skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A German company would get 19% back from the Government, but AFAIK a foreign company doesn't have to pay it in the first place, so you can calculate it out.

Incredible, maybe they made a mistake on their site. Hetzner has a very good reputation here in Germany, otherwise i would expect something fishy.
You're confusing two different things. One is the question of innocence/guilt (did you do X) the other is the question of legal/illegal (is it legal to do X). If you're found guilt of murder, that obviously doesn't mean that you committed a murder, but it does mean that murder is considered illegal.
Yeah it'll never happen. Too many people with too much to lose. There will be no investigation.
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Where Plan 9 (and Inferno) live on most visibly is in the non-OS space:

- FUSE for file systems that are generated programmatically or exportable over a network. [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/]

- The approach to concurrency and network programming in the Go language. [http://golang.org/]

Both of which show that problems that we used to leave to the OS can be elegantly solved in userland, which is a good thing.
We should probably stop calling them pirates and instead call them freedom fighters.
They fought for free radio, they fought for freedom.
The Arab Spring, Wikileaks, Occupy and Anonymous, they're all fighting for democracy and freedom.

The establishment, the politicians, the media, they are fighting back.
The movement ain't winning at all.

An attack on the Wikileaks' offshore structure is probably what Julian Assange is going for.
I say that because when the 'pirates' in the sixties were attacked, the movement became popular.
The establishment knows this very well, and they will be firing on all cylinders to make sure no-one sets foot on this offshore structure.
My issue with Hetzner is that by the time you add in management options necessary for a remote dedicated server, your monthly cost isn't that much better than other options.

Example: To have remote KVM/IP you'd need to first pay 15EUR for their flexipack for the privilege of adding additional features.
then 19EUR mo and 149 EUR setup for KVM/IP
Now you're up to $122USD/mo + almost $400USD for setup.

Compare to Incero's WebHostingTalk offer: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1121998 which is $99/mo paid in quarterly batches. Which is server grade, better CPU, ECC RAM, with KVM/IP and is in the US (Texas).

Hetzner is still cheaper overall with the 32GB -- because they're not dealing with much more expensive server class ECC RAM, but I just feel its important to bring the initial low number you see: 59 to a realistic place...
My mistake. Sorry. I didn't know there was a dedicated role account and time (9:00 am Eastern) for the "Who Is Hiring?" threads. If I had, I wouldn't have started it.

That one is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537736
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This isn't about blocking domains, this is about the DHS or FBI seizing the domain, which they can only do with TLDs whose registrar is located in the US (.com, .net, .org, .us, amongst others)
It is not just an iPhone app. There is also a web interface where administrators will add, edit, and delete checklists.

I know the general response is that I'd be a fool to think this would work, but it just makes sense for several reasons:

1. The current system is pen and paper.

2. iOS devices are becoming almost a universal tool in many hospitals. In fact, some medical schools and hospitals are giving their students and residents new iPads on admission.

3. Checklists have shown to be incredibly effective, but there is no way to A/B test them, update them on the fly, etc.

I think those 3 points alone make this a no-brainer. Selling will be difficult, I agree, but part of me truly believes it's worth a try.
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Disclaimer: I work at Bloomberg.

The point of opening up the API is to allow products to be developed around it without any restrictions on shipping our code within the 3rd party application. That basically sums it up.

In order to receive data you need to have a data subscription and we pass through all exchange fees that exchanges charge depending on which particular pieces of data you would like to access. (We serve 350+ exchanges over this API)

Previously, the 3rd party app market was a bit restricted because app developers themselves couldn't necessarily bundle our SDK into their product due to the restrictive licensing and it was a hassle for the ecosystem of devs who write apps in this space. This makes it easier for them to build and ship products.

In order to become a data customer, you can either talk to a terminal with the SDK, or we sell a managed appliance that only serves the data. The SDK can talk to either without configuring it differently. All the rules on distributing the data apply no matter how you get it because the sources of the data (exchanges) are very, very restrictive about specific use cases of their data. The contracts spell out exactly who can place the numbers where and for what purpose. Basically, no matter who you get data from, displaying it publicly anywhere or distributing it as any part of service requires special legal contracts.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tfk/tfkthe-end-is-where-...

Thousand Foot Krutch made this project which was easily funded it seems. Although they are an established band already, and I'm not sure if 100k is "good" for them or not. But then again, that's only really pre-orders.
what has BoF done for us lately? Or ever?

Educate people about the need for internet freedom / privacy, which is a good way to get broader popular support.
> The idea is not to have one unconfigurable binary reciever,

It _is_ configurable, why do you think it is not?

This idea that somehow one can fit any interaction with hardware into a filesystem ends when hardware becomes complex enough to simply NOT fit (like modern GPU).

How do you guarantee atomicity when saving configuration with tar(1)?

Linux recently deprecated textual conntracking data interface in favour of shipping binary data over netlink socket. Reason -- read() speed in real life high load scenarios.

What could Plan9 do here?
The market data feed and the terminal are two separate products, priced and sold independently.

Bloomberg Professional (aka Terminal):
http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/

Enterprise Solutions:
http://www.bloomberg.com/enterprise/
http://www.bloomberg.com/enterprise/enterprise_products/data...

The latter obviously provides programmatic access to the real-time data, whereas the former is mostly intended for homo sapiens users.
The awesome article "The Five Stages of Hosting" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3526767 from yesterday should be mentioned. I brought some price-point discussions in the comments. Some good rebuttals lower down regarding EC2's committed cost options.
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You never needed a terminal in order to use our API. We sell a managed 2U appliance that either the customer or we can host and it only serves the data feed.
Likewise, the major broadband provider, Eircom, blocks the pirate bay aswell.
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What would you need remote KVM/IP for? If your ssh ever dies, you can reboot the thing into rescue mode, log in over remote console, fix whatever's broken, and reboot the system.

I have been using an older server offer of theirs for years now, and never had to pay for anything other than the said fee.
Is there a US version of this ?
I'd like to see some charts: how many of the possible characters are already mapped to unicode characters, as well as the popularity of the sets of characters that aren't.
Whilst not a replacement for deep network diagnostic tools - such simple application layer multicast tools like NicNak are IMO invaluable.

Surprised there aren't more of them around!
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So that's what "ESR" stands for. I had almost convinced myself that it's in honor of "Eric S. Raymond".
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I'll just leave this here:

Israelis enjoying life in Swedish prison

Three Israelis jailed in Scandinavian country turn down offer to continue serving their sentence in homeland, explain 'here we are treated with steaks, sex and private television airing World Cup games for free'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261698,00.html
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I could see Google forfeiting their 30% if it went to charity.
> Non-cryptographic hash functions may be a bad idea: e.g. don't store URI parameters (?foo=bar&baz=bar) in such a hash table, or you'll be vulnerable to rather simple DoS (this was all over the internet a week or two ago.)

I think universal hashing is the usual protection against that kind of attack, and I think universal hashing is not considered cryptographic:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec...
This actually only happens if you don't think first or don't understand ever. Thinking and understanding takes more time than programming in my experience.

The same level of fail will accumulate regardless of the language if you don't know what you are doing.
That API seems so clunky. What if I have two different programs, with different sample rates, which I want to play back at the same time?
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This is basically correct. Anyone with a terminal can program against it and use the "desktop" API (the SDK connecting to the terminal). The same for any customer with just an API appliance.

To extend your example, some customers use it to process realtime data, mix in their own data that they do not want to leave their network, then perform some kind of algo on it, and ultimately use the API SDK to feed the results back to Bloomberg for publishing. The SDK is used by publishers who feed content to us -- it isn't just for receiving data.
Its an interesting viewpoint, and one that is probably very true.

People often hear pirated material and like it so much they immediately purchase it. Not only that one album, but even sometimes substantial amounts of the artist's back catalogue. Which was and still is kind of the point with music radio.

Same with movies.

I wonder how much cash piracy actually generates as substantial income -- quite a bit I believe. And probably more than it denies. Quite a lot of people are exposed to material they would never have encountered, like it and pay up for it.
"East cited Microsoft's brand recognition among consumers."

Really? This brand recognition didn't seem to be that important on phones. And there are Windows tablets (although with stiluses) since around 2000.

Why would ARM say something like this?
It is realistic if you don't order additional packages ;-)
The way I understand it, who controls the root servers can take down .se as a whole, but not individual .se domains.

If the US would take down .se as a whole, big diplomatic issues would arise immediately, with the end result of either removing root server control from the US or a split of the domain system (between the US and an opposing global entity). But even then, as long as people inside Sweden have their computer pointed up to their ISP dns server which in turn has it pointed to the .se dns server, turning off .se in the root server would not stop swedish people from using swedish sites without any interruption.
What do you use for backing up?
While interesting as a baseline, for any kind of informed decision you'd want to look at this data while the application is under load.
Don't forget it is incl. VAT, that means it really costs 19% less for foreign and business customers.

Edit: 59.00/1.19 = 49.58 (it really is minus 16%, my old accounting teacher would kill me ;-)
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>Am I the only one who doesn't get excited about the idea of absolutely everything being a file?

Don't think of it as everything being a file. Think of it as accessing everything including file data through an RPC system.
Anecdote: I once asked how much it would cost if I enabled myself for realtime access to every exchange we offer and I was given the ballpark figure that it would cost the company $80k/year. Exchanges charge a lot.
I2P has Tahoe-LAFS support.
Just checked my account and I was opted out. I don't know if this is an old entry, there was no date on the page, and perhaps I'd already previously opted-out?
Speaking of this, I built a tool using jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap itself that lets you customize the button's hue, saturation, lightness, and "puffiness". You can see it here: http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/.

Any discussion on it will hopefully be at the HN thread I just submitted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538053).
It makes complete evolutionary sense, though: Women are always completely sure that their children are theirs, and men can never be.

So if your daughter physically came out of you, any people that physically comes out of her are undoubtedly your actual grandchildren. A safe investment. Your son, on the other hand, could always get cuckolded.
> TPB has hosted torrent files, they were not hosting content, so what they did was perfectly legal.

I think these arguments devalue the situation.

Dancing around a legal loophole in a grey area is fun to watch, but one can't complain when it turns out not to work. We (I) expect others to be judged based on obvious intentions as well. I don't want my gov't to tell me one day that they didn't violate my privacy, they just store some large integer numbers forever, who could blame them for that? They're not my numbers! Or that their CCTV system only compares hashes of faces, so it is legal etc. etc...

The only way to change things is to publicly discuss copyright (and US intervention).

The OP goes to great lengths to emphasize TPB's role in Wikileaks and similar cases, I think this makes more sense as a moral defense.
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It appears that thepiratebay.org points to a server that then handles redirection. Question: Why hasn't the .org URL already been seized at the DNS level? DiG output below:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @localhost thepiratebay.org A
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5372
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;thepiratebay.org.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
thepiratebay.org.	3587	IN	A	194.71.107.15

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 1 15:37:02 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50</code>
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I just tested with a 42 MB text log file under OS X 10.7.2.

Using zip 3.0:

$ time zip logfile.zip logfile.log

adding: logfile.log (deflated 89%)

real	0m1.170s
user	0m0.947s
sys	0m0.030s

Resulting file size: 4,551,020 bytes

Using Chrome 16.0.912.77:

4.7s - 1st drop
5.5s - 2nd drop
5.2s - 3rd drop
5.1s - 4th drop
Average 5.125s
(timed using stopwatch)

Resulting file size: 4,547,885 bytes

Size: Advantage Zip.js by 3,135 bytes (roughly 3k; 6.8% better than zip)
Speed: Advantage zip by 3.955s (77% better than Zip.js)
Already working on it.. I wrote a Node.js module for the API which I am most likely putting on there soon :)
"Almost every spamfilter in the world will accept your e-mail and then silently discard it"

I don't think that's true. I've been actively running email servers for going on ten years now and the vast majority of mail servers do the opposite. They reject at SMTP time. Accepting and then silently discarding email is considered bad practice, and is not as common as SMTP time rejection.
"From having the minister of justice pressured by the US to illegally make a case of TPB, through the police officer responsible for the investigation (Jim Keyzer) “just happened” to get a job at Warner Brothers the weeks before I myself got promoted from a witness to a suspect, to the judges in the court cases being either board members, or in one case the actual chairman of the board, for the swedish pro-copyright society…"

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You're advising people who lack design skills to change the colors? How about just advising them to focus on the content and functionality of the site they're building. If they do that, you won't have to tell them to remove the black bar. They'll remove it if it doesn't help the site.
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Do you do any UI work?
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It's a bit cynical, but as a Flickr user I'm somewhat happy that it's stayed the same over the past 5 years, because I'd give it a 90% chance that if Yahoo had initiated a major overhall, they would've screwed up something major that I liked/used.
It's not the registrar but the registry (Verisign) they go to. Lots of people switched from GoDaddy to Gandi last month, a French registrar, but that won't help against this .. problem.
Wait, the guy dropped out of high school to work in game development? What does that mean? He dropped out of school to take a job or to pursue a job?

If I were an employer I would have to question his commitment and ability to complete projects since he abandoned a rather important one right there at the end.
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Ah thanks for the Issue link. I was digging around last night for an official answer but couldn't find one. Thanks!
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I can imagine a Windows tablet similar to the Acer Transformer being hugely popular, moving tablets out of their rich-guys-who-want-a-third-computer niche and towards replacing laptops for day-to-day use.
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My question would be if the recipients of the gifts were in the same pricing zone as the account owner.

If they were in the same zone I can see no possible business reason why Valve would object to it, once they found that it wasn't fraud.

HOWEVER, legally it gets into the grey zone of money laundering, though it is laughable at such tiny amounts! :)

If the person was gifting games across pricing zones (can you do that?) in return for cash it gets very complicated and I can see Valve objecting to this as a way of getting around, say euro and dollar pricing.
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