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> Does anyone know why Google tied his hands?

Cerf isn't a google officer, board member, or spokesperson. Those are the folks who "speak for Google".
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I thought the video was also taken down from other video sites too. Do they also have the private agreement outside the DMCA?
Given the very nature of the internet, it boggles my mind that transcripts/original sources aren't linked to quotes. It's at no cost to the user since it's not a giant inline block of text.
Sometime some type of technology does not not lend itself to 100% automation. So there will be certain steps that would require a bit of human intervention.

Of course, we all wish that all software is written according to the UNIX philosophy.
e-books are pretty much pure profit, depending on how the author is paid. They don't have the overhead of print books. Print books are printed in batches - a lot end up in bargain bins and eventually recycled. There are also the shipping and storage and manufacturing costs.

Perhaps eventually a netflix or spotify-like e-book model will emerge, where you pay a monthly fee (or see ads in books) to get access to most any e-book. 24symbols is trying this, but apparently not nearly there yet. Amazon is working on it too http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/amazon-netflix-books/
Here is my speculation about what really happened: YouTube has its infringing content tool designed to detect copyrighted content and notify the rights holder. That tool erroneously flagged the Megaupload video as being owned by UMG. UMG just does what it always does when it receives a notification of infringing content: it pressed the button to take it down. Now, UMG is saying the agreement it has with youtube is that if its youtube tool flags a video as infringing, then it is ok to take down the video, even if the identification was erroneous.
The truthmaker for whether it is a surprise or not clearly depends on their own belief states. They are reasoning about what they would or would not believe in different circumstances, so they should include a premise about their belief states in their induction, otherwise their reasoning is unsound.

They reason, if there is going to be an exam, and it hasn't happened by Thursday, then it will happen Friday, and we would believe it would happen on Friday and it cannot be a surprise.

They should reason like this: if there is going to be an exam and we believe there will be an exam, and it has not happened on Thursday &c then it cannot be a surprise.

But, they stopped believing the exam was happening. Doh.

EDIT: formatting
Personally I think this is a stupid idea, boost the price of the books and and the piracy will explode, put books at 5$ and people will actually buy the books.

This is the kind of stuff where you need a price that does not "matter" on the wallet. Amazon and publishers are just too much greedy, the authors does not really make more money with that kind of pricing, it's still just the big guys that make(want) more money.
Let's go to the text:

"Finally, I note that he describes the title of my book as “obscene,” and complains that it attacks someone who is “elderly.” Would he care to say where the obscenity lies?"

Hitchens doesn't deny that there is a sexual connotation. Regardless, sexual connotation is not synonymous with obscenity. The point is that he invites Leys to discuss whether the title is obscene or not. (He doesn't explicitly deny the claim of obscenity, you'll note.) This discussion would further Hitchens's goal of discussing religious wfigures with less reverence.

p.s. I'm not the one downvoting you, if it matters.
Not really, they're developing BtrFS for example.
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>>"...people with graphics design background should stop calling themselves designers, and engineers (...) could call themselves designers."

Graphic design essentially concerns itself with how information is presented and consumed. This information can be presented in many different ways; ink on paper as an example or pixels on a screen. Part of the designers job is to solve the problem of how best to present the information, which may take the form of a call to action on a website or a tear-off in a magazine or what weight and style the fonts should be right down to the basic structure of the arrangements of elements on the screen/page/advertising hoarding. I know that most people think of this as a trivial task, but it isn't. It is the fundamental difference between good and great.

Engineers are designers, if one ever tells you otherwise, they don't have an understanding of what it is that they do.
Without specific regards to Nintendo, you could visit a lot of offices here which have the "N programmers at N computers on one table" office layout, and they're frequently a wee bit underpowered. (In 2010 I was rocking XP and fighting to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB of RAM for Java development.)

This is, at least in part, because of the relative social statuses of people who program things and people who do important work for the company.

One would think that game developers would be exquisitely sensitive to the needs of programmers because, hey, that is their business, but anecdotally they're treated pretty much like they are in the US: chew 'em up, spit 'em out, there will be more stupid boys to take their place next year. (I got a solicitation to work for a game company here by a recruiter who had heard of me from my ex-employers. I kid you not, the pay was $2k a month.)
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I love that clip. Not because I agree with him about Bush (I don't), but because he doesn't give a fuck that everybody in the room disagrees with him; in fact, I'd say he revels in it. A true badass contrarian.
I'm not so sure. They weren't flying the airplane, but rather were letting the computer fly it for them. (The control movements made by the one pilot who was horribly in error were not something that one would ever make if the controls were directly connected to the control surfaces.) Meanwhile, the computer was letting the humans fly. If the pilot in error had flown the airplane instead of driving the computer, everything would have come out fine. (And, while I'm not completely familiar with the Airbus's fly-by-wire system, I'm pretty sure that doing this still would have been safe in the event that the computer hadn't given up, either.)

They spent all this time trying to figure out what was wrong with the plane when their immediate concern should have been to get the nose down and get their airspeed up. Figuring out the underlying problem can wait. That's what "fly the airplane" is all about. Even if stuff is on fire, the first priority is to keep your speed up and don't run into anything hard.
> I don't have any cards with an annual fee. in fact, they pay me, on average about 1.9% cash back per year.

How are you still getting that much?

My 2% for everything and 5% gas/groceries cards went away after Dodd-Frank. I've still got 3% Gas and dining and 2% travel with the occasional special but the rest, the majority, is only getting me 1%.
Yes - I log in on about 5 ip locations per day, always logged into google, and it randomly assigns me German versus English.
Don't call him Chris.

'He did not, in fact, like being called "Chris" – his mother would not, he explained, wish her firstborn to be addressed "as if he were a taxi-driver or pothole-filler" – and found "Hitch", which most friends used, more acceptable.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitc...

That obit is a good read, btw.
If you, as a U.S. consumer, feel that this reported agreement to set prices is unfair, you have the right to file a complaint. D.O.J. has instructions here: http://www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.html As D.O.J notes, "Your e-mails, letters, and phone calls could be our first alert to a possible violation of antitrust laws and may provide the initial evidence needed to begin an investigation."
I'm impressed that there are places that have 432 projects ...
I think that is a different comparison: physical shop vs "e-shop", where the post you reply to is about paper book vs e-book.

Question is: what is, for the likes of Amazon, the difference in costs between distribution on paper and on bits?
>Or is there anything i am missing here?

You should probably consider why you felt defensive about HN.
Well, yes in this case , but if you have obstacles ahead maybe your best option is keeping the plane close to the stall in order to climb, so you need to fly the plane. That is the reason most of this protections must have an override.

The modes are automatic, if you have all the flight computers and inputs available it will be at normal mode, if you begin loosing computers or inputs (like speed) it no longer has the capability to have that protections active so it downgrades itself, if there is a recovery of some sort (computer reset or working again pitot) it will upgrade the mode to normal by itself. The only action that can be taken is resetting computers or trying to recover a system. In fact when we want to practice alternate or direct law in the simulators, we just disconnect some flight computers. It is not that different flying in alternate or direct law than it is flying normal mode (just a bit more dizzy), unless you try something like pulling the control all the way back for 3 minutes.

Here there is a resume of the airbus flight laws:

http://www.airbusdriver.net/airbus_fltlaws.htm

Pd. mechanical backup, THAT is difficult to fly!.
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Love that analogy.

Government is like XML. Just when you think it can't get any more bloated they decide it also needs to do X!
Do I really need to pay for MS Access to get a better reporting gui?
If they don't patent it, somebody else would and would drag them to court. (gosh, I'm defending a multinational - I really hope they don't misbehave with this)
Not to be glib, but couldn't I make this comment about nearly any "enterprise" software? Though, I guess as a whole, this entire review could be applied to nearly anything--since it's largely illustrate how ignorant users are. At least, I thought that was the point (pre-coffee).
robilad (Dalibor Topic) is the guy who spearheaded the GCJ and Classpath effort that led to Sun's JDK being GPL-ed. I don't know how I feel about him working at Oracle; is he more useful inside or outside?
I can sell any book I buy. Some books can become collectibles and attain a high value. A private library of a few thousand books can be a very nice heirloom (or donation). These are some of the factors that make me think that books are worth more than eBooks.
I don't believe Google caches images, just the text content so the inline images are still being pulled from the troubled site.
Those reasons led me to put my kindle in a drawer and forget about it. Buying a used book from amazon is cheaper and grants me full rights to the item.

Paying 2-2.5x the price for a restricted digital version with no gift or resale value is not worth it except in limited cases (e.g. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy purely based on its weight).
Nope. Is this a program-style thing like YC which involves being present for a period of time? If I'm accepted will I be expected to move to SV for a period of time? Why would I want to apply as someone not from SV? Who are some people who are being funded? Any success stories? Etc..
Not entirely; it totally depends on the source. I get what you are saying and I'd concur that good reviews/reviewers are thin on the ground. I consider the why and how to be part of the physical manifestation, but then I am an industrial design so probably not best placed to comment! I do think that, as designers, we need to educate people more about what design is. It'd help if the prima donna element weren't so vociferous, but then we could say that about most professions...
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Can you run multiple versions side by side? Because I need to know if my site is compatible with the current version of Chrome, not the nightly. Would still like to be able to check out new stuff, though.
I don't think companies are of the hook here, especially large ones who control large segments of their industry. It might be hard for them sometimes to change what consumers want, but at the same time they often are the ones resisting change. Often times change in market preferences means that the company has to do extra work and spend extra money to adjust and offer new products. Sometimes they see that it would be cheaper to disrupt the change instead. Marketing and lobbying, as others have pointed out, are tools they use for that purpose.
I've just been reading an autobiography of a WWII aviator (a tailgunner in a B-17). He mentions that for planes with substantial damage, it was standard procedure to bring the plane in on its belly with no landing gear. This was because there was a good chance the landing gear itself was damaged, and if so, having it there would do far more harm than good.

If it's possible to bring in a B-17 on its belly as a preventative measure, surely it's possible to do so with a modern airliner when the alternative is a real crash.
At first I thought these were last words by bosses that died afterwards
This falls under crew resource management and is one of the fundamental things taught in pilot training: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
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Doesn't everyone get to use the "military signal" now?

The LSB's used to be encrypted, but the codes are public now?
The difference between (free) digital delivery and physical delivery is massively overshadowed by the publishers' ebook pricing model. That's the problem: the price increase is invented, and as a further kick in the nuts the cost savings from digital delivery aren't passed on.
HN-ers, listen to this business proposition (this is not a sarcasm, but this is an idea, a perspective if you will).

Find one of the productivity books, preferably ones that are quite popular. Implement a software, web-app, mobile-app, desktop-app, plugins, whatever, based on such books.You'll get instant userbase that love your software.

Rinse-and-repeat.

There are a few productivity tools based on GTD out there. Looking at the checklist-for-checklists link that adolph mentioned in this thread reminds me of Trello. Seems like a simple money making scheme don't you think?
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Me: The server crashed. IT Services is working to bring it back up.

Boss: Don't confuse me with all these technical details.

I bet your boss among those deciding on SOPA.
Do you really work at a place where everything is so impersonable that it is all referenced by project number or was that used to obfuscate your clients in this example?

None of the comments surprise me to be honest, I find that managers have come from no background to instruct people on a technological level and are taken on for simply their management ability.
You can't gift a book, or inherit a book collection either.
Are you sure you didn't just transcribe some back-issues of Dilbert?
Upgrades are silent and unattended. Tools build on that, sysadmins rely on that.
Gladly.

What you're talking about goes well beyond the formal role of "designer". Consider, for example, what happens if you sign up with one of the many outsourced design firms. They won't do most of that. The good ones might do some user research. But that's not guaranteed; what they all promise to do is produce a very pretty document with a bunch photoshop mockups. Which an implementation team is expected to execute as written.

I definitely think developers should be active participants in all that work you describe. (I sure am.) Which is exactly why I encourage people not to have a formal "designer" role. If there's somebody who's officially responsible for X, then everybody else isn't. Design is a pervasive concern.
Pretty funny list, but this seems like a case of poor management of expectations. It shouldn't be your job to explain why things matter (as in 'Boss: What difference does that make?'), but sometimes that's reality.

Here's a set of slides on taking control of poor communication situations and learning to efficiently keep managers in the feedback loop. Sometimes it doesn't work out ('Boss: I haven't had time to get caught up on my email.'), though it's certainly a start.

http://www.fs.cornell.edu/PMT/Communications/Managing%20Expe...
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I saw him on Morning Joe about 18 months ago. I like the idea of what they are trying to do with that show, I like that they have both sides on it, but it has more than enough grab ass (it's 2 hours too long every day..) Anyhow, they were getting ready to engage him in a serious conversation but it was a grab-ass session between segments, I can't remember the subject but they were goading folks to make some statement on something really absurd (it was sexist or Jersey Shore or something, I wish I could remember it) but Mika (the news reader lady) tried to get him to voice an opinion and he very eloquently said "pass" it was a bit flowery though and had just a hint of an insult back for even being asked to talk about it.

I don't know if anyone had ever done that before, they clearly weren't prepared for it. He was there for something serious and he kept to it, regardless of views, much respect to the guy. In a pop-media bubble gum bullshit news and entertainment world he had a mission and kept to it. A tragic loss we need more of him and more like him.
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In the article, the students' logic is based on semantics. "Surprise" should really be "Random". Ie, the surprise is a one time event (i.e., "Random day next week - surprise!").

So as of the moment of notice there is a random choice, and as that day approaches, it becomes less of an ongoing "surprise".
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Hang on a sec.

Not liking mornings or meetings.

Or forgetting what you'd prioritized someone to do.

Or being spam CCed by 'useful' emails.

I think when you look at a lot of these from the boss perspective and change the words slightly, they're totally normal human responses.
What would be the best way for an indie guy with a budget hosting to share an interesting article?

Publish like normal and accept that, if simultaneously on Slashdot and Reddit, you're doomed. If "doomed" is not an acceptable outcome for your online presence or if you have a greater-than-epsilon chance of going viral, don't use budget hosting. (Better options include a VPS or hosting environments which are not bottom-of-the-barrel.)
Is that the reason why pixel tracking is used because other requests might be cached? When viewing a page, the browser client may just pull the page from cache and not make a request to the server? A 1x1 gif is small, static, and downloaded asynchronously and makes a negligible impact both client and server side.
I think all of these checklist ideas are great, but does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to make the decision makers in the medical community pay attention? It sounds like there are possible opportunities here.
Well, of course, that would change the meaning. He can be so terse with words because many of us can fill in the blanks that these bosses have the wrong attitude about things.
Ask HN: What revenue sources exist for content based sites?
I have read the techcrunch teardown (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/teardown-13-ways-10-million-revenues/) and I understand ad-supported sites are very tough to execute. However, if one were contemplating running a content site, what sources of revenues exist ? How do you go about it ? Any ad network and affiliate network you would recommend ?
Perhaps it can, but the challenge then is to identify what's different about the professor's statement from a statement like "It's raining". Why doesn't the first have a definite truth value, but the second does? (What the professor himself believes is not relevant to the actual truth of his statement.)

You might be interested in verificationism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#EmpVer... (apologies if you know about it already).
Walled gardens are ok for iPad, but Amazon tries it, and we're up in arms? Lets be morally consistent here. If Amazon 'owns the platform', they can charge anything they like. Arguments about the quality of the offering, security of the store etc are irrelevant to the core issue: does the seller of a device have the right to dictate terms about use of the device?

I'm not a fan of walled gardens. But if they are allowed to exist in our free market, than this ebook pricing change is not novel.
"It’s called mydunks.it. It’s better than NBA jam. It’s a universal 'like' button for the web, but instead of ‘likes’ it’s 'dunks.'"

I just about spat out my coffee until I realized he was joking.
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Hey guys! I've been created a website that will eventually have a library of information, and some useful tools for web developers.

I just put up my second tool, which I figure might be of use to some of you, it's a way to view POST data for doing tests with forms. It doesn't collect or store your data, it only processes it for viewing and then forgets it was ever there.

You can access it from:
http://learn.db-dev.info/tools/postviewer

If you want to see more features on this, or think there is anything I should change then just let me know! If you want to see any other little tools that you can add to your toolkit, then again, just let me know and I'll see what I can come up with!
On the first look, this seems to be a pretty complete list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices#Tablet_...
The crash report says that the second pilot and pilot (when he arrived) were both unaware that the other copilot was pulling back on his stick. E.g. at one point the other copilot had his stick forward (causing an averaging of the two inputs resulting in nose still up) and right before the crash when the copilot replies "But I've had my stick back all the time!" the other two get a shock. The warning "Stall! Push stick forward!" would therefore have saved the day, even if the copilot pulling back ignored it (and it seems he thought he was doing the right thing by pulling back, so the explicit advice "Push stick forward!" might have helped in his mental state), the other two would realise he was contravening normal response.
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Oh yeah, thanks I need to put that early in the exercises.
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A debate or a discussion is, for me at least, an exchange of facts, opinions, arguments, based on the shared assumption that both parts of the debate are sincere (good faith): sincerely defending their point of view, willing to to change it if need be, respecting enough the opposite part, which means listening to counter arguments. Someone lying or not willing to listen or not really defending his position is no fit for a debate, don't you agree? Or maybe you enjoy debating with trolls that after you've spent hours trying to explain your view they'll say "I was not really saying that, I was joking"?
Isn't PHP-FPM a fastcgi process manager? I don't see any references to threading in it's documentation. I also recall the php documentation saying php is unsafe with multiple threads due to a large number of libraries that are not coded to be thread-safe.
That is a lucid and very charitable version of my take on it, which is that there are an awful lot of stupid people about (or perhaps a few stupid people who put themselves about a lot).