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I (who am not the OP) would feel better if he gave the money to himself, then he used the money for charity.

In the blog post, Louis states that money is "the money" not "his money," and that "the money" is going towards charity.

What he should have said was "I am receiving 500k of "the money" to which I am giving 280k of it to charity"

It's a semantic argument, but for some reason it means something to me.
DHS sent a letter to Mozilla earlier this year to take down the MAFIAA Fire add-on that redirects the seized sites to the new domains. Mozilla refused and DHS didn't follow-up on that because it got public.
Sure, the difference is that if Congress mandates it, it IS censorship. Until then, it's just a bunch of different people advocating censorship and a bunch of other people opposing it. For "business" reasons.

I could use emotional terms like "freedom" and "tyranny", but in the end my opposition to censorship and advocacy for freedom come down to personal interest. I like to think it would be better for everyone else too, but yeah, I advocate for freedom because I WANT freedom. It's just business.
It's difficult to trust an article on typography whose first paragraph ends with an orphan.
>> At this very moment a large percentage of the brightest minds in the world are working on getting people to click on internet ads and building products that monetize well but are honestly a net loss to humankind.

Strictly speaking, it's a very small percentage of the world's brightest minds. To imply otherwise reflects a stunning amount of hubris.

If we do some very rough back of the envelope calculations :

There are roughly 1.3 million software developers in the U.S, out of a population of ~306m (0.4%).

Extrapolating that against the global population of ~7 billion, we can round up to ~30 million developers worldwide.

If we define "brightest minds" as those holding IQ scores in the 99th percentile (135+), there are 70 million people with genius level intellect.

While I don't have numbers measuring the IQ distribution across developers, I think we can safely assume that no more than 10% (3m) have an IQ in the top 1%.

Therefore, no more than 4.2% of the world's brightest minds are in fact developing software of any kind. The number can be further pared down to reflect the number of "geniuses" working on generating ad-clicks.
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Yeah, just shows me a full page ad for the iPad app, and tells me their content is now exclusive to their app.

Would be interested to know what causes it to vary...

But yes, a touch of irony there.
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They're not even that cheap (namecheap and gandi are competitive, especially with their feature sets), and again that's missing my point.

GoDaddy is cheap, SOPA or not. If you take a moral stand because of SOPA... why wouldn't you have taken a moral stand previously based on their voluntary, unilateral, world-wide censorship of domains. Look, I dislike SOPA and I dislike GoDaddy but this sense of "moral outrage" is just misplaced in my opinion.

I'm not sure what sentiment I'm supposed to be humoring. "Cheap" (or lazy) is okay in the face of GoDaddy censoring domains themselves, but not in the face of a political fight about a bill that they happen to support that would let the US government censor domains? I guess my point is, I'm not surprised and I don't know why others are either.
eww... the Graphic Artists' Guild is on the list. That's really disappointing. https://www.graphicartistsguild.org/
Official list of SOPA supporters
You give your son $100 as a birthday present. He spends $20 on himself and throws the rest in the bin. That's his choice, but next time, will you give him money? I wouldn't.
yea but saturn's rings are made of ice, moons and planets are made of rock just like asteroids not ice like comets.
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I use gandi.net, more of a higher-priced registrar and just transferred 10 domains to namecheap.com, which seemed really easy to do. Use their "SOPASucks" transfer coupon for the best discount. ($6.99/yr per transfer plus free private registration for a year.)
Are you sure its not driven by Steve jobs and I quote "I'm Going to Destroy Android, Because It's a Stolen Product".... "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."?

Seems like analysts are trying to find an economic reason for something that may well be an emotion driven thing.
I hope you are monitoring your post asymeric because I would honestly appreciate an answer to a question I have:

It seems like jump into coding immediately interactive tutorials are all the rage. But I have always learned more effectively by reading a high-level, conceptual/philosophical overview of how and why something works the way it does. From there it's much easier for me to work through examples. "Oh I get why this is that way". "Oh yeah that makes sense ..."

I'm left-handed so perhaps this is just a left vs. right brain discussion. Left handers are minorities but I really think its very important to understand how/why something works from a high-level.

What are your thoughts?
Congressional Support for H.R. 3261 (SOPA)
I'm currently 17 years old and learned to program at 14 from the book "Sams Teach Yourself Java" http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Hours-Covering-Android/...

It's not very in depth but it gave me a global understanding of programming, and then I delved more into it with other books and web sites.
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I'm virulently anti-SOPA myself, have signed all the petitions, etc. But am I the only one made uncomfortable by a blacklist of people who have expressed certain opinions?
GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support
I am considering consolidating my domains on amazon route 53. I have both NSI and GoDaddy as domain providers and I guess now is as good a time as any to plunge into amazon's Route 53. The process is so awfully painful and laborious that I keep putting it off.
I am absolutely floored by the amount of lunacy in this post. Congratulations, swombat, you blew my mind. It feels like I have rewritten this comment a thousand times because I just don't know how to respond.
Most likely because the Moon was given its name long before we knew that other planets had moons.

Its pretty much the same as naming our planet the Earth, a pretty generic name for a planet.
I always thought the primary belief of Keynesians was that poor aggregate demand led to recessions. Sticky nominal wages was a factor in high unemployment, but it is weak aggregate demand that was where the horns are. Therefor their solution was to pump money into the demand side so that would drive spending. Demand side spending encourages business investment and this jumpstarts the economy.

As far as I know, most economists would argue that if nominal wages weren't sticky, unemployment would be less of a problem. When you say "Italy should have no unemployment", I'm not sure who you are arguing with, but I don't think it is Keynesians.
The HBase integration with Pig is pretty good (disclaimer: I wrote a bunch of it, and use it on a daily basis). The only thing is that you need to create the table and set up column families yourself. The mongo driver Russel demoes automatically creates a table which may or may not be a good thing. Also, he didn't actually say anything about scalability except for linkbaiting in his title :).
More on this at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_planet
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This is not just a generic religious scientist. It's more analogous to rejecting a young-Earth creationist from a study on evolution. The link here is much more direct than general rationality.
SOPASUCKS takes the renewal cost down to $6.99 (with BYEBYEGD it was $7.99)

Great price for something you were going to buy anyway. I just moved 10 domains.
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Except that's a terribly inaccurate analogy. This isn't a $5 gift, it's a transaction for a product. He's not throwing away the rest, he's paying bills and donating to charities.

How you came up with "throwing $80 in the bin" is beyond me.
I am so confused now. The center of mass of the solar system is often not inside the Sun.
Apple page on ergonomics? How ironic considering that most of their input devices are more like torture devices. Beautiful for sure but suitable for human use.
Nice. This is what I was worried about because I just renewed two domains with GD. I'm going to try to make time to do the transfer soon.
That's not what is at play here. "The company" is the one supporting SOPA, and "the company" is sending representatives to YC demo day.

It doesn't sound like you would be banned for merely working for the company and being interested in YC - it's keeping that company out of the process.
Probably not but I personally have no problem with this.

pg runs an investment firm that invests to a large extent in internet-based companies. To "blacklist" the companies that want to hurt his investment opportunities and returns (really, just no longer help profit from his work) seems like a no-brainer. It gets you positive press from the group you want to attract and hopefully denies some revenue from the ones that would use that revenue against you in the future.
This is a very important clarification because I think many folks believe that if they can hammer on the specific failings of SOPA, they will somehow "win." Fact of the matter is that IP issues on the Internet are not going to go away, because a lot of big companies believe their businesses are being harmed. So the long-term view is that the SOPA fight is just one piece of a long negotiation.
They are killing the web too.
"Sent from my iPad" lol
If you search for any company name, you'll usually come across horror stories. That doesn't mean that people using that company are irresponsible.

Have you tried GoDaddy as a registrar? There's a lot of annoying upsell attempts involved, but as a registrar, they're pretty competent. Morally bankrupt, perhaps, but competent.
If you think about it, hunters are rarely invited to wildlife fundraisers, fur clothing manufacturers to PETA meetings, and creationists to NAS meetings -- all because of opinions expressed by each party. Dissent is part of a modern life, and not inviting people to private events is a perfectly legitimate way of voicing that dissent.
Who is blacklisting individuals? It's blacklisting the corporate entity.
The ability of easily kill websites would seem to benefit domain registrars in a fairly straightforward way.
There is useful information here, regardless of how old it is. But most of it relates to a desktop environment, and I've already begun to notice more repetitive motion annoyances from my mobile phone usage than I ever did from my desktop usage. Would love to see Apple and others emphasize ergonomic mobile use.
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These are not organisations that have individual employees who, on their own time, support SOPA. This is organisations that's policy is to support SOPA.
I don't see why one thing has to die for other things to appear. There is room for a huge variety of devices with different input methods.

I know people who have touch screen monitors which are useful for some things but the majority of the time people still use the mouse. The same with the apple touchpad thing.

I'd like to be able to use gestures and speech commands etc with my computer but I'm not throwing my keyboard in the trash until there is something that let's me input data just as fast, quietly and ergonomically.

I don't want to browse NSFW material at 2AM while my other half is in bed using voice commands :)
PG, a request; demand INTERNET FREEDOM bills support from SOPA turncoats?

Otherwise, we'll go through this shit again [0][1][2][3] until compromises are made. Which I'm sure is from quite an effective tactic [4]. At the moment, it seems to be a lot of 'pacifist' movements to STOP SOPA when they can go to war against the anti-INTERNET FREEDOM supporters by demanding INTERNET FREEDOM bills.

After all, if they change the bill to be about stopping rogue sites selling child pornography with same wording except replacing piracy words; are you going to publicly say STOP CHILD PORN act supporting companies are no longer allowed at YC Demo Day?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_S.978

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agre...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
Its a networking issue, not a legal or political issue. Big Media has decided to go to the mat to defend their dying business model at the expense of the Open Internet by lobbying for legislation like this.

If you want to make the Internet safer, more secure, better for commerce, more accepting of DRM, whatever, then let's take that up as a technical discussion and figure out how to amend the infrastructure so that it continues to work. Hiving off slabs of address space and putting them under the control of national legislatures is the fastest and most direct way to ensure that the entire network stops working real quick.
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Interactive jump into code immediately tutorials seem to be all the rage now. I'm talking about approaches like codecademy.com and learn.knockoutjs.com

This strikes me as very left-brain centric learning - very pragmatic.

However being left-handed I learn best via high-level conceptual introductions to concepts. This is how and why backbone.js works the way it does... . From there going through all the examples is a beautiful journey filled with "ahah" moments.

I plan to dedicate a lot of my time to writing conceptual tutorials of how things work.

Thoughts?
Oh yeah that is a completely valid analogy.

Here's an equally valid one: you're selling a product and using the money for something I do not agree is worth it (like buying things for yourself instead of giving to charity). I thus decide it would be better to steal the thing you sell and deprive you of the money you ask for it.

It's a bad argument based on your personal value of what the other person should be doing with their good that you gave them in order to obtain a product; not as a favour or as a gift.
My comment from TFA. Context: Paul Querna correctly pointed out that Cassandra has had Hadoop integration since 0.6, and the author replied that Cassandra was complicated.

If your objection to Cassandra is "it's complicated," you have no business running Hadoop. :) How to set up a Cassandra cluster in under two minutes: http://www.screenr.com/5G6

If on the other hand you simply made statements like "Mongo is the first NoSQL to nail painless Hadoop and Pig integration" without doing any research, then you should probably edit your blog post.
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Short of rewriting the copy (which they could have done, of course), dealing with orphans on the web is kind of impossible. It's a valid point, but I wouldn't let that stop you from taking the rest of the article at face value.
By being made more dense the Earth would shrink, so it is very reasonable to promote the Moon to planethood according to that definition.
Sipser's text on the theory of computation is quite good.
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Ok, so you haven't automated merge conflict resolution.

There are also cryptographically signed documents which you cannot merge, because that would break signatures.

So the question is, how much automated merge processing should be done, and how big are the risks in doing so. Even if the system were capable of doing merges for some documents, it would need to have a setting to turn it off. Recovering erroneously merged documents also needs some thinking. And so forth.

So bottom line is I guess we agree that in some cases merges can be done, automated to some level even, but there is a lot of work needed to make it safe, understandable and usable for the majority of users.
It seems that what you are proposing is extremely difficult to actually pull off. Increasing the money supply accomplishes the same thing but is easier to actually do. Plus inflation encourages spending and investment instead of hoarding money, which tends to happend in recessions. I think Keynesians like the approach better, not that they have never thought of any alternatives.
Personally, I've found that font size (in pixels) plus 10 pixels is usually a good place to start for line height, and I've read anywhere from 65 to 90 characters per line for optimal reading. There have are actual scientific studies out there on the concept of line length and readability, but I don't have any immediately available.

[Edit] On the article itself: I'm no mathlete, but that whole thing smells like bullshit. I'm sure I (or, rather, someone good at math) could pick a number at random (pi, 42, etc) and come up with a formula to generate the same numbers. I'm not sure "right because the Golden Ratio" is a valid conclusion.
In the past godaddy has invited (and thrived) based on negative publicity as well as questionable sales practices. (Godaddy girls, exploitation of women, the elephant hunt as a few examples).

(Note: We are a competitor of godaddy.)
By what definition? There are quite a few historical scientists who made great discoveries, who very extremely religious too. Newton comes to mind.
It's worth trying!
I don't think it's productive to label as "anti-science" anyone who asks sincere questions about whether LHC (or any project) is worth the price-tag.

Asking questions is great, the anti-science rhetoric is the kind that suggests that research isn't worth the cost if the objective knowledge is not obviously or immediately applicable outside the lab. Science works in discrete steps.

you can't automatically say that any scientific research is worth spending billions of dollars of money on.

Not all researchers are created equal, so I can't automatically say it, but I'd be hard pressed to name a field of cutting edge research that I think doesn't deserve to be well funded. The reality is, science is pretty damn cheap for what it yields (e.g. the modern world). You can't really put a price on universal truth.
I believe the center of mass for the earth moon system is something like 3000 km from the center of the earth (in a moonward direction). Just for reference, the radius of the earth is 6300 km.

The density of the earth is ~5.52g/cc, and halving the radius of the earth will increase the density by 8 which gives a density of 44.16 g/cc or 44,160 kg/m^3, which is about twice the density of osmium and a third as dense as the center of the sun.

In other words, the scenario you imagine is not practically possible in a system where one body is much larger than the other (if they're both about the same size, then it a dual planet system).
For people with experience and multiple job offers... there is no incentive

That's true. But think about a smart programmer who is fresh out of school, or maybe dropped out. If you don't have anything on your resume yet, this could be a reasonable way to break into the tech scene.
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> I was rather disconcerted to see that Elsevier was on this list :(

Back when I was in academia, Elsevier had a clear reputation as the most "evil" academic publisher, because of its extortionate journal prices and its active resistance to any method of information dissemination which would reduce its profits (for example, lower-cost online access, or friendlier contracts with its authors). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Criticism_and_controv....

Apparently nothing's changed.
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"Unfortunately the site does not have any deep links to the results."

How about the links under the "Booking" column?
> I'm not arguing that the government is a paradigm of efficiency but cronyism is a huge problem in the public sector as well.

It's not nearly as large a factor, and they're spending their own money, so there's a natural limit.

> If interference by the government can reduce or prevent this, I'm all for it.

The question is not "can reduce" because it's easy to argue that the "correct" govt action could help. The relevant question is whether the govt actions that are likely to happen will be helpful or harmful.

Do you believe that govt actions in the recent past have helped more than they've hurt? If not, why do you think that the next actions will do better?
Tor is designed to circunvent censorship, including SOPA. So yes, it matches the definition.
This is also my understanding.

Which essentially means that you cannot transfer any domains out of GoDaddy without losing your anonymity.
And there's the Gospel Music Association. Could there be anything more opposite to the concept of gospel than the concept of copyright?.

Absurdity.
One would hope so.

It's democracy in action. A list is made of organisations who lend support to a bill that would badly damage our industry and livelihoods. We boycott those organizations in hopes that they might see the error of their ways and withdraw their support for the bill.
I'm judging it as it stands now, not as some document somewhere says it might be one day, maybe, if the developers get around to it. If they don't want people judging it, they shouldn't have released it until they felt it was ready to be judged.

I'm also judging it by criteria used by many UI experts. How DEs approach Fitt's Law is an important metric. The law exists for a reason, because UI experts found it came up again and again in real-life testing.

Defining your own criteria by saying "works for me, wontfix" is also a bit easy.
ASK PG: Could you make a short video about SOPA?
Part of the problem with a lot of the anti-SOPA stuff coming out right now is that it's coming from early to mid 20s guys who are web developers and the like.

No offense (I am a mid 20s guy who is a web developer), but for the general population, it's really easy to just write those people off.

YOU, however, are a respected businessman carrying the title of "Successful Venture Capitalist". A video of you explaining why this is bad is going to carry a LOT more weight than a video of me explaining it.

If you have the time, I think the internet would appreciate it a lot.
I am talking about marketing the program to congress/political figures in charge of funding for the training.

THey would not be the ones taking the training - but the ones spending tax dollars on a service they really don't understand - thus the likelihood for abuse is higher.

I err on the side of corruption when anything pertaining to governments is concerned. Call me paranoid.
You could try saying "nothing". Hollywood is actually doing quite alright, piracy or not.

Alternatively, you could suggest Ron Wyden's OPEN bill. OPEN nixes the the DNS filtering, but keeps some of the follow-the-money measures in SOPA. More importantly, it also requires a full court hearing before any action can be taken.
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