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I may not be very knowledgeable in this area, but my first instinct is I don't very much like the kind of infrastructure that needs to peek into my HTTP headers.

Anyways, google is in a unique position with this kind of changes. It has a >1% browser, and a hefty slice of web servers (only google and youtube and it adds up to something impressive). So this kind of protocol is worth pushing only to give chrome users on google sites an edge. The rest of the sites/browsers have a good chance of following, but they're not essential to declare the protocol a success.
I find that the taste of the second glass of a red is often more rounded and enjoyably palatable than the first glass. I don't think this is inebriation but something possibly to do with how the taste buds themselves work. Temperature will alter the flavour a lot, as will the food being consumed alongside (as you noted).
Well, it is an end of an era, the illegal P2P distribution of copyrighted material is now completely decentralized, which means that the content industry has no easy target they can try to shut down to disrupt the distribution.
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> "Interested to see what the cross section of hackers and entrepreneurs that read HN are. I found my type to be dead on accurate."

"i am large. i contain multitudes."

as with a horoscope, you're more likely to agree with an assessment than disagree. i'm both shy and outgoing, a follower and a leader, logical and emotional--depending on the situation. the complexity and variety is amazing. i expect nothing less of humans.
Ask HN: Does Google still do 20% pet project time and free lunches?
The Googler here. Do you still get the 20% time that we used to hear about? How about the free lunches?
I am sorry to tell you, but as long as Microsoft uses licenses that are open-source but permit them to sue users for patent violations, as they threatened many times in the past, their "openness" has a lot of suspicion attached.
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Pretty much, yeah, TPB will presumably only be publishing DHT/MAGNET links from their index, which are able to automatically find peers/seeds in a decentralised manner.

... upon looking, they still seem to publish .torrents for now, but the huge magnet icon on their home page pretty much tells it all :)
As one other post said, TPB is not shutting down, but marking the end of an era where trackers were needed. Trackerless torrents are going to become vastly popular very very soon.

This is great. Basically the authorities are fighting a superior technology with nothing but the greatest of benefits: everyone contributes when downloading, so the load is not 100% on the server to serve the content. And the authorities are not giving good alternatives. ISPs are not working together with bt developers to make a protocol friendly for everyone, instead they are fighting to keep the protocol down.

O well I like the part about the servers being given to a museum.
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It reads like a whos who ove Goldman Sachs alumni.

Don't confuse correlation with causation. GS (and McKinsey, and others) actively recruit the most ambitious, hardworking people they can find. Ambitious, hardworking people often end up in positions of power. If GS went away tomorrow, the people it would have hired would still end up with successful business careers.
Yet from the title it looks like TPB as an entity is dead. Definitely misleading. Of course, sensational headlines get higher page hits for Mashable.

And all p2p transfer of torrents is not illegal copyrighted material.
What I don't understand is why hasn't AT&T fixed this problem? I'm sure they have enough capital to make the investment to end this discussion. If consumers are aware of this problem I'm sure that AT&T is. It seems like this would be a better long term solution than lawsuits.
Funnily enough, the mechanisms behind pirate markets are very well understood, they appear when there is a large discrepancy between how consumers value a goods in a market, and the price of the goods in that market.
How exactly are you supposed to "release early, release often" when you're shipping DVDs to tens of thousands of retail locations? After going through months and months of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo certification on a 3-ring binder full of technical requirements? And having the ESRB play every level of your game to make sure it doesn't have boobs or entrails?

Not to mention that for every programmer on these games there are 5 to 10 artists and level designers cranking out content. There's no automated regression suite to make sure that your last minute physics tweak didn't break one puzzle in one level somewhere.

There's a reason that console developers have miserable lives - they have huge teams and launch dates that are very expensive to move.

I'm not saying that things couldn't be done better, but it's a fundamentally hard problem.
Yes and no.

Currently sites like torrentz.com give multiple trackers for torrents so that you can get the best set of peers/seeds for a torrent. These sites are going to become moot.

Also the legal issues associated with running TPB is going to literally go away for all future business. TPB can't be held responsible for holding an MD5 hash of a file, since they don't host trackers anymore they won't be responsible for even facilitating anything. Basically the record industries have to go after the customers yet again.

The only thing left is an IP masker mechanism which is super easy to use in torrents and torrents will become completely untraceable :P ok fine someone will find a way.
Reminds me of the experiment run by a german tv program where they let some people compare a real, but mediocre wine with a liquid composed from single substances to match the gas chromatograph readings of a good wine. The artificial wine won. http://www.wdr.de/tv/quarks/sendungsbeitraege/2009/1110/002_...
But then you wouldn't be able to sell three or four DRM'd YouTube-equivalent videos on your website.

(I am referring to Archos here. They can't give you root on your mp3 player for this reason, supposedly.)
Of course not, but I haven't heard much buzz about torrenting things in quite a while. A few years back, there was always people going on about it. Now the latest fad seems to be megaupload and rapidshare style sites.
Sheet music is another outlier, rights holders convinced the legal establishment that there is significant work and art in the particular engraving (the style used to print the music) allowing rights on the engraving of many works that are out of copyright. This means that much sheet music can be transcribed legitimately but can't be directly copied (photocopy, scan and reprint, etc.). Check not only the copyright dates on the particular scores but also the production dates for the music itself - the number of changes to copyright law (particularly in USA) in the 1900s make it a minefield.

Apologies that you probably know this already.
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I did not say all torrent traffic was illegal, but if you're legally distributing content through BitTorrent, you have no reason not to use a tracker. This means that the majority of trackerless torrent traffic will be illegal.
Interesting.

Comparing Dropbox and Jungledisk's pricing:

Dropbox is $9.99/month for 50GB of storage.
Jungledisk is $(3 + 6.75)/month for 50GB of storage.

Jungledisk seems a little cheaper at the 100GB level, assuming you're using the Rackspace cloud instead of S3.

Has anyone had any experience with the Rackspace hosted email? How good is their web-based client?
We just need more optical cabling
When will the RIAA and MPAA realize that trying to suppress technology is like trying to kick your way out of quicksand? This is indeed a win for them in the short term, but the way I see it, technology is evolving in response to whatever legal challenges are presented.
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I think you have it somewhat backwards.

Of course it is good to get rid of the obvious scammers, let's say you rule out everybody that charges a fee to pitch, after that you are lucky if one of the remaining ones will invest in you, it is not like people will be falling over each other to make an investment.

The investment business is a buyers market, and almost always you have to be willing to 'play the field', in other words prepare for a number of pitches to similar parties in a short span of time.
In this case I think there's a simpler explanation: the result fits us well because there are so many overlapping questions. You might answer one question in a way that indicates you as an extrovert, but there will be many other answers that will clearly mark you as an introvert.
AT&T had a first mover advantage in smart-phones-for-the-masses market, but as Verizon starts offering comparable Android based phones with a much better network, they will lose this lead.
Somewhere in the hitch hikers guide there is this line: "I can work out your personality problems to 6 decimal places", I never thought I'd see that in real life.
That can only work for so long since those services are centralized. If a large amount of copyrighted material is distributed illegally through those services, they will be targeted very quickly by the content industry and either be shut down, or forced to screen all material.
Oh, I know what you mean ... I'm not doing any Windows-specific development, and when I tried, the libs were awful.

When I say C/C++ is a mess, I'm thinking more about the proliferation of libraries that are doing the same thing ... on every project I looked at I saw a different library for string-handling or for managing collections, and this is just the basic stuff. Then there's socket communication, RPC, multi-threading, GUI, and so on.

I also did a simple plugin for Varnish once, and I had to look at a lot of source-code and ask a lot of questions on IRC for even the most basic stuff, like ... what type is this method returning, how can I convert that to a string, is the memory referenced by this pointer deallocated or not, and so forth.

When you know the ins and outs of a C/C++ project it is definitely easier (or if you're lucky enough and the project uses Qt :)).
I travel extensively throughout the US. I carry an iPhone and a BlackBerry on vzw (and also a vzw wireless broadband card with a Cradlepoint router).

The Verizon network wins hands-down for overall coverage/speed. If I am in a location with both 3G coverage and available bandwidth on the 3G network, then the iPhone is a great mobile device. However, those instances are rare and quite often my iPhone is getting Internet access via the broadband card/Cradlepoint router over Verizons network.
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Digital natives. ... generation that has been at war with DRM and copyright ...
> Well did they? Also I don't see how a company could do otherwise - the public can never know as much about a company as the company itself.

They where not trading their own securities they where engaging in a private agreement among a select group of corporations to round trade a security. Only those in the select group where privy to this information.

> You sound as if corporations stand outside of the law. I don't think that is true today.

In certain aspects they are. They have limited liability which means that a person can act criminally and not have devastating impact on the corporation. While the same action on an individuals part would have total devastation to that entity.

>How did they violate my rights

They violate you rights by engaging in unethical behaviors that put the whole system at risk. Then use their ill gotten gains to exert influence of elected officials who are susceptible to human nature more than virtue. They then lobbied to be given grants of money from the public system that we as a group are indentured to in the future. While just a few years ago (with inside information) lobbied for significant consumer restrictions on debit relief. They took away your right to, with no questions asked, walk away from your debt (while they did just that a year later). A principal that this nation was founded on, The founding laws where very clear on the fact that America would not be a debtors servitude system and that all entities, if they felt it necessary, would be granted amnesty from debt burden. That changed in 2005 on the dawn of the collapse.

So yes, I do blame the corporations for their lobbying as well the politicians share in the blame, but to not view them as incestuously one in the same, is to overlook some blatantly obvious actions on the part of both parties for a mutual gain on there part while the nation picks up the tab.
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Yeah and it's not really a win for them since the technology has advanced to the point where decentralisation is possible.
I'm getting "502 Bad Gateway - nginx" at http://idea-ne.ws/
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I agree, the "igon value" thing was a more revealing error than a minor typo. Gladwell is a talented quick study, by necessity. In the New Yorker article, he was just using "gaussian" and "igon value" for color, to give a sense of the mathematical sophistication of the quants.

In this case, the ploy was obvious to people with a modicum of a math background, because "eigenvalues" and "gaussian distributions" are not particularly obscure topics - they're something almost any undergrad in a quant-ish field will encounter (early, in lower division classes). Furthermore, by mis-spelling it, Gladwell does suggest that he implies a greater understanding of a field than he actually has (something quick studies are good at, including many progrmmers, which is probably why folks on this board are so attuned to it).

That said, it was a minor part of the article. This shouldn't have made it past the editors.
Didn't Plourde just dive into 'Fail Early, Fail Often' with the way they did documentation?
I am not confusing the two the parent said "but I blame the people who gave the money, not the ones who asked for it."

My response was that there is an incestuous relationship between the two, so you cannot delineate between who to blame, it is the same people, the asking and the giving where one in the same.
These are very sad news. I truly hope he can beat it.
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I came across this site a year or so ago and really enjoyed using it to discover and draw various well-known fractals.

Here are a few programs I made with it. For some reason I tried to write them in a pure-ish functional style, accepting that the turtle has to move and turn but avoiding the "cheat" commands like setxy (placing the turtle at an absolute position) or make (setting a variable). Note that the default is to 'run normally'. You might want to click 'stop program' and then 'run fast'.

* Sierpinski triangle: http://logo.twentygototen.org/83EGZPPC

* Sierpinski carpet: http://logo.twentygototen.org/4c5iy9iU

* Sierpinski arrowhead curve: http://logo.twentygototen.org/hYDSZt8h

* Hilbert curve: http://logo.twentygototen.org/CFyUSzqG

* Hexaflake: http://logo.twentygototen.org/AJeuVkKc
A humble tip: messing around with Nginx as a webserver may have some big drawbacks. Great, but poor documentation in English.

If one's using, say, Django, our experience tells us that mod_wsgi + Apache are the way to go. Otherwise, you'll see that Nginx page consistently and will lose focus on the idea itself.
This is like the new mogul thing, maybe you could mail the maintainer ?
Mr. Hodgson said he wrote up his findings each year and asked the board for permission to publish the results; each year, they said no. Finally, the board relented -- according to Mr. Hodgson, on a close vote -- and the study appeared in January in the Journal of Wine Economics.

I love it. He knew from his findings that the wine review board's decision would vary from year to year.
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Except that, for instance, anything labelling me as F rather then T is clearly nonsense.

There are a couple that I could interpret as "somewhat like me" and several that are clearly not me at all.
Are there AAA game devs with 300 person teams who really think they can win without thorough documentation? WTF?

"Release early, release often" is for webapps and small teams. When you're dealing with a AAA game there is such a huge network effect it's actually crucial to make the first release a good release. You then get all the word-of-mouth which drives the game industry. Most AAA titles that ship with bugs pay for it dearly in sales because gamers talk to each other and word gets out in a few days about just how finished the game is.

"Release early, release often" can't possibly apply to AAA games with 300 person teams and fixed launch dates.
Palm has bigger fish to fry than worrying about iTunes
For me it is more complicated than that. Whether humanity accepts 'Copyright laws' is more an ethical issue for me than technical.
A more trivial (and a bit demagog) example: if technology enables the creation of very cheap and very effective weapons, people still should not shoot each other, and there should be some regulations which in a way 'suppress technology'.

The real question is that will humanity morally accept or reject the concept we call 'copyright'.
dkersten, rapidshare/megaupload have been around, and been used for years by pirates and for pron. Any uptick recently in usage is temporary, the real top-tier pirates stopped using BT and TPB years ago, and are already two or 3 moves ahead (think private, secure networks for top end distribution).
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The only reason RS and MU are still around is because they aren't (and never were) the 'real' problem. If the casual pirates move there (as a result of TPB) you're right, it's an easy kill for the industry.
That's kinda the point though. It can take a few days to a few weeks to put together a good M:tG deck, and then games run from minutes to an hour. It takes a few hours to play Settlers. With Dominion, you put together the deck as you play, and if people are reasonably familiar with the cards, a game lasts 20-30 minutes. That's quite a fast pace for what's still a fairly interesting strategy game.
> trackerless torrent traffic

How do you do that? I heard about something like this some time ago, but that's all I know.
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Is 99 cents a large discrepancy? iPhone apps sell for less than a dollar, and still get pirated in large numbers.
It's possible that they're holding their cash to roll out something like WiMAX instead.
They should be selling the hardware and make a profit on that.

There is a movement going of open source hardware but if the 'open source phone' is any indication it has a way to go before it will be competitive. What's in an archos anyway that makes it special ? (hardware wise)
Ummmm . the title says TPB tracker is down, so it's actually very accurate
$4/month for 10 gigs is a nice price point. I sent an email to Dropbox a while ago asking them for something similar, because I didn't need 50 gigs, but 2 wasn't really enough.
>But I'm really busy now with my next app which may or may not pay the rent the way ShoveBox does.

Have you considered if this is the best use of your time right now? Was it spolsky who said you generally make a lot more money by adding new features to your old product, than by creating a whole new product?

Not as glamorous or fun, I know, but...
No he really is talking about failure not releasing. He is specifically talking about the core design and iterating over the design to optimize it before releasing. His take is that on mega-budget projects there isn't a luxury to do this and so it is better to just pick and freeze the design at the start and stay the course regardless of what happens. I totally agree with you that this thinking is self-destructive.

What isn't mentioned here are development teams that aren't doing this but will (probably) be fairly successful, like the new Starcraft 2 game.

Alternative methods like agile dev or stage gate would take longer and cost more but are more likely to produce more fun. I think this blog post is a good explanation: http://lostgarden.com/2007/02/rockets-cars-and-gardens-visua...
Ask HN: DropZap has a high rating in the US app store. How should I market it?
Demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ub6gCU03iE

App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap/id338490375?mt=8

What should I do to market this game?
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I am convinced that many wineries should sell the same wine for different prices. They could sell the same wine for $7/bottle, $30/bottle and $125/bottle. Of course the $125 should have a different label and should be marketed a lot differently but the wine itself doesn't have to change.

I personally just buy a big jug of dark red cooking wine. I can't tell the difference between it and the other more expensive wine, and I refuse to spend more money for snoberry (note: I have nothing against others paying that much if it makes them feel good/better).
So why won't hosting the link be aiding and abetting copyright violation?
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Agreed. Sounds like he is just stating which happens to hold more of his interest currently.
Thank you. It so rare that a statistics joke makes me actually laugh.
Those are really nice for travel or the office (I'm drinking from one right now) but I find the volume, weight and mechanism of the cup (making it only really usable for coffee) makes it too much of a luxury for backpacking.

I mean, keep in mind that the drip filter I linked is 14 grams. =D

And then you just reuse with whatever cup you are already using.
It's pretty early to make it seem like this is a done deal, from page wo in the article:

"Because the researchers weren't able to test their techniques on real-world systems they don't know for certain that they could thwart a wiretap. But Sherr believes that "there are definitely dangers" in the way the standard is written. "Because it's a black-box system, we don't know for sure."

And besides that, I don't think this will have much practical value. If you're aware that you are being tapped you'd stop using your phone and if you are not aware you're being tapped you are also not going to ddos the exchange-feds connection.

The not-so-smart thing to do is to alert the feds to the fact that you know you're being tapped by dos'ing them.
I think that is more a problem with the server restarting and the script to bring up the fcgi server up again not being set to a Sxx script in rc.d
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There's so many good examples of this. For instance, The Lion King vs Kimba the White Lion:

http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
Nice to see Amazon to be 'inclusive', now if they would be so kind as to start shipping dx's to europe...

I'd be getting it mostly for PDFs and project gutenberg stuff, I'm not even sure how well that will work.
Awesome! Many congratulations!

Did you exchange emails with Mark and he agreed to provide funding? I remember reading that he funded Red Swoosh or Ice Rocket that way.
Anecdotally and from personal observation, piracy through these channels seem to be huge. There have been some new records released recently, and when I was searching for reviews of them, some of the top Google results were actually links to rapidshare and its ilk.
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