skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's caused people to create and publish far more interesting content in a single day than you can consume in a single day. We are transiting through a tipping point where locating and filtering content is becoming more valuable than creating it.

I doubt that this is very recent. This has been going on for the last 150 years, if not 200 years. By the time the internet become widespread, we are already trapped in a deluge of information.
Please. This is the manager's side of the argument whenever there is miscommunication. There are 100 you things you can do to fix communication problems.

Besides being overly general without any anecdotes, this article completely overlooks that there are solutions to miscommunication on both sides of the table, and that some people simply are not suited to work together, whether in a investor-to-founder relationship, or at the manager-employee level.
Even just syntax highlighting and being able to use split windows makes it very useful for things like code review or just browsing code on an iPad.
Oh, snap. The reported death(s) of G+ seem to be greatly exaggerated.

I know some folks are saying there's a lot of fake accounts on G+ but I think that's true for the same percentage, if not more across all social networks.
LOL if there is a perfect case for SOPA to be passed this is one one site that should be taken down. Are you guys kidding me ? This should be in our favor. You take down this one but this one is totally different then say "google". Show them the difference and SOPA will stay away from the real websites that matter.
Well, I am in a cube farm, my "team" is distributed so I am lucky that nobody every sees me.

Besides, you ever notice the more important the person the later they come in? None of the SVPs at my company are ever in before noon.
Yeah, this was a really bad idea on all counts.

EDIT: I don't care about being downvoted, but I would like to know why anyone thinks this is a good idea? It accomplishes nothing and makes us look bad. I understand why people are upset, but this does not help.
The lock-in would be complete if they change iBooks to only display books that have been published with their variant of epub classes. They don't do this, so would have to agree that you can produce your book any way you want then make it available.

I believe the original author's pain is around the paucity of good EPUB publishing tools, and to have one appear with these restrictions makes them sad. It would have been nice if Apple had said, "If you buy a commercial license to this software for $X we won't constrain your ability to sell the books produced." Then at least there would be a way to use to the tool to produce books that would be salable at both Apple and Amazon's shops.

Clearly Apple sees this as a way to build a library of 'exclusive' content in iBooks and mute the Kindle threat. For me at least that shows me just how threatening the Kindle Fire is to their model.
It makes more sense than many other editors, since you get a ton of functionality without modifier keys thanks to the modal interface, but it's still way better with a bluetooth keyboard.
College textbooks are generally written by professors who already get paid, in part, for producing scholarly work.

Although textbooks don't get as much respect as original research, any money at all is more than they get for research articles (i.e., zero).
If you bothered to read the indictment, you'd see they weren't complying and that they were actively facilitating.
Trips - http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm

Trips -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspe...

WIPO - http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/

WIPO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Org...
My knee jerk reaction here is to fist pump and go "yea!" I do wonder though if this accomplishes much. I don't think these sites are really that integral to anyone's day, and unless they can somehow keep them down it's a short lived thing.
Stupid question time:
Why isn't the title "Death sentence for Canadian web programmer"?

My naive reading of the article indicates that the man in question is a canadian citizen who was arrested when he visited Iran.
Doesn't the FBI count as the "Obama administration"? They are in his branch of the government after all.
Wow how ironic - one of the heads of MegaLoad was a musician backed by the RIAA. His wife being an immensely popular pop/soul singer, Alicia Keyes.
For getting started I really liked Toby Segarin's Programming Collective Intelligence. It was my introduction to this area before I went on to produce After the Deadline.
Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout
UN telecommunications agency will decide whether to abolish the leap second
... and the one feature they don't list: iCloud .vimrc sync!
ahhh. i thought they gained access, etc.. thanks for the clarification.
Megaupload.com NZ residents arrested in Internet piracy bust
update: symantec's claiming more source code stolen, now, in a corporate breach.

http://www.scmagazine.com/more-source-code-stolen-says-syman...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Symantec-Confirms-Source-C...

http://news.techworld.com/security/3330880/symantec-admits-s...

evidently pcAnywhere users are at serious risk (source code stolen).

commentary:

http://blogs.cio.com/security/16753/symantecs-new-explanatio...
"can imprison or kill you if that's what they feel like"

Reminds me also of a certain north american country. Oh, never mind.
Awesome news! I was searching on Cydia the other day to see if there was a vim package available... but I'm definitely happy to see this.
I often use physlock from X. It drops you to a virtual console and locks from there.

https://github.com/muennich/physlock
Your first two numbered points are not even close to true. If you bothered to read the indictment, you'd know this.

Sadly, you (like most of HN) are raging without bothering to get any real information first.
The problem is that there is not, and frankly can not be a fixed definition of any of that. We may well all have a common understanding that we all agree is moral and lawful, but the second it makes a government uncomfortable its will suddenly get redefined.

There is a curious thing that happens with language and government. They make up new words or redefine current words to mean what ever their agenda is. For an unrelated example, WMD used to be nukes only, and austerity measures is the new word for cuts. Remember when things needed money? Its resources now.
The biggest advantage of Git's storage model is imo the reflog- I have irretrievably lost work to Mercurial Queues, and that's virtually impossible in Git.
I think the author does say something negative about git, just doesn't say it in a negative way. "When a git user runs into a problem, they look at the tools they have on hand and ask, “how can I combine these ideas to solve my problem?”"

The negative here is that A) git user has to know about all the tools, which takes a long time, and then solving the issue requires quite a bit of thought.

That's one of the problems about git is that as a result of the massive flexibility there doesn't seem to a "standard" way to do things, even basic things. Each org has to develop their own processes which is annoying and difficult for new people in the org.
> Syntactically they're pretty different,

Did you want to say that they are pretty similar? Or semantically different?
Kodak emulsions are fantastic, I will agree with you there. I happen to actually quite like NPH and NPS (or whatever the hell they're called now) and can put in a solid recommendation for Reala, which is available in 120. I'm much more familiar with the Ilford side of the stable, where I generally prefer to go with FP4+ (still IMHO the best all-round B&W and runs rings around Plus-X) and Delta 400. I find I disagree with the TMax emulsions too much to be happy using them, but I'm assuming here that you do, because almost nobody really loves Plus-X... in that case I might recommend Fuji's ACROS as a near TMax 100 substitute. I don't get along with it for the same reasons I don't get along with TMX but it is very good at what it does.
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The press in Czech republic says his name is Julius Bencko, Slovak guy.
Megaupload conspiracy
Not sure that you should be so confident that this will always be a game of whack-a-mole. We're in the wild-west days of the Internet but the government could end up controlling it very tightly in the long run. Look at the latest news out of Iran to see just how monitored and controlled the Internet can become. There's no reason it can't happen here too.
It's a protest, not a battle.
I'm almost surprised the number is so low, given how difficult it is to log into a Google Account and even run a web search without accidentally stumbling onto one of the prolific set of lead-ins it has now.
They're not "criminals" until after the trial. This is the problem people here are having with this.

Site confiscated -> branded criminal -> trial. Is assbackwards.
> I believe OCaml's type inference system is fully decidable Haskell's isn't.

That depends on the extensions you are using.

The biggest difference between the typesystems in practice seems to be the ubiquitous use of type classes in Haskell. OCaml's modules can do the same as type classes, but they require annotations and aren't used as pervasively.
I used vlock for a long time but there were some hangups that caused me to switch to physlock (mentioned above, but here's the URL: https://github.com/muennich/physlock ). It's in Arch's AUR.
This jives with the observation that demand from advertisers grows more slowly than the supply of advertising inventory (ie, potential places to show your ad).
The icky feeling comes from the hypothetical transitivity of such an agreement. It seems like a great way to bootstrap a pseudo-feudal obligation system.

What if everything you made with the OS was similarly hindered? Launch an auto update that effectively bricks your device unless you agree to the new EULA, blah blah nightmare scenario here.

Less hyperbolically, it's like the first concrete step into killing the freedom to read. My biggest concern with iBooks is whether they have remote wipe and whether you can launch books sans DRM.

It's going to be awkward when the PATRIOTSOPA Act of 2022 remote deletes all of my chemistry textbooks because terrorists can learn about exothermic reactions or revises all of the biology textbooks because evolution has been deemed illegal.
Citrix uses Haskell and OCaml in production code. It's predominately open-source, too.
Indeed; I thought it might have been a nostalgia piece until I realized that my memory isn't fuzzy enough that I could have memorized Summify as Summize.
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That's not how the DMCA works - you can notify the site of the content and require them to remove the content and/or any links to it.

Read some samples from ChillingEffects: http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi
Isn't all coding about being too clever?
"any other resourceful folks out there is: how do you approach a problem domain in which you know nothing, and manage to gain enough of a map of the territory so that you listen to someone's one-word suggestions and instantly grasp the implications"

Well, before answers were available online here is how it was done by an example just today.

Although it has nothing to do with my current business, I decided to explore the possibility of renting out luxury cars (high end performance cars).

The first thing I wanted to know about was the insurance.

But if you google "car rental company auto insurance" all you get are links to auto rental insurance (the type you get when you rent a car). I want companies that sell rental insurance to rental companies.

So the old fashion way to do this is to start to make phone calls to hone in on the brokers who handle this type of insurance (I did turn up AON as a vendor because they offer it in the UK but so far w/o a phone call I can't see if they offer it in the US).

So if I decide to pursue this idea I will make some calls and ask questions.

But the other thing I will do is visit a local small car rental agency (they rent beat up trucks) and I will do some form of either social engineering or play the "doing some research" angle after gaining their trust.

Or maybe I will make a deal with the owner to guide me in the business by making him a partner (edit: or paying him for consulting)

So this is something I know nothing about. But in the course of an afternoon so far this is what I came up with to start to vet the idea. If the initial metrics work I will take the idea further.

In other words be curious, ask questions and do some research. This has worked for me in starting three businesses in which I knew nothing about the business.
I don't see the point of this kind of actions. The only inconvenient they cause is taking the site offline a few hours, and the most affected one is the IT manager/team who has to mitigate the attack and bring the server back up. DOJ will not see this as a threat.

Also, this kind of "protests" is too violent, going like this: "I don't agree with you -> I take down your site". It's not a civilized reaction.
Jane Street is a `prop shop' in the lingo of the industry.

You are right, OCaml doesn't see too much use outside of Jane Street, Citrix and a few others. I think the academics mostly left it in favour of Haskell. Also the owner of the OCaml project didn't embrace community development early on. It's more like a cathedral than a bazaar. They are signs showing to change, but it's probably already too late for mainstream popularity.
Exactly. The US can just brand you a terrorist and assassinate you if it feels like it -- even if you're an American citizen -- no need to even extract a false confession under torture or have a sham trial (though there are plenty of those in the US as well). They could just kill you outright.

Iran does not have a monopoly on mockeries of justice.
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Man with two hearts survives double heart attack
It's of form of "offensive blackout" I guess, that will raise awareness.
I really, really, really hate to write in defense of Mercurial, but you are aware that Mercurial Queues are versionable themselves, right?

If you are, can you explain what happened (and perhaps save our asses?)
YourTrove launches free app to save all your social photos to Dropbox
I liked the Alpha Centauri quote a lot so I searched it and I think the beginning of the quote is just as interesting: "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century..."
I've spent much of my professional career thinking about this concept, because I've experienced it so often, but more out of frustration for my peers who DON'T seem to work this way.

There is nothing better than the feeling of clicking with someone intellectually, or even on a romantic level, when either of you can say one word and the other just gets it.

That said, there is nothing more frustrating than watching a peer, co-founder, or employee doing the exact opposite. PG doesn't mention the situation where you're witnessing someone over-explain something, when the other party clearly understood after one word, but the person explaining hasn't realized it. This infuriates me to no end (especially when pitching), but it's almost impossible to explain this to the guilty party!
If the MegaUpload owners are Muslim, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.

(Horrify me, yes, but not surprise me).
The Audacious iBooks Author EULA
When is Microsoft going to get the bright idea to incorporate everything anybody writes in Word or Visual Studio into their own IP portfolio? Or Adobe appropriates the copyright of any image edited with Photoshop? Here's to the crazy ones.
This will most likely continue to happen in the form of tighter integrations, continually boosting the engagement number, until an antitrust lawsuit causes G+ to split off into it's own company. I suppose the bet is that by then, there will be enough momentum for network effects to take care of the rest. Like Google+ or not, it's a pretty nifty, calculated strategy.
Yeah. It is true that most computer literate people understand it is just a website going down, but often CNN, etc report it like it was an airstrike. For example when the CIA's site was slightly slowed down it was reported in some news outlets as "hackers attack the CIA"
KIM DOTCOM is a convicted criminal. (securities fraud, embezzling, and some other crap)

He's about to be tried again, for another crime. But he's already a criminal.

The person I responded to was comparing mass genocide to the orderly trial of a criminal who is suspected of committing more crimes. That disgusts me. It casually trivializes massive horrors.
I agree that MQ has some pain points. Merging, as you say.

But git branches also have pain points. The only way to save history from before you rewrite history is to save branches, as you mentioned - but doing that manually every time you rewrite history is a pain.
I'm confused, how does one use the esc key without a keyboard?
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How about file management? Anyone know how files are stored/accessed?
I recently thought a lot about the relationship between user input and program output and what implications the transformations performed by the program have on the copyright. Consider a heavy optimizing compiler: The program you feed into it will often be entirely different in terms of execution, but not result, from the user input. Some optimizations might even hide bugs that the original program might have had. At what point would it be justified to consider the program (or the creator thereof) to have some implied copyright on the produced output. Do we need to consider the smartness of the applied algorithms? Is it necessary for a program to be considered a true AI to hold the copyright to something?

Anyway, I don't see how that applies to a pretty printer for books. A mere tool is only that. I don't see why it should restrict my ability to commercialize my product. If someone were to suggest that the producers of pens, paper or canvas should have a say in how artists are to sell their works people would just laugh at him.
If you version your MQ, you can never lose data in it.

In git, if you rewrite history, you lose information - you can no longer see what things looked like before you rewrote it.

Disclaimer: I use git myself and prefer it. But the hg and MQ bashing in the comments here is unfair.
I'm probably not the average MU user, but 99% of the stuff I used it for pretty legitimate. Game files/recordings, map files, photo albums people were too lazy to upload one by one, personal videos between friends we didn't want to upload somewhere public like YT, etc.

This is all anecdotal and I probably agree with you that the average user most likely just used it to download music and pirated content, but I do think you're overlooking a ton of legitimate usages as well.
Unlike SQL, which you have to build as a string, the natural approach in JavaScript (even for junior devs) is to use an object literal to build the query. And then you get escaping for free.
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I say, let the consumers (=authors) decide - evolution happens through disruption, and this surely is a disruption. If the authors fall for it, well, they are ok with the consequences. If the thing really takes off and public really cares and puts pressure on them, they will loosen the EULA, I'm sure.
Ok, changes are up.
"Unfortunately, without an escape key it’s not possible to leave insert mode. That’s why by default the backslash key (‘\’) is mapped to the ‘Esc’ key. You’re free to overwrite this setting by unmapping the backslash key."

from http://applidium.com/en/applications/vim/support/
So is Youtube next? Otherwise this really is just selective justice.
The Oatmeal SOPA Protest Reaches CNN
> There's nothing immoral about setting the terms upon which you will trade your labor.

True, but there is something immoral about hidden fees.
regarding hobby stuff - have you looked into computational photography at all? coded apertures, plenoptic cameras, etc?
As someone who has sat on a Federal jury that is definitely not true. As a matter of fact there were people that were outright convinced against the government and were only swayed when it was shown to be a pretty solid open and shut case.
Which means it's a PR victory for anonymous ; it makes them appear stronger than they are.
> "I don't agree with you -> I take down your site". It's not a civilized reaction.

Yeah, it's just not right engaging in SOPA-like activity.
As explained on the splashscreen, they've remapped that to backslash. I suspect it'd be much more useful with a BT keyboard - lack of ctrl and tab for a start.

The font is pretty ugly too - I can't easily tell the difference between q and g.

However, it is a neat hack, if not very usable.
You wouldn't say that if, in years ahead, you find yourself looking back and realizing acts like this were the beginning of a tight grip on information and freedom from a world where you're afraid to do much of anything anywhere in the world for fear of your business being shut down, being arrested, and treated as guilty until proven innocent, you probably wouldn't feel this was a disgusting comparison.

I understand that it's easy to get swept away in fearful hyperbole, but it's not a bad thing to keep a cynical eye on the actions of a government, and not a bad thing to look to history at its worst for warning of a future we'd like to avoid. It's not a 1:1 comparison he's done, but it's a valid concern.
It can only edit files in $HOME, it says.
Try-catch speeding up my code?
The Berne Convention stipulates that the laws of where the copyright is registered takes precedent.
I was always using "Prompt" to connect to an ssh server and then use vim there with an external keyboard. But that's a nice touch.
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Thanks for your thoughtful posts on this topic. I can only agree when you say that "copyright is a key part of many forms of commercial activity whose nature is not changed by the Internet and whose deep-seated roots require the continuation of copyright" - however, it seems this begs the question whether society wouldn't be as likeable without those forms of commerce, and with others in their place?

I think you're right that in a world of weaker IP, Pixar wouldn't have happened, for want of capital. However, Toy Story might still have happened - perhaps it would have taken a few years more, until the cost of making it would have dropped enough to make it worthwhile investing in even though you'd only get a few weeks of box-office revenue?

Perhaps, also, many movies would be closer to "Dogville" (shot on a bare film set) than to "The Wolfman" (last year's remake, costing ~150M dollars). But, as Boldrine and Levine argue in their book "Against Intellectual Monopoly", maybe actors would compensate for their lower income by making more films per year (they look to the adult film industry to back up this suggestion, arguing that that is a reasonable model for a world of weak copyright). That is, creative output would not necessarily drop.

> ... whose livelihood in the economy as currently structured depends on it.

Your careful wording here tells me that we don't really disagree: certainly a reform that brings weaker copyright laws would cause a lot of pain to many established trades. With a well-designed transitional period though, I suspect that in the long term they would adapt, rather than simply cease to be creative.
Mere integration isn't sufficient to justify an antitrust action. There needs to be a trust (monopoly) involved somewhere. There is, of course, and right now that monopoly is named "Facebook". Things would have to change radically for antitrust regulators to become interested.