skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember PG saying in a recent essay that you start an innovative product by luring the hackers first? I think the same applies to ideas, as exemplified by the RFS to Kill Hollywood.

Well, so here is a great way the US is luring the world talent: By alienating the smart people with brainless and predatory policies like this.

Don't host your startup with a US company or at a European data center belonging to a US company (e.g. AWS or Linode in Ireland). And preferably not in a country that is a US copyright/IP colony (UK, AU, NZ, CA). Otherwise you're putting your users and yourself in danger.
Or possibly they get better compression with a JPG.
Great article! I just don't agree with the author's confidence in the "guiding hand of the government" in his conclusion. I would much rather have the freedom to purchase future options to buy healthcare rather than have my freedoms removed because the of the fear that the "average 20-year-old" may not have enough foresight to think about his/her future.
i believethey actually have to put up money in a reserve account as part of the payment provider agreement..... the merchant doesnt get credit.
I believe this has already been "confirmed" by Paul Thurrot, Windows Phone 8 will use the NT kernel instead of the CE kernel.

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-phone-8...

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/leaked-windows...
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Sent, thank you. :)
Yes, ads.

It's a difference of attitude.

I found a snapshot of their site, here are a few bits from their FAQ:

"
Also, please keep in mind that you're watching videos for free as opposed to spending over 20 dollars at the movie theater or purchasing a show. This should help you put things in perspective (keep in mind that prices change but this is a normal, typical price). " ... snipped price list ... "So, as you see, you're saving quite a lot of money (especially when putting several visits to the theater or seasons together) by having to wait a little bit of time. "

Their main listing page is broken up into genres, which shows they were aware of the nature of their content, and includes heading that indicate the source of the content: "Movies" "TV" "Anime", etc. They don't even make an effort to hide what they are doing. Their submission page mentions "Copying the name of the show exactly as it is on imdb".

As for the issue of linking, it's a red herring here. This was not some neutral site linking to random, user submitted comment. This was a curated collection. They knew _exactly_ what they were doing.
Some people are on laptops. (Including me)
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Can I set up mywebsite.com to be the master branch of Git, and then set up a dev branch at dev.mywebsite.com? Then, when the dev branch is ready for deployment, I can fastforward the master branch.
How would I go about deploying this?
My understanding is that the crime he's allegedly committing is against US based businesses that own the copyrights he is infringing upon, thus he can be extradited (assuming the home country cooperates, but given the treaties in place it's hard to imagine they wouldn't except in very extreme cases).
That was probably the single biggest issue, although there were others, there was a huge administrative overhead on all of the projects that it made it difficult to spot where any actual research was being done.
Some interesting criticism of Play here - seems similar to what's been said about the lack of unit tests.

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-fr...
IPad mini “confirmed” by Samsung official
Yes; however, the result is still less than the resale value of the equipment they gave everyone for free last year (especially if you went to the talk that gave away the Xperia Play): what they really need to do is not make the conference a net-negative "cost" to attend.
"The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic."

Also: The vast majority of non-US websites have very little to gain from blocking US traffic
This is pretty much my impression every time I try to test something in Python. I've never liked xunit, and I especially dislike it when it's a direct port from Java. Yes, it's familiar to Java programmers. But when I'm writing Python, I want something that looks like Python. (XML DOM libraries also like to think they're Java. That makes Common Lisp my favorite language for munging XML, since it's the only language bold enough to come up with some other API. But I digress...)

Also, I don't understand mocks in Python. Say I have a class Foo that has a method "bar" that I want to override. OK:

class FakeFoo(Foo):
def bar(self):
print "OH HAI"

Done. It's built in to the freakin' language :)
Not really a big crisis; we could shut down every nuclear plant in the US today if people switched from drying clothes in an electric dryer to hanging them outside. We live in a time of absolute plenty.
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Also, it should have read

from menagerie.cat import models as cat_models
from menagerie.dog import models as dog_models
from menagerie.mouse import models as mouse_models

Because otherwise it doesn't match the code in the first example for #3, and also because if your packages are ordered that way, then why not just

from menagerie.models import cat, dog, mouse

and forget about changing the local module name.
That makes sense. But as this is such an important event for developers I don't think anyone should be given preference - especially based on how much money they have to spend. It's great to give money to charity but it's not something anyone should be given preference for.
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This could be very serious for UK programmers.

Are you sure that no code you've written infringes on US patents? Or is used on a website that encourages the wrong type of copyright infringement?
PayPal has horrendous customer service even compared to the worst credit card processor. For example, if you have somebody dispute a charge with a CC processor, you have a chance to refute. Not so much with PayPal.

In fact, they might order the allegedly scammed buyer to simply destroy the thing you sold them instead of letting you refund the money and take it as a return:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57352136-501465/paypa...

Here's something else. When we were planning on setting up PayPal payments to integrate with our app, we went thru the process blah de blah, upgraded our account to Web Payments Pro III or whatever, and suddenly… we weren't able to access our money any more. They decided to hold 30% of all our revenue for 90 days. Forever.

Not just via this new mechanism. But every dollar that passed through our account.

This was after years and years of happily using PayPal and having hundreds of thousands of dollars pass through the account without incident or customer complaint.

Meanwhile when we were a brand new LLC without a credit record to our name, we had no problem getting set up with real "big boy" credit card processing, merchant account, etc., all of which deposits daily. No 30-day holds.

More importantly, if there ever were an issue, these companies have clear, firm policies, and great phone support. I loathe Auth.net for all kinds of reasons, but if you call them, they actually help you. There's none of this "No, I cannot discuss it, and no, you cannot talk to anyone else" crap that PayPal loooooves to pull.

So, while PayPal would like you to think that they actually offer better service, that their hands are tied, that it's somehow not due to them being total capricious assholes… that's just one big stinking lie.
There are quite a few Windows Phone apps that don't need multitouch (or necessarily touch at all). Of course, it would be jarring to use a mobile version of most apps on a larger screen, just like it is with other phones-turned-tablets, but I would imagine the most popular apps would be re-released with new graphics to support multiple resolutions (as they have been on other phone-turned-tablets).
I read this yesterday and was unimpressed; it seems that the finding here is "adverse selection", which is more or less the classic canonical problem in insurance.

Did I miss something?
As a Brit, I'm ashamed of the UK government and once again disgusted by the US government.
Guess he should have gone to Switzerland like Roman Polanski did.
In the US the insurance companies also negotiate the costs with various heath care providers. It's possible to pay 6,000$ / year in premiums, never hit your deductible so the insurance company does not pay anything out of pocket and still save money.
They did limit the profit of the health care providers which happened to reduced lobbying.
Dan, great article and congrats on the sale. Domainpolish is a great product.

For the metrics did you ever set up Google Analytics? I typically tell everyone to just install that first thing, it can give you ballpark estimates for almost any basic metrics question with about 5 lines of JS on each page.

For EC2, I agree with PaulHoule that it's possible to save money if tuned properly, but the learning curve is steep. I know I've served 5 or 10 minor projects of a single mini reserve instance ($6 / mo) with no issues, but getting a sense for it requires a bit of work.
From the article:

“If they can come for Richard they can come for anyone.”

The whole point of the social compact is that the state is supposed to protect it's citizens. That's the quid pro quo that legitimizes statehood. If a country extradites one of it's citizens after finding insufficient reason to prosecute, that's an entirely different quid pro quo.
currently the vast majority of power comes from fossile sources (coal, gas, petrol). just imagine what amounts of gasoline are used every day for transportation. there's no way in the near future, that we're gonna replace this amount of energy with solar energy. no way. we either switch to a nuclear powered, hydrogen based economy (once we run out of gasoline) or we say goodbye to mobility. and by the way, this isnt a really a question of price. solar energy is highly dependent on current daylight, we would have to rethink our entire energy distribution, building either much cheaper batteries, to provide a constant level of energy on the grid or create some sort of highly efficient global energy grid. those problems are far from solved. at least not at an affordable rate.
The numbers are no excuse in case of a person that did not break UK law.

How about your country signs an extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia and you get extradited and have your head chopped off for having a beer, since alcohol is illegal in SA? (Yes, an absurd stretch, but you get the point.)
And if the solar panels don't work out, they can take four of those ion cannons and use them as blinged-out wheels on their Escalade.
That's an interestingly huge sprite sheet indeed.

https://developers.google.com/apps/images/io/particle_hover-...

I would guess it's because of the color palette maybe? GIF was only 256 colors last I used it (over a decade ago). SO maybe they tried a gif animation, noticed some weird looking graphical artifacts because of the color difference from background to foreground. Then decided use a JPG sprite sheet instead for more colors?
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Are you actually asking or is it rhetorical?

Search engines contain automatic references to, roughly speaking, the entire internet (minus explicitly blocked content). The search engine is used to obtain a vast amount of knowledge by a vast number of people. It will link copyright infringing material at a low percentage rate.

TVShack on the other hand is used exclusively to link to copyright infringing material. It's used for a very singular purpose at a near one hundred percent rate.

IANAL in any country so I can't say what, if any, legal difference exists. Practically speaking the difference is rather straight forward. One entity (TVShack) exists for the exclusive purpose of linking copyrighted material and one does not.
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that's not what the judge thought. from the article in the telegraph:

> The defence believed its strongest argument against extradition was that Mr O'Dwyer had not committed an offence under British law

> However, Judge Purdy rejected the argument
Most of these systems both carry power and sit in a pool of coolant so they rarely experience such an 'energetic event'. AKA, if they lose power they don't need to keep things cool AND it usually takes a few hours for things to warm up anyway.
Which means any healthcare related company isn't likely to attend, since this "free hardware" is against gift restrictions relating to healthcare related businesses.
From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16024278

"between January 2004 and July 2011 there were 130 requests by the US for people to be extradited from the UK, compared with 54 requests from the UK to the US."

"the US had never denied a UK extradition request"
And this was all because the guy put a few links on his site...The power of these trolls is getting scary, they can bribe anyone it seems.
> a person that did not break UK law

the judge believes he broke UK law. from the telegraph article:

> The defence believed its strongest argument against extradition was that Mr O'Dwyer had not committed an offence under British law, because TVShack did not itself host copyright material. European law says no crime is committed if a website acts as a “mere conduit”.

> However, Judge Purdy rejected the argument from Mr O’Dwyer’s barrister, Ben Cooper of Doughty Street Chambers, because of the control the student had over what links were posted on TVShack.net and TVShack.cc.
Without sparking off a huge thread on free markets versus socialized medicine, the idea behind single payer health insurance is that nobody has to worry about "expected health bills", because everyone shares a giant risk pool in which uniformly low premiums end cover everyone by shifting expenses from people who do get sick to the (larger) pool of people who don't.

Part of the philosophical idea behind single payer is that people have minimal control over financially devastating illness and injury, and one thing society can do that individuals can't is allow everyone to share the risk, transforming a small probability of an untenable expense into a certain probability of a manageable expense.

You're right, and usefully so, to point out that private health insurance is treated like a utility instead of an insurance plan; knowing that also allows consumers to select high-deductible plans, and to take advantage of HSAs for tax-advantaged funding of the health care bills they do expect.

But single-payer insurance can handle both problems (routine billing and catastrophic coverage) coherently.
One important difference that the author doesn't mention is that after a start-up launch you're still going to be testing hypothesis, making improvements/ changes/ pivots such that your product 6 months after launch might not look anything like your product at launch. With a book, you might add more to a new edition, but the product is more or less set after post-release.

Still, I think it's an interesting post - especially about how writers can learn from iterative/ lean methods. Thanks for sharing!
If it's cached to the filesystem, it'll be handled by the file cache, under the kernel's control with the rest of RAM. Maybe browser makers have a good reason for thinking they can do better than the OS, I don't know, but having two systems trying to do the same job with the same resources sounds like a recipe for instability and inefficiency to me.
Ironically, if he did face the death penalty then he wouldn't be extradited.
Right, sight unseen of the registration form...
Steering a car full of gyroscopes in fast moving traffic? Sign me up!
All the more reason to take economics out of it and provide health coverage via universal single payer insurance.
The technology exists; we just haven't done it yet.

Actually, we have, albeit with varying degrees of success:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_plants_in_the_Mojav...
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2012/mar/04/local/la-me-so...
A workable model may be industry/research partnerships with universities, with heavy government subsidies.
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The book looks interesting and I considered buying it, but then I discovered that the Kindle edition is more expensive than the hardcover. When it is like this, I feel cheated (to say the least). So, I'm sorry, but I'll not buy it. Too bad.
Thanks for the flashbacks from the TiP BoF. I thought we'd never get to the end, but man that was a fun and nerdy time.
You mess with a US copyright maffia, your judge gets bribed you go to jail in the US where you have no means of defending yourself. Makes me think the US is no different from all those neo-communist governments in Europe.
Your statement is not contrary to anything I said, or think, so I feel no need to argue in response.
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Yeah, you figure at that price they're going to give out heads-up display glasses or something ridiculously cool like that. That was my first thought, anyway.
If you have to cross the kernel boundary every time you want to access something in your cache, your "cache" is now much, much slower. Note that this applies even if the OS keeps the file in memory, and doesn't require going to disk.
"Actually it's almost impossible to rig the statistics."

Pretty sure the opposite has been proven, e.g. GSK's shenanigans with paroxetine.
^dogma
I suspect sufficiently "important" people can already get a pass, through backdoor requests to Google. This would at least turn it into a positive externality. (although I suppose in the "google gives a pass to Friends of Google, it gives some benefit to Google to be able to confer special access).
Academic price:

2010 $100

2011 $150

2012 $300

I mean, hey, I'm not complaining but wow. Take a look at that inflation. I only mention it because when I was forced to sign up for Google Wallet they presented me a list of my transaction history. And there it was staring me in the face in all its inflationary glory. Maybe they will mandate that people must wear only Googly colors or use their gmail emails to sign up... Oh, right.
I think they are taxing existing energy sources to pay for the subsidy so on net people using electricity pay the actual cost for green power and other sources based on the actual mix of energy sources used in production. It only the producers who notice the cost difference this tax / subsidy creates.
If the iPad is a hip flask[1], this must be an intravenous line. (And soon we'll have augmented reality glasses providing a central line to the heart.)

1. http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/03/10/ipad-as-hip-flask/
CI yo wassup Jenkins getcha dev/ops on

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My read of it is that it's not just adverse selection, but a situation where instead of both parties having a vague idea of what their costs may be, one party now has a really good idea about their costs, and is therefore in a much better bargaining position.
Laws are generated by a largely accretive process. The corresponding ablative process is missing. I wonder if this is key to the imbalance?
> a series of features that use private data in a way that tends to offend non hackers, and a series of privacy defaults that do likewise.

Really? I find it's the opposite: hackers tend to be both conscious of and bothered by Facebook's flippancy toward privacy, whereas non-hackers don't seem to know or care either way.
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OT: what tools allow automatic sprite generation based on object movement such as this?
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I already have my phone in my pocket and I expect it to do all the things mentioned (via interacting directly). I also have too many devices that beep/vibrate at me so another one that does alerts seems unnecessary (one in my pocket and another on my wrist?).

If it was voice controlled however, that would be cool. The range of interaction would be far greater.

note: I gave up wearing wristwatches some time ago, if I did still wear them, this would be pretty interesting.
barrynolan,

Thanks. Now that I understand your reasoning, I have no problem with the title. FWIW, I wish I could delete my comment, but unfortunately that's no longer possible.
Interesting that this works with Blackberry and not iOS devices. Is this because the app store specifically rejected their app? If so, why?
Sure; adverse selection and asymmetric information are two sides of the same coin.
I'm pretty happy with the health care system here in Italy. It's so much less of a hassle than in the US: get sick? go to the doctor, no paperwork, no forms to fill out (which, in Italy, is really something of a minor miracle), but "economics" are always with us, because health care is a scarce good.
There's no reason they have to be exclusive. The UK has dual public / private provision of healthcare.

(Personally, I would never use private health care in the UK. I know people who have.)
There seems to be a lot of subtext here that I'd love to see more about. I'm only an occasional python hacker and I'd love to know more about this.

One question, is there a web testing framework for python that they do like/recommend?
I don't think privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators are that uncommon actually; hospitals have been using cyclotrons for cancer therapy treatments for at least a few years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron#Usage), and I'm fairly certain these are built and sold by medical equipment manufactures like Advanced Cyclotron.

No denying it's still amazing though...
"this difference is largely due to the differences in the size of the respective populations. The panel report notes that the U.S. has a population about five times the size of the UK, but there have been fewer than twice the number of people extradited to the U.S. than to the UK."

What? That seems extremely nonsensical to me.

Wouldn't one reasonably expect the number of extradition requests to a country to be proportional to the number of people in that country, not the number of people in the country doing the extraditing?

(edit: italics)
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"Are you sure that no code you've written infringes on US patents? Or is used on a website that encourages the wrong type of copyright infringement?"

You seem to be implying that if a UK programmer writes some code, and then somebody goes and uses that code for copyright or patent infringement, they are at risk of being extradited to the US... Nothing like that has ever happened and it bares no resemblance to the article under discussion.
"So the author's reliance on this de facto "rule not to litigate" is flawed."

And also historically ignorant. Yahoo did the same thing to Google when they went public in 2004. Somehow the world didn't end.
What could be the repercussions for a bit of law that says "If you hold customer money in an account, you cannot simply close and freeze the account without a certain set of procedures and an appeal process that looks like x"?

A bank can't do it. A stock trading brokerage can't do it. There are even laws to protect you from a company deciding suddenly that your gift card money is all theirs. (These laws are newish -- they can charge a small maintenance fee after x mos, but THE MONEY IS YOURS.)

There's no reason why Google or PayPal should get away with more theft than Macy's Gift Cards department.
Dangerous to try to engineer your way out of customer support. How about this instead: they should just hire support staff like everyone else who cares about customers.
Richard O'Dwyer responds after extradition agreed
The price of fossil fuels could also go up. We are starting to shift production from conventional drilling to more expensive methods like tar sands.