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I don't agree with lumping the RIAA in with municipal water or electricity. Utilities can be much cheaper and more efficient with a local monopoly than if they were in competition. Imagine if water delivery was a free market: you'd have a half dozen or so companies pumping water to you, and unlike with rotatable Internet protocols, they wouldn't be able to use each others lines. You'd have to have the same amount of water lines run to your house as there were competing companies. Same with the choice of electricity: they can all use one line, but in the end it has to be traceable back to the one company who shilled out the watts for your benefit. Imagine if there were three or four competing power plants serving your neighborhood, all running at 1/3 capacity (plant efficiency doesn't scale down nicely).

No, utilities need to be monopolized for efficiency. With rotatable protocols though, you can trace who sent what to whom. That's where competition is a good thing. That's why local monopolies on ISPs are ridiculous, same with monopolies on content distribution.
Dear HN Administration,

This was on the frontpage twice, and twice was removed. I was wondering if I could receive an explanation as to why in order to help promote a better knowledge/discussion base on HN.

If the post broke some rules that may not have been clearly documented, please let me know and thou shall not sin again. :)

Thank you in advance and happy belated B-Day to YC,
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Isn't this what the Tor Project is all about? https://www.torproject.org/
Cheaper access to content?
Right on. I went to a hackathon as a facilitator/judge type. There were 3 idea guys for every dev. The devs centered on some good ideas or brought their own. There were several idea guys that left feeling like their billion dollar idea was just missing a code monkey cog to slide into the code monkey cog slot to make it happen.

One of them had come up with oink aka foursquare aka yelp aka gowolla ...

Sad really.
OFFSET/LIMIT is coming:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188385%28v=sql.110...

GROUP_CONCAT still needs to be done with the FOR XML PATH hack
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I've been waiting for someone to make something like this for OpenGL like, forever. Still no love :-(
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You'll be happy then. I think they added OFFSET in SQL 2012.

http://sqlwithmanoj.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/tsql-denali-new...
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They can get rid of high bandwidth users
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Tor is a pretty slow way to pirate stuff.
Greeks work more hours than Germans [1] (in fact they're the 2nd hardest working people in the world according to an 2008 OECD study) and have shorter holidays (23 vs 30 days) [2].

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/12/euro...

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,763618,00....
Let's see. The headline is wrong and alarmist. This is already being discussed in other threads. And the advice in this article may or may not work. Oh, and I just realized this article is a thinly-disguised ad, most likely for your employer.
RIAA and ISPs to police your traffic starting July 12
Wow, that's phenomenal. In 7 years, out of 8 companies there were 5 acquisitions (and a couple mergers). I'm sure any VC would be ecstatic to have that kind of success rate.

Reddit is the most prominent. It's had a huge impact although from what I understand it hasn't done extremely well financially.
can someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.
What exactly do you mean that it won't obscure your torrenting? I was under the impression that ssh SOCKS5 proxies are quite safe with SSL. Basically, SOCKS5/SOCKS4a will both route DNS through as well. However, you are definitely right if it is SOCKS4 as that will not put DNS requests through the proxy. But, in ssh's proxy supports SOCKS5 and is the default in the method described on the post.

Let me know if you have some detail on something I do not.

Thanks in advance!
I don't want companies competing to send me electricity or water. I want to produce my own electricity and water.
Probably you meant to use the </misguided snark> tag.

The Photoshop Tips and Tutorials are about doing something new in a realm with inherently infinite possibilities, that is bitmap editing/drawing.

Managing source code shouldn't have "infinite possibilities" -- there are a few common use cases, and several more uncommon.

If you have "infinite flexibility" in your source code management system, you are doing it wrong, or at least inefficiently structured or streamlined, that is, in the wrong end of the scale of 1 => you do everything by hand, 100 => the computer does all for you as you want it to.

Not all workflows can fit an one-size-fits-all team, sure.

But that doesn't mean that you should have to micromanage the workflow even in the most common use cases.

I.e Git is more of a "source code management DIY kit" than a "source code management tool".
You can shift+click on an article in the list in Reeder and the original webpage for the article will open.
I bought the app and just came by to drop my 2 cents.

The good:
It's great. I've been looking for something like that for a while. I wish XCode could do that. If you are a serious iOS developer you will love this tool. Very useful.

The bad:
Some of the code cannot be easily used, specially if you need to manipulate positions in runtime. It should use relative positions, where 0 is "somewhere" within the object. The code generated may cause some UIViews to blur, sometimes you need to round x/y.

The ugly:
The price is not aligned with apps at the same level of complexity.

Buy it.
You can only get a benefit if one is willing to pay for content. Piracy does not equal one lost sale.
People email me sometimes or ask, sometimes I mention I'm looking for someone on twitter. It's not as often as I'd like since I don't have a stable meeting place and coffee shops sort of suck.
hi romnempire,

This is not exactly a pure local proxy as per one might imagine, but rather, a local proxy that tunnels through your ssh connection.

In other words, an "ssh tunnel"
The story link is to a blog for discussing revisions the book. The revised book comes out in the fall and will be available at the story link. Until then you need to actually buy the book. Here is the link to buy the actual book:

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I think this is a proactive approach rather a reactive approach, when products/service come into existence after mass uses new technology and find issues with it and market respond to that need.
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I never mentioned about removing all regulations in place. But things can be done to restrict their scope to where they were before, to manage the development of drugs at a more reasonable cost.
Please don't start "my country vs. your country" threads.
By some estimates, Google has the equivalent of 25000 racks of hardware, maybe at most a quarter of them hosted in the shared facilities where they turn the lights off, say 6000 racks of hardware. Continuing my calculation, that would be 3000 ~20W fluorescent light strips. If running 24/7, they would consume 530 MWh/year. This is only $53k/year at the average utility rate of $.10/kWh.

If you continue to argue that Google, a company making $30B+ of revenue/year, turned off the lights to save a meager $53k/year, you are making a fool of yourself. They would save more by merely firing this secretary who smokes cigarettes in the bathroom during lunch breaks.

Google is all about efficiency, down to giving technicians scooters to quickly move through large data centers, and choosing the optimal placement of velcros strapping hard disks to the chassis for ease of service. I bet they would rather leave the lights on rather than fumble with headlamps or flashlights...

Clearly the article is right, Google did it for privacy reasons.
> The products targeted at enterprise simply have to be vastly different than products targeted at small to medium sized businesses.

Sometimes. Sometimes not, though.

A while back I heard a story about SurveyMonkey, a classic self-service tool. At the time, they are going along like gangbusters: shipping new features, gaining new customers, making users happy. Eventually, some finance person at a major enterprise notices all the corporate credit card charges to SurveyMonkey and contacts them wanting an enterprise deal. Consolidated billing, special discount, special features.

The SurveyMonkey people, I am told, consider it carefully and then tell them "no". They figure they're doing just fine as they are, and have actual user needs for their coders to work on. In a huff, the large-company CFO cuts a deal with some more enterprise-friendly search company and sends out a memo: no more SurveyMonkey.

The memo is widely ignored. The other product isn't as good, and people have actual work to do, so they just keep charging SurveyMonkey to their credit cards like they always have.

My conclusion: with self-service products, the user is the customer. With enterprise products, the customer is often somebody totally different. So I think the sales channel shapes the market, which in turn shapes the product.
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People probably don't search for Google Plus on Google.
I don't think we will have to worry too much about old file formats like JPEG, TIFF, and GIF. The formats are well-documented, and the GIF format is 25 years old this year.

Also, I found this to be very relevant: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/12/movage.php
They don't actually cut off your network connection, they just filter it so that you can only reach a subset of their own addresses like dhcp, dns, trouble resolution website etc. I'm sure they just include the voip servers on that list. That traffic is often provisioned totally separately (outside of your commit, possibly to a separate mac) so that it might not be an issue in the first place.
I did not mean to imply that Clojure code would be portable across runtimes (though it is a possibility).

I meant that things like ClojureScript One (if you don't know it, please take a look, it's worth it) will be possible across a variety of domains. Simple interoperability between platforms, same data structures, fewer context switches, Clojure all the way down.
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If I remember correctly, it was in 1979 (during the oil crisis, when the national speed limit was reduced to 55). While the speed limit was not the main focus, the oil crisis (and resulting economic crisis) was a huge political scandal. The price controls put on oil imports by Richard Nixon indirectly led to Jimmy Carter not being elected for a second term. Ronald Reagan campaigned partially on the platform of removing the "windfall tax" that Carter had implemented to prevent the oil distributors from artificially raising the price of gas at the pumps. Reagan said "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." Reagan won.

How does this relate to today? "No one" is losing their job or their house or their property because of the RIAA/MPAA. I put "no one" in quotes because obviously people are, just not the voting block at large. Should it be a campaign issue like oil was in 1973-1979? I think so. But we'd never see that until the largest voting group in the country decided it should be, and since the Internet generation still has 40 years to go until they reach senior citizen status, we're a long way out from that day.
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Yeah... he's able to generate an audience but he wasn't ever a politician.
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That would only work if you're using their bundled service. If you were using Vonage for instance it could easily interrupt that. They can whitelist all they want but they can never get all of them.
Wow - this agreement has been in effect for a year? TL;DR: The delay in implementation has been bureaucratic.

To quote Ars:

""The system" according to Torrent Freak, involves major labels monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks for copyright infringement, and then reporting that infringement to ISPs, who will monitor their networks for the transgressors."

I know labels and so on monitor networks in a variety of ways, but ISPs folding and given entertainment co's an open window into customer identity and raw traffic seems like unhealthy collusion.

Shouldn't this come into conflict with various privacy legislation?
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've implemented pagination in SQL Server and it wasn't as complicated as that. Maybe I produced the world's worst pagination technique but I don't think I ever resorted to TOP. The ROW_NUMBER() function takes care of this.
At what point will they lose their DMCA safe-harbor protection? Can we discourage them from actively policing copyright by suing them for copyright infringement?
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I'm trying, but I can't quite wade through the legalese in order to verify what the article is claiming. This crap is worse than perl.
I haven't read his previous book, "Republic, Lost", but I saw the 1 hour speech at Google from last year, that was based on it, and it was great. He explains how the Government ended up having a relationship with corporations instead of "the people", and what is needed to solve this (almost unsolvable) problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc
>I have no doubt that he would attempt to implement bible-based policy in the unlikely event that he is elected.

People thought George Bush would do the same.
> Is this actually allowed though, or would the MPAA say you're breaking copyright despite the fact that this other person spent his or her money on it.

Yes, it looks like it is actually allowed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network,_LP_v._CSC_Holdings,_Inc.
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Actually, I didn't read about it on reddit, but thanks for thinking so highly of me. :) And there is no way it will ever get any significant traction as long as people dismiss it as lunacy immediately after it is mentioned.

People treated kids that programmed like socially disabled outcasts in the 1980s. Ten years later, many of those kids were making millions. Dialing into a BBS to communicate was a waste of time. Now almost every business has a Twitter account.

Mesh may seem stupid now, but when the current net gets locked down and turned into a "white" government-regulated net within the next 20 years, people are going to start connecting to the shadow "black" mesh net to share files. No, I'm not talking about mesh nets connected to our current net. I'm talking about a completely different internetwork. And if we wait too long, we won't be allowed to setup such a network, because it will be outlawed before it has a chance to flower.

I'm not saying there is a magic field of jellybeans that can replace our current net, although IPv6 may as well be that, as slow as it has been rolled out. But, to dismiss mesh as a crock is just plain lame.
> I believe the risk of dropping out to do a startup is large enough as to be considered reckless.

Ridiculous. If it doesn't work out, you go back to school. Getting back in won't be hard. Just be sure you haven't spent yourself too far into debt.
Yes! But this depends a bit on the use case. The main benefit of Backbone is that it helps you organize your code into separated data model and view/interaction objects, so that you don’t wind up with a giant mess of deeply nested, arbitrarily interconnected, and unmaintainable DOM event handlers. It also has a nice object designed for coordinating browser history/URL views in single-page apps. If any of those components would be helpful to your project, absolutely try using Backbone for it
Ok, you got me, more concisely, Sections 20 and 32 of the Glass-Steagall act of 1933 were repealed in 1999 after at least two decades of hard lobbying.

"Then, in 1998, in an act of corporate civil disobedience, Citicorp and Travelers Group announced they were merging. Such a combination of banking and insurance companies was illegal under the Bank Holding Company Act, but was excused due to a loophole that provided a two-year review period of proposed mergers" - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/12-8

So, without the repeal, Citibank would have probably been forced to release Travelers, at the least. Volcker and the Fed were opposed to slackening of regulations without new regulations in 1982 when the FDIC ruled in favor of banks being able to take on subsidiaries to underwrite and deal in securities.

The reason it's important to separate the banking activities, is risk. As we have recently seen with MF Global, trusting a company to follow rules about accounts not being used to cover trades are not well followed.

I make no claims of expertise on brokers. GS, however, was both a partner to the trades it made and the broker to clients. Basically betting against the people it was selling securities to. http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-59.htm
Technically I suppose GS wasn't on the other side of the trade, but since Paulson & Co. were paying GS to offer trades without full disclosure, I'd say it's pretty close.

I make no money (currently) from financial firms outside of my 401(k) holdings, I only make comments on random message boards, but I don't think my viewpoint is as foolish as you would have it be.
It's 2012. There's almost no need to ever use cursors. I'm pretty sure pagination can easily be achieved with ROW_NUMBER()
Well, I guess its time to get a bigger hard drive and start downloading as much as possible before July. Hooray for porn!
You're conflating two groups with each other, one that is the larger group of people who appreciate or have been influenced by Rand's work, and one that is presumably a subset and is made up by people you have interacted with and formed an impression of. This is how stereotypes work, you conflate a subset of people that you have direct evidence of with the superset of people that they are related to in some way. Just because I can't argue with the existence of the subset in your evidence does not mean that your stereotype is not ridiculous.

I don't claim that _why and Rand would agree with each other in a philosophical discussion, but that is not proof that she had no influence on him. Often what influences us most is that which forces us to think very hard about why we disagree.

And everyone who uses those sorts of childish words believes them to be apt. "But Republicans really are retards". Please.
yeah, but the third party voip providers all tell you that they aren't a replacement for a landline providing E911 service because of the (many) problems that can occur with an unmanaged pipe.
Speaking of the general public, how does Joe Smith know that Hulu's stream of "The Office" is legal but some other site's is not?

That's been my biggest question about streaming.

On one hand I can google "watch the office online for free" and end up on Hulu, it has ads, but it's free. If I look around I can see that I don't have access to all their content, but they have a subscription model that gives full access.

On the other, I can google "watch dexter online for free" and end up on MegaVideo (well, imagine you're four months ago). It has ads, but it's free. If I want to watch a lot of videos, I see that I can't because there's a daily limit, but they have a subscription model that gives full access.

As a user, I have no way to know that the first one is legal while the second isn't.

That being said, it's my understanding that at this point, this is what makes streaming a bit of an edge-case why mostly the website is charged, rather than the users. But that might of course change…
i don't understand how that makes things secure. You are connecting to your own endsystem using ssh, and then your endsystem, on the server side, must send out an http/bittorrent/whatever packet to the content distributor over the same insecure channel your original application would have had to, right?
That was my intention, I almost always merge from the command line, except for tiny & trivial pull requests, like documentation. Its hard to run the tests through the Github web UI.
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I would be very interested to read the scientific paper that has made this claim.
I must not understand what you're asking here but what's wrong with that? If someone wanted to work for $3/hour, why not let them?
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This problem was solved in SQL 2005. The solution in SQL 2000 was pretty terrible. You had to select from the start of the table to the end of the current page, reverse it, take a top of the page size, then reverse again.
Lawyers are typically quite precise in their use of language (e.g. larceny vs. theft), so I was honestly curious if they were specifically targeting the web as opposed to the internet in general. The way I read it, it seemed intentional.
I agree. I am baffled by people that talk about the need for fewer environment regulations and smaller government, but then they push for large military spending, the creation of the DHS and TSA, and advocating things like this.

To me, many conservative commentators sound more like they want an Orwellian society than a free society: Don't get in the way of business and only think and do what we want you to think and do.

I appreciate Ron Paul in that when he says small government, he means it, including giving us freedoms that social conservatives believe are morally objectionable.
Wouldn't the better question be, so what if it is accessible? Can't say I know anyone damaged by porn.
Like I said before[1], what is up with all this Kevin Rose hate? He has a successful portfolio, seems to have a level head, and knows about tech. All this whining about "well I'm a dev and need VC why do they give him to him?" stop thinking you deserve something and get out there and make something; like he has been proven to do time and time again.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3705015
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It took dropping an extract of our pflogsumm logs (showing very good delivery rates to numerous Y! competitors) on their C-level execs (all I could find) before I got to speak with a "concierge" who apparently expedited the process.

We've got excellent delivery stats now.
Yes. And when they lose their common carrier status, they'll be responsible for trafficking in child pornography if any of their customers do.

I anticipate failure.
Even the people who have been accepted into YC and have impressive resumes have their self-doubt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655582

Here's an idea: write down the questions from the YC application form and treat them as a todo list. These things look insurmountable at first sight, but I think achieving them simply takes a sustained application of effort. I say "I think" because I haven't checked off all the boxes myself yet :)