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I still think the Internet should be allowed to continue to thrive in a copyright-free world. If copyright was enforced heavily, we wouldn't have had sites like Youtube or Reddit or Tumblr.

I think many people have forgotten the purpose of copyright. Ultimately the people decide what is lawful and what is not in a country, by electing their representatives (at least in theory). So the point of copyright was that "we the people" would make it so the creators get some protection for their works, so we can encourage more creation in the world. But I think we forget that protecting the works is a means to an end - not the ultimate goal itself.

There are a lot of "creations" out there that are based on other people's previous work, just like there are a lot of technological inventions that are based on other people's works, too. This is how the world actually works. We build upon each other's works. Yes there should be some sort of protection. No, there shouldn't be supreme protection to protect the works at all cost and for decades at a time. Otherwise the society itself loses, and it defeats the purpose of why the copyright (and patent) laws were created in the first place.

We should stop taking whatever MPAA and RIAA say at face value. They aren't really looking to save the society's culture and creations. They want maximum protection for the works they control, because they want to increase their own revenues as companies. And they want to keep their current business model.

In the end the Internet is a disruption to them, just like it is for many other businesses. We should let that disruption happen without getting the Government involved to stop it from happening. Plus, there have been studies that have shown piracy is a service problem.

Think of the Hulu example. Would the networks really want to switch to the Hulu model, and lose their traditional business? No of course not. But that doesn't mean Hulu-like services are not the future. So the networks can either get fully behind Hulu, or their viewers will eventually move completely to other services online.

The piracy "problem" for music and movies is a lot like that, too. Either the labels move fully behind new types of services like Spotify and so on, and allow them to profitable, too, or they can continue to be greedy, and charge the maximum revenue they can from them, and also stop any new such initiatives that they think would lower their revenue even further.

Even if they somehow manage to "stop online piracy sites". That doesn't mean they will actually stop piracy. First, because like others have said, people will develop new tools to circumvent their restrictions, and second because people will just rip DVD's and so on in the real world, and pass them along to friends. So blocking some sites online still won't stop the fundamental problem, that piracy happens because people no longer want to pay $1 for every song they want to listen to.
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To the person who fixed the problem: are you putting this on your resumé and if so how are you describing it?

I imagine something like this might be VERY attractive to certain employers.
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> When people say "duck typing" they mean structural typing almost universally. You're not going to change them to use your terminology.

No, when people say "duck typing" they're talking about dynamically typed languages which blow up at runtime or perform runtime tests on existing property. That is duck-typing, it does not take in account things like parameters or return types and it doesn't blow up at parse time.

> Also, names are just shorthand in Go;

It's not a shorthand when you have to use them (I don't know if Go can infer structural types)
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Also, idea for a startup: Fix My Crisis. Advertise jobs like this when your ops go fubar and you need a deep expert to come in and save your ass ASAP. Reward them with cash and/or resumé glory.
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"Just use Hudson" (or Jenkins) is generally the sentiment in the Python world too (http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudson-pycon).
"As a computer science student, I don't really have time to read as much material unrelated to Computer Science as I would like..."

I was a CS student who had a very alike mindset and I regret that. In hindsight I wish I had not let the "being a CS student" mentality serve as an excuse in my lack of literacy in other important subjects.
> Think of a ruby dev team and the wish to extend the CI server?

It's not exactly a show stopper as long as they have the sourcecode.

If the team are capable enough to code Ruby and extend the CI server, then they either already know enough Java to do so or can learn it quickly enough to be effective.
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The US can't save themselves. US never saved anyone, they only changed regimes and took huge economic advantages from the chaos it generously created (include here the "saved" europe). US government + their corporate backers does not care about their own citizens, don't tell me they really care about third world countries. They want you to care because they need your approval to go to war.You get the illusion that the war is "freeing" someone and the corporations get their money. See Halliburton, Bechtel and so on. By saving and freeing others US actually is saving their corporations and their interests. Everything else is american propaganda which I have to admit, brainwashes more efectively and more people than the NK propaganda. You don't even slightly consider that you are disinformed by western media and thats a huge success for them.
I'd love to help, but my Java skills are almost none existent! If I thought I could make any headway into that bug I'd jump in - maybe over the holidays I will try and have a look.
Entrepreneurship really shouldn't be romanticized. It's already overly romanticized in the media. It's hard work with possibly no payoff.

If your the kind of person who needs every hour of your work to be truly yours then entrepreneurship. Ie if the only way you can enjoy your work is for it to be all encompassing then this is a good gig for you.

If you want to have a life etc, this is not for you. Stay away for your own good and for the sake of your own health.
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Green on orange, cos that's how I roll.
Please make the results available too.
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10-30% faster is “massive”? Ruby standard is 5-30 times slower than all other popular language implementations, I'd expect at least a 100% increase to be considered “massive.” I'd call this just “a speed boost.” Anyway, keep it up.
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Exactly: I was disturbed by this idea that a US organisation should keep a list of all websites 'both foreign and domestic' that they will choose to enforce American law on.

The reason The Pirate Bay et al have kept going is that they're not subject to DMCA take-down notices as they are not American.

Look at the number of form-letter DMCA take-down notices TPB have posted up here: http://thepiratebay.org/legal - it's as if they didn't even consider the possibility that there's a world where American law does not apply!
I've found that black on white works better (for me) in daylight, and white on black in a dark room.
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I have to say i love the look and feel of it. I really like the logo you did. you are obviously very talented.

One tiny imperfection is the about modal page goes under my boxes.

One idea I had is what if the user could provide a URL and then have mocku.ps load in a screenshot of a site, rather than having to upload.

Anyway great job!
The North Korean constitution (2009) "officially rejects North Korea's founding ideology of communism." (Quote from Wikipedia, and I've heard it elsewhere.)

It's better to say it's an absolute dictatorship, or absolute monarchy (with the Divine Right of Kings thrown in for good measure).
Show HN: Yet another flash sales site.
We started in July as a flash sales site for Mac software, we then moved into flash sales on all types of digital goods, and have now moved into gadgets and accessories.

Team of 3 (two co-founders, myself and @andrewbrackin) and one employee.

We'd love to know what you guys would like to see from a flash sales site, what you'd like to see done differently and what products (digital or physical) you'd like to see on offer.
Sorry, I didn't read your entire comment. The 64-bit linker can produce 32-bit code with /MACHINE:X86.
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A quick look at the programming language shootout (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/) puts Ruby in roughly the same performance league as Python and Perl, and you'd be hard-put to argue that these aren't popular languages.
You must have missed this part:

"Compared to JRuby on Java 6, JRuby on Java 7 without invokedynamic is around 25% faster, and JRuby with invokedynamic is nearly 3 times faster."
I'm interested to see the results - a bunch of (dare I say "new") editors seem to pick a light background by default.
If you run the Visual Studio x64 tools command prompt from the start menu, it will set up the environment to have the 64-bit toolchain in your path.
I tend to use a light to medium grey on black because I don't like the mega contrast of white on black. But for the purpose of your survey, I answered 'white on black'.
I don't believe in censoring the ugliness of Israel's current policy against Arabs within its borders, it is a major component of what Israel is today unfortunately.
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We started in July as a flash sales site for Mac software, we then moved into flash sales on all types of digital goods, and have now moved into gadgets and accessories.

Team of 3 (two co-founders, myself and @andrewbrackin) and one employee.

We'd love to know what you guys would like to see from a flash sales site, what you'd like to see done differently and what products (digital or physical) you'd like to see on offer.
Does it work without campfire? (regarding Hubot-control)
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Duby has become Mirah, and though I have not personally had a lot of time to work on it, it has continued slowly forward. It is basically just Ruby syntax for writing Java, though, so it performs identically to Java.

I don't know the status of Groovy performance in general. I do know that on small numeric benchmarks, JRuby + invokedynamic beats fully-dynamic Groovy, but you can "cheat" and static-type some numeric logic in Groovy, which puts it out in front again.
I have this (perhaps mistaken) notion that when I'm staring at a screen for 12 hours straight, it's better for my eyes to be looking at a mostly dark screen than a mostly lit one.

At the very least, thanks to that link a year ago about how google would save electricity for the world by adopting a black background, I know that I'm saving the environment!
For me as well, although it's not just green, it's color coded so the colors vary.
I'm a big fan of JRuby for two notable reasons. First, JRuby runs on the JVM, which is arguably the most mature and tested VM on the market today; second, you can leverage both the Ruby and Java ecosystems without any additional overhead (the Java interop is almost seamless).

Being able to write classes in Java (or Mirah) where speed is crucial, and use them from within JRuby without having to do any additional work, is a nice bonus as well.

The only downside is startup time, but that's been improving a lot recently.
Well, light or dark? I go Solarized Light.
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Israel's academics are quite good outside the realm of politics. Within the realm of politics, currently departments are being forced to close if they have the wrong views (namely if they are against the occupation.) This is quite unlike what happens in Western countries:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/international-acad...
I prefer off-white text on a dark grey back. Sometimes a quite bright yellow / orange on grey; other times an HN background on dark grey.
I hope that was just a matter of preference for me but having enough eye floaters, I find myself suffering less while working with darker backgrounds.
Black on white, because then there's less contrast between my main focus of attention (my monitor) and my environment (a fairly brightly lit office).
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> At the very least, thanks to that link a year ago about how google would save electricity for the world by adopting a black background, I know that I'm saving the environment!

Sadly not, at least not with flat panels. Google responded to the "blackle" think on their blog - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.ht...
How is this a CI Server? it looks like a hubot interface to Jenkins
Glad to see this, knowing it will help ge.tt survive a good while. I've been using their file sharing service frequently since I first saw it advertised here on HN about a year ago. With features such as f.e. their MP3 player, and the real-time sharing (share files while they're still being uploaded), it's definitely the best file sharing solution I've seen. Also a big thumbs up for letting people share anonymously and instantly, without the hassle of registering an account.
It's not completely useless. It's just that you don't need it. What about cleaning it out and donating it to a relative?
(http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-...)

I'd be interested to see figures for modern monitors.
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Eclipse: black on white

Terminal: white on black

I tried to go black on white all the way a while ago, because it is annoying to switch between eclipse + websites and the terminal.

It seems however that the default gnome-terminal palette and most programs are optimized for white on black. With a lot of effort I found an acceptable 256-color scheme for terminal vim, but I gave up and reverted when the output "ack" became unreadable.
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The Readme.md seems to imply that the Campfire configuration variables are non-optional, so it would seem not.

Sounds like a fork waiting to happen, though.
There has to be the risk of failure in the market. Otherwise a lot of money would be wasted and invested badly. Failure gives the incentive to be efficient and to do the job properly.

If you remove the existence of failure by saving them everytime, you teach them that doing the actions that led to failure are not that bad, and they can continue to do them, as long as it makes the people at the top wealthy.
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Light, which I voted for.

Been using it for >1yr and so far so good, more soothing to look at. You?
If you interview people, this article should terrify you.

If you're interviewing for programming jobs, the (low) calibre of existing applicants has probably already terrified you.
I am using both depending on the light around me. A little helper function bound to f9 makes that really convenient.
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For it to be 'stupid', you imply there's not a reasonable assumption on her part that she can't get a bit drunk around people without being assaulted.

If you were at a party where you didn't know everyone, and had had a couple of beers, and someone beat the living shit out of you in the toilet and stole your wallet, have you been stupid?

I'm assuming you don't think you've been stupid in that situation, so what's the difference?
Accepting that random dangers outside of our control exist is actually entirely different than the hypervigilance. Your bus example: Do you go into a panic at the sight of a bus? Do you check that every bus you see comes to a complete stop & doesn't have faulty brakes? Do you wait for buses to leave the area before you proceed?

With hypervigilance you are identifying threats that do not likely exist given the current context of the situation. Classic post-war examples are where someone needs to check their corners before exiting an aisle of a grocery store or fears slowing down at an intersection because it leaves them vulnerable, even though they are in their hometown. It can interfere greatly with someone's quality of life.
I believe that at least one of the projects the original blog post mentioned - Chromium - can't be compiled with LTO or PGO enabled. Apparently the linker just runs out of memory with it and most large projects.
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Hm..? The only ALAC implementations we know of is the Apple one (in C++), David Hammerton's one in C, and ours in Coffeescript.
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It's more like having to take 19 credits a semester to graduate within my budget and working 20+ hours a week does not leave me much time for unassigned reading, but I will take that suggestion to heart whenever possible (hopefully during this winter break).
Used to use the railscasts theme. Now using the default sublime text 2 theme, which appears to be fairly similar to solarized dark.
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Russian life expectancy plummeted in the decade after the fall of communism. Don't downplay the extreme difficulty of transitioning from a command economy to a functioning liberal market economy.
There seem to be a few bug reports all around the same phenomenon. See also JRUBY-6162. I started digging into it a bit last week, but I was in the middle of a release and didn't have time to get very far. My working hypothesis is that the external process is getting killed off by JRuby before it has time to finish executing. The (hacky) workaround is to make your code wait a bit so the process has time to complete. Faster JRuby execution might only make the problem worse :-), but I'm looking forward to playing with it!
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I'm not trolling. Even if the people in NK are hungry (but they are not more hungry then the poor in the west), this does not give you the right to "save" them and take their little left posesions in the process, because you know, US never saved anyone without the army taking ground. If you see a poor man hungry on the street and you give him food, that's "saving him" but if you take his home and take his belongings because you can "manage" them better than him and if you force him to work for you, that's not "saving" him. That's slavery hidden in the form of charity. Isn't it strange that US goverment never saves the real poor of the world (saharian africans - they leave their salvation to red cross and independent charity) instead somehow US gov. always finds some richer "poors" and if they can't be "saved" by corruption and bribery, they are "saved" by armed invasion?
There is time to catch up afterwards. After I graduated, I knew almost nothing outside mathematics and programming, but 3 years, even just reading newspapers, will catch you up on a lot.
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is the final report. Quite a scary read. 30 warnings on the displays with master caution and master warning going on and off. All of it because of a bug where the binary representation of the altitude was interpreted as angle of attack and a design problem in the flight computer which does filtering on the signals but couldn't cope with spikes exactly 1.2 seconds apart.
Result - the vertical acceleration went to -1.5G in 3s and then to 1.7G in the next 2s. That can look something like this
http://www.faa.gov/​other_visit/aviation_industry/​airline_o...

I don't understand why the flight computers don't perform more aggresive smoothing on the signals from the sensors - AoA just can't go from 4 deg to 50 deg in 1/25s.
congrats to ge.tt
ok, I upvoted this simply because it had Smalltalk in the title. However, I have to chastise the author for not really saying much except he wants people to throw their vote into some support with zero detail on why IntelliJ makes any sense as a Smalltalk IDE. IDE, in the traditional Smalltalk sense, doesn't have the same meaning as it does for IntelliJ's other languages.
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Great work by the Ge.tt team. I hope they be able to grow this service even further. The competition, Venture cup, which they won in 2010 was won by us (Iconfinder) in 2011. Small world!
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