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Dear Congresswoman... STOP SOPA. (My letter)
(My letter to her)

Congresswoman Adams,

I am writing to urge you with my strongest will to vote against the Stop Online Piracy Act and P.I.P.A. Both forms of legislation would have a detrimental effect on technological innovations and the economy in America.

In this still awful economy that you and your colleagues have done so well to repair, the technology industry continues to boom. Many of the top websites on the internet would be crippled as a result of the proposed legislation, not because they endorse or participate in piracy themselves, but because they provide platforms that make the world open and connected. It is with websites and online platforms such as Reddit, Twitter and Facebook that many Americans learn and better themselves due to effortless accessibility of prosperous and unique information shared among global cultures. Even you, Mrs. Adams, benefited from such platforms. With approximately 2,000 likes/follows on Facebook and Twitter alike, you clearly understand the good in having an open and connected internet environment.

I understand that a minority of rich old men in Hollywood with lots of money have realized that they lost there ability to compete, but lets not punish the majority for their inept. If companies wanted to stop piracy, they should take a stand themselves! How? Instead of investing all that money in lobbyist, hire a anti-piracy technology team! For half the price, they could hire a talented team of programmers and developers to safeguard there content from piracy. It's that simple!

Fight fire with fire. Pardon the cliche, but in this case technological innovation has acted as a catalyst for piracy. Yet it is technology that will be the only answer towards stopping it as well (unless SOPA and PIPA are passed).

I urge you once more, please Congresswoman Adams, vote against SOPA and PIPA. Do not stifle innovation, our economy and America.

Thank you.
If you dont mind my saying, while technically the iPad video is quite good in terms of quality due to the setup and a good write-up, i think you could have more effectiveness if you work on your voiceover skills or find someone that can make it sound more appealing.

Also, i'd shorten the video down to showing the highlights of what your app can do, rather than how to do it - at least if you're intention is a marketing message anyhow.
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Ditto me. I know its not good for my health, trying to break free of the habit. I miss school days where I compulsorily had to get up early. Once you get up early you naturally goto bed early.
Really amazing stuff. Given a huge drop in price I could see entire cars, buildings, bridges being made this way. Add in some photoelectrics so you could "close the blinds at night". Imagine embedding colored electronic ink in it as well, instant mural for your house, augmented reality out your window, turn a cloudy London day (like today) into a sunny one. Have your Google Tech Talk follow you around the house on the adjacent walls as you get up to get a sandwich. Embedded microcameras for virtual presence in your room, the other walls becomes another place, another time.

Soon we are going to see the app store model hop off the straightjacket of our phones and into everything we can see, touch, feel. Everything around us will be programmable, customizable, downloadable. An appified world.
As a current graduate student at Oxford Uni (CS) I can only feel sorry for this girl. While the interview process is really serious (how else should it be?) I doubt that in any way she was treated differently in a negative way.

People know that Oxford and Cambridge have a social status to defend and maintain, as well as traditions that have been carried for hundreds of years, that need not to be change - or will be changed, because a goofy looking teen says so.

And just for the sake of demonstrating how full of shit this girl is have a look at this letter (originally from reddit) where an almost identical letter was used for a _job_ application. The only thing this girl did was ammend it to be address at an academic institution.

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Herbert A. Millington
Chair – Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson’s outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,
Chris L. Jensen

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Is it correct that your premise is that if you don't pay for something then you don't have the right to enjoy it?

Do you also apply this principle to sex?

What about borrowed books, good views, jokes, ideas, intelligent conversation, exercise?
This is nice. I'd love it if I could create a company account, invite my colleagues and then know that only those people can access the pads that we make.

Also, ability to download all data as a dump would be nice.
Please give an indication on the form what we're supposed to type into the search box. City/State? Zip code? Something else? I can't get it to work.

Also, you might make the link more prominent --- I didn't see it the first time.
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Mozilla blacks out
I tried doing my own finger cursor and it ended up just looking creepy - and you couldn't really see taps. I'll take a serious look at this one though. Thanks!
I get at most 6 hours on weekdays, and even that's not continuous (I have a baby). On the weekends I do 7-8, if I'm lucky - babies don't know what day it is :)

I've been used to getting very little sleep since I was a kid, so I don't feel like it's affecting my work. I typically work-out before work, so that definitely helps starting my day off on a positive note.
Good point...

Okay, we'll pre record the video, play that on a screen and simulate the touches/swipes on the green screened ipad with your fingers as best as possible. It doesn't have to be perfect, just get the positioning right, then the timing can be done in post.

Remember to remove hands completely from frame after every action to help with this.

You could even prerecord various swipes, touches and taps, then cut them together as you need...

one more: how about recording it in almost complete darkness to avoid reflection, then adding the background in later? or green screen the background in an almost dark room?

The key point in all this is the device is kept completely stationary. Making it super easy to change things in post.
What are these "distribution and promotion channels" limited by?

What you're saying sounds to me like artists don't deserve to get a larger share because what they do simply isn't the most difficult part of actually making money.

At the end of the day it may just be a completely normal function of supply and demand. Many people can easily supply what mainstream radio stations play all day long.
I tell a very similar story.
I sleep 5-6 hours. No respiratory problems. Supreme night owl.

Now I feel tired...
That's why I believe Wiki has made a very good move to really go dark. I knew it was about to happen, yet got stopped trying to check some facts on Labrador Retrievers. It's 'no-jokes' compared to 'navigating in black...? interesting.'
ReplayTV tried something like that about 10 years ago with automatic skipping of commercials. They were sued into bankruptcy.

http://news.cnet.com/ReplayTV-puts-ad-skipping-on-pause/2100...
"Stop Sopa" banner jQuery plugin
I'm pretty sure Google search results included ads at one point in time. It's been so long since AdBlock Plus came out I don't know if they still do.
I am unable to influence US politics. My point is not that SOPA would not affect me, but that I am unable to actually do anything about it. Thus, this protest is annoying, without achieving anything.

Google, far more sensibly, and with the understanding that domestic US protests are not relevant to the entire world, took the route of only blacking out their logo for US users.
I know why Flickr is doing so well. It is shielded and isolated from the rest of its parent organization.
As support for SOPA wanes, copyright issues persist
A dress code is a dress code. If you go in short, no shirt and flip-flops to a club they wont let you in. Why will the most historic/renowned/respected university in the world does not have the right to impose 'admission criteria', in this case clothing.

Now regarding the fine... i agree with you.
More than 12, but no per night. Usually I stay awake working for 2 to 3 days straight without any sleep, surviving on constant coffee and energy drinks. After those 2 or 3 days I usually crash for 12-14 hours. It's not healthy so I do not recommend doing so. It seems that no matter how many times I get my cycle in order, it will still get out of order. Heck, I don't even bother anymore, guess it's just supposed to be this way.
How about the current adsense campaign? That looks like a very large political show if you ask me.
I'd try green background instead of white and remove it in post, that way all shadows can be removed easily.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man not me. I try to be in bed by midnight, and my alarm is set to 7:15am.
Kill the Bill: Internet-ional 'Stop SOPA' day sweeps the web
the full of shit girl
I am a Python developer who started with PHP.

PHP has it's place and will have for the foreseeable future. Very low entry bar, huge available workforce, Wordpress and other CMS(and an astronomical number of available plugins and themes) being the main reasons.

Most of the web sites will work fine with a combination Wordpres, some plugins and a readily available themes. Wordpress may not be elegant internally, but it just works and that's what 90% of people need.

My only gripe with PHP is that it's very easy to make a mess out of it(compared to other languages) but then no programming language, no matter how elegant, can save the developer from himself.
That was one of the stupidest and most poorly written articles I have ever read. They even managed to misspell America
I usually go to bed 8 hours before my alarm goes off, though I'm aware that it takes me an hour or more to drop off (so I've voted 7 hours). At weekends I'll usually sleep 8-10 hours (no alarm).

I've always been a terrible sleeper, unable to get to sleep, and unable to get out of bed in the morning. I've got my night-time rituals, dark, quiet room, reading before bed, regular wake-up time, but none of that seems to help, some nights I'll hear my room mate getting up at 5 before I fall asleep.
Blanking Google mail would harm the user base. I support doing so for non-essential services but many of us require access to our mail accounts for a plethora of reasons.
Yes it does need to be filled, for the journalist and tech writes who scour hacker news for their latest blog posts. Not too leave out the random person who discovers Hacker News today.
> People know that Oxford and Cambridge have a social status to defend and maintain

Isn't a school supposed to be teaching you things? What's "respecting" a social status got to do with anything school-related whatsoever? And anyway, I wish those Oxford guys had "respected" Giordano Bruno when they had the chance.
Not for every artist and not in every country.
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Is the content industry stealing from the public, too, by extending copyright to forever and a day?
Those with 10 and more hours each night on average: how do you do that, don't you miss those hours for doing stuff and do you just like it or would less hours actually make you feel tired and sleep-deprived?
Blacking out completely is just about the most dumbest thing you can do.

Why not fill your ads with SOPA/PIPA related items. Why not put info in the header.
Actually, you know, I lied (for the sake of simplicity). They are closures, else how would the lambda evaluate 'i'? The difference is in the binding.

How closures work depend wildly on the language. With lexical closures it all comes down to how scopes are handled [0] and how and when variable binding is done [1] (notably §8). The fact that 'i' can be either bound late (giving the 'outer scope' effect) or bound early (giving the 'inner scope closure' you expect) is actually a quite useful feature (and I assure you both cases are equally useful), although admittedly a bit surprising when coming from other languages.

Default argument value evaluation is a nice gotcha, but it's a trade-off I'm more than willing to accept [2].

Anyway I would definitely not qualify this as 'screwed'.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/292502/368409

[1] http://docs.python.org/reference/executionmodel.html

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1651284/368409
Eh, give CNN some credit. They could've done a whole lot worse, that article did a decent job of presenting both sides.
I experience headaches if I sleep for more than 6 hours continuously. (No, I don't have sleep apnea.)
Visas are a big issue for many people in the world. I'm an Indian and frankly my biggest headache about traveling internationally is getting a visa. I can't imagine how big a hassle would it be to arrange 20+ visas (for a decent round the world trip). Each application would require financial proofs, ticket proofs, hotel proofs and what not.

Wish there were a simpler way!
We also have a baby in the house, so I voted 6 even though I go to bed about 8 hours before my alarm goes off :-)
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MySQL has a CSV storage engine, just give it the file to load and you can read/write using SQL.
If you happen to see or know of any others, please just suggest them. I am scraping all of the pages that are "black" and will publish as difintive of an archive of them all once the blackout has finished.
Why the tech industry can’t “go on the offensive” against IP laws
Because a copyrighted work is not actual property, even if they call it "intellectual property" today, but that's mostly a misnomer. A copyrighted work was supposed to return to the public domain and benefit the whole society, not just the creator, by using it and improving it.
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Did wikipedia backpedal?
well, for me wikipedia works fine now. I tried from chrome and firefox on linux, and from IE on windows. Am I doing something wrong, or did they back pff the whole thing.
My sleep level varies with the amount I workout. When I exercise regularly, I sleep 5-6 hours most days with a quick 20 minute power nap in the afternoon. When I don't, I sleep a few hours more.

Both figures are how much sleep I get without an alarm. When I don't exercise regularly, I set the alarm for ~7 hours later and wake up groggy for 30 minutes or so.
He actually listed countries that are highly unlikely to cave to pressure from the US. This list, by design, is comprised of what you might call less than friendly hosts.
I sleep anywhere from 5-9 hours, though usually on the low side. I usually set my alarm for 7-8 hours from when I go to sleep, but I hardly ever sleep all the way to the alarm, so I can't be sleep-deprived, on the whole.
Ask HN: Would your startup hire an MBA?
I am currently get my MBA from one of the top 5 business schools and am pretty much solely focused on working at a technology startup during the summer and post graduation. I have over six year of development experience at a very large software company under my belt.

Hoping to reach out to startups in the next few months, I am trying to figure out exactly what startups need that I can help fulfill with my background and current education. I realize that roles might not be clearly defined, but surely there are needs to be addressed.

HN: What would you look for when making a business hire?
The Capsized Concordia as seen from space
I think it was "How many roads must a man walk down?", wasn't it?
I do something similar, around 4-6 hours weeknights and 8-12 on weekends.

But, if I make an effort to go to bed earlier during the week (and get 6-8 hours) I tend to completely miss a night towards the end of the week. Not quite sure what that means, since I certainly don't feel like I'm getting enough sleep on weeknights.
You're right but do you really want to return to the 90s when CDs cost $20 each and you had to carry around a 100 CDs instead of an mp3 player? Or to the 80s when we used lo-fi tapes instead? The labels would love this.

It shouldn't be required of just the RIAA to use technology properly but everyone. If someone makes music you like, and they're not attempting to rob, respect them. $1 is not much for a song you enjoy.
First solar cell with over 100 percent quantum efficiency
Linking directly to 4chan should be marked NSFW. It's too easy to miss the domain name at the end of the link (like me).
I'm a big fan of the refresh. I also visit the site several times a day (documentation, not the rest of the site) and this updated design makes it much easier for me to scan.
Darpa authentication project focuses on humans as secrets
Have you tried the approach made popular by Tim Ferris, napping every 4 hours for 20 minutes? He claims that he is able to live by that for days, but once he misses a nap, he is essentially wasted.
I didn't see craigslist.org on a quick look through.

edit: fark.com has also gone white to sarcastically "support" SOPA/PIPA
> you're stealing something of value that someone worked hard to produce.

How is it stealing if they can still have that something?

You compose a song. I copy that song. You still have that song. If I'd taken away a recorder with your only master copy of it, then I would have stolen it.
Using a finger image will always look creepy cause it is lifeless, kinda like holding a chicken leg and pointing with it.
We learned this firsthand with this unsuccessful demo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4VGrn_Nuo
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TheOatmeal.com Protests SOPA with an Animated GIF
I know this type of Amoeba had a "slug" state that it can form - so it's possible for sure the similar genes are there already too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyostelid
I sleep a bit less than 8 hours most nights, from around 11:30 to 7:30. I used to be a night owl, but then my body started wanting to dayshift and I went with it. I tend to get up about the same time even if I was up late the night before, only sleeping in 'til 9:00 even if I was up to 4 AM the previous night.

Oh, and I used to get migraine headaches if I dozed in bed too long after I woke up.
I found this an odd comment: "People are willing to buy a phone a year or two old at a discount rather than a new device from a competitor."

It's like the concept of having more than one level of product is alien to them and they're having trouble processing it. The only way they can describe an 8GB iPhone 4 (a configuration never before available) is as a "year old phone".
I need 8 hours of sleep to maintain, 9 hours to feel very good. If I stay up until 3 or even 5am, my brain does not work for two days (lack of concentration, unjustified anger,...) - strangely, the second day is worse.
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Anti-SOPA/PIPA Protest Songs
I don't see anything (connecting from Britain) does anyone from the US have a screenshot? I assume it's US only.
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> they have no right to enjoy it.

Why? Where did that right comes from. Who legislates enjoyment? Or are you saying it is a moral law?
I can see your point but academic dress is used at many institutions. The only difference here seems to be there are more occasions in Oxbridge where people are required to wear it.

You also say ...but can potentially make people feel that Oxbridge students are strange and different..., which I completely understand. However, I get the impression that Oxbridge gets a lot of attention and people almost look for the idiosyncrasies so they can point them out. I've never heard of anyone being fined bottles of port at Cambridge but I wouldn't be surprised if there were such rule written down somewhere in the last 800 years. It's akin to strange rules like commoners not being allowed to drive sheep through London. It might still be illegal but no-one pays it any attention (nor can they be bothered to repeal it).[1]

(Disclaimer: Grad school at Cambridge)

[1] I have no idea if that's true and I've heard variations that involve tolls and geese. My point is that although such outdated laws exist, no-one really goes looking for them.
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Those of you who continually refer to piracy as stealing are muddying the waters. I agree that it is morally wrong to download copyrighted works without paying for them, but whenever someone uses the word theft, I switch off.

It is akin to borrowing a book and then scanning it and using OCR to make an ebook before it is returned to the owner. Or ripping a friend's CD. I don't think a reasonable person would describe this as stealing. This is exactly what file sharing is, except that the scanning/ripping has already been done.

By insisting that this is "stealing" you will alienate some people who might be open to persuasion and to changing their behaviour. They know that they have not deprived the owner of it's use and that they have not stolen anything.

Stop talking about stealing, it's lazy
I was thinking, Spanish people must be wondering, "what do all these nerds have against soup?".
"Pirating is not right. Most people would agree with that, too."

The biggest problem I see today is that there are so many people who aren't even bothering to justify pirating, and instead insist that it is natural, good and just -- not just as a means to get access to content they otherwise wouldn't be able to, but for everything.

To draw my line in the sand, I have no problems with people pirating works they simply don't have any other access to. American shows that aren't broadcast overseas, for example; pirate away.

I don't personally do it, but I don't have any problems with those that do. Others, however, simply incur piracy as a matter of course. Looking for a new album to listen to? Limewire. Looking for a movie? Pirate Bay.

While I don't mind downvotes, that I repeatedly get voted down while suggesting that yes, even though copyright is wrong, it is the law, and people should either respect it or engage in civil disobedience (which is a public affair) instead of just casually pirating every piece of content they consume, it is telling of the more and more common mentality (or at least is becoming more common on HN.)
I agree with both of your points.

I do agree that the solution wired used is really creative and cool and will raise the point. Also I think that what wikipedia did on the english pages proves a stronger point since they don't give you a mechanism to uncensore the page.