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I agree the "or portion thereof" part is unclear and could be interpreted as enabling courts to DNS-block a domain on which any amount of infringement is going on. For example ISPs will be required to "prevent the domain name of the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof) from resolving". What the hell does "domain name of a portion of a site" mean?

Regarding the "facilitating" part, notice it is just one of three items in a definition. ALL of these items have to be satisfied. Let's not spread FUD here.
I absolutely agree with the comment from EhVedadoOAnonimato:
"I think it is more likely that Mr Jit there didn't know what you were talking about, and just gave you a standard "finish the discussion with client happy" answer."

I've spoken with 'remote' customer service reps before, and they do have a propensity for just telling you whatever it appears that you want to hear!

Look a bit further down the page at the conversation HostFat had with another service rep:
"I have just a question, do you know if Amazon is going to accept Bitcoin currency?
Deepti:I'm sorry we don't have any information about Bitcoin currency."

So it's clearly not a standard script/company line MR. Jit was reading from...
"Why on earth would you pick at your snowboard if you were busy having fun in the slopes?"

Well, I could say that's because it wants the snowboard to keep sliding, although he doesn't understand why it has stopped on _white terrain_ (it shold slide you know?). So he goes back to where it knows it can slide down again.

I think it's the same when it went from one roof side back to the other.
Most Buddhist monks could easily get under the "15 things" limit-- the standard list of possessions is: three robes, an alms bowl, a cloth belt, a needle and thread, a razor for shaving the head, and a water filter.
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Me neither. From what I've read so far it seems it would only affect ISPs, search engines, ad networks and payment processors.
Has HN really deteriorated to the point where people are submitting smoothie recipe articles?!?

Oh no, my mistake, just another thinly veiled advert for a personal blog.....
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Stop ! If you're on an untrusted machine, this is untrusted, too. It should be pretty easy to install alternative certificates, MITM this page, and serve you a bad QR code that will give access to your account to a someone else.

They might not be able to change your password (if you have 2-factor auth), but they could read/forward all your mail, delete documents, etc.

This isn't enough to work on untrusted computers on untrusted networks (but it's still damn useful for fast-login).
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We don't have to imagine. Refer to Feynman classes that MS put online and only worked with Silverlight.
It seems that jealousy is becoming popular here. Looking at comments to this recent post about the guy who owns just 15 things[0], the top ones (hence the most voted for, I guess) mostly complain about ways in which he ‘cheated’ in counting his possessions. More or less constructive discussion starts at the very bottom.

Not sure what might be the reason of that, except jealousy.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469927
If you actually look at what we'll know it's virtually nothing. All the info anyone will see are some vague statistics that help no one. FLO would be very unhappy to see their certification dragged around like this. While this certainly will make fanbois feel good about themselves, the people paying attention see that nothing is really changing.

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Zed's Twitter killfile must be a mile long if this got me into it: https://gist.github.com/9efed904a1ea0902c7c7/213de692d29fdde...

He's right though. This really is a silly argument. Your life will almost certainly be better if you forget strcpy exists.

Really, C strings are broken in general. Computing their length is O(n) when it could be O(1), and a missing null terminator results in undefined behavior (a crash if you're lucky). Worse, copying an oversized string into an undersized buffer results in a buffer overflow, which gets you a nice mention here: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls.

strcpy is about as safe as a hand grenade: you'll be fine if you know what you're doing, but God help you if you don't!

Realistically, if you're reading "Learn C The Hard Way," you don't know what you're doing yet. Don't use strcpy.

For that matter, you're human. You screw up sometimes. We all do. Don't use strcpy without a damn good reason.

Is there ever a legitimate reason to use strcpy over strncpy?
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He flies to the top because he needs something hard under the lid, not the soft snow.

After two thirds of the video the crow figures out that by having one leg on the "ground" the jar won't slide down when he picks and pulls at it, then spending the last third of the video in this position.
I like the idea that there should be an active push to reduce the term of copyright. There's certainly a case to be made that it's unreasonably long, and that the length does not benefit the public.

Take the fight to their turf or always be fighting a defensive war.
There could be a previously uncovered niche for washing company-owned cars. Often, employees are sent out to wash the boss's car - which is not exactly cheap, considering what THAT costs.
The ideas that last, the one's that stick around do have these subtle nuances that appeal to the senses. One may not understand, notice or even appreciate them at first, but in time as you learn more, you begin to see those same forms of art in a whole new different light. This is also why certain books revisited after a long absence have a deeper meaning. Same goes for music or any other creation that is built upon the passion of the engaged artisan. These are the qualities the make things long-lasting and ever-green, able to connect with novices and experts like. Good craft is the great equalizer playing on each patron's individual strength; getting as much out of it as they put in. It is never boring, never dull, and in many cases always refreshing.
This is not a new phenomenon. When I first found HN, I conducted an experiment: Along with ordinary attempt-to-contribute comments, I made a couple of content-free remarks whose only attractiveness was the shared premise that "startups are awesome". They immediately received nearly an order of magnitude more upvotes than anything else I had written.

That was all it took to convince me that Giles Bowkett's original critique of HN was entirely correct, when he said several years ago that this transformation was inevitable: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...

I just checked, and my last comment was 906 days ago. This phenomenon is not new, and any reaction predicated on the idea that this is a relatively recent, relatively sudden decline are unlikely to succeed. It's a structural problem, possibly with human nature, and the best we can do is slow it down (at which HN has been successful, but that's probably only because it's not a business, and so explicitly does not share other sites' preoccupation with growth).
slaves vs slave owners. bourgeoisie vs proletariat. Class conflict has been here since the beginning of human history. Those who have power will always exploit those who don't have power. This will never change. It's human nature.

You can either beat the system or game the system. But it's incredibly hard. Guess how much chance does an Ethiopian have to make it really rich. Not much. Just like you. You need to be born to the right family to get in there. The culture of yincubator seems to reinforce this. Sure, work your ass off, have no life, no health, just do 80 hours per week for your startup, and then the investment angels come in and take half of that, while they do no work. I know that this is how investment works, but I still find it unfair. Not even talking about all the exploitative economic processes that are created by the 0.1% without our knowledge and oversight.
No veils or adverts - I am also aiming for something quite different to a recipe site, as there are far too many of those and in all honesty they're too precise and don't actually capture the experimental and less formal attributes that surround giving food / drink creation a go. We all lead busy lives - including myself, and I am only trying to help others find ways to slip some quick and easy homemade health into their lives.

I guess with that in mind - do you have any pointers? Also, sorry if the post disagreed with you mate.
Do most corporate firewalls do deep packet inspection? I think that they'd mostly just be blocking domains based on a blacklist, or with a regex.

Since most startups would be using a subdomain of their own domain for their tumblr blog, so I don't think this is an issue.
I know what fierarul means, he is the one that did not understand my comment. As an aside, I find it kind of funny that people would feel "irritated" by a move like this. The end goal of this for Amazon is to eventually get more customers in the paying tiers, which in turn will lead to them lowering their costs and passing those savings to all users (like they have been doing consistently). I, for one, think it is a great way of promoting EC2 and an alternative to, say, spending that money on Google ads.
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I think 30% more is pretty significant. Especially if applied to email, long articles etc.

However, still not sure if it ensures that i wouldn't miss out on anything important which may be fatal if it was an important email.

PLUS it doesnt say if it picks up on emotional context which is super important in interpersonal communications?
This is supposed to secure you on an untrusted computer. It doesn't. There are loads of attacks still. The moment you log in, the attacker has access to your account because they control the browser you're using.

What it protects against is basic key logging attacks (software and hardware). These are the most likely attack you can expect to see, so protecting against them has real life value.

The safest thing you can do is never use an untrusted machine to access important accounts.
let's see if it opens as one of the most over-valued stock in history due to its hype.
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That's actually more stuff than most of the middle class Indians have. Hmmm
It does depress me somewhat when I see people writing incredibly insightful or great blog posts on another company's blogging platform. I'd live in constant worry the company could fold up shop one day and your posts would be gone (unless you kept local copies manually).

It's your writing, if it is good and insightful, write it on a server you have control over.
>> OK. NOT TROLLING, but can I ask why anyone would want to learn C, other than to develop device drivers, kernel modules or other arcane software that is yet to be replaced by C++?

Why does a medical doctor have to learn a little bit of Latin? After all, you should be able to find all the books and material you need in your native language or at least English.

C is to computing what Latin is to medicine. There's just so much history and important code written in C, that it's an important skill to master. Or at least know a little about.

These days you can spend your entire career in the comfort of a high level language working on a virtual machine and make a fortune. However, if you don't know C (and the fundamentals of how computers work) you'll be standing on a foundation that you cannot understand like a living in a cargo cult.

If you're passionate about computing and software engineering, you'll have a natural interest in how things work under the hood. Learning C is almost mandatory if you want to see how deep the rabbit hole is. Knowing it will certainly help when exploring the intricacies of processors and operating systems.

Learning C++, on the other hand, I think is optional. I'm pretty seasoned with C++ but these days I prefer plain old C for low-level tasks. In theory, it may be possible to learn C++ without knowing C, but in practice it's not. If you try to write anything with C++, it will be inevitable that you'll have to interface with C code. std::string and std::map are very nice but there's a ton of tasks that require using a C API (maybe through a wrapper layer).

Embedded and other low-level tasks are often written in C because in order to run C++, you need runtime support for exceptions, static & global constructors, etc. Porting the C++ standard library is even more painful. C++ without exceptions has very little advantage over plain C.
As for the prototype going over your head, first order it looks pretty simple, second, third and fourth, ... Hey, even I'm not sure I've mapped out all the possible dynamics but the possibility is unquestionably there.

Noisebridge is cool, hung out there a few times. I'm super busy now but maybe in a week or two though I am a sucker for coffee chats (hint hint). Basically I suck at writing and would rather connect through any other medium.

Also to add a few details, I'm doing this as a startup (Tagbax, don't mind the landing page, I'm really not trying to drive traffic yet). Community comment moderation isn't necessarily my first choice to apply the tech $ wise (I really ought to drop by disqus one of these days), but it was designed specifically for user-generated content.
"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."

HN is going to be the typical IT community: big egos fighting against
each other to show off their smartness.

If now a young girl is called a genius, then they can't resist to nitpick,
because they feel overlooked in their megalomania, they should deserve
this title.
What would your proposed law say? Congress can't make a law that says that it can't make a SOPA-like law in the future (or, at least, it would be meaningless, since future legislation could repeal it).
What I have said is often people don't take the time to craft a color scheme. There is a difference between someone who understands the art of web experience and the person who is a coder and understands structure. If you think that major brands aren't focused on the color of packaging and web design you are dead wrong...have you ever heard of the advertising industry? The same philosophy and care should be taken into consideration when developing any website or app.

Furthermore, it was me that introduced Design Seeds to the HN community yesterday as a great resource in my article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467855, before aymeric posted a direct link. Jessica is an artist that loves color and is simply giving you a "DESIGN SEED" from which to build not just your website but your life spaces from home interiors, events, weddings and all types of space. It was me that brought her here and she doesn't deserve your comments. You want to criticize, come after me.

Additionally she has more than 152,330 followers on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/designseeds. She is incredibly popular and at last word her site has crashed 5 times since this post. She is not trying to make money from this.

And if you were truly a designer you would actually understand.
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It may not be physical but he has a blog, that's a thing. Email address, tumbler account, Flicker account, etc, etc.
Easy! :s/SOPA/PIPA/g

PIPA, the sister bill coming through Senate, is still there and needs to be squashed as well.
I consider it a good thing when a person is extremely reasonable. Or extremely thoughtful. Or extremely honest. Or extremely patient. Or extremely gracious.

We don't need balance in all things. A rocket only makes it safely to the moon if the engineers are extremely cautious. Bill Gates is extremely charitable. Einstein was extremely intelligent.

The idea that "extreme X for any X" is bad is some sort of pseudo-wisdom that doesn't even pass the sniff test.
I don't know that this social problem has a technical solution, but you're right that the "points" system encourages shallow comments. Unfortunately some people will always see a number as a score, and start gaming the system to increase it.

The problem with many submissions recently has been they are taken directly from reddit, and have content that sits well with reddit but not HN. The "Programming prodigy passes away at 16" story is a good example: it's tragic news, but the fact that someone has died is not necessarily a good HN submission. Although much of the discussion about Erlang and Haskell went right over my head, I think this site did better when those stories were oft-submitted, if only because it tends to push away the people who would prefer fluffy "human interest" stories. I personally have no intention of creating a startup but find pointers to useful technical ideas and tools here - more of those, please

So I think we need to concentrate on the submissions, removing stories of marginal interest to hackers, and being diligent in upvoting good stories and comments, and downvoting crufty comments.
One thing to keep in mind is that this is part of a headline. In a headline, the goal is to convey as much important information as possible in a very constrained amount of space. Headlines have a different style from normal sentences.

In this case, "failed" is really the history of the probe: well before crashing into the ocean, it had already failed; for a while it had just been slowly spiraling to its death.
What? Who changed this submission??

There is no humour left in the world...
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Reframe the blackout on the 18th into another blackout with a curated message calling for anti-censorship laws and asking the government to protect its citizen's freedom.

Use strike-out lines on a concise, readable version of SOPA and below each line print the respective anti-censorship law which you wish to be created. This way you draw attention to how draconian SOPA was not by comparing it to similar laws in dictatorships but by creating a message which harnesses American ideals of freedom, entrepreneurship, and anti-censorship.

If you do this right and get enough eyeballs you will make it very difficult for them to reposition the bill without appearing aggressively against the american dream.
I think you are being a bigger jerk than dextorious. You are just angry because he called you a hipster.

I checked his history and he is far from being a troll. You on the other hand wrote a content-free rant full of self-praise ("I try to comment when I have useful, unique, original, or non-standard things to say") and then posted it to HN too.
...and is lucky that he know people who do have houses, and houses big enough (with couches) who let him stay.
I applaud the US political system for being better than the UK counterpart in this instance.

The copyright mafia tried the exact same trick in the UK two years ago: a bill was pushed through Parliament on election year, when MPs had to make their funding rounds and so were more amenable to being bribed... and it passed.

Nice to see US representatives still have a bit more decency (either that, or Google's chequebook is now much lighter than it was three month ago).
"""You could have left his name out of this, still used the quotes,"""

Yeah.

And preferably he could have used my quotes in context and in their entirety, instead of cutting pieces here and there to present them as inane.
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Geeks, and I am guilty of that myself, often miss the greater point and discuss endlessly increasingly narrow aspects of much larger issues. It's within our nature to do it.

But that doesn't mean we can't understand this drive to discuss the details, fight our little demons, and raise our heads to look at the forest instead of the trees.

This girl, in her short life, accomplished more than many of us ever will. Her loss at this age is tragic, but even more tragic is the loss of what she would have become. We need more people like her.
I'd disagree, simply because you could take that to the extreme. Does he own the water he drinks, the air he breathes, the life he lives through? As far as I can see, we're talking strictly in physical items.
If I was writing one I'd just be logging posted form fields with a transparent proxy, almost seems easier than a key logger.
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