skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there might be a little money in piracy, I doubt there is any serious money. I think that if you had the ability and talent to set up a popular site dealing with piracy, then it would be much more profitable to do something in some other market. For example, look at the piratebay. I'd say that the TPB has had a huge impact on the world. Any other startup that experienced their growth would be considered widely successful. And it has got the owners no monetary benefits. The Swedish police investigation into the site concluded that TPB made less than $200,000 a year from advertisements and millions in legal fines. So I'd question anyone planning to make money off of piracy.
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We post when we have relevant content, which typically is a mix of new products / sales (we are eCommerce) as well as 'interesting' on topic content (funny videos, blog posts, etc from across the web). We also run contents like 'caption this picture' which are very popular

We see a good amount of likes and comments back and forth amongst the customer base, and as mentioned before it drives traffic to our website as well and keeps our 'brand' top of mind.
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The point is that while Watson is a big step forward in language processing and information retrieval, it's unfair to conclude that he does these things as well as the best humans. Jeopardy isn't a particularly good test of these abilities (though it is good theater) because the additional variable of buzzer-timing screws up your results.

As was pointed out by another commenter, if the game had been "everyone who knows the answer write it down and get credit", Watson probably wouldn't have won, and absolutely not by so much.

So I think Jennings is just cautioning us not to assume that AI has achieved human level language and information capabilities when really a totally unrelated and unimpressive other dimension of the game is the culprit.
> If you live in a nation with rule of law and wide ranging protections of freedom of speech like the US there is no need to be anonymous in the vast majority of cases.

I think you overestimate the practical value of these constitutional protections. Yes, US law allows US citizens to criticize their government in a way that would be unimaginable in China. But not everyone who prefers anonymity is trying to hide from an oppressive government. Most people are understandably reluctant to offend their employer, neighbors, friends and family, etc. even if they have a legitimate concern. These personal concerns are much more pressing for the majority of citizens than the possibility of FBI agents knocking on your door.

If you work for BP, You don't want to be caught arguing that offshore drilling should be heavily regulated, especially if you work in a state with at-will employment. Similarly, you don't want that city official to take revenge on you for blogging about his unprofessional treatment of you. You don't want your mom to find out that you run a blog about your life as a lesbian. You don't want your neighbor to find out that you complained on Reddit about his annoying behavior.

Little things like these add up and serve to discourage free speech even in mostly-free societies. Constitutional protections are not enough. Custom can be just as oppressing as evil communist regimes. You need to turn the goddamn society upside down before you can expect most people to blog with their real names, and that's not likely to happen anytime soon.
This is a debate about centralized vs decentralized resource planning. Being an entrepreneur, and not a Statist, I prefer the individual be empowered to direct his own resources as he sees fit.
No, it was different. People were saying that the very nature of the entire economy had changed permanently. And that that change came with dramatic, almost overnight increases in the value of everything due to increased communications.

Books were written about the supposed phenomenon.
The important question is: where is the money coming from?

If it's from hedgies flooded with investment from banks, then it's credit driven. In a zero interest rate environment banks are going to be desperate for yield. There's nothing zerohedgey about that, it's just financial system basics.

EDIT:
To clarify and put into textbook terms: in a good economic environment, there will be plenty of good projects to put investment dollars into. In a bad economic environment, credit contracts so there are less good projects but also less $s floating around. If you flood the market with credit in a bad environment, the same amount of $s you had in the good economy are chasing far fewer good projects.

Banks need to find yield so they take all the extra credit sitting around and pour it into hedge funds, VCs, etc. Those funds need to put the cash to work and so they pump up hot sectors to get their return. Bubble forms as valuations for companies like Facebook go through the roof. It's driven by the excess credit, ie. stimulus investment dollars that need to find a home.
The larger point was: the zoning boards are the problem.

Every new boulevard is divided because metro Detroit zoning boards design in favor of car use in almost all things. The huge parking lots, the divided neighborhoods, the laughable sidewalk situation -- it's all because optimizing car flow is the priority.

The symptoms aren't the problem.
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Funny, as a HTC user, I don't have that problem.

But lets be serious for a moment here - you knew perfectly well that was the requirement when you brought the phone.
I would disagree with your point 3. Sufficiently well written code (by which I mean deliberately written in a clear style with good comments) is readable right off the bat.

What you want to avoid is invisible side-effects. Aspects for instance have their place, but if someone has tried to be too clever for their own good the program may be breaking in a way that is completely invisible when you look at the code.
You said:

>The bolt-cutter quote comes from the president of the Author's Guild, not part of the film industry.

I said:

>The president of the Author's Guild, Scott Turow, is part of the film industry.

You said:

>On what basis do you make that claim?

I said:

>Scott Turow is a famous author who has had multiple books made into successful movies.

Now you have attributed to me an argument that:

>If a person's novel is adapted into a film that [...] mean[s] that every subsequent thing they say can be sensibly attributed to "the film industry".

I would submit that although I am a programmer, every subsequent thing that I say shouldn't be attributed to "the programming industry," but that it would be reasonable to attribute every subsequent thing that I say to "a member (or an ex-member) of the programming industry."

As the only reason that I commented was because of your statement that the president of the Author's Guild was not a part of the film industry, unless you dispute that a person who has a novel adapted into a film is part of the film industry, I'm not exactly sure what we're still talking about. Being a part of the film industry doesn't make his opinion any less legitimate, as it should be judged on its own merits, just as denying that he is part of the film industry doesn't make his opinion any more legitimate.
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Data Visualization.
If you're only looking to save stories to read later on a day-by-day basis, why not upvote stories you want to read later and then visit your 'saved stories' when you have better access (accessible through your profile page)?
:) It's amazing to see how most developers are clueless about SSL, quite a while ago I even wrote an FAQ about it: http://ferruh.mavituna.com/ssl-implementation-security-faq-o...
Speaking only for myself, I decided to learn Python/Django instead of Ruby/Rails. Part of this is because I work in journalism, where Python is more widely used than Rails, and part of it is that I didn't like the framework doing so much work for me.
His analogy about Kasparov needing to solve a long division problem is whack. Buzzing is part of the game of Jeapordy. For all we know he wouldn't have been a champion in a version of the game that didn't involve buzzing.
Take a look at this sample (http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/spr...) and see if you can figure out how to use these classes just by looking at them.

That's the kind of abuse possible with languages such as Java.

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Seriously. Every new API that you intend to use has a learning curve, some more significant than others. Every new API is a new "language".
I've cleaned up my comment for clarity's sake, but I basically argue that we might be seeing the same phenomenon again with online advertising.
The problem with freedom of speech is that it just guarantees a legal right to say something. It doesn't free you from the consequences of saying it. When you want to speak out against an majority belief, without anonymity you risk repercussions that aren't necessarily related to legal implications. Anonymity protects free speech participants from the opposing majority mob.
If it is a bubble, then what ( as a software developer ) should I do? I don't work for any of the overvalued companies, so changing jobs isn't a good option. I don't own any stock in them, so I can't sell it.
I believe it's lieutenant :) (I have seen that film far, far too many times)
1) Again, the preposition isn't a problem.

2) Then use "whom" if you like. I really can't be bothered to care, as the purpose of language is communication, not structural pedantry. Remember your Elements of Style - "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous" - and note how even presumably well-educated people here find "whom" awkward and stilted in that usage.
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Do you have any evidence of this? [not a suck puppet]
No Tech Bubble specifically - ALL ASSETS OVERVALUED because the FED is adding trillions of $$ to the capital markets, most of which is being used to drive up commodity prices (intended to increase bank lending while also helping Wall Street Banksters get richer). IT'S CALLED INFLATION (almost hyper) and you can thank the US Goberment for increasing all of your input prices and food costs.
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I've benchmarked filesystem with iozone tool and got more or less similar results for guest and host except "Pread" test where host is 20x times better then guest (my assumtion that this is a bug of virtualization software or misconfiguation from my side). I've performed test few times with same results.

My be I'm wrong but I don't understand where I could loose performance.
Well, all I’m pointing out is the basic truism that non-anonymous speech can and will in general be more trusted and that in many cases anonymity is not necessary for free speech.

Anonymity is sometimes necessary or desired but what it is definitely not is the beginning and end of free speech as was implied in the comment I was responding to.
Stopped? Years ago? Log::Fine (2008), Amphibic::Log (2010), Su::Log (2011), Easy::Log (2007), Log::Smart (2007), Log::Deep (2009), Util::Thread::Logger (2011), ...

I won't even mention all the one-module-specific mini-logging scripts which do it yet another way.
Yeah it's kind of a different topic, I probably shouldn't have been extemporanializing (sp?) at the end of my comment and kept it more focused.

I agree with that about anonymity. People will be more tempered in what they say. Only today there is a story that a blog (http://natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com/) I had been following by a teacher was "outted". The teacher was suspended and is going to be fired because she told the truth about her students, who she didn't name. (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2011...) The students have since commented that although everything she said was true, she shouldn't have been allowed to say it and they want her to be fired as punishment, and that looks like it will happen. The blog was extremely useful because it showed what is really going on in schools. She had thought only her friends knew about it though and that obviously wasn't true since I had no idea who she really was until today, but I knew about her secret blog since it had been linked to from some site previously, and then I bookmarked and followed it. No doubt a lot of other people did this as well. Her mistake was to even let her friends know who she was because one of them outted her. Also she had a small thumbnail of herself sitting in the distance, which may have confirmed to someone who she was.

Without this anonymity, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that she would not have been able to say the things she did. We can see exactly what happened as soon as her identity was known.

A persona such as an anonymous blog can have as much credibility as someone whose birth certificate you have seen and held. The key is that it's an established and consistent persona with a personality. So some are sincere and promote free speech and honesty, others are manipulative lies paid for by governments and corporations. Which is which you can tell (I sure hope) by looking at their history of posting. One may post unpopular ideas and be worth listening to and you know they are real because there is a human je ne sais quois (sp?) that identifies them as real, something that is not present in 50 cent army posts.
What it is not, though, is the beginning and end of free speech. That is my only objection to the comment.
Just google the term I used.
That's just not true ... bringing new businesses to an economically depressed area helps all of the existing businesses.
Constitutional protection of the freedom of speech is all fine and dandy in theory. You might not end up in jail, but you can find yourself in court, which, for most, is an excellent deterrent of voicing their opinion. Aside that, once people, real people, know who you are, your controversial opinions might very well give rise to real threats. Remember the whole Jyllands-Posten fiasco?

I agree with your last sentence 100%, but, at least for me, complete anonymity is a necessity. You can relate (f.i.) to my online persona, which is consistent and available for discussion. There is no need to know my real name.
No matter what the language is, I think it is important to understand that readability of the code should be part of the design. Scala does make it easy to write hard to read code.
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> I find it amusing that the top-ranked comment describes the program as "fascist"
> For decades, big corporations and venture capitalists (and their lobbyists) have used every trick in the book to get themselves special advantages.

Congratulations! You're on the way to understanding the viewpoint of the far left. (and I mean a generic 'you', I'd say your last sentence implies that you actually understand this.)

The idea (which I'm partial to, but this is just my opinion, etc, I'm still reading a lot, yadda yadda yadda) is that that's the inherent way that these things trend, unchecked. You're watching it unfold before your very eyes.

It's much harder to see historical events happening as they're happening.

(disclaimer: I also think that describing this as 'facist,' while good intentioned and kinda correct, suffers too much from the emotional response to the term 'facism' to really be effective.)
"...it's automatically clear that Sony is worth more Facebook."

Really. That's quite a claim. I derive almost no value from Facebook, and I mainly have a profile to let people know I actually exist. I know many people in the same boat. I couldn't care less if they folded in the morning.

There was a guy here on HN a while back saying that his business saw absolutely no ROI from Facebook ads, because people simply don't click on ads - they are on Facebook to chat with friends, not buy teeth-whitening products or whatever. That guy reckoned a lot of people are trying Facebook ads because every business must be 'social', it's the thing to be seen to be doing. Once enough business get burned, word will spread and Facebook will lost a lot of ad revenue. Just one guy's opinion, but it makes you think. There was another article saying Facebook is like a nightclub that is currently the cool spot to hang out, but it will inevitably lose it's lustre and go the way of MySpace. People will migrate to the Next Cool Thing™. Again, just one more data point to consider.

Since you ended with a bold claim, I will too: that within ten years, Facebook will be almost forgotten. Sure, it will still have traffic (so does Bebo and MySpace) but it will no longer be picked up by TechCrunch and mainstream media.
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However, as you imply, these sockpuppets are easy to recognize and are not taken seriously, because they don't make sense. Sheer volume can't make up for that. In other words: I don't believe they are capable of succesfully pulling it off. Responding sensibly in a conversation requires skills far above those of Watson, Deep Blue and the latest and greatest incarnation of Elisa.
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I should have used anticompetitive, apologies.

The issue that I am seeing here is the following, and this may be a gross misinterpretation of the rules that apple has put forth.

I get a dropbox monthly account.
I access my dropbox account through the official dropbox client on iPhone.
Apple says that drobbox must do one of two things, either:
1. offer their service through apples store, and apple takes their skim.
2. pull their official app.

As far as I can tell from the rules that apple put forth, if you have a product for which you can sell recurring billing plans, you must give apple their opportunity to skim, even if you manage your own billing platform, and your margins are too thin to give apple their cut.

I can understand why apple wants it their way, and clearly it is good for consumers (no need to pull out your credit card, we got it on file already), but for businesses where the profit margin is really thin, adding 30% could kill you. So you can raise the price across the board to deal with apple, or you just don't have anything that can access your product on the iphone.
Hey, I’m commenting anonymous on HN, too. I have obviously nothing against anonymity. All I’m saying is that to imply that free speech is somehow meaningless without anonymity sounds very wrong to me.
That's a good summary, if perhaps a little down on the HN knowledge base than I'd suspect.

For instance, I'm afraid I can tell you an awful lot about tinnitus but I would be happier if I hadn't had the occasion to learn about it.
More honest? It would make it impossible, since if the computer had to parse Trebek's voice, it would finish getting the entire clue at the same time that the humans are pressing the buzzer.
There's no widely accepted definition for "restrained" C++. Not only does it vary by author, but also by project. For example, template-heavy code might be restrained on an embedded project (due to code size concerns), but not on a desktop app.

If you'd like to see another concrete example of a "restrained" C++, check out the Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards. It contains extremely specific details on what parts of C++ to use. For example, it disallows the use of unions and exceptions, and restricts heap allocation to initialization-time only:

http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
One of my CS professors made the remark that C++ seemed like it had been designed by people who thought that there was a tax on keyboard symbols. So rather than using new symbols that were on a standard keyboard but not part of the language already, they just reused the old symbols either as is or in strange new combinations.

When I look at Scala it gives me that same feeling. Additionally, they seem to come from the 'god kills a kitten every time I press a key' school of thought so everything looks really compressed and cramped. Granted it's not as bad as Perl or something you might see in an obfuscated C contest, but it seems a step away from Java in terms of readability. Which seems a shame to me. It is as though they said to themselves, "we will increase the utility, but something must be sacrificed". I just kind of wish they had added the extra power, but not at the expense of making it harder to read.
It's a cool feature idea. Although, I have a workaround. I usually just copy the link location and save it to my delicious account with the tag toread.

Maybe delicious is blocked at your company, so that's not an option.
How is attracting more startups to certain industries by improving the conditions for them, preventing the energy market from doing its job? What is its job?
Agreed, it's really unfortunate. I've been planning a trip out to the valley area for awhile now, but I just can't make the finances line up for me. Such is the life of a college student though, I suppose.
Yes, and it's not Rails only; every framework that uses Active Record (and that covers the vast majority) requires this sort of approach.

"Skinny controller, fat model" is not as easy as it sounds.
and what is that choice
You must not leave news.yc very often. ;)

99% of the time, there are few/no conversations on the internet, only shouting matches and circle-jerks.
Thank you very much! I'm thinking of taking my exams early, travel for a week or two, and get an internship. =)
well put. // fyi: you write prose like a programmer
I think a broken Etch-a-Sketch would kick Clippy's arse.
Thank you! I'm currently working on a startup--school is in the way, but I'm working on it. Hopefully that will be the main highlight of the year.
No code is readable right off the bat. I mean you need to see it (meaning look at it in your editor), piece it together in your brain, and then place it in the context of the rest of the code. Of course, that doesn't sound like a big deal, but it adds up.

Some code might be readable more quickly but again, it's about tradeoffs. To take an extreme example, suppose the "instantly" readable method results in 10000 lines of code while the metaprogramming approach takes 10 lines. Clearly, even with extra levels of indirection the metaprogramming approach is more easily understandable by sheer virtue of there being less code.

Again, that's an extreme (and unlikely if not impossible) case, but it illustrates my point: it's all about tradeoffs.
pffft...we used to do that on our 1541's back in the day.
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USSOCOM (Special Operations Command) which includes most Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations groups is also headquartered at MacDill.
Nigerians, scammers, fraudsters, and all other sorts of Internet criminals already do this kind of stuff and have for years. Plus this happens in the real world, it's just called identity fraud. This once again further proves the technological ineptitude of the US Government and it's contractors, this isn't in any way an advanced concept. HB Gary got rooted by a 16 year old girl, what is everyone so worried about?
> However, if folks are going to describe it as "fascist", I'd be interested to know why they haven't described the current system (with all of its tax loopholes and incentives) as fascist

How could you NOT consider the US a fascist state? If we're not fascist, then no one is.
A good answer, though I sense a bit of sarcasm/contempt in there!

Maybe the OP is only familiar with the negative aspects of taking outside investment, and is perfectly comfortable with bootstrapping (and has a venture that can be successful with bootstrapping alone). Given that, it seems that it might be fairly difficult to see why people would take VC money.
Glib and wrong. The database by itself would not be very valuable at all.