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This begs the question of why Mega was so aggressively targeted.

I think it's pretty clear. This was one of the largest and easiest to use file-locker services. I used it tons of times because it was so convenient and the free service was much better than any of the other file-locker services. If you had an ad-blocker installed, the site was almost too good to be true. You could download huge files after a 30 second wait, at reasonably high speeds, no captcha or any other hoops to jump through, and you could download another file from the site immediately afterwards without wait (most sites make free users wait between downloads). Files would stay up on the site seemingly indefinitely, while other file-locker services would delete a file after it was not accessed for a specific number of days.

Also Kim was a larger-than-life target. He was living extravagantly. Right after he was arrested there was a huge Ars article about how ridiculous his lifestyle and persona was. So now the government could say: "Hey look at this asshole, he's getting rich off of piracy and stealing American jobs." They couldn't have hoped for a better target.

Unfortunately, Kim was obviously thumbing his nose at US copyright law and he thought he was untouchable because of his location. That might be a workable strategy for someone keeping a lower-profile but if you piss off enough powerful people they will find a way to get at you, legal or not. (As we are seeing here.)

That being said, since the guy had a family he really should have found a more respectable way to make a living. This was pretty reckless and selfish on his part.
Yes, it makes sense to wait with explosion for the highest point. Somehow I imagined fireworks are like rockets and should accelerate all the way to the explosion.
Is there an equivalent for name-dropping that would describe this kind of article? It seems to be clever and up to date but it is in fact empty and condescending. Removed the string of buzzwords, what you get is personal opinions of very slim interest.
Pretty sure the FBI doesn't get to pick and choose what laws to enforce, nor are its employees elected via democratic process.

Votes don't have anything to do with anything, as far as corporate influence in politics goes.
I was was thinking of leaving HN for exactly this reason,

I'm not long here but I already noticed that I often receive downvotes for being positive or having a social conscience, and oddly on the one occasion I expressed a controvertial (and negative) view I received a significant amount of upvotes.

I had always thought HN was about open, free and frank discussion where everyone's view counts, but unfortunately I'm afraid to say, I'm not getting that vibe at the moment.
One of these days, I'll try out node.js. Of course, since I can't help but be tragically attracted to crazy duct tape and baling wire solutions, I'd probably try to run either Amber Smalltalk or ClojureScript on it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943843

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760377
This was the first decent GUI text editor I ever used. Prior to using it I had only ever seen Notepad and pico. I was amazed that you could interact with the terminal right from the app's user interface! To this day I still have a soft spot in my heart for Kate.
>Kim was obviously thumbing his nose at US copyright law

I don't think providing a DMCA takedown process which was removing tens of thousands of files a day counts as "thumbing his nose at US copyright law"
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I think that one valid argument could be if people searching for this guy were commonly using a term like "John Smith Gym Teacher" they would likely never see the results for "John Smith Serial Playground Rapist". Or, at the very least the playground rapist results would be so far down the list that they would naturally be mostly disregarded. But, in this case the fact that "Playground Rapist" results are more common than the "Gym Teacher" results it could be argued that this skews the perception of John Smith in peoples minds.
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This is an incredible piece. Brutally honest, and I can absolutely see myself in the author's shoes.
Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?
no recommendation for 'c interfaces and implementation', surprised...
Jesus... and all with a "top 10 pirated movies of all time" picture gallery.. what horrible site is that!?

A pretty good article for the germans among us can be found here:

http://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/36648/
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Don't forget the MPAA CEO is none other than former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd.

Also, Obama's copyright czar received a strong endorsement from the RIAA/MPAA.

It seems like Obama/White House should create another position that "competes" with the copyright czar and takes the other extreme position.

(Obama voter here so don't really mean to make a political statement with this post)
Microsoft Access assignments at my community college inspired me to work with databases.
Nice work guys, but I have a bug for you - if two people list jobs with the same title on the same day, the URL is identical, and whichever one got there first gets the page - see the "blubolt" listings on http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs that link through to Blooie's listing.
For another Enigma machine see https://launchpad.net/ubenigma
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Oh, and I recommend making the preview page more obviously a preview page, as the "confirm and review" and the info text is below the fold, on a page that looks identical to a completed listing!
Can you name them all?(Identify the language)
I answered 19 of the 20 correct and missed one I should have recognized. Of course there were a few wild guesses in there. How do you do?
What's wrong with the iPad being a device for consuming? I like consuming. And isn't it a good thing if people have more ways to consume the content producers are producing? Production without consumption is useless.
There are a few significant problems with NaNoWriMo. First, while a challenge must be challenging, it should also be realistic. For many writers, 1666 words a day, every day, is a bit too much to expect. Second, the requirement that the project start from zero is also a deterrent—it encourages a “starter” attitude when what’s needed is a “finisher”. Finally, the unrealistic deadline in combination with the start-from-nothing requirement makes people throw away their perfectly good work from last year. You wrote 80 pages? Toss it!

Sure, writers need practice, but such extreme conditions are not conducive to practice at all.
There is a lot I don't like about Windows 7 phones but I am going to stick with the tile interface because it's the most obviously bad design.

Smooth scrolling looks cool, but locating something in the middle of a long list is much easier with separate pages. Which is not such a big deal, but tiles take up more space than the old button interface so you don't get to display a lot of them at the same time.

Basicly, 2 tiles wide * 4 tiles tall = at most 8 per tiles page. Sliding up and down one page works fine, but what if you want 17 tiles? you now slide a little and look for what you want to hit which you can't do with muscle memory. Compare with both iPhone and Android which fit 20 apps per page just fine no scrolling required.

As to updates, texts, email, phone calls have value. Knowing what temperature is is right now in two city's at the same time is practically pointless. As in how often do you want this vs. the actual forecast over some period of time?

PS: And I don't say this as someone that hates MS. I am a C# developer, with an MSDN subscription who like a lot of what they have been up to recently. I even liked Vista on good hardware, but I just think there phone OS is terrible.
The 1%’s Doctrine for the 99%
Winamp? Bah, Foobar2000 is where it was at. Tiny resource usage, infinitely customizable, and an arcane UI. Switching to anything else feels like that cold, uneasy feeling you get when you run your favorite editor on a machine without your personal config file and try to use one of your custom keybindings.
"Hey look at this asshole, he's getting rich off of piracy and stealing American jobs." They couldn't have hoped for a better target.

The problem with this argument is that the government can make similar arguments about most wealthy people if they have already decided they'd like to bring them down. Does this mean you shouldn't live big purely out of fear of the gov? Sounds pretty ridiculous to me.
My name begins with the letter A, so I get quite a few accidental calls when someone leaves their phone unlocked in their pocket.

Mostly you just hear an incomprehensible garbled rustling noise.

Spying on someone by remotely turning on the phone in their pocket isn't usually going to work.
have been trialing it for a few weeks and absolutely loving how much richer the experience is. can add really great content in, videos, music, maps, etc
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I don't think Objective-C was ever designed for large scale Enterprise projects.
I am going to chime in with a similar sentiment. I also had bash configured like this for awhile when I realized it is not what I wanted.

If you typically use different terminal windows for different tasks (e.g. terminal #1 for compiling, terminal #2 for manpages, terminal #3 for vim, etc.), this will just clutter up your history with items unrelated to what your are doing.
Poll: Is JOBS Act good for startups and hackers?
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Yes - Awesome! My grandma can't wait to fund my startup and gets equity
No - It's a trap. It's going to ruin us all!
Are there any good posts on transactions? I've found articles around but nothing very concise that explains the exact behavior of MULTI/EXEC when things go bad.
I don't think we should attack the writer for writing up his opinion and posting it on the Internet. That's what blogging is if you're not some great thinker like pg or Joel Spolsky. Somebody here thought it was worth discussing, no less.
One serious flaw of the proportional system, like Italy and Israel both have, is that a small party can be the deciding vote, and have a much larger weight than it merits.

For instance: center-left party gets 48% of the vote, communists (they still exist here) get 4% of the vote. To form a majority, the large party must strike a deal with the small party, which can dictate conditions... This happens regularly in Italian politics, and I believe in Israel as well.

Another flaw is that, in Italy at least, since it is not the voters of a given district who decide on one of several candidates, it is the political party who decides who actually gets to be on the list of people sent to parliament. This gives a lot of power to the political party itself, and whoever controls it.
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The Economist had a nice line: "Germany is a country that only works in practice."
Why updating existing version shows "no update available" message?
>Well, as soon as you "observe" it, we will no longer see an interference pattern

That's not strictly true, because the experiment is observing the quantum, and it is seeing an interference pattern. The critical thing is that they're observing it after the quantum has gone through the slits, so as it passes through the slotted wall, it's wavefunction is not constrained. So the moment of observation is very important.
I totally agree with you. But that doesn't mean NOT to opine on a story that's as sensitive as this. And probably look the other way when an individual (Kim, in this instance) has to undergo suffrage (and a completely unproductive period in life) simply because of a TRIAL?

Reminds me of The Trial by Roger Waters, Pink Floyd.
The funny trivia is that Microsoft's store is almost exactly in front of the Apple Store. The previous picture in the album was taken from that Apple Store a couple seconds earlier.
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> These meticulous naming conventions- has it anything to do with using a full-blown ide vs vim?

What would you think that?

If it's because of auto-complete, please understand that this is 2012, and vim is not [just] vi. There are several different flavors of auto-complete available in vim; some built in, some as extensions.
I agree completely, but would also point out that a regional startup blog may put you in front of potential investors and partners if you're far away from Silicon Valley.
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Because I'm sure it'll be brought up, don't confuse creating content for the iPad (with your full-fledged Mac computer) with creating content on the iPad. The former is, of course, happening all the time, and that's great. But unless you're buying the device plus the $99 developer's license to be able to program it, you're not buying a "production" device.

This distinction is entirely useless. Who cares if something is produced for the iPad or not? The iPad is a distribution channel for producers. People can only consume what's been produced, right? Producing content for the iPad is producing content nonetheless.
The parable of Nintendo
What you will find if you actually try to become an activist on these issues is that "getting your platform noticed" is very much non-trivial. There is a wide and deep gulf between "having a position on an issue" and "having a mainstream newspaper write that you have a position on an issue". A particular advocacy group may be spending a ton of effort and money to get noticed about an issue, and still have a complete press blackout on the issue, and it is not necessarily their fault. In the end newspapers write about what their owners want them to write about, not what would be best for society.
Auto-complete is just a subset of search.

Is that true? Or are auto-complete suggestions merely additional terms that are part of popular search queries (but not necessarily search results)?
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They don't have an upper house. Haven't for quite a while.
The site still appears to have been hosting mostly infringing content. Not a business I'd consider getting into if I had a wife/kid.
> The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post)

Not sure 'UK-derived nations' is a very accurate description. New Zealand for one, has a mixed-member proportional system similar to Germany. Australia has preferential voting (not first past the post) and an upper house with proportional representation. I'm sure other commonwealth states must have diversity in voting systems also, despite being otherwise 'UK-derived'.
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Show HN: App in Review
I'm one of the creators of App in Review. My buddy and other creator, Mubs (@mubashariqbal), approves this message.

We recently submitted our first app into the Apple app store and began the indeterminate waiting process. There is no visibility into Apple's review process, which is fine because all we want to know is where in the line are we? Even a rough guess would be fine.

It was during this waiting process that we had the idea for App In Review. A little site where iOS developers can share the apps they've submitted and how long they've been in the Apple review process.

With enough people simply posting when they submitted we might be able to get a better idea of just where our apps are in the queue, and how long it will be until they get reviewed. When it comes down to it, we're all impatient.

Would love your feedback, and if you're an iOS developer we would love for you to add your apps! There's nothing more in it for us, this a tool for the community, by the community. Happy coding!

http://appinreview.com/
In a recent interview (also linked to on HN), he also stated that he provided direct access to (all of) the media companies, so that they could directly delete infringing links themselves.
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Clickable link: http://appinreview.com/
This raises the interesting question: What would happen if Megaupload actually managed to win in court? Would any part on the other side be responsible to pay for the damages caused to uptime and reputation?

Considering how profitable Megaupload was pre-takedown, we're talking enormous sums.
Thanks. That's pretty good. By the way, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung often has an interesting outsider's perspective on events in Germany (e.g. http://www.nzz.ch/marktplaetze/uebersicht/kaum_gegenwind_fue...).
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Being icons, the difference is negligible. You can also show different images using pseudo elements, in any case you don't usually use image tags for icons, it's an image replacement, background or pseudo element.
This also happens in the Britsh system with regional parties. For example the Bloc Quebecois have often had way larger political power than their voter base.

Edit: Nothing against the Bloc (I am from Sweden), they are just an example.
"The official inflation rate is in almost all cases totally wrong" is a nonsensical statement. "Inflation" is not a uniform concept, to quantify it you have to take a certain basket of goods (the definition of which depends on the purpose of the exercise) and their nominal values and calculate the difference (or rate of change) of samples at various points in time. Furthermore, "inflation" is only relevant for nominal values; the that was used in the OP uses real values, and so do most statistics, because real value is the only comparable thing.

Especially your latest sentence shows that you have a completely warped view of monetary economics. How can one "use currency exchange rates to predict inflation trends"? That's a completely nonsensical sentence, but it doesn't matter what you really meant, because PPP is already used to combat this exact problem.
basically MULTI/EXEC is always handled correctly, either everything or nothing is committed to the database memory, RDB file, AOF file, slave, ...
No. I should not have to understand how git works internally in order for me to use it.

This is called usability.
http://www.jobsmanifesto.com

... another new UK jobs site, over 25,000 jobs, exactly zero agencies/recruiters. Generic site, but over 1000 IT Jobs.

Disclaimer: I know the dev team.
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Following a twitter link involves copying the url, pasting it to the address bar, backspacing the "#!/" and adding "m." before twitter.com, because twitter's dumb hashbang scheme can't deal with noscript. Reading the tl;dr is much faster!
An interesting story about Musashi, and what may have influenced some of what he wrote prior to his death, was his encounter with the monk Takuan. Musashi saw a snake approaching the monk in mediation, and witnessed the snake simply crawl over Takuan without any fear. But as the snake approached Musashi, it recoiled to strike, then ran away. Musashi was grieved because he felt that what he had cultivated was lacking -- he had developed his fighting skill so much that nothing would approach him. In contrast, Takuan demonstrated a deep peacefulness and naturalness that led to all, even a snake, accepting him.

As to how much of this is legendary or not, I'm not certain, but it's something to contemplate.
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Would be interesting to see an updated writeup with focus on iOS on ARM.
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> defining "evil" would be a good start

I think the best way to tackle this would be defining specific tenets the way that the FSF does with freedoms 0-4. They don't just say "You have to be free!" ... there is the legally-binding license itself, containing some light legalese, as well as the 4 freedoms specifying the idea to the common man, despite clearly.

So, a license that comprises "We won't be evil. We promise!" wouldn't be good enough, but the some clear rules could be set. The non-evil most people would care about would probably be related to privacy.

I agree that specifying all of the business practices which many people believe are evil would be a non-trivial task dependent on the nature of the company.
I more-or-less take back what I said. On first reading, your comment sounded to me like you were claiming that these effects go away for large objects rather than merely becoming very hard to see. In particular, this

>When mass is something like an ordinary object, then the size of the "slits" becomes so small that we can't imagine how conduct the experiment.

I think is misleading. Experiments demonstrating quantum interference of macroscopic objects are very easy to imagine and are limited by logistical concerns rather than fundamental physics. In particular, an experiment interfering objects large enough to see with the naked eye is very likely to occur this century, so I object to calling it "unimaginable".

But you were mostly right. I'm sorry.
>So I can use the same command in svn/cvs to switch branches and publish changes?

No, it's about the notation for remotes and branches. It's confusing that sometimes when I refer to a branch I call it remote/branch and other times I call it remote branch. It would've been way more consistent if it were always remote/branch.

As a result, git push sometimes gets confusing. Suppose I'm on staging. I then say, git push heroku staging:master (push the staging branch to the master branch on heroku) whereas git push staging:heroku/master is imho easier to understand.
WebObjects is, in many ways, two products: EOF4 and the web components. I'm going to separate them.

EOF4 was an absolutely insanely well-designed ORM that I absolutely still think has held up very well. EOF4 assumed, hey, you already have a relational schema! and hey, you like your objects to actually act like objects!, and rather than trying to shoehorn one into the other, EOF4 instead provided excellent tools so that you could specify how your database should be represented as objects. Other tools today still provide that (e.g., Hibernate), but EOF4 provided it in an extremely easy-to-use way that at once provided good abstractions, and the easy ability to dive under the covers when necessary.

WebObjects's web components, on the other hand? Probably not. Prior to widespread JavaScript, WebObjects made it extremely easy to write stateful websites without going crazy playing with sessions and the like. Nowadays, the right way to do that is to write a JavaScript application and call a bunch of REST endpoints--something doable in WebObjects, but needlessly complicated. Throw in Objective-C's memory model, and I don't really have any desire to work with WebObjects again.

If this project revives EOF4, and provides a cleanly RESTy way to use WebObjects, I think there could actually be a lot of value for companies that want to reuse their Cocoa models on the server. I don't think we're going to see a general renaissance of WebObjects, though.
I know this probably works and when described like that it sounds like a good idea. It seems basically you start with a single idea and write around it to make it bigger.

But, I also can't help but think of the dilbert cartoon where the PHB insists that the most important thing is the name of the project, before you even know what the project is.

Personally I think that there's some overlap here as both techniques seem to be trying to show how to start from a single idea and bring it into something more complete.
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I often feel like IOS apps work well despite Objective-C, not because of it. The idea of someday having to maintain a server written in Objective-C scares me.
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