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They even speak English there - it would be so much easier to move to the US!!! Except, ten days holidays; no employee protection; no medical care; no social welfare; insane politics and warmongering; property taxes that screw your retirement; high crime rate...

Yet, we still love you guys (except for Adam Sandler), and wish you would just moderate a little on the politics: things are grey, not black and white ;).
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It's interesting how many people read SOAP instead of SOPA.

eg: "What does Wikipedia have against soap?", "Why doesn't Wikipedia want us to use SOAP anymore.", etc
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Check out Confluence, from Atlassian, for the competition.
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HHKB has DIP switches to select mac/non-mac modes. Mac mode works well in Linux as well. Also: Small footprint, if you can live without a number pad. I love the feel.

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhk...
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Is there a way to get around Wikipedia's Anti-SOPA blackout?
I was a bit worried that Google might have visitors call congress directly. That would surely shut down phone service in areas and result in less calls.
Murdoch: Blogosphere has scared off Senators backing SOPA
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Yup: http://www.theobamastore.com/stopsopanotknowledge/
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Google's Logo Goes Dark In SOPA Protest
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Google sopa blackout - Google Search
The *best* anti-SOPA argument ever.
Google decided it would be more beneficial (to tyhem, or to the cause) by just raising awareness and still providing the useful information the user wants.

Blackout -> User sees it once and goes to SearchEngineX, forgetting all about it.
Google's Way -> Raise awareness each time the user sees it as they won't go to a different Search Engine.

A full blackout works for wikipedia, because people probably don't know about any alternative - especially with their pages dominating search results. But with Google, most people know of Bing or Yahoo at the very least.
Found one of these at work that was being unused, the only criticism I have it the fact I often feel the need to clean it as dirt and hair on white is extremely visible. And with the transparent sides you can see every minuscule particle.
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Only ships to the US? Lame.
You're confusing my reference to DIVitis with my comment about layout in the HTML. The examples providied by the Bootstrap page are stuffed with unnecessary DIVs. I'm a web developer, so I know that DIVs exists to provide containers which add no semantic meaning to the page. But putting classes into your HTML which say class='row' or class='leftcolumn' means that you can't just change the CSS in order to change the layout - which is the whole purpose of CSS in the first place. All grid systems suffer from this weakness.

Consider this example based on the Bootstrap examples - you have three boxes containing stuff within a DIV with a class of 'row'. At some point in the future you decide to turn this into a column. Easy to do in the CSS - just change the width to the with of one item, and they'll stack on top of each other. BUT, now you have a column labelled 'row' in your HTML. This is a fairly simple to rectify example, but this problem is pervasive in grid systems.
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> "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!"

"please"? that's pathetic. like a child asking to stay up past 8.
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Mucking around with CSV files in command-line is painful. Been there, done that, got annoyed by many limitations of that approach, bit the bullet and learned R. It is somewhat weird language, but it was one of the best decisions I ever made in my professional career: now it is my go-to tool for data analysis and plotting.

CSV data is easily imported into R where you can easily analyze it, transform it, plot it -- everything from a unified command-line interface (there also exist GUIs, but I haven't used them). reshape and plyr packages are worth learning too. There's also an emacs package for interacting with R (ESS), and it significantly eases interaction; works also under Win, and is what I use in my work with R.

TL;DR: nice project, but it's a toy compared to what you can get from R. (Re unix philosophy: I'm the type of person that likes to get the job done and I therefore very often choose pragmatism over idealism.)
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They didn't link to a PDF originally, but the viewer they linked to was configured incorrectly. Rather than continue showing an error message, they replaced it with a direct link to the PDF. Hopefully they'll change it to something else at some point this morning.
Unless I can choose not to trust Microsoft, I don't trust Microsoft.

A way to add/remove signing keys is necessary (think NSAKEY).
Flickr allows users to censor others' photos to raise pipa/sopa awareness
in theory great- but looks like this page would convert better
I'm using this version:
http://bayimg.com/CalNEAaDP
Undoing the Wikipedia black-out
Not to mention the sheer bigotry of blaming piracy on "foreign criminals", which makes this the pure nuts. Is the average US pirate kind of tanned, has a really tacky foreign accent, or conveys in any other way a vaguely menacing ethnicity?
it's only complicated if you expect something which isn't there. it's a gotchya, true.
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You might also want to look at csvtool (already in Fedora, Debian, RHEL, etc). It's a command line tool for doing the same thing, written as part of the OCaml CSV library.
Hey, if you can't trust your feelings about your own life experiences, what can you trust?

And if in fact you can't, why not hop a plane? It makes as much sense as any other response in that case.
Wikipedia:Protesta contra SOPA - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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Let's have a thought experiment. What would the world look like without information ownership?
Can't agree with this more. It's like trying to make a movie in Hollywood vs. everywhere else. Also, teach yourself to code if you can or take an intro CS course.
I understand the point you are bringing up. However, there's one thing about tech companies is that their cashflow can only be sustained if their position were defensible. RIM and Nokia demonstrate how quickly a stellar business can fall into the precipice. In terms of business lifecycle, Yahoo is effectively a cash cow. http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_bcgmatrix.html It may generate a lot of profit, but it is in a business that isn't growing its market share, and risks not replacing its lost audience.
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if it desugared to map, you could redefine map() and unleash all kinds of hell on yourself inadvertently.
What SOPA Means Around The World - Literally
> The one pictured is hideously ugly, though.

You can order a customized version. I have a custom Unicomp EnduraPro with blank keycaps (like a Das Ultimate) and they also reprogrammed it (i.e.: I wanted to swap CapsLock with left Ctrl and Tilde/Backtick with Esc).

I can't recommend them highly enough.
Well, we are talking about potentially the end of the internet.
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Oh sorry, I didn't realise this was /r/circlejerk.
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Ask HN: why is Wikipedia down outside America?
English language Wikipedia is down, to protest against SOPA+PIPA. Ok, great.

Individual Americans can lobby their Congresspeople, vote against them, donate money to their opponents. Non-Americans cannot do these things.

Why is Wikipedia down for non-Americans? To raise my awareness? What can I do with that awareness?
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When you are on the 'glimpse' of the page you want to see you can press the stop button on the browser and it will stop the blackout page from appearing.
They have resellers around the place, where are you located?

http://www.daskeyboard.com/where-to-buy/
What's also intriguing about aw3c2's message is how his/her question clearly demonstrates how our brains have trained themselves to ignore banner ads.

I read TC every day and it took me a little bit before I realized that the huge banner ad at the top and the one on the right were a) there and b) anti-SOPA.
> "Fighting online piracy is important. The most effective way to shut down pirate websites is through targeted legislation that cuts off their funding. There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that have enabled the Web to thrive, creating millions of U.S. jobs."

Here's how I read that: We're going to support any anti-piracy legislation that doesn't impact our business.

I think we need to give that option serious consideration before we support it (OPEN Act proposes it, too), because I think it could be easily abused as well. A site like Wikileaks could easily have its funds seized under an "anti-piracy" law like that.

So I doubt I will support something like that personally, but on the other hand, maybe something like that is needed to make alternative payment methods like Bitcoin and Flattr really explode in popularity, just like DMCA led to the explosion of BitTorrent's popularity.
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Looks like Amazon added a "Reasons to oppose or modify SOPA" link on their homepage.
Even Wikipedia's blackout is not full, and quite easy to go around if you know magic tricks like disabling JavaScript or CSS in the browser. While commercial damage is likely a very important consideration to Google, another reason might be that shutting down Google completely would most likely result in damage to human health and/or loss of lives.
Craigslist blacked out for SOPA
Even though it could mean the end of what we now call the internet I have to agree that having the front page covered with SOPA blackout pages is silly.
People on HN are already aware of the risks this legislation brings.
It's more important we make people who use the internet regularly but don't know much about the legislation aware of what's going on and what the problems are with it.
These top news stories are likely news to only about 0.1% of HN.
I didn't quite know how to interpret "latent ability". Reading the article, apparently yeast used to be multicellular, which is a pretty valid criticism of this experiment having meaningful results in terms of how single-celled organisms evolved into multicelluar organisms.
Just a note for hezekiah - you've been hellbanned (as of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751543). Not sure why - and from looking at your comment history prior to your ban you seem like a reasonable person, so I thought I'd let you know.
I am opposed to this bill if only because I'm tired of the endless expansion of laws and powers under the guise of defending us from ill-defined "enemies". As an American, I'm deeply ashamed that we gridlock ourselves arguing about protecting giant media profits, debt ceiling limits, and gay marriage while we bankrupt ourselves with arguably illegal wars, border violence, insane profiteering in the healthcare industry, and while we continue to detain and torture people. The fact that we have technological illiterates attempting to draft these laws is all the more appalling.

So, yeah, I'm against SOPA. :-)
They have a "Where to buy"-link near the top right corner: http://www.daskeyboard.com/where-to-buy/

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It even let me brush up on my German :)
The internet isn't a static thing, these days. You can get by without js, but you can't do much in the way of interesting dynamic content
There's no constitutional reason that the bill of rights should extend automatically to corporations (nor to robots or inanimate objects, for that matter). I'd be suspicious of any court using a first amendment argument to protect corporate interests.
One reason for some delays is translation into the local language. Some countries want their books and movies to be in their language instead of English.

Another reason is marketing. Even if the local language is English, they will want a marketing campaign specific to the that country.

Sometimes it is just a matter of different schedules. Even if the work is being published in different countries by the same international publisher, the divisions of that publisher might be operating fairly independently in each country. The French division of a publisher might have various books in French by French offers on its plate that it considers higher priority than some American book that is coming in via the American division.

As far as translation delay goes, this could become less important as more people speak English. In the EU, over half the population speaks English as either a first or second language, and it is the first foreign language in secondary schools in every EU country (except those where English is their first language, of course).

There could become a time when people in Europe, even in countries where English is not their first language, prefer to get their American books and movies in e-form as soon as they come out, instead of waiting for a translation. These people won't need a local advertising campaign, and won't be dealing with the local division of the publisher.

If enough people in non-English speaking countries start getting American books and movies in English instead of waiting for a translation, that could make it less likely that the publishers will bother with a translation.

It will be interesting to see if that causes any controversy. I could see there being some backlash against that, with some thinking it is marginalizing their culture.

Basically, the internet has a homoginizing effect, but there are some things people do not want homogenized, so we are in for some interesting conflicts.
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Ugh, typical example of the attitude many of us find so annoying. America has the same things going for it any first world country does. People risk their lives to get into lots of first world countries as well.

Living in the first world is great, we hope you can stay in the club.

- An American expat who's most likely never coming back.
Okay - street altercations I know too much about - so a torch and a what? The challenge to me seems always to avoid it without escalating, so I don't think whipping out my box-cutter would be too advisable! Is there a procedure?

Hope you don't mind me quizzing you.
I think that looks and scans worse. I didn't count characters, but it also seems like more characters. I bet it performs worse too (not that performance matters in this case).
Cheers! I am actually a non-javascript plus adblocking person. That website is really LOUD and obnoxious with so much contrast and huge text, I have no idea what is content, what is not, what is important, what is RANDOM BIG WORDS.
FWIW: The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 was causing me RSI (I found the spacebar too hard to hit and several keys started malfunctioning after nearly one year). Design-wise I found it good enough (especially for the palm rest and layout as a whole) but I think they should seriously reconsider the quality of their key switches.

I since then switched to a customized keyboard made by Unicomp and couldn't look back. The buckling springs may feel a little bit too hard at first, but over time I found them to soften.
>and yet the US is where people try to come.

You don't see the people flooding into France? Italy? Switzerland? Germany? The UK?

The US is good at one thing though: advertising.
Why I'm a Pirate
I don't think the intention of this tool is for doing statistical analysis of data, just for manipulating it at a shell prompt. For example, csvcut is similar to Unix cut in that it's a binary you can pipe data through, which R isn't.
Flickr's most viewed photo is now blacked out
5 people are actually for it? Surely that must be trolling.
I'm not claiming TDD as something widespread before Agile. I'm claiming TDD as something unproven that the Agile consultants started mixing in later. (Please see the list in my second post to this thread.)
"just optimized the bom" is really easy to say and hard to do. If it was so easy to cut down the bill of materials of what was previously $150+ (Beagle) to $35 (Raspberry), wouldn't TI have done so with the Beagle?

Also, it's like saying that DarkShikari et al. "just optimized the code" to make x264 the best easily-available encoder of H.264 on the planet.

Finally, the Raspberry Pi is tremendously more powerful than the Maple.
Agreed. I inherited some code for a live app at work and this exact issue was causing a bug.
I think the clue is in the names: Zurb Foundation would be a good place to start building your site on top of; Twitter Bootstrap is perfect for quickly getting things done.

Personally, I used TB because I needed something that looked ok but without expending much effort
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Ask HN: Would it be illegal for a UK citizen to work in the US on a tourist visa
If they were being paid via a UK company. ie: offshoring the work although the worker would be present. Does anyone have any knowledge of this please?
It's nice. But how do I delete my account and my Google contacts that were imported in your database?
It's worth noting that Petzl, who was originally on the list of SOPA supporters, publicly withdrew their support of the bill.

http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/12/22/petzl-amer...
Yay, let's use more useless emails that won't get read.
This GIF says it all about SOPA
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But the Apple keyboards are mechanical - just with less give. The analogy is more that in one case, you have to punch a heavy hanging weight and get it to hit the wall, whereas in the next case, you can just quickly flick it with your finger to achieve the same effect.

I'm "trained to touch-type" on old keyboards, since I learned to touch-type when I was a teenager playing MUDs and there were none of these newfangled Apple keyboards. And yet, I made the transition without even thinking about it. It's not an iPad keyboard, it's a real keyboard with real keys in all the right places, and you don't have to smash it quite so hard, but it's still "mechanical"...
cgh, are there many software consulting companies around? I've been thinking of going that route myself, so I'm curious how you find them.
This makes my blood boil. It's this kind of shameless twisting of facts that makes these guys almost impossible to counter.

"Never pick a fight with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it"
They have said the SOC isn't being subsidized.
I don't believe Yang did write that since he never (ever) used any capital letters in any of his communication.