skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I predict that Anonymous will face the same emotional reaction as al'Qaida.
"We will never bend to terrorists."

And I support this sentiment. Anonymous is retarded, and HN is retarded for not coming out strongly against them.
Feds Shut Down Megaupload.com File-Sharing Website
That's true, I know my mom would imagine the DoJ site was some sort of super site and think it an incredible feat to bring it down.
Exactly. Without a definition of "daily activity" it's a meaningless stat.
It's reasonable to ask for a cut on your software output, if the author is giving it out for free. While should they give out their work for free to people who are going to make money out of it?

Actually, asking for a cut could become a standard option for selling software where you would offer at customer's choice:

- GPL;

- commercial license, paid upfront;

- commercial license, paid by royalties.

That way, people who don't agree to the GPL, but still think your commercial license is too expensive compared to their expected earnings would have a further option: no gain, no pain.

As a side note, one of the reasons I prefer software which comes with standard licenses (GPL, BSD, etc.) is that I know what those licenses say, and I can click on "I agree" without worrying about the fine print. If the license text differs in some way from its template, authors are explicit about that.
> If this product only working in a proprietary format would cause people to not complain--- because obviously the product was built to support the iBookStore-- then really the outrage is that you can use the product for other uses as well, Right?

I think that's the point. You can't use it for other purposes. This is classic bait-and-switch. It has all of the appearances of a content-creation tool like people have used for decades, but it is not.
I'm really starting to like G+. I added the HN circle so now my stream is full of tech stuff. I may never even add personal friends, just let all the baby talk stay on Facebook.
They remapped backslash to esc. Kind of a pain since you have to go through 2 keyboards to get to it, but it works.
riaa.org, mpaa.org, and universalmusic.com I could see being unpatched, but I would have thought justice.gov would have to be patched for compliance reasons.
UK spied on Russians with fake rock
Do you happen to speak Arabic by any chance? :)
Looks like you need to send them across through iTunes.
Yeah, no amount of logic matters when appealing to the general public. Right now, the average person thinks Megaupload anonymously took down the DOJ.
Wow, the only thing missing now is Git / Github.
That's great for browsing but I can't picture coding in an editor where I need to stop and look for common command keys. At the moment vim is efficient because [esc]10dd or something but it's just not viable without a keyboard. For reviewing code or making quick edits however this could be incredible.

I wonder if it supports plugins.
That sounds about right to me. Though obviously there's a spectrum there. One assumes Google's hope is that as the adoption grows, the "None of my friends are on" problem will progressively disappear. When some of your friends are on G+, you'll start posting stuff there. And until then it's a cool way to learn about the restaurants frequented by Lennart Poettering.
Jon Stewart is addressing SOPA at The Daily Show
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Quite right. That earlier rant about the moral superiority of piracy was just embarrassing. Nobody who produces anything of value needs to be told that they should be giving it away for free. They can choose to give it away, but being required to do so is another matter entirely.

If everybody who believes that copyright is completely unnecessary were to die today, the total amount of useful, worthwhile art produced by the world would not decrease.
Nothing about this case makes me fear your future.

I read the indictment. The cause for fear simply isn't there.

It's useless to pretend you're keeping an eye on the government when all you're really doing is getting a tiny shred of information and then getting hysterical because of it.

Please don't pat yourselves on the back simply because you're able to get hysterical with your willfully ignorant, less-than-half-baked ideas about what happened. You aren't doing something noble, you're doing the opposite. You're making it hard to fight REAL fights because you're using energy on bullshit.
33mail.com is what I swear by.
More than on any other thread I've read on Hacker News, I'm driven to say on this in particular: what can we do? Iran's government site runs IIS. Pressure Microsoft to revoke their license (if it's even legit). I'm ready for war. I donated to TOR (I'll never travel to Iran) a couple years ago around the Iranian elections. This scumbag government must tumble.
Twice, although it still brought how reliant I am on it into perspective.
I also just won (gibybo) and am pleased with the process. Overall it was smooth and what I expected, although it would have been cool if the challenge problem I got had sample input/output like some of the practice ones.

My strategy for those who might benefit: I checked out the profiles of all the previous winners today and found that the challenge question was always one of three. I looked up the algorithms and practiced by implementing a python version of each, noting where the tricky parts were. Then when I entered the challenge I used my reference python version and compared them. I was a bit lucky in that the challenge code was roughly laid out the same way as I happened to do it earlier.
A Look at Chupa, The "Mobile Developer's Resource"
Just because NYPD officer makes an arrest in Portland, doesn't mean that they have jurisdiction there.

The government's ability to preform an action does not legitimize that action.
True that, particularly on the meaningful conversation side of things. Like many, I initially approached G+ as a kind of Facebook. I focused on basically friends, coworkers, acquaintances - personal relationships developed through assorted means. That was neat in having a replacement for my Facebook account, but I kept on hearing about noteworthy commentary being posted via links to G+ on hn, reddit, etc so I started exploring with new non-friend circles.

After branching out to my immediate interest areas (tech), a little later I ended up adding Philip Plait (bad astronomy guy), Fraser Cain and other sciencey/astronomy folks. The amazing Hangouts that these folks do a number of times/week makes me feel really lucky to have access to such a resource. Certainly having some degree of access to experts in assorted fields is nothing new thanks to the internets, but G+ has, in my view, made such interactions far more accessible.

I can only imagine that there are other groups doing awesome things with G+ who I have not yet found.
A few more months and it will probably surpass Twitter. How many users does Twitter have about now? 120 million?
You need to look into what interpol notices mean, they don't correspond to how wanted a person is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_notice

Assange should have turned himself over to the police in the beginning instead of leaving Sweden with such haste and refusing to be heard by the swedish police. Instead he used the political climate surrounding wikileaks as an excuse to stay away and started to paint a picture of Sweden as a third world country regarding it's legal system. It's classic stalling technique, the longer he can stay away the less the other witnesses and himself remembers.
Seriously. They're taking down websites. If it was, like, eBay or Amazon or something, and 100% of business was conducted through their website, it would be meaningful. In this case, no business goes through the website, and it just seems like it would be an annoyance.
In the Good Old Days, you had to pay a royalty to your compiler vendor when you sold a copy of your own program.

So what Apple is doing is legal and has precedent. But it's stupid so I hope and expect that they will fix this.
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Sure would like to know where Visual Studio falls in this. I would think giving away all versions of VS would only benefit Windows and Server sales by encouraging more developers.
Anonymous takes out DoJ, RIAA in response to Megaupload.com take-down
Ahh, pure e-thuggery. I'm sure the DOJ will think twice about using international treaties to enforce federal law next time?
Will thank you Anonymous! you and occutards are responsible for SOPA, PIPA and NDAA without you we couldn't have had all this fun thank you!!! middle fingers extends
As a moderate-liberal firmly embedded in a very liberal university, I nevertheless think that support for or against SOPA/PIPA falls less on liberal-conservative lines (see, e.g. http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ ) than some other axis that might be either tech-savvy or might be something like being supported heavily by big-media producers.

It's not too surprising, then, that the other mainstream conservative (or at least conservative-ish) newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp, came out in favor of SOPA/PIPA.
The government seems to have a whole slew of charges lined up against MU, so they'd likely be able to get MU on one technicality or another. I'm guessing, however, that they're aiming to prove that MU encouraged copyright violation. I.e., intent is a very important part of the law.
Yup, it is great Phish lets you record their livesets, it is their choice. It is also the choice of Anthony Hamilton to ask you not to copy his new CD without paying for it. Artist choice, not consumer.
Well, I don't buy into the strategic effectiveness of shutting down the DOJ website, but didn't the DOJ/Universal/the RIAA just do the same thing?

There are of course laws that say one side (the one who makes the laws) has the right to take down sites and the other doesn't, but the justness of those laws is an entirely different question.
And say, with your wife and children ? Would you share it with them or make them pay too ? And when you listen to the music, streaming, with friends at a party you throw, do they all have to pay ?
Google search has about 1 billion visitors per month. Turning 9% of them into Google+ users in 6 months is not too bad.
According to a tweet it's around 5600 guys with LOIC.

"The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites! #Anonymous"

https://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/status/16013585889533542...
It sure would be nice if it didn't require Skype. Still, I'm enjoying doing the practices.
Maybe the majority of the content was copyright-protected, but that's not always bad. Of course, I'm not talking about the last Photoshop with crack or the new Brad Pitt movie. I'm talking about that old fanzine scanned by someone, which is now the only online copy; about the first demo tape of your favourite band; that movie of 1940 which nobody has anywhere... Contents that can't be found anywhere. Yes, they're infringing copyright, but in fact that's good. Cause if they weren't in MegaUpload (or similar site) they would not were anywhere.

PS: I don't think HN has degraded so much to megadownvote good comments with good reasons, although they don't represent the supposed mainstream ideas.
Apple doesn't own the Apps that you create or claim partial ownership of it. Your code and it's output belongs to you. The developer license is offensive in it's own way but that's a different issue than what's happening here with iBooks
It's worth noting that Windows Server lives in a different category, and so it actually counts against Windows being a cash cow in this case. Its category, which includes SQL Server, is the one that beat out "Windows and Windows Live".

To put it another way, Windows was partially beaten by another Windows for cash cow status.

So don't count it out just yet.
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I think you don't realize that my comment was a response to noonespecial: First they come for the sites that are 90/10 pirate to legit. ... When will it be too much? When does it become unreasonable?

So, I think the quotation was very fitting for the occasion, because it means exactly that. They may start taking people in custody because of a seemingly legit reason (in this case, copyright infringement, in the case of Nazi Germany, the Dolchstoßlegende). But power corrupts, and if they start passing laws to control more and more and more the Internet, who will be the next? It can be Reddit, an editor of Wikipedia, or even You.

But of course, if you wish to honor your nickname, that's not my problem :) have a nice day.
Someone with legal expertise should go over this looking for something that's less obviously harmful. I can't imagine Apple's legal team not realizing this would come out.
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...um, not really. MegaUpload was basically one massive excuse for piracy. YouTube has licensing deals with many content publishers, and at least strives for legitimacy.
What's the biggest advantage over SSHing to your server?
Is the interface optimized?

I mean, you're almost never offline these days, so local storage can't be it, right?

I suggest mapping 'jj' to ESC rather than '\'
When I used MQ, it was to modify history in a way equivalent to some of git's features. Versioning that defeats the purpose.
They actually have various ways to compile Python. So that's an especially apt comparison :-)
The key difference is that, unlike text editors, version control systems have substantial network effects.

That's not entirely true, in the sense that popular editors tend to have more extensions, syntax highlighting for more languages, auto-completion, etc... That helps draw in more users.

I just don't see where people would be having the same experience with Mercurial.

Well, there's bitbucket. IIRC some programming language communities have standardized on even more off-mainstream VCS.

But yeah, on the whole Git got an advantage in users somewhere along the way, and that's now self-reinforcing. It helps that there's no competition that's obviously better.
I believe you're just thinking about "Norway prisons" not "Scandinavian prisons". It's probably just Norway that has those prisons in some kind of natural reservations.
What do "occutards" have to do with this?

And do you really think that the media industry wouldn't have pushed for SOPA and PIPA if not for them?

Indeed, they were pushing for laws like PIPA and SOPA long before Anonymous and Occupy even existed.
This is a fantastic way to get knee-jerk laws passed. (Think patriot act).

I would not doubt it if this was in fact a hacker hired by the MPAA.
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Thanks Dan for the support!
The photographers seem to be having a strong community on G+ and G+ is the place where us amateurs can be exposed to their awesomeness. And talented those people are.

In the last few months, I have noticed many HN posts linking to Google+ posts. G+ is becoming a strong blogging platform and because Google is pushing rel=author so hard, soon it won't matter WHERE you wrote it (domain), it will matter WHO wrote it (author). That's why I see A+ bloggers adopting G+ soon.
It's a derived work in the same way that linking to stdlib from your program makes it a derived work. Which is to say, no, it's not reasonable to call books you wrote with this tool to be considered a derived work.
Using the term "criminal" to describe somebody has already paid their debt to society for the crimes they were convicted of last decade is, to put it lightly, not polite.
Visual Studio is part of that Server and Tools division's $4.8 billion in revenue.
You're not interpreting the constitution correctly. People have the right to due process, and are presumed innocent of their crimes such that they cannot be punished for them without a guilty verdict. Web sites (like other property) do not. They are things, and often evidence, and they can (subject to the fourth amendment requirement for a warrant) be seized in the course of an investigation.
I believe it's because cloudflare also acts as the root DNS for the domain, so in order for it to work for google and facebook, they would have to deliberately point their nameservers at cloudflare's DNS.
I agree on ethics. No one can prove right or wrong, so it has limited charm. I think though, that most would understand that beyond ethics, piracy is directly compromising the agreement that the producer sets out- similar to lying or stealing in that it's not admirable behavior, regardless of how many Johnny Depp posters you have put up (like one of the pro-piracy blogs that was posted earlier.)

Don't get me wrong, I don't support these asinine bills, however I do see people who pirate as directly supporting them. Which is upsetting because they're creating a demand and a rationale for censorship, which affects everyone.

On the same note, I see bandied around that the bills creators don't understand the fundamental architecture of the Internet and the damage it would cause. I see, "pirates," as not understanding the fundamental architecture of capitalism and ignoring the damage it causes.

Specifically, the exchange of resources where both parties benefit.

If a provider wants exposure and wants to give away their product for exposure, that's up to them, not anyone else. And for digital products it's a hell of a lot easier to provide them public domain or open source than it is to sell them.

However, exposure doesn't pay the bills. I am self employed and I see similar sentiments expressed on a regular basis. Product or service provider, if what I provide is valuable enough for you to ask for or steal, I obviously don't need the exposure that bad. There was a $6,000 photograph post up earlier that expressed the same idea.

If you liked Minecraft, there is nothing to prevent you from paying for it and touting it. Minecraft is an especially relevant example because the developers set the bar so low in regards to price and people still pirated something they claimed to love? That's so bizarre to me- I want to support independent developers much more so than the big guys and they weren't asking for much.
I don't think he was comparing it to mass genocide. He simply said "Oh that reminds me of this other text read".

I thought exactly the same thing. The text is structurally very similar, possibly on purpose, or it may just be an obvious structure.
I'm highly doubtful that that's all that's happening. I simply can't see a 5600-strong botnet (voluntary or not) holding down 4 independent domains simultaneously.

On a separate note, I would have thought they had learned their lesson re: LOIC after OP:Payback. I guess we'll be seeing another string of arrests in the coming months.
Isn't this sort of the same thing Amazon requires for their Kindle Direct Publishing program?
That's a logical point. But compliance with what? All I can find after a quick google search is National Institue of Technology GUIDELINES, and the only laws mentioned seem to deal with user privacy.

In fact, the only compliance regulations I know of with government sites have to do with accessibility.

[EDIT] Wait, I might be wrong. The DoD guide seems to cite quite a few regs, some of which may apply to the Justice department. Too bad I can't check their site :P

http://www.defense.gov/webmasters/policy/dod_web_policy_1207...
You can't compare numbers if you don't have them. Aside from partially-reliable anonymous sources like Glassdoor and Vault, how do you know what an engineer of her experience and skill set is making in her area?
So slots appear to be like text frames that the content flows through?

That would be a useful extension if it got more widespread usage.

The thought that occurs to me though is whether this will appear in webkit at some stage or if it is just for the closed source iBooks side of things.

The list posting at W3C suggests that at least some of it may appear in the public webkit at some stage.
I wouldn't mind some of the big users of git summarizing the "best practices" they arrived at in a nice presentation.
Also, unfortunately, a PR opportunity for the RIAA who can now point to the wild west of the internet and the fact that sites like Megaupload are supported by the most "dangerous" hackers in the world, the guys who took down the DOJ.
How soon before DHS labels the entire internet as a "terrorist organization" so they can search it without warrants and police it without due process?

Ooh, wait.
I think on thing that PG is trying to get across, that he and the YC team have said so often, they like teams that are scrappy. Because this is a two way street. As PG said, people change so does everything else. What worked today might not work in a week. I think YC is trying to grasp how things are changing so they can become proactive.

But at the same time, I would kill (metaphorically) for an opportunity to get into YC. If I give in because my idea isn't working or another company in the same industry/space takes off and starts having success, what does that say about me?

On one side PG is trying notice the trend. On the other side he is saying, if we fund you, you better freaking bring it!

Everyone has to get better, including the people who are/will not ever be apart of YC. The connection is the will to win. Sometimes how you inspire that in people just needs a little bit of tweaking.
If anything, SOPA/PIPA supporters will use this as an argument that the government needs more power in controlling the internet. The great firewall will only see more justification from such actions.
You are absolutely right. But I didn't write that sentence, because I think it applies to everyone, not only American.

In one example, take the Arab Spring for example, making governments fall thanks in part to the free flow of information (via internet).

Or Spain's Sinde Law (which brings SOPA-like restrictions to Spain).

We are a global community now. So it applies to everyone, everywhere.
How is this different from people sharing a paid Dropbox account and uploading DVDs?
Facebook may be on the social front...but if you look at it from a different angle, the fact that data is being collected on all fronts, from search, email, video, social and DNS, Google is the single monopoly.
not sure what this is yet... but it looks fun, and pretty too!
Chris Dodd is Now the CEO of the MPAA
Super Audio CD and DVD Audio were both introduced around the turn of the century.
4 Things that will happen now that Apple has launched textbooks.
>"every time it gets in the press"
Sounds like a pretty effective demonstration to me.
Where is the hidden fee?
The purpose of the interview is to find people who will make good founders. It is not a salon for intellectuals to sit around and be "comfortable debating and discussing ideas in an extremely logical and thoughtful way". It's closer to a boxing match. We're definitely not looking for people to "smile and nod". In fact, we sometimes make misleading suggestions in order to see how founders respond, so simply agreeing with everything is definitely not a winning strategy.
Come on ! That's exactly what happens everyday. When you pitch some creative work, you know you're throwing it to the winds and hope the pitched guy will see more benefit in hiring you than in copying it. You cannot protect art in general.

I've worked for very decent folks (google in Dublin to name one) and very undecent ones. When you are not a mainstream artist, when you are part of the profesional artists crowd (people who live from it but don't make millions) which is the overwhelming majority of artists, you don't give a damn about all this bullshit on piracy. But you do pay attention on the fact that anything that further strenghtens big corporations will in turn make your situation more fragile.