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Making good music can be done by a few sufficiently talented people in a garage, and good enough microphones to record that aren't that expensive. Making good movies requires hundreds of people to cooperate, a huge time commitment, and equipment (cameras, film, lighting, sound, editing software/hardware, actors(!), et cetera). There is the indie movie industry, and it can certainly be done for significantly less than what Hollywood spends on feature films, but making a good movie is still significantly harder than making a good song.

Your best bet for MPAA-less movies are non-US movies and independent movies. However, I don't think indie movies will ever become as widespread as indie music.
What exactly makes it an abuse for Google, Wikipedia, and Reddit to tell the people who use their site the likely consequences of a given piece of legislation and to ask them to engage their legislators on the issue?

As far as I can tell, these sites are distributing correct information, they're not asking for any special status under the law, and they're not asking people to do anything illegal.
Nope, I hadn't checked that out, I will though - it looks a lot simpler. Thanks for the suggestion.
There's absolutely no technical reason that a signed bootloader would have to only boot signed kernels. With UEFI Secure Boot, the only signed component is the bootloader -- there's absolutely no way in which this can affect the kernel. Now, it's possible that there could be procedural mandates around this, e.g. an authority that signs your bootloader and won't do so without mandating that the kernel and all drivers be signed as well, but does this exist, or will it exist?
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Ah yes, ruby 1.8.7.
Oh yes, you are right. I had forgotten about "frolic".

I wonder how this point will pan out with the case of Costa Concordia.
I was very confused by this statement, until I realized that you created the widget and were talking about how to get blackout pages to display your widget, and not a site owner unsure of how to copy-paste an iframe tag.

Great job with the widget, it shows all of my reps and the calling works. To answer your question, being on the front page of HN should help. Have you tried the relevant subreddits (r/sopa, r/politics, etc)? Reaching out to Wikipedia, reddit, etc directly?

Have you thought about making this more generic, and/or letting people customize instances of it, so that it can be used for other issues?
And i'm sure no one uses methods like on, off, live, delegate, data, splice, slice, eq, add, addSelf, prevAll, nextAll, next, prev, siblings, children, wrap, clone, detach, appendTo, serialize, animate, width, height, ready, type, $.when, $.data, $.Deferred and more.
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> How exactly are these people so blind to
> this kind of obvious contradiction

It's being spoken by someone that jumped from Congress to top of the MPAA. I don't think he has much in the way of scruples.
Very interesting, I've been bitten by the same problem with Python once (capturing the iteration variable in a closure). To make things even worse, in Python the behaviour is inconsistent between list comprehensions and generator comprehensions:

In [10]: lambdas = [(lambda: i) for i in xrange(10)]
In [11]: [f() for f in lambdas]
Out[11]: [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]

In [12]: lambdas_gen = ((lambda: i) for i in xrange(10))
In [13]: [f() for f in lambdas_gen]
Out[13]: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

The problem was not fixed even in Python 3. I don't know if there has been any discussion about it.
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The great-great-grandpappy of whoever authored this press release, in late August of 1831, in a dispatch from Southampton County, VA:

"It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on [Negroe slaves] for [labor] and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the [sunshine and fresh air] these [Negroes] enjoy in the [cotton fields] today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the [Negroes] that serve as gateways to [cheap cotton] intentionally skew the [shovels and pitchforks] to incite their [fellow human witnesses] in order to further their [basic human] interests."
You have projects like http://beagleboard.org/ (beagle xm $150 and $89 beagle bone), and http://leaflabs.com/devices/ ($45 maple), which are all ARM based devices, that have been around for a while. I just don't understand how these guys got it so cheap, which is why it seems like they just optimized the bom to get it to where it is. I'll hand it to them though, that is an impressive feat.
It's really only a breaking change if you designed your program to have the closure from inside the loop purposely use the last element of the collection outside the loop. Who would do this? I've hit this issue lots of times as have others, and it's a bug that is fixed by copying the iterator inside the loop. It's nice I won't need to worry about that anymore.
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Absolutely, I'm in the same boat.

The reason it's so upsetting is precisely for the reasons you state. I (perhaps foolishly?) believe that America has the opportunity to be a role model for the rest of the world in terms of how a society can work.

America has its problems. I will be the first to agree with that.

But for all its problems, America has a lot going for it. It's a relatively free society, there is social mobility (more for some than others, it's true) and it's a nice place to live, even just in terms of its geography. (I live in California and so that of course will make me biased).

Consider - America is a country that, despite all its problems, people risk their lives to get into. There's a simple reason why America continues to attract illegal immigrants - it's better than wherever they came from. So much so that they'll pay sleazy people to transport them across borders under the cover of night. It sounds dramatic, but that's because it is!

So - America is great and I'd personally like it to stay that way. That's why it's the responsibility of the people living in America to keep their backyard clean and their politicians in line.
Zuck is a true tulip-man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania ). The problem is that other than huge companies like Coca-Cola or Apple, average Joe with his small business and 3 employees cannot get a decent ROI from his facebook advertise. The reason why I compare FB ride to tulip mania is that I have every single non-tech friend that co/owns business being extremely excited of advertising on facebook platform. "wow!" - they say "imagine if I only get 10% of bussines out of 10% of clicks out of 500 million users, wow!". but you wont! the same logic is behind opening a shoe factory. well, there is 6 billion people and most buy shoes so getting even 1% of that market makes you millionaire. it doesnt work like that. After week or two testing, they come back with miserable click-through result and totally disappointed. Until another friend learn the same mistake on his own. And I think we are in this finite loop of people finding out on their own that for average Joe Facebook won't work as an ad place. But before everyone will find out, there will be hundreds of dollars per business owner per day thrown into this machine. Good luck.
Exactly. Their rational was that there won't be that many people using the weird existing behavior:

More discussion on Eric's blog on this topic:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/12/closi...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/16/closi...
There are millions of programmers in the world, and plenty of us have been doing it professionally since before Agile was all the rage. It sounds like you have too, but are you really arguing that just because you personally didn't encounter these ideas before Agile advocacy came along, no-one else did either? Or perpetuating the false dichotomy between Agile and Waterfall? I have never worked on a project that followed a strict Waterfall model without any kind of cycle or iteration in the process, not once in my whole career. Now get off my lawn!

Seriously, though, you've cited Spolsky and McConnell, but you seem to be appealing to their authority on the basis that if the techniques we're discussing had been in common usage, they would surely have been mentioned in those authors' writing in the late '90s. I would point out that the first edition of McConnell's Code Complete was published in 1993 and didn't say much about OOP, yet OOP was already in use by many professional developers, and books about languages supporting it had been published many years earlier: the first edition of The C++ Programming Language was published in 1985, for example. Similarly, the second edition of Code Complete was published in 2004, yet contains no index entry for the word "concurrent" or "parallel" (though there is a passing reference to multithreading on page 337). So perhaps it is unwise to infer too much from any absence of references in the kinds of source you mentioned.
i had the zenbook ux21 for a short while and i found its keyboard just terrible.
I posted it to r/sopa, r/politics, r/technology but it hasn't received that many upvotes.
Sorry, I don't know. I think that's the case for all public companies in the US, at least (I don't know if it applies to limited parterships, private corporations, s-corporations, etc). I searched to confirm CEOs were not necessarily fiduciaries before I posted, and I did see that officers could be fiduciaries (eg, for internally managed pension funds - though it didn't have to be the CEO).
There's nothing as iconic as E=mc^2, but what a fun question! Here are some ideas.

- How about the minimal ANSI C program "int main(int argc, char argv) {return 0;}"?

- You could look up the code designed by Ada Augusta, Countless Lovelace. It's much like a spreadsheet.

- A few code snippets are of historical interest in that they have unfortunately caused satellites to fall out of orbit.

- Some code snippets have been used as email signatures for political reasons, such as short implementations of RSA or DeCSS.

- David A. Wheeler's website has a nice rundown of modern history's important software innovations, but only a couple of those, like RSA, can be implemented in a few (appropriately) cryptic lines.

- There are a number of mathematical algorithms of interest, such as the Euclidean algorithm for greatest common divisor (GCD) and the Newton or Newton-Raphson method.

- Some modern fundamental algorithms such as binary search and quicksort are compact.

- You might like some variant of "the computus", the formula for calculating the date of Easter. It bores me, but I enjoy the similar Zeller's congruence.

- The movie "The Social Network" features something like the tf-idf formula and the movie "A Beautiful Mind" features Nash equilibrium.

- The Ackermann function is fun, being a brief and notably slow formula for practically all arithmetic. Going the other way around you get Peano axioms and perhaps computations with Church numerals.

- A grammar for the lambda calculus can be three simple lines.

- Our gracious host in "The Roots of Lisp" states Lisp "eval" somewhat briefly, based on McCarthy's original, which Alan Kay called "Maxwell's equations of software".

- The truth table for NAND is a nice little graphic and the NAND function happens to be sufficient to implement all Boolean functions.

Now we could start to get into other diagrams from computer science and software engineering, but that's a vast area and you didn't actually ask for it.
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No, the project is completely honest; it just has erroneous punctuation in the headline, which should properly read:

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It's probably in the top 100 websites with ~1-2 billion page views a month. Having said that I don't think most journalists look past the top 10 when they are look for "major" players in large part because the leaders are simply so dominate. Facebook clocks in at something like 1 trillion page views a month. (Note: that would take 500 million active users * 30 days * 66 page views a day which seems ridiculously excessive, until you consider how addicted some people are to that site.)

(1b)
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/reddit-billion/
(2b)
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-05/tech/30592220...
If you can produce evidence that a corporation has donated to even one candidate, much less 50, the FEC would love to speak to you; it's illegal for corporations to donate to candidates.
Apparently the MPAA is made up of a small group of individuals nobody really knows. They are generally shrouded in secrecy and have very odd subjective systems. They tried it with Howard Hughes 90 years ago, ultimately they must adapt.
This is really really really really cool.

Unfortunately it got my geolocation wrong for all three of my internet sources (Cable, phone, and Clearwire). Since this seems such an unreliable method of getting the answer correct, make it easier for the user to make a fix:

(1) Show the current state name
(2) Put the zip code search on the main page
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That's actually what Grassroutes does: http://grassroutes.us/

We created it as a generic, customizable widget for activists. Anyone could add talking points, a title, etc. We also have a way to browse through the widgets that other people have created. (Although since we made it at a hackathon this weekend, there's not much there.)

We made the SOPA widget and page AFTER the hackathon was done, because we realized it was an ideal use case.
If a post isn't in the cache it can get reposted. It's a technical flaw but enables a good UX where if enough time has passed, a repost works.
With regard to saying "the best wiki ever".

I think it's best to show that its the best product (by being the best) rather than to explicitly to say it.
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Good ideas. Displaying state/zipcode is definitely on the todo list for tonight.
Anyone gone to Craigslist lately?
They've put up a black wall with info about pipa/sopa visible for 20 seconds. Then a link to the regular site appears.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, has it occurred to you that the reason you have never seen a teams in large organisations adopt Agile successfully is that the basic philosophy of Agile doesn't scale to large projects?

You can get away with a lot of informality and doing things on-the-fly for small projects, when everyone involved can get around the same table in a meeting room and a single expert from the customer side can make all significant decisions. When your project team is made from 200 people divided among geographically and temporally diverse teams and the customer for your business management software is a 100,000 employee global corporation trying to co-ordinate the activities of six divisions in five key areas? Not so much.
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I think joebadmo means malice on Google's part. "Ignorance" is probably a better word than "stupidity" here. Basically, it's unlikely Google, the company, intentionally sanctioned the vandalism, but rather were unaware it was happening, and stopped doing business with the contractors when they found out.
No, not really, if the goal is to build better docs (which are sorely needed for clojure), and not to simply use a clojure web framework for the sake of using clojure.
I'm surprised that big media companies are spending so much time and money lobbying, instead of doing more creative things. The current generation of youth is growing up in an era where media can be copied instantaneously and easily. IP is a hard sell, since we're individually far removed from the mechanics of the economy (we don't work in car factories, for example), so there's no strong material goods basis from which to build an IP metaphor.

They could be creating PSAs. They could be backing television shows and movies which portray piracy in a negative light. They could do this skillfully, and in a manner that isn't laughably heavy handed (like the pre-movie PSAs that were mocked on The IT Crowd). Look at that article about diamonds from awhile back, and how stunningly successful De Beers was in inserting diamonds into the public mind. Compare that with the heavy-handed, simplistic legislation approach that the MPAA and friends are following.
The original Etherpad is open source. https://github.com/ether/pad

"Etherpad Lite" is built on node.js which to me makes it more desirable from a developer standpoint for a number of reasons, mostly for the same reasons one would generally favor node.js over Rhino, so I would definitely look into that one first. https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite

Hackpad might have a few advantages but the basic concept of tracking individual changes with colors is built-in to Etherpad and Etherpad Lite.
This just hides the sign in modal dialog. Your changes are not saved until you sign in.

It's totally awesome that you're poking around in the code :)
It's frustrating to me to see So many discussions around "agile" practices. Agile is a set of principles. That's it. I hear less disagreement with the principles and more disagreement with the process in which case I ask, why are you stuck with that process if it doesn't work for your company? It isn't because you're Agile. It's because you're not.
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Agile is not best practices.

http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/27

Sorry, just one of my pet peeves, and describing agile as == best practice doesn't help anyone.
I agree... Multi resistant TB is to be preferred, compared to the black plague. :-(

(Mantis might have less capabilities than Jira, but I almost enjoyed working with it. That might have depended on the project. [Edit: On consideration, Mantis was simpler and didn't make me scream from pure hatred.])
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Should have this route randomly to constituent offices in the states so that it scales better once the hill exchange goes haywire (which it will)
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Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GME5nq_oSR4
The inconsistency is because, in the generator-expression case, the calls to f() are being interleaved with the iterations of the generator (so the closed-over variable has the 'correct' value when f() is called). If you change this by running the generator to completion first, the behavior is the same as the list case:

In [1]: lambdas_listgen = list(((lambda: i) for i in range(10)))
In [2]: [f() for f in lambdas_listgen]
Out[2]: [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]
Or just pull a Fox News™ and add a question mark to the end:

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There was a post about hellbanning on Hacker News an hour ago. The post received more than 50 votes and numerous replies in 45 min. Then, it got removed from the front page. All replies were disabled. The account of the poster got hellbanned, though not slowbanned. Very confused, can someone please explain what is happening?

Link to post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477488
drchrono joins the fight against SOPA (in the laziest way possible)
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Haha, glad you're ok with that. Just wanted to play with the editor to get my feet wet, figured others might want to do the same.
Indeed... my intention was to say that it feels like seventeen years ago should be in the 80s. Thanks for letting me know it didn't come across :-P
Well, at least we can all agree that "it’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as
gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their
corporate interests."

Holy crap, did they just....?!
One day is, honestly a too small price to pay. I know they would not go as far as this, but a blackout until the SOPA is dead and buried (i.e. not only one day) would be a better way of protest. Think of it as the equivalent of a hunger strike. That's only when you get lots of people worried/annoyed that they will be prompt to act. One day is not going to cut it.
It must be noted that they are not taking their actual website or DNS service (as pointed by mintplant below) down. They are censoring some content on OpenDNS guide pages which are shown to people who type an incorrect domain etc. to show them the next plausible step in their search.
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I like the original approach and the way an admin can impersonate a user is a nice win.
It's still really complicated semantics.
http://goo.gl/vulnz if you'd like a web form to submit it to. Otherwise, security@google.com works just fine.
You think it's beyond the scope of government to be assisting low-skilled people to gain skills and employment in quality jobs in industries with a future? I don't.

By all means reduce regulation to encourage job growth, but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I'm in Oregon and Wyden came up for me but hes already a SOPA/PIPA opponent. Shouldn't he (and the others) be omitted to direct traffic to where its needed?
I'm not at all convinced that Google has reacted strongly enough here. From what I have seen in their response, they don't seem to be particularly interested in sending the message that screwing up whilst contracting for Google will have major penalties, not just for the contracted individual, but also for the organisation that they contracted through. I can understand that Google can't police these people themselves, but they need to send a message to all of their partners that the partner is expected to do this policing.
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Yet another example of awful reporting. All the press coverage I see on SOPA calls this a battle between anti-privacy advocates and Internet supporters.

Wrong. This is a battle about whether we will allow a few large companies to let their commercial interests regulate Internet access for the entire US (and rest of world as a result).

I hope the Wikipedia, reddit and google education efforts finally explain the problems with SOPA to the public
You can tell him how much you appreciate his stance.

Also, this is actually built on top of Grassroutes, which is a more generic service--so there isn't a good way to do this.

(And yes, keep telling the anti-SOPA reps that they're doing something right.)
It is discouraging to see them make the same mistake that early Lisps did, the solution to which was well understood in the Scheme community since 1975.
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