skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's a legal (or standards-organization) mandate for DRM (and there have been legislative pushes for such in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Protection_for_Recordab... to note just two such efforts) then nothing I can do will move the market.

But beyond all that, the whole "Piracy!" excuse doesn't take into account whether the proposed problem actually merits a solution, whether the proposed solution actually cures the problem, and whether the proposed solution causes more problems than it cures. "But, but, Piracy!" is just a way to whip up a confusing semantic fog around an issue, demonize a set of viewpoints, and use that demonization to pursue some kind of agenda that hardly anyone would go along with without the associated confusing and witchhunts. You're doing it yourself, subtly, by implying that I habitually "pirate" stuff, when nothing could be farther from the truth. Although I'm not a church-goer any more, I'm a citizen, and a taxpayer. I don't cuss, I obey the Law of the Sea, Canon Law, and the Laws of Thermodynamics. I do not advocate the violent overthrow of the government, and I have no conflicts of interest.
So I'm a bit of an expert in SQL Server and in my not so humble opinion there is one question that is the most telling when it comes to SQL Server expertise:

What is a join, what are the different algorithms to implement a join, and when is each one suitable or not suitable.

That's it. Someone who answers this question completely can be trusted to learn the rest of the nitty-gritty from the docs, and someone who can't answer it will most certainly screw up your product by implementing a join manually by using a cursor.
Sad story, but what the hell does this have to do with startups or technology ??
Don't forget that 1000-1500 hours of work isn't free worth £0.
Oh, definitely not the hardest game ever, but I still think "ungodly hard" is an appropriate label, especially for a mainstream game.
Everything is a tradeoff. There's so much more going on in Mac OS X (especially Lion) than a typical Linux distro that you are literally talking apples and oranges.

For my money, Mac OS X makes the right set of tradeoffs to give an overall good to great user experience, even at the command line. It gets enough of the right things correct that for a developer/hacker/tinkerer, they can take it from there and add whatever else they need.

For me, Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/) has been amazingly useful. I can install any of the popular Linux distros and configure them anyway I want without worrying about Mac OS X's installed apps and libraries. A killer feature: because Mac OS X and VirtualBox share folders, I can still use all of my Mac OS X tools (editors, IDEs, whatever) with Linux. And thanks to Chef, I can spin-up specialized configurations in just minutes. Having access to apt-get is cool and all, but being able to create specialized, configured environments using Chef cookbooks is faster and way less error-prone.

All of this (and more) and I still get all of the benefits of Mac OS X native applications, superb driver support, etc. And all of this on 4MB 2009 MacBook Pro.
Yes.

Or at least, I would still use bootstrap even if I had to throw out all of the js.
So even though it's a reserved keyword, it's ok to use as a property name?
You keep editing your post. My original "I stand corrected" is now out of it's meaning and it makes no sense to keep editing my answer. I expected better of you, tptacek.
You're right, "latest change of policy" is not the best way to characterize Reddit's stance on CP.

But breaking rules in a subreddit is different from having a subreddit where the only possible means of participation is to break the law by posting links to CP. If everybody obeyed the rules in /r/trees, that subreddit might still contain interesting content. If everybody obeyed the law in /r/jailbait, that subreddit simply could not exist. It's a fine difference, but it makes all the difference.

Also, FYI, the U.S. Constitution offers very strong protections for hate speech. It's not like some other countries (cough Germany cough Canada cough) where you can get fined for uttering racial slurs.
It's completely SFW if you have privacy. If you don't have complete privacy it's SFW if anyone who might possibly catch a glance at your screen will unrealistically spend the time understanding the content on said screen.

In most workplaces random passerby's will only get a quick glance and then try to decipher what they saw from visual persistence. Almost anyone will assume he's looking at porn of other workplace-questionable content.

I thought it sounded like an interesting submission. While I am hardly a prude, 15 seconds into it the stench of "Bro!" was too overwhelming and the Back button drew my focus.
I agree, and sometimes lose sight of this. I often find myself so busy creating goals lists and rushing from one thing to the next that I don't stop to just take a look around.
> I don't know what you said

The below article was deleted from the queue in r/politics and I've been unable to post articles in politics and a few other subreddits ever since, using a particular handle from a particular IP.

Ron Paul’s Challenge to the Left: http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/a-question-of-morality-ron...

My point stands: reddit has been complicit in silencing political opinion long before it began worrying about whether child porn should be allowed or not.
Now 7.
Yea, the article notes a few things that scala has improved upon vs bare erlang, but neglects to mention all the goodness that's in OTP.
In denial on God.

CWinApp theApp;

using namespace std;

unsigned long cnt=0;

void ThreadProc()
{
while (TRUE)
cnt++;
}

int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[])
{
unsigned long i,nRetCode = 0;
CreateThread(0,65536,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)ThreadProc,0,0,0);
while (TRUE) {
printf("Press <ENTER>\r\n");
getchar();
i=cnt;
printf("Line:%20u %6u\r\n",i,i%100000);
}
return nRetCode;
}

Do you really think the count can be predicted and key triggered remotely. Why do you think all the people in the Bible reported God?

God says...
2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall
mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one
to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be
left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made
known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Yeah.

On the one hand, it's basically an enormous usability win. I don't want to manually manage all of my security updates.

On the other it's a little hard to let go of the fact that I no longer control all of the software on my own diskspace - even if, admittedly, that has been an illusion for many years now.
Just "fallacy".
Your startup (or business) will likely consume your every waking moment. If you aren't careful, you might miss the ride.
Wasn't offended, but I was put off by how immature parts of the article were. The game itself is quite an achievement, and while I certainly don't expect suits and ties, I think the tone undermines your effort and accomplishments thus far.

You could have just posted the video and a PayPal link, and probably brought in 4-figures+ by the end of the day. The game stands alone, you don't need to sell us on how high-larious and cheeky you can be.
Thanks for your questions!

You can buy it once and use it as many times as you like.

"UI" refers to a landing page and checkout form that we pre-built and include with the app. We didn't do a good job of making that clear, and that's something we want to improve on the sales pages.

Your question about bugfixes is an excellent one. Eventually, we'll be moving this to an engine/gem, but for now you'd have to make manual changes. This is far from ideal, so we're planning on fixing it.

This is just for one time purchases. We'd like to add support for recurring billing at some point, but it's not planned for the immediate future.

Thanks for your feedback on the price. As this is at MVP stage right now, everything can possibly change, including that.
I posted my qualifier not because I thought it absolved me of the associations (it doesn't, the first paragraph 'poisoned the well' so to speak, there was little I could do about it without choose not to discuss it); I did it in an attempt to show I was making the argument in good faith. I don't think I was very successful however.
It's a little sad, because there was definitely a sense, a few years ago, that Reddit was pretty much user-centered and therefore fully unrestricted, content-wise. You can choose what subreddits you belong to, or make new ones for whatever subject you want. The admins simply created the platform and set the defaults. Freedom!

But at the same time, everyone still felt like redditors, even if you were on /r/investing or /r/TwoXChromosomes or /r/trees or /r/nudecycling. In fact, you could unsubscribe from all the default subreddits, and join a bunch of weird unusual ones, and so you'd probably never even see a redditor who belongs to the "mainstream" community, but you'd still call yourself a redditor.

Unfortunately, we now see the downside of that group identity, because it didn't stop the reputation of the "bad" subreddits from bleeding over and tarnishing the group's. The subreddit boundaries failed, in the end.
I am a software developer and I use Mac OS X. I develop Unix backend server systems. I use Mac OS X as my primary build platform, then actually run on top of FreeBSD.

I use homebrew for almost all of the dependencies that I have, there are one or two that I compile by hand.

I've not had any issues. Best of all, I don't need the g* stuff to do my builds. I am perfectly happy with clang and the BSD tools available.

I don't understand why people purchase Mac OS X based computers then want to run GNU coreutils on top of it, or want to Linuxize their entire install. Off course something is going to break at that point, especially when build tools expect certain versions of certain tools to be available.
The Path Fiasco Will Lower Your Conversions
Beautiful design through and through: from web site to the app. Really nicely done.
I agree and thank you for comment, but I wanted to keep it as simple as possible so readers can understand the basic logic and structure behind a GA it.
If I started talking about more complex ways to represent different search spaces while calculating the fitness in a more abstract way it would probably lead to confusion for beginners.
Yes, seriously. Not everyone has a problem with sex, either in earnest or in banter. If you're too uptight for reading creative people's blogs, maybe you should abandon link aggregators and go for something squeaky-clean and PC like CNN or WSJ. The level of PC groupthink on this thread is downright depressing.

The author was both skilled and entertaining. If you don't like his dev blog, then don't read it! Move on to the next link.
Sorry, I think they're called "demographics"?
Why Does Anyone Tolerate Skimlinks?
As someone working in the same space, I am going to give you honest feedback that might seem harsh.

1. There are other sites doing this better and they have far more than just a landing page.

2. Are you holding user data? If so what about hippa compliance?

3. Your differentiating factor: "We scrape medical forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc (all the social media avenues) and add a layer of intelligent semantic analysis to bring you the best information relevant to what you have (or just the hottest news if you don't have anything)."

Simply put, I dont believe that you have one single bit of this.

4. Why would I use this and not patients like me or crohnology.com where I can find out about new things and also have them vetted by my friends that have similar conditions.

5. I dont think your newsletter could ever be better than condition specific newsletters like the ones from the CCFA or ADA? How will you deal with that?
>Purchasing and downloading apps could not be easier.

I wouldn't be so fast here. The app store limits availability by country. For example, you cannot legally buy games here in Brazil on the app store [1]. Which is a huge market. 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 Yankovic's songs (I spent months with money in my pocket going from store to store looking to buy his cds when I was young), nor watched movies banned in my country for political reasons.

There is also the pay wall barrier. Which is also often derived from a location problem. You may have many easy payment options in the USA, but we might not have it as easy here. (There are many startups working on decreasing this barrier, but so far it's still big)

Also, your argument is subjective. You cannot make an objective case for "how much potential damage" piracy is making. You cannot know how many pirates would have bought if piracy didn't exist, maybe some wouldn't have bought anyway because of the paywall or location bans.

But what you do can prove objectively is that you can make money from digital content without trying to stop piracy. Which is the point that Peter Sunde is making here. Which was also the same point Steve Blank made a while ago [2].

So you cannot simply say "piracy is a huge problem" and just cite that link saying that some pirates exist. Your argument cannot be demonstrated objectively, while the Peter's argument can, and has.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/br/genre/ios-games/id6014?mt=8

[1] (in portuguese) http://macmagazine.com.br/2011/03/30/ausencia-de-jogos-na-ap...

[2] http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant...
THank you for stating this. I skimmed through after the first picture, decided this wasn't worth my time.

It's not even just the sexism. It's a problem of needless distraction over what needs to be readable material.
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?

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, then guess what's going to happen? The majority will find the best way to procure what they need under the circumstances and the minority will fight to change the situation. It just happens that it in this particular situation the best way to procure what people need is not by choosing the least evil of the providers, but you have a choice to copy stuff for free, instead.

Let's make things clear: this doesn't make it legal to pirate stuff. On the other hand, "legal", "correct", "practical" and "optimal" are never the same thing. Just as no amount of arguing will change the fact that piracy is (still) illegal, no amount of arguing will change the fact that the industry needs to evolve.
Not to mention storing page view data in a RDBS.
Foxconn under inspection at Apple's request
>Trade? Not really

Well then you are incredibly naive. Do you understand what "exploit" means? They're exploiting either the naivety of the children taking these photos, or the naivety of the people who posted them to the internet.

The damage isn't finished being done after the photo has been taken. The damage happens in the way that these photos are then used. Imagine doing something foolish in school and then being teased for it. Did the damage stop happening after the original act was completed, or is there damage happening in the act of teasing as well?

The fact that there are people who think that this should be protected ("this" being: the exploitation and sexualization of children) is a embarrassing to anybody [read: most people] who believes in free speech.
Lolita, the novel, is an extended metaphor for the United States.
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People tend to think of online communities as democracies where the freedoms they're accustomed to from their normal lives apply.

So when a post gets deleted by a moderator, people tend to think of it as a freedom of speech issue. There's a whole constitution out there specifically defending anybody's right to create a pro-Nazi subreddit, and to otherwise post anything they please on the site so long as it's not illegal, right?

Not really.

Not at all, in fact. Reddit is not the United States. It's Reddit. Online communities are not democracies any more than your back garden is a democracy. You pull weeds, plant seeds, and otherwise encourage the plants in your garden to comport themselves in a manner that ends up with a pleasing result. It's your garden, so you have the absolute right to pull weeds. The weeds get no say.

Reddit seems to have forgotten this for a while, and as a result they started sliding until they became, well, Reddit. The community we're currently discussing this in, on the other hand, has been a lot more conscientious in cultivating the type of garden it would like to see. And I think we can all say the result is a lot more pleasant than a less tended place such as Reddit or 4chan.
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Now that's a creative workplace! How inspiring that is!
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Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
I wasn't "using Iceland as an example for other countries" or trying to imply that the Americans should have let their banks fail. I was simply relaying a quote which suggested that the expected result of declining pay on Wall street had also been observed in another country.
Thanks! Our designer, Kai Gradert (https://twitter.com/#!/kaigradert), deserves the credit for creating a beautiful app. He's a UI/UX god.
Sony jacks up price of Whitney Houston’s Ultimate Collection hours after death
As plenty of people have said plenty of other places, there's a huge difference between illegal content and distasteful but protected speech.

Further, the legal definition for child pornography is, in many cases, not what people expect. The EFF has a primer that touches on this:
https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/adult

If reddit begins cracking down on protected speech like you'd find in /r/trees and /r/atheism, you've got a point. But when reddit (finally) decides to crack down on something that is plainly not legal speech, you're fear mongering with the best of them.
This thread is full of people who claim that if you don't know "my favorite facet of SQL Server, chosen merely because I had experience with it", you don't know SQL Server.

This is probably just as sad as people who know nothing.
Oh really? How many milliamps do you think you need?
Pinterest is using them, so...
Until sites like Pinterest can actually share affiliate revenue somehow down to their users, these sites will "send exactly as much [traffic] without the modified links."

This leaves no incentive for a merchant to allow pinterest to affiliate their links.
Apple pops, Wall St firms drop in brand study
But what is your point? I never meant this to be a MacPorts vs HomeBrew discussion, I've only used HomeBrew.

Being downvoted I'm obviously missing something. Care to let me know what it is instead of just downvoting me?
Revolutions aren't cheap!
Thanks for the links.
I'm glad you liked it, simplicity was the objective. When you first start learning it's important to make sure you have a firm ground on the basics.
The argument is that users have little reason to care that sites use Skimlinks/Viglinks, but merchants have no incentive to allow it.
I've had to edit configurations files to get hardware working in the last month.

On a laptop we have here at the office I had to disable a certain driver from loading before a different driver or else the two would squabble over the wifi card and it would never show up.

The other thing that is more software related than hardware is that it is a MS Windows shop, all of the local domains are machine.domainname.local. This conflicts with MDNS as you could imagine, so the Linux machines are unable to access any of the resources on the machines named machine.domainname.local because MDNS would respond with a failure. Had to modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to fix that issue.

Linux is not without its failures. Saying it just works is certainly not the case. Whereas the Mac OS X machines I deploy come out of the box, get configured and are ready to go. Drivers work, software works, don't need to go googling for hours trying to figure out why ping won't resolve a machine.domainname.local address but dig is doing just fine.
I don't get what the issue is either. Are we forgetting that Bootstrap is free and open source?

Nobody's forcing anyone to use Bootstrap nor is anyone prevented from creating their own Bootstrap fork with semicolons.

Clearly, no good deed goes unpunished.
The problem with the pointy part of spears, is that they are very small in relation to the whole. According to Google's 2011 10-K, 96% of their revenue is derived from Advertising income. So if you want to be in the pointy part of Google, you either have to work on the Adwords team, or be integrating Adwords profitably into some other product. I'd bet that's a small percentage of Googlers, overall.

You know what I find really interesting though, the overall similarity between the Goldman Sachs and Google numbers, except employee compensation. Google's Gross Profit (Total Revenue less Cost of Revenue) was $24.7B in 2011, and GS's was $24.5B. At the same time, Google had 32,467 employees to GS's 35,700. Yet, the Google net income was $9.7B compared to $4.4B on the GS side. The difference seems to be made up entirely by the difference in employee compensation.

I think that the real reason people on Wall St are substantially out-earning people in Silicon Valley, is that they are in it for the money. Working at Google is sexy. They'll give you a free lunch for $220,000 a year, and who doesn't want a free lunch. Plus there is a ball pit, and doors that don't function. And a mythos about changing the world through social networking. If one company on Wall St starts belt tightening, the top traders will jump ship in a heartbeat. It doesn't take too many big bonuses before you can trade profitably on your own, on your own time. Grab a few other traders with their own money, and pool the risk into your own fund. Hire a few front-office sales types, and bring in other peoples money. That's precisely why outsized bonuses exist in the first place. The best traders are going to make big gains no matter what, with your money, their money, or some other firms money. If they get big pay for big gains, then they'll stay. Better to get a slice of watermelon that a whole grape for the trader, and the firm picks up the bulk of the profit. If pay is even pretty close, how many people would realistically choose Wall St over Silicon Valley. The money is there, but it seems like Silicon Valley engineers are too sheepish to actually demand it, nobody wants to come off as being in it for the money. When people hear, "I really want this job because I'm passionate about changing the world with twitter posts, or Facebook timelines, or amazing time tracking software", they think, I don't have to pay this guy.