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> Because that's not a decision you should get to make.

So who gets to make it. I guess that means you'd agree with MPAA claims some 16 year old kid out there can be sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars because they downloaded a couple of songs. What if they sue them for $100M, is that valid? If the defendant gets to unilaterally re-define and attribute semantics to words and decide what the punishment is do you think that makes sense?

> Saying that they can 'still have that thing' does little to justify why you feel entitled to that thing in the first place.

Why doesn't it. It makes a pretty big difference. Not at the point of transaction but during a dispute. If someone steals your song does it mean you can ask for $100M from them claiming you lost potential profit because it was going to be a hit song. How do you decide what one copy is worth? That is the key question. Sorry, but "it is worth whatever the seller says is worth, is bullshit". If that hypothetical teenager didn't copy the song, do you think the record company would be $100M richer. How do you prove that?
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I still prefer http://getskeleton.com as a boilerplate over Twitter Bootstrap. Bootstrap tries to do too much. Skeleton does just enough to be useful and then gets out of the way.
True, stopping the economy is one way to stop piracy.
So Techcrunch is a humor website now? He should have said upfront that it is funny, I would know I have to laugh.

Seriously, I don't assume they all lost their minds there and I know it's supposed to be somehow a satire, but it's dull as a fart joke. Another example how Techcrunch's quality went down the drain.
I completely agree. The article is primarily composed of quotes (in Chrome, doing a ctrl-f for a '"' character makes the page look like your monitors gone yellow).

Aforementioned disclaimer: "SOPA's supporters -- including CNN parent company Time Warner and groups such as the MPAA -- say..."

While you can report something primarily using quotes in a biased manner. I'm with @ugh, this was relatively well done.
There is a "REST in peace" joke there as well.
I like this color scheme lol, but in all seriousness - I'm glad to see HN participating.
it would be interesting to know how this affects the bottom-line across businesses. e.g. IMO, this will not work in the games industry.
Anyone has any experience implementing this to share?
We are also "blacking out" the default Firefox start page for users in the en-US locale: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/17/mozilla-to-join-tomo...
Diaspora's landing page on SOPA
Friends don't let friends do SOAP.
Interpreted or interrupted?
Do you mean with a trackpoint? The Unicomp EnduraPro has buckling spring keys and trackpoint nub between the G, H, and B:

http://pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=PCK&Sc...
Oh, I guess all the JS devs who work in the language every day didn't get the memo.

But in all seriousness, who couldn't have guessed that there would be some Flash/Actionscript dead-enders? Incredibly unsurprising that this was posted on adobe dot com.
Those seem like just the typical news agency sloppiness, not evidence of any sort of deliberate misrepresentation. News articles about subjects you have in depth knowledge of are always that bad, at least for daily publications.
I have tried both Twitter 1.x and Zurb with Ruby on Rails and I found Zurb to be easier to use and have a better structure internal structure, easier to customize, etc
SOPA SEO: Googlebot to crawl at slower rate today
Someone went searching for "Stop SOPA" and discovered something brilliant from their typo.
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What's the concern for lock-in here - how difficult with DynamoDB be to migrate away from? Amazon seems to be increasingly catching the App Engine Syndrome, though to be fair, it's been mostly network traffic-style functionality in the past.
Senator Marco Rubio drops support for PIPA
This a very shortsighted view - of course creators lose money due to pirating.

I'm not even speaking about the concept of sells they may have had in place of theft - that is simple conjecture. There is no doubt that less money flowing in to the industry, as a direct result of piracy, means less money for creators. Is anyone honestly suggesting media sales haven't declined due to pirating?

I'm not a proponent of the industry as it currently functions, but I dislike the offhand spread of disinformation - less money spent on purchases will indirectly, and sometimes directly, result in less money for creators.
Only if a significant number of people show up at the Genius Bar with bullet-riddled macbooks.
Agreed. AlON is cool stuff, but sapphire / aluminum oxide is just as transparent.

Maybe they can do a followup on transparent silicon next: this silicon dioxide stuff is super clear!
So, you missed the domain, and were subject to the horrors of people discussing comics? Why exactly do we need to protect you from this terrible fate?
I think the real question is: "How much quality sleep per night do you get?"

I roll into bed around 10:30 or 11:00pm, to wake up at 6:30.

Assuming I sleep the whole time, that makes it look like I'd be getting about ~8 hours on average.

Factor in it takes about 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, brings it down to ~7:30 hours of sleep.

Factor in time spent tossing and turning during the night, laying in bed in that "I'm not fully awake, but I'm damn sure not asleep" mode, and that brings it down to at least ~5:00 hours of sleep, if not less. This isn't every night, but it is common.

Added to that, my s/o works odd hours, and so I get woken up at least once per night about 3 hours before 6:30 am no matter what, which means i'll spend the next 20-30 falling back asleep, if I can - some times it's a few hours of the aforementioned not sleeping / not waking phase.

On a good night, my quality sleep is probably 6 hours.

On a bad night, probably 2 to 3.
I sleep 7-8 hours daily, but I usually wake up 1-2x every night to toilet. I found it very frustrating. As such, I always feel like I never get enough sleep :(
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Agreed, When i started SOAP around 2000, it was very simple. After that we for more into the awful WSDL 1 (WSDL 2 is better). But the number of WS-* and the different implementations that are all incompatible is just a nightmare.
I think he's talking about using Javascript in flash's tradition role, i.e web games and interactive content.
I find them very useful in a "Don't Do What Donny Don't Does" way.
I can't shake the association between your comment and the one calling to "please drop the soap"
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> 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 and that any random person can come along and freely enjoy the benefits of that work and also freely reproduce and distribute that work.

I could not disagree more. If someone creates a work of art, they only own the physical manifestation of that creation. They can guard that physical manifestation, thereby preventing its release into the public domain until such a time as it may profit them. What they do not own is other people's property, so to force other people to not do with their property what they please simply because someone else had a thought first is unethical. It's an understandable, knee-jerk, brute-force means of providing a business model to artists, but it is still unethical.

Find. Another. Way.
They grabbed one of the first images that come up when you search for Wikipedia on Getty Images†. They were lazy, not malicious.

And being wrong about one inconsequential detail doesn’t mean they are misrepresenting anything. They made a stupid mistake, that’s all.

I don’t want to defend CNN but I think it’s about time turn confirmation bias down a bit.

—

† A link: http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&...
LOL bringing back the Gopher... Brilliant protest.
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Yep, every time I ask a non-nerd what they think about SOPA, they answer "Why, it's delicious!".
Does this include time spent in meetings?
What's exactly what you'd expect if SOPA passes.
But that is the point, its gradually being ignored as there are other ways of achieving the same functionality natively.

Personally I deal a lot with Video on the web, and although I have a Flash player my main body of development is in native implementations and transcoding profiles for Ogg, WebM and using x264 for preview.
There are some bugs in signing up for the service. In console, if I go to dynamoDB tab I am asked to Sign Up first. I click the sign up button and I am told "You already have access to Amazon DynamoDB". Repeat.
Cold weather, kids and regular exercise has definitely changed my sleep habits. I used to code for a couple of hours at night but now I'm lucky to check email before crawling into bed around 10 and getting up between 5 and 5:30.

I love getting up early, but I have to admit that the early morning hours are about the least productive of my day. It usually hard to remember how two hours went by and the sum total of my accomplishments has been putting away some dishes, starting coffee and making a couple of lunches.

I find being excited and motivated to do something that day usually impacts me a lot more than the total number of hours slept. I've jumped out of bed at 4am to get ready for a century ride on my bike and felt great all day, the inverse if I know I'm going to be in meetings all morning.
You seem to be confused between SOAP and Restful XML Web Services? They are different...
"Your users will do it for you, for free!"

They don't need users, they need customers. Without customers you go out of business, even if you have a zillion users.
I am happy to see that most of the giants of the web protest to this censors
Look Who's Laughing Now, Wikipedia
Some employers flag at domain level and actively monitor internet use.

Developer news / discussion sites like HN are fine, but something like 4chan.org or somethingaweful.com aren't.
Creators fail to gain money. It's not the same as losing money.

By all means, let's talk about the effects of piracy on creators' profits. But let's not pretend that a pirated copy costs the creator anything.

The action and consequences of stealing versus pirating are different. They deserve to be discussed differently. Linking them together is clumsy and doesn't further the discourse.
So much efforts to stop law proposal X.
Which is great.

What about the idea of a Open-USA or other Open-Iran where a true Meta-Democracy or whatever open society model is implemented where all efforts would be PRO something instead of hateful stuff like protesting.

This laws are proposed by lobbies that go against the interest of 99% of the persons. How is that even conceivable ?

All this big companies opposing could create a github project for open government and then elect a person that implements that.
Koala Love & SOPA protest on The Oatmeal
I would love the option to add N index (at cost).

My guess is they will add options for additional indexes in the future...everyone needs start somewhere. Even at Amazon's size and scale.
Hang in there. I will not be long until you are tapping her on the shoulder and saying, "For the last time, you've got to get up and get dressed for school."
I'm quite sorry to agree with you -- there are a bunch of no-so-helpful Backbone tutorials floating around out there.

That said, most of the questions that we field that take the form: "Should I be doing X like Y in Backbone?" ... the answer is usually: Sure, that will work fine. In fact, there's a whole section in the FAQ about it:

http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-tim-toady

Is there something in particular you're trying to figure out how to do?
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I LOL'd
I can totally relate to these two articles, having recently attempted to write a .NET SOAP client for a web service that uses the (non-standard) SOAP with Attachments method for sending binary data. For something that was created to provide simple interoperability, SOAP is rife with a ridiculous number of inconsistencies and competing mini-(non)standards.
"Internet companies are worried they could be held liable for users' actions."

SOPA makes Internet companies liable for their users actions by removing safe harbor provisions. The only could is 'could be held liable' in a court of law. They also avoid mentioning how many websites are protesting SOPA. If this was breaking news that would be one thing, but they have had significant warning that this was going to happen.
Xkcd - SOPA blackout
The Oatmeal SOPA/PIPA BlackOut - WINNER
Why is there a 1MB reply limit on BatchGets and obviously no limit on Gets?
Did anybody find limits on a single item?
It really is appropriate. I love how we keep getting told by guys that are not writing large apps in dynamic languages, that we can't write large apps in dynamic languages meanwhile guys like me are out there building some of the largest code bases in the world with JavaScript. And when it works and we release something revolutionary to the world, they tell us after the fact that it is not going to work. AMD and module dependencies have done far more for advancing building large JavaScript applications than most of these other cures.
Well, Azure has been offering a similar NoSQL service for a few years now.

http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp11/current/2011-Cascais/printable...
Wikipedia using JavaScript redirect for blackout
Never realized how much I use Wikipedia until today..good thing they only used a JavaScript redirect for the blackout, just disabled JavaScript and I was able to get the info I needed
While we're at it, can the Adobe folks explain to the rest of the world when Flash is going to suck less? I mean really. Don't care about the on paper gibberish.
I may be wrong, but most of the reasons that I can't watch community in HD At the drop of a hat is because our gov. can't figure out a deal with the US gov. on rights.

I would gladly pay double the price for Netflix Canada if the service was as good as it is in the states. I don't mind paying for something if it provides me a good service, but it doesn't. Netflix canada is a steaming pile.

So, "Use your money to invest in services that ARE paving the way to the future." is impossible because if big companies like Netflix can't even do it, no amount of money is going to help the situation.

EDIT: Turns out it's canada's fault, not the us's when it comes to why we don't get hulu/netflix/etc.
Yes, a typed language has a speed advantage over an untyped language, and if the argument is "which language executes faster", ActionScript will win. But this post declares that JavaScript is not a "worthy competitor" to ActionScript, completely ignoring all the advantages JavaScript has that explain why its usage eclipses that of ActionScript.
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I'd like to add that it's possible to lock focus and exposure (not sure if also white balance) by tapping and holding on any spot in the "viewfinder".

Also, see the full frame in the internal camera.app, just double tap the screen and it will zoom out of the cropped mode. (while still only using a middle part of the sensor, though, apparently to allow for the anti-shake to function).
Really good. They just take the piss out of this whole thing.

Nicely done :)
Saying that "when you pirate something the creator loses zero money" is an even worse argument.

You actually missed my point though (but I concede I used a rather simplified argument).

I was actually taking the "it's not available in my area" or "it's to expensive" argument of the OP to justify piracy to its logical conclusion.

I was pointing out that you can't circumvent the creator/owner's choices or restrictions on distribution, availability and pricing (i.e. "the food is too expensive here") just because you don't agree with them. It's not a level playing field.

If you don't like the creator's choices, don't participate in his creation. There really is no other choice.

While digital media creates the illusion of the "victimless crime" because you aren't taking something physical, it doesn't remove the fact that you are benefiting from someone else's hard work without agreeing to their terms of use, whatever those may be.
Blacked out. This SOPA thing could be really bad.
I'm too scared of the lock in. Afaik this isn't like EC3 where you can move a VM off the EC3 stack. The data is stored in a proprietary format so once your in, you're in.

Game changer? I need to see some evidence first on how well it performs and integrates.
"I have sole control over what is done with that which I create."

Actually, the US Constitution only allows for limited control, not unlimited control. The Constitution requires Fair Use exceptions to your control of your created works.
I am sorry to say that I've been averaging 3 hours for the past week. My issue is that I never feel "done" with the computer. I need to have checked and read every single article and website out there (within my bookmarks-bubble) that interests me before I go to bed. Only to have it start again the next day.
Bookmarklet to get around wiki blackout
"building some of the largest code bases in the world with JavaScript" You have over 100 MLoc?
I just press escape while the page is loading.
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I've tried Monophasic sleep, Polyphasic sleep, the uberman cycle, the every-man cycle, and just about every other sleep cycle. I find that the best pattern that works for me is bi-phasic sleeping. I think we are naturally biphasic sleepers.

The best change I made to my sleeping patterns is getting rid of an alarm clock. Get as much sleep as you need and then just wake up. If you get tired, take a nap. The body induces sleep based on your physical and mental activity patterns. I find it best to listen to my body when I need rest and when I have had enough rest. Of course, this pattern doesn't work if you have a strict work schedule or have meetings in the morning that cannot be moved, but if you have flexibility over your schedule I recommend you this a try. I also heard of a great book on the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Take-Nap-Change-Your-Life/dp/076114290...
No, it's not.

If anything, continued or increased economic slowdown will increase piracy, as people have both less disposable income and less regard for increasingly abused intellectual property rights.
There are hidden bullet sensors all over the chassis, you wouldn't stand a chance.
It's available as normal on the main site so I suspect not:

http://techcrunch.com/

This subdomain also has the same content:

http://primaries.techcrunch.com/

http://technews.techcrunch.com/

I'm pretty sure both of these subdomains aren't ever used though.
Awesome book. Read it in high school ~1985; so meme-dense I could only absorb about 3 pages at a time ... all 832 pages, with great enthusiasm. Just what I needed at a formative time. A geek must-read.
Probably worth pointing out that there is a coordinated reading going on over at reddit, starting tomorrow. http://reddit.com/r/GEB
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I'd imagine S3 falls within the scope of "all the other AWS services"...
I was expecting some Star Trek reference in the comments. Seriously, nobody? Everyone blackened their geekdom to fight SOPA?
I think some of the docs should be better structured in terms of seo as some of the deprecated functions index higher in google than the currently supported classes/methods

that's my only gripe
I'd say it I pretty neutral on the representation front. They do mention: "SOPA's supporters -- including CNN parent company Time Warner"
I really agree on the "Extensions & Libraries" bit. PEAR should not be linked there, it is outdated, filled with really bad pieces of code, and generally not useful at all.

They should really focus on a central library repository, they are alternative out there, but having PHP.net pushing for one (i don't really trust them for creating one) would do a lot of good to the language.
Pointless article, JS is not competing with ActionScript in the way that the author compares it.

Most of the time your app will probably be slow because of the DOM interactions, not because of your JavaScript, most time is usually spent in the rendering and fetching stuff from the network.

To give a better viewpoint:
You won't write a database engine in Ruby or PHP, you will write it in C, C++, Java, but you will use PHP/Ruby to interact with it.

We have low level programming and high level programming for these distinct purposes. I am sure that if you won't write something in JavaScript you will probably not write it in ActionScript either.
If it is your belief that the creator's terms of use should reign supreme, that is legitimate, but if you want to argue for it then you need to actually argue for it.

I wouldn't say that I missed your point, merely that I objected to a particular argument you used it making it. I realize this is a lower level of discourse than addressing your main point entirely, but I'm hoping that it would raise the level of discourse overall.

For reasons I've never understood, copyright advocates love comparing copyright infringement with physical theft. If copyright infringement is bad then it should be possible, nay preferable, to argue this on its own merits, not through bad analogies.
I bet a bill to this effect would get more than a few sponsors in Congress, and probably an MPAA endorsement.
IMO, the problem here is not the closure but how i is updated instead of being a new variable at each iteration. I guess it's like that for the sake of performance, but if i was immutable, that wouldn't happen. I.e. i would be a whole new variable at each iteration.

Here's another example:

in: lambdas = [(lambda i: lambda: i)(i) for i in xrange(10)]
in: [f() for f in lambdas]
out: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Why is it a different i? It's misleading because sometime we have a reference and sometime we've got a whole new variable.
Not all problems in computers are evidence of no unit-testing.

In this case it is simply that a bunch of groups (especially gcj but properly also icedtea) published half-completed implementations of a standard and declared it was good enough to use because it didn't come from Sun.
I think this has to do with large companies resenting the fact open source developers spend their time making a free eco system better instead of improving their own frameworks for free.

I understand that JavaScript has its limitations, and Google tried to address this with their own language Dart. But this boils down to, you have a 100 billion dollar company serving 1 billion searches a day so you have different scalability issues than I do. But that’s not my problem.
With the current technologies like Node, MongoDB, Reids, etc… I can build a 1 billion dollar startup without the same scalability issues that a 100 billion dollar company has.

I would be quite happy to have a these scalability issues once I have a 100 billion dollar company then it will be my problem. But until then, getting a start-up up and running is ridiculously hard, the last thing I need is companies generating truckloads of cash putting their development issues on to open source developers.
Being a non-American, maybe I'm just a little out of the loop, but what is blocking domains supposed to solve, exactly? Pirates will just jump on an alternate name resolution services in minutes, as will the rest of the people in time, as word spreads.

It's like applying a bandaid to a severed head and then suing Band-Aid brand because their product didn't save the life.
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Good job done on the "PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet" video they put up.