skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that politicians could be made to hear the Internet's voice here.

Imagine if people started donating to a 'SOPA Supporter Anti-Reelection Fund', where all donations go to targeting vulnerable SOPA supporters in the next election.

The message would be that this is a "No-Forvigeness" issue come election time; that 'The Internet is Bigger Than Democrat or Republican'; that this issue matters more to economic/moral future of the country than gay marriage, invading Iraq, or any number of divisive issues; people will donate money to such a fund even knowing some of it will be used against bad apples in their own parties; etc.

There's a ton of potential here, especially when vulnerable SOPA supporters are identified, which will put the political crosshairs on specific individuals. (Who are the most vulnerable supporters come reelection time? Newsworthiness is increased when reporters can put a face on the story).

If the Internet started building such an Anti-Reelection Fund, it might get newsworthy pretty fast.

If the power of bored people over a holiday break was put to work, such a fund could be very real in just a few days, and ready for its cover shot as a credible political threat (donated funds, name-and-shame publicity) by the time the committee reconvenes in January.

I'm just saying. I was surprised by how much political clout the Occupy movement ended up with, despite not having any single unified idea of what they want to change -- but, basically all they accomplished was to shape the message and shift the dialogue around the economic crisis a bit.

I'd be disappointed if the Internet couldn't accomplish something more concrete with SOPA.

Edit: also, if The Internets created such a fund, it might be politically easier for various internet companies or rich geeks to support it via matching funds.
Actually, it never even came into my mind to think that the celebrities were not paid to be in the video.
I'm one of those guys that has to fight like hell to retain talented developers, so I understand where this guy is coming from. However....

He admits it's usually about money. Well duh. Then he has to pay them more. If you want to hire great talent to work on your legacy Java app then guess what? You're gonna be shelling out a lot of money.

In our business, we work on both new, cool functionality but also have legacy code that has to be maintained. Naturally, nobody wants to work on that, but it has to be done. The trick is to balance a developers workload so that they aren't always stuck in doing legacy work. If one of our developers was forced to work on maintaining legacy code for any great length of time, then I would fully expect them to leave.

tl;dr; Pay your developers well and find ways to give them opportunities to work on cool new stuff. Neglect either of those and they will leave you. It's really not that hard...
It seems they only changed their mind under pressure, not because they really stand by it. These people should know better in the first place.
And the only way to stop future SOPAs is to make the system less corrupt, which means taking money out of politics.

This is why Lawrence Lessig left the fight against intellectual property craziness to focus on the underlying problem of corruption.

It's been years since I heard Lessig was shifting his focus to fight corruption, and recently SOPA got me curious about what he's been up to and if SOPA had brought him back out of "retirement". That led me to this article, "Why Is Lawrence Lessig MIA In The Great SOPA Piracy Debate?" http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-why-is-lawrence-lessig-...

which led me to Lessig's response: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/13119510676/me-mia-on-the-sopa...

which led me to his iniative to fight political corruption through campaign finance reform: http://www.rootstrikers.org/

I'm actually glad to see that Lessig isn't letting SOPA distract him from his fight against corruption which is the root of the problem. Stopping SOPA would be a huge win, but it would only be a battle win, and as long as we're losing the corruption war there are going to be many more SOPAs to fight in the future.
Why can't we do both?

Another key thing is that this is a bill being pushed through with corporate support. We're not going the change the minds of Big Media, but we can -- and have -- change the minds of companies that are supporting it for reasons periphery to their core businesses.
Probably the best way to stop SOPA and show Members of Congress that we're serious is to make sure Lamar Smith (TX-21), the bill's original sponsor, loses. I'm still not sure which Dem is running against him though [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texass_21st_congressional_distr...
I've been reading over GoDaddy's blog posting from yesterday, and I just can't dismiss the feeling that GoDaddy's position as one of the largest domain registrars has given them a different view of American businesses facing difficulty with these so-called "foreign-based websites."

The blog posting emphasizes several times the importance and need to protect American businesses, which to me seems patriotic and sympathetic to promoting a good intention. I'm sure they didn't realize they would be "villanized" as a result of their actions.

Disclaimer: I don't support SOPA.
yes, they're targeted to an audience. an audience who responds to sexually objectified images of women. also known as misogynists. hello?
"There is also a certain other vendor ..."

Ironic that I went Android out of fear and irritation toward that other vendor, and in fact I've been having other vendor envy.
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'Building blocks of life' found on Pluto's surface
"Fix"...right. This is in fact a really bad idea and should be avoided.

The main argument for shortening domains seems to be based on what people will type. But every web browser I've seen will try "www.xyz.com" any time you type just "xyz". So leave the interpretation of lazy typing to the browser bar where it can be converted into a canonical form on behalf of the user.

There are plenty of reasons not to make the raw domain a web site. Here are a few:

- Potentially destroys popularity rankings in search engines because there are multiple addresses for every page. One popular site instead looks like two less-popular sites.

- So-called CNAME in DNS cannot use bare domains. IP addresses must therefore be hard-coded in a way that is more difficult to change quickly as needed (e.g. load-balancing, discovery of a DDoS attack, whatever). So users of the raw domain "xyz.com" will see your site go down for longer than it should have, even if you've already managed to bring "www.xyz.com" back up by changing its IP address.

- Configurations where patterns may be useful don't work, e.g. neither "{glob}.xyz.com" nor "www.{glob}" will match a bare domain. Maybe you don't care if you have just one site to worry about, but this gets old if you have a lot of domains to worry about.
The problem with hackathons
Please email me personally when you have something. (Contact info is in my profile.) This might be useful to my son who bitches endlessly about how impossible it is to learn code because no one actually explains anything useful/meaningful. I taught him math conceptually to get past the fact that numbers don't compute for him and that worked well. If he likes it, I will be happy to spread the word a smidgeon. I've talked to him a little about HTML and CSS and he was like "That actually makes sense! No one fucking* tells you this stuff. You can't find this info on the web. (etc)" But my knowledge of code is extremely limited.

Thanks.

* Unlike me, my son does not typically swear a blue streak. This tells you how frustrating he finds this.
Why not use separate windows?
Windows 8 gesture login: Can screen smudges reveal your password?
The financial burden is not just for those without insurance or the “poor”.

My wife was given a 30% chance in an ICU room earlier this year. Since then we have been through a month in hospital, multiple surgeries, and many doctors appointments. The total cost to date has been over $250,000. Even with insurance we have still paid $10,000 and covered another $10,000 while waiting for reimbursement. The new insurance calendar year starts on January 1st – so we will be paying another $10,000 for a surgery planned in early 2012.

Our household income is $30-40k above the US median and we have savings, but it’s amazing how quickly your savings start shrinking when your partner is unable to work and you need to take months of unpaid leave to attend appointments and sit in surgery waiting rooms.

Any politician that talks about fostering innovation and entrepreneurship but continues to support the status quo is a fraud. Surely removing the financial and administrative burden of healthcare for business is better than any tax cut congress could come up with?
You are wrongly assuming that M&P (managerial and professional) unions follow the old craft based union model which no M&P union does.
Highlights: SPDY support (off by default), IndexedDB for local storage, and some tweaks to WebSockets, including removing their 'Moz' prefix.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
I have not looked at this program, but it is possible that this is not a matter of 'could take the hit', but of 'had to take the hit'. CPU cycles weren't the only thing that was scarce in those days, and a application-specific VM could be what made this fit on a floppy or in 640k RAM.
The differences between S.V. and Detroit go far, far beyond the presence or absence of unions.
We game developers look forward to seeing your magnum opus. Be sure to let us know how your discussions regarding optimizations and ship dates go with your publisher.
I spoke with a representative at their Santa Monica dealership. The Roadster was a joint venture with Lotus (who manufactured the body). Their contract is just about over. As of now, the Tesla Roadster as we know it will not be manufactured any longer. The Model S is an in-house design. After the Model S, they will work on an even larger vehicle, and then a remake of the Roadster, most likely built on the Model S platform. The Roadster will likely be back, but in a different form.
I'm sure it was some combination of everyone working together and the bad PR, but Google uses them as the default registrat for Google Apps domains.

Threatening to change that arrangement would have a continuing impact on their revenue, rather than being just a one-time outrage. That gives Google more leverage than the other sites, which is why I wonder how that played out.

But make no mistake: I'm very glad to see all the websites out there banding together to fight this. Reddit, Wikipedia and even Cheezburger created enough bad PR that they couldn't ignore this and we have to give them credit for that.
I tend to agree.

Using a DDoS campaign to protest web censorship is just a bit more irony than I can handle.
Reading HN is so fast with this.
Even if we assume that you can send a whole house to Mars for free, your house needs to solidly insulated from the cold and the radiation, it needs to somehow produce air and it needs to somehow produce energy without most of the energy sources we use on Earth (fossil fuels, solar, geothermal, hydro, wind). The latter two are very hard problems. If you can sustainably create breathable air and energy practically ex nihilo, that is a much bigger achievement than getting to Mars.
How do they differentiate critical communication which should get thru?

How would this work at a place like Amazon, for example? Even with 24hr staffing, there are some instances when the right person(s) are needed. Letting only messages marked as critical thru could lead to most off-hour massages categorized as important. I can see this working in some industries, but not all.
Some US states explicitly allow assisted suicide: Washington, Oregon, and Montana.
Well-targeted money can be part of the solution, but if it's your main tool, and you reach for your wallet too quickly, the racket will just raise its prices.

Once legislatures know there is a wealthy, well-organized group that will pay to stop something, they can actually create new proposed legislation simply to shake out a fresh round of 'protect me' contributions from affected interests. In California, these are traditionally called "juice bills":

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/juice_bill_...
My history with Forth & stack machines
NI isn't hypothecated - the money the government collects through NI is thrown into the pot with almost all other taxes. NHS & pension payments come out of general taxation.
Um, the first few people to explore Antarctica became pretty famous. Still ain't a city there.
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I think it's interesting how it's taken a mass event to spur people to stop using GoDaddy. They certainly weren't well respected before the SOPA saga. But it seems that we needed a big event to get people moving.
Tee writes in one-thread-per-file level of parallelism; simple experiment:

$ tee foo.bin bar.bin baz.bin < /dev/zero

writes to all three files `at once' (in small time-slices, actually). Used GNU tee from coreutils-8.10.

Perhaps OP meant several-threads-per-file level of parallelism, where number_threads > number_files?
I find it sad that this comment gets downvotes, and disappointed in the HNers who did so. This comment is not trolling or pointless, but rather is well spoken and makes an excellent counter to a pro-union argument. A comment should never be buried just because you disagree with someone's values.
SpaceX is allready brainstorming on some future designs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_%28rocket_family%29#Mer...
Agreed. I can afford to own a nice-ish ($40-50k) vehicle but I would rather not attract undue attention to myself, nor do I want to pay an assload of money in car insurance, so I drive a relatively POS subcompact that is great on gas and easy to park on packed city streets.
Good info there. Should note that the article is agnostic about which is better (with or without www). It tells how to make it work with both versions of the domain, and then suggests redirecting to one of those domains to focus link juice.

Also note that in our experience, Google Chrome does not redirect automatically to www. And Chrome is very, very popular now.
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He said 100 and it was 140, so no. Not ironic.
Heh, could use that newer site history exploit hack to show users which sites they have visited (by regularity?) via GoDaddy?
I think this is a dangerous line of though.

I don't know from where the expression "fighting fire with fire" came from, it probably applies to war or something, but in such a case the fire is only a side-effect of the enemy dropping freaking bombs on you. And any firefighter will tell you that fire is fought with water and fighting it with fire is just plain dumb.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, btw. I'm sure that some of the pro-SOPA companies have legitimate reasons for wanting extra protections. Dangerous counterfeits, like drugs, is one legitimate reason. And because they are businesses, they don't give a shit about human rights like free speech. But what company does care enough to put the interests of their shareholders on a second place? Nobody. Any solution that doesn't give power to the small players / individuals is NOT a solution, only a short-term victory that only fixes a symptom and that will end badly.

The author here forgets something - money from lobbying is only good for one thing - buying votes. This works out great, because the masses of people are usually ignorant and don't know shit about the details of such legislation. The only thing they'll hear is how SOPA saves their jobs. They'll also receive a pen, a teeshirt, a free drink and the vote is guaranteed.

Which is why the ultimate weapon against SOPA is raising awareness to the point of getting individuals to do something about it.
The Peer-to-Peer Future
I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, but I am not 100% on that, hence the question.
You do realize that they're not at all comparable, right? The Roadster was a luxury sports car (and having ridden in one, it is batshit insane how fast it is), and it's priced in that range. They're hand-built. They were never meant to be a volume car, they were meant to build a brand, which they've done quite successfully.

Now comes the second phase, where Tesla makes a luxury sedan that seats 7 and has the 0-60 times of a 500 horsepower BMW M5. I don't know about you, but I plan on buying one as soon as I can, and I bet a lot of other people do to. I wouldn't buy the Leaf at half the price, because it has an unusable range. Model S doesn't have that problem.
I think the mature thing to do, as cynical as this might sound, is to realize that the government is obscenely out of touch with its constituency, and stop going to them for help. Instead, influence the influencers.

At the end of the day, all companies have is customers. If the customers stop utilizing their services, the companies are forced to stop pushing their anti-consumer agendas into legislation. Part of this is utilizing the Internet, as it now is, to circumvent the old ways of doing things.

Essentially, while it is free, startups should be focusing on helping consumers circumvent traditional industries.

We all hate banks as they are. Let's reinvent them.

We all hate telecoms. Let's try to create startups that can compete with them.

We all hate loan institutions. Let's disrupt the loan structure, allow people to privately invest in one another on a micro scale. Hell, it's already being done for 3rd world nations.

We have a real opportunity to change things and make them better. Get out from under the institutionalized world we grew up in. Why not?
But Lessig is fighting the wrong battle, as long as the government is doling out piles of money, picking winners and losers through regulations and bailouts it will make sense to try and influence them, and there is no way to stop "corruption", we should note that this isn't taking bribes etc, without hampering legitimate forms of speech.

Lessig seems to be willing to limit our ability practice political speech through regulations and limitations, and to entrench the current political system by focus on government funded elections in which of course only major parties will be able to speak.
You best be joking...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Christ

Or, more comprehensive and much more damming:

http://www.bidstrup.com/apologetics.htm
Why does Google work on self-driving cars and cancer diagnostics?
"Still, I don't think it's wrong to be inspired by and compare yourself to people with epic achievements"

You're half right. Being inspired and challenged by the works of others is a great thing. But you should avoid comparing yourself to others since you'll frame it in such a way that you are either completely superior or completely inferior to the other person.
Agreed. They were totally for SOPA yesterday, and even went so far as to publicly antagonize people who disagreed with their position. Their general counsel was also an architect of the bill. Forgive me if I don't quite buy that they're going to stop pulling strings in SOPA's favor behind the scenes.
It's a fun way to make contact with stations all over the world... some of the most technologically advanced stations are owned by contesters. It's really a unique form of sport that pits engineers against engineers (designing optimal antenna systems, station configuration, etc.), with a component of adrenaline and operator skill. It's like a multi year video game with a deeply challenging real world component. Each contest is typically only 48 hours, but it takes years to build a competitive station and the necessary operator skill, understanding of nature (radio wave propagation), etc.

Over the past few years I've done some reading/experimenting with meditation and I've found that high speed CW (morse) contesting puts me in a very relaxed state where I push out everything else from my consciousness. It's really quite awesome, and is lately one of the few things I can do that truly accomplishes this (the other is snowboarding down double black diamond powder).
Do you trust GoDaddy over SOPA?
GoDaddy changed their position, and now they do not support SOPA.

What do you think, did they changed position because of threat of losing their customers, and can we believe them that they will not actually support it secretly?

As we already saw their stance about this topic.
Let's start a union.

And now you have two bosses and two problems. I recommend watching "Waiting For Superman" to see how the teacher's union impedes innovation in education.
Oregon,for one.
Google's Xmas Doodle
Fair enough. My point wasn't to single out Apple.
Github Server Hosting?
Right, no Linux desktop client at the moment. I don't think it would be especially difficult to make one, but we'd need enough demand to make the investment.

But having said that, we do provide WebDAV API. Every modern OS I know of, including Linux, can mount a file system over WebDAV. It is not very efficient, and doesn't have all the features you would get with a client, but at least you have access to your files.

Some people actually prefer to use only WebDAV, because that way as soon as you cut network connectivity the files are not accessible (security feature).
I'm surprised Google, Apple et al, haven't pooled in a few $100 million to fight this. I don't understand why they didn't do this already.
Oh, totally picked up on the other point. By pointedly ignoring it, I hinting that my original comment was purposefully made to be more polemic than rational argument, in case the "fuck these people" didn't give it away, and focus on linguistic nerddom which is more interesting anyway =)

I don't see it so much as a negotiating tool, though. Analyzing it, I'd say it's more an attempt to raise the relative status of the HN tribe by putting down the status of middle managers than anything else.
Boing Boing is claiming this was just a PR stunt. Thoughts?
We were number three or four in our market (it depended) and our entire business strategy was to watch the number one player, and do what they did.

So a number of my ideas weren't actually flat out rejected, but they weren't a priority- we already had a list of features to implement. Of course, by the time we implemented those features, the number one had moved on and implemented the stuff I'd originally proposed. Such a frustrating process, and a 100% guarantee that you'll never be the number one company.
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To me, insanely hard work always connotes working 80 hours/wk and not having (or spending time with) a SO, kids, or other hobbies besides the job.

I don't know if that's what you mean, but that kind of life is not one I would go for, even assuming I am capable of being more than one or two sigmas good.
As a registrar that does business internationally, it may seem (to an American) that it is appropriate for them to be patriotic ... but it is certainly not a good way to continue appealing to international consumers. The Internet should be boundary-free.
I've worked with brilliant and rational-when-it-comes-to-work researchers who happen to be sincerely religious.

I'd be more concerned with a scientist who happens to be convinced that he is destined to make great discoveries. (which, delusional or not, may inspire them to feats greater than otherwise). My concern would be for their intellectual honesty - the same concern caused by any strong religious or other ideological precommitment relevant to their work.
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