skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an engineer, I find almost every aspect of this resume to be horrible. The one non-horrible part is the amount of money he claims to have raised for his various projects, because it is related to actual job performance. But since he wants to be a product manager, even that is off-message.
It would make sense to have this as a central tenet of internet protection legislation.
Is SICP just not taught at a lot of places anymore? SICP used to be the first CS class at Caltech, but now its generally the second CS class (with programming) that people with no prior programming experience take.
I often don't understand why there isn't
I know, it's terrible. "Why I'm A Pirate", on the front page for 17 hours now, makes that point very well.
http://ploum.net/post/im-a-pirate
> "I dislike the practice of intentionally making treaties that force us to change our laws as a 'hack' of our government processes."

Isn't this the whole point of treaties though? What good is a treaty if member states don't have to change incompatible laws to conform with it?

What's the point of, say, signing a human rights treaty, without changing currently compatible laws to fall in line?
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Most laws have little effect on the outcome of any "lucrative business practice".
Looks like Brian Harvey is retiring, but before he does, he's working on a self-paced version of 61A, which will also include chapter 5 of SICP! (Cal, historically, has always only taught chapters 1-4, to the point, IIRC, of having a special SICP published without chapter 5).

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a.html

I hope this is made available to the public, as it's a bit like discovering a long-lost director's cut ending to a much-loved film.
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Any hope of video for the lectures? :)

Or did anyone sneak a camera into the C++11 talk?
the problem is that many times the world follows US laws and regulations and applies those locally (also: student being deported to US based on broken UK law that UK itself wasnt interested in prosecuting)
As a Forensic DNA Scientist, I can confirm this is indeed an issue.
I use a nose clip (sometimes called a nasal dilator) that has improved my sleep quality tremendously. I used to wake up feeling dizzy and cotton headed. I usually couldn't cognitively function until mid-afternoon and felt like I had a sinus infection every morning. It's made a huge difference. I wake up clear headed, my wife says I don't snore as badly, and I've started remembering my dreams again suggesting I'm getting quality REM sleep again.
There's a link in the top right after the message about SOPA... clicking it will turn off the black.

tl;dr... it's really colorful.
icebraining: You copy something. You have taken it. It still exists where it originally did, but you still took it because you now have it in your possession. You can't keep justifying taking something without paying for it (stealing) with semantics.

Here's another argument for you. When a producer sells a piece of content, it is selling you a copy. You are paying for a copy. If you choose to not pay for a copy, you are effectively stealing a copy from the producer.
From my own experiences (viewing SEO as a "hobby"), I do think the type of semi-blackhat SEO that's most prevalent - the 20k blog comment blasts and automated WhoIs reports - is righteously dying out. It may take a while since a lot of people still believe that's the easy way to rank highly (and I think a lot of the SEO world fuels that notion to a degree), but I'm at least hopeful.

But I also think it's hard not to use a majority of greyhat methods and, because of that, current greyhat methods shouldn't be totally discredited. It's really time consuming do to a lot of things without using blackhat tools like ScrapeBox and SEnuke X. However, recognize that these tools can be used for more than just spamming. Many popular tools are great for finding a few really targeted sites to, for example, actually post legitimate blog comments to. And I doubt methods and tools that are used by so many blackhats will die out soon. They can still be a vital asset to people who do take into account the health of the Internet and use greyhat methods responsibly.
JBoss founder supports SOPA
Marc Fleury (founder of JBoss) blogs about his support for SOPA.
Honestly, this argument is REALLY weak. Hollywood spends millions of dollars to create these movies. To pirate it and not compensate the companies involved is irresponsible, selfish and ignorant -- it is stealing. There is is great amount of financial investment that goes into creating these movies. Today with the internet, the distribution avenue exists for people to produce and self publish, independent of Hollywood, but there is so much more to creating a successful movie: expensive sets, actors' salaries, special effects, post processing, marketing, the list goes on... In order to be successful these movies require great financial outlay and to expect the final product to be free is ridiculous. If these people really believe in free movies and music, they'd boycott Hollywood productions (they very stuff they call 'trash') and instead trade independent creations where the artist or writer chooses to give it away.

This argument is not about freedom of exchanging original ideas or even sharing bits of "copyrighted" information, it's about the wholesale stealing of movies which took a great deal of time money and effort to create, even if they are considered 'trash'. In the end, TPB and it's users only pander to the "culture" that they supposedly so despise by consuming such media, they just don't like paying for it.

The "great game" referenced (Civilization, at least the most recent version: 5), is ironically available to download on The Pirate Bay. I suppose this is not worth paying Sid Meier and the development studios he worked with to create this game either.

Pretty much the only thing I don't disagree with are the buried statements about Fox News and the media's control over the public opinion and the inhumane conditions in foreign factories.

FWIW, I OPPOSE SOPA and PIPA, I called my congressmen and voiced my concern today, the proposed law is useless to curb this behavior, but will instead hurt those who DO want to freely exchange ideas and information.
Pretty much. That, and I don't think you can really send data back to the server over a long-polling connection - if you can, it's a giant hack - but WebSockets is explicitly designed for bidirectionality.

SSE, on the other hand, basically is long-polling and keep-alives, but with better defined behavior and a nicer API on the client side.
My wife sleeps comfortably on a 6-7 hour schedule. That's just what she needs. We've tried to lock sleep cycles together, but I usually end up in pretty bad shape after 3 or 4 weeks, and she'll be perfectly fine.
It's not part of the IDE itself. It's a plugin you have to go out of your way to install.
For those that are unfamiliar, SICP is a book - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
The perils of "free riders"
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tl;dr all good for business but labor is SOL. I wonder how long we can run like this until the natives get restless. What has me totally dumbfounded though is why all the legislative assaults on individual rights, right now. It seems to me like the worst time to do it. It seems like it's just stoking the fire. I mean 10 years ago I could have never dreamed of American edging closer to a revolution. Now it seems like it could be a few bad decisions away. I hope not, but the discontentment seems to be spreading rapidly and the assaults on rights gives people the moral justification, in their mind to take drastic measures.
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Or perhaps the slightly longer "Better Get It Right The First Time" mode?
Pinterest and Others: Open Graph Sites + Apps That Auto-Publish to Facebook
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At least this guy isn't pitching himself as a marketer because his resume is a huge fail.

He clearly read the memo about what constitutes as design porn. Now, he should invest in learning about audience expectation and communicating signal. For starters, the so-called resume is pretty difficult to parse if someone is trying to quickly gauge to interview you or not.
Actually, Sen. Rubio and his colleagues got played by the RIAA and MPAA. They were likely told that the "Internet" supported the bill (GoDaddy) and that the scope was limited to foreign sites. Further, incompetent and/or corrupt staff told him it was ok to support. The way it works, most tech staff on the Hill don't actually understand the technology, and also want to lobby for Big Copyright someday.

The result: "no controversy." But I think there's possible lasting damage for the RIAA and MPAA's reputation in Washington, people got burned by this bill.
There is nothing inherently wrong with long polling, but when you consider the overhead of a small payload (let's say 4 bytes for fun) the HTTP request headers add significant overhead. WebSockets have very little overhead for a 4 byte payload (2-4 bytes depending on masking (4 for the spec)) ... and the latency is less than half. It's just more efficient.
Here are two options.
Webkit2png (free for Mac) - http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
Khtml2png (free for Linux) - http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/
Paid online api - http://url2png.com/
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Getting your data out will also cost you a boat load of money. Same as putting it in.
I completely agree. It's time for all of the pirates to stop justifying their stealing by putting up the facade of protecting online freedoms in front of the obvious primary motive, not paying for content.

Steal if you want to, but stop trying to call it something else.
Already posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473024
I use tmobile's monthly4g plans right now -- 5gb data, no contract plan for $30. I bring my own phone. I'm just using the phone as a SIP client, and it's working out fairly well so far.
A little hypocritical to say the least.

Absolutely, I agree that other nations should be free to protect their interest. I am a huge fan of the republic that America used to be before the Civil War, the seed of federalism was planted then it has blossomed since then. I am all for a coalition of small governments that have unique and independent laws that best governs their citizenry. Just because I am from the US does not mean that I support what we have become. I absolutely hate the fact that we enforce our will on other nations and our chickens are coming home to roost for sure on this one.
My mind is blown by the self-negation of this comment. If it was deliberate, my hat is off to you.
hmm... this actually gives me an idea for a project/website. you plug your linkedin account and it builds a page with all those fancy colors and graphics, and charts, etc takes dates of your jobs, ask you for likes and dislikes, etc etc.. and then you can choose from 5 different templates... and your own subdomain...
have an effective strategy to get it

This is the part I'm trying to learn more about...
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I have a hard time telling which one is for which, sometimes.
Yes it's lame, but if that's what it takes for Republicans to back off, then I guess I'll live with it. Now we just have to wait for the Democrats to realize that the public hates the bill and they can't let the GOP score a big PR win - in spite of the 90% of entertainment industry lobbying that goes to Democrats.
Finding Headphones to Shut Out the World
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Notch, among others, is the exception that proves the rule.
ok five minutes later: http://vizualize.me/
Unqualified answer, but probably not.

Lobbying works because politicians need money for campaigns (and/or private jets, depending on how cynical you are). Companies have a lot of money, and lobbying a bill that is beneficial to your company can save orders of magnitude of money. The internet at large does not really have the sums of money needed to compete. Arguably, it doesn't have the attention span either.

And to be entirely fair, not all lobbying is entirely corrupt. Some lobbying is just putting money into the hands of politicians whose views coincide with the best interest of your company. You want your company to succeed, Politician XYZ generally supports ideas that are beneficial to your company, so you support that candidate financially so he stays in office.

Of course, there is obviously a lot of corrupt lobbying going on too.
Right, I'm not linking SPDY and "dynamic topologies". Rather, I'm linking the message-oriented communication of SPDY and 0MQ (and 0MQ is not the only way to achieve this).

Once a request enters your "back office" it should all be message oriented, over persistent connections, with flow control / QoS, and the like.
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Why not just copy the rdb file?
Thanks. It's not that sad, is it? I'm not unhappy about it. It's probably the hardest project I can think of trying to start...and I didn't expect instant success.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/all
It was done this way on purpose.
Going after "money" in politics is treating a symptom. The disease is that the government is too big and has too much power. Limit the size and scope of government, and you'll reduce the influence of money in politics. One single reform-- a flat corporate tax, with no loopholes-- would eliminate half the lobbyists in Washington.
TCP is a transport layer and we're not talking about replacing TCP - not going to happen, and no reason to do that. 0MQ, SPDY, etc, run at application layer, and TCP flow control, window sizing, etc, work in tandem with the application layer controls.
I think the resume is terrible, but even worse is the idea that you need a resume to get a job. If you need a resume to get a job, you're probably doing it wrong. You might need one to appease some paper-shuffler in HR, but for skilled professionals with good personal networks a resume is almost never necessary.
The reason you're not seeing much comment on the WSJ article's actual content is probably because it's behind a pay wall and so inaccessible to most here.
WTF? MPAA: SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Are 'Abuse of Power'
With long-polling you have reconnect after every message, which is a very expensive operation (relatively speaking). HTTP headers often form the bulk of the request, and the number of connections you have to maintain is high. All of these things add up.

In addition, TCP slow start, window sizing, etc, work against you when it comes to optimizing for latency: http://www.igvita.com/2011/10/20/faster-web-vs-tcp-slow-star...
that was written in 5 minutes? it would take me that long to position elements with css...
I'm only < 24 hours into it but Ting.com beta program phone showed up today. I get 500Mb per month for US$13 which is more than the ~250Mb I usually use. I'll get a credit back on the next month's bill which is, well, how it should be.

The bands are 100Mb = $3pm; 500Mb = $13; 1,000Mb = $24; 2,000Mb = $42; and 3,000Mb = $60.

I use zero voice minutes and zero text messages per month so my bill will be $19 (data + $6 per 'line') plus the usual mandatory taxes. This will save me about $60pm on my iPhone bill where I had no choice but to have voice.

They're a Sprint MVNO, there's no contract, and I have high hopes as the customer service has been outstanding to date. The Web-based management GUI is a bit spartan but that'll evolve over time I suppose. I only wish they were GSM-based instead of CDMA.
No, it is pretty surprising.
Wasn't there something in Methods of Rationality about this? A discussion between Quirrel and Harry, if I recall correctly.

The relevant thing here is not whether pg's stated motive is consistent with his actions, let alone whether reddit will appreciate his actions, but whether the mind-states corresponding to that motive are the most probable of those that would result in his saying what he did.

A good reason to question his motive is the fact that HN and reddit are not necessarily substitutes for each other; another is the fact that he's well aware (as others have pointed out) of differences between the two communities that he wants to preserve.
Hi!
I am Dmitry Ulupov and I am running this service.
You can talk directly to me at any time. My email is dima at ulupov dot com.

What a terrible idea for me would be screwing up with people websites?

Right now the service is used by more than 5000 websites and gets just shy of 10m hits a month. If anything would happen quite a few people will know who is at fault.
But when any popular internet service goes down you are just getting formal apology from nobody.
thepiratebay.org is one obvious example. Although this would seem to be a foreign site, it is actually a "domestic internet site" and a "U.S. directed site" under the terms of SOPA. This is because the '.org' domain (along with '.com' and some others) is a domestic top level domain under the terms of the SOPA. See Section 101. Definitions in the bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:

Note that S.103 that we're talking about deals with "U.S. directed sites", among which, presumably most sites with domains of .com or .org would fall, since registrant for those domains is under U.S. jurisdiction, giving U.S. "minimum contacts" sufficient to assert its authority over the site. That's my reading, anyway.
That depends, how much of Twitter's userbase uses the web clients?
hahaha no! 5 minutes later researching the web.
I faced that problem (I had some money in Windows-only licenses). I still cut the cord and moved to the Mac.

If I find it necessary to move from the Mac to something else, as much as I hate it I will cut the cord and not worry about the software investments that I have made.

If you have an application that only works on Windows, then you need to either (a) deal with the Microsoft Tax and all that implies or (b) yell at your software vendor and tell them you want alternative platform support.
The "free market" huh? Yeah right ---> http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/pipa#roll_call
Great point.

I tend to vote Green or leftist in not-close elections just because I figure the marginal effect of 1 vote is higher. The difference between 5 and 6 percent is a lot bigger than that between 30 and 31 percent, or 69 and 70 percent.

When they see the Republicans get more votes, their strategy over the last 20 years is to move more to the "center" (ie. more to the right).

That's because they're bought and paid-for by the same people as the Republicans. Almost all politicians are vector sums of corporations; you're just voting for one portfolio over another.

Democrat or Republican, as soon as they get invited to assholes' parties in Aspen and Easthampton, they fall in love with the asshole world and do whatever they can to stay connected to it. This social phenomenon has a technical name: goatsefication.
No reason to change the underlying nature of the internet for an archaic business model called "windowing".
Thanks for posting this; it's a good and timely read.

Could you put a [2000] in the title, please?
Super happy for him :)

We see so many initiatives regarding cancer, yet as cliché as it sounds, you never really understand it until it strikes close to home. My girlfriend was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma a month ago and is going through chemo and radiation right now.

In the past I might have glossed over things like Amit's story, breast cancer awareness month and pro football players wearing pink shoes...but now it gives me a ton of hope (which I really need) that things like this can save people's lives.
I didn't see SOPA like protests (wihtin the US) for the plethora of "Free-Trade" agreements that the US has put forward in other countries, that clearly put the US at an advantage and undermine (or attempt to) local markets.
In fact I'd bet that there were 0 protests for some (all?) of those agreements.

There has to be some personal accountability. The "I just live here, but have my own views" doesn't really cut it.

Living in a democracy and saying "That's the position of the government... not mine". While, not completely invalid, is annoying to hear.
You vote for good comments, whether you agree with them or not. To make a statement you comment.
Peace Prize? It could be argued that a better educated world is more likely to move towards peace. Allows people to be more critical thinking and thus not allow themselves to be fooled so easily by politicians.
Just wanted to say: thank you for helping to restore SICP.
When you create an artificial urgency, and you splice it in with children's sugar & cheeseburger intake, you should expect them to evolve to obtain it by any means necessary.
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There was a time when the attitude among technology companies was innovate. No one lobbied not even Microsoft it seemed like the attitude was getting the government involved was a can of worms best left alone. It seems like that all changed when the we started converging with other industries and the other industries where playing dirty. At which point many of the large companies had no choice to get into the lobbying game and it devolved from there. But that is the issue at hand, if you don't employ the same tactics then other industries have the advantage of legislating you out of business. If you do employ it, you eventually lose your soul and start to become the abuser.

On a side note, the patent wars have a similar parallel. For a long time they where looked at as a form of mutually assured destruction. But someone actually pressed the red button.
12 years ago, and more meaningful today than ever.

Fortunately musicians are starting to (finally) get a few more options to escape The Cartel.

Much like Universal attacked MegaUpload regarding their self produced YouTube video, I have to wonder how much effort would be directed at killing new independent digital publishing venues via bogus claims using SOPA / PIPA style laws. The answer is probably: a lot.
Please don't submit paywalled articles.
Gamification: The shark has officially been jumped.
Honestly I'm quite surprised that it hasn't taken off more - the language itself is very nice and well-designed, and the way it handles multiple platforms is surprisingly elegant. The only real complaint I have with it is that the documentation is a bit disjointed.