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There are plenty of easy ways to legally buy and download movies - certainly a lot easier than torrenting. See Netflix, iTunes, Google Play etc.

It would be both nice and pragmatic if they would drop the DRM that is clearly doing nothing to combat piracy. This is not going to achieve that.
The power companies and grid are just like everybody else with a distributed system these days: they have a lot of monitoring data and the cheapest way to backhaul it is over the commodity internet. They find VPNs useful too.

True that a finely crafted USB stick can be used to bridge an air gap, but the power grid needs to not be connected to the interent. It's a protocol layering violation: the internet depends on the power grid. If the power grid also depends on the internet, what happens when one goes down for any length of time? How long would it take to get such a system turned back on again?
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Doesn't someone have to advertise that they are practicing law and take a fee despite not having credentials to back it up for what you quoted to matter? But maybe you can't answer that because it would qualify as the unauthorized practice of law to do so. Maybe your quote alone is enough to put you in jail, it sure looks like you're offering advice/opinion regarding a law.

Someone on the Internet explaining how to file for divorce, bankruptcy, or commenting about legal issues related to a startup seems outside of the scope of "unauthorized practice of law".

Does this mean legal advice on the Internet is good advice? No. But I think it's far from illegal unless someone claims to be a lawyer & accepts fees for services.

But now I am probably going to jail thanks to expressing an opinion on how I viewed the law you quoted.
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I just put Facebook sharing into a few apps of mine, and while not terrible, this will be a very welcome change. Much easier and faster to code as well as being a better interface for the users. win win for everybody I think.
Bullshit and you probably know it. You are not just destroying monopolies, but independents too.

>I would say it's clearly ethical, even required, to share knowledge and information with other people.

How about your personal data ace?
I don't think it's a great idea to display people's birth dates on a public web page, since that's a piece of information that's frequently exploited in cases of identity theft. Showing just their age would convey pretty much the same information and be less dangerous.
Most disappointing thing out of this is that there is a third "fork" of OpenOffice.org that is license incompatible and Mac OS X specific: NeoOffice. I had always thought it was a separate suite.
They actually opened it up to additional funding specifically to include Python. That money was raised based on community support (including financial support), so now they're including it.

Why are you so surprised that there'd be support/choices for Python?
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Ethics and morals are not the same.
Linking is not considered copyright infringement in most of Europe.

Your analogy has no legs.
Congenital lack of auditory nerve?
Python's a great fit, certainly a more straight-forward one than java/scala. Presumably python/ruby would be equally interesting additions to Light Table
The 60% accuracy is for a 50ms glimpse of a photo "mostly devoid of cultural cues". In real life you get much richer information for much more time, so it seems reasonable to conclude that 60% is a lower-bound for real-world gaydar accuracy.
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I did this as part of a class project last year with opencv. It's actually not too difficult:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEsDJA0CWE

Edit: forgot to mention it was done with just a webcam...no fancy glasses
> Violating the written or unwritten rules of the society

Considering the amount of people out there that are torrenting, an argument can be made that it is an unwritten rule of society that this is perfectly fine.
It's the 21st century and there's a field for this: Complexity Theory applied to organizations. There's no need for ancient dogma, we have science.
An employer provides compensation for the work of the employee. If he didn't, and the employee wasn't working willingly, that would be slavery, which would definitely make the "employer" a parasite.

As far as http://www.dontmakemesteal.com, what gives you the right to blackmail a business into doing things? If you don't like their prices, don't watch the movie right now. Wait and watch when it's on TV. If you don't like the DRM, don't buy it. Market forces are strong when the market puts their money behind their intent.

I don't like the bullshit restrictions some companies put on their content, such as HBO but they have a right to whatever the F they want with their hard earned content. They put up the financing/energy/creativity/etc to produce the content. It's not my right to put them to an ultimatum: do things my way or I'm going to steal from you.
"2) we would love to work towards a legal solution."

You blew it right there parasite. It is unethical and everyone knows it. They just try to justify the stealing.
then find a case you aren't involved in? can't quote one of those either?
By your same argument, I shouldn't object to people who rape women because I'm not one?
I think you mean movie.io
Welp, time to get off HN. Nothing constructive happening there anymore.
can't you find one in which you don't have such first hand experience with?
I actually do believe it is a human right to have access to all the art and knowledge. Other people seem to think so too, thats why we have public libraries. I don't know what the solution here is but good things are happening like Spotify were people have the ability to expand their minds, listen to something new and support the artists at the same time. We probably wouldn't have had Spotify without the threat of piracy.
Please add a favicon. I like to bookmark sites and delete the name so I can just recognize it by the favicon. Saves a ton of space. I assume I'm not alone in this habit.
Disclaimers have legal effect. If you include a disclaimer that you are not providing legal advice, and that your discussion is limited solely to specific issues (and may not include all issues raised by the fact pattern at hand), you will not be liable.

That does not mean you cannot be sued; anyone can be sued. But it does mean that you would win any lawsuit against.

I am a lawyer. (In my particular field, the magical disclaimer is the Circular 230 Notice regarding tax advice.)
For this purpose, 1.1.1.1 is probably an OK IP to use for testing. It's in a range that's technically a routable public IP, but which will almost certainly never be announced (as it receives a ridiculous amount of bogus traffic).
If you want to argue the case then you'll need to find better analogies. The employer/employee relationship is entered into mutually and both parties gain from it.

Lets really put the shoe on the other foot. How would you feel if someone came along, took all of your source code for movies.io and hosted it on movies2.io. Not only that, but they now had way more users than you (for whatever reason). How would that make you feel? Would you consider them freeloaders? Parasites even?
The 1x1 pixel trick he mentions is a wonderful little hack. Such an elegant solution to keeping your clients' sites working without even requiring site managers' action.
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An employer wants to pay employees for their labour. It's a trade.

As to your second point, I mean, thieves work really hard on their heists... I don't think that's the strongest argument to put forward to be honest.
Oh great... Now the MPAA will overreact and ICE will shut down YCombinator in the name of "national security".
When I was threatened with libel by Sybase, I jumped on the phone with the general counsels from Oracle and Computer Associates, and based on their "I'm not acting as your lawyer" general comments, handling things myself. The big difference is that "Handling things myself" amounted to sending back a couple of letters, not dealing with legal paperwork.

I'd say that advice across the internet on whether to engage a lawyer, how to engage a lawyer, or what your negotiating strategy might be is fair game, and could be just as good or bad as any other internet advice. Talking about your case in public, for the other side to see, could be disadvantageous, but that's a reasonable risk to take.

For actual legal procedures -- yeah, you absolutely need a lawyer. But the best organized and most affordable one may not give the best strategic advice.
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> There are plenty of easy ways to legally buy and

> download movies - certainly a lot easier than

> torrenting.

The Oatmeal disagrees: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Fortunately Light Table will have support for packaging, so users can add any language they want.
I think the term's a bit too old to be considered hip and trendy.

Did you have any specific criticisms about the way cypherpunks were represented in the article itself, or is this just a superficial complaint about the headline? As an editor at IEEE Spectrum I would say that it wasn't intended as a pejorative.
So far, I don't think DataMapper is vulnerable. The mapping is not done in the same way (datamapper use hard coded properties).

As an example, the following

User.all(':email '=> {':id' => '1"'})

will throw

ArgumentError: condition ":email " does not map to a property or relationship in User
because of the space before any SQL request is performed.

and

User.all(':email '=> {':id' => '1"'})

will create the following query:

Query	SELECT `id`, `email`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `email` IN ('[":id", "1\""]') ORDER BY `id`
120602 8:41:03	3 Quit
Thankfully France is not the only french-speaking country.

Don't be surprised: I'm taking this "fuck it, we need to do something" approach. We've been trying to get heard by content owners for years but nothing has worked. If this is the only thing we can do, I'll do it.

I'm more curious than anything to see if this will get me into any real legal trouble. I believe what we do is legal, I also wish we didn't need to do it at all.

As mentioned previously, if I could have simply built a good front-end that calls an API to license content, I'd have very happily done it.

Coming from the music industry, when I hear the excuse "but it's hard to create a worldwide licensing system like you ask", I say bullshit. Both the movie and music industry are waaaaaaaaay behind in terms of technology, and everything is so inefficient.

Ever tried to obtain the rights to (legally) burn a CD compilation of your favorite songs? You'll have to send snail mail, make phone calls, wait weeks for confirmation (while you pay, of course), if you're very lucky you'll be done in 6 months with a lot of work. This is not the way it should happen.

Some start-ups (say, http://official.fm/) are working towards resolving the situation on the music side: providing a friendly licensing platforms for content owners is a good start. But that only works for small to middle content creators/owners. The big will never bow to that, they'll always go for their own, often crappier, solution.

So, I'm willing to work on their own terms: you give me an API key, a doc, and you decide the pricing. That's all I ask. Then we can all get busy building apps around content, which is what is dear to my heart.

Hope this helps.
Ever hear about King Leopold and the Congo. Belgium has a nasty history (U.S. estimates up to 15 million Congolese killed). Wikipedia shows "wiped off the map" propaganda by the west is just that. The real statement was a hope for regime change, something the U.S. calls for and instigates repeatedly.
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You can get at that 60% if you can reliably identify the 'easiest' 10% at either side of the distribution and guess the rest.

Also, the sample images were "of individuals [...] who self-identified as straight or gay". It would not surprise me if that overselected for those edge cases. Or am I showing my ignorance and is it common to express one's sexual preference on one's public image on Facebook?
Most, yes. We would still have YouTube, though. Actually, I bought 1 CD this year, Parov Stelar's Princess, that I would have bought regardless, but that's about it.
While I agree with most of this, I disagree with the part about TwitterCounter. It seems perfectly reasonable to me to offer something of value in exchange for a tweet about the service.
Iran showed some capabilities in the hacking of public certificate authorities last year (Comodo, Diginotar).

But there were plenty of noob mistakes made during those attacks too. They simply haven't shown the same type of capabilities to conduct "cyber war" on the scale of the China, Russia, and the US.

I completely agree that they should not be ignored.
I was apart of a similar study once. I'm gay, and they were unable to tell. During their study it was actually an under chance of 40% which was pretty bad. Needless to say, 60% isn't much of chance either.

This is the only thing that made any sense in that article:

"We speculate that people overzealously interpret whatever facial factors lead us to classify men as gay. That is, it may be that straight men’s faces that are perceived as even slightly effeminate are incorrectly classified as gay, whereas straight women’s faces that are perceived as slightly masculine may still be seen as straight. That would be consistent with how our society applies gender norms to men: very strictly."
The theory of gravity may just be an idea, but without execution it is still useless.

Newton had to write a book to get his ideas out there and accepted.
"crystal meth is clearly (and by nature, not by law) harmful to the user, while piracy is not"

Methamphetamine is helpful for hyperactivity, obesity, and narcolepsy.

I am having trouble constructing parameters in which your statement is true, but does not apply to nearly everything. For example, Tylenol (APAP) is clearly harmful to a user's liver.
Scala and Java are reasonably well served by traditional IDEs. Dynamic languages (such as ruby and python) are not, and based on the presentations, that's the market he is trying to serve. As for the choice between Ruby and Python, they are sufficiently similar that most of the work done to make one work will help with the other, and the choice mostly is which one he wants to support first. Python has a bigger community.
Judge Alsup is an outstanding judge, but I would also bet a nickel that one or more of his clerks [1] had experience as a developer before going to law school.

[1] A judicial clerk is a young lawyer, normally just out of law school and generally with a first-rate academic record, hired by a judge to serve for one or two years as a researcher and (often) as an opinion-drafter. ('grellas, for example clerked for Judge Ingraham.) Clerk positions are highly coveted among law students, because they can open doors to jobs in large law firms, the Justice Department, etc. As just one example, Chief Justice John Roberts clerked for then-Associate Justice, later Chief Justice William Rehnquist. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_clerk#United_States
Vuze (Azureus) has a 'Media Server' plug-in which works very nicely, even with 1080p movies.

They intentionally bury it, though, because 'play now' is their premium offering (a shady business model imho). You have to go to the torrent's files, right click the .avi/.mkv/.mp4, go to 'Media server' -> 'Copy stream URI to clipboard', and then you can use that stream URI in any self-respecting player (VLC, mplayer).

That's terrible UX though :)

(Small note: in-order download is generally frowned upon in the torrent world, becaues it's bad for a torrent's health. However, Vuze manages this nicely by both prioritizing the pieces in order and still downloading/seeding random pieces at the same time. I think it's a very good compromise.)
A few more feature suggestions:

- allow sorting by rating, year, title

- allow switching between "All Critics" and "Top Critics" ratings

- show additional movie information (summary, etc.) on hover for desktop users
I wonder if a story like "Dell turns over its inventory once every 5 days" would have made it to the frontpage for a whole day...
oh Mr. Very Important and his "this should be the only piece of advice in this thread."

A few days ago there was this post #1 on YC News about a guys whose kid had this super-rare genetic disorder. Now, what, this guy should only listen to the Doctors and forget about turning on his own brain?

I think that a good lawyer will listen to his Client and appreciate the Client who is interested enough in his case to propose solutions based on this readings/understanding of the Law. Or even discuss the stuff he saw here.

Why on Earth everybody such a pain about legal advise and when it comes to much more important thing in life - health, life threatning disease - nobody's complaining when questions are asked and resolutions proposed.

HN as I understand it is to exchange and share information. Not to censor it. Go to Cuba with your attitude dude. Or just relax.
>It must be non-copying, due to various constraints in the Lua/C API.

I don't see this. The Lua GC has to know what's visible from C, in order to avoid freeing those objects. If it knows what's visible from C, then it strictly just needs to avoid copying those objects. If it moves them to an uncollected area when C references them, and back when C dereferences them, then it can use a copying collector on the Lua-only objects.

This actually might work very well, if C-referenced objects are going to tend to be much longer lived. Of course, copying the objects into and out of the uncollected region will itself be some work.

I have no idea if the ideal algorithm is in this space, I just think that either they discarded copying collectors prematurely, or there's something I'm missing, so either I get to learn something or they do; is there a constraint I've missed?
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I have to run so this is really a substandard comment for hacker news, but... Really? He advocates adding multiple exit points to a function as a way of REDUCING COMPLEXITY? The solution when you have too deep of nesting is to pull out inner parts into useful simpler stateless functions, or so I was led to believe!
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Actually, the money goes to Verisign for the signing cert - not MS.

So its those guys you need to chase after with the pitch-forks ;-)
Nirvana, the issue is that you are providing a specific application of laws and rules to the OP's facts and suggesting a specific course of legal action. That is, by definition, the practice of law in every state in America. (Though perhaps not necessarily rising to the level of unauthorized practice, which could result in fines or other penalties.)

If you wanted to be on the safe side, you would have said "Generally, [Law X] says" or "Generally, in a situation like this, many people do [Y]."

In your specific case, I would have said, "Prior to hiring to a lawyer, if you do the following research, you'll be well prepared to talk to whatever attorney you select to represent you in this matter." All of your comment is no longer legal advice, it's merely information about how to prepare to knowledgeably talk to a lawyer who will handle the actual representation. (This could be construed as legal advice. IAAL.)
One of my lawyers put her job description quite succinctly, and it fits particularly well here. 'Lawyers are better defined as Risk Assessment. Our expertise is required so that we can give a client our best assessment of the risk entailed in any course of action the client chooses'

Think about the myriad of actions you could take here...wouldn't it be wise to have an idea of where the risk lies?

Get a lawyer stat.
What are some good tools for automated web testing?
Looking for tools, which can run common test on our website and also allows us to extend it to test specific functionality..
> if OP truly believes that the world might become a better place as the result of his action and he has no selfish motivations at all, I might consider it moral (at least from his point of view).

You only have my word (and the lack of ads/monetization) for it, but I truly do.

I also wish the situation would change and we can all license stuff easily and legally. (See my other comments)
As mentioned above, jsprinkles is adding value to the discussion by explaining that this discussion should not happen here. Clearly he has experience in the matter. You act as if he is being malicious towards the OP by trying to shout down the advice of non-lawyers. He is, in fact, trying to help OP by doing the same.
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My rule is simple: anything I can get through iTunes I don't pirate.

I also have a cable subscription.

Yet living in a non-english speaking country MOST content I'm interested in is not available through these legal channels (No TV shows available through iTunes, also missing many new release movies (don't mean delayed release which I put up with, I mean released only to Blu-ray and never iTunes), most older movies, most documentaries, etc).

Funny how I don't have that problem with, say, iOS apps (e.g. have never needed to jailbreak my devices because something I want is only available in the US App Store). If only all content was this easy...

For profits publishers need to relax their control obsession and get on the ball.
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They say:

"Ultimately the goal of the platform is to be a highly extensible work surface"

Still they needed 100k for adding Python support?

I guess ruby/scala support is not happening anytime soon.
I agree, but it's more of a confirmation than whatever might come out of a politician's mouth in public.