skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your car is found full of drugs, they will also impound it and inconvenience the other possibly innocent passengers.

While we're coming up with analogies, this seems more like impounding all the other cars in a public parking lot because a percentage of them had drugs.

If they find a body in a storage facility, they will probably deny everyone else access to the facility until they have gathered all the evidence they need.

Shutting down MegaUpload isn't to "gather evidence", it's a punitive, open-ended action.
I think this is a misunderstanding. I think what they mean with "Works" in that section is the generated iBooks file by iBooks Author. Not the Work that represents the "unformatted" contents (text) of the book. Tricky difference.

To me it seems that they are simply trying to avoid a situation where you use iBooks Author and then setup PayPal on your own web site and start selling that nicely formatted iBook yourself without going through the iBooks Store and paying Apple 30%.

I don't think this is about exclusive sales of a book through the iBookstore. If that were the case then it would have been spelled out very clearly I think. They are just trying to control distribution of generated iBooks files, not of your actual work.

I am not a lawyer, but I think the above makes sense. Apple is not that evil I think.
I think the author is drawing an implicit distinction between external outcomes (get this job, earn this much money, complete this project) and internal habits. His thesis seems to be that if you focus on your internal habits, your external outcomes will take care of themselves.
For small one-off test cases like these, this looks like a major improvement (28%) but in practice, the network overhead will dwarf the transmission time for 25 bytes and so a reduction to 18 bytes will be neglible. Hell, the HTTP headers alone will be much larger.

If the data set is fairly large, then the markup will contribute much less to the overall size, so the improvement will probably be more like 5-10%. After HTTP compression, the difference might be negligible.

Testing should definitely be done to see if the space saving is worth the additional parsing overhead (relaxing constraints makes the language more complicated).

Same applies to the original post, especially since the examples seem even more contrived. E.g., the author goes from <p></p> in (X)HTML to delimit a paragraph to {"format":"Paragraph","content":[]} in JSON, when one could just as easily contrive <format type="paragraph"></format> in XML versus {"p":[]} to make JSON look better.
Senate Postpones PIPA Vote
I think in a sense it is. Not strictly quantified yet. I was thinking about the adulation or sense of defeat you can get from code reviews. Code is a spectator sport with arbitrary rules that keep changing. Just like Calvinball!
That sounds like how 2Checkout approach it. They are a reseller of your products/services, and you must state so on your sales page. It's also the reason 2Checkout give that they don't allow 'vendors' to customize their checkout pages.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, a refreshing "new" form of psychology based on Eastern philosophy) advocates not setting goals, but rather leading a value driven life. Determine what you value, and make sure your life heads for those values, the rest tends to just follow.

But with that said, I still personally find setting goals to work very well for me. So I still do it. I met all of my goals for 2011, and am completely on track so far for 2012. For whatever reason, setting goals is very motivating for me.
House, Senate Postpone Piracy Bills Under Pressure
The power/guarantee trade off isn't a fundamental one, even though in current languages you often have to choose between the two. Creating languages that combine the power of untyped languages with the guarantees of static languages is an active field of research. For example, dependently typed languages, while currently too unwieldy for everyday use, show promise of having both power and guarantees much stronger than Haskell. Now a third, ill-defined axis of "usability" comes into play.
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I think that was only true in the launch month. I can't find the link right now but there was a breakdown by carrier and month that had the various Samsung Galaxy SII models back in 2nd place the next month.

http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/canac...
I wish the author hadn't spent so much time on 'I beat the CDC score required to binge drink, therefore it must be wrong' to get to the actual point. It made his argument seem incredibly nit-picky.

While 'the number of drinks imbibed is the wrong way to measure drinking' is an interesting point, I wish he had actually spent time discussing the actual research / anecdotes that he mentions, which should have been the meat of his article.

I usually expect more from the atlantic.
Kim has been here before and most likely will again. He had a pretty high rolling playboy lifestyle in the mid 90s (before getting busted for fraud) and then again in the early to mid 2000s - his site at kimble.org (now down) was a great repository of photos relating to his exploits at the time.

Only a little of this stuff lives on on-line, though, in the form of YouTube videos of him driving over golf courses in his Mercedes, smashing other cars off the road while he "won" two Gumball 3000 rallies, and defending his street racing in Belgium.

Quite the character!
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Nice work. It would be nice to add a few extra keys like you were suggesting like "tab", "ctrl" and "escape". Maybe slide them down from the top when you swipe the edges.

Another comment, this looks great for editing a fresh file on the run, but it would be nice to ssh into a server with existing files.

Great effort!
Expecially since potential employers look for StackOverflow accounts now.
This feels like a sham review for Thumbtack phishing for users on HackerNews.
I've used Thumbtack and I must say that it's a user-friendly website. You talk to real people and you can pay right then and there.
That is fair -- I think most of us are laughing at them too.

The trouble is that even a law made by an idiot is valid.
Any future in porting it to Win?
Any inspiration from Adobe Edge? I am happy that there are more and more potential replacements for flash in this respect, hopefuly this will also make it easier for versioning control and branch merges.
Here at Ooyala we do a variation where you can propose your own 2-week project once per quarter, and as long as you get it approved by your team you can go do it.

You also do a demo. So it's sort of like what they do, but people individually schedule their own at random times, up to four times a year.
Amazon doesn't break S3 out in their financial reports, but estimates are that they made half a Billion dollars in revenue in 2010, and certainly more than that in 2011.
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Google's doing a great job of fooling the media with the G+ hype. I just hope they keep themselves in check internally and know that G+, as it stands, is a shit product with little adoption once you take away the forced adoption.

If they don't care about it and just want to pump up their signup numbers, heck just make every google.com visitor a G+ member automatically. Oh wait, they are beginning to do just that...
4 Reasons Your 2012 Will Be Worse Than Your 2011
I completely agree. The article is a circular contradiction. The author's goal is listed right in the article:

"How did I do it? By creating new disciplines I actually liked doing. This is the secret to a healthy, productive life and to making an impact on the world. Create good, sustainable habits that you enjoy, and you’ll end up with a life you can be proud of."

Didn't he have a clear purpose or reason (goal) for focusing on those 4 practices?

Summary of article:

Goals are bullshit. Reach your goal of happiness by focusing on doing repeatable actions. Then you'll reach your goal and win life.
FWIW, he prescribes things that worked for him - "These four helped me:"
Better deals with networks? iPhones are heavily subsidized at the cost of Android devices by the carriers.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/15/verizon_soakin...
The way I look at it is like having 100 of your friends all go to McDonalds and line up. One at a time you order a glass of water, and then go to the back of the line. Honest customers will enter and get in line. If they wait/keep trying for long enough they'll be able to fulfill a request but most will get fed up and quit trying.
So if my operations based in another country infringe US laws, they can get me and bring me there to be judged ? What do we call that when North Korea does that again ? Kidnapping.

If every website suddenly has to obey the laws of every country, it will be an interesting time.
Not all of the politicians in this clip are baby boomers. At least one looked to be in his 40s.
Is it just me or is filibustering similar to 5 year old's debate strategy? It seems like the adult equivalent of stomping your feet and throwing a temper tantrum, hoping that the other side cracks before you do.
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Oh, didn't know that, I'm in Europe. Ok, good to know.
I can't speak for SenseiDB itself, but I think that LinkedIn deserves a lot of credit for the technology they have been open sourcing in the last few months. Fantastic to see.
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Yikes, I hadn't thought of that. Time to read the terms of service.
It's funny, that very same site has multiple posts saying the exact same thing.
Please, lets be reasonable here. You're drawing a gigantic false equivalency between the extradition process based on international agreements, and the North Koreans black-bagging someone.

If every website suddenly has to obey the laws of every country

The DMCA was the US implementation of two international treaties.
I hope you're not referring to the Visual Studio achievements. Rewarding people for single-letter class names, having 10 levels of inheritance or using GOTOs is neither innocent fun nor something that's going to teach good practices...
That's why you'd edit .vimrc to rebind the functionality provided by escape to 'jj' or 'jk' or something of the nature.
(typo: "even when compared to the 1980s", not 1800s. The polio vaccine "reduced the worldwide incidence from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 1,652 cases in 2007"; Wikipedia: Polio)
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Re: the last paragraph:

Sadly I lost that battle. I didn't want to include it, but sometimes we writers do not get to make those decisions.
Feds: Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Pixar had wage-fixing no-poach pact
Latest global figures are all for Q3, the Q4 ones will be out in a month:

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1848514
The encoding is UTF-16, but what it calls "characters" are code units http://unicode.org/glossary/#code_unit, not code points http://unicode.org/glossary/#code_point.
I have the opposite feeling. I understand very well the reasons some are pushed away from relational data and data normalization, and set theory formalism. Some are need for change. Some are fears of over engineering. Some are because the trend is to Twitter-like blobs. A big reason is because doing things right is a pain in the...

And come the only valid reason, from my POV: We have to denormalize and avoid using the powers of relational data sometime because we do not know how to store (read and write) conveniently huge amounts of relational data; yet. Notice the "yet"? Well, I think it is a technical problem, that may not be so far to find its solution.

One example of a solution showing its nose recently: "Google plus with your world". It do strike me that the fact that any query I make to the closest Google server respond /instantly/ to any random word with a join on a very possibly monstruous matrix of all the likes of all my circled users.

I don't know how they do store this, where and how they denormalize, but in any case it seems to me to be just "relational data as usual".

So in two years, if there is a "bigreldata" software allowing to have a Postgres sitting happily on 1000 T of relational data with instant reads and writes, I would certainly use that with a layer of python glue on the server feeding a slim client than a blob datastore with NoSQL handcuffs and a fat client with 20 libs of third party Javascript code.

I may be wrong, however, and would love more insights on this.
Never before seen footage of a Comet crashing into the Sun.
These are all excellent points, but I personally think that Facebook is a fundamental change on the order of phones in everyone's homes. That is, it is changing the way that most people communicate.

But, yes, overall, I think people tend to underestimate the radical changes that happened during the first half of the 20th century. By 1950, the "structure" of daily life was much closer to it was in 2000 than it was in 1900.
(1) TOS for his home connection may forbid offering services. (Yes, he could pay more but ....)

(2) the hassle of running a server.

(3) he may not have much upload bandwidth, which translates to slow downloads by other people.
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"What if one of the founders doesn't work full time on the company? Then they're not a founder. In my book nobody who is not working full time counts as a founder."

This point, which I fully agree, seems to generate a lot of comments. When he landed on Gibraltar in 71, Tariq ibn Ziyad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_ibn_Ziyad) immediately burned his ships and gave a speech to his men starting with: "Oh my warriors, whither would you flee? Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy. You have left now only the hope of your courage and your constancy." 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.
I think in this case, its more like the landlord was using the apartment complex for illegal activities. Maybe in that case they would be justified?
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"I have little compassion for people who store their files in the cloud only."

That's all well and good, but what about the other 95% of the population that just want to pay someone to host their files?

Why should consumers have to know the best technical solution? All they want is to pay for a solution to a problem.
What specifically do you do in the healthcare field? Doctor? therapist?
Railways were more of a fundamental change than where smart phones are now. (Note I'm allowing them to be a more fundamental change in the future.) Not because of individuals taking the train, but because it allowed goods to be mass transported easier - it built fundamental infrastructure. Smart phones aren't part of fundamental infrastructure (yet!).
Looks like someone non-LinkedIn posted this so the rest of the team is unlikely to be around for a few more hours. Let me know if you have any questions! I worked mostly on the distribution & rpc piece.
If you've got linux, or probably even OSX or cygwin, fetchmail is almost trivial to setup to do a single run to do this. Read more about it at [1]

[1] http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetc...
You're not wrong, Walter.

On the other hand, one of the reasons Normal People dislike the hacker community is the prevalence of "see I told you so" and/or "bad things wouldn't happen to you if you weren't such a dumbass" culture.

The fact that a technical workaround exists for this particular brand of destructive and capricious behavior by the U.S. Federales is not, in itself, a great reason to transform the story into Yet Another Personal I.T. Teaching Moment.

The safety deposit box example is apt here. If my local bank gets busted for some shady-ass shit, and the Feds confiscate some family heirloom along with all the bricks of heroin from the bank vault, what should we demand from our government in that case?

And if we're not likely to get what we feel entitled to demand, what are our realistic options for doing something about that?
Evan Osnos also has a good write-up in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/01/the-...
If only postponed meant for the life of the author plus seventy years.
These are all the sorts of optimisations that are only really relevant for saving bytes over the wire. Since JSON is usually used over HTTP anyway Gzip/deflate will get 90% of the reduction anyway.
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There's no "ctrl" key on the iOS keyboard, though.
One difference - the former is true, the latter, not so much.
Python has a great community and Github makes it super easy to contribute.

Step 1: Create a github account
Step 2: Look at other projects you find interesting, clone them and try them out. If you have a hard time installing it or using it, improve something about it and submit a pull request. Even if it is just improving the README.
Step 3: Repeat.

You can always tear apart my projects and improve them if you are interested. http://github.com/mcotton
How many home-grown databases have linkedin developed in the past few years?
We literally lost two founders over the "time value of money" argument. Some founders fell in the "cash is king" camp, while others felt that they were providing great value for the investment.

The best advice I can give is to make sure you have agreement on the terms up front. If someone seems uneasy, don't move ahead. Find a way to agree. In our case, one of the founders who exited:

* Continually brought up the fact that he had loaned the company money as a leverage point

* After some time (over a year) decided to make an issue over the terms he agreed to

We managed to negotiate an amicable exit, but boy was it tough.
I've been struggling with the tradeoffs in keeping Google as my email (among other things) provider. I own a few VPS's and have plenty of hardware that could serve as a private server. What has kept me from hosting my email up to this point is the fear of being inadvertently blacklisted by something like Spamhaus, downtime from Comcast (my ISP) making service intermittent, and generally having the email server management take over my life. In short, the same issues that affect many here by evidence of the recent chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions (http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html?2011).

I could host my own email on my VPS, but going through the trouble of that - it seems to make sense to just go ahead and host on a box I fully control.

To this point I admit I have had no issues with gmail or Google apps, both of which I use. But the landscape seems to be changing and I'm curious if anyone is considering migrating to their own hardware and what tools, etc. they are employing to make that process easily manageable as well as effective. I use email for sensitive business discussions, but the security required is tempered by the obvious fact that if the email doesn't get there, it's less than worthless.

I do have PGP setup, and I thought that this would be a good tradeoff while using a third party provider - but it is nearly impossible to keep partners and clients active in using it, if they use it at all.

The concept of the Freedombox (freedomboxfoundation.org) seems interesting, but academic at this point.

Anyone running their personal email servers care to comment on the overhead? Would a simple Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube install with Spamassassin suffice? What are the pitfalls? Not worth the tradeoff of using Google Apps?

I'm thinking about keeping my websites on a VPS and using a MX record to point to a private, dedicated email server I keep in my house or other private property. Anyone running a similar setup?
Having some people use the site for legitimate purposes does nothing to negate the evidence brought forward in the indictment.
Ask PG: Can we bring back the upvote/downvote numbering on certain posts?
It defeats the purpose of crowdsourcing when the numbers are hidden. I understand why its done on posts about politics or posts about argumentative topics. But sometimes people ask genuinely complex questions and the always-awesome HN crowd weighs in with great answers based on their experience. However, we can't see which answer has the most backers, or which answer most people consider right. It defeats the purpose of the wisdom of the crowd when the wisdom of the crowd is hidden.
Can you enable an option to allow a submitter in the "Ask HN" section to activate comment upvote/downvote counters?
I'd recommend frozen veg over canned. I also make a little "well" in the middle of the wok for the egg to get it cooked up a bit before mixing with the rice. Otherwise it can get a bit mushy/gooey.
You can specify your own password for the keystore. If you do this, they can't access the keys (well, outside of nefarious sniffing we'll assume for the moment they aren't doing). You also can't access your data if you forget it.
I disagree. It doesn't make Chaffetz look like a SOPA supporter. It just makes him look like someone who believes in stereotypes and put-downs.
There appear to be two complaints:

1) Apple hasn't made clear enough that by using "iBooks Author", the only distribution channel you can use is Apple (de facto in that you must pay them, regardless of how you distribute).

2) There is disagreement that this is a good direction at all.

Point #1 is the one made by the author of the submission. With regard to point #2, I feel that Apple should be free to do what they want with their platform. I also feel that people should be free to openly disagree with them.
I mean, I don't think you need to be particularly tech-savvy to have come across the adage "never keep your eggs in one basket".
I think Spolsky's point is that it's more unfair to redistribute equity when one person has decided not to draw salary. 'Salary' might give the wrong impression since I assume it's just enough money so that you don't starve.

The point about the risk of default is real but I wouldn't say that 'deserves substantial additional compensation'. If they're putting in substantial funds then yes, that's more like investment but if we're talking about comparatively small sums (as I believe Spolsky was referring to) then I see it as less of an issue. Presumably, all founders have aligned interests. Also, you could argue that founders still have the opportunity cost of not taking those high-paying job in MegaCorp.
Does an iframe really buy any security?

A malicious entity who seizes control of your page rendering could replace the javascript, sure. They could also replace the iframe loading code. I don't see why one would be any more or less of a risk than the other.

A full browser redirect will at least show a valid certificate in the URL bar and alert (savvy) users to shenanigans... assuming the user understands that "Stripe, Inc" is a legitimate payment service. Which they almost certainly don't, so the attacker just needs a (free, easy-to-obtain) certificate for any domain that looks plausible.

The underlying problem is that the trust model for credit card processing is fundamentally broken. There really aren't any rules - at least related to the technology for rendering a "type in your cc #" form - that can fix this.