skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good exchange, and worth reading particularly if you are one of those "extraordinarily hostile young men" who are likely disagree to with him. I left the article feeling that Eleanor (the defiant teenager) was particularly well-spoken, and that Jason Robert Brown would love for me to get off his lawn. I don't know him, but now I'm prejudiced against him and his works. But he does a great job of explaining his thought process, whether one agrees with it or not. And better understanding those with whom one disagrees is a good thing.

I thought the weakest part was his attempt to make it a clear-cut case of right and wrong, and then go on to give some very muddy examples that really haven't been clearly decided: "I then ripped that CD on to my hard drive so I can listen to it on my iPod in my car. Well, that's not FAIR, right? I should have to buy two copies? No. There is in fact a part of the copyright law that allows exactly this; it's called the doctrine of fair use."

Logical, I'd agree, but he might want to discuss this with the RIAA, who argue that it's not fair-use, and merely an example of their forbearance not to sue for such petty infringement: 'there’s no legal "right" to copy the copyrighted music on a CD onto a CD-R. However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won’t usually raise concerns...'
(http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=pira...)

But his moral argument seems almost reasonable: I created this music, so I get to control who uses it. He trades fair-use under copyright for exclusive rights to distribution. Inevitability aside, 'hostile young men' of HN, what's the flaw with this reasoning? Does one need to resort to the fairly weak position that 'sharing' with strangers falls under fair-use, or is there something stronger that can be said?
It took three places coming to the same diagnosis for me to really accept I had bipolar disorder . I was convinced I was just hyperactive and just wanted an RX for Ritalin. Even now, I still can't bring myself to take the mood stabiliser meds (lithium, valproic acid). But seeing a psychologist has been one of the best things I've ever done for myself.

The thing is, bipolar disorder can get worse over time. It's not uncommon for people to get help only way after things have gone to shit. Why waste time? If it's really BPD, it's not just gonna go away. Might as well go to a doctor now -- at least that way you can be fully informed.
if you read the release notes and related material you would have found the answer to that question pretty quickly ;)
I thought his moral argument was "please pay me for the sheet music so my kids won't starve." Which I agree is ridiculous; he'd just quit writing music and find another job before they died of starvation. I mean, hellooo, soup kitchens are free...
Someone pointed me to the OWC Mercury Extreme Pros, which are extremely fast and maintain performance without TRIM:

http://macperformanceguide.com/SSD-RealWorld-Seasoning.html

http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp19.html

I took the plunge and am quite happy I did.
I have a similar story as the OP, and have given serious thought to enlisting.

There's one problem: I don't want to get shot or blown up. Joining the army would mean going where I'm actively wanted dead. Am I wrong?
Well it seems that many (if not most) of the posters here side with the girl's explanation. So be it, but don't get pissed at me when I take your GPL product, incorporate it into my closed-source set top box and refuse to release the source. After all, it's not like I've stolen anything or deprived you of revenue.
Bringing up Hemmingway to a suicidal person seems kind of cruel, no?
Well, hopefully there are people in this world that write free and open software so people can build startups and earn money.
If these open source people had his mentality, a lot of recent startups wouldn't even have been born.

Greedy, disgusting artist.
By this same logic I could argue that no scientist is Christian, and no Christian is a scientist.

Ask any scientist who is Christian, "does a good scientist believe claims that cannot be independently verified?" Then ask, "do you believe in god?" The questions "are you a good scientist?" and "can the existence of god be independently verified?" follow.

You'll force this poor scientist to admit they're not a good scientist, or perhaps as a compromise you can say that the existence of god is a hypothesis which they have not yet been able to test to their satisfaction (which doesn't sound like belief to me).

Okay, that's actually not the most common result (I might expect a lecture on politesse, or perhaps a simple request to shut my trap). But I find it detestable to go around and tell people that they label themselves wrong, e.g., "You are not a true atheist." It's almost as villainous to say things like "Strong atheists do not exist." when there are plenty of people who claim to be strong atheists. Say instead something like, "strong atheism is not a tenable position." Or, "strong atheism is logically inconsistent." Then, at least, I won't think of you quite so poorly, and we can argue logic instead of identity.

For the record, I'm positive that there are many good scientists who are also Christians. I'm also positive that there are many strong atheists.

P.S. It's bad enough that as a bisexual male I don't exist, but as a strong atheist too I doubly don't exist. Harsh.
I've never met any Android fanboys yet either, but then I've never really met someone with an Android phone that liked it.

I've met a lot of people who've switched to Android (mostly by buying the Nexus One) and sold it within a week to go back to their iPhones though. I've met a few people who bought non-Nexus-One phones but didn't like them and wanted to switch.

It seems like in Vancouver, everyone either has a feature phone, a Blackberry, or an iPhone, except that one kid I saw on the bus with a Palm Pre.
I've never had issues getting iPod Touches or iPhones working on WiFi; likewise, connecting to iTunes has always been straightforward. What sort of issues were you having?
Funny this should come up because I'm also a 23 year old university student (undergrad) and I started medication for bipolar II a week and a half ago.

I've had similar problems with focus and discipline. I've tried alleviating them by exercising (working out with the ROTC at 6 AM), eating well, making important commitments, doing Buddhist mindfulness exercises, listening to Eckhart Tolle, writing myself a contract that I signed in front of my friends/classmates, trying to create a startup with some good friends, and many other things that typically ended in (painful) failure. I had successes here and there, but the mental effort required to hang on until the end was often huge.

I have the tendency to make commitments and create relationships when I'm in one of my highs, and then proceed to fumble them when I inevitably reach a low. I dropped 2 semesters of college before I looked for professional help.

I started by seeing a therapist, not an MD. I found the sessions beneficial and they helped me get through a rough patch, but after two months things weren't really coming together. At my therapist's discretion, I saw a psychiatrist. I told him my situation in it's entirety. I didn't let myself think about trying to save face. I told him the grittiest details if I thought they were important for him to understand what I was going through.

I definitely had strong misgivings before making that step. For me the worst was "What if everyone goes through the same difficulties, and I'm just weak and cowardly?" However, my track record clearly showed I needed help. It was mostly a matter of allowing myself to be humble enough to accept it.

After only a week and a half of taking Seroquel, it's hard for me to say how it's going and where it's going to take me. Early though it is, I've noticed a change for the better. I like to think it's a temporary solution, like the way that you would put a tarp over a hole in your roof before you actually get it repaired.

Psychiatrists and therapists see people for things like this all the time. It's familiar territory for them. I could have saved myself a lot of heartache if I'd gotten professional help sooner.

Best of luck

- Another dude
You're recommending to Python users to use a package system written in Ruby? heck, kill me now! ;)
US Immigration finds it difficult to accept that I am a Canadian citizen (and have Canadian passport) yet I've never lived in Canada nor do I have a Canadian SSN nor do I have an address in Canada nor have I filed a tax return there (my father is Canadian but I was born in UK).

There's an easy fix for that. Get a Social Insurance Number and file a tax return. As a non-resident with no Canadian-source income, your tax return should take less than 5 minutes to fill out, and you won't owe any taxes.
I think what Apple is doing usually, and I think that's one of the points Marco is making in the article, is that they only add features when they can get them working very well.

They didn't have a use for a front facing camera, or could make it easy enough to use, so they didn't include one. Now they have one because they were finally able to implement video chat in an easy to use way (Face Time).

They didn't have copy and paste until they figured out how to make it as elegant and easy to use as it is.

They didn't include 3G in the original iPhone because it would have affected battery life too much.

They only introduced the SDK once the API was in a usable state and they got the necessary documentation and infrastructure in place to support 3rd party developers.

Face Time currently only works on WiFi, but from what I read about it it actually works for Joe Average. On other phones you have to be a geek to figure out which software to install and how to set it up.

For some people it is certainly valuable to have barely working bleeding edge features on the phone, but for the 99% of users out there who're not interested in tinkering with their phone Apple's approach makes a lot more sense, IMO.
Exactly.

Polishing takes time, because it's similar to design: You spent hours trying how different options look or ensuring that the use flow is flawless. There are lots of front-end coders who consider this as the fun part, they like making things look good.

People enjoying backend programming doesn't realize this, they just think that it is the trivial part of the programming (and thus requiring a little amount of time), although totally different skills are needed.

Also, many UI libraries are very cumbersome for this kind of microtweaking. CSS is very good for it, but you still encounter lots of problems when you try to make just small change.
Who the fuck will spend their life writing music or books or movies if we don't leave them a way to monetize it?

That's a very narrow, brainwashed view. Many people will continue to spend their lives on it. Remember music has been around long before there were ways to "monetize" it.

Moreover please realize that your HipHop millionaire and Britney Spears are anomalies in first place. For every Britney Spears you'll find ten thousands of underdog musicians who stay (often barely) afloat not by having their videos on TRL, but by playing small gigs in front of people.

That kind of making a living with music is not going anywhere and will, in fact, greatly benefit when the "Great wall of EMI" (or Universal, or Sony, or what not..) comes down.
This is wonderful news. I remember hearing about this monopoly a while back and was horrified. I always wondered why so many Korean sites were optimized for IE. I'm glad this has happened and can't wait to see the improvements that will come out of this.
I know exactly what this is like. I was about the same age as you when I started really getting worried about the same things you are.

If you do everything I say here, it probably won't make you a dynamo overnight. It will help you avoid backsliding, though. Over the next few years, if you are diligent, you will learn new habits.

Step 1: Throw your TV and any video game systems you have in the trash (or more sensibly, disconnect them and put them on craigslist so they are out of your house today). The whole point of startup culture is to give up some fun now (wait, working at a startup IS fun) in exchange for a huge pile of money later. You want to work 80+ hours a week, and probably have a girlfriend too. When does playing Xbox fit in there? In a few years, when you are the founder of a hot, funded startup, you can have an XBOX in your game room. Or you can play it now, and maybe the VC fairy will be impressed by your GTA skills. -- The point is, every minute spent fucking around is a minute you could be working or learning new skills.

Step N: The next time you are wondering "why can't I be productive", imagine a little bell ringing in your head. The bell is there to remind you to sit down and work. If you find yourself browsing reddit or hn or some other site, add entries to your hosts file so that you CAN'T browse those sites. Often the anxiety that keeps a person from being productive is at it's worst at exactly those times that you would otherwise be the most productive. Never visit any distracting site like that from your work area or from your work computer.

Step Na: Give yourself a little goal to accomplish (write it down) when you sit down to work, and don't let yourself get up to do something else (besides restroom breaks) until you accomplish the little goal you wrote down. When you do accomplish it, imagine another 'you' there, and see if that other 'you' would accept the quality of the work if you were an employee. Once you give the work a thumbs up, force yourself to take a 15 minute break. Go outside for a walk, call a friend, just get off the computer. Once you are comfortable with this micro-routine (say after 3 weeks of doing it consistently), check out GTD. Resist the urge to go full on GTD now, however. Most likely you will get distracted setting up notebooks and org-mode or other yak-shaving instead of getting actual work done.

Step X: Make an appointment with a psychiatrist that has experience treating adults with depression, ADHD and anxiety issues. It may help a lot, and it can't hurt.
The tea parties are a very small movement and it is not my impression that they are seeking some sort of "strong man" leader type. Each of the top 4 GOP candidates in 2008 ran as a strong man and none was elected. Obama, meanwhile, won in the same way George W. Bush did in 2000 -- as an unproven Frodo Baggins type who inspired people who hoped he'd fill the shoes they imagined for him.

If Obama were serious about the issue he'd be talking about stopping offshore drilling. Instead he's singling out BP as if there is some sort of gross negligence rather than just a low probability / high impact outcome happening.
I don't agree with your percentages on how many people truly benefit from a 4 year degree, In all the coverage of Senator Byrd though I did notice an interesting fact.

The recently deceased senator received a law degree in the early 1960's. Interestingly, he did not receive a bachelor's degree until the 1990's.

Apparently back then you only needed a high school diploma to go to law school.

There are a lot of things that are most efficiently learned and are useful to the world that colleges teach. It doesn't have to be just a place for future researchers, but as a society it would be useful for us to look at what we require a degree for, and figure out if that is really necessary or just a waste of time and money.

Of course, the money is big enough that this is unlikely to happen in a measured, sensible way.
Fair point, but people tend to feel differently about the issue once somebody is making money from the IP theft. Eleanore apparently is a teenager trying to become an artist, not a scammer who repackages that artists compositions for ad jingles and becomes a millionaire from it. No matter what the law says or what you think about it, aspects like that will factor into what people FEEL is right.
What would you recommend for someone sufffering PTSD?
that struck me too. he pretty much said early on they were doing the tests on a used computer given to them by the vendor. a box that had previously been given to other reviews to test/review. therefore, I don't see how he can truly know for sure whether or just how clean/virgin that SSD is.
Someone mentions the bonuses Google gives for successful launches. Isn't this generally considered a bad way to motivate "knowledge workers"? Anyone on the inside have any thoughts?
What interview? Blogoscoped is quoting three comments from the Reddit thread.
You know when you can stop reading the WSJ's blather, when an opinion piece begins with this gem:

"First, the Environmental Protection Agency can relax restrictions on the amount of oil in discharged water, currently limited to 15 parts per million. In normal times, this rule sensibly controls the amount of pollution that can be added to relatively clean ocean water. But this is not a normal time."

This just sounds straight like out of BP's badly bungled PR playbook.
> Google's Go is also a language in the python family I think.

I can't imagine how that statement could be true. Please explain.
Ummm. It's a perfectly ok sentence :) stylistically bad, perhaps.
From "Jay Nancarrow, a spokesman for Google", perhaps? That's a real person.
You don't need "deep ivory-tower CS training" to have knowledge of computer science. I don't know why anyone would be offended to be called a computer scientist; it's not like being such precludes being an excellent programmer, nor does being a self-taught hacker preclude being an excellent computer scientist.
I like to call it The Great Grad Student In The Sky scenario.
the OA should instead have been a link to the Reddit discussion. this is like the Mahalo treatment. plus, after the OA points out that since the Reddit discussion may have fake Googlers that we couldn't trust anyone for sure. then it picks 3 to repeat verbatim --- but how can we know those 3 are real?
When you're talking about what you put into your body, which is directly related to the quality of life you're going to have (you may not see the effects of this right away but you will see it), then I don't think cheap should be our first concern.

Having said that, it wouldn't have to be insanely expensive either. It depends on the scale, right?
Jeff Bezos to Princeton's class of 2010 :"We are What We Choose"
so he should subpoena the website for logs of every person she traded his music to and ask them all if they all have the same convenient lack of ability to pay $3.99 online? get real. one person shares with 10, those 10 with 100, and whoops, now he's lost over $400 in potential sales because she wanted to be nice and share. no i can not prove he would have had these sales, nor do i need to. you also seem to ignore his other suggestion: check out the song book at the library.
Spend $120K in angel investing instead of MBA studies
For me, it's because most of the puzzle has been solved which just leaves grunt work. I hate grunt work. For web projects at least, it's like building bridges--you meet in the middle--and the other guys speak a different language. It's always off by an inch or two.
Do you like cola? Yes. Oh, so you are a colaist?

One thing I dislike about society is you have to have a religion - even if it is no religion. As someone else has pointed out it just doesn't matter to some of us - until asked outright.
I second that. Eby's good and so is meditation.

If you really get into meditation, consider reading the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. The religious elements don't make sense to me but he understands what mediation does for the mind.
So what they're really saying is "Yes you should enable HTTPS provided you check all sorts of things and understand all sorts of complicated stuff".

Speaking for those of us living with long-latency links to the US (South Africa), unnecessary HTTPS on websites is a major PITA.
He's greedy and disgusting because he's not giving his work away for free so that other people can build startups and earn money?

Huh?
So, premium gadgets are worse off in a country where the entire national income is about 2.5 times less than the disposable income of the USA?

Shocking.
Your chi is weak.

Practice martial arts. Good for exercise, good for confidence, good for chi.

Try Jujitsu. Wake up!
Atheist
5. If you claim that the question, "does a god exist?" cannot be meaningfully answered due to flaws in the nature of the question, then you are a theological noncognitivist.

6. If you claim that the question, "does a god exist?" cannot be answered before defining "god", then you are an ignosticist. An ignosticist who claims that "god" cannot be defined is therefore also claiming that "does a god exist?" can never be answered.

7. If you claim that the question, "does a god exist?" is not worth answering, then you are apatheistic.

8. Alternatively, if you choose to assume that the answer to the question, "does a god exist?" is "no", but do not consider it worth the effort to attempt to answer the question conclusively, then you are apatheistic.

9. If you claim that the question, "does a god exist?" cannot be answered because the question cannot be correctly communicated due to differences in the definition of "god" and/or "exist" between the idiolects of the persons attempting to communicate the question to each other, then you are a philosophy major.

9b. If (9) above applies but you manage to work the word "qualia" into the discussion, then you are a philosophy major and I'm changing the subject.
I had the same question, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product was quite helpful in this regard :)
Open Sourcing GeoType, PostOffice, CAS, BuildTracer
Nokia 5233 mobile phone specification, price: Nokia cell phone sets - Pakistan
Your logic falls apart at the end. Checking out books from a library must be equally wrong. Hundreds of people can do it, and then he's out over a thousand dollars in potential sales.
"Googles employees ons reddits answers questions"?
What came before the singularity is a great question.

It's delicious to theorise for fun.

One day we may even figure it out.
That makes me think about what would be the set of terms that, when seen and you instantly recognized them, probably indicate you are some other sort of scientist.

For example, let's say you were a student of Weird Science and thus were a weird scientist. You would probably instantly recognize:

1. space-time continuum
2. Cthulhu
3. zombies
4. fembot
5. mind control lasers
6. Tesla coils
7. flying monkeys
8. dead matter reanimation
> If every teenage girl was this expressive and self-assertive, I personally would feel better about the world.

She's not your usual girl, it seems to me - how many collect and use sheet music? Just following her musical/theatrical passion that far is unusual enough, and I was a little impressed that she understood copyright law enough to think she was getting around it by emailing stuff off-site. (She's wrong, of course; contributory infringement could be used to nail her.)