skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, this has something to it. For weeks the first story in the top-right module of my timeline said I "liked" Bed Bath & Beyond, and for weeks I wondered why it wasn't being pushed off by the other things that go through that little box (new friendships, attending events, etc).

I guess Bed Bath & Beyond is a customer. I honestly like this though, because the ad is reactive to their merit - I went and clicked that like button. Facebook is so clever. They're turning parts of our activity into advertisements by making them somewhat longer-lasting. It's much more pleasant than having an Acura ad shoved down my throat on YouTube, or having to drive past a smug 100-foot McDonalds ad every morning.
H-E-B (mainly in central and south Texas) has similar hours at some of its locations.
I could make a torrent but it is not mine to make it, I think HM owners should do this if they feel like it. I don't want to abuse their good will.
By all means, copy paste one at a time.
GoDaddy Also Withdraws Support For Syria, Red Light Cameras, and Justin Bieber
GoDaddy, a leading domain registrar and internet piranha announced that it is withdrawing support for Syria, red light cameras, and Justin Bieber. In a statement released to the press just moments ago, the company explained:

“After the outcry over SOPA, we decided to take a second look at other things we supported in the past. You know, just to make sure. Well, as it turns out, there were a few other positions we should probably rethink, and this is the first (though probably not the last) step in correcting those oversights.”
The first sentence of this post sounds ungrammatical, which didn't put me in a good frame of mind to read the rest of the post:

"How much do you value your time at?".

Now I have to go and buy some Christmas Presents. How do I avoid waiting in line for that?
Scrabbling with Shannon
SOPA review and circumvention overview
I'm calling false dichotomy on this. Continue to lobby the government AND influence the influencers.
What's not reassuring to me is that people are satisfied with this. Let's get real, GoDaddy is trying to dampen the outrage with very little. It may be a good sign - and we should feel happy - that we're starting to make a difference, but GoDaddy did a lot to support SOPA, they should do more than a PR blog post for people to declare victory and wrap up the GoDaddy+SOPA situation.
That sucks. I was looking at implementing Graylog but Elastic Search, or any other cloud datastore, is out of the question. We need to keep the logs in the same data centre as the servers for reasons of confidentiality, and for performance reasons as well. Most of the logs will never be used for anything. We log lots of stuff just in case, and after a few weeks there is no real use for them. If we wanted stats we would calculate them and then delete the logs. We certainly don't want to consume huge amounts of bandwidth shipping logs across the Internet.

At this point I'll probably just use an older version so that we have local storage and local search.
Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire.

http://www.mediafire.com
Nice. I was working on one for a while too. The iFrame problem is definitely the biggest hinderance. Comments also need styling: http://hn.thanithani.com/
The Problem of the Traveling Politician: a TSP around Iowa
Square is on a hiring spree, launches new recruiting video
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On page 1 this seems like a simple issue of money, then on the 2nd and 3rd page seems like it may be about a little more. But ultimately I think it really is just about the money.

I spent several years working as a developer in the insurance and healthcare industries and I can say confidently that there's plenty of developers who would love this job and would have no problems sticking around for a while. There are plenty of people who either don't want the roller coaster of a startup or else they've already done that for years and now want stability for themselves and their family.

Of course you have to pay a higher wage for these people. This guys seems like he plans to solve his staffing problem by creating interesting problems for the younger guys. I don't think his luck will be any better in 2012.
my two domains will switched by the end of the year.
So what's the real deal? Either the game visibly skips frames in areas like Markrath and Whiterun or it does not. Either the game runs fine on middle-ranged hardware or it does not. If it runs fine on such cheap hardware what's the deal over this optimization stuff? What I heard so far though was that:

- Skyrim has performance issues on PCs, even high-end ones

- Skyrim's UI is ridiculously contrived on the PC

I don't have the foggiest idea if it's true, I just seemed to notice a trend that the PC does not get a first-class version but a port of sorts, a version created from a common denominator. As I said I am very badly placed to compare anything as I have no PC to compare with. Still, I'd like to know what's the reality around this case.

For what it's worth personally I'll take a RPG game running at a constant 30fps anytime before a game jumping between 15~60fps (which is what Oblivion did) (And you can pry Forza 4 and its constant 60fps from my cold, dead hands) Besides I could care less if it's upscaled from 720p to 1080p as long as it's not showing upscaling artifacts like aliasing (which it does not). I have a Panasonic 42" plasma TV and watch/play at a comfortable distance so the difference between 720p (which is what the Apple TV outputs on HD movie rentals) and 1080p (which is what the xbox outputs on Full-HD movie rentals) is arguably negligible.
Good questions. The letter of support is negated, fair to say. Anyone know about money?
I think the point is to generate more of a self-sposored focus of passive resistance; they're not the people threatening to pull sites offline in response to an anonymous report of a copyright violation. In fact, they really don't have the power to pull sites offline; neither does the USDOJ, but in the balance of things, only the latter has the power to cause real financial damage.
You must be confused. ElasticSearch stores it's documents on the local hard drive.
I just bought the print subscription, after forgetting to the last few times I thought about it. Great marketing!
Optimizing Core Data Saves
The author is one of the world's experts on the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). He has a new book on the TSP written for the general audience coming soon.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9531.html
You might want to look at http://www.elasticsearch.org/ Elastic Search is not to be confused with Elastic Compute Cloud. Elastic Search is a Lucene-based NoSQL-like search engine. You install it on your own machines.
Elasticsearch is not "cloud storage". It has facilities to run well on EC2, yes, but you can easily setup your own, local instance quickly on any machine. Its just a fulltext indexed store like Solr or others.
Basically, for each turn you calculate the probability that the pawn is on a given square. You can then calculating the probabilities for the next turn by applying all possible moves to all possible positions, while weighting for the chance of the position and the chance of the move.
For parents that were mathematics majors
If SOPA's proponents fight dirty, why can't the opposition? I'm speaking pragmatically here. Unfortunately, institutions are amoral to the core, and respond best to power. Affecting change is not as easy as maintaining the moral high ground and repeating your position. People may need to feel the consequences of their actions.

There must be a way to use the public's fear as a way to carry this message. Why can't we fund commercials for each state that list the bill's supporters as trying to censor the Internet? Alternately, why not blackout some of the more important routers in protest? I hate that I'm suggesting we break things temporarily to get people's attention, but, what else is new, right?

The problem is marketing: how do we make people care?
Perhaps the CIO has gotten the product for which he was willing to pay. If he paid market rates to mature 30 year olds with 10 years of industry experience, he wouldn't have this problem.
When Was The Last Time You Felt Like Puking?
Yes, but when will he put people on Uranus?
Show HN: Our personalized kids book iPad app
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The app itself is free, each story is $4.99 as an in-app purchase. We've elected to keep our stories just that - stories. No moving parts, no audio, no animation etc.

Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, complaints etc.
Found this link from a comment thread on TechCrunch: commenter (Nick Such) said, jhalf of the YC companies may be affected: http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html.
But this graph is (I think) earlier on Dec 22nd. Will be interesting to see how the graph looks like after that day's mayhem!
Clearly personal opinion but if they wanted to oppose SOPA, they would have done so on their own from the beginning. While the public rally against GoDaddy have made them publicly choose to oppose SOPA (which is a good thing, assuming they're not doing back-handed work under the table), it doesn't change the fact that truthfully they want to support SOPA if it wasn't for the outcry and loss of income.

I am against SOPA and while I disagreed with their original view of supporting SOPA, I respected their decision even if its different than my own because they were choosing to stand for what they believe in (regardless of how others may feel, myself included). Doing what they're doing now is basically compromising their own integrity and core value, not because they have a change of heart in their positioning. For that, I can't respect them. This is of course irregardless of other things I disagree with and of the type of service they provide.
Clickable link http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-heroes/id477247738?ls=...
Because Microsoft supports SOPA

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companie...
The people you talk to are not typical. "Most people" aren't aware/bothered by the privacy aspects of Facebook- just look at the number of visible, insecure profiles.

Facebook is not vulnerable from a privacy standpoint- that was the reason everyone said that they were moving to Google+. They didn't.
Someone posted this in a comment section and I had to say it, it's clever.

If neither side strongly supports or opposes something but lobbyists strongly support it then expect it to pass John Doe.

The best way to stop SOPA would ironically be the democrats strongly coming out in support of the bill, which would make the house suddenly refuse to even vote on SOPA, and would cause the bill to be filibustered in the senate. Why, because republicans have to oppose anything Obama/democrats are for.

Republicans strongly supporting SOPA would also likely kill it. The house would pass it, and Reid would refuse to even bring it to a vote in the Senate, or would bring it to a vote knowing that it'll lose just to show republicans that it can't pass the senate.

If you doubt me then look at the payroll taxcut fight going on right now. Republicans always support tax cuts, except when Obama & democrats support it, like the payroll tax cut being discussed.

The pharmacy lobbyists know this as well, there was part of Obama's healthcare law (I forget what part) that big pharma wanted removed from the bill that a lot of democrats had opposed when the healthcare law was written. Big pharma lobbyists told Republicans not to go on a public rampage demonizing that provision and blaming it on Obama, republicans demonized it and Obama for signing it into law anyway, and dozens of democrats who had previously voiced opposition to the provision voted against repealing the provision when the House voted on it months ago, and Reid refused to even hold a vote on it.

So the moral of the story? If we want to kill SOPA we just need to convince one political party to strongly support SOPA. The other party will reflexively strongly oppose SOPA and block it from ever becoming law.
Not to plug, but welcome to upload mirrors (depending on the redist. rights of course) to http://Castle.so/ :)
Having a dedicated server is like buying a vacation house. You have a predictable cost, but also a fixed capacity. If the house sleeps 10, but your family is only 4, you're wasting money. If you have 10 unexpected guests one year, some people may have to sleep outside. Also, for 50 weeks a year when you are not on vacation, it sits empty, but you still pay for it.

Amazon EC2 is like getting a room at a hotel. It may cost more per night, but you can also only book it when you need it. Additionally, when you have more people than expected, you can book more rooms. Renting 10 rooms for a week is cheaper than buying a house.

If you know in advance what your needs are, and they are consistent from month to month, get a dedicated server. If you have have unpredictable needs, EC2 is the way to go.
I think you fail to understand something here. The objective is NOT to get people to drop GoDaddy. The objective is to get people and companies to understand how SOPA can be harmful and hope that they oppose it. Dropping GoDaddy had more to do with people's personal beliefs in not using the service for primarily two reasons (albeit they are not the only reasons):

1. Disagreements with the stance in which GoDaddy represents (SOPA, killing elephants, etc...)

2. The poor service many have echoed

The hope was that GoDaddy would recognize why the public (mainly their customers) believe what they believe in hopes that it would prove a point and influence change.

Now that GoDaddy have publicized their opposition of SOPA due to the outcry of the public, continuing to try and damage their business and get customers to leave is nothing more than mob mentality for all the wrong reasons and losing sight of the main objective of the original goal.
He posted a snap of his server logs:

http://lockerz.com/s/167554725

Ouch.
It's down.
Anyone have a mirror?
Great call to action, well written, thanks.
I think we should break things. If I ran any US-facing websites I was the beneficiary of, I'd break them in a heartbeat. But it's not really the answer. The US congress is full of what appear (on youtube) to be cockroaches. They're not sycophants or nice guys who started well but somehow ended up favoring the deportation and torture of civilians, censorship of the internet, and negating your property rights in favor of multinationals that want to frack your pasture. You really should deal with the vermin the way Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans, and now Syrians have dealt with theirs; we wouldn't be having this stupid conversation if the aliens that ran your country weren't a bunch of unrepentant nazis.

So now you pried my opinion outta me ;)
He put some of them up on aws, probably more on the way. I was able to download 1,4,5,7,10,13, and 18. Just replace the "004" at the end with "001", or "010", etc.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Or in terminal just enter:

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...
That was exactly the story of my life. I got a reputation for handling the work of many people and making emergencies go away (more) permanently.

What did it do? More problems sent my way. I became the catch-all.

The tough part was transitioning to the 24-48 hour response, not so much for me but the people who knew I can reply in minutes.

I added an email auto response saying

"I schedule my time in a new way --I check my email 2-4 times a day to reply to everything at once and work uninterrupted for 90 minutes at a time.

Call if it's an emergency that hasn't happened before. Otherwise please send me all the details I'll ask you about anyways and I can get back to you right away with an answer in the first email instead of going back and forth.

If you need something done right away please let me know what you can take off my plate while I give you a hand."

After this, I simply replied to the best emails that let me write them a 30 second response. When you're the guy who helps solve problems, believe me, people will do their leg work to set you up to get back to them quickly.

A lot of emails I just emailed them what I would google to find the answer, enjoyed that a lot too.
I'd be happy to host on s3 but I have 12 hours left on the download (772b/sec), if anyone is interested email me (email in profile).
> The House Judiciary Committee is reconvening on the 21st of December. In short, we were lied to.

I think Anonymous is mistaken. The house judiciary committee's website indicates that the scheduled Dec 21st markup has actually been postponed [1].

[1] http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/mark_12152011.html
The tutorial looks lovely but... if you have good a relationship with your family or have close friends, wouldn't it be better to spend time with them rather than learning Clojure these holidays? There will be plenty of time for Clojure the rest of the year, but this is a special occasion.
GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control
It's unfortunate how many of the comments in this thread are based on the title of the HN link to this article and not the actual article.
So your saying we need to boycott Hollywood ?!?

Have everyone turn off their tvs, stop paying for cable tv, stop listening to popular music, stop going to the movies and such ?

Good luck with that... Definitely need to focus on govt. maybe a OCCUPY Capitol Hill and other SOPA supportErs' premises is what is needed?!??
Klout's Score Decay Problem  (Do I really have more Klout than Hipster Hacker?)
Lorenz Stampa
Hmmmm. Interesting.

Nice sticky footer - I would move the Copyright notice to be on the same line as the "about us / contact us / invite friends / blog" just left aligned, and the links right aligned. That way your footer isn't so giant.

Because the header is down so low there is space above it which draws the eyes up there. This makes the header conflict with the 3 steps content in the middle of the page. You don't want your logo to stand out more than the benefits and features of your website.

Speaking of logos, it's too big for your header and there is barely any space around it, it looks like it has out grown the header. It's size is also distracting.

The 3 steps need to be further edited down to less words that make more sense. I'm not sure what step 2 means. Get recommendations on what? How to complete my tasks? You need to be more specific. Step 3 is does not really belong. In fact having 3 steps just complicates your process. Just make it all one step.

- "Diglig brings together all your events and tasks from the sites you already use, and gives you recommendations & links on how to complete them." Replace your 3 steps with a video or screenshot of your web application and to the right of it put that text with a signup button underneath.
Try:

$ wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue{001..19}.z...
Or we just send a minifactory to convert the iron on mars into steel that we can build such machines with.
I think this is very ill-conceived. If they want every website they can deface on the internet to get defaced, this will not prove anything.

Moreover, I would like to ask a question ... aren't only FOREIGN sites affected by SOPA's provisions for revoking DNS and cash flows? What exactly is a foreign site?

Aren't domestic sites already being seized and no one really cares?

Or am I mistaken?
Thank you for posting this! I do not usually use Google, so it is likely I wouldn't have seen this cool animation without your post.
That's unfair. You may be right, but they are similar in the way MikeCapone mentioned: they are both pushing the limits of science and technology in pursuit of a grand, incredible vision. Perhaps one of them is doing it completely wrong, but like MikeCapone said: better than not even trying.
In the city I grew up in (in Bavaria) every store has to close by 8pm and no store can open on Sundays. The exception are bakeries and gas stations. (I also think that stores inside of train stations are exempted. And just so there is no misunderstanding, restaurants, cafes and pubs are of course also exempt from this.)

Where I grew up there is not a single open grocery store anywhere after 8pm or on Sundays for hundreds of kilometers. That makes a difference to places where stores can legally remain open longer.

I’m currently living in Thuringia where stores can be open until 10pm on weekdays – and sure, many smaller stores and even the big shopping mall still opt to only open until 8pm, but thee are always one or two big grocery stores that are actually open until 10pm.

The quantitative difference between no open stores and one or two open stores may be small, the qualitative difference, however, is big.
KML - another C++ free machine learning library
Ask HN: How to interview a full-time designer?
We're planning on hiring a designer with some html/css skills and a sense of usability. I have no clue on how to conduct the interview.

I was wondering if i could/should ask him to mock or design something (the same way I ask a developer to resolve a problem).

Do you have any advices or resources ?
Nice analogy. It's also possible to combine the two approaches and use a dedicated server for routine traffic, while also having an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) preconfigured with your server environment, ready to spin up when you get a sudden traffic spike or your regular server goes down. That'd be like owning the vacation house but also having a deal with a local hotel owner to handle the overflow when it's your turn to host the family reunion.
No worries - additional time gained by the transfer is always appended to the current expiration date on the domain
The most pirated movie in 2011 was downloaded 9,260,000 times
> At least telnetd is disabled by default so most installs won't be vulnerable.

I'm very surprised by this statement, and also very surprised by the following passage of the article which shows a similar spirit:

> On the positive side, most people have moved past telnet and on to SSH by now; but this is still not an issue we could postpone until a more convenient time.

Rather, I would have expected something like "Since telnetd isn't used anymore anyway, we decided to remove it from our distribution." ;-)

Seriously, are there really computer systems remotely accessible via telnetd? Really? It's 2011! Even ten years ago SSH was already a standard component of every Unix system. Back then, I never considered telnetd to be an option for any remotely accessible machine. I only saw telnet-like services when people played Multi-User Dungeons (MUD), and even those systems did not need a telnetd but ran their own server processes.

The same for FTP, by the way. FTP will probably need more time to die than telnet, but alternatives like SFTP or Rsync-over-SSH have been available for years, too.

In other words: Why should we care? What kind of administrators and/or company policies are running telnetd anyway? Are those totally reckless, or am I missing something?
That has much to do with culture, though, see note [9].
New in Django 1.4: Project Templates (this is mine)
The watchdogs that didn't bark
i think is not my idea but why not first send self-replicating machines on mars wich will mine for materials. and then send human when it is all prepared. or another stage of self replicating machines?
019 is up too
I think the takeaway here is that if you're going to promote something on HN, put your downloadable content on AWS or some similar CDN first. When there are nerds involved, expect heavy turnout.

Yowza.