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Or, it will hold up and the government will have yet another inconsistently unenforced law to be used when it finds an innocent person who has done something politically inconvenient.

Using encryption is already proof, in many people's eyes, that you're breaking the law because otherwise you wouldn't have anything to hide. Having this enshrined in law will make it worse.
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Download Terra, which lets you spoof headers as FF or whatever you want.
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This is just an update. The app came out in July.
there's a major error in their calculation in that they didn't do that in 3 dimensions, and they assumed that all planets always lie on the same radius from the sun. do the math again with jupiter and saturn on opposite sides and use 3 dimensions, and the CoM should go back into the sun.
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That didn't bother me as much as the elephant hunts, to be honest.
technically, I don't think it's correct to say that C let you bring down the system with one command.

On a protected memory system, I think the worst you could do was a core dump. On Unix, unless you were root, you couldn't hose the system. And if you were root, you didn't need C to do it.

On a DOS, Windows 3.1, Mac machine, yeah, an overrun could freeze your whole system, or just make things go haywire at an unexpected time. Ah... the Mac bomb dialog...fun times. Not remembering exactly what Windows 3.1 did, I don't think the BSOD had been invented yet.
I like Mozilla, but I think you're stretching "openness" here. I don't see a lot of openness in this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471561

Per the new business arrangement between Mozilla & Yandex
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search defaults.
...
This bug is marked confidential until the agreement
has been announced publicly.

Openness would mean asking Russian users to vote for the default search engine before striking a deal.
This isn't about saving Hollywood... Its about stopping the 99.99%'s of the populations first amendment platform - the internet. Its about stopping sites like Wikileaks and blogs that speak their opinions about the gov and politicians. thats my $.02
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Daniel Castro misuses DNS circumvention report findings to support SOPA
While I agree that equating the two in the article was extremely sloppy, there also exists the phenomenon of Google providing open tools to device makers and carriers, who then use it to create a locked device with poor privacy standards. The Android stack itself may be open, but the devices that actually end up in users' hands vary wildly in their respect for consumer freedom.
The Democracy-destroying government-subsidized corporations are already playing hardball with you.

Why do you refuse to play hardball back?

Try getting hired to be a VP at Pfizer while publicly supporting patent-reform.

Try spreading the gospel of universal healthcare while being employed by Blue Cross.

Try getting corporate advertisers for your online newspaper that presents a favorable view of WikiLeaks, or is willing to stand up for corporate whistleblowers who expose fraud.

Individuals are already excluded from many, many activities based on their opinions. Non-violent non-cooperation with Democracy-destroying organizations is absolutely fundamental if you want to defend freedom in your country.
The tutorial took about 10 minutes to complete for my domains. I've been on the look out for an easy way to leave GoDaddy for a while now. Thank you!
Really cool, although the line "You're running Ruby version 1.8.7" right after it was deprecated in the latest rails beta is a bit of a downer.. but still really cool!
who makes it "official".
> I'm surprise nobody's mentioned Knuth, though maybe that goes without saying?

Everyone's waiting for the complete book.
Are you guys going to stop using Mastercard, VISA, and no idea who your internet provider is but if its Comcast, them too?

I did another thread on here regarding this as well and I'm curious how far people are willing to go to prove a point or are they only singling out whatever makes sense. The above three have some strong strong monopolies or close to it so it makes things much harder. GoDaddy just happens to be one of the easy ones people can choose to switch from.
This shows that all the efforts by the online community to raise awareness about SOPA are having some effect. Keep it up!
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selling a country's freedom? un-american? its hard to even conceive what on earth this means or how your consideration of what is american - or treason - means anything. and adidas is german.
> The people who run corporations have a fiduciary responsibility.

In other words, the corporation does not hate me, but I am made of atoms that it can use to make a profit?
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FREE IDEA: Show your support against SOPA by 'censoring' yourself
Hey HN,

I was wondering if any one would be interested in a fun small Xmas project that scans your facebook/twitter profile picture and then uses the Face.com (http://developers.face.com/) API to 'censor' your face with some small text at the bottom of the picture saying you're against SOPA.

It then reposts it as your profile picture and of course the app would allow you to share the censored picture on your social networks of choice via a tweet or wall post.

And if you are a REAL bad ass: You could even build a browser plugin that censors anything/everything on the websites you visit.

I would do it but leaving country tomorrow (w./o. a computer) till the new year and am still a n00b programmer, so I thought someone on HN would be interested in doing it instead.

Happy hacking & holidays!!

tl;dr Build an app that scans your facebook/twitter profile picture censors (blacks out) your face and sets the censored version as your profile picture to show that you're against SOPA
among all the SOPA news today, seeing this is refreshing. I'm so glad this model worked for him, and I hope others follow in his foot steps. Distribution is over valued.
The point is that the CIA would need many non-CIA individuals in the US using Tor to effectively mask CIA traffic. Sure, if SOPA outlaws Tor that would not prevent the CIA from using it, but if it effectively reduces the number of others using it, then Tor becomes useless for the intelligence community.

Edit: Also, thanks for the link. I had forgotten, but the Tor project tacitly admits to an ulterior motive from the intelligence community.
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Well to be fair CK has made $83k / day so far... I doubt that it'll continue...
I moved all my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap a while ago. The experience was really smooth, and Namecheap's interface is a TON easier to work with.

Although I support the idea of switching domains from GoDaddy to protest their support of SOPA, I sort have to wonder why anyone technically oriented hasn't done so already. Is there ANYTHING to recommend them other than name recognition?
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I guess for programmers believing in code reuse X is either 0 or 1...
At least one company that was apparently on the list strongly denies they support or ever supported SOPA and PROTECT IP:

http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/12/22/petzl-amer...

I wonder how many others are puppet entries. They'd better speak up fast before their reputation is ruined.
Thank you for taking the time. I would hope a second glance at my comments and account would indicate that I'm far from a "temporary" account.

That having been said, I understand your first two points, but I still find them to be irresponsible. I'm not saying that I've never done it, but to most people, their domain and availability are important parts of their brand and GoDaddy doesn't strike me as "competent" enough to be a risk I'd be willing to take with anything other than a site I really don't care about.

I know complaining about downvotes is in poor taste, I'm just shocked at the mob mentality that I expect at reddit taking over control of the discourse here. I think that your term "self-fueling moralizing crowd" is very apt, but I don't mean to imply that I'm against this boycott. I was really just speaking in defense of the OP of this trunk of the comments who was remarking that it's just a matter of perspective in reasons to avoid GoDaddy. Like I've said numerous times, I detest GoDaddy and SOPA and am in favor of any boycott that affects either.

The self aggrandizing morality stance in this thread is probably just getting to me more than I should be letting it.
200+: content creation, distribution, etc. Approximately 1/4 seems to be small photography studios.

100+ commonly pirated physical products - pharma, shoes, fashion, guitars, spirits, golf clubs, etc.

50+ general manufac/retail industry concerns.

15+ law enforcement/local government trade orgs

15+ law offices

There's a number of testing and credentialing organizations, I'd guess they might be part of content but I'm really not sure.
You can find more info at http://reddit.com/r/darknetplan . Cjdns is something to look into as well http://outreach.x10.mx/cjdns.php
The compile happens in the setup of the benchmark. So the actual benchmark is testing the rendering speed of the compiled templates.
So, I've been thinking. I know the whole "don't attribute to malice..." line, but isn't it possible that SOPA is an effort by big media to control all online content? Is there anything in the proposed laws that mandates rights-holders actively pursue violators? (Trademark law does have this requirement.)

Could SOPA be used as a tool to weaken content-driven tech startups, until they can either be shut down or scooped up at bargain basement prices by a studio? Would it be completely inconceivable that an industry guilty of payola (multiple times over) might collude to use SOPA only target web properties not owned by an RIAA/MPAA member?

Hell, I don't even think collusion would be required. All it would take is a massive cross-licensing deal covering online media. Then BAM! You're logging on to Sony Facebook or sharing a link on Twitter by TimeWarner. What if the true targets of SOPA aren't the pirates, but rather the small tech startups that have been making so much noise about how harmful passage would be to their business model. The small tech startups that aren't so small anymore and, day by day, are looking more and more like the future of content.

I begin to wonder if the studios are not so ignorant of technology trends as we might hope, but rather see a way to ensure that our computer screens are controlled by the same groups that control our television and movie theater screens...
Of course, if a company is hell-bent on killing startups, there is also no reason to invite them to Demo Day, even if they understand technology well enough to know how to kill startups.
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Paul Graham: Thank you for this incredibly forceful and ballsy move. I almost applauded out loud after reading this.
I'm glad to see a company that has very little to do with the internet be so affected by the outreach and feel a need to send out this letter. I use Petzl headlamps and they're great. Plus their site runs on Drupal. Petzl is a-okay in my book.
Godaddy already has my money and moving off them would only reduce their load in an insignificant way. More important, I won't create any new domains there and will move the ones still with them to a competitor as the contracts expire.
Depends on what you mean by realistic. All of the examples I gave were things that have happened, or could plausibly happen.

Police Raids: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/data-centers-ra/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/22/fbi_data_centre_raid...

Shutdown Registrars: http://domainnamewire.com/2009/10/12/directnic-picks-up-red-... http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/03/registerfly-terminated-b...

You can never know what the company executives or managers might be getting up to, so -- as basic risk management -- you should prepare for catastrophic events.
I made the move back when GoDaddy pulled Fydor's domain w/o warning. I'm glad to see that I don't have to hunt down yet another registrar that supports freedom.
It sounds like you would regard any form of taxation as authoritarian. I'd like to know of a system of taxation that _doesn't_ "[force] one group of people to pay more taxes than another..." for one motivation or another.

Though really, higher or lower taxes are in practice beside the point. Whether it's the government, or the employer, most people will never be financially independent and will always find themselves beholden to whichever hand --government or boss-- feeds them.

I argue that if our ultimate goal was financial independence for each and every citizen as opposed to partisan quips about "job creation" and "taxation" and "regulation" then we wouldn't have any major concerns about those things to begin with. They'd be non-issues; ancillary concerns rather than concepts at the forefront of everyone's minds. Precisely because every player has the capital necessary to make a sufficient stand for themselves.

For some reason though I don't think most would approve of such a citizenry.
Don't on any account do that.

First, he is quite likely to label you a nutjob and automatically ignore everything you say. This may be true even if he agrees with you.

Second, even if he is sympathetic to SkyMartial's points, from the congressman's point of view this stuff is quite simply irrelevant to the problem at hand. He needs to know whether or not SOPA is a bad law. He does not need your input on whether or not Congress habitually passes bad laws (whatever his opinions, he probably knows way more than you about it).
Prices. Nobody beats godaddy on prices when you use coupons (which exist everywhere). Also brand recognition, looking at their public support forum and Facebook I would suspect a large number of their customers don't know how registrars and hosting work, so they don't know anything beyond godaddy.
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The site seems down for me, but Google has a cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1BOfAgm...
But... What's an "MM"?
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>"There is no place in the scientific method for belief without evidence"

I'm not a professional scientist but as a wannabe theoretician I can't concede how this can be correct. Indeed I think it needs to be wrong often in order for experiment to progress from theory.

I'd warrant that the LHC was only built because those theoreticians at the forefront of physical advances in particle physics at Fermilab and CERN (and wherever) felt that, despite not yet having the evidence, that nonetheless the Higgs boson (or other particles like the Chi_b (3P)) would be found.

Moreover often one adopts a first hypothesis because one is convinced of the truth of that position without a rigorous proof; obviously empirical method then steps in to affirm that belief.

Yes beliefs can be found to be false, but they can also be confirmed.
Back in September I sat besides a Petzl employee on a flight into Kathmandu. Petzl had tasked him with teaching snow safety and mountain skills to Nepalis who would otherwise not have access to this instruction.

Plus their gear is great.
It's definitely a neat idea, but as a Python and JavaScript coder, I don't know how much I would actually use it.

For Python, my code tends to rely heavily on modules that aren't found in the Python standard library, which is limited when you're using a REPL that only has vanilla Python.

For JavaScript, code that I show tends to be more oriented to DOM manipulation rather than the console, so maybe that could be something that could be implemented?

That said, this is probably best for teaching novice programmers, which seems to be the goal anyway with Codecademy. :)

Keep up the great work, I really find what you guys are doing to be a huge contribution to education.
One of my quantum physics professors liked to say it was fitting they were able to find beauty but almost despaired of finding truth.
It would be nice if you had a link to sign in on the page. You have 3 links to register on the page, but not one to sign in if you already have an account.

Edit: Apparently, it's not actually connected to Codecademy that way, as far as I can see. Why not?
It's down. I'm working on it...
How is zurb's foundation not included? Very promising, responsive alternative to Bootstrap
They could always expect SOPA to increase domain sales. After all, many of these "rogue" sites use what could be considered disposable domain names, so odds when a domain is seized, it will soon be replaced by a newly purchased domain.
Historical reasons. I've had my domains with them for almost ten years. Ten years ago they were the geek registrar of choice.
I remember when SeatGeek presented at TechCrunch Disrupt(?) in 2009, pg took issue at the fact that they didn't use their ticket price data to arbitrage the secondary ticket market. Does Pricenomics use its data to arbitrage any markets, and if not, why should the same criticism not apply?

All that aside, Pricenomics looks compelling. Hopefully it will substantially increase the efficiency of second hand "stuff" markets.
I established a DNS Made Easy account about 5 years ago exactly for this reason. Registration, DNS and hosting independence is an important consideration. Separating these concerns is a big win when you need it.
Huge believer of voting with your pocket. We have just submitted to have the last 247 GoDaddy domains transferred.
nope, not at all.

the event horizon (schwarzschild radius) of the sun is 3km.

i don't think planethood should be defined based on whether the barycenter of the system is within the orbited object, but I do think that's a pretty good definition for determining whether two objects are a planet moon pair or dual planets.

this wikipedia entry hasa fairly good description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_planet#Definition_of_a_dou...

but in case you con't want to follow, here's a summary:
dual planet system (eg pluto charon): barycenter lies outside of either object
planet with moon (eg earth and moon): barycenter lies within the radius of the planet
planet: "(a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit[1]." [2]

as for why planethood shouldn't be determined by barycenter location alone:
"If the definition of a double- or binary-star system is used as a comparison, and it depended only on the location of the barycenter, then any revolving body with a barycenter beneath a star's surface would be a planet, and any body with a barycenter lying outside the surface of the star would be another star. In the Solar System, all of the major planets would be planets under this definition except one. The Sun–Jupiter barycenter is the only center of mass that lies outside the surface of the Sun. Therefore, since Jupiter is not a star, the difficulty faced by astronomers to derive a reality-based definition of double planet begins to become clear." [3]

[1]: meaning it has become gravitationally dominant, and there are no other bodies of comparable size other than its own satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.

[2]: IAU

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_planet#Definition_of_a_dou...
Ask HN should be two words rather than one. Having said that, the best answer I can muster up here is "it depends".

Without knowing what you're working on specifically, who you are, what your situation is, etc etc etc... The following advice is meant to be vague and general so take it with a grain of salt.

You should always validate your idea with committed users prior to even writing the first line of code. You should validate whether or not there is a large enough pool of people wanting what you have to offer and the market size. This goes without saying that this step should be done regardless if this is suppose to be the next big thing or just a simple side project. Assuming you have this done and want to jump into building the MVP, usually, its unlikely that your MVP will involve heavy ML in it. Giving you ample time to build, improve, and scale before you need to really do real heavy lifting (usually, not always).

That said, if you've never done it before, there are lots of resources on here and other places (a simple Google search will yield results for you on previous posts) of how best to approach this. However realize its not going to be a quick solution and you won't master it in a short period of time, especially since you're involved in a new startup and theres a lot to do and a steep learning curve on a lot of other things as well.

As for time frame? Thats nearly impossible to answer without knowing what you already know, who you are, how fast you learn, etc... Realistically, the likely answer is not very short albeit you can learn some useful stuff in a short period.

As for interviewing someone with ML chops when you don't know it yourself, that's difficult advice to give. The best recommendation here would be to find people you trust and get recommendations and go from there. Its extremely hard to evaluate anything without understanding it yourself. Ideally if you work hard on learning ML, even if you're not great at it in a short time frame, it will help ease the process for hiring purposes and evaluating to some degree.
I was going to just suggest adding "End to End Arguments in System Design" (http://mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/endtoend.pdf) but then realized that the entire MIT 6.033 reading list is exceptionally worthwhile.

http://mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/
I can almost imagine a couple of new add-ons that are selected by default at checkout:

"We'll forward all copyright complaints to you within 24 hours so that you can take action before your domain gets blocked forever! This is absolutely necessary if you want to host user-created content! Only $12.95 per month!"

"We can expedite the appeals process if your domain ever gets blocked! We have backroom deals with the RIAA/MPAA! Only $249.95 per domain per incident!"
This rule is for when both bodies are the "same" type.

There are three types:

Black hole -> Sun -> planet/moon

Two suns are a binary sun if they orbit a COM outside both. Same for two planet/moons.

A sun around a black hole is not a binary sun, but we've never named such a thing (except maybe galaxy).

A small sun around a large one with the COM inside the larger one should have a special name, but we never gave that a name either since we've never seen one.

A planet around a black hole is a planet, since it's not the same type as the other one.
Yeah you have to wonder about client-side performance with work being offloaded to it to render.
Thanks - we're working on integrating everything a bit more tightly!
I know you're not serious, but MM stands for "million." "M" stands for "mille," French for "thousand."

So MM is a thousand thousand, or one million.
Thanks for the feedback! It's for newbie programmers for now, but check back soon for some more updates ;)
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