skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any PHP page will propagate the $_POST and $_GET arrays from user supplied data.
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Do you really think the congresspeople saying "Well I don't know how it works!? I'm not a nerd!" We're really using it as a compliment, though? And as the Stewart clip points out, why couldn't they have just said "expert"? It's clear they were at best making backhanded compliments -- at worst they were intentionally framing it as "here's some weird arcane thing that only nerds care about, not normal people like us!"

"If you watch SC2 on GSL with Tasteless and Artosis"
I haven't the slightest clue what that even means, you nerd.
This is a great concept, although I share a couple of the concerns mentioned (project momentum, and the implied issues with this technique as the organization grows).

I recently highlighted that I'd like to have a pot of opensource days that I could use at my discretion (http://imperialwicket.com/how-about-some-open-source-days). I think it offers a similar benefit, while maintaining a lot of personal responsibility for timing and usage. That said, the structure of WOW week has a lot of built-in benefits as well (team-building, motivation that comes with working as a larger unit, etc.).

Nice job, PatientsLikeMe. It's good that this type of insight is being pushed and highlighted as a productive technique both for the organization and the employee.
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"1000s of jobs"? "1000s". The tech sector employs way more than thousands! Really, if this is about jobs, let's do some simple math. I'm willing to lose thousands of jobs for many more jobs in a different industry with a much brighter future.
It is also used on Google Search. There is nothing more alive than the center-tag.
Well, the Paypal cost line starts low but then has a sudden spike to infinity when Paypal cancels your account, steals all your money, and refuses to speak to you about it.

It's been a long time since calculus but I think the area under the curve when the curve goes to infinity is also infinity. So Paypal's cost is actually a bit steep.
Hmm, that google search leads to this ugly exchange, mid 2010:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448463

Anyway, benchmarks will always show GHC beating Erlang/BEAM, but here's a Simon (or one of his co-authors)saying that he's not into reinventing wheels, he's just going to copy good parts of erlang:

http://blog.romanandreg.com/post/6797527470/erlang-and-haske...

slide 41's pretty funny (by akka author):

http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/akka-scala-summit-oscon-201...

I have a hazy recollection of a F# user or maybe a Softie saying they're doing the same thing with MailboxProcessors, but i can't google it. Who/why are all these people borrowing/copying/appropriating from OTP behaviors?
From a quick glance at the docs there's no database-side aggregations. Is that correct?
There is little question in my mind how the Feds will handle this. Kiss the files good-bye. Actions like these show the government doesn't believe all binary data has value. Rather, it shows they believe the majority have no value except for that distributed by the MPAA and RIAA.
I guess it depends on what your startup idea is. Does it have a short window of opportunity for you to capitalize on it? If so, pay someone else to do the work so you can get a product out now, but still learn to code so you can actively participate in the process. Otherwise, take the time, learn and write the code yourself. Even if your startup never materializes, you will have taught yourself a valuable skill.
Agreed, completely, just pointing out, again, time's is different...
There's the rub. The suspects own a company that owns the drives, but you still own your data and the copyright to it ... it's a data warehouse; it gettingg raided doesn't alter your ownership.
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I would modify that to include one offline backup. If it's connected to other systems in an automated way then there's usually a way that it can be accidentally overwritten. Often there could be an event which cascades through all of your backups before you realise.
"It produces a variable-length result of either one or two 16-bit code units per code point"

from the article.

"It produces a variable-length result of either one or two 16-bit code units per code point"

from wikipedia.org

I feel this should have been quoted or referenced in some way in the article. Or it might just be a very rare case of coincidence.
'the media'... I believe that generally means companies owned by corporations who wrote SOPA and PIPA.
> Frankly, I do not know if it is realistic for me to begin learning at this age considering it will likely take me at least 5 years to reach a skill-level required to implement many of the technologies a modern healthcare startup would need (HIPAA encryption, interfacing with EMRs, etc).

If you were going to do a drug startup, would you think that you had to know how to form pills, package them, run large scale synthesis?

You will benefit from knowing something, but no one knows all that stuff.

> that my time would be better spent befriending and paying a talented programmer to help me in executing my ideas.

I don't know about other people, but the "befrending" terminology sounds vaguely exploitive. Would you use that term to describe how you'd go about working with another medical professional with different skills?
Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure what the lesson here is though. You suggest having an agreement on terms upfront but that the person who exited made an issue over the terms later on.

On balance do you think you (all) did the right thing at the time (for the company) or could you have done something different earlier on?

Also, had you worked with this person before?
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He's talking about renting out luxury cars. Insurance is one of the things you should know about if you're entering that industry.
Police raided a warehouse used for storing alcohol by Al Capone and various other bootleggers. It just so happens that numerous other people used the same warehouse for storing their entirely legitimate possessions. The raid occurred as it did because the warehouse owners had full knowledge that their warehouse was storing illegal merchandise and looked the other way as they were paid handsomely by Al Capone and the other bootleggers for their services.

While police investigate the warehouse's dealings with Al Capone, others are unfortunately inconvenienced as their belongings are inaccessible. Those who had legitimate possessions in storage should question why the warehouse owners put their belongings in jeopardy by knowingly storing illegal material rather than taking responsible measures to curb illegal use.
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That's wrong. Sometime, you know you have a valid point and will get down voted because people won't spend the time to understand correctly your meaning. By saying it before hand, people will understand that you know it's a bit of a controversial subject but still spent the time to make your point.. and thus, won't just down-vote you because they thought you were wrong at first glance.
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Are Universal going to access server logs and start suing individual users to?
edit: A bit of context that I wasn't clear on in this post: Taking down files you are aware of, but before they've been found by a court to be infringing is the only way to maintain safe harbor protection.

Acting on anything short of proof, is acting on suspicion. Now what constitutes proof as far as copyright infringement? I can't think of anything short of a court decision. DMCA takedown notices aren't proof, they're just when the complainant swears they have a good faith belief that the file in question is infringing.
This elegantly summarizes some thoughts I've been having myself the past years.

PG applies it to founders, whereas I apply to potential friends.

The word I've been using internally for this: pounceability. As in, with high-quality friends they will POUNCE on stuff you say to them and return to you later having independently researched whatever it was that you told them about. Whereas others have to be hammered into submission pretty much.
It's impossible to not have goals and not plan. The author's suggestions: "Get up earlier", "Talk to more strangers", etc. are goals in and of themselves.

Whenever this topic comes up, what people are really talking about is the degree to which you can plan for a particular goal in terms of its time frame and complexity. The author touches on this relationship. That is, the more complex the goal and the more time required to achieve it, the less specific you can get in creating a plan to achieve it. If my goal is to lose 30 pounds by the end of the year, it's unrealistic for me to plan out my exact meals and workouts a year in advance. But it's perfectly realistic to have a more general plan of eating healthier food and doing more exercise, and leaving the "implementation details" for that week or day.

What I don't like about the article is that the author doesn't back up his suggestions with anything but personal experience and opinions. There are scientific studies that claim benefits in explicit goal-setting. If you're going to make a strong case, you need to address those studies and bring in some counter-evidence.
Yeah but they were talking about desktops there.
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Hey your site is really pretty. Would you mind licensing your CSS for personal use? I'd like to use for my blog (which I will start one of these days).

Very nice blog post. After working on a Python stack during my part time job (check out Apache libcloud), I can safely say that using a statically typed language is a necessity for any non-trivial project. Without a type system you offload the entire framework onto the programmer. To actually grok the project you have to hold the complexity all in your head instead of using the types as a guide and that makes getting started incredibly challenging.
There are people who want things for free. However before the internet those were the people trading bootlegs, buying $2 CDs from sketchy catalogs, borrowing cds from the library or friend, watching MTV, listening to the radio or simply not listening to music. I would argue that they are no more supportive of piracy than any other form of free entertainment.

Additionally, I don't believe most of them support piracy because they want free stuff (there are some horders out there, but that's an actual mental illness/tv show). Most of the people who "like free stuff" support piracy because they value the entertainment they get. By far the biggest group here are teenagers, and it appears that the more music teenagers without money download the more music they will buy legally later in life.

Right now teenage unemployment was 25% last summer and that's just among teenagers who wanted to work. Unpaid internships seem to have become the norm. If we don't give teenagers a way to get the medium of exchange we shouldn't be surprised that they develop parallel economies. That said, if they weren't going to buy music anyway or, as most studies find, people buy more music in the presence of file sharing, it doesn't imply that there is any theft going on or that creators are damaged in any way by more value being derived from the work they already did.

I think record companies see their control over the airwaves and their kingmaker roll slipping away. Like publishers, they are progressively less relevant and the services they do provide aren't worth nearly the percentage of profits they charge their artists. They don't need to believe it is theft for them to cynically exploit the argument in order to remain relevant.
Congratulations on the project, and compliments on the breadth of documentation. Nicely done.

(Nitpick - none of the urls change. Some js error where you're not doing a pushState? You should report this.)

edit - this works -http://senseidb.github.com/sensei/index.html
I think MS were the ones that explicitly mentioned the GPL.

Apple do not explicitly mention it, however they have chosen to add extra restrictions to their licence, which goes above and beyond a normal "Download software from this web host". Explicit clauses that make the GPL incompatible are the same as "explicitly banning GPL apps".

The GPL is a massively popular licence, I believe Apple would have considered it. They appear to have rejected it.
I'm still on 7.1.0.9 (and have no plans to switch), and I can't remember the last time I had mailbox corruption. The view window sometimes paints improperly if I scroll with the page down key too quickly, which annoys me.

Too bad they didn't open source the last real client. I'd like to get rid of the headers like "From: "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJTUhPCVTJTklaiU5JT8hPCVIGyhC?="".
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445447
As a side note I can see several people in this discussion refer to files as 'property'. While you may have intellectual property rights over the content of the files the only actual property is servers and HDDs which you certainly do not own. I don't think the FBI has taken anyone's property except Megauploads.
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They are for 0 points, so they're not really rewards.
Nah... nah this is totally legit.

He didn't copy and paste it, including html formatting, from a pre-canned document.

He certainly didn't make a second post a few seconds later stating how great thumbtack is to use either...

Nah... Totally legit
Oh, I wasn't aware of this. Actually yes, it might :-) Thanks for the pointer!
You merely have to make it available.

Also, you don't have to make it available forever, I think the GPL says you only have to do it for 3 years. So you don't have to worry about someone in 50 years demanding some source code.
Old create-account link requires you already have a non-gmail email address. You can't create a gmail account from scratch without the new form (with G+).
Time value of money can be solved by adjusting later payouts, and risk of default is meaningless because equity in a failed startup will be worth the same 0 that IOU's from a failed startup would be.
The iBookstore has always used DRM. I can easily see how DRM is the most economic options for eBooks right now - eBooks are more than $.99, so they needed a barrier between the internet's vast reservoir of PDFs and owning a pretty ePub file. (I still wouldn't buy DRM-ed books)

But the article is about the authoring tool, and Apple was going to produce it. So they had two primary options to protect their interests:

* Write an EULA and trust the law
* Use DRM in all output or otherwise proprietary formats (and implicitly trust the law as a backup)

I'm not saying we should be thankful for the EULA's wording, but for people who hate DRM for practical reasons, this is probably the best realistic outcome.

If you hate DRM for ethical reasons and think that all content should be free, then be happy about a free tool and write content.

Only if you wish you could use Apple's tool to make money on another platform, well you are out of luck.

> And as always apple using its market advantage

That must be a very limited 'always' :) I don't see how they abused the iPod's market domination much. The iPad is the only other product where they have an advantage in numbers, but I am not sure if that extends to the iBookstore at all.
I've seen the most data from individual authors. Every report/experiment I have seen had the author making more money off books that were available for free.
The reality of this, I believe, is that Megaupload was a bit of an "outlier" in that the company wasn't based, for the most part, in the U.S. and they were overall rather secretive it seems. Dropbox is a Silicon Valley company and I would think has support from the community as a whole to where I think there would be a major uproar if they tried to do something like this to them.
The facets let you support counting and group by - is there something else you had in mind?

Edit: You can get a pretty quick idea of what's supported the query language at http://senseidb.github.com/sensei/bql.html. Since Sensei was designed with document and text uses cases in mind, we have plans to support advanced queries where a relevance model is part of the query, allowing you to perform a custom sort on the server.
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So, if you want to relay mail out of your MX, it's going to be flaky from a DSL or cable line. The reason is because much of the email coming out of those IP ranges is virus-sent spam, many mail servers block those IP ranges. (ISPs are doing a pretty good job filtering port 25 these days. The only really annoying spam I get is from Sprint's mobile network. I would block those IP ranges, but I want to be able to relay mail from my Sprint mobile phone :)

I run a mail server on my Linode and have never had trouble sending mail. It's easy to see if you're on a blacklist and take corrective action, though I've never had to do this.

I recently switched from Postfix to Exim4 and like it a lot more. The spam checking is much better integrated and lets you reject messages at DATA time with full spam information, so real messages that are auto-rejected at least bounce with an informative message.

Finally, if you don't like delayed mail, get a backup MX. It's very easy to set up for your friends that run their own primary MX, and you can return the favor. (I buy a backup MX service, but run backup MX for people that have asked.)
This will surely impact a lot of those typical adsense-optimized niche websites. In case you're interested I wrote a longer piece here: http://www.brandinfection.com/2012/01/20/google-improves-ran...
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Shouldn't that be inoremap?
Thanks! I'll make sure that gets corrected.
Has to be. New accounts, random stories.

Maybe this is how Thumbtack is gaining the traction that led to its recent round.
I click on the wrong button and add someone, suddenly I have established a relationship with, say, a client that can't be revoked easily.

Even if you were forced to use Google+, un-circling someone doesn't generate a notification, so there's no reason to worry about creating a relationship you can't revoke.
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I've worked at a company that tried to implement these types of 'hackathon sprints', but it always came down to last minute fires or upper management delaying them at the last minute for arbitrary reasons.

Glad you guys are able to do it, and I hope you'll continue to do so as you grow.
Yes, except ctrl-c moves you off home row, which I wanted to avoid.

Also, technically, ctrl-c is not the same as escape - it also sends a cancel signal. I actually have no idea what the practical difference is, I just know that some commands treat it differently.
There are plenty of examples to counter your argument in the startup community. FriendFeed is an easy one. It was built while each of its founders had day jobs until they had a viable product to shop around.

I take issue with these kind of quotes because, to be quite frank, they are completely out of context and make no sense in the myriad of ways people try to make them apply to unrelated contexts. It sounds like nothing more than marketing hype, as opposed to a message of substance.
Ironic and sad having to do this has become so commonplace nobody even blinks even more so considering the subject.

I refuse to use region specific links like that. Sure the two are separate channels but breaking up the world into specific regions just segregates the Internet into castes of countries. There's no reason I a Canadian shouldn't be able to click that link and view Comedy Central a website on the world wide web.
The expression I had heard was "If your program compiles, it probably does something useful - though maybe not the thing you wanted".
Getting up earlier is something you just do, it's not a goal. Losing 30 pounds is more of a goal because it's an expected outcome, but eating more salad and drinking less Coke is something you just do.
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My point isn't about the burden of proof but that the ToS says "...based upon a suspicion on our part".

An external request to take something down is different to making that decision entirely on your own suspicions.
OK while the title is technically correct, it is misleading.

"U.S. website blackout draws praise from some bloggers in China"

would be more accurate.

Unfortunately this sort of headline is common. It leads a casual reader to false conclusions about the options of average people in China (and other countries).

All this is is a couple quotes dropped into a ready-made article.
The answers near the top of the page got the most up-votes. The ones at the bottom got fewer votes or have a negative score.
To the average user, having all the data in one place is very useful. Imagine a world where you type your friend's name into Google, and you see the emails you've sent her, photos you've taken, relevant Google+ posts and shared links, and so on. Giving all your data to Google means you get to see it all on one search results page. That's pretty convenient.

(Google is also very very serious about protecting your data. Don't let Facebook's lax privacy let you think Google does the same thing. The only entity you have to fear is the government, and that's true of any internet service provider.)
This isnt entirely true. In the case of megaupload, I am pretty sure I read they had servers seized in the Netherlands and most [all?] of the arrests were done in foreign countries.

Further, I know it was definitely not the case with the online pokersites [PokerStars, FullTilt, and UltimateBet/Absolute] being shut down in April. AFAIK, ICANN is based in the US and oversees .com [among other] address. Because of this, with a court order, the US gov't can seize a domain name, with or without SOPA and they have already done this with online poker sites that have no physical presence in the United States.

Megaupload is in the same spot as those sites; they violated US law, a case was filed against them, and the US gov't seized their domain, servers, etc. Due process was followed. It is a little far-reaching the the US can so easily seize .com domains, and that is why you now will see very few online poker sites that serve the US use a .com [instead they use .eu or .ag, primarily]. If a company break US laws, the US gov't can pursue them, regardless of where they are. Whether or not they should be able to do that so easily is another question.
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Ah, that's good to know. I was not aware of that.