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Sounds like a great idea, but how liable are they for copyright infringement?
For some long and complex git commands I have aliases, also for command line options that I always want to provide. My ~/.gitconfig therefore is quite extensive.

But I agree that using aliases for trivial, short commands such as these doesn't really help. Remembering the alias is more work then just typing the whole command.

Edit: why is jacques_chester's reply to this post killed!?
Am I missing something or is this the exact opposite of what torrenting is supposed to do? Torrents are decentralized so that there is no single bottleneck and no single point of attack. Re-centralizing torrents re-creates the problem torrents were supposed to solve...?
Things to do in san fransisco?
i'll be in SF for WWDC, but planning on taking a tour of the town the weekend before the conference starts.

What are some must-visit, must-do things in the bay?
I think more can be saved by learning to use the shell (e.g. bash) better.

For instance, since the shell has command history that persists between sessions, once you've run e.g. "git push" once, you can run it again by typing e.g. "^R pu" (including the space to make it more unique). That's more keypresses than just "gp", but way clearer and more portable since it will work wherever you have Bash, not just where your particular aliases are installed.
In related news, scientists discover idioms not mathematically accurate. Movie at 11.
How long till Adblock adds a bitcoin-block? Can't be soon enough imo.
While downloading, do they also upload to other clients? That is, do they only take from the Torrent network or are they giving back some bandwidth to the network?
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well I believe it is :{)}
Interactive history search (^R) in Bash (and IPython) so awesome, it can't be overstated. I've become so addicted to it that I start almost any command with ^R now. For most of them, I've got them somewhere in history - and only if it doesn't find anything, I ^C and type manually.
If Gnome transforms their product into it's own operating system, not only will the Gnome environment itself become more monolithic and less modular but the distribution they produce will suffer that same fate. It's not a given, but it's easy to imagine the non-negotiable dependencies for the Gnome OS growing over time and becoming even more obscure than which init system is used.

Personally, I like being able to make some of these choices about the components that make up my operating system. On the whole, I think modularity is feature that I find more compelling than the sort of tight integration that some other OS vendors (like Apple) are providing.
I poked through the websites source code and found a link to it.

http://audio.sxsw.com/2011/podcasts/DeathoftheTextbook.mp3
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While I agree that aliasing checkout just does not make sense given how often it is used, and (at least in my opinion) aliasing push to be easier to accidentally invoke is a bad decision, given that it modifies upstream, making the more used commands shorter is a nice to have feature.

I myself only use couple aliases, for the most used commands - 'gita' for add, 'gits' for status, 'gitd' for diff. Those are the things I use A LOT (especially when preparing a commit), and shaving off couple characters there does pay off. And no, I don't feel that these muscle-memory level shortcuts add any mental load.
Most probably a honeypot of the RIAA.
:P
I completely agree, a kind of '80s steampunk would be brilliant.
hm, i like it. incredibly fast conversion. can anyone tell me details about the architecture of the service?
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I agree - you can check a linked TOC version here http://bit.ly/lSLTVT

and [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc
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I think steep learning curves are used in two contexts -

1. for example at your job - steep learning curve is good, it means learning / time is high.

2. for example programming languages - steep learning curve is (possibly) bad, it means learning or aptitude /effort is high - lots of effort to gain aptitude. Somewhat confused by the fact that the reason it's hard is possibly because the final achievement is more useful (but not necessarily - you can have hard-to-learn interfaces/processes, that are just badly designed, so you've only learned to jump silly hoops).
I don't think they are doing it to support BitTorrent... It is just a service, not a replacement. I don't see why I'd prefer to use this , but I can see a situation where it can be easier to use than a bittorent client for novice users.
This is more about leeching than seeding. Torrenting is also just one of many services being offered.
I presume the point is the speed. As I am currently stuck on a 3G hotspot for a connection, a GIGb connection is tempting. Especially for the natty iso.
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I am investing $100 right now to hold long-term, with an 80-90% expectation of it being worthless in a few years.

The alternative, of course, is that bitcoin takes off, is not banned by governments, and is useful enough to enough people. If that occurs then I expect pretty high returns.
Limited usability I think considering it applies to only Orange customers with Barclays accounts. Typically in the UK, it's virtually impossible to get any banks and/or mobile companies to standardise on technology (think debit cards: VISA/Switch/Solo/PO etc) so I can only see problems and more market fragmentation appear.
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Ask HN: interesting events/conferences in Sillicon Valley during June?
I'll be visiting Mountain View (family visit) in about a week or so, and I'm interested in finding out about interesting events or conferences (programming-related) that might be worth attending.

Is there a site for listing such things?

Also, can I visit, say, Google?
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If you download a copyrighted file, it is your fault. Not of the tool you use for downloading it.
They weren't testing minutia, they were testing depth of understanding and experience.
I thought they did a decent job, too.

I would have preferred to be able to get a result without actually applying for the job though...
Also, when lots of people will start to use it, it will be possible for them to cache files.. so you don't even have to wait for them to download the torrent.
It does have limits, but I haven't hit them yet. I suppose that means the optimal strategy is to try notes first for any given bit of text, then use something else as a fallback.
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Exactly. That's why guns and knives have no legal issues at all, nor strong cryptography or various questionable instruction manuals!
They are downloading and redistributing pirated movies. They're basically helping piracy, and they're an easy target. They'll get shut down eventually if they don't die sooner on their own.
I think in European dates, and I think this numbering is fine.

ISO 2014: YYYY-MM-DD format always seemed a nice compromise, so just think of 1 being the first non-year portion.
I don't believe the standardisation point is true. The banks came together to create the EMV (Eurocard - Mastercard - Visa) standards, which define eg how chip & pin works. The mobile industry is also very big on standards.

The issue is about who owns the customer. There's the one secure element (the SIM/bank card chip) - who should own that? Technically both operator and bank can coexist on the same card, but the commercial position is not so simple.
Of course you can. But the fact that you have to know the sentence "you can with two fingers" in order to use it can, at least in my mind, be making the point that that is unintuitive to people. The average user doesn't know anddoesnt care, they just want it to be consistent regardless of whether or not you have a footer on your page.
How many times do you type "git status" in your typical workday?
The people who are pumping up BitCoin now are the same people who pumped up SecondLife.
And a hammer and screwdriver both are there to secure things, that doesntmean they do it the same way or are interchangeable. Neither or replacing either anytime soon.
The concept of a "steep curve" is the physical analogy to a steep hill, in which forward progress/learning requires significant effort. Thus x is progress and y is the cumulative effort required to achieve that level of progress.
The privacy policy and terms of service seem to be linked on the website:

http://fetch.io/privacy/

http://fetch.io/terms/

I think their DMCA policy seems interesting, as it seems to ask copyright holder to mail notice of infringement to their address in Hong Kong:

http://fetch.io/dmca/
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It may also be a solution against providers that do "traffic shaping" on torrents (pretty common in Brazil at least).
Yes, these aliases really help. Version control schemes like git reward frequent commits. Anything that lowers the barrier to a commit is good.

Especially when you're under hard time pressure, commits can often fall by the wayside, unless they're super easy (read: need very few keystrokes).
Responsible citizens my ass.

Google does what is in Google's interests. Remember how Google vowed to fight for Net Neutrality until it became against their business interests in the mobile arena?

Google is "duty-bound" only to its shareholders. All the copyright-mafia needs to do is to find a way in which it becomes in Google's best interest to not fight that law, and they will change their "ethical" stance faster than you can say "u-turn".
You have to pay taxes and also settle debts in the official currency. That alone gives it more than mere 'perceived value'. Oh, needing it to buy oil also helps.
Aside: This looks like an official press release. If so, why doesn't Amazon issue it on the domain amazon.com? It would look more authentic.
I guess not much, because they're heavily overloaded and they can't/won't spare the bandwidth. But that's not an issue, really, I guess they will eventually allow themselves to have a 1:1 up/down ratio at least, that should be nothing compared to the amount of clients they're serving.
Perhaps some enterprising fundamentalist Christian will start offering a similar service for the pets of nerds after the Singularity? (Uploading cats might be a bit risky).
Also refuted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006980
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Cribbing from post #35:

And you come to a total of 21,600,000 unique visitors per day that you would need to your website in order to hash the equivalent of a $100 GPU.

Or make about $8 per day according to the bitcoin calculator right now from 21 million unique visitors.... totally not worth it.

So, yeah. Significantly crapping on the user experience of 21M people by reducing their battery life, adding heat, adding fan noise, slowing down other actions - all to substitute for one gpu?

It seems like there must be better ways to ruin your high traffic websites reputation if that's what you're looking to do.
banner ads are also, on the whole, a waste and annoyance; so not much of a change there

It is probably fair to say most people don't care all that much provided their user experience is not noticeably impacted, but it looks like this work is failing to deliver in that respect. If they manage to throttle CPU usage effectively then this is at least a semi-feasible alternative to "monetizing" traffic.. I find that quite interesting conceptually, even if it doesn't work in practice at the moment.
I only alias git commands that have typical flags that I use over and over. For example, "git log --pretty=oneline -10" is aliased to gitlog.

Basically, any command that I have to even passively think about the parameters which is used often enough gets its own alias. This does not include commands like "git add" because I don't even think about parameters when I'm typing it out. Having to remember that I set ga to "git add" adds more work than I'm doing now.
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Yup how is this different from the Lime Wire case. Basically I don't see how this will work.
As an aside, except distros and open Documentaries, what all do people download legally through bit torrent?
I've aliased git to "g" in bash and set up aliases in my ~/.gitconfig [1].

Reducing "git" to "g" or "status" to "st" doesn't speed up my workflow much. The real gains come with aliasing something like this:

git --no-pager log --oneline --graph -n 18 --decorate

[1] https://github.com/dave1010/scripts/blob/master/gitconfig
> Simply counting calories will reduce your weight. I can pretty much confirm that now. Over the last eight months I tried to stay below 1900 calories per day and I have lost 17 kilo.

And simply not counting calories will reduce your weight. I can pretty much confirm that now.

Over the last 3 months I have stopped counting or considering calories, eaten as much as I wanted, and I've lost nearly 20lbs. Nothing crazy, I've gone from an overweight 190lbs to much leaner 170lbs.

I roughly followed a slow-carb diet but broken it so many times I've lost count.

Individual data points are nice but they don't tell any story. Pretty much following any diet can be shown to have significant weight-loss, even those that appear to take opposite strategies.

This is in part due to underlying similarities (nearly all diets involve a reduction in sugars and HFCS, and generally practice monitoring your weight and motivational tips such as making rules explicit).

What this pub is trying to do is dispell some myths regarding the whole "low-carb diets can't work because of the law of thermodynamics!" rubbish.
Just wondering, could a trojan somehow control safari (or other approved apps) via a script, and then upload files to the hacker's server, circumventing little snitch and other outgoing firewalls?
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Clickable: http://webifieds.net

Out of interest, have you been trying to work out how to make your link clickable? If so, where did you look? If not, why not?
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These guys are behind what is easily the most robust and reliable audio app on the market (Reason). Whatever their code practices are internally, they're doing something right.
Perhaps this means that bitcoin is currently undervalued by three orders of magnitude.
This is entirely besides the point of the study and the article, but why are the Americans the only ones who, in terms of human energy intake/consumption, say calorie when it should be kilocalorie? Why do they insist on being one thousand times off? "It's easier"? From where does this come from, and why does the rest of the world insist on being accurate?
Chip 'n' Pin seems to be pretty ubiquitous - I was pretty surprised to see an American colleague having to sign for something the other day.

I only have a couple of cash transactions a month - the barber I go to being the last hold out.
Yeah, let's call Sean Parker and tell him that. He'll be delighted.
> Remembering the alias is more work then just typing the whole command.

I set up aliases like this myself (right down to the abbreviated name) and I find it no more difficult to remember.

Just much faster.

For the same reason I've aliased 's' to 'sudo' on some servers, and I've alised complicated ssh connections to short names like 'blahweb' and 'blahdb'.

Sure, I can remember what they stand for. But I'm impatient and want to spend finger cheese on more useful characters.
Ouch. Yes, I clearly remembering being taught that Physics is approximation.
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Also, remember what video streaming was like in 99 (postage stamp-sized window, muddy picture, buffering every three seconds).

The network has come a long way in 12 years.
bunch of pointless garbage - both articles and comments, haven't learned a single useful thing...
Next, please!
It is impossible to expect the USPTO to determine novelty and non-obviousness for software patents. Imagine how difficult it would be to examine mechanical engineering patents if millions of people carried machine shops around in their backpacks.
The problem with this fancy terminal is that the standardized tools, like cat and ls get abused in very bad ways...

What's the problem with ImageMagick's display for example? Or defining a new command that does pretty printing of images, like, say pls.

Don't fuck with our tool-chain buddy!^_^
I'm totally fine with auto-completion, no need for aliases here though it might make sense if you are using the same longish command over and over again...

E.g. the following does the trick for tcsh, search the web for '<myfavshell> git completion' and you'll find your way:

set gitcmds= ( `ls /usr/local/bin/git-*|sed ’s/\/usr\/local\/bin\/git-//g’` )
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https content is generally only cached in memory by the browser.

But if the response contains a Cache-Control header that explicitly specifies that the content is public, it can be cached to disk, just like http content. Eg:

Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400
Wow. Spectacularly wrong conclusions.

1 - "The service never had a clear business model, just an attitude of “get user adoption and we’ll figure it out later.”"

#%^&*! A site where people post their purchases. Does anyone really believe it would be hard to "monetize" that? If so, you're not cut out to be CEO.

2 - No one wants to share their purchases? Really? Tell that to the women that post youtube videos of the stuff they bought. Or tutorials explaining what make up to buy and how to apply it to look like celebrity X. Buyosphere is making that easier.

I didn't see a trend to people posting their credit card statements online. Making that easier is absurd.
I'd prefer to keep the visualization of Snow Crash in my mind and not have it screwed up by some cheap and tacky production that will never match expectations.

Some books should just remain books, and both Snow Crash and Neuromancer are in that bucket. If Gibson wants to be a screenwriter, then he should write a story for the screen.
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I do both. Enjoy just watching it but also follow on an iPad app that provides a lot of detail. Its actually really exciting this year with the DRS (http://www.ozracingwrap.com.au/news/formula-1/2537-the-f1-mo...). A lot passing and attempted passing. I couldn't move from the Turkey GP and Webber's drive from 18th to Podium in China was awesome. You do need to like cars and speed to get into it but as the lights countdown for the takeoff my heart definitely beats faster. Being friends with a Renault wind tunnel model designer and former F3 driver helps also :)
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If you really want to save time and keystrokes, use git-sh so that you don't even need to type (or alias) git itself. You can still run all your normal shell commands with it too.

https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh
I'm getting old, because Hollywood has let me down so many times that I no longer have even a hint of hope for this movie. It will take Los Angeles execs about fifteen minutes to start pushing Jaden Smith, likable characters, a happy ending, Natalie f-ing Portman, and product placements.
Tough cookies, IBM, you lost.

Here's a rundown of relevant court decisions:

Supreme Court, Benson: That software is just an algorithm. You can't patent an algorithm. There may exist some kind of software that can be patented, but not ones that look like this.

Supreme Court, Flook: We see what you did there. This patent is just software to solve a mathematical problem. The post-solution activity isn't novel. There may exist software that could be patentable, but not software that looks like this.

Supreme Court, Diehr: This one's different from Flook in that they're claiming novelty in parts of the invention outside the software.

Federal Circuit, State Street: Actually I think patents that aren't distinguished in the least from the one in Flook are OK.

Supreme Court, Bilski: Pay attention to Benson, Flook, Diehr. Nothing's changed since these decisions. Ignore State Street.

In summary, the reason software is patentable today is that lots of people persist in ignoring the Supreme Court. There may in the future be some kind of software the Supreme Court might think patentable, but every software patent we talk about here on HN, especially related to patent trolls, is indistinguishable from Flook.
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I'm not really a very fast typist, or at least, I often make typing errors (Which is OK, since programming really has very little to do with typing and we have good IDEs, so errors very rarely persists for more than a few seconds).

I frequently get the order of the left hand letters of "status" wrong, or sometime SVN muslememory kicks in, and I just write "stat". Parsing the error message on the screen is orders of magnitude slower that just getting it right. "gs" would greatly decrease my risk of getting it wrong.