skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument they will presumably make is that their system is a deduplicating file storage system. That one instance is infringing does NOT automatically mean another instance is infringing. For example, assuming the court agrees that personal backup copies can legally be kept, deleting the actual file instead of the links could delete legitimate backup copies. See the number of artists that were features as claiming to use Megaupload in their ads, for example...

Even other public links might be legitimate, and Megaupload would not have a way of determining that based merely on the presence of links.

Do I think they were aware that there were tons of illegal copies? Absolutely. But whether or not they could blanket delete content without in effect deleting content the people filing the DMCA takedown requests had no rights to request taken down is an entirely different matter.
> Those guys are screwed now.

Really? Are you sure? They've never been before and it doesn't look like they'd even want to go after this. I haven't been to the US since 1999 and I don't feel screwed in any way shape or form.

Plenty of multi-nationals don't require you to travel to the states, even here in the UK. Travelling to the US is expensive, holding conference calls in the afternoon is much cheaper.

> It's not far from the way you would have to think if you were living under the Stasi.

You'll have to forgive me for finding this a little hyperbolic. Not as hyperbolic as I'd like, but still fairly hyperbolic.
There is no code on github

https://github.com/saintsjd/gum

but the idea sounds great!
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Stupid link chain "news article" nonsense. Here is the actual source: http://www.aclu.org/wikileaks-diplomatic-cables-foia-documen...
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I'm not arguing that you don't learn at a paid position. I'm arguing that the focus for an internship shouldn't be the money.

Ranking in terms of priority:

1) Paid + Learning = Jackpot.

2) Learning Only, Unpaid = Not as great, but at least you're building skills that will increase your value out of school.

3) Paid Only, Less Learning = Worst option. When it comes to full time hiring, people won't care that your internship paid you 15-30/hr. They'll care about what you've learned, what quantifiable skills you bring to the table, and proof that you're a mover and shaker.
I work at Microsoft right now. Our intern program is by far the easiest way to get hired on. Tons of people on our teams are former interns. That's another thing to take away from this - if you get an internship with a larger company, you'll probably get an offer if you do well. Use this to your advantage, don't wait til you've graduated to start looking for jobs. Use your internship capabilities to give you a leg into the field.
Actually a lot. Currently there are hundreds of titles on Apple's store. I wouldn't doubt if Google had a similar number. Have you seen the library for iPad and iPhone?
A missing ingredient here is that the snippet/update/whatever system needs to be policed by the CEO as the ONLY way such data can be collected. It doesn't work if eight levels of managers across three teams each decide they want the same "just five minutes per week!" updates in 16 different formats in constantly shifting docs/apps/styles.
So capitalism is good except when it comes to lawyers...?
I recognized these guys from somewhere - and then I remembered that they are the same people that lecture on the Youtube channel Numberphile.

Great channel! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/numberphile
I don't care for them or their business model. It's skeevy; they've shown themselves have little regard for personal privacy.
Hey, thanks for the feedback, the price will change or be removed for sure. In the meantime, I'd be happy to set you or your girlfriend up with a free account, but can't find your email in your profile. Email me, mine is in my profile, if you're interested.
Pinterest is redefining the Internet search experience, and delivers new and lucrative opportunities for businesses to advertise their products and measure consumer attitudes toward these products. From the perspective of someone who writes about marketing and business opportunities in the disabilities market, what does Pinterest mean for people with disabilities? It is not accessible to the blind, for starters.
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I'm tempted to suggest that the fixed C/C++ version is still not correct with respect to this issue, namely on architectures where INT_MAX == UINT_MAX. (Or really INT_MAX <= UINT_MAX < 2 * INT_MAX, which is valid in C99 for INT_MAX >= 65535.)
>You shall use a foreach every time you need to perform a loop.

Yes

>You will never access your database if you are not using an ORM.

Hell yes.

(Not necessarily disagreeing with his conclusions)
Yep - I agree, you should get yours. Maybe there should be a more robust culture of giving interns equity at early stage startups. VC's hate cluttered cap tables...but it would be a fair way to compensate students for their work if the startup can't afford to pay them.
Well what are your ideas? I cook a lot, and I know others who had ideas for similar services. I can't really see myself paying money for an advanced note taking app. I think you'll have to add more value to be able to justify me paying for this.

It looks great. Very well done.
Any advice for high school students who don't have Upperclassman to look up to for advice?
I'm not sure I agree that it's necessarily bad if the interface is a side-effect of the implementation. It seems very worse-is-better to me.

I feel like when the interface is a side-effect of implementation, you get a more gradual sliding scale from user to developer (like being able to experiment with web apis by curling at them).

In git's case, I appreciate that I can trawl around through my .git directory and not get lost because it pretty closely matches the interface.
Is it possible for all of these to be implemented as git command aliases?
Yes, dunning sucks. I did two projects for one client and they paid within a week both times. I liked them for that. Most other clients, including the regular one I mentioned before, varied between 4 weeks and 8 weeks.

There's a fine line to toe when it comes to following up on late invoices. You can't let them slide, otherwise you're throwing away money. On the other hand, you can't nag them otherwise you'll seem desperate for money. As a freelancer, you must never, ever give the impression that you're having cash flow problems. Otherwise, whether it's true or not, your credibility goes out the window.

I made the mistake of seeming desperate for payment on one of my last projects when I actually was short on money. There was a minor hiccup in their accounts payable process, and I overreacted. Realizing what I had done was one trigger that told me it was time to pack it in.
I think "git undo" would be even nicer if it was a generic undo and simply undid the last operation (only when possible of course; unpush might be slightly problematic).

Also I'm really tired of messing with ~/.gitmodules and unwieldy *submodule-commands that demand to be executed in the project-root all the time. Why can't we simply "git add" sub-repositories, perhaps bailing with a warning by default and an extra-flag to really do it...
Recipage (http://www.recipage.com/) is a free solution that has a decent amount of overlap though it is more focused on bloggers being able to publish their recipes.
101 is pretty bad. When I worked on the peninsula I'd always take 280 and cut over on 92. It'd take a little bit longer, but it was way better in terms of my mental health.
How do I go back from the recipe in the demo to the list of recipes? Doesn't seem obvious to me.

Also, I like that you put it at $10/month. It might not stay there, but at least you created a price and can move from that price with a good idea of where to go to next that's a better market fit.
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Heh heh, that's what discovery is for.

Of course, they might settle to avoid among other things more dirty laundry coming out or being solidly confirmed.
Sorry to be blunt but $10/month is totally unworkable.

Who is your target audience? It's house-spouses. If both spouses work (like I used to) they would more generally go out to eat, so there's no reason to spend $10/month on something that they would use infrequently. Netflix is $8/month.

If you're a house-spouse, like me, you are notoriously cheap. There is no way I would pay $10/month for something that I currently bookmark on allrecipes.com. Or print out on a sheet of paper.

I just checked out onetsp.com and that's probably more like it, 150 recipes for free and $5/yr. That's more the price range that someone would be looking for, rather than $120/yr.
Maybe -- I need to A/B test it at some point.

The trick is fitting all those logos in there while still keeping the dialog a manageable size and designed well.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying...but I get the sense you think case 3 is far more common than I think it is.
At first sight, this looks like a joke. Specially the Kissenger.

However, as the article says, "What if the robot simply used AI to return your kiss?", or "talk with your in-game wife who is back home". Creepy. But also game changer.

These human-to-robot technologies are starting out, but I'm so curious to see how it evolves!
Redacting entries in documents that are released publicly is a fairly counter-productive measure. Either give the document out un-edited, or simply find a way to not give it at all. If you're redacting entries, you may as well be going over the documents with a highlighter and circling things with "LOOK HERE!!" written in the margin.
>you are ok to hack into their site to get it

Compulsory Licencing of Patents DOES work this way: they MUST offer terms that are reasonable or they can't prevent people from using the patent (for many countries)

"Some countries have "working provisions" that require the invention be exploited in the jurisdiction it covers. Consequences of not working an invention vary from one country to another, ranging from revocation of the patent rights to the awarding of a compulsory license awarded by the courts to a party wishing to exploit a patented invention. The patentee has the opportunity to challenge the revocation or license, but is usually required to provide evidence that the reasonable requirements of the public have been met by the working of invention."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

Copyright and Patents aren't property the same way land or chattels are. They're time limited monopolies granted on the works of art.

Here is another compulsory license already in law:

"There are several different compulsory license provisions in United States copyright law , including for non-dramatic musical compositions,[9] public broadcasting,[10] retransmission by cable systems,[11] subscription digital audio transmission,[12] and non-subscription digital audio transmission such as Internet radio.[13] The compulsory license for non-dramatic musical compositions under Section 115 of the Copyright Act of 1976[14] allows a person to distribute a new sound recording of a musical work, if that has been previously distributed to the public, by or under the authority of the copyright owner.[15] There is no requirement that the new recording be identical to the previous work, as the compulsory license includes the privilege of rearranging the work to conform it to the recording artist's interpretation. This does not allow the artist to change the basic melody or fundamental character of the work.[16] In order to take advantage of this compulsory license the recording artist must provide notice and pay a royalty. The notice must be sent to the copyright owner, or if unable to determine the copyright owner, to the Copyright Office, within thirty days of making the recording, but before distributing physical copies. Failure to provide this notice would constitute copyright infringement.[17] In addition to the notice to the copyright owner, the recording artist must pay a royalty to the copyright owner. This royalty is set by three copyright royalty judges.[18] Though the compulsory license allows one to make and distribute physical copies of a song for a set royalty, the owner of the copyright in the underlying musical composition can still control public performance of the work or transmission over the radio.[19] If the underlying musical work is well known, the work can be licensed for public performance through a performance rights organization such as ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license

Pump the fees higher than anyone is charging now, make the market all about negotiating lower fees while allowing the creativity of everyone to create ways to distribute this content far far far and wide.
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Nice to see another JavaScript MVC Framework written in CoffeeScript. Almost like Spine.js (http://spinejs.com/) A new thing to try it out later, but I'll stay with Backbone.js for now.
Reflection on work is an important step in getting work done efficiently, and this process forces it quite well. On top of that, it requires little action on the part of the managers.

Well done, people, well done.
As you have judged them guilty based on the charges brought against them, I wonder why we need the law courts.
I just always have an emacs running, and use emacsclient to open files in it. Anyway, if you're typing "git commit" you may not be using the capabilities of your editor to the fullest.
> "but you don't get very much "city" for your money"

It's typical in SF to pay $2K+ for a 1BR overlooking a back alley where homeless and drunks fight every night, where your neighborhood is contested by gang wars, your building is a creaky little Victorian built at the turn of the century, where a favorite topic of conversation are routes you can take to get from point A to point B in the city that maximizes personal safety, and only-half-joking comments about getting mugged on the bus.

It's not the worst city in the USA to live in, but having lived here for six months now, and many major cities in two continents before that, I honestly think SF is completely overblown. It strikes me as a city where a bunch of suburban folk come after college and are blown away by all the Big City(tm) things, and every negative point simply becomes "how cities are", despite many other cities not suffering the same crime, housing, or other social ills.

If it weren't for the booming and incredibly professionally satisfying tech scene, I'd have high-tailed it to a city where rents are halved, crime is quartered, and transportation not so sucktastic.
#5, and this comment, is probably about the best advice I've read so far this year. Thanks.
It's a global namespace in your script. That's what it's called, I believe and it's available via globals().
Also interesting is the fact that Hollywood was about an hour's travel from the Mexican border.

This mattered in the early days of movies, when Edison's patent enforcers would show up to demand payment for people using cameras. The early filmmakers didn't want to pay and skipping to Mexico while the goons were in town was a good way to avoid those "expenditures".
in a drug bust, it's pretty cut and dry as to whether the targets are doing something illegal

That's way too subjective for law. The prosecution has to prove to the jury (NOT the judge) that what they found is, in a criminal case, beyond a reasonable doubt, an illegal substance.
In a world where anyone can copy a design, there is very little incentive for people to be creative. Why would I do the hard work of creating something if someone else can just appropriate my work for free?

In short, there would be no designs to worth copying in the first place. Incentive to work is fundamental problem in any communal property system.
Ha! indeed, todo apps are the new hello world. Regarding the .JS frameworks, I actually think it's a good thing that many are being created, this grows the community and the need to solve problems in different ways, more ideas, feedback, etc.
Check this review of the most popular MVC frameworks, http://goo.gl/2VhZX
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I'm with you - the big companies should (and do) pay their interns. I also agree that it's a big win - you get to see how the students perform in your culture, and what quality work their produce. Massive win.

But as a student, it's important to build valuable experience that you can quantify. If you can get that experience AND get paid at Amazon,Google, etc, then so be it! That's awesome.

But if you have an amazing opportunity to learn more, and have a greater impact at a smaller org, that pays less or nothing, then that could still be the best opportunity as an intern. (Not to mention, it could also prove to be more rewarding).

Don't get me wrong - if you're going to learn more AND get paid big bucks at one of the big companies, then that's the best opportunity in the world and you should never pass that up.
Not to discredit you, but this doesn't sounds very compelling: "Many clients do avoid tracking but many don't."

Any percentage number to back up that claim? 110,000 impressions out of how many? Also what's the conversion? Would be interesting to see more research into this (and articulated on the website).

Other than, looks coo1! Good luck!
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That they're being compared to a drug ring is rather unsettling, even if we assume that all the prosecutions claims are true.

The ongoing damage here, if any, is only economical and a much more narrowly construed seizure could still largely prevent further damage while safeguarding their legitimate customers.
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Removing individual links makes sense--if someone filed a DMCA request with Dropbox for a song and it ended up getting removed from my Dropbox as well that would be ridiculous.

In the case of something that is always illegal (say child porn) there would be a duty to remove all instances of a file, but when it's a case by case basis of whether or not there is a copyright issue it does not make sense to take files down en masse. Remember that uploads to MU were private--you received a secret link.
Good discussion, but I am sure the developer proficiencies will out weight any of the affects of the language choice in early stage.
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I think the trend is definitely for startups to choose Dynamic languages as well as choosing frameworks to go along with these languages often times.

When you are cash strapped, speeding up time to market often becomes the number one priority.
I quite like the idea, primarily because it would keep actions 'sounding like' what they affect. stage and unstage being the primary examples. Yeah, 'add' and 'reset' work, and fit other semantics, but when everything else refers to something you've added as something you've staged? Unnecessary cognitive friction. Add is largely useful for migrating from CVS/SVN/etc, but why not both with some porcelains?

That said, take the time and learn what git does and how it works and it makes a ton of sense. It's remarkably simple, and then the commands map directly to what you're doing to your history, which is utterly fantastic.
I would cite early attempts at JS-generated views that I worked on in the late '90s/early '00s (and I assume other people were doing similar things at the time) and the various RIA frameworks that appeared on the scene circa '04-'05 spawned by Ajax that through no fault of their own tried to rediscover widget-based portal solutions in JS. See Flex, Laszlo and others. Also tried was XUL, all very limited and one-sided.

What we're seeing today is are mostly front-end MVC solutions that have a more populist approach towards platform and usability as those two have matured substantially due to the current global propagation of a certain genre of apps. I hate to admit it, but Facebook has done wonders in terms of providing feedback as to how much a user will tolerate beyond static HTML as well as educating the user to accept as standard certain classes of JS functionality as they iterate through implementations.
Indeed, a fingerprinting system doesn't tell you what "legal color" the bits are (http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23). One copy of a file can be infringing while another, identical copy, is legit.
Summer Internships (for IT/Security/Networking?)
I know these are a common thing to do during the Summer semester for Computer Science students at large companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, etc.

Are there similar internships available for IT students? Security? Hell, even Business? I'm majoring in Management Information Science (Bachelors, falls under Business Administration) and will soon have two Associates (Information Systems Security and Network Design).

From what I could tell in my short search, the most "security sounding" one @ FB still wanted you to be a amazing programmer, something which I am not.

I applied for this: https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=interns&req=a2KA0000000La9gMAC Probably a bit of a stretch, but whatever, can't hurt!

Found this, seems like a good candidate for AFTER graduation w/ Bachelors: https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=grads&req=a2KA0000000LbVuMAK
I agree with most here. Personally, I will consider adding Facebook to my personal portfolio only once the stock price has leveled off.

The main attractive point of Facebook is that it is a service that is used by so many - very few stocks have such a high market penetration around the globe.
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Startup internships tend to be semester-long job interviews, which means that you'll be doing the same thing that the full-time employees are doing but with more supervision at first. This is a huge win for you, the intern, for two reasons:

1. Instead of doing menial grunt work you'll be doing real work for real users, which is a _way_ better learning experience. Finding out what people want isn't something that can be taught. You have to make things, put them in front of large numbers of people, and see how they react. You can get this experience by building a startup and going on the long march of getting traction. Or you can work for a startup that already has traction and observe their users. The latter is obviously way easier.

2. If you're good you'll probably get a job offer right away instead of an option to take a job after you graduate. If you're the sort of person that needs a piece of paper in order to feel like you're worth something this might not matter. But if you're in it for the work itself, you can save yourself two years of salary plus tuition.

In a related note to point 1, work for a consumer-facing startup if you can. The way consumers behave and the way business customers behave are completely different, and consumers are a lot more fun to work for.
So many people saying this is "too much magic". Whatever, I'm into it. The idea of commands being functions that can just pass their output to other functions is intuitive, and passing arguments as, well, arguments is as well.

It might not be pythonic, it might be a crime against Guido and everything he represents, but it's pretty awesome.