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Look guys, I know we're all in favor of the world admitting the obvious - global changes are here and mounting.

But when this shoddy report is published to the world, rushed and badly reviewed, it does a disservice to all of us. I hate to be the messenger, but good intentions are NOT enough to change the world.
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Legalization could slash the price of pot 80%
The other 90% drops off Ford's balance sheet. The fact that it's spent elsewhere in the economy does not help Ford.

Don't repeat platitudes, build a model. I.e., make up plausible numbers and actually do the math. You'll see that without making wildly ridiculous assumptions, it's just a net loss for Ford.
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OK, I'll get hell for this, but still, it fits. I probably have a less "airy" quote somewhere, but this is what I found right now. All the next text is quote:

I cannot emphasize too strongly that you should tell no one just what the words on the cards mean nor give anyone an inkling of what you desire. To do so may end disastrously for you. When you get a better understanding of this science, you can understand how thought vibrations -- conscious or unconscious, because of envy or some other cause -- can be set up to counteract your own,

To illustrate this, I am reminded of a doctor friend who applied for a commission in the Navy during the early days of World War II. He closed his office, told everyone that he was joining the Navy, and found himself the recipient of many parties and gifts. "It taught me a lesson never to tell anyone of my plans or desires," he laughingly told me later. "It was two years before I received notice of assignment, and meanwhile I had to go back into private practice, It certainly was embarrassing to get all those various farewell gifts, only to cool my heels at home for two years."

The truth is that when you talk about what you're going to do, you scatter your forces. You lose your close connection with the subconscious, and unless you do as directed here, you will frequently have to start all over again in your program of achievement.

"Go and tell no man," still holds true.
-- The Magic of Believing - Claude M. Bristol; pg. 87
Our CEO was working in tech support in the industry and the startup we were previously working on failed. We started talking about it and it sort of just happened.
Hmmm... travel expenses add up very quickly. If he does that, hopefully it's somewhere within the poster's country (U.S.).

And "sunny" is a very broad definition, I've heard Arizona is cheap this time of year :)

Also, can't he find very cheap travel and accommodation using the tools the HN community provides? (flight planners and AirBnB?)
I didn't want to write why I recommend to buy this product, because I simply don't want to recommend buying of this product. I didn't buy it earlier, so why should I recommend to buy it?

I just wanted to pay attention to the great business idea, not great product.
I think they were going for "encouraging infringement of a patent". Which publishing certainly does do; though if that was the sole ingredient, the patent office would also be guilty (as you say).
This is a smart comment. You parsed the article! :)

Aren't Americans much wealthier today than 84 years ago? Hasn't the work paid off materially? I play with data for fun all day and live comfortably. My grandfathers worked like dogs and were poor. Isn't this a common story?
Its no different than Amazon Simple DB.
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> Just tell me how it would work.

Ha ha, that's the beauty of it: I don't know. I just know it works. I know it from a source[1] which I consider reliable. And that source presented empirical observations which strongly support my view.

You keep talking about how it would work, doing what's amounts to a thought experiment. That's valuable, but not nearly as good as actual observations in assessing how the world works.

From the dawn of humanity, the Sun has been observed to rise from a direction and set to a roughly opposite direction. Why? How? For a very long time, no one knew. But only a fool would contradict that observation just because what he thinks of the sun doesn't fit what everybody sees.

In short, when your view of the world doesn't fit the observations, update your view of the world.

Now, I see very few ways in which you could still disagree with me: (1) You think I misreported my source. (2) You don't trust my source. (3) You know of very strong evidence which support your view and not mine. So which it is?

[1]: Against Intellectual Monopoly
This is exciting news, scientifically. I'm curious what practical applications there are. I can think of a few, but I'm sure it's not exhaustive

• Cheap, quick-to-setup communications relay (mobile cell tower with its own satellite uplink to reduce costs of on-the-ground devices?)

• Non-military surveillance (I assume it would be easy prey for anti-aircraft weaponry, but would probably be quite useful for constant surveying of disaster sites, for example)

• Small datacenter that is easy to keep out of any nation's jurisdiction (a few large hard drives and another satellite uplink, and just keep it circling over the Atlantic)

• Long-term airborne advertising (is it powerful enough to tow an old-school banner?)
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>There's a massive difference.

I'm pretty sure Deestan is being facetious here.
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I vote for "obtuse."

LINQ is something developed by Erik Meijer at Microsoft Research, and major props to him for it.

Lambda expressions, on the other hand, are a core construct in functional programming. It's great that Microsoft has been adding functional programming features (such as Lambdas, and the F# language) into the .NET Framework-- but if the Java world adds Lambdas, that doesn't mean they are copying Microsoft, it just means that they are drawing on some of the same sources of inspiration that Microsoft is.
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“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
-- Howard Aiken
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/don-t_worry_about_people_ste...
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Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?
Bonus points: What's some roadblocks or bottlenecks you've identified in the process?

Even more bonus points: Try to help someone else in the thread with their goals, especially clearing out those roadblocks and bottlenecks.
Alright, if you don't know how it would work, but you do know how it does work, tell me how it does work.

What countries are you talking about, what years, what drugs? How did the companies cover the cost of research? What was in it for them? Why did they do it?

I am perfectly willing to amend my views but so far you have done nothing but say you have evidence. Show me! I don't have time to read your source but I am happy to read what you quote as relevant.
The title should be more accurate. Maybe change it to "security weakness exposes information of 4 million Pirate Bay users"
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Spaced repetition [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition] is a pretty well explored technique. Most flash card apps use it. One of the best is Anki.
I love the idea that Henry Ford created a culture that had time to use the products that he was creating, and to do it he started with his own employees.

"The people with a five day week will consume more goods than the people with a six day week"

"the people would not have the time to consume the goods produced. For instance, a workman would have little use for an automobile if he had to be in the shops from dawn until dusk"

Genius!
I'm away from my books right now, but here are the ones that come to mind:

Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (I agree with plinkplonk and am quoted on Norvig's web site saying as much; a good book about all of {AI, Lisp, programming}).

Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer (no big surprises but lots of little insights and very little I disagree with; nicely written).

Bentley, Programming Pearls (absolutely superb for the sort of low-level algorithm-heavy stuff that, er, hardly anyone does any more).

Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein, Introduction to algorithms (best single-volume algorithms text I've seen, but not for the faint-hearted; might be well supplemented with Skiena's The algorithm design manual, a very different sort of book).
I'm going to design my first article of clothing for myself next month. I'm going to Vietnam, and I'll do it in either Saigon, Hanoi, or Ho An. I'll be in the first two cities anyways, I might go to third just for its reputation as a tailor and fashion city. I've got a shirt I used to like a lot that's worn out, going to have a tailor use it as a model to make another. Going to get two shirts made. Depending on how that goes, I might make a crazy-ish piece since prices are somewhat cheap.
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I couldnt get meetup.com to accept my login attempts! Anywhos, I will almost certainly be attending.
If these guys have the proven ability to modify user records, could you use that as a defense in court? What's to say I didn't create an account, never downloaded anything, and someone else modified my account to say I did?
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Gonna try to attend this, exciting! :)
Oh, I've seen something like this with a book (http://www.amazon.com/Front-Panel-Designing-Software-Interfa...) before: "It is the authors preference that his book not be used by the military or the munitions industry."
Diversify your investments, er, crops, I guess. Monoculture is risky, whether its Windows, or wheat. Predators and parasites will find a way to get at things eventually, no matter.
That must've been a figure of speech. How can one actually make their hands bleed by typing? Maybe if you glue sanding paper on your keyboard, but still.
I used the argument of authority to get some attention. Ironically, when I first read his essay I was very sceptical. I hope my quote didn't directly trigger the up-votes, and that people actually read my last two paragraphs.
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You could always link to the patents, since they describe the process in so much more detail.
Pirate Bay Exploit Exposes User Booty

I like creative titles. :)
This illustrates one of the major problems with patent law: uncertainty. Nobody, including the pros, can tell the poster whether the Shazam claim is legitimate or not. Therefore, under the threat of untold financial penalties, real or not, Shazam can simply bully whoever they want.

Although I know nothing about European patent law and almost nothing about US law, here is the relevant US code:

"Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent," (emphasis added). [1].

It seems to me the issue would be whether writing the code for patented software constitutes "making" it. Who knows. The patent system is such a joke.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_35_00000271----000...
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> I also sought comment from a Pirate Bay representative at the organization’s official IRC channel, but was unceremoniously kicked and banned from the channel after pasting the user names and hashed passwords of the site administrators and moderators.

Uh... that's not how you ask for comment in IRC. That's being a douchebag. Every chatroom I've been in would ban you for posting that information in a public chatroom.
Hm. They wondered how much the info would have been worth to the MPAA and RIAA. But wouldn't that have been thrown out of court as evidence gotten illegally?
Thanks for the mention. Its always fun hearing people use passwordchart - I built it in a day in 2006 after reading a story on Slashdot that gave me the idea.
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I paid the money - so evidently I think its an acceptable amount to pay.

But we're talking about something that is competing with a free application.
Now that avar has posted a .torrent, I've removed this file.
Which, ironically, makes it harder for legalization advocates to get it done. No matter which side you're on, it's tragic that uncertainty will probably kill this motion - at least, that's how the article read to me.
Argh, I'll be at the Develop conference in Brighton.
Hopefully will attend next time.
"And because the device relies on a global positioning system to confirm its location in a service area, it needs a clear line of sight to the sky. "

So, it doesn't work in a basement, or a garage, or really any place you might actually need it?
Also, NT4 had zero impact on mainstream users. It wasn't until Windows XP that the NT kernel became mainstream.

And even after that, you could see users committed to their 98 installs for a long time.
May be you don't have a good enough way for the user to report it to you. If you know your product is going to have problems, have a always visible feedback form and a live chat one click away from your users.
All companies, not just start-ups, need to look at this and not just sell their programmers, but all their staff, and more importantly explain to all their staff exactly what it is the company does.

I do contract development and it has never ceased to amaze me how many staff at companies really have no idea what the company does, I've worked at pharmaceutical companies where you'd swear people have never even seen a pill, and media and advertising companies where people must never seen an ad.

All companies should develop an introduction pack, whether that is a video, powerpoint or brochure, for new staff. It should explain what the company does, how it does it and why it is good at it. The payback would be immense.
seriously cool.
From the comments:

> I idled on TPB irc channel for probably 5 hours before I pasted those usernames/md5′d passwords. I also checked the major rainbow tables and available Md5 decryptor sites to make sure they weren’t easily reversible, before pasting them. I just wanted to get someone’s attention. I was told several times that no one was in charge, and then some admin started taunting me, saying he couldn’t believe I was a journalist b/c I couldn’t put two words together.
Great example of the problem with software patents. Landmark has a method for music-matching. They would love to be the only one having access to that technology. The confusion starts where the patent system is meant to only protect how their particular implementation matches music and not the concept of music matching at all. They on the other hand argue, that the method described by the author is similar to what they have patented - after all, it uses the same fundamental CS concepts such as hash-table lookups etc...

As other mentioned, the idea with patents was to offer people a limited time monopoly on their innovations in exchange for publishing them so others could use/enhance these ideas instead of reinventing the wheel over and over. I have not seen one instance where this works out for software...
Without the wall: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496936
> Microsoft has the technical chops for OS's, no doubt.

Kind of. How many really good OSs they made? DOS 4? Windows classic? Windows 3? Windows NT?

Out of that list, only the VMS-inspired NT could be called cutting edge. It had a microkernel-ish architecture with multiprocessing, multithreading and security wired in from day one. And they hired the NT team out of DEC.

I have great respect for the SQL Server team. Even after diverging from Sybase, it matured nicely and is a very good database server, comparable to MySQL and PostgreSQL. ;-)
You've completely missed my point. The hard part is NOT the coding. It's knowing what to code, what features your users want. Symbolics did the hard part, RMS merely copied what they (market) researched. Like the way anyone can make a copy of a DVD once a studio has actually made the film.
Wasn't Agilent owned by HP?
If it got to court. They usually never do.

MPAA/RIAA don't want a court case, they just extort money from people. They know they can because it's completely irrational to pay more to defend yourself in court with a chance of losing than to just pay the protection fee and never be charged with anything.
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Would have been amusing if they'd have gone into covert talks with RIAA and MPAA under the guise of selling them the data illegally, while documenting the whole thing. Then in the end not sell the list, and out the documentation.
Do you know if this was the case specifically with the magicjack device?

An average press clipping from mid-january: "The company said its device is legal, arguing the spectrum licenses of GSM carriers such as AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA do not extend into the home." ( http://www.fiercewireless.com/ceslive/story/magicjack-using-... )

It's an interesting tack to take, and I'm very curious about whether the stalled product launch was due to regulation/legal issues, or if magicjack abandoned it for another reason.
It is airborne advertising, the project was sponsored by OMEGA. That's their logo on the side, and they're already selling Solar Impulse watches :-)

http://www.omegawatches.com/spirit/pioneering/solar-impulse
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Did you grandfathers actually told you that they worked like dogs and were poor?

I think a lot of people don't share your story and don't play with data for fun all day. Instead they still put 40 hours/week plus unpaid overtime into a job they hate that makes them unpleasantly tired.
Prosecution that relies on a single piece of evidence rarely make it to trial. Prosecution is all about the chain of evidence. In addition to the user account they'd identified on the Pirate Bay, any successful prosecution attempt would have previously seized your computer, imaged the drive, and uncovered all the torrent files and copyrighted material lying around on your hard drive.
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I have used some in a few projects, that said its limiting because of support by browsers.

But its more of a buzzword, lots of people call things html5 even when its not.
Context is important. That comment wasn't on the site when I was writing my response. I was careful to check the comments before making an ass out of myself. I wish it had been there. :)

That said, unless he sent the data via private message I'd still support an immediate kickban. You don't post that publicly, even if it's not immediately crackable. You never know who has full automatic logging turned on in their irc client. (I'm always logging and I always assume everyone else is too.)
Cool, I'll be there if I'm in town.
I want to leave mommy's house and start living as a "digital nomad", moving from country to country every few months as I want. I want to know the world a little better.

The most obvious roadblock is making money along the way. My plan is to do it by launching a small web product, blogging about the travel, working as a local on countries where I'm allowed to, and doing some freelance programming work.

I have at least one year to save some money and get started working on these ideas. I'm sure it will not be easy, but I want give it a try :)
It's a basic function of leadership to communicate a sense of purpose and to convince a team to buy in. It amazes me how often supposed leaders neglect this.
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God I hope so. We are paying $100 an eighth for Sour Deisel in NYC. Outrageous.
This is all a bunch of nonsense.

First off, we couldn't even manage to pass gay marriage because of the large number of conservatives who vote, but who we don't hear about.

$38 for an ounce? Even optimizing everything with NO taxes, this would be incredibly difficult.

Not that I have researched the matter...
I was being a little facetious - HP split in two, with one half called Agilent taking the instruments, calculators and so on, and the other half still called HP doing PCs, printers, cameras. When people think of HP as being a great engineering firm, and a great place to work, they're thinking of the bit that became Agilent.
Down at the Club, further sage advice from Mr Ford: "When "Mr. Lee Jackson" is proposed for the club there would seem to be no reason, as far as reading goes, why anything unusual about Mr. Jackson should be surmised, until you know that Mr. Jackson is really Mr. Jacobs."
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> If so, the introduction of the patent system should have accelerated innovation.

This assumes that the cost of developing drugs has remained constant, of course.
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The declaration syntax contradicts the commentary.

Functions do not read from left to right. The example of

func main(argc int, argv *[]byte) int

is explained as "function main takes an int and a pointer to a slice of bytes and returns an int" but it should read "main is a function which takes an int and a pointer to a slice of bytes and returns an int" just like

x int

means "x is an integer". Reading left to right the variable name should come first for functions as for other variables so the function syntax should be

main func(argc int, argv *[]byte) int

But this can't be so because this appears to be the syntax that function variables use

f func(func(int,int) int, int) int

which is explained as "Here's a declaration of a function variable (analogous to a function pointer in C)".

Also the article says "Pointers are the exception that proves the rule" because "For familiarity, Go's pointers use the * notation from C, but we could not bring ourselves to make a similar reversal for pointer types.".

Putting these two observations together I would say that Go's declaration syntax fails in its stated mission of simplicity and regularity.

EDIT: can't seem to work out how to code markup on HN, anyway I hope I've made what I'm trying to say clear enough.

UPDATE: two spaces at the start of a line seems to work
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The problem is that evil doesn't care about your license.
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Well usually good ol' fashion self-discipline comes with physical barriers between you and time-wasting opportunities. For instance going to the library every day to study - does that show self-discipline, or a chronic lack of self-control (that would allow one to study at home)? When you do your work on a computer, or worse, on the internet, infinite distractions are only a mouse-click away. Even the thought of this can be distracting.
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I did this for my new install of Ubuntu 10.04 and will never go back. I think Google took a lot of time to get that font right, and it looks great on my desktop.
Also, 2009 predictions for the 2013 cycle peak:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29...

And a 2010 news piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-...
thanks a lot for the reply .In fact i did a google search for lambda expressions.But most of the results i got are from a .net point of view.
Whould it be heavily taxed like cigarettes?