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When applied as suggested, this will cause smaller type (~10-12px) to appear very blurry. Also, when using an iOS device, it will make all text unreadably blurry upon zooming in.

I suggest applying this property only to the element you'd like to improve the animation of.
> After all, you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre because it would harm the public good.

How does it "harm the public good" to shout fire in a crowded theater when there actually is a fire?

What? Your public good rule is more complex? That's your plan to avoid the law of unintended consequences? (Of course, many of those so-called unintended consequences aren't actually unintended so much as things that one isn't willing to argue for.)
They are definitely going after full-disk encryption hard, claiming it makes it impossible to prosecute child pornographers and should therefore be illegal.
the owners and operators of Megaupload were arrested by US authorities with no extradition

Umm no, they were arrested in New Zealand by New Zealand authorities.

Dotcom, as well as Bram van der Kolk, Finn Batato and Mathias Ortman were arrested by Organised & Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) as well as New Zealand police earlier today.
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Hi Mourad,

- make the text on home pagereal text, not images
- Get someone to review the copy, there are a few mistakes and weird wordings
- Maybe show some different places on the maps
- when I search for something when notlogged in, I arrive at some sort of empty results page. Maybe hide the search box when I'm not logged in?
As part of their "publishing targets", does the government mandate the exact journals, or type of journals, in which papers need to be published?

Are these journals explicitly named, or is there a criteria they need to satisfy to be eligible?
"Think of the Children!" will always remain a tactic as long as people are concerned that, by opposing the argument, they will be seen as "anti-children." Simply knowing that it is a tactic should take away the fear of opposing it for what it is. A manipulation tactic.
This is annoying, especially since I might very well want to rip the DVDs I own to my laptop so I can watch them on the plane without fumbling with shitty disks.

Also, are TSA agents now capable of understanding what is fair use now since they have trouble with the volume of liquid I am able to bring?

What if someone has a bunch of legally licensed AVIs ? You get side-lined for a 3-4 hours. They should open a little MPAA lawyer's office in the airport. He'll help you negotiate a settlement before you get on the next leg of your flight to Houston.
> A friend of mine had a genius idea.

Your "genius" friend doesn't know much about the economics of congress.

For example, Nancy Pelosi's net worth while in Congress has been going up by far more than $1M/year.
Also, as I understand it, pure CSS transitions and effects are often much faster than using javascript.
The friend may claim he has forgotten his part of the passphrase, though. I wonder what would happen in that case.
Sorry, but I'm not going to skip any stupid intro, i'll just close the page...
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Author on vim:

"MacVim: it’s Vim, need I say more? Actually, I do need to say more: I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Vim – did I mention that I hate it? I just don’t get how anyone could like the antiquated Unix-originating Vim with it’s stupid modes, over any of the other options that are out there. Emacs was waaay better than Vim back in the day; nano is better than Vim now; and they both pale in comparison to Sublime, and the other feature rich editors listed here; and yet, excellent coders, such as Thomas Fuchs use this editor — like I said, I don’t get it"

Spoken like a man who has spent less than 10 minutes with it. vim rewards the patient practitioner with an unbeatable mind-editor connection over time, and self-reinforces universally good skills to have like touch-typing.

Still thankful for my mentor as a Google intern who told me on day 1: "learn python, learn vim."

Anyway, point is ACTA sucks.
You're American, I presume? I will also assume that, being on Hacker News, you're in the computer field? If that's the case, of course most Europeans you talk to want to move to the US. California (possibly New York) is kind of appealing like that. But as a non-American, I can tell you that very few people I meet believe America is where it's at, mainly because of social policies like this one.
If only people weren't to lazy to add a commenting system of their now a days and didn't relay on the cloud so much...
> Google bends over backwards to make sure that their rankings are entirely algorithmic so that they can retain the moral high-ground and various legal protections.

Do you really think that algorithms are necessarily neutral? (Hint: they're not. Consider a "hate speech" detector. It's easy to implement bias using "neutral" algorithms with "reasonable" decisions.)
Blog comments gone?

"And nothing of value was lost."
I was looking at what was going into the head end of a social media aggregator and was shocked to see that video clips expire on the web sites of the major television networks after they go out of the "window" that they intend to have people view them.

I know it's the way they do things, but my attitude as a web publisher is that eyeballs are precious and you're never going to tell people "move along, nothing to see here" unless you've got a really good reason.

A few years back I wanted to buy a Disney movie that was not being distributed at the time. Rather than going to a file sharing network, I bought a copy on eBay. I unwittingly got a disk that played perfectly, but for which all the materials had been printed with an ink jet printer... A pirate copy. I would have been happy to pay full price for a legitimate copy, but they wouldn't take my money.

The really sick sector of the industry is multichannel television. Everyone on the industry is constantly repeating that "the king is still on the throne, the pound is still worth a pound" but the bundling model is slowly killing them the way the music industry began to die slowly in the 1970s.

Bundling causes a number of contradictions.

One of them is sports programming: some people are fanatically dedicated to sports (I'll never turn off a game with a TV-B-Gone, but usually get cheers if I turn off Fox News) other people don't care. The price of sports programming goes up rapidly because the fanatics will go bezerk if they don't get it, but that raises the cable bills of people who don't care. Like health insurance, bundling tricks people into paying more for a service than they would on their own. If sports fans were paying for teams or games individually, they'd pay more and the teams would get less.

Another one is quality. When I visit family and friends with cable I usually find it very hard to be entertained. Sometimes there's a good movie on, but I just can't stand the endless reruns of Spongebob Squarepants, the reality shows, the "news" channels which show nothing but white people talking.

The reason you don't see Al Jazeera on U.S. Cable is because it makes the other channels look bad: when cable is showing "news" shows with tea party idiots talking about how we have to cut taxes AND balance the budget at the same time and reality shows about coupon clippers, there's a reality show on Al Jazeera about a bunch of people who overthrew an evil dictator in Libya and won their freedom.

Even innocuous channels, like the Weather Channel, are useless in my mind -- the Weather Channel was innovative in the 80's, but between the web and NOAA Weather Radio, who needs it?

The system stands because there are people who'll watch whatever is on. However, without market discipline, the industry is in a "boiled frog" situation. They can make stuff that is worse and worse and will find gradually that people lose interest in it. Although the situation will develop gradually, they'll act quite surprised when reality hits them.
Dammit, I hate being right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476099
"ripping" what are you taling about? Making up words want help you, go to jail you terrorist-socialist-facist-pirate.
This is, of course, ridiculous. But I think SOPA has some missing the broader point. It looks to me like the target of this is drug smugglers and other "organized criminals", not some family on vacation in Canada or your linux laptop. It gives law enforcement an easy excuse to dig into the laptops of suspected smugglers and thugs.

And that kind of thinking is very, very dangerous. Much worse than SOPA - which, to be frank, was going to be used much like patents are - as a corporate bludgeon in a war for profits (in my opinon- obviously this is speculation). This idea is a direct violation individual freedoms with no greater goal than to exert control over the populace.

It's also a signal that the concept of trade restriction is deeply and dangerously flawed.
Really? Are politicians and the entertainment industry this dependent on each other? It seems like the battle cry of both parties is "we're too lazy to come up with our own safe guards, so let's just do the most unnecessary thing that comes to mind. Wait, why are we doing this? Oh right, money." It's downright pathetic to see those in control having panic attacks in the form of legislation. Next google search: the finer points of being an expatriate.
Here in EU, a lot of sharing or aggregating sites are beginning to censor themselves or are closing doors completely (videobb, mixture video, allotvshow, ...).

Most of the US series I used to watch online (no legal alternative except waiting 1+ year for an overpriced DVD set) are disappearing since MU shutdown.
Am I reading this right? At the bottom of section 8 is this gem.

[...] a court shall presume [...] that the distribution or publication using the Internet of a photograph of [...] a specific person serves no legitimate purpose [...]

What does that mean? If you transmit a picture of somebody without them giving the okay first you're probably up to no good?
When the economy improves and they have trouble finding employees they pay junior employees more than senior employees.
It's emacs for me but I agree with your thought on the patient practitioner and the mind editor connection. I also think a decent keyboard is part of that connection.

I did like the article; the graphic was a good image to see where I may have some holes and gave me some ideas for how to fill them.
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Organisation must focus on paying people well and then they must just leave people on their own. We are clever enough to know how to figure out what to do with our money. We can buy our own food, snacks and ice cream if we want to.

Instead, every company that I've seen so far seems to come up with every possible reason to pay people as little as they can. Generally its like this, "Hey we are giving you x,y,z perks and you sit around in a beautiful office so the peanuts we pay is sufficient, now get back to work and slog for us until your bones hurt."

Companies know damn well, that not everyone is eating these Ice creams, drinking coffee of eating stomach full everyday. And not everyone is taking the free transport. Some will, not all. On an average they pay every body less for these reasons, and the money they save by not paying in cash but by perks is often huge.

Salary offers are the most fraudulent documents. Minus taxes, and some other 'hidden' deductions which always exist. Because most companies have a component of salary with string attached. What you get in hand is always close to 50% of what is promised on paper.

This is every where, no matter which company you will every work at.
Thanks for sharing this. Interesting thing to note - you prototype/create_mockups in Keynote :)
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> Using any non opensource software is so scary that I wonder why would anyone pay and take the risk.

In Romania, businesses must fill each month online statements, but such fillings can only be done with Microsoft Internet Explorer, and there's no option to fill them in person. So you're forced to use non opensource software.
Oh, what a coincidence ;)

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3496475
because centralisation centralises money too :)
Encryption or no encryption, or any of these other little games won't do anything.

Look, if border patrol is in the wrong mood and you try to pull a "well, I'd let you see it but it's encrypted and I don't have the key!" they're going to detain you until they have the information they want. So what's the point? That's the real issue here: we've given more authority to uneducated, power-hungry citizens to mistreat others at will.
I commend you for saying this out loud in a public forum. How things have changed in just a few years! Just after 9/11 you would have been laughed out of the building for pulling out the "security theater" card. It warms my heart to see so many people vocally & publicly calling out the bullshit governments are trying to pull on us, no matter if it's SOPA, PIPA, ACTA or whatever they will come up with next.

I've been thinking about this internet freedom movement quite a bit lately & I am convinced the single most powerful thing we can do is to come out of our anonymous hiding places & publicly declare our intentions. That's why I created my freedom.txt & hope others will do same: http://fr.anc.is/freedom.txt
Please stop saying "I have nothing to hide" after talking about crypto. You imply that most people who use crypto have somthing to hide, witch is not the case.
Not much different from how it operates now.

Just ask Dodd.
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derail is one way to put it. directly attack is another.
An important detail:

"Updated to add: By “it,” I am referring to the book, not the content. The program allows you to export your work as plain text, with all formatting stripped. So you do have the option to take the formatting work you did in iBooks Author, throw it away, and start over."

This is about format, not content. Nothing to see here.
The first part of the post is talking about a mistake the author made thinking that salary was worth $20,000. It's a mistake many young people make, and it's a mistake they only make once. I made the same mistake as well, but it was with respect to options.

However, the rest of the article was a mindless, self-entitled rant about how evil Google was for daring to change how the food was served. "Those wounds will never heal. Anyone with half a brain will say "hey, these guys are evil!" and will bail for greener pastures."

Keep in mind, Google food is still free and still high quality. All they did was consolidate the locations and maybe change the total types of food. And for this employees were "wounded" and Google was "evil"? The food is still free, it's still very much a Las Vegas buffet not slop served in a trough. You just maybe have to walk further!!! It's ridiculous!
4.2.1 which is as far this phone will go.
Related: http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lobby-absolutely-loves...

There's a very slippery slope of misuse that eventually creeps in with any new enforcement privilege. One example - the extra abilities the Patriot act gave to law enforcement that now are used almost exclusively for non-terrorism related investigations.
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If they want the key from you, they're going to get the key. That's what will happen.

Ask the inverse: they decide to detain you, indefinitely, until you produce the encryption key or admit that there's some base level of contraband on your computer that you're responsible for. What happens in that case?

Maybe as a Canadian I see this differently. At least as an American you will have certain rights that you can hope to depend on in your own country. But I forfeit all those rights when I cross the border. What's to stop these guys from detaining me as an international terrorist?
> USA is behind it

Prove it. Isn't it about time Europeans started to take responsibility for their ("democratic") governments? Why did your government sign the dotted line? If answer is "US made us", then news flash: You do not live in a democracy. If you insist you Europeans have your act together (where as we boobs in US don't) then clearly it is your own government that is behind it.

ACTA: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2010/april/tradoc_1460... [ARTICLE 6.1: BECOMING PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT is worth a gander.]
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> If there's a market failure and the standard free-market economics aren't applying, like in the case of a cartel, then that's bad and we want to change it. Bad results are bad, good results are good.

It must be nice to live in a world without regulatory capture.

"Want to change" doesn't imply "will do less harm than good" in this world. In fact, "want to do good" is pretty much the basis of all of the really huge problems we have.
That question is mute. If you really need to hear a answer, they want. In this extream case there want be any people who make money with creating "art". This is probebly not how its going to turn out if there is no IP.

People will have to innovate. You have to get paid for the creation of your work not for the distribution. Kickstarter is an idea. People are already starting to blog or podcast for free and then make more and more money with it. You can earn money with selling t-shirts and stuff (this is what many bands allready do).

Its all about innovation, I think we would live in a better but diffrent world overall. That said we cant not just talk away patents and copyright in one instance. We have to start with reducing the copyright and reworking the patent system, plus we have to treat copyright infringement justly (ie not with 5 years of prison).
"I'm sorry to inform you that your browser sucks!"

If the message had been, uhm, polite, i would maybe have considered opening another browser to look at it in.

I mean. Is it too much to expect just a little more class than that?

EDIT: Now i tried it in Chrome since it was open. No error message, but logon doesn't work. Honestly, i'm not impressed.
How to act against ACTA
Really? Alan Colmes is the name that comes to mind?
If you don't like the iBooks Author EULA, don't use it. iBooks Author isn't the only way to publish books on iBooks. You could use any other authoring tool to generate EPUB books and sell them on iBooks. And heck, that's if you want to sell on the iBookstore.

In fact, since ePub is just a superset of html, you can even author everything in a text editor.

I'm still struggling to see what the uproar is all about.
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Unfortunately, if the goal of the exercise is to extract information then they won't hit you on the head and they certainly won't want you going unconscious. :-(
Since when were they eliminated? Have you been to the Google campus? The free food is still there and it's still better than most cafeterias that you have to pay for.
People who misuse Author still deserve fair treatment.
I really don't understand why a republican would sponsor this. Their party claims to want a smaller government, and yet, they don't have a problem with a more intrusive one?
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well said. what kind of lobbying power have Google et al invested in? with their cash flow, I see no reason why they couldn't fund/push for reasonable legislation that defends their corporate existence.
Update - 80,000 new people joined the case since yesterday, street protests started literally right now (Gdansk - around 2000 ppl expected), new government websites down.
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I don't see why it didn't work in Chrome. I'm using Chromium 18 (Developer Build) and it worked just fine.

Pressing [ENTER] on password textbox didn't go so well, but you can use the mouse and hit the arrow.

And then it works great.
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IMO, Disqus is great for adding discussion to pages which don't have a built in commenting system; for example a single page which shows some demo of code.

But for my wordpress blog, I prefer native comments as it removes the dependency to a third party service
> how on earth has it come to this??

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemöller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6)

It has come to this one small step at a time. That is how politicians work. They know that the "whole" is to scary for voters to accept all at once. So they find just what they can get away with this year, then grab a tiny bit more next year, and so on. Eventually, everyone looks back and thinks "how on earth has it come to this??"
In fact, businesses (companies) are not permitted to donate to political parties in Canada. And this same "neo-con" government has lowered the maximum personal donation from $5000 per person to $1000 per person.

If anything, this has encouraged a more 'grassroots' approach to fundraising, as it's more the number of people you can engage, rather than a particular (wealthy) demographic.
Maybe Reddit should organize a campaign to send every member of congress a copy of _1984_, and maybe _Fahrenheit 451_. Seems like they could pull it off. On the other hand, it might just give them more ideas.
I agree. Once you settle into vim, your productivity increases threefold. I can copy the contents of a string and paste it somewhere else in about 6 keystrokes.

I've not yet found anything that can compare.
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> I've heard a number of arguments over the years against a flat tax. One is that a flat tax is regressive meaning that it penalizes lower income earners by taxing them at the same rate as higher earners. But I think we are all coming to realize that the current system may be even more regressive since most wealthy people find ways to pay lower tax rates.

Let me preface this by saying, I don't necessarily disagree with the ideas presented in this article, however that quoted bit is a very weak argument. Essentially the author is arguing that because the current system is regressive that justifies moving to a flat tax rate. However this does not actually provide an argument for why a flat tax rate is less regressive, rather he only asserts that the current system is not ideal.

If you're going to sell people on the idea, you've definitely got to come up with some strong arguments for your proposal and not just arguments against the current implementation. I think such arguments exist, but this isn't a great presentation of them.
This is ridiculous. Not what EFF is trying do do, but the extent to which people are going to have go to feel secure. Look at the doctor example. Akina the Japanese doctor is going to a wedding out of country. They recommend mailing a laptop to a relative at the wedding, then wiping it there and bringing it back across the border, all to protect the confidentiality of some emails. That is a completely and utterly ridiculous idea. But yet, there it is, seriously stated.

10 years of pacificity towards the erosion of rights and privacy, and here we are.
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