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First off, don't take the following in the wrong way, it is simply constructive criticism and the main point I'm trying to make is to highlight what makes your framework special.

In this case, I don't think putting this together in 2 evenings with 100+ lines of code is special. I think the "general" layout of most apps/sites can be accomplished with any framework in 2 evenings, and Wave's general layout is not particularly complex, especially considering that you chose to avoid defining window resizing behavior (or perhaps its just broken) and the ability to reorganize these panes (which I believe Wave can do). Not to mention that there is no indication anywhere as to how many lines it took GWT to do this, so for all I know 100 lines is double what it takes in GWT.

In all honesty, if a framework can't put together this general layout in 2 evenings it has to be a truly terrible framework. Despite SproutCore and GWT being "competitors" to our Cappuccino, I'm not going to pretend that it wouldn't be possible to throw this together with their stuff given 2 evenings. In fact, it should even be possible with just pure HTML/CSS/JS to come up with this in that time frame. I mean, its literally 4 panes and a couple of buttons.

By not implementing any of the dynamic behavior its not really clear how on earth this is "better" than GWT, unless you're trying to sell it as a mockup framework. And by dynamic behavior I don't mean actually implementing "playback" of course, I mean things like making the overflow menus work. Because without that, I'm not sure what your framework provides: "Do they just not have menus, or was 2 evenings not enough time to put the menus in?"

Now, from personal experience, I think the real problem is that demos like this are always asking for trouble. Of course no one is ever going to actually re-implement Wave, so there is never a clear comparison. I recall when Capp first shipped someone tried to make a jquery version of one of our demos in X lines, and OF COURSE the discussion devolved into whether you should count the CSS lines or not. Clearly this was not helpful to anyone in determining which framework was "better".

Now, I would have loved to see a narrated video of you putting this together (or better yet a custom design) because I think that actually gives people an idea of the layout capabilities of your framework. Then you can say things like "normally X is hard, but all we have to do is add Y...". Something like those time lapse photoshop videos, only with the iterations required to get to this.
Google is not similarly exposed to liability just because its search function can be used to facilitate infringement.

The issue here is one of potential liability for contributory infringement.

When a party's technology is being primarily used for infringing purposes, and its independent, non-infringing uses are at best marginal, such a party can be held liable for contributory infringement of the copyrights at issue. That in essence appears to be what the court concluded here.

Contributory infringement, though, does not extend to technologies that can only incidentally be used for infringing purposes - were it otherwise, then any technology involved in facilitating an infringing use could be swept in (e.g., the manufacturers of hardware devices used to play the infringing material).

This line of legal reasoning has gradually evolved from the 1980's Betamax case through Napster to a variety of iterations in the modern law. It is a complex area of law but, in essence, it defines a level of culpability by which the law deems it fair to impose liability on a party not directly infringing on copyrighted materials but whose technology facilitates such infringement. Here, the court concluded that IsoHunt was sufficiently culpable to be held liable in spite of the fact that it can be used for innocent purposes as well.

Google's search function, on the other hand, obviously has major uses apart from those facilitating copyright infringement and Google is nowhere close to being a contributory infringer even though its technology might be misused for this purpose.
Interesting. Do you have any suggestions for a better DNS server to use?
The lesson here is to never answer such questions. It's akin to having your company acquired by another, being asked to teach everything to the other company's guys, and then being fired.
Apple does have iWork (yep, far cry from MS Office, but nonetheless… and good enough for me). There is also iLife, Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio, Aperture.
Mobile Me may be not as big as Live, but ITMS takes some effort to run I suppose.
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Yes.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/paulgraham.com
30 minutes. Customer #2 was at 60 minutes. But I had been hyping up the specific launch date and time for a while. But it snowballed pretty quickly. Haven't had a day without a sale since launch.
Organic, sustainable produce is inherently more expensive than mass-market, factory farm-grown produce. Complaining that Whole Foods is expensive is like getting into your Tesla Roadaster and complaining about the price of electricity.
Any idea why it would be down for so long? It's been like 30 minutes.
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killer appellation

Some puns are too useful to groan about.

Considering the number of software entrepreneurs on this site, I'm surprised I haven't seen it used here before.
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Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out”
Am I wrong in thinking Google has a simple base argument in that recreating Youtube without Google's ads is a bad thing for the future of their site?

It's a shame that a legitimate site may have brought the issue to light, but it's always only a matter of time before it turns into a method of generating revenue by creating dozens of Youtube clones using Youtube's API, and replacing all the ads with porn.
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What if it's price competitive with net books? I'm thinking basically a 10" iPod Touch with some new multi-touch gestures and other enhancements via Touch OS 4. They could compete on pricing with net books. Do people like net books for the form factor or the price tag?
I completely agree. Youtube serves so much video, they wouldn't even notice the hosting overhead from a small site like totlol. Plus there are a number of ways to circumvent the TOS.

I can think of other big problems with the totlol idea, but none of them are related to the TOS..
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"These technological details are, at their core, indistinguishable from the previous technologies"

cough cough
THe Milankovitch cycles don't seem very relevant here, don't they appear across hundred thousands of years (I just skimmed the Wikipedia article)? Also, if Milankovitch can predict cycles, wouldn't it contradict your assumption that we can't infer anything about climate at all?
Is it legal to record a show? Yes. Is it legal to ask someone to record a show for you? I think yes.

So, how is using a torrent to get a show you have legal access to illegal?

And don't say commercials, since it's perfectly legal to ask/pay someone to record a show for you, while pausing the recording during the commercials.

There is a reason TV studios have never gone after torrent sites, while movies studios have.
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Well the argument I've always heard is that instead of increasing adoption of organic produce by the general public and lowering prices, Whole Foods creates an atmosphere of luxury where these prices are not necessarily validated by the real cost of producing them. Also, Whole Foods wants organics to stay expensive for their own benefit, whereas we would all benefit from larger adoption and cheaper organic produce.
How about we all just agree to call it "Steve"?
Have a link about the inaccuracy of HadCRUT data? Or are you referring to the small problem mentioned in the article? As it was fixable, I would assume it is not a problem anymore - it shows the scientific process worked for once.
I love ISOHunt! Confound those lawmakers...
I have to agree with you though, that there are far too many people that try and look tough, who walk around saying "I have a black belt in Karate" or some such, and couldn't make it through a Tuesday night bar fight.

The reality behind the "other arts" is that they were, at one time, highly effective in a particular milieu for fighting and are no longer in that milieu. Nobody should go and learn Kendo or Kumdo or some other fencing thinking that they are now a badass and all they need is to find a 20-30" long stick to defend themselves. But Kendo dominated sword fighting in East Asia for hundreds of years. The same as nobody should step into a strip mall Tae Kwon Do school and expect to learn unarmed combat useful for fending off pirates and concluding dynastic wars.

I've heard several times that "well this is a real hard core school, like in Korea/Japan/China/Israel/Brazil, they really hit you here!" B.S. If somebody isn't trying to kill you, you aren't in a fight. The same hold true for MMA styles, it's just that their "OMG I'm fighting for my life here" is quite a bit fresher in the stylistic memory.

That's not to say that the old styles are out of date, just that they haven't seen real action in a very long time and don't do too well against newer styles in recent action. But, as the styles are catching up again, there are notable exceptions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyoto_Machida

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Akiyama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Barry_(martial_artist)
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This is crazy. This is embarrassing.’. . . I said, ‘Give us the algorithms that allowed you to come up with this stuff.’ They wouldn’t even do that. And I was screaming, ‘You gave these people fucking money?’

That pretty much sums it up perfectly. I think part of the problem that allows things like this to happen is that, to some people, computers are magic. They don't understand how they work and feeding Al Jazeera video feed through a computer program and having it spit out terrorist plots sounds almost feasible.
But they at least Whole Foods offers organic foods. The other major Austin area food store, HEB, doesn't really offer true organic produce, or at best it offers a limited selection.

Larger adoption is a fine goal, but it isn't going to be either helped or stunted by a grocery store. To get more organic food in every store you have to get more organic food growers.
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I see a clear difference between editorial promotion of copyvio versus algorithmic promotion of copyvio, especially when the latter is made possible only by the former. You clearly disagree.
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RightScale is a service that manages cloud deployments - they started with EC2 and have expanded much beyond that. They started using Chef recently.

http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/09/16/rackspace-rightlink-ch...

Although they are quite expensive for a small shop, if you're interested in deploying within Amazon's cloud and have some money to throw at the problem, RightScale is definitely worth a look. You can get pretty far with just their free developer accounts - as I've done - but the more powerful Chef functionality comes online once you become a paid customer.
The content of a torrent file is closer to an HTML link. The torrent file contains no copyrighted content, so a take down notice doesn't make much sense. In fact, the torrent file only lets you recognize the content, and doesn't strictly provide a link to it, for that, you need a tracker.
I'm pretty sure it's not lawful for someone to use their own equipment and their own pay cable feed to record a show and distribute it to someone else. I'm just saying, I don't think "of course it's legal" is the answer to your hypotheticals.

A more plausible reason TV studios don't go after torrent sites, apart from the fact that the TV business is more decentralized, is the fact that torrenting does less damage to them. TV is primarily ad supported. Motion pictures make a large chunk of their money directly off the new release window of the DVD release.
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Theorically speaking, you could recreate youtube whitout the ads juste by running a crawler that would create an html page embedding each video it finds. Of course the API facilitate that - but if the website doesn't have some solid added value, then it's no use at all (you're better off installing Adblock).

Besides, "inline" video advertisement has it's purpose.
Just in case you didn't know, websites/host goes down quite often. 99% uptime means 3.65days/yr downtime. Most hosts go down more often, from my experience.

Edit: Fixed uptime/downtime.
True, but hiring a 3rd party firm to innovate something is distinctly different from doing it in-house.
There's so much we don't know about this imaginary world that I don't think this is a fair assessment.

If, early on in the evolution of animals with brains, it was typical for them to communicate through these connections, wouldn't it make sense for all descendant animals to also have this ability? If contact between divergent species was still frequent, and the contact was positive and mutually beneficial, why not communicate through this channel when needed? Spoken language may have been unique to their humanoids. Indeed, spoken language is a bit more odd than directly connecting to the brain of the other.

To me, this is just as unusual or counter to evolution as our ability to use sign language to communicate (albeit primitively) with apes, or give spoken orders to dogs. That is: it isn't.
Having worked on many government and DoD contracts, I find this rather unsurprising. The phrase "tip of the iceberg" comes to mind..
"The more prohibitions there are,

The poorer everyone will be.

The more weapons are used,

the greater the chaos will be in society.

The more that people seek "knowledge" for its own sake,

the stranger the world will become.

The more laws that are made,

the greater the number of criminals." - The Tao

The MIAA/RIAA wishes to impose more regulations regarding the distribution of cultural goods. This mean less ease of access to cultural goods. Everyone will be poorer, checked.

Lawsuit is used to coax individuals into paying rather than focusing their energy on adapting their business model to the internet. Weapon usage, checked.

This cause chaos in society by inciting an angry crowd of consumers who felt the injustice resulting from agression. So chaos does follows, check.

Hmm, don't know about what knowledge seeking means, but I'll try. Everyone is asking the question which length of years is correct for copyright to maximize economic benefit. It can be said that they seek knowledge without questioning the reason "why?". A check, maybe?

Copyright laws make everyone a criminal when they merely copy something. With a push for more power to punish people, this mean more force of law. So the law is making people into criminals, checked.

So in the end, what the court did is rules in favor of chaos over harmony.
There are all sorts of reasons a site could go down and 30 minutes is a tiny amount of time. It's just a site full of articles, it's not like he's losing money for every second it's down! Come back tomorrow and I'm sure it'll all be there for you :)

PS: I've flagged this story because I don't think it's at all of interested to anyone really.
Evidence shows that big companies tends to ignore that kind of problems altogether. Think of Microsoft and Apple with their Appstore.
True, although I for one haven't bought a Kindle yet. Am I under the wrong impression that all the books I buy for the kindle are tied to the Kindle/Amazon? Yes, I buy a lot of books, and actually I wouldn't mind freeing shelf space by going digital. But if I buy a book, I also want to own it. I don't want to pay the full price of a book just for the right to read it for a while (the right to read it forever would be acceptable - I am not into physical ownership as such). (I don't want to buy the electronic readers from Amazon for the rest of my life, either). I am also not interested in Amazon recording my reading speed, bookmarks and notes (I seem to remember that they do that, or at least offer it as a service).

I do hope that a more acceptable business model will eventually emerge, so I agree that books are probably quite finished.
Why should they? I mean, they're a business, not a charity, and they operate on razor slim margins. Like most other large grocers, their net income is under 2%.
The downfall.
I think it should be called the naughts: http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/Jan00/000103.html
I think the real solution is to get more of the populace to buy organic food. If the demand is there, the production will quickly follow, especially with mass market consumption.
I surely wouldn't be willing to take that kind of chance if it were my start-up. Moreover, Google is aware of the startup existence, and probably wouldn't hesitate to sue it would it violate the TOS. And if they did, they'd probably get away just fine.
So you agree that Mr. Fry's further use of Twitter was put at risk, but you just don't care about it?
Amazing speech by a war veteran
what i got from the 3c talk is that the data stream is on the order of 80MB/s (tx/rx, because they need to record the entire spectrum due to frequency modulation) and that currently they have not found a way, it seems due to lack of fpga programming skillz, to decode in real time. it seems like they are recording and then decoding some time later via their 2TB lookup table. Even with the 64bit keyspace the lookup table is 2TB because its a rainbow lookup which means that only certain values at certain intervals are stored.
6 Lessons from a guy who changed Media as we know it.
Hence the "evil" designation in many people's eyes.
I think you meant 99% uptime.
you don't get sued for ToS violations, you just get your service shut off.

The action that he is afraid of, is the equivalent of Google suddenly deciding that they'll no longer offer gmail for free. The odds of that happening are more or less insignificant.
The sad thing is that the people who are screaming "You gave these people fucking money" are likely in the minority and also likely often marginalized.
An old trick from shareware folks: pick features they won't want to use immediately, like going beyond a certain size/number of projects. That way you're only targeting people who already know your service is valuable to them (or isn't).
How is this news? I've known for months that a 100+ petabyte server and a massive rainbow table can crack the encryption of GSM phones.
Sounds like this guys problem was he was a salesman and not a programmer or computer scientist.
I want to highlight what another poster says: with "law" like this Mens Rea is crucial to the issue.

You can also find child porn on Google if you know how: but no one would consider them a distributor or a facilitator.
Part of the problem is a fairly large number of projects are theoretical research initially. What is more surprising is they didn't seem to apply a "peer review" to this.

I find it very hard to believe that the DoD (NSA?) do not have sufficient highly talented programmers / analysts to review these programs.

Another issue is that after 9/11, they were evaluating a larger number of possible solutions, In the hope that at least some of them produce viable results.
Google should offer you a job. Or buy the site. Or do both. I think it would greatly benefit both parties.
Awesome idea. As for how, with the Twilio API I think you could do the transcribe bit.

http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/2008-08-01/twiml/record#trans...
Amazon S3 file system with improved caching: the itch I scratched over Christmas
> IF this person is pushing one side of an argument without revealing the large stake he has in that side winning, then he loses credibility.

You mean like researchers who get money to "confirm" AGW?

> Journalist disclose their interests

Oh really? Do you know how many NYT reporters are married to or involved with folks they cover? (Hint - the answer is not 0. The NYT's response when asked is that they've cleared things with their editor....)
Uh, I think you're in the wrong place.

google is that way ->
I'll send a book in a draw I hold if you guess it within the first half of the writeup!
"Let's use only web applications so that we don't waste time on desktop application !"

Really ?
Totally different, and tablets have been around (and failed) for a long time. Laptops are the way they are for a reason.
Is there any reward besides reward besides personal satisfaction and a bit of reputation? Perhaps a lifetime supply of Firefox?
You get some amount of automatic street-cred with your kids if you tell them you grew up in the naughties.
> Is it legal to ask someone to record a show for you? I think yes.

That's possibly illegal; but it's one of those things that has never actually been tested and I cant find any part of the law that actually fully covers such a scenario.

The legal problem with torrents you already pay for access too is probably more founded in that your probably (unless your leeching the torrent ofc) facilitating others to download it - who might not have the access.
Some? Try most.

People fear the unknown and sadly the world of technology and computers are still very much a black box for the vast majority of people on earth.

My dad, ivy educated phd, still thinks that coding is like the movie hackers.
To clarify a few points (I had them confused):

- If you have an iPhone 3G signal (for example), you're using UMTS (not GSM), which has longer encryption keys (128-bit) and an enhanced protocol. Brute-forcing this keyspace (as in the CCC paper) is unlikely, though they mention the cipher (KASUMI) is "academically broken".

- Neither system has end-to-end privacy. Data is encrypted to your operator's equipment. All other hacks apply.

NYT: In 2007, the GSM developed a 128-bit successor to the A5/1, called the A5/3 encryption algorithm, but most network operators have not yet invested to make the security upgrade.

As far as I can determine, this is wrong. Europe has UMTS broadly deployed and the US came late to this party.

For more: http://www.google.com/search?q=umts+encryption
I can definitely see this on streaming radio apps like ShoutCast. Great idea Chad!
They are down to ~2TB for rainbow tables, calculated on GPUs, making cracking feasible. Also, the code and knowledge is put into the public: http://reflextor.com/trac/a51/wiki
Thinking through this more (there's now a raging debate going on about this is now going on in my home office) my best guess is that Whole Foods has this "evil" image because of their union-busting history.

I think the first time I heard someone say that Whole Foods is evil was during a union-busting scandal at a midwestern WF store when I first moved to SF in 2000. It was humorous as I had 2 musician roommates who worked at Whole Foods and it was the best paying, most reliable job they were able to get in San Francisco for their skill-levels/desires..

Us left-coast liberals tend to get up in arms about unions, even though none of us are in them, affected by them, or really touched by them anymore. I would rather buy my groceries from a health-oriented libertarian than from Safeway or Albertsons, which both carry far inferior produce and have religious roots that offend the athiest in me.