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You're forgetting the economy and number of technological achievements grows exponentially.

At 4% per annum growth the world economy will be triple the current size in 30 years. (assuming no technological singularity event).

An economy triple the current size doesn't seem like it can easily afford a colony on Mars either but I think Elon Musk thinks my assumption is wrong.
Yes, because those protocols will never be bought to trial.

This is about targeting the lowest possible hanging fruit that your average joe random idiot can click a big blue button and pull down the last version of whatever schlock big content is pushing out.

Some guy using a bitcoin purchased usenet account over SSL from a VPN through tor to a remote data dump and then grabbing the booty is never going to get caught in this net.
Had to switch from mercurial to git. Both are nice, neither is perfect.

I long for the time when we won't have to do so much ancillary work to just sync up files. My bet: In 5 years, all these contrived workflows will be replaced by:

sync file1 file2 "fix bug 5782"
People (generally) open up things that aren't fundamental to their core. Google opens a lot of software, but very little about the actual core that runs everything, because those instant results are a key differentiator.

FB opens their hardware, because the software is really quite meaningly to their core. The thing that matters to them is the social graph, which they guard jealously.

If you can make your competitor's core a commodity, you've gone a long way towards reducing their effectiveness as your competitor.
I don't think American culture is as uniform as you're implying it is. I'm from the bay area in california and Santorum's positions seem very foreign to me, but everyone in my circles around here at least thinks they "get" Santorum - it is accepted wisdom that's he's a crazy idiot. I don't think someone who isn't a U.S. voter is automatically more at a disadvantage than most Americans when it comes to understanding what's going on this election season.

Curious to hear some European opinions that are shocking to you. I wonder if they would be shocking to Americans in general and I wonder if Europeans would agree that those opinions and ideas are uniformly European.
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Does the chiaroscuro effect in that photo come from a torchlight procession in front of his dais?
I will raise holy hell for any ISP that blocks my transmission of avatar.MP4 across their ISP to my own device. If I own Avatar.mp4, the ISP's need to understand that I am sending it to my own device, or a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it).

If they get one thing wrong which they will, I'm going to piss and moan about it to no end. On the plus side, net neutrality will be gone, and ownership of the internet secured by the United States congress. I suppose it's better than falling into the hands of some other country, which will also lay claim to it. Let the Internet be divided into a million pieces with import duties for every bit and byte transmitted across an infinite number of versions of the internet.

This is how evolution works, a good idea grows too big, then it compartmentalizes and specializes. Most will suck, but some will be better, and the better ones will be on the receiving end of the goods and services of the enlightened masses. If we can promote freedom to choose which internet to live under, we should be ok to Stamp out the subnets that are used for enslavement of man in favor of the "more free" versions.
The proliferation of "photoshop tips", "photoshop tutorials", etc, make me think that Photoshop is too complicated for its own good to need all those.

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What do you think? That the random guy assigned to this at the ISP would stop and investigate the issue? Maybe also send their best detectives to see if it was some random guy breaking into the WiFi from across the street?

They'll cut it, and have you appeal.
What do the ISPs gain from a deal like this?
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In one sense, I think if Python 3k had better function syntax/flexibility that might help a lot... then you could almost create DSLs.

Reading this, I'm a bit flummoxed. I'm like, "Wow, does the mainstream science/technical computing world still not get it at all?" Probably not, and on second look ,it shouldn't be surprising. Java also suffered from the lack of first-rate DSL implementation for many years. The mainstream expectation is still often that one adapts to the language, instead of adapting the language/libraries to the problem domain.

Any language that expects to be used by sci/tech needs at least to be able to implement algebras without resorting to anything but ordinary library programming in the native language, and the expectations of sci/tech programmers should match.
who ever has the name on the bill seems to be the one responsible.
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Probably not doable. Not good at this stuff myself, but at core it seems to be driven by recognition of emotional states and making emotionally intelligent responses. This sort of thing isn't beyond learning -- disciplines like art, music, sports develop the core skills, and we can all become more self-aware. But it doesn't lend itself verbally stated principles.
Thanks for the clarification. I, for one, think that would be a great reliability/security measure.
This has already been going on as others have noted.

ISPs send email citing that X external organization representing Y media company says that you have been sharing Z content, then the ISP shuts off or redirects all web traffic from your location except that which is allowed to go to a webpage they specify in the email where you must acknowledge that you got their communication and will cease and desist. It is pretty Orwellian.

We all need to switch to mesh wifi internetworking as soon as possible. With some work, it could become a better solution than our current net, and there would be no monthly cost to an ISP, and no MPAA, RIAA, or government interference. Granted, there is value in rule of law and protection of adequate compensation for created works. But when Big Brother comes down on you and your neighbors, is that ok? These guys would have cuffed you for the cassette mixtape you made for your girlfriend in the 10th grade if they would have known about it. The longer you let the ISPs or the government rule the net, the less of a chance you will have to ever get it back.
Exactly. Isn't the VPN provider sort of like the ISP? What if VPNs have the same privacy policies as the ISPs?
I think point #2 could have been done by MS 10 years ago, had they had stumbled upon the same happy accident that I think hit Apple with the iPhone and then iPad: a dedicated phone OS works much better on a tablet than a tablet-versioned desktop OS.

My understanding is that they were developing the iPad first, but realized they should first do a phone.
Yeah, because 17 year olds can't use the Internet.
Cary Sherman, the CEO of the RIAA, may indeed be lying; however, if you believe him, this is indeed going to start July 12. You might note that this "random blog" links to a CNET article about this at the beginning of the second paragraph.
So, you'll believe it when it's too late. Nice attitude, bro.

Also, PR firms? This is cnet. And it's not it talking about something obscure, the program is common knowledge. How about doing your research?
"We realized early on that what we were doing could be national in scope and we didn't want a name that tied us to one place."

Personally I find that one of the most important reasons to think long and hard about a name. Most startups go through many pivot points until they finally get it right. Choosing a name that is overly representative of the present business model can lead to team lock-in that could spell the death of a company before it even gets going.

It seems a wiser decision is to go with a name that represents a startup's future ambitions instead of its present circumstances.
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There also is cappuccino that is free. It seems to have very similar UI. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cappuccino/id492594411?mt=12
How do you test your mobile apps?
Inspired by a recent question on Hacker News on web testing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702827), I'm curious how everyone tests their mobile apps -

- Fully automated iOS and/or Android testing suites?
- Manual QA?
- Tools for some parts of the testing/QA process?
- Wait for customers to tell you what's broken and then try to fix it?
- Other options?
What struck me as very odd was the description of the 800k play: He had two tens and two elevens, and decided to stand. That makes no sense to me, as he would have lost nothing by getting four more cards.

Also, the article made some reference to variation, without explaining the edge. I'm guessing there was a real point lost there.
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I just keep thinking of the lead up to WWII and WWII, and think Ron Paul would not be a good person for the job.
I don't know if this was meant to be witty or what, but it has nothing to do with how ISPs actually (a) identify file sharing traffic or (b, orthogonally) determine whether users are pirating content.
So the worms in the wild are just going to decide to stop spreading and move to Windows 7. Or not.
Move to central Washington state, where you have a hcoice of a dozen or so high-speed ISP's across fiber......

This reminds me. I wonder if the change during Reagan/Clinton to pro-consolidation, anti-competition has anything to do with making an industry easier to control in this way.....
If an ISP starts openly inspecting content like this will it become liable for all content that passes through it's network?

Edit: I'm surprised to see this downvoted. Care to comment why?
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They might get a lot of false positives for people who just stream videos a lot from the web or something. But I think I know how they will propose to "solve" this later on. They will just "allow" content websites to enter a "whitelist", and as soon as that list gets big enough, just throttle everything else.
One thing that I read about Git is that Git is really just a document store, not a version control system. That means that you can use the document store to do whatever you want. It's up to you to decide the workflow that you want to use.

In my team we've had long discussions about how we want to code, what to branch, when to branch, when to merge, etc. all about how to keep things organized.

I think people like Git because of the flexibility. Different people and teams can use it in different ways. They don't feel boxed in to a predefined workflow.
What happens between consenting adults in their private lives has nothing to do the government.

Most people who say this don't really believe this. Should I be allowed to pay a consenting adult $3/hour to clean my bedroom, while I talk about how much I dislike people of $PROTECTED_CLASS?

[edit: to clarify my position, I have no objection to any consensual activities between adults. This includes gay sex, low wage labor, unlicensed medicine, etc.]
Perhaps the engine will update the "read only indexes" when the corresponding data in regular tables are deleted, but not in realtime, but only on demand or on a predetermined schedule?
Many ISPs in the US are the entertainment industry.

My ISP is comcast, which not only owns their own TV networks and sports teams, they just bought NBC.

Same thing with Time Warner.
I think this email from the guy in charge of 0MQ now is fairly clear: http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2012-February/0...

On a related note, developers can be mean
I'm not sure if it matters, but are you using a "regular" Gmail account or Google Apps for Your Domain? I'm doing the latter and still can't get it to stick (tried again this morning before posting). When I quit and restart Sparrow it cannot connect, and I have to reset the password before it will fetch my mail. Oh well!
I don't think its really that important for everyone to be able to get all movies, tv shows, music and stuff for free, but the fact that the internet is controlled by a fairly small number of companies does seem to be a problem.

To me its similar to general problems with over-centralization and/or monopolization in many areas. There is one water company, not very many large entertainment distributors, food production is handled by an increasingly small number of companies, electricity comes from one company, web search results mostly controlled by one company.

We should do a better job of using shared knowledge exchange formats to be able to get an accurate holistic picture, but at the same time I think things would be more robust and we would be more secure if production, distribution and control was generally much more localized.

I actually think that we should aim for producing water, electricity and food inside of individual homes/apartments or buildings, and also create alternative fiber, laser and wifi mesh networks for communications.
>I will raise holy hell for any ISP that blocks my transmission of avatar.MP4 across their ISP to my own device. If I own Avatar.mp4, the ISP's need to understand that I am sending it to my own device, or a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it).

Like it or not, you can still be sued for that. You bought a license to watch the movie, not to copy the movie to another device. I'm not sure if there's a legal concept of joint ownership of the license to watch a movie.

It's not the ISPs that need to change. This is like raging to the states who voted to lower their max driving speed to 55 in the 70s. Yes, it was their decision, but they were heavily coerced by the federal government with stiff penalties if they didn't. I highly doubt the ISPs signed on to lose customers just because they believe in IP that much.
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We all need to switch to mesh wifi internet working as soon as possible. With some work...

"Some" work? There are serious problems with scaling mesh networks. Private citizens are not going to replace the internet backbone with mesh networks. The best we could hope for are low bandwidth metro WAN. That said, this is something we should put in place ahead of time, so we can turn it on if the government ever wants to black out media and internet access.

As far as combating this latest outrage, how about additional widespread encryption, so all the traffic is effectively on a VPN? If keys are distributed via smartphone networks, it will be hard for the ISPs to do things like mount MITM attacks. Combine this with some honeypots -- as mentioned elsewhere, have people engaging in legal sharing and sue the ISPs when they interfere.
I'm pretty sure there's no spying here.
http://www.copyrightinformation.org/sites/default/files/Momo... (sections 4.A and 4.C.)

And some proxies have a habit of not totally obscuring your torrenting, so I'm not sure the advice in this article will work.
they were heavily coerced by the federal government with stiff penalties

Perhaps this should become a campaign issue?
thats what i thought but their gc says otherwise
The emergency exit. (sorry, couldn't help it)

I tried to use the JVM for a long time, I really did. I thought the advantages of multiple implementations, platform flexibility, and a common type system were fantastic. The fundamental problem is that no matter the skin, when you want to peek through the abstraction you're still fundamentally writing Java. I absolutely detest the Java language itself, as it's basically what should come out of a compiler, not be fed into one (I realize this criticism is about 15% unfair given that Java did actually introduce some new concepts to mainstream programming but implemented them in the VM rather than the compiler, but it has really failed to keep up with the times).

At this point if I were using the JVM, it would most likely be to make use of some hypothetical damn good libraries. In that case, as I'd be gluing together things that are already typed, I'd use whatever dynamic language seemed prudent. The Java type system is an everpresent fact of life on the JVM, and I'm now of the opinion that trying to use a second type abstraction concurrently is foolish (especially if one wants to run their code on anything other than Hotspot). I think Clojure is an amazing piece of work, and would still be using it, but its lack of importance on typed data structures really kills my ability to reason while developing new abstractions (the lack of well-supported algebraic data types and pattern matching especially). Taken together, those last two points imply that a statically typed JVM language has to utterly commit itself to the Java type system. If I absolutely needed to write a library on the JVM, I would look into and most likely go with Ceylon/Kotlin (or Gosu if they ever actually did a source release), but failing those probably write java-in-kawa for the straightforward class definitions with macros to ease the pain.

In any case, I'd be damn certain of exactly what I was writing beforehand. The Java ecosystem is absolute garbage for prototyping.
My first thought: crazy.

Especially the part with the printouts and highlighters.

Could this actually be effective?
I understand that you read about it on reddit, and they may have sounded quite confident and/or optimistic, but I assure you an internet based on wireless mesh and without ISPs would be completely unusable. Along with most ideas that sound anything like that. Whatever visions you have of a future pirate nirvana internet will have to include a bunch of pretty traditional looking fat pipes in the center of it all.
I will raise holy hell for any ISP that blocks my transmission of avatar.MP4 across their ISP to my own device. If I own Avatar.mp4, the ISP's need to understand that I am sending it to my own device, or a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it).

Sure, that's how it's commonly played...
> a device of someone who has "pair bought" avatar with me (we both split half the money to buy it)

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.

My understanding is that the license to view/use the file belongs to the account of the person who actually bought the thing, regardless of who else supplied cash for the undertaking. That could mean that while it seems obvious to you that the two of you share the ability to use the file, the reality might be much more gray (or you could just be outright wrong).

This is exactly the issue that keeps me from buying digital movies (other than DRM issues), and it's why I don't own a kindle. From a legal perspective, it seems like things that are easily and legally shareable with physical items, such as DVDs and dead tree books, aren't easily or legally shareable at all.

I can't download a book from Amazon to my Kindle and then, if she decides she also wants to read it, simply transfer the file it to my girlfriends Kindle as well. At least not strictly legally. We could share accounts, sure, but people break up, and even for married couples there is still a pretty high divorce rate. If we split, one of the two of us (legally) loses everything we've bought for ourselves on the shared account.

I wish that there were an easy way to manage multiple accounts on your devices, so that each person could have a shared, yet separate, account to maintain their own libraries. This is hard to do, I know, and it would require some form of DRM, which is unacceptable for well documented reasons, but we need to find some analog for the first sale doctrine and easy lending.

Even iTunes, with it's lack of DRM, bothers me. I could buy DRM-less music and load it onto both mine and my girlfriends MP3 players, but iTunes still adds a watermark of some kind to the file. That means that if something were to happen to the file, and it got shared, it's traceable back to me. That's fine, but I have no way to ensure that - if we were to break up - the traceable-to-me file gets destroyed from her device. It's a severely paranoid worst case scenario, and the odds against a negative result from a loose file like that are astronomical, but they're not zero, and that bothers me.

I'm a reasonably techie guy. I'm a programmer, I hang out on Hacker News, I keep up (more or less) with the latest trends, but the implementation details of digital media are so counter-intuitive to me that I still buy DVDs and dead tree books.
You think oink has some personal information google doesn't already know about a user?
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if they gave you that, it'd be too easy to port a lot of basic stuff away from sql server.

I worked someplace that was primarily a SQL Server shop, although was still largely Java and some PHP at the time. I was tasked with building something to paginate through records. There were several hundred thousand to paginate through, and I had to resort to getting the DBA to build some weird sproc with cursors and junk in it.

"I just need some of the rows"

"Why would you need that?" (honest to goodness question from the DBA)

"Well, because I only need to show 30 items on the screen, not 400,000. Showing 400,000 might take a while."

"Just use TOP. SQL Server lets you do SELECT TOP(30) already!"

"Umm... but I might need to see the second 30, or the 99th 30."

"Why? No one does that!"

Insane. They experimented with some monstrosity of nested TOP() queries. They refused to allow MySQL to be used ("it's just a toy"), when it was perfectly capable for the requirement, and had developer-useful stuff like LIMIT in it. I got some overly engineered sproc that had to be updated whenever I needed a change, and I ended up leaving a few months later. Not specifically because of that, but that culture was one I couldn't fit in to. I've heard it's gotten better, but I don't really believe it's better so much as the people who've stayed there have adapted and worked around the cognitive dissonance it triggered.
Hey, not being good enough can be an awesome motivator.

There's a saying that goes it's better to be the worst musician in a band rather than be the best. More room to grow.
Average google employees have a lot of freedom too. It is a blessing and also a curse that leads to DOA product launches.
Although I'm peripherally connected to the Ruby world (I spent much of today programming in Ruby for money, occasionally go to the local Ruby user group, etc.), and I saw _why perform a punk rock song about the grammar of Ruby at OSCON one year, I didn't know his name until you outed him in this article.
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Please tell me what ideas euorpeans hold that you find morally repugnant.
Actually, I'd like to see this question on a prediction market.
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