skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is someone who is pirating music giving the RIAA money?

Because actual research shows that a lot (but certainly not all) of the people who pirate music are also big consumers of music, i.e. they both download illegaly and buy music. The divide between freeloaders and honest consumers that the RIAA portrays doesn't exist, it's a complex greyscale.

Other research has pretty much proven that piracy emerges when a large section of the consumers don't agree with the pricing of goods on a market, and a monopoly or other disruption causes the market not to self-correct. Now you can fight a piracy market either with legislation and law enforcement, or you can actually compete with it, provide better service and better pricing.

This is why iTunes is such an incredible hit, it corrected the market. DRM-free music for 99 cents a song is a much better product than a DRM-laden album for 15$, and for a lot of people this product is better than the pirated product which means they became honest consumers again.

This is why Spotify and Last.FM are such incredible hits. Unlimited music, and pay 15$ a month to remove the ads. This is an even better product than iTunes, and has won over another huge part of the pirate consumers.

Where I live, kids these days do not have mp3 collections. Few of them knows what an mp3 actually is, but almost all of them have iTunes or Spotify. They don't understand why you would want to keep a file library on your computer, they open a program, search for what they want to listen to, and get to do it instantly.

And this is what piracy proponents have been arguing the entire time: The way to beat piracy is to provide a better service, not to bludgeon people into accepting your monopoly price with lawsuits and propaganda.
No it doesn't. Did you read the link?

[mqudsi@iqudsi:~]$ dig j.mp (02-19 04:08)

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> j.mp
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59834
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;j.mp. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
j.mp. 1333 IN A 168.143.172.53

;; Query time: 241 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 19 04:08:47 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 38
Yes, this. I think the main concern would not be the DNS servers being lost, but the revocation of domains to raise money, or redistribution of the domains by the (potential) new regime.
To be honest your kids can usually figure out if they are smart or not pretty quickly once they enter the school system. The thing is there are lots of smart people out there. As you progress through the education system you usually meet people smarter than you and hopefully realise that you need to work to keep with them.
It's like thinking you are the king of code in your job and then discovering HN - you quickly realise there is always someone smarter so you need to work to get their level.
I got bitten with symlinks for bookmarks. They don't change the PWD to the correct one. For example:

cd /home/nick
ln -s /var/www www
cd www
echo $PWD ---> /home/nick/www

which will break scripts.
> These students took turns reading aloud an essay on how the brain grows new neurons when challenged.

> To be effective, researchers have found, praise needs to be specific.

> Just as the research promised, this focused praise helped him see strategies he could apply the next day.

This strongly reminds me of how successful companies experiment to improve their products' performance. These experiments, by definition are trial-and-error, and involve mistakes and backtracking, because they don't yet have enough data to develop a theory that predicts exactly what will work. Over time, as it does become formalized, that aspect is no longer profitable because then anyone can do it.
maybe UberMedia really has plans to jumpstart a Twitter-like service off of the Twitter clients soon and somehow Twitter got wind of this and moved to cripple the trojan horses it bought / is buying.
My mail is handled by a VPS with greylisting, with a wildcard alias. I have greylisting and stringent filtering turned on for most aliases (including my most public one, which is available all over the web) but I have an alias which is more private with no greylisting or spam filtering, which I give out to places I trust when I want a quick guaranteed reply.

If the non-spam protected alias gets leaked, I simply change it - and it continues to work, with less spam protection.

When dealing with sites I don't trust much, I instead make up an alias specific for that site so I'll know to trust them even less if I get spam to that alias.
Indeed.

Situation 1: Qaddafi's regime appropriates all .ly domains and redirects them to whatever the fuck they want (including clones of the originals).

Situation 2: Qaddafi's regime is overthrown by a coup, junta, popular uprising, or what-have-you, and then the new regime decides to repudiate business agreements made with the old regime, including domain names.

Neither is hugely unlikely. I cannot for the life of me understand why any business would sink the foundations of their brand into the sands of the questionably stable Libyan regime.
I just use Word. It's easy, I know it already, and it looks nice: http://readlt.com/r.png. Template if anyone's interested: http://readlt.com/resume-template.doc
It's funny. Half the time people claim Android's static typing is an advantage vs iOS and half the time people instead really hate it.

I have to say that now that I'm slowly getting over the verbosity of Objective-C I'm finding ansi C + a dynamic messaging layer to be a pretty nice combination on iOS. It looks like I'd have to work both below Java with the NDK (painful) and above it with some kind of scripting layer to get similar speed + flexibility on Android.
Also worth checking out:

- for flexibility, the CSS Sprite gem (https://github.com/flyerhzm/css_sprite)

- for ease of use, the Lemonade gem
(https://github.com/hagenburger/lemonade)
Then look at Justin Bieber. He started out by posting videos of himself to YouTube, and now that he's rich and famous, he still gives away all of his music for free. Everything is there, for anyone to look at and listen to, no DRM bullshit, no cost, no "this video is not available in your area because of..."

But he's swimming in money, by selling "The Justin Bieber Experience", concerts, merchandise, acne ads, and now even a motion picture. And most of that money simply doesn't exist in that RIAA graph of the article, because it's not cd sales, it's simply not how he makes his money.
This is what I thought too. JSON is lightweight and so should be the tools for using it.
The problem, I believe, is that they don't want users to be confused about where ads are coming from. Ads embedded in update streams may seem to be coming from twitter. Many other twitter clients have ads, they just make sure they can't be mistaken for ads embedded in updates.
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Well said.

It is a colossal myth that pharma companies have to charge a lot for patented medications because of development costs (this is the story pushed, of course, by Big Pharma themselves). However, they spend most of their money on advertising:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...

Instead of innovation, a certain amount of pharma research is devoted near the end of a drug's patent lifetime to merely tweaking that established, well-studied drug a bit to produce a slightly different form. Product extensions with these slight modiﬁcations, generally of dubious benefit, can get at least 3 years of market exclusivity if their developments involve clinical research. Thus, what we get are slow rollouts of extended release, timed release, buffered, etc., etc., formulations of some old drug. Here's a good paper on some of the other strategies used by pharma to extend patent protection:

http://nofta-ip.jinbo.net/files/Patent%20term%20extension%20...

"Second, the pharmaceutical industry is not especially innovative. As hard as it is to believe, only a handful of truly important drugs have been brought to market in recent years, and they were mostly based on taxpayer-funded research at academic institutions, small biotechnology companies, or the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The great majority of “new” drugs are not new at all but merely variations of older drugs already on the market. These are called “me-too” drugs. The idea is to grab a share of an established, lucrative market by producing something very similar to a top-selling drug. For instance, we now have six statins (Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, and the newest, Crestor) on the market to lower cholesterol, all variants of the first. As Dr. Sharon Levine, associate executive director of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, put it,

If I’m a manufacturer and I can change one molecule and get another twenty years of patent rights, and convince physicians to prescribe and consumers to demand the next form of Prilosec, or weekly Prozac instead of daily Prozac, just as my patent expires, then why would I be spending money on a lot less certain endeavor, which is looking for brand-new drugs?"

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...

A formed editor of the New England Journal of Medicine noted, "The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself."

http://www.wanttoknow.info/healthcoverup
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28technothriller_series...

Came up as the third result for "daemon" on Google. There's a lot I don't like about Google, but sometimes it just works.
Sounds like you want Emacs' tramp. On your local emacs, open a file in the form "/user@remote-ssh-host:file" and it will grab the remote file and edit it locally. Crazily all the emacs version control commands and stuff like M-x compile and M-x grep all work in the remote context. Very cool stuff.

Obviously this requires that you use Emacs instead of Vim though. Don't be afraid though, the grass is pretty green over here :-).
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I started programming in dynamic languages like Javascript and Ruby so I'm really hating it. I have no idea how people manage to get anything done in Java. I was hoping generics would help me out but when I started using them all of a sudden interfaces started to pollute everything. I really wish palm/hp had more competent management because their webOS operating system is light years ahead of android/iOS.
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It's barely readable. The author should have had a native English-speaker translate this for him.
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Additionally, try typing fewer characters when you cd in the general case:
https://github.com/philc/fuzzycd

I've been using this for a few years and it's been a joy.
Somehow I image when coming up with a name, potential regional revolution never came up as a concern :)
My question is if this explosion of LY domains has been financially lucrative for Libya.

I seriously don't want money flowing into Gaddafi's regime.
Do you think this incident is unique and isolated? Perhaps everyone should re-investigate any of their beliefs that they've arrived at solely through media coverage.
It looks decent, I agree, but from typographic point of view, it looks lower visual quality than LaTeX-produced text. Look at how the letters seem to be unevenly aligned to the line, and the spacing between them is also not quite right. See for example [something cool] in your screenshot. The first bracket is miles away from the s, the closing bracket is stuck to the l.

EDIT: another issue further down: compare Sed and Vestibulum. In the latter the e looks way too far from the initial letter. More careful kerning would push the e a bit under V's wings.

I realize it's not the most important thing in the world, but still :) Anyway, I don't claim to be an expert in typography at all, that's why I also use LaTeX for my CV:

http://www.lkozma.net/cv_kl.pdf
I'd have to agree with you, for most traditional web applications.

When you start to build single page applications with lots and lots of states ( that are bound to a DOM ), this approach actually can become favorable since your "presentation logic" is browser-side JavaScript.

To my understanding, the server-side rendering aspect of this approach is really just an after-thought. You have your single page application, but you can still render a server-side snapshot of various UI states without requiring a browser.

While I wouldn't necessarily dive straight into DOM-based templating, I think there is a lot of room for interesting improvements in this area. I'm glad to see JSDOM maturing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JustinBieberVEVO

1.3 billion views in total. Love him or hate him, that's a pretty impressive number.
I like this resume's design. To make it even better, I might just have to convert it to LaTeX.
Makers of the flash version of the Great Gatsby release source
Why are we citing an article on a militant Jihadi website? I'm sorry, but since when is HN an outlet for crackpot militant religious groups?

P.S. Whoever pens that site doesn't quite grok Islam. Says "there are no copyrights in Islam" in all footers. Without copyright, or at least attribution, there wouldn't be Islam today (i.e. the Sunnah is all citations that would collapse if unattributed.)
Thanks for bringing up those points. I can really only speak from my position in the software industry and say that every time I see a patent suit in the news, it seems to be harming innovation. Like I said, the big companies spend a lot of money on squashing the competition, which already includes branding, advertising, and so forth. Patents are a great weapon that may be marketed as helping the little guy, the startup, protect themselves. But in reality, this is the more likely scenario: startup gets a few patents. Big company sues them for something, and startup runs risk of going bankrupt. Big company had more patents, and more money.

When it comes to big companies, they use the patents as weapons against competition and innovation (and why not, that is their fundamental purpose: to enforce a monopoly). Google doesn't want to pay royalties to Apple for the H.265 format or whatever. (That's one example that comes to mind.) If we ignore startups for a moment, the big companies could compete directly instead of invoking government-enforced monopoly rights. You could see how competition on actual BENEFIT to the public would be improved if patents were out of the picture. There would still be advertising budgets.

I have a question: We've had patents and big pharma for a long time now, right? Why does all the mainstream medicine in this country have only one answer for almost all diseases: PHARMA DRUGS? And how much better did they get at curing cancer? More people get cancer today than 100 years ago, but how much better did they get at improving people's quality of life with various types of cancers?

Meanwhile, do you hear a lot about treatments to ANY major disease that are not monetizable as drugs? Most doctors talking about this are marginalized by the medical community. Can it really be that there are no other types of treatments out there besides pills? And that there aren't any cures to be found? The FDA requires clinical studies to be done before a drug can claim to diagnose, prevent or treat any disease, understandably. But look at us as a society. We need a better way of organizing and verifying medical information about various drugs, research, conditions, etc.

It seems to me that the information the public is exposed to is dominated by the pharma companies. They advertise to the public ("ask your doctor about XYZ" -- really, I gotta tell my DOCTOR about it?). They push their products which have been certified by the FDA ... and sometimes, they're wrong and their drugs harm people. Meanwhile, most of the innovation comes from the independents, the university labs. If they published information freely we would all benefit. I'm not sure what could be done to reform the FDA system, though.
and Link to the source

https://bitbucket.org/charliehoey/gatsby
"ground up rewrites with new UIs and so on"

See, that's where I disagree: a ground up rewrite with a new user interface gets the web precisely nowhere, particularly after years without a release.

Chrome 7 was a significant release. Hundreds of bug fixes truly means something (imagine if there were an IE6.5 with hundreds of bug fixes). The HTML5 parser is a huge deal, plus File API, late-binding SSL... all of these are about delivering actual benefits to web developers and users.

And that's why my retort to a mostly silly discussion was that Modern Browsers Ship. Because delivering a better web to developers and users is the whole damned point. Anything else is masturbatory.

So go ahead, be as picky as you want about what's major and what's minor. You'll just be missing the entire point. :-)
I use org-mode in Emacs: it's the fastest and most convenient way of editing a document's structure I've found so far, and I find myself doing that a lot with my resume. Then I export to LaTeX, HTML, or plain text.
He posted a follow up with a LaTeX resume template here: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/latex-resume-follow-up/

I must confess that I don't understand it well but it has inspired me to actually try LaTeX for the first time.

(EDIT - fixed dumb typo. Thanks, RiderOfGiraffes)
I think that's just funky MS Word font rendering at low zoom settings. Zooming up removes that artifact, and the PDF doesn't display it like that at all. Certainly the actual spacing of the characters is fine, shown in PDF and printed versions.
You've missed the point. 90% of Rails websites behave badly every time they're deployed, and the developers don't even realize it. I included our build scripts in the post to illustrate how simple it is to fix the problem. The important thing is that people reliably version their asset URIs, not what tools they use to do it.
It depends a lot of the topic of your company, but in general, you can do different things:

Contact with bloggers and journalist once your project is on air.

Also start writing a blog about your company and try to create relevant content, it is really amazing how a blog can help you at the beginning (seo, traffic, value).

Algo create a Facebook Page and invite (spam) all your friends asking them for help to spread the word. Do not underestimate your social graph, it could be really valuable.

Create a Twitter account and start sharing interesting content related to your project.
It can't be too much of money. Not enough to move the needle.
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LY domains would have to be phenomenally lucrative to make any significant impact in an economy with billions of barrels of oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Libya
I'm from the UK, and have worked for American companies before. My experience with working for American tech firms (and I'm not saying that they were like this because they were American, my sample is way too small to draw any conclusions) is that compared to the UK they tend to overwork people, focus heavily on building a culture with an overly (for UK culture at least) gung ho spirit a la 'yeah, go team foo!' - which in my experience (and again, not saying this is all American firms, just the ones I've worked for) means people working crazy unpaid hours, pressure to go out after work (if you're not out drinking after work you're not part of the team - I've seen two ex-colleagues' marriages break up because of this) and a corporate kick-off culture that seems to be more about a Ballmer-esque 'Ric Flair impressions contest'[1] than achieving real results. For me personally, this doesn't line up with my culture and as such feels forced rather than based on genuine bonds - hence the hollow sensation you've quoted.

By contrast, British companies tend to focus more on getting the job done, going home and spending time with the family. Sometimes you pull late ones, but you're not expected to be in the office at 9am the next day. In some places there's beer after work, but you're not expected to go (at the risk of being denounced as a 'non-team player').

To provide a comparison, working in France is completely different. In France the work-life balance is shifted further towards the life end, in the Middle East (if you're a local) even more so.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc - ok, that's an extreme example, but tone it down about 97%, crank the alcohol levels up by 40% and you're roughly where ISS was in 2001.
That doesn't sound very ethical, though you could be using steal as a metaphor. Can you explain the "steal CPU cycles" further?
But eventually, they did switch to other browsers while IE stagnated. That's how firefox got going.
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in Bash you don't even need to do that, just do:

foo=/etc/
cd $foo
"I cannot for the life of me understand why any business would sink the foundations of their brand into the sands of the questionably stable Libyan regime."

Is that any more risky than a supposedly stable US Department of Justice and Homeland Security?

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-webs...
Given the stress that the Icelandic people were put under it is a credit to them and their democracy that there wasn't more violence.

The media in the UK covered the 'revolution' closely because of the many ties between the two countries. I can imagine most people in the middle east know little or nothing about Iceland so why would the media cover ten thousand people standing peacefully in the cold outside a parliament building making reasonable demands.
Er, s/temple/template/ ??
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"A hyperbolic map of the internet"

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

See the research article in Nature http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.h...
If Libyans start using bit.ly to get around censorship I could see bit.ly being seized, but I can't imagine all .ly domains being redirected.
Two pages?
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Also it's probably worth to mention that manipulation of DOM is not that fast. Every performance optimization article starts with "don't manipulate DOM directly, make a batch of your changes and then inject them in one step".
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Funny, his list of things that IE9 supports reads like a list of cool HTML5 stuff you'd want to use. The "things it doesn't support" list looks like something he made up on the spot (though clearly they're all real things that somebody has proposed putting into web browsers.)

But it's all stuff that doesn't belong in web browsers. (OK, maybe WebSockets). If it were up to me, now would be the time to actually standardize some of those things on the first list so that they work cross browser. Then we're done.