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An article is needed, On why programming is not mathematics.
Yes, because people use the arrows to indicate I agree or I disagree rather than this comment improved the silence or this comment was noise.

Even without votes, groupthink would emerge from reply comments giving positive and negative feedback as well.
Is that a sufficient requirement? I wouldnt ask a technical co-founder to join if I wasnt prepared to offer him at least 50%.
I did, yes. Also this one: http://prospect.org/article/ninja-our-sites

And this one: http://torrentfreak.com/ninjavideo-founder-sentenced-to-22-m...

And this one: http://www.app.com/article/20120113/NJNEWS10/301130030/-Quee...

And here are the sentencing memo, the government's motion for reconsideration of self-surrender, and the response to the government's motion for reconsideration of self-surrender:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/77698613/Beshara-gov-Sentencing-Me...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78155255/Beshara-reply-to-Gov-s-Mo...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78155260/Beshara-motion-for-Recons...
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I know that there is probably a reason for not doing that, but could you elaborate on your business a little?
Taking your car or movie is a fundamental issue.
Copying your car or movie is not.

Edit: reflecting on my comment I realize everyone, me included, is looking at this wrong. There is a Constitutional issue - Fourth Amendment "secure in papers and effects". Nobody has a right to just look at & act on the contents of your "papers" (now extending to digital video etc), and contractual access thereto must be respected. You may not like the contracts limiting access to something, but you have a natural obligation to respect them. Copyright and patent law were stopgap measures in place for where such controlled access was hard to implement.

Just a thought.
I agree with you, but I also think it would be interesting if they opened up data more like the transcribing of court appearances (a bit like the government), perhaps give data access to post codes (which is by subscription atm). How about more abstract things like data from speed cameras? I guess you could use it to calculate the traffic on every main road that has a speed camera.
I sort of agree with you, and I sort of don't. The reason for me is not because I don't feel the money goes to the creators (because I think the creators of movies and musical pieces are very well compensated), it's because here in Australia there is often not a very good way to acquire content quickly and easily (no Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, etc).

When I was in the U.K. I was a subscriber of Spotify and I didn't once pirate a song, as it was easily available in high quality.

Yet I still think piracy should be illegal, it has to be! Why should it be legal in 20 years? Shouldn't we just have a way to 'press a link and have a 1080p DRM free film downloaded in minutes' instead of having to resort to an illegal method?
Nothing actually prevents you from doing the "Open window, ctrl+v, move on" with Evernote. At least mac version has a global shortcut for creating a new note in a default notebook e.g. "notes" and it also does search. No need for tagging if you don't want to.
What do you mean? I think most people know it's illegal when they go to download (or view) a movie on the 'net.

Obviously photographs and text is a lot harder, but movies are pretty clear due to the cost that goes into production.
I'm not saying that working 8 hours a day necessarily is a problem. If you manage to keep that up having 8 hours of quality working time per day is great.

The problem lies in having a rigorous schedule telling you when and where to work. Another problem is fake work ( http://lifehacker.com/5710930/cut-out-the-fake-work-and-focu... ). In corporate environments there's a widespread tendency of wasting time on useless action just to pretend that there's work going on. Work also tends to fill up the time available for it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law ).

Activity more often than not is valued higher than efficiency or actually accomplishing something. This is why we see things like prolonged meetings and convoluted specification documents nobody actually reads. You didn't actually accomplish something but hey there's this 200 pages long bullshit specification that proves you've been working, right?

I think is due to our society's perception of what constitutes work. Work is seen as something that has to be hard, long and cumbersome or in other words: "If it doesn't suck it can't be work." People like the notorious Tim Ferriss who seemingly manage to get through work and live much more easily generally are regarded with suspicion.

So, while I think that the 4 hour work week maybe is a little extreme and certainly isn't applicable for everyone it shows the right direction. Work and work organization has to adapt in order to produce meaningful results, not just unhappy, stressed out workers.
Free speech is a human right, and people were already killed in the conflicts about it.

BTW - if IP is not a human right, then it's reasonable that people are unnverved by imposing it on them.

Look at it that way - "Do not eat pigs" is also not a human right, and eating pigs is not a human right. It's neutral. Yet some religions demand that you respect this law. All is OK.

But when this law is made universal, and people of other faiths go to jail because of eating pigs it starts to be scary.
Is that germane? "[A] decision of the United States Supreme Court rejecting the First Amendment right of prisoners to provide legal assistance to other prisoners."

She was sentenced but not yet a prisoner, etc.
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>>> 1.1+2.2 == 3.3
False

Requesting the database with some SQL inner join should get you less lines than both tables ? No ! It gets you a deadlock exception because some other program locks you...

Doing a DNS query to get IP address of an host ? Getting an IP ? Yes ? Everything ok ? No because some bit flipped somewhere and caused the result to be the IP address of foogle.com

So yes you are using maths but you are not doing maths.
Starts with them being strongly against SOPA/PIPA. Ends with them effectively being for SOPA/PIPA. Hmm…
Would really like to play with this, but when I run it on Ubuntu it bombs out, leaving this on the CLI:

SSL Library Init!
AuthGPGimpl::VerifySignature() FAILED
AuthSSLimpl::AuthX509() X509 NOT authenticated
AuthSSLimpl::InitAuth() validateOwnCertificate() Failed

EDIT: It works if I don't use my existing GnuPG keypair. Suspect it's bombing out because I removed the master key from the keyring leaving only the subkeys. Will do some more testing and bring it up in the forums.

EDIT2: Works fine on a brand new keypair. As soon as I add an additional signing subkey, delete ~/.retroshare/ and try again it bombs out. If I then delete ~/.retroshare/ again, and then remove the signing subkey, it starts working once again.
If you mean functions are first class and lambdas exist, any project written in Ruby or Javascript.
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Sounds like politics to me...
I wonder how adding 'Beta' to an app's title influences user ratings.

Has anyone A/B tested this?
This initiative is going to drown in poorly reasoned comments. They need some kind of karma system for filtering otherwise it's going nowhere. I read the first 7 or so comments and apart from the first one they seem to be poorly argued whining about regulations which I think most people are very happy to have. E.g. IMHO the no cold calling without my permission regulation is very good.
I think most people know it's illegal when they go to download (or view) a movie on the 'net.

What about hulu.com? Should we have a list of "approved" websites somewhere? Also, how do you know that hulu has proper licenses for their videos?

There was a recent case when Amazon licensed (remember, that we're dealing with licensing in case of copyright laws, not selling) "1984" for Kindles for which they didn't have the proper license. Why haven't those people (who downloaded the book into their Kindles) been prosecuted? It would be easy to do, since Amazon had the list of customers. Or should we apply laws selectively?
The White House today responded to the two petitions related to SOPA and PIPA.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/combating-o...

"the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders"

New legal tools aren't needed in the US. If you're going to stop international piracy, you need to encourage other countries to pass DMCA style laws, not anything more draconian like 3-strikes laws. The DMCA has allowed innovation in technology to happen while still providing a method for take-down that results in a judge seeing it if it is contested.

I understand they're trying to find middle ground, but there really is no middle ground to be had. I also contest the idea that it's actually harming jobs. During the economic downturn the media industries have been doing just fine, much better than the rest of the economy. Combating piracy with SOPA and PIPA style laws will not result in an increase in revenue and will almost certainly result in a decrease. It shows a lack of understanding on the part of the White House.
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Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, and threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation's most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs. It harms everyone from struggling artists to production crews, and from startup social media companies to large movie studios.

One of these things is not like the others.

While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders. That is why the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders while staying true to the principles outlined above in this response.

We fully support the censorship of the internet, which baffles and scares us. However, this single step may have been too drastic. Please allow us some time to find stepping stones.
Words are very very cheap, especially in an election year.

If SOPA passes, the only way to fight it is to make sure it's reverse abused - if a fortune 500 posts a copyrighted image onto their site, get the entire website blocked. If a media outlet uses your youtube video inside their own video broadcast without permission, get their entire website blocked.

Pretty sure all the major news outlet websites could be taken offline at least once a month.
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I used to have a Spotify Premium account and just like you, I never pirated a song. This lasted until I started listening exclusively to music which artists choose to distribute for free.

Spotify is exactly what I mean by good legal alternative, except for that I still don't believe the artists are compensated very well. If there are enough reasonably priced legal alternatives available everywhere, piracy will shrink in importance. I say, if there's a last 2 or 3 percent of the population who don't feel like paying for themselves - let them. It's better than this hunt for file-sharers that's been launched by media-companies.
Man, what are you trying to say? Something about small-brained prosocial locusts eating separated chimpanzees because they feel vindictive, is that it?
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So, rather than just look at how legislation can be stopped, ask yourself: Where do we go from here?

I want you to go home, and stop legislating the Internet.
I'll bite: do you honestly think people should be sent to prison for copyright offences?
Monetary damages, yes; bankruptcy, maybe (if the infringement was on mass-scale and resulted in direct profit for the guilty, say, above 1000$); but prison?

Prison is not about punishment, in a civil society; it's about isolating individuals with the potential to irreparably harm their community. Unless the copyright holders go bankrupt as a direct, proven result of infringers' actions, there is simply no irreparable harm done: the rightsholder still owns the IP and is free to sell it.
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I tried to setup the nogui version some time back. Couldn't figure out how to, and the documentation is really scarce. Had no luck on the forums either.

Paperwise, the technology seems solid. The only piece of advice to keep in mind is to not approve keys you don't trust.
Reminds me of WASTE:

http://waste.sourceforge.net/
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Yeah, I second this point. I don't know much about the situation between Microsoft and Android's OEMs, but to me, it seems like a simple case of "I've invested money in research, came up with some useful technology that you [the OEM, that is] are paying to use".

I don't see where the controverse is (other than the more general and complex debate about what should be free, etc..)
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>"The notion that Google needs to scam some African directory service for profit just seems ridiculous."

Google's management has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to maximize profits. Running an eight person call center with wages competitive for the local market in Kenya is pretty cheap - but apparently not cheap enough, thus the operation was moved to India.

This wasn't rouge warriors led by one bad supervisor - the level of authority was sufficient to move operational production from the local manager to another continent. People up the food chain looked at what was happening and decided to scale it.
How is cyber security risk related to online piracy? I dont get it.
Personally I feel this kind of tactic has the potential to backfire. The efforts by Tumblr (phone campaign), NY Tech Meetup (http://nytm.org/sos), and the boycott of Go Daddy represent the right way to fight SOPA.
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The interesting thing about Ninja Video is that it was exactly like the netfix-itunes-amazon of the future would do best to look like. The categorization, notes, and search were all fantastic and a huge community of people enthusiastic about the content organically grew around it. All it needed was a few dollars a month subscription fee and it would have dominated the market.

The lost opportunity has become a sardonic cliche.
Interesting. Thanks.

I liked this thread so much I wrote a blog entry on it. I think it's something we should start talking about a lot more seriously. The time is getting very late. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464227
Cute, but it's not like it is somehow a surprise that this is illegal.

They come for thieves, fraudsters, ... too. Until the law changes, that's exactly what the government should do.
Do you honestly think you can take down a fotrune 500 company's website because they infrige a single image's copyright?

Of course they can do it to people, though.
Agree with the rest, but not with "math is just a tool".

Math here is not about answering a question like "what are the coordinates of the point in the middle of those two points here". It is not a tool helping to solve a restricted set of computation problems. Math here is the model for the deterministic handling of a data system and its evolution in time. The silliest glue code is still math: "if button.push('a') thing.do_action('a_action')" translates to "For any x in A_Button_Pushes, action = f('a_action')".
I posted this in the comments on the FastCompany article, but it applies here too.

"the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders"

New legal tools aren't needed in the US. If you're going to stop international piracy, you need to encourage other countries to pass DMCA style laws, not anything more draconian like 3-strikes laws. The DMCA has allowed innovation in technology to happen while still providing a method for take-down that results in a judge seeing it if it is contested.

I understand they're trying to find middle ground, but there really is no middle ground to be had. I also contest the idea that it's actually harming jobs. During the economic downturn the media industries have been doing just fine, much better than the rest of the economy. Combating piracy with SOPA and PIPA style laws will not result in an increase in revenue and will almost certainly result in a decrease. It shows a lack of understanding on the part of the White House.
I thought your comment was probably too heavily analyzed and a result of the different=bad bias. So I went to the link, and said to myself, "The first link is obviously that." I found that I was looking straight at the Hacker News Network link and was very surprised.
I'm pretty sure discretion will be used to determine which websites will get forcibly removed.

The real danger is this allows big and powerful interests to kill sites that they don't agree with, without any reasonable investigation or judicial oversight.
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Kind of straying from the mark. She was convicted because she ran the site, not because she uploaded one movie. In that example, its Amazon at 'fault'.
Read something about Socrates sometime.
What's Orwellian is your comparison of singing "Happy Birthday" to what this woman did:

Mid-2010, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government. They included NinjaVideo.net, at the time one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites.

One of her co-founders admitted to making 58k$ off ninja-video.
That press statement, to me, is a typical example of using transparency as a political tool to give citizens a false sense of participation.

This is Obama's passivity during the LGBT rights activities during 2011 all over again.

(Well, except that I am sure he wasn't paid to sit idly by when the LGBT movement was at its apex.)

Keep calm and carry on.
Yep - I'm not convinced the site as it is - is the best format. It could end up being spammed I suppose. perhaps the number of comments on each comment would be a kind of karma system.
Big fan of google docs, gmail.

However, I would like to see google docs make my email a subset of my document collections. At end of the day an email is a document (with more documents, attachments).
It's really interesting to see people engage with an inanimate object as if it were a person. I think it's the adorable voice and the "face" (such as it is) which does it.
There was plenty of research behind introducing bendy buses. The main argument being that they transit the route faster overall because they have a much shorter dwell time at stops. The introduction of bendy buses was a rational evidence based decision, the campaign against them was mostly emotional hubris, which resulted in them being replaced early at vast expense to the taxpayer. The main reasonable complaint against them was that you were more likely to have to stand up, but you often couldn't even get on the bus (e.g's routes 73,38) before they were introduced so I don't know what's worse.
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The beta sign up page for our iPad shopping web app ( http://signup.goodfinda.com ) is getting 20% conversion. Any ideas if it is good or bad?
Nobody goes to prison for copyright violations. That's civil law. It has the exact properties you desire it has.

So what happened in this case ? I don't know. Maybe she violated a direct court order. Once a judge tells you to do something, after hearing you out, you have a limited time to get a case started in a higher court, or comply. If you don't go to a higher court, the decision of the judge actually takes precedence to any law for you personally.

If you don't obey that court order, force can and will be used to make you comply. The law states that this force should be reasonable considering the offence (the offence in this case would be disobeying a judge, not copyright infringement. This is a very serious offence, and it's a criminal offence, not a civil one). If a certain amount of force does not work to make you comply, stronger force will be used until you comply.

E.g. enforcing a restraining order. Starts with a polite request. That doesn't work, they do it in writing. If you still don't, the police is authorized to stop you physically a few times (like pulling you over). If this doesn't help, they will imprison you for progressively longer periods.
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Better foundations? You mean utilitarianism? That's a dead end too.

As a monkey-troup-descended race, we operate on some pretty common and predictable impulses. To manage those impulses we establish some premises and call them rights. Right to life, liberty etc.

Call them something else than 'natural rights' if you must, but its folly to ignore their existance.
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Brad Burnham said something recently that encapsulated it perfectly for me:

"I believe that downloaders are making a moral calculation and coming to the conclusion that the content industry immorally perpetuates an artificial scarcity to maximize their profits at the expense of users and artists. They understand that content is a non-rival good, that unlike an apple, they can consume it without diminishing anyone else’s ability to consume the same thing. They know that the content owner paid nothing to reproduce or distribute the content on the Internet. They also know that the artists who created the original content get a tiny fraction of the revenue. So they are making a moral judgement that the content owners are pricing their product to extract unjustifiable profits and they feel morally justified taking the content they find out there on the web." http://bradburnham.tumblr.com/post/12739727902/i-believe-in-...

File sharing has just been recognized as a religion in Sweden too and all.

In any case, something is very, very wrong here. This should never be a jailable offense, let alone one receiving such a disproportionate sentence (Naval Academy Student Sentenced To 6 Months For Rape http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/09/30/naval-academy-stude...). And then she's just whisked off to the detention center for speaking her mind about it on the Internets.

I've taken to calling the states the United Police States of Homeland Tragedy. I get really sad about how deeply disturbed things have become.
I was replying to the comment that "doesn't directly relate to the issue in the article" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464128
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If it works like the DMCA system I am positive you could do that.

Even if the corporation owns their own servers the connectivity provider would be required to obey your demand to disconnect them.

Just make sure you aren't doing false claims because that would certainly end up with prison time.

This is exactly how the DMCA works now.
Its not. But a lobbyist said so at some point and it gets repeated as truth.
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