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"Many people have run regularly over the years and most of them didn't instantly burst into flames, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be conducting long-term studies of the health benefits and risks of running at various intensities."

Who and where exactly is anyone arguing that "we shouldn't be conducting long-term studies of the health benefits and risks of running at various intensities"?

To your list of fallacies you should perhaps add the strawman argument.

"Just because yoga is considered "ancient wisdom" doesn't mean we shouldn't test it rigorously and without preconceived notions of its efficacy or inefficacy."

Another strawman.

"Science is the only way to distinguish ancient wisdom from ancient hogwash; anecdotes and arguments only confirm pre-existing biases."

Is this a "scientifically proven claim"? Or is this just an expression of a "pre-existing bias"?
Is this version created or endorsed by the authors of the other Visitor.js implementation?
Try not to be so literal. My implication was that any service that lets a user download copyrighted material for free is bound to be terminated by the labels, and that is largely what is happening.
Oh, I know. I'm in the process right now, and have been for over six months...
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I'm not sure that's true. To be completely clear, I am strongly against piracy.

But I am not sure enforcement measures against piracy would actually help "creative people" much if at all. Cory Doctorow is a prime example who makes his work freely available but makes his living through his creative work. Perfect enforcement of copyright wouldn't have virtually no impact on his situation.

Obviously, that is just one anecdote. But we can see every single person making their living off of creative work as a counter-example right now as a counter-point since Piracy is currently rampant and while there is enforcement it is minimal compared to the emount of piracy that happens.
You're justifying it as not having too much of a "splash" because it targets foreign websites which you claim are primarily for copyright infringement. That's just not true at all. Most foreign websites are perfectly legitimate.
No. And the recently-posted paid visitor.js site does have a few advantages, most being that this is using pure javascript, while they have the server side doing most of the heavy lifting.
We wouldn't provide that kind of support, nor would be it be expected, for a free and easy-to-use product.
For one highway and one non-highway, check out SPUIs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpoPQ1SPJU
Design documents are really no different than code that's been written but not tested. Just as with any other code, you want to test the assumptions made in the documentation early and often. You don't want to build up a large mass of documentation that hasn't been at least prototyped, just as you don't want to write reams of code that you haven't yet run.
Very interesting, but why won't it ever leave the atmosphere or at least rise far enough that it could reach the Kármán Line (~100km). The record according to jgc is ~40km. Why is it so difficult to go from 40km to 100km if these zero-pressure valves exist?

(PS: I am aware the Kármán line actually has to do with aerodynamic lift (and therefore may not really be applicable to lighter than aircraft). It just chose it because it's the commonly accepted "edge of space")
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The thing with this is I just can't imagine the App store getting shut down because of this, or even youtube.

Those two are so well known and have so many lawyers at the ready they would be safe.

But, there are plenty of smaller, legitimate services and sites that would be shut down because of SOPA.
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Filip went to high school in Washington state, so I think he might actually be a US citizen. Would be good to mention somewhere on the page though.
I was in batch[0], and would say yes. If you can swing the time off, Hackerschool would be an incredible experience. Nick, Dave, and Sonali are some of the nicest people I've ever met--they were born to do this. They attract similarly awesome people to the program, so Hackerschool's vibe is as good as it gets: smart, friendly people doing nothing but help each other learn.
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How is this in relation with uni's? Is it for people that have learned how to program without doing CS that want some kind of recognition?

Or is it that some startups can't attract CS grads? Or is the CS education just bad/ not wanted by the startups?
In that case, this implementation really should have a different name. It's confusing to have two competing implementations share the same name, and it may be a trademark violation.
Great story, great idea, great plan.

Since it's only 3 weeks, I don't think you Hacker School has too much problem accepting foreign students. But it will be a problem for startups trying to hire? Or they're OK aout trying a foreign employee?

A suggestion: Hacker School don't provide certification or grading, but you could set a page with the names of the students for future reference.

I'm really thinking about taking a 3-week vacations and try Hacker School after I finish my Master of Science degree. Even if it's just to learn more :)
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This is a fantastic response and I'm glad you took the time to write it. I'm sorry I misinterpreted DNSBL, I guess I read "either as a zone file that can be used by DNS server software" and assumed they meant the main DNS servers really do use them.

Final question for you: Do you believe that if SOPA passes, it would really have drastic effects to the internet functionally? So, besides censorship and liability, do you think there would be a noticeable difference for tech-savvy internet users and website operators in regards to things you mentioned above (or perhaps haven't mentioned yet)?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering if the person was making a play on words with 'silicon,' but considering his grasp of English, that might be giving too much credit.
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He was talking about the money, not the content, thus putting it in terms of who owns an iOS app is missing the point. It's about who's profit it is. In which case the discussion is exactly the same.
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The social network analysis led to the uncovering of a conspiracy to commit fraud, etc. It's similar to, say, someone hiring a hit man to kill their spouse, except in this case the links are more complex.
I wrote an intelligent solver (doing set elimination, etc) in Java back in high school, but couldn't get it to solve the harder puzzles. Clearly I was lacking one of the essential implications that allow you solve them manually. I actually never even considered brute forcing it.
Is the problem that I sold the property before complying, or that I sold it to my brother? What makes selling to my brother any different from selling to a stranger? [supposing we live in different households with independent assets]
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i'm curious about the timing here.

did you see vistor.js hit HN and rewrite it in a few hours? or were you working on this in isolation and when you saw it on HN decided it was the perfect time to ship?
He says for half a year. It was most likely a study-abroad program else he should've definitely stated that. I'm an eleven-year permanent resident currently waiting on my citizenship paperwork so I'd be sad if he was already a US citizen and I wasn't ;)
I am in a very similar situation. Its tough being 19.
I don't think the DMCA envisioned hosting providers that are specifically designed for infringement.
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You also do not, strictly speaking, need a utensil to eat spaghetti. But it works better, if you find the right utensil.
getlocalne.ws is a nice project. but it needs a facelift.
This describes my experience being in batch[0]. I came in with relatively little professional programming experience, but lots of energy.

In addition to learning a ton and meeting some great friends, I also got a great job at Venmo right after the session ended.
Either way, Monday seems like it wouldve made for a bigger splash than Friday night
(devil's advocate) Your analogy is bad because "rounding up" is something one Does Not Do Without Due Process, whereas deleting an intertube site is not. (America managed for 200 years without any intertubes at all, you know, so it can't be all that important.)
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This type of analysis can be performed for any of the early Nintendo-designed NES games. They knew what they were doing. The first few levels of Super Mario Brothers are ingenious at how they subtly teach the player the context of the world and the physics of moving Mario. It is the artistry of these subtle touches that distinguished these games from ordinary, competent platformers long after they'd been knocked off to oblivion.
It's J-1 more likely. F1-CPT from a glance seems to be for things like placement years as part of a Uni course rather than something personal.
Quite, it's mostly used as JSONP. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
I'm currently appealing a similar rejection of an auto-renewing subscription app. Here's the rejection:

We found that the Purchasability Type for one or more of your In-App Purchase products was inappropriately set, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

Your In-App Purchase is currently an Auto-Renewable Subscription. However, it would be more appropriate to use the Non-Renewing Subscription In-App Purchase type. Auto-Renewable Subscriptions are intended for periodical apps, such as magazines and newspapers. Non-Renewing Subscriptions should be used for products that are not appropriate for Auto-Renewable Subscriptions.

Nothing in Apple's documentation hints that Auto-Renewable Subscriptions are more appropriate for one class of app than for another, so I was hoping that my reviewer was acting on some subjective, high-level guideline that I could argue on. However, it's beginning to look as if there is a specific, unwritten policy against non-periodical apps.
Are you guys by any chance going to offer the materials used in the course online?

Edit: I now realize that there might not be any.
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There was a whole group of people who were doing this constantly. So all the properties stayed within the same group.

Normally, you could sell the property to a stranger... but then you wouldn't be able to benefit from it anymore. This way it "stays in the family."
I'm not a lawyer and I haven't done anything more than read the article, but I suspect the problem is that a group of associated people did it 3 times.
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You've been here for over two years, so I'm surprised you haven't learned that HN considers such posts to be noise.
I find Jango[1] to be pretty convenient. As a bonus, I've found I like their music suggestions (based on your existing playlist) better than GrooveShark's.

[1] http://www.jango.com
It just seems unlikely that every single state will require the actual owner of the LLC to be in public records. If that is the case, good luck finding the owners. Ideally the slumlord will have a different registered agent (person in the relevant state who handles the LLC paperwork) for each LLC and the superintendent only deals with a lawyer. Again, different lawyer for each building/LLC. You can sue the LLC, but the only asset that'd own is the building itself. So, properly done, it seems that slumlords can get away with it. Of course, paying all these lawyers might be more expensive than being a decent landlord, it is probably a lot less work.

I feel like I'm missing some practical uses of knowing the superintendent, local and out-of-state lawyer for each building (or building/LLC combo). I only skimmed the linked How To Research a Slumlord, although the results seems to be "render the LLC useless by suing the actual owner".
Thanks, rabc!

Since it's only 3 weeks, I don't think you Hacker School has too much problem accepting foreign students.

The program's actually three months, not three weeks. That's still short enough for tourist visas (I think, but obviously IANAL).

The companies we work with are split on visas; in general, the larger the company the easier it is for them to do, since they can plan farther in the future (it can take months or more for visas to come through). The other issue is that I don't think you're allowed to seek employment while you're visiting the country and then get sponsorship; you're supposed to get sponsorship before you come (again, IANAL).

Feel free to email me (nick at hackerschool.com) if you have other questions. We'd love to find a way to make Hacker School more accessible for people outside the US. The primary reason to do Hacker School is to become a better programmer, so I think it's worth it even if the US's crazy immigration policy makes staying after the batch a pain.
I don't understand the pricing model behind visitorjs, and we had to implement a similar solution at my company. But the fact is - they created something and shared it here. If you think you can do a better job at it - fine, but why haven't you done it before, or at the very least named it differently. I don't mean to exaggerate, but it just doesn't feel ethical to me.
I was one of the first committers on Mongrel2 (actually, second behind Zed) and I still am (though mostly as a historical accident, I haven't contributed anything of substance since SSL).

In my opinion, this is great. I think Mongrel2 is an excellent proof-of-concept, and if it provided the impetus for a much more widely used project like nginx to go down a similar path (though it's just a module right now), then everyone wins.

That said, this certainly isn't in nginx mainline, and it's very feature poor as compared to Mongrel2. One could not simply swap in nginx with this module for an existing Mongrel2 installation.
> this is a decision that will come back and bite you in the ass when whatever you quit Uni for comes to an end.

I know you're trying to help, but these kinds of absolute statements can really mess with people. I got pretty much the same speech when I decided to leave school more than a decade ago.

Logically, I still cannot figure out what they were talking about. I have never met anyone who cared about what school you went, how well you did there, or if you went at all. Irrationally, however, I wonder how many days I have left until it hits and all the regret sets in.

Anyway, don't let me stop you. I just wanted to point out that getting so involved in other people's lives, people you don't even know especially, can be quite damaging.
> Do you believe that if SOPA passes, it would really have drastic effects to the internet functionally?

Yes. Things would have to shift around the compensate, but the real problem begins when SOPA justifies similar legislation in other countries, especially ones being bound by trade agreements which call for this type of stuff.

In the U.S. they claim "oh, but we're just going to target people who violate the law. You know, copyright infringement." Even if that were true, other countries have a long history of applying their laws, which usually suck and go much further to stifle speech.

SOPA legitimizes this method of blacklisting, thus leading to a balkanization of the naming system. People begin to move away from the cache servers, causing slowdowns in resolution and CDNs. Once this proves ineffective, the U.S. will want to censor any DNS server that resolves an IP to something they don't want. Then we have deep packet inspection.

It really will not end unless we force it to end. SOPA takes a drastic step that even the DMCA didn't do. DMCA targeted activities under U.S. jurisdiction. The next chapter in the global censorship game is the attack on websites outside jurisdiction, which is not feasible without immense privacy encroachments.

I don't want to see us going down that path. We need to go the complete opposite direction when it comes to copyright. SOPA also places way too much of a legal and logistical burden on companies within the U.S., which is going to lead a lot of people toward countries with progressive outlooks on copyright, like in some places in Europe.
This is exactly how we see it, in a lot of ways. We hope that we're creating value that wasn't there before (I think we are), and we would be very happy destroying stupid hiring rituals.

It's also the reason that we're not charing for it right now. We think it could be really big and important. We're going to see if we can get it there fast while breaking even.

If you weren't busy, we'd love to have you :).
Perhaps take a look at the NDAA? Due process was just signed away. http://boingboing.net/2012/01/03/missing-portion-of-obama-ho...
Free markets are only efficient if consumers act rationally. In addition to being unethical, manipulative marketing is bad for the economy. It's in everyone's long term interest to regulate false advertising.
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> (were you there at the ThirstyBear meetup where they bought us all beers?)

How is "must live in the Bay Area in order to receive friendly customer service" a reasonable hidden addition to the T&C of a supposedly global service?
A closer analogy is shutting down a printing press. America survived for 100 years before offset printing existed, so why not craft a law that excludes newspapers that use offset printing presses from first amendment protections?
Cool stuff, but I'm wondering why they went with REP/REQ instead of ROUTER/DEALER. That would dramatically reduce the number of file descriptors needed (indeed, a single socket could handle any number of backends / requests).

Also, the fact that ZMQ is message, not stream, oriented makes it non-ideal here. You get the whole response in one big chunk. Across an internal network, this may not be a huge deal, but it's not a desirable property.

It's conceivable that a variant that broke responses up into discrete messages might be better, but this would have more complication in implementation, and I wonder how much it'd have to offer over straight HTTP.

Also, I wonder if the true ideal protocol for this is SPDY without SSL. It just seems like a no-brainer.
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Have a look at the demographics of who the ad was shown to, I imagine that your ad was just shown disproportionately to users in India. Targeting anyone outside of the major markets (US, UK, etc.) is much cheaper, so it's likely that a combination of Facebook's Ad Auction algorithm and their optimization algorithm resulted in a skew of who was seeing your ads.

If these are user who've liked your Facebook page then you can get a list of them from your admin account and just send a few of them messages to find out why they liked your page.
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Don't be in a hurry to change that. It's a good thing.
I do like the idea of using their own weapons against them. Do we have a list of websites to target?

All we need are two groups. One group that actively posts copyrighted content on the sites and another that actively barrages those sites with takedown notices.

It would basically be a DDoS using the legal system.
Here is a live demo showing your own information.
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Fyi: I am not storing the information.
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The problem is that the labels (much like Hollywood film studios) are clinging to an outdated business model and screwing us all in the process. There might have been a time when licensing content based on geographical region made sense; That time is long gone. When I go to a streaming website and am told I can't use it because of my IP prefix, I don't see a rights-holder making a fair licensing agreement, I see a bunch of clueless old rich dudes mumbling about "kids these days, with their digital doo-hickeys and global mumbo-jumbo."
The extra $60K will help us edit to our rough cut over 75% faster and better as we'll be able to afford more editing resources.

So their goal was $40k, but for an additional $60k they'll do the editing in a little over half the time? I have to agree with the other commenters - the $40k so the documentary can get out there and raise awareness is great.

However, the $60k additional just to speed it up seems like it could be spend better elsewhere (on the boy and his projects, or another documentary or on a similar cause).

Fantastic story of the young man though, and if people were happy to contribute for the documentary, then that is brilliant. Raising awareness of these stories is an ongoing battle.
It's also the reason that we're not charging for it right now.

I wouldn't judge this by familiar models. Who knows but that you could make more money overall by subsidizing hackers to attend.

The transformative thing is finding a way to amplify/unleash the social, creative, and market value of hackers, most of which remains locked away right now. Since it's such a scarce resource and getting scarcer (edit: relative to demand), the value is obvious.

I'll be cheering for you guys!
Am I confused? Didn't Marco blog about this last year[1] and then Steve Jobs replied to someone's email saying, quote, "We created subscriptions for publishing apps, not SaaS apps.
Sent from my iPhone".

Did Marco forgot about this, or did he decide to try and slip it through anyway?

[1]http://www.marco.org/2011/02/22/subscription-rule-not-for-sa...
Ah I see how you misinterpreted me there: I meant a certain subset of foreign sites that were not legitimate.
Buildings with sewage leaks, inadequate electrical systems, and vermin infestations are a public health hazard, e.g. fires from electrical malfunctions.

Right, and that's why (most) cities have building codes.

Typically, owners are given the opportunity to correct violations and fined if they do not. As fines accumulate, governments will often work with prospective purchasers in order to make transfer of the building's ownership economically viable and provide relief to owners who are unable or unwilling to comply with minimum property standards established by law.

It seems to me that the fundamental problem here is that landlords can dodge fines by selling a building. If the tenants of sub-code buildings received a statutory reduction in rent until the building is back to code requirements, there would be no incentive for landlords to operate sub-code buildings.

The issue of imposing externalities on tenants is, however, entirely orthogonal to the issue of building equity which I was responding to.
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Why is minimal dead space (i.e. space not on the critical path) not a design criteria? In level 9 (in the appendix[1]), for example, there seems to be a large amount of space that isn't on the critical path at all. I understand that this increases the non-linearity of the level, but it seems to me that it would also significantly increase the amount of re-traversal required to get through the level.

[1]: http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/6582/Zelda-L...
Not exactly. A rectangular world that wraps around on both axes is indeed a torus, and appears in many video games, but not Zelda. Hyrule in each of the first four Zelda games in 2D is a flat rectangular world with impassable edges. (Perhaps a game cheat device could let you walk through a wall and wrap around the edges; it's arguable whether that would mean the world is toroidal.)