com) and Atlassian has an article for getting this to work on Apache, but not nginx.

Does nginx work with any Java stuff?
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what's the point of your comment ?
Tsk. Why do web companies even worry about a problem like this? If it were me, I'd simply redirect all Italian web traffic from my site and onto a black page with a short explanation of the problem. And I'd make the switch at 1am. If my company were as popular as Google is, within a few short minutes there would be massive outrage such that politicians, journalists, judges, and police officers would be awoken from sleep. There would be huge protests in the streets the next morning or a day later. Governments would never make a screw-up that severe ever again.

In fact, in light of how this case was handled in Italy, if I were Google, I'd be doing that very thing right now until Italy changes their laws to make it crystal clear that Google should not be held accountable.
Calling dynamically loaded libraries is very fast, no more than a few nanoseconds per message that passes between the server and a module. It is no worse than the dynamically-linked C standard library we use so heavily.

Development effort is probably the real reason. It takes a fair amount of planning to design a table-driven module loader and indirection layer. Indirection with raw pointers costs brain power. (And do not even think about the reference counting hell of a dynamically unloadable module.)

Edit: And think about what happens when you upgrade a Django or Rails plug-in: it generally gets recompiled and what amounts to relinked. The difference is that the language system itself hides the work, while nginx uses explicit build tools.
Hardly. So far, they have taken on one careerist prosecutor here.
I'm italian too and can easily understand why you decided not to base your business here (hope to do the same someday).
I really don't like where the current events are leading the nation, silvio is only one of the nation's problems, and if the nation doesn't change its ways, well... italy is doomed.

p.s. doomed like in "doomed to became again a place known only for its cheap and not specialized labor"
Why is this argument silly?
As far as I know, there's nothing legally stopping them from pulling people over arbitrarily anyway, speeding or no.
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Hey, everyone, thanks for your feedback! I'm the dev for the site and we know we have a long way to go.

We launched the site a few weeks ago in the interest of getting it out there and see how people are using it and what they want. So yea, there's a lot of stuff that's not there/broken/weird. But that's kind of the point!

We didn't stick a huge beta icon in the corner, but we think people need to stop being apologetic about what they're putting out there and more receptive to feedback and real-world use cases.

So, please, if you have any ideas about what could make this more useful to you, let us know! You can ping me here, or on getsatisfaction.
Its absolutely an issue of Italian law - why do you think they keep arguing and appealing in Italian courts?
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What about those other people? I forget what they are called. Frems? Fronds?
It wouldn't surprise me if Google ended commercial activity there for the while (sales offices).

Also, this is certainly bad for david drummond. Having a conviction like this as a lawyer surely must hurt your standing with the bar association in CA.
At least they show who is spamming:

http://ad.ly/publisher-list/

So you can unfollow.
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We've been doing that in parallel to our startup for the last year or so. I don't know of any books on the subject, though. Any particular topic you'd like to discuss?
An iPhone site wasn't in the works for phase one release (minimally viable product), but it's definitely in the works.
i like this. some thoughts:

a) everyone i've shown this to clicks on the "fake" input box and initially ignores the "i'm game" link.

b) is the "i'm game" section supposed to overlap the newly posted statements? i'm using safari.

c) i wish i could use my browser's back button to return to the list of items based on my statement.