skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like co-domination. If the content lobby controls government that controls the content lobby...
No matter who decides what is undesireable it is a dangerous road to take. Where do you draw the line? Streaming sports events? Sharing 50 Cent songs? Protests against legislations? Child pronography? Law makers in democratic countries should be really carefull about the direction they take in these post-SOPA days. The tools they are thinking about to control online piracy are really dangerous weapons in the wrong hands. "Undesireable" was a welcome excuse already to often.
Let's hope artist, and managers, remember the past when possibilities of censorship where actually used.
What people fail to realize is that US DOJ paved the way for other countries who do not want free internet to do what the DOJ does..ie India can demand that any *.in domain has to follow Indian law and take down any posts that disparage its leaders, etc..

Its really a very bad long term move on DOJ's part and especially undercuts the US State department efforts
"openly admit you are reading an overtly right-wing book."

It's called an autobiography.

I've heard the left wing excuses and arguments and find them thoroughly unconvincing.

> b. look at the data.

I have.
He's saying negative things about former employees. So much for symmetry. Interesting that employees cannot prudently make negative remarks about former employers even in general terms, but employers can make negative remarks about former employees. If a negative remark would lead a prospective employer to wonder if a candidate would eventually say the same things about him, why wouldn't a prospective employee think that a prospective employer who made remarks about bad hires would not eventually say the same things about him?
I think the important thing to take away from articles like this is that the cloud isn't the only way (not that you should then title the article "Why the cloud isn't for your startup"). If you do know a bit of sysadmin stuff and/or you're running a bootstrapped company it's good to know you can pay about 10% of what you'd pay on AWS by using dedicated gear (particularly if you have predictable traffic, as a lot of sites do). "X hours of my time is the same cost as Heroku" only works if you have cash in the bank or each hour of your time directly brings in cash.

We do have a slightly special case with >100TB of storage and monthly bandwidth, though. When we started I assumed S3 (or another cloud service) was the only way and never dreamed of building my own distributed file system.
By comparison i would...also they do make great chocolate? Whats not to like...

I've registered a few .it's (Italy) and still maintain a bunch of .com.au's. I dont know, the internet is starting to scare me...maybe avoiding .com isnt a terrible idea, but i have no idea how the others would behave. Likely they wouldn't be much better...

I feel like we're in the 60's of the Internet and soon 'the man' is going to come down on us all and we'll have to get real jobs and stop smoking our virtual weed.
ActiveCollab but I don't know about any Git integration or you could try Pivotal Tracker which seems pretty nice.
To the dismay of folks like myself, the half-baked critiques you describe are unchanged from the days when Apple was still smaller than their peers. Think of Slashdot's infamous iPod review, for example. The tech press just seems to lose its mind when it comes to Apple and their products. Anyone who gets it right is a "fanboy" member of the "Mac cult", and all that nonsense.
To second the comment that itmag made, you are simply replacing one country with another. Recall the debacles that happened among the cute .ly TLDs when Libya decided that Islamic law applied to sites like vb.ly.

http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...
We'll be introducing a new API. It's not ready yet.
Why does the UK give India £295m a year in aid?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12607537
There's a legal principle call Forum Non Conveniens that is supposed to remedy this, though I don't know if anyone has challenged these seizures on those grounds. Basically, a legal matter is supposed to be tried in the most relevant and appropriate jurisdiction. For example, you sue a corporation in the state where it violated civil law, rather than state where it's headquartered. I shouldn't have to fly to Dallas to sue Pizza Hut if my local franchise poisoned me.

That said, the Internet breaks down a lot of established jurisdictional law because a website can operate effectively anywhere the Internet exists, and as such can theoretically be subject to the laws of any web-connected jurisdiction. These seizures are just another example of how the law has not caught up to the basic operating procedures of the web.

There is a certain legal philosophy that says the Internet is operating under its own version of Maritime Law, which is to say its a non-national zone where the law is defined by consensus practice and then ratified by bordering or participating jurisdictions. International salvage rights emerged from common maritime practice, and are now generally recognized as legally binding.

That's in theory a good model for the web, but I'm very certain the US Government doesn't see it that way.
basecamphq.com remains for Basecamp Classic accounts. basecamp.com is for new Basecamp accounts.
> 'Sencha Touch 2 Allows Developers to Code iOS Apps With Windows PCs'

Stupid title. It's been a JS framework all along, it obviously can be coded on Windows/Linux.

I got the point though, Sencha Touch aims to look as native as possible. Well, that is really far fetched. I am working on a Sencha app, and Sencha Touch sucks. Especially the Sencha Touch docs are BS, single line descriptions, very pissing off.

But no other framework is as good as it, yet. Stuck with it for now.
One of the strongest things that makes this article credible is that in it we have the author of Ogg Vorbis recommending that we stop using Ogg Vorbis (and all other lossy compression formats).
You got it 100% correct. You upsample simply to move the frequency of the analog filter higher, with a gentle rolloff (and ideally a 1st order filter, so you introduce no phase effects) to get your final signal.
Down, tiger!

I don’t think anyone is arguing that you ought to be able to break US laws when dealing with US customers. The question here is what sort of process is used to seize these domains. Notice how you alleged something about Bodog? Are these allegations proven in court? Was some kind of open hearing made? Did Bodog have a chance to respond to the allegations before their domain was seized?

I don’t speak for anyone except me, but I think it’s quite reasonable to (a) Agree with you that when dealing with US customers you ought to comply with US laws, while simultaneously (b) Asking tough questions about how the US government chooses to “enforce” its laws.
Ubuntu founder touts UI innovation in 12.04 beta release
There is nothing rhetorical about their question. You are solving the possible US domain confiscation problem by substituting a possible Swedish domain confiscation problem.
Thing is, OpenSSL itself fully support IPv6, the hangup is in s_client and s_server (the generic SSL/TLS command-line client and server).

And as noted in the bug tracker, OpenBSD has been running with a patched s_client for quite some time.
Also, some cannibalize your sales.. they rank for brand keywords or bid for brand keywords, and take away sales you otherwise would have gotten anyway.
I agree--$20/mo is not expensive but like @thehodge says... it all adds up. I think that in this space tho, you have a huge market of people who are "pre-business" who just couldn't justify 5-10 $20 services a month when they are pre-profit or only making a few hundred a month off of their products. Basecamp could appeal to some of these folks with a sub $10 offering.
I'm beginning to think registering a non-US domain will be a good strategy for internet businesses - either as a backup or primary business move.

Also, I didn't remember wired.com comments being such a cesspool...
Canonical is in a tough spot. They've put a lot of resources into developing a new desktop environment and branding that as Ubuntu. That desktop isn't going to run on a 700mhz ARM11 with 256MB of RAM.
Browser Wars: Is Internet Explorer 10 a Relevant Browser?
This article claims billions of dollars in damage. If this is what the FBI is saying, they are wrong. Lulzsec damages don't even approach a million dollars, most likely. Billions of dollars is how much money it costs to do things like provide universal health care for a small state. The FBI should investigate real cases and not treat a bunch of merry pranksters like they're a bunch of super terrorists.
Advanced Persistent Threats: The Butler in China Did It
Yes! And, this reminds of amazing "Mathemagic" series of videos by Khurshed Batliwala. Here's one:
(a+b)²=a²+2ab+b² - But Why? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_TJymgXgM
I once interviewed a CS graduate who couldn't even tell me what an integer was. I was tempted to write a letter of complain to the university in question.
A rough guide to TomatoCart – powerful, open source ecommerce
5 Websites to Convert YouTube Video to mp3
As others have posted here about other businesses, prices under around $20/month start to rapidly become unprofitable. One common reason cited is that a price of e.g. $10/mo doesn't allow any budget for support time, etc. Lower price points work for consumer applications with potentially massive scale. But businesses unfortunately need to pay for results.
Annoying things girlfriends do
These 5 phone screen questions are lifted almost directly from Steve Yegge's "Five essential phone screen questions" post - https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...

1) Coding. The candidate has to write some simple code, with correct syntax, in C, C++, or Java.
2) OO design. The candidate has to define basic OO concepts, and come up with classes to model a simple problem.
3) Scripting and regexes. The candidate has to describe how to find the phone numbers in 50,000 HTML pages.
4) Data structures. The candidate has to demonstrate basic knowledge of the most common data structures.
5) Bits and bytes. The candidate has to answer simple questions about bits, bytes, and binary numbers.

They even use the same regex example. He attributes other things to Steve, so maybe this is just an oversight, but I'd like to see another link.
ASUS DD-WRT - You Spoke, We Listened
Hard to have sympathy when there's a version with double that capacity available and you passed on it.
Fall 2011

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.2130-001/

Also, other courses:

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/
I don't understand the debate about the stylus. You can buy many models of styli for the iPad. The fact that the thing doesn't ship with a $5 peripheral is hardly a detriment. In fact, it's an advantage - you get to pick your style of stylus - and they are cheap to replace. I bought one for $5 that goes on my keychain - if Apple made that it would be $30.

So, tell me again why there is any debate about why there is no stylus? Because there isn't a form-fitted hole for a proprietary styles? Because apps aren't designed for styli (the ones that need them are)?
Kind of surprised that there's no separately distributed sha sig for legit slowloris. If you're going to download a hacking tool, one would think you're going to be careful...
Education and Society: Why Both Need Technology
Education and Society: Why Both Need Technology
Read the book (Or some other facts from the time).

She had to privatise industries because they became ridiculously uncompetitive and expensive to run.

During the previous socialist government the number of public sector workers increased drastically.

British steel was haemorrhaging money. And the unions response? Demand pay increases and strike. Same with the coal industry.

Would you rather she kept us paying billions in ever increasing public sector wage demands?

"Full employment" should not be a policy. You don't spend public money employing unproductive workers in useless public sector jobs just for the hell of it.

Full employment is something that happens naturally when individuals take responsibility for themselves.

The UK economy is a mess because of drastic overspending by socialist governments. Something we're having to put right (again). Shame the lessons of the 70s/80s weren't learnt.
Don't trap me bro!
Business Cloud Consulting Is Consolidating
Business Cloud Consulting Is Consolidating
Apple Wins Access to Information on Android Development History
shocker... but like anonymous/lulzsec continuously said, you cant kill an idea. another group doing it for the lulz perhaps soon or later will come up
The Perfect Storm for Cloud Computing
The Perfect Storm for Cloud Computing
New Research Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact ~13,000 Years Ago
I'm not denying that, I'm just saying nextparadigms's argument of chip age does not hold any water.
Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging
Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging
+1 for the Trachtenberg system. I only wish we were taught these methods at school, in addition to the 'normal' way...
TLDs are a marketplace. The more customers move around, the larger the economic force exerting influence on countries to behave a certain way. Moving domains by itself is not enough, but it’s a step I’ve taken.

If people sit on their hands and say, “It’s all the same really, no point in doing anything,” then nothing will ever change. You have to vote a certain way, lobby, speak out, protest, write blog posts, and yes, even move domains from one place to a seemingly similar other place if you want to make the world a better place.
ThoughtLeaderGlobal.com Architects Change in the Cloud
ThoughtLeaderGlobal.com Architects Change in the Cloud
I have a policy of not arguing online any more as it tends to lead nowhere, so this will be my last response on this (I don't mean to be patronising here, just stating my position).

It's a autobiography by a right-wing leader, so if you talk about subject X then reference said book, it's likely that opinion will be right-wing, which was my point.

Anyway, I didn't mean any offence, and I don't want to get embroiled in a political argument, rather wanted to highlight that.
"I’m steering clear of .com indefinitely."

Why? Sounds like cutting your nose to spite your face.

If you had a store to open and all the customers were on "K" street would you not go there because "K" street had a .0001 chance of crime vs. a street with .000000001 chance of crime.

Is there rationality in your decision (for your particular purpose) or are you just protesting against what you see as a potential slippery slope?
Pundits will pundit, it's what they do, and Apple is a prime target nowadays. Not sure what's with all the fury.

I do wonder if the Fire will be a bigger success, especially worldwide. It's not a direct iPad competitor - it's not a product for the same market segment - but I can see it selling well in lower income places. An iPad will never be a huge success here in Portugal, for example (and in my opinion, of course).
Thanks! My boss will be yelling at you within the hour.
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But I think it's exactly these "wishlist features" that make frameworks/packages a necessity in the first place. If PHP had these functions well-implemented and -documented in the core, it wouldn't be necessary to have 10 different flavors of PHP frameworks and packaging systems. That's why you don't see any (or very few) 3rd-party .NET frameworks.

Instead of the community fragmenting again and creating yet another packaging system, the community should contribute directly to the PHP core to eliminate the need for frameworks and package galaxies in the first place. (Though packages would still be useful for lesser-used or shiny and new features.)

Is that practical given the political and code state of the PHP core? Maybe not. But I guess that's why I called it a "dream situation" in my OP.
The tempest smart phone is out there - http://bit.ly/l2r
Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public
We are still in the stage of these groups being very amateurish. It will take few rounds of purges until really committed+careful+smart organizations emerge.
Show HN: Hosting my first developer event
Old Basecamp was not being improved actively anyway. It took them 5 years to add deadlines to to-do's, for example.

The new product reminds me (even in the name) the failed NeXTSTEP operation systems. The incompatibility with existing solutions was part of it. Basecamp Next is not an upgrade, but a new product. It does not have the same set of features, in fact it has even less (time tracking, milestones, etc). Free accounts are also dropped out, as it seams. Old browsers like IE7 do not seam to be supported... A lot of things are going against what J was preaching all those years.

I can see Basecamp fans buying it, but if I would be a new user and I would check their website for the first time (that is also designed with you already knowing about Basecamp in mind) I would ask myself "why would I pay $20-$150 a month for a product with so few features"). It's a nice to-do list, but the users got smarter and the market moved forward - users need more features, not just a one-page project page (Google Docs can do half of it out of the box and for free).
Absolutely! RPi is cheap but every bit as powerful and complicated as a full PC. I don't see why everyone is saying it will revolutionize programming education for kids. They don't need cheap computers. They need simple computers; a "microworld" in which to play as Seymour Papert would say. That's not the same as an abstracted away or dumbed-down machine. Give them a constrained, simple environment and they'll have fun stretching it in ways you'd never imagine.

Something closer to the Fignition side of the spectrum. (I've personally liked taking my kids back to Papert's Turtle Graphics on such a simple machine: http://bit.ly/figlogo)
Review all of the unjustified attacks LulzSec was responsible for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

Easily in the millions.
WTF is luxury software, ... is that even a thing?
The term luxury simply describes quality of the highest standards, and yes, it can be applied to software and thus software development.

"There is a clear distinction between poor, passable and high-end website and web application offerings and we at ANAIO have decided to dedicate our foreseeable future to producing software solutions of the highest caliber." -- Al Newkirk @ http://ana.io/

Should we start referring to kickass applications as luxury products?
I can see all sorts of ways that this will give you false negatives.

This is what I would recommend:

1. Via an online test: check if they can code something very very simple. (This is your threshold that simply exists to not waste so much time.)

2. In their CV: Look for public-facing indicators of skill: github account, stackoverflow account, blog posts, etc. (Bias towards candidates with these indicators, but do not discriminate against those without. These are indicators of true positives and not true negatives.)

3. In a phone interview: ask about and then assess their breadth of knowledge. Find out their passion.

4. In a phone interview: test the depth of their knowledge in a relevant category of knowledge. If they are struggling then attempt a question in something they're passionate about. (This is the point where you detect true negatives.)

5. In the interview room: give them a choice of hard problems -- the sort you would want them to work on if they joined. (This is where you detect true positives.)

6. In the interview room: find out whether they're the right cultural fit for your company. (This is where you filter out any true negatives that remain.)
So, we spent time with device manufacturers understanding their implementations of WebKit and what we ended up doing is building specific implementations of our core performance APIs for each specific platform.

This is the problem with Android in a nutshell. Having to tune an HTML framework for each platform is just nuts.
Right - the polite thing to do on their part would be to either 1) say why the patch and others like it are not acceptable 2) comment on what needs fixing/improving (docs? test cases?) in order to accept the patches, or 3) declare that they are no longer able to maintain the code, and if someone wants to take it over, go ahead.
Unmasking the world’s most wanted hacker
It's actually a version of Bit.ly check out made-up URL http://on.msnbc.com/fsdhfjksd76f.

Possibly done via DNS?
> the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two allegedly commanded a loosely organized, international team of perhaps thousands of hackers

Sounds like he was pretty busy.
A/B testing headlines for upvotes?
But I don’t have a store, therefore I am not cutting off my nose to spite my face. If I did have a store, I would have to ask myself whether being MyRaganwaldStoreDotCom is somehow superior to MyRaganwaldStoreDotSomethingElse.

But until I have that store, I needn’t worry about it. So I don’t see any irrationality here whatsoever.
I certainly don't support dictators who harm their citizens, but it really is hard to know what is right and wrong given the media's constant bias. Just look at how tech is reported and it is easy to see how industries or topics I know little about could be misrepresented.
Thanks! Seems indeed a lot of useful stuff was dropped. I wonder if that was based on usage analysis, or just an opinion on what the product should have.

It is a shame that API appears to be only an afterthought. Otherwise third parties could possibly offer some of the missing features.
OK, if you say so. I think you're misunderstanding a fundamental concept of digital to analog converters. But if you think it's just to prevent blowing your speakers, that's OK.

The reason that square wave sucks is because it introduces tons of high frequency content (your amp probably won't reproduce the high frequency content anyway, so I don't think most Japanese consumer amps will damage your speakers--that is, the amp will act like a filter anyway). That high frequency content then creates alias effects (think of moire patterns when looking at super high-res photos that are scaled down without anti-aliasing). Those alias effects sound like shit to the human ear.

The point of filtering is to anti-alias the resulting analog signal after conversion from digital to analog. The point of upsampling is to move that filter well beyond the audible range, so you can use a 1st-order filter (gentle slope, but it introduces no phase effects). The fact that a square wave hurts your speakers is inconsequential--the amp will effectively filter the signal anyway. Unfortunately, it will filter the signal without anti-aliasing, which introduces those nasty interference patterns within the audible spectrum (that is, if you feed a straight 44.1KHz sampled square wave to your speakers without upsampling/filtering).