skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm; what you're saying is true, so I think I phrased my statement a bit wrong. In general, yes, people do want to help. But your bank just isn't in the business of knowing what's in its safe-deposit boxes, just like Tarsnap isn't in the business of knowing what's on its servers.

The whole business model of a safe-deposit box relies on other people not being able to get into them without the owner's consent—so if anyone, including the bank itself, took a peek in there, that would instantly lose them all the trust they had ever accrued as a safe-deposit-box provider—and thus a lot of money. They have much more of an incentive to keep your data private than they have an incentive to help those who want it, because keeping your data private is what keeps them in business. That's the meaning I was going for.
The PC gaming market is almost entirely multiplayer games, console ports, republished older releases, flash games, and independent games sold through Steam. Almost no one is investing significant budgets in easily pirated, single-player PC games. I'm not saying the PC gaming market is unhealthy or dying, but you should realize that every decision PC game developers make is driven by the need to make money in spite of rampant piracy. The OP asked for evidence that piracy has an effect on business decisions - it definitely does for PC games. In fact, I think it's probably the most important factor.
> however I unaware evidence in support of this

Read the indictment. It contains evidence of this (amongst other issues).
So, downvoters, was it anything I said? :)
2008 is when Pro IP Act passed, which now allows ICE to take down all those domains. The spike in donations is probably related to that.
It's quite possible that the situation is different in academia, but in my line of work I tend to find the opposite: some of the most accomplished people are very cautious and unwilling to take strong positions without thinking them over. Usually, because they are so knowledgeable and thoughtful that they can, as soon as they start saying anything, see a million possible caveats. In the worst case that can be paralyzing, but it can also help avoid the opposite behavior: the hot-headed, confident, untimid person who just doesn't really know enough (or think over what they know) to realize why they should be more cautious about overarching claims, especially on questions that a lot of smart people have looked into already.

It's not a universal correlation, but I've generally noticed junior and less knowledgeable people (graduate students, early-career professors, etc.) to be much more brash, confident, and even aggressive in that sense than accomplished researchers, though there is a bit of an inverted-U curve (undergraduates and 1st-year graduate students tend to be very timid). Of the people I've met professionally, probably the most humble, and least willing to make strong statements without thinking them over and later offering a tentative opinion with caveats, was Bob Moog, who is also probably the smartest and most accomplished person I've met professionally.
The OP feels like a bit of a curmudgeon.

Cutesy is nonthreatening and sometimes amusing.
I interpreted the article as being written tongue-in-cheek, and simply aimed at poking fun at some of the ways tech companies deliver these messages. Most of the time getting these messages isn't tragic, and they simply serve to make the situation more lighthearted.
SOPA Sunglasses for RL Censorship
Well, let's see Anonymous host a website. I'm sure the DOJ or FBI could take it down, by legal or technical means. What is the point? There's no such thing as a webserver that "never goes down", or a network that is "always up". Things fail under stress, things are taken offline and put back online, and redundancy or rerouting usually covers it all up. Not all organisations put 100% of their efforts into maintaining an external public website that "stays up" 24/7. I doubt any member of the public is pounding their keyboard because they can't access the FBI, DOJ or UMG websites. How many visitors do you think those sites even normally receive?
"Where you'll find it after creating your first experimental 'Hello, world' document" might be a better way of putting it, unless you're suggesting that someone might actually write an entire book using a piece of new software without even testing it out.
How complicated is it to use https://www.dwolla.com/ for recursive payments?

It seems to be cheaper than all the other options.
.25 cents per transaction, no matter the volume.
This is from Jan 2010.

McCormick still hasn't been charged, and is still out on bail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-16623678
imho, as biased as a huge fan of hg can be, and someone who lives in git on a day to day basis, is that git has an actively hostile UI, mercurial has a great one.

all the other technical gizwangs can be debated by propellerheads till the cows come home, but the user experience is quite plainly better in hg.

flamewar goes here ->
As posted in one of the blog post's comments. I suggest you do this:

- Open a new tab, google search "credit cards" and...

...all of your results, but one, are ads (I'm using a 11' MacBook air). My suggestion would be to do a tighter integration of Google's website user experience research into their search engine user experience design.
Yes, I believe that was the case for all of them except Ron Paul. Ron Paul opposed it before it was cool for the other politicians to oppose it. Plus, it's against his beliefs, because he believes the Government shouldn't intervene in most issues. He opposed net neutrality, too, for the same reason, and that's actually something that "the people" wanted back then. So I wouldn't worry about him in regards to changing his mind depending on where the wind blows like that.

But I noticed at least a few Congressmen who were very opposed to net neutrality "because the Internet should be free, and the Government shouldn't intervene" (while receiving donations from carriers), and then going full 180 degrees, and becoming sponsors of SOPA (when receiving donations from Hollywood). Washington is full of hypocrites, and the current incentives to go and beg for the corporations' money for their campaigns, are definitely not helping.
I'll check this out app out. I've tried using the touch screen keyboard on an ipad thru ssh and using vim. it was unbearable, to say the least.

i ended up getting an asus transformer prime that has a keyboard dock and the keys can be rebound to your like (esc, ctrl, etc) and it's the closest to the "real thing" experience i have found on a tablet
Dwolla doesn't let you accept credit cards.
This correlates extremely well with the fact that 11 Republican senators and only 2 Democratic senators changed stances yesterday. Not trying to make a partisan point here, as I would expect the opposite if the numbers were opposite. But I think it provides some helpful context for what we're up against.
AppHarbor uses nginx as a load balancer and it currently doesn't support HTTP/1.1 proxying with upstream servers, which is required for Websockets support. It was recently introduced in the development branch (v. 1.1.4 http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES) and should make it's way into the stable branch soon.

We (AppHarbor) are adding support for node.js on a beta-basis primarily to collect initial feedback from our users. Improved support for debugging node apps is certainly something we'll look into.
There is, though. I don't understand... personally I've been using a combo of iSSH into my own iphone. ~/ is located at /private/var/mobile and there's no latency (you ARE connecting to localhost). Git and vim installed means that basically, you can be self sufficient from your iPad/iPhone, without even needing an additional workstation to SSH into. Hell, even Python and Ruby can be installed on the jailbroken iphone. It's basically a portable POSIX-compatible system, after you install all the necessary packages (network-cmds for ping, for example) you're all set.
Cool, thanks, this makes sense.
On Fighting Complexity and Failure in new Projects
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I'm pretty sure saying "I am not a lawyer" does not protect you from the consequences of giving out bad legal advice (at least in the US).
Yesterday had some impact, but these bills are still very much on track to become law. All the post mortems today aren't communicating that very well.

The closure vote in the Senate on the 24th needs at least 41 no votes to prevent the bill from moving into markup. While more senators have announced opposition or doubt, current headcounts put "no" votes on closure only in the single digits.

Unlike subcommittee hearings, the markup hearings are closed door and allow the Senate to draft a final version of the bill without public scrutiny or testimony from tech leaders. If this legislation follows suite with other controversial legislation, the bill that emerges will have enough back room deals attached to let both the latecomer opposition and the White House to declare the bill a healthy compromise irregardless of the facts.

People need to be on the phone to their senators. Urge them to vote no on closure so that the inevitable compromise bill can be debated in public with input of experts.
Realistically you can't do anything about most modern error messages.

If you got a backtrace from a gmail error, what can you do? ssh into a google server and fix the bug? Or how about patch your version of office with a binary you made?

You might as well attempt to put a smile on someones face after you failed to send that important document (that they should have backed up).
For large projects, there is git-flow: https://www.google.com/search?q=git-flow

I remember someone posting a recommended workflow for smaller projects, but I don't remember what it was called.
I'm glad this obituary pointed out that Kodak's demise fits a common pattern among successful behemoths -- failing to react to disruptive technologies. It must have been easy for Kodak to ignore digital photography at first when professional photographers, its core customer base, derided the first digital cameras as inferior toys. I am yet again reminded of an essay Dan Bricklin wrote (I couldn't find a link, anyone?) where he noted on a train how mobile phone users gladly traded the fidelity of landlines (dropped calls) for convenience (speaking while riding) -- a rational trade-off which cost AT&T dearly. Digital photography didn't produce better photos than film for quite awhile, but it offered up advantages which professional photographers probably didn't care much about: convenience, lower skill level (due to instant review), etc. And, of course, the rest is now history.
It's hardly buried: it's mentioned in the description of the app, it's mentioned inside the app when you "publish", it's mentioned in the help file for the app, and it appears, in boldface letters, as an "IMPORTANT NOTE", at the _beginning_ of the EULA.

Also worth mentioning: the economics of K–12 textbook publishing are very different than mass-market publishing: essentially 100% of sales are volume purchases by educational institutions who are already accustomed to distributing materials to students.

This is Apple's proposed alternative to publishers bundling interactive content with expensive textbooks (probably "free" if available on the App Store), and the value proposition is wide exposure, lower infrastructure costs, and no used textbook market to undercut profits in exchange for "a la carte" distribution of individual "unbundled" books and a unit price cap.

In other words, it really is an attempt to apply much of the "iTunes business model" to textbook publishing, and it'll be quite interesting to see how it works out.
I found the Stanford course almost assumed too much of a stats background to make it easily accessible. Starting with the math foundations is sound, but scary for people who don't dream in LaTeX :)
If it was any kind of A/B testing between that and their old version I bet it won.
It doesn't seem retina optimized. The font is horrendous on my iPhone 4.
I found that working with a law firm is a good way to get passed around. If you treat them like a "firm" they will treat you like a "company." What you need is to develop a relationship with a good lawyer who knows when she needs to refer you to other lawyers if a question is outside of her realm of expertise.

Where in Canada are you?
Yes!!!
The development cycle of software like MongoDB, RabbitMQ and so on, is much faster than that of Debian or any other Linux distro. The Debian package is fine for dabbling or low volume use, but for any serious app, you MUST go direct to the developers and use their latest stable release. That is what they support best on their mailing lists, and that is where most bugs are already fixed.

A lot of software development teams are releasing their own RPM and .DEB Linux binary packages for just that reason, to encourage people to use up to date packages instead of the stale OS distro packages.

In a way, it's rather like security updates. Who would refuse to install security updates because it's not part of the Ubuntu 10.4 LTS release? Almost nobody even thinks of doing that. So why would you use old obsolete releases of mission critical software?
Does anyone know what they keyboard skin/layout is on their splash page screenshots? Its definitely not stock.
Lets say you're completely right. What then would be the productive thing to do next?

To my mind the obvious answer to that is to work on gaining more support. Anonymous doesn't have anywhere near the power or support to change the world by themselves. They need other people.

But most other people respect private property (and would consider an organization's website private property). So random destructive acts don't help you gain support.

Note: I'm not saying they need to stay completely between the lines here. If Anonymous members put up a website stating their case and then hacked other sites with a relatively respectful message that makes their points and then links them to the Anonymous site for more information that would be productive.

Bottom Line: Making a difference means drawing people to the power of your ideas not the power of the technology you use to vandalize other sites.
The one key to dealing with senior executives: answer the question
Dude, you're hilarious.

I mean, here you are calling people "uninformed" while asserting that the printing press was invented "about 400 years ago", which would be around 1612. In reality Gutenberg's press went into operation around 1450. That's 562 years ago, meaning you're off by more than a century and a half.

You do a bit better with copyright law. The first appearance of law that grants the right to copy to the author was, of course, the Statue of Anne (1709/10, depending on whether you're referring to the Julian calendar that was in effect in England at the time, or the Gregorian calendar which has since become the international standard). Here, you're only off by a century.

Unfortunately for your theory, it's a century in the wrong direction. In reality, there were a solid 260 years between the appearance of the press, and the emergence of individual copyright, and that's not "shortly after" by any definition.

Even if you start the clock in 1493, which is when the publishing business as such really came into its own with Anton Koberger, you're still off by a factor of more than 200 years. So any idea that individual copyright appeared as an immediate and necessary consequence of the press's invention is unsupported by the facts, as is the idea that there's never been a significant amount of time in which one existed without the other.

For the record, the rest of your theory is as sketchy as your grasp of history - especially the bit about protecting "thought and opinion". Those are two things that Copyright absolutely DOES NOT protect. Nor has it ever. So clearly you've still got a lot of work to do, but that's all the time we have today.

Class dismissed.
Kaggle launches Automated Essay Scoring competition
Interesting. I wonder if the js version behaves identically to the .net one. If so, it could offer plausible deniability to any LOICers out there. I'm not condoning the practice, but it is a creative solution to having your primary tool be rendered toxic by the op payback arrests.
Danny Sullivan really makes a nice job however this usually is not the case, imo. Generally, Google's result page does not contain so much ad. In most cases which result page contain too much ad, ads might be even more relevant than natural results.
Why not include Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com)? Seems like it would be cheaper than the other ones and the api docs look breezy like stripes. It's only 2.3% + 30cents. Also look at Spreedly for recurring.
Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad?

Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the editing feels instant - no keystroke latency.)

Or has Apple let up on the "no coding for you!" iPad/iPhone terms? (I thought they would eventually, once their dev environment is firmly established - and they'll have to, if/when they adopt iOS on their {lap,/desk}tops - but maybe today is not yet that day. iOS devices sell macs as dev machines)
amen to that! Power to the people!
If you're willing to spend $99, viemu is a wonderful vim emulator for Visual Studio.

For a little more you can get it for SSMS, too. What's really fun is highlighting stuff with visual mode and just hitting F5. Need to run a subquery? Get the cursor somewhere in there and vi( F5. And macros sure help with repetitive sql constructs.
Ron and Rand Paul are two of the very few politicians who consistently vote the same way and keep their word. This makes them amazing if you love them, terrible if you disagree. I for one agree, so it makes me happy that they appear to be practically incorruptible by Washington.
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(I know Mercurial very well. I evaluated 5 or 6 distributed VCS tools and decided to migrate my employer's repository from CVS to Mercurial in 2008: 2GB of history, 150k files, 20k changesets, dozens of developers.)

I don't understand the poster's insistence about wanting to perform an operation similar to git stash in Mercurial "without creating a commit". Creating an ephemeral commit is precisely the perfect solution in Mercurial! Do it, then all regular Mercurial commands (log, diff, etc) will work to manage it. To get rid of the temporary commit later, simply "hg strip" it. It will remove the changeset (and all its children, if any) from the history (a backup will be made in .hg/strip-backup). hg strip is part of the built-in mq extension.

Also, a simple solution to the poster's last complain (re-doing a commit while keeping history of the original commit) is as follow: let's say you are at revision A. You commit B. You realize you screwed up. So you go back to A: hg update A. Then you revert your working directory to the state of B: hg revert --all --no-backup -r B. Then you make the changes you forgot, and commit again: hg commit.
>I've seen a large volume of creative software, often free, that is used to produce output, that requires, as part of its license, that you give the creator of the software a cut if you sell any of the things you make with it.

Comparing the history of "Apple-branded Mac software for which Apple does not charge users license fees" with the history of the "free for non-commercial use" software projects of the world is...a stretch.

Xcode is free. GarageBand has been included free on any semi-recently purchased Mac. iWeb who knows; Keynote, Pages, and Numbers are very low cost (and FWIW they each probably share code with iBooks Author).

Imagine for a moment that the next update to Xcode or GarageBand included EULA language similar to what the OP is complaining about. Would you defend it on the grounds you cite above, or not? And if not, why not?

Are there any other free applications on the Mac App Store that contain similar license language? If a third-party developer had a free application rejected from the Mac App Store for including this type of license language in the EULA, would you be surprised, or would you find the rejection consistent with the expectations that Apple has set for non-expert users on the platform?

If the "iBooks Author" application were something that had to be downloaded from inside an iBooks Developer Program portal, where you had to accept the license language as an explicit step to getting a portal account, I wouldn't care so much. But Apple literally held a press conference to tell the whole world "hey this shiny free shovel is going to enable happy rainbow pony time for the children, and everyone with a Mac and something to write for the children should download it right now and start digging."

>Very often today we've seen Apple offer all kinds of new and innovative things, and I've seen a content stream of comments along the lines of "these are bad because apple profits from them". Of course Apple profits. We all profit, though, because they changed the economics of the education situation. If you want something different, create it.

I totally agree with you on this point. And I would even agree that it's the most important point. In return, all I ask is that you join me in finding their EULA shenanigans slightly scummy in their bait-and-switchness.
> However, many finite-state automata regex implementations have existed for years

If you read his write-up on RegEx matching, you'll see notes that Thompson wrote an implementation in the mid-60s, so he definitely doesn't claim they're new. What he does claim is that most regex libraries don't use them, even when the regex they're matching to doesn't require backtracking.
Whats more f'ed up is that it is not even clear if ripping a legally owned CD/DVD is legal.

Eg. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12...
SOPA, PIPA Opponents Celebrate, but Say Work Isn't Done
Not quite a several hundred.

Page two of the grand jury indictment linked from original post says, "...reported income in excess of $175,000,000."

Still a very large figure.
tl;dr

The original basic RE and extended RE (when backreferencing is not used) are significantly faster than implementations that most programmers traditionally rave about, e.g., Perl RE.

Tell me something I didn't know.

He thus used such 30 year old code as a model and easily topped the speeds of the built-in RE capabilities of today's popular scripting languages.

Common sense is underrated.
It's not like they couldn't have made this clear by showing the same information when you first started the program, rather than when you have something you want to save. I can think of many reasons for that choice, but none are good.
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Werner is right. The query operation is able to be more efficient than GetItem and BatchGetItems. To calculate how many units of read capacity will be consumed by a query, take the total size of all items combined and round up to the nearest whole KB. For example, if your query returns 10 items that were each 1KB, then you will consume 10 units of read capacity. If your query returns 10 items that were all 0.1KB, then you will consume only 1 unit of read capacity.

This is currently an undocumented benefit of the query operation, but we will be adding that to our documentation shortly.
I don't think you need to even go as far as adding a modifier. A smart enough regex engine would know when it could use the linear runtime algorithm, and when it needs to fall back.