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>Is that really such a vital societal good that we need to take civil and criminal action against individuals that threaten these industries?

Clearly since people risk civil and criminal action to watch the stuff for free.

There is tons of actually free stuff on the internet and people still want the hollywood stuff.
Why have a Terms of Service for what is clearly an illegal site? https://popcorntime.io/tos
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Because I'm an adult, now. With morals and a conscience.

Seriously, I would like to support the creation of the content I like to consume. If nobody supports it, nothing will be made.

I, too, understand that we're still far from such a situation, but I would rather not get there before someone make changes to this idiocy.
errors being acceptable is why the challenger disaster happened. Ok, not really, but you get the point.

Everyone has to evaluate the risk of the errors and act accordingly.
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This article makes me think of pg's recent essay...

Why it's safe for founders to be nice
http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html
I think it's a reaction against stuff that Republicans don't like with the Republican Party.
I know enough of the art of bullshittery to recommend a general strategy.

If you don't know to respond to a question that does not have an objectively correct answer, first transform it into a question that you can answer, then answer that question instead.

For an example of how this works, just watch any political debate or interview with a politician. In any venue where the questions are not known in advance, the speaker prepares a limited set of possible responses, then weasels from the actual question to the closest possible prepared response before rattling off whatever that may be.

So rather than memorizing key ideas from all famous philosophers, you learn about 3 things about just Nietzsche, then preface your show-off response with a sidestep and a hand-waving shuffle from Weber to Nietzsche.

It's a lot easier to do when the questions are bullshit in the first place. And on a civil service exam, I'm pretty sure I'd also intentionally add a slightly wrong "duck" somewhere in my answers, so the examiner can feel intellectually superior to me while marking me down for it. The impression you want to convey is "this person is smarter than the other applicants, but not as smart as I am."
60K for an assistant professor in history sounds about right. Pretty much any assistant professor position in the humanities is going to have a starting salary at that level or less in a not highly ranked university.
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I see that argument all the time. They claim they'd just donate to artists they like or use kickstarters to fund big projects.

Also, removing copyright isn't really copyright reform.
Its not really debatable in the tech community. See: the gnu license.
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As best i can tell (not a copyright scholar) that is a generalized version of the French "rights of the author".

While the English copyright only dealt with, well, copying, the French system dealt with things like how and when a play or musical piece could be performed.

This because they cared not just about the monetary angle, but about the reputation of the creator (like say if a politician the creator didn't support wanted to use a song or similar).

The reason we see this pop up is that copyright was standardized across Europe with the Bern Convention. Later this was extended across the world (USA didn't sign on until the 1980s, btw).

The french is also to thank for the whole "life+X" copyright duration...
Quite correct - I took Kissinger at his word [1] when he said Mao coined it. Kissinger tends to gloss over smaller details at times though, he's an excellent student of historiography.

[1] On China
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It's impossible to get an accurate measure of the man now, there is just too much noise that comes along with the cementing of his status as a cultural icon. It's impossible to escape interpretations of certain parts of his life. Huge chunks have been forgotten, etc. Even while he was alive everyone had their take on him, but now to try to contend with the books (widely-panned authorized biography) and movies (also panned), forget it.

I would be interested to see more examination of his illness and how he handled it, though. Seems like he completely blew it.
After a few years people get acclimated and if you dare to criticize the corrutpion you're seen to be evil.

For instance, try telling the average american that the TSA needs to be shut down.

They'll think that they're keeping us safe, the same way people think that police keep us safe, and will think that without obamacare we wouldn't have health insurance, in a few years.
If you like this you should check out Way of Life (http://wayoflifeapp.com/).

Awesome app I came across several months ago and havn't stopped using. I think it's the best one in this category!
Sadly no, you get 18 months to make what your label wants your first album to be, then if you're lucky you get 35 years to make what you wanted your first album to be. This was starting to change, but the gaming is starting a new.
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Hi, AJ from Gandi here. To my knowledge, we don't shut down anything unless we are required to by law or there's spamming involved.
Maybe I should've just said Lambda Calculus, which is waht I was thinking. Von Neumann architecture is prevailing implementation of it because Von Neumann machines prevail. However, functions operating on state w/ I/O don't require a CPU or main memory: LISP/Scheme have been directly synthesized to hardware. That means you can describe non-Von Neumann architecture with LISP in a way that produces actual hardware. So, Lambda Calculus being a separate concept and fact that it can use non-Von Neumann implementations mean a Lambda Calculus implementation is non-Von Nuemann but can be if chosen.

That's what I was thinking. Unless those with more experience in Lambda Calculus, etc tell me [with evidence] that Lambda Calculus is von-Neumann, so is any LISP/Scheme, and never can be implemented alternatively.
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And also why we see ISPs less and less willing to fight, as they have moved beyond just delivering a internet connection to delivering "triple play" (net, cable/streaming, voip).

Meaning that they now need to have the distributors on their good side.

Kinda reminds me of a claimed exchange between Disney and Microsoft, when MS was trying to peddle their then new movie file format.

They held a meeting, and the MS rep opened by asking the Disney rep how much they were willing to pay to use the MS format. No no no, countered the Disney rep, how much are you willing to pay for our content.
"Most of the core team" anonymous.
"All of the developers" being visited on LinkedIn.
If it's not sloppy journalism, there's something really interesting about a multi-national company's legal team using (potentially) illegal means in tracking down developers.

"– We do not know how, but he had managed to track us. We were quite unsettled. We thought it was a scare tactic. And we were frightened. None of us were anonymous anymore. They knew where we worked, where we lived."
This is a terrible article, full of inaccurate facts.

The most blatant of all is that Popcorn Time is not a site, it's an application (which is why it's been so hard to block).

It uses existing sites (like YTS and The Piratebay) to find magnet links to content to stream (using a torrent streaming library)

Also:
"“Mr. Robot” is not available elsewhere, apart from on Popcorn Time." - What the hell? If a series is available on Popcorn Time it's inherently because it's available somewhere else, as they don't host any content

But the one that bothers me most is that they mention how before Popcorn Time, piracy involved: "Aggressive advertising banners, websites popping up unexpectedly and strange porn ads".

Well, guess what? Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your computer as a proxy... etc. It's not a step forward.
The longer they wait, the more dust settles, and the less energy they produce.
I needed a programmable USB foot pedal for my Linux system, as I wanted a hands free way to give a presentation, so I bought one from https://www.delcomproducts.com/webpage.asp?id=32 for $40.
"Steve Jobs never raised a hand against his wife. But, he did treat subordinates very callously."

Part of it might be simply that people don't recognize mental pain as being as bad as physical pain. [1] The truth is mental pain can last a great deal longer and have much greater impact than physical pain but that is often not the way the world sees things.

[1] Not that getting hit by a spouse doeesn't cause mental pain of course.
> "these albums are disappointing for these objective criteria".

Except that the actual scores used to make this "objective" analysis are largely subjective.
Okay.

What do you make? What do you make to pay the bills; what do you make for passion? How would you feel about people pirating what you make to pay the bills?

Even if you are 100% open source everything for free forever, do you acknowledge that other people may be looking to their creative work as a source of income, and may want a more restrictive license on their work? Do you feel they are morally wrong to ever want to be paid for all the time and labor that goes into performing their craft, and probably into paying off their absurd student loans as well?
The worst damage an individual can do to the environment, short of starting a tire fire at the dump, is to fly. Save the environment and avoid the TSA, don't fly.
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Hugged to death, indeed, I couldn't even reach myself. I switched to CloudFlare to lessen server stress. I think it should be okay now.
Again, you're analyzing what Galileo did with the benefit of hindsight. With hindsight, we know who was using the telescope correctly and who wasn't. At the time, you had a complex set of rather fuzzy observations made using a poorly understood instrument, and some of these observations were in conflict with arguably more reliable observations. Feyerabend is pointing out that Galileo wasn't right because he was more scientific and more rational than his critics. In that sense, his decisions to accept certain bits of evidence and ignore others (e.g. the apparently obvious fact that the Earth is not in motion) were arbitrary. That is, these decisions did not follow from (and in fact sometimes went against) the scientific method as it is typically enunciated. With hindsight, we can offer a post-hoc rational reconstruction of each decision, but that can't be taken seriously as an account of what Galileo was actually doing. So yes, the scientific method is a myth if understood as a set of guidelines the following of which has been a major cause of scientific progress.
Is that just a copy of https://workfrom.co/ ?
Hi, AJ from Gandi here. Do you have the ticket number from the subject line of the support email? If we made a mistake like that, we should make it right.
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>self-confidence to not buy an expensive Apple smartphone like your peers but a reasonable priced one from Huawai //

Huawei aren't a cheap brand, they are compared to Apple, for sure, but for me it's do I buy a name brand product from Acer, LG, Huawei or do I get a no-name item. My current TV is a Polaroid(!), it's a white-label product with the same internals as Panasonics, Toshibas and LGs. It's this or nothing. Bought less than a year ago I've already had to have it opened up for fault-finding. More expensive products are definitely better, but not the next level up (the cheaper Toshibas, etc.) but the level above that - which is more by model but I'd probably include Samsung there. It really is just like the leather boots analogy.

Another instance of this for me is trousers. I basically have 2 pairs of trousers for daily wear, one is a pair of jeans. I get supermarket own-brand (UK) jeans, they all wear out at the crotch, the stitching comes apart after about 6-9months. £10 a pair (or less if I catch a sale). Now I could buy more expensive ones that are better made, there's an apparent variation in longevity even now Sainsburys > Tesco > ASDA. More expensive trousers - in the past - have never split at the crotch seam. The problem is that the more expensive ones that are still in my price range seem equally likely to fail early.

High price doesn't indicate high quality but I've found very few products for a relatively low price that weren't low quality; often atrocious designs that could be so much better using the same materials too.
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Don't MUA handle sending both plaintext and HTML well enough? Thunderbird seems to cope with that at least.

I think there is a tendency for minimalists to feel that others should conform to[wards] their ideal, whilst there are many aesthetics and there doesn't appear to be a logical reason to choose one above another [in the general case] - one man's cluttered is another's functional, or whatever.

Way back in KDE3 days I was looking for a MUA to move to from Opera Mail and was auditioning KMail, the devs insisted that the display should not be allowed to handle sending HTML emails as a matter of principle. Since then it's been a bit of a touchy subject for me ...
I wish how it was related to Apache Kafka was explained as well, since it looks like a totally different beast, and appears to only share the name.
It's a cute and anachronistic practice. Unfortunately, it seems to have in mind some ministrel or author scraping-by in poverty instead of the more likely modern publishing/licensing corporation.
>Some landlords will install a £100 smoke alarm when they realize that they can get real-time notifications that one of their buildings is on fire.

Not even on fire, maybe people are smoking inside when they aren't suppose to be. Maybe someone burns their food commonly and that needs investigated before they burn the whole damn place down one time. I can see lots of reasons for that.
> Also, this is the guy who really made a dent in the universe.

Dennis Ritchie died around the same time as Steve Jobs, and I always found it a shame that one is remembered significantly more than the other.

Creating Unix and The C Programming language counts as making "a really big dent" in the universe. But maybe that's just me.
"We mourn people we feel a connection with, because of the pain we feel at losing the connection."

Large groups also mourn because (for lack of a better way to put it) a crowd effect. There are people who are impacted for sure but then there are people who will come along for the grief ride that really wouldn't care if their friends didn't drop the idea and the importance into their head. Or if there wasn't a great deal of media coverage which stokes the grief.
This, exactly. I could find an orthonormal basis or an eigenvector, but I never quite wrapped my head around their importance, especially visually.
I am pretty sure that in terms of person-miles per gallon flying is comparable to automobiles. Are you referring to some secondary damage that flying causes?
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I assume the goal isn't to frame you, but to smuggle drugs.

Baggage handler/TSA agent at airport #1 opens baggage, places drugs inside, calls baggage hander/TSA agent at airport #2 with luggage brand and traveler name.

When flight arrives, hander #2 intercepts baggage. At this point, they either take the whole suitcase, or remove the drugs and the traveler is none the wiser.
Hi HN,
I posted this once before when I first launched it, but it wasn't received very well. Since then I've added ten thousand subscribers and have turned the RTT newsletter into something I'm quite proud of. And I got an email from Dang (HN's moderator) asking me to repost it to give it another chance. So, here's my second attempt to show it to HN - a v2, if you will.
One thing to keep in mind is that overall music critics were not all that good at being impartial critics until recently. There was a lot of taste making, some of it even profit driven, until blogging made them more honest.
>> and breast cancer rates are pretty steady across countries

No, they are not. See Japan. Eat your Kelp.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/02/02_kelp....

I find that one interesting because they suggest not to eat a lot of kelp in part due to the high iodine content. But lots of others (self included) believe the iodine is the key.
Cool, but what I love more about this (post) is how helpful the comments are!

It reminds me of the old bash.org quote that basically said the best way to get help from the Internet is not to ask, but to assert an answer, and let people correct you.
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Can you take this as a learning experience?

1. Tools to encrypt messages using Github SSH keys are probably not a good idea. They're no more usable than real message encryption solutions, but have far more constraints.

2. You cannot safely use RSA like a normal cipher. RSA is a tool for building crypto protocols. The way you've deployed it here has a serious vulnerability.

If you want to build things that use cryptography, I think you really need to work with a high-level library. Nacl (or libsodium) is a great example of a package that goes out of its way to bulletproof itself.
I just tried a search in Gmail. Took a fraction of a second. I tried one in Claws email client which pulls local copies of the emails. Happened instantly as you predicted. Caching speeds up search indeed. Now, what does a fraction of a second improvement on search have to do with security and usability of email? That would have very little impact on my choice of email client.
More people have a stronger emotional response to iPhones, which Steve Jobs is identified as being responsible for.
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There are a whole bunch of things you're likely to get wrong trying to design your own "hybrid" encryption system. It's not easy. Why not spend some time learning how to break crypto before you start building it?
>the Tea Party is mostly a reaction against Republicans that are not fiscal conservatives

Find me a tea partier who is willing to cut pork going to their own district? They don't exist. All their bloviating about being more conservative than the other guy is dog whistles to get themselves elected.
> The last bastion of true journalism now exists within NPR (at least to a degree) or outside the United States.

As someone who works in the press industry, but you'd be forgiven for thinking this is the case. There are a number of outfits doing hard hitting, deep journalism. Bigger names include NYT, WaPo, even Bloomberg. You are right in the aspect that those sorts of articles usually aren't headline pieces in favor of the shorter form click-bait. They do themselves a disservice in that respect. But don't mistake that for absence of good journalism.
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An interesting point; however (as I'm sure you're aware) the specific table may be empty, but the database definitely is not.

Per the article, it is true that "the ‘content’ part of a contentless table is simply empty", but "Behind the scenes, SQLite creates various data structures for the index".
When I used to work on those devices, the arguments went something like this:

"Adding video input means we need an additional connector on the device, which the Industrial Design guys hate."

"We could multiplex the signal, but then we need some kind of proprietary connector and the additional cost of that circuitry."

"How many customers want to record video from an external source anyway? It's not worth adding $5 to the MSRP for a feature that isn't going to get used."
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Hi, AJ from Gandi. That sounds terrible, and not like us at all. Do you think you could provide the ticket number from the subject line of the support email so we can investigate further?
For the record: we can provide a callback upon request, and we have live chat support as well.
It's a quote from the article.
Except that they use it in a kind of legal judo move, making sure anyone getting it from you get the same rights as you got it under.

Never mind that there are a bunch of companies, in particular in the embedded market, that violate it left and right.
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Happened to me in 1985. Racked up a $350 phone bill in one month using my Mitey Mo 300 bps modem. Parents took the modem for a month. Then I fixed the problem by finding some long distance company's calling card access numbers (Sprint, MCI) and had the Commodore 64 my BBS ran on hack them out every night between 2 am and 6 am. I would get about a dozen codes per night.
It is disturbing that the author so lightly morphs a tax exemption into a taxpayer subsidy. As if the natural state of things is for the government to tax everything and whatever it doesn't is being subsidized.
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Given the context I think they mean that Mr Robot is not available legally in Argentina.
A great quote (that I've said a few times myself, but I'm humble and don't need my name associated with it) from an article[1] linked by an article[2] linked by the post:

"I bring up my own experiences as a reminder that if the plural of anecdote isn't data, the singular of it sure as hell isn't, either."

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/6/5/8736591/liberal-professor-identi...

[2] http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
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Quite some civil law countries in europe have this system. For example "droit d'auteur" in france, "derechos de autor" in spain and "Urheberrecht" in germany both named not after the work or the act (to copy it) but after the author.
[ISPs] have moved beyond just delivering a internet connection to delivering "triple play" (net, cable/streaming, voip).

I thought this bundling was more to protect their profit margins. In Canada, for example, Telus has cable, internet, cellphone, house phone products available. For every product line you purchase, there's a discount. When they charge data overage fees on cell phones and internet plans, they make huge money, and subsidize the cost of running other product lines which help their lock-in effect.
(Sorry for the poor wording)
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I don't understand your reasoning. There are people that risk these penalties, therefore the penalties are just?
No, the display of my microwave isn't always on, it automatically shuts off after a few minutes; yet, it's still fast enough that I can't perceive any delay.

Another example, look at this handheld game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1naGfmzkh9w

Is there any perceived delay when the On button is pressed? I frankly can't see it.

EDIT: This one even has full color and movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD4DDewpOF8&feature=youtu.be...

It goes from complete shut-off of the entire device to moving animation in less time, from what I can tell, than it takes for him to move the button until the end.

EDIT2: I measured it frame-by-frame, it takes 5 frames from the moment the button starts to move until the screen is completely functional, showing the proper image. The video is at 25 fps, so that's 200ms, for the whole device to go from non-powered to fully working animation.