skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because ICE has no jurisdiction. All of the ICE take downs are only for sites that sell physical goods (bootlegs, counterfeits, etc.) to people in the States.
I'm not sure what the common idioms for Javascript/node.js API design are, but I think this API is really ugly.

prodAdv = aws.createProdAdvClient(yourAccessKeyId, yourSecretAccessKey, yourAssociateTag);

prodAdv.call("ItemSearch", {SearchIndex: "Books", Keywords: "Javascript"}, function(result) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
})

createProdAdvClient? Accessing the .call method directly?

Edit: Also, didn't notice, but the upper-case key names in the hash passed to the call method are also ugly, IMO.
Surely the entire of facebook constitutes one big "secret psychological advertising conspiracy." That sounds like a perfect description to me, if you discount the alarmist, x-files connotations of "conspiracy."

Neuromarketing is a pretty standard practice now, I don't think any of this is controversial.
Don't Skimp on Documentation
I think simply ignoring or blocking anyone who disagrees with you will just lead to ignorance.
Well, for one there are a fair number of equations, which ebook readers are going to struggle with. Plus there are "structural puns" which depend on lines aligning and breaking in a certain fashion.

Here's an example page from Amazon's preview:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8082/screenshot20120118at14...

Note the musical extract, the heavy use of blockquotes, etc. It's pretty much a worse case for an ereader.

PS: I'll admit I'm a bit late to this party, as I just bought my copy for the Reddit readthrough, and it's the first actual dead-tree book I've bought since my Kindle. I too was annoyed at first by the lack of a ereader version, but after reading the first few pages of the intro I couldn't imagine reading it any other way. This is a VERY dense book where I often find myself flipping back a page or two to reference earlier material.
I find it rather humorous that it is unsigned. It makes it feel even more as though it were penned by Murdoch.
I think Ben nails it here. Unlike the Ohanian debate, Ben uses Rick Cotton's talking points against him. He refutes the 'only foreign websites' mantra that Cotton has been spewing lately with an accurate and measured response. Brilliant. Ben clearly won that debate and highlighted a successful strategy for dealing with proponents.
Cyber War : Another 7000 Israel credit cards Exposed on Internet
PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandoning Bills
If anyone else had trouble reading the site because of font rendering in Firefox (what is up with those r's, D's and S's!?), I found readability made it digestible.

http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets
Online Gambling Would Be Big Score For Zynga
... that's suddenly so much more brilliant. Thanks for sharing :D
Irony: Google's cache of Wikipedia's SOPA article (who cares about blackout?)
Although I guess it's technically true that "the theft of intellectual property is clearly a problem", it's unenlightening. Shoplifting and texting in theaters are also clear problems, but I hope you'd oppose insane laws where people caught doing those things are publicly hanged alongside their immediate family. Is the theft of intellectual property such an urgent problem that it merits an extreme response? That I doubt. We seem to be doing mostly fine with the status quo. It might be a bit frustrating when your content is pirated, but it does not call for drastic measures on the scale of SOPA. (And of course, this is all ignoring the fact that SOPA would actually be quite ineffective at stopping piracy, and would mainly just act as ammunition for trolls and anticompetitive corporations. I'd guess that true pirate sites would generally be less affected by SOPA than the average non-pirate site that just accepts user-generated content.)
PIPA was introduced by a Democrat, SOPA by a Republican, and both have wide bipartisan support.
That's bullshit.

Rejecting submissions from SOPA supporters on a private website just isn't the same as manipulating the machinery of government the way bill supporters have done.
I don't think it is appropriate to have the smartphones and tablets as a %market share competing against desktop platforms such as mac/pc. For one, while in general people either own a mac xor a pc, people in general don't own a smartphone xor a desktop (I assume).

The graphs at the beginning showing sales seem to be the least misleading in this case, and don't show the sudden drop in sales which existed for other older systems such as Amiga, atari, etc. In this sense it seems pcs are still going steady with a nearly saturated market, and people are now adopting both a smartphone and a desktop.

At least, that is my interpretation from a single graph, presumably other opinions exist.
If the market evolves to not sustain AAA games, thems the breaks.

I'm not following this argument. Both Wolfire and Mojang (Notch's company) sell games. They also provide free demos but their primary income comes from selling copyrighted works, not donations.

So, to a point, they are effectively living off "donations" until they ship 1.0, right? Preorders are effectively donations to continue development.
I lived as a musician for some years. I think I have a pretty good understanding on how it works and I am playing no game at all.

Plus I have both a product out (cost money), a service out (free), have a design agency.

I don't say that artist shouldn't make money. I think they should when they work. But claiming that it's somehow a right for musicians to keep reaping the benefits of digital distribution but not those related to it, is in my mind wrong and not serving the anyone.

Truckers and musicians who don't conform to the new reality is going to be left behind.

It's really that simple. Of course they will try and get the government to protect their interest and it will have people helping them defend that.

But it's not a fair game.

And artist neither are nor will be eternally poor. It's a poor argument. There will always be people who make money on their creations, they will just have to do it differently than what we do today.

Technology is always a double edged sword. No one, not even artist can escape that.
That's the one I was thinking of! Thanks very much.
They won't be taking their balls and going home out of pique, they'll be doing it because they have to go to work.

Every hour an artist has to spend at a day job is an hour they can't spend creating. It's an hour they can't spend practicing. It's an hour they can't spend raising awareness of their work.
Fundamental Oracle security flaw revealed
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy
No New Accounts Today
Traffic is unprecedentedly high today, presumably because Reddit is blacked out. I don't want to repay them for their impressive stand by stealing their users, so I've temporarily turned off the ability to create new accounts.
Well, according to Snopes this is a myth; bottlers had been allowed to use HFCS in original Coke prior to the introduction of New Coke. Here's what Wikipedia has to say:

The new product continued to be sold and retained the name Coca-Cola (until 1992, when it was officially renamed Coca-Cola II), so the old product was named Coca-Cola Classic, also called Coke Classic, later just Coke and for a short period of time it was referred to by the public as Old Coke. Many who tasted the reintroduced formula were not convinced that the first batches really were the same formula that had supposedly been retired that spring. This is partially true because Coca-Cola Classic differed from the original formula, as all bottlers who hadn't already done so were using high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar to sweeten the drink
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This is also my main problem with it. The idea is nice to have some sort of diary where you log important events in your life so that you can scroll back in someone's history and see when important things happened.

But sometime before Timeline, Facebook made a change so that each post has an individual visibility to give users more control or whatever, and when I switched over to Timeline, all my old posts that weren't private automatically appeared on my timeline, and I can't easily change the visibility of all those old posts, that are now much more easily accessible.

I want the newer posts on my Timeline to be visible, so others can see the latest crap I shared with my friends, but I want the older posts to fade into obscurity, unless I actively bring them back again.
The so called talent of many popular musicians is greatly overrated.

It's not how things work.
Photos are a pretty emotional experience, true. However I think there's a major difference. Typically photos on my facebook represent moments, short memories in time... mostly happy.

Looking at a photo makes me remember the context of the photo. However a status update is different. They're more frequent, they're less significant. They give context around the less important things.

For example, I remember the first time I looked at my timeline there was a status update that said something along the lines of "Oh man new doughnut at the Dunkin!" I wrote it a few years ago, and it was Completely pointless, and meaningless.. but then I remembered it, because later that day my mom was hit by a car. The entire events of that day flashed in my mind. Frankly that was pretty emotional for me.
> Which you haven't cited, I notice.

OK. I claimed something and didn't cite.

I'll take another angle. Live-and-let live should be the default case. Copyright is an intrusion on this. If someone wants to drive a tank through freedom by introducing something like copyright, then the onus is on the tank drivers to make the case that the benefits justify the intrusion on freedom.

I've never seen a remotely reasonable attempt at putting that case. The best you get is claims that people wouldn't produce things unless they had vast legal protections and that's plainly false. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies. I write code, in a commercial setting, with copyright not being the justification for it.

Handel is an even better example, because it's well documented that he rearranged lots of previous stuff. We wouldn't have any record of some of those earlier tunes had he not repurposed them in his own works. Handel's _Israel in Egypt_ could not be performed or distributed under current western-world copyright law.

"If an alternative economic model provides a more effective incentive than copyright, then it is unlikely that today's copyright laws prevent anyone from adopting that model instead and reaping the rewards."

When you have copyright law it creates a powerful lobby group and any attempt at reform will come up against them. Much as with my discussion about the church above - an institution that impeded progress and freedom, but which fought ferociously to retain privilege at every step.

What could cause the dam to break would be a major economic slump and a desperate move to try something new to attract smart people. Or something like SOPA may be a step too far, and cause Sweden or New Zealand or Singapore or a special economic zone in China to make a play at being a free-state-style intellectual capital.
I also get the same feeling. Say some nice things to get some support, when the bill or a very similar bill comes he will just quietly support it.
"Why do pirates have a better experience than customers?"

This pretty much sums it up. I couldn't agree more.
As for not going with a straight chronological list, I think that really the idea behind Timeline is to take all the information that was put in Facebook and present it in something that is more akin to digital scrapbooking. They want you to have something more personal and emotional so that you're more attached to it. Their ad about it is clear about that: Facebook should be the place where you keep track of your life and expose it (a certain way) to and share it with your friends.

For that, you want to highlight a specific picture or event, but still have little anecdotes sprinkled here and there. They want you to go through the Timeline like you'd go through a photo album where you'd have a mix of the big events (graduation, marriage, births, etc.) with the little things, so that you can hear "oh, remember that one? When we went to Disneyland and you fell in the pool…", "you were so mad at him that day! Look at what you wrote on your wall…", etc.

Not having just a list makes it a bit more interesting to peruse. It's like going through a shoebox of photos and souvenirs, spread them out and you see some things, not others… I'm not saying they've nailed it, but it's a first version of it and it's an interesting experiment. It's hard to make an interesting photo album by hand, it's even harder to make something semi-automated.

As as side-note: The new timeline is why I quit FaceBook in December.

I find that interesting since I personally rarely see people's profiles or timelines.
"if you want a bunch of Facebook monstrosities welded into an always-online authentication framework"
Is Steam such a system? If so, give me more of that, Steam is awesome, and proof that people will buy stuff if the original is better than the pirated copy.
Zuckerberg posted a msg to his 10 million followers about 45 mins ago.

http://www.facebook.com/zuck
Stopped using Readability and switched to Readable when their bookmarks started doing funky stuff involving their servers.
I worked onsite for a large pharmaceutical company in their corporate HQ for 6 years, but never was considered any employee of that company. I couldn't access many services and perks of that company even though I was in their datacenter and on site every day for years. This was the point of hiring me via my consulting company was to move the liability, cost and responsibility to a 3rd party, which also seems to be the case here.

This can be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. The original company can show it is cheaper to use a contracting company, but also as seen in the Gulf oil spill, there can be a lot of finger pointing between companies on who is responsible for damage where when it comes time to deal with real problems.
I don't use pirated versions of Windows so I don't know the answer to this but I would assume it's a bad idea because:

Your trusting a .ISO image from a random website, how do you know there is not time bombed malware pre-installed?

Do you still have access to Windows update? If so for how long, I assume it can't be difficult for Microsoft to figure out who is using it illegitimately since some versions must be using either the same keys or keys that have never been issued to a copy of Windows that they have sold?
Apply this same argument to someone who spends hundreds of hours working so that they can buy a car. This is all done out of self interest. Most people would not conclude that it's okay for someone that a car thief, who steals the car because it serves his self interest. That this is somehow rational and moral because one person's self interest is equivalent to another person's self interest.

Of course people who are anti-copyright will be quick to point out that a bunch of bits on a disk that can be infinitely duplicated is different from a physical car. And that's true. But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the blood, sweat, and tears that the creator invests in the act of creation.

I could post more far fetched analogies. It's in a woman's interest to have self control over her body. It's in a rapists best interest to take control of her body. Does the argument that each individuals self-interest is reciprocal apply in this case? Is that the "sensible rational purely moral" conclusion? Of course not. There are a myriad of other factors that need to be taken into consideration.
Wikipedia won't be deindexed as their blackout page is a javascript-generated layer over the content. Smaller sites with simpler blackout-ing schemes (e.g. replace their normal content with SOPA content) would be far more at risk, Wikipedia isn't.
Similar, but with a shiny button: http://davd.me/blackout/
Good care would be needed (and good care is what is often lacking when it comes to turning books into e-books) but to claim it’s not possible is preposterous and ridiculous.
If I lift I usually feel worse the next day.
This is because my body wants extra sleep to recover.

However, it does help me to fall asleep faster and I'm certainly not advocating NOT exercising.
Facebook changed my default privacy to "Public" without telling me
Why does this have to be so hard?  Is this how empires die?
While I'm entirely sympathetic to the author's DRM plight, buying the software and getting the pirate's cleaner experience are not mutually exclusive. If you want the best experience and a clean conscience (I'm assuming here you think piracy is wrong, since you've bought so many other copies of MS software), buy the software, then install a pirated a copy.

I usually do this with new PCs that have Windows pre-installed, so I don't have to deal with crapware.
It would change the rankings.

I recently had a client site go down (amazon instance stopped, no notification). It was out of the index by the time we caught it day or so later. This site also happened to rank pretty well for a niche term.

The good news is that as soon as the site was back up, it was back in the index within a few hours. Not sure if that's a typical experience.
And (currently-existing) lumberjacks have always cut down trees, and (because of an identity now largely grounded therein) probably always will.

Still, I'd rather not have to depend on charity-lumberjacking, you know? If someone wants to chop down trees for free, that's between him and his god (or dryad, as the case may be). If that's the only way trees ever get cut down? God help us all.

Above statement refers, for purposes of argument, to sustainable tree harvesting, so as to avoid irrelevant side tangents.
Yes, that could be an idea I could try. Thanks.
Because in a couple years we'll have bots that can generate WSJ editorials by scratch simply by estimating what text will maximize the profits of the WSJ's old industry corporate masters?
>"It requires patience, logical thinking, a good grasp of language, a "plastic" mind, and no pre-conceptions of what it should be saying."

Or just skipping over the parts that don't resonate.

One of the things which is so marvelous about GEB is that it is entertaining on many levels (pun intended) - just looking at the pictures is thought provoking, reading the dialogs is as well, etc.

There's something there for everyone - there's no need to quine.
Would this still be legal though?
You are still using an unlicensed copy regardless of whether or not you happen to additionally own another copy.
For all they know you might install your licensed copy on another computer later and not remove your unlicensed one.
Pro members are not exempt from the blackout.
pretty sure that's just a dev banner
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Your car analogy conflates scarce and non-scarce goods. A better car analogy would be that someone invents a way to create cars for $200 with 3D printers, and so everyone stops buying cars that cost 100x that much. "You wouldn't download a car" and all that. Of course, someone has to create the CAD designs or whatever, but that's a much smaller industry than all the manufacturing that existed before (so, of course, all the people who work in auto factories are upset that they've been made irrelevant).
It's a Murdoch paper, what else did you expect?

Off Topic: Whenever I read WSJ I always think of Weekly Shounen Jump and then I'm like that makes no sense, this has to be about the Wall Street Journal. It's never about Manga.
that and Windows its 50 times the minimum wage here in mexico.
To bad the Whitehouse photo-stream is exempted.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/
I sympathize with the sentiment, but I think that saying "what's even more important is that you start paying attention and demand better from your government" is a little antagonistic and will raise conspiracy nut bells. Despite it being absolutely true. And even if they do pay attention most people are defeatist on politics changing.

I am no patio11, but they should be stressing SOPA/PIPA as an anti-jobs bills that will destroy Silicon Valley and won't even protect Hollywood jobs. Perhaps employ the fear of China or terrorism to make it seem important too. And most of all, Silicon Valley should be sending highly paid lobbyists too to make laws in their interests.

Maybe I'm overly cynical, but relying on public engagement in the long-term is folly.
Not sure about that.

What Coca Cola actually ships from Atlanta is the syrup, unsweetened. The bottlers add water and sugar to this, and AFAIK [1], it is up to their discretion what type of sugar to use.

This is one of the reasons that Coke tastes different in different places - a can of Coke in Montreal is very different from one in Toronto.

I'd have fact-checked this, but for some reason, Wikipedia is down... :)

[1] Perhaps this is no longer the case, but it certainly was in 1989, when I "interned" at a Coke bottling facility in Harare, Zimbabwe for a week
These are the same people that got upset that the Internet was broken when googling for "Facebook login" took you to some other site.

It's a pretty instructive reminder that some people just won't read your message, no matter how succinct or simple you put it.
That's inflammatory.

But to your point, I wasn't commenting on the manipulation of government (a point that I also don't agree with - I think the government is complicit, not manipulated) but on the manipulation of technology to stifle freedom of expression. I don't see a huge difference between building filters that target torrent sites and building filters that target SOPA supporters. Nor do I think it makes a difference whether this is initiated in response to legislative demands, or some sense of "what is right".

YMMV.
Seeing is Believing (Most of the Time)
TWiT Live SOPA Blackout
I have no idea whether it's technically legal, actually. But I'm working off two premises: 1. The author doesn't care about legality, since he's finally resorting to piracy anyway. 2. The author would like to compensate MS for the use of a Windows license. If those are true, then buying a copy but actually using a pirate copy does what the author wants.
I understand the resentment, but the right course of action must surely be to not upgrade. Instead go with an alternative, such as Mac OS or Linux.
Any plans for DynamoDB?
Bring Some Game To Your Code: Visual Studio introduces Achievements
what's going on with me and my friends

That's what your feed (i.e. the "main" page) is for, right?

The timeline is for when you want to look at just one person's activity... it's basically "WHERE user = 'xyz' ORDER BY entry_date DESC".
The premise of this article is that Javascript's pure dynamic variables lead to slowness.

I'm not sure what your point with this post was because if you litter your C/C++ code with non-static casts, it is also going to be much slower than code without casts.
Classy move, :thumbsup:
That's google webfonts. Looks great on my mac but not so great on my PC :/
Sounds like a good conspiracy theory...

The April 15, 2011 crackdown of the largest online poker companies operating in the U.S. was done to eliminate the competition and clear the way for companies like Zynga and Facebook to take the market.

WSJ's Zynga Dealt a Strong Hand in Gambling: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020372170457715...
HN doesn't show vote totals, but it does sort posts based on the number of votes (descending), so the more popular posts rise to the top, just like the front page.
So they chose to back money over liberty. Not a real surprise, if you ask me.