skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this can help:

-Set a schedule. 2x a week. Pick a couple days. stick to it. it's like working out. set aside time for it and make it happen.

-Make a focus/theme for it. Don't make it "stfu's daily ramblings" - pick a theme, then try to write about it. You can still have a broad range of topics, but if you tie it back to a theme, you stay consistent.

-Blogging helps me articulate what i'm thinking. I've tried journaling, but it doesn't work as well for me. Blogging has been one of the most productive things I've done in my own life and has helped me to go out and create different things that I wouldn't have if I weren't blogging.
I could see an app in this space working. I used to work in a laundry place when I was a kid, and the quarters thing was certainly annoying (and some machines didn't work all the times, etc). The owners don't particularly like filling/depositing them, etc.

Big problems are
a) Adoption (selling the system to SO many independent shops. If you can get in with big REIT companies then that's easy, but 90% of those have smart cards anyway
b) Outside of the the super high rent areas (New York, San Fran, etc) most people that use laundry mats are lower income, who may not have smart phones and/or credit cards.
What I don't get is this need to "preserve the species."

Read some Dawkins.
The Early Early Stage
This editorial seems weak and poorly constructed. What does that say about the degree to which anthropogenic global warming exists and will be a significant hazard in the 21st century and the courses of action that are sensible to do anything about that, if any?

Absolutely nothing. One way or the other.
We might be a tenth of your population America, but we were up in arms about SOPA!

Please help us out of this mess, we don't have a Google or Wikipedia to go dark for us. We need all the help we can get...
Check out yesterday's browser, and compare it to his FireFox screenshot:

http://screenshots.modemhelp.net/screenshots/Netscape/v7.01/...

Are software UIs really getting more complex, or are they getting simpler?
I've brought a financial calculator to these kinds of negotiations before, that cut through a degree of BS. Those guys are pros though, they found other things to work on and in part, succeeded.
> ignore your pathetic misdirection

You say that. It's fairly rude. You can disagree with me, but trying to belittle my argument with insults is rude. I don't think my original comment went over the line at any point to warrant such a reaction. Be honest, your comment from the first word, was fairly facetious.

Disagree with me, but do so on the merits of intelligence, not insults.
Just went through the whole thread on twitter, and now i see that it is #curebit that tried to dig their own grave.

Nevertheless let learn the lessons and move forward, inspire don't steal.
Does anyone know if all Megaupload content was defaulted to being publicly available? This seems to me the most obvious signal for suspicious behavior. I'm aware that with Dropbox, you can publicly post things, but in this case it's the individual user which is "choosing" to distribute the content and thus it would make sense that the user would be the one held liable. I'm not a lawyer, just exploring what might appear to clarify some of the distinctions that might help prevent abuse of anti-piracy laws.

Edit: Youtube, as a counter example, (I think) makes everything public by default, but they enforce the DMCA pretty heavily.
> the actual problem with JavaScript - a select few determine the introduction of language features.

What language exists in which this is not the case? Language by committee sounds terrible.
The merge-often strategy that the OP recommend in his post is the one that is Linus abhors so much. He even calls it "unholy mess" : https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/10/267. Basically that merge strategy can produce pointless merges.

See this discussion: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Re-Regulator-updates-for-3-3... on the git developer mailing list for more details on why that merging strategy is not liked.
Here is the bill in full: http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Doc...
The thing is "they" can always bring up a bill like this. It's not possible to continually fight this kind of nonsense. I wonder if there is legitimate strategy to simply letting the most heinous version pass. That way when it is fought in court it will be more difficult to defend. And then precedent will be set and future bills will be less likely to pass or be supported.
It doesn't making it stealing. Poor word choice is poor word choice.

> No need for lawyering.

No, there is every need to be accurate. Maybe you aren't aware of how long the fight has been going on, but the use of the term pirate and stealing isn't a new thing. Allowing it's use frames the argument in a light that isn't accurate.

Words have power.

Don't agree with me? A criminal like you would.
Not only did Curebit copy 37Signals design in this case, they also essentially copied the source code. If Zynga was somehow able to decompile another game's source code, change the assets, and then sell it as their own, it would be just as wrong and potentially illegal as what Curebit did.
Two small notes.

First, this is a serious problem. People don't seem to realize that "sixteen scientists" don't matter. Sixteen thousand would have; just sixteen is a drop in the bucket. The problem is that headlines like that sell ad impressions. Our media has a conflict of interest, and the news is losing.

Second, this post has been bouncing back and forth between 6 and 14 karma for the last two hours, which I find amusing.
Pure genius. You can, by the way, offer better licensing to specific companies and unaffiliated individuals -- leaving Hollywood with the unskippable ads, "premium tweets," and all the rest.

Good luck, however, winning in court to enforce your license.
It mirrors my experience as well. For about 6 months, management wanted us to time against user story. At the time, we used scale from 1 to 5. The concern was estimates weren't linear and for planning, a 5 one point story did not equal 1 five point story.

Then, we ran the numbers. This was our graph for median time for a swag:

| *
| *
| *
| *
|*
|---------
1 2 3 4 5

The ah-ha for management was the standard deviation. The more points estimated, there was greater and certain variance.

We went to fib, because it felt more natural with the effort. The end result is if a story is estimated on the end, everyone knows there isn't enough information, it's a black hole or it should be broken down.
But what if by losing, the court invalidates all of Hollywood's ridiculous licensing ploys as well? That would be winning by losing. :)
No, Now We Have
Worst practices in ad design on iOS
I was just trying to make the point, restrictions of the press are usually in response to reporting on the crackdown of protesters as was even stated in the article itself. For this I am losing a karma point every 15 minutes

I only commented on the ranking methodology. As for politics. We have 120 different countries on here with differing experiences; I'm not touching that issue on this thread
I guess downvote-burying is a pretty good way to stimulate discussion, huh? I don't know if I should interpret it as you agreeing with DHH or not.
According to http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/921674/In_Re_High-Tech_Emp..., the source pdf, defendants are:

* Apple

* Lucasfilm

* Adobe

* Intuit

* Google

* Intel

* Pixar

Good to know. I shall follow this case with interest.
I have Firefox and Chrome on Fedora/KDE, and they actually take up exactly (well, within 5 pixels or so) the same amount of space on top.

Screenshot: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/browsers.png
pre-edit: nevermind, Aaron removed it. Better now :)

Whatever that black popdown thing is called is really, really obnoxious.

Here is what it looks like in my browser: http://imgur.com/cKiYN

Chrome 16.0.9 on Snow Leopard.

The problem is that it covers text as I'm scrolling through the page.

To recreate it: start scrolling down the page.
I can't find the HN discussion, but the Backblaze Pods have been discussed here a few times: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

EDIT: Sorry - just realized the bioteam.net discussion centered on Backblaze pods.
Anyone else unable to access the article? Could the content provider be so kind as to provide the content here in the thread, or get the page back up again?
I think Hollywood is just a facàde for the US government. A while ago, Hillary Clinton admitted the US government is losing the "information war"[1]. What could possibly be better for winning an information war, than to pass legislation like this, under the guise of "fighting piracy"? The government could not be seen as promoting this kind of legislation.. otherwise, they´d be on the same league as Iran or China..

Hollywood´s not the problem. Your government is.

[1] Hilary Clinton Admits US Is Losing The "Information War": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoeDaLV2WA
Thanks for the answer. I didn't mean to imply they had increasing badness, it just happened to work out that way.

I find it interesting that copying others people's work is okay with you as long as you credit them and don't do so for profit. I'm guessing it's mainly a "You know it when you see it"-porn kind of thing.

I agree with your point on D, especially as it relates to this. I think the community would be somewhat more forgiving if they'd just come right out and said "We fked up!" 37Signals did this a couple weeks ago with the cat.jpg incident.
I signed up for your other site (jmockups) and I already had an account on file so I tried it out. It's pretty cool. Depending on how intuitive and slick this is I could see a big market for this.
I think this Betabeat article is really relevant since it shows that this is happening at the startup level in NYC as well:

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/17/poaching-etiquette-how-to...

This is important because it means that new hires are probably getting less equity than they should be getting. Equity and belief in what the company is building should be enough to not require anti-poaching agreements.
He's saying that if someone's throwing bricks or similar, it doesn't matter whether or not they've got a cameraphone.
Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You
Shall we call it "planning craps" by analogy with planning poker?
The author, like many other commenters in the past week or so, is wasting words by saying "this is scary - what if it happened to Dropbox and I lost access to all those files!"

Let's not forget Dropbox is just a replica of local storage. That's the whole model. It's more meaningful to discuss whether or not this could happen to S3. I don't see anyone legitimately worried about that, because it's quite obviously a very legitimate business with tens of thousands of legitimate customers (just like Dropbox). Articles like these portend to get you thinking about the broader implications of a takedown, but in truth they cloud clear thinking with what are essentially scare tactics.
once you uploaded something you got a link with a unique ID which you could share. Other people could not access your file without knowledge of this unique link as you could not search for specific files (unlike Youtube). As far as I know there was also a list of Top Downloaded files but those didn't resemble the truth as they were carefully selected by Megaupload (to make sure that only legal content would be listed)
I agree. Readers were asking me for share and tweet buttons, even though they were in the post, but that pop down is annoying. I killed it.
"In Australia (30th), the media were subjected to investigations and criticism by the authorities, and were denied access to information" according to the article.
Personally, I don't see why the authorities have any less right to criticize the media than media have to criticize authorities. I don't think the mining industry has anything to do with it.
Another very significant reason is that in Canada party discipline for Members of Parliament is heavily enforced.

In a majority government situation (as is the current case) it can have the affect that if the Prime Minister wants the legislation passed then all party members will be instructed to vote for it and it will pass. An MP disobeying the party is a controversial event. In the USA we saw support for SOPA/PIPA drain away as individual members of the house/senate abandoned support, but I feel that that situation is less likely to happen in Canada.
> The function defer returns a callback, and a callee in an await block can fulfill a deferral by simply calling the callback it was given.

I'm wanting in CoffeeScript knowledge and/or intelligence, so could someone explain the above please? (In the examples, defer seems to specify the variable that gets the result of await.)
The man who hand-draws fractals
Does Fluid basically do the same thing as google-chrome -app=<whatever>? (I think it does, but I could be missing something.) This was a big feature touted by Chrome when it came out. You can access it from the UI via wrench menu > tools > create application shortcut (I think it used to be more discoverable, but it is a little hidden now :().

Additionally, you have been able to make browsers full-screen for years, in all OSes (that I've used, anyhow) using F11.
It's wonderfully hypocritical that Russia Today is accusing the US of pushing propaganda and stifling disenting perspective.
Difficult Times for Siri? Perhaps Not
What if you are web browsing and you see a background colour of a site that looks really good, so you decide to get it from the source and use it from your website?

"I'm happy to copy the colour code for it." vs " I've still coded everything myself."
As mentioned on the Wikipedia page for EULAs towards the end [1], the solution is to encase absolutely everything in DRM, making it a DMCA violation to remove the DRM without permission. Then, Google permits everybody except Hollywood to remove it freely.

Oh, and while the DMCA requires DRM to be "effective", that has proved to be a low bar.

More seriously, EULA case results are mixed, and Wikipedia's somewhat sarcastic first sentence of that section as I write this is broadly correct: "The enforceability of an EULA depends on several factors, one of them being the court in which the case is heard." Maybe there's some other legal doctrine about contracts that would knock this out, but it's not immediately obvious to me that this couldn't be done. (Not that it will, of course.)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enfo...
I had a quick look, but it didn't work on my iphone.

I'd be really stoked if it was basically like google reader but had really nice typography - really that's all i want.
I can't recreate this in Chrome or Safari on OSX Lion. Are my corner actions preventing me from seeing it?
Concurrency is a superset and includes parallelism. What we both really mean is that it uses at most one core at a time to execute your code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)
Agreeing with Swizec here: "not taking things personally" shouldn't be conflated with "not caring", as the author does.

Loving the person who is trying to insult you, and understanding why they might be frustrated, without reacting in kind, is truly a revolutionary way to think and act. Remember that everyone struggles with their own feelings of despair and unhappiness, and that their lashing out at you comes from that place more often than not. I like the idea of "not being there" or being completely transparent to attacks.

Though the author's advice is good as written, that's not quite the same as not caring.
I killed it. Only added it because some readers were having a hard time finding the "share" buttons. I'll find a better solution.
Amazing response. This is an even stronger case, as these clone sites are duplicating his business, and taking money right from his pocket in the process. He/She handled it in a standup fashion.

This makes the whole debate even stranger. The fella from Curebit messed up in a lot of ways (really, he couldn't even be bothered to host the content himself?), but on a scale of 1 to a million, I would put this whole mess at closer to 1. Let's be frank, any html/css/js you toss online can be sourced, it is the nature of the client side rendering world we live in.

Where do you draw the line, is it not okay to use someone else's javascript function? Is it not okay to use their mix of background colour and fonts? When we start to decide what is and is not okay, we start to create some scary precedence.
This strikes me as a bit odd:

"Hungary fell 17 rungs to 40th place after adopting a law giving the ruling party direct control over the media and amending its constitution in December."

"In the space of two months in the United States, more than 25 were subjected to arrests and beatings at the hands of police" reducing the US to 47th place.
Conway.coffee
> Don't think the blog said phone unlocking is not permitted.

> Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.

So unless the author means that the joint action of unlocking and then taking it to another provider is prohibited, or just taking it to another provider is prohibited, but the author threw in unlocking because it is likely to accompany it, I think the blog is stating that unlocking a smartphone is not permitted.
Steve Blank vs. Steve Jobs
In the book I discuss at length about how to keep your blog up, but Joel's advice is pretty spot on. It really comes down to treating blogging like a business and scheduling time to write:

* 2-4 hours a week need to be booked for this marketing activity.

* Use the pomodoro technique during those hours to help keep you focused and more productive.

* Give your blog a clear focus and "reason for being", whether it's a niche blog (e.g., CoffeScript Inside) or a more general one (e.g., stfu's adventures in web development). Answer the question "why should readers care?".

* Keep a list of headlines you intend to write about in the future in an ideas.txt file or Google Docs.

* Get your blog popular (and perhaps profitable). Part of the reason why I focus so much on getting bloggers to attract traffic (and then benefit from it) in my book, is because when you start seeing traffic spikes and perhaps even getting some extra benefits (money, freebies, etc), you'll get addicted to that feeling and you'll be more inclined to keep up with blogging.
Learned:

- Some people will actually steal your CHECK icons

- Over-bashing a stealer will not make you look nice

- Immediatism never seem to work on your side
Knowledge Is A Universal Natural Resource
37curebits takes back stealing apology
Ouch? Im not sure thats what the current debate really needs.
I think people find it more offensive if 1) you take credit for the work and 2) you make money by using it. But you're right, there must be some internal mental model that allows them to be so obviously different.
Nice work. I guess this would be also useful for artists (traditional/digital 2D or 3D) for references. Actually, from my point of view, that could be even a larger market to thrive for. Did you draw all the poses yourself?
I did not personally agree with the political goals of the occupy protests. Moreover, many of those protests were marred by violence from protesters or from folks just finding an opportunity for mayhem.

However, none of that excuses the very real abuses of power by police that occurred. Non-violent protesters were beaten and arrested. Reporters were harassed, abused, and prevented from covering events by police. Many mainstream reporters simply agreed to comply with police requests to stay out of an area and avoid covering the protests and arrests.

I am ashamed for my country in the way these protests evolved and in the police and critical response to them. Tribalism is still alive and well in this country, the response one has to abuse of power and the support one has for legal protections of individual liberty should have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not one shares a cultural or social bond with the victim. I have a feeling that if the ACLU attempted to defend the free speech rights of neo-NAZIs today they would receive even less public support than they did 4 decades ago.
Oh man, don't use Arimo, or its identical twin Liberation Sans. It is to Arial what Arial is to Helvetica; a metrics-compatible replacement that tries to do its own thing and winds up just awkward. The stupid little serif on J annoys me to no end, and all the capitals look almost like small-caps compared to the lower-case.

By contrast, Open Sans is lovely, go nuts with it. :)
I agree, but that statement will always be true. The longer you wait, the better you'll be informed. Forever. That statement is a perpetual excuse for inaction.

The other factor that changes over time is the cost (if any) to address the problem (if any).

As an example, if burning oil does lead to global warming, then why do we as a society subsidize the price of oil to encourage its consumption?
I'm a Canadian too, and even reading Michael Geist's blog, this bill doesn't sound scary.

Canada has always had more liberal copyright laws than the US, and I expect that to continue. You don't hear about a Canadian being sued for $20 million for downloading a few songs on Limewire.

The success of the SOPA protests is both a blessing and a curse. I'm starting to notice a trend. Every day/week we're going to have to read about something being "the next SOPA".
Is there an active startup community there?

I don't know any hacker there...but I will check the cost of living. Thxs
Whilst 37signals does use this bit of creative IP to generate revenue, the page itself isn't actually the product - so copying it creates neither a reduced demand for the page itself or 37signals' services, nor does it impact their bottom-line in any obvious way (curebit and 37signals aren't in the same product-space).

Although the page itself is defensible IP for 37signals, the chances of them taking legal action on it (see above) is so remotely slim that it puts this whole thing into the realm of creative and professional courtesy rather than copyright infringement.

It's more like a stranger coming into the town saloon, getting drunk, and spilling his beer on the local bad-ass.
Privacy Breach
I agree. On that same note, I would stay away from using a web font in your body. It'll render slow on smart phones if you have a fairly lenthy article. Not only that, it may not render as crisp, therefore causing a bad reading experience.
Brilliant, but they will just use pirated versions. Or regular versions.
New iPhone dock/alarm doesn't brew coffee but does "wake intelligently"
What world have you been living in that you think climate science is as "settled" as the speed of light limits?