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And thus far they're about as effective at impeding my access to copyrighted content as they are impeding my access to illegal drugs.

Seriously:

1) Google "watch 30 rock online"

2) Click first link

3) Click "Search links" for newest episode of 30 rock

4) Go to second to last page of results (just because the first and last page of results are always fake, as a rule - you always shoot for the middle)

5) Click random link

6) Watch Dove Soap ad

7) Watch tonight's episode of 30 Rock

Replace "30 rock" with pretty much any other TV show (at least one that's been over for more than 30 minutes) or movie, and the same approach will get you to a working video, though you may have to click a few fake links before finding a real one.

Is there a solution to this? Idunno. I do know that the "overseas" thing is a total red herring - in this particular example, that "first link" that I clicked was sidereel.com, registered to the Rovi Corporation in Santa Clara, CA. Completely and utterly within the jurisdiction of the US government, and clearly linking to pirated versions of almost every TV show that's on the air right now, and pretty much nothing else. If linking to content was such a clear and easily prosecutable crime, I'd think they'd be taking down sites like that, too, rather than leaving them active.

I can't help but wonder if perhaps there's not such a legal consensus on how criminal sites like Sidereel are, and that's why they're trying to go after the endpoints that sites like this point to instead, as well as passing laws that would specifically make linking to them illegal.
Because the media are amongst those behind it remember.

The target of those bills is greater than just online piracy, I think you'll find they are capable of being used for all sorts of counterfeiting and unorthodox competition. For example theres a site that has been a buzz with some of my friends, selling knock off games workshop models. Those laws can be used to block those sites as well.

Its all about maximising profits, and protecting markets. Hence the current methods eat into said profits to enforce and are unacceptable for profit creation.
In that regard, the play has been a lot like the NDAA. In reality, we're already detaining Americans indefinitely without charge - and those are the 'lucky' ones. With others, we simply dispatch drones to assassinate them.

"All this bill does is codify existing practice" was the same argument used in that case. "And anyway, there are rigorous procedures in place."

Rigorous secret procedures, that is. Kind of like the rigorous procedures that pertained to water-boarding.
That's the point. Notice their message about the stunt. They're not interested in attacking the FBI.
The US government has been a staple of comedy for many, many years.

See: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Will_Rogers His quotes from 80 years ago still sound timely.
I don't get the HN love of piracy
We're (almost) all hackers here, and many have small businesses. Most are web startups, but many sell packaged software as well and are affected by piracy. Yet the overwhelming lens that this issue is viewed through is the distant one of movies and music, not the near one of our own incomes. We have fewer ways to make money, and we're cheering that on.

A couple feet away, we love our Kindles. Amazon sells us even smaller digital packages, but we happily buy hundreds of them with nary a peep of complaint. We see the value in the books, but not in the software that our compatriots write. $20 for a (good) book is great, but $9 for an app is too much. We just focus on the free music and movies, and that defines the discussion.

Not that this isn't a pro-SOPA argument - that has obvious and serious flaws. And yes, the world changes and we should all move to create web apps, but I feel the world of the hacker is diminished because we have fewer ways to do what we love and get paid for it.
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I find it unsettling that Jon Stewart and his researchers and writers can go from knowing nothing about a topic to nailing some of the central absurdities in less than a week, but our congressmen and their staff CAN'T.
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This is not a question of license, which a user may or may not have agreed to participate in. By simply purchasing media I obtain all fair use rights -- I can make a backup of it without ever engaging in a license agreement.
I know what you are saying, but I think this is the line of thought content owners realize too.

I think it's because of that facility that they are seeking more effective methods of mitigating the proliferation non-authorized distribution of copyrighted material.

Many people are arguing the same thing. Access to unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material is trivial. Their methods at controlling the floodgates are ineffective. They quite realize that and that's why they're attempting to have congress pass a blunt tool. They want to have a control mechanism which is as easy for them to use as it is for people to find illegal content. I don't thin they're going to get it, but I believe that's the motivation behind their efforts.

They want some symmetry.
Many here certainly wants to disrupt society.
For last couple of centuries or so, each generation grows up with unprecedented change in their lifetime.

For example, I enter elementary school, the internet started to take off and browsers were primitive. Nowadays, we can enjoy the convenience of movie streaming, fast browsers, and extraordinary rich video games(Dwarf Fortress, I am looking at you). So it doesn't make sense to me that congressmen are literal dinosaurs. Rather, I think they stop updating their model of the world and refuse to absorb any knowledge for the last couple of decade.

In any case, the situation with copyright is not new. If you look at the issue centuries ago, you would realize that we been having this debate for a long time. Today, the internet only make pirating easier than ever and bring the issue of copyright to the forefront of public consciousness.

We thought about "old versus new" business model because we lack an understanding of the history of copyright. In reality, it have much more to do about how your model of how to make money.
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with the Fedora repos enabled fixes the issue now (the fixed in version is xkeyboard-config-2.3-3.fc16.noarch).
So perhaps the best way to appease the lobbying companies would be to pass SOPA, but remove the most destructive pieces first. Perhaps narrowing the definition of an infringing or "rogue" site would be a good start.
I believe in copyright and commercial software and everything, but teachers should not press my family into buying software when free alternatives exist. They can just accept PDF slides which OOo can produce, since when are slide animations critical?

I think the "more right" reaction would be to complain about this, at increasing levels of hierarchy, rather than support a monopoly that will push the $119 bill on other families who might be worse off. Either way, I don't blame them for not wasting too much time on it.
New phone activations, maybe? Android phones work a lot better when they're paired with Google account - you might not use GMail, but you might like the backup and calendar sync features.
No. In fact, it would be a violation of federal law for Congress to interfere in a Justice Department investigation in the way this story describes.
Is "geek" too cool of a word now that they have to reach for the calculated more insulting "nerd"?

(my apologies to proud nerds - but my point is that's not how they were using it)

So if people who know what they are doing with computers are the equal of geeks, do politicians think they are the dumb jocks in this high school infantile throwdown?
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Actually, it's "vigilante" with a silent "e" as in "dilettante".

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> "available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time"

To me, they're clearly describing a network boot setup. i.e. you only have one installed copy of the OS, and you have a bunch of (possibly diskless) client machines boot from that single copy via netboot or similar.
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I dont disagree with your thesis, but your example spans a mere twenty years.
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Even further back than that too :-) He's been around a long time.. always hilarious to follow his exploits. Lots of videos of his "driving" on YouTube also. He won the Gumball 3000 twice.
Well, I only exists for twenty one years.
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Beware opponents of sharing will 'USE' DOJ and FBI to bring about their goals rather than the frotndoor of US Congress.

Remember folks, DOJ is supposedly chasing down child porn..with what funds? Who do think was on the bill to fund this? Guess..

Just like the TSA..if you want kill it you remove support for the funding bill in US Congress..PIPA/SOPA are red herrings and smoke screens
Guidelines here mean the "vims" ( see what I did there ) and fancies of Apple.
I hope this won't favor short sites where all the content fits above the fold compared to long, solid articles or q&a-site questions with several replies. Stackoverflow for example often requires scrolling to reach an answer because the question itself is so long.
And who will employ me to work on it full time? I know of no example where occasional hobbyist contributions have led to good usability, except for Terminal-based text editors (and only in the eyes of some).

I think the GIMP stinks and I would still honestly dedicate myself to it for a small salary. I would madly dedicate myself to it if I were to sell it commercially and with perfect copyright in place, because then my "salary" would depend on my merits. But I won't, because I know everybody is used to warezing Photoshop by now. (FWIW, I spent a long time being the target of laughter and facepalms by not warezing Photoshop but supporting cheaper alternatives instead. There's even a social push to do it now.)

Maybe this will work again once we have perfect DRM in the disguise of SaaS, but that's a day I fear for different reasons.
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The video linked in the article was not available here (Ireland), so for all others affected, this should be it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSc9eKOcH3w
Hi :-) I added font support pretty much at the last minute. Here's an example of something that should work ":set guifont=Courier:h14"
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The note at the end perfectly described myself :(
Now the question is: how to improve? How to be better?
What lead us to this point in history where people whine and go on tantrums about the injustice of being given powerful free tools produced at great expense?

I think the root cause is the anti-piracy war, going on ever since the dawn of the computer age. The endgame may be an angry backlash of anti-copyright extremism gaining mainstream support. We may see a day soon when the voters demand an end to all copyright. Who knows what the end result of that would be.
" sending changes to Models down to browser clients". _Down_ to the client? He draws the stack with the client on top and the storage at the bottom, and then says 'down to the client'? I have a collegue who also does this. I never figured out why. Can anyone explain possoble reasoning behind this wording?
Actually it is (or it should be. Just file a bug if it doesn't work for you). By default anti-aliasing is disabled, but you can toggle it on.
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Absolutely, and you don't even need to do it for every meal. Keep some fresh fruits and vegetables prepared and on hand. A roommate who was in petroleum engineering and taking heavy course loads would prepare a large bowl of food and wrap servings in plastic wrap to be frozen. I really need to do something like that.
Definitely. Unfortunately Git is GPL, and given the trouble we went through with VLC we decided not to work on that feature. It's definitely sad though.
The end of the article seems to say that Megaupload is US-based. As I understood it, many of the provisions in SOPA were designed for use against non-US sites. I suppose that if Megaupload had operated purely on foreign soil the US may not have been able to bring this case.
Oh, that's super smart! I might consider adding this as the default in the next release. Thanks!!!
So all of the considered reasoning and description and discussion was merely "put through an internal process in" her head.

I think that's a bit of an leap - isn't it also possible that she actually took your "How to think about science" essay to heart, and realized that she didn't actually want to do it? This is not uncommon, even if someone is good at something - even if they're the best - that doesn't necessarily mean that they should pursue it.

When I used to advise grad students in the context of GRE training, I considered myself very successful when I talked students out of pursuing graduate education in fields that they were not passionate enough about to commit themselves to properly (or, in a couple of sad cases, where they flat out didn't have the skills - this happened a couple of times with people hoping to go into physics or math that just weren't good enough at math to make it, and as horrible as it was to do so, I had to be honest [gently] about that fact).

This is particularly relevant to me because I was one of those people that understood (and I like to think, still understands) how science is done, was good at it, even had a passion for it, and still decided to pursue another path - I've written the very e-mail that you mention, though it was "program computers" instead of "become a judge". But I think very highly of the professors that gave me an accurate and honest view of how tough the field was (physics, in my case) and how it functioned. Though they might have been disappointed that their feedback played a part in my staying away (honestly, it was money - I realized that unless I was a shining star in the field [I wasn't], I'd probably never have enough, and I didn't have it in me), I consider it to have been extremely important in my decision, and for that I'm really grateful.
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While MegaUpload has indeed been destroyed, it is not obvious that the judge will agree with those actions - after the ICE domain seizures, Rojadirecta brought suit against the US government, apparently thinking it can win (see e.g. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110613/12021514673/rojadi...). The DoJ would like PIPA/SOPA to be reality, but that doesn't mean that it is.
> Not disagreeing with the core of your posting at all, but I think you got lost in the hen analogy too.

Oh, indeed, we should apply the same rubric to physical property. But I've already analyzed a number of other cases in the post I linked, and didn't feel like bothering to analyze whether physical property is a good thing or not.

> Not sure about the phrasing of that argument. If female nurses demanded more wages than male ones, should this opinion be given 95% of the weight?

It's not about what people _demand_. Of _course_ they'll always demand something better for themselves. Here we need to weigh their demands not against the other male nurses, but rather against society as a whole, _including people other than nurses_. Does giving female nurses more pay harm the quality or cost of care for patients more than it improves it for said nurses, after weighting by population? Does it promulgate certain values that we have decided are undesirable in society as a whole (eg, gender inequality)? Does it, in the end, actually harm said nurses (perhaps their civil rights are eroded by the popular opinion shifting away from gender equality). These are the sort of questions you need to ask. It's not just, oh, within this arbitrary subpopulation, the subsubpopulation that has the greatest proportional share gets what they want.
Definitely :-) Just add this as a feature request on GitHub. I was considering adding this, but I wasn't sure if other people would like it.
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Emacs a mountain of a mole-hill, that one.
Thank you for pointing that out. That issue has been brought up several times but I had not yet read anything that quoted the indictment.
JSON is nearly sexps already.

It's about as lispy you can get without being Lisp. The curly braces could be changed to parentheses and it would be rather trivial to write a Lisp macro to parse JSON into a nested set of associative arrays or hash maps.

In fact, if you just remove the JS ':' member notation, you can shove most of JSON into a Clojure repl already, since Clojure supports the convenient {} notation for maps.

There's no reason to make JSON look precisely like Lisp. Given that many people seem to be allergic to Lisp-style nested parentheses once they've been educated that it's Lisp, JSON offers the flexibility of constructing arbitrary sexp trees without people ever noticing they're almost generating and parsing Lisp.

When writing Lisp, it's of course sensible to use sexps instead of JSON for internal marshalling.
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I've often wondered how to explain to non-developers the level of complexity in large software projects. I don't think the new generation will understand it any better than the old generation because, as you say, it's an invisible world.

I am currently contracted on a project with 1.5 million lines of code and dependencies on hundreds of services written by a number of different teams. It takes a few weeks just to get new developers productive on the code base. How do you even begin to explain the complexity of this to somebody in a way they can really relate to when they barely understand computers?
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The context isn't clear from these notes.

Full context as explained in the talk: used to have stop-the-world GC for 2 minutes every hour. After implementing bytebuffer-based slab allocation, this is only several seconds, and once every three days. Service runs on 200 nodes, with redundancies. Kicking the process on one of them, in a slow roll that finishes in under 3 days, works around the unresponsiveness window (planned shutdown easier to manage than an unpredictable pause).

It's totally a workaround and not a solution. Atilla follows up this example with an anecdote of talking to Oracle folks about when are they going to have true pauseless GC, and they responded with "not that big an issue, really, everyone finds a workaround..." So, this is an example of a workaround. A pretty good one once you realize it's not "the one" machine, it's "some one" machine out of 200.
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This was a very insightful post which confirms my experience that generally working with people you can't communicate easily with almost always leads to bad results. What I'm wondering though, is if it really is a property of the person, or the fit between the two parties. Some people just don't get each other. Maybe their values are too far apart or something. Maybe they try to follow the other parties implications, but it leads somewhere they don't want to go, or then they cannot even fill in the blanks correctly because of different mental models.

So an alternative explanation for pg's observation is that when there is founder-advisor fit, communication is easy, because both parties can follow the implications of the other party and value similar things. Then the startups with better founder-advisor fit do better in the outside world, because they can actually benefit from the advice they are getting, whereas for the ones without founder-advisor fit the advice is pure noise to them, and does not guide them in the right direction (that is the one they want to go).
Nothing is wrong with byte buffers. Use them where appropriate. The advice is to stop when you find yourself implementing a full-blown memory manager / quasi-malloc in user code on top of byte buffers...
Why would they have to understand? Do you understand the intricaties of an airplane when you fly one?
On the positive side, this whole anti-"nerd" attitude actually inspires people to become tech-entrepreneurs who are financially and socially powerful.
Which is precisely why I chose saasy for my web app, being based in the uk. Same goes for tropo vs twillio, until twillio lainched uk sms yesterday.