skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really like (2) myself, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

I think there's potential there, but there would need to be a dramatic cultural shift so it didn't just become a case of anything "good enough" was done, with no meaningful incentive to put the final polish to turn good works into great ones. Take a look at the Open Source software community today: it's full of "good enough" products, which do the basic jobs perfectly well for a lot of people, but which often lack the power, flexibility or usability of commercial software because no-one wanted to write the edge cases or spend the time doing tedious polishing-up work.

> But no matter what, copyright is harder and harder to enforce as copying of information becomes cheaper, and it has the potential to get really messy.

Unfortunately, that isn't really true. It would be relatively easy to enforce copyright on the Internet with modern technology. It's just that I (and, I suspect, most other people here) would prefer not to accept the unfortunate side-effects that come with compulsory mass surveillance and automated charges.
That is the textbook definition of anything related to Intellectual Property. The State is supposed to grant a time limited monopoly and in exchange the protected item will return to the public once it is finished.
From the limits page(1) I see you can only have 256 tables per account.

(1) http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/deve...
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I don't disagree, and in practice, I don't pirate except where encouraged by the content owners.

Admittedly, I don't know how or why that particular justification is okay with me, except that I know a number of expats who simply don't have access to American television in any other way.

I understand and agree that I'm being hypocritical, and I agree that piracy is "not okay", which is why I don't do it. However, I simply can't judge the piraters who do so out of lack of availability with the same stance that I judge those who do so casually, or as a matter of course, or because they don't agree with DRM, or because they don't like the record producer, or whatever.

Unavailability just seems like a less shallow justification to me to an act that it still equally wrong.
Namecheap blacks out site (SOPA)
Caught me on a bad day - our son got vaccinated yesterday and ran a bit of a fever, and woke up crying about every hour last night.
Finally, a legit movement for us non-americans!! How are we supposed to protest against this? cover our pages with bubbles?
Well in contrary to the SOPA people, the SOAP people aren't trying to forcibly push SOAP on all of us with laws and treaties. There's enough alternatives. Let them use SOAP :p
USA is, by the very definition of the term, not a third world country.
Thank you, in behalf of all the people that this experience is opening doors for us (at least for me is working)
SOPA: The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
It's fine that the OP doesn't want to pay for media. But, the OP should not take it, no matter how easy it is to do. By all means, abstain from media. But do not steal.
I try to get exactly 8 hours. Most nights I've only been managing 6 and it's really starting to show.

Work itself isn't tough for me... what's hard is working all day, and then only having a few hours to catch up with friends in the evening.

I'm definitely no night owl though. Without someone working to keep me up I'm crashed out by 1am.
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The fact that you can make composite keys should make that irrelevant.

Edit: to clarify, I think that composite keys would make your problem limited to 256 distinct applications, not, for example, 256 customers, users, etc.
Here's a brief overview of DynamoDB vs. BigTable:

http://vschart.com/compare/dynamo-db/vs/bigtable
How so? Can you point out passages?

That seemed like pretty standard reporting to me. They explain what’s happening and bring out the position of each side, with an emphasis on presenting the views of those who take part in today’s protest.

There is also a disclaimer, though you might argue it’s a bit far down.
I suspect that Joe Public will care as much about this as they do about their Facebook privacy.
I completely agree - technically.

If we invent a technology that allows us to read thoughts, should you be allowed to read them without the thinkers permission? The thinker still has their thoughts. What about disseminate them via torrents? Would that be "fair"? Is that the society we want?

What about monitoring conversations via surveillance means? The speakers still have their conversation. Should we be allowed to a) surveil anyone and b) distribute that surveillance digitally as the surveilled still have their conversation?

The time is close approaching where such questions will need to be asked and I see little difference between piracy of songs, movies or other artistic expression and the extraction and distribution of thoughts against the owners wishes. The only real difference is that the artists chose to let it out into the world in a way the pirate didn't like. One way was via concert/itunes/cd/dvd, another way could be a conversation with a friend. Both ways the pirate says they have the right to use it how they want - original thinker be damned.

In my view it comes down to respect. While technically it's not stealing, you're still an asshole for using others thoughts without their blessing.

I can imagine the day where someone hacks into your laptop, records you in a compromising position, shares it with the world and shrugs and says "how is it stealing if you still have that something"? I just copied your dignity.

Not all that can be stolen is a thing.
As with all the other AWS services you can have your limits lifted upon request.
While putting my data completely in the hands of another company makes me nervous, I have used s3 since its release and have had no problems. Amazons really seems to "get" developer needs. I do wish they would ease down a smidge on thier pricing in general, but otherwise I really feel about them the way I feel about google at this point.
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I wonder if the protest suffers if too many sites that are publicly perceived as "evil" or even "slightly evil" join the blackout. The public might start to think that these sites should be blacked out.
Unlike what most people probably think, not all boards on 4chan are NSFW and the home page is certainly SFW.

4chan is not just /b/.
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And if one person buys a digital work due to piracy who otherwise would not have even known the artist existed, there is a benefit.

Do you have any evidence that the costs outweigh the benefits?
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Adobe: Oh, had enough, eh?

The Web: Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.

Adobe: Yes, I have.

The Web: Look!

Adobe: Just a flesh wound.

The Web: What are you going to do, bleed on me?

Adobe: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
It's important to note that scoping on Python for loop variables does not behave the same way it does for a C# foreach.

While it's possible to write this in Python:

for i in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
pass
final_value = i

The same in C# is not possible, i.e.:

int[] values = {1, 2, 3, 4};
foreach(int i in values) {
}
var final_value = i; // there is no i here!

It makes no sense to "fix" this in Python because the loop variable is created in the scope outside of the for loop. It seems to make sense in the case of the C# foreach (but not the C# for!) because that variable is inaccessible outside of the foreach loop scope anyway. I would still argue introducing inconsistent behaviour between for and foreach as they are doing in C# 5 is just going to further obscure this problem and not really eliminate it.

Anyway, as far as Python is concerned, closures close over variables not values. Creating special cases where this is not the case is bound to generate even greater confusion.
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Why do you feel entitled to it in the first place? It isn't your god given right to watch community in hd at the drop of a hat. If the old gaurd isn't providing what you want then don't buy their stuff. Use your money to invest in services that ARE paving the way to the future. If the profit margins on the industry are as large as people say, it should be a race to the bottom, just like you see with artists self distributing these days.
I think copyright infringement by itself is unfair and impolite, but at a certain point, some organisations have taken action that probably realigns the hierarchy of acceptable behaviour when it comes to copyright infringement.

Under no circumstances ever should people actively sabotaging the freedom of expression of the entire world ever be supported by any payments from anyone, ever. Especially not the people whose world they're trying to destroy. When it comes to organisations that have lobbied for or support SOPA, piracy of their works is to me the second best step on a ladder of approaches.

1) Boycott them, there is nothing wrong with this plan, you shoot yourself in the foot a little if they made something you want and you refuse to purchase it due to principles, but it's probably the most noble of all approaches.

2) Pirate anything they produce that you wish to consume. You may be making an impolite move and breaking a law that if it were used to protect other organisations that weren't such poisonous vile scum it would be immoral to break, but at least you're not feeding the beast.

3) Actually pay them for their content, at this stage you are not breaking any laws but you are effectively contributing to their continued existence and their lobbying to destroy the world as we know it.

If absolutely NOONE picks door number three, the problem will finally be solved. And this entire debacle is all the evidence anyone should ever need that they so desperately deserve destruction.
Every capital-A Agile deployment I've ever seen uses Scrum to try to run programmers like line cooks.
Awesome. Anybody want to sublease a 3 yr RDS reserved instance? :P
The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA
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This article is a hit piece. This is the reason why Woz, as much of a genius as he is, could never be the CEO of any tech company. This story has been re-posted a million times and virtually every one of them has intentionally misused his words (like Dan Lyons) in an attempt to damage Apple's reputation.

1. Woz already said in the original article that he believed the iPhone was a superior phone which wasn't mentioned in this article.

2. Woz is a tinkerer. The iPhone doesn't grant you that privilege. Android does.

3.From part of the article's headline:

>Wozniak says the iPhone is for people who like simple, pretty things while the Android-based smartphones offer greater capabilities

This isn't what he said. Woz said he wished the iPhone had more capabilities and that it was a beautiful device. This is not the same thing.

Woz seems like one of the nicest people in the world but people abuse him because he is so kind and open to speaking to anyone. I do agree with some of the things he said but every time you see someone attempt to get a quote from him they use it maliciously.
So this is what the next macbook pro will be made of?
TL;DR;

"It's more convenient and less expensive to pirate!"
Well with the direction CSS is taking, Javascript isn't only for 'cool and moving things' anymore. I use Cufon for fonts, since it's better and cleaner than font-face.
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I would put "CLR via C#" at the top of that list. An absolutely necessary read for anyone using .NET

http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-C-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/073562704...
php.net is also black

EDIT: it looks like only the landing page is dark
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Then write down the IPs, take a photo of the page on a wooden table, and share the photo on 68.142.214.24 (flickr.com)!
Fast, Consistent, Secure & Replicated.

Game changed.
Here's a brief overview comparison of DynamoDB vs. BigTable:

http://vschart.com/compare/dynamo-db/vs/bigtable

The site is also able to compare many other different databases.
> I'm also a supreme night owl, doing my best work around 6-9pm ...

Me too, and I get 6-7 hours of sleep a night, yet I do not feel "sleep deprived" at all.
quite ironic given the poster's highly-editorialized title
I simply do not see how competing cloud vendors can keep up with this. Most of them are still struggling to provide anything beyond a simple API to start/stop machines.
It's not stealing, it's counterfeiting, which is much worse. Here is why:

When you steal a car, that one car is stolen. No big deal. If piracy goes unchecked, over time, the perceived value of that item will go down. This is because most people will quickly and easily be able to get it for free. Revenue will go down as a result of this and instead of having the loss of an individual copy of that product, the entire product line loses money. Something that just doesn't happen with physical products.

The same principal can be applied to the news: Many newspapers are going out of business because you can get the exact same info for free from many other sources.
House to Resume SOPA Debate in February
This seems like preaching to the choir. How many people who read XKCD (or BoingBoing for that matter) aren't already aware of and opposed to SOPA/PIPA? I applaud the effort and a show of solidarity in the tech community is worth something, but it would be much more effective if we could black out Hotmail and a bunch of niche cat/knitting/scrapbooking forums.
Take the title "Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest". I immediately read that as "wikipedia is supporting piracy". YMMV
/co/ is fine for work.
ooo racey
>"I'll bite" == "I'll take the bait".

Which indicates that your mentality is "anyone who says anything is better than freebsd for any purpose must be trolling". That sort of rabid fanboyism doesn't make for productive conversation.

FreeBSD includes a very old, partial port of PF. Even CARP which is very simple is missing functionality in FreeBSD. And as I already mentioned, bgpd is fully integrated with PF and routing domains in openbsd, it isn't in free (which doesn't have routing domains).

>I'm just amused by your comment given that FreeBSD's network stack has vastly superior performance and support for far more 10GbE interfaces.

Did you have some data to support that claim? I've seen no such benchmarks, and the only 10gbe driver freebsd has that net/open haven't pulled in that you can actually purchase hardware for is broadcom, which is broken and can't even do 1gb in reality. All 4 BSDs pull in hardware drivers from each other all the time. The great thing about the BSD license is that when one project does some great work, everybody else catches up quickly. :-)
Agreed. Even after years working with C#, there are things that could still surprise you within this book.
That is of not much use to the user. By blacking out the whole page, users are now forced to read about the Reddit's stand against SOPA and PIPA which people might miss if Reddit follows your suggestion. Even people ignorant about SOPA and PIPA will read this and get a clear understanding about it
> Not all that can be stolen is a thing.

Good example and I agree. But I think it should be called something else rather than theft. Because one issue with this is how much have you lost after something was copied. That's the law suit side of this. Grandmas are being asked to pay hundreds of thousands of $ because their grand-kids downloaded Lady Gaga songs. By calling it "stealing" they are able to convince juries and judges that this is the equivalent of grandma breaking into a bank and taking $100k worth of gold and then speeding away. You see the problem?
More repulsive than what's already there.
Try adding a nap in the middle of the weekdays, it should make you feel much better (around half an hour should be enough)
This has circulated recently:

http://www.en2palabras.com/f10/mafalda-nos-explica-que-es-la...

Mirror:

http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/13583646/Mafalda-nos-expli...
I agree with your first point; gerrymandering is the cause of a lot of our problems, I believe. But a 3rd party would be just as susceptible to tampering.

I think a better approach is to define an algorithm for setting boundaries: something like "minimal border perimeter of districts, starting from the northwest corner of the state". But we might need to find a way to avoid breaking up cities between districts, that makes it a lot more complicated.

Your proposal would not have saved the Bush/Gore election mess. The big controversy there wasn't over the recounting, but in the way that State laws governing the counts would be enforced, in the context of the 14th and 15th Amendments. Any legislation you propose would probably fall afoul of the same problems. In any case, I believe that actual voting and counting is a very minor issue today in America.

And your third suggestion is already in force. Political donations must be reported today.
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Well, let's say you sleep 6 hours a night, and some one asks you: "If you slept 2 hours less each night, image what you could accomplish with that extra two hours every day. Just start sleeping 4 hours a night and eventually you'll get used to it!".

For some of us 10+ hours is a biological necessity, I've tried forcing myself to sleep exactly 8 hours a night for two weeks at a time and it destroys me mentally, every waking hour is torture because I'm so sleep deprived.
People will do ANYTHING to hate on Apple. Including smearing the name of Woz. Anything is fair game in the battle to prove that Apple is nothing more than overpriced chinese shit.

It's quite sad to see so much useful human effort wasted on something so trivial.

Use what you like. It's not the platform that matters, it's how you use it. Find the platform that connects with you and allows you to do more afterwards than you could before. And then continue doing more.

Why take time to sip the hater-aid? You could be off making the next big thing.
I linked a SFW board.

(you can tell 4chan's SFW boards from NSFW by the background; the blue ones are - or, at least, should be - SFW, the yellow ones are NSFW)
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4-6 hours on week nights but I try to compensate by skipping 9 or 10 hours at weekends. The reason I get so little is spending too long in the office and then unwilling to simply go to sleep at normal time having enjoyed hardly any leisure time. Plus I start work at 6.30am.
I'd imagine we'll soon see a SSD option for EBS volumes. Sounds like it'll be pricier (as you'd expect) - $1/GB for DynamoDB storage (but replicated to three volumes, sounds like).
Does that apply for the 50-per-account cap on S3 buckets as well?
The Oatmeal - Anti-SOPA Homepage
The GNU project goes dark, too
Unless you have to integrate with their "mission critical" SOAP based "enterprise solution".
I agree with your sentiment, but it seems you have a contradiction here: " (All I have left is to make a list of the music I have and listen to in order to delete it all and slowly purchase it, which I've started doing). I either pay for something, borrow it or go without."

If you really believe what you say, you'd delete all your pirated music right now. Either that, or you might modify your views a bit.
> If the food is too expensive at your favourite restaurant, you don't pull a runner after the meal, you simply don't eat there, and you hope that in time the owners will realize and make adjustments. But if they choose not to, then that is their right.

Stuff like this really hurts your argument, IMO. When you eat at a restaurant and then don't pay, that restaurant loses a substantial amount of money. When you pirate something, the creator loses zero money.

If we're going to discuss piracy, let's discuss piracy, not other crimes which may appear to be somewhat related. Otherwise you get completely bizarre arguments like this: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l605vu5xV11qcw66ho1_500.jp...
but which often lack the power, flexibility or usability of commercial software because no-one wanted to write the edge cases or spend the time doing tedious polishing-up work.

Yes, the edge cases, the personalization, the polishing. There will always be work in that. Adapting systems to their specific surroundings. Every place, every person is unique, and has specific demands. That's what I meant with the cookie-cutter stuff going away.

it would be relatively easy to enforce copyright on the Internet with modern technology

Sure, but is just as easy to avoid copyright enforcement with the current technology. And for those desperate there is always the analog hole. That kind of summarizes the DRM "war".

compulsory mass surveillance and automated charges

Because that'd effectively be an Orwellian world. So we'd need to go to a total surveillance state, centrally controlled world, just to make sure things keep working as they do now. Just to make some people happy at the expense of the rest. That's not only inhuman, but very unstable as well.
I wish I could sleep more but my body doesn't want. I sleep 5-6h/night; sometime I take a nap on the afternoon.
Upvoted not for the humor, but for the aptness of the analogy. JavaScript is universal and free. If Adobe can create a sort-of-compatible environment that allows certain classes of apps like games to run better, great for them. Perhaps their marketing can be, "If JavaScript isn't fast enough, we've got you covered."

At least it's not Dart!
If you really hate MPAA, do not do any business with them. No more "going to watch the movies". But thats more further most people can go.
It seems as if this site is a user-edited wiki, and there are a lot of things that need to be filled in (in case anybody is up to speed on DynamoDB and wants to help). For instance, the Map/Reduce entry was still '?' when I wrote this.
Really hope they don't touch the docs.
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Just because a company is made up of people does not mean that it will push legislation that represents those people. The interests of a corporation as a whole can be quite different than those of the individual.
I love great satire. This just made my day.
100 Kenya government websites breached by Indonesian hacker
Slickdeals.net has an anti-SOPA popup on page load and they censored their logo as well.
Interesting choice of quote at the bottom of the page. I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the Joy Division song, "Digital".

Never pictured rms as a Joy Divison fan :)

EDIT: It is a JD reference. The header spells DIGITAL in ASCII.
remind me to try reading this tomorrow
NPR also misrepresents SOPA protest
Don't blame CNN for that, we should blame ourselves. We should have called this the anti-jobs bill from the get go.