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> Chris Dodd is a crooked politician, and legislators of ilk are an malevolent force that is damaging american democracy.

> After publicly proclaiming that he would not be working as a lobbyist, he became the MPAA's lobbyist for $1.5M. As you can see from the history of SOPA/PIPA, his influence peddling was nearly successful in ramming this legislation through with little or no substantive debate.

Yes, but we're discussing whether it's wrong for the MPAA to announce that they're not donating any more money because SOPA wasn't passed.

The fact that Dodd was a corrupt politician is irrelevant to that discussion.

BTW - Dodd is arguably violating the law by being a lobbyist within two years of leaving office. But, that's off-topic.
I think the real question is whether this will be integrated into Windows 8. Sounds like an amazing opportunity for MS to leapfrog iOS.
This is the first time I've ever seen a device advertized as having a "sham feature."
101% Yes.
I'm always gutted when I read "currently only available in the USA".
Thanks for the feedback. Point taken on the "no downloads or installs". We wanted to convey how easy it is for someone to view your screen but I can see that it doesn't accurately describe the process for sharing your screen. We'll work to improve the messaging.
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So because people are occasionally confused by parameters with X- names, we fix this by effectively doubling the number of permutations of names they have to try?
You got major clients from Craiglist? If I misunderstood, where exactly did you send your portfolio to which resulted in major clients?
The focus of my comment was never about the morality of pirating, but rather my perceived difficulty in having an intelligent and honest conversation about it. While I did briefly touch on my thoughts about its morality, I made sure to state that matter was up for debate.

When we are talking about piracy I am amazed that people entertain the notion that the Pirate Bay is somehow liberating oppressed peoples all over the world ( as was implied in the release... ). We aren't talking about leaked government documents here, we are talking about last night's episode of Glee. All of this nonsense merely detracts and distracts for the real issue at hand.

Furthermore, I have found time and time again that people become exceedingly argumentative and obtuse when these issues are discussed, denying and arguing every claim no matter how well accepted or understood it is. I mean, can we really not agree that the Pirate Bay is primarily dedicated to distributing copyrighted material illegally? Is it really necessary for me to dig up a source and provide a citation for that claim?

In direct response to your question, I would not be distressed by such a site, nor does the existence of the pirate bay cause me distress. What might irritate me about such a site however is if it were to claim that jaywalking laws were not in place to control traffic and provide safe crossing to pedestrians, but instead to oppress the people of a city or some other nonsense along the same lines. It would irritate me if its supporters some deep conviction for it and when questioned about their beliefs, immediately assume those unlike them derive their morality from law.

I pirate content a lot. I am a member of a private tracker, and for awhile I rented out a seedbox to maintain my ratio. Never once though, have I ever felt entitled to the things I downloaded. Never once did I try to justify my downloading with anything other than the fact that it is super convenient and free. Why you think I'm so dull as to never question the word of law is beyond me. I never once said anything to suggest legality is equivalent to morality. I may even go so far as to say this conclusion you've made is indicative to the very thing I'm speaking of. I mean, it takes some rather large assumptions to reach that conclusion based upon my comments.
You're absolutely right, I thought GC and wrote VM.
I know internally we have a way to do this (use static files to test subscriptions / static requests). I'll ask if that is available in the package already or if it can be added.
This just sounds like a repeat of XML and similar debacles, where people tried to address design decisions outside the problem domain. XML is no more interoperable than a well-documented binary protocol. I'm sure REST is great for some applications, but this attitude that we can do all our design upfront is bad for the web. I mean, the browser just recently rediscovered interrupt-driven programming with the introduction of websockets. That's pretty embarrassing if you ask me.
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Clearly, you need to shop for more research-oriented neuromodulation devices.

edit: Did not intent to come off as snarky. Really, you actually should buy more neuromodulation devices that are research-oriented. Because they are cool. Seriously though, this is uncharted water. Be very careful. As a physician, I can't recommend actually sticking this on your head (yet).
what about cascading deletions?
List of Anonymity Networks:
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My Top 3:

1. .i2p Eepsites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

2. .onion sites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_...

3. Freesites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
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Chapters 7 & 8 of the Rails Tutorial are out ("Sign up" & "Sign in, sign out")
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Ideas to replace (bankrupt) Kodak as naming-rights owner of Hollywood Theater?
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We're loving it over at http://coursebookapp.com. We've been happily humming along for a few months, PayPal-free.
Just run 2 removes. Delete the post, then delete all comments with that post id.
I'm thinking of institutions that might last for a few years....
I figured out that it was meant to allow researchers to use it on the control group. I just thought that was a rather strange way to advertise the feature.

edit: No worries, I had a good laugh.
I often wondered about the X in "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". I've seen RFCs make explicit references to this format.
Microsoft is silently updating IE6 (and IE7) to IE8 for many users. Any IE6 growth is only temporary.

Watch this site for the next update:

http://www.ie6countdown.com/
> Regardless, if you still think there is anything "unserious" or even "dishonest" about this perspective, please elaborate.

Yes, what you wrote here:

> They're the same backwards looking people who said "but what about property rights" when it came to freeing slaves.

To me the comparison is too direct and is therefore inflamatory and distracts from your point. It takes the conversation in a Godwinish direction. Oh, also, it's factually incorrect given that the slavery people were mostly white southerners who have been dead over 100 years, and many of the IP people are wealthy coastal types who probably are fairly "progressive" in their politics in other ways, if you look at Hollywood as an example, superficial though they may be in their outlook.

The whole "intellectual property" thing, in any case, really derives from two things: 1) the "moral rights" to control something you brought into being, and 2) that artificial property is a good solution to the public goods problem in certain cases, if the needs of consumers and producers are properly balanced (currently I do not deem that to be the case): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
I made an edit to my original post, though for some reason it didn't take.

Anyway, I'm not doing anything controversial, and I won't even be hosting user generated content (at least not in the early days, though we might later).
My advice: take backbone's code and read it a couple times as you'd read a science book. Get to understand every function and how it ties into the rest of the framework.
Most writers read a lot more than they write. Programmers could learn from that.
Unlike with most torrent programs, Tor by default sets up as a client but not as an exit node.

I don't know that I'd want to be an exit node for Tor, given some of the things that people use Tor for.
Google is the greatest danger to the Free Software movement at the current time.
^ Absolutely this. You'll entirely risk losing your professional reputation, how much work do you think you'll continue to get if people realise that you're not only building in a vulnerability but also willing to use it if the situation isn't 100% to you're liking!

Once you get the impression your invoice will go unpaid either take legal action like most 'civilised' people, or just take it on the chin and walk away (warning other developers off if you like...)!
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NPR and KDHX are the only radio stations I listen to. The rest of them are literally unbearable.

edit: I used to really like XM radio a few years ago, but it was a subscription based service. And I haven't really listened to it much in a few years, so I don't know where it's at currently.
clickable: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3090-basecamp-nexts-caching-h...
Probably not - if so, it'll be something that comes from the hacking community, not from Microsoft.
My boss works in a different city, and we're on the phone all the time. The simplicity of this is priceless. I especially appreciate that the viewing side requires no setup. That makes it much preferable to WebEx or Skype when I'm dealing with less tech-savvy folks.
This comes up again and again, unfortunately. Its Apples and Oranges - and I get the feeling GoCardless don't say this clearly enough:

GoCardless does not process credit card transactions. They process bank debits (= low fees, different system), and are UK only.

Stripe does process credit card transactions, and doesn't do bank debit.
Your freaking enormous ball of mud accreted some more mud. Quelle surprise. It's probably doing it by sheer gravitational attraction at this point. I do not think that removes the need for languages that have the capabilities of C++, yet aren't freaking enormous balls of mud.

The reader may mentally replace my use of the word "freaking" with other choice terms at his or her discretion.
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The difficult thing is getting it ported correctly. As several people have shown, it's easy to get Go running. However, getting Go running properly in such a way that you can continue to get updates from upstream is much more difficult. So you end up with ancient versions of gmake, gcc, python, mercurial, Go, etc., all mostly-functional but no longer getting bugfixes, because it's much more difficult to make a nice clean port that can be accepted into the upstream.

Oh, and given that the major web browsers all seem to be written in C++, and we don't have a C++ compiler... that's problematic.
One problem I have with the people up in arms about suicides at the plant, is they have little awareness of how rampant suicides are at major universities in China. It's fairly regular for teens to literally jump out of the window in their dormitories if they get a bad grade.

I think the point is not to single out a particular company, but figure out how to evolve the entire culture so this kind of stuff doesn't happen.
Copyright holders were going after "piracy sites" well before TPB -- see Napster, Grokster, Kazaa, etc etc etc. Considering the founders are now facing jail, and they've always been politically active, I'd say they are in it for more than just "money in their pockets". I know, in this day and age, this is hard to believe, but sometimes it's actually true.
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Sure C++ can do what Go and Rust do. In fact any language that is turing complete can do anything that any other turing complete language can do. It just matters how easy to do it and how the syntax is. It's all about warts, and C++ has a lot of them.
Because it is an interesting question worth talking about. Assuming the OP found this on Reddit giving a tip-of-the-hat to where he found the question is just good etiquette and it also provides insight from another community that is usually quite different from Hacker News.
The weather and the women had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
The video is a bit small, and the music is really annoying, but fair play to you sir..

something like that life on facebook video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUCZCBso_w) would probably be quite a good way to present the life story use case for the product... what does it actually do?
From what I have seen I don't know if WPF is at the adoption that Microsoft had hoped for. There is still a lot of development done in WinForms and a lot of that work has been migrated to ASP.net for years.

Some of the reasons I've seen quite a few devs not adopt WPF:
- XAML a.k.a. super wordy xml? Why not just drag-and-drop-click-events
- MVVM Template, Caliburn, Prism, or just do things how we did in WinForms?
- Expression Blend makes sense in Microsoft's vision but how many small shops have dedicated UI designers?
- We are moving everything to the web already why would we do another desktop app?

Of course I say that as someone who actually quite enjoyed doing WPF development for three years.
I was commenting hoping to get others to explain their templating system, honored to see your reply :)

This is what we use: https://github.com/teambox/trimmer

In a nutshell, it takes everything under app/templates and compiles it from Rails (so it has access to I18n and ruby) and serves jades, which we later compile and minify.

Trimmer serves the Template and I18n objects, as you can see on this compiled file:

https://d238xsvyykqg39.cloudfront.net/assets/trimmer-en-58fc...

I like that your solution actually packs it together with the rest of the code, avoiding one extra request for templates. Maybe we'll add that to our system too.
Thank you. This presents some implications I'm going to have to consider in developing our application. Fortunately, in the early days we'll be collecting no personally identifiable data.
Don't discount how important it is for enterprise users to be able to re-use .NET code in the client.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Thanks for the disrupting the space, I know I'm not the only one who appreciates it.
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The only difference between REST-in-practice-today and WSDL is that you aren't expected to map each network interaction to a single procedure call. This makes a number of things easier: cache the results, GET data across many different endpoints if you know the format, enable data and metadata extensibility through the payload, and follow hyperlinks if you know the link relation and target format.

The Facebook Graph API is a great practical example of this ease of use in practice: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

You're quite right that things like "related" and "metadata" link relations mean nothing if you don't know what those mean - they are hooks for future bits of agreement. The difference between REST and WSDL in the long run, in my opinion, is the practical composability of small bits of agreement (or specs). The Web Services stack (SOAP, WSDL, WS-*) has had a very difficult time composing a bunch of specs together as the kernel of their agreement is basically the XML Infoset. With the RESTful Web, the kernel is HTTP, URI, and MIME (for now), which has endured a number of extensions (Flash, HTML5, Atom/RSS, etc.) and evolutions (the rise of mobile devices).
I don't understand why your comments pointing out details of the http spec and common-sense security considerations are being downvoted. I guess they are coming across as overly 'stident'? Anyway, I've found them helpful. Thanks.
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Join.me has been my goto replacement for webex.

This operates exactly like join.me - however I like join.me's shorter URLs - I would suggest copying a format similar to theirs.

However I really like the "share whats in the rectangle" feature.
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You need to be VAT registered in your own country to be able to buy things with 0 VAT.
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Here is a duplicate post that points to the slashdot story:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537862
I'd imagine it'll include the core SDKs and an option for OEMs to include built-in Kinect support (like Asus is doing).
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You'd like join.me as well.
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Just tried it. Works pretty well. I especially like the share rectangle region feature.

I have been using https://join.me/ since it allows me to control the other person's screen as well. The setup is just as simple but it requires you to run a downloaded file.
Let us think about the big ideas behind Go: It is simple, clean and has garbage collection.

That's quite a bit of an oversimplification. Goroutines and channels are two big ideas in Go, and the author pretty much ignored those completely.
I wonder where you got the idea that the rationale for this proposal is “because people are occasionally confused”. The actual rationale is much more reasonable:

The primary problem with the "X-" convention is that non-standard
parameters have a tendency to leak into the protected space of
standard parameters (whether de jure or de facto), thus introducing
the need for migration from the "X-" name to the standard name.
Migration, in turn, introduces interoperability issues (and sometimes
security issues) because older implementations will support only the
"X-" name and newer implementations might support only the standard
name. To preserve interoperability, newer implementations simply
support the "X-" name forever, which means that the non-standard name
has become a de facto standard (thus obviating the need for
segregation of the name space into "standard" and "non-standard"
areas in the first place).

Also there is nothing in this proposal that would “effectively [double] the number of permutations of names they have to try”. Look at the Recommendations for Protocol Designers in section 4.
Again, awesome and thank you!
Does it allow me to only share a specific applications? I don't want to show everybody my email and other stuff.
Best/easiest screen-sharing implementation I've seen so far, great work!
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And calling people "intellectually dishonest" isn't inflammatory?

More to the point, I was asking you if you saw anything unserious and dishonest about my perspective as a whole. And that perspective is not summed up in the single line you extracted. Nevertheless, you felt you could justify a personal attack on the integrity of another by citing this one line in isolation, as though it were a complete summation of the broader argument.

I think you need to be careful with this "intellectually dishonest" tag, my friend. This may be a case of what Peter says about Paul says more about Peter than it does about Paul.

In the meantime, I maintain my position: the Civil War era remains a rich source of examples showing how humans respond when changing norms about what can and cannot be considered property threaten the economic interests of those who are likely to lose their status. Even if the bone of contention is different, the point (which you seem hell-bent on missing) is that the reactions are very much the same.

Indeed, being able to see those reactions in a very different context is essential to recognizing their underlying patterns, and the unifying elements. You, on the other hand, seem to be saying "No! Regardless of the parallels, they CANNOT BE DISCUSSED! No No No No! This is OFF LIMITS!!!!

To which I say, oh go grow a pair.
That culture of being "snots" comes from engineers in the real world. The one where this kind of attention to detail means buildings fall on people.

I agree that maybe it's not necessary to carry over that cultural legacy to the internet, although so far it's worked pretty well.

If social pressure (public shaming) isn't the answer then what kind of pressure should be used? Public shaming is a pretty civilized way to enforce rules when you have no top down control that dictates those rules, I can't think of any alternatives that would be less harsh.
> half the technology you and I use everyday would not EXIST if there was no Israel.

Could you back this up?
If that's the case why aren't Miami or San Diego big tech startup hotspots?
I like and use C++. It fits my requirements of allowing high performance but still having rich abstractions. I also like most of the additions in C++11, and I look forward to using them.

But, there is a valid argument for using a newer language that has nothing to do with the language itself: the ancient include, compile and link process. Having to do the #ifndef/#define/#endif dance in every header file I write is a reminder of this fact. That hack exists because 40 years ago, there was no concept of package management. I feel the same way when I get linker errors that require me to unmangle my class names to figure out what's visible where.
It's good to see you have done your homework and are differentiating yourself from the competition. I like the knockoff and comprehensive strategy but "permanent" I am not so sure about. There is nothing permanent about the fashion industry, unless there is some nostalgic value of who wore what and when.
I had a pretty similar experience. Chrome on ChromeOS was unusably laggy. It would pause for 1 second every time I opened a new tab, and sometimes 2 full seconds before it would scroll. But after I flashed the ROM and installed stock Ubuntu on it, Firefox lagged much less. I eventually gave up on it because the wi-fi driver was buggy and would drop the signal every 5 minutes, but if I could fix that, I would be very happy with it as a web-browsing "appliance".
Right now, you can limit what is shown to what's inside a rectangle. The rectangle is movable and resizable although that is currently not obvious from the UI. We want to eventually allow you to select the application that you want to share.
Of all the things it's possible to clamp down on from a legal standpoint, writing code is probably impossible. Such is the way of the internet, routing around the censorship damage :)
I'm almost sure you are incorrect (the entire purpose of SOPA was to provide the same copyright enforcement to "foreign sites" as already exist for domestic sites). Can you point me to the section/paragraph of SOPA that you are thinking of?
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