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>The Pirate Bay, by itself, does not steal intellectual property, people do. TPB is just a tool that is mostly used for that purpose. Forbidding access to it is wrong.

The conclusion doesn't follow in any way from the premises.

Even if it doesn't "steal intellectual property" itself, why it's "wrong" to forbit access to it if "it's mostly used for that purpose"?

On the oft chance that some people also download legit stuff off of it? They can do that off of any number of sites that don't also feature tons of warez and pirated movies with direct download links.

A stance like "it's wrong because I believe intellectual property is wrong" is more consistent.
As discussed in the article, that's a horrible number.

If you dig into it, most of the divorces are people 50-59 who married when the marriage rate was much higher.

The marriage rate has gone down over time because more people are choosing not to marry.

You can think of it as either a depressed marriage rate or an inflated divorce rate, but large number of people getting divorced who were married 30 years ago is unrelated to the number of people being married today.
Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)? Does the suicide list when hosted on bitbucket get taken down? On deviantart? Etc
If only few people upvoted Eric Garnier stories it tells me a lot of people were simply uninterested in reading about or discussing it. We can't force a discussion. Me personally I come to HN to get away from everyday politics and sports.

from the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

There are always exceptions. Ebola was discussed, ISIS, gay marriage, Berlin wall, taxes and education but overall it's still (and I'm glad) rare. https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Well maintaining that believe relieves those from toughing it out to fix their marriages, supports the divorce lawyer market and their marketing, and politicians who like to capitalize on strife.

Seriously, I know the holidays are tough but my drive to and from work the local stations are all covered with divorce lawyer ads.
because its illegal?

Why would you pay for the songs when you could pirate them? Presumably because you want to conduct your activities legally.
Sales primarily. Moving merchandise globally, signing royalty deals and partnering with carries for app bundling deals is the crux of their business.

Software (and other intellectual properties) don't quite have the same supply-side economies. Once the game is done, you can make a sequel or variations with little effort. The rest is just about how many copies/downloads you can move. Or how many partner licenses you can sign. Really, it's all just profit after.

I had one person within Microsoft put it as: On that first CD Microsoft ships, it writes off a few billion dollars in losses. After that every Windows license is just pure profit.
The US government stopped tracking divorce rates in 1996, so we have little data. We still have a shitload of weather stations and air monitoring stations that actually give us data.
learning is a directed process with a target. the immune system is controled by the bervous system to reach that target, while cancer-cells, apparently are uncontrolled. there's a difference, although it matters more in an educational context.
> What does that "talking to people from" mean?

I think he meant "I'm always tweeting and talking to people from one account with ≈4,000 followers."
Won't work: the free thing is a howto for suicide, so "Everyone else" is now dead!
However this is how some current regulation are enacted or confirmed: The Kinder Egg is still not legal to import or to possess in US to the best of my knowledge (see http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_107.html)
> From the media coverage of the "UK porn filter" that I followed, the government said they would make a law to require filtering, then the ISPs jumped on it and implemented their filtering systems, and then the proposed laws failed / stalled.

That's not quite how it went. The government hinted that it might do so unless the ISPs implemented filters that people had to ask to opt-out of.

The ISPs jumped on adding a filtering choice for users in the form of a checkbox when they sign on. Something many of them had before. Some providers - notably the mobile providers - have defaulted to opt-out (since long before the government interference, on the basis that e.g. pay as you go sims can easily be obtained without providing id, and as a result they don't know if their subscribers are over 18), while most regular ISPs default to opt-in.

The government subsequently then did not propose any law, and issued triumphant press releases about protecting children, after Camerons advisers had been pleading with ISPs to at least make the checkboxes default to ticked. Largely the result was that they got mocked for not actually achieving any changes that made a difference to anything at all.

All the largest ISPs still filters child porn regardless of subscriber choice, but that's the only thing you're not able to turn off. Even that filtering is not covering nearly all ISPs.
Almost no one gets stabbed on planes (far less than in dark alleys), yet try to take a knife in your hand luggage and security get very upset... did these people not study statistics? ;)
A performance test of SQS
While turning it from an open source app into a proprietary one.
Well no one wants to admit that they hire people that are just good enough and that they make do to ship acceptable products. I mean how would you feel if your company said "we're just average and do an acceptable job".
Fair and true enough! :-)
It is a type of connector for MIPS debug probes. Probably the best place to ask for more info is http://forum.imgtec.com/categories/creator
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Isn't part of the problem that we place this artificial wall between academia and industry? I often found myself confused in this respect. I attained my PhD a number of years ago, and found this an invaluable experience, which has no doubt helped me to excel in industry, however I still meet people (developers and senior level executives especially) who think academia is about locking yourself in a room and writing stuff without building anything useful. Ironically, these are the same people who build products and code without surveying the field, understanding what is already out there and building on top of existing solutions. Their naivity and ignorance is such that they believe they are building something truly unique, and will get it right first time, every time.

It seems to me that we should stop standing on each side of the fence and looking down on each other, and start working together. We might actually achieve something great it if we do that.

Regards the OP, if it was the right time for him/her to leave, that's great. Nobody should continue on a path that they do not find fulfilling. It says nothing about academia, or industry though. It only reveals the feelings of the author.

The true travesty here, is that he/she will find it extremely difficult to pick up that work again and find a place in a university if they change their mind in the future. Our system in the UK is broken, since you only get a single shot at academia -- unless of course you are independently wealthy.

Perhaps this is the cause of the divide. You are either in, or you are out -- and once you make your choice there is no going back.
Question I got to ask: why? Maybe my understanding is wrong, but it's look like including car's spare wheel to a space shuttle.
If you have the money, you can hire people that are extremely specialized in specific areas, for example you may have a team of 5 people that is specialized on constantly analyzing and optimizing landing pages, or another one that studies only app usage in the first 3 hours after install, etc. These are not generally teams you would want assemble for a startup, but people who have years of expertise in very specific fields tend to be better at it than generalists for obvious reasons. You can do successful mobile apps wth 3 people, but if you can afford it and if politics/bureaucracy doesn't get much in the way, it can be worthwhile to have a larger team of specialists.
My suspicion is they would shut you down, or encourage you to move to a larger droplet. As is referenced by glomph later in this thread, their TOU states "3.3 You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third party providers’) infrastructure;"

Consistently using excessive bandwidth likely falls in the "unreasonable or disproportionately large load " category. And, regardless, $5 for 1 Terabyte is only $0.005/gigabyte, which can only be offered, as long as people don't actually use 1 Terabyte of bandwidth The cheapest price Amazon offers (after discounts) is $0.08/gigabyte, after 150 terabytes which you've paid them $12,800 for.

In comparison, if we were to take Digital Ocean at Face Value, we could get that same 150 Terabytes for $150 * 5 or $750.

Do you truly believe that Digital Ocean is able to offer bandwidth at such a Discount to Amazon? Particularly when the price Schedule for Amazon in Singapore is graduated as follows:

First 1 GB / month	$0.000 per GB
Up to 10 TB / month	$0.120 per GB
Next 40 TB / month	$0.085 per GB
Next 100 TB / month	$0.082 per GB
Next 350 TB / month	$0.080 per GB

You get a sense that their is a structural price floor around $0.08/GB that is hard for them to sell bandwidth for less.

The point I'm trying to make, and hopefully succeeding at, is DO and Amazon are in different business models. DO is profitable as long as the majority of their customers don't use the services intensively. Amazon, on the other hand, is profitable regardless of how much of their services you use - as a result, each of the companies incentives regarding account termination, and rate limiting, will likewise be aligned.

Please note, of course, that I'm saying this as a thoroughly satisfied Digital Ocean Customer. I've ceased using Amazon EC2 for pretty much everything, and have DO droplets all around the world. I love their service, and an am extraordinarily satisfied with both the performance and quality of their offering.
A decent Swedish Blueair will set you back 6000 kuai, but it's still not that great.
Is it because we only use 10% of our brains?
Those are still marriages and divorces. I don't see any skewing.

Whether you were married once and divorced once or married 6 times and divorced 6 times, all the times should be counted.

The important factor is marriages/divorces not people/divorces.
Well, some are "common sense" like crashing the car at 150km/h or throwing yourself under the train.
There are however methods like programming some industrial robot to drill your skull and vacuum brains out… :/
GitLab B.V. CEO here, we'd love to discuss this subject on HN as well.
According to Wikipedia, Musk is not only chairman of Solar City but also "remains the largest shareholder" - so the line from the article while lacking detail, is mostly correct.
It irks me that every time AWS comes up people compare the pricing with simple VPS providers that only sell virtual machines and a few bells and whistles.

For starters, users that burn a lot of bandwidth probably don't do it by serving files from a VPS in a single location. In an AWS context, they may be using S3, Cloudfront and all the features and services that come with it. Setting all of that up on DIY VPS boxes (and maintaining it) may be fun for a hobby, but in business that's all costs. The cost of bandwidth is a trivial footnote.

Saying Linode's bandwidth is cheaper is like saying steak is cheaper at the butcher than it is at a restaurant.
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> Nobody would ever suggest blocking YouTube as a whole

Some studios have suggested that, and were campaigning for restrictions for Youtube. Hence YouTube's content filtering which recognizes and removes certain content automatically.
I cite Wikipedia as an example of a successful website built with PHP, not necessarily as an example of a well-designed site.

You don't need to convince me that PHP is a clunky, unpleasant language. My point is that there are still legitimate reasons to choose it.
Let me get this straight,

China is selling its products to the US at artificially cheap prices and labor in exchange for ... ... pieces of green paper with $ on them. To the tune of 3.5 trillion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_reserves_of_th...

The US could overnight introduce a "new" dollar exchangeable at 1:1 for any bank accounts/funds held in US Banks in USA.
Cash could also be exchanged at 1:1 provided a valid IRS tax clearance certificate is shown proving that tax was paid on this cash.

So the US solves several problems with one stroke:

1. China endsup with a pile of worthless paper and a broken economy bringing manufacturing and jobs back to the US

2. US Companies laundering and holding funds abroad problem is solved, They can pay 20-30% tax to bring these funds back giving the economy a huge once off surplus.

3. The black economy is decimated as criminals endup with worthless paper or are forced to convert and hence pay tax on their dollars.

Considering the US has in the past made holding gold illegal, its not exactly outside the realm of possibility.
This is odd. How come when russia requests a block it only gets blocked for russians, but when america requests a block (DMCA) it gets blocked for everyone worldwide?
Haha very good point... I'll raise a hotfix.
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>Well maintaining that believe relieves those from toughing it out to fix their marriages, supports the divorce lawyer market and their marketing, and politicians who like to capitalize on strife.

That's pop psychology. Plus assumes the belief is some myth...

The divorce rate IS close to that number. Whether it's 50% or 45% doesn't matter much, as another poster said, it's not like its 5% or 15%. From Wikipedia:

In 2002 (latest survey data as of 2012), 29% of first marriages among women aged 15–44 were disrupted (ended in separation, divorce or annulment) within 10 years.

Using 1995 data, National Survey of Family Growth forecast in 2002 a 43% chance that first marriages among women aged 15–44 would be disrupted within 15 years. More recently, having spoken with academics and National Survey of Family Growth representatives, PolitiFact.com estimated in 2012 that the lifelong probability of a marriage ending in divorce is 40%–50%.
That may be true, but try building a CDN on top of AWS and you'll be out of cash pretty quickly with their bandwidth prices.
AFAIK, they never did. They did a launcher application that was sync-compatible to access all you bookmarks, etc.
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Ask HN: DIY quadcopter tutorial?
I am searching for a good and up-to-date DIY quadcopter tutorial incl. shopping list (up to 2000$). I would favor a project based around an Arduino Mega/Due for the flight logic and motor controller.

Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNrovqSp3CU (but with more details in english)
Didn't the China do this with RMB in the 80s? I mean, no one would actually trust the yuan to use it as a reserve currency, while plenty of people trust the USA (making it illegal to hold gold is different from taking it away). And anyways, trust is quite important to the USA economy, they aren't going to just piss it away.
Plus it never gives an actual number, and never mentions tons of estimation efforts and stats that place it close to 35-50% (as if all of those were merely based on repeating the myth).
No. I didn't say anyone was a "script kiddie." I merely stated that the manner in which Perl and Python function is different than the manner in which C and C++ function and that's enough of a difference that they belong in two categories of languages: 'scripting languages' (which are not compiled to assembly and typically require an interpreter) and 'compiled languages' (which can be compiled to assembly and typically do not require an interpreter.) Nor did I say Perl and Python aren't suitable for general purpose tasks. If you think 'using a scripting language' is the same as 'being a script kiddie,' then you're just wrong. [I don't know enough of how Java or Ruby function to say which category they belong in.]
Have a look at https://www.getpostman.com/ which allows exporting test cases (called jetpacks) as JSON. There is also https://www.getpostman.com/docs/newman_intro (node.js) which allows running the test cases on command line.
XAML is evil, thankfully you don't have to use it with WPF, and I dont.
From that post: Jabber and XMPP were full of promise, sure — if you bought into the “let’s build decentralized, interoperable services” Kool-Aid.

I think that article makes a lot of good points, but I am not sure why the author takes such a negative attitude towards that Jabber/XMPP "Kool-Aid". If successful, essentially all the other issues they complain about would be solved. You would not need to worry about iMessage grabbing your phone number or WhatsApp selling your contacts' information. With Off-the-Record messaging, you would have secure chats. The open standard would enable different clients with different features, some of which would undoubtably be battery life and data plan friendly.
Yup, it's actually a good idea - thanks for the feedback.
We say it's "WhatsApp for football betting" in the sense that you can build your groups of friends and discuss with them about your bets. Very simple and functional UI too, no bells and whistles - the content is the important thing.
Actually, the idea came when I realized friends on WhatApp were betting on Champions League matches. It was fun but also a mess, no one could keep track of anything. Why not an app for that?.. So we built Footbl to capture the thrill of real money sports betting (dynamic odds) - only with virtual money, friends, and an intuitive UX =)
Our hypothesis is that people are less interested in the money itself than they are about having fun bragging to friends about their "predictive skills". Essentially, many people like sports betting but not gambling. So we'll expand the market.
Probably because GitHub is based in the US.
That depends on why you are interested in measuring divorce rates.
>would you mind citing your sources?

The article doesn't claim any sources for the "overestimation" either -- or attempts to give any more accurate number.

It's mostly a rehash of the linked NYT article that actually points out rates around 38-45% (so pretty damn close to 50%).
The bigmac in China is about the same in quantity to the states, it's normal price is just slightly cheaper than the USA version. Now if they would just give me a second packet of ketchup for the fries and ice in the drink, I might not feel like I'm in a third world country.
Well, this really depends on what it means for an economy to expand. The metric that most people seem to use is the sum of all transactions occurring in that economy, denominated in a currency.

In the philosophical sense of economy, where transactions are not necessarily tied to physical units of currency, expanding can mean pretty much anything, from more participants and transactions to goodwill gained through personal relationships.

In the physical reality of the US economy, expanding economy really only means more money or more transaction volume.
I read a lot of comments about the "Calculation" It really doesn't matter how you calculate it. China is the number one economy and American is on its way to becoming Japan or worse Greece.

Having a been in China a lot its easy to see why. China is really striving to be number 1. They are setting a goal and accomplishing it. American on the other hand is mired in Bureaucracy and lack of vision for what we want to do. Therefore we can not make progress. When we have goals we accomplish them. What to end foreign dependence on fossil fuels. We are making good progress towards that end.

American needs to think bigger and accomplish hard near term goals. We need to stop saying by year 2030,2040,2050 and think we want to do this in the next 4 years. China as many advantages of US. The things that people say are a disadvantage (Population & Government) are an advantage over the US.

If i was able to be president this would be my stance:

- Immigration.

- Pay tuition to a 4 year college and graduate. Greencard. Increases intellectual horsepower

- 3 million Mexicans. Greencard. Increases manpower
- Energy

- by 2020 50% of all electric will be generated by non-fossil fuels. 2025 80%.

- 2025 be the #1 export of oil and coal

- Budget. balanced by 2020.

- Military. halved.

- Education. Spending doubled.

- Healthcare. free

- Taxes. flat

- Infrastructure 7% GDP

What will be the big goals be:

- Moon by 2030 a sustainable colony.

- Mars by 2040 a sustainable colony.

- Mars by 2050 100,000 people

- Population 500,000 by 2040
The difference is that a DMCA request is a takedown request, not a block request, so to legally comply with the DMCA you have to stop hosting the file. The Russians in this case don't have legal jurisdiction to demand that github removes the file, all they can do is ask nicely that github blocks them. Had the files been hosted within Russia then no doubt they would have the legal jurisdiction to demand they be taken down.
Is it though? I think the idea is to see how stable marriages are.

And if some people have some "social dicease" that makes them marry and divorce more than others, I'd expect them to be outliers and statistical noise, compared to people that legitimate try to make it work and fail.
Obviously you weren't around in 2003.
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Infringing on copyright is not theft. So its not stealing.

Also the pirate bay just provides a hash ... hashing a file was still legal I think.
I believe this is wrong, and in this case it's very dangerous information. See for example the Wikipedia article for two chunks of data that only differ in a few bits (not length!) and hash the to same MD5 hash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Collision_vulnerabilities
Yep, we have shitload of data and then use complex model of earth climate to extrapolate this data. Being complex the model is extremely sensitive to parameters (Butterfly effect)
and gives a lot of freedom in choosing parameters, which in turn makes it easy to tune the model to get the expected result.

In itself it would not be too bad, this is how we learn how things work, but add a media looking for sensation and political interests and this whole area of research becomes as scientific as astrology.
The problem that the GP was talking about wasn't being forced to solve a captcha, but of getting blacklisted before even being given a chance to solve it.
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Kiwi fruit are actually from northern China and weren't introduced to New Zealand until the 20th century.