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Lua is the most common language, I believe. But the pattern still holds.
if websites can be shut down on basis of piracy, what stops them shutting them down on for any other reason?

Nothing. Which is exactly why governments the world over are so happy to help the content industry: "piracy" is just another excuse to make mass-scale censorship widely accepted, because the scaremongering about paedophilia wasn't enough (the targeted websites were too small, public opinion didn't really notice them, and so the concept of net censorship being "normal" didn't really pass).
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Having to install Silverlight on my Mac? Ugh.

Library selection is poor. Just about every film I searched for was missing.
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Is that a normative or positive statement :P ?
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What if a coalition of California-based companies sent emails to their employees informing them of the potential harm this bill could do to their company (and thus each employee's livelihood) with an appeal to send a snail-mail or phone up their senators/representatives?

I think especially if the giants (Google, Facebook, etc) got significant amounts of employees to do it then our Congresspeople would take notice. Even if not I think there's enough influence on hackernews to maybe make a difference.

Of course this has potential in any state, but the concentration of software companies in California makes it particular interesting IMO.
Hollywood also lays in California...
I've never heard of Quirky.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite 404 Page?
New Job Aggregation Service in Three Days.
Hello HN.

My name is Nate, and I'm an employee of the Russian web-agency CloudMill. Some of our staff, as I am considering getting H1B visa, but it's real pain in the ass to find an offer on monster, dice or careerbuilder (which doesn't work with Russian's IP by the way). Search with H1B bringing up totally irrelevant results with phrases like "Unfortunately we can't sponsor H1B" or they help to relocate but not sponsor and so on.

I had some free time and here we go - http://www.devhub.us. This is dead simple aggregation service like simplyhired. I tried to eliminate everything that annoyed me. And we have a checkbox to show only H1B offers :) It understands almost 90% of all offers whether company willing to sponsor visa or not.

Also you can search with all sphinx functionality, here are some examples:

@title (ruby|rails) developer @details (rspec|ejb|tdd)

@title iphone developer @details object c

@title python @details "python developer"~5

@title senior developer @company google

TODO List:

* Currently works only with Chrome, FF, Safari. Needs full cross-browser.

* Add more job sites

* Clean offers' HTML, because it looks ugly at the moment

Whole project took around 3 days. And if I it gets enough response I continue to maintain it and add new futures. But main concept is to leave it simple, I think services like Monster and Dice is too huge and only few needs smth more than search.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask : it@cloudmill.ru

Considering this is HN here are some tech details:

Whole thing build with our corp framework which we call BlackGold, we forked Kohana 3 about two years ago, and since then our paths diverged. We use only dedicated servers with FreeBSD ( EC2 too ), knowing which software we have and it versions allowed us to remove all settings, checks and other stuff we didn't need. BlackGold uses Memcached as caching layer and session storage, we removed ORM because its too heavy and replaced it with Data\Mapper pattern. Logging routed to MongoDB for which we have admin interface and can see all errors from all sites we have. This project uses Sphinx as search engine with MySQL and MongoDB. With all that our average page generation time is lower 0.002 secs, and memory usage is around 600KB-1.2MB with any project.

Other things include:

* Memcached CAS to avoid race conditions (multi threaded scraping).

* Search uses Sphinx and scraping post-processing. Each offer goes through several methods which cleans html, finds keywords, phrases, locations, etc.

* Offer duplication. It has been solved with Shingle's algorithm. But 50k offers had around 10M shingles, and search within them was to slow. This part has been moved to MongoDB with map\reduce.

* Geo location with free maxmind database to get city and state ( only for US )

* HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3, jQuery, LESS. Static content has been moved to Amazon S3&CF.
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As a 30 year old iOS developer working in Rotterdam I earn about 43000 annually with a 40 hour work week. I do believe a should be able to get a bit more, as iOS developers seem quite rare in the Netherlands and I believe lots of companies are looking for good iOS developers. I should explain I'm not working in a startup - I would guess in a startup people would generally be paid worse.

If you understand Dutch, perhaps a good forum to get a better idea what would be an appropriate salary, you should check out the "Werk & Inkomen" sub forum of the Dutch technology website Tweakers.net.

See: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1446515/la...
In Paris, junior CS engineers usually start at 35k (gross), but it's not too hard to negotiate up to 45k after 2 or 3 years of experience. Wages are usually lower in the rest of France.
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Great write up! I really appreciate the clear structure you provided in detailing the various components of your project, as well as the detail in describing the choices you faced and your rationale for the choices you made. I will be using this as a template for my own project :) Good luck!

As a C# developer myself it's also comforting to see you successfully used C#/MVC3 for your back-end, though I'm curious why you didn't use something like MonoTouch for the front-end? Was it to avoid exceeding the 20MB 3G limit (I'm not sure how large MonoTouch apps end up being)? What about PhoneGap or Appcelerator?
Exception it is. And how does it pass down the stack? There won't be any trace of it without it being caught.
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Since senators are mere puppets for various corporations, it would be more effective to identify their corporate allegiances (extend the linked website to include corporate logos) and target ONE corporate donor for systematic boycott.

Recall the GoDaddy success.
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He will switch back when the users start complaining about performance.
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I don't know where you're from, but that's one of the odd things about the US culture I'm from. We often can't imagine how to participate meaningly in the decisionmaking which rules our lives. (Aside from pushing a button for someone every few years or not buying something, which isn't serious participation.) So we're left with the hyperindividualist idea that we can only affect our measly personal purchasing decisions, while wealthy elites are deciding for us.
Juniors start at around 40k, seniors about 50k
annual salary.

40k/12 = 3333 euros per month? Or are you using a different calculation?
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I'm looking for introductory material on AI as it is used in games (so not 'real' AI). Specifically, I am not looking for a how-to on a particular high level tool or an in-depth monograph or thesis paper on a particular algorithm or method. Rather I'm looking for a sort of high level survey of what's being used, how it's used, and the various strengths and weaknesses these methods have been found to have. Some sufficient to give me foundational knowledge but not necessarily enough to go re-implement on my own.

I would prefer a video with accompanying text, as I have found I learn things better this way. But I recognize that beggars can't be chosers :)
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Some people say if SOPA will be implemented the big sites will just move BUT this just goes to show that there soon will be barely any places left to go.
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Before we started coding, we considered the (pretty cool!) PhoneGap system, but not Appcelerator (which we just reasoned as being similar to PhoneGap) or MonoTouch for that matter.

PhoneGap was considered initially because of course it would be cross platform (write the mobile game once, let it work on both Android and iPhone, plus Windows phone, etc), but we didn't want a less-than-optimal game play experience from a UI perspective.

We felt that it would be less than ideal to play due to the transition animations between screens not performing perfectly (like native apps do) on iPhone, and Android at the time seemed similar (not every phone we tried had perfect HTML5 CSS support etc for animations/rotations).

We then thought that you could tell (from little things like scrolling the window) that the app wasn't native, and it distracted slightly from the game play experience.

It's probably a silly reason, but I'm glad we decided to just write the game native on both platforms after-all, because I got to learn Objective-C and write an iPhone app (and play with Android development), while my friend got to hone his Android app skills.

Considering the game play logic was in the web server, a lot of the heavy lifting was done for us.

Had we decided to put the game play code on the mobile client itself, I'm sure we would have had to re-visit PhoneGap (and implement the game in JavaScript), as we'd certainly not want to write the game play logic twice.
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> ... what planet are you from?

Founding-stage planet, presumably.

If someone asked me to work for $1000 or $2000 a month and they weren't offering high double digit equity I'd laugh in their face. If the company has funding and momentum then I'd want market salaries which is an order of magnitude higher. If it's early stage then it depends on what each person is bringing to the table. An experienced entrepreneur with a relatively inexperienced engineer should not give that much equity, but for the inverse 30-40% is not unreasonable. If you think this person has the chops to make the product a reality then put an appropriate vesting clause with cliff and do it.

At the end of the day it's about ROI, not about bogus conventions on how much "employees" should get.
Seems we have a pattern for this in Finland. DNS blocking of suspected child porn sites went live some years ago. Then a researcher published critique on how it was handled (most of the blocked sites did not have any illegal material), and his site got blocked as well.
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Out of all 4 of the films on there, there are none that I want to watch.
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One can only begin to imagine how SOPA would be legally administered, what sort of due-process appeals may exist and more basically, how it would a implemented technically.

It would be seem all too easy for patent trolls and the like to misuse SOPA in an attempt to bludgeon disruptive startups and silence critics under a banner of righteousness.

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." Poor Richard's Almanack 1738
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How many non-geek users actually care about most of these points?

Users want gadgets that they can wrap their head around, they won't care about "Uniformity Across All Devices and Carriers" also carriers and device makers will certainly not appreciate this move.

Apps matter the most, but I think Microsoft will be stuck in catch 21 on this one, the fact that they want tighter control over the phone only makes things horribly worse: for apps, you need critical mass, for critical mass you need devices, but that will only happen if carriers and device makers embrace WP7, but they will probably ignore it, because they can't differentiate themselves because MS wants control.

So unless Microsoft makes something that is leagues better than the iPhone, they have zero chance to compete. Why the iPhone and not Android? Because both of MS and Apple want to have full control, which most device makers reject.
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Most likeky 40k/13 = 3076 euros per month + an extra "bonus" month each year. Which should give about 2000~2500 euros net per month (depending on the local taxes) + an equivalent annual bonus.
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Thanks for the comments so far. I should have said (but can't edit that anymore) that I'm also interested in what would be a reasonable percentage of equity to suggest at a meeting.

To expand a little:

- I'm dutch

- I don't have to move

- I have got a wife, kids and a mortgage

- I've got about 15 - 20 years of experience depending on how you look at it. Starting with: 68000 assembler, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, web front-end and back-end, Lisp and now iOS although I'm just getting up to speed with the latter. I've got Open Source projects on GitHub, a blog I post technical things to a couple of times per year. I'm pretty up-to-date on technical things: call me an average HN reader.

I might be giving away too much for a throwaway account now.
IP blocks can be pretty annoying for the hosting companies and network providers. You can easily end up in a situation where certain number of your (valuable) IPv4 addresses are blocked by different authorities over the world. Your other customers might not like the idea that their website is inaccessible for some people due to the fact that you are also selling capacity to torrent sites.

Same kind of thing has happened with email. Due to the way spam blocking works, the companies that provide email sending services have started to police the traffic themselves.
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Since I can't edit the OP I've added some more information in a post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3442176

I can't say which sector I'm targeting, sorry.
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This just redirected me to my US netflix account. What am I supposed to see?
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You know the world has gone mad when Al Franken supports SOPA and Michelle Bachman opposes it.
Thanks for the info and the replies it has spawned.
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This has absolutely zero chance of any level of adoption.
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There are sites which only "host" this hash. On which grounds could you possibly take them down?

The hash is wrong color[1].

[1] Was on HN a few weeks ago: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Assets are (1) audience, (2) editorial team, (3) content archive, (4) proprietary data and insights on viral content

However, the valuation is based on chances for future success rather than on the current assets. Investors see bigger gains ahead.
The workers were upset they were missing out on money, not "work". I bet there wouldn't have been riots if the company had simply quadrupled their salary before cutting overtime.
If you're in Scotland, Business Gateway are meant to help new (small) companies. They've been pretty useless with me so far though. I'll give them another go later. Scottish Enterprise are supposed to help "ambitious" (larger) companies.

I did find the following from them on finding an accountant:
http://www.business.scotland.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?r.i=1...
The same happened in Denmark in 2008. Sonofon, the second largest ISP, was also forced to do a DNS-block on TPB which led to a block by all Danish ISP. As far as i am aware of, it is only TPB and child pornography that is (DNS-) blocked in Denmark.
Which company registration company did you use?
Donations of any sort to people running for office should be banned outright without exceptions. It should be worth something to tax payers that politicians cannot be bought.
It does explain why Unity is such crap, though.
Currently number 1 story on the front page, with 18 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441924
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What? Seriously? When criticism like this is censored, you're no longer living in a "free and open" society.. Sorry =(
Do you really think that the people who want to blaock TPB know what TPB is? Or what a hash is? Or what the diffrence between torrent and a hoster is?
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That can only be true if blacks really are genetically predisposed to be less likely to pass college.

I know it's forbidden to say this, but it's quite simple : that's a fact. It's been researched to death, and the conclusions are pretty obvious : the different human races differ in intelligence just like they differ in loads of other factors (calcium tolerance, immune response, likelihood of specific diseases, likelihood of cancer, ...)

The sad part is that a bell curve enormously magnifies differences between people. Take 2 groups : A and B. Suppose the bell curve for B was shifted 1/10th of a standard deviation lower (which is a tiny amount, less than 1 IQ point). If you then take a random person from group A, and a random person from group B, the chance that the person from group A is smarter is over 96%.

This is of course why evolution kills of entire species for being 0.1% less efficient than the competition. Tiny differences result in a huge shift of the chances in real encounters.
Yeah, I think something fishy is going on here I've seen quite a few articles in the last few days saying Microsoft has been getting rave reviews for its phones without seeing any of them.
Point by point:

(1) hard to copy.
(2) Could be replaced by a clever algorithm.
(3) Not worth much.
(4) Valid, but with time can be copied and bettered.

I believe the key here is the audience. Assuming they have some traffic numbers that show virality and repeat visits...but still, 1 mil is as far as I'd go for what is, essentially, an RSS reader sucking up APIs.
Check the Ts&Cs... and avoid the Facebook login.

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More on that issue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info
Fine on Chrome on Linux (no flash installed though, maybe that fixes it!).
How exactly does an ISP implement arbitrary blocks like this, anyway? Do they hard-code routes to override what their upstream ISP advertises?

(Also, isn't it odd that The Pirate Bay doesn't have any AAAA records? That seems like something that ISPs and governments have no experience with yet and hence would make it rather easy for experienced users to get around blocks. Their DNS server has an IPv6 address; why not www?)
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The number of seconds it takes for law makers to realize that this is some of the most powerful legislation on the planet Earth today is about a couple hundred.

The ability to crush ideas on a global Scale. Fox news would do everything in their power to augment their propaganda machine with this ultimate weapon of censorship.

Stop thinking about that citizen. Don't make me come into your home and install tazer devices in every room to taze you.

It is imperative that we keep a publically viewable updated list of these Blacklisted sites so that the censorship decisions at least can be challenged in court. We don't got due process, but it'll be like the wild west, when someone comes after your family, you don't call the police, you can get a group of your friends, some horses, ropes and trees and get yourself some justice.
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As an example, Toontown is a full game written in Python, with a C++ game engine (Panda3D) and runs without performance issues at all in a single core 1.6GHz CPU.
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Don't sweat it. I was more annoyed at the parents attack on the grandparent than your title. You got a discussion going, so well done :-)