skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poll: Have you read SOPA?
Have you read the actual bill? Do you plan to? Just curious.
No, but I want/intend to before the House reconvenes in January.
No, and I have no plans to read it.
What is SOPA?
"Boycotts do not work."

Yeah right.

Maybe if we focusing on Congress.

Maybe if we stop focusing on SOPA supporters.

Maybe if we focus on the media industries that are pushing SOPA through.

Maybe if we boycott them and their entertainment products.

Maybe they will recoil, just like GoDaddy.

Maybe.

"Boycotts do not work."
Why do you say that? Mediafire is usually my first choice too, but megaupload is a close second (mostly since you can use tessaract on the captcha, either manually or via jdownloader/plowshare) with all the ReCaptcha sites (filesonic/fileshare/wupload...) trailing behind.
Will Smith on Life, Purpose, Fear and Focus: Don’t “Settle” Words of Wisdom
Android, The Galaxy Nexus, LTE, and Enormous Screens
They're just distasteful and annoying. Check out Kim Kardashian hanging out on their home page. They make you wait for a download. And I've had problems with downloads always stopping at the same point no matter how many times I tried.
$10 committed.
I, for one, am glad they're not using money to get out of this. Pragmatism has replaced idealism in this day and age. I'm not even sure that its the ideals that are keeping tech mammoths from bribing US congress. But I do think that its a very dangerous precedent to set, buying your way out of a problem. Irrespective of what comes of SOPA, there will always be things that you need to fix and taking such shortcuts is not the solution.

I know I'm quoting a TV series (24, Jack Bauer), but I hope HN will evaluate the following dispassionately (irrespective of what they think of the source of the quote):
"When you cross that line, it always starts off with a small step. Before you know it, you're running as fast as you can in the wrong direction just to justify why you started in the first place. These laws were written by much smarter men than me. And in the end, I know that these laws have to be more important than....... "

I'm sure many of you will think my post reeks of naivete but I'd rather be "naive" than lose hope and give in to the shady tactics.

Once we start taking the easy way out, we lose the sense of urgency and the passion to actually solve the problem. When next such bill comes, everyone will lay back and watch someone with big pockets come in and save the day. Things wil never change that way.
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If you want to play this game: try growing up as a liberal, atheist geek from out of town in a rural bible-belt town of ~7,000. Then, try becoming an adult and getting over it so that you can perform your civic duty.
Money will impossible to get out of politics as long as the government has massive power to regulate the economy. As long as congress can give subsidies and contracts to favored industries and firms (necessarily at the expense of less favored firms and industries, who have to compete in the market) and also increase taxes and regulations on disfavored industries (finance, oil), then businesses would be insane to not spend as much money as they need to paying off senators to make sure they don't get screwed.

Everyone who votes for politicians that promise to increase Washington's power needs to realize that they're also voting to increase the influence of money in politics.
Exactly. I hope the move your domain day goes forward as planned. The ball has started rolling, why stop. Please people, don't stop.

I don't have any domains with GoDaddy (I'm contacting the company who handles mine though and asking them about SOPA) but I'm going to join in on the Wikimedia donation run.
...and his server has officially crashed. I recommend not running anymore automated scripts directed towards his server.

I'll try to chuck it onto mediafire once I get all the issues. Just missing 9 at this point.
You do know employer and employee both pay NI, so total NI is around 24%
Flattr standing up against absurdity – SOPA
The actual article makes no references to hacking or defacing websites. It explicitly references outreach and legal protest. The poster of this link clearly has an axe to grind, and based on the number of kneejerk responses he was successful.
Search 'Christmas' in Google and get christmas lights
The real power of Emacs is the whole set of commands to match the mind interests (more commands you have, more power you get). For example, sexps are the best thing for programming: cut/copy/paste complete expressions is a must and you can feel how your mind want to handle those kind of expressions. And Emacs gives you that power.

Anyway the default Emacs keyboard bindings are just ridiculous, also ErgoEmacs is not good enough. I've my own keyboard bindings: http://goo.gl/jwwdG and I'm sure they can be much better. But it's just matter of taste.

The worst enemy of Emacs is its own UI and its own programming language for customization: elisp without multithreading support.
He's uploading them here: http://baconfile.com/bearwithclaws/
Exactly: and further, that kind of apathy is precisely why laws like SOPA get passed. If you sit back and refuse to take "indirect" action to further your own interests, you are just granting the field to the parties that do take that kind of indirect action (in this case: lobbying).
I love the idea of disrupting the loan structure. I think using things like Prosper or Lending Club is great. But I live in Pennsylvania where they are against the law.

We cannot ignore the ways in which government is broken.
(copied from my response at http://dorkitude.com/post/14691558851/the-godaddy-victory-is...)

The GoDaddy victory is a red herring.

That GoDaddy reversed its SOPA stance (or at least its PR stance) about SOPA in the wake of our boycott is good news, but it's also distracting news. While it does demonstrate that we, the citizens of the righteous internet, can have P&L impact as consumers in the B2B world, the real and massive culprits have been B2C companies.

A very small proportion of a normal B2C company’s revenues come from policy-aware internet citizens. Tactics like the GoDaddy boycott simply will not have an impact (any more than the ongoing boycott of Wal-Mart among the idealistic).

_I don't want us to get distracted from that fact._

_Here are the questions we should be considering._

What can we do to flex our muscles before the many (far more evil) consumer-facing companies out there? How do we legally channel our energy into harming their P&L statements in an unequivocally attributable manner? What about the B2B companies over whose procurement processes we regular citizens have no control?

The companies of greatest concern should be those with contractual and/or infrastructural lock-in:

* telecoms like AT&T and Verizon

* ISPs/media pipes like Comcast and Dish Network

* top-down sales companies like Microsoft and Symantec

* conglomerate-monopolies like Adobe and Autodesk

Unless and until we find a way to hamstring those attacking monsters, the internet will always be in peril -- even if we somehow win this battle like we _barely_ won the Net Neutrality battle a few short years ago.
Are you saying the US has good labour laws? I think most would disagree with you
I got
1,4,5,7,10,13,16,17,18,19

EDIT:
14 and 15 are up

list is at http://baconfile.com/bearwithclaws/ although that's getting hammered pretty hard as well at the moment
Yes, for instance, the believe that the earth is young. As in: 7000 years young. Or put differently: Far too young for evolution to have worked at all.

Sorry, but there really is a fundamental problem with being a biologist if your stated belief makes one of the core principles of your field impossible. From what I can tell, most of the young-earth creationists that are biologists mainly work in trying, for decades now, to disprove evolution.
Show HN: Beauty Contest for Virtual Life - Digital Art Project (lurepet.com)
Hi, looking for your feedback on my first public project.

The Idea:

Every lurepet (big picture) that you see on the site has some "genes" and is drawn according to them.

After the best lurepets are selected they can be bred to make children looking like their parents. This is going to be repeated to create more and more beautiful lurepets.

And of course the reason to vote is to save the future humanity that is attacked by evil robots which has the only flaw - insane obsession with lurepets :)

Implementation:

The drawing logic which is 99% of all the logic, is written in Clojure. I'm very glad that I chose it, because I can not imagine beeing so productive in developing and maintaining (!) complex domain logic in a more verbose language like Java.

The web part currently is a set of static files: html, js and images. Cloudflare is used to CDN the static except the index.html. I hope that will help if there is a massive spike in traffic. The votes are processed from nginx logs in offline mode.

The development took about a year. Hope you will like the lurepet drawings and help to select the best genes.
I'm not at all challenging your assessment of this guy's worldview. I agree with you. I'm just pointing out that a better title for this article might have been something like "what to say in an interview for a line-of-biz dev job interview to add 20% to your annual salary".
I strongly encourage you to develop a (much) better understanding of what Lessig has been arguing. A good place to start is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCo2bE9Gtk

Also worth noting: the problem you describe (corrupting influences on the economy originating in Washington, as opposed to private interests capturing Washington) is something Lessig addressed in his recent appearance on Jon Stewart's program. There, he pointed out that these apparently divergent forms of corruption are entirely compatible, and that they actually share the same root, which is the obscene reliance of elected officials on a vanishingly small number of campaign donors.

Depending on the day of the week, these donors can find themselves initiating bribes, or being shaken down for bribes by officials wanting to increase their takes. The stink flows both ways. And it ensnares people who, left to their own devices, would have nothing to do with 'the trade' whatsoever.

Accordingly, Lessig is illuminating the entire economy of corruption, correctly observing that you cannot choose to attack one branch instead of another. Instead, you have to ignore all the branches, and go straight for the root. If any good comes from SOPA, it will be in generating a backlash strong enough to go after the root directly. The nerds, for what it's worth, are the people to lead this. Why? Because we are, by nature, systems thinkers. And this is a systemic problem of the very severest degree.
I'm sure an adblocker could take care of things for you if you don't personally like the celebrities (the ads are definitely more tasteful than the GET RIPPED IN FOUR WEEKS ads i see on Mediafire now).

Technically speaking it's still a good service, and i've had nothing but good experiences with downloads from there (mostly because i automate them). I accept that you can disagree but i wouldn't go as far as "terrible".

I'm probably biased because i love the song, and Kim Dotcom donated to earthquake relief in my city...
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> While it does demonstrate that we, [...] can have P&L impact as consumers in the B2B world, the real and massive culprits have been B2C companies.

Influence on the P&L is great. Influence at the voting booth is one better, and somehow the tech community has to convince congress that the voting booth is in play.

(Yes, P&L leads to political donations, which lead to reelection, but politicians are always playing the trade-off game. So somehow they have to get convinced that supporting dumbass legislation will come back to kick them in the nuts.)
As an example, there are entire classes of embedded platforms that support networking but barely have enough RAM even for the IP stack. Is it really sensible to add $10 to the cost of a temperature sensor just so it has enough RAM and CPU to handle SSH?
for I in {00..19};

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

done
015 is up now as well.
That's an excellent set of principles, but something I suspect is very difficult indeed to apply in practice; I can think of unending examples of bad criticism - even, or especially, when there are strong criticicisms to be made - but I am struggling to think of any good example where, to use your analogy, the critic has something to say about a work that's outside his 'preferred genre' and even outside his personal preferences, but good in terms of the genre that it's in and a good film to recommend to its intended audience.

Or, indeed, a bad 'film' and a negative review, in the terms of the genre and the audience, rather than a specialist fan-base of Swedish art-house hipsters or Laurel & Hardy obsessives.

Feel free to start the ball rolling with (say) a critique of Visual Basic for Applications, in terms of what it's for and who will use it, rather than complaining that it isn't C++ or Ruby.
Bash is smart:

$ echo {01..20}
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
$ echo {1..20}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
From my perspective, its telling people about your big dreams so that they (and you) can hold yourself to them. But yes, people with massive ambitions such as Musk are needed to push things forward. If Musk achieves a tenth of his goal of colonizing Mars and just manages to land a person on Mars, he has still accomplished something no one else has.
Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts
Here's a Python script I threw together to automate this: https://gist.github.com/1515666

At this point, it looks like 1, 4, 5, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 have been put up on S3.
Politicians don't like distractions. If support for some legislation will end up causing distractions, especially during campaign season, they will take notice.

The best distractions come from primary challenges directly attributable to their stances on issues, but even having hecklers show up to campaign events can work.

The right has been using primary threats for a long time to keep politicians in line. I suspect we could be effective using this strategy as well if we put our energy where our mouth is.
StackOverflow own what? 5 domains? stackoverflow.com, stackexchange.com, superuser.com, serverfault.com and stackapps.com . I can't see GoDaddy being that hugely influenced by 5 domains.
Roy T. Fielding: REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)
I believe that this is the case. There are already provisions in place to deal with sites within the juridiction of the DoJ. The primary affect of the bill is to give powers to those 'injured' parties seeking recourse against those sites thought to be distributing copyrighted material. The bill ( from my reading, I could be mistaken ) grants no new power to deal with domestic sites beyond amending the definition used in conjunction with already existing laws. Specifically section 2319 of title 18 of U.S. Code.

This link seems to expire so hopefully linking to the google item will work...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
No - you have to pay attention to both parties in the economy of corruption. Focusing on one (regardless of which you chose) is an invitation for your target to blame the other side of the coin. Shifting your attention to the flip-side causes the same play to reverse itself. Heads they win, tails you lose.

Only by attacking both at the same time can you hope to get the best of the situation. Lessing refers to this as ignoring the branches, and concentrating on the root instead. In this case, it's the system of private campaign finance that connects both parties.
As the not-so-old adage goes, what is the difference between ordinary crooks and government crooks? At least you can call the cops on the ordinary crooks. So in that sense, yes, Anonymous is less likely to damage me or my property in way that is unrecoverable.

However, in the long run I don't think web vandalism is a pragmatic solution to the SOPA mess. Right now we have the opportunity to potentially defeat SOPA through legal, peaceful advocacy. Let's seize that opportunity and exploit it to the fullest before anyone considers engaging in criminal acts as part of an anti-SOPA campaign.

To speak your mind on SOPA, to disassociate yourself from those who endorse it, and to attempt to persuade your representatives are all well within your First Amendment rights. To damage or destroy the property of others toward the same goals is certainly not protected speech and I'd say a great deal of soul-searching would be required before one could justify going that far.
This conversation isn't about spending time I'm Mars; its about living their indefinitely. Living there indefinitely means either shipping everything out (ridiculously expensive and inefficient) or creating our own Earth-esque biosphere over part of the planet, which is an extremely difficult task.
014 as well now.
You can use %03d instead of %s and the number will be zero padded to 3 digits.
I truly want the programmability of emacs without the weird interface. I tried to use the former to implement the latter, but it's a ton of work and it seems to break all the time.
Not everyone in Nepal is a guide. All the guys up there are tough as nails, but there isn't much education about safety or equipment. The most advanced tool in a porter's repertoire is a t-shaped walking stick.

Even the Sherpa are relatively recent migrants to the region (~400 years), and the Rai people have only moved into the highlands with the modern demand for labor. By and large they're coming from a tradition of subsistence farming.

As an example, a friend was traveling in the Khumbu last year and his party came across a deceased porter around 6000m. He had presumably been paid off after getting sick and sent down on his own. All they could do was build a cairn over his body.
You can look at rational empiricism as a kind of logic game.

Given a set of empirical observations and the premise that the laws of the universe are constant everywhere and every-when, what logical inferences can you make about the world?

You don't have to necessarily believe the conclusions, but you can still do good science just by trying to play the game well.

Now it's hard to me to imagine a mind working that way but I don't see that it's impossible.
The latter half of the challenge was much more interesting to me. I'm a C/Python guy but didn't know the subtle language difference here. Additionally, in figuring out the difference, I learned that the C implementation takes almost the same # of characters as the python one..
Super Meat Boy leaves database wide open
OpenTSDB 1.0.0 has been released
Oh? I only remember their Superbowl ads, with a woman very willing to take her clothes off, and men having heart attacks etc. around her.
"OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB) written on top of HBase. OpenTSDB was written to address a common need: store, index and serve metrics collected from computer systems (network gear, operating systems, applications) at a large scale, and make this data easily accessible and graphable."

http://opentsdb.net/
The proposed "OpBlackOut front page kit" for those who dont feel like downloading it --

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/115/anonymousq.png
Phew, lot's of testosterone out there. There's some fundamental principles at play here. First in the economics of Supply and Demand, there's a shortage of good developers programmers, generally in the marketplace. The CIO doesn't sound like he's aware of this, obviously in such a climate, there's money to be had, if you're good? Second, Being "older" and "looking in" from the outside, there's an increasing "penchant" amongst the rising up generation, and I'm going mildly stereotypical here, "I want to create, design and make", which doesn't really gel with older traditional businesses that want to maintain codebases, that, that are key to their enterprise. Yes, they could shift with the times, and kill off decades of codebase and start again in Ruby on Rails, or similar, but at what cost? The whole iT industry goes through cycles like this every 10-20 years. Ironically, you either lose people to more innovative technology OR, later, you end paying more because it's gone to legacy and no-one around "does that anymore". Look at COBOL (before most of you were born). I love the IT industry, it's constantly changing which always creates opportunity, some struggle with this concept. Last, I think the CIO needs to recognize these and changes and adjust his approach, if you were him, with financial constraints, what would you suggest he do in recruiting?
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Speaking of leases I'd like to see more people leasing cars over buying them. It would lead to less old cars being on the road and better up-take of electric vehicles. There are weeks or months when I rarely drive (I'm travelling or over the summer months when I'd rather cycle). ZipCar et al are great to see existing but cover a tiny, tiny niche. If there were some kind of subsidy in the lease direction we'd probably also see better prices. I guess car ownership in the U.S. is too far embedded though for this to really change but I bet if leases were tax-deducible on a personal level we'd see something happen quickly on that front.
and for auto resume when it disconnects in the middle.

curl -C - -O "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0[01-19].zip"
I like how they changed the text from "In your e-mail, please explain why C and Python solutions to decipher the string above return slightly different results."

they added "naive" and "might" ...
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You have it backwards - the cost of living is considerably higher in France than in the US. What costs $1 in the US costs $1.20 in France [1].

...better public education...

Um, no. Better students, but a considerably worse public education system.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

The cheese, however, is considerably better in France, as are the women (fatties over here drag our average down).

[1] Since I'm too lazy to switch to windows and open up the Penn Table in Excel, I backed the numbers out of GDP tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...

[edit: Hi downmodders, sorry for providing facts. I'll try to avoid that in the future.]
Bash 4 is smart. Bash 3 isn't.
You can't have no assumptions. But half the time I help someone debug something they begin with, "it can't be in this part of the code" which is often unfounded. Now if you PROVE that it isn't, that's a different matter.
I got the same "yeah lol, whatever" email last night after I emailed them my concerns regarding their support of SOPA.

Knowing they helped create SOPA is the most damaging fact in my opinion which is why I'm still heading for the door.

I admired Bob back in the day but it seems things have changed over the years.
So, who's next?

It's going to be immensely tougher to demonstrate power against the media moguls as directly.