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Well yes the fact that they are dead even before any judgement has been pronounced is quite infuriating. It's not a coincidence that money is seized and their domain name taken, it's made to destroy the website even before any kind of judgement can roll out. I may be the only one but I find that outrageous.

But if the FBI loses this case and its image is tarnished then it could be a precedent and may change the way these copyright infringement cases are conducted. I am not american and I would hate to see the FBI take away my startup business on the ground that I am violating copyrights because of my users.
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Fraud is _the_ concern. It isn't hard to imagine a crowdfunding bucket shop flacking shell companies to clueless investors who think they're buying a piece of the future. You can't fit much due diligence expense into a $2mm funding round.

I'd also worry about crappy documentation / followthrough. What's to stop management teams from using such ventures to roadtest ideas and architecture and fit, "fail", then launch for real without the crowdfunders?

Nor need we go even that far. What about cronyisms in investment recommendation, management hiring, consultant hiring?

You or I might be able to assess the network reputation of various players and intermediaries. But there are a ton of investors who can't spell 'DNS' and lack the self-knowledge to know they can't.

I'm as anti-regulatory as anyone I've seen on this forum, but this to me looks like trouble. I'm sure you mean well, it _sounds_ like a good idea. But if you imagine the broader universe of potential funders and funded, you may begin to see the problems.
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The title and content don't correlate. This would be like having an article titled "The Evil Hammer" and then in the article explaining how "Hammer's aren't actually evil, just you shouldn't use them in situations where a saw would be more appropriate."

I think anyone falling into these pitfalls just aren't writing good enough tests, don't dissuade them from furthering their testing skills, promote skillful testing. And change the title.
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I left in 2006 for two years. As a foreigner in East Asia, it felt freer in some ways. But I think that was a combination of one, perception and two, getting breaks as a foreigner. Foreigners are given slack because they aren't expected to know the small details of whats accepted and not. They expect we know the big goods and bads but not the small ones.

And then there was perception --just not being aware of what was allowed and not. I do recall people telling me that mocking the president was not allowed. Anyhow, I'm back and I feel ok. It could be better, idealistically, I suppose, but it's not as bad as it would seem, vis a vis other places.
Well if you read the article that doesn't matter in this case since it's a criminal case not civil (in which it could be argued that the system in place was inadequate). The article claims that what needs to be shown is intent on violating the DMCA requirements which I'm not sure the FBI has that strong of a case about. They had a system in place and responded to request showing that they were at the very least doing the bare minimum to comply and thus weren't (in my opinion, with what I know), blatantly trying to violate the DMCA.
He was accused not convicted. Why should he be forced to quit. A teachers life is ruined by accusations, regardless if they prove to have merit or not.
The whole system is broken, he's not exploiting it, he's just taking advantage of the failing of a society that shoots you down before your even convicted.

(The article clearly lacked any information regarding the situation, so don't think I'm siding with him regarding the initial accusation.)
Yeah, but there are plenty of cases where that isn't feasible. Imagine one of these being used to collect passwords, credit card numbers and so on at a coffee shop's wifi network, for example. Also, people are stupid and leave networks unsecured or use WEP when they really ought not to.
Wired used to be a good magazine full of interesting and insightful articles.

Sigh...
+1.

From what you've seen, what are the prospects of aggregating mini-investment through a registered p.e. fund? Would the registration expenses be too high? If so, is it possible that this sort of thing might be enabled by right-sizing the current public securities regulatory apparatus?
It doesn't matter that it's growing, they're just going to say that it's growing less than it should be. "Think how good the economy would be without piracy!?"

I think it really is a service problem, like Valve says, and that piracy can be beaten by providing a better service. Unfortunately, the important people in the entertainment industry don't and won't understand that. As time goes by and more younger clued in people start taking over the big companies, things will change.
Like. I think this feels more sparse than I'd expect, which is a good thing. Not going to switch from backbone right now though, but I appreciate the experimentation.
I appreciate what you're doing here. As a programmer, I can also see areas that programming (or at least skilled computer usage, as some of these things can probably be done in Excel or existing tools) could add to most professions.

But even in your replies, you're often dealing with only small subsets. I don't want to live in a society which feels painters and sculptors are obsolete because we have webgl. I certainly don't want to live in a society in which the Oreo is an example of good baking. And the existence of webgl and Oreos doesn't indicate to me that painters, sculptors, and traditional bakers need to know about the programmatic options.

When not subsets, it's not clear to me why the professional ought to know programming rather than enlisting the help of a programmer. Programming tools for fire prediction would probably be quite involved. I've been programming professionally for 3 years, and I'm not sure I'd be up to the challenge. I'm not sure someone could be a skilled firefighter, learn programming well enough to write fire prediction tools, and still have a social life. And even if someone can, there's no reason every firefighter needs to. Once it's written, it's written, and others just need to learn to use it.

(As for the burger, I wouldn't eat it. I like my food traditional, minimally processed, and made of things I would recognize on a shelf [a category into which his emulsifiers do not fall].)
Please do, a lot of people find them immensely interesting and helpful.
Jennifer Granick used to be the Director of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. She still teaches at Stanford Law regularly, and she was previously Civil Liberties director at EFF and counsel at a boutique Internet law firm. I don't know what you mean by "editorial weight" here, but you certainly shouldn't discount anything the author says on account of where she works or her current affiliation with the Center for Internet and Society.
Let's translate this to the real world shall we: the FBI will monitor all conversations taking place in schools, offices and public transport.

Congratulations: you are now living in a police state.

"Seeing it" because it's public and "monitoring" it systematically are two very different things.
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Last week I read somewhere that Megaupload ended owning the servers after a legal dispute ended with the bankrupcy of an american company called Alpha Red. That meant it started to be reachable by USA, as evidenced by a civil demand a year ago by https://www.perfect-10.tv/

http://www.hispalinux.es/sites/hispalinux/files/1-main.pdf

http://www.hispalinux.es/sites/hispalinux/files/order%20perf...

No sources for the rest, maybe someone knows something more.
I agree. They're like mini case studies on what to improve, what to strive for, and what to avoid.
We should all support this. We could unlock millions of dollars of crowd-sourced funding for startups, supporting more innovation, creating more jobs, and driving a healthy democratization of the spirit of investment.

As an added benefit, I think it is worth considering that allowing small-scale investments will help to educate a large number of Americans on the basics of investing and financial management. I think we'll all agree that we wouldn't want folks investing their life savings, but $1,000 isn't going to break the bank.
I'm very glad you posted your comment. It's a reasonable view and the one that I wanted to respond to.

To the author: I don't think you should rewrite this in JavaScript if you like CoffeeScript. I think you should write all of the examples in your README in CoffeeScript. I don't think you'll draw interest from people who aren't open to CoffeeScript, at least early on. Those who are already using CoffeeScript or are curious (I'm somewhere between the two) will prefer all the examples to be in CoffeeScript.

Besides that, there is some overhead in switching between reading the two languages. I was wondering why there were so many parens when I hit the first couple JavaScript examples.
The advice I wish somebody had given me: Don't use Debian's default configuration for Exim. Even though Debian's docs strongly recommend that you should do so. I'm sure their magic config stuff works brilliantly for somebody, but for most people it creates a vast, complex set of files that then breaks when you upgrade, leaving you with no email. Just write (or find) a config file.
Perhaps, but it's a reasonable way to catch mentally unstable people acting out crazy fantasies... Such people might actually post their plans on twitter.
I've been using one of their dedicated servers for almost two years now and am very happy with it.

My cousin has been using them for approx. 5 years and he's also very happy with them. He's also had them do a non-standard custom setup for a client before and that seems to have went well and painlessly.
It wasn't my intention to deny the impact of programming. I was just trying to, as you said, point out that "[not] all the people in the profession should be programmers."

Thank you for providing both sides in one post though. It's helpful to see the balance made so clear.
An interesting way to look at it, but no. In any professional career (Law, Medicine, Accounting, Engineering, Etc.) the field is constantly evolving and changing. To stay current you have to go to conferences, read papers, experiment. You need a 'learning lifestyle' which, for folks who are passionate about what they do, is natural. An Electrical Engineer who stopped learning after they left school in 1990 is not a desirable hire, just like a lawyer who hasn't bothered to keep abreast of the changes in the law for 20 years.

What I'm saying is that if you're a professional and you're not keeping current, then your lack of currency, more than your age, will hinder your employment.

That being said, there are age biases out there. Young managers can be intimidated by hiring an older person, especially if they are insecure. And like the antecendent of this post older people who have 'been around' can sometimes see the reality of things which are uncomfortable for others to admit are true.
agreed - i am shocked they aren't doing this. i understand that they want people to give it a try, but forcing users to either divulge all their information instantly or spend hours deleting manually - this is just hubris on the part of facebook. i hope they can get that ipo through before people start deactivating.
Based on my casual observations from inside the padded walls, this would be counter to the apparent goals of the shadow government.
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I second this thought. I grew up in the Bay Area and worked for a few years as a programmer at a startup there. I've also been going to school in the Raleigh area (Chapel Hill) for almost 2 years now.

I've heard the media reports saying how the Raleigh Triangle area is a growing tech hub but I honestly don't see it. It pales so much in comparison to the Bay Area. There are some people interested in entrepreneurship and technology but it's still really hard to find them. It's hard not to run into these kinds of people in the Bay Area. One point of evidence is in looking at how many meetup groups and members are focused on technology and entrepreneurship in each area, and there is a stark difference.

Also, the Dean Dome is amazing. I'd rate it better than Oracle Arena.
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I'm still struck by what a strong endorsement DynamoDB is of the design decisions we've been making in Cassandra over the last couple years. Composite keys, distributed counters, ...

More details: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/amazon-dynamodb
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They forgot my preferred hosting method from my pot smoking college days.

A second hand Pentium II in the corner of the lounge, running Slackware with ports 80 and 21 forwarded to it from a cheap belkin router off your domestic DSL connection.

Good: Basically free (assuming the power bill is in your landlord's name) , host whatever the hell you like.

Bad: Someone might spill the bong water over the power strip and ruin your uptime.
I think it would actually be quite fascinating to hear the details if you could get him to write a few paragraphs on what he does.
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Yes, but because it's such a weird/new piece of technology, I think an explanation of how well it actually works would be a good compliment to the article, there's no point in talking about ethics if it doesn't actually work.
It is in the best interest of corporations (which are made of people like you and me) to relentlessly lobby the government to continue to make laws favorable to their existence at the expense of others including SMBs which could eventually threaten their business.

If I run a large bank it might be in my best interest to push for laws that mirror my company's current practices to make competitors play catch-up and to shut out upstarts.
Very risky: For the average founder, the expected utility of starting a VC funded company is around -$200k.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14219
This (almost) holds true for (almost) every piece of software.
Yeah.

I'd say working for a big bank or law firm is much more stable (less risky in terms of job security/steady career trajectory), although less stable than other sectors.

On the other hand, it's also arguable that it's harder to go big if you're working at a bank or law firm (more risky in that you're less likely to be able to retire young, and not just because of your extravagant fatcat mcbankster lifestyle).
Unfortunately it will be another 20 to 30 years until a younger generation takes over.

Until then they'll quickly erode our freedoms with draconian laws with immense abuse potential and international treaties done in complete secrecy.

And then it might be too late.
Why are you more worried about Google+ than Facebook?
While in college, my housemates had a Linux mail server configured with individualized spam filtering; every user had an IMAP "spam" folder and a "ham" folder; they could move false negatives from their inbox to the spam folder, move false positives from spam to ham, and a nightly job would run and generate custom statistics for each user. It was remarkably slick, and for years I've been trying to figure out what that setup was. Does anybody have any ideas, or actual links to similar tutorials?
So you're saying that the FBI should be allowed to arrest a business's operators and seize equipment that they believe are violating the law... but leave the business (which they believe is illegal) to keep running somehow?

The FBI will attempt to prove that MegaUpload was an illegal business. Why should they just let it keep running if that is the case?
All available evidence shows piracy boosts legitimate consumption. It makes perfect sense that rising piracy has led to a boom in production, especially since it has also broken up the monopolies and gatekeepers that kept prices artificially high.

The RIAA and the MPAA are those monopoly gatekeepers, so their profits aren't booming. They have been made irrelevant. It's better for consumers, better for artists and worse for the people who hire lobbyists.
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I have a hard time imagining there ever being demand for anywhere near 5bn+ programmers, even if the majority of jobs are automated.
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I'm not sure I agree. Integrating into an existing server, such as Exim/Postfix will give the security benefits with a much lower latency and lower bandwidth costs.
That's certainly your prerogative, and good for you.

In the year 2040 you need to go to the dentist. The dentist you visit has a big shop, with lots of employees. There's Linda, who works the telephone and knows you and your family. There's the hygienist. There's the nurse's aide. The dentist even makes his own amalgams for fillings. It's a very personal and homey atmosphere. People like it.

The other place has robots. There is no dentist. You click on your iPad (or whatever you have then) that you want to see a dentist, and within ten minutes you're in the office. A robot does the exam, consults with you, and completes the work.

The first dentist costs four times as much as the second one. It also takes twice the time, and you have to wait two weeks for an appointment. (If you're lucky)

Now that's not some strange imaginings -- that's going to happen, whether we like it or not. The main question becomes: do we evolve a mixed-mode shop full of artisans working (programming) computers and technology? Or do we just commoditize the lot of it, take the humanity and ingenuity completely out of the picture? If you set aside programming, make the programming shop some special place where people go to commoditize business practices, you end up with no people around. After all, you've replaced them. If, however, each person knows their job and also programming, you create something new that wasn't there before. This is the startup question, "should all the founders know how to program?" applied to the world at large.

The essay makes the case not for programmers to rule the world, but for people of all jobs to learn to manipulate complex programmable technology in the same way they might today use Microsoft Publisher to make a banner. It's actually arguing your case for you: for our own benefit, the creative and unique aspect of people must be preserved.
Maybe it's time to differ from hivemind here. I should make clear that I cherish my right as an American, which I exercise liberally at home and abroad, to criticize the American government in general. I also like to call out specific elected or appointed officials (for example, the President, whoever he is each term) any time I think they are making mistakes. Participants on Hacker News who are also my Facebook friends know that I am not in the least bit shy about expressing political opinions contrary to those of the United States federal government leaders or those of my state government. That said, I think a foreign national kidding around about a trip in which he or she will "destroy America" shouldn't be surprised to be questioned about that by law enforcement officers. I have traveled to other countries, and have lived in another country as a long-term resident, and I don't express to cross a border without someone from the other country checking me out to see if I will obey the laws while I am in their country.

As a more general statement contrary to the main thrust of comments here, I have no fear that the United States of America will lose out on immigrants or business visitors any time soon. Any time here on Hacker News that we have a thread about United States visa policies, dozens of participants complain that they wish it was easier to come to the United States to do business, to visit, or to settle permanently. The United States is still a huge draw to people from all over the world, as I was especially aware when I lived in an international dormitory with students from all over the globe in another country. The rate of immigration to the United States has ups and downs, with the downs coming especially at times when the United States economy is in depression or recession, but on the whole the United States is one of the few countries in the world that still count on sustained, large, long-term population growth from net immigration alone, even if the rate of natural increase falls below replacement levels. (And it could be argued that the below-replacement birth rates of many countries are parents' expression of little hope for their countries' futures, as they are not even willing to have children in those countries. The United States still has an above-replacement birth rate and thus also enjoys natural increase in population.)

So, yes, let's criticize the United States whenever any liberties of persons in the United States are curtailed, but let's be realistic about where else people can travel and kid around about socially harmful or illegal behavior. If one is to leave the United States for more freedom, where would one go? (Fewer examples have been named in other comments than I would have expected, so far.) Considering ALL the trade-offs, which places are really, truly plainly better places to live than the United States? Which places are better to visit for tourism?
Most programming environments have SSH/SCP libraries. If you want to maintain a simple upload/download model, SCP is the way to do it.

It's not entirely clear to me that an FTP-style upload/download model is best here, mainly because I haven't the faintest clue what an "email appending company" does.
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In my experience. It's Murphy's Law adapted to reading.

If you pour a lot of care and attention in to some copy or instructions. They won't even not read it, they will flagrantly disregard it.

If you fluff up some filler text to fit a space, they will go through it with a fine tooth comb and hold you to the fire over it.

In my experience, you can't win.
Of course not. Industry players that aren't a part of the cartel are obviously not industry players.
There are various kinds of tests, from unit tests to behavior driven testing. Refactoring application code may cause tests, especially unit tests, to break.

If you're writing unit tests, by definition, you are testing the implementation - that's the point. It seems you're referring to behavioral (or black box) tests, which are very different.
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Indeed: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/true...

That's pretty clearly a non-trivial source file. Obviously a pointless one, but copyrightable. And it has the standard GNU copyleft blurb at the top.
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And the investors will cry "fraud" and "scam" not for the wrong reasons alone. Fraud and scam artists will actually infiltrate the hacker community once they find out about the expansion (and dumbing down) of investor base.