skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make some good points but calling it piracy and advocating it as a good thing doesn't make sense. At least not to me.

I respectfully disagree with you and don't think piracy should ever be legal. That said, there is still a lot to be said for the frivolous lawsuits brought on by media companies as well as the way they basically screw their artists. On that point I think there's a lot of nuance that people miss when they simply say "piracy is alright because media companies (or software companies) are evil". Pirating as a protest to their actions seems to have done more harm than good and we should find ways to disrupt the industry without stealing.

On what you said about forgetting this issue after SOPA... I'm glad you bring this up because even though I don't agree with most people here I still think its very worthy of discussion. It's a very complex and nuanced issue that I hope we dig pretty deep into in the future. You made a great observation here - most people, after facing something as big as SOPA will either shift their focus to trying to repeal it if it passes or fall to the temptation to declare a premature victory. I'm really glad this got brought up as I was thinking along those lines too. Hopefully this question gets more traction here.
Mike Mozart explains online piracy and SOPA: how CNET encouraged piracy
you get an extension for a year on top of your existing expiration date with namecheap for the same price - so I didn't see it as a problem.
Go Daddy publishes position on SOPA and turns off blog commenting
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" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." --John 20:29

This verse has always struck me as directly anti-science.
thanks for this, my godaddy domains were registered for 10 years, so this makes it easier to switch. i thought they only gave me 1 year from the transfer date.
SOPA has no more to do with piracy than the PATRIOT Act had to do with patriotism.

It's really about control of information.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/
Isn't this an issue of keeping the web open, rather than the cost of licenses?
I've recently got a pretty decent APRS setup on 2 meter. There's a decent amount of activity around my house. There's a lot of APRS infrastructure, so things like internet gated messages in and out actually function. It's good to keep this stuff alive.
There was way too much self promotion ("look how I work to stop bad pharmaceutical resellers and protect children in some vague manner) and not enough getting-to-the-point.
[...] dealing with orphans on the web is kind of impossible.

Not at all! Just:

html.replace(/\s+(\S+)$/mg, "&nbsp;$1")

EDIT: Bugfix, don't replace whitespace without any characters after, replace all occurrences in a multi-line text
Just a note that this is from "These American Lives" a special section in the New York Times edited by Ira Glass and his team from "This American Life", the radio show.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/22/magazine/the-l...

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Allowing SOPA to make the public aware?
I have been thinking. What if SOPA would pass like it is and the Internet would change? Wouldn't that be the best, because pretty much every internet user would complain about it?
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No, but a browser supporting 3D-transformations, however.
PG, thanks for making this stand. It makes me want to support YC-funded companies more actively now.
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dynadot.com is my preference for domain names and they have hosting plans too.
Could one of the anonymous downvoters provide some rationale for their disagreement? I'm open to evidence that the tech industry suffers more harassment claims than other male-dominated industries. Or is your disagreement based on the idea that the tech industry should be held to a higher standard? That sexism is ok for those other people, but not for us because we're expected to be more civilized?
Fantastic! I certainly don't want anyone to think this is "incidental," because who the hell gets excited over that?

I'm excited about this research and especially about the idea of understanding typography through mathematics.

As far as "arbitrary formulae" are concerned, Golden Ratio Typography does take one giant leap past the arbitrary selection of line heights and/or line widths:

The font size, line height, and line width are all constrained and related to one another mathematically. This relationship ties the three dimensions together in a way that arbitrarily selected values for these dimensions cannot.
Internet makers versus disruptees
Not true.

Chrome: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in...

Opera: See an opinion piece at http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness
Consider not just talking about SOPA (he probably has canned counterarguments to most points), paint the bigger picture for him.

1. NDAA recently over-rided both habeas corpus and posse comitatus.

2. Anti-Net Neutrality forces are attempting to hand over the Internet to the telecom cartel.

3. Police are increasingly militarized and violent, DHS is collaborating.

4. ...

Out of time to write more, but you get the idea. Everything coming out of DC these days appears aimed at curtailing our Constitutional Rights and civil liberties, and everyone is feeling under seige. SOPA is one more straw on the camel's back.
Show HN: List of domain names moved away from GoDaddy in response to SOPA
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I'd recommend the following two (both free online):

The Elements of Statistical Learning:
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

Second, while focused on computer vision, has great intro to probability and learning:

Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference
http://computervisionmodels.com/
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I am 99% sure the only requirement is any contact delivered makes it to you, so yes.
People solve sync and make judgements (right or wrong).

That's why version control with full history is infinitely better than sync solutions for file management.
I transferred all my domains to NameCheap after the elephant slaughter, and have had absolutely no issues.

Personally I'd like to hear NC's take on the incident before I pass judgement on that post, but if you're not comfortable with them, find another registrar that you are OK with. The whole point is that GoDaddy are bad, not that NameCheap are good.
I really, really like this. I am getting ready to do a small presentation next week and was looking for a way to pull it off in a open source kind of way. Keynote works very well but it costs $$$ and PowerPoint is not even in the room.

The one thing I would like to have is a couple of charts/graphs. Does anyone have any tips on a JavaScript charting/graphing engine that might fit in with reveal.js? I realize that I could just use some PNGs or something but that doesn't seem like very much fun.
It's not only about Congressmen and Congresswomen being in the back pockets of big corporations. If you watch the hearings you realize that 90% of them don't understand enough technology to know what DNS is. They are persuaded by the people that are bought, and it goes from there.
It might help to mention the increasingly unreasonable takedowns coming out of the entertainment industry as indications of why this is unbalanced. (Like, for instance, Universal's recent takedown of a MegaUpload promotional video in which they admitted knowing they had no intellectual property interest whatever.)

Also, it might help to mention costs of compliance for small startups that feature user-created content, as a fraction of total expenditures, if you (or anyone else at the meeting) has credible figures and is in a position to disclose them. (The Reddit "SOPA will shut us down" post is a nice start, but I'm not sure they've posted the numbers to back it up, and you might need those to be really convincing.)

Lastly, there's the DNSSEC argument, which is open-and-shut if the guy is technical enough to understand it. But if not, well... look at some video of the abortive Judiciary markup to see what you're up against.
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The Handlebars grammar is more complex than Mustache's grammar. It supports helpers (normal and block), paths, strings, numbers and booleans.

My initial implementation of Handlebars did not include a proper compilation flow, but optimizing its output became very complicated. The new approach (the one used for the past year or so in Handlebars) makes it easier to reason about how the input gets compiled into JavaScript, and each stage in the compilation process provides ways to perform certain kinds of optimizations.

One of the major goals of Handlebars is for users to avoid paying for features they are not using. For instance, the ".." feature, which allows a template to reference a parent context, only impacts the compiled code if it's used.

Finally, for performance-sensitive deployments, Handlebars provides a precompiler that eliminates the need to compile the template on the client. This eliminates the compiler requirement on the client, and only requires a small (1k'ish) library at runtime.
We've gotten a bit away from the topic at hand, have we not?
You know what? This might be the perfect thing to kill SOPA. I've heard suspicion (I'd venture to call it a conspiracy theory, except it doesn't seem all that outlandish) that Tor is actively used by various intelligence agencies, in the US and otherwise. The theory being that a network like Tor is only useful for hiding CIA traffic (for example) if the majority of traffic on Tor is non-CIA related.

If SOPA effectively bans Tor, I could imagine the head of the CIA placing a strongly worded phone call to the President ensuring that the bill gets vetoed... Yeah, I wouldn't count on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is how things play out either.
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Directory searching, hotkeys for everything, Calendar is more powerful AND easier to use. Searching email is faster, managing hundreds of messages easier, and the interface, snappier.

Offline is a smoother experience requiring no effort. Reminders for the Calendar actually manage to get my attention.

Rules are easier to manage, and if memory serves much more flexible.

I am not criticizing Gmail et al mind you; as I mentioned, I use them all the time. They just are more useful for personal, low-volume stuff.
From a high level view, I'm totally for this idea. However, I'm skeptical of the viability of this sort of pilot program. Having more info about the "fine print" would be a good start.

It would be interesting to see if other companies start similar programs to meet the short-fall of engineering talent as well.
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Sure it is. I'll grant you that Mongo DB is web scale. Now could someone tell me what web scale means? The whole point of that xtranormal piece was the "web scale" is a meaningless marketing term. You can't argue that something qualifies for a meaningless marketing term.

cliff notes: Article didn't define web scale, therefore I didn't read meaningless article.
It was correct...
Count me in for about 14 or so plus SSL certs and other fun.

What a windfall for Namecheap.
The flip side to all the clear examples of poor user experience out there (government, banks, universities, BigDumbCompanies, hidebound industries, etc.) is that there seems to be plenty of opportunities available for the smart entrepreneur to develop a friendlier alternative and make a profit. Just takes time and execution.
The real issue is that school systems administrators are not food service experts. They are educators. Lunch operations should be entirely outsourced to someone who knows what they are doing, or else eliminated. Preferably the latter.
Just tying things together is not, per se, a good thing. I can decide that what I eat for lunch has to start with the same letter of the alphabet as my breakfast, but that is not automatically going to make them tastier or healthier.
Well, then, a few examples of malice and overreach (e.g., Universal's recent takedown of a video in which they admitted knowing they had no copyright, and then a daily newscast which excerpted that video) would be enough to make the point.

Assuming they're not just being disingenuous.

Takedowns described here:

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/15/universal-music-uses-false-...
I thought it would be interesting to see how many domains are moved away because of this, so I just knocked together this quick site - http://stopsopa.mattbearman.co.uk/

It would be awesome if anyone who is transferring domains away from go daddy could add their to the list
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>Considering that 95% of the National Academy of Science is atheist, the correlation is still pretty relevant.

Since the Academy elects its own members there might be some bias lurking in that number.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nmz43/reddit_we_need_y... My attempt to transform the anti-SOPA movement into the bigger picture; protecting Internet Freedom.
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s America in decline? That is a very provocative question.<p>I have found that most people that hate the United States are very eager to agree that America is in decline, while a lot of those that love the United States are very hesitant to admit that America is in decline. Well, I am proud to be an American, but I cannot lie and tell you that America is doing just fine. The pieces of evidence compiled below are undeniable.
My blog http://sigusr2.net has it now.
How am I missing the point?

The point: SOPA is bad because it allows the US to censor DNS results.

My point: GoDaddy supporting SOPA should surprise no one, and anyone "morally outraged" about censorship should already know better than to use GoDaddy, because they've repeatedly censored domains, Unilaterally, Voluntarily, for DNS around the World.

Which part am I missing? I've genuinely asked 4 times now and I get silent downvotes and dismissive replies like "you're missing the point".
Surprisingly un-artsy page btw..
To add another thought- it is not surprising, but it also is. I've gotten the impression Google is pretty good about avoiding NIH syndrome, and use the best tool for the job. Sometimes there is no such tool and they build one, or sometimes the best tool isn't good enough so they extend it, but...
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More downvotes and no replies. Now nearing two dozens downvotes and not one person so confident as to downvote can waste 30 seconds to explain why I'm so horrendously wrong.

I'm just curious what would happen if it came out that Haliburton or Blackwater/Xi were in favor of SOPA. Then we can get some even more ironic "moral outrage" going.
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Petzl comes out against SOPA, after appearing on the list of supporters
Esoteric definitions of faith have little use in standard discussion.
I've had no experience with radio but find this stuff really interesting. You never know what you'll need to do come the zombie outbreak when the internet goes down.

Packet radio, HAM, CB... it is all a mystery to me. Is there a beginner's guide somewhere on getting into this field for cheap?
This (kind of) qestion should become a quality test for any knowledge gathering community. The top answer, is clean , precise, deep ... and so true. it's unbelievable that the internet has finally a place where it can be read by anyone.
Not really.

If Google or Bing hadn't paid enough then it would be pretty easy[1] to raise the money from random investors.

There are precedents for that - Lycos (I think? or Infoseek?) raised capital after buying a default slot on the original Netscape browser with money they didn't actually have.

[1] Not saying that building a web scale search engine is easy, exactly, but I am saying that the default search engine for ~25% of the world web browsers is a business a lot of investors would want to invest in.
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I was a TA for this course over the past semester, and decided to leave our undergrads with a tangible piece of evidence that they could refer to and understand how much work they did over the past semester. The resulting tree visualization is captivating!
So, if a star becomes a black hole, it's planets are no longer planets unless their COM is inside the event horizon?
I just noticed that Stripe's payment fee (2.9% + $0.30) is the exact same as PayPal's. Definitely not a coincidence.
How can you call them "competent" when there have been half a dozen posts about GoDaddy screwing over HN customers that have used them as a domain registrar. What does it even mean to be "competent" as a registrar? They take your money and host your DNS? GoDaddy is really good at one of those things, and it's not the one that I'd consider important for competency.

And again, this has nothing to do with my point that everyone is conveniently trying to side step around. GoDaddy is still "cheap" and "competent" regardless of their feelings about SOPA, so why are we even talking about this.

My only point is that this "moral outrage" is hypocritical and backward. My comment about laziness was from someone who acknowledged that they ran with the publicized registrar instead of undertaking the extreme challenge of 5 minutes of Googling various registrars.
"one possible answer to the original question is "cognitive dissonance""

Certainly. And to quote myself:

"If that is the case, then the organization is ill. Best to stay away from it, in case it happens to be contagious."
Sure, 1/60th of a second may not be the exact right number, but the point is, I would think that traditionally a GPU designer wouldn't exactly have a tight latency budget.

Even if you're in stereo (1/120) and you write a new image to the buffer 100 times per frame (1/12000) that still gives you 40,000 cycles on a 500MHz clock.
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I just setup a tumblr for anyone interested, i'll keep count for those that want to submit: goodbyegodaddy.tumblr.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3384048
I've just done a very similar thing - http://stopsopa.mattbearman.co.uk/
The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd Amendment confers the right to keep and bear arms on individual Americans.

Interpreting the 2nd Amendment, as many politicians still do, in a way that nullifies it ("I believe in the 2nd Amendment but not that it applies to individuals") is indistinguishable from believing in its abolition, and no different in theory than supporting the abolition of any other part of the Bill of Rights.

I have no issue with people who seek a constitutional amendment to remove the 2nd Amendment. I do have an issue with people who favour gun control measures that have been ruled by the Supreme Court as violations of the 2nd Amendment but still claim to support the Bill of Rights.

Americans have an individual, inalienable and fundamental right to possess firearms. This is not my opinion, it is the opinion of the highest court in the land, and the only body with the constitutional authority to decide this issue. If you disagree, you do not support the Bill of Rights in its entirety.

Your strawman arguments about things that are already illegal and have never been in dispute (did the NRA have a "let convicted felons own guns" campaign I missed?) may not be bumper sticker politics but that is only because they are verbosely misleading rather than concisely so.
How realistic is it for these things to actually happen though, the only seemingly realistic thing is the DOS attack.

I'm not saying it isn't smart I am just wondering if you have any examples of the others actually occurring.
Nope, that's what you are supposed to do in a market system. You as a citizen are under no obligation to engage in business with corporations you feel are harming society/
Weird. I had edited it to reference that, but my edit was saved. Doh!
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Google's product is not Chrome. Google's product is not search. Google's product is advertising. Search is how they deliver it, and browsers are how they deliver THAT.

Google doesn't care, financially speaking, if Chrome or Firefox does better in the marketplace. They care about the eyeballs that Firefox, Chrome, and any other browser can deliver to Google ads.
Get a technician license. Get a radio. Start playing around. I had one for about 10 years before finally just getting motivated to give APRS a shot. It was just slightly to get my radio actually hooked up to a computer via softmodem and xastir and all that, but it feels good having it together.

Of course, I'm not a huge fan of xastir. At this point, I want to build something new that's not GUI based and see if I can get something that's more useful outside of vnc.
I completely agree that there need to be some strong laws protecting the Internet. But I think nothing short of a Constitutional amendment will stop future laws like these, though. But I agree after we stop SOPA and PIPA, we'll need to focus on bills that can ensure nothing like SOPA can even be proposed again. There needs to be an "Internet first" stance.

The Internet is probably the most important thing humanity has built so far, and I think we're just at the beginning with this. And our clueless politicians already want to mess around with it to stop a few old business models from failing. And they want to do that by trying to pass a bill a week before Christmas, without any serious debate and disregarding the experts. I think that's very dangerous and foolish.
I love it when entities take a controversial position and, despite having the option to actually hear directly from the people its affecting, go ahead and just lock down the comment section.
PayPal has a micropayments option of 5% + $0.05, which would work out to be cheaper in this case (the video was $5).

https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/
Really? Is there a source for that? Not that I don't believe you, but I'd love to cite this data myself. That's incredible.
NoDaddy: Band Together Against SOPA-Supporting GoDaddy
Great resource. Thank you for posting it.
Just a slight quibble: hunters are actually among the most consistent supporters of wildlife conservation. Ducks Unlimited, for instance, is largely an organization of duck hunters.
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Holy cow, seriously?

Apparently, yes:
http://texyt.com/minecraft+persson+notch+indie+game+success+...

At the end, they note that sales were settled in to about $100k/day in September 2010, from a relatively brief peak of $350k/day. Amazing numbers.
Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
Can you explain why this is significant to people not familiar with KKR? Their Wikipedia page isn't telling me much.
If balancing the free flow of information means restricting it, no thanks.
The "Occupy" movement is a sinking ship run by anarchists. It's literally an expression of incoherent rage. I think a traditional, well-organized, on-message movement against SOPA would do a lot better than throwing in with OWS.
I was going to upvote this but it was at 666 points.

So I just took a screenshot and forwarded it to the more religious of our representatives as proof that SOPA is indeed evil.