skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..."Don worked with Microsoft and Dave Winer to create the original SOAP specification in 1998.":

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/de/Box/default.mspx

Actually, swell guy. I'm still wondering how he created such a mess.
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That other engineering news source "The Daily Mail" has a non-blacked out article on this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2088257/Star-...
While your conclusion is correct, isn't it other later case law that permitted Fair Use? I don't think that is actually in the constitution.
A feature request (I see that Werner is reading this message thread): for development it woud be very nice to have the Java AWS SDK have a local emulation mode for SimpleDB and DynamoDB. This would allow development while flying or otherwise off the Internet. Similar functionality as AppEngine's local dev mode.
You have a right to eat food. You don't have a right to walk into a restaurant and eat without paying. I don't have the right to take your food.

You have a right to exercise. You don't have the right to walk into Gold's Gym and use their facilities without paying. I don't have the right to enter your home and use the equipment in the basement.

You have a right to have mutually consensual sex with someone else without paying. You don't have the right to rape a prostitute if they only offer sex for money because you didn't want to pay. I don't have the right to demand sex from your family.

You have the right to borrow a book from your friend if he's willing to lend it to you. You don't have the right to borrow your buddy's book without their permission just as you don't have the right to walk into a bookstore and borrow their books without permission. I don't have the right to take your books from you.
I'mma let you finish. But I just gotta say that Gauss was the best mathematician of all time. OF ALL TIME!
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I was going to comment, if Tamarin is so great, why haven't you integrated it into the browsers? But in doing my due diligence, I realized that Adobe did give the code to Mozilla for exactly that.

So this is actually about the language beyond Flash.
Is the problem specific to rendering them with Backbone? If you always know the html/css solution, it's just a matter of picking one of the many js templating systems that works best. Of course, for very advanced manipulation, you can always just full back to writing a render method yourself and munging the nodes with jQuery.
Can you elaborate how this is different and not comparable? Azure's table service offers the same automatic partition management, unlimited per-table scalability, composite keys, range queries, and availability guarantees. The linked paper goes into more details.
It helps if you click the article link and understand the content, before commenting.
The Real SOPA Battle: Innovators vs. Goliath
This is wonderful. It is so simple, and takes a short enough amount of time, that it would make a fantastic lab experiment for high school students. Every day, remove the heaviest yeast and place it in a new environment and feed it. After 2 months, see that the yeast has formed into a larger organism.

If this is highly repeatable, it could have a great role for science education.
So, I'm a musician. What "physical manifestation" are you talking about? Compressed air? Because as soon as I make a record I have to "guard that physical manifestation" ... how? with SOPA? preventing CD'd from being sold?

And in short you deny artists of ownership of anything else than the physical representation (unethical!) But in the next sentence you make the creation "other people's property". If I think of something you did not, this robs me of rights and automatically gives entitlement to you?
That was not made popular by Tim Ferris. It has been around a lot longer than that.
That sort of argument just comes off as a word game to me, I don't really know what to say to it. It is similar to saying no one dies when they jump out of a window, it is the impact that kills them.
RIAA reminds us why we hate them
Yep! http://www.blackout.tech.li/
Quite perturbing fact is that only those two techcrunch related domains seems to be pointing on that host : http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip%3A70.32.92.201&go=&q...
This is what I'm having trouble believing. If ActionScript can be "compiled to death", where in this case "compiled" means "to bytecode" then presumably the same thing could happen to JavaScript.

In the V8 environment it should be possible to aggressively optimize the code in question with various command line options. Where is -O5?

The real problem is a lack of an open-standard for JavaScript bytecode. Being able to serve "pre-compiled" JavaScript would go a long way towards improving performance.
This is also the leading story on their homepage for the last 10 hours.
A lot better than the asses at Fox. Just look at the malice dripping from this fox article:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/18/wikipedia-goes-dar...
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I just went through a handful of articles from google.com/news about the topic. I´m amazed how much coverage Reddit is getting in mainstream outlets like cnn, washington post etc. Lined up there with google and facebook.

Also, European here, the Fox "News" coverage was amusing...
That part is actually relevant to the bill. SOPA's intended purpose is to close the foreign loophole that the DMCA leaves open, in that there's no recourse for a US holder of copyright to stop a foreign-owned/operated site (a la Pirate Bay) from giving pirated content to US users. So "foreign criminals" is actually what we're talking about, here. There's a lot of other things you could pick up on, but xenophobia probably isn't the best tact to take.
Thanks for the feedback on the site.

Siteuptime is someone i personally used in another life. A few of the big reasons i'd encourage you to change are:
- Time between checks (we go as low as 5 seconds, but default for demo accounts is 60 seconds). If i'm correct siteuptime do 2 minutes for a fee, but default to 5 minutes.
- We'll give you phone, sms and email notifications
- Our reporting for response time related data is very detailed, summarized to the hour and available per location we hit your site from (So you can easily tell what things look like from Brazil and Virginia by plotting them both)
- We also do uptime reports, although our graphing is prettier (Soon to have screenshots on the new website)
- You can have multiple users on one account, so you're not sharing passwords etc

There are a bunch of things we are not releasing right away, but will have very shortly which might also help out.
- Public status page
- Public API
- DNS monitoring
- Service specific monitors (We're going to add some monitors specifically for services like hadoop, mysql, mail, etc)
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It's in the first sentence of the linked article.
I called them, and they had no clue that it exited. I also called their umbrella organization, Resource Horizons Group, and they to had no clue.

But overall they were simply confused as to why I cared to tell them.
The White House is protesting SOPA today! All official Flickr photos darkened
Actually, if I got to play with a specific pig several times, got attached to it a bit, and then the pig would disappear... I don't think I'd eat bacon again.

Then again, I'm feeling guilty every time I eat meat as it is.
> The point is that this is my decision.

Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?

> In that case, anybody can use it, replicate it, seek to profit from it, claim it as his own, or whatever, all without my having any say whatever in that process.

This is a common approach, but it completely fails as a moral argument. You are saying it is right because it is good for creators. That is an argument of self-interest, and problem is it immediately justifies its opposite. A non-owner can simply say: disobeying the law serves my self-interest, therefore that is right for me.

But it is also short-sighted. You are not only a 'creator', you are a user too. One might well be the greatest writer of books, for example, and so benefit from increased copyright/IP rights. But one will probably not also be the greatest music composer, and the greatest film-maker, and software developer, and so on. We are net consumers, in a sense. To give producers more is to take more from ourselves.

Ultimately, we grant IP rights not because they are for producers, but because they are pragmatically supposed to be useful overall -- that is the only justification. There is no other, no sensible rational purely moral argument, for copyright/IP. That ought always to be remembered.
Okay, I lol'd. They got me!
Using a template library that allows arbitrary code will probably make this easier...

But it sounds like what you want to do is precompute all of the correct widths and heights for your elements, based on the image sizes. Then, when you go to render, you can simply look up the appropriate width, height, margin, padding for each cell.
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Just thought of something else. Imagine an app where you can pay an in app purchase to feed a real animal. Kind of like an online petting zoo... There's a lot of potential there.
You are focusing on the wrong part of the conjecture, the point is, large code bases are being written in JavaScript everyday. Yet, People with the position like the author continue to argue that it can't happen, despite the evidence being readily available.

I don't want to dodge your question thought, the answer is yes I have worked on some JavaScript code bases that are several MLoc. Which I would consider for conjecture sake to rank in the largest. what constitutes that bar is up for debate whether they are the top 50 or 500th or 5000th largest, but I do feel that they qualify as large code bases. Which sufficed for the point I was making.
Thanks for the feedback, i think this may be a browser issue as its intended to not have a transparent background. Would you mind sharing what browser you were viewing the site in?
Never had any doubts about on which site Facebook really stands. The bigger surprise to me is the absent of Twitter on the protests. I didn't expect them to join the -Tech companies putting profit over principles- club.
Same here, it is surprising how many sites rely on javascript for content blocking e.g., the nytimes monthly article limits.
In 2001 I gave a talk (I believe at OSCon, to a packed audience) titled "Why SOAP Sucks". I started with a print-out of all the specs required to implement SOAP fully (there were lots of incomplete implementations around at the time, but barely any complete ones). It was more than two reams of paper (around 1100 pages of spec, if I recall). It had quite an "impact".
My first thought was, it was some kind of joke, trying to take a more original / off-kilter approach to the whole blackout thing.

I mean, "Black Oak" on SOPAs "Black Out" day?

But maybe I'm just giving them too much credit...

Also: Pretty messed up (on TCrunches part) that this Black Oak site would now have access to cookies/LS from techcrunch, as one person points out.
Why do I have the feeling that he's still going to vote for it when it hits the floor?
I picked this up last week and have been slowly reading through it. It's a great mental exercise in bending your perceptions as well as seeing new abstractions or patterns you hadn't before. Something about that makes it harder than your average writing to read through, despite the fact it isn't loaded with a grandiose lexicon inspired from a linguistic perspicacity, per se.
AWS Introduces Web-Scale Database - DynamoDB
Or any of Microsoft's online properties.
Visualizing SOPA on Twitter
Near the end of this article, there is a simple script. You might not need to say it word for word.

http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/01/my-call-to-senator-schu...
Out of interest, is there anything you can share about the particulars of your application? We did the same Flash vs. HTML5 analysis in the context of Facebook games, but in our experiments it looked like Flash still won handily in terms of performance.
An honest question: aren't there potentially dangerous repercussions in breeding multicelular organisms like that? Could an innofensive organism become dangerous for us if it suddenly became more efficient and specialized?
That sounds awful I'm in the 7 hour range of sleeping but when I go to bed I usually end up falling asleep within fifteen minutes and sleeping rather sound. Even when my dog wakes me up to be let out after she does her business and comes in I go back to sleep almost instantly.

The only time I have had trouble falling asleep is if I had caffeine after 6 pm (I go to bed around 10 pm).

I have to ask is alcohol or caffeine some sort of factor in your troubles?
DNS filtering is only one of the ways that sites could be blocked under SOPA. It's just the one that gets trotted out to demonstrate that the bill's authors don't understand how the internet works.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll checkout that browser issue!

I think you're right about the notifications. One of the key features we're pushing for in the next month or two will be workflow associated with notifications. Right now we just notify the contact list on failure, but we know that a more practice solution is to notify a series of people up the chain of command based on a per-defined order. For us notifications are key, and we'll be spending a lot of time on making them perfect.
Absolutely. The way to get that sound would be to eliminate all echo. I've seen people recommend doing the recording under a pile of blankets on your bed.

Secondly, the music sounds really cheesy. It is not made to be used as background music, since it disturbs too much. You (op) noticed this, which is why you turned down the volume to make the speaker easier to hear. I'd say thats very backwards.
So you submit resume for jobs? This guy created a site for a Google job
> I'm not paying to be advertised to. I'm not paying to be threatened with FBI notices. So my solution is I'm just not paying.

So, I take it you feel entitled to the content one way or another? Your way or the highway, right?
We both agree the idea that 65 years after your death your estate will still own the copyright to that post is insane. However, you defend the basic concept that copyright protects artists which enables them to produce more content. Yet, Shakespeare had no copyright protection so he produced more not less content. He still profited from his work, just not as much.

But, let's look at it from another direction. Simplify the tax code enough and H&R block goes out of business. That does not mean society is worse off. Copyright enriches artists at the cost of society but the real question is society bettor off. There is a deluge of new content, but the overwhelming majority truly interesting works are not for profit. I honestly think we would be bettor off if Avatar had never been created an instead we what artists do when they are not pandering to the largest audience possible.

PS: I don't listen to music. I don't watch TV. I do occasionally see a movie, but it's been a while. I used to do a fair amount of reading but I literally only follow a single author who I would just as soon donate to to keep them writing as buy their books. I do play WoW, but that's a subscription game which would survive just fine without copyright.
I work for a popular startup that has been privately testing dynamo for the last few months.

It's a fantastic product and even while in private beta has been stable and well supported.
Go to the comments of this article and copy-paste the javascript: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-try-googles-...
Got that impression too.
Since HN doesn't show vote totals I wanted to chime in and say this would be really useful to me as well.
Anti SOPA Safari extension...
Amazon introduces Web-Scale Database, DynamoDB
That's not a requirement of the legislation pending in the US.
>Copyright, at its heart, is aimed at giving the person who creates something control over the creative work.

I'm not sure about this. Copyright is aimed at enabling and encouraging creative works. It achieves this by giving the creator control. Here, the word giving is important; we only give the creator control because we think that will result in more high quality creative works (in theory).

>When people propose that copyright be abolished, they are saying, if effect, that anybody who produces a creative work immediately forfeits any right to control it.

Instead, they are saying that they no longer want to give away control to the creator, because copyright is not achieving the desired results.

>To defeat SOPA, though, one must affirm copyright.

Agreed. However, I think it's easier to discuss the goals, benefits, and extent of copyright law from the vantage point I've expressed above.
More tragic than HN becoming an advocacy site (the beginning of Slashdot's demise) is how many comments here don't get the joke.
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How is this vastly different to Azure Tables?
So you are complaining about (the linking to) a site protesting against censorship (+etc) because this could interfere with the censorship mechanisms implemented by some employers?
The worst part of the article is actually a quote form a Wikipedia editor. It's dismissive and inaccurate, but you always know that when you see the phrase "before we know it..":

"My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that's a slippery slope," said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of knowledge. "Before we know it, we're blacked out because we want to save the whales."
Well, let's look at the various outcomes. There are, I think, three possible actions to consider: A) taking and paying B) taking and not paying C) not taking.

For a restaurant, we get: A) restaurant benefits B) restaurant loses C) restaurant suffers no effect either way.

For piracy, we get: A) creator benefits B) creator suffers no effect either way C) creator suffers no effect either way.

Consider what happens if I organize a thousand people to carry out (B) on something. If it's a restaurant, this could easily drive them out of business. If it's a creator of copyrighted content, they continue with their business as usual.

Note: I'm not saying that (B) is good, or acceptable, or justified, or should be legal, or anything like that, when it comes to copyright infringement. I'm just saying that the two scenarios entail significantly different consequences, and should not be treated as the same thing. Treating them as the same doesn't help the discussion at all: it simply causes people who agree with you to nod their heads, and people who disagree to think you're being disingenuous.
It's worse than that. Under SOPA they can only go after .com, .org and .net sites. So ALL those foreign "rogue" websites that use other domains and aren't hosted in US will be able to work merrily and be unaffected by SOPA, at least according to the bill itself. Plus, if it does pass, all those rogue sites will be redirecting immediately to a new domain name, and make sure all of their users remember the new domain name by the time SOPA gets enforced against them.

That's how much of a joke this bill is, which implies that the bill creators are either this clueless, or SOPA is really just "Anti-piracy Bill v0.1" to make people accept it, with more "improvements" planned for later.

The only people it will actually affect, are actual American sites and companies that will have to enforce this bill, like the search engines, the ISP's, and the financial services. So the "bad actors" will be almost unaffected by it, while in the same time it will put many burdens on the American companies.
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This is hands down the best summary of my thoughts on copyright.
Here is an example[1], but it seems the official Flickr account has enforced all their photos to be darkened.

EDIT:

The Flickr blog post[2] explaining how it can be enabled states:

"Flickr is letting members darken their photos — or the photos of others — for a 24-hour period"

So anyone can go to the white house photostream, and darken their photos. Looks like the white house will be protesting against SOPA whether they intended to or not!

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6599548523/in/photos...

[2] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/01/18/pipa-sopa/
I usually get around 7-8 hours, but I often wake up during the night. I've found that I can get away with 3-4 hours and feel fine, but only for one night - if it's two nights consecutively then I feel terrible.
I started filling out my hosts file with my most common sites a while ago...just in case.
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I know that site's down, but hacker news isn't reddit.
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That was the first comment I was gonna write when I saw the title, but you beat me to it.
Interesting to see Backbone being used to model non-crud single page apps. I had to build a SVG based editor before and looking at this example I can see how using Backbone would have made my life easier.
protocols with simple (or lightweight) in their name usually are anything but.
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This is the start of iPhone marketshare dominance?
We didn't read the iPhone manual that's why. However, the one feature of the app we picked that is really useful is lock focus in one place and lock the exposure in another place (two different area). Also the app allows locking of White Balance as well. Is it possible to do this with native camera app?
Code or STFU.
You obviously haven't been to rural Indiana.
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"Therefore, I have decided to withdraw my support for the Protect IP Act"

PIPA, not SOPA
#FireSOPA #FirePIPA -- Vote ALL the bastards out.
osnews.com

edit: humblebundle.com

edit: bitbucket.org (blacked out logo)
How can sharing something be wrong? Especially when it is essentially a bunch of 0s and 1s that you could write down by hand if you had the patience to? Sharing a number is wrong?

I don't understand what that has to do with GPL at all.
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Dinosaur Comics has a nice one: http://qwantz.com/index.php
Yeah, has Zuckerberg said anything about it? They really dropped the ball.
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This looks like a great service - there are some really interesting ideas here. The provisioned throughput is a great idea. It's interesting to see it runs on SSDs as well, I wonder if its storage is log based like LevelDB. The composite hashed indexes are really interesting as well - I guess they partition the index across nodes, and each node maintains a range of the sorted index. It'll be interesting to see how usable that is in practise.

I read with interest Steve Yegge's mistakenly-leaked email about the oppressive conditions for engineers at Amazon. It's hard to reconcile with the sort of innovation they consistently show.
Pretty much exactly how I work as well. I have been able to set a more healthy schedule in the last couple months, but it is really hard to shut down in the evening when I feel the most alive and productive.
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This new design has been around for quite a while...

Have you seen PEAR2? http://pear2.php.net/
I do 6-7, usually, and I have a lot of troubles going to sleep, so I have a very specific, fairly strict bedtime routine. Alarm at eleven, practice guitar for an hour, brush teeth, read programming books in bed till I'm sleepy, up at 8:30. (I'm not dutiful in following the alarms, they just remind me what time it is.) this routine is very important in maintaining a steady sleep wake cycle in the face of no time clock and many responsibilities.