skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a lot of these issues here in Australia thanks to the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) [1] — though to be fair, that's not the only cause.

Thankfully, due to the way statutory damages are legislated here, we haven't seen the MPAA/RIAA vs. Joe Bloggs cases in our court system. Roadshow Films (and friends) did try and sue a major ISP, however (and lost) [2].

[1]: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2004/08/03/austral...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_v_iiNet
While I agree with you--the Military and intelligence agencies should get full credit--this will nevertheless boost his approval ratings.
Is anybody else saddened by the fact that we are in celebration of an individual's death? I fail to see the differences between his and our philosophies.
Because the ones smart enough to organize, finance, and lead the operation will see it as a suicide plan, one that they won't be able to pass down to others. There will probably always be some dudes thinking of themselves as part of the franchise, but without photos and tapes they won't really know who they're taking orders from.

They'll have an authentication problem.
> strong focus on keyboard control (vi key bindings)
> scriptable in nu

I'm sure nu is million times better than Vimscript, and it probably wouldn't be hard for me to port my half dozen custom key bindings to it, but vim has a lot of existing plugins...

It's definitely not as fun to implement, but I'd much prefer to see a custom GUI that's really vim under the hood.
put a link to one of the news announcements
I don't think even in other provinces, the first one warns you about the difference between an employee and an intern and the second one says about the same thing an even mentions he did no legal research on this.

You have to just be careful while your doing it same as when you hire someone as a contracter making sure you don't treat them like an employee.
I just looked at their homepage, and maaaan is it wicked broken right now. I guess they really do need people :/.
He was as good as dead for a long time now anyway. It's not like he was personally managing and planning all of alqaeda's operations or anything. The significance of this event is mostly symbolic.

Look at Iraq: alqaeda's influence in Iraq wasn't destroyed by the death of Zarqawi; it was destroyed when the locals stood up and took arms against them.
Not to mention the 1.2 trillion dollar bill.
On the contrary, although the JVM is always faster, LuaJIT is within about 15% of it on SOR, and never worse by even a factor of 2.
Tell HN: Please reconsider your flagging practices.
This is inspired by the ongoing discussion regarding Osama bin Laden's death. (Found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504770) That thread is already cluttered enough, however, and I believe this issue is broad enough to warrant its own post.

I believe that a number of people need to reconsider their qualifications for content that should be flagged, especially when that content is clearly interesting and substantive. Furthermore, should you feel the need to flag a piece of content, please refrain from remarking on your subsequent flagging in the thread itself. The oft-quoted line is: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." However, it seems that people tend to ignore the words "most" and "probably" when deciding whether or not a topic should be flagged.

In the case of the Osama piece: Yes, the story was about politics and crime. Yes, they will cover it on TV news. It is, however, a clear exception, as the topic has vast implications for both our national security moving forward and is related to many past discussions (such as those re: TSA screenings). It is obvious that, due to this article, substantive discussion will occur.

Should you still not feel the article worthy of HN, please do flag it. However, please do not mention that you have flagged it, nor argue for your actions. People will make up their own minds, and your comment will only further degrade the conversation.

Thanks!
You're welcome.

I hope to find a transcript and append a link to it. As of several minutes ago, the White House had not released a transcript.
And in other news we've supposedly just killed Gadaffi's brother and grandchildren.

I don't see that happening anytime soon unfortunately.
Does this mean no full body scanners anymore?
just because bin laden is dead doesn't mean terrorism is "dead".
> Buffett has navigated far worse situations in his business career. Look at what he went through with Solomon.

Absolutely. Or, to a lesser extent, the Buffalo Courier-Express antitrust case back in the 70s. Buffet's "go honest early" policy is yet another brilliant long term strategy that seems slightly crazy / ruinous in the short run.

For anyone interested, this book was a good read:

http://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowe...
hahaha...its obama's attempt to get people to shut up about the royal wedding

fyi: JK!
I've had this exact experience in law, accounting and psychology classes.
I fail to see the differences between his and our philosophies.

You can't be fucking serious.
That is way more populated than where I was expecting we would find him. Speculation had been going on for years that he was in a cave in the mountains of Pakistan or some remote village. I see a college, drugstores and even a movie theater on that map. The mere fact that his location was mappable by Google is surprising.
really was killed in a mansion in Islamabad, that changes a lot in relations between the US and Pakistan

Everyone in Pakistan already knows that the US has been killing people with drone strikes for years and years now. They're far more aware of it than Americans.

It's hard to see that there are many Pakistanis who are going to dislike America more for having actually gotten OBL. On the other hand, ending US missile strikes in Pakistan can only help.
Is there a way to somehow aggregate all of the same osama articles into one header, possibly with a unified comment?

There are some subthemes, such as a discussion of how social media played a role in the leaking of the announcement, that should be separate. However, the glut of articles, all of which say the same exact thing, clutter the discussion and implicitly hide the other articles
Note the word Most, instead of All.

The paragraph right above that sentence: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I find it interesting, and the story gratifies my intellectual curiosity beyond belief. Also remember that hackers are typically young and a large part of their psyche can be defined by that monumental event happened almost 10 years ago. Hey, if you look carefully you might find startup opportunities out of understanding of this significant development.
I expect that some sort of proof of OBL's death will need to be provided. This is where showing the body comes into play. I don't know if they can get away with not showing it.
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Honestly, you could make that argument about anything.

I'm curious: In what way does the story gratify your intellectual curiosity?
> I have always doubted the omni-tentacular, ubiquitous, far-reaching character ascribed to Al Qaeda as an all-powerful international terrorist conspiracy

In the Arab world, this image is ascribed to the Zionist-Right-Wing-American conspiracy. Some radical conspiracy theorists even claim that all current revolutions in the Arab world are plans by the Zionists to change Arab regimes without resorting to a full-scale military invasion.
You are assuming that we are dealing with rational people who have rational thoughts. That couldn't be further from the truth. People who plan the mass-murder of others around the world are completely irrational, and I am very confident that there are tons of people with money, organization, and leadership that will step up and try to continue Bin Laden's efforts.
I look at it like buying a hybrid vehicle. I haven't checked lately, but when they first came out the hybrid model of a particular vehicle was often $10K more than the non-hybrid model. So there's a $10K opportunity cost in order to realize passive gas savings from then on. However, even the way gas prices are now you'd have to own the vehicle for 10 years just to recover your $10K investment. On top of that, in 10 years time you could have turned that $10K investment into $20K if you were able to average about 7% interest.

Writing a book full-time seems to follow the same pattern. I'm not seeing how the investment ever pays itself off. Now, if he wrote the book by spending a few hours on evenings and weekends where his time was otherwise worth nothing then any money made is all profit. In that case the passive income, even if it's only a few hundred here and there, is all good.
Osama Bin Laden is Dead.
Might be a coincidence or a random tweet, but:

@Obi_JohnKanObi‎ #becauseoftwitterbeef we found osama bin laden
Twitter - 1 May 2011 18:12:31

edit: It's entertaining to see all of the "I'll do X if Osama Bin Laden is found today" tweets that were made hours before 10PM ET.
No, if you have a written deal and someone throws extra expenses, they are breaking the law and they are IDIOTS, not assholes.

If you have a verbal agreement and someone tries to push a last minute scam like this, they are dicks and they CANNOT be trusted. Thus, you should walk/run away.

(I remember pg mentioned this in a post about VCs..)

____

Edit: It wasn't pg but jacquesm:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company

"...Lo and behold, they actually tried to change one of the material terms of the deal AT CLOSING. These folks were not to be trusted at all. We immediately said "GOOD BYE!" and hung up the phone..."
I've been thinking lately about running some analysis of my own, but couldn't find a data dump and didn't feel like scraping. Why has the dump been pulled?

I'm thinking of classifying entries as temporal/atemporal. Temporal are industry news, press releases, rumors and alike. Atemporal are reference materials, essays, howtos, analysis, links to libraries/frameworks/products.

Essentially, I feel that while temporal entries provide a more immediate reward and larger discussions, atemporal tend to be more technical, more interesting, have more valuable discussions, and overall are what sets HN apart of other places. I'd rather see a front page full of erlang stories than pieces about what Apple has just announced (I'm pretty sure I'll see these in many different places).

A good balance is probably ideal: a few most interesting breaking stories, and the most thought-provoking atemporal materials users have ran into lately. The perceived decline of the front page and comment quality could be attributed to a shift in this balance towards temporal stories.

As to how to classify, I'd start as marking stories with multiple duplicates in a short period of time as temporal, and the ones with duplicates spread apart over long periods as atemporal, and go from there.
Live feed is down. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8j8LpwDo7Q.
Obama changed the policy and made Bin Laden priority #1 again, and you have the results today.

And you know this because of a comment most likely made to avoid giving bin Laden more public attention or further elevating his importance?

Regardless of what one thinks of George W. I have a hard time believing he didn't want bin Laden dead or captured any less than anyone else in the USA, and these kinds of public statements are no way to divine what the CIA has been sent out to do.
This is similar to how organizations tend to use phrases such as "we regret..." as opposed to one's such as "we're sorry...". This way they have their PR move without actually admitting to any wrongdoing on their part. Sort of a semantically plausible deniability, I think.
Xkcd: 65 Years
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$22.5M in Loans Facilitated by P2P Lending Companies in April
I'm just pointing out that it should come as no surprise that the author of this blog post didn't come up with a good metric for judging quality. As in, if the author had come up with such a metric, he would have started a company and become fantastically wealthy applying this magical quality-quantifying algorithm, rather than writing a blog post.
Ooyala in Mountain View.
http://www.ooyala.com/about/careers
Apparently Street View hadn't gotten to his hide out yet. Unfortunate. Surprising that it was in such a populated area. I'm anxious to find out more details on what the compound was like.
I'm bracing myself for the next bogeyman. Let's hope his introduction won't be as dramatic as Ben Laden's.
Strange, I watched it on that site at 11:30pm est, but now at 12:24pm est the video is no longer available...
obama stated the operation was performed today (May 1st)
Oh wah!
For those who want actual news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676
How Did You Hear About Osama Bin Laden's Death? [POLL]
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" - Mark Twain
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The New York Times has just released a 7 page obituary profiling the life and influence of Osama Bin Laden:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/02osama-bin-laden-ob...

It's a great read. I'm wondering how they pulled it off, though - did they have the copy for an obituary filed away, and pulled it out and edited when the news broke?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504672
> Is anybody else saddened by the fact that we are in celebration of an individual's death?

No. Welcome to the real world. Someone who has killed tens of thousands of people and who wanted to kill you, is dead. Be happy.
I'm certainly not singing about a successful assassination, that's not my style and it's never been America's either. I think it's a little bit in poor taste.

But on the list of people the planet is better off without, OBL was close to the top.

All I can imagine is that wcchandler is so enamored of his relativism that he doesn't contemplate his ignorance.
"So when it came time to apply to college, Tom just printed out a pile of code he wrote and sent it to colleges."

I would like to see his actual code that got him accepted, but I wasn't able to find it. Anyone else more luck?
Not really, hiding in plain sight is a common tactic.
I'm confused. Is javascript really that hard to use that we need CoffeeScript? Why was CS even created?
Wow, I was getting a little nervous Obama might be a one-term president, but I think that without a doubt he will be reelected now--healthcare reform, his contrast to the Tea party, and handling of the recovery from the financial meltdown.

I'm sure Qaddafi is freaked out right now. His son and grandkids, and now Osama. If they got Osama, Qaddafi doesn't have a chance.

Edit: I can't sleep! So optimistic now, I bet the stock market goes up a few hundred points tomorrow also.
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did they have the copy for an obituary filed away, and pulled it out and edited when the news broke?

Yes, that's how they do it.

It used to be that hilarity would ensue when people found news orgs' internal web servers exposed on the net. Don't recall it happening in awhile though. Guess they learned their lesson.
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Yes, newspapers have ready-to-go obits for important people on the shelf, ready for updating with death info for situations like this
I'll need to adjust this. We talked about it again and Noah insisted on paying me more. My cut will be $3 per copy on that $7 sale (42% gross) before PayPal fees (I am not sure what that will net to). Effectively, my cut will be closer to $3k or $4k, rather than the current $2k.

I'll update the article when i can with the most accurate information.
Yep, that's exactly how obit departments at major media outlets operate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obituary#Media
Yes, it is common practice. Sometimes they accidentally publish some of this obituaries, which leads to some embarrassing situations :)
Approval rating are finicky. I bet they don't last for long if they do go up much.
Which is strange, given that most of the imperiled or 'changed' regimes are not especially anti-Israeli. I mean in reality, apart from the perfunctory rhetorical barbs for domestic consumption.
Yes, apparently it's a common practice:

http://www.slate.com/id/2226505/
Yes, newspapers keep obituaries of significant figures on file and updated.
I'm with you on that one. It seems so asymmetric. It shouldn't be "they kill us and dance in their streets, we kill them and dance in ours". This lends their "cause" far more legitimacy than it deserves. It should be more like catching a rat in a trap. The rat does as it does because that's what it is. We have to kill it as part of conducting our lives as we know them. But we don't celebrate, or even think too much about it.

This decade long spectacle has been a giant gravity well for all sorts of other unrelated (and bad) stuff to orbit. Here's hoping this provides some ending to it.
Exactly. Though I know everyone doesn't share this opinion, I believe that I'd rather hire someone with ambition and hunger and passion over someone with a piece of paper or a track record. Your history is important and can prove a lot and so can an education, but in the overall scheme of things, it means less than one might think. Count the number of greatest thinkers and successes who either never attended college or dropped out (from George Carlin who dropped out of the 9th grade to Bill Gates who dropped out of college).

Sometimes you need the guy with twenty years of project management experience and huge projects under him who can just jump in and grab the reigns and go from there. Sometimes it pays to take a chance on an eager person (of any age) who wants a shot. If it doesn't work out, you get rid of them. If it works out, you have a diamond in the rough.

And, as someone who was afforded that opportunity myself, there's no better learning experience than being in the real world and surrounded by incredible people. Part of what keeps me in the company and position I'm in is that I am surrounded by many of the people I've known for over a decade that are real powerhouses. They're smart as hell and work hard as hell and I am constantly challenged by them. They make me feel dumb and I'm better for it. I might have a better grasp of some common things a college graduate would walk away with, but I wouldn't trade it for anything and I think I'm a better employee now, because I was molded here and not in a class room.

Not that I have anything against "the system" or against "college boys" (well, maybe just a tiny little biase). I'm just a really huge fan of self-starters and nothing makes me as sentimental as stories of successful self-educated and self-motivated people.
I saw it while I was registering. I didn't realize it was referral code replacement.
I haven't lived in Canada for the past five years, should I get to vote in Canadian elections too?
So any word on if it'll be closed or open when it's done? I wouldn't mind paying (especially if that would speed delivery of a usable product), but I'd be worried about it becoming abandonware a couple years later (cough TextMate).
It wasn't that long ago that women made up close to 0% of graduates in law and medicine. There were lots of scientific-sounding essentialist arguments made about gender to explain that. Nowadays close to 50% of graduates in medicine and law are women. Remember than when you hear people spouting off about why women aren't suited to programming.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0300.p...
NPR keeps them filed in the research library. It's a surprising range of people who are kept on file.
It's pretty common for them to have pre-written obituaries for famous people that are likely to die soon.

See: Debate over Britney Spears' Obituary

http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-01-22/news/17150316_1_hollyw...
how can this already have 5000+ votes?! #wow
Al Jazeera has been showing video of the supposed compound - will try and get the description of the compound the next time they describe it, but from what I recall they mentioned it didn't have many windows and there was an outer wall to protect it.
Twitter heaven has come to earth
The world erupts about bin ladaen and no sign of the fail whale on Twitter! Heaven has come to earth!
It's easy to imagine that someone like Osama would be hiding in a cave or like Saddam in a "spider hole", but hiding in populated areas isn't uncommon. Karadzic was also hiding in plain sight in Belgrade and Vienna while on the "run". He had, however, adopted a new identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_prosecution_of_Radov...
The proof is in the pudding.

GWB may have wanted bin Laden dead but never devoted sufficient resources to allow it to happen. The fact that this was an operation which was beginning to be planned 10 months ago is evidence enough of Obama's ownership.

According Rumsfeld's chief of staff, it was a team of SEALs that carried out the operation. I might try getting basic facts right before posting obviously motivated comments.
it's common practice for many media outlets to maintain "obituaries" of famous figures around the world before they die.

If i'm not mistaken, I think it was in 2008 where Bloomberg accidentally published Steve Job's obituary which sparked a rumour that he died even though he was perfectly healthy.
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