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Aiding in copyright infrigement, aiding is the key word. The ISPs carrying the signals and the state putting down the wire has been aiding the infrigement. The Linux servers running the torrent site and the collocation facilities are aiding in the infrigement.

Never before in Swedish justice history has this law been applied so rigorously as now. The monopoly mail-delivery system has never been trialed for aiding in spreading of illegal content such as child abuse pictures or bombs.

The messaging system has many uses, the trial did not even take this aspect up for discussion. The servers of thepiratebay where raided and with them several sites where taken down and servers where confiscated, still not returned. Some of those where owned by startup companies and completley unrelated to tpb except for sharing the same server room.
It did backfire for the guy who is hiding. The others got their sentences reduced in the first appeal but since he wasn't present for the appeal, his original sentence stands. So he'll basically either have to stay away from any country with an extradition treaty with Sweden for many, many years, or spend a year in Swedish prison (plus, I'm sure, additional time/fines for running).
Screenshot for the dutch people that can't visit TPB anymore..:
http://i.imgur.com/VVBiJ.png
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I wonder how much of this story is real? It certainly felt real. Still, a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Same experience working with a world-class security developer. When he checks his email on his phone, it sounds like a wasp with a stutter.
Same for me. What's up?
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Curious then how you feel about `sorted()` being in the global namespace. Point being I don't understand how `.lower()` et al., being class methods instead of global functions is an argument for the greatness of Python. Ultimately the responsibility is yours for invoking it in the right place with the right type of object, no matter where you put the parens.
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I think there's an interesting parallel to be drawn between natural languages and programming languages:

"Work on sociolinguistic typology suggests that languages/varieties spoken by small, isolated com­munities tend to show a considerably higher degree of structural complexity than languages spoken by larger communities with more language and dialect contact (Nichols 1992, Trudgill 2004)."

http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltunge...

I think the same could be said of R -- having evolved naturally within an (initially) small community of statisticians, there hasn't been the pressure to standardize and simplify that comes with a wider and more diverse user base.
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This has been discussed in length here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941373
This is not yet-another-proposal-to-pythonize-Lisp. The proposed syntax is hardly whitespace-sensitive, except for a few special situations.
Exactly. The best way to obliterate a young adult from the society forever is to slash him with fines that he just can't and won't pay. There are several cases like this in Finland, namely few kids who ran a p2p sharing hub (without sharing any of the files, just running the server, AFAIK).

This means the young adult won't ever go to work because nearly everything he would ever make would be deducted to pay off the fines he can never finish up. Thus he will simply not pay the fine, become unemployed, and make the country pay him social security to live. Any work he will actually do will be gray, i.e. unofficial untaxed "pirate" income that doesn't formally exist. Way to go.

The TPB guys probably have more ambitious plans as the liberation front of bit-sharing. I bet this might just tip an even larger percentage of Swedish people to support TPB and the Pirate Party. Isn't the only thing that is, in the crowds of conservative government or business, more dangerous than a liberty fighter an imprisoned liberty fighter?
I just want to say: thank you for MOAI. It is an awesome way to get an app done for Android/iOS platforms simultaneously, and I really look forward to the future of this framework. Without question, it has been a very enjoyable experience - develop on Mac OSX, simultaneously deploy on both Android and iOS, and then ship. Really, a pure joy to use.
Paste of it for the dutch visually impaired that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://pastebin.com/WeKPQUK6

edit: dem words aint right. :)
> * It lacks an easy-to-use symbolic debugger.

> * It lacks a first-rate IDE.

>> <plug>This is changing http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/ </plug>;

This looks excellent, even for people who don't like Eclipse. Lua sorely lacks an interactive debugger, and your DBGp-based solution is portable beyond Eclipse.

Very nice :-)
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You can do cat file.au >/dev/audio on a lot of Unix-y OS's. For wav, the problems you mention are solved with "sox" which converts the wav file to raw data with suitable options.

All of the problems you mention are problems of the interfaces exposed by the files, not problems with the "everything as a file" idea in itself.

Look at /proc on linux. /proc/[pid] represents a running process, but it's a directory, not a file, all the information about that process are inside.

A hypothetical filesystem API for audio designed to be friendly might expose a /proc/sound/[device]/name file containing a user friendly description and a /proc/sound/[device]/output file that a converter gets mounted at that you can just copy files to, and a /proc/sound/[device]/control that accepts commands like "pause" or "play".

You also seem to also be assuming that these interfaces are meant for ordinary end-users. While some of the functionality does make it easier for end-users to interact directly with the lower levels of the system, nothing precludes friendlier interfaces being put on top of it.

What it gives you is an interface that has a bunch of standard tools you can use to operate on them, either because they're simple enough to use directly, or to make building the user friendly interfaces more easily, and that which is at the same time reasonably explorable if it's well designed. /proc is a good example of this - you can poke around in it and learn a lot about your system with just a standard shell without having the faintest idea about how it's structured initially. Meanwhile, the non-file-related system calls require you to write code to test them out - they're far more opaque.

> But this approach doesn't actually work for monitoring growing files; the select() will just return immediately with read-ready even if you're at EOF.

This really shouldn't be surprising. select() specifically tells you if the filedescriptor is read for read. A filedescriptor is ready to read from if there is more data or you're at the end of the stream. The behavior is entirely consistent. Perhaps a way of requesting notification only if there is more data to read, rather than if there's more data or end of the stream, would be useful, but that is not what select() provides. It illustrates some of the flaws in the Unix system calls, not an inherent problem with a filesystem interface.
Ideally people shouldn't work for money. Machines should do it and people should just go on creating and having fun. But because we live in an economy dominated by scarcity, that's not currently possible.

Regarding sweatshops, it's just a matter of perspective - I'm currently in the process of finding passive income revenues because I hate work in general. Should I boycott all companies with employees because of my preferences?
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It would appear that it's a mistake to commit white collar crime without being an American bank. [1][2][3][4]

[1] "70% of early payment defaults had fraudulent
misrepresentations on their original loan applications" - http://www.anu.edu.au/fellows/jbraithwaite/_documents/Articl...

[2] "half of all the loans called sub-prime, were also liars loans. Liars loans means that there was no prudent underwriting of the loan" - http://www.neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/09/william-black...

[3] "how many criminal referrals did the same agency do, in this crisis. Remember it did well over 10,000 in the prior crisis. Well the answer is zero. They completely shut down making criminal referrals" - ibid

[4] "In 2003, Freddie Mac coughed up $125 million after it was caught misreporting its earnings by $5 billion; nobody went to jail. In 2006, Fannie Mae was fined $400 million, but executives who had overseen phony accounting techniques to jack up their bonuses faced no criminal charges. That same year, AIG paid $1.6 billion after it was caught in a major accounting scandal that would indirectly lead to its collapse two years later, but no executives at the insurance giant were prosecuted." - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...
Just read the small blurb, and it doesn't really give much away. I do think Mozilla are right to challenge current paradigms, and I long for a bit of innovation.

The browser UI needs a chronic refresh, and thinking about what else the browser can do, is certainly worthy of consideration.

I personally would like to see the browser take on the challenge of navigation better.

I was confined to a 133MHZ text based machine for six months - and I happily learnt to navigate the web with Lynx - by using its keyboard shortcut-ted numbered links! It was amazing how easy it all felt, and it's something I've longed to see as an option in a browser ever since. This one thing alone would make using my Kindle's browser - bearable.
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I don't think that's a reasonable excuse. Mark Lutz's Learning Python does a very good comparison of a lot the features in the language as they are implemented in both python 2.6 and 3.x. That book was released in September 2009: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596158071.do

Edit: Actually, while reading one of the sample chapters it becomes apparent that this book is more of a general introduction to programming than a book about learning Python. I also noticed that there are a few notes sprinkled here and there about changes in python 3.0. So I withdraw my previous criticism.

Also: kudos for getting the SouthPark reference about the rectal probe in there :)
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They have an API and devs need API accounts. I don't know much about dating sites but I'm guessing they don't have APIs because exposing the type of data they store would be pretty creepy.
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An interesting read as well, and upvoted for that, but I fail to see how it qualifies as a substitute for the parent post. The proposed syntax is entirely different and especially the almost non-significance of whitespace is quite a difference from other proposals.
"The real solution probably isn't shutting down sweatshops, but getting these people better opportunities."

I think this is right. People seem to like to imagine that the factory owners are kidnapping people, locking them up and forcing them to work in terrible conditions. But these people are working there because there aren't better places for them to work...
Edit: I meant term-mode (M-x term), not terminal-mode (M-x terminal-emulator). No idea why there are two different terminal emulators in Emacs, but 'M-x term' seems the better of the two, or at least the keybindings make more sense to me.

There is also 'M-x serial-term' should you ever need it.
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I've often thought that Plan 9's everything-is-a-file system with a consistent API for access is the missing link between Unix's everything-is-a-file and REST's consistent interface constraint. I think it's certainly arguable that Plan 9 shares many features with RESTful architectures.
I don't know. I composed a lazy-evaluation library called promises.js for an ongoing project which I call "ducky":

https://github.com/drostie/ducky/

Now, it's 277 SLOC by GitHub's reckoning, and it solves a really esoteric problem (providing a language to wrap asynchronous calls in, so that you can write asynchronous code synchronously). The problem wouldn't even be particularly clear if you didn't know something about Node.js and how the API is set up. In that sense maybe you're right.

But there's another sense in which you're maybe not right. Perhaps this is just me feeling too much fatherly affection for my code, but I like to think that even if you were baffled by the expected use of the project, you could still break promises.js into chunks (in fact, in the source it's done for you) which helps you understand what each of these methods is, and what it does, and how to use it to accomplish some bizarre and esoteric goal.

So it's semantically ugly in a deep sense -- "what the hell is this doing, why am I reading this code" -- if you do not take the time to 'discover the beauty', to use your words.

But it's semantically pretty in a much less profound sense; the code is pretty straightforward to look through, and the higher-order ideas are built straight out of lower-order ideas, which are clearly partitioned off, and so forth.
(1) There's no contact info anywhere (obvious, at least) on urlpipe.com.

(2) "you're" is misspelled on the urlpipe home page.
>The ISPs carrying the signals and the state putting down the wire has been aiding the infrigement.

I have no knowledge of Swedish law but this argument sounds to melike you are trying to use a loophole. I don't think you need more than basic common sense to see why TPB is guilty while accusing the ISP or the State is a little far fetched. And if their is no law in Sweden that can make the distinction between the two well, there needs to be one.
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I guess Apportable is building a framework to manually port iOS to Android.

"Apportable is a venture-backed team of six engineers, looking for a few more. We're solving some ridiculously hard problems porting iOS to Android. Our software is already being used by some of the world's largest and best game developers"
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When I heard the problem, it helped me to think of it in terms of extremes. Instead of three cups, imagine a million cups, and you choose one. The person now removes 999,998 empty cups, leaving yours and one other. It's pretty unlikely that you happened to somehow guess your cup correctly (one in a million chance). Instinct should probably now tell you the other cup is much more likely, and not a straight 50/50 chance.
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I wouldn't agree that you can easily see a title in a tab! I'd rather a meta key that would bring up the info about the page easily - which listed the URI etc. But the title should remain at the forefront.
Pretty cool, but the thought of inflate/deflate running in Javascript makes me cringe. How fast is this?
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IMO, many times the ugliness of the code reflects the brittle thinking of the architect/designer of the application.

If it is designed to expect [rigid design] certain set of rules and not accomodate new and changing requirements, or if it is designed to accomodate unknown/made up requirements [overengineered design], you can endup with code that looks either like a framework for frameworks' sake or a perfect code for the set of known requirements.

In both cases, you endup either with code that cannot easily be modified [rigid] or you endup taking many shortcuts because the original design did (and could) not anticipate new requirements [overenginnered].

One of the ways to circumvent it is to know what you need design and what you need to be able to extend without modifying the original intent.
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Our 5-member team is distributed across several timezones (UK, East Coast & Central) and practice various aspects of 'Scrum' and 'Agile' to help us maintain and develop multiple projects for several internal customers. We currently use a mixture of Google Docs for our backlog and Trello for our iteration task board.

Unfortunately most of the tools out there make the assumption of team == project, so are there any tools that handle both the backlog and task board, and work well with multiple projects?
OK, this apparently needs to be spelled out clearly to all you hipster founder hacker types out there:

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Yes, that is right, your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong. Taking pain meds does not fix anything. Ignore it at your own peril, because it is hard to found the next social media empire when you are dead.
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Yes, you can argue that every part is technically aiding. But the thing is, legality also considers intent and awareness. The Pirate Bay was clearly intended for pirate material (how you prove that is another point..) and they were very much aware that the majority of torrents pointed towards pirated material.
Thank you for the copy-paste.

The fact that I now have to rely on others to republish this information because as of today it is being censored for me makes me very, very sad.

I'm 45 years old, I was born and raised in the "free world", and this is the first time in my life I am confronted with the painful reality of censorship.

Regardless of what one might think of the Pirate Bay, this feels so very, very wrong.
I'm not sure that really contradicts his point, that's a terribly limited API. Stereo only, no way to specify channel layout, 16bit only, no way to change the device buffer sizes, no way to tell if the device is in use, no way to tell the device latency, seemingly no way to examine what sample rates or bit depths the device supports, seemingly no way to subscribe to any kind of notification when the device has actually changed sample rate (or other properties) or when playback has stopped etc, no ability to lock the device to prevent other processes changing the sample rate or other properties, no ability to get device time or determine if the device is synchronised with system time.

Some of these missing things can be added fairly easily to the existing API of course, but I don't know enough about plan9 to suggest how, for example, notifications for device property changes could be added.

As it stands this interface is almost useless even for casual home users who just want to play back audio: multiple channel support is a basic requirement these days. Serious audio work is not even possible at all.
The real shame is that inferno never became android. It was around early enough. Had the right feature set. I guess it was not in Google's backyard (America) and had lost it's backbone a little to early.

I guess when Google was shopping for mobile OS they were also looking for a talent grab. With Inferno by 2005 most had already left.
This is great for small finance startups where previously the costs were astronomical.
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It would be slightly weird to have the humble bundle in a walled garden on a platform that allows to live without the walls.
I couldn't buy the bundle on Market (since my device doesn't have it).

(On a tangent:) The market-URLs for android apps all over the web are annoying enough already (esp. for free apps - just put up the darn .apk file somewhere, at least as an alternative!)
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The thing is, all the currently acceptable ways to consume music without paying for it were also strenuously resisted by the music industry when they first appeared. The difference is that governments were less inclined in the past to believe the industry hype and roll over with draconian laws.
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OOP has nothing to do with the Disruptor pattern achieving that performance. I agree the concept is elegant, but I don't think the Java framework implementing it is. You can see a less general benchmark done in far less code in Go and C++: https://gist.github.com/1218360 (and discussion http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr... )
1.really good suggestions!
indeed i'm doing 'adding bits of css now and again'! as i do not have photoshop skills so far
i should stop that.
2.actually i'm not that clear about a good design.
do you think search 'good design example' and try to work them out in photoshop is a good way to start?
i just did a search,
http://inspirationfeed.com/inspiration/40-detailed-examples-...
any designer can give the hours you need for any of the example there?
it looks very difficult for me so far.
It is sad, but I cannot read this blog post. The Dutch equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA, named Brein, sued two of the major Dutch ISPs for not blocking access to The Pirate Bay. Brein won the court case, and the judge required these ISPs to block The Pirate Bay starting yesterday.

Now I am met with this when visiting thepiratebay.se:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/blokkade.png/

Internet censorship is now real in The Netherlands
One day I plan on comparing all these half-decent frameworks and writing a post about it.. one day.. Here are some others I've found (Note: This is not a full listing, others are old/abandoned so I've omitted them):

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http://framelessgrid.com/
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http://foundation.zurb.com/
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WikiLeaks has several documents that give details about US embassy pressure towards the Swedish justice system to make legislation and verdicts that favor the US IP Mafia.

Whether you call it corruption or regular diplomatic process is up to you.
Well, don't you know that copyright infringement is responsible for this economic depression? The pirates are upsetting Mikey.
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