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At the risk of appearing to be a fool, I can suggest that if you are doing enough DLing that the wait is a problem for you, you might want to go the Premium route. I'm an anime buff (as well as other stuff), and have a yearly subscription with them and with Fileserve. Blistering fast DLs, no waits or ads, YMMV...
I understand the reasoning here, and it has a logic to it, but I think it’s wrong. The tech industry will simply become part of the problem, and politicians will become empowered — more suitors competing for their attention.

Instead, I believe the approach to GoDaddy is a better example: that bad policy will hurt politicians’ ability to maintain support.

The Internet, and thus the industry, has enormous reach with voters (and lobbyers like GoDaddy). Swaying the support system is our best bet, and much more honest.
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My lord - I'm reading the response - and it gets worse:

"Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. "

Go Daddy wasn't simply _supporting_ SOPA - they were involved in creating it. They used their expert knowledge of DNS and DNS systems to create a system, which, I'm sure, would have provided them some competitive advantages.

If anything, this makes them even less trustworthy as an registrar than they were previously.
I like green version. I do have an issue with what the service is. I would like to be able to see what the service is without watching the video.

There is a comment below about the same thing, but your marketing / copy should come before the design. That way you know exactly what to design.

but overall I think it's a great start.
Planes that often fly upside down typically have low camber wings. Some of them have almost symmetrical wings. Those wings have less lift in upright flight than a more highly cambered wing would, so (and for other reasons too) the manufacturers compensate with bigger engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_EA-300

and an engineer's question about wing design for aerobatic flight with some good answers:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=183605
It's certainly not the best example of misuse of DMCA. But I'm glad to hear more people comparing SOPA to DMCA so there is some credibility to where people's fears are stemming from. Congress still hasn't fixed DMCA, and can't be expected to pass SOPA with enough amendments to correct how it can be abused against the American people or the globe!
Just because Timeline shows fewer ads doesn't mean that net ad revenue doesn't come out ahead. Sponsored stories just need to make up for those 3 missing ads, which they almost surely will.

Optimizing for user engagement, when you make money off of ads, is optimizing for the bottom line by definition. To claim otherwise is disingenuous at best.
"at a cost measured in (at a minimum) tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram"

[citation (or math) needed]

The minimum cost for sending cargo to Mars even with only current levels of technology is far, far lower than tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram. A reusable Falcon Heavy (which is being researched currently) could potentially launch payload to Mars for circa $100/kg. To put it another way, that's 10,000 tonnes per $1 bil.
I don't think that what is being condemned here is flow.

When I used to practice the piano several hours a day I was in flow, but I wasn't running through my pieces. Flow was what made me able to play through the same measure thirty times in succession, stop and think about what I needed to do differently, then play it through thirty more times, without losing my concentration.
> Rewriting scripts and rolling them into a C daemon defeats the whole point of scripts in the first place - the administrator of the system can't make quick changes or easily troubleshoot things (or, optionally, selectively enable/disable small sections of initialization). It's also a large amount of new work for folks busy fixing actual broken or buggy parts of their software.

Well, kinda. But I think this is somehow a weird point to take, considering that much other software is indeed written in C and noone complains about that (grep, awk). It is just that the bootscripts were scripts for a long time, but I think this does not mean that that it is an undefiable law. Plus, it is still open source, so if you want to change samething, just remcompile. As you would do with any other software.

And indeed, the "lower" level it gets, the lower level languages I'd accept there. Kernel in C, Bootscripts in Vala, and the desktop in JavaScript or Python, sounds quite reasonable to me.

And the socket based services are one interesting element. Whether it is a good solution time will tell, but I can't remember anyone trying this before and I applaud people to think in new ways. Yes, a DOS is not nice, I admit, but maybe we should give it a chance? Consider that systemd is still pretty new.

It saddens me sometimes that people dismiss ideas, just because they are different to what is now. One consideeable advantage that I see in systemd that it tries to be a solution for the majority of Linux distributions. I hate all the custom rolled init systems, I hate all that custom rolled network interface configuration, I will it all went away.

One single init adopted init system also means potentially more people fixing one single service file, so you don't have to. Instead of someone fixing just the Debian one, he also fixes it upstream so it can migrate to other systems.
Here's a link to the page that briefly discusses the reverse-engineering effort and links to the above source-code page.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/analyzing-carrier-iq-p...
I know I'm not the first to ask this, but I'm still having trouble figuring out who to move to.

1) Namecheap has been the most recommended on HN. They don't take American Express and they don't offer auto-renew. Going back to manually checking and renewing domains every month after years of not having to do that feels like using rotary phones again. And they'd be my only business expense not on my Amex card.

2) Gandi.net gets mentioned in every thread, but they're in France, people have commented on trouble getting phone support because of a language barrier, and they're expensive. That extra $150 a year it would cost me compared to GoDaddy/Namecheap is a lot to waste.

3) Moniker has some very concerning reviews since some kind of management change, about silent price hikes and lying customer service.

4) Hover.com seems to have a rep here advertising, but I've never heard of them and they're too expensive given that fact.

Is name.com all that's left? That's the only other one I see recommended in these threads, despite some less than ethical practices of their own, like hijacking the * A-record of your domain for ads if you host DNS with them.
Before you write an essay on SOPA, it would probably be a good idea to get a really solid handle on what it does and doesn't do. The comments of yours I've seen lead me to the conclusion that your understanding of the bill and its likely implications isn't up-to-date. Some of the points you might like to address would be:

What does SOPA do that DMCA doesn't do?

How do Pro-IP and SOPA differ with respect to Internet domains?

Does SOPA apply to .com domains?

Is it possible to implement domain blacklisting without affecting DNSSEC? (hint: the answer is "yes" as long as redirection isn't required.)

Does SOPA include language protecting DNSSEC?

What due process protections does SOPA have for domain blacklisting?

Does SOPA apply to US-based sites?

How much of a burden does SOPA compliance place in ISPs, ad networks, credit card processors, and search engines?

Are Internet firms registered in .com and/or based in the United States that are not in the category above (payments, ads, search, ISPs) have anything to fear from SOPA? Show your work.

There's a lot of misinformation floating around the Internet about SOPA, and I think you'll agree it's best not to add to it.
So your argument is you want plaintext because you want plaintext?

I replaced the BSD-like init system in Arch, because it is buggy. And I can dual-boot init-systems now.
With a dedicated server you know where your data is stored (e.g. a data center in Denver, CO, or Dayton, OH) but that isn't the case with EC2

With EC2, you can select a region, and you can be assured that the server you get will be in one of a handful of datacenters in that city. There are 4 availability zones in the US-East region, for example, which means that you can be assured that your data is in northern Virginia.
Exposure to the Martian environment would kill 100% of species that we know of. If that has happened on earth before, we can say pretty definitively that elevated levels of methane are less harmful.
hmmm new user created 46 mins ago, posting "Pro GoDaddy" propaganda. Not here thanks.
> You can get a five bedroom, three-bathroom house in the southernmost part of San Jose for less than $500,000 -- about one-third the price it would cost in Mountain View.

Seems like by considering a 500k house inexpensive reinforces the point that we are in a 'bubble' in Silicon Valley.
As a native, I couldn't agree more. I've witnessed a transition from heavy hardware-based long-haul investment thinking to short-term low risk internet investment. Sure this is totally logical, but the hive mind of VCs who follow every buzz word (social -> big data, etc) is pathetic. These VCs should be the most creative, ahead of the curve investers in the world. Instead they're more often followers excited to be on the cutting edge, but too risk-averse to invest in anything meaningful. It's like another iteration of the quarterly-oriented corporate mindset. Sad. All the hardware is moving to East Asia...
"The true measure of a person is what they do when nobody is watching. You lose, Godaddy."
If you don't like this change, you probably also don't like the other Fedora changes that came in the past and surely also in the future, so yeah I'm with sjs. In the long time you will save time if you switch to a distribution that aligns with your choices.

Plus, you can do a dry-run with a limited number of machines and you can select a distribution which seldom changes (Gentoo switched to baselayout2 after.. years, Slackware still has tarballs as packages). Unlikely that they will push radical changes soon.
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1) Strict yet expressive typing. Find errors at compile time rather than runtime, while still allowing a very flexible set of values to be described. (tuples, sets, lists, hashtables, maps, arrays, records, objects, etc.)

2) Efficiency. Python, perl, ruby are all... slow. OCaml compiles to very efficient native code. Xavier Leroy's accomplishment is a high level language that's within 2x the speed of C.
ProTip: If your a new User <1hr old wanting to paint GoDaddy in a good light, the trick is to make it somewhat plausible you don't work for them.
Thanks for the reply. That gives me a good idea of how each different branch of math could relate to different types of programming. I'm a fairly new programmer, and I have always loved math, but I never took higher math courses. Now that I've become interested in programming, I wish I would have really broadened my mathematical horizons when I was younger.
So one call was actually reported, and this constitutes "desperation" on GoDaddy's part? Maybe there's more going on (one other person on this thread got called as well), but this story by itself falls far short of its headline.

I'm not familiar with GoDaddy's practices, but couldn't the volume of the transfer alone have triggered the call?
Is there any indication from major C-using projects what their opinions on the standard are? For example, will anyone be moving from pthreads to C1X threads for multithreading? I don't have a good read on how anticipated these features are and what the uptake is likely to be.
I don't think you are using the word "bully" correctly.

GoDaddy is a powerful and monied entity that has been caught paying money to convince the most powerful and monied entity in the world, the United States Government, to implement a set of rules that would generally make it easier for rich corporations to silence poor critics. The GoDaddy boycotters are not bullying the SOPA supporters.

The GoDaddy boycott does have a certain amount of groupthink and mindless sloganeering in it. Perhaps this is what you mean when you say "bullying".

GoDaddy tried to recruit the largest power in the world to help silence the smallest, and you find lobbying others to boycott them "piling on" ?

You say "GoDaddy is entitled to their opinions" but remember, GoDaddy spent money to make it easy for you to have your opinions removed from the internet. They didn't just "express their opinion" that a corporation should be able to shut down critical sites just for asking, they set about to make it happen. They engaged in no dialog or conversation with you, they just tried to get it done.
In the larger picture, other future companies will reflect on GoDaddy actions, if the pressure was pulled off now the lesson would be, hey you can support some pretty crappy anti-consumer stuff and then just say hey I am sorry. Now in GoDaddy's case it's not like they are just passer-by supporters of this bill, they are culpable in the very creation of it and to assume that they have now seen the light due to financial punishment, would be to say the least giving them a lot of credit.

Far worse it would change the very lesson of the historical context of what is now playing out. You see GoDaddy stepped across the line into politics and corruption and paid to play, when one starts dealing with politics it is no longer a business transaction, they are bartering in peoples rights. Doing so can lead to war, which what GoDaddy is dealing with is very akin to, and rightfully so, a business deal is one thing, but when you get on the wrong side of peoples rights, you should expect that those people are going to go to war. They have every right to do so, because a piece of their freedom is at stake. It's not about "I'm sorry's" at that point, the stakes are much higher, an example must be set so that future actors learn that rights are not tools for barter.

If GoDaddy does not like that they have fired the first shot, then they should have kept to domains and steered clear of brokering peoples rights for profit. GoDaddy stepped out of the lines of business and tried to mandate consumers actions via legislation, no one should expect that they be treated like a business when they did so, they no loner are because they are not acting like one, a better definition for them would be the enemy.

In saying that, I do want to thank you, mob rule and justice must be checked, we must have decent, so that people stop to think about their actions, in my opinion, they are justified in this case, but we should always take time to reflect. For me personally, I wrote GoDaddy an email asking how they plan to financially oppose the legislation now that they are sorry. If I am satisfied with the answer I will remain, because I think it will make for even greater historical context, if they have to financially fight the very legislation that they helped craft. That lesson will resound as an example, for a very long time and as far as my ethics are concerned it is a narrative that I can support as a cautionary tale to future business leaders.
The events of the day (godaddy, SOPA, etc...) had me join the site. My postings thus far are pretty much SOPA focused in hopes to bring a bit more knowledge about, but I didn't think my comments are in any way promoting godaddy as a service provider! If anything, I'm looking at them with a more neutral approach ( Perhaps that is "pro" compared to most other's comments bandwagoning godaddy's demise). Personally I couldn't care less about the elephant shooting, woman degrading leadership they have, or their practices as a business (I dropped them as my registrar years ago.)
Ask HN: Why does the AFL-CIO support SOPA?
One thing I've noticed is that the unions are on board with SOPA and named alongside the MPAA, RIAA and their ilk. However, I am unable to fathom why the unions are pro-OWS and pro-SOPA... and it turns out, they are not (so far as I can tell).

If you search on the http://aflcio.org/ site for sopa, you get three results. Two are blog posts on the AFL-CIO site, one is a link to an external news story. One blog hit is an anti-SOPA comment, and the other is a legitimate blog post that mentions how Richard Trumka (the organization's president) spoke out in support of the PROTECT-IP act in May 2011.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/11/30/justice-dept-launches-campaign-against-counterfeit-goods/

There's no mention of SOPA by the organization, and the most recent quote is about another act and it's now seven months old. Trumka's position at the time was that "solving the problem of counterfeiting, piracy and intellectual property theft [is] critical to creating and sustaining the jobs needed to revive the economy".

It seems to me like the anti-SOPA/pro-sanity movement should take the momentum gained from the GoDaddy flip-flop and target the AFL-CIO next. They don't appear to have a strong position and supporting SOPA + OWS simultaneously is deeply contradictory.

I'm a Canadian and have no ties to labour politics, but my understanding is that SOPA harms the working class. They should be fundamentally opposed to the passing of the bill, and we should give them an opportunity to change their mind as GoDaddy did earlier today.
I've got like 4 years left on one registration. Anyone know if there's a way to carry over the time I've already paid for? Are there registrars that will do this?
I work for GoDaddy's competitor. If anything we've seen a windfall from the day's events due to our outstanding approach against SOPA. See my other comments/submissions and you'll figure out I'm legit.
Nice try, but I'm still not buying whatever you're selling.
Of course everyone is going to say yes. If you say no, the digital mob will probably try to kick you off HN for permanently.
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Marketing Opportunity: The Anti-SOPA Domain Registrar
now that everyone's closing their godaddy accounts, where are the smart marketers at the other companies? i plan on moving my domains, but where to? this is a great opportunity to gain a lot of free press and customers
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Anyone have any insight into either:

1) How they are exempt. They aren't mentioned in the bill itself. So what provision allows them to be exempt?

2) How they were actually involved in drafting the bill. I know they claim they helped in their press release but that rarely means anything.
How does SOPA threaten US sites?
In the beginning I was also caught up in the fevered warnings about SOPA passing. But now it seems to me that all the hoopla about SOPA is overblown for domestic sites hosting user-submitted content. Here's why:

A) If you are already in the US, then the justice department and DHS (of which ICE is a subsidiary, I believe) have already been able to authorize the seizing of, and seize domains registered in the US. I repeat, this has ALREADY been going on, as many of you know, and it hasn't caused a huge problem for the internet.

http://www.dailychanges.com/seizedservers.com/

So the horse has left the stable, as it were, for domestic sites, and it can't get worse with SOPA, as far as I know.

B) If you are a Foreign Site, then it can get quite a lot worse, but only if you are a site which would be "subject to prosecution under U.S. criminal law if [you] were located in the U.S." -- this thanks to an amendment introduced by Chairman Lamar Smith himself:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/Summary%20Manager's%20Amendment.pdf

Now, this new language seeks further to define what "Rogue Site" means. It removes the "Global Tech willful blindness standard" as well as the "enables or facilitates" language (!!)

I think people should be aware that this new amendment was accepted by the Judiciary Committee. In addition, the following were changed:

* The court at its discretion might focus its order only on a subdomain or portion of the site.

* ISPs cannot be ordered to block a subdomain

* ISPs are only required to take measures they determine to be the "least burdensome, technically feasible, and reasonable"

* Any action against rogue sites pertains to foreign sites, i.e. those that are located overseas, or that are unreachable domestically and whose owner or operator is located overseas. It excludes sites like facebook, youtube, etc.

And very importantly for those concerned about the security of DNS:

* It allows a provider to NOT carry out an order on a finding that it would "impair the security or integrity of the system".

And therefore, SOPA is now rather benign, it seems to me. Its primary effect would be to disable the pirate bay and other sites like that. Perhaps megaupload.com . It still sucks for foreign sites, but even so, it doesn't touch domestic sites, and ISPs can refuse to do it, citing difficulty or security issues.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I posted this in order to get more information and inform others.
Nah, I don't visit Mega more than once a month or so. As a UI/UX designer it's just something that really bothers me
Maybe he built a way to detect mischievous updates or he's baiting to sue.
Ask HN: What language should I learn?
Hi,

I'm a Computer Science major in college right now, and it's moving at a somewhat slow pace for me -- granted, I am in the very early stages. I have some experience with C++ and very little experience with Ruby.

I have heard about lots of languages, but I'm not sure what I should start to teach myself that would be the most useful. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks.
Other than the fact that Polis said they're exempt, there is no other information about how exactly they are exempted from it. I didn't see any wording like that in the bill. Was something changed recently?
just imagine if a debate about land allocations or subsidies or - basically anything else that goes through washington - had the same level of attention as this.
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he seems to instead be arguing that there's no problem in the first place, because the economy is doing great, everyone is hiring, etc

He doesn't seem to say that at all. In the article he recognizes that he and SV are in a bubble. He points out that the OWS reality is not his reality. In fact anyone who is good in tech has a completely different reality than OWS. It's not just SV where finding good people is hard.
When I track time, I like to use half days.

A half day is the most meaningful chunk of work progress and, of course, it is flexible - I hate keeping track of quarter hours or worrying about remembering that I stopped to talk to the UPS driver.

I've even written contracts with half days as the basic billing unit - and once I explain to clients that it means I may not bill them for a quick email, they pretty much get it.

I track half days with a pencil and calendar, and write a short description of what I did.