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Elsevier itself has a pretty bad reputation (for overcharging)...Donald Knuth protested about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Resignation_of_editori...

excerpt:

At the end of 2003, the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned to start ACM Transactions on Algorithms with a different, lower priced publisher, at the suggestion of Journal of Algorithms founder Donald Knuth.

The actual letter (pdf): http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf
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Ask HN: What are you doing to prepare for the pending wikipedia blackout?
I'm going to leave the interpretation open[1], but generally speaking, after reading the recent SOPA blackout headline, I realized that I regard Wikipedia as an indispensable tool in my life as an engineer, and I feel that it would be sorely missing in the event of a blackout.

Do other HN members feel the same way, and if so, what sorts of things are you doing to prepare for a day without Wikipedia on Wednesday?

This url (http://www.igeek.co.za/2009/10/16/how-to-mirror-wikipedia/) was already posted, but I'm curious if anyone has begun planning a p2p effort or any other grassroots attempt to mirror wikipedia content in a decentralized fashion.

Big thanks to Wikimedia for giving western internet users a chance to meditate on the chilling effects of legislation like SOPA and PIPA.

[1] Looking at you, people who use wikipedia data in interesting ways
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Agreed, the notion of pagerank and doing search properly in a time when it wasn't even on the radar is completely missing from this article.

The real message is that servers are cheap, albeit brought forward in a long vague buildup, and hardly novel information.
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It's actually pretty common for it to be impossible to determine who the actual human is that registered a domain.

Between pre-paid credit cards, non-verification of whois records and corporate registrations there are too many ways to avoid disclosing your identity.

(Currently, from memory, the only verification most registrars do is make you is enter a real credit card number even if you aren't paying with that. Pre-paid credit cards remove any identifying information from that.)
Good post. Well written. There was only one claim, which was unsubstantiated and I would like to here more about:

What did you mean by "Out-of-the-box it is not ready for production"?

Is this a statement about require.js without using r.js? If it is a statement about only require.js without r.js, would you consider r.js optimized builds to be production ready?

Besides require.js, what other solutions exist for easily lazy loading third-party apis such as Google Maps?
Without knowing what you're good at I can't really give you specific answers, but here are some tips:

* Most early stage startups don't have the money to hire and relocate an intern.

* Most early stage startups are not interested in interns.

* Big companies (Google, Microsoft) have a really good hiring process for interns. You might not be super interested in what they offer you but if you get an internship there it will look good on your resume and you will learn stuff.

* I know you wanted to exclude Europe in the list, but I know that several companies in Berlin are hiring interns (MoviePilot and Wooga come to mind).
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Ask HN: are you getting unsolicited email from GitHire?
I just received an unexpected email from these guys, whispering the usual recruiter sweet nothings. A bit silly, my github account is actually pretty low-rent (at least the public repos).
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This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad. Maybe I am just not born to be a programmer like he is, but I invariably have more fun and I am more productive and creative when working with other people.

That said, I enjoy how he so poignantly describes coding as antisocial at its core. With people, you need to make compromises and concessions all the time. Code on the other hand has no feelings, and deserves no pity. Maybe this is why so many programmers struggle with being social.

I feel like there is a message about work/life balance in there. Or rather, code/empathy balance. Can you realdily switch between ruthless coding mode and caring people mode? How do you deal with that contrast?
Assuming SOPA, et al, are defeated, there is some real news here:

1. The government(S) have decided that anonymity on the internet, is not a god given right.

2. There is a battle going on. Defeating SOPA at best will produce a delay. The language will appear again in other legislation or will change to be less obvious or will pass without anyone realizing it.

3. The intentions of the government are clear. They believe they have the right to regulate the internet, at a fundamental level. This is bad news, because if they are able to do so, we risk the internet becoming like airlines were back in the Pan Am era. (If you haven't seen it The Aviator, by Martin Scorsese is a great movie.)

4. Even if there is no legislation passed, the government is currently (illegally, as far as I can tell) censoring the internet by shunting dot coms and dotnets to a DHS website via Verisign rolling over to their demands (the torrent site attacks of last year.)

5. There is no method that we can use to fight this. Nobody even is trying to fight the PATRIOT ACT, or NDAA, etc. Once passed, they are carved in stone, and even if they aren't passed, what can we do?

It's time to try and find a way to route around censorship, and let my grandma still be able to find what she's looking for without knowing what DNS is.
What package out there implements the algorithms for this, and is well-documented and trivial enough to use that a 14-year-old can understand them?

Nutch[1].

Nutch doesn't deal with modern web spam particularly well, but I'd say it matched early Google pretty well. Specifically, it implements Page Rank, has a reliable web crawler and a web-scale data store.

[1] http://nutch.apache.org/about.html
Not exactly, since lobbyists often write the bills and hand them to congress fully baked.
And when i really get stuck while debugging, I go take a nap, eat something and when i am back i easily figure out the error
I agree we may have become too focused on fighting the specific bills, instead of the heart of the issue. For example, the domain seizures via ICE haven't got nearly as much attention, but they're ALREADY happening and are just as dangerous for the future of the web.
More school seems pointless and financially infeasible besides, plus i am burned out on academia. plus i'll be working full time to support myself -- can't take out any more student loans, especially for a second bachelor's.

Just to throw an idea out there... maybe you could attend a community college part-time and get a degree in something unrelated to law. Since CC's are much less expensive, you could probably swing it without taking out any more loans or anything. And you could take night classes while working at whatever job you have.

Yeah, yeah, I know, but here me out... first, there is nothing wrong with attending a community college. Forget any elitist dogma bullshit you may have been taught growing up, this is about making the best of things, and doing what you have to do. Next, consider this... you have a degree from a prestigious law school... that looks good on your resume no matter what. Even if you don't pursue a law job, you'll get more interviews and find more doors open to you just because you went to $TOPTENLAW.

So... go get a 2 year degree in business administration, or marketing, or computer programming or something that interests you, and you will undoubtedly be able to transition into some other field. Yeah, you might not start out making big bucks from day 1... sorry, but life isn't always fair. But, cynicism aside, the world we live in (at least in the US) is actually moderately meritocratic. If you're good at something, you can work your way to a nice living. Just accept that nothing is going to be handed to you, and that you'll (probably) have to work your ass off. But if you really want to achieve, you can.

Another possibility is to learn to code (as you said, you can teach yourself) and eventually jump into a tech startup.
While PhD may sound like a qualifying area, I don't think you should necessarily give up.

The reason is a PhD in, say, Chemical Engineering, doesn't really help with electronic patents do they?

Read up on Groklaw the issues at hand and see if you can mount any interesting arguments / twists. If you have enough knack, then at the very least you'll sound like a qualified candidate.

Otherwise, try for a side entry via some kind of pro-bono work for the EFF.
Don't think a day without reddit, cheezburger, wordpress, and wikipedia will kill me. Besides, there's always the google cache of a wikipedia page. And there's Simple English wikipedia which hopefully they'll block too.

But is wikipedia really that indispensable? It's an encyclopedia, so it summarizes existing knowledge. It's all out there, maybe just scattered.
I enjoy working with other people, however, I do best when working with them through IRC, software, etc.

For instance, in both my professional and personal life, the most successful projects I've worked on with others have been those in which communication was primarily done through pull requests on Github, or IRC conversations late at night.

Maybe it is antisocial, but I just can't seem to function as well working in person with other people as I do on my own.

What sort of stuff do you do better around others? I'm genuinely interested.
I think it would be impossible for a new blog to compete with TC/VB/etc. without serious funding.

Sarah did a terrific job at TC and I think she's worth some trust. Moreover since AOL mess TC has become so boring to read ... full of "Company X launch product Y" stories without any wit or insight ...

Personally I don't care who's funding her, I'm confident she'll create a great, trustable blog ... after all trust is the main value for a tech blog and she knows it. Moreover i'm glad to see Paul Carr, MG & Arrington back blogging :)
I do this quite often too actually... was one of the last languages you looked at Haskell? Or even a functional programming language? I spent way too much time trying to wrap my head around that tonight.
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I can't see anything in the linked article suggesting that other 50x responses will result in poorer search engine performance - I would expect that any of the transient-fault 50x responses would have the exact same search engine impact. The important part is not returning 200 OK and having googlebot index your blackout page.

It just so happens that 503 is the semantically correct response for this situation, while other 50x responses are not.
I seem to remember codeacademy being owned by someone else, a squatter or an entrepreneur who hadn't got around to doing tomething with it. If I do in fact remember this correctly, one explanation would be that they bought that domain after they'd received more investment money than they started out with.
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You guys...this is about his programming practices. He never said that this has to apply to everyone.
It's also a huge waste of time. For every bad law they make, we lose time that would otherwise be spent on more important and worthwhile endeavor.
Ironic that CloudFlare is "anti-SOPA" and "against censorship", considering they have close ties to the Dept. Of Homeland Security and the government, as noted by the Exiled: http://exiledonline.com/isucker-big-brother-internet-culture...
This would require a 1998 Internet!
I totally agree about lights for self defense -- they're the one thing I carry all the time, followed by an inoffensive folder, and then escalating from there. There is basically no situation other than being in a shower where I don't have at least one 120+ lumen tactical flashlight, and no firearm-defense situation where I don't have a mounted light and/or handheld light. I keep lights stashed by the bed, in my desk, by the door, in the car, etc. too. Imagine an earthquake, fire, etc.!

The "disorienting strobe" mode of the novatac (or other tactical lights) is pretty much optimal (I think it's about 15Hz, 120+ Lumen). I'm not sure how I'd use the fully programmable modes, except maybe to do recognition patterns with other users (although the standard for that is to have some kind of retroreflective squares in specific parts of your clothing, or IR reflectors and an IR light/NVD). The one weakness of the fenix lights I have is the lack of the fast-strobe mode -- some of them have it, but it's harder to access, and a bunch of them don't have it at all. With the novatac, it's a firmware/setting update.

http://www.novatac.com/downloads/data-sheets/20-0104C_120T.p... is the one I like the most, although I preferred the older design where the end switch was convex vs. flat (although you couldn't stand it on the endcap as a "candle").

The novatac is a little thicker, with a scallop in the back and an O-ring, and thus grips better in a syringe grip (which is useful in off-hand when used with a pistol in the other hand).

It also has a nice crenellated front, which the smaller fenix lights don't have. I've broken auto window glass with one (it's not optimal, but works).
I hate to disagree with you, but we already have a constitutional amendment, as well as the key text of the constitution itself. The federal government is not given the power to pass whatever legislation it wants, so long as congress votes in favor, and the president sign and the supreme court doesn't strike it down.

I know this is the perspective most people have, but the reality is the constitution strictly limits what the government can do. This specification is known as the "enumerated powers" clause of the constitution.

Much of what government does now- from the FCC to the FDA is not authorized by in the enumerated power. If it isn't authorized then it is illegal, under the document that enabled the creation of these branches of government in the first place.

I don't think there's a higher form of the word "illegal" than that.

Further, and to really put the boot behind this point, the First Amendment itself says:

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

This means the congress doesn't have the enumerated power, and further it is explicitly forbidden from, passing laws that allow the government to silence websites.

If a website is engaging in trademark infringement or copyright infringement, they are naturally liable in civil court. But that doesn't give the government the power to shut them down (other than them losing a civil case that takes all their funding, or whatever.)

If any of these sites have a blog, then blocking the DNS or taking other actions to restrict access to that blog is a violation of the constitution.

Further, there's Federal Law on this issue-- US Code 18-242, which makes it a crime (a felony if armed) to violate someone's constitutional rights "under color of law". Which means the government agents who enforce these "laws" are also criminals.

But the idea that a law could be illegal, and that government employees enforcing them could be criminals is just beyond the comprehension of most people. They seem to believe, unlike the framers of the constitution, that the government IS the law.

And so they continue to get away with it and continue to expand their powers.
My previous firm depended on wikipedia. We would often have to get up to speed on very diverse industries and their core metrics overnight, and wikipedia was the first source that was available and easily searched.

With the English site black out, this will affect the world far more than just America.

As a matter of fact this is probably something that we should study and be prepared for.

How do the other data/encyclopedia sites fare during the black out? Is there a real effect, how long does it last?

What is the impact on non US visitors? Shouldn't the black ideally focus on people from the States?

Heck actually, this will probably offend a lot of people who aren't in the states - Indian sites can easily spin this as cultural propaganda (for example).

The more I think about it, the more the point raised higher up in this thread (regarding neutrality) starts bothering me.

A complete black out of the English Wikipedia is (hopefully) a once in a life time event. Considering the diversity of people who come to the site and the different cultural baggage everyone brings, this action will have far more repurcussions than just SOPA/PIPA.

While time zonal differences should mitigate this effect, the blackout should not affect visitors from countries where SOPA makes little difference.
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I just cannot help but notice how much the perception of what Kickstarter is has changed from its initial days. I learned about Kickstarter at the time the Diaspora project was there collecting money. It was clear that people are not "buying" but "investing". They were not "consumers", they were "investors". Diaspora wasn't a "product" on "pre-order" but a "project" which was "under development". How the intent and purpose of the site changed in the minds of both "backers" and project makers is just amazing. Its like the identity of what Kickstarter started out to be has been lost somewhere.

Kickstarter was supposed to replace angle investors and VC. They were supposed to help the little guy start up without all the control of the big guy who had money. The idea, as explained to me on this very forum, was that this was crowd sourced investment. The users here went on to say how this will change the startup culture and help people start more bootstrapped startups without any strings attached. The "rewards" were never a guaranteed thing. They were sort of a thank you and giving out rewards were supposed to be a way to show off that they actually succeeded. Now it seems the whole thing has shifted to a marketplace of sorts. It seems like people are using it as an alternative to ebay or amazone, just that they can have higher flexibility and more contact to their "consumers". The inherent risk of "investing" has been lost and given way to the guarantee of "buying" a product.
I was wrestling with calling it indispensable, and totally agree that it's all out there, but Wikipedia severely reduces the friction of finding the correct citations and often provides good starting points for great research.

The quality of your investigation increases and the round trip time for an inquiry decreases significantly with Wikipedia around.

There would probably be several points on Wednesday where without an archive I'd feel really frustrated by not being able to look up a reference on Wikipedia. I'd get by without it, but I'd sorely miss it.

Edit: And, to be fair, not having reddit or icanhascheezeburger wouldn't sting nearly as much missing Wikipedia would.
Is there a searchable list of supporting representatives / organizations as there is for SOPA?
Im not sure why scientists are still publishing in Elsevier journals nowadays. Pre-internet, OK, but now I think journals should be following the model used by the Journal of Machine Learning Research, open on the internet.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ — terrible UI, but it's a mirror.
A useful service could be N washes per year with a minimum interval. The user chooses N. Out of this a fraction would be "on-demand". The others would be optimized for availability of resources like manpower and suitable places where there is no objection to washing. For Eg. the user can indicate some travel patterns which can help identify optimal schedules. This approach will enable the user to have a generally clean car and summon a cleanup when there is a special occasion. Such a subscription service would charge lesser per wash.
If you really need info from Wikipedia, you can cache an offline version before the blackout. I like: http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html
I don't know why you'd apologize for putting this in a larger context; not doing that risks making the win Pyrrhic.

SOPA and PIPA aren't end-game plays, they're simply tactics in the ongoing culture war. Recent events, from Wikileaks to Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street, have put the spot-light on the internet crowd. Now, SOPA has flushed them out into the open.

If you win the battle, look to lose the backlash. Imagine how successful they'll be portraying the 'net crowd as disrespectful of property, lawless, elitist, anti-American and all that. This will become yet another one of these issues that shave off and mobilize some fraction of the electorate and get them to vote against their own best interests. Not only that, it will marginalize movements coming out of the internet; even if they just start that trend, this will all have been a huge success.
Wikipedia is still on for anti-SOPA blackout
Though I will not call it an international pressure, but what is happening right now in India (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/delhi-hc-to-hear-google-facebook-...) may be attributed to US's stand on this issue.
I know this will generate a lot of awareness and constituent calls to Congress. But I don't think the effect on casual users will be exclusively what the blackout-proponents are hoping.

People will become more conscious of Wikipedia as an entity with a political agenda than before. They will realize it could go away – not just because of government censorship but also when it suits the lobbying goals of project leaders.

Among some readers, that could energize more devotion, but among others, create a sense that Wikipedia is more common, more political, and less relentlessly reliable than they'd thought.

I wonder if Wikimedia or anyone else is doing repeated surveys of users that could be used to judge attitudes before and after the blackout.
On kickstarter you are an investor not a customer.

It doesn't matter how you make your investment. If you don't want the risk, then yes, KickStater is not a place for you.
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