skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying cats have no empathy?

:)
You should check out yousendit, it's like megaupload but without the network effect so it can't be used for piracy.
You can be nice and tough at the same time. In fact your niceness counts for little if you cannot also be tough when life demands it. As for women: I don't want someone who is easily impressed by what I am not, nor someone who cannot judge me. That's why I am happily in love.
What you're describing sounds very much like "a YCombinator for the film industry." Did I get that wrong? I really like the sound of it, not least because it might also be the best chance for increasing the quality of what comes out of the film industry. But, like YC, it would need some serious talent and some serious money behind it.
042 - DON'T PANIC
Ultimately, the problem with solar, wind, and any other "periodic" or localized generation method is storage and distribution. I live in an area with incredibly cheap power due to hydro dams that generate well in excess of what we need. However, there's only so much we can do with that excess in terms of efficiency of generation because it costs so much to send that energy long distances.

In addition, you have the obvious periodic nature of solar and wind, which mean that not only do you have the distribution problems, but you also can't just flick it on and offset a bunch of peak load or burst demand (such as when hospitals "turn on" in the morning).

You could have 100% efficient solar technology, and it wouldn't change much the economics of green energy because of the physical nature of problem. Thus, you need to change how we deal with the physical nature, and thus the economics themselves by improving the technology in other places. I work for a startup which is building a combination of efficient storage infrastructure and a distributed software system to help manage the heuristics of controlling supply and demand with this storage system and generation technology (including solar and wind, but also traditional generation as well), helping to do things like smart "time shifting" of energy supply.

Since superconductors are still a ways off, and even with them it doesn't change the nature of periodic generation, I think storage technology is likely the most important area for investment in the immediate future (and not just because that's where my paycheck comes from :) )
Nothing. That actually is a method that's been used by "evil doers" in the past. The government had been monitoring email correspondence using Carnivore. What they found was that instead of sending emails back and forth, a shared inbox was being used, and information was simply being communicated using progressive edits of email drafts. It lived on a server, so it was available for discovery ... but since nothing was flying back and forth, it took awhile before it was detected.
>of attempting to copy Youtube 1 for 1

... since when is this a crime? There are tons of "clones" of YouTube out there.
I love the Google comparison. To me, "Kill Hollywood" doesn't mean kill the movies we all love, but kill the politics and ladder climbing that keep new and unique voices from growing and finding an audience.
I have a female friend who enjoys the Mario series. That doesn't mean it's not gender-specific; it means there exist some women to which that game appeals. Super Mario is extremely gender-specific: the main characters are male attempting to save princesses. Pac-Man was less specific aside from his name, but even then, Ms Pac-Man was a hyper-gendered incarnation of her male counterpart. Take a look:

Pac-Man logo: http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/6/60/Pacman-logo.jp...

Ms Pac-Man logo: http://sherisays.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ms.jpg

This is exactly what all those blog posts are talking about with regard to Arkham City and the DC New 52. The women are male fantasies of women. Ms Pac-Man doesn't appeal to women; it appeals to men.
Good question.

The Deptartment of Education is controlled by the power elite and by the masses who elected stupid represetatives.

The issue is democracy - better called dumbocracy. Rule by the dumb.

In a democracy, the government at best can be as good as the lowest common denominator.

The next step from democracy is meritocracy. People with demonstrated intellectual and proven-track-record merit should be allowed to vote in their field of expertise.

So if Khan and John Taylor Gatto have demonstrated that they are better educators than the DOE, then they have more voting power. The principle of meritocracy is that more votes should go to those with demonstrated merit.

Right now the government is controlled by a combination of stupid people voting for emotional gratification and the power elite manipulating the stupid people for personal profit.

Take away voting rights from those with no merit and give the rights to those with demonstrated merit.

The education system is a tremendous challenge and the first step is to STOP listening to the idiots who have failed, and start listening to the people who have succeeded. Since idiots never know they are idiots, we must forcibly remove their power by removing their ability to vote and certainly by barring them from ever being elected.

Instead of fatalistic laissez-faire capitalism that inevitably leads to a new aristocracy, let's work on creating a functioning meritocracy where those with logic and scientifically demonstrated merit are given the power. In particular, their votes should have greater weight.

Don't let the dumb drive DoE policy. Instead let all university educated people vote on DoE leadership after taking a basic exam proving their knowledge.

When we recognize that the Christian fascists (for instance) are pushing an illegitimate social model - fascism - it becomes a moral imperative for us to disempower them. The rational way to do this is by highlighting their lack of merit and highlighting the merit of the educated, intelligent, rational people.

I'm not saying it's a simple solution but good solutions are not simple. A good solution takes work and is going to be messy. But what other option is there? Let the country slip into corporate feudalism? The dumbocracy must end and be replaced by some form of meritocracy.
It may just be people need a reminder sometimes - like someone taking you aside and saying "hey, did you realise how many interpreted your comment?".

Imagine logging in to HN one day and seeing a black screen or something with your comment and a small note saying it wasn't appreciated by the community because it was uncivil - then everything goes back to normal and you can continue browsing.

A gentle reminder may be all that is needed?
I hesitated a bit on the term, but I wanted to include everyone from waitress to dishwasher.
Thus it is also a great time to be a data inputter, typist, sysadmin, support technician, office worker, etc.

Since we have statistics only for the broad category that is ICT, we can't infer anything in isolation about the professions that fall under its umbrella.

Of course, that there's not enough supply of labour to meet demand is only a good thing for those of us already in the industry, and those looking for a way in.
I would be hesitant to use the first two right now. They're heavily used for very visible piracy.
All that will tell you is that humans will anthropomorphize anything.

I would agree with the dog owner, but then you sometimes hear owners of non-social animals (e.g. snakes, octopuses) claiming their pets have empathy. A few people even claim their cars have empathy.
Does anyone know if Usenet will be in the firing line, or is shutting that down a whole other ball game?
Exactly right. As a film person, I've always been incredibly jealous of YCombinator and the amazing talent that it cultivates. A project of its kind, geared around films and storytelling, would do wonders to change the landscape of Hollywood.
This sounds like a relic Of the Red Scare, if anything. I doubt it's that new.
This is somewhat of a tangent, but free lunch is a very important perk for me (note: I don't work at Google). For $15 a day, I could order in food every day and effectively have free lunch, wherever I worked. But I also wouldn't - in the back of my mind, I'd know that the $90 could be used to go and see the opera or a Broadway show, so I'd cook, or go and eat at Subway or whatever. So I'm not sure what I value that perk at, but I think just not having to even think about the lunch part of my day is important. I would weigh this as a positive, say a $5000 benefit.

The company that I work at has "no vacation policy". Honestly, that makes me the most hesitant, and to be honest, I don't really like that policy. However, senior management has been very good in two regards: they take vacations, and they encourage people to take vacations. So it does seem to work out. We're small right now, so it works, but I could see it being very easy to get wrong.
This guy was clearly full of shit when he claimed to be able to infest both Blackberries and iPhones via text.
http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/tax/2010/graphic...

Page 2, Social Insurance Taxes is ~8% on that graph.

Also, the bottom quartile includes people that don't work. I specifically said those in the bottom quartile who do.

As to non US companies paying non US taxes, there is no universal corporate tax rate. You can't assume that non US companies are going to be paying US style income taxes.

As to promoting investment. Getting a Masters is a huge investment in time and money but I don't get to tax my extra earnings at 15% or use pretax money to pay for it etc.

PS: Not that corporate income tax really falls on the owners of a company. You could just as easily say it's the workers that end up paying corporate income tax as it reduces the value of their output work which reduces their income.
Apparently DHS considers the Occupy movement treason, then.
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Sure, but you're not going to get 70 million people paying 99 cents for a one time stream of a 3 minute music video in the foreseeable future.

A better comparison point would be YouTube's HD video list, which perhaps more closely approximates the production values an independent filmmaker might aspire to. The top HD videos on YouTube mostly have <10 million views. And they're short, and free.
Really?

Probably almost every video on Youtube is owned by the video creator. When you upload a video to Youtube, you still own the video and you're granting Youtube a revocable license to use it
(see section 6 of the Youtube EULA, https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms). In addition, Youtube enters commercial licensing agreements for much free and paid content.

Youtube videos aren't public domain just because they're on the Internet! No, you can't copy and host data you don't have the license to. And recall that these videos belong to little guys as well as big ones.
It's not anecdotal and I agree with you: some things are better and some aren't.

Perhaps there were a time in the past (of my boss's life) where made in USA weren't as good as it promised/advertised thus giving way to made in China.
Perhaps a weighting rather than a threshold?

However the "ass" comment came from a relatively "senior" member, so it would be an imperfect solution, and may have other unforeseen (by me at least) consequences.
sure seems civil as compared to reddit!
"ass" doesn't seem to be that extreme...rude yes...but not that "bad". Didn't see that particular discussion, so might have been worse.

The whole deification of pg by some people on here is pretty weird if you ask me.
Yes they comply with DMCA complaints on the surface. No that's not enough to run this kind of business above the board. What you see in file sharing forums are the same people uploading large amounts of pirated media to these sites, DMCA complaints trickle in over the next few days/weeks, and then the very same people "re-up" the files to the same sites and post the new links in the same thread. Over and over.

To be protected by the safe harbor laws in most nations you need to not have actual knowledge of infringement. If files in someone's account are being flagged on a regular basis, you have a hard time arguing you don't know what they're doing anymore. The indictment against Megaupload says that there's physical evidence of exactly this occurring -- the site owners know that much of their traffic is from users uploading pirated content, even looking into their file lists, yet they reward these users instead of blocking them.
In your perspective, what are valid reasons for downvoting?
Logic and compassion should be more than enough. Think about it, the whole world was shocked by such events. Were the shocked, say, Danish, US patriots? Were the Aussies who helped with rendition US patriots? We the MI6 interrogators US patriots? No, they all reasoned that they were doing the right thing. (OK, some could have been just sadists!!!)

Patriotism to me means follow the country or its leader regardless of logic or sense, or any other reasonable form of reasoning. Patriotism can only be used to persuade people against the better logical judgement. Other wise, what is it there for? If the argument stands then no need. Patriotism only gets trotted out when a leader wants to go against the people or majority. Its a big club to bash opposition with.

If the Chinese invade the US, or my home the UK, I don't need to be instantly patriotic to fight them off. I just need to decide who I'd rather run my country. Just logic. Or reason.

There seems to me to be something very engrained in to Americans about being a patriot. I don't know why, but it does seem a very American disease. Bush used it a hell of a lot. Any one disagreeing was called unpatriotic or un-american. I'm sorry, but if that alone does not damage the concept of patriotism, then logic has left the building.

I actually fear seeing or hearing the word patriot. The second I hear or read it I know there is no logic or reasoning to the attached point, argument or issue.
It's often said that politicians have "no morals" but this - ig verified - really demonstrates a complete lack of decency that is quite galling to me. Subverting democracy with smutty name-calling, seriously; and these are supposed leaders of the people.

Such a small thing would so sully the office of the POTUS so as to genuinely discredit the USA for me.

What's worse is I fear that such a fiend would have no shame for doing something like this. If I were supreme ruler of Earth politicians doing such things would be censured and forced to clean Mumbai sewers for the rest of their days.
I agree. I think taking them to court is reasonable, whether they will be convicted of anything is up in the air. It sets precedent that SOPA is not needed, and is not a precedent that can be extended to p2p sharing or anonymous search linking (neither of those activities are provable as conspiracy or racketeering, which is what I think is going to stick in this case).

There are HUGE problems with copyright and IP law, and those also need to be fixed. The damage caused through the corrupting of those laws has been far worse than copyright infringement.
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This is just not realistic in most cases. It's hard enough to get people to understand "Click on the FileSonic link". Normal people do not have Bittorrent clients installed. I'd try FTP before Bittorrent.
There are two arguments to be made here. The first you'll probably agree more with:

I think the answer to that is that nobody cares about kids writing fan-fiction as long as they're not selling it. If copyright exists to "promote the progress of science and useful arts", I don't think you'll find an artist deciding not to write or publish their work because non-commercial derivative works might be made. Exclusive rights to commercial derivative works, on the other hand, might convince people to create new things.

The second point is that whether or not enforcement can be completely effective isn't really relevant. As long as it can be somewhat effective, and as long as people believe the law is just, people will believe that the law is worth keeping. Governments tend to believe that "the culture of digial sharing" is a moral evil, and that not going after it would be to abdicate their duty. "It's too hard to police" isn't a good enough excuse for pot or gambling or seatbelts, why should it be good enough for fan-fiction?
There is a (fairly) simple proof of that, however. You may well be aware of this already, but in case someone hasn't seen it before:

Each comparison of objects provides one bit of information.
So k comparisons provide k bits of information, or 2^k possibilities.
Therefore to distinguish between n options, we need at least log_2(n) comparisons.
There are n! ways of ordering a list of length n.
log(n!) ~ n * log (n)
So to sort a list of length n, we need at least O(n * log(n)) comparisons.

It certainly requires more maths than just counting 'for loops', but I find the explanation surprisingly elegant.
Sure. I just mostly think that net folk should lead the debate and and offer something positive. Something that the general public can understand and support. That has to be the way forward.
One example would be that Google doesn't have to worry about their engineers getting into a car crash on the way to work because the governments (federal and state) collectively spend billions of dollars ensuring that our roadways are safe for vehicles.

This applies only to Google USA. Google USA pays US income tax. Google India does not pay US income tax and does not receive these benefits.

The summary of my problem with your argument is that you benefit from all the things that America provides (government services, easy access to higher education, educated working class, pro-business climate, etc) but don't think that you should have to pay for any of this because "you didn't consume it."

My employees were educated mostly here: http://www.nifdpune.co.in/ and here http://www.softpune.com/index.shtml. I didn't ask where my devs went to school, but it was probably an IIT. Explain again how I'm consuming US government services?
But please don't use the European structure as an example for a democratic system. The European Commission (who are the core authority for proposing legislation) is not a democratically elected body but an "appointed" entity by the Council - a Council that up until the Lisbon Treaty wasn't even required to hold their meetings in public.
We're often reminded of this. There are some subjects you have to stay away from, but you can still rant.
A lot will depend on the MU case in the USA they got on of the best lawyers you can buy for money. And we will see what kind of rabbits he can pull out of his hat.

On the other hand the hydra effect will come as it always will be. And there are countries in this world the FBI cant go after the people ( Russia / Mainland China etc. ). Data will just move from one to another datacenter if servers get confiscated.

And everyone could see how much money can be made out of this sector. If the content industry does not abandon their old business model they can witch hunt forever.

TBP is a prime example for this they have thrown a lot at this problem and the site is still operating.
I'm a new user, recently came over from Reddit. While I miss some science news and obscure subreddits, the conversation is far better over here. I just couldn't handle another meme.

I'm not sure I have much to add other than "I'll try not to get in the way". Reddit was a drastic example of what happens when a system is inundated with users, and so I'll try and step back and observe the way things are run.
So the only difference between Western governments and the Nazis is a matter of scale and your evidence for this is that Western governments are abusing their power.

All governments past and present abuse their power. Sometimes in large ways. Sometimes in small ways. That alone is not sufficient to warrant a comparison to Nazi Germany which carries more historical baggage than it's clear you realize.

You are cheapening your position by resorting to hyperbole.
Rebirth of Microsoft is certainly not happening as talented developers and managers are leaving Microsoft and being replaced by mediocre people. This is obvious once you see that the number of innovative products that Microsoft produces is shrinking with every year. But Microsoft has a lot of money. It'll allow them to stay afloat for a while. They are going to become a company like IBM - big, but largely irrelevant.
I'd say most people would think Roger Federer is nice...
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If you assumed I was offended by his post, you're far off. I'm only disappointed. The evidence is this blog post and the countless ones like it saying how tough it is for a woman to get into programming without being bombarded with negative attention just because of their gender.

As I said in the other reply, there is no way to perfectly measure discrimination. If you don't trust the various testimonies by women in the tech industry and would rather plug your ears, please do not further this discussion.

Links to check out:

http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/07/26/woman-in-tech...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/edlife/12STABINE.html

http://www.bluepoof.com/Colloquium/attitudes.html

http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html
rapidshare is a Swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here.

but for corporate file sharing, i would recommend renting a VPS and organizing some simple SSH-based copying with FileZilla, for example. Or some HTTP-based sharing if you want.
According to some who know the local NZ courts well, it's probably going to take some time, maybe a year or so, to get the MU people extradited to the US on charges like these, if the DOJ is even successful in doing so.

If that's true, there will ample opportunity for this issue of "cyberlockers" and copyrighted content to be analysed and discussed among by the public. Who knows which side the public (i.e., the media industry's customers) will choose to take?

It should be interesting to see where this leads.
Paul - Why not create a "comment karma threshold" to remove the incentive for new users to blindly submit stories?

For instance, users won't get karma points for stories they submit until they reach some threshold for karma from their comments. This would be beneficial in a number of ways:

* encourage better comments from new users
* prevent downvote capability for new users that only submit a lot of stories
* fewer low-quality stories will be submitted
Well this is quite the coincidence.

After years of thinking people were 'paranoid' for putting stickers/tape/etc. over their webcams, just yesterday I started doing the same thing.

Like most people, I also used to think the indicator light would always come on when the webcam was active (as in, it would be part of a hardware circuit or something similar), but I now know this is not the case (at least on my own laptops).

One example of this is the Prey anti-theft agent[1]. If your laptop is stolen, you can remotely take pictures using the laptop's webcam (similar to what happened in the many 'stolen laptop' stories we've seen on HN where images of the thief are then posted online). When I test out this feature of Prey on my own laptop, it successfully takes the pictures for me but the webcam's indicator light is never turned on. It's worth trying this for yourself.

Anyway, (IMHO) you're better safe than sorry since a tiny sticker isn't a big deal.

[1] http://preyproject.com/
Yes, Google Ireland is choosing not to invest money in the USA because of the hostile business environment in the US. So what? Is Google Ireland somehow obligated to do business in the US in an effort to pay more US taxes?

Is the Guinness Brewing Company or Tata similarly obligated to do business in the US just so the US government can tax them? And on the flip side, is GM obligated to do business in India so that India can tax them?
Female journalist? Enough said.
Unless the American hegemony collapses in the next few years, I think that it is a realistic view rather than a cynical one.