skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, how are there not "offshore" domains yet, much in the same fashion there of offshore shell corporations for tax havens? Somebody tether me a server farm in the middle of the Atlantic, and tap on into the cables down below or something. Heck, got your water cooled farm right there. All jesting aside though, does anyone think domains name registration is going to start soaring in other countries because of all this bickering going on lately? I see business models waiting to be found here.
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I'm not going to get into the motivation/need for the site at all, but here's a brief review of concrete usability issues with the site.

Why does it require signing up for a profile? Isn't this about anonymous sharing?

Are all the faces supposed to be happy? That's all I see. Or do they reflect the mood of the post? Why aren't any angry/sad faces on the front page?

Why are the big "1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5" numbers needed on the far left of every story?

"Make an account by clicking here" has horrible link usability. Links should be colored (preferably blue) and underlined. Plus "click here" should never be the anchor text. Same with the "Click to Login" link.

The padding around your header menu items is not clickable. Give them the "hand" mouse cursor too. The underline-on-highlight there is not needed.

Putting random jibberish into the "post a new thread" feature then clicking submit does not appear to do anything. Just clears the fields. Is that malfunctioning validation, or does the feature not work?

You need to "fake it til you make it". Why should I contribute to this site if the front page is entirely links that are 3+ weeks old and have 0 comments?
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As long as we're busy chatting about pet languages, comparing work/life balances, and generally masturbating about startup culture, we (as a collective) aren't going to do a damned thing.

It's time to acknowledge that this behavior of our governments is beginning to violate a reasonable social contract, and if not that, certainly at least realize that our livelihoods are coming under attack.

It may well be time to start getting radical in our evaluation of our culture's place in modern politics--they are clearly not serving our interests (much less those of their own citizens!), and yet equally clearly are dependent on us for a great deal of their soft power.

Folks with more weight and pull in this area: start paying attention.
I'd take a very minor issue with this: try xfce with dmenu (from the suckless tools package) bound to the super key. I maximise applications within xfce using alt-F11. All window decorations gone, no OS junk pixels visible at all. I invoke applications using dmenu. I switch between windows with alt-tab, and workspaces with alt-ctrl-arrows.

Perhaps I'm taking this to extremes...
So if I decide to sell my wife's (imaginary) 3 tons of Chanel goods, and open a site called chanel-goods-for-cheap, odds are my site gets lifted and I become a part of this action no matter whether I am selling counterfeit goods or not, right?

I agree with the attorney. Why get upset about SOPA? They can screw you over just the same way today without all the extra laws.

This will eventually reach the point, if left unchecked, where large corporations will completely own all of their internet distribution channels -- resale, wholesale, damaged goods, you name it. If it's got "Brand X" as part of the offering, folks over at Brand X are going to want to control it.

I really hate the fact that so many of these stories remind me of people running around waving their arms with their heads on fire. It's always the end of western civilization as we know it. But damn it, the problem is that there are many separate issues where there are real threats to common sense and to liberty. It's like living in a town where several large buildings are on fire. Being alarmed seems appropriate, but why bother? The whole place is hosed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Share_Ownership_Plan
What can be done is to educate people and engage in a discussion on what the proper role of the state should be. For many, the government should have little to no involvement in technological and economic matters and focus merely on the preservation of individual liberties - if this view continues to gain momentum issues such as these will become nonissues.
I don't think judges should be able to order unreasonable things like this one. From article it shows that they don't even have proof that some of the sites have done anything illegal. I understand Channel and sympathize with them, but this judge should never be able to order something like this.
But that may not always be obvious to people - in my case, for some reason I worry about my future manager "seeing" me in a negative way. Or perhaps they will decide that I'm not a team player and revoke the offer.

What makes it completely loony, is that I have been the manager, and I never looked at it that way. But yet, I assume everyone else has a very different view of things than I do.
What sort of internship opportunities does Matasano offer?

Do you limit internships to those in the US?
More here:

http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2011/11/28/0x375-0x07-securit...
You can't copyright or trademark a fashion pattern, like your friend's jeans.

Fake products using a trademarked name is a different matter-- they are of inferior quality, and widespread distribution seriously damages the legitimate brand.
No, it just means that changes to privacy that affect existing data should be announced beforehand. However, I doubt that they'll tell you which data will be affected.

Have fun scrolling through your entire FB history to update permissions!
Reading this order: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73773870/Chanel-Inc-v-Does-11-Cv-0... I wonder who is responsible for de-indexing and/or removing the domain names?

Other points begin with "Plaintiffs shall...", "Defendants shall...", but in this point there's no party stated that must do the action:

"The Group II Subject Domain Names shall immediately be de-indexed and/or removed from any search results pages of all Internet search engines including, but not limited to, Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and all social media websites including, but not limited to, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter until otherwise instructed by this Court or Plaintiff that any such domain name is authorized to be reinstated, at which time it shall be reinstated to its former status within each search engine index from which it was removed."
I was also "there" during the late 90s/2000s in the bubble. Saw people who were both successful and many who were part of companies that fell by the wayside (like mine :) ). Regardless of whom you spoke with, after the dust settled, they all agreed how easily it was to get lost in the frenzy. Life is more than work. Life needs to be enjoyed and shared with loved ones. You can be successful at both and infact most people who are successful live well balanced lives.

Thanks for your sanity Rob.
I wish that Safari on iPad had a plugin functionality for things like adblock and noscript. Sometimes web browsing can be excruciatingly slow from all the scripts and ads on websites.

Luckily there is an option to turn off JavaScript but there needs to be more control like whitelisting.
Bluetooth, except for a few profiles, is locked down on non-jailbroken iPhones and requires the manufacturer to jump through Apple's 'Made for iPhone' hoops and design in a authentication chip into the hardware.
I've also copied it to my blog, in case the new gist disappears: http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-y...
No matter how outraged anyone pretends to be about this incident, not a single person on this thread would have bet $50 at any odds on Apple not pulling this app out of the store. That's all I'm trying to say.
Don't self-signed apps expire in three months? If yes, it would be really inconvenient.
Should government agencies who regulate telephone services not use telephones?
But to be fair, ANT+ data transfer is super fucking flaky. I would say that I get my running data off my Forerunner about 50% of the time when the watch is physically touching the USB dongle and 0% of the time when it's not.

And, nothing ANT+ seems to work under Linux. So let's skip this for a while and stick to Bluetooth or USB; it works better and works everywhere. You have to plug in your watch to charge it anyway.
Can you please add support for CoffeeScript highlighting?

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Text-editor-...

EDIT: Sorry, I should post this as a Github issue instead...
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I have an idea. Ignore them. Let them enforce their own edicts, rulings, and laws. If enough people disobey, it becomes impossible to enforce. That's why civil disobedience works. Now, if Google grew a pair and told the judge to get lost ... well ... I'll be mighty impressed and they would earn my respect.
"anything more complex would be inefficient to speak to it"

Really? I find Siri to be better at far more complex tasks than simple ones. IE, saying "Schedule dinner with Karen at 7 PM on Friday" is a lot more efficient than unlocking the phone, launching the calendar app, navigating to friday, and typing in "Dinner with Karen" at the 7 PM slot.
On the contrary, don't rich people have a lot more to hide?

Just knowing that your kid is enrolled at Le Rosey signals to a criminal that she is worth kidnapping... and the last status update shows her headed to Ibizia for spring break. In contrast, nobody cares if another poor kid "likes" Justin Bieber. Over-sharing seems a lot riskier for the rich (and famous.) It would be interesting to read the article you mentioned. It's hard to imagine an argument that the rich are not more concerned with privacy than regular people.
Stop overthinking things and build something
They are set on policing, so let's not pretend there's a debate to have where there clearly isn't one.
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Absolutely! That would be great, and a step we could take the site in the future.

What sort of things would you like to make? Personally, the next logical step is a chocolate pacman :)
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The US electoral process is prejudiced against any candidate with skills other than "people skills." Anybody who campaigns on a platform even implying the advantage of intelligence will be cast as an elitist. Boom, campaign-headshot.
"I dislike the whole anti-counterfeit programs because companies want you to spend $2000 for a leather bag with their name on it, but the bag is only really worth $20. They're not even complaining that you're not willing to pay for it (like pirating a movie), they're complaining because you're unwilling to spend a massively unreasonable amount on it."

This just isn't true. Many times, the $20 bag uses inferior materials and doesn't go through the quality checks of the bigger companies. It's also about brand name. Some brands are worth more than others.

"There's no reason to target the counterfeitters as they're not hurting your business model. They're selling to people who know they're getting ripped off, but Gucci and what not are selling it to rich idiots who don't know they're getting ripped off."

It does hurt their business model. There are many people selling counterfeits as the original. If the company does nothing about it, people will not only expect to get it at the cheaper price in the future, but will complain if the quality sucks or it falls apart after a few weeks of use, which will hurt the companies image.
Small family farms represent 91% of all the farms in the US. 59% of food production in the US is in due thanks to large family farms. There are actually very few industrial food complexes in the US, although it is interesting to note that most of the food production is from these complexes.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/EIB12/EIB12c.pdf?
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Yeah. My first thought was exactly the same. Why do I find this interesting (I always have my phone with me)? My hypothesis is that with everything getting displayed through LCD screens these days, after a while people will crave for the old sensory experience - working with physical paper.

Not sure about the current generation which is growing up with iPads and may have never used a physical newspaper. I will be curious to see their reaction.
I'd think that if the average female was making 70% of fair salary, a company could offer them 80% and get enough to fill a vast majority of their positions while still saving an incredible 20% on those employees, giving them a great competitive advantage.
> You're omitting the fact that Facebook has always stated they may change what they do with your information in the future.

Fortunately, the law in many countries does not permit such one-sided terms.
I don't think it is cowardly for Google to obey the law and court orders. At least they publish information about this kind of activity
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/...
We use aho-corasick to extract keywords from terabyte size corpus. Works really well but you have to build your matching tree before.
I didn't. I wonder if you had to download and install their developer toolkit. I wasn't about to do that unless I knew I was getting one.
Ask HN: Incubator doesn't like that I'm a single founder. Offers alternative.
Hello, I'm a single founder of a very early start-up.

A month ago I was looking for incubators based in my area. When I had managed to find one, they said they were very impressed, but did not like the fact that I was a single founder. Mostly because they don't provide seed funding, only mentoring and a demo day. After a week or so they called me offering two things:

1) An invitation to all their events.

2) To help find a start-up with a similar business model in need of a technical founder that I can join.

However I have a few fears related to the second item in the offer.

1) I'd like to continue developing my product and for me to join a team with a similar business model, I'd probably have to throw away my product.

2) I'm not sure how much input I would have in an already established group.

I haven't worked in a co-founding environment before. Most of the time I would contract someone to help me with finer details and such.

Hopefully someone can help me dispose of any irrationality in my fears.
Sigh. This is pretty much a classic case of "THE INTERNET IS NEW AND SCARY".

Assuming that Charnel's claims are accurate(that counterfeit goods were being sold), then the standard procedure 20 years ago would have been to work with law enforcement and the courts. If the defendants were found guilty, the counterfeit goods would be seized and profits off of them would be awarded to Charnel. With the invention of the Internet, the exact same thing should have happened. Charnel should have worked with law enforcement and the courts, and if the defendants were found guilty, the goods should have been seized, and the story should have ended. In either case, it would take a while(especially if the shops were in countries that had very lax copyright laws), but there should not have been really any difference between now and 20 years ago.

Only in this case, the judge, in his infinite wisdom, went the "OMG INTERNET IS NEW AND SCARY" route, and decided to just remove the sites from indexes. Aside from the fact that this doesn't actually fix the problem(hello, eBay), this is a pretty new(and dumb) "solution" to a pretty settled problem.
It's a pretty simple argument: having affiliate links creates incentives that may not align with faithfully serving your readers. It does not automatically bias your writing, but it can certainly create the appearance of bias.

A concrete example would be writing an especially glowing review of the new Kindle because you have a vested stake in people buying them. Or, perhaps, NOT writing a glowing review because you fear it will be perceived as shilling for affiliate cash.

It's the reason why most reputable newspapers do not allow their ad sales staff to communicate with the editorial staff about content.

In fact On The Media recently did a story about the Washington Post struggling with whether or not to include Amazon affiliate links in its book reviews. I think it presents both sides of the argument: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/nov/11/web-links-money-makers...
My employer handles insurance claims. I have an email sitting in my inbox right now, explaining that if we get a certain thing wrong it will get us fined up to $1000 per claim per day until it's fixed. Not because we screwed up and got in trouble, but because that's just how things always are in this industry.

So no, I don't find that unlikely at all. In fact it not being per person is what would be absurd.
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Designers and agencies often do a lot of unpaid work when they pitch to a new client, and this is accepted industry practice. How are design contests any different?
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Seeing as gnome-shell isn't available in 11.04... (don't use the PPA in 11.04, it will wreck your system).
You choose to divulge any information you consider to be private. Absent an actual formal agreement contingent upon giving that information (which an internal policy is most definitely not), I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

Unless you're going to argue that you own anything you happen to know, even after other people know it? Unless you're going to argue that a posted policy on a free website constitutes a binding agreement?
Why do you host your screencast on the landing page on Vimeo?

It feels kind of wrong that a company that integrates video into web bug trackers needs to host their own video on a 3rd party video hoster.
Pretty cool and great name. Only thing is that (when I tried Java) the syntax highlighting wasn't all that great.
They were one of the first to do a full-screen implementation in HTML5. Lovely UI as well. I'm glad to see them moving towards a freemium model. But now there are lots of completely open source HTML5 players that do fullscreen, without the need for a watermark.
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I'm totally against the idea to begin with, but wouldn't it just be easier to seize the domains and have them redirect to the "proper" site? Why get the search engines involved at all?

On a related note, does it become in the social/search/social search giants' interest to take on the cases and attempt to overturn these decisions at some point? It would provide better results, for one, as well as lessen the technical burden of suppressing these sites.

I expect that the times we live in are ultimately going to be a "trial by fire" for the tech industry. The result, I think, is probably that Google, Facebook, etc. conduct extensive lobbying, and other massive PR operations, to gain the support of both users and government officials. For the companies of the future though, this is probably great: a Congress where the size, economic impact and mindshare of tech is noted, and laws are passed accordingly.
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Not sure what issues you had, but 3.2 is getting some bugfixes and ricotz's ppa has some good fixes as well.
They are in no sense different. "No spec work" is a totally bogus movement. Even graphic designers should reject efforts by their peers to manage their profession as if they were "realtors".
Not to be overly political, but:

This is what you get when you support a modern liberal state. It's always going to over-extend and over-regulate, because that's just the way the bureaucracy works - it's preserving itself by always finding new areas of society and the economy that "just have to be regulated for the common good".

It's a matter of basic principles, really. It's just never going to end unless you stand up for individual freedoms and very limited powers of the state.
Since the author is using Redis for a system like that, I wanted to do some math about how many documents it can store for gigabyte.

Assuming a 64 bit instance (that is more memory hungry) and that the average paste size is 512 bytes, every 2 million documents require 1GB (just tested with redis-benchmark).

This means that if you have a paste every minute, in order to use 1 GB of memory you need to wait 4 years.

Many problems that at a first look appear to be hard to treat with an in-memory DB at a closer look appear quite addressable.

That said this is the kind of problem where the working set is very small compared to the whole set of documents stored, and where documents are rarely written and often accessed in a read only fashion, so a *SQL DB would work super well for that use case.

I Redis server could form a very good addition in order to perform real time stats about the accesses to the document: number of times the document was read, a sorted set for latest created documents, top documents for this month by page views, and so forth.
> I don't think it is cowardly for Google to obey the law and court orders.

I do. I would never comply with any government request unless it was preceded by a court order. And if a court order had been obtained, I would use common sense to determine if the request should be granted. Anything less IS cowardly.

If you don't stand up to abuse, the abuse will simply continue.
Or by having the map nodes have a "next" pointer.
The legal basis would be, of course, that private information is property, but that one doesn't exist in this country (yet?).

Trying to apply rules made for physical items (if I take it you don't have it any more) to things that act completely differently is a really bad idea.
You're dodging the question of whether it is a lie, which is unsurprising. I say again: Facebook lied.

You didn't mention fraud, and I made no comment on fraud. I said they lied. They did.

As for the clumsy smokescreen analogy about Subway, allow me to point out the obvious:

Facebook made promises to users about how FACEBOOK would handle the personal property of said users. These are concrete, easily-definable promises...the kind which are easy to analyze to see if the promise was kept.

It wasn't kept. Furthermore, as the FTC documented in plain English, there was a pattern of behavior, over and over again, that shows any reasonable person that not only did Facebook lie, they lied with prior intent. They never had any intention of keeping those promises and they broke them in the most egregious ways possible.

By contrast, when Subway implies that customers can lose weight by eating certain foods there, they are, obviously, making no promises about how Subway will behave in the future, except an implied promise to be honest about how many calories are in their food (required by law), and to provide some lo-cal options (which they do).

Really bad analogy, in every way.
Yes, the name ripping is their right to enforce, however the big brands also prevent knockoffs and imitations from being sold in major stores for threat of pulling everything with their name on it if the store stocks similar-look products.
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It's quite inconvenient for audiences to spend money. They have to enter credit card information and such.
Picketing around the Google search box doesn't seem like the way to fight counterfeiters, but I symphatise with Chanel on this. What would the ideal solution be?