skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of truth in these comments. The most effective change is productive change. Don't like something? Do something that's better. Look at startups like Square who are turning payment processing on its ear, or our project, Ting.com, promising to turn mobility on its ear. Doing a startup that tries to stick it to the man is probably the most effective means of achieving real positive change.

Occupy The Internet!
"The unfortunate reality is that our government is almost entirely manipulated by money"

This is new? You mean some number of years (decades?) ago, politicians completely ignored money?
To those of you who are able to vote in any of the Republican primaries: Ron Paul has always opposed SOPA.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/strange-bedf...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111115/09233216778/ron-pa...
Mmm...short of making a judgment on this, I think as the forces of order and chaos get pushed into closer-range conflict by the ideologues on either side, there are bound to be more violent confrontations until the matter's settled one way or another. Having it settled in favor of chaos would be to basically retain the status quo. Settling in favor of order would be an entirely different internet. Our impact in this, individually is limited. I'm not backing Anonymous by posting this, but I do think at some point we need to pick a side and support not just the logical, but also to some extent the emotional arguments that go along with it.
...because nobody got rich off pharma, and the kind of AI tech on self driving cars has no real world applications.
Here fellow startup guy, have $500 cash 90 days from now.
>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.

If I recall correctly (and wikipedia seems to back me up), it comes from creating firebreaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak ) via controlled burns.
I think some good points are made in this post. People need to start implementing or at least, work toward implementation of changes to the status quo, whatever the industry/sector may be. Unless that happens, it is all moot.
Most people I talk with are already sick of Facebook changing their interface and pretty skeptical about Timeline

Most people 'hate' every single change Facebook has ever made, yet somehow manage to totally forget about it within about two months. People hate change.

Honestly, if "most people" are annoyed that Facebook serves ads based on the content of their profile then they should leave Facebook. Because that's the business model the site operates on.
If I may update Freud…

Anonymous seeks to deny the state the power to censor websites, not because Anonymous wants to do away with website censorship, but because they want to monopolize it.
The advantage of Mars IMO is that it gets all our eggs out of the Earth basket. I'm not pessimistic about our future, but it would definitely be nice to not be living on a single point of failure in the event of a nuclear war, asteroid impact, pandemic, et al. This, I believe is Elon's reasoning as well. However, I don't understand as yet why he's choosing Mars over the Moon. I've heard him say both are good candidates but he's obviously shooting for the former. I suppose the nuclear doomsday scenario would a little more possible to take out both the Moon and Earth. Also life on Earth depends on the Moon for the tides etc... I wonder if he's trying to distance the baskets so to speak.
Hitler reacts to SOPA
I definitely don't mean to imply working 80+hr weeks. Perhaps the parent does, but I personally don't think it's healthy nor do I do I think it's conducive to avoiding burnout let alone happiness. You can work hard in a 40hr week.
GoDaddy: “There Has To Be Consensus About The Leadership Of The Internet”
Pardon me but is that really for parents or am I just a dumb? I am an undergraduate student but I'd expect a more human friendly explanation on this topic.
Nothing like guilty until proven innocent. My favorite part was at the 19 minute mark when he blames the internet for not policing itself.
"Don't cry, Disney holds the rights to that emotion" ... epic.
simply a genetically determine brain configuration

I sincerely doubt this. I think some people like it more in the beginning, so they get the positive reinforcement very early. But I think that what tends to happen is people convince themselves a head of time "This is hard, I'll never be able to do it" which becomes a self-reinforcing thing.
Does this figure include government subsidies? Let's just say that I'll believe it when I see it.
Using mod_rewrite seems like massive overkill here. A simple RedirectMatch will handle it just fine.

Also, I agree strongly with this, and I redirect www to non-www on every domain I control. http://no-www.org/
I don't know of anything. But I'm sure someone can make it.
I think there are a huge percentage more people who dont know the first thing about the emacs kill ring because they tried out emacs and it didnt support the same keyboard shortcuts as every single other application on their computer.

I am an emacs user, I love it, but I avoided it for over a year because it made absolutely no attempt to play nicely with new users, emacs doesnt need to be so hard to new users, it does it on purpose
silverlight...

this is a really sensible way to sort through academic literature though, I may use it in the future.
Indeed, continental Europe is a lot better than the UK. In the Netherlands holiday allowances can roll over for up to five years. My 30 days + public holidays is reasonable in the UK, and compared to the US (where I worked for four years, so have some comparison here) is heavenly.
Notnoop - Java Apple Push Notification Service implementation
Eh, a beginner needs Emacs to be more extended like I need twelve more legs. Emacs is harder to learn than most of the programming languages you'll be using in it. The first thing I tried to do beyond basic open-edit-save when I started learning Emacs was change the colors to something that hurt my eyes less. After extensive Googling and playing around with the things I found, I failed. That's simple in every other text editing program I'd used up to that point, but when given the choice to improve the program's usability or "extend it" and "write cool modes," you're right, Emacs users seem to invariably prefer the latter. I can't blame people for scratching their own itch, but I don't think we should hate on people for trying to help new users either.
Right, which is missing the point. The use case at hand is rebuilding some particular part of the engine (honestly it's unclear to me exactly what was done) with different flags, not reworking the vector librar{y,ies} to use SSE.

SSE wouldn't be a flags issue. Building a vectorized SSE library in "debug mode" would still produce vector instructions.
Boycotting companies who make political donations IS one way of using money to win the fight. We can see which politicians and organizations those companies donate to, which means they need to stop donating or risk dealing with the backlash.

Sorry, but I guess being an "aggressive observer of politics" isn't a valid qualification for dispensing political advice.
> - 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.

Certainly you should never make both www and non-www work without redirecting one to the other. Personally, I redirect www to non-www for every domain I control. However, redirecting non-www to www at least makes both names work.
Another data point, in Ireland, your public holidays (of which Ireland has 9 per year) are not included in your (legal minimum of) 20 days annual leave. So in total, you can get 29 paid days off.
OccupyWallStreet should notice this. A group of people focused on actionable items makes results. A group of people camping in a park makes conversation.

This is such a clear contrast: 1) Set a goal 2) achieve it v.s. 1) Reject any goal setting 2) ???

I suppose the exception would be the response to BoA's $5 fee.

Anyways, good job community. This is effective protest.
Attach centrifugal living quarters to the main base generator...
Because GoDaddy don't support SOPA any more? Or did I miss something during the last hour?
This just out: Musk building a gas pipeline from Venus to Mars.
I have a "dread disease" and came back from death's door and my approach is way cheaper, more effective and more humane (than conventional medical treatments). It all came out of pocket because the expenses were not "medical", they were for eating better and things like that. I'm now in a real mess financially (complete with eviction notice). The general/typical response from people with the same diagnosis who routinely lament the horrors of what gets done to them medically and the egregiously high expense for medical care: I'm a liar, a charlatan and a snake oil salesman.

I don't know what it will take for you to get this Christmas wish fulfilled. But it's a little more complicated than mere scientific/medical research.

Peace and happy holidays.
If someone kicks your dog, and then apologizes, it doesn't change the fact that they're an asshole.
I'm in the same boat, but the solution I found was to drive a old-ish entry-level German car. As badly as I wanted to lease a new M3, six months ago I got a 2005 Audi A4 ("Special Edition" meaning it was factory lowered) instead. It looks snappy and sharp, but does not scream "look at me and my money!"

(I also had it chipped, but that's for sheer driving pleasure and isn't visible by looking at it, obviously).
You already opened the kimono, douchebaggy. I'm not transfering over SOPA:I'm transfering ahead of your support for SOPA II.
Not really. The strong economies of Europe (France & Germany), the ones that are bailing out the other countries, have the highest number of employee rights and annual days holidays. It's the examples of neoliberal 'light touch' countries (like Ireland) that need bail outs.
I commend them for changing their stance, but I've already transferred my domains, and it's not like I'm going to transfer them back now.
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I did this last year and found a new job within 3 months of coming back. (The job is incomparably better than my old job in every way.)

Plus, when your audience is the Hacker News readership it would seem to make little sense to draw conclusions based on the bottom 48% of the population.
I think at least self-driving cars could be explained with: Reducing the cost on acquiring StreetView data.
Interesting that Scribd's on that list.

Something about not throwing stones when your house is made of glass comes to mind.... (Only kidding, PG, only kidding ;)
Contacted a help person @namecheap. when I asked for 50+ domains, was told, there is no bulk discount other than the current SOPASuck type deal. The current SOPASucks is limited to 10 domains.

I Wish there was a bulk discount. Pity namecheap couldn't come up with tiered bulk domain transferring pricing.
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Full release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/11.0a2/auroranotes/
This totally fails on iOS (iPhone). The screen is not resizeable. The left column is fixed, and the right column is cut off.
See prior conversation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985601
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Your app is actually more successful than most of the apps in the App Store: the median annual income per app is less than $1000. See http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-an... for a good analysis. Income in the app store is distributed according to a power law, which means that the most successful apps make thousands of times more than the average. They are the lottery winners, and nothing you do is likely to put your single app in that category.

On the bright side, you've created a cash cow. It requires little maintenance and generates about $100/month. To get that same return from an investment, you'd need a sizable chunk of cash, probably in excess of $25,000. So don't think of your app as a failure, think of it as a $25,000 trust fund. Now go out and create some more.
This is great, and obviously from pressure. I suspect thought that it wasn't the hundreds of relatively unknown sites that turned it around. I'd bet it was Wikipedia. At some point even GoDaddy had to realize that this looks really, really bad.

Thanks Wikipedia. (and I hope they continue the switch anyway)

http://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3387071
It's by no means the only YC company using Godaddy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3384984
There's not enough of us to take out GoDaddy.

Sure there are.

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_ite...
You must not trust any company ever, then. Because that is precisely what a good business will base their "philosophy" on.
My company's data center has suffered a fire at least once in the past 5 years.
I created this little site based on an idea I found on Half bakery (http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Adoptacloud_2eorg).

It uses the Play framework and a mathematica script to detect the clouds.
Fight SOPA, NOW
I'm a Canadian that has worked in a few large, unionized public or quasi-public workplaces as an engineer. In general hours of work, benefits (extended medical / dental) and vacation / sick leave will be better than in non-union private sector workplaces. Salaries tend to higher at the entry-level and comparable at the high end.

However, I have always found employee satisfaction and employee-management relations to be far worse in the large union workplaces.

I believe it is due to the fact that having a big, strong union that is capable of basically strong-arming the employer through the threat of job action (if you operate a nuclear power plant, having your engineers go on strike is not really an option) forces management to concede benefits they don't truly believe employees deserve, and that leads to clawbacks of, well, pretty much everything that isn't in the collective agreement. So you might get your 18 sick days (which you can never use without lying because no one who is not chronically ill gets sick for 18 working days every year), but you might have to fill out a multi-page form to get a new notebook (a paper notebook not a notebook computer).

Look at the sort of treatment that contract or temp employees get in big unionized workplaces - generally awful, and that reflects the company's true attitude toward it's employees.

I'd much rather work in a non-union workplace where I get benefits above the statutory minimums because the company truly values it's employees and understands that people who are treated well are more productive than one where everything I get was a concession to avoid labour strife.

If non-unionized company X gives 3 weeks paid vacation per year (2 weeks is the mandatory minimum in Canada) because they want to, that's much more likely to translate into a great workplace than the 4 weeks company Y gives because their employees are members of a massive national labour union and demand it.

Just my $0.02 from personal experience.
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if i understand correctly, the dunning-krueger effect means i should just accept i am god-like????
That is worth mentioning. I smell an underserved market.
This would never work at Amazon. Fortunately for Amazon, they're not dependent on unions.
The same is true of simply selling the stock, except with a short sell there's a guarantee that it will be bought again. Now, a naked short sell can drive a stock's price down, but it's incredibly risky and can easily bankrupt the naked shorter.
At $50,000 v $27,700 for the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla S is also targeting a different type of buyer, too. The article is almost like comparing a Toyota Camry buyer with a Lexus GS 350 buyer - they're similar but not the same.
You'd be surprised how willing most people are to just rewrite or delete history as it suits them.

I've heard of guys whose ex-girlfriends tore out and destroyed pages of their diaries related to the guy when they broke up.

People delete their half of conversations on forums, Facebook, etc. when they get proven wrong, so it looks like the other party was just talking to themselves.

Someone once asked me to help them remove someone from a photo (not a family photo, a documentary photo of a community activity). "Why?" "Because he was being annoying!" "But this photo could be printed in the paper. He was there. You can't just rewrite history like that!" "It's my photo! If you won't help me, I'll get someone else to do it."

Rewriting history is the norm. Most people haven't read 1984, and I suspect that many that do, don't get it.
I can only laugh at this...
Another interesting case is Quake 3 which used a hand-written stack based VM. They don't introduce much of a performance hit when used wisely.
> old-ish entry-level German car... 2005 Audi A4

Funny... I just bought a new-ish German luxury sedan: 2004 Audi A4. It is newest and most expensive car I have ever owned.

Perspective is a weird thing...
In the 3 jobs I've had in London as a web developer, I've never started with more than 20 days (excluding the statutory ones).
Amazon fails over data centers at least once a year in fire drill testing. Amazon has more backups, testing, and monitoring than 99.9% of small or midsized organizations.
Except SOPA creates new private rights of action. You don't have to convince anyone in the government to enforce, you can go to court yourself against a website.

However, since AFAIK most of the bill only targets foreign websites, you can't go after Facebook or YouTube. You could wait until someone uploads a torrent of your material to ThePirateBay, however...
The introduction (resource 0x1C), 3 minutes long weights only 57,510 bytes once compressed

Truly humbling - a 3 minute intro in 56kb.
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Here's another from last night:

> Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business. We understand there are many differing opinions on the SOPA regulations

Translation: Screw you guys, wait, what did you say Jimmy Wales?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/godaddy-face...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/godaddy-face...
I guess that means I have to follow up on my pledge.
I don't know how tech saavy I am, but I continue to use them because they provide low cost Windows based hosting which is relatively easy to use. Every time I look for an alternative, a comparable level of services is significantly more expensive at other providers. I wish it weren't the case, but it is.
Availability is an irrelevant metric for bulk storage. Durability matters.

Also, less than 99.9% of sysadmins are worth their salt, are you sure yours is?
I definitely agree in principle, but on the other hand, it's really hard to imagine an event that would render Earth less hospitable than Mars. In general, these catastrophes would just make Earth more like Mars.

Nuclear war? Mars is a desolate wasteland that's bombarded with ionizing radiation from space (because it lacks both a sufficient atmosphere and a magnetic field to protect it).

Asteroid impact? Unless it eliminates all of our atmospheric oxygen, ozone, hydrogen and nitrogen and drops the average surface temperature to -55°C, we're still better off here.

Pandemic? If we can protect a colony from the environment of Mars, we should be able to keep at least that many people safe from a pandemic. (Just stick your Mars-bubble in Antarctica if nothing else. It's a lot like Mars except it has better temperatures, an atmosphere that you can breathe if you need to and the water is more readily available.)
I'd flip the "fund" idea around, and make it a "Internet Freedom Supporter Fund"; i.e., anyone who absolutely supports no government controls over the Internet, basing it on the First Amendment.

If each Internet user donated just 1 dollar to this fund in the US, we'd bury SOPA and its progeny forever.
If I'm going to appear in ads, then I want a cut of the revenue, just like every other compensated endorser.
As friends of mine say, it's never over, the line just keeps moving inch by inch, year by year. Try to get something wildly egregious passed, then fall back to just a little bit of what you wanted. Then push forward again, fall back, repeat until toast.
That's true, but my (poorly-made) point was that the Leaf is an actual mass-produced car, delivered to real customers. Creating a niche, hand-made product is in itself hard, but it's the jump to mass production that has killed most new car manufacturers. I hope you are able to buy a Model S in the not-too-distant future, but I wouldn't count on it.
Apple actually supports SOPA http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companie...
"Let's link to a internally consistent version of Groups that doesn't look like the old familiar one..."

Fixed it for you.
Note, though, that MongoDB stays for some statistical calculations.
...and everything looks like a nail.
I'm not a US citizen, and I don't fully understand all of the US laws and such; but doesn't this SOPA bill violate some fundamental freedom of information ideal?

Just because thepiratebay.org exists doesn't mean that the sole use for it is piracy (although copyright infringement is obviously it's first usage). One can go to the pirate bay to see which TV shows are popular, judge whether you would like to watch them based on the popularity, and then go and buy the material from a reputable source.
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The challenge is that we are in Nashville, TN - a city owned by the recording industry.

The good news is that he is a pretty smart guy and has a solid understanding of financial issues. I think talking about the impact to the tech industry in terms of jobs and growth will be the best bet.
Chrome extension lets you know if you're on the site of a known SOPA supporter
You are needlessly cynical, my friend. Money does drive a lot of corporate decisions, but plenty of stuff is done because "it's cool" or out of pure altruism too. It's possible to somehow attribute even altruism to eventual profits (altruism = good image = more business), but do we need to be so cynical?
Managing DNS completely separately is fine, too. I just don't think it's a particularly good idea to use your registrar as your DNS provider unless you're also using it for hosting. I'd much rather point my registrar at my host's DNS than to have to update DNS records every time something changes on the host.
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In that text, I see no claim that he will bring millions to Mars. He just say we should want there to be millions.

The easiest way to get there is to bring a few thousand or even a few hundred people there and let nature do the rest (isn't there a short story from Asimov about this, where a lottery decides the composition of a 500-person star ship?)

Done that way, most of those millions would not be volunteering.