skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like OAuth for credit cards, awesome!

I believe this has the potential to take a lot of business from Paypal!
I'm waiting for the time when carriers realize that everything should be a data plan. Voice is just bits and bytes anyway, so why not roll up the voice minutes into the data plan?
I don't know how to feel about this. I really wish I could get people from both sides of the issue to educate me.

From what I see and read it seems piracy is running pretty rampant. In light of that, these efforts to stop it (except SOPA, which I strongly disagree with) don't bother me. This list of domains makes it pretty obvious what they were up to. And I'm one of the few who still believes that content creators (including more than just music and movies but also software) should be able to choose how they distribute their work and how much to charge, if anything. Piracy is taking these creations and distributing them freely or for your own profit while the creator is getting screwed out of the money they should get for their work.

I also see how this sets a dangerous precident and law makers are heading down a slippery slope. There's obviously much room for abuse and cronyism.

So my question is, are we framing this the right way? The torrent sites seem to be bringing up these issues in an effort to deflect, distract from what they're doing, and sometimes even excuse it. Their actions and the actions of other illegal operators are what is causing the crackdown and creating a space for large companies and law makers to exploit with overreaching laws.

So while this stuff is definitely dangerous, how come we don't talk about making the pirates irrelevant so we can remove their excuse? If piracy wasn't so prevalent online then we could strengthen our argument while weakening theirs. The post would be more credible from any other site but coming from torrentfreak it comes off as propaganda even though I agree with them (just not what they do)!
IANAL, and am not familiar with the procedures of law. I do know that the courts can seize property in an entirely legal fashion via due process. So this would seem to me to be analogous to seizure of a business building being used for selling counterfeit clothing.

I suppose (to my mind) the real question here is the due process.
> I'd certainly remember someone that accepted an offer and then backed out without cause. Nobody responsible does this.

Except when the cause is "they pressured me and didn't want to give me time to compare offers, so I trust my instincts, delayed, and what do you know? Indeed their offer was much worse, no wonder they resorted to those tactics, good thing I didn't actually sign anything yet and I could still go for the other job" in which case it sounds like a very responsible person.

Of course some companies prefer employees with a little bit less backbone, which is exactly what they would have gotten away with if it weren't for that meddling Spolksy! ;-)
Old story: http://allthingsd.com/20111115/visa-names-new-paypal-like-di...
The Importance of Calcium
Well that's one way to look at it, the other way, and the one I favor, is that the internet is a global thing and thus shouldn't be ruled by multiple incompatible jurisdictions.
Does it run on something other than Windows?
The government should not be able to take things without a trial in a court of law.
If you're looking to buy shoes, why should the organic results for [your favorite model] (likely wikipedia, the brand website, etc.) be better than ads?
DotCloud vs. PHPFog for PHP (PHPFog wins)
I didn't even see HnNoPassMailer until I turned on showdead, and after I did I only saw an upvote link, not a downvote link. I think it's some feature of HN.
Oh, why not: http://jeremyjarvis.co.uk/grabs/d28dbe268c98efd6369e5813.png
I can't imagine that they are just guessing abut this. I'm sure someone tried implementing it and was horrified at the actual results before they gave up on it.
> I view this as simple ethics. You keep your word, period.

Certainly in the US in most states, employment is "at will", meaning the company can fire you for pretty much any reason at any time (ignoring protected classes and so on). Likewise, the employee can leave at any time.

If you accept the offer and then renege you've actually fulfilled your contractual obligation.

If the company wants more than that, they need to pay for it. They can lock you up for a period with a golden handshake. They can keep you with golden handcuffs.

You have a misguided view of ethics here. The employment contract exists to give both parties an out.

This reminds me tangentially of the ethics debate around foreclosure. Some smart people realized would do things like:

- deliberately not pay the mortgage to trigger foreclosure as they were underwater and presumably they lived in a "no recourse" state (meaning the bank could take the house and that was the end of it);

- they might do this simply to force a better rate or get the bank to settle on the owed debt at a level where they were no longer underwater.

Some argued it was your ethical responsibility to pay if you can. I disagree. The contract that exists between the lender and the borrower exists to lay out the rights and responsibilities of both parties, including a mechanism for terminating the contract.

From a purely ethical (and completely irrelevant) point of view I see this as holding banks accountable for shady lending practices. After all, it was banks and the lack of due diligence in lending practices that led to this situation.

You are under no obligation to spend several years working for your second or third choice employer just because you said you would.

Think about it this way. Imagine you said to your spouse "I said I'd marry you but that's because someone else said 'no' so I'm going to stick with it because I said I would". What would happen? Would your spouse thank you? Almost certainly not. Nobody wants to be a second choice.

An employer wants people who are excited to be working for them and enthused about what they're working on. It makes a happier employee and a better place to work. If you feel like you're trapped you'll simply mope around thinking about the other chance you gave up, helping nobody, including the employer.

Oh and as for the idea that you've crossed the employer, in my experience most people don't take this personally and, for those that do, you probably don't want to work for them anyway. Fact is, they'll probably forget who you are in a few days or less.

It might hurt your chances at working for that same company in the future but it probably won't. And if it does, considering you turned them down once, do you really want to work for them?
Clomipramine, yawning, and...orgasm?
We need a payment processor that doesn't charge ridiculous "discount rates".
That's the essence of it, right there. This is especially troubling, for those of us who aren't American, because the US is claiming ownership over all .com, .net, and .org TLDs, and thus considers it just fine to seize the domains of foreign sites. So as a Canadian, with no say whatsoever as to what laws are passed in the US, I am nonetheless bound by them and can have my business property seized if a foreign government doesn't like what I do, with absolutely no ability to defend myself in court or seek redress for wrongful seizure.

That's horseshit.
http://nissan.com - http://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
ACTA means EU would have to use US's copyright laws, right? So if SOPA passes, doesn't that mean US would be able to do the same thing in EU? Didn't EU Parliament vote just a few days ago that they are against SOPA? Talk about being inconsistent.
Not a book exactly but I've been reading this blog -->

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

He/She has an interesting take on psychiatry, might be worth checking out sometimes.
I think to the contrary, programming language design as an area is flourishing now more than it has in a couple of decades. The availability of the JVM and JS as targets are freeing people up to experiment with lot's of different languages. Sure a lot of the things in these languages have been seen in some form before, but because there is so much cross-interaction between language features, putting things together in tasteful and elegant ways can be very innovative in the PL context.

It's easy to forget that Lisp, Haskell, Python, etc, didn't just spring forth fully formed. I read a great history of Lisp recently: http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/Hopl2.pdf. A lot of the features in Common Lisp we take for granted today were the product of various dialects and splinters of Lisp over the years.
If someone were to post an article on HN about a new technology that gets recursive compression (you can compress something 80%, and then do that again and again) because "they have a new algorithm", they would be laughed off the front page.
It seems he doesn't want to. From what I understand there's the possibility that he'd prefer to accomplish his goal without the use of Wemaster Tools. Like I said, he knows his shit, so he's going to do things on his terms if he can. Webmaster Tools might be what the average guy wants to use but then there are some who follow the beat of their own drummer whenever possible for whatever reasons we may never know.
What happens to FBI if SOPA doesn't actually pass and this kind of thing is found illegal?
Of course it's true. Do you think the person doing the hiring has never been on the other side before?

Any fool that gets their knickers in a knot because you're trying to find the best fit for yourself isn't worth working for, to be honest.
Jobs. Sivers. Transformation.
>Can't the trademark owners go through normal channels (get court judgement, then file with ICANN) to grab the domains?

That involves tiresome due process.
never mind, just saw your profile
Technical Blogging: http://pragprog.com/book/actb/technical-blogging
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Maybe because they are already charging that way, getting premium profit out of their bits, and people paying for them and are mostly happy with the product.

I mean, if Facebook was charging per wall post and had managed to be massively used as it is today, it would be insane to ask them to go "open bar".
Is CouchDB in Trouble?
This is not good.

Instead of treating people like disposable machines, just get machines to do the work of machines.

That's precisely why we've spent time building tools like eggtweeter and momentomail, which perfectly supports one of the things he's paying people (and treating them poorly) to do -- handle twitter (and emailing people on a schedule) updates for you.
Here's a search that tripped me up -

I'm in Houston, TX. When I searched for 'windshield repair houston', the 1st result - wwwDOThoustonwindshieldrepairDOTnet - looked promising so I made an appointment with them to get my windshield repaired. When I went to their place of business, it was just a guy in a pickup truck in the parking lot of a strip mall, with a 'windshield repair' sign on the back of the truck.

Turns out he's running a scam where he gets ppl to file claims with their insurance, and when they pay him, he would kickback 50% to the customer. Having insurance pay for damages is common enough, plenty of businesses do it. But this guy was trying to get me to file claims for damages that I didn't even have. When I asked for a cash price just to repair the damage I did have, he refused saying that 'it wasn't enough money'.

I was pissed. Not only is this illegal, I couldn't believe he was ranked #1. When I did some digging, it turns out the guy is gaming google with a ton of paid backlinks. For example, http://www.searchpicks.com/business/automotive/patsco-windsh... (click 'suggest listing' for the price).

I'm sure plenty of other searchers ended up wasting their time with this SERP just like I did.
I was strictly against piracy a few years ago. Nowadays it's a daily activity. What happened?

I realized what the media companies were actually doing, how DRM hurts the people who actually pay for the product and all these enormous sums they force people to pay for a few cases of infringement.

I don't want my money to go to these corporations, that's why I'd choose to pirate over buying today.

That said, my 6 terabytes of content contain no illegal music and just a few large American-produced movies. It's mostly anime, documentaries and Swedish TV. The anime and documentaries I have because I simply can't buy them here. There's no way for me to consume this content legally in a way that I prefer. The Swedish TV I store so that I, one day, can show my favourite shows to my future kids (I'm doing backup on backup), and I'm not even sure if that's illegal, considering I pay TV-license and all.

Well, that's my case, I'm not sure which kind of pirate I am, but I know that as long as the media companies take a large slice of the money that's supposed to go to the artists, and use it to fight against the public, I don't want them to get a single penny from me.
The buttons should have labels. Google shouldn't assume every person who log's onto any Google app will know what they mean.Even though I'm a power user and I still prefer labels to icons.
BoF (Dutch EFF equivalent) won't teamup with any political entity as to keep their neutral stance. They won't be able to be viewed as neutral when they make comparisons between political parties as seen from a digital civil rights perspective. For example, the made a comparison chart how privacy is handled by the various parties (we have about 10 relevant parties here in NL). That being said, they did kept a close watch on PPNL's movements.
As opposed to --for illustrative purposes-- the vanishingly small number of people who know how to block IP addresses and manage to get their site to disappear from Google's listings?

::cough::

A few years ago, I did pretty much the same thing myself. Thankfully the late summer was our slow season and the site recovered pretty quickly from my bone-headed move, but the split second after I realized what I've done was bone-chilling.

I think just about everyone has thought at some point that they understood how something worked, only to have had things go pear-shaped on them.

The lesson: people are not fully knowledgeable about everything, even the smart and talented ones.
Obsession with one's own power OS the first path down the road to corruption.
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I format tuples for debugging on a regular basis, but tend to just wrap every arg to the format string in repr, so this never comes up.
I'm not sure I agree - if it helps get the point of the snippet across more succinctly, it's worth breaking the guidelines.
When I first saw the prices for ebooks (~$22) I was initially shocked (but the 40% makes it a better deal). However, then I noticed the value-add that PragProg provided their customers. I think they should advertise these features more prominently:

1. You get all 3 formats

2. You get constant updates to the book (errata and such) [edit: not new editions.]

3. You can connect your PragProg account to your Dropbox so that your books are delivered there automatically.

#3 is a new addition, but it's killer for me. I get all formats uploaded instantly to Dropbox, so they're available on all my devices. And when I buy a Beta book it gets updated automatically without me having to remember to login and redownload.
Right, and Europe is not owned and controlled by the Banksters either.
Don't they usually call these rounds a second A round? (Ex. Series A-2)?
patio11, do your magic...for the HN community!
Yeah, at first I agreed with the article, but then I realized I've had many creative moments while interacting with peers. Maybe when I reach a "writer's block" like coding moment, I then feed of the interaction with others. But only if "others" are firm friendly and encouraging. If I'm working with someone who takes a perverse joy in shooting everyone's ideas down, then all my creativity grinds to a halt until I get away from that person.
Doesn't matter how amazing their technology is when they leave critical bugs in the client unresolved for over 2 years: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/error_message_offl...
As an Interaction Designer, I'd love to see a language that was built using UX methods and patterns (e.g. user research, usability testing, designing for visual perception). It probably won't produce linguistic innovations, but it could be a way to advance productivity and developer experience.
I have a question, why did git grow so popular? What was better about it?

Edit: To down voters I think this question is important because it helps us understand why certain softwares are successful despite other successful competitors. I am not trying to start a flame war on which version control system is better.
Carriers realize this. They also realize they get more money from the current setup as we transition from generations that are used to paying for voice to a more digitally minded consumer base.

The ipad plan is a pretty good data only no contract plan. My wife lost her phone so I gave her my iphone and bought a 3g ipad2 and used a cheap prepaid phone while I waited for 4S/5. That ran about $40 a month instead of the $80+/month you get with a smartphone contract.
They're considered cost centers, because they are cost centers. Unless you generate revenue by selling software or providing operational or security services to others, there is no direct sales upside to spending more money in these areas. There is only downside risk to not spending enough and screwing something up -- that makes them cost centers, not profit centers.

That doesn't mean they're not important, of course. Any cost center that didn't perform an important function would just be cut. But it's just like running payroll -- it would be disastrous if you couldn't do it in a consistent and timely fashion, but as long as everything seems to be working correctly, nobody outside that area is ever going to care that much about it.
Anatomy of the Linux slab allocator
Perhaps it's because of the following:

"The GreenLeft (GroenLinks) and democrats (D66) have the most pro-internet civil rights stances."

G-d only knows what a "pro-internet stance" is, but I suspect HnNoPassMailer was referring to the fight for net neutrality and online privacy, and against data retention and censorship.

If that's the case, the Socialist Party (SP) and the Party for the Animals (PvdD) have the most "pro-internet civil rights stances".

The best way to measure this is to look at how elected officials vote on those issues [1].

[1] http://www.privacybarometer.nl/partij.php?p=4
Have you considered filtering of "all tickets" in the client, for different subsets? Eg http://stackoverflow.com/q/6865316/172188
Interesting topic and quite relevant to me especially since I'm a recent CS graduate just starting my career. Why is the book in beta?
I don't think it means anything.
I get that. I have heard of how DRM hurts people and I do know that artists get screwed by their labels. But is piracy really a solution? Are you really protesting or are you using that as an excuse to make yourself feel better? Though the artists do get screwed by labels, piracy also hurts them. I admit that a few years ago I acquired a large collection of movies of music through piracy. These days I feel differently.

This is tricky because I see your point but there also has to be a better solution. I feel like these reasons stifle progress that may solve your problems. Do you think if piracy were curbed a lot then maybe some company would take advantage of a space In the market and somehow let you get content you can't in the US? Maybe even these companies supporting SOPA may do it? Maybe I'm naive. Ive got some reading to do for sure on this. Thank you for honestly answering my question.
Yeah, but the difference is both Pythonista's and Rubyist's can read the code after they write it. :)
Yea, a cover-up culture, as it often is called.
In addition:

1. DRM-free formats

2. A support forum where you can ask questions and interact directly with the author
from this page https://developer.v.me/docs/get_credentials

Use the Shared Secret Key to generate encrypted Tokens using V.me's MD5 Hash Algorithms.

MD5? Am I missing something here?
What part of the article are you speaking to here?
> I view this as simple ethics. You keep your word, period.

How far does your word go though? You can (in general) quit a job anytime you want right? So, you could go to work for them for a single day and then quit and that would be fine? But you can't decide a day before you start that you want to go work somewhere else?

I don't think these things are as cut and dried as you might think.
Which is exactly what I'm asking for.
There's also the sequel, Mindhacker, which was published by Wiley earlier this year. Ron's stuff is great, and absolutely worth checking out. Info on the new book is at http://http://www.ludism.org/mentat/Mindhacker

(Disclaimer: I contributed two hacks to Mindhacker.)
HDCP cracked using $250 of gear and a lot of talent
Thanks for your interest. It's in beta because I finished writing the last chapter a week ago, so it's not available in print yet.
While I agree with almost everything you say here, I disagree with your view of the ethics involved. Just because something is allowed, it doesn't automatically become ethical.

If you accept multiple job offers with the intention of waiting for the best possible offer, you are actively lying to the other companies. Sure, it might be im(ex?)plicitly allowed by the contracts you sign, but that doesn't change the fact that you are acting unethically.
Sigh... so you just couldn't bear to read the second half of what I wrote? It wasn't a long post. It really wasn't.

> I agree that in this case hacker news should be higher and that this is a bug. But just because hacker news is called that doesn't mean that query might feasibly be better served by another site. To assert otherwise is pretty surprising.
I think you're right and I had the stupids the other day: what this paper describes is simply your conde (né condi). No?
It's Visa.
Agreed. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. You're right. But doesn't it bother anyone that torrent sites that are pretty well known for providing access to pirated content (whether a link constitutes infringement is not the issue here) are hiding behind freedom? I feel like they shouldn't be on the front lines of this. They're going to hurt and make us look bad more than they help. Maybe if some well known people or companies took the lead on this it would make the whole opposition look better and give us more credibility. TorrentFreak is exactly the kind of site that is the poster child they use to claim these measures are necessary. They should hang back and be quiet, right? If I'm wrong I'd like to know. I read so much about this and I thought my position was solid but now I'm wondering.
How long will it be before we see the following headline?

Apple sues Chinese hacker for counterfeit tablet
See the person's comment above about npm help.
Most of the seized domains end up hosted on the Feds 'seized domain' server at 74.81.170.110.

As such, it's possible to see a list of all seized domains using a Reverse IP tool - e.g. http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=74.81.170.110
I'm honestly not sure what the names mean anymore. I've seen people call their 4th round their Series A. Our original round was called our Series A (just what legal put on there an no one really payed attention) whereas I think most would describe it as seed.
Not longer than Java, both Ruby and Java came out in 1995. Python is about 4 years older.
2. You get constant updates to the book (errata and such)

New editions?

On a related note: I know this is ridiculous but I wish I could purchase book diffs upon the release of a new edition. I already read the second edition of CLRS and paid $60 for it. Now I just want the new bits of the 3rd edition at a reasonable price.
"Risk that the Euro disintegrates within weeks is alarmingly high"
GitHub may be one reason.

Maybe less but still important IMHO is that it's far more pronounceable than e.g. SVN. That could help build the hype.