skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get ahead of yourself buddy.

GoDaddy is the largest and most wellknown registrar out there.

From all accounts, they've lost less since this began than they gain -in a single day-.

This isn't affecting their bottom line much at all, it's just affecting their image with the techie/hacker crowd.

A vital crowd to have a good image with, but their business is literally built on taking advantage of NON-hackers -- let's be honest, how many people here have ACTUALLY bought anything but a domain from GoDaddy, and MAYBE some cheap/crappy hosting?
Complete economic isolation from the earth seems very unlikely, at the very least because it wouldn't actually benefit anyone.
I think you may have just invented 'Agile Protests'!
This is a fair point, but it should be noted that is seems that Christoforo and Kotkin are friends, rather than Christoforo just being some random shmuck.

Should Kotkin be penalized for his friends behaviour? Probably not, but he should be more careful about hiring buds in the future.
I think http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/ is by the same guy as OP, actually - the forum post made many points I recognized from Project Rho.
>The hearing is held, typically lasts no more than an hour, and (usually) an immediate decision is rendered and that is where it ends. Thus, even after this sort of appeal, a lay plaintiff can still have a potentially effective remedy for getting a quick decision.

Doesn't that also apply to the defendant? If the plaintiff can use this procedure, Honda can too. What stops Honda from appealing all of these decisions and getting the vast majority of them thrown out?
I have mostly sufficient ideas for stuff to buy, but I am also probably living in my own filter bubble. I don't even know many web sites to visit - basically I only visit Hacker News, some German news mag I'd like to quit, and a friend's forum.

How do you stumble across a small online toy shop with a choice selection?
Ask HN: Possibilities in the humanitarian space?
It's a common refrain these days that American health care is set for major disruption. I think the same is possible for international humanitarian work. Data visualizations of forced displacement or hospital access, UIs for rural primary care telemedicine, Ushahidi-style real-time mapping of public health incidents via SMS, and web-based knowledge transfer between American physicians and doctors in war-affected regions are just a few ideas. I'm helping launch a new initiative in the Bay Area (www.ideas2impact.org) to build these kinds of tools for non-profits. If this interests anyone in the HN community, please email me at ahilan@ideas2impact.org.
"I hope that the next revolution in online gambling is one where actually money is not required."

That's called Farmville and many other online games. The revolution, in that regard, is here.

Business is all about risk. As an example: when you purchase advertising, you are gambling on the fact that you will get enough buyers to cover the cost of advertising.

Should we ban advertising too?

Instead of trying to protect the world by banning these things, we need to educate more people on their risks. If they choose not to listen, it is at their own peril. Hopefully they will learn life's harsh lessons.
What is the difference between free and paid version of VS? My internet speed/prices doesnt allow me to watch videos online, or download such big software as VS, but I will soon go back to uni in Singapore, so I am starting to think what should I do there in order to earn some cash...
How to get a programming job at a startup (infographic)
Ocean Stratagy? How could either of these misspelled Twitter accounts be legit?
Changing the Volume of Airport Connected Speakers
Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain - David Eagleman.

A much recommended read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Incognito-Secret-Lives-Brain-ebook/d...
Find a good team that'll let you work as an apprentice. You'll learn more in a month from a good team than you will in a year trying to go it alone. If you really want to do it yourself, the hardest part most new Rails devs face is building tests. If you focus on understanding how to build quality tests, the rest will just fall into place as you progress. The tests will help you keep your hands around the entire application as it grows in complexity and also help you build better code. Find some popular new open source Rails apps and sift through how they're handling routes. How do they organize their controller code? How do they build their models? Learning from someone else is always the best approach though. Find yourself a good team you can learn from and you'll save yourself a DIY headache.
Hack a PowerMat for Use in Your Car
Good call - I forgot to do this several days ago when I switched and it introduced an unnecessary delay.
Marketplace for Help: Make side-cash helping others
Visualize sort algorithms using D3.js
I would have tried to keep some kind of pathway clear. This does mean loss of heat as a door is opened, and use of calories to do work.

I would have tried to have some kind of bright orange flag / blanket symbol tied down and cleared to help people find us.

I always ask my family to carry plenty of water, food, and blankets when they travel. They laugh at me. We live in the UK, and one motorway was closed for more than a day by a few centimetres of snow. (Really, less than 2 inches.)

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/road-safety/2738538/Pass...)
Alerta en Nigeria por marea negra de petróleo
Las autoridades de Nigeria han iniciado medidas de contingencia en sus costas tras la declaración esta semana de un masivo derrame de crudo en unas instalaciones de la compañía petrolera Shell a 120 kilómetros de línea de playa.
I mostly agree with you. I don't really think that Apple's technology gap will expand though. Over the next 6 months I can see it happening, but not for the long term. Amazon is supposedly planning on releasing an 8.9-10" tablet in the first quarter. If Apple releases a significantly improved iPad 3 on Steve Jobs' Birthday like the rumors suggest, then whatever Amazon releases around the same time couldn't possibly compete with it. However, Amazon has shows signs of trying to establish a regular release cycle just like apple has. If this is the case then eventually they should be able to catch up a little. Having said that, I think we have a long long time before Amazon makes a tablet that matches the overall experience delivered by the iPad.
I know why GoDaddy is doing this but looking at that list is pissing me off because many of the entries are really the same company. For example, on the list is:

ABC, ESPN, Disney Publishing Worldwide, and Marvel Entertainment, LLC.

They are all owned by Disney, so really that is just one damn company. Other companies are also on there more than once. I bet this list would be a bit shorter if you get rid of the shell games being played here.
I learned Python and some PHP for my turn on the DevOps space.
True. However politicians are the ones who make the rules. And no politician wants to be left holding the bag if a terrorist attack does happen. They want to be seen as having done everything possible even if what they are doing isn't effective.

Sadly, I'm not sure how we can change this dynamic. Will we ever punish politicians for being too hostile to civil liberties? Most people/voters simply don't care.
Same thing happens in the US. Time Warner Cable's web site was offering internet access for the "special offer" of $29.99 a month for the first year. I actually had to call them up on the phone to find out what the normal rate would be after one year -- it was nowhere to be found on their web site. Same type of thing happens with cell phone contracts. Are people really stupid enough to buy a monthly recurring service without knowing what it will cost after the first year? Apparently, the people selling these services think so.
* iPhone 5 will add NFC, which will have advertisers foaming at the mouth as Apple will link to ATV

* RIMM will be brought by a network operator for their operator friendly tech

* Existing iOS and Android publishers will be looking to other markets to get a ROI on their current outlay

* Stephen Elop will jump ship from Nokia

* Nintendo will release something on one of the existing mobile platform (probably more hoping, they should just do a high priced accessory game combo branded for Zelda/Mario for iOS)

* HTML 5 will provide "cross platform apps"
I've been trying to get a sense of how effective these scans are. Asteroid 2005 YU55 was discovered 28 December 2005. It's about 400m in width, which is the length of the biggest vessel we have. When it was discovered, it was 0.8AU from the Earth, and its orbit is inside that of Mars.

This tells me that 6 years ago we did not know all of the +300m asteroids within the orbit of Mars. How much better are we now? I read the page you linked to, but that didn't list actual numbers based on asteroid searches.

There's an estimated 4,000,000 asteroids in the solar system of size 300m or larger. I sincerely doubt that a telescope survey of 5 hours finds 1 million+ asteroids each night, otherwise that number would be pinned down a lot better. (It can't find all 4 million because at 5 hours there's still substantial portions of the sky unseen.)
I've had my 4S since launch. I agree it's overall functionality is more than satisfactory without a jailbreak, but there's a few annoying but not dealbreaking issues that jailbreaking would solve - fast text replies, quick access to wifi and airport settings, etc. I'm not hurting to jailbreak for these reasons, but it is annoying that this functionality has been available to jailbroken phones for a good deal of time.
Web Speech API, Web Speech Protocol + HTML speech elements
I've used oDesk to hire several contractors. Currently, I have a Chinese C++ developer working for me who is bringing in close to $5k per month from my project alone.

I know I could get by on $60k per year but it really depends on what constitutes a 'living wage.' :)
He/She probably provides value in excess of that to his clients. It's not about 'what you do' is about how much value that provides to the client. I can't charge that much for a website to my neighbor because it doesn't provide him much value.

On the other hand tweaking a couple buttons could be extremely valuable to a business that relies on it's website to generate leads. Smart clients don't care how much stuff costs they care how much money it will make them.
Clayton Christensen in his great book The Innovators Solution talks about being "patient for growth not for profit" which I think is a great way to look at it.

I recently asked him on twitter this advice would fit into the likes of FaceBook and others and got a reply back that they where looking into that.

It seems to me that the answer as always is it depends.
In my eyes, a well organized mass-protest is a legitimate channel.
Antigua-based Absolute Poker, which also bought and now owns Ultimate Bet, has been plagued with scandal after scandal with no oversight or intervention by the government.

They also happened to be spending the cash of players, rather than carrying enough cash on hand to cover all obligations to players AND maintaining a firewall that keeps their deposits from being considered part of the corporation.

Many professional players I know are out of significant sums of money. As a player myself, I don't consider Antigua-hosted gaming corporations trustworthy.
Windows 8 Picture Passwords Just a Toy?
I am more interested in the specific details.
Comer menos mantiene el cerebro joven 
Un equipo de investigadores italianos de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón en Roma (Italia) ha descubierto una molécula llamada CREB1 que se activa en el cerebro de ratones sometidos a una dieta baja en calorías. Según publican hoy Giovambattista Pani y sus colegas en la revista Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), la molécula activa a su vez a genes ligados a la longevidad y al buen funcionamiento del cerebro. “Nuestra esperanza es encontrar un modo de poner en funcionamiento a CREB1, por ejemplo a través del fármacos, para mantener el cerebro joven sin necesidad de llevar una dieta tan estricta como la que siguen los roedores”, explica Pani.
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Not even just a bill you like, a bill that doesn't actively hurt many of their present customers and the community as a whole.

GoDaddy's not just the asshole at the party, GoDaddy's the one who's been calling the cops.
All correct. I would also add that I (along with many other non-Arab muslims) had read the Koran at a very young age in Arabic phonetically without understanding what it means. As far as my parents (and our sunday school teachers) were concerned, it was just as good. It wasn't until later that I tracked down a translation.
The logo looks like Tide.
I've seen Bob Parsons lording over an elephant's carcass as if his contrived conquest of nature by a man with superior force and unlimited money was an incredible accomplishment. I don't care if elephants are a pest in Zimbabwe, his glee over killing such a majestic animal seems out of place. If he wants to kill something, he's welcome to come to some wildlife areas here in Maryland and cull the deer population when we have annual bow hunting season.

I've passively suffered through Godaddy's blatantly sexist use of women to sell the company's services. There is no other company that I do business with that runs this kind of advertising. Imagine the kind of hellstorm one of the Y Combinator sites would endure if they decided that a Godaddy-ish marketing plan was right for them as well.

I've fought my way through the Godaddy site each time I've wanted to register or renew a domain, once even confused to the point where I've had to call their support line to make my way to something that should be obvious to find. I'm tired of breathless upsells, scary threats about needing things I don't need, and a ten-step process that attempts to push their lame-ass additional products.

For me, Godaddy's SOPA support was just the last straw, the one that finally made me get up off my ass and do something about paying money to a company whose morals and practices I despise. Think about those other issues before you give Godaddy a pass for its SOPA reposition.
When the Obama Administration put forth a package of proposed financial reforms a few years back, one of their suggestions was that every mortgage lender would be required to make its most prominent offering a “plain vanilla” mortgage that amortized in 30 years and had a simple fee structure. Needless to say, this requirement did not make it into the final law.
As mentioned in the post, David Weber's Honor Harrington series operates very much like this. I've read a few of them and enjoyed it. Nuances in space combat in his stories tend to be important.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber#Honor_Harrington_se...

Also, it's worth watching this scene from Mass Effect 2. It's amusing :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GqqDCe4Yrs
Men who are inappropriately aggressive get kicked in the balls, then get called a bitch (by men) or loser (by women). Alternately they are simply considered irritating and are ignored until they go away. If there's an equivalent insult in this case, it's "aspie."

Men might be able to be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch, but that's minor compared to the other consequences that face by being aggressive.

> You have to be an order of magnitude more aggressive to be an "asshole" than you do to be a "bitch."

One caveat being that for men, balancing aggression and restraint tend to be learned early and if there's no reason to challenge the hierarchy there's no reason to be aggressive. Women, on the other hand, who are thrust into male-dominated environments without understanding the rules may fail in a variety of ways. They may fail to use appropriate body language. Their voice might betray too much emotional investment in the outcome. They may persist on unwinnable points where men would back down (iow fail to choose their battles effectively).

If you've dealt with successfully aggressive women, they are rarely called "bitch" unless they are truly hostile or by angry people who have lost control and pick the first insult that comes to mind (see the movie 'Crash' for some excellent examples of this phenomenon as it applies to racism). Typically you will notice that these women are comfortable adopting male body language, probably have a deep and confident voice, and are far more emotionally restrained than average women. They are typically physically intimidating (a saleswoman or CEO). They are capable of aggression and assertiveness without being called a bitch because they have learned to do it in a masculine way.

What women can't do is be aggressive without sacrificing femininity.

> I can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew

Women who are loud in the way that men are loud are never called shrews. They are maybe called unfeminine but usually it's just something like "she's type A." Women who are loud in the sense that they complain constantly about small things and provoke arguments which they try to win by shrieking as loud as possible is the definition of a shrew. I think you'll find that's far rarer for men to behave that way.
Didn't Chris Dixon say, "Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will." Here's hoping you guys lead the charge on disrupting the legal system.
No. I'm not sure if I'm the best person to talk about it. But if I can give you an advice, it's: Go and do it. I didn't know that my skills at that time weren't high enough, so I went and I did it. I learned everything (programming, marketing, writing, handling clients, running a business...) in the road. And yes, I was alone. There are no developer/freelance culture in my small city.
'I yell, “Thomas Jefferson said, 'those who would give up their liberty for their security deserve neither.'”'

Actually that was Ben Franklin. But otherwise, bravo.

For all the talk of moving your domains on the 29th to boycott godaddy's support of SOPA, I wish an 'assert your 4th Amendment right while flying' day would work, but I don't think it would because the vast majority of people (even those who are supposedly activist-minded) are only willing to protest when the cost to do so is very low.

That's why godaddy is a whipping boy and the TSA is more powerful than ever.
Absolutely. I've seen quite a few friends literally wreck their lives by playing WoW and other MMORPGs.

I used to play poker with a group of local friends. It started off friendly enough ($50 tournaments). They started playing a lot of cash games and the table stakes got crazy (e.g. $1k+ hands). Needless to say, I left that group behind.

It's a matter of personal discipline. If you can't afford to throw the money out the window, you shouldn't be playing. I play because I enjoy the game and the company of friends.
Wait a minute, aren't you the guy who is arguing FOR the War on Drugs for exactly this reason? To protect us from the addicts?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392857
Seconded. I have a couple of friends who did the same thing. They did contracts on eLance for about 6 months until they had enough clients coming directly to them. I'm sure their current rates are an order of magnitude higher now than they were during the eLance days.
Stupid things I've seen:

* Server space. We had a shared server where, for some reason, /home had been placed on a tiny partition. Someone must have thought this would encourage responsible use of space, but in practice it just prevented real work from getting done. It was a 2000's solution to a 1990's problem.

* Coffee. It's extremely valuable to have one or two varieties of coffee on hand, hot and fresh at all times. Assign someone this task. We had infighting over pots left empty, and angst over cold left-over coffee in the morning. All because the office manager thought it was beneath her to make coffee.

* Books. I have never worked at a company that had a book allowance. When asked, I was told it just wasn't in the budget. Meanwhile, I've been sent, along with coworkers, to awful, multi-day conferences for "training" (it wasn't training, it was a conference).
Jason's point still stands. This "joke" is old and boring and contributes nothing.
Are You Stuck in a Girls' Club?
Company sues ex-employee for his Twitter followers
"Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala" at Strange Loop.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Data-Structure...
Do you mind sharing pricing info for the private cloud?
EDIT: NVM, I see 1,800.00 on the costs page per month...what does that include?
It was definitely an interesting read, however, I feel that fundamentally, for humans to reach the point where space combat is even feasible we will have solved so many more important problems that there won't be a need for fighting in the cosmos. Earth, in general, is at peace. We are largely struggling against terrorism, radical groups, and internal genocide rather than full scale, nation-on-nation wars.

No two democracies have gone to war, ever, and that's an important indicator of our future. Don't get me wrong, we have A TON of human rights, poverty, and equality problems, but things are rapidly improving directly proportional to our technical capabilities.

By the time we can even construct two ships capable of having a realistic fight in space we're more likely to send them exploring rather than duke it out. All current governments even capable of dreaming of getting in to space work together on the problem, sharing resources and knowledge.

To recap, we'll never go to war in space. I also doubt any other intelligent life with the capabilities to do so will need to attack us because they've solved any problems requiring them to do so.
Was anything filed with the Police?
Primarily devops consulting. $250/hour is what I'll charge for emergency work from unknown entities, poorly managed entities, or for piece work from customers who aren't likely to be a significant source of project work. For small projects I don't bill hourly, but rather I'll decide that a piece of work is about 4 hours of my time, and that I'm uninterested in doing it for less than $1k.
It'll start breaking into little blobs, though, which will have less and less power.
Reaching even a small proportion of the speed of light requires prohibitively high amounts of energy. Let's consider the energy required to accelerate Haley's Comet (relatively small at 2.2e14 kg) to half the speed of light (v = c/2):

E = mc^2 / sqrt(1 - v^2 / c^2) ~= 1.15 mc^2 = 1.15 * 2.2e14 kg * (3e8 m/s)^2 = 22.77e30 J

For comparison, the Earth absorbs each year about 3.85e24 J of solar energy, so we're talking about six million years of total incoming solar.

Assuming two societies with similar technology, it will cost vastly less energy for the defender to give the object a small nudge than it cost the attacker to propel it in the first place. The attacker would do much better to invest into a fleet of ships that can respond to contingencies and adapt to the defender's response.
You have no obligation to consumer anything.
GoDaddy Officially Removed From The House’s List Of SOPA Supporters
A missile is likely to be more efficient and cheaper, by a massive margin. Otherwise, none.
Gosh, i explained REST to my wife by explaining that it's just HTTP and then sending her a link to Roy Fielding's doctoral dissertation. So frustrating to assume that women can't be perfectly competent hackers in their own right.
If the Lumia comes to Canada soon, I'd definitely get on it. I really enjoy C# as a language and wouldn't mind trying my hand at developing apps for WP7.

Love how Mango looks as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
Seems like a prime opportunity for an enterprising designer to infographic that list up. I'll guarantee you that it'd go nutty viral on the big tech sites.
Basic Tutorial of Template Haskell