skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SOPA's main objective is to give the US government an easy, legal way to shut down sites for a variety of reasons.

Piracy is a pretense.
Something we don't necessarily see is what sort of after-retirement deals they have lined up that may be in the millions. I'm sure there are other sources as well. But in general, politicians are pretty cheap.
Exactly, I always thing 'what's the worst that could happen?' as a motivational exercise is for people who lack imagination.
If you're on OS X, I sell one for $2 on the Mac App Store - http://www.uresk.net/httpclient/. I'm working on a major update, and I'd be interested in hearing some more details about the features that would make a tool like this useful to you.

If you (or anyone else on HN) want to check it out but don't want to shell out a few bucks for it, send me an email (<my username>@gmail.com) and I'll get you a coupon code for a free copy.
If this device can stream 1080p content, the hardware is powerful enough to do anything you said. The rest is just software.

If you're implying that Android cannot get behind the iron curtain of iOS APIs, then you are missing the gist of GP's point, which is that this device suggests that Apple could make something smaller than Apple TV. (I didn't downvote you.)
A pull request or issue created on https://github.com/twilio/hurl would be fantastic :)
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Massive federal program falls short of goals. Astonishing.
I admire your enthusiasm and dedication. But are you sure this is for you?

With no programming or design experience, a less than stellar idea (sorry) and apparently no business model, why are you trying to "get rich quick" in the app scene? In my opinion, if you hang around the tech scene/sites for too long, you begin to believe that succeeding in this space is easy. It's not.

It's sometimes treated as blasphemy 'round these parts, but have you thought about getting some corporate experience? You will reveal to yourself a whole other world of problems that need solving (B2B, a huge space) as well as learning how to really model a business. Worst case, you'll become reinvigorated to work for yourself.
Seems like in such a system you've gone to a lot of work to recreate the purpose of a filesystem: to keep the data of different files separate from each other. Why do you want to keep emails together in 10MB chunks?
This guy's site is full of fascinating stuff. Check it out.
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper
Hurl.it was originally created by Chris Wanstranth and Leah Culver at the 2009 Rails Rumble. We (Twilio) just took over maintenance of the project because it has some obvious utility when testing URL callbacks and webhooks. We want to make some improvements to it, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them. You can post them here or create an issue on the current home of the project on Github: https://github.com/twilio/hurl

And you can follow @hurlit for updates
100 Myths
"I don't see how an Android dongle will allow you to do any of that."

Then you didn't watch the video on the article, which showed most of exactly that happening with this dongle and its accelerometer-enabled remote.
YouTube tries out HTML5 player
If you're running Silverlight, unless you pirated Windows, you've paid for it.
I did this a few years ago and never looked back. Had a tad bit of apprehension about it but I simply don't miss cable or satellite and the thought of paying at least $60 a month to have loads of useless content jammed with commercials strikes me as a scam.
The rules, for anyone else who doesn't want to squint at a faded, crooked scan:

Al Casey's Rules for Success

SOME DO'S AND DON'TS UPON TAKING A NEW JOB -- (NOT IN ANY ORDER OF PRIORITY) -- ALL ARE IMPORTANT

1.	If you want to get ahead in this world become a highly-concerned observer of the passing scene.

2.	LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN -- don't try to show off your knowledge -- it will become known as you use it -- if your mouth is open you are not learning.

3.	Mentally challenge everything -- not vocally -- particularly the assumptions that you are built into the situation.

4.	Really listen to your peers -- get them to like you -- they are your best resource.

5.	Do all possible to help your boss raise his/her status.

6.	Develop a business plan for every assignment you are given -- allocate your time and resources -- develop calendar checkpoints.

7.	Your availability is your most important asset -- it should be directed up, down, and sideways.

8.	Work at giving the perception and the fact that you are aware of the feelings and goals of others.

9.	On entering a new situation, get an organization chart of your department showing names and responsibilities of your peers -- walk the halls and let others see you.

10.	Ask for help and show that you appreciate it, is the best way to make friends.

11.	Do not try to impress others by relating your educaion, travels, or accomplishments -- they will all become known in time.

12.	Do what you say you will do -- if you can't, let that be known.

13.	Your first assignment is to become part of the team and not its leader.

14.	Be early and stay late -- do not plan any social luncheons for the first six months.
> people don't have the means to keep themselves healthy.

Isn't that true only for US. Is employment also dysfunctionally tied to health insurance as it is in US?

> What is the end result of growth that makes societies "better"?

It depends who you ask. If you ask owners of large corporations they will look as GDP for a metric of how great a country is going. Doesn't matter if life expectancy is terrible, infant mortality, crime and corruption are high, no middle class, people living in shanty towns as long as GDP is booming the country is considered a success.

If you ask people what is makes a country good, they wouldn't care much about GDP, they would point to healthcare, crime, lack of corruption.

Unfortunately the news and the reports you get in the traditional media don't talk about that. All those analysts,"experts" and economists only care about the metric that large corporation care about. How many time have you seen on the news about "the average rate of depression in Argentina has gone up?". Not much right. But you might hear about how GDP is suffering.
I think you're being too critical and you're at risk of coming off as a know-it-all here. On the whole you're right in your criticisms but I think you're taking too narrow of a view of this.

First off, it's close enough. Close enough is more than enough for something like this as Facebook has rules about looking too much like the rest of the site. Having it be close but not quite Facebook-style is great for plausible deniability if they ever gave you a problem and you were inclined to try to defend yourself (it may be a losing battle but at least you have the option).

The author makes it clear that it's based on Twitter's bootstrap so it's not surprising to see it just "painted blue" as you say. Honestly, I looked at this and saw that it was more than enough to get you started.

Whenever you create a boilerplate, especially one that you release to the public, you walk a fine line between offering a solid, customizable foundation and giving people far too much structure that they have to undo. Every single framework I've ever seen (even the one I made for myself) has been criticized for being pretty much a completed project sans content. It's almost a losing battle. Give people too much and they complain it's no longer a boilerplate. Give them too little and they say there's not enough for it to be useful. I think this project walks that line quite nicely.

So I guess what I'm saying is give the guy a break. This is cool and useful. It doesn't look cheap either. I think you went too far with that statement. It isn't totally Facebook style but close enough goes a long way. I absolutely am not trying to be antagonistic. Everyome has the right to criticize especially since this got posted here on HN. I don't want to say you can't criticize but just be fair about it. It isn't as bad as you make it out to be. To me it's not bad at all. Though it may be bad to you, which is okay, don't you think there's at least some good things about it? I don't know, I have this weird paternal instinct that kicks in whenever I see criticism I think is too harsh.
By "services like this", I hope you mean websites that are vulnerable to SQL injection, and not Hurl itself?

Hoping that an attacker can't use curl probably isn't a good security solution...
When they say "Time Warner gave $50,0000 to Senator So-and-So," that actually means "People who work for Time Warner gave a total of $50,000 to Senator So-and-So's campaign in donations of no more than $5000 each." It's illegal for a company to donate to a candidate. I think many Americans don't understand that either.

Also, surveys have shown that all those donors are giving because they already agree with the senators' views, not because they think they can influence them.
You missed a section:

'....normally develop into soldiers or workers depending on the levels of the "juvenile hormone": if levels are high the ants become soldiers, while if they are low they become the smaller worker ants. In the species that produce supersoldiers there is a second high threshold of the juvenile hormone, above which the larvae develop into the larger supersoldiers.'

If you gave a normal cat unchecked growth hormones it would not resemble a tiger - it would die. Its body is not designed to be that large - look at case reports of humans with growth disorders, they have all sorts of very serious issues simply from being larger than designed.
Major Internet Outage?
Is there a major Internet outage happening right now?
Yeah, sure, I get that they just want to scare him and would prefer not to escalate to legal action. But they don't need a court order to block him from Facebook or to take down his pages. If they're out to "spread some fear", why wouldn't they do that as well?
Software Engineering lessons I learned playing The Legend of Zelda
> crime goes up (crime is largely a result of poverty)

While that may be conventional wisdom, crime rates have actually declined in the USA over the past 20 years: http://www.economist.com/node/18775436
Here is my problem with that statement:

You are saying that you only have code which is entirely private. This is most likely code you wrote for your employeer, which you can't show me anyway because chances are that it is NDA private. Or, you have code which you wrote for say, an iPhone app which you are probably never going to show to anyone. That is all fine.

However, you are also telling me that you've never integrated any open source projects into your code or relied on any non-commercial external libraries. Or, maybe you have done that.

But then I have to wonder why you've never contributed back to any of these projects that you've depended on. If you are a great dev, I'm sure you found them lacking in some way and wanted to contribute a bit back to them.

Thus, we've come full circle. Any developer that I would want to hire, has figured out that there is a massive ecosystem of open source projects out there. They are integrating them and contributing something back to them. They are drawn to these projects like flys to sh*t. These projects teach them new tricks because they are studying others code. They are drawn to give back to these projects because they are taking so much good from them. That is what makes a good developer in my eyes.

Here is a really good case in point example. Last night I was working with the amazing Underscore.js library, which I'm fairly new to. I found that I wanted to do something with it, couldn't figure it out and made a suggestion on how to improve it [1]. Someone from the community responded quickly, we had a bit of really positive back and forth and in the end I learned something new about the library. I expect that anyone I hire has the gumption to also be doing similar work.

Go fork some projects.

[1] https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/issues/425
They may be biased but they're nowhere near the level of make-stuff-up and outright brainwashing that Limbaugh and Hannity are at so frequently. I wouldn't recommend those characters to anyone. Plus the Daily Show is primarily comedy rather than news, the news is incidental to understanding the comedy. I get my primary news from non-US websites like BBC and Al Jazeera (and tech-specific websites like Ars for interesting news) and what floats over to HN, occasionally I'll watch a few youtube channels, if I feel like paddling down piss-creek I'll watch CNN which is probably what the GP is looking for if they want modest bias in the other direction.
c'mon now. paid links are corrupting context. let's ditch the advertising model. crosses fingers
No. My Internet is working fine.
Fiddler is a very useful HTTP proxy debugger for Windows.

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
First of all, the distinction in the title kind of seems like nonsense. You should focus on hiring talent. If you forget about talent, you might end up with crappy engineers. If you forget about hiring, you may not end up with any engineers.

More importantly, the author's goals are pretty unrealistic as a strategy to be applied wholesale to all companies hiring engineering talent, or even just startups hiring engineering talent.

From my understanding, the author posits that when seeking an engineer, you need to find someone that 1) is good enough to start (read: co-found) a company with you; 2) knock the socks off the company in 90 days (read: in 3 months, you need to be talented enough to contribute in a way that significantly changes or improves the company); and 3) someone who is "destined" to succeed in big ways (i.e. start a new company that's changing the industry).

The sum of all this seems to be that the author is suggesting that the way to build a great team is to find and only hire those engineers that are in the top 1% or 0.5% of the field. I'm sure that's a fantastic way to build a team, but it's not at all realistic, especially as a wholesale strategy. These people are hard to find; there are only so many of them. A startup is probably lucky if they can find one. It's pretty unreasonable to expect any company to build a team of exclusively these kind of engineers.

It's a nice suggestion, but until we figure out how to come up with these amazing engineers, it doesn't solve anyone's problem of building a great team.
Both California Senators (Boxer and Feinstein) are supporters (and co-sponsors!) of Protect-IP. Silicon Valley needs to make its voice heard, and soon.
Note that Rep. Ron Paul is the only current Presidential candidate that opposes SOPA.
>> people don't have the means to keep themselves healthy.

> Isn't that true only for US. Is employment also dysfunctionally tied to health insurance as it is in US?

Diet, stress, mood, motivation, and physical activity all have impacts on health, and all are affected by employment status. Doctors and medications, while undoubtedly important, aren't the whole picture. Most people are healthier without doctors but with a good diet, a decent amount of physical exercise, and a motivated, happy life than they would be with doctors but without all the other things.
I like it. Would it be very complicated to add left/right arrow key support?
This is a false assumption and a flawed comparison. An SSD has the same external interface as a spindle disk. It does have does have different internal properties though that make it superior in almost all use cases though.

> You are free to disagree, but at worst, they are exactly the same, and at best, git branches are superior (and so far nobody has managed to demonstrate otherwise in the 160 comments in my blog). So, why would you pick anything else than git?

I actually have to admit that after reading the whole comment thread in your blog, I'm actually convinced that the HG folks won the argument. Since you're a git developer it's expected that your takeaway is a different one. It's probably not that you're biased, but you know the way git does things soo far better than anything else that this is the way you think and live and anything else is inferior.

However, my answer to your question is a different one: Different tasks require different tools. Limiting yourself to one tool based on one use case is not a good decision.

If I only need a simple use case and there's a choice of a tool that is technically superior, only with a complicated user interface and a tool that is technically inferior but with a simple user interface I loose the moment I pick the superior tool. A complicated user interface makes me memorize and learn more, making the whole handling more tedious and error prone than required. I'd pick the simpler tool any day if it fits. I'll go for the more elaborate one when the need shows itself. The tricky point is choosing the right tool, but that works both ways. A powerful tool may be dangerous as well and cost you a finger, hand or more. A simple tool well under your control may bring you much farther with less injuries.

For example: Have you ever tried teaching non-developers (i.E. designers) the full git user interface with all it's powers? I usually get about as far a the subset that's equivalent to what svn can do before they nod me off. Github's simple gui client that can only talk to github repositories is what most folks that I know need and are content with. So if that's all they need and all they use, why should they opt for a more complicated piece of software. To them it's all "oh, I can store stuff there" and I can actually related to that. They'd be happy with svn and they'll never move beyond that. The only reason they switched is because github offers such a nifty image comparison view.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# print a row of pascal's triangle

print "1\n";

:)
SOPA's main effect is to do that. Neither you nor I know anyone's motivations and objectives.
> SOPA's main objective (regardless of whether it'll actually do this) would be to attack pirating sites.

Regardless of it's so called "main objectives" SOPA hands omnipotent power in someone's hands. It's like handing machine guns to monkeys.
Actors possess most of the skills required to get elected. A successful actor starts out being well-liked, well-known and rich. They also have an easy time getting press and experience dealing with them.

Knowing what the hell you're doing is, sadly, not required.
In order to understand this you have to understand that in American corporations are persons. When Mitt Romney said, "Corporations are people too" at the Iowa State Fair he wasn't sharing his own personal beliefs. Instead he was telling the truth. See Corporate Personhood[1] for more.

From this it follows that Corporations have the right to free speech. This is where the supreme court ruled[2] that it is unconstitutional to deny corporations the right to political speech.

The legal requirements are disclosures and that's why you hear "paid for by Americans for a better tomorrow" or something like that. Corporations don't directly give to campaign coffers, but through a series of transactions often via PACs (political action committees) it eventually gets to where it's going. It is illegal for PAC's to coordinate with the campaign, but this does happen in subtle and less than subtle ways.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...
Just added

EDIT:
This shows as a ratio (+$ from internet : no difference : +$ from movie).

For -
23 : 3 : 55
0.28 : 0.04 : 0.67

Against -
15 : 0 : 6
0.71 : 0 : 0.28

So ~70% of people who received more funding from one party support the bill accordingly.
I understand it as if you stay hungry you are being foolish. If you are hungry eat.

So the way I see it as if you have an idea or something, go for it, cause if you are going to just stay with the craving of doing it, but never do, you are being foolish.
> I think games are really one of the few pieces of software that don't really make sense as "free" software.

I am curious as to the distinction. What is different about games, say compared to a complex piece of software like an office suite or a medical imaging/diagnosis suite?
Welp, http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm looks pretty bad. We're in New Hampshire and there are many servers we can't seem to which we can't seem to connect. We have confirmed with downforeveryone that several sites are down (including, for example, tropo.com and slashrootcafe.com).
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being a professor of philosophy, in this case. and it is a summation of the person making it, that also makes it more interesting to click on. "Person creates interesting iphone case" sounds a lot less interesting.
I like this a lot.

I think there could be a market for something like this that allows you to play games off newgrounds if they could get the controller right. Or displays a custom news feed with video and a crawl based on selected keywords.
Those are pretty niche stuff for mathematicians , engineers and 3d artists.

In terms of mainstream apps pretty much everything on Linux is open source I'd imagine because there is an itch there to scratch.

Games are an exception to this (I think) because although lots of developers love games the amount of entertainment value derided from playing a game is unlikely to be worth the time investment to build it.
Also relevant is this argument that a language with dynamic binding is well-suited to editor extensions.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279258
Yes, not Hurl itself. But Hurl can be used to execute malicious statements.

It is a difference, whether an attacker uses his own IP address (or a setup with various VPNs and proxies) or uses Hurl for it so that the target website sees only Hurl's IP in its logs.

In times of free WiFi, the traceability of malicious requests is definitely reduced anyway, but Hurl could potentially add another layer that can be used by an attacker to obscure his/her origin. I'm not saying that this is a major security issue, it is just a flaw by design, which I wanted to point out.