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Contact information for all senators: http://www.contactsenators.com/
Argument for the prosecution, “The Rule of Least Power:”

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower
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Looks like the link to the Sopa Supporters.pdf file was taken down, so here's a backup, courtesy of google docs:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=1-fTQaHJmvOAe78mGBBRSeFdRLoR...
Why do you need an invite? It is open to everybody.
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
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"we pick fruit growing on the side of the road and in people's yards all over the atlanta area and we donate it to local homeless shelters and food banks"

That seems questionable. Normally you aren't supposed to eat anything from near the side of the road because there is often still tons of lead and other contaminants there from the cars. This is especially true of food that comes from trees, because they accumulate these contaminants inside of them.
Since there's no limit on the publication date, "The Conquest of Gaul" by Caesar was a great read for me to do during my daily commute.
We are also being distracted from the NDAA.
Add HN chat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756145

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Secret Cabal (actually already mentioned): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252897
My memory is terrible, but I don't remember having to be invited to Quora, and I have an account.
Misleading facts aside, infographics and Top N lists are a worrying trend on the Internet in which discourse is polluted with mindless content farms that are less concerned with disseminating facts than they are with getting clicks.

I know it sounds elitist, but personally I pine for the years of professionalism and expertise in the media. Crowdsourced content sounds great in theory, but in practice, nobody has the talent/attention span/spare time to do it right.
Hmm, but it shows me I need an invite. Maybe because I'm not from US... http://cl.ly/2g18003S1D3q0v3p1P23
Backup of http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge Websites/SOPA Supporters.pdf
A tip to the entrepreneurs: Get back to basics - "Eat. Sleep. Drink. Fuck."
Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too
Well Alex, you know my take on this. Like our bourgeoning young arts and music scenes, tech is definitely glowing. It's not there yet and probably won't be for a good 5 years. The problem is not talent or efforts or meetups; I think the biggest hurdle we have is culture. Overall the SoFla region is very pretentious, reserved and secretive. Open exchange of information, ideas and effort is the only way we'll break into a setup more like Cali or NY. How we can establish that cultural shift is the real question.
Ask HN: What do you think of HN Christmas 2011 theme?
My first comment would be about black colored links are not readable on maroon backgrounds.
> The root cause of SOPA is a culture of piracy and a lack of participation by leaders in technology to develop better enforcement regulations.

There's a tacit assumption in your post that copyright is still a valid notion that should be protected. That's not at all clear, and society should really re-examine the basic assumptions behind copyright. It's possible that copyright just doesn't make sense anymore and the business models that rely on copyright monopolies should just be allowed to die.

I'm certainly open to being wrong. What are some valuable things that would be lost without decent replacements if we abolished copyright monopolies?
It's rational to recognize tradition - it's a huge millstone around the necks of those who engage in it and changing their minds will be much harder because of it.

But tradition itself is only valuable to cult leaders.
Here's a blog that I've enjoyed reading about bad charts and infographics:

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/

Lots of interesting material there.

(I have no connection to the blog other than as a reader.)
Your design tutorials look awesome, I will be picking them up. Do you have any recommendations for similar books, blogs, etc, that focus on low-level technique for creating user interface elements for iOS? I really like your technique of using layer styles, etc, and have always wondered what are some other tricks of the trade are ways to create realistic UI elements. (I am proficient in Photoshop as a tool, but not really proficient in applying it to the end of creating UI elements.)
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weird - if you want an invite just email me at srmorrisonjit [at] gmail
Someone found a way to bypass the PR dept to let you know that Microsoft's IM networks support lawful intercept (and that company policy supports this).
How is it not an obvious oxymoron to call a language "too powerful"? Imagine a physicist or a mathematician calling a theory "too powerful". It explains too much! You can prove too much with it!

We're not even close to understanding how to reliably make good programs, so naturally we don't understand how to do that with Lisp either. Lisp is just a particularly pure medium for programming. Most of the things people are saying about Lisp ("it allows people to invent their own little worlds") are really just statements about programming.

Oh and one other thing. A pox on the terms "readable" and "unreadable" floating around as free variables. They are hopelessly relative and their prominence in any discussion of programming (or should I say every discussion of programming) renders said discussion pointless. We literally don't know what we're talking about.

As pnathan brilliantly put it in another thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3387432): "Intuitive is just what you've seen before." Bravo, pnathan.
The GPL (v2) sets no specific delay but it also sets no specific deadline by which the code must be released after a request has been made.

While the delays these companies are making are pretty lame and obviously go against the spirit of the GPLv2, releasing code 120 days after product release (or more importantly, from the first specific request for code from a customer who bought the product) is not clearly in violation, from a legal standpoint.
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Bravo!

My encounter with the Google hiring process involved being asked to regurgitate from memory constants from C standard headers. That was enlightening as to the sort of skills valued by the ubermenchen.
Phew, I was scared, thought it was some kind of warning/ban. Thank you for telling me this. A commemorative theme should be lighter.
When they've spent $500k lobbying against, that is when they should be considered forgiven.
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Yeah, drop it please.
Are you a lawyer? Because in the past the advice I've been given is that the absence of a deadline on a requirement does not imply the ability to impose your own choice of deadline. 120 days is clearly far more than would be reasonably required to provide the code.
Love the colored numbers! Not a big fan of the title bar because maroon and black don't mix too well (at least on my screen).
Well I was when it was 1 day from being jammed down our throats. Then it was postponed to the new year, at least the lobbyists in our courts(EFF, Google, etc) have sometime to throw some cash around. And people can do something.

I do think the SOPA Drama was a bit delayed and overblown here on HN.
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What's especially interesting about the HTC case is that they'll habitually trot out the 120 days claim (up from 90 days a year ago) right up until the point where you actually start threatening legal action, at which point the source will usually suddenly appear on their website. The impression I get is that their delaying is nothing to do with any technical requirements on their end - it's purely to keep the source private for longer out of some kind of desire for competitive advantage.
I have couple of questions I hope someone on HN can answer:
One, what exactly is Stratfor? The wikipedia article was far from enlightening. And, two, what did they do to get on Anonymous's bad side? Is this SOPA related?
I think the Dutch are on the right track here. The one thing that is at the core of all of this is the fact that the Internet doesn't work with the old business model of the entertainment industry, i.e. selling units. SOPA and all that other crap is to make the Internet adjust to the business models of old.

I'd be more than happy sign up for an excellent streaming server provided by the entertainment industry and pay some reasonable monthly fee. Of course, I can't sign up to Netflix, Hulu or any of that since I don't live in the States. I think this is another issue you can bring up. A lot of content is pirated overseas since overseas doesn't have, easy, access to it.
I seem to only have colored numbers. My topbar is still orange.
Various stack-exchange sites. I'm more of a hardware type so the Electrical Engineering stack-exchange is the one I frequent most.
While we are focusing on SOPA and the Protect IP Act, we are being distracted from the social problems that lie at the cause of these kinds of bills even being able to see the light of day.
Google+ . I have over 200 people in my HN circle. Do a search here. There are threads where people put there info to add them.
I've used the DMCA against GPL infringers (including the MPAA) - it generally does work in terms of stopping further distribution, but it rarely results in you getting the source code. The MPAA, for instance, never came into compliance. They just stopped distributing.
Democrats get elected by making promises to the people at the lowest end of the spectrum, giving them promises of support in every way they could. And to cover those false promises they end up heckling these corporations which create the jobs and keeps our country and economy moving.

Actually I'd say it is good that it came to HN at least the intellectual community here could know and may be do something about it. There is always next election!
Invite sent. Enjoy! And Merry Christmas :)
Would a type error necessarily produce a "bug" in a program?
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My reply was killed, but I have no idea why, since it seems like a reasonable reply. Here it is again:

I understand that many will say "but there's no way you're going to make any kind of useful layer of abstraction in 10K of code!" I disagree, but that a big can of worms to open up in a HN thread.

Wow, do people really think 10k LOC not enough to build up useful abstraction layers? Tell that to Alan Kay, who is working with the Viewpoints Research Institute working on building a full system (from the OS kernel to GUI apps like document editors) in 20k LOC. While they're not there yet, they have a 200 LOC TCP/IP implementation, 800 LOC graphics system, comparable to Cairo (which is 20k LOC of C if I remember correctly), and many other achievements. [1]
They're able to do this partly due to their language-oriented designs: they create specialized languages for each system. Note that the compilers for these languages are included in the LOC-counts given above. These are not general-purpose languages, but DSLs, and they are written in a language that is specialized for writing languages, naturally. [2]

[1] See the STEPS progress reports for more details: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php

[2] OMeta: http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/
I've considered buying a $50K car used after 2 years. Are there any brands you recommend sticking to when going this route? I know some of them just gouge you on the maintenance costs after 30K miles or so.
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And switch with what? The bastards have us by the balls. I'm in favor of the idea, but I don't see a viable alternative.
While boycotting companies supporting SOPA is important, I feel the excessive focus on GoDaddy is distracting the community from the important issue of actually defeating SOPA/PIPA. The tech community really does not have the size and influence to be able to force even a fifth of the companies to withdraw their support of SOPA.

The overwhelming majority of the effort should be going to calling/sending (physical) letters to one's respective representatives, maybe setting up some sort of a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA, urging tech companies like Google to spend more on lobbying (They can and should be spending more to lobby against the act), etc.

Edit: I was under the incorrect impression that OPEN act would end nonsense like SOPA/PIPA. Edited comment to reflect that.
Looks like you have the best of both worlds. :)
#!/bin/bash
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The title bar it too dark and definitely did not scream Christmas to me; it wasn't until I noticed the colored numbers that I realized what it was. I'd suggest dropping the title and just going with the numbers.
I can only answer One. It is a subscription news service, mainly about international power politics and some economics.
"It's good to be me".

(Though as I was posting this, I briefly got all Marooned, then it went back to standard orange.)
How about just a simple Christmas Tree icon near the Ycombinator logo?

The color simplicity is one of the best things of HN's design.
Looks like GoDaddy didn't actually withdraw their SOPA support: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_ha...
in domains not dollars.
I think they are poking fun at the often-misused technicality that "all Turing-complete languages are equivalent", which is obviously beside the point.
yay numbers, boo top bar.
I think GoDaddy is just an easier target to make an example out of more than anything.
1. And their typical daily transfer-out rate is...

2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.
This is surely just tracking nameserver records (pointing to the Go Daddy domaincontrol.com domain), the actual number of domains transferred in or out may be higher.
GoDaddy Calling Customers to Reverse SOPA Domain Transfers
What evidence do you have that the number of letters has been negatively affected by the GoDaddy coverage?

This GoDaddy coverage has been perfect. If anything, more people know about SOPA than would have done otherwise. If anything, the number of letters being sent will have increased, not decreased.
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I go one further to say that infographics, as referring to the kinds of things that should be produced, should almost always supersede tables of boring figures. As it turns out, even if you're quantitatively minded and interesting in the particular topic being analyzed... it's still better to see a well-designed chart.

I mean, I can't help but look at the chartjunk tsunami and see opportunity instead of just so many dire straights.

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Also I don't feel that the real need is in innovation of new standard charts but instead in the field of merging visuals with quantities in a way that is fluent to human psych.
Call it the Hydra Effect.
Same here, I noticed the title bar first, was somewhat confused as to what the color change was for (though I assumed Christmas), and then I saw the numbers.

If it's really necessary to do something for Christmas why not just a small tree next to the logo, or perhaps replacing it. Changing the color scheme to me doesn't really add much Christmas flair to anything, it just makes the familiar design more jarring.
Nonsense. That's just how it works. Any final bill would still have to pass both (though there can sometimes be shananigans in the conference committee). And nothing is ever really 'killed' – any bill can be reintroduced at any time, the issue is whether the leaders who control the agenda want to give it time/votes.
Right there are people that just don't solve problems by memorization, for me personally, I don't answer questions on the spot. I reflect, I have to understand the need for the problem in the first place before I can even begin to solve it. Due to this I also lock up when someone asks me a memorization question. You can ask me something as simple as "hey what was that guys name?" I can know the person for a decade and by the very nature of being asked to recall it on the spot will cause me to blank. It's not the way my mind works. As such I generally decline to do quizzes for interviews, because I don't think they increase the the odds of hiring talent and worse they can cause a company to damage itself via a bias for a particular personality type.

If a person brings in a working application and shows me that they have delivered and can walk me through logic that they have created, then I can get a feel for a variate of traits that that person posses, further, they can't BS their way through it, they can't grab code off the net and show it and competently tell me what they did. A person that walks through my door and shows me that they have delivered to production a working application instantly scores much higher than an individual that knows obscure language nuances that we all know on this board are hardly ever uses and if you do you a) look it up and b) wrap it behind an API so that future programmers are not having to deal with the obscurity. Many times developers, especially younger developers mistake cleverness for elegance, testing for cleverness does not guarantee that you will have elegant solutions.

On a related note to this subject, there is a quote from Einstein that I really like:

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The premise is that most everybody does have something that they excel at, but that we as humans judge intelligence and productivity in our own image. As such we discount the intelligence of others due to the fact that it is alien to our own. For some that discounting can have a profound effect on those individuals ability to excel.
Stratfor does geopolitical risk consulting.

It's sort of a weird field, I work for a hedge fund so I know that some people do hire these guys / subscribe to their research.

Personally, I think a lot of geopolitical risk analysis work is kind of BS. They are incentivized to freak you out and make you scare of the world so you'll keep buying their research. I was just at a conference where a guy from one risk firm claimed that there was a 60% chance of an attack by the US/Israel on Iran. But he had no real systematic process at work and no track record of making accurate positions, so it's tough to probability weight that kind of scenario from an investor's perspective.

I don't think it's the greatest way to try to make money, but I can understand that guys that are investing in very oil specific/security sensitive plays, this kind of research could add a bit incremental value.
"It should also be noted that for the three days prior to the call for the boycott on Thursday, Godaddy had this amount of transfers out:

that being Monday (8,800), Tuesday (13,000) and Wednesday (14,500)."
Not a very useful statistic considering they must process thousands of transfers a day due to regular business activity. A better stat might be % increase or at least the number of transfers above the average. Admittedly, that would make for a far less catchy blog post.
Indeed. Beware that PIPA is going to be held up as the "reasonable compromise," which also sucks.

http://www.firstpost.com/tech/microsoft-opposes-sopa-whilst-...
Also, unless people are on top of it, it takes more than 5 days usually to transfer a domain. I'd imagine most people who transferred will be waiting through that window of time rather than digging for the hidden confirm quickly option.
Maintaining vigilance is one thing. Resisting a direct and perpetually sustained assault is another. In answer to that question, no, the public can't win. Like a body riddled with unchecked tumors, it will inevitably die - prematurely and horribly.

Make no mistake: private election finance is a cancer upon the Nation. We end it, or it ends us.
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Seriously misleading title.

GoDaddy, with 50,000,000 domains, has lost almost nothing, about 1000 domains, when you factor in new registrations and new transfer-ins.

We would need the historical records to see more into this.

Hell, it might even look like their registrations and transfer-ins are up due to being in the news.

I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this.

Their domain business is a complete "loss leader" operation that costs them about a dollar of loss on each domain they sell.

Hosting accounts is where it counts the most for them and I can tell you few, if any, people will be transferring hosting accounts out as it's a complete pain in the ass.
Intuitive is just what you've seen before.

That is a marvelous aphorism.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3389615
I don't mean to imply that the number of letters has decreased. But if the majority of the community chatter is about boycotting GoDaddy, then that will decrease the focus on other (much much much more important) parts of the campaign which could have a negative effect.
For instance, people may think that they've done their part by boycotting GoDaddy.

It also focusses attention only on SOPA when PIPA is almost as bad.
> track down an example app to hack around with.

Just watch out - as with every language, there is a lot of bad code out there. While I agree with the notion of reading others' code (personally that helps me a lot to learn a new language), I'd go through the Apple-provided sample code before venturing into code of random apps.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article clearly states that the author was laid off. The distinction is important to make because there's a big difference between someone making a conscious choice to leave a job as opposed to being forced out of it. Especially when you're leveraging it as the headline.
Kind of hard on the eyes if you ask me. The contrast is off.
I have written a basic chat application using node.js, what do you guys think?
it also sets no specific deadline by which the code must be released after a request has been made

I imagine that 120 days would not be seen as reasonable in terms of a license/contract when the words are "upon request." Hyper-legalisms like "no specific deadline" are irrelevant.
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You've probably hit the karma threshold where you can set the top bar to any color, and have the default color set (if you go to your profile page there would be a "topcolor" field)
Please don't trot out the "-ism" card. Yes, the OP's words were a bit flippant and perhaps insulting, but older generations are, on average, more conservative and less tech-savvy than younger generations. That's just how it is; it's not insulting to the older crowd, it's just what one would naturally expect. But, all this tends to present a real problem when the law clashes with technology.
I dig the numbers and am somewhat ambivalent about the top bar. It doesn't really bother me, though.