skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a long time I was skeptical that this movie could ever be made, simply because it would be impossible to find someone to play Ender. You need a 11-year-old who can seem simultaneously sympathetic and capable of killing another child.

Then I saw Hugo. Asa Butterfield might actually be able to pull that one off.
What's the sense in having functions that operate on "pointers to valid memory" if you can't figure out if it's "valid memory" at runtime?

The point is that the function is not buggy. You may not like the specification for it. You may think it should be designed differently. This is not the same as the code being buggy.
Are the downvotes for the quote? It's a literal quote, in context, from Orson Scott Card... and there are many other to go with it. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
Knew a couple people attempting to use it for an 8k self filing solution. Uploaded word docs get transformed and typeset behind the scenes then output to the SEC's version of HTML for filing.
I submitted this, and I think it's a terrific and important graphic, but maybe it demonstrates why infographics are not sufficient in presenting this information on the net, in that there appears no way for google or bing or duckduckgo to find it, or the information on it.

It doesn't show up in google searches for ACLU Guantanamo or ACLU Gitmo or ACLU Al Qaeda. (Maybe it will after some time.)

Some of the information within is put in the source as meta data, but not all of it.
Apparently, I'm the one and only nerd who read Ender's Game and found it passable at best, and slightly creepy and inhuman in general.
I've found all of OSC's series to be like that. I don't care for his short stories, either. I've always thought his standalone books, though, were incredibly good. Treason being an example, and Home Body.
The grammar is exceedingly thick and difficult to parse, but if you look closely, you'll see:

"the U.S.-directed site...enables or facilitates (a violation of USC Title 17, section 501 and section 1201/ title 17; loosely, the copyright infringement code and copyright protection circumvention code)"

Basically, what this means is that if the core functionality of your site even enables copyright infringment (by, say, submitting links to infringing content, or posting copyrighted content in comment threads like this one), the site is an infringing site. The language doesn't require that you be dedicated to copyright infringement. All it requires is that your core functionality enable it. HN, by any stretch of the imagination, falls under that category. While you and I look at that and say "Oh, that's obviously not meant to target HN", the law doesn't work that way. The language says "if you have a comment box, you're at risk of being labeled an "Internet site is dedicated to theft of U.S. property".

Additionally, you may be labeled "infringing" if you take "deliberate actions to avoid confirming a high probability" of copyright infringement; that is, if you make the deliberate decision that it's not cost-effective to screen every comment posted to your site, then you may be painted as "dedicated to theft".

Because I can post "46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2" on Hacker News, it can be argued that its core functionality enables violations of US Code Section 1202, Title 17, and therefore, under SOPA, Hacker News would legally be guilty of being a "Internet site is dedicated to theft of U.S. property".

The "qualifying plaintiff" portions basically give the copyright holders the right to pull the trigger on most any site on which their content shows up on, even if the site isn't "dedicated" to infringement, just so long as the site's core functionality makes it possible to infringe.
Glad I could help out. The Codex is in great shape, I think they just have to prioritize their time and they don't have huge human resources to focus on everything. Focusing on the Thumbnails section, for instance, might serve more people than the Transients API. But the Transients stuff is pretty neat and there are other little hooks and functions that really do a lot :)
The underlying attitude that bothers me in these discussions on HN is that most of us are in the software business, so what it amounts to is "my intellectual property (software) is super valuable, and your intellectual property (photos, music, writing) is worthless". Do we really want to live in a world where people can't make a living from photography or writing or music?
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It looks like this is a modified form of this: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_ops_p... (from http://www.dhs.gov/files/publications/gc_1281732303362.shtm)

My best guess is that the submitted PDF is an update to the original, so the author didn't see the need to have all that text. I couldn't find it on the DHS website though.
You are meant to find it slightly creepy and inhuman in general. Ender spends a great deal of the next three books self-flagellating.

(Which are, incidentally, not much like the first book. The first book was a juvenile sci-fi book, the next three are fairly serious works you wouldn't hand to a 12-year old and expect them to enjoy. Or understand, frankly.)
Thanks for the replies. I have thought a lot about spending some time trying to develop something for the industry. It is really surprising how bad some of the software is in film, it would be great to make something that is useful instead of everyone having to put up with the crap that is out there.

MarlonPro - I will be attending the code camp, thanks for that
There's no content at this link, only an ad. Care to elaborate or link something worthwhile? Thanks.
My Grandfather was big vitamin advocate. He was already 95 when an old girlfriend got Carpal Tunnel and he said to tell her to take a B-complex vitamin for it. I passed that advice on. In two weeks she was pain free. Gave the same advice to a professional guitarist friend a couple of months later. He was pain free in a week.

One of the B vitamins (honestly can't remember which B vitamin, though) is responsible for holding moisture in certaining tissues, including the tissues that line that tunnel. The tissues need fluid to protect the nerves in that tunnel from getting irritated and swollen.

Try taking that B vitamin complex for a couple of weeks. See if it helps.
I came here to recommend this exact book. Great reference text.
knowing Excel better than most (hardly coding I know) and a little bit of VBA

There's no question that spreadsheets are programs, albeit not written in a general-purpose language. Question for you: what do you do in VBA? i.e. in what areas does the spreadsheet alone not suffice?
I think their use case is worse, but their mental model probably includes other TLDs - or at least they've probably GONE to other TLDs. Some (More? many? most?) people just prefer to type URLs into Google for some ungodly reason. I watched a junior web designer do it today, and she certainly knows what URLs are; it's just How You Do That. For you and me, it seems like an extra hop, but for her, the extra hop would be to realize "I already know this URL" and override her muscle memory.

Then again, I set up an alias called "gwssh" that goes to our EC2 gateway machine and then to the target machine, and more than once I've typed "gwssh gate" because I'm too "lazy" to type "ssh gate".
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go dark my good friends
Are you using Chrome? It only works in Chrome.
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Laid off from the Job at startup. Whats next?
Just got laid off from startup. Company is letting go all developers due to lack of second round of funding. Wondering what next to do. Start my own startup or work for big company?

I love startup environment. I am ready to work for 16 hours but same time I need to support basic needs for family. Mind is saying to work on my own idea or work for startup. But heart is saying to get Job.

Help me with the brain storming.
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That works great, as long as we're all happy shaving a couple orders of magnitude off the value of the software industry.
Yes, HN Should go dark to protest SOPA
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I'd love to get paid for browsing the internet and commenting on things, who is to say thats without value because its so easily done.

you have no right to make money doing what you would like to do, sorry thats just life.
Wikipedia summarizes it well:

A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such a devastating cost to the victor that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately cause defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
Poll: Did you convince any non-devs to apply to Hungry Academy?
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Not about the other anti-Internet attempts. I hope that the Internet Freedom message is displayed broadly alongside support for the SOPA protest movement.
>> 2) Perhaps a blackout will give some HNers the final push (and time) to make some phone calls to their representatives.

I think far more effective than a complete blackout would be requiring HNers contact their representatives before they can access HN content. Not sure how best to implement, but a email form that grants a token upon completion should be feasible (you'd need to decide how to handle non-US based IPs).

I have my doubts regarding the effectiveness of form emails on congresspeople, but I imagine those HNers who were going to call or write a more personal letter still will, with the added benefit of massive form emails from those less motivated to do so otherwise.

edit: grammar
You could have just said "I agree with Mr. Moglen on points X-Z, but I would like to weigh them against the benefits of social networks" - and then do that. That would clearly mark that you are opening your own line of reasoning instead of trying to forcibly claim them on the OP. Then, we could have that discussion together.

There are an infinite number of ways I could have responded, but I deliberately chose to use an analogy, and to express my anger about how Moglen presented a 100% negative view. I understand why you say that he didn't need to express anything positive about social networking, and I disagree. To me, one should always attempt to give an honest view on any subject. Moglen's 100% negative views are either wrong or dishonest. That make me angry.

Show me where I misrepresented Moglen's views in anyway. That's the definition of a strawman, and I object most strongly to your claim that I used one. Nor do I troll, take cheap shots or resort to personal attacks.
> It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone

Yup, but it's probably the best writing experience for most bloggers, and also people who don't have blogs. Even if you have one with a decent readership, the engagement you get from Google+ is far higher than anything you can get when people need to use RSS and a reader to follow you.
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The Great State of Twitterbraska is not on the Republican primary schedule, though.
Voted no. I think we here all know. The bigger issue is, did the tens of thousands of us call our senators and congressmen and tell them what we think. We can try to make news headlines all we want, but their phones are ringing off the hook will cause a much bigger disruption. If you want action here it is. Please.

http://www.house.gov/representatives/

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c...
Clickable: http://www.queensmetro.com/

Looks quite nicely done already. One quick suggestion: You might want to look into some basic SEO for the site. A few pages I browsed all seem to have the same Title tag - I think it'll certainly boost (targeted) traffic if you customise just the title tag of each page.

HTH and all the best moving forward.
Along the same lines, I had a paperback copy of Battlefield Earth in the mid 80's with a "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture!" emblem and a tear-out card to order the soundtrack.

Hopefully waiting decades for an Ender's Game movie turns out better than waiting decades for Battlefield Earth did.

...or waiting decades for the Star Wars prequels.

Maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up - but LotR turned out well!
Lets say I pay him $6,612 then I would want not just the photograph but also the equipment he listed in the add up to the price.

Is that ok?

If yes then it makes perfect sense to me.
The information itself is interesting, but as an infographic it's actually pretty terrible. Nearly all of it is just text that happens to be laid out in an image. The only graphical element is the comparison of prisoners released by the Bush and Obama administrations, which isn't all that useful since Obama has only been in office for three years; a bar graph arranged by year would've been better.

It seems more like an example of how the current trendiness of infographics can lead to hapless attempts at applying the format when plain old HTML and CSS can do exactly the same job (and be search-indexable to boot).
What's hungry academy?
Exactly my thought. What if someone decided to start doing this for politicians and political parties? And then goes to YouTube and reports a bunch of political ads for copyright infringement as well?

I'm not recommending that someone actually try this, but unfortunately I'm afraid that might be more effective than tech sites blacking out their sites for a day in protest.
Seems Cool! I like it~
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But is fertilizer actually regulated?
Ridiculous. By that logic, we will soon all stop writing (let alone write for any sort of direct or indirect compensation) because "no massive amount of skill is involved". Instead, we can just brute force it and simply pick the best novels, technical documentation (or HN comments, for that matter) from the many choices of million-character sequences presented to us.
http://twitter.com/#!/cwood/status/154373999382630400

These guys? Can't say it sounds very promising.
You are correct: my use of the word "utility" was not very rigorous. Nevertheless a lot of people depend on Google, and if Google took themselves down capriciously it would demonstrate that they can't be counted on.

Of course they have every right to go black, but I can't help but feel they'd suffer the consequence in a big way.

Not even Google can buy a reputation back.
Things like Google Apps Marketplace, the App Store, Intuit Anywhere, the Windows Store are all technical. Negotiating with then requires knowledge to maximize the opportunities.

They are a subclass of the wider deal. The Internet is the main distributor. If you look at YouTube's growth it wasn't just that they hosted videos but they found a way to use flash to embed videos on other people's sites.

The Facebook Like buttons are another example of using technology as a primary form of market expansion.
Maybe an HN blackout won't directly raise awareness, since you can't really be an HN participant and not know about SOPA. But having another site join the blackout may help raise exposure among those who run other websites, so it may help expand the blackout to other sites whose absence will be noticed by the people who need to know about SOPA.
how much money do you have in the bank?

If you have at least 6 months to support you and your family, you could try your hand in your own startup.

If not, I would suggest finding a job. Making money with any company usually takes much longer than you would expect.
I'd give you a strait answer, but do you realize that the Free Software Movement is much more widespread than royalty free photography or music?
Furthermore, among the crafts you mentioned, being a programmer is by far the less profitable one.
I'll untwist your twisted question. Honestly, why are you so worried about 'artists' and not worried about programmers?
You may want to put your contact info in your profile. The email field is only visible to admins.
Definitely Number 2. Though I was looking for a list of benefits to me. What clients are saying section wasn't too helpful - would rather read benefits to complete my decision. Real nice design.
Poor guy seriously over paid for his equipment.
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While it is a way to get around the issue of less effective developers, it runs contrary to well known wisdom in the industry, which is hiring a competent developer AKA a 10Xer will result in more efficiency and a faster time to market and the reality is most 10xers are not on oDesk. Which means even if your project completes you still need to oversee the quality of the code. Doing so is easier by hiring a known professional with a known reputation for delivering in the industry. I think this article paints a rosy picture of sites like oDesk when there are a lot of pitfalls. If price is an issue, there are Indian firms with known reputations. While oDesk does provide a medium for communicating reputation, they can be and have been manipulated.

As well on the subject of the test, I do not feel that they provide any insight into the quality of a developer. Code is but a small part of the total job that a developer does, solution's, automation and writing apps with low total cost of ownership, build automation are far more important. A developer that tries to write themselves out of the picture is what companies should strive to find, because they will try to automate every facet of the system.

Finally moving on to the time tracking tool, 90% of a developers job is mental modeling the correct design 10% is actually writing the code. The tool cannot account for the time designing the correct solution and therefore is of little use to a developer that realizes this and require payment for their mentally modeling the optimal solution. It is these lack of understanding of how the development process works on the part of these sites, that keep many of the good developers from adopting systems such as oDesk. They have favored the employer over the developer (naturally it is where the money is) and built the workflow to favor the employer, good developers who are in no need of such services see this and refrain from participating. Until they correct those issue they will be seen as a race to the bottom by good developers.
I would disagree a little.

There is a huge difference between amateur music and professional music, So big a difference in fact that I would say there is no comparison between them.

Good professional musicians make money just like we programmers do. The problem starts when amateur musicians/programmers take music/photography as a hobby first and then try to make money out of it.

The biggest problem with this is they don't match the quality of work produced by the actual professionals. And now have to compete with fellow amateurs.

Amateur photographers/musicians can't make money for the very same reasons why your side android apps project doesn't make anything more than $50 an year.
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It's pretty fun. I am wondering why you made it such that it only works in Chrome?
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Why are you looking for someone in Queens if you're in California, and you're trying to pivot to a broader audience?

The site's a mess. I'm sure your friend worked hard on it, but this is nowhere near being able to compete with Yelp, even locally.

I'd bet most of the traffic is coming through the Guides and Resources section of the site. The business directory portion is crap. Your assets are content and domain history, which are providing search traffic.

My advice would be to move business listings to the back, move content to the front, hire writers to create more local content, and monetize through local affiliates.

If my assumptions are off, please post some Google analytics data so we can see a more accurate picture of what you're working with.
No b/c the people to convince are not the ones reading HN
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That is a silly counter-argument. The reason this is what shows up is that it filters out special characters. So the search term was just "wwe".
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thats probably as preaching to the converted as you can get.
Actually you should thank Brenton Ashworth, Craig Andera, Jen Myers, and Kevin Altman. It is and looks as beautiful as it does because of them.
Stormpulse feelin' the love. (We made the list).
very appropriate 2001 reference.
But where am I going to find the headlines?!
I've seen the idea of a distributed DNS system mentioned a few times but I still don't see how it would work out. What happens in the case of multiple people wanting the same domain? How are disputes between what foo.com points to resolved? With no central authority who collects payment? and without payment of some kind what it to stop someone from gathering up an inordinate number of domains as there is no cost to do so.
very cool. nice intro
Here's how 103(a)(1)(A)(B)(i) starts:

the U.S.-directed site is primarily designed
or operated for the purpose of, has only limited
purpose or use other than, or is marketed by its
operator or another acting in concert with that
operator for use in, offering goods or services in
a manner that engages in, enables, or facilitates--

That looks like a three way "or" to me. If the three branches were separated, they would come out like this:

the U.S.-directed site is primarily designed or
operated for the purpose of offering goods or
services in a manner that engages in,
enables, or facilitates--

the U.S.-directed site has only limited purpose
or use other than offering goods or services in
a manner that engages in, enables, or facilitates--

the U.S.-directed site is marketed by its operator
or another acting in concert with that operator for
use in offering goods or services in a manner that
engages in, enables, or facilitates--

To fall under that section, a site has to meet the conditions of at least one of those branches.

All three of the branches have conditions that would not apply to HN. The first requires that the site be primarily designed or operated for the purpose of enabling or facilitating infringement. That's not the case for HN.

The second does not have an intent requirement, but requires that the site has only limited purpose or use aside form infringing. Again, that does not apply to HN.

The third requires that HN be marketed as offering goods and services to aid infringement. I don't think it has ever been so marketed.

Your point on "deliberate actions to avoid confirming a high probability" of infringement looks interesting. That one may be a problem.
Yep, same in IE. Chrome only I'm guessing. So useless for the real world.
No, the opposite. By 'photographers' we're refering to those who take advantage of their copyright. This excludes for example wedding photographers which are only payed to press the shutter but end up giving away their 'artwork'.
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Wow! Very nicely done. Thank you.
The only guaranteed outcomes of a blackout are:

1) site owners forego potential revenue that day
2) customers cannot do business with them that day
3) users cannot access those sites that day

Depending on which sites participate, the immediate effects on the lives of those owners, customers, and users can range from trivial to very meaningful.

Will this be a worthwhile "investment" in the long run?

I can believe that a blackout will increase media coverage.
I can believe that a blackout will result in more calls, emails, etc. to representatives.

What's tough for me to believe is that any of that will do any good if the end goal is to stop this type of legislation. I would genuinely like to see evidence that similar protests have historically been effective.

Until then, I can't help but think this is just the wrong tactic that punishes the wrong people. I hope I'm wrong.