skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine that Louis takes the $280k and buys a yacht. You may not agree with Louis that a yacht is a particularly worthwhile use of $280k, but the effects of the purchase are localized: Louis gets a yacht, the yacht company gets $280k.

Conversely, charities are designed to have broad effects on the world. Often these effects are undeniably good, but not always! Some charities give out bibles, some campaign for the right to abortion, some campaign against abortion, some give food to the poor without regard to local economies, and some campaign for free software. I challenge you to find any one person who agrees with all of these things :)

Now, I don't believe that the charities that Louis has chosen are doing bad work!

But if you are going to be donating 28% of someone's purchase to charity, it would be courteous to explain, ahead of time, exactly which charities are going to benefit -- because not everybody is going to agree.
I considered this as an idea for a startup. Whenever legislation like this comes up, you pull up an app on your phone and express support or opposition. Then, whenever you go to vote, the app will infer which candidates you are looking at based on your location, and will show you the pluses and minuses of each candidate according to what you support/oppose.
Ask HN: How many karma points are needed to downvote?
How many karma points do I need to earn to downvote?
If DuckDuckGo could really make $301+ M on search in Firefox, they would bid that. Reality, they can't. There is no value created in the imagined middle man investor.
Don't the padmapper/etc housing crawlers do this?

Those are incredibly useful too, it is much easier to see those things on a map.
not if you have sane ulimits on processes, like any multiuser machines should
There are "NO INNOCENT WHITES"
"She thought she could come to the United States, fling her blonde hair about like a movie star & enjoy the elevated social position her terroristic race affords whites over niggers until God spirits of Divine Universal Race Karma snatched her & raped her - like her kind did ours.
99% of FF users would just switch to Google as soon as they install it.

I assume you can back that up somehow? Most evidence I've seen indicates that the majority of people don't change defaults.

It's not like anybody has made a competent enough search engine yet

http://blekko.com/

http://duckduckgo.com/

http://www.gigablast.com/

http://www.yandex.com/

http://www.baidu.com/

There would be more if there was an easy way around the distribution problem. Becoming the default search engine in Firefox would sure help with that problem.
It takes less energy to accelerate an object away from both the Earth and sun (assuming your launch pad is on an appropriate spot on the Earth surface), than to accelerate an object away from the Earth but into the sun without just getting the object stuck in an orbit like Venus or Mercury.
And here is your list of companies to boycott.

We can talk all we want, but until our money matches our mouths nothing will happen. (GoDaddy is just the start.)
Quick Walk Through the World of Location & Places APIs
When they came out with the original timeline for integrating QNX onto the BB, I was excited. It was ambitious, but not impossible, and QNX is a fantastic OS that never found a niche. I was hoping RIM could revive it and give it the presence that I always felt it deserved. It looks like they may instead put the final nail in it's coffin instead.

The original timeline might have worked, it might have caught them up. Now that chance is way less
You appear to be suggesting a variation on the Nuremberg defense.

"Your honor, I'm not evil! I was just following orders... errr.. I mean I had a responsibility to my shareholders!"

I'm sorry, I simply cannot take your line of reasoning seriously.
Good point.

Do you think Bing could be monetized at a similar rate to Google if their market shares were similar? Or are there other things Google are doing (e.g. better add targeting) that is making them more money per search?
A Techie Couple’s Last Minute Holiday Gift Idea For “The Top Dog”
Facebook rejiggers platform to increase game usage
Also, I heard he will hook up a sandwich if it will help.
Four Pieces of Advice for Aspiring College Entrepreneurs
As a Canadian I worry more about US media corporations influencing Canadian politicians which leads to laws being passed. Bev Oda being the the example of an MP that money can buy.

It's bad enough to have DMCA, HDCP, copy protection up the yin yang but when some suit in LA influences what laws are passed in a foreign land I say that's grounds for extradition of the executive and treason charges (or whatever the term would be) for the Canadian politician.

If the situation was reversed I'm sure people in the US would freak out if a music executive from Canada bribed a US congressman to help get laws passed.
They don't have to provide domains (or anything else) to anyone they don't want to.
I'll admit the demo is beautiful, but surely there's a way to accomplish this without history pollution.
God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\2CITIES.TXT

kind of remedy for the little evils with which the State was
touched, except the remedy of setting to work in earnest to root out
a single sin, poured their distracting babble into any ears they
could lay hold of, at the reception of Monseigneur. Unbelieving
Philosophers who were remodelling the world with words, and making
card-towers of Babel to scale the skies with, talked with Unbelieving
Chemists who had an eye on the transmutation of metals, at this
wonderful gathering accumulated by Monseign
Don't sweat it. Hacker News audience loves to flag things if it doesn't 100% relate to their world.

Readers here won't see the correlation of all the research I did for this post that included FTP, WebSockets and beyond. Because they'll all be separate stories.

For the record I wrote the story because it struck a cord in my research. :)
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Do you mean "vehemently", or is your anti-SOPA position actually contagious?
Paul, you're strong with the essay-force, but with essays, you only reach the audience that already knows you and is willing to read your works.

I recall your comments about public speaking after the NYC-YC event, so I'm guessing you're hesitant, but for what it's worth, I think you do great at public speaking.

An important point to realize is you are one of the rare few people here in the US that is actively "Creating Jobs" and this gives a great deal of weight to your words, both practically and politically.

Though I'm twenty years past being a twenty-something, a non-notable nobody like me could not do what you can do.
They need to do more. Pull out of the US Chamber of Commerce, then we know you are serious.
The name for the point directly opposite the globe from another point is called antipodal. Thus, ggchappell's observation means that Cheyenne Well, Colorado is antipodal to Ile Saint-Paul.
Dave Morin talks Path 2.0, Facebook's early days
that is very impressive stuff. I wonder if there is a way to load own classes and files, e.g. "require 'my_class'".
> This is about as divorced from reality as you could possibly get.

That's politics for you.
Here here, the Django/Jinja model for templating is so much nicer than dealing with partials in every template
Awesome dude!
I think Discover and American Express are not on the list.

There's not much after that except for BitCoins.
1 from me : their backordering system for domain is cool and that's the only reason I got even one there...
Data Mining with Linear Algebra
I was initially against SOPA, but seeing as the United States Tennis Association supports SOPA, I've decided that it's obviously in the best interests of the Internets.

If there is one truth to this world, its that the United States Tennis Association knows Internets.
Sorry, by homepage I meant typing in "www.google.com" and searching from there. Or typing google into the search bar and then getting to google, and typing the query there. Believe it or not, a lot of people still search these ways.

But yeah, def still worth it, I was just questioning the "25% of google's income" claim.

Edit: In fact, I found a source for these numbers: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Google-Search-Box-Tra...

According to this [April 2010 - but I don't think firefox's market share has actually changed a lot since then], 82% of the search market is google, and 9.18% of the search market is searches from firefox via google. That puts firefox at 11% of google's searches. I think then about 8-9% of google income would be a good estimate- couldn't quickly find any data on what % of their income comes from search, but http://www.coastdigital.co.uk/news/google-gives-breakdown-of... shows that it def isn't 100%.
My company has about 35 domains and SSL certs through GoDaddy. I've always loathed them but I can't justify the cost of transferring over. Is anyone offering a discounted option to jump ship?
Our domain was registered through Google and they stuck it on GoDaddy. Working on getting it transferred safely. Nice post Jeff!
Hard to know. Google does have better targeting at the moment.

Back when Yahoo was a player they built a platform that was supposed to match Google (Yahoo Panama[1]) that was their big hope of matching Google. It didn't succeed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing#Details...
In case you guys missed it, there was a recent HN article on the speed improvements in jruby + jdk 1.7.
I too lament the slowness of Rails - and before you throw the usual arguments at me about perf being relative and 'good enough' blah blah - the ruby/rails community should have seriously addressed this _long_ ago. I've only started with rails recently (this year) and am experimenting with jruby since my patience has worn thing with ruby's speed.
They'd have to repeal the relevant law/amendments. I'd prefer the direction to go towards INTERNET FREEDOM rather than INTERNET CONTROL in any case.

If the anti-SOPA movement stops SOPA, there will still be momentum towards INTERNET CONTROL with future bills. In fact, PROTECT-IP is a reincarnation of a former attempt.
I would think that the statements regarding its support of the RIAA suing filesharers and Heritage fellow Edwin Meese comparing using Kazaa to "shoplifting DVDs" would indicate that Heritage members have traditionally taken views that side with the RIAA and MPAA.
I don't think this destroys your argument, but the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is located, according to wikipedia [1], 4670 km from the center of the Earth.

Interestingly, both the Pluto-Charon and the Sun-Jupiter systems have barycenters above the surface of the primary body.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinates_(astron...
Easier rule that gives similar results (~10%): `line-height: 1.5` for sizes up to 36px, ~1.2 for anything larger. Aka common-sense line heights.
Last I heard: 500
Most of this is not a new posting -- just the material at the top.

She is using dangerous language -- talking about children, and about counterfeit goods which harm lives.

She makes it seem as if one must be for SOPA if they want to be against harming children or counterfeit goods. But that's not a logical conclusion. You can be for helping children and against SOPA. In fact, I'd imagine that would describe just about everyone who opposes SOPA.

SOPA is far reaching. SOPA is terrible and needs to be stopped. I'm all for something that stops the harm of children and the spread of counterfeit goods, but that's not what the SOPA debate is actually about. So let's focus on SOPA and not get misdirected by Ms. Jones.
I think desks in general stopped being ideal after the switch away from writing on paper. Nothing new has caught on and it's quite unfortunate.

I like to work with a keyboard on my lap, and there are so few good options for it that it's incredible. My requirements are:

- some access to the mouse pointer. 1% of my usage still requires it.
- shallow keys (like the apple keyboard). This is just preference.
- apple cmd and option keys.
- no numpad.
- wireless and usable at up to 10 feet or so.

Doesn't sound crazy right? The only decent quality keyboard that meets those requirements is the Logitech diNovo Edge... the design of which I find just cheezy enough that I'm not into it.

I'd easily pay $200 for the right keyboard, but it just doesn't exist. In the meantime, I'm stuck using one of these: http://www.hekseskudd.com/products/abidextrous-wooden-tray-f...
Electrical Engineering start-ups?
I was wondering if there are any start-ups in the electrical engineering space, whatever that may be. I know HN is oriented towards web start-ups, so I was curious to see what else is out there in my current field of study/interest.

For those that would consider themselves in this space, what's it like? Is there less competition, more? Is getting funded harder? How has building your company differed from typical web start-ups you know of? Any pointers for fresh grads looking to get involved without much experience?

Cheers.
You don't crawl Craigslist; you tickle Google. Craigslist can't block them... But you'll still need an excellent lawyer...
Are you skilled enough to work at Socialcam?
Just found discount list on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
It is not however designed the specific censorship legislated by SOPA. It sure sounds like it is addressing MAFIAAfire (and DeSOPA), but not generalized tools like tor.

I guess we'll see.
RMS, among others, objects to the very term because it encompasses so many different things and that leads to ambiguity, preferring instead to refer to rights individually, e.g. trademarks, copyrights, etc.

For those who simply want to protest, though, people have been using terms like 'intellectual monopoly' or 'imaginary property' or the like. But that gets you right back to lumping them all together again.
Price for EVERYTHING? But no commodities, oil, coffee, etc.
> To be fair the slides never really makes any comparisons with Erlang instead just used an inflammatory title, so it is understandable if responses are a little hand-wavy.

Totally true - the Erlang too-dumb-to-be-a-cheap-shot was unwarranted. There are responses already posted in this thread along the lines of "This doesn't have anything to do with erlang at all" and they're completely justified.

The comment I responded to was calling out specific details out of context and making silly comparisons from there. That's all.
Official list of SOPA supporters updated: law firms removed
I mean no offense, but that's probably because you're not religious. But most of us have had experiences we interpret as God having taken care of us, and instances where even when we suffered pain, it seems like someone was looking out for us and making sure stuff turned out well.

I phrase this conservatively because I'm aware of the possibility of assigning motive to events that were actually "happenstance", assuming there is such a thing. But others would phrase it much more aggressively: "I have faith in God because of all the things he has done for me." If they can't, they probably should, in fact, re-evaluate their faith.
Maybe you should generate the charts with a server script, something like

<img src="chart.php?bar1=20%&bar2=80%&label1=woman&label2=men" />

A php library to do so: http://pchart.sourceforge.net/
>> What's currently considered to be the best intro to programming?

LPTHW http://learncodethehardway.org/
SOPA SOPA SOPA SOPA
ICS Paper Cuts
This is simply old and big media desperately trying to hold on to power.
EDIT: I updated the blog to include these instructions. Thanks.
I don't think he's hurting for cash, particularly. That's one of those industries where the unknowns make almost nothing, but once you become a household name you make quite a lot of money.

And beyond that he could always borrow money for a venture that's likely to be profitable, or he could just go with Comedy Central the next time around.
Is there an official list of SOPA opponents?
I have 2 pieces of information on which to make a decision regarding godaddy: my experience (including those people that I personally know), and the experiences reported in the "GoDaddy screwing over HN customers" posts. I've never had any problems. It's also impossible to know the overall customer satisfaction picture; customers with disaster problems are much more likely to be vocal than people with my experiences. I also have a full picture of my experiences; with the disaster posts, I don't know the full story.

Godaddy are such a small part of my concerns that I appreciate they're cheap and have always worked for me. Operating DNS/registration isn't exactly tough andI don't have too many requirements. GD meets those requirements.

Although I did not downvote you myself, I suspect the downvotes are because your comments appear unnecessarily confrontational.
> I'm thinking it may possibly respond immediately with cached results.

Just because nobody explicitly said it - a 301 redirect is actually cacheable per §10.3.2 of RFC 2616. But google doesn't set a long cache duration - another one of your responders posted the response headers, it was 86400s which is 1 day.
Now youtube has a "let it snow" button
Now youtube has introduced a "let it snow" button in the player when playing a video.
I guess it's a slippery slope. If people #define and && then someone else will #define then { and #define endif }. Everyone will have their own silly dialect. In fact, that is not unlike the current state of C++ usage..
My radio experience: consumer/ham/Military/University/Industry, both hardware and software. (But currently I deal with databases, 'cause it pays the bills.)

See if a local library has a copy of the ARRL Handbook. There's also a ton of information available on internet. Many hams have blogs, projects, etc available to explore. Sometime back issues of Radio and ham magazines are freely available. http://www.ae5x.com/blog/tag/oldpubs/

There's a large number of kits and other projects that are simple and inexpensive to build. You can spend as much or as little as your budget allows and still have a blast. I've had a nice PSK31 chat with the US East coast from Texas with 3 watts and a simple wire antenna while car camping.

I'm hesitant in telling you to seek out a ham radio club. There's a bitterness among a small percentage of older hams that has discouraged a legion of folks from enjoying the spectrum. But with the internet, you can usually ignore these idiots and find some aspect of radio/electronics and communication with like folks.
I lost the link, and I think he made his old journal private when he moved to a different platform.
Connectors are becoming huge. Are there any alternatives to HDMI/RJ45 ports with a lower profile, similar to the mini-USB one?
We already knew this.

We needed people like Louis CK to know this, and now he does, and so (presumably) will other artists otherwise fearful of such an open approach.
This Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend with Internet Memes
The 10 minute productivity solution
Thou captured much of my reaction. 9 years doesn't make research rigorous if the methodology is flawed, and the end sample sizes are small. Comparison companies are good but don't solve methodology concerns. And I am actually one who lIkes Jim Collins. It's just bad to view it as rigorous.
Right now you could load modules from the stdlib. At some point we will add the ability to upload custom modules to our servers and require in your code.
> It's just easy to get people who aren't technical at all to watch a video.

I'm an avid reader myself, but I've seen how some people object even to subtitles. I think you'd get a lot more of an audience if you could put up a video.

But I can understand wanting to do an essay, because you're very good at those. Also, I just want to say thanks for opposing SOPA. It's important that Congress hears from the people driving job creation about the impact this would have. Something from you will do a lot to represent the rest of us who merely get form replies from Congress extolling virtues of the bill we just told them we hated.
"longing for a time long gone is more comfortable, and easier ..."
Amazon's results for 'iPad' search: want to buy a Kindle Fire instead?
He's not throwing away the rest, he's paying bills and donating to charities.

Indeed, one can think of it just more purchase, only he's buying a better[0] world.

[0] Modulo your opinion of those charities.
Apple investigating fuel-cell-powered MacBooks
"""99% of FF users would just switch to Google as soon as they install it. I assume you can back that up somehow? Most evidence I've seen indicates that the majority of people don't change defaults.""""

Then the evidence you've seen is wrong. If people "don't change defaults" how come they switched to FF in the first place, which is not the default browser on Windows, but is (or rather, was until it lost to Chrome) an extremely popular windows browser?

Maybe naive users don't change defaults, but those users are sticking with (duh) the default IE. Users that moved to FF are more likely to change defaults.

Also, they won't even have to change the default: they just navigate to google.com and search from there, instead of using the search in the toolbar with this unfamiliar "Bing" thing.

"""http://blekko.com/ http://duckduckgo.com/ (...) """

Note the use of the word: "competent". None has results that good that make people actually want to switch to it. (For example, DDG's main selling point is privacy).

The only example I agree with, Baidu was made from a similar algorithm to Google's and with a remarkably similar history (RankDex vs PageRank etc). And even that is mainly popular in China for national/cultural/political reasons, methinks.
I hope you are right, and the order of things is as you say. If not we are trading one evil for another.
Google Translate: Helping us do business in Chinese, French and German
Note to self: data mining web app; few visual bugs; duplicates; I can see only "Bad News! This Item Already Sold."; no info where an ad comes from; they use jquery; actually http://www.shopobot.com/ by nostromo looks better (but they just focuse on amazon price monitoring);
Oh, and another thing: people already switched MULTIPLE times from Yahoo to Lycos to Altavista to Google.

Pre Google people switched search engines all the time -as soon as a better one come along.
I support, in principle, the concept of IP, and the right of IP holders to enforce their rights, and I hope everyone else on Hacker News does too.

The big questions aren't "should IP even exist as a concept", but instead "how limited IP should be", "what rights IP ownership should give", and "what avenues are available to enforce those rights".

Don't forget, "IP protection" is a really broad concept, and it's more than just patent trolls and DMCA takedowns issued by corporations on content they don't even control: It also includes, for example, the ability to release code under your open source license of choice and then see it enforced through the courts.
Keime Inc. voluntarily recalled one lot of Virility Max
Can you share the configuration of HAProxy with SOCKS? I didn't find mentions of that within HAProxy.

For example, If you search for site:haproxy.1wt.eu "socks" you don't receive any meaningful information (you can try with socks4 and socks5 also)
No reason to bring weight into this. I don't think that PayPal is fighting against Louie's crotch belly.
Rapid Development Setup in Large Environments
GoDaddy also has a larger variety of ccTLDs available (for instance, namecheap doesn't sell .it or .es).

But i'm sure there are lots of other registrars that support those domains and not this act.
Congress ends free speech, and their punishment is.. early retirement? In that case, I should become a senator!
When law firms have trouble, the common man can expect Kafka experience

Imagine your company name appears there days before some meeting with pg