skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on the fence about that one. I used to sell licensed software and of course I lost plenty of money due to piracy (if a prospect cancels a sale but turns out to be running the product after all I think that qualifies ;)). Piracy is illegal (of software), but this case deals with source code. Now it is of course possible to see the name of the file and wonder 'hey, isn't that copyrighted software' but you could make that call for every package and you'd get a bunch of people arguing that the only way open source can function is by allowing people to download stuff, then verify the license is 'legit', compiling it and running it.

So there are good reasons for not criminalizing the downloading of code, and the responsibility of anybody that does download code is that they will deal with it in the proper way once they find out the terms. If the code says '(C) 2000-2007 Kaspersky Inc, NOT for distribution or resale' at the top (I made that up), you will probably have a good idea that it's not wise for you to proceed, if on the other hand it has an open source license as a rider and you can not find anything wrong with it after careful inspection you should be free to proceed.

To make an insightful decision you'd have to download it first.
This is true, but if a test doesn't work with KAV, arguably it is now much easier to figure out why and find a workaround.
The problem with lazy registration is that not enough people are familiar with it, so they will probably get confused.

Case in point, I built http://www.taxbonus.gr/ (sorry, it's in Greek) a few weeks ago, it only requires registration if you want to save your session. It doesn't have enough people to tell, yet, but my biggest fear is whether or not people will be able to tell they're logged in.

There are plenty of visual cues (such as asking you to sign in if you enter data while signed out), but you know how confused some people get, especially if they're expecting something else.

I'll let you know how it goes, though.
Ternovskiy had told no one he was taking the Sunday-afternoon flight out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. But when he arrived in New York he found a car from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian company, waiting for him at the airport. From the driver, he learned that an associate of Yuri Milner was already on his way to New York to talk to him. Back in Moscow, Milner repeatedly called Vladimir, a contemporary of his in college, and urged him to get his son to coöperate.
Andrey, ensconced in a New York hotel, was scornful. “Is that even appropriate for an investor?” he asked me. “Harassing and hounding are the only words which come to mind.”

Andrey Ternovskiy is the founder of Chatroulette.
And the excerpt above is from The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_...
Not unlike quantitative easing here in the USA resulting in peoples' pensions and savings being given to VCs and funds.
Crappy excuse, because it applies to binary software too.

I find a file called "Microsoft Office" on a torrent site, I don't know the license until I download it.

If you're going to argue "but you can Google it" then (a) the same applies to source code, and (b) put some abandoned but stil payware & under copyright title instead of "Microsoft Office" and the argument will hold (Google won't help).
Larry Summers vs. the Tiger Mom
Why Dropbox Won and Syncplicity and Others Lost
Google likes to hire women. They go out of their way to do so. (So does Microsoft.) That substantially raised her chance of getting an interview and a job.
I'm pretty sure you've already blown your cover as far as the offering party is concerned. How many big tech firms have made 8 figure offers in the last day or two? All of them have tons of employees that read HN, so unless none of them are aware of this offer you've just given a lot away.
One of the problems with software that changes how you work is that it changes how you work! There is a lot of resistance to such things--- the user has to see clearly that there is something to be gained with this modification. I like the idea, but I am at a loss to fit it in to how I work...
You're neglecting the danger caused by starting the raid in an escalated state.
'not shielded': implies that one has to do extra work to shield those. Default is not secure scenario.

'public folder': implies one has to do extra work to make those files public. Default is not public.

I was wondering which one describes Dropbox situation correctly.
I have HTML5 placeholders in, but you're right.
Sure. So I label it gcc.torrent and send you the link, you download it, find out that it's microsoft office after all, boom you go to jail right?
Would something like a bookmarklet with a popup make it better?
City of Helsinki to start open source desktop pilot
that's some stealth, anti social-security rhetoric there :-)
What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us?
Why Startups Should Care About Lean UX
XUL anyone?
We built something in-house (Rails), and have been thinking about spinning it out into a minimalist feedback app. I'd be happy to share the code with you if you give me feedback on it. charlie@monotask.com

Regarding currently-available services, I've also used KISSInsights and Olark. Both are useful, and are ready to go right now. I'd check them out, but recognize that they have a fairly specific focus (not a bad thing; just might not work for you). KISSInsights is like a really minimal survey. It's really great for that. I believe they have an option where users can give you open-ended feedback, but I don't know if that's in the free account. Worth checking out. Olark is good, too, but I've found it's only useful for synchronous interactions. If I don't actively engage with people on it, it doesn't yield any substantive feedback.

All that being said, check them out.
I wonder how this differs from backbone.js?
When you have something to show, submit it to http://alphalist.co. No, I have no relationship with them. I just signed up as a user.
http://www.rumafia.com/person.php?id=88
My conception of a sit-in has no relation with anonymity. The important portion of a sit-in is the occupation of space. The space is occupied to disrupt the normal flow of activity, so as to draw attention to a cause. I'm not sure how a protest being anonymous goes from violent to non-violent.

Secondly, it doesn't matter if Anon once DDoS'd minecraft.net. Operation Avenge Assange had its motivations declared quite explicitly: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Avenge_As...
You would be able to have sex with whoever you wanted (so long as both parties are 'mature enough' to agree). This too, is not the case in the states.

Ok I'll bite. What laws are there in the US that restrict who you can have sex with? Laws against minors don't count as there needs to be some legal definition of "mature enough", unless you want a subjective judgment of maturity on a case by case basis.
That's a nice application idea. I have some feedback:

* The email subject is labeled "name of your reminder" on the input form and "title" on the confirmation page. I recommend using the term "subject" in both places because that's what people are used to seeing in their email clients.

* I recommend changing "Execution date" on the confirmation page to something less geeky like "Send time".

* The confirmation page should have an edit link.

How will you prevent people from using the application to send spam?
Hotmail had the best name.
I believe you meant

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I've added feedback via uservoice.com for a recent project. Their free tier is pretty usable.
Why Dropbox is more popular than other tools with same functionality
You might take a look at Kiss Insights. Theirs is a very simple, elegant embedded solution to on page surveys. http://www.kissinsights.com/

Also, I believe Monyta does a similar service to Get Satisfaction, but their site seems to be down right now.
The key word there is 'purports.' I don't think that it actually does.

Also, I think that prohibitions and punishment say that they have a moral component, but that's largely due to making it easier for the populace to swallow. Opiate of the masses and all of that.

This doesn't mean that I think that there should be a world without rules, either. But these (at least America's) set of rules certainly don't come anywhere close to representing my morality or ethics.
Shot you an e-mail, hope I got the right address.
Thanks, I was aware of that. My point was that not many websites do this.
I should have phrased it as "the body has a mechanism to get rid of excess Vitamin D". That mechanism can be overloaded, though.
Yes, most definitely, a bot competition does sound like a lot of fun. A separate game server just for bots would be great, and it would allow those who just want a fun way to keep track of their reading to use the manual game.
PostgreSQL is in my experience almost always a better choice than MySQL, and has a very permissive (MIT-style) licence.
Put your e-mail in your profile and lets chat - I should be able to link you up with an IV.
Click here: http://pastie.org/1509163

This is a source code file from my program, for which all rights belong to me. It has been obtained and put there by my wife without my permission. By opening this link you made an illegal copy of it. You'll soon hear from my lawyers.
> I think the rules against sabotaging others' commerce are good rules; a moral person would follow them even if they weren't written down.

I agree with your statement on its face, but there are certain times when it's okay to break the rules. Sometimes you have to do bad things to achieve good ends. No action is ever white or black, there are only shades of gray.

> If the 'sit-in' directly blocked the objectionable activity, a different analysis might apply.

They did disrupt. Maybe not as much as Anon would have liked, but they did.
I also wonder about traffic; is it like The Truman Show, where you see the same cars over and over again.
Agreed. I mentioned something like this in a comment the other day- a liberal arts background can be a massive help to one's ability to function as a programmer, and when I was hiring programmers at my old job, I routinely found that candidates who had spent some significant time outside of the CS building tended to work out better than less well-rounded candidates.
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The zipped torrent is actually larger than the torrent file itself. I have no idea why he did this.
repeat sickly offenders

Wow, you have to be one of those extremists that buys everything Ayn Rand wrote without blinking an eye. Fortunately, most of us don't mind paying health insurance, fully expecting they will never need it, but still acknowledging that others that need it should receive the care they need.
Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive
Exactly. If it were that easy to get people to do something illegal then the jails would overflow.

The improved version: <img width=2 height=2 src='http://pastie.org/1509163>;
> Can't help to notice that the example code on the front page uses tables for layout purposes...

The table is used to layout tabular data. This is a good use of tables.
A first world country like America isn't going to kill the internet, it is just going to systematically disallow unauthorized content.

What we need to worry about is not a kill switch but a "packet shaping switch", which turns off all non-essential government functions.

And the solution to this is encryption and blurring the line between "essential government internet function" and "evil citizen communication device".

What is needed here is a communication device as difficult to block as human speech. How hard would it be to just plug in a wireless card into a ham radio so packet data is sent over the ham radio waves?
Ridiculous analogies aren't helpful. Try something like.. how about standing in front of someone. All day. They can't walk anywhere without pushing past you. Basically harassment and interfering with their day. The damages lie solely in the fact that they aren't able to be productive.
> Are you sure? Consider this: if you wanted to sort an array of 1,000,000 numbers between 1 and 100 as fast as possible, how would you do it?

I'd use radix sort. It's O(n) rather than O(n log n).
It depends on your situation (age, health, dependents). Last startup I worked at did a high deductible health insurance and subsidized it with a $2000 Health Savings Account (deposits made with each paycheck on your behalf with pretax dollars). Done this way the HSA is like an FSA, but better. The HSA carries over from year to year, the FSA doesn't. If you had a big expense before the $2000 was fully deposited it could be lent by the company and paid back from paychecks. Since the company was already putting this in really what it what meant is that if you left the company before it was recovered from paychecks it would be deducted from the last paycheck. I don't remember the prescription coverage, but from what others said it wasn't bad. Some examples of the coverage:

Founder's son had a lung collapse and spent days in the hospital, but only paid 4K out of the HSA.

Co-worker had a preemie that spent a month in the hospital before they could take him home. Once again, $4K out of the HSA. High deductible covered the rest.

Another co-worker with a long term illness had $400/mo in prescription meds they needed. Covered.

Needless to say, they upped our rates the following year...

As they say, YMMV.
sigh. Can this be like the new Godwin?

I am okay with 'any kind,' _as long as it's a reasonable response_. For example, if you stepped outside right now and shot a cop, I'd think that you were a bad person, even though I dislike police. However, if some dude in Egypt right now shot a cop, I'd probably give him a high-five. Once the cops start shooting, your escalated response is justified.
There was an interesting article in the Boston Globe the other day about this:

There’s no great, complex explanation for why people who get one big thing right get most everything else wrong, argues Denrell. It’s simple: Those who correctly predict extreme events tend to have a greater tendency to make extreme predictions; and those who make extreme predictions tend to spend most of the time being wrong — on account of most of their predictions being, well, pretty extreme. There are few occurrences so out of the ordinary that someone, somewhere won’t have seen them coming, even if that person has seldom been right about anything else.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/09/...
Man, that video got me excited about building robots and I'm completely anti-hardware.
The dataset sounds so small that I'd expect the winning answer will be extensively seeded by medical doctors. Diagnostic data is usually very difficult to approach with AI, and practising doctors have good heuristics. That suggests, to me, that the best one can hope for is using this dataset to refine those heuristics.
Really nice. Great way for me to share designs with remote designers and stakeholders with having them install a viewer. Could be the start of a Scribd for the physical world.
On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness
Which just goes to show that you should learn about settled science before worrying about the latest findings.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/
I don't disagree with the overall message of the article, but those points don't sound like reasons to me, more like methods for achieving better UX.
Indeed. All these lucrative google and microsoft stock options are eventually paid by people forced to sell their homes to pay for health care and food.
While this article is correct and talks about Ioannides's work—which is good, respectable stuff by the way—it does paint a picture like this should be a shock to you.

Folks, it isn't just medicine; Science in general must be comfortable with the proposition of being wrong. The more complex the field, the more often replication will fail (and the tighter standards need to be). There are very few pursuits that our race engages in that are more difficult than understanding life itself.

One of the biggest problems is that physicians and the press tend to get very hasty with pushing new research. It's not their fault, mind you, they're trying to inform us about health. If a doctor could save a life with an experimental treatment that has yet to reach thorough replication, shouldn't s/he? And it's the media's job to get us interesting new stories (albeit they could be far better at putting their information into context).

The nature of science is such that refinements occur over time. Unfortunately, the nature of most people receiving medical treatment is to believe it works or doesn't work based of extremely subjective data. If we want to attack that problem head on, we should begin with education. All the improvements in methodology imaginable cannot stop science from being what it is, and as such cannot eliminate the sawtoothed slope of medical progress.
"The United States, by contrast, has thousands of Internet routes and providers... a central shutdown here is unthinkable, if not impossible. "

I'm not sure how the situation in the US compares to Canada, but certainly here there is the _appearance_ of hundreds of providers, but the reality is that the vast majority are just resellers for Bell, Telus, and Rogers, with a handful of independents like Cogeco and Shaw on the side. I would guess that you could cut off the internet to 99.9% of Canadian residents with about seven or eight phone calls.

How similar is the situation in the US? Of these "thousands" of ISPs serving residential and business needs, how many are truly peered outside of a single parent or partner?
github is using Github to share DMCA takedown notices with you!
Interesting.

As I explore, prompting seems > open ended for feedback. Thanks for the suggestion.
Static and dynamic libraries for third-party code and imports from external repositories.

Code that's been around for a long time, with a team of developers working on it for a decade or more, tends to be big. The way it is with commercial software, you more or less have to keep adding features to compete; and it's dangerous to refactor much to eliminate code because of the risk of breaking backwards compatibility, so that introduces another form of duplication.

1GB of source, just source, is pretty big, though. Just the source from RAD Studio (the product I work on) is nearly 10 million lines, about 350 million characters - though that doesn't include the C++ compiler, C RTL, debugger kernel, and a bunch of other things.
The thing that gets me is that the US is using these to assassinate people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some by firring hellfire missiles at the targets.

Yet the same UAV have got to be useful to kill the president of the US (I do not have any desire to kill him, but I imagine there are people who do).

So, how the hell do you protect somebody against these kinds of weapons? The bullet-proof glass that is (almost certainly) installed in the oval office is properly enough to stop any kind of sniper bullet, but a missile? Heck the Iranians have anti-ship missiles that can fly at march 2.

How do you stop something like that? I have to guess that the Secret Service have tried, but I doubt it can be done.
Interesting fact. I wonder what they are up to!
Samsung to quadruple mobile chip production for Apple in 2011
Why it's so hard to start a payments company
I understand what you're getting at, but you're way off the mark here:

> The magazine publishers are free to configure their magazines and the world around them in any way they wish. The newstand operator is responsible for what goes on inside his stand. If he's serving up junk, do we go blaming the rest of the world for the quality of his service?

There's a difference between selling junk and selling something that's obviously criminal. If you walked into a store where every magazine had "VIAGRA - 50% OFF. MAIL US YOUR MONEY". Do you honestly mean to tell me that the magazines in question were perfectly ok and it was the magazine vendor who did something wrong?

It's good that you realize that it's humans that are committing crimes, and not subhuman beings. But that doesn't excuse them nor should you.

Yes, Google has some level of responsibility here and they should be held accountable. But they're not the ones actually committing the crime.
Hey,

1 & 2 You're right. It was 3am and I wasn't paying much attention to that kind of details :p

3. Yes.

Regarding spam: it's not really useful for spammers because they'd have to send one message at a time. Although they could build bots, Rails 3's security methods offer primary defense against this. Not that it couldn't be circumvented.

I thought about sending a confirmation e-mail, but I deemed that to be an unnecessary layer of complexity - I wanted to build the simplest e-mail reminder service around.

I guess I would edge towards daily IP based limits?
Web development information needed.
been working on an idea (marketing side of it), and need the technical insight to bring it together. looking to develop a site that uses the tools that cafepress and zazzle utilize for their custom products as well as their affiliate system. not much of tech head, but any help on understanding the type of developer i'm looking for would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154706
For a limited period of time, they have the right to purchase health coverage at their employer's cost, which is invariably higher than what the employees themselves
Were accustomed to paying.
If you live in Massachusetts, it's easy: http://www.mahealthconnector.org (unsubsidized but group-rate health insurance)
SourceForge attacked, resets 2 million account passwords to protect users
Interesting. I built something like this: http://crowsne.st/

These kinds of tools are really valuable. The New York Times called it "One of the best all-purpose sites with updates from the streets."
It's not just the publishing process that's broken. The funding process is problematic as well. Among the competitors for grant money, it is the investigators that promise to do a lot with the minimal amount of funding that can reasonably be believed to be feasible for the project who end up winning the grant money. This optimizes the funding process to select for proposals that aim to collect the bare minimum of data that the statistician says is required to see a "significant" result (because data collection is the expensive part of doing a study). If the investigator's estimate of the effect size is off, then the sample size is insufficient and spurious results are more likely. Change the funding process to select for proposals that involve collecting a sample size that is larger than strictly necessary for the expected effect size by some margin of safety and you'll get research results that are more likely to actually be true.