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I'm Italian and I can tell you that things here are even worse. This is why I based my startup in London and now I'm relocating to another country.

To add something more to this piece of news: Google, with YouTube, is disturbing our televisions, owned or controlled by our prime minister Berlusconi, by competing with them and spreading news that are hidden or distorted in TV. This will not be the last attack Google faces from Italy.

News Corp. knows this very well. In the last year this government passed some laws clearly against their satellite offer, favouring the TV channels of our prime minister. Now it's the turn of Google.
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The GPL can't force Valve to release source even if they had used GPL'ed code for an external release. However, a court could force Valve to stop distributing the infringing binary, and to pay damages to the owners of the GPL'ed code.

It is possible that Valve would choose to release source for the steam client after negotiation with the owners of the CPL'ed code instead, but that would require agreement from both parties. And it is actually not totally unlikely that Valve would seek such a solution, the steam client represents a very little part of the total value of steam, the main value is in the content of their rights database, and in their reputation and connection with gamers and publishers.
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Between this and the Banned Books article on the homepage, I am "so" glad Google takes the stance it does on these issues. I can only hope it continues this way. Thank you Google.
I'm thinking of getting a TK6000 from NetTalk. Anyone heard anything bad about those? BTW, I've heard attacks that the company is a hack, but then the company responded and said it was publicly traded on the stock market and had board members with deep industry ties. I also heard attacks that the sound quality was not good, but then the company said that this was not true and that one has a trial period to decide for themselves. But even still -- at $99 -- you really can't go wrong to try this out, I thought. So, I'm thinking of getting this in a few short days unless someone can warn me that it will do something very bad. The MagicJack EULA, plus the viciousness of the founder, are a really big turnoff for me.
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Is "low fat" the dogma?

I always thought that was just the general public getting confused about "fat" (the essential part of your diet), "fat" (the vital organ of your body) and "fat" (what you are if you are heavier, larger or just a different shape than current fashion dictates). Do other languages use the same word for these three concepts?

Yes I see hundreds of things advertised, mainly to women, as "low fat" which are just filled full of sugar to make them appetising, but any medical expert, even ones on TV, seem to emphasise good fats vs bad fats and calorie consumption. They are more likely to warn against those "low fat" foods than encourage them.
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I can think of no other plausible reason for PostOnce's comment than that s/he wanted to suggest that saying "from whence" is an error.

I suppose it's barely possible that the meaning was simply "you don't have to include the 'from' when you're saying 'whence', so you could have saved yourself a bit of typing", but that seems improbable.
Duck Duck Go uses nginx. I evaluated all the alternatives pretty heavily, and it was the clear winner at the time (2 years ago). I currently use the memached plugin, which is great. I've also used its embedded Perl feature (though not currently).

Speaking of good Web servers, I've heard good things about Yaws lately. Anyone have any real world experience with it? This is the only seemingly solid comparison I've fond: http://www.planeterlang.org/en/planet/article/Nginx_vs_Yaws_...
Good point, i'll resubmit. I know the technical side. But i'm interested in the business side.
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It is true that Italians don't care much about privacy but old and backward?

Italy is neither old (Italy was born as a state in 1861) nor backward. The problem is that our prime minister has a personal interest in shutting down as much as possible the web as a news/social service.

It is possible to argue that, as you said, "many people don't have a clue what is going on" but I believe it applies to most (all?) other countries as well.
also missing a fo' shizzle conditional and possibly loop construct.
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What's really amazing is reading the comments here (in Italian):

http://vitadigitale.corriere.it/2010/02/processo_vivi_down_g...

Most of them are aghast at the decision, but there is a reasonable number supporting the decision. Italy FAIL :-/
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If your site does not work, it goes down in google search

The gist of the article is the reverse of that. If your site goes down in the rankings, one quick thing to check is your Google crawl stats. To do this, you need to set up a Google Webmaster Tools account and look through the crawl errors.

I had this happen last summer and it was devastating to my traffic. It was a hard problem to diagnose because all the third party HTTP viewers had no problems fetching pages on the site - but the Googlebot did. Since then, the webmaster tools has added a "Fetch as Googlebot" feature that would have saved me a lot of headaches. It's really fantastic.
Yeah, silvestrov is talking about "upgrading the binary" here.
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If by "raw text" you mean string values (i.e. the equivalent of text nodes in XML) I don't see this as being particularly difficult, I don't think I'd use a Regex for it but then I wouldn't use a Regex to extract text from an XML document/stream either.
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The real idiocy in this ruling is that the judge stated in their closing remarks that google did not ask all parties for their consent. I'm not sure if the judge realizes that for google to know which people are visible in a video at the time of posting they'd have to have face recognition capabilities coupled with databases of private information that would amount to a privacy violation well in excess of the one they're being accused of now (and which, as far as I know are not currently technically feasible).

Simple safe harbor provisions for ISPs and user generated content sites are there for a reason, the students were punished and expelled from their school, as far as I can see the system works and this ruling is both wrong and superfluous.

There is a lot of pressure on Google in Italy, Mediaset (owned by Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi) has sued google and youtube for insane amounts of money.

In Italy it can be quite hard to distinguish between what is a private agenda and what is a quest for justice.

In this case 'the jury is out', but I'm suspicious of trumped up lawsuits that are followed within weeks by other lawsuits demanding damages in the hundreds of millions, especially if those lawsuits are brought on behalf of a media company owned by a senior government figure.
Ah, bless Gladwell. You say thin slicing, I say gut instinct or intuition. I'd say Gladwell is not worth reading. He takes an obvious, folksy thing, adds a bit of a twist to it, presents several anecdotes as dramatic stories illustrating his point, then slaps on some "science" to make it seem like its true. It's not. He's just making stuff up that sounds plausible but surprising.

As an example, in Blink he refers to the mostly excellent work of John Gottman [1]. Gladwell's thesis is in Blink is that by "thinking without thinking", i.e. intuition, experts make better decisions. Now Gottman has developed a technique that can predict if a couple will stay together with frightening accuracy, simply by watching them argue. However, the longer he watches, the more accurate his prediction are. And it's not an instinctive thing; it's measuring expressions using a system [2].

Gladwell writes well, and seems believable. That doesn't make him right.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System
That's absolutely insane. But surely not many countries would follow Italy's line in this case?, eventhough it's well documented that some countries have a far more strict policy than others re. censorship. Hopefully the challenge will be successful, and this will be an isolated case.

by the way, they were given 6 months suspended jail sentences:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000092-264.html

I have some italian friends, and they've told me about this censorship also. Berlusconi doesn't even try to hide it apparently. One has to ask how someone like this can get elected - I suppose the answer is that he controls the media!! Italians, you have my sympathy...
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3 Google executives convicted for 'violating privacy' in Italy
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147670
I think you may have been voted down because the form you have made is not close to S-expressions at all. Sexps are a direct way of encoding a tree of symbols, values and other trees - nothing else.

To give an example of why this is powerful, suppose I decide I need two different namespace of attributes. In your example, this is hard. I can either do:

>tagname attr "value" @ attr "value2" !<

which special cases the parsing, and is hard to understand, or

>tagname ns1:attr "value" ns2:attr "value2" @<

which makes it hard to process attributes (xml is like this)

Sexps have an easy, obvious solution

(tagname (@ attr "value") (@other attr "value2"))

which I'd argue is clearer, more backward compatible, and doesn't require changing the parser.

Now this is only one example, but the point of sexps is they don't have an special cases, and they move the semantics out of the syntax and into the processing.
Just launched this yesterday. Managing the people I was following on twitter was always a massive pain for myself and quite a few people I talked to, so I decided to do something about it :)

Went through quite a few UI iterations trying to balance ease of use & power. Feedback welcome :)
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afaik there is not htaccess support in nginx, is there?
I find that cherokee and lighttpd is a pain in the butt when it comes to getting ssl working, all kinds of weird problems. It's dead easy with apache. How's nginx and ssl?
I'm ashamed of being italian. Also thepiratebay has been censored here. I'm seriously looking to relocate in another country.
It's a crazy mixture of burning man, a music festival, and a nifty tech fair. It's a great blend- watching the burners and the non-burners (... like my parents) interact was awesome.

I was one of the organizers two years ago (which was the last time it was at Ames). Even though the day of was sort of frantic for us, I had a blast. Music everywhere, things throwing fire, lots of great geeky exhibits. And it's all in and around some hangers just off the Moffett Field runway!

I'm not directly involved this year, but many of the same people that ran it then are working on it now; I expect it to be awesome again this year. Hopefully my mass of positive adjectives encourages you to check it out this year. Heh.

Some nifty pictures (not mine):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemansam/2422866234 (NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden in costume as a Soviet general!)

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I just made a similar complaint over at Reddit. Maybe interesting, maybe not. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b5v64/tired_of_...
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lighttpd had a memory leak that was around unfixed for a very long time. Googling couldn't tell me whether it was now fixed or not, but there are many references to it (take a look!). It did strike me as a problem that an essential bug like that wasn't looked at quickly, even if it was a little difficult to pin down.

Perhaps this is a bit unfair, but this is what led me to move over to nginx from lighttpd.
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I don't think people are arguing against GC being good. It's just that Objective-C did not have GC until very recently and that's they way it is.

Having used lots of languages and frameworks I think that Cocoa/UIKit is very elegant despite the manual memory management.

It might even be true that most of the big Cocoa applications will continue to use manual memory management.
I'm using this combination for the (low traffic) dynamic parts of my site. It seems to work fine.
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It seems like every other day there are more examples of ill-conceived and dangerous laws. It bothers me a lot.
I'm wondering what the Italian authorities hope to gain by this. It's only a matter of time before they suffer a high profile defeat in a higher court, if not in Italy, than in the EU. Are they just trying to buy time, or haven't they thought this through?
Well, if google wants to do business in italy, they may have to obey italian law...
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I'm Italian as well. IMHO Italy is the most backward country I've ever been to.

And yes, old. The President of the Republic is 84, the Prime Minister is 73...
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Not everything is necessarily centrally planed. Perhaps a naive prosecutor mistakenly pursuing something and trying to save face, perhaps some 'think of the children' indignation, etc. The result however, is to demonstrate how out of touch Italian law is with the Web.

I'm not grandstanding here, Greek law is also flawed, as is US law (e.g. DMCA). It just never ceases to amaze me in how many ways national laws are out of sync with the Web.

Perhaps it's a good thing in the long term though. By these blatantly idiotic conclusions, it is plain for everyone to see that something in the reasoning process is broken.
I noticed that it is almost impossible to obey ALL laws all the time. Somehow, somewhere there is a law I never heard about that I am breaking.

Why is this? Is it by design so that I am always culpable and can thus be controlled/negotiated with?

Or is it just stupidity/contradictory laws, etc.
This isn't a issue of italian law. By all accounts, they shouldn't have been prosecuted, never mind being found guilty. Its a issue of freedom on the web.
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The closed form solution isn't O(1). It's Ω(2^N) since the number of digits in the output is Θ(2^N).
The electronic lock hacking is interesting. In the video a screenshot is shown from what seems to be the lock server, detailing a failed attempt at reprogramming the lock. One of the commenters on Schneier's blog suggests that this was to make the lock block the victim's own key, allowing fake hotel staff to get close to 'help' him.
maybe - just maybe - that's exactly what this site is addressing? maybe you should have a look?
> To add something more to this piece of news: Google, with YouTube, is disturbing our televisions, owned or controlled by our prime minister Berlusconi, by competing with them and spreading news that are hidden or distorted in TV. This will not be the last attack Google faces from Italy.

That's my take on it as well, I think these 'privacy concerns' are just a cheap way to use a disabled person to garner sympathy for the crusade against big bad google that is offering Italian consumers alternative video content that does not come from 'Papi'.

Berlusconi ought to be the one in the docket. But then he'll just pass another law that exempts him...
Me too. The government (Berlusconi) is controlling all the media besides Internet. They are trying to kill the last free medium.
Regex are practical, you can use them from the command line, in your SQL statements, with your browser's JS engine, or on the server side - everywhere. A full Sexpr parser, on the other hand, is a more complicated machine not readily available everywhere. You don't have it in the UNIX userland by default, in SQL implementations, etc.
Italy is old. Here are some facts:

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

Of course old doesn't necessarily mean bad. Japan, Germany, and Austria are all up there too and seem to be doing better than Italy.
Don't blame the (ignorant?) people that are unable to read outside of their native tongue and that only get the state sponsored media, Berlusconi has an enormous amount of power, think of Rupert Murdoch as president or something to that effect and you get the picture.
I read those comments, and I would say they are all from people who don't even know what the web is, because if you know what the web is, you can't even think that this is reasonable. Don't forget that here in italy there are a lot of people who have no idea what the internet is and how it works.
Yes, being event based helps a lot, but the reason nginx is faster than other event based webservers is that it tries very very hard to add as little overhead as possible; For example not copying memory around unless absolutely neccessary.
It's also a good example of globalization working. No one country's law is enough to stop the web.
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Ask HN: jQuery sites down?
Are all the jQuery sites down?

They seem to be hosted in Media Temple. Funny that searching for mediatemple in Google presents you with an "Is Your Server Down?" ad right above it :)
1. I am not demonising, I am criticising. There is a fundamental difference.

2. It is based on much more than "rhetoric".

3. The group being criticised is not "informal and nebulous". I was, of course, speaking of the small, well-defined group of people who, against all evidence to the contrary and placing haste and ideology firmly above caution and even-handedness, championed and rammed through the current establishment consensus.

So that's 0 for 3.
Initiatives like these are exactly what we hoped for when we made the Aristo UI open source together with 280North. If you're interested check out the full PSD at the github repo: http://github.com/280north/aristo We're working on some nice refinements/additions too.
It's already being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147670
Why are we taking for granted that it's always Berlusconi behind these facts? I want to remember you that everyone who has some power here is corrupted, so while it may be the case, it's not certain who made the decision here.

I don't want to defend Berlusconi here, but if we continue to blame him by default we will never see the truth.
Google execs convicted in Italy over video upload
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Not sure if it wasn't working when I tried it, but I entered 'capsicum' and it showed no recipes. What I envisaged is a site that would randomly pick a common ingredient (rice, potato, coconut milk) and confirm that the visitor had it at hand. Then go from there, rather than starting by having them name something they had.
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I get the picture very much, having lived in Italy on and off over the past 15 years. You can say what you want about Berlusconi (and I regularly do), but you can't lay all the blame at his feet, either. Romano Prodi managed to beat him twice at the polls, despite all his media power. Those people are arguing for that decision with their own twisted logic and of their own volition.
With the tools we have nowadays, it should take 2 or 3 about 4 months. Take a look at One Note and Inkskein. I think the Inkskein team is one guy.
this might work as an answer to all those people who keep asking "why would you leave a beautiful place like Italy??"
Typical QA cycle:

* find problem;
* identify root cause of the problem;
* write automated, semi-automated or manual test case, which will highlight problem;
* fix problem.

If you will not use test cases at development and staging stages, then you will just use your production environment for testing purposes. If your downtime cost you nothing - don't bother with test cases.

In our case, we had similar problem, so I created very simple test case in shell in less than 2 hours. We spent more than year until it was fully fixed.
Close is not enough -- part of the attraction of s-expressions is that they are part of the language.

Thus you can use the language's escaping mechanisms, or put the escaping in your sxml->xml filter.

Preserving XML escapes is not actually a virtue. If you enter your data using S-expressions and validate on transformation, you will never have malformed XML.

(Not in any way that matters, anyway: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwingolog.org%...)

edit: note also that in this context, s-expressions are more about language and less about parentheses; one can have them in python too: http://wingolog.org/pub/original/rename-to-index.py.txt, http://wingolog.org/software/original/
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