skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt software could handle the problem. It would likely require some sort of consulting SWAT team to handle the issue, since it's such a policy and behavior driven problem. The reason HN has been the most successful in fighting the ES has been through the culture the PG built. Trolls are not tolerated, and off topic articles are punished ruthlessly.

If you think about it too hard, it seems a little brutal, but you have to remember that this is just a discussion board.
Facebook Mobile has Timeline too, although only one column.
If it were really necessary (though I am unconvinced that it is) a royalty system could likely be emulated in a society with no copyright with contract and corporate law.

Write a song for Metallica? Sell it to them in exchange for some amount of cash up front, and partial ownership in the company that is selling that particular album/single/whatever.

Clumsy perhaps, but if big money is involved the overhead should be minimal.
The outage doesn't reflect poorly on your site IMO, it just demonstrates the quantity of people who appreciate what you're doing. Thank you for looking into making it better though!
Today, my fiancee called me and asked: "This SOPA thing. I think it's bad. Is it bad?" I hadn't mentioned it before, really. So it is definitely hitting the mainstream.

This has rekindled my hope for humanity. I used to think most people are dumb. But people are really willing to look at, think about, and act on pressing issues, if you bring it up with them directly.
The term "PC" for Personal Computer predates the IBM-PC. There really was a time when you could say "I want a new PC: an Apple ][".

So PC which have fallen include the TRS-80, Commodore, the Apple ][ and others.
I would suggest pg to write a special "from reddit to HN" guide. That would help and we can link that to people who seem to be new here (if they havent already seen it ofcourse)
Well, one pint an hour or two before bed time wouldn't leave me groggy the next morning either, but it also wouldn't help me sleep at all ;-)
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The apple comparison isn't apt; apples are physical products, I'm talking about intellectual products.

Copying isn't stealing, so yea, it's different.

As for the final paragraph, all of those are rather easily solved by realizing that information will be copied whether you like it or not. If you don't want it out there, don't release it. Fake government monopolies on information copying is a dying model, the death throws of the old guard trying to cope with a world they don't understand. Information will be free, eventually.
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If you hit ESC just as the page loads, you can get to Wikipedia content.

Enjoy :)
I think the point is that copyright is no longer physically enforceable. This makes copyright equally silly as giving some people right to experience 365 days and nights of continuous daylight. You could theoretically build a system that houses them on plane that follows the daylight for whole year but this would be so costly that this right would be physically unenforceable. Providing authors with legal copyright protection would be even more costly and only slightly less pointless.
I'm pretty sure he meant that all of these sites drawing attention to SOPA and PIPA are upsetting Congress. Not that they were trying to get to Reddit.
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I, unlike others, love Timeline, but I think the product cast too wide a net. Do I want to go back and revisit posts I made in 2006? I sure do, and love to be able to do that easily.

Do I want others to do that? Well, not so much. Timeline would have been a perfect product in my view if it only applied to your own profile.
True. There comes a point where the time investment is more expensive than just buying a legal copy and installing it. And activating it.

I've never had as hard a time activating stuff at the OP, though. When I buy a new machine I always order the restore disks (why do Mfg's think it's ok to not include these and charge customers for obtaining them?), and I've yet to run into restore disks that automatically install the crapware that came on the hard disk.
Seems like a pirated .iso would be a great place to deliver malicious code to Ring 0, hiding itself from the kernel and becoming essentially impossible to detect from the infected OS itself. I'm sure botnet creators are already well aware of this.
OK, well if you want to crush the existing guys, I think you'd need to compete in their space, and that means vying for control of channels (while they're still relevant).

If you want to create and sell CDs then you can do this now. I've got friends who self-publish "classical" music performances and make (not much) money from it by getting good reviews in trade magazines and selling CDs at concerts. Or you could give your music away and sell mugs and tshirts and tickets to performances.

Or there's the model that city-based orchestras do - make margin by selling tickets to concerts and having a distribution agreement with a local music shop or radio network for recordings. e.g. http://www.aso.com.au/recordings.html
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Supply and demand.

So long as enough people are willing to pay a high price (thru whatever means conceivable, including compelling taxpayers to foot the bill) the price will keep rising. When enough people stop agreeing to such high costs, it will stop.
Try cleaning your browser cache and Flash local storage - most likely you've been browsing a lot of anti-sopa content (not completely unrelated ;) - http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geoip.png )

The best anti-sopa ad I've seen this morning (12h ago) when following a link to Forbes and there was an overlay ad covering the whole browser window in dark gray (marked as Advertisement in the title but no further text, only gray) - either Forbes did this themselves or somebody is spending some money to get the message around to Average Joe.
>DynamoDB does have at least one significant feature not provided by Riak -- range scans.

Riak has the ability to select keys for processing via various queries, including range of the key.

Riak also has secondary indexes and full text search.

If there's something significant about the DynamoDB method of doing range scans I'm interested in hearing it. My purpose here isn't so much to bash DynamoDB (in fact, I don't want to do that at all) but to try and spread a little more awareness of Riak.

Riak really came into its own in 1.0.
Quora Board: Websites Blacked Out Against SOPA/PIPA
My congressman is taking his name off SOPA today!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480951
See I didn't know this. Now it makes sense why they were able to get it so cheap. Getting a deal like that w/ Broadcom is pretty difficult to do imagine.
This is very interesting, thank you. I'll try to implement it this weekend.
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It's an excellent policy. If these new folks are actually interested in hn, they'll come back tomorrow.
Those sites that are completely blacked out, like makezine and Wikipedia, are doing exactly what many accuse DRM of doing. Annoying their users while producing no real benefit. Google's and HN's methods are better.

ADDED: Most of them don't particularly matter to me, I rarely use Wikipedia, for example. The one that has annoyed me is the Internet Archive blackout - www.archive.org
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Might seem like I just hate MS, but honestly I would be just as upset as a potential investor or partner that they were running Windows in the first place. Licensed or not. Unless of course your startup was focused somehow on Windows development, users, etc. where it would obviously be necessary.

Startups are hard enough as it is, no need to make them harder.
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> BLAS will still need O(N^3) operations for a NxN matrix multiplications, whether they are optimized or not.

Why wouldn't they use an algorithm that is better than O(N^3)?
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Just curious: What activation key is "100" digits long? I've never run into such a one from MS.

The really long activation keys I've run into are not from MS and are ones you can cut/paste (ie, not the ones used to install the OS fresh).
The parent comment was pointing out that there exist programs in JavaScript in which the types cannot be inferred. All I was saying was that this is not unique to JavaScript, or to dynamically typed languages generally.
Turn off JavaScript to read Wikipedia, if you didn't already.
Well, yes and no. Upvotes push submissions toward the top of the page, but the ranking algorithm also includes a decay factor so that old articles eventually fall away.
We're mad as hell, and we're not gonna take this anymore!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
pg, could you post the HN traffic stats for today as a post-mortem style post?
I agree. I'd be interested to see both:

1) The increase in uniques (pageviews don't really count)

2) How many of those uniques are new. That is, what percentage of those IPs visiting today have not visited in the past month.
This may inspire massive overreaction, not just /b/tards calling their congresspeople. Back when AT&T blocked access to 4chan for a few hours due to a DDoS attack, some of them assumed it was censorship and started crafting plans to retaliate with fiber seeking backhoes.
The wording on this was confusing enough that I thought Flickr was claiming I'd opted-in to black out my photos.
We need to ask a simple question - what are the metrics that Facebook seek to optimise?

I can't imagine a universe in which they aren't placing at least some weight on the standard suite of "engagement" metrics. If that is the case, then they're seeking to increase the amount of time you spend on the site, the number of pages you view, the number of ads you see (and click), the frequency with which you scroll below the cut and so on.

Creating an interface that provides fast, easy access to the most relevant information means that most of your core metrics get worse. Facebook would have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally far-sighted for their interface to do anything but get worse. They would need a corporate culture that is either centralised and vision-led, or utterly indifferent to short-term measures of engagement and profitability. Zuckerberg is a smart man, but he's not a Steve Jobs or a Larry Page.
If you've bought a Windows 7 kit and your DVD got damaged, you could copy a friend's disc or use one downloaded from work off technet / software assurance / msdn.

The point is that it's OK from a legal point of view, as long as you use your original serial number for the same windows edition.

I 'swapped' discs back when Windows 7 SP1 came out. I got the update off SA and the updated ISOs as well.

Should you have to prove you actually bought a license of that OS, you should have

a) the invoice & warranty papers of the computer it came preinstalled on and being used on - if preinstalled; possibly the restore disc as well if there is one
b) the invoice, the original (damaged or not) disc and the box of the original windows kit - if bought separately as a windows install kit

Those are required to prove that you're the rightful owner of that Windows kit. I don't know if you can resell a PC with Windows on it.

Microsoft is very silly to make people jump through so many hoops. Especially when the pirates enjoy a better service.

Also, they should offer downloads to people who got the OS preinstalled on their machines. Apple is giving people this serice under the form of network restore since 10.7.
The biggest benefits of timeline are (1) making it easier to see stuff in the past and (2) calling out the most memorable important events/content while hiding less important stuff. They could have done this in a list format, but using the Timeline makes it much more clear that important things are being called out while some other things are being left hidden.

It's a powerful solution to the problem of browsing all of a user's content over time, which was very difficult in the old profile. And it's a perfectly good reason for Facebook to try Timeline without ascribing ulterior motives.
I did this with WinXP about a dozen times. 11 years is much too long for the default 3-activation limit.
WebSockets is not a replacement for HTTP/SPDY. Don't forget that a WebSocket is effectively an upgraded HTTP / SPDY connection (in fact, there is work in progress to enable WS over SPDY).

In many cases, you don't need bi-directional communication.. Which is also why HTML5 spec introduced Server Sent Events (SSE): http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notificat...
This from the PHP developer that tries to print an exit function.

<?php exit; ?>
> How many of them will drop support because it's the right thing to do vs. the political thing to do?

Hopefully the same number who initiated support because it was the political thing to do in the first place.

The better question to ask: who in congress has both read and understand the implications of the bills? I'm inclined to think that number is ridiculously small.
There's lots of things you can do with practical algorithms when you start thinking data-first approaches and try to fit the optimizations to the probability distribution of the data, i.e. fastest path for the most probable or important input and vice versa. Many approximations are based on the idea of ignoring input data which is improbable or has little effect on the outcome, and can be quite safely pruned out early.
Exactly right about failing as a moral argument. Copyright also fails on moral grounds by violating property rights. If I am not permitted to store certain sequences of bits on a hard drive, or paint a certain arrangement of colors, or hum a certain tune, then my right to use my property is effectively limited.
What the others said. Or, append ?banner=none to the URL.

As some haskell-cafe folk put it: because censorship only affects the innocent. Everybody else knows how to get around it.
There must be an alternative to SOPA/PIPA/NDAA, we must push for "Free and open Internets Act" - fair game for all, "Packet Network Liberty Act" - no to government protecting failing business models/corporations, and "Liberties of the internets Act" - unsupervised liberty to connect and communicate unless there is strong court order for surveillence.
Thanks! They're arranged mostly arbitrarily, but I put the "large" logos at the bottom since I was originally hoping to have a 64x64 icon for every link.

For location, I was thinking of just having an input where you could type your location, and any link that supports location filtering would be updated automatically. Do you think that would be sufficient?

I'm not sure what you mean by skill based filter - I was thinking of adding job-specific sites and breaking it into categories, but I'm starting to like the idea of keeping the site very simple and agnostic. I want to avoid hitting 50 or 100 links and ending up with an overwhelming index page.
I am happy that he is publicly speaking against SOPA. That said, it seems gratuitous for a politician to act like a web activist; shouldn't he be trying to convince his peers in committees and debates in Washington?
That sounds like an heck of a lot of extra work just to deal with Microsoft's anti-piracy activation system. IMHO, your "answer" just reinforces the original author's point. Why should legitimate paying customers have to deal with all of these workaround and annoyances? Why should legitimate customers have to endure being treated like potential criminals? Especially when these activation systems aren't stopping the pirates!!!!!!!
"The material, aluminium oxynitride, known as AION, is four times harder than fused silica glass, 85 per cent as hard as sapphire and stable up to a temperature of 1,200C."

Quote from the Daily Mail article linked above.
and it's only a matter of time until the ISP are forced to block the server IP (like what happened here in Italy).
This attitude is really obnoxious. It's not yours. You don't get to pick. You can't arbitrarily point at something and dislike how they distribute it, and instead steal it. That's not justification for your actions.

Furthermore, the title and the picture frame this as "cool" or "fun" or "free". It's more like leeching off of another's work, and disregarding their right to do with it what they please.
Append ?banner=no to the url.
I assume that once you pitch designs to one of your clients, it's fine with you if they photograph it, copy it, and never pay you a dime?

People love design, and do great design without making a single dime on it. The rich designers are rich because professional networking, big companies and IP laws make them big. Not because they were the best of the crop.

Boo Freaking Hoo. Real designers do it for love. Only phonies want to get paid.
Open source really helps here. Amazon are innovative, but they are not the only place innovation is happening. In fact, here's a pretty good writeup (if a wee biased) on how the new offering compares to to the open source Cassandra project:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/amazon-dynamodb
I don't think that's quite the point: I'm sure most people here know how to access the content, but clicking a link and having the anti-SOPA popup appear jarringly reminds us of how frequently we use Wikipedia for information.
This means nothing b/c if there were a vote, less than 10% of the people would show up at the polls over this issue... that's actually probably very very optimistic.
1$/GB/month on SSD and replicated. So basically, 0.25$/rawGB/month if they replicate 4 times.

They are making money on the read/write and are selling the capacity at current cost. Which — knowing the tendency for AWS to decrease the prices very slowly combined with the huge decrease of the prices of the SSD drives in the past months/years — is not a bad strategy to convince us to switch.
It is not the same thing for Reddit/Ars Technica/Google/others. It would be the same when Reddit/Ars Technica/Google/others sponsor a bill to cut the electricity of the printing press of any newspapers when suspected of copyright infringement. In that case WSJ can claim whatever these sponsoring companies said are propaganda.
Against what?

Keep in mind these ISOs are already modified to get around the built-in copy protection in the stock version.
>and maybe "s/smartest/some of the smartest/g"

Not maybe, definitely. Unless you are trying to make the claim that the set of the smartest people in tech is a proper subset of the employees of Google (or Google employees unioned with Facebook employees). I think lots and lots of very smart people that don't work for Google or Facebook would strongly disagree, and evidence is on their side.

>lots and lots of very smart people are channelling their efforts into getting people to click on ads.

Yes, but lots and lots of very smart people are also doing <insert other kind of tech venture here>. The statement seems to pre-suppose that there is no or little value in the work they do and they should be working on more 'valuable' problems.

I personally hate advertising, but I don't look down on people that work at Google or Facebook if their job involves increasing click-through rates, nor do I believe having smart people focused on these kind of tasks is 'holding us back' in any meaningful way. To believe so implies that 'smart people' can excel/advance the state of the art for anything they work on, and thus they should focus on more 'important' things. If these smart people were attracted to doing these more important things that may be true, but then they would probably be doing them already. If they are attracted to what they are doing then they should continue, and do it as best they can. Further it ignores the idea that there are side-effects of their work that could be more valuable to the world as a whole (like new discoveries in machine learning, or algorithms, or even human psychology).

The fundamental currency that buys advancement is intelligence, creativity and passion for what you are doing. If you have 2 out of 3 you are unlikely to contribute meaningfully, and simply reassigning everyone at Google to work on say self-driving cars is unlikely to yield reliable, self-driving cars any faster, in fact it would likely cripple the effort.
I picked up this book a short while ago for two reasons:
1) I wanted to 'learn the language of my editor' (emacs)
2) to learn a bit of functional programming style/way of thinking

I am about half-way through and loving every minute of it.
SOPA has relieved me of any illusion that the Democratic Party is at all useful or decent. They're just as bad as the other guys.

I will be likely voting Republican (for the first time in my life) for at least some of the 2012 elections, out of my commitment to vote against any incumbent who supports or votes for SOPA. Vote the bastards out. #FireSOPA #FirePIPA
This ignores the opportunity cost of working while in collage for many students collage does cost 75+k / year. The average collage student could probably make ~20+k/year, but some people can earn 40+k/year and still decide to pay for collage.
So piracy is now to blame for "lady GaGa VS justin bieber"? That fresh. I was under the impression that this was exactly what copyright brought us.
HN most likely uses a combination of votes and time in scoring, similar to the reddit ranking algorithm: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588
Wouldn't that only work for the Enterprise editions, which typically are quickly blocked from activation and updates by Microsoft after being leaked?
A pirated .iso already modifies the data from the official release because it has to break the activation code somehow. Thus, you can't check it against any official hash. From there, the best you can hope for is to find a "canonical" hacked version and check against that, but since most people aren't really capable of breaking protections, they'll trust whatever shows up on the pirate bay.
Yes, you are a pirate because you want cheap music.

There are nowadays plenty of ways to get music with much less hassle than TPB, at reasonable prices, with good audio quality and no DRM, often even directly from minor labels’ websites.

If you don't use any them it's because you don't want to pay and just that.

(Movies are still a problem, but the author is focusing on music here, which is largely resolved)
Pirating makes sense when the pirates end up providing a superior product that the publisher won't provide at any price.

This was true for video games, where the copy protection schemes often resulted in a bad experience for paying customers.

But for an OS, having to enter a product key once doesn't seem to harm the experience as much as possibly getting a rooted kernel would.

I think, in general, there aren't a lot of good reasons for grown-ups to not pay for the commercial software they want to use.
Adianoeta is my latest favorite vocabulary word.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adianoeta
Let's make it retroactive.
Regardless of whether this was a kind gesture or a defensive move, I think it was very well stated, and an excellent example of diplomacy. I think I learned something from it.
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-...

Go down about half way. It's actually 54 digits, not 100. But the IVR isn't 100 percent accurate, and I have found I usually have to enter at least a few of the sets multiple times. And the voice system is one of those unskippable ones, so you can't just start entering numbers again right away after it detects a mis-enter. You have to listen to a 30 second message about re-entering the key first.