skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how MU collected money? With all of the restrictive ToS used by payment processors these days, I am very interested to know how they were able to maintain an income stream, for so many years, while their payment processor must have been aware of the potential illegality happening at MU. I'm not making a statement for or against MU, just wanting to know how they were able to keep going when an entity such as WikiLeaks, or a small guy on PayPal who has one chargeback, are so easily financially cut off.
Piracy - At Least Learn How to Bake Your Cake
Maybe it is a good start, but you should take another longer vacation too.
I suspected as much, but how much of that $4.8?
While it's a bad way to protest in many ways, I somehow feel that it's pretty fair considering that Megaupload was taken down without a trial. Both sides taking the laws in their own hands, except that the media industry gets away with it.

(Yes, I do consider taking a site down without a trial an abuse of the system.)
So Microsoft should own the rights to distribute Harry Potter because it was composed with Word? After all, J.K. Rowling surely benefited from Word's spell checker.
I will definitely add some more content. thank you
Ask HN: hands up everyone 8)
I changed my registration to vote for Paul. I have yet to be disappointed with my decision.
Million. It's an accounting abbreviation (sometimes).

Edit: It may come from Roman numerals. M = 1000.
OP's blog post says Quora is not doing that. It says Quora's redirecting to gigaom.com from http://www.quora.com/_/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgigaom.com%... instead of http://www.quora.com/What-are-everyday-apps-that-use-cloud-c....

The technique I described allows Quora to customize the referrer associated with an outbound link.
Survey:

-What are your favorite gmail features?

-What do you wish it had?

I access gmail at least 20x/day and I still stumble upon new features. Just learned about "OIB" yesterday.
This would be more interesting if it was something that affected those groups. Those groups live in different media, not online. If their cable streams were hacked, billboards, advertising, commercials were compromised, it would truly taking the 'fight' to their door.

I'm still waiting for a well-formed movement to impact the RIAA/MPAA financials via boycott. It seems everyone that is anti-SOPA is also against their business practices, and if the 4 million people that signed the google petition could even partially support it that seems much more meaningful.
It's million, derived from M, Roman numeral for one thousand, one thousand one thousands is one million.
ahh, thats a valid catch, I will fix it. what you do mean "Are you testing any assumptions with this first version".
I will add the feature that would detect the urls
Thank you
A great interview. But as I read it, one section jumped out as verifiably odd.

Back when we last did a survey, in February, there were a total of 33 million
references on the Internet to the word "rape" in any context, from Helen of Troy
to the Congo. If you search for "rape" and my name, there were just over 20
million. In other words, perceptively, two-thirds of all rapes that have ever
happened anywhere in the world, ever, have something to do with me.

Obviously, "back when we last did a survey" means anything done now "doesn't count", but: Googling "rape" returns 226M pages. Googling "'Julian Assange' 'rape'" returns 4.2M pages. Still an interestingly high number ("'Kobe Bryant' 'rape'" returns 1.6M pages; "'Roman Polanski' 'rape'" is 4.5M), but not the two-thirds number he uses. I think that's what feeds the "ego" accusations.
Let's analyze the propaganda speak here:

> Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests

Based on not only the experience of others, but the claims of the DoJ itself, this is clearly false.

> The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content.

This is true in the same way YouTube provides advertising around, and your friendly local ISP provides access to, pirated content.

> The site paid people (users/staff - it's a fine line) to provide popular content.

So does YouTube. So do various other business models.

> It went to extraordinary lengths to hide the identity of its operators.

How many legitimate business don't have their owners wrapped in layers of corporations strewn around the globe? Nothing particularly unique or illegal here.

> Now if people believe that anyone should be allowed to set up a site, fill it with full length DVD rips...

It's an outright lie to claim that they themselves filled it with said rips. The users did. Just like many other sites, usenet servers etcetera.

> Kim Schmitz has made a lot of money

Yeah, that's a crime...

You've already corrected one claim, that Megaupload wasn't used for legitimate purposes.

Full disclosure: personally, I believe copyright in it's current form should die. Partly because of exactly this: it makes virtually impossible to provide any service around something that is way more important than the profits of the entertainment industry: the freedom of people to share information.

I also highly doubt this would actually be much of a problem if there was any economic impulse for the entertainment industry to provide a decent alternative.

In the current context, with a ridiculous artificially created scarcity, how the hell is anybody supposed to run a site like Megaupload and not have it full of "illegal" DVD-rips and shit, whether they like it or not?

The DOJ might have evidence that this was deliberate, but all the rest of us have is propaganda and deeply biased speculation.
I hate to be the guy who bemoans fun, but I'm sure this makes the Senators who changed their minds over SOPA lately feel great about who they're on the side of.
This is right in line with last years announcement that Google will penalize slow sites. In my experience, there is significant overlap between slow load times and sites heavy on the banner ads...
> Anonymous is retarded, and HN is retarded for not coming out strongly against them.

This is the kind of eloquent criticism that I read the HN comments for.
Because people who don't pirate stuff are subsidising those who do and if nobody paid for anything, new stuff wouldn't get made (or at least it wouldn't be available from those people who relied on the income from sales to make a living).
Oh, no question that you have a better MTF from an Alpa than you would from an 8x10 at f32 (a perfectly reasonable working aperture for 8x10). I think the 8x10 can still out resolve the Alpa but you're getting into that ugly 20% part of the MTF curves. The rule of thumb I've had for a while is that digital has fewer, better pixels; the digital back hits a wall beyond which you cannot proceed any further, but at and up until that wall the results are superb. I think the current sweet spot is speculated to be 6 cm x 9 cm cameras, mostly because of diffraction and film flatness issues. And reversal film has notoriously poor dynamic range, and mediocre color correction; that's one of the things that pushed me to doing all negatives in my photography.

A professional is probably only going to use film these days if they want a specific effect; say, infrared, or sometimes people fart around with Holgas and call it art. For an amateur, the $20,000 digital back that can compare with a 4x5 with some decent lenses costing a tenth that much is a much harder sell. And that's pretty much where I sit; I'm not going to spend $50,000 on a top of the line MF outfit. I might spend the $1.2K for an X-100, though, still mulling that over. A couple thousand buys a lot of film and developer.
Just to help clarify, this article about Rand Paul, the son of Presidential Candidate (and House Member) Ron Paul.

If you changed your registration, you presumably did it so you could vote in a Primary; That's where Ron is running for president. Rand won the general election in Kentucky.

If you did, in fact mean, that you live in Kentucky, and changed your registration to Republican, to vote for Rand in the Kentucky Republican Senate Primary, back in May 2010, I apologize; People tend to get confused between the Father/Son Duo sometimes.
Does a 1-person company qualify as a startup? Because if yes i 've been doing it for 3 years
According to Wolfram Alpha, 200 million.
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Yes, but it is all relevant to who your friends are on Facebook. Maybe time to remove some friends on FB? ;)

My stream on fb is fairly informative and useful.
Relying on documents such as the Constitution to guarantee our freedoms has become a thing of the past. The government has been hi-jacked by corporate interests, and the opinions of lobbyists has greater influence than the public.

It took the entire internet protest just to slow down ONE piece of tyrannical legislation. And in the end, it didn't even matter because they shutdown Megaupload anyways. Is this a system we should rely on for safety and security?
PG's post today reminded me of this, one of my favorite essays.
It´s indeed a LOIC on all those sites.
Users or accounts? I've personally made at least 5 or 6 gmail accounts and I bet there are plenty of people that have made more than that.

GMail is a great service.
This probably comes down to discipline, meaning that when you rewrite history in git you may want to take care that you're keeping the useful bits of it and not just squashing everything down to get fat feature-rich commits. Do you think that the history-rewriting tools in git are too often abused by the average git user such that the use of git in general has the problems you've described?
Notice how this was the content creators choice to put his works online for free. Since he didn't own the works it is still technically wrong, but it is also wrong for Joe Blow consumer to decide to put up copies online of content from creators without their permission.

Why do I keep getting downvoted for stating a fact? It is against the law to put online content you don't own copyright to. Not sure why this is incorrect.
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Your stuck with Post > Money. Some people have gone Posts > Better Job > Money other have gone Post > investor > Lost of Money. That ignores the value of some of the HN discussions I recently had an respond to my post with something 1/4 the size of the linked article. While money did not change hands I suspect we both benefited for level of discourse.
I can't speak for Alex, but I'm quite sure that wasn't his implication. He was stating that knowingly distributing pirated content for profit was wrong.
Is this a separate anti-intellectual property view:

I like content and am greedy for it. Copyright helps me get more content by providing incentive. This is the benefit.

Whatever these are benefits of copyright, the practical collateral costs (to privacy, freedom, making everyone a criminal etc) of enforcing copyright law make it not a worthwhile.
rephrase it again. "Yea x is annoying, why did we introduce that step in the process?". That doesn't have the same 'we're not going to stop x!' implication, but explicitly asks for the information you'd need before you went through with stopping it.
Meh, thank you for pointing this out. The article was confusing. Dream: broken.
gcc uses a special library (outside of the C library) called libgcc with some builtin functions (I don't recall what's left there these days -- floating point stuff, 64-bit long long support on non-64 bit platforms?)

That library -- per definition part of GCC -- had to be explicitly made exempt from gcc's GPL license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html otherwise yes, all your compiled code would have to be distributed using GPL.

For a long while RMS blocked adding plugins to gcc because he though that would allow proprietary vendors to violate the spirit of GPL.

I'd expect other languages that compile to binary code to fare even worse here -- gcc is better at separating its helper library -- but I'm not sure what other compilers than gcc are GPL'ed.
My first reaction was a hearty chuckle. I know vigilantly justice is wrong but in this case I'll let that slide. None of these targets actually lost much given that they are mostly just for information sites.
Would 'asking for advice' not be contrued as 'hand-holding' then - as it's not something you take and immediately run with? I personally don't see anything wrong with it, but I'm guessing the VC and entrepreneurs aren't aligned in expectations in that instance then.
I'm trying hard to think of what could be more counterproductive to the gains made in combating SOPA and PIPA over the last week than this, and I basically can't think of anything. Unbelievable.
Actually doing the same search on google.co.uk returns 32 million for 'rape' and 5.5 million for 'rape assange'. Its still not what he says - but much closer.
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Can you explain how "if someone really, really rich creates intellectual property, it's okay for the rest of us to pirate it" does not follow from "I'm pretty sure no one is trying to make a living by creating new HN posts with interesting content" in response to "Consider, on average do you enjoy reading HN posts? In what ways are people compensated for creating them how is copyright relevant for that compensation?"? Or am I misreading your first post?
I'm just guessing here, but if you write a textbook and get published by a traditional publisher (McGraw-Hill, etc.), they probably disallow you from creating a copy of that same book and selling it for $5 from your own marketplace. They check it for quality, help create the physical book, and put their name on it. They even have some ownership. I'm simply seeing Apple as a publishing partner here. They're helping you create the book and distribute it, and with that agreement you're bound to certain limitations, such as a percentage they'll take for distribution (surely less than what a traditional publisher would take).

You can play the slippery slope card all you want, and try to apply what we're seeing to all other applications, but I don't see anything to back it up.

Regarding remote wipe. I have no idea if that's in the iBookstore EULA, and haven't found a thing about it. My guess is like apps, you'll have to confirm and download the update yourself. In fact, when apps are taken off the app store, you still get to keep them, whereas Android apps have a kill switch. Have you seen anything that implies remote wipe capabilities?
As far as I recall, the GPLv3 has two different anti-DRM restrictions, neither of which does what you say it does. The first restriction is that if you include GPLv3 code in certain kinds of consumer hardware and it accepts firmware updates, you must give the end users any keys that are required to install and run their own modified version of that code. The second restriction is intended to exempt any DRM system based around GPLv3 code from anti-circumvention laws. There's no restriction on compiler output that I'm aware of.
I don't think they ever directly publish that, but they did publish in 2010, producers of Visual Studio extensions brought in over $400 million in revenue. Considering the people buying those extensions have a full version of Visual Studio, and the cost of VS and MSDN subscriptions, I would not be surprised if those two things account for most of that $5 billion.
30,000,000 hits
360,000 resulting emails

= 1.2% conversion, if my sleep deprived brain is still working!

Was anyone expecting more?
It looks like Anonymous took down a bunch of websites just very recently.

https://twitter.com/#!/AnonDaily

http://www.bmi.com/
http://USDOJ.GOV/
http://www.fbi.gov/

and more...
Interesting that they actually exit on ":q", which is prohibited by the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserEx...

Also, ":Explore" and then "-", "-", "-"... works to browse the file system, or at least the parts allowed by the app sandbox
Well FUCK, all of our Resident Evil 5 mods where hosted with them.
Aren't these the people behind SOPA?
Many of the people who have created GPL (not LGPL) libraries would disagree. Strongly.

These files don't just contain "formatting information". They contain actual executable code created by Apple. Apple's claim lies on the distribution of their code, not your content per se. They can put any restrictions on the distribution of their code that they want, whether we like it or not (and I don't particularly like it myself). They're not claiming ownership of your essay. They're claiming ownership over the code they wrote, which their system uses to display it. Not the same thing.
“… clear political machinations behind the case?”

Don’t be ridiculous.
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Good luck!
If a factory was illegally dumping poisonous material into a river, would you require a prolonged case against their executions to succeed before stopping the criminal behaviour?

Why would a website which allegedly engages criminal behaviour be treated differently? You don't have to search very long to find direct megaupload links containing rips of Hollywood movies or AAA computer games.
WARNING: It looks like these links actually cause your computer to attack sites. Don't click these if you have a problem with that, fear getting arrested, etc.

EDIT: seems that the parent comment was edited :)
Use iBooks Author to generate works for iBooks use another tool to generate works for other media.

IANAL but I don't think they're saying that if you use iBooks Author to make your work available for iBooks and use amazon's tools to make your work available for Kindle that you'd owe Apple a cut of your Kindle revenue.
If you are so inclined, you could take the DIY route and go straight to the source: http://voxbone.com
I don't think two or three senators in itself makes a difference. If 60 senators vote for cloture, then a time limit is put on debate and a vote is forced.

That's not to say that the PIPA group will have 60 votes...just saying that Rand's attempt would've meant little before the PIPA coalition collapsed
If you don't feel like downloading it, here's a web-based live demo --

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As the docs say, if you want to leave insert-mode, you have to use the '\' key since there's no ESC.
Senate leaders from both parties back away from Protect IP
Have you been to a bookstore recently?

I think you need to look up the printing press and it's relation to the copyright law debate.

The internet (on that front) is not as new and amazing as you think.

btw 1/2 the people on the planet are not on the internet it's actually more like 1/3, and of that a smaller subset 'create content'.
Can you know that developers would put in more money into ports if piracy was eliminated and they had more sales at no cost to them?
You know why? Because there's so much shitty content out there. Bad TV shows that have one good episode. Bad albums with one good song. I'm sick of buying stuff and then later discovering I was simply a victim of a marketing campaign. That's not fair.

So I will see if it's any good, THEN I pay you. That's how it should work, just like it does in a restaurant: you consume their content, if you're unhappy with the product, it's acceptable behaviour to complain and not pay. Why should I pay them to waste my time?
This article feels like the author is pushing a "megaupload was bad" agenda...

They were paying for their bandwidth, along with all their users (legitimate or otherwise!), so what's the issue?
I don't feel anyone is getting hysterical, and I feel his quote wasn't invoked for the benefit of the MegaUpload execs but rather at the current climate in general. Part of paying attention is to digest every 'shred' you do get.

Also, this is an online forum, I doubt anyone feels their conversations here are noble acts or something to pat oneself on the back over, so painting broad ugly pictures of people you know very little about is just rude and not helpful to the discussion.
Kind of weird to see a Swede confusing sex with politics, especially since we're only talking about allegations. If he's found to be a rapist, fair, let's call him despicable, but until now he has held up to high standards even by endangering his life.
I thought Ron was also against SOPA/PIPA ...
"Nuances and confidence come from previous successful experiences"

And to add to that what one person is able to pull off given their skills is not always possible by another person even if they have been told what to do or how to do it.

Seat of the pants feel involves knowing how to react and adapt when the situation changes ever so slightly (a nuance). It's impossible to prepare someone for every possibility that might come up. That's something that comes, as you said, from "from previous successful experiences".

The best advice I can give is to learn concepts as opposed to a specifics and to understand exactly why something (say in a negotiation) should be handled a certain way. It's like the difference between learning what streets to turn on in NYC and learning the way the streets and avenues run so you can arrive at your destination even if you miss a turn.

Think of yourself as an actor playing a role.
Kim Dotcom has, according to his claims, a clean slate.

For your information my criminal record has been cleared under Germany’s clean slate legislation. Officially I can say I am without convictions.

https://torrentfreak.com/from-rogue-to-vogue-megaupload-and-...
"The internet is a series of tubes..."
Not sure if I agree as to what is normal and what is abuse here. If you write some feature in a branch, and have various commits for bugfixes as you go, you might want to merge those little commits away for review as well as for bisection purposes. This seems both normal and desirable to me - no one wants to review a set of 100 patches for a feature if they contain a lot of redundancy. It's useful to do small commits as you work to get a feature stable, but it isn't useful to ask someone to review all those commits, especially if they fix a previous bug introduced by another such small commit.

However, that history can still be very useful: You might hit a variation on those bugs later, and seeing the original unrewritten history can help a lot in refreshing your memory on what you did there (and it can be even more helpful for someone else getting up to speed on the code trying to fix that bug). Losing the history after history rewriting isn't a good thing.
There are multikey encryption schemes that are out there; I can not help but think there's some spiffy protocol to solve this problem.
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SUSPECT AUTHENTICITY
This site consists of only this article and almost nothing personally remarkable about who the author is. It is also the users very first post to HN on an account created the day after the blackout.
Anyone else find this suspicious?

willdamas do you have any affiliations you might like to declare?
Very relevant, I came across this article recently as well. Lessig is one of the few working on forward thinking solutions for content creators with Creative Commons and similar efforts, rather than fighting to preserve an old media paradigm.
Anonymous Reacts to Megaupload Takedown With “Largest Attack Ever”
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Show HN: A place to collect and share GIFs
I think it's more directly derived from the French 'Mille Mille ', or 'Thousand Thousand ', used in finance.