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nthitz··on Community Will Get Its Sixth Season On Yahoo
Burning Love was a hilarious mocumentary type show that originally aired on Yahoo. I believe season 1 later appeared on E!

https://screen.yahoo.com/burning-love/

nthitz··on Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem
I appreciate your comments. But I wouldn't compare the distribution of an identical copy of other's copyrighted content with mashups. Mashups are usually transformative, as opposed to merely derivative.

The EFF has interesting thoughts on the subject [1]. I wouldn't equate mashups to piracy quite like you, but I can see where you are coming from.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/rip-mca-tribute-pauls-...

nthitz··on Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem
I listen to a lot of mashups. Previously a lot of mashup artists hosted their tunes on SC. Lately. SC has been deleting the entire profile of many of these artists, or just removing all/many of their songs. Some of these people only used SC for hosting so it is an unfortunate loss.

Still quite a grey area if mashups are fair use. (Girl Talk has an album for sale on iTunes)

nthitz··on Sistine Chapel
If you look straight down "Copyright Musei Vaticani". Is that really on the floor at the Sistine Chapel or just for this web version?
nthitz··on Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans
Usage is something along these lines:

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-and-acxioms-big-data...

http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-partner-acxiom-eps...

nthitz··on Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans
Quick google search found this document detailing the various groups and clusters that one of these brokers uses.

http://reference.mapinfo.com/software/anysite_segmentation/e... [pdf]

Which cluster do you fit in?

nthitz··on CSVjs: Basic CSV parsing and encoding in JavaScript
d3.js provides a pretty solid JS csv parser https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/src/dsv/dsv.js

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/CSV

nthitz··on Google AdSense Class Action Lawsuit
Context: http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
nthitz··on Make Your Own Grid Paper
http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.
nthitz··on Solving a Maze with D3.js
I love d3. But that example doesn't really use d3 for either the solving or the displaying.
nthitz··on Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place
Can it be modified to support more than one "via place"? And what if I don't really care about the order I visit each location, but just want to minimize total length?
nthitz··on WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
To be honest I've always wanted a file format that is exactly as you described. A zipped up front end web app. No internet dependencies so it works 100%. User can open the open the format and it opens in their browser of choice. All the files contained within are "hosted" from a static "webserver" that just hosts the files within the .zip.

I can't say much to WinJS yet, but I am interested in their choice of container.

nthitz··on Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/si... Direct link to the (200 lines of) source code. I can't speak to the security, but it is a nice little read.
nthitz··on Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer
Well, piracy is certainly not always a distribution problem.
nthitz··on 2048 in 4D
Here's a tool assisted speedrun of a gamer playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 all with the same button inputs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pz6waED0w It's kind of chaotic, and not quite what you described, but similar and still pretty impressive.
nthitz··on Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200
Could it be a deliberate shooting-down?
nthitz··on Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder
That was not my impression of the HN comments in the least. Most HN commenters seemed to think it was an egregious invasion of his privacy from what I read.
nthitz··on Puff Puff… Pass
https://twitter.com/sexysez95_sarah - fake account promoting puffchat seems pretty sleazy. https://twitter.com/Queenselfie96 also seems suspicious
nthitz··on Pullup, the site you join via pull request
The top link on Pullup is a link to this HN post with the title: "Pullup HN Update post, everyone upvote/comment"...
nthitz··on Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
Anecdotal evidence, but measuring the amount of sex that occurs by the amount of condoms purchased will not often be accurate.
nthitz··on CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"
Still better than all the Bebier stuff that was breaking on their (US) homepage today
nthitz··on Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi was one of my favorite professors at UW. I took the class with him. He really made the subject fun and interesting and really liked to challenge his students. One of my most memorable teachers from UW!
nthitz··on How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53
Great writeup. At the end he links to the AWS docs for this whole process which I found equally if not more helpful. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website... but OP's tutorial definitely has some extra informative tips
nthitz··on Should RapGenius be able to "negotiate" with Matt Cutts and Google?
Indeed, it appears multiple users thought RG was no more:

https://twitter.com/ReesesPiece94/status/415939402422947840

https://twitter.com/Mattious_/status/415913576507772928

https://twitter.com/Pouss_Mouss/status/415913988556201984

nthitz··on China Mobile and Apple Bring iPhone to China Mobile’s 4G & 3G Networks
Could this announcement have had any influence on the allegations about evasi0n's decision to "rush their jailbreak" or however you read that drama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6951647
nthitz··on 404 - File not found
And who served the script?
nthitz··on Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
It would be cool if the user could pick the 10 frames out of the gif rather than requiring 10 sequential frames!
nthitz··on How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day
His second main takeaway:

> If your post doesn’t gain traction on Hacker News initially, delete it and try posting another day. This probably holds true for sites like Reddit as well.

Which makes me a little uneasy..

nthitz··on Shumway - Mozilla
Fun fact: Shumway, was originally based on similar software called Gordon... And who is Gordon Shumway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)
nthitz··on Alleged Silk Road drug kingpin denies charges
A bit of info here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/feds-silkroad-bos... and commentary here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486718
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