skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On approximately the same evidentiary standard, any law enforcement order could achieve a warrant for arrest and directly deprive the operators of these sites of their liberties. Here, all they lost was their domain name.

Again, I think your "how badly do they get hurt" standard is wrong-headed.

Democracy isn't really about limiting how much authorities do to people. It's limiting how easily and privately authorities can do things. Yes, it is about making thing hard for the authorities because when it somewhat hard to act against people, authorities are more reluctant to act.

IE, the difference between seizure and arrest is if you arrest these people, you've committed yourself to going through the process of proving them guilty.

If a cop writes a ticket, they have to show up in court to defend the valid of the ticket. If the cop just takes money, they aren't committed to their action.

If the various website were engaging in counterfeiting or whatever, the actual job of these agencies is to find the people and arrest them. Shutting off a site will only slow things down slightly - but it does give a far-too-convenient tool to authorities

It is important for democracy that guilty people be proven guilty. A lesser standard will likely still get lots of guilty people but will open the door to despotism as well. I know it stands in the way of blood-lust for the guilty but thems the break - unless you've found a way to achieve a guaranteed-enlighten-despotism (it always sounded good in the past but never worked out).
I did mean that, but I'm not sure whether using the wrong homonym should be classified as a spelling or grammatical mistake. It's spelled correctly, but is the wrong word.
Well, it's anonymous unless a court serves them with a subpoena demanding they turn over your identity. So it depends on just how anonymous one wishes to be.
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Syntax highlighting. Github thinks it's Scheme when it's really its own dialect of Lisp, with \c for a character literal instead of #\c. (Part of the fanatical simplification.)
just the highlighting... it doesn't understand the \" escape
It's basically the same thing. Think of Rework as the extended edition of Getting Real.
But presumably they aren't driving through most of the forests, right?
"I'm surprised that they were taking AP physics."

A lot of schools really heavily incentivize taking AP classes, because one of the main high school rankings (Newsweek/Washington Post) is literally "(AP tests taken)/(seniors graduated)". Yes, that's "taken", not "passed" or "aced". So you wind up in a situation in some schools where your options are "Physics for Jocks" or "AP Physics with a free +1.0 to your GPA". I was in a situation my senior year where I wound up taking 7 AP classes, not because I specifically wanted 7 AP classes, but because the alternatives were AP or "class that barely targets the standardized test you could already pass on Day 1"
I launched http://guitaryst.com today: a better way to read guitar tablature.

Hacker news launchpost here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950632
> I know plenty of women that look at porn, one female friend continually makes jokes about raping me, and if you don't think that women talk about men when they're not around...

Note: I'm talking about in professional settings.

p.s.: watch out for your friend. ;)
Since when do pirate ships have ICBMs? Have you seen pictures of the Somali pirates? It's like 5 guys w/ AK-47s in a speedboat: http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/somali-pirates1.jpg. Easy to defend against.

The only well-armed ships are navies. Yes, a navy or an ICBM could easily destroy a seastead. They could also easily destroy Monaco, Vanuatu, Dominica, or any other small country. The world is full of sitting ducks, yet we don't see them "finished" very often, because there is little profit in it for a government and it is politically unpopular.
I tend to feel the other way. The more I get to know someone, the more critical I am of their flaws, which is a bad habit, because it makes me not want to know people very well, also, I'm just as flawed if not moreso.
Since Theodore brought this up: "(And those stories about Google paying $3.5 million and $7 million to keep an engineer from defecting to Facebook? As far as I know, total bull. I bet it’s something made up by some Facebook recruiter who needed to explain how she let a live prospect get away. :-)"

I'm pretty sure it's real. Someone who either posts on here or who is frequently submitted -- I think piaw, or something like that? -- is an early Google ops person. Anyway, on piaw's blog, he or she mentioned that he or she had personally spoken to a G employee who got a counteroffer within 20% of the 3.5MM. So perhaps Theodore should be a little less sure of himself. Sorry for being vague, my memory is a little hazy, but I've read this in the last 2 weeks.

Also, he's doing something much closer to pure infrastructure work, so of course fewer -- but not zero -- web startups will be interested. That being said, I think it highly unlikely there are no jobs in SF / valley for highly experienced linux kernel file system devs.

Edit: link I referred to above
http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/11/counter-offer-conundrum.htm...

"People asked me yesterday if the Techcrunch $3.5M story was true. I said it was believable, because while I wasn't involved in negotiating that particular counter-offer, I had some role in assisting someone land a counter-offer within 20% of that number some time back."
Bad news for the Internet, especially considering how central Level 3 is to the current landscape. It was inevitable that they'd shake down the CDNs.
I prefer e-mail for any technical issues. I can lay out my questions/answers in a structured way. Also, I don't feel e-mail is an interruption - I can get to it when I want, and it won't break the flow of my work.

To solve any problems in real time, we use Skype messaging, or if necessary a Skype video call with voice + screen captures.

Once or twice a week, there will be a face-to-face Skype video call, more for morale and socializing rather than for work. This is the exception rather than the rule.

Phone calls and SMS are out. I don't even keep a phone close to my place of work.
Off-topic, but does anyone know in which application are the diagrams made? I hope not Photoshop/GIMP/Inkscape but something diagram oriented..
It's not so much "offended" as the fact that I do not like what developer culture has become.

Yeah, it always breaks my heart when I hear the horror stories from female hackers. For every well-publicized groping at a conference or porn-filled slide deck, there's a dozen female hackers who stay silent or just complain to friends.

A weird fact: Decent, non-sexist guys have much less data about what goes on than either female hackers or sexist jerks. There's some sort of protocol the sexist jerks use to identify each other, and they generally don't act out unless they think they're among either friends, or targets.
People believe lots of different things. What is inappropriate to say in front of one person is not inappropriate to say in front of another. I believe that given their target audience nothing in the post was inappropriate. The slight but vocal response would seem to back that claim.

To tell you the truth I must be so far in category B that I still don't understand the protest. Man has been used as a synonym for human for as long as I can remember. That would make men being the plural of man a synonym for people.
Everyone has work/life balance. The difference is exactly where each person draws a line between work and life. It seems that Seth prefers to include much of what we would think of as "work" as life.

I find most of these comments on HN especially funny because most of my non-HN friends would find this group of people positively anti-social. They would find the very notion of obsessively commenting on a startup site with a group of people who have never met pretty pathetic, to be honest. Their idea of socializing is getting drunk at a club and finding some hot girl to go home with for the night. Honestly, sometimes that's my idea of socializing, too. Does that make them more "social" than this crowd? No. Is HN's socializing any better? Of course not.

I'm really depressed at the amount of judgmental bullshit that this thread has to spawned, to be honest. People need to understand that others may not be like them and may not make the same life choices. Does that make their choices inherently worse? No. It may also mean that they have different goals. Given that Seth and his company seem to be doing OK it looks like his choices are working for the company and, moreover, he understands his market and his employees.
If your definition of "sexism" is something that all women would have a problem with, then by your definition there's no such thing as sexism anyway.
Anyone try it yet?
Used RK69X6HHY9MH. Been looking for something like this for a while. Will write a review after using it for a couple of days.
I made them in Keynote.
Let's ignore all the mountains of evidence to the contrary and say that, on average, you are absolutely correct.

Please, trot out some of the evidence. I can find plenty that agrees with his statement that men and women are wired differently. I'll get you started:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=men+and+women+...

Aside from that, it makes zero sense from an evolutionary standpoint that both genders would adapt to have the same abilities, preferences, and attitudes. I know it's hard for your PC worldview, but you need to step back from your anger and self-righteousness and examine the evidence.
I'd love to see more examples of math that make for cool visualizations/procedurally generated content.
If you think that's cool, check out Darius' old site:

http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/

He's a pretty prolific hacker.
Awesome. Thanks for the link. Didn't realize that existed.
"On November 22, after being informed by Comcast that its demand for payment was ‘take it or leave it,’ Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions"

I do not understand how Comcast had leverage in that situation. Had Level 3 told them no then Comcast customers would have been affected. Why is Comcast even negotiating with Level 3 and not the content providers?
The PDF is still available here: http://digital.designing-obama.com/designing_obama_ed1.pdf
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I wonder if this has anything to do with Comcast being down last night.
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He doesn't mention it, but that's easy to determine. Simply see what the average contribution of people who contributed during the A/B testing was per image/button combination. If there not all about the same then there may be some effect (negative or positive) that the added marginal people brought. If they're about the same, I think its a decent assumption to believe that it will be the same going forward.

And of course, you can simply validate it by seeing if it is the same going forward.
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Regarding the court orders, ICE confirmed that today. I don't know how he got verification of that over the weekend, but he's good at digging around and finding stuff like that.

I'm not sure which 'deflation argument' you're referring to, but he has been arguing since 2006 that deflation would be the natural result of the financial crisis, even when Nouriel Roubini himself was arguing inflation (Roubini quickly reversed himself).

He was completely correct on that, it's deflation that the US Government and Federal Reserve are trying to prevent with massive stimuli and QE1/2. So far they've been successful, but at such a great cost there's no telling whether it's sustainable, or whether Bernanke can wind it down and gracefully exit eventually. Denninger argues no, b/c there's too much bad debt, and credit

Regarding gold, his fundamental thesis is that the data doesn't support the widely-held belief that gold is a good hedge for inflation or deflation, but it does appear to be a good hedge for geopolitical instability. He's posted data that disprove the former notion, which I'm not about to go try to dig up.

Gold has risen over the past ten years, but that time period was characterized by both currency instability, currency inflation, debt deflation, and geopolitical instability in the MidEast and somewhat N.Korea. Good luck trying to extract any causation out of that correlation. Till then, there's nothing to disprove his gold thesis.

He made parts of his website private to keep out the 'moonbats', conspiracy theorists, and 'collapse of the American Empire' cheerleaders, who tend to be most active in precious metals forums.

Whether he had an ulterior motive to hide being wrong about gold, I can't speak to that since I don't follow gold, or his gold forum very closely. Have any evidence of that accusation?
It doesn't matter.

If the fashion world were shitting all over straight men, it would be wrong whether it was one straight guy looking to make it as a designer or a hundred thousand.
Interesting -- cool job post.

What I would really like to see, although of course you may not want to disclose this, is what sort of projects this person would work on in the first couple of months.

For everybody else, I spent 2 years working on SEM and I think AdGrok is a great product, fwiw. See eg Clickable or KeyMetric as competitors; Clickable is self serve SEM on GYM, at least when I interviewed there. This is a much better interface and helps solve the biggest problem for small business sem, which isn't technical but is convincing people of value and helping nontechnical people use SEM without burning through too much money on account managers.

Too bad I hate writing web apps, because this looks like an awesome opportunity.

Are you planning on setting up call fowarding ala clickable / yodle / reachlocal? Overlaying that information would be awesome, though it's a huge pita...
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I'm sure it had nothing to do with this announcement from two weeks ago:

"Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) announced Thursday (Nov 11th) that it has signed a multi-year deal with Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) for Level 3 to become a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for the online movie rental company."
If I was Level 3 I would have said "leave it" to Comcast and let Comcast block the service for all their customers. It would have caused a bigger media sensation and outrage by Comcast customers against their ISP. By giving in Level 3 has just encouraged this "tollbooth" attitude that ISPs are developing.
"One of the problems with schools and our society in general is the idea that you can take something complicated and distill it down to a single, meaningful number. Another problem is the notion that you should even try to do this. We're taking this to ridiculous extremes."

I know that I didn't get into my (Top-25) college based on my High School GPA[1], and I know I got my current entry-level job despite my college GPA. Fortunately, the people evaluating the grades aren't using them as the only criteria.

"How hard is that?"

OK, but do that 150 times. And remember that one wrong word in that sentence is going to draw lawsuit threats or complaints to the principal/school board. You'll eventually be forced to fall back on pre-screened, buzzword-heavy, meaning-light phrases like many school districts currently have.

[1] - 9 people from my high school graduating class went to my college - #2 through #9 in the GPA ranking and me (#38, barely in the top 10%)
I used to think that programmers were smart because we could talk to machines.

The shallowness of a lot of the posts on this emotional and contentious topic reinforce what I've learned since: on average programmers are not that smart, which is why they need to talk to simple machines.

Basically, try to discuss something that ends in "ism", and otherwise reasonable people go all ape-shit.
That "what about the kids" thing seems to be a popular theme... I wonder about it myself in my own thinking about the Kindle: http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/11/26/kindle-thoughts
I'm glad this is happening now. The concept of Net Neutrality has been too abstract for most consumers and legislators thus far, so it's been easy for telcom lobbyists to manipulate the narrative.

Something concrete and egregious needed to happen before the average consumer would understand what it really means to allow companies to filter the type of traffic that people are allowed to get through their pipes.
Yep. This is just your local television monopoly protecting its interests. We all knew it was coming sooner or later.
"On November 22, after being informed by Comcast that its demand for payment was 'take it or leave it,' Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions."

Leave it. Level3 set a terrible precedent here by paying the shakedown money. Even with their subsequent complaints, they've now put Comcast in a much better position by implicitly acknowledging (whether true or not) that Comcast brings more value to the table by providing access to its subscriber base than content-providers bring to the table by supplying content to subscribers.

Like the old Churchill story goes, "now we're just negotiating the price."

(See PS #4 below for a more benign interpretation.)

--

PS #1: Yes, of course it might have been expensive for them to play hardball here, with respect to the short-term harm it might cause their customers. That's exactly the point. By acknowledging that the harm to Comcast would be lower (which I actually doubt), they've significantly strengthened Comcast's position against other carriers and perhaps even with regulators.

PS #2: Game theory would suggest that it's critical for Netflix to repel this assault now, even at the cost of short term pain. Once this precedence is established, Comcast will be able to extract nearly all of the profit from Netflix sales to Comcast customers. Each time Comcast raises the toll, it would be in Netflix's rational self interest to go along so long as they are still making some net profit on the channel (modulo opportunity costs and whatnot).

PS #3: It's not uncommon for carriers to play hardball. The big Tier 1's have been trying to prevent the ascension of Cogent into their club for years, which (along with Cogent's aggressiveness) resulted in some nasty peering dispute stalemates in 2005 (with Level3) and 2008 (with Sprint), each time "breaking the internet."

PS #4: It's also possible that Level3 is representing this as a net neutrality issue when in reality it's just a peering dispute. Traditionally local ISPs have had to pay for transit across the networks of the big carriers. When a local ISP becomes a large regional or national one (Comcast), they have enough leverage to extract no-charge ("settlement-free") peering agreements with most of the major carriers. This is probably the first case, though, of a cable-company ISP becoming large enough to extract transit fees from a big international carrier. That's noteworthy, but if it is content-neutral, it's still the way the internet has always worked.
How could Bradley Manning alone have leaked so much classified material?
Any content provider who's single-homed to Level 3 (which may include L3 CDN customers like Netflix) would become unavailable to Comcast customers if they disconnected.
Chrome is a little better at blocking pop-ups by default. Not perfect, just a bit better.
Not sure what you're talking about to be honest.

http://imgur.com/B7HAZ.png
It shouldn't be an awful headline; that's the sad thing. I submit that those taking issue with it (i.e. those pointing out a potential offence) are actually part of the problem.

One solution would be t encourage as many innocent headlines as it takes till it simple doesn't matter whether you say men, women or Martian - it just means people.... (unfortunately that means people will be offended, so possibly not the sanest approach)

Ascribing an intent to someone who clearly doesn't mean it is just not cricket :)
The PDF is still free: http://digital.designing-obama.com/

You can also read "Barack Obama Social Media Toolkit by Edelman" : http://www.scribd.com/full/10807015?access_key=key-nc75wovez...
Perhaps I'm stupid, or maybe it's that I went to a state school, but I didn't recognize the quote.
I have four accounts. One of my accounts, that I use at nefarious looking websites, or websites of a nature that I don't feel needs my legitimate email address, was accessed from a computer in China. I still use the same password for it everywhere but my Gmail now.
Agreed. It also slowed down my entire system to the point where I had to Force Quit it... and even then, it took a good 30-40 seconds before the system got responsive again... I kinda feel like Google Earth is less and less relevant and mostly always revert to using Google Maps instead...
I'm not interested in debating about just how different men and women are, and in which respects, and what parts are environmental and what parts genetic. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, which is why I said "let's ignore...".

If a woman wants to move beyond what is 'normal' for her gender, why is it acceptable to discriminate against her?

It doesn't matter a bit whether 'normal' is biological in origin or cultural.
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Unbelievable the primary storage for all the secret documents is Outlook's PST of all things!
While you're right that this isn't in a professional setting, I've also seen plenty of shenanigans on the job, too... admittedly, this has a lot to do with the individuals and the culture.
consumers were high on the rush of swapping music hard drive to hard drive for nothing.

Oof.
That's really cool and super fast (my god is it fast!).

If you are going to launch this, can I suggest that, rather than IP detection, you build out a series of pages for each location, e.g. New York City, London etc.

That way you can get SEO traffic (London has a non-ajax, SE crawlable page), and also provide people a better experience when they plan to go somewhere (e.g. London from NYC).

Lastly - revenue model? I assume affiliates for hotels etc? If so, you need traffic, so see my first point :)
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"Customers" in this situation mean the big streaming players like Netflix and Hulu. Comcast would surely point fingers at the streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc) who would then have to move off Level3. A pretty ballsy move and exactly why Net Neutrality is important.

I think they went for Level3 because average users have no idea who they are. Attacking Netflix gets you in the NY Times. Attacking Level3 gets you on a BusinessWire press release.