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Don't they say that "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."?

NBC were/are a staunch supporter of SOPA. They wanted others to be treated this way, it's only fair they're held to the same standard so that may see how ridiculous the situation is (not that blatant copy/pasting of images is ever condonable).
My point has nothing to do with background color and legibility ; the design is an unmodified Bootswatch theme (http://bootswatch.com/).
The point is about features ; the current listing on Heroku contains 78 addons. You have to read each name and short description to possibly find what you are looking for and once you have found the 2 or 3 matching options you have no way to know what people think of them. Hence search, tags, reviews and ratings which is the point of this little project.
One need only to quote your post to refute it:

> I wish Bruce Schneier in an otherwise nice essay wouldn't propagate the meme "the goal of terrorists is to terrorize".

> [Terrorists] may have a goal of terrorizing, and they may even enjoy causing harm and terror...

Is it a meme, or is it a fact? The truth is, it's a fact. Terrorists use fear & intimidation (and yes, terror) to coerce governments, through public opinion, to change certain policies.

Terror is both the means to an end, and an end in and of itself. You are unequivocally wrong.
they're not only spending $250mil, they're spending an ADDITIONAL $250mil on this new project.
I very much doubt it. The Supreme Court declared a while ago that copyright infringement is not theft.
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The caching software and http accelerator probably mitigate the need to hit the database at all.
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Completely agree as a friend of mine said: "I wouod rather have a law that shortens copyright terms to at least the death of the author. and that law has an exception just for Disney..." (ben litton)
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Is anyone under the impression that if SOPA had passed this example would have lead to Apple pursuing an infringement action under it against NBC Universal, who happens to be a big Apple partner, over the misappropriation of an icon? There are plenty of very good arguments against SOPA and PIPA - it's easy to find them, they were/are bad laws. But is a single example of a non-willful violation that they'll be happy to remedy one of them? Not really.
The original copyright act in the US granted protection for 14 years with an option for 14 year renewal. I think society would be much better served if we went back to that.
I believe what the OP is saying here is "failure" occurred not on a strategic corporate level, but on a computer-science-algorithm-geek level. He hasn't disclose his full name, so we cannot fully judge, but how would you react if "Joe Smith" came out as a false positive?

Of all the crazy things we're hearing about Google lately, failure on an algorithmic level may be the last thing we expect.

Then again, maybe the name is indeed more subtle than the OP seems to think...
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Because I suck... I just didn't manage to jump ship yet. I'd take off time for months to work on my own projects but usually failed to finish what I started. Then money would get low and I would accept the next Java contract to make money again.
These days I tell the recruiters that I am leaning towards Rails and JavaScript, but in both I don't really have as much experience as with Java. I did some small things with Rails, but I also don't have the killer combination of design sense and coding skill that the younger Rails devs seem to have. Still, I have rejected most Java projects in the last three years. Might grudgingly look into Android, though (I like Android, but I hate Java, as has probably become clear...).
What does this article actually say? That Baio willfully signed meaningless or fraudulent documents and that he applied for patents that he new were without merit, for money. And now that the issue of these patents might become better known, he's preemptively writing a disingenuous CYA explaining how he's shocked that a corporation might try to profit from his collusion.

Recently Baio had to pay a settlement because he stole someone's intellectual property and used it for a commercial purpose. In this case he also wrote a whiny, disingenuous article [http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/] trying to explain how he didn't really intend to do anything wrong. So he's abused the intellectual property system from both sides. Apparently, principles only come into play when it's time for explanations; at the point of deciding what to do, this man seems to consider only the path of least resistance between the cash and his wallet.

And his public relations campaign is working. There is no shortage of gullible hotheads [http://lee-phillips.org/music/whoIsTheDick/] rushing to his defense and to the excoriation of Baio's victims.
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> I have made two basic arguments about post-9/11 airport security. One, we are not doing the right things. And two, the things we are doing are wrong.

Far from being an ass-handing, this seems redundant: those two are the same statement, and that one statement is a not particularly damning version of an already familiar refrain. (The argument itself, I am sure, is substantive, but that summary is not.)
"More than 6 billion consecutive safe arrivals of airline passengers since the attacks on America on September 11th 2001 mean that whatever the annoying and seemingly obtuse airport-security measures may have been, they have been ultimately successful."

The first paragraph of Hawley's opening statement is a complete non-sequitur and doesn't bode well for the rest of his arguments.
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You're making an argument that the parent isn't. No one in their right mind would claim that the iPod and iPhone aren't major contributors to Apple's current condition, but are the two mutually exclusive? Are you claiming that the Apple retail strategy hasn't contributed to Apple's success? That seems just as silly.

I don't believe that there are many of Apple's decisions you can cherry pick and still arrive at the same Apple you have today. The "experience" at the Apple store is definitely one of the decisions that are inextricable from Apple's overall success.
Try it again with just the last step(vanilla apache/vanilla wordpress/varnish) what are your results like?

Keep the original setup and have your test script perform some random searches. New figures?

(Everything is fast/non-server intensive when you're serving static data)
They can do what they want within the law, and there is AFAIK a common law right to use aliases.

In other words, your name is what you agree to go by.

Also, you are not contractually bound by anyone to go by your given name, as you were not old enough to contractually agree to it when your name was given.
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I guess once Apple has created thousands of Objective-C developers (already done), it might become interesting for other things, too. It is a self-feeding loop.
You've not been a contractor? All you have are hours to sell, and its very similar to selling a pick or shovel.

Unethical? If you had a crystal ball that could predict the success of every new idea, sure its unethical to keep it secret. But just because you don't personally think its a good idea- well, it'd be unethical to put your bias in the way of this guy succeeding despite your doubt.
An inner class is the ugly half-brother of a closure. 99% of the time they're used they define just one method.

When they are used for more than 1 method implementations, well ... they shouldn't be inner classes.

They just exist to fill the gap of having no closures. I say this as a long time and affectionate java user but project lambda in JDK8 is long overdue.
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Because they learned from netscape's mistake, that's why.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
My concern for the potential for abuse in this project is much greater than that of wikipedia. How is wikimedia going to ensure that there are no malicious edits to this data? Any changes will almost certainly need stringent peer review.

Edit: As an afterthought, it would make a lot of sense to manage it like a git repository, where someone could submit a pull request for data changes, and then some subgroup or a trusted percentage of the population approves the request and it gets merged into the master dataset.
Try, try again. Like anything else, you have to take risks.

People who buy into "I can't make all the judgement calls with perfect accuracy" don't become entrepreneurs.
Given that it was 60 years ago, I'm not so surprised.

For what is worth, even today the majority of landlords in Japan will not rent to foreigners.
> Is Objective-C really popular now? I mean would people volunteer to use it, if they weren't forced by Apple?

I would say No and No. I'm in agreement with John Siracusa on this one, even with ARC Apple can't hang on to Objective-C forever.

John Siracusa's piece:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/copland-2010-revis...
On a similar note: I've taken a picture back in 2007 of a notice beneath the Sony Center in Berlin:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hymnos/1987519794/

Sony PR was unable to clear all copyrights for pictures they had used in a exhibition about the past of the building. And publicly admitted it.
Editorialising is not making false statements; it is making value judgements.

EDIT: I wanted to clarify a bit more the distinction I mean to draw between 'factual' and 'true'. "Schneier hands former TSA boss his ass" is (for a reasonable definition of the terms) 'true', but so, presumably, is "Former TSA boss attempts to spread message in an unsympathetic forum". I would call both versions true but editorial ('editorialistic'?); whereas I would call something like "87% of people polled disagree with former TSA boss on security measures" factual.
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I think the main difference between using Apache vs nginx as the backend server would be the amount of memory available for Varnish to use for caching. nginx has a much smaller memory footprint.
Pretty much, yeah - though if you don't know what settings to put on nginx and varnish, you'll end up wasting most of the performance.

I'm sure my configurations aren't perfect, but they're a lot better than the defaults they ship with, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of "Here's some sensible settings" discussion on either project's website.
A blog is the most simple to scale application, just one step after the static content. The fact that wordpress has traditionally been not very scalable always used to puzzle me...
This is good but let's look at from slightly different perspective. The author (Ewan) is so good, so I'll assume his hourly cost runs anywhere between $50 to $80 an hour on sys op.

Taking the least denominator - $50, if he spends just 5 hours a month trying to keep his server alive, active, update and making sure it's not down, responding to it if anything happens - that will cost him $200 + $15 per month to maintain his setup.

If you're about running a well maintained popular Wordpress powered blog, why go to the extend of doing it yourself when you can spend a little more, let the people who runs such services handle it. That way, you can keep doing your more productive work.

Unless, of course, he does nothing else but earns via the website, does it full-time and is happy spending his 4-hour a week on running the server.
> Algorithms is the one place you don't expect Google to fail

Maybe this thing (the reality of names) is not rationalisable, and therefore not modelizable with an algorithm. For instance, I know someone who has chosen the name of a Russian president has his nickname, and I guarantee you it is not his real name. How would Google detect that? On the opposite, "Ng" is a perfectly valid surname in Southern Chinese, and it really looks like a nick...
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I find the disconnect between pg's Ambitious Ideas essay and the companies that YC funds rather stark.

It seems as if pg wants to fund ambitious startups, but he is either (1) not having them pitched to him or (2) he doesn't find any of them lucrative.

YC has definitely funded a certain kind of startup - a small team making an interesting web/mobile app (with a few exceptions).

Perhaps it's time for YC to invest some of its capital into an X-Prize type event for some of the ideas that of has?

This may prove to be interesting fodder for the teams applying without an idea and would likely give YC access to a different subset of entrepreneur.
Recent popularity? The graph basically says that copyrighted works older than 10-15 years are simply ignored. Public domain works, however, are almost as widespread as recent blockbusters.
The "boxed primitive" types (Integer and so on) should be `final`. This means no inheriting from them, which means no polymorphism, which means their sizes and all operations on them are known statically. This means you can store them as values in the object with no fuss, and you can inline all of their access functions.
Varnish takes the load off by caching the results from Wordpress. The Total Cache plugin handles purging cache entries when you update posts/pages.

If you want to see how many queries Wordpress runs even for a simple post install this plugin I wrote at my last job. It shows a log of queries in the page footer if you are logged in as admin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpdb-profiling/
Its a very different statistics, the chance of your job being around vs the chance of the company being around, in a year.

Jobs come and go all the time, even at Dell, even at GM. Rockwell (has a local plant in Cedar Rapids IA) hires and fires hundreds of engineers yearly, as the contracts come and go.
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Isn't there any kind of static generator for Wordpress? I'd expect a static wordpress + nginx would be sufficient to handle quite a serious load.
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On a somewhat related note, the GPS on lots of Android phones is more seriously broken than this. For AlpineReplay (app that tracks skiers and snowboarders) we routinely get visits that happen in the future. GPS timing is often off by 24 hours, 12 hours. Most common on Samsung phones but we've found it on HTC and LG as well.
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Except to point out that with SOPA, Apple could have shut down NBC's entire domain until NBC's lawyers had jumped through the requisite hoops. And that just about every web site on the internet would be just as vulnerable to be shut down by such requests due accidental infringement.
No. I don't believe that a person's intelligence level makes it appropriate for any other party to decide what she should and should not do. I also question what "responsibility" an intelligent person has in their career choices. Responsibility to whom? Society? Should they be out curing cancer instead? I cannot accept the notion that people in the aforementioned position have a responsibility to anybody but themselves and their families.
... But software that is open source is not nessicarily free. Open source is a development model, free software is a religious movement
Maybe because those same articles are trying to portray Edison like a genius inventor, which he clearly wasn't.

Tesla was the genius inventor, Edison was "just" a great businessman. There's nothing wrong with being great businessman, but don't try to present him something that he wasn't.
Given that the data is structured, to some extent it should be possible to automatically check its consistency.
For the interested reader, here a cool paper on Information Arbitrage Across Multi-lingual Wikipedia: http://www.cond.org/paper_202.pdf
I think its important to note, even if this was some contracted company who put up the site, you would think designers would either know better, or at least have the skills to create something similar. I'm by no means a whiz with Illustrator, but I bet I could whip something up in a few hours that's similar without infringing on Apple's copyrights.

I mean hell, all you have to do is google "blueprint icon tutorial" and you get over a million hits. There is absolutely no excuse for someone doing this with such a vast amount of resources at their disposal.
And I'm saying that the algorithm is imperfect by design, and accepted as such, because perfection would cost too much in computing and human resources.

You cannot fail a cabbage.
Well, liquid fuel, not chemical -- and its power isn't a function of the size of its electrodes.

More like a 'liquid fuel energy storage device', I guess.
Strange the article laments the lack of a silver bullet for weight loss. Surely the idea of a nonitrusive round of radiation (a procedure that has been around for just shy of a century) resulting in rapid body fat loss.

The impermanence of the condition seems to make boost its potential effects. Simply go in for a few treatments until you're down to your target weight, and if you happen to gain it back in a few months or years, just go in again...

This also gives credence to idea that obesity is a psychological malady, like depression or schizophrenia. It is certainly as difficult to treat.
Small thing, but when the author attributes REST to Robert Fleming, I believe he actually means Roy Fielding.
I was always convinced that "network-provided" time means provided by the GSM operator over GSM. FWIW time on my phone is off by 1.4s according to time.is so it seems to be unaffected by the bug.
yowza that's pathetic -- they didn't even bother to efface the 'XCODE' text in the lower right, or the Apple logo on the lower left!

http://hometransformers.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hammer...
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I agree with your reasoning that it might not be worth the time, but I think spending five hours a month on server upkeep is a little steep. I've got two Linodes running and I rarely spend more than an hour a month on server-related issues. Of course, I don't have millions of views, but if that's the case, my assumption is that this high traffic would come with enough revenue to make it worth my time.

So yes, I agree with your sentiment, but once you have servers up and running with good tools they don't take that much effort.
"The RESTful thinker may design both the payment of an order and the shipping of an order both as updates"

Maybe this thinker got it wrong. How about
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to create a payment object?
Greetings, OP here. Bot.io has been keeping Mozilla's PDF.js project regression-safe since late 2011.

We decided to create a more general, customizable bot so that others could easily deploy it for their projects.

The bot is written in Node.js and is cross-platform tested.

Go ahead, give it a try - it's really easy to get started. Hit me up on Twitter if you need a hand: @arturadib
So they are adding an extra layer?...Who said that CS is the science where everything is solved with an extra level of indirection?
This is pretty nice. I wonder how hard it would be to import a minimal stats package. That and a table entry widget would make this a superb environment for a 1 semester probability and stats class.
This setup is very unlikely to take four hours a week to maintain.

Hell, it takes 15 minutes to set up.
The only thing needed to simplify web development is to have all browsers do the same thing with the same code. It's why jQuery has been so popular. Write code in jQuery and you have reasonable assurances that it will do the same in any (modern) browser.

Besides, if Google is developing programming techniques to simplify web development, then what the heck was Dart all about?
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The data here is the number of books sold by Amazon, arranged by the decade they were published in.

So Amazon sells lots of contemporary books, and lots of pre-1922 public domain classics, but much fewer books published under copyright (since they are now basically locked away, virtually forgotten, and will not be republished).
From personal experience with both hormonal and non-hormonal contraception (Pill vs. copper IUD), I suspect the reported aggravation is due to the fact that the Pill reduces said "aggravation", and once you are off the hormones, you feel like it's worse but it's really just back to normal.

In general, when the IUD is installed correctly, the body does not perceive it as a foreign object or try to reject it or move about and puncture holes or increase the levels of copper in the blood or [insert another myth that seems to make intuitive sense but has no scientific or observed basis].

(There is one myth that has near truth to it. The common misconception that you have to have been pregnant to get it. This is not true either - the uterus just has to be big enough to house the IUD comfortably and and it's virtually guaranteed that a post-pregnancy uterus is. However for most pre-pregnancy women this not a problem either, and a size check is the first step during the installation process).

The benefits on the other hand are real, and huge. Reduced risk of hormone-associated cancers, noticeably increased sex-drive, better hair, nails, and skin, not having to take a pill every day, less money, statistically better protection from pregnancy, the list goes on.
What a great reference!

Having already started a company, I can say this is true and wish this list I'd had it before.
BUT, the majority of these "commandments" I already knew.

The important point missing here is that until you do it on your own (solo or with partners), you won't get that art & science part right: you'll just think it's luck.

(prior expertise in your field + management/leading experience certainly helps)
Whats more puzzling is the need to render things from the sever when you just want to show people posts, which are really just static stuff. Thats why I love Jekyll.
That's just an example of the unequal enforcement of the law. In order to avoid getting your site shut down, you'd need to be friends with the rich and powerful.
Come on, the author of TFA covers that point explicitly.

> This kind of casual copyright infringement, with no malicious intent, is exactly the kind of thing that SOPA was after.
Not sure the point was to be grammar cop. I, at least, took it as a line from The Princess Bride (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?qt=qt0482717)
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And they can allow or disallow anyone they want. It's their business.
Not sure, but maybe this:

http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2012/slides/SimonRitter...

I hate those articles not mentioning sources.