skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rdio has Canadian content, and there isn't a law against streaming music in Canada, the reason most music services do no bother is because of the expensive and complicated structure of the paid royalties. It's hard to get the initial license and almost impossible to satisfy the royalty payments,

Most music startups that stream music do not bother with canada, and that's sad.

Read the article why pandora decided to quit the Canadian market, sad true story

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JgGeRC_...
You are absolutely correct, and it's a comment I anticipated, which is why I qualified my original statement: "meaningful results _in terms of_ how single-celled organisms evolved into multicelluar organisms". (Although in fairness, it probably gives a hint and will certainly lead to future experiments that may provide the beginnings of an answer.)
FARK has gone white to "support" SOPA/PIPA
Hmmm that's a good point. I already know what I'm looking at, and the significance, so I'm not really in the target audience. I also don't live in the US, so I had to proxy through one of my servers to see what the effect was like. That brief exposure I had probably isn't quite the same as seeing it throughout the day, as Americans will.
No offense, but I'm pretty sure we all knew this.

As a side note, is Reddit directing to a 502 page for anyone else? I thought they were going to post streams, links, etc.

Maybe they're just not ready yet?

EDIT: It's up now.
Imgur.com blacked out from 8am to 8pm
14 million?

Accordingo to this:

http://www.caib.es/conselleries/educacio/dgpoling/user/catal... (sorry, spanish) there are around 7 million Catalan speakers in all europe (including Spain, Andorra, France and Italy).

Your argument holds, still. Indeed, I'm pretty sure most content is available in Catalan here in Spain. I would be more worried about the italian ones, or even the french.
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That was a point (iirc) in the linked video. Yes, it appears the all the required raw resources are there -- now we just have to do it.
Please censor the Web America, the rest of us can’t wait
You raise a good point here about what property actually is.

I'd like to extend on this concept and add ownership into equation.

In the example with an apple. I own it, therefore only I can eat it. It is my property. Now what happens if I give the apple to somebody else? It's their property now, so you would naturally assume they own it? And therefore they can eat it.

Alas, it's not the case with music/etc. I bought a CD with music, but it appears that I don't own it. I cannot listen to it in public (Happy Birthday to You), nor I can give it to someone else (lend DVD to a friend for a pint).

So this doesn't work out very well, the CD is my property, but I don't own it? To me owning means having right to do whatever I please with it. Imagine if blending an iPhone would become a criminal offence...
I quite agree (and it's sickening how 'elitism' has become an insult).

However, I would add that she does have a point about Oxford not being up to scratch (she should have applied to Cambridge instead ;)
Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?
Are HN users chronically sleep deprived? Let's find out..

Approximately how much sleep do you get per night, on average?

Other questions related to the poll:

- Do you sleep continuously, or are you on a polyphasic sleep schedule?

- How does your sleep schedule affect your work and the rest of your life?

- Does the work you do affect your sleep?
More than 12 hours
11 hours
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Definitely a matter of taste, I have the newer style Apple keyboard on all my keyboards for the same reason, my hands get tired almost immediately when I have to use something else. The key travel (especially on the ergonomic ones) seems excessive.
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I think today can be proudly called: The Day That The Internet Stood Together In Unison.

I really hope that there aren't too many more reasons that action like this will be required again within my lifetime, but extrapolating from the way things have been going over the last couple of years I seriously doubt it.
I admit it's stealing, but I don't care. I also break the speed limit - constantly. I also smoke pot from time to time. Music is so abundant and readily accessible it no longer makes sense to charge $20 per CD, let alone anything for songs that take two seconds to download. There is no way to stop pirating without either crippling or sensoring the Internet. Technology advances and industries die as a result. Instead of accepting the cold hard reality of the Internet and the ease of pirating and adjusting their business models, the major media companies are trying to reverse the wheel of time. They probably want us all using records again.
I think your page is excellent. I don't really believe that the 503 message is too much-- people are used to 404s, so I think it will be fine.
Why is "counterfeiting drugs" obviously wrong? Plenty of developing nations counterfeit drugs to avoid paying ridiculous prices for drug IP.

http://donttradeourlivesaway.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/brazil...
> Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd—Professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working quantum computer—the answer is yes

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer-...
My point is that a work that is just information, no matter how high quality, will be copied. There is no scarcity.

Throughout history, work has always been either about making physical objects, food, or services rendered to either a person or a group interactively. Those are scarce. That's still the case.

Yes, the market for cookie-cutter experiences "make once, sell zillion times" will become smaller (or at least, stop growing). I'm not sure whether that's something laudable or something sad, but it is happening before our eyes.

Things are changing, let's try to make the transition less painful instead of more painful as we move into the post-information age.
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I think the easiest way is to add ?banner=none at the end of the page.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_black...
19 yo writes funny letter. It's not much of a story. The sad thing is the BBC interviewing her because they heard about it.

She does have a point about Oxbridge being very traditional and it's great that she recognised that it wouldn't suit her. Many students go with the 'best' university they can get into even if they are not appropriate for them.
Impact of the iPhone 4S launch was 'enormous,' says Nielsen
Best SOPA/PIPA protest page
It was actually proposed at the French parliament to (basically) make "piracy" legal and subsidize the cultural industry via taxes. The name of that system was "Licence Glogale" (global licensing).
Bertelsmann & Others Back $100M Venture Fund For Innovative Education
Vampire hairstyles
Vampire hairstyles is classic. Vampire hairstyles are very likely to find it a mystery. Vampire hairstyles are quite charming. We will see vampire hairstyles in the movie vampire is a variety of style. It has vampire hairstyles so many choices.
There's a subtle line this post is drawing: from the plain guilt of not paying the artists who created the art, to horror at realizing that if you pay them, you also give several times as much money to interest groups that go head on with your morals.

Once you realize this line exists, paying for music is no longer "the right thing to do" but an evil act, at least as evil as supporting sweat shops and Amazon deforestation.

Whether you continue to pirate music or simply stop listening to it is one's personal choice, but buying already ceased being the moral choice.
O'Reilly SOPA blackout page
AmEx Puts $125M In And Partners With Chinese Mobile Payments Company Lianlian
I thought the last quote was a little odd. "Being a successful student should depend on the student, not on whether or not a couple of academics have deemed you to shine in a twenty minute interview."

I'm not sure what system she would propose instead.

Edit: Seems a few people don't like the above comment. The application process anywhere will take into account grades, supporting statements, references etc. Not everywhere will do interviews but for those that do, it'll (presumably) be an additional point in all of this.
My poor mans rig would be green paper covering the screen, then load in the directly recorded video stream using green-screening in post production. It would give a perfect clarity image.

I guess the sides of the ipad screen would still reflect, so it'd look a little "off" unless your fingers are kept perfectly between the camera and ipad at all times...but that could be achieved.
Remove Wikipedia SOPA Blackout (GreaseMonkey script)
Is it 'Hopper' or is it 'Get Hopper'?

Ok, so by the title of this post, and the title on the site's front-page, I can see it's meant to be "Hopper".

But the site's URL is 'gethopper' and if you view one of the links created by the site there's the red 'Get Hopper' button on the top left.

Both of those things suggest the site is called 'Get Hopper'. To the user, what else is 'Get Hopper' meant to mean? You don't see "Get Google" or "Get bit.ly" (along with http://getbit.ly) etc. It's a little confusing.

Just thought you might like to know.
4chan should stay like this.
Snapshots of Websites that have gone dark on 18th Jan 
There have also been some outside the US that have gone dark in protest such as 7iber.com
I think he is from Belgium, not France.
Sweden’s cheap if you compare it to its neighbour Norway! Housing seems cheap compared to the UK too there, but then I guess that’s what happens if you have 1/6th the population in 3 times the land area.
> Assuming HN has a 100% Facebook user population (not unreasonable)

It would be probable 2 years ago or so. Now I highly doubt it's anywhere close to 100%.
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Sometimes it's 502 and when it's up css is missing for me.
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Consider this: You commision a composer to write a personal song to celebrate you at your anniverseray. You use the song, but decline to pay because the composer can keep a copy of the song, and therefore you are not really taking anything from him. But clearly you have put him in a worse position by using his work without pay - after all he could have done something else with his time and talent.
yes I am sure they are worth trusting and whatever they say there its binding.
I think one cool byproduct is the realization that we share much more in common with a group of people, not because of their home state but rather because of their core beliefs.

Living abroad, this becomes all to evident when people expect you to attend functions simply because you are all from a different geographical area (read: expats).
The Oatmeal's protest
If you look at those "simpler" forms of life you find that the genes are not gone, but rather they are disabled.

An example is Neoteny - the genes for adult forms are still there, but are unused.

That's why I don't think much of this experiment - I bet the genes for multi cellular life were already there, and just needed reactivation - which happened randomly (perhaps due to environment, or perhaps they always activate, but just for short times, and this experiment selected for those with the longest or easiest to trigger activation), but no new genes were needed.

To do this experiment properly do a DNA sequencing of the original and final forms. And I'm actually quite surprised that they didn't do that - wouldn't it be very useful to know which genes create multi cellular life? But I bet the genetic diff between them is tiny - just enough to activate genes that are already there in the starting yeast.
Yeah, it just came up for me after a bunch of 502 responses.

Reddit has done a good job on the page. It has a call to action and provides a lot of information. Kudos.
There is an economic cost. If even one person pirates a digital work who WOULD have paid for it had pirating not been an option, it causes a cost to the producer of the media. So there is a real cost.
If the pirate is enjoying the music, then clearly the pirate would be willing to pay something more than nothing to hear the music, if piracy were not easily avaliable.
The thing is, people are trained to skip error pages. What do you think would happen if you format it as parked domain page? It's not the users you'd perhaps think lowly of that have the most trained impulse to close error pages; it's the more technical users.

Here's a suggestion: format the page as if it was taken down by the government. Something like this: http://corecorina.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/rippoker.jpg
Yes. I think the key point here is that property is treated in law as a right, but copyright functions as an anti-right.

I'll try to explain what I mean by anti-right though I'm unpracticed here.

(1) Society is oriented around a presumption of live-and-let-live. Most laws give rights that state the boundary of live-and-let live, and these are positive rights.

(2) In the case of copyright, only the creator has the ability to live-and-let-live in the context of the protected thing: everyone else is restricted from it. Hence, this is a negative right, or "anti-right".

When rights and anti-rights clash, you get nasty situations develop where they can't all be true at the same time.

i.e. in order to make IP anti-rights work, the laws need to inhibit 'real' property rights.

i.e. I am not allowed to do things with magnetic signals in the privacy of my own home because that impedes an anti-right that the government has granted to someone else.

If you build complex software with a permissions model that contains both positive and negative permissions (i.e. where a user has a permission that is "can't see" something rather than being a positive right), you'll find similar nasty situations develop.
From imgur: We have blacked out Imgur today from 8am to 8pm, EST [...]

Another mirror: http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01548/toto_sopa_googl_...
Besides the ATL-prefixed symbols, there are are numerous APL-prefixed symbols, as well as many _block_ symbols which indicate extensive use of GCD in the level 3 routines (and which ATLAS doesn't use).
How would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief?

Under current US law - downloading sharing unauthorized digital goods is theft under at least some circumstances, and therefore any rules about truth in politics are unlikely to be activated by that statement.

(insert disclaimer about how I understand that digital goods are an infinite resource and therefor making a copy cannot be theft. Please be assured I understand your objections - I am confining my point to the impossibility of "truth in politics" being used against the statement made, given the law at the current time)
I like it. Very informative and that is a well produced video. The methods for contacting representatives are a nice touch as well.
It's worth noting that this is a tool that was built by Chris Groskopf (he's @onyxfish on twitter) while he was working at the Chicago Tribune.

Chris is now working on a Knight Foundation funded project called PANDA to build a FOSS search appliance for tabular data (especially for CSV and spreadsheet based files) intended for deployment in news rooms (http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/11/panda-project-releases-a-... ).

You can test out the alpha for panda online here: http://alpha.pandaproject.net/

(Chris is also a super nice guy)
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i noticed your focus is constantly adjusting, what camera you used. This is the exact problem with iphone built-in camera app.

it's easy to record video in a dark room but requiring white background in how case is a different story.

anyway...it's a cat video!
> Oxbridge probably is unhealthily attached...

What's unhealthy/weird about it? I've been at several Universities and each of them has their own 'traditions'. Also, I wouldn't really call the examples you gave as 'oxbridge traditions' (you're right that things vary a lot by college).
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Everspin takes MRAM to Dell, LSI and beyond
The page is currently sorta slow (w/ occasional 502 errors), so here's a screenshot of the whole page in case you can't see it:

http://oi44.tinypic.com/21et27q.jpg
Those movies could still get made, if a large enough group of people pledged to fund the production of the movie. The fact that other people would then get to watch it for free wouldn't deter those pledgers, if their interest in that movie concept was high enough. It would be a different kind of model, but it could work.
others have pointed out the problem of global availability vs. artificial rights barriers.

i'd like to add one more thing, in regards of music:

why should i pay for digital music reproduction?

1., radio is free

2., internet radio covers so much, i can listen to anything, for free (more channels than ever)

3., on demand is solved by youtube, which is already the biggest music platform bar none. some music video have 100+ million playcounts!

4., a lot of those youtube videos are legal by now, put up there by the industry themselves. they price their own content as ZERO.

and then there are the specialty sites, like soundcloud, 8tracks, wearehunted,... all that music, on demand, for free. mainstream stuff, not some basement bands.

the industry is pricing their content as free in a lot of channels already. so, sorry, hard to see that saving a youtube vid as an mp3 is actual piracy.
This argument could obviously easily be reversed.

If Rihanna and others don't want their music to be pirated they shouldn't make it digital.

It is not a naturally given right you know to create an album once and then sell it in millions. It's an opportunity.
Chegg to bridge gap between digital and physical textbooks
It’s no fluke – iPhone closes the gap on Android in U.S.
My thoughts:

* The animation (click 'Documentation') is too slow. As likely the most visited link, this needs to be instantaneous.

* The top bar takes too much vertical space.
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In many countries university admissions depend only on test scores.

The only exception are the winners of nationwide competitions, who can enter any university they choose.
Aren't people supposed to want to be good?

Many people believe that punishing people whom in their eyes are doing wrong is a good and righteous act, irregardless of any local law. In the legend of Robin Hood, Robin is generally seen as a "good person" and the hero in most tellings, despite being a thief and a criminal.
> but the truth of the matter is that without copyright laws, there would be a significant decline in the production of movies, music, games, and many other costly mediums

It might seem very intuitive to say such things, but it is not truth. The truth is that the economic evidence is just not there. What do Landes & Posner say?

"Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretical or empirical grounds for assessing the overall effect of intellectual property law on economic welfare."
-- 'The economic structure of intellectual property law'; Landes, Posner; 2003. Conclusion, p422, s3.

That means we do not know whether it does good overall. Hard to quite believe? Well there it is.
Or... just turn off javascript for a moment and refresh page.
We've seen this before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328901

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701615

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889423

The bottom line is that everyone's needs are different. Some need more than others.
How The Golden Mean, Number, Rectangle, Spiral, and Triangle All Fit Together
PIPA Roll Call
And the artists don't have a god given right to produce it once and sell it many times.
I know it's probably not right, but I was thinking this morning of one way to get rid of the control. I would love to see one of the big tech companies go to each one of these politicians and offer them a ridiculous amount of money to publicly declare their new found opposition and vote it down.

And then I want to see that company public remand that politician for being all about the money. Taken to an extreme, if there were a handful of these guys that would take some cash to turn around (and I know that may be lots of cash) and then for the company to then take out a full page ad in the major newspapers: "This person is so easily swayed by money... do you really want them in charge?". Destroy them. Publicly humiliate them and see how quickly they all stop playing these games.

Who knows, you might even be able to skip step one and just take out the ad "This person gets paid $X a year by the recording industry and they are destroying your freedoms".

That's what I'd love to see, at least...
As someone who went through the Oxford interview process this year (and rather surprisingly received an offer) I do wonder exactly what she was expecting when she applied to Oxford. For me part of the attraction (aside from the academical reputation) was the history and, it has to be said, rather grand buildings.

It's also worth pointing out that this was sent on December 10th, before any replies from the university, meaning that she didn't actually have an offer to reject, it was technically a withdrawal of her application, and probably only preempted a rejection letter from the university.

Personally, while I didn't enjoy the interview experience as a whole (much of the conversation was awkward, and having to wait 12 hours while you 'might' get called for another interview is incredibly stressful) I really enjoyed the interviews I had - the opportunity to discuss aspects of CS/Maths with experts in the field, particularly talking about areas that interest me is something I've not really had chance to experience through the UK education system - although I can't say I had any of my interviews in 'grand formal settings', just the tutors offices.

For those interested in the full text of the 'letter', it can be found here [1], as kindly posted to the 2012 Oxford Applicants group on FB by one of her friends who did get an offer.

[1]: http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5766/ellylawoxfordemailco...
4chan is censoring /b/? About time :-)
Mashup artists, for example, would be able to use a much greater variety of samples if IP laws were less restrictive.
It would be pretty complicated to make the demo (swipe, touch, navigate your app) with the screen covered in green, wouldn't it?
That's a system that Oxford explicitly rejects. They even give a test for science candidates, and then don't really care about the results (they're just there to check that you're not completely ignorant).

Oxford selects for potential, not for test results. How do they judge that potential? Well, they have developed detectors which are really advanced, carefully calibrated, extremely sensitive and incredibly difficult to game.

Those detectors come in the form of "professors" who have been teaching for 20+ years and know how to judge a student's potential from a 20 minute interview.

Disclaimer: I went to Oxford.
So it is moral to rob artists of royalties of songs they made which you enjoy?

I'm willing to guarantee that most don't know the labels that most artists belong to. Some are indie and are not involved with the RIAA. Should they be punished as well?

You're not any different from from those you preach against.