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>You are intentionally being disingenuous, now, because you're upset.

I think curious is the appropriate word to describe my mental state. HN is populated by people who should be able to think fairly logically-- I would assume more logically than the general population.

I understand why you made the false claim originally, and why you have chosen to characterize me in a derogatory fashion at every turn, including this last missive.

What I cannot fathom is why you feel so compelled to prevent productive discussion that you would impeach your own integrity with a lie? Or why, having never supported that lie, failed to provide even a single quote from my post showing me giving legal advice?

Or why, having had this refuted repeatedly you are sticking to your guns. Surely an understanding of logic must compel you to recognize that you cannot provide any evidence of me giving legal advice, let alone attaching liability to myself.

I think its hilarious that your thesis has that lawyers can say "this is not legal advice" as a disclaimer but non-lawyers cannot. But maybe I'm wrong? If you're right, you should be able to provide evidence. You have never done so, as you have never done so for any of your claims.

Again where you have an opportunity pursuade me by providing evidence you choose not to. Hell, even if I rejected that evidence you could have more confidence in your own position.

Why have you not even meet such a low bar for evidence as that, yet you feel comfortable characterizing me?

I am having to guess that you are not equipped to engage in logical debate. I'm curious as to why this is, and why this seems to not be uncommon on HN. I don't observe this phenomena among people of my age group.

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Responding to your deleted response:

Here's what you actually said:
" you just wrote an essay full of legal advice, including conclusions on how the proceedings will go"

All of which is false. Making your claim that the disclaimer is toothless irrelevant. Further, post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
Conversely, I would say that (within current laws) it is clearly illegal but it remains unclear as to why would it be unethical.

I kind of correlate bits with thoughts. Contrary to what some shady associations try to claim, you can't possibly cause conclusive harm to anyone by merely copying bits any more than by thinking about illegal things.

Digital copies also obey the same law that thoughts do: you either keep them to yourself or let it out to the whole world. There's no middle point where you could selectively share your thoughts with certain people but prevent them from sharing them further. And last I checked, "ideas are worthless"; it's the execution (into a physical realm) that matters. Ditto with digital copies.

I've been arguing for a while that the best internet breakthrough and source of income for MAFIAA would be to pay Piratebay to add a "Pay" button to their service. And to others' torrent search engines. Just sell licenses to movies and music and let people get their data in whatever format they feel like.
It's a great idea--I hope you go far with it.

One thing that might encourage people to use it is to create some activity that measures fitness/capacity, then let them track it over time so they can see improvement.
I laughed hard when I read this.
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Couldn't agree more. What do you think about specifically mentioning legal advice?
More importantly, it matters that the first result is a the cleanest rip possible in english.

We'll add a dropdown for alternative languages etc., and subtitles, but we got to breathe a little first. Lotsa things in the issue tracker.
Browserling passes 100 paying customers
No, it doesn't help in the least. The link you post mentions ONE CASE where a committee of the Texas Supreme Court apparently made a complaint because someone published a self help legal book. That complaint was dropped.

Now, how again is publishing and taking money for a self-help legal book (and indeed suffering NO legal liability for doing so) analogous to discussing the law on the internet with no money exchanging hands?

Again, where exactly are these "cases" of "liability" the OP is citing?
I am surprised you are taking this so lightly. Are you sure this can not get you into trouble in France / the EU?
Some people make music with them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0QHY7S-OtU

With the rise of chiptunes, I have a feeling that a lot of older sounds will be heard by the youth of today - they just won't realize what, exactly, they mean.
Are you ready? (Reasons why I failed a SQL Server DBA Job Interview)
Have to agree with Alex, trying to read around those floating buttons is incredibly annoying!
A good reminder for those of us who practically live on the internet.

edit: But I think OP is also concerned about the liability created for ones giving the advice, not just welfare of the ones receiving it. A guideline would help keep these advice givers out of trouble
I'm clearly not very good at this but scitraq.com is available, or rather more rubbishly so is verscion.com
After reading the article, I'm convinced that the author has something really, really, REALLY wrong with their data format, or their view code.

20,000 new documents per _day_ (from the article) is absolutely nothing for CouchDB. Our dataset in Couch is 28 million records, takes up 13GB of data, and we can create a brand new view against those records and have it run the first time in less than ten minutes. Adding 20k records to this dataset might cause the view to take a couple of seconds to update. One update to the view, which is what the article complains about, takes one or two milliseconds to be added.

But let's hypothetically say that the author has the most complex data format in history, and the most complex view code in history, and ten writes to the database actually cause minutes worth of view index updating. Adding the "&stale=update_after" request parameter to your view query returns instantly, with the last-generated view. After the query is issued, the view is automatically updated. No cron jobs necessary-- it is (and should be) a drop-in addition for all of your view queries.

Now, about the append-only database file. We've been playing with autocompaction from CouchDB 1.2, and it seems to be working quite well, but again, at the scale the author is talking about, 20k records per day is a very predictable delta in disk space. Even running CouchDB off a 32GB compact flash card (and it is possible!) will give ample room for the size of his dataset. We run off a 120GB fibre channel mount and haven't needed to increase the partition size yet.

From the article:

"The system in question does a lot of writes of temporary data that is followed up by deletes a few days later. There is also a lot of permanent storage that hardly gets used."

That, to me, speaks to two separate databases, one for the temporary data, one for long-term storage. The temporary database can be compacted once per day, and the permanent storage could be compacted once per week/month/never.
I don't consider it unethical one bit. I live in a country that has no business relationships with the west, and I couldn't buy a movie, even if I paid 10 times the price (and I also have to change my ip to be able to buy it from any western store). I don't watch movies (except for Kubrick's, who is dead) and specially hate Hollywood movies, so I'm not really the target audience of this site.

Ethics is not a set of rules fixed in stone. Killing is bad, but killing an animal beaten by a car is hundreds of times more ethical than letting it spend hours in pain and then die. Pirating/stealing is bad, but you should never fault a poor kid, or someone who is technically unable to purchase that in the first place.
"It's because the legal code in the US is ridiculously complicated, vague, and fraught with landmines."

Dealing with these situations does not just involve legal knowledge. It also involves strategy as well as some practical examples of what others have done in the same situation.

Lawyers (with obvious exceptions) tend to be pretty weak on common sense strategies and tend to frame things totally based upon their legal knowledge and training. This can be a trap that prevents them from seeing a very obvious solution to a problem that a non-lawyer can come up with.
"...students wishing to pursue our official credential and be part of our job placement program should also take an additional final exam in a Pearson testing center."

It sounds like the Pearson exams are in addition to the online, coding test.
You're absolutely correct when it comes to legal advice, as such would need to avoid such land mines.

But that's not the issue here. The issue here is whether one can suggest possible legal avenues of investigation that could be used to get a lawyer interested in the case.

There is zero risk in reading the law and then talking to a lawyer about what you find there.
A dialling modem is my favourite, followed closely by the dot-matrix printer. My dear mother used to create multi-page decorative banners for our birthdays and print them with the old dot-matrix printer. We'd colour the banners by hand with smelly markers or crayons.
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> what was your favourite sound of old that's no longer common?

The speak and spell. Boogie boogie.
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I wonder why it was necessary for consumer modems to make these sounds. It's not really useful for debugging, so in the end it was just an annoying sound. Yes, I know you could often turn it off, but as far as I know the sound was always turned on by default.
> Are we going to call the Euro "the complete and utter morons answer to cash"?

Actually...
Short answer: Big. Definitely.
I really like what you've done. Torrent sites never had a clean look, and you are making it first. You are trying to make the world suck less, and i dig that. keep up the good work, and I really hope you can establish a legitimate business model based on this.
I'm curious. If you speak in an anechoic chamber like this, what does it sound (or not) like?
What metadata are you using to distinguish movies from other videos (and other things)?

I did a test search for two European TV shows: Forbrydelsen (aka The Killing) and Braquo. The second didn't even try for an imperfect recommendation.
Came here to say this. I love the wall of movies, no need for searching.
We just presented at this year's Society of Scholarly Publishing Conference.
> Cryptoanarchist is a term much more likely to be used as a self-description than a political slur.

Indeed.

I not only call myself that, I'm in the process of writing an entire science fiction novel from that political perspective. http://morlockpublishing.com/
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The Art of War can really be applied to any domain or thing you want to do. It's beautiful in that it's specific and general at the same time. I once had a guy tell me to read it in high school when I was trying to win back a girl. It worked.

You can apply The Art of War to anything that involves competition. I don't know about anyone else but for me I think a lot of the success I've had in applying what's in the book to my life can't be totally attributed to just applying the advice in and of itself. For me, part of my success in its application most likely came from feeling more confident and like you knew some sort of secret ancient wisdom that someone else didn't know. Reading through it and thinking of applying it to your own situation really will have that confidence boosting effect I think.
Unless he's talking about the first Apple computer, in which case, they were literally building "freaking boxes."
It made the user feel like something beyond their mere mortal understanding was happening.
How do you feel about sharing all the code that you created for this site so we can use it for some projects we might have in mind?
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An ounce of reason and facts should hold more sway than a pound of opinions from the chorus.
We need read access to auto-complete emails for sharing and for invitations. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a separate read from write permission for that. Hope that helps.
>But that's not the issue here. The issue here is whether one can suggest possible legal avenues of investigation that could be used to get a lawyer interested in the case.

Here's how you get a lawyer interested in the case:

1. Find the phone number of a lawyer. Contact the EFF, or the local bar association for a lawyer that's listed as knowledgeable with the part of law that you're dealing with(in this case, copyright and trademark law).

2. Call the lawyer, arrange a meeting. Gather up everything they ask for when you call them.

3. Meet with the lawyer. If it doesn't go well, go back to step 1. Repeat until done.

4. There is no step 4.

This should be the only piece of advice in this thread.
There was an episode of 'Get Smart' where in order to keep the room quiet the words people spoke turned into word clouds. Eventually the room was so full they had to eat their words. This article reminded me of that.
Hi. I've decided to completely buy in to the OP's side because there is nothing at stake for me except thinking of a way that this problem could be solved.

Having admitted this in the comment you replied to, I thought it'd be obvious enough that I agree I don't know enough about the situation to be an involved party.

To the insult: You don't think it would be cool to crowd source a legal case in order to upset the typical advantage that money brings into law?

Anyway, I'll let that attack brush off - I do have better things to hack on ;)

EDIT: No worries jsprinkles, thanks for the apology!
It's amazing to me that anyone is actually arguing that RAID negates the need for backup. That is just dumb.

If I ever heard an SA working for me advocate that position, I would probably get them off of my team ASAP.
Sorry about that, we'll roll announcements into a single email next time.
I'm not hurting them - I would never have bought what they are selling. I'm just letting them benefit me, and thus increasing the level of happiness in this world.
Apparently they're using an scraper. See his/her other comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4054755
I don't like socks? If it's sarcasm, I'm missing it. I've got socks that cost 3$ a pair through ones that cost 30-35$ a pair and quite a few of them all at that. While you might choose to blindly dive in, I like to ascertain the quality of the product that I'm getting.

And why spend 12$ a month on these when I can buy something from Happy Socks or Richer Poorer socks for 12$ a pair from a multitude of patterns and designs whenever I want to and be assured of good quality every time?!
If we are now trying to equate downloading a movie or tv show with some type of thought crime I think we've clearly run out of ways to try and justify our behavior.
I'm not sure, I've often seen maps with areas required to power the world with solar* and while they are big, they aren't impossible, especially if done smartly (big solar farms in deserts connected via HCDC transmission lines, but also solar PV and solar water heaters on rooftops close to users).

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No way. That little neckbeard girl was awesome, and I refuse to believe she doesn't exist somewhere.
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Every day prosecutors decide what crimes to charge people with (or not) and people decide when they are damaged enough by something to hire a lawyer. And of course there are cases where someone is pissed off and will sue with no merit to get revenge with barely a leg to stand on.

"I'm not legally permitted to discuss it beyond that."

Sorry this had to happen to you and I see where your caution comes from.
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Interesting... If you have precise stack and register maps, why does the collector need to be nonmoving?
Just wanted to add that I resubmitted this because my post yesterday was buried for a controversial title - reworked it and submitted for all those interested in watching Browserling progress!

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Is there a way to search for a particular showcased site?

(In case you're wondering why: I would like to find my own site on the showcase site without browsing through all the pages.)
Just noticed this post got buried again... not really sure why but I was hoping someone could tell me?
Pretty site, it sure is a nice way to 'share' torrents, although its pretty illegal.
Most content creators that I know would be very glad if the whole world woudl listen to their music! More likely, I'm dishonouring the intentions of the content distributors. And I really don't give a fuck about them, they certainly don't honor anybody/anything other than cash!
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It isn't a 'human right' to be able to watch Game of Thrones or Batman Begins without paying for it I don't believe. It is ignorant to try and claim otherwise.
Laurent Sansonetti (creator of RM) was on the Ruby Rogues podcast (http://rubyrogues.com/055-rr-rubymotion-with-laurent-sansone...) and made a compelling case for the current pricing scheme. I won't paraphrase Laurent, but if you're interested, listen for yourself.
Just chill. Hacker News has a complex scoring algorithm. If your stuff is good, it will make it to the top.
For what its worth, you definitely could identify the data rate before windows would report it. I used to listen and when I heard it connect at 26400, Id disconnect and retry until I heard and saw 33.6 or better. Not all of those trunklines were created equal back then.
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Not to be pedantic, but it was Polonium not Plutonium that was used in Alexander Litvinenko's assassination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Famous_poisoning_cases