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> Are you bothered if someone starts a post with "I completely agree with you."?

If it clarifies that they aren't arguing with the parent post, it's valuable, but even then you could say, "To expand on your point about..." or something similar. Otherwise, there's no way that someone else's agreement with a comment provides any useful information to me.
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I would argue that distributing is a different issue from producing. In the p2P case you used, I see the producer as the person who prepares the data and/or originally seeds it. Everyone else is just a distributor.

"In P2P I think downloaders should have some responsibility since they request that copies be made."

why do you just limit it to P2P? Are people who buy pirated movies or pirated books guilty of the same crime?
How to tackle this well is a difficult question, so it's interesting to see someone trying. I think sex tends to fall along with personal finance into the category of things most people end up doing without learning anything about it first, or at least, not learning very well. About the most you can hope for in either case is a few don't-do-this rules of thumb being taught in school or via public-service ads, like "use a condom" and "don't rack up huge credit-card debts".

I assume it'd work differently for different students, but for a subject some people find awkward, non-classroom sources of information might also be useful to think about. The internet makes it so that few people are really strictly unable to access a huge range of information. But is the information out there good and well organized? Wikipedia, as often, is probably the least-bad high-profile thing out there, but I'm not sure that Wikipedia on sex-related topics is actually that helpful for a teenager; it somehow has an odd focus, half pop culture and half clinical.
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Then add nothing. Your agreement isn't valuable information.
Article on single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/teaching-good-sex...
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Looks quite promising. I've played a lot with node.js, Redis and pub/sub wrappers around socket.io and I came to the conclusion that it's this kind of architecture that does the job of scaling well horizontally until Redis becomes the bottleneck.

I'll dig in the source code as I'm very interested in how it's implemented.
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Your reply reminds me of Zed Shaw's presentation 'The ACL is dead'. Basically he said that if the law rules that you have to handle are turing complete, you're probably better off with a turing complete language:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420650

Of course, procedural code becomes spaghetti code quite easily, but one probably needs the same discipline when doing object oriented/relational modeling...
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If HTML5 doesn't do it now, it soon will.

http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Native-webcam-suppor...

Pretty soon a 'chatroulette' type app without Flash will be a reality. Plus, it will work with tablets and phones, something Flash soon won't be doing.
I saw a 'this' yesterday on HN (can't recall what it was about, unfortunately) and it had me totally puzzled. I had no idea what it was there for.

I may be curmudgeonly and dumb, but I can't see where 'This' has any real advantage over 'I agree'. So 'I agree' with the OP.
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Only 52 precent of American adults support punishment at all

It seems the real story is that 48 percent support no penalty at all. Why the misleading (and inaccurate) headline?
If the site was in Flash, my phone wouldn't be seeing anything. Like whenever I try to visit a restaurant's site and the WHOLE thing is in Flash.
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It seems nowadays that each startup team is trying to out "quirky" one another. Everyone is screaming about how unique and edgy they are. "Yeah, our brogrammer is a world class Japanese chef from France, who enjoys Native American artwork when he's not kite surfing in Togo! #gnarlykittens"

After awhile it all just come across as obnoxious. Just tell me what you make and why I need to use it.
Fair enough. I'm not arguing that the RIAA aren't pushy to a fault, I'm just saying they happen to have a reasonable interpretation of legal precedent to back up their claim w.r.t. this particular online music service.

Also, the "sale" vs. "license" debate is a many-more-than-two sided thing. At some level, we're always talking about licenses...purchase of a work does not confer to me all of the rights enjoyed by the copyright owner, period. And "licensing" a song is really licensing very specific rights (and usually for some finite period).

...coherent but entirely skippable ranting below this line...

This "debate" will progress when we can get some common ground on the following:

1. What exactly is the consumer licensed to do, in what circumstances?

2. How should the customer be expected to know this, given the inertia of media consumption history, and the fact that consumers generally don't sign contracts when they buy things?

3. Even if we can agree on what consumers' rights are (which we haven't, for reasons that all sides should frankly be ashamed of), how should the law deal with the dual facts that:

a) fine-grained enforcement is technically impossible, and

b) large scale infringement is technically and economically trivial for exactly the same populations that comprise the viable market for commercial content?

It would be nice if we at least (the highly-technical / entrepreneurial / probably not-starving community) could start holding ourselves to a higher standard. We owe society some answers that are more sophisticated and productive than "the old business model is broken, so it's okay to pirate until someone launches [new service from which I can get everything I want, when I want it, at a price that's easily affordable]."
"Infrastructure web services had to happen."

Honest question, why? I'm glad they did it, and Amazon is pretty good at it, but I'm not sure why it was inevitable.
I have often been complemented on how well I code, but I don't think I stand up to many peoples moderate questioning all that well. I think this seems from looking for a clean solution to most problems vs. the perfect or most obvious solution. The vast majority of the time I avoid dealing with the minutia that many people feel is necessary.

For example, I once had school project where we where supposed to implement some fairly simple math function in x86 assembler. My first question in class was what instruction set could we use? (x86 Pentium I) So we can use the floating point unit? (Yep) So while everyone else was implementing floating point functions by hand I simply used the built in floating point unit. I still remember handing in 4 pages of clean code and asked why this was a major project until people started asking for more time to fix their buggy 40+ page programs even though I had told several people what I thought was an easier solution. I even told people that I finished the thing in a few hours while watching TV but they forged ahead I guess thought the sunk cost fallacy or something. I mean sure the way you do arbitrary exponentiation is a little funky, but that's better than doing it by hand.

Oven and over I see the same things. Last week someone was demoing his custom cashing solution created by hand and I was like A this does not fit our architecture and B why did you spend the time on this? Sure it's 'fun' but why bother?

At the same time in interviews I have been asked minutia about the java object system etc, and all I can think of is if this matters your doing something horribly wrong.
Oh come on, where are there so many copyright apologists here? Even if you're a capitalist the concept of intellectual property doesn't make any sense.
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Check out what edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com) are doing. Same concept with almost 4.5 million users.
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I wonder how much groveling he had to do to get his code to run... http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/stross.html
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Agreed. Optimistic/pessimistic UI communicates the concept far much more clearly.
Some House hearings are archived at judiciary.edgeboss.net. But not this one.

Some House hearings have transcripts at judiciary.house.gov/hearings/transcripts/. But not this one.

I decided to read the bill instead. I highly recommend it. The definitions alone are worth the read.

What if content is not addressed to a "location"?

What if there is no "site"?

What if a network is not accesible to the public?
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Local libraries are already using Amazon's system to lend e-books, and it's actually pretty cool. If all the copies are 'checked out,' you go on a waiting list. When a copy becomes available, you're notified, and you have a timeout window wherein you have to decide whether to a) check out the book, or b) lose your spot in the queue so the next reader gets a crack at it.

Pretty well thought-out.
You can download all the tracks you purchased from http://music.google.com/.
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You can do it in gmail just scroll down and click under the quoted text. Never used outlook so I'm not sure.

I personally think the default (top-posting) is much better, it isn't that hard to follow conversations in reverse order but the opposite makes it really hard to find the answers to solutions and find the responses to what you are quoting. So from me: Please don't bottom post.
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When is it not possible to bottom post? I'm not sure what's preventing you from doing it?

More importantly bottom posting is "the right way" to reply:)
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Hello HN,

I am not a bright student of policies and politics. These systems always confused me and despite living in the largest democracy of the world I don't always understand what the implications of policies are. Recently I have been reading a lot of discussions on SOPA in HN and other new aggregations sites like reddit. But most discussions are focused on the impact on US citizens. But internet transcends boundaries and it used in most of the world. So can someone point me to a what would be the implications for non-USA citizen?
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I must h/t Matt Simons for bringing my attention to this act, which would significantly curtail the salaries of many IT professionals. His blog post asking for additional input can be found here:

http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/11/usa-computer...
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Up until this point I was thinking how much this class sounds like the "health" class I took in 8th grade. And my teacher taught barely beyond the curriculum, I sat in on another teacher's health class that probably violated all sorts of policies and went much further than this. If there were two such classes at my middle school, I can only imagine this isn't really that unique.
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To quote tptateck as he has recently enlightened me:

[quote]
I just don't think "it breaks DNSSEC" is the most compelling or intellectually honest argument. I think the honest argument is, "because we don't think any one authority will be an adequate steward of the Internet".[/quote]

I think that point is just as salient for SOPA as it is for PROTECT-IP. Don't setup that argument for them to knock down. Keep the focus on holding the copyright infringers accountable, not the service providers in-between.
Obviously these are things that are harder to improve in a Western society, so the big gains are in developed countries. My original comment was probably slipping towards rhetoric-ville, but the point still stands - maximising the chance your child will make it's 5th birthday and that you and your family will live as long as possible definitely trumps most things.
I'm totally confused by the apparent consensus sentiment going around on this. I adore Instapaper. I think it's unbelievably well done, I use it, and I don't have plans to look elsewhere.. that said, I can't say I worry or get sad about people who develop competing products.

Seriously?

It's ridiculous to react that way. First of all, I find it patronizing. Marco's really fucking good at what he does. If it turns out that what he does is easy enough for someone else to swoop in and do better easily, then what he does isn't all that interesting. I doubt that's the case.

Second... fucking of course. This is how it works, and how it's supposed to work. We're all consumers first, producers second. As consumers we benefit from this mechanism CONSTANTLY, and the things we consume are directly responsible for making the things we produce possible. We all got Facebook from Myspace from Friendster... Look at your car, look at your appliances, look at anything in your life. The ability to completely rip off shit and do part of it a little better is where much more innovation comes from than individual giant Big New Ideas. The folks that stay on top for prolonged periods of time are folks who capitalize on that are able to do that internally instead of resting on their laurels, and frankly Marco has proven that tendency as well.

[Edit] Sorry, further. The point isn't what Instapaper (as a product) is today, and this is exactly why small companies are great. It's what Marco is. When I go down the street and buy fresh pasta from the place that's been making it for longer than I've been alive, I'm not buying a product.. I'm investing in a relationship... A relationship that I can trust to deliver me compelling value on an ongoing basis. It's one thing to swoop in and build a product that looks very much like one that's on the market (only free, or whatever). That's not interesting to me. You haven't really accomplished anything valuable. In fact, it's easy to argue you've literally sucked value out of the world. It's another thing to replicate the ability to deserve people's trust that you'll continue to deliver value in new ways... even if the original source for your inspiration is gone (and especially if you were to blame for it).

TL/DR: I ain't scurred.

[Edit] Downvote explanation anyone?
But that patent's going to be expired by the time these batteries are ready.
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But this is why the concept of the software licence was developed. It is explicitly developed so that you don't take ownership of the item in the same way you take ownership of a DVD or printed book.

Holding copyright is not the same as owning an item. The parent comment is factually correct.
Yes but what about all of my tracks I uploaded?
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Fingers crossed! Wish I could just find some docs on this...
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Why is a republican from Texas sponsoring an unChristian, unAmerican bill?
http://zippykid.com/2011/11/17/why-is-a-republican-senator-sponsoring-an-unchristian-unamerican-bill/
ck2 probably doesn't remember the momentous uproar over Iraq because the media was not at all interested in covering the protests. Unless you were in a city where a protest was going on and physically saw it, it basically didn't happen.

And there were protests over Afghanistan; I participated in some myself. We weren't all shocked and compliant - the first thing I said upon seeing burning towers on the TV at the Indiana University Student Union was "Reichstag", and I wasn't wrong.
Lack of documentation for busy people, and learning curve for a novel persistence engine. Many of us know how to scale MySQL, Postgres, etc. but my team has no operational knowledge for Gemstone. That said, the Gemstone/S docs are quite good.
> it's also easy to assume someone is incompetent just because they were working from different constraints and experiences than you, and the way they did things just isn't immediately apparent.

I don't know if it's common, but I tend to judge competence by the bottom line: does it work? is it supportable? what was the cost of getting there?

If it doesn't work, or does work but cannot be supported/modified, and cost a lot, it is a product of incompetence. Possibly the manager's, and not the tech guys.

I've never heard anyone refer to djb as incompetent. Some people dislike his coding style, but I haven't heard any criticism about it that is not about style. And yet, he's working with different constraints and experiences than everyone else. And things are often not immediately apparent.
Citation, please. I've never heard of compulsory licensing occurring in the US outside of government contracts and anti-trust settlements.
In other news, your analogy is horrible.
As far as Apple goes, I think Marco's predictions are correct. First, Apple will never compete on a feature by feature basis because that would add too much complexity, and they'll be constrained unless they make a native app. Second, Apple's reading list has made me realize how much I can benefit from instapaper's important features like offline reading and footnote handling.

edit: Here's Marco's original article about Apple's Reading list
http://www.marco.org/2011/04/30/lion-safari-reading-list
Stop being a joker! Don't make excuses! Everyone has reasons! Fuck reasons!

Also, I can't do it, because I'm otherwise engaged.
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You know who's a joker? The guy who "got a top creative designer in there working for a fraction of his normal cost by being very fucking cool with him, and also working out a deal where we refer him business". That's who.
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The real problem here is that many parents have very strong opinions regarding teaching sex in school.

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I can't help feeling that that was written by a cross between a motivational speaker and a mafia don.

The letter had an interesting voice and was well written; however, it immediately set off unconscious alarms in my mind. It was trying to influence the reader too coarsely on too emotional a level; I do not like that sort of thing very much.
I don't really see how your first issue is a reason to get frustrated with Apple. The first thing novice users do when something core like sound isn't working is to start randomly flipping all available buttons and switches, they would have caught that just fine. You just panicked and assumed it was because of the jailbreak. That's hardly Apple's fault.

Also, I don't buy the iTunes thing. Downloading apps on the iPad, using it on the net, and updating iOS isn't a problem but downloading the 80mb iTunes is a killer? I just don't get it. If downloading iTunes really is that brutal, seems like the experience on an iPad would be very disappointing in general. Either way, no company should be catering their core experience towards a situation where downloading an 80mb file is a big hassle. The problem is infrastructure, not iTunes.

It must be hell to set up a printer in South Africa. I grumble about a 300mb download from HP here but if 80mb is so brutal I'm surprised anyone in South Africa even owns a printer.

Finally in regards to games, IMO this is SA's fault. Plenty of countries have ridiculous gaming laws. It's not Bethesda's fault that there are no nukes in the Japanese Fallout 3, it's not Valve's fault that L4D2 is neutered in Australia, and it's not Apple's fault that they have to go out of their way to get a special exemption to rate games themselves in South Africa. Blame your ridiculous laws, every other country manages it with no problem.
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Is it still possible to create an account with a US VPN and use it from elsewhere in the world forever more?

What payment options are available?
That is a very valid line of reasoning and one that I would implore everyone to explore in such a situation. But, as you said, "perhaps". It does not directly follow that it is necessarily a bad law.
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