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There's always room to be pedantic but sometimes common sense wins.

There's no way in hell he has the rights to publish detailed character drawings of every hit DC character. And the odds of him getting ANYTHING cleared through Warner legally are below zero. This is common sense to anyone who's lived in Los Angeles for more than week.

It's obviously the typical "hope nobody notices!" status quo that lurks behind much of what's on the web.

A quick scan of the comments here on HN reveals the typical "it's on the web, it must be good for all involved! And now I'm gonna buy some comics and watch a movie, too!" exuberance. I've stated nothing about my opinion on those matters other than I post here and I'm also an artist -- so you might guess where I lie on the spectrum.

That said, the decade-old Cory Doctorow boilerplate arguments obviously did not pan out so we should probably stop using them now and figure out a way to sort this mess out. Unfortunately if your first instinct wasn't "geeze, that sure is a copyright violation" you're unlikely to be able to close deals with those corporate shitheads.
Out of curiosity, why do you ask if they are web developers?
A vigilante system is prima facie unaccountable, otherwise it's just another justice system
"System" -- any bloody thing you care about, any collection of mass and energy.

"Optimize" -- to constrain the system to within a subset of its state-space. Or in other words, to make only some things happen rather than all other possible things.

Generally, as long as something is physically possible, you can spend some amount of energy to make it reasonably probable or unreasonably improbable. This may just be far more energy than you happen to have, or care to spend.
The biggest impact I could see this happening would be sinking auto-DMCA bots, since without a human in the loop there isn't any consideration of fair use at all.
As I said, I'm not talking about marijuana. The vast majority (75-85%) of Mexican drug cartel revenues come from other sources: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/22/how-can-mari....

And I think you're delusional about the "small number of social conservatives" who think drugs are a problem. Support for keeping drugs like cocaine and heroin illegal ranges from 80-90%: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p.... Marijuana is the only one that a slim majority think shouldn't be legal.

Also, most people do not try drugs harder than marijuana at any point: http://archive.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2012SummNatFindDetTable.... 70% of people never try an illicit drug other than marijuana, and only 7.5% report using an illicit drug other than marijuana in the past year.

And even if a substantial minority of people do try an illicit drug other than marijuana at some point, what does that mean? 13% of surveyed Americans reported driving drunk in the past year (double the percentage that report doing any non-marijuana illicit drug in the past year): http://www.fairwarning.org/2010/12/more-than-30-million-amer.... How many of them do you think nonetheless believe drunk driving should be illegal? Does the fact that a minority of people engage in conduct that may be hypocritical negate the sentiments of the majority?
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I agree 30,000+ deaths is a high price.

A NTHSA study states it has direct economic cost of $277 billion / year. Indirect cost of another $600 billion+.

Put it another way, car crashes is also a big business.

It's big business for hospitals, insurance, body shops, and lawyers.

As for the economics of car ownership, if almost everybody had to own a car or two, then people's average salaries would simply rise. If nobody owned a car, then salaries would job. The savings don't go into pockets of employees.
Yes, and the White House are the same guys running planting spyware in the American *ware products used around the world at unprecedented scale. Savvy?
11. Sarcastic lists from smug developers that make me out to be an idiot are off putting.

If you are ever thinking of marketing something where you genuinely want people to buy it and not just make yourself (or others who have already bought it) feel superior; do not use this technique as an example, even if you genuinely mean it in good humour.
Worked at a major retailer. Quirky would bring their products through to show us and the universal reaction was:

1. WTF?

2. The MSRP is what?!?

I mean, an $80 egg minder tray that talks to my cell phone?
My first thought was that it would be good for a smart contracts platform, automating things for people/companies.
Really? I feel like lots of people know how to get a programming job with a CS degree, and you in fact hit the nail on the head in your response, learn the technologies that employers are going to want you to have. Experiences to learn these things aren't very difficult to find, imho.
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Hi Folks,

So I recently bought a house and I'm the only source of income. I crunched the numbers several times in a spreadsheet to make sure I should manage it. Even though I can manage it, I'd still like to make extra money preferably with programming since that's what I'm good at. If I could earn on average an extra $50-100 a week I'd be happy.

I've tutored in the past which isn't a great gig when you use services like Wyzant which take a 40% cut.

I've looked at contracting sites like guru, freelance, upwork but the jobs are vague and the bidding wars are intimidating.

I was thinking of keeping it local and offering shops and restaurants in my area my web design and programming services.

Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?
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I'm 31 and thought the same thing. Didn't realize till this post.
The problem with encrypting backups is what do they use as the encryption key? You have to have some route back to the users password, as that's what they'll be using to restore. That leaves it vulnerable to a LE password reset even if the backup is encrypted.
He describes an old pascal dialect http://wiki.freepascal.org/Why_Pascal_is_Not_My_Favorite_Pro...
Link broken. Here's a working one: https://github.com/ptpb/pb
Damn, guess I'm a sucker for trying to better myself by attending 9 weeks of fun/education leading to an awesome job that I love.

How could I have been so foolish!
Your example is solely if THEY initiate a lawsuit then you're allowed to respond, not if they do something against you that warrants suing them first.

Edit: E.g. They can copy your whole business, design and all, and if you're using React and sue them - then they can use that against you / you'd have to immediately cease using it; I'm not actually sure what the outcome would be if a license automatically expires.
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Absolutely and I don't think any other company could think in this way and succeed as wildly as Apple have.
I'm fairly sure you're mistaken. They changed it so it was better, however you still can't sue them or take any acton against them or the license is revoked.

Edit:
> The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate
directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent
Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or
in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of
its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating
to the Software.
So... CDL doesn't exist. LOCKSS doesn't exist. DPLA doesn't exist. HathiTrust doesn't exist. DuraSpace doesn't exist. Well, interesting.
It looks like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/oR15I.jpg

I'm sure the TSA would be able to figure it out, but the goal would be to leave the person whose luggage it is without any reason to believe something is amiss or to bring it to the attention of the TSA in the first place.
Your initial thought is why most people believed there to be little use in IO other than maybe removing software watermarks and the like. But this idea of a "punctured program" came around in which you can place the key in the program in a very clever way such that you get a security proof about hiding the key in the obfuscated program.

It turns out we can do just about anything in modern crypto using IO - it is an extremely powerful primitive - including symmetric encryption, public-key encryption, etc.
Perhaps the process is both scalable and patentable.
> with an upper class person who we can relate to

The article does claim that other (typically upper middle class) traders often looked down on him because of his accent and education, e.g. "Hayes was on better terms with his brokers than most. They had in Hayes a kindred spirit—a state school Londoner with a cockney accent" and "Hayes, he said, seemed very 'barrow boy'—London finance slang for a low-class poseur."

Come to think of it, it would be interesting to compare the class backgrounds of those successfully prosecuted and those who got away scot-free, just to see how those in the old boy network fared.
I didn't ask you to change your opinion, I merely asked you to become better at expressing it as such.

Think of it like asking a Christian to say "X is what I believe" rather than "you're going to hell"... it's more respectful to other viewpoints :)
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I like the attention to detail in the anatomy and how a realistic human form can be suggested with a few clean lines. The men look like men and the women look like women. Idealized versions of such, but the realism is striking.

Maybe I've spent too much time looking (and laughing) at comic "art" by the likes of Liefeld...
This is kind of sad for me to read. I realized it was always a long shot but it is certainly appealing to encourage the creativity to flow. Given that their failure was that they green lighted too many products that never went anywhere, I'm wondering if there is a way to fix that aspect of the problem? Sort of an MVP version of a product before full production.
Why not find a startup that could use an extra developer, or an agency ? Restaurants, etc make horrible clients - and often pay very little, considering how much time it takes to close the deal. I could find moonlighting devs work all day. What technologies are you comfortable in?
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Excellent storytelling, humour and slice of life human drama. It's just amazing how Junot Diaz tells of the tragedy of one family and the fukú curse that haunts them over generations.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar/dp/15944...
Going from Nikon D70 to the GX1 was significant downgrade in terms of image quality.
If you have the opportunity, go tour an Anheuser-Busch production facility. They are the perfect demonstration of operating on a massive scale with yeast, what ever you feel about their end product. Will this change the world? No. Will is make it possible to drastically reduce the cost of producing these compounds on an industrial scale? With what's described in the article? No, because it still requires specially prepared source chemicals.

"Still, it’s an enormous challenge to modify yeast to synthesize THC or cannabidiol from raw materials like sugar; the current strains in Dr. Kayser’s laboratory are capable of only the final stage of the synthesis. Ultimately, biochemists may need to insert more than a dozen genes into the yeast."

If they solve the above, then it will become interesting, and I'm sure they are rushing headlong to solve it.
They could, but none of the ones they've put in my luggage have ever had any kind of (visible) identification data.
Instead of content-free sarcasm, contribute constructively to the discussion by telling us what these organizations do, and what parts you think they do better or worse than IA.
Scalable? Yes. Patentable? No. Although, the yeast could be a trade secret.
Great points in sustainability about giving people ownership. Creating a vested interest in the members is crucial to a community's survival. Tactfully delegating responsibilities to the right people is something that I notice is common among fast-growing, tight-knit organizations.
Glad you enjoyed it. I got lost in his site the first time I found it too so I know what you're talking about.
It's about dominant position. Having the sort of stifling monopoly that Google has opens it up to additional regulation, just like Microsoft was before it. Apple is a niche market still, to this day, and isn't under as much scrutiny.
The average age for Parkinson symptoms is 60 years old. In the year 2070 I would hope we will have an effective treatment.
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Knowing the theory can help in the real world. It really can.

But it's not everything in the real world. It's only a small part. And the CS degrees aren't teaching enough of the rest of what real-world programmers need to know.

And that would be fine, if the CS people were headed for academic careers in computer science. But they're not. 95% of them are going to become software engineers, not computer scientists. That means that CS departments are failing to properly train 95% of their graduates. (Alternately, it means that 95% of the CS students are in the wrong department.)

CS departments need to choose: Are we going to teach software engineering, not just CS? Or are we going to be a real CS department, only much smaller? Or are we going to be of little value to most of our students?
Why use a style guide?
In which case we are working of significantly different definitions of justice/vigilante systems.
You've got it backwards. It's the author of the dancing baby video that has to show monetary loss. That is, Lenz cannot sue Universal unless she can show that taking down her video caused her monetary loss.
I asked "What does "police state" have to do with this article?"

Your answer also doesn't appear to have anything to do with this article.

To start with, who in it suggests to 'criminalize every interaction between males and females'? The article even mentions the sexual harassment in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, which only concerned interactions (and not even ones based on 'sexual desire') between men.

Plus, I disagree with your definition of a police state. The laws can be crystal clear about what's considered a crime - eg, holding a meeting with more than 5 people without permission, publishing without first getting an authorization stamp from the censor, not having an internal passport to move around the country, spending the night in a place not designated for people of your skin color - and still be a police state.

The underlying difficulty is that "police state" is ambiguous. If you want a boss to be free to fire a employee who refuses to have sex with a potential customer, then a law banning that practice may be a sign of a police state. If you think a company should be free to reject veterans, Catholics, or Indians as employees, then certainly you might consider the existing civil rights laws to be examples of police state action.

For someone who thinks that anti-discrimination laws are part of a police state, then of course anyone who supports anti-discrimination laws supports a police state. But that weakens the meaning of 'police state' to something rather tepid and useless. "There should be a law preventing the setting off of fireworks during periods of extreme fire danger" is a limit on freedom, yet hardly something that deserves being called a police state.

So again I ask, "What does "police state" have to do with this article?"
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Torque Pro[1] -- it's the reason I bought my first Android phone. On the flip side, there's ForeFlight[2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foreflight-mobile/id33325263...
None of that evidence counts. It's all falsified. Or the people producing it are stooges. Or they're so stupid they get it wrong. Some of it is a conspiracy. Some of it is misinterpreted. And it's a good thing anyway. And even if it's real (which it isn't) it's not caused by anything humans do.

I can come up with a million of these. When an axiomatic starting point is fixed (hello religion and other cultural beliefs), you can come up with post-hoc rationalisations that not only mean you get to be right, but you get to feel smart and special (and with this one, you get to make people who have no idea what they're talking about feel that their street-smarts or some bullshit "common sense" is superior to actually knowing things, like those scientists who think they're so much better than everyone else). Trying to reason anyone out of a position they did not reach through reason is a wasted effort. You'll just go insane if you try :)
Knowing PHP extremely well would be a great place to start a career.
Dell actually has multiple lines of their products that they sell with officially supported Ubuntu now. And you don't pay for the Windows license, so you save a few bucks.
Very well said.

Same experience here, running http://InterviewKickstart.com. Having a background in CS is very helpful and often the differentiator in how palatable you find Google/FB interviews vs not. Without CS background (degree or not, but something similar), candidates find it very challenging to even get through the course, much less appear for core CS interviews.

Degree is not just a certificate; it's a proxy to 2-4 years of working through interesting stuff under guidance (professors) and with a group of like-minded people. It ain't a panacea, but it's a great opportunity for those who recognize the importance of that controlled setting of learning.
Ahh.. good idea. You mean something around https://bitshake.io/ right? First problem that came to my mind would be conflicting laws between two people creating a mutual contract from two different countries.
He defrauded real people whose borrowing costs and investment proceeds are a function of the daily LIBOR fix.
Funnily enough, a new blogpost about Facebook's Relay was just posted. It's about 3 submissions below this one!
re: a digital capture of a whiteboard, I encourage you to take a look at SMART kapp. SMART's been working hard to solve a number of the key problems mentioned in this thread around dead simple whiteboard capture, note saving, and real time sharing with students.

Full disclosure - I work at SMART.
People acting like this is a "Russia against the West" thing are ignoring the fact that the EU, India, Brazil, and others are all conducting similar investigations, which are likely to have the same result.

And the US even found merit to investigate Google, before quietly burying the case.
Depends who you are and where you are. A middle class individuals in the modern day US justice system? Unless the US Gov is going after you for a particular reason, then you are probably going to have a great chance of a fair trial. But there are many other cases where there is no greater chance of justice with the official system than with a vigilante system.
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I think the difference is that no one is really making money off desktop Linux. How can you argue monopoly when your "competitor" isn't even a business?

Yes, I know there are commercial Linux distributions, but they're almost exclusively targeted towards corporate and server use.
I'm seeing the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/vYgP0Dj.png. It's bad taste in design, but I don't think they should "feel ashamed of what they've done".

For what it's worth, you can delete annoying parts of a page using the developer console in Firefox or Chrom(e|ium).
It makes sense when the plant is still illegal, while the yeast product is available as a drug for patients. This would be a real money maker, but I think the plant is still the better deal for patients and should be legal.
I've never paid much attention CloudFlare's datacenter map before, but I'm quite surprised to not see anything in India or near Egypt/Israel.
Hi! So if you have an unlimited text messaging plan you'll be fine. Otherwise standard rates from your carrier will apply / it will be counted toward your monthly message limit.

We're definitely thinking of letting people customize it. The thought is to build some basic AI in so we'd text you a few questions eg do you want quotes about startups? funny quotes? motivational quotes? Depending what you answer, that's what you'll get.

Alternatively, we could set the customization up as a webpage, then you can check off the types of quotes/individuals who inspire you?

Any preference either way? text or web customization?

Thanks for the feedback!
No one will deny there's an asteroid bearing down on us, if there is.

Hello, humanity? Of course they would.
Exactly, this isn't about Android, the open source OS, this is about the Play Store, Google's proprietary service, and the secretive contracts Google mandates surrounding it.
Perhaps it can be generalized to compounds other than THC. Possibly even drugs that do not exist in nature.

Or maybe not, but we won't know until we start experimenting and exploring. If we knew exactly what would work in advance, it wouldn't be research.
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How do you justify the criticisms you actually did make?
thanks! is there a particularly category you'd like us to start with eg quotes for startup founders?
The main benefit is meeting smart people (assuming you go to such a college). The next benefit is that you can get structured coursework to teach you things that you might have trouble self-teaching.

The costs are high: Not everyone who is there should be, many courses are needlessly competitive and one must waste time over-preparing just to be competitive. Student loans.

I'd actually recommend doing a startup first for about 2 years and then going to college after so that you can make proper use of it (and of course drop out if necessary).