skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tor is getting more and more useful. It doesn't take much to mirror TPB with magnetic links tbh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
Microsoft has a lot at stake - WP7, as it is now, lacks credibility and that's absolutely critical in this "post-PC" world. Nooks running WP7 (and abandoning Android) could generate some.
> No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.

And my drug dealer gave $50 to a pregnant woman so that she could get a taxi to the hospital.

If you want to argue why this ruling is wrong you should address the issues of censorship, arguing that The Pirate Bay isn't a site built around copyright infringement (which it is and the founders openly admit this) just does a dis-service to the real problem here (censorship). TPB is a for-profit copyright infringement enabling enterprise, that's why it exists, arguing otherwise is not worth your energy (because ultimately, what does it matter if it enables copyright infringement or not? So do most websites that don't intend on doing that) instead argue that any government should not be disabling access to a website.
Startups: Stuff White People Like.
"They have to listen to the customers to succeed. The path to success is to take customer problems and figure out a creative solution to them. The customer is driving the most substantial part of the company."

I think the analogy is pretty good actually. You seem to have a bit of a naive view of how music is made a produced. This is a decent description of how music is made, perhaps with the Apple-ish addition of them frequently telling the customer what they like rather than always listening. It's completely treated as a product.
I can totally believe it- it's just that we're repeatedly sold stories about startups that get hockey stick growth two days after launch.

I remember seeing an interview with the founder of Pinterest, who was slightly annoyed at the coverage they'd been getting- they had been working on it since 2008, but everyone was talking about it as if it had just launched.
Saying 'The UK' is a little over the top possibly, I think this is a reference to this,

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_...
Why would we want to supersize the college classroom? From a student's perspective, smaller classes are a better experience.
They probably use many outside services

We experimented with out-sourcing a few years ago. It was a disaster: the out-sourcing company was 'fair-to-excellent' with standard products and services.

But we're a manufacturing company. The majority of our software is specific to our industry. Suddenly the vendor is dealing with dozens of apps they've never even heard of. And - whoops - some of the guys who dealt with that stuff are laid off.

The rest of us got calls from confused techs in Austin plaintively asking what in the heck was the UmptyFratz service and who can restart it?

Long way of saying that - I imagine - some of what Valve does is industry specific and hard to out-source.
> Weird that they don't publish the numbers themselves. I wonder what the reason might be...

They're a private company. They're under no obligation to provide the public with their financial data.
Probably referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
"Conventional wisdom deems smaller classes superior"... Well that doesn't really apply in this case, does it? You can have 3000 students sitting in their own comfortable place, all learning from you.

The Internet revolutionized the way we learn. I remember wanting to learn how to create a small tripwire alarm circuit when I was a kid and having to go through half a dozen books from the library and make my own notes before putting it all together (it took several days). If I had access to the Internet as it is nowadays - I'd be able to start (and probably finish) the actual work in hours!

I hope this develops further - it definitely has the potential to make college and universities useless. The downside is that you don't learn how to work and socialize with other people - that's why I believe that online (and home-) schooling is not a good replacement for elementary and secondary education... not yet, at least.
"When you consider that the only thing that stood between Facebook and potential annihilation were my ethics"

I want to disagree with this. The source code leak wouldn't end Facebook. So what if there were hundreds of clones? The secrets that the code holds could be modified quickly enough to block intrusion.

To me the comparison is like saying KFC would be ruined if their "8 Secret Spices" got leaked.... guess what, they're not that secret any more and KFC is still running strong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...

That's the wikipedia link to the time that the unelected committee called the internet Watch Foundation managed to cut off access to Wikipedia after they judged that legally-available album art on one band's entry constituted child pornography and summarily blocked wikipedia.
Why do I think its going to leave another bad taste in my mouth like overpriced Atom's lackluster performance did?
Everything has annoying defaults until you either change them or get used to them.
That's advanced technology! Not needed really:

google: site:thepiratebay.se windows

Cached site from google includes the magnet link.
What would happen if the company fails to deliver the watches? Give a refund? What if the company has no cash left?
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Are you listening?

Quantum.

(edit: not that I have a clue what I'm talking about)
Why not? Most students will have the same questions, which can be turned into a FAQ live and the teacher will still be able to dedicate some time and attention individually...
Moore's law is not a law. It's an observation, it's as much a law as my observation that the amount of rain increases in podunk at a rate of 10% per day. There may be some phenomenon where it's true for a little while, but calling it a law just makes me cringe. The law is a self fulfilling prophecy because chip makers make it as a target which is neither too ambitous nor too cautious. It should be called moore's phenomenon.
I think they are still trying.

There is an on-going tabloid newspaper campaign where they are trying to force the ISPs and politicians (especially the opposition) to adopt or commit to an "opt-in" for porn on Internet connections. That is, the default would be required that ISPs take on the cost and legal culpability to block porn.
> deductions and tax credits are explicitly entered into the law to define what someone should be paying.

So if a company follow the law and they gets tax deduction, it means that that's the tax the society agree that the company should be paying, right?

> loopholes are involuntarily, while tax deductions are intended.

So can the company exercise tax deduction without being called using a loophole? Is it ever intended for tax deduction to be okay for a company?
It will create a market opportunity for people who will make the torrents available even to the users that aren’t tech-savy.
The issue is not with censorship, it's with what they are censoring. Very few people here would take issue with this court order if it was about a site that exclusively hosted child porn. Therefore yes, the context of "is what TBP does illegal?"

To extend your (frankly poor) metaphor, he wouldn't be a drug dealer if all he did was hold up a sign pointing you towards your nearest drug dealers and he never actually gave you any drugs.
Perhaps some of the money will go to preserving the records themselves in an underground archive somewhere in London (or another UK location).

My fantasy would be filling in a reader's card, descending the staircase, and reverently removing various treasures from their sleeves and cueing them up on a BBC issue record player (think heavy machinery).

But, I suspect you may be right.
> They're a private company

For-Profit?
CV's in general imply a research/academic role--its the same in the US, CV's should be multi-page.
In Windows Phone 8 - the idea is that both Phone and Desktop will be released somewhat simultaneously.
That's the beauty of it.
Good call, I just updated it. Thanks!
The app’s UI is tailored for the device and therefore more convenient, if just by a small margin. I’m happy to pay €4 for that.
What exploration? The context of this thread is commercial exploitation of a resource. This isn't a search for knowledge. You're caught up in the romanticism of space.
Where does that argument stop? Computers facilitate copyright violation, there for PCWorld and Dell do too. Roads facilitate burglary, etc, etc.

They have legitimate uses, I here the idiots cry. Yeah, so do torrents and TPB.

This whole thing reminds me of the prohibition of things like cannabis. Banned on a false economic and scaremongering premiss, yet the laws remain for emotional nonsensical reasons. Logic and reason get left far behind.

I really dont know what to make of governance any more. Politics is insane. Business seems equally insane. I dont know how I fit in to this any more.
Hey, not saying ths isn't awesome :-) in fact, what you've done here must give you a lot of confidence in your codebase.

However, bugs can creep in when two modules interact. From another comment it sounds like you are seeing how modules interact with each other, I guess the reason I point out the terminology issues are because folks on here are curious about testing and there's a lot of confusion around ths area already.
This is the only explanation of this that makes sense to me.

I love how they slip the standard "royalty-bearing licence" text into an agreement when they're giving a company widely regarded as struggling nearly 0.3 bilion dollars. I assume the only reason the other firms aren't revolting over this is that they already secretly negotiated better deals which led to their agreements, again with the publicity highlighting the "royalty payments to Microsoft" and nothing else about the deals.
Objects are a poor man's closure. Closures are a poor man's object. Objects are a poor man's first-class module, and so are closures. First-class modules are a poor man's type-class. Type-classes are a poor man's first-class module.

Hail, Torat Exists, the holy teachings of the existential type!
Probably something along the lines of E(data, H(data)), I'm guessing.

I'd be very surprised if this were patentable. The same basic technique was mentioned offhand in literature as early as 2003 (http://static.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/mis...), and I suspect the idea's even older.
The performance of localStorage revisited
I would too. I would pay maybe $100+ a year for this, even for only 4GB or whatever I currently have on Dropbox. But maybe this still wouldn't be profitable to develop if only a small group of paranoid users would buy it.
Sure, but then all of your data is only as safe as that key server. And if you lose your key/password to it, you are just as hosed.

It really comes down to two options: take care of your key by yourself, have best security and highest risk of loss or share your key with somebody else, reduce your security, and have a fallback against key loss.

My company is working on easy-to-use security. One of the things we are looking at is a middle-ground using key-splitting algorithms to give you very nearly as much security as the first with the fallback of the second.
i have yet to pick up members of the preferred sex at bars talking about my startup

where are the groupies, the sex, the drugs

what am i doing wrong

(

More seriously: While there are certainly some similarities between the lifecycle of a band and a startup, the author seems to put forth a very structured form of the startup lifestyle--I think that claiming there is one true trajectory does any favors to us.

Also, something to muse on:
"The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."

What do you think would be a reasonable mapping of this onto tech/startups/CS/engineering?

)
Reminds me of that video where the child refuses to hit his party pinata that looks like spiderman, instead puts down the stick and goes over to hug it.
If you're looking to replace a relational database, then you're looking for orthogonal persistence.
Its not actually obvious that you can't have more transistors than atoms, but I'm not sure it isn't possible in theory. I can imagine electrons in different orbitals having different interactions, or having for different energy levels in an interaction to effectively double the number of transistors.

There are theoretical limits to the density of useful computation, but they don't correspond neatly to atoms or such.
I take it we all know that google has a specific custom search for torrents? You dont just have to start with filetype:torrent in a search.
I'm sure programmers drinking protein shakes is the reason there's not a lot of women in technology.
百度影音电影
The analogy I was going for was that American Idol gives people without outlets to a record label a path to a record deal. YC gives teams a path to become an investment-worthy company (or maybe even company successful enough to not need further investments).

However, this ends up supporting the VC = Record Label analogy that I don't think is strong.
Child pornography: illegal
Copyright infringement: illegal

censoring child porn websites: right, censoring copyright infringement website: wrong.

Not sure I understand the difference? Either you're for censorship of websites, or you're against it, you can't pick and choose.
"The Pirate Bay was started by the swedish anti copyright organization Piratbyrån in the late 2003, but in October 2004 it separated became run by dedicated individuals. In 2006 the site changed it's ownership yet again. Today the site is run by an organisation rather than individuals, though as a non-profit. The organisation is registered in the Seychelles and can be contacted using the contact form."

https://thepiratebay.se/about
Big Data is Just a Fad
The name of Mark Pincus's dog could be considered Zynga trivia, but this sounds like personal trivia about a Unix developer. I do hope Pike expounds on some of the stories behind these.
I had an identical reaction -- if I didn't know better I would have thought the lead in "The theme looks just gorgeous, doesn’t it?" was sarcastic.

I honestly don't get Metro, or the love of it, though I know that taste for such things are entirely subjective. A ridiculous low data density, elements not conforming to usability / aesthetics relative to their container (the whole giant text covering multiple viewports thing), a mishmash of contrasting colour tiles. It really, really isn't my thing. I hear it sells to people like the Woz, but in my opinion it's just a terrible interface that is heralded purely because few have used it in any functional way.
How do you not profit off BILLIONS of ad impressions a month?

I can understand some other website believing TPB's a penniless, selfless endeavor but people here should be able to translate "top 100 website" and "multiple ads per page" into more than just operating expenses. It's not like they're YouTube serving terabytes of traffic a second, they also have no support, no shipping, and of course they sure don't have any expense producing content.
off topic, but you are missing an important step in your workflow: verify solution found on stackoverflow. some of the answers there are terrible, even among the highly voted ones (remember that many of the people upvoting something may not know the answer themselves, they are learning it right there).
For digital goods you can probably spend 85% of the funding on building the product AND you don't need to give up shares of your company to a VC. As for physical goods I don't think most physical kickstarter projects aim for 25% margins, especially when you look at all the diffident tiers. Many of which end-up as 1,000$ twice what you would get for 200$ but we will say thank you on our website.
As an aside, I would drop the very informal use of "thru" and use "through".
I almost said "Thru is not a word" - but some searching says it's made it's way into dictionaries, to my surprise (and probably to many others my age, you run the risk of having that word jump off the page as a mis-spell that is only used in online text messaging or as a shorthand, not formal writing.
Or maybe I'm just getting old...
Git Time Lapse
How to write javascript code to fit in lines of 80 chars
How about 3 years? Because that's how many years Kickstarter has existed.
Strangely, Java is a legacy language, but also the lingua franca of the largest, most prestigious tech companies.
Cowboy and Batman.js for Erlang Web Development
If you dig into Crunchbase, it seems like a common theme is at least two years from inception to explosion.
Can we get a Share on G+?
I think you are right. The only thing holding back cryptography from being widely adopted is the lack of a service that makes strong cryptography super easy to setup and use. I know this isn't a trivial task, but it's not impossible to implement strong crypto in a user-friendly way.
Hosting illegal things: bad

Saying where to get illegal things: under dispute
Does any body really still use TPB as a first stop site? It is usually my site of last resort. To me this is a bit like some weirdo government still freaking out about Rock 'n Roll and Punk Rockers.
Daily web design inspiration, without distractions
Briefly, CSSMosaic is a gallery of inspirational and well crafted web site designs, mostly CSS based and often with interesting and innovative content.

Initially, it was born to collect and manage our own bookmarks of interesting sites, and now we want to share with you a selection of our best valued links through this site.

Our main goal is give to you a cool gallery of beautiful web designs without distractions, so this site is intencionally minimalist, simple and unobtrusive. It's constructed to be clear and faster to load and our aim is to have its content updated very frequently and, in most cases we add new sites along the day, every day.

We hope you like it and find it as an usefull resource for your daily inspirational browsing experience, and all without distractions.
State of the browser in London, England
Although they are technically a non-profit, the people that run it are probably getting nice salaries off of the hard work of others.
Not to say anything of the business execution and infrastructure management, without either facebook would be no more than a bunch of php files on a server.
My first reaction:

I feel pain for the old Microsoft Reader team, and Bill Hill, who pioneered a bunch of e-reading stuff and were shut down last year. Sucks being a victim of Microsoft's not trusting its visionaries.

My second reaction:

Microsoft just paid B&N $300M to ensure that Android continues to fragment. B&N now has the resources to really take Android forward in whatever direction it wants.
There are people going to uni to learn programming / CS and then there are those who just want the paper...
He of course didn't mind the support of Murdoch's media empire, including the UKs most popular newspaper (The Sun) which carries naked women on page 3 everyday
Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant
Yeah, come on. Let's not pretend this site is something other than what it so clearly is.
Can We Trust Google?
It's even better than that, right? In microgravity, what's stopping you from sculpting a precise 3D shape out of a lump of molten metal?
Site causes 150% increase in hookups  University of Texas
UT Grad student's study found that there had been a 150% increase in hookups on his campus since he had conducted the same survey 6 months before. Subjects said the website personab.ly was to cause. If you sign up for the website they will send you an email about their agenda. Apparently they will be launching this August to colleges around the nation. Despite my conservative ways, all my nephews and nieces are excited.
Windows 7 Professional Core-2 & AUZsoft v.15.12 (2012) - x64 / x86 / RUS
I have to say Path of Exile is my favorite indy game of all time. It is just crazy good. The skill graph, the socket gems, the general pace of the game. I can't wait until you guys launch out of beta because I don't want to get too emotionally attached to my characters, only to see them nuked in the final patch.

This game is going to be very successful and congrats on building something so awesome.
I've long been curious if G uses(d) the wifi data to augment its android location triangulation resolution...
Such as? It certainly isn't at Microsoft. Nor at Apple. Nor at Amazon, or Facebook, or LinkedIn or Twitter. Android made a big mistake of throwing in with Java originally (as the project originated as a decoupled version of J2ME, as such was the thing at the time), and Google has a preponderance of Javaheads internally, perhaps explaining their continued reinvention of new languages.

Oracle likes Java, but that's because their products are largely code produced over a decade ago.
Contemporary Pioneers: Investing in Space, the new innovation race
Discover The Hidden Persuasion Techniques Concealed In Online Ads
Ironically, most of these tabloid newspapers publish pornography themselves, and staunchly defend their right to do so.
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
What's All This Hashtag Stuff? If You Don't Tag It, They May Never Come
That kind of model, of necessity, leaks information about the files you are uploading, which is a major negative. It is now possible to tell if you've uploaded the same document as somebody else.

I'd love to know how they are doing it, though. I'm not sure I believe there is a way to do it that doesn't allow Bitcasa to read the file (at least not one using well-researched encryption technologies). It seems like they are likely using your key as a key encryption key for the actual key to the file, but for that to work, they have to be able to tell you the real encryption key, which means they have access to the contents.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though, because we could use it. :)
And there will be plenty of tech-savvy people ready to make it easy again, in exchange for ads/money/malware.
Commercial exploitation of a resource we haven't been to yet would seem to include some level of exploration.
Linking is not a crime.
A Letter From My Future Self
It can be used offline if it's been loaded and cached - http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/running-opera-dragonfly-o...
Mobile web development isn't slowing down
There is no zelda.prototype. It should have been:

Game.prototype.heartIt = function() {
console.log( "I heart " + this.title );
};

See: http://jsfiddle.net/a9asJ/1/
I used to be the kind of person who couldn't work without headphones. Nowadays, I usually don't wear them unless there's a lot of noise I need to drown out or I just want to work undisturbed.

People who do use headphones all the time don't bother me though. I typically just send them an IM that they can acknowledge my question/comment on my own time.
"Constructor notation is preferred when you need to set initial properties and methods on an object or you plan on creating multiple instances of an object where the properties and methods of each instance need to be unique."

Love it when they don't just tell you how to do something. Would like to see more people write on when you should use something.
The Net vs. The Power of Narratives
ICS-CERT: Event Auditing and Log Management
Wanna Be a CISO? Career Advice for Getting There
First Look: Cogent Mobile
The Business Tip DHH Gave me Last Night
The Right Answer is to have not brought up the age issue because it is rather immaterial to the discussion. Can you really say that the authors age, when considered independently from the article subject, has significant bearing on the voting?
It is enabled; still doesn't work.