skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who can forget Pierre Salinger:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E0D7153AF...

"But later in life, Mr. Salinger proved far less adroit in dealing with the new medium of the Internet, publicizing what turned out to be a bogus document that Trans World Airlines Flight 800 had been shot down off Long Island in 1996 by a Navy missile gone awry. The episode badly damaged his credibility and bewildered some of his oldest friends."
It's interesting that, today, it seems most ignored creative people would be content with merely getting and, for a spell, keeping some small part of the world's attention. To be richly compensated is really just a bonus.

That said, I suppose one nice thing about getting money is that it will stick around even after the spotlight goes elsewhere.
It's clearly not stealing.
This is the same as ctags then, and it's completely irrelevant to the issue with over-abstracting things in the code.
Interesting, it's a little ambiguous as to whether they mean a second final exam or whether they mean in addition to the regular course. Assuming they mean a second final exam though this would be good as a clever checksum just to make sure you are who you say you are and can answer basic questions.
Ideas are dime a dozen. Give me some smart friends to brainstorm with and we'll come up with several great ideas today that will be $100M+ businesses in a few years.

Those are some big words to swallow. I doubt he could do that but I'd love to be proven wrong. If anything, what he wrote comes down to the old adage of "easier said than done".
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Exactly; even though the article mentions the meaning of the graph, it seems to misinterpret it anyway.

From my perspective as a residential carpenter I see a continuing decline in the cost of labor combined with increases in efficiency due to new materials and equipment. Combine that with the high price of land in most urban areas, and I don't see much incentive for the big home builders to push manufactured homes and on-site automated fabrication.
signifIQ.com

spotsci.com

neuronly.com

axonly.com

synapticly.com

Are all available....
You'd never get away with trying to sell a linux distro, anyway :)
> type system nazis

As a general rule of thumb, unless you mean to say that Hindley-Milner causes genocide, say "sticklers", or "evangelists", or "fanbois" even.
I have to say, I'm impressed:

http://i.imgur.com/y2qkt.png

It worked relatively flawlessly.
not sure if it'll work for you, but what about treati.se?
And none of that mentions "posting offhand comments on a random Internet forum."

Here's some unauthorized legal advice for ya: Posting your opinion on random legal matters on HN has about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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probability of every resulting in any legal backlash for the commenter. And in a country which is supposed to cherish free speech as a principle, we should absolutely all feel good about giving our opinions, and if the courts have a problem with that, telling the courts to go fuck themselves.
LLVM code generation passes can introduce any number of register-to-register moves and perform arbitrary arithmetic that we don't track. We have to be able to find all derived pointers so we can write those into the stack map and update register/stack locations if we move an object.

The right solution is to have MachineInstr-level getelementptr instructions, so that we can discover all derived pointers and copies from a GC root after codegen passes are done. Right now, getelementptr instructions get lowered into "add"/"sub"/"mul"/"lea"/etc instructions too early and we can't track them.

What we can do relatively easily (with the series of patches I've been working on) is to track one instance of each GC root across a call (basically with a fake instruction after each call for each root that represents a virtual "use" of that root). That we can at least find the pointers.
Defeating Flame String Obfuscation with IDAPython
In that case educational perks are probably not of serious concern.
Right. One example strategy a lawyer probably wouldn't come up with: shame the company on HN.
Yes I did, and it is only mentioned in passing.
No, ideas are a dime a dozen. You seem to think of ideas as "thought + action" but then it's not an idea anymore; it's a real product with an idea behind it. Your example of your dad is a perfect example of why ideas really are a dime a dozen. That mantra isn't about saying that ideas themselves are worthless, it's about the idea that ideas alone with no action are worthless. I think the mantra stands as correct still.
Having done this myself recently, I'd say it's more like:

"I have an extremely clear idea of what I really want to do, but I haven't even built a prototype yet, so what I'm working on 2 weeks from now might well be one of the dozen other completely different ideas I've got. And I don't really want to be forever remembered as The Guy Who Left To Start Dumb Project XYZ."

There's value to oneself in declaring publicly that you are mentally unencumbered.
I disagree with the author's interpretation of some of these points.

The author inteprets "... when able to attack, we must seem unable..." as meaning you should lay low. On the contrary, this is talking about the element of surprise and sending a signal that what's going on is the opposite of what's really going on. Are you about to launch? Say you're still hunkering down working on product. Do you have a ton of money available? Make it seem like you're operating on a shoestring. Are you operating on a shoestring? Then make it seem like you have plenty of funds. My understanding of various "Art of War" and military strategy type things I've seen is that the element of surprise is the single most important tool for leveraging a weak position into a strong one.

And the second quote, about "It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying on" is I think referring to people who have been through the horrors of war and hence know enough to be cautious and not rush into it, as opposed to younger/newer soldiers who can't wait to get into a battle and show how awesome they are. If this has any analogy to the startup world I'd think it would be more like "only those who've experienced the downsides of taking on VC funding will know whether they should take funding again next time vs. bootstrapping".
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Leave Your Credit CardsHome: iCache’s Digital Wallet/iPhone Case
As DMX poetically said, "Talk is cheap, motherlover."
But downloading is not stealing.
No more cellphone minutes? AT&T expects data-only plans in two years
NYTimes.com Enhancement:Test Drive
Also, I'd really like to see the full filename of the movies I download. They include a lot of useful information, such as resolution (720, 1080, ...), filetype (mp4, mkv, ...), source (DVD, DVDrip, TC, SCR, ...), and release (eztv, ettv, ...). That is crucial especially for movie torrents.
For personal info, it would also be really great if we could have links to other personal websites (like my GitHub).
The Unintended Consequences of a Post-PC Era
The fast instruction selector only supports some constructs, whereas others are handled by fallback to the standard SelectionDAG instruction selection. In order to use this, do you have to ensure that you never trigger any of these fallbacks?
Kevin Mitnick doesn’t really trust the cloud, but he uses it
The documents are simple and small. Maybe 15 keys and short string values like datetime and latitude/longitude. 20,000 documents should be nothing but adding that much then doing a read triggers a view reindexing that was taking minutes. There are 2 million records taking about 1.6GB of disk. Doing on order of 100,000 deletes was bring disk usage up to 1.8GB or higher.

stale=update_after is not useful in my case. the client reads the database for the latest geographical position. it must return the lastest data in the database. update_after means its ready 'next time' but there wont be a next time, the client will simply have stale data. What the site needs is view updating after every write. If couchdb were to add that, I'd be excited.

I was excited about auto-compaction in 1.2 but the core problem remains that rewriting every single record to a new spot on disk at every compaction is a tremendous waste of I/O and write cycles on a (SSD) disk. Splitting the data in two sounds untenable for even simple queries (every search done twice, merging answer sets, etc).
> Because the whole founding principle of the country is "One nation, under god, indivisible...".

That's from the pledge of allegiance, which was written in 1892, long after the nation was founded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance

More important, you're confusing a goal with reality.
Too bad, because it's the only sensible advice in the whole post.
Yea, not sure what happened.
What? It's useful for "debugging" alright.

Is it really a machine or a person just picked up at the other side?

Are we getting a busy signal or something else?

Is the ISP really not picking up the phone?

Also, I used it once to dial to a really busy number. Automatic dial, busy, retrial, when the call went through I just picked up the phone.
Yes.

This is just for now, as fast isel is much easier to work with. I have other branches that implement most of the SelectionDAG support needed as well, but they aren't updated to the most recent work.
As I read his comment I was going to write basically what you did, but I thought "No. No, that is too nerdy." So thank you =D

Relevant: I do wonder though if the disorientation would be less for someone with complete deafness in one ear. I would think that they are already somewhat used to the balance/orientation issues.
I don't think it will. We'll try to maintain it up by any means possible as long as there's a satisfying worldwide alternative to buy/license this content.

In a way, it's a political stand. We're already in contact who could help us make an alternative that would be both legal and ethical.

EDIT: this is the manifesto I was looking for: http://www.dontmakemesteal.com/
3 new ideas on the future of news from MIT Media Lab students
Good question.

Technical. A Better Queue's database currently takes in only the first genre listed for a movie from the Netflix API. So those other 235 Gay and Lesbian movies are present in A Better Queue, but in other genres. The choice to only take in the first genre listed from the Netflix API was that, beyond trying to keep it simple, the first genre seemed like the most accurate one. The choice was in no way intended to be exclusionary.

I would be able to take in multiple genres during a database load so that each movie could show up for all of its genres. So I will. Right now I'm waiting to hear back from Rotten Tomatoes' API team so I can get a second API key for development. (Using my production key to test new functionality would put me over my API call limit.)
The opposition only has 1.25m in funding, of which only a fraction is probably reserved for legal purposes like this.

If you can get inexpensive representation, just call their bluff. This is not a big corporation you are dealing with. I'll put money on dropped case or some type of amicable settlement that doesn't cost you anything financially, which is your goal.
Night sky over the next 6 billion years
Nanosolar raises $70M for thin film solar
Lawyers (with obvious exceptions) tend to be pretty weak on common sense strategies and tend to frame things totally based upon their legal knowledge and training.

OK, one data point is just an anecdote, but I saw a good example of a lawyer using some basic strategy a while back. I had a legal situation of my own, hired a lawyer and went to court with the lawyer. The situation wasn't settled the first day, so my lawyer looked at the court schedule, figured out that if we asked for a continuance we'd come back to court when a different judge was presiding, who he believed - based on his knowledge of the judge's personal life - would be more favorable to our position.

We came back two weeks later, sat in front of the new judge, and the judge came down pretty clearly on our side, and the situation was resolved amicably. Had we tested our luck with a different judge, things might not have turned out so well (then again, maybe they would). But, anyway, is struck me as a fairly subtle, but effective technique.

That said, I understand that - in general - the courts don't like it when lawyers try to "pick their judge" to YMMV.
It is a defensive posture against the mafia. Netflix is already bent over backwards as movie distributors try to run it into the ground with overt contracts, so they force them to use policies like these because they have the backwards idea that sharing will go away when they put their fingers in their ears and go lalalalala you don't exist.
"Hypocrisy" is the wrong word. It's "(geo)politics".

Every nation does it.
I draw the line at something big.
I know, right? I was writing this complex OO solution to a problem in Python, then I realized I could just do it with a function returning a closure.
I find it astounding that you lied about what I said, managed to derail discussion, and are now trying to loop PG into making it verboten to talk about any legal issues at all.

Since I didn't give any legal advice[1], but you constantly insisted I did, what you're really lobbying for is the power to shut people up who talk about laws.

[1] Other than "get a lawyer". The topic of the post was how doing research might get lawyers interested because he'd been turned down so far.
Is Gaydar Real? Absolutely.
Imagine a near future where it is common for people to get various implants (retinal implants, neural implants, etc.) for cheap prices and virtually 0 health risk. Would you get one that doesn't affect your sense of hearing? What about getting one that affects your sense of hearing?

These questions aren't me trying to prove you wrong or ridicule your point— I just have trouble understanding your line of reasoning and I'm trying to understand it better :)
I think your best bet is pirate bay plus adblock. Once you remove all the ads their site actually becomes usable.
Firstly, morals differ a little, as illustrated by the discussion around. Secondly, appreciating craftsmanship does not necessarily imply approving of purpose.
Self Service vs Sales Oriented Web APIs
Since we aren't lawyers, is there a possibility that this guy is actually at fault of infringing upon this startups trademark?
Your fear about computer attacks appears to be a bit sensationalized and a typical knee jerk doomsday reaction. You parrot that "Electricity is the lifeblood of civilization" and that people will die when the power goes off but then seem to forget that blackouts already occur in highly populated areas. Are they a major annoyance? Of course! Do they cause mass death larger then asteroid impacts? Where did you get that idea? Many of our critical facilities have backup generators for a reason. If such an event did occur you'd be damn sure that any damage would be repaired ASAP.
Or the clattering whirr of a daisy wheel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQkbT-g3aw

Actually pretty annoying. Though not as bad as the dot matrix.
Modem sounds were totally useful for troubleshooting. You'd know if your modem dialed someone's voice line, or answering machine, or a fax machine, or a busy signal, or "number not in service", or if it just rang with nothing answering, or if someone was already using the line for a voice call, or blessedly if it hooked up with an actual modem on the other end. You could also hear interruptions from someone else picking up a phone on the line or from call waiting; not all modem hardware would do it, but the relay on mine would audibly pulse.

The sounds of the actual connection weren't all that useful, but did at least indicate the negotiated speed between the modems (28800 and up does the kabing-kabing sound, 14400 and lower doesn't). So you'd know quickly if you hit a slow node on your BBS or AOL.
I must assume it's quite different

Even though some of the sound travels through the facial bone structure (like when you hear your own voice) I guess most sounds come from outside

Also, earplugs add pressure to the ear canal so I guess this muffles somethings
In which language was this rule enforced?

See http://anthonysteele.co.uk/the-single-exit-point-law and http://anthonysteele.co.uk/returning-to-multiple-exit-points
I agree. I have received plenty of awful advice from lawyers, especially when I only have a couple grand to spare, which this guy might not even want to spend considering it's a hobby. The idea that some cheap inexperienced lawyer is going to give better advice than HN which is full of experienced entrepreneurs with tons of business related legal experience is ridiculous.
It is not necessarily parasitical (and not at all dishonourable), because the only justification for imposing restrictions on people's freedom to share informational goods is the standard economic rationale, and we cannot a priori specify the correct extent of that. If copyright is actually too long (broad, etc.) a de facto reduction of it by illicit copying would be economically beneficial (and that seems most likely the case).
You're saying that if tomorrow you could no longer download movies, music and tv shows for free, you would simply stop consuming all of these things?
So if someone produces a work in digital form, and it is explicitly their intent to earn a living from people paying them money to view this work, can you think of anything even remotely unethical about the release and downloading of the work on a torrent site?
So obviously the guy needs legal advice, and ASAP.

We obviously also only know part of the story, and from his perspective. Still, something here smells really, really bad.

As a media professional, my advice is to take this to the public if you can. That means Tech Crunch, AllThingsD, CNET, the Next Web, etc.

(I'll also include my own employer, Mashable, where I'm the entertainment editor but often end up being the defacto point person for stuff that's developer-centric)

Not knowing the facts around the situation, I'm inclined to say focus on getting public attention as early as possible, especially if you're worried about being able to get a response submitted to the court by the deadline.

On that note, I would ask your lawyer friends what would be involved in requesting an extension, because if you want to fight this, you will need more time.

Finally, even though this is a labor of love and not one of profit, after you get through the eye of the storm, it might be time to shit or get off the pot regarding the service.
After all, if you're looking at wanting to invest a lot into the legal defense of this project, it might be time to start looking at how you can transition it from a hobby side-project into more of a real business.

If you aren't interested in making that transition, you need to evaluate the costs -- not just in terms of money, but in terms of time and effort -- in this particular hobby.
When you need legal advice, talk to a lawyer.
What Stuxnet's Exposure As An American Weapon Means For Cyberwar
+1 for the Star Trek TNG reference

If you want a glimpse into what it might look like check out AssistantExtensions (Jailbreak)
http://ae.k3a.me/tutorial.htm

And SiriSports which is built on top of it
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/sirisports-nba-mlb-nhl-sc...
Actually it is - I don't like waiting for ages when I want to watch a move right now.
That means it's a newly registered account.
'Filesystems' as in arbitrary data serialized to an arbitrary backing is absurdly stupid when said data has a structure as with all data. A semantic system that understands the data needs to be implemented at some point - why have n parsing implementations for a single data format? With a semantic 'object system' data becomes apart of programming.
Should have been here 4 years ago.
How do you hear your heartbeat if you can cannot hear your keyboard keys when pressed?
Probably because this is just a trumpet tooting, pat ourselves on the back and firm handshake press release and doesn't contain any insight into anything, really.
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Google Alerts Users to China's Web Blocks
the quality of translation matters a great deal

Indeed. The English translation of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" in Project Guttenberg is an "old" one which censors certain aspects of Captain Nemo's anti-colonial background.
labvine (don't love it but but workable)

I've made an inquiry about a much better one that you may be able to buy....sitting dormant. That's what i'd look for, really solid names that you can buy for not too much....worth it.
That only works if you contend that every single person who pirated something would not have purchased the thing otherwise. I'm pretty sure that's wrong in the same way that saying every single pirated copy of something results in lost revenue (as the MPAA and RIAA contend.) It might not be as wrong, but it's still wrong.

And while there are plenty of studies that suggest piracy might help sales, there are also plenty that suggest that it does not:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-digit...

In fact, while the issue is plenty debatable I'd say that most of the evidence comes down on the side of "yes, piracy hurts sales, just no where near as much as the MPAA would have you think." (Though even the article above suggests that piracy wouldn't be as much of an issue if movies were released worldwide simultaneously.)

Furthermore, "hurting the creators" needn't necessarily be financial. There are many, many artists, programmers, etc. -- not big publishers, but creators -- who hate piracy with a passion. They often feel under assault by Internet companies the way that people here feel under assault by the MPAA. I think they're misguided, but it's irresponsible to just say "fuck you, this doesn't hurt."

So no, "hurting the creators" is not false, probably not financially and certainly not ethically (you're doing something with their work they don't want.) It's valid to say that the creators have to suck it up and adapt, and that many of them won't be able to make money in the ways they did before. But they are getting hurt.
I'd imagine two paranoid governments not being able to agree on a DVCS is not very far off. Everyone involved wants plausible deniability.
Get GNU/Linux
If it were also reasonably priced, users who wish to reward people who make this type of content possible would pay for it.
Bill Clinton criticizes Obama's Bain attacks, praises Romney's business career
Thanks, that's entirely reasonable. Though I would still feel uneasy to release a lot of personal information of other people (phone numbers, physical addresses, birthdays, etc.) just for autocomplete and signed up with Twitter.
Crockford on what could be done to save Yahoo
> you can be regarded by some as taking some of the responsibility for the advice you think you haven't given

That sounds bogus to me, has anyone heard of any lawsuits of that type? That is, someone who is not a lawyer and is not presenting themselves as a lawyer being sued for giving bad legal advice?
Am I the only one that reads an article like this and has the following thought process?
"Man I can't believe those guys!"
"Wait you agreed to what?"
"I hope you documented that right?"
"I'm guessing he didn't document that"
"He still hasn't fully engaged a lawyer?!"
"Man those guys suck but for the love of Mary why didn't he just get in front of this with a good lawyer."

- Who needs a lawyer when you can marshall the Internet Pitch Forkers!!!!!
Got very good at listening to drive platters for that scratching noise that indicated the head was crashing and the drive needed to be replaced soon. Now my SSD is silent and I blindly sit and wait for wear leveling algorithm to fail.
Facebook's IPO