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I'm not saying it can't/doesn't happen. I'm saying it hinders such laws, if not stops them. Obamacare was achieved only after an ENORMOUS fight, at tremendous cost (politically and financially), and is still embattled upon the verge of being overturned. Point is that filling a void is easier than having to empty one first.
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For example, the business model of Evernote would seem to suggest otherwise.
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Someone on HN posted a link to "Century of the Self" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

Basic takeaway for me was dictatorships control by abject force, democracies keep things in check by pandering to irrationalism (ie. consumerism and mass media).

My take on this whole matter is perhaps framing this as a desire to protect Hollywood is a bit of a ruse. Wikileaks, the Middle East uprisings, Occupy Wallstreet, etc, are beginning to send a message.

Let's face it, the issues raised by SOPA and Protect IP have been a 'problem' for quite a while now. So why now exactly? And why has the public been almost completely unaware of this legislation? Technology is too enabling and things are happening too quickly. The US government is fearing a threat that things are about to run off the tracks. I consider this bill just one of many that will be coming down the pike in various forms - the meta message simply being a war against technology, or trying to contain it to keep the concept of American life in check. Now that the word is getting out about this a retreat and rethink is in order to figure out how to broach legislation that moves toward this goal. All the other side has to do is frame this as "we're moving toward being like China" and the propaganda machine is thrown for a loop, because clearly, that is the idea to be avoided. Our US concept of prosperity is defined by that contrast. It's the new Cold War. But China isn't the adversary. We are.

Apologies for the conspiracy theorist tone. But yeah, we're just getting started.
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It's not hand holding when you're trying to introduce someone to programming. Learning to use a REPL isn't a test to separate good programmers from bad. It's something that has to be learned first.
There's software for desktop Linux that lets you access iTunes U, so I don't think there is anything stopping Android from being able to as well apart from developers' motivations.
In effect, doesn't the President already have line item veto? If there are items he doesn't agree with, he should signal that he will veto until they are removed.
The "Collective Intelligence" books, by Alag and by Marmanis / Babenko, are well done (source code is java). Along with NLP texts by Jurafsky/Martin and Manning / Schütze, and Norvig/Russell AI text, and a large number good texts on data mining(1st one i bought by Witten /Frank, has been recently updated and has lots weka examples), should give you a good base. The database collection and cleaning (spidering, scraping/info extraction, database dedup/record linkage) is the part that's not as ewll documented.

http://www.manning.com/alag/

http://www.manning.com/marmanis/
That's actually laid out quite nicely. And in theory, I really like it.

However, it's kind of like a last line of defense, where the rest of the defense is entirely broken. It's putting all your faith in that last line of defense, and hoping that the right scenario will play out. Eventually, it too, will fail. Still, the first line of defense has to be fixed. With that being said, it's a step in the right direction.
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Very useful service, I'm adding it to bookmarks. This and http://instantdomainsearch.com/ really make choosing domain names a lot easier.
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If you read the article it says he counts stuff like you were buying it at a store. Laptop and charger count as one item. He also said he only counts things he can resell for value so socks and underwear don't count either.
It looks great, it's fast, and the keyword combinations for my query were excellent. Great job and I hope this takes off for you!
If you found them in the first 20 minutes of using the program, there's a good chance they've been already reported. Search the bug database before submitting, if these are indeed new bugs, developers won't mind if you submit a bunch of them in one go.
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I don't have much to add, other that this QR code is a timed one-time pad, so it expires rather quickly.

Visit the site and leave it open for a few minutes, and you'll get an expiration popup. So, people aren't going to be rummaging through the cache or snapping a screenshot at the cafe and going home and logging in as you.
As it stands, I only see codeacademy being useful for programmers who are new to Javascript. If you're completely new to programming, there are too many problems, like the article mentions, that are difficult to get past without knowing... programming!
I'm afraid this doesn't stack up well to the existing tools our there. Here's a comparison of your results with the tool I use most often when searching for a domain:

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=big+daddy
http://www.domaintools.com/buy/domain-suggestions/?q=big+dad...

Domaintools' name spinner just gives better results, and immediately tells me about availability for all the .tlds as well.

So I guess step one would be to get your tool at least as good as that.

Good luck!
You almost have my opinion changed to agree with you that the people who are offended are right to be offended. But honestly, isn't it a little naive to think that the company holding your data won't have some access to it? I tend to believe that unless it's on a machine you own then someone else can and will look at it in some way. They may not look at the contents but they most certainly will check out the file type, size, name, date created, etc.

Now if you upload "HowToBeat37Signals.docx" to Basecamp you should probably assume two things. There's the possibility, however remote, that someone not authorized will see it (that possibility exists on every farmed out service, no server is hacker proof despite GoDaddy's little badges) and if someone does see it and it gets leaked or used against you, you'll have a damn good chance of suing the bejesus out of them.

The word trust is the key word here. Whenever you use a service to store sensitive material there has to be some level of trust. I think it's a mistake to trust that no one within the company or as a result of a security breach will absolutely never ever see what you've stored. What you do trust is that the odds of that happening are supremely low and if someone were to see your data (at least within the company) that they won't use it against you or share it. History has shown us that no web service is 100% secure and reliable so if you aren't comfortable with your odds then you shouldn't use the service. I for one assume everything I've ever put online is not secure. I'm comfortable with my odds though and bank on the fact that no one will take something written or created by a nobody like me very seriously or care at all.
Hehe. You and me both. I woke up realizing how much I enjoy mediamatters for calling out this stuff after the fact, while also realizing how little it matters when it's that late.

Should I get the chance again, I'm going to be ready for whatever madness they throw at me.
I thought those "lite" versions are essentially the "trial period" apps. Refund window is problematic as Google witnessed (and thus stopped it); but then again, if your app cannot provide me long term value then may be you deserve a refund.
You just listed the countries where your domain is most likely to be seized by the government. Well, maybe add UAE and Saudi Arabia for completeness' sake.

I don't think a call from Washington DC to any country is enough to shut down domains, otherwise, what would the US need SOPA for?
>An MPG tracking app that gives me nice Excel sheets might not be enough to warrant $10 in the eyes of users, and I don't think that's necessarily Apple's fault or the market's fault. Maybe it's just that the niche you're targeting won't sustain the price you want, and unfortunately, that's the way the cookie crumbles when selling software like this.

Gas Cubby is a terrific app and I don't believe it's a niche. I think it's rather important in the US where many drive cars just because it reminds you where servicing is due. It suffers on gas station and prices because it's not easy to get these stats and prices change on a daily basis. I think the app suffers from a lack of advertisement.

There is still room for improvement within the app and to make it a necessity for all drivers.
I did the same thing with my sister(who doesn't know any code) and the same issues came up with her as well. This is definitely a design issue. How to make the UI better?

In the initial stages of learning of learning a concept, have a dialogue appear for each error saying something like:

When you're coding in the real world no one is going to tell you this, but we've got your back! You forgot the quotes around your name. This problem occurs because some programming languages are case-sensitive, meaning that you have to type it in exactly the way Javascript wants you to. We'll give you a heads up about using quotes 4 more times and after that you're on your own.

To fix this error type in: "Janet".length instead of Janet.length
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37signals really doesn't want to be the bad guy. They're not. And this whole thing is ridiculous. If you were to evaluate 37signals on a 0-to-9 scale, based on how "evil" they are, you might give them a 0 or a 1. What if the scale went the other way as well? There isn't just evil, there's apologist. And it too can lay the groundwork for unfruitful results.

37signals' target demo is smart, well-to-do, logical. They shouldn't have to apologize. As their logical demo, we should know better. We know that if the filename was MyBossIsAnAsshole.docx or even MyWeddingPhoto.jpg that 37signals wouldn't have had to think for a second on the appropriate thing to do. As logical thinkers, we know why cat.jpg is funny as it pertains to our demographic. We know that MyWeddingPhoto.jpg wouldn't be funny.

The whole burn 'em at the stake routine is asinine.
OS X 16.0.912.75 here, running smoothly, until I tested the Konami-code version and had also the 3D-editor activated.
3. IDEs are perfectly able to "tell you if you hover over the method with your mouse as well as when you're creating the method" for dynamically languages.

Which IDEs and for which languages? The best I've seen so far was Emacs+Semantic for Python, and it's still totally uncomparable to what Eclipse, or MSVS, or Emacs+Semantic for C or Java offers.
I doubt most web apps encrypt file names before they're written to logs.

I'd think the number of apps doing this is much smaller than those that don't, and even then only in cases where file names are replaced with hashes or GUIDs for directory reasons, not for the sake of information security.
Oops, I guess I missed a file when I pushed. I'll try and fix it later today. Basically I'll provide an iPhone app that will read the code, check the signature and authenticate the device/user account. The idea is that a single iPhone app can be used to log into many different web sites (or be used as a second factor authentication). It's still "pre-alpha" for sure.
After over year of effort working with Java for a secure 3d rendering on the web page solution (WebGL's not secure), I gave up on Java around the Holidays. Oracle or MS or someone in their food chain keeps crapping on Java's ability to run applets in the browser. After the 6th time in a year the stupid thing broke due to external reasons, I quit. Now we have WebGL behind a paywall, which is all the security this situation needs. And Java is on the curb, yet again.
For example, an excellent synth app like this would probably sell for at least $99 as a plugin for Mac/PC:
http://beepstreet.com/horizon

I don't know for sure but I'd be very surprised if it's moving 20x the units it would as a plugin. But if you price something like this above $10 you'll get all kinds of user outrage because that's not what an "app" should cost.
I wonder what they would have done had it been named "Basecamp Competitor Business Plan.pdf". Would have been awfully tempting to take a peak. Exactly why they shouldn't even be looking at filenames.
If you wanna stick to that analogy, what would be the equivalent of a "live concert" in the app world?
Can you explain why you believe this story was appropriate for Hacker News? What discussion was this supposed to generate?
I wonder if parent was merely advocating obfuscating sensitive data so that engineers don't accidentally see things like "Downsizing-2012.xls". As long as the obfuscation is reversible, the data is still there for those who need it.

Of course, encryption per se is overkill for that. Something like ROT13 would do the trick.
Not a bad tool. I'd get excited if it let me also see results for .org and .net domains. Seeing information about search volume for exact match searches would also be interesting.
This is exactly what I do and I've switch friends and family over as well.

Whenever they bring up the perceived inconvenience (which goes down on the desktop with practice) I simply remind them how much time they will waste if one of their accounts is compromised.

Sure their foursquare (or pick another random service that doesn't hold EXTREMELY important data) account isn't that important but when it uses their Gmail address and has the same password they are just begging for trouble.

Also this gets them out of logging on to their Gmail and Facebook accounts from public computers. They still don't fully understand the possible problems but at least now it is such an inconvenience they just use their own devices.
Domain Pigeon was a brilliant site, I mourned its loss. It's wonderful to see that you've built a new site.

The execution is simple and easy to use. I'd be conservative when it comes to adding features or futzing too much with the UX. I find the color scheme very readable, although of course that might be different for some people. Thumbs up from me.

A post-search filtering mechanism might be useful, although of course you'll want to balance the benefit of a feature like that with the impact it would have on the elegance and simplicity of the design.
It would be great if the whole result table was searchable. Love the concept. Maybe add option for .net?
Firstly, as someone else pointed out, this was written over 2 years ago.

Pricing must also take into account the distribution power of the app store and the actual usage medium.

iPad app prices are higher is a good example but then again this was written pre-iPad.
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Here are two very useful things that you could add:

1. For registered domains check to see if there's actually a live site. This would narrow the list of domains that could be purchased.

2. Also for registered domains check to see if the domain is for sale or auction.
I use "desktop search" apps as my UI, forgoing and hiding as much as a I can, things like the Dock and Start Menu.

On Mac, I use Spotlight. CMD+Space to activate.

On Windows, I use the default Windows search functionality in Windows 7, it's fantastic. Windows key to activate.

On Linux, I used Beagle a bit.

Here's a list for further research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_...
I don't have any issue with the way he counts his things. But seriously, he must eat at resturants most of the time.
The idea is, sure, but can it? Zepto is supposed to be a drop-in replacement too, and it definitely isn't.
>OP's 'minimalism' is sustained by a reliance upon huge amounts of infrastructure, most of it environmentally unsustainable.

That's true. On the other hand it's there. All that infrastructure wasn't installed for his use exclusively. So, yes, I agree he's just moving the ownership from personal to distributed corporate/community. It's somewhat comparable to playing lose with accounting rules and moving money into off-shore banks. But, even homeless people utilize what is out there for them to use -like shopping carts, fast food restaurants, etc. I'ts not as though they become wilderness foragers.

>OP outsources the burden of sustaining his lifestyle to people poorer and browner than himself.

That's a bit of unnecessary inflammatory dressing.

He (or someone else) could have easily done the same thing in China, or Finland or South Korea or Greece. Or, similarly, someone brown could have done similar. Not all browns over the world are destitute, as one might portray.
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Some of the comments on TOI are interesting, as it has garnered allot of them.
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He's also here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pierrefar
Totally personal preference. I would rather have a language be concise and the documentation verbose than the other way around or with both verbose.

Having it be verbose is great for learning, but after a short while syntax like:

do_send_email(recipient, cc, subject, body)

is much better for quickly reading code. Plus, reading the docs is hugely important. Having to check every now and then is great for getting you back into them.
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It's a much needed cleanup of something that's always resulted in clutter in my code. C# has had this feature for over a decade. Nice to see Java adding this since I have a lot of Java code to maintain. Like a lot of Java devs we're switching over to Scala for new projects and using vanilla Java for legacy code. Automatic resource management can be implemented trivially in Scala without the need for a new language feature to support it. Structural subtyping is awesome!
I've always found it easier to just explain the messages by calling them functions, otherwise people will often get wrapped up in their previous conceptions of messages in programming.
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That's interesting, though it's hardly true that "this guy owns just 15 things", which is what the title says. Meanwhile, fuckit, I got an actual viable list down to eleven:

1) toothbrush

2) macbook

3) phone

4-5) charger for macbook, phone USB cable

6) some ID

7) jeans (you're going commando here)

8) shoes

9) heavy shirt/sweater type thing

10) a bag

And...

(laaa - that's angels singing) Credit card.

Bon voyage! You might want to buy a coat at the airport, and deoderant.
I really like it, but it's giving me plenty of results for domains that are already taken: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=commerce
On a side note, the graphic that illustrates code size compared to Zepto and jQuery libraries is a bit misleading.

The shading and reflections suggest that the objects on the illustration are spheres, for which the volume ratio of jQuery to jQ.Mobi is about 500:1. If the objects are circles then the area ratio is still around 60:1.

One can argue that it's more or less OK for the radius ratio, but IMO the chart gives a falsy impression in general.
Thanks for the feedback.

Excluding the other TLDs, how are Domain Tools's results better? Looking through the 20 that you linked to, they seem much poorer than Lean Domain Search's, though I admit I am a bit bias.

Also, IMO other TLDs do not make good website names. They confuse normal people, which is why I did not include them in the Lean Domain Search results.
I own a minivan that's dusty/muddy/salty.

I would definitely be very happy if I walked outside and found that my van was cleaned up, even without my knowledge.

The whole "leave your car unlocked so we can clean the interior" thing scares me a bit, though. The audio system in my van is worth $1k+ and it could be easily removed in the time it takes to do a car wash. :I
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I'm really surprised to see the designed-for-desktop PulseAudio beat the designed-for-mobile AudioFlinger solution.

Of course, the article was just playing two sample files. We don't know yet how well PulseAudio would do in a real-world situation when all system audio is going through it.
Like you say, everyone knows they can access your files. It's naive to assume that they won't. Of course you wouldn't expect them to be doing this on a large, detailed scale but I think we all assume they occasionally see someone's file. The laissez faire responses wouldn't be the demise of SaaS, we're just being realistic about things. Trust is absolutely paramount when using these services but I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. Trusting that they won't see the files isn't the thing to trust. You trust that you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than of having an employee or attacker read and/or share the contents of that file.
I'm impressed that this mea culpa ended with a reasonably tasteful plug for the next 37s product release.
In the age before the Internet, the exact same thing happened to music subcultures - hippies, punks, ravers etc started out as small groups of pioneers, consciously trying to do something new. Over time those scenes became flooded with posers and wannabes, most of whom had no idea that what they were doing was counter to the original principles. The original pioneers moved on to something new.

The same lifecycle seems to be a property of online communities, except at a much faster rate. The phenomenon even has a name (Eternal September), named for Usenet's annual flooding with college freshmen who did not understand the rules or culture of the community. Eventually the irregular floods became a torrent as Usenet opened up (via AOL and Google Groups), and the community died.

Are online communities destined to have a limited lifecycle, either stagnating or collapsing under the weight of their own popularity? What can (or should) be done to maximize valuable conversations?
First, a distinction whether we are dealing with sparse data (nearly-binary data) or dense data (nearly-continuous) should be made. Second, a distinction whether we are calculating similarity for an unsupervised or a supervised problem should be made. Then, present most common similarity measures and variable selection algorithms for each of four type of problems.

This is a vast area of research. Diving head on might result in serious injury. For example, R statistical package simba (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/simba/index.html) lists 56 different similarity/dissimilarity measures just for binary data.
I see where you are coming from... What exactly do we say to our Canadian representative if the law dosen't exist here? Do we just ask them to toughen their Extradition policies so if a law does get passed and were liable for anything we don't get sent over (See case of UK guy running a tv site) or do we ask them to call the US and share how Canadians feel?