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Typesetting is nowhere near as complex as programming. You have much fewer freedoms to play with and hence much less room for creativity. This comparison is not just invalid: it doesn't make any sense.

He uses the fallacy of the false dichotomy: either something is intellectual work, or it requires little thinking. Since typesetting was 'intellectual work' and isn't required anymore, so will programming vanish. The fact that programming is just about the most complex activity known to man, spanning more layers and orders of magnitude than any other activity, is completely ignored.
Since both trojans are distributed through pirated software, it seems they're one and the same in this case.
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Right, but I meant generating code at compile time with macros which take code as a data structure as their input. PHP doesn't have that.
One thing that I immediately saw: You seem to be sorting the currency dropdown on the frontpage according to the country's name. Which isn't listed. So instead of making me hunt for "CHF" (I'm in Switzerland), sort the list alphabetically. Seems a no-brainer to me.

Also, please don't play favourites: "USD" should not be the top-most, active currency in that dropdown.
This is little in comparison to other people who have walked ahead of the front lines of various past revolutions. It hasn't been uncommon to get killed in there.

Maybe intellectual revolutions are different, then.
I really like the little animation on the homepage.
Will try your service soon.
Does this kind of link deserve a place on hn ?
Yes, it can apply. Developing an intuition for when Haskell produces strict code and when the compiler is not smart enough to remove the lazyness, helps tremendously in programming bigger programs. I am still in the process of acquiring said intuition.
I just kicked Norton of my wife's Vista PC, thanks to Norton's own "Norton Removal Tool".

I'd like to know what your definition of "common-sense anti-virus protection" is, though. Apart from "don't download/install anything from untrusted places".
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Yes. And still you have to live with their restrictions e.g. cope with manual memory management, at least on the interface to C.
Uhm, that is the entire guest list. It's an open invitation so anyone can sign themselves up for the event.
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I feel torn about this. On the one hand I use The Pirate Bay for my own pleasure sometimes and I'm disappointed that the makers have been ruled to encourage illegal activity with it.

On the other hand, last night I read this:
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-evidence-of-over...
And I feel all pirates should be put in jail...

Yeah, I'm a hypocrite :(

Edit: Submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566693
More Evidence Of Overwhelming Piracy
That's only one of the needed steps. Adjust your headers so that static items are not reloaded frequently. Use versioned urls (e.g., /scripts/main.js?234) and update the versions only when you change the scripts or CSS. YSlow goes a long way in helping with that kind of stuff.

The same applies for S3 uploads. You can pass cache headers in the upload request which will later be used on all downloads.
As for the trips to the library that is true. You can now get the latest up to date research which is as reliable as it gets and that must be able to revolutionise the way we learn.
Nice concept and execution, but you really have to work on your english. "How bluemailcentral works?" is the demo page title's for instance. It should be "How does bluemailcentral work?". I suggest you find a good proofreader.

(this is advice, not an insult)
Hi, your currency remarks are absolutly true. I'll fix that. Thanks!
Non taken and adjusted! Before you mention it. I'm still looking for a good native english voice for the voice over.
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This shouldn't be on Hacker News.
> Why shouldn't they lose money for taking bad counter-party risks?

I don't really know how else to explain this. They shouldn't lose money for taking counter party risk...because they were willing to pay the price to insure themselves on the counter party risk. Why do you keep insisting that they need to lose money? They had 7.5 in collateral, and they insured themselves for the other 2.5 in the event they defaulted. This is the definition of protecting yourself from bad counter-party risks.

> They were planning to keep the money that they made for assuming said risks, so why shouldn't they take the hit when things work out badly?

...because they insured themselves. Imagine someone who bought a share of Google stock and then also bought a put option on it to protect themselves. Then the stock goes down. It's like asking why that person shouldn't take the hit because they were going to keep the money if Google had gone up. Goldman doesn't take the hit because 1) they were prudently collateralized and 2) they PAID for CDS protection on the rest that was owed to them that was not collateralized. CDS is not free, of course.

If they were willing to pay the insurance and demand collateral, why should they have to take a hit at all?

> I'll pay $7.5B for $10B.

So would I, but this is obviously a mischaracterization. It's like a homeowner who defaults on their mortgage and gives a house worth 250k to the bank who lent them 500k to buy it. They are not "paying 250 for 500".

> Maybe, maybe not, but in any event, not by the US govt.

This is not really a maybe, maybe not situation. Clearly with the collateral and insurance arranagements, Goldman would not have lost money as a counterparty to AIG. If you have an explanation otherwise I would be interested to hear it.
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So has sourceforge.
You can't really ban users from a website that's free to the public. All you can do is bore problematic users into going away.
You should include a list with locations of your printing locations, and approximate time delay, as I would say those are pretty important. I had to email you to find out the location and speed. Moreover I think that an "affinity" program, allowing people to sign up to print/mail stuff at low-quantity places might be an idea worth looking into.
Personally, yes, I do, particularly if they insist on using honorary titles.
It already happened on Linux. I know I saw one in 2001, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear they go back years earlier.

They don't look much like Windows/OS X botnets; instead of this trojan horse stuff they'd just crack insecure services or guess poor passwords and escalate privileges automatically. If you have any Ubuntu servers, tail /var/log/auth.log (similar names on other distros) you'll see trying to ssh in.
a2enmod deflate

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Moreover, a web interface that allowed someone to upload a doc or pdf instead of having to install software would allow people to use the service from public computers and non-windows computers.
Do you have an API for using this from something other than your application? Ideal for my needs would be a web service that I can post PDF:s to...
All-caps text is a relic from the typewriter era -- it's about the only way (other than underlining) that a typewriter can meet a statutory requirement that warranty disclaimers be "conspicuous." Modern drafters, with laser printers and word processors, use bold-face type or even paragraph borders.
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Perhaps the bank wishes to avoid brain-drain... and hopes to prevent its IT people from discovering more enlightened employment opportunities in more open parts of the world economy? :/
> ... without added value.

I think this allegation betokens a certain ignorance of how the music industry works. Firstly, producers, recording engineers and assistants, mixing engineers, and mastering engineers certainly do add value -- where "value" is defined in the narrow artistic sense. These roles are certainly part of the "Phonographic Industry".

In addition, just because record labels, promoters, publishers, managers, and agents, etc. don't
"create" music doesn't mean they don't add value. When they do their job well -- which, granted, is not always the case -- they allow the artist(s) to focus solely on the music, rather than on tasks which they're not particularly suited to, like organizing international, multi-leg tours, getting ads on billboards, doing distribution deals with the likes of iTunes, Spotify, and the traditional music retailers, plugging artists' music into commercial radio stations. Record labels also act as a quasi insurance policy for artists; by using a portion of the revenue streams from "hit" and established artists, they can finance new acts. There is certainly value to that. Jazz music was, after all, only a niche art form known to very few before Norman Granz's efforts to popularize it. In this sense, while he was certainly no Miles Davis or Bird, his work had an immense impact on generations of listeners. (I'd add that in an age of segregation and prejudice against blacks, he stuck his neck out to sign them, and insisted on equal pay for all colours and genders -- see wikipedia) Again: no value?

I find it curious that the tech-savvy world of Hacker News, which should be comfortable with the idea of specialization in modern capitalist economies, seems to pine for a return to a "cottage" music industry, where the musician is to perform all of the afore-mentioned roles himself. Am I alone in thinking this would be a step back, rather than forward?

Sadly, in order for this system to work, people need to pay for records (but obviously, they should be much cheaper than in the heady 90s days). I therefore applaud the Swedish courts for upholding the rule of law and holding the facilitators of rampant piracy accountable for their actions -- which have, unquestionably, led to much misery for many low-level, up-and-coming musicians (myself included ;)
Also, please don't play favourites: "USD" should not be the top-most, active currency in that dropdown.

I disagree about that... it makes sense to extract the most commonly used currencies and put them at the top of the list.
Imperial code magistrate.
The letter itself is a little way down. Append #Board to the URL to go straight to the anchor link.
I am a lawyer, and I also write Perl (although I am more partial to Python or JavaScript and when I am feeling really smart I work in Haskell).

Contracts are English, and there is no reason why a skilled, competent lawyer cannot write a contract that is both easy for non-lawyers to understand and also enforceable in Court. There are lots of bad contracts out there because there aren't many clients willing to pay a lawyer to re-engineer poorly written contracts that are nonetheless believed to "work," i.e. be interpreted by a court in a predictable manner. Every experienced coder has seen the same phenomenon: if a body of code has been written, re-written, and patched over time, it probably looks pretty awful now and could stand a good deal of refactoring, but does anyone do that? Witness the OP, who apparently found a form somewhere and is trying to edit it to his purposes.

It's not like contracts are written in a secret language. There is a background body of knowledge that is helpful to have in writing and reading them, but it is also crucial to understand the industry involved.
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Hi,

Not yet, but it's in te making as soon as the current software get's out of beta.
Record labels promote and distribute music.

New communication methods mean old ways of promotion and distribution no longer work.

New ideas like TheSixtyOne.com etc. are great approaches to new means of connecting musicians with music lovers.
Fair points :-)

My problem was that the original parent comment (now deleted) made the claim that TPB was profiting off other copyright holders and therefore deserved punishment.

My retort was that they weren't necessarily hurting copyright holders and may even have helped with promotion.
Good point, we have a nifty feature for that comming up. The problem with uploading word documents is that non standards fonts or non embedded images will not be printed correctly. PDF's will be possible!
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Revenues != profits
I'd say that was a minority of "pirates".

Im betting most (i.e. the general populace of file sharers dl music & such like) just want a free lunch.
Check out http://postful.com - they allow you to send postal mail via email. They also have one price for US and one price for international and support postcards.

They have an API.
The courtroom-code analogy is spot on. Convoluted contract language usually comes from not having a lot of time to put together a draft; the result is often the lawyer equivalent of spaghetti code. Trust me, lawyers and judges hate reading such contracts as much as anyone, just as programmers hate having to maintain someone else's hurriedly-drafted spaghetti code.
> On the one hand I use The Pirate Bay for my own pleasure sometimes

Thanks for your honesty, but really: you shouldn't. Especially if you live in the US, UK, or Germany, there are good, legal alternatives. If you're in Europe, why not give Spotify a spin? It's only GBP 1 / day to try out. Less than a pint...

I sympathize with those that, out of frustration with the record industry for not offering music in the format and with the ease we want, turn to filesharing. But if that's why you originally did it, morally speaking, you should at least make an effort to acquire your music through legal means.
Yes, something like transit time would be a good thing. I'll do that. You have to help me with your affinity suggestion. I'm not sure if i understand correctly. The current minimum depost is 10,- euro/dollar. The minimum letters is 1. Thanks for your reply.
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I expect it was the use of 'Hacker' in the page content and meta tags.
For those of us on Twitter (@iphonecto), this is pretty useful to know. How many of these sins are you committing?
I agree that programming won't vanish, but certain categories might (or nearly so). There used to be large numbers of assembler programmers; now there aren't.
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"The verdict was leaked from the court. I have to think about what effects that can have on the sentence. It is unacceptable that the court is leaking."

If that's not ironic, then I don't know what is.
The first time I've seen that an iPhone app gets developed for the Mac. It's usually the other way around.
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It takes some work, but contracts can be expressed in short, clear sentences and paragraphs. A leading proponent of this style is Ken Adams (see http://www.adamsdrafting.com),

In the interest of promoting "code reuse" by contract drafters, I've been building a community form file of contract forms and clauses - see http://www.firstdrafter.com (in progress).
perhaps the staggering volume of content to keep up with on HN is proving a distraction to their workers.
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For example, currently the mail for the western Balkans is sent from Belgium. I think that having an affiliate program, that allows a person/company to sign up from that location and do printing/sending for you might be a thing worth looking into. However, I have no idea how your system works so this might not be possible.
There is earning potential for certain: do they use it?

For a group that list openness and freedom amongst their ideals [sic] I dont see any openness about the revenue TPB generates. They release no figures or data.

Personally I consider that a double standard (and I have to confess I do believe they make a profit: perhaps not a huge amount but... logically they could make quite a bit and I dont see a decent argument for why they wouldnt)
Also worth reading is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman, "the dean of engineering at Stanford, who as early as the 1930s sought to create an industry so his students wouldn’t have to leave the valley for electronics firms in the East".

I wonder how much of the early rise of Silicon Valley was easier due to being in a new, relatively unpopulated area that was eager to build its own identity. I also wonder what the current attitudes among college deans are, whether they're happy to send off their graduates to a good job in another region, or whether they push hard to keep them nearby and even start companies on campus.
I sometimes wonder what the music/movie/television industry expects to gain from all of this. Though I don't really pirate anything but TV shows (television reception is pretty terrible in my apartment), I honestly don't see myself spending any more on those types of media.

I have to wonder if the end result of no more pirated media just means that people consume less overall.
> Record labels promote and distribute music.

True, but not exhaustive. As I explicitly mention above, they also find (in some sense, act as a filter) and finance new acts. And, in any case, you seemed to have ignored my point that recording engineers, producers, etc. are very much a part of the phonographic industry. Care to explain how "new communication methods" have rendered them obsolete?

> New communication methods mean old ways of promotion and distribution no longer work.

The millions of drivers in the world who listen to the radio disagree with you. And do you really think that just because the internet exists, people don't register offline advertising anymore?

> New ideas like TheSixtyOne.com etc. are great approaches to new means of connecting musicians with music lovers.

Thanks for letting me know about that site, it looks really cool!
Ask HN: Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page?
It seems to me that posts on the front page have been changing much faster than usual. Perhaps submission rates have increased?
Try
http://hackerne.ws/ or
http://icombinator.net/ or use your phone.
There's jail time involved:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090417....
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First a bit about me: I just recently separated from the US Air Force after 6 years. I now work as a Senior Developer for General Dynamics Information Technology in Augusta, GA. The job is great and I make plenty of money, so no real concern here.

I've been thinking of going back to college - I have a few college credits from courses I've taken and military courses/experience, but nothing significant.

Now, I'm not wanting to go back just for the piece of paper, so that rules the majority of online schools out. I've talked with Colorado Technical University and a school in Arizona and they both told me I would be wasting my time in their Computer Science programs.

Devry University has, what appears to be, an excellent Computer Engineering program. It hits the full-breadth of computer science, getting into electronics, signal processing, software engineering, etc. This seems to be a pretty good fit for me since I will actually be learning something and can use my electives to really focus more on software engineering.

Guess I'm looking for validation, opinions on Devry or other school recommendations? Online is pretty much the only way I can go - the local schools don't go into the depth I would want to go into and with a wife, 2 year old and full-time job I pretty much need that "3AM in your underwear option."
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OP should clarify this, but i'm pretty sure he's not referring to legalese in particular, but simply bad English. As in grammatically incorrect and badly written. I've seen it too.
Thanks, we used cheap actors. (me)
Reminds me of the 'war on terror'.
Actually, now that you mention it I can recall these. Thanks for the refresher!
The biggest reason they wouldn't is who they're advertising to. Google makes a lot of money because people who search there might often be looking for a place to buy something that pops up in the paid results. People who search piratebay aren't often looking to buy anything, and advertisers know that.
Stay in the UK or Go West?
Ah, warranty disclaimers. Here, lawyers are limited in how they may write contracts, because consumer protection laws require that disclaimers of warranty must be written in a certain stylized manner that is in theory easier for otherwise unsophisticated consumers to read. What's with the capitals? The Uniform Commercial Code says that a disclaimer of warranty in a contract of sale must be "conspicuous" to be valid. It gives only one example of how something can be conspicuous: all capitals. Believe it or not, there are cases dealing with whether, for example, lower-case boldface printed on the opposite side of the signature page is "conspicuous." This was part of a pro-consumer movement, designed to help the little guy by making it hard to hide damaging parts of a contract--the part that says "you're on your own if this thing breaks." This all-caps rule has held out over decades, despite the innovation of several improved typesetting techniques and significant improvements in literacy since the 1930s, when most states enacted this statute.

The UCC also says that using the words "as is" is an effective way to disclaim warranties. So, lawyers put that in. Your version doesn't. That doesn't make yours wrong. It does marginally reduce the probability that your version will work in court. So, most lawyers keep it in.

Curious? Read more: http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316.html
Fair responses.

I guess I'm imagining that artists and recording engineers etc. could connect themselves without giving away the majority of the profits to a third party. I don't know enough about the industry to know if this is possible.

Offline advertising still works I'm sure but I guess because of the circles I'm in even "regular" (non-geek) people are willing to use technology to find the music they like. I don't know how hard it is for small artists to sell their stuff on iTunes but like I said sites like TheSixtyOne help but ultimately I think that the role of the broadcaster is becoming diminished (and this is evident in all broadcast industries such as t.v., newspapers, movies, music, gaming and more) as people look for better ways to connect with content creators that don't involve both them and the creators being shortchanged.

You are right about radio being popular but this is more a case of being everywhere. I think it's role is being diminished as you see a lot more people walk around with mp3 players etc. listening to the music they want.

The point I'm awkwardly making is that the value of traditional distribution is not necessarily so valuable now. To borrow an Australian example, it's like Telstra (the central phone company) trying to punish people back into using them and not competitors after years of being shafted when there was no competition.

I'd like to see companies considering initial piracy a marketing cost - the people that don't end up buying probably wouldn't have anyway and you'll end up gaining loyal customers who like what they've seen/heard.