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I'm sorry, they are making big money? Rly?

What makes you think that? They have a big site, without any advertising banners...doesn't sound like a very commercially attractive deal to me.

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Oops, my bad, they do have some banners, my ad blocking tools turned out to be far more effective than I thought they would be.
Even if they serve those banners, I really can't imagine they are making "big money".
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If the appeal is upheld and they really do have to pay $3.6m in fines, I don't think they would have much difficulty raising it online. I'd be up for a C-note no problem and I don't doubt there are plenty of others, especially if they throw in a special edition t-shirt or something.

The Pirate Bay website is pretty awful but they're a tremendously important tracker, used by many others. There is a genuine need for such a service. I'm not exactly a l33t w4r3z d00d but I greatly appreciate what these guys have done, and while I have some questions about the workability of their principles on filesharing I greatly respect their integrity in walking the walk. They're no mere pirates, they started a political party for fuck's sake, and the movies they made may suck but they gave them away just as they promised. I got a lot of respect for those guys and will gladly put my money where my mouth is.

Good luck to them and may the Pirate Bay reach ever new heights!
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Legalese is English (or whatever language) evolved by trial and error over several decades to be as unambiguous as possible.

Thing is, contracts are for when you get in a fight, and once you're there, figuring out in a fair manner what spirit you were in when signing is an incredibly hard problem.
thought the tweet was funny: @brokep [Pirate Bay founder] Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release.
Yup, that's a good way of putting it. So his claim that the CTT is false is misleading. Really he's showing that it doesn't hold for real machines. Perhaps that's not a particularly novel statement but i certainly found it enlightening :)
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> "Our database is flattened, denormalised and heavily indexed to make sql queries as quick as possible"

very interesting quote. at least for me.
Actually they DO have ads on the site.

Im sure they dont make a lot of money out of it though (running costs perhaps)

EDIT: @jvdh - heh yeh I only happened to notice because I was using IE (spit) at the time.
Proxies make it impossible to ban anyone. You can detect open proxies like slashdot does and prevent anyone from using any open proxy, but offenders can still use non-open proxies. You can charge for access like somethingawful does so that when you ban someone's account they have to pay $10 or so for another. That's about it.
Looking at their blog, it seems to me they already have quite a lot of posts on the topic!
It was bound to happen eventually. The most troubling thing is that its distributed in pirated software. Don't pirate, run your tests against checksums and keys when you download legitimate software. Of course, this won't cross the mind of many users. An interesting feature would be to combine a checksum with your downloads, which the Mac installer could then verify off of your download page. Invalid checksum = big warning and flashing lights.
Was there any content at all ? This post could be a textbook example of fluff piece.
I don't want to sound paranoid but security researchers working for anti-virus vendors have a vested interest in blowing these things out of proportion.

I don't know the details of this particular story but I have seen blatant scaremongering and misinformation in the past when it comes to Macs.
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Neal Stephenson was really on to something when he likened programmers of the future to digital construction workers. I certainly feel that way whenever I have to grind out a CSS layout.
I'm sorry that you are getting downmodded. I agree with your sentiment. The Pirate Bay exists to facilitate copying of copyrighted works without paying the license fees involved.

And they have advertising on their site, hence they are making money from this activity.

It's a pity that everyone calls this 'file sharing' (which sounds so innocent) when the entire purpose of a site like TPB is to allow people to make copies of copyright works.
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You'll get used to it. Its always difficult understanding/negotiating contract for the first few times.

I started liking that language after going through that process a few times.

Tip: Try to read as slow as you can and don't miss any word/phrase. Look up dictionary if you need to.
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But they aren't necessarily depriving the copyright owners. In fact, in some cases they may be helping them.
While risking the typesetter trap I would say that to program is to tame complexity and I don't think that's going anywhere. Programming is not only a skill but an ongoing research unfolding on the verge of what is hard and seemingly impossible.

Training to become an experienced typesetter requires skill, a good eye, and lots of knowledge but once you're at it then it's mostly just that field. You can become better in it but in the end you still do, well, typesetting.

Programming, however, changes over time as you abstract out the mundane, repetitive -- or "typesetter" -- stuff out to make more mental space for dealing with harder complexities. Programming has always been hard and by definition it always will be.

For example, modern languages with type-inference and automatic garbage collection have relieved many from the banal pain of designing explicit type declarations and arranging malloc()/free() calls manually. Languages such as Haskell now allow for solving more complex problems. That is because Haskell programmers don't have to waste their wits to arrange for and solve problems related to programming itself and can rather focus on the more novel, original problems.

I don't mean to say that programming doesn't involve automation; in fact, it uses a lot of automation to abstract away and obsolete old tasks. It's just that, unlike typesetters we haven't (usually) had, for example, memory management specialists who only write memory management systems for projects and who would become unemployed as garbage-collected languages gain popularity.

Any "typesetting" involved in programming is generally automated to free the same programmers to work on bigger problems. Programming doesn't end, it just changes and become harder and harder.
Despite the glib headline this is actually important and deeply interesting. It's fundamentally about a complete lack of the scientific method being applied in the business world. Instead we've got witchdoctors, quacks and gurus guiding a vital part of our society.

Try translating some of the stuff in the article to medicine or science. What makes you healthy or ill? Well we asked around the office and found some people we thought looked healthy, then interviewed them to find out what they do. Okay, some of them died horrible deaths shortly afterwards, and may not even have been healthy at the time. Perhaps they died due to the stuff they were doing "for the good of their health" or maybe just because good luck turned to bad but that's not important as long as our initial conclusions makes a plausible story. After all, no-one likes it when science is counter-intuitive and doesn't fit their preconceived ideas, and they'll actively resist such conclusions.

Derren Brown did an excellent program on this theme called The System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown#The_System spoiler warning!) where you got to follow an individual as they won bets again and again on horse races and you got to see the confidence and belief building in them. It really humanized the cognitive biases that lead to the sloppy thinking in areas like this article highlights.
Umm I am confused. Is this about compressing the web page itself? I think what takes most of the time to load on my website is the advertisers rather than the content itself. So perhaps this is about large websites like amazon which have large detabases?
The article's title implies that this was coordinated and simultaneous.

The article itself implies the opposite - this was just the figures in one particular sector over an unspecified time (implied last year).
Just IMHO.

It seems that the article should a little less categorical.

The typesetting example shows that instruments have changed (typesetting machines(or whatever it called?) to desktop computers), but it still exists - there're many people very skilled in typography these days. And many of them still have jobs in design companies, newspapers (online ones too), etc. I'm not very familiar with that industry, but I've seem many employed people doing typography full-time (on computers, of course).

The ramifications you're talking about in case of programming seem to be already here pretty much.

But they don't mean the end of programming. They just mean that libraries would be developing and much of stuff that can be automated - would be, but you still need to go low sometimes. Take a look at Yahoo Pipes - that's a very high level of "programming", i.e. - take that, transform, output. But still, there aren't many people using it, because more often than not it's: "take that, BUT ...." and that means that you need to go lower INTO the library. The best libraries let you automate the MOST COMMON tasks, but none of the libraries or programming languages available is the ultimate solution supposed to cancel programming.

Just like invention of computers didn't obsolete typography, it was just transformed (the instruments changed).

Someday we (programmers) will be obsolete, but it wouldn't be because of better types or transformations (pointed out in the article), it would be because somebody develops some kind of "brain-in-a-jar" that can transform natural language commands into acceptable electrical currents. (Or whatever kind of energy we would be harnessing at that point).

I.e. "get me some coffee" and the coffeemachine turns on and wheeliebot starts moving; "when I say curse word - deduct 5$ from my banking account" and bank's "brain-in-a-jar" "understands" command from your home's "brain-in-a-jar".

But seeing that isn't going to happen in at least next 5 years, I feel safe :) (5 years, because they recently started growing organs in jars.. who knows when it's simple enough to grow brains in jars). But my guess is that will make a lot of jobs obsolete. And market competition would get fierce!
Yeah the idea that you need a patent that extends well beyond the life of both the company and inventor to have any motivation to invent things is ridiculous.
Gzipping is especially important for large JavaScript heavy apps. 280slides loads about 5x faster gzipped than not.

If you're really worried about the performance hit of gzipping, you can cache gzipped versions of static resources.
I think what he means is just enabling transportation of compressed data from server to client, regardless what you are transporting. The size of your page does not affect the benefits you achieve with this method, which is always less data being transported.
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Absolutely. Perhaps harvest words from blog spam.
""There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change that," he (the chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy) said."

No, society has decided that companies profiting exclusively from the distribution of the creative work of others without added value has no future. In case you are confused I'm talking about the "Phonographic Industry".
Note though that using ++ like that builds lots and lots of intermediate lists.
Where did you get the time dimension from?
I've heard this before - dBase was supposed to let all the people who knew nothing about computers build their own databases. Of course what you actually got was a bunch of databases made by people who knew nothing about computers... That was what, 25 years ago now?
This TED talk is pretty on point/inspirational as well on building sustainable and even world class healthcare in developing countries - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ernest_madu_on_world_clas....
If a malicious hacker can intercept and manipulate a download, why can't he manipulate the checksum? Just asking :)
One scenario where using gzip might not be a good idea is when serving content less than 2-4 kB, like some thumbnails.
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Legalese is formal English intended to be very specific with respect to the Law. Terms used in a contract are often described in a definition section at the start of the contract. The contract will make more sense when you read the definitions first. However, contracts are designed to be legally sound; they are not designed for readability.

I can't help but point at the spelling and grammatical errors in your post as some of the issue in your understanding. Nonetheless, contracts are a daunting read for most anyone.
There's one reason: flash. When we get a good video standard over the web, then yes, there's one less reason to pirate stuff like that.
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"Software would no longer be a set of features in an application. Instead it would be millions and millions of simple transformations, which could be conveniently mixed and matched as needed."

Right, so instead of writing lines of code, we'd mix and match from a pool of "transformations"... which would require some means of describing how those transformations should be combined... which is pretty much analogous to writing code.

This prediction has been made repeatedly since 1950 and it has never happened. There are just as many good explanations as to why, so I won't bother enumerating them. I have no idea why new people keep coming up with this same idea.
while I.Q. doesn’t measure pure intellect — we’re not certain exactly what it does measure

It measures what it is set to measure. An IQ test given to school children measures their mastery of school subjects, and IQ test given to cadets measures their courage, quick thinking and whatever other skill is necessary to be a good cadet. So an IQ test is simply a test of certain skills and knowledge not intelligence as such.

That might explain why IQ has risen, since education is becoming more sophisticated, more are going to university, more people have access to information i.e. through internet, so too the skills and knowledge which is tested gives higher results.

That might also explain the adoption studies, the children in poor households have poor environment, i.e. no books and poor stimulation, i.e. parents don't engage them in conversations. So their knowledge suffers because they are expected to watch telly rather than play or read.
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But they are not necessarily helping either. :)

Personally the biggest issue I have with TPB is:

- They have an anti-establishment attitude NOT a pro-file sharing one. So I dont ever count them as part of the (legit) file sharing community

- They have an attitude problem.. there is no reason sharers cant work with copyright holders. But said holders have no reason to trust sharers when people like TPB tend to be the public face (through creating a media circus).
Comparison with typesetters is not valid. Typesetting as a job may have disappeared but design of text and fonts certainly has not.

In my last year of university, I had a class on data modelling. The lecturer wisely told us that we should abandon learning code because CASE systems would take over within 2 years. That was 1993, and CASE slipped beneath the waters in a few years.

It's true that with improving languages and tools, many of the things that used to take time are automated away, but this leaves more time to work on the higher level design and problem solving. Until HAL gets here, the programmers job is pretty safe.
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I've been reading HN for couple of months now and I'm really happy with the news that people subit etc.
Also, I'm working in my own startup for around two years now and doing just fine :)

Recently I've sent a link to YCombinator's HN to all my friends and one of them (who works in multinational bank) replied to me with this:

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I am already doing that. Ive taken the day off from work and just reading it section by section, sentence by sentence. But its really hard to understand
His speed estimates are wrong, as he should have tested gzipping many small files instead of gzipping one large file. There is a significant difference.
Well, it's a pretty important, and counterintuitieve, property of language that it is even possible to do the things they do. In The Matrix terms: they show us just how deep the rabbithole goes.
Not at all. I think about the end of The Fountainhead, when Roark's accomplishment is symbolized by the sign that says "Howard Roark: Architect," and I think about what that sign would read for me. I've never come up with anything better than Programmer - better in the sense that it conveys what I do in a way that people understand. Anyone who understands deeply enough to care about the distinction will probably dig deeper anyway.
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I think this what is called being a "scape goat" - perhaps under political pressure, the courts are deciding to make an example out of them.

If jail time became the norm for running torrent sites/trackers, those who have the know how to put these things online will be more deterred than if the penalty were only financial loss.
Gzipping images is generally not a good idea. PNG/GIF/JPEG are already highly compressed and will probably grow in size if you attempt to gzip them.
When you serve thumbnails in an already compressed format like PNG, JPEG, GIF, then it should not make any sense to gzip them anyway.
I would imagine they can easily make more than mininova, and mininova apparently has revenues over one million per year, see: http://torrentfreak.com/behind-the-scenes-at-mininova-090316...

This is just quessing, i have no confirmed information.
Thanks for the link. This statistic does not have a separate category for high speed trains and consequently cannot be used to make statements about them.

The relative drop in rail traffic is much more likely due to the fact that local short distance routes have been closed down aggressively in the past 20 years. In Germany, also medium speed trains routes (160km/h), like the ones serviced by the InterRegio, have been cut.

Using this statistic to make any claims about high speed trains is naive or intellectually dishonest.
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That's true.. but they're only given a tiny percentage of your salary. So, a monthly increase of $200 may go a long way for the OP during the initial stages of starting out in life, but that $200 might only materialise to (say) $20 increase in commission for the recruiter - a deal not worth chasing from the recruiters perspective.
The purpose of the site, and many other sites, is to allow people to share works. They are guilty, in the moral sense, of not taking any steps to prevent copyrighted content from being shared, even though they were well aware that that was happening. The danger of your phrasing is that people start to think that any torrentsite is illegal, which is not, and should never be, the case.
It actually makes no difference at all who says anything in science

We aren't talking about physics where the variables are defined precisely. We are talking about psychology which is a pseudo-science at best as there are so many components that one may not really know what caused what or if it was something else that caused it. So when it comes to pseudo-science, a place where research is mosaic with many studies supporting the hypothesis and many others not, there is plenty of room for authors bias.

As for the debate of nature v nurture you to are having, one of you summed it up pretty well, the environment causes changes in the brain, but the question is a bit circular, namely did the brain make the person seek out the environment which led to the changes of the brain, or was the environment unrelated to the agents intentions. Anyhow, the question is not which one it is, but to what extend does nurture or nature influence. So its proportionality not absolutism.
Probably the cheapest way to crack captchas manually... I hate to generalize, but any idiot can find willing foreign labour (and maybe even some domestic?) to crack captchas on sites like elance.
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So what's the difference between:

"NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES."

And:

"There is no warranty on this software to the extent permitted by applicable law. The copyright holder is not liable for any damages."

And what's with the capitals on that clause? I don't believe for a second it's less valid if not in capitals...
seconded. what is written in contract, only matters when there is dispute - when you decide to fight in court. and then you don't want to be disputing what was the "spirit" of thing.