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The colbert report has done two segments on SOPA.

This one calls out the bogus FBI theft numbers.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346...

This one has Danny Goldberg & Jonathan Zittrain giving their viewpoints on the legislation.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346...
Because it moves you to a whole new circle of hell from the very common C preprocessor one that every C developer on the planet has been in at one point or another.

If you're using VS, you're going to want to use the included pre-build steps in the vcproj to generate the source. Unfortunately, you can't just edit the source in place, unless your team is absolutely in love with your SCS' rollback capability. So that means that in order to edit the code, you need to open it up in either another project, or open it outside the IDE's solution environment.

It also removes the ability to do partial rebuilds, since every file will be necessarily touched by the preprocessing script before compiling, so it's a "new" file as far as the IDE is concerned.

Debugging becomes a chore, because the code in source control is not the code that was compiled, breaking line counts and breakpoints.

Finally, it's a deployment nightmare for your build staff, since they need to make sure that everyone is standardized on the same perl version, maintain the scripts in addition to the makefiles, and make sure that everyone's dev environment works with it.
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The entire point of SOPA is to enshrine proxy blame as law, friend.
The interface is easy, simple and intuitive. It's something that I aspire for my website. Its a great resource. Just curious how you will drive traffic without the content?
What makes you think the title shown on Hacker News has anything to do with the linked website?

Can you find the statement "Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C" anywhere on the linked website?

> the authors acknowledge that it's a "game"

See http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.p...
Great idea! I think it could be improved with a minor adjustment. The first thing I saw on that page was "(click here to continue)", which I did before I realized there was text at the top of the screen. You see, "(click here to continue)" is something I see on a lot of pop-over ads and splash-screens, so my brain has been trained to blindly click through to the next page. I think with some minor adjustments, the heading can be made more prominent.
Thanks for the advice! You're absolutely right.

We did a lot of research before jumping into this: interviewed with a lot of hotels, did our codevelopment, etc. But in ramping up to "let's get something solid that we can sell", we psychologically transitioned into a software development mode rather than a business development one; and now we're trying to reorient ourselves as we transition back.
This sounds interesting at first (I thought they must have some hardware kit for you), but I'm thinking 10 million isn't very much money for a 'tricorder' independently developed. If they were offering up some new qualcomm sensors or whatever, ok, but this just sounds like wishful thinking.

Probably be better if they did a Tricorder YC and gave a bunch of different teams a few thousand bucks to try and develop pieces of technology for something like this. Just a heart rate monitor for a phone would be amazing, and I mean one you could just point at someone, not a separate device. Extra wires just wouldn't make it a tricorder imho ;)
> As an Op-Ed columnist, Mr. Krugman clearly has the freedom to call out what he thinks is a lie. My question for readers is: should news reporters do the same?

It's not just a lie, it's a provably false statement. In fact, it might not even be an intentional lie - if Romney truly believed that he heard Obama apologizing for America, he wouldn't be lying, but he would be making a false statement.

If a newspaper is printing lies and provably false statements, isn't that just fiction?
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Plus people are (or at least I am) willing to pay for encryption products or services just because it is some sensitive area. Especially for cloud services a client based encryption option would be extremely useful.
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i dont even think the irish government will allow the suit... based on the comments in the article on the third section (linking the lack of blocking with the loss of money for EMI) i dont think they have a leg to stand on... As an irish citizen, i really hope they fail, and fail big...
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so far I haven't been impressed with mongodb. i've seen it break down and die doing tasks that mysql does without breaking a sweat.
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It's good to note, before anyone jumps to any conspiracy theories about Viacom silencing Jon Stewart, that Stephen Colbert has talked about SOPA on multiple occasions (see http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346... and http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346...). I don't know the editorial overlap between the two these days but they are certainly under the same corporate roof - Viacom.
I'd guess that the mean request size is misleading though - it is presumably the average of a mix of lightweight CDN requests and gargantuan app requests loaded up with the egregious cookies jgrahamc mentions. It's not hard to imagine a healthy number of requests hovering right at the brink of breaking into two packets with a 1500 byte MTU.
I have problems with that equation.

First, log10 (totalC / totalA) = log10 totalC - log10 totalA. As totalA is constant across customers, we can discard that term. (And think about it: why would a £100/year customer be worth less to you if you had twice as much revenue coming in from other sources?)

Next, the frequency / recency term. "recency" is defined as time since last purchase, so (a) is this measured in days, months, seconds, what? And (b) if your customer is buying from you right now this second, you're dividing by zero and your customer is worth more to you than all the footballers in Europe.

Finally, he doesn't attempt to justify this equation. There's no explanation of what the terms are supposed to mean. It doesn't seem to make sense from a dimensional analysis viewpoint.
Like githire but better (and cheaper)
Search results:

"Backbone.js": 0
"Medicine": 0
"Physiology": 1
"Design": 7+ results, 2 of which are books and wouldn't qualify as "online learning resources"
"Android": 4 results, all paid
"Objective-C": 1 result, paid
"Ruby on Rails": 2 results, both railstutorial.org(1 is the amazon book, 1 is the website)
"Machine Learning": the URL for ml-class.org doesn't show? All I see is a headline for "Machine Learning" with no description. Why would I click that?

Great idea, but right now there aren't enough search results for me to consider using this service again in the future.

Suggestions:
Consider manually curating some of the common search terms for now. Also, put a link somewhere for creators of online learning resources to add their products. If I owned DiveInToRadiationTherapy.com I would want to add my product to your search engine.
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Here's how I see the problem and how I would solve it:

I think you're trying to make money from the wrong people. I think you need to make money from the local businesses.

See, the concierge isn't making any money off your app, at least not in a measurable way. The person using the app thinks the app is helpful, not the concierge. If a tourist tips the concierge, the concierge thinks its him doing a great job, not your app. The hotel isn't making money either, at least not in a measurable way, because the connection between someone having a great time at a restaurant and re-booking a room is very weak. The tourist may attribute the great time they had to:(pick one) the restaurant; the city; the occasion; the person with them; the concierge; and finally, maybe, the hotel. In fact, I'd wager the hotel gets little benefit, the concierge will get the tips.

So your software is really just a drag on a hotel's expenses. Something they don't need. You're barking up the wrong tree when you ask for money from them.

How would I solve this? Well, I would give it to free to the hotels. If it helps them save money and time with their staff, they'll use it. I would also involve the concierge immediately. In fact, I would give them incentives to use your software. You probably can't afford to pay them, but you can afford to put in a tip reminder. In fact, maybe the hotel staff puts in the date of the traveler's stay and at the end, it automatically send them a text message asking them to tip the staff. You'd get waaaayyy more traction doing this with staff. In fact, I'd wager staff would love you if you really worked on this feature. It would be instant traction.

Edit: I would also work out ways to approach staff without needing the involvement of hotel management. Maybe the staff can add their names to the app and the customer can pick them out a list (and hopefully tip them). Staff could then use a website to do everything they need. Staff would do this without consulting management or getting permission, or might only need permission from their front desk manager. I would cut out upper management entirely if you can see a way to do it. Let local management and staff see all the benefits.

I'd then go out and sell ad space to the businesses. Or get a commission on each booking coming from you app. Local businesses are the ones who will pay to get a hold of tourists walking around. I'd go after restaurants, tour guides, trip operators, fishing guides, you name it. They can offer coupons, all sorts of things through your app.

I know this is a major expansion of time and resources to put this into action, but I don't see asking hotels for money as a viable revenue source. If you did get traction, someone will eventually come along and offer it for free using the method I outline above and take over your market.

I would suggest concentrating on all the hotels and local businesses in one city first rather than worldwide or country wide. Get it working and get revenue coming in. Then go from there..
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Their interviews are the real deal. Getting a famous Internet person on to talk about SOPA wouldn't be an unusual thing for either of them.
We (me and @therod on twitter) built this page in one week.

There are a lot of great online learning resources but not one place where you can search for all of them (right now we have around 2800 entries, we'll add more every day), that's where Skillpunch.com comes in. The idea is that we help you find the interesting stuff and get out of you way afterwards. This is just a MVP. We're really interested in building ratings, user-submitted content and some social features (like discussing about a course, etc.), it all depends on the feedback, we'll hopefully get.

We hope you like it :) The backstory with details (how and why can be found here: http://www.explodingfistbump.com/articles/how-and-why-we-cre...)
Yes, this is a good example of ICANN's brokenness.

http://www.icann.org./ returns a blank page.

No one uses the trailing dot except for very DNS-specific admin stuff.
Interesting they closed comments on an article specifically asking for feedback.
Cool idea! Is it mainly a science/tech directory, or do you plan on incorporating other online learning resources (like language learning sites/books/etc.)? It looks like mainly Khan Academy results show up for me. Also, you have "Communication" as an example search term, but it doesn't return any results.
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Next time I'm hiring someone (hopefully not too long from now), I'll be using them.
That's the question, we'll be able to answer you in a few days/weeks. We believe that as long as we solve your problem (search for online learning resources), you'll find use and come back.
Ask HN: What do you think about Smart TVs?
All the usual suspects are talking about Smart TVs at CES. Everyone is waiting for Apple to make their move in this space. Analysts are talking up the size of the market over the next few years, but it's still relatively small and very fragmented.

1. Do you think TVs really are the next big form factor?

2. What are the prospects for Smart TV apps?

3. TVs have two main features: a) they're big screens, and b) they're receivers for high-quality video content. Add internet access, the ability to run arbitrary software and (in future) touchscreens and the possibilities of both increase. Lots of people are thinking about expanding on b), eg apps for viewers to socialize over TV programmes. What about a)? Will we see TV apps that make use of the form factor - eg, allowing multiple people to work or play together?
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This article presupposes a vast quantity of the internet's data is tracked basic HTTP requests.

Huge quantities of the traffic on the internet are video data being slung about (which has no where near the penetration of GA the poster is assuming). Cisco's estimate is video will be >50% of all traffic in 2012

Source: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...
Cool. Yeah, seems like it's better inlining and use of XMM registers more than the SSE instructions themselves.
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Thanks! No, we'll try to cover all topics. That's just the beginning and resources like Khan Academy are highly respected and useful, that's why included it from the start.

As for the search term, the search algorithm isn't perfect yet, working on it :)
> What's really right is to show the complete distribution of speedups and slowdowns

The page the OP linked DOES show all the distribution - that's the beauty of box plots.
Why do people write, "XXX says a lot about YYY", but then don't elaborate any further? What does "myspace has more visitors than Google+" say about Google+? That it's newer? That there's less network effect? I'm not sure, but the author thinks I am.

The goal of writing should be to provide information, not to confuse me with FUD.
I am sure it would be tough, but as we have seen that this could happen, as happened in China. What could be a viable solution? I mean, for future, how can we make it so that blocking two domains is not what it would take for a government agency to block big networks like Facebook and Google.
> Over a million software developers have public repositories on http://github.com, allowing you to see how people use code to solve real problems

That assumes they put code on github. And that they publish the code. And that you know anything about their code.

Then there are those of us who use bitbucket. There's lots of code which doesn't get published because it's not relevant and if it is, it might be a one off project that I'd rather not make public rather than make it look like it's abandoned. Finally, some code just makes no sense out of context - some of the code I'm most proud of were just binary patches to firmware of an old mobile phone with delphi gui for hooking it up to specified functions. Without context that's just an ugly delphi form that does a weird version of "patch" operating on a text file and example files. In context, it's a lot more. Not only I wouldn't expect anyone to understand what that project was doing and why it mattered, it would not get uploaded to github because it was outdated before github even existed.

So while the quoted sentence is still true, I think anyone using this service misses out on masses of experienced developers who simply didn't publish their code on GH, for various reasons. If you want to find a standard <recent language> developer doing lots of opensource work, it might be a good offer though.

The difference might not be clear to the people paying for this service.
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Books who have kindle versions qualify as online learning resources (since you can download and read instantly on all devices). We included books because some topics have just few courses/screencasts.

Stuff like description, ratings + user-submitted content will of course follow :)

We'll work on the search algo, thanks! :)
Nice. Although I do not live in the US i'll do it because it's the right thing to do.
By degrading gracefully, of course. It's why you can read GMail in IE6, even though the experience is a lot better in Chrome 17.
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I didn't know about the hireable flag either. Cool feature for the genuinely unemployed, but imagine the team morale repercussions of setting your hireable flag to true while in a job you're looking to move on from...
I would also add inability to create objects in stack, if you are doing anything recursive. The overhead of heap object creation is pretty visible. So I had to either reuse objects and essentially create my own memory management layer or try to stick data into primitive types which obfuscated code logic quite a bit.
Well, if you can't get programmers, maybe it would even be impossible to get customers. I live and work in Africa, and I feel that what Africa needs is knowledge and training. Charging poor folks to learn programming may be a bit hard to turn into a successful business model. And if you can't afford to shell out 2000USD, then you have to re-work your business structure.
BTW, how come you can program while others in your community cannot? Are from moon or what? And to produce a programmer from your pressure pot may be impossible. Programming is not something like basic language, it goes beyond that. And learning to program is indeed a hard exercise which might take a long time. Cut your expectations, code your App alone. I wish you a wonderful new year!
...And is a great vector for hepatitis infection:

http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20111025/panel-recommends-hep...

I'm for a "no blood" tool at first at least. BGMs are cheap and prevalent.
The New York Times has always struck me as rather pretentious and self-important. They seem to report about themselves as much as the news.
Can I make a suggestion? Have the text fade in.

I think it would give it a bit more ooomph.
On OS X, I highly recommend Dripbox. It automatically SCP's files that change on your local filesystem to a remote location.

https://github.com/epall/dripbox

I use it every day, editing files locally in Sublime Text 2, and then cmd-tabbing to Terminal to run tests. It's fast enough that I never even think about the delay.
The outliers are not discarded. The outliers are shown both in the chart and in the table (Fortran Intel 25.26).

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...
I am surprised this has not been done by anti-SOPA activists. This would be using the tools Internet has created to save it shows well it's reach. This I think is the easiest way an individual can get attention of the regular public, after he is done talking to his friends.
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I've done it.

Use case involves a class wrapping python's xml-rpc stuff to talk to Drupal.

Drupal's xml-rpc interface is not the most pleasant thing to work with, as you have to pass in a session id and auth token on every request, and then all the "actual" parameters go in as an array.

My wrapper class would query the remote interface for available methods, and then dynamically generate, via eval, a function object that used a closure to store the sess/auth tokens, and that took a variable number of arguments to pass as the 3rd array argument to the function. The eval'd function object was then bound as a method to the connection object.

It also did a bit more magic, such as on error logging the arguments to a file. ALl in all it made writing web-service clients a lot more pleasant.
One major flaw: it assumes anyone you would want to hire uses Github, as opposed to Bitbucket, Gitorious, Google Code, Launchpad, the numerous other code hosts I missed, or hosting their code on their own server.

And if Github becomes "the standard" for hosting software such that everyone looks for code and coders on Github instead of other places, that would be detrimental to the FOSS community as a whole - not only in Github's lack of competition with other code hosts, but also in git's lack of competition with other VCSes.
thats cool, tell me what you want it to say?
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It has syntastic support https://img.skitch.com/20120112-t9qeth7nhrdxp25rekxxjqgk16.j...
peoples abilities are all different so its difficult to guess peoples abilities, so i provide a simple need
I read somewhere that the writers rooms of Daily Show and Colbert rarely cross, at least day to day. I believe they deliberately keep them separate to keep them tonally unique, even though it sometimes results in both shows covering the same topic, and even occasionally making the same joke.

(Sorry for no source on that.)
some one-liners that are often useful:

cat a b | sort | uniq > c # c = a union b
cat a b | sort | uniq -d > c # c = a intersect b
cat a b b | sort | uniq -u > c # c = set difference a - b
Wow, good thing I didn't buy one last night...
The blue gradiants are an Android feature (at least - the overscroll behavior is).
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I'm not a java programmer. Just to help you out for the future since you seem a bit confused:

pomp·ous/ˈpämpəs/Adjective:
Affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important: "a pompous ass".
I use CM variations on 2 of my Android phones (in the family) and I'm considering putting it on a 3rd one we just bought.
I don't see public repositories as being a 100% indicator. The information they provide is useful, but I still want to do a whiteboard interview with candidates. There are a few reasons for this. Most of my personal projects are much simpler than what I get paid to do. Many of my repositories contain lots of good code written by other people and it's unfair for me to take credit for their work.

I like the whiteboard interviews because you can observe the end-to-end problem solving. You can see how people behave out of their element. You can see how they approach "an empty page". And you can ask questions that involve more algorithmic insight than "I wrote a Twitter scraper".
And that is one of the core reason why SOPA is a flawed concept.
In the 1890s, in a dry, neutral, "objective" tone the NY Times reported on southern lynchings by including the "crimes" the victims supposedly committed. A mere listing of facts is not journalism. Creating a context by researching and checking on the data is, as bitops implied below.

"When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory." --Kelvin
Only if the newspaper is asserting those lies or statements. There is nothing wrong with a newspaper reporting someone as saying X, even if X is untrue, imo.
And at the top of that page ;-)
Considering that the owner is a US Congressman with extensive knowledge of copyright law (or so I assume) - he should have been paying attention to what happens on his freaking website, which is nothing more than his business card to the whole world.

Failing to do so, talking about scale doesn't make much sense, since if a US Congressman, that happens to be the author of SOPA, can't handle it - what chances are there for any website to be on the lookout for violations?
Great sleuthing. Now how do we get the bigger outlets to run with the story? This could cause some PR damage for the SOPA supporters.