skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Translation from CongressSpeak: "Lamar Smith (head of Judiciary Committee) had rigged everything just right, but we got caught out, folks, and now there's too much shit flying 'round. Reid, dude, let's wait a month or two and come back when nobody is watching, ok? Don't worry, we'll still cash those cheques."
Probably the antithesis, also worth reading:

Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/986428.Computer_Power_and...
You're extrapolating what I was talking about, namely the immorality of piracy, to something that I wasn't. Punishment of offenses is another issue entirely, and one that I didn't get into at all.
This is great - put on some tweet/fb like/+1 buttons so we can help spread the word.
I can honestly say that I never thought I would see a Cummins diesel swap on HN. That being said, I am envious I plan to put the same ISB engine in my 68 Bronco.

More to the point of the story, when I started out in the industry, I started as an 3D artist and simulations developer doing 3D for simulations companies. I picked up a lot of CAD skills back then and never really had a use for them since leaving the industry. That is until consumer targets just in time fabrication came about. It is nice to have an idea while restoring an old vehicle, take some measurements, and then draw up a part, upload it to a fab cloud and receive a part in the mail. There are not a lot of people is the hobbies restoration community that have CAD skills and it is a shame, it brings a whole never angle to the hobby. I think as people see friends fabing items, the idea will catch on more and more. I hope in my kids time, drawing an item and fabing it up will be as common as going to the parts store.
Why Vinod Khosla is Wrong on Gamification of Education
Trying to read thru all the hype, this looks like Riak hosted on machines with SSDs, with less features, and a nice billing system in front of it.

Of course for people who want a hosted solution, the fact that it is hosted, is what gives it a lot of value. There haven't been a lot of hosted NoSQL databases, at least on this scale and availability, out there.

But technologically, what's new here? Is there anything here that is really innovative? (not a sarcastic question)
This, along with the normal hell-banning of innocent user accounts.
The only (non kindle) book I buy
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I will take your word for it.
Fight the Online Theft of American Ideas

So copyright is supposed to protect ideas now? And here I thought it was to protect actual works.
Thanks, great feedback. It seems super obvious now, but at the time it clearly wasn't.

Demonstrates how important the story and specifically the tone of the story can be in defining the entire process.
Nice review made me want to go back and read it again
Not just that, even the Google Chrome support for SVG is terrible, it crashes very quickly if you draw a lot of nodes. I also found very simple bugs like moving a SVG objects leaves a trail behind. A good vectorial support is needed to replace flash.
This screams "Innovator's Dilemma" to me for some reason.
The lock-in comes not from the data format, but rather from the quirks of the particular system du jour: API lock-in.
It is true that the UK would be the last country in Europe to "benefit" from SOPA/PIPA, given its current legislation and its general preference to rather not alienate the US. On the other hand, there might be some significant opportunities for countries like Sweden or even Germany, particularly if the German Pirate Party (that originated in Sweden) should make it into the Bundestag/Parliament in 2013, which is entirely possible.
I do not know nearly enough about the deep technical and worldwide ramifications of SOPA/PIPA, but I can see how a bold legislative re-branding of said countries might make them a very attractive place to build consumer-facing web companies. Consider how Berlin has become a mecca for artists: it's not because it's cheap (it is, but there are plenty of cheaper big cities in the world), but because it's by far the most liberal large city in the west right now. ('Socially Liberal', that is.) If SOPA/PIPA or future versions of those should actually pass, places such as Berlin could "brand" themselves as the world's last safe havens for b2c web startups (excluding eCommerce, which would probably benefit of SOPA).
Ironically, this might just be the best argument to convince American die-hard SOPA-advocates that their plans are nuts: imagine a future where "socialist" countries like Sweden host the next Googles and Reddits.
Wikipedia not entirely dark
This is running on SSDs and it makes a HUGE difference.
The OAT Meal's SOPA blackout message
Hear Hear
Interesting. Something I've considered doing, though I'd first look at how to avoid the problems with these systems that the sibling post mentioned (how to get the initial investment, how to enable artists without a reputation to earn pledges, how to guarantee output once the threshold is reached, how to pledge in a binding but revokeable way, etc.) How are you working around these issues?
If your background includes experience dealing with logic, you enjoy wordplay (puns, double entendre, etc.), and you're decent at math then you should have no problem sailing through this book at a steady pace. Someone without such a background will likely have a harder time with it, but if that's not you do yourself a favor and pick it up and just start reading. You just might be surprised at how non-daunting it really is.

I had to share this as people might get put off by all the claims about how it's so hard. It's really not. It requires patience, logical thinking, a good grasp of language, a "plastic" mind, and no pre-conceptions of what it should be saying. I suspect many here will find it to be a thoroughly enjoyable page-turner that they'll be unable to put down.
Wikipedia:

"The project to integrate Tamarin and SpiderMonkey was called "ActionMonkey",[6] but was canceled in 2008[7] because Tamarin's interpreter turned out to be slower than SpiderMonkey."

Ironically, it was too slow :P
I've written both large ActionScript 3 (AS3) projects and large single page Javascript applications so I think I have a pretty good understanding of both languages.

For those of you who haven't done any AS3 programming it is a superset of the ECMAScript 4 standard while browser based Javascript uses ECMAScript 3.1. AS3 "feels" more like Java in that it adds syntax for types and classical inheritance but if you are lazy you can use * for the type and prototypical inheritance still works. Both of those might horrify static language/GOF purists but it does allow you to pass objects around on the side without refactoring pure OOP interfaces or inheritance trees.

In the end I enjoy working in AS3 with its static type checking more than I do Javascript pushed through JSLint. With large Javascript apps, even with strict use of the Module pattern, I feel like my code contains hidden runtime bombs waiting to do off.

Some caveats - I'm on a Windows machine and Flash runs great for me. I've also never developed with "use strict" in Javascript, which I probably should.
> Under SOPA they can only go after .com, .org and .net sites.

Don't worry, legislation can be changed so this "problem" will be "solved" in due course.
Actually, I had no idea it was blacked out. I use a CSS reset to make the whole website green-on-black without images like it's an old mainframe system.
Rackspace deserves a mention.

http://www.rackspace.com/
Former ICANN Chairman sets up company to profit off gTLD's
Instantly put your Heroku app in SOPA protest mode w/ heroku-sopa plugin
Review of Penrose, The emperor's new mind
My friend, Rich, brought a copy to AP Calc. I was at the Waldenbooks in the mall, that afternoon picking up a copy...later traded it for The Complete Works of Shakespeare at university. Picked up another copy, which I still have, about twenty years ago to fill the obvious hole in my library.

It's one of those books that people should be familiar enough with to be able to talk about, even if they haven't read it.
Nope, Flickr is showing "the absurdity" of SOPA by allowing anyone to provide a takedown notice for anything. I thought it was funny / instructive that it even worked on the Whitehouse Flickr feed.

If you'd like to take down my pictures (for today) you can start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramses0/4687505717/in/photostre...
Garner Oposition to SOPA with Two Tweets
Dear god how painful.
I am from Europe, and I have to say that article made me blush. Badly written, bad arguments, no clue. Says a lot about Techcrunch europe that somebody who writes like that is allowed to publish articles.
Specifically:

"Prior to joining Minds + Machines, Peter was the was Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICANN, and in that role managed the process that resulted in the historic decision to launch the new gTLD program in June 2011"
I've been using Azure Table Storage since the beginning and this doesn't seem to be the same. Like others have mentioned TS is more similar to SimpleDB. Now, I would love for someone to give me a tl;dr on the the feature set of DynamoDB so I can make an accurate comparison.

Table Storage does not allow any other indexes other than the main primary ones (Row Key and Partition Key). You also cannot store complex object within fields and use them in a query. You basically just serialize the data and stuff it into the field.

The dynamic schema is very nice if you can leverage it but the actually query support is TERRIBLE. (Sorry Microsoft, I'm a fanboy but you blew it here). There is no Order By or event Count support which makes a lot of things very difficult. Want to know how many "color=green" records there are? Guess what, you're going to retrieve all those rows and then count them yourself. They're starting to listen to the community and have just recently introduced upserts and projection (select). I would love to see them adopt something like MongoDB instead :)

For more issues check out: http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34192-windows-...

Edit - For what its worth. We've moved more things to SQL Azure now that it has Federation support. Scalability with the power of SQL. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/12/13/buil...
That is not your only option. You could also choose not to watch those shows at all. Desires are poor justification for such behavior.
The Movement: The Power of Early Adopters
Which javascript project did you work on that had several million lines of code?

If you can't tell us that, at least tell us what _kind_ of project it was please.
http://www.revitcity.com
Where in the world can you get a large, bright, color, touchscreen like that? I would love for my band to have one.
Wouldn't that have happened naturally already over the thousands of years we have used yeasts?
where is the "witty" and/or "caustic" part of this wall of text?
Oh, then ignore the rules in all cases.
File -> New
I heard it was designed with a manual interface as well. How quaint.
I promise that you will not perish if you do not fulfill your every desire.
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I think piracy sucks. I am a somewhat sympathetic for students and other low-income people, but certainly when you reach the stage where you can make choices about how to spend your money you shouldn't be pirating any more.

However, the corruption of due-process is worse. It truly is dangerous, and I'm saddened that SENATOR Dodd doesn't understand this (or, more likely, chooses to ignore it so he can make some cash).
Wired protests SOPA/PIPA with clever blacked-out homepage
We have a script! Just call and it pops up!
GPL is about sharing the source code of the original or derivative work. Which is pretty honorable. Breaching the terms of GPL means refusing to share.

Regarding your first point, yes, since we're speaking about ethics here, it's morally acceptable to disregard wishes of authors to restrict your freedom of handling copies of their published work, as long as doing this is good for people and makes no harm to authors.

Seriously, what is wrong with people's moral compasses with regards to sharing? Is this the result of brainwashing by publishers? OK, laws are laws, but morals? They have nothing to do with laws. Oh the mighty author, should I apologize to you (or, perhaps, go to jail) for signing your songs before you died + century?
The keypad is live now.
How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles About Free Speech & Innovation
If that was satire, it was poorly done.
If you're running any browser other than Internet Explorer there's a zip code indication which is obvious.
Great clarification. Thank you!
> > The point is that this is my decision.
> Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?

Because, the creative work would not exist if not for the creator. If you take away the creator's right (and I am not arguing that it should be infinite and indefinite), you take away the incentive to produce and expose creative work. In effect, everyone loses.
Reid Says He Will Not Delay Vote on PIPA
Actually I miss the standard dark skinny bar, now it takes one click more to go to my email.

I got mine when I switched Gmail to the new look and started using Google+ but maybe it was just a coincidence.
I'm pretty shocked there was nothing on youtube.com itself. You'd think that would be the biggest target of all for SOPA.
I don't find the alarm clock alone bad, but using the snooze button is for me. Even one of those broken up, disjoint snatches of shallow sleep seems to take away the restfulness of the previous hours of deep sleep I got. I.e. it was the snooze button making me feel zombied; ymmv and all.
Tucows CEO Discusses SOPA on CBC Radio
I agree. Sure discussions about SOPA have their place here, but lately it just felt like a bit echo chamber where you have the same people preaching to the choir using the same arguments over and over again.

If I look at the homepage right now it seems half the posts are "site XXX blacked out to protest SOPA". Do all those need a separate story? The redditization of HN is running wild.

Will september ever end?
Although I'm not the OP, let me comment on these auction models: From an economic point of view, they suffer under high transaction costs.

Transaction costs include legal stuff, distribution, and advertising. The later is probably the largest block. There's only a very small minority who likes to engage in the creation of works. The majority just wants to be entertained. For this, they need signals of quality, and the perceivable amount of advertising is such a signal.
> Even when my dog wakes me up to be let out after she does her business

Wait, you let your dog out AFTER she's done her business? You're doing it wrong.
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Doing something similar.

Hit me back at the address in my profile, if you would.
For one, it responds quicker than Riak: Riak has (cold) response times of about 300ms, while this service claims single-digit ms response times.
Also setting up Riak is not exactly trivial, and using this service outsources that hassle.
Man, that giant touchscreen is going to get dirty fast.
1.5 hour caffeine power naps: I found that if I drink a red bull or a cup of coffee right before going to bed, I wake up in an hour and a half feeling refreshed and alert
This is a very badly title submission. A better title would be: The Manual - a beautifully typeset design magazine in hardback
Pirates and Copyright Holders: Please Stop Making Stupid Arguments
Since when is being a web programmer a prerequisite to participating on HN?
Congress: Tracking Who Supports SOPA, PIPA
A couple of months ago I was looking at Flex. It's a complete nightmare to try and play around with. I downloaded the SDK and tried to make some kind of hello world thing but just trying to make a module with a single function and then call that function was not straightforward at all. I didn't even want a module but I have to have one. Fine. How do I make one? The docs don't even cover this sort of thing. There is basically no tutorial or documentation I could find that told me how to do this. I gave up.

Oh, and that was after I had to add manifest types everywhere like I was writing Java, without a free IDE to complete that junk for me. All the docs I found assumed you have the Flex IDE or Flash Builder whatever it is. Which costs over $500. Apparently it's still 1995 at Adobe Inc.

And people say Haskell is hard to use. I had no trouble getting started with Haskell. `ghci<return>` and away you go.

(I'd like to think that it wasn't my fault. Maybe I'm not as capable as I think I am, but I have written compilers and interpreters in C, Haskell, and Lisp. I have written an x86 assembler in Ruby that emits real x86 machine code as Mach-O binaries. I can write hello world in at least 10 languages. I feel like I have the capacity to understand this stuff. Hello world with an existing compiler should be a piece of cake, not an exercise in frustration.)

edit: Ok, I searched for "flex hello world" and did find something that looks like what I want. I deleted Flex and can't try to run it now though. Still don't like all the complexity but it does look like what I said I couldn't find: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=02_G...
How Various Sites Reacted To SOPA
4-6 hours on weekdays with a 1 hour nap in the afternoon. On the weekends, maybe 10-13 hours.
Sure, that's what the name says and so forth, but haven't you ever heard to not judge a book by its cover? The internals of the bills are so weird, that you can't help but suspect that something else is going on there.
Spare transforms like this are very interesting, and these seem like some very good performance results. It's worth noting, though, that FFTW (http://www.fftw.org/) is still much faster on the sizes of transforms that many (most?) applications do - less than 2^15 or so entries. Also, as the number of non-zero frequencies climbs, sparse algorithms very quickly get overtaken by good implementations of more standard FFT algorithms.

Still, very cool stuff.
Agreed that var hoisting can be tricky before you encounter a situation where it break something. (I suspect this happens to most JS devs at some point. Certainly has to me!)

However, what's wrong with not having types? Sounds like you're just not a fan of dynamic languages since this isn't a JS-specific issue.
Quality hosting/management is a game changer in my book.
Glad someone else noticed, was beginning to feel vaguely disgusted by this continuous barrage of evil foreigners out to take our god given American jobs propaganda passing without rebuke.
This makes me curious. Let's say there was an organized mass-hacking attempt by someone like Anonymous, that took down tens of thousands of websites for several days. Would this affect the Google results, and how long would it take for the results to get corrected?
> Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?

Then the alternative is that all creators keep their output to themselves and people with this entitled attitude never get to make use of their work. Or maybe they don't make something at all. Or maybe they don't even try to learn to make something and get a "real" job because anything they would create is no longer able to buy them lunch. There are people who want to give works away free and for them that's great but what gives any of us the rights to something someone else has made? It's one thing to come across a piece of work legitimately and then be able to do as you please with it.

The music industry is an easy target and even I have a hard time defending them. What about software though? A lot of us here make our living partly due to the protections of copyright. It's one thing to circumvent Apple or Microsoft and pirate some software but what about the indie developer? That guy can't make up the costs with live performances like other types of creators. You either pay for a copy or you don't. If one copy gets bought and 500 get pirated then that guy just got royally screwed. Not all software lends itself to free downloads with paid support. Not all software can be SaaS. So what then? Even open source developers have day jobs. You can't live on PayPal donations and Flattrs.

This whole anti-copyright argument sounds wonderful but the world isn't ready yet. Maybe in another 20 years. The answer isn't to get rid of copyright, the answer is to scale it back to a point where it's more sane.
It is on the requested features list
MN Rep. Keith Ellison joins SOPA blackout; any other Reps doing this?
With regard to reliability, how safe would a service like this be to store your data? They mention "back up to s3" but this sounds more like archiving. I'm wondering about backups in the case of a problem, or is the data so spread across all of their physical locations that data loss impossible?
Let me first state that I'm in basically total agreement with OP and mostly agree with parent, but one point sticks in my craw:

>> The point is that this is my decision.

>Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?

http://thegatheringplacehome.myfastforum.org/archive/life-le...

"Granting the hen the right to distribute (or not) the bread takes that right away from everyone else. How is this justified?" asked the cow.

Um, because the hen made the fucking bread, and the cow didn't. I think that our copyright system is bad, and I personally take similar stance to OP vis-a-vis Big Media, but you'll notice that OPs arguments are pragmatic. "You don't provide a good product" "You hurt me with the fees I pay" "The UX of pirating is better." He's attacking the lazy industry for litigating rather than innovating, attacking the middlemen who are McDucking in swimming pools of cash, and attacking their specious arguments about how you're "hurting the artist" (Funny coming from them: record companies aren't generally known for their generous behavior towards artists). Nowhere does he say "no one should have control over their own works."
Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier on SOPA/PIPA
http://www.bensbargains.net
And then global productivity greatly increased as no one was browsing Reddit or getting lost in Wikipedia. Everyone then agreed that SOPA was a good thing and we all lived in productive ignorance forever. The End.
The best SOPA blackout site
I had a problems with a hosting provider in the past that lead to something similar happening with one of my websites.

Basically rather than explicitly binding each IP address for their servers to the server's MAC address itself they just allowed IP addresses to be assigned on the servers themselves essentially creating IP address conflicts if the same number was assigned by the administrators of 2 servers on the same LAN.

This first manifested itself when I accidentally assigned the wrong IP address to one of my servers and received angry emails telling me that I had taken someone elses site offline. Obviously I was embarrassed by this , apologized and corrected the address and didn't think much else of it.

Months later , after I had a server go down and rebooted it I found that my website was now pointing to some scam site.

Turns out that someone had got a server on the same LAN (rented or hacked I don't know) and assigned it every possible IP address just waiting for another server to go down so that they could steal the address.

Possibly what happened here?