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In my unprofessional legal view, it seems that what the copyright clique is really hoping to gain from this case is a precedent for making website owners responsible for ensuring that content uploaded to their site is copyright kosher.

Currently, the copyright holder has to crawl the internet to make sure their copyright isn't being violated somewhere and if so - file a takedown order. This is very whack-a-mole and when it comes to cyberlockers - intractable, since many external links can resolve to the same file. Locker admins have to only remove the offending link to comply with a takedown request, as it is impossible (without knowing the internal code structure) to prove whether two links resolve to the same file or different copies thereof. The linkers can simply check periodically to make sure their links are current and update as necessary, which can be easily automated.

The copyright holders cannot automate the discovery process (not without huge resources, anyway), while the copyright infringing parties can easily automate their side. This inherent unbalance creates a difficult policing problem that copyright holders (naturally) don't want to be responsible for.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. If UGC site admins become legally compelled to monitor what they are hosting, the overhead will kill most ad-only revenue models. If not, copyright holders will have to hire some sort of copyright police (does it already exist? if not --> startup_idea_masterlist.add() ).

Opinion question: what is the "ok/not ok" line for encouraging your users to use your (online) service for illegal activities (esp. copyright infringement)? Paying them to do it seems to be clearly "over the line", as far as US gov. is concerned. What about publicly announcing that you are not going to police their data?
Not at all sure why this post is getting up-votes. The short article (with lots of adds) simply describes what would be the default set-up for anyone starting Android development.

I suspect this is a site with no value added just designed to present adds. If so, where are the up-votes coming from? People who don't do Android development? People who did not visit the site? or sock puppets?
Does anyone know of any proof of concept video out there? I would love to see this in action.
While I see your point, it's come to a point where I prefer to see such interesting non-tech article rather than the crcle jerking of (poorly made) benchmarks / you should do this / no you should do that / php should die / my answer to "php should die" that I should have posted as a comment but didn't because I'm only milking for more adviews / etc ...
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Just put your fingers in your ears when you want to speak, or wear noise-canceling headphones.
Which wrong side of the law? He complied with the DMCA.
It doesn't cancel your speech - it plays it back to you with a slight delay. You hear what you said an instant ago.

Turn on the TV. Try repeating what someone talking continuously says right after they say it. That's what happens; it jams you mentally. Granted simultaneous translators at the UN do it with a twist, so it's possible.
It would decrease tourist dollars, dollars of people moving to tulsa, and encourage young upstarts leaving and never returning. The government is accountable, technically, but only when people vote with their actions and dollars.
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This site is good because it pokes Apple into action. However this seems like a temporary problem. It was pulled because of a problem on Apples end. There are a lot of companies who want an app in the app store or help with something. Its not difficult to find a temp job for a couple of weeks to tide you over.

Obviously it isn't ideal but you do what you have to do to keep going. If your revenue stream dries up you contact Apple to try to reestablish it. How long does that take? Maybe 1 email and 2 phone calls a day. Lets be generous and say this takes an hour each day. That then leaves 7 hours of thumb twiddling.

I have been in similar situations and have just nabbed a job on Guru. Its horrible BUT it brings in that little bit of money to keep the lights on until more work comes in.
I had one of those. It's a very limited device, it runs some custom embedded OS (certainly not Linux) and craps out if you try to access it from two workstations at the same time, etc. etc.
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Somehow a united front needs to be organized and presented to these companies in order for them to understand that they are causing serious damage.

The Free Software/Open Source community has been talking about this for years.

We'll still here. We have open source licences that you can use to prevent people doing certain things.
No, I mean, if you wore earplugs to defend yourself from the jammer -- you can't tell how loud you're talking, and controlling pitch/tone can be hard, too.

(AFAIK, this is why deaf people find it hard to speak.)
Don't you think that was a bit of an overreaction? And will you be doing the same for any Microsoft and Facebook services you use?
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Respect to the little feller for making it out of that egg. Any animal that starts life having to unglue their feet from the bottom of a vacuum-packed, delivery case is a winner.
That's a good alternative, but then I'd have to pay accountants and lawyers and the rest... It does give you flexibility in other areas, though (such as, I will finally be able to open a Stripe account!).
Use the open web. Ignore app stores. Yes, you might have to change how you make money. But better than a faustian deal
Discussing this with a US friend, I have come to the conclusion that for single-lane roads, a roundabout is superior to a 4-way stop as you only have to watch one direction for traffic.

Once you get to multiple lanes, the answer is simple: both roundabouts and 4-way stops are inferior...
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Am I the only one not shocked or offended? I post publicly on Twitter. Anyone can do that anyway. … Unless I'm missing something.
>if you’re a firm believer in free speech, you should now be experiencing a deafening cacophony of alarm bells

This article is sensationalist. If a directional mic/speaker is a "speech jamming gun" then a loud speaker is a "free speech area jammer". And you really don't need the mic - just blast Justin Bieber at a conversation and nobody will be able to hear anything intelligible anyway...

If you had a "totalitarian government" that wanted to jam you from thinking there are simpler ways to continuously annoy or distract you. Maybe if Stalin were bored and wanted to f#@* with people for the lulz.
More like 8 tools that come pre-installed with every Android development installation on Eclipse. Lame. Nothing new or useful.
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Sincere apology? You just told us to scroll to the last paragraph, presumably because most people who clicked your link would not have seen it. That's not a sincere apology, that's a huge wall of text that could have been about five times shorter. It's PR, it's always PR.
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Do you even know what proof of concept is ?
Even the best earplugs only muffle sound to a certain degree. Sound, especially loud sounds, is transmitted very well through the bones in your head.
Are you guys mostly focused on larger sites right now? Is pricing in the same ballpark as a Cloudflare type service?
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Seems that Google has been proven completely wrong with their pricing. They're targeting the bigger companies, which don't see shy at all to reach out for alternatives which offer equal quality and accuracy. Once these companies switch, Gmaps will also lose its "trusty" image. As long as the competition will keep up with providing easy integration, and API functionality, it will no longer be the #1 choice for the bigger companies. And they're not going to get their income from smaller, unless they drastically change their price-model.
OpenLayers is so great though for these kind of sites, that just need that extra dimension of detail on maps.
Sounds like Lisp image files and .Net dump files:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480083/lisp-image

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5zhxt22.aspx
It does not matter with how good a compiler you compile an interpreter it stays an interpreter. With Pypy you get a JIT Compiler. Sure you could maybe write a JIT with CL but thats a lot more work.
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Can't comprehend why you were downvoted. Unless Americans are aware of a more asinine, time-wasting, fuel-wasting road control.
Notice that when asked about the content provider's direct delete access he was very careful to say that he would remove any link they requested.

I'm sorry, but there's only 1 reason why you would remove a link to an infringing file but not the actual file. Aiding piracy.
You had me until the NoSQL rant. I see what you're saying, but modern data stores such as Cassandra, Riak, Mongo, Redis etc. are solving different problems and, IMO, it's ignorant to say that they are simply reinventing the wheel. There is life beyond RDBMS and ACID.
Yes, I once installed Google's page-speed to suggest and reduce our company's slow website.

Still the best one out there I think.
I don't think headphones keep you from hearing yourself - the vibrations travel through your jaw from your voice box to your inner ear. Sort of how your voice sounds a bit different when you're wearing high quality noise-cancelling headphones.
I often speak with a colleague by phone and for whatever reason our connection creates this effect. It's very disorienting at first, but you can get used to ignoring it quite quickly.
That's just one carrier in the US.
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I really miss his videos. Looking at slides without any commentary isn't that interesting.
Hooray -- maybe I'll finally stop being told about it and how important it is. Being incessantly told about the policy change was way more annoying than the policy change itself.
I don't like Google's business model or the trade they want me to make in exchange for their services. Therefore I am taking my business elsewhere.

How can that be an overreaction? Isn't this how capitalism is supposed to work?

(I don't use any microsoft services that I'm aware of, and I will quit facebook after I'm done getting out of google)
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On how many products can a single company work on? If Microsoft focused on a Photoshop clone, that focus would have been lost from somewhere else, just how they moved the engineers that worked on IExplorer to Silverlight. It's as simple as that.

Even if a company is one of the biggest and wealthiest in the world, development still takes time and resources. Which is why hypothetical questions like what would have happened if Microsoft built Silverlight earlier DO NOT make sense, simply because they didn't build Silverlight earlier and that's that.

Disregarding the fact that Microsoft already had a Flash competitor (ActiveX), Silverlight's technical advantages comes from the underlying platform, which is .NET and no matter how you look at it, if you're talking about current-day Silverlight, then you must include .NET into that equation.

On building Silverlight 5 years earlier, that would have been impossible, considering you're talking about year 2003, with .NET being initially released in 2002. So to make that decision 5 years earlier, then you have to shift the evolution of everything that led to it 5 years earlier. That means the release of .NET should have been in 1997, so development on it should have started somewhere in 1994, before the release of Windows 95.

You could then say that if only Microsoft invested more resources into .NET and Silverlight, then these projects would have been released faster. But by all indications Microsoft made .NET and the Avalon-related technologies (like WPF and Silverlight) their top priority, so they simply couldn't work faster.
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"It’s like mail, it’s private, we cannot just go in there and police what these users are uploading."

This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again.

If I upload Batman to my personal storage locker, and never share it with anyone else, and then a pirate uploads Batman and shares it with everyone, why should I lose my digital copy of Batman due to the actions of someone else?

Maybe I don't have a thorough understanding of now Hashes work, but if we both rip the same movie with the same software, won't that file have the same hash?
Yea, it might be possible with practice.

I guess public speakers could also have their speech pumped directly back into an earbud (like live music singers).
Waaaayyyy over simplified! Hire someone to handle the procurement, if you're not big enough - you'll have to do it yourself.

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Instead of limiting streaming to Chrome and Firefox, use HTML5 video tags and/or just link directly to the byte-ranges enabled URL (http://serve2.com/uploads/a6312121e15caec74845b7ba5af23330d5...) and you'll reach a lot more browsers and devices.
I'm with abdulla. Sure it's not great that Google want to use more of our data. It's annoying, but unfortunately the internet can't be truly free. Google appear to give you pretty decent tools to limit how they use your data.

Switching off third party cookies is also very easy to do. I've done it in Chrome an have no advertising related cookies listed.

rbarooah, I'm not sure where you intend to move your services. Would be interesting for you to list the alternatives you have found.
In OS X all you need to do is set a sysctl setting. No need for even a restart. Check out net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize (set it to 10) if you are interested.
Note that if you donate money to this guy, you're indirectly encouraging apple's behaviour.
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I made a simple Pure Data patch (adc > delay > dac) that simulates this effect, and I can confirm that it works well.
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About trial versions, a strange idea has just occurred me: has anyone out there thought of offering a trial in two separate periods? For example: 15 trial days = 1 day now + 14 days starting whenever you want it to.

This is to solve the problem that when I stumble upon a service that has a trial period, I have a strong urge to see what it's like, but am afraid that I will forget about the service for n-1 days, when I will get an email telling me that the trial has ended and I haven't gotten around to explore it fully.

Say, for example, I want to try out a project management suite. If I have a split trial period, I can explore the features and overall feel of the product for myself on a day and then prepare my workmates to use it in a test project, and only start the second part of the period when we are ready.

Has anyone thought deeper about the advantages and disadvantages of this?
I think some of the points Kim makes are interesting:

- He complies with the DMCA.
- He provides direct 'delete' access to his servers for the content companies.
- The content companies that claim to be losing billions, with direct access to his servers so far have failed to file any legal complaint with his lawyers.

I'm sure as much as we want to dislike him for his previous flamboyant behaviour, he has some legitimate points and a legitimate company providing a legitimate service (and one that is similarly provided by other companies, some of which are household names).

Call me cynical, but this smells of being such a monumental set-up that it makes the farm full of cows just down the road from me seem like a breath of fresh air.
It's good to always be asking that. As someone who often thinks "no, it doesn't", I think this kind of story is ok: it's not about politics or some kind of charged topic, it's just a random, interesting story. If you want one that's in need of flagging, the "big brother speech jamming gun" one is a great candidate.
We also have 4-way stops but you don't actually stop entirely, that would be counterproductive wouldn't it. You "stop" (in a grey sense of the word), look left and right, then you go.
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In fact, I wrote the same thing one day earlier to ucee054. See second half of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638221
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I don't understand. Do you mean that you can't compile Clojure into Common Lisp the way you can compile it into Python/PyPy?
I'd rather have a house on a craggy island:

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[Apparently the house belongs to Bjork].
"If Microsoft focused on a Photoshop clone, that focus would have been lost from somewhere else"

huh?

So all that time they were working on silverlight, there was no one working on xbox. or office. or ie. or windows vista/7/xp-patches. or sharepoint. or asp.net. or sql server. or iis. or c#. or linq. or ford sync tech. or metro. or windows phone 7.

Please...

had they wanted to get in to the photoshop realm, they would have.
It depends on the hashing method, above all.

A cheap-and-nasty MD5 (for example) of the exact same film stored in different file formats will yield different hashes.

A more sophisticated hashing methodology (for example something akin to the audio-fingerprinting tech used by Shazam) might yield a match.
Judging by the 200+ up votes, yes. Plus, the aforementioned hacker news guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You should read the post before commenting. They're not selling any games anymore, they're open sourcing everything. So how would it affect sales? And yes, you can, but if you take their code, fix it or whatever and then sell it you will still have to provide the modified code under GPL since the original was licensed to you under GPL. But as long as you do that you _can_ charge for the distributable of course.
Guys, it's time to start learning foreign languages than your native...

It's a bit arrogant from English speaking people to force other people on the Earth to learn your native language.
The invention itself is not too scary, but the commentary of the researchers is. Perhaps we should silence people like them who put forth such dangerous ideas.
Its horrible BUT it brings in that little bit of money to keep the lights on until more work comes in.

I agree on it's horrible, but I don't agree that it brings money. You are very likely to land a $500 job that takes over 80 or 100 hours of work, and the buyer may end up rating you badly or not paying you.
Looking good so far, will be interesting to see if they add more widgets over time.
I haven't used any of these but there are a bunch of them mentioned here - http://stackoverflow.com/a/7777624/220891
I enjoy reading two-three non "hacker" topics every day and having it discussed with this community, instead of say reddit. Since this community is closer to my mindset.

Saying that, i see that this kind of exploration with rewards like a previous thought extinct specimens is a "hack" of nature, it was an investment, a climb to the top and a reward :) . Therefore it is hacker news.
More information about this in the Enyo Blog:

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I'm sure FourSquare could probably write a long explaination of why they decided to migrate, but simply put, the tl;dr version could be summarised as:

"We can't sustain a $8 CPM hit." (I'm assuming $8 since they use custom styling). Most sites can't even sustain a $4 hit. If I could guarentee $4 per 1000 visitors to my site (income through advertisements) I would be a lot richer than I am today.
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I haven't really been able to get a good shake on what the law will be for this situation, or what I believe the law should be here.

That having been said, its hard to think that they were in compliance with 17 USC §§ 512(c)(1)(a)(ii) - (iii) in particular. Continued safe harbor protection requires that mega-upload:

(i)
does not have actual knowledge that the material
or an activity using the material on the system
or network is infringing;
(ii)
in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not
aware of facts or circumstances from which
infringing activity is apparent; or
(iii)
upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness,
acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access
to, the material;

I think it falls to a jury to determine if a 'reasonable person' would find that infringement was apparent to the mega-folks, but I don't think the "golly gee sucks, I just didn't know" defense is going to get them very far, especially in light of the emails in the indictment.
Might doesn't sound like I have the right to remove someone's potentially pirated movie.

Could have MegaUpload have done more to prevent pirated movies from being uploaded on their servers? Maybe, maybe not.

Should they still be protected by the DCMA? IMHO, I think so.
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Very cool, good work.

Axes are terrible, btw. I only started losing once I somehow got some Axes. Gotta tune those.
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