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This is pretty interesting to me as I used to work at an adult media company a couple of years ago.

Amazingly, it was one of the best jobs I've ever had. Although the CEO started getting obsessed about 'protecting their copyright'.

It had gotten to a point where they hired a full-time lawyer that spent all his time essentially black-mailing customers much like the lady in this article. They would ask for a settlement upfront of several thousand dollars. Most people paid because they didn't want their name associated with that type of lawsuit and were afraid of the backlash they would receive if their friends or family found out.

This, among other things led to me leaving that company.
In addition, there's quite a bit of leeway with the necessary & proper clause (though that may not be needed here). Since judges determining on a case-by-case basis the usefulness of a specific work is pretty obviously unworkable, the Copyright Clause's grant of power to Congress must include the right to set clear rules on classes of copyrightable works, even if some non-zero percentage of works in that class don't individually promote the progress of science and the useful arts, because that's a necessary activity for Congress to be able to create a workable copyright system. (That's one possible argument, anyway.)
>Every thermostat I've seen that can do half of what Nest is doing is covered in about 50 buttons

Remove control and it's easy to remove buttons. There is no brilliant design or innovation there. Whether the removed control is logical or beneficial, however, is a completely different matter -- there is absolutely zero evidence that the Nest delivers on the farfetched promises it makes.

I personally can't believe it has gotten as much attention as it has. It is a non-solution for a non-problem. The single and only reason it got coverage was the Apple angle.
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Coming from a single person certainly. Coming from a court though, it would imply the court's judgement which would seem a little bit different.
Is that a problem? You can use jQuery to wrap the event target like my example did. Or just do $(document).bind('DOMNOdeInserted', function () {}); Is that using jQuery enough? I suppose if you knew you were only using jQuery and wanted to modify the source, you could somehow hook into every function that modifies the DOM and go from there (which is what you just described with livequery).

Not really sure why your requirement is it needs to "use" jQuery though.
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It's already Constitutionally protected as speech. That's why it's not illegal anywhere in America, even though other "vices" like alcohol are.
Ever since I started using launchers to find programs/files/settings, I realized the pointlessness of a Start button. For Windows, I used Launchy. In Linux, I'm typing the program name into terminal.

The average user uses the Start menu as a browseable library of their installed programs (which it isn't even good at), so I think a direct list of apps is better all around with an option to launch apps from an intuitive search bar.
You're looking for "ex post facto law": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law

"In the United States, the federal government is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution and the states are prohibited from the same by clause 1 of Article I, section 10. This is one of the very few restrictions that the United States Constitution made to both the power of the federal and state governments prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. "

"In the United Kingdom, ex post facto laws are frowned upon, but are permitted by virtue of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty."
I think this issue is much more general than porn (although it does make it more interesting). I can declare: "Writer X's (e.g. X=John Grisham, substitute your own bad writer) novels are worthless, so I can freely share them". This would be ridiculous statement (cf. Grisham's net worth ~ $200M).
I should have mentioned, compared to resolving whether content is religiously offensive or not copyright violations are easier to deal with. And with digital signatures it can be detected by algorithms too. But your point is valid too.
Was the Best Buy 'I created...' Superbowl Advert inspired by Geekli.st?
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Useful Art is taken to mean "invention" so Porn definitely wouldn't fall there (unless something genuinely new was demonstrated).
100% bootstrap (any framework) is a great way to get stuff out there faster and get feedback. Customize stuff down the line f you even make it that far, focus on the most important stuff first.
Sherpaa, Jay Parkinson's Health Care Startup, Launches
I'm confused by that as well. I never really understood the motivation behind it - though I guess it's obsolescent, so hopefully it'll soon be just another one of those amusing anachronisms we see occasionally in computer science.
Looks like this has potential to make messy WP development much faster and cleaner.

Has anyone taken it for a spin?
Active Server Pages could be written in JScript (Microsoft's variation of JavaScript), and they even grew that into JScript.NET.
It's very common to both refute the validity of a prosecution at the same time as pleading not-guilty to it.
I'm not sure I (fully) agree with your example of education.

In education the scratchable "itch" is felt by educators and parents in their offering of a service (education). The extent to which we as a society expend resources providing tools/resources for educators and allowing them to build/purchase solutions demonstrates the extent of (or lack of) our societal valuation of education. The itch in this is scratched by the service providers, not the consumers.
There seems to be some confusion here.. some people are referring to the System cursor (which is not drawn by the CPU/GPU at all) and some people are referring to in-game cursors (i.e. the system cursor is hidden, the mouse position is updated and a custom cursor is drawn as part go the game loop).
Does "untyped" also mean "dynamically typed" in the academic CS world? Yes.
I couldn't really think of a good term for the kind of start-up, but here is the text from What Is Sherpaa?

Sherpaa is around the clock email and phone access to
our friendly, NYC-based doctors (or Guides as we call
them). Whenever you have a health question or concern,
we're here for you. And we play nicely with the insurance
you've got.

In other words, it's a start-up that aims to disrupt the usual routine with a general physician: diagnosis, prescriptions, treatment - 24/7. If you will, with the addition of "curated" specialists just to hit the lingo quota.
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Ask HN: Unified login system?
Lots of people use facebook connect. Can't tell if its indolence or by design.

Is there a login system that can leverage facebook connect but also allow other login systems?
That's not the entirety of her defense; just the part that relates to the title of this post.

One other thing relating to the title: She asserts that the movie itself is illegal (and thus not copyrightable) due to the company engaging in “solicitation, conspiracy to commit prostitution, pimping and/or pandering,” during its production.

Other defenses:

- She asserts that the movie in question was officially registered AFTER her alleged infringement.

- She contests the assertion that she can be held liable for infringement even if her router was unsecured and someone else carried out the act without her knowledge.

- She asserts that the company did not mitigate damages by issuing DMCA takedown notices.

- She asserts that the private investigators hired by the company are in violation of various California laws, and that by extension the company is guilty of unclean hands.

Really, it's all there in black and white in the article.
"Loophole" is not a word that means anything in law. Their licenses describe a set of legal uses. If the FCC doesn't want to allow these then let them offer a comparable solution.

Personally, I think it makes sense to declare a quiet zone around the GPS frequencies if it enables smaller, cheaper, and lower power consuming GPS receivers. But that should involve relocating the existing license holders.
I think in this case the approach worked fine for you. Most of the times a hacky solution will do. Not everything needs to be cleanly architected and bug free, especially a weekend project.
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"That's a self-defeating statement. By copying it, you've acknowledged its value."

I've just copied your comment, but I nevertheless think that it is of low value (as evidence against your hypothesis, I present the case of myself copying your low value comment...).

Proof by recursion!
copyright is not a "creation" right. It is a use(performance) and distribution right.

It didn't use to be before Sonny Bono Act IRRC (and shouldn't) be automatic. You should have to apply for this monopoly right.
replacing one offense (copyright infringement) with another (distribution of obscene materials).

Except one is a civil matter the other is criminal and currently I don't think there's a ton of DA's interested attempting to prosecute everyone sharing porn on the internet.
Redbox Acquires NCR, Blockbuster Express For Up To $100 Million
It depends on just how useful, and how ugly, it is. See: http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
I agree with you 100%.

This is also known as the YAGNI principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aint_gonna_need_it
It looked good until I needed to agree to all this before I could actually see how it worked:

* Access my basic information: Includes name, Profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends and any other information I've made public.

* Access my Profile information: Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, About me, Birthday and Current location

* Send me email

* Post to Facebook as me

* Post status messages, notes, photos and videos on my behalf.

* Access my data any time

* Access my data when I'm not using the application.

WTF? No! Sorry.
Especially if you want people to adopt your API's. If I'm looking at using a service and I have to choose between a complicated or a simple API, its an easy choice. Starting off, you want to solve the most annoying problems first.
I think it is a logical result of more and more people coming online and more people having access to more efficient ways (smartphones & always on 3g+...) of posting these comments/blogposts you are confronted with.

Did you ever go outside and talk to random people on the street, asking them for their views on several topics? Personal worlds are shielded by our social circles and our neighborhoods (which, if you read HN, is probably not the slums) and yet, if you really talk to random people, you'll find that a lot of these people say scary things. Interesting things as well, but also scary things. I stepped out of a hotel a few months ago, bumped into a man on the street; we started talking. He was French, a private jet pilot, sounded quite well educated. He was going to the drugstore to get cough medicine and I had to go in the same direction. When we were about halfway, an Middle eastern man passed us; when he was out of ears reach, the French guy said, while nodding to the man, 'we should bomb all those fckers, they don't deserve to live'. People who say this kind of crap to total strangers have no qualms posting it online either; these people were not online before in the numbers they are now.

How would they know that if you are logged in with Facebook or Gmail that your name/profile link automatically appears next to the post? People know very little about computers (including smartphones) and integration + apps make it very easy to blend in such a way that it would be hard* for people to actually not make their name appear.
US truly values the freedom of speech. In India there is freedom of speech too but it comes with certain conditions. People of key government positions, successful members of civil society etc. command certain respect. And you don't even call them by first name let alone vandalizing their pictures (unless they are cartoons in newspapers). Its still a traditional society. Flag burning is considered crime in India whereas in western countries it won't be problematic. You can also wear flag patterned clothes but in India you will be frowned upon by everyone including your friends and family.
This might be true for building businesses, but I've started out trying to build a fun app in a day because I wasn't happy with anything on the App Store and it worked out quite well. It took more than a day, but it was a fun experiment and I got familiar with a few new libraries. I'm going to open source this and if people find it useful, then awesome!

Here's a post I did on it if anyone cares -

http://www.tejaswi-yerukalapudi.com/post/12487091818/one-day...
"A salary is nothing more than time you spend in a structured fashion for somebody else. When you don’t own your own time, no matter what the paycheck, you are not free and you will not be happy."

That's a touch overgeneralised, forgiveable in a kid straight out of college but still worthy of an eyeroll. Not everyone itches to throw off the shackles of employment for a startup, and I wish startup folk would wrap their heads around this somehow and stop with the condescension.

I'm curious about the comment 'especially onerous for me': are you saying that you have massive student loan debt that you need to cover, and that this is uncommon among your fellow prospective i-banker students?
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Not really; my code is working fine as is. I think the "problems" were 1) I was curious if there was a way to do it via jQuery instead of DOM mutation methods (looks like no) and 2) the documentation for these jQuery methods doesn't specifically mention that this case isn't covered and that the developer should look at DOM events, although that is just perhaps assumed to be default behavior when working with jQuery.

I'm writing to the people who maintain the jQuery documentation now...
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Is that necessarily a bad thing? There could be worse alternatives, such as laying on the couch and watching TV rather than, well, making something.

Perhaps you can think of a long-term project that you always wanted to do -- write a book, build something, etc. -- and split it into smaller projects.
Asian women may choose to do it. I don't. At any rate, it is a choice of a mother. Not yours. So, I respoectfully request that you get over it, or look the other way. Cause it is not going away.
But speech doesn't necessarily have to be protected by copyright.
The headline here appears to be a bit misleading - according to a report in Forbes[1], Coinstar/Redbox has acquired NCR's DVD kiosk business (which ran under the Blockbuster Express brand), not the entirety of NCR.

<edit> The Redbox press release [2] makes it clear that they have only acquired NCR's entertainment line of business.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/02/06/ncr-q4-top...

[2] http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/redbox-to-acquire-th...
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If you're going to ask companies to abandon their competitive advantages in exchange for cash, you better have a ton of it. And you best be able to tell which ones are really advantages, or you'll wind up losing a ton of it without meaningful impact.

I can see the ibankers frothing at the thought of it all.
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I have no disagreement with your position. What I'm trying to articulate (and I think I might be failing at), is that there's a difference between arguing against something incredibly successful because you have a bunch of valid reasons why it's a bad idea, and not being able to understand how anyone could possibly like using the thing you dislike.

The latter position will almost certainly lead you down a path of ruin as you try to make your living with technology.

If you worked for a book publisher who couldn't even conceive that people might like ebooks, couldn't fathom why anyone would ever want to read a book on a digital screen, for any reason, you'd quit (I hope).

Not someone who thinks paper books are superior because of the way they feel, or that they don't have DRM, or that you can share them, lend them, resell them, collect them. Those are valid reasons to prefer paper books.

But if you work in the book industry, and honestly can't understand why anybody would ever want an ebook, you're not someone whose opinion about the nature of the book industry I value.

As to who these people are, Dave Winer is a technologist who played a very important roll in making RSS a thing (and he wants to make sure you remember it...for all of eternity), and Robert Scoble is a technoloblogger (he writes about a lot of services/apps from a user perspective) who never met a social networking site/iPhone app/ that let him promote that he didn't like.
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The Internet needs more of this, that people don't just defend against the copyright lobby, but strike deep into their home territory. Put the copyright lobby on the defensive.

Idea for a startup: a litigation funder against copyright trolls. A copyright troll might say: we can make this case go away if you give us 'y', at which point a litigation funder steps in and says we will make it go away for 'z', where z<y. Basically the business case revolves around diverting settlement funds away from the copyright trolls, and giving the victims some benefit in the form of a discount. The trolls would have to fight back by bringing stronger cases or by competing on price and reducing the settlements demanded, in an effort to make the litigation funder uneconomic. It would be even more profitable if lawmakers could be lobbied to force losing copyright trolls to cover the cost of both sides of the litigation.

A sideline for the litigation funder could be funding the aggressive defence of copyrights on free software in return for a cut of the damages. Part of the trick would be to chose targets that free software authors might be pleased to take down: such as aggressive movie studios.
Nice counterpoint and nice looking app there, tejaswly.
Well I guess it's up to the OP to clarify.
Mine is 12 ideas now. I'm currently building one (A facebook app) now. In the past 4 months, I've been able to complete only one.
As a developer, if I am going to do a "social" login, I usually use https://rpxnow.com/
"With Storm, I distilled the realtime computation problem domain into a small set of abstractions: streams, spouts, bolts, and topologies. I devised a new algorithm for guaranteeing data processing that eliminated the need for intermediate message brokers, the part of our system that caused the most complexity and suffering."

As someone who has gone through the storm source in very fine detail, let me tell you how he did this. He hashed each tuple that needed to be processed then XOR'd it into a variable that started at a value of zero.

When the piece that needed to be processed was complete it would get XOR'd back into the variable. Once the variable hit 0 he knew everything was done! Pretty neat if you ask me.
Fully agree that it shouldn't be automatic, that would be too stifling. But you could be able to do it, no creation should be un-copyrightable.
Neat. I'll give it a try. Trending links are cool.
If you have a brain, don't act like an idiot.
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can i just say your combination of background and link color is incredibly annoying?
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I know FB Connect is a deal breaker for lots of HN readers.

From a product standpoint, I decided that requiring FB Connect (for now, at least) is one of the best things I could do to make sharing more frictionless, which will help the site grow hopefully.
"First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast."

This mantra closely resembles the rule attributed to Kent Beck that one should "Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast".
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This is how I feel about Unity and why I moved to Debian+Openbox.

Unity might be incredible on a tablet when ctrl+space to bring up a launcher and typing "fir<enter>" to launch Firefox is slower than slapping an icon with my sausage finger. But on the desktop, Unity is a step backwards and adds nothing to me when my fingers are on home row all day. And trust me, I really tried to use Unity and I'm rather open-minded about new paradigms (Openbox was new to me).

I haven't tried Win8 yet, but it sounds like a similar situation. But I don't feel like the future of Windows-based desktop PCs is under fire. As long as Windows has powerusers, there will always be a solution to what might be a step backwards in design.
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Ask HN: What group activity can I do to get students interested in CS?
Hi HN,

I'm giving a talk at a college with a NSF funded program to keep students pursuing STEM (science, math, computer science) majors. There are very few CS majors in the group, and I get the opportunity to lead an activity for an hour. Does anyone have any ideas for activities I can lead a group of 8-15 people that will get them more interested in CS? Or maybe a presentation or video I can show them?

Thanks guys.
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I'd be interested in the source, but can't find it?
Someone saw "artistic value" in a bunch of soup cans[0], so I'm not sure that the phrase, "artistic value" has an actual meaning.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans
It's a very provocative piece, and it seems to dovetail quite nicely with the release of works-in-progress on such sites as Kickstarter.

That said, this model presently works a lot better for nonfiction than it does for fiction. Unless we're talking about a return to the serialized novel. And that may not necessarily be a bad thing. If certain app developers release their games in "chapters," I see no reason why authors couldn't do the same. In fact, that may even be a better way to make a living as a fiction writer than by releasing whole books every year (so long as the installments are substantial enough to warrant the price tag). And, in the interest of seeing this thought experiment through to its conclusion: who's to say that a la carte book sales are the final word on pricing? Will we eventually see authors selling subscriptions to serialized works?