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Nope. Would you excuse/apologise everyone who was prosecuted under that law or just make a special case for Turing?

I too believe what happened was wrong but if you start apologising for some of the old laws which now seem completely backwards... where does one stop?
Australian High Court rules in favour of iiNet over Film and TV companies
If you are uncertain if a threat was ever called in for either, how are those answers to my question? I was specifically asking about threats that were first called in, then followed up upon. To the best of my knowledge, neither of those qualify.
Its great to see this kind of discussion on Hacker News and how people are hacking their way to learning a language. I think its kinda difficult to obtain that level of fluency without living in the country, being immersed, and communicating with other people. There are certainly tools and ways that can aid you to learn - I've done similar things to learn a language such as learning from movies/tv shows/CD's/books/mobile apps/sitting near people on the train and listening to their conversation.

I've actually made it my mission to make languages fun and easy to learn, and started a company called Native Tongue. If you are interested in learning a language check out our vocabulary mobile apps for Spanish and Mandarin. They're called Spanish Smash and Mandarin Madness.

http://nativetongue.com/
Even more evil would be to use JRuby and TheRubyRhino: run a JavaScript JavaScript implementation in a Java JavaScript implementation bridged to a Java Ruby implementation! To boot, the Rhino approach is probably a lot slower, since TheRubyRacer uses libv8.
And they'll be saying it after this one, too.
Maybe the authorities should stop desensitizing these people by constantly subjecting them to false alarms, then.
Amazing how a post with this title gets to the top of Hacker News in a matter of minutes EVERY TIME
It's retarded to act surprised and indignant when the server gets seized because it was probably used to commit a crime.

Did you read the press release? Riseup was not running the anonymizing remailer, it just happened to be on the same physical machine as some of Riseup's infrastructure/e-mail accounts/listservs/etc.

From the press release:

The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECN”), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things, provided an anonymous remailer service, Mixmaster, that was the target of an FBI investigation into the bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh.
Very cool that they managed to get SpiderMonkey working through Emscripten. But I wonder if they could have just used Narcissus[1] instead and saved themselves some time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28JavaScript_engine%...
I was thinking about promises, because I just wrote a procedurally generated universe in Javascript with over 2^100 locations. To do the procedural generation correctly, the Math.random() function has to be called in the same order every time for generating each "sector." I had used promises in Smalltalk, but never found an application super for them and was thinking that promises would be a way to code this cleanly.
Just this bit:

... during the period of time I am in the employ of the Company (including during my off-duty hours), ...

Is enough for me to recommend "hell no" as the answer. Unless they're compensating you sufficiently for working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you sign this, I hope you're asking for something like a million dollar per year salary (you have to keep opportunity cost in mind as well).
Of more concern to me is the bursting of valuation bubble for the United States. Currently, people are undervaluing the risk of lending money to it. What happens when they realize its future revenues won't cover all of its commitments?
The seemingly easiest UI concept is the most annoying. "Apply" != "Save and Immediately Sync".

Why is there no way to simply change my settings without syncing??

Another annoying "feature" - iTunes handles syncing everything BUT pictures. Why?? Why do I need to open Windows to drag/drop the files in a folder?
My startup just got rejected on Monday as part of the wave of on-time rejections/acceptances, and I can say:

Don't worry about it. In fact, don't even think about it. If you get in, that's great, if you don't, that's fine too. Use the time to work on your startup, because that's what matters.
You could probably get a hilarious optimization out of it[0] by using gcj to compile the set of classes that JRuby generates into a native binary.

Or, you know, use dx and transcompile it to Dalvik bytecode.

[0]: Unfortunately, JRuby gives gcj/gij a hard time - gcj hits an internal error and gij makes it report that gij is unsupported. :(
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I think that several of these problems more or less just apply to windows programs in general. Its no excuse, but just something to keep in mind. Microsoft loves its cryptic error codes too.
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For those standing off to the side: Are there an awful lot of startups doing similar looking things?

Yes.

EDIT: It is getting increasingly difficult to see actual technology companies through the haze of consumer internet startups, many of which are indistinguishable "the <some startup that got bought> of <some market>" roadkill.

EDIT 2: Not that technology companies are the only ones that can be profitable; but many of the small startups are positioning themselves as technology companies, because they don't have any other conceivable identity.
Useless with respect to the purported goal, but they both certainly serve a real purpose, providing a pretext to target undesirables.
FBI actually has some good agents, but the only ones I've met were on counterterrorism, either in the us or overseas trying to find foreign links to us terrorism. I know most of the other law enforcement funding got repriorirized after 9-11, and I could imagine it is still attracting the better agents. Most of the really stupid FBI stuff originates from their bush league regional offices or is pushed by idiot US Attorneys in those places (e-gold, mmj raids, etc). The Secret Service, at least on computer crime, is far more uniformly competent.
Ironically, it's quite legible in Chrome.
The Fed economist Kevin J. Lansing has an excellent paper on asset price bubbles, written in 2007.

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el20...

"The market's meteoric rise is typically justified in the popular culture by some superficially plausible "new era" theory that validates the abandonment of traditional valuation metrics."
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I'm sorry but covert monitoring of a server is going to be vastly more beneficial for an operation than taking the server and is going to net more targets and more evidence.

They do this sometimes. You don't hear a lot about it, because it is covert, and nobody makes a stink about it in the headlines. But it is time-intensive and expensive, so you can't do it all the time to every target of interest. If you believe the servers already have all the evidence you need, and you can get the servers, it makes sense.

It's like the difference between hiring a private eye to shadow someone for a month, and simply requesting a subpoena. Both have their place.
if a developer sells a game for .99 cents and it sells 1.3 million copies, is the company worth a million dollars? No one knows how this "bubble" will go down, there should be more focus on the evolution of Javascript
I think the OP is missing the point here, because there is much more than just profits when we talk about valuation. There is sales obviously, but assets too like more materials things (chair, buildings, etc) but also immaterial assets (employee, IP, so on).

On top of that, the whole situation (the when/how/where thing) is also important, like someone said, a glass of water worth much more if Zuckerberg is in the desert, than instagram at that moment...

Valuating a company just with profits (or users) is in my opinion, too simplistic and so undermine a little bit the argument here.
My music files themselves are on a network drive, but I keep the library files themselves on my SSD (as is recommended).

So for file renames I understand, but not for playcounts or playlist changes or anything like that -- because those should access my SSD only, and not touch the external drive.
I agree. However, they may be giving some other content-producing company a chance to grow, or pushing other companies (e.g., Netflix) towards producing content of their own.

What I wonder about is what is happening to the margins of content-production. HBO has been living on fat margins, and I can see why they wouldn't want to give that up. But the increasing numbers of distribution channels seem likely to put pressure on those margins -- more content producers have a chance to get in the game.
Is this type of comment considered OK in this community? I'm all for a little competition, but it feels a bit dirty to me to congratulate a company while calling their product a "[less] sophisticated and complete solution."
Depends on the situation. If the "business person" is really just "some guy with an idea" then maybe it's fine to suggest they learn to code enough to code up an MVP or prototype or whatever. It's not like there are many other value generating activities they are going to be undertaking otherwise.

OTOH, if the "business guy" is a great hustler, sales guy, marketing whiz or whatever, who has good domain knowledge, can do (or has done) customer development and/or market research, has connections to funding sources, etc., then it makes more sense for them to go out and find a techie to partner with. Now you're talking about a true partnership where each side is bringing something valuable to the table, and where the whole is - hopefully - greater than the sum of its parts.
Well, they are probably replacing a file which is currently in use on which other files depend on. While there may be other solutions to that problem, rebooting is the least error prone one and people are already used to having to reboot their computer after updates.
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From here: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bulletin-10000166/gchq...

"The two papers have not been digitised, and only currently exist in handwritten form. People wishing to read the papers need to travel to the National Archives at Kew with the reference numbers of the papers, and two forms of ID — a picture ID, and proof of address. People who do this will probably be given a reader ticket number, which will then allow them to request the papers for viewing."
Last call for 97%ers get together tonight in SF
We belong to the 97% that got rejected for an interview. Some of us will get together, figure out that how we can help each other to fight back and occupy the Winter2013 Class. We're going to grab a bite/drink together at the King of Thai Noodle on Grant x Columbus in North Beach tonight at 7PM. Let me know if you want to join the resistance. starcatcher AT gmail

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850511
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Here's Why You Listen To Early Customers: They Will Lead You To Your Business.
Splunk's query language is not like regex - it's somewhat more like SQL or LINQ, with groupings, aggregates, pivots, etc. It is definitely a DSL.

I am not a Splunk developer or serious user of it, but you greatly underestimate the problem space to suggest this class of products address the same problems solved by even a very skilled scripter's scripts.
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I'm getting tired of hearing people claim we're in a bubble, especially when people cite the Instagram deal. Instagram didn't have any revenues? So what. The value of a company is whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

Facebook's killer feature is their photo sharing. Given Instagram's surging popularity and mobile dominance, Zuckerburg saw Instagram as a threat, especially if Instagram fell into the hands of a competitor, like Twitter. So Zuck pulled out FB's wallet and scooped up Instagram.

I've been hearing people say we're in a bubble for at least 2-3 years now, yet venture firms are raising new funds every week. Acquisitions are happening every day, IPO's are ramping up again. Unlike the companies of the DotCom bubble, companies going public today have real business models, with real revenues, and most of them are already profitable. In 2000 there were companies going public that were still trying to figure out what their business model actually was. I guarantee you'd never see that today.

Sure, it may seem like it's easier to raise seed funding nowadays, but that's thanks to all the incubators that have popped up and the funding model pioneered by YC. That doesn't mean we're in a bubble. Angel Investors simply found a way to make seed funding scale in a way that reduces risk.

We're not in a bubble, and no, I have nothing to gain from saying that.
I know that you can't copy the OED as a whole, or in significant parts. You have to purchase it. Similarly, you could copy and use parts of the Java API in your programs but not the whole API.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if Google's case is solid legally, but putting myself as a juror the Oracle opening statement I think would be very convincing compared to Google's.

But my reading of the slides is probably colored though by my personal opinion that the Java API should be copyrightable. It's a substantial creative work and no two people would create the same APIs even containing the same ideas and concepts (.NET for example).
If it were the worst thing we had to deal with nowadays, do you think there'd be a Chrome extension called NoBlink?
Damn, so that's what that's for!
... and what do you think an Amazon slice is? It sits on a physical machine that can be identified, located, and handed over by Amazon given a lawful request, all without the site operators knowing.

You think they give a fuck about the other 4 slices on your server? No. They don't. In fact it says so right in their SLA.
Examples 2, 3, and 7 are common for me on OSX. I just hate syncing my device.

Some of the other problems I've been having:
iTunes gives me an alert saying some tracks can not be synced and so the sync process hangs until I close the prompt or manually stop the sync on my iPhone.
If I remove a large app on my phone (example: the 1Gb Max Payne game) and then attempt to sync the phone after, iTunes decides to install the app again which means a lengthy transfer of a 1Gb file.
If I make a change to my playlist on the phone and sync, two versions of the playlist are created (not always reproducible).

iTunes is a horrible horrible experience on either OS. I've given up using it as a music player, in favor of Ecoute[1]. Pity I still need it for my iPhone.

[1] http://www.pixiapps.com/ecoute/
OS X Lion using Scheme to define sandbox configuration?
It's annoying enough that disabling blink is a built-in feature in Firefox
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I would be very interested in the fallacy you see, yet I see none.
> What will it look like

It depends on how much leverage gets into the system before the burst. Witness the difference between the tech and housing bubble bursts: People were buying tech stocks with the 1:1 margin requirements (because dude! tech stocks only go up!) vs housing which were leveraged by the home buyers at 5:1 - 10:1 (because dude! home prices only go up!) and by the hedge funds at 30:1 (because dude! national home prices never go down!)

I haven't heard a lot of people buying GRPN/ZNGA/LNKD on margin yet. FB might well change the tone though.
We are seeing growth in online advertising which is driving the perception of a bubble regardless of whether one exists or not.

The "We are in a bubble" argument should be - Ad revenue is capped at a total # of dollars. We have seen various internet businesses take share from magazines, cable broadcasters, billboards which has led to unsustainable growth which will end soon. When it ends people will realize projecting 30%+ growth for website ad revenue is dumb and will lead to massive losses.

The "we are not in a bubble" argument should be: Internet advertising is taking share from other sources and will continue to do so for a long time. Because online advertising allows you to buy products right away or customize ads to individuals, its more efficient. That efficiency makes advertising spending more likely to increase as a percentage of costs for businesses. A combination of those will help fuel continued growth in startups.

Regardless of which you believe or a hybrid version, at some point internet advertising will reach its max and there will be a bubble followed by a crash. I have no idea whether that is happening now or will happen sometime soon or in 20 years.

[edit] it is also possible that it will never happen
Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag:

Schrödinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.
From the linked page:

Here's the contents of /usr/share/sandbox/sshd.sb:

;; Copyright (c) 2008 Apple Inc. All Rights reserved.
;;
;; sshd - profile for privilege separated children
;;
;; WARNING: The sandbox rules in this file currently constitute
;; Apple System Private Interface and are subject to change at any time and
;; without notice.
;;

(version 1)

(deny default)

(allow file-chroot)
(allow file-read-metadata (literal "/var"))

(allow sysctl-read)
(allow mach-per-user-lookup)
(allow mach-lookup
(global-name "com.apple.system.notification_center")
(global-name "com.apple.system.logger"))
I wouldn't say they use a sledgehammer approach. I used to own and operate an anonymous email service until the FBI called me one day for the user data. I never ended up giving it to them, but I immediately shut it down after that. They were nice, cordial and understood that I was not the one using the service maliciously.
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Honestly it seems like person(s) making the bomb threats becomes more agressive with the threats when the university makes a public statement about it or when the police think they've caught someone or have a lead. A part of me wonders if the university might provoke the person(s) behind this to do something more extreme if the bomb threats started to be ignored.
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RIM VP of Developer Relations slags YouMail for abandoning their BB app.
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From WMPowerUser: http://wmpoweruser.com/youmail-drops-rim-supporton-many-days...
Servers lose 90% of their value in 5 years. Cash will not.
Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations at RIM calling kettle black: "Alex, one (former) CEO to another, one entrepreneur to another – I think it’s time to hang up the spurs cowboy. From where I sit, it looks like YouMail needed to pivot five years ago to remain relevant, and you missed the window."
People would be surprised at the size of the team that produces the iTunes client.
>It counts the number of "hard stops" in every trip

So stopping on amber lights or for idiot pedestrians or cyclists penalises her?

Of course a side effect of this is that rates for BMW drivers will plummet. I don't know how bad the brakes on a BMW are - but I've yet to see one stop for anybody.
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Firebase is true realtime. No polling. No waiting for disk I/O. We are trying to produce the absolute lowest latency possible.
So long as people are still saying its a bubble, its not a bubble.

Beware of a market so hot that you are a fool not to be part of it.
Not trolling, friend (hope that's obvious from my post). Just wanted to protect my primary email account which is the same as my HN login. Hope you can join us.
I don't even like iTunes on OSX.
I believe he is hinting at inflation damaging the value of cash in the next 5 to 10.
filepicker.getFile(mimetype, callback(url){alert(url);});

I feel dumb saying this, but I don't understand the example code. Why do I have to give Filepicker a mimetype? I would expect it to tell me what MIME type the user uploaded. Are you setting the type of file the user is allowed to upload? Can you whitelist several at once? Are you only expecting images, or does this work for PDFs, etc?

Also, is this javascript? I think 'callback' should be 'function'.
There's a regular (possibly SQLite-based) database format as well. The XML file is the backup.
In downtown Lausanne, Switzerland (in this plaza, if you're in the area: http://g.co/maps/tupbn), there's an outdoor washroom that's enclosed in that sort of glass. When you walk up to it, all the walls are clear. When you lock the door, the walls go opaque.

Not really sure how it works, to be honest...

Edit: This is the stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass
Spelling nazi, the HTML edition.
Agree completely. The small size is part of what makes them great.
I really love the tone they use on the status blog
http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/

eg:
= update on rehnquist
well, it's down again, so I don't know what the heck is going on. I'm going to swap to new hardware this evening (will involve a graceful shutdown)

Note, until then, all new provisioning is on hold.
Websockets are great, but apache and nginx are still yet to support them out of the box. You have to recompile nginx with a module and apache has to have a custom mod.

When it's a case of writing in a line in nginx.conf for a proxy bypass or commenting out an apache module then it will be ready. Using port HTTP/port 80 is one of websockets strengths.
General rule of thumb. If your company has solid revenue or is close to profitability...you will be fine when the bubble bursts. If your company is not even close to profitable...you will need to polish that resume some more. The better option is not to let other people's opinions, abilities and spending habits control your life.
Sounds like you havent either....

That's like telling the director of the FBI he knows nothing about law enforcement because he wont reveal facts that he has a professional obligation to not reveal.
If the US had European tax rates, it could support its current commitments and more. The risk is political: that the US will default on debts which it has the ability to pay.
I used the word ROBUST

If you are trying to defy the FBI, and 100% of your site architecture resides within Amazon's infrastructure you are not robust.
I'm taking a non committal stance while explaining a framework to view bubble/no bubble. I would love to hear why people think this is such a terrible framework to down-vote it. I'm sure I could learn something.
It's time to move on from HackerNews and focus on building companies/businesses rather than talking about things that are not productive in any way or shape.

Naysayers. Pessimists. Negative thinkers. "No man". Doomsayer. So long...
US Gross debt is currently around 16.4 trillion, its GDP in a given year is around 14.6 trillion, and its operating budget is around 2.5 trillion with a 1 trillion deficit. It seems within its capabilities to repay its debts, though it has opened up the throttle a good amount in the past couple years, and there seems to be no political will to raise taxes right now.
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Not sure if it's CYA security or just the immensely aggravating ease with which a group of people can be terrorized by an anonymous message that the poster you are responding to is complaining about.

I mean, that is the Essenes of a bomb scare as opposed to a bomb threat or an actual bomb, no?
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