skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, the Java equivalents would be slightly different. For example, "More than 4 pattern names in a single class identifier."
Congress should hire him to explain to them all the laws they are creating.
SPDY is here to increase efficiency between browser and server (this is sometimes called scaling). 'Dynamic network typologies' as presented is moving the network routing stack to a software CPU. Not sure I would bridge these two technologies together to solve my 'interesting worker topology patterns'. This is classic top down design.
Phish.net is also using it. I saw your name in the source and was wondering if you were affiliated with that site or this was a widespread thing.

Anyway, great work.
Dear Downvoting Moralist: The porn industry has done more for freedom of expression and upholding of due process than you have. The site I mentioned has/had a blackout message, and therefore qualifies for the list. My comment was purely factual.

Also missed: http://2600.com
This might be obvious to many, but spatial indexes are good for more than just "show me the restaurants within five miles of me". It's a good technique to know for efficiently searching any two columns simultaneously. If you have, for example, a database of people, their hometown, and their favorite color, and you want to know all people from Chicago that like green, a spacial index over color and hometown will be vastly more efficient than a "regular" single-column index over any one of those columns. (The reason is that an index on one column doesn't efficiently produce a small resultset. If we index on color and there are five colors, an index over color only reduces the dataset by 1/5th. Similarly, indexing over hometown might reduce the size of the dataset by 1/1000th. But if we index over both columns at the same time, then the only results that the index will ever produce are results that are the exact answer to our question. No unnecessary scanning!)

Anyway, lat/long might be the easiest "pair" of columns to imagine when discussing anything "spatial", but most other two-column pairs work the exact same way.
What do you mean by your first sentence? Didn't really understand.

Regardless of whether you make a copy or remove the original, you are taking the property of another party without its permission to do so. That, by definition, is stealing. (see first entry in dictionary.com link)

Free PR makes up for lost sales, but would you choose 100 sales or 100 people that got your product for free, but might go tell other people about it?
Ask HN: Why don't we hire lobbyist to fight SOPA/PIPA?
Hi HN,

I'm willing to chip in a few bucks to buy lobbyist to fight SOPA/PIPA. Why wasn't raising money a huge part of the protests today? I actually haven't heard anything about anyone donating to buy anti SOPA/PIPA lobbyist. Surely this is something the web can organize.

Thanks for any feedback or help in understanding why this isn't happening or at least happening more visibly.
Amit, you are fucking awesome.
Bah. I took its predecessor course, 6.031, in 1977. We used an 11/45 with D(r)ECwriters. And you're bitching about a VT-100?

Now get off my lawn!
No screen left behind: Creating a digital experience for multiple devices
Thanks!

I have heard his name enough in the media recently, associated with the credit crisis, as referred to as senator, that I hadn't realized he was out.

Still does not reduce my level of disdain for him.
Oooh oooh! Brilliant!

Do you think we can get him to do a module on git?!
As a father of two girls, I love this comment:

"...what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls
become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching
movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat."

---

I try to minimize the exposure of my kids to the plastic reality of disney - but it is nearly impossible. The system for indoctrinating girls into the consumption servitude archetype is insidiously powerful.

It is threaded in our society and very very hard to avoid.
Lessig copyright speech from 2002 -- SOPA is just another step
It's impossible to completely avoid ambiguity and vagueness in law. Lawyers don't enact laws, legislators do. And lawyers don't "tolerate ambiguity"; lawyers exist in large part because it takes experts to know how enacted laws will be interpreted by courts (in part because of their inevitable vagueness and ambiguity). Legislators can and usually do try to lessen ambiguity and vagueness in laws they enact, with varying degrees of success. (Like I said, there will virtually _always_ arise factual situations where a law previously though unambiguous and clear turns out to be not to have been unambiguous and clear _enough_. It is the nature of language and rule-making. E.g., how does one supposedly clear and unambiguous law interact with another clear and unambiguous law when they conflict and require different things? Or another example, how should a court interpret a particular statutory provision that, as written, appears to conflict with the general intent of the Act the provision is in? Interpret the particular provision as it reads in isolation? or interpret the provision in a way that seems somewhat odd when it's read in isolation but which makes perfect sense within its Act as a whole?)

I don't know about your iPhone TOS. You could do some research and/or retain a lawyer to get a legal opinion on what the law requires, which is presumably what a court would do if confronted with your case. If the issue (or a nearly identical issue) has previously been litigated, then the previous court decision will have some (varying) degree of precedential value for your own case.

In case of you and your iPhone issue, this is nothing new. Many everyday situations arise where there simply is no practical way to dispute another party's interpretation of a contract or license. This sort of "do what you can until somebody stops you" has been going on forever. (Class actions exist as one way to avoid this problem in situations where numerous individuals with limited resources are wronged in same way by a more powerful defendant, but the solution they provide is limited at best.)
It's not about logic vs. illogic. Logic is important to understand for a technical person- if they do not understand logic, their programs do not work, and their bugs cannot be fixed. But normal humans do not respond to logic. Normal humans respond to stories, and this is what tech people are really BAD at. You know who is good at telling stories? The entertainment industry, and politicians.

What is a story? A linear sequence of cause and effect, with some kind of overall shape. see this Kurt Vonnegut video where he explains story shapes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

If you can construct a compelling narrative- which is empathetic with the listener enough that you know they will be able to insert themselves into the story, and imagine that they are them main character, then you win- that one battle.

If you try to program a person like they are a computer, by simply listing a series of what you feel are logical statements, you will come across as condescending, and self absorbed. You will fail. When you notice that they are not following you, and you interpret this as "Oh they must be missing a library. var TCPIP = import("internets").tcpip;" you just make the problem worse.
> A tragedy - I would love to work full-time on a killer product pitted against either of them, but I just can't see how it fits into the scheme of the market. :(

Gimp would be a good competitor to Photoshop if it could just get a ton of focus on usability. If you want to "fight" Photoshop, that would be a good place to help out.

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.gimp.org/develop/
Every single hypothetical barrier to entry just short of "insurmountable" can be described this way.
Clojure/West - Schedule
That's not the case, you can't opt to enter things in the public domain in the US - the best you can do is license permissively.
True capitalists believe that government is a referee; government should not the bagman for losses or a source of investment funding.
Why am I being down voted? What I said is correct and shows some of the current absurdity of copyright. It's clear, relevant, and accurate.
If this was the position of the government it may be hypocritical. As individuals we have our own views.

As a US citizen I dislike our interference around the world, especially when it is without the support of the global community. I also dislike the use of international treaties as a 'work around' to our sovereign law. While I do believe in respecting the treaties we make, I dislike the practice of intentionally making treaties that force us to change our laws as a 'hack' of our government processes.

Where is the hypocrisy?
>"Why can't I just enter my product key and download an updated ISO with slipstreamed service packs? "

This is why i still use the MSDN account from many employers ago...

YOU CAN DO THIS with MSDN -- Why not make the MSDN model the way everyone receives their copy. Also, stop selling me CDs or DVDs - put them on USB sticks.
Yes! Thank you for laying out your opinion so intelligently and with such a perfect metaphor. It is really time for everyone to just grow up and as you so eloquently put it, "just start calling a spade a spade".
We should be making a platform to crowdsource the hiring of lobbyists.
one is for trolling, one is for conversation...
No, I'm saying that you can't use a correlation like that as justification for saying that we need more regulations. In a country like the US, where the tolerance for overt, obvious corruption is very low, adding more complexity to the regulatory system creates more places for corruption to hide, thus making it more feasible. The tax code is a great example of this, but the same can be said for many of the regulatory agencies.
We are so far beyond the constitutional basis of copyright. That clause only gives Congress the right to grant copyrights for a "limited time" to encourage creativity. Congress realized at some point that they could just keep extending the copyrights when they are about to expire to create effectively unlimited copyrights. Lawrence Lessig has a lot of great things to say about this in regards to our 'creative commons'
Economist, Dean Baker, thinks piracy concerns are overblown: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482767

That said, it's generally not in the economic interest of the incumbent media businesses (particularly the TV Networks, a.k.a. media aggregators) to present the case against the SOPA/PIPA legislation. This is because they are trying to protect their existing revenue streams that come from business models which rely upon traditional media distribution, the internet presents a challenge to this.

When (if) the protests against SOPA/PIPA are presented, it's always balanced against the "fact" that "everyone agrees piracy is a problem that needs to be addressed".
That's another good example of language engineering.

If a crook fools a bank into giving them money, the bank is the victim of the theft. It should be one of the banks primary responsibilities to authenticate the parties to whom they give out money. But if the crook is good enough, it's fair to say the bank is the victim.

But instead they say "you are a victim of identity theft" in order to make you the victim.
I reject that notion that you can own an idea. The arguments for physical property simply don't apply to ideas, and I've never heard a sound and compelling argument for why ideas should be ownable. This is especially true for software and digital media, since they are literally integers. Owning a piece of software is equivalent to owning an integer, something that I claim is ludicrous.

When you talk about "obtaining something" for free, what you're really doing is creating a copy of something. Everyone on both ends of the copying gives their consent: e.g. for Bittorrent, uploaders and downloaders are both freely offering the bandwidth they have paid for. Unless the original uploader

Basing an entire industry on the faulty analogy of creative works as property is, in my opinion, foolish and unworthy of legal support.
Interesting take, and a fairly convincing argument. I agree.
It isn't about efficiency. It's about giving stuff away for free versus charging for it.

As one guy above put it, if you lay out a bunch of hotdogs on a table and let people take them for free, you'll give out a whole lot more than the guy next to you who is charging for them and handing them out one by one.
Bravo! Despite the folks saying, "It's not stealing," I think there is good reason to make a principled stand. Reddit is not a competitor.
[Tell HN] Progress on defeating SOPA/PIPA
SOPA Opera [http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/] shows a list of senators and representatives and their stances for or against SOPA and PIPA respectively.

I checked the website this morning just to get a feel for our starting point and it was:

~80 for
~30 against

Just now I checked it again and saw:

70 for
64 against

This is amazing! What great progress (although we need more), and what an amazing tool for keeping track of our Congress!
I have found the more important and irreplaceable the software is, the less it works with Wine...

What I mean by this is, while Notepad.exe may run flawlessly, SolidWorks doesn't.
Wow. Thanks Microsoft for cluttering up yet another product with more UI Craptastic.

Honestly I know it's all done in fun but really, people using the product are trying to concentrate, they're trying to solve really hard problems and you're going to pop up some crap telling them they achieved some stupid "award".

You morons, this is akin to the marketing joker in the office that annoys alls the programmers by interrupting them all day with stupid jokes, you know the guy, he's the one you want to punch in the face everyday.

And to the guys that actually coded this up, learn to say no. Put your job on the line; fuck it it's not worth making the world a worse place by adding this kinda crap to a developer tool.
I loved the C&C series. By the way, you need to fix a typo in the url.
I find it funny that people of reddit try and keep the "youtube" community out, and hackernews wants to keep reddit out... Who wants to keep HN out??
I don't understand the nature of the protest; what does the site normally look like?
Creative thinking, but I'd have to disagree with your conclusion. The present value of the additional years of copyright would be very low, especially taking into account 1. the probability that the work will still be a source of value 100 years (not the exact number, but for the sake of argument) in the future and 2.The possibility of changes in the local jurisdiction or US law over that time.

Your idea would mean paying 100k for the possibility of receiving some additional value 100 years in the future. The first 100 years of value are already protected under US law.
Such great news
Though not quite a crime drama, something like this has already happened. A woman trying to get a kidney transplant was informed that two of her sons couldn't be hers. Complications ensued. http://www.katewerk.com/chimera.html
That is the sad part of this issue. Almost every politician votes across money lines with SOPA (Democrat and Republican). I am very impressed that Obama came out against it considering the $9.2 million the entertainment industry has given him:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2008&...
Some of them made it by inheriting their money from their parents. You could try doing that.
The correct word for "identity theft" is "fraud", which is what it was called for centuries. Person A pretending to be person B isn't new, and has always been nothing more than a class of fraud, but at some point somebody decided an ancient crime needed a trendy new name.
Even if you wrote the compiler by hand, it doesn't matter. See the outstanding "Reflections on Trusting Trust": http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
UK admits using fake rock to spy on Russians ~ Daily World News
Instead of making a platform which would further solidify the role of lobbyists in American politics, why don't we make a platform which puts a spotlight on the shady dealings of Washington?

A tool which aggregated all legislation moving through both the House and the Senate along with the supporters and opponents of each would benefit the public's ability to keep an eye on what Congress does.

Done right, giving such visibility to the Democratic process could go a long way toward fixing it.
As correct as earbitscom is in his response to this comment, there is another issue.

Some of these people are being compensated so well because they are able to play a part in the making of a movie, which millions of people want to watch and will pay money to do so. They are being paid for their abilities and the more specifically, rarity of those abilities.
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My take:

Please don't lobby. Shed light.
Lately they've used split-screen to show simultaneous actions by different people. It works rather well, because while the videos show different actions, they both fit into the same coordinated plan.
No. Rather, the point is that you are paid for your work rather than a copy of the result of your work. This is just like a software developer working for a salary rather than somebody eking out an existence in an app store.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pira...
> you are taking the property of another party

Making a copy is not "taking".
(disclaimer - I'm not an expert)

This kind of democracy is what killed Socrates. No, really, the old Athenian system allowed citizens to participate much more directly, so when a moral panic started they could do really nasty stuff.

Now, perhaps I'm being unfair. If you dig a bit deeper, you'll learn that Socrates was officially killed for impiety, and corrupting the young. Unofficially, he was killed for inspiring the Thirty Tyrants. It's debatable whether or not he was in any way responsible for their actions - Plato says no (though Plato was heavily biased) - but it seemed probable to a lot of people at the time. They couldn't get actually punish him for inspiring the Tyrants, because immunity was granted as part of a peace treaty, but when Socrates went ahead preaching his military dictatorship to a whole new generation, people got a bit upset.

Sortition is actually quite a good idea - get a representative bunch of people, and let them debate the issue. It's a jury system. You don't want politicians to decide things, because they are the worst kind of decision makers (or so some people say). You don't want the uninformed populous to make decisions, because they are uniformed. So you get a sample of the populous, let them gather information, and then they can make an informed decision. Sure, Athens did some barbaric shit. But so did practically every other civilization at the time. The only thing to watch out for is people protecting their franchise - Athens stayed quite xenophobic and misogynistic, as the old Athenian men were the only ones who could vote, and didn't want their power being diluted.
Wasn't it Satan that gave use that ability? (as the serpent in the tree of knowledge of good and evil)
Thanks. That was easier to set up than I expected -- lots of prerequisites but all easy to install. I just need to figure out why the fonts are coming out wrong, then maybe it'll make more sense to set up a queue to build screenshots myself with this instead of paying for a service.
"our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA."

Well, John Calhoun's, anyway. If you don't like the rules everyone has agreed to play by, go make your own.

Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this -- http://goo.gl/643Wv -- for a real understanding of "freedom" and "equality" and "law".

Or just look it up on Wikipedia when they come back up.
For those turned off by the title TL;DR musician Courtney Love eloquently walks through the math of the recording industry for an artist, details some serious pain and problems in the system, calls out the RIAA for blatant theft of copyright and laws passed in the middle of the night, and explains why she's stepping out of major labels.
Copyright terms should be reduced to the original 14 years, if not less, retroactively. Copyrights should be non-renewable. Obtaining copyright should require registering each work with the copyright office. There should be an annual fee for maintaining a copyright that is proportional to the revenue received from the copyright. There should additionally be stiff penalties for asserting copyright when you do not actually have it.
> Another co-sponsor, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) echoed that sentiment. He blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for "pushing forward w/ a flawed bill that still needs much work."

What a load of dreck. You're a co-sponsor, there, Roy, not some poor, helpless stooge. Sure, it's all the other guy's fault. Suddenly, it's "flawed". For some reason. Before, it was a perfectly fine bill to censor the Internet. Did I get that right?
SOPA author violates his own law
I'm wondering, could we disrupt this entire lobbying "industry" with the Internet?
I wrote an Erlang API for DDB while it was still private. I'm hoping my client will let me opensource it in the near future.
I agree, when I worked at a place where I could, I did, and it made the day much better.

Unfortunately, working on a contract at a customer location doesn't offer me much nap time.
if you work a day for me and then I decide not to pay you, you aren't any poorer than you were before so no harm right?

In the absence of a contract (if I just decided to work for a day for you without your prior agreement to pay for the day of work), yes. Doing work does not automatically create an obligation of others to pay you for having done it.

There are two things that can create such an obligation:

* altering something you already had (such as an object or your body)

* a contract between you and another party
Yes - I remember using these techniques addressing 2d dense matrices. The specific case was when the matrices involved grew so large that the linear access operations were causing page faults for sequential row or column access. This was a perfect example of pathologically bad memory accesses when data was stored in row-major or column-major layouts.

Very impressive speedups for these interleaved data layouts. The end goal was to embed these layouts into the compiler tools, so that the programmer would do normal two dimensional matrix allocations and would get the optimized layout based on analysis.

I wrote terrible C to accomplish these layouts and minimize the instruction counts.
big companies are good at executing established business models, and bad at discovering new ones. small companies, the opposite. it could never be any other way.
Let's go with a movie as an example. I agree with you - you cannot own an idea, but a movie that took a hell of a lot of time and money to make is not an idea. And if you want to have further justification for this, a movie is a physical thing. It actually exists, albeit in the form of ones and zeroes on a hard drive, but it does actually exist. If you are obtaining these ones and zeroes that someone invested a lot of capital to make without paying for them, you are stealing! Those ones and zeroes belong to the company and you have to pay the company to get a copy of the ones and zeroes. This isn't my definition of stealing; it's in the dictionary.

It doesn't make a difference at all whether or not you are copying something or actually removing it from its original place. If you are going with your argument, any company that makes software should only be able to sell that software once and after that, anyone should be able to copy it. Every person that uses the software is getting the value of the software that the original person put capital into creating and you should have to pay for that, not get it for free.