skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the point. She doesn't fault them for "doing their job," she finds fault with the fact that there is a government job in which she sees violations to the Constitution.

Also, if you would like to let someone look at your possessions, that's your right. But, a government official cannot, without reasonable cause, demand to look at your property.

I'm not saying I would have tried to pull this off, but there is something to be said for her continuously asking "do you have a warrant."
Think bigger: hopefully they declare bankruptcy and no longer have the resources to participate in policy decisions.

They should be considered a Corporation Non-Grata.
During the Cold War, there was this mentality held by leaders on both sides that said you could not show weakness to the enemy. It was this mentality that caused the Cuban Missile crisis, and that allowed it to be resolved by secret communication along privileged back-channels (all the while keeping public posturing such that neither side had to reveal any weakness). As idiotic as this mentality has always seemed to me, as I get older (and hopefully a bit wiser) I've come to understand there is some merit to it.

I travel overseas frequently. One of my favorite airports is Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport. I like it because I can sit in a cafe waiting for my plane to New York, and I can listen to the PA make announcements for flights to Nairobi, Dubai, Singapore, Moscow, Pairs, and Sao Paulo. Istanbul literally connects to the entire world. And yet, there is only one gate in the entire terminal that has "secondary screening", the one for the New York flight. The thought that somehow the threat of terrorism is greater in the United States than anywhere else in the world is laughable to anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to world events. Yet, it is only the United States that feels the need to have extra security precautions.

I wonder how many Americans see the TSA, the Patriot Act, etc. as evidence of the greatness of America. "Our country must be the greatest in the world if it requires so much effort to protect," I imagine them thinking. "Why would so many people be against us if it were not the case?" In reality, the rest of the world sees a frightened bully, and they're not falling for it any more. They go to places like Istanbul's airport, or any of the hundreds of other airports around the world that have extra screening set up exclusively for US bound flights, and they see weakness.

What's really almost funny about all of this, is that the 4th amendment is uniquely American. It is not at all uncommon in other countries for police (or the Gendarme) to be authorized to stop pedestrians and perform a search without cause. The mere existence of the 4th amendment has, traditionally, been a sign of strength. As if to say: "We're so confident of our security and the resolve of our justice system that we will give our citizens this extra right."

By reducing 4th amendment rights, the US is not gaining security, it is showing weakness...and that can be dangerous to the long term health of a country.
Church and charity warn English gov. on solar
What future space combat would really look like
I've always used them, and they've been flawless for me. Not "amazing service", but "I haven't needed any service" because everything just worked properly. From what I hear they are responsive when you need them as well. I'd recommend them.
Hey of course, go nuts :)
It would be neater if it were a freight train carrying blocks for bits. Using a USB key isn't really 'Lego' enough.
Were you running old versions of iOS? Personal Hotspot has been in it since March, seems odd that iPhone users would not be running at least 4.3 by now.
> PEOPLE HAVE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT.
> Even if the effect it has seems insignificant.

If a common civilian wishes to help, she can probably find a better way than standing up to some scripted peons.

I wonder what her court costs are going to be. I wish she had donated that money to the EFF. The EFF is in a better position to fight this stuff intelligently, and at the right levels.
I'm planning to launch a site like dribbble for game devs, artists, focussing on indie games.

See http://www.metroia.com.

Feel free to ask your friend to ping me sidmitra.del [at] gmail.com
I'm actively looking for beta users.
A lot of people have also emailed me and want to get in touch with people with different skill sets(like design, music, animation etc).
There were grey characters too. Dagny Taggart did not truly agree with Rand's philosophy.

In addition to that, Lord of the Rings must be terrible for the same reasons too. As well as most of the other popular books I can think of.
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You make it sound like "disrupting the screening process" is a bad thing.
Very often performance isn't the most important metric though. For me it's usually about what's the easiest to set up and administer.
Why are people still think PaaS is the only way to host apps?
One con is that unlike Joker and Gandi (and surely others), Namecheap is located in Los Angeles, CA and is therefore subject to US court judgements, US Internet policy, and US privacy laws (or lack thereof).
Online gambling, and gambling in general, is is a huge opportunity. PokerStars and FultTilt poker were 1.0 versions of something that could be a much more powerful experience. Those sites primarily focused on taking offline games and bringing them online, without doing much to augment the experience. For every one of those who tried to make a living (for a minute) playing a dozen sit-and-go tournaments, or others who tried to write bots against the system, there were thousands of players just looking to relieve some stress after a long day.

Personally, I'd like to see an intersection of gambling in the traditional sense with social games from Zynga and others and also with eGaming like Star Craft II and Diablo.
This article is ridiculous because it just states that WP7 is superior to Android without explaining why. So far their metro UI has yet to prove itself, people want apps, if I wanted their metro UI so badly there is probably already an Android app for that too.

Microsoft spent a lot on commercials, I have seen a lot more WP commercials than Android ads, Microsoft got Nokia as their partner, Nokia in turn has a lot of partners of it's own, still their product failed, because it's inferior to the consumers, hardware manufacturers and carriers.
Everything and More - David Foster Wallace

It's a book on the history of math, focused around the story of math's struggle to deal with infinity. There's really nothing like it. (okay, technically I still haven't finished it, but it's still 2011)
Yeah, disturbers of the peace, like that damn black woman who wouldn't move to the back of the bus. My peace > your rights.

> If people are not searched, there will be more plane attacks and global transport will decline.

Damn right, brother! I say we take this a step further, and start searching people when they enter the mall. I mean, a terrorist in the mall is just as dangerous. Especially during the holidays.

Or hell, let's search everyone going to the new years bash in Times Square. Just make 'em strip. As you say, nothing strange about being seen naked by strangers.

And we should also start using these scanners at schools. Clearly, with all the school shootings going on, gotta protect the innocent kids, right?

We can also take the same approach online. Have everyone register their computer's OS with their ISP, and only those registered computers can use the internet. I mean, if you are innocent, you have nothing to worry about, right? This can help stop child pornography, you know. And people distributing files they don't have the right to distribute.

Personally, I'm afraid of dying in cars. Did you know, more people die in an automobile accident then a terrorist attack? Clearly, we need to rid ourselves of these terrorists of the road. Make every car require a breathalyzer. If you've had a drink, you can't drive. Keep it simple. Keep it safe. Save lives! It's reasonable. I mean, I'm afraid of other drivers, and they are just disturbing my peace. I mean, the only people that would disagree are terrorists, child pornographers, drunk drivers, and pirating thieves!
I cant thank you enough! It's great to talk to someone who had the same experience. Now The Next Web has also done a piece on us too and things are moving.

You point to something that sounds obvious, but truth is I have barely interacted with my users so far. Need to start doing this in a hurry.

I think I also need to improve my sign up process, making it happen on a pop up window through Facebook JS SDK.
I've used GoDaddy in the past and was frustrated by their interface. Namecheap's is much better. Also, I've gotten $2 SSL certs and very cheap private domain registration from them as well.
If the (alleged) issue is that GoDaddy is throttling WHOIS lookups, does using [http://help.godaddy.com/article/3681](GoDaddys Export Lists tool) and including WHOIS info help? Or are the "real-time" lookups required by a new registrar?
No self-respecting geek would ever recommend any Sony gear anyway. Their hardware arm is a slave to the content-producing arm, who has been crippling new devices with broken DRM since the 90s.
I transfered from Namecheap to SpeedySparrow a couple of months ago.

Just consolidating vendors (domain and hosting) to simplify management.
I'm not saying it's an effective method, but to be fair, if the politicians are going to ignore it they (or one of their minions) will at least have to confront that decision.
I'm IN, but might want to add a contact.
I don't understand the notion that this is somehow a distraction to the real SOPA fight. Maybe I'm alone in this issue having heightened my knowledge, opposition and action against the bill?
> If a common civilian wishes to help, she can probably find a better way than standing up to some scripted peons.

Rosa Parks?
learned javascript in order to learn backbone. I'm amazed by its simplicity and quirks all at the same time (php background).
From a marketing perspective this seems absolutely genius.

From an engineering perspective, it seems completely backwards. The coupling between the actual cost of the system and what the user pays is minimal: drawing more power doesn't actually increase wear on the solar cells. Really, all they have done is wired a meter whose sole purpose is to waste electricity if the user isn't paying.

If it works, and if it successfully brings electricity to people who would really benefit, I can't argue with it. It just seems so very wrong from an engineering perspective.
Better than boycotting GoDaddy (google bomb Namecheap)
GoDaddy has been a supporter of SOPA which has caused many to boycott them.

Here is an even better way to hit them in the bottom line...

Add this somewhere in your webpage (you can just stick it somewhere in the footer)

<a href="http://www.namecheap.com">Domain Registration</a>

GoDaddy is #1 in google for "Domain Registration", but if enough people link to this (it doesn't take much) they will be nocked out of the coveted top spot. This will be a huge dent in their revenue stream.

This is referred to as a "google bomb" and it works by the fact that search ranking is based upon the the weight of the links pointed to a page. The name of the link helps them correlate the search terms that match with the link.

Namecheap was chosen as they have a high ranking (so they have a good chance at popping to the top) and has been vocal in being anti-SOPA. You can use the coupon code "SOPASucks" to get a discount there too.

I just added it to two of my sites - editthis.info and cueflash.com (both with a page rank of 5). That will hit them in the SEOs.
What happens when one of these campaigns continues after the principal has been informed of its existence? What if it continues for weeks?
I couldn't be bothered waiting. I've some domains due for renewal at the end of the year and decided to beat the holiday rush and just move then all over to namecheap.com.

I started the process yesterday afternoon. Still haven't seen anything on the GoDaddy side indicating any pending transfers. I imagine this sort of delay will only be worse come the 29th.

Update: just got a slew of form mail from namecheap. Apparently every EPP/authorization key code I entered, taken from the list generated by GoDaddy, is wrong. Now I have to re-do every transfer.
Likewise, imagine if Rosa Park had thought of her day's jurisprudence when she refused to give up her seat back in 1955. "Man, I am tired from all the work today, but the courts say I should give up my seat."

And, surely you meant "this woman," as she does say she has a husband in the article.
The Age of Creation
In no order:
- Word Catcher - http://amzn.to/s1Ykku
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- The Post American World - http://amzn.to/4ex38B
If this clown has, as claimed, "about 125 dedicated people to run PR, Blogs, Articles, Videos", why doesn't he have anybody competent to run customer relations?
As simple as it is, technically, DNS as a component of network connectivity is a mystery to many, many people.
Namecheap's posted renewal rate is less than GoDaddy's. Does GoDaddy discount on renewals? Other registrars?
Ah, damn. A USB stick. I was really hoping the train would be carrying actual SYNs, ACKs and DATA payloads using differently colored bricks :)
Google would have even more power to promote such a "feature" when they finally acquire Motorola. Then they can guarantee all Motorola's phones will get all upgrades that appear during the lifetime of the contract. So even if Android 6.0 appears 2 months before the contract expires, they should deliver it to the phones being bought right now.
Are there any success stories of companies that turned on the "profit switch" and started to make money?

I'm just very skeptical about this. It looks like many companies are looking for the big acquisition and there's no plan "B".

Also this article makes the assumption that companies today are actually making some revenue, but, most of them (at least the ones that get press) are not!
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My friend and I have talked about this and what we would do if domestic unrest would occur in America. My friend argued it'd be wise to move to a country nobody really knows or cares about. I thought it'd be better to move to a more modernized country.
This dichotomy you present holds two points: a) the TSA has full rights to our person, or b) The terrorists win. Please consider there is actually a c-z.

Let me put it this way. There are thousands of mechanical and electronic pieces on a plane, most of which were assembled by private enterprise. You trust them with your life to fly your ass miles through the air, and to land on a strip of tar -- safely, timely, and efficiently. Yet, they're not capable of keeping you safe from "terrorists"?

If this manufactured image of terrorists were actually a real threat to airliners, they would be addressing it themselves, just like they would any other life-threatening safety flaw on their plane.
If anyone needs a free DNS service, maybe try https://entrydns.net/ that I develop in my free time with a sysadmin friend.
it reminds me of IP over Avian Carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
As a concerned citizen who has seen gambling cause havoc in poor communities, I hope that the next revolution in online gambling is one where actually money is not required.

For those of you thinking of the potential for income please consider where the money is coming from. While a gambler will still find somewhere to lose his/her money it would be heartening to see systems implemented that are on the lookout for addicts, while providing entertainment for those who can afford to spend (I have no problem with gambling and enjoy a game of poker, or going to the races, myself, but I 'play to lose'.)
Here's one of those articles:
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi
He actually proclaimed Gunicorn as the initial winner but after what probably was some real-life usage changed his mind to UWsgi.

the UWsgi module is also now included with NGinx by default (as of version .84 or something)

I've never used Upstart as in the original post but I believe Supervisor does the same thing and is maybe a little more commonly used (http://supervisord.org/)
Generally, the "heap" is the addressable memory assigned to the process. E.g. you malloc a byte array and gain a reference to the (byte[] rep.) memory object in heap. The life-cycle of a memory object in heap is explicitly controlled by OS (and sometimes the language e.g. C/Obj-C/etc via freeing the heap memory object). Languages with garbage collectors do this implicitly.

The "stack" is the dynamic structure -- its a stack :) -- that maintains the nested call/method/function frames from the initial entry point (e.g. main(..) in C family) so it maintains the path traversing the invocation/call graph to the current executing call/method/function. The 'objects' in a stack are call/function/method parameters, various metadata (e.g. obj ptr in some oo langauges). The life cycle of objects in stack is scoped by the call/function/method itself. Further, typically attempts are made to store (current) stack objects in CPU registers so as to avoid incurring memory access latencies.
The Penguin and the Leviathan. It is an interesting mix of science and anecdotal evidence which hints that most people, most of the time, would actually benefit more from cooperative behavior than they would from competitive behavior.

http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Leviathan-Cooperation-Triumphs...
Isn't part of the whole current kerfuffle that the DoJ considers any Verisign tld under US jurisdiction?
LCD makers in $553 million U.S. price-fixing accord
You mean browsing the "customers also bought" section? Maybe - because if you simply want to browse "fantasy books" (for example), last time I checked you are stuck with thousands of books and no further way to drill down.

How does the subject classification work? Maybe I don't see some features because Amazon Germany doesn't have them :-/
Solar Trillions, by Tony Seba. The book makes a strong case for seven market opportunities for solar energy. A great read that got me interested in clean tech.
Personally, the most mocked and misunderstood web service I can think of within the last couple years is Chatroullette. I guess this rule passed over them.
نشرة أخبار المساء هذا اليوم الثلاثاء 27-12-2011
Unfortunately, I couldn't even get the darn thing to run. I am fairly familiar with Ruby, but the entire process from figuring out what to download and then trying to get it to install, and then trying to launch it was just too rough. Had to uninstall it. I'll try again in the future if it fixes some issues. Nice idea though.
Having been exposed in the so-called "Online Gaming" companies, I really wish there are less of them.

Maybe it was a bad exposure/experience for me but those companies are filled with your typical fraudster/scammer (kind of like that MegaUpload guy, or the Bodog guy).

If you looked at the recent trend in EPL (English Premier League, Football), it's a bit concerning where there are a few mediocre teams being sponsored by these companies and with lots of around the field ads promoting their sites.
While not anyone has the luxury of bootstrapping a space company in their 20's.. I still think most startups have lots of other opportunities to tackle bigger problems. The problem is we hang out in tech, and aren't exposed to those problems. But if we hang out with biologists, doctors, teachers, etc.. they'll all tell you problems that need solving. Technology can't solve everything, but paired with the insight of someone from those other fields, it can make a dent.
It makes sense if you accept that there is no concept of absolute rest. The state of "moving" is really the natural state...when you apply force to something, you are just changing the parameters of that state.
Here is an excellent resource which made me a convert to uwsgi:

http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers.

Setup is a bit more difficult, but if you are already using nginx it isn't so bad.
Nice, a classic example of witless fandroid drivel. An irrelevant comparison to Apple used to introduce a pro-Android rant along with the obligatory "I used to use IOS" and explaining any downvotes for this tosh as pro-Apple groupthink.
Google and Facebook for a start.

If you build something people want and use, in the scale of national TV audience, then you will be able to monetize.

If you have a great product for a niche, then double-check your unit economics before you start.
> Apparently every EPP/authorization key code I entered, taken from the list generated by GoDaddy, is wrong. Now I have to re-do every transfer.

They sure have had a lot of funny accidents lately....
What do you suggest is the correct way? Running each app under its own user with groups for each resource?
Short ref of SQL Server execution plan operations
10 Indispensible NOC Tools for Linux and BSD
Only for $20/month. There are things you can install on your Android (even non-rooted AFAIK), or on your jailbroken iPhone, that let you tether to your normal non-tether dataplan.

(At this point you can happily complain about morale or market issues relating to stealing that bandwidth; for the record: I pay the $20/month and am quite happy to do so.)
As far as I understand, you didn't need jailbreaking for this, just unlocking. There is unlocking without jailbreaking, isn't there?

Jailbreaking is useful of course, just your example is not very good.
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graduated from high school? well, maybe consider going to college, you can probably qualify for aid, etc. If you want to become a developer, all you need is a somewhat decent computer and an internet connection and you can go from there with all the online learning resources out there.
Can you provide any sort of insight into what will make twitter profitable? I'm not asking for numbers or anything, just some idea as to what will make it a long lasting, sustainable business with a real business model? You're original post and this comment are certainly on point in that twitter has traction and it's use is massive and wide spread, but in the end it comes down to who's paying for it? Will twitter move to an optional (freemium) subscription model? Will it admit it's a marketing and advertising dream data set and sell that? I personally don't use twitter and my own bias has always left me not understanding the point (too much noise) but I'm certainly interested in what the plan to become a real business is.
Why so much love for Namecheap on here? As far as I can tell, they've simply been in the right place at the right time and done some clever marketing in response to GoDaddy's general idiocy.

But for a few days now, HN has almost read like a long ad for one domain registrar that doesn't look like anything particularly special. Every other link seems to go to Namecheap's blog, or some other page on their site.

Genuine question - I'm not trying to be a self-appointed site moderator or cheerleading for some other company (although I do use Gandi myself), I'm just genuinely interested as to why Namecheap, and not some other registrar, other than the fact that Namecheap have jumped on this particular bandwagon.
I especially liked this part:

"SOPA isn't the only target of Reverse Robocall, and it's not an issue that the site specifically takes a stand on. In an interview with Ars, Dakin said that the site is a non-partisan, for-profit effort aimed at providing a service for advocacy groups, in the same vein as the petition site Change.org. But the service, launched in beta just before Thanksgiving, is also an outgrowth of Dakin and Titus' work as privacy advocates to work against robocalls by politicians, he said."

Why not take a stand on it, rather then just worrying about your bottom line.
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Yeah, it would be interesting to see this handle all of the different requests.