skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I want to do the same. Model S is sooooo sexy, and I'd keep the B6 for road trips.

WRT the navigation: just get a 100 dollar Nuvi w/ realtime traffic. My B6 doesn't have the in-dash navigation in the first place, but the Garmin's a really nice product.
Ask HN: Feasibility of setting up a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA
What's the feasibility of setting up a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA? While organizations like EFF are involved in such efforts, they focus on a broad range of efforts. The same goes for Facebook and Google. It may be possible to galvanize a lot more support for a particular issue like this especially since this threatens the existence of an open Internet and will have a negative economic effect on the denizens of the tech community. If even a 100,000 people denote an average of $100 (a possibly reasonable goal given the wealth of the tech community), this would guarantee an important place on the table for supporters of Internet freedom.

Edit: I was under the incorrect impression that OPEN act would end nonsense like SOPA/PIPA. Edited post to reflect that.
Here is a gem from this gem of a book - surely one of the best descriptions ever of what are now called DSLs:

Forth programming consists of extending the root language toward the application, providing new commands that can be used to describe the problem at hand.
Programming languages designed especially for particular applications such as robotics, inventory control, statistics, etc., are known as “application-oriented languages.” Forth is a programming environment for creating application-oriented languages. (That last sentence may be the most succinct description of Forth that you’ll find.)
In fact, you shouldn’t write any serious application in Forth; as a language it’s simply not powerful enough. What you should do is write your own language in Forth (lexicons) to model your understanding of the problem, in which you can elegantly describe its solution.
Happy that all the static code analysis tools from MSR ( which form the basis of /analyze) are getting good PR. Microsoft is great with code analysis tools but rarely gets recognized for it.
Perhaps work should be done to pass a law that prevents these sort of bills from popping up. Go on the offense and eliminate the threat instead of constantly having to defend variations of the problem.
Stratfor does geopolitical consulting and forecasting, mostly via a series of newsletters and reports. They've got (or at the least, trade on having) good connections inside various military and intelligence services, and in all sorts of possible trouble spots. Think of them like a very small news and research organization with only private clients.

For the most part, their customers are companies who are in industries where geopolitics if off-the-beaten-track places matters. Think resource extraction in developing markets, or other regulated businesses in places where the government may not be too stable/open and the press not too free. When you get into it, there are all sorts of services/lists like Stratfor, each with their own sources and agendas. They're all generally quite expensive, low-profile, and contradictory - but one successful play off a tip from one of these newsletters would reap a reward of hundreds of times its cost. For a sample of these types of reports, check out DebkaFile [1]. It's certainly got its biases and issues, but will give you a taste of what these private intelligence newsletters are like.

As for why they're on Anonymous' bad side, maybe it had to do with Startfor's coverage [2] of Anonymous' mini-campaign against the Mexican drug cartels?

[1] http://www.debka.com/

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0VmatoJ...
This is only what was transferred so far though. Many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
Any exemplary open source apps out there?
You would design a web service to only allow updates to rows created by that same user ID. That's a critical difference with setting MySQL permissions which would allow you to update an entire table, potentially destroying the scores and levels of others.
The closest you can get to complete test coverage is a policy of writing test coverage for every single new feature coupled with this regression test policy, because once the code base gets to a certain size it's impossible for anyone to form a complete mental model of what is covered or not.

If that's not good enough then I think static analysis is a decent step, but probably pales in comparison to using stricter languages (eg. Haskell).
Not to mention many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
People, and movements, need victories. GoDaddy may not be anything close to the final blow against this nonsense, but that isn't important.

Here's the thing: it's the week of Christmas. People, including elected officials and their constituents, are traveling and distracted. The likelihood of a letter-writing campaign either getting off the ground of making an impressive impact is much slimmer than usual.

Meanwhile, a very particular company is identified as supportive of the legislation. It happens that their product is broadly used by the Internet community and that said product provides recurring revenue. The loss of numerous customers, as a result, has lasting impact.

And so the community responds and makes an example of this company. Do angels sing, heralding the end of bad legislation? No. But tech news outlets, which would have had nothing substantial to print, now get to focus their full attention again on SOPA, on how a company who supports it is brutally punished, and how the Internet business community is maybe something not to be fucked with after all. So now this is part of the story: Internet folk have teeth, there are consequences for supporting bad law. The best part is that GoDaddy doesn't even have to be wounded in any real sense – the story is enough to change the tone of the conversation. This is mostly a war of perceptions, so it's good to make the bad guys look like scheming clowns.

This strikes me as an incredible deal during an otherwise dead week. What would you have preferred in its place? How would the season impact such a proposal?

> The overwhelming majority of the effort should be going to calling/sending (physical) letters to one's respective representatives, maybe setting up some sort of a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA and support the OPEN act, urging tech companies like Google to spend more on lobbying (They can and should be spending more to lobby against the act), etc

I'm sure you don't need me to point out the multitude of wonderful, free publishing platforms you're going to be able to use to make your case for just this course of action. Meanwhile, while you're putting that all together, let's see a little gratitude for the good luck of GoDaddy's incompetence and for the time and money spent by the many domain holders who made their point so clearly.

This is gonna be hard. We, the people, are way outgunned in terms of cash and lobbying. We need every victory we can get to keep the logs rolling.
Hacker News Restyled
I just noticed the new design (and I like it), is this going to remain?
Maybe if more people used AMD, Linux and GIMP we wouldn't be stuck with SOPA.
Minus the mean of transfers out this week = 11800 total. That probably doesn't equate to very much profit loss. It's good that people are voting with their money, but we need to move away from the GoDaddy circlejerk -- there are plenty of other targets.

Also, 21000 + 15000 = 36000, but that's besides the point.
There is a halo effect. Attention on SOPA increases attention on PIPA. Without the SOPA scandal, this halo effect and increased on attention on PIPA may never have happened. You can't simply convert emotion from one object to the other. I think it's better to support things that are in the same direction than to nitpick the details (eg. pick your battles).
I'm not so sure I agree with you, because there is something to be said against your counterexample. In java, I can reason as follows: the Java Dependency Injection Framework is gigantic and convoluted, therefore it is going to be complex and difficult to manage.

In Java there is a sort of ceiling, one might call it an upper bound on the mindfuckery per square inch of code. In 100 dense lines of lisp, there is no a priori reason to assume that no one has written a recursive descent macro-expanding s-expression handler for arbitrary routing of network packets in a rules-based DSL. In the same amount of dense java code there are rarely more than 200 method calls, all statically checked, and rarely more than 100 variables, typed and scoped.

From John Carmack's recent article on static checking: "If you have a large enough codebase, any class of error that is syntactically legal probably exists there." Now, he is concerned with actual defects, but the same rules apply even more strongly for stylistic rules. As the size of a codebase increases, the probability that any particular language feature is absent approaches zero. And in a language like lisp, where you can write your own language features, this is moderately horrifying.

The fact that you can replicate java's dependency injection in a few orders of magnitude less code in lisp is not a comfort to me. Because the 10,000 lines of code in Java's Dependency Injection Framework is a red flag to me. The chances that someone who writes the same thing in lisp has drastically simplified the implementation are not so high.
There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.
I'm a developer at a "gamification" company, so take my criticism of this article for what it's worth.

The argument made in this article isn't very strong, but from what I can tell it boils down to
"games are for children, so gamification is disrespectful." I'm guessing many of us would take
issue with that premise. Isn't bad software disrespectful of people whether or not gamification
is an element?

"Gamification" is just bringing loyalty programs into the 21st century. I can't think of anything
disrespectful about that. When a hair salon or restaurant gives you a punch card, or an airline gives you frequent-flyer miles, do you feel manipulated? You realize they're just trying to get you to return and
spend money, right? In that case, sure, gamification isn't for you.

In our A/B testing, we've got a little problem with the numbers we're seeing. No, it's not that
it's hard to find impressive stats to show our VCs and clients. It's that the numbers are so good
– such a huge departure from our control group – that they're simply hard to believe. If we
posted them, you'd think we were lying or cherry-picking.

I'm talking about metrics like how many users return to the site, number of actions taken, time spent,
number of links shared. And this is without forcing users into anything; participation is totally
optional. If users are feeling infantilized and manipulated, they're showing it in an awfully strange
way.

If you're going to claim that gamification sucks, give us some examples, numbers, or a bit of research.
GAO: US government financial statements are unauditable
Very refreshing read - love the author's candor about success often being accidental and mostly due to changing to idea mid-flight.
I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this.

If by this you mean literal outflow of domains, then I agree. But if you mean public relations impact their support of and then half ass retraction of support for SOPA then I disagree. I think the long term effects of all this calamity are something they very much care about.
Save yourself money and just go here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/index.htm...

Many of the how-to ebooks just add a code change here and there in the Apple Examples and publish it as their own.
I don't see a new design. You should add a screenshot.
I was confusing patents and copyrights. I learned a few things from Linux a long time ago. They have copyrights, not patents. Totally no issues.
I would really like to hear the reaction of patio11 and any other HN participant who lives in Japan to this story. The author of the submitted article links to his one blog in the article, and there he has an open letter to Clinton administration government official

http://www.fingleton.net/an-open-letter-to-professor-edward-...

with more details of his basis for saying that Japan's economy has been growing steadily for the last two decades.

AFTER EDIT:

In one of the funniest comment-and-reply exchanges I have ever seen on HN, three years ago biohacker42 asked, "Anyone here lived through the Japan depression care to share their experiences with us?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328819

and then hugh replied, "It was terrible. People were forced to eat raw fish for sustenance. They couldn't get full-sized electronics, so they were forced to make tiny ones. Unable to afford proper entertainment, folks would make do by taking turns to get up and sing songs."

Since then, I've been much less worried about Japan, which continues to be a very prosperous country. But today I'd glad to be updated on the situation in Japan, and what the "lost decades" really mean for people who live there, if anything.
anyone knows the reason?
How many people can afford to lobby the government? By talking to people I am reaching out trying to make structural change. There is no poverty in Sweden. America does not need to be such a heartless country.

I've dedicated my entire career to helping people who are wallowing in misery and are simply unable to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But it's an extremely hard job because the nature of the economic system is that the most valuable services such as healthcare, education, psychological treatment, healthy food, and child card are NOT available for the people who are desperate for them. You have any idea how many mentally ill people people, after much misery, have told me they simply cannot afford the treatment they need and they simply go without? If you saw these cases like I have you would have nightmares.

The easiest way to make money is to sell to the already rich who don't really need your services. The easiest way to be poor is to spend your time helping the miserable ungrateful masses who have nothing to give back.

For my own sake I wish I could just forget about the miserable poor because my life would be a lot easier. But the demands of conscience make it impossible for me to slide into the comfortable cognitive dissonance of silicon valley.

You're implying that I'm all talk, but I'm not. But talk does go a long way. Right now silicon valley elites have enough money, talent, and resources to reshape society into either a technocratic heartless corporate grinder, or into an egalitarian higg tech civil society that recognizes the inherent worth of all people ala Sweden.

I left the computer field years ago to enter the mental health field. From my new perspective, of being in contact with the underclass, I am continually horrified at the heartless elitism displayed by computer people who I used to consider my brothers and sisters in creating a better world.

Political change isn't a fucking mystery. You tell your politicians to take care of the poor, you tell them to fix crony capitalism, you tell them to stop their imperial wars of aggression, and if they accept bribes you tell everyone you know how corrupt they are. You build a positive vision of a society without ghettos. You hold up examples like Sweden - a social structure that mos Americans would prefer if they just looked into it.
NY Startup Hub: Best and Worst Aspects?
I'm an MBA (but don't judge me!) student in NY looking to break into the startup world.

I have a quick question for NY startup professionals: what do you think New York (as a community/startup hub) does well, and what do you think it does poorly in comparison to other cities (namely Silicon Valley, and also Boston)?
ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released
I assume you mean the Xmas theme:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3389607
I started to write a C++ class to write strongly-type, range-bounded integers (e.g. Fahrenheit and Celcius classes). I gave up when implementing all the operator overloads and my class was hundreds of LOC. C++ really did not to do what i wanted...
When you transfer a domain and keep the nameservers the same, there will be no downtime at all.
Open letter to fab.com: It's a beautiful idea, but delivery is better
Junk Charts is addicting. I laugh. I cry.
Warren Adelman, GoDaddy CEO on "The Internet Mob" (from 2009)
http://i.imgur.com/wU7fq.png
Really - how do they plan on making $? Who would buy them? I don't know anyone besides VCs and a few friends that used it while it was getting all the hype. Now I know nobody that uses it now that the fad is over.
looks like christmas colors to me.
On hn. This place is filled with people who love tech business and other interesting things like hiking, music, history and any other topics. It just so happens that hn is where they come to talk tech. The other places they go to hang out maybe totally outside of that. For example hn owns the vast majority of my on line time , then I spent a huge amount of time reading about religions, old scriptures etc and that has little to do w what we talk about here.
Peace on earth and good will to all, unconditionally.
They will not cease until they get the controls they want.

Another interpretation would be that they won't stop until the rights that they want are explicitly prohibited by law. There needs to be an opposite-of-SOPA bill passed to enshrine the freedoms we want to preserve. Capitalism, at the very least, consumes everything in its path otherwise.
Revorad, why think of each idea you have as a startup? Many of your ideas can be launched as a 'project' instead. A project might have the POTENTIAL to turn into a business, but most projects are not a business at the beginning unless they generate revenue with a sustainable business model.

I have launched two 'projects' recently, and both have started as video blogs. Even if neither gets traction, I will hold on to the domains and content as an inbound link launchpad for any other project that might turn into a business.

Have a great holiday season, and best wishes for a prosperous 2012 filled with project success!
This is great and all but I don't really see a boycott as being such an effective solution.

The problem with boycotts is they are based on the following things:

1) The spending power of the boycotter.
2) The potential spend of the boycotter on the relevant service/product.
3) The amount of influence you have over others to boycott.

So whilst you can move your handful of personal domains that you were using for your hobby website or small startup elsewhere, the biggest spenders on domains I would imagine are going to be medium-large businesses.

These are much more cautious to join a boycott unless there is obvious PR benefit (e.g fairtrade or animal testing free products spring to mind) because they are beholden to shareholders and are generally conservative when it comes to changing suppliers unless there is a clear cost-benefit. The only people in the organization that are likely to care about this will be the techies who unless they are the CIO/CTO do not have the influence to affect domain purchasing decisions.

The conversation probably goes approximately like this:

Boss: Good day underling! Please secure us the following list of 100 domain names from the great godaddy, lord of the DNS!

Techie: But sir , we shouldn't use godaddy. There is an active boycott because of SOPA, how about company X instead?

Boss: What is this SOPA of which you speak?

Techie: explains SOPA

Boss: Damn hippies! I neither understand nor care for their plight, godaddy is cheaper and we already have an account with them. I know not of this company X, do they advertise at the superbowl?

Techie: but...

Boss: Please do as I command and grace godaddy with our pieces of silver.

Techie: enters company credit card details at godaddy.com
Chinese 'water army' hijacks online product reviews
They do this in some way every year for Christmas.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408253

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1015550

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624

Note: The above URLs and the current story number (3389705) give you an idea of the growth in number of posts/comments per year.
Heh, think I actually prefer this color scheme.

Happy Holidays!
Very informative and sense of humor is not only awesome it conveys the point very well. This is one of the most truthful and at the same time hilarious commentary on doing a startup.
Hidden feature inside of Facebook's chat. Custom emoticons.
Yes, I hadn't noticed that discussion, thank you. And yes, your word "theme" is more correct than what I said (design).
Whether 37,000 is a big number or not: Kudos to the community for making themselves heard.

However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.
All of that's true in the short term, but if we do end up getting millions of people sustainably living on Mars, these specific catastrophes would be less devastating to the human race as a whole.

I have to say that motivating with fear puts red flags up in my mind as I'm sure it does with the rest of the crowd here. If I were a politician, I'd see the mission to colonize space as an effective way to unite the world behind a single goal. Since I'm not, I have a different view which is that AI has the greatest potential to solve humanity's problems. But that's another discussion.
Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains yesterday in wake of SOPA PR disaster
George Carlin on the real owners of the country
Exactly. Using just AWS Route 53 'standalone' probably doesn't make much sense, but when used in combination with EC2 and their Elastic Load Balancer it starts to make a lot of sense. And the fact that you can use their APIs to make programmatic changes (say quickly change a A or CNAME record to point elsewhere) is fantastic.
how is this topbar Maroon color and those green/red numbers related to Christmas? I am not from US, so I might be missing something?
Just noticed that too. Nice touch! Happy holidays to all fellow hackers.
I like it other than the red bar at the top.
... and painters ;)
I have no clue what is with the maroon topbar but red and green are traditional Christmas colors in the US.
Microsoft and Apple are harder to boycott sadly and both are in favour of SOPA.

We still need a victory and Godaddy will do for me. Signing petitions is a useless act.

Can anybody recommend a SOPA safe registrar that I can transfer my domains to?
Do you suffer from the Urgency Addiction?
I thought that the red banner was a call to arms for SOPA or something. After I noticed that the article numbers were alternating red/green, my blood pressure went down a few points. :)
Putting pressure on one company indirectly puts pressure on many however.

Other companies that see, "Oh shit, GoDaddy has had nearly 40,000 domains transferred and more bad PR than they can handle, maybe we shouldn't be supporting this. What if that shit hits the fan for us too?"

Making an example out of one can't be a bad thing.
you forget to factor in future sales.

It may be true that GoDaddy still has loads of domains but I can bet ya that a lot of it are shady websites. If GoDaddy is seen to support something that may lead to their websites shutting down, you can be sure they (and future customers) are looking elsewhere.

In other words, GoDaddy does give a shit. Is not about what they have now, is about whether they can get anymore future sales.
That 'Christmas burgundy' #BE2828 is the wrong color.
You need a 'Santa-suit' red. Maybe, #DC0000?
Merry Christmas to all!
I would imagine that Namecheap (et. al.) may be able to put up their influx of domains as a hot PR issue.
But if you're transferring web and email hosting, as I am, it takes a lot more logistical work.

The domains leaving are just the leading indicator. If they're going away, there's plenty of reason to believe that other customers, that will hurt them more, are working on the issue.