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In particular, the verdict hinged on some technicalities, and we got about 40 pages explaining the law. I attempted to clarify the exact meaning, but in the end eleven others and I were forced to decide for ourselves.

There's good motivation for this: the jury's job (in a criminal case, at least) is to decide whether or not the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the charge in question. Not to determine if that fact could be established by a more competent prosecution.

Step one in proving that someone has broken the law is making sure that the jury understands the details of the law well enough to understand the accusation, including (and in particular!) any technicalities that might be involved.

If the prosecution hasn't done that, then there's plenty of reasonable doubt to be found, and that's a crystal clear "not guilty".
Fun off handed anecdote I heard today: a study found that people who watch Jon Colbert were more up to date on news than those who watched Fox News. No idea were it came from, could be bull shit, but not unbelievable to me.
Why would anyone do this ? $2k / month with no benefits or equity for a full-time job helping someone else build a start-up.
Musthave been big. Theyd have to be anchored somehow though..... There is no stable equilibrium for ferromagnetic materials.
The physicist David Deutsch makes the point that there is no real way to distinguish a consistent, convincing virtual reality from reality itself.

Therefore, there is no real moral difference between richly populating such virtual worlds (once we can construct them--we can't quite, yet) and populating actual other planets. Nick Bostrom would say that even using the word "actual" is probably wrong, since we're likely living in a simulation already.

There's a simpler (maybe too obvious) answer to the Fermi Paradox: the window of time in which it seems worthwhile to communicate with aliens or to settle the galaxy is exceedingly brief.
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Have you actually seen this happen? Whenever I've seen HOA-provided internet access, it's just been a group buy from Comcast or AT&T or whoever. The end result in this case is that everyone has the same basic access they'd have if they subscribed individually. They just don't pay a separate bill and they get a cheaper rate (and they can't decline it).

Having a building administer its own network with a single IP shared by the building sounds terrible. What happens if you want to run a server? Or open up a port that some program needs to listen on? I can't imagine a building having network technicians competent enough to make this situation work well.
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There was an old vision that machines would do the stuff for you somewhere back in the day.

Sad that we've got to a point where we can make this possible but won't because we can't trust pie in the sky.

Torn between the two options and can't decide!
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This is why I only buy music directly from the artists. It's the middle-men who haven't realized that the internet has made them almost completely obsolete who keep proposing these horrible laws that would break the internet for no benefit, so it's not in my best interests to give the middle-men money.
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For me, it was broken in Chrome. In Firefox 9 it was very laggy.
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Amazing. Another huge reason to go into VPC with AWS.

Their use cases they list are all good and valid (at least two apply to me personally). Additionally, this should enable some decent HA options, along the exact same lines as VIPs (except not as fast, most likely).

I'm looking forward to going to work tomorrow to play around with how long it takes after hot swapping ENIs for traffic to flow to the new instance, since for managing servers purely in AWS, this looks to be a beautiful option for server-level HA with a hot-standby.

Unfortunately, this does add even more domain knowledge necessary to jump into VPC (which is already a very non-trivial affair for those who aren't very familiar with sysadmin work/networking in general).

I'd have to say this sounds like my favorite feature launched this year behind VPC.
We haven't been around long enough.
Consider that a healthy 100 year lifespan now constitutes about a full 1% of recorded human history.
Humanity is about at the stage of a toddler saying "I can do that" with nary a clue as to what that means.
My friends and I sometimes joke around about a similar 'solution' to the Fermi Paradox, where a civilization will advance until they figure out how to simulate sex in the mind of an individual.

Though somewhat, if the conclusions of the article are correct (I don't think they are), then those who will inherit the earth will be the ones least likely to venture out and make contact.
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Can we not easily test the equal-transit-time explanation by a smoke test in wind tunnel where the the smoke is not released continuously but only at uniform time-intervals in a vertical profile? A picture of the smoke profile (as opposed to streamlines) downstream of the wing would immediately capture the fact that transit times are NOT equal.
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> My hypothesis is that, in the case of SOPA, it would end up meaning'enforced disproportionately against individuals and small corporations to the benefit of the large corporations' - but in these cases, you can never be sure that there isn't some other hidden factor as well until it's too late.

I agree, and it's also worth remembering that those factors can change. Perhaps the current administration will selectively enforce in one way, but the law may be on the books for a long time, and those in power in the future may use that tool in quite a different way.

P.S. I edited the post since yours - "that’s the most dangerous thing about it" is now "that’s what makes it so dangerous", because I think it's less ambiguous. I don't think it affects your post, I just wanted people to know that you didn't misquote.
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A terrible article. So let's say something more interesting. There are several important ideas intertwined together around the Fermi Paradox:

1) Fermi Paradox

Why haven't we seen any evidence in the observable universe of megascale activities and exponential growth comparable to those that we know that our descendants will be capable of, and fairly soon?

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

2) The Outer Bounds of the Possible

Can we convert our entire future light cone into computronium? There seems to be no physical laws to prevent that outcome, and absent being stopped soon, the tiny fraction of our machine descendants to go all out for self-replication and expansion will set this program in motion.

3) The Great Filter

Assuming we're in base reality and everything out there is running much as our present physics understands it to run, are we past the barrier that stops intelligences from converting the observable universe into computronium? Or not?

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

4) The Simulation Argument

Or are we simulations, alone in our virtual machine?

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

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All these are linked via this rather depressing line of thought:

"A technologically mature “posthuman” civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true:

- The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;

- The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;

- The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one’s credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).

Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation."

----

The bottom line is that there appears to be a large gap in our understanding of the evolution of intelligence in the universe. By all counts, our galaxy should have many civilizations across its span, and by all counts if they're anything like us, their most aggressive descendant factions will turn the whole galaxy into computronium in a few tens of millions of years. But we don't see even the first glimmers of any such thing.
The jury is screened to make sure those 5% don't serve. All potential jurors are tested to see if they believe something like "it should not be illegal to kill an abortion doctor," or anything else that would cause an unfair trial before they are chosen. The college kids in Boston who get jury duty joke they'll claim to be racist so they can go home.

In addition, lawyers for both sides are allowed to pick a certain number of people to strike from the jury for any reason they choose. Assuming both sides have somewhat competent lawyers (although that's not always true), the chance of having an outlier on your jury is greatly diminished.
> not to my taste to put it nicely

The question really is if it were designed to more refined appearance standards, would that make a noticeable difference or would it not. That'd be an awesome A/B test. And, logically, if I were Patrick, I would set up a separate website with a polished design (like the "front page of Dribbble" polished, not "the best a programmer can do" polished) and pose it as a competitor. It'd be interesting to see if it would borrow people from the original BCC site or if it would pick up new customers.

Shouldn't be an expensive experiment to run too, the cost is mostly in design and that's up to 5K tops.
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I was in a conversation today about short code and it is something I've never learned about. It was a discussion of how to use it for interacting with employees in a large(ish) company and keeping them engaged with the brand. Anyhow, can HN explain to me how the data is handled. I understand the user will text the short code number, but what happens from there? How does their response get into a database and a response sent back if needed? Basically is there a standard for this or does each company hosting (if that is the right word) the short code have an API to tie into?
The Schengen Agreement only defines the region within which there are no borders, it does not define who can work where and for how long.

In addition, any EU citizen is free to work in any EU member country with no restrictions. For example, as a UK citizen I can choose to work in Germany without needing a visa, despite the UK being outside the Schengen Area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_for_workers
Has anyone thought about this...astronauts release their waste into space. There's bacteria that gets frozen almost as soon as it leaves the ship/space station right? Couldn't it stay preserved until it lands on a distant planet that hasn't formed an atmosphere and be the seeds for life on infant planets? I'm no physicist (or scientist, period), but it's just a question that's been bugging me for a while.
This is very similar to the idea Charles Stross presents in his 2005 novel Accelerando which in turn used the idea of a Matrioshka Brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain).
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Please don't do that. Nobody is going to downvote you for saying that (in fact in general that seems to be the average attitude here towards PHP) but you will get downvoted for a) not explaining what those other things are b) complaining about mythical downvotes. So please explain what it is you want to see, then maybe we can get some discussion going -- which is the purpose of HN!
From Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche, page 9, published 1944:

The main fact of all heavier-than-air flight is this: the wing keeps the airplane up by pushing the air down.

It shoves the air down with its bottom surface, and it pulls the air down with its top surface; the latter action is the more important. But the really important thing to understand is that the wing, in whatever fashion, makes the air go down. In exerting a downward force upon the air, the wing receives an upward counterforce--by the same principle, known as Newton's law of action and reaction, which makes a gun recoil as it shoves the bullet out forward; and which makes the nozzle of a fire hose press backward heavily against the fireman as it shoots out a stream of water forward. Air is heavy; sea-level air weights about 2 pounds per cubic yard; thus, as your wings give a downward push to a cubic yard after cubic yard of that heavy stuff, they get upward reactions that are equally hefty.

That's what keeps an airplane up. Newton's law says that, if the wing pushes the air down, the air must push the wing up. It also puts the same thing the other way 'round: if the wing is to hold the airplane up in the fluid, ever-yielding air, it can do so only by pushing the air down. All the fancy physics of Bernoulli's Theorem, all the highbrow math of the circulation theory, all the diagrams showing the airflow on a wing--all that is only an elaboration and more detailed description of just how Newton's law fulfills itself--for instance, the rather interesting but (for the pilot) really quite useless observation that the wing does most of its downwashing work by suction, with its top surface. ...

Thus, if you will forget some of this excessive erudition, a wing becomes much easier to understand; it is in the last analysis nothing but an air deflector. It is an inclined plane, cleverly curved, to be sure, and elaborately streamlined, but still essentially an inclined plane. That's, after all, why that whole fascinating contraption of ours is called an air-plane.
Wow, thanks for links 3 and 4. I bet just about everyone here has had a similar idea to the the "Simulation Argument." I could never find any official name for it though.

How hilarious would that be if reality was in fact a simulation and the ones watching us get the biggest kick out of everyone trying to figure out why we're here. I guess that assumes that the creators of this simulation have a sense of humor.
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Wow, that is really lame. I'm liking the idea of ICS less and less each day now it seems. Its ridiculous that they've gone so far backwards on both this and the voice search functionaity with this release.
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Let's imagine there are billions of planets out there (a true Sagan-esque billions) which have spawned intelligences that have achieved interstellar travel - ie. they have the ability to actively seek out and communicate with others of similar ability. Perhaps like the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek, except many, many of these, separated from others by various degrees of intelligence or ability.

Let's imagine there are far more planets like ours that have life - let's throw intelligence out, because that is defined by some relative standard - which has not yet reached that capability. Why would we be interesting in the scope of these far more advanced extraterrestrial societies?

Perhaps they don't reach out because it would be as fruitless as us trying to communicate with ants. Perhaps they don't care to study us because we seem about as interesting as primordial soup (ie. a nuclear holocaust might be a trait of that). Perhaps intelligences like ours are well understood, well classified in the genus of the universe, and we are about as ordinary as a barnacle on the hull of a tug boat.
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tl;dr: They're too busy playing World of Warcraft to fart around with spaceships.
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Honestly if the human race discovered a less evolved colony on the moon, I wouldn't want to know what we would end up doing to them. Most likely Nike would figure out a way to put them in cages and force them to make shoes every day. I think the reason why we fear aliens is because its a reflection of what we know we would likely end up doing to a lesser lifeform.

Oddly enough, I think its an optimistic outcome if we play video games and never meet aliens in that if they function like us, it will be either us exploiting them or them exploiting us unless we amazingly are right on par with each other. Sorry to be so pessimistic, its just that we have consistently failed pretty hard as a race in how we treat other creatures and the environment.
The whole "great men made history" meme is kind of discredited. It's true to a point, and it's certainly a lot more interesting (therefore easy to remember) if you say that WWII was Hitler vs. Churchill and Stalin, but it's not entirely correct.

In science, it might just be 1% of the top 1% who make the big breakthroughs - how many times did one guy make more than one really huge breakthrough? I can think of one big fuzzy-haired counterexample.
You say Brian only contacts people he already knows but the article clearly states otherwise.

"The hardest part used to be finding someone that had worked with the candidate somewhere along the line, but LinkedIn has made that easy. It will tell you who you know that is connected to the candidate by one or two degrees."

He specifically states he is contacting someone he knows that knows someone you know (two degrees). Not just someone you both know directly.
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