skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested. Also worth noting that the 9 mil tweets link seems to 404, and looking through their site it appears to no longer be available. Any chance you could suggest other resources for this type of data? Asking that you host the file wouldn't be fair, as I assume the bandwidth would kill you easily.
Regardless of their SOPA stance, Godaddy needs to die. They have the Worst UI ever, the CEO is a piece of excrement, their logo so god-damned stupid (If I were an employee I'd be embarrassed to wear a shirt with that POS on it), and their adverts remind me of 1990's "going out of business" furniture ads. It's time for us to flush the waste out of the system.
Android is already scaling for the developing world. See the Kenyan Android phone:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37877/
Yes, it's acceptable because entrenched conservative interests are against fresh young interests + people with a lot to lose.

If such conservative influence against congress was regulated, then the reputation cost of such blackouts would rise a lot due to the perception that such interests are trying to influence congress. ergo, uneconomical to blackout.
An image showing a middle finger: banned.

News content from Fox perpetuating lies that cause soldiers and civilians to die: front page in search results.

Google has demonstrated with the photo that its willing to act as a censor. Now that we've agreed that censorship is ok, can we now talk about what we would like to censor?
I'll expand a bit on why I think they're doing it wrong.

When you choose to follow/friend/circle/whatever someone you are making the choice to establish a social connection with that person. Social connections are far too broad to police. I might want to be friends with someone because they make horribly offensive jokes. I might want to be friends with someone because they produce art that could be considered offensive to someone. I might be friends with someone who I like enough to tolerate their offensive side. Whatever the dynamics of that relationship may be Google has no role in its complexities.

The next problem is consistency. I can be way more offensive with words than I can be with pictures. If they want to successfully police people's relationships they will have to also delete anything I say that might be offensive to someone else even if they're not my friend and even if I'm making a private post. As a user I don't think I can possibly understand everything that might offend Google or the millions of users of Google+. That's a huge burden to put on the user. Do I really want to spend the time writing a post on Google+ that may disappear because someone I don't know finds it offensive? I don't think they're doing this yet but if they're choosing to go down this road they are taking the responsibility so they will have to someday. A middle-finger is a pretty low bar. Right off the bat you have to ban 'fuck' from all posts because they are the same meaning.

The solution is pretty obvious. Either hide the profile picture until you friend/circle/whatever someone or give users the ability to rate themselves which solves a variety of other potential problems. I have no problem marking my profile NC-17 or whatever the equivalent would be.

Of course it's Google's site so they can do whatever they want with it. Questioning Google's policies is like a can of soup having an existential crisis.
For the NYC crowd, there's a spot very much like this in Williamsburg: www.nitehawkcinema.com

Food is quite good, service is impeccable. It's a more intimate affair, only two people per booth - and there's only 30 or so seats per house. They do drink & entree specials themed with the films, which is pretty cool I guess. They helped get state law changed in order to serve cocktails and beer in the actual house.

In-between the featured presentations is curated from local (often quite good) film artists.
That's a stretch. It's simpler than that: follow the money. I pay Apple, so I'm the customer. Advertisers and marketers pay Google for access to me, so they're the customer.

Just because Apple touts their user numbers doesn't mean they're selling those users. In fact, as a developer, I can't pay Apple to guarantee installs, or even visibility. Apple won't sell me customers. I might like to give Apple money to get leads or users for my apps, but Apple will not do that.
For a competent developer the difference between not knowing an obscure technology and being proficient in it is about 6 months.

Smart employers concentrate on finding smart people.
In the fantasy land of my mind, I'd prefer it if some of those large companies could cut deals with other governments to create pro-Internet laws and then move their headquarters abroad. If SOPA is passed the US deserves no less than total decimation of their position as a technological leader.

Who is John Galt?
When I sign up with a company I always get the stipulation that I can use the code for demonstration purposes, that the code will never leave my machine but that I can use it for demonstration purposes. Short of working on some top secret project I would not agree to anything else, not being able to show previous work in this industry is like an artist not being able to show commercial work as their portfolio.

The fact a coder has a project to walk someone through does not imply they are a good coder

No but it is an indication of their work, because it is sitting right there in front of you. Just because they have a project does not mean that it is good, but that is up to the interviewer to decide. If you can look at the code base, then the interviewer should be able to determine if it is well built or not. If they cannot, then I would question whether they should be the one conducting the interview.

so why would a company tailor their interview process to the minority of interview candidates out there who do have a sizable project they can demo

I personally feel that someone looking for a senior developer role should have something that they can demo, they have been in the business for 5 to 10 years, there should be something that they can run on their machine to demonstrate their abilities. Now for a junior developer, I agree they may not have something to demo, but for a junior role I assume a blank slate and look for totally different values. Specifically I look for passion and eagerness to learn, again a test is not going to tell me that.
If you think agile is a set of fixed steps, you are wrong. If you think a standup is a status meeting "for the boss," use jira and avoid the standup.
Android is much more open than OS X. No argument there.

But Psystar was never interested in a "fork". They merely wanted to make a profit by selling Apple's software on commodity hardware. Doing so was both in violation of the EULA (which forbade redistribution), and in violation of the DMCA which prohibits breaking encryption for the purpose of making a copy of copyrighted material. The EULA clause has not been tested in court (to my knowledge), and may not be valid. However, the DMCA prohibition on breaking encryption is well established. There is even a list of what encryption you are specifically allowed to break: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html
Wow, from going to supporting SOPA, to opposing in less than a week, with the onsite merchandizing included.

Too late Godaddy, I'm moving all of my domains away from you!
I'm not saying it's a problem. In fact, I think this is the best course of action that HTC could have taken. All I'm pointing out is that the motivation isn't as selfless as it might first appear. This move has a direct benefit for HTC, as well as for HTC's consumers.
"""The licensing costs for VS.NET, MSQL, and related products are a rounding error compared to the cost of salary paid to a 3-7 man team."""

1) You keep using these words: rounding error. I don't think they mean what you think it means.

There are startups, and successful ones, that have the tiniest of budgets. People literally survive on ramen and faith. For those kind of companies, the costs are not a rounding error -- and there's often no salary or minimal salary paid to the 3-7 man team initially, while they still have to have some servers and development tools.

2) It's not just the licensing costs. Even for a team with tons of cash that makes them negligible, depending on a stack fully determined by some other company is not a good idea. Startups rewrite stuff all the time, use different technologies when they find out the old doesn't fit nicely enough, etc. You can't be dragged down because you have written all your code in a proprietary stack for each and every component...
Seems silly. I could possibly see that point if you HAD to view his public profile, but it seems like that's entirely optional. Millions of users never see his public profile image. Those offended can simply not "follow" (circle?) him.

It would be easy to justify NOT removing it, even if EVERYONE else found it offensive. There's an option to not follow/view his profile. Under your view, the only votes would be those who found the picture offensive. If the criteria to remove something is that more than one person finds it offensive, almost everything on the internet would be removed.

A (much) better solution is that items that are flagged as potentially offensive come with a warning. Google+ users could choose the level they're comfortable with, much like they do with Google's search results. They deserve to be called out for making an arbitrary decision here, on something so trivial.
It crashed my iPhone 4. Seems like it is giving mobile Safari problems.
Agree! Wasn't complaining; genuinely curious.
Ruby is used professionally at Coldwell Banker, Seachange, Mathworks, IDG, and other "non-startups" that I know of in the Boston Area. There is a kernel of truth to what you're saying though.
Yes, that is exactly what we should do to oppose a censorship bill.
I have always viewed scrum as a management technique... easily wrapped around delivering a software product. Since scrum is pretty light-weight, I guess doing it "all" is not that cumbersome, but you could probably jettison/modify some parts that don't fit your culture/context. (Just know why...)
If we're talking about my comments, I agree. If we're talking about Ed's, no. I'm not interested in a nerdy argument about whether we should have karma at all.
You mean the language that powers the biggest social website of all time, Facebook, plus around 40% of the web?

What exactly have you built in .NET that is greater?
You can vote for it here: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/5972/events-api
Foreign entities don't have Facebook pages?
By priority, perhaps, but not by secondary factors. Kitesurfing is something you decide to do, and you can do it on your own time with some outside assistance. Building a great company requires a greater time investment, but you're still (usually) in the driver's seat. You choose who to hire, and who to fire. There are complications, of course, but ultimately you are in control.

Finding an amazing woman (or significant other in general)? I feel like there's a lot more luck and effort from an outsider (the relevant other person) than either of the others. And you can only put your eggs in one basket at a time. There's no AB testing, lean, agile, failing fast. It works, or it doesn't, and sometimes things are looking great and suddenly leave a giant crater you have to climb out of. So perhaps it's the one that's the least certain in terms of how long it will take? Just a thought, might be wrong :)
2012: The Year the Startup Playbook Changed
Also note that these silent SMSs can also help with cracking A5/1, the broken GSM encryption algorithm. I think this attack was demonstrated at a previous CCC.
In China, Newspapers Can Still Thrive
Probably related to how unique your product is.
Quality of life in NYC
Richard Feynman on SOPA
The old alternative in Germany was that you had a piece of paper with numbers on them. So it absolutely may be a step backward.
lol is all I have to say about that screenshot
No, the nuclear option would be if the group created a device that produced a cascading fission reaction, destroying Washington. I think it's unlikely at this point, but SOPA is an existential threat.
If you liked the Xcode/Interface Builder similarities, Gene Backlin (he wrote a book on NeXT development in 1995 and a book on iPhone development in 2010) talk on it from last year's (2010) SecondConf talk: http://www.secondconf.com/videos/, "NeXT to X: A Trip Down Memory Lane".
Herb Sutter's essay about the evolution of computing "Welcome to the Jungle"
"... will be ..."

Really? I guess we can wait and see, or we can already start attributing accolades to Android that have not happened yet. I still see people bringing up Xerox Parc all the time with respect to the GUI, so maybe where UI inspiration comes from is relevant?
I've had a great experience with their VPS service as well. I chose it just because it was the cheapest one I found when I briefly looked around, but I've had 100% uptime for the entire 6 months I've had it.

The username thing is indeed very annoying though.
There are many legitimate reasons why this is a problem. I'll briefly list a few but there are many more. One is that the government workers who listen to your phone calls can use that information against you, for example if they are a business competitor. They also can create laws which target you specifically that you don't know about or can't avoid breaking. Because they make the laws, there is no recourse against anything that they do with that information.
So this is, uh, "fight terror with terror"?
> got around it by using a crowbar

Which, until HTC's note today, was the same crowbar needed for HTC Android phones sold under carrier contracts. The dealership (BestBuy, Verizon store, whatever) isn't going to unlock your phone's boot loader whether it's iOS or Android.

But since you want to further torture this analogy:

Changing your tires and rims and paint job is like changing your case or wallpaper. Jack up suspension, get an Otter Defender. Changing your OEM stereo is like changing your OEM headphones. Change the exhaust, change the ringtone. On the other hand, rooting your phone to void the warranty is like installing an aftermarket ECU to void the warranty.

While everyone "customizes" their cars and their phones, it's almost always superficial. Very few, even in upstate New York, want to void the warranty with aftermarket parts in the engine control electronics or drive train.

Before Fairfield County, CT, I lived in the Smokey Mountains between North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. I myself had a car on blocks. :-) And before that, for a decade, I lived in central Africa where trucks you couldn't swap parts on like something from Mad Max didn't last long. Point being, I'm familiar with the tradeoffs of DIY customization vs "just works" in a broad spectrum of cultures.

So I'll assure you, the kids in Africa now enabled to communicate through their Nokias and Ericssons and Huaweis[1] don't give a damn about "rooting" their phones, and neither do most Sunday mechanics in the Smokies. Does it send/receive SMS? Can it make calls? For the next generation, can it do email? Great. From Wall St to Kinshasa, people want everyday appliances to just do their jobs and not waste their time.

1. http://gizmodo.com/5634258/the-most-popular-phone-in-the-wor...
Verizon Wireless to charge customers $2 when they pay bills online or by phone
> > On a practical note, battery life matters in impoverished regions, best of luck with your "might last 24 hours, 36 if you're really lucky" Android handset.

> This needs to be solved, agreed. Chances are, however, that the phones that solve this problem will run some form of Android.

It is worth noting that some Android phones are already doing impressive things on this front. See, for example, the Samsung Replenish (that can slowly charge from sunlight with an alternative battery cover):
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/10/samsung-replenish-review/
There is also VCMI - Heroes 3 WOG recreated
and Attal - http://sourceforge.net/projects/attal/

Heroes is the game I own in most formats (even Gameboy, PS2, iPad, etc.)

I used to play it in the army, and we used to joke in the morning with how many turns one gets to the kitchen. The tiles on the ground were hexagonal like the one in heroes (we were playing 1, 2 then, and once I was out 3 came out).

I still like V, played a bit of VI, but III, and Palm Heroes one are the one playing lately...

Also Disciples II, and a bit of III (but it's buggy).

And Wesnoth (open source)
Oh, I see. And you fiddle with globals by manipulating the window/exports object, which I assume are reserved identifiers.

Thanks a lot for clarifying that, it doesn't look that bad this way.
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Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest
I wonder how effective it might be, in addition, for major sites to point directly to user generated content on their sites, posted by both well knowns and unknowns, and assert that that specific content would cause trouble for both the poster and the site.

Bonus points if someone points to all infringing content on members of Congress sites, a la the recent Congressional torrent torrent.
Verizon's audacious new fee for on-line payments
I'm an American, in America. 80k is a very respectable salary here in America too, and I know programmers working for 40k a year.

The United States is a very large, very socioeconomically diverse country. It is after all, iirc, at least as large as all of Europe. So no, not all American devs are paid that way.
To be fair, I wouldn't want to compute the 200th term of a power series by hand. I could do it, but it would probably take me several attempts to do that much arithmetic without making a mistake somewhere along the way.
Possessing both versions, I can confirm that the paper in the anniversary edition is thinner, but I think if anything the type is easier to read. YMMV, of course.
My overall experience on my Nexus S:

-Horrible, awful battery life. Probably about 12 hours. Hoping they get a fix out soon...

-UI is much smoother and more polished than Gingerbread (smoother animations, extra room to put apps on homescreen with the bottom bar)

-The new widget features are great (can add a homescreen icon to call/text a specific person, play a playlist, navigate/open a map for a specific location)

I love it except for the battery issues.
Which brings home the point: You are the product Google is selling, just as the apps in the App Store.

Oh, and :-)
I think there was a licensing issue with the original data so they probably pulled it.
Knuth just told us, most of the Trend/Hot techs are bullshit.
"Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..."

If your customers had been your highest priority, you wouldn't be in this mess. I promise you that. How many of your customers asked you to draft and support a legislation which risks permanently damaging the Internet as we know it?

GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers. And based on their weak "opposition", they are far from changing that today.
For those curious, this is a sort of spiritual successor to his previous essay "The Free Lunch is Over"§.

§ http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
Great point. I wanted to say something similar. Sometimes it's best to focus on things you can control rather than put all your emotional desire on things you can't. It's dangerous to put "raising a family" as one of your dreams in life.. when you don't know if your wife is infertile, or whether she'll even be around for the rest of your life... building a startup is at least something you have some power over, borrowing going blind or being paralyzed, and even then you can just be the boss and give commands to someone :)
Sorry godaddy. You supported this trash legislation and only changed your position once that support started costing you money. You've already committed the crime. Now you have to deal with the consequences.
Internet Explorer is to Start Upgrading Automatically
Specialized's chief warns of Amazon
Ummm...you mean companies and/or individuals asking others to contact their representatives? Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
Yes. Just transferred 31 domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap. Would like to transfer more but Namecheap doesn't accept .asia domains.
I used tweets because they're informal and mention a lot of "what to do" and "how I feel" topics, which I think is very important for basic communication, especially for individuals with multiple disabilities. A bonus is that I get a lot of pop-cultural lingo (e.g. "Harry Potter", "Hulk SMASH") that makes my suggestions more fitting for informal communication than plain old dictionary lookups. And you are right about the tacitness of tweets - helps in building a list of common phrases like "on my way to" and "by the way."
As does NameCheap and pretty much every other registrar.

Here is the relevant text for NameCheap:

Namecheap may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used, as determined by Namecheap in its sole discretion, in association with spam or morally objectionable activities.

Morally objectionable activities will include, but not be limited to 1) activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third parties; 2) activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which you conduct business; 3) activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography; 4) activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party; 5) and activities designed to harm or use unethically minors in any way.
Foreign entities refers to the website operators. SOPA creates new rights of action against site operators and their domains, not individual URLs.
You'd think so, but you have no idea just how much you miss by watching TV. At a football or soccer game, you can follow all 22 players at once, not just the half dozen around the ball. And a baseball game in the summer is as much a warm day spent outside with friends as it is a sporting event. Also you get to see more of the game, since you see how the fielders are positioning themselves and how the base runners are positioned to possibly steal a base, whereas TV just focuses on the batter and pitcher.
You're joking, right? How do all of the sites that require Flash also not fall under this same statement?

(Yes, I'm being somewhat snarky, but I'm also genuinely interested in your take on Flash-based sites. Is it an issue of "Flash is already installed and QuickTime is not" or something beyond that?)
I think they're going to talk a lot, then do essentially nothing and knuckle under. Because at the end of the day these things always destroy the small and defenseless. The large and moneyed won't be harmed. The government will never take down Facebook, not for ten minutes.

What this really is, is legalization of asymmetric warfare, and while a minority of tech/content companies might prefer things the way they are, they'll prosper just fine after SOPA is passed. This will only ever existentially affect the small.
Don't put their slogan on a Powerpoint presentation then. Also, your corporate culture could use some lightening up (you may not have the power to do this, just saying.)
Forgive a naive question. When posts like this (or actual job listings) say "HTML5", is what they're really saying "sites which use a lot of front end js and feel more app like"? I'm assuming there's not that much of a demand for people who can shorten a doctype, leave off closing tags in tables, re-encode audio files to ogg, wav and mp3 and who know how to make pretty canvas based demos...