skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, I'm going to be that person.

Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.)

My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had at maximum one or two days left to live before she would have hemorrhaged to death without medical attention (no platelets).

When APML was first discovered in 1957, the average patient lived 2 weeks and the death rate was 100%. "God" didn't save a single person with APML prior to 1957.

Now the "cure" rate of APML is 95%. It's pretty astounding. My mom has now lived 10 months longer than she would have without modern medical science and hopefully will live a good deal longer because of it.

My mom is incredibly thankful, not to God (who she believes in), but to modern medicine. She even decided to not invite my Christian Scientist cousins to my wedding (which she was able to attend 4 months after her diagnosis) because she strongly feels that people who disregard medical science in favor of God are literally wishing her dead.
Didn't mean to be vague, just didn't want to start anything.

He created an app (http://dscr.be/) that required you to log in via Twitter. After a bit, it tweeted a link to his site and followed him, without telling the user that would happen. (After I talked to him, he added the checkbox that is there now -- that wasn't there for a long time.)

He also follows massive amounts of people and then unfollows them. Every two weeks or so, I get an email saying he just started following me.

Neither of these are the end of the world, but I wouldn't run random JavaScript that he can change whenever he wants on my page.

EDIT: Sahil contacted me and said: "sorry, the massive following/unfollowing just isn't true. I normally just do it to you to remind you I exist. :)"
The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose is the other anti-thesis.
This is still how (many) CS problem sets were done at Harvard circa 2008, except we had whiteboards instead of chalkboards.

(There was no technical reason that problem sets were done in the lab - I think it was just less depressing to be coding at 3 a.m. when you knew you weren't alone).
It's simple semantics with confusing behavior.
If you steal an apple from someone, you are depriving the owner of that apple. If you, say, download a film, you are not depriving the copyright owner of anything at all – it is a copy of information. Whether or not you should have paid for the download is not relevant to the distinction. The action you took does not involve deprivation, therefore you didn't steal. Therein lies the difference.
This is nice to think about, and maybe even implemented in specialized environments, but as a drop-in solution to e.g. the sockets API, a great deal of functionality is lost. First and foremost, in order to achieve the kind of throughput advertised, the kernel cannot do much of any checks on the data sent from userspace, which means userspace must be totally trusted to have access to the network interface.

Van Jacobsen toted a very similar scheme for Linux around 2006, named Net Channels. Googling around the various LWN.net articles on the topic reveals many enlightening comments, e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/169961/
CSI: LA did an episode about it in its earlier seasons. (As in, back when it was good.)

This might be the one: http://www.csiguide.com/episodedetail.aspx?csi=157.
5000 reads per sec of 64Kb items, would make you stream 2.5 Gbits/sec using consistent reads and 1Gbits/sec writes, moving close to 1.5TB each hour. At the end of the month you have read well over 800 TB and updates 160 TB... That is a substantial application you have in mind... :-)
Original CSI http://www.csifiles.com/reviews/miami/bloodlines.shtml

also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_chimerism_in_fiction
AT&T raises data plan prices
I'm fascinated that the vast majority of back pedaling Congressmen mentioned are Republicans. I don't mean to make a political point for either party; it's well-known that 90% of entertainment industry donations go to Democrats, and I would expect the opposite reaction if the situation was reversed. But it's interesting to think about the potential implications for the parties if this trend holds and the vast majority of the public opposes it.
I've thought a system like this would be great, but it seems like we would end up with so many candidates that it would be difficult to make informed decisions for every one. Then congress would become fragmented with dozens of factions that don't work together. It seems like a system of a small number of large parties (but more than 2, perhaps) would be most efficient. I suspect that there's a solution but couldn't find one in the link.
nice to see them using racket this time around. it's one of the best environments i've seen for scaling all the way from beginner to professional needs.
From http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ , it looks like the PIPA majority in Senate is still huge: 41-13. Unless it can get to something 30-24 today, it's a done deal. Here's hope that PIPA will never make it through the House.
If Reddit users want to join Hacker News because they discovered it today, they should be allowed to. Maybe the new joiner database can't handle the amount of writes the influx of new users would push to it or something. Interesting that so far I got like 40 downvotes for saying "Horrible Stance" this morning.
Prof. Knuth made up a formula for such beauty.
No--I'm suggesting that HelloFax sell a service to organizations to run a form like this one. So if I'm the NRA I can have a form on my website to send a fax to people's representatives about some sort of gun legislation, and HelloFax handles the faxing backend like with this SOPA form.
I don’t think you’ll be able to make anything like this with WebRTC any time soon. They’re focused on competing with Flash’s RTMFP and not on building lower level APIs.

It seems no company is interested in giving you tools to build in-browser torrent. I’m really skeptical on this one, I’m afraid :(
imagine going to the movie and having two videos on the screen at once -- both showing different things. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be happy.

But some TV shows (Burn Notice, for one) do this frequently. It works pretty well.
Protect IP Act Breaks The Internet
Do notice that these achievements give exactly 0 points. They're not discouraging bad behaviour, but not exactly encouraging it either.
It certainly looks nice, except that the text flows right off the bottom of the page, and scrolling doesn't work. I had to shrink the text font to see the whole thing, and in particular the link that appears at the end.
Landes & Posner also never advocated abolishing copyrights altogether... They just advocated moving to renewable terms instead of automatic 70 years to life.

Regardless of whether there is a decline in production, there would be a certain decline in production of high-quality, expensive content. If you think expensive to produce != high quality, you're wrong. Expensive content is only produced because it earns more money, and thus is better liked by more people. That's the only objective measure of quality I know.
A very interesting feature, the Online Tutor: http://icampustutor.csail.mit.edu/6.001-public/
Read and Learn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn...
What are some of Riak's shortcomings?
I'm not sure you could classify the use of the prevalent terms in those tweets as homophobia. Words also evolve over time, I highly doubt those twits are implying that wikipedia prefers same-sex websites. We're seeing the evolution of words through generations, where in this context it now means 'sucks'. This is an inevitable outcome and we see it time and time again.
The "in a manner" that you omitted is crucial here. The purpose of the site doesn't have to be for doing the illegal things. The purpose of the site just has to be something that happens "in a manner" that enables or facilitates the illegal things.

So YouTube - primary purpose is uploading videos, not illegal. But YouTube doing that in the "manner" of allowing anonymous internet users to upload anything they want - facilitates the illegal things.

So I disagree with you based on those few words. Even if you think your point stands, I'd posit the language is so dangerously ambiguous that it should be a problem in itself that ensures it never makes it into law.
But this looks a lot better

https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23wikipediablackout

But there is now an awareness on this matter. I hope this gets more viral when people ask about it in school etc.

The whole blackout day shows one thing. Never rattle the wrong cage or make the "nerds" angry. Creative people will get their voice heard. Tech Companies can reach more people in less time than any other group on this planet and this was just one of many battles to come.
My open letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand opposing the Protect-IP Act (PIPA)
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
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> Then congress would become fragmented with dozens of factions that don't work together.

That sounds like an excellent outcome. They might actually have to talk to each other, work out solutions that work for everyone, and refrain from doing things they can't all agree on.
"I find it strange that a method of protest appears to be an opportunity to see who can make the nicest looking one."

Why not? Is a protest sign less credible if it's not made of cardboard and Sharpie™?

You should make everything you touch beautiful.
SOPA = No more color. Sincerely, COLOURlovers.com
'Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information
when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.'

To me this was the best part of the entire message.
Yeah, I've seen that, too. A google search for "viagra site:mit.edu" has interesting results. .gov and .edu links are goldmines.
Do you have support for that assertion? What is a "wage worker"?
Watch Salman Khan's video. It can probably give you a few good ideas. And also this Clay Shirky one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I
I think you're contradicting yourself by saying their concern for users derives from profit and then saying they put their users "first." If acquiring and keeping users is a means to an end, namely advertising revenue, then users are secondary to advertising revenue. Is there some other dynamic in the corporation (other than profit) that drives Facebook and Google to value users? If the answer is human good will, then I can believe it has some influence in some cases, but not that it ever overrides profit. Good will can be influential where there is a sincere belief that it is the best guide to long-term profit, and I think Google's founders were fairly successful in instilling that belief in their corporate culture, but in a mass consumer business that belief will be worn down through the process of making many small decisions where the two priorities conflict.
This is the important point - the US doesn't have a strong party system. Senators aren't evicted from their party when they cross the party line like they are in other countries.

Outside of the presidential election, voters in the US don't vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, they vote for their electoral reprentative. The party of the representatives on offer might be a decent heuristic for their policies and values, but the informed voter has a lot more information at their fingertips than just that.
You may want to read the comments on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467550 where Alexis Ohanion went on NBC to debate SOPA.
Moving From Search To Social
Not sure I understand the point beyond the initial foundation of Hollywood. If this was say Linux vs. Windows they would have a point, but to say "...we crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow
people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man..." when they're talking about content created by these profitable companies it makes no sense and it seems like they're trying to make it into some sort of moral crusade for freedom. Strange.
luckily I registered an account 2 days ago.
I think that he's got some great recognition. The Nobel and Pulitzer aren't the only way to do that.
Thomvest Holiday Video 2011
Perhaps I should've been more specific. His argument was that scrolling down timeline is one of the most emotional experiences.

Scrolling through a haphazard column system of photos of mishmash isn't that emotional to me. Going one by one through a persons Facebook album is more emotional to me because of the focus (one photo) and organization (I know which album I picked).
awesome, 6.001 was one of the best courses I took.
Should Angels break free from angel groups?
PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed
Watched, took notes. Gracias.
You can just append "?banner=none" to the URL to prevent the banner from appearing. The mobile version is annoying.
The expression "Thank God!" could easily be intended to show thankfulness that medicine and this person's illness crossed paths now vs. 100 years ago.

Not to spark a religious debate, but this reaction seems to be common among the scientific community. Granted, it seems illogical for a god to be selectively-responsible for occurrences in one's life, but I don't think a lack of correlation is proof of anything necessarily. Some people believe in a deity who sparked the big bang and has done nothing more (a "hands-off" management style, if you will). Whether this merits praise/piousness, it's not my place to decide. But since nobody has the answer (and will probably never discover it), everyone's free to believe what they wish as long as it doesn't impose on others (a rare feat, I know).

FWIW, I am agnostic.
What if their product came preinstalled on a laptop and yet every few weeks it would say that I am a victim of a counterfeit software, demand that I would re-download some validation app, refuse to install it, demand a reboot and then calm down for another few weeks.

Can I pirate a copy, because it is getting damn ridiculous. What do you say?
The profitable companies are not really the creators of the content, are they? Did DC create The Watchmen, or was it Alan Moore?

A consumer-pays-in-advance subscription model would provide better price signals to the real creators, wouldn't it?
Clickable link with Amex sponsorship details: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx
The Used Bookstore Was the Internet (and the Wikipedia) of the 1970s
I don't take TPB's "press releases" too seriously, and I don't think they do either. It's interesting to hear how Hollywood came about but not significant or relevant to what TBP does. As far as arguments for piracy go, there was a much better submission here earlier today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3478850

I'm actually shocked TPB hasn't participated in the blackout themselves. They made it clear they're international, but SOPA/PIPA are international too.

Edit: I wasn't very clear, what I really meant to say was that I'm shocked TPB hasn't acknowledged blackout day somehow, especially considering how often they change their image.
While not a "crime drama", Chimerism is also the main diagnosis in an episode of House: http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Cane_%26_Able
you know, I just spent all day here (http://www.informationdiet.com/live) talking to congressional staffers about the most effective way of communicating to Congress.

The conclusion: the fax is the biggest waste of time that there is for communicating to Congress.
Yes, my brother had a stem cell transplant using my stem cells. At one point a year after transplant he got some graft-vs-host disease and one of the first tests they do is a Chimerism test to see how much percent of his blood stem cells are actually mine. The way they do that is by comparing his blood to a base sample of mine. Or otherwise, they could compare his blood to his hair sample (which retains his old DNA), and see if its different. I'm obviously over simplifiying it, but as far as the crime situation some others are talking about on this thread, note that the identical footprint will only be in the DNA in blood. If you take skin/hair etc, it will still have the original DNA set.
Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations 
ve learned that Hollywood studio chiefs individually and as a group are drawing a line in the sand on the piracy issue with the Obama re-election campaign and refusing to give any more donations. The blowup came after President Obama on Saturday dashed moguls’ hopes that he would remain on the sidelines in the dispute over the U.S. House Of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act and the U.S. Senate’s Protect IP Act.
Ask HN: If the DMCA didn't "kill the Internet," would SOPA?
Legitimate question here: before the DMCA was passed, there were many claims that it would kill the Internet. Is there any research into the positive or negative effects that it did have? I'm trying to get past the groupthink to objectively evaluate SOPA, and perhaps measure the effects it would have should it pass.
I don't really like responding to haters on Hacker News.

But, if anyone wants more information about the above comment (which is wrong multiple times), please email me and I'll respond there: sahil@slavingia.com. Thanks!
I'm rather surprised that a bone marrow match wouldn't have the same blood type. I guess I shouldn't be though.

Edit:
chimeracoder

Huh. :)
UnBlack: Chrome Extension Restores Wikipedia on SOPA Black Out Day
Internet regulation: Black ops
Your second left parenthesis belongs one line higher. A more clear way to read it is to write out four copies of it, and then in the first copy delete or clauses 2, 3, and 4. In the second copy delete or clauses 1, 3, and 4, and so on. That gives a separate complete sentence for each of the four ways you can run afoul of that section:

A site is illegal if] the U.S.-directed site is primarily
designed for use in offering goods or services in a manner
that engages in, enables, or facilitates...

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

A site is illegal if] 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...

A site is illegal if] 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...

YouTube fails to fall under the first because it is not primarily designed to engage in, enable, or facilitate infringing. It fails to fall under the second because it is not operated for those purposes. It fails to fall under the third because although it does get used for the prohibit activities, it has substantial legitimate use. It fails to fall under the fourth because Google does not market it as an infringing tool--indeed, they discourage infringement.

The section that YouTube (and Reddit, and most other legitimate sites with user content) are in danger of running afoul of is the section that says a US-directed site is a site dedicated to the theft of US property if it:

is taking, or has taken, deliberate actions to avoid confirming a
high probability of the use of the U.S.-directed site to carry out
acts that constitute a violation of section 501 or 1201 of title 17,
United States Code

Some think this will requires the sites to put a lot of effort into actively monitoring user generated content and taking down things that might be illegal, as opposed to current law where they have only have to deal with things specifically brought to their notice via a DMCA notification. The section is sufficiently unclear that that is a reasonable reading of it.
Final Call for Applications to Founders Network
Innovating in Traditional Industries
I found out while in a taxi cab this morning & I started crying. So thankful. So glad I could (maybe) help.

It's such a simple thing to save someone's life like this. Please register to be a marrow donor today.

It's no more work than sucking on a lollipop & even the donation process these days is usually not much worse than blood donation (it just takes longer):

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx

This is ESPECIALLY powerful if you're non-white or mixed race, because -- you probably remember this from when Amit's story started -- the chances of finding a match for an ill non-white or mixed race person is about 1 in TWENTY THOUSAND.

That means that many of these sick people could be saved -- the tech is there, the science is there, but the donors simply aren't. This is hideous, but something we can absolutely fix.

The number of people who registered for Amit will almost surely save many other lives.

So please, please register: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx
Walking away from programming factory work
The pirate bay being blocked is the intended result of SOPA/PIPA. Reddit, Wikipedia, and Google getting blocked by SOPA/PIPA are the unintended consequences.
Got me to swab :)
Possibly because they are one of the few sites that are effectively immune to SOPA. And TPB being blacked out would just play the SOPA people into their hands and prove their point.
> YouTube fails to fall under the first because it is not primarily designed to engage in, enable, or facilitate infringing

Why does everyone keep leaving out the crucial "in a manner" words? Read it carefully with emphasis on those words:

A site is illegal if] the U.S.-directed site is primarily
designed for use in offering goods or services
IN A MANNER that engages in, enables, or facilitates...

It doesn't matter what the site is primarily designed to do, if it executes that purpose in a manner that facilitates bad things then it falls under the definition.
yes he has, but probably deserves more.
I found it laughable, because of how Wikipedia's blackout is easily circumventable, and because I didn't see a single year or date.
Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed that!
Wow! I dont know him and I am brought to tears.

It certainly highlights the benefits of investing in Health Care to improve and save lives. SciFi happening today!
The Power of Autonomy
This is the reason I have been very hesitant to become a specialist. I generally have 2-3 dominant technologies that I would consider myself to be an expert in at a general level (not security or some other specialization), but I keep 10 or so within a week of brushing-up on to be proficient.

That being said, if I did specialize in a specific technology like Flash, I would make sure I did so via specializing in open standards, supported by a variety of vendors. The things that are open seem to last a whole lot longer (e.g you can still find a C, job). I view the iPhone as being a lot like Flash. Right now native development is king because it provides a subjectively better product. But everyday the Mobile web toolkits are getting better and better which could be a threat to native app development. If I where solely an IOS development expert, I would diversify to deal with that reality. It seems like the author made the opposite wager with Flash. Which is a risky venture in this industry and one that I have never felt comfortable enough with to settle down.
I suspect TPB did not black out because they will not shut themselves down in response to pressure from the US Gov't.

Even though they might make a living, I don't think they see TPB as a business. Instead, I think they see it as a mission, or a calling. I glean from the tone of their writing that they are convinced they are doing good in the world.