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Just in case you thought there was anything that couldn't be trolled, here is the guy who managed to come out against giving earnings to charity. Why couldn't Louis just spend the million on hookers and blow like a normal entertainer?
I'm more of a fiddler than a developer. Should I submit some basic code sample, or would I be better off applying as a non-developer ?
I made a working android port. video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9UylEe04Rw

Link on github: http://github.com/chrislott/
If I had a Paypal account with that kind of balance, I'd have a knot of fear in my stomach, thinking Ebay would come up with some phoney excuse to appropriate it.
I've generally found that the expected mechanism comes first; an opposing hypothesis to falsify comes after. With complex scenarios it's can be necessary to develop in depth the consequential outcomes before one can find something that can readily be demonstrated empirically.

How do you determine otherwise which experiments are worth performing. We don't have infinite resources.

For example. Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1916 having worked, apparently, on it for 8 years. Do you suppose he worked on it because he believed it false? One of the outcomes of the theory was then first observationally confirmed by Eddington's observations of an eclipse in 1919.

Up until 1919 Einstein and other's put much faith in the theory by using it to model reality without knowing if it's predictions would be observed without falsification.

I'm all for Popperian falsification as the modus of formal scientific advance but on an individual level it appears to me that those who work for many years on unconfirmed theories are often believing in the truth of those theories without empirical confirmation.

>"Even if you believe it before you run an experiment on it, you do so provisionally, without putting "faith" in it, because you know you might be forced to discard it."

Moreover, it strikes me that one could not put faith in anything (the love of your mother say) if it were prevented by the possibility that later evidence would force you to discard it. That statement also appears contrary to the illustration I've given concerning GR too.
Why not? Google does that all the time. Those are perhaps the easiest details to test.

If you're using a framework like A/Bingo, it's literally one line of code.
I just had a thought: following all of the idiotic "facebook will start charging!" posts, what if they actually posted a note to American users that SOPA would, in fact, force them to do so due to increased legal costs? Pie in the sky, I know, but not so fantastical as to be unrealistic.
That's utterly irrelevant. I find elephants in the wild beautiful, worthy of protection, and not as far from endangered as you think. It's my personal opinion to find elephant hunters equivalent to scumsucking reprobates, and to direct my dollars away from their businesses.

By your logic, we should all universally also have no issue with hunting dogs or cats or really any goddamn animal not on the brink of extinction.
I searched 'iPod' and there were no results. Why would they launch a half-baked website 3 days before Christmas? They should have admitted they missed the holidays and polished things up before launching.
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We're living interesting times.
If the legislation doesn't pass a certain threshold of controversy, they probably get away with it.
>"There are people who would sell their country's freedom for a handful of cash."

Do you have to be US American to hold stock in these companies? Do you expect international companies to have a nationality?
For starters, 40TB on S3 costs around $60,000 annually. The components to build the Box — about 1/10th of that

I wonder why no one ever factors the cost of having a knowledgeable person handling the system into their calculations. TBH 40TB doesn't sound as much, but once you start growing you'll want someone familiar enough with the subject to take care of it (especially if it's their most valuable asset).
So the "OMG! Mozilla is dead without the Google deal" stories weren't just wrong they were backwards.

The real story was "OMG! There's a bidding war over Mozilla's new search deal that will get them a lot more money."

It is enough to make you wonder whether a player in those negotiations started the previous rumor in the first place (presumably as leverage). The timing certainly fits.
Agreed. I just converted my blog (a trivial example) to Foundation with an intention of spending time supporting tablets and mobile browsers. I spent maybe 10 minutes adding in the media queries and css tweaks and everything else fell into place.

I'm looking forward to using Foundation on bigger projects.
My conclusion after learning European history for the first time was that revolutions don't happen until people are starving.
Perhaps you can help me here; how does SOPA infringe on Free Speech again? Please layout your argument in detail.
I started moving away from GoDaddy recently. I'm sick of the up-selling when buying domains. I know it's how they make their money but I now use Hover and it is much quicker and simpler to purchase domains.

I was also getting tired of GoDaddy's constant domain management changes. Every time I go there they have a new UI. Again Hover is A LOT simpler.

I still haven't moved everything off but I am gradually doing it. And all my new domains are with Hover.
If your business depends on handling large amounts of data, you want that person on-staff anyway.
Oh dear science, somebody just reinvented FormMail.pl from Matt's Script Archive.
Hey Ryan - that's my fault. I pushed some last minute fixes to handle the TC traffic. Apple iPod works but iPod doesn't. We'll have to graduate to a proper search tool at some point:

http://priceonomics.com/search?s=apple+ipod

Nonetheless, thanks for the feedback!
SOPA witchhunters: count me out
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From what I know, there is an accelerator type program that just recently launched for hardware base startups here in the bay area. I know YC also funded some (at least 1) as well. You can also look into companies like FitBit as an example. It's difficult to say what is defined as an EE startup since some also include programming and the web. I guess it depends loosely on what your definition is.
Count the number of law firms' names on the list here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76341338/SOPA-Supporters

Now count the number of private individuals listed.

I think lawyers are supposed to know the difference between personally supporting something and a company taking a position.

Somebody here is l-y-i-n-g and, sure, maybe it's not the law firm. But the system as a whole doesn't get to just pass it off on the tired old "overzealous junior staffer" routine this time.
I just want you to be clear on the fact that you are deliberately choosing to leave science behind and have entered the realm of science fiction. It used to be a lot more sensible to speculate that way, but the thing is, if there is some 'mysterious' way to communicate we can say with great confidence that it probably isn't useful from an engineering standpoint.

"Dark matter and dark energy."

We aren't as ignorant about them as you might think. For them to be useful for communication would require them to also not have the properties that they appear to have.

This fashionable claiming of extreme ignorance isn't quite as silly as the fashionable affectation of self-species-loathing in this debate, but it's only slightly more sensible...

... of course, part of it is that few people have learned enough math or the relevant science to actually understand just how thoroughly, for instance, FTL really isn't going to happen, or understand enough information theory to understand why communication channels must actually have certain properties to be useful, regardless of their form.
Sorry, that isn't quite as clear as it could be. Here's a link to the page you're looking for: http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/
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I'm not suggesting any of this isn't good advice. Yes, blending an introduction seamlessly into your writing will make you a better writer. But you're thinking as a producer of content here.

As a consumer of content, I can't hold myself to the standard of only reading things written by "people who have distinguished themselves at writing." If you're the only person who has written about X, and I'm researching X, I'm going to have to look at your article—at least to tell if I can safely not look at your article without having missed something important.

And good writing is hard: you're basically giving the creative equivalent to the obligatory advice of "eat less and exercise more." Yes, reworking and redrafting to achieve flow in your writing is a "good thing." It's something to strive for. But that doesn't mean that you can expect anyone to follow that advice just because they read a few paragraphs about it online. If they write much, they've likely already given it some thought—and it's a lack of willpower, not a lack of skill, that prevents them from editing their work as much as is necessary to get a result easily consumable by others.

An explicit "executive summary" line is a quick fix. It's something an amateur writer—one who doesn't practice writing as a craft, and has no desire to redraft—can use to make their writing less painful. It's asking much less of people—it's just a sentence, written after the fact, explaining what you just said—so it's probably something people would implement after seeing a conversation about it online and saying "oh, that could work."

Certainly, it's not as readable as good writing. But, for most people, it is more readable than whatever they had before, at much less cost.

(Also, I wouldn't mind if experienced writers included a call-out of some sort as well—not because it helps their prose at all, but rather just because I don't know if someone is an experienced writer until I actually dive into the body text, and by then I've already made my decision whether to read or not. Give me metadata.)
The only time American Express has called me has been twice on my Gandi payment. Makes you wonder about their fraud algorithms. Surely Amex can see I make the same payment every year, or maybe that is the mark of a patient and not greedy fraud.

FWIW I haven't had any troubles in the last few years.
If you want to use the deepest gravity well then the Moon orbits the black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (plus the matter closer the the center). Orbital velocity 216 kilometers per second around Milky way vs 42.1 +/- 1 km/s around the sun and earth.

However, when you look at the actual accelerations involved the moon is much more attracted to the earth (by over 100x) than it is to the sun or the center of the Galaxy. Which is why the moon is tidally locked with the earth and not the sun.

PS: All of these still don't add up to the 583km/s velocity relative to the CBR.
Boycott GoDaddy Over Their Support of SOPA
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I'm tired of GoDaddy's politics, lack of respect towards their customers, their never ending up-selling, and their (non)designed user interfaces.

Could we build a list of alternatives that are Hacker News YC in spirit?

Edit: And from reading a recent PG comment, GoDaddy is not even owned by a tech company, they are owned by KKR. All the more reason for me to leave.
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Really? teaching Nepalis snow safety? That seems amusingly unlikely. Wouldn't that be like teaching Polynesians water safety?
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So if SOPA fails to pass and stops being an issue, will that boycott end or will it continue?

Going by PG's reasoning (If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?") then it should continue until there are major changes the leaderships of those companies. Right?
notice how many law firms are on this list
I'm bemused as to why it took this long for people to realize what kind of company GoDaddy is. They actively supported censorship for quite a while. Heck, simply looking at any of their ads or their website should draw a good picture of what kind of people run the show there. Besides, they are disproportionately big. The is nothing in what they do to warrant the size (and thus influence) they have.
Ah, so it's your search feature that is broken.
Are those numbers inflation-adjusted?
A sacrifice is worth it assuming it provides some benefit to the cause. I'm not sure if this action is going to have any effect (hopefully I'm wrong though).
That hasn't been the case for a few years now.

http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&...
No, if watch gear is too small to have any observable effect no matter what I do - it's irrelevant.
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Their service has always been poor, so I never used them in the first place.
I figure there were services out there like it, but I thought I'd put a fresh, free face on it :)
Yes, that is correct. It is wrong to not give cats and dogs special privileges because they are prettier and more easily domesticated?

Plus, it was an isolated decision of a member of godaddy, there was no meeting at godaddy to decide the killing of the elephant.
My bank used to lock my Visa card every month when my landlord charged my rent. Same day every month, same company every month, same amount every month. Every 5th of the month I'd have to call my bank and confirm that the charges weren't fraudulent to get it unlocked, or I'd end up at a grocery store unable to pay my bill.

I put up with it because I was earning a ton of cash back having my rent charged to a rewards card.
Now there is a perfect marketing opportunity seized by Namecheap. Reminds me of when LaLa was acquired and Pandora offered a month free of Pandora One to "LaLa refugees."
New fight at wrong time ~ Daily World News
Keynote is $20 on the app store. How much is your time worth?
It was a culling. Too many elephants, not enough resources. That elephant wasn't hunted so much as scheduled for termination. And we do do the same thing with surplus dogs and cats here in the US at least.

Still, paying to do the shooting is even creepier than hunting an elephant. Forget the tracking, stalking, and pay to just enjoy the killing? Eww. Imagine the Humane Society auctioning off a day operating the kitty gas chamber.
I'm not familiar with the elephant hunts with regard to godaddy @ all, does anyone have a link? But I've heard that a lot of the wild game hunt trips in Africa actually cause animals to be raised, so the net result is an actual increase in the animals - not sure if it is relevant in this case or to you in general.
Very cool, thanks for posting the link. I'm sure this will get a few of us interested in HAM / Packet radio! Thanks again.
Just wrapped up drinks with a CTO of a large enterprise, he's feeling the vibe after a hearty SOPA chat and has committed to move their portfolio of over 1,700 domains off GoDaddy by year's end. Their expenditure is over 20K/year and with a discount code floating around here (thanks guys!), he's putting the savings into bonuses
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Google Currents Teaches Us a Lesson About Mobile UI
I just got back into ham radio last year. It's more fun than ever. I particularly recommend HF contesting.
How much more expensive is a clustered software solution (e.g., Hadoop FS) than this RAID box?
Just pushed a fix. Thanks for your patience.
S3 gives you multi-host, multi-region redundancy. Putting it all in one box is asking for trouble. What if the raid controller grows a bug and corrupts on write? It's happened. What if there's a fire in the building that has both your server and your back-up? Eggs, meet basket!
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Sign in and be tracked to read an article? Thank you, no.
Domains, dns:

http://Namecheap.com
* http://Nearlyfreespeech.net (hosting too)

Hosting, DNS, PostgreSQL:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/zerigo_dns

VPS Hosting:

http://linode.com
* http://intoVPS.com
* https://securedragon.net/
And now count the number of firms:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of...

Zero.
If you are looking for a cheap shared hosting service, I've used Bluehost for years and would recommend them. Alternatively, Amazon Web Services offer a free micro instance for 1 year for new accounts. It's a bit limiting but good enough for small stuff until you need to scale out.
I forgot about this! I used this years ago. It was also converted to PHP at some point.
Thanks for digging up that info. Was just about to reach for my favourite search engine to find evidence that Hollywood, in fact, is not dying.
Regardless of the sensationalist title of the article, I agree with it's point of view.
Poll is missing option: "I never used GoDaddy to begin with because of their bad track record"
Are you looking for a developer job or unix sys admin?

For dev I would read this:
http://www.andrewmunn.com/2011/01/how-to-land-an-internship-...

I know it says intern but i promise if you get to know that stuff well enough it would get you full time as well.

Also get
"Cracking the Coding Interview" and "Programming Interviews Exposed"

Those give pretty good overviews about what is base level knowledge to get you up to speed for a developer role.

Then things would get domain specific from there

Others would have to chime in for sys admin
> Most sane people support sane IP legislation.

Too ambiguous and vague. IP legislation that was written at the time of the constitution is perfectly suitable for the modern age without the need to extend forever.

> It's perfectly reasonable for IP holders to want to have legal recourse against the bad guys.

What is reasonable is a LIMITED monopoly on the copying of an artistic medium as long as it 'promotes the arts and sciences'. The goal of copyright and patent law is to maximise the benefits of art and technology TO SOCIETY, not to some corporation. The method of doing this is to grant a LIMITED TIME monopoly over a creation as an incentive to create, not to make corporations more profitable. Once that LIMITED TIME has passed, the creation enters the public domain and society as a whole accrues the benefits.
Having infinitely extendable copyrights/patents, copyrights owned by corporations renders the purpose of copyright/patents NULL AND VOID, because society never accrues the benefit associated with the cost (i.e. the monopoly).

> There are lots of people making a lot of money selling a lot of illegal merchandise online.

No, there isn't. There are some, always have been, always will be, because when a market for goods or services is inefficient, it changes the risk/reward ratio for 'cheaters'.
Look at the market for drugs for example. The risks are huge, but the rewards are ridiculously higher in proportion. As long as the risk/reward ratio is skewed (i.e. the market is inefficient), there will always be 'cheaters' or 'criminals' in that market. Turning your country into a police state might be one way to stop that, but it may also kill the market you are trying to protect.
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Yep, they offer free DNS hosting. I've used them as my primary DNS and registrar for years without issue.
I've been using them for awhile and have just been too lazy to transfer. That said, with this, I'll be swapping over on December 29th.
I have 1and1 ... is there a mass exporter for it? :)
no, but i'm not in charge of it. I did suggest it and told my boss about SOPA though
My guess is that they were training folks on the safety equipment and procedures that Western mountaineers use, so the Nepalese guides and outfitters don't have a culture clash in an emergency situation. The truth is, modern mountaineering equipment and procedure is really good, even if some aspects the traditional mountain knowledge and ways are timeless and extremely valuable too.
Your sorting by price is broken: It's sorting strings, not numbers, and counts "$900" as being higher than "$2000".
Oh, and modern surfboards are really a lot better than the ones the Polynesians used to make a long time ago.
Wow...this is like hearing that Github plans to quit Dreamweaver because it was feuding with Adobe.
im a small guy, not very good at web stuffs, but i refuse to support anyone that supports SOPA. i appreciate the guide for switching from GoDaddy, luckily i can get domains through my host and they are not on that list :)
i added my domain to this list, and i plan on doing the switch tomorrow. a small price to pay for me...
Wouldn't it be easier to have sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. raise awareness by publicly displaying information about SOPA on highly visible parts of their own sites?

As well as having Google remove search results for SOPA supporting organizations or have Facebook remove pages like facebook.com/visa? It's playing dirty, but why not?
I'm not signed in, and the server didn't seem to set any cookies..

Here's a plaintext copy: http://cr6nh1.pen.io (though the formatting might be better suited to pastebin)
I think this could be a really interesting discussion. My first reaction to georgieporgie's comment was the same as omaranto's. But in practice, like you say, we do end up doing a lot of code re-writing.

Suppose we are to explain omaranto's statement to someone who is not a programmer. My try is: given that (i) programs, whether in source or binary format, can be indefinitely replicated with virtually zero cost and (ii) we know how to write modular programs and (iii) there are plenty of useful modules available for re-use, we never have to substantially re-write anything from scratch.

But (iii) is arguably false due to a variety of reasons: intellectual property issues, incompatible platforms, "incompatible" programming languages, etc.

And (ii) is a big lie.
I transferred to namecheap.com over Bob's Elephant hunting controversy some time back. Now that doesn't seem like as big a deal in retrospect.
Many companies that build cars in the southern parts of the US pay their workers far less than Union factory's in the north which distorts the averages.
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So we should just quietly wait for them to come and "discuss" it with us?
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Wow... SO is still with GoDaddy? GoDaddy's position on SOPA has been clear since October; what took them so long?
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Stackoverflow for president... Woah there is an idea.
SOPA and the credit card
I noticed both Visa and MasterCard Worldwide support SOPA, but AMEX has announced its opposition to the bill. While I think most people here agree the bill is a terrible piece of legislature, why do you think Visa and MasterCard support, but AMEX opposes it?
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