skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why do people always resort to the same argument ("stop buying") as if it were a solution? Isn't it obvious by now that it's not a solution and it's not going to happen?"

Whenever we have discussions about companies violating the GNU and people say "just don't use GNU software", I say the same thing. But the funny thing is, the same people that are fine with pirating are against essentially the same thing with the GNU license. What a world we live in. I'm going to keep bringing up these points until they stick.

"Voting with your wallet works when you can stop paying one company and go to its competitor. But if they all get together and decide that you have to do it their way or you're screwed,"

You don't need music or movies to live. If they all decide to do it, just stop buying all together.

This isn't new. I saw this same "movement" 10 years ago with Napster and it's nothing more than an excuse to get movies, music, and software for free.

Music is so cheap. All of the original demands 10 years ago have been met. Guess what? piracy is worse than ever. It reminds me why you never negotiate with terrorists.
It's pretty fun :)
I think you are taking the title literally. The OP is making an analogy of being rich - will try to throw money at every problem. If someone is short of money, he will deal with whatever he can get for cheap.
Ask HN: The future of mobile apps
A while back I listened to a presentation by some guy (from Mozilla?) who talked about how mobile apps are preventing us from going into the future. What if we didn't have to install, manage and uninstall them? What if they were more like web pages in that you use and discard them as you go? Or perhaps more context-based, so you can find and use it just when you need it?

What do you think is the way forward?

I can't find the original link. Please add it if you know where it is.
I hope that no-one considers it too spammy if I say that the app I am discussing in the post is entered into a competition that has a public voting segment. It's doing pretty badly, so if you found the post interesting I'd appreciate a vote:

http://2011.nycbigapps.com/submissions/5832-taxonomy

It's one of 95 entries, and there's a great panel of judges (Fred Wilson, Naveen@Foursquare, VC investors and more), so anything I can do to get attention is good.

Even if you don't like it, the competition in general could do with some more "organic" voting, so if you've got a few spare minutes, take a look through and vote for some that stand out. You can vote once daily for each app.
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You may find it instructive to read the final link in the post -- "LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction"

:)
Thanks for the honest feedback!

1. Who else is in this space of content organization? Plus, in the spirit of start-ups, it's never about how many competitors you have; it's about who can ultimately provide the most value :)

2. Holding user data, but we're deidentified enough to be HIPAA-compliant (or at least our lawyers say so.)

3. Haha, you don't have to believe us. You'll see it in action when it's live.

4. We know both of those teams and they're both fantastic! Our goal isn't to replace them, just increase their awareness. Patientslikeme works fantastically for chronic diseases; Crohnology is a great start-up for Crohn's disease. But the percentage of Crohn's users who actually know about Crohnology and product updates is low. Our goal is to get the newest and best information to those who need it most.

5. Perhaps not, but there are a couple distinguishing factors here. First, the more common chronic diseases have resources like that, but many of the ones in between have little support. Second, the topics we cover are a bit different. They're focused on generating their own content and might miss out on some of the thousands of new apps being generated in this health boom. Ultimately, we'd love to provide more awareness to newsletters like that if they're really the most helpful tool.

Patients first.
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>I don't find anything wrong with a teenage girl being teased about a photo she posted to the internet.

Well that's telling.
That UNIX environemnt works perfectly well for me as a software developer and I don't see how it compares to Cygwin in ANY way shape or form. All my favourite tools are there and I can install more using homebrew. I build server backend software on Mac OS X and deploy on FreeBSD and soon Linux, I've never had an issue. Cygwin is COMPLETELY different, man is that crap a pain in the balls.
No kidding. I just put 8GB into my '09 MacBook Pro and it was $45. That's insanely cheap -- just max your system out and don't worry about it.
>I pirate a lot of stuff, and almost all of it I couldn't possibly have legally acquired. If pirating didn't exist, I would have never listened to weird al's songs, nor watched movies banned in my country for political reasons.

This still isn't a good argument. Justifying the means by which you acquired content still doesn't make it morally right or legal. "But I can't get it without piracy!" still doesn't give you any right to consume the product. Buying vs pirating... there's a third option. Abstinence. If you can't get Weird Al's media legally, you can always just not get it at all.
Would you be willing to post information about the strawbale houses that were built to code? Where can I find more information on that?
It would be perfectly safe for Apple to offer the resources required by the MacPorts project to function adequately.
Rape jokes at the top of the site for the crap you're trying to sell. You come across as a thoroughly repellent person who deserves to fail miserably.
Working with our lawyers on this as fast as we can.
“Saturday Night Live” Has Verizon’s Number in 4G LTE Spoof (Video)
A friend entered a fake birthday when joining FB, thinking it was not really something FB needs to know about.

The amount of greetings and happy wishes on one random winter day greatly amused him.
Why does a nice sentiment have to have a point?
Mejicano entreprises quebecoises
There are rock-solid ways to find out if your idea is viable.

Create indiegogo campaigns send emails to discussion forums and customers. If your idea is needed, people will give you money.

Create websites asking for sale. If people click to purchase, you have a viable idea.

Asking the right question is most the battle, not answering it.
Thank you. So what's your favourite?
We've built this for enterprise; it's just a matter of adding a consumer facing aspect to it. And yes, we're gauging interest to see if it is even worth it to have a consumer web aspect.

Hoping to launch at the end of Techstar's Affiliate startup accelerator Blueprint Health (mid-March). Thanks!
This is the major disadvantage of using longcodes (regular 7 digit phone number) and is the reason that any company that is serious about sending out large quantity of messages, is using a shortcode (5-6 digit number) which can (with twilio) send up to 60 messages per second.
Thanks for the encouragement! There's just too much information out there; we just want to distill it.
Umm, it's a real thing that really happens.

PS: http://xkcd.com/386/ Duty Calls, but I am at work and can't post specifics... argh first world problems indeed.
It's the sentiment in the Perl community that some of the language constructs are unsafe and should be avoided that bugs him, not the people themselves.
The release versions of Firefox Mobile were good enough to be the default browser on my 7" HTC Flyer tablet, but don't seem to handle the bigger resolution of Transformer Prime that well (lots of screen flickering when scrolling).

I just tried their Aurora nightly, and there things were quite smooth. Not yet Chrome-on-Android smooth, but getting there.

As always, Firefox Sync is the killer feature on mobile.
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I'm not too close with that side of the family, all I know is what I've gleaned during some extended visits. However, this looks like it might be a good starting point: http://www.strawbuilding.org/sbweb/content/strawbale-codes

Strawbale houses do not look significantly different from normal wood-frame, drywall and stucco homes. If I hadn't been told I would not have known.
Facebook IPO driving up Silicon Valley Real Estate
Are you a super connector
A: Anything you have to do by hand up to 400+ times is not particularly easy. It's an hour's mind-numbing work.

B: It's only easy if there's no cognitive load to unfriending someone. If you have to call them up in your mind, decide if they're still a friend... that's thought, and the emotions involved can be literally overwhelming depending on your personality.

C: Do the people you unfriend get alerted in any way? Take everything I alluded to in point B and raise it to the third power, because now every click is also a social signal...
One thing that SMB did really, really well was provided a very slick learning curve. Every level provided you with techniques that, while learned through repetition, were applicable in future levels and scenarios. Every new mechanic was introduced sparingly at first, but then compounded upon by introducing new quirks to the formula you had already learned.

I think that's what made SMB such a solid game; not the difficulty, but the way the game presented you with that difficulty.

(Also, I'm in general agreement with others about the presentation of this article. It felt like the author was trying too hard to act like a college bro. I will admit, however, that I liked the bit with the monkey.)
Yep, I checked out my Activity Monitor and the Flash Plugin was also the culprit, using over 890mb of RAM. I'm running Firefox with multiple tabs (5), Chrome with multiple tabs (7), pages, X-Lite, Adium, mail and thunderbird and 4GB of RAM with no problems.
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> Facebook numbers came out. $1B profit. I think trading them 23x is reasonable.
Facebook's IPO valuation was $75-100B, not $23B. That's a 75x-100x multiplier.

> In this case, possibilities are almost endless and I think you will see five years of strong monetary grow until, of course, everyone will jump ship for something new, more exciting.

I'm not saying Facebook will not be able to squeeze a healthy profit in the next 5 years or or so, but I don't think they'll justify the multiplier - maybe their stock will rise in the short term, but not enough in the long run.

What I'm "seeing" is that for Facebook's future plans to work their market penetration has to maintain itself at the current levels. If Google+ or Diaspora* and whatever other competitors that join the game take even a 25% market share, then plans that require "almost everyone" to have a Facebook account (like other services that use a Facebook-only sign-on) will no longer be viable). And, of course, the next big thing will inevitably arrive. Like I said, this is a "black swan" market, and the point is that you can't exactly see what it is that will cause the decline, but investors assuming super-fast growth must also expect a decline among the successful. And, again, the question is not whether or not a company will do well, but how it will perform relative to expectations.

> Is Google a "fad" ? they grew similarly fast, and what? Still in business...

Yes, they are in business and doing well, but have already begun to disappoint the analysts. Also, Google has many products (many of them unsuccessful), and there were very few successful companies in history that continued to show good growth with only one product (oil companies, perhaps). By this time, Facebook should have had at least one more product that's showing a promise. They have none - all of their offerings are strongly tied to their social network, while Google's products (like Google Docs or GMail) are not directly tied to the success of search.

> where is the asterix leading? you work at Diaspora?

Diaspora* (with the asterisk) is the name of the project.

> So basically you claim that everything related to Facebook is evil. I disagree and billion naive sheep can back me up... Well, as we know history, this never happened and cars are here to stay. You see my point?

While I indeed think that Facebook and its business model do a lot of harm to people, I'm not saying the same about the idea of virtual social networks in general. I believe that Facebook has shown that the social network to be an essential service in the internet age, so, just like e-mail, it will be commoditized, with many different vendors with different offerings and different business model, will provide social network services all compatible with one another.
Because one of the main Firebug authors started working for Google, on Chrome, and even he thought Firebug wasn't the best platform to keep innovating on:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20080338-264/firefox-world...

http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/05/25/the-relationship...

What I gather from that is that they will keep developing and improving Firebug (or rather, support it, because Firebug authors aren't from Mozilla), but that they also want to experiment with other devtools that are hard to implement in the existing Firebug codebase. The devtools are also one of those new things that are now rapidly improving from release to release, so they're bound to have "version 0.9" issues.

Why couldn't they instead focus on making Firebug better and providing a better, deeper integration between Firefox and Firebug?

I was always under the impression Firefox plugins can do anything they want and have complete access to all the API. And that this is exactly why they tend to a) be more powerful than the equivalents for other browsers b) have more compatibility issues.
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The question of intellectual property is moot. It is impossible to adequately police teh intertubes without outlawing encryption.

Why do the media companies insist on continuing to attempt the impossible, instead of cutting their losses and investing in distribution infrastructure? By pursuing the kind of ham-fisted, extra-legal "piracy fighting" that the article describes, they are doing themselves a huge disservice. Strong-arming internet users, interfering with judicial processes, and pushing unpopular bills doesn't do a whole lot to stop piracy, but it does promote the view of the media industry as a mafia.

"The minister (illegally) told the prosecutor what had happened which forced him to raid TPB -- only a few weeks after sending out that memo about how legal it was." [Article]

Every time something like this happens, more people who in-principle support the idea of intellectual property become hostile towards media lobbies and companies they represent.
Instead of trying to win the "hearts and minds" of internet users, they are turning "convenience pirates" ideological and legitimizing the very fears that push internet rights-activists in the same camp as the "ideological pirates".
Bad Metaphors [in OOP]
Low Fat Computing (1998)
Way back in my 888chan raiding days, we took special pleasure in tormenting Kimmo Alm and his legion of pedopals over at anontalk. We regularly got hosts to dump him, payment processors to drop him, and when that failed (or we were just bored), we'd DDoS him. We'd have months-long trolling sessions where we would get ourselves promoted to wiseguys, then wreak havoc on the site in whatever manner struck our fancy. This is a fairly long-winded way of saying I am not a supporter of pedophiles or CP.

That being said, none of the jailbait subreddits had any CP on them. Those who claim that this was a move against child pornography and child exploitation are being disingenuous. There was no child porn nor exploitation. What there was was suggestive pictures of minors. The content was distasteful, not illegal.

Now, I firmly support reddit's right to ban those subreddits on whatever grounds they choose. What's more, I think it was the right move to make. I am disheartened, however, to see people conflate the content that was removed with child porn. The images on those subreddits were largely pulled from facebook and the like. Yes, there were a couple subreddits devoted to the so-called "model" agencies where clothed children were photographed in suggestive poses, and I find that creepy and distasteful in the extreme, but it is not porn, any more than the Victoria's Secret catalog is porn.

It doesn't do anyone any good to use disingenuous language to conflate the issues we're talking about. Reddit got rid of about a dozen creepy and distasteful, but fully legal subreddits devoted to suggestive pictures of clothed minors. Despite my misgivings about censorship and free speech, I support this decision. That does not, however, mean that I am willing to use dishonesty to make those subreddits seem worse than they were, or argue that this was a decision about preventing child exploitation. It simply wasn't. This was about removing subreddits that the majority of redditors found distasteful and a black mark on reddit. It was about avoiding another PR boondoggle like the one that followed Anderson Cooper's report. That's all. It need not be any more than that for it to still have been the right decision.
Is this a sarcasm article at that time?(which is brilliant!) Or just a serious article with a lot funny (lovely) idea back in 1980s?
Sure, but for how long?
Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) announced - open source IaaS
What If iOS Looked Like the Original Mac OS?
Scraping sites for this content has vary basic copyright issues. How do you get around that?
It's irrelevant what the people here or elsewhere think -- as you say there are many dissenting opinions but very few professional legal opinions.

Rather than dally with opinions, let's stick to facts: The authorities will shut down sites with illegal activities and the authorities are aware of these subreddits. The authorities did not intervene.

Regarding your comfort with blanket bans, you may want to read this other article recently posted to HN which offers a much more insightful analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585997
Really nice job. The visual style of your app reminds me of another inspiring project:

http://benthebodyguard.com/index.php
"if you authenticate with an account that has appropriate permissions (just like you would in the Google Apps interface)"

Do you mean that each user will have to add this app to their Google account? Mind if I send you an email?
does the president actually have an email address he checks for presidential matters?
I would say any real use of JavaScript does imply use of closures. For example most frameworks and any use of AJAX requires them to be used.
My heart goes out to the censors who have to deal with user submissions (as opposed to network censors). I can only blanch at the job that people who manage Google Image Search have to deal with.
I think you're missing the point of the users who see this new rule as a negative mark against reddit. The admins have always been supportive of allowing any content that is legal, even up to a very specific definition, which is why these now removed subreddits were allowed to exist for so long. Lots of people are making the slippery slope argument, saying things along the lines of "how long before they ban /r/trees?", which is a marijuana-based subreddit. In response, the community organizer, hueypriest, said this:

>They'll ban /r/trees when they pry it out of our cold dead hands.

You can imagine why it might be frustrating to people who would expect them to approach all content with as much vigor as they do in the defense of /r/trees.

The way I understand it, and the way it has been explained by the admins, is that policing the kind of content that is now not allowed had taken up a significant amount of their resources, and it was becoming unsustainable. However, a lot of users clearly see this as a sign that the admins are backing down as a result of legal pressure and also for the purpose of preserving the image of the community.

For users of old, this is a rather new phenomenon, and it is somewhat offputting. If it was solely a question of sustainability (how much time are they wasting policing the content?), that would probably be acceptable, but it's difficult to believe that it is the sole reason for the rule.
Generate a Facebook word cloud in Python
> However, we've found reports of sendfile not working properly on certain platforms and we're still investigating, so I'm not convinced at this stage that the problem is with Flask itself.

I am confused by your sendfile not working properly on certain platforms. If you set the X-Sendfile header, and the web server supports it, it should work fine. Flask send_file doesn't do much other than setting up the headers; and then either setting the X-Senfile header so that web server handles it, or sends it using WSGI file wrapper supports.

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/flask/helpers...
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It depends what you need to slide, but I like TouchCarousel for WordPress most of all.
I am a patient. Being a patient is why I am so passionate about products in this space. So the thought of someone scraping the web to find information that I might apply to managing my medical condition is scary. I have worked at CPA companies that ran things like Molocure scams, Cure diabetes now sites etc... Perhaps your technology is so advanced that it can tell the difference between valid news and scams and perhaps you will manually review everything and verify the source of the information; but im not willing to bet my health on it.
There are some pretty strong fundamental reasons why you want to have debugging tools be exactly in sync with releases, especially when you are making major changes to feature support and rendering. Also, in this day it just makes sense to have such tools integrated in the browser.

Now, the Firefox team might not be pulling off the execution very well (though it's a little unfair to compare an early generation product to a more evolved product) but I think it's probably the right decision for the future, hopefully they'll iterate on it enough to get it into a good state.

However, all of this is sort of beside the point. The Firebug lead went to go work for the Chrome team, so the Firefox team is in a bit of a pickle.
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Cryptome.Org Hit by Blackhole Exploit Kit
Continuous Integration with jenkins at Nuxeo
I actually helped create the original "Zero to Launch" workshop that became 30x500 with Amy. She's done a TON of work since I left so it's almost unrecognizable, other than the core expectations that the course will teach you to launch a product with customers - not just users, but paying customers - on day 1 or very close to it.

I've followed the workshop since it's been redesigned, read all of the materials, and am an active reader of the workshop's listserv. I can say with honesty - the experience is transformative and I'm not paid to say that.

I've watched so many "oh, shit, I get it now" moments on that it's inspiring.

Even better, I know this stuff and the students are well versed enough to teach me stuff.

I have lots of biases for Amy since we're friends and collaborators but I can say with confidence: this course is worth 10x what she charges for it.
Your word choices of 'enabling' and 'informing' suggest that the manager inherently has holds concentrated power and information and must dole it out where appropriate. That implicitly makes the manager a bottleneck.

Indeed, the word 'management' itself connotes a perspective incompatible with Joel's philosophy.
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Funny they did a development comparison (sparcstation 2 could run sunos4 but i'm not sure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBoJjfMuAk

Did you use a different way under SunOS4 ? it seems a lot of boilerplate on the video (apple bias I guess)