skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about early-stage investors and what they expect from an investment when they put their money into a startup.
Couldn't they just redirect traffic coming from the US? Leave it accessible to the rest of the world!
Very useful, but I'd like it to show more suggestions. Searching for common words results in only a few available domains, and hundreds of taken ones.
In the same breath that she proclaims she won't sell, she pretty much hedges herself and says she reserves the right to change her mind.
I'd reckon most Americans, as guarded as they may be about politicians, would take the word of the office of a Congressman. It's crazy how easily people buy into things because it comes from a supposedly official source.
There has been some discussion about this already. I am 100% behind going on the offense for internet freedom:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3463847

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464227
This has been the standard practice for quite awhile. Special interests always have the incentive to get legislation that favors them, this was pointed out in Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (1946):

Special interests, as the history of tariffs reminds us, can think of the most ingenious reasons why they should be the objects of special solicitude. Their spokesmen present a plan in their favor; and it seems at first so absurd that disinterested writers do not trouble to expose it. But the special interests keep on insisting on the scheme. Its enactment would make so much difference to their own immediate welfare that they can afford to hire trained economists and "public relations experts" to propagate it in their behalf. The public hears the argument so often repeated, and accompanied by such a wealth of imposing statistics, charts, curves and pie-slices, that it is soon taken in. When at last disinterested writers recognize that the danger of the scheme's enactment is real, they are usually too late. They cannot in a few weeks acquaint themselves with the subject as thoroughly as the hired brains who have been devoting their full time to it for years; they are accused of being uniformed ,and they have the air of men who presume to dispute axioms.

http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/#0....

The whole book is available at the URL, it's quite a good read.
Silicon Valley PIPA / SOPA Protest
There's a link to that event slowly drifting down the new page....
Does it work for situations like:

x = someObject.someMethod()
# does IDE know here what the type of `x' is?
x.otherMethod(...) # will IDE list arguments of otherMethod?

If it does not, then it's hardly useful, and it's unfair to compare intellisense for Java/C#/C with this.
>Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons.

Even if that political reason threatens to shut off the encyclopedia?
Yes, OP is not responsible for the existence of the machine. But no, there is no real meaning to "minimalism" if you do not stop pulling on the machine's demand lever. Parent comment is questioning whether OP has actually done that, or if he's not simply made his demand less visible (consumer vanity).
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Well, then problems with such process are pretty well documented[1]. For comparison, at Google global refactorings are pretty common and usually painless, there are even custom tools to support such changes (push them through code review, ensure no tests are broken etc.)

[1] http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
Do they have to go through this same process when looking at certain logging data, such as, web server GET requests? Those would show file names.
I don't follow. Given that up and down arrows scroll up and down, left and right should scroll left and right, which is what they do.
MacBook Air and iPhone? C'mon!
They ought to mention PIPA as well as SOPA on the shutdown page.
The dump is also available via torrents from that page.
OP here.. yes for sure. Probably more like February
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What's not trivial about it?
To Like or Not to Like: Facebook Like-Gating and Apps
Nope. It is not exactly „the rule of the majority“. It is the rule of the majority with respect to the interests of minority.
If you know what you are searching. Lean domain search gives thousand suggestions at a time so it's faster than typing them one by one in IDS.
On a related note, if she's declared very publicly that selling this venture would be a failure, what's the exit strategy for her investors? Or (conspiracy alert) they're hoping that her coverage will help the exit strategies of their investments...?
they may be able to keep the people from knowing about it until it happens, but with all this outrage it seems unlikely they'll be able to keep it quiet after the fact. Then they'll have to answer to this behavior come election time.
What blhack said. Instead, get the torrent:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6430796/English_Wikipedia_(A...
Your Phone is the Controller, Your Browser is the Console.
Org-mode links can point to all sorts of content including email, web pages, specific lines in files on your system, etc... see http://orgmode.org/manual/Hyperlinks.html
Let's make a Bloom filter
Obama originally objected to the NDAA because it limited his powers too much, not because of the indefinite detention clause.

The Administration strongly objects to the military custody provision of section 1032, which
would appear to mandate military custody for a certain class of terrorism suspects. This
unnecessary, untested, and legally controversial restriction of the President's authority to defend
the Nation from terrorist threats would tie the hands of our intelligence and law enforcement
professionals. Moreover, applying this military custody requirement to individuals inside the
United States, as some Members of Congress have suggested is their intention, would raise
serious and unsettled legal questions and would be inconsistent with the fundamental American
principle that our military does not patrol our streets. We have spent ten years since September
11, 2001, breaking down the walls between intelligence, military, and law enforcement
professionals; Congress should not now rebuild those walls and unnecessarily make the job of
preventing terrorist attacks more difficult. Specifically, the provision would limit the flexibility
of our national security professionals to choose, based on the evidence and the facts and
circumstances of each case, which tool for incapacitating dangerous terrorists best serves our
national security interests. The waiver provision fails to address these concerns, particularly in
time-sensitive operations in which law enforcement personnel have traditionally played the
leading role. These problems are all the more acute because the section defines the category of
individuals who would be subject to mandatory military custody by substituting new and
untested legislative criteria for the criteria the Executive and Judicial branches are currently
using for detention under the AUMF in both habeas litigation and military operations. Such
confusion threatens our ability to act swiftly and decisively to capture, detain, and interrogate
terrorism suspects, and could disrupt the collection of vital intelligence about threats to the
American people.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislativ...
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It's absolutely amazing how fast you managed to get it running. You're awesome.
To move out of my rented flat without having anywhere to go - besides hotels, I mean - I gave away most of my belongings and it amazed me watching how many items I owned which were sitting there consuming space.

Then, after leaving my country with just hand luggage, I've been living minimalistic for the last two months. Yes, it can be done, but it's either time-consuming or expensive, depending on how much you are going to outsource. I have to wash my laundry by hand each other day instead of once a week, and lacking many kitchen items means I spend more time preparing my meals.

There is a trade-off to be made between space and time. When you see someone who's consuming little space, it may be that they are consuming either a lot of time or a lot of money.

EDIT: Thus, don't feel uncomfortable about owning a lot of things. If you feel so inclined, feel uncomfortable about owning things you don't use. For those who haven't read PG's essay about this issue, which played a part in making me superfluous-aware: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Seattle Against SOPA (and PIPA)
http://www.meetup.com/SeattleAgainstSOPA/
Was this article on HN front page not true "SOPA to be shelved.." http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/pu... ?

If Wikipedia is still going to shut down then I'm not sure about the veracity of that article.
Is this the problem you're talking about?

http://i.imgur.com/tSfvV.png
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I don't want to get too far into this because it's a bit of a side-topic (but I did include that paragraph knowingly).

Now, yes, I'm speculating, but aren't mobile device sales passing general-purpose desktops and laptops? I think the days when everyone that grew up around computing devices automatically had something they could hack on are passing. Of course, the Web is on all those devices, so let's get them hacking on the Web.

I'd bet that 50% of all software development (the IDE, text editor, shell, or whatever you do your daily work in) will be happening on the Web by 2020.

Speculation aside, my aim is to build a tool that's better than bash for the tasks I already do in a shell. Having it available to me from anywhere would be an extra benefit, whether software development migrates to the Web or not.
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Also, the many options available in Org-mode projects make jekyll nearly superfluous (e.g., things like site wide css/js and page templates are baked in), see http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html
Well-Defined Problems vs. Ill-Defined Problems
TinyProj was cool. Unfortunately the only jobs I applied to had a ton of other people also apply, and as time went on, the quality of the jobs severely degraded. Some of them smelled like a scam to me.

Either way, it was a valiant effort and I really appreciate the amount of work that went into it.
> isn't it a little naive to think that the company holding your data won't have some access to it?

That's a good question. Hopefully my answer does it justice.

First, having access to something and accessing something are two completely different things. I'm not suggesting that they should not have access to something they need to do their job. However, that doesn't mean we can't expect them to minimize the risk.

Next, you argue that someone not authorized will see the document, however remote. You mention suing, and while it sounds great, it's a long, painful struggle that I imagine isn't a quick fix. More importantly, would you knowingly hand over private data to someone who has proven incapable of keeping your trust? This is the reason 37Signals is jumping on this so quickly and doing damage control (and I say that in a complimentary way). It's not just their paying customers they have to concern themselves with, but also all the people that use their various services in one form or another.

Finally, you mention trust. In this case, you suggest trusting the odds. I'd prefer to trust that the company isn't banking on odds, and is instead actively working to mitigate that risk. Odds are a funny thing. I'm not under the belief that they can provide 100% security and privacy, but that doesn't mean I need to blindly accept failure.

> I for one assume everything I've ever put online is not secure.

But I bet you still actively work to ensure everything is secure as possible. You don't share your password to your bank. You won't hand over your credit card data, you make sure you are using SSL before making a purchase, SSH, different passwords. A variety of things to mitigate the risk.

Honestly, I think part of the reason people are defending 37Signals is that for many of us (myself included), we never really think of these things, and we see how easy it would be for us to make the same mistake. Instead, we should be focused on the fact that even for a company like 37Signals, they can make mistakes.

They can also admit to them, apologize, and work to correct the problem. We should learn from this, and try to improve.
I would enjoy being able to sort by color (availability etc) so I can quickly see a grouping of which ones are taken.
Yes, there is already media interest brewing.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

I added an option to doublecheck the availability when you click an available domain name. Hopefully this will save you a bit of energy.
Seems to be happening much more than 1% to me, every link I have clicked so far (6 or 7) has resulted in an already registered domain.
This is a non article. It just repeats twitter.
Interesting, John Resig shared that exact same critique when Zepto first came out over year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843787

Funny how both rewrites are missing this level of detail, or it could just be further evidence of how much JQ.Mobi "derives" from Zepto
Very excited to see our comrades with better burritos in solidarity -- and so quickly!
Wikipedia joins Reddit and others in protest against SOPA
It's no longer about sopa, it is about notifying everyone in the world that there are governments all over the world trying to centralize and censor the internet, and that this is a very very bad thing. It isn't enough that we slap their hand for trying to break the internet on account of complete ignorance. The odds are 1 that Congress will try this again, we need to let the world know that the people who built the most powerful tool on earth today are concerned that governments are going to set us back 100 years and prevent an explosion of progress by turning the internet into a place only the fat cats can afford to participate in.
Even with SOPA being put on hold, I still feel like the general public needs to be made aware of the fact that there are people in the government who are threatening to censor the internet. Wikipedia shutting down for a day will go a long way in demonstrating what a possible consequence of a censored internet could be and I think that'll be invaluable to the fight against a censored internet.

With that being said, I think the websites that are protesting on the 18th need to be evangelists for a free internet and not just deliver an anti-SOPA message.
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Supporters of this censorship should be shamed and humiliated to set an example for future attempts. Make them regret their willingness to sell the American public.
Sigh. So why doesn't the Linux community just man-up, and start backing Linux-oriented hardware manufacturers? This pansy whiny attitude from the Linux community got tiresome 10 years ago. Today, it's just absurd.

Please just quit whining, and quit trying to "make Microsoft our bitch", and start supporting hardware companies that are already on your side, and completely ignore Microsoft and hardware companies that bow to them.
I'm curious. How much affiliate revenue (dollar wise) do you get when someone registers a domain through godaddy?
They don't care. They honor those who buy the lobster dinners and give them 30 dollar cigars. When you vote them out, they'll have several six or seven figure cushy job offers to pick from.

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From wikipedia: In February 2011, despite "repeatedly and categorically insisting that he would not work as a lobbyist,"[22][23] [senator Chris] Dodd was identified by The New York Times as the likely replacement for Dan Glickman as chairman and chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).[24] The hiring was officially announced on March 1, 2011.[25]
My twitter is: @amuller :) I will e-mail you when the videos are released.
I just stick with Emacs for composing posts. Format them with Markdown and copy from my Emacs buffer into Wordpress. Simple enough for me. All the files are on Github, so I guess I could create a plug-in to pull from Github into Wordpress, but after spending an hour writing an article, spending two seconds hitting cutting and pasting isn't a significant waste of time.
Nice, but I can't enter numbers? Example 'HTML5'
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Silicon Valley PIPA / SOPA Protest... It's on
Great suggestions -- thank you.

I just added an option to sort by length, which should take care of #1. #3 is also a great idea -- I'll see what I can do.

Can you walk me through how #2 would work in practice?
I thought about this for a while and realized after sleeping on it that this quality problem seemed to occur only after points visibility was removed from comments. People can and should be able to say what they want, but if the only public feedback is greying out downvoted comments (negative) then you're losing the positive feedback cycle and hampering the ability of the cybernetic system to regulate itself.
I just did a search for $string and it returned 1000 available domain names that were all $something+$string or $string+$something. However, ($string).com was not returned as an option even though it is available!
"Global PIPA / SOPA protests are a go. #NoPIPASF

Websites all over the globe are going Dark to protest radical copyright legislation.

Tech meetup groups around the country are joining forces to rally against PIPA.

Join us for an epic rally in San Francisco on Wednesday from noon to 2pm.

Update

Ron Conway has invited the Mayor, is informing the Police Chief, and City Superintendents. We need to be on good behavior."
John Carmack tempted to move to a functional programming language
Another description which I found easier to understand: http://www.dribin.org/dave/keyboard/one_html/
The timing of this withdrawal seems to fully indicate that the politicians involved have just tried to flush out their opposition and force them to play their hand.

Now Reddit, Wikipedia et al. will go dark, but they will not generate the support they could have if SOPA was still under debate. Now when someone sends a letter to their local politician, that politician will just send an automatic reply of "This isn't as issue, we're not even debating this right now, I don't know what you're talking about.", further confusing the public.

This is just a delay tactic being used to crush the groundswell around the current SOPA/PIPA bills. They'll come back when all opposition has faded away to a distant memory. Plus it gives the politicians who were involved plausible deniability on both sides; they're not dropping it, but they're not currently pursuing the matter either.
So shutting off information services is evil, and we're going to show it by committing the same evil? By that token we should teach everyone how bad genocide is by executing a random member of their family.

We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.

> We should certainly get people's attention by doing something very overt like replacing every article with a big dark SOPA message, but there really should still be a way to click through to the information.

That's fine for us mega-nerds, but what about everyone else?
> This is in case somebody gains unauthorised access to the data, not in case staff can't be trusted.

Actually, no. This is very much for both reasons. Part of PCI compliance is ensuring CC data is encrypted with a key that is partly known by a few people. So, let's say 3 people each knows a part of the key. The goal here is that in production, no one can access the key, but data can still be encrypted/decrypted.

To put it plain, it's not just a matter of encrypting and salting your CC data.

As for your "Google can just" remarks: yes. This can happen in many places. However, you mitigate the risk of this happening with procedures and security. I guarantee you that just working for Google doesn't give you access to the emails. I'd be surprised if the number of people that have direct access to emails at any time is in the double digits. Getting your code into production, I imagine, isn't just a cherry-pick.

You can't prevent people from having access to data you give them. However, they can mitigate the ability for it to happen.
As one of IndexTanks developers, I think this is awesome. Good work!
Funny as hell how they closed that issue with "trying to stop flamewar" comment :D :D
You should check out Pagoda Box. You can store cached files in a writable directory that is shared across all of your app instances. Scaling is totally seamless.
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Actually, you're right, it probably doesn't. I always use Backbone with the backbone.modelbinding plugin, so I forgot that it's not part of the Backbone core lib.

edit: Looks like JQ.Mobi does support .data() anyway: https://github.com/appMobi/jQ.Mobi/blob/master/jq.mobi.js#L3...
Maybe a little bit more understanding is due all around. If I can divide the world into two caricatured groups, we have:

"I can never stop feeling, but sometimes I'm too tired to think" -- rallying around the asinine "prodigy" headline.

"I can never stop thinking, but sometimes I'm too tired to feel" -- rallying around the emotionally tone-deaf responses.

I think we all tend to identify with one side more than the other, but instead of rallying ourselves on either side of the issue, we should see each side as a vital aspect of being human that each of us has, with one side often gaining the upper hand and then getting out of hand. If we want to measure the supposed "decline" of Hacker News by the fact that one side gets out of hand and provokes a response the other, I think both sides need to be held to account. Glurge begets callousness. A pervasive environment of callousness makes glurge seem like a welcome relief. If we want to avoid either, we should avoid both, and that means ignoring offenses instead of responding in kind.
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Indian biometric DB to hit 400 million people by end of 2012
"a) build it so that you can license the technology to people that have made a company "

Better yet a white label website that refers business back to the reseller or registrar and can be operated as a subdomain to the resellers or registrars main website ie suggest.registrarname.com. Do this on a monthly fee basis that is reasonable not per name registered.

"b) become a reseller or registrar so that you can fully deliver the service and collect the recurring revenue."

Reseller makes sense. Becoming a registrar doesn't. Using this as the cornerstone of an idea will never result in enough to cover the ongoing costs.