skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no magical legal context. What you're referring to is people being dishonest and trying to cheat and get away with violating the constitution by pretending words mean different things. For instance, the power to "regulate" is not the power to ban, though politicians and judges have pretended it is, and many people have been tricked into believing it.
> Hollywood spends millions of dollars to create these movies. To pirate it and not compensate the companies involved is irresponsible, selfish and ignorant -- it is stealing

I think the point being made (albeit badly - through one poor analogy) is that society gains more through the distribution of 'creativity' than it does through ensuring that artists are fairly compensated.

I'm not entirely in either camp, however I would say to you that 'compensation' is never well applied. There are millions of artists who have changed the world and have made little to no money off their inventions. On the other hand there are many who have also made little contribution to the world, but profit hugely from incredibly meagre creations (often off the back of other, real inventions).
Different markets like Amazon. Google makes life even more difficult.
Hi Hollywood: I like movies and stuff, but how about I stop watching them altogether?

I'm happy to pay for cable, netflix and more but you really need to stop punishing the majority of honest people, it's just not cool.

The internet gives me a lot more than the predictable formula plots that you do lately.
The World Would Be a Better Place if Everyone Was a Hacker
Hey there. Thanks for posting this on hackernews.
Could someone copy/paste the text of the blog entry here? I am in a country (Denmark) that already has DNS-blocking and I can't access The Pirate Bay (without changing my DNS settings... and I am too lazy to do that right now).
Sorry, but neither speaks to me. I wouldn't want to associate myself with anything having to do with such a logo.
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Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3483394
Crowdsourcing the funds needed to influence a bunch of democratically elected officials so they will decide on policy that the consensus agrees with.

There is something seriously wrong, when we need a majority to band together and pay off a group that's whole purpose is to represent us.
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so using ssh would be now illegal?
That's how wrong they were. ;)
Well, first of all, the justices are not legislators, they belong to the judicial branch whose job it is to interpret and apply the law that exists. Including treaties that have been signed.
We should have lobbyists pushing Congress to investigate Hollywood studios for massive fraud-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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Epoch time vs. time of day
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html
I plotted the last 24 hours of sopa vs pipa tweets
And while on that subject, you can check out:
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicm/book.html

[ A complete course on Lagrangian mechanics (the stuff you need to solve mechanics problems more complicated that the simple types of motion covered by Newtonian mechanics), with each equations are actionable.]
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You probably shouldn't have skipped the day when they talked about market saturation. Infinite supply does not imply infinite demand.
You can joke around with this stuff but if your passion is the arts and real creativity (without profit motive) it's sickening.

In Ireland when senior fat cat state servants are threatened with any kind of reprimand the media and unions are mobilized for operation 'blue collar' shield. Police, nurses and teachers are wheeled out to protect the cabal at the top. It always works.

So Newscorp, Hollywood and the Label's are protecting the creative people now, the little guy? As brazen as you would expect from the axis of (creative) evil.
Perhaps it is not banal to say "INTERNETS" if you are indeed writing about the problem of network fragmentation?
If I remember correctly the eternal september refer to usenet and AOLs decision in September to let their users access it.
Isn't this largely what the recording industry and movie studio model is? They front the money to an artist to pay to produce a work and the artist relinquishes further control. In this case the patron is buying the work in order to resell it.
Office 2010 Home And Student is $119 and it gets you Powerpoint, Word, Excel, and OneNote.

If that's too much, though, I'd recommend just using either http://office.live.com or http://docs.google.com. They're easier to use, the files don't get lost, they have all the features students will need, the documents auto-save, they're available on any computer with an internet connection, it's easy to share the documents (read-only or read-write) online, and the services are free. I've set my daughter up to write all her papers online, and it works great.

If you haven't tried http://office.live.com, you should check it out. It's really a slick.
Why can't we just add a leap minute every century, or a leap ten minutes every millennium?
Plan to censor the Internet violates human rights: Tim Berners-Lee
What's great is that the cartel is so late to the digital game. They've fucked themselves, and the only thing left to do is do what they've always done...lobby.

But it's too late. It's game over for these jerks. Whether it takes 5 or 15 years, they're on the downward slope in terms of control.
Right the judge said that congresses move was to align the two. She made the decision that their lead was more important. Both acted in direct contrast to the interests of citizens. My point being that neither are acting in the interest of the American citizens.
We got just under 1.6 million page views, whereas on an ordinary weekday we'd get just under 1.3 million.
A summary of what SOPA really says
Pretty harsh. Care to elaborate a little more?
I just think that when Americans' main hope to reform their system is a 76 year old guy running for president, there is a bigger problem.

Granted, this guy is an ideologically pure multi term congressman loved by many people. But if Obama got gray hair from 4 years, I can only imagine what the congress is gonna do to this fiery fellow...
Managing Scrum - 4 teams
You need to manage scrum with 4 teams of 4-6 people.

These teams are geographically distributed so sticky notes are not an option.

All 4 teams are generally working on the same product, however, they will be focused on separate parts of a larger system. At times tasks will span teams.

What tool would you use for managing the backlog and the sprint backlog?
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Completely off-topic: I feel more grateful for the access to Wikipedia after a blackout day.

Good luck, Amit, with your plan!
You, sir, have a good source!
I for one am going to
1) stop buying newspaper
2) not listen to radio, and
3) not watch TV (ok, I was doing this already)

because I'm a little tired of old media and wouldn't mind if it went out of business a little faster.
What an unsubstantial TV ad. The resistance from the anti-SOPA side comes with factual arguments. However they've chosen to go with their usual favorites: meaningless symbolic imagery and biased, baseless statements. They're trying to push their way through this with brute force. Idiots.
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Question about Composite Hash Keys that someone might have the answer to (or be able to relate to other known implementations):

The composite key has two attributes, a “hash attribute” and a “range attribute.” You can do a range query within records that have the same hash attribute.

It would obviously be untenable if they spread records with the same hash attribute across many servers. You'd have a scatter-gather issue. Range queries would need to query all servers and pop the min from each until it's done, and that significantly taxes network IO.

This implies that they try to keep the number of servers that host records for the same hash attribute to a minimum. Consequently, if you store too many documents with the same hash attribute, wouldn't you overburden that subset of servers, and thus see performance degradation?

Azure has similar functionality for their table service, requiring a partition key, and they explicitly say that there is a throughput limit for records with the same partition key. I haven't seen similar language from Amazon.

Whether you scatter-gather or try to cluster values to a small set of servers, you'll eventually degrade in performance. Does anyone have insight into Amazon's implementation?
Wikipedia on SOPA: We're not done yet
The Web Flexes Its Muscle
From the pricing page (http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing):

---

If your items are less than 1KB in size, then each unit of Read Capacity will give you 1 read/second of capacity and each unit of Write Capacity will give you 1 write/second of capacity. For example, if your items are 512 bytes and you need to read 100 items per second from your table, then you need to provision 100 units of Read Capacity.

---

Looks like 1KB is the minimum for calculations.
On the contrary, it's thriving. Grails 2.0 just released last month and it will take some time for new publication to pick up the new stuff.

Read the only ref doc.
Will be your gift shop battling with low sales? 
Perhaps you have pointed out that your salary have been decreasing because of the low sales that your shop is dealing with? The decreasing economy could be a factor which leads to the lower sales.
Why would you need to do this? No internet connection?
sadly, this too seems to be true much of the time:

one is for fun, one is for pedantry
I am a fan of typeless languages for small project and build files. But js takes the cake because it doesn't even distinguish between ints and floats.
Thanks so much for very informative reply!
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You already did a "Show HN: WebEngage" 3 days before this one.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3463407

Why are you spamming HN?
Keeping customer interests in mind
Companies adopt different strategies at different points in time to keep pace with customer demands and expectations. For iYogi, it is the ‘iyogi complaints’ form which it believes will get things rolling in the right direction.
What is the daily variance like?
"unauthorized copying" seems to me to be the most accurate and least loaded
Also no types means no type completion and no refactoring.
Nope. Let's get rid of this horrible date-time system we have. I can't wait for gataca or the singularity to take away these crazy time and productivity wasters.
I'm surprised they didn't include "think of the children", although "criminals stealing american jobs" is pretty close.
Your argument applies to legalizing bribes also :)
Apagón virtual en EEUU contra la ley SOPA | Navegante | elmundo.es
It really bothers me that their lobbying organization is called "Creative America". Creative America is me and other people who make things. It's not corporate parasites who form insidious symbiotic relationships with corrupt congressmen to pass laws that strangle free expression.

"Creative America" does not represent artists and intellectual property producers. It represents the interests of the predators who feed off out what we produce while adding nothing of value, and the interests of those who want more power and control over the populace, including the ability to stiffle dissent.

I think Ars Technica should either put "Creative America" in quotes, abbreviate it CA, or place it in italics. Appearing many times in the article in plain typography is confusing and misleading.
You've merely proven that copyright infringement is not bicycle theft. I think we all agree on that.
That may be true for an application with a constant load, but applications with a less balanced load have to provision for their peaks. My company (Malwarebytes) has very irregular traffic (at the hour mark we get very big spikes, but only for a couple of minutes) and it seems like we would have to provision (for this specific app) that peak for the entire hour. I might be misunderstanding the billing for this service though- if we ask for more units for 15 minutes, would the billing be prorated?

This actually hits on my only real issue with AWS in general, which is the hourly billing. We've used the mapreduce service a bit, and having a cluster roll up and fail on the first job is heartbreaking when it has a hundred machine hours associated with it. Obviously that is far, far cheaper than us building out our own cluster (especially with spot instances, which I can't even describe how much I love), but for some of the services smaller billing times would be useful.
There's nothing about the US's past behavior which suggests that we're afraid of pissing off friendly countries. :) We're a bunch of international bullies, basically.
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replace('complement', 'compliment')
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Where Does My Tweet Go?
Ask HN: Best/worst mobile app dev experiences?
I'm looking to develop apps for both iOS and Android over the next few months. Coming from web dev, I was tempted to go with frameworks like PhoneGap until a few friends strongly recommended going native.

Now I'm considering hiring contract developers from both worlds, but not without a dose of HN wisdom.

So... what was your best/worst experience developing a mobile app?
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Personally if the USA signs a treaty in good faith that they themselves heavily influenced, I would expect them to follow it. Sometimes that may come into conflict with other expectations, such as public domain works becoming copyrighted again. So then the expectations have to be compared and that's what the justices did.

To be honest, I think it's the attitude towards copyright vs freedom that is skewing the perception here. It's true that copyright provides government monopoly and special interests are able to extend it, and I don't like that. But when we sign a treaty we should be expected to uphold it.
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The site seems down. Do we need a mirroring service to help with "the HN effect"? Or just people to fix their sites?
We doan need no steeenkin' badges!
>Provided that companies exist as legal persons

Nothing I've said relies on the legal fiction of corporate personhood. I was careful to speak only of the rights of natural persons.

>Clamping down on corporate political speech would hardly restrict the speech rights of individuals.

I respectfully disagree. If corporate political speech were unprotected, then Congress could have outlawed the SOPA protests by reddit, Google, and other corporations. Do you not feel that this would constitute an abridgement of the rights of the people behind reddit and Google to help inform the public about the nature of these bills?

If a group of individuals can join together and form a corporation to publish a book on almost any subject, but are specially prohibited from publishing a book endorsing or opposing a candidate or bill, then it seems to me that such a prohibition would clearly be an unlawful violation of the First Amendment, because it discriminates against certain speech based on the content of that speech.
control over your creative works is not a right, nor should it be.
"a reasonable reading of the law". Anyone relying on this when thinking about new laws deserves to have their constitutional rights slowly eroded year by year. Take Hong Kong as an example. Originally the idea universal suffrage would be applied in 2007. However due to less than "reasonable" readings of the law, the government now claims universal suffrage will apply in 2017. As of 2012 the government has performed zero actions in preparation for this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Hong_Kong#Universal...

The Hong Kong basic law stipulates the ultimate goal is universal suffrage, but every action until now by the government indicates it desires the delaying of this indefinitely.

Hong Kong was promised 50 years of autonomy, but after 10 years interference from the Chinese government has only increased. Why is the biggest and most funded political party in Hong Kong backed by the Chinese government?

See, you can only expect "a reasonable reading of the law" in reasonable times. When times are unreasonable the laws must be bullet-proof to be able to protect citizens.

When the average bill blows out to a thousand pages, it is in no way "bullet-proof".
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Yeah, we wouldn't want any memes popping up on HN now would we?
I agree. It is all too natural to accept things as they are--just go with the flow. The world would benefit having more people take a hard look at systems and situations we take for granted, call out short comings, and take action to improve things. The trouble is that hackers are more apt at noticing these deficiencies than the laymen. How do you encourage this heightened awareness in everybody? Entrepreneurs have profits and hackers have their curiosity. What motivations are there for everyone else?
Ask HN: Best off the shelf shopping cart?
We're outgrowing our shopping cart and want to move to something more modern (and ideally not written in PHP, but not too opposed to PHP). Is Spree the best game in town? I'm also fine paying for something more closed if it just works better.
1. I'm presenting a counter-point to the idea that 'no movies will be made.'

2. The idea that 'if piracy becomes rampant, then there will be no $100-million movies' usually comes up in piracy discussions. I'm asking whether or not we really need $100-million movies. Would the world be that much worse off without them? This is not a side of the issue that I've seen come up in these discussions, so I'm posing the question.
What is the most practical way to send this video to the members of Congress so they can become better educated on the ramifications of these bills?
The statelessness constraint is there to provide for cacheability; so that resource usage doesn't scale on a per-connection basis. HTTP's architectural constraints might not always be the best fit for your application's architecture, but the constraints aren't arbitrary.
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It would be more like replicating the computer from outside the house using telephone lines. Leaving the original in your house, but having an identical one for their own.
And once again someone confuses things. There is a difference between selling a performance and reselling a copy of that performance.

Let's turn it around.

Would you pay for someone who sent you a video of some work they did for someone else?
...and plagiarizes Steve Albini:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Codecademy instructs you immediately. Tryruby has a tutorial hidden as a "help" link among other identical-looking links. It is not a clear call to action.
That's an excellent point, one that is illustrated in the book, "Punished By Rewards."

http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm
But it's not the actual copy but the ip.

So it's not really any different, besides of course that transcribing someone's licks and incorporating it into your own style isn't going to get exposed.
I am not the average HNer... Thanks.
Public Domain Works Can Be Copyrighted Anew, Supreme Court Rules
"Until voters come to understand that their responsibility extends to more than just making a cross every 4 years (and many don't even do that) then we can't complain if others are filling the void."

that is the truth, and an ugly truth it is. But given the increasing complexity of human society, and various other vested interests, its no wonder moms and dads cannot make an informed choice over who to vote for. The problem isn't one of 'dont give a fuck', its one of 'how do I give a fuck when I have mouths to feed and work to go to'.

Mean while, the top 0.1% lobbies some more...
Stopping SOPA isn't enough. Fight back!
Yesterday was a huge victory for the Internet. We fought valiantly to stop an unjust legislation that should never have even been written.

But we haven't done enough. Head to the link above (or to https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom) to join the Free Software Foundation in their fight to not only stop unjust laws, but to prevent circumstances that lead to them. Our duty as citizens is not just to fight the unjust laws when they come up, but to fight against an unjust system!
This has reinforced something I have begun to suspect only recently, and over time am growing in certainty about - take holidays, take them often and get away from the daily monotony.

I've experienced the same feelings that the OP mentioned, and when he said he hadn't taken a holiday since 2007, alarm bells started ringing.

My bursts of inspiration, motivation and the flow of new ideas almost always comes during my 'time off' where I am completely disengaged from everything.

Not saying this works for everyone, but at least for the OP and myself, this is certainly true.
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I wonder if there are enough burned out developers to form a support/meetup group in the Triangle.

I've also struggled through a couple of phases of burnout... and I'll probably be there again at some point, as hard as I've been thrashing on this startup. So count me in, for one.
Why would it give you less freedom?

Software will turn into SaaS anyway or to onLive types of constructions.
http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...
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Good. The more antiquated notions they use in their propaganda, the less likely they are to succeed.
Cut the roots not the branches. Excellent post by the inimitable Jeff Atwood.
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Once again Salman Khan explains what needed explaining to many people.

However, SOPA has changed since then and now
* specifically only applies to foreign sites
* excludes the DNS cutoff

It is still "flawed", as Darren Issa says, and I think the OPEN act, deputizing the ITC is actually way better. It would first offer the offending foreign sites a chance to enter into arbitration before taking any unilateral action against them by the USA.
Republicans pretend to be the defenders of Christian values, so they should take notice that Christ was the first "pirate".

He took five loaves and two fish (paid for or earned by work) and MULTIPLIED them to feed 5000. And this was his first miracle.

So Jesus is the proto TPB founder!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_the_multitude
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They're not idiots. They're very good at making emotional appeals that will reach people who are not like us.
Has kind of the same ring to it as "Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea", doesn't it? If you have to put it in your name, you're not really it...