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Ask PG: Can we have a guideline regarding legal advice?
As we all (hopefully) know, specific legal advice is not something to discuss with the Internet for a plethora of reasons. Anything you write online regarding legal action can be used against your company, whether you run it or not. There is very real damage to be done by not being careful. However, I see too many threads where someone posts a legal tale[1] and immediately the comments fill up with this general template:

I am not a lawyer, and this is not advice.

That said, here's what I'd do:

I don't think people are cognizant enough of the legal consequences and ramifications as a result of a seemingly-innocuous comment like this; that doesn't just go for the person heeding the advice, there is also, in some cases, liability created for the person giving the advice.

Can we have a guideline explicitly mentioning armchair lawyering and why it's bad, and why it shouldn't be done? Please?

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4055256
The question is, would we have known any of this if that research had not taken place? It is easy to have 20/20 hindsight. Even with it though I am pretty sure we still would of expended the effort to get where we are today.
Tmdb and their API is awesome. But I wish they would provide a dump of their database. I wonder how did you get a copy of all their data, did you build scraper and grab every movie?
Hey all -- I can see if I can arrange something. The chamber is in the basement of the Communication Arts and Sciences building and I teach in the College--but I don't know who currently runs it. Let me send some emails and see what I can do.
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To be honest, I think there is a lot more work to do (at least 2 more hours just to dump the database version) even for the author. I don't think any script kiddie will be able to exploit it based on the information provided. Or a least until someone put together a SQLmap tutorial for it.

The URI here was just for people to test if they were vulnerable or not.
Linux Multi-threading : FIFOs or Named Pipes
My bad. Removing it now. Will push an update shortly which removes location permission and adds support for any http(s) address (if you need to play TPB IP whack-a-mole in your region).
RottenFlix is a Greasemonkey script to inject Rotten Tomatoes ratings into Netflix pages:

https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/52589
RequireJS 2.0.1 released
I'm sure China have done plenty of - successful - attacks already. The States don't have an interest in disclosing these findings, nor do the Chinese, though.
> Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch tried to justify the choice to turn on DNT by default in IE10 in a blog post yesterday. Lynch said that Microsoft made the decision because the company believes that consumers should have more control over how their online activities are tracked, shared, and used.

You see, this is for consumers! It has nothing to do with hurting Google.
What problem do you want to solve in the world - big or small?
>Rather than considering possible ways that he might build a case, as I am attempting to do, you are successfully derailing and discussion of the actual topic with your attacks and dishonesty.

It is not the author's responsibility to build the case. That's what lawyers are for. They're the ones that are supposed to build the case.
Agreed. If I was forced to pick it would probably be the first one, but other than that I just don't care.
A nation state might have access to the antivirus source code (and maybe some of the ex-programmers (or present!) as consultants).

What was it the guy said, who was poisoned with Polonium in London? Something like "Spy organisations are made to compete with other spy organisations, with budgets in the billions. As a private person, you're hopelessly outmatched."
Open sourcing it would seem like a nice way to potentially have other people help make a product better for you that isn't your core product.

Or do what I think 37signals should have done with sortfolio. Start a subsidiary and put 1-2 people removed from your company in charge of it. That way you still own the IP, but you aren't required to focus on it.
"Here's to hoping that someone like Grellas can find time to comment "

Facts matter. Grellas isn't going to offer any opinion without having a chance to review all the documents that have been filed as well as communications and that is going to take time.
jsprinkles is 100% correct.

Federal courts generally aren't courts of equity (with bankruptcy courts being the sole exception); they're courts of law. They have a strictly enforced set of procedural rules the nonobservance of which can result in a claim being dismissed with prejudice or a judgment in your opponent's favor. You could learn anything that a lawyer knows--the material isn't difficult at all. What a lawyer provides, however, is insulation from procedural errors. When a lawyer misses a filing deadline, you might have a cause of action against the lawyer in malpractice. If you, a pro se litigant, miss a filing deadline, you're generally SOL. That's why you shouldn't share what you think you know: the consequences are serious and the nuances are subtle.
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Is there an option to telecommute full or part time? I moved back to OC after living in Santa Monica and working at business.com for a year and a half. I don't want to move back or drive on the 405 every day.
You seem to be using destroy and open warfare synonymously. The Art of War is about one of these, not the other:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/destroy

de·stroy (d-stroi)
v. de·stroyed, de·stroy·ing, de·stroys
v.tr.
1. To ruin completely; spoil: The ancient manuscripts were destroyed by fire.
2. To tear down or break up; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin.
3. To do away with; put an end to: "In crowded populations, poverty destroys the possibility of cleanliness" (George Bernard Shaw).
4. To kill: destroy a rabid dog.
5. To subdue or defeat completely; crush: The rebel forces were destroyed in battle.

See 5.
Drachmageddon
And yet they still make a healthy profit.
The idea that only lawyers can know anything about the law, and therefore nobody else can suggest avenues of investigation is shockingly elitist.

Imagine what HN would be like if only state approved programmers were allowed to have an opinion on technical subjects.

You're being down voted because you are lying about what I said and attacking me for the "crime" of trying to suggest areas of investigation for this guy... who's primary problem is that he has been UNABLE to get a lawyer.

So, yeah, shame on me for trying to help him get a lawyer. I won't sleep tonight.
Wow. Let me respond point by point:

> You have merely engaged in ad hominem

That's the second time I've been accused of ad hominem attacks in this thread, and the second time it's been flatly wrong. An ad hominem is me refuting your point by implying that you personally are not qualified to give it. I am not refuting your point, at all, and I have been careful to do so except to generally label some of your advice bad. I am telling you to shut up and stop giving advice on a case you're not personally familiar with. You are aware that there is legal liability for YOU being created as we speak, right?

> and quite successfully derailed the discussion

Good. It needs it. Your comment in particular.

> Thanks for the down vote brigade, by the way.

This is a tall accusation, and I do not have a "down vote brigade". I downvoted your parent post and nothing else. I suggest, since you have been around the block of Hacker News a few times, that you step back and take a few breaths and think about what you're saying.

> I must conclude that actually trying to help people on HN is not tolerated if the person attempting to help has offended someone who feels comfortable in the level of dishonesty you are.

Fuck you. I seriously have no other response to that, and I'm ashamed that I've gone there, but really: fuck you, and everything you stand for, with that little remark.
So the best way to encourage innovation is give companies big fat monopolies like infinitely expandable copyright?

It is of course the exact opposite: it is very difficult to innovate when you have guaranteed monopolies, because they are effectively money for nothing, and the easiest way to keep the business going is to focus on manipulating the law and enforcement in your favour instead of working on innovation -- which is indeed exactly what the MPAA/etc. lot have been doing.

What are you going to do? Work hard to create new ways to improve the service, or call a lawyer and have the government shut down your competitor overnight? It is an all too easy choice, and it is one the media industry has been taking year after year.
The story to pay attention to here is the collusion between big media companies who try to control what we do on our computers and computer-security companies who are supposed to be protecting us.

Initial estimates are that more than half a million computers worldwide are infected with this Sony rootkit. Those are amazing infection numbers, making this one of the most serious internet epidemics of all time -- on a par with worms like Blaster, Slammer, Code Red and Nimda.

What do you think of your antivirus company, the one that didn't notice Sony's rootkit as it infected half a million computers? And this isn't one of those lightning-fast internet worms; this one has been spreading since mid-2004. Because it spread through infected CDs, not through internet connections, they didn't notice? This is exactly the kind of thing we're paying those companies to detect -- especially because the rootkit was phoning home.

But much worse than not detecting it before Russinovich's discovery was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_root...
Great read, comprehensive & excellent mix of reflection on personal experience & extending advice / applicable actions
TMDb link to some trailers, but the quality is quite poor. We want a good solution or none at all.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but the old Apple floppy drives were pretty nice. (You could tell if your program was loading properly by listening, a skill I used right up until hard drives got too quiet.) I remember being jealous of my friend whose Apple //c drive sounded nicer than my Apple ][e :)

I think the sounds we remember most strongly are the ones that played when we were anticipating... modem sounds, floppy loading sounds, the part of vinyl records before the music, etc.
Flame hit the mainstream news not too long ago, that may have something to do with it.
What is your point then, exactly?

Are you arguing that there are eventualities which could be disastrous, and they need not be the product of willful malice? Then of course I agree with you.

Is your point that we can and should take all possible precautions against such eventualities, regardless of cost? That's where I take disagreement. We are, after all, arguing in the context of a larger discussion here.

Our efforts at preparedness must be in proportion to the risk, which is derived from both the potential cost and our best estimate of the likelihood. Bad things happen; it's terrible, it sucks, but it's unavoidable. We can and will bankrupt ourselves trying to swat every fly. It doesn't matter that a disaster could be catastrophic if we create a catastrophe by trying to avert every disaster.
Just last week, I was in a slump and thought of looking for side-project inspiration by searching for all the ShowHN posts. This just works great because when you start bombarding your brain with lots of new ideas, you'd be surprised what you come up with :)

I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?
Most memorable is the 1200 baud DTMF of my setup dialing to the local packet gateway. They're still around, though. The spinning/stopping of the C64 cassette drive. And the head of a floppy drive seeking sectors, one developed a cunning sense (from trauma) to tell from the sound whether a failure was about to happen.
I assume if it wasn't true the administration would have held a press conference denouncing it by now.
> be claimed as the intellectual property of my employer

I've never heard of this actually happening. Does it?
In the next article, titled "What I look for", he mentions that he'd never use a stored proc to access data through SQL.

To me it sounds like he is almost refusing to use an RDBMS to its fullest.
> Imagine what HN would be like if only state approved programmers were allowed to have an opinion on technical subjects.

Technical subjects do not carry the risk of legal consequences in the general case, now do they?
In many countries or at least Mexico, copying or linking to copyrighted material != copyright infringement , copying + profit does.
http://www.wholivesnearyou.com/

Ok so I am stretching this one but it seems to have been around since 2004.
I'm not scolding or anything. Just trying to be helpful, honestly. So in that spirit, here's an example (not the only one) of something from your post that would likely be deemed legal advice:

"Basically, if you have been using your name prior to 2008, and can prove it, then you are in good shape. If you stared your site between 2008-2010, and they cannot prove that they started in 2008 as they claimed then you're probably in good shape. If you started your site after 2010 then you're reduced to claiming that the marks are not confusing. But you also have the fact that you already have agreement with them (and their failure to attempt to enforce their trademark rights after you changed the name of your service per the agreement) to show they've abandoned it."

In this instance, you're making a lot of conclusions about the OP's case. See for reference:

http://definitions.uslegal.com/l/legal-advice/

You are, as per that definition, using "application of legal principles to facts" in order to "in effect [predict] a specific resolution of a legal issue."

Again, I'm not trying to make you feel bad or anything like that. I respect that you put in a major good faith effort to help the OP by writing your initial comment.
When you aren't a lawyer, it's a lot easier to tell someone you're not providing legal advice.

When you are a lawyer, it's generally best to just not give legal advice.

It's a strange system, but there are different rules for different people.
How does it compare to using earplugs in a silent room?
1.) If capacity increases, for a given workload, overwriting updates save less capacity. So even without new technology, there's a trend towards less overwrites of a given block for a fixed workload.

2.) Memristor Memory
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Very good. I'm the only guardian in my project and I find myself constantly fighting off the shit that the builders are committing.

There's an irony here in that if there were no guardian, builders would (have to) be a lot more careful. But if there's a guardian around, he does genuinely guard the builders from harm as the project goes along.

Even after one year of being in this situation, I'm still not sure if having a guardian is a good or a bad thing.
In a 2009 interview, Obama said, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." That is pretty mild support for American Exceptionalism, as defined by the GOP.
Well, I've got access... I could take a book and go sit in our anechoic chamber for an hour, I guess. If I decide to try it, I'll report back.
Note. Any time you read analysis of the stock market and it says "Technical analysis", that's a good time to stop reading.

The only things that keep technical analysis alive is our human ability to see patterns where none exist, and the observation among stock brokers that traders who have bought in to technical analysis make great customers.
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Exactly. Cryptoanarchist is something many people self-identify themselves as.
Robert Sapolsky's description of major depressive disorder. [52 minutes]
Was true before thumb drives. Fun fact: President Carter once sent his suit to the dry cleaner's -- with the nuclear launch codes in the pocket.
Can you find some documents under which circumstances this is a crime? I find that you should not do that for money or in court on wikipedia, but I somehow fail to find that "giving advice" or even "drafting legal documents" can be a crime.
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Dexy is awesome - all my content in one place across the web? Enough said!
> Imagine what HN would be like if only state approved programmers were allowed to have an opinion on technical subjects.

Programming and law are two completely different fields, each with its own sets of requirements, regulations, practice, and repercussions. Please don't try to make them out to be the same.
Note to the Prismatic guys -- I got a bunch of promotional emails from you today. I know you're excited, but, maybe just one a day?
I generally dislike articles like this--where they try to back up their "wise advice" by appealing to some tangentially-related ancient wisdom--but the examples made it worthwhile.
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The research group I was part of worked on single address space OS's from the early 90s to the late 00's, http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/research/old/mungi//manifesto.... , and yep, these ideas have been around for a long time.
"You want to X? Really?" typically carries an implicit, "How could you be so [some negative quality]?" This is not an ad hominem argument unless it's actually used in an argument ("Don't believe claim Y; this person even wants to X!" would be), but it is an oblique personal attack.
Well we can all thank pg for the new tone of HN. Kill Hollywood? Might as well have Henry Ford saying kill horses. When a viable alternative exists it will gradually replace Hollywood, just like every other industry.

But don't worry, the Internet is still the wild west, the sherrif has to follow the laws but hired guns don't have to. Good for the goose good for the gander. Enter torrent malware.
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Heh, I don't think we're big enough for a subsidiary yet. :-) But yeah, at some point I think we'll do something with it, even if it's just putting it up on Github. We're an Open Source startup anyway (as in, all of our core offerings are Open Source / AL 2.0 licensed), so doing that kind of thing is in our DNA.
This sounds like a perfect fit for you guys: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-91-8.pdf

It's the same algorithm used in SBCL (in non-incremental form), and in Dalvik. It's a good fit for LLVM because it's mostly precise. I.e. it scans the stack and registers conservatively, and prevents objects referred-to from those roots from moving, but scans everything else precisely.

It's also quite simple to implement, as far as garbage collectors go. I'm working on an extension of the algorithm to support local heaps that can be collected independently of each other. The flexibility of the mostly-copying algorithm is hard to beat for stuff like this.
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Very inspiring talk to anybody learning to code.
Power users are not well served with this version of movies.io

Results are usually "pretty good", but that's nowhere satisfying for a connoisseur such as yourself.

We're working on that though, but we'd much rather have people talking about the movie than about the torrent. A movie is art, it's emotions, stories, parts of our childhood. Much more interesting than a bitrate, a codec, a PSNR level.
> The idea that only lawyers can know anything about the law, and therefore nobody else can suggest avenues of investigation is shockingly elitist.

It is elitist and shitty, but also true. It's not because lawyers are smarter than the rest of us. It's because the legal code in the US is ridiculously complicated, vague, and fraught with landmines.