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The most this can do if it passes, is to eliminate the uncertainties regarding what's legal and what's not legal online, what's fair use, and so on. It could also put some breaks on other more abusive copyright-related laws, like the ones about mass surveillance, or the seizure of a website without being found guilty first, and so on.

That's the good part about such an Act. The bad part is that it's just a law. The copyright industry could still try to make new laws that will override many of the things in the FIA. The only (potentially huge) problem for them is that this would be just like us fighting against a "child pornography" bill - only that this time they would be fighting against a "Free Internet" law.

Overall, I think it's a great idea in the short to medium term, to stop any upcoming draconian copyright laws, or to at least weaken some of the ones that have already passed. But in the long term, this law probably won't be very resilient, and we might need a full Constitutional Amendment, if we're serious about protecting the Internet for decades or more.

Edit: And I just saw they're thinking about a global treaty, too. That's even better. The Internet needs to be protected globally after all.
There are many reasons why Paul Grahama might speak too highly of Convore, but one theory is endowment effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

People think more highly of things that they have an ownership stake in.
Bizarrely, I got back from St. Louis last on Saturday after going for PhD interviews. Regarding St. Louis as a whole, I think this article has some interesting points;

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2011/12/06/st-louis-...

As for St. Louis as a tech start up location, I know there's a growing biotech scene bubbling up. St. Louis actually has the highest concentration of plant scientists in the world, and both Monsanto and WashU really pioneering some pretty incredible crop research.

Similarly, WashU is doing some truly extraordinary biomedical research, such as the newly opened Genomic and Pathology Services, where physicians from around the US can send cancer tissue samples to have genomic data read for prognostic and diagnostic purposes (http://www.gps.wustl.edu/).

To help catalyze the biotech spirit, the university offers a biotech Entrepreneurship pathway integrated with its biomedical/biological sciences PhD program which runs joint with the business school.(http://dbbs.wustl.edu/curstudents/SpecialEmphasisPathways/Pa...).

All that said and done, I can't imagine moving a tech start-up to STL. It seems like a company might organically grow out of existing work...
It seems pretty obvious that Pinterest wouldn't qualify for safe harbor under the DMCA.

> Direct Financial Benefit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...

The entire service is reliant on the ability of users to "pin" copyrighted images from across the web.

> Knowledge of Infringing Material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...

Anyone with any objectivity can see that 99% of the images on Pinterest are being used without permission.

It also seems that Pinterest themselves are "uploading" all the images to their servers. Users just tell Pinterest which images to take. Technically it would be no different if YouTube were to store/serve Netflix videos after a user "pinned" them.
What they really should do instead is either use the Open Graph tags or some other kind of meta tags (if absolutely necessary) to ensure proper attribution.

Then, they could take it a step further and use perceptual hashing to compare images and make sure the original source gets the credit.
As a side note, you are not supposed to use X- anymore. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539663
I hate writing this comment because I actually have a lot of warm feelings about St. Louis. I grew up there and went to college + medical school there (until I was about 25). Then I left.

I always say that St. Louis is a nice place to be from. It's a nice place to raise a family. But I'm never going to move back. Or under extreme protest if my wife decides she wants to move back to be by family. There's just nothing interesting about St. Louis. White flight ruined the city in the sixties and highway 70 divides the majority black population (north) from the majority white population (south). So it's basically a segregated suburbia wrapped around a lifeless inner core. No one lives in the city. They drive there to work, drink and watch sports. Period.

I certainly wouldn't want to start a tech company there.
I think the poster is arguing against the conflation. Organic chemistry is not memorizing compounds; mathematics is not memorizing integrals; anatomy is not like memorizing colors. There is a great difference between understanding and memorizing.

I had a very bad history teacher. On most tests, he required the class to learn about 20 different dates (only) and some facts like where a peace treaty was signed. Nobody cared what those events meant, what were connections between the dates etc. Now, many years later, I don't recall anything. I learned nothing. Was I really learning history or just arbitrary numbers? You could claim that it was real history, and probably be technically correct, but I think that's silly. In my mind, the semantics of what I knew did not resemble history at all. In contrast, my chemistry teacher visibly required understanding, and till now I can discuss basic chemistry, even though I did not exercise my skills for a long time.

It's the same with mathematics, learning algorithms means essentially you are programmed to do mechanical work, just I like I was acting like a lookup table during history classes. "Real" mathematics starts when the problem you are doing is not directly amenable to a mechanical approach.
I could see that now their website says it is under maintenance ;-)
There's two "houses", the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Senate contains two Senators per state, the House of Representatives contains over 400 representatives, each of whom individually represents a "district" that can range in size from part of a large city to an entire state--the goal is to have at least one district per state, but for each district to have roughly equal population.

So Missouri actually has two senators, McCaskill and Roy Blunt. "Congressmen" are usually members of the House of Representatives, and a state might have anywhere between 1 and about 50 or so.

For legislation to pass, it has to be passed by both houses and signed by the President, who's elected separately. If the President vetoes it, both houses can pass it over his head with a 2/3 majority. Constitutional amendments require a 2/3 majority and then some. And it's not like a parliamentary system where the whole party always votes the same way. The House in particular has often attracted idiosyncratic candidates who can only get elected in their particular district, and almost never vote with their party--guys like Ron Paul, James Traficant, and Zell Miller. Though of the three, only Ron Paul is still in office, and he's retiring soon.

The House and the Senate have different rules and regulations and traditions, and each can do things the other can't, but that's basically how it works.
A smaller, higher-DPI monitor displays less information; all those extra pixels just make things sharper. Sure, I'd like a sharper screen but I'm not giving up real estate for it. If Apple comes out with a 30" retina display I'll be all over it, but I know they won't.
That's not the way it works. If you have a merchant account, and someone issues a chargeback, you won't ever see the money again, unless you can somehow prove the charge was legit. It's not like you can pump and dump a merchant account for $1 million and then skate on to the next merchant account.

The way it really works is that merchant accounts don't get money for 90 days after the charge until it's really cleared.
That jQuery snippet is the best possible way to make your site sluggish.
I think it's important that founders match primarily on personality compatibility and not on the project idea. The idea will most likely change. In a way, the project application idea is a means to get past the YC judges.
This is a reply to both of you:

Baggage handling type people don't have to haul you around and stow you beneath the plane. I was recently bitten by an overweight bag, and subsequently broke it into a second carry-on in a return flight. 25$ for extra bag, 100$ for overweight...

Anyways, what I was traveling with was unreasonably heavy, and would be a hassle to toss into the stowage, probably be a greater burden/wear on the conveyors etc.
Yes, there are VCs in almost every major city, and I was definitely exaggerating, but the number of VCs in cities like St Louis is laughable compared with the valley.

By the time you move a team you may exceed $50,000 in expenses.

Anyone who is really serious will not take $50,000 to move to St. Louis.

And of course there are exceptions, like someone who has family in St. Louis, or someone who does know investors there etc.
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Totally agree, but I just have to pick one nit on your final point re GHC and unpacking: If you do this you forfeit all generic programming because a 'lifted' polymorphic type has to be represented by pointer to a heap object. This is where C++'s unique take on generic programming still wins big.
That looks pretty cool, but I have to ask... you're using with? Really?
Really timely. Thanks to cjoh for posting this as it chimes in with what I've been feeling recently.

I've relentlessly turned off all notifications from any app. Goes the same for email as well. I'll only check for updates when I feel I need to. Going so far as deleting Twitter and Facebook apps. Foodspotting, Yelp, Path etc etc, notifications are all off. I value my time ferociously and snuff out anything that comes between me and focusing on the important.
"You can't just buy a startup community, at least not for any amount we've seen spent to date. It has to grow organically."

I wouldn't be surprised if NYC does it. I think if you funded 40 companies at 250k each in grants then you could easily get a class as good as YC with the right people as judges, and considering they are already pumping 2 billion dollars into this Cornell Technion thing it seems likely that something like this will eventually happen.
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With enough creativity Kickstarter can almost be seen as a marketing channel in addition to an early stage funding platform. Sounds to me like an ideal way to cajole friends and family into funding one's project/venture without having to formally raise a 'friends and family round', and without having to approach angel investors.

For no upfront marketing dollars you get free exposure, and the opportunity to reach prospects who - gasp - might even FUND your development efforts.

What a great way to reach, excite, delight and validate a market!
> You can't just buy a startup community

I don't know that I've seen it attempted before.

More generally, I think this is a very interesting development. As developers move into the cloud, staying in places like silicon valley requires a burn that might not be necessary.

Verrry interesting.
it's a stretchy argument, but one i'm going make anyway: before the crawl, there is discovery. discovery is the process of knowing all the URLs to pass to the crawler.

discovery is fueled by

* links
* sitemap.xml

who creates links (and sitemaps)? humans (either editorially or programmatically, but at some point humans were involved in the link creation process)

defining the pinterest fetching process as "not indexing" or "not crawling" seems a little bit unfair against your friendly neighborhood googlebot.

also if pinterest is "currated by humans" then the pin-tag would be unnecessary. a simple plain text "DO NOT PIN THIS" message in the article/product/image/.. (whatever people pin these days) description would be sufficient.
You have a strange definition of "excel".
Sounds like Atlanta, or any southern city. If Southern cities want to innovate they should at least try and create basic city public infastructure.
Technically, an "earnings" tax and applies to net profits too: http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/cco/code/data/t0522.htm
> They drive there to ... drink

Well, that's a little terrifying.
Chargebacks can still come along up to 6 months after the charge date, not just 90 days.

And yes, you aren't going to see any of the money from the chargebacks but that doesn't matter. A very small percentage of people know about or bother to charge back. You'll lose maybe 5-10% at most (a higher cb rate would surprise me but then again I've never run a scam op so it may be common) and you will get a lot of faxes but you can just ignore them, take the 90% out and let the bank shut down your account eventually.

By the time the bank gets around to actually shutting down the account most of the money will be gone. I imagine they'll freeze the money at some point but if you're running a large operation you'll know at what point that will happen and will have stopped using that merchant account before then and have taken most of the money out.

EDIT: I forgot another reason why banks don't like chargebacks: banks themselves have to stay below a certain aggregate chargeback threshold across all their clients' accounts or they get grief from the credit card companies and have to pay penalties/fines. If they're a small bank there's even the possibility that the credit card companies will drop you entirely.
Yes, if you have been negative in a non constructive way HN will allow your posts to be visible only to you.
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That totally makes sense. Time to pushState!!!
this will certainly happen, at least in the places it will be most useful.
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I opened this page a while back, just read this post, then refreshed to look for new discussion. Now it's gone.

A) I've never been, but a good friend came from there. He was back and forth on the quality of St. Louis, but he's a damn smart guy. That said, he's not there anymore.

2) Consider that your post was chided in the comments, but it wasn't being downvoted. That's how you know if you're facing disapproval versus loud conversation.

Lastly) The problem of finding no compatriots is not a unique one. I face the same problem where I live, rural Georgia. But it's not a matter of no one here being worth knowing, it's just a matter of getting to know the right people in the appropriate context. That's harder to do sometimes. And it's not a problem easily solved for everyone. Your post did come off as angry, but I'm not going to judge the validity of that anger. Just know that, well, like I said. It's not unique. Many people feel that way, many of whom are right and wrong about their situation. Realize that if you assume the outcome (that no one there is worth knowing) then you may be looking at the wrong problem (how to meet them) and just become jaded that you never see the solution.
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"Do Things, Tell People" == "Show HN: .*"

I'm sure most of the folks here enjoy the" Show HN:" posts the most - just like github has become the standard for putting your code out there, wish there was a dotcloud/heroku/appengine like standard that would provide a "Cool projects" feed to discover and get inspiration from. Ideally an integration of = "github + dotcloud + Show HN: feed" is what I long for - "Do things, Tell people" and get inspired from others in the network!
Oh yes I completely agree. New industries move too fast to predict their profitability. I think the resume will go the way of the business model in our lifetime, if not 10 years.
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I'd be happy with higher-res 23" monitors, because I like to use them in a portrait orientation.
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Pinterest is downloading images from other sites and hosting it on their own servers. No one is complaining about linking or even hotlinking.
Powce was successfully sold to Six Apart. She has a proven track record of building things that people like and want to use, but you can't win them all.
Poll: In-app web view auth or safari auth for Twitter auth in iOS?
When you add Twitter as an authentication provider to your app, which do you prefer for the user flow?
The app shows a web view in the app that allows users to authenticate with Twitter.
The app switches the user to Safari where they authenticate with Twitter and are then pulled back to the app.
That is still a draft document, and has not been accepted as a BCP (Best Current Practice) RFC yet.
I wonder if they'd be willing to release it as open source?
http://StartupChile.com is doing something quite similar. Dozens of startups get reimbursed for up to $40k of expenses.
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> why not ps, r and rs respectively?

Um... Because that would be hard to read?

I'm advocating using full words in general, avoiding long variables (multi-word phrases, adjectives, contextualization, etc), and not being afraid of short variables names if they help, rather than hurt readability.

There are plenty of cases where short names are totally fine. If you've got a module full of string utilities and every single function takes a first argument of type String, why not just call it "s"? Everyone will figure it out in seconds and it will save the mental overhead of differentiating "String" and "string". when that does come up.

Things like that; I'm saying use your judgement.
Realize that if you assume the outcome (that no one there is worth knowing) then you may be looking at the wrong problem (how to meet them) and just become jaded that you never see the solution.

Agreed -- that was primarily why I redacted myself. I was being an idiot.

It would be pretty amusing to walk around the local campuses aimlessly repeating "Hi I'm Shawn, I'm looking for someone who thinks Quantum Mechanics is cool!" ... maybe it would even work. Who knows.
A compiled function only gives you a really fast string creator. It doesn't make the innerHTML call any faster than it is (which is really fast, but slower than the DOM).

You can also use cloneNode to cache frequently reused DOM snippets.
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The font colors on that page, especially in the code snippets are so low contrast that I can hardly read it. It's a topic I'm interested in but the styling is keeping me from reading it.

I know that there are bookmarklets, etc, which will make it readable, but the author should take note.
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From my experience (non-technical), it's more about who you know rather than what you do. But, people don't know you unless you do something. It's a vicious circle.
Posted to see if anyone has experience working with GraphLab. Alternatively, do any GL contributors frequent HN?
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With out more information it's very difficult to give advice.

If you're not load testing with your real actual application code and real application load I wouldn't even bother testing. The numbers will be so misleading that it's mostly pointless.

What does it matter if your cassandra install can do 500,000 writes per second if your real app exhibits lock contention issues that brings that number down to 5,000 per second, or latency issues that bring the number down to 50,000.

Since you should be performance testing with real application code and load you'll need to add two things to your code:

1) Code to record the load (logs can work great for this)
2) Code to playback the load at a multiple

Then I'd add the parameters you want to tune for to your testing code and use a genetic algorithm to tune the parameters for your cassandra install.

So, yes, real load testing always involves custom code. If you're just looking for numbers to impress management then use whatever because it's not going to correlate to anything.
Yes, but maybe there are other search engines that work well enough run by companies that aren't engaged in the business of selling out my identity.
V8: "This stores compiled JavaScript using a hash of the source for up to 5 garbage collections."

Hmmmm - is that across sessions? Does that mean I can detect if a user has visited other sites by timing how long it takes to eval a static script copied from those sites?
It's a brand new design, and I haven't seen it on all screens yet. What OS/type of monitor?
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In general, I think you mean a way to publish and a way to communicate. I closed my github and twitter accounts and re-took control by publishing source code on my website. I'll occasionally communicate things I've done that I think may interest others here or on other similar sites. I try not to over-do that though. Too many self-centered posts turn a lot of people off I think.
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I know that was the original idea, but I wonder how many people in the last year or two receive tweets via SMS. If I was in charge, it's a tradeoff I'd be willing to make.
I grew up there as well, and moved away and started my own company. Kudos to the team of people trying to get a startup environment off the ground, but I would temper anyone's expectations of this having much long-term value.

As 2mur explains, it's a great place to grow up and awesome for families. That said, there are significant issues with the area that ruined any chance of me starting my company in St. Louis. Beyond the in-your-face social issues, there is an insularity to St. Louis. Outsiders generally are viewed quite skeptically, and trying to recruit to St. Louis was a significant non-starter for me.

This isn't intended to bag on St. Louis, but it's just not a fit as a technology hub. Compared to Seattle, the Bay area, Boston, Research Triangle, etc. the difference couldn't possibly be overstated.
Downtown has Laclede's landing, Busch Stadium, the James Edwards Dome, Scott Trade Center etc. There's other places that I'm forgetting, but that's a draw to down town for nights and weekends if you are into sports, drinking, and live music. I lived downtown while I was there and everyone I knew and worked with lived outside of the city and would drive in for work/events. I was only there for a couple of years over a decade ago so some of it has probably changed but I doubt it. It is probably one of the last places I would consider for a company and it's one of the few places I have no real desire to go back to.
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