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So I've been doing every google search these clueless legislators have brought up in defense of the act:

"You can search for 'free harry potter movie' and watch it for free"

"You can go type 'j edgar' into google and piracy links show up above legitimate links"

"You can watch breaking dawn online right now, and it's not even out yet"

etc...

Try them yourself as they bring them up. They're full of bullshit.
Well yeah, look what it did to the housing market!
Sure, I wasn't suggesting a high priest. Maybe more a 'faculty advisor' dba? Just someone keeping an eye on the higher level problems (having the right Nagios alerts set up, keeping an eye on how long reindexing is taking and scheduling downtime according, disaster recovery planning, putting in the POs for new drives). That's even if you treat writing queries and schema changes like part of the code, it's a dynamic system. But I completely agree on treating DB changes like code changes, I think DevOps is a good approach.
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"We know right now that a young film-maker starting out today will not be able to have a career because of piracy."

ORLY? We know that? Someone had better tell the market, which continues to fund (and see returns on) indie films.
By this logic all RISK architectures are very limited, but they can compute. Parallel architectures have to be seriously limited anyway, you just can't access 100Gb data with 1000 parallel processes at the same time.
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My point is that shutting down HN would not significantly threaten the survival of YC.

Please note that I am assuming that YC, and not HN, is the primary enterprise of the person or persons in a position to deal with these matters.
Have you tried using the --disk-pause option? That should allow you to slow Tarsnap down so that it doesn't eat all your I/Os. (For desktop systems with limited internet bandwidth, the --maxbw-rate option is probably worth investigating too, unless you want your web browsing to slow down significantly.)
The title should have been copied and pasted from the article. Droid and Android are two different things. The article has the correct naming ("Android... Open Sourced"), whereas this posting is incorrect.
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No, but there is a very rich assortment of ML libraries available in Java. That alone makes Scala, Clojure, Java, Groovy, etc. reasonable choices for some ML tasks. Mahout is particularly interesting since most of the Mahout algorithms are available in an implementation that's designed to run on Hadoop.
I think we're right on the edge of this. Unfortunately so far all the solutions (the Atrix, etc) ended up costing a lot of money just to have the ancillary devices (i.e. dock, etc). If the wireless displays are cheap, and the control interfaces work cheaply as well, it has a chance. Otherwise you are probably better served by having two devices with good syncing.
IMO he's funnier than george dubya
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"The service is not available. Please try again later."

:/
Now that the rotten things have been banned, I can tell my story without fear of being locked up. I went through a body scanner on a trip within Europe about a year or two ago. There was no random selection, they were just forcing everyone through the machine (I assume it was an x-ray but didn't actually have time to check). This machine was of the variety that did not have an operator viewing the images in a private room, but the operator standing at the machine had a display mounted on the machine itself (some parts of Europe are much less fussy about nudity). When I went through, the image was indistinct but showed "concealments" all over me (I was also permitted to see the image). The guy looked concerned and started to pat me down so he could figure out what these "concealments" were. After twenty seconds or so it was clear to him that I had no concealments and he confidently pronounced that the machines actually don't work if you are sweaty. Hilariously, a full bottle of water went through the (bag) X-ray machine unnoticed in my backpack. I pointed it out and they were kind enough to accept that I had left it in my bag accidentally and let me have it confiscated instead of what ever else it is they do with someone who has bottles of dangerous liquids like water in their bags. Since that humiliating experience I have travelled by plane in Europe as little as possible, taking the Eurostar train wherever practical. I do not travel to the US any more for any reason. I am delighted the machines are unsafe and have been banned, but naturally I believe they should have been banned on grounds of them being ineffective and an unnecessary invasion of personal privacy.

Edit: I reviewed the information here: http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/1/5/163631/3181/travel/Ful...
and I do not know which type of machine it was. Frankly, it doesn't match the description of either. There were no rotating walls, it did not take 40s, yet it was not a vertical wall. Unfortunate. It would have been nice to know.
Was there anyone from an organization like EFF invited? Or just representatives from companies? Because I could see how companies could agree to supporting a bill as long as it's viable for them, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's something good for the people, too. Who's actually protecting the interests of people there?

All I can see is politicians saying "this SOPA breaking the Internet is nonsense". And yet, they didn't even invite engineers there to testify for that.
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I like the concept but I couldn't even watch the whole promo video. I get the impression the show would be like the pitch video (which is the hard thing about pitching video with video) in which case I definitely would never watch it. If the show would be more substantive, I would ditch the inside jokes and make the pitch closer to what the show would be like.
Not true. It just took credit for it, and somehow managed to inject a new buzzword into circulation.

http://www.suse.de/~krahmer/no-nx.pdf is from 2005.

http://www.comms.engg.susx.ac.uk/fft/security/solaris_non_ex... is from 1999.
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I love stuff like this!

Instead of complaining about the structure or motivation of business rules, excellent developers ask different questions:

- How can I design my architecture to accommodate just about anything my customer throws at me?

- How can I use all the tools in my tool box (including CS and math concepts) to clarify the apparently nebulous?

- How can I use things like Boolean algebra, parameter driven program logic, and data base normalization to provide structure to that which appears to be unstructured?

- How can I use the customer's seemingly unreasonable demands to differentiate myself from mortal programmers?

- What do I need to become in order to say "Yes" to my customer whenever I want?

- How can I use all of the above to actually encourage my customer to attempt the "undoable" in order to differentiate himself from his competitors?
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Cohmert just proved the point of piracy

he searched for some obscure song and found it free illegally but not on iTunes. if it was available then he would have bought it.
This is the first time I've heard of programmers being assessed this way (usually on HN is more about hard core CS concepts and expertise with certain technologies).

I think its a lot more utilitarian and thought provoking but am interested in hearing what other HN'ers have to say about it.
Which is important since you can replace the battery yourself in a Dell, as opposed to trying to get Apple to install a generic replacement for you.
I would say that the article is dismissing GoogleTV because it's irrelevant. At this point, GoogleTV is not a successful product. With such a tiny market, GoogleTV definitely does not provide "an actual concrete short-term reason why Intel would have strong interests in the Android platform". At best this would be a long-term interest, if Intel believes that GoogleTV is going to take off.
Because the 'mainstream' is still largely controlled by the 'powers that be' and there isn't a clear distinction between those that ultimately influence the ideas in the mainstream and those benefit greatly from a marginalized society.

Security theater benefits those in the oligarchy in two ways: highly profitable contracts for expensive machines, and a normalization of invasion of privacy.
The Continental Terminal in LaGuardia is still using metal detectors and the TSA personnel there tend to keep the line moving pretty quickly, considering its a serious bottleneck.
I'm sure Intel won't cut it either, PCI Express speed is limited, and RAM woudn't catch up with simple computation speed. Find a better algorithm.
Well like I said, I found lots of subjects interesting because they weren't ruined for me by school. I'm only taking a few classes in college now, yet I find myself spending every free moment in the school's library because I feel free to learn on my own terms now.

So I guess to clarify, what I meant in my first comment was that school sucking helped me learn the one of most important skills around: self education.

In the past few years I've become interested in several subjects that I wouldn't have enjoyed in a classroom setting. My recent interests have been philosophy (specifically Stoic and Epicurean), tea, Javascript and Node.js, Redis and MongoDB, Japanese art and aesthetics, investing/finance, Guitar, and classical music.

I hated learning Visual Basic, for example, because my teacher was aweful. That's what you risk when you put your education in the hands of others. When you teach yourself a subject, the only person you have to blame is yourself if you don't learn it well.
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Can you imagine how long it would take to charge a battery that could power a regular sized car for 2000 miles?

Even at 220v/30amps it might take a few days,
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Pretty much all "enterprise software" is fundamentally the art of taking totally irrational, human-defined, fuzzy, incompletely-specified pre-existing processes that have been built up over decades or centuries, and turning them into an automated system that functions more or less identically. It's fundamentally different than doing something like writing a word processor or e-mail client which, while it has its own complications, doesn't suffer from having to exactly model some pre-existing, half-specified, inconsistent process that was developed by humans long before the advent of software.
The "can do it" refers to the question "could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today?" (Similar to what was done at http://www.avc.com for example.)

The comment I am commenting on says:

"if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it."

So "can do it" doesn't refer to signing a letter (which can't be done now anyway) it refers to putting the censorship label over the logo. The majority of the companies mentioned did not do that which was the point that I was making.
Perl, et al may have been done right, but it's myopic to think they are some sort of end point of perfection...

I'm not sure anyone will argue that seriously.

That's an amazing assertion for which I would like to see proof.

It's probably not true for Perl 5's concurrency and parallelism features, such as they are. (You get fork() and POSIX-style shared memory with IPC or a queue or RPC or whatever, and you like it.)

It's probably true for access to POSIX and other standards. (I can't remember the article here several months ago about how to write fast network code, but it's essentially "Embrace what Unix and Unix-like systems give you." It's not the article about the Varnish architecture.)

It's almost definitely true for module repositories, where it's not enough to track dependencies and mirror downloadable code bundles. Testing, change management, dependency resolution tracking, and documentation formats and presentation systems are essential. Not even CTAN gets it as right as CPAN.
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And black is for the little pads under the keyboard. Orange is for my iPhone bumpers. And so on….

But really sugru is for everything! There’s a product I’m a fan of.
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Today's XKCD (http://xkcd.com/978/) led me to this interesting and well-articulated blog post regarding the synthesis of "facts" via a Wikipedia-"reliable source" closed loop.
I think you're spot on there, better schools take fewer GCSEs, thus (Im assuming) producing a higher caliber of student not necessarily in terms of qualifications, but in terms of depth of knowledge and culture
Accountability eh? I'll remember this next time I'm using a paid web service, it goes down, and they put up a Status page saying "Don't worry folks, our lawyers are on it."
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The opt-out process is very easy in America. For example: When I fly out of SFO and am in line for the body scanner I simply ask for an opt-out and they quickly take me over for a pad down. No big deal, all you have to do is ask.
I'm using Carbonite - $59 a year for unlimited backup. Runs automatically in the background and this takes care of all my photos, videos and old documents.

Then I use dropbox for my working folder, this takes care of backups a little quicker and is highly convenient.
Getting people to watch the stream is enough. Check it out if you haven't.
Personally, I have found that Instapaper 4.0 (I assume this is what you meant when you referred to 3.0) has regressed. Archiving read stories, for example, used to be one click - now it's 2 or 3.

Automatic/background downloading fails sometimes, often I see articles unavailable (I don't often remember to check before I leave wifi/signal, so it's a pain to find this out when I expect it to work behind the scenes).

Marco's concept of darknet social networking/sharing is great in theory, if he were working for MS Research or something, but in reality, it's confusing and challenging: I want to share stuff with my wife and find it incredibly hard to know if it got there without having to bug her to find out. So we resort to emailing it back and forth - which completely breaks the model.

There's no semantic layering on top, exporting to the kindle is tricky (it wont, for example, guess that i've read an article exported to the kindle, and remove it from my list..)

I can't have it archive and send stuff to pinboard easily -- and if i want to do anything with the API, i better be prepared to pay a weird licensing fee.

As much as I want to support Marco, and I really do, he makes it really hard for me to be enthusiastic about what he ships, and I feel that his support sucks.

I'd bet 100$ he's reading this thread, but he won't engage - and that's really striking. I often wonder how things look from his ivory tower.
"Nobody has this old track that I love available to buy online, but people offer it online for free. When we talk about following the money, that's pretty impractical if the business is in (for example) China. [...] Why is it too onerous to block sites after probable cause is met and a federal judge concludes the site meets the description of 'dedicated to infringement'?"

Fair enough question. When the money is all interior to some foreign country, and doesn't touch typical payment hubs (e.g. Visa), how does "follow the money" address the problem effectively?

Well, because putting DNS in the hands of any single government or financial interest is a terrible remedy.
I'd like to see Roger go up against Watson, since both were "trained" for Jeopardy
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Isn't this some kind of copyright infringement?
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So can my debit card because it says VISA on it.
Well, they did do random bag checks at random subway stops for a while. It was always half-assed and you were not compelled to let them search your bag, you could just turn around and walk a few blocks to the next stop where they were not checking bags. It was all Security Theatre to make all of us here in NYC "feel safer" and let us know the NYPD was "on top of things". From a security standpoint it was absolutely pointless and people did get annoyed.
People in the chamber are now comparing search results on their iPads. So that's something.

"Service providers do not have the technical means to do what this bill requires."

^^^^^^^^ more like that. Update: that was Zoe Lofgren again.
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Hah!

I hope I don't get downvoted too much for this comment that adds little: look up "Elder Sign" on Wikipedia if you don't know what it is. I haven't read Lovecraft and simply thought that Elder Sign was a curious brand name.
Agreed. Self-education is just so much more scalable because a self-educator doesn't need a teacher or assignments to learn. All one needs is a book or access to a knowledge on a subject. The Internet has connected us to more knowledge one every subject imaginable than previous generations could have dreamed, and yet most of my friends still take classes on something that can be picked up with a few tutorials and a well-written book. It's a lot of extra money down the drain that could be spent other, wiser ways.
Correct, that is still the business model.

You couldn't have an account at all without paying before. Now, you can sign up for an account for free. With that includes a 30-article Reading List, (optionally) public profile, and access to the apps (device syncing, &c).

Premium users also get Archives, an Unlimited Reading List (mine has 1000+ articles in it), daily Kindle digests, and —of course— the warn fuzzy feeling of supporting the writers that create the content you enjoy.

The list is likely to grow in the future.
We struggled with this - in the end we decided on the little sizzle in front that didn't really show faces, and me doing the pitch. It seemed to be a common way to do things in Kickstarter - and since the production quality is good we figured that's enough to demonstrate ability. So far so good, at least!
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It is not based on the 2.0-beta version, but this link might help: http://engineering.linkedin.com/34/play-framework-and-async-...
Better brush up on x86
I was surprised when I clicked on a link. I never would have guessed that "HeroUp" was a skateboarding game. It sounds like it would be an RPG/hack-and-slash.
As far as I can tell, it hasn't caught on because Americans don't want to hear it. We seem to have a deep problem with denial. Sure, people might join in on chastising the TSA for a particular mistreatment of a passenger. But overall they just don't want to think about the idea that there's no real solution to terrorism.

They certainly don't want to confront the idea that sometimes, despite setting our minds and hundreds of billions of dollars against a problem, that we can't solve anything; let alone consider the notion that we might have made things much worse for trying.

Look no further than the War on Drugs. It's been clear for decades that by every objective measure it's a (barbaric, costly) accelerant for exactly the kinds of social problems it was conceived to fight. But it's still deeply unpopular to say that.
I'm thinking that you are a bit overconfident in the state of computer vision software.
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Actually, Payroll systems can be structured. In the end, there are only 3 things that you need to provide:
- compensation (money employee makes)
- deduction (money employee gives for some service)
- taxes (employee owes the government)

Everything that you do is toward satisfying those requirements. It is hard because each of these pieces are influenced by human interaction. But, that does not mean there are no rules of engagement. e.g. If you have union dues to be deducted, it is a formula to compute it against the total wage you make (or it is a flat deduction amount). If you are paying towards 401k, it is a percentage that you put in towards that.

If you imagine the problem as something to solve in a general sense, you can narrow the problems to fit into models. But, if you treat every requirement as a modification to an excel macro (:-D), then you are in trouble.
Hopefully it won't have to come full circle back to YouTube.
The Puerto80/RojaDirecta case seems like it has lawyers who know what they're doing(cough unlike a certain other Harvard-based lawyer cough) - I'm hoping they get a good precedent before SOPA even takes effect
Scoble is the TMZ of the tech industry. I view him largely in the same sense as paparazzi. He has a video camera and a bunch of followers, but little in the way of substance.

His past proclamations, i.e. Google Gears will kill MS Office, Google Chrome OS has already won, put him on very shaky ground with me from a credibility standpoint. That said, I don't discount all future comments from the guy.

In this post, he does offer up some sound advice: clear use case, compelling product -- but really, if you're in the business this shouldn't be news to you anyway.

Unfortunately, one is forced to look past the short-sighted, the mis-aligned or the presumptive to find any take-away value. Focus on a use-case, but make sure the app works for everybody? Magical applications are those where people make comments right away? Without Facebook or Twitter integration, your app is lame? The narrow-minded-ness of these comments simply reflect Robert's lack of scope on the world.

The fact that he's arriving at these conclusions now shows more about his thought process than anything else.
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Doesn't have to be funny pics/videos. This is where creative brainstorming comes in - what is YOUR creative "in" to popular bloggers or other media sources.
That's a horrible solution, but I really don't know what the problem is. Yes, they inadvertently collected extra packets - and they stopped. Why no outrage against Apple or Skyhook?
For what it's worth, though I didn't do GCSE's (I was in Switzerland at the time), I coasted through A-levels without much effort. Other high achievers I know also spent about 2-3 days max (in addition to the required time sitting on a school chair, of course) studying and revising for each "paper". That left plenty of time for many extra-curricular activities.
The shift in focus to movie piracy from music piracy (where there are many mature legit content services) is tell here, imo.
Darrell Issa did a phenomenal job calling into question the need for the legislation

That's refreshing; I'm not always a fan of this guy's work, but I fully agree that this is unnecessary regulation intended to violate the rights of individuals to boost the pockets of the corporate state.