skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, quite a few physical places and things require permission or a license to be displayed in photos and video.
He's using a Native App. If you are looking for a free plugin to get a mobile feel you should use WPTouch.
I voted yes.

But I think HN should populate the days articles with tongue-in-cheek titles like:

The article titled "New start-up to disrupt <INSERT SOPA SUPPORTER HERE> business model" has been taken down to SOPA compliance concerns.

and,

"All hail our mighty overlord: <INSERT SOPA SUPPORTER HERE>"

and,

"The failure of democracy and the rise of corporatism! Would you like to know more?"
Mathematics for Game Developers 6: Real Numbers part 2
The missing third option: Yes, already left GoDaddy!
Oracle Looks to Build Big Data Street Cred with Cloudera Partnership
Do you honestly believe what you wrote here? You see marginal difference between reddit and HN?
Going dark's is not only about being informative.

Is more valuable than that.

To the eyes of history, you have symbolic value in participating of a protest.

People will talk about what you did or did not in historically important (game changer) times.

So is all about how do you want them to talk about you in relation to this?
Your entire post is a logical fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences

Further, it's not even a correct use of the Appeal to Consequences fallacy. If the natural causes hypothesis is true, it does not logically follow that anyone should be oppressed.

It does, however, logically follow from the "natural causes" hypothesis that you can't have both equal rights and equal proportions (i.e., either you discriminate against men, or you have fewer women).
I think the article is a great explanation. I'm not sure I (exactly) agree with the conclusion "dynamic vars also breaks referential transparency" - isn't it the combination of lexical closure (referring to symbols from outside the function) as well as mutable state that breaks referential transparency?

If I have a function that takes a java collection and returns the count, it has no referential transparency because the collection is mutable, not necessarily b/c of how it's operating on its arguments.

Of course this is one of the things I love about Clojure and Rich Hickey's use of immutability as the default behavior (as often as possible) - much [more] of the Clojure I write has referential transparency, hardly any of the Java I wrote did.

Thanks!

Kyle
Sounds a little more lonely when you read "it's likely there are a minimum of 1,500 planets within just 50 light-years of Earth." 1,500 isn't that many, and 50 light-years is a really long distance.
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#shark
Yep, it took me all of three seconds to reverse this setting (admittedly, when I had been told where to look).
You could be right. It's been a long time since I read it but I recall thinking, when I finished it, that I was glad for the twist ending because it gave much needed weight to the rest of the story. This might just be due to the fact that I've read many other hawk-turns-dove stories in other contexts, so my bar for them is high (e.g. If I Die in a Combat Zone).
What are some noteworthy companies with a distributed workforce?
So just load up the page (on iOS user-agents) with a big red button up top which allows the user to self-redirect, or default a preference on the G+ profile (if they're logged in).
Thanks, this is useful. May I suggest trying different sets of public recursive resolvers for yourself to get the lowest query times?

Just google "public DNS server" and start pinging them. For me, Verizon's name servers are the fastest; easy to remember too.

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5

Opendns might work too but I've found it to be slow. Extra credit: set up a caching recursive resolver to serve your local net for web faster queries.
Designing for the Untestable
The oDesk Experience
Definitely. If we can't even bite the bullet ourselves, how can we expect others to as well? This isn't about HN, this is greater than that. This is about freedom of life as we know it. Without freedom of information, there is no such thing as freedom period. HN going down would be a powerful display of protest and commitment to freedom. Possibly, even the greatest thing HN has ever done.
"Girls aren't supposed to get involved in robotics" was the answer I got from a high school girl on why more girls weren't in the robotics club. All the stats about girls not doing well in math etc. just tell me that gender stereotyping is alive and well.
Mild electric shock + contrived mathematical exercise = improved number sense
Not to mention that Google could very easily set filters up to detect the language used.
Now I want to change my vote ...
I think they are orthogonal issues. For any code base there are a list of things most in need of improvement and a quality threshold to be able to ship. It's all to easy to spend a lot of time making unimportant things better, but the problem is not trying to make great code it's working on the wrong area. If the messaging system sucks and there is no GUI then build a GUI.
Indeed. There are few things as satisfying in the craft of programming as discovering some code that you wrote years ago which foresaw conditions that didn't exist then but do now. Deleting ugly code which did the job but is now unnecessary is a close second.
We can't ask "normal non-tech people" sites to go dark if we're not willing to ourselves. Even if few HNers will learn anything new it still sets a good example.
This is, potentially, the only movie I can think of that demands a 3D experience. Considering the storyline dives deeply into the tactics and strategies of conducting war in a 3D space rather than on fixed plane -- I really hope the film makers turn 3D into a useful storytelling attribute.

Note: Im a pretty ardent 3D hater.
In fact, the computer program could only ever get to analyze a copy of the file, and not "the" file itself. The legality of the in-memory copy remains in a quantum superposition, simultaneously legal and illegal until a politician discovers how computers work.

In other news, the police start withdrawing money from every bank account using an ATM and analyzing the $100 bills for signs of the account holders' criminal transactions.
This is very exciting.

On a related note, the number put forth by the study (at least one planet per star, on average) is roughly consistent with Drake's 1961 estimate that half of all stars will have planets, and stars with planets will have 2 planets capable of developing life.

Except, of course, that Drake estimated an average of >=1 habitable planets per star. Still, it's good to see one of his estimates being corroborated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
On the other hand - publicity gained by going dark along with reddit would raise the amount of people who were aware of HN and could cause more people to come here.

Either way, I don't think it's that big of a concern.
I don't think the issue is statistics per se - the question is how much care has been taken in these infrastructure constructions.

It's not hard to lay tens of thousands of miles of shoddy track and run screaming locomotives down them. It's another game altogether to painstakingly design this system to be fault-tolerant and accept a wide range of failure modes.

The issue isn't that 35 people were killed out of millions transported, it's that the system seemingly had no account for a failure mode as simple as "train ahead loses power".

Getting something 95% safe is pretty cheap. Getting something 99.99% safe is monumentally expensive, and that really characterizes infrastructure development between the developed and developing world.

To circle back to the original point: OP is saying that China's HSR infrastructure was seen as an example to the world, creating controversy about the efficiency and cost of infrastructure in the developed world. That is, until you account for the fact that this infrastructure simply isn't built to the same standard as it is in the developed world.
You can wrap WPTouch into a native app with a little bit of work. The selling point for this service that there is little to no effort for anyone involved to get the native app submitted and with support for push notifications.
Maybe instead of "going dark" that should be what the homepage redirects to for that day. That way it raises awareness and provides reading material.
> I think it's a great idea to learn to "program".

Believed or not I'm completely agree with you, learn to program will definitely improve the way you work.

But sometimes, some guys with little involvement in a project that know "how to program" cause more damage than good.
No. Despite the statement that will be made by HN were it to go dark, this should be done on a website that gets traffic from the general population that is not aware of the situation. Most people on HN know about SOPA, where as most people on FB, Google or Tumblr don't.

Should HN go dark? Yes! Would it be effective? No!
Move to Canada, the UK or any other western nation....free healthcare is a massive load off the mind in lean times!
Game Developer Graduate Exhibition Tips
From a design perspective, that is one sweet looking site! Who created it? With what?
I've watched the discussion of hiring contractors on sites like oDesk come up over the past year. I had been meaning to write-up a blog post regarding our experiences with oDesk and why we use it over other popular freelancing sites. This is that post.
Calling All Android Developers - Help Us Help You
Some interesting related discussion here:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3861
Making a public stand isn't just about using shock-and-awe to create an educational moment. It's also about making headlines and showing solidarity.

Despite the fact that the majority of HN readers already know about SOPA, I think it's an excellent idea for these other reasons.

It might also be an opportunity to get some of us off our butts and use the time we spend reading HN each day to call our representatives in congress instead.
I am going to tirelessly promote this movie because it is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid, but even more so because I really want to see the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, get made into a movie. Speaker for the Dead is a much more mature, thought provoking book, in which a grown up Ender struggles to come to terms with his actions from the first book. Speaker won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and if you havent read it, you should go do so immediately.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812550757/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... (yes, it is an affiliate link)

Fun fact: Orson Scott Card (author) had the idea for Speaker for The Dead before writing Ender's Game, and essentially wrote the first novel simply to set up the complex universe that unfolds in the sequel.
For software development / consulting work there's just one thing. You simply must use one case per task to keep it all straight and have a searchable, documented history looking back.

I recommend tracking time directly in something like Fogbugz and letting it feed the time directly into your time-tracking / invoicing solution.

Why?

- I touch 50-100 cases in reasonable detail a day. Features, Analysis, designs, inquiries, bugs, etc. Hopping between a case manager screen where the technical details are and a time tracking / project management screen can get a bit loopy.

My time is different than my contractors time. I assign my contractors a task as a project. They only report or see those items. Freshbooks lets me give them their own interface where they send and bill me directly what I've approved.

My own time goes into Fogbugz which carries into Freshbooks via API.
Decided to make some "Cofounder Wanted" shirts to bootstrap my first startup.
Soapy: DNS Block Bypassing
Does it still hurt even when you take time off? If so it might just be all in your head. It was for me. For real. I had it for a couple of years. All I had to do was look at my wrists and say, "You're inflamed because I don't want to deal with my problems," and the pain went away. It took about three days.

Google "John Sarno" but don't bother buying his book. It's not that complicated.
Is it seriously happening? I mean, Harrison Ford name-dropping is all well and good, but I'm skeptical. The first I heard rumors of this movie happening Real Soon Nowish was on USENET.
You make symbolic gestures because ... they're symbolic.

They're going to be recognized directly by those who utilize whatever it is that's being sacrificed.

And more widely, reporting on the issue (because that's where the symbolism hits the road, so to speak), is going to take note that "demonstrating support and solidarity with the anti-SOPA movement, numerous websites, including <list here> went dark for the day". For HN to be in that list will add to its weight. At least somewhat.

And, well, we're all talking about this. Here on HN. Go do something useful and have this debate elsewhere.

Hrm: Perhaps I should petition Krell Power Systems to go dark in support. But man is that power-up sequence a pain afterwards.

You know what? It's still worth it.
I think it is safe to assume that everyone on HN is fully aware of SOPA by now.
Alexis Ohanian's new book - Without Your Permission
Okay, that was kind of a dumb question. I assume it's created using ClojureScript One. What I meant was how was the visual design created?
Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media
I just assume any google.com url's are for G+, less surprised that way.
Right you are ;)

We believe that social games are a natural fit for real-money play.
It's whistling in the dark.

The people who know about SOPA, or should know about SOPA, don't frequent HN. They use Google and Facebook.

The people who are in charge of legislating SOPA, or voting on it, are similarly not effected. I think Wikipedia should black out each legislator's page with a big "SOPA WILL CENSOR THE INTERNET" notice. That will get the attention of the 6 o'clock news more than some evil hacker news site doing a "protest". After all, what senator's ego could bear having their Wikipedia page defaced?
Me too - I'm afraid it's just a bunch of marketers or spammers who found it as a way to broadcast directly to HN crowd. I guess we'll know soon..
I say Yay...

Protests are heard the loudest when more people join them. I get that us being down isn't quite as informative to the public as say, facebook going down or google dropping out for a day but as other have already stated if we join others are more likely to follow.

It's the classic timid group effect (I doubt that's what it's actually called.) You know, when there are ten people being asked to volunteer an answer to a question, and no one answers until that one guy raises his hand, then suddenly everyone else has something to say. We need to be part of the first, not for us but to get others to throw their voices (or in this case, 0's and 1's.) behind the cause.
Speaker for The Dead is good, but the book deteriorate quite quickly after that.
Agreed, shutting down a website that no one in congress reads, knows about, or would care about even if they knew seems pointless to me.

If you want to have real effect continue (or start) to write your congress-person, educate your friends, and pressure them into doing the same. Post on Facebook, twitter, etc.

Compared to these real actions, shutting down HN is useless pageantry.
Agreed. I actually find it one of the nicer reading experiences on the iPhone considering so many other sites don't wrap properly and make me scroll sideways to read each sentence.

I also don't get any of the blur mentioned when scrolling.
That was transcendent. That's going in my bookmark bar as something I watch regularly. Thanks!
When those prices were announced, I was really expecting that they were just for show, and really everybody would end up paying way less than list price. It's bizarre that this isn't happening. Making a real and profitable business out of providing a geo API is great. Pricing it out of just about everyone's range and driving the potential customers away, less so. I can come up with a lot of theories, but none that is really believable:

1. So many companies really paying nearly list price that it's worth losing the other business.

2. Using different pricing schemes on different customers to figure out what the pain threshold really is, to maximize profit.

3. The sales people have a bad set of incentives, and are too strongly encouraged to try to make sales with low discounts.

4. ?
While I believe that publishers could create a cost effective business model in which they re-coop their investment, what this legislation does is allow them to sever any responsibility they have to the public in the name of profit and destroy any attempt by those that fund their industry to exert some level of oversight on behalf of the tax payer.

They are attempting to destroy a reasonable compromise that they have 12 months to profit on articles, but the NIH imposes a limit so that they can't put the papers behind a paywall Ad infinitum. And under the current rules they still seem to be doing fairly well:

http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/economics-of-open-sour...
If only because the effort has to approach the magnitude of all or nothing, otherwise it will likely be fruitless.
Govt to axe boring school ICT courses from September
Perhaps on that day, HN blacks out all normal content and instead just features a list of all the sites that have gone black in protest? Could let users submit URLs to be added to the list.
Half of all teams are below the median.
The example Google gives is that you can now type "photos" and see pictures of your family and friends. Instead of going to some other site and navigating, you just type your desires into Chrome's URL bar and the Right Thing automatically shows up. (There are some internal goals for this, but I'm not sure which ones are public... but this will only get cooler as time goes on.)
The current Facebook mobile site is almost 1:1 with their app (on Android, anyway). I wouldn't surprised to know the app is one giant WebView with a few system hooks sprinkled in.
Only the answers in the DNS response are signed. The DNS header (which is where the NXDOMAIN lives) is not signed.
Quit Smoking by Hypnosis
Quit smoking by hypnosis is usually identified to be the most effective system to stop smoking and there are several research studies to back that up. This process is in truth a de-hypnotizing one, hypnosis is actually nothing more than relaxation, concentration, and cooperation. You will still fall and give in to your cravings once in a while. But with the aid of hypnosis, this becomes easier.
The function that creates the lexical closure can still have referential transparency. For example:

(defn make-adder [x y]
(fn [z] (+ x y z)))

((make-adder 1 2) 3)

-----VS-------------

(def ^{:dynamic} x 1)
(def ^{:dynamic} y 2)

(defn make-adder []
(fn [z] (+ x y z)))

((make-adder) 3)

In the first example, the closure returned is still a function of the arguments passed to make-adder, and it is easy to reason about. In the second example, the closure returned relies on the dynamic value of x and y at run time. I agree that if you close over a reference to a mutable value you can also break referential transparency, but that's the exception and not the rule with clojure since it is immutable by default. With dynamic vars you are almost guaranteed to break referential transparency.
And ~10 years later, we still only get 9-10mbit speeds in the city. Hurray, progress!
Sapir-Whorf is not a Klingon
As usual, I should have read the comments before voting. I voted No because everyone here is already against SOPA, but I see that it can be about more than that.
non-latin TLD's? I really hope no one takes omicron for a new .com ...
A Google+ Tempest In A Teacup
After a certain number of words, everything Orson Scott Card writes is at risk of devolving into the exact same plot:

1. Character glimpses a new way of life.
2. Character is misunderstood and persecuted by society.
3. Character collects followers and heads off into the middle of the wilderness to found a new society.

This is an effective summary of not only the Ender's Game series but his Homecoming saga, Alvin Maker series, Lovelock, Wyrms, Treason, and probably a few others.

See also: Salt Lake City.
Behavior by Design
It's a cool idea with a few players in the field.
Did a quick check on a WP Blog and the application sandbox keeps crashing.

I only have two concerns. You are entirely at the mercy of Apple with this product. There isn't too much customization available so Apple may at some point decide to reject your customers apps. A lifetime membership might not help without the code for customization if you ever go offline.
The second is the other players in here. I think people are going to want a lot more customization.

Either way, you've selected a market with a lot of demand.
WPTouch and http://www.wiziapp.com/ are the main competitors I can think of. (WPTouch built into an app of course)
No. I like the exclusion from HN consideration policy better. Has longer-lasting ramifications to it.
How does that fact that there is space war defeat all the arguments against 3D films? Namely, the fact that no one has ever had any problem determining depth from a "2D" projection, because parallax is not the primary source of depth perception in humans.

There are plenty of movies and television shows in 2D that feature air and space battles, and never once have I found myself thinking "Gee, I really wish I knew which of those objects was closer to me."
Startup Rules of the Road
> OSC is a homophobic asshole.

He has a fear of homosexuals so intense that his mind is diseased?

Let's stick to facts, not misdirection.
Workers at Xbox 360 plant threaten mass suicide
What Does Wall Street Do for You?