skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember discussing with friends of mine whether or not it would be reasonable to have a DVD player that, upon encountering unskippable content, automatically skipped it. None of us could come up with any difficulty there.
I think I've decided to take some of your advice. I've decided to plow ahead with the startup and just take the hit. She made a long bet on me that will probably pay off pretty well and I've got plenty of ideas that I can execute after this one.
Is there a link to more info somewhere? Maybe a small link on the right of the top header? At the moment it seems a bit 'in' to just blackout without an obvious link to more info.
Thanks Google, small but symbolic.

Disappointed that Facebook/twitter appear to be relatively quiet. Facebook especially is immensely influential now. Perhaps they feel anything that hurts Google is good for them?
"Man, how I long for the days where the DMCA was what I was complaining about. Nowadays the DMCA seems like a left wing piece of hippy legislation"

That's not an accident.
Yep, I'm an idiot. I grabbed the binaries from the official site instead of from the repo.

I was tired.
The goal here is not blackout per se but to defeat these bills. Fully blacking out HN would hurt more than help. It wouldn't make more people aware of the problem, because everyone here is already aware of it. But it would make the site less useful as a place to discuss techniques to fight it.
I do wonder what form Google's "online petition" will take.

Speaking optimistically, they do have both credibility and the power to publicize, so if they say e.g. "1 million Google users are against SOPA" perhaps it will be hard for the MSM not to pick it up and repeat the news. And the number could be very large.
It's far more useful to have the site live and able to disseminate information.
If I may, I suggest you try the USB version - Apple USB keyboard - http://www.amazon.com/Apple-109-Key-Version-Keyboard-1003199...

Very similar layout, with a smaller form factor, non mechanical but to me it feels just as good, and it features an USB hub. My preferred keyboard at home and at work, along with some ControllerMate magic to turn the Help key into something more useful.

PS: it also has a delete (Ctrl-D) key to the right of backspace (Ctrl-H), in the usual PC position.
Beautiful and accessible presentation on paredit
Inline linking and page creation, image embedding, and search are plugins that are part of the etherpad source and just need to be enabled.

When you say it supports iPhone, does that mean you somehow made the contentEditable issue go away and can edit on iPhone, or is it just read-only support?
I'm not from the US and I thought someone important died again.
Userscript that removes the SOPA overlay on English Wikipedia
Even easier — here’s a userscript that removes the SOPA overlay on English Wikipedia: https://gist.github.com/1631807
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The true effect of the Wikipedia Blackout.
The direction to go As Soon As Your Workers Comp Claim Is certainly Turned down
Anytime a office incident occurs, and you are also struggle to work, there is nothing you want to do is have are financial concerns. Still, medical bills and lost salary accumulate instantly, which happens to be what workers compensation possibly there is to manage. As you are resting in a hospital or at your house, t
And execute the first command just on $('div')
I don't know if it's because I'm a stupid old fart, but it seems to me that the explanation this book gives of microprocessor architecture, busses, etc are still unbeatable because Z80 is so simple. It's probably still a valuable introduction to computing, if only for the first few chapters on binary, computation, etc.
Design Flaw in Oracle DBMS Puts Large-Scale Databases at Risk
I use a unicomp (http://pckeyboard.com/) buckling spring keyboard. You can order an apple key from them if you'd like.
Are leap seconds about to be abolished?
they're going to black out their error page hijacker? that's sure to frustrate a lot of people /sarcasm
What about "503: Service Intentionally Unavailable"?

Edit: Actually, I don't want to change it. I don't think our readers will read three words and skip the explanation. I think much more highly of them than that.
They've had a Linux key option [1] for a while :) Much more awesome. I considered getting them even though I have the blank version (which is, incidentally, great).

[1]: http://store.daskeyboard.com/Linux-Key-Caps-2-keys/dp/B004JP...
This idea of requiring everything to be signed from the bootloader up (or just the bootloader) is horrifying to me. It seems just as bad or worse than SOPA and the rest of it.
I didn't write the copy, but I did do the design. We're proud to be part of this protest. Thanks for your kind words.
Tell HN: Wikipedia mobile website and SOPA/PIPA pages work it seems
Lost friends
Finding lost friends is very difficult task, but with help of backgroundfinder you can find your friend easily.
Free and Low-Cost Apps
Very well implemented.

But "End Piracy, Not Liberty" is silly, unless they meant to say elsewhere on the page "Fighting ocean piracy is important."
I'm guessing you haven't tested it much yet? My senator's office doesn't even allow the call to go through unless the caller presses '1' to speak with someone, but your interface lacks a keypad! Hopefully you guys get it out before the 18th
When is Facebook going to participate? We already have Google and Wikipedia, it seems like Twitter and Facebook would also be all over this.
Following Your Plan
I'm currently evaluating which architecture is better for my startup project: I'm thinkin about hosting my own Solr instance (i've already used it in a Drupal project), using an external hosted Solr solution, using another engine (i.e. i discovered basex.org - anyone has used it? my data will be 90% XML) or something else. Probably I'll have to add this to the list...

edit: I didnt consider IndexTank but it seems interesting, I have just to understand if it's a good solution if you dont need social inputs
Doesn't really seem in the spirit of things today, does it?
Use IE6 to continue to access Wikipedia. This is the first and last time, I recommend using IE6.
I'm heavily opposed to SOPA/PIPA, but I really do think there need to be ways for companies to keep their counterfeit physical goods off the market.

http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/12/22/petzl-amer...

I just think that SOPA/PIPA solves the problem by pointing a nuke at the internet and giving the content industries the launch codes.
I am not a US citizen either though I live here. (I'm a permanent resident, intent on becoming a citizen, as I like this country a great deal).

> this is not a proof that US is a great place to live in. It just means that the neighbouring countries have far worse living conditions.

In my book, that means the US is better than those places. True, it doesn't make it great. But there are many other places in the world with good living standards and yet the US is where people try to come.

> I harder test would be if the more fortunate, richer class of people who are already comfortable with their living standards in their respective countries, choose to move to US because they cannot add to their level of satisfaction otherwise.

This is actually my own case. My parents left a very comfortable life in Western Europe to go to the US and try and make things better. My stepdad was doing a startup back in the late 90's and it was much easier to get funding here. Americans are risk takers, which is why so much innovation comes out of this country.

There's a reason why the Apples, Googles, and Intels of the world are located in the US, and it's much more than economic.
There are many ways for a corporation to provide value to a candidate besides a cash donation. Some of these ways can translate readily into cash. For example, insider trading by congresspeople, which apparently is legal. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388130n http://www.cnbc.com/id/45249857
I thought they would also change all colours in search page to black/gray, I believe it would make it more noticable
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Twitter said they aren't going to do it. [1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/sopa-twitt...
Unfortunately, I've yet to hear a convincing alternative incentive scheme to that of copyrights and patents. The necessity of copyright and patent law varies widely from industry to industry, and the limited expertise (and interest) of legislators keeps them from taking any bold steps adjust the law to better fit the intricate needs of the people (ie, short/no patents in industries that move quickly and communally, like software, and longer patents for industries like pharmaceutical development, that are immensely costly and provide limited network effects to the first mover (a drug's prices decline by 90% in the US when it goes off patent).

People view copyright as less essential than patents, but the truth of the matter is that without copyright laws, there would be a significant decline in the production of movies, music, games, and many other costly mediums. Without copyright, I could legally create a competitor to netflix that paid studios nothing and played every movie ever made on any device for close to nothing. I could create a competitor to steam that distributed games and was every bit as useful and integrated, and I'd pay nothing to developers. Even if you think online piracy isn't as big of a problem as studios claim it is (and you'd be very right), the laws that keep it illegal are all that stand between today and a collapse of the content development ecosystem.

Even if copyright doesn't maximize for society's benefit because of the monopoly it creates, every copyrighted work sold is a net plus to both the consumer and the producer. Without any copyright framework, there's a significant chance that the producer could never afford to make that beneficial product in the first place. Even if you only eliminate prosecution of people/entities that don't make any money from what they're doing and allow non-profits like wikipedia to host full movies, you still irreparably break the incentive system that exists today. Maybe we don't need new movies and games, but people want them and as long as that's the case they'll want to keep protecting them with copyright.

Maybe someday, systems more like kickstarter could replace copyright, but I highly doubt it. They don't do nearly as good of a job.

That said, I'm all for much shorter terms for copyrights and the elimination of software patents.
I guess the Cherry keyboards use the same mechanism (duh) and are less expensive. Just my 2 cents.
TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA / PIPA
It's lovely how you confirm the common prejudice:

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.[2]"

(from http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...)
All fair points with which I agree. Again, the US could get better, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad now. (I, like many, have days where I feel the US is going to hell in a handbasket). But I agree with the things you've pointed out.
I can see there being a market. My mom buys all her crap if and only if it says "Mac compatible" on the box. I remind her that it's all the same hardware standards these days, but the persecution complex that was ingrained in her from the bad old 1990s--countless ADB input devices, a IIsi with its own flavor of NuBus, and then later a couple awful Performas with funky PDS slots--she's just used to assuming that hardware just won't work unless it's specifically blessed as Apple compatible.
New York Times / Technology section 1/17/2012 --
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/technology/web-wide-protes...
My answer to SOPA, preserve the Internet but appease the entertainment industry
I'm currently building a website which will crawl the web for public, illegal downloads of a particular book, film, or song and will display the download links + the takedown button for them so they can be requested to be removed.<p>Before anyone suggests that people will just use the site to search for pirated content / download it, I plan on charging a small fee and finding some way of authenticating that the person actually owns the copyright / affiliated with a company that owns it. Or I'm thinking of just showing a teaser of how many links I found online / maybe even potential websites I found them on, but not put direct links to them or something.<p>Would love to hear feedback!
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This slide deck will resonate with just about any entrepreneur who has done or is doing a startup.
SOPA for dummies
Interesting reactions of (former) wikipedia users on twitter collected by @herpderpedia http://twitter.com/herpderpedia
Spread Awareness About SOPA – Answer Questions About it on Twitter
The Oatmeal, Blacked Out.
Hacker News timelapse: 8 hours in 1 minute
They also appear to have an apple-specific model (unless this is the one you're talking about): http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/onthestick.html

The one pictured is hideously ugly, though.

I switched from a Model M to the default iMac keyboard (the wired one with the number pad) back in August when I switched to from linux to an iMac and it's taken me until just recently, to get used to it. I still don't like the feel of the keyboard quite as much and have been tempted to buy the Unicomp keyboard many times. That said, I do find it more comfortable than most other non-mechanical keyboards out there.

I've had several offers from people wanting to buy the Model M, but I refuse to part with it, even if I'm not using it at this very moment. I found it years ago, in the back of a storage shed, covered in about a decade of dust, grease, and cob webs, cleaned it up, and it looks practically new and works perfectly. I do so love that keyboard.
Ask HN: Would you donate to an anti SOPA/PIPA 527 PAC?
I have a lot of experience in high-level politics/elections and would love to create and manage this to put some pressure on these people.
Physics might be pure, but Biology is fking amazing.

Makes me ponder my own place in the scheme of things - made up of many multicellular components, myself a component of a society, itself one of many that make up the Human species, one of many that form the ecology of this planet
In addition to contacting my congress persons, I signed the Google petition. The Google petition appears to be a blackhole as I can't view what I'm actually signing before or after signing it.

My preference would have been for Google to have an obvious Call to Action to e-mail/call your Senator / House members.
I cannot deal with the action on the "new" Apple keyboards. It's like typing on a pane of glass, it hurts like hell because you have to press the key to nearly its fullest extension to actuate it, and then your finger comes to an abrupt halt. They could be the very best scissor type keyboards ever made and I still couldn't use them for long without getting shooting pains.
It's not, I suppose; I just think that discussion over what we're blacking out, who to convince, what kind of talking points, etc, is rather moot. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Yes, freedom gonna die soon.
I agree, but I also want HN to stay up for a selfish reason. I'm curious how much of HN's front page will be taken over by the blackout.
I think our (the US) government has a lot to say against it. But America's not great because of its government, it's great in spite of it. America is great because of our culture of risk taking and experimentation, a culture that we are slowly losing to increasingly mind-numbing entertainment (which, I admit, is quite addicting) and restrictive legislation.
All Adsense are now anti-SOPA
I've noticed that all of the Adsense I'm seeing are anti-SOPA, rather than ad content. For example, see TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/
That might be why reddit is only going dark for 12 hours.
Here is a screenshot: http://reedmorse.com/tmp/sopa-adwords.png
Related: http://docs.python-tablib.org/en/latest/index.html
We've made it possible for users to opt-in to show a ribbon to raise awareness until the 24th and blacking out their sites for the protest on Wednesday as well if they want.

You can read more here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/join-our-censorship-...
They're not kidding when they say their keyboards make an audible "click" sound... they also sell:

Reusable Earplugs: "Multi-use, comfortable earplugs for co-workers or significant others of Das Keyboard Professional or Das Keyboard Ultimate users."
- you become aware of inner resources you weren't aware existed when you're exposed to situations you're unfamiliar with, developing a greater sense of self-confidence and self-respect
Chris Dodd's sanctimonious bluster translated back into English: http://j.mp/MPAAbluster
I don't own a Das; instead I have two of Unicomp's (http://pckeyboard.com) keyboards. Either one is miles more comfortable to type on than anything else I've ever used, most certainly including the Microsoft ergo keyboards. That said I should note that I'm partial to making a hell of a racket typing and I really really like the buckling spring action. If for some reason you don't want to sound like an entire rifle company out for a day at the range the quiet Cherry switches are pretty much the only game in town, and you might as well get them from Das as from anywhere else.
Very interesting.
[side note: It would be a lot more dramatic if you had a screenshot of when it went black.]
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There are many countries with little business oversight or regulations. They are not the places intl investors want to put their money into.
I used to like these, but after a while the keypress resistance becomes bigger and bigger. Mechanical quality is not as good as one would think it is from first impression.
Tech Crunch like HN is black, but not blacked out. Are these different messages?
Even more Easier - press esc (or the stop button) when you first see the page(before the overlay loads)
And if you were MAFIAA, would you tell the truth? Especially if you're already well-aligned on the "we deserve more" tangent.
Ask HN: Is Twitter or Facebook going to join the black-out?
Has anybody heard if Twitter or Facebook is going to join in the blackout today?
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Sorry Wikipedia, i want to use you anyway today ...
just click on this bookmarklet on any blackouted Wiki page:
javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.soluch.at/other/JavaScript/bookmarklets/testsuite...;
you are right i missed that.
Clever blackout by Noisebridge
At what point does liability end? I'm not talking about where current laws stand - I'm asking where you think it ought to end.

If the employee was acting without the knowledge of anyone, then sure, you can argue the case that the employee went rogue and the company should be shielded from liability.

But in the case of Mocality, it certainly looks like a concerted effort - someone from management surely knew about it, or perhaps even ordered it. The fact that Larry himself isn't aware/didn't approve seems rather moot. So the question is: how far up does it have to go before something is considered an act of the corporation?
perhaps you aren't in the US? I know some of the blackouts are only for US ip addresses.
I think its more a matter of numbers, Its harder to get someone to call someone else than it is to pledge agreement by leaving an email.

Firstly - the time involved, 2nd - email is free, 3rd - its easier.
eating with the hands is common practice in India, it gives an additional sense of touch, besides looks(eye), smell(nose), taste(tongue) of the food.

also please dont site hygiene as a reason as the mother has masters degree in health care administration.
I saw the argument yesterday that was made and it was good enough to convince me that Twitter and Facebook should stay up. They are important communication tools and they will be needed today when people are going to those sites so they can discuss this stuff. But, they could do like Google and at least acknowledge it. I am hoping that they will still do that at some point today though because in response to a tweet, Dick Costolo said, "watch this space." Not sure what he means, but hopefully it means Twitter will acknowledge it.
Not actually sure if this is true. I'm trying to find more websites that use Adwords, but I don't actually know who uses which ad platform...
Was this completely new, or was it some sort of latent ability that was brought out by environmental conditioning?
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Apple ships more Unix boxes than anyone else in the world; that's been true for years now.

If you think about it, Apple has gotten more users into Unix than any other company. For many, Mac OS X is the gateway drug to the world of Unix and open source software. That should be seen as a good thing.
Is there any usable decentralized DNS system right now?

Such a system would not have to handle all the DNS resolutions, only those where the Domain owner thinks the Domain is beeing censored. He'd then inject the real Name/IP into the alternative system. The alternative DNS could be decentralized. It only has to make sure the list is not beeing tampered with.

Like dnsmasq mutated with Bitcoin.
You barely need to press the keys though... I guess everyone has their own tastes, but I find the modern Apple keyboards to be the best keyboards I've ever used. The low key travel and resistance means I apply much less strength than I would on a normal keyboard, which makes it much lighter to type on.
also check out the php tags

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Wikipedia Blackout
Sorry Wikipedia, i want to use you anyway today ...
just click on this bookmarklet on any blackouted Wiki page:
javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.soluch.at/other/JavaScript/bookmarklets/testsuite_3/loaded.js';})();
Thats was very nice
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> My mom buys all her crap if and only if it says "Mac compatible" on the box. I remind her that it's all the same hardware standards these days

Indeed in most cases, but keyboards are something else entirely. If you regularly switch between a MacBook keyboard and a workstation (be it PC or Mac) it's a pain to have the layout, spacing and position being almost the same save for a bunch of keys that bite you back hard. Especially on non-US layouts (precisely, french).

That's why I strive to use mac-layout keyboards even on PCs. And really, while the US mac layout is quite close to the PC one, the french ones are significantly different, and the Mac one simply makes more sense. Ironically it's extremely hard to find non-Apple non-US Mac layout keyboard.
Welcome to the (Hardware) Jungle
If your business model hinges on restricting the flow of information then you are pretty much hosed. That flies in the face of what the internet is. For better or worse, bad or good, thats how I see it. Instead of fighting the current companies need to evolve their businesses to the present state of technology. Anti-SOPA/PIPA