skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, you also have the option of using the standard Das, and just switching the Alt and Command keys in the Apple keyboard settings dialog (under special keys). It is really easy to use a PC keyboard with a Mac seamlessly. Wish the same was true of the other way around.
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The Oatmeal SOPA blackout page LOL
More discussions here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476665
Have a profile pic, lets black it with this to protest against SOPA
My understanding is that it's illegal for foreigners to donate to US PACs. Is that correct?
If you count tablets as PCs, Apple probably already passed HP as Meg Whitman admits.
One takeaway should be just how absurd the communications decency act seems given the modern reality of the internet.

This was a law written by people profoundly out of touch with the way the world was moving.

I think it should have lessons for our current struggle against the current COPA and PIPA bills, which are campaigned for, drafted, and promoted by people who have a similar disconnect with the future of information.
If Google put up congressional phone numbers, they could melt the congressional phone lines.
Yeah, but do you know Kung Fu? </matrix>
I wanted to read the tiny white text but the PDF froze my computer for almost 10 seconds while it loaded. An image with a larger font could have been more effective.
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Why would somebody buy this? It just sounds like a step backwards in keyboard design to make keyboards that contribute to noise pollution. I hope Apple does produce more ergonomic keyboards in the future. In my honest opinion the Microsoft Natural Keyboard is probably the best Keyboard created thus far and I have yet to see anyone innovate any further since it was released 10 years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-A11-00337-Natural-Keyboard-E...
It was a latent ability. Some yeast already has the ability to make multi cellular colonies.

When this was first published (on June 23 - not sure why it's back in the news) there was a section of criticism saying they should have used an organism without that ability. But I don't see this section in the wired article.

For example:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/23/yeast-c...

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/331789/title/Mult...
With over 36 million visitors, Facebook finally overtakes Orkut in Brazil
I consider this a "black armband".

In the protest movement, there are those who self-immolate, suicide, or hunger strike. There are also those who rally in the streets, fly flags, wear ribbons, or armbands.

What matters is solidarity and communicating the message.

Given that I've heard discussion of SOPA/PIPA on NPR, BBC, and The New York Times already, notice has been made.

SOPA leads Google News, and I see 3800+ articles on it now. I expect more to follow. Google Trends and the news timeline are also informative:
http://bit.ly/zRA1w4 (original link is far too long).
I'm more surprised the Orkut continues than that Facebook has made headway in attracting users in Brasil. Why were users of Orkut not migrate to Google-Plus? Are there vast technical differences?
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And suddenly I can't recall any site that actually uses AdWords from the top of my head, so that I could check if it's true :(. Any links to verify?
I was more impressed by wikipedias wording and action than googles.

Googles message is very technical.

Wikipedia strikes the heart, the black imagery, the background. Its perfect. It really feels how bad it would be without a free internet. Google feels like a minor political detail in Washington that is going down. A very tiny link on the google.com page which few people will see, and I havent seen it anywhere else, despite what HNs say that it should be in the logo and what not. Its not.

Google fail, this is the least they could have done.
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Congrats Trigger team! Tools with command-line toolchains add freedom to use any implements you want for webapp dev. I think that Trigger fits in nicely between html5-based ventures like Phonegap and more low-level, savvy approaches like GPL-licensed MoSync - www.mosync.com and Marmelade - www.madewithmarmelade.com, the latter not entirely open source, but good for games.
News item on NPR Tuesday night said "watch this space", so I'm hoping to see something at Twitter. Hrm. Tagline spamming tweets would be very cool in this case.
I dont see the same ads on TechCrunch in India. My guess is Google is running an Adwords campaign in US to make people sign the petition. I have seen them run campaigns for chrome, gmail etc. before.

Edit: I do see the ads on www.Wired.com though.
Seems like it worked: SOPA got mainstream coverage for the first time in Norway today.

Here's a chart showing mentions of SOPA in Norwegian newspapers: http://was.id.ly/storing/files/sopa_in_newspapers_opoint.png
Well, there are several reasons. One is that this is France, and firing people is just more hassle than it is worth. Th second, and more generally applicable reason, is that that would involve changing the status quo. If changing the status quo was that easy, you wouldn't need a SWAT team...
Ask HN: Show your anti-SOPA page
Hi, I just saw WordPress SOPA page, anyone else had their anti-SOPA page up? I think reddit.com page is going to show up shortly.

ps: Still not too late to put up a page - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476603
Why We Should Explain SOPA in English
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$ pacman -Ql virtualbox-modules
virtualbox-modules /lib/
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxnetadp.ko.gz
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxnetflt.ko.gz
virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxpci.ko.gz

Same for extra/nvidia, while extra/xf86-video-ati being quite up to snuff, so Catalyst drivers are in the AUR.
Click on any article on TechCrunch, and you'll see that they're not showing the anti-SOPA ads against actual content pages.
I'm guessing that they're only doing this at the top level pages of these sites; possibly paying the sites for the space themselves.
Looks like a lot of people don't know why Wikipedia is down
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SOPA and PIPA are just one form of legislation involving the censorship of the Internet. Even if they are struck down, new legislation backed by any number of industries will eventually reappear.

Creating a mailing list means that Google forever has an army of people they can contact to spread the word.
…without copyright laws, there would be a significant decline in the production of movies, music, games, and many other costly mediums.

I disagree. What were talking about here is art, and mankind has been producing art since long before government-guarded IP. It isn't because IP laws provide an incentive that we create things; we do it because it's human nature. The ability to freely copy other people's work lowers the barrier to entry, so eliminating IP laws would spur a creative renaissance. The only downside is those big media companies would be forced to innovate.
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How would you divide the two? I'd say that 'identity' and 'user' are the same, that the things you'd want to dissociate are the ('roles' | 'permission set' | 'authorization rules') from the ('identity' | 'user' | 'login').

But in that case, it wouldn't help with anonymous sessions - unless you'd just define those as new 'identities' with many of the properties set to unknown.

I think the pattern is interesting enough to flesh out, but I'm not convinced yet if it's a real change from the traditional user/permission duality that is already in wide use.
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I agree. This isn't just 1 day protest for Google if they shut down. If 1% of their regular user base find a better experience elsewhere whilst they are shut down then their potential loss is in the millions a year.

It's not like it is just 1 site either, with a few major players showing support then the total audience reached is far into the millions
I think the idea is to draw attention of the non-technical crowd. Those who can "put up a greasemonkey script" are probably well aware of SOPA already.
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The message from individual constituents matters much less than the media attention this is getting. CNN is what changes politicians' minds, not phone calls.

Still, this would have been a great opportunity for Google's "click to call" widget.
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So Google is taking the position of the RIAA, MPAA etc? I have not heard any of them advocate for the "end of liberty" per se.

Fucking evil Google.
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My fellow Canadians and I should also be seeing this. We inevitably get Canadian-ized versions of all these American bills shoved down our throats, after they pass in the US, especially with the current government in power.
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Cyriak is starting to get some serious play.

This is one of my favorite videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE
Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/903/
I wrote this earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3478229 but it seems i am being ignored or we the 'elite intelligent ones' do not realize the reality of the populace.

Now Wikipedia is damaging their reputation instead of drawing attention to the "bad guys"
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Plenty of tools already posted, but there are a few more here, including a native FF add-on (so you don't have to keep hitting the bookmarklet) and userscripts for greasemonkey in FF, or native chrome:
http://www.theobamastore.com/stopsopanotknowledge/
I'm getting the default logo in germany, with the "Tell Congress:" link at the bottom
In other words, software is successfully running on a CPU, this is news?
Keep in mind that the Das and Model M are vastly different keyboards. The Model M switches require a bone-crushing 80g to activate the switches, while the Cherry switches are in the 50g range. Compare this to the 30g activation pressure on a Topre Realforce's pinky keys.

(Yes, I know that key activation pressure is measured in newtons, not grams, but since we're all on Earth here, we can deal :)
Part of being so cheap might be that the main SoC is subsidized by Broadcom. I have no problem with that, TI is doing the same for the Pandaboard (http://www.pandaboard.org)
The big thing going for them price-wise is that due to them being a charity, Broadcom is selling them the SoC at prices you would normally only get when buying millions of them, rather than the thousands that they will actually end up buying. Plus I think a lot of the engineers etc donated their time, again because it is an educational charity, thus their R&D was probably very cheap.

Thus we end up getting a device that is smaller and more capable than the Beagleboard XM (CPU- and graphics-wise) at one sixth of the price.
Title should be changed to Adsense since it's only properties on the Google Display network.

Also, a very possible explanation could be that they're only showing those ads by targeting pages that show SOPA content. The display network is HUGE and it would be a big ticket purchase for Google to buy-out the entire network themselves (they still have to pay the sites). Are there any examples of this showing up on non-tech, non-sopa related sites? If so, please include them. If not, you're probably just seeing Google buy targeted ads around a subject (SOPA) and paying for them on their own network. Not unheard of, as they've done similar things with Chrome, etc
Well, for one thing, they have the advantage of launching their product later.

For another, they have access to good pricing on a capable SoC that isn't usually available in small volumes at any price. In other words, they knew the right people.

And yeah, they've been very aggressive about other costs too. For example, the alignment of the various connectors on the board are all funkey, because it was cheaper that way.
These two are quite nice, the first one is the base
of the second one:

https://github.com/leonidas/codeblog/blob/master/2012/2012-0...

https://github.com/leonidas/codeblog/blob/master/2012/2012-0...
Something I learned is that there are many things in life you cannot predict or plan for, and that the more you expose yourself to unfamiliar situations, the more likely you are to encounter interesting situations and outcomes. On your travels you might encounter the person who becomes your next business partner, your future intimate partner, your dream job, a sense of perspective about one or more things (one which you may have never realised you lacked), a particularly amusing/terrifying/depresssing/interesting situation, etc.

It is incredibly difficult, I should think, to quantify and measure any of this. However, I'm fairly certain very few exciting or interesting things, or things with growth potential, happen to people who spend all day at home and/or in the office compared to those who go off to explore the world.

And yes, you may also discover nothing of interest, and then you'll have "wasted" your time. So, how risk aversive are you? How important is it to you that you need new experiences - how sure are you of this if you haven't had those experiences? Tricky question. My philosophy has become "let's find out rather than theorize" and it's always been the right choice.

I will say that I think there's too much emphasis on travelling internationally to acquire these experiences. I suspect the type of people taking these trips and developing these exciting experiences and assuming it's about international travel might not do much travelling in their local environment and confuse the international environment as being the source of the new experiences, rather than their effort at exploring new environments.

I also think it's a bit naive to accept Mark Twain's observations about his world as necessarily applying directly today's world; the population of the US in 1861 when Twain started travelling was around 26 million: the diversity and interestingness of a given location was very different from what you have today (quite literally, any given place will have 150 years of additional history and I can guarantee it'll be far more interesting than the 150 years preceeding 1861!).

That being said, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine you're more likely to have interesting and unusual experiences in cultures or locales vastly different from what you're used to than otherwise.
If you're trained to touch-type on cherry or topre keyswitches, you're not going to be able to use a non-mechanical keyboard. The muscle action is just different; you're using your muscles to slow your fingers at the bottom of each keystroke rather than applying the energy all at once to your desk. This honestly doesn't make much difference to me, but I know many people who are more sensitive that do notice the difference. To each, his own.

(Analogy: punch the wall as hard as you possibly can. Then do the same action, but slow your fist down as quickly as possible so that it doesn't hit the wall. That's the difference between membrane keyboards and Cherry/Topre/IBM keyboards.)
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I wonder why Samsung has become the go to company for takeover rumors. First HP and now RIM. Besides, while Samsung could have benifited from buying webOS, I don't think that RIM really has any assets Samsung would want(aside from the mobile keyboard design).
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I once worked in a very nice team. We used Scrum. We delivered before deadline and the bugs were few. The scrum master was a developer gone PM but with total understanding of which problems you come across as a software developer.

The project would probably have been ok without agile since most of the team was good at their job but I felt it made the process more inspiring and fun. It makes me sad that a lot of people seem to just dismiss it because of bad practices.
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Bookmarklet for anyone against SOPA but who needs to view Wikipedia today
Something I knocked together for myself, but thought I'd share.

Simple bookmarklet for anyone who needs to view a Wikipedia article today.

If you find it handy, awesome.
Thanks for this, I needed to get homework done!
Anyone here think they managed to write that line with a straight face?
Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. </sarcasm>

Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? We're aware of it already. Is it really that exciting?
what's ironic is that the MPAA Anti Piracy Ad made the ONLY thing that's good about watching pirated movie is that you don't have to want the ad....as pointed out by comedian Dara O'Brian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bxqt0siy34
This can certainly be true, but it also requires a process that, if exists, points that somebody should have known.
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The anti-piracy mentality is so evil. Right now we have a few small categories of goods with zero marginal cost of production -- software, books, movies, and music. But we're setting precedents that can have long-lasting negative consequences. In the distant future we may have real replicators that are able to bring post-scarcity to a broad array of categories. With the precedents we're setting today, these replicators will be saddled with government-backed DRM. In such a world, where food can be reproduced for free, poor people will continue to starve, lest they be accused of "stealing" food.
What is the point of a black out against restrictions, if you can still do
everything, if you can't feel it, by being restricted?
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This is because the following is simply not a closure in Python:

lambdas = [(lambda: i) for i in xrange(10)]

This works, because it is a proper closure:

def build_closure(i):
return (lambda: i)

lambdas = [build_closure(i) for i in range(10)]
print("%s" % [f() for f in lambdas])

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233673/lexical-closures-i...

You can write something close only with lambda this way:

lambdas = [(lambda j=i: j) for i in range(10)]

The behavior is actually consistent between generators and list comprehensions, but it's giving the same result as a closure because generators are lazily evaluated (so f() is evaluated right on time, but i is still not enclosed), and work only once: running it twice will have the generator exhausted:

In [12]: lambdas_gen = ((lambda: i) for i in xrange(10))
In [13]: [f() for f in lambdas_gen]
Out[13]: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
In [14]: [f() for f in lambdas_gen]
Out[14]: []

That's why forcing the generation with list() causes evaluation of the generator, and only then do you evaluate the f()s, hence the same result as the list comprehension case.

Again, changing it to the following properly encloses i:

lambdas_genlist = list((lambda j=i: j) for i in range(10))
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I have no idea what I am supposed to be looking at. What in that screenshot is the important bit?
If there were just two of them, google should mention that fact and provide some background on why they did that.
Of course it makes the issue much less severe.
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I also use an original Apple Extended Keyboard. Mine features a surprisingly simple hardware hack to convert the mechanical Caps Lock into a Control key.

One feature of this keyboard that I unfortunately discovered by accident is that the Command+Control+Power keystroke does a hard reboot on modern Macs, just as it did on the old Mac SE and Apple IIgs.
As far as I know DVD is a licensed technology and the companies that produce DVD players probably have some draconic measures in the license to prevent them from doing this. I think there used to be some players with an easily accessible factory settings, and the info about how to tweak the factory settings conveniently leaked, but I’m not sure how that worked in the end.
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That's not the cause of those places being bad places to invest - that's much more because of corruption, which has nothing to do with a lack of regulations on the books.

I'm not advocating for absolute laissez-faire, I was just saying that the current business regulations are a clusterfuck, and are in need of a good cleaning out.
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Unblackout Wikipedia
If you're trying to access a Wikipedia article today and are unable, you have a few options:

For pretty much everyone, you can use a bookmarklet:
javascript:$('body>*').show(),$('[id$=ay]').hide()

For Chrome users, you can install this userscript:
http://www.theobamastore.com/unblackoutwikipedia.user.js

For firefox users, if you already have greasemonkey, you can use the same userscript as above. If you don't have greasemonkey, but still use firefox, you can get a firefox extension from here:
http://theobamastore.com/unblackoutwikipedia.xpi
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>... not sure why it's back in the news ...

The paper [1] was just published, the first round in the news was due to the presentation of their findings, but not the publishing of any papers (as near as I can tell). Thankfully it's an open-access article.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115323109
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Is it "muliticellular life" or "multicellular" life (i.e. group of independent yeasts actually)?
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