skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has said the bill would "criminalize" the Internet, and warns it would create a Web censorship regime similar to ones used in authoritarian countries like China.

>Smith says his bill does not apply to lawful websites, and opponents like Google are "spreading lies" about the legislation

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/200133-g...

Lamar Smith has basically been calling the politically active chairman of his $17.5K donor a liar for the last two weeks or so.
The inference of this thread and its title is straight out of a tabloid rag.

Witch hunt much?
No, it's limited in scope.
Inside the Pentagon’s Alt-Medicine Mecca, Where the Generals Meditate
It seems like a very useful extension. Why do you think that just because you've never seen a civilian implementation of this extension that it doesn't exist? Perhaps privacy is more dead than you think.
http://screencast.com/t/rkNToSXX8
Pandora's Box: Adam Curtis Documentary about society and science
Lies Entrepreneurs Tell
Even profitable firms fleeing California
You can bundle a Python program up into an executable with things like py2exe and cx_Freeze, and it will do most of the grunt work of bundling up any necessary dependencies (scripts, stdlib stuff, DLL's, etc.) into the .exe.

(It's been a while since I used either of those tools, so there may very well be other alternatives around now.)
Ask HN: Best lisp IDE for a newcomer
A friend in high school wants to start learning lisp and is having trouble setting up an IDE. I'm a hardened Emacs user with directories of dotfiles, but I realize my setup has a huge learning curve.

What would you recommend for him? Has anyone tried lispbox?
Yet I have had trouble with having the "right version of Java runtime" installed in order to run programs, especially on Mac OS X where you sometimes cannot upgrade Java without upgrading the OS. I think there is still an installation/compatibility issue to consider. No free lunch.
9 Underground Economies
Not just that, but these donations have all been made prior to SOPA becoming an issue so there's really no legitimate reason to make any connection here.

To draw an analogy, the CIA once supported Osama Bin Laden before September 11, 2001. We don't blame the CIA for what happened to us, do we?
Just curious: Why does it cost $10 a year to maintain a database entry?

Does this aggregate into hosting a DNS lookup service (hardware + bandwidth + support staff)? It still seems expensive for what it is.
Sounds like regular, run-of-the-mill complete lack of communication between various disparate branches of a any large multinational corporation.

The "internet" side of things were probably run with very little oversight beyond bottom-line targets (which distributing the software off ad-loaded pages no doubt helped).
I agree. If you know you're writing something that is un-idiomatic or you think its intended purpose will be a surprise to most readers, put a comment in explaining why.

// we need a heap object so we can synchronize on it later
Boolean b = new Boolean(true);
Up next: red-octothorpe-free zones.
At uni we first learned to program java using just the command line and emacs.

Though working on a big project or just simply wanting to get up and running fast a good text editor or an IDE is so nice to have. I hate having write my own getters and setters, or just simple the psvm method.
I had Sonic a few years ago here in San Francisco. They're customer service was awesome and I liked supporting a local company. Plus, they basically don't have data caps and if you're lucky, you might be able to (someday soon) take part in their fiber rollout.

We have Comcast now, who is the anthesis of Sonic, so we're thinking of switching.

If you live in San Francisco, then you can also try MonkeyBrains.net wireless internet. I have a friend that loves it and it's $35/mo for 'up to' 20mbs.
Multiplicity in Action Photoshop Tutorial
Avoid .cx for this reason as well.

We all saw what happened to goatse.
Thanks for this submission. I'm currently learning iOS development for the specific purpose of building an application. Ironically, my biggest obstacle has been choosing a path from the numerous options that can be found online. I've decided to pick a path that I find credible and stick with it regardless of its optimality. Your path is the way.
How to Ace a Google Interview
How the iPad is changing Christmas
Ask HN - books/resources on distributed computing?
For a total beginner like me, what tool should I start with? Hadoop?

I know Java (though its been a while since I programmed in it). Any recommendations on books/resources?
Reliance Communications Blocked Access To All Major File Sharing Services
One of my favorite things to do in java. Save anything to XML, it even handles all the objects your objects are pointing to. All you need to do is make your objects serializable. Then java handles everything else using reflection.

public void saveAll(Object[] objects) {

File file = new File(filename + ".xml");

try {
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
XMLEncoder xenc = new XMLEncoder(bos);

for (Object o : objects) {
xenc.writeObject(o);
}

xenc.close();

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println("File not found");
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("Some other error");
}
}
Are the springs too tight in your startup?
I don't think this patent was specifically targeting Skype. If you search for the keyword Skype, it actually says that the method may or may not work for VOIP applications.

Besides, the patent was filed back in 2009, long before Microsoft acquisition in Skype.
I agree, however I find keeping good code coverage in tests is still important in haskell. The other day I had to fix a bug that I had introduced while running hlint in a module that was not being tested. Oops.

WRT hlint, I've not seen it point out any actual bugs in code, it only finds ways to golf it, in my experience. It doesn't even find a few common performance impacting mistakes like length foo > 0 ==> not (null foo). OTOH, its quite a beautiful tool, especially if you look at the implementation of checks, which is this simple and beautiful:

error = take (length x - 1) x ==> init x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)
TheraBreath for Tonsil Stones
Apple’s iPhone, iPad account for 90 percent of mobile purchases
SOPA gives all siezed domains to godaddy. It is corporate welfare for them.
Mark Zuckerberg - Inside Facebook - BBC Interview
Health benefits of playing video games
> Even if they DID need a license you are out of line to suggest they are automatically infringing and didn't just purchase the commercial license.

Well. You do need a license. No question about that. I did not say they are infringing the license, I was saying that unless they bought a commercial license for it they would be. Maybe bad wording on my part but when I read that article the security implications did not nearly strike me as much as the fact that the game has to ship libmysql.

I find that much more surprising than the fact that it uses a world writable MySQL database for the editor support.
It's all custom code.

The fitness function is the human's taste for beauty which cannot be formalized in a direct way. As I suppose genetic libraries are only solving the cases when the fitness function can be expressed formally.
I find it unlikely too. But what's interesting is how this can be perceived as bizarrely hypocritical. For the last 10 years to this day you can go to CNET and Download.com and get software that induce/facilitate/enable piracy, such as Kazaa.
> these donations have all been made prior to SOPA becoming an issue so there's really no legitimate reason to make any connection here.

What proves that bribing politicians is an endless game.

> To draw an analogy, the CIA once supported Osama Bin Laden before September 11, 2001. We don't blame the CIA for what happened to us, do we?

What do you mean with "blame"? Of course the CIA didn't plan 9/11, but was it smart to support such an assassin as Osama bin Laden? Was it smart to support Saddam Hussein? The list of mass killers supported but the CIA is endless. No wonder some of them end attacking us.
> the Penal Code.

Which penal code?
I recently last sentence is social democracy in a. nutshell.
That shouldn't be surprising, the passing of SOPA is much larger than a $17.5K donation.
The "downgrade" option needs to be more prominent. Many people are dependent upon Comcast for Internet (and perhaps phone), but might consider dropping the cable TV portion of their service to a lower level if not altogether.

A problem with Comcast is that they lock their pricing into "packages" and contract periods that can be difficult to escape/avoid. (Another example of the scumminess of the industry.)
Have a social life(not refering to facebook or google+). take time for your friends and family. Talk to them regularly and don't lock yourself into any dark room- thats my mantra.
I think its a great way to show people that they can link to a part of your web page.
Who wants to live in a world where the rules of life stipulate that only one person can meet the definition of success?
Let's all celebrate ageism. Yay!
The infographic being criticized in the article, an infographic trying to make a point about a public policy position, may not have used the most meaningful fact in the first place. If the issue is cost of imprisonment per inmate per year, then the correct comparison is to the spending per full-time student per year, which at Princeton and several other universities is higher than the billed full list price tuition, because Princeton has other sources of revenue besides tuition.

Spending per full-time student figures are collected by the United States federal government, by law, and are reported on the College Results website maintained by a nonprofit organization.

http://www.collegeresults.org/search1b.aspx?institutionid=18...

AFTER EDIT: While doing other things away from my computer, I thought about how the submitted article relates to the culture aspired to here on Hacker News. In February 2009, Paul Graham wrote an article "What I've Learned from Hacker News"

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

looking back on the first two years of Hacker News. He wrote then, "There are two major types of problems a site like Hacker News needs to avoid: bad stories and bad comments." He thought at that time that the steps Hacker News takes to keep out bad stories have been largely successful, and to this date there haven't been any big technical changes (certainly never downvotes on submissions) to screen out bad stories. The author of the submitted article says, "Think before you link" in her example of an infographic about the problem described in the article, and goes on to say, "So before you pick up that infographic, give it a good, hard look." This is the desired culture here on HN. Early in my 1132 days of participation here on HN, I asked more experienced participants if the expectation here is that links are submitted for comment, even if the submitter disagrees with the link, or if submitting a link is an implicit endorsement that the link has at least minimal quality. The participants who kindly replied to my question overwhelmingly said that I and participants here in general should just submit links that they endorse as worth a read, not crap links to stir up comments of disagreement. I agree with the author of the submitted link here that infographics are too eye-catching and resist efforts at fact-checking, and that is is worthwhile to check the underlying sources and facts before passing on a link to an infographic. Way back in 1954 the author of How to Lie with Statistics

http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/039...

pointed out that some lies about statistics are most easily performed with display graphics. Readers have to be on the lookout for such issues.
Yeah, I find this hard to believe too. My perception is that Verizon is somewhat less corrupt than Comcast overall though. When I lived in Baltimore City, Comcast pulled off some maneuvers with the City Council to keep their monopoly and keep FioS out. I'll be moving soon, so look at Verizon and smaller vendors if I can.
What is the the breakdown of iPads being purchased versus other tablet devices?
You don't love it. Why do people keep saying that "I love how..." when they don't really do. It's arrogant and stupid.
Can you propose an alternative? I'm considering converting my blog to a static site with Octopress/Jekyll and need a commenting mechanism. I dislike Disqus as a user, but I know of no self-hosted alternative.
Of course Elon Musk built his own character around Tony Stark of the comics, so the development is circular.
Knuth's Christmas Tree Lecture - "Bayesian Trees and BDDs"
This is phenomenal. I took a university course in Bifurcation theory and throughout the course, the language used in trying to explain the concepts were the inhibiting factor in understanding what was going on. We benefited greatly from a visual approach. You get to skip over a mental translation medium and swim in the concepts. Thanks for this.
Googlighting.com: Is Google’s Android-controlled light bulb closer to market?
Dragging this point up could make Google uncomfortable donating to this person again, and through this perhaps make him to not support random bills of highly questionable nature next time around. It doesn't matter if it were just $1, it's the publicity that matters.
Modiikasi Motor Terbaru Dan Kategorinya
Modiikasi Motor Terbaru Dan Kategorinya ini merupakan suatu momentum untuk tehnik bagaimana konsep merubah tampilan dan peforma mesin agar sesuai dengan keinginan pemiliknya disini sesuai dengan judul diatas akan dijelaskan beberapa konsep untuk memodifikasi motor agar tampilan dan peformanya nanti setelah finising menjadi suatu hasil yang terkonsep
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Did not realize they were exempt. That explains it.
Tell HN: I'll donate 4 hrs tomorrow to a charitable project, continue in 2012
Was going to say the same thing. I didn't look at the masthead until I got to the part about the evil Islamic human rights organization that cared a lot about the reporter's Jewish name, whereupon I thought "what the" and, ahh, it's The Weekly Standard. Of course.

Let's all be clearheaded about what's going on here:

This is an article that says that the Chinese are rounding up protesters and warehousing them in military prisons until party officials show up with organ troubles, whereupon doctors are sent in to take blood from the prisoners to find matches so that those prisoners can be carefully executed (by gunshot) so that their organs can be harvested while the prisoner is still alive.

This extraordinarily claim is backed up by... an anonymous source.
King William's college general knowledge quiz
Extremely tough to read.
The sorted sets make leaderboards pretty trivial to implement, too.

I've got one set up in MySQL and I'm pretty scared of how it'll cope if we get a surge in usage, and that's with Memcache sat in front of it.
This is coming from the very highest levels of government. So your logic about ill-equipped offices or inadequate training does not apply to them. They are billionaires many time over. The minister who is the brain behind this legislation is one of highest paid lawyers in India so you can't assume that he is not able to comprehend the digital laws and their consequences. They are taking these measures to stifle the voice of middle class which is most vociferous against corruption. So your attempt to generate needless sympathy for them is unfortunately not grounded in reality.
> If you walked up to a representative and say, "I have these many thousands of members in your constituency, all of whom manage or work in large companies or other institutions and we suggest you do this or that" then that politician is likely to take notice.

Nope. He'd say "you and everyone else who talks with me".

Most House members represent about 720k people. (310M/435 and small states get at least one regardless of population.) On almost any issue, there are "thousands" of people on both sides.
The report doesn't seem to break this down into iPad vs phone/pod which is annoying. I use my ipad for purchasing but very rarely my phone, but maybe this is unusual.
If you're thinking of Google and SOPA, not it's not, because bullets and guns didn't exist when the dollar was given.

You're thinking of the CIA and bin Laden I assume...
It is talking about people making purchases through retailer's websites from mobile devices, not app purchases or anything along those lines.
I'm really trying to keep an open mind about HNN and the quality of tech talent out there, but seriously? I mean, on so many levels... seriously? When you read stuff like this read the date.
"live in the bay" - do you mean the San Francisco Bay Area? Sonic.net and ATT are possible alternatives if so
True. It would be legislation in support of their pagerank method where sites are penalized for copyright infringement. Yet SOPA is the beginning of the policing and sterilization of the internet, so it will one day look and feel like a big company intranet.
I think the iTunes gift card is a huge factor in this. Anyone in my family who owns an i_____ device receives these things routinely for birthday/Christmas gifts from relatives who don't get them something personal. The Android market doesn't have gift cards in your local Walmart/Target/whatever for people to just easily pick up as gifts.
This is much more difficult than switching registrars. Where I live, there is a duopoly for broadband internet; Verizon and Comcast. And Comcast is by far faster and provides more reliable service; Verizon FiOS is supposed to be reasonably fast, but for some reason, they only offer it in the suburbs, not in the city.

If there were an alternative that were even remotely competitive, I would go with it. As it stands, Comcast is the only game in town unless I want to dramatically cut my connection speed for only a modest reduction in price.

edit: Actually, I just checked. Even Verizon DSL is not available to me. I guess I live in a monopoly market. I've tried checking if RCN is available, but their system always chokes on my address (the street name has "Saint" in it, which is often abbreviated to "St" in databases, which confuses some address matching algorithms for obvious reasons).
Show HN: Tap into christmas all around the world with this holiday mashup
I had Sonic for many years, back in the days of dail-up, but then comcast started offering high speed where I was living - stuck with them after I moved again (out of laziness), but this is the perfect opportunity to go back to Sonic
Facebook Is Building A Social Networking Playpen
Just as a thought exercise, I wonder what kind of ramifications we would see if a registrar shut down a major domain name like google.com or facebook.com (beyond the obvious lawsuit; what would come of that suit?).

Lost revenue for either company would very quickly exceed the value of the registrar.
The Textbook Security Project
Please, don't just upvote! I'm looking for an organization or project that can use my help. I want to hear suggestions.

My skills:

* C (I haven't written a compiler, but I'm pretty experienced with the lesser-known intricacies of C)

* Web development, Python, and Django (I created Freeversation and have two more projects in the works)

However, I can help with anything else as well! I'm a well-rounded coder with some degree of experience in lisp, ruby, C#, Java, and Javascript. I can also help with marketing, writing, or design.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Let me know if I've done something wrong.
just mashed this together in ps: http://i.imgur.com/nW7ut.png somebody probably can improve a bit on shading and proportions - but you get the idea...
10 Ways I'm Going to Improve in 2012
The alternative is that they figured out a whole new business model where you donate to your opponents.
Notes on video: running a startup on haskell
Name.com is pretty bad too http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...

Basically: They opt customers in to a "service" where they show ads on any subdomain they haven't setup a DNS record for. Name.com keeps all the money, but the TOS says that you are responsible for making sure that they content that they choose to display on your domain is legal.
Pay To Stay: Why Google renewed it's deal with Mozilla for $300m/year
Which laws? In Internet-related cases, this is often ambiguous.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+function
I fail to see what the problem is being 'stuck' with AMD, Linux, and Gimp. We we would no longer have the abuse of patents, propriety standards and DRM which in the end would benefit consumers.
And? Let's be honest here, even if this was done AFTER SOPA became an issue, it's chump change and hardly makes any difference. But this was all done before SOPA, and Google has already made their stance on it quite clear, hence why there is no more donations after June of this year.

Furthermore, we ALL know that politicians NEVER change their stances on anything! We all knew Smith was for SOPA since 1987 when he was first elected, which was clear-cut then and his stance has never changed! /Sarcasm
Abstractions are partial and leaky models of the thing they abstract over. When you build your system as a tall, skinny tower of small abstractions, you are trading one problem for another. Eventually you will need to thread some new functionality all the way through your stack, or you will have to debug a problem that requires understanding cross-layer interactions, and you will end up spending much of your time fighting your abstraction choices.

Unfortunately there is no silver bullet. No single recipe will tell you how to cut up every project into modules. You have to work hard to find the right decomposition for your problem. Arbitrary size limits are as likely to hurt you as help you.

That said, programmers should indeed strive to write less code, as a rule of thumb.
Google unambiguously opposes SOPA. They have been one of the leaders in rallying opposition. Following is their testimony to the house judiciary committee (Lamar Smith is the chairman)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/73002393/Google-SOPA-Oral-Testimon...
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Oyama%2011162011.pdf

The idea that Google is supporting SOPA is nonsense.
pg- If you're interested in tax laws for startups in Sweden, let me know. I have a good friend who is in the process of IPO'n his startup and is very "money conscious".
I have no opinion about what tool you should use.

As for resources-- I started reading "Hadoop the Definitive Guide" and found it a fairly typical O'Reilly offering, that is to say, well-organized and pretty straightforward. However, I didn't get very far in (I stopped reading it when I realized it was distracting me from things I really needed to be doing).

If you're interested, I can snail-mail it to you. Email my username at lbl.gov.