skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In response to hessenwolf and rmc:

SOPA does not 'delete' any domains. SOPA says that it can tell ISPs and Domain servers to not resolve certain domain names (within the US, the rest of the world doesn't, or shouldn't use US ISPs or domain servers). And it only affects domain names registered outside of the US. As others have stated here, the US already has existing measures to address US domains via ICE.

One of the reasons behind the claim: "SOPA will break the internet", is that many people in the US may start using non US domain servers to circumvent SOPA, and this would make our current routing and caching mechanisms inefficient.
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I'm keeping the score.

☑ HTC
☑ Samsung
☑ Acer
☑ LG
☑ Wistron
☑ Quanta
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☑ Onkyo
☑ General Dynamics
☑ View Sonic
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☐ Amazon?
70% of Android devices sold in the US pay license fee to Microsoft
>> Of course, if you GNU coreutils on your system (and if you're running Linux, you almost certainly do), it's even easier and more efficient: "comm -23 A B".

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but I don't think GNU's coreutils is the only way to get comm[1].

Nice update to the original post, by the way. :)

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/co...
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People also pay hundreds of dollars for text editors, if you include Microsoft Word among those.

Edit: and Microsoft IDEs
Amazon Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month
But then GA might not record that someone loaded the page and clicked a link to navigate away, before the page was done loading.
An interesting (and funny) exercise.

For those interested in neural networks and Bayesian classifiers check out the brain.js library: http://harthur.github.com/brain/

It works in both node and the browser.
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Can someone point me to an IDE as awesome as this but for iOS? This will go on my phone, but I want something awesome like this for my iPad!
Convers. Sharing App Bnter now Banters. + Voice Recognition, Priv Setngs
I installed CyanogenMod after the CarrierIQ story broke. It wasn't trivial but there were good instructions for my exact model of phone. CyanogenMod is an improvement over the stock HTC Sense-based firmware: more customizable, better battery life, no crapware that you can't remove. Not a life-changer, but probably worth doing if you're curious.
I just want to clarify something here, I am not an idea guy or a business guy. I am a hacker but my specialties are systems programming in C/C++ and I am learning web dev on the side when I get time, but haven't gone that much far. The reason for this post was partially to motivate me as well, since its great motivator once you get something going.
"I'm being downvoted so people must not be thinking critically."
Remember that AT&T commerical that highlighted all the future stuff AT&T would do, but they never did, but eventually happened anyways. That's what this Scanadu promo video reminds me of. Check out their homepage too, it's all investors, board members, advisers, business people, and only a handful of engineers.
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I wrote an html5/canvas chalkboard the weekend before that lets you replay your drawings and get a link to send them to other people. I don't want to link it here because it'll crash my server if a (hacker news) of people start saving drawings.. anyway it stores the path data as JSON on the server as a text blob to optimize database queries... otherwise it would have to fetch thousands of rows just to get a single drawing. I wanted to reduce storage, but also bandwidth; specifically for uploads which can take a while(a short drawing produced around 1MB of JSON), I also thought it would be cool to add the drawing data directly in the url or send it to someone in an email —hence using a modifiable alphabet for the hashes, or allow unrestricted drawing and save it to html5 localstorage.

I figured I might as well put the ideas I had into code and on github so others could help refine it, and if it turned out not to work that well was planning on attempting to implement gzip in javascript.

Incidentally in my unreliable data specific benchmarks using my algorithm + gzip resulted in smaller files than just gzip, but I'm not going to make that claim without more benchmarks. Hard to say if you can exploit http gzip compression and store the gzipped data on the server, whether the extra time using my algorithm as a pre-compressor would be worth any byte reduction achieved for that use case.

Also the current implementation is focused on compressing ascii characters into fewer ascii characters, it should be possible to implement a version that compresses bits into smaller bits and achieves better compression for use cases where you can compress to binary and ascii isn't a requirement.
>>Primitive types have been available since the creation of Java. It's up to the programmer to use boxed types or not.

You can't use a primitive in a collection: eg HashMap / ArrayList
Does it not make sense that Google would want to create as much synergy as possible between their offerings?

I don't understand the concern here. It looks to me like they are going to use a small amount of screen space to let users know how many relevant Google+ links were found in the search. All of the Google+ links will be collapsed at the top. The other 95% of the page layout and result is the same.
There are some who would suggest that allowing you to commit segment violations is not generally a desirable language feature.
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WebGL on Mobile: Scirra's experiment
If Microsoft made ActiveX open and easy for other browser manufactures to implement in a cross-platform manner, I would absolutely have been in support of it. They didn't, so I wasn't.

Standards bodies move slowly. Non-standardised innovation across browsers is absolutely to be encouraged, as long as it is done in a manner that allows others to implement that innovation too. This sort of innovation is what helps us decide what is worth being made into a standard.
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Don't post links that way. Just put http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyright-whoops
I disagree. This comes across as a fantastic editorial, with just the right amount of frankness ("The thing is, we're really on the MPAA's side; they just don't realize it.") to make me sit up and take them seriously.

My only quibble is that it's filed as a news piece, rather than the editorial it so clearly is. This isn't news; it's meta-news.
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Seems like all of the component prices were underestimated including the Raspberry PI board itself as noted in one of the comments to the original posting. Also they forgot the AC power adapter. A case would be a welcome nicety as well.
Well, it's a list of free e-books. 100 years is approximately how long it takes for a work of literature to fall into the public domain.
I don't really care what the majority think. The "majority" regard reality TV as interesting and spiders, insects and snakes ugly. Or Fox News objective and accurate. I can't share that.

Personally I find Jolie too extreme to be described as beautiful. But she certainly isn't ugly either, far from it.
That is an interesting point, and may be true, but this problem also applies to the advertisements on HN (e.g. We're hiring designers!). It is my understanding that they don't have the choice to instead link to their blog and instead have to live with grey on off-white,
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Already done (and undone) it would seem:

https://github.com/DanielRapp/twss.js/commit/d025aa46eef8559...
Brilliant article. I was starting to doubt Google for a minute, but this clears it up concisely.
Curious what you mean by "experiment with various things related to running a site". Do you mean getting traction and paying customers, or setting up a server?
I wonder if email theft will be the centerpiece of an era of what I would call "information terrorism."

I use that term advisedly, though I know lots of people will object to the t-word. It's not about killing people (though, when it comes to global security, it's difficult to estimate the repercussions), but it is about providing prominent public examples of what happens if you communicate in a way that's publicly comprehensible. Which is to say, speaking openly behind the walls of your organization with the (false) belief that your emails to your colleagues are inherently hidden from a public view.

This creates a huge overhead to communication. We've all written emails that, when a phrase is taken out of context, can bring massive scandal and disrepute on you and your organization. (See, for instance, "hide the decline" or "trick.") So the only option is to clamp down on communication, and when it does happen rely on mealy-mouthed or specialized language whose real meaning no one except the two speakers can understand.

This won't lead to the ossification and death of corrupt organizations that rely on secrecy, contra Assange. It will lead to a Straussian world where all real information is just hidden from the public and kept as public secrets that only the elite are privy to, instead of available to anyone through media like Stratfor.
But... Twitter did take themselves out of the search results.

I agree with your general comment that these firms have been making disingenuous comments in public and competing for leverage, but it is possible for one to be right and one to be wrong here.
> placing sensor/processor combinations in places where they are likely to be lost or destroyed.

Well, you could already do that with microcontrollers. An AVR is pretty powerful actually, and costs a buck a pop.

But of course there will be cases when an AVR would not be enough, so the Pi might be the better choice.
This is a really terrible criticism of the linked page, with a misleading first statement to boot. Where do you see the word study? The title at the top of the page says "Computer Language Benchmarks Game". How is calling it a benchmark game misleading? That's what it is, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else - it is a sorted list of benchmarks run on one particular configuration.
That's not a bug at all, it's a feature.

How is Google supposed to track repeat visitors without any kind of state except IP? And IP is an awful variable for state because of NAT.

The heading is misleading and overly sensational.
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If Google had to pay every web-service out there for the privilege to index their otherwise free content, that could cost Google more money than is possible for them to spend.

It would also be a disturbing direction to point the web in. The reason that google and other search engines are useful is because their bots can crawl the web like any user, they just also obey when a website asks them to stay away.

Using robots.txt or nofollow to keep bots away unless they cough up cash concerns me greatly because it means they're turning what was a "count me out please" mechanism into a paywall. A paywall that the public doesn't see, but goes up between the public and finding public content with a search engine.
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Maybe not ActiveX, but when Microsoft created XMLHttpRequest in their javascript engine, that ended up being pretty significant and great for how the web works today.
Gigabit wireless for everyone: Wilocity demos first 60GHz wireless devices
Whois verification (possibly) coming this year
K-means computer vision demo in your browser
It seems to be returning a lot of false positives, at least with the default options. "Good morning" = true, "How are you?" = true
No, you understood my comment; I assumed since the manpage I was looking at made no reference to a standard, that it was nonstandard. It seems you're right, and comm(1) is more widely available, excellent.
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They are trying to push certain technologies into certain directions under the cover of opensource.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Firefox does it too, right? Not everything works well via the standards model; first you have to experiment and test before you can write a good spec. That's what Chrome is; Google asking, "how can we make the web better"? (SPDY is a good example of this.)

Ultimately, Google is like Microsoft in a lot of ways. They have a "platform" (the web via Chrome) that lets users use platform-specific applications in a variety of places. Apple is too; their platform is OSX and iOS. To provide the best user experience, you need to control the platform. Google is the only company that lets the Free Software community have the platform too.
Windows Phone Will Not Battle on Hardware
Join SOPA Blackout: Flood social outlets w/ protest
Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social sites may not participate in the SOPA blackout, but everyone with an account on those sites can . Who will join me in posting the following to their social accounts on January 18th:

"This is my only comment today because I do not want to be censored by the passage of SOPA. #sopablackout"
Smart TVs and 3D Are _still_ Not Ready
The idea is not to get rid of the data that is stored in the cookie. But instead to move it into the localStorage. Still acessible through JS and doesn't ge into the HTTP request.
I never understood why websites created apps of their websites. The browser is ubiquitous. Use it. I don't want to install seven different apps for my seven favourite sites. I don't see why this is acceptable on a mobile platform any more than it would be on a desktop platform.
The speed of the request is probably not linear with the size either.

At 700-800 bytes for an average HTTP request you are below the single packet size. Given the overhead of processing the packet the extra bytes are pretty cheap: a 1 byte packet is not going to be 1000% faster than a 1K packet.

Now, if the cookie pushed the average request size over the packet boundary then the cost would be huge.
Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last
sorry about that :)
@burgerbrain

Thank you for letting me know! Is there anything I can do about it?
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Usually the expense is in the actual sensor and not the chip running the thing.
You're missing the point. I'm not worried about the rendering time here. I'm worried about the HTTP request size. And even though block GA fix the issue to you it's still present for others.
I'm pretty sure there will be some 11.6" and maybe even some 13" laptop-like devices this year with Android.
Put this in the URL bar for the page:

javascript:void(document.getElementsByClassName("post-body")[0].style.whiteSpace = 'pre-wrap')
Learning to program is hard, but languages are not to blame
MRI's have shown that humans are able to do this because of a dedicated site in the brain called "Scott's region". Once activated, this linguistic region is constantly searching for linguistic cues, surfacing signals to our conscious thoughts when the cues are strong enough.
Blogger Finally Gets Threaded Comments
The author of SOPA is a copyright violator 
This is too funny...
They conducted a series of experiments, and reported their results. If that's not a "study", I don't know what is. The fact that the authors acknowledge that it's a "game" doesn't change that. What is misleading is the title on the link: "Intel Fortran now 20% faster than C".
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What I have really been waiting for is someone to make monitors with no bezel using Gorilla Glass so tiling would be better.
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I think people complaining about this are upset about the network effect, rather than Chrome adding new features. Say you love Firefox. One day, your favorite website decides to switch entirely to SPDY, and you can't use Firefox anymore. It's natural to blame Google for this, since they invented SPDY and put the client into production. But really, it's that site's developer's fault for using nonstandard features.

This happens all the time; Firefox adds non-standard CSS transforms, Microsoft adds non-standard Javascript functionality, and Apple adds proprietary video codecs to Safari. When your web app depends on these things, you hurt your users. But it's your fault for using nonstandard features; it's not Apple's or Google's or Microsoft's fault for making their browser support them. If this upsets you, consider software in general. To use Facebook, you have to use Facebook. That's nonstandard! To use an Emacs extension, you have to use Emacs. That's nonstandard! And so on.

Google and Mozilla are especially innocent, since Apple and Microsoft can easily steal any features they want from Chrome and Firefox. They're the only ones out in the open, and for that, I think they deserve to try new things for the web. If they stick, the other vendors can easily support the new features.
Isn't the focus completely different, I thought MySpace became a hangout for small bands and the likes? (Though I assume MySpace still wants to be more than that)
What problems arise? Why should "standards bodies" affect what features Free Software has? Why allow anyone to release any software at all?
Google Renews Push in China
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Forgive me if I am missing something, but wouldn't moving the cookies to localstorage still require an additional call to be made to send the data to the server in the end - not to mention the additional javascript required to handle the localstorage management and ajax calls?
Previous stories have talked about fees between $5 and $15, depending on what patents the manufacturer has that can be cross-licensed [1].

From what little I understand, it's essentially the same fee of $15 that Microsoft charges for each WP7 device, with the idea being not that Microsoft makes a significant amount of money from Android but that they make each manufacturer consider Android and WP7 equals in terms of up-front costs (with the hope that Microsoft can then offer a bit more to get WP7 signed up?).

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/06/can-android-be-microsofts-next-...
Is there an argument to say if you can't work this data out yourself, then you probably shouldn't be running a startup?

Well put together as a hobby project though, so thanks!
I just worry that once we give the Government the power to control the Internet...

This puts me in mind of the debates over the US Bill of Rights. Some people thought that the BoR was a mistake, as making an enumerated list would create the impression that it was an exhaustive list. Of course, that is just what happened, and despite protections built in by the 9th and 10th Amendments, those who continue to point out this fact are derided as "Tenthers". The result is absurd claims that censoring speech gives us freedom by respecting other peoples' religions, etc. (doublethink though that obviously is).

So in the long term, it may be a better move strategically not to have any legislation, for or against Internet freedoms. It should be entirely outside the purview of the government either way.
If only it did something beneficial...
I find it very disappointing that not more companies are standing up to Microsoft. Motorola has already gotten 6 out of 7 of Microsoft's patents invalidated in Court, and B&N will probably get a similar percentage invalidated in their case, too.

Even if they still end up paying for some patents in the end, it should be a much smaller sum, rather than paying almost as much as they do for the full WP7 license, which represents an entire OS.
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An option to have this activate only on the 18th would be great. I'd kinda like to include the code now but have it do nothing until the 18th. Also, is the "sopablackout_id = 'element-id'" option working? Didn't seem to do anything different for me.
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> - There's no way to do array access without null pointer and index checks each and every time.

Actually there is. Have you checked out the sun.misc.Unsafe class? Lots of very dangerous gems in there, among them the ability to calculate array offsets and access the array elements directly. (check out arrayBaseOffset + arrayIndexScale + getObject/getLong/etc)
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> and Microsoft and its company officers shut down and thrown in jail?

Thrown in jail for what? What specific laws are they breaking.

If that were the case you can be sure that these companies would be fighting back.
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My referrals usually are between 50% and 75% Chrome, with FF a distant second. I wrote up an analysis of one article's traffic earlier last year [1] where it was 48% Chrome and 23% FF, but articles more towards the end of the year were much higher on the Chrome side.

[1] http://blog.effectcheck.com/2011/04/11/hackernews-front-page...
Congratulations- it's well deserved. My first Android phone was a Nexus One, and I loved the CyanogenMod improvements that came with every release.

I made the mistake of upgrading to a Galaxy S2 Skyrocket (I mean, really?) and quickly found out that the non-Nexus world of Android is very depressing. I hated TouchWiz, and I couldn't put CyanogenMod on my new phone. I returned it.
When some random person on the Internet trolls, they are ignored. So why don't we ignore the copyright trolls? "A piece of literature is arguing against our policies." Well... yeah, welcome to society!
You have 200 karma and are complaining about "Google apologists" when your allegations of "extending" of "embrace, extend, extinguish" are new features in Chrome and charging for APIs like Maps (saw yesterday's article, I see). Come on.
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Your point is true, but so is parent post.

Standards doesn't mean "no innovation". While the electric outlet may be a "standard" devices that use the electricity shouldn't necessarily be "standard".

ie if I want an innovative lamp to plug into my standard electric socket, that is okay.

Standards have a place and so do innovations. If Google is releasing all of their innovations which have broad applicability as open source projects, I see no reason they should slow down so that slow-moving, non-innovating standards bodies can catchup.
Ironically, I pirate Ars Technica.
I have several systems that I'd sell but they are not doing big revenue. Oneworldcollege.com and servercyde.com (maybe)
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Exactly, and even if it was 5%, which by no means it is, what % of time is the request vs response. Sounds like this a solution to a non-problem.
Which works great if you use makefiles, but for those using Visual Studio for build management, it can be a bit more tricky. First you have to make sure you have perl, then you have to make sure you've got the appropriate build rules in place, then you have to make sure things get built at the right time, etc. It really is nontrivial.