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Competition Shines Light on Dark Matter
IPVS is built-in to the Linux kernel, and HA projects like keepalived have ipvsadm integration. Tproxy works fine, and has been in the kernel since 2.6.30. In most load-balancing cases, losing the remote IP address isn't that big a deal (you have to deal with NAT too), and a full proxy like haproxy has it's benefits.
Interesting. So those live performing concerts prohibiting audience recording have no legal standing? But the audience recorded videos have the copyright?
It looks nice but the syntax seems to defy convention. Should be something like: $("#element").click($.meow(args));

meow() is a method, not an event.
4 digit years make 'great' 4 digit passwords.
Letter to the Free Software Foundation
Did you take much time outside of work to learn/study?
Blob Monster
This is actually a GREAT idea. I'd LOVE to rent domains because any traffic from the old visitors gives me free advertising. When my business is done I'll pass it off to the next person and they'll get the left over visitors from my old site.

To people saying they don't want to RENT urls. Think about it. How many of us have 60+ domains registered thinking "Oh I'm going to turn this into the next facebook one day". Like that'll ever happen. Our startups and projects last only 1-3 years anyway. Most startups fail anyway. After that we hold on to the domain for 7+ years thinking we'll hit the jackpot if some VC funded startup picks up our domain. What a load of BS. They won't. Why would they spend thousands or millions on a domain name when you can just give their startup some weird African name like Zazzuu, tikitituka, bamzoo, wasuzu, etc...

The perfect solution is to rent with the option of buying at the end. Very nice idea. I like it.
http://www.hnsearch.com/
This is a good post that is maybe significant morally but probably irrelevant within the law.
Prices are listed as well. How would one describe a price comparator/search engine for something like a tag line?
From the second paragraph: "Its consumers save too much and spend too little." Which is as opposed to countries like US, Australia where people spend more than 100% of their salaries? More debt is good right?

If I was the finance minister for China I would study the US very closely for a list of things not to do - overspending on credit is one of those things.
It says Empire units (m/s^2), not Imperial Units. So its just SI Units.
A lot of the tents did have liners (the "official" GP tents), designed for heating/cooling.

However, a lot of tents were locally contracted pavilion-type tents, which then got air conditioned as well.
Can you provide some real world examples where this has worked? I'm not saying it's not possible, but I haven't ever witnessed/heard of it working just like that in any scenario I can recall.

Viral word of mouth is nice, but it usually takes years to get there.
I think the author of this article misunderstands the panda update. It was intended to demote content farms, which have mostly automated content.

The author is talking about "people working like robots", which is not the same thing at all.
"random" is commonly taken to be uniformly distributed. There is no particular reason to expect unbounded support, even if you feel it shouldn't be a certain interval.
I publish software as software developer, publish music as a musician, and 'copy' as photographer... publishing rights are on the top of my mind every time something of mine goes live.

The writer tries to make a valid comparison between taking a picture, and taking an already created already popular picture and modifying it. There are a lot of variables involved process of taking a previously published picture and copying it, the writer want us to believe, the variables make it original. If the two art forms were comparable you could take that famous, extraordinary picture of Miles again, just like I could recreate that pixelated pic of the picture of Miles again. There are many problems with this: one, Miles is dead, two, the best photographer could not catch that moment at that time because one thing about photography is every shot is one in a billion trillion, no two shots are the same. Other problems with this comparison go on and on.

If you wanted to extend that metaphor to music, 'there are only 88 keys on piano. Every song written is copying some sampling of those 88 keys. No need for music composition copyright anymore.' Obviously, this is not the case. Yet, sampling a segment from a song to use in your song is usually obvious to the listener and is commonly and 'easily' fought in court. photography is not copying and if you think it is, I will hand you my camera, and ask you to take that picture again.
I think you're spot on with the "they think you're too uptight" hypothesis. Small teams can be really anal when it comes to culture fit, for better or for worse, and unfortunately when it comes to this people can be really prejudiced and ofter rely on more "superficial" factors such as gender and age. I personally work at a startup with a lot of pretty brilliant people, but that has a pretty bro-ey feel at times. I personally enjoy it (I did pledge a frat in college), but I see the term "culture fit" being thrown around when discussing potential candidates and do have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it does contribute to a sense of community and high morale, and hiring someone that would ruin that sense of community would be pretty bad, but on the other hand, we do end up turning away a few otherwise qualified candidates.

But long story short, they probably didn't hire you because of some shallow first impression (which doesn't automatically make them jerks since we're all guilty of this), but there was probably nothing you could have done so you shouldn't feel bad about it. It's just the way the world works sometimes.
Glad you're liking it, and thanks for buying it.
Maybe Greplin could swoop in and fill this void. It would be nice of them.
Really good comments here. I'll try and refine my position which I did a poor job of explaining and post something in the next few weeks or months.
Google, in its early days as a search engine? Slashdot brought it to the nerds and they brought it to everyone else.
If enterprise web-app developers were to test capabilities rather than browser versions, this would be a moot point. This has been the advice from most browser vendors and js library builders for years.

The problem here is poorly written web apps, and not mozilla.
Different license perhaps? I'm sure Verisign will let you sell it if you pay them.
Sure, but I bet you could still look at all 10 photoshop manipulations and say "yep, those are all based on that original photo".
Economic issues are a bit more complex then shrinking then down to cause/effect analysis as in this case. The fact is that there are a myriad of variables that have to be ascertained when analyzing economic growth prospects. As such, I think this article is woefully misleading in shrinking the entire matter to a simple case of increasing taxes on small businesses. There is a large amount of economic literature which has determined that increasing taxes does not necessarily have to have a negative impact on growth. For a better discussion of why the economy is stalling I would read Becker's analysis on his blog:

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/06/the-slow-economic-...
I don't follow your argument.

If a painter and a photographer both depict the same scene, your argument seems to be suggesting that the "degree of 'artistic' creation" from the photographer would somehow be greater than that of the painter? How would that work? Although painting from real life allows for perhaps better capture of a scene, it is arguably similar to painting from a photograph of the same scene.

There's a much higher degree of creativity / variability inherent in drawing / painting / pixelating over than in photography simply by the mechanical process alone.
Except Miles Davis allowed himself to be photographed (or "copied"), he even paid the photographer to use the photo on the cover.

Nobody allowed Baio to "copy" that photo.

I'm pretty sure Baio will lose, deservingly so.
FYI: That rules out providing health insurance on a employee group plan.
I would love to hear an opinion on photographing "The Bean" from a photographer that's defending Maisel.

("The Bean" is a sculpture in a public park which is protected by copyright and, therefore, illegal to take a photograph of. This seems absurd to most people, including photographers. More: http://newurbanist.blogspot.com/2005/01/copyrighting-of-publ...)

I wonder if there are photographers that would argue that it should be OK to photograph a copyrighted sculpture and that it should not be OK for another artist to create a derivative work from a photograph ... that would be an interesting argument to hear.
So this is basically like jGrowl?
Hypothetical: Baio downloads the latest Linux kernel. He changes all variable and function names to words of his choosing. Baio now says that he has the right to distribute BaioNix code free from GPL copyright restrictions and does so. The Free Software Foundation sues Baio alleging copyright infringement.

Who wins and why? How is this different from or the same as Maisel v. Baio?
Chronotopia - create your own custom widget
Tired of the usual Android widgets? The developer knoxcoder brings an interesting Android application called Chronotopia to create your own custom widget.
Reasons for a stalling economic recovery
Becker does a pretty good job of explaining why the stalling recovery is due to three major reasons:

a. Regulatory uncertainty
b. International Markets
c. Deteriorating fiscal situation
Is it safe to assume that every release is going to require binary XPCOM components to be rebuilt?
A lot of these suits seem to think they're putting together a hockey team.
I agree with you on this. I think the article would have been much better if he had focused on the fact that it wasn't just taking the original image directly and modifying it but making a brand new image based on the original. The pixalated image seems to have been hand drawn. I would like to know if taking an image like the one of Miles Davis and making a bust of it would be considered copyright infringment? If that is then the pixalated image is also infringment, if it isn't I don't see why the pixaleted image would also not be infringement. Is it the medium change that is the difference?

I find this stuff confusing because then every time someone remakes that famous image of Marilyn Monroe with a look alike they are infringing.
I want a mechanical keyboard but without a private office to go with it, my cofounder would kill me.
You can still randomize the order of leaves in each node of the tree.
Actually, I researched it quite a bit, and I found I had 300k downloads of the PDF last year, but that 150k of those were from bookmarks into the middle of the PDF. My hypothesis is that 1/2 of the readers want HTML they can bookmark, and 1/2 want to download a PDF. I'm guessing that if I set the price of the download really low, then I'll get more downloads and purchases than just a few hundred.

We'll see how it turns out. I'll be writing about it shortly. Interestingly enough, people seem to be willing to pay $2.99 for an ePub version. I may try doing two prices if that's the case.
libstrophe (xmpp) allows you to use your own allocator, but it's pretty niche.
I am really disappointed in the reaction of Maisel, and other photographers who're supporting the result of the lawsuit. Even if Baio copied the image pixel-by-pixel, what harm was done? Did anybody buy the Bloop because of the album artwork? Or because of the music? Come on, people! Show some common sense! A fine of a few 100 dollars would have been enough.

On a tangential note: this is well worth a watch: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
No wonder pop music today is so crappy.
EFF: Guidelines for Protecting Devices from Illegal Police Search
I don't know, it is a pretty vicious act to knock someone's business offline. Worse than car theft. DOS could be disrupting thousands of lives and commerce or research, depending on the site. Five years seems about right if the intent is malicious.
ICloud Predictions: Ted Landau Scores His Crystal Ball
I hate to say it (since I'm simply not 'turned-on' by their App) but FourSquare is more directly targeting this use-case.
Yes, because that would be a much harder problem to solve.
I've laid a stake in the ground for it, and will start writing it for sure in a couple of weeks. I sort of need a break after this. :-)
Oh right! Cool thanks, I'd never heard that description. I'd heard the term "commodity hardware" referring to off-the-shelf servers and stuff but never really understood what that meant :)
But just as you could recreate that (pixel art) image yourself, there's nothing stopping you from coming up with an already-created song yourself: the necessary information to create that (a piano, say) isn't dead like Miles Davis. Whether something can be re-created manually or not is not really a sane measure of creativity in the work.
Worship St. Whistling Shop – Trailblazing Cocktails
Or, instead of making C a more pleasant language for developing applications and middleware libraries, you could use a programming language better suited to those tasks. Call out to C only when necessary and at the lowest layers. Don't layer C on C. Even C++ is an order of magnitude more pleasant when it comes to serious application development and building large, layered systems.

Would I write a C library that gives callers a transitive dependency on D-Bus, or contains an epoll event loop? No.

When I write C, it's typically either (1) small djb-style applications that make a bunch of system calls and don't need any data structures beyond C arrays, or (2) libraries of essentially functional code that do performance critical computations. I love C, and it has its place: near the bare metal.
Something's gotta be "the next IE6"!
If possible provide non-callback versions of your functions. It's very useful when trying to use the "C" api from a different language, and callbacks being very hard to put in. (C -> otherlang -> (callbacks again) C).
An Introduction to Object Oriented CSS
The problem with hypotheticals is that there's no end to them. For every hypothetical you can come up with to show your point, I can come up with another to show mine.

Please, just use some common sense: BAIO WAS NOT PUBLISHING THE PHOTOGRAPH! He was publishing the MUSIC ; the photograph was just incidental, to show (at a glance) the relationship between the original music and the remixed Bloop music. Do you REALLY think that people bought the album because of the pixellated artwork? It had absolutely NO impact on the sales. I've bought many a record (and CD) in my lifetime, and I don't recall ever buying a single one because of the cover.

I am a hardcore supporter of the rights of the individual artists and musicians, and even I think Maisel was dead wrong.
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Possibly, but the music being played (and, thus, the audio recording of said music) is copyrighted. Maybe if you disabled the microphone?
Say what you will about the art institute, but they disagree. "You may not reproduce the Art Institute of Chicago’s logo or building image, which are also trademarks, without an express license from the Art Institute of Chicago."

Why would people ever need such a thing as a http://www.google.com/search?&q=photography+release+form if it's not copying someone's likeness?

The "moment in time" argument is clearly weak when you compare it to copying from your neighbor's physics final. "No one could copy Feynman's sophomore year final exam! He's dead. It was a performance such as the world will never see again."

I agree with you, photography is art. There is a huge amount of talent luck and preparation required to get that shot. I'm just saying your defense of photography seems weak. It's pretty trivial to create derivative work with photography (hence the releases and licenses).

The reason we're never "forced" to agree, in a math problem sense, is the line between original and derivative is so subjective. A photo of a person is derivative. A photo of a crowd is unique. A photo of this building is a trademark violation, no matter how artfully done. The most pedestrian photo of the building across the street is fine.

Fuzzy, ambiguous rules kinda piss me off.
Do the people arguing that Baio stole the image also argue that photographers who take photos of building are stealing the architects designs?

Isn't it the same thing?
Keep your interior design clean and simple. You never know when you will need to move. Give everyone private offices to maximize concentration. Layout those offices to allow as many as possible to have natural sunlight. Carefully choose office furniture to prevent RSI. Fill your space the plants from the TED video. http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_o...
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton

I believe there are quite a few of us here at Hacker News that could claim you, Mike and Jerry, as our giants.

Respect.
...unless they had one of these: http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php
Alex Payne — Obligation
So if I read the first few paragraphs correctly, Sitting in a chair all day gives men an 80% chance not to get cancer. Sounds pretty sweet to me.
Depends, depends, depends. For example, the ideal (for the government) smoker or fat person would die on the day they retire and do not need any treatment before that.

In practice, their tax paying capabilities might diminish while they are still working. And they might even require expensive treatment while they languish.
The fact that you fight competitively means that you're not sedentary for a good portion of your time. Binge training is still training.

People who do nothing physically demanding and sit at a desk all day are a lot more at risk. And probably not enjoying a full range of activities either.
Did you have a look on some DIY websites? I am sure there are communities for that kind of stuff.
There are people that look like Miles Davis in that picture. If I take a picture of one of them, in the same looking clothes (although certainly not exactly the same) holding a similar trumpet, with similar lighting, would that violate copyright? At a quick glance maybe indistinguishable. At closer side by side inspection, any amateur investigator could spot the differences.
Toronto Friday Hack Night #3
I've been running this small hack night for those with personal projects in the Toronto area.

We're thinking Friday, July 8th. The date is not set in stone, it is just a suggestion to see when is the best time for everyone.

What? If you've been meaning to work on a personal project or are already working on a project, Friday Night Hacks is for you. It's a night where we come together and just work on whatever projects we have. You can also come and help someone else with their project!

Why? Opportunity to gather with other hackers that are ambitious and want to create something useful. It's a way to motivate yourself to work on something or learn something new.

When? It's probably going to be a Friday night. Let me know which Friday nights are good for you and we will schedule it for that Friday. It'll start around 6pm and go to as late as 12am.

Where? It will be probably held at the Centre for Social Innovation 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto 3rd floor.

Please let me know if you are going to come so I can give you my contact details and have a head count. For those on Facebook here is an event page:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197202930327063
Hadoop is targeted at BigData.

For instance, if you are a financial institution that generates a lot of transactions, how do you data mine the transactions to find out what type of customers could purchase more services from you?

Another example is Facebook. How does it generates activity streams of your friends and your friends' friends? SQL probably isn't the best choice.

RDBMS's whose forte is in transaction processing, isn't as fast when it comes to answering questions like this. Hadoop and its competitors in this space are hoping to generate revenue from selling software and services for this.
i would agree with that completely.
I heard that the bouncing that people tend to do on those balls is hard on the back. (But I also know that weight lifting is hard on the back, and that just makes your back grow back stronger. (If you do it right.))
Interesting hypothetical but mostly not relevant at all in this case. Details are lost making the analogy and when it comes to fair use, the details are often very important.

For example, are you changing the names of all the system calls? That will break lots of software. You have to figure out how important that is.

That's a discussion that really has no analogy in a discussion about transforming a real photograph to appear like it came from a Nintendo game like all the music on the album.

The only way it could really be worth discussing is pointing out how it is different. Your example seems like basically modifying the software for the sole purpose of evading copyright. In the Baio case, it is very clear that he's not simply making superficial changes in order to claim fair use.
I'm assuming that they were asked to compromise a typical tightened corporate network, in which there's only a single external address -- the firewall's -- and therefore that's the only address they had to work with.

In that case, compromising one of the clients behind the firewall is the typical next step for an attack. (They did a heck of a nice job on that, though.)
As a designer, I'm heartened to see that the Google logo is actually smaller in the new design. I want to buy a drink for whomever managed to get the powers that be on board with that; it's quite an accomplishment. (I wonder if it tested better in some way. Google's data-uber-alles approach to design may have helped carry the day and accomplished something that is one of the greatest accomplishments a designer can achieve: getting a client to control its ego.)
The absurdity of so called "intellectual property" becomes ever more patent.
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=yadirosadi

lol. How much karma do you need before you can downvote entire stories?
Programming analogy as sudoku
Yeah, but you don't need to do much to TCP to make it work perfectly well on wireless.

Let me repeat that: Don't fuck with TCP. TCP is fine. It's BUILT to deal with your lousy network, it's DESIGNED to deal with nuclear attacks from the Guys of the Bad Color, and (ironically) the worst thing you can do to TCP is to try to be nice to it.

"What about keep-alives?"

There are no keep-alives in TCP. If two hosts are in agreement about the address and port, they can keep a connection in an open state until the universe goes cold. (There may be keepalives necessary /above/ TCP, but TCP itself doesn't use 'em). Don't yammer something about your internal state every 30 seconds; you don't do it on the bus home, so don't do it on your network, either.

"Don't we need this proprietary fancy-schmancy buffering algorithm from FuppedUck Communications Consultants? They keep telling us we're toast without it."

No. Just run TCP. Spend money on decent routers.

"I'm feeling really nervous and I want to, like, disable Nagle for everything. Isn't that what you do? Turn Nagle off and maybe muck with the --"

You're from AT&T, aren't you?
I have heard it said that Hydrogen is simply a pollution amplifier (Don Lancaster in one of his hydrogen energy columns).
We used jquery.gritter.js for Convore http://boedesign.com/demos/gritter/
Inside LulzSec hacking group: leak lets light into secret world
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I'm sure something with that many ads is adding value for someone...
How major companies chose their names
That seems beyond absurd. Are there any court cases challenging this?