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Completely agree that the questions should be asked honestly and with an eye on social benefits and costs. I'm no fan of the copyright system as-is precisely because I think those tradeoffs are poorly balanced given modern technology.

As for whether it is "bad" to lose capacity to do things like "Lost" I think (for my value system) it's clearly very bad even if 9/10 such projects are not of lasting value. These kinds of mega-projects allow us to push the frontier of what is possible as entertainment and human expression. If you don't particularly like "Lost" for artistic reasons (fair enough ;-), then perhaps substitute anything by Pixar; losing society's ability to make "Wall-E" or "Up" means a duller, less inspiring world.

Of course, you could similarly disagree with the artistic merits of Pixar films as being a worthwhile tradeoff. But at some point that line of reasoning just becomes "I'm personally happy with art made on the cheap by a small group and no marketing or distribution costs; I'm ok sacrificing everything else."
The following companies companies have already joined the boycott: Wikipedia, Imgur, StackOverflow, and the Cheezburger network. Medium-large businesses are joining, and we have seen the effects of it already.
People talk about Safari being bad on Windows, but frankly, it offers little reason to use it on a Mac either.

Really, the only thing that prevents Safari from being the "worst" mainstream browser is the existence of IE.

It's not awful. It just pairs mediocre performance with fewer features and lower extensibility.
Someone also wrote a Groovy DSL to read Java bytecodes and translate them into Groovy AST nodes, so they could eventually become Java bytecodes.
I think this is highly unlikely, and if true, would probably be a bad move for Apple. The message they need to send to the world most strongly right now is that they can survive without Jobs; releasing an iPad on his birthday only serves to emphasize how much of an influence he had on the company. Plus, Apple has moved away from timing product announcements to fit external pressures (see: MacWorld and the delayed iPhone 4S).
Unfortunately, much of the Apple sample code is also pretty terrible.

Here's one heuristic: if you see any Objective C++ files (*.mm) in the project, you can probably ignore it as an example of good style.
Please don't write an email or a letter; as you say, it accomplishes nothing.

We need to call our congressman and speak to whomever is on the line, with our voices. Not pens or keyboards.

When your congressman asks his staff "What have the public been calling about?" (which he asks regularly), then there's a good chance that SOPA will be mentioned.

But only if you call your congressman!
Yup, that's correct. We can terminate your contract with us and force a transfer out. We can also suspend DNS and email service if you use us and we can be required by the registries or law enforcement to take specific action based on our contract with them and you or national law, but we don't make special carve outs to extend our rights beyond that already provided under law.

(FYI: I'm the GM for Hover...)
uh? I type something in the address bar, and Firefox JFGIFM. It is called the awesome bar. I think you are confusing with Safari.
He must be confusing with Safari.
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Feedback wanted: nodeJS framework for HTTP and Socket connections = actionHero
In recent weeks, I've needed a nodeJS `API` framework capable of handling clients connecting both via HTTP and over TCP socket. I haven't found a good, clear framework which makes it simple to reuse code, so I built one :D

Features include:

- Clear, reusable `action` templates for both http and socket connections

- integrated ORM

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- npm package

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- More examples which would be useful?

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Thanks!
My guess is that if they did coincide a release to his birthday there would be no public acknowledgment by Apple PR, and they would refuse to answer any questions about it. Those that know, know, but everybody else just buys new iPads.
While it's probably possible, it's far from ideal. You'd certainly have to put in more effort, and you'd likely end up with an inferior product.

I am a diehard Apple fan, but in this case I have to recommend a nexus.
Please don't write a letter. It accomplishes nothing.

We need to call our congressman and speak to whomever is on the line, with our voices. Not pens or keyboards.

When your congressman asks his staff "What have the public been calling about?" (which he asks regularly), then there's a good chance that SOPA will be mentioned.

But only if you call your congressman!
Don't forget the OpenSSL "bug" (using uninitialized memory) that was really on purpose, resulting in a critical flaw once changed.

In that instance too, lack of commenting to explain the behavior was also at fault.
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Not knowing is one thing.

Not knowing, being informed about it, and arrogantly blowing off that information is inexcusable, unprofessional, and deserving of all that scorn.

It would have been very easy to say, "Thanks for bringing this up, we will look into it", instead of being condescending and ending up looking like an ignorant jackass.
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That pair is a little far apart. How about maybe "Electronic Engineering", meaning both "Electronics" and "Electrical Engineering"?
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Not to pick nits, but I really don't want to compute the MD5SUM of a 4GB DVD before I can play it. Maybe hash the header or the metadata (if there is any) instead?
But Firefox never had a monopoly like Windows did. It always had lower market share than IE.

Also OS X has never reached mainstream dominance over Windows.
2-3 years ago I've been an huge HTC fan buying every 6 months a new HTC handset until I realized that they want you to buy new handsets all the time with their business model, Sense and reluctant update policy. The rest of the crowd (Sony, Motorola, etc.) isn't better but the case HTC feels shady—these guys shotgun tons of new phones per quarter to the market with many many variations of Sense, their drivers, witholding sources, etc. to make it impossible to update their crappy phones.
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Yeah - mostly, sorta... :)

Registries and ICANN do require registrars to include certain clauses in their contracts with end-users/registrants, but I'm not aware of any that include vague morality clauses. This document - http://www.opensrs.com/docs/contracts/exhibita.htm - is an enumeration of the terms and conditions that ICANN and the registries require us (Hover/Tucows) to include in our contract with our customers/registrants. These requirements aren't specific to us.

I was in the room in the late '90s when most of these clauses were negotiated and then again in the early '00's when the new registries came online (Afilias, Neulevel, etc.) and most of the new registries just simply absorbed the existing T&C's in order to smooth out the approval process associated with them launching their new TLDs. They've grown and evolved in the last ten years and aren't as uniform as they once were, but generally, you can still see the pattern in there.

Generally, most of the power a registrar requires to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things comes from national laws and not all these extra clauses. We (Hover/Tucows) find that all these extra conditions just make it harder for our customers to do business with us and so we've left out as much as we can and rely mostly on national laws to get what we need done.
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Is it really that noticeably faster? Cause I always have like about ~100 tabs open at a time too, but I've been using chrome exclusively for so long, that I don't even install firefox anymore. I would definitely be interested in giving it another shot if it handles multiple tabs better though.
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My movie player should have this integrated. Nice idea.
The funny thing is that nowadays IE is more secure than Firefox and has many features similar to Chrome, such as multi-process!
The ICE seizures relied on this.

Also of worry is the nexus created by the Regional Internet Registries (ARIN, etc.) which manage the address space and associated policy.

ARIN manages the IP address space for US, Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands and could easily be hobbled by over-reaching legislation from any of those national interests - with possibly a much deeper and broader impact than anything that could be inflicted by similar legislation affecting the domain name system.
Some people consider Stratfor to be a source of disinformation and propaganda:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stratfor
That's interesting, do you have a particular source in mind that I can read more?

My very limited knowledge is only that Hume was fairly critical of religion and that it wasn't really clear if he was a complete atheist because if he were any more hostile to Christianity than he was he would have been persecuted. Maybe I am assuming too much about the person I was replying to, but it sounds to me like he is defending Christianity as an equally defensible way to live your life, so I don't think invoking Hume here is actually supporting his argument.

It's worth clarifying that my claim is that I am trying to claim that faith is a subset of belief. That you can't possibly know anything for sure is incompatible with Christianity and all current major religions, and to act like making conclusions based on evidence with confidence levels is the same as saying you know Absolute Truth Just Because is clearly absurd.
First, I thought Reddit isn't the most ugliest site on earth anymore. Then, I thought HN's CSS file is broken when I saw the darkred navbar.
Finally, I thought the green and red numbers stand for raising and falling posts.

HN is my favorite site but this Chistmas version shows again PG's modest design skills. PG, I'm sure that there many HN users (including me) who would love to redesign HN—just put it on Crowdspring or 99design and insist on keeping the HN orange. I promise you'll get tons of great designs keeping Y Combinator's core/identity.
I had the same need and found this a couple of years ago:

code.google.com/p/subeditor/downloads/list

Have been using this since then. It seems to take first two times to calculate the difference in speed, while third onward it just adjusts the starting point maintaining the same speed.
And who do you think do this refusal come from?
Why don't you read SOPA for Dummies - then post your thoughts so we can help clear up and share to the world :) Happy Holidays.

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I received a copy of "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" for Christmas last year, but haven't read it yet (and it's almost been a whole year!) Is that something you've read? and if so, would you recommend it?
I can't help but think the same. Though it wasn't so much hearing it as going to a school that was far too easy. It's not even my grades that have suffered, but how much knowledge I may have let slip by because I just retained it long enough for the grade. On the other hand, the time saved from not studying for some classes has resulted in me picking up a lot of knowledge that I wouldn't have otherwise…

I think what matters most, if you haven't screwed up too bad (and it's hard to mess up that much, for most people on HN, I'd imagine), is that you step back, take a breath, and realize that you still have the potential. Then fucking work.
> It's one of the biggest metropolis areas in the world and it still has a small-town feel.

Offtopic, but this is something that was very striking when I watched, what is one of my favorite TV shows, http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Haikei,_Chichiue-sama. The show is set in Tokyo, and centers around the lives of people who run a ryotei restauarant. It has beautiful shots of the streets, and it feels very much like a small town. The whole atmosphere feels so classical that at some point in the show when some of the characters are inside a car with a modern GPS system, it feels bit surprising and one realizes that this is actually happening sometime around 2005.
While I'm sensitive to the overall point of this article the currency appreciation part is an inevitable consequence of domestic interest rates there.

To see why, suppose I have 0 Yen in the form of a 100 Yen note and a 100 Yen loan. Further suppose that the domestic real interest rate is 0 (this is approximately true and will make the math easier, but know this follows even if the interest rate is positive but smaller). As holder of Yen debt and cash, if I invest in a 10 year Yen CD I'd have 100 - 100 = 0 Yen after 10 years time. Alternatively, suppose I convert to dollars at $1 per 100 Yen, invest the $1 in a 10 year CD paying 10% every decade compounded every decade (interest rates are usually quoted in different units but again this will make the math easier). I will owe 100 Yen and I will have $1.10. I can lock in all these transactions today, and other than counter-party risk I will have $1.10 and 100 Yen. If I enter into a contract promising to trade dollars for Yen in the future (this would be a "forward" contract but that's just terminology) the agreed upon future exchange rate had better be $1.10 for 100 Yen for some hedge fundie is about to make free money. So the easy way to make your currency rise 65% is to pay no interest.

This seems like an impossible contradiction until you think though what you would have to do to capitalize on this, slash interest rates. So while this would lead to currency appreciation against other currencies in the long term, it would cause a drastic drop in the short term.

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May be md5 the first hundred and last hundred mb's? Add 10 samples from the middle of the movie taken at equal distances calculated based on the size of the file.

Having said that I don't mind having to compute 4gb md5's, since that also helps me to check the integrity of the file at a later date.
Not really hundreds of thousands of dollars. They already have the money and none of it gets transferred to the new registrar.

If you move a domain name from Godaddy to Hover that has five years left before expiry, I have to support you for the next six years (the original five, plus the extra year that gets added when you transfer) for the $10 transfer fee I charge you when you initiate the transaction.

Its kind of screwed, but that's the way this industry works.

You can make the argument that transferring out affects Godaddy's future revenues, but to what extent isn't exactly clear.

Regardless, you make a great point - the brand took a hit, its a real thing and they really didn't like that this happened. I'm just not sure how financially material the action actually was.
How does that compare to a normal week for them?
That seems like a degenerate trivial case. A better objection would be Occam, that a simpler theory is preferable where adequate. But even that breaks down here, because we don't have any adequate "theories", only the hard problem of how to build complex software systems.

I can see refusing an approach on the grounds that it doesn't work, but to refuse it on the grounds that it works too well?
Most transfers complete within hours. Some take as long as 3-5 days, but a good registrar can make it happen very quickly nowadays.

To your point, I can say that our retail transfer rate for the 22nd was up 10x from the prior day, the 23rd, was 4x from the 22nd and the 24 looked pretty much like the 22nd. That's a ton of domains (I run Hover, the retail arm of Tucows - the second or third largest registrar depending on how you count market share...)
I've wondered before why they don't have the list of floors when you call the elevator instead of selecting it from within.
Good to see the Marine reserves standing up for freedom like this.
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MG Siegler needs to stop writing about technology. It's just sad at this point how ill informed and out of touch he is.
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This is the kind of thing we say about programming all the time without evidence. We don't know this, or anything like it.
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Noticed that too. Why are they growing that wildly?
While I'm sure this would probably violate all sorts of copyright, I'd love a site that could provide alternate dubbed languages (specifically Spanish, German and Portuguese) for movies.

The dubbing is never quite right or simply not included (for the media I'm looking at purchasing, I always ensure that at least Spanish is covered). I'm using television shows and movies that I have nearly memorized the script to help with "immersion" between more traditional study (I took many years of Spanish and gave up ... this hack wasn't mine, it was mentioned by a coworker and it turned out to be a very clever one). In the US, it's easy to find DVD/BD versions that include Spanish (to a lesser extent, French, which I'm not interested in), but rarely include anything else in the US (and most of the stuff I want to watch includes neither).

This service is intriguing to me. I don't routinely download movies, and I'm unfamiliar with .srt and .sub formats, but I'm wondering if this could help assist reading in another language the same way it has helped in listening/comprehension and it certainly seems like your site is solving a problem I've seen when transcoding DVDs ... it used to be audio mismatch (largely a problem of the past with modern container formats), now it sounds like the same pain point exists with subtitles.

Well done.
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This:

> It is important to say right up front that quality isn’t everything, and acknowledging it isn’t some sort of moral failing. Value is what you are trying to produce, and quality is only one aspect of it, intermixed with cost, features, and other factors.
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I didn't even notice the colored numbers until I read the comments. For myself, the colors are easy enough to distinguish (as separate colors), as the red looks brighter than the green.
If I didn't already know the colors were red and green, I think I'd be able to pick out the one that is clearly red (As there is a shade of red for sure in the title bar), but I do not believe I'd be able to say with certainty that the green is green (and not another shade of red).
I'm really surprised this is an issue for people.

For as long as I can remember, the first thing I've done when installing a new browser is remove the search bar and all of the toolbar buttons. Searching from the address bar is no more or less convenient than from the dedicated search field, and all of the other actions can be done faster using keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures or, in my case, extra mouse buttons.

What's the appeal of having a separate search bar taking up space?
Chrome also has abysmal support for managing those 50-100 tabs.
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I have it... I enjoyed it, but it's not this great eye opening religious / philosophical piece. It's mostly a fairly personal story regarding a particular religious project of his...
I didn't notice it until I saw someone mention it. I never look at HN when I visit HN.

It's OK.
Thank you, I enjoyed reading that very much. Actually, I enjoy reading all your Forth comments very much, so please write lots more. A few points that struck me:

getting rid of mode-switching words makes source code more compact

That's a big deal, given that source code size is the best measure of complexity we have and the best predictor of errors we have.

the GA144 uses essentially antique fab technology. With no changes to the design and the latest fabrication techniques you could (theoretically) get an order of magnitude more cores

A smart approach. Prove the thing useful first, with the knowledge that there's another order of magnitude waiting to be had.

programming them is very difficult and requires incredible attention to detail

Do we know any programs that have been written for them? What does Chuck write? Do they provide a foundation for building application-oriented languages in the classic Forth style?

I think that if any language other than Forth could be compiled for the machines it might be an array processing language like APL.

What I really want to know is whether this architecture would be suitable for dataflow, i.e. whether you could build a spreadsheet on top of it. It seems not unlike the systolic array architectures that were a hot research topic 25 years ago, and those were thought to be suitable for dataflow.

I work on the problem of data parallelism in spreadsheets, and the thought of being able to apply hardware like this to it makes me salivate. Okay, not just salivate, drool. But we're probably years away from being able to figure out how to do that. Capturing even the low-hanging data parallelism in spreadsheets with any generality has proven surprisingly difficult, and I don't have a good gut feeling for whether the software techniques we've developed to do it would translate naturally to the GA chips. If they could, it would be a dream come true, because we could first prove the software on traditional hardware and then "go native" later.

Obviously you couldn't just port already-written code to a platform that radically different. The question is whether the key concepts would survive or whether you'd have to rethink everything from scratch. The environment we're building is highly reactive. It doesn't just compile code and then run it; if the computations produce new formulae, those have to go back to the top level, get analyzed again, and then be computed in turn. That sort of re-entrancy turns out to be a big deal for spreadsheets, and most of the important constructs depend on it. I don't know if the GA chips would feel very good about that kind of dynamism; perhaps it would be more like "Damn, you just got all the code laid out and now you're shoving us all around again."
I've seen this in a few buildings before. There is a keypad - you type the floor number and it tells you which elevator to wait at (for example 'g'). Worked really smoothly.
Japan should stick to trying to fix the problem with technology, since immigration will never, logically, solve any such demographic problem. They should stand as an interesting counterexample.