skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to take a peak under the hood, their first game, Onslaught! Arena was open sourced a couple of days ago:

https://github.com/lostdecade/onslaught_arena
Is there a crowdsourced public archive of tweets? If not, we should build one.
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Nice. The UI is elegant and intuitive, all important features are there. Seeing Instapaper catch up should be interesting.
Are you with abdulla because you are personally ok with the trade Google is asking for, or because that you think that anyone who isn't ok with it is overreacting?
"is this any worse than a car accident or a heart attack?"

In some ways yes. We generally have car and medical insurance to help with the financial side of catastrophic events. There is no 'software dev' insurance to help mitigate things if someone doesn't pay you or reneges on their contract. You have to bear all the costs of legal and administrative costs in chasing down the other party.

Perhaps some dev insurance program would be able to bear up to $x legal cost in exchange for y% of your burden.
I have serious problems with the relational data model, but I do think he raises a good point. This relational stuff has REALLY strong fundamentals and is battle tested. There are a lot of people out there shouting 'scalability!' without understanding the roots of their problems. Is a fully distributed persistent k/v store what's needed for many applications? Certainly. But that doesn't mean we should throw out the relational model for every application.
I too own a gun that can prevent people from speaking out of turn. It is made by Smith and Wesson
The bottom line is, as far as I gather, stories published here need to be non-conflicting with YC startups in so much as they don't set out with the single intention to trash the credibility of a startup.

Submitting an objective, or factual story is fine, but when the sole intention is to tarnish the reputation, then the "bury hatchet" comes out. I've even seen high karma members get completely banned because of submissions about Curebit and AirBnB.

When you come to one persons house, you can't argue if some ground rules are set.
You missed the point. This is why he talks about Plan 9. In Plan 9, everything IS a file. Including sockets, and windows, and processes. Several of these features have made their way back into linux.
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> but the idea that he actually didn't know what MU was being used for

Is that a reason to be held liable? Isn't the whole point of the DMCA that we realize that every open service that transfers bits will be used illegally by some, so as long as the service provider acts on takedown notices they cannot be held liable for the actions of their users?

> or that he cared about preventing it

They had a special tool for content creators which gave them direct delete access to everything on MU. This goes above and beyond the DMCA.
I'm thinking the same thing. There many, many sites that sell their own software. Just set up a paypal, google or whatever account and sell it. Don't just beg for money because your vendor is shitty. Perhaps this developer just didn't think this through and posted in a rage. Almost sounded like another Nigerian banking scam. Hopefully they figure out a better plan for the future. Apple's store is just one option, though an easy one.
Interesting situation, indeed. Let's not forget he has yet to be found guilty for any of the charges. And if he's tried and found not guilty, who's going to repay all the time and money lost because his site was down?

It's like the FBI came in and demolished his store to take away the bricks as evidence - if he's found not guilty, I doubt they're going to rebuild it for him.

They just needed someone to make an example of - there are dozens of other sharing sites out there (hell, many of them even have "warez" in their name), and yet they chose Megaupload, one of the biggest, with a brazen in-your-face owner (last time I checked, that wasn't a crime).

It seems to have worked, though - Filesonic disabled sharing, for example, and other sites must've done something similar...
Indeed, there is, but it feels oddly familiar, for those raised in the ancient era of ISAM, IMS and Total, to once again need to worry about consistency.

NoSQL databases (and not all of them are hierarchical) solve problems Codd wouldn't dream of having, but that doesn't mean they solve every current problem. I've seen people abusing them in horrible ways.
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Is it JS only? Can I use it in a declarative way?
I was thinking about this, but given they've got an OS running, it is good enough for £20, and I'll replace it when necessary.
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"Unfortunately the internet can't be truly free". This is true, but there's no reason it has to be paid by selling our attention. I'd rather use money.

Google Apps - I'm using local apps - iWork - with dropbox for collaboration.

AppEngine - linode, rackspace cloud, & AWS.

Picasa - iPhoto + Email

Voice - SkypeIn

Calendar - iCloud
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I have a VoIP phone that performs this function for free. It's very annoying ...
I didn't even need to do that; just photocopy and send to them via courier.
I think stuff like this is one of the reasons that there aren't many serious big ticket apps on the store (at ones that aren't also available elsewhere).

If I were to develop for iPhone there is no way I would invest serious R&D time and money into something with the risk that this could happen. More likely I'd just build a bunch of $1-5 apps and have them suddenly flatlining either because of this or user apathy factored into my plans.

I wouldn't trust the arbitrary mercies of any large corporation to put food on my (hypothetical) kid's table.
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I'm not so sure that a comprehensive test coverage is beneficial for a product like a game which is not really maintained over a long time period. Imo the biggest benefit of unit tests is for catching regressions, but a game you get working once and then you're done. Especially for smaller casual games I don't think that it's necessarily worth the effort to write comprehensive tests. Also, as Dijkstra already said, testing is inadequate. It can only show the presence of bugs, never their absence, so even if you have 100% test coverage it really says nothing about the quality of your code or how much you care about it.
Apple loophole gives apps access to photos
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This would be a great way to kill windows. Microsoft Office, IDEs, Photoshop, etc. simply wouldn't work as well in metro. Having separate windows allows drag and drop between applications and is a huge boost to productivity. Not to mention you can have several windows open and tiled appropriately so you aren't stuck in fullscreen mode all the time.
In the world of Big Data, privacy invasion is the business model
They have two GPIO pins right?
But I can still only flip it to either on or off.
So while it would be useful for something like turning on a single light, I'm not sure how I could use the GPIO pins to send say a number of users currently subscribed or something similar?
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Adobe's big cash cow is Photoshop. Photoshop users are traditionally Mac loyalists, I doubt many of them would have given any MS offering the time of day.
http://blog.foursquare.com/2012/02/29/foursquare-is-joining-...
Human error almost caused the species to go extinct -- I think it's fair, right, and proper to move to restore them to their prior condition if possible, and the situation was critical on the pyramid. It seems like a pretty docile species based on the articles facts, and they could keep them cordoned in a lab until they found what to do with them.

If the researchers and biologists felt it was the right play (which they did), it seems like a dangerous risk to wait for committees of non-scientists to make a political decision based on it.
That would most likely be a violation of their ToS and would give Apple a real reason to ban him.
I guess Next is still going for the same reason. And I guess standard oil is still pumping away.
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In short, imagine if a runaway mega-corporation or government gains control of these earbuds. Not only could the intelligence-destroying blasts from Harrison Bergeron come to pass, but with Delayed Auditory Feedback it would be possible to render the entire population mute.

Is it just me who thought; well if a runaway mega-corporation does come to exist, in a position to force society to wear such earbuds (or whatever)... I doubt the existence, or not, of "speech-jamming guns" will affect matters.

They haven't even thought through the sensationalism!
I'm wondering if you've tried this new OS out yet.

The "Start-Menu" has now gone, no button - nothing. Metro is the start menu. That means to launch apps you've not created desktop shortcuts for yet, or pinned to the taskbar, you need to launch Metro. I find it quite jarring switching between the two, but I could get used to it.

Also, to bring up things like "settings" for a given item, you need to hover over the top-right corner and then move your cursor directly down. This is just plain weird for me, and I fear what a less confident computer user would make of this. Effectively things they may need are completely invisible, unless they know where to look.

My biggest concern is that sometimes you can be using a screen in the old way, e.g. network preferences - select an option, and then a completely different style of screen appears out of the right hand side for you to action on. It's just plain weird and confusing, and needs to be sorted before launch.

It seems to me that in an effort to simplify the OS they've made it way more confusing.
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Not so. AFAIK their server design was to store a single copy of each identical file with multiple links to it. There are certainly circumstances in which one person has a legitimate right to a file but someone else does not. By deleting the link and not the file, MegaUpload can preserve the legitimate access while denying the illegitimate access.
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See cbs' comment below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3651914)

If he had knowledge of the illegal activity then DMCA doesn't protect him.
Use GET instead of POST.

How rediculous. Use whichever is appropriate, as well as PUT and DELETE.
This is actually useful tech - I've been in many situations where other people talk louder and longer than me (I have a quiet voice and don't interrupt others when they say something - I'm always perplexed when others do it) and instead of escalating and turning a debate into a shouting contest, one could use these devices (though I don't see that actually happening since it would make a lot of people angry).

As for free speech - it's not really a danger - if you're having a protest, the last thing you wanna do is shut people up - they're going to start destroying your equipment and it will quickly turn into a full-fledged riot...
It isn't quite that simple. I'm working with a large multinational that has tens of thousands of XP machines, some of which run in-house LOB apps, but many of which are just used for mail and Office.

The upgrade effort (never mind the expense) is huge, and there has to be a compelling case to move on from XP... which there certainly wasn't for Vista. Win 7 is gradually being adopted but it is taking a long time.

So while I can appreciate Microsoft's desire to move on from supporting apps on XP, it means that there is at least one large customer who won't be able to adopt VS11 for development.
It's debatable whether he complied with it, that will be up to the courts to decide.

I said he flirted with it, not that he neccesarily crossed the line into illegality.
What bothers me is the apparent lack of accountability. Apple pulls an app off the app store any time under rules so complicated and vague this power becomes completely discretionary. Or does it by mistake. I'd like to see the process Apple uses to ensure a rogue censor will not remove an app from the store because they don't like it, its publisher or got paid by a competitor.

The worst part is that Apple isn't even the worst offender around.
You can, but I think you'd run into the same issues mentioned here: http://clojure-py.blogspot.com/2012/02/ive-been-asked-many-t...

Basically it reflection (aka dynamic dispatch) is a major performance killer if you don't implement a tracing jit.
It isn't PR, it is a thorough technical rundown of the issue and what they are doing to improve it.
From what happened to a game developer in the past (can't remember the name, it was some isometric zombie game), even though the dev was "selling" the game, the button said "donate" and he wasn't a non-profit, so all the money got frozen.

Actually thinking about it, that may have been Google Checkout, but the point still remains.
I feel sorry for his family, but rely exclusively in apple store, or whatever store, is insane. Actually, the all idea of stores is, IMHO, a bad idea, because who control the app's relevance is not the user, and this is very wrong in a market. My 2 cents.
No, but a western democracy could make up some pretext to silence protests under the guise of, say, bringing peace to the lives of all the people who don't give a shit, so that they don't fall so much in the polls.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649873
>Submitting an objective, or factual story is fine, but when the sole intention is to tarnish the reputation, then the "bury hatchet" comes out.

Such is the reason HN thrives. Though experience has led me to reason that such behaviour is applied to anyone who sets out to tarnish someone else's reputation. Not only YC people/startups.

>I've even seen high karma members get completely banned because of submissions about Curebit and AirBnB.

Karma is not a good indicator of anything. One can easily gather "karma" by writing useless blog posts that rhyme with the general schools of thought (or thought patterns). I think karma is used here as a tool to promote valuable links that add to the conversation, rather than a tool that measures social hierarchy.
Karma does not measure a poster, but the post itself. If you post anything that violates the rules (which are sensible and permissive), then you have proved, without a doubt, that you original intentions were not inline with the "belief" behind HN (information that are interesting to hackers (though inflamatory posts are not interesting)).

>When you come to one persons house, you can't argue if some ground rules are set.

We are also born with gravity wrecking havoc around the universe. What good does bad-mouthing gravity do? =)
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"privacy betrayed" -> any of this data was ever private. it wasn't.
There's also http://www.glendix.org/
I have never looked at HN as a place to go to trash a company, there are other sites with that as their core mission, for me I have always thought of HN as having a positive vibe, I understand that some of that is my own filter bubble but never the less I am fine with the fact that they don't view it as a place to trash the companies that they invest in. I would be more OK with it, if it where just a blanket rule of don't come on HN to trash companies.
There's a plugin for rainbow parens.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1230
android market may be a little freer but I wouldn't personally put all my eggs in that basket either.

People are a little wary of downloading from android store because of the scaremongering over viruses etc.

Also there are many people who seem to give bad reviews on android store with little justification.
I wonder how it gets over this [1].

[1] http://tweetcc.com/
Yeah - this seems like a sci-fi rant.
It's verbose, not thorough, and it's light on the technical side. It only superficially looks technical to people who don't work in the field.

Everything is PR. Even if this was indeed a very thorough and technical rundown of the issue, it would still exist only because of PR.
Okay, I'm an idiot, would you use this as a replacement for JQuery? Can someone explain how it fits into the JS scene?
if this only works with 2-digit numbers beginning with 5, and the first step is to always square the first digit (which will always be 5), then you can simplify this further by saying

1) 25 + second digit
2) square second digit
2) append answer 2 to answer 1.

Am I missing something?
Maybe not.

http://lunduke.com/?p=2206

In the comments someone mentions a similar situation that resolved when his original account expired.
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It's easy to counter-jam, if you're expecting it. Noise-cancelling headphones with a 200ms buffer delay should do it.
Making the GMaps Api is the best thing that could have happened for Open Street Map and probably Google Maps in a while. The OSM Map Data is good enough for most. In turn since more sites are going away from GMaps it gets more popular and the data gets better. Google will probably integrate OSMs Data back into Gmaps. Thus sooner or later Google won't need to pay licenseing fees to the card guys. Because their own data (from Google Streetview) + OSMs data will be enough.
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Bone conduction only works well for lower frequencies, unless a transducer or vibrating object is directly coupled to your body. Earplugs would work just fine in this application.
Nothing beyond the standard set of tools that the majority of Android developers would use.

Poor list that has an obvious omission for AndoidANT too.
> pretty docile species

Like rabbits?
(AFAIK, this is why deaf people find it hard to speak.)

People who have been deaf from birth or youth find it hard to speak because they don't have the experience hearing others pronounce words which lets them develop proper pronunciation (similar to how non-native speakers have an accent).

People born with normal hearing who have lost their hearing due to age or noise exposure have no problem speaking.
How can you not like something if you've never used it? Android and iOS are the safe bet, but might not be the best fit for every use case. You'll never know with a closed mind and preconceived notions.
...which is still probably cheaper than a single wrongful termination suit. Calling it a layoff prevents that.
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Having general knowledge of illegal activity is not the same has having actual knowledge that specific instances of specific files infringe on copyright.

The entire point of the DMCA safe harbour provisions is that a provider should not need to act on the mere general knowledge that some people sometimes use their services for illegal purposes.
We (me and @RaghuRana) made this over the past few months. Roveb started taking shape when, on one hand, our genuine mobile searches were leading us to business websites that looked awful on a smartphone and hence were driving us (potential customers) away, and on the other hand, we kept reading and hearing that so many small-to-medium businesses couldn't find and retain customers.

Thanks to the UsefulTools editor for their review and submission on HN. Special thanks to @patio11, @JasonKincaid and @peeplaja for their advice and suggestions.
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An economist (who is coincidentally black) explains how the minimum wage kills jobs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMMN3UIQmEk&feature=youtu...
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Apple is a US based company. They release their products in the US. If you're outside of the US, you're waiting months or years to get your hands on the new iPhone.

Nokia is a Finnish based company. They release their products globally, and generally the US is lower on that list. Nokia treats the US how Apple treats other countries. It's not that different.
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If you run a file storage system with a deduplicating filesystem and you "delete" a file, you'll end up only deleting links.

There is no guarantee that another copy of the same file is infringing.
A question in case grellas or any other brilliant HN lawyers are reading this and care to comment -- assuming that Megaupload actually followed the DMCA as Kim claims and there was nothing illegal about their operations, what sort of remedies are available.

I mean... it seems the company is dead. Can they sue for damages? And if so who pays? Do the courts recognize things like growth potential when they value lost damages, and do they look at profits or just revenue? The reason I ask is because I'm curisou what would happen if this were a smaller startup that was strategically minimizing profits and perhaps even revenues in order to aim for growth.
It's fairly clear in the context that he's using O(x) in the informal 'order of' meaning: 'order of 10', 'order of 1000' etc.
> Karma is not a good indicator of anything.

I meant that just to underscore the point that (from my observations) PG doesn't care if you have been a long standing community member at HN. I perhaps should of said account age in the many years.

And I agree with this perspective. People who from the first line in their article set out with the intention of just sensationalizing some innocuous or accidental lapse in judgment by a startup clearly are just doing it:

>) For their own gain

>) Aren't trying to create objective discussion

>) Just want to disrupt the startups positive vibe by publishing damaging news about them.

Some things are clearly in the public interest... and should be written about, but some times I've read stories whcih are just beating a horse while it's down, and has been totally unneccessary. I totally disagreed with the way DHH handled the Curebit episode. Curebit were clearly wrong (by direct linking to assets), but the obsenities that he was throwing around so willfully on Twitter just made him appear like a kid who had had his candy stolen.
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But the article still get's it wrong it has nothing to do with functional vs OO vs procedural and everything to do with type casting. Given the level of confusion on the authors part I suspect this has more to do with mastery of the tools at the authors disposal than the constructs of a languadge.
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