skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I don't know what you mean by a "hipster," or what a "hipster" is, other than that you're using the term as a slur: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html . I also don't know what "hipster culture" means or is.

2) The original poster who I'm responding to said, "the days of the wristwatch and one-function cell-phone are gone [. . .]," so I'm not sure how one can be simultaneously "trendy" and part of a declining trend (that is, watch-wearing).

3) If you'd read the link, you'd know that I don't use Moleskine notebooks any more because their quality variability appears to have increased over time.
Where is this 3D? Internal linking doesn't add a dimension..
In the majority of cases, a boycott will not work. If 100 million people use a product every day, you have to get 1 million people to care enough to participate before the company even notices something's happening. The trick is to look for places where the set of people who actually care about the issue is able to make an impact. My guess is that the best focal point here is in hiring engineers. Decent hackers should not work at companies on this list. I think if we make a bit if a cultural shift within our community, if we start considering it a true mark of shame to have worked for one of these firms past 2012, that might start to hurt them.
Pinterest: Crazy growth lands it as top 10 social site
Or _market_!
It's nearly 2012 and I'm still contorting my body to fit the computer's interface.

On a related note, I just found out that the neck injury (bulged/inflamed disc, pressuring the C6/C7 nerve) I developed three years ago effectively makes me uninsurable for ten years. Pay attention to your body, folks.
Even if someone else were to log into his PayPal account, there's no damage they could do. They can't withdraw his money to another bank account; adding a bank account takes 3-4 days while you wait for PayPal to deposit some money which you confirm the amount of to prove ownership. All the 'hacker' could do is send the money to another PayPal account, which is trivially reversible as long as someone notices in less than 3-4 business days, before the receiving account can complete a withdrawal to a pre-confirmed bank account.

That's all assuming the account isn't immediately locked. If you log into a PayPal account from a different computer and far away location, they'll usually lock the account until you call in to say that's you and not a hacker doing so. At the end of the day, PayPal's core business is fraud detection, not payments. Anyone can do payments; they're just a software layer on top of two Wells Fargo and Chase merchant accounts.

Your PayPal account e-mail address should be considered public knowledge as soon as you put up a PayPal button. It's given out with every transaction and, if you don't use PayPal's encrypted button generator, it's in plain text in the payment form or URL.
Blindly?

I wouldn't say that this article is blindly based on the golden ratio.

It has merit.

But while on the subject of frowned upon...

Do you know what else was frowned up at one point?

The Sun being the center of our solar system.

Just because it's frowned upon doesn't mean it's not true :-P
I'm guessing that Flash being embedded from scribdassets.com is the list? I don't suppose there's a way to get access to this in plain text, or even a raster image?
I would argue that any time you put "just" and "terabytes" next to each other, you are heading for big problems to go with your big insights :). Schema-less is great.. until you can't find stuff and your data is full of inconsistencies.
Ask HN: My Congressman invited me to meet re: SOPA, what would you tell him? 
After calling my Congressman (who is supporting SOPA) and asking for an explanation on Twitter, his office has called and invited me to a meeting next week to discuss SOPA/PIPA. I think there will be other local tech entrepreneurs there as well and feel this is a good opportunity to try and sway a vote.

If you were at this meeting, what would you say? Are there anecdotes that you would use to talk about the potential negative impact of this legislation? How would SOPA/PIPA affect your business?
Wrong. In the New Testament, faith means assurance based on a reliable track record. It's the Greek word "pistis" and the two terms - faith and assurance - are used interchangeably.
Hi folks. Sorry I haven't had a chance to respond. I've got some family in town for the holidays and have been tied up.

I stick to the advice in the article. The one thing I didn't mention was that I only do these references if the potential employee is cool with it. I ask the potential employee if I may check blind references and 95% of the time, they are cool with it...this happens toward the end of the process. Sometimes when that employee is not leaving their current employer, they ask me to only reach out to folks from their previous employers which is totally cool w/ me.

Once I get the green light, I go through my LinkedIn and find folks who I know who have worked with the candidate -- Boston's a small town and I don't have to look too far. I reach out and ask them about them. I must say, I do ask some pretty "open" questions and leave the door wide open for someone to say something negative about the person because I don't feel like a get a full picture about the weaknesses from the "given" references.

I totally agree with those who say it is not cool to do this without the employees consent.

I'll give you a case where this worked. Last month, we went through the interview process with someone from Microsoft. The person did well on the interviews (I've noticed that humans are getting better and better at interviews over time) and it was time to do the blind refs. The candidate was fine with us doing them. In this case, they were already out of Microsoft. I happen to know a bunch of folks at Microsoft. I talked to them and they all said the same basic things and were all pretty negative. We ended up passing. Personally, I think we dodged a bullet there.

This method is one I learned from vc's. In our venture rounds, I give them 5-6 references to call for me. They usually call them, but spend the majority of their time calling mutual connections that I didn't provide. Imho, this is smart! ...There was one venture capitalist who I thought went a bit too far. They called everyone they could find that had worked at HubSpot at one time, but no longer did. That's not a long list, so all of those folks were calling me asking, "Are you getting funded by ____."
Actually it looks like Visa and MC were some of the most reasonable in the hearings -- they said there would be lots of costs to comply, and while they didn't support visa/mc being used for any illegal activity, ...
SOPA is going to hurt our industry so much. It's going to be destructive for Silicon Valley.

Taking a stand is necessary. YC startups are going to have much a harder time is SOPA passes. Even from just an economic point of view, it's better to take some loses now than taking higher loses in the future.
Right. Based on what he has said (and done), I don't imagine that was his goal. I imagine several goals: to entertain people, to make a reasonable profit, and show he could successfully develop and distribute his own content unencumbered. Did $5 maximize those goals? That's what I was wondering with the original (brutally downvoted) OP. Suppose he charged $1, 5x as many people saw it, and he made the same amount. Would that have a been a better price point?
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The dollar amounts are not similar. Notch is earning a hell of a lot more and he's not in the US.

He's making like $220k/day. Something like $70+ million total sales.
"but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes."

I was going to complain about this sentiment from someone not that rich and who can't afford the fanciest red polo shirts money can buy ha ha, but then I said forget it, for what it truly costs to move a domain it's far less then the cost on our liberties if SOPA passes, so I went outside shoveled a few driveways and earned enough money to move over the domains I have without cutting into my budget. There really isn't a reason for people not to do this.
The dynamics behind the deal are interesting. Google probably paid just enough to outbid Bing, the second highest bidder. Or Firefox played a great hand of poker with Google. In either case it should trouble Mozilla that they are dependent on not only Google, but Bing (by extension) for the majority of their revenue.

Finding a sustainable way to reduce reliance on these companies should be the #1 job of the Mozilla business team in the next 3 years, before the deal comes up for renewal.
> Your suggestion that AMD used 16 ALUs per pipe under VLIW is wrong, The change is 4/5 VLIW ALUs to 16 ALUs that now can execute SIMD instructions.

Actually, the previous architecture was a setup of 16x simd, where each of the simd operations was a 5/4 wide vliw. So calling that 320 hardware threads is wrong -- in Cypress there really was only 20 front-ends which drove these bundles of 80 alus in groups of 5x16. Also, it was a 4-long barrel processor, so you had to schedule a SIMD "wavefront" of 64 "threads" for each unit.

In the new version each CU still has 4x16 ALUS like it had in Cayman, but now each of the 4 simd units of 16 elements can be scheduled independently by a different hardware thread.
It's just easy to get people who aren't technical at all to watch a video.

If it's "Hey, family members, check out this minute long video", it's something I can show them all over Christmas.

Anything would be appreciated, though.
There's a 3D rotation transition between slides and on the anchors – requires Chrome/Safari/Mobile Safari/FF10 though so perhaps you're not seeing them.

update: ff8 = ff10
Alright, I'll speak for myself as that's the path I'm still walking and the one I know best. I'm 19, matriculated into Harvard for one semester, then dropped out and took on the Thiel Fellowship. Under the Thiel Fellowship, we're granted $100k (pegged around college ed prices) for two years to pursue an entrepreneurial project.

In the past year since leaving school, I've had more opportunity for maturity than I ever did in college. I've had the freedom to explore, and I've used that to travel to all 7 continents and broaden my internal horizons of the world. I've had the freedom to discover, and now I'm fortunate enough to have found a passion I can pursue with my full attention. I never had luxury of doing that in school - there's no time to step back and wonder why you're doing what you're doing as you're too busy being pushed through the grind of 'doing'.

I've had the freedom to become personally responsible. Being devoid of extrinsic pressures (must get good grades, build resume, get job, etc.) for the first time in my life means that I've had to replace those driving forces with intrinsic drive and accountability.

I've been living on my own in SF since June, and that's been a wild ride of being liable for every aspect of my own survival and well-being :). Being an entrepreneur means I have to account for a 24 hours each day on my own, as I don't even have an employer to provide a cover story for 8-9 hours every day. I'm not saying I account for all those hours nearly as well as I could and in fact I certainly don't (case in point), but this is offering me the opportunity to learn to be accountable, and that's exactly the point.

College is a pseudo-diverse atmosphere. Sure, people might be differently colored or have exotic accents, but everyone's there for the same purpose, is the same age, and has more or less the same mindset, or at the most one of a select few mindsets. Real diversity is living in a strange juxtaposition of homeless crackheads and billionaire tech entrepreneurs (woohoo San Francisco!), or seeing firsthand definitive proof that polio has in fact not been eradicated and is still alive and well in the marginalized corners of the world.

Even if we see these things in college, chances are likely our mindsets have been so tunnel-visioned that their full impact doesn't register on us. The insular bubble of college is pretty hard to penetrate.

Challenge-wise, being an entrepreneur is far harder than being a college student. And thanks to the cost of college, so many of us might never have the opportunity to take the entrepreneurial path (or any of a number of other paths) unless we take it in lieu of the college path.

And yes - college might very well be a mold that shapes you into the person you'll be, but it's a cookie-cutter mold, and it's not unique to you. Life is a variable endeavor, and the experiences we use as a mold with which to shape ourselves should similarly be variable. College is probably a wonderful mold for some. For others like myself, there are almost certainly better molds out there waiting for us to find them.
Countries & institutions that weren't mentioned :

Greece
22% of the people in Greece work for the government. That's unsustainable.
They paid very little taxes and the government's debt ballooned to a point where the market said enough.
Greece asked the EU for a bailout & they got it.
There were no real austerity measures.
Now they want the debt holders to cut the debt in half.

Belgium's problems.
Belgium's debt is ballooning out of proportion & bigger than Greece's.
Close to 10% of the people work for the government.
Savings are high and can be used to revive the economy.
Instead, the government asked everyone to buy up their bonds at prices lower than what's available on the market. Crazy & stupid but real.
50% of all goods are export, even though labour costs are twice as high as Spain's.
The Netherlands is in a similar situation. How is that possible? They just work harder.
I don't know why that isn't mentioned in the article as a possible solution.

The Netherlands
They were able to handle the world economic slowdown that started in 08.
They came prepared, they paid down their debt with every surplus they had.
Exports have been holding up quite well, although the slowdown is catching up.
Savings are high and that's another bullet you can use to revive the economy.
Housing prices are a bit high though.
Also, those who work after age 62 can earn a bonus for every year they remain employed.

ECB & IMF
The ECB says they aren't allowed to buy government debt.
That's correct but it's BS as well.
They found a way around it.
They gave money to the IMF and the IMF gave it to Italy. With Germany & France's permission.
Last week the IMF tried to raise money from its members. They failed at it.
Both the IMF & the ECB are sitting on gold reserves.
Not enough to bail everyone out but perhaps enough for some quantitative easing.
Not that I'm in favor of it. Quite the contrary.

Inflation
When everyone wants a bailout and the ECB blows through all reserves, then they will have no other option than to do what Ben Bernanke is secretly doing in the US.
He's buying up all the debt and he's probably doing it by printing more dollars.

Don't worry, don't feel sorry, there're other solutions.

1) Governments need to be smaller & more efficient.

2) Lack of discipline & brass balls
In some EU countries you get paid $ 1,000 per month to take time off.
You get to ride on the bus for free. You don't have to pay taxes on your house.
The list goes on and on. It's a luxury problem.
It's easy to stop. It's political suicide but it has to stop.

3) Retirement age.
The worldwide average is 64 if I'm not mistaken.
In Europe it's something like 60 - 62.
In Germany it's 65 to 67, so they already shot that bullet.
It used to be 50 something in Greece ...

I'm all for austerity programs because I want the craziness to stop.
I want our politicians to stop getting deeper in debt. Now !
There's a link to the PDF near the top of the article. Worked on my iPad, may help others.
All in all, horror stories aside, PayPal is a pretty secure way to store your money.
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Jupiter has an orbital velocity of only 13.7 km/s, so even if Io is going the right direction and all the elliptical planes are parallel, isn't that still just a max orbital velocity of ~40 km/s, which is slow enough for orbit at 1AU?

It'd be interesting to see what happens at Jupiter's orbit, thouh. Does Io always leave? What about Callisto? It seems like there would be a large part of their orbit that would send them off into cometary orbits (or worse) depending on what direction they are going when scotty beams jupiter aboard the enterprise.
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I wish it wasn't so expensive to transfer domains! Why don't registrars woo me in with a free transfer, and then just make money off my renewals?
You're wrong about _any_ edition of the the Dragon.

The 0th edition (green dragon, Aho&Ullman) was mostly about parsing, but talked about everything.
The 1st edition (red dragon, Aho,Sethi&Ullman) was about everything not including JITs, vectorization, GCs and parallelization.
The 2nd edition (purple dragon, Aho,Lam,Sethi&Ullman) is about everything, and they even dropped operator precedence (Pratt) parsing to make room for more non-parsing stuff.
See, if Google just made a public announcement that they would donate $100k to the re-election campaign of every congressman who votes "no" on SOPA, and $100k to the election campaign of the challenger of every congressman who votes "yes", this map could get a whole lot greener.
I've operated this way in practice, at scale, and it works fine. You're rebuilding your entire store and swapping it out frequently, so data consistency isn't a problem. The key is to have a painless pipeline setup, so that one person can do the entire thing... thus negating the need for contracts between parts of the stack.
> and many startups, such as Reddit

Can you call a 6 year old site, sold to a major media conglomerate, with some of the highest traffic on the net a startup?
Decades after Silicon Valley swung toward software, hardware is hot again
"Honestly, right now what I'm thinking is that I'll probably get the next version off BitTorrent. I'm not happy paying for a download with 80% of overhead, especially if that overhead is voluntary. Most of the $5 should end up in Louis' pocket, and if it doesn't, I don't feel like throwing it down the drain, I have better uses for my money."

Or you could just not pay for it _and_ not torrent it. That would be the principled thing to do, if you really (inexplicably) object to someone donating their own hard-earned money to charity.
I doubt that $70MM is sitting around in his paypal account, though. IIRC, he had something like $350k frozen.
found this also: use SOPASUCKS as coupon to transfer from goddady to namecheap

credit: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/godaddys_sopa_support_s...
Ask HN: How can I boycott pro-SOPA Comcast if I live in San Francisco?
I want to boycott Comcast because of their SOPA support. I was thinking of switching to Monkeybrains, but my landlord won't let me install the needed antenna on the roof.

Any ideas?
Ditto, some nasty stuff there. Sounds akin to a typical godaddy experience.
They're still easily treated with antibiotics. I'd hate for someone to quit their startup because they thought that stress was the primary cause.
Just transfered out 34 domains. Thanks for the export instructions!
I certainly didn't mean to imply there are reasons it's impossible, it's just a meaningless.

My point was that first you would have to define what computronium actually is before you can comment on what physical laws apply. It might also be useful to wait until we understand the physical laws that would apply at that scale, which we don't.

There are no physical laws that make rocket packs or flying cities impossible either, we just discovered that some aspects are either impractical or we just found a better solution to the same problems.

I don't want to sound like I think these kinds of thought experiments are in any way bad, I love them.

The best case scenario is that our thought experiments now are like davinci's helicopters. Ridiculous because of our ignorance of the natural world but still extraordinarily clever and farsighted. A more likely case is that they are downright stupid because of that same ignorance.

The opinion that an idea we've had or could understand is anything like what construction projects with timescales of millions of years will look like is the silliest kind of hubris. Especially when you start arguing over physical laws of imaginary vaguely defined substances.
And VISA and Mastercard helped censoring WikiLeaks in the past, illegally blocking its funds.
The doctor has to cause some pain and cut out some good stuff when taking out the brain tumor. Likewise the cancer in the Internet needs swift action to cut it out.
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Bootstrapped and will be launching soon (http://diglig.com).
Also, item of note for these instructions. GoDaddy auth codes sometimes contain commas, so they'll export as quoted values.

The domain,authcode trick in the bulk form doesn't work. Make sure to enter the unquoted auth codes for those domains in the cart during transfer.
So far, there is a very clear picture emerging to me of who the anti-SOPA people are. It looks a lot like the Occupy Wall Street images. I'm not for or against SOPA so far, still making up my mind but the people who are against it so far aren't helping their case much with all the arm waving and now veteran hating that I see in the comments on this page.
And that's the problem. My congressman opposes SOPA, but yours may support it. I can change my congressman in the next election, but I can't affect yours.
Set up a PO Box somewhere and use that.

Is it allowed to use a fictional name?
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Thanks. That's a great way to sell.
It's a little naive to expect a linear relation between dollars and viewers. Charging $1 would have increased sales, but probably no more than 10-20%.
I remember the days when boycots were very effective. Can we do that again?
I think semi-competent there was probably supposed to mean "less competent than average", not "more competent than average".
So much good info here in the comments and in Jeff's post. I'll be moving my domains ASAP!
The site needs a way to update the stats. My representative (James Moran, D-VA8) opposes SOPA, but I have no way of inputting that information into the map.
Sorry - did not mean to spam. I actually transferred 20+ domains to them from godaddy today and wanted to give this group a heads up about that deal in anyone was doing the same. No offense intended.
The all caps everywhere in your linked poster makes the text really hard to read, but otherwise the layout seems clear enough.