skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the backing-up data issue, this seizing of sites raises a couple of questions. I had never used Megaupload and I don't have a clue about what that site did. Assumming, I had stored a bunch of files on Megaupload:
1. Shouldn't the Feds return my files? After all those files are my property. Irrespective of whether or not I had back ups, what gives the Feds the right to seize my property indefinitely.
2. Does seizing the site, give the Feds the right to read through my files? what if I had been working on the next big super-duper idea, and they steal my ideas?
3. Would the 'unreasonable search & seizure' amendment apply to people's files?

These questions would apply to all cloud-storage companies. Can someone with more legal experience shed some light?
Ah - in context, for that problem, I agree it's 'okay'.

Thanks for clarifying.
When did ars technica become The Onion?
What I'd be concerned more about in the long term is if you don't get an option to save your stuff anywhere else.

For example using a cloud application to actually do your work whereby all your data is saved by your app to their storage platform and there's no way to get it out.

If that cloud app gets shut down because of SOPA or whatever then what happens to your data?
I see. But the company was based in Hong Kong and the founders in New Zealand. Dutch, German and Slovakians citizens were arrested.

So as long as there are some operations based in U.S., they can get to all these folks?

MegaUpload was cited a number of times during the Judiciary Committee Hearing. But they mispoke more often than not.
It's not 'fully featured' if there's more features it doesn't have which another version does.
This is why I like Dropbox. If it dies then I have all of my files on my desktop and my laptop anyway.
Destructors Considered Harmful
There's a handful of examples at the top of the landing page (blue box with heading "Watch some examples"). Is it poorly placed or too small maybe...? I'll add a nav item for it to the menu.

Anyway, I hear what you say about the need for impressive examples. I don't have the talent for that; my current examples are certainly not too interesting.

I guess I'll have to invest some money into it... (Since Radi is free, it's not making me anything, and so far it's been strictly a hobby project. Maybe it's time to take it a bit further.)
Clueless.......
Notorious to whom?

Not everyone has the same familiarity with the reputation of internet sites as you do.

I really don't have any idea if my webhost is complicit in hosting illegal activity. If they were to get shutdown to hosting child porn, that's all well and good, but I'd still want my sites back.
Downvote me if you feel like it, but I'm honest when I say I enjoyed this article, and the way it was written. Sometimes, it just doesn't have to be fully serious to make a point.
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Once upon a time I used to love zenhabits. I used to look at what Leo had accomplished (losing weight, living minimally, doing what you love (blogging) and building a business around it etc.) and thought he was worth listening too.

Over time I started noticing that you could pretty much pick anything published on his blog and find an earlier post contradicting it. Try it for yourself, find a post you like on the blog and then google "[subject] site:zenhabits.net" and smile as you see the contradictions that appear.

Life isn't straight forward and if it was as easy as following simple step by step instructions the "self-help" industry would be redundant. Life is difficult, do whatever it is that works for you and if anyone says they have found the "secret to success" take it with a grain of salt.
In the case of Backblaze (which I use and highly recommend) wouldn't it just mean changing providers? As long as your hard drive doesn't fail before you get a full backup done with another solution you should be fine.
This made the rounds somewhere a while back, but I didn't see a link to a discussion on HN when I searched

http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
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On the plus side, it's supported by Opera Mini and iOS.

For IE and others (Android, I'm looking at you!), I have yet to try it and so can't vouch for it, but there exists a polyfill: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource
I had a great impression about Gmail until 2009 but now it seems to fade. The amount of spam has gone up, interface is bloated as if it were an excel sheet and, almost constant nagging to force me use some random feature that they think is cool is ... well.

There is an old adage, Google don't fix it if it ain't broken. At least don't break it.
Yes, it sounds like almost all of these features were proposed (and rejected) by the committee (I'm assuming here that 'fictionality' is a thinko for 'functionality' :-).

The settings for column width and column gap width, in particular, sound like they'd be critical for making a really attractive ebook. If the epub 3 standard doesn't support such basic functionality, there's a problem.

This isn't quite the same as the stuff Microsoft pulled -- MS created tools that claimed to generate "HTML" (but which in reality only worked in Internet Explorer) and encouraged their use on the public web. Apple isn't claiming these things are ePub 3 (or any other standard format), and in fact they're explicitly forbidding their use in a generic context. I'm not a fan of their licensing restrictions, but at least they're not claiming (or even implying) in any way that these ebooks are standards-based.
This isn't free, but it is a bit cheaper in my opinion it's miles better, http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...

If I remember correctly, iSSH hasn't been updated for quite some time now. Though I might be wrong.
In addition, Paypal is currently making $$$ on ACH payments that they charge their full fees for. They can flip a switch and change those back to free or $0.25 and kill any Dwolla advantages.
One could use Prompt and the vi/m or whatever server she chooses.

I imagine _intuitive_ navigation through the FILE SYSTEM will come shortly.
The reaction to VS achievements is kind of interesting, people seem to be taking it seriously, at least as some sort of symbol. Who knows, maybe it is the thin edge of the knife that will lead to the "gamification" of programming. At any rate,anyone who uses VS and C# with any frequency probably understands it to be tongue in cheek. I don't think I will change my coding practices to get achievements... Well maybe I will, I've just got to get those last two!
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I can see why Google would want to clamp down on semi-anonymous gmail accounts. I'm sure many of us have used them for convenient purposes with no ill intent, myself included, but we all know that they are often used for spamming. Overall I'm OK with this as long as they don't remove the lesser-known feature of creating infinite aliases with a plus sign (myemail@gmail.com -> mymail+whatever@gmail.com). It doesn't work everywhere, and it doesn't solve all of the needs for using semi-anonymous emails, but it often solves a lot of them.

Still, I won't be surprised if demand starts rising for other free anonymous mail services. Google's UI presents a nice barrier to entry, though (of course, others exist but none are as popular right now).
VEVO to Ditch YouTube and Partner with Facebook?
Yep, true! Unless you're in the same geographic region as their datacenter and you both get hit by an earthquake, or something.

I am also thinking about what happens in the case of a federal seizing -- I wonder if they would decrypt the data.
> 2. Does seizing the site, give the Feds the right to read through my files? what if I had been working on the next big super-duper idea, and they steal my ideas?

Regardless of precise laws (it will take years to make a precedent) it would seem extremely naive to assume that anything you upload could and will not be read by the federal authorities, or others (megaupload owners, some guy at your ISP, etc.)... This is one of the major issues with using 'the cloud' as a platform for anything sensitive, and doesnt get enough attention.
While I agree that you should encourage proper business, I don't think that Mediafire is a good solution for the mentioned purpose. They take $9/month for 4 GB storage, and $49/month for 10 GB storage. That's really expensive!

For $10/month you can easily get a VServer with 20 GB disk space or more. For $50/month you can rent a Dedicated Server with 2000 GB hard disks. (... assuming that someone who works with embedded linux images has no problem with installing a tiny webserver and making regular security upgrades)
They don't have the shady history that Megaupload did, and appear to actually comply with DMCA-requests. That will hopefully keep them safe for a while. If it doesn't, hosting files for "everyone" is a doomed business.
Ditto , the only inconvenience is finding another backup/storage provider.

This demonstrates the dangers of SOPA quite nicely.

My worry is that in an attempt to create lock-in software vendors will try and tie storage and applications together so if you lose one you lose both.

Let's imagine something like basecamp got taken down , that would be a major disaster for many businesses.
They don't only lose the app but they lose all of the data.
I will encourage you to think about your day-to-day needs over time; Do you need predictability in your life? Do you need a lot of structure? Do you need lots of guidance? Do you need personal distance from co-workers? Are you a risk taker? And if so - what level of risk are you willing to assume? Will you regret missing the opportunity if your friend is very successful?

I spent 10 years in the Bay Area and now live outside of Philly.... I prefer it here. But, I believe that your 'roots' are where you are surrounded by people that love and support you. I would ask you why you've always wanted to live and work in the Bay Area? What is the attraction? Does it make sense to your other life goals?

Ultimately, I would encourage you to chase your deepest dream while you are 25 - it becomes harder as you get older and create more responsibility.
Oh yes, if they were backups it's all good. But the impression I got was that some people had their _only_ copy of certain files stored there.
The Economist on Ikea: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139
I'm no UI expert, but something's wrong with Android.
So basically police raided and closed off post office and now they feel entitled to hold and read throuh all letters and all the security deposits of random people because they have a valid suspicion that some of them contain cd's with copied music?
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To me, this is a bit like people complaining that the feds seized their car that was legally rented from them, by their dope dealer. I'm not surprised that people used the service for legal means, but I am surprised that people can expect us to think that they didn't know the service was mostly profiting from piracy.
I do have my own $50 Dedicated server that serves the web portion but if I have to serve the large files as well, I overrun my bandwidth allocation. File-locker services seemed like an easy solution.
Yes, if they have operations in the US they can be prosecuted, I believe. What's even worse for Megaupload in this case is that they had started legal proceedings themselves in the US. If they can use the US law, they have to abide them.
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I understand the creepy feeling, though. And I'm pretty sure that through treaty, they've dramatically lowered the bar for entering into a treaty to simple Presidential whim. According to Wikipedia, "executive agreements" outnumber actual treaties by 10:1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties#United_States_law
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Yes we do, normal people don't know and don't care about what you just said.
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Turns out it is quoted as Robert Frost instead of Chesterton.

I can't find a date for the Frost quote, though. not sure who was first (they were actually born the same year, so either is possible).
I definitely agree that the lingering wide spread implications are quite serious as more of our data and services are hosted by third parties.

But for the Megaupload users, I would like to quote one of the boards I saw held up by SOPA protesters: "Dear congress it is no longer ok to not know how the internet works". Dear users, that goes for you to. And trusting your valuable data to a provider who is suspected of all kinds of shenanigans is naive. You get what you pay for.
That's true, but I just feel that's not the Google's way of doing things. I mean, they never forced you to use their other products in the past, so this comes as a surprise to me.

Of course, it's their company they can do whatever they want. That doesn't mean we can't judge them.
Being honest is not enough, you should try to add something interesting to the discussion. (It is hard: I, also, sinned)
For anyone wanting to effect change in their lives, look to research that can be backed up by scientific method. I dislike the self-help industry immensely. One example of good, scientifically backed advice is the work of Richard Wiseman: http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/ In particular, I've found his book 59 Seconds quite useful. Similarly, I learned about Wiseman's work from the Less Wrong community, which is equally useful: http://lesswrong.com/
I'm rather disturbed by these troubling trends that Google has taken. I'm not interested in G+ nor do I want to be involved in the battle between Google and Facebook for the greater number of users. I enjoy using some of their services but it's getting to the point where I'd rather pay for email and look for an alternative RSS solution.

At some point Google is going to be investigated for this. Like MS, they'll probably get away with this in the US because Google is US based and they let businesses get away with anything, but the EU will hammer them.
It's people with your attitude that allows authoritarians to destroy our civil liberties.
And yet it took 2 years of law enforcement work to investigate that notoriety. I have easier time finding infringing (or is it?) content on Youtube than I ever had on Megaupload but you won't see them ever going down the same way. Agreed, however, that storing a single copy of important work isn't safe.
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Not only that, but the owners were making money (gasp) by charging users to send letters! And if you want your letter sent really fast, you had to pay extra.
In the case of backblaze the private key stays on your local machine (so not even backblaze have access).
Come on...the guys' user id is "fwittt"...do you really think it is a legit question?
Last month's transfer (if everyone who clicked the link finished the DL) would have been more than $100 on S3. Its just a hobby. I really was hoping not to spend much if anything on it.
And don't forget to download some free ram:
http://downloadmoreram.com/
It's no laughing matter, Microsoft takes humour very seriously:

http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/Training/Competenci...
The EFF should collect these and enlist them in a class action lawsuit against the FBI.
I don't understand how anyone could think that I am not aware of the original expression which I have paraphrased. As others have noted, JSON is a local optima solution to a particular group of problems. Using S-Expressions does not improve on that solution, they in fact are less of a good fit.
The same way that many misunderstand Lisp, thinking that this would be a better fit to the problems JSON addresses, misunderstands JSON (or those problems).

Well, I thought it was a clever joke, anyway.
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I guess the key here is, are you storing files or are you mirroring files?

It would seem that the best possible solution is to run your own file storage service, but who has the time/desire to manage that? For a free product like Dropbox, I'm content (for now, at least) to make that tradeoff. I don't have to worry about clients or syncing or servers, etc. I just save my files on my computer and then they appear on my other devices.

Perhaps the trick (to avoid data loss) is to backup locally as much as possible. I do backups once every 1-2 weeks depending on how often I'm nagged by Time Machine. That seems to be the only way to get the convenience of cloud storage while also not losing data if they go away.
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That's why people are whining because they didn't care enough. It's really their own fault.

Let me repeat: "Keeping anything important in one place is a bad idea"
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Blame the victims but not the government?
Yes it is origination. Your are correct that registering is an outdated concept and Berne actually insist on automatic copyright in the origin country.
Adios to the Old SEO Ways
As someone who thinks "Photopia" is one of the greatest pieces of fiction I've ever read, I got a kick out of this article. Nicely done.
Of course you can get rid of your Google+ account, just put a fake name on there.
Are you disturbed my Microsoft completely dominating the desktop? 90% market share for a decade and a half. Microsoft essentially beat the US govt. Nothing significant happened. By the time restrictions were imposed, the competition was dead.

In Google's case, it's highly doubtful that they will ever dominate social. The barriers to entry for the online world are way too low.
These are means not goals.
Let's use the example of of a private logistics company who is suspected of say drug smuggling (as in that's their primary business and the logistics part is just a cover to hide drugs among large numbers of packages), should the police only open packages which they're sure of being drugs or would they be remiss in not investigating the other packages which statistically speaking are likely to contain drugs ?
This sort of thing used to happen to me a lot. I learned to deal with it by being very careful in asking the right sorts of follow up questions (you need to understand what kind of an answer someone is looking for, or whether they are looking for an answer at all) and not spending more time answering something than what the original questioner spent explaining their priorities and conflicts. In hindsight, this is obvious... if they are to make the decision, all I can do is lend an ear and double-check their thought process - not do the thinking for them!
I agree with the sentiment, but in this case, the police raided a private business with probable cause, and will hold all assets of that business as possible evidence in a criminal investigation. If your car is found full of drugs, they will also impound it and inconvenience the other possibly innocent passengers. If they find a body in a storage facility, they will probably deny everyone else access to the facility until they have gathered all the evidence they need.
My wife subscribed to an online, Quicken-like service a few years ago that went under, and then refused to allow her to download her information. After that, she realized how vulnerable her data was, since she has no clue who has her data, or what happened to it.

I don't use Dropbox or any online file service for exactly this reason.

I should really download all my gmail, but it's a major hassle having to take care of that, but I realize that's another major point of failure for me.
What part of keeping your information in one place is a bad idea don't you understand? Maybe that group would just decide to take the money and run and shut down all their servers.
We dont like SOPA but what about ACTA?
Crackpot science, Bayesian estimation and the Variability Hypothesis.
You can also use Thousand Island dressing instead of the soy sauce. This dish(with either soy sauce or the thousand island) was a staple of mine when I was first learning to cook.
https://gist.github.com/1641705
He's the only one making that point, though, and it's a point worth making.
Well, during WWII in the UK it was 99%.
The problem you mention is solved by evented sockets.
And lo and behold, Apple came along and completely out-innovated MS and is utterly kicking their ass on all fronts. No government intervention required.
Moreover, it's a foreign post office and much of the mail is foreign - since when does the FBI have jurisdiction over the entire world?
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I'd wager that the reason for the surge is primarily the free 3GS instead of the 4S. It's the entry into the low cost market that was previously dominated by cheap android devices.
Just use IMAP instead of or as well as the webmail interface. Configure your IMAP client to download all your mail locally.

This is not a major hassle if you actually care about retaining access to your email.
The title of the post was "The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial". This implies to me that the article is about one, clear difference, which is the main distinction between the two.

Had the post been called "An advantage of git over mercurial", I would have placed a much lower requirement.
One element I find disturbing is that since our work email migrated to Google Apps and because G+ accounts are enabled by default when you happen to be logged in to the browser and visit G+, people I don't know or care about are adding me to their G+ circles. While I ignore these, it does concern me that if 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.
Wasn't there a big huge DOJ case a while back about a company using one monopoly to try and create another? I forget.
>Is anyone here using haskell or a similar funtional language for any web app?

Yes.

>Would be interested in known your experiences and opinion compared to something like django or rails.

Rails is an abomination, so pretty much anything would be better than that. We rolled our own framework in scala. Despite initial resistance from some dynamic language proponents here, it is now the only thing anyone here will use for web development. Even the python fan won't touch django now.

>How difficult is it to build something with a complex domain model?

Easier than in dynamic languages. The problem with complex models is that humans can't hold all that information in their heads. Static typing lets us offload a bunch of important information to the compiler and have it error check for us as we go. Our biggest issue has been that scala isn't strong enough, I'd much prefer to be using haskell.
The biggest one is Stripe does little beyond actually charging a card. If you're a business, you likely need to provide your customers with receipts via email at the very least, and ideally have a portal for them to look up their payment history. You probably don't want to bother with Dunning emails, either. If you go with Stripe, be prepared to implement all this yourself.

I can't speak fully for the others, but I have used Chargify and Recurly. Chargify finally has statements. Recurly has a large emphasis on making sure your customers are retained -- so much so that they added their own payment gateway to help make sure that's the case.

So, Stripe may be a low cost option on a per transaction basis, I just wouldn't brush aside the development costs that some of the other providers save you. In the end, Stripe may still be worth it for you -- it is for us. But that's the catch.