skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was party the reason for posting about it in the first place, but yes, I will be talking about what and why I'm doing this to my friends and peers. A recent study showed something like 70% of the Australian population have downloaded films and TV illegally, though I'd say that the majority of this is due to the fact that we get things, especially TV series, months after the US. So it's more from a lack of patience than not wanting to pay.
My wife is a surgeon. I'm up at 5am with her, drive her to work, then sit down and start working myself around 5:30. I find that I'm fantastically productive from then until about 9 or 10am. I take a long lunch break (and go running or xc-skiing depending on how much snow is on the ground); aside from that I don't have any trouble going straight through the afternoon, though my afternoons are less productive (I usually spend them meeting with team members and doing more routine work because of that, which works well because that's when everyone else is around).

In order to make getting up at 5 livable, we're asleep by 10pm. We were both night people once upon a time, but I really don't feel like I miss it.
> Take away voting rights from those with no merit and give the rights to those with demonstrated merit.

Feel free to name three large human-caused disasters of the last 100 years that weren't driven by "those with demonstrated merit".

I write that because the vast majority of large disasters of the last 100 years were driven by such people.

Since you mentioned it, fascism was actually a creation of intellectuals and was driven by them. They eventually lost control to thugs but didn't object until that happened. (In some cases, they didn't even object then.)

Nte that any discussion involving progressives turns to camps for non-believers within a very short period of time.
Comment on publishing platform, not content: Instead of using pastebin.com, use http://pen.io (for example PAGENAME.pen.io -- no account required, and you can edit if you have the password to the page, however you can't format the text) or http://hackpad.com (account registration is quick and you can format your text).
I think you are undervaluing the impact the distribution channel could have. There are no indie production companies with a worldwide distribution mechanism.

You also mention how looking at data is impossible for artistic endeavors like film making, then turn around and talk about mining data from your releases. I actually tend to think your original comment, that you can't mine data, is accurate. Any model to kill Hollywood is going to have to deal with the fact that some films will go viral (what the Internet calls a blockbuster) and others will tank.
Solyndra's tech didn't use polysilicone. Which was great when polysilicone prices were high. When the prices went down, the vast majority of panels that used polysilicone got much cheaper and Solyndra couldn't compete. Solyndra's circular tube technology also was problematic because it was designed to work with reflected light from the rooftop and in real world conditions when the roof got dirty you lost a lot of reflected light. So really, it doesn't.
Guerrilla film-making is when you make a film in your parents' basement using a VHS handicam and your brother's lego collection. For $35,000, using modern production equipment, it's entirely possible to produce a genre film that meets (and often exceeds) the production and narrative value of any major studio film (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/coldweather/).

If you're saying that there's no market for compelling stories efficiently told, then we better batten down the hatches. I'm pretty sure Revelations lists that as one of the six signs of the Apocalypse.
Except that the fight is not really about piracy. Piracy is just the strawman the RIAA/MPAA uses to grab the ear of politicians and unsuspecting members of the public.

The fight is really about control. The internet allows, for the first time, independent amateurs to command the same ability to create and distribute as the major media companies. And that scares them, it scares them immensely because it means that you just might not need them as gatekeeper and distributor. Which means that that will not remain attached to your wallet, receiving payment for all the content you consume from them.

Watch this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/defend_our_freedom_to_share...

It is only 14 minutes long, but it will put a lot of what the real reason for all this attack on the internet is about into perspective.
Why limit yourself to Base64? Twitter supports Unicode quite well. The 140 character limit is actually counted using normalized Unicode code points[1].

[1]: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters
How can you in one post extoll a free/open internet, and after it post links to nonfree sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+? Start walking the walk.
You could greatly reduce the number of tweets by using an encoding that took advantage of the full Unicode spectrum, as opposed to Base64 which just uses the ASCII set.
Well, the electric fields of the wires or light waves of the fiber optics propagate over the borders...
if I can speak (tweet) the file, isn't that expression of my rights to free speech?

Philosophically? Possibly. Legally? No, since public performances of literary works are speech too and they're still protected by copyright.
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/hide-file-in-p...
What I meant was that RIM and their execs have been insulated from the true damage being done to their business and more importantly their mindshare among developers. Apple's success with iPhone and iPad is absolutely not what I'd call a bubble.
Megaupload and FileSonic were my source of The Daily Show episodes. I don't live in the US, there isn't any other way I could watch it. It used to be on cable (sony) but not anymore. I used to have a SSL tunnel and a plus account on Hulu to watch some series, but then I got tired of maintaining a VPS.

I don't go to theaters. I think it's a stupid waste of time for a bad quality experience. I watch tons of movies on pay-per-view, but the list I can choose from is 5-10 movies long. Netflix here is also limited to a few titles. I record a lot of series, but some of them are incomplete or translated.

There is no other option to me. I need to be a pirate if I want that content. I tried way too many times to get MPAA to accept my money, but they don't want it.

Good thing is that I've been discovering some really cool stuff made in Europe (specially France) (and they accept my money for their content!!!).

EDIT:

I also need to make Itunes believe I'm in the US in order to buy the stuff I want. I can't use my credit card, so I buy gift cards using some "illegal" websites. This is pathetic.
To this extent, why not just turn twitter into a torrent tracker? tweet out something like: <torrent id> + <seeder information>. You could then just perform a tweet search for that torrent id, and you'd get all the seeders in return.
We've open sourced our HTML5 equation solver and grapher.
Please stop getting hung up on the fact that your wife's movies are pirated. The fact of the matter is that your wife, more than ever, has access to such a large global scale audience that was never available in the past with the traditional movie studio system. Mind you, legal indie video distribution networks with millions of users.

You are basically focusing on the fact that there is a small minority of internet users who are downloading your wife's movie illegally. You are so fixated with pirating that that you are not completely focusing on efforts to make your wife's movie available to new mediums in the U.S. and around the world.

In fact you are so one sided you fail to explore the possibility that viral distribution might help you. Some indie directors are in fact trying to get their movie to spread via BitTorrent and other mediums to drive sales and gain more awareness. Wihtout the internet where would Trey Parker and Matt Stone be?

Either way, saying someone is pirating your movie as an excuse to burn down the internet is short sighted.
"Then again, the bureau hadn't seen this kind of webcam hijacking until it heard about Mijangos."

Huh? I remember seeing trojans that could do this back in 2000. I find it hard to believe that this hasn't come up before.
You could tar up your backup files.

Download a bunch of porn, maybe of Debbie Reynolds, America's sweetheart.

Use tools like these: http://www.jjtc.com/Security/stegtools.htm to distribute your backup files throughout the porn.

Visit a porn uploading site and upload your files.

Wait for others to download, torrent, repost them.

....

Hey I lost a file? Well, let's just google Debbie Reynolds topless. Woohoo! There's my quicken files!

See this article in the wiki suggesting spammers, terrorists, the fbi do just that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Alleged_use_by_te...

"Lately, al-Qaeda operatives have been sending hundreds of encrypted messages that have been hidden in files on digital photographs on the auction site eBay.com

I wish I had a patent on this idea from way back when, if so, I could have sued Al Qaeda out of existence.
maybe less empathy and more, hey you can help me
Yup... I think they do a great job. I'm trying to give people something that they start using with no more effort than `gem install signs` and filling in API keys. I'm looking at making it an order of magnitude cheaper, and far simpler, without that many moving parts.

Since this is MVP type stuff, I think that's all I can do now anyway :D
Visualize your source trees as growing and changing real trees, now open source
> In Japan, most of the country (well, mountain) roads are illuminated by street lights charged by a PV panel on top.

That tells us that the cost of getting power to those locations dominates the cost of power used at those locations.

Other locations have different characteristics.
This is a very good point. Of course, as I said I am not a coder and I am far from being an expert in characters' spectrum. My experiment was just an experiment :-)
most intrusions these days seem to start with a vulnerable web app, then passwords for that are tried on db's, ssh, etc

good luck, flamoot
Could Twitter or any other blogging platform refuse a DMCA takedown notice for messages which are harmless by themselves and which are a violation of a copyrighted work only if collected together following the list of files contained in the .nzb-look-a-like file (which may be hosted somewhere else)?

Sure they could, the tweets would still have the work's colour[1].

[1]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
What computers can't do
She wasn't talking about reasons why women are "poorly suited to a role in computing". She was talking about ways which CS could be bettered in general. For the first part you quoted, gender isn't even mentioned. The second quote? Full context:

"CS education also focuses a lot of effort on puzzles and very abstract concepts when practical applications where you can see the why and how might work better for women (and a hell of a lot of men). I like yummy algorithms, but we could make CS education more accessible by putting them in context."

Your third quote has to do with the environment that exists— not because women don't inherently participate.
Thanks for this. I came across the site back when it first started, and thought "this would be a promising thing to keep my eye on" - and, in typical fashion, forgot about it completely thereafter.

It has progressed much and I can think of many uses I would put this to.
In the contemporary marketplace, where the only starting options for nearly all young filmmakers are unpaid internships with zero real creative opportunity, a three year contract at $30K/yr to direct, write and edit feature length films would be a no-brainer. Steven Spielberg doesn't have a contract with Universal because he's already Steven Spielberg. The guy who's going to replace him has no clout yet, and would jump at a an exclusive three picture deal, no matter how low the pay. There's a reason that Roger Corman never lost money, and it's probably related to his focus on fresh talent.
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The only thing taking down megaupload will do is create new means to allow sharing to occur.

And I´m really looking forward to them to arrive.
Ask HN: Average summer intern salary?
This is my first time applying to summer internships, and it's very hard to find concrete salary numbers on internships. For example, I have anecdotal evidence of Google and Facebook paying $18-20k for a 12-week internship.

To make it more specific, I'm applying as a software developer to Silicon Valley startups. I'm a college sophomore.

What is an average salary for an intern at such a company? Are internship salaries negotiable? Should I expect an internship salary to be equivalent to a starting salary at a company?

And finally, why are such numbers so hard to find?
This is pretty cool, but definitely rough around the edges. When you tmux -C it uses your current iTerm2 window as a control window, then opens a new one for all of your tmux tabs. So I now have two windows instead of one per server. It'd be nice to have better UI for that.

Speaking of per server, it's only possible to map one tmux session per instance of iTerm2, which is a shame because I have a few.

There is also a special shortcut for new tab (cmd+shift+ctrl+RSI+t) rather than being transparent and just using the native key. I can't imagine I'll ever want to make a new local tab in the middle of a bunch of remote tabs.

Other than that, though, it works great and server-side installation was easy enough (get the tarball, apt-get build-dep tmux && ./configure && make && checkinstall). I've been eagerly awaiting this functionality for ages, and it's nice to see it finally happening.
Finance is the most important issue for solar adoption, especially for distributed generation. For residential customers there is very little reason not to invest in generating your own power from rooftop solar, unless you don't plan to be in your house for 5-7 years. Even then there are studies that show you can get your money back from increased resale value.

Think of solar like this - why would you not want to independently produce your own power and escape the clutches of your local utility company? In most states in the US, utilities are monopolies and although they are regulated, they employ thousands of lobbyists to influence those who regulate them. The result, predictably is annually escalating electricity rates. The utilities raise rates to build new plants, transmission lines, increase management and employee salaries, and lately in California, cover underfunded employee pension costs!

Unfortunately, without a finance option available, you have to come up with a big chunk of money to install a system (essentially pre-paying for 7 years worth of electricity up front).

So, if you can finance the system over a reasonable period of time so that you don't have to pay for the entire system upfront, it makes makes it much easier to pull the trigger on purchasing a system.

Of course, if you can afford to pay for it upfront, it makes even more sense.
I have no idea if this guy is serious, (EDIT: I submitted this before I saw his response) but it's entirely possible to embed data in JPEG files via base64 + modifying exif data. It isn't really viable for large files, however, unless vastly distributed.
Perl:

use Image::img;

my $img = new Image::img;

$img->ExtractInfo('image.jpg');
#$img->SetNewValue("UserComment", $yourdata);
#$img->SetNewValue("Comment", $yourdata);
$img->WriteInfo('image.jpg');
I code at 5am too... when I've been kicking ass and rocking in the zone all night! Going to bed at 9pm every day? No thanks!
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There's a main explanation. Do you have another that might suffice?
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Once a file is broken down into multiple parts and scattered throughout, can you be held responsible for hosting parts of files?

Yes, because each part has the same color as the original. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

how large does the 'part' have to be to be held responsible?

It doesn't matter. If the original is infringing, every bit in it is also infringing.

what happens if a file is split into parts and posted on pastebin + github + blogs and a trackers are used to manage and build the files again?

Also doesn't matter.
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I think you are undervaluing the impact the distribution channel could have. There are no indie production companies with a worldwide distribution mechanism.

Every indie studio has a worldwide distribution mechanism. It's the web. Stream to laptops, Roku boxes, apple tv, Google tv boxee tv etc. build audience on there and if you're popular you can get into traditional distribution channels.
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Some websites optimize that away, though.
I interpreted his LED idea to mean that a lighting system could use multiple types of LEDs, providing video data in specific frequency bands. Software filtering could be used to isolate these, then recombine them in different proportions to get the right 'feel' in color.

If different types of LEDs were positioned far enough apart, you could possibly achieve different lighting angles from one scene-shot. Compare this with shooting a scene multiple times while having the crew reposition lighting. Such a system would indeed be more costly, but could reduce human repetition.
I am doing this right now. The point, I believe is, that you spend the most productive part of the day working for yourself rather than for your employer. Still, I believe in certain jurisdictions your employer owns your work even if done in your free time.
Tweet #91 is an error from Excel. I was going to combine the messages into the image, but I can't without the full base64 stream.
I don't think this action will slow down piracy. The average user don't even know what's the difference between Megaupload or other cyberlocker websites. The user just (I guess) types what he wants on Google and gets some website with links to these cyberlockers.

This act, on the contrary, could help induce other websites to correct their conduct or could help induce potential developers to create such cyberlockers.
this is great, thanks James. I looked through your other projects as well, all have very light and appealing graphics. Would you mind saying what tools you use to pick up colors, templates, etc?
What can you do with Windows Embedded Compact 7, the next generation of CE?
$49 for a development PDF?
Ops, sorry about that! This is the missing tweet: +WjH/aGaR2ZyNxHHQCgALlpcscmpdvHaolA381MAcfxflQB6w/w48T6mslwuk3UiIQrNEhJz6Y9a5PUPBup2EzI8ZRweY5BhhX9EPh39lCey8NRtCbZZjHkfaLcGVS3XJ6E/UVF4n/Y4
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What online kanban system do you use?
interesting to see this on news.yc but i got an error message.
18-20k seems high. I suppose in the case of someone with great experience relevant to a particular team that might be possible, though. At MSFT the specific interns were usually chosen by HR, or at most a team of people that HR wrangled into volunteering. They were then sent around to teams where it seemed they would fit best.

In that situation there's probably fairly little room for negotiation. If you're dealing directly with the hiring manager, or at a smaller company where the wall of HR is not so impenetrable, probably there's more room. I wouldn't think of it as equivalent to starting full-time salary, though, because a full third to a half of your internship may be largely coming-up-to-speed time.
I can't believe there hasn't been a single comment on how ridiculously horrible the introduction video is. I honest to god cannot figure out if this is some absurd conspiracy or joke, but that video looks like it was produced by a middle schooler with an istockphoto account using imovie.

Am I retarded? Is this really a joke? I don't get it...
That's right. People who could not afford such content, get it with just a few clicks, for free. And the extra time needed is worth it.
Here's my idea for making crowdsourced movies that might actually be good:

How about doing movies with a Richard Linklater's "Slacker" like script? In the movie, characters are followed for a few minutes and then someone in the last scene of that segment will continue that movie interacting with a completely separate set of people and so on and so forth. Rent it on Netflix to see what I mean. This kind of movie could be crowdsourced. Someone writes the script. Many want to be actors shoot segments. The winning entrants film short scenes where they call each other on the phone to move the movie along. It's like Redditt the movie. Would somebody please do this idea? Please :).
There's no real advantage in that: if you can use bittorrent, you can use DHT too.

This experiment shows that unlawful file sharing would still be possible even if the Internet connections were restricted to accessing only popular websites, as long as they allow any kind of user content to be posted.
I wish it were possible for me to do something like this during the week, but it isn't. I wake up at 05:30 as it is, and I'm out the door and heading to work by 06:30 (that's an hour to SSS, prepare and consume breakfast, take out the trash, scrape the windshield, and whatever else might need doing). I don't get home until after 17:30. I'm typically occupied being a loving and attentive father up until 20:00 or so. Assuming I want to get 8 hours of sleep, that means I'm left with one and a half hours to split between personal projects and my wife during the week.

On the other hand, I do get up just as early on the weekends, and it's probably my most productive time of the entire week, up until my kids get up.
Interesting (IANAL). So what is the legal distinction, persistence? I read recently that the MLK "I Have a Dream" Speech was copy-written. I assume the difference in persistence comes from the delta between if I go up to the front of an auditorium and read the speech vs if I record that speech to an auditorium and redistribute it. Twitter would be an archive-able public medium is that where its usage as a medium gets moved to illegal?
Quite the coincidence - I just started doing exactly this a few weeks ago, and am fact am reading this at 5:30am my time (when I should be coding :P). It has worked quite well for me as I work on my app.

I'm a bit more tired in the evenings and go to bed a bit earlier than I used to, but seeing as how I would just waste time in the evenings playing Jetpack Joyride, it's a very good trade to make.

I bought a coffee machine that has coffee waiting for me at 5am, and I also use the Sleep Cycle app which at the very least provides a placebo for making me wake up more alert. ;)
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I'm not from the U.S. ... did the traditional media do blackouts over there? (or did their threaten or similar)?
That's what I do, well not always 5am... but I try! Any way ever since exercise became a habit I no longer need caffeine after lunch. The bonus is if you're super busy then you can skip the workout and do some extra work.
I'd recommend Trello.
I think it has more to do with the document you signed when you started than where you live.
1. Bullshit.
2. you all are better at math than I am, so I won't bother to point out the obvious.
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Exactly. Most people are far more distractible in the evening (partially because there are simply more distractions available), so shifting your schedule earlier results in less time spent on distractions.
MapReduce! Use millions of Twitter accounts.