skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The copy on this site is seriously misleading (http://contestdomination.com/?contest=dropbox). All the copy leads one to believe that you get DropBox Pro for simply filling out the form. Instead of saying "win a dropbox subscription" it says "get a subscription" and "Want to get a full year of our favorite online storage tool? Enter below to..[list of dropbox pro features]". This sentence further suggests that what you are entering is something else: "Enter the contest and receive exclusive offers and updates". Yuck.
Reading between the lines in the article and the FAQ it seems this indeed will happen:

http://posterous.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/56001-...

> What happens to my Space? Will Posterous eventually shut down?

> You can use your Space(s) exactly as you have in the past. We’ll give you ample notice before any changes or disruptions to the service and we’ll provide specific instructions for exporting your content to another service.

Notice they don't actually answer the question.

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/welcoming-posterous-team-to-...

> Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.

Sounds like they'll be working on Twitter, not Posterous. It doesn't say anything about people at Twitter working at Posterous, so it doesn't sound like a merge.
Any venue /event you can think of that would allow this (like a bar with an open mic)? You're back in Brooklyn now though, correct?

Any HNers from SFBay interested in this? I'd love to give this a go - I'll call it UMJam :)
Just because something is the norm doesn't mean it can't change. It changed before. It will change again. Either we will give up freedom to protect media distribution in an effort to subsidize the media industry, or the media industry will change.

Theaters in the US took in $10 billion[1] in 2011. Theaters are hardly on their last leg. If studios can't survive on 16 million in revenue (on average) we really shouldn't be modifying laws in the US and internationally at the cost of freedom to help those inefficient studios stay in business.

[1] http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2011
No, it's in Canada. Congrats, though!
This is a helpful resource!
A single sentence is not enough evidence to diagnose someone with a mental illness.
Spicy. Care to elaborate?
Like Amy said, it's got at least mild approval from the creators of two popular programming languages. I don't know what I could say that would be worth as much, but for whatever it is worth, I bought it and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
The terrifying thing about the thesis that people charging for content 'when they can' is that they will find ways to arrange the content so they can charge for it.

So we get App Stores, Xbox/PS3/Wii stores, and ever-creeping, ever-more-hard-to-crack, ever-more-restrictive DRM solutions. It's theoretically possible to make uncrackable DRM, which means someone will do it. It's just a matter of time finding an economically viable solution that won't annoy users excessively. There's demand for expensive information--expensive in the economic sense, in that making this information takes lots of work from lots of experts. People want the latest movies, TV, software, video games, music.

And then there's the ultimate DRM, PG's favorite thing to invest in: the webapp. What better way to make users pay then to demand they do all their work on a server you have, not their own computer? To demand users sign over their financial information to Mint, their private email to GMail? When they don't pay in money, they pay in loss of privacy. Sometimes they pay in both.

I want free information, free not in the GNU sense--though that's always an option--but free by the social norms of fair and legitimate use. I want software, media, and so on to be my own; I want to be able to use it without some corporation knowing. I want to be able to back it up and mash it up and lend the original copy to friends.

But content creation representative groups such as the MPAA and RIAA have conducted themselves in ways that threaten our very democracy. In an ideal world, society recognizes that commercial information can't be both free as in speech and free as in beer, industry and the Internet community find a reasonable way to punish the worst pirates without infringing our general freedoms, and the MPAA/RIAA's justification for its horrible lobbying vanishes in a puff of logic. (That's another thing; I don't think the technology community understands how sympathetic people are to the stance that information must not be stolen.)

No idea if or how this will happen, so I guess that makes everything I said kind of a rant, but one can dream... and I do think people need to realize that the market isn't some magic thing that does what you want. Half the market is people trying to earn money. The increasing trend is that the content creators are finding technical solutions giving users no choice but to pay them. I don't understand why this is a good thing. The world of Richard Stallman's 'The Right to Read' is a famous hacker nightmare, except now hackers seem to be endorsing it. What the hell?
> Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard. Harder to swallow an iPad.

I don't care if I get down voted but this made me laugh so hard.
As an ex-employee of Yahoo, I find this sad and disappointing. Also - unnecessary. Yahoo still has great people, great userbase and great tech. No good can come out of this long term.
Lisp Machines started at Xerox and MIT. The MIT project was started in the mid 70s. Much of the funding for Lisp at MIT came from DARPA (aka ARPA) in the context of enabling technology for modern software for the military. The MIT AI Lab projects in general were largely funded by DARPA. For some information about the later funding see this book: Strategic Computing, DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

When the research created the first usable prototypes of hardware (the Lisp Machines and other stuff) and software (expert systems, ...) DARPA wanted to commercialize it to create a market which then could serve their needs. So licenses of the Lisp Machine design were sold to LMI, Symbolics and later TI. DARPA financed also the users. Many machines were funded to be bought by university projects. Much of the early Lisp Machines were sold to the SDI project (strategic defense initiative, a pet child of Ronald Reagan in the cold war, the space deployed missile defense system).

Stallman's role in that scenario is relatively tiny. He worked on software and when some of the stuff he was using was about to be commercialized (in the above context), he protested against it. DARPA's mission was not to develop free Lisp software, but to develop battle management systems, logistics software, diagnosis software for complex military equipment, assistents/trainers for fighter pilots, missile guidance software, ...

Stallman fought for free software, but he was working in a government funded lab, where the funders (DARPA) had a very different mission. The 'hacker spirit' at the lab was more of an accident, attracting creative people to develop the next generation of software and hardware. For the military and other government agencies, with commercial spin offs.

As mentioned the SDI initiative was using this technology. But there were several others. One of the biggest wins was DART, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replanning...

Stallman developed a lot of GNU software, but the goal of a new Lisp environment was given up early. For the initial goals see the GNU manifesto: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Some states in the US have homicide rates below 1.3 / 100,000 or ~3-4 for a city of that size. And that includes both vehicular manslaughter cases and child neglect cases so your example would be a rather bad year compared to many city's in the US.
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I don't believe I said anything about recordings disappearing, but if I was unclear please correct me. I take issue with the idea that recordings can continue to be a revenue stream in the face of changing technology.

If the media industry needs laws and international accords to protect their distribution system at the expense of personal freedom and national sovereignty than I believe it is the musicians who should change and not society.
Yes, they would. With a traditional merchant account (as you apply for to directly accept Visa or Amex), you declare your expected monthly volume and average ticket size on the application. If your actual processing deviates from those values significantly, the risk department will almost definitely hold your funds in a reserve account until they straighten things out with you and establish you're still operating within the bounds of the risk profile established when they opened your account.
Another thing I would like to add is that as much as I would like to, "private property" can never be absolute. I had a few friendly exchanges with some of my libertarian friends who argue that "private property" is sacred. While I do believe that in principle no other group of people should force individuals to give up their property, it is a principle that would be difficult to fully implement because of the simple fact that we live in a small planet with limited resources. The atmosphere is a communal property,so are the riches of the world's oceans. Suppose for example I am the shrewdest businessman on the planet and managed to own 70% of the world's grain output, in theory it is my property, should I be allowed to burn them all to ashes (assuming I figured out a way to burn it without polluting the atmosphere) since those are mine anyways? Capitalism brought the greatest explosion of wealth in human history because it "chose" those who can manage resources more effectively through the market system (instead of an appointed bureaucrat). Bill Gates will never consume $60B worth of grain and he can only wear 1 pair of shoes at a time. But because he took the chance countless millions benefited from his endeavor. I also don't mind wealthy people buying $5M diamond rings while "millions live on $2 a day", considering how many people were employed and paid to sell them that piece of rock with little practical use. But the "illusion" of absolute ownership is powerful enough for people to take chances. The trick now is trying to figure out when the rest of society can say to an individual that "you cannot do that!" when it comes to his property. I am not sure we'll ever figure that out.
FWIW a 'Square' competitor are launching in the UK soon and they use Chip & Pin as well - http://www.izettle.com
Identity theft is only as bad as the fraud that was performed through it. If the act causes a measurable loss to the victim (e.g. credit card fraud), the victim is going to find out about it one way or another. No need for surveillance. However, if you wanted to effectively forbid anyone from impersonating anyone else even when no harm is done, you would definitely need a surveillance society.
Hmmm. I commented on this in the other hacker news entry (for his talk) and got a -1 for it. I guess this is just a habit formed after many years. The quality of the talk is still great and that what's most important.
> communism/socialism is predicated on the presence of a government

It's really not. Socialism is about collective ownership of property, state socialism is only a subset of socialism. But perhaps you could explain why prominent anarchists like Bakunin aligned themselves with socialists when their ideals were so diametrically opposed? It seems like you're using rather ahistorical definitions of anarchism and socialism.
Definitely a sign of desperation. I imagine, stale board room meetings, lackluster performance in product development and an anxious board. Scott Thompson took this for a red flag and called it for what it is, a sinking ship.

Except this lacks in both grace and providing the company with any innovative, competitive, long term solutions, and definitely sets it in a bad light. I don't see any benefit to doing this.
there needs to be distinction made between health apps and healthcare apps. FitBit, Jawbone, etc are health apps but are NOT healthcare apps. Health apps are great for optimizing health for those who are already into fitness. Healthcare apps have a better chance of reaching people who actually need it because they are used clinically, by those in the medical industry. Therefore, "normal" people have no choice but to use them if the doctor says they have to. And by healthcare apps, don't think about iphone apps, think about stuff like SMS, or automated monitoring, or remote monitoring through phones.

The fact is most normal ppl don't care about their health until they get a heart attack.
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Congrats to Good/Real Sachin, Garry, and all the rest of the team!
Within a few minutes of reading about Bethnal Green Ventures was about I knew not to apply. I am currently working on a startup and could use "good" help, but I got the impression BGV were all about make money for themselves with little other interests. I wasn't sure what exactly would be in it for me other than up to £15,000 - but one can always get a lone. Accelerator groups are more than just the money.
Within a few minutes of reading about Bethnal Green Ventures was about I knew not to apply. I am currently working on a startup and could use "good" help, but I got the impression BGV were all about make money for themselves with little other interests. I wasn't sure what exactly would be in it for me other than up to £15,000 - and one can always get a loan if they need they money. Accelerator groups are more than just the money.
IE style sheets drastically clean up the main stylesheet. O'reilly's book on CSS recommends to code to the standards and hack to the fringe browsers, and with good reason. Browsers change all the time. But they will always gravitate towards the standards. If you have have non-standards CSS your site will break in the future.
Ah. I went ahead and put this up on http://sendthemyourmoney.com/ and submitted to HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3695546

It amuses me if nothing else :-)
The GPL is a hack. If copyright goes away, you could just copy, disassemble, or duplicate the funcionality of a piece of sotware in order to learn how to tell your computer to do exactly what you wanted. DRM would go wild and hardware oriented, and a constant arms race would follow, but DRM may be an impossible problem.

For example, I'm producing a closed-source, proprietary piece of software to make a living. I will aggressively defend my copyright. Do I believe in copyright? No. But I'm operating in a bad system and I need to eat. In a better world, I'd be doing the same thing as work for hire for a group of actors within the industry who would collectively benefit from it, and customizing for any who had particularly unique use cases. I'd be working to reduce friction for the entire system and to make the tools that computers are generally more useful, rather than reenforcing the oligarchies of the market leaders who can pay my price (which is almost completely unrelated to my effort, but rather to the value of advantage over competitors in an underserved market.) My software being proprietary is just limiting general productivity gains and distorting the market (from whence comes it's value), and my enforcement is just limiting everyone's freedom to use their own machines.

another tl;dr, the GPL hack creates an island of freedom within a restrictive framework, and if the restrictive framework is gone there's no need to respect the GPL, a child of that framework.
And if PayPal did that then they wouldn't get the same criticism that they get for holding your funds WITHOUT being willing to straighten things out.
Believe it or not, yes. You have to make them (through the arm they entrust with safeguarding them against risk, your Acquiring Bank) aware that you are expecting a large increase in your transaction volume so that you do not get shut off.

From what I understand they have tiers for assessing risk level, if you're not approved for a higher tier and try to cross the threshold your account will be flagged and cut off automatically until they can investigate/approve.
Maybe getting an AI lab person to do it (early Akamaite or maybe a MIT faculty member?) would be helpful.
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The last question of the FAQ is this:

>Can I export my Space’s to Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, or >another service?

>Over the coming weeks we’ll provide you with specific >instructions for exporting your content to other services.

I don't think there is any doubt they'll be shutting down Spaces soon.
Private Information Requires a Subpoena or Court Order

In accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, non-public information about Twitter users is not released except as lawfully required by appropriate legal process such as a subpoena, court order, or other valid legal process.

Some information we store is automatically collected, while other information is provided at the user’s discretion. Though we do store this information, it may not be accurate if the user has created a fake or anonymous profile. Twitter doesn’t require email verification or identity authentication.

So, we release this information, but there is little that proves you are actually you. However, if they also store IP addresses or you have released private information you might have far less plausible dependability.
Completely Agree. Gecko needs to remain relevant just for the sake of competition but Mozilla needs to really pick it up and fix Firefox's performance issues and gain traction on mobile devices.
Also, someone should make an AMI of this. Lisp machine by the hour :)
The CMU PGM course has slides and 'scribe notes' of each lecture if you find something from the Coursera modules confusing:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10708/lecture.html

(note the navigation bar doesn't load properly in chrome)
I stopped using Readability because it lacked an Android app. As far as I'm concerned it still doesn't have one. I'm not installing the Amazon App Store just so I can get the Readability app. Read It Later works well enough and I don't have to jump through hoops to get it.
Any "CSS Best Practices" guide should start with "1. Use a preprocessor."

Also, don't use IDs? Really? The article referenced as a source for this claim ends with "Don’t stop using IDs, just be aware of where they can cause you headaches and know where to sensibly circumvent them. Anyone telling you not to use them at all is not wrong, but they’re definitely not right…"

That's good advice. Understanding how specificity works will make you realize, when designing your Twitter widget, relying on a selector ".tweet a" is unreliable, and use "a.tweet-link" instead.
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When I got my first merchant account, I declare those numbers based on the current state of the business: About $1000/mo. I never revised those numbers in the 6 years I had the account. When I sold the company, we were doing +$1MM/yr. I've never had this happen on any other merchant account I've used since.

Obviously YMMV, but that's just my experience with risk tiers.
Depending on your needs, a traditional merchant account or another 3rd party processor like Amazon Payments, Google Checkout, Stripe, 2Checkout, etc. may serve as an alternative.

But there is no equivalent substitute for PayPal. There is no no-monthly-fee, no-credit-check, no-application 3rd party processor that lets you accept all major credit cards, eChecks, bank transfers, and includes all 190 countries and regions PayPal supports, including those where credit cards are uncommon and Google/Amazon/etc do not offer accounts.
To open a tag in a tab instead of a split, I use:

map <C-\> :tab split<CR>:exec("tag ".expand("<cword>"))<CR>
"My questions would be: how many contracts am I signing by simply doing what I like?"

The answer to these questions depends on information you're not giving in your hypotheticals. For instance:

>"Am I violating a contract by getting in your car and driving it away? ... Have I initiated force in any of these cases? Are there rights that are granted when I haven't explicitly signed a contract?"

I don't know. Did you just sign a rental agreement with me where I give you the right to use the car in exchange for the payment you just gave me? Or are you someone I've never met whose stealing my car?

If we had a society that was just when it comes to the really obvious issues-- like, rape, murder, theft, etc, then we could debate the morality of you singing a son (I'm assuming your hypothetical is singing a song that is copyrighted by someone else, but in my society there would be no implicit copyright.)

I'm not trying to evade. IF you steal my car, it is an initiation of force. If you walk into my house when you don't have permission, its an initiation, whether the door was unlocked or not.

>"and if it is, what if you lack the size to prevent me from doing it?"

I'm addressing the moral question of whether its an imitation or not. The practical question of how to defend against such initiations is a broader topic.

"Is there an involuntary limit to what can be signed away?"

That's also a good topic for debate.

I'd like to start, though, by focusing on the obvious initiations of force-- groups of people using violence to take from others, and groups of people waging wars on the innocent, or incarcerating people for doing drugs, etc.

The NAP doesn't imply there are no grey areas at all-- there are grey areas.

But the NAP does let you see that a lot of areas that people think are white are actually black. That the war on drugs is not only ill advised, but a criminal enterprise.
If you want to raise the level of discourse on the internet is it your obligation to object to people's core statements, rather than ancillary fallacies that might surround them.

Did you ever answer this from cmhammil?

I simply ask you this: if the taking of property via force is a violation of your "NAP," what do you say to the implicit threat of force which establishes the principle of property in the first place?
There's an even more low-tech way. Teacher starts calling you out on it. A little "ding" from a bell or similar draws your attention to it, when you wouldn't notice otherwise. After a while, your classmates will start policing each other, and even the quiet ones will speak up so they can play the "game" of avoiding filler words.
I think you'll find it actually varies with pressure.
They're using Minecraft Overviewer[1] to generate the maps. Overviewer uses the Google Maps api to serve the map tiles. It translates the minecraft block coordinates into lat/long coords. It's probably this translation that leads you to 'this location on Google Maps.'

[1] https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer
What do you think is going on in the minds of its current employees?

Do you think employees are making plans for an exodus?

Also, as I recall, wasn't there a senior exec that left recently upon Thompson's new appointment as CEO. Perhaps he saw this coming and thought similarly?
They can't exactly promise to remain up forever. That's not in their control post-acquisition.