skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seemed to start with King himself, according to the article. It seems like both him and his family donate the proceeds, however, which makes me feel better about the whole deal:
"
King himself donated proceeds from licensing the speech to fund the civil rights movement, and the King family has made similar pledges.
"
It's complete science fiction at this point and there are scientists that argue it will stay that way forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate_...

But who knows. Maybe when society is so advanced that we have infinite power from controlled fusion, extremely accurate and high powered lasers and magnetic field generators, and quantum computers, we'll be able to build a box that moves around individual atoms to construct something.
Really? cool! Honest question: do you have a reference for that? I can't find one Google but would like to know more.
At least some of the software designed to detect malicious behavior assumes the ip is in ipv4 format. Example: I'm pretty sure fail2ban doesn't support ipv6, yet.
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Lamson seems to be a solid framework, but after trying to use it for a project I dropped it. Two assumptions it makes didn't work for me.

First, it takes over port 25 as your default SMTP server. This is great in that it saves you from dealing with the messy world of aliases etc, but not great on a shared host that does other things with mail as well.

Second, the FSM routing, while convenient, was ultimately limiting. Lamson routes mail based on the state of the sender (for example, 'subscribed', 'new', etc). But this state storage is abstracted away -- so if you wanted to change an address's state outside of the email flow (for example via a web app) or append additional data to the state, you have to re-implement the model logic for the FSM. I wonder if this is the reason why librelist, Zed's mailing list server implemented in lamson, has no web interface for subscription or list creation.

Lamson doesn't help you with parsing email any more than Python's standard library does (which is pretty decent, if a little verbose), so if you can handle setting up routing/aliases of mail to your application and storing state yourself, it might not add much.
I guess you can skid and you can use your foot to break the back wheel. If you see messenger races those guys go downhill at 50kmh with pedals spinning free then use foot to break the back wheel, complete insanity if you ask me.
Good advice for a tech start up. Book ordered. (Also interesting: direct ebook sales for $2.99)
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Many people want to figure out if they have a medical emergency or not, before calling 911. Especially in a country like the USA, where a visit can mean thousands of dollars of expense or even going bankrupt.

There are plenty of cases where it's hard for the layperson to determine if something is serious or not.
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I can see how this would be helpful but it seems like the best way to do this would be with a POP/IMAP client in your code. But I'm guessing those libraries are probably not as user-friendly as one would hope?
"Steve Wozniak really likes Android, still uses iPhone"

That is from an Android site. I like that title much better.
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You can form water from recombining oxygen and hydrogen. Or from material that contain oxygen and hydrogen.

Making water out of anything else, is possible in molecular quantities at an exorbitant price using a particle accelerator (or so). So in practice, impossible.

A Star Trek Replicator, even one that doesn't transmute different elements into each other and just re-arranges them, is a long way off. The best current design we have is called an ecosystem and uses plants, fungi, animals, other life forms and sun light.
It could get much worse! I think there's been some groupthink in a bubble over this rush-to-blackout, a "we must do something, this is something, we must do this" spiral.

I wouldn't expect too much pro-SOPA backlash – though there's sure to be a little when the entire site is gone, because some people are genuinely intellectual-property and law-enforcement maximalists.

Most people simply aren't political and resent efforts by other people to make them so, especially efforts like blocking roads, chanting in bullhorns, closing libraries/schools, and so forth. (Blacking out a service with a lobbying message falls into that category of intentional disruption to prove a point.) No jumping off the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man!
This is a more thorough version of what a popular bike blog "bikesnobnyc" used to call the "pistadex", where he used the average price of a bianchi pista to determine the popularity of the fixie trend.
This sounds suspicious - care to cite any references?
You know, this actually makes me wonder what the impact on the economy would be if Google went down for a day. I would imagine a lot of people would just use Bing for a day (which would probably be terrible for Google in and of itself), but I wonder how many peoples' jobs would be temporarily halted due to not having Google and not knowing of any other search engine to use.

For that matter, I wonder what the economic impact of Wikipedia shutting down will be. It's just one of those things that I haven't imagined a world without. On the bright side, I suppose that there might be a positive benefit to the economy if Reddit shuts down.
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Though that doesn't mean that nanotechnology is impossible. In fact, nanomachines in the form of microbes precede any macromachines. We are getting better and better at controlling microbes. Though we won't be able to use genetic programming on microbes alone to make a cake or steak from scratch.
I would love to see two things from Google:

* Change the logo; even just a black bar through the middle since the logo gets a lot of attention.

* For any SOPA/PIPA supporter's site in their results, mark it in some way. Don't block it, but indicate that this is a supporter and use that to demonstrate what SOPA/PIPA might do. This allows people to ignore those sites if they want, but does not remove them from the index or cause any permanent harm.
This is for Ubuntu < 11.10. They're already gone in the 11.10 repositories. I just went through the ordeal of manually installing and setting up JDK6 and JDK7 alongside OpenJDK. Here's how, along with some useful update-alternatives scripts:

1. Download from Oracles' site http://www.oracle.com/java. extract, and copy the extracted folder to /usr/lib/jvm (where openjdk is installed by default).

2. Change the default-jvm soft link to the new jdk:

> cd /usr/lib/jvm

> sudo rm default-jvm

> sudo ln -s jdk1.6.0_30 default-jvm

3. In .profile or .bash_profile add:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-jvm

(no need to add $JAVA_HOME/bin to your PATH, update-alternatives takes care of that by linking it to /usr/bin)

4. Add the new JDK to /etc/alternatives with update-alternatives command. The trick here is to slave all the jdk1.6.0_30/bin supporting programs to jdk1.6.0_30/bin/java, so that changing from one java to another also changes all the supporting programs as well. Without slaving them, you have to call update-alternatives --config on all of them separately, and there are quite a few as can be seen in the scripts below.

https://raw.github.com/byrongibson/scripts/master/install/ja...

https://raw.github.com/byrongibson/scripts/master/install/ja...

https://raw.github.com/byrongibson/scripts/master/install/ja...

That's it. This lets you install JDK6 and JDK7 side-by-side with OpenJDK (which I apt-get installed first, fwiw), and switch between them with a quick update-alternatives --config, and changing of the default-java soft link.

Doing it this way lets you install any number of JDK versions or minor versions side-by-side, and easily switch among them, or upgrade from one to another, and switch back if the new version borked whatever you were running on it.

Of course, no more automatic security updates, so you have to keep an eye on that and download the new Oracle JDK minor/update versions when they're released, but on the other hand it's much easier to roll back if an update breaks something, since the prior working version is still there and just and update-alternatives away.
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I think that's the way it's going too, unfortunately. I'd really be interested to see a measure of student performance after such a transition. Of course, most studies like that are fraught with confounding variables, so we'll likely never have a clear picture of that.
No. It is incorrect to use tables used for layout, and this widespread practice has made it impossible for user agents to treat tables specially.

A div exists to have no meaning. Using it for layout doesn't hurt anything except page size (unless there was a more specific element that you could have used accurately instead).

I don't understand how we're in the year 2012 and people are still repeating these "rules" without any understanding of why they might matter.
Looking forward to it
Reddit cofounder discussing SOPA/PIPA on CNBC now
will post link when its online -- its on TV now.
A program like RingGuard and VolumeLocker don't work in this case, where the phone case causes the volume buttons to get pressed unintentionally, causing the confirmation dialog to basically always be popping up all the time. This type of input behavior also makes the programs not work as intended, hence my desire for a more stable solution. Disabling the volume keys seemed like the best option for this situation.

True, I shouldn't have started with 'useless', and yes a non-rooted phone does make phone calls. I guess what I mean to say by 'useless', is that they are useless for those that want to go beyond what is allowed by the default non-root install, security be damned. I am one of those users, and my GF is not, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to work on her phone, especially something so simple as editing a configuration file.
Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't want to question this particular site. That this is possible is indeed a big step forward from Flash.
The CDA was later struck down by the supreme court, thanks to a challenge by the ACLU: http://epic.org/free_speech/cda/
Yeah, for every StackOverflow question I ask, there are several that I start formulating and then discard, as merely putting thoughts into words leads to new insights.

Also I use paper a lot for solving problems and making decisions. Simply write everything down as if I was explaining the thought process to someone. Writing it down helps the same way as with SO questions, but also extends my very limited "immediate memory" (similarly as with arithemtic operations in head / on paper)
Or you could, you know, use handbrakes. You can still get them on fixies.
The best part of this was the concept of banding together as group of "thousands" in this blackout. As of 2007 (the latest numbers I could easily find), Wikipedia as a whole has > 2500 views per second. Of course, the English Wikipedia is the only one being blacked out as far as I know, but I expect it also is a large portion of that 2500 views/second.

And that's just Wikipedia! Seems to me that a few more people will be affected this time around.
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Wait a second- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3387895/Screen%20shot%202012-01-17%...

There are 100 fixies per capita in Manhattan? So each person in Manhattan owns 100 fixed gear bicycles? No wonder rent is so expensive; I imagine storing 100 bicycles isn't cheap!!
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I Can't agree more. I successfully applied agile ONCE during my 6 year tenure at a fortune 100.

When approached with the question of what I thought was needed to make agile work, my reply was simple: "start with a good team who can handle it."

That advice was of course tossed aside as corporations (especially middle managers) whose primary concern is the ability to shift resources cannot fathom the notion that agile starts with the individuals who compose the team. The sad truth of it was that there very few individuals who are actually capable of being "agile" after being subject to heavy handed processes for years.
> They're usually high-challenge, high-reward affairs.

I find that if you go somewhere with just the goal of remembering someone and having them remember you, not the first time but maybe the second or third time, it works well for me, even if that is not my goal. I don't hang out with a small group of people on a regular basis (core friends) but I do know a lot of people casually. Everyone probably remembers the person who meets you just to thrust a business card into your hand. And everyone remembers the person who they could not get rid of. Strive to be the person who brings people together. I have met a few who do that not effortlessly, but naturally. The good thing about talking to people not like you, is almost always you can learn something new. Remember even the most logical person has feelings. So, in a roundabout way, my conclusion is there are no true opposites. We are all human. We feel anger sadness disgust happiness joy love anxiety calm.
This was to protest President Clinton's signing of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The indecency provisions of the act were struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional the following year. Additional legal challenges took ten more years to come to fruition. More detail welcome in the comments on HN.
My mom still uses Bing to search for Google to get to the website...
Ask HN: How to find web design interns?
Hi HN,

My startup is nearing the finish line (launch) and but we still have some significant web design work that needs to be completed. Our Lead Designer is scrambling to get it done but we really need another set of hands to help out.

We are considering taking on an unpaid intern (bootstrapped startup with no $$) that could work 10 hours/week for a month or two.

Some of my questions are:

1. Where are good places to look for web designers and/or have free internship postings?
2. What sort of things can we offer/incentivize in lieu of financial payment? One thing to note is that we are a virtual team so we can't provide any on-site perks.

Would love to hear from folks that have done this before and what their experiences have been.

Thanks!
You're going to have to wait a few more days if you want to rest on the work of others, but: http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/01/4s-jailbreak.html
Yikes, one would think that a site called Hacker News would be a bit nicer to someone talking about enabling people through learning about technology. No wonder I started my own version: http://kruhft.dyndns.org
How about State Code on the Fixie Index.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aik-d7nXHh6SdGt...
I was too young at the time to be aware of this blackout, but I am grateful to the ones that protested this bill. The internet would not have been the same if people are scared to express their ideas/opinions/arts.

I wonder about the world we would be in if the bill had passed as it was presented.
Sorry if that's not clear, it's all indexed to 100. Those are all relative values and not absolute values.
PR people are usually a very good contact. News can break 24 hours a day, so they're usually very available. If you're about to spill the beans on something that can be very embarrassing, they will connect you with the right person. If they don't, they're on the hook for cleaning up the mess.

http://www.google.com/press/
“We started at the very top with these outliers like Facebook and Twitter, but the aim is to work our way down to much less high profile companies.”

I don't see how SecondMarket is going to fill the void left by FB, Groupon, and Zynga with long-tail trades. But that doesn't mean I don't want to see that happen.

But all I've heard is the headache caused by these types of trades on the company. Sure, disproportionately on Facebook, but if I or one of my coworkers posted and actually sold shares on SecondMarket from our little company, it would be a major annoyance, and spark a lot of internal hand-wringing and tension.

I see it difficult for SecondMarket to create a long-tail market in the smaller, non-SV/NYC, non-consumer internet startups. I can't imagine them doing trades in small middle America biopharma companies (such as we are).

What epxerience does anyone on HN have when SecondMarket trading started happening with Founders/employees/investors at their companies? Was it noticeable? What impacts on employee morale/focus/work did it have, if any? It would drive me nuts if I was CEO and all the water cooler talk was about employees selling shares/options/RSUs (if even possible to trade options/RSUs) on Secondmarket and what they got out of it, etc. Seems like a horrible, distracting idea at a small, <25 person company - not to mention the impacts on your valuation/investor perception in future raises, other externalities.
In fact, it's illegal to not have a front brake in cities like Austin.

Not to mention that it's downright insane. Ever try skid stopping in the rain?
FTA:
> “The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but being treated poorly when they go public.” (We’re looking at you, Groupon and Zynga.)

It seems quaint, but there was a time that a company had to have 6 quarters of serious revenue and 2 quarters of solid profits before they went public.

That was before the dumb money from 401k's entered the picture.
Yes, my take as well. DNS filtering is the easiest thing to retreat on (it was the only thing specifically called out in the White House's response) and the NFL et al. can continue to work with ICE to seize domains the old-fashioned way.
I'm having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the MPAA gets to decide what's "off the table" in legislation. Is there no longer even a pretense of separation of corporations and the government?
"But special rules apply now because our very existence is at stake" is a red flag for bandwagon/groupthink situations.
A stock market with much less leeway for financial speculation is something that I really hope for, but the problem I see is liquidity. I guess that most of the buyers on SecondMarket are looking forward to the IPO anyway, which was only a question of time for Facebook, but is a much less sure event with the smaller companies that would really benefit from this market.

I wish SecondMarket well, but the one it decided to pursue is a very difficult path.
That's a pretty transparent spammy plug for your site, there.

I think the general point is that the average user is never going to a sysadmin, and nor is it fair to expect that of them.
Google really should go dark, even if it is only for a few hours. Policymakers need to understand that if the internet gets broken, it will have repercussions well outside of silicon valley.
It's not "unclear" it's "inaccurate." :p "Per capita" means something specific, not just "you know, whatever." Thanks for the response tho! I could take the article more seriously if the charts made sense; consider fixing them? :)
At SendGrid, we offer watching a whole dedicated domain/subdomain. For instance, you set up the MX record for incoming.example.com to sendgrid.net, and we Parse everything and POST it to the URL of your choice.
I am against this bill, but this kind of comment is absurd. SOPA could censor Google when it comes to piracy (and as most things do, it will end up being corrupt for many more things), but I fail to see how important information to save lives would be blocked. The Government will not take down Google and most normal searches would be intact.

The bills need to die, but sensationalism is not the way to stop it.
Assuming I could craft messages which did not look like spam (to your system), and I could do it really really fast, do you have any throttling options to allow your customer to prevent an excess of mail from adding up too quickly or an alert based on a threshold? (Maybe i'm overthinking it, but I like services that put me in control of how much money i'm spending instead of being at the mercy of botnets)
Fixies have always been a fun subject of armchair economics. As late as '06, it was very rare that you'd come across track bike-specific parts. This was especially so with frames. Finding an old track hub in a used parts bin was practically winning the jackpot on a slot machine. Prices and competition for used parts was high, but mostly stable and flat. Ebay and track-specific forums were where you'd buy your parts; local bike shops hardly didn't even know the word 'fixie', let alone stock track parts (with it especially hard to find reasonably priced, non-Olympic competition level components).

The trend was growing quick, and folks started finding fancier and fancier vintage bikes as collectors realized that the market for the obscure bikes lit up like wildfire. At the same time manufacturers (big and small, global and local) began sourcing extremely cheap (>$300) frames from Taiwan and saturating the market, bringing prices down ~50%.

Then the Crash happend in '08. The market for fixies, mostly a semi-practical luxury item/status symbol similar to an iPhone at the time, fell significantly. They're still a big deal and quite popular, but not nearly as much so as a few years ago. Prices, especially the used market fallen drastically. A cheap, Average condition frame that went for $300 in early '08 could barely get $100 today in San Francisco.

Luckily for those who bought into the vintage/collector track bike market (like most), prices are relatively stable...
Would be great to see a list of sites going dark on this page.

People can add their sites, the dates and a comment.
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If the other revenue stream is better, then switch to it. But the point of the article is, no, don't sell your by-products. Focus on your best revenue stream.
Differently? How? Honest question: What's wrong with apologizing and expecting the users to understand there's nothing else they can do?
I would imagine the vast majority of users would notice something in their Google results before they notice a name in a news report. People search every day. Not everyone reads the news every day (sadly).
Not only do lots of people still visit google.com, but the types of people who still visit it are precisely the types of people who need to learn about this law. I suspect those of us savvy enough to use a toolbar are disproportionately more likely to already know about and oppose the bill, while the kinds of people that go to google.com to search for 'facebook.com' are disproportionately more likely to know nothing about it yet.
Do you usually let ubuntu upgrade packages automatically on live systems? I am not a server admin but that seems like a plan for constant random breakage...
Agree with some that the post is a bit confusing. I think the point is, Pick one: transaction fees, ad sales, professional services, software licensing, subscription fees, etc.
Canadians Taking a Stand against SOPA/PIPA
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So what will Bing do tomorrow?