skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My critique:

"The internet is a lawless place."

Alexis responds by citing DMCA. DMCA is probably the weakest thing to cite when trying to show that the Internet is already regulated. How about citing all the myriad other laws that are applied everyday to prosecute and jail folks for fraud over the internet?

You could literally make the guy look like a fool over that one word: lawless. The good thing is, this is such a common argument it will come up again and again. Just remember: everyday folks get arrested and prosecuted for crime over the internet; is that common in a lawless place?
I'm curious, what part of the app required 9 months of work to finish?
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That was absolutely frustrating to watch. Alexis is a well-spoken guy with cogent points to make, but I think he was outmatched in that debate by a guy with way more media experience. Richard Cotton stuck to his deceptive, populist talking points ("jobs", "wholesale theft", "will not affect a single US site") to great effect.

Alexis will get better as he continues to appear in the media, and I'm sure he's getting media coaching, but he needs to be more aggressive in, for example, telling Richard Cotton to shove it when he rudely interrupts.

It's as simple as "Richard, Richard... I let you speak, now let me finish my point. The problem with..."

Still, props to Alexis for actively fighting against these awful, awful bills!
This is something that those against SOPA and other measures are going to have to get better at. He knows he's lying (or "framing"), he's had years of practice at it. Alexis and others speaking for the technology sector don't. In general they tend to be somewhat humble, confident, and mostly honest people. The success they've had in their lives has been built on the work of countless others and there is a certain amount of deference and pragmatism even in our brightest and accomplished spokespeople.

This needs to change. There is an art to hyperbole, and as much as it makes us all cringe, we need to start engaging in it and framing the argument in a way that will get the visceral juices flowing a bit. "This bill will cause Facebook to delete your account and any of your friends if you post a video", "This bill will force youtube to delete all the videos you took at your childs birthday party", etc. You lose the argument when you accept a compromise when starting from the position you want to finish in. You have to pull back much further, like SOPA proponents are doing, and hope that the middle ground falls further in your interest than others.
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What people fail to realize about copyright in the US is that it was designed to enrich our country, and all US citizens.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to protect intellectual property with one and only one goal in mind. Enriching the United States and its citizens.

U.S. Constitution - Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 8.
"The Congress shall have power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

They have the power to "promote progress" and not the power to "enable rent-seeking", which is basically what intellectual property laws have been perverted into by private individuals seeking to increase their short term gains.

US Intellectual Property Law is a prime example of the tragedy of the commons.

Which would you rather have? Under which situation would you and 99% of all U.S. Citizens be better off: (1) the right to the exclusive income on something you have made for your entire life and part of the life of your heirs and assigns or (2) the right to free, unfettered access to every intellectual good created prior to 2004 that isn't a trade secret?

Under which of those two scenarios would more "progress in Science and the useful Arts" occur?

I don't know about you, but when I have kids, I would prefer that they inherit a large commons than rights to income from the works I have created.

P.S. To directly answer your question. What I believe about that doesn't matter. What does matter is that the laws in this country be enacted with the sole purpose of maximizing Science and the useful Arts that we all have free and open access to. If it is necessary to permit someone to temporarily restrict access to an intellectual good to provide financial incentive to a creator to create a work in the first place then that achieves the goals of the U.S. Constitution. How much restriction and for how long, should be the absolute minimum necessary to make sure the innovation happens at all.

99.9+% of all rational actors would not going to be dissuaded from creating by a copyright policy that only lasts the original 7 years. Every time copyright has been extended, it has been extended by people who have already profited handsomely off their intellectual good to the prior X years (where X is the copyright term at the time) and would like to extend that term so they can continue to earn rent. The terms would probably never have been extended otherwise, since the lawyers and lobbyists necessary to argue for the copyright extension in Congress don't come cheap.

There is nothing preventing people from selling their goods with DRM. The problem with DRM is that it makes a good less convenient for a buyer and drives the buyer to other goods or illegitimate copies. The most expensive cost for a creator is the copy left unsold.
I am one of those people that doesn't have a reason to go to the gym so I never promise myself to go. And since I look at my money situation before spending it, I know it is too expensive due to the risk of ending up not going but still paying.
People with money to spend easily spend it on things they don't need.
Too bad not everyone is really conscious about their ways so they think they can promise themselves something but in reality there is a super high probability they won't keep the promise to themselves.

You can tell people a hundred times they won't keep their promise and the reason and whatever, they will still think they can keep it because their motivation is still high because they haven't done anything yet.

Gyms here have trials.
I really like disqus and I don't want to have to invest in rails. Wish the OP the best of luck though :)
>Bullshit. Utter bullshit.
I don't get this angry when commenting here but the disgusting lack of empathy continually expressed on HN really, really gets to me.

What is more disgusting is the millions of people who make massive contributions, but aren't mentioned.
You meant dkim-milter right?

That's great info btw, that's not far from what I've currently got but mailman instead of Mailchimp and I've only got the one IP so when someone hits the spam button it's affecting all types of mail until it recovers.
There's a couple other options out there; you can get a pair of web-footed shoes for special use, and a pair of minimalist closed-toed shoes for regular use. The web-footing will always feel cooler, but you can walk/run in minimalist shoes the same way.

The Merrrell trail shoe someone linked is a good example. I have a pair of pumas that are very similar, though a little more boring.
>If you need to ask my hourly rate, you can't afford it :)

Sorry, but what does that even mean?
My understanding was that it isn't being deployed to win battles, more to test it in theatre in preparation for future wars or export.
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I think he meant to point out that "SQL server" doesn't mean "SQL Server", which is technically a valid point.
Alexis is doing a fine job, but I'd really like to see Tim O'Reilly on these shows and appearing before Congress: http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sop...

Not only is he running a media company (which ostensibly should be in favor of SOPA), but also he's the same generation as the lawyers, lobbyists, and legislators supporting SOPA.
Hah, I could always use more testers. When the project is good enough for a somewhat-stable alpha I'll let you know, thanks!
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A popular site for sharing has been compromised from a member associated with VirtualHackers.net , He quoted "We strive to compromise those whom security is at none."
I find the VFFs feel awful when you are not moving. I have a co-worker who wears them all the time, but I can't stand sitting around with them on.

(This could be my foot's fault though, my smallest toe gets scrunched up in the shoe "fingers")
Thanks for the info, I really was in the dark about what they were doing and it had me a little scared as I was initially under the impression that it was a site where users were just posting links to content and I couldn't fathom how that would lead to jail sentences for the founders.
the original German doesn't mean the actual journey but the act of dragging or being burdened

Yes, Mahler writes all over his scores the instruction nicht schleppen -- don't drag
That's a cool setup. How are you doing that?
> the DMCA is effective

I love this: keep pushing things further out of whack and all of a sudden the previous onerous policies start looking pretty good. The DMCA takedown provisions do give the little guy some power to defend copyright without going to federal court, but there is little recourse when abuse occurs and many of the other provisions of the act were a pure profit taking by industry giants.
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. 16th January 2012. Attendee List.
It's like Will and Kate getting married all over again. Everyone is stopping work to get a look at Eric Ries:

http://thebln.com/2012/01/eric-ries-the-lean-startup-16th-january-2012-attendee-list/
Daniel, proficient in most programming paradigms and unices, would love to work with Haskell development in the area around Kalmar, Sweden.
Indeed they THEMSELVES should work to create an global Internet license that allows any web admin the right to sell/stream/distribute their content. If site admins don't pay up based on such licensing terms then a legislative bill should be drafted up for those who don't pay up.
Agree with this completely, nobody is more qualified to talk about piracy than the guy who went to open formats, anti-DRM, etc. and is still growing his publishing business year after year.
@byoung2: As a freshman in a public high school in South Boston, it's unlikely that she is familiar with the variety of conditions you're talking about. Also, frankly, it's hard to say whether the teachers in her school are getting her the type of communications guidance you're talking about. I think your point would be valuable for her to hear. Are you comfortable if I post your car analogy on the site for her to read?
Well there is an API, it's just an unofficial one, with very active developers :

- http://bukkit.org/

- (well made ruby wrapper) https://github.com/enebo/Purugin

Programming bots should be doable, I've seen plugins that spawned a player that helped you mining.
Guess why it's not mainline ;)
I'm currently bootstrapping an on-the-side startup which will hopefully provide a nice middle ground between fully-managed hosting and self-managed hosting. We'd provide you a platform for monitoring, backups and configuration management for a set monthly fee. You'd provide the hosting underneath, or we could provide for you.

Either way, should work out significantly cheaper than fully-managed hosting, with more flexibility for you while allowing you to spend your time on your business rather than managing your servers.
Not quite what I was hoping for in invisibility, but augmented reality FTW!
Sounds a lot like Kaizen. I liked this -- appropriately short -- book for more real-life examples and background: http://www.amazon.com/Small-Step-Change-Your-Life/dp/0761129...
Seriously. 10 years ago calling the DMCA effective would have made you "one of them". Now we seem to be championing it.
Exactly. In 1999 was Bill Gates a "programmer" or a "manager" or (arguably) "investor"? I would say primarily a programmer who delegated, thus in a linguistic sense being a manager, but really still being in the first category for the purposes of this diagram.
Of course this is not the same, statistically, but one thing I have done in the past is to find the most ridiculously expensive property in an area, look up the tax records online, and then google the owners. It takes a bit of work, but the picture that emerges is quite interesting.

For example, I live in the Seattle area, and I know where the mega-wealthy enclaves are here. Who owns the biggest mansions? Microsoft executives, members of the Nordstrom family, members of the construction family who built the Space Needle, people connected with Daniel's Broiler, some guy who invented a new kind of eyeglasses, a congressman's ex-wife, a woman who grew and sold her IT consulting firm, a guy who built a successful condo listing website, doctors, the founder of an investment firm, a commercial real estate developer... In short, it was mainly key players in big local businesses, entrepreneurs, and a small handful of physicians.

I imagine if one did this for NYC, the picture would look predictably different.

EDIT: I forgot, the site virtualglobetrotting.com makes this easier. Hamptons example: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/lloyd-blankfeins-house/n...
if she was that genius then she should have solved NP-P problem at 14-15 years old. And in Pakistan elite class females don't face discrimination.

Frankly speaking i have more respect for that Boy http://launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar than her.At least he can program.
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It is a real shame that CSSEdit has been rolled into Espresso with no real benefit or gain to the user. CSSEdit is one of my most favourite tools to use while developing websites and I am going to hold onto it as long as I possibly can.
Considering the amount of bashing going on in this thread, I must suppose everyone saying it is no big deal has done at least the same - ie Microsoft certification at that age [or younger], meeting up with Bill Gates, and sharing her mature outlook on life.

I mean, it the least we can expect from a hacker. Really, it must not be a big deal because it is so common.

Oh, wait, I think it's not :-) And the bashers just think they could have done the same at her age, in a similar situation. But she did, while they think they could have done it.

Ideas are cheap, implementation matter -and she did it. Saying that she has not yet created some major piece of software is acceptable - the article may not have gotten the perfect title. But considering the age at which she died, odds are she would have followed her promising way and done something really good.

But wait- she already managed to have a computer lab set up in her village. Something everyone here must also have done at her age.

Nothing to see - just spoiled brats expressing jealousy.
Thanks for the info. My focus has been in a different area for the last few years (hospitals) so I was not aware wimax was dying.

I did see the part about the special client, but having not gone through the process - I am unaware how cumbersome this is, aside from obviously being more cumbersome than having to do nothing.

What is replacing it. Or, rather, what do you think is interesting and promising in mobile data?
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I too just started reading this one.

For me, my first foray into 'low-level' programming was during my freshman year in a CS101 course that used C++. That first course on it's own wasn't too bad, but the subsequent 'introductory' courses for more C++ and Data Structures + Algorithms were just terrible. I couldn't absorb anything useful from them because I was just overwhelmed with the constant bombardment of Segmentation Faults everywhere. Poor teachers + high learning overhead as a result of using a low-level language, just made me want to stray as far away as possible from ever using a 'C-langage' again. If it wasn't for me discovering Python around the same time, I probably would've just given up and pursued music or audio engineering instead.

Fast forward to last year, having now learned a ton more languages, I decided to go back and start reading K&R. I didn't manage to get through a whole lot, but from what I read, I liked it. The problem was that I didn't really feel motivated to keep plowing through it. Looking through the snippets of code in it, more and more I began wondering if some things were just outdated practices, or if they were in fact crazy idioms that I would have to get used to when dealing with C. That doubt (as silly as it might sound) did put me off a bit. The explanations in the text were top notch, but again, the code just didn't compel me to type it in like I knew I should.

Now I started reading LCTHW just a few days ago, and I have to say, it is quite awesome. It's a lot more minimal and sparse than I'm used to for a book, but I have been seriously surprised at how effective that method is. At first I was a bit annoyed that a lot of parts were basically saying 'just google it', cause I look to books to present me with a more coherent explanation of things than I can find scattered around the web or in arcane documentation. But as I went on with it, I noticed that the things he makes you look up on your own are generally specific enough that it makes the task of filtering out all the nonsense much easier than if you were researching it on your own. I quickly got into the groove of the book, because it just builds your confidence that you can be pretty self-sufficient in a new environment, even at the early stages of your learning. Combine that with his 'code first, explain later' format, and that book is surprisingly motivating. In just 2 days, I went through the first 17 chapters (currently stuck on the extra credit for the Database exercise), and I just want to keep on going. I think this is the first time I've ever experienced this level of enjoyment and drive from a programming tutorial. I have no idea why this is, but it's damn impressive. I can't wait to get to the K&R portion at the end.

Thanks Zed!
Old hackers still wish they could just program. The difference between old and young is that the old are more likely to know they can't have what they wish for in that respect.

The research you quote is about moderately successful startups, not about the most successful of all. You can easily verify I'm right about the outliers by traversing the Forbes 400.
Incidentally, the linked article by Peter Norvig also mentions that adding context is the best way to improve spelling correction. If you think this claim is so controversial, explain yourself, don't just downvote please.
Mr. Cotton is stuck in the brick and mortar business mode. He clearly does not understand that the Internet has no borders. He is "wholesale" lumping every international web site into this pot of illegal activity. Why didn't NBC bring a VP or media exec on?
and this is because of many reasons too... Easier money, lack of time for harder problems, scared of failure and thus wasting time/money. Agreed to point one, more shlep now, less marketing required.
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If you were a teacher marking a student's paper, you would label those as spelling errors, not a grammar errors. The reason is that a different spelling of the words would create the intended sentence. No grammatical variation will do that (reorders, conjugating differently, etc).
Craigslist Opposes SOPA On Their Homepages! Chea...
Raphael also suffers when animating many elements, here is a question I answered about a week ago on StackOverflow and I ended up solving with d3.js:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8239235/smoothly-animate-...

But recently I went through Raphael's source an I saw an implementation on requestAnimationFrame, perhaps Mike can shed some light on what is different. Great work on d3.js by the way!
It's really a pleasure to read through this code. The amount of things that he gets from the go standard library is really incredible. Go looks perfect for such tasks.

Anyone got a C implementation to compare it to?
So is there a good explanation (link to those lawyer analyses mentioned by Hayes perhaps) of specifically how US sites are affected? My understanding is that if someone posts a circumvention method (eg. link to new domain) then the site on which it was posted have liability. Is this correct?
I'm talking about the recruiters and corporate people who are looking for someone who charges, e.g., "no more than $100 an hour." What does that mean if the problem is never solved correctly? That at least they got a bargain?

To me, an important problem is one where the lack of a solution is the big cost.
Perhaps the irony here by PG is that, even now 99% of people will not do what strip does.
Ask HN: Odds that Google is blacked out in protest of SOPA? How about a doodle?
Google has made their opposition to SOPA clear, yet the average American still doesn't even know what SOPA is. Blacking out their website for a day, or even just a doodle would spread awareness by many orders of magnitude.

Media companies have, understandably, shown remarkably little coverage of the potentially disastrous legislation. They also seem to be promoting the idea that SOPA/PIPA will only affect foreign websites that have nothing but illegal content.

If Google were to blackout their site for a day with a link to an explanation of SOPA, the media would have no choice but to cover it. Awareness of the act would grow exponentially. It would also be clear that SOPA won't only affect "geeks". What are the chances that this will happen?
Well, you have only been here eight days. Give it some time and I'm sure you'll come to understand what HN appreciates better.
No it's not a final decision, but I'm not going to write support for it so feel free to contribute. That said I did add a 'Reply to comment' button a few minutes ago by popular demand.
Another problem is, if you are out of university or high school without much experience in really any field, what exactly are you going to build, you have no real specializations and are a blank state, so you can work with what you do know a little about... music? recipes, travel? existing consumer web apps that are easy to code (and then coding it and realizing marketing is the real challenge for them).

Wondering what Paul G. thinks of this.