skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with all of the points made in the responses, but GoDaddy has 50 million domains registered. Fifty million! To hit them with 1%, that would require the loss of a half-million domains.

Going after them is, in effect, going after your representative through a proxy. A big, giant, 500 lb gorilla proxy. Keep in mind that GoDaddy is same company whose CEO responded with "I'm not sorry" to the outrage over his elephant hunting incident [1]. I think it'd take more than a half-million lost domains for them to change stance here.

I'll eat my words if this boycott results in any actual effect on GoDaddy's stance, but this is such a long shot that it seems irrational to even pursue. Sun Tzu would not approve of this tactic.

At any rate, I strongly encourage everyone I know to move away from GoDaddy, just because of their business practices. This won't change that. If you have domains on GoDaddy, move them. Please. They're a horrible company with horrible practices, and a horrible product.

1 - http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/04/04/godaddy-ceo-on-s...
julien-c vs julienc

the latter is harder to read. So I would argue that the hyphen provides clarity.
When I said the two programs have the same behavior, I was simply referring to the end result--what they output. I understand how both languages work here. Ruby solves a problem that simply doesn't exist in CS. In JS/CS "bar" never implicitly refers to "this.bar", so there's no ambiguity in the first place.
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Wholeheartedly agree, GoDaddy's site is atrocious to use.
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I thought that design (blindly) based on Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci-Series was frowned upon here on HN

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
That's weird. I am not logged into anything related to Google, but I can read the document at this link.
VPNs are used by our own government and many US businesses. Even something simple like SSH is enough to get around an IP block. There is no way this language will hold up.
"Save Hollywood," eh? As if SOPA will actually achieve any of its purported goals? As if there's any saving Hollywood needs except from itself?

I'm all for encouraging folks to fight SOPA, but perhaps we could save our up-votes for articles with more accurate titles.
The one I found most perplexing was Tiffany & Co.
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There seems to be a weird policy in Google Docs of asking you to log in if it knows you were logged into a Google account before.

Turn on the incognito mode of your browser or clear the cookies and try again, it should not prompt you to log in.
NowJS one-message denial of service attack
Handlebars is also capable of precompiling AFAIK.
Thanks. Tried that. Wells Fargo(tm) states that until it clears, they cannot (read "will not") do anything.
"""Seriously? A watch costs as little as $2 and goes on your wrist. You will never need to reach into your pocket or bag for it. It will run for months, or years, on a single battery. You will probably never drop it and break it. Unless it's stupidly expensive, you will probably never be mugged for your watch."""

My point was not that the watch itself was stealing his mental bandwidth, but rather hipster culture.
Also, I don't think what you're saying about the Gaussian distribution is true for GRE Subject tests as they have significantly varying distributions. Check out this table:

http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/gre_guide_table2.pdf

It would appear that GRE Physics is the easiest test, while Biochemistry is the hardest.
looks fine on ios safari to me
Since there's nothing preventing the building of the API otherwise, this is really disabling everything but API access.
Rep. Smith defended the language saying it was an important piece of the legislation. Without, it had no teeth.

He also said he cannot make guarantees that this section will not limit global free speech.
Given various horror stories regarding paypal account freezes, seeing that much money in a paypal account (even when it isn't mine), gives me the cold sweats.

Of course, in his case the backlash to an account freeze would probably kill paypal (would be so widely reported that the feds would have to get involved, I'd guess), but still...
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I like it. Taking care of the people who helped you make it super seamless to buy, quick to download, advised you on drm issues. Donating to charity is an excellent way to gain real life karma. That man is a real class act(well not on stage).
A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
Why must journalists exaggerate every science headline?
It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the traits related to cognition. Our "selfish genes" do not tell us how to think; instead cognition represents a delegation of authority from the genes to the carrier. We are attracted to porn, yes, but we are also aware that we are attracted to porn. Thus as some citizens descended into opium stupor, others observed that descent and made conscious choices to avoid it. As a result, human society did not devolve into one big opium den. Just like it will not devolve into one big World of Warcraft game.

The real reason we have not heard from aliens is that the distances are physically impossible to bridge.
They may be better now, but I used to run into toughbooks all the time in the Army. Basically they were just designed as a way to scam the government out of 5k per machine. They broke more often than anything else we had, including gateways.

I've owned an asus republic of gamers laptop and an eee slate. Both of them are very well built.
Your example does demonstrate how CS works. When you assign bar a new value inside its original scope, the value of bar does indeed change.

bar = ->
"I called bar!"

foo = ->
console.log bar()
bar = "I manually assigned bar!"
return bar

console.log foo()
console.log bar()

Here is a slightly less contrived example:

log = (data) ->
console.log data

enhance_logging = ->
i = 0
log = (data) ->
i += 1
console.log i, data

log "no line numbers"
enhance_logging()
log "line one"
log "line two"

Here is the output:

> coffee foo.coffee
no line numbers
1 'line one'
2 'line two'
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Link to the actual source (which also contains a version of the infographic that hasn't been recompressed into illegibility): http://blog.futuresimple.com/infographic-the-words-that-make...
That's a great thing to note. Correlation definitely does not indicate causation. In a perfect world, we'd have one group of companies employ the Great by Choice practices, and in another we employ a different set of practices. However, that's not really possible.

The point about the other companies is less relevant because companies do change and stop doing all the things that make the great. The Good to Great companies had 15+ years of sustained success - doesn't mean they will be amazing forever.

Similarly, just because Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't as ripped as he used to be doesn't mean that lifting heavy weights and eating a lot won't make you gain muscle.
which keys are you looking for? I use a ms natural multimedia keyboard with my macbook and love it.
See the link to the original source that I posted above.
You should really check out AngularJS.

Does binding and a LOT more.

http://angularjs.org/

Very fast and well documented.
SOPA encourages litigation -- of course the law firms would be salivating for it.
Not really --you have to tune in to that, too.

I personally met people in California that speak spanish (mexican immigrants), who don't seem to care about learning english all that much, despite living in the US for a decade or so. That is because of the large spanish speaking community there. Even more so in a country where english is not the native language. You can just ignore the "constant background exposure".

It's not like Lady Gaga being in the charts means people also pay attention to what exactly she sings. Even for US movies European countries either use subtitles or have the dialogs spoken in the native language (the second option sucks, btw).
"Parsons enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He was assigned to the 26th Marine Regiment which was attached to and operated as part of the 1st Marine Division. In 1969 he served as a rifleman in the Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, during a tour of duty in Vietnam, in the Quảng Nam Province."

Looks like the owner of GoDaddy fought for your freedom as well.
Their industry is dying. Their opinion on the matter will not be insightful.
Probably closer to a stored procedure or prepared statement :)
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This relies on the assumption that congress cares what the people think. As long as the people don't pay large campaign contributions their voices are thoroughly meaningless to their 'representatives'.

As long as bribery is legal (by jumping through hoops and not calling it bribery) the big corporate interests, the ones who've already got sweet deals from government, are unstoppable.

Our democracy is the problem. The idea of voting once every so often for a representative means that we only get one very vague control into the system every few years whereas a company bribing politicians gets literally millions of times more power.
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Ah hell, let's ban punch cards too.
"Stay the hell out of my kitchen" comes to mind. :)
Some Occupy L.A. protesters may get a lesson in free speech
Thanks for the detailed responses all. Im starting to understand this a little better ;-)
I know this is picking nits, but that just simply isn't true. There isn't always the same output for every single input. That's why there's race condition errors. AI Systems will also alter outputs based on the same input (unless you assume that the knowledge base is constant).

Besides that, there is very good reason for justice to have the ability to change course. While humans are writing it, judging it, and punishing it -- they are also committing the crimes which means their actions might not be all that clear cut.
CSPAN shuts off when it get exciting
If you're transferring to Namecheap, you can combine both the domain name and the EPP code on the same line (comma separated). That'll save you a step of having to re-submit it for each domain.
I find it hard to believe that anybody is going to form an opinion on this, even unconscious, unless directly asked about it.
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Oh, I understand. Whenever I read the Hogan site, initially, I didn't realize that they were suggesting that people actually use that URL in production.
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It's a compromise. If VISA and MC bother you in this context, use them less. You can't practically eliminate them, but you can, if you choose, reduce their use.
Awesome. Going to update that in the post - Thanks Shpigford!
Well, hyphens in domain names do look a little bit "cheap", don't they?
Uploaded PDF here http://www.box.com/s/v6a66qg1sqyqyfu1jque
I think it's a knee-jerk reaction to the iPad's success. Much like Windows Mobile, the gloss is only skin deep. A desktop is a couple clicks away and is probably what most people will use in the end.
Title aside, I thought it was a good article that summarized the problems with SOPA, from multiple angles, for the largely disinterested populace out there.
Definitely takes the concept of supporting your evangelists to the next level.
The irony is that the real headline is more exciting, which is that there is a specimen orbiting earth, just waiting to be brought back for inspection.
You've never run into problems with hard spaces vs soft spaces vs tabs?

Visually they look the same, but finding those problems is a pain.
Thanks. It's ACH-enabled U.S. checking account only, so won't work for me, but maybe others will find this useful.
There is no such thing as a "natural user interface". What is natural is learning by reapplying already learned concepts.

Stay off the weeds for awhile.
Tiffany and other luxury brands believe SOPA will reduce counterfeiting websites.
Yeah, but the point is that “success” depends on a huge number of factors, and a post-hoc ethnographic analysis isn’t necessarily going to pick out what the real differences were. It’s quite easy to fool ourselves, as Feynman describes.

Even if you had an economy where all companies were managed identically, the sheer number of companies would lead some of them to be successful for 15 years in a row, and others to go out of business right away. Looking at past history and trying to sift through it for patterns is a great way to form hypotheses and questions for further research, but it’s entirely unscientific to claim those patterns are causal without setting up a new experiment.

To take your Schwarzenegger example, we can tell that lifting weights and taking steroids builds muscles because we’ve run the experiment where we take two otherwise identical groups of people, and give one steroids, and then observe the difference going forward. If we only look post-hoc, we might come up with entirely irrelevant patterns, for example finding differences in the amount of time successful bodybuilders spend socializing or watching TV or the number of herbal supplements they take or the kinds of houses they live in, &c. when compared to the general public.

Anyhow, I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t try to do ethnographic and historical analyses (my father is an anthropologist/historian!), only that we need to be cautious and skeptical of our conclusions.
I've decided to go with Name.com as it seems Namecheap is a reseller of ENOM, who I haven't particularly cared for (no reasons I can link or substantiate, just my own personal experiences and opinion on this one.)
Europeregistry is where I have my .eu, they also do .it
I'd actually highly recommend iwantmyname.com - I found the whole process to be a breeze (transferred from Name Cheap to them actually :)).

Again, I am not affiliated to iwantmyname nor do I have ties other than my own domain being with them.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_RH120 :

2006 RH120 is a tiny near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of about five metres, which ordinarily orbits the Sun but makes close approaches to the Earth–Moon system every twenty years or so. Occasionally the object temporarily enters Earth orbit through temporary satellite capture (TSC).
If it doesn't pass they'll come back in six months with an anti-kiddie porn bill that has all the same provisions but this time you'll be a monster who hates children if you speak out against it.

This is how government works. They force crap on you and if you manage to rally and defeat it at great expense they just propose it again. You have to spend your limited resources to fight it and they're getting paid to propose this stuff.

Not only that, but controversial issues pay more in "contributions" from both sides. And conveniently they muddy the water. Who cares if your congressional representative shut down the daycares in your state - they're who you have to lobby to stop SOPA and you'll poison your case with them if you don't drop all your other issues.
What a great contrast to anyone defending SOPA.
It doesn't really matter which textbook manufacturer you get your books from. They are all morally bankrupt institutions. The entire textbook industry is a scam.

I love how you can pick nearly any topic in almost any subject(especially computer science) and find an amazing book for free, or for about $60, yet every textbook my school uses gets < 2 stars on amazon and costs $150.

My "favorite" was a biology book written by a guy with a B.S. in journalism. He published the book years ago and every year he releases a new edition with the chapters out of order.
The author's results and auto-ratio-maker are based on an assumption ("educated guess") he makes in the middle about the ratio between line-height and line-width:

"With the help of basic mathematical modeling, you can make an educated guess that the relationship between the optimal line height and line width is exponential. Here’s the simplest equation to express that:"

The author chooses to square height to determine the "optimal" width, as the "simplest equation to express" the exponential.

But obviously the best educated guess would be W = Lh^GOLDEN RATIO
What language is that snippet supposed to be in?
I have all my domains at NameCheap and have never gotten any spam (or maybe google blocks it all?).
Either way, I'm happy. I haven't tried http://en.gandi.net/ but they are bit more expensive.
Father of 2-factor authentication: Win8 picture password is 'Fisher-Price toy'
Were the North Vietnamese threatening my freedom? I wasn't aware that they were.

US military Veteran != Fought for my freedom.

In some cases they did, in some cases they did not.
Nor does it mean the amendment would be effective or widespread enough.
This is awesome. I love stuff like this. Wasteful distribution companies being cut out and still hitting a wider audience for less money.
Newsflash: Geeks now good at usability, everyone else crap
This article should be called "Astronomers actually redefine the term moon"

If this is the definition, then lets also report that Saturn now has a gazillion moons.
Reading these stories is a bit depressing. Coding since 5? Solving problems with Finder even Apple couldn't figure out? Is this really the level of technical accumen needed to make it in the startup world?
Just wondering here -- would you go so far as to consider the domain registrars of YC hopefuls when going through the application process, or would their choice hold essentially zero weight in whether they get accepted or not?
On the customer service end, I've found Amex to be leagues above the other two. Speaking from my 2 cents.
A better title might be, "Killing the internet to preserve the old methods of distribution so segments of the movie industry dont have to adapt."

Hollywood is trying to fight against an enemy that they don't understand. They think censoring piracy will stop it, when it's obvious that it wont. Gabe Newell said it best - “In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem".
Looks a lot like jquery tmpl -- the syntax at least
Would not surprise me to learn that this whole "experiment" was a ploy to eventually have PayPal freeze the account and finally bring to its demise.
yes! Though I just discovered the other day you can use the --binstubs option which obviates the need to use bundle exec in the project
This is the same team that announced the discovery of 14 previously unknown days in February, I take it.
People usually own more than 1 domain. 100k accounts can easily represent million domains.
And more often than not the coupons are good for the first year only, and transferring after that year (for me anyways) is a bigger PITA than the coupon savings offered.
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Mobile users aren't putting up with LinkedIn's shady app update
It's funny that one of his segments in this special is about how he's a bad person -- he has charitable thoughts toward others, only so he can use them feel good about himself without having actually acted on those thoughts.

In reality, he is probably in the top 10% of best humans ever.
SSH and VPN software aren't "designed or marketed...for the circumvention or bypassing" of SOPA. Neither, come to think of it, is Tor.
This was on HN about 3 months ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979458
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I've been meaning to transfer my domains away from godaddy for some time now. Decided to go ahead and do it today based on these articles. -5 domains from godaddy, from me.
ha. well played
I've never given it any thought to be honest. Now, numbers certainly do seem cheap, but people seem to ignore that enough that I suspect that maybe I'm in a minority that thinks so.

On the other hand, numbers seem perfectly fine in unix usernames...
Ask HN: GoDaddy replacement?
I know this comes up periodically but since many are contemplating switching out of GoDaddy right now, does anyone have any solid advice on domain registration, domain hosting, DNS hosting and SSL cert providers?
This is a great step by step guide for transferring domains. Exactly what I needed (I tried earlier and quickly got lost!)

I do have a question for anyone who could help: Can I transfer a domain which is set to expire in 2019? And, are there typically fees for transferring a domain?
What about taxes? I see that he broke that money into 4 parts, but none of those parts contained taxes.
why click through 20 context menus to activate an option when you can just speak to your computer and say "turn music on".

Imagine, for a second, an entire office of people using voice-activated commands. It simply would not work.

Why use a mouse to click a button, when you can just touch it with your finger

Because that would involve raising my arm and would actually be far more work (and less comfortable) than just using a mouse. OK, we think- let's put the screen where the keyboard is. Now I'm staring downwards for the entire day. And where does my keyboard go? I'm sure as hell not going to dictate this document.

I'm not saying that things won't change, but "natural interface" means precisely nothing.
GoDaddy's splurge response to boycott
Louis C.K. strikes me as a guy with better things to do with his time.

Besides, the people having issues with PayPal have (almost?) always been using terminology implying that they were taking donations without being registered as a non-profit, or were taking money with the promise of a return in the future.

I'm not trying to defend PayPal here; I'm just pointing out that there is specific behaviour that is likely to invoke their wrath, and Louis C.K. does not appear to be doing those sorts of things.
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It seems that the transfer adds a year thankfully and does not reset the clock
I just tried it and was told that coupon wasn't valid for my order. I also tried googling around for more details without luck. Can you share a link to a coupon that says it's valid for renewals? It doesn't have to be valid anymore. Thanks.

I'll renew all my domains for the maximum time possible if it means godaddy will lose money on each transaction. Then I'll transfer them out.
Ask HN: SOPA = Is it time for Internet #2?
Yes, i know, things are not black and white. I had a large text i was going to post here, but when it comes down to practical reality this is it, politicians/old-business/lobbyists caught up with the tech we call "Internet".

Is it time for a out of the box new technology?

Something they will again, take 30 years to understand and legislate.
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http://namecheap.com & http://name.com (*These are ones I currently use [namecheap.com since more than 10 years I just realised] and I am pretty happy with them, so far)
lets not forget that GoDaddy's owner is US private equity group KKR. All of KKR's tech portfolio companies should also be banned (if applicable).

http://kkr.com/partners/portfolio-partners.php
That's a good point. I hope someone stops him before he becomes another famous tax evader :)
10 years ago, I thought the same thing about DMCA passing. "There's no way this will pass." So, the answer to your question is yes, you are.