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"my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things."

If you bought it, you get to keep it. I actually have a half dozen apps that after I bought it have since been removed from the App Store.
Any one know the reasoning behind this move? ie why wasn't AdSense good enough for them?
To all the people suggesting we approach this and other political problems from a technological/engineering perspective: how do you think it could be pulled off?

Put aside all the technical limitations - they can (have been or will be) solved. The real question is adoption. What's a darknet without Facebook, Google, etc. worth? Who will use it? There are already countless projects implementing parts of suggested darknets, some of them very cleverly. They've been around for literally decades. None of them are perfect, but they're not so fatally flawed either.

The fact of the matter is, the internet is one big, huge de facto standard. No one will use your pet project. No one will look at it. People would far rather shoehorn or build on top of existing infrastructure (thereby being bound to the limitations of the underlying architecture and design requirements).

Just look at IPv6. It's a new technology with the full force of all the giants in the industry.... and it hasn't gone anywhere.

Actually, IPv6 would have been a good place to add the support for decentralized everything, as it is pretty much the only "authoritive" replacement for the current generation of technology. But it doesn't and it's not.

You can build it, they won't come. History proves it.
If you are the real Sven then kudos for signing your name to this comment but I think it looks a bit opportunistic of you to pile on in this context with a recommendation for your language. No language is perfect and xtend itself hasn't even been used in anger yet.
League of Legends has become my modern-day Counter-Strike. The buzz the author mentions is exactly the buzz I get playing the game over hundreds of hours. The rules of the game are fairly simple -- and inside of that simplicity a desire for perfection emerges. It's fun and challenging -- likely why I'm a programmer, too.
That menu isn't expanded by default. This is a mouseover example.
Question: Say CiQ only sends data via the cellular network. Then how do you find out what it's sending?
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I'm pretty sure they will do what their lawyers tell them the judge had the authority to do. If the judge does not have this authority, their lawyers will tell them to ignore it. If they judge does, they will tell them to obey it.
Makes me wonder if maybe men get better at asking for raises,and dealing with potential rejection, because they often are the ones who ask women out.
Because no carrier in Australia has unlimited data plans.
>Running a radio show is great fun and, if you are an extrovert, it can be addicting. So why don't more people do it? Because it is illegal.

Here in the UK, we don't give a fuck. For half a century, not a fuck has been given. All those pulsing repetitive beats you've heard in your pop music for the last 30 years, that stuff that's made people untold billions of dollars? That's largely a result of us over in the UK not giving a fuck about getting in trouble for pirate radio.

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

http://www.londonpirates.co.uk/stations.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/08/pirate-radio-rav...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpS0jR6FG1o (this last link says it all)

Just sayin'.
What we need is competition. There needs to be a viable alternative to the US government. Small policy changes or people changes or party changes will not be sufficient. Big changes will not happen without outside competition.

Someday, some country is going to recognize that supporting free culture can be a huge competitive advantage. I would like to live in that country. I'd take a pay cut to move there. I think many would found businesses there. This will pressure the US (and others) to adopt changes.

However, if I am honest with myself, I don't think reactionary changes - the only improvements that will be made - will satisfy. I think we're all waiting for someone to step up and provide a viable alternative - a place more friendly to the 21st century.
I'd love to help, but I'm not certain where to start. Many software companies might thrive in less copyright and patent friendly territories. Perhaps, at some point, one will step up and launch a government competitor. But that's probably not going to happen.

Seems more likely that some countries will recognize this opportunity and there will be a slow immigration of us Internet folks to this new promised land.
Anyone else have a vision for how this will end?
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There's a difference between saying "I don't want to ask for more", and simply not even thinking to do it or being raised in a society where it doesn't even occur to her that she might be able to do so.

That's kinda the important theme behind socially trained behaviors like this.
The catch here is what you're talking about is the ultimate power of a government.

The system described wouldn't stop a government from censoring the internet for its own people. No technology can stop that. It would however prevent a government from becoming the government, which the Americans seem to try endlessly to do.

Once the technology was "in the wild" the US could simply "ban the whole thing"... and join North Korea in the nuthouse of closed internet while the rest of the world passed them by with a curious shrug.
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I'm surprised the existing bar got itself intertwined with existing sites - didn't they just launch it a few months ago? I don't understand why they need to change it so soon.
Ahh. The whole time I was wondering: "How is this guy a legend at both counterstrike and cascading stylesheets?"
I used to have an Amateur Radio license. I didn't mind the tests, I enjoyed learning the theory, and I even learned Morse code. I went to hamfests, bought a radio, then suddenly realized "I have nothing I wish to say to these people". It was almost entirely old men telling each other the details of their medical conditions.

I was glad when it lapsed. The penalties for emitting RF that falls outside of the rules somehow tended to be significantly higher if you actually had a some kind of a license than if you had none.
It took me a minute to realize this was for WordPress.com and not for the open-source WordPress platform (WordPress.org).
https://twitter.com/coda/status/141641259969286145
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It's "most basic" in the sense that it's among the very first things spelled out in the terms of service you agree to when you sign up for data service with AT&T.

How easy or hard tethering is to detect has zero to do with the validity of that contract.
Just my 0.02 worth, I was a single founder in a startup incubator.

At first I thought that I was missing out on having fellow founders to rely on but from a purely performance related POV, by demo day the single founders in the group (about 4/15 companies) were better prepared, further along and were making more income than those with team members.

In fact the more team members there were, the worse they seemed to do. 2 teams didn't even make it to demo day due to falling outs between the founders.

Decisions, paperwork and simple tasks that single founders flew through were serious points of contention with the bigger teams (4+)

I think co-founders for the sake of it is a mistake.

Sure, having a great team is always more productive than being a single founder. However a bad team is not even worth risking.

I'd take up their invitation to their events as that's a generous offer. They obviously saw potential in your product. Don't let them pressure you into building a team if you're happy with how it's going.
Are they trying to avoid having the windows broken (to find nothing) or avoid having their tools stolen (deception -they tools are actually there)?

Maybe the solution is to just leave the windows down/doors unlocked? Not sure what to do about rainy days.
Neither of those cases are germane here. There was no way Apple was going to allow this app into the store.
Based on the title, I expected Jon to explain the things he missed about Counter-Strike, the game, with respect to Counter-Strike: Source (CSS), the sequel. That's not what this is about. It's a retrospective on his career as a professional CS player.

I then wondered why he didn't pick up another game or hobby. Turns out, he did. "Earlier this year I stumbled my way in to the world of tech startups."
It appears that this was an authentic correspondence that was not meant to be seen by the public.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3291980
Last I heard, Mr "future of authenticity" was just acquired by Twitter. :-)
So now copyright infringement has become a national security issue? This is beyond ridiculous. The Department of Homeland Security was built to fight against terrorism, and these days they seem more preoccupied with fighting copyright infringement through the ICE division, and now the Department of Justice is embracing the same goal, too. Obviously the war on terror is over, because now copyright infringement seems to be their main concern.

And asking people to report their friends for downloading songs? This sounds a lot like communism in Europe used to be, getting each citizen to report on their friends and neighbors.
I played with and against him for years. His old teammate n0it was chatting with me on facebook for a while about my start-up-turned-company as he uses our software on his campus. I had not talked to either of them for a few years at minimum.

Jon's a great guy. Good read. Very surprised I saw something like this on HN. Small world, eh?
You don't need to "design massive scaling and redundancy features into hobby projects" to be prepared for high bandwidth in App Engine.

You basically just need to check the box to tell App Engine to charge you when you go over quota instead of shutting down your site...

This doesn't happen from any "fault" of App Engine's. They're using a free, limited account and couldn't handle all the traffic they received.
The 'new' toolbar is higher than the black one, taking up more space, every site seems to transition to those sticking toolbars that do not go away when I scroll down.
It's not about content anymore, it's about navigation and sharing. The toolbars from 10 years ago you could actually deinstall, this one unavoidable.

And this 'save a click' argument is just silly. Hover still means you have to target two points.

What's is funny though, the Google-bar at the bottom would at least make sense on a chromebook, but at the top they always suck, because contrary to an OS taskbar, they don't provide an invinite mouse target because of the Tab-bar.
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When's the last time a development team making an internal technical decision became something a company chose to "officially announce"?

"ÜberCorp announced to shareholders today that it decided once and for all curly braces belong on a new line. And that only fumbling retards would choose vi over emacs.."
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When considering rates for services, you will often (as is the case here) be better off thinking about it in terms of who pays, not what is paid for. Every fee extracted from tethering users creates money that the carrier can use to improve their general data rate and thus attractiveness in the market.

You can be irritated that this nickel-and-dimes you, but what you're dealing with is an allocation decision, not an evil effort to defraud you. AT&T is about as up front about the tethering issue as they reasonably can be; "tethering" is a product option every data customer is presented with when they sign up.
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Cliff notes: being great at something requires spending a lot of time on it.

Not exactly groundbreaking insight, and I disagree entirely with the assertion that such dedication makes one "weird". Any sane person would be jealous of someone who's so passionate about their career that they gladly dedicate signifant effort to mastering it. The fact that he chose to spend 10,000+ hours mastering Counter Strike is the "weird" part, although I'd personally love to see gaming become more accepted here as a professional sport.
>Asking what progress you need to make...

Where I used to work, this was a polite way for competent people to say "promote me or I'm leaving."

You get them to tell you what you need to do, some concrete thing, and then you do it. Once it's done, if you haven't been promoted then it's a good time to find another job, I think.
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Most of them are bots, and I doubt your note in ARIN was even being read. They seem to love to look up the abuse contact for an email address, and send their notices there. A large number of them make no attempt to find the registered agent. Sadly, this works for them, since I would imagine most ISP's just forward on the notice to the registered contact.

I wonder what would happen if you ignored a DMCA notice sent to the wrong contact. Would it be invalid?
Counter-Strike had a similar effect on me. I'd be coding since long before CS, but most were small, simple hacks.

Seeing the success of Counter-Strike, and the mod-mania of that era, got me interested in modding, where I was first exposed to the complexities (and math!) that "real" software entailed.

From there I went on to write some standalone, small games, then went deeper down the C++ rabbit hole which helped me get my first software internship. The rest is, as they say, history.
I honestly think you're flat wrong about that. Contract terms aren't like code. They have squishy validity that depends on interpretation. IANAL, obviously, but I think the ability of one side to even tell whether or not the contract condition was violated certainly does have an effect on whether that clause is enforceable.

Companies put all kinds of crap into contracts. It's routine that this stuff turns out not to be enforceable when and if it goes to court.

My quibble is that you're starting from a weird place in your argument: it's OK for Apple to pull an app because a different company decided to put something in their contract. And you wave that away by saying that it's "obviously" a violation. And I don't see the obviously part at all.
They should consider Bolts as treatment:
https://bitbucket.org/stepancheg/bolts/wiki/Home
https://bitbucket.org/stepancheg/bolts/src/tip/src/main/java...
(a small Java library with collections wrappers having native performance and all the FP methods; composable function classes; other niceties like tuples)
I find it interesting, specially on what tools/languages they use, and how their architecture is designed to process such a big number of tweets.
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What do you want for free? "A single dedicated server" costs something... this guy is almost certainly running on the free quota.

I don't think this looks bad for Google -- it looks bad for the author. The fact that he's using the freebie *.appspot.com rather than a dedicated domain gives you some indication of his dedication to the project.
Wow. Simply wow.

I say this as someone who's coding experience is essentially all web stack, and wouldn't consider myself a computer scientist, but that was one of the best reads this year. Gives me so much insight in why choosing a popular platform cough LAMP cough can be a good idea even when it feels so broken.
Can you share your insider perspective on Steve Yegge's infamous rant on SOA at Google and Amazon?

https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
The Deck is awesome, The Deck is classy. I've always loved their ads and the look of it. But as a publisher, it doesn't add up. I've run the numbers a few times here on HN but I'll give it another crack.

They seem to have about 30 advertisers at any one time and rate card is $8300 per month. Let's sum it up to $250,000 per month in total. They served 110m impressions in October. So that's 110,000 "M". Or $2.27 CPM.

Unless you're in some high traffic, low quality niche, $2.27 CPM is not great (even The Deck's homepage says it's "well below industry norms"), especially as it's a single unit per pageview. As a publisher, the only reason I'd run The Deck would be for the kudos and ability to work with some great people and advertisers.. but definitely not for the money!

I've spoken with folks who've used The Deck and from what I can make out, it's a great deal for advertisers. But for publishers? I'm not so sure. And I'd go as far to guess that competing networks aren't paying significantly higher rates.
With this said, why should the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other other for-profit entities bear the costs of a protracted legal battle through the higher courts?

1. Because they pull down boatloads of money doing business on the internet and it's the right thing to do for them to help defend it.

2. Because they depend on the stable operation of the Internet for their business, in particular:
A. the stability of names and URLs, and
B. a censorship-free legal envrionment where they don't have to process regular expressions or O(M*N) algorithms serving every page.
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http://tcpcrypt.org/

Passive encryption... not the best, it prevents lazy MITM.
It's funny you mention the illegal radio. All of this end of the internet reading I've been doing had me wondering the other night, if things get really bad, will those savvy enough build their own underground network? Pirate Internet could breed some interesting communities.
my first thought was "wait wait... you want me to pay for a standards based video solution... what the f-"
That's assuming you have a data cap. I have a data plan that's truly unlimited, with no throttling. There isn't even a fair use clause.

So understandably, there's no way my telco will allow me to tether with that plan.
Want to understand what's going on here psychologically?

To some people, whenever anyone is making a profit, however small ... some people believe that someone, somewhere, has to be getting the raw end of the deal.

Note: I'm not saying putting Amazon links on your blog means you can be still be 100% objective (you can't), but rather pointing out a deep-seated belief that I have noticed among some, especially those who've found a way to make a living on GPL'd code, for example, and think iPads should be free.
Though you're writing this comment to defend ahoyhere, it seems to go against her apparent resentment at the 'women are delicate flowers that need protection' view. Should we really view her comments different depending on her gender?
You know, if they do this enough times we might develop a whole new cadre of folks who can run DNS servers. That would be a good thing because the underpinning gears of the interwebs are not as sexy as the front facing side and so much harder to recruit for.
As I understand it, typing in all-caps or just bashing your face into the keyboard is considered poor form around here, so instead I'll just calmly state that this information displeases me immensely, and evokes a not inconsiderably bitter sense of irony.
How are the big four all "too big to fail" when not too long ago they were the big five?
They've got the design down absolutely pat - the look of the item, the look of the print-outs, the site, the video - it's great.

They've also got some valid uses for it in there - yeah, we've all got screens, but those screens are used for an awful lot of other stuff - this gives one quick place to find a couple useful pieces of information, a whole lot faster than otherwise.

It is, however, absurdly wasteful. Anything I can read off that, I can save on my phone for a pretty comparable reading experience.

I think it's the software, more than the hardware, that's attractive - Give me that information in an app on the same schedule that little box would print it, and I'd use it. It looks like a pretty good filter and delivery mechanism, but I've got no use for a bunch of scraps of thermal paper…
I'm not sure you get it... Google+ is [the future of] Google.
I don't know Latin, but I can play around with google translate! Best I got was

Noli loqui et non servant custodibus

or "Watch your mouth instead of the watchmen".

I guess this was a very complex way of disagreeing with you that "none of it matters".
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> Neither term has a very well defined meaning, other than for a few select issues like, say, gay marriage.

Not really. I'm conservative in that I don't think that being radical will ever help your cause (see the French Revolution). I'm liberal in that I think people should be able to do whatever the hell they want with their lives (i.e., classical liberalism. It follows that I don't support excessive government interference, regulation, or social programs, so I wouldn't go on about being liberal, as that's what the U.S. Democrats have used to describe their platform (which isn't liberal in the traditional sense).

For the record, the government doesn't need to regulate marriage whatsoever. Obviously they want to know for tax purposes, but they shouldn't care about the genders of the people involved. Churches can say whatever they want about marriage, I don't really care, and I don't think gay people do either.

So which label do you want to attach to me?
Thanks! Prolific!? I dunno... :-)

Actually we're targeting .NET 3.0, but, see, Win XP has no installer for 3.5 (apparently) and so we have to check if users have .NET 3.0 and if they don't, then prompt them to install 3.5. sigh Next app will be 100% web based, I think!

Server is Windows and IIS. Pretty standard stuff.

I've never heard of Join.me but I will check it out. "impeccable" is usually not used to describe onboarding of Windows apps! P.S. I'm a super-happy long-time LogMeIn user (hundreds of machines at one point using it).
This is what I was going to say. If Diaspora rallied over $200k being billed as an open source facebook alternative, imagine the excitement something like this would garner.
Modern day first person shooters provide an immersive, story-driven single player experience, but have gameplay that cannot make for a decent competitive platform.
> The 'new' toolbar is higher than the black one, taking up more space

It takes less space, since it also includes the search box.
Unfortunately, I can't help you, but I know the one you mean. It's the site that lets you include custom CSS you write and then gives you a URL with it, isn't it? It was on here a few months ago.
Please read the article and stop spreading false information. It doesn't help.

Obviously the court's decision sets an awful precedent. But the third paragraph clearly states that Chanel checked that the sites were actually selling counterfeit goods. So your analogy doesn't work.
> Just look at IPv6. It's a new technology with the full force of all the giants in the industry.... and it hasn't gone anywhere.

One of my VPS providers recently started offering IPv6 addresses to all customers. Linode is starting to roll it out too. My residential ISP doesn't offer anything natively, but the router they provided lets me set up a 6to4 tunnel in a couple clicks, which automagically gives all my devices an address starting with 2002::/16. I can even go to ipv6.google.com on my iPad with no extra configuration.

Progress is slow, but it's hardly stagnant. A few months ago, I didn't have any of that. Ancient infrastructure is gradually being replaced by necessity, and then it's just a matter of configuration.
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