skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm moving mine too. That, or code SOPASUCKS, I believe. Extends domain for another year so it's decently cheap.
Nice error handling from them...

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That is what is so nice about patio11 - he has effectively thought the rest of us what the value of a good programmer is.

Fuck code sprint and the rest of the guys who think we accept being treated as dirt.
It's a negotiation tactic, ask for something absurd first, yield, and then you're more likely to get what you really wanted the next time you ask.
From Rep. Lofgren's AMA:

My best assessment is that most members of the House who do not serve on the Judiciary Committee have not yet focused on SOPA. People should realize that incredible power they have to impact the thinking of their own Representative on the subject. For example, a very intelligent colleague who is not on the Committee approached me today asking about the bill. Why? He had received an urgent and forthright telephone call from a small business person in his district who is tremendously opposed. He wanted to know more about our Open Act Alternative. This is the power that each of you have with your own Representative.

I have noticed lot of commentary on line, many thoughtful comments, tweets, etc. But most Representatives are not as plugged into the net world as many of you are. To be heard, you must speak, directly and either by phone or in person. Tweets, emails, petitions are nice, but they don't get the same level of attention.

If I had to bet right now (no, not a $10,000 bet!) I would guess that SOPA proponents currently have the upper hand in Congress. But that is because you have not yet been heard from fully yet. That is very much subject to change.

I learned long ago not to try to explain the thinking of other Members of Congress on any given subject. Instead, you should ask them. If they represent you in the House, they most likely will be happy to take your call. Please remember if you do call to be not only forthright but also polite. It's likely that the person answering the phone is some young person who is working long hours for low pay who does not deserve rude treatment. The House is out of session now but I will be happy to participate in AMA on SOPA again in the days ahead. Best wishes, Zoe

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nfhhy/member_of_house_...

I recommend you watch some of the committee hearings, which are all available online. I was as indifferent as you until I listened. http://www.justin.tv/unearthed365/b/302702510?
I am not sure if this is the part of the computer that's dying. I'd bet on the file and application management versus the kind of curated experience Apple popularized.
> Am I wrong for not being worried about SOPA because it's just too stupid to pass? With all the opinions and attention being thrown around the internet, what is the real chance this will go through?

Assuming the Internet votes on SOPA, it doesn't have a chance in hell. If it's Congress that's voting on SOPA, however, it doesn't really matter what people on the Internet think unless they actually make their opinions known in ways that members of Congress will notice (i.e. not forums, blogs or tweets — more along the lines of phone calls).

> So I have to ask, what is the actual chance that SOPA will pass?

If nothing changes? Pretty good. It's got a lot of support in the House Judiciary Committee, and its supporters are really trying to stack the deck in its favor.
In C++, yes.
Not necessarily a good thing.
> With all the opinions and attention being thrown around the internet, what is the real chance this will go through?

I made a comment about this yesterday and in that comment referenced the "Dear Internet" blog post: this is the problem, the mindset that making a lot of noise on the Internet is going to sway Congress is dead wrong. What makes you think Congress has any idea whatsoever that there are throngs of people on the Internet who vehemently oppose it? You already know Congress is seemingly incompetent when it comes to writing legislation about the Internet so what makes you think they'd be any more knowledgable about opinions on the Internet? The short answer is: they aren't. You should be worried and you should seek traditional means (write, call, get in touch with your rep and senators) of ensuring your opinion on the matter is understood. Our best bet is to encourage the education of Congress about the Internet so we can get favorable legislation passed because as it sits, no it's not so insane (in their eyes) that Congress won't pass it.
Greg Wilson cited a "Barnes and Phillips 2002" study saying that true power is always concentrated in shadow committees. @1:00:40 http://vimeo.com/9270320 Anybody has a link to the paper?
I've assumed their choices of venues was tactical and based on regional legal quirks, not related to market share.
Here's a helpful article I used to move my domains off of GoDaddy:

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
I'm just diving into clojure now and have finally gotten my vim environment set up with a working repl (war scars here for vim users trying to get going: http://naleid.com/blog/2011/12/19/getting-a-clojure-repl-in-...)

This is exactly the kind of next step I was looking for beyond the 4clojure and clojure koans stuff. I'll be working through it this weekend. Thanks!
Spend less.
Given that more than two thirds of the Senate support PROTECT IP and almost four fifths of the House support SOPA in its current, unamended form, blocking it with a filibuster in the Senate is going to be difficult at best (since cloture requires only 60 votes to break a filibuster), and the House is acting like it's going to get passed without amendment.

And then Obama is a totally unknown quantity. We don't know if he's going to veto it or not. And if he does veto, the Senate have enough support to override him with a supermajority.

Yes, you are very wrong for not being worried. The worst part is that the people trying to pass it are too stupid to know what they're doing.
Erlang syntax might look weird at first, if coming from Ruby/Python, but I think you're giving up too early. Yes, Erlang looks different, but after an hour of playing with it you come to realize one important thing: the syntax is weird but there is an incredibly small amount. Relative to languages like Python and Java, Erlang has a small syntactic footprint. Relative to C++ you need a logarithmic graph.
The Peer-to-Peer Future: Peter Frase
Also, Ruby can shadow method names with local variable names just fine:

class Foo
def bar
"bar"
end

def baz
bar = "foo"
puts bar
end

def bang
puts bar
end
end

foo = Foo.new
foo.baz # => "foo"
foo.bang # => "bar"
No problem, you asked for specific examples, and I figured since I'm writing my first large production backbone.js code I should chime in on my experiences.

Thanks for all the great work! I use and love BB, CS and _ everyday.
Why do you think Microsoft is going ahead with "Metro" touch interfaces in Windows 8? How applications are installed and files are managed is a different issue, it's irrelevant to how the user interface operates.
I've been writing C/C++ before and thought it would be nice to use those forms of the operators, but having never ever seen C++ code that does I wonder if I'm setting myself to be made fun of.
hey alexis, when does this happen?
where are you people getting all of these viruses from? I use probably 75% Linux, 25% windows and I can honestly say I've never gotten a virus on windows 7 OR Ubuntu.
Getting a Clojure REPL in Vim with VimClojure, Nailgun, and Leiningen
Top tech stories of year: Netflix's Public Suicide Art Project
So what are the excluded departments using? Hosted Exchange? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that whatever solution they're using isn't any more secure. Even if you host your own mail servers inside Fort Knox, and hire and vet everyone who goes near those servers, you still have all the same trustworthiness problems.

On the other hand, I'm probably missing something there, since Google somehow failed to convince them to stay on board.
I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anything. In the email I got, there were two (identical) links telling me how I could cancel the transfer-request, but no link to accept it. It took me a couple of minutes of poking around in my account before I figured it out.
So glad I'm only seeing Marvel Comics and not DC. I don't think I could give up my Vertigo graphic novels.
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There is a GNOME Shell extension at extensions.gnome.org that gives a list of running windows to the top panel. Slightly tweaked version that looks cleaner:

https://github.com/cannonerd/gnome-shell-windowlist
Discover? I've been a happy customer of theirs since the 90s, and their coverage has gotten near total within the US. Sparser in other countries, though.
"Yes, you are very wrong for not being worried. The worst part is that the people trying to pass it are too stupid to know what they're doing."

Well that is a bit scary 0_o
Thanks great round-up! Do you use all of them on a daily basis??

Wish there were screen captures for each ;)
One of the more interesting ways I've seen channels used in Go is a channel of generic interfaces, and then switching based on the type received.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df36r82q_5gdq5gzth&#... has an example of this on slide 15.
Turning the Web into a programming language with Hypernotation
Pretty par for the course with BGR.

Inputs:

(1) press release or wire repackaging of press release that is about Apple.

Outputs:

(1) complete rewrite with no blockquotes.

(2) but uses every piece of data in the original.

(3) vaguely reference the source 3/4 of the way down.

(4) 10 other links all to BGR articles.

(5) increase wordcount 45%

(6) increase linkbait with terrible speculation.

How long til the inevitable AOL buyout?
RSA 2012 Conference Talk: Alperovitch on Tactics for Net-based Warfare
That we don't know everything is scientifically rock solid!

Your point is mostly that the stuff we don't know is bad science; I agree.

Still, this thread is to try to answer the question, where is ET?

Historically it would have been better to assume that there was stuff unknown that was better as an explanation than the stuff we did know, going WAY back: The Earth is a ball riding on the back of a turtle? We understood balls and turtles but not gravity of spheres! The earth is a ball held up by Hercules? Similar. To keep the sun moving across the sky we have to pour blood on this special rock? The planets are from wheels rolling in wheels? The stars are light coming through holes in ths sky? The sun is a fire based on coal? The Milky Way is all of the universe? The universe is expanding so there are just three cases, (1) keep expanding but more and more slowly, (2) stop expanding and reach 'steady state', (3) quit expanding and contract into a big crunch. It was ALL wrong! And in all cases the right answer was from things we didn't know yet!

For "We're running out of places for such putatively better mechanisms to hide". Ah, it's always been such! Where was Newton going to look for a solution to the orbit of Mercury? Where was Newton going to look for why he couldn't make gold with chemical reactions? The big bang seems to have things moving faster than the speed of light; where to look? We're not getting the right flow rate of neutrinos from the sun; where to look? Essentially all life on earth is just from DNA; so where to look for the reason there is no other mechanism?

But just now we have at least two biggie places to look: Dark matter and dark energy. About both, we don't have hardly a clue. We are unsure about the Higgs field. We haven't unified gravity. We haven't detected gravitational waves. We're unsure about why galaxies have black holes at their centers. There remain questiona about the 'size' of our universe, especially given the evidence about the flatness of the geometry. We're really mixed up about EPR.

But not all is lost! Some of the new telescopes on the way into orbit are amazing, maybe count the hairs on the back of ETs head! Maybe!

So, why haven't we heard from ET? My guess, stated as just a guess, is that ET communicates by means we don't understand yet. Is this answer solid science? Nope! Might it be correct? Yup! Is there some historical, circumstantial evidence for it? Yup. Are we still in the dark? Yup.
How Social Media Affects Search
Concurrency in Go (or, Erlang done right)
SOPA and NDAA are the latest [giant] steps toward totalitarian tyranny in the US.

The moves are blatant and any opposing voices are simply ignored.
No nerd left behind (28c3 streaming around the world)
For the lazy http://getinapic.com
I don't really care if my app only manages 5000 requests per second, versus framework x's 6000 or more on the same hardware.

Nitpick: Your numbers are a little off. Rails/REE tops out at around ~300 reqs/sec on a current commodity box (16 cores/16G). This is of course application-dependent and optimization can squeeze it some, but it's a different ballpark.

When you look outside of ruby-land you can indeed find frameworks that will handle your 6000/sec on the same hardware (e.g. twisted, node, some of the evented java-frameworks).

So, depending on what you compare to rails, the difference can easily be an order of magnitude.
Why do you think Microsoft is going ahead with "Metro" touch interfaces in Windows 8?

Because a new form factor has emerged. It hasn't killed the old one, though- very few people that use computers (i.e. in an office, sat at a desk) could perform their job on a tablet.

Metro sits on top of the existing UI without replacing it, in the same way that tablets complement existing computing setups, not replace them. I don't doubt that tablet usage will increase and that PC usage may decline, but tablets still fill a specific role.
I think your response is a bit short-sighted. Look at market share as an indicator, not a means to an end. Apple might not care that its market share is 10% or 70%, but it does care that it just launched a new smartphone and sales are slowing while its rivals are picking up steam.

If you want to believe that it's a coincidence that Apple is hitting its competitors the hardest in two countries where it seems to be losing the most ground, that's fine. Others might not share your opinion though. Germany and France are key markets — remember, the 4S launched in each of those countries at the same time as in the US.

Don't focus on market share, focus on what it might tell us.
Shame on CNET and BoingBoing. This is hyperbole and they know it.

At the very end of the below committee hearing, Rep. Zoe Lofgren proposed an amendment that would ensure TOR and the friends aren't effected by SOPA. Rep. Lamar Smith, committee chairman, requested that she shelve the amendment so they could work on the issue out-of-channel.

http://www.justin.tv/unearthed365/b/302702510

Edit: I missed the paragraph in the CNET article that addresses this. Perhaps my wording is a bit strong, but I'm sticking to my guns.
"National Curfew for Whites," Yakub Muslims Publish Hours Whites Can Go Outdoors
Quote: Whites are strongly advised to take care of their shopping & other outdoor needs during non restricted curfew hours. Unrestricted Curfew Hours: MONDAY-FRIDAY: 5AM-7AM, 11AM-1P, 5PM-6PM; SAT. & SUNDAY: 5AM-7AM, 11AM-1PM, 4PM-5-M; Violaters are subject to Yakub Muslim melanomas, carcinomas, sarcomas & other skin plagues.
"It's actually self-evident for anyone who knows both languages that Chinese is semantically more dense than English and by that effect alone it's much faster to read"

By the same token, it is self-evident that English text, gzipped, then base-64 encoded, being denser, will be much faster to read than bare English. Because of that, I do not think that argument has much value.

On the other hand, contracted Braille is more complex than uncontracted Braille, but reading speed _in_cells_per_second_ seems to be about equal for both (http://faculty.sfasu.edu/mercerdixie/spe520/uncon_vs_cont_br...). That makes reading contracted Braille about 30% faster than reading uncontracted Braille (http://vision.psych.umn.edu/groups/gellab/Legge99.pdf)

So, I do not rule out that something similar applies to Chinese vs English.
How do you define that term?

I don't want to see any more young teenagers branded as sex offenders, a label they'll have to wear for the rest of their life, because they sent naked pics of themselves from their phone to a friend of theirs that's the same age.

I don't want to see parents being run through the legal system because they've got some pictures of their baby that happens to be naked.

I don't want to see someone being thrown in jail because they have some kind of manga which, under a broad definition, would qualify as this even though no actual children are involved.

Anything that involves abuse, pornographic or otherwise, should be what the laws focus on regardless of the age of the subjects.

If it was merely "child pornography" that could get your site taken down, then the first idiot teenager to post a topless shot of herself or a guy posting his junk, which you have to admit is disappointingly common, would get your site blown off the internet permanently.

With SOPA in place, Chatroulette, or anything like it, would never have happened at all.
DIY Home Electronic Contact Lens
pg - this is bad ass. Way to put your money where your mouth is.
Fundraiser for anti-SOPA Lobbying initiative -is it viable?
Fight them smart, not just hard, right? After reading http://boingboing.net/2011/12/17/wtf-is-happening-with-sopa-now.html I agree that not playing the Washington game would be good for principles but bad for the imminent SOPA fight. Lobbyist work for whomever pays them, not just Hollywood. What does the HN community think of an online crowdsourcing project to raise capital for a anti-SOPA Lobbying innitiative? Is it too late for that? What online tools can be used(Sparked.com, JustGiving.com, KickStarter.com, )?
Having a good default is the key to something being used.

I'm not at all convinced that "ergonomic keyboards" necessarily are that. But if an organization is serious about having ergonomic solution, they have to make it default, not option you can choose later ... 'cause the vast majority of people stick with the default option.
How is it not realistic to solve it? Or more to the point how is sharing suppose to realistically work if you don't. If you say you're going to allow people to share files then you have to account for the very common scenario of simultaneous use.

And (as I said below and got downvoted for) it isn't that hard. We use Dropbox for Teams and I back it up with a custom application using components from a company named Aspose. They allow me to read Office file formats and combine files where needed.

If I can do that in a weekend then why shouldn't Dropbox look into doing it?
But you can't really compare the windows UI with gnome-shell, because they don't have the same workflow. For example, a "show desktop" action in gnome-shell is useless, because there is no good reason to interact with the desktop (it doesn't show icons by default).

Now, tell me, under Windows, how many times a day do you use a window's context menu, against, for example, the Start Menu? How many times do you expect a regular user to click on them? Furthermore, how many times can you activate a context menu from that position? Do you always use your windows maximized? You shouldn't optimize the corners of your screen for a windows button (because there might not be a window there). INSERT: the corners in gnome-shell always work the same way, independently of any window state.

Having something in every corner of the screen doesn't mean that it is universally useful.
Another vote for namecheap here. I switched over when old man Parsons took a lot of pride in his hunting videos. I'm not an activist or anything, but he could at least conduct himself with a bit of tact.
Doesn't Google have a partnership with GoDaddy for registering Google Apps domains? Conflict of interests?
> the Rare Earth hypothesis

That's certainly the end of the Great Filter I'd prefer to be the significant one. Let's hope for no microorganisms on Mars, Titan, or Europa!
Of course, the size requirements of a "moon" are arbitrary. In this article, they're calling an object 1 meter across or larger a "moon."
I am planning on using my Amex everywhere they take it. I know they're not non-evil with their commissions, but I'm picking from what we have.
I think you're missing the fact that SOPA can be easily abused to shut down sites like wikileaks, or sites which would otherwise be documenting and broadcasting the injustices carried out by your first three points.

The government could kill, detain and illegally raid citizens who oppose them - and with SOPA, the internet will be censored such that people will be in the dark on these issues.
I just transferred 9 domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. I transferred about 15 a while back after the whole elephant hunting incident.

fyi: when you transfer a domain, you're actually getting an entire year renewal + the existing time left on the domain. Using one of the coupon codes from Namecheap ("XMASJOY" or "SOPASucks" or "BYEBYEGD"), it's around $5 on average per domain... less than it is to renew at GoDaddy.

Go do it! Takes only a couple clicks.
Linux will be replaced by Android?
Lobbyists are expensive I know, maybe some services trades can be arranged as form of payment if we get some talented internet people on board.
Is there any anti-SOPA Lobbying currently going on by any interest groups out there??
That doesn't mean that that amendment is in SOPA though.
You're right. It's terrible for mathematicians to be spending time solving silly things that interest them.

Pardon me while I return to writing a Game of Life simulator
This is a company that runs Super Bowl advertisements. Your mom's uncle's, half-brother's, cousin uses them to register domains, and she's never heard of ReadWriteWeb, HackerNews, or Reddit.

Not trying to be Debbie Downer here, but effort is a finite resource, and it seems to me that the anti-GoDaddy folks just hooked their cart up to the anti-SOPA horse. I don't have any domains with GoDaddy because they suck. I'd venture that anyone who is capable enough to move their domains on their own has already moved away from GoDaddy. Anyone not capable would have to pay someone else to do it for them. That's the fight the GoDaddy boycott folks are picking.

And so the question must be asked, will this effort have a good return on investment? Will GoDaddy be swayed? If they are, what will the impact be?

When I ask myself these questions, I come away with the impression that GoDaddy is the last thing anyone should be focused on. Congressmen need to feel the pressure from their constituents. Talk to your friends, and don't couch your language with domain registrar topics. It'll get you nowhere fast.
think are doing: reddit, hn, etc.

supposed to be doing: what the post indicates. Grading papers. (dis)proving p != np. (dis)proving one of the other millennium problems.

EDIT: formatting.
Since the amendment is propossed, that confirms that SOPA would, otherwise, ban Tor. Until the amendment is actually in SOPA, that's the reaility: Tor will be banned by SOPA.
> "Can you see your company becoming a 10 million dollar company?"

This number is much, much too low. 100M or 1B is the common question in North America.

I've been told by a number of early investors that they seriously worry about investing in companies that get to 10M or 20M and then plateau.