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If Google shut off only it's search in protest of SOPA, wouldn't they run into anti-trust issues? I know technically, there's still Bing, but since they command the majority of the market, isn't this essentially the same as Rockefeller's give oil away for free to harm competition? Now, for sake of argument, the competition could be defined as any web company that happens to be pro-sopa, and Google's shutting down search could be viewed as malicious acts against a competitor ... you see where I'm going with this. IANAL.

Screw SOPA! If we lose this, we lose the internet... and we built the damn thing... each in our own small way.
Moglen's argument fits in an idealist world, but having governing laws for Social engineering sites will help in regulating centralized power of corporations. This can be handled outside software too. But somewhat aggressive political behavior of Moglen worries me.
done, thanks for the heads up.
No, Facebook/Google engineers should consider their actions carefully and do what they think is right. In fact everyone should. I'm happy to oppose SOPA but I'm not joining a mob.
Sopa only content instead of blackout
I'm pretty sure most people who wrote about knew that economists were predicting a pop of the housing bubble its just that it had been discussed for so long people started wondering if or when it would come.
So do governments ...
I see your point, but disagree. I think it makes a lot more sense for HN to do whatever HN believes is the most effective thing, rather than do what reddit did.

I see it as fake work. We would being doing something ineffective to prove a point and distracting from something potentially more useful (which may or may not also prove that point).
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I really like this post. It definitely speaks to me. I also like the fact that you're embracing your fear and posting it on HN for all to see. It's great to see you take action.

Being a perfectionist, I sometimes stop for fear of criticism and more importantly, failure. I literally have a chat with myself in my head. I need to tell myself that it's good enough and that if it fails, I can fix it or move on.

Perhaps it is this that the idea of the Lean Startup has also piqued my interest. It is both horrifying and exhilarating to fail fast. Unfortunately for me, unlike you, I have yet to take action.
it's definitely an interesting model and makes good sense. do you know of a couple of successful companies / outcomes that are based on it?
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I think you're preaching to the choir on HN. That said, I do know a few people who could stand to read this little rant....
He should just use my tool so he can host all those posts from his own domain while still posting to Google+: https://github.com/lylepratt/Plusify
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I wonder what's with all the negative response… OK, Jmpress.js depends on jQuery and has narrower browser support than Impress.js. Yet it makes little sense to compare a JavaScript presentation framework to ‘a jQuery plugin to build a website on the infinite canvas’. These are different things.

Perhaps the whole issue is with the naming and the fact that one was based on another's code.
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I guess, but I think there would be more to it. It would have an interface that is similar to humble bundle's and would have a "thermometer" widget to show how much money was needed to fund a project (thus making it free). Unlike kickstarter, people are not necessarily buying stock into the product, they are making a contribution (I'm not a lawyer). Perhaps there could be some more incentivizations such as a reward for being the person to "release" the program via your contribution.
Yeah, same here, I'm not sure if putting a circle public like that is the best choice, it'd be nice to be able to have access using your HN account somehow. We'll see how it goes. I wonder if others will start adopting this 'sharing a circle' method to promote their stuff.
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I respect the initiative you're showing, but I'm a little skeptical of your choice of presenting your own eponymous compression algorithm as part of a portfolio, especially without any theoretical guarantees or rigorous experimental data on its performance. It gives the impression that you're either not aware of the rich history of data compression algorithms, and the heavy burden of proof on any new algorithm, or you like re-inventing the wheel. Please take this as constructive feedback.
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> If you don't know how to chop up a few carrots to make a decent soup, take your life.

Stopped reading at that line.
I would like to ask the author the same; if you can't write a rant without idiotic statements as the above, take your own advice.

Thank you.
My experience tells me that until you are an expert, you have to fight with TeX- sometimes you even have to fight it when you are an expert.

So, much like anything open source vs. Microsoft, you will get excellent results for low effort with the Microsoft tools when doing anything "normal". When doing something really unusual, turn to TeX because it will be easier to wrangle than Word.

For example, I tried really hard to use TeX for my resume. It was a tremendous pain for weeks, and the most popular template hadn't been updated since 1970. I switched to Word and made a better resume in about twenty minutes. On the other hand, when working on a hundred-page collaborative report with a team of eight people working together through a VCS, TeX was a godsend- most notably for \include, inherited layouts, figures, and citations. (Each of which is easy for an individual in Word, but hard to manage with eight people)
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Not sure who really has fun with lawyers in StartupLand unless they're lawyers. Approving a payroll where the $pivotal_engineer_company_wouldn't_exist_without's MONTHLY salary is .00n the lawyer's fee for a billable week (and you know for nuts and bolts he's actually working 10 of the 40) makes you want to rage, rage against the dying of the stupid, startup light.
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No, if Google and Facebook went dark they'd prove the political power that they have and would immediately set in motion massive regulation of themselves by governments. It would be a small victory followed by losing the war.
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Is this really how it's like for all entrepreneurs?
So it's like all the other freelancing work?
Have you checked this out before? https://www.sellaband.com/

Your way of crowdsourcing the funds is slightly different though.

It's interesting that the fund is pre-budgeted. Who budgets it? The artist or the customers? From my understanding, the budget is used for accountability purposes. The artist can't just blow it all on random stuff. However, is this too restrictive? Isn't the artist in the best position to determine how much should be spent on what?

Edit: By the way, it's awesome to see that you've already started talking to your target market and getting feedback that they want to join. Have you talked to the other target market. Namely the customers who will be funding? Are they willing to put up the money? Great start so far!
I plan on unplugging my modem in protest
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Yes...borders.

Open Street Map looks like it only provides 2D building borders while Google has 3D. Google doesn't even provide an API for accessing it.

Bing also only has 2D building boundary data, albeit at a slightly higher level of detail than OSM.

Is there an open source database for the 3D data or is that proprietary Google info? Is OSM the only source for free building boundary data?
No, they should be patted on the back for not being rash.

A SOPA blackout by Facebook/Google would show just how much political influence they have when they decide to abuse their position. Once that's made clear governments around the world would quickly act to remove that power by various new laws and regulations destroying both companies.
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on google. He was doing these optimizations in the late 80s and early 90s.

How I miss the RIME/RelayNet C language forums...
psd.tutsplus.com has a couple of layout type tuts to get you started. If you really want to be good you should just steal as much as possible. Picasso once said "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."

Good design is an evolution. You will piece together other peoples work in new and interesting ways and others will improve on what they see from you. Spend A LOT of time on gallery sites looking at what works and try to replicate it in your next designs. Soon a style will form and good habits will be in place, at that point you can experiment with new things and give back to the community with fresh new design ideas.

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NO, only those sites that would be missed or noticed by those "special" people in Congress. HN is an excellent source of info for us the Net-savvy folk. No one in Congress would notice if HN went dark... Would be like shooting ourselves in the foot!
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It's popular.
Look. I am personally against mob mentality in most scenarios, but given the current circumstances I honestly believe that the formation of a mob aligned in opposition to this bill is exactly what is required. Due to this issue's nebulous technical nature the folks in charge and the general population have an unconscionably limited perspective and there is little to no real awareness of the proposed act or its potential consequences in the collective consciousness. SOPA should be immediately halted with extreme prejudice and the real issues should be thoroughly reconsidered in an open forum with policy makers, entrepreneurs, experts, and citizens working together to create a legitimate policy that is levelheaded and forward thinking. Beyond the minority of us who are actually clued in to the guts of SOPA and it's consequences there is no genuine geography of dissent. Shame. In other words... Aunt Trish needs to have a day without facebook so everyone will start actually talking about this stuff.
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I would guess that the large majority of us on HN are 'web addicts' by that criteria.
Don't worry. I'm sure their bosses are patting them on the back.
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This seems totally ridiculous to me. Does anyone who comes to HN support SOPA? The advantage of companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon going black is that lots of people who have never heard of SOPA could be educated and asked to pressure congress.

What's the possible effect of HN going black?
I think we all need to step up to this ridiculous legislation (that's likely to get passed, $_ help us), however:

- If everyone on a site is aware of SOPA (and who isn't?), disappearing completely for the day doesn't help anything, really. And actually can be a bad thing; while I was able to watch the first hearing on CSPAN, I wasn't able to watch the other--the play-by-play on HN was really, really helpful.

- If no one who uses the site is aware of SOPA, going away will raise awareness and will be AWESOME.

- If your site is mission-critical, disappearing completely for the day is serious badness and could open you up to all sorts of mayhem.

By that logic, however, and I believe my logic is pretty sound, Google Search should display a doodle that jumps straight to opensecrets.org and Facebook should put up a big banner every third refresh telling everyone to wake the eff up. 0:)
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I have to agree with Kevin Brown here...
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I don't think a Google blackout would be a good thing. They already make many Doodles for their home page. They can make one for SOPA to raise awareness.
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To those complaining about the tone of this rant:

It's Maddox. He's eFamous for exactly these kinds of rants. It's kind of like calling David Thorne an asshole: Well, yeah. No shit.

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The other day i ran a blog about haskell at Standard Chartered (written in, um, Hungarian?) thru google translate. Very entertaining! But SC is probably becoming a substantial codebase
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I appreciate it.

The first one is correct, I never thought about data compression at all until 3 days ago where I had a lot of JSON to store. The best Javascript compression implementation I could find by Googleing around was lzw, which due to the way it steps through the data and builds the dictionary is inherently inefficient, never mind that it compresses to an array which can only be stored as far as I know as text delineated by commas which tends to increase size. So I wrote one that analyzes and prioritizes the dictionary before applying compression, and doesn't need a dictionary to be predefined like lzw does, which is necessary for one of my use cases.

I wasn't going for "I'm a compression expert", I was just going for "Look at my latest weekend project" and "here's a code sample."

The decision to name it after me was a hard one, but I figured namespacing my projects would prevent me from using up all the good ones.

I should also emphasize that I have no idea if this particular algorithm already exists somewhere, I've only looked at a few compression schemes. Didn't mean to invent, just wanted to solve my particular JSON problem with client-side compression and get data smaller than I could achieve with existing libraries.
> But the name of the game in programming is "don't repeat yourself", that is, don't copy and paste text.

You're post is mostly correct but completely out of context. How exactly do you divide HTML and the boilerplate that comes with it into subroutines?
Yes, I think it should.
Great perspective on how to adjust the message. Seems that a blackout feels drastic enough to match the outrage we expect from these brands whom we identify with.

If Tumblr got 87k calls to congress, Google or FB or Twitter should generate an order of magnitude more with well placed banners and popups.
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This sounds reasonable. I know the current trend this month is to hate on GoDaddy because of it being Reddits cause of the week regarding SOPA, but in reality a large company such as this can't prevent this type of infringement due to it's customers acting in bad faith in an automated fashion. To enforce this programatically I think would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, hence why SOPA is a terrible bill. :)
I want to know how the press, politicians, corps, individuals, the internet 'community' all are responding. Without Hacker News up I don't think I'll be well informed.

I vote for no shutdown.
When you say "function" you mean something that just does computation, right? As opposed to code that accesses the Excel object model to create interactive effects, like, say, "click this button to change the background color over there"?

How much VBA could be replaced if Excel gave you the ability to make functions just out of spreadsheet cells? That is: build any calculation you like in a spreadsheet, tell Excel "make this calculation be a function called FOO", then use it wherever you want like a normal function: "=FOO(123,A1)" or what have you.
Well then, it would seem that, if you agree with our Constitution, it is that simple.
So we discover another civilization and send them 4chan?

Mind you, seeing another species' civilization's sense of humor would be pretty amazing.
"various new laws and regulations destroying both companies"

... and SOPA is the first of those.
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but how fast will the fully-plaster structure come crashing down?
Please don't toss the word "retarded" around. Retards can't help being retarded. Using it as a synonym for "stupid" is crass.

It's no different from saying "SOPA is gay!!!"
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It bears testament to Bill Gates' vision and incredible foresight.

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What distributed DNS systems are out there or being developed? I only know of namecoin (the bitcoin fork).
Google has been shutting down services to protest SOPA for years.
If they do that, I will make an extention to get around it.

The only way to get a bad law stopped is to destroy the people behind it.
Not really.

Otherwise it works exactly the same the other way: The chance is that we would be significantly more advanced than them.

In actually chances are we have zero data on the matter and can not calculate chances at all.
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As I said, I appreciate the initiative. At the very least, consider posting benchmarks comparing your scheme to the output of gzip.
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HN needs to be "follower #1". This is how a movement and momentum is built.

(http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movemen...)
Maybe not... This thread got me wondering, one of the points in the article is "why pay to have sites that look the same as the rest"

Maybe google prices is to remove gmaps from everywhere and sell only to premium sites.

If they disappear users are already hooked and will migrate to the premium sites that still have it
I believe it still works. When the user sorts on another field, the hint shows that (for strings, the first 3 characters).
The unfounded assumptions that you have made are

a) Most people dont have any prejudices.
b) I care about the societal acceptability of my thoughts before thinking them
c) One's thoughts should be discarded if they can somehow be negatively viewed in job interviews
d) I cannot have my own business and therefore not need anyone to give me a job.
I don't get how the bash scripts are not used. It's still used at

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exec scala "$0" "$@"
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According to the reporter, this abandoned theme park is a harbinger of doom for China's economy. But couldn't it instead be viewed as evidence of entrepreneurial risk-taking activity? Taking risks, by definition, involves projects that don't pan out.

Imagine if, every time a silicon valley startup abandoned 100k lines of code to pursue a better idea, reporters swooped in and pointed this out as evidence of impending doom.

(Note that I'm not addressing, and certainly not condoning, China's societal/governance problems, e.g. whether the land was taken unfairly from the farmers, etc. That's a whole 'nother ball of wax.)