skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how do you create that "somebody" in a world hostile to self-bootstrapping? The only option I see is to spend a significant (and economically fairly stupid because of the opportunity costs you give up in doing so) amount of time incrementally building larger and larger projects, hoping that you're still enough of the flavor-of-the-month that people will continue to fund you. (For an example of why I'm skeptical of this sort of things, I'd suggest watching Mojang's Scrolls title upon release. Edstradamus predicts notable failure.)

Valve, with the original Half-Life didn't come completely out of nowhere, but it was pretty close. I am confident enough to say that it wouldn't have happened if they had to use a Kickstarter clone. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but I can't think of a case where a creative work running, say, $5,000,000 (which is a moderate movie budget, if you have examples from that medium) was pre-funded by a crowd of consumers (i.e., excluding patronage, which I think most would agree is not a desirable model to return to) as opposed to profit-seeking investors.
Sorry about that. We use sunlightlabs excellent Congress API but there are a few quirks with it. Try changing to another zipcode in your area and you should see results.
What else do you expect from Asymco and Horace? They predicted that Android would never take off like it did, The whole site seems to be predicated on telling Apple fans what they want to hear with a lot of twisted analysis.

They're basically the inventor of the "profit derived" metric (by which IIS is totally dominating Apache/nginx in web servers). Of course the PC is dying according to them.
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Right: command is in the wrong place w.r.t. a typical Windows keyboard. There's no simple built-in option in the OS to fix this.
As usual the article misrepresents video compression. Almost l useful coding tools are spatial and not frequency based; the only famous one (DCT) was replaced with a rough approximation in H.264 and it works just as well.

This is because lots of realistic images don't really have meaningful frequency-based content. (imagine sampling every 8 or 16 pixels - would their values be in any way related to each other?)
He describes in some later edition how he typeset the book himself which is in itself a towering achievement (with him not being a typesetter and all).
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The iPhone app is just a thin wrapper around http://m.facebook.com/, so any browser will do.
Yes. But speaking in terms of morale, not laws, not sharing the source code for GPL software is morally wrong and dishonorable. Sharing it is morally right and honorable.
This happened for me. Then I reloaded the page.
The goal isn't really to get people "worked up", it's to raise awareness. You've completely missed the point, and Flickr's method is brilliant because it brings intuition to the impact of what SOPA may actually do.
Seems to be having exactly the desired effect:

"Hey @flickr, if you want to let members blackout their own photos as a protest, great. Letting anyone blackout anyone else's photo? Stupid."

https://twitter.com/#!/fraying/statuses/159702033971150848

fraying == Derek Powazek == someone with close connections to Flickr who, besides that, is a really super smart guy who i'd assume would have got what they were trying to do.
Not exactly.

SOAP is a protocol specification for executing remote procedure calls over a network. SOAP uses XML for its message formatting and data serialization, and (usually) HTTP for its network protocol.

JSON, on the other hand, is a data serialization format rather than a remote procedure call format. It is sometimes used in web services - especially services based on Representational state transfer (REST) - to pass structured data between the client and server, but it is not a remote procedure call protocol in itself.

REST, in turn, is a method for designing a web service so that its functionality is accessed the same way that HTTP works. In REST, the service is organized into resources and methods, with resources corresponding to URLs and methods corresponding to the HTTP request methods: chiefly GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

If you want to access a resource, you issue an HTTP GET request on the URL corresponding to that resource. If you want to create a resource, you issue an HTTP POST request on the URL corresponding to that resource with the data you want to post in the request body. If you want to update an existing resource, you issue an HTTP PUT request on the corresponding URL with the updated data. If you want to delete a resource, you issue an HTTP DELETE request on the corresponding URL.

Recently, many REST web services are designed to accept request data in JSON format and to send responses in JSON as well. Since web services are mainly consumed by client programs (rather than by humans browsing), JSON allows for a generic data structure that the client can consume and parse more easily than HTML, which is designed more specifically to structure documents.
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Exactly this, it's really all about how strong your motive is combined with as you say people will build tools that make things easier.

Let's assume that the only way to pirate content was to install a built from scratch version of Linux and use some command line tools to download what you want, you would have millions of visitors to kernel.org in a fairly short time (in fact I successfully compiled my own kernel years ago knowing almost nothing about Linux).

A good example of this was when I worked for an IT outsourcing company that hired allot of not very technical people to work on it's technical support desk.
There were various fixes for common problems that in fact required quite complex solutions, however most of the staff were still able to carry these out because there was either a script available that simply did the action or there was a set of precise written guides on how to do said actions.
So if customer calls with problem X then do steps A , B , C.
Whether or not you understand these steps only becomes important when there is a problem or when you need to do something non-standard. Plus most non technical people will know at lest one semi technical person who they can enlist to help them.

From the point of view of finding a website there isn't really a lot of perceived difference between typing "amazon.com" into google or typing it into the address bar. There is however a large difference perceived between paying for something and not.
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The problem with timeline, for me, is lack of context. Scroll back to the beginning of my life on facebook and you see exchanges between me and my then girlfriend.

Scrolling through 5 years worth of status updates gave you context for this (sortof), it was psychologically "far" away.

Being able to just click "2006", and easily see that stuff is creepy.

This is why I can't stand this timeline nonsense.

So...do I delete all of this stuff? I don't have a problem with these things being a part of my history, I just don't like them being presented in such a readily-available way...
Figuring out how to use the fuckloads of data that they get either explicitly or via their widgets to sell more ads. Seems rather complicated.
Who's Going Dark to Protest SOPA
This is what we mentioned in our post too. But before we realised, it's kind of too late. We shot the footage first and then tried to 'describe' the parts. We probably will have to do another one soon, given all the comments about the audio stuff.
Yes truly we tend to overestimate the our body's abilities. I remember reading an article of a young and successful executive at Adobe India who prided himself at being very fit (used to run marathons) and also being able to make do with just 3-4 hrs of sleep. He died of cardiac arrest at 35. Thats when I have decided to give myself atleast 6 hrs of sleep daily. Im guessing it should be enough sleep needed.
1. Games and movies still makes lots of money
2. Streaming technologies will render the need for physically storing games, movies or anything more and more obsolete.
3. Just wait til the movie houses start using 3d models in stead.

You see the problem is that you have to think about this in a much larger perpective to realize that things will even themselves out.

With regards to cost of copyright. Then yes when it makes people criminals to the extent it do today and fines them with amounts it do then it is way way way to high.
I suspect the absolutely dismal state of the comments helped to get it flagged into oblivion.
Just hit Esc when the Wikipedia page is loading.
Could we block HN submissions that point to WSJ articles? Maybe Reddit could do the same?
I am honestly curious if the ability to go to sleep almost instantly, even if you are woken up in the middle of the night, is purely genetic?

Or perhaps it's a combination of habits and fitness?

Or could be a symptom of something bad, like exhaustion?
Well, statically-typed languages have a "dynamic" type too. Consider void * in C and C++ and Object in Java and C#. You have to downcast to do anything with them. That's the equivalent of what JS is doing with its dynamic typing. The basic difference is that the "dynamic" type is the default in JS, and the static type is the default in statically-typed languages.
So how does that support your initial reaction at all? Comics aren't NSFW just because you work in a shithole. Tons of things get posted here that aren't related to software development, you think they should all be tagged as NSFW?
>So basically what you are saying is that the truckers should get with the times but the artist shouldn't?

You're playing a game that has nobody's interests at hand.

Yes I'm saying this because 'truckers' are going to get left behind. You still haven't answered the question of whether we should live in the digital age or not.

>Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.

You're playing a game against my argument.
All artists struggle but do you want them to become eternally poor?

>Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.

Do you or many know the difference? Are most making the distinction and buying indie products? I can already tell that they are not.
I got the same error, but I refreshed the page 4 times (resubmitting the form each time) and it finally worked.
I also don't understand how he has PC has as its own category of data, yet separates out PCs such as the TRS-80.

I can't look it up in Wikipedia, but I don't recall how the TRS-80 or other Tandy machines would not be categorized as PCs, even if they also carry the label of micro-computer.

This comes off as another tired attempt to write yet another "The Death of" article that are common to talking heads.

Except for older people who never had a chance to acquire the basic intuition to operate a PC, I'm not aware of anyone who does not own a PC and at least one or many other non-PC devices.

I think it is best said that the PC market has simply matured.
Godwin's law and SOPA
That link is destroying my faith in mankind. I mean, seriously... I try not to be that person that walks around talking about how "the average American is about as smart as a bucket of rocks" or whatever. I generally try to be an optimist and assume that people are mostly capable and competent, albeit prone to the occasional fit of stupidity.

But reading those tweets (assuming they're all real, and that most of them were not written to be sarcastic), it's hard not to think "are all of these people f%!#ng stupid or what?" It says right on the Wikipedia blackout page that it's a 24 hour thing, but half these tweets are like "OMG is Wikipedia gone forever?!?"

WTF? Really? Can anybody read anymore? Does anybody bother to read anymore?

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Western English speaking countries tend to copy each others legislation. SOPA passing in the US would make something similar easier to push through in Australia, Canada, etc.
From my reading of the book (and the exerpt you have mentioned here), I'd agree that System 2 is in play when looking at the Timeline; it does create some cognitive load.

However, I can't remember anything backing your assertion that System 2 is more susceptible to advertising. In fact, my reading is the opposite: System 1 cannot help but read words or look at images, and it is easily swayed by various advertising techniques. It would be System 2 that processes what's happening, realizes you are trying to be sold something that you probably don't want/need, then rejects it. Isn't it a lack of engagement of System 2 that leads people to instinctively click ads or follow spam links?
What if the data is transmitted on a cable under the ocean. Do you get an exemption for being underseas rather than overseas?
And it's excellent marketing, too. Win-win.
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what are you suggesting? banning contracts for distribution agreements? what exactly is a law that makes "copyright an unalienable right"?
You better not darken my photos if I'm paying for the service.
That's wrong. My wife was a staffer at a senator's office. Everything, including faxes, are reviewed.
Sorry to hear that. We're having some load issues but we should have everything stable shortly.
I disagree. As long as Javascript remains a significant vector for "mal-ware", I'll leave it disabled by default and remain cautious about opting-in on a site by site and domain by domain basis. And I'll advise my family, friends, and users to do the same.

Note that, as part of this, you'd better have something to show me without Javascript enabled. If I get a "blank page", I'm unlikely to engage further.

I realize I'm increasingly in the minority and that perhaps the world is "passing me by". On the other hand, more and more "normal" people around me are being compromised by exploits and wondering "WTF".

There's a limited role for more advanced, scripted presentation. But a lot of what currently "requires" Javascript is just needless genuflection.
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I'm pretty sure someone actually just saw Path and thought "that's kind of cool". (And then decided to implement it only on the web and not on the mobile.)
I genuinely do feel bad about slave-driving Apple's suppliers' employees enough to not own any Apple hardware. Or any hardware linked to foxconn.

But I don't feel the least bad about eating organic meat.

As long as animals live a mostly stress and pain free life, I have no problem with using them as food.
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The original title of the post said SOPA, he was just correcting it.
This library is great (and it's been around a while). It even abstracts relatively easy tasks (like product search), making them ridiculously simple to execute.
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We are no doubt pissing off Congress to no end. I wonder what the approval rating of Congress will become after this stunt? 5%? 2%?
Your argument doesn't compute. You're comparing content (photo gallery) with a design structure. The "two column" grid includes photos, locations, new friends, comments, etc.
You keep confusing the two.

If I take an microphone from you, you don't have an microphone. If I copy a song from you, you still have the song yourself.

It might be that you don't see the difference but I do and therein is our disagreement.
It's hard to say what facebook's intentions here without inside knowledge, but I wouldn't discount it. The founder of modern propaganda and advertising, Edward Bernays, performed many extremely subtle experiments that had dramatic shifts in how Americans behave to this day. (By the way, Bernays coined the phrase 'public relations' to replace 'propaganda' after it had been co-opted by the Nazis).

He got women to smoke by calling them 'freedom torches' and orchestrating high society women to light cigarettes in a demonstration for suffrage.

He facilitated the modern retail industry by shifting American behavior from a 'need-based' consumer to a 'want-based' consumer.

There are billions of dollars being spent to increase the effectiveness of advertising and I wouldn't be surprised if one of the world's biggest advertiser used subtle tactics to achieve this aim.
It was Jeff Hammerbacher talking to Business Week after leaving Facebook.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
This is where I first saw it.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
I think proposals of this nature are not productive.

Much of what fuels anti-SOPA/PIPA sentiment is rooted in the principles of individual freedoms and the preservation of a commons that makes the exchange of information, ideas and enables commercial, individual and scientific innovation (amongst a whole long list of other awesome things that the Internet fosters). Taking retaliatory measures against those that exercise those freedoms, as distasteful as their position may be, is exactly the type of behaviour that SOPA proposes. We can each choose not to support those organizations that seek to control the Internet at the behest of Big Media and Hollywood, but to institutionalize controls constraining those that support it is, in my opinion, a victory for SOPA.
I can't be the only person who has never used timelines?

I assumed other people used facebook like me: To read what friends had posted, maybe occasionally post myself and respond to messages/events, nothing more.

The only timeline I have seen was one in which my friend put a picture of baby Jesus as his birth picture...
What would be the rationale for that?
Leaving aside the rather obvious question of what makes you think your taste in music is superior to anyone else, how much MORE of that great, great, great music would get created if the artists didn't have to wash dishes for 10 hours a day to make rent and eat?

Every hour you have to spend working a day job is an hour you can't spend creating.
Actually, I think it's a really optimistic saying.

Think of it more as, "Until we rule out incompetence, we shouldn't assume malice – and incompetence is far more common than malice".
Exactly, compare this to SimpleDB. SimpleDB started out with an advanced query language that let query and filter your results in all sorts of ways. And guess what? SimpleDB is still limited to 10 GB per domain (aka, database). Want to horizontally scale? The official suggestion is to shard your data across domains. This is a really messy solution because you have to preshard based on estimated database size and resharding is nearly impossible (you'd have to rewrite your entire DB).

AppEngine went the other route and provided a very simple database API at first and all queries had to be range scans over an index. Any query you wanted to perform had to be precalculated by defining a composite index and some things (like inequalities on multiple fields) weren't supported. Over time they've built upon their basic database and added features such as a zigzag merge join algorithm which lets you perform queries that were otherwise impossible with a given set of indexes.[1]

I bet DynamoDB will be going the AppEngine route by starting with a simple, scalable base which can be used to build more advanced query engines and features.

1. http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.htm...
And in most cases you pay for a unique concert, sure it's the same songs as the last show but musicians rarely play the music exactly the same way. The best concert include a lot more than just playing the songs. It's worth paying for. The best concert artist put on an act and improvise on stage. It's not easy and it takes talent and work.
I quit my job

That answers the other question I was thinking of, how to do it.

It might have to come to that for me as well. (Yawning as I type this)
Spoken like somebody who doesn't have an answer. It's okay to admit that. But given that you generally seem more interested in calling people "insane" and telling people to go fuck themselves[1] than having an honest conversation, I am unsurprised at your behavior.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468027

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Work-for-hire is a concept that, sure, can work in some cases. It does not solve the problem of the development of significant, large-scale creative works--and making it economically viable to do so. As I've said elsewhere in this comment tree, I find it extremely unlikely that one will fund a Half-Life or a Skyrim through Kickstarter. Can you honestly and with good faith say that you consider it more reasonably feasible for projects to raise multiple millions of dollars on a Kickstarter-esque platform than for private investiture to take the risk of profitability on such a project?

You tell us to "use our imagination" to defend your argument for you. I reject this: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and while I don't expect that you have extraordinary evidence, more than handwaving would be nice. How are large-scale creative works made economically feasible to produce in this utopic world without copyright? To the best of my knowledge, even open-source game projects have never managed this. You can bring up a Wesnoth or something, but the coherence of the game experience is poor at best and for the most part these games simply fail to credibly measure up to the focused, designed experiences of the aforementioned commercial titles. The argument of "settle for Wesnoths" doesn't ring true to me.

Were I to assume bad faith, as you so regularly seem to do (really, you're among the more abusive regular posters here, I'm kind of surprised you get away with it), I would charge that you lack respect for creatives and seem content for them to subsist off the inconsistently extant angels of consumers' better natures. But instead I would rather assume good faith and expect you to have some sort of insight into this world that you imply would be superior. So, put up or shut up.
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I have similar feelings about this. I'm deleting everything that isn't part of my current life, and I've all but stopped posting. It's a shame, really.
>More than 2x actually - the guy behind the glass would be dead, unlike the one behind their improved glass.

I think what twelvechairs meant is that you have to buy (at least) twice as much of the old stuff to keep the guy alive.
Alcohol in general may ease your ability to fall asleep, but it impairs the quality of sleep.
Lamar Smith is a Representative and not a Senator. His committee has nothing to do with PIPA. If you're going to win this battle, then you need to get your facts correct.
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloFax. We got a massive surge of traffic from this and we're adding another instance to deal with this. Will be running smoothly shortly.
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Along these same lines, one could say that Timeline's addition of the personalized banner image with the user's name across it makes users look more like brands, possibly in an attempt to desensitize Facebook users to the difference between brands and actual people.
No, the cow should- the cow is like the pirate- the cow should, I mean the hen should- let me back up for a minute: the mill is like the DNS system, and the oven is like RIAA, so the hen should be able to give bread to the co- shoot, now I'm all confused.
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