skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I understand correctly, then anyone with certain authority can file a DMCA takedown notice, which results in the removal of protected content. Anyone who posted the content and wants to challenge that notice can also do so, resulting in the restoration of the content, but not until a few days later.

Hopefully resulting in the restoration of the content. There's no guaranty that a service provider will restore the content, and the bar to getting a counter filed is relatively high (to an individual with no legal resources, etc).

The problem is that service providers are liable to get bent over if they don't respond to valid DMCA notices, so they're likely to overreact when they get invalid ones as well. If they remove something for improper reasons, though, there's no law backing the user up.
If you go to a judge and get a temporary order, and that's later found out to have been a malicious tactic, the judge will be pretty unhappy. But what really happens when incorrect DMCA takedowns are sent?

Sometimes, you have to apologize, & knock it off:
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/03/14/michael-crook-settlem...
Japanese astronaut gets designer space suit
Toronto here also. We need a HN Meetup. at MaRS, or a pub or something
> Apparently I've been following an out-of-date Clojure tutorial.

There's a _lot_ of out-of-date docs out there. This is probably the #1 hurdle newcomers face getting started with Clojure and Emacs at least. That's why this Getting Started wiki page is so important; it gathers it in one place where out-of-date stuff can be fixed collaboratively.
I think that 'superiority' requires a comparison between equally aimed devices, and I don't think this is the case here.

The one is a universal tablet format computer the other is a media consumption device.
Absolutely right. A two-week takedown isn't that bad if whoever files the DMCA notice risks getting creamed if the notice is improper. Like if you file a DMCA notice on something that's a clear-cut case of non-infringement and it's thrown out, you have to pay the guy a very hefty fine.
I registerd gitapps.com a year ago — it's now expiring, but I'd be happy to donate it (renew it and transfer it) if anyone comes up with a really cool use for it...
IBM Patents Optimization... Sigh.
If you want to learn Clojure, buy "Programming Clojure" (the pragprog book).

The EAP for "Joy of Clojure" has been pretty good; it will probably also be a must-have.

I haven't heard much of anything about the Apress book, so I can't comment on that. Luke Vander Hart is a pretty smart dude, so it has a chance of also being a good book.
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I had a boss, an ex-bartender, who always said that he didn't trust someone until he'd seen them good and drunk. It's hard to hide the inner a-hole throughout a night of drinking.
Reclusive assassins aren't that much better than asketic mystics ("Zen coders", "Perl monks").

Can't I just be a Code Casanova? A Procedural Pimp? A Googlin' Gigolo?

But I shall diminish, go into the office, and remain a programmer.
Madrid, Spain
Remind me to stay on your good side :)

HP has been hit-and-miss for me, some devices literally work forever and are great, others are defective by design. It's weird.
the x1000 is for the dial not the number at the bottom.
>In the Internet age, any interesting information that gets out tends to stay out and spread within a matter of hours, so it seems to me that if you allow an immediate counterclaim to be filed and the information to be restored without delay, this will in practice negate the benefit of the whole DMCA takedown process and make copyright protection fairly pointless as realistically it will be unenforceable.

If someone files a counter-claim, they're providing you with a name and address and saying "if you want to dispute this, come sue me". No one's going to file a counter-claim if they don't think it's a slam-dunk to win, because a counter-claim is literally taunting a giant legal team to sue you.
Hm. I have something like this already setup privately. It's just a Node.js app that routes post requests to the private-access git address. I suppose I should clean it up and release it.
Rockstars are loud & noisy, maybe they get stuff done. Frequently care more about what people think about them then the quality of their work.

Ninjas do the job, and nobody knows until it’s too late.

I'm not seeing desirable qualities here for coders.
At Change.org, we call this an "Evergreen" petition.

It's purpose is not to cause a specific or discreet change, but instead to signal to elected officials about the sentiment in the body public.

The way Change.org's petitions work is that every time anyone signs this, it automatically and immediately delivers it to their elected officials. We've found this to be dramatically more effective than delivering a number of signatures after a petition has run its course.
"Beyond simple pub stories, moral questions about how to dispense justice in a large, diverse society and global gets really difficult, and we need a system of principles for that."

Indeed we do. One of Hitchens' themes is that theologies are, on the face of their historic accomplishments, notably poor candidates to serve as a source for such principles. Perhaps it is interesting to note, here, that one of the principles of justice enshrined in the pointedly secular Constitution of the US is the right to trial by jury - an appeal to an "innate conscience" of morality if ever there was one.
From the land of Juan Valdez, Colombia.

http://www.colombiaespasion.com/index.php/en/this-is-colombi...
fwiw, the author of the iSSH app mentioned in the article is already working on better bluetooth keyboard support (http://twitter.com/canadacow/status/11572336655) and even implementing a split-screen mode with an integrated web browser to have a terminal next to a browser for remote web app development (http://twitter.com/canadacow/status/11603198915)
I would love to do this. Maybe not these features exactly, but eventually, with Hackety Hack, I'd like to make the website be a "github lite." Github without git. All the social stuff, none of the complicated git stuff. Eventually, offer a path to migrate programs to a real github account proper. This is still a bit far off... but an API would make it much easier.
My friend Kim put this together after a conversational epiphany. I'm really excited to see how they make it work.

I'm also excited to see more HN types building companies that end up creating social value - there is a lot of overlap between web startups and "social entrepreneurship" IMO
Following the links to the CSS stylesheets works well, too: http://david.heinemeier.hansson.usesthis.com/stylesheets/scr...
Very true - all the more reason to keep track of it having been reported.
Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail
Hacker News Summary was recently featured on the front page of Hacker News. Here is a PDF export of the number of visitors only from Hacker News and what country they came from. It should give a decent representation of where Hacker News users are located. http://hnsummary.com/2010/04/07/ask-hn-from-what-countries-d...
Jobs on Rand: “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’”

Wow, talk about a taste of your own medicine! I love it.
Everything is relative. In a startup a slow week might be like a really busy week for a regular 9-5 job.
Representing Zürich
http://imgur.com/NuKqC.jpg

T61, [22"]*2, Ubuntu, Emacs, Chrome + Firefox.
Urban Airship has a similar service (even priced similarly): http://urbanairship.com/
Their focus is specifically mobile apps, & they have nice sample code for iPhone/Android/Blackberry. Gets spendy faster than Amazon, but I've used it for personal stuff and it's really easy.

Ex.: I do a lot of database work recently, so when I kick off a 90min query, at the end I ping them with some JSON and my phone meows. (Meow! Stop drinking! Your query is done!)
Use the actual headline please.
I don't work in a startup... I meant my day job.

Regardless, slow weeks are always very useful; time to reassess and plan.
Latin was part of the curriculum, an optional one that I did take. Luckily the lingua franca of this site is English.
Actually, that one too. Just hide the levels of indirection. Now you have the problem of complex hidden levels of indirection. (Cheating with one's definition of "solved.")
I think Stonebraker is right: CAP has been dramatically over-applied.
"If I understand correctly, then anyone with certain authority can file a DMCA takedown notice, which results in the removal of protected content. Anyone who posted the content and wants to challenge that notice can also do so, resulting in the restoration of the content, but not until a few days later."

No. Anyone. Period.

"In the long run, this mechanism does not suppress free speech or prevent the information from being distributed if proper counters are filed. However, in the short term it can delay that distribution. This is still potentially significant, but it is a different situation."

Again incorrect. DMCA states that to file a counter notice, you are allowing the DMCA violation filer to go after you in court in their country. So if I am from France and post an article about The Church of Scientology, to counter the DMCA I would have to allow TCOS to sue me in US courts, not in my country's courts. The reason I mention TCOS is because they abused DMCA a few years back silencing most information online giving them negative PR. Only few actually filed counter notices.

In general most people don't file counter-notices because their are either scared about legal procedings or don't know what part hit the DMCA clause, don't want to be taken to court (remember the DMCA notice does not mean the person even knows who you are, they just got information forwarded through the ISP or whatever service) while the counter notice reveals who you are.
Carbon Fiber?
Introducing browse mode: create an A/B test even behind the login walls
Education vs Employment in the United States
Lithuania (Vilnius)
So "legacy" = implemented in the 60's and 70's but became widespread in the 90's. "Modern" = implemented in the 60's and 70's but became widespread after 2010.
I bought the cheapest keyboard i could find, i rearranged the keys and i installed ktouch, which is a touch-type training program for KDE. Took me about a week to get used to, now people make fun of me for typing slowly on querty, and get shocked when they take a look at my keyboard.
Me too =)
Network Coding: Router Revolution?
Network coding, a radical approach to improving network efficiency, manipulates the data within
packets to achieve better message efficiency. Researchers have studied the concept for years, and Juniper Networks has "an office building full of developers" looking at the technique. So why isn't it ready for prime time?
The one thing I'm surprised about is the external SSD for the 27" iMac. I can't see how it would be faster running the whole system through the Firewire bus. Here are some throughput benchmarks of SSD drives I found from OWC (a well known Mac accessory online retailer):

7200 rpm external drive:

eSATA - http://eshop.macsales.com/images/Items/OWCMEQM7500GB16/HIT0A...

FW800 - http://eshop.macsales.com/images/Items/OWCMEQM7500GB16/HIT0A...

SSD external drive:

eSATA - http://eshop.macsales.com/images/Items/OWCMEQMSSD050/eSATA.p...

FW800 - http://eshop.macsales.com/images/Items/OWCMEQMSSD050/fw800.p...

Summary:
Via eSATA, the 7200rpm drive tops out around 100MB/sec while the SSD drive hits > 200MB/sec. Via FW800 both drives only max out around 80MB/sec which is the approximate upper limit of FW800 I believe.

DHH, if you're reading perhaps you can provide a more subjective take on the real-world performance? I'm curious as I have a 27" iMac and would love to be able to get the SSD speed boost without taking off the glass and voiding warranties.
Palm Spikes On Takeover Rumors; Will Lenovo Make An Offer?
If you are keeping customer CC#s in the first place, you are already violating a ton of laws and credit card agreements.

Our clients are big companies, we don't have nor use credit card machines. Strictly purchase orders and 5-figure checks each month. We are in another country and SSNs aren't used the same way like they are in the US (tied, to your bank, credit, retirement, etc). The most someone could do with an employee ID is buy products with our tax id, we'll happily take a VAT refund for you, or someone could use your SSN to apply for a job (can be problematic around tax time but not end of world).

We do have 2 NASes (one backs up the other) that do dailies. The USB drives are for office on fire/big theft tragedies. I'm trying to get us on cloud storage, but pushing data over a DSL connection was frustrating for just 20 gigs. And the connection died over a weekend. Far easier just to do the USB route. You still can't beat bandwidth of a local HNer living 10 minutes away with a bag of drives.
I want to do all of this stuff. Great post.
I've seen them work on my iPhone, but whatever algorithm they're using is horrible. For every frame of animation it seems to want to read from the "start" of the file. For a few frames, it's fine, but anything longer than 2-3 seconds of animation makes it slow to a crawl.

Animated gifs are so uncommon anyway (the use cases I've seen where it falls down are lolcat-worthy animations) that it's probably not worth fixing. The 90s-era gif animations probably look good enough.
Meh.

Who's going to pay the Drobo premium when equivalent or better performance can be had, with more a bog-standard (e.g. reliable) hardware and filesystems, for less?

I guess those customers who care about the visual aesthetics of their NAS device.
Dude turns his FB status into a MUD
Yeah. These are definitely stopwords when reading job postings. Luckily, they're generally applied at the top or even in the title.

If you advertise for Ninjas or Rockstars, you deserve every candidate you get.
Finally! ;-)
I add low-importance bugs that can be done quickly to a "quick" list. If I have some time to spare, I check that list and knock off a couple.

Another idea is to simply try find out where a bug might be and add a TODO comment to the file/class. This way, if someone changes that class later they can keep the issue in mind.
The author states that he graduated high school in 1966 and that he built a model of the the SR-71 when he was 10, presumably 1958 if he graduated at 18. He also states that the SR-71 was designed in 1960. Some of this doesn't quite seem right.
If their war chest of patents is to discourage me from writing competitive software, then they win. Since I don't want to write enterprise software, I think I win.
The guy wrote million dollar checks every year for 10 years to keep that company running. If that's not a big leap of faith ( losing money for a decade?!) then what do you consider faith.
I was recently in NYC visiting the NY chapter of Hacker and founders. I was really surprised at how excited people still were about twitter. The buzz at the meetup was all about twitter and Foursquare.

It's been about 6 months since I heard people at the H&F SV meetups be really excited about twitter. And, while, we're starting to add features on http://newsley.com to include what people are tweeting about a specific stock ticker, that's not really the main impetus of our business. It's more of a value add.

A lot more of the buzz that I hear around the Valley is moble apps. iPhone, iPad, android, especially mobile Geo. That's what the cool kids seem to be doing. Any ideas on why that's different?
http://hook.io actually will be solving a lot of these issues.....on a larger scale
In addition, send a DMCA request to Google. They'll be removed from search results very quickly, and it doesn't matter where in the world they are hosted.
What a wonderfully well written peace of prose. I think we can be pretty certain that the man who wrote it was not the man in that video. As for whether he actually believed an island could tip over, I give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't, I suppose, although listening to his entire dialog, it's almost enough to discount him to the point of believing that he did believe it. Bottom line, based on this dialog, I think he'd be overpaid if his salary were reduced to a quarter of the salary he's enjoying.
At the very least, the title 'iTunes' is now wildly inaccurate.
Same here. I assume you're in Prague? I thought I was alone here...
Cassandra: Fact vs fiction
7.5M iPhones estimated sold in Q1 2010, users stay in Apple ecosystem
I've been wanting OAuth for stuff like http://calendaraboutnothing.com/. There's no way we should advocate entering GitHub passwords or API tokens into a 3rd party web apps.
I'm usually skeptical about complaints of seemingly over-broad patents. Most people don't realize that the abstract isn't the patent, the claims are. And the claims tend not to be overly broad because the examiners aren't that bad.

But in this case, it really is as bad as the title declares. Claim 1 covers the process of any attempt at optimization.

The only things close to redeeming specificity are in the description and background. The first claim still covers everything.

One small caveat: IBM is attempting to patent optimization. They filed an application and that application has been published.

But, as of yet, it hasn't been granted. Fingers-crossed, let's hope this doesn't go through.
Two weeks on the internet these days can be the difference between success and complete failure of a product or service. Imagine you prepared a campain for something available only from your site for a couple of months... you've got ads, articles, etc. with the release date. Some competitor files a DMCA takedown notice that day and anyone who heard about your product gets a "404 account suspended" response. It doesn't cost them anything and you don't matter anymore - in two weeks people won't remember your product.

Now I wonder how hard would it be to file DMCAs for the government websites... white house, etc.
There is no evidence for an innate conscience. And in scientific terms, it's not falsifiable, since whenever someone fails to live up to what you say is right, you can claim they are corrupted by religion or some other false culture.

If humans had innate conscience, why would human history be filled with such violence? If the moral sense is strong enough to be relevant for discussion, wouldn't it have shaped humanity more?

How is innate conscience distinguishable from one's emotional response? And I would argue that emotions are based on one's existing values, which may be different according to different people. Are you and Hitchens claiming to be more pure of heart than the rest of us, so you can see the true innate morality?

A jury is not at all an appeal to innate conscience. A jury isn't supposed to judge right and wrong, they are supposed to find guilt or innocence by the standard of a previously written law.
Skinput: Using the Body as an Input Surface
Wow, is it link-bait week on HN or something?

Of course, Google gives law enforcement access to e-mail when proper information requests are made. Failing to comply would be obstruction of justice. Facebook does the same thing(1). Microsoft does the same thing(2). But it's not like Google is arbitrarily giving the federal government access to everyone's e-mail willy nilly. Requests have to be made via the proper channels. I'm sure Google's legal team reviews everything thoroughly before providing access.

When situations like this arise, Google has two choices really: comply with the requests or shut down operations and move them off-shore. Which option do you really think is feasible?

(1) http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/facebook-spy.pdf

(2) http://cryptome.org/0001/ms-spy-takedown.htm
DMCA notices are different. They apply when a site cares about Safe Harbor. Lets say your ISP cares about claiming safe harbor so they are not responsible for YOU uploading illegal content.

The White House does not care. Sue em. So you can claim anything you want, there is nobody trying to claim safe harbor so they can do whatever.

If I am taking responsibility for all content on my site, then I am not trying to go for safe harbor, if I know none of it hits any copyright violations I will never use safe harbor and take any content down. However my ISP might take my site down if the complaint is made to my ISP not to me because my ISP does not know/care if I am hosting copyrighted content because they don't want the legal headache.
If this plane looked ugly, would anyone care that it is the fastest plane ever made?
More fuel for the fire from jQuery's lead developer:
http://jsninja.com/
This reads a bit like fan fiction. Anyone know its authenticity?
This isn't surprising, but it does worry me. After some googling I found an e-mail service called hushmail (http://www.hush.com/) which provides secure e-mail. Apparently it was started by the same guy who designed PGP. So if you want to send private e-mails, I'd use that account :)
Innovative and impressive new forms of input/interaction. Maybe this could diminish some forms of RSI too.

And the potential for new slang is incredible, of course: "High 5" or "Get some skin in the game" may never be the same. :)
The iPad Luddites
It's probably to do with differences in scale. At the LAN level, he's right: partitioning is rare and C/A might make the most sense. At the WAN level, partitioning is a fact of life.

There are at least two problems to solve on opposite ends of scale: how to get many components inside one computer to cooperate without stepping all over each other, and how to get many computers to cooperate without drowning in coordination overhead. They may be special cases of a more general problem, and one solution will work for all. Or perhaps we'll have one kind of programming for the large and another for the small, just as the mechanics of life are different inside and outside of the cell.
Incorrect. Remember any legal action has legal consequences.

If I file a law suit that costs the defendant millions due to bad PR, and it turns out the law suit had no basis, the defendant will counter-sue me for the damages caused by a base-less law suite. However there are practical problems with this. In theory this was what would discourage DMCA abuse when the law was written, in the practical sense it does not.
Yeah, it seems like a pretty ingrained part of the hacker ethos, going back to the 70s. The microcomputer revolution was as much about changing the world by getting tech into the hands of ordinary people as it was about making lots of money in the process.
Pity the HTML is so bad in this tutorial. A site that purports to be authoritative (at least enough to be providing tutorials) should know how to use HTML properly.
Seems accurate. Except at banks and companies like Enron where sensible people wouldn't want to work anyway, the "macho WASP" culture that mandates drinking is dead.

I can't be drunk for medical reasons, but I can tolerate a beer or two. I get one of my favorite beers (I'm only having one so I can make it an expensive one) and then drink water for the rest of the evening.
upvoted that was a good one.
If you can put up with it, I'd recommend doing a short term lease while you get a feel for the city. There are advantages and disadvantages to different parts, and I don't think you'll have a good idea of what's right for you until you've been immersed/found employment, etc. Bring a bicycle and plan on spending some time getting acquainted with the city.

Something like Lower Haight, SOMA, or Duboce Triangle area is centrally located and would be a good starting point to explore.
I like Peter Drucker's theory.

As for Amazon, I have a "Ninja Coder" sticker in view as a type; as relating to martial arts, the question I answered to get it was at about the induction physical level.