skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"domain through arbitration"

No such thing as "arbitration". There is filing a UDRP though. Or a cybersquatting lawsuit (non-starter just mentioning).

"selling TapTyping on the App Store since the iPad came out almost 2 years"

Because the domain was registered 6/2008, off the top without researching all the facts, you don't have a case from my experience. And filing will cost you (through http://www.adrforum.com) $1300 for 1 panelist and $2600 for 3 panelists. You can do this yourself but I wouldn't recommend going that route. There are other forums but last I checked adrforum.com is the most pro complainant as well as the least expensive (check, that may have changed but you won't find it for $9.95 or anything..). So if you need a lawyer to handle you need someone who specializes in this (you can write to me for suggestions). The cost for that is going to be in addition. That's if they take the case at all. The best ones might not take the case if they don't feel they will win because it will hurt their win rate.

"The current owner has yet to do anything with the domain. It is just Godaddy parked."

Of course as you know that doesn't mean anything. No requirement to use a domain name.

"he simply replies that he "is not ready to sell the domain at this time""

Could be true, or could be a standard reply to get you to offer up some money and obviously (to me that is) not jeopardize any future proceeding. Saying you will sell can be used against you.

"but even once the trademark clears is this an open and shut low risk case"

Not at all.

The advantage of filing is that the other person has to defend. That means they have to spend money and time. If the name isn't important they might just ignore the filing. In some cases when the filing is ignored the complainant gets the name by default. But not in every case. Sometimes the panelist(s) don't do that. Or they might reply, not use a lawyer, make a mistake and you might get the name.

My research indicates this is the guy that owns it (there are many Jeff Merediths but I believe this is the one based on the mit.edu and his linkedin)

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffrey-meredith/19/b35/b2

How much money is the domain worth to you at this point? What you are willing to spend determines strategy.
A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientific Debate -- You're Welcome
Well it is basically a list of bugs -- and a rather long one too.

Of course there are rare cases where "lenght" is a variable and that name is used in every instance but mostly, these are bugs in code that we all use.
I remember seeing a Github bot a couple weeks ago that strips out whitespace and adds a .gitignore file to a repo (I also remember this really rubbing some people the wrong way). This search indicates that it would probably be useful to have a linter bot running on Github for all the popular languages. It would find syntax errors, common mispellings, and compilation issues, and then submit pull requests to fix the issues.

I have no time to work on something like this myself, but I'm sure a lot of people would find it useful, especially if it acted as a "first defense" before deployment. Curious what other HN'ers think about this.
What is Value Creation?
Since 2007 Bill Gates has given away 48 percent of his net-worth for charity
Code generally is bad either because the writer doesn't care or was in a hurry, or because they don't know better and they think they /are/ writing good code. If it's the former they might accept a patch to clean things up, but if it's the latter I doubt they would.
It seems that http://www.suomikauppa.fi/?language=en is executing well here.
Perhaps the same reason why "referer" has not been corrected to "referrer".
It should be possible to build a bot that automatically generates patches and pull requests for these kinds of typos.
Repeatedly sampling from a uniform distribution gives a uniform distribution - uniform means the probability is the same for all cards.
Yes, but it would raise the exception at run-time, and only when the particular path is taken.
In my mind I can theoretically believe piracy is costing someone somewhere some money.

My problem with this kind of legislation however is:
- that it vastly overestimates the real scale of the problem
- that when legitimate alternatives appear - like with iTunes vs music piracy - the problem tends to evaporate or at least start a significant downward trend
- that even if the 2 previous points were incorrect, it still doesn't take into account the relative weight of the problem it tries to correct and the problem it creates

So IMO, not implementing the legislation will not damage the other industries, while at the same time not impede the downward trend in piracy - provided legitimate alternatives are available. Implementing the legislation OTOH may or may not stop piracy quicker, at the cost of a lot of collateral damage.

If lawmakers absolutely must legislate something, I'd propose to make laws that remove barriers and obstacles to implement those "legitimate alternatives". For example, set up globally centralized licensing to break down geographic barriers, or an official way to figure out from who you need to license a song, a movie, code. Basically remove every obstacle between the consumer and the licensor. If that happens, I'm willing to bet that piracy will be a fraction of the problem it is now.

But yes, you'll never eliminate it completely - but I think that even the most strident pro-IP people realize they'll never be able to banish all piracy from this world.
not an attribute of a standard object type, though.
Installing a Django application on Red Hat's OpenShift PAAS
It's not, because reutrn is a syntax error, but .lenght is valid and would return `undefined`.
How could an artist earn money in a post-copyright world?
Unfortunately this may create momentum _for_ SOPA as a partisan issue among those who are for anything the Obama administration is against.
Thanks! We'll let you know what we end up doing.
OnLive launches full Windows 7 desktop with MS Office apps for iPad
most of them are variable names which is acceptable!
It'd be great if Github would scan your code for errors like these and just let you know they exist (in case you didn't want them to, which I would assume you wouldn't for the most part).
Her parents are Egyptian
I don't see anywhere in the statement where they say they're "against" the bills. They express some concerns, but they leave themselves a ton of room to support slightly modified versions.
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This guy pushes startups out of a coffee shop - and hes 11/11.
A nice story about @bragiel and his seed fund @io ventures and the work they have been doing over the past 1.5 years.
I actually just replied with a suggestion that Github should implement some built-in functionality for simple error-checking. I think it's a great idea. It would be really helpful if you got a simple little list of notifications for a commit indicating possible error points.
That is a bad thing as String also have a length property

"bar".length; // 3
Beautiful. I love the visual demonstrations of the less efficient methods as well. This is a great learning tool for a super common programming problem. One general comment/question. Code like this trips me up:

t = array[--m];

Well I don't know if it trips me up so much as it makes me think too much about syntax especially when the focus is on the algorithm itself. When writing educational code I find the following more effective:

m -= 1;
t = array[m];

Anyone else have any thoughts?
I fully agree with this post. And it would not surprise me if parallels could be found with the so called 'Broken Windows' (no pun intended ;) theory from criminology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

That is, similarly to how a messy, run down environment invites anti-social behaviour and crime, the less tidy a code-base is the more corner-cutting will be invited on more structural levels as well...
Someone wrote a spellchecker a while ago using perl spellchecker: http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2011/08/automatic-spelling-corre...
brilliant startup idea: a gym that's also a strip club :p
Yeah it would have a bigger impact, but you'll only annoy people Ho can do nothing about it. I have no US Congressmember to lobby.
Craigslist adds an anti-SOPA message to it's homepage
However anything that requires some complex interprocess communication is essentially unworkable. You need to serialize and deserialize your data into wire-level protocols, which is often prohibitively expensive, even when you can get it to work.

Would you post more info about previous attempts at this? I was about to create precisely that. Literally today.

But if it's fundamentally unworkable...
He may be on the path to karmically braking even in the not to distant future if he ends up giving back all of his unethically gained fortune. That's good.
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Well observed, but I think we need to tell apart cases where performance is mandatory and where it is optional. People wouldn't just complain if it was mandatory, it simply wouldn't be a viable product.
BTW, his book The Invention of Air is really good.
Well, Barry, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

To quote a well known band, "We won't get fooled again."
Great post, and extra points for visualizations that work on the iPhone.
From the link:

"AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications."
And to be fair, it would be better for him to spend his time working off his debt to his victims, rather than being a drain on society in prison. Structured appropriately, it could constitute adequate punishment--for example, being under "house arrest" rather than in prison.
Android fragmentation is a carrier/oem induced problem that is growing
Honest question: what kind of work is that?

The more I think of it, the more I think that "high concurrency with local state on one machine" is a use case that is not going to get more popular in the future.

I believe a big part of the uptick in interest in concurrency is an uptick in the use of distributed systems. With distributed systems, all your authoritative state is stored outside the process anyway (at least if you want it to be fault tolerant, which you do if you need it to be of any significant size).

And of course once you have more than one machine you must deal with serialization. Also, I'm not sure what the kind of work there is where "serialization is prohibitively expensive" but Python is still a natural choice.
Someone should define "friendly" at this point.

Haskell certainly seems friendly enough to me. It catches most of my errors before I even run the program, it let me hack things relatively quickly with very little code. Yes, there is that "purity" discipline, but I mostly think like that anyway.

Now, it certainly won't be friendly to one who routinely writes code like that:

if (foo)
if (bar)
do_something;

if (foo) {} // OK, do nothing
else if (bar) {} // OK, do nothing
else { do_something; }

(I saw that yesterday in production code!) Those people think too procedurally to be able to understand Haskell, or even ML. You have to fix that flaw first.

(For the few who don't see the code above as utterly ridiculous, here is the better version:)

if (foo && bar)
do_something;

if (!foo && !bar) { do_something; }
> Running a video site that hosts unlicensed content uploaded by users is what youtube did for years

Comparing NinjaVideo.net to YouTube is a bit of a stretch. NinjaVideo.net's sole purpose was to host high-quality unlicensed content, they would feature the unlicensed content, and it was clearly what was driving traffic to their website. If you never saw the site, just take a look in the internet archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100104054215/http://www.ninjavi...

Their frontpage was basically a list of links (the administrators curated and posted these links, complete with graphic banners like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20100104054215im_/http://i47.tiny..., and captions like "the DVDRip is here!!! Enjoy" and "here's a Screener for you") to stream whatever new content was on TV that night, or whatever movies had recently been released (sometimes even before they hit theaters). By simply taking a peak at their forum it was pretty clear that the administrators of the site had a relationship with the "uploaders" and commissioned them to upload the unlicensed content to megaupload where it would then be streamed in high-quality using the "NinjaVideo Helper" (basically a java applet that pushed megaupload content to the DivX web player). I'd venture to guess any DMCA takedown notices would be forwarded to /dev/null.

The clearest difference, imo, is that YouTube allows users to upload content (content can be uploaded without the owners of the site ever seeing it). NinjaVideo did not allow users to upload content, the owners added pages which allowed you to stream content hosted on megaupload (for any video to end up on NinjaVideo, the admins had to add it).
Interesting article. They paint research misconduct as a Chinese problem. I would be surprised if it doesn't happen a lot in the US too.
I grew up in SEA (South East Asia) and ever since I moved to Canada, one of first things I notice was the lack of high quality stationery and junk food - essential for any students. Naturally, Japan/Korea/Taiwan are the places to go for excellent craftsmanship.

Perhaps you could try targeting a different audience. While through sites like HN is great, try going for a younger audience. I grew up in the 90s, it was always fun to share and showoff something new in school (but then again there was no iPhone, or iPad etc) But I'm not so sure about today's teen generation's mentality, and their willingness to subscribe something monthly.

Very intrigued by this concept though.
Or it was, anyways, before.. say.. the 1960's.

(Hell, artists were exploring "noise as music" in the 1920's, even earlier... a century later, and it's really time we stop pretending we can pin down and define "art" as a mathematical or scientific phenomenon. Art is fundamentally a social phenomenon, driven specifically by an inherent counter-cultural attitude, and therefore by definition it naturally evolves beyond any specific description we attempt to apply to it. By that I mean that art is always trying to break its own rules. You could argue that good art, what we consider ground-breaking work, at any point in history, is specifically that which is not described by previous attempts to define a set of rules.)
They are actually funded by Bessemer. Crunchbase is wrong.
In the robotics domain you will have dozen of processes on 10+ machines interacting to accomplish very complex tasks. Things like obstacle tracking, terrain classification, and motion planning. For most of the data flows serialization and comms overhead is minimal, this especially true with efficient binary encodings (faster then protobuf or Jason). For bulk data flows there are optimizations you can use to limit deserialization to once per machine. It is also entirely practical to split up workloads to large for one machine and aggregate results.
pinspire is still english-only though.
I wrote that bot!

https://github.com/Miserlou/WhitespaceBot

Feel free to fork it to do whatever you want, that's why I made it.
What's fundamentally unworkable -- serialization?? There are plenty of options in Python -- pickle, JSON (no graphs), or protocol buffers/thrift if you want something language agnostic.

Having a serialization layer in distributed applications is a pretty vanilla requirement... I am also confused about the "unworkable" comment.

The "multiprocessing" module (which I have heard some not-so-good things about) automatically serializes Python objects over byte streams using pickle or some such thing.
For the record, Github's search index is wayyy out of date sometimes. The second user here is me and I deleted that user like two years ago: http://cl.ly/0y271f0T3G0X2J1L022E
"holding company with a PO box in the cayman islands (how shady can you get)"

Not shady at all.

"surprisingly, the holding company responded to the dispute with lawyers"

They responded because they own many names. And they can't afford to have a loss which could be held against them. Superblock.com is a decent domain so that's a reason right there to defend.

You could have checked history also by looking at whether they had defended other UDRP filings to determine your strategy.

Here is one case they one and one they lost. They selected the same panelist (you can choose panelists) that ruled for them in the previous case. In this case the opposite happened! (I would have never chosen the same panelist btw.)

http://www.udrpsearch.com/naf/849009

http://www.udrpsearch.com/naf/267475

"they never responded to any inquiries about buying the domain"

Did you write to them as "superblock.net" or from another address? Common mistake to write as someone who has rights to the name. That will completely spook them because the way this thing goes it can be used against you.
I workout from home, I started a couple of months ago with cardio to loose some fat, and now I'm starting p90x.

The reason I don't go to the gym isn't because I gave up, it's just I don't like that "all" gym environment, plus the fact that I have to drive there, wait for people to let me use a specific machine etc...

with the money I'd spent on a gym, I'm building my own little private gym.

I can't recommend enough for all of us geeks to workout. I used to drink sugar drinks, eat fat food, all that crap. Even though I wasn't fat I was starting to gain weight and man, I was embarrassed of how out of shape I was.

Look it as hacking your own body ;) make it better, each week you will se improvements, get in shape. Just because we are geeks doesn't mean we can't have a great body for ladies ;P
Sure it does. Womens suffrage didnt repeal any laws, remove ant government powers, or destroy any beauracracies. Try repealing the 19th amendment and see how far you get.
No snarkier than my remark, and less snarky than it might have been for being so much smarter.
Depending on the definition of "low traffic" and what exactly you plan to do, Heroku may be a free solution.
"What should hinder him from getting the trademark himself"

You mean "a" trademark.

Nothing. That can be done and it's a good defensive strategy actually.
Totally. A programmer who doesn't care about code style is like a writer who's fine with misspellings and sloppy punctuation. The story (or algorithm) can still be awesome but the way it's expressed matters a lot when other people will be forming opinions from it.
Even the search has a bug. The query is for ".lenght" but many of the highlighted results are just lenght without the dot.
I agree with this analysis that she was joking, but being at a disadvantage having recently become a convict, she's the one who would most benefit from exercising common sense.
So who are numbers 1-3? Surely not the Winkelvoss brothers...
how about tying your gym visits to your health insurance premiums?
Well right now I don't go because the parking lot has been completely full the past 2 weeks. But I expect that will resolve itself soon :)
US Navy trains dolphins to detect mines; possibly to be used in Strait of Hormuz
What about this one: https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&...
Yeah, I try to avoid releasing knock-off games.

I have little patience for writing games. My interest is more in systems programming.

Whatever floats your boat. LoseThos is for recreational programming.

God says...

C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

le, saying, 38:2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this
city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but
he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his
life for a prey, and shall live.

38:3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the
hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let
this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men

----

There was homo in the dorm named "Chad". My artist is a homo or just really obnoxious.

Yeah, ruining morale is bad.

Hanging chads and dimples.
What I think the author misses is how short lived these monopolies can be. AOL was a near monopoly. So was Netscape. And Internet Explorer. So was Altavista. Or was it Excite? Or Yahoo? Was it Nintendo that had the gaming console monopoly or Sega? Wasn't there a great Scandanavian monopoly on phones? Until there wasn't.

Companies can lock down their market for a generation, or perhaps half a generation, but few hold onto it forever.
What you are saying is incorrect.

YouTube has deals with major content producers (music labels, movie studios, etc.) which work in the following way: whenever we discover a video that infringes their copyright, they can choose to either block it, monetize it or track it. What blocking means is quite obvious; monetizing means that we put ads in front of the video and share the revenue; tracking means no ads are shown, but the owner can access analytics about the video (how often it is uploaded, how many people watch it, where from, and so on). You can read more about it here: [1].

As you may imagine, this system changes the incentives for copyright owners. When they decide to block some video, all they achieve is making some YouTube uploader unhappy. If they decide to monetize, on the other hand, they start making money from the upload, and the clip becomes, effectively, a marketing tool for their product. If you, say, watch clips from a TV series on YouTube, that may be a signal that you like the series and will eventually watch it on TV or iTunes. What is more, uploaders try to select clips they find interesting and think other people would like to watch – so this in some way turns YouTube into crowdsourced advertising.

(Disclaimer: I work as a programmer at Google and I work on YouTube.)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid
SG alternative for geo storage, query and visualization:

http://www.giscloud.com/

http://dev.giscloud.com/RestGuide

http://dev.giscloud.com/RestApiReference