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Asking others to pay them to read email: a known sign of the anti-spam kook.

http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html#e-postag...

However, Arrington's attention might actually be that valuable, if your business plan involves a lot of investor hype. So perhaps it's not so much internet kookery as it is general internet douchebaggery.
adjustable keyboard stand (desk attachment). sort of like those keyboard trays that slide out from underneath (which i hate), except the thing i'm thinking of lets you pull the keyboard to a decent range of positions in the XZ plane (if your monitor is the YZ plane and the surface of your desk is the XY plane), and thus can be used whether sitting or standing.
"This is incorrect. Figurative book burning is an explicit design goal of the Kindle. Without it, Amazon would have a very difficult time getting major publishers to put their works on the Kindle. Even if your statement was correct, design intentions are irrelevant; the fact that the capability is there is what matters."

Authors wouldn't need to resort to this if mass e-book piracy didn't exist.

"You're also making the faulty assumption that deletion is the only option. Modification is far more dangerous. Did you know that the average Chinese citizen older than 40 has no idea how heavily their search results are being censored? Picture a Grandma sitting in her living room in China with her Kindle. She's reading Animal Farm. Her copy is sufficiently doctored that she thinks it is a novel about farm animals, not a work criticizing the corruption that results from a communist revolution. After she's done Grandma will go to sleep feeling happy, enlightened, and unoppressed by her government, blissfully unaware that she's been duped. Sounds far fetched? If you had asked me in the early 1930s whether a German political party would be able to convince a large portion of the German population that an Aryan race was desirable, I would have said it was far fetched too."

Don't blame Amazon for something the government has been doing for many years. I don't think a grandmother in China would even want to read an anti-communist novel, considering the consequences. China is a scary place.

"Not if using encryption or circumventing DRM is illegal. If DRM achieves sufficient market penetration, you wont be able to go about your daily life without it. You barely can as it is."

You cry about DRM yet you offer no solution for copyright holders to protect their works. DRM is the direct result of the slow attack of the current copyright system through large amounts of people online that not only have no problem copying copyrighted materials, but feel it is their right.
I like how the link below the guided tours is "Watch the iPad video." That "the" must kill Steve.
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By no means do I think that people deserve compensation, but I do think that piracy has had an impact on content creators' livelihood.

I would argue that pirates are market failure caused by government policies and intervention. They fill in the missing void of the distribution system.

In a world without copyright law, publishing houses would learn very quick on how to starve these legal pirates very quick.

This is exactly what happens to American publishers selling British books in the 19th century, as there were no copyright treaty with Britain back then. They would flood the market with cheap books, destroying much of the profit potential that could be garnered by legally pirating the books.

This is good for Americans, because they can raise their literacy rate with the help of cheap books. The British authors also make money, sometime more than they do in their own country. Their business models consist of auctioning or selling the manuscript to the highest bidder.

Even now, Americans publishers can make quite a bit money selling public domain books, often government book like the 9/11 commission report.

Even so, I don't really care either way if a copyright-free world cause less books to appear, or more books to appears. If I want more books, I either download them or buy them. I see no reason to fret over what is ultimately a business model or entrepreneurship problem.
>I would not want to live in a world where I am forced by law to give out the source to my software.

No one's forcing you to use GNU licenced software in your proprietary application.
Well, the only (literal) meaning of "know" that doesn't fit what everyone else on this thread was thinking it meant is:

(3) archaic : to have sexual intercourse with

So we should rephrase

"Odds are, one should never trust a programmer who thinks they know [X]. Odds are they only think they know really know [X], but they haven't gone too much farther than figuring out how to use the library."

With something along the lines of

"Odds are, one should never trust a programmer who thinks they have had sex with [X]. Odds are they only think they have had sex with really have had sex with [X], but they haven't gone too much farther than figuring out how to use the library."

What is this smut in my Hacker News?

source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/know

Or perhaps you meant implications of the word "know" in play? (:
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Will Amazon follow eBay into high-end fashion 'flash sales'?
I guessed that was the meaning a long time ago, but it's just amusing to read it literally.
Cautious excitement: How long until $EVILCORPORATION tries to get it appealed?
Agreed. One of the very best decisions I've ever made in my life was to go car-free (which is unfortunately not an option for most Americans :( ). So my commutes don't involve sitting, but walking. If you have the option to give up your car, do it.
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I think it's because they want to think of it as a system, not "just" a device. You never use the definite article before an operating system, for example, or a piece of software. "Download music on iTunes", "manage your photos with Mac OS X", "read the morning news on iPad".

It does sound damn weird though.
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Reminds me of "Dr. Duncan's Video Symptom Show" from the Max Headroom program.
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Sure, but a theoretical liberty is rather useless without the practical ability to, well, use it.
Disclaimers: Am not in agriculture. Am not a lawyer. Am in human genetics.

Monsanto does things like this: (1) Take a plant that has agricultural value. (2) Add a pesticide-resistance gene to that plant. (3) Patent the seeds. (4) Sell at high price.

Given my (admittedly superficial) understanding of their practices, I do not think that most of their products would be particularly susceptible to this ruling. It is a bit murky because they may use gene patents to protect their special seeds, in which case one could imagine new 'generic competition' of sorts if they lose their gene patents but not their seed patents.
That's because it's "the video", so also "the iPad video". When speaking proper Steve the noun iPad isn't used with an article, but that's the only exception.

So, "you watch a movie on iPad", but you "go to the store and buy an iPad". "iPad has over 50.000 applications", but "The iPad firmware is buggy". It's oddly consistent.
Excuse me?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/index.html

If it takes you more than 10 seconds to find "Client authentication" under "Server administration" then do you really think you are qualified to setup a database server?

Sorry if this comes across rude, but criticizing security in postgres in a comparison against MySQL is beyond absurd.

The grant-system in MySQL is a bloody mess. It doesn't even have Roles. And it is prone to "funny" side-effects, such as the dreaded anonymous user issue which afaik is still unfixed in latest stable.

In a nutshell: If you don't remove the two anonymous user grants that mysql puts in there by default then a grant to 'foo'@'%' will allow 'foo' to connect from any host except localhost. Makes sense? Not? Thought so.

Here's why: The connection attempt from localhost is rejected because the default entry ''@'localhost' matches before your 'foo'@'%' entry. So that's what we call admin-centric these days, shipping with mousetraps like that in the default config?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connection-access.htm...

Then there's postgres, look how hard it is:

First you specify what users are allowed to connect from where and to which databases (pg_hba.conf). Then you create the actual users (CREATE USER). Finally you grant privileges to them (GRANT). Optionally you can group them under roles.

The common setup that allows local users to connect without a password as any user but demands a password from remote connections takes all of two lines in pg_hba.conf:

# TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD
host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5
local all all trust

Then you can make your users:

CREATE USER foo WITH PASSWORD 'secret';

And give them access to stuff:

GRANT ... TO foo;

Man that was hard. I'm all exhausted now. But hey, it's right there in the docs. With examples and all. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/auth-pg-hba-conf.h...
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Maybe you could go fuck yourself?
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To be fair, the 10.6.3 update is actually ~437MB via Software Update. The Combo update includes all past updates (1.6.1 and 1.6.2).
I wish I could take responisibility for this. Sofa designed Aristo, 280North gave me permission to use the name, and I used a couple of icons by Pinvoke (possibly my favourite icon set of all time). I did take some license with it here and there of course, as the Aristo PSD is obviously just an example.

FYI I work in a Melbourne agency, study and freelance.
Thanks, I will give 3.7 a try. I tried going back to 3.5, and it didn't make much difference.
As much as this isn't my problem, there are fixes that jQuery UI could implement such as native dblclick and special jQuery events such as triple click that could be used to stop text selection.
It's interesting you say that considering Stallman's entire rant is about proprietary software that he has the freedom to just not use.
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(me) - The greatest enemy of the programmer is...
(my wife) - Users ?!

I guess she was listening to me all these years... Who would've thought :)
What's wrong with what he's doing? He's doing something that people want and sharing his experiences, which seems like a great story for Hacker News.
That's the thing. The team I work for, we have a ton of resources but we're just being inefficient due to poor management. People with little experience are running the show while the more senior people have to follow along. And it gets frustrating after a while to the point where there isn't a flow of ideas anymore.
He has the right to believe that more free software would make the world a better place and to try to convince others of this.
I don't think it's so tricky, and I think that's exactly what the ACLU said: that you can patent therapies or drugs or whatever that work on that gene, but you can't patent the gene itself.
I doubt it, since the "the" in that is referring to the object "iPad video", not just the (hah!) iPad.
Thanks for the advice! It makes total sense. I can, at this time, afford to take chances. And you make a very good point: There's no better time to take chances except now. It'll only get worse with time.
That's about what I feel. Does anyone know if this is the first time that a patent of a discovered gene has been tested in court?
Also remember, half the people are below average drivers.

Depends on what you mean by "average". If you mean "median" you are correct, but if you mean "mean" (like most people do) this is not necessarily true for most interesting situations.
Very impressive demo. I'd really like to see a non-obfuscated version though; I feel like the utility of a good HTML5 example is higher than the utility of seeing how small it can be made.
Reelroulette is attractive and usable and makes sense for the motion design niche. Good work for a limited time investment. Though, I can think of some useful features (more voting features, view all submissions, commenting, etc)

PS: If I owned this URL, I might use it to do something chatroulette related while there's still a thousand and one opportunities. But good on getting involved in what you enjoy doing. Good luck trevorturk.
Think of it as an artist's code sample :)
Take a second look. He's not talking about the watermark, but the logo on the coat.
Agreed. I'd like to see the code commented, too. It'd be a good learning experience for those of us new to HTML5.
(loaded question alert)

What differentiates Ring from Compojure? What is the appropriate use case for Ring vs Compojure?
Thank you!

Further research indicated that IBM canceled one Cell processor but by no means all of them; I assume what I read back in November confounded the two.
"don't stay too comfortable for too long" : very well said!
Thanks for the advice, guys. It has made things a lot more clear.
And, I'd add, not humble naturally but got that way by being humbled again and again by his knowledge.
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I'm very interested in your experience moving to an RV (and what life has been like since the move). Do you have any links to articles you've written about it?
Microsoft should offer $1M for anyone who cracks the encryption on the MS Bob data. Not sure why they'd do that but it would be a fun contest.
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He does a good job of making the justifications for each feature almost plausible. Whitespace as operator overloading for physicists who want to write "x y" to mean "x times y." Sure, why not?
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Thanks for the new expression, "ass strain". I'll remember it next time I have to explain the pros and cons of a programming career.
I don't know. The article I read mentioned that the basis for the ACLU's suit was against the idea of patenting genes in general, which is likely to have significant secondary effects as future cases will be able to use this case as legal precedent.

I'm still boggled by the idea that human genes have been allowed to be patented. I mean, if the general public really knew that this was happening I feel like there would be at least a moderate uproar.
Here's the direct link if you want to wget it or "Save As...".

529 MB, about 30 min

> http://movies.apple.com/media/us/ipad/2010/tours/apple-ipad-...
With people starting to biohack in their own backyard, I am unsure that the big corporations will be able to enforce their patents, thus their monopoly in the future.

All the judge did was to make corporations not to waste money going after biohackers in the not too distant future and force them to focus on generating valuable innovation.

So it might turn out to be a good thing for the would-be evil monopolists.
Oh yes I'm fully aware of that. It's more of a problem with dishwashing detergent than laundry detergent. Concentrated dishwashing detergent is a huge scam because the same amount comes out of the bottle when you squeeze it (also why I dislike hand soap pump dispensers).

With laundry detergent, they have smaller caps to fill so at least if you pay attention then you won't over-use it.

I've also noticed that a lot of food product vendors are turning the old 'more is cheaper' paradigm upside down. I keep running into products where the 24oz container is more expensive than two of the 12oz containers, etc. It's just like the extra large pizza scams.
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Ring is a lower-level library than Compojure. It provides a variety of common web-related utilities that will be needed by many Clojure web developers, regardless of what higher-level libraries they choose to use. The purpose of Ring is to prevent those utilities from being rewritten all over the place while also allowing custom utilities to be shared among Clojure web developers.

Note that Compojure 0.4 depends on Ring, to which it delegates things like parameter parsing and cookie manipulation.

If you're familiar with the Ruby web ecosystem: Ring : Compojure :: Rack : Sinatra.
Long as you don't need any honest 9s or 10s for whatever it is you're doing, I guess that's fine.
The article explaining it was posted before -> http://www.p01.org/releases/512b_jspongy/
You cry about DRM...

No one is crying here. It's a serious issue.

...yet you offer no solution for copyright holders to protect their works.

First, it's not clear they need protection. In 2009 movie revenues reached an all time high, despite 2009 being the year of the pirate.

Second, copyright holders can protect their works by making the legitimate version more valuable than the pirated one. DRM is an attempt to get around this basic economic reality. Valve and Apple are examples of companies that understand this. Other companies should use Steam and iTunes as the gold standard for content distribution. DRM isn't what makes Steam and iTunes successful, it's that the distribution mechanism is convenient, quick, and social.

Third, it is illegal for copyright holders to protect their copyrights by taking away the rights of citizens. Copyright is not a natural right and enforcement via rights restrictions is not in the purview of private entities. The government grants and protects copyright if and only if such granting and protection "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts" [Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, the US Constitution]. It's up to the government to decide what rights can be restricted to protect copyright and if such restrictions benefit the people at large. Personally I think DRM for the purpose of copyright enforcement developed by private entities is unconstitutional. Congress and Congress alone mandates the protections on copyright.

Authors wouldn't need to resort to this if mass e-book piracy didn't exist.

I don't really think this statement needs refutation. Let me phrase your statement another way: "law enforcement wouldn't need to resort to wiretapping every phone in America if crime didn't exist".

Don't blame Amazon for something the government has been doing for many years.

Well first of all it was a hypothetical. But I can and will blame companies for such behavior. Do you know how much money Cisco made from the Great Firewall? Companies that enable human rights violations share some responsibility. I'll blame the construction companies that provided materials to build the concentration camps too.

Note that I'm not against other systems of government, just systems of government that systematically violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (of which the US is an author and signatory). I don't think US companies should do business with such governments.
Ring is an underlying piece of compojure, though as compojure moves towards 0.4 where weavejester is breaking a lot more of it up into libraries the difference goes down, since you'll be able to take the parts you want and not the ones you don't, so you could use ring for middleware/routes/etc and take his html library that used to be built into compojure and take that instead.
> Anybody who says they are good at C++ is either delusional or has spent years writing, linking, debugging it.

This strikes me as a completely reasonable and not deprecating thing to say about any powerful language (such as C) or any advanced tool in any profession for that matter.
Most of the Nintendo DS games involve a lot of text. One example of a game that she played quite a bit recently is Fossil Fighters. The Nintendo DS games pretty much all assume you can read, though, so it's not hard to find ones that develop literacy. She used to play the Leapster quite a bit. There are many educational games for the Leapster. They develop skills that lead to reading, but they don't assume you can read. The browser-based games are hit and miss.
Usually, the more you know, the less you know.
"The weird thing about C is that its not even prefixed like Clojure (+ 2 2), instead all operators are scattered between the arguments!"

Please tell me he is kidding. Maybe I don't get out of my cave often enough but it seems uncommon that someone could grok FP bypassing C altogether.
Account created just to post this... you stay classy, callithowitis.
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When will they release TRIM support? I am sad.
I've been moving in the same direction. My question: which three?
Can we please focus on the points RMS tries to make instead of on the man himself every time something he writes is linked on HN? I'm not trying to be offensive, but it's getting increasingly difficult to filter the meaningful comments from the repetitive noise of "RMS is t3h r0x0r" vs "reading RMS gives me crotch rash". We all know what RMS is like. Some of us sympathize, some of us don't, let's leave it at that (or at least start a long-lived thread where people inclined towards arguing about RMS can have it out).
Would this company have made the breast cancer detection procedure that they had a patent on if they did not have the ability to protect it with a patent?

In the software world, the case against patents is very strong. In biotech R&D costs can be in the millions or billions of dollars. It's a mistake to reflexively apply the hacker's justified aversion to patents to other fields.
I'm sitting on a wooden dining chair as I type, and boy does it show! It does not do wonders for your attention span either.
Suggestion: temporarily disable the "next reel" button for a duration of time proportional to the frequency of my clicks thereupon. Make me watch the reels instead of trying to satisfy my urge to see "what's next?"
Eliminate as many interruptions as you can, but no more than that.
Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++...
Never trust someone who says he knows...
Never trust a programmer...
Never trust C++ ...
Never C++...

At university, they taught me C++. I suffered a lot. So the minute I graduated, I stopped doing it. This was a valuable lesson after all.

If someone pretends to understand C++, just look at his code and say "Ok, so what happens if you add 'volatile' just here."
Too bad this graph was made with no regard to the actual numbers. Compare Food & Beverage to Clothing & Accessories. Food has 0.2% ($1,022) online, while clothing has 0.9 ($2,115). So twice as much in dollars, and four times as much as a percentage. Yet it's shorter and narrower.
I already have accepted that I'll get downvoted for this, but does the US Congress not have anything better to do with its time?
Well, I always did feel like I was getting fucked by C++.
Badly standardized? Not since the mid-90's. And the days of cross-compiler pain went away almost completely when the last big holdout of the pre-standard days, Microsoft, finally released their 2003 C++ compiler.

Your next point, that C++ is just C "with OO" strikes me as deeply ignorant. OO is an important feature, but 95% of the language innovation of the last 20 years has been in templates.

Compilation errors are a pain in C++. It's something that takes months for a smart programmer to figure out. Debugging C++ is harder than debugging C, yes. It's a more complex beast.

Reading your post I get the impression of someone who has read a lot more about C++ than working with C++. Try interacting with any modern C++ code-base (something written in the last 10 years), avoiding the template meta-programming code-bases which are really only of use for library-writers not library-users.