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I couldn't agree more. Alexis is smart with excellent points, though he didn't make some of the more damnable points against this proposed regulation. The problem that he faced, ne, that anyone of us would face is the transition to making the same arguments using a medium you are not experienced with. Add to that the fact that Chris Hayes, unlike hundreds of cable news shows, is not a forgiving environment for people who don't reinforce their arguments with rhetorical points of proof or intellectual logic.

This is by no means an indictment of Alexis' intellect or his understanding and ability to present evidence of his hypothesis (which we've seen he and other opponents can do effectively in writing), rather the fast-paced, time-limited format of live televised debate, particularly on UP!, is a brutal gauntlet with no exits.

Richard Cotten seemed to sort of be given a bit of a pass on his interuptions. Interuptions, I might add, that are seldom as long or loud on previous episodes of UP!.
Still easier to have temperature and pressure sensors at the weapon( they fit in a wrist watch so there should be no problem to do the same at a high tech gun) and send a rectified time input to the bullet IMHO.
Ah, it appears that the HN link parser clips the colon off the end of the URL in my previous post. I fixed the formatting, but the link is no longer clickable. Should be copy/pasteable.

About the "wholesale piracy" bit: that's also wrong. The bill would apply to an "an Internet site, or a portion thereof" ... "primarily designed or operated for the purpose of" piracy. (Sec 103.a.1.A-B) Links on bit.ly (for example) that pointed to illegal downloads would fall into that category. The phrase "portion of" is not compatible with Cotton's "wholesale" description.

For me, the worst part is that the bill targets sites "facilitating the commission of criminal violations," (Sec 102.a.2) related to copyright law, rather than actually committing the criminal violations. If this were in the realm of guns rather than copyright, it would make every gun magazine publisher a criminal. In general, speech about crime is different than crime itself, especially when the activity at hand can be criminal or noncriminal in different circumstances.
Blackout your Drupal site on January 18th (inspired by Wordpress plugin)
Whipped this up quickly after seeing the Wordpress plugin... let me know if you run into any issues. I made this/tested for Drupal 6, not sure if it'll work for Drupal 7.
id rather use gnupg than otr plugin though, because its "yet another different keyring storage" which is slightly annoying ;-)
Cotton made some very strong points that never got refuted or even addressed. If I was completely ignorant of SOPA/PIPA and watched this segment, I would have felt more convinced by Cotton's arguments than anyone else's.
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The public needs to hear that X% of these "foreign" websites are based in the US.
The American battle rifles aren't a weakness, they serve their purpose well. The military should be focused on things like IED detection, preventing brain damage from concussive force, battlefield intelligence, social programs (hearts and minds)... the stuff we are having a hard time doing.
I am in the exact opposite position, I have an almost non-existent arch and if I forget to wear arched soles my feet and knees will be aching by late afternoon. I would buy this shoe in an instant.
"A bill that you may have never heard of."

:'(
Regardless of the tactical implications of this particular weapon... the fact they're now making computerized bullets makes me wonder where else this path will lead.
Plugin channels is the beginning of it.

http://dinnerbone.com/blog/2012/01/13/minecraft-plugin-chann...

Read dinnerbone's blog, he's a key member of the bukkit team.
Murdoch slams White House over SOPA in Twitter row
This post explains well the problems with Richard Cotton's argument: http://ammori.org/2011/12/31/sopapipa-copyright-bills-also-t...
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Lol at the diagram for Arpanet that was displayed.
I used to absolutely love both Espresso and CSSEdit too but I've now switched to a more minimal editor. I started using LESS so CSSEdit wasn't cutting it anymore. Instead I use either Less.app or CodeKit which monitors your working directory, automatically compiles LESS to CSS on save, and refreshes the browser tab of the site you're working on.

I do agree that rolling CSSEdt into Espresso isn't the same. I don't know why but I liked CSSEdit better when it was a standalone app. Anyway, as an alternative to CSSEdit or the other desktop apps that give you the instant refresh, you could always write a shell script that watches your working directory and executes the LESS (or SASS/SCSS) compiler then refreshes your browser. I actually used that once but lost it while formatting the laptop it was on. The part that watches the folder and executes the compiler is easy but I had someone else help me with the browser refreshing part.
For good or ill, these shows are important terrain of political conflict. I think they are more useful than many people think, but that's beside the point.

If you want to win in politics, you must be able to win on these shows, or win by a much greater margins elsewhere.
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A Canadian against SOPA/PIPA.
I'm sure his compensation was dependent on his performance.
It's important to remember the DMCA has two major provisions. The anti-circumvention provision is pure evil. The notice-and-takedown safe harbor was a pretty good compromise.
"... thanks largely to us."
Well I bet those football players are passionate about their job and no Brazilians look at them like they're crazy!
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The most addicting games I've played are the ones that deviate from the segmented, level-based gameplay seen in Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. You're competing in a saturated market against companies much larger than you. If you're determined to try your luck, then focus on style. Make it extremely dark and depressing or conversely witty with faux seriousness. Do something to stand out and carve out your niche. Polish your game. And most importantly, don't insult your users by making the game only completable with in-app purchases. To them, it's like lying. Find a way to make them want to spend money instead of feeling like they're being forced to.
This has been a big information failing from the anti-SOPA side. Reddit have come out and said that it would be too expensive for reddit to remain in operation if SOPA passes, so the site would have to shut down.

I see no evidence that it would effect reddit's operations in any way. From googling around for 5 minutes, it seems that Cotton is correct on this point.
A doodle, maybe. Blacking it out completely? I highly doubt that.

From a purely business point of view, they would stand to lose a lot of money from blacking themselves out.
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That's nice, except you just seem to have it out for Zed Shaw - the quality of it doesn't really matter to you, does it?
Can anybody who has knowledge about SOPA answer some questions for me?

1. Will the websites that are blocked by a result of SOPA only affect US citizens?
2. Can a foreign TLD such as .dk, .se etc. get blocked?
3. What happens if you use the IP-adress to ThePirateBay instead of the domain name?
I don't doubt the author is reliably recalling what happened but I do doubt that Microsoft would have ever released an enterprise product for *nix. This would have eventually had to be decided at the Gates level and I don't think he would have ever undermined Windows with a tacit admission that it could not meet every customer need.
I tend to disagree with the entire argument that it is OK because it is only going to target foreign sites.

The internet tends to be (or should be) borderless. What if the next Google or Facebook doesn't come from Silicon valley but instead from India? How do we already feel when foreign governments are blocking the current Google and Facebook?
Thank-you for the insightful response - craigslist w/ a closeness filter is a good way of thinking about it.
So why doesn't jQuery help me be smart and do CSS transitions where available? Or would it be to difficult to translate my JavaScript animation instructions to CSS animations?
Weird bug in Google chat
Does anyone know why Google randomly adds people you may have emailed/added to a Google+ circle to your chat list without asking you about it?
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Doing:
C, Objective-C, C++;
Most recent projects on Mac OS X and iOS;
Writing and supporting web APIs and their backends

Can do:
System admin on Linux, OS X, Windows;
C#;
Database design and management

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Politics

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This must be some sort of SF-only inside joke, but... what's with all the personal harassments against Zed Shaw?
I miss the Incoming stream on Google+
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This thread and a the story make me equally sad.

The thread because this is one of the most hateful and ugly threads I've ever seen on HN. A thread like this would be literally unthinkable a year or more ago, and now I'm not even surprised it is here.

The story because it is about the death of a person that could easily be a role model for a large number of young children, but females especially in third world - and other - countries.

Those writing from their comfy first world lives that feel the need to point out how 'privileged' this girl was and belittle her achievements have to stop and think - excellent advice from elsewhere in this thread - before they continue to write.

The internet has a long memory. Being insensitive to the death of any child makes you look ugly, stupid and negative in ways that I find hard to describe.

Whatever your motivation, jealousy, a general misunderstanding of the station of women in many third world countries or any other thing that might have prompted you to write what you wrote here: Let me tell you straight from the heart that I think this girl was everything you in particular should aspire to be.

Smart, articulate, compassionate and gifted. The fact that she may or may not have been a member of a family of some standing in Pakistan does not diminish her achievements.

More often than not those that are born into positions of wealth or with other so called advantages squander their fortunes and end up with less than their parents left them with. That's an all too common story.

This girl took what little life she had and grasped it with both hands, then made the best of it. I hope that when my time comes I'll be able to say I did the same.
> I see this argument time and again and as much as I agree with it, it just doesn't sound very convincing to the mainstream argument against piracy.

People need to be shown, not told. Look at iTunes: it came after Napster, when everyone knew how to get MP3s for free. Or the O'Reilly Safari.

Part of the problem is that many businesses don't know how to adapt. Maybe some of them simply aren't capable of doing that for whatever reason. Thing is, I'm convinced that they have to, for their own survival, because I don't believe that piracy will be stopped any time soon, SOPA or no SOPA. So I think the best way to help them recover is to help or convince them move to new ways of doing business, but that's a pretty tall order.
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That's nice. Meanwhile, amongst people who engage in the production of IP, DMCA takedowns are a reasonably fair, easily challengeable method for dealing with copyright infringement.

The anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA are insane, but the takedown stuff isn't bad and benefits the little guy just as much as the big guy.
Of course they're going to start negotiations at the lower end of the range. That's what every buyer does. But when he countered he should have stuck within the previously agreed max of 4%, presented a number, and backed it up with reasoning. Going outside of that range in the hopes of bringing up the average is poor form and something an experienced negotiator isn't going to accept.

Given that Under Armour holds some fairly large cards (resources to fund development, production, sales, distribution, marketing, etc.), the reasoning would consist of his large cards like the innovation inherent in the technology as well as what other companies have indicated as a range they'd be willing to pay.

For example: "There's no other shoe technology around which has been proven in a sports lab to have as great a benefit as this. Olympic athletes using these shoes have performed at a level that will push them beyond gold medal records. We chose Under Armour because of ________, and we want it to be the brand associated with high performance athletes. Just as the last Olympics secured Speedo as the #1 brand for high performance swimwear, so should the next Olympics be synonymous with Under Armour for high performance shoes. Just imagine the medal ceremony for all the running events with the medal winners all sporting Under Armour shoes. Think of what a coup that would be. We've approached other manufacturers who have indicated they're comfortable with a 2.5% to 4% range. However, we're really hoping we can make the numbers work with you so that we don't have to take this technology to another company that isn't as passionate. Based on this what we're proposing is..."
Don't forget that he's got that Safari, too, which is essentially "Books as a Service." Yes, his books are high quality too (I have a ton!), but he also has a superior distribution platform that the pirates simply cannot match.

EDIT: Typo.
Nothing is more enjoyable than watching idiots like you imagine that the world is a fully formed perfect thing that can't possibly be a work in-progress. I watch you guys never put anything out there for fear that someone will think it's just not quite perfect enough. Meanwhile, I crap things into my toilet better than anything you'll make mostly because I put stuff up while I'm working on it so I get immediate feedback. To me, the new artist is about showing the process, not just the final work.
The M4 is accurate, but lacks the power of something like an AK-47, which hits harder and has a larger round. It's great for clearing a room or working in tight spaces, but it's not nearly the same as this.

Additionally, they are working VERY hard to improve IED detection, and in fact are making quite a bit of headway in that regard. The same goes for every other issue you raised.

There's no reason you can't improve offense while simultaneously improving defense.
Did you successfully use this for per-section commenting somewhere? Can that be viewed? I've been looking for a good way to do this for a long time.
Ideas for Startups
"Launching an inferior product just to slap the execute button can make you look stupid"

This is a straw man. "Inferior" is not defined. You can launch a product that doesn't have every feature you wanted and still be a success. You can also launch a product that has every feature you wanted but no one cares - i.e. a solution in search of a problem.

In most cases, you won't "look stupid" because no one is watching.

The exceptions are mature companies like Apple or overhyped startups like Color. I'll wager most readers of this article don't fall into either category.
In this context, it's a rhetorical mistake to even engage _their_ concern. They're talking about circumventing core technical and political principles. Who cares why they're doing it? It's stupid, incompetent and dangerous.

Once everyone agrees DNS filtering is just wrong, _then_ we can talk about their problems. Otherwise we're just being held hostage.

And if that means fewer people care about copyright, well, it's their job to make people care about copyright for the right reasons. Not because they'll otherwise blow things up.
Do you mean homeschooling or unschooling or both here? I haven't seen research that specifically targets unschooling (which usually is lumped under homeschooling as it's considered a form of it), but homeschooling studies time and again point to it having superior results in general than public or private schooling, as far as academic testing and low college drop-out rate and high entrepreneurship rate and social skills (like a double-blind study was done years ago and found that homeschoolers exhibited less negative behavior like pushing and name calling and more positive behavior like sharing than age-matched traditionally educated children) and so on. I have yet to see a single study showing homeschooling to produce worse results than traditional schooling, but if you have, please share it.
> I noticed that the things he makes you look up on your own are generally specific enough that it makes the task of filtering out all the nonsense much easier than if you were researching it on your own.

That's my trick. I actually go googling and make sure that it's something you can find easily with a little nudge. Part of the goal of my books is to teach basic research skills so you can survive on your own. Glad you got that.

And, you're welcome. I'm still working on it, but feel free to fill out comments with problems you hit.
This is actually going to remain a problem until computerized speech-to-text is solved. And I'm pretty sure speech-to-text will not really be solved until generalized artificial intelligence is solved, so this will be quite some time.
Additional info: I recently graduated with a Finance bachelors with a high GPA and multiple awards, and I have experience with working on Google & Twitter apis.
Same could be said of "software" and "operating system" when microsoft was built.

Plus it is not like dropbox has set it's goal to do the one and the only thing that is file sync. That was a good goal to achieve until this point.
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Thanks for the recap and all the comments below; I'm doing a heavy post-mortem on this.

I really didn't expect him to so adamantly lie like that. And then to first be called out by Chris about it and boldly say "Chris, seriously, that is wrong" and then declare that we're making it up -- that takes stones.

I'd really love to know what the best way to confront this in such a format (my first time doing live TV debate).

Is it:

"No, you're wrong. Anti-circumvention provisions affect US sites, US sites with foreign domain names (like .it) are affected, and US companies who would have to remove links from search results are all examples of how you're wrong."

I worry I've lost the average TV viewer by the second sentence.

And then there's dealing with someone interrupting you... I'm curious to see what the HN community thinks about optimally handling that one.
Thanks man, that's sort of my plan right now anyway. Iwas going to rely more on video but after the surprising (to me) response to this poll I'm definitely going to lean more heavily on text with the videos and screenshots sprinkled throughout.
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Ask HN: Is this normal during applications?
Hey HN.

I'm a graduating senior in college and I've recently applied to a startup and I had a phone conversation. However, now they want me to complete a "task" and submit all my code for it by Monday. This task seems very similar to what I would be doing for them, and it seems like a lot of work for an application test (I'm estimating about 3-5 hours on it).

I was just wondering if this is normal or if I should be more skeptical about this company.
Is the Free Lunch Over? Really?
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How small a world is Silicon Valley?
I recently heard about someone who was not made a job offer because he quit his last job in a bridge-burning manner, it made for a good story, and one of the people in the place he was applying to just happened to have heard it from a friend in the old company. Did he just get spectacularly unlucky, or is this sort of thing commoner than I imagine?
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My name's Sebastian and I'm looking to expand my horizons and those around me (UK, London). I love systems thinking but am a web developer by trade. I particularly enjoy RESTful API design. My favourite language is Python, but day-to-day I code in PHP with sprinklings of Javascript. I also love the concepts in Haskell but as of today I find it very difficult to get my brain to work in that way. ;)

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IT infrastructure strategies for startups
If you have a bunch of developers and designers all hacking away on their laptops, what are the different options and pros/cons for backups, shared file storage, etc? Is it better to set up your own file servers, version control servers, email servers, implement backup strategies on your own servers, etc. or does it make more sense to use things such as Confluence to share knowledge and files, Dropbox, GitHub and so on?
My wife is a teacher, and I know a lot of other teachers in southern california. I don't know any that make anything close to $100k/year.

Here's the LA Unified pay scale.

http://www.teachinla.com/Research/documents/salarytables/tta...
Thanks.

I also want to thank you for registering disagreement even when HN leans the other way. A critical voice helps you see what parts of your arguments are weak or which need to be rethought entirely.
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