skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, that falls completely flat trying to reach my bar for "shady". (Legal) tax avoidance is par for the course these days.
I have to agree with this.... Depending on how long he's been at it, it may be one of those "I need a second" my best suggestion is to get a deadline and show you are working your ass off as well. Basically, you need to do everything else you can and be there to get him pizza...

Consider bringing in a 3rd that you can give ~5% equity who can focus on problems he needs help with... ask for his help in this conversation...
No, your wife and children would be hostages. You would still be a prostitute.
Well, I guess I was wrong then. It's true I'm not a technical guy, but I've run a site that did 1TB of bandwidth each month and never paid more than $130/month for hosting (back in the early 2000's), so I figured he should have gotten better pricing these days.
Or maybe it's the other way 'round. Perhaps they chose a sensible system because they are rational, compassionate and civilized people.

Come to think of it, that seems more likely now.
The part here about not hiring anyone who has worked on SOPA-compliance software feels a bit absurd to me, unless you take the same line with every personal belief. Does that mean you should never hire any engineers that have worked on software for a predator drone? Or even just things that annoy you like telemarketing call center systems? I use that example because I'm guilty of it myself at my first programming gig. I'm against this bill as much as most are on here, but I think we need to be realistic about people's need to feed themselves and even the percentage of computer programmers that would qualify as the hacker types who would even give a rats ass (I don't know too many personally).
Saying "we are not being divisive" isn't enough to make you not divisive, unfortunately. It's in the nature of your message, and how people take it.
Sorry, remove that final char to use the link. Not sure how that got on there.
Anyone have questions about the project? The application process? I obviously have no experience of the program itself, but will share our experiences with applying for anyone whose considering it.
That may even be too late. The military has its own programmers and I presume it trains some of them in house, which means it gets then possibly at 18 out of high school and trains them itself. They can be put to any use they are ordered to.

The government in general is probably rarely thought of as sexy and it still gets grads.

I guess I'm decrying this idea because I just do not see it as enough from both sides. I don't see you ever getting 100% of people on board with you and I don't see 100% of sources of software caring. This plan only works if 100% of everyone buys in, as long as one lone group produces the code, SOPA will go into effect. And then theres the fact the tools are already built and at least 10 years old.

This is simply not the solution and any time spent on it is a waste of what little effort we do have that could be vastly better spent else where.

Exactly where? I don't know, I just feel strongly this is not the solution.

As for at least a direction? Look to Larwence Lessig. He's been fighting copy right reform for ages. He was doing it in the 90s and it was getting old. Then after Eldred was lost he kind vanished from that scene. He's now back and he's stepped up a level and is working on Government reform. He realized after they lost that you can't fight in a system that's so broken, so he's now working on System reform instead. If you can spare 10 minutes check out his talk on the Daily show from Dec 13, it does a decent job of summarizing what he's fighting now. Then tell me this is how we can best spend our time :(

I supremely believe we need to step it up at least one level and fight something bigger, this is just a symptom.

Also I believe the world is a sadder harsher and more depressing place and not everyone clings to our ideals like we do. We need a system to take that into account. To be a little more strong handed than "All the hippie flower power new talent won't work for you" because I'm pretty sure there is still more than enough talent to go around to get these jobs done. :(
It was Vidal himself:

"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=“I+have+been+asked+...
Because it's not necessarily a part of all modern cultures. For example, pornography is illegal in many Islamic nations and can be difficult to come by, both online and in real life. In such a culture, the extermination of pornography would have a relatively minor effect on society, making it disposable.
I don't think it's really like that.
I have a big list with hunches that might work an I also use my idea generator at: www.ideaoverload.com to find new ideas to write into that other list
In broad strokes? Select employees carefully. Give them a reason to care about what you do. Mold the company culture such that caring (and related things, like personal authority to effect change) is prioritized over other goods which would get in the way (such as getting the most efficient outcome 100% of the time). Make it obvious to your employees that it matters to them that they fit into that culture, in the way that it matters at some companies that they file the TPS reports on time.

As a customer? Vote with your dollars in favor of businesses which invest in customer service. Most people don't, and the market gives them exactly what they really want.

Quick tip for getting what you want from companies? 1) Buy a share of an index fund. 2) If you have any issue which can't get resolved the traditional way, send a letter on paper to their Investor Relations department. They will leapfrog over all the firewalls put in place to prevent customers from talking with people who have the authority to do anything. (A related trick: mail sent directly to the Vice President of Customer Service, Office of the CEO, etc.)
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You cant really compare that to screwing people for millions of EUR on purpose multiple times and going to jail for it, but oh well.
We were actually discussing JS VM replacement in the browser, related to:

> True, but the JS VMs we have today have been refined over 15+ years and switching to another risks breaking the web in profound ways.

The counter-point being that all the major browser vendors have swapped out their VM or performed significant rewrites in the past few years; it's clear that it's possible to implement a new VM and not "break the web in profound ways".
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse142/10au/h...
The flight or fight response has been investigated for a long time. It's complex enough that you need to read a lot of relevant studies most of which are old before you can understand it. Which makes finding a single source hard.

If you want basic research start with Walter Bradford around 1915 Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bradford_Cannon
On marketing, the article mentioned...

"This may never be needed, however, as he also points out that they have a “blessed” viral loop of seven: for every seven rides, a new rider is acquired."

What exactly does the last line mean?
He did say it was a joking generalization. Do you have a different joking generalization of what New Yorkers are like?
Your name isn't Buttle is it?
Doesn't matter. You're descending at 10,000fpm. Your nose is up. This is wrong, no matter what else is going on. First order of business: point the nose in the same direction that the airplane is actually flying. Everything else can wait.
I do appreciate that to fully understand a situation you must look it from all angles. But what is the kind of evidence you are looking for?
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If you have tons of data (logs, for example), on the order or tens or more terabytes, and want the benefit of SQL in addition to MR to query and crunch that data offline, you can use something like Hive which runs on top of Hadoop, gives you all the power and familiarity of SQL, and lets you "drop down" to MR if you need the extra power.
I own and run a technology service business which is developing a very good reputation. Although I don't (can't) do everything on this list, this is more-or-less the formula I follow. I developed it while working as a manager for a variety of businesses:

1. Show them. Employees are less likely to care if their boss doesn't care; taking care of customers starts at the top and works its way down. For a little while I was able to manage a grocery store & restaurant with infamously bad customer service, while the owner was seriously ill. By the time the owner came back, the employees were constantly checking in with customers, straightening shelves, cleaning the store -- all the things they never did before. They did it because I would go out and do it and then ask for their help.

2. Don't be afraid of bad customers. Bad customers hurt employee morale; probably one of the best things I did while managing the restaurant side was walk over to a customer, kneel down to face level with them, and quietly inform them that if they ever spoke to an employee like that again, I'd throw them out. Employees will love the shit out of you if they think you have their back when it counts.

3. Get rid of bad employees. Everybody knows who they are; you don't have to be cruel about it, just let them know that they aren't a good fit and help them decide to move on. Bad employees are cancerous, they bring their friends and their bad attitude spreads.

4. Get good employees. I hire as much for an earnest and polite personality as I do for expertise. The thing is, we can train expertise; in my experience, you can't train good behavior.

5. Take care of your employees. If you can reduce the number of things they have to worry about when they're not at work, then they'll be happier to be at work. Pay them well, get insurance for them (and don't make a big deal of it), make sure there are clear rules in place for the occasional payday advance (and use any such occurrences to re-evaluate whether or not you're paying them well enough), be polite but firm with them, respect them. If they want to go to school and need flexible hours, support that. During the holidays, give them a little bit of paid time off, because the holidays are wickedly stressful for your staff. Don't demean them, ever; don't make them wear idiotic costumes, use stupid code words, sing jingles, or the other bullshit that makes it hard for employees to take a job seriously.

That's about it. It's really not that hard. Most businesses just don't care enough because the attitude at the top is that they can always use marketing to find new customers.
I can't say for sure. It would depend on the particular line of reasoning of the congressperson, and how that changes depending on what they do or do not learn about the technical infrastructure from talking with me.
While you are at it, please talk programmers out of writing programs that send spam. Oh, and what the heck, if that works, please talk people out of being greedy in general.

Thanks.
It would seem like Lamar Smith is hell bent on killing innovation, entrepreneurship and a major source of job creation not only in the U.S but more specifically in his own district.

His district is close to many Austin and San Antonio startups including companies like Rackspace, not sure whether they are within his district or fairly close but the impact would be felt.
I agree, I don't think it's impossible. But, we don't know how yet.
I'm going to give this a try to replace my current text editor.

I suspect this would be more useful if I didn't have 2 monitors. Currently I have my text editor on the left with all my files easily accessible, and the browser open on the right. So the biggest pain is having to hit refresh (not that big a deal).

Looks like it would be great for coding on the go with a single small monitor.

EDIT: Tried it. Chrome sux as a text editor :(
They found out that the pathogenic mutation was only present in vascular tissue, but not in blood cells.

DNA replication errors occur all the time, even in multi-cellular organisms. Some of them lead to cancer, but most of them are either lethal (for the cell), or, most of the time, innocuous.

The most likely scenario for the abdominal aortic aneurism is the following: A mutation can occur during organogenesis, in utero. The earlier it occurs, the more cells will be affected. Said mutation can be initially benign, but become problematic in the long run. If the mutation occurs after the differentiation between fibroblasts and blood progenitor cells, only affecting the former, you get the scenario described in the ScienceDaily article.
Yes right, companies owning millions of dollars (they have 50 million users a day..) shouldn't pay their share of taxes in times like these. But what if "legal tax avoidance" by such companies was one of the very reasons why you and me are now living in "days like these"? I don't want to convince you, I know I can't, but just consider it if you can.
Your ex-boss is a liar and a weasel who doesn't even have the guts to fire you himself.
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This is a result of not having a limit on the amount a corporation can donate to a political campaign. The maximum should be 0, this is more like a government by the people for the corporations.
Just once, I'd like to respond to that with, "OK, give me the bug number and I'll fix it right now by marking it resolved."
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I wonder what this means for Cappuccino. Coming from a mac developer, Cappuccino is awesome. I was able to jump right in writing a complicated web app right away without having to use any javascript, html, or CSS. Lots of web developers probably think this sounds stupid, but man, it's awesome.
I think you are misreading that quote. It's not replacing a JS VM with another JS VM that's a problem, it's replacing a JS VM with a non-JS specific VM would cause problems and break the web (something that has been proven to happen).

Arguing that you can replace a JS VM with a JS VM doesn't help the case of replacing a JS VM with a non-JS VM.
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I really don't see Bloomberg standing on stage announcing a choice with anyone else but Stanford. He would consider it a personal failure and embarrassment. The project is basically dead at it's original scope. Maybe something much smaller will be announced but it will be low key and with a deputy mayor filling in.
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Security of these new features is something that is being taken very seriously. APIs like the Full Screen API and Mouse Lock API can only be invoked manually by a user, either by clicking something on the screen or pressing a key.

It is also impossible for a website to take control of the Full Screen or Mouse Lock API without your direct knowledge. A big message appears at the top of the screen when in full screen mode and you can always exit it at any time by pressing the Esc key.
SOPA Battle Won, but War Continues
The list is here, someone else added it first in another comment.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111203/00494716961/some-d...
I'll simply say that using the command line is a reflexive act, and that basic training, which is good at teaching reflexive actions, is a good model to use.

He thought otherwise, and since this the core of the issue, I believe he is wrong on the primary point.

His wording was intended to imply negative things with loose language, and if you can't see that then you can't.

I'll give one example. I said, "Grown adults are taught in a manner similar this everyday in basic training for the army."

He said, "You can't seriously compare teaching command line kungfu to some wannabee geeks in their spare time with the hardcore brainwashing given to infantry troops so they acquire enough Pavlovian reflex to stand and run below a shower of bombs and bullets."

You claim he didn't say that basic is ONLY for infantry. True, but then I have no idea what he was saying. I said that basic is a good model for teaching reflexive action. He was responding to that, so he was either creating a straw man with the infantry thing, or he did get it wrong that basic is ONLY for infantry.

Right?
> The cells of multi-cellular organisms [...] are genetically identical

Nope. As stated in another comment, somatic mutations occur all the time, leading to slight diffenrences between the cells of a given multi-cellular organism. Most of them are insignificant, though.
> Ubiquitous cross-platform adoption. Done.

Well, that's at least part of the reason why we disagree. The list is longer, and includes (but may not be limited to):

* view source - up until minifiers, there wasn't anything happening on the client side that you couldn't see how it was done yourself.

* gentle learning curve - the entry level to simple web publishing was achievable for anybody who could transfer "view codes" style word-processing concepts to markup and manage file transfer client. A little learning or some copy and paste could take you up the next gentle step to limited scripting.

* Hypermedia nature of the platform - instead of applications being little silos that only interoperate with a relatively small number of apps from the same organization (or other organizations where they've made deals), hypermedia docs were a sprawling web of connections constantly pointing to other document-applications. If you'd dropped a perfect universal VM on every desktop in 1995, it's extremely unlikely things would have fallen out like this. It certainly didn't for the imperfect one.

> The web grew popular (relative to the Internet population) before it got JavaScript, not after. It wasn't JavaScript that drove widespread adoption

A 1995 release means that the first statement is only defensible given the flexible nature of popular. The second statement is truer in decreasing terms through 2004 or so, when it bottoms out.

That's tangential, though. The real question is more along the lines of whether the web would be everything it is now if instead of passing around a single strain of fairly standardized (though expanding over time) markup, we instead were sending drawing instructions and collecting events. Or maybe even a single binary-encoded standard for abstracted document trees designed for optimal machine consumption, generated from various different applications or compiled from other document schemes.

Their answers to that question are why a lot of people think it might be a better idea to have single scripting language, and the one we've got has turned out to be pretty capable so far.
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I do not necessarily think the web needs generic VMs to move forward, or that JS needs replacing (I happen to enjoy JS with all its quirks quite a lot).

I do, however, think that such a transition is possible if the powers that be (Google, Mozilla et. al) could agree on a fairly consistent strategy.

Yes, 2 VMs side by side would probably be needed for some time, but 10+ years? Surely pure JS VMs could be moved to plugin status and be phased out faster than that, especially since someone would just write a compiler that compiled JS to this byte code format. No, it wouldn't be as fast as a VM highly optimized for specific JS quirks, but it could probably suffice.

> It would be akin to rewriting malloc.

Custom mallocs has been written for many different purposes like for example demanding game engines. While certainly a complicated task, it has been done numerous times.

> And even then, you still have to support JavaScript being written directly in HTML <script> tags, something no other language could enjoy. So every browser must include a JavaScript to (new VM) bytecode compiler. JavaScript will always be in a priviledged position.

Why would <script> tags HAVE to contain JS? I see no reason why if we're changing to a generic byte code web, JS in <script> tags could be phased out as well.

However, as I said, I actually like JavaScript and I think experiments of modernization like Dart are approaching the "problem" in the entirely wrong way. I only think that if we "had" to change up, it could be done without much degradation to the user experience if any at all. Some old sites would break, but really, who cares? If you could compile your javascript codebase to byte code and have it still work, every one would do that without much problem.
A lot of what SOPA is black holing US internet traffic. All it takes is one person at one service provider to do this. India and China have done this on accident before. (They create a black hole route and accidentally advertised it)

Sure there are some more specific details to make it smooth to the end user, but from a technical level it is 3 commands on a service provider router to bring down a public network.
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I think Onymous may have already thought of this ;-)
sopashield.com?

sopasavior(s).com?

sopasentinel.com?
Did this prevent you from requesting the zone files?

Would it prevent somebody from requesting them who needed them for their business?

(That's why)
I keep running into DBAs and data architects that keep trying the "we don't need foreign keys" argument. I always ensure they lose that argument (and stuff gets better, amazing!).

Though in all seriousness, what alternate universe are these people crawling out of?

That and the types who call their j-random database a "data warehouse".
I'm very excited by this. Graphite is an amazing tool, but the UI feels a bit outdated.
I'd add the word list: sopashamelist.com

People and media love lists =)
This is a good article...would be interested in seeing this by using AppScale (http://code.google.com/p/appscale/wiki/MapReduce_API_Documen...) and Eucalyptus.
If you don't participate in something, it's unlikely you'll get what you want. That's what happened to this guy; "I'm too lazy to make my own tools" and now all the tools suck. Well, yeah.
Anybody know why?

Not enough users?

Folding the product into something else?

Having something as awesome as Cappuccino and a flagship app like 280 slides runs counter to the Google thesis that JavaScript isn't good enough? ;)
Insert plea for PDF here...when you're ready of course :)
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My comment from the day the acquisition was announced:

"pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo! I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish. My fear came true. EDIT: Half true. No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.
Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors. Let's all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public."

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631036
wow, yeah. every now and then i realise that no matter how dysfunctional my previous jobs have been, there have been other people who had it far worse.
Is 280 Atlas also dead? It seems like there hasn't been any movement on the public beta in 9 months.
Well, as someone who has "many years of daily command line use" behind him, you will not learn anything from that book targeting newbies, but if you try something you're a complete noob at - a foreign language sticks to my mind - you will have to use this kind of technique to memorize the things you will learn.
It's pedantry, but pthreads isn't "native" anywhere either. It's a standardized API on top of lower level primitives (in Linux, clone() and futex() basically).