skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the humor of this, Fark probably has the best annotated bibliography of links to check out. A number of other sites have more links, but Fark's are actually curated and more worthwhile overall.
Indeed. Another irony, the Cheezburger Network sites are using a pop-up complaining about SOPA, when arguably they are just the sort of site there is a legitimate complaint about, as they routinely rip off other people's comments, and bask in the ad revenue.
Issa: Flawed SOPA Bill Not Headed to House Floor
I think what the OP meant is that this story is meant as a parody of the avalanche of "sopa is evil" posts lately. Whether you know what SOAP is or not is beyond the point.
It is amusing that was positioned to try to address SimpleDB's problem of "pricing complexity". These aren't those complicated "Machine Hours", they're "Capacity Units"!

As someone who has grappled in the past and is grappling again with the issues of pricing a database-as-a-service though, this is very much a non-trivial issue. If you have nice scaling characteristics and you want to charge the minimal price, your price isn't going to be predictable. Essentially, what Amazon have done here is to set a cap and then charge you the cap irrespective of actual usage, which seems to be the model that's winning on the cloud.
The Chicken and the Real-time Egg
Yes, you're right. I grew up in a very comfortable country where bureaucracy, transport, communications etc were not problematic. When I go home I'm no longer bothered by 'first world problems' and it's just made me a happier person.
A 30 day free trial of adobe after effects and a $20 template tweaked to your needs, along with $30 for professional voiceover, would have moved you to something that would be very close to what apple does.

And would probably have got you there a lot quicker.

http://videohive.net/searches?sort_by=sales&type=files&#...

http://www.provoiceusa.com/cheap-voice-overs.htm
Thanks. Didn't see this one. Added :)
Looks neat. Is there any recommendable data-visualization for dummies tutorial/book/etc?
> Under SOPA they can only go after .com, .org and .net sites.

I'm afraid you've got that backwards. SOPA's DNS-blocking domain-seizure provisions apply to all domains except US-based ones like .com, .org and .net. (Those are considered to be under US jurisdiction and can already be seized under current law [0].) Hence the talking-point that it will only affect "rogue foreign sites".

[0] http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-h...
Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2501v1

It starts by dividing the spectrum into frequency bins, and assumes that there is usually 0 or 1 non-zero coefficients in each bin. It wasn't clear to me what happens when a large number of non-zero coefficients are clustered together in one bin. Can O(k log n) still be achieved when most frequencies are clustered?
Also implying that the "tech power players" are not media companies is silly.
A week or two ago, someone referenced this article by David McGowan, a Law Professor at the University of Minnesota titled "Why The First Amendment Cannot Dictate Copyright Policy": http://lawreview.law.pitt.edu/issues/65/65.2/McGowan.pdf
technically (as in, in actual reality), you are guilty every time you eat meat. Note that I don't feel that way personally, and eat meat all the time, I don't entertain two thoughts about this, any more than I feel guilty about slave-driving Apple's suppliers' employees to meet Apple's excruciating demands for components, all fueled by my purchase and demand, and the purchases and demands of millions like me, but, there's reality for you.

In actual reality, we are guilty. That doesn't mean you should feel guilty though.

www.google.com/search?q=factory+farming

www.google.com/search?q=foxconn+labor+conditions
The proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement.
— Wikipedia

SOPA does require an order from a judge.
Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack
Project complexity tends to scale exponentially-ish, so I was wondering what you considered "Largest codebases"... according to Googling, Windows is 50M, Android 12M. So a couple million LoC is pretty awesome.

Static typing evangelists seem to have a blind spot: they persistently tend to assert that you can't write good and large dynamic codebases.
Why should i? People pay for it. Did I ever say that you shouldn't be allowed to make money? Of corse not. I said its not a right but an opportunity.
Reddit is a company no? This seems like a pretty good investment to me, regardless of their stance on the legislation.

They know they're not going to lose users due to a 12 hour outage and they could pretty much bet on a bit of (free) press. It would be interesting to see how much traffic this generates.
Also it is spread across AZs which is handy.
Book Review: IPhone Applications Tune-up | The Hacker News (THN)
Not to sound like a fanboy, but GEB is one of the few books (outliers being another) that really made my critical thinking skills about the world, society, and my place in it change. I literally feel like it expanded my mind, or at least my capacity for critical thinking and awareness of such.
The population of HN isn't just anti-SOPA because it's fashionable. SOPA would directly affect small internet businesses by putting the onus of copyright policing on site owners. Considering how many of the HN startups have any user generated content at all, it's a real concern for the vast majority of them. To not advocate against SOPA would be foolish.
Have to disagree. Given the nature of the book, preserving the format and illustrations are VERY important. It wouldn't translate at all. In fact, the author feels so strongly about that they he has insisted the original 1979 typset he prepared be used for all subsequent editions, to exactly preserve the formatting.
This still seems a bit expensive to me for an application that would require thousands of writes per second? ie. 5k writes per second is ~$120/day. Using this for performance based analytics for example would seem out of the realm of reason for the moment.
Well then the IP address you have for them will be wrong regardless of whatever method you use to store them.

Personally I think it's only a matter of time until there's a "hacker" DNS servers for people to completely bypass all this shit.
Apparently the House Oversight Committee runs on Joomla.
I think the real purpose of these blackouts is to get users to finally do something. As much as I oppose sopa/pipa it wasn't until the Wikipedia blackout with direct links to my congressman/senators contact forms that I actually took the time to write letters to all of them. It had been on my "yea yea I'll get to it" list for a long time.

Now I'm sure there are many HNers who are deeply cynical about the value of writing to senators, but honestly you have to at least give it a shot.
The cost per transaction, performance & ease.

Reads per $0.01 = (50.60).60 = 180000

Writes per $0.01 = (10.60).60 = 36000

Assuming that you hit your usage is at 100% capacity then from a read prospective DynamoDB is half the price. Writes are much more expensive but many applications are heavily read oriented.

DynamoDB claims single digit millisecond reads, azure tables does not (from my experience.)

Azure tables have a maximum performance over a given partition table of 500 requests per second and over the whole account of 5,000 requests per second. DynamoDB does not state this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/...

To put this into context:

Assume a system with 5000 writes per second and 50000 reads here are the costs:

AWS Reads: $240
AWS Writes: $120
Aws Total: $360

Azure Reads: $4320
Azure Writes: $432
Azure Total: $4752

Seems like quite a difference for a decent sized read heavy application.
This is not true. Artist will always make art and always have.
Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident
"It's an interesting that this seldom happens in theatre, music or literature but often happens in film, comedy and speeches."

It happens all the time in music. Songwriters are seldom as well-known as performers, and you could argue that they do the lion's share of the "authorship" of a given song. Most of them arrange the music and write the lyrics. It's a rare instance where a songwriter becomes prominent enough, in his or her own right, to rise to the fame and fortune of his or her star performer. For every Quincy Jones or Leonard Bernstein, you have 100 songwriters and producers laboring in obscurity behind big-ticket artists. (In fairness, though, highly successful songwriters earn residuals on their work, and thus tend to be handsomely rewarded. They get the fortune, if not necessarily the fame or the popular attribution).

Theatre is an interesting exception to the general rule. Some of it is a function of time. We have every reason to believe, for instance, that William Shakespeare was less famous in his day than were the best-known actors who performed his work. But since there was no technology around back then to record the performances for posterity, the only things that survived were the written works -- attributed solely to the playwright.

The rise of credit for performer, rather than writer, probably has a lot to do with the rise of the recording and media industries.

In fairness, any truly great screenwriter or director will tell you that performers really do contribute enormously to the final product. A great screenplay is a great screenplay, but the finished film is a substantially different piece of work. A screenplay is to a film what an outline is to a paper, or what a wireframe is to a website. It's critical, but it's highly theoretical and open to myriad different interpretations. The interpretation that ended up on film, in this case, is the work of multiple "authors."
Actually, part of me wishes that SOPA or another similar bill gets approved. That may be the push I need to actually join and contribute to one of the movements that aim to make the internet less controllable, like freenet...
Besides the points I already complained about before... How about 200ms response times even when performing a query using the Row & Partition Keys. I'm not sure if by composite keys you were referring to something other than the RK & PK because those are the only indexes you get.
Because he is a Republican.
Content Marketing + Social Media = Success in 2012 (and beyond)
IIRC, the Table of Contents for the SOAP spec is bigger than the entire XML-RPC spec, yet SOAP offers little practical advantage. Luckily many new RPC implementations bypass both SOAP and XML-RPC and are looking to REST. $deity help all of us who need to work with legacy SOAP, however...
Or just press escape while the page is loading.
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ACS: Law solicitor Andrew Crossley suspended by SRA
I'd also like to hear about this; just updated my profile with my email. Thanks!
Matthew Inman blacks out The Oatmeal
this is great, especially the voice over service. Didn't know this exists on the cheap side. Any other video template source like videohive?
His illustrative powers are most awesome.
I have only used apache as an application server with mod wsgi behind nginx. I have not used gunicorn or uwsgi. Yhanks for the correction, I should have just stopped my explanation before that.
You need either the Adobe Flash CS5 authoring tool (for frame-based flash files) or the Adobe Flex Compiler (essentially actionscript embedded in XML, kind of like <script> tags embedded in HTML, only nicer and laggier). The Flex compiler is open source, so you can run it from the command line and compile your application. I had a makefile lying somewhere.
I should have!
That's nice, except I uninstalled Flash on my machine. It has an abysmal security history and I just don't need it that much.
An Ode to SOPA
Under a society in which copyright is protected, I can freely choose to do that if I like. I can place my work in the public domain and relinquish any right to compensation for it.

As you can do in a society without copyright--that is your personal decision. Copyright is not required for you to do what you will with your stuff.

Or I can let others use it freely but only on if they meet some condition that I impose on it, such as giving me attribution. The point is that this is my decision.

It isn't, though, as we've shown empirically by this point. You cannot stop--physically, legally, or morally--others from doing with your work as they will, provided it exists in a digital form. That genie, as they say, is long since out of the bottle.

If copyright does not exist, though, I have no such rights and I have no such control.

You already have next to no control! Your "rights" are anything but!

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.

Why do you need a say? If it's information, it can be duplicated on their dime, and that is their decision. Why need you be involved?

Moreover, why does it matter if it is claimed as their own? It will eventually be found out and publicized if it really matters--or maybe you and your work aren't important enough to merit society's collective memory.

In such a system, anything created by anybody is simply common property. People can use it for good or for bad but I have no say in it.

Yep, that's about the size of it.

I may be the creator but that is beside the point. People like the author of this piece can simply saunter by and take it for whatever use the like.

And isn't that a wonderful thing? That people can build on and reuse the work of those that came before them? That they can do so without fear of reprisal and instead devote that energy to innovation?

Why are you afraid of such a communal future?

Why are you afraid of the removing artificial scarcity?

EDIT: Removed potentially inflammatory leader.
When I saw the domain name I was expecting some juvenile propaganda, rather than serious analysis. I was not disappointed.
The second post on /co/ when I loaded it was a NSFW image of a nude woman making a sandwich.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned HaXe[1] : Which is an open source Actionscript-like language, with types (if you want them), which can compile down to .SWF, .JS, .CPP or even .PHP. All with an open source tool-chain.

[1] : http://haxe.org/doc/intro
Sterne Agee: RIM still a solid acquisition target, but only at a discount
In practice, it just means any site under a foreign TLD. See PIPA § 2, Para 9.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:2:./temp/~c112BGM...:
On further reflection, I think you're right that I was wrong to use the word "stealing". It does frame and bias the discussion. I don't think I'll be able to shake the habit of using the word "property" to refer to copyrights, patents, trademarks and designs (perhaps as a habit of specialising in IP during university) - I think that the point grellas makes is such to sufficiently argue that all property is essentially a legal construct and we can mould and shape its boundaries as we see fit.

I understand your point about artificial scarcity and appreciate that you find copyrights and patents a net detriment rather than a net benefit. In the current scheme of things, I would have to agree with you on that point in some instances (especially with respect to software patents, many pharmaceutical patents, and the length of copyright). Overall, however, I believe that the idea of intellectual property is a sound one that's been distorted over the course of legal history thanks to the influence of powerful rights holders and a lack of ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.
Arstechnica.com has a modified site design and focus on SOPA. Not really blacked out, but definitely calling attention to the topic.
Thanks for the advice guys!
How to bypass the wikipedia blackout (and why)
> What are these "distribution and promotion channels" limited by?

Limited radio spectrum, limited television stations, somewhat limited music distribution chains/relationships, somewhat limited magazine readership.
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Even if you released that press release, what are the chances of the media reporting it that way. The article itself states it, CNN's parent supports SOPA... so don't you think the headline is written to grab attention and frame it as "Wikipedia and co don't support SOPA therefore they must support piracy". No way would they make the movement seem like a good thing!
"Best performance" is irrelevant if the performance of javascript is good enough.

Maybe this illustrates the dichotemy between traditional engineering and computer science, but in most other forms of engineering you want just-good-enough-to-fulfill-the-requirements because any better means you are spending extra money or doing extra work uneccessarily.

If javascript lets you write a game that runs at a solid 30 frames per second, and write it easily and portably for free, any additional performance is overkill.

For many of the simple types of games people play in a web browser, javascript has been good enough for years. Increased hardware performance will only help javascript.

http://drblast.sourceforge.net/tetris.html
Still waiting for one site to go to plaid.
AstroTurf.
I just tested this at home with a few different light sources, and yes, it does lock all three - focus, aperture, white balance. But all in the one spot you tap-held.

Afaik, all the apps that have a two-spot way of selecting focus and aperture/white balance are faking it somewhat, since there is no official API to control the camera that way. Of course, most of the time the results are quite ok.

The usual method using just the built-in camera.app would be to first lock on to some spot thats both in the right distance and has the right brightness to achieve the correct look, and then just frame the scene by moving the iPhone in the recording position.

But I don't know how often I wished for more flexible ways to setup the camera manually :p
I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there.

I'm nuts about Japanese culture. Did a lot of reading when I was a little weeaboo, even took a few semesters of Japanese language in college. It's all tremendously exciting and rewarding. But, when I landed in Osaka last year, it was a whole new ballgame watching, meeting, and talking to these people, conversing in their language, eating their food, seeing their homes and shops and shrines.

The reading prepared me for the experience. But it did not replace the experience. It's profoundly enlightening to go out, make yourself a foreigner in a new land and come to grips with a people, language, and culture who are not your own.

It may have helped that I took an unorthodox approach to vacationing, and minimized "sightseeing" and visiting tourist spots, instead just choosing to spend time in the city or in one of the outlying towns, observing and interacting with the natives.
The second an artist is trying to mass produce they are businessmen not artists anymore.

The artist didn't make the ability to produce in large numbers and distribute at zero cost, that is what technology did.

A technology that served the labels and musicians for one hundred years.

Now it is turning on them and they start to complain. Bo freaking ho.

People make music without making a single dime on it. Great music in fact fantastic music. The big artists are big because the record labels and IP laws make them big. Not because they through some fair game was the best of the crop.
The Oatmeal.com explains SOPA with animated gif
Probably the most compelling explanation thus far.
I don't know what project the OP was working on, but right now I'm working on a crm/accounting/scheduling product with several hundred thousand lines of javascript code. Due to the modular nature of the code base, I don't see any reason why I can't break the million mark and keep going.

Although I probably won't. Because I don't have to.

Because unlike with a traditional code base, much of the functionality is provided by the browser (CSS, HTML, SVG, Canvas, Image Support, Geolocation, Storage, you get my point) and not by external libraries which add to the lines of code.
I'm not sure about a quick tutorial or "for dummies" sort of thing, but Edward Tufte[1] is quite the expert on this sort of thing.

[1] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
In many cases the writer is not the performer. What for them?
I was in China recently. Met 2 girls who were traveling for the first time. They were planning to spend 6 months in Asia. They made some newbie mistakes in China, but otherwise had no serious problems. China was harder when I went 15 years ago.
Does WADL provide what you liked about WSDL?

http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/
It's phrased that way because of the Star Trek IV reference.

I think it comes up in the same scene where Scotty is flustered because the 1980's computer doesn't respond to voice commands...
State of the Blogosphere 2011
XDA-Dev blacks out until 50k visitors sign pledge
Because he's a politician

ftfy
Flickr goes creative for SOPA blackout
For those who want to hack their sleep: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Ge...

BTW in the poll "11 hours" is repeated.
On a slow boat to China, no less.
I was chronically sleep-deprived for about 5-6 years but didn't know it, once I started watching the stock market closely. I would go to sleep at 12-1am and wake up at 6am to watch the stock market open. Then at 930am I would leave for work and come back at 730pm. I would have dinner, do some additional work and then repeat the cycle. I loved it, but I would regularly get between 4-6 hrs per night even on weekends. I was pretty functional, and my life was fine. I thought I was pretty tough.

And then all of a sudden about 4 months ago, I started forgetting simple things, like how to spell words like "somebody" (I tried spelling it "somebuddy"). Then I got a terrible headache for about 3 weeks straight and it was so intense I couldn't think properly and was getting confused, like an Alzheimer's patient.

I got checked for a brain tumor, and luckily I was normal. However, I decided to start sleeping regularly, stock market be damned. The first night I slept 17 hrs. My headaches went away and my memory increased, and since then I've been trying to get into bed by 10pm so that I can get 7-8 hrs sleep every night and still wake up at 630am. Some nights I'm more successful than others, last night I got 5 hrs sleep because I was working until 130am and woke up at 630am.
Yep. It's very similar to gun laws. They only affect the good guys and never stopped the bad guys from getting guns illegally. Laws in the USA mostly affect good citizens. Actors, rich businessmen and lawyers, and crooks are free to do whatever they want.

What's worse is that SOPA's motivation is primarily for Hollywood to continue milking Americans for entertainment content. Just because these studios can't adapt to rapidly growing technology, they decided to slow it down.
'Beer' can help with sleeping earlier during weekdays :)
"Dodd for President 2016"...
LOL ... I love it, "an abuse of power".
For other busy people, it's also worth pointing out that the schedule is very slow and focused on understanding. For instance, we are taking the introduction one section per day. The guy running it at Reddit created a nice Google calendar for the "course." Needless to say I am psyched for this.