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Yes I understand the argument put forward in the article, but I was curious about the steps Megaupload took to try to conform with US law.

All of this is crazy, and the point in the article is very much valid in my opinion, on the other hand if the copyright holder allegedly affected were to sue Megaupload in a civil case in the country that Megaupload operates from then that would be perfectly fine in my opinion. I don't agree with the copyright laws that exist at the moment, but everyone should have the right to try to protect their rights in court, even if I don't personally agree with the law.

The reason I asked about what steps Megaupload made to comply with DMCA complaints, and what the law says about DMCA take downs, was out of curiosity about the legal landscape and the chances of Megaupload in this case, even though it shouldn't be a criminal case.
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Hi Jason, thanks for the initiative.

Wanted to know How does YC works for International Applicants. Especially, when the applicant has already started in the company in the Native country.
Ask HN: Are all "evil" companies big, or is that just a coincidence?
I have never heard of a small company being called "evil". Is simply seems that the bigger the company, the more evil it gets. Do you need to become evil to keep up with growth?
- what Google eavesdropping are you referring to? Them displaying advertisement next to your free email? Get a paid account
- here in USA a simple plans starts with $60 dollars w 2Gb data, and service completely sucks. As a Dutch expat, my Vodafone connection is one of the few things I really miss here in Silicon Valley.

And yes it is old news as parliament already passed this law, still I am proud of my tiny home country
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If had actually taken the time to understand that Chrome is being released in an approximately 6 week interval you would know that Chrome 37 will be released far earlier (sometimes at the beginning of 2014) assuming that the schedule remains unchanged.
Oh, I see. The attempt at a joke there was that I felt awkward to talk trash about a language as a proponent of another.
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Pretty cool. I'd love to see a version that output a LESS file with nested classes.
Hm. I am just wondering if it wouldn't be better if Ryan could make living of Node and therefore could stay to work on it. How does one make living of Node ... em, charge for it, maybe? Is it so radical to suggest that Node could be a paid product.
> If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN.

Completely false. If that were true, there would be no need for guidelines.

In fact it says, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" which is not semantically equivalent to "people on HN".

If everyone on reddit signed up for an account today, by your interpretation HN would be full of pun threads and cats and that would be acceptable.
Why would regular merging avoid this more than regular rebasing? The result is the same.
It is currently down for me. However wikipedia does a great work explaining it as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
You know, I really like the idea of getting the real numbers for what I'd be paying for. kWh of the battery is a clearly definable number that makes it easy to compare between the different options. "How far the damn thing drives" is incredibly fuzzy and dependent on things like speed and driving habits - for a start, their estimate is at 55mph which seems slow to me to cover 300 miles at (is that the limit in the States or something?).

The 0-60 time is used widely across the automotive industry, as you probably know. I've not seen anyone use "a graph" before, but frankly I prefer this; those numbers tell me that they're all pretty quick (and the 4.4s one extremely so) and I can easily compare that to petrol alternatives.
I am currently going through this exercise, and here's what I done:

1) Chrome -> Firefox (Firefox 9 is surprisingly snappy, seems to me like a perfectly sensible alternative)

2) Search -> https://duckduckgo.com/lite - doesn't even show your query string in the URL. BUT: Works only in general search terms, not for specific (long) queries. There, Google is still unavoidable, it seems. But for 90% of my searches, DDG is perfecly OK.

3) Zoner instead of Picasa and zonerama.com instead of Photos in G+. [zonerama gives 2GB for free]

4) GMail: I found Hotmail to be adequate, but recently I switched to paying for my own webhosting, so I don't use free email anymore.

5) Google Calendar/Tasks -> Toodledo.com

6) Google Analytics,Adsense -> don't know...haven't found alternative yet.

In mu current understanding, it is not a problem to use some of the Google services, if one found them to be the best. What one should avoid, in my opinion, is to register account with Google and attach one's real-life identity to it. I did it in the past, and now consider it a big mistake of mine. I must say that I am still amazed so many people are ok with that.
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Diagnosing an individual case probably costs them more than they make from it in years. But not investigating individual cases could carry a cumulative cost in terms of perception that could bring down the entire advertising ponzi scheme.
When I got to that quote, I laughed and stopped reading. This list has clearly not been fact checked.
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I felt, and feel, drained in social interactions where my social anxiety becomes an issue. Where it's not an issue, social interactions are great and non-draining. For instance, I'm really looking forward to spending this weekend at a music festival where I'll be floating around with a thousand other people on a river watching some bands play and I know I'm going to have a great time meeting tons of random people.

I also know that nearly every single extrovert attending that festival is going to be just as drained as I am on Sunday morning - empirical proof is the fact that pretty much everybody leaves these things at the same time (even though the gates usually close much later, and the bands are still playing). In fact, I don't know ANY extroverts who don't eventually need time to themselves, either, so I find your definition to also be lacking.

These observations lead me to again question what "introversion" and "extroversion" really is. It seems very difficult to know what's really going on:

EITHER

1. "introverts" are really just e.g. socially anxious people who subconsciously use "introversion" as an excuse to avoid social situations where their anxiety causes them to feel drained and exhausted; they aren't aware that it's social anxiety causing these issues. It took me YEARS of CONSCIOUS effort to reduce my social anxiety, nevermind the years it took to recognize what it was. I have to wonder how many people have HONESTLY made a similar effort before resorting to claiming they are "introverted" and that's just how they are.

OR

2. people like myself are really just "extroverts" at heart with a love & approval addiction, and therefore place high value on social situations, which they find draining to the extent they lack self-confidence because that lack of self-confidence reduces the perceived love & approval they receive in those social situations; this would explain why extroverts fear public speaking so much - their outward focus makes them more susceptible to fears of social rejection

How does one begin to test which of these theories is correct? If you think they're both realistic, I really don't see much of an in-born difference between "introverts" and "extroverts". As far as I can tell they might just be very narrow labels describing the symptoms (social anxiety, low self-esteem, etc.) of a set of dysfunctional beliefs.
I absolutely agree with you. I used to use bzr for personal projects and compared to git it has way more intuitive commands and flags as well as smarter defaults. I use git nowadays mainly because of github and because it's what we use at work, but even after using git for two years I still need to constantly refer to the documentation for the various command flags.
And ironically enough, the court-ordered block of The Pirate Bay just went into effect in The Netherlands as well (For Ziggo, at least; XS4ALL follows tomorrow).
Off the top of my head, Facebook uses <wbr> to format link text. Eg

<a href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lupq8leShl1qgxeuqo1_500.gif">
<span>http://28.media.tumblr.com/</span>
<wbr />
<span class="word_break"></span>
<span>tumblr_lupq8leShl1qgxeuqo1_500.</span>
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Again not all dental work is free in the uk either.
LESS or other new CSS formats would be awesome.
Obviously the premise of "two things" is fairly ridiculous, but I bet it's an interesting thing to ask people at parties. I cannot stand party small talk, and the most fun I've had socialising with strangers were when I ask them straight questions like these.

Another thing I ask people, just out of curiosity since it's not insightful at the same level, is to just go through their average day. Sort of like a bottom-up description of their work/study/whatever live, instead of the top-down answer you get when you ask "so, what do you do".

Some people may think it's weird, though.
Here's a specific example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=low+tire+pressure+motorbike

Lots of stuff in there about mountain bikes, Sheldon Brown, etc.
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No. Read the comments on the blog post, you'll see most people are thankful for us sharing the experience. And if you can't make an opinion for yourself about what kind of lessons can be learnt from this story, it's absolutely fine.
I don't know what I expected really, but something more than an empty CSS file, maybe my expectations were totally off or maybe this wasn't very impressing. Although I could see that it would be convenient to generate this for large html pages with many elements.
As someone form a country with a working, good, universal health care system, the notion that many Americans have that it somehow can't work in reality is very puzzling to me. How can that be true when it plainly does work in many places?

The argument that a private insurance based system could be better, fairer, or more efficient can be made (although not if you hold up the current US system as a positive example...), but any argument that it's the only thing
that will work is frankly ludicrous.
It seems like you can only prove something in computer software up to the point of some random failure in hardware. If there's a chance that a cosmic ray will randomly flip a bit in memory every quintillion clock cycles, then surely you can only prove that an algorithm is correct with the explicit concession that it might be wrong every decade or so.
I also look back at your time on Google fondly, specifically for this 2004 email:

Nelson Minar has invited you to open a free Google Gmail account.

Thanks for that, man :-)
This seems especially odd in light of the G+ "real names", and thus "real identity", position.

You use your real name on one service, you get banned. You use a fake name on another service, you get banned.
Is this your subtle and twisted way of rationalizing your conscience away? Will this make the purchase of your next Apple product easier?

Tell yourself anything you want, but you're going to have blood on your hands if you continue to support Apple.
I've been using Scroogle for a while, which just aggregates Google searches to its own IPs so that you remain anonymous to Google. There are four problems with Scroogle, not necessarily easy to solve:

(1) No Google Maps. Honestly I'll probably keep using Google Maps whatever else happens. I could give up Gmail and I'd still keep Google Maps.
(2) No Google Calculator. This would be more important if Google hadn't changed their calculator app over the past couple of years, making it much more difficult/useless for unit conversions. Still, it would be nice if I could get Google Calculator results through Scroogle, and it shouldn't be that hard.
(3) No image searches. This is one big reason to use Blekko right now; it is not Google Images and it has a nice image search which can be activated from the search line.
(4) Scroogle keeps going down. This is Google's fault; Google should have whitelisted Scroogle as not-a-bot and supported their endeavor. Over the past months the problem has been that Google thinks Scroogle is a bot; but every couple of months there's also a time-frame where Google changes the antiquated search pages which Scroogle queries to make its searches.

For all that, I still like Scroogle and will probably continue to use it for the next couple of months. But Blekko is where I go when I want to do an image search.
The major reason my first relationship (at 28) failed was because of the love/approval addiction I had. At its core that was because of a set of dysfunctional beliefs I had about myself, and had little to do with introversion or extroversion. This is essentially why I'm suspicious of these labels because my experience of these traits time and again comes down to my beliefs, not some inborn characteristic I can't change. Thus the answer to your question becomes: Why would I want to go back to a set of dysfunctional beliefs about myself?
Very true! We actually tested the app with friends beforehand, and it was very well received when we took the time to explain what it was actually doing. So it's not that the idea itself is miserable, it's more the product (which looks crap), the message (which people don't get if you don't have the opportunity to explain it in person) and the general marketing.
But as you say, we're going to insert coin and try again based on the very feedback the HN has provided to us :)
I had the same experience with Google Adsense.

Once I started making money from it after 8 years of being under the $100 minimum payout, they disabled my account on the second payment. I received the same reply as the person in this story.

If you are an entrepreneur, think about disrupting this field. The competition, Adbrite and Chitika are far behind in relevance and payment.

Thankfully my site is now big enough to get into one of the more exclusive advertising networks that don't pay a pathetically small amount. But it disturbs me that I am banned from Adsense for life over $100 especially when I did nothing wrong.
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It's even hard to come up with all the relevant test cases - if you miss a corner case in the implementation, it is likely you will oversee it also in the test case generation. Only an exhaustive search would somehow be able to discover this.

With e.g. templates in C++, this is possible in some cases. You can test a template version using the limited range of an unsigned char, while your real implementation will use a uint64.

But instead of implementing e.g. a binary search, I prefer to take a proven implementation from e.g. the STL and adapt it for my needs. Experience and programmer lazyness have taught me this is a good way :)
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Try transitioning to becoming a highly paid contractor/consultant so you can turn down your hours and do the startup thing with a healthier schedule. Kind of like Jeff LaMarche
You're challenging what it means for something to be a proof, which I think is always subject to philosophical debate. Intuitively, something is a proof of a proposition if it convinces someone else that the proposition is true, and the proposition actually is true.

Obviously, for difficult concepts, it's possible that every expert in the world could be convinced that a proposed proof is correct, only to later find out that it's not. The way I see it, you're always only proving that something has a high probability of being correct, and showing how high the probability is. For computer software, you might be showing that your program is correct with the same probability that the underlying hardware is working as specified (so cosmic rays shifting bits or faulty hardware are possible exceptions baked into your proof).

To get a bit silly, a mathematical proof delivered from person A to person B is really only showing that a proposition is true with the same probability that person B is sane, educated, and is understanding the concepts correctly,
I'm not the guy who voted you down, but I'm guessing other people did it because your posts' attitude imply that new users are absolutely not worth accommodating for and that usability is not important. It comes over as rather elitist.

Your posts remind me of typical Linux-on-the-desktop-defending posts that claim Linux's usability is just fine. Making X.org work isn't difficult, just run these 4 incomprehensible commands, edit this configuration file and insert this snippet for which you have to read a 50 page manual to understand. It's easy! What, can't do it? Then you're not deserving to use Linux, but Linux is oh so user friendly! (disclaimer: I love Linux, I want it to succeed on the desktop, but this kind of attitude is helping neither Linux nor Git)
I'm surprised that none of the first few comments I read thought engineering internships might NOT be such a good idea.

I tell every engineering student I meet not to get an internship, which is why I always have a hard time hiring internships. Instead, I recommend creating projects of your own, if it's not in IT, it might be in the community, the student body or some other organization. Try to improve or create something on your own. As a CS student it's likely you'll find a job after college and you'll quickly learn all the things mentioned in the article and comments (including discovering what you don't like).

During your college breaks you're free to be completely self-directed. Depending on your career choice it'll take a long time (if ever) until you get that opportunity again!

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Why is this page unreadable on the iPad 2? The default text size and content width are too small, and zooming in causes the text to blur. I've seen a similar issue on techcrunch.
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Awesome that events hash now takes a function. I've needed that for a while, and should really get in the habit of submitting patches instead of waiting for others to do the work.
Absolutely true.

Get good. In fact, get great at what you do.
Then do something you love, perhaps that is a business.
Some hierarchy for like div > h1 or ul > li etc would be nice. I just used the source of the page in and copied it to an html file but it basically just generated blocks under the correct labeling (ex: Typography has h1, h2, h3). It was more or less empty?
Thanks, that's the one!
Beautifully designed and illustrated. Great job.
Fungi consuming plastic sounds like a parallel process so even if it takes a long time it doesn't really matter as we can just throw a lot of fungi at the problem.
Yes, I use Blekko regularly. I'm often (but not always) pleasantly surprised with it's search results.

The slashes take some getting used to, but Blekko is worth an honest go.
I think there's a broader point to be made here: don't deal with issues by ignoring them. This is just as true for technological, social or finanical issues as it is with your health.

Grab the bull by the horns, deal with it, and you'll almost always come out better.
It depends which skills you have. You must provide us with more info about yourself. For example I made a business with 19$+my skills, in its first year it made 250.000 $. If you have some special skills you don't need any money to invest.
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The creator here.

That's a nasty error. Mountain View is stored internally as "Mountain View, California" and therefore the usual form of Mountain View does not match. Moreover, this error also shows that at least in this case partial matches are not recognized properly, as they should.

Needless to say, both issues are now on my list, and I'll fix them as soon as I can (I'm now on my "day job", expatistan.com is a side project).

In the meantime, as a workaround you can still use the site if you start typing 'Mountain View' and wait the two seconds that it takes the autocomplete to suggest the city. Then click on the suggestion and you should be set. Alternatively, you can just use this url the first time, and then change the second city on the boxes at the top right:

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/seattle/...
I'm genuinely curious: Why the downvotes? Possible reasons:

A) Because I wrote that If being a "real" company means only thinking about profits, well, then it is only fair that you lose the goodwill capital that you accrued by not only thinking about profits if you stop doing that

B) Because I wrote that it is undeniable that my OnyProfitsCountRank(tm) algorithm is getting a lot of signals that Google might be trailing the lots of Microsoft, Apple and Facebook.

C) Both
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> whenever

Why doesn't it happen to Apple, then? Apple is much much more successful than Google, and, arguably, more "evil".

What I think people react badly to, is hypocrisy (real or perceived). Apple does what it says and doesn't apologize. Google has this whole blurry theory of "not being evil" which many of its own actions prove false, hence the backlash.
Any examples for which this might come in handy?
Indeed, the only thing to say to the current company is that you're leaving. Nothing else is their business and will actually hurt you if word gets out. Don't even think about playing them against each other, that only works when you don't work for either of the companies being played (yet).
As someone who is interested in crowdsourced e-learning startups, what are some good models for user-created content? Ie how to create the content, curate it, reward it, etc?
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