skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that other photo sharing sites don't hold a huge amount of behaviour and associative data about you.

To put it in a context you have to consider the fear involved when countries like China have already been caught breaching Google systems.

It might not mean much to us westerns as generally we aren't afraid of your government and it has at least they have some due process. Many totalitarian governments don't and from what the media spread they aren't afraid to arrerst everyone you associate with as well.

You can pretend that it isn't happening, but it is, and china isn't alone. Processes like this lead to industrialised abuses of power and perseuction of innocent people that have may have signed upto services without considering the full impact of just being snapped in a photo with someone else they barely know... and what evidence do they have this person is guilty? well like any normal person they probably read up on the news, where shocked about a few things, and all of a sudden you can pull items out of context and have a history of being involving with undesired behaviour.
Maybe the law itself is unconstitutional (I won't argue that either), but there is nothing that I, a private party, can do to you, another private party, that will violate your right to free speech.
32 here.

1. You finished this blog post, so you know how to finish things.

2. Turn off all mindless distractions for a month or more (fb, twitter, forums, even hn) so you can figure out something important that you can focus on. You've read enough and don't need to keep reading more motivational material.

3. Start a small project and finish it. This would help you to convince yourself that you can complete shit.

4. Use that feedback loop to continue building bigger projects.

5. Life IS really that short so learn to live in the moment (I've been there but am getting a bit better with this).
But this time, Wordnik got smart and tuned the application to account for the strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB (“Your app should be smarter than your database,” he says), and MongoDB to account for the strengths and weaknesses of the cloud.

That's my one major concern about Mongo DB. When I'm using a traditional database with a well normalized schema, my app doesn't have to be smarter than my database. My app can be pretty dumb, actually, and rely on the database to handle optimizing the way it stores data. Having the app concerned with the way data is stored violates the separation of concerns in my mind. The app should be dealing with transforming and performing logic on the data. Let the database deal with the messy details of how the data is actually stored.
You'll pardon me if I don't consider it quite as cliche as the "information wants to be free" logic being spat from all angles.
^5!

Lol, I got it for my wife, she loved it too!
Outside of tech, most people aren't even taken seriously until they are at least 40. It's a cliche but actually quite true.
The service of creative content production, or intellectual property in general, is an artificial one, not a natural one. We've endowed ourselves with this institution, presumably to promote cultural progress. So established, we can argue against the idea that it is "theft" because we have artificially stimulated that definition in the first place; it is not "theft" naturally, it is theft due to centuries of a model that used to work, but cannot work anymore.

To refuse to reconsider whether it is theft or not is therefore asinine.

That said, I'd like to ask what more than a cynical and baseless speculation you use to support the argument against a patronage model for creative content? You're looking at charity in the wrong way -- a number of individuals who enjoy the benefits of some action are free to provide as much of their own incentive to support those institutions.

Your argument against a patronage (donation based, or public subsidy) model is akin to complaining that a homeless shelter should expect all of the homeless they take care of to pay their share in the service they provide. That is not the point and is clearly not the effective strategy. Enough people who have the cultural motivation and desire can donate to those shelters, or a number of other non-profit institutions who provide different solutions.

There simply is no evidence for you to base the allegation that it is "in no way a solution" because we already see patronage as an effective model for a number of systems that capitalism has failed to address. Once we stop pretending creative content can be owned, we can actually begin progressing as a culture.

The days for copyright are numbered, and the selfish and entitled are not the pirates but the artists who demand that their content be worth something to everybody.
wrote a labyrinth demo back in the day to demo the Firefox-prefixed version of the API. I've updated it here: http://potch.me/labyrinth/
Who pays for those "reasonable technological steps"?
The author claims "And I support record labels, because many of the albums I love would not exist without label financing, and I might not know about them if not for label marketing and promotion."

While this statement may be true about "the particular albums this particular author likes" it is untrue in general. A good song will get popular through various means. An artist does not need his life to be controlled by a middle man so that the audience can be advertised to. There are many ways in which the word spreads in the 21st century. The hard thing for an artist is to acquire the minimum artistic ability which probably means years of toil to reach a level when some one cares to listen to you. Making a song is a relatively inexpensive task. And once u have a reputation, you have mechanisms like kickstarter to fund your project. More alternatives will evolve as the recording industry dies.
I fall into the camp that believes it does deprive the artists of revenue.

No more than simply not buying and not listening does, and I doubt you consider that "stealing".

I find it amazing that in the dawn of all the technology we have at our hands, people would honestly advocate that all of an artist's digitally distributed goods should be 'free', whether they intend it that way or not, relegating the artists to only being able to make money by performing in public shows, and I guess hoping against hope that the pirating public doesn't decide that that is too proprietary a way for them to distribute their music.

I find it amazing that some people can't comprehend that one can find the notion of copyright wrong, regardless of its benefits.

I also note that buyer have shown multiple times that they're willing to pay way more than they need, even if they can get it legally for $0.01, so that assumption that it would relegate the artists to just public shows remains to be proven.
Marriage. Heh. It has the potential to seriously screw up your life, or be great. I can't advise entering into it on the basis of "I've put it off long enough."
The hdaps Linux kernel driver for Thinkpads' sensors (don't know about the other flavors) can export the data as a joydev, which can be mapped arbitrarily - I've tried things like desktop switching by hard taps to either side of the keyboard, but it's more of a neat gimmick than a useful interaction mode. Some (severely out of date) scripts here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS (no HTML in comments?)
Agreed. Conflating the interests of artists with the interests of media companies is the best strategy the latter have found.

And I really never thought I'd read anyone saying that the DMCA wasn't strong enough to protect the rights of copyright holders. Amazing.
Every word you write here is stolen. Every last one of them was created by someone, and you stole them, according to your own mental model, the way you keep using the word "theft". But has that stopped them from being invented? Or has the use of English, it being shared amongst so many peoples of the world, actually increased the number of words?

You have no basis for asserting that culture "services" stop being provided when they are not individually exchanged for cash for every use and reuse. In fact, the vast majority of human history stands as testament to the opposite: works are commissioned by patrons, or financed by performance, or even simply as acts of self-expression.
Those are both good. The H is another valuable source for kernel news. They're "Coming In" series is fantastic.

http://www.h-online.com/open/

I still miss Kerneltrap though.
> PHP, being a language intended for beginners,

I've never heard this before. PHP is certainly very easily picked up by beginners, and in my own opinion makes it easy for said beginners to spend years and years not moving very far beyond beginner-level architectural patterns (just look at the source of Wordpress for an example), but do the creators of PHP really consider it to be "a language for beginners" ?

I have an entirely selfish agenda here. The next time some know-nothing manager promises his client "we have the top programmers with years of experience who will write the highest quality code you can get", then demands that we do everything in PHP because that's all he knows, we can say, "really? You're going to charge the client all that money, then give the client an app written in a "beginner" programming language ?"
>Your argument is ridiculous because we're talking about a product that everybody still wants.

Is it a product that everybody wants? Or is it a product that everybody says they want? If music were truly as appreciated as you say it is, then more people would be paying for it, no?

And guess what? More people are paying for music. iTunes is selling millions of tracks each year. Amazon is doing the same. Do you really think that artists would go out of business if they got the whole share of their iTunes proceeds, rather than having to split it with the recording industry?

As another comment below me says so eloquently, "Louis CK gets it. Trent Reznor gets it. Radiohead gets it. The recording industry doesn't get it and neither do you."
Another easter egg I found is that they added a row of stars of David on the result page for "hanukkah".
Yeah, too bad he didn't live that long.

Which is exactly the reason we're so rushed ;).
The drive that compelled you to write this blog post is the same drive that will, when the time comes, kick you off your ass to actually get stuff done.

And it'll be awesome.

tl;dr You're doing it right.
I'm not saying "information wants to be free". You however are comparing downloading music with car theft.

Simply amazing. I never suspected that even the people who made that advertisement took it seriously.
One common problem developers have is that they try to do everything themselves and they have too many projects in their head, so just make an effort and forget about the other ones that won't happen anyways. Get one good project and divide it in really really easy tasks, and when you finish each part enjoy the success and move on slowly, it's better to move slow and fnish than moving fast and not go anywhere. My grandmother used to tell me
"Don't rush, I'm in a hurry", wise words.
It seems to only react to two axes (beta and gamma -- in other words, if I rotate my MBP on a flat surface, nothing happens) -- is anyone on a device that provides alpha as well? I know the iPhone does, but this demo doesn't seem to work in Mobile Safari.
I dont know how much this applies to the author but I often feel like it hits home for me:

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
-Henry Wadsworth

By that, I dont mean that you should have no ambitions, just dont get troubled by it. What I mean is, dont postpone your today's work for what you may want to work on tomorrow. Finish the small things before dreaming of the next big thing. Small things like your current job, your social obligations, your relaxation time and the time to hone your skills.

Manage your time better, every minute you can spare, invest it in your future. You won't have to go looking for inspiration, mundane things can be a great catalyst for radical/new ideas. You'll have your moment, just gain enough discipline and build a secure nest egg; so when your moment comes, you'll be prepared to take the leap.

All the best.

[Edit: pretty printing]
Interesting idea but it would make gmail impossible to use on a train or bus.
Thing is, music isn't even a product. It's an experience. Packaged, mass-produced, recorded music is a product, but it has only been in existence for a tiny fraction of human history. On the basis of history alone, there's no good reason to think it will continue to exist.

Consider a few centuries in the future, when everybody has brain / computer interfaces, and access to perfect recollection through playback of previous sensory input. Do you think recorded music will still be a traded product then, when any friend or family member can casually transfer to you an exact reproduction of their own experience?
You're going to drive away customers by being negative like that. That's your right to be angry, but it's not good business. The new way of doing things is to work with your fans. Screw the pirates. Pretend the pirates don't exist. They weren't going to give you money anyhow, so they can go screw themselves.

But your fans? They are. Focus on making them happy. You can't do that by being negative all the time. I know this issue is a sore spot and it makes you feel hurt. That's why I'd focus on the fans. You know, people who are happy to hear your music. You're absolutely right that making music is not obsolete, so focus on getting that music to your fans and providing the things they want. It's just good business.

See Louis CK? See that success? Go copy it.
Most of them are the same but with -moz instead of -webkit. Don't forget these are slides not blog posts. He had to pick one or risk too much info.
Yeah, that distinction really bothered me. It's like writing an article about the internet after having used only one website.
> far bigger dogs than me are on both sides of this fight and my opinion isn’t going to have an impact.

And that is where I stopped reading, unfortunately. Have a little faith in yourself, why don't ya?
I haven't found much discrimination, but I have noticed that any boss considering to hire me after an internship has asked if/when I plan to have children. This has happened twice, and is the only situation anyone has asked me that question in college. It really is an odd question to ask an 18 year old.

Isn't that actually illegal to ask as part of a job interview? Assuming you're in the US, I'm pretty sure questions relating to children, child care, or marital status are forbidden, though I'm not an expert so I could be wrong.

In any case, even if technically legal, it's not an acceptable practice, and anyone that interviews job candidates should damn well know this.

Why does someone have to be interested in computers/video games at a young age to pursue software development?

They don't, by any means. I'm merely wondering if perhaps that might be the point where the gender gap starts. It's certainly in full effect by the time people hit high school, so it's got to start pretty early, and it occurs to me that video games are probably the main difference in the way boys and girls interact with computers before that age.

I think the attitude that if you didn't play with computers at a young age you can't do tech is rather egotistical.

I would never support such a statement, I don't at all believe that it's necessary, merely that it's fairly common. Going in to tech requires a great investment of time and effort into difficult coursework, and it's a pretty huge commitment that people tend not to be willing to make unless they're already positive that they like it.
It's been a reality for a long time in my household. My girlfriend says it to me a lot ever since I introduced her to Linux.
I meant stealing from an artist due to sheer I-don't-give-a-fuck-erry. And you have no right to decide for an artist that they simply need to provide their hard work to the "pay if I feel like it" system. Is that your right? Do you think that artists will continue to produce when you rid them of their right to sell their product in the way they choose?
I like to view copyright as a short-circuit path to fast promise-exchanges of the following form:

"I have a really interesting piece of information. In fact, I create this information, and it takes a lot of work. For whatever reason, you want the information. I'm happy to share it with you, for a price far lower than the cost of creation, but only if you promise not to tell anyone else." Copyright is a short-circuit process whereby anyone who has ever received the information in whatever way (including hearing/seeing it in public) is legally treated as though they agreed to the above terms.

I think that some kind of "I'll give you info X if you promise not to redistribute it" structure is not a priori a bad idea. Obviously, it is unclear that those promises would be upheld in practice ... but at that point I believe it becomes a market question of whether people are willing to live up to their promises and not a question of bad policy.

Copyright, as an approximation to such a structure, is fundamentally problematic because it attempts to make the above exchange work without:

a) having to trust people (the law is used to scare them into behaving)

b) the receivers of the information having felt like they made a valuable promise in return for the valuable information (the receivers are told they are getting something that is "owned" as opposed to merely "not public knowledge")
There can't be any "reasonable steps," Copyright is a matter of permission and the only people who know who has permission to do what are the owners, who are the only people authorized to give that permission in the first place.

Techies everywhere hate spam. They've used every trick in the book on the spammers. There's also anti-spam legislation. But how much spam do we still have? Tons of it. And any filter you make won't even work as well as the spam filters do, because the people actually want to pirate stuff, while they don't want spam.

So this is one of those solutions where we end up worse off than when we started, being forced to buy or create useless filters that get in the way and still don't solve the problem they were supposed to, perhaps with legal penalties for failing to do the impossible.
Over 40, think real art and music are created for reasons other than profit, and will be regardless of business model.

In fact, I believe un-funding the "recording industry" would result in an immediate and measurable net increase in the quality to junk ratio.
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There was a question in the video which i found interesting (and which i think was not answered in the video)... if the source code of a program is publicly available, then won't an attacker have an easy time in finding vulnerabilities? By making only the binary available, isn't this risk being eliminated?
(I don't know much about this, so was just wondering whether there is a good explanation for why this is true or not...)
Is the Internet Left Leaning?
The Mutual, a “Groupon for Good.”
Thank you! I've done this dozens of times and never knew, none of the tutorials I've looked up reference it.
Megaupload Videos Back On YouTube
Imagine somebody built a matter duplicator. I decide to use it to duplicate a can of soda instead of buying it from the company. The original creator hasn't been paid for their efforts, but they definitely haven't expended any costs due to my duplication. Am I now a pirate of their property? No, they haven't lost any actual property. I haven't taken anything from them physically.

Now imagine somebody built so many of these matter duplicators that we could literally carry them in our pockets and duplicate whatever we want. Should we start putting cameras in everybody's home to make sure they're not duplicating stuff they should be paying for?

This is exactly what we're talking about. We have digital consumer technology that can replicate and distribute almost any media, and the reason these problems have only just started propping up in the last couple decades is because before that, all media was physical. It was on newspaper, or film roll, or vinyl record, or cassette, or in books.

Why should we be paying a company when we aren't losing them anything? Why do they call us thieves when we have not harmed them in any way? Are we supposed to ignore these new technologies because they don't support their business model? Fuck them, I'll use my matter duplicator however I want.

The only way I'll consider giving my money to Coca-Cola when I can just use a matter duplicator, is if they're producing new and tasty beverages that they could not develop without my money. This is exactly my reasoning for being a pirate.
Excluding projects that immediately crashed and burned, I've never seen a database used by just one app. Even apps all in the same language is very rare. If anyone on your team can absent-mindedly circumvent all your data integrity rules merely by setting up a database client, you're in for some long and painful nights.
Startup company looking for (awesome) Logistics Manager
iCracked is a startup iPhone repair company in Sunnyvale looking to bring on a logistics / office manager who is responsible for shipping anything that leaves headquarters that go to our 100+ locations and 3rd party purchasers. Whether it be small electronics, documents, or other parts - Shipping them professionally and accurately is extremely important. Being a perfectionist or having extreme attention to detail is GREAT. Being familiar with how electronics work, specifically iPhones is also huge plus. We will train you, but you have to be quick learner and more importantly, we are looking for someone who is INNOVATIVE and can grow with the team. We treat our employees and IC's very well, and understanding how startup companies function is necessary. This really isn't a traditional office job, it's a fun environment where most of us are just out of college and working 80 hour weeks growing this company to be a world class enterprise. As we grow we would love to promote this position to manage people under them. Taking initiative and responsibility is necessary for this position to be successful.

Duties include but are not limited to:

· Text, QC, label, inventory, ship, repair small electronics - specifically iPhone parts
· Report and manage inventory levels
· Update website and inventory - being proficient with computers is necessary
· Check customer service on website - respond accordingly
· Check and follow up on messages left on our 1-800 number
· Answer any questions our iTechs may have regarding a repair or order that they have recently places
· Repair broken iPhones and assemblies
· Report any office supplies that we are getting low on- always be sure we are stocked on necessary supplies to keep everything running smoothly
· Assist the CEO, VP of Expansion and Sales, and Refurbishment Manger with any tasks they need
· Be fun and innovative. Entrepreneurs are welcome!!!!!
- Understand this is NOT a traditional or boring job or work environment
- organizing the office and refining systems and office efficiency.

If your interested send your resume to AJ Forsythe, the CEO at iCracked@ymail.com, We will contact you shortly and if it seems like you can be a good fit, we will set up an interview time for this week. This position can start next this Monday, December 19th. Compensation includes being an Independent Contractor for 3 months @ $600 per week then Full time Employment there after with negotiable salary and/ or benefits. This position is around 40-50 hours per week from 9am-6pm. Once again, being a fun, innovative, driven, responsible, and smart perfectionist is ideal. We are looking forward to hearing from you!