skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CIA World Factbook (demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, military stats of countries):

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/download/
In all of the cases so far (that I've checked) it seems that the registrar of the domain has been based in the US. So to seize a domain it would be sufficient to do this at the registrar level, instead of the registry level.

If the domain has been sized via the US-based registrar it's nothing to worry about.

If - on the other hand - the domain has been sized at the registry level (and the same would have happened with another foreign registrar) this would be one large reason for me to use other TLDs in the future. However, if this is really the case it makes me wonder why piratebay.org hasn't been sized yet (this domain is registered at a German registrar).
Well even black and white could be enough ;)

But seriously, I also paint with CMYK only and there are a lot of tricks to get colors you cannot create with these colors alone. Like bright red. When you first paint yellow, let it dry and paint red over it (transparent) you will get some sort of light bending which makes the red brighter. Car painters do this all the time.

But the author is right in a way. By creating contrast you can paint black darker then your paint is. It's all about what's going on in the mind.
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Yes to death !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you !
A lot of people on HN really, really like claiming "strawman" on others. I've almost never heard it used outside of HN.
DBaaS vs. DaaS vs. Cloud Storage – What’s the difference?
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Cloud Storage all relate to data management in the Cloud. The differences between them lie mainly in regards to the forms of data being stored and how the data is managed.
"Instead, airlines sometimes buy more planes than they really need. Energy companies drill more holes. Drug companies conduct research with only marginal prospects of success."

I wish the article in some way backed up these assertions. While corporation (and wealthy individuals, too) may perform complex machinations to avoid taxes (e.g., the double Dutch Irish jig, or whatever its real name is) they'd only do so if in the end the maneuvering has a net financial benefit. Even with tax benefits idle capital resources (planes you don't need) or other wasted expenditures aren't good business.

There are also wider-ranging benefits to the forms of investment granted tax benefits. Capital expenditures presumably benefit other companies, and therefore other (hopefully local) workers. Certainly that would be the case for a purchase of Boeing planes (and probably even an Airbus, given the global nature of the aerospace component industry). Energy companies drilling holes and drug company research involves paying lots of salary (which means payroll taxes, income taxes, and, well, economic growth).

What could be construed as the true deadweight loss is the time and effort expended by tax attorneys and accountants...
i didnt understand anything except the word pizza, which i go and order right now
when I look at the probable outcomes of this...

In discussions of this, I'm always surprised that people forget that Microsoft has had the axe of anti-trust litigation looming over it's head for years. They haven't been able to compete aggressively on a number of fronts, because they could easily be seen as anti-competitive, and end back in the courts.

But, now, search is a market where they are clearly the underdog. And, Microsoft finally has an arena they can step into and fight bare bloody knuckled without arousing anti-trust eyebrows in the US or EU governments.

And, Bing is competing rather well. Bing launched 18 months ago, and they now have 30% of the total search market (Yes, the bought a good bit of that through Yahoo). And, they are finally presenting a viable competitor to Google in general web search, which I believe is good for all.

Not only that, but in a number of search verticals, IMHO Bing's technology is quite a bit better than Google's (image search, video search and travel search).

I think Google has a reason to be scared and start throwing punches. Microsoft has a much more diverse revenue stream, and they can afford to lose money on search for years without breaking a sweat. Google primarily has a single source of revenue: search advertising. It'll be interesting to see how Google reacts when it's back is against the wall fighting for it's only revenue stream.

I agree with the OP. This is going to be a fun fight to watch.
Was it ever otherwise?
That is not a link to a pdf - but to a slideshow (for which I could find nothing like a print/DL button.

But no great loss: it's 58 slide. Maybe it's just me, but I found that it "ain't no SJ keynote."
> Energy companies drilling holes and drug company research involves paying lots of salary (which means payroll taxes, income taxes, and, well, economic growth).

It's a fallacy to look at the salary for non-productive endeavors without considering where it'd go otherwise. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
This market faces some tough challenges, especially with HIPPA, but the benefits are astounding. My current primary doctor fully embraces technology, and its apparent in everything from digital x-rays to automated blood pressure and temperature devices. Most notable is his mobile use of my EMR. My doctor always enters the room with a IBM flip-tablet device. He knows me by name (from the EMR) and obscure notes he takes with a tablet pen: "How did your sister's graduation go last year?" I'll explain my issues, and he'll run searches against my medical history, and submit a prescription online to my pharmacy before he leaves the room.

He may not use an iPad, but he's certainly maximizing the available tools at his disposal since I'm sure the EMR software is strictly PC based.

The patient experience is phenomenal, and the time saved I'm sure is significant for doctors.

With all this background, my point is that it feels like an iPad was designed for this.
Growing and maintaining an opensource community
I don't know american copyright law, but in Sweden we have something called "verkshöjd". Meaning a work has to meet a minimal standard of creativity/originality to be considered copyrightable. I sincerely doubt this photo would meet those requirements. On the other hand, the design based on the photo would. As would the design of the car itself.
yes, sorry, my mistake. The y-axis is in percentile,but the x-axis is in ventile.
it's tangentially interesting that the number 2 result on bing for 'google' is a washington post semi-hit-piece regarding spam. google's results for 'bing' contain marginally less transparent attacks .
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Over the last couple of years, I have come to believe(firmly) that most(if not all) paid conferences are more about money and coolness(Hey! you know we are cool because we throw huge conferences).

They want us to pay more because they want to get star speakers, treat them to 5-Star hospitality and make you listen to them and believe whatever they are saying is correct. It's more about business building and less about learning. Now I am not against business development and if there is a chance that one can get good business, spending 2% of the amount of expected business is not a bad deal at all. But label it that way "Damn It" and I will shut up.

On the other hand, I have found that meetups of smaller user groups much more helpful and better from the learning point of view.

Just my thought.
Thats awesome that so many people along with me started with BASIC, I'm guess a lot of people in HN community are between 28-33 years old now
Are you advocating using two hands, or none at all?
Or we do crowd-sourced support or the company pays for their own user support. This is so white and black.

Why don't we look into a well thought of mix of both options. I would work on a strategy where both are possible.

I would create a support kb where we create content solving common and known problems. The hardest trick is guiding people to the right solution. This can be done by searching, good taxonomy or plain old direct question via phone or forum. The crowd-sourced support can be a part where they help people guide to the right information.

Another part can be that the crowd-sourced support can spot bad formulated articles, wrong articles, out of date articles, ... Just create some tools you can get feedback on your content and involve your customers.

But only go on the crowd-sourced route is not an option and won't be benificial for your company.
Oh dear. Why do I sense an impending deluge of iPhone apps in this domain?
There is also EEPROM for code storage, as used in NanoVM [1].

1. http://www.harbaum.org/till/nanovm/index.shtml
Julian Assange awarded Sydney peace medal
I am up around there, so it is possible
Prism is now Chromeless
I don't think fair use means what you think it means, and I don't think this use does well in any of the four factors the courts use to consider a fair use argument. It's a derivative work IMO, and all that is questionable is whether the original photograph is an original and creative enough piece to be protected in the first place.
You've been unlucky. Yes, sometimes there are people on IRC who are unhelpful to and/or arrogant towards newbies. And some channels are worse in this respect than others. Fortunately, however, that is the exception rather than the rule.

Some channels, like #help (or most other channels with the word "help" in them, like #linuxhelp) are especially patient with newbies.

That said, it certainly does help to know and follow IRC netiquette , and know how to ask questions[1].

[1] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Mozilla Chromeless: making desktop apps with web technologies
Yes. And Bing toolbar does just the same. And when those clickstreams are used as one signal of link relevancy, you get the exact behaviour they are describing on the google blog.
"It’s a point of pride to Google that it believes it has the best spelling correction system of any search engine"

Indeed, my 11 year old sister loves typing in silly search terms such as "stroobaray pai" and laughing about the fact that Google actually figured out what she meant :-)
Exactly. Peter Novig wrote a awesome spell correction algorithm.

But now Google doesnt really need ( Possibly then dont even use it) because of two set of queries where first user mispells and second where he corrects, gives them a StringMap that they can use to map mispelled queries to correct queries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work#The_fair_use_de...
These are scratch cards, so they already have a set payout for the number they produce. So unless the cards are getting returned to the lotteries and refunded (this might even happen in some cases, I'm not sure) they aren't losing any money. It's just the other people who play the lottery who will have a far lesser chance of winning (as they are sold all the losing tickets rejected by the cheaters)
P.S. If you're interested in tracking al-Jazeera and mideast media in general, I can scrape program titles and headline from the last 5 years and run that through a translation API. It's very prophetic of Al Jazeera to broadcast a program titled "Why don't the Arab masses rise up and revolt against the regimes" less than 2 months ago.
> Maybe I'm being hard headed, but for books that aren't related to programming, I don't think I'd want any multimedia being dropped in to the pages... =

Really? Like say, children's books, comics, illustrated encyclopedias, anatomy books, science books...
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>We were upset because it demonstrates that Apple can effectively make up reasons to block your app when none previously exist.

That's just good sense. They try to set up the rules as best they can, then some joker comes up with a way to do something that isn't in line with the spirit of the platform but not explicitly forbidden (you can't think of everything). Of course I would expect them to close the loophole at that point and protect the overall environment of the site rather then say "well, this breaks everything but we're so inflexible that we can't fix rules after the fact".
If you enjoyed that article, you may also like http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com/2010/10/interaction-of...

It is a beautiful book.
If you tax something you get less of it, if you subsidize it you get more of it - whatever it is. Which has the obvious consequence that if you give people money who make bad decisions with their lives (e.g. getting addicted to drugs) then you will get more people making those decisions. That is why welfare is profoundly evil.
I use Backblaze for about 6 months now. The Mac and Windows client is light-weight, which is a huge plus. Unlimited space, and you can recover your files as a zip archive or they can send you a hard drive with your data.

I've tried restoring files without any problems.
>when any of your friends could try out the software your created on their own devices?

You can do this with the iPhone right now so long as "your friends" doesn't include all iOS owners.
Link to cdevers' Flickr post - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/5402217217/

and the specific Creative Commons license he chose (through Flickr) to apply to the image - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en_GB

Fairly explicit about attribution, no derivative works, and no commercial use; all three appear to have been violated here by Gap or (as georgemcbay points out) an external freelancer toying around.

Edit: I tend to assume ignorance over malice, so assuming it was a freelancer let's assume they didn't realise their derivative work would ever end up on a Gap shirt. They may have played with the image 18 months ago, stored it somewhere, shared it somewhere, forgotten or mis-remembered its origins, submitted it on an unlikely spec, and 'oh shit, that's right, I shouldn't have done that, and of all the designs I've ever submitted that's the one that gets through!'.

Said freelancer won't be accepted by Gap again. Gap still needs to do something to mitigate the brand impact. Choose whichever is the cheapest of pulling the line, publicly apologising, or offering a token compensation amount (not linked to sales or anything that could be construed as actual licensing of the image) subject to details not being revealed.
I'm currently trying Vipassana meditation. I first heard about it from the "pragmatic thinking and learning" book. It's really simple to get started and it can really affect your concentration in a positive way.
They didn't use either. Certainly not the ranking. Also, you're obviously better if you do-- in fact, you're better by definition. :) (innovative and original, perhaps not so much)

Why does the user's click from the results page suddenly belong to Google (apart from the fact that in this specific case they actually artificially created a fake long-tail result)? If I Google Bing, and then Bing's ranking of Bing goes up a a result (not that it's not already #1, but whatever), can you actually say that it's Google's result and ranking? What if it's nytimes, or any number of extraordinarily common searches where you're really just doing a domain lookup for a name you already know?

What if I didn't click on anything until the 30th page of results because that was the only useful result, and it causes the Bing rank to go higher? Does Google have any ownership over the rank then, even if the useful page was ranked lower than much more useful results? Couldn't Google then just return a list of every page on the internet in response to every query and then claim that their results are being stolen?

To be honest, I'm not really convinced that either side is in the right here. I just think that it should be made clear that there is a large distinction between stealing results and tracking clickthrough behavior. One would be laughably shortsided and of dubious ethics, the other is basically common practice, and is being made a bit more than it is because of its superficial appearance.
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They thought about that, and so they made sure that the reality shows were really crappy.
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While the photo might not meet the bar for "verkshöjd"/originality, the photo would still be under copyright in Sweden. For photos that are not original enough, the copyright term is 50 years, while photos that are have a term of photographers lifespan+70 years.
I'll take NPR. I've been a dedicated NPR listener for a long time. Even after leaving the US I listened to it online nearly every day. Over the last week, Al Jazeera's (English) coverage has been shockingly better than NPR's. Some of this, of course, is that world events right now happen to be on their turf. But I think most of it is that NPR's reporters and pundits are locked in a narrow and obsolete spectrum of thinking. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I'll be continuing to follow AJ, at least intermittently, from now on. I know greater openness when I see it; going back to NPR makes me feel claustrophobic now.

(One underappreciated thing nobody has over NPR News, though, is Robert Siegel. God I love that man's voice, and his English. I'd happily listen to him interview the phone book. The phone book wouldn't say anything, but Siegel's questions would be exquisite.)
OpenStreetMap data : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm

Geonames : http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

OS Open Data (UK Specific) : http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
> On a related note, can this technique be exploited to improve site ranking on Bing?

That was my thought when I heard of all this! I don't know what kind of authentication the bing toolbar does, but this seems ripe for reverse engineering, then pumping fraudulent data to Microsoft through a botnet...
Yeah, "tax avoidance" is a loaded term. When people understand and play by the rules in sport, we don't call it "penalty avoidance". When people drive safely we don't call it "accident avoidance". When people eat healthy food, we don't call it "obesity avoidance".

Taxes are rarely paid for the benefit of the taxed...
I'm pretty sure microsoft had a search engine before Google existed...
It's a very easy to use product that is used by tens of thousands of pages, if not more. The revenue alone would be significant once they release better paid options. If you think an app like that is as easy as having a bunch of themes done by a designer, you should try implementing one - it's much harder than it seems. I know because I am running one now!
I won't comment too much on Wikileaks in particular, there's enough discussion on next to every other part of the internet.

As an Australian however I will note how appalling the federal support from Australia has been. Our Prime Minister Julia Gillard called Wikileask "an illegal act" (I'm no lawyer so I won't question it but the Attorney-General and hundreds of lawyers came forward saying Wikileaks has broken no Australian law). She then further suggested that his Australian passport should be cancelled!

I don't feel the Australian passport is something to be retracted. If we were going to retract it for illegal acts there are far worse criminals holding an Australian passport. Luckily the act of cancelling his passport is not in the Prime Minister's hands but in the Foreign Minister's hands and he has said he is in fact in support of Assange.

As such I'm glad he's getting at least a little recognition, especially as the Sydney Peace Foundation was set up within the University of Sydney, my university.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Support
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I know it's called profit, but the money they keep goes back into the business. The ways for it to be profit in the sense of making the shareholders rich(er) are by increasing the value of the stock or by going to shareholders as a dividend. And both of those avenues are taxed.
"not enough traction" = "ran out of {money|energy} before finding the right product/market fit"
I'm more frustrated that no iOS e-reader solution accommodates extremely large libraries, allowing you to easily sort/filter by author, genre, series, etc. (Stanza comes closest.) If we have gigs of storage, why not carry around every (e-)book you own?

This situation is doubly bad with books as native apps, even with "folders", which still have caps and how many entries they can hold.
I foresee a huge number of celebrity chef cooking books…
Yeah, but the context here is how much net tax revenue is raised. If SouthWest buys more airliners than Boeing hires more employees who pay more income tax. Reaganomics proved that cutting taxes rates increased tax revenue overall - because it raised economic activity across the board.
NASCAR isn't a legitimate sport, it's a spectacle. Any time one car gets too far in front of the others a restart is issued. Various owners have openly admitted they do this "for the fan's excitement".
That surprises me. CBC news is terrible. Even its once-great flagship As It Happens on CBC radio has degenerated to the point that I just get sad.
It'll work for someone, it always does.
I think so. Obviously, the lottery isn't happy if people actually figure out how to break it; but there are quite a few people who think "7 is lucky", and I can't figure out a good way to separate the actual winners from people who only think they are winners. And lotteries make their money from the latter...
Am I the only one who noticed this?

"This entire site is serving 16million pages a month and we’re doing it off of 2 servers, which are almost completely unloaded. So we’ve got a ton of headroom on those 2 servers – one server is a webserver, the other server is running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and they’re both 8 core Xeons."

They have only one web server and one database server? Does Joel not understand the concept of "single point of failure"?
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It sounds like Apple wants apps to stop cheating by redirecting to a browser. Personally I do find this annoying about the Kindle App. I would prefer to do my purchasing inside the app.

In my opinion the solution is for apple to not charge the app sale percentage (30%) on in-app sales. An app sale charge is a one time thing, you could have an infinite amount of in-game sales, why would each transaction cost the same as the initial one?
Probably some people would kill me for that answer but i would say you should learn PHP.

PHP is simple, good documentation and great community.
Facebook is built on top of PHP so as Drupal and Wordpress.

But the main point about my recommendation is that PHP is installed everywhere, you don't have to spend much time configuring and doing sysadmin stuff to make it work.
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Such a system would be simpler, but morally questionable.
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My immediate thought was 'why wouldn't I just use R?' R has the advantage that almost everything you need to do statistically already has at least one package built for it.

The examples in the video section; a sticky sorter prototype? What is sho? I don't get it.
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