skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a cool idea; but why they are using a png sprite for the icons on their own site?
'that is what the libc runtime, which is the foundation that every language ultimately reaches down to in the end, is built around.'

Except, interestingly enough, Go code compiled with the standard compilers (5g, 6g, 8g, see http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#How_is_the_run_time_suppor...). The Plan9 expats are hell-bent on doing things their own way, I am 70% in agreement with them :).
I wrote https://serialist.net/ with one other person, entirely in Haskell. Serialist crawls comics and other serial content, derives the serial structure from the link graph, lets people maintain bookmarks in various serials, and tells you when new pages exist. The crawler, the graph algorithms, the database code, and the web interface all use Haskell, and the whole thing consists of a couple thousand lines. I would highly recommend it, especially for anything with a complex domain model.

The one caveat I'd suggest from experience: good web frameworks exist now, so use them, and don't write your own like we did. I'd recommend Yesod.
They're also domestic box office only, which is an increasingly small slice of the pie.

A blockbuster today typically makes at least twice as much overseas as it does in the US & Canada (domestic totals include Canada).

The market in China is huge, and growing rapidly. Even Russia, which had traditionally be a small market, is quickly growing in size.
I'm sorry but this kind of thread from the initial post on down to the echo chamber of opinions smacks more of Jonestown than Silicon Valley. I personally find it disturbing. The vast majority of this country enjoys some part of what comes out of Hollywood - whether they pay for it or not. I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of HNers do as well. Is there some reason suddenly why a tyranny of the minority should be such a beautiful concept?

It's as senseless as requesting people should 'kill creativity' or 'kill talent' - not because Hollywood is their equal but because lots of talented and creative people work there. There is scant support around here for creative people having any right to their work as it is - so I am beyond curious as to the foundations of business models that find 'better ways to entertain people'.

People entertain people; with how badly the content industry is being savaged and prejudged - this thread as a glowing example - in 20 years a pub might be the best business model to capture that 'unique value proposition'.
Somethings are beautiful.
Some people want to see those things. Someone the things don't exist yet, and so the people create them.
"In the case above, it had to be brought to google's attention and so I would say the logging and monitoring is not invincible."

The answer is right in the blurb that I posted:
"...for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective..."

In other words, this incident pointed out a weakness in the system and it is being addressed. From personal experience I can tell you that it is - in fact - being addressed and more controls and monitoring have been rolled out and more are being rolled out. I don't feel comfortable going into details, but from the perspective of a working engineer I have both had conversations about this with senior VPs and have had to do work to comply with the new controls (and have more work planned in the upcoming quarter to be compatible with upcoming controls that are even stronger).
Do only shell and ftp passwords need to be reset or does the main account web panel password need to be reset as well?

Ask because, we don't use shell/ftp passwords and I'm not sure if we are affected or not.
That's insightful, but your term "Internet industry" sounds like an anachronism like "recording industry". RIAA members are a big system that now encompasses a wide range of activities oriented around entertaining via audio and clearly they think a lot more about lawsuits and marketing than literal recording.

So who is the "Internet industry"? Literally it would be vendors of networking gear and ISPs.

But I think what you mean is all the businesses that recognized their business depended on a vibrant, free, and open Internet. Do we have a good name for them?
It's transferable, but not necessarily by downloading again from Apple. You just back up your downloads and then you can transfer them from device to device.

Not that it makes any sense not to allow people to download stuff multiple times, especially when said stuff is DRM'd, but try reasoning with the movie studios.

It might get better in the future though. Music is now mostly DRM free and you can re-download directly from iTunes. That changed not that long ago. If the music industry can change there's hope for the movie industry as well.
I am co-founder of Nuflick.com, we've been working since June in a model that challenges the traditional distribution of entertainment.

We have a model where users can browse a catalog of films to stream on demand by unlocking them through social interactions like inviting a facebook friend and we encourage to support creators. Like a reversed kickstarter where contributions give access to rewards related to the movies.

The day of the blackout we published a blogpost on our take on SOPA and new models of distribution: http://blog.nuflick.com/?p=129

Quote
<Partially and oblique legislation will never be the right answer to protect intellectual property from piracy and prevent copyright infringement. Large copyright holders haven’t been working creatively around regulations, technical difficulties or thought of different approaches to offer consumers what they want and are willing to pay for.

The right answer is coming from bold people that dare to challenge the status-quo creating flexible models that allow distribution, availability and safety to consumers and creators. In the end it all comes down to “supply and demand”; the future requires copyright holders to understand that supply of entertainment will never cease and the success will be measured in relation to their understanding of what the consumers demand.>

On the end, we believe that hollywood, as a whole, have been damaging consumers in order to protect a business that would be nothing without them and their money.
SMAK launches it Beta
Danah Boyd: Give Children Freedom to Explore Online
"You sometimes get professors in a subject like art history who have very specific ideas about how an essay should be structured and what elements are legitimate topics of discussion. "

As it turns out, this is exactly why I thought those subjects are not as challenging. Once you figure out how to program a teacher, the classes can lose their challenge.
People with non-mainstream careers are less likely to conceal their sexuality, and also the converse.
I get that, but being inside, I can tell you that what labels would do often was at odds with their parent company, even in press and in public.

It's not spin, its fact. I participated.
I've got three different friends who won $20,000 each through Amazon Studio's script contests. One guy won 20k twice and has a producer with a very respectable track record attached to one of his projects there now. My friends are all very happy with their experiences thus far, though everyone is curious what the next steps will be like.
One practice that's starting to help, a bit, and it pains me to say it, is security audits. There are a few standards emerging for SAAS services, especially at the B2B level. And as startups (or non-startups) start intersecting with large, regulated, publicly-held businesses, these requirements propagate, and with audits, receive multiple reviews.

The process is far from perfect, and many of the standards are laughably lax (and yet ... they still aren't met). Because they're standards, the requests are fairly uniform. A number of issues regarding Dreamhost have been on my own back burner for months, and I'm finally getting that Round Tuit this afternoon.

Pushing for good, solid standards would be a net benefit. That's the silver lining here.
YC: take a look at Nettle. Backed by Google Ventures, 500 Startups, Advancit Capital, etc. Our product is MovieGoer (http://moviegoer.com).

"Kill Hollywood" is a kneejerk, negative way to go about it. I prefer a more positive approach that makes for a better world. In our case, it's all about EMPOWERING MOVIEGOERS. If you empower moviegoers, who are after all the heart of the $31B movie ecosystem worldwide, then you wind up improving the entire ecosystem -- movie theatre chains and studios do whatever moviegoers want. So give moviegoers more power, more choice, the ability to set the pace, direction, and the industry will be happy to comply.

Historically moviegoers have historically never had much if any power. As a result, we have the theatres we have, and the studios put out the content they think movieogers want. A lot of it is, shall we say, not great.

If anyone at YC wants to talk to me (and if they're serious about this issue, why aren't they!?), ping me: brian@nettle.com. I will be in the Bay Area all next week. Happy to meet with folks and talk about this more.
being kicked off it kills the rest of your Google accounts

Where did you saw that? According to Horowitz (one of their VPs), it doesn't:

When an account is suspended for violating the Google+ common name
standards, access to Gmail or other products that don’t require a Google+
profile are not removed,
You are correct. It's been a while since I read these books. Looking back at Harris's book (The Happiness Trap) he has an entire section of the book dedicated to values, and he stresses that values are more important than goals. But he does still say to set goals.
Mayors across the country launch Freedom to Marry
I wonder how much of that "marketing expense" went to other subsidiaries of the parent corporations but was deducted from the net profits that went to the actual creative people.
That's too bad. I wish your editor had had more respect for your readers.
Google Sky Map: [...] We will be open-sourcing Sky Map...

Whew! Sky Map is really, really cool, especially in the summer when my kids ask me "Dad, what is that star there?"
Y Combinator’s Short-sighted War Against Hollywood
I've corrected the story with a new headline and lead. OpenSocial is continuing.

Two hours is an incredibly long time for Google to respond to something like that, where there's story out in error. It's a long time to respond period. I know, because I'm in contact with them all the time. That's typically a sign they don't quite know what to say.

Clearly, that wasn't the case here. I did look at the OpenSocial site, and a few of the pages within it. There did seem to be a possible connection between the two. Despite my initial language that did qualify things, it was still too strong.

Excuses aside, and as Kevin Marks notes elsewhere in comments here, the OpenSocial idea was initially put out there as some type of way that Google would unite the web to help share social information for developers to use -- to pull in profile info, friend info and activities. And it wasn't positioned as just some type of social gadget building tool.

That's what it seems to have devolved into. Just curious from anyone, is Google feeding Google+ information into OpenSocial?

The connection I was seeing was now that Google has its own social network, and its own set of social signals, it seemed less interested in potentially ensuring there was an ecosystem of sharing everyone's social signals out there.
It would look like free software looks as compared to Microsoft: edgy, unpolished, more engaging with the audience as a collaborator and not just an consumer, in more niches, non-monolithic, with a more visible connection to the author's humanity.

:help uganda
:wq
Do Small Things
Huh? That's why you go to a search engine -- so that it decides what good content is and the user doesn't have to (or at least they only have to do so in a dramatically-reduced-dimensional space).

When Google sends me to the worst of these kinds of sites, I become extremely annoyed...at Google. So yes, we can and should "penalize" Google, but on metrics like quality of results (which includes the ads being shown). In an ideal world I'm replacing having to separate the wheat from the chaff of the entire internet with having to separate the wheat from the chaff of the search engine market, and I'm going to favor a search engine that does a better job.

In other words, as a user, "since Google is a website that uses ads, and they're going to favor websites that use fewer ads, aren't they hypocritical?" is not a question I care about even a little.

What I do care about, among other things, is having a search engine that doesn't show me useless crap.
Or get your own domain and enable catch-all. Then you can use whatever you want.
Facebook is a good replacement too. Watch the idealized movie of your friends' lives.
Same thing (I think---it is not clear from the email I got) happened to the Anatomy class I signed up for. That at least had a date (March sometime; I forget) assigned to it. Sort of makes you wonder what is going on behind the curtains?
I wanted to raise a similar concern for YouTube accounts. If you have to provide your Real Name to post to YouTube, a lot of people will self-censor, and some important or valuable videos may never get posted.
I'm not talking about natural selection, I'm talking about sexual selection, which is a completely different animal. Sexual selection leads to really bizarre adaptations, like male peacock tails and mating dances that seem maladaptive in the context of natural selection. Natural selection is about finding enough food to live long enough to mate. Sexual selection is about competing within the same species for mates.

Because slightly more highly creative people are homosexual doesn't necessarily mean creativity isn't attractive. It could just be that homosexuals have more time to devote creative tasks due lack of childcare responsibilities.

I would say that people often aren't consciously aware of why they are exhibiting creativity. On top of that, I would guess that homosexuals value finding mates just as highly as heterosexuals, which would be at least one reason why they would exhibit creativity, consciously or unconsciously.
The third party of British politics - the Liberal Democrats - are currently in power due to a coalition government, and this is under a FPTP system not a PR system, so coalitions are uncommon.

For a Presidential election a coalition doesn't make sense, but you guys do have other branches of government that could use a bit of a change.
I agree. Traditional engineering has the appeal of robots and rockets, while comp-sci has the Facebooks and Googles. Even chemistry has the mad scientist images. The closest I can think of for Math is A Beautiful Mind, which doesn't have the same glam as the above.

This phenomenon was observed during the DotCom boom with engineering classes surging with wannabe millionaires who found out how hard this stuff can be. For a couple years after that bubble burst, there was a real scare that the drought of incoming comp-sci freshmen would stagnate the industry.

In a way, I wouldn't be surprised if this was happening again as we are entering into another tech boom.
So, give me a way to have my cake and eat it too.

Give me a medium that adjusts the interactivity demands of the entertainment according to the recline of my chair or the open width of my eyelids. Metaphorically speaking (or not).
I use this:

char* scatn(char* ss, …);

#define scat(args...) scatn(args, 0)

char* scatn(char* ss, ...)
{
char *s;
char *new;
size_t len;
size_t n;
va_list ap;

/* first find the lengths of the strings */
va_start(ap, ss);
s = ss;
len = 0;
while(s != 0){
len = len + strlen(s);
s=va_arg(ap, char *);
}
va_end(ap);

/* make a buffer big enough for all strings + '\0" */
new = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char) * (len + 1));
if(new == NULL){
perror("Out of memory");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

/* copy the strings into the buffer */
va_start(ap, ss);
s = ss;
n = 0;
while(s != 0){
len = strlen(s);
memcpy(new+n,s,len);
n = n + len;
s=va_arg(ap, char *);
}
va_end(ap);

/* terminate the string */
new[n]='\0';

/* return the string: remember to free it! */
return new;
}

use like this:

s = scat("hello","hacker","news");
:
free(s);

I did have a version with only one loop and realloc but it turned out to be twice as quicker to go through each string twice. I have no idea why :)
I feel like you guys are right on the edge of a solid idea. If the Hollywood advantage is not the technical tools, or the raw funding capability, then it's the rich understanding of the talent pool that can properly wield those things.

They are a highly advanced network of HR organizations.

Does IMDBPro have listings for crew?
That would imply that humanities majors could have similar earnings potential if only they studied more, which may or may not be true.

Maybe Humanities majors would have similar earnings potential if they learned a skill.
Interested what the HN community thinks of this one. I believe getting the major players onto a platform allows for mass adoption but once the platform is open for other content producers you can bring the major entities onto the same level as the small content producers leading to a more open market, taking some of the leverage away from the content companies.

This is why Netflix, Hulu and YouTube are making distribution deals but also creating or licensing exclusive content to give them more leverage. If Netflix exclusively owns a couple of hit shows they suddenly have a lot more leverage when licensing content.

If you want to take down Hollywood you have to help them monetize first, they do create great content so instead of taking them down this model puts them in line with other content creators. I think it's the same with the fact Apple is opening iTunes Connect up further.
Got the same email for ML and Model Thinking. You just got to wonder what's causing the hold up - lawyers, Stanford, system?
No, I was responding to the comment that $50 games provide 100+ hours of entertainment. I was just claiming that this is not necessarily true.
A movie has something like 3x3 times the resolution of a video game.
To even claim altruism is to use the adjective to positively light one's ego, no?

No.

This reductionism has no explanatory power. You might as well say "all egoism boils down to the benefit of the other because personal benefit benefits humanity/the universe at large. Therefore all reduces to altruism." You can pick any explanation and say "in the heart this boils down to X". If you have no special reason for choosing X (which is evident if you can explain just as much with Not-X), all such explanations are equally worthless.

There are many options other than believing that a human life divided by infinite space approaches zero.
The three in the center are in a box that says "Ads". I think they count. And all six down the right side count too. Targeted ads are still ads, even if they're relevant.
>Meanwhile power to them. It keeps our salaries higher.

Salaries aren't constrained by domestic supply. If they get too high Congress will open the H1-B spigot, which IMO is a good argument for picking another career path.
Another worst practice is referring to JSON as the "REST file format" as ESRI's products did two years ago when I last worked with them.
I don't necessarily agree with some of the sentiments in this article; but upvoted anyway, because it's worth a discussion.

FWIW, I believe that this bit

I have had the privilege to meet hundreds of amazing aspiring actors, actresses and musicians through the production companies I advise. Their dream — their only dream — is to be on that stage and entertain millions. Proposing to destroy Hollywood will also destroy the livelihoods and the dreams of these entertainers and the crews, writers and creatives that support them. That is irresponsible.

begs the question of whether the current Hollywood system is the only way that the entertainers, crews, writers, etc., can profit from their work and achieve their dreams. I see no particular reason to believe that such a thing is true, and - to my notions - this undermines the entire argument that YC's "war" is short-sighted.

This article is also ignoring the fact that one could interpret the YC response as nothing but self-defense. It would be one thing if this call were totally unprovoked, but that's hardly the case here.
I'm not clear on how Megaupload pays artists (or anyone) who attract large amounts of downloads from paid accounts.

What am I missing?
Migrating anything will always be hard, sometimes services even migrate IDs (to something that is easier to shard intelligently against). As others mentioned you could either put redirects everywhere, but most services just version their REST APIs and then write glue to tie old interfaces to newer data models, see for example Twitter, Amazon AWS, and Instagram.

One other semantic nitpick is that a URL is a subset of URI, which stands for Universal Resource Identifier, so in some sense you could make a philosophical argument that URI and IDs are/should be the same thing. If you were really crazy you could store URLs in your DB (obviously not a good idea for many other reasons).
The content I like is pretty much cat videos (yeah) and semi professional/prosumer content, like firearms, diving, etc training and product reviews. There is generally inbuilt revenue models for doing reviews or instructional video, so it justifies spending up to a few hundred per hour of finished footage.
"Cryptography" and "Design and Analysis of Algorithms" also. Wonder if the cause is higher than expected demand and a need to ramp up the service.
Depends. Some industry get big in terms of revenue, but not in terms of profit. The eternal example is airlines. Flat screen makers are a more recent variation. (The Economist runs on article on them this week.)

Sometimes selling shovels is more lucrative than digging for gold. Or ignore those industries altogether, like Warren Buffet did with technology.
I know why I left. It was hard, and I was lazy. I wish I'd had the fortitude to stay, but I did not.
This looks like a great product, but am I the only one to cringe at such an abuse of the word "platform"? Last I checked, a platform was a combination of hardware and software capable of running other software. Examples of actual platforms include iOS, Java, Windows and the Web.

There's no shame in building an amazing product that isn't a platform!
UK Photographer Confronts Local Company Security
I am absolutely not shocked at all. I got off their service years ago when they had all their FTP accounts breached.
Agreed: nothing to see here, especially as MPAA represents the major Hollywood studios, not "workers in the entertainment industry."

Here's a study I'd personally like to see: spending on "legitimate" copies of entertainment products easily available through piracy versus availability of discretionary income. I can't help but think that MPAA, if they were _truly_ just a bunch of greedy bastards, would have an entirely different political agenda.
There will be non-restaurants that will provide food.

The bigger concern is
1) restaurants on the border going out of business
2) the unequal benefits derived from those using Wi-Fi more than others (ordinary eaters and email users will be subsidizing movie downloaders)
If we take a cue from Apple with iTunes, you could set up a service that does cater to the industry while stealthily eating up market share. Once you become too profitable and control too much of the market, you turn that on Hollywood and start dictating your own terms. The music industry was entirely unprepared when Jobs started twisting its arms to get the terms his way.

I agree though that eventually Hollywood will need to be replaced if the situation is to improve substantially.
Microsoft backs gay marriage