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Do you believe in libel laws? Should I be allowed to publicly claim that you're a murderer unpunished?

If you answer that I should not, then you support censorship.

Every legal system in the world puts limits on free speech. Not just for defamation, but also generally for various degrees of incitement, etc.

Because we have always accepted that some speech can cause substantial harm to people without sufficient public interest to always justify it.

And this decision does not take away or infringe your ability say what you want about anybody (and you are wrong: you are not allowed to say whatever you want; depending on where you are the government is merely prevented from exercising prior restraint. The speech can still be illegal, and cause you to be punished accordingly after the fact).

What it does, is prevent a certain, limited class of non-expressive publication of pointers to expressive speech in situations where the court found that the restrictions placed on Google was outweighed by the privacy rights of individuals. The decision made clear that the original speech was not affected.

> You must choose one, but choosing both undermines the legal foundations of the modern democratic republic.

The legal foundations of no European states grants the kind of supremacy to unlimited free speech that you seem to want. And a substantial number of these republics are younger than the US. And even the US does not have the extent of free speech you seem to advocate.
Well, despite containing fictional characters, I think this may be a more convincing explanation of what occurred behind the scenes at MtGox than any that has so far been publicly announced.
Consider that some of the projects they collect on "behalf" of already have donation mechanisms in place, both from a technical and legal perspective, and would prefer to see those mechanisms used.
I've never really understood this visualization. It's a cheat in so many ways (wrong dimensionality, reliance on actual gravity to work, etc.). While such "gee-whiz" demonstrations are great at getting people excited about science, I worry that they create false expectations. They often produce the feeling of understanding without conveying actual understanding (and the limitations thereof).

The unfortunate truth is that many subjects in physics, including general relativity, are impossible to visualize in the conventional sense. I learned GR from Kip Thorne at Caltech and wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the dynamics of rotating (Kerr) black holes, and my intuition for the subject is still fuzzy and inchoate. The best you can do is have a cobbled-together half-picture that kind-of, sort-of works, some of the time. Human brains simply are not designed to understand, at a deep intuitive level, things like the geometry of four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
> When you terminate the account you can stop accepting payments and auto-trigger a pro-rated refund. Then the consideration is "the service, while you used it" or "the money, while we accepted it", depending on which party you are.

That sounds right --- the key difference is the refund, which wasn't mentioned in Patrick's original post.

If termination is for cause, you might not have to give a refund (although it'd look better to outsiders, and thus be more defensible in court, if you did give a refund).
Oh.

And we all just learned not to expect Republicans or Libertarians to understand the concept of..."joke".

You just confirmed the parent comment's point.
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When I wrote the comment I had exactly this in mind, too. But in the case of a trademark you actually agree to this - you are granted the protection but this comes with the obligation to defend it. Or the way you are allowed to drive your care but only if you keep it safe to use.
playing devil's advocate: may be tip4commit is not your problem, but rather your country's laws are if these allow to so easily mock anyone and risk of being convicted?
Configuration management is an enormous pain for systems like Drupal that are essentially built ad-hoc, though. It's not something that's practically baked into something like Chef unless you're willing to spend a ton--a ton--of time baking your assumptions into code. And that (along with stuff like a test infrastructure) assume the capability of even doing it; Bob's Bait Shop does not have the technical staff necessary to act according to best practices but definitely needs a website. ("Use SquareSpace" is rarely an answer, though depending on the project it can be; anything remotely clever is going to need to go outside of the usual SaaS providers and that's why there are so many rickety Drupal sites out there. I used to write them, I know.)

Once again, software is harder than it needs to be. Gary Bernhardt has been going into this in depth on Twitter lately, and I agree with him more and more as I pay more attention to the shitshow around us.
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Maybe he was thinking you could bend space time.

Other researchers are trying to bend the rules rather than break them. In fact, bending space-time is one theory of how superluminal – faster-than-light -- speeds in space travel might be reached.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/future-tech/information...

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Alcubierre
Another example (Rogers Internet, Canada): The first hop after my router is IP 7.11.163.13 which is owned by the DoD.
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While I can't speak to the intelligence of that particular VC, there are plenty of ways of "challenging that assumption" without necessarily breaking physical laws.

For example, you could figure out a way to move things closer together, you could build a prediction algorithm and speculatively execute on a result before an input came in, you could modify the UI so the perceived latency is lower, etc.
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Hmmm.... who'd have thought you can CHOOSE to pay some money and solve a problem... wonder who came up with that idea? people work hard and build a product and don't give it away for free?

Can you qualify shitload? certainly it costs more than nothing. How much is shitload?

"We really do have a choice... a choice of actually using and working with things that exist and are widely available today, or already living in a land of unlimited money for licensing of a single product that might be completely and totally irrelevant to most of us"

Assuming your software is making you money (but you wouldn't make money through software, right? crazy idea), you might have a choice between spending your developers time (which is worth money, I assume) trying to reduce the rate of allocation to something the freebie JVM can handle without pausing, or spending some money on an "existing and widely available" solution to the allocation/collection problem.
If application pauses don't cost you money, indeed a pauseless JVM is "completely and totally irrelevant". If they do, get a quote from Azul, maybe it's a good deal for you, maybe it isn't...

Finally, if you are confused about money and how a free market works, just hang in there. Marx promised us the end of history is around the corner and all them capitalist pigs will be the first up against the wall come the revolution!
I'm not sure that a "programming language for games" would be a subset of a general purpose language. I can't think of an operation that a general purpose lang can do that I would not want to use in a game. In that case, how could you specialize for games? A game is kind of an abstract concept - it could be anything. Maybe try constructing a language that lets you choose a subset of its total functionality for your specific game, possibly through extensions. Haskell does that well.
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Ok, I'm going to 'educate' myself with some random link that you found from some random guy's blog who also has a personal vendetta against all Theists(Military Association of Atheists). I can find a thousand links to show the opposite. Have you done ANY research on her or read or talked to a member of the order she started? Thought not. When casting an opinion, always look at both sides before you talk, not just the one you want to believe. That's how you get to the truth. The real truth. Oh, by the way, thanks for the down vote. Really mature of you.
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Since the project is open source itself, I wonder if they'd accept a pull request that implemented a blacklist.
I've been thinking of something similar.

I'd get a few different signs from random organisations like doctor's without borders, red cross and some other popular ones and then I'll setup on the town square. Big ass signs and maybe a little pamphlet with the details. I'll let everyone know what a fantastic contribution to world peace I'm doing and that I will hand over all their donations as soon as the organisation they donated to gets in touch with me.

I'll just send the organisations a mail informing them that they now have a business relationship with me that I refuse to let them opt-out of. They probably won't mind...

Stop being stupid. Clear your database and implement opt-in.
I don't believe that there is any evidence that implicates the US government in "drug dealing". The Kerry Committee concluded that the CIA had looked the other way when its Contra clients smuggled drugs. That's a very different claim than the one you seem to be making, which likens US actions to the British Empire during the opium wars. Even Webb himself said that his story "doesn't prove the CIA targeted black communities. It doesn't say this was ordered by the CIA."[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/storm.htm]
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Even if the data is publicly accessible, collecting and processing it is not permitted in all cases. Eg. the EU laws: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...
I worked for a company that was using some addresses in the 99/8 range (I don't remember what the narrower range was) internally. This occasionally caused issues when some ISPs started doling out those addresses.
I use OpenBSD on my laptops and desktop. The KMS drm drivers have been improved for 5.6. So you have 2D/3D acceleration, and unlike with FreeBSD, Xorg just works without configuration out of the box.

For a more "desktop" experience, OpenBSD 5.6 also has working GNOME 3.12.2.

One thing that tends to trip up desktop users is the default ulimits, BSD has login classes which may need to be tuned in login.conf(5). This is especially true if you plan on using modern web browsers which are resource hogs.
These kinds of episodes are making me increasingly depressed.

On one hand, I'm incredibly disappointed in the ethics and morality of some of the people who have latched on to Bitcoin. And sadly, I'd have to include tip4commit in that group, particularly since they are "opt-out" and yet have been spamming people after each commit [ubernostrum points out below that they aren't even "opt-out", since they're not honoring opt out requests]. At best, it's poorly thought out. They may have good intentions, but they've implemented their intentions in a very sketchy manner. Completely unacceptable, and I understand people's anger. Bitcoin has attracted more than it's fair share of assholes, and I understand the frustration people have toward such people and companies.

On the other hand, I'm even more saddened by the irrational hatred so many developers have for Bitcoin, who refuse to acknowledge that not everyone who is interested in Bitcoin is a scammer or lunatic. I have met some incredibly honest, generous, and kind individuals in the Bitcoin community. And the Bitcoin project holds such promise for the financial world, if it's not first destroyed by scammers, regulators, and close-minded developers.

As just one example of what drew me to Bitcoin, Bitcoin holds (or used to hold) such tremendous promise for the developing world, and to people who are shut out of traditional banking. It's bitterly disappointing to me that so many people are intent on destroying Bitcoin because its implications are perceived to threaten their political beliefs, or because of some kind of jealousy toward the imagined wealth of earlier adopters. The contempt around here is palpable, and it's directed toward anyone associated with Bitcoin.

The emotions here are so intense that we have HNers pulling out the DMCA, which is so hypocritical coming from certain people that I am left speechless.

Can we please bear in mind that Bitcoin has many, many ethical, kind, honest developers and users, and that not everyone should be painted with this brush of contempt that some of you wield so recklessly. Bitcoin has the misfortune to have experienced an huge gain in price last winter, which drew in an inordinate number of scammers, opportunists, and speculators. We, the developers and users of Bitcoin, are not to blame for these types of dishonest people. Very often, we are their victims.

If Bitcoin does fail, a large part of the blame will be one the shoulders of so many software and IT people who make a flash decision that Bitcoin was "tulips" or a "ponzi scheme", and who refused to change their minds in the face of evidence otherwise (like scores of established corporations choosing to accept Bitcoin).

I actually worry now that some of my Bitcoin open source contributions in my real name will be held against me now. All my hard work building a great Github repo is going to be discounted because people see contributions to one or two Bitcoin projects in my "contributed to" Github section.

The whole situation makes me sad beyond belief.
I don't think it would work out this way. Looking at tip4commit would make it quite clear that you don't have to be involved. And why would you have to prove that you are not involved instead of having the prosecutor prove the opposite? No not-guilty-until-proven in Finland?
Having recently attempted to migrate a D6 site to D7, I really can't agree. It was a nightmare.
I'm sure he sent them a notification about their new account on his website on which, if they create an account, they may or may not find information of value to them.
The government is at least in theory acting on behalf of the people, and European countries have long had fairly strong privacy rights that actually means something.

When that right collides with the publication of information the court needs to weigh how to best protect public interest.

In this case the court decided that privacy rights for information that is not in itself in the public interest outweighs the interest of making the information easily searchable.
> Those projects are in the public domain.

This is completely wrong.

> If there are purposes that you don't want your project to be used for then forbid it in the license.

This is completely inapplicable.

> If I was denied the chance to receive a donation for a contribution I made to an open source project essentially because the "project owner" doesn't agree then I'd be very annoyed.

Start your own project.
Absolutely. Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice, Apache, Debian, etc are all registered trademarks and can not be used by others without permission.
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Even ignoring all the legal implications, it's pretty damn rude to reach out to people contributing to open source projects on their own free time without asking for anything in return and offer them a few measly dollars for hours of work.
The Django project has done their complaint the right way. They asked to be removed, voiced the reason why and then have threatened to open a complaint to the email provider, Mandril, for unsolicited email, i.e. spam. See here: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/111

This is probably the tactic that people should use for sites that do email mining and unsolicited emails. Good for them.
soliciting contributions in UK. Moot point as to how someone else soliciting a contribution on your behalf without your permission is seen.

I think that people who set Web services up really need to think about what territory the service is designed to operate in and which legal system(s) they have the time and resources to examine.
Who holds the trademark for Django? That person or organisation might have standing in some jurisdictions to ask for it to be removed.

(IANAL, TINLA)
Indeed, thanks for the heads up. Email address added.
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Ask HN: Best books about non-technical skills you have ever read?
Hey,

I'm a programmer, I'm read a wide range of book about technical knowledge, but I also realized that my lack of knowledge in other field are holding me from achieving my goals, skills like communication, social interactions, personal confident, emotional intelligence, ...are essential to succeed in our field.

My question is what books you recommend for a programmer to make a balance between his technical skill and other skills and how to use that to improve his position and his life in society and be more productive.