skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'd like JSON as a data representation a lot more if schemas for it were more prevalent. I've noticed it's a lot harder to generate valid JSON -- or rather a lot harder to escape data. With XML, this is fairly trivial. Granted, my use case is considerably different from most.

The other idea from SOAP I'd love to see applied to ReST is a descriptor document for the API. Given how poorly many ReST APIs are documented, I do miss the good 'ol WSDL. Plus, it gave me some measure of security that the API didn't change.
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It's not in the constitution, but it is codified in law (Copyright Act of 1976, I think). But it was common law for a long time before that.
Brad Feld: Why SOPA & PIPA Must Be Stopped
> Even at Amazon's size and scale.

At Amazon's size and scale, it's all the more important that you start with something simple with well-understood performance characteristics from day one. AWS doesn't really get a grace period during which they get to fix scalability problems.
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I believe the traditional reply is: SOPA is the real wtf.
I strongly approve, and I think they are probably part of the way things will be done in the future. Kickstarter is already making great forays into this field.

It's serendipitous that you bring this up, as I am currently working on a startup that uses this very method!
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://www.wired.com/
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http://www.fark.com/
http://boards.4chan.org/co/
Same here - I'm in Canada. No anti-sopa ads on techrunch but they are on wired.
... I was so dissatisfied with my lack of writing skills ... only to wind up, in time, with some degree competence in that area ...

And a total mastery of the art of understatement, clearly. Thank you for your contributions to this community, I am humbled by your continued willingness to invest time to improve it and your success at doing so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Because I don't have to go to the office or be online at office hours, I can make my schedule whatever I want to. Since maybe 2-3 years ago I've stopped forcing myself to wake up when I want to sleep or go to sleep when I don't want to. This resulted in an interesting schedule: I basically shift on average 30-60 minutes forward each day, making a full cycle in a month or so. When I need to adjust to some forecoming event, I shift more rapidly - 2-3 hours a day. So this is how I live: 2 weeks a month I work at night and other 2 weeks during the day. It's fucked up, but there are so many advantages to that, the most obvious of which is that it makes your life a bit different (important for an introverted programmer who spends a lot of time working). And, needless to say, I rarely have a substantial sleep debt and feel tired during the day. However, I sometimes wish I could control my shifts and maybe hold on to the "wake up in the early morning" thing a bit longer, I love mornings.

I'm curious if anyone else does this, I would love to talk to this person.
I basically use nginx the way people would use Apache and Varnish I use as a webcache. Others have explained it thoroughly.
>much of it occurring overseas through rogue websites in China.

What?

I'm seeing the rhetoric here quickly shifting to "overseas", we're trying to stop "overseas" piracy.

That is so ill-defined. Does overseas mean it's hosted overseas? That it transits through overseas? That the founders are located overseas? The registrar? What if it's on a CDN? What if its a US based company that has datacenters overseas? What if it's a UK company that has US based datacenters?

What does that even mean?
Of course you can promise types to the JS engine. Ints in particular are easy. With modern type-inferring JITs like SpiderMonkey, an expression like "var x = 3;" will infer x to int, and there will be no type checks or unboxing. In more complex cases, you can add "|0". For example:

function f(x) {
x = x|0;
...
}

This has the effect of forcing an int interpretation for the argument, and there will be no type checks or unboxing performed thereafter.
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The voice over was written as a description of the app features instead of from the perspective of a user. It sounded like text ripped from your help file. I don't need to be told that I can pinch to zoom in, because I can see that. Instead I want to know I can "watch my videos in crisp full screen playback".

Focus on what your users will get out of it. Emotions are important. Words like "intuitive" aren't. You don't "integrate with social services" you "share your favorite videos with your Facebook friends".
This is typical of modern "opinions differ on the shape of the earth" reporting. Newspapers don't care what the truth is and won't ever pass judgment, no matter how fantastical someone's claims. All they can do is report what Democrats say, what Republicans say and what the Tea Party says. Reporting anything else, including reality, would be considered biased.
Brazilian open source portal down to protest against SOPA
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(B) at scale only leads to the same outcome if a substantial number are converted from (A). If people are only converted from (C) then the outcomes are completely different.

In short, the effect of piracy depends entirely on whether the pirates are potential customers. The effect of dine-and-dash does not depend on that. This is, I believe, an extremely significant difference.
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"US export restrictions on cryptography has also been good for Europe" How so? ( just curious)
Pretty sure it means stealing movies on a boat.
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Today's pedantic minute is sponsored by Carl Friedrich Gauss.

The FFT algorithm was rediscovered in the 60's. Gauss discovered it in the early 19th century while studying the phase of the moon, before Fourier described his transform. He published it in latin, and the text was lost until 1984.
As a free and sentient being, I reserve the right to make whatever decisions I please.
Not knowing ActionScript, the point seems to boil down to no more than "statically typed languages will always be faster than dynamic ones". This is true no matter what, "open source brain" can't fix that.

However, one could make the same argument for C++: Why Python is not a worthy competitor. Sounds silly? It is, just like the original post.
Please read my post in the context of the one I replied to.
What if SOPA, PIPA win? Let's be positive
Let's be positive. If SOPA, PIPA win, Wikipedia could launch satellites and give rise to a new Internet, where knowledge is truly free.

What do you think :-)?
A lot of webcomics coordinated with each other and are posting a red-background "CONTENT BLOCKED BY SOPA/PIPA" with a more or less personalised message about how it affects them. E.g.

http://www.shortpacked.com/
http://www.somethingpositive.net/
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/
http://www.unshelved.com/
http://notinventedhe.re/

XKCD is also protesting, though not coordinated with the above sites (and already listed in the OP)
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more likely it interferes with his job.
Can the 10GB per domain limit be raised on SimpleDB? Or do I have to promise to refer to it as DynamoDB to do that? :-)
Yes, I agree, it is specific to CS - if you re-read my posts, I think you'll find that I prefaced everything with that qualifier. I have friends in the hard sciences, and we sometimes talk about how the publishing models are quite different.
Nonsense. JavaScript bytecode would still be dynamically typed. At best a JavaScript bytecode standard would be equivalent to a compressed AST. That still might be a useful thing to have, but it wouldn't improve runtime performance.
One thing to remember, start-ups cannot waste resources on theory or idea men which a lot of time in corporate American management ascends to. They need people that are useful at getting things done. Hard skills like sales, marketing, development, creative, legal, accounting, SEO, and usability to name a few. If you have a hard skill that you can do, you are going to be a lot more valuable to a start-up than a pure management or visionary role. If they have to opt for a doer vs a manager with limited resources, they are going to opt for a doer, but a doer that can ascend to management is going to be far more attractive so with that you can offer a competitive advantage. My suggestion, if you are interested in the development of products, learn usability. Not how to put pixels on screens but true usability, or the psychology of how people interact with interfaces. Pick up some books like don't make me think, and the usability of everyday things and learn how people think and how to arrange workflows in that manner. These are easy to learn hard skills for an intelligent person and a lot of designers never take the time to learn them but you don't have to be a designer to apply storyboard proper worklows. Being an expert on it, is going to help you bring a value proposition to your candidacy.
In fairness, they stumbled into it more than they deliberately perpetrated the error. In the beginning, when the rules for foreach loops were laid out, C# didn't have closures so it didn't really make a difference.
A press release calling this "the internet censorship bill" could have gone a long way. Possibly along with more comparisons with China and Iran; appealing to xenophobia and American exceptionalism seems a usually-winning strategy.
Maybe shuting down a couple hours is better than this, but the fact is people notice it
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Pricing: $0.01 per hour for every 10 units of Write Capacity and $0.01 per hour for every 50 units of Read Capacity.
How about "how I just don't want to pay While trying to play it off like I have some moral/political agenda".

This post hurts the pro-copyright people, anti-copyright people, and all people with brains.

Edit: I think I was too harsh with that last line. But my point still stands that this article is doing more harm than good. There are a lot of people who write these rants but do it for the wrong reasons and try to play it off like they're some sort of freedom fighter.
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I hate to gripe, but it's kind of disappointing that I can't get my hands on an ereader/Kindle edition.
I have absolutely no idea how I would write Hello World in Flash. What compiler do I need. Do I need a compiler. Do I need to buy it? Is that all I need?

Compared to:

$ vim helo.html
<script>
alert("hellooooo");
</script>

And if you can't write that from scratch, ViewSource on most web pages will give you a good clue.

That looks like trump for mindshare, disputed performance questions aside.
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And of course nowadays they can text you "I forgot my Spanish folder; I think it's on the TV - can you bring it by 11:48? KTHXBYE" No, I didn't have any deadlines today WHY DO YOU ASK?
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Why yes, that has occurred to me. It's possible. But I doubt it for reasons I explained above. The few successful Lean Manufacturing adoptees in the US are on the smaller side as well. That's not because it doesn't scale, as Toyota is now the world's largest car manufacturer. It's because small companies can make cultural changes more easily. See the This American Life episode on NUMMI for a poignant illustration of that.

I think the answer to this question in software will come from companies that have started small with something like XP and grown into large companies. I suspect you'll end up with something like the cellular model that bodies use to scale. That's how it seems to be going at the companies I've visited. One startup I know is at 50 or so engineers and they are doing fine with a lot of small teams working semi-independently, releasing daily, and coordinating as they see fit. Or take YouTube. They have a few hundred people but they maintain a weekly (or more often) release schedule, power works in a bottom-up fashion, product management is decentralized, and the teams are loosely joined. It works fine for them.
Where in Sweden?
Best resources I've found on backbone are articles from Derick Bailey at LosTechies.com

http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/
Finally! something I can do: http://americancensorship.org/#petition-state-department
Is the algorithm patented?
tsk-tsk for using the host header value to calculate links in the left side bar to the forums..

e.g.
http://forums.110.120/forums/thread/277238.aspx
So basically what you are saying is that the truckers should get with the times but the artist shouldn't?

We live as you say in a disruptive age and this applies in no small part to artists.

As with regards to the starving artists.

Let me remind you that the kind of artists that actually have spent many years becoming good have always been struggling and always needed to do live gigs.

They are very different than those the labels push to become big stars today.

What i mean with they will alway have art is this.

The trucker will loose their job and that's pretty much it. The artists will always be able to do art whether they get paid for it or not.
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To the insomniacs still looking for a solution: I've suffered from chronic insomnia since I was teen (I'm 38 now). Last year I was diagnosed with Idiopathic-Hypersomnolence (which means excessive daytime sleepiness), and that of course can make coding difficult. I was prescribed a stimulant, which taken daily, has helped a lot (I'm alert during the day and therefore I sleep better at night).

There's a few main classes of stimulants, and they all come with side-effects and for some may be controversial, but if you're still searching for a solution to your insomnia and haven't tried this, it may be worth investigating. The ones I know of are Methylphenidate (i.e. Ritalin), Modifnil (i.e. Provigil, Alertec) and Dextroamphetamine (i.e. Dexidrine). Take care. Good luck!
Well, to be fair, the article does start with the warning that this is not the opinion of Adobe.

But yes, it seems absurd to say that JIT compilers will never get better, especially given the improvements we've seen in the last few years.
I took a look at the about page (http://technews.techcrunch.com/about-us/) and figured it must be satire. Then I read the comments here and it seems like these guys are real. But I still think Arrington and McWorther have a striking similarity.
This performance claim doesn't seem to match the measurements others have done.

For example, using the code from http://iq12.com/blog/as3-benchmark/ which I've put up here: http://people.mozilla.com/~jmuizelaar/v8-flash.html, I get a score of 2134 with Flash vs 11796 in Chrome. At least on this benchmark, it looks like V8 is a worthy competitor.
No it does not. He has a license for that media.
"were simply confused as to why I cared to tell them"

So true. They can't even appreciate what is going on here and probably thought you were trying to sell them something.

The truth is that SEO wise the techcrunch site comes up when "blackoak asset management" is the search string. Not blackoakam.com (see contact page).

But someone should sell them some help with getting this straightened out so they don't disappear once TC fixes the DNS.
The petition goes to congress, you would need to be a constituent. That makes sense. For example, why would the German MP in the EU parliantment care what I have to think as an American?
actually most of the world is blue
From the article: "An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days."

When these transitions only took 60 days, why not take another look at the 'several billion years'? Maybe life did form much faster under certain conditions.
Euronews is conducting a poll if viewers want more regulations "to stop piracy"
The argument in the article is true but this applies to any AOT language not just actionscript. A look at two popular 'alternatives' are native client and a vm in this instance serve two separate issues: sandboxing and standardization / interoperability. The issue with the latter is standardizing a bytecode would be complicated and a candidate could possibly be the parrot vm.
I think I understand why the copyright notice needs to be un-skippable. But the ads/previews/whatever-else-you-may-want-to-call-them have pissed me off since they started putting them on VHS (LONG time ago).

I don't like paying for ads.
Absolutely. I read GEB in high school, and have often thought of reading it again, but it's a hefty book to carry around.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see an eBook edition too soon. Hofstadter describes himself somewhere (in the GEB preface, maybe?) as very picky about the layout of his books. I remember him saying that he would sometimes rewrite sentences in order to make the layout better.
A more interesting roundup I'm waiting for: how many calls did the representatives get, how many emails, how many senators expressed concerns about SOPA/PIPA, how many have voiced their support again, and so on.
Exactly

you could also ask

What if the instrument creators started to license the use of their guitars, drums and people had to pay royalties.
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I think I would have heard about it if you'd released something revolutionary using several million lines of JavaScript...
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I noticed that in the MPAA speech too. Copyright is a social construct, not a fundamental truth. It's not really American's place to set the social standards for other countries.
I've been dealing with the exact same problem. I've been working with Drupal for about 4 years now. I've coded some contrib modules, submitted patches to core, attended Drupalcons, etc and am just not that excited by it anymore. Recently I felt as though I was spending most of my time configuring Drupal and not actually developing anything. I was bored out of my mind at work.

On the side I've been working on a few Rails and Node.js projects. I found them to be enjoyable to code and intellectually stimulating. An opportunity came along a few weeks ago to join a Rails based consulting firm. I start in a few weeks and can't remember the last time I was this excited about work.

As some of the other commenters mentioned, I'm hoping the lower level stuff is the breath of fresh air needed. Everyone is different but maybe you should consider switching things up a little and jumping into a new technology stack. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
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Wikipedia says 11.5 million, but the point is that even at this scale, they are still treated as an edge case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

I'm sure there are other examples, but the general rule should be that language is a preference and not geographically forced.
They argue that way because their inflated claims have no merit. The only justification for copyright that doesn't amount to arrogant and unjustifiable claims of "creator privilege" (my phrase, but that is what their wordy arguments amount to) is that given in the US Constitution, as a practical matter "to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".

You might notice in "useful arts" that an argument could be made right now, that fiction, music, movies, and video games never should have been covered. And, in fact, music wasn't covered for decades afterward.
Thanks for the help, but that's not exactly what I was looking for. For instance, I'd have needed ready access to the amount of their total capital raise and the exit price. Exit prices are usually not published, and I don't believe this one was published. So that's still kind of an "Inside Baseball" answer. I was looking for more objective answers, but perhaps the only way anyone here knew SimpleGeo was doomed was by staying current on the scuttlebutt. Unfortunately, that doesn't really scale.
Lawmakers begin to retreat from piracy bills in face of Web blackout
"A vote for censorship of the web via SOPA or any future legislation is a wedge issue for myself and others. I will not vote for you if you support this. Period."
Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms
It's a non-standard (NoSQL) database. Even SQL databases, despite years of standardization and efforts at poaching each other's customers, still have rough edges that make moving between different SQL database products non-trivial. Just because you can get your data out doesn't mean you're not locked in to all of SimpleDB/DynamoDB's quirks, of which there will be a lot more because it's not following a standard approach. Your code will have to go through contortions to work around / adapt to the SimpleDB limitations; effort which might well be wasted or counter-productive on a different system. That's the lock-in with AWS in general: API lock-in, not data format lock-in.
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My thoughts as a film set technician on SOPA & PIPA (against my union's wishes)
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As somebody pointed out in another thread, the number of people that are able to circumvent the wikipedia blackout but don't already know about SOPA can probably be counted on one hand.
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>"So how do you join up a philosopher, a pencil artist, and a composer and get something useful out of it"

Into an eternal golden braid, of course.

[Utilitarian applications left as an exercise for the reader]
I think you underestimate how difficult it is to create a network of satellites and the latency would be fucking terrible. :-)