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Justices Breyer, Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan were the majority.

It isn't over since the case now goes back to the lower court, but Aereo can no longer argue they are the same as a person putting an antenna on their roof.
The Supreme Court is wrong- the reason cable companies are treated as a 'public' performance of a work is that their distribution medium is shared- any subscriber can tune into that broadcasting of that work over a shared common carrier where one copy of the work is transmitted and many subscribers can view it. Aereo is different in that it only transmits the signal captured to a single subscriber at a time, removing the 'public' nature of the performance and hence invalidating their argument. How absurd.
Seems like, because Aereo isn't just a hardware renter but also an integrated SaaS provider, they were treated as such.

The court opinion talks in terms of user interaction with menus on the site to select shows. We're kidding ourselves if this works anything like "hardware rental". If it were, it would feel more like AWS.
Yes, 5 times. There is no feedback mechanism, unfortunately, so I wasn't sure whether my application was missing certain minimium requirements.
So you are against all compound interest?
The decision is limited to the question of whether Aereo violated the networks' "exclusive right" to "perform" their programs "publicly."

The dissent (Scalia, Alido, and Thomas) believe that Aereo did not "perform" at all. They believe that when an Aereo subscriber logs in and clicks the play button, that the subscriber, not Aereo, is doing that performing.

EDIT: Please note that the dissent would not have necessarily ruled that Aereo's service was legal. The dissent merely believes that Aereo's service complies with this one specific part of the Copyright Act. From the dissent: "[Our] conclusion does not necessarily mean that Aereo's service complies with the Copyright Act. Quite the contrary. The Networks' complaint alleges that Aereo is directly and secondarily liable for infringing their public performance rights and also their reproduction rights."

So this decision is designed to be as tight as possible. The Court is trying to limit the effects of its decision by constraining it to this one claim by the networks. From the language of the dissent, I have a hunch that even if this one aspect of the case had been decided in Aereo's favor, that some other aspect would have resulted in its service being declared illegal.

Scalia: "I share the Court's evident feeling that what Aereo is doing (or enabling to be done) to the Networks' copyrighted programming ought not to be allowed."
Not really. They rented you exclusively an antenna at their location, and you can use it to watch over the air TV. There was no rebroadcasting technically, which is how they hoped to get around the law.
I've not used Aero and haven't heard their argument but I bet their business model is they rent antennas to customers. I'd be curious to know where that argument failed because surely I could create a business that rented antennas to customers and installed them on houses. Why does it matter the location of the antenna?

Either way this is bad for the consumer, bad for technology, and bad for innovation.
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People who aren't financially desperate have access to other lines of credit.
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Just a cursory glance at browser stats seems to show chrome as the most popular which would make sense. I highly doubt anyone using internet explorer is coming to SO.
I can never remember the answers to those damned things.
As I understand it, one of their goals was to not be considered a broadcaster. Rather, it's more akin to a wire in that it's one-to-one, not one-to-many.

I am eager to hear some expert commentary on the ruling on what the side effects will be.
Imposter syndrome is absolutely part of this.

The other part, as you mentioned, is that as you learn more, you realize how little you know. This humility is the beginning of true knowledge. Novices feel like they know nothing. Apprentices feel like they know everything. The truly wise feel like they know nothing compared to all there is to know.

Besides, in software, this is completely normal. People are inventing new frameworks faster than any of us can learn and master them!!
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How exactly does Aereo work? You rent an antenna from them, they record the show for you, and you can play it back at a later time?
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I've looked at Deckset and Markdown, but I really like LaTeX, especially when typesetting equations and using TikZ to make figures.
Why would the use a switch instead of a hashtable?
I didn't question the usefulness, i still often use vim and i am regularly amazed by it. But still.
I produce data, data is produced about me - data seems more like a crop - and crops tend to belong to the owner of the ground they grew in - in the modern case it will be the nation state not the feudal lord - it owns the roads that have the sensors that watch the cars and the underwear. We the taxpayer argue now that our tax money that goes to produce our maps should get our map data for free.

Why should the same open data ideal not apply to data produced from tax funded roads?

I am more optimistic that having achieved democracy we will not throw it away so easily.
That's a beautiful attitude.
I didn't know that, thanks!

I said that because I use an online printing service, and everytime I send a PDF they demand it is in CMYK. As they look very professional in everything else and the quality of the final product is great, I just assumed it was a best practice. Good to know.
"Maybe whatever was running overnight did a lot of disk I/O and the OS decided to cache it at the expense of moving idle processes to swap (not sure if Linux does that or not)."

In my experience (Ubuntu 9.10, kernal 2.6.31), with the default settings it does not do this during intensive disk I/O unless there is very little free memory to start with.

In other words, if the system is not low on memory to start with, I can start a bunch of processes that read and/or write multiple terabytes of data and when I come back the next morning little or no additional swap will have been consumed.
Whattup with Walt: Whattup with blindly using crippled APIs?
Under the changes that Congress specifically made to the Copyright act I do believe the court ruled correctly. Congress moved in 1976 to protect broadcasters from Cable companies doing nearly what Aereo is doing, capturing and sending by another means the broadcast of a TV station.

Congress at the time did not like how the courts were ruling in favor of the then fledgling CATV services. Courts ruled that capturing and sending the shows to cable viewers was not a violation as were not acting as "performers". Congress changed that they were, effectively stopping cable from providing local and regional channels. Well Congress showed who was truly doing this by adding in all sorts of new compulsory fees for carrying local channels. So CATV can and in some cases has to carry local content and pay for it.

TL;DR

Congress changes to Copyright in 1976 at the behest of broadcasters versus CableTV is the basis for the ruling. The original broadcaster owns all rights unless otherwise assigned.
Is that really a necessary part of 'public performance' according to law? You can show movies for pay if only one person is in the audience? I'm not sure that argument works.
It would be nice to see more information about optimizing for IE and Firefox's JS engines, but to be fair, V8 accounts for a large percent of browser JS and all of Node.js as well.
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You can view OTA content live and record what you're watching just like a DVR. They don't proactively record for you.
They work like a DVR, you can set a show to record and it will save a copy just for you using your antenna.
I'm reading the opinion now, and I would not have guessed that those particular justices would have made the ruling they did. Does anybody have insight into how this decision fits with the ideological views of the justices?
Scalia's dissent likens Aereo to a "photocopier or VCR." He says the court's decision "will sow confusion for years to come."

More from Scalia's dissent: "The Court vows that its ruling will not affect cloud-storage providers and cable-television systems, but it cannot deliver on that promise given the imprecision of its result-driven rule."
This is what I see (connecting from the UK):

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
The cost depends on the counterparty risk, and at the same time the overall liquidity to provide that type of loan is not provided by your every day bank. I don't think that Wonga has a great reputation, I don't like their business, but they are providing a service no one else is.
The Supreme Court is not able to be wrong on a matter of U.S. law. It gets to decide what that law means, not you.

It's not the decision I'd hoped for, nor the one I'd make, but it's nonsense to claim that it's "wrong". All we can do about it now is to get the law changed.
Scalia, Thomas, and Alito wrote their dissenting opinion, starting on page 23.
You mean like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_City_Streets
So, all the "liberal" judges? Sucks that the ones who usually defend human rights are also the same people who stifle innovation.
APR is misleading for Wonga. They lend money for a few days, and they make a charge for it.

The fuss about Wonga and similar companies should not be about the high APR, but about their failure to scan out people with no hope of repaying the loan; the use of further debt to pay off existing debt; or extending debt.

These trap people into debt holes where they have no hope of escaping the debt.
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we call it a California stop in California too just FYI, prepare yourself more of us are coming, also you guys need to learn to drive a bit faster this whole like driving slow and giving a the person in front of you a ton of space has to change
The only thing I can think of is that they don't really install OS level stuff, think software libraries or runtimes etc.

Other than that they're literally identical to something like synaptic.
Anyone driving a G63 Benz surely has more than ONE zone of heating and cooling in their house. Call me when Nest can control a real HVAC system.
> Instead of an outright ban, the more sensible decision would be to allow it under highly restrictive conditions. For example, require that the operator has a pilot's license. Require that the deliveries only occur over unpopulated areas (example, ice fishing lakes). Require that the max take-off weight of the aircraft is very low.

These are all very good suggestions and I have no doubt that something like this will happen in the long run. Of course, government bureaucracy is painfully slow.

The FAA also needs to make these decisions (e.g. maximum takeoff weight) based on some facts, not just gut feeling, and I'd guess that they are hard at work (as hard as a government bureaucrat can) to try to figure out the regulations under which drone operations can be permitted.

There are people who would want to allow unregulated, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles and do so now. I think that this is a pretty crazy idea...
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Yep, but they only become performant when you treat them as such instead of doing naive e.g. multiplication. See: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/faster-canvas-pixel-manipu...
Aereo is not violating anything but they should have prepared for something like this. Absurdity is common when you are trying to provide similar service to the consumer in a better way without creating monopoly.
Java allows you to put all your source files in one directory and javac *.java will happily compile them. Package-directory structure applies only for compiled classes and internal content of a jar file. For Java sources, that is just a convention.

But of COURSE, it is so modern to blame Java for everything these days.
Jonathan Ellis, chair of the Cassandra project, has a blog post analyzing the results: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/how-not-to-benchmark-cassan...
And Thumbtack has responded to it: http://blog.thumbtack.net/what-does-it-mean-to-compare-nosql...
because the oppressive patriarchy doesn't want us to know
Yes, I know the article and wholeheartedly agree with it.
No way, a decision from the Supremes that favors entrenched corporate interests?

At least this time it isn't such a direct attack on the "common people"
Thanks for that link. It's a very useful find. Maybe I will be able to read Atlas Shrugged in a day after all.
ReadQuick seems to be more about reading the web, so it serves well as a complement to Pocket. Not sure if it can handle PDFs. I just took a look and can't seem to find a way to do it.

Generally speaking, I do find ReadQuick has a very elegant UX, so I'd much prefer to use that app for all my reading needs. Just a shame it doesn't employ spritz technology and support for ePubs etc.
Describing Roberts as liberal is a great stretch
Its amazing that the left and the right can't agree on anything, not even it being illegal to lie on gun applications, but once IP is tossed in the game they all fall on some pretty strong protectionist postions.

I'm not making some big statement here, but it just goes to show that guys like Lawrence Lessig and the EFF keep losing because they have so few allies in government and have the most powerful enemies, the various deep-pocketing IP abusers like tech firms or Disney.

What now? Back to our DRM-laden lives with no silver lining I guess. Shame that the profit on mass entertainment trumps all rights. I wonder if my Slingbox is illegal now. Probably not, supposedly this decision is narrowly written, which is a welcome change from the big sweeping conservative-led majority decisions of late.
It's almost as if the justices are actual people with complex sets of knowledge, opinions, and interpretations rather than just your stereotypes!
Aereo's setup is absurd. Placing hundreds if not thousands of identical antennas on a rooftop, capturing identical signals and sending them, individually, to users.

That's expensive and inefficient. The only reason they did it was to exploit a potential loophole in the current law - and now the Supreme Court has effectively closed that loophole.
Just like most module based languages.

What ML modules have as extra advantage over other module systems, is that they also exist as types.
You are only more likely to be bit if you are playing in a match against him. I expect the odds of anyone reading this comment to be a professional soccer player to be very close to 0. So no, you really aren't more likely to be bit by Luis than you are a shark.
I never liked the Rube-Goldbergian design of the Aereo system. It was clearly more complex than necessary, for the sole reason to try to find and fit through a loophole in the law.

To support that would set bad precedent, I think--both legally and technologically. Even if you hate copyright, I'd argue that this ruling is probably better in the long run because it clarifies the situation and the fight.

From that perspective I think the decision is essentially correct, although I'm sure it will be unpopular here.

However, I did read the syllabus, and there is some language in there referencing viewer participation in a public performance, that seems worrisome. But I'm not a lawyer, so I will be interested to see informed discussion of whether the specific legislation and precedents were applied correctly, and what implications were created by this decision.
I'm not in any way affiliated with GIMP or even a graphics professional but as a programmer I think part of it is ideological (GIMP is not a copy of photoshop, why would we spend a lot of resources to change something that works for us and copy adobe for example just to appeal to users who don't want to learn to use a new UI or workflow) and part of may be just because they are more or less happy with it, they have a steady user base (at least it seems that way guessing by the mentioning of GIMP on forums as you say), also it's not like they (programmers/community) are going to get rich off of it so there might be no profit motive in revamping the whole thing.

I think the project just needs some fresh blood, either a fork that strives for a (better) more familiar UX for people that are switching from commercial products or an easy way to decouple the UI from the core and build custom front ends. There's no point in re-developing all the functionality that's already in GIMP, it's a functional product with years of development behind it.
Does that mean good bye Aereo? Didn't they say they would shut down their service if they loose?
If the vim developers announced next week they'd only support Linux, I'd keep using the Mac version until it becomes worse than a newer tool and then switch to that. The same is true of Sublime or any other text editor.

I'm not going to be forking an open source text editor if development stagnates.
So how does this ruling not affect the cloud storage providers?
Pretty sure he's the one who "saved" Obamacare when it went to Supreme Court.
One example is falsifiability. As of today, statements which are unfalsifiable are seen as pseudoscience and not science. This distinction was largely promoted by Karl Popper, a philosopher. And widespread adoption of falsifiability happened mostly in the 60s and 70s IIRC.

Prior to that point, theories were often accepted as true if they had a lot of explanatory power, in other words, if they seemed to explain a large set of observations. This made it very difficult to rigorously argue that, e.g., Astrology should not be considered scientific, because it seemed to have a lot of confirming evidence.

This is one of those things that seems really obvious in hindsight, but was a surprisingly big advance in how science was conducted in several fields. A more concrete example is how it affected social sciences like Psychology. Prior to Popper there were a lot of widely held theories that made no falsifiable predictions, today theories that seem to explain everything are generally seen as substantially less rigorous and scientific than ones that are falsifiable.
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Myself, my business partner and some other students / alumni of Bristol University have been running Python classes for year 8-9s in the UK (ages 13-14).

Can you guys give us some feedback and suggestions on our materials and our understanding of the best route to Python literacy for non-programers.

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Afraid asking HN is the wrong target.
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Can someone explain the gist of what's going on to an outside observer not familiar with Aereo?
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Wow, this looks awesome! I own and use Lightroom now, but will give Dark Table a look.
To be fair to Wonga, I imagine that they try really hard to "scan out people with no hope of repaying the loan". After all, their business model rests on being able to do that!
This is not true: Fraktur has two small s (long s and round s)

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944021

and some ligatures that in German word have to be used or not depending on whether the letters of the signature seperate syllables or not.

Consider the German words "Tatzeit" (time of the crime) and "Tatze" (paw). For Tatzeit you must not use an tz ligature since the z is the beginning of a new syllable. On the other hand for "Tatze" you have to use the tz ligature.

So the Fraktur ligatures carry a meaning on the pronunciation of the German words that is lost when writing them in Antiqua.
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I agree it is of limited use, but I don't see a better way for a customer to quickly compare loans with different terms (e.g. 1 month or 6 months), whether from the same lender or different ones.
That's the problem!

The opinion compares Aereo's use of tiny antennas to cable companies' use of one big one. They argue that since Congress passed a law back in the '70s to define the cable companies' practices as rebroadcast, that law should be read as also defining what Aereo does as rebroadcast.
If you teach Verilog without explaining why it has loops and what they do (and don't do), you don't teach it correctly.

Behavioral descriptions are very, very similar to programming, and a lot of programming concepts and skills (e.g. modularization) translate very well to HDLs.

The only thing in HDLs I remember that is totally alien to programmers is propagation delays. Well, even that is somewhat similar to multi-threading issues.
I have a Nest an generally love it. I upgraded to it from a previous "smart thermostat" mostly for new-technology and to support some friends who were working on Nest when it launched. I have kind of an unusually-shaped house and the Nest doesn't do well to learn when I'm not home (because of it's placement I can be in several places in my home where it doesn't "see" me). For me it's not quite as hands-off as it probably could be, but I've been able to measure a significant energy savings from pre-Nest to post-Nest home heating and cooling.

Edit: I installed it myself and as long as your HVAC system is a) decently installed in the first place and b) not too unconventionally weird, you should be able to install it yourself. It's mostly just matching up the wire colors in the wall to the wire colors in the base.
I imagine this is a minority opinion here, but I don't see a problem with this decision.

Tech people like to treat laws as rigid rules that would be written in a formally specified language if only legislators were capable of such a thing. But they're not, and by design.

It doesn't make sense for a law to be written such that receiving on one antenna and sending the result to your users is illegal, but receiving one an antenna farm all located in the same spot and sending the result to your users is legal.

Do we really want to live in a country where the obvious solution is illegal but an insane workaround is legal? I don't want a precedent set where it becomes standard for laws to be bypassed with expensive and technically pointless workarounds. If we want to allow companies to receive TV broadcasts and stream them over the internet, we should do so. If we don't, we shouldn't. A situation where they're only allowed to do it if they have 10,000 separate and unnecessary antennas is absurd.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous that a TV station can broadcast their signal free of charge to anyone capable of receiving it, but if a company wants to receive it and then pass it along to somebody, they have to pay a fee. But the problem is with the ridiculous law, not with a completely reasonable interpretation of it.
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Not sure if Mary Osako is clueless or trying some PR angle that I don't get.

Yes, the FAA statement was to clarify what is okay for hobbyists. The FAA clearly states that accepting payment takes you out of the hobbyist category and puts you into the commercial category. And there is a blanket ban if you fall into the commercial category.
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And surely there are people who had the opposite experience. A single datapoint proves nothing.