skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Megaupload complied extremely quickly with DCMA requests by all reports. The non-compliance cited in the indictment appears to be somewhat of a technicality - at worst, only removing links instead of the file. Are you sure Mediafire complies more zealously than Megaupload did?
Twitter Is Becoming a Media Company?
I find single phone competing against a bunch of Android phones still impressive.
> Introducing S(ymbolic)-Expressions ...

I laughed at that. Lisp-ers might want to have a word with him.
Here's a hilarious one https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Oh, sure. But future growth at this point depends on getting non-smartphone users to upgrade- within the US, but probably more outside of it. That may well mean lower cost devices and PAYG phones- something that Android does and that (judging by what they've been saying recently) Windows Phone is going to be getting into.

Apple doesn't really seem too interested. I know they sell the 3GS for cheap these days, but it is old technology- compare the specs against something like the Nokia Lumia 710 (a decidedly entry-level device).
If the owners took the money and ran would you not say that was a wrong thing for them to do?
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: MegaUpload Closure
Sounds like Mar's Law: Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
Do you get a bonus achievement for unwinding your loops gwbasic style to avoid the memory leak.
Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed
You call Apple going from 5% market share to 10% kicking Microsoft's butt? Apple has done cool stuff but it really wasn't at the expense of Microsoft.
ah so that is where mysql's trigger implementation came from
I wonder how much he got paid to write that.
For a hobby project, it is awesome and impressive. Things like this light a fire under my ass, and remind me I need to get cracking and start something awesome like this.

Congrats.
It does. The technical implementation can have a lot of effect on the chilling effect of a law.

Let's take the extremes. If the technical implementation is "we'll send a drone to fire a missile at your building", people will be much more scared to take any risk at all of hosting user-generated content than if the implementation is "you'll get a warning and a $5 fine".

Everything considered, "We'll arrest you and everyone that works for your company and nuke your DNS entry" is pretty chilling. If they only punished bank misconduct that hard...
Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Study: Dehydration May Cause Low Mood, Fatigue, and Lack of Focus
Ask HN: 32yr. old Healthcare Professional – Learn to Code or Pay Someone?
I have decided to take the leap into the health startup world. The only thing holding me back is that I do not know how to code. It is something I have had on my list of things to learn for a while, but time never allowed it. Now that I do have time and a comfortable income, I am debating whether I should put in the years to learn how to program, or that my time would be better spent befriending and paying a talented programmer to help me in executing my ideas. Frankly, I do not know if it is realistic for me to begin learning at this age considering it will likely take me at least 5 years to reach a skill-level required to implement many of the technologies a modern healthcare startup would need (HIPAA encryption, interfacing with EMRs, etc).

I do not need to start a company this very instant, but I would like to within the next few years. Any advice on how best to concentrate my time and effort would be greatly appreciated.
Another issue is serializing binaries. Sometime you just have to pass a binary through. I wish there was a rational way to do that with JSON without having to through base64.
I remember AltaVista's decline into a "portal" -- to the point where it was hard to spot the search box on their home page, and the honest results in the "results" -- and Google's arrival on the scene with super-clean, relevant search. I feel like history is repeating itself _in a fashion_.

Who are the rising stars in general-purpose web search?
Unfortunately as long as there are people desperate for guidance (even if it's misleading or inaccurate), there will be people offering their [poor, biased, etc] guidance. See: Top-selling self-help books, "how-to" posts on the front page of HN, etc.
From tarball to transmission: open source radio in Sanok
And then:

Any sufficiently complicated CommonLisp
program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified,
bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Prolog.
"Postponed". Lovely.
This is one of the problems with the post. He is really referring to meaningless, shallow, and unrealistic goals, yet he does not say that and instead suggests not setting any goals whatsoever.
SenseiDB: Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database
Use punctuation, it works pretty much everywhere

mymail@gmail.com
my.mail@gmail.com
m.y.m.a.i.l@gmail.com

These all redirect to the same mailbox on gmail
The Beauty and Tragedy of Tokyo
Other countries, by and large, already either had centralized systems or didn't have climates suitable for plantation farming in the first place. It's useless to speculate about how slavery and the later oppression of black people could have ended in America: if Southern whites were willing to fight and die to preserve the institution, they certainly weren't on the fringe of abolishing what was essentially the cornerstone of their entire culture and economy for "moral reasons". It's easy to abolish slavery when there's no good rationale for it; even in the North, abolitionists with genuine concern for black people were a minority compared to people who just thought it was bad economics or who felt that concentrated wealth in the hands of slaveowners had the potential of reducing economic opportunities for free white farmers.[1] Since you're so fond of comparing things to Iraq, an interesting analogy is to think about how much you hear people complain about the number of American casualties in Iraq, or the cost of the war and its impact on the federal debt and deficit, and compare that to the small number of bleeding heart liberals complaining that it was bad for the Iraqis. How many times were dead US troops a talking point compared to dead Iraqi civilians? This isn't a criticism, but a point of illustration--just as white Americans today don't care about Iraqis, white Americans in the 19th century didn't care about black slaves.

The fact is, "states rights", and the whole idealization of the pre-Civil War system in America, is a broken and evil ideology that was used as an indirect defense of slavery in the 19th century and segregation and disenfranchisement in the 20th. What you are really saying is that you value that system of government so much that you would prefer to let people continue to be enslaved until such time as their enslavers felt so inclined as to free them out of their own moral goodness. And I would like to know why.

[1] This is an interesting precursor to contemporary complaints about big business, for instance Wal-Mart. Today, people complain that Wal-Mart is a huge company that puts local businesses out of business. In the 19th century, people complained that plantation slaveowners were rich people who put small-time family farms out of business, especially if slavery were legal in the expanded western territories. Legalized slavery would allow slaveowners to expand their operations and use their stock of slaves to farm a lot of land at scale, leaving nothing left for the white settler who wanted to go build his own farm in the west.
Postponed is awfully vague. The senator's two tweets immediately after that one are more telling:

> There's no reason that legitimate issues raised about PROTECT IP can't be resolved. Counterfeiting & piracy cost 1000s of #jobs yearly #pipa

> Americans rightfully expect to be fairly compensated 4 their work. I'm optimistic that we can reach compromise on PROTECT IP in coming weeks

He has not had a crisis of conscience. Just a crisis of wording.
Kindle Fire demand cooling off? Amazon sales charts say otherwise
I dont think thats the point this article is making, especially here. Its just showing that megaupload really wasn't the all nefarious piracy centric site that the DoJ/FBI is making it out to seem. It was being used for legitimate purposes, and those people are fucked because of our government, the ones supposed to protect us.
I don't think anyone is really ready to call the race. And despite being an Android booster, I am very pleased to see Apple continuing to do gangbusters.

The worst thing that could happen would be a marginalized Apple.

We need competition in this market. Android made iOS better, and iOS makes Android better. It is fantastic that we are past the point when iOS can't essentially coast on the fact that it has the network effect and the app base -- Android is now a compelling choice for Johnny Regularperson, with all of the big apps you want and all of the big services.
Schmitz, a photo set on flickr
What's a better way to introduce experimental (i.e. not yet standard) functionality?
Sometimes you're both (see magazines)
I predict Google and Facebook, successful as they are, will provide the greatest motivation for the growth of Diaspora. People in charge of so much centralized data will be unable to resist using it. They are in an arms race.

Diaspora is small now, but the motivation to use it will only keep growing.
WOW Week at PatientsLikeMe
Poor Eudora. Once you were my steady but no conversation threading and corrupted mailboxes pushed me away. And your ill-fated marriage to TBird was little more than a theme.

Signed,

A former registered user

P.S. Postbox FTW!
In your case, domain knowledge beats software knowledge, hands down. I did a quick gig a few years ago hand holding the hospital staff for a new installation of a HIPPA compliant steaming-heap-of-deleted (Java AWT based) "system" in NYC.

I strongly recommend you negotiate with your candidate techie partner. There is no way in hell any geek can pick up the domain knowledge on his or her own. [Edit: not because it is rocket science; there is a lot of jargon, procedures, and other arcane matter that you learn by spending time in the health care field.]
The Double Helix by James D Watson – book review
Until now, creating a Google account was quite simple.

You don't usually see websites boasting that their processes used to be simpler.
I don't know. I'm a lot more sure that those are the reasons that nobody's created a bunch of open source textbooks than I am that Apple can somehow break through. I guess there's a chance that the Apple aura is enough of a draw to break through the established system?
New Research on the Antidepressant-vs.-Placebo Debate
> Its just a hobby.

Why not set up a server at home? If I hadn't turned off my desktop this morning, I could rsync data from home.
The article talks about generic drugs, which are off-patent drugs, and completely okay.

Problem with counter-feit drugs is the usual quality checks aren't present. This can lead to ineffective or even harmful drugs that patients take while thinking they are getting the real thing.
> Postponed is awfully vague.

Right. Even if these bills are tabled indefinitely, to be clear, the government will continue to pursue legislation that seeks to control "piracy" (i.e. beyond DMCA) as the perception currently is it's out of control.

Once these bills are defeated, those who oppose them need to go on the offensive and start educating Congress; lobbying isn't pretty but those who rally around Google et. al ought to start a counteroffensive in the form of a lobby as soon as possible to make a clear case for their cause and help Congress realize why these bills are so flawed.
It's the 21st century. People on HN are supposed to be tech-savvy.

There is no excuse not to have suitable back-ups of your files.
Which single phone do you refer to? The 3GS, the 4 (GSM), the 4 (CDMA), the 4 (Universal) or the 4S?
Senator Harry Reid Postpones PIPA Vote
The Times has a great recipe as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html

It's super easy (don't even bother with the cheese cloth stuff, just dump it into a pot and bake it) and hard to mess up. And most importantly, delicious!
You have an obvious button on the top right to disable all personalized results on google. If you want to make this permanent, go in your search options and select "non-personalized result" as the default; you then get the same results as if you were not connected.

I don't like the trend were they are going, but you're comparing apples and oranges here.
I asked stripe about all this in their campfire chatroom last night, and I was hoping they would chime in on this thread, but let me pass along some of what they said.

Their response was similar to what the grandparent articulated: that by using Stripe.js, you're avoiding the storage requirements and thus don't have to do anything extra for PCI. However, you can also interact with their API without stripe.js, which is where you would need PCIDSS and thus the language in the terms.

Now, all that aside, I think you bring up a great point about the gray area and the risk that a security breach would cause. One major difference is that with Stripe.js, a security breach would not put at risk all cards used in the PAST, the way storing them yourself would.
Surely if the servers are located in the US you cannot argue that it is really a foreign post office.
Thanks :)

To be fair, I didn't start from scratch because a substantial part of Radi is in frameworks that I originally made for Conduit Live, my bread-and-butter product [1]. I've been working on it for about 5 years, and with Radi, I was exploring the idea of doing something "webby" with these imaging/video software pieces that I had at hand.

[1] http://lacquer.fi/conduitlive.html
Regardless, I think you should learn something about coding. The first two points in this blog posting are especially applicable, I think: http://asifali.me/post/15394671439/startup-tech-entrepreneur...

The Founder / CEO is also the key product guy: Every great startup needs a product guy for sure. But it is the entrepreneur who is the key product guy in most startups. The CEO / Entrepreneur needs to have a clearly defined vision of every product and must be able to participate in all stages of product design with good attention to details. The organization might have a dedicated product manager or a V.P. of Product but still I really think that it is the founder / CEO or the biz leader that needs to lead this effort providing overall product design, UI metaphor and getting that executed. Given that most startups don’t immediately get to revenues, this would be the single most important thing.

The Tech CEO must know tech: Most startup Founders assume that getting a rockstar tech co-founder alone is enough and the can take care of everything tech. Tech startups cannot do with CEOs or leaders that do not have the tech skills as this limits them from leveraging techology as a strategic advantage of their company. There are dozens of examples that I can mention from the industry where the founder is also the chief coder. While it is not required to be at that end of the spectrum, good knowledge of technology, limitations, applications and having good past experience as a technologist certainly helps.
I did this in my code:

{'a': 1} -> (dict ('a' 1))

{'a': [1]} -> (dict ('a' (1)))

['a' 1] -> ('a' 1)

['a' [1]] -> ('a' (1))

['a',['b',['c',['d',['e']]]]] -> ('a' ('b' ('c' ('d' ('e')))))
I've just checked their page, featurewise they look like very interesting, but their pricing is far from being cheap:
"Pricing is 5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per order, whichever you prefer. The minimum order fee is $.75 per order."

EDIT: according to http://saasy.com/matrix.php it includes also the merchant fees, unfortunately in their comparison Stripe is not cited
I can see it causing a general lack of trust in SaaS for the average home user.

As it should. Unfortunately, current tech isn't there for the regular user; it still isn't even there for the technically-inclined user who has a better grasp on the risks going in. There are very few solid services out of there right now, and the vast majority of them are only a platform for the techie to build the user-facing services and/or are highly domain-specific.

I totally agree there is no good way for a regular, or even techie, user to tell when a service is a fly-by-night. What do you have to gauge them on? How good of graphic design they have for their website only tells you how much they care about putting up a pretty face, which is not necessarily tied to the quality of product at all. The internet is so full of both PR and unwarranted rage, where do you even start to gauge the quality of a service?

It gets really, really difficult. I thought megaupload was a look-the-other-way-as-much-as-legally-possible-while-piracy-happens operation because I was only knew about it because of people who used it to pirate. But at the same time there were plenty of people who thought they were what they advertized themselves as, I even had buisness contacts at large reputable organizations that used them to email me big files all the time.
Nope. Doesn't matter what client apps you are running, this would be an X vulnerability.
Looks interesting..got an invite?
It isn't "their" process, this is an unofficial news site that reports on Google, not Google themselves.
> transmit the private key to our datacenter via https

So they can definitely decrypt your data.
And, by the way, 32 is not old! I'm 48 and I'm just starting to dive deep on Ruby on Rails (programming is not my profession, either).
Confessions of a Binge Drinker
Your comment made me see a parallel between VS achievements and sites like StackOverflow which offer a system of rewards which incentivize increasing one's programming knowledge.
Chicken Wings and Football Don't Actually Go Together
Richard Stallman used an analogy of voluntary DDoS with street protests.

Street protests make whole streets inaccessible, and may disable access to stores, businesses or what not.
Yeah, not that I don't admire the zen-in-the-art-of-who-gives-a-fuck Hank Moody approach to life, it's just not all that practical in the framework of, say, career development. If you want to build a building, you start laying bricks, you don't wander around with the expectation that you'll suddenly just stumble into one.
For starters, how about they separate "counterfeiting" from "online piracy". The only reason they added them together is because they know people would be more inclined to agree with counterfeiting laws, so they hope the anti-piracy stuff passes under that counterfeiting umbrella.

Also this feels like bad news rather than good news. The only reason they would post-pone it is if they thought it wouldn't pass, and then the bill would be killed forever. So in that case, I think I would've rather had the voting go on.
Approximate Regex Matching in Python
Over-committing seems like a bad idea, especially from a site preaching Zen and minimalism. You'll stress yourself out, burn out trying to finish all of your accomplishments, and probably to lackluster work on each of them.

The opposite is true. If anything, learn to say "No" more.
"Who are the rising stars in general-purpose web search?"

duckduckgo.com
If you're providing resources for the community which are being well-used, then I suggest sending round some emails to various well known hosting companies or other tech firms asking if they will host you for free in exchange for some sponsorship/advertising. This is pretty common.

Also, if youre just hosting linux images, can you not put them on github, google code or similar?
Gethopper te ayuda a guardar tus contenidos de manera online
All of them. When you put them next to the wide variety of sizes and designs of Android phones, iPhones look pretty similar to each other. It's still one company with a short catalog vs 5 companies with huge catalogs and better deals with networks to push their phones into the hands of people (2x1, free on contract,...). I think its pretty impressive.
Looking at it from a non-MS fanboy perspective. Apple has repeatedly out-flanked MS, reinvented a couple of major industries and has hugely successful product lines beyond desktop PC software, so yes, Apple has been kicking MS's arse for quite a while now.
From the ToS: "We have a policy of terminating, without notice and without recourse, accounts of subscribers or account holders who are repeat infringers of copyright, and you agree that we may apply that policy to your account or subscription in our sole judgment based upon a suspicion on our part or a notification we receive regardless of proof of infringement."

So they'd terminate purely based on their own 'suspicion'? Seems a little harsh.
Mediafire also don't give incentives for people to put popular files on their system as far as I can tell.

With most services like MegaUpload/Rapidshare you get paid when people download your files, hence their popularity, its a business for a lot of uploaders.
Yea but as soon as one connection is finished it can just spawn another one so 15 concurrent connections is more than enough to do damage.

Once you start doing thousands of concurrent connections you more likely to kill your router anyway.
Republican primary debate responds to SOPA
So you're saying if 100 countries each have their own DMCA-like requirements for notification and takedown, each a little different, then if I have any kind of site where users post content, under Berne I have to implement 100 different systems?

And then somehow I have to figure out where each item was originally created (not posted from), and apply the appropriate system for that file?
native data structures regardless of what language you happen to be using

C, asm, ML, Lisp, Java, Tcl?
Check out Trello. This was just posted here on HN:

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/
IT skills shift not job losses 
http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Cloud_Computing
Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup.
And, what, stop making music or movies or TV shows?

That's heartless. What about the millions of people who have decided they are entitled to free entertainment for life? What are they going to do with all that free time that they won't be spending in front of a TV stuffing their faces with cheetos? They'll be lost, adrift!
It's not actually December sales, it's the 3-month period leading up to December (in the US).

This of course includes Oct 14th, the US release date of iPhone 4S, (also the first release on Sprint) and the date on which the other two models were refreshed/repriced.

Still a whole lot of phones getting sold, but you might otherwise look at the graph and think the sales were escalating swiftly in the two months after (re-)launch, which I doubt is the case. More likely a spike for launch followed by a dip followed by another spike for Christmas.

Also, The first figure given for Android is also an unusual spike up from their previous figure of low fifties probably caused more by people not buying iPhones in the three months before the iPhone 4S came out, rather than even larger than normal numbers of people buying Android phones in that period. It would be interesting to see what the difference would be if they didn't normalise it to 100%.
Cloud Computing Changing Paradigm
Compare 256^2, 256^3, 256^4.
How many employees does Patients Like Me have?
Everyone gets to go through the oh no I've lost everything what am I supposed to do now. It is almost like a right of passage, most people assume it will never happen to them and once it does the lesson sticks in really well.
ctrl-c, to avoid any of that stuff. 'jk' will move you one row down, and one row up.
(or (= 0 (+ x y)) (print "hi"))
['or', ['=', 0, ['+', 'x', 'y']], ['print', 'hi']]
Click on Anonymous link, DDoS the US government