skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You are using circular logic here: "They were convicted and that's proof that what they did is illegal.""

By definition, when someone is convicted, it's because they did something illegal, at least when all appeals are exhausted.

When deciding on guilt in a criminal case like this one, there are several questions a judge answers before coming to a verdict. I won't go into the details, but the ones you are conflating are "did they do what they were charged with", and "is what they did illegal".

"You are saying that never ever innocent people are convicted."

What? I said no such thing, not even remotely. "When innocent people are convicted", it's because they didn't do what they were charged with, yet a judge thought they did do it. In this case, that question is irrelevant: there is no question on whether they did 'it', just on whether what they did was against the law. You said that it's not, which is nonsense - the fact that several judges said it was, and an appeal was rejected, means that yes, what they did was against the law.

(edit: removed dickish snide remarks)
Europe is below USA in purchasing power in part because things are more expensive here. Things like games.

There are a whole bunch of reasons: a less competitive market; less scale; complying to country-specific details - everything from translation to censorship schemes to VAT; less price sensitivity; different sales channel setup (game publishers may not want to undercut the physical sales channel by discounting Steam games so much); etc.
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The reaction to this frustrates me immensely, because Obama is doing the right thing.

The Obama White House is attempting to regrow the wall between political and constituent concerns and law enforcement concerns.

The Department of Justice should operate with the most minimal of political interferences (since I don't think it's possible to avoid them all together) with the goal of maintaining its independence.

That said, I absolutely do think that what Chris Dodd has been doing is not above board. I don't know who has jurisdiction or who to inquire with further, but the White House isn't the right place. I'd be interested if someone knows who in the DoJ would be the appropriate folks to contact.
Bloomberg isn't offering this data for free. They can't offer full, real-time data for free.

I'm surprised how many people on HN are interested in this. If you are looking for real-time feeds, the best vendor I've found is http://www.nanex.net/ . They offer the whole feed, real-time, over the internet. Unfortunately you have to access it through their windows based dll. I can't understand why they don't have a native linux client...but they don't.

A very interesting source of data is BATS. I believe you can get free data feeds from BATS. Since they are a very liquid exchange, in many instances their prices can be proxies for the full market. Unfortunately, you need industrial strength bandwidth to access that data (you can't just get it over the internet).

I believe there is space in the market for another market data vendor. Use good compression to drastically reduce bandwidth (see nanex), provide diverse client APIs (NOT nanex), slowly start to aggregate feeds from international exchanges, provide intelligent routing (100 clients in china should not make 100 connections to a NYC data center, they should connect to a local node), offer limited access to no cost exchanges, etc.

Unfortunately vendor agreements for exchanges are expensive enough that they are out of reach for bootstrapped operations.
It's not so much that I don't want to use a library, but more that I would be unable to use much of the core language for the processing and would have to do everything in/with the library and store my text in Unicode-aware holders rather than just strings.

If that's how it ends up, then so be it, but I'll try TCL first and know that I have Lua as a reasonable fall back plan.
It's free open source code. Donations help, but the FBI tell^H^H^H^H politely asking the payment companies to stop processing for them isn't going to stop anything. People will work on it for the love of the project.
I believe the Freedombox project would help in situations like this, though wouldn't solve it entirely, and that situations like this would help gain support for such projects.

From http://freedomboxfoundation.org and http://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn

What is FreedomBox?

Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and resists eavesdropping

A publishing platform that resists oppression and censorship.

An organizing tool for democratic activists in hostile regimes.

An emergency communication network in times of crisis.

If you live near New York City, there will be a hack-fest February 18, 19, 20.
I note that candidates make promises like "if elected, I'll work to repeal DADT" and organizations do fundraisers for candidates based on said promises.

How is this any different?

Cause and effect.

Fundraising based on a promise goes like this: Candidate says they support this -> I want them to do this -> I give them money so they can get elected and do this. (The plan causes the money.)

MPAA lobbying goes like this. Candidate is not already promising to do this -> I want them to do this -> I give them lots of money so that they will do this. (The money causes the plan.)
My need is to extract data (archived web pages) from a WebSQL database (or HTML5 filesytem). So the user can export it to a file. Otherwise, he couldn't export the extension data. All is done on client-side so I cannot use HTTP post.
Why go to all the hassle of encrypting/decrypting and not just use HTTPS?
Ah, they do IP-level block. Belgian ISPs were only mandated to perform DNS blocks (on ~20 domains) so a new domain name is sufficient to route around them.
>Sometimes there is a damn good reason why Luxury cars have taken an appreciation hit.

...and it might not be for the reason you expect. For example, you will pay exactly $0 to maintain a new BMW for the first four years; that's part of their deal. So as that runs out, the value of the car plummets.
this is like a non-designer's wet dream, i'm soaked.
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I think most of us realize that the petitions are pointless (though then again, it takes like 3 seconds to sign it so enough people do it), but how would you suggest we fix this problem? Because although this is legal, pretty much everyone can sense that there's something fishy about it and needs to be changed.
Well Wikileaks didn't have copyright infringement claims against it and it has suffered massive blows to funding and traffic.

TPB exists because people care about it. People care about it because it provides something relevant to them.
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Before writing zip.js, I tried this library. It was really great but id does not scale at all: it means the created zip file is not "streamed" so it can use a lot of RAM when creating large files.
Read a few of the other articles on his site for context.
Hmm, that seems cheap :)

TSX, NYSE, and NASDAQ are around $5000/month each for full depth of book.
Probably because it's a lot harder to seize a site in another country which isn't technically breaking any laws.. It's different from say, megaupload in that no infringing content resides on their servers.

It's only going to get harder once TBP stops hosting even torrent files and moves to magnet links entirely. Once that happens, the site basically goes viral, since any random can just spider the whole site for magnet links and host a mirror.
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I'm probably missing something, but isn't this race condition galore? As per the front page example:

var news;
waitfor {
news = http.get("http://news.bbc.co.uk");
}
or {
hold(1000);
news = http.get("http://news.cnn.com");
}
or {
hold(1000*60);
throw "sorry, no news. timeout";
}
show(news);

This starts the first 'or' clause the moment the http.get(BBC) suspends, which it does quickly because http.get is async. Now, if the BBC get returns just after my hold(1000) has completed but before http.get(CNN) had the time to really launch the http request and suspend, i'll have done the CNN get for nothing.

Of course in this case this only means a wasted request. But what in case of side effects?
Really? I guess you're experience differs from mine. Currently we have 5 servers with OVH (Ranging from high to low end) and have never had a single hardware issue. We've had 4 of these servers for +18 months and 1 for +2 years with no issues at all. That being said, they're not exactly known for their fast response times to support calls although I believe they have a 2hr SLA for critical hardware failures. I guess it's just down to experiences though, I have all our high-profile servers/apps with UK2 or LiquidWeb.
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It seems like this whole hubub is about someone stating openly what's a well known open secret in US politics: He who pays the piper calls the tune. I mean, really, EVERYONE knows this. "Why did my industry's trade association spend 1.8 million dollars on various candidates who may be voting on legislation that makes or costs us 10 times that much? Oh, no reason... we just think they are very nice ladies and gentlemen and we love to be helpful. :)"

Chris Dodd just stated more plainly what is 115% clear to all the recipients of this cash: "We are paying you to make specific legislative decisions in our favor. Stop doing that job and we stop paying." i.e. quid pro quo i.e. bribery. I'd really like to hear ideas of how we can stop this racket; I'm afraid asking Barack Goldman Sachs Obama to "look into it" isn't going to work (tho I did sign the petition).
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In fact, this shouldn't be too difficult to build. I don't know much about Freenet, but I do know that if we can use bittorrent to share files using P2P, the same can presumably be done with websites. The most immediate problem that comes to mind is that, while the files being shared over P2P stay fairly constant, a website is more dynamic and gets updated a lot. I presume this could be solved by a PGP-like web of trust.

I'm sure there are plenty of other difficulties to deal with I and other can think of if I spend some more time thinking about it, but I think this would actually be a pretty neat thing to build. The great thing about this would be that the more likely something is to be censored right now, the less likely it is to be censored on something like this - more people would visit/download such things, thus creating extra nodes for other people to visit/download from.

EDIT: I just thought there would be an issue of privacy here that needs to be solved first. For example, if you can track the IP addresses of the people you're downloading your 'website updates' from, and you're visiting explicit sites, it becomes easy to tell whom of your friends are viewing those. ;) The easiest solution is to let people decide for themselves which sites to share, of course, but I wonder if this would mean many sites would be excluded, or whether the effects of this would be minimal.
Does that make the copyright lobbyists Don Quixote?
Ask HN: Your results with the freelancer/seeking freelancer thread?
The "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" usually gets less traction than the jobs thread. I have tried it a couple of times. I don't have a decent/killer portfolio, but the few that contacted me where interested in charging $10-$15/hour and sound like they have been trying everybody out there.

So how did that thread work for you? (if it ever did) It's worth mentioning that it gets much much less offers than the job thread.
Only in continental Europe ... have you seen prices for games in the UK?! Usually half the price and the same goes for movies on dvd/bluray :/
Potential HN karma hack: create new account and post stories from Reddit that haven't already appeared.

That's not necessarily what happened here, but I am slightly suspicious.
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I can almost see the jokes about "i want to see the unit tests" and "doesn't work on furries or avatar porn" etc. On a more serious note, this sort of stuff is hard. Google images does a shitty job of it from some slightly unexpected experiences. Good on people for having a go at the problem!
You can use the bitcoin block chain as a reliable way to store information (append-only).

Was wondering why this isn't being advertised as the killer app of the service.
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OVH put brand new disks in every server sold.

They also do remarkably well: out of the thousands I've had from Leaseweb and OVH, OVH wins hands down.
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I'm afraid I don't quite understand what semantic HTML means. Different people seem to have different ideas about the definition of semantic HTML. Could you point me to some internet resource that explains this stuff?
> I'd really like to hear ideas of how we can stop this racket

The simple solution - in the sense that it's an obvious one, and a naive one - is to just forbid campaign contributions altogether.
Zip.js only has a .069% size advantage over zip 3.0 given your numbers (4,551,020 bytes & 4,547,885 bytes respectively).

Your calculation of 6.8% better than zip just seemed too impressive.
Yeesh. According to this chart:

http://nordsc.com/ext/classification_of_http_based_apis.html

Sharefile is not even a HTTP API (since it doesn't use HTTP methods correctly).

For security purposes, authentication can be further increased by a POST of the "username" and "password" through the HTTP Headers as individual headers instead of the query string.

POST https://subdomain.sharefile.com/rest/getAuthID.aspx HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

password: yourpassword

username: email@address.com

What... I don't even...
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Excellent! Just read the sample chapter 5. Very well written and lots of good info. Congrats.
Is it because the Maps API was free or am I not reading it correctly?
I'd like to know more about iPone development.
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Ok. We had horrible conditions during the industrial revolution.

Why does that mean that everyone going through similar economic transformation has to go through the same living and working conditions?

China knows what is possible. I don't think it will take decades for a society that can build a fully functioning, very modern, highly automated factory in 6 weeks /decades/ to get their working conditions in order.
Since it heavily relies on new HTML5 APIs, I think the simplest solution is to wait for IE10 ;).
By moving to IE9 he's discounting all corporate customers who haven't moved to Windows 7 yet.

This leaves them with only one option if they want support on a long-term supported browser, which is the recently shipped Firefox Enterprise Support Release.
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Educate who?

BoF barely communicates externally besides preaching to the choir. Lobbying seems to be limited to relatively powerless left-wing opposition politicians. Getting broader support is exactly what they very much don't do.

And so far the result has been exactly what you would expect: we've been railroaded with measures violating privacy and limiting online freedom, with very little protest.
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This is kind of a big change.
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