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Involuntary, inhumane incarceration threatens actual thieves. Those that collate stealing and piracy are wrong; it's just a cheap rhetorical point they use because it takes too many words to dispute.

Moral values should come into play only at a meta-level, because we can only ever talk about economic models rather than the reality that economics doesn't actually describe.

Morals do function as a modifying factor in the model of the overall willingness of people to donate to artists for recorded music.

BitTorrent pirates are never ordered to jail, except maybe the Pirate bay guys, but I don't think anyone expects them to actually serve any time.
If anyone is up for it, I'm willing to bet $10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that there will be no hyperinflation in the US.
Maybe because lots of people who like SEO read these forums? At a certain amount of users, sub-interests can gain a voting-block like effect. We'd need to see more data about increased SEO posts to know for sure though.
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that's where all of my C&Ds have come from :)
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_enforcement_of...

You're pretty much covered and you won't have to pay a penny.
We just taught our graphic designers how to use git. Yeah, it’s a command line interface, but really once you’ve had an hours training on the basic concept and been given a cheatsheet it’s not difficult.
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You're in Europe, you are protected. The database is copyrighted whilst the data isn't itself copyrightable. It is when the act of compiling the data is non-trivial and you can show that the data has resulted from this process (which you appear to be able to given that you have used names and entered routes in a way specific to your process) that you are covered.

I'd start off with talking to him. His website http://www.philipkirwan.ie/site/index.html states that he's doing an undergrad at Dublin City University, which no doubt includes lessons in the social aspect of computing including Copyright, Patents and Data Protection, etc.

My points: He will be well aware of copyright, and the institution really does not want to bring itself into disrepute as a result of the actions of their students. It would not do his study well at all to provable have stolen the work of someone else having been made very well aware of copyright during prior study. The question raised, "Is all of Philip Kirwin's work his own work?". And that for a university, and for Philip himself is a very big deal.

So I'd simply appeal to his own sense of self-preservation in that if he has indeed (as it appears) taken the content from your work and passed it off as his own then he is playing with fire that will burn him far greater than just losing the right to sell one iPhone application.

At this point, he's already potentially damaged his reputation through his actions, now it is up to him to determine whether he wants to salvage this or risk burning himself totally.
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I've worked with a large team of artists and we had an art repository of around 125GB and maybe 10000 changes. Subversion worked really well. We used the tortoise interface and after a few weeks everyone got used to it.

Adding plugins for specific apps is a good idea. I had previously used Alienbrain and the only real difference was the plugins (AB had plugins for MS Office, 3DSMax, Dev Studio and Maya) and an interesting bucket backup system where you could back up legacy checkings making the database smaller and significantly faster. At the time we had a database of about 1TB and most of it was in bucket backups.

Another interesting feature was the workflow where an artist would checkin an item but it wouldn't go into the main development branch until a senior artist has checked the work. This was a nice idea but proved to be too time expensive for our senior artists who of course were not paid to be gatekeepers and were the best artist we had so management preferred them to actually make things!

The least interesting thing was the price per seat which was around £1000 per year and a support contract which grew depending on the size of your team (this was about 8 years ago so I may be off on the prices then and now).

Although Alienbrain was cool my personal feeling was that the money was better spent on a little bit of training and a subversion system. As long as your team is smaller then say 50 artists and developers.
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Most Java books are written by people who couldn't get a job as a Java programmer (since programming almost always pays more than book writing; I know because I've done both). These books are full of errors, bad advice, and bad programs. These books are dangerous to the beginner, but are easily recognized and rejected by a programmer with even a little experience in another language.
Map makers often add a bit of erroneous information to their maps, which allows them to detect when competitors copy their data outright. A similar approach seems applicable to this kind of application.
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Except his own act of compiling is by ‘scraping’ the original source, against their own copyrights and T&Cs. In the case of a bus company’s timetable their own data—the times they run to, routes, etc.—is not public domain unless they release it as such. Both developers are equally at fault unless one or both has written permission to use the data in this manner.
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He's an undergrad.

Only studying a Bachelors degree. He'd definitely be aware of the legal positioning of copyright though.

Report him IMO. Rights Infringement.
So what? People do bad science, bad business, bad education all the time, because of unconscious biases, because of pressures to 'succeed', publish, etc. How many people are 'playing the game' in this old world?

Not to excuse exaggerations: but just because some people get overzealous, that doesn't change the facts ... e.g. that glaciers worldwide are shrinking, the oceans are becoming more acidic.

Many GW deniers are also guilty of being blind in one eye.
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A little poking around shows that this is supported by the Long Now Foundation. They always write dates with five digits: 02010. They are trying to build a monument called the clock of the long now, which is meant to last 10,000 years.

If you read the article about Brian Eno yesterday then this is another example of his influence in all manners of things. He sits on the board.

I admire the foundation if only due to the scope of it's ambitious endeavors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
You're correct... I read it wrong as I was scanning. Fixed my post.
Why the downvotes?

Practically everyone who sells SEO services has a blog explaining what is SEO, how it works and why you should hire him. These blogs are SEO'd to the maximum of the owner's ability, of course. What I hate about these articles is that they are optimized for indexers, not humans: the explanations doesn't make much sense but they try to cram in all the relevant keywords. Interestingly, this works well also with humans in a short-attention-span mode: you would think the article is useful if you just skim through it.

I have stopped reading anything mentioning SEO in the title so this may not be the case with the mentioned articles, but it is the explanation why I stopped reading them: the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad.
> (like not allowing teachers who are homosexual)

Do you really have those kinds of laws? I heard that homosexuals weren't allowed in the military in the US, and that seemed bad enough. How backwards can it get?
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I have written my own Forth Interpreter in Scheme. But it was almost meta-circular.
That doesn't justify others stealing from him though.
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It would be interesting to see stats on the composition of groups that YC has funded since inception; ie, percentage of all programmer groups vs programmer/biz guy vs all biz guys, etc. Any insights PG?
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no, but it means he cant bring any action against the guy if he owns no IP on the content either.

EDIT: except perhaps the database schema
I agree that the school should have done nothing, and the dictionary definition was perfectly fine, and not graphic at all.

But your suggested letter is terrible. A school most certainly can be held responsible. Schools are held to much higher standards than other places, because people are required (forced) to send their kids there.
As a result, the subject of submissions is autocorrelated. I wonder if this could be visualized using this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048866
Continental Europe also uses cash. But cheques haven't been seen for ages. I guess cash might just be a different kind of old-fashioned.

(Britain seems to get rid of cheques slowly.)
It's not that I don't believe you, but it would be great if someone would properly encode that file as MP4 so we could see the quality and size for ourselves. I'd do it but I don't know shit about encoding video.
As an IT consultant, I once got a completely non-technical client using SVN for all their documents. With a little guidance on the use of TortoiseSVN, they soon came to love it. Years later, they're still using it. SVN isn't just for developers!
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I downvoted you for the sarcasm.
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No, the flag option (accessible through reply) is for spam.
I agree with others that suggest website.grader leaves some potentially important analysis off the report. This service is obviously similar, but as much as I like website.grader, I've long thought there is room for improvement, and I think you may be moving in the right direction.

I'm curious what you're doing to populate the "popular pages" section of the site. The site I tried isn't heavily trafficed so maybe that makes it more difficult but those certainly aren't the most popular pages on the site.

Also, may I suggest that you have a native English speaker or experienced writer proofread the "help" copy? (I hope I'm not assuming to much when I guess that the writer is not a native English speaker.) There is a lot of good information there, but some of the entries have spelling or grammatical errors, or are simply awkwardly phrased. For example: "If the Google's cache of the website lack text or links, it means there's a programming problem."
techcrunch europe would be all over this. You should reach out to Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) and chat to him.
I have observed most such issues get resolved after sending a threatening mail
The author bungles the significance of the iPhone app platform, which is an obvious example of device lock-down and control, not any kind of departure in the direction of openness. And obviously Apple planned their Tablet in their usual secretive, top-down method of hardware design.

There are different issues here, for example company culture as far as internal and external transparency, which is very low at Apple and very high at (say) Google. Then there's Jobs's intense control of product design, which I'm sure is only to the good. Then there's being controlling of users of developers through DRM and the app store (as the only distribution channel for iPhone apps) -- I'm not sure where they're going with that (hardware support for DRM? more closed development platforms?) and I'm not sure I like it.
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Nice article. Gonna keep that one.

Two problems with Coral cache. First of all, it's blocked by several popular corporate firewall apps (like Fortiguard, for example). Secondly, it's hella slow.

That being said, it makes an excellent last line of defense and is well worth setting up against the kind of DDOS you get when sites like /. and digg pick up on something you've done.
I was in contact with Dublin Bus during the development of the app. Sent them screenshots, etc. Anyone who responded thought it was a good idea, but passed me on to talk to someone else in the bureaucracy (it's a public company funded by the taxpayer).

In the end, the leads fizzled out and I didn't get written permission to use the data from Dublin Bus. I continued to keep them up to date on it, hoping that they'd even call me up on it so that we could figure something out. My objective was to get at the data cleanly without having to scrape, and also to form a relationship that might allow me to use the upcoming real-time data.

As I mentioned in the post, there was no app available for this before mine. Dublin Bus website is a mess (they've updated it in the last few months, but it's still awful) and it's particularly awkward to use on a small screen.

They're a government owned company and others have pointed out that 'data' can't have a copyright, but I'm not really sure to be honest. I suspect they're aware of it and are choosing not to act since it's benefiting their service.

I would argue that this is a different issue to what this other developer has done: He has taken my schema and my translation of the data which is my own original work.
I think most of us have plenty of evidence to suggest that it is a lucrative profession. It's not very hard in the sense that no one is asking you to do anything besides at a desk and it does pay very well. I've always made more than my mom who is a CPA and I don't have a degree. I doubt there are many other careers I could have chosen where I could say the same thing.

I also don't know any programmers who are out of work even the ones who I'm pretty sure are bad. You can't say the same about many other professions especially right now.
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I'm not sure I agree on responsibility. The law is probably not on my side (which means that part of the letter would certainly need changed, but it was just supposed to be an example anyway of the appropriate kind of response), but imagine a school provides a computer lab students can use during their lunch to do research. If one of the kids decides to look at porn, who is to blame, the school or the kid? I don't see any way the school should be held responsible for that.
It's not just SEO, it is practically any subject on HN that gets a periodic wave of interest.

I think it is simply tied in to the nature of the web. If you 'inject' a bunch of users via a link on HN in to a spot on the web then from there they will spread like sinking a mineshaft will exhaust the resources in the neighbourhood of the shaft.

Then, when that particular mine is exhausted (no more interesting content to be found around that locus in the web) the subject dies down until someone finds a new and untapped reservoir.

I've seen this happen around all kinds of subjects, from programming languages to hardware hacks and political stuff.
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wow, this seemed like an article form the Onion. Tell me it isn't true!

anyway, the kid can just google it, or use Bing for better results :)
Because everyone knows having a kid type in 'oral sex' into Google is a much better idea than him looking it up in a school dictionary. ahem.
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Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I agree you have done work that should be protectable. I commend you for approaching them, but you shouldn’t have given up. Without written agreement from bus company that you have permission it’s going to be very hard to go after him. Get that and you are golden.

They have original creator rights and recourse for the way you extracted data without those permissions in place. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1997/73032--c.htm#15

While you could argue he has ripped you off, without that written permission to use the data you can’t effectively argue your case.

I’d say your sin was less deliberate and more from a position of ignorance, but sadly in law that’s little defence.

(IANAL, usual caveats apply. Seek legal advice, blah, blah.)
Bah, the next bit on the same page:

There are a small number of excellent Java books. I like the official specification and the books by Arnold and Gosling, Marty Hall, and Peter van der Linden. For reference I like the Java in a Nutshell series and the online references at Sun (I copy the javadoc APIs and the language specification and its amendments to my local disk and bookmark them in my browser so I'll always have fast access.)
I'd be surprised if you couldn't drop your own gstreamer plugins into Opera's directory on Windows/Mac.

You'd be surprised at the hundreds of millions of XP users with codec packs installed already. For the remainder Mozilla would just need a nice 'codec not found, go here' dialog like they already have for Flash.
Is this really 'of interest to hackers'? Schools being stupid? It's hardly novel.
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The average offer for CS at UIUC is $72,286 [1], so the statement "only the most skewed [figures] come up with starting salaries approaching $60,000 annually" is definitely false. This article is factually incorrect and has a link bait title. Flagged.

[1] http://www.google.com/url?q=http://docs.google.com/viewer%3F...

EDIT: You'll also note that the document I provided shows the National Association of Colleges & Employers
(NACE) average right around $60k.
Most of us will not make millionaires by programming, sure, but I would still consider it a lucrative profession:

You can enter it without any education other than self thought much easier than most professions, that more formally requires some degree.

It can potentially offer a great deal of freedom compared to a lot of other professions. Freedom as in most programmers doesn't really need to have 8-4pm office hours, it's possible to do quite a lot of your work even while on the road.
The pay might not be sufficient for getting rich instantly, but certainly enough to live a good life.

However, the fact that you have to spend so much time researching in you spare time to keep up isn't always reflected in the pay.
"Are any of the following true? ... (e) None of the founders are programmers."

Isn't that basically automatic disqualification?
Encoding it with a good encoder would require access to the source, which I don't feel like finding if it even exists on the internet.

So instead, here's the same file with the junk stripped out: http://www.mediafire.com/?yuwj5zmmw4m
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I didn't say the analogy didn't hold, but that if it held, it didn't mean the argument was wrong.

Separately, I do think the argument is wrong, because it's based on the labor theory of value, which has been shown wrong.
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I never complain, I simply go to another site which offers the same product or take the risk if that's the only site selling the item... I haven't had much luck (meaning got a positive reply) with giving constructive feedback even on small sites.
I think once you have sent him a forceful note or two asking him to back off, I would probably drop it. If you want to try and drum up some publicity over it on some other blogs, you might be able to make some headway. But I wouldn't expend lots of energy on him. This sort of thing is akin to people who have their blogs stolen and mirrored by SEO sites using their RSS feeds. You can spend all infinte time and energy chasing after people like this. Alternatively, you can use that same time and energy making new apps and improving existing ones.

I haven't looked at both apps, but I would venture to guess that someone who is cutting corners by stealing from other people is probably also not spending a whole lot of time on design, polish, and user experience. Those are things that are hard to copy effectively and a place where you can set yourself apart.
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When I say "should" in this context, I'm expressing my preference about laws, not making any kind of statement about an objective morality.
I just tested this by submitting that same Scribd rant. My account sees it as having been submitted, but if I'm not logged in the story doesn't appear at all.

Can I add that Paul's method of making things disappear without telling users is shit? It was a lot of fun realizing my account was dead and I wasn't just going crazy. Same with this story. I almost posted a comment defending him until I thought to test the story logged out.
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Totally agree. The os should deal with codecs. A ubiquitous open format being preferable. And easy to install free codec bundles.
>I suggest you consult the dictionary on the definition of 'drivel'.

I meant drivel. The linked post starts with:

> So, I went with, “fuckyourwhoremotherinheronegoodear.”

Drivel is "childish talk" (mom insults, anyone?)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drivel

As to your other points, I think they are good. For me, intelligent debate does not talk about fucking anyone's whore mother in their ear. If that is what I was looking for, I'd read YouTube comments.

edit: admittedly, tptacek does have a point re: the flag button vs. blacklist.
Not only is programming as a profession not lucrative, it is mind numbing and desocializing. Software development on the other hand, which involves programming as just one of its activities, can be very lucrative, and fulfilling in many ways.
If Apple expects the Wednesday announcement/press event at the off-site auditorium to go well they probably need to make sure the device works outside the Apple campus network, don't they?
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And without those IP permissions in place, in the form of written approval by the bus company to use their data, he risks opening one almighty can of worms…
You can never be sure about that for anything. That is the sad truth about the patent system.
Hardly any open source hackers (one of the largest and most intellectually stimulating technical communities in existence) refer to what they do as "software development". Software development has many more mind numbing connotations (to you use your phrase) than programming does.
Also on HN:

"Git: A Designer's Perpective": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774983
That children are forced to go to school is even more reason censorship has no place there.
I would be especially interested in seeing percentage of single founder applicants (vs total applicants) and percentage of single founder companies accepted (vs total companies accepted).
time for home schooling. wait, isn't California the state trying to get rid of homeschooling?
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the clients are thrift, and the commonly used ones (java, python, ruby, C++, php), are robust, although the thrift devs are slow to apply patches sometimes (all the php users I know have applied http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-347).

redis is faster per node, but does not scale, there is not much to compare. :)