skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the general tech industry on top of that. I'm surprised there hasn't been a canada-style tax on media that 'legalizes' such downloading.
> campaign donors

I would dare to say this could be a contributing factor to the state of politics and law. Essentially, laws and regulations are bought by the highest bidder.

I think many agree with me that neither religion or money should have influence on direction of politics.

For the anonymity on legislation; No.
Legislation, political- and judicial processes IMHO be 100% transparent.
Despite Stumbles, a Promising Path for Start-Ups in Brazil
I'm curious as to how this isn't an incredible violation of the sixth amendment - "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...".
I see what you mean, sounds right
I didn't really consider it like that, interesting
Back in the day (circa 1996 with my experience), MSFT made employees from acquisitions re-apply for their jobs and go through the full interview process.
I can't focus. Must be retarded.
If there is one skill you should focus on above all else its refactoring. With that in mind, just start and expect to rewrite as you learn.

As for specific tools, I too only recently picked up a mac and while it was a bit painful at the start there is plenty of instructions out there for getting your environment set up.

Good luck!
Do you really think that Aaron Swartz, Larry Lessig and the masses of people protesting Capitol Hill last year when SOPA came around didn't make a difference?

They were activists.

Do you really think we'd have so much free/open source software today without the contribution of Eric S. Raymond, Stallman, et al.?

They're activists.

Do you really think that we'd be here today if Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington never existed?

They were -- yep, you guessed it -- activists.
Seems like there's a lot of upset people commenting abou the realities of a good startup exit explicitly pointing out the realities of a non-founder. Probably why startup culture targets youthful employees.
It would automatically be illegal to break this spyware (i.e. to defend against it) the moment the spyware itself becomes legal. Since breaking DRM is forbidden by DMCA. DMCA/1201 should be really repealed, as well as any such new idiocy pushed by the DRM lobby.
Forget black hat; any sane person would organize attacks against the MPAA.

I know Anonymous is one of the prime offenders in this area, but I wouldn't be surprised if many on Reddit organized and attacked the MPAA's systems.
Bad news: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgiom2tGby1qfw6wlo1_500.gi...
We need Stallman because he's our extreme figure. He sets the bar for crazy-level. He makes you look like Jimmy McReasonable and your demands look sane.
The best thing Stallman could do is improve his outward image from hippy to something less ... hippy. Appearances matter and his, together with what he says makes him, and therefore his message, unpalatable and unrelatable to most people.

We live in a shallow society and the best thing the pro-privacy movement can have are moderately attractive, presentable, glib spokespeople.
Start with smaller projects, something simple based on either what you already know, or an existing lesson/blog/book. Then adjust it a little bit, work iteratively, towards the new stuff.

It's really easy to get lost in the big picture of what you want to do versus what you can do. Try not to do that. Just work on smaller bits involving the new stuff, falling back to what you already know at times, and keep at it. If there's a way you can do ColdFusion with Ruby/Python/whatever, go for it.

If you haven't seen it yet, Zed Shaw's Learn Code The Hard Way[1] series does a good job of getting you to use the right tools for the environment. Which is something I see frequently ignored by these sort of online lesson plans... it's not the languages themselves that are difficult to learn, but getting accustomed to the tools to use them, and the best practices.

[1] - http://learncodethehardway.org
The question burning everyone's lips is: "What's the intersection between the Javascript 'Important' and 'Good' parts?
I did the exact same thing when I switched from .NET to Ruby. Took a one year hit to work with Ruby at an early stage startup and left after a year to join a Fortune 100 making more than I ever did in .NET.
Unless Microsoft signs the rootkits purposefully.
Just about every Linux kernel version has had some root privilege escalation bug. So long as they can get some executable software on your system (perhaps not easy!) it's reasonable any such bug could be exploited, and voila, they can install a rootkit!
You might benefit a lot from just watching how Unix-based developers work. Screencasts are a really good way to do that. You can learn a lot from just watching and following a long. Just re-type things verbatim at first - while you're getting comfortable. Do not copy/paste at all. If you're doing web projects then don't even think about anything other than Ruby or Python. Try them both out, pick whichever one seems more comfortable. Don't sweat it.
I think this principle is best applied in personal projects where you are not even sure if your idea will catch on. But for client projects with buckets and deadlines this is a terrible idea. In my experience clients only decide what they want after they see what you have done based on what you asked for. At this point if you are rewriting entire modules then you did not design and plan properly.
I find it interesting that the current average valuation of a YC company is 22.5 million which is almost identical to what it was 2 years ago when there was 210 companys "the average value of startups we've funded is about $22.4 million" http://ycombinator.com/nums.html
Now you can almost genetically engineer your baby
> I can't even imagine ...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity
I hope it works out for you. Be sure to take care of yourself; e.g., avoid kipping pull-ups and the other harmful exercises that are popular in the CrossFit community.
Even once a week cooking can save a ton of time, and you can pump out a lot of food in an hour or so if you plan correctly.
Irrelevant: We just downloaded a 700 kb of background image and your links are hard to distinguish from text.
>>Working for a cool startup is very very cool.

No, working for something like Google or Facebook in its start up days is cool. And that is like once in a 15 year opportunity.

In reality you can do a lot of things on the side in a 9-5 job. Than working crazy hours at a crappy start up .

Yes working at big companies is not very much profitable, but neither is working at a bad start up. Bad starts up are worse than big companies.
what does that translate to in YC dollars?
This link includes the video that was used on the participants. You can see and check your own IQ.

http://www.businessinsider.com/iq-video-test-university-of-r...
It makes me angry, but the law here in the US is that "ignorance is not a defense." Oh... you didn't know our several million laws when you broke one? Too bad, they say. Lawyers counter that if the law was simpler, they wouldn't have jobs.
> people want to hurt the Western freedoms that many take for granted.

This is common propoganda, but is it true? I have no doubt people dislike our country, but do doubt that it is because of our democratic ideals....
don't fuck with nature
In case of people who don't have money. A lot of money means happiness.

And most of the times it is.

Not optimizing for money is setting yourself up for long term sadness. Though it might make you feel comfortable for the meanwhile.
The ISS will be running Debian[1], not Ubuntu.

[1] http://www.eteknix.com/international-space-station-starts-us...
Author here. We are still going.

The point of this article was to communicate to younger people that it is possible to go off and build something on your own. Many don't think about it or know it's possible.

If you're interested, about a week after this post, the app hit top 100 free apps in the store -- 88 I think was the peak -- and national news sources started using it to scoop stories from.

Either way, I've learned a lot, things I would never had learned had I not gone out on my own. I've also had a lot of interesting experiences -- some good, some bad.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to hear more.
Why wasn't Digg's $500K acquisition price "undisclosed"
Always wondered why, especially in light of this article on Techcrunch which describes the anatomy of an undisclosed investment or exit http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/26/follow-the-money/
Stallman isn't an activist for the end user, he's an activist for the activists.

> Yes, he is a nut.

Eccentric is what he is. Must be fun living in a black and white world.
So then, a good exit is the means by which you want good prospects for your children. If that so, wouldn't it make sense to have several different other methods to achieve that end?
When I read that bit it dawned on me just how plausible all those worst-case alien-movie scenarios might just turn out to be... Oh sure, it starts innocently enough: someone shows up for work feeling slightly "under the weather," one thing leads to another and next thing you know you're transporting off-world egg-sacks back in your chest cavity.
And ... won't someone please think of the children
I was frustrated at finding a beginning to end tutorial when I was trying to learn rails and ruby. I finally found it with Michael Hartl's book/online guide. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
Crazy doesn't help in the long run and often isn't helpful even in the short run. People exhibit something like an immune reaction to crazy ideas, and develop an allergy to the stimulus. Marxism has scared people away from social policy. Andrea Dworkin types have scared people away from feminism. (When I left liberal Oakland to go to U Chicago for college, I was shocked to hear people say, "I support equal rights but I'm not a feminist...")

The civil rights movement and the early neocon movement are two examples of movements that suppressed crazy elements, and were highly successful for it.
It'll be just like the Kazaa days!

The_Avengers_2_Earths_Mightiest_Heroes.mp4.exe
> USD DOLLAR!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
A 'valuation' and a sale are completely different things. Silicon Valley VCs are annoying as all hell. They get lucky once and all of a sudden they're Warren Buffett.
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Native American vets push for recognition
Re-whatnow? Return them to the place where they were almost destroyed? This kind if item should be viewed as a part of humanity's common history and carefully protected, not sent back into a barely stable area where they would act as a prime target for the people who were duped into letting them go.
> If I'm disclosing to Google what URL's I'm visiting by typing them into Chrome, I can't complain if the government can access them too.

How many people realize they're (with the default configuration) disclosing to Google what they type into the address bar?
Good work! What advantages does this have over the popular pelican project?
The Herald is in no way the "Fox News of New Zealand." It's Auckland's major newspaper. I don't find the reporting more or less dense than most other msm tech coverage frankly. I lived in NZ for 20 years, and don't remember any news sources there being quite as ridiculous as Fox.
For what it's worth though, Ben Franklin was much more diplomatic and compromising than RMS. RMS would be more like a modern day Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine or Samuel Adams. Though all mentioned parties during the revolution played a key role in the independence of the United States. So I guess one could say it "takes people of all sorts."
What Is the Single Most Illuminating Question I Can Ask Someone?
Like if maybe some people had such high IQs that they saw problems with people who thought their moderately high IQs were useful.

Sorry, just looking for real data.
Thanks, you are correct. I pulled the Feb 2011 10k, and it is clear -- $30M cash. No other acquisitions were mentioned, so that must be it. That being said, they show no earnouts for FY 2011 or 2012, but that could be because retention payments just got misclassified as comp. I stand by your >$40M comment as justifiable, likely accurate, and definitely more accurate than my estimation.

From the 10K > During 2010, except for the $50 million repayment of our line of credit and cash paid for an acquisition of $30 million, we were able to maintain a consistent level of cash and cash equivalents while growing our business by maintaining our disciplined use of capital.
X-Wing is Biggest Lego Model Ever
The Chinese seem to have an obsession with submarines. I wonder why
I wouldn't really call it a protocol. If Twitter is a protocol, then every exposed JSON-emitting API is a protocol - and perhaps that's true. But Twitter isn't unique in that respect. People have been publishing messages without specified recipients for a long time - it's called broadcasting, or publishing, or web publishing.

I wouldn't say the recipients are totally unspecified, either.

What makes Twitter unique is the artificial limit imposed on messages that can be broadcasted indiscriminately. And that makes it more of a new form of communication than any kind of protocol. It leads to a new form of expression, and a new way of getting a fairly accurate global view of the attitudes and cultural tides that are flowing through humanity in real time. That does make it truly earth shaking.
It's really amazing how well YC selects their companies, and how effectively they propel their startups forward. When talking to YC founders, you can just tell that there is something different about them.
As with all heuristic building there are benefits and drawbacks, but my main criterion for judgement is: Are these heuristics going to help you get better in the future?

In general I find the answer is no, for the same reasons the author points out: Slower to adapt to a new environment. With faster rates of technology adoption older brains will be left in the dust as we start to capture their long term heuristics into models of social behavior that we can integrate into our decision models through our new technologies.
Shelf Advocacy: Aims to minimize research papers stucked in shelves
If you decide to make the financial investment to start college, it makes sense to finish. That does not mean it necessarily makes sense to start in the first place.
Particularly interesting is #32, Sun Jifa. He couldn't afford prosthesis arms so he built his own. They were apparently so good that others who'd lost their arms requested him to make them prosthesis arms as well, so he made a business out of it, and now sells them at very reasonable prices.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22660393
The central hub of script kiddies, Hackforums, recently moved to bitcoins as soon as word of the feds getting hold of LR went out.
But they don't have all the same bug.
Nope, I didn't. Doesn't change too much. Once they try the experiment in all of Canada and make it permanent, then I'll acknowledge the it was tried in Canada. With a city size of just over 8000 (probably 7000 in the 1970s), it isn't likely to have a particularly complex economic environment.
How I play Dots
I lobby against Hollywood by refusing to give them a thin dime of my money.
The Search For Budget-Conscious Life
And if you do DOM manipulation inside an eval... god help you.
To be fair:

1) Anonymous/Lulzsec aren't necessarily a best-of-the-best of the 'hacker world.' Do they want to raise the ire of even more skilled people?

2) Anonymous/Lulzsec are/were in it mostly for the publicity, and 'cheap thrills.' I'm sure that they could have done a lot more damage had they been focused on being as malicious as possible.
Concert Industry Struggles With ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets
Can somebody explain how that script triggers?
This has little to do with the entertainment industry. This is dealing with intellectual property such as research and development.

They are trying to protect U.S. companies from having their R&D stolen and used by foreign companies, calling for sanctions via the FTC and by amending the espionage act to go after those who steal trade secrets, for example. The whole paper is on protecting the innovations developed in this country from being copied by foreign entities without repercussions, and when viewed in this light, the proposals are not that crazy.

I recommend reading the paper directly, as the BoingBoing link completely misrepresents it.

http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.p...
It is Toronto.
For an industry as fucking inept as the MPAA and the rest of the copyright cartel, I'd be absolutely floored if they managed to break into a Linux machine.
I graduated from the same school a year ago. It took 10 years, because I got very sick in the middle. I did so because I wanted to finish what I started.
Being actively targeted would certainly encourage membership.
Better, original article: http://allthingsd.com/20130523/draw-something-from-this-yaho...

A video of Tom Parsey talking about Yahoo! and design: http://vimeo.com/61682055
> Jordan said: "We now know tetrachromacy exists. But we don't know what allows someone to become functionally tetrachromatic, when most four-coned women aren't."

Is this really so confusing? To see 4 primary colors the cones must see different wavelengths. If the person has cones with only very slight differences in the frequency response then there will be no visible effect.

This also shows that people really do perceive colors differently - depending on which specific frequency you inherit you will see colors somewhat (or slightly) differently.

But most people only inherit 3 frequencies. Some rare ones (the tetrachromats) inherit 4.

It seems to me it should be possible to have 6 frequencies, but I'm not certain of the genetics.
Bitcoin Exchanges in Canada Won’t Be Regulated – Report
What if Google starts doing it?
This is a really good idea. I think it would help a lot. Do you know of any good screencasts?

As an avid collector of links, I know of these paid sites:

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts - Seems more advanced than an intro course.

[2] http://www.letscodejavascript.com/ - Looks good, but for javascript. It does look like it's better geared toward beginners.

[3] https://peepcode.com/ - Has play-by-play's, but it's quite expensive.
Completely OT, but when did Google become female? And also why?
Yes, it's not reasonable to call him crazy since many things he's been predicting have come true. He's eccentric.
MailChimp Hits 1 Million Users
It is perfectly legal for the entertainment industry to deploy rootkits.

What you decide to put on your computer is up to you. If someone wants to put something in the software, the agreement is between you and them. So long as they disclose what they are doing, it's not like anyone reads the those agreement contracts on the internet.

A company that deploys rootkits, then survives class actions and angry consumers? Not likely.
Great Radiolab episode. On a related note, the Crayola-fication of the world [1] and XKCD color survey [2]

1. http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication...

2. http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
> It is much closer to being a zero sum game than you realize.

It's even worse than zero-sum. Those actions effectively act as a tax that prevents even more business than they leech off.
I finished university, I felt ashamed of having stayed so long. There was no sense of pride, no sense of accomplishment. The predominant - positive - feeling was relief. University was a hoop-jumping exercise, and beyond that it meant nothing to me. An hour after my last exam, I stuck my laptop and the few things I wanted to keep in the back of my car, chucked the rest of my stuff into the bin outside the flat, and drove the 15 hours back home. In the end I got my degree mailed to me rather than bothering to go to graduation. There's a masters degree sitting in a plastic folder in the back of my cupboard somewhere, it's been out of the envelope twice since I got it.

Maybe it's different for others, but for me I only ever get a sense of accomplishment if I honestly value the thing I'm doing.

If you're doing something that you want, or that gives you a sense of satisfaction that's going to be sufficient to justify suffering through it, then rock on. It sounds like the blogger's daughter had a good time, all power to her. But one of the big things that life's taught me is to recognise that people are different (no, really!) and that other people telling you that doing something hard will give you a sense of accomplishment? It's not necessarily true. I stayed at uni because that's the story my parents sold me as a girl, that when you start something you carry it through. But that's not always good advice. When you're doing something that's just going to suck the soul out of you often the best advice is to see if there's a way to stop doing it before it costs you something that's going to take a long time to recover from - if you do at all.

One sense of finishing something, and not necessarily any less valid than the first, is to recognise a bad gamble and say 'It's finished here because I'm finishing it. My life, not yours.'

I just wish I'd known that when I was 16 and was making my decisions in this regard. So, if you are at that age and making your decisions in this sort of regard, it might be worth taking an honest look at whether this is actually something that will make you happy or just something that people are saying will make you happy because it's hard. And, if it is the latter, seeing whether doing other things that people tell you are hard that you don't necessarily want to do makes you happy - and whether it makes you four years and thousands of hours of work worth of happy.
Israel Corp. was privatized over the years and is now a publicly traded company.
Many of these financial crimes are meta crimes that exist because we've enacted this tangled web of law that cannot be enforced. There are many other examples.

A great example is the State Senator Joe Bruno case in NY. The Senator was the majority leader of the Senste for many years, an institution that is synonymous with corruption. (At least a dozen members are currently either under indictment or named as the subject of an investigation by the US Attorney.)

The Federal case was essentially that Bruno took bribes, except they couldn't prove it. So they prosecuted him for violation of what i call a meta-law... the so-called "honest services" laws, key parts of which were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. So now they are going after him again for bribery -- a case that is probably double jeopardy and is subject to all sorts of appeals, essentially for the purpose of bankrupting the guy.

Acts that potentially support a crime should not be criminal acts. Go convict the money launderer of tax evasion, racketeering or drug sales. Go convict a criminal without the resources for an attorney for whatever they did, not for lying to an agent of the US.
I don't see why Stallman doesn't wear something a bit more presentable, like a suit and tie and shave his beard. It looks a little repulsive to be honest.