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OK, in a previous comment you said 'Google (my employer) ... cleared about 200 (75% of those requested) projects in the last year for copyright release'. Now you are not the guy that this article is about, or are you? Who released the projects? "Google released" means someone else there at Google, as opposed to "I, as a representative of Google, released 200 projects".

Now, many posts later, you are saying "we released" and "I've been given the authority" as if you were the one authorized to "release the copyright".

But previously you said someone else did. Did you get the authority in the time between the two comments? Who are you? Who at Google can verify that you have the authority to release Google code? What documentation of this is there? You say no paperwork is necessary? Is there an official list somewhere of which code Google legal/corporate has released? How does your term "copyright release" differ from placing something under a open source license? Usually 'releasing' copyright means placing something in the public domain. Are you using the common usage when you use the term "release". What about the 25% not 'released'? Did any of those represent code that had already been placed by the coder in a outside project? Were they informed afterwords to remove the code?

Here we have a coder who is contributing to a project who says the author of the code for copyright purposes is Google Incorporated. But he is not the legal representative of Google. What legal authority does he have to transfer ownership or determine contractual licensing terms of code owned by Google on their behalf? If he does have this authority, or it has been granted him by you or someone else, it has to be in writing or it means nothing. Yet you are saying it doesn't have to be documented anywhere?

Maybe this is authorized by the appropriate people at Google. Maybe not. Without any documentation of it, there's no legal bias for saying this © Google code is BSD licensed.
I think the first poster is spot on.

Most businesses you want to work for will also develop libraries/frameworks that are used in house. Or they might develop applications which consist of more than just plugging libraries together.
Dead for me.
You must have had a truly great “liberal arts education”!

I for one am extremely sceptical that a large set of deeply understood diverse experiences can be obtained in 4 or 5, actually anything less then 10 years, at college.

In my experience, a "liberal arts education" is a great way to spend a lot of money while having a hell of fun time and learning about history and stuff, in an extremely safe environment.

Obviously a tiny percentage of students with true passion for knowledge will seek out challenges and get a lot more out of college.

But the difference between the average liberal arts student and the average science/engineering student, is that the average science/engineering student does not need to seek out the opportunity to work hard and be wrong.

And that is why if I am forced to pick with no other information, I pick science and engineering.
If the title of this post is intended to be analogous to "Ask HN", "Tell HN", and "Thank HN", then it should be "Plead HN". Plea is technically a noun.
(Sorry for such a nit-picky comment -- I hope you find something soon.)
> Randomly generated stages certainly have their advantages for replay value, but they also remove incentive for exploration and speed runs, which means you're potentially forfeiting the audience that prefers those play styles.

You can retain the advantages of static levels with randomly generated ones. In the game I'm working on you can specify the random seed used. A high score list is maintained separately for each seed.
> you must still treat it as classified to avoid leaking any other related data by accident (for example).

That is not quite the reason. The real reason is that those who have clearance can be prosecuted for a willful security violation if they:

* store, process, or view classified data on an un unauthorized machine (home laptop)

* grant others access to the classified data

* discuss classified information where others who are not authorized would overhear or see it.

* prying into or accessing classified info for which they don't have a need-to-know

* creating unauthorized copies of classified info

The warning not to access this info is basically a helpful tip or reminder so those who hold or will hold clearance could be subject to harsh penalties.

This is just as much about protecting the classified info as it is the protect those who have a clearance.

These rules and laws have been deliberately written to be broad and wide so that a potential spy can be easily prosecuted as they are usually found in possession of classified info in their house or on their laptop for which they have no authorization to have.

There is simply no exception for the case when thousands and thousands of classified docs have been spread over the internet and are just as easily accessed as driving directions to a restaurant.

EDIT:

This is actually a great example of how a broad and overreaching law (by virtue of not being updated to specifically exclude leaked info) can be used to selectively prosecute certain individuals at will. Chances are some of those who have a clearance have read excerpts from Cablegate on the web just by reading the news. An overzealous prosecutor can turn that into a "willful security violation" if they really want to. This is in the same category as "obstruction of business", "obstruction of justice", "disruptive behavior" charges.
So is LimeWire's future that of Napster's?
I also found it interesting that the NYT didn't mention his name. If it's listed in the cables, the fact that they left it out would be a rather clear indication of policy.

Makes me wish once again that newspapers were required to provide detailed bibliographies for their stories somewhere.
I don't understand why you say that. If the last ten years are
any indication then nothing big will come from ms.
Seriously, come to London if you want to see this all the time. Walk through Mayfair and you'll see Porsches, Astons, Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys parked on the street all over. It's crazy...

Sometimes it's not contempt, it's just what you need to do to get a parking spot. :)
Given what Google engineers are paid, I see this as the ultimate whining crybaby position.

If you want your own separate thing, then have the stones to quit your job, take your savings and fund your own thing. Geez.

At least Google has a procedure and due process for vetting a release from the employee contract on a case by case basis. The majority of tech companies have no such process. And in fact having your own side project will raise the hackles of the employer. And a minority of smaller company owners will consider an employee with personal side projects of any kind a threat, and your career there is effectively stunted if your boss finds out.

Life has decision points and you have to make choices. Only an immature person believes that they are entitled to "everything."
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My son Darren works for Jason at Mahalo. He is too busy working to comment here...so I will for him :-)

Darren works 6 or 7 days a week because he loves what he is doing, and is learning a ton from Jason. Yes, he is tough and has high expectations. But, Jason is the best mentor and teacher around.

Jason isn't for everyone, but if you want to rise to the top really fast...a ride with Jason will get you there.
Excellent point. Vintage networking hardware could start to become quite valuable.
News from the future:

P != NP

Does that mean that we shouldn't work towards a proof? Are you implying the Chinese shouldn't bother investigating this because it has no value?
This is on my Christmas list to my fam. I've been looking forward to reading it ever since ErlangCamp, which was organized by some of the authors, and fully awesome. If the book's as helpful as ErlangCamp was, then I expect this book to deepen my understanding of OTP, which in the O'Reilly and PragProg books seem to be more of a "if you want, you can do OTP". I prefer the "this is the way it should be done" approach. OTP should be the norm, rather than the exception, and a lot of new Erlang developers miss that (including myself).
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“Hosting wikileaks gains little and could be quite costly in lawsuits, ddos, loss of political standing and bad press”

The whole point of singling out Amazon as a coward is to rebalance the cost and gain. Some people are expecting business to have morales too (well yes some don't and the topic is quite debatable).

Otherwise it will gradually end up with situations in some country (should be obvious I assume) where any government official with sufficient power can make a phone call to an Internet company to delete unwanted content, and the guy receiving the call would be beaten to death if he dares to say no.
Inconsolata isn't mentioned but is great too.
It's true in many parts of the world, and indeed I went through a similar ordeal to have "Software Engineer" in my diploma. However, I find all this does nothing to improve the quality of the talent, and these credentials are useless as a predictor of future performance.

So if software engineering certification is institutionalized worldwide tomorrow, my bet is it won't change a thing in practice. The problem is with the discipline itself, not with what is written on the credentials.
Wait what? Wasn't the original shipping date in 2009?
I was just asked about a python job. Where do you live?

What does your wife do? How can we help her?
The age doesn't matter.
I disagree with him here. I'm all for truths that serve the public good and I support most whistle blowers.

The problem with this recent Wikileaks release is there was data in it that did a lot of damage while providing no public good. The fact that Hilary Clinton's staff thinks certain world leaders are crazy really doesn't do anything for me as a citizen. But it does hurt the State Department's ability to negotiate with those world leaders.

Truth is an important value but it's not an absolute one. Put it in real terms. You might hate your mother-in-law but it does no good to tell her that. Same here.

Also note this release is already causing knee jerk reaction laws to be passed that will hurt whistle blowers in the future. The reason that's possible is because the information is so trivial (no politician would be brave enough to pass a law against a whistle blower that revealed important information for the public good)
Ah, thank you for describing the condescending attitude I was talking about!
As stated above "We have a process for releasing under your own copyright, but it is not as flexible.".

I think that's entirely fair - if you're a Google employee contributing to a project that might potentially compete with Google, I don't see a problem with Google asking you to get permission.
Given that we have 50 states and that their politicians are a lot closer to the people and that the Federal government would still be enforce freedom of mobility between states, I'd say that would be a huge improvement.

Ron Paul is by no means perfect but Sweet Zombie Jesus, he is still 100 times better then the wast majority of politicians.
i'd like to do both. we are doing plenty of the first and want to do more of the second.

sorry for confusing you with the post
This is a curious expectation, but it feels right to me (with a degree in economics). Recessions are usually preceded by inflation, not followed, However, wars are usually followed by inflation. Since 1960 inflation has been over 600%, energy about 850%. My expectation, is that a huge amount of money has been pumped in to the economy to pay for the wars and the bail-outs. The money is being absorbed by the wars and the trade deficits. I think the current situation is unstable and it will blow up, perhaps in 2012. Certainly any austerity program that hits the middle class hard, and all the Rep. proposals do, will trigger political thrashing and immense hardship, something approaching the severity of the Depression, or we will get the typical end of war inflation.
Hello,

I see the righteous indignation engine is fully spinning up on my behalf. No need: I can take care of myself, thanks. I posted this on the github thread, but:

* Google has a slightly paperwork-heavy process I could have gone through to retain copyright on further contributions to this project

* I chose not to use it in lieu of using a paperwork-free process which involves me assigning copyright to MY contributions under a Google copyright

* I am quite happy with this situation, from a de facto standpoint my day-to-day life is completely unaffected

* because the code is BSD-licensed and it REALLY doesn't matter.

...but if railing against the "man" is making you guys happy, then by all means, continue?
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Thank you, I'm in the Baltimore/DC area. East Coast.
Not that it's actually relevant to the point of the post, but Andrew Mason rides a Vespa and lives in Ukrainian Village (not the most expensive real estate in Chicago). Apparently his big splurge was on a grand piano.

Source: http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/shopping/90800/groupon-2...
Part1: take a cold hard look around. What do people want? Most of these "smart, energetic teenager with no responsibilities" are hyped up on The Next Big Thing, which has historically a very poor hobby-to-business conversion rate.

Don't do that.

With the life expectancy growing, there are literally thousands of opportunities for people over the age of 30, 50: unlike teenagers, these guys actually have money, are catching up to new technologies, AND are massively undeserved.

So pull your head out of the media, and start looking at things right around you.

Part2, market: if you're over 30, you are massively more well-positioned to have a good chance of stumbling upon problems, that actually makes money: proper life-experience is a massive competitive advantage you have over these kiddies. So are all your connections, the people who know, and trust you, AND have probems and money they can give you to solve theirs.

Use your frequent miles to validate ideals, and start charging pre-product. Use the resources gathered this way to push yourself through execution.

Part3, resources: if your business idea involves computer / new technology, and implementation is a week point of yours, do not be afraid to trust that part to other, more competent people -the "smart energetic teenager with no responsibilities". If the fundamentals of the opportunity are strong enough that you can put together enough resources, you can, and should use these guys to your advantage: contact eg. local dorms, universities, or even high-schools for cheap, and highly qualified talent.

This is by no scratch of imagination a complete formula, but should be enough to get you over the paralysis, and start actually doing things.

Best of luck -a youngster
I'd love to email you for a sidebar discussion, but your email address isn't in your 'About' profile.
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The smaller the size of a group, the greater the tendency for it to oppress the freedom of its members.
This is from the author on that link:

"Holy crap. The situation is quite simple:

pre-existing work I contributed to this project remains under my copyright

contributions other people make to this project remain under their own copyrights

contributions I make to this project subsequent to November 2010 are under Google copyright

nobody should really give a shit about this because a) I freely agreed to this even though Google has a process where I could have asked to retain my own copyright because b) the code is BSD licensed and you can use it however you like regardless of who owns the copyright.

The only thing this would potentially make more difficult for me is if I wanted to re-license the code under some other terms. But I would have to obtain permission from our other contributors to do that anyways."

Seems reasonable
This was how it was put in the book How To Get Rich.
This is, oddly enough, the highest score I've gotten on an HN post to date, and of course it's on a throwaway.

I'm perfectly happy to sift through the negativity as, well, there are always other sides to the coin, but yes, the response to this is literally inspirational.
Plead is not a transitive verb. Maybe beg would be better.
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Sorry I don't know all that lingo but I do need help fro my web site I need built. Good luck
Do government employees have an assumption that their work communications are kept private and there is no/little recourse as to what they say in them?

I always figure that at work 100% of what I write can be read by the entire company, and that I will be held accountable for anything I say/do even if I have the best intentions in mind. If I say in an email something unfavorable or slanderous about another company's CEO, and it gets out, then I must face the consequences.

It seems that American government employees and diplomats have another expectation of privacy and consequence to what they say/do.
There are two sides to this issue, neither of which are unfair. The employer hires people to solve problems in a given space and has a right to make sure they own what they paid for. On the other side the problem space doesn't (shouldn't) include everything. The better defined the problem space the fewer problems you will have. I've been on both sides of the issue and found that people are willing to accept both sides. The last few places I worked management was willing to change the standard contract from the normal "we own all unless you get an exception" to "we own all related directly to this specific project or done on company time/equipment". If your employer is unwilling to make the change and you are unwilling to work somewhere else consider part of the cost of working.
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Ah yes, but with better management both could still be in business.

Or in other words, Starbucks could also have been mismanaged.
And http://www.peapod.com/ is still in businesses.

As others in this thread have pointed out, the key distinction between bubble 1.0 and 2.0 is complete nonsense vs. real value.

Most likely currently hugely overvalued value, but still real value.

After bubble 1.0 burst, it hurt the very concept of business on the internet badly.

When 2.0 bursts, a very few companies will close shop, the rest will simply be worth a lot less and lay off people but will return to operating profitably as before.
This advice isn't falling on deaf ears, rest assured.

The criminal irony here is that we'd already done this with the last job transition. Cable TV, gone. Internet is a necessity, but I downgraded from the 15Mbps plan to 5. Pasta, rice, oatmeal, potato, noodles are the new staples, and steak has been replaced with chicken. Netflix, cancelled.

Figuring out what ELSE to cut is the real killer. But there are always to do more with less.

Thank you.
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how can he contact you if you dont list you email and there is no way to send private messages in HN?
another problem w/ HN, no private messaging
From Wikipedia:

"Chris DiBona (born October 1971) is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator and the polling locations API."

Based on how authoritatively Chris DiBona is speaking, he is effectively representing Google in these comments and in the GitHub comments. He hasn't disclaimed this at all, and his position at Google would suggest he has the authority to make these statements.
I'd quibble with "anyone's pension riding on it." Much of the money that is invested in Venture Capital is from public employee pension funds like CALPERS.
Slow moving IT departments, by definition, will not move to cheaper alternatives overnight, but they will move eventually.

When they do, they better move to your cheaper alternative.

When they don't move at all, there always is the rest of the market that might move there. For example, if you buy cloud box, your Internet provider could give you 'free' Office in the cloud, just like they give you 'free' antivirus now.

I do not think this is an outrageous prediction. Both Google (Chrome OS) and MS (Office Live) are already moving there. One could even (weakly) argue that iPads and iPhones just cache cloud-based executables; Apple 'only' needs to fix its data storage solution. My bet is that that is what their rumoured new data center is for.
Maybe I've been living in a cave but I had no idea that tech like NeuroSky and emotive was so cheaply available. Anyone with experience on which one is better?
Amongst other things, my wife does software QA and Technical Documentation. I've been meaning to post something here to see what sort of interest there was for that as a contracted service, and I've been in the process of building her a website to get her started on that.

Jollari's comment is especially interesting to me for this reason.
My uneducated opinion is that this is very tough to accomplish, and if you guys pull it off you will have built a great company. It seems you guys are in the preventive healthcare business.

On friends: I doubt friends are helpful here, unless they are friends I see daily and take/compare actions with. Plus if I drop they will just support my new decision, or they may not even notice. I am sure you guys will figure something out here.

On rewards: Providing currency is a great idea("lower insurance premiums..."), but just knowing I am taking care of my body is a greater motivator than saving "15% on my car insurance", I mean my health insurance.

On product: It's nice that I move you, but really I want to move ME. Ideally I would want ImoveMe to be a product where I can have my health-related goals, then it will help monitor them. Better than connecting with my friends on FB, I would rather connect with people who have similar goals then compare progress. A friend who does not jog cannot motivate me enough to wake up at 6 AM and go for a run.

On product 2: Challenge your Twitter and Facebook friends to small bursts of exercise. . Well you know what, why can't IMyou (or me) challenge me? If I tell you my goal is to loose weight, then be fun and turn this into a game. SMS me random burts of exercise to do, or email it to me in the AM, and once a week send me my diet plan. I can SMS back "DONE" then you can give me points, I guess. I cannot afford a personal trainer, but you know what, reading instructions is just ok. Plus it's a game. This game is my boss and tells me what to do. If I fail to text back DONE after x times, sign me off the service and ask me to come back when I am serious.

Again, this is my uneducated opinion about a business I have looked at only for a few moments. That being said, I watch the CEO interview on TC and she seemed hella-passionate, so I am confident she will solve this issue for all of us.
Did they execute the queen and divide the honey amongst themselves?
Really? I've always found the number one barrier in medtech to be fact that the feds won't let you unleash cutting edge new medtech on humanity without a crushing time and money penalty to prove it is safe and worth it.

Just so people don't miss interpret what I'm saying: I do think we should try to prove medtech is safe and does something. But I think the quantity of proof we require slows down innovation tremendously. And the penalty we pay for bringing things YEARS to market later then we could have is human lives.
Year of the Linux desktop?

I'm just curious about actual numbers now. Did it reach 1% already?
Thanks for that information. It is interesting that what really matters isn't the actual terms of the agreement, but rather the policies that are implemented by the most powerful party in the agreement.