skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"not excited enough" would be a good description, yes. You'd be surprised how much you can positively affect a video just by showing more enthusiasm about the subject. Think about what kind of tone you might use when telling someone about a great movie or a great restaurant.

I do agree that it's not easy, but for the sake of your product, since you've put so much time and effort into it, i would urge you to persevere a little longer.

I'd also like to echo the comments of "underwater", in that you should stray away from getting caught up in scripts that sound like you're reading out the help manual.

Wish you the best of luck ;-)
There's something cheeky about it, almost-- "Well, we wouldn't want to steal any of your users, haha!" wink

All in good fun, though, I suppose :)
Yea, read the entire article please!
Relevant links:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2012/01/whos-behind-koobface-bo...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/
But isn't a market price determined by what people think the value is, not what the intrinsic value actually is?
What bothers me is that in most news coverage the set up veers further off as "copyright owners" vs "internet giants". This sets the tone that only large Internet business are protesting SOPA because they make money from pirating in some way. It completely overlooks the fact that the backlash is largely driven by average informed users.
Well, that's nice. But still, having told them I want a service, and having paid for it, I am now required to notify them that I still want to get the service that I already paid them for?
I think you can get Riak as a service at Joyent cloud.
Congressman blacks out his official .gov website
This reminds of a story mentioned in Steven Levy's "In The Plex". Larry and Sergey are showing off their page rank algorithm to a search engine company early on showing how much better and faster it is. The person they're showing it to is upset at how fast it is saying, "it's too good". He wanted the search to be slow so that users would be stuck on the search engine page longer and view more ads. Larry and Sergey left thinking the guy was an idiot.

I don't think it takes that much intuition to realize that treating your users well and building something for them will be better in the long run.
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Amazon offers CloudWatch for individual tables.
"If I take an microphone from you, you don't have an microphone."

..and so I have to buy a new one if we both want to have one at the same time.

"If I copy a song from you, you still have the song yourself."

Awesome, we can just buy one then and split the cost! But why stop there? Let's also give a copy to Tom, Dick and Harry so that each pays 20%! Now, what if we could somehow share the song and the cost with a hundred million people across the world..
I recently purchased a laptop with Windows 7 at a national chain, and there is no CD. If I set up a dual boot, which I normally do, I'll be forced to get a pirated version. There is supposedly a way to reinstall from a hidden drive or partition, but that would take over the entire drive. I always wanted to be legit, but I'm not going to pay again for something that I legally already have.
Mathematical methods (as such!) are a specific exclusion in Europe (EPC 52(2) &(3)).

Of course that as such gives you somewhere to hang your patent application if you can afford the patent lawyers fees to protect the monopoly.
Wow that even more crazy, because if they make an order blocking a .fr domain then that only applies in USA, so that domain will probably still resolve in France and other places. But the isps could never block all .fr domains. It would be a pain in the hole to implement.
I heard that legislators in North Korea have a lower chance of getting re-elected than U.S. legislators.

If I was the dictator of the U.S., I'd change the constitution so that Congress gets drafted. People would get selected to be Congressmen by random lottery.

I'd imagine that a good fraction of Americans chosen randomly would be corruptible, but a good fraction of them would be incorruptible, and it would be too dangerous to recruit corrupt legislators: you'd have too high of a chance of having somebody (i) call the cops, (ii) pull a gun, or (iii) punch you in the face.

The current selection process selects for :Respectable people for whom being :Respectable is accepting that other people are :Respectable. Many ordinary Americans, be they "good ol boys" or inner-city blacks, won't play that game.
Technology didn't create our copyright problems
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Formatting is bad and HN isn't cooperating with post editing right now... here is the actual FB post (it's public):

http://www.facebook.com/zackham/posts/10100280245567546
Also, SOPA was never about fighting piracy, that's just a disguise. SOPA is about dissent suppression. The Internet is exploding into establishment's face, and imagine what will happen when all those people who are now - thanks to the blackout - screaming on Twitter while discovering about SOPA/PIPA for the very first time - what do they do when they learn about the kind of information that's e.g. posted here: http://goo.gl/2RVeB
If I buy a microphone I can borrow it and give it to whoever I want to.

In fact I can chip in and share it with 200 friends if I want to.

You see the difference?
I'd rather see a usable sort key (item a), maybe with a short description.

Given that you have a position to fill, and a deadline for when you need it filled, and a large number of applicants, and other everyday work you need to keep doing... how many minutes each are you able to spend on a first-pass review of the applicants?
If you can let us know when it stabilizes, I'd like to then share the link to my personal network. (Although I guess that might be kind of self-defeating for your at this point? OTOH a significant portion of my network is small businesspeople who might appreciate having an inexpensive, email-accessible fax line on hand.)

To others here: Remembering HelloFax as a YC company, I signed up for and used it a month or two ago to fax my legislators on SOPA/PIPA at a time when my landline was having problems. (I signed up even though the free trial might have sufficed. TANSTAAFL.)

For $5 a month (and I didn't take the lowest plan), I have a web and email accessible fax machine, without the hassle of trying to set one up, myself. If I'm traveling, in the cafe, or whatever, it doesn't matter. My fax machine's with me.

There's still an annoying amount of stuff where fax is the only choice or the only choice that works for the other party.

And in the past, I've found my legislators to be consistently responsive to faxes. From my own experience and reading, they seem to have some of the impact of a written letter [1] while getting through in a timely fashion.

--

1. As I understand it, they generally are perceived as taking more time and effort to write and send, and as a message category there are fewer of them than e.g. emails and phone calls. And if and as they are printed out upon receipt (I'm not sure, these days), they represent a physical object in the office and in someone's hands, rather than another message on a screen or a tick in an intern's phone call tally.

P.S. I've shared it, now. Hope that generates a few more faxes and some good will (and maybe a customer or three) for you.
...And some of them highlight just how steep a hill it is to bring tech matters to the general public's attention:

https://twitter.com/#!/herpderpedia
The Best Anti-SOPA/PIPA I've Seen Yet
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Yeah, this is basically where I'm coming from-- I don't doubt it's inconvenient, and surely we could boost efficiency (and compliance!) by making compliance more convenient. Totally with you on that. It's just when someone suggests that the inconvenience of complying with the law means the law ought to go, I start wondering whose side they're really on.
I think it started after college and I am almost 29 now. I have had depression before without realizing how serious it was until I started getting treatment and therapy for it.

I'm not a vegetarian, smoker, drinker, and exercise at least weekly. It could be bad sleep hygiene, but I'll definitely check out B12 and thyroid problems.
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Two things I would like to see addressed here:

1. Why is copyright so important if everyone can create well? Why scarcify something that without the protection would be worthless? If creation is humanity, why limit the act of creation to the first person to get there? We don't prevent people from climbing mountains just because someone else got there first. We don't stop runners from finishing races because someone else got first place. We don't stop fashion, because brands copy each other's styles all the time (trademark issues are related, but really different here... no one complains when Gap puts out a line similar to say Tommy Hilfiger, as long as they claim it is Gap). In fact a large number of creative works are merely derivative of other works, even "brilliant new" ones -- any limit on the creation process in this regard can be seen as artificially scarcifying something.

2. Why respond to an article about why the current copyright situation is broken and needs change with a long rant that defends the need for copyright, and uses language seemingly arguing against some strawman position of "abolish copyright" that is not present in the original article.
> there would still be a group of people trying to defend piracy.

Of course, just as you'll always find DRM apologists who find Ubisoft's insanity still isn't enough. That's not really a segment of the population worth discussing with though, since they won't buy either way (either because they don't want to, or because they just don't have the money, I was once that impoverished student).

What you can rely on are numbers and the results of those who thought convenience was a major reason[0] for piracy and tried to fix it. And what do you find out? That Steam and iTunes turn out to make money. Who'd have thought?

> This is why I feel that all of these excuses are bullshit.

Oh, bad apples are sufficient to dismiss out of hand anything that comes even remotely close to something they could say?

Well I guess you can trivially be dismissed as well, then.

[0] preempting your strawman, I did not write "the only reason".
I'm sure Facebook, just like google and twitter try to find and display only relevant. Nobody is perfect
You're just reinforcing their argument. By not using the competition, you're ensuring the market for those products on the competition's OS doesn't exist. It's actively strengthening Microsoft's hold on the markets you frequent.
I know my reps... just noting this here so if the site coders need some info to debug this problem for others.
If you (or someone else) hasn't managed to look it up, it refers to the days when the internet was primarily used by universities (i.e. home users were not a thing). Every September there'd be a bunch of freshmen who didn't understand the culture or etiquette, who would quickly dissipate as they got bored or figured out the rules. The spread of the internet into homes via AOL in the 90s brought about the same phenomenon previously only observed in September with frosh in that now there are continuously new/ignorant users on the internet who really don't get the "rules".
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From what I remember, Digg was given a chance to fix the problems, but it was too little too late. Of course I understand Digg's point of view too, their hands were rather tied; going back wasn't an option.
I'm not sure how applicable Psystar would be to an individual making a copy from an illegal one. Psystar was making copies of Mac OSX and then selling them. Even if it was buying licenses, it was making and selling copies. If this was one person doing it on their own PC, I'm not sure how different that is in the eyes of the law.
Mathematical methods are excluded in the U.S. too by case law (Benson, Flook, Diehr). But "law" in terms of what's on the books and "law" in terms of what happens when you go to court are two different things.
Show HN: My own little way of supporting SOPA opposition
Lee Terry (R-NE) and Benjamin Quayle (R-AZ) drop support for SOPA

https://www.pcworld.com/article/248336/two_sopa_cosponsors_d...
"What if the widely perceived differences between the parties was just an illusion?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZliGQROqU
Do you own shares in Reddit? Then I get it, as HN has no direct revenues. Else, what's the point?
I think it started after college and I am almost 29 now. I have had depression and my memory retention was really bad during this phase. I started getting treatment and therapy for it nearly 1 year ago. I think I have always been kind of oblivious at times, but now it seems like I need to use repetition tricks remember important things.

I'm not a vegetarian, smoker, drinker, and exercise at least weekly. It could be bad sleep hygiene, but I'll definitely check out B12 and thyroid problems. Thanks!
Is it not the case, that there are many college grads looking for work and not finding it?

Would this not serve to reduce future demand, since obviously, graduating doesn't necessarily result in better job prospects.
I didn't mean to imply that indie titles weren't viable. They certainly are, for some games. And tons are really, really fun games. It is totally viable to, in the existing economy and with the existing copyright model, self-bootstrap such a company. I apologize for the lack of clarity.

But the issue is how to do so without the ability to extract money from an "easily copied" work--that is, how to make it economically viable without copyright protections on the published end result. I find it unlikely that in this idealized no-copyright world, it is economically viable to devote a lot of time to building something that requires significant multidisciplinary effort (also read as "cash outlay for things you can't do yourself") with a relatively small investment up-front.

I find it likely that the Kickstarter/creatives-as-contractors model would end up not being worth my time, nor that of probably most people on HN; spending my time stumping for donations that barely cover production costs (else people ask why you aren't doing it for barely enough to cover production costs, why you're keeping "so much" in order to do those "eating" and "paying for gas" and "sleeping under a roof" things). Somebody else is more likely to pay me well enough to live--subsisting off the angels of consumers' better natures does not strike me as a winning proposition.

With copyright protections, it becomes economically plausible (not a guaranteed success, but plausible) for me to spend my time making something, even sinking my own money into it, because of the conviction that enough people will like it that I'll make back my nut and turn a profit as well. Y'know--capitalism.

And I find it extremely unlikely that those 'AAA titles'--which, as it happens, are often really really spectacularly good--would exist at all. Which would be a grievous, grievous shame. Skyrim is a beautiful game. Loads of fun, but more than that--just beautifully crafted.

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Alternatives such as Zynga are, to me, unpalatable, and are the "Facebook monstrosities" to which I referred elsewhere in this thread. Freemium games offer a terrible user experience and subscription games almost as bad. They may make a lot of money, but while I've talked a lot about economic viability in this thread, I do still have a vested interest in making great stuff. Making money and building great stuff are more at odds in the freemium and subscription models than in the more standard, "buy a license, play it" model.
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The failure of the DMCA is that there is no consequences for filing an incorrect takedown request. The entertainment industry has, on many occasions, taken down content that doesn't belong to them. In one instance, with the megaupload video, it appears the DMCA was used maliciously.

This is, in fact, the main reason to oppose SOPA and PIPA. It gives the entertainment industry even more takedown powers (ads, financial instutions, domain names) and even less oversight.

You could argue that SOPA/PIPA isn't unreasonable if there were added protections of due process and significant penalties for abusing the system. But there isn't. If the DMCA is currently being abused, it stands to reason that SOPA/PIPA will be as well.
White House Flickr photos dark against SOPA
Sounds like something I definitely need checked out and look into the thyroid issue, although my family doesn't have a history of thyroid problems. I don't think I have any of the issues with diet (mostly cook for myself), but it could be bad sleep hygiene/routine and lack of regular exercise. Definitely I'll check in with a doctor now. Your response on the thyroid issues sound scary and really informative, thanks a lot!
Thanks, I didn't know about this & it looks pretty cool (http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/purpose-built-appliances...).

I wonder how adding nodes works - is it as simple as provisioning one and you're done, or does the user still have to configure the ring to add the new Riak node?

The documentation says this:

To grow your cluster, just add a machine of the same
type and size and run the appropriate Riak commands to
link the additional node to the cluster.

To me, that means I'm still going to have to administer these machines, which is exactly what I'm hoping to avoid.

Too bad about the cost, too :|
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They're starting to see "internet people" as a significant voting block.

To solidify the deal, I suggest all who can vote, do so at the next opportunity. The long term gains for rewarding this "internet aware" behavior will be massive for us all.
Flickr lets each user darken 10 photos. Apparently a bunch of users have darkened all of the photos in the White House photo stream.
"If piracy goes unchecked, over time, the perceived value of that item will go down"

Being involved in multiple small companies. When we allowed cracks to work, sales slowly went down to nothing. When the cracks were stopped, low-and-behold, sales went back up because people weren't able to get it for free. I've seen it too many times to think it's a coincidence. Huge companies like Microsoft and Adobe can take the hit, but a small company will be destroyed.

"it's not "free". The decline of the newspaper has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with the advantages of online distribution."

So you are telling me that the fact that I can get pretty much all my news for free (from hundreds of sources) has no effect on a company that tries to sell me the same thing for a few dollars?

I never said it was piracy. I was saying that it's an example of the same effect: When something is easily available for free, less people will end up purchasing it.

In addition to this, when piracy goes unchecked it creates a culture of acceptance (IE: it's not a bad thing) and less people will end up buying.

Everyone loves to defend piracy and yet many of those same people hate big corporations. It's a funny thing because eventually, that's all that will be left.

I no longer get involved with apps. I only do web services. It's better for me because I now get monthly reoccurring income. Eventually, I think most companies will go this route and piracy will be a non-issue.
Has HelloFax considered a service that would let other people set up a form like this, where HelloFax handled the backend faxing? It sounds like a great advocacy tool
I use Wikipedia as basically an extension of my brain. I'm in a history program at university, and so many of the names and dates that are essential to it I don't actually know. I realized this when I was writing something last night. I was writing about the English Civil War, and the Restoration, and I wanted to comment on the relationship between Charles I and Charles II, and I went to Wikipedia...and it was down!I had to go to my shelf and get a book. Who does that?
I never really liked how some HN users like to distinguish themselves as 'not Reddit'...

...but the two aren't mutually exclusive. After all, if Reddit users permanently migrate here, it actually does mean that Reddit's owners and admins are paying for their stand.
There's a level of indirection that we should think about very clearly. We aren't talking about control over the first or any other copy of a work of art, but rather control over people who want to use them. Control over people with their own free will can never be better than a necessary evil, so we as a society should agree on the bare minimum that would satisfy those goals we share.
A competitor can do that today. In fact that happens all the time, even among creatives.

Do you know how many songs are stealing of each other?

Should we tell musicians to pay for the licks and riffs they takes from someone else music and incorporate into his how?
FWIW, I hit the activation limit in WinXP, and the activation dialog had a phone number and some numbers I had to read to the person on the line. A few minutes later everything was fine.

(I'm a MS employee but I was doing this at home with my "I'm a customer" hat on)
one of our developers built a local emulated simpledb clone for development/testing that is open sourced at:

https://github.com/stephenh/fakesdb
The photos are darkened for me.
It's Earl Blumenauer, from Oregon's 3rd Congressional District.

He's also blacked out http://www.earlblumenauer.com
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I'd like to see this as well. I think a comparison against pre/post blackout trafic stats would be interesting examination of behavior during an outage.
no-one has gone bankrupt as a result of it

To be fair, that's because your sample set most likely only includes companies that were successful enough to become highly visible.
I'm happy that he opposes SOPA, and happy that he darkened his site. But isn't it gratuitous for a congressman to act like some internet activist when he possesses REAL influence on the law in Washington?

Rather than blacking out his site, I'd love to see one of his staffers post activities that the congressman is engaged in to convince his peers to block or vote against measures like SOPA.
I'm in the "reddit crowd" too, but I carry myself differently here. I imagine most people who visit both sites would agree. Here, I use my name, I avoid memes, and I think much harder before I put my opinion online (largely because I'm using my name). I make silly jokes all the time in real life, because that's just part of what I do, but this isn't the forum for it. reddit can't have a thread without it devolving into silliness, which is fun in its own way but not what I come here for.
you must be dumb!
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The meatball wiki folks might have some ideas.

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/)

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded)