skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Rand has promised this before. But we need 41 to actually prevent a vote, since the Senate has already filed to override the filibuster.
How many apps need an exit button? Just because you look around the App Store and don't see a bunch of apps with exit buttons doesn't mean it's because they aren't allowed. It never even crossed my mind to put an exit button in my apps because it's not a use case for my apps. I'm sure it's the same with a majority of the other apps.
Agree completely! A lot of people who run sites seem to think Google should be serving them and they are victims of unfair algorithms. Google is actually serving the people who search.
The difference between wrongful accusation and defamation of character is often a fine line, let alone damages due to lost revenues and customers by being in jail. I imagine that their clients are not to impressed when the person they contracted is in prison.

I would hope that they would be damn sure when taking such drastic measures. This designer is not even a US citizen nor does he live or reside in the US. Is the onus really on a designer to vet all customers for the legality of every country on earth?

Without knowing details, it sure does seem strange to arrest the designer.
What surprised me is that I didn't realize you couldn't until you pointed it out. At least for me, that's not an important feature :)
You need to habeas some corpus before you can put that corpus on a plane to America.
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Our startup is expanding! I need to find a good Canadian law firm that specializes in startups.

Can any Canadian entrepreneurs recommend a firm?

Thanks
Just so you know: it's "vigilante", pronounced "vigilantay". There's a secret accent over that last 'e'.
Yes we are fortunate to live in a country where "it could be worse". No we should not sit back and relish that fact, I'd rather focus on "it could be better".
IQ scores are malleable
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Abstract of underlying study:

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/2/425.abstract

The full text of the article

http://www.ssb.no/filearchive/Schooling.pdf

is hosted in Norway, perhaps because the study is based on a dataset from Norway.
Congressional support is something like 13.3% with 83% disapproval.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_...

HuffPo has a funny take on that, saying that more people approve of "Porn, Polygamy, BP Oil Spill, 'U.S. Going Communist'" than of Congress.

So no it's probably not unreasonable to suppose that somewhat less than half (12/27) of the ~27% people who approve of or are neutral to Congress saw a darkened site and thought about the issue. I know that I got questioned about it at work by the less technical folks.
Very cool. Thanks! (And it's about time!)
Heh, feel kind of late joining the party. Just wanted to add some more perspective to a lot of the stuff going around. Strolling by my favourite 'warez' forum, it's pretty clear that MU is one of the favoured hosting solutions for distributing 'pirated' material. That along with rapidshare, filesonic, and a few others.

So actually, it's not really a case of playing wack-a-mole. If the top 3/4 were taken down at once, literally years of work would be undone. Sure, it could be reposted, but at a massive inconvenience to both the uploaders, and downloaders. With sites like MU, traffic will always converge onto a relative handful of sites, because of their business models. They give incentives to users who upload stuff that get downloaded a lot (at least 90% of that stuff got to be 'pirated'). They cap the download rate for anyone who doesn't pay for their service. Since people rather not pay for a bunch of sites, uploaders and downloaders will converge onto a select few sites to minimize friction.
Ten Great Books [2004]
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-code-search-... —» http://code.google.com/codesearch
SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now
Does Google+ Really Have 60% Daily Engagement? Nope
So you're saying the formula is to do things in earnest and learn as you go?
> I do consider taking a site down without a trial an abuse of the system.

Agreed. Every other type of business gets to continue operating with the government just taking their books to investigate them and their practices. However any dotcom will have their entire business and profitability shut down the moment the government wants to investigate one iota of what they're doing/done. It also won't be returned for 3 years and when it is it will be in poor/unusable condition overlooking the fact that it's now likely technologically useless to a dotcom.
People who are timid are less willing to attack schleps, to acknowledge schleps and ask for help with schleps. Maybe this is the correlation? Maybe people are timid because they are embarrassed or unconfident in their ability to overcome schleps? Maybe they put up a wall or get defensive so that others who seem smart (and who blow through schleps) don't see them as unintelligent.

This is why successful people I have interacted with have most often been extremely welcoming and nice, because they have learned that putting everything on the table when surrounded by peers and mentors is the best trait of success.

If this is the case then the solution to making more successful companies (and not "wasting" investment) is to get around this dilemma somehow. The solution might be for founders to practice a little "mindfulness" or "self-awareness" throughout the day. This could be a check-in with your body before meetings or after an important call in the form of being aware of the breath or feeling sensations like your feet on the floor. If your body is tight or you are feeling defensive or unconfident then air it out.

Any other ways people think founders can solve this dilemma?
IIRC, the decision to pull VLC from the App Store was made by one of the VLC developers.
Megaupload looks to be back up on a website ip address
could someone confirm if this is real?
sites like Megaupload are supported by the most "dangerous" hackers in the world, the guys who took down the DOJ

Wait for it, you'll hear this line nearly verbatim on Fox News.
Unfortunately, imap jj <Esc> in the .vimrc doesn't seem to work. :(
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3 minutes of jargon-speak of how internet is delivering value to customers/shareholders.
Remapping caps lock to function as escape is pretty useful here.
Probably lifted by their push of Google+ to sit down and create an account. If you already had a Hotmail or Yahoo account, you may not have had a reason to create a Google account of any kind.
At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece
This whole SOPA/PIPA thing seems to be blown completely out of proportion, based entirely on hypothetical and unfair "what-if" scenarios based on the imaginary case where the laws are used in ways that they weren't intended.
I bothers the hell out of me every time I see it. It has exploded in use over the last year. That tells me people are using it sort of like a fashion trend, maybe to look intellectual? Same with "that said", "having said that", and "that being said". I enjoy looking at hn posts to see how fast I can spot some variation of "that said".
FTR, that was one of the first things I ported in 2007: I cannot imagine having a device without a fully working distribution of vim.
s/plugging/using

And no, it doesn't.
Anonymous takes down FBI and DOJ, among others
Republican Candidates against SOPA
Live on CNN right now, someone asked about SOPA and all candidates spoke out against the laws.
All Republican candidates come out against SOPA & PIPA as written
Anonymous Official Pastebin
Republican Presidential Candidates on SOPA: All Oppose
So does RSI.
> You can produce all the books you want and give them away for free, without paying Apple a fee of any kind, and the notice is prominently displayed right on the screen where you publish your document.

Yes, a notice is displayed after you've already put a lot of work in, that is exactly what makes it slimy. A conditional fee is still a fee.

> This is no different from the zillions of dual-licensed GPL projects out there that say (roughly) "You're free to use this code in projects that you yourself give away for free, but if you want to sell your application you have to buy a license from us".

This is nothing like that. GPL projects do not hide their terms. And developers are very aware that libraries have terms. It is typical. An exportable document format having terms is not typical.

The user will not anticipate these conditions. This is why I call it a bait-and-switch. A company that prides itself on putting UX first couldn't have done this on accident. Either the product passed through QA without UX concerns being raised, or the concerns were ignored.

It's a slimy, used car salesman approach. Apple is better than this.
Agreed, it made some necessary, non-backward-compatible changes as a result of being such a young project. I think it is likely that we will upgrade to a newer version soon.
Facebook thinks my Linux box has malware
It's ridiculous that Facebook's programmers are too lazy to even implement a simple user-agent check for this type of thing.
When it first launched all of my friends joined and began to post, including the many without facebook accounts due to tight gmail integration. But within a month or two almost all of them stopped posting. Whether they will come back is the question, a profoundly different one than whether they will join at all.
> (Yes, I do consider taking a site down without a trial an abuse of the system.)

why? their mean of doing business was a website. they were arrested and website that wake a major reason behind their persecution is down. just like any business that their owners are considered to laundry the money should be shut down until proven innocent. its just that its easier to redirect DNS/turn off bunch of servers than for example close 50 offices of a company with multiple branches.
Firefox here, Windows XP with scripting enabled. I only see "Game Over, Replay".
Wow. If this really is the same service that was available before - which it looks like it is - then thanks!

p.s. You should submit this as a story in its own right.
Once you get used to a good editor (Vim or, for me, Emacs) you don't have to think about how to edit a file, even you're doing something relatively complicated: it becomes a natural, almost instinctive action. This not only increases the speed you enter text or navigate, but also reduces the friction when actually entering your thoughts into the computer.
It's not even clear that they were deduping at the application level.
So what is a book updated
Why the feds smashed Megaupload
This is the internez. Its perfectly fine to expect a random jpg to be a picture of a cat accompanied by the obligatory caption)
Ah, you're right. I'm not sure why I was thinking there wasn't one for iOS.
It can also change over time, especially in younger founders. As Garry pointed out elsewhere in this thread, most schools and jobs train you to be somewhat passive.
The Golden Rule just needs a little more depth to be applied here. You have zero holy places, but if you had property, you'd want people to respect it. Therefore, you should respect other people's property.

I think it's very much condescending if you treat the immorality of piracy as a base assumption held by both parties. If you treat it simply as your own base assumption, that's fine. But treating it as a base assumption of the other side and then arguing against their behavior based on that qualifies in my book.
The effectiveness of advocacy is directly proportional to the amount of externally visible effort and sacrifice you put behind it.
I wish they'd make it a little more clear. He didn't sell a bomb detector that didn't work. He knowingly sold something wasn't a bomb detector as if it was one.
These are inside jokes referring to his past activities with computer fraud and insider trading. He was a black hat hacker sentenced for 2yrs, when he got out he started a security company, due to his fame quickly got huge clients like Lufthansa (AFAIR) and so, and became a millionaire, this time legally.
SOPA/PIPA apply to organizations with a long history of abuse. Applying a history of abuse to hypotheticals is reasonable. Taking an entity with no history of abuse and assuming that they would abuse in the future is not.
The PC is certainly seen to be less profitable than consoles, which is why it's given a lesser priority.

For multi-platform titles, typically 360 and PS3 titles are developed in parallel. Often the PC version comes later, after the console releases have finished and a small subset of the console devs have time to polish the PC port.

Usually two reasons are given. One is that it's not worth the extra management complexity and dev time to release at the same time as the PC. The other is that the piracy rate on PC is so high that launching all platforms at the same time actually cannibalizes both PC and console sales.

PC games generally cost less at retail, but manufacturing costs are lower and no subsidies go to console owners. Dev costs are slightly harder due to the challenges of developing for a wide range of hardware vs two fixed targets. I think that the profit per unit sale is slightly higher on PC than console (I could be wrong).
From what I read Grooveshark is being sued by EMI for non-payment of royalties. UMG is suing Grooveshark for uploading music from its pre-1972 catalogue. However this all depends on the wording of the licensing agreement.

This is hardly comparable to uploading DVD screeners and R5s. Grooveshark to be operating legally (as they didn't get raided I'm guessing they're operating way too close to the law - well within counter-suit territory - for the major labels to actively attack them) would have had to be uploading the labels authorized versions, which likely means UMG gave them access to their pre-1972 catalogue without giving them approval to use it.
> Where’s the Catch?

Anyone care to comment? I can think of some potential ones, but have no first-hand experience with them, so I'll withhold comment.

However, my biggest fear is derived from self-awareness. I run a startup and, no matter how good I think our code is, we fuck stuff up. Plenty. Oddly, in this sector, I trust an older company full of idiots more than a brand new startup full of brilliant hackers, if for no other reason than the idiots have already made their mistakes and are now just not gonna fuck with it. If they made it a few years, ironed out the kinks and then just they leave it alone, it's less likely to break :-P
What percentage of users is Google considering for 'above the fold' and are they just penalizing for ad content or do logos, images and header junk get penalized as well?

For example, the WordPress TwentyEleven theme as seen in http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ shows the first article header at the 50% threshold, buried below the generous header and image banner. Would a site based on this theme or a similar design face a penalty?
criminal negligence

More like fraud / bribery / public corruption - the story here is pretty obviously about kickbacks not gullibility.
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Stripe's simplicity blows me away. Payments is one of those things I always hated dealing with--you could never provide a decent user experience for a reasonable cost.

Stripe's solution is exactly what I want, so much so it's baffling that nobody had ever done it their way. And since I'm not planning on doing $50M+ revenue anytime soon, they're cheap too :)
They apparently rented servers in Virginia, which gave the US jurisdiction.
Apple joins e-textbook party with iBooks, iBooks Author apps
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The indictment papers specifically claim that megaupload was also dedupping files (general allegation 22.)

That's related to their claim that the DMCA take down requests weren't honored: Allegedly, while appearing to comply with requests to remove infringing content, they would merely take down the reported links, yet would keep alternate links to the same md5-hash-matching content working.
This makes more sense than "Anonymous" taking down .gov websites in a coordinated attack.

"Anonymous" is so handy, if they didn't exist the government would just have to invent them.
Well, if it helps to know, while I don't use it to send files, I receive files through Megaupload all the time. Files sent by their rightful owners. I try to get them to use Dropbox now but old habits die hard. (Hasn't Megaupload been around since before Dropbox?)
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A place where you will find it after creating the document, rather than before.
Today I deleted all my pirated files. Here's why.
The first time i saw him on TV, when he won his election, i thought: "The only tea party member who makes a sane/sincere impression".

Now i read here he is the son of Ron Paul...

[edit] I meant that in a positive way. I hope there are more of such republicans, who don't have to be part of the Paul family.
> Triple-A games aren't targeted to consoles because of pirates, they are targeted to consoles because consumer demand is higher for console games.

The estimated PC install base for one of the console-led titles I've worked on is in the same ballpark as each of the consoles.* The actual sales on PC, however, were far, far less than the consoles.

* We know this due to, e.g. number of people pinging the multiplayer servers, checking for updates etc.
That's fine for typeset print where other aids to scanning are used, such as a double space between sentences. HTML, though, removes the double space. Which means you have to consciously read every single word rather than scan and parse it in bulk.

To a fast reader, without visual cues it is a jumbled mess. I gave up after forcing myself to read three sentences.
This actually looks nice, but be less spammy. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe that the money laundering charges significantly ease extradition matters.
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I'm really curious what about elasticmail strikes your fancy over mailjet or sendgrid? I've visited their site before and saw little reason to get excited about their service.
Reducing ad ridden sites is great, but they are doing that in a roundabout way and taking down potentially useful sites in the process.

The point is not that sites with ads at the top should be as high in the results as sites without ads, but that using such a high-level heuristic (as they claim) is a poor way to lower (or raise) the rank of a page.

Google could also do a lot more work to show you WHERE on the page your search occurs. That would do a lot more to address the problem than just lowering the rank of pages where your search is lower on the page.
What I want to know- of what country is this man a citizen? It is no less awful of Iran if he is an Iranian citizen, but it might help explain Canada's seemingly lax reaction.

(The article says he was a resident of Canada. Residency doesn't usually mean citizenship, right?)
>Show only messages without any tag?

Can you search "-tag1 -tag2 ..." ? I only have 10 tags, so if I really needed to do this, it's fairly acceptable. Not sure if you have a gazillion or something.
i am not a lawyer either but the wording seems pretty clear:

If you want money, you gotta use us.
You call twice in three days, spamming?

He clearly didn't get enough uptake from the first submission and wants to try his luck again. HN is very fickle about time of submission. Even good submissions can be pretty much buried if done at a poor time.
You're wrong on two counts:

"The algorithm will be implemented as a Python 3.x function".
- The instructions page, the first item. (http://www.quixeychallenge.com/instructions).

About page: "Add Skype user quixeychallenge as a contact. A working microphone and speakers/headphones are required. [..] We'll Skype call you when it's your turn."

And since the registration form is required before you do anything, and it is one form needing an email address, I think that counts as 'telling you about the need for an email address before you get involved' too.
Actually the Press release claims that they nefariously DID NOT promote piracy and therefore promoted piracy, in some weird Kafka-esque turn of phrase. They purposely don't show download leaderboards, of (I have no doubt) infringing files. Interesting complaint.
Where is the love for [Deferreds?](http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2010/05/03/robust-promises-with-...)?

Deferreds are
* Mostly monadic (creating a deferred is "return", the "then" method is "fmap" and "bind").
* Can be implemented as a library, without a separate compilation step or having to patch the runtime.
* Avoids most of the CPS inversion of control madness. You can return and store promises and you can also add callbacks after the fact so code is much more flwxible. (writing sequential async loops is still annoying though)
Saying "it failed" isn't an explanation.
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> Every piece of evidence not created by the middle-man industry I've ever seen has supported their position.

Links?
I have difficulty believing Microsoft would have introduced a cutesy BSOD without at least focus grouping it. Anyone know for sure?
Hardly a formula. But sure, even if you consider it to be one, it's not book worthy. It's common sense.
I guess they should have written something like "We promise a personal response to the first 5000 correct solutions."
Sorry if that was unclear. The original comment stated that using per capita in this manner would be "inaccurate", but you can't compare Manhattan and Brooklyn simply by comparing the total number. What I was trying to explain in response was that Priceonomics didn't have "fixies per person" data, only the total fixies for sale in a region (the "raw number"). Without using per capita, these results could easily be misconstrued.
Understanding PIPA / SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned - YouTube
Will has a good point, but I disagree on a fundamental level.

There's three massive core problems with the current media model:

1) Modern media has failed to adapt. When I reinstalled windows I used a pirated version. The key on the side of my case was awkward to read. Games industry nailed it: look at Steam.
2) Entertainment is a waste of time and people know that - if someone can't download a movie they're not going to run out and buy it. They're going to watch cats fall down on youtube.
3) When companies no longer prioritize their own products people lose respect for them.

This SOPA/PIPA drama is simply making #3 worse
You're right, gun registration is the moral equivalent of chattel slavery. Even though it doesn't exist in my state, or in fact in most states. And clearly, gun registration is the obvious effect of the Civil War.
A disturbing observation I've made regarding politics is that stances on issues are often highly cyclical (specifically in regards to the election cycle). This means that during an election year, candidates tend to fall "on the side of the people", and shortly afterwards, the politician's stances shift to favor their largest contributors.

I fear that this is the case here. All candidates (including President Obama) are in a competition to be elected. SOPA/PIPA are unpopular issues at the moment, and it is in the candidate's best interests to publicly oppose the bills. Once the votes are in, all debts must be repaid. Special interests have a longer memory than voters, and disappointing a campaign contributor is not an option if the candidate wants their support in the next election.

That's all I have to say on the matter. I don't wish to get very deep into politics here, except where they intersect with typical Hacker News interests.
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