skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a monthly subscriber, this is great to see! Hopefully this will lead some other subscribing as I think the price is well worth it. Wow, I sound like a salesman, but genuinely just a fan of well done work for our community. Thanks!
Good deeds rarely go unpunished.

Thank you Lim Cheng Soon, that was very generous of you.

Merry Christmas to you too!
I think there's enough information present to get a sense of the Tao between the two... vandals are, if not a complete straw man, at least an over-hyped source of genuine danger.

Personally, I'd take vandalism, and having to white-wash my storefront any day, over a government forcing my payment processors to shut me down by fiat. Frankly it's hard to imagine someone I'd sympathize with who wouldn't feel the same way; but if you're that person, now's the time to air reason on the side of order; a few weeks from now the cause will definitely be lost.
On a mac (without wget) paste this into the terminal and it'll open up every download in a tab in your default web browser.

open http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupstories.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-thedebate.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue019.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue018.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue017.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue016.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue015.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue014.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue013.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue012.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue011.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue010.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue009.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue008.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue007.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue006.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue005.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue004.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue003.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue002.zip;
open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue001.zip;
Hm yeah..cool offer. But we need one of two things..

1. server/bandwidth upgrade
2. time extension of the offer beyond 24h

Or actually.. ideally both :)
Hate to burst your bubble, but even poor people read hacker news. In my job, I make 14851 per year. I also drive 45 minutes to this job, because it was the only one I could find.

Or, perhaps, you'd like to make a supposition that smart people can never be poor?
Disney is the same company who didn't like video because people could watch it more than once without paying each time, and because one person could buy[1] a video but more than one person could watch it, and Disney would only get the one fee.

Disney has worked hard at single use technology; from video tapes that needed to be rewound by special machine to DVDs that degrade within 48 hours when exposed to air.

Nothing, nothing, will persuade Disney that SOPA is a bad idea.
too late, in fact will never use godaddy.
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Just saying we are no longer supporting this revision of SOPA is not good enough. You were one of the people who created this mess I won't be happy until you end it. A true reversal is to go from actively supporting it to actively opposing it. Those people who you empowered to create this monstrosity need to know that you no longer support this bill or them. That's the apology I need to see before you will ever get my business
seq -w 19 | xargs -I{} -P4 -n1 wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip
Put a torrent up before your server melts down.
I don't think that's true. I consider myself an ok coder, but I'm lazy. I work in bursts, but even a good day is likely to be less than six hours of actual work. Bad days are near 0. If I had the work ethic of the parent commenter, I could get a hell of a lot done in a reasonable amount of time.

Some of that laziness is because I'm not crazy about what I'm working on. Being truly honest with myself, though, it may be an internal defect that will prevent me from becoming a great coder until I get over it.

Anyway, that lack-of-laziness is what I think the parent was attempting to describe, not 80-hour weeks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701504

http://learncodethehardway.org/
Misogynistic (the hatred of women)? No, not in the ads, anyway.

Sexist? Furtherance of gender inequality? Perhaps as a side effect.

Sexual objectification? Definitely.
I'm happy to mirror if anyone actually has the files.... I have tons of bw on a ton of big servers. devon@sparkred.com
Next up: AT&T and Net Neutrality?!
> I would have an emotional response to the picture of one of my friends "liking" a restaurant or a product.

The first time I saw an article that was 'liked' by one of my friends on HN I definitely had an emotional response. I logged out of facebook and never went back.
I guess we can say that godaddy is eventually consistent.
It's surprising that they didn't have SSE enabled to begin with.
https://www.graphicartistsguild.org/ !! :)
They point to position statements ( https://twitter.com/#!/gaguild/status/150004542073872386 <- written by the copyright alliance) that speak to copyright and say the bill's scope is narrow and specific (I disagree), but I didn't see anything about technical concerns. I think it's fair to say those position statements are a load of horse shit.

"Sure we're giving the gov't the right to indefinitely detain anyone, but they're only going to do it if someone is rilly rilly bad, so don't worry! :)"* <- constitutional and civil liberties protections do not work this way.

*I know SOPA isn't the same, it's just an analogy :)
I think they have a sweet problem of being waaay to popular. And everybody likes free stuff.

I meant to say they should use nginx, but apparently they are already using it, I guess that is why our connections are not getting dropped.

Anyway, nice gesture, thank you HN!
This line from techcrunch sums it up nicely:

"While it’s nice that they changed their stance (publicly, at least), you’ve got to ask yourself: do you want to continue throwing money at a company blind enough to support SOPA in the first place?"
No good deed goes unpunished. It's sad but true. The key is to be helpful without being too helpful.

If you get a reputation for being the one to call in an emergency, you'll be the one who gets called in emergencies. If on the other hand, you get a reputation for getting back to people in a day or two unless there's an appropriate reason you need to get back sooner, people will expect you to get back in a day or two unless there's an appropriate reason you need to get back sooner.
Not at all. Mine's the same design as yours (B6 chassis), and I'd say they're both equally "new" or "old." When I started looking, I thought 2002+ was "new" until I saw the used car market, and that's when I realized that when you're talking about money (and that's really what counts), then only 2009 (possibly 2008) is actually "new" meaning that you'll pay the "new model" premium.

I love my A4. I'm glad I made the "compromise" and got it.

BTW, my primary reason for getting the A4 is because the B6 design is (IMHO) the only 2002-2005 family of cars that actually do not look even remotely dated. Non-car-enthusiasts would not recognize a B6 design as being 10 years old. Audi really did a great job getting ahead of the curve with that design, esp. when (today) you compare a 2002 BMW/Mercedes/Lexus/Infiniti to the 2002 Audi models, you see what I mean: the latter group is distinctly "older looking."
Maybe there's a way to put the archive in a file locker (like Megaupload) and delete it after 24 hours.. It's pointless to make the files free if /everybody/ tries to download them but /nobody/ actually gets to read the zine because the files time out..
I agree. This boycott is starting to make a difference, but it's too early to declare victory. We've made it this far, we shouldn't give up so easily. If we buy this PR talk without further questions, then we're fooling ourselves to think we won, and we're setting a bad example. They did a lot in favor of SOPA, if they mean what they just said, then they need to do something against it. If not, it's meaningless and we got fooled.

The boycott should continue until they either take - or announce their plan of - action. Until they do, this PR talk is nothing more than that.
Macs have curl, which can easily fill in for wget.
That's because they are a webhosting company, not a domain registrar. They offer domains at a cost-covering price as a service for their webhosting customers. Technically ns.phx1.nearlyfreespeech.net works just as well as ns1.yourdomain.example, but the latter one requires manual work (adding glue records) because their control panel does not support it.
Or use homebrew and get wget ;)
There's also the following, which doesn't seem to be in your list.

http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupmarketing.zip
curl -O "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0[01-19].zip"
Over 90,000 people have requested an invite to use Simple.com
Help break my "proof" of p = np... i can't find the error
Ah I see, "one's real and one's not real yet". That's fair, only time will tell how the Model S works out in mass production.
Instead of giving money to Wikipedia for moving, can we raise money to effectively counterbribe senators? I'm only half joking here.
It was actually a spoof of the GoDaddy statement. I love that he called himself the "Vacation Expert", though.

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
Meh.

Modern does not equate to better. Most of the complaints listed boil down to "Because it's not Windows". Intuitive is just what you've seen before...

I suppose it's ridiculous to expect and hope people to care about their tools enough to customize it for what they use and want. :-/

I spend probably 30 minutes each month on average dinking with my .emacs to tune it with how I'm using emacs, remove hassles, etc. These days it's extremely intuitive and useful for my work. I maintain similar keybindings between multiple operating systems, customized for my preferred keyboard and hands; a variety of functions have been put together to ensure that what I do gets done very efficiently.

Because emacs was extensible trivially, was programmable, I can spend the time and the learning curve to invest in my primary tool. That's what, in my opinion, emacs is about.
Or you could just not be a dick and download one issue at time or just the issues that interest you to save some bandwidth for the rest of us.
Ask HN:  Can someone explain Amazon's Cloud Computing (EC2) to me? 
I'm a non-technical solo-entreprenuer who has been running my own sites for years. I'm hosting my sites on dedicated servers and have had no problems even with high traffic sites.

Why should I use Amazon's cloud services? Could I just launch a site and host it on their servers? Is it easy to use?
I'm kind of confused as to how it works.

Sorry for sounding so ignorant, I'm just trying to figure out how I can use it.
Christine Jones needs to encourage Congress not to pass this on behalf of Godaddy for this to be more than just a PR move. If they don't reverse their support in Congress, this is nothing more than a copout.
I was a member of such a union, and when the rubber hits the road, seniority rules.

I'm not anti-union either. If you're in a big multinational company, they are almost almost certainly better than not having a union.
Big Pro Sniper Tower Shooter Game
I don't think they forget about it, any more than they forget about Facebook's pattern of privacy abuses and Mark's non-apologies. If there were an easy-to-use alternative, the people I talk to would love to leave FB instantly; as it is, they're cutting down how much they use it and feeling increasingly resentful. So yes they've posted great numbers in 2011 but from a competitive strategy perspective they're vulnerable.
I don't care what GoDaddy says to try and prevent a boycott.

They already did the damage, and they've showed many, many, many times over that they do not deserve to have anyone's business.

The boycott should remain.
If you bring it down to numbers, the pay is definitely higher in the US. For instance, an average software engineer out of school can expect a starting salary between 25 and 35k euros on average in France. In SF, it's more $70-90k at the very least.

But then you have to account for the higher cost of living, transportation (even if you don't drive, French employers pay for a part of your public transportation tickets), and all the other perks that are inherent to your job (insurance, subsidized lunches,...) and inherent to the country (better public education, etc.).

So I think it's hard to say empirically that engineers are better off in one country rather than the other- although I'd be tempted to say that very high end engineers are better off in the US rather than Europe, and the average engineer is better off in Europe rather than the US.
Indeed. And I'm going to want to control what ads I appear in, just like every other endorser.
Free Indie Games not on TIGS or Indiegames: The Moonkeeper [Ben Pettengill]
Would you accept a free blog, email, photo album, and realtime chat software, with Web and mobile cliens, hosted in the cloud?

OK.
I am getting all zips corrupted :(
Thank you, Lim Cheng Soon! As a student I really appreciate the free year-long subscription you offer.
The loop can be replaced with bash's brace expansion (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Brace-E...), e.g.

wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{01..19}.zip
great stuff! looking forward to upgrading.
I thought of doing it, and I can't get to the webpage to see if there's a special license... barring one, redistributing would be copyright infringement which I'm not cool with. The HM folks would have to offer.
The batteries are massively expensive to make, so the cost of making the cars high end is nothing compared to the price of batteries.

Really, these Tesla 50k cars are probably around 35k battery, 10k frame and body, 5k everything else. It is why the 240 mile and 300 mile versions are each respectively 10k more expensive.

One thing nobody seems to be talking about is how these vehicles have much shorter livespans than a well maintained gas guzzler. The batteries only have around 100k charge cycles, and I read somewhere that the reality is the batteries of electric cars half their charge life in 5 years, and probably need replaced by 8.
> Although HN may be the birthplace of the idea to boycott Godaddy

I'm relatively sure the idea started on reddit too.[1][2]

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
Washington responds to money, but what do they use the money for? If we assume they're corrupt, they would use the money to 1) enrich themselves or 2) win re-election.

And when you think about it, it doesn't make sense to enrich themselves so blatantly. People go to jail that way. Voters don't like politicians transparently bought and paid for.

And "campaign contributions" are _peanuts_ against the trillions sluicing every year through the federal fisc. Look at the money these guys make trading stock, in their "retirement" salaries as consultants and lobbyists, heads of foundations and executives in corporations with business before the government. Even if they're corrupt, they wouldn't be _stupid_ corrupt.

So politicians use campaign contributions to get re-elected. It isn't always above board, it's often employment of consultants and advisors whose chief. If you're sitting in a safe seat, your concern is your primary, and your real rivals are people of your own party below you. But they also help you win the general, by getting your name out there and shaping perceptions of you.

And that's the problem buying a corrupt Congressman. Let him want the money, he still must balance the image problem of taking the money. They can take the money at the margins. But after a point they can't take anymore without hurting themselves more than they help.

So how can the movie biz spend so much on this? The issue is marginal to the real drivers of the pols' incumbency, so they can afford to take more of the money on this one. And the showbiz lobbyists, who've been doing this a _very_ long time, know this, and got there first. It shouldn't surprise me to learn that money has done here as much as it could possibly do.

I don't think SOPA is inevitable. But it won't be stopped by imagining that politicians are simply stupid greedy.
And that's the reason that the redirect in the article includes "301" -- to indicate to the search engine that it's a permanent redirect.
Indeed. Sorry, my offer was intended to the folks who are actually making the offer, who have the steaming server:)
I'm not sure but didn't they go around spamming people to join them telling them "someone" invited you?? Not sure if they got in trouble for that
Not to mention that even many reasonably technically inclined people don't realize that you don't have to wait until your expiration date to transfer to another registrar.
See, the half-joking is the fail. I wouldn't be surprised at all if pg would fund a promising lobbying firm.
What's the deal with sponsored stories? How are they different from ads?
This was my story, 13 years ago. I did all the care with two kids, 4 and 7. It would have been great to have help.

But the thing that the article misses is the proportion. If the suckiness of death and dying is normalized to -100, then having the hospice care feels somewhere south of 20, moving the experience from a -100 to at best -80.

As much as I dislike our insurance system, I'm not sure it's worth a lot of money for end-of-life help.
Plus, apparently one blog post is enough to make all the techies back off and forget about it.

Isn't it obvious to everyone that they are still supporting SOPA, but realized that supporting it publically was a bad call?
This is so true, and manifests so sharply/painfully when I go to refresh my very nascent skills in Clojure. I've learned the same material so many times. It's a bummer.
The difference between Elon Musk and Aubrey de Grey could not be larger.
Let's make it exist. What would it take?
Une carte r4
Une carte r4 is a next generation and powerful Nintendo DS flash card which is generally around half the size of a mobile sim card that is particularly intended for the for Nintendo DS units.
what is with constantly taking terms, such as 'hacker' and trying to assign some sort of narrow, self-serving definition of them to the word. So if a hacker is someone who 'is only "ok" at coding' but they are critical for developing direction for the business is this implying that someone who is very good with the technical aspect is not able to do this? This kind of nonsense is what people who don't necessarily have a full interest in the technical side of things write to pat themselves on the back and keep their own morale high.
Getting Bootstrap.less to work with Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline
Agreed, thanks for the clarification :)
That was the old model, where ads were served to us in exchange for free services. This is a new model, as others have pointed out, where my identity / likeness is being used (without my explicit permission, mind you) to sell products. Famous people sue over stuff like that, but I'll just take the compensation.
They didn't change their philosophy.

For better or for worse all companies' philosophies are to make money, at least the public ones. They can be sued if they deviate.
>That's what really annoys me - in no cases has there been a sudden flurry of rapid transactions, and so the risk of trying to get hold of me before blocking the card is rather small. Instead they block first and tries to call afterwards.

I'm not sure what the laws are in your home country, but in the US, banks have incentive to block first and ask questions later because they're legally on the hook for any fraudulent charges under federal law. Quite simply, they'd rather mildly irritate you than potentially lose money to a lost or stolen card.
If the money is used for re-election campaigns (which is what I've heard elsewhere) then why not cut out the middle-man? Instead of giving money to congresspeople with nio tech savvy to get re-elected, why not use the funds to get some tech-savvy congresspeople elected?
What does your scale mean? Paying nearly nothing to get to -80 is a great deal compared to speculative painful expensive surgeries and drugs.
Mono VM just demonstrates my point. You can use it to make games with that would have had reasonable graphics 7 years ago but no so much today. EX: http://www.unearthedgame.com/ which is around Half Life 2 graphics which came out in 2004. http://store.steampowered.com/video/220/904

Feel free to look for a better example from: http://unity3d.com/gallery/made-with-unity/game-list

And again I am talking about headroom, it does not take state of the art graphics to make a great game, but it does take a non VM language for the graphics subsystem.

PS: Computers are FAST my cellphone would crush multimillion dollar super computers when I was in high school. So, generally trading speed for nicety's like virtual memory is well worth it. However, that does not mean we are avoiding the tradeoffs just accepting them with open arms.
For the record, I received a call from them last week too and didn't return it and have not been cut off.
Wow, never knew about that. Due to zero-padding, I found I actually needed two commands for this to work properly:

http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue00{1..9}.zip
http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{10..19}.zip
Nearly everything closes at 8pm, even the grocery stores. In Berlin there were only two or three normal grocery stores I knew of that were open on Sunday (individual stores). Of course, restaurants and cafes are open a little later.
Trying to make a good chunk of the Texas Hill Country vote Democrat? Why not pick an easier task, like trying to empty the ocean with a teacup?

I hate to be harsh, but Lamar is in office until he dies. I'd focus on congressmen in swing districts.
I may have misread the statement. I read the statement, addressed in part to "Hacktivists", reading:

> Replace the front page of every website we can with a simple, clear protest page.

Given past operating procedure, that seems like a call to action to deface every site you can get access to. If it's not, then I rescind my original comment.
The idea of being able to "rent" a supercomputer at a moment's notice (relative to buying one, at least) is interesting. Makes one wonder; what % of Amazon's capacity is this; and how high up the Top500 would all of it be?
Actually, most of the water we drink does come from relatively nearby (particularly relative to hauling ice from the poles). There's a reason the Sahara is not densely populated. Likewise for our food.

Most of Mars' water is at its south pole, which is so cold that much of the water ice is actually buried under a layer of "dry ice" — frozen carbon dioxide.

Basically, anywhere you are on Earth, you're closer to nutrition and fuel than you would be anywhere on Mars. And the reason why can have diets that don't involve foraging is because we've grown so numerous. That's also something that isn't true on Mars.
My understanding is that offering hospice is very cost-effective. For a lot of people the only reasonable alternative is staying in a hospital, which is very expensive.
I had a pretty good chuckle at that, as well. Oddly enough, I didn't make the GoDaddy connection until you pointed it out.