skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe Muse – Makes Website Creation Easy
In order to create HTML websites the traditional designers can make use of the tool Adobe Muse (now in beta) without dealing with code.

In a few words, if your time is consumed in Design and Photoshop then you continue on the Internet, Muse (the code name for Adobe’s shall be officially-launched shortly) might be a blessing for you. And if you feel a little bit more fit in the aforesaid tools than in a code editor, Muse is yet something you’ll want to test out.
there are "rules" of story structure, plotting, and so forth

Since you evaluated scripts for a living, can you tell us some of those rules?
If SOPA had passed, would Brides be Jailed?
dailyaisle.com Co-founder Kim Dowd protests SOPA in San Francisco outside the City Hall and explains how dangerous the SOPA Bill could be for everyone, including wanna be brides
Charges Listed on MegaUpload Site Now
"In the Press

Filesonic joins the Internet Watch Foundation to combat online criminal content.
They join over 100 companies from across the world in the fight against online child sexual abuse content."

Omg, this IS how they are going to push through the piracy laws!!
HTTP 7xx: developer errors
inb4 :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497787
> 4% of the population commits the far majority of atrocities. That 4% is made up of the psychopaths - people genetically endowed with no conscience.

I didn't mean people like Hitler and Stalin. Plenty of those in history, of course.

But think about politicians all over the world. Surely you'd agree that a lot more than 4% of them are mostly just concerned with their personal gain, instead of the common good. That's a result of the selfishness and greed inherent in human nature.

Even good people are selfish. I'm good but I'm also selfish. On the other hand, take Julian Assange for example. Now that guy is just about as selfless as humans come, but how many percent of the world's population do you think are like him? Maybe even fewer than the psychopaths you mentioned.

> Conscience bound people often will quit their job rather than make a decision for greed when that decision will harm people.

Sure, some would. But on the other hand, there are 21 thousand people working for Monsanto. Do you think only the very top executives know how evil the company is? What about, say, all of the so-called "financial services industry"?
What could possibly be illegal about it? The TV companies just don't want to let non-US people watch.
I can't help but imagine this easily devolves to funding porn. The films are cheap to produce, can return a great deal on their investment, and have a large audience ready to pay money to watch from the web already.
> Women have always been able to take to coding in my experience and be first class at it.

When you say this, I'm not sure what you mean. Here are some possible interpretations:

(a) Most women can be first-class programmers.

(b) Among first-class programmers, some are women.

(c) Some third thing?
I bet they will create another category of accounts called 'group' accounts that will allow multiple log-ins and simultaneous downloads of files uploaded to that 'group' account. Lo and behold we are back to the original state of affairs with an extra layer of indirection.
Fair enough, burgerbrain (wish there was a friend list here on HN.) Let me try again. How to be a regular:

Be a decent human being. Be a nice guy. Treat staff with respect. If you're getting good service, tip well.

There's no need to memorize waiter's names: if you're a regular, that will come naturally.

There's no need to always order the same thing (how boring!)... if you're a regular, staff will figure out what your preferences are.

No need to tip exceptionally well. If you're getting treated well, you'll tip well. If you're not... then maybe it's not the place you want to take your business acquaintance to anyway.

And sit wherever you please! If you're a good guy people will still remember you even if you don't sit in the same chair every night.
The ability to choose when to work and on what terms is a vastly greater benefit than mere consumption goods.

Your link is really unhelpful to the idea of consumption taxes and I'm actually surprised to see you post a line of reasoning that suggests allocation of fiat money is zero sum in the medium term, especially in response to someone making a point about the economy being driven by consumption.

The $84 million belonging to Mr Kendrick might have been invested in US businesses providing valuable services (although if his private wealth managers are competent, he'd have been better off investing in foreign companies or shorting the housing market in the last few years. Earlier on, maybe, or maybe he'd have done fine placing speculative bets on asset bubbles that create nothing except liquidity for malinvestment and problems afterwards). But given the existence of fiat money created by the fractional reserve system, taxing Mr Kendrick's wealth shouldn't result in a reduction in the supply of bank loans unless the banks are running low on reserves. The government has a whole host of non-fiscal policy instruments to encourage more loans if that's the problem.

It's not a straight opportunity cost decision since the government isn't consuming the money out of existence, even if their spending is utterly devoid of foresight. Welfare check recipients and pointless bureaucrats consume much greater proportions of their income, which ultimately returns via a flows back into the hands of private investors via the mechanism of people actually buying products. Investors, especially passive ones apparently indifferent to returns, don't create profit; consumers buying things do. Shifting the burden from income to consumption taxes discourages that spending, especially if the government has to recoup the revenues Mr Kendrick's $84 million from people that actually get put off by higher prices. If consumers buy less, even Fred Wilson isn't going to get good returns from his investments.
Yeah, but good luck getting it back.
This is idiotic. Silicon Valley and all the surrounding areas vote overwhelmingly Democratic. One stupid piece of legistation doesn't overcome the fact that the GOP are science-hating religious zealots. Republicans have a LOT of work to do before many people in this region would even consider a vote for them.
I know you may be aware of this already and could have tried it, but in case not:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-view-lite/
It's a firefox plugin that can run iexplorer through wine under linux.
How many more lessons do you need that centralization of information leads to centralization of control?
The way I got over my public speaking jitters was by being a TA for highly unstructured discussion sections for ~6 semesters. I was given absolutely nothing to do with the kids, so I turned each session into an extended review/Q&A. Explaining basic concepts in my field 4 hours a week for 6 semesters to undergrads who barely cared enough to show up was excellent practice for talking in front of people and thinking on my feet. Not to mention I'm much less nervous, and I know what nervous reactions to expect.

tl;dr Practice practice practice.
Your name and comment made me chuckle.
>people who eat pizzas with knives and forks are insane IMO

You mean all Italians are insane?
Don't worry. Take a look at abortion -- there is a lot of talk about it in DC, but even those who are against it don't pass legislation, because if they did they wouldn't have that to yell about.
A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices Across the US Border
> If a consumer watches one of my studio's productions instead of watching Avatar, we didn't just earn $0.99 -- we also stole a $10.50 purchase from 20th Century Fox

Why would the consumer not just watch movies from Fox too? Especially since if he only pays you $0.99, he'll still have plenty of money left to give to Fox.
>If a consumer watches one of my studio's productions instead of watching Avatar, we didn't just earn $0.99 -- we also stole a $10.50 purchase from 20th Century Fox.

That's not how the economics work. Consumers have a level of disposable income. Just because they spent 0.99 on your movie doesn't mean that they won't also spend $10.50 on Avatar. The allocation of disposable income is not based on price as much as quality.

Secondly, $0.99 vs $10.50 is a failure in signal theory. You immediately signal to the consumer that the value of your movie is far less than most other forms of entertainment. The reason why the $0.99 model works for music on iTunes is that all songs are priced the same. There is no signaling of quality between songs. The 99 cent model works for iPhone apps is that it is low enough of a cost to value to risk ratio that it's worth 99 cents to try something out. If it is bad, there's no real loss to it. There's little opportunity costs associated with it.

But you can't sell a $10M budget movie at 0.99 and make a reasonable revenue.
>Think of it as "Moneyball for movies" -- that is, what types of successful film productions does Hollywood tend to undervalue in favor of large, expensive (and tremendously risky) blockbuster attempts?

Thing is, this has been done, and the results probably aren't what you want to hear. Hollywood actually produces fewer family and broad-appeal genre films than the market can handle. (Check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Economics-Uncertainty-Routle... )

The reason for this mismatch between what the market can handle vs. what actually gets made is that Hollywood insiders actually do want to make dramas aimed at adults, which have a much smaller market than, say, animated kids' movies.
This kind of reminds me of the Wreck a Movie service (http://www.wreckamovie.com/) from creators of the Star Wreck movies. They say it best themselves:

"Based on the experience of creating the Star Wreck phenomenon, Star Wreck Studios has developed a Web platform that is designed to harness the power of passionate Internet communities for creating short films, documentaries, music videos, Internet flicks, full length features, mobile films and more. www.wreckamovie.com is a social community, simple workflow and marketplace that builds communities around film productions. It helps get films done faster and at a considerably lower cost through crowd-sourced work on production tasks and online resourcing of expertise and corporate funding. The communities developed in production will also create a viral social marketing force that will get films seen through the hundreds of existing online and standard channels."
Raven Browser: A Review
Other film industries around the world routinely put out more movies with less production costs than hollywood. Might not be the exact quality but many have been getting better to the eye the last 10 years alone.
Say NO to ACTA (UK government e-petitions)
use whatever kind you like. one is:

http://www.spreeder.com/
The Story of Fernforest and Petro Dale
what happens to those with premium accounts?
Like many self-taught programmers without any formal education in computer science, I've always been a bit mystified by analysis of algorithms. Anything beyond counting the iterations of loops seems to turn into a morass of notation and obscure analytic techniques—ignorance of which has never kept me from writing code that runs, well, fast enough.

This article, though, was a nice walk-through that reminded me that this stuff is probably quite straight-forward if I would just sit down and give it a shot. It got me to read the Wikipedia page on the Master theorem [1], which seems easy to apply and genuinely useful for figuring out what's going on in complex recursive code. I think I'll finally click "buy" on Carmen's book [2], which has been sitting in my Amazon shopping cart for years.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_theorem

2. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...
Yea people needed to learn that filehosters are not a replacement for real p2p the hard way I guess
Pirenópolis uma cidade histórica - Brasil
It's a great time to be a programmer...anywhere.
What is stopping people making a account, and when sharing the file, give out the account details with the link?

Say I upload 50 divx films, and give out that accounts details, so people can freely take what they want, or even add files?
You might not get it back.
Foreign productions are still in multimillion budget ranges, even the cheapest ones that are somewhat at hollywood standards.
I've got to admit, I don't understand why this article exists. If you're a beginner, the math is too complicated. If you're anything more than a beginner then you already know that bubble sort is O(n^2) and quick sort is O(n log n) and you probably know how to derive it. Who is this aimed at?
"Speaking as someone who did a lot of competitive public speaking back in the day, the frisson of "panic" just before you start is your friend. I'm worried if I don't feel it."

My background is singing professionally (in the past) rather than speaking, but it's fairly similar for the sake of this point.

I agree with the adrenaline being your friend, but disagree that not feeling it is a bad sign. I always found that the amount of adrenaline/panic correlated mostly with the importance of the performance, and a little to do with what the performance was. When it came it was a friend to embrace not ignore, when it didn't it just meant (for me) that it was an easier gig, and I could do as good a job without any emotions boiling up.
Swagger-Jacking: Beyonce, Pinspire and Why Copycats Are Good For Business
Given that almost all files on RLSLOG:
http://www.rlslog.net/

use FileSonic for downloading copyrighted material, I was wondering myself how long it would be before FileSonic either shutdown or disabled sharing entirely.

I'm sure there are other "scene release" sites, but this is one in particular that I've been aware of for a long time.
> Mindblowing censorship.

There's a lot of spin on what the law actually is. Some of it by people mis-interpreting guidelines issued by bureaucrats who were themselves exaggerating a bit.

Treason is an offense in the US, dictated by the constitution. Advocacy of treason is also an offense. The entire point of passing through customs is that goods that are legal elsewhere, but illegal in the US, are blocked. While it's perfectly OK to make videos about the destruction of the US if you're in Saudi Arabia, it is NOT ok to do that in the US. So it gets blocked at customs.
By percentage, no the fans that wait in line for a week is not huge. but the free advertising that the news gives them with the"wow look at the weirdos" spots I'm sure adds some weight to the number.
There are other parties. If you don't want to vote for Republicans or Democrats, then don't.
Zynga and Groupon are going down. And why that’s a good thing.
Don't know about hygiene, but eating with your hands is definitely more convenient for food designed with utensil-less eating in mind. I doubt the reason knives and other utensils aren't used many places (such as South East Asia) has anything to do with some taboo regarding violence during dinner.

And I hope your last sentence there was just tongue in cheek. :)
It's great to be a programmer
It's an advertised perk so sure. Just like they might convince you to work somewhere because it's more geographically convenient for you or it has a day care. It offers better quality of life in lieu of cash money. I know cash is what most americans want. They want it over better health care or fairer lifestyle. But some people just want to live more comfortably instead of being able to tell people how many "figures" they make.

As for the cuts, maybe they decided to be more "honest" and cut that program and just give new hires more money?
IANAL, but I wouldn't give you good odds in a squatting suit if the guy owned the domain before you owned the trademark.
> They're not afraid of this by chance; this is a rational fear arising from a hundred, a thousand previous encounters with men, even trained teachers, who were abjectly unable to interact with women in a way that left them feeling comfortable.

This is a somewhat prejudiced argument; try switching the roles, or maybe adding ethnicity in there, and you'll see. “Everyone knows” etc.

Of course, that's not to say it must be untrue. The (at least perceived) alternate pedagogy does seem to work, so I'm all for it!
My idea may be flawed. The real "fair tax" is a pre-bate each month for the sales tax you'll pay in the month. Which in that way is an interest free loan to you.
Hire a journalist to run your startup's blog
Two major budget components are people (lots of highly skilled professionals) and set construction.

Props and wardrobe could be revolutionized with cheaper CNCs and apparel machines and better and cheaper creative content design software - which is being currently done (Zbrush + DIY CNCs), but someone still has to design the stuff.
I recommend OmniFocus.
I personally find it difficult to do what this article says. Maybe it's because I'm a pathologically shy Italian living in a pathologically self-embarrassed UK culture...

I'm a "regular" at a few coffee-shops and supermarkets near home, I'm pretty sure most of the staff recognize me like I recognize them, and they do know my "favourite" items, but I don't know their names and we've never really had any interaction outside the expected me-customer-you-barista set of requests. They don't even tell me if there's a promotion or fidelity scheme! The only "extra" I get is that they don't tell me they'll close in 15 mins and "please get out", they just assume I know (which is true).
> willing to take advantage of someone who wasn't skilled at the whole negotiating thing.

What? That is the ENTIRE POINT of negotiation. It's a game. The more skilled player wins, and it's true for job offers, house buying, car buying, street markets, everything.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. :)
the good old days.
Regarding finding a designer, I highly recommend visiting your local university's masters of fine arts students.
A believe many people enjoy movies and don't want to pirate them (I am one of them). They won't pirate and don't want to abstain from movies, so the only option is to provide a credible alternative entertainment that doesn't involve sending money to those who lobby against us.
I hope so. In it's current form, I can't switch from Vim.
What equally stops someone from simply logging in using those account details, deleting all the files, or simply changing the password? Feels like whack-a-mole to me.
At 1. isn't that like saying MTV is the king-maker for hits, which is very top-down? Right now I'd say Youtube can be a king-maker, and is much more bottom-up.

My point is I think the strategy can succeed against Hollywood. Who knows, we might even start seeing innovative movies out of this. Right now 75% of the movies released every year are remakes or sequels. Not a whole lot of innovation.
This is indeed the single biggest problem -- the cost of producing and marketing a broadcast/theater quality feature is spectacularly high. Technology will help, but we need to see it come down by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
Probably nothing, but it could trigger some anti-hacking heuristic that would disable the account.

It's also much less convenient than just sharing the link.

Plus some troll would just delete all the shared files.
The only way we can get hollywood to innovate is to make a convincing case that by innovating they can make more money.

At 99c a pop, you would need _billions_ of views to compete with the income of a blockbuster [not to mention innovative] film like Avatar, which according to Wikipedia made nearly $2.8 billion. If you look at the most popular YouTube videos, you'll find things like Justin Bieber's songs with about 700 million views. Making the generous estimate that about a tenth of those viewers would pay for that content, you would make about $70 million, which is orders of magnitude less than what they do now.
I took a look at my recently watched movies (specifically the low publicity / small names) and they all have budgets (when listed) of at least a few million dollars. Hell, this movie called "Rise of the foot soldier" had a budget of $4m and only did a couple of hundred thousand income: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901507/ and it had no big names, or maybe this is just "Hollywood accounting"?
I tried to read all comments, but after roughly half of it (300/625) I give up. I think HN discussions could greatly benefit from introducing quota on the number of comments/day and words/comment. I am firm believer, that if you cannot fit your idea in a couple of sentences, you need more time to polish it. I am not suggesting 140 symbols. Oh, wait...
This is SOP for negotiation. Candidates do this shit too, trying to claim some sort of inflated salary boost for every thing they give up from their previous employer. It's a game and the lesser negotiator loses out.
It is easier to be perceived as nice if you are not in a position of power. When you are in a position of power where you have to make hard decision which have negative effects for somebody, some will think you're a bastard. For this reason powerful and successful people will be perceived as generally less nice.
Why seed a torrent day and night, linking your actual IP to the infringement act, when you can just upload a file to a bunch of file sharing services on a cafe's wifi and post a link on a forum? If your goal is to illegally distribute files without getting caught, real P2P seems like a suboptimal choice for now.
So anyone who owns a whole-market stock index is prohibited from making political comment of any kind, because they "have a financial interest in a company benefiting from the likes of Monsanto"?

Think about what you're saying. No one has defended Monsanto, because the point is that whether Monsanto is good or bad is completely irrelevant to point being made about intellectual property rights.
Advocacy of treason in a general sense is legal in the U.S.; Yates v. US (1957) held that "advocacy of forcible overthrow of the government as an abstract doctrine" was protected by the First Amendment, and therefore someone couldn't be jailed solely on the basis that they were a member of the Communist Party and advocated a communist revolution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States)

To prosecute (after Yates) you'd need some additional evidence that an individual's advocacy wasn't merely abstract, general advocacy of revolution, but concrete and imminent enough to present a "clear and present danger", e.g. because of specific steps being taken to actually overthrow the government in the near future.

Similarly, a state actually seceding from the U.S. remains illegal, but someone merely abstractly advocating that a state ought to secede, as the Texas governor half-seriously did, and many "Sons of the Confederacy" type groups more earnestly do, is legal and not considered punishable as treason, assuming that the groups aren't actively planning raids of federal forts or something.
I encourage everyone to actually read the paper. The conclusion is that people want leaders and group members who put the interests of the group first (not a shocking conclusion):

https://student-3k.tepper.cmu.edu/gsiadoc/WP/2011-E34.pdf

It was pretty badly misinterpreted by the "nice guys finish first" post, and we're heaping more layers of misinterpretation on top of that.

For example, the study found that people who contributed to the group at the expense of outsiders (perceived as medium-dominance) fared better in leader elections than the more "dominant" individuals who kept all resources for themselves.

The group-minded individuals also were less likely to be voted out of the group than the "pure-dominant" individuals.