skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were reports of one music blog where the allegedly infringing files had been provided by the labels themselves. I don't remember what blog it was, but they were reported to have hired a lawyer to fight it.

I have no way to check that, obviously, but it seems to me that it would be a waste of money to hire a lawyer if you had no case when you could simply register another domain outside of the USA for a lot less.

Also, there's the fact that similar accusations were made by Google/YouTube in their litigation with Viacom. You don't have to take Google's word for that, either. You can check the court filings and see that they did, in fact, remove the files that they themselves uploaded to Google from the litigation. Twice.

That was reported on Ars Technica, if memory serves, but I don't have a link handy.
"Fulsome" means "abundant". I think that was correct, from the context. The fact that it is often used sarcastically only means that you need to determine from context whether it's sincere or insincere. I think it was clear, in this context.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fulsome
FIX Protocol Session or Admin messages tutorial
Oh sorry, to clarify, I didn't mean stop to look at schools, I meant if you are headed to Seattle for whatever (not sure what there is to do in Seattle, I lived there and don't really think of it as a tourist destination of any kind, but maybe Vancouver?), definitely take the train since it's a fun train (even though it will leave 6 hrs after it is scheduled to leave) and then might as well do a stop in Portland on the way. Just to hang out and check things out for a couple days since there's lost of fun things going on and interesting people. Not to look at schools.
> CompressionLevel 9
Just one note regarding the above line: this only works with SSH version 1. This functionality was removed in version 2 of the protocol (in the newer version there is only a single default compression level).
The Knack for Getting Money
Yeah, I think if you're going to scout the city and want to get a feel for what it would be like to live in SF (rather than vicinity, which is completely different) you should want to spend at least two weeks in SF.

I would say stay at an AirBnB for lodging. I think that will give you a better window into what daily life might look like for you. A hotel is going to be disengaged.

"Silicon Valley" kind of has as its epicenter in Palo-Alto. However, that really is a rough geographic description. Most mature companies are HQd in SF or San Jose (those are the normal boundaries). SF has companies and startups, tho most could be considered companies which use web-technologies to provide services (AirBnB, Yelp, Craigslist) whereas peninsula companies might fit more the web-infrastructure and platformy (Google, VMware, Verisign, FB) side of things. Mountain View-Santa Clara-San Jose is more Hardware (Intel, Cisco, IBM). That's overly simplified. It's just to give you some rough bearing.

UC Berkeley is 30 mins away via Rapid Trainsit (Bart), Stanford U is about 1hr from SF on Commuter Rail (CalTrain)

SF is a bit expensive to live in, as a student with little income. Your situation might be different. Many people share rent or the sort, to make things more affordable, if they do want to remain in SF. However, that introduces the vagaries that come with having roommates.

You can look for upcoming events you might want to check out here http://sf.funcheap.com/events/san-francisco/

Lodgning at: airbnb.com

look at rent info: http://hotpads.com/ also http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/hhh/

Proto- Startup Culture, maybe a quick stop at Hacker Dojo?
http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage (It's in the middle of a middle-aged non-descript office park, but it's reachable via Caltrain Mountain View Station ~10 min walk)
Is she really as strict as she claims in the article? To what extent was she trolling? She promoted her book big time. Can her daughter cash in too?
I like garysimon.net. I'm a satisfied customer.

I hope you won't use the crowd-sourced sites as they don't respect the time of designers.
I enjoyed your post. It does demonstrate that Tiger mom raised Chinese kids lack any ability to understand gentle ribbing, being far too uptight and serious about stuff.
I'm very interested to hear how to spend my income fixing my upbringing (genuinely).
ironic, isn't it :)
Because of the way the designer is using frames, you have to use the ever-so-intuitive THREE FINGER DRAG on iOS to scroll
I read the whole cable. It doesn't support Ron Paul's interpretation or the submission headline.

The "NO POSITION" comment is about the particulars of a specific border dispute; it doesn't mean no position on war/invasion. (The U.S. probably has no position on the Canada/Denmark dispute over Hans Island. It doesn't mean the U.S. would greenlight either country resolving the dispute by force.)

Also, the summary at the top of the cable states: "AMBASSADOR MADE CLEAR THAT WE CAN
NEVER EXCUSE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES BY OTHER THAN
PEACEFUL MEANS."

Also, this "TOOK NO POSITION ON THESE ARAB AFFAIRS" section has been leaked, and discussed, years ago, and the whole memo was declassified more than 2 years ago. See for example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/glas...

And finally: not hacker news. Flagged.
There is a cost to installing security, particularly at the higher levels of FIPS certification. Let no one dispute that.

But I consider the idea of allowing your passwords to flow over the wire in plaintext and allowing other information to flow in plaintext to be quite ridiculous.

The author suggests a false dichotomy: 2048bit encryption (which algorithm? he doesn't say) or none.

There are a lot of complexities here that can be tuned for your business and its requirements. At least, if you can hire a competent security guy.
> Google has mentioned they're working on the content farm problem.

The irony is that is Google's own AdSense program is the incentive for the creation of airburger web sites, which otherwise have no reason to exist.
I could truthfully say the same thing. It isn't listed on my resume because I have done things since the age of 18, too, and many of them are more impressive to a decision maker at a tech company.

At the best high school in Illinois you'd have roughly 2% of the graduating class be within shooting distance of that number, just to give you an approximation.
I'm sure it's a worthy technique - my complaint is just that it's often prescribed as a blanket one size fits all solution rather than something that might be more fitting. Maybe I'm just tired of hearing about it and I'm being cranky :)
You know, I reread what I wrote and it does sound like I was calling you out. Sorry about that. Let's just say Portland's awesome and if he gets a chance he should go. :)
To those who dislike it: Jamie Kite has succeed in doing far more than most people with their resumes: She's gotten thousands of people to look at it and talk about her resume.

Is it the best infographic? Parts are pretty serviceable. Is it the worst? Not by a long shot. Does it use a lot of common styles seen today, yup.

Will it infuriate some people? Oh hell yes from Ptack's reaction. But did it work? Yes.

"Logical" left brained types get hung up on exact meanings of graphics when sometimes it's the fact you have a visually interesting doodad out there is all that counts to get the attention to your whatzit.

Does she have some stupid stuff on their and weird phrasing? No more than most people who haven't looked at lots of resumes. (Apple terminal caught my eye).

Would I hire her for a top level rails position? Likely not without more convincing. Would I think about hiring her for a midlevel position where there is significant art issues, yeah, I'd definitely consider calling her for an interview.

She should likely redo parts of it to sound better, (like many people have to do with their resume).
Small nit: You can download Oracle 11g (or 10g) strait off their website for free — you just need to sign up for a free developer account.

Here's a link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-editio...
Hiring A Cofounder
I'm hiring a second co-founder who is knowledgeable in PHP/MYSQL and is an ex Google,or Facebook employee. This is the 9th time I've posted this request on Hacker News just going to keep posting it until someone listens. I'm building a website and I have 104 lines of code I was thinking we could trade off the work until it is finished. Meaning that since I just wrote 104 lines of code you would go write 104 lines and pass it back to me and we would do that back and forth until the website is finished. I'm working to have the Beta out by August. If your interested email me @ klownkeeper@gmail.com or tweet me @KeithClark_ thanks!
I've left a couple of comments on HN about the perils of multitasking. Didn't go over well. Not a popular idea here... unless you can find something online to back you up!
The way I learned was by switching to Dvorak and not changing the physical keys. I highly recommend it.
[edit: I uploaded my talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEUw8igr1IY ]

I learned a lot of great things at this conference. I will definitely attend the next one in NY in six months. I learned the most just from picking the brains of people in the hallways, really smart people like Chris Wensel and Ken Krugler who have skillsets that are complementary to mine.

I gave a talk at Strata, entitled "New Developments in Large Data Techniques":
http://strataconf.com/strata2011/public/schedule/detail/1693...
The idea is: There are a lot of new developments in machine learning and NLP that have immediate applications in industry, but that you've never heard of yet. I walked through these ideas in a high-level way and gave a lot of intuition.

It was my first talk in industry, but based upon the rating assigned by conference goers (4.26 out of 5 stars), it appears it was one of the top five sessions in the entire conference. I guess I'll have to wait until the voting is closed to know for sure.

The video was recorded by O'Reilly, but is now behind a paywall. The good news is that I shot the video on my Kodak Zi8, and will upload it to Vimeo once I can get to an internet connection with fast upstream. You can see the slides here: http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/55/New%20Developments%2...

I was also interviewed by Silicon Angle, in which I summarized some of the key ideas from my talk in a non-technical way:
http://siliconangle.tv/video/joseph-turian-metaoptimizecom-s...

I am still on a high that my talk was so well-received, and look forward to trying to do more speaking engagements in the future.

I also heard that Berlin Buzzwords in June is a really cool conference, and might try to attend that.
Why would someone from Google or Facebook be at all interested in trading off project work based on lines of code? This isn't high school after all. If you're looking for a heavy hitter, suggesting that they match your 104 lines of PHP and then take a break just comes across as... weird.
Fair enough. How would you recommend getting this idea to people who have enough credibility to do something about it? I do not have the capability to attend SF mixers :-)
Apologies for the typos.
"There is a cost to installing security, particularly at the higher levels of FIPS certification. Let no one dispute that."

Completely agree. Which is why I say at the end of my original comment that security is "always a compromise." Put another way, you weigh the day-to-day cost of more hardware and man hours against the potential future cost of a serious security exposure.

Unfortunately most people are bad at calculating potential future costs. Which leads us to your second point about needing a good security guy. =]
I always wondered why an Nginx module that was about generating a circle had such prominence on the Nginx website and now I can say I understand =]

Although this was premature optimization I still find it a beautiful hack. The author was still not content with the C solution of actually generating the GIF each time (which took 30ms, actually a long time for servers) and instead reframed the problem at a deeper level and created a beautiful little hack that just modified the palette table.
Should also be aware of http://w3fools.com/ before reading any w3schools.
Wow. May/June, 2008. Has it been that long since the topic was current? But, Hasegawa's name definitely looks familiar.

Thanks. I'll give the current version a go. I enjoyed Sage's nice, simple interface. Works well in combination with Scrapbook, too.
Could you elaborate ? Did you have any particular parameter in mind.

To me the model seemed strikingly simple with just 6 parameters. All assumptions seemed very mild, benign and sensible. Furthermore they list out the behavior and the nature of the equilibrium at different settings of those parameters.

There could be different points of criticism of the work, but over-dependence or sensitivity to finely tuned parameters does not seem to be very strong to me in this particular case.
I think it is interesting that this article doesn't mention the SNI (server name indication) extension to TLS in the section on certificate management. It seems like a great way to bring down the cost of SSL installations.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Medical Locket
I managed to do it by using the "two finger scroll"; use two fingers to scroll the text section.

Go figure.
But what if they know that the range is $45 to $65? In that case you've just made yourself not look very credible.
Something like that... :-)
The concept of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you?" is implicitly biased as it project's your worldview/morals/values/etc onto the "others" in question.

If the goal is to understand, support and/or show respect for the uncontacted tribes, I think the focus should be adjusted to: "Do unto others as they want you to do unto them".
I for one think it's funny. Not that I like Kenneth Cole. But if I saw a commercial with people rioting in the streets because they couldn't get their iPhone 5... That'd be pretty funny.
This sounds like a very good way to kill yourself dead.
Slightly out of topic https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!msg/nodejs/MWaivVTir...
This may be the best resume I have ever seen, too. She would be on the top of my list without a doubt.

The color coded tree is animated and reconfigures itself as you hover over the various items in the legend. We are seeing a static screenshot. There is also a text version available which we are not seeing.

She does hit the spot between developer and designer. That statement seems to be confusing a lot of people. I am not confused by that. Those are exactly the type of people I need. I guess it is just not in everyone's argot.

Maybe there are some nits to be picked, but just the fact that she broke new ground in this manner says a lot to me, and it is all positive.

This is just true of me. Maybe it is not right for everyone. I thought the HN crowd would dig this a lot more. My mind is a little blown by all the nitpicking and bashing. Maybe there is a little bit of pissing contest going on here.
Finally, I'm sorry I forgot to give you credit.

Ah, that's no problem. If you'd copied it to your domain and linked it there I might have minded, but if you're posting a link to my site I consider that plenty of credit.
I've yet to find any legal expert who seems to believe that the law actually says this anywhere.

How about the judge who decided the 2600 DeCSS case? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/04/2600_withdraws_supre...
I pray for the day when technology has advanced to where we can be offered three choices.
I didn't know unicorns were involved. Count me in!
FDA clears first diagnostic radiology application for mobile devices
If I'm a code monkey, where's my banana?

What? I don't even get a banana?

Screw this, I'm going to be a Librarian.
it depends on how you frame it. Saying that this type of position typically pays X doesn't mean you're willing to take it.
The only problem I have with this... is that I've experienced firsthand the other side of this coin. For a few years I was surrounded by a few people who have a knack for getting money... by any means necessary. These people would lie (not little white lies, big ones with negative impacts), manipulate, and straight-up steal from others just to make a few bucks. They had no remorse for the detrimental outcomes they brought upon those they stole from... no compassion whatsoever.

When looking for those with a knack for getting money, look for those who earn it... those whose ethics are no less than admirable... unless of course you lack compassion and morals yourself. Those who manipulate and steal without any remorse for others' lives need to be weeded out. They drag the rest of us down and hold us back for their own selfish gain.

Some may consider this darwinism - survival of the fittest - but I believe we've made much more progress as a species by working with each other than against.

The last conversation I had with these people I spent years with was to try to explain how their line of thinking quite honestly brings suffering to countless people. Prime example, big banks making deals they know will fall through regardless of the impact it has on the economy... look where we are now. The type of people who made the decisions that led to the recent recession, which caused a massive decrease in my father's hours at work, are the same ones who want to perform a shortsale on his house because he has fallen behind on his mortgage. As for the suffering I mentioned, let's just say my father will give up his house over his dead body.
The problem with hiring a hustler with a "knack for getting money" is that you might be the one he ends up hustling.
good question. i'm wondering that myself.
They are trying to replicate the old media experience (newspaper) on the new technology. It's a pretty dumb idea. That's what HTML is for, websites have been around long enough and are good enough to present information, especially such simple information as news. I have no idea why anyone would care about this piece of crap app, when you can just open your browser and go to your favorite news site.
With public transportation, I've been able to cover most of the valley and downtown SF in a few days. It's a great place to make the most from a short visit.

Budget at least 2 days for each university. Stanford is very walkable. I've covered the whole thing in under a day--it's my favorite part of my visits. You'll want more time to talk to students, learn about its academics....

And just head to an entreprneurial Meetup that's convenient. If you ask enough people, someone who works for a startup will be willing to bring you in for a day.

Have fun! As a non-San Franciscan, it's my favorite place to visit alone and explore.
Python (triple quotes make this too easy):

def q(s):
print(s+'q(""' '"'+s+'"' '"")')
q("""def q(s):
print(s+'q(""' '"'+s+'"' '"")')
""")
Deciding whether it's a good idea to visit depends heavily on your financial / visa situation. If it's feasible, then it's a great idea!
I came to Berkeley as an international student without having the opportunity to visit and things turned out just fine, but in retrospect I'd have loved the opportunity to get to know the area beforehand.

As others have said, most students at either Berkeley or Stanford don't live in SF. Staying there makes sense as a tourist though, both are easily accessible through day trips and you get to enjoy SF.

If you do visit Berkeley, a great way to get a feel for it is to sit in on classes. You can see this semester's CS classes here http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Scheduling/CS/schedule.html. If you talk to the EECS department before hand they'll be glad to organize a mini-tour for you where can chat with a current student. If that doesn't work out, there are enough Cal students (like myself) frequenting Hacker News who'll be glad to show you around.

Edited to add: http://www.quora.com/Which-place-should-avid-technophile-per... would probably be of interest to you.
The assumption of this game is that women emotionally respond to men's gift giving. That would seem sensible. But it is patently false. Gifts do not facilitate courtship.

Have you ever won a woman's favor by buying her a drink? Would it help if instead you bought a vacation for this woman whom you hardly know? Buying things in order to win a woman's favor is the worst strategy ever.

Instead of taking a woman out to an expensive dinner on your first date, have ONE drink with her and see if you both like each other. Take away all the pressure and make it fun.
There is a lot wrong with this article, including, no definition of what "commodity hardware" means.

Would it have been that difficult to show how to run "openssl speed aes -multi 4" or whatnot so people could test on their own hardware?

Perhaps the recognition that even older hardware such as the quad core Opteron 2358 I tested on, delivers 350Mbytes/sec of AES256, would tend to undermine their argument.

350Mbytes/second of network throughput is roughly 3.5 Gbits/second (I usually multiple bytes * 10 to account for overhead); far beyond what most people would ever ask of a single server.

(this same hw does 900+ RSA 2048 bit signs/s, just for reference)
Reid Hoffman to Receive VC Taskforce's 2011 Innovation Catalyst Award
Reading javadoc helps as well sometimes. The HashMap's doc says "Note that this implementation is not synchronized", and that's enough for me for not using this class as global unsynchronized cache.
This is similar to other models of courtship behavior. Essentially, females prefer males that invest in their relationship because they are more likely to remain in the relationship. This same phenomenon can be found in all sorts of things, such as law offices (why are they so fancy?!).

A great general model on this can be found here (pdf):
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publications/forthcomi...

This is a chapter from a book (P. Zak, ed. Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy. Princeton University Press).
Is it just me or does the photo in the article have a time of 9:48? 9 hours,48 minutes.

That race has to be a rarity since he's supposed to average 4hrs.
Wow, it seems all of the advice is unnecessarily creating stress where the person tries to get software/hardware to restrict access. This will ultimately fail for people seeking freedom to work, especially entrepreneurs.

I think it's best to have a TODO list and follow it.
Doesn't quora target a different audience than stack overflow? Stack overflow goes for more long tail questions for people who program while quora goes for general questions?
The Zeitgeist Movement
Props on figuring out a way to incentivize edits. I've been working on a similar idea but this one is pretty elegant.
44 Ways To Bring Traffic To A Brand New Blog - The Copy Paste Blog
Here's a mobile formatted version that is readable on my iPod, at least (courtesy of Google):

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?source=m&u=http://fourstarst...
Random.org: true random number generation
Hudson AKA Jenkins? I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want, but it worked wonders at the job I had.
This seems to be channeling Tim Ferris. Forget the quality of your ideas, just change your mindset, and all will be spectacular.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with saying "between X and Y" in my opinion. You just always make sure X is what you actually want, and Y is at least 30% higher. Give them the opportunity to grind you down, it'll make them happy; give you the ability to say "look, I've already let you take X% off what this should cost" which will come in invaluable later, because it's an instant ego-booster for the other guy. Always let the other guy think he's won, simple rule.