skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.

Isn't this the crux of the problem with the current democratic systems though? If you never communicate with your political representatives, how do they know what you as a voter want? Part of what makes a democracy work is that connection between voters and politicians, but it has to come from us. If enough of us vocalize our concerns, they'll be heard. Politicians want to keep their jobs, and they need votes to do so.

Sure it's not perfect (nothing is), and lobbyists easily manipulate the system on behalf of groups like the MPAA, but it's a basic thing that few people actually do to uphold their part of the bargain. That's why the system can continually be eroded with the assurance that even though SOPA/PIPA failed this time, some mutated version will slip by eventually.
Of course you can argue that, but you'd be wrong. Ask anyone on the street what they think of Apple locking down their products and not allowing you to modify them, and you'd get mostly positive responses about Apple. Now ask them about DRM (in an understandable way, of course), like how they might buy a song on one music store and not be able to listen to it on their iPod. You'd get negative responses, guaranteed. I don't mean to say that artists don't care about the product they created. Artists deserve a lot for the stuff they make. But the MPAA just uses these artists to make money. Has their ever been an MPAA album, or has the MPAA itself (not the artists) released a single? The executives just care about money, not the music or the culture behind the music. If they actually cared about the audience, they wouldn't use DRM and lawsuits to make people pay for their product.
Well, I agree with you. The word can certainly be used endearingly in some crowds, but this is absolutely not it. This is entirely disparaging.

Language is important.

There was a post on here recently about the communication problem, and it's spot-on. Just like we can't characterize SOPA/PIPA as "the anti-piracy bills," we can not allow ourselves to be demeaned.

SOPA/PIPA are the internet censorship bills. They are the defeating due process bills.

We are experts. We are architects and engineers of the technical infrastructure.

Call yourself what you want but realize that, in the greater world, these terms serve only strip you of authority. That's unacceptable.
I don't understand why you view removing the links and not the content as a technicality and not the crux of the issue. If you're ordered to remove content from your servers and do not do so, it's unsurprising that you aren't really complying with the DMCA.

Removing links isn't the same as removing content.
Nice use of data: Identifying Building Energy Inefficiencies
Time Warner Cable’s New iPhone App Brings Live TV To The Small Screen
re: nested data structure is in the roadmap, but no target date yet. There are 2 ways of implementing this:
1) pre-pend field name reflecting the nesting, much like elasticsearch
2) encoding payloads in the term list indicating nested nature.

1) is straightforward, but can be restrictive if you want to in-nest faceting.

We are still debating on the route to take.

As for schema changes, we should document that better: certain schema changes simply requires you bouncing the node, but if there are data integrity changes, you would need to reindex. We will work on more documentation on the specifics.
Mandatory link: the co-founder equity calculator http://foundrs.com/calculator

Because I don't always agree with Joel on this. By the way, the recommended way to use this calculator is that each co-founder tries it separately. Then compare notes.
With MegaUpload Down, Who’s Next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox?
"...burning the warehouse to the ground..."

If you've a militaristic mindset, and there's a bad guy in the warehouse, this is exactly what happens. A siege mentality, and the simplicity and effectiveness of execution reinforce the approach.

"You know the score, pal? You're little people."
Expect the marketshare split to stay fluid like this until one of the platforms is successful at locking in institutions - schools, businesses, creative professionals, government, etc.
What kind of appalling? There's definitely a correlation between education level and lifetime earnings, life satisfaction, etc.

(Yes, many people do fine with low levels of formal education. However, many or most of them are curious, self-educated,and self educating people with good habits.)
MPAA and their supporters' rhetoric starts to sound increasingly more xenophobic. "It's the evil foreigners who are destroying our economy (therefore you shouldn't care what type of laws we want to pass against them...)".
Dropbox reserves the right to delete files from your folders, including local ones. I had music files repeatedly removed from one of my folders.
IPhone 4S and iPad 2 Jailbreak Released
I remapped Capslock to:

"Ctrl if it's held down and pressed with another key, Escape if it's pressed and released on its own."

It works really nicely once you get used to it.

EDIT:

To do that I first mapped Capslock to Ctrl using the normal Apple Keyboard prefs, then used KeyRemap4MacBook and checked this setting: http://i.imgur.com/99cNs.png

http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
I don't think you can stop money affecting politics any more than you can stop piracy, or stop people from taking harmful drugs, or stop people from saying stupid things, or a lot of other things. In those cases I think the costs of stopping them outweigh the benefits. I just don't see any other way than constant vigilance.
CIOs come around to cloud storage
Tablets: the perfect shopping device
Why Super Bowl 46 will have super connectivity
Will Apple put Siri in everything?
PIPA and SOPA votes shelved. Your move, web.
Plans are useless but planning is indispensable. (Eisenhower, one of my favorite quotes).
McGraw-Hill is Apple partner, but still has questions about iBooks
Introducing the power router for the grid
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future
I never thought of it like that I guess I consider myself a trustworthy person. Deleting data right away is in my best interest at this point because it keeps my hosting down. Less datase usage and less AWS usage. I could put up a privacy policy but I doubt that would convince everybody.
Errr, perhaps it's because this is civil matter ("lawsuit"), not a criminal case?
That was a question to parent. _Of course_ S3 costs money. That's why it's not reasonable to compare it to a service like Megaupload, where you only needed to pay if you wanted to store over 200GB total, or have individual files larger than 2GB.
been using a portable LEMP setup for several months. my progression has been XAMPP > Uniform Server > LEMP w/start stop batch scripts.

i just tweaked https://github.com/Xeoncross/wnmp a bit for my uses. buttery smooth goodness.

my only complaint about nginx is the way it tries to make location ordering "magical". there's often no clear way of forcing a specific location assertion order because of regex vs literal, terminating vs not.
What's your reason for being worried? The government can get a search warrant for your house just as easily as they can get one for Linode's servers. The only difference is that when Lindoe's servers are seized, they eat the cost. (And you aren't awakened at 3am by dudes with guns. Not that this has happened to me :)

If you're worried for backup reasons, just sync with offlineimap. I do this to have a faster local cache (since I consider Linode more reliable than my desktop computer). (Even gmail is fine if you back it up.)
I could definitely get used to that. Did you remap that in vim itself, or from your operating system?
They don't have to have an intricate understanding of medicine, but they should understand the issues well enough to be able to make informed decisions. If they do not understand, then they should bring in experts. For example, if you want to make legislation regarding a certain vaccination, then you should understand how vaccines work at a high level and the concept of herd immunity. Otherwise, you have no business writing laws to regulate it, period. The people writing this legislation don't have an equivalent level of insight into how the internet works.

In this video, we had a lot of people proudly proclaiming that they didn't have the slightest clue about how the stuff they were regulating works, made terrible and inaccurate apologies, all without bringing in experts who could inform them as to the implication of the law. To add insult to injury, rather than calling them experts, they used derogatory language to put down the very people who knew what they were talking about (lets be clear here, some people use nerd as a badge of honor, but that was clearly not how they were using the word).
iPhone developer so don't have that much choice really, but would probably still use OSX or Ubuntu given the freedom to choose
The only piece of the puzzle missing here is how would you finance the creation to begin with?
I know a lot of the equipment has become cheaper but it's still expensive for an 18 year old kid to put in his garage. Not to mention the diverse skillset you would need to produce a record or movie.

The record company being able to dangle an advance (not to mention the promotion and contacts they can hook them up with) seems a pretty good carrot to dangle and people like Louis C.K have probably made enough money to begin with to finance themselves.

I also get a feeling from musicians that I have talked to that your not considered a "real" band unless you are signed to a major label, although I suppose that attitude can change over time.
You almost need a VC type system for musicians but the issue is that most creatives don't really want to think of themselves as "businesspeople".
All the world's a VAX^WPC^Wmobile device^W^W…

Meanwhile, lots of PC mainboards still have serial ports – and quite often I've seen people where its presence was one of the most important decision points for buying a new laptop.

Never mind that with adapters DVI/HDMI is really a non-issue.
It was recently replaced with HDMI or DisplayPort.
Funny that developing relentless resourcefulness from step 0 is really similar to Jason's rejection therapy process: Getting over the fear of something in order to take action and learn from the process.

Could be the start of a one- or two-week "startup bootcamp" process... :)
I don't think the math works out well for you. The cost is 12 dollars per essay. If I understand stripe's fees, you will pay 65 cents per transaction. You are paying teachers via paypal, I do not know their fees but it will probably be in the ballpark of 50-60 cents to transfer 10 dollars. So 12 -10 - 0.65 - paypal fees = 0.75 to 0.85 profit per transaction. Not sure how automated everything is, but it seems like you will be doing a bit of work for what amounts to a large pack of gum.

Now consider chargebacks. Stripe charges a 15 dollar fee per chargeback. So for each chargeback you lose (15+10+1.25(transaction fees above) = 26.25 or so. I have a feeling you will have a larger than average number of chargebacks due to children borrowing their parent's credit card to get their essay graded.

I assume you are paying the teachers as independent contractors? Are you prepared to issue 1099's to all of them at the end of the year?

And not to sound too harsh but nothing on this site looks professional at all. It reads like it was written by a Nigerian scammer.

EDIT: fixed my math
This is why we need to find a technological solution that will make future legislation infeasible or impossible. We need a decentralized DNS and total encryption of the internet.
Quantifying light pollution: the Bortle dark-sky scale
HowStuffWorks founder on "Robots in 2015"
The model side of things is certainly my biggest complaint. The other things are minor in comparison, but still annoying. I like the architecture of lift, just not some of the details of the implementation.

I don't like the way templates are forced to use snippets to load data, in particular as it results in snippets being dependent on the database, and thus not suitable for unit testing. The framework should be pulling the data into the view, which then passes it as an argument to the snippet to do whatever transformation on it. That way snippets are entirely self-contained and easy to unit-test. This is the sort of thing that I think would have ended up the way I want had it been written in haskell instead of scala just because writing small, self-contained functions is the typical haskell way of doing things.

I hate the very opinionated nature of the form handling, and the even more opinionated responses from the developers to questions like "how can I make a form that works normally and doesn't require a session". People are not bad for wanting forms to behave normally, and the "security" show the lift devs put on to justify the form handling in lift is insulting.

While I find templates acceptable, they are seriously missing out on type safety. I should get a compiler error if I create a template with invalid html. Ocsigen got this part very right (an ocaml framework/appserver). Not only do I not get this benefit for my markup, but lift itself generates invalid html on me when using virtually any of the included form generation methods. Very annoying.

Ideally what I want is a framework that gives me the type safety of yesod, but with the structure of lift. I hate faux-mvc web frameworks and find they make things more difficult rather than making things easier, and unfortunately yesod copies the typical rails clone structure. Lift doesn't make the mistake of trying to hide http from me, and gives me the simple and correct mapping of template to url, leaves the domain model in the model instead of cramming it into "controllers" that shouldn't be involved.
Hands-on: iBooks 2 introduces interface changes, pop quizzes
Yeah, you'd have to watch out for abuses. But the main point is to change the incentive for them to beg corporations for money. Making it illegal, and making it easier for normal individuals to donate would help switch that incentive from going to corporations to going to individuals.
could be a bias of those in leadership roles, or those considered to be experts at something... check out "mansplaining"
SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill
Especially as the guideline is clearly there so as not to give users the misleading impression that the app's crashed. That's obviously not the case when a vim user is using the expected command to close the program.
Business Social Media: Rise of the Machines
Apple has draconian restrictions on stuff like iOS for the user's sake

If its for my sake, why must they treat me like a child and not let me choose to have them remove that restriction on my device?
I also think that articles like that are counterproductive. The political class and most people will think we're a bunch of freaks if we talk like that.

Yes, Hollywood has done many things wrong -- the TV sector in particular is in long-term danger because the "bundling" business model of cable doesn't give consumers any way to give feedback about the quality of content. (I'd much rather watch Al Jazeera on Youtube and re-runs of Star Trek on AMZN Prime than watch Spongebob Squarepants, Adventure Time, CNN Fox News, or any of these reality shows about Coupons and Pawn Shops that never stop.)

On the other hand, Hollywood employs a lot of people in good, largely unionized jobs that aren't in danger of being exported to China. People like a lot of stuff that they make, and they invest a lot of money to make it -- they deserve to get some return on their investment.

The question is having some regime that's fair to everybody.
1/20/2012 received word that AT&T’s entire East Coast POS system is down.
"The point is, if you don't have this sort of desperate courage, most probably your startup won't succeed. And you cannot do that while holding on to your day job and salary."

Yeah, remember those guys who had that computer fruit company. Pear was it? Or Apple? something like that.

They had some good ideas, but because one of the founders kept working at his HP day job while designing the new company's first computer they never amounted to anything.
My reading of this indictment leads me to believe the you could replace "Mega Conspiracy" with "Youtube Conspiracy". Youtube profits from, and is well aware, that there are copyrighted videos on the system. A "reasonable person" would be aware that YouTube hosts infringing content, and is therefore not subject to the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA.

Larry, Sergey, and Eric better not drop the soap if they forget to pay off their local crime fighters.
Great point. In general we avoid looking bad which is why people downplay of dismiss things they don't know. Even after you DO know what to do, you still often he resistance to avoid doing something because you are afraid of looking foolish.
I don't know the U.K. at this level of detail but didn't you go "all in" on socialism after WII? As far as the government set minimum wages, aren't you already talking about something other than a free market?

Anyway, if the minimum wage is set by the government at a level above the value of someone's labor, you (the company) are going to:

Do without (movie ushers in the US).

Automate.

Move the work offshore.

Hire as few as you can for as little as you can when you can't do without, which these retail jobs might be an example of.

I'm not at the moment discussing the merits of a minimum wage, just pointing out that is has well established consequences.
Every time I've been pulled over, the officer asks "do you know why I stopped you?" If I claim I honestly don't know, there's a better chance that the fine may be reduced. Or going in the other direction, 10mph over while driving might garner a warning, while 10mph over with another car next to you doing the same speed would get your car impounded for street racing.
MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number
Wednesday's protests against the bills (in which Google, Wikipedia,
Ars Technica, and other sites took part) was "a day for the history
books," Wyden said, one that will "change permanently the way citizens
communicate with their elected officials."

It seemed like one of the goals of the Occupy movements was to reduce corporate influence in politics. It's somewhat ironic that there's overlap between the people who support the Occupy movements and those that are glad that Google, Wikipedia, Ars Technica, and other sites stepped up to influence this political situation.

Understandably, we're in this mess because of corporate influences like the MPAA who helped fund the congressmen who supported the bill. But if you were truly against corporate influence, you wouldn't be happy that Google got involved.
I think campaign finance reform is a good thing in theory, but in practice I feel confident that big money would still find its way into the pockets of our lawmakers with relative ease. In the end, no amount of money can save an elected official if their constituents are determined to see that official ousted. We can't legislate our way out of corruption, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Am I really being downvoted for suggesting people stop pirating?
We can argue all we want about whether copyright is good or not, but that is the wrong question. The right question is if (enforced) copyright is compatible with the existence of a free internet.

IMHO, it is not. Current copyright law means restrictions on the copy of data. A free internet means freedom to interchange data.

So either we lose the free net, or we push for a deep reform of IP laws, something like that the law should only restrict for-profit infringement.
Google is going to do whatever it takes to drive people from that competing advertising network known as Facebook.

Have you done a search for "Facebook" on Google recently? Notice the gigantic ad for Google+ on the right?

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/199/screenshot20120120at1...

If that isn't anti-competitive, I don't know what is. If I had a competing service, I couldn't advertise for "facebook" on Google, but Google can stick a gigantic ad for their competing service there?
Football Cocktail Shaker
How old are you? I found that to be a common trait in myself and friends around the age of 20, but now approaching 30 people in my social network seem to have cooled down the need to assert themselves constantly like that.
Actually, I've thought about this, and I'm pretty sure the MPAA Hates their customers, and, given a choice, if they could get their money without having to deal with customers, would prefer to do so.

I'm not saying the actors, and the grips, and the makeup people, Hate me _personally_ - but the commercial organizations they represent, as a collective, hate the fact that I'm an active viewer and consumer of their end product.

Because active viewing/consuming means I want do do things like, well, _view_ the product. And that all sorts of uncomfortable ramifications in that I don't want to dedicate a not-insignificant portion of my time being fed their "BIG RED SCREEN OF ANTI-COPYRIGHT-THEFT-PROPOGANDA" (Btw, I make it a point, every time I am forced to see one of those screens, to go torrent a movie - seeding for at least a day. It's actually the _only_ time I typically do torrent movies - the fact that they control my DVD player just annoys the crap out of me)

They Hate me because I want to watch a movie released in brazil, that everyone is talking about, in the United States.

They Hate me because I want to watch the movie I just purchased, on my iPad. Not the brick of electronics that happens to be sitting in my living room that I haven't watched a movie on in two+ years.

Basically, the MPAA, and the commercial organizations they represent, Hate me, because instead of just sending them $50-$100 / month as a passive consumer, I'm an active consumer that loves the material they create - and that's an annoyance, and a difference from what they used to work with 50 years ago.

And they Hate change.
Dear entrepreneur, what do you focus on? Please, focus on the process
There are already a limit, it's $2500 per politician, $30.8k per party committee and then unlimited if you got a lot of friends/employees.

Here is a cynical primer outlining how lobbying works:
http://www.2abd.com/politics/protesting/protesting-versus-lo...
I reject as false the idea that copyright is desirable.

Assuming that it is desirable, I reject as false the idea that copyright infringement on the internet is a special problem in need of an individual solution.

Assuming that copyright infringement on the internet is a special problem in need of an individual solution, I reject as false the idea that the DMCA is insufficient.

From where I'm standing, this looks like the entertainment industry trying to get congress to prop up their obsolete business model, not a flawed attempt at solving a legitimate problem.
Photos Of MegaUpload Founder’s Cars Getting Seized
Amazing SOPA Numbers
I think you're right, but I hate that you're right. I wish government could just be sensible without needing a pressure group of sensible people riding herd on them forever.
is there a video associated with the slides that's available?