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You're totally missing it. A CP image is a record of a crime, a violent movie is just a depiction of something that would be a crime except that it isn't real. So criminalizing child porn is of a different degree than criminalizing violent movies, the one is somewhat reasonable the other is ridiculous.
I can't recommend Hotline Miami enough. Excellent game. Fast-paced action, interesting story, and it feels like you're playing through a fever dream.
Disclaimer: I do a bit of part time dev evang for Nexmo.

Nexmo should be pretty good across the board as it pertains to what delivers best (direct to carrier model: http://blog.nexmo.com/post/4690069179/directsms). In that way, Nexmo is trying to solve the issue you're having.

Have you had any issues with deliverability and Nexmo (where another provider delivered better)? Nexmo actually provides some tools to automatically optimize traffic based on client conversion ratios.
Probably. The New York system uses the same technology and operator as the DC system, which has been around for several years and has released lots of data. http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/13327/capital-bikes... is a blog post about the DC system's initial anonymous data release.
by the age you're supposed to start

"supposed to"? According to why? And what gives this amorphous "they" any standing to dictate such a thing?

Fuck that... I like to dandy it up and rock the "two and a half piece" suit look sometimes (that is, waistcoat and - in my case - a cravat, but no outer jacket), but I do it because I like it, not because somebody says it's what you're supposed to do. And the rest of the time, this 40 year old sees no reason not to wear jeans and a Twisted Sister t-shirt.
Not only that, but my first comment was giving benefit of doubt about said images. If someone sent you the images unwillingly (coded into a browser as ads), how do you know until you downloaded it? And then, downloading then itself is illegal. You have to be a psychic to know if an image is indeed illegal.

After all, what's the difference (in the US) between a 17 yr 364 day old and a 18 yr old? A felony.
Video is available now: http://vimeo.com/67076984
There is evidence that the legalization and accessibility of pornography can lead to a marked decrease in sex crimes (1). Of course its doubtful if we can transfer these findings to the situation with child porn, but at the same it's probably nigh impossible to do research on the topic.

1: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=1795...
As part of fiddling with a different way of displaying dependency information, I wrote a series of blog posts talking about how people don't think hierarchically.

http://iamcurt.com/many-to-many-needs-advocacy/
I took an easy-A class on computer crime at school. I discovered that applying the fundamental principals of law unilaterally, even when it applies to child porn, is a quick way to get people to label you a pedophile.. but here goes anyway:

> Does criminalizing the possesion of child porn reduce the chance of those original crimes from happening? I think it does, and I think that's a good reason to ban it.

"I think it does" is not a sufficient motivation for a federal law. Generally, evidence should be required to drive policy, but I'd settle for successful deployment to a small number of jurisdictions before scaled deployments.

> It's also a good way to discourage people who like child porn, to tell them that there is something wrong with them, and that they should not do it.

Oh yeah, because a good scolding works so well for addicts.
I think the failure of so many in the software/IT business to dress and groom to professional standards has important consequences. The perception of the social prestige of the occupation is lowered in the broader society. This in turn invites the misguided pointy-haired-boss managerial approach to developers. In the eyes of many, software people appear to be some sort of lower level technicians like the guys who stock the soda machines, because that's how they're dressed. Ergo software development must be commodity labor like the soda machine guys. We should outsource!
You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself.

However, you can be compelled to turn over, say, your company's memos that describe how you were planning to build the orphanage out of plastic explosives.
From the article: He can't be compelled to provide a password if the court can't prove that he is the owner of the drive.

The work to decrypt one of the drives was done to prove that the drives were his property. If the court is convinced the drives are his property, they can compel him to release the contents of the property.

I imagine that:

1) If he doesn't know the password, he would have the first admit ownership of the drive -- this would allow the court to use evidence from the other drive against him.

2) If he doesn't own the drives, or maintains that he does not own them, the court has to rely on forensic evidence they can gather. Their case would be much stronger with more evidence and proof that the drives belong to him.
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Yes, it's called the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution here.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual
service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
public use, without just compensation.
I immediately thought about the old sega game called samba de amigo. Cool name.
Snuff films are illegal.

CP is illegal because it represents an ongoing harm to the child in the CP, and because the CP itself is considered criminally obscene. (The First Amendment is not absolute, and content like CP is not protected by it.)

There are other scientific/medical reasons for banning CP, but the primary reason is that possessing CP is a gateway sex crime that leads to greater offenses over time.
You also have to consider that Monsters Inc. was one of the earlier Pixar movies.

The contrast to Brave isn't that extreme.
Thanks, we'll look into that and get it fixed ASAP
Then go back to slashdot and be rude there.
Two counter-arguments: First, in many disciplines, it is common to circulate pre-prints of papers which are being refereed. In this case, anonymity for the authors is impossible, practically speaking.

Second, the OP describes a snob effect, but there is also the reverse: Some referees will be more patient in dealing with badly organized or poorly written papers from a junior researcher. Not necessarily lower standards, but spending more time figuring out the paper, making suggestions for improvement.
Just click the forgot password link :p
Quality is important. Using poor quality common denominator is a bad idea. Once Nokia attack is cleared, VPx would be good to use again as a base available open codec. FRAND or non FRAND can affect damages, but as I said above it doesn't change the non redistributable nature of anything that depends on it.
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I think it might be too early to talk about failure, I think 4 months from start to finish is a very short period of time for building and launching to deciding that no one wants your product.

Your product has been exposed to a tiny tiny tiny percentage of those who it could be. 1 customer out of 1,000 potential is a very low conversion but who's to say you're getting the right type of traffic?

Take a few days to speak to small business owners (in person maybe, or on the phone) and maybe consider a change of tack to a smaller niche that have a specific problem.

Maybe convert to a Shopify plugin? We pay for 3 for our business and they are both very feature light but they solve a specific need.

Also, look at companies who sell online but make product to order. Tracking raw materials against a final product sell is a real nightmare and not one that any of the big shopping cart players manage (3 years ago they didn't at least).
When I moved to San Francisco two years ago because I wanted to be around intelligent inspiring people that I could get help from on my journey to becoming a great software engineer. When I got here I saw that there are so my developers per square mile than anywhere I know. This is great for dev meetups and hacker meetups. This is bad when 10-15 people are looking at the same job position available.

I have found it to be pretty expensive to live here if you don't want a roommate or you want a decent place.

All and all, I found the bay area pretty great for anything and everything you want to do. I recently graduated from nerd school by visiting the Computer History Museum.
How does the idiom detection work? Big DB of them in English?
All of those things have legitimate uses that must be weighed against the harm they can cause.
This tool that Bret is building has the potential to change how humans think about interacting with ideas, whether forming , exploring , or communicating them.

What if in ten years we are no longer limited to "low bandwidth" media and can instead convey complex concepts to others which allow for interaction. Your idea or system could be explored and played with by those around you.
Yes I am referring to the rap scene.
My bad.
In the UK several people have been successfully prosecuted for not handing over their decryption keys.
They don't need to do that. The drives went from the defendant's house straight to the FBI evidence bag when they were picked up by the FBI evidence tech while searching his home.

If the defendant wants to argue that someone hacked his computers and put the CP on his drive before the FBI took them, that is for him to argue. If he can't provide any proof of such (note that he is not required to provide proof), it is unlikely that the jury will believe such a defense.
Absolutely, the soundtrack alone is worth the playthrough. Here's a link to the studio's soundcloud which has the soundtrack up at what I think is a better quality than youtube is offering.
https://soundcloud.com/devolverdigital/sets/hotline-miami-of...
(be warned it autoplays at quite a high volume)
> I mostly do it because I'm lazy.

You do realize that's exactly the impression your habit conveys, right?
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You called web developers and utter embarrassment, that is name calling, and if you said that face to face you might get punched.
Good job, love the approach to scaling in the browser.
For tomorrow, perhaps this:

"Among other things, Mr. Flusser has led me to discover the value of the male garter for holding up slouchy socks."
I can't help thinking the github model might work here: publicly viewable mindmaps are free and you pay to restrict access to specific signed in users. Privacy is a better selling point than security, and some publicly shared mindmaps will generate backlinks.
I am trying to port hub (https://github.com/defunkt/hub) to Go
Nexmo also provides deliverability statistics: https://dashboard.nexmo.com/ratios/public
I worked for a client once (a very large logistics firm) where everyone who isn't union had to wear suit and tie, this included all vendors. We were testing some new equipment we built in a sorting facility without any climate control. In July. In Orlando.
Ok, but not being a witness against oneself is not the same as not being forced to aid in prosecution? Because I think not to aid in your own prosecution is broader, allowing the suspect to refuse this court order. Or was this court order unconstitutional?
They think they are making spiritual progress. They are doing some form of work: meditation, fasting, praying to try to achieve it. It's not idling or leisure activity.
[As per the HTML5 spec](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...) new values are proprosed in the microformats wiki:

http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link_...

You'll note that ``prerender`` is there as well as the ``subresource`` link relation which is a stronger form of ``prefetch`` stating that the resource will be used by the current page rather than likely to be used on subsequent pages. I did some benchmarks to compare the performance of each variation across the top three browsers:

http://chris.improbable.org/experiments/browser/prefetch-tim...
> After all, you have no 4th amendment protection against the government forcing you to unlock your cellar

Am I obligated to unlock it? I can't bar them entry since they have a valid search warrant, but am I under the obligation to facilitate it?

In the case of the cellar, they can simply force their way in, but with an encrypted hard drive? They have no way of decrypting it without my help.
Nice use of triple negative. I had a little mental exercise trying to understand the meaning correctly.
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Or you know, it's an art and a hobby that people other than you enjoy.
May be just my browser setting but the fonts rendered in Firefox (Win64) look really bad, thin and pixelized; looked like anit-alias has been turned off.
Oh, that's a good idea! I'll look for some dubbed movies, thank you.
You might want to be more precise about what you mean by "non redistributable", because licensed binaries are redistributable if they either phone home to track the number of copies or if the vendor pays the cap. Mozilla got all bothered about downstream source redistribution which affects approximately zero of their users.
... I missed that memo.

Windows 7 only h264 support

what the f... i... am Utterly speechless.

Mozilla. The only company I knew had my back. What on earth happened?!

The world got a bit darker today for me.
> "that path leads to ignoring mens rea"

No it doesn't.

"a defendant cannot knowingly acquire or possess that which he or she does not know exists" - page 14 of [0]

Also note that US law allows for an "affirmative defense" [1] if you discover you possess a small amount of CP but do not intend to -- you can either destroy it, or turn it in to law enforcement, without consequence.

Which means, quite simply, that the courts have not abandoned mens rea in CP law. There are some parts of the law that are stupid, but that's not one of them.

[0] http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2012/May12/70opn12....

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A ; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense
I gave that up because it got too boring (for me). The crack in the dam came when I added in a selection of monochromatic (non-black) tees. It was all downhill from there.
Forgive me if I'm missing something here... but it seems that the typeface used on all the buttons and headings is "Omnes Pro," which is $229 here: https://www.dardenstudio.com/typefaces/omnes_pro?view=buy

I feel it's a little disingenuous to use a commercial typeface in an open source project. Why not switch to something people can use without a Typekit account?
Even with that, a email would suffice.

The scheduled, mandatory standups interrupt everyone the same as any other meeting.
Or you could just do that. I once had a junior dev that showed up in a suit (okay, no tie) every day.

And this in an Amsterdam broadcasting and advertising company, the kind of place that makes the way people dress in tech start-ups look conservative.

After two weeks, people would stop making remarks. After a month, people stopped consciously registering it. It was just the way he dressed.

It takes balls and requires your coworkers not to be total dicks, but people can pull it off.
Worth noting that not everyone is of your opinion, and many are interested in clothing (and extensions of it, such as watches and jewelry) as a form of expression.
Thanks, that's good feedback. We're in beta now. So we're still improving things.
If you add a LAH, it becomes Manglish. idundislah!.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish
Our lawyers don't even dress very nicely. The only people ever wearing a tie are candidates interviewing for jobs.
My wife and I used to have tracfones. I just went and pulled mine out of the box here. It only says motorola on it, no model number or anything other than that. I really liked that phone, it was simple, great battery life, and got reception where others did not. What I did not like is that I paid more than $200 for them and about a year later tracphone said they would no longer work on the phone networks here. What a colossal waste of money that was. I'll keep spending my money on tools in case of emergencies. My wife does have an iphone with a contract now though.

Maybe I should do the google voice thing though, good suggestion, thanks.
The value of the stand-up is in what people say that goes beyond the obvious.

I agree. I just don't necessarily think that you need that level of interaction for a status meeting every day. OK, maybe some teams do.. and I can see why some people might prefer it. But my experience has been that it's overkill.

That said, different teams, different cultures, different situations, could definitely dictate different approaches.

My biggest gripe with the daily meetings is that they force a context switch that somehow seems to always come at the most awkward possible time, no matter when you schedule the meeting. Requiring lots of face-to-face meetings also runs counter to the idea of having distributed teams and a lot of "work remotely" flexibility, which I also tend to favor.

But, again, YMMV.
A distributed file copy tool
This is a great idea, however probably the 5th time this has been on Hackernews this year. Again, there are 100 startups all trying the same thing and it just doesn't work, because you have incredibly high critical mass and no marketing channel.

Examples: Spontacts, Woofound, Matewire, Activepepper

Hope that helped.
You seem to conflate targeted cuts with corrupt cuts. They aren't necessarily the same. Cato has supported targeted cuts in the past.
It's a lovely experience (I wouldn't use the word game).

We had a wander over the weekend, it was surprisingly good as a joint adventure and I'd definitely recommend going through it with at least one like-minded person.
But is that looking at "sex that would legal if it were consentual" (e.g. an adult man having sex with an adult woman). We don't want any form of sex with children to be legal (and I hope no-one's really suggesting this), so would making porn of adult/children sex legal increase the amount of adult/children sex or decrease it? Looking at adult/adult porn vs adult/adult non-consentual sex is comparing apples to oranges.
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You may feel that clothing is boring and something you can look past, but you are in a tiny minority. By failing to invest a bit in your appearance you are foolishly forgoing substantial advantages in life.
Fair enough but would you feel comfortable in a suit? If not then maybe it's not boredom dictating your choice of clothes.
Many people pretend to not care about their clothes, or the way they look, so long as they look clean, and decent. The truth is a man who wears a nice shirt, pants, and shoes will simply not want to go back if he is confident about it. And for your information, you look much much better if you sport nice, fitted clothes.
The standards can change, as they have before. "Formality" is a relative concept.
Our 3 year-old watched Dora and Diego almost every day from about 1 1/2 to just turning 3. It became somewhat of an obsession and he always wanted to watch another show. On the other hand, my wife and I rarely watched shows or movies, and only had Netflix (no cable) in the house. We finally decided to ditch the TV all together, and 6 months later, it is going fantastic! Our son was upset for a few days after we got rid of it, but now it is a pleasure to watch him play with real things.

Anyways, not passing judgement on any parents and we'll probably get a TV again some day. But it's been pretty awesome!
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Why don't you put "jeans and Twisted Sister t-shirt" version on LinkedIn profile?

In the neighbourhood I'm known as "the bathrobe guy with funny facial hair", so I get you. I don't want attract people around me who will judge a book by its covers, but majority people I interacted with are living in that cave.
It is pretty oblivious to walk around and think that your appearance doesn't matter to substantial number of people you do business and socialize with.

If you want to leave appearance of laid-back honest doer, that's fine. Not all people do.
"Um, no?" - American businessmen

I'm probably overreacting, but your post really reads like "you should wear less comfortable/more expensive footwear because I don't like looking at what you currently own", and that sort of thing kinda pisses me off.
I don't want to belittle the author too much, but when I think about the way my time is spent, there is no way in the world thinking about clothes this much is worth that amount of time.

This does, however, remind me of one of my favorite scenes from the wire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJn-9TP7uUM
It's not incompatible with anything, Simon is saying if it was an open source license it would be incompatible.
But it's not an open source license, it's a separate agreement with no bearing on either VP8 or the existing patent grant.

You can sign the cross license, and still be able to release/reuse/whatever any open source versions you like.
Personally, I wouldn't have thought to consider him lazy had he not mentioned it, but rather just someone completely disinterested in fashion. /2cents
In many countries, virtual CP is also illegal. US law specifically includes a clause regarding material that "is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct" -- http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A section (a)(6) .
I don't see how I'm a tiny minority.

In my life I bang on keys all the day long, and keys don't care what I wear. What could change?
Yes, I mean downstream redistribution. Mozilla stands for open source licensing which allows downstream redistribution and they aren't going to change that. Whether it's used in practice or not is secondary, since that's what the license allows. If they change it, they have to change their license altogether.
Your 5th Amendment rights are completely and utterly irrelevant to their decrypting your drive.
Absolutely, four months when compared to other SaaS products (or any product in general) is a laughably short amount of time to judge anything a success or failure.

I probably should have explained a bit more in depth about why I'm calling it a failure:

I'm simply not interested in the product I built anymore. Inventory for small businesses is something that doesn't hold my attention as it used to when I built the product, and I'm not sure it ever did.

Right now it's hard for me to load up my IDE and start working on the product. I feel like I don't know what to do with it as it is, and that stems from the lack of interest.

I'm taking a couple weeks to go over my options, and I think I've got a decent plan to revitalize it.

I haven't given up on the product itself, or the core problem it solves (inventory management). I've only given up on who it's marketed to.

Like you said, I think the best option is to change to a smaller niche. The one I have in mind will radically change how the product looks and functions, but it will still be inventory management.
On what ground were people prosecuted for not handing over decryption keys? Because handing over keys to incriminating evidence is surely against article 6 of the ECHR?

Or was this corporate and/or tax-law? Because in a lot of countries these provisions are only part of criminal law.
Its included in the game directory itself.