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Do not confuse stupidity with neutrality. An organism which makes no effort to avoid its extinction, especially when it can do so in a peaceful manner, has forfeit its evolutionary right to exist.

I hope the wikipedians in question will take some time to think about how their passive stance actually ends up jeopardizing their neutrality, and that once they have gotten their shit together, feel enough shame to apologize for being part of the problem.

I'm disgusted.
>> It shows that they are willing to sacrifice their cultural values, particularly neutrality, for other impromptu values that Jimmy sees fit to promote

Opposing SOPA is a must for wikipedia to maintain neutrality. Else, soon you will see that most of the so called controversial articles on wikipedia are no longer available because it will make it mandatory on the part of wikipedia to remove them.

And moving their domain from Godaddy is the right thing to do.
Lisp, more than any other class of language, is what you make of it. Also, it is just as susceptible to the whims of culture as other languages (perhaps MORE so). Take the Clojure world, for example...

Because it is being used by a generation of programmers who cut their teeth on Rails and were frustrated by J2EE verbosity, popular Clojure code tends to be written such that APIs are quite readable and bereft of too much cleverness (the cleverness is usually hidden in the implementation of the API, rather than the interface).

Examples: Compujre, Ring, ClojureQL, Encanter, etc.

S-Expressions don't befuddle people. People befuddle people.
"The contents are certainly disrespectful to the religious sentiments and faith and seem to be intended to outrage the feelings of religious people whether Hindu, Muslim or Christian."

I say: So what? As long as it does not promote hurting people, or people are forced to watch it, it shouldn't matter. There are tons of things said on the Internet, attacking which companies people like, for example. This can hurt a lot as well, I know that first-hand.

The important thing is, I still chose to consume the hater-content. Removing something just because it risks offending someone would harm free speech, no matter how much it hurts me personally.
You are assuming that they donated to support.
This is both glib and anecdotal, but Java is one of my favorites and I never write Java with an IDE. It has an extensive standard library that I can count on having available without requiring users to install optional packages, it's easy to write portable code and I can write software for everything from a cheap feature-phone to a high-end server.

There's a lot of horrible Java code on the internet, mostly because there are tons of people writing Java. Nevertheless, in good hands, Java can be quite elegant and succinct.
I see a few people saying that they didn't have much time (or that they didn't want to spend too much time) for this.

Is that really actually true, or is it some kind of 'modesty'[1]?

When people talk about IQ there's usually a list of people saying something like "IQ is meaningless, it's a flawed concept (but my IQ is 138)". Are there any people saying "I worked really hard at this, I spent a lot of time and effort. I ranked 984th."?

Because I'd love to see the results if those smart people got together and spent some serious time and effort on it.

Lots of popular science projects suffer from a heavy churn rate, which leads to people being introduced to the subject, producing an introductory program, doing a bit of reading, but then moving onto something else. A few people stay, and work on intermediate and advanced level projects, but they suffer from lack of interest and expertise. See, for example, all the millions of artificial life / evolution softwares derived from Martin Gardners Bugs. (See also the death of Fractint, which was excellent software but did not transition to Linux or Windows or modern display programming.)

[1] Not the right word but I'm not sure what fits.
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Controversial but has a point. Legislation constantly evolves. At what point of the process is a boycott appropriate?<p>If GoDaddy wants to invest in a YC startup working on DNS and Domain Registration (which really sucks), we won't allow it?
I personally am not having the same issue. Perhaps you have to be logged in to your Google account?
Controversial but has a point. Legislation constantly evolves. At what point of the process is a boycott appropriate?

If GoDaddy wants to invest in a YC startup working on DNS and Domain Registration (which really sucks), we wouldn't allow it?
This directly contradicts the GoDaddy saga.
Edit: And by this I mean that we (including Google) should be pursuing more or less the same measures that proved effective with GoDaddy, i.e, pressure through boycott. It is not clear whether Google intends to pressure Smith to withdraw support, and in any case it's the wrong path if one considers the amounts Smith gets from the companies that want SOPA passed.
Personally I find it strange that there even are donation as low as $17.5k. Are the millions hidden and the thousands only act as cover?
You are right. One can go to jail here for speech that offends certain sections of society (like religious groups)
Watt, who openly admitted he was an “old-fashioned guy,” earlier compared the Internet to Las Vegas, saying there were some who thought that it should remain essentially lawless “what goes on there stays there,” but that it should be treated more like a “pawn shop” and subject to raids from law enforcement.

SOPA would be more like cutting power lines to Vegas than raiding it. No real effect on what they're trying to stop, ruin things for everyone else.
There are limits to how much can be given. Most of the huge huge huge donations go to organizations such as the DNC and RNC where the limits are less strict.
I'd drop Comcast immediately if I could, and not because of SOPA. They have horrible service and expensive prices. Frequent outages and slow speeds, awful customer service.

Unfortunately, what are you to do when its the only internet provider in the area? =(
PAC contributions, see this chart:

http://i.bnet.com/blogs/google-contributions-chart2.jpg

still not a lot considering how large these companies are
I had an idea, but I don't know who to pitch it to or if it's good or bad or has already been done.

It's unfortunate, but our political process is coin operated--this is even more clear since we decided corporations were people and moneys political speech. Someone, perhaps someone here, needs to make an app that lets you see a company's political positions on the fly. If they have physical products, scanning the barcodes
could let you know what the company lobbies for and who they support. Said app could do other things, like informing the company how their political meddling influenced your purchase (for or against) and/or recommending an alternative product or service from a company/provider with monetary speech you find more palatable.
C/C++ can be taken to extremes with preprocessor abuse. If you've never looked at the obfuscated C programming contests, then you should. As far as Scala DSL's go, didn't somebody post one the other day that made an ascii art picture of a Christmas tree into a valid scale program? Isn't there also a Scala DSL that lets you make it look like basic?

Sure, there are languages that don't let you get at the meta, but just because the ones that let you do can be abused does not invalidate the usefulness of the notion.
Earth's is 101,000 Pa dropping to 30,000 on top of mount Everest. Mars's mean surface pressure is around 600 pascals which is below waters triple point which prevents water from forming regardless of temperature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point Still that's close and in some creators the pressure increases high enough so it's possible for water to form.

Unfortunately, on top of that what makes the atmosphere truly deadly is a lack of Nitrogen one of the primary building blocks for organic chemistry.
Not at all! Lamar Smith's opinion on these issues is influenced by the people who pay to get face time with him and his staff. I hope that Google is getting what they pay for.

If our democracy can be sold to the highest bidder, it's better for us if the winning bid is made by someone who shares our values. As a recent post said, "It's not ok for the Internet to understand how Congress works."
Someone connecting to a "open" MySQL server will only be able to run those type of queries (select,update or delete) that he is explicitly permitted to run and only on those database and tables where the admin has granted him access.

Yes that is true in theory. However in practice, the kind of person who thinks direct access to the database is a good idea is probably not the kind of person who knows about/knows how to restrict the database access to only certain queries/tables.
But do they compare the exact system built using 2 different programming languages from a different programming paradigms?

i.e.: Java vs Ruby or Java vs LISP

At some point in time, the complexity of the system and the available tools/libraries provided more parameters to the formula of bug-rate calculation that may throw off the result of the paper.

Consider this: a fellow worker had to write something that utilizes eBay's API. There is an existing eBay Gems available and he used that first. He stopped after a few hours due to bugs and undocumented stuff. His other options? SOAP/WSDL. Now based on what we know, Java has better SOAP support than Ruby. We're not saying that Ruby can't do it, but we questioned the comfortability/usability of using SOAP and Ruby. Essentially, one must read the WSDL (treat the WSDL as the documentation) to figure out the data type in Ruby. Even then, what happened if the WSDL has been updated by eBay at some point in the future? more further WSDL-proof-read. Not so in Java, with the help of IDE and compiler, you can easily navigate WSDL objects and detect breaks if WSDL has changed (vial wsdl code-gen).

At this point, it seems that using Java is a better option as opposed to Ruby.

This is where such research tend to be questionable: "when all things stay the same..."
GoDaddy explicitly stated that they support the SOPA legislation. Google (and others) took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal denouncing it. It's not the same thing.
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If my company dies tomorrow I can easily find new work or try to start a company for a year and then look for a job if that fails. I basically think of the company as a client who I get stuff done in exchange for money and I think that's far more healthy than the alternatives.

PS: I live well below my market rate and toss the extra into savings. Living pay check to paycheck when your location or skills make it hard to find a new job is simply poor planing.
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Google is too big, and supports too many things, to not in have in some way contributed money to just about everything. Relax and put down thy pitchfork, SOPA hurts them in many ways and they do not want it. If we want to make it a big PR fiasco like like we did for Go Daddy, whom i think the internet was just looking for an excuse to hurt, then we can but why? Bad target, not worth the effort, no efficacy. Right not, on this topic, Google is on our side for a change because SOPA scares them.

*edit s/to/too (and s/too/to) once I saw it, it drove me mad.
With NFC becoming more popular on phones and NFC circuits requiring no power source, maybe password jewelry could provide positive identification of users?

Make a watch or a ring with a NFC-enabled chip inside, put the required crypto services on it, upload public and private key, and allow devices in range (and websites/apps using those devices as a proxy) to trust it as partial proof of identity by doing the normal challenge-response deal.

I guess it'd make a pretty conspicuous target for theft.
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Difference being: GoDaddy very blatantly and explictly supported SOPA (until doing so stopped making business sense). All Google's done here is give money to this member of Congress (which could have been with the intent of for or against); they haven't stated an explicit position (EDIT: they took out an ad against it; though not on their own). We have nothing to judge them on besides these receipts, so I can't rightly condemn or praise them without a more explicit position.
If you can't watch videos, or if you like being able to skim, Lessig makes his case in text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353324
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Please use the original title (in this case "Which tech companies back SOPA? Microsoft, Apple, and 27 others") rather than rewrite it to suit your personal agenda. In some cases, an article title is ambiguous and needs rewriting, this is not one of them.
Denying reparations are owed for the Trans Atlantic slave trade is racist.
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Are you sure that the guy in the video is an 'Indian top brass'? From what I know he is a retired bureaucrat who is just looking for his 15 minutes of fame. He is not relevant for anyone today except for third grade news channels.
People have been repeating this line that corporations have become people and money has become political speech, but that's not what's happened.

Corporations are organizations of people. Money is a tool which can be used for many purposes. Money is sometimes used by organizations of people to engage in speech. That's it. Nothing's changed.
I don't know if these are the "Masters" of the field, but they come highly recommended as useful books. Several are on my to-do list:

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There is evidence for that however. Like that the emission lines from distant stars and galaxies are the same ones as in our own solar system and here on earth (but red shifted). If the laws were not the same everywhere, you must introduce a god that make it look that way, or otherwise explain how it can appear like the laws are the same everywhere without actually being so.
If a "race" is good enough to harvest organs from, then this "race" must also be good enough to treat as equal and deserves full human rights under the UN bill of rights.
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If you contribute to both sides, you end up with a bought candidate regardless of who wins an election.
> and supports too many things, too not in have in some way contributed money to just about everything

It's not uncommon for large companies to contribute to candidates across the board - even (or especially) to the two presidential candidates (both Dem and GOP). In a world (or country) where corporations and money have a large impact on policy, it'd be foolish for them not to. (You can say that this reflects poorly on the US political system, but it's not Google's job to change that).

On a separate note, I know that some candidates set up 501(c) 3s and -4s before they officially start running, and Google matches charitable contributions from its employees. Does anybody know if those types of funds (or funds donated through another organization) are included in these totals? It may not be the case, but on the off-chance it is, then this would just be a byproduct of the employees' own contributions.
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If anyone is as curious as I am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sch...
Once this feature gets extended to "search the Internet for photos and videos that match this face", this feature will completely kill any sense of privacy whatsoever.
To fix this, the author of that website can go to the settings tab of his Disqus account and uncheck "Enable Like Buttons"
I don't mean to be "that guy", but unless your sites have a lot of traffic from non-technical people, I frankly doubt anyone will care.

Most techies already know about SOPA, already dislike it and have probably already signed a petition/called/written. If they haven't by now, they aren't going to.

Putting a message on a tech blog/website is like preaching to the choir at this point.
If Lisp is too powerful then you are too weak :-)

Lisp requires a new way of thinking - in recursion, lambdas, mapcars etc. - to write good code which reflects the awesome abilities of Lisp. Unfortunately many people don't grasp it. They don't want to think or to learn superior ways if they just can use a language which makes them able to solve their problem. The way to the solution doesn't matter a lot if the solution itself works.

Btw the same phenomenon happened with Ada. The Ada 95 language is awesome. I admired it, it was real fun to use it. But average programmers are simply overwhelmed. That's the reason why Ada died.

Many people also complain about Unix and Linux but if you take the effort and learn it seriously you will love it.
The last part of his blog post says he chose Gandi[0] as a registrar because they do not have this clause, but I found a similar one in their General Conditions[1] contract[2]:

>By accepting Our Contracts and using Our services, You agree to abide to Our code of ethics which consists, in particular, of protecting and respecting minors, human dignity, public order and good moral standards, not infringing on the rights of third parties (private life, image, honor and reputation, trademarks, designs and models, copyrights, etc.) or the security of persons, property, the government, or the good working order of public institutions, and to help in the fight against abusive and/or deviant uses of the Internet (spamming, phishing, hacking, cracking, or attempts at hacking or cracking), or any other infraction as cited in the Penal Code.

I don't see anything about terminating your account "in its sole discretion", though. I personally use Gandi because they have a ton of TLDs and they've been fast and reliable, but I wouldn't hold it against them if they stuck one of these clauses in there.

[0]: https://www.gandi.net/

[1]: https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.0-EN....

[2]: https://www.gandi.net/contracts
If Google wants to use money to influence opinion in Washington, they should only pay the "undecided" politicians. Paying money to the original sponsors of SOPA will do nothing for their cause.
One thing to note, Godaddy has acted on those in the past. I've not once seen NameCheap do it. In fact, I've seen them take the legal hit multiple times and had lawsuits filed against them because they didn't move.

http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/09/namecheap-sued-over-who...

http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/solidhostnl-s...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/can-a-mere-d...

These are a few instances of that, NameCheap doesn't budge on their customers rights despite it being in the agreement.

Disclaimer: I know the owner and think he's one of the most respectable people in the domain industry based on my interactions with him over almost a decade now.
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I find it disturbing that people would go through and even attempt deleting levels and altering things en masse. It's okay to point out the bug, and maybe change one thing to display this fact...but the people changing everything? It's a selfish thing to do this to thousands of creative works (the user-created levels), in the motivation of just showing one developer something he did wrong. Thankfully, there were backups.

Parts of this thread, the somewhat arrogant reaction of the Team Meat programmer, and the motives and subsequent actions of some of the people modifying the database, made me a little sick. If anything it's a showing (on both sides) of the lack of maturity of some programmers.

Look, I know that this could be justified in saying "well, someone would have done it sooner or later." In that case, I suppose whether or not this was okay is left up to whether Tommy (the programmer - Edmund did design) would have patched it. And with his defensive response, I'm sure he knew and was going to do so, but probably didn't want to admit it (from interviews he seems to have bit of a bitter ego)
> Nevertheless, in good hands, Java can be quite elegant and succinct.

Could you elaborate, perhaps with an example? Not trying to start a flamewar or anything - but I honestly can't imagine a case where Java is succinct relative to other languages. And as far as elegance goes, Java is so overly verbose and fixated on classes ('too many classes? there's a class for that!') that I have a hard time thinking of it as elegant.

But then again, maybe I'm just used to reading bad Java code everywhere, and you've been lucky enough to find the good stuff!
If you need the money and can't find work?

Yes.
I remember someone on Reddit opening up an S3 bucket to the world for a while and letting anyone up/down-load anything.
Game development especially has a lot of well meaning customers who haven't got a clue what they're talking about (a lot of kids). Whilst he probably should have listened, it's understandable why he may have dismissed a random on twitter.
No, it's a demagogical argument, but it makes for great press, and PG's making it displays keen awareness of that fact. I applaud him on that! :-)
OPs headline is misleading. The court is just ordering the websites to remove a particular instance of "derogatory" material. Is it that bad? Users can do this themselves on many of these sites by marking the material offensive. I read the article twice and it doesn't seem as if the court has asked all 21 websites to screen all content by February 6, but only remove the particular cases submitted by the petitioner.
I love how Google always gets a free pass. People say Jobs is a cult, but this isn't much different.
Congratulations to Xathis. Thanks to all the participants for coming out. It's great to see the effort put into it put to use.

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How about FORTH then?