skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first paragraph is completely wrong. Of the things listed in the first paragraph as things the bill requires, not a single one is correct.

The only factual statement in that paragraph is the link to the bill text.

In fact, I cannot find any even remotely plausible (or even an implausible) way to misread the bill so as to come up with his claims. Either the author is simply lying (to generate controversy and traffic perhaps), or is just repeating something he got elsewhere and made no effort whatsoever to verify.

This is not HN quality material. Flagging.

For those curious, here's what is actually going on. Under current law, an ISP has to cough up certain customer information to the government upon a proper legal request. That information is name, address, phone number connection records or session times and durations, how long the customer has been a customer and what services they use, subscriber phone number or subscriber number, temporary network addresses, means and source of how they pay for the service (including credit card number if that is how they pay).

As far as I can see, there is no requirement that the ISP retain this information. They just have to make it available if they have it. Practically, of course, most of it will be retained for business purposes.

What this bill adds to this is that the ISP has to keep a log for one year of temporary IP address assignments and mapping of them to the customer information listed earlier. So, it's adding a new data item to log, and it is making it so that the customer information mentioned early has to be kept a year (which in practice is not a change because it is almost certainly kept anyway regardless of legal requirements).

It also adds a section that says that access to this information may not be compelled except by a government entity. This may be good news for those who are doing file sharing, as on first reading it would prevent plaintiffs in civil suits from getting access to the information.

Anyway, there is nothing whatsoever that will "have your internet service provider tracking all of your financial dealings online. Each time you use a credit card, each time you read your bank statement, all of your IP information and your search history will be required by your ISP to be stored for 18 months at all times".
I understand where he is coming from. His emphasis seems to be about not controlling the speech, which works well for me. If I have something practiced or have a grading scheme that I am conscious of while speaking, the outcome is great or terrible. If I mess up a few times, I fall apart instead of picking up the pieces.

Advice like his has drastically reduced 'umms' as a by-product, as it is a byproduct of my nervousness. If one is giving enough talks that the umms are not a tick but a habit/crutch, then it is definitely something to be targeted.

tldr;
I think his advice on umms is due to the 'normal people' aspect vs. public speaker.
It's best to be able to say "no" and be truthful about it. Just don't take pirated media across the border to begin with.
It's a shame that people still think it's impossible to be aggressive without being a jerk, both in business and social life. Sure, a lot of jerks are aggressive, but that's only a correlation, not a causation.

"Nice" is not a positive thing. If someone calls you "nice" it's a sign you should change your personality. "Nice" is what you say about people you have nothing to say about:
http://www.joelrunyon.com/two3/nice-people-dont-change-the-w...

To truly succeed you have to be aggressive. You must know what you truly want and have the courage to go get it. You must be confident in your vision and abilities. You can't worry what everyone thinks of you. You can't seek the approval of others. You must be able to express your thoughts and feelings without fearing to offend someone. If someone you hire sucks, you must be willing to fire them.

Kindness is a real, positive, desirable trait. Niceness is just the ability to be inoffensive and anonymous.

It's perfectly possible to be kind and aggressive at the same time. That's the perfect combination, the one you'll see in most successful entrepreneurs. Just look at PG for example.
My idea to "Kill Hollywood"
There was a possibly insightful comment on a reddit thread on the topic of killing hollywood:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oqbo5/the_entertai...
It's underkill, almost. My partitions are already encrypted, all I need is to save + trash + restore the physical LUKS blocks. I don't need to reconfigure my system or do anything differently when I'm not travelling. It's a low-mod hack that I can even explain to the customs people: I'm afraid someone might try to steal my online banking or financial credentials or something, so I chose to disable my personal partitions temporarily instead of being vulnerable to being threatened. I can't be made to move my money to some criminal's account if I can't access mine.
Sounded like it was a raise on top of whatever else they got. I'd take that kind of raise for fewer perks. They could have just as easily not given it.
If an authority is convinced there's a hidden volume with information they want and that you are not providing access, having arbitrary hidden volumes is not doing you any good legally in the US and likely elsewhere. There are technical and non-technical ways to determine the probable presence of hidden volumes. Hidden volumes do not provide plausible deniability.

Might hidden volumes help you pass a cursory check? Sure. But if someone really wants your data it's not likely going to keep you out of a contempt of court charge.
I don't know, it seems too crowd sourced to me. I'd rather spend a couple of hours looking for a freelance designer I like, rather than go the middleman approach. I've never seen a crowd sourced logo that I didn't hate.

Also, it seems more focused on general graphic designers. Designers with much experience in logo design are only going to be a small subset of those.
Will it shuffle?
SQL Injection - Hacking for noobs
Having people say your name gives a good psychological hit of goodness, but the only reason you'd be willing to spend the time and money required on this is to gain a greater advantage.

So you're trying to impress someone else. And worse, you're trying to impress someone who you think gets impressed by this kind of thing.
Ignore the startup cliques, just get sh*t done.
This is the thing. Even if you do wash your hands, you still need to get grip of the restroom door handle or two. And who knows, who's touched it before you...
Please name a couple of diversity-fuelled innovations
Is it ok to ask hackers for shares and (less) money?
Here is the idea: I have an idea for cloud based site based on an educational link site. its not a copycat of any existing idea! Idealy I find a technical co-founder to build a viable product.
however I also understand that working for free is not fair. Therefore I thought about both: money and shares. If you have the motivation, time and interest to build a site based on educational links please let me know (k.degani@noax.eu)....
Because they are waiting for a tax holiday so that they can repatriate the profit without paying taxes on it.
There's also a fun interactive version:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/compare.html
Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
1. Didn't build something people would pay for
2. Beaten by the competition
3. Didn't build something people would pay for
4. Didn't build something people would pay for
5. ?
6. Didn't know their users and build the product with them in mind
7. Didn't build something people would pay for

Notice a pattern?
Good for you guys. Awesome!
Shahrukh Khan Doesn't Want To Comment On Priyanka Chopra -  ArticleAZ
When the gossip about Shahrukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra's closeness hit the stands, everyone was surprised as this was the first time in 20 years that SRK has been linked with his co-star. But ask the baadshah turned superhero this and he chooses to maintain a 'No Comments' stand.
The New Android Phone is Prose, Not Poetry
I eat with utensils because I would like to be able to access my phone (or other things at the table that require clean hands) without having to go to the bathroom to wash my hands every time.
their site and APIs say nothing about recurring payments. I don't think they support it.
I am the author of the comment you mention. While I also wondered about this coincidence, I do not see the re-post as a problem.
The re-submitter made this link more accessible to a lot of people. Overall, that's a good thing.
I actually think I have found this link somewhere in a HN discussion, too, but could not find the discussion again.

(For the record, I collected 13 points for my comment so far.)
"Mijangos told me that he'd figured out how to turn off a camera's LED, cloaking himself completely."

Anyone know if this is actually possible? I don't know anything about laptop cameras, but it seems like you wouldn't want the LED to even be under software/firmware control - just put it in series with the camera circuit. An LED has to have a significantly lower failure rate than a camera, right?
I switch between different apps without any major pains, one thing I have noticed though is that I tend to use Cmd + x, c, v within MacVim anyway.

Yes, I know it is bad, but it lets me get work done quickly and efficiently and thus I really don't care what the purists say.

Maybe that is the key to success, don't let the purists say that you shouldn't do it, just do what feels natural and eventually it will help you get faster anyway.
tazzy531 posted the entire text of the law concerning this matter in another post in this thread. IANAL, but as far as I understand this, her understanding seems to not only be right, but not even include some of the more… oppresive parts of the law, such as the scrutiny placed on material on abortion.
I was bothered by this part as well, but for a very different reason: names can be changed. Which is very possible for early stage startups[1], specially considering that you are more likely to have only a small fraction of the market you are aiming for.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/trigger-raises-1m-from-sv-a...
The interesting bit for me was the "everything ok" status page.

I wonder if any services run their own monitoring system live into their status page? (and uptime stats). If not, I guess the status page is less urgent than "fixing the problem", so is likely to never be updated?
Show HN: Android App for following todays NFL games over Twitter
I read reddit.com/r/NFL a lot and follow football games live over Twitter. In years past I did the same on game forums, live blogs, and comment threads. I found the process of following the game over Twitter too difficult, so I made this app to filter the public Tweets into a more comprehensible stream based on what side you're following.

I'd love your feedback on the application! Go Giants!
Apple's overseas manufacturing operations offer flexibility, not just savings
I read /r/NFL a lot and follow football games live over Twitter. In years past I did the same on game forums, live blogs, and comment threads. I found the process of following the game over Twitter too difficult, so I made this app to filter the public Tweets into a more comprehensible stream based on what side you're following.

I'd love your feedback on the application! Go #NYG!
As a developer for BlogHer, a women's media company with a big network of independent women bloggers, I hear lots of people who don't know the correct terminology say things like this. When they say "a WordPress.org" they mean "a self-hosted WordPress site".
Thanks for pointing out the limited time resolution.
Pfft, our Belgian Prime Minister is gay, atheist, and has a PhD in Chemistry despite being raised by an illiterate immigrant mother so poor she had to put several children in an orphanage. Top that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Di_Rupo

Also, he's 60 and look quite good in swimming trunks (about the only time he's not wearing a red bowtie):

http://mediatheque.lesoir.be/v/en_images/1782158_24H_0145027...
For those who think a flat tax is fair to all, I'm curious if they would still feel that way after playing this game: www.playspent.org

A progressive tax system seems more fair to me (though not perfect) because there is some link to discretionary income.
great article. everytime i need to do a hack, i ask myself the same question. the point of no return moved far away with more coding-experience.

i think this is a problem of a perfectionist :)
Rodents exhibit empathy by setting trapped friends free
Sounds like rendering artifacts from an overheating graphics card.
I totally agree with you, except I don't think fear is quite the right way to frame it, and perhaps more that many women know they will be talked down to, make a rational decision that they don't want to put up with that, and do something else with their time.
The Critical Challenge facing Scala
Thanks for the link. I have added my view over there.
It's not an assertion because this isn't something up for debate. Women face a lot of discrimination in the tech industry. You can say, "I don't see it," but saying it's your opinion that it doesn't exist is characterizing it as something that is opinionated.

I'm sorry if it wasn't your intent to steal focus. What you did, whether intentional or not, is a common derailing tactic.
Or even two a day.

As someone who almost never submits stuff, I find it really frustrating that the few times I do find something that I think would be great, I see it get knocked down on the "new" page within an hour because there are so many submissions coming in. The rate of new submissions seems like it makes it almost random what just happens to get picked up in the brief window of time and what doesn't.
I particularly enjoyed the confidence embodied in that last one ;-)
Isn't that because the content is only legal to stream in the USA? (e.g. what you'd find on Hulu) It'd technically be illegal to stream it outside of the USA, so it is blocked. That's how I've always assumed that online streaming contracts with the content providers worked. I'd love to know if it works differently
The issue is that a 1BR or studio doesn't fit my lifestyle. Where I live now, out of state, I have a 3 bedroom house, a girlfriend and a bunch of pets so living in an apartment is most likely not going to work which is why I'm looking at other options, I think maybe I if I live within 30 min of a BART station that could work. I'm willing to compromise as much as I can, such as renting a townhouse, etc but it seems landlords there are very against pets so its hard to find anything but a house that allows dogs.
That is true, and yet it is also true that it's helpful for many women to learn coding with each other's social support.
Jack Dorsey: Twitter Has a Biz Model That Works
Seems like they have an open call to devs to take the sessions, presumably with a cut for each dev that does it and where they do it. So the quality of the information would ddepend on the dev that bothered to nominate themselves.

Unfortunately this could mean that the quality of the cource is wholy dependant on the dev assigned to you're 4:1 session.

I wonder what the screening process is. But undoubtedly a good business model for raising quick capital, with a high pivot rate, as & when it supports demand.
I'm guessing that he's referring to the story involving Corey Haim. He did an interview with Nightline a while back and said that pedophilia was Hollywood's number one problem. After the interview a number of former child stars spoke out about the commonality of child sex abuse in Hollywood. It's one of those stories that you don't want to blow out of proportion and paint all of Hollywood with a wide brush, but you certainly don't want to dismiss the issue either.
There is a full screen button you can click.

Here is a direct link to the full screen version, and arrow keys work for turning pages:
https://www.eff.org/file/33930#page/1/mode/2up

Direct link to pdf:
https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/EFF-border-...
They can "want you at your desk".

In most of the US, you're entitled, by law, to a lunch break of at least 30 minutes.

You can thank unions for that.
Yes: it's harder than people think to divine what people will pay for and what they won't.

As a consumer, I pay for plenty of things I wouldn't necessarily have predicted I would; conversely, I use some "successful" services that I'll never pay a dime for.
Absolutely agree with this 100%.

There's a lot of conflation between dominance and selfishness. These two traits can look very similar at a shallow level, but are completely othorgonal.

Pure selfishness is when you act without concern for others to your own benefit. Dominance is the desire to win in competitions, demonstrate power and/or independence over others.

I've definitely met many kind, bold, dominant people in the start-up world. These people can both simultaneously piss people off, and go wayyy out of their way to help you.
Why? Because misogyny is a tool that can be wielded in many directions. And it gets wielded to defend privilege and power. Once a field is defined as powerful, part of an elite, girls often are driven out of it as that field or interest is redefined to be a male thing. Boys, and girls too, ostracize and mock girls who are "into computers" because they are going outside a gender norm. If you think this doesn't still happen, hang out with some kids in a computer lab.
As far as the Redbeacon / Home Depot situation goes, don't forget that the big-picture missions of both organizations aren't so different (help you maintain and improve your home), and there's a strategic advantage for both partners. Redbeacon presumably gets free in-store promotion to homeowners doing home improvement, and Home Depot gets a bigger slice in the lifecycle for home improvement projects that aren't their typical homeowner-DIY market.

Whether a nimble entrepreneurial / internet-based group can survive within the corporate structure of a retail giant is still an open question.
> The population of players of video games is dominated by teenager males because the developers of video games have teenager males in mind.

As of 2011, the average age for a video game player is 37, a number slowly increasing as people who were children playing the first arcade, console and home computer games continue playing now on current systems.

Plus, video games (and consoles) are expensive. It helps to have a job. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture#Demographic...
Yes, that was a pretty dumb precedent for Bush to set.
Top Green Building Trends for 2012
While I agree that this is slightly cynical, you're approaching this as though it's also exploitative and one-sided. If you're a good tipper and frequent diner, there's a strong financial benefit to the employee and it turns into a mutually-beneficial business relationship.

If not, then you're an obviously-manipulative asshole who tips poorly. A regular who's transparently manipulative and a poor tipper has a good chance that someone on the other side of the relationship with a similarly exploitative value system will find a way to settle the score.
I think the original idea of these landing pages was to track how many times your Google Adword links were clicked. Tim Ferris did that to A/B test the title of his book, for example. If you're doing that they are useful and I suppose maybe an 'MVP'.

But no, they're not something you should be submitting to Reddit/HN as if it's a real thing.
I believe in eating food based on how it was designed to be eaten. For most asian food chopsticks or hands are appropriate, the food is designed for it. For Indian food, using your hands is essential. Europeans make you work harder so you need to use fork and knife.

If you use hands that doesn't mean it isn't sanitary. Keep your hands clean; there is a shared plate and an individual where you actually eat from.
I always try to keep in mind that A Mess is not a Technical Debt[1], and that when you keep that in mind you can do it intentionally[2]. Which is particularly useful when you are more interested in learning[3] about a problem (like building a MVP) than when you are in solving it[4].

[1] http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/09/22/a-mess-is-n...

[2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

[3] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro...

[4] http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251
Maybe if everyone was rate-limited to, say, one submission per day the /newest section would be much cleaner. Ideally, it would also cost a little bit of karma to submit links.
This is not useful advice. Can you prove that you have a license for all the media and software on your machine?

Remember, in this case the burden of proof is on you. Somewhat similar to the way the BSA does audits (or the IRS for that matter).
Certain Indian food is eaten with rice and some with bread. If you are using the wrong one that is the only reason you would get strange looks. If you use fork and knife then you would actually get strange looks.
Here is one head tax proposal (where everyone pays the same dollar amount).

http://www.johntreed.com/headtax.html
E-Book Interface Prototype implemented with Apple Private API [video]
Transloadit.com does that. It can create multiple resized versions of an image, add watermarks, as well as upload to amazon s3. I use it for imgfave.com which gets around 5,000 uploads a day and it works great.
I found that was true in India. Here, some people are weird.
You mostly cannot move to Northern California and not double your housing costs. SF and SJ are 2 and 3 for highest cost of living in the country. The nicer suburbs cost even more than living in the cities. Maybe you can find a cheap place in Fruitvale or Richmond. If those seem too scary check out what it would cost to live in Alameda and take the ferry. That said, I found everything in the east bay to be a major headache if you have to do any sort of dual duty between the valley and SF. I found that trading square footage for location was worth it, but your wife and pets may not agree.
Actually, I find it most annoying if the link to a original source gets less upvotes/discussion than a rehash of the same story from a popular news site. Therefore, a link to the original source of a story should never be seen as a dupe, even if it is a late-comer.
Best advice I can give: slow down.

Especially if you're nervous, a short time on stage can feel like an eternity so your immediate impulse is to talk quickly and fill every pause with speech. That's what's wrong with "uhhs," you tend to say "uhh" more than you normally would in conversation.

I had a professor who was a fantastic presenter and would pause frequently and for about 5-10 seconds to allow what he just said to "sink in." Then he'd smile and continue. Don't be afraid to do that. It's natural to pause and think about what you are going to say, even if you are giving a prepared speech.
JavaScript myth: JavaScript needs a standard bytecode
eating with hands is not bad, people of every race in my office eat pizza with their hands.

Depends on the food that you are eating.
I love how they emphasize that doing a feature well takes a long time. I think this is somrething you can only understand by starting a company. It's really hard to do a feature such that it will workin all the cases in the real world.
Though it's interesting if you're planning to create a paid for product, the vast majority of the internet operates on a free / ad supported model, which works fantastically well.

If we only had "websites people are willing to pay for directly", it'd be a terrible internet...
Which is why utensils are a must in my book.