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On the flip side, there's nothing wrong with saying "I like Ender's Game, but OSC is a prick whose views are out of line with a 21st century society".

Again, this is the guy that basically said he would physically attack the government if they endorsed or allowed gay marriage.
If this ruins the ability of almost a billion children to freely access knowledge and to express themselves in the future, then I hope the cost is worth it, congressperson.

Speaking of, I wonder how many children there are in the world.
In case it wasn't clear from my previous post: we're in agreement. Show, by taking content and services down. Tell, by putting up an explanation of SOPA and what folks can do to stop it.
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Before I posted this question, I had two companies that came to mind; Automattic and 37Signals.

Due to the massive popularity of 37Signals recent post on hiring remotely [1] I have a hunch there's a growing interest in distributed workforces.

If your company's distributed, I'd love to hear about it...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410773
Actually, my friends and I play BSG, and the similarities are what drew me to this game. I would play Werewolf over BSG if only because I don't have the unpack/setup/teardown/pack time we have with BSG.
I'm in complete agreement except this:

> Five years ago, the average American non-technologist's mental model of the Internet was "you type the company name and .com, except sometimes it's .net and I don't know why". Now it's probably a little more nuanced - but only a little, because .com is still Where Everything Is.

I would say it's even worse now. Many people's mental model is "I type it into Google and they take me there" or "I share this clickable text around and don't have to type anything".
Yes, but I think you are missing an essential point in your examples:
a) A bike is not really a replacement for a cab (say you want to carry some goods)
b) Cars are a different technology from horse-carriages
The thing is that the photos produced by all kinds of photographers are almost the same ( of course, the better ones produce photographs of better quality, but they are still photographs).
I think that the analogy that you used was perhaps not accurate..
You're hinting at Google's design problem in your comment.

Good design isn't primarily about UI research and one way mirrors. It's having a design vision for what you want to be, and how you communicate that to your users. Simplicity and ease of use are important factors too.

As this thread points out Google utterly fails at this. The top comment is "I have no idea how this thing works"
That's pretty much right on. My apologies to the geek gods for not knowing about this game earlier!
A good friend of mine discarded his entire Pratchett collection after the author came out in support of assisted suicide.

Personally, I find myself sympathetic to Pterry's morals in the case in question and unsympathetic to Card's in the case in question; but in neither case do I particularly see the point of linking the author's values and one's appreciation of their work.

However, if you really do feel that strongly, I'd suggest taking the approach my friend did - donating all of his works that you own to a library on the principle that his own personal disagreements with the author were much less important than enabling people to read books full stop.
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I think our blackout says more if we ask for just one thing.
Like Toddward said, I saw it in the Matt Cutts article earlier. Sorry for cluttering up the front page, I had just never heard of it before.
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I got the idea for uencounter.me last March while talking with a good friend... "wouldn't it be neat if ...", I asked a few more friends and we all tried to find something that did what I was asking for but could not. I am a trained therapist and entrepreneur with a small private practice, not a programmer. I have two much younger brothers who are PhD students at major universities so my first call was to them ... "Do you know any starving brilliant hackers?" (Starving because I didn't have much money). Long story short - One of them had a best friend who loves writing code ... wanted a new project ... and I am awesome at selling my ideas! We brought on one other partner to manage business development/finances and began! That was 10 months ago. Miraculously, we have had a fabulous working arrangement. We divided the work - so much of the front end work was on the coding side but I have spent 40+ hours a week reading and learning as if I was in grad school again. Now - I handle marketing, PR, and manage tasks/organization of ideas every minute I am not working as a therapist! I still have not officially met my technical partner but we talk for several hours per week and burn the keyboard with emails. My most personal hardship was not having any knowledge about the technical side and being impatient while it was built but our communication started out good and has gotten better along the way. My ambition and drive are sometimes too highly energized for the other two partners but that is good as we seem to balance one another nicely. We have spent less than $4,000 at this point and have a fully functional product with several hundred users (and growing) two months post launch. We are terribly proud and visualizing a viable career with the application. Feel free to take a look: http://www.uencounter.me
I'm meeting a gov't official re SOPA. What are the top 3 talking points?
Dynamically bound values can be thought of as invisible arguments, that are passed through every function up the call stack. A referentially-transparent function only depends on its explicit arguments, and will always return the same value when passed the same arguments. A function that depends on a dynamically-bound variable may return different values when called with the same arguments.

Example (Common Lisp syntax, not actually tested):

(defvar z 0)

(defun example (x y)
(declare (special z))
(+ x y z))

(example 1 2)

==> 3

(let ((z 10))
(example 1 2))

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In this sample, the function example is not referentially transparent, because it yields different results when passed the same argument. Note that this happens without using closures or mutation. example does not close over the value of z in any way because it is dynamically scoped[1]. There is no mutation because z is re-bound, which is conceptually different from mutation. It's effectively creating a new binding with the same name and different scope; a function called within that scope will look for the value by name, and find the new binding. The original binding is untouched outside of this new scope.

[1] This is tautological; The term "closure" is defined to refer to lexical scoping, and was invented to describe it[2].

[2] Actually, now that I'm writing this, it occurred to me that your confusion entirely stems from subtleties in the definitions of lexical closure and bindings. A closure is not any function that refers to symbols outside its body. The term only refers to functions that use lexical scoping to do so, and therefore need to "close over" their surrounding data and carry it around with them. Functions referencing dynamically scoped variables do not need to carry their data around, because they look up the call stack every time.

To your point, it is "referring to symbols outside the function" that breaks referential transparency, but dynamic bindings do so in an orthogonal fashion from closures, and unlike closures do not require mutation to do so.
At the very least, make a very visible note of it - change the background to black and include a top bar with some information/links on the matter.

It might still have an effect that sites, small or not, are all affected, so the long tail so to speak can have its own effect.

Something similar was brought up at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/obl5l/ask_rsopa_is_the....
I do think HN should go dark in SOPA - but I also think everyone on HN who controls a site should commit to make it go dark too.
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Hello HN - Anyone have contacts at Facebook? They killed our page facebook.com/outserve on a false claim of IP infringement from a fictitious person. Any help from this group would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
-Ty Walrod
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More interesting again is what they could tell us. I think with the time scales involved, chances are that anyone communicating with us would be significantly more advanced.
I just did the math on that, it's about right. It's closer to a dime though.
Google has a decent (not perfect) track record of arguing in support of free speech around the world. They're not politically neutral.
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I re-read it over christmas. I'd note that firstly, I don't believe Ender was ever truly a hawk, and secondly, on a re^n-read (I don't remember how many times now) I find that the weight is in Ender's progression through Battle School, and that the part of the book set after that felt to me like obvious consequences playing out.

To be frank, I'd be quite comfortable with a version that ended on the shuttle out except for the fact that the remainder of the book is necessary to set up the preconditions for Speaker.
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The moral philosophy espoused throughout the series, namely, the primacy of intention, is heavily influenced by OSC's Mormonism. At least, that's what I remember reading in an interview. I am by no means an expert on Mormonism, so I would defer to anyone better informed than I on that matter.
I don't think it's gimmicky at all. There's a very real threat that SOPA or whatever comes after that will de juro or de facto allow old media to end the internet as we know it.

Blacking out sites ahead of that only helps illustrate to people the harm the law will do.
The expression "Pyrrhic victory" is also used to describe a triumph of little consequence. I'd say the way GP used it is correct. If you unroot a tree in a forest with your bare hands, but there's no one around to see it, will you get applause?

Edit: Blah, I couldn't find any sources to back up my earlier statement. It's just how I've often used the phrase. My bad, I stand corrected.
There's a paid app called news.yc that is the best HN app out there for iOS. Well worth the 2 bucks.
We're a sophisticated audience though; the audience here will read more into it. The audience of Reddit, Facebook, Google, etc, are unlikely and may get overwhelmed.
min() is a special case: on most modern architectures (x86, ARM, etc), the naive code will compile optimally. Example on x86:

cmp eax, ebx
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The compiler will likely not understand the insane bit-hack method, which is much more complicated, and thus not parse it into a simple cmov sequence.
That's a really good analysis. I will add just one thing : what you said is precisely the reason why there is so much complaining. The photographers who can take a 10/10 photograph probably put in an extraordinary amount of time and money to learn their skills, and since the market is (greatly) reduced, they feel it is unfair that they are not being sufficiently compensated for all the work that they put in.
Would hiring companies just go to LinkedIN instead?
If anyone has contacts at Facebook who can help escalate this, it would be highly appreciated. Thanks! -Ty
Drake just pulled a bunch of numbers out of a hat and multiplied them. This is a much more serious scholarly effort.
No. I think the tech industry should learn how congress works and beat these fuckers at their own game.
Every single person that reads HN should talk in person to two people that don't read HN and explain SOPA/PIPA and why
they should contact congres and complain about SOPA/PIPA.
Phone calls and letters are better than email.
The article is really about video game addiction...

Games are engineered to be addictive. As a result they have the potential to lead to serious health detriments.

Didn't tobacco and fast food companies get sued for that?
That's not true. The problem is, for any given file online, I may have permission from the owner to access it, but you may not. I shouldn't be prohibited from accessing it just because you don't have access, so the central service needs to know who is accessing it and know their rights to said file.

Without that, there is no way to tell if a link is really legal or not. And that is what Google was saying is impossible to handle.
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> It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone

Try the new-in-iOS5 "Reader" button in the URL bar.
Yeah, I'm hoping this doesn't turn into a Star Trek-esque prolonged battle in space. Ender's Game is a character-driven story; let's hope the movie is as well.
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We are pretty isolated. Had we belonged to a cluster of stars our chances of finding life would have been greater.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_cluster

Globular clusters, or GC, are roughly spherical groupings of from 10,000 to several million stars packed into regions of from 10 to 30 light years across.
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My sole encounter with the Youtube copyright police came from posting a two minute, highly edited visual commentary on the film Inception (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rLEzrWzCw), pointing out the religious allusions to Matthew 7.24 and the allegorical significance of the final scene.

It was auto-flagged by their system and I had to jump through hoops to get it back online. I can't imagine this sort of thing would survive SOPA. And what other platform is there but the Internet for the sharing of multimedia commentary and criticism?
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This is gonna be such a fun experiment with what happens when a country can't use a gigantic, shared distraction.
One of the most important and easy ways to avoid frustrating API docs is to check them periodically to make sure nothing is out of date.

Last year I started using Amazon's Flexible Payment Service (FPS) and their docs were so out of date that they linked me to a PHP library that was over three years old and already deprecated. I spent weeks getting my billing system working and then as soon as it went live I got an email from Amazon telling me that I was using a deprecated library that was being phased out in the next few months.

I also had the same experience with Twilio, although luckily with them the old library didn't work at all so I didn't waste time developing with it.

Updating basic things like links to helper libraries can save your customers countless hours of headaches and frustration.
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Personally, I think this co-option of "hacker" to mean "semi-technical entrepreneur" is at best silly, and at worst leads to the sort of confusion of which you speak. Personally, I thought the hacker dojo should have been called "The Mountain View Computer Club" - it's got a nice retro feel. I mean, I'm a member, and I like the place, the people, and the organisation, but the name is unfortunate.

I think this is a separate discussion from reclaiming "hacker" to mean "technologist" - Hacker news is about semi-technical entrepreneurs, and we are rather different from people of similar technical skill levels that are not entrepreneurial. That's an important distinction. I mean, I introduce myself as "the tall guy" as a reference to "Every technical business has a tall dumb guy and a short smart guy." - It would be useful, I think, to have a word for 'semi-technical business guy" because while my compatriots could also call themselves hackers, I usually act in the semi-technical business guy role. (I mean, outside of my peer group, I'm a semi-business technical guy of unremarkable height- obviously, this is a continuum.)
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I'm building a new website, but I'm not sure if people get what it does.

Was hoping people might be able to give me some first impressions to see if I've made it intuitive enough.

I've included the clickable link in the comments.

Note: it only works in Google Chrome right now.
There is just one thing that I would point out: the sys admins and programmers are most likely already making money through their employment. In the case of a photographer, (s)he is selling the photographs for a living. I'm sure that if you ask a professional photographer for help in taking better photographs, he will gladly help you.
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There is a straightforward way to extend bit interleaving to bit strings of arbitrary size using bit-twiddling. The output of the magic constants just have to be shifted in a regular pattern (which varies as a function of dimensionality) so that each word in the array has its bits correctly ordered.

The magic constants used in the bit-twiddling example also have a very regular derivation. Designing an algorithm that computes the correct constants for Morton Numbers of arbitrary dimensionality is pretty simple.

There is a neat generalization of this algorithm that extends it to irregular bit interleaving patterns at the cost of requiring a few more magic constants (also derivable). I once wrote a compact engine that used algorithmically generated transform constants to produce arbitrary bit interleaving patterns in an arbitrary number of dimensions via these bit-twiddling algorithms.
I loved speaker of the dead. Ender's Game was a quicker read and will make a more compelling movie, but Speaker is much deeper and compelling. You really have to grapple with the implications of first (and second) contact.
Fortunately Google Maps' geocoding API limits still appear to be based on IP address. So if you do your API requests via client-side AJAX, you should be fine. That's because it's unlikely any individual user will make more than 25,000 requests in a day.
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While saying such things is really ugly (I don't want to defend such women), maybe it could help you a little to think about the asymmetry in dating. Attractive women get approached all the time, a feeling most men probably can't begin to appreciate. If you are a programmer, compare it to the emails from recruiters you get all the time... There are certainly lots of such emails that I have taken to delete without reply now.
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Technical decisions in a 4 person team should really be built on a consensus model rather than a democracy. Otherwise there's a chance of factionalism.
I'm optimistic Bean could be a minor character, and then get more screen time in an Ender's shadow sequel. Ender's Shadow was definitely my favorite in the series
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Being upset at the first is perfectly reasonable. The second is cartel behavior, and should be opposed.

<i>If good photographers are constantly giving photos away and not charging, professional photography prices and value naturally goes down. It's kind of a tragedy of the commons - photographers who DO give away work get more recognition, but they lower the overall value of their industry.</i>

It doesn't drive value down, it drives prices down for the same photographs. The same photos at a lower price means the value actually goes up. This is actually the opposite of the tragedy of the commons--instead of the commons being destroyed because no one has incentive to care for it, the commons grows over time because people contribute to it directly.

What it does do is force photographers to find new business models. They need to sell valuable hard copies of their work (Have you seen how much a quality wedding album costs?), or they need to charge for their time prior to taking the photographs. For some types of photography this is quite difficult (travel photography, various types of stock photography), for others relatively easy (fashion and event photography).
The problem is real.

I'm not sold on the solution. Having built a successful consulting company, we've found that most of our business comes from word of mouth referrals.

After that, it comes from people who've found our side projects and wanted something like that.

Even after we get an introduction, people generally want to see a portfolio of work and get an estimate of time/cost before they go to check references.

Honestly, we don't even put testimonials on our web site, and that'd be an easy place to add them if they were valuable at all.

That being said, having reviews of things like accountants could be useful for us. Yelp never really caught on for that, and the reality (with accountants, and other service providers) is that you don't often get to experience many different types, so it's hard to leave a comparative review. Also, because they have fewer clients (than restaurants have patrons, for example) reviews are scarcer... and correspondingly I'm disinclined to leave a negative review. Sites like best vendor are ostensibly already trying to solve this issue. I don't think they've found success yet.
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"publicity gained by going dark along with reddit would raise the amount of people who were aware of HN and could cause more people to come here."

I know it's elitist, but I have no wish for this community to get exponentially larger.
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One man's dystopia, is another man's utopia, you just have to look at SOPA.