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Would timezone libraries handle this specific case? Genuinely curious, not being sarcastic.
I see people stick things on S3 and assume it's fast, because it's fast for them. But, the difference between cloudfront and S3 (US) from Asia is huge.
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> False. It's the opposite actually. A site continues to have existing safe harbor protection UNLESS it does this. Even Congress knows you can't put this type of burden on sites.

So any site can continue to operate as long as they pointedly don't police user content? Considering that would make the legislation entirely ineffective, I suspect it'll get conveniently ignored. It would also then remove the ability of sites to enforce their own terms of service on user content, for fear of losing protection. (Consider that YouTube already lets copyright holders police user content, primarily because they got sued and more or less forced to. That would then make them lose their safe harbor.) And in any case, that would still force non-US sites to adhere to US regulations or get blocked, which remains a serious problem given the set of regulations the US would like to enforce on sites.

> False. Individuals and corporations cannot DNS blacklist, or block from Google results. That's only allowed based on a request from the Attorney General, requires approval of a Judge, and only applies to foreign companies that explicitly and solely exist for the purpose of copyright infringement.

Oh, and that makes it OK then? That process seems likely to become a rubber stamp, especially for requests made by the companies that bought and paid for this legislation in the first place.

And considering that the congresscritters that approve the legislation often don't bother reading it before doing so, and rely on summaries instead, I'd hardly fault Tom's Hardware for relying on the general summaries provided by other technical sources concerned about this legislation. SOPA has also undergone numerous changes and amendments since its introduction, none of which make it acceptable, but many of which make the details somewhat less concrete. The article got the major points right, and the details close to right.
I had an account for a while. I eventually stopped because its much better than TV news, it was only a bit better than The Economist.
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I don't get it. Why do they claim that this is in any way better than a data:// url? (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URL)
Thanks all! I really hope the Italian scene grows a lot!!
If you're in Italy and want to fund your startup try contacting h-farm http://www.h-farmventures.com/

Disclaimer: I've worked with one of their startup but I know the place is great and they're more than willing to invest.
When I asked - from the reasons I could pick up - the best I can figure is it's essentially due to network effects:

* they said blackberry was smart - they had the most active presence and support locally out of the smartphone groups

* the pin service of course

* the dataplans are most sane on blackberries and for a while the network operators only offered a dataplan to blackberries

* They just plain think they are cool. Even in England among the urban youth and erm hip hop crowd blackberries are most dominant.

It certainly was a revelation amongst many of how much of a world there is out there and how much it can differ.
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when I got started with programming (c), I wondered why not use whitespace instead of curly braces. Then I found Python and its community and I fell in love. Love this idea as well. I will help with what I can.
The only problem with this article is that it makes the assumption that app downloads are correlated with resource loading speed, which really could be completely incorrect.

The hacker news traffic was very targeted, watching a specific video for the content. Assuming the HN traffic was during period which saw 6-8% conversion, the real cause of the low conversion rate is almost certainly due to people clicking through from HN, watching the video and leaving without looking at the site at all. I don't even own an iPad, and frankly when someone links a video on HN or similar social sites, I watch the video and leave, regardless of the video sharing site.

I'd assume their more day-to-day traffic is getting there via other sources. Perhaps people saying "check out this app", perhaps people coming through search engines looking for ipad related video - essentially a much more targeted audience.

I could be completely wrong. Based on the information presented, I've made a huge number of assumptions. However, I'd be truly surprised if decreasing the load time of your static assets is really the driving factor in visitor conversions.

Edit: It seems their "App store downloads to web visit ratio" isn't really a conversion factor as much as a comparison of the two. My interpretation of it is that they now receive 28% of their web visits in downloads (for every hundred web visitors, they receive 28 app "downloads" (although it's not clear whether a "download" is a video load, or an app install)). Surely that's just because their web traffic has fallen after the HN spike? I'm not convinced that there's any real basis to the key claim made at the bottom.
You could try mood based ads. Very difficult to sell to an advertiser, but it could have some interesting applications. I wonder if depressed or happy people buy more.
I don't want them to oppose SOPA legitimately because that will make it harder to hate them unequivocally.
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My mobile browser of choice does not support cross browser resource sharing, according to the article...or rather the error message I get in lieu of the article.
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Very neat idea, but I think the reliance in bit.ly is self-defeating. This kind of approach would allow people to distribute documents using the web without having to trust them to a particular server, which can be very convenient if your target audience is in a country where access to the server storing your documents can be closed.

I just can't see the gain here. You need a server to distribute the URLs in any case. You are just moving the data from the server that served the document to the server that servers the URLs. It is still the same data, just in different form.

For this to work you need to be able to recover the document from the URL locally.

How about saving the document?
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This seriously disturbs me. Dropbox has several fundamental flaws that make it entirely unsuitable for widespread adoption as anything other than a personal file store for people who don't care about privacy. A "filesystem of the web" would need security, encryption, fine-grained sharing controls, reliability, and numerous other features. Meanwhile, the whole sync mechanism of Dropbox doesn't really matter for a "filesystem of the web", because changes can just occur directly in the remote filesystem rather than locally with syncing.

Now, if someone called S3 "the new filesystem of the web", that would make more sense. Numerous services build on S3, including Dropbox itself, and it provides enough tools and API to allow those services to include all the critical features mentioned above. Add a few features for users to hook up their own S3 data to services rather than the S3 accounts of those services, and you'd have something even more interesting. (The same thing applies to any equivalent service to S3, and many such services exist.)
I'm quite curious if local churches will follow along with the change.

I know Jews wouldn't, and I doubt Muslims would, but I don't think there are any Jews there anyway, not sure about Muslims.
Even so--and like others, I'd rather see citations than hearsay--why is it necessary? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) already provides a safe harbor provision, and nothing has stopped ICE from taking down whole domains of foreign and domestic websites already.

So why shill for it?
Yes they will, but this time they seems to have missed it so the updated database will be released after the change. See the thread about this in the Olson database mailing list.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-December/008457.html

EDIT: Correction, that thread was about Tokelau and not Samoa. The Samoan change seems to already be in the latest version of the database.
From the article: "...look around for a profitable business... and build up a product that you can give away for free"

I don't understand why techies are so quick to flip the "Race to the Bottom" switch as the defacto product marketing strategy.

Consumer electronics compete on price because they're mainly commodities... Your Samsung TV is pretty much identical to your Sharp or your Sony. How do you differentiate? Price.

There's so much more innovation that you can do in software that competing on price is pretty lame.

"Clearly this is a more appropriate meta-idea for software / internet products where the cost of replication and distribution is almost zero."

S/he gives the example of Plenty of Fish... I guess it depends on how you define "almost", but scaling up to support that many users (which is required to make serious $ off of "free"), you certainly have real costs. POF has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in servers, not to mention bandwidth/elec costs.
Also on early episodes of Back to Work he talked a lot about oscillating between time and attention. That is if you stay in your bubble all the time you won't create very interesting things, but that's not a common problem these days because distribution and consumption is so easy that the vast majority of people can go through life without creating anything (which was not the case when 90% of people were subsistence farmers). Instead you need to find the balance where you are actually receiving the right amount of input to do your best work.

I love hearing Merlin talk about this stuff because he is intellectually honest and communicates in an almost koan-like style. That said, the hard part is closing the gap between thought and practice. I struggle with it every day.
I work at home doing freelance work full time for the last 5 years. Everyday is a risk as I don't have a stable income. I have a family to feed too. I guess am an optimist that's why I can live like this.

The good news is that I am able to build my own side-project which I hope will gain traction in the near future.
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there could also be potential for B2B services: think airport lounges, auto salons, etc etc ...
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There's a hitchhiker's guide to packaging that covers all aspects of the package lifecycle very well: http://guide.python-distribute.org/

In fact I'm a bit annoyed at seeing this new effort reuse the name, because the hitchhiker's guide to packaging has great content and is getting some well-deserved name recognition. The official Python wiki is another good place to learn and write guides about the ecosystem.
Yeah, I can see your point about early adopters. From what I understand though it is still happening today with ICS. Just look at the Samsung S, not even 2 years old and it can't (or won't) run it. Users have to go the CyanoGen route, which is for the technically inclined.

If third world countries are going to be supplied with cheap hardware then surely they are going to be excluded far more readily from updates. I also think it would be patronising to assume they would not want updates or app compatibility. What happens when the Facebook app, 2 years down the road, suddenly requires ICS to run?
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The top rated review of The Lean Startup basically trashes it, saying it never gets very specific, and is sort of a vehicle for Eric Ries to sell himself.
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Great idea this. But it saves on each edit and likely to hit rate limit on bit.ly :(
I think a part of the problem there may be that a substantial percentage of the original user community are perl hackers, and tend to discuss their Gearman usage in the context of whatever else they're using - I see Gearman discussions reasonably often on the Catalyst IRC channel, for example.

Another reason is quite possibly that for the vast majority of tasks, Gearman "just works" - if the obvious way to use a piece of software works first time, talking to other users isn't particularly necessary (there's not really a GNU cat community either, for example :)

I'm not entirely sure what you'd do to fix that though (or even if there's anything except perception to be fixed)
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Out of interest, what is the difference for you of an S3 bucket in Asia versus Cloudfront?

The other thing I am never sure about with CDNs is whether they will actually keep your items resident always, even infrequently used ones. If they evict them and go back to origin it does not help. Has anyone done eviction tests on say cloudfront to see what the policies are.
Why should I give a shit about Godaddy?

Godaddy doesn't have a vote in congress.

Anyone who wants to impact the companies actually responsible for the legislation with their consumer choices should stop buying Disney videos for their princesses, Nike's for the little jock, and Vitton for their spouse.

And of course cancel their cable/sattelite TV along with their iTunes account, stop going to the movies, professional sporting events, and forgo all branded electronics.
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There's also a blog post that explains step-by-step process.
I think the author is expressing that if you (only) let external sources be the inpiration of who you are, you will lose yourself. That's why it is important to create (also).
-ify is a pretty common suffix in English. It means to turn something into something else. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ify and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_suffix...
We were a team of 2 programmers and then we hired someone (from our community) to run our Twitter and Facebook accounts. It provided a huge bump in engagement (and sales) plus freed us up to do more programming.

Getting people to share the burden with customer support, engagement, and outreach can be a huge help.
Try other CDNs. If you're happy to pay, you can certainly get an awful lot better than Cloudfront.
Even if that's the case, they did not sat in a room for 2 years waiting for the iPhone release, then suddenly shouted "let's clone this thing!"

(Yes, I know that's what Steve Jobs believed.)
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I think Freenet already does this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet#Keys Edit: I should point out that it's a separate network from "the web".
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This lets you use the data as a piece of a URL, so you can pass it as a CGI query string to another web page.
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To be honest, I am not interested in solving some web sites business problem. They should be able to figure that out for themselves.
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This is unsurprising. Ron Paul is generally against new legislation.
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What he's saying is obviously right but it seems to me that it was the tech press and the marketing people in the industry, that started using the collective HTML5 term for all the new things that have emerged on the Web recently. They're at fault too for making cruel simplifications that the mere mortals then absorbed.
And then the next paragraph:

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I'm not convinced deeply researching registrars is worth my time. I skimmed through the terms of service before switching to namecheap and that's it. They're a commodity. If the only thing distinguishing this one is that they might put out a press release about 25,000 Internet power users voting against SOPA with their money, that's enough for me. Considering that the only harm I suffered from staying with godaddy for years was a sense of dissatisfaction at being associated with them, I doubt namecheap will do anything in the next 60 days (after which I can transfer elsewhere) to make me regret switching.

If you've got a non-shady registrar and reasons to think it's the best, post something and maybe I'll transfer to them in March.
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How about this 'Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans | CTV News': http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20080627/cancer_trial_0...

Disclaimer: I have no medical knowledge but this article saying they cured cancer in mice with 100% seems surreal.
> Without capitalism, America would not.

It would, of course. Just look at some European democracies that lean heavily towards socialism. Excellent universal healthcare, schooling, civil rights (yes, economic systems are orthogonal do state systems) and so on.

What really endangers the US is the rapid erosion of civil liberties under the excuse the country is under attack. It is, but if the medicine kills the patient, it is not exactly a winning scenario.
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Sometimes it is confusing because a lot of animations and tricks are in fact related to a browser version.

When a browser vendor releases access to a Javascript API that can control your CPU fan speed it has nothing to do with HTML, CSS or Javascript. So it's no surprise people sometimes call a meatball spaghetti.
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Meanwhile, the whole sync mechanism of Dropbox doesn't really matter for a "filesystem of the web", because changes can just occur directly in the remote filesystem rather than locally with syncing

Excel can't make changes directly to the remote filesystem. That's the novelty of this scheme. It isn't yet another cloud database, it's a way to share local files with cloud apps.

I have mixed feelings about this.

It could serve to bring data out of the silos, and back under user control. That would be an epic win.

But it's not federated. And I anticipate problems with access control, which needs to be per app, per file, and separate read/write.

Aside: I recently had a nasty scare when a shitty iOS password manager deleted my Keepass database from my Dropbox. If hadn't found a copy in the Dropbox cache on my laptop, I would have been in a world of shit.
There are also psychological reasons why this is difficult-humans tend to view transactions as either social or commercial, but not both. One famous anecdote is how a daycare was struggling with parents constantly arriving late to pick up their children. The daycare started charging a penalty fee, and late pickups actually went up-because previously, the parents had viewed it as a social obligation, which was more of a motivator for them.
What is great about Ron Paul's stance is that I am confident based on his continual display of principled politics that if elected he would stand by this. Who cares what the other candidates are tickling our ears with. Paul is the only one who I feel would actually stand up to the Movie Industry.
Can you provide more info ? I'm interested in what CDNs do you think are better ?
I would be concerned about any of these services using their platforms to promote political agendas (especially those with dominant positions). Do it once and you become a Murdoch or one of the many other media barons.
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As a British person I don't know much about American politics but I often see this Ron Paul guy turn up in discussions about politics in general.

He seems to a hero to many people including those who aren't the stereotypical republican voters. I have to admit I don't quite understand his appeal, his position seems to always just be to oppose any new legislation on government involvement in anything. His position always seems to basically boil down. "let the free market decide" or "let the individual states decide"

At least he appears consistent in what he says and I'm not necessarily saying he is even wrong about anything in particular. But let's say he was elected president , I can't see him actually doing anything (some might argue this is what the president should be).
Let's say there was a national disaster of some kind, what would he do? Just say "we the federal government would help but we would just mess it up , let the free market create a solution"?
Perhaps the author is annoyed at people like me who missed the backtracking that occurred earlier this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HTML5&oldid=46...
I'm writing this reply from a commuter train with wifi that goes away whenever we enter a tunnel. My point of view is that a filesystem of the web has to support disconnected operation. The Coda filesystem has worked that way for decades.
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No, that's not entirely true. I don't have to use a service like bit.ly to send one of these messages. And further, I could just as easily use _any_ or _many_ services. Since the technology is fundamentally browser-to-browser kind of distributed concept, it's just the URL shortening that's not SOPA compliant.

There's also several ways to obscure the impact of SOPA on the URL shortening anyway. For instance, if several services use the same hash algorithm for representing URLs, they can be used interchangeably (if you post the URL to all of them). Further, you can always set up your own temporary shortening service as well.
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I too am hoping for an improvement that will scale to a million users. But here's what I do that should scale to tens of thousands decently:

I run dropboxd on my web server. Instead of using the API, users share a folder with my app. Dropboxd gets the stream of changes, and my app polls the local filesystem for changes instead of polling across the net.