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This is literally unbelievable. I was shocked when the US attacked Kim Dotcom, but you know... he is a big fish and anyway i hope he will be able to fight back. But this is gone too much further. They are trying to rule the world in this way. This people gained too much power. I am really frightened for our future.
Well, if the site normally validates, and this time the HTTPS certificate is self-signed all of a sudden - why of course I want to see a big, red, scary warning, because that's what the situation requires.

(Most browsers allow you to exempt specific sites from this warning - this is, however, a significant decrease in security ("to see the dancing hampsters and download our malware, click 'yes yes add exception agree agree I know this is a bad idea yes yes'"); Chrome - aiming to be the browser for the masses - decided to go with the "secure" part of the secure/easy tradeoff.)
Not sure if you were being sarcastic?

My point was, skill and hours practiced are far better predictors of success than a voodoo attribute like natural talent. In the above case, I tried to use height as an example of a "natural ability" person could be advantaged in.
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So he built a crowd-sourced version of Google's video search?

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbm=vid&q=the+sopranos

Since I am secondary linking to copyrighted content via Google, does that make the owners of this website liable to prosecution?
Agreed, but this is standard tactics for the police.

The police (particularly the met) are out to get an easy prosecution and fulfill their statistical requirements rather than fair and honest justice. They will pretend to be your friend and offer you an easy way out that doesn't exist to do this.

The best thing you can do is say nothing at all. Shut your gob and refuse to say a word. Everything should be replied to with "no comment".
Can online piracy of intellectual property really be curbed now?
". It's just the human brain associating high-pitch sounds with fun, children speaking,, bell ringing and other "nice" sounds"

Not really, children wailing, nails on a blackboard and other high sounds are very bothersome

Yes, some high sounds are friendly, but not all
It's stupid and ugly, but I've seen studies before where click here simply got more clicks. It's simply more effective to tell people straight out to click something, than to hope they pay enough attention to an underlined noun and have enough interest in it to investigate it without any prompting, etc..

This blogger has mentioned before that he sees no reason to A/B test because he thinks an experienced designer knows better anyway. So I can totally see him recommending something that performs worse in an A/B test like this.
Those rates will hold.

Flipboard ads are primary full-page ads, and full-page ads go for 10-15x more than banner ads.

A banner is easily ignored, and there tend to be competing banner ads on an individual page.

Full-page ads are invasive---you can't ignore them and must move past them to get to the content, and there is only one of them per page. Due to this, full page ads command a premium. They're seen as a 'reasonable' alternative to popups or popunders which go for similar rates.
yep, that is exactly what it sounds like!
I'm not sure of the specifics of the law, but if you ask for a solicitor they are not allowed to refuse or tell you that you are not entitled to one.

They are allowed however to try and sway you away from the idea.

Even if he was trying such a trick , the fact is that he didn't request one.
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Agreed. People seem to overestimate the power of the government to fake things. If it was that easy to pull off a hoax of that magnitude, it is quite likely that WMDs would have been "found" in Iraq after the invasion.
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Going after Google wouldn't work because they actually have a legal department. These baseless charges are always brought against legally weak young people and the intent is fear mongering.

This kind of stuff has been going on for too long.
He was 24 so not exactly a "kid". In fact if you are scared a solicitor is probably the best thing you could have to alleviate some of the fear and uncertainty and give you an ally in such a situation.

I was arrested when I was 14 (for something minor) and I wasn't dumb enough to refuse legal representation.
This could set a major precedent, and MUST be stopped. People of UK, please do everything you can to stop this. Call your MP's, send them mails, make noise, something!

"People who have committed serious offences such as murder, rape, other sex crimes and fraud, have been successfully extradited to the UK and convicted."
That is just crazy, comparing the allegations of copyright infringement, with murder and rape? Are we in in that society already?

So what's next? UK asking to extradite Sergey and Larry for the same allegations? Crazy.
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Reading won't get you anywhere unfortunately.

The ingenuity of Haskell is doing, writing code. You'll have many 'ah-ha!' moments after that.

Also I think the major problem with Haskell is A LOT of the online content out there is primarily aimed at academia and quite honestly baffles me too.

If you stick with LYAH and RWH and...just doing code then it becomes a lot more usable and fun to program in
It resurrected, so it seems! There is a village in India that adopted Sanskrit. It's certainly still endangered, but not dead yet.
Maybe it's just me, but this seems to be in response to an earlier HN post about the entrepreneur prodigy [1] as well as a vague stab at the 10x programmer myth.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4140048

Largely though "Norman" is more attractive than "John" to businesses because he displays strong signals both in talent and work ethic. "John" might be a hard worker and have talent himself, but because he has no obvious projects or other public displays of talent his signal to employers is weak. What "John" needs is something that sends a comparatively strong signal. In a way, this sounds like a call to action to figure out how programmers can build a sufficiently strong signal for employers to see. How do we separate the signal from the noise?

Interestingly, this signalling problem arises with employers as well. Look how many articles are posted here about "How to attract the best talent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
South Africa's education outcomes are worse than the rest of Africa[1].

And some schools are worse than staying at home (sexual abuse by teachers).

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/15270976
Just one fact/opinion to add that is always missed out on the petitions etc:

"The case was brought by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned more than $230,000 (£147,000) in advertising revenue before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name in June 2010."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-1826680...

The guy was earning heaps of money.
Kjofol claims of fame was its non-rectangular skins.

I think the French developer went to work to Nullsoft and created Wasabi i.e skins in Winamp 3.
WPF is used extensively in enterprise. Alternatives are Windows Forms which is pretty old,and significantly less flexible, or web apps. WPF can host Windows Forms, so for legacy its a way better option then web.
I doubt Flipboard's selling campaigns to direct reponse marketers tracking conversions in any great detail.
You realize .org can be used by for-profit organizations, right? In my opinion it's the one that users find least surprising after .com.
Whether or not what he did was a criminal or civil crime, he's not a US citizen, he didn't commit the crime within US boundaries (unless I've missed a memo), so he should not stand trial in a country that has nothing to do with the situation.

The very idea that you can effectively be transported to a country that you have nothing to do with and committed no crime in just purely because the big boys with the big wallets say so is sickening.
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>and OOP went from a set of tools solving specific problems (e.g. GUIs) very well

Ironically, GUIs are the least OO thing OO-only languages like .Net do these days with their callback strategies.
It's somewhat ironic that this was submitted as http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html rather than http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.
I may also be missing the point but what prevents you from putting a count method on an enumerable with a default implementation which does the same?

In terms of .Count() which will attempt to call ICollection.Count you can create the same thing as an extension method or a default implementation on Enumerable.

Either way you do it you will have ambiguity regarding time complexity.

Extension methods have the advantage that the langauge designers _could_ have left .Count() off IEnumerable and then people who wanted to use it could implement it themselves and those worried about the ambiguity wouldn't have to risk people enumerating their collection needlessly.

The problem with extension methods over default implementation interfaces is that the code regarding a class can be distributed in several (potentially non-obvious) locations and it reduces portability.

The advantage is that you can extend a class or an interface you don't own, and you can have implementations specific to a given namespace.

So for a (poor) example you might extend float so you could convert an angle to a 2d unit vector, but only in given bits of your program you want to be converting between angles and vectors.
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> Move out to Oakland

From all that I have heard and read, do NOT move to Oakland.
So does Google. Your point?
I wasn't aware of this, although it does make sense.

Going of the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma... it doesn't appear like you have much choice.
Yes; that's why I like Indie games more now; they are more creative with game mechanics + story telling. I think the current next-gen hardware is not enough of a leap to make enough difference; if you just take the Unreal engine it'll all look nice now. Complex AI or actual realistic human + animal movement of body/face (no, currently they are not) would require a lot more advances in hardware/software. For a big jump in AI I would say memristors would be something. But after HP shouting that they would be selling them last year, the hype died down :)
I'm guessing it's because a US company lodged the prosecution.

Does anybody have any legal specifics here?
I wonder if this is something that could happen to just random bittorrent users?
I'm taking CS101 (Python) from Udacity now. Loving it: such a nifty little system they have of getting this information across.

Is the Stats class going to be just basic stats? or are they going to show programming methods for stats?
This approach has been tried in the past and been ignored sadly.

How about the approach of:

Whoever runs the DNS aided and abeted the alledged crime.
Google is just as guilty by this precedence being set.

Sure there are many other overlooked angles, but given the facts i'd say the media industry needs a dressing down and told they are not the law.
Whoever wrote the article should take the course. Lots of numbers are wrong. The plot was wrong -- MIT would take over 2000 years to reach 160,000 students with the intro stats course, not 40. Of course, it's actually a bit less than that -- most MIT students take some course that includes stats. One name per second is over a day, not 4 hours and 27 minutes. Etc.

I tried to post a correction, but it's 'awaiting moderation'. Traditional technique for scammy magazines for avoiding negative comments.
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This won't actually work in any other engine except for webkit, even if you vendor-prefix the rules. This is because he is using an :after pseudo element on a checkbox, which shouldn't work and is technically a bug in webkit (according to the specifications, you cannot use :before/:after on replaced elements).
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ok, so are you also saying that it is impossible for an attacker to intercept data from a standard HTTP request?

My next point being that if standard HTTP is also vulnerable to such attacks, why doesn't the browser display a warning on EVERY page, telling us that it can not verify the website identify? Thus, all things being equal, I would assume that unverified, but encrypted is still better for the user than unverified AND unencrypted.

...but I've probably misunderstood something fundamental here (as is often the case!)
Relevant talk for those, who thinks it can be a good idea to talk to police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
So someone in the US ICE makes a claim and that magically entitles us to kick them over the border and brush our hands.

That's just fucked up.

So what if he made lots of money from advertising. He took a chance. If it's illegal in the UK, then he should be prosecuted here. If it's illegal in the US, none of their fucking business.

Let's also not forget that the US ICE are probably guilty of many more REAL crimes than this guy so this is a whole pile of hypocrisy coming from one of the least "free" countries in the world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10detain.html?_r=1
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Google has a registered DMCA agent, includes a DMCA dashboard ( https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard?hl=en ) and replies to take-down requests.

I imagine good faith applies in Google's case and they are protected by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_%28law%29 .
> This people gained too much power. I am really frightened for our future.

Agreed entirely. Unfortunately, as history likes to remind us, the only way to resolve these issues is legitimate bloody and violent rebellion. Unfortunately there are too many morons staggering in the dark and too many weapons in the hands of the powerful for this to work any more.

However as the balance of power changes, people have nothing to loose at which point TSHTF.

I'm not promoting this btw - I'd rather it was resolve civilly.
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>The whole cycle of evolution is visible in a very small and isolated location.

In Galapagos? Who would have thought!
I find Quod Libet to be my tool of choice, now. The query language is a bit ridiculous, but Mutagen is great for cleaning up crappy tags from my mp3 purchases. Despite being a PyGTK app, it has been fairly responsive and snappy despite my ridiculous media-hoarding habits.

http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/
Legal specifics will depend on the country you live in.

For example, this would not be possible in France (i live there) as the country never extradites any of its citizens for any reason - this will stand even if you committed a crime abroad and managed to get back, you could only be tried back home -

As for the british kid, I support him 100% but it seems that the UK has signed very liberal agreements with the US concerning their citizens...
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A key part of a lot of these pygtk players is that they rely on gstreamer to do the heavy lifting. Organizing a pipeline of "this source, this format, that sink" is not a performance problem -- it's a plumbing task. :)
Your link doesn't seem to provide whole episodes, so might well fall under fair use.

Also, the law understands intent. Google will take down links when requested. This guy purposefully ignored take-down requests, and was clearly purposefully organising his website to pirate copyrighted material.

Now, if he should be taken to the US is another question, but in my opinion you shouldn't lower the debate by claiming what he did is particularly similar to Google's video search.
From the message of the petition it appears that also him complied with take-down requests.

Let's say the truth that we all know... Google, is google, they cannot go against it because it's too big, it's easier to bully with someone smaller than you.
I am not a lawyer, but it's worth noting that in the UK we don't have a 5th amendment. So I believe in some circumstances it can reflect badly on you if you refuse to answer questions from the Police especially where you could have provided information that would have been in your favour.

For example, part of standard USA Miranda:

"Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."

British Equivalent:

"You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court"

Having said that, I would personally keep quiet until you at least have a solicitor.
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> The deep ancestral condition of all hominins was pale skin. Beneath their black hair, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have pale skin at birth and in youth.

> The hominin line of descent that branched into H. sapiens had to develop skin that began dark and persisted as dark as humans lost body hair and began living in savannah environments with less shade than forests, according to the currently accepted hypothesis. As population bottlenecks in Africa formed the species H. sapiens, presumptively the typical skin color of all modern humans was dark (within a pattern of continued variation among individuals and a continued capacity for individual skin color to vary over the course of seasons).

These two comments, separated in your text by references, seem opposites (ancestral condition was pale...began dark), and the linked texts do not support both of these opposites. But I think you meant humans began pale, became universally dark, then some became pale again.

In any case, all the references you provide support the original post's hypothesis: skin color was affected by both diet and interaction with the sun, each round of research adding a new mechanism to the previously suspected mechanisms (not refuting the previous).

The original post here adds to the collective info you supplied, and neatly explains an otherwise startling variance between their hypothetical charts and the actual charts, that would seem at first blush to invalidate the prior theories but in fact confirms them.

You wrote a lot in your reply, and HN appreciates and votes up for effort. With the mix of personal anecdote (lived everywhere, I'm nordic and my wife's Asian), the gist is that you're adding insight.

However, with your two major paragraphs proposing at least one view that's opposite to your linked research (skin that began dark vs chimps pale skin), and with none of your comments or links addressing or negating the original article's added insight about grain and the loss of vitamin D, I can't tell what you're intending to convey.

It seems your exec summary might have been, "Without addressing the original article which I call 'just a hypothesis', I'd like to say I've seen skin shade variations everywhere including seasonality in my own kids; I am linking research that the linked article builds on; and populations' genes are getting more mixed though even people with pale skin have it for different genetic reasons."

Ok. But not one word of that refutes (or ever directly comments on) the thesis of the original article linked here.

To summarize your reply while tying in the original article, we could say (in a sort of TL;DR):

"The original article explains historically sharply defined regional skin color bands in terms of UV exposure and diet, adding grains and the gulf stream to prior theories involving UV and fish and meat. This explains regions that were problematic for earlier theories. But in today's highly mobile world, people like my own family are becoming more mixed than ever and these regional bands are becoming less sharply distinct. We should be cautious of the increasingly arbitrary politics of race."
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Out of interest, if a French citizen had done this, is there any real prospect that they would have been prosecuted?

NB It's not just France that has this policy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition#Bars_to_extradition
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From the article it seems that this guy ran a search engine which might or might nor be illegal in the United States. However, he is British, most of the visitors are British and the servers are not in the United States, yet the US wants him extradited and tried in an American court.

This of course begs the question: If an American is running a site hosted in America with mostly American visitors how would the US react if a foreign government wanted to extradite him and possibly put him in jail for many years?

Probably not well.
For reference, having been on the end of it (at Waterloo Station [1]), the police also use another tactic regularly which sucks but is easily dealt with:

"I'll pepper spray you if you don't make a statement and say you were resisting arrest".

Make a fucking scene: "shout as loud as possible what the officer said". When there are a hundred eyes on you, they back off.

[1] I was going camping and had a hatchet inside my bag (not easily accessible) and was stopped and searched. It is definitely legal to carry such things as long as there is a purpose for it.
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I don't know if you're from US, but that's not how things work: don't get me wrong, there's a lot of bullshit in the US regarding SOPA, how laws are made, how lobbying works, but legal-wise, the more money you have, more of a target you are, so if Google were to do illegal things per US legislation, they would be sued even faster than this kid.

I suspect the main difference in Google versus a specifically-made torrents search engine is the good faith criteria that would apply to Google. Also, it's not enough to reply to take-down requests in order to plea safe harbor protection, you actually need to have a registered agent and pay the registration fee (around $100).