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It seems unproductive to society to treat "criminality" as a write-once binary switch, which once flipped can never be erased. There are far too many confounding factors. Someone is benefiting from the desire to brand human beings for life for something in their past, as well as the immediate assumption that accused is as good as guilty, but it isn't society.

In fact, I know someone who used to like Megaupload to an extent, but even before a trial, thanks to this cultural tendency and inflammatory news coverage, said, "It turns out they were guilty of racketeering and money laundering, so they were some pretty bad guys." Despite being a reasonably well-informed person, he too fell victim to the urge to equate accusation with guilt.

At this point it doesn't matter what Kim Dotcom did a decade ago in Germany, or whether Megaupload is guilty of all the things they're accused of and more. The damage to the public's perception of legitimate file sharing has been done, and what I think was the most important thing to come out of Mega, the MegaBox music service, is most likely dead.
Hang tight. Bring up your concern to your boss, and make sure they understand the implication of what you're saying (eg, that this is something you're ready to quit over).

Sometimes you draw the short straw in consultancies. Question is, is this a permanent short straw, or something that could change 3-6-9 months down the road? Working on interesting projects is where everyone wants to be, and there's a thing we call "paying your dues" ;) Have you paid yours?

My advice: First, have the above conversation. Assume for now that the situation is fixable -- from what you've said I can't see why it isn't. Next, start interviewing. Talks with recruiters are nice, but they'll blow smoke and make you feel like the most in-demand guy on earth with nothing to back it up. Get a few interviews and an offer in before you bail. No debt is great, but cashflow is king. I would hate to see you Office Space your curent situation and then discover that a fresh grad with 8 months of VBA experience isn't as marketable as you thought.

Bottom line -- be smart, take steps to get where you want to be, and keep cash flowing in.
Indeed. There are other integers that are illegal for other reasons. For instance, the integer that encodes the string text of your email to a hired assassin.
I'm not saying Fox is being greedy. I didn't argue that they shouldn't charge me anything. I didn't argue that I should get anything for free.

I argued that I'm already paying them at least once with cold hard cash for that content, twice if you want to count Hulu Plus, where until last year, they also distributed the content. Three times, if you want to count my Netflix subscription.

Despite all of this, I cannot get last week's episode from them through any device I use where I actually have paid them cash.

But if I want to open my laptop, they'll give me or anyone who has paid nothing the episode for free -- and if I want to hook my laptop up to my TV, then it's on my TV.

That's the argument: despite paying them, I'm getting less than if I paid them nothing at all. That's a broken business model, to me.

They "gain" only two things by doing this. One, it's less convenient to stream from my laptop to my TV, so potentially I will prefer to buy some type of cable or satellite TV subscription. But I already have that.

Two, they potentially prevent me from abandoning cable or satellite TV -- cutting the cord -- and going with all web streaming. But that's a false assumption. If anything, they're encouraging me to cut the cord more. That's because with Netflix and their own web site, I'm getting better service than if I didn't have DirecTV at all.
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He mentions he gets between 7-8 hours of sleep. So he is going to bed around 9pm to 10pm... Yeah, not really feasible for a lot of people because it would mean family avoidance.

I usually work from 11pm to 1am on personal projects.
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This type of clever problem with confused trust relationships is remarkably common in OS Kernels. If you'd like to know more about finding, exploiting and fixing kernel bugs then I'd highly recommend Attacking the Core[1] as an introductory book.

[1] - http://www.attackingthecore.com/
A non-realistic explanation would be that women are evolutionarily built to hate programming/technology so these fields naturally do not appeal to them. This also encompasses the "men are better at tech" thing.

Another non-realistic explanation would be that women collectively do not want to go into tech despite being equally good at it as men. As in, there isn't any discrimination, and they would be just as suited as men, but most women just go, "Meh. Don't care." for some reason.

I've heard both of these things and neither of them make any sense.
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I love the idea, but the writing leaves something to be desired; swipes at governments and corporations distract from the message. I think short and sweet is the way to go:

"My name is ____ and I own this website. I staunchly oppose any interference with the internet's ability to connect people and share knowledge. The power to silence this website or any other violates a fundamental human right to free speech, and I vigorously oppose any such action, law, or policy."

On the surface, I admit this seems like an empty gesture. If it catches on, though, it could carry a few advantages: free speech advocates can cite how many domains oppose a given bill, and we can start pushing politicians and corporations to put this on their own sites to publicly display their commitment.
> I can't imagine I'll ever want to make a new local tab in the middle of a bunch of remote tabs.

That's an interesting issue. I'd like to be able to, though I'd expect to use the normal tmux keys to create the remote tab--maybe that's too much to ask for.

I generally want only one window with a bunch of tabs on it. It would be nice it the tabs could be colored someway (subtly) so that I could tell which were local and which were connected to which servers.

I'm very excited about this--I hope the tmux patches get into the mainstream tmux code at some point. I haven't built the custom tmux on my server yet since I'm not sure I can use the new binary to attach to an already running tmux and I have too much state in my current one to restart. ;-)
When writing my thesis I was very productive at night. Guess I was too tired to procrastinate and over-think things.
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Is a grsecurity[1] patched kernel safe? I only have a machine with a 2.6.32-grsec kernel, so I can't test the exploit.

In the features list they state:

/proc/pid filedescriptor/memory protection

But I'm unaware how they implemented that.

1: http://grsecurity.net/features.php
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So wait, it is your argument that with a carbon tax, solar panels become economically viable? I'm not sure I buy that. Under this scenario, solar would have to be competitive with other forms of energy generation such as nuclear, and that isn't going to happen. Ever. Even the Obama administration is behind nuclear plant expansion.
Doesn't adding distractions begin to defeating the purpose? =]
Do you think HN would benefit from a bot that reposts 5-month-old resources where the resource would have updated since then?

I think this would only be valuable when the first post is more of a "show hn/looking for contributors" and the second is a "this project has come of age and is valuable for the general population".

Otherwise, if it was valuable then, you would've bookmarked it. If it wasn't, it shouldn't have been submitted.
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I watch movies much less these days due to this. I wonder whether this is good or bad. These days I am way more conscious of my information diet. I don't want to sit around waiting for my next piece of information dopamine.
Well apparently quite a few agree with what I am saying based on the number of upvotes I have.

What haven't I addressed? Your flawed premise that lumberjacking can be compared to selling CDs?
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I've been like this for as long as I can remember, so caffeine isn't it.
People on HN are frequently happy to support rudeness in their own interests. I remember debates here over rudeness in code and in bug reporting (someone was banned from Bugzilla over their language) and a lot of HN people seemed to feel that was fine.

So I don't believe that the levels of civility are going down - but the level of vapid pointless comments is definitely going up. Fortunately I mostly see them being modded into oblivion.
Sure you have to deal with those things, but the point was more that big studios have big cost and need high returns to be satisfied. (Everything from property, salaries to paying star actors)

Small studios don't need as high a return.

This is in many ways a Clayton Christensen (The Innovators Dilemma) opportunity.

Producing high quality movies as ultimately a question of people and skills. There are plenty of both that can't get work anywhere else.

I don't understand why I would have to convince people to not watch those movies? They are still being sold today and people are still watching non-hollywood movies.

If it becomes impossible to be profitable with big productions then hollywood will kill itself soon enough.
I don't know of a single VPN service that doesnt keep logs, they might not log the sites you visit but they all log which customer has which IP at which time.
I have been on this routine for about 18 months. Waking up early in the morning is not easy or fun, but the alternative is to work in the evening or not at all. I find working in the evening really difficult because after a full day of work and a nice dinner with my wife - I am not really in the mood to "go back to work". Waking up early allows me to put my personal project into a set routine. 2 hours every day - not 2.5 or 3 or an all-nighter. This constraint is great for focusing the mind and making those 2 hours really productive.

There is one downside. I really need to be asleep by 9:30 (I actually wake up at 4:30). This is difficult to do when I meet up with friends. For example, this week I have two meetups planned - both of which will probably cause me to get home past 10:30 which means I am more likely lie in the next morning. ...and I agree with the OP - it is much easier to keep a schedule like this if you do it every day.
What makes you think that proprietary software doesn't have good commit messages?
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it affects only 2.6.39 and up.

EDIT: sorry, misread the parent.
Louis CK can only "Kill Hollywood" because he's already a product of the system. He had a popular TV show on a popular TV channel before starting his experiment.

The problem that "Hollywood" solves isn't simply financing and distribution, it's letting lots and lots of people know that your product exists and convincing them that they really really want to pay lots of money to see it.
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Maybe I'm just a stick in the mud but I'm not particularly inspired to follow the current direction and trends of consumer entertainment myself. Before I lean into my rant I'll say social networks serve a purpose - I do use them.

But in terms of entertainment, I really don't think social networks such as FB, Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram are really all that redeeming, entertaining or engaging on any personal level. What do I get out of them? - small hits of dopamine that don't impact me on anything more than an artificial level. So after 2 hours on Facebook, what have I come away with - honestly usually nothing.

I'm not going to argue that all movies are better - Hollywood can put out some real bullcrap at times but I think there is a much greater opportunity with movies as a medium to create an engaging story that can educate, move and inspire. A social network feed has never made me laugh to the point of tears, cry to the point of tears or made me think about things completely differently.

What makes me sad is that I've realized the general US audience is not so much like me - people will trend towards cheap things that require short attention spans which I think will result in an overall lowering of the number of high quality stories told through films and novels.

Sucks for me I suppose.
It remembers me of Jolie O'Dell's post about her "secrets to productivity"[1]

[1] http://blog.jolieodell.com/2011/11/03/my-secrets-to-producti...
Your response, though, proves the point. You made a list of independent films! While some of the weaker candidates came from Hollywood, the vast majority of the films you listed came from independent studios -- who are not trying to destroy the internet.

Hollywood (the major studios) is not film just as the major labels are not music. They represent a period of less than 100 years where vast amounts of money could be made off of art by middle men who market it. That period is over but they don't want to give up "their right" to that money. Who would? But instead of going peacefully, they will do a "scorched earth" all the way down, making everybody pay for the fact that the times have changed and no one needs them anymore.
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Bien que les hackers russes soient reconnus dans le monde entier pour leur ingéniosité, les experts ne s'empressent pas de leur attribuer le titre de "pirates les plus dangereux du monde". "Ce hackers Tunisien est sans aucun doute très intelligents et on ne peut pas le considérer pour autant comme dangereux, estime M. Kamliouk. C'est la Chine qui détient aujourd'hui la palme pour le nombre de programmes nuisibles, ceci s'expliquant surtout par le nombre très élevé d'utilisateurs d'Internet dans ce pays"...
I know. I want to know if someone with a kernel >=2.6.39 and applied grsecurity patch can successfully use this exploit or if grsecurity protects from this exploit.
Wow. This is such a great project. Thank you for submitting this. This will really help during web development.
That's hardly "just released". It has been out for years.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen this before...
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There's always some excuse to avoid his point, especially when it most needs to be heard.
> Enjoying the work is key

Recently I've discovered that this mindset has been detrimental.

Sometimes hard work is supposed to be hard. If you rely on passion or some sort of intrinsic motivation, then as soon as you come to a task you don't want to do (i.e. the 90% of any project that doesn't involve coding) procrastination sets in. I worked mornings non-stop on my little side project for around 6 months last year and slowed right down as soon as all the 'fun' stuff was over.

Accepting that the work is sometimes going to suck is a) more realistic and b) more empowering. If you get used to short focused bursts of work you don't feel like doing, then there is quite literally nothing you can't achieve if you put your mind to it.
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Why would global oligarchy protect entertainment at cost of everything else?

For every dollar lost by entertainment they probably got ten gained by telecoms, internet companies and consumer hardware.
I did something similar for a while but other concerns pushed my routine out of the window, and for the sake of my sanity I shouldn't have kept on with it as long as I did. If I could recommend one thing to anyone thinking of doing an early-morning stint, it would be to keep an escape route clear. Don't commit to more than a week's work at once (you shouldn't be doing this anyway) and make sure that you can unconditionally drop the project at short notice if something comes up. Otherwise you will find that your work strategy is very fragile and very explosive.

That said, the particular issues I faced were external to my early-morning work strategy, and on a level playing field it is a wonderful way to do some of your best work.
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I think it was pretty clear given the context that "All Blogs" meant "All Blogs using Disqus", and even an appropriate abbreviation.
I wrote the contents of freedom.txt on a piece of paper and put it in my drawer. That'll teach those Hollywood bastards!!
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Lol - maybe a different business model would result in a better product?
I agree with you wholeheartedly. When I read Fahrenheit 451 a while back I was bothered by it since it really describes the trends in present day society. There the war was on television, and how over time it has been reduced to pointless factoids without depth or context. Sounds familiar?
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If you're talking about me regarding other comments in this thread, I'm not from parts of the world that need to be pointed to some online article for the history of fascism. On top of this, I have read extensively on the subject, from Adorno to Isaiah Berlin, including fringe cases like dr. Wilhelm Reich and his "Mass Psychology of Fascism".

I'm not using it as a "general-purpose pejorative" (as in: "oh, the cop hit me in the demonstration, fascism!", or "TSA cupped my privates, oh, the fascism!"). I'm making an exact analogy to the actual historical form fascism, which you may agree or disagree with.
Just tried it on 3.0.4 with grsecurity enabled, and it didn't work, so there.
I find it somewhat ironic that people like Stallman have battled for years to get so much FOSS out there.

What did we do with all this free software?
Used it to build things like facebook, google and various SaaS sites that not only tie our data into proprietary clouds but due to the nature of the GPL etc don't really have to share their code anyway.

What they have really achieved is to turn everything they touch into a commodity and moved the "value" of software elsewhere.

We seem to be moving to a world where most of our devices and the servers powering our apps will be running some form of Linux or BSD under the hood but we are actually more restricted than ever.
There is no cookie cutter way to license everything you need for these films in one stroke of a pen world wide. In some countries, even the publishing rights owners themselves cannot waive or change the mandatory rates to be paid for the use of their work. And, as a company putting out a world wide film, you have to know all of these laws for all of these countries.

From an outsider's perspective it looks like the major distributors are getting exactly what they deserve. Thanks to regulatory capture, they (the MPAA/RIAA/etc.) are the ones responsible for the tangled web of international regulations. If they really wanted a streamlined international system, they'd be arguing against things like ACTA, SOPA, the diplomatic browbeating of Spain into passing Internet censorship laws, etc.
That article gives a ton of good reasons to flat out refuse to talk about anything of substance to any agent, ever, without your attorney present.

I would highly recommend reading it. Even if you don't think you're personally the target of an investigation, the way these things go, anyone that they can catch in the net is a potential target, so you should be nervous - it always looks better to indict N+1 people than N, and if you talk to the investigators at all without a lawyer present, you greatly increase your chances of being that +1, even if you truly and honestly haven't done anything wrong.
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Well, Hollywood also has a reputation for simply stealing a script if they like it.
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With the exception of job ads it's algorithmic. Stories are ranked by points (from people voting by clicking the up arrow) divided by some non-linear function of time. If a story gets any votes within the first few minutes, that's usually enough to put it somewhere on the front page.

Your link only got a couple of votes, so as time progressed it dropped in position fairly quickly until it was gone. Compare your story (10 points) to the current front page (248 points for the #1 link).
I love living in a country where the government realizes it is too technologically inept to try to legislate and regulate the internet.

It just creates normal laws for the normal world, and whenever things from the internet crosses borders to the real world (like Amazon-orders) that just falls under the normal laws for mail-order businesses.

That seems reasonable and fully sufficient to me.
I'm the same way, and my friends had the same reaction as you. They suggested that if I cut out caffeine and sugar then my body's own natural energy would resurface, and I'd stop being so groggy until the mid-afternoon.

So, I listened to them, and for 9 months I consumed no stimulants at all. After 9 months of this experiment, I was -- and I know the story isn't supposed to work this way, but it did -- consistently groggier and crankier than I had ever been before. So I went back to caffeine and have had no second thoughts about it since.