skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. This is a classic community phenomenon. You can also notice this in Foursquare, Twitter, and almost every other community based site. I think us as a community need to start encouraging progressive and meaningful arguments, rather than just the top news.
I would like to come to HN to have a conversation/ discussion about something new rather than a link to NYT.

One idea would be to create separate sections for discussions, news, blog links, at all.
To me, the following passage from the link demonstrates the dire situation in the US:

In July 2008, the United States Department of Homeland
Security disclosed that its border search policies allow
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to conduct
random searches of electronic devices for "information
concerning terrorism, narcotics smuggling, and other
national security matters; alien admissibility;
contraband including child pornography, monetary
instruments, and information in violation of copyright
or trademark laws; and evidence of embargo violations
or other import or export control laws."[61][62] US
Senator Russell Feingold called the policies "truly
alarming" and proposed to introduce legislation to
require reasonable suspicion of illegality and to
prohibit racial profiling.[61] The Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals has previously upheld the
constitutionality of laptop searches without reasonable
suspicion at border crossings.[61]

Sure, Feingold could introduce new legislation already covered by the 4th amendment. But if the government isn't going to pay attention to a founding document of the US, what makes him think they're going to pay attention to his piddly law?
Relatedly, don't underestimate the contribution that quality typography makes to a sites perceived professionalism. I'd play around with some non-user-agent typefaces (using @font-face) for you homepage copy and links. Off the top of my head, looking at the site, maybe a Museo font (see: http://www.trybloc.com -- no affiliation, but they use the font for their heading).
Here's a spec that barely got a mention at the end of the article: paper is extremely heavy. It's almost 3/4 the density of water!

I just moved across town, and I had a terrible time because about half of all my possessions are paper books. This is roughly 35 boxes, and keeping them all is just too expensive. They take up a lot of space, and it's nearly impossible to find what I'm looking for anyway, so after I've read them once, I don't often return to them at all.

I've been getting rid of them. The reduction in clutter has been both uplifting and liberating!
The core problem is, laws are not created result orientated.

When the people who are targeted, are the ones who avoid being caught, the result will be near zero.

We need intelligent accounting here.

For example, when the result of this law is: We spent 100 Million to catch 0 terrorists and 20 people for minor felonies.

Is it in the public interest to pay 5 Million for catching a person who downloaded an illegal movie?

The politicians should be accountable for these things, or they should say in advance "we try this for a month and if it doesn't work or is inefficient we stop it".

I also know that statistics are often manipulated, but that is another problem.
Doesn't corrupting US Congress harm children?

It devalues their future voting rights, etc at the very least.
The problem is that for these people, freedom of the speech on the internet isn't important because they don't use the internet. They don't see it as something important for America, now or in the future. They just see it as a place infested with scumbags who are hacking (not the PG definition), steal, and abuse children.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135105.htm

Google, and of course virtually every multi-national corporation based in the US, does make use of many US government capabilities. I don't think it makes any sense to say:

>They don't consume any US government services either

However, I do think the corporate income tax issue is a subtle one.

It'd be interesting to compare what Larry and Sergey will pay in taxes versus government outlays for the things that have made Google possible.
Remember, it is a contract. It only looks like English language.

I don't have a full copy of the EULA, but in another article they state that "Work" is "any book or other work you generate using this software". They are talking about the output of the program, they are not restricting your original content.

So, if you want to sell a PDF of your book through other channels, you better not make the PDF with this software. Use the "Print to PDF" popup in your regular software or something.
Regarding point 2: Advertising is an arms race. Nobody benefits from spending millions of dollars on advertising; they benefit from outspending their competitors. Everybody would be happier if they could outspend their competitors without spending millions of dollars. But they can't.

As soon as there is a cheap, or even free alternative to spending megabucks for tv slots, those channels will get filled up in addition to your traditional outlets. And the internet isn't free, nor is coordinating a massive internet campaign. The net result of number 2 is that we'll have more political advertising, and the person with the most money will still win.

Still, there is a democritizing influence to be had from shifting campaigns from traditional broadcast media to the internet. We're seeing that already and it's only going to grow. So, in essence, point 2 won't help, and it's already happening. This is a hard problem.
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That seems to be the right way to fight these things, if those that have been abused as children are against this law, then this law isn't to protect the children, but to simply push it under the rug.
Some CSS3 effects are implemented using the GPU, so animating using CSS can be much faster than animating using Javascript.

See the Netflix talk which has a lot of info about using GPU accelerated animations for e.g. scrolling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMWhto62Eo
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You are correct - I was expecting an explanation of the proof because that's the part that is more difficult for me to understand, not because it was advertised.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Moviegoers love to go to movies, and movie downloaders are the same guys that wait a week in line for the new Star Wars. Perfect customers, in other words.

I doubt those perfect customers are representative of the average movie goer. Surely very few people "wait a week in line for the new Star Wars".
And how would that discourage the behavior of autosubmitting?

The speed in which new URLs are submitted by the same user should be limited according to their karma. (Assuming users with high points are trustworthy, which is the primary reason this metric is made for.)
That's flat, not progressive. Progressive consumption tax would mean that the first $5.000 worth of goods you buy are not taxed, the next $15.000 are taxed at 15%, everything beyond that at 20%. How will each vendor know which rate to tax you at?
Most of the rich don't go around buying stupidly expensive things. They don't get rich by spending. They get rich by saving.

There are billionaires that live in modest homes and don't particularly act or spend like their rich, but they enjoy all of societies benefits that created an environment that enabled them to become rich. They should pay for it so that future billionaires and millionaires can be made.
I'd add Business @ The Speed of Thought by Bill Gates. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and laugh if you want.... It's a seriously interesting book. And this is coming from a guy who's a huge F/OSS ideologue and who really isn't a fan of Microsoft or billg. But I can give the Devil his due when necessary, and B@TSOT is a worthwhile read.

Of course, you might ask "Why, mindcrime, why do you recommend a billg book so highly?" Fair question... I find it interesting for the vision that Gates lays out regarding how organizations should use technology to operate more efficiently. He leaned heavily on the analogy with the human autonomic nervous system back in those days, and was throwing around the term "Digital Nervous System[1]" a lot... and I think that that concept A. makes and lot of sense, and B. is still - after all these years - largely unfulfilled.

If you're in the business of software (at least the business of business software) I think the Gates book is still very inspirational and could seed some very interesting ideas, vis-a-vis technology in organizations.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Nervous_System

Other than that, my own list would include:

The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank

The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries & Jack Trout

Positioning - Al Ries & Jack Trout

Repositioning - Jack Trout (with Steve Rivkin)

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout (with Steve Rivkin)
Here's my spec: how many books can I carry with me?

Books: 10, 20 tops.
iPad: 25MB/file, 64GB, 2000+ books easily.
> The theory in taxing capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income is that the wealth that was invested that produced the capital gains has already been taxed once when it was earned.

Whenever someone argues this point (not fw, in this case) and alludes to being double-taxed, I like to remind them that only the gain (minus any loss) is taxed...so there is no double-tax. ...and why someone would invest in stocks or startups vs bonds is that the rate of return is potentially much greater. I don't think there needs to be an extra incentive (in the form of lower tax rates) for investors. ... That argument seems to be a smokescreen.

On another note: I'd love to see a tax rate (or fair analysis) based on discretionary income.

A progressive tax system addresses this a bit...and, in my opinion, this is why moving to a flat tax would benefit the rich and hurt the poor.
I would like a real-time commenting system like what Google+ has. I actually think it leads to higher engagement. If Google decided to make it as a WP plugin, it would probably become more popular than Facebook's commenting system at least.
TL;DR; Tempest in a teapot.

The author missed the definition of "Work" until after they published the article. "Work" is clearly defined in the EULA as the output of the Apple software.

The Apple software in question is the last encoding step in a workflow to publish iBooks. If you aren't publishing an iBook, use a different tool for that last step.
I don't know if it costs anything to sell a book in the iBookstore, but to sell on the App Store, one needs to pay the $99 annual program fee.

Suppose there is an annual fee to join the iBookstore. Would there be a different reaction to this EULA if Author was hidden behind that "paywall"? Or what if Apple just charged $99 for this app instead of making it free?

The reason everyone is so upset about the EULA is that Apple filled a huge void in the eBook creation software market and Apple filled that void but is rightfully limiting the tool for their own benefit. Everyone was hoping Apple would swoop in an create an awesome tool for making eBooks, but instead they made an awesome tool for making iBooks. Are non-iBook creators worse off today than they were a week ago? Nope.

A better solution (from a PR standpoint, not from a technical standpoint) would have been for Apple to make Author output a proprietary format. After all, no one is crying out because Xcode can't produce Android binaries or standards-compliant webpages. Still, an open format is the best solution for this type of product. You don't want authors having to learn how to cryptographically sign their books or be able to generate ad hoc builds just to get a book to a student. Apple is enforcing DRM at the EULA level rather than at the technical level.
"Think of the children!" -- works every time.
Yes, let's actively lobby the government to put infrastructure in place to monitor every single penny we spend. There's no way that could go wrong.
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I agree that strong moderation is key, but reddit's moderation system doesn't encourage strong moderation and is pretty borked in general. Strong moderation is a rare exception, especially when you consider the more popular subreddits have thousands to hundreds of thousands of users per moderator.

For one thing, the site admins won't get involved with what they term "moderation fights" so one bad actor as a mod can cause a hostile takeover/coup of a subreddit that nothing can be done about.
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Saying movie goers is probably incorrect. However, I still stand by what I said that most of movie lovers, especially people between 15-22 who do not have enough means to go to every single movie they want to watch just wait for a copy of these movies to be available online. According to Hollywood, this is cheating. Pirate Bay as the name suggests thinks so too. But still, downloading movies has no significant effect of the number of movies being released every year. So really, I don't think show business as a whole is affected.
If you are asked if you have "pirated" material on your laptop or various external media devices, and you do, how to respond?

"Not to my knowledge." or "I'm sorry, but I cannot answer that question."? Which would then likely raise the alarm in the interrogator.
Looks like a very interesting book. But the phrase I must confess that English is my third language makes me wonder if there are teachers for folks like that. Like there are ESL specialists, so are there teachers for English as a Third Language?
This is the nuclear option but also shows they are desperate.
That problem is indeed solved, it's what we have here in Europe. But that's a fixed rate per product, while meric was proposing a tax rate dynamically adjusted to the individual.
How do you know users will want to buy products they see in movies?

How can you make content producers make content interactive?

How can I one get in touch with you?
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It does say this though:

"personal use" copying is not explicitly mentioned as a type of fair use, and case law has not yet established otherwise.
In my country you cannot store/distribute a picture of a person without explicit permission if the person is the picture's main content.

You can, however, use a picture of a group of people without asking them one by one.
I understand the romanticism with paper books. They are beautiful works of art that gain character over a period of time as different readers come into contact with their pages. Each book as a story of its own outside of the words on the page.

But I, like many, grow tired rather quickly when I read. The small type and lack of interaction causes my to feel sleepy as I try to find out how Alice is going to get out of Wonderland. This issue is completely eliminated on the ereader, and I am surprised the customizable type features aren't mentioned in this article. Instead of having to find the formatted edition that suits my needs, I simple increase the font size to suit my needs. With ebooks, the limits are really non-existent with what can be done to story telling.

When the printing press came around, the powers at be wanted to control it to only produce the bible. But eventually, people were printing powerful material such as "Common Sense" and "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" inspiring nations through the power of mass distributed information. eBooks (and obviously the Internet in general) is another step in our progress.
Books you can read at any point in time: 1-5 :)
"The meals are worth $15,000."

Simple response: "They're not worth that much to me, I'm afraid."
I have spent weeks with Vim. I hate it more the more I used it, and now I use sublime.

I don't mind other people choosing to use it, but I got more productive in 30 minutes of Sublime than 3 weeks of vim.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie."
"Each time you use a credit card, each time you read your bank statement, all of your IP information and your search history will be required by your ISP to be stored for 18 months at all times."

How can my ISP store my search history? DuckDuckGo and Google offer https to do the searching.

How can my ISP know where I use my credit card? Whenever I pay by credit card I use https.
I am worried about one particular fact : these so called disruptive firms don't want to conform e-books to a standard format. Paper has this huge advantage. One can read old literature because they "conform" to one format. In the e-book space, everyone has their own. While Apple did disrupt the music industry, I don't necessarily feel they have set the fire in terms of e-books. They may get the numbers (they do more often than not) but they may not get the innovation.
IANAL. You have 5th amendment rights against self incrimination. You don't have to answer. How do you word that? No idea, but that would be the route to take I think.
Our approach is to have the makefile run a script of your choice that creates a file that is then \input into the main tex document. We do it to include database query results rather than random numbers, however.
During the 1964 presidential election race, Lyndon B. Johnson suggested that his campaign team air an ad alleging that an opponent had once had sexual relations with a donkey. An advisor pointed out the claim was untrue. "I know it's not true," Johnson replied, "but I want to hear him deny it!"
The argument that taxes on capital gains is a double tax is crazy. The original principal isn't taxed, just the gain - no double tax.
There's no reason why capital gains shouldn't have a progressive marginal tax rate like ordinary income.
Negotiator: Our free lunch costs us about 15 to 20k per year per employee, so add at least 15k to our offer to find it's true value.

Me: If I were left to my own devices I would make myself a PB and J sandwich and have an apple every day. That comes down to about $2 a day for lunch. So there's 365 days in a year, take away about 104 for weekends, and you are left with about 261 free lunches a year. Hence to me the free lunch is only worth about $522. Just so you know, that's not a lot of money.

Fun fact: It doesn't actually matter if you really would have PB&J every day.
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Disqus is down?! Great - it's time to browse some blogs!
80+ stories a day is excessive. I would be in favor of PG rate-limiting submissions.

If each article takes five minutes to read, it would take the submitter 6 hours 40 minutes(!) to read all the articles he submitted. This implies the submitter is not reading the articles before submission.

This worries me because it is indicating submission by quantity, not by quality, and the thing I love about HN is the quality of the submissions.

If some of the submissions would have been done by other people, that's fine. IMHO...

a) Don't hog the karma.

b) As pointed out by benologist, the weaker submissions would not have been submitted by others. The weaker submissions are therefore competing against other submissions that are more deserving of our attention, contributing to the dreaded "deterioration of HN quality."
It doesn't work properly in anything other than i.e. Just change your useragent and it will work fine
Agreed; surely there must be a limit on submissions per day?
According to what I have seen , most people go back to Iran to meet their family .

But Iranian regime put pressure on families of people which they are active against Iran, in foreign countries to force them to go back to Iran , then they can arrest them and torture them and some times that you may have seen in the news Kill them.

I think the same has happened to this developer.

I remember there was a time which most of my friends were arrested , just because they were really active on the web (on any subject even computing and network not just political activity)
Check the source code for news.arc

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

to see what is already done about this. The account submitting so many stories may decide to be more selective after considering the implications of site algorithms.
But the thing is, even if pirate bay stops operating, there are still other sites like btjunkie.org and the like. Also, with sites like tumblr where a lot of artists blog and share using the reblog button, it's almost impossible to put it to a stop. I also don't think Hollywood artists mind as the like of Diana Agron and Kevin Mchale even reblog the very same videos that FOX produced.
If there any traction in non-internet USA? Are "normal" people (the politicians think any one on the internet or who merely understand the internet are nerds and not worth listening to) seeing what is happening here? Not just the likes of the terrible SOPA bill, but the seedy corrupt way US politics seems to be for sale? If this really what any one in the US wants?

What I hope for is that what the MPAA actually does is blow the lid off the stinking corrupt system where money buys law. If America is lucky, the MPAA won't just fail in its aims, it will fail and expose the depth of the blatant corruption.
What if famous brands had regular fonts?
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"The politicians should be accountable for these things, or they should say in advance 'we try this for a month and if it doesn't work or is inefficient we stop it'."

I think this goes back to how politicians are deathly afraid of ever, anywhere, being wrong. This seems to even preclude improving/changing their own positions on most things.

There is nothing wrong with realizing you were wrong and changing your opinion, rather there is something wrong with hanging onto a belief or opinion when the pile of evidence is not only against you but continues to grow.
I definitely disagree with auto submitting but don't believe that Hacker News should be more locked down.

There is always a lot of complaints about content but there is an inherent system allowing posters to know what the mass wants rather than one commenter and making sure the best content rises.

Don't vote up anything you believe doesn't deserve to be on the front page or flag anything that deserves to be flagged. If there are very strict content guidelines some of the most interesting and obscure content won't be recommended for posting.
Ask HN: Would you pay for this Image Management API?
http://www.runway7.net/signs

I've struggled a bit myself with setting up systems for image management, storage, hosting and thumbnail generation, so I thought I'd create an API that I would have liked to see.

Would you pay for this, especially if there was a gem / egg / module that would integrate seamlessly into your projects?
I don't think this is about the potential worst that can happen.

My guess:

Apple is betting that the tablet is the future of the PC. Apple is also betting that hardware prices will crater like the PC did. The future is about services and less about hardware and the iPad will get cheaper over time. Apple wants to guarantee their 30% cut on publishers, devs, etc. while making it difficult to port it over to other platforms.

I think it's wrong in believing this may have to do with lawyers. I think this is Apple's intent so they can close up any potential loopholes that would give a competitor an equal ground. Apple may not have to do this anyway since Android will probably not be the favored OS to use in education but Apple wants the guarantee.
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Making Steve Jobs out to be a comparative saint won't help your argument here. Jobs very much sought to deprive consumers of control over his platforms and products. He did this wherever he thought it would benefit Apple. He and Murdoch were very much alike in that sense.