skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

If it does happen where everything is based on an IP, the web, ecommerce, all of it, will die. You can't advertise a business as an IP address. In a couple days millions won't be able to find any websites anywhere.

Ad revenue will be GONE, nobody will be paying for ANYTHING online and every one of the sites you've written down will surely close their doors because there is no way for them to stay in business.

Small businesses everywhere will fail. Websites like Reddit, HN, Digg, etc, will not be able to survive.

Google will become useless. Since their search results can only return a handful of sites, you might as well go right to them, bypass Google.

Hosting companies will fail left and right as their sites are slowly shut down and their customers leave. There won't even be anywhere to keep websites online anymore, IP or not.

And so on.
who's going to pony up the cash for the next Half-Life (not the next Valve game, but the next product on that level) up-front when dealing with nobodies?

While I acknowledge that it doesn't seem to make economic sense, I have a great deal of respect for how people seem to be actually behaving. True nobodies can raise six figures on Kickstarter right now. I can only imagine what would happen if a somebody tried.

If Valve put HL3 on Kickstarter, might they raise the necessary funds? I kinda think they might.
Scott Adams on SOPA
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Based on my previous experience, yes it would have an effect. If it actually hit tens of thousands of websites, I'm sure Google would be willing to work with them. I'd imagine they might have backups of search results, or could nullify and re-scan the sites. Google has recently shown they have the ability to alter the page rank of various sites (ala Google+ results).
You might want to try out CoffeeScript with contracts:

http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/

Compiles to beautiful JavaScript and gives programmers the ability to check types at compile-type. If you've never used it, I'd compare CoffeeScript to an amalgam of Ruby and Python, with a little Haskell thrown in (take a look at how you specify contracts, for example). If you like functional programming, you'll love CoffeeScript:

['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100]

(fizzbuzz one-liner from http://ricardo.cc/2011/06/02/10-CoffeeScript-One-Liners-to-I...)
I understand, these are the grandparent's conditions for purchase. Someone else might have a different set of conditions. What the grandparent is asking for, then, is prices (and the product itself) to be set per-purchase, per-customer. This does not scale to Hollywood movies.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10021156/TurnTableFMnoSOPA.png
There were bits on the news on my radio stations this morning. That's mainstream, folks.
Can the international community apply pressure on the US government? I would like to hope so, but probably not.
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What about non-monetary things the creator loses?
The value of said work lies in the consumer, not the producer. If consumers by in large don't want to pay for something, then it simply isn't valuable and producing something in that segment and then complaining about piracy is rather pointless. You know going in consumers don't value that because they're accustomed to getting it for free. You had better expect piracy.
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I'll grab it too. I'm only here because Reddit is down.
I'm against Stop SOAP. SOAP is a jobs-protocol.

In the current economy, consultants specialized in fixing convoluted web applications need us more than ever.
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Why is it that the folks defending copyright always pull out the "But then creators will take their balls and go home!" card? That's such a repugnant, faithless argument. Numerous examples exist of people creating in spite of the system--and even making a living doing the same!

So, the entire issue for indie developers (of whose ranks I count myself a member) can be solved by not making a product until you confirm that it is wanted (i.e., pay me while I develop it, then do whatever). Alternately, you leave the creation of games (which have little to no lasting value) to be works of art, and let the artists and hobbyists make them for whatever living they can eke out. Entertainment as an industry, much less a secure one, is a silly idea.

You can't live on PayPal donations

Tell that to the guys from Wolfire, or Notch. I'm sure they'll want to know--they've been doing it for years, and would be upset to find out that they can't make a living that way.

This whole anti-copyright argument sounds wonderful but the world isn't ready yet. Maybe in another 20 years. The answer isn't to get rid of copyright, the answer is to scale it back to a point where it's more sane.

There is no magical time where the switch will be flipped and the world will embrace and move post copyright. Better we solve this--now--then wait until our infrastructure and freedoms are attacked. Before drastic measures such as breaking core parts of the interne--oh, huh, welp.

There is no sane part to copyright. None. It's madness. It is saying that we must artificially introduce scarcity onto things that can be duplicated freely--that's mad!
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/
Tiny Kickstarter Project Blacks Out Against SOPA
But I don't think they'll just stick with yeasts cultures after this.
From the review: "It's almost like reading an Aesop's fable before the "real" chapter begins"

The dialogue form of presenting arguments is traditional in philosophy.

http://plato-dialogues.org/plato.htm
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It's a constant disappointment to me that Canvas is favoured over SVG. Just drawing simple shapes and moving them is so much more complicated with Canvas.
The approach is particularly creative: drive home the feeling of censorship by allowing some users to "censor" other users.
Here you go:

td.title a[href*="4chan.org"] {
color: rgb(255, 50, 50) !important;
}

Customize it to only apply to news.ycombinator.com for your choice of browser and CSS-manipulation add-on :)
You can find descriptions of the FFT algorithm's history in [1, 2]. Both are available for free only for subscribers, sorry.

[1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/j30x8k122v828w87

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1162...
Xkcd: SOPA
As you and others have pointed out, hosting + SSDs + synchronous replication across availability zones counts for a lot. If DynamoDB lives up to the hype, it could be a huge step forward in the world of "don't have to think about it" data storage.

DynamoDB does have at least one significant feature not provided by Riak -- range scans. This makes many common access patterns much easier to implement efficiently. Still, as you suggest, there don't appear to be any fundamental technical advances here. The advances are in the service model and operation.

And there are, of course, many limitations. (Just to name a few: items -- i.e. rows -- can't exceed 64K; queries don't use consistent reads; seemingly no atomic update of multiple items.) It's miles ahead of SimpleDB, but still not nearly as flexible as many of the existing NoSQL databases. If Amazon lives up to past performance, they'll make steady improvements, but slowly.
"But it is also short-sighted. You are not only a 'creator', you are a user too"

The question is: To what extent?
If we measure how much income a person have from intellectual property and how much money they spend on intellectual property (if they not steal) then you will see the following:

Most people are only consumers.

A fraction of people create things as a hobby, so their consumption is not much smaller than their production.

A tiny fraction of people produce intellectual property for a living: their consumption is tiny compared to their production.

If you are in the first camp then in short term no-copyright may be good for you. But if you are in the 3rd camp, it is bad for you, because in that case you are 99% producer and 1% consumer of these kind of goods.

That's why I think that the no-copyright movement is unfortunatelly partly an anti-intellectual, populist, 'anti-civilisational', (ok, maybe anti elitist too) movement: the less creative people's fight to take away rights from more creative people. (And creativity is only partly talent, it is also really hard work, so this movement is against hard intellectual work.)
The SNR in Reddit dropped when Digg destroyed what little community they had left. I hope HN dodge that particular bullet. I'm a temporary (UK-based) Reddit refugee but I'll be back on Reddit in a few hours. This is my methadone, Reddit is my smack.
That is, I think, the most salient part of the original post, one that I had never considered before. Buying anything from those organizations is effectively money going towards lobbying and DRM and all those harmful things. I had never looked at it that way before.
Here's one to start you off.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/macbook-gun-shot-israel-sec...
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In other news, cars are faster than trucks, so clearly there is no valid reason to drive a truck.
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> I consider this a "black armband".

So HN is to SOPA as the SUV driver with the "Support Our Troops" magnet was to the occupation of Afghanistan/Iraq?
(I'd love to get input on my way of doing it, btw - lazy signup has some unsolved UX challenges, I think)
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Ok, fine, I wasn't really thinking of ancient Greece. (But you'll note that ancient Greece declined and fell shortly thereafter. Pericles didn't have a speechwriter, either.)

Jackson was notoriously illiterate. Washington was a stuffed shirt whose brain was largely provided by Hamilton. These are examples of the 20th century avant la lettre - neither statesman would have admitted the practice. Dishonorable behavior is not precluded in societies with strong honor codes - as we can see from Dr. King's own academic record.
The Internet Is Not .gov’s to Regulate
Today's SCOTUS decision allows US to restore copyright to public domain works
I used to have to work late and so I ended up sleeping from 2am to 12pm but now that I started my business... Well I still have a messed up sleep schedule.

I recently bought Lark and I have to say its really great and really disappointing all at once. The 7 day sleep study told me that I'm an "Ascetic-Erradic" sleeper. It told me that 10% of people get less sleep than me which means I get less sleep than 90% of people. Im really ashamed of that. Not sleeping doesn't mean I'm super productive and a super hero. It means I'm a fucking zombie that's moving at a snail's pace all day. I'd much rather get 20 hours of sleep and be fresh enough to get a whole days worth of work done in an hour than sleep less than 90% of the population.

I've always had problems waking up and Lark has helped me to wake up on time but it doesn't stop me from ignoring the alarm as much as I want. I will say I ignore it far less but good enough is never good enough.

I'm no polyphasic, I think that's pseudoscientific fantasy. I'm in bed between 10pm and 3am and awaken between 6am and 11am. Ideally I'd be in bed between 10-11pm and awakened between 5am and 6am. I'll get there. I'm a get-things-done kind of guy so I'll get it done.
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The corporate parent alliances are not always obvious to Americans either; it's very much needed in an article like this.
Capacity Units strike me as a big improvement (for the user) over Machine Hours, because it's very clear how a given usage pattern will translate into Capacity Units. I can predict how many Capacity Units I'll need. I've gotten badly burned over seemingly simple queries using unexpectedly high Machine Hours in SimpleDB.
With no Flash experience I had no trouble building a few Flex apps, and it was the same for a team member that quickly build a performant Flex app using their table widgets (which kills something like jQuery data tables plugin even on Chrome).

I did read O'Reilly's Flex book first though. I'm not sure people code Flex for fun, so good documentation costs money.

Was this your first time writing code for a GUI toolkit? Flex has an interesting model that merges XML definition of a UI with module-based code. I don't find it particular complex compared to say, writing an MFC application or C Win32 code to write a UI. I actually prefer it to the jungle of HTML, CSS, JS and dozens of JS libraries which aren't really geared for a professional type UI and fall down when you want to display 10,000 items in your table.
I guess I really should stress my sarcasm more lol
As someone who is about to work with a client's enterprisey SOAP API, I really wish I could upvote this article multiple times.
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Work for hire can exist without copyright you know.
Gauss again!
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Do you also believe that non-profits and churches should be able to freely lobby? Currently both are severely curtailed in their political speech, unlike for-profit corporations. This is why there are two ACLU organizations: http://www.aclu.org/american-civil-liberties-union-and-aclu-...
Beer may help you sleep, but it will, in my experience, leave you feeling groggy the next day and impair your performance more than you would have suffered through lack of sleep. There are many good reasons to drink beer, but to help you sleep and improve performance ain't one of 'em.
The title is a bit rough, but the argument thoughtful, and to the point. The "Market Participants" part is particularly interesting. I would however argue that the "cheapskates" are much fewer that is commonly thought. It is true that few students would happily spend $20 on a CD, but if there were no other way of getting music, most of us would go ahead and spend these $20. We would just be more parsimonious in our music/media consumption if we had to pay for everything.
As long as the artist can afford it.

There ain't such thing as free art.
New VC fund invest $30M into strange company owned by same VC.  Scam?
If I get < 6 hrs of sleep, I am for the most part a zombie. I can be ok for the first 6 hours, but after about 10 hrs awake I am barely functional.

If I get 6-6.5 hrs of sleep, I am decent most of the day.

If I get 7+ hrs of sleep, I am good.

If I get 9 hrs of sleep, I be at my sharpest that day.

Usually I get between 6 and 7 hrs of sleep a day (in bed by 00:00-00:40, wake up at 07:00) I also can get between 15-30 minutes of sleep on the bus and potentially another 15-30 on the way back.

Things that affect my sleep, or ability to stay awake:

1) Coffee/Sugar. I avoid it. Any large quantity of it will put me into insane sleepy mode after about 15-30 minutes of consumption.

2) Something interesting: If I am doing something mentally engaging near the end of the day, I am very likely to miss my bed time and could take 10-20 minutes to fall asleep. If it is extremely interesting I may wind up having a lack of deep sleep.

3) Physical exercise helps me sleep better. I started having 2 or so hrs a day (1 in morning 7am, 1 in evening 8pm) walks with my dog, which are sometimes walks, sometimes jogs, sometimes full-speed running. The more I get in a day the better my sleep is and the more rested I am the next day given I have a minimum of 7 hrs of sleep.

I find it's easiest to have a schedule, and stick to even even on days off, especially on days off actually.
>"I have small equity in one of the startups (we'll call it Startup X) - well I signed a draft contract and never received a finalized copy"

Signed a draft and don't have an executed copy?

[IANAL] You don't have a contract and don't have equity. Unless there was a sunset on the draft terms, it could be executed by the other party's signature at some indefinite point in the future.

Generally speaking the date on the contract should match the date on your signature.
[/IANAL]

You may need a lawyer before you do anything else.
So Google is undercutting the blackout by suppressing the reality of sites' content and pretending the web is normal today? And webmasters are cheering it because they don't actually want to black out, they just want a slacktivist PR hit?

And a subversive angle: imagine if SOPA passes and Google gets a deindex order, and they "slow their crawler" during the deindexing operation.
Truly broken analogy. If you want to go with the 'reading thoughts' (whats wrong with cars!?) then with copyright infringement (which is what we are discussing here) it would be like someone selling the right to listen to their thoughts, and someone who paid for it choosing to relay those thoughts to others for free.

Certainly relaying those thoughts for free can possibly limit potential opportunities to futher sell the right to 'listen to those thoughts' (assuming that anyone of those listening in for free would be prepared to pay for it). But this 'intellectual rape' thing you are trying to paint here just doesn't hold water since they are already granting permission to 'read their thoughts' for money.

These files containing ip that are being illegally copied all across the web are things which were already being distributed in various forms, albeit with artificial scarcity mechanisms in place to force payment per copy.
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There is no such thing as free anything. But there is plenty of great music out there that never made a single dime.
Mine contains 194.71.107.15 (thepiratebay.org) because a judge had it blocked here in Belgium. I could just as well use depiraatbaai.be but it's a matter of principle, I like my world wide web to be "complete".

I think the people of the USA should be happy there needs to be a law around it at least. Here it was blocked with no legislative backing, only because a judge deemed it illegal. It's interesting to see you at least have a semblance of democratic process.
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That was my point, you don't have to believe me, there are a lot of public examples that are not associated with me. In fact I did not want to get into my personal accomplishments, for that very reason. For a post, it can be stated that there are large JavaScript code bases in the wild without justifying such conjecture for the sake of brevity. That is why I said it was conjecture it is an assumption of truth without providing proof, if people are interested they can do the research to make it fact, in their mind, because what they consider to be "large" will be a personal variable as well. I don't feel I made a bogus claim, I just wrote a post and not a dissertation on the subject. In doing so, I drew upon my own personal experiences to formulate my post. If people want to ignore it as bogus they can, or they can simply read my post for what it is and decide to look into it. I don't think I asked anyone to take my post as proof, rather stated my position on the subject at hand. If it appears to not be the case, then I apologize it was not my intention.
Your point about value lying in the consumer is a good response to the parent. The parent implies that society should invent business models to protect people who do things (but then even fails to make the point through use of word "generally").

However, I don't think the rest of your points are strong. People might not want to pay for apples, but that doesn't give them the justification to steal them. That's not because they don't value them - clearly they do. Or else they wouldn't want them.

Copying is different to stealing because in copying you don't deprive the creating from anything apart from completely arbitrary rights that the law grants to them.

It may also be worth raising that there's room for a difference between protection of 1. privacy (this photo is of me and I don't want it released because that would be invasive to a reasonable definition of privacy); 2. first release (I created something but it's personal, I haven't released it to anyone, and don't want people redistributing it - this is an anti-right, but more reasonable than the next one); 3. Protection of publishers (I create something, and the government gives me a monopoly over all copies and derivatives of it to such an extent that government invades people's civil liberties to protect my business models).
Is there even 1 legit reason why someone would use SOAP over REST, aside from legacy?
> Yes they do because

Who gave it to them? I dont think that we ever, as a society, ever fundamentally _agreed_ to the existence of such exclusivity rights. Yes they are in the constitution, yes they are in the lawbooks, but the people at large never fundamentally agreed that such rights should be in there. The decision process was always top-down, never bottom-up. They are not a result of peoples morality, but of a interest-driven, behind-closed-doors development process. Those laws dont map the will of the people, of your fellow citizens, but of a few, but influential stake holders. Such rights are not democratically backed. If you would ever have a referendum on copyright policy, you would probably lose them.
What your argument fails to do is demonstrate how Denmark is any different. Please do.
Do the respiratory problems include sleep apnea? If so, do you use a mask?
Your comment seems to hinge on this idea that "the overwhelming majority of truly interesting works are not for profit", which seemed dubious, but interesting. Then you end with a disclaimer noting that you are an extreme outlier in your opinion and consumption of interesting works. Your comment could have been edited down to "I don't like for-profit works so if everyone liked the same things as I do, we wouldn't need copyright." It's an intriguing thought, and I'm fascinated by your rejection of our society's usual entertainments - is it a principled stand? do you really just dislike that stuff and like other things more? how and when did this start? - but it's not very germane to solving the wider society's issues with copyright because a lot of the rest of us are pretty into some of the books, music, and movies that are made for profit.
Why is there a six month lag? Is it to create an artificial urgency to watch the movie in the theater or else you don't get to see it for six months?
Counterfeit Wealth: Some Thoughts on Rent-Seeking and SOPA
For the plain ol' FFT, I've found the "Fastest Fourier in the West": http://www.fftw.org/ to be an excellent library, which implements a whole bunch of different solvers, and picks the appropriate ones to use for your data.

Hopefully this new algorithm can be added to their toolbox in the future.
I agree. We need SOAP to stop the JSON loving bit thieves trying to steal our intellectual overhead (IO). Don't drop the SOAP!
My understanding is that DynamoDB's Capacity Units are just a query throttle, and you get charged based on the throttle you set, whether or not you use that capacity. It also looks like you can still have one query that consume many, many Capacity Units (e.g. table scans).

SimpleDB's Machine hours are basically the same units, but without the throttle.

So, from a technical and value viewpoint, it's a huge step backwards (pay for capacity rather than for usage), but I'm learning that psychology is perhaps just as important here.

It seems like what you really want is a throttle with per-query charging, to cap your bill. Probably you'd much prefer not to be forced to pay your cap every month, but I don't think that's being offered.

(Edit: Downvotes? Am I wrong here? If so, please contribute to the discussion and tell me why!)
but you have to admit this isn't very obvious or well documented
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