skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very hard to make anything help. Here's a shortlist of things that should be fixed to avoid it horribly hurting innocent people, but I doubt it's enough - there seems likely to be more things in there. The original purpose of the law seems to be "Give the 'intellectual property' industries a blunt instrument to attack perceived violators", so making it less blunt probably violate the original purpose anyway.

Stop removing DNS entries; that's attempting to censor things that aren't in the US for non-US citizens.

Require a full court proceeding to stop advertisements and payment processing in the US - ie, no "court order", it has to be a full lawsuit with the ability to defend.

Require the removal of access to only affect a specific, listed set of companies.

Require the company requesting the blocking to pay reasonable costs of blocking.

Remove the making of copyright infringement into a felony; each of these things can easily happen by mistake.
VISA, Mastercard, and Comcast supports SOPA too
Per http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/list-of-sopa-supporters/

With everyone talking about Godaddy today, I thought this would be interesting to bring up...

I live in the bay area and there aren't a whole lot of options for fast internet here (and I imagine that's true for a lot of places). Comcrap seems to have a monopoly for decent speeds and not using them like transferring domains off Godaddy doesn't seem to be as easy (or rather the options are not comparable).

Worse, VISA and Mastercard, the two most widely accepted credit card companies (and on debits) also support SOPA. Kinda shitty.

I briefed over the list and I "think" those are the obvious ones I can see that would directly affect me aside from Godaddy.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Clearly singling out Godaddy alone doesn't address these other companies, some of which I think affects others here... I guess others here are more critical of Godaddy because they serve the web? I guess in the same sense you can say Comcast grants access to the web and VISA and Mastercard drives transactions. Legitimately, I am wondering if others are willing to prove a point with one company, are they willing to do so with others (including the above).
First, manage the dns with a third party dns service.

This cannot be emphasized enough. Do not use your registrar's DNS. Do not use your registrar's hosting. Do not use your host's DNS.

The three elements -- domain registration, DNS, and web hosting -- should be segregated. That way, if you have problems with one, through chance, malice, or incompetence, you can exercise the other two items to work around the issue.

E.g.s:

If your web host is DDOSed, change the DNS entries to point to another host; minimizing downtime.

If your DNS servers are taken offline by legal action against the company that owns them, change the published servers at your registrar.

If your registrar goes bankrupt, your DNS and hosting will continue running smoothly while ICANN handles the domain management.

While you're at it, host your email somewhere different than your webhost. If you're account gets disabled because of a billing mistake, you want to get the email that tells you about it, right?

It's not even that expensive to implement these steps -- $25, maybe $50 per year. If you are at all serious about something on the Internet, spend the extra money!
HBase integration is good. But having to deal with column families, etc. rule it out for me in terms of solving the usability problem. I just want to push records and retrieve them as JSON. This is the most common use case when publishing data from Hadoop to a NoSQL store. I think this could be fixed? Can column families be inferred? I am highlighting Mongo's superior usability here to set an example for others.
Linky: http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/list-of-sopa-supporters/
> nevertheless, there exist religious people who do good science.

Considering that 95% of the National Academy of Science is atheist, the correlation is still pretty relevant.

Clueless people can be successful investors, luck is always a factor, but someone who supports SOPA probably lacks a certain technical background or ethics.
a little off topic, but ... all that money on his website and you can't get a permalink to a news article? what the?
Yes, but “pick a smallish set of successful companies and then try to find one other vaguely similar company to each for comparison” is not enough of a control to guard against these kinds of biases. I understand that experiment design is really hard when dealing with something as big and complex as public companies, and Collins does much better than most business books (just by trying at all). But this kind of experiment design would never fly in any hard science.
This review is really preventing me from going with namecheap...
http://www.webhostingreviews.com/namecheap-reviews.htm

can someone advise?
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The major U.S. cable companies seem to be on that list. The major U.S. phone companies do not.

Many of us are in a situation where our ISP choices consist of the cable company and the phone company. One might consider this a point in the phone company's favor.
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No, I don’t think that’s the reason why fashion brands are against knock-offs. They don’t necessarily expect that everyone who buys a counterfeit will buy the real thing. Instead, a market glutted with counterfeit products dilutes their brand and reflects poorly on the quality of their merchandise because consumers confuse the knock-off with the real thing. And that most certainly does lose them something.

A Chanel handbag is a luxury item that, in part, is desirable simply because of its expense and thus relative scarcity—not everyone can have one. Lifestyles brands are built in large part around a carefully crafted image of their consumer, and when every 19 year old Starbucks barista making $21K/year is walking around with a knock-off Chanel handbag it’s difficult to maintain the image they’re going for. Sales drop as the real consumers flee the brand, and then the company has no choice but to market to a lower demographic. Counterfeits undermine the company by commoditizing their goods.

Since fashion brands have significantly more limited legal protections for their products than other industries, I don’t see how you could expect them to be against an act that stands to enlarge the remedies available to them to protect their brands. It was shortsighted for the media companies to try to take a sledgehammer to the Internet—since what they sell are inherently digital products for which it was inevitable that distribution would move to the Internet eventually—but apparel is a physical product that isn’t in any danger of having that happen. For that reason apparel companies don’t care about the Internet (just like you probably don’t care very much about apparel), and I can’t say I could really blame them.

This isn’t even to mention the fact that fashion design is an art, and having opportunists steal your design, completely mangle it in an attempt to make it cheaper, and then sell it as an original is in all likelihood an incredibly infuriating thing simply from the perspective of artistic purity. Again, I find it hard to blame them for wanting to stop this, given that how well the Internet works is largely irrelevant to practically everyone in the entire industry.
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It needed to be on HN at least twice.
With my credit union in California, wire transfers are $20 + 2-3 business days. This is cost prohibitive. Western Union is similarly pricey. Dwolla is an interesting competitor ($3/mo for unlimited instant transfers), but it needs wider adoption before it can be used directly.
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That has to do with the distance between the sun and Jupiter not just Jupiter's mass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_%28moon%29 Deimos would continue to orbit the sun in much the same way that the moon would if it's planet disappeared. (Moon: 1.022 km/s, Deimos: 1.3km/s, Callisto's 8.204 km/s. Earth 29.78 km/s, Mars 24.077 km/s, and Jupiter 13.07 km/s)

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity To escape from the suns orbit at Jupiter's distance from the sun takes 18.5 km/s vs Mars orbit's 34.1 km/s, or the Earth's orbit 42.1 km/s.

PS: The moon was the original example of 'moon' so it's a moon by definition. Any definition that does not include it must be describing something other than a 'moon'.
And let's not forget: GoDaddy is evil to begin with. You're not just fighting SOPA, you're fighting the very forces of evil themselves.
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I'm not sure that makes sense, how do you define mobile?
Something that can run off batteries? Then maybe but that's already happening to an extent with laptops but I have noticed allot of laptops around now that have large enough screens and keyboards that they are basically desktops.

So there is still clearly a demand for computers with allot of screen real estate and a full size keyboard, perhaps allot of processing work can be offloaded to the "cloud" so processing power becomes less important than battery life.

I don't really see the future as an office full of people sitting down hunched over their 9" tablets poking away at the screen (or making hand gestures all day, or talking to the computer for 8 hours straight).
That's not really fair. The people who run corporations have a fiduciary responsibility. (There are of course caveats, and we can argue all day over whether or not SOPA is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal, but you get the point.)

If you are a movie studio, SOPA is a great idea for your bottom line.

I don't think it's fair to call everyone who is in favor of SOPA either evil or stupid, even if SOPA itself is both. I can understand why YC wouldn't want them around, but I can't necessarily say they wouldn't be good investors.
It's a science in the same way that math is a science. A "formal science" seems appropriate. My school considered it a natural science, which is just stupid.

Note that most computer "science" classes are stuff like learning java, learning UML, learning software engineering. This stuff is barely engineering, let alone science. It has more in common with a fine art.

Algos and data structures etc are arguably a form of math, depending on the class most likely applied math.

It's not a natural science, and what you're doing is similar to the way artists will use, say, a picture of a DNA molecule to create a cool painting. If they use scientific principles in their art, does that make it a science?

No - what you are describing is a "craft" - a very informal kind of engineering. Architecture is not a science either.
anyone have a list of the companies that were part of SOPA that attended either of the last two demo days?
There was a study where some students where given varying amounts of money. Half of the students were instructed to spend the money on themselves. The other half was instructed to buy something for a friend or give it to charity. Those who spent it on themselves had the least improvement in happiness - no matter what the amount was. Think about it... maybe Louise CK actually made the best investment he could for his own happiness.
<blatantSarcasm>Yeah let's just forget about all the poor suffering people! Survival of the fittest, right?!</blatantSarcasm>

But in all seriousness, I'm curious as to how/why you and the grandparent think that funding his or another comic's next venture would be more beneficial to the world as whole than donating it to charity. To have an opportunity to improve the lives of thousands, possibly millions, but ignore it and focus on yourself is extremely selfish; and I hope there aren't many people out there who would do such a thing.

You might argue that his investments in future ventures might return more money to donate than he originally would have, but that would be assuming that Louis CK doesn't already have the finances for that; and I assure you, he either does or he can obtain it with minimal effort.
Here is a ghetto "let" form in coffee

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Strange logic. If they don't care about their domain business, why are they in it? Even if it's just a loss leader, you still care about the loss leader or you wouldn't continue running it.

The reason this thread is about domain transfers is because GoDaddy is at large known best as a domain registrar. If they were primarily a hosting company/etc., this thread would just as easily be about transferring your hosting/etc.
found students replacing the Beef Jambalaya

Remembering my school days, I can picture a school cafeteria making an absolutely terrifying jambalaya. I mean, they couldn't get the whole dough + sauce + cheese thing down without the garbage bins getting most of the nutrition.
> I've seen the argument: if someone is so clueless about rationality as to be religious, how could they make a good scientist?

That's because the underlying assumptions are false. Being religious doesn't require one to be "clueless about rationality" and supporting SOPA doesn't requre the supporter to be clueless about technology -- they may as well hope to benefit from breaking the Internet.

As every regulation (the more severe, the better) it will give an advantage to established companies over startups and newcomers, maybe even allow the former to became gate-keepers of the Internet business; DMCA allowed for attempts at censorship (silencing criticism by claiming trademarks), SOPA will take it to a whole new level; supporting SOPA signals loyalty to the entertainment industry; etc.
I am not using GoDaddy again and will encourage my friends and family to stay away as well.
Paranoid is not the word that comes to mind.
I think occupying Sutro Tower would be pretty cool.
Nevertheless, it is conceivable that a company could support SOPA while making good investments in the tech industry.

Yes, it's conceivable.

We're not boycotting them because we think they're bad investors.

That would be reason enough for me.

If we thought they were bad investors, why did we do business with them in the first place?

Perhaps you weren't aware of this aspect of their decision-making process.

We're doing it because they are allied with our enemies and we want to hurt them for that.

Meh. I think a much stronger position is:

We depend on a free Internet and a stable DNS and are just not going to do business with those who try to jack around with it.
- and -
If you don't "get" why net censorship and ISP domain blocking in particular are spectacularly dumb ideas then you probably aren't in that top tier of cluefulness that we're wanting to recruit.

These are two independent positions that compliment each other well I think.
Social sciences and political science are FAAAR more scientific than computer science.

Computer science makes stuff like psychology, sociology and anthropology look rigorous. They actually do experiments and case studies and use real world evidence you know!

CS papers have more in common with Literature than they do with the widely disparaged soft sciences like psychology.
There are a lot of unsubstantiated generalizations in this piece. So because capitalism has done its work on Internet startups, forcing them to make clear value statements, this means all geeks are good at usability. And because music posters, real estate, and government forms suck in the UK, "everyone else [is] crap"?
I use a ms natural keyboard and ms arc and both are great (arc has a mac feel to it)
Of course they aren't advocating that. They're just saying you can try it out by dropping that script tag on your page.

Their first suggestion, and the one they are definitely implicitly recommending, is: "Use it as a part of your asset packager to compile templates ahead of time..."
It works great. And it's a nice feeling every time you receive a GoDaddy email complaining that they were unable to charge your credit card.

ONLY 60-70??? Can you just abandon 2/3 of them...?
Thanks for the "democratic" downvoting

/s
Paypal has frozen the accounts of many large people. Notch, for instance.
I don't see how this and Kepler's laws fit together. The moon's mass is significantly different from the earth. How could the moon have the same orbit as the earth if the earth wasn't there?
what's the difference between rock and ice? is there a boundary where if the melting point is below a certain value then the substance is ice, and if it's above that value it's rock? it's not like rock can't melt in the right circumstances.
So how do we hurt these company's pockets? Anything besides not buying their products?
I'm apparently in the minority and believe this will never be addressed. But since the topic's being discussed...

Laptop designs such as Apple's place a "ginormous" "shelf" in front of the keyboard. As a result, whenever I'm working on one particularly on a work surface whose height I can't adjust (conference room table, table at cafe -- where chair height also isn't adjustable, etc.), I find the front edge of that shelf digging into my wrists or forearms behind the wrists. This both slows my typing and quickly becomes extremely uncomfortable.

The Lenovo T420 is about the maximum shelf size I can tolerate (thanks for not messing that up -- yet -- Lenovo!). I had some older, smaller laptops in the past that were quite comfortable for typing because they provided enough room to rest my palms (without hitting the trackpad, by the way) without interfering with my wrists or my need to bend same when not in an optimal workspace).

I guess lots of people don't care or actually like that ginormous shelf; I hate it.
Charity apparently equals to throwing money in the bin, according to his pov.
They need to be in the correct order though.
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Nutcracker by the bots.
GoDaddy seems to be the official registrar of domain name seizure http://www.techspot.com/news/46481-judge-oks-private-domain-... :

ordering the registry to transfer domain names to GoDaddy and ordering GoDaddy to update the DNS records
You're doing it right!
Just transferred 40 domains off of GoDaddy using this. Thanks.
Except they make out like bandits in that case. Hefty fees to the merchant, jacked up transaction fees...
It's horses for courses.

I like to get into the coding straight away. If what's happening is not immediately obvious to me, I'll start reading around the area I don't understand until I do understand it. Once I've tried a few set examples out, then I'll start putting my own code together. Inevitably, I'll hit a wall, and search around for an example that solves what I'm having a problem with.

And at some point, I'll start reading the high-level, conceptual/philosophical overview. And because I've now got some experience about some of the areas within the code, how everything ties together starts to make some sense.

If I had to read the high-level overview first, then I may never find the time to start coding in it!
We gave loads of test images before the release of GNOME 3.0. The "no going back", we've been making loads of changes based on feedback. I've listed some of these changes in the 3.2 release notes.

Wording like "fuck off" is completely unacceptable; I either warn or ban people (everyone, random person, developer, etc) for that.

"A few guys at the top": That is not how it works. If you're respected, people listen to you. That is how it works within GNOME.

Saying "valid and thoughtful criticism": valid maybe for you. But GNOME isn't about supporting every different idea. If an idea completely goes against the thought behind it (quite simply: focus on one task at a time), then yeah, use something else.
Having an idea and going for that, to some that comes across as arrogant. But simply stated, GNOME is not right for everyone. That is what is meant with this.

But at the same time, there is an extension system in place and loads of code is in javascript, loads of stuff can be done via gobject introspection (meaning: access libraries easily via javascript).

GNOME 3.0 was the initial release. Further improved with 3.2, more design ideas will be implemented in 3.4, etc. Not saying 3.0 is bad (IMO, it was great), but eh.. there is a goal and it hasn't been achieved.

I've been around during GNOME 2.0, a lot of the feedback was the same. I think your impression is off.
There is no place in the scientific method for belief without evidence, which is what faith is; faith forms the basis of religion.
I second CLRS - I just finished an algorithms course taught from that book, and I can't imagine a single textbook being more comprehensive.

I'm surprise nobody's mentioned Knuth, though maybe that goes without saying?

As for probability and statistics, I haven't really found anything (at an advanced) level that I've been happy with. Maybe it's because my background is in statistics, so it's a perception bias (I see the flaws more easily than with other subjects), but I think that most statistics textbooks are pretty rotten.

There are really only two that I'd recommend, and only one at a high level. Gelman & Hill is a great introduction to computational statistics at a high level, while still very readable (and enjoyable!)

http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarc...

Other than that, the only truly stellar statistics textbook I've ever seen was the one I used in my intro class in high school. It's sad, but it's a very true comment about the current state of most statistics textbooks (that I can find).
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the orbit of a satellite does not depend on the mass of the satellite.

the period and orbital velocity are dependent on the mass of the orbited object and the radius of the orbit.
I don't know where you are getting your ideas about Keynesian economics and wage policy, but they are almost completely the opposite of what Keynesians believe.

He also argued that to boost employment, real wages had to go down: Nominal wages would have to fall more than prices. However, doing so would reduce consumer demand, so that the aggregate demand for goods would drop. This would in turn reduce business sales revenues and expected profits. Investment in new plants and equipment—perhaps already discouraged by previous excesses—would then become more risky, less likely. Instead of raising business expectations, wage cuts could make matters much worse.

Further, if wages and prices were falling, people would start to expect them to fall. This could make the economy spiral downward as those who had money would simply wait as falling prices made it more valuable—rather than spending. As Irving Fisher argued in 1933, in his Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions, deflation (falling prices) can make a depression deeper as falling prices and wages made pre-existing nominal debts more valuable in real terms. [1]

To summarise, Keynesians generally believe that decreasing wages deceases aggregate demand, which discourages growth.

The general Keynesian to high unemployment during a recession is to increase government stimulus to increase aggregate demand. That approach is problematic in Europe at the moment, as the infographic illustrates.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Wages_and_s...
Ice is made of small molecules like water, methane or carbon dioxide.
I like the general direction of the idea, but unfortunately outside of the tech and startup scene, I doubt many would know of Paul in any way, shape, or form. He'd have as much weight as you. And I say that while personally keeping in mind that I don't think the general public, who aren't into the tech/startup world, would care who he is much like many don't know what an Android is (or care), but know they own a Samsung or HTC something something.
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