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The Big Difference between Popcorn Time and Chrome or Bit torrent is that while Chrome and Bit torrent are can be made to do illegal things such as pirate movies, Popcorn Time is explicitly made with the intention of illegally pirating movies.

The screenshots provided basically show that Popcorn Time is not just an app for legally playing content. It would be very difficult to argue to a judge "This app was not designed for the purpose of pirating movies" when these screenshots are right next to him/her.

Now let's say Popcorn Time has a configuration file that, by default, just happens to point to sources with illegal content. The question (which I don't have the answer to) is is Popcorn Time responsible for that configuration file? Would Google be responsible if a button on Chrome just happened to point to child porn which they don't control? Would, "It is the responsibility of our users not to download illegal content. If they don't want to view child pornography they can disable the clearly marked button in their settings or just not click it" suffice? I'm not a lawyer so I don't have the answer.

> Making distinctions like this is dangerous, and allowing speech to be suppressed by corporate interests is a worrying trend.

Why does everything have to be a free speech issue nowadays? If you think not being able to share copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holder violates the first ammendment then you should be working towards repealing The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, not stopping it from being enforced.

EDIT:

From the DMCA:

> No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
you could contact me and I could let you host it in my server, If it's just a static site I don't mind :)
My theory is that we're seeing the influx of Reddit members.

There's evidence even this thread, as in the children of this parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8449500). Comments that add nothing meaningful, often contributing nothing other than snark or inane "Internet comedy".

There is much that is positive about Reddit, and much that is negative. Something HN doesn't need is the blatant downvoting because of mere differences in opinion.

Personally, I wish HN didn't have a downvote button at all, but that we could leave actual moderation to moderators.
Batman's head in CSS
I feel like LINQ is attempting to do something for the "big objects" problem. It's currently really for database access, but I've seen a bit of talk about extending it to other resources, e.g. hetrogenous parallel processors. I could see an interesting future with tools like LINQ providing simple, backend agnostic accessors to computing resources, e.g. network access, database access, file access etc...
We just got new fire alarms installed in our building. They go off 2-4 times per day and everyone just ignores them. It's enough to toast your bread lightly brown to go off. You can easily hear the neighbours fire alarms. There is no way of removing the battery in the new alarms, the only thing you can do is take it down and stuff it in a drawer somewhere. Not even pushing the button helps. This makes them totally useless, even more so than a car alarm. We got ours exchanged and they go off much less now luckily.
For me, package management on OpenIndiana sucks. OpenCSW doesn't support IPS yet, the Oracle IPS repo is way outdated, and the SmartOS/pkgsrc packages don't install/build correctly. Compare this with my FreeBSD setup, where I'm building my own package repository with poudriere (which also handles my build customizations) and easily pushing packages and configuration data with Salt. I was especially disappointed with pkgsrc, since I figured that would be easy to get running.

That said, I haven't had a chance to try other Illumos distributions like SmartOS or OpenSXCE. Maybe the sysadmin experience is better on them.
And for some reason, I remember the PT Cruiser was actually _really_ popular when it came out. I think it's in the top 10 goofiest looking cars on the road these days, but even I thought it looked nice at first
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That is what distros like Manjaro / Chakra are effectively. They just pick a date, grab all of Arch, test it for a few weeks, and push it to end users in batches.
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Furthermore, when you are talking about something that solves the scope of problems which CSS solves, there is no way you can just sit down and design a better system

CSS has proved an awful system for layout, design and practically every domain it attempts to address over the last couple of decades. Having worked with both for a long time, here's the fundamental difference between HTML and CSS, as I think it's a useful comparison and highlights when worse is truly better, and when it is just worse:

HTML was limited and simple by design, and has gradually improved (the original worse is better ethos)

CSS was broken by design, and hasn't much improved (maybe in a few years with flexbox and grids, maybe).

I don't find it at all surprising that someone thinks CSS could and should be replaced, and I'm skeptical that if the best minds of our generation took another look at it, they couldn't find some far better ways to lay out content than an inconsistent and confusing box model with concepts like floats tacked on to it and lots of module proposals to try to glom on additional layout modes. I can't think of many problems CSS solves well, apart from separation of style/layout and content, even there at present we have div soup for grids instead of table soup - hardly a huge improvement on what went before. Some of the problems it attempts to solve are not even real-world problems and are of its own devise (for example the Cascading Style priorities in its name - what a bizarre focus for a layout language).

Perhaps the answer is a turing-complete layout language (personally I doubt it), or perhaps it's another more informed declarative one, but I'm quite sure we can improve on it, and the comparison to HTML is apposite, because that has stood the test of time rather well compared to its companion technologies.

It's a little tiresome when a young idealist comes into a 25-year-old field

We don't live in the best of all possible worlds, and to make it better, we sometimes have to take a step back from a local maximum and look at the bigger picture; that involves listening to 25-year-olds coming up with something better - most of the time they won't, but sometimes they will. If you find yourself not even listening, and more concerned with sunk costs, work already done, and expertise already gained, that's not healthy and not a convincing riposte.
Sure, but that's not what we are talking about here. Given two solutions that solve the same problem, the simpler one is almost always the better one. A worse is better methodology produces a complex and worse solution, whereas you were saying that it produces a simple and worse solution.

And by the way, CSS is definitely not complex because of irreducible complexity.
This looks great, I'm in the process of developing my mvp on android, the java development process has been quite a drag, to say the least. I'm looking forward to giving this a try.
Apple might fine its sapphire supplier $50M for every secret it leaks
Not necessarily. You could certainly have some quantifiable metric. For example, you could draw the line at, say, 80% of the works on offer.

In this case, that wouldn't be necessary. There may be a fine line somewhere where you could argue that a piece of software does or does not have infringement as its primary purpose. PopcornTime is not close to that line.
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Here are some more reasons that haven't been mentioned yet. Keep in mind this is speculative on my part.

1. I read somewhere that the probable migration of native Americans over the ice-age land bridge between Asia and Alaska meant that the peoples lived for generations in climates too cold for new pathogens to evolve to infect humans. I guess because there weren't enough animals in the area with a sufficient genetic similarity to humans. So by the time people migrated south to warmer climates, they had no natural immunity to the diseases common in Europe.

Another way to look at this is that Europe is closer to Africa. Africa is where most human diseases come from, because it's where humans evolved, and the diseases got to co-evolve with them.

2. Native Americans had better hygiene. And by that I mean they bathed regularly. Europeans were, by most accounts, sort of disgusting. They lived mostly in a cold climate (remember it was colder back then), and saw nakedness as unacceptable pretty much ever. They mostly just didn't bathe. Perhaps this is why the earlier failed Viking settlements had less of an effect on the native American population.
How about winning the two world wars and taking all the scientist worth their name out of Germany?

Umm, most scientists "worth their name" either fled, or opposed, or were killed (or like Hilbert, forced into silence) by the NS regime. Other than von Braun and Heisenberg, there just weren't that many titanic figures with influential positions, and who were genuinely (or even tacitly) pro-Nazi after 1940 or so (I'm not sure there were any, in fact).

Of course there were still university professors, and all those technicians working for von Braun's program, and so on -- but the point is that they weren't people of great influence in the international community.

So it is most likely the defection of top minds like Bohr and Einstein that led to Germany's continuing loss of dominance after WW II, rather than the number of lesser scientists who stayed behind to work on actual weapons projects.
Everybody says German is so hard. My mother tongue is neither German nor English, but I've been mistaken for a native speaker of the latter at times. I don't think the GP realizes how much effort goes into perfecting English pronunciation, everything is so arbitrary what with words coming from Celtic, German and French/Latin origins. A written vowel means practically nothing in English, and if it's not the stress you might as well have written a schwa.

Memorizing genders in German is very easy with a mnemomic method. Learning it has frankly been a walk in the park, everything is orderly and put together in discernible components.
Brainstorming thread
Post a web app idea you have or one that you'd like to use but can't seem to find one. And if i like your idea i will develop it and post it online for free
It's sort of like making an armor piercing bullet and arguing that it's for hunting. Sure you could hunt with it, but it'd be kind of pointless unless there are deer wearing kevlar.
Business Insider on GamerGate
"My computer is just a tool. I just want it to work so I can get things done."

Then Debian stable or even CentOS (10 years support) is definitely what you want, you are almost the definition of an Enterprise Linux user/adopter.

How in your opinion could we signpost that idea to people who are new to Linux?
So all we need to do is have car alarms be sent directly to you (to your phone or your house) and be loud.
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Nice write-up. My experience is quite similar to the author's. I've gone from 230 to 170 over the last year or so. (Oh, and I'm also from NJ!)
I wasn't involved in any study or organized plan though; I just stumbled through it on my own. I tracked calories with an iPhone app. I stuck to a plan that, theoretically, would allow me to lose one pound per week. That actually worked out pretty well.
I never bothered tracking anything other than calories. I just tried to be sensible about fat, carbs, and sugar, but I didn't explicitly track them or set goals related to them.
And I'm curious about the National Weight Control Registry now. I'm going to have to follow up on that, after I've maintained the weight loss for a bit longer.
I don't know about that, frequently the "cause" that you're alerting on is also a symptom. "DB down" is causing your webapp to fail, but why is the DB down? Misconfiguration, hardware failure, power outage? Heck, maybe the DB is not actually down but there was a network failure that made it unreachable from the monitoring server.

My point is that alerting on a "cause" may not actually get you to the root cause, and maybe not even all that much closer than a symtpom.
And an insult to M$
But seriously, it takes some nerve to write a blogpost against Worse is Better that's on every aspect worse than the paper that originally codified Worse is Better.

Oh wait, no, is this lack of quality justifiable because this content-free 2 minutes read is more efficient and easier to write than a serious exploration of the consequences of whatever the author was ranting about?
The statutes were found unconstitutional, as the submitted article reports. I read the full Supreme Court opinion on that issue when I was in law school, as that is still a landmark decision in parental rights in education, which is how the issue was framed before the Supreme Court. The case is called Meyer v. State of Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923).

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1617579389396676...

It happens that my own maternal grandfather was born and attended school in Nebraska, and the schools he attended were conducted entirely in the German language. Similarly, my maternal grandmother was born in Colorado, also in a German-speaking community, and received all of her schooling in the German language. But the years from World War I until Meyer v. Nebraska was decided basically killed off German-language primary schooling in the United States, and my aunts and uncles heard German at home and at church growing up, but all learned their school lessons in English. Of course as I knew the family by the 1960s, everyone in all generations spoke English to one another routinely.
Cable networks reserve most of the spectrum for downstream, based on old usage patterns where people didn't upload much.
The last bit concerning the flexibility of foreign word adoption is key, I think. I heard a radio story a long time ago on the topic of word mutation in the English language (I think it was a story on ebonics). The theory was put forward that you could estimate the rate of foreign adoption based on the rate of mutation in the language. The thought being that foreigners to the language weren't simply bringing with them fragments of their mother tongue, they were dropping rules of the language that didn't make sense to them (or were too difficult for them to remember). For example, English nouns once had gender - but that was dropped a long time ago. The plural form of words were much stranger back in the day as well, compared to today where in most cases you can postfix an "s". As far as the OP, I don't know enough about German to compare mutation rates - I'd be interested to hear from somebody who does know enough to make the comparison.
One of the things they're planning next is to replace the current kernel VT implementation with a userland terminal emulator that depends on systemd, so you won't even be able to boot with init=/bin/bash in a pinch because without systemd there won't be any terminal to run it on anymore. No idea how people will be expected to diagnose and fix issues that break boot at that point.
English spelling is just horrible bearuacracy (no, I didn't bother looking that word up).
Your comment comes across as China is just avoiding the West's intelligence services but most of their censorship is for internal control. You don't ban all reference to June 4th because you are protecting your citizens from the NSA.
The real spirit of IP law is "art, music, and creative professions should be viable professions for which people can actually get paid."

Whether it accomplishes that is debatable at times, and it's certainly misused, but that's why it exists.

"Information wants to be free" is a terrible argument from the naturalistic fallacy. Cars want to break down, your body wants to get cancer, and ebola wants to spread.

The question is whether information having to be free is good for us. If your profession is at all related to the production of information -- art, code, anything -- then you should be very skeptical of this meme. If all information is free, your salary is $0 unless you are making content for indirect monetization -- which means propaganda, surveillance based marketing, etc. A world where information is free is a world where only content with an indirect manipulative agenda gets financed and where the value of intellectual labor is subject to extreme downward pressure.

Piracy isn't a liberal, liberating thing... it's akin to union-busting and other forms of aggressive labor devaluation. It benefits ultra-capitalists who own large channels of communication and want to be able to monetize content and user behavior without paying for its creation.
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This has been done to death all over the internet but the general consensus seems to be the that Soviets would have had much harder time defeating the Nazi's without american help but would have eventually won the war regardless.
PC-BSD[0] (the desktop-focused fork of FreeBSD) does look like quite a promising systemd-free alternative to Debian. One potential problem is, as always, that the graphics drivers[1] lag behind Linux, so the latest stuff might not be supported.

And until bhyve[2] adds support for Windows guests (which they plan to do) I still need Linux's KVM.

[0] http://www.pcbsd.org/

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
What if Popcorn Time made the user click a button 100 times before granting full access? Is that enough effort? Or if a link was proposed 2 clicks away from the homepage of a major browser? Is that too little effort? Where do we draw the line? I guess we don't, since the DMCA's scope is so large.
OP recruited a lot of talented people, but (apart from von Braun) they certainly weren't Germany's "most prominent" scientists, by any stretch. A few Wikipedia-notables (largely due to their participation in OP), but hardly any household names, as it were.
As far as i know its not the government that keeps the data itself, is the ISP's and service providers.. its a minimum period of archiving, for them to respect, so if a law enforcement signed by a judge ask them to reveal some logs for instance, they should have it, if its in the date range they have defined, or else they would also be accountable.

I think this is quite good
It doesn't currently mention this on the site, but one use case for Ethersheet is to embed it as a component in a larger application.
It would be nice to have a bit more info about what the app is actually doing. All could glean from the (irritating) slideshow was that it turns on the camera whenever the phone is plugged in and idle and uploads the "data" to UCI servers. It's not clear if any client-side processing is done - if so, there's bound to be user impact (idle apps being killed for memory), and if not they've got a hell of a privacy problem on their hands.

EDIT: I looked at the paper, which does address these concerns:

"Frames which contain any above-threshold pixels are stored and passed to
the second stage which examines the stored frames, saving only the pixels above a second, lower threshold. All
qualifying pixels, typically a few per frame, are stored as
a sparse array in a buffer on the phone, along with their
arrival time and the geolocation of the phone. When a
wi-fi connection is available, the collected pixels are up-
loaded to a central server for offline shower reconstruc-
tion; most events are between 50-200 bytes of data."

And:

"To address user security concerns, no frames will be stored or uploaded if the average pixel response value over the frame
exceeds a threshold, such that full images cannot be re-
constructed offline."
I was thinking of the fact that beautiful software is perceived as more usable, all else being equal (http://www.ergonomicsclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Tr...). This is irrational but not controllable. Unfortunately many good solutions lose out in the market because their developers make the mistake of expecting users to be rational econs, rather than accepting reality and working around it.
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Firefox, Windows 7 - I don't like the text either
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I should have clarified that it only applies to individuals, or organizations without much political power of their own.
I think (could be wrong) that Debian Sid is the nearest to your idea of Debian Rolling. Debian Testing is a testbed for the next release, especially when the freeze happens (and just before freeze when people are trying to get patches in).
While getting my advanced open diver licence, I did a dive with grey nurse sharks. There I learn't how important sharks were. Where there are sharks, there are more reefs, more other species. When the sharks are killed, the over-feeding begins and over time the reef is depleted.
My service was upgraded a few months back. It was a nice bump in speed and my bill did not go up, surprising. It was at about 35mpbs and now hovers around 110mpbs (though supposed to be around 200mpbs). I am not complaining.
That sounds like a reasonable proposal for what the real spirit of IP law should be, but certainly not what it actually is.
Tell me, what's the difference between government acting without a court order and one acting with a secret court order based on questionable laws. the result is the same. Also, when I know that there's government surveillance and weak privacy, I am less willing to speak free, which is effectively no free speech.
What technological measure is this circumventing?
I am going to make some software that scrapes that subreddit and presents a nice UI. Then see if it gets a DMCA takedown.
The marginal cost of producing a copy of a movie is not the predominant factor in the actual cost of producing a copy of a movie. So I don't know why you're bringing it up.
> The term has come into inflationary use by German-speaking media since 2010 to describe any clamour of outrage on the Internet, especially by posting and writing in social media.

The first entry for shitstorm on urban dictionary is from 2003. Way before it became popular in the German media.