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> There is a compelling natural rights justification for intellectual property.

No, there really isn't: it makes no sense when you examine it.

Normal property manages a limited resource -- material things. By restricting one person's access to something it ensures access for someone else. IP is fundamentally different: it imposes a restriction where there is none, essentially, needed. Everyone can make copies of something without anyone else losing access to it.

Why impose a restriction on a useful abundance? Is there some deep virtue in denying ourselves some benefit?

> The fact that it's physically easy to steal intellectual property does not make it right.

But this is really the crux. It is exactly this difference that makes all the difference. If I could steal your normal, material, property, but leave it all in your possession, what is there to complain about? In fact, you could copy my property, then we would both have two lots of stuff -- this is not bad, this is good!

And people are saying there is a 'natural right' here -- a 'natural right' to stop us from benefiting, costlessly, from each other? It is crazy.

You could say that, pragmatically, the best way to fund production is by copyright-like restrictions. That is a reasonable proposition at least. But it is no longer anything to do with 'natural rights': it is not based on any fundamental necessity or desire, it is purely contingent and economic, proven by practicality and evidence.
Google has ALWAYS been an AI company. From the beginning, pagerank indexed information, made meaning out of this information, and could predict the most relevant url better than anything else in the market. Search was simply the first application.

AI is not a market - AI is a tool. Google is NOT poor at product development. However, it does seem that they have failed to build some products around AI tools (like Google Wave).

Sure Google (and others) will continue to make products by applying AI to market problems.. but they've been doing this their entire existence.
I'm forever confused by technical users who laud DDG's ! support. I love DDG and use it as my primary search engine, but Firefox has featured keyword searches for years now. Any search box anywhere can be turned into a URL keyword search.

I use "m" for searching Google Maps, "im" for Google Images, "w" for Wikipedia, "dict" and "thes" for dictionary.com, "bt" for searching torrents, and the list goes on. Just yesterday I added one so that I can type "to 123 Main St 12345" in the Location Bar and it automatically gives me the Google Maps driving directions from my house to the indicated address.

It's as simple as right-clicking a search box and selecting "Add a Keyword for this Search...". Use it :)
Thank you. I'll give them a look.

The http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ site gets a lot of traffic, and a lot of it is return traffic. But, since recipes are fairly standard, it was very difficult not to in some way re-fashion what was already out there.

When I was doing the research on the recipes site, I found a lot of what I consider spam -- sites full of recipes with the intention of tricking users into downloading spyware, buying SMS subscription services, and other such stuff. I felt like a simple, easy-to-read, targeted site based on just a few recipes people want might have value. It's not a general purpose recipe site, and the content is presented as simply and openly as possible. (And it was all entered by my wife)

It's interesting that it would stand out as being dubious, as it seems to me to be the most straightforward trade of content for eyeballs of the sites I have.

As an aside, it doesn't make much money, perhaps because nobody advertises about casseroles or cookbooks? Beats me. But I plan to keep it because of the positive response it gets, including people writing to ask for new recipes.

I didn't have a problem listing my other sites on my blog, since, well, they are my other sites. It's not like I'm trying to keep them secret or anything.

I appreciate the help.
That's a valid point, but there is some validation investors get from Goldman and DST investing at that valuation. I think that DST is investing as principal, so it says something that they think it is worthwhile at that valuation (and DST is not a first time investor so they are familiar with FB's financials).
I attended the Founder Conference last year (2010) and really enjoyed it. The panels and speakers were great and I enjoyed meeting the other founders.
You should try it. It's actually great fun.
Did 99% Of Our Industry Just Become Criminals
I was very impressed when I found out Google was running a free 411 phone information service just so that they could gather a ton of data to train new voice-recognition algorithms. That's real long-term thinking, and definitely makes them an AI company in my book.
You aren't listening. You're taking a field on a report which means X rather than Apple's statement about their Y. They are NOT THE SAME THING. You're simply looking up the WRONG STATISTIC from an official source and saying it trumps A DIFFERENT STATISTIC from another source.

Financial reports use phrases that sound like common sense things but actually have precisely defined meanings that are not equivalent to what they sound like they mean. Basically it's excluding a great deal of Apple's liquid assets because they don't fall under a specific definition.
Excellent text, eloquent argument that takes to task the modern notion of entrepreneurship and what it means for today's innovators.

I really enjoyed reading the parts that called on developers to challenge old players in new markets; inspiring stuff.
If watching his Random show has taught me anything it is that he isn't very remarkable especially compared to his cohost on that show (Tim Ferriss). His strength is really how connected he is and his ability to produce content that highlights the insights of others which hopefully foundation will provide.
I'm not that familiar with Wave (other than using it for a bit), but can you expand on the connection between Wave and AI?
Probably analysts or their ilk tearing their hair out.

For Apple, it's probably quite advantageous to be able to essentially pay cash up front for next year's supply of a critical component, pay a partner to build a new plant, etc.

At least Apple isn't throwing their money away in stock buybacks like Ballmer.
I was only talking about (a), the language being "superior" in a very "idealistic" and fundamental sense - i.e. being "more expressive".

I do believe that the son-of-FP I hand-waved about will also attain (b), being the most popular language, but that's much further out - say 50 years.
I don't think latency is a problem for something like gmail, you open it once and much of it happens in an already opened connection or in the background.
Thanks! Both should be fixed.
I was thinking of apt-get source, actually. It's been two years or so since I've used Debian, since our worldviews are incompatible.

> Constrast that with a gem that happened to be updated just 30 minutes ago, with no testing in the particular configuration where it is used.

This doesn't really happen, though. Bundler makes sure that you have the exact same versions of gems that you used everywhere else, and if anyone's got the automated testing thing down, it's Rubists. You won't get the 30 minute old version unless you want to.
Self driving cars are 15 years away.

Google already has them. Seriously.

They have been driving on real streets with real people. The only serious incidents that have happened with them is that one got rear-ended by a human while it was stopped, and a journalist noticed them so Google had to admit that they exist.
That's it. There's no magic. You compile L to native code via C.

This is how Squeak is portable across so many different platforms. (Altered to suit a dynamic language.) The VM is implemented in a statically-compiled Smalltalk subset which is emitted as C. I understand that Rubinius uses this trick as well.
The time-frame for auto driving cars is actually more difficult to predict than that for general adaptive robotics because of the regulatory and social issues involved. I'm sure it will be decades not centuries though.

My prediction is that robotic servants will be common place in homes by the 2020's and that almost all manual occupations will be replaced with automation during that decade. I have no idea how society and the economy are going to adapt to that reality however.
I think he meant to say what he said. I get it.
While I generally agree that advances in game technology and game design will have a big impact in several fields, I found the points of the author not very convincing. Evidences and articulation of his reasoning are somewhat thin.
If you don't want to drive, move to NYC. A significant fraction of the population there never gets a driver's license because they see no real need to.
We're definitely considering white-labeling. One issue we're seeing consistently is that, at least for development jobs, companies are having a much harder time sourcing candidates than screening them. As we move in to other career areas, that will likely change.

How is the demand for software jobs in Toronto?
For comparison: US GDP per capita is roughly $46,000.
Either you mean "etymology", or that's a really unusual and interesting sentence :-)
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He's definitely a good entertainer, as anyone who's watched Diggnation knows. It's not my cup of tea, but it apparently is for a large number of people, judging from the show's popularity.
I have a general understanding of computing and networking as I am currently employed in the information assurance field (CISSP and Network +), programming is however, completely new to me.

I guess the hardest part is I want to be an expert right away. I often read HN for inspiration and therefore want to perform at the same level.

So far the basics seem, well very basic and easy to understand. When I start looking at building something, I feel a bit overwhelmed. I want to push out things that I can be proud of and will help the community develop, and I guess that desire is conflicting with my current level of knowledge.

Sorry, bit of a rant and long post, but just trying to sort everything out so I don't get disillusioned.
If you look at the market prices of newspapers, radios, TV stations, you'll see that they depend little on their earnings. The buyer pays for influence on the public opinion.

How much do you think will FB support be worth to GS during the next bailout? In understanding what are the common fears, arguments for and against. Even now GS manages many deals, parts of the society don't like - outsourcing, green house options trade, arab and chinese investors, etc.
So it's misleading because they listed debt rather than net worth? I'm not sure "misleading" is the right term - I'd use "a correct number, properly labelled, but which answers a different question than the question rdl wants answered".

Incidentally, I'm not sure why mortgage debt is more misleading than other debt. If I have $500k in the bank but owe $50k on an auto loan or credit card, is that somehow worse than owning a $500k house with $50k mortgage debt?

As for the call-option nature of loans, that only applies in a few states (admittedly including CA and TX), and only to some loans (mostly only the first loan). While you are probably right that some mortgages should be excluded for this reason, I'd be surprised if they were the majority.
I've read the bill (it's only 4 pages) and I don't understand any of his concerns. It's a prohibition on underhanded selling of payment information to a third party in order to sign someone up to some other purchase when they bought something from you. That has nothing to do with upselling your own customers with your own products, or affiliate referral programs.
"Today, Google is a UI mess, as they haven't changed with the times, and keep adding content to their once clean design. (Even KISS sites need to be refreshed)."

Its not just the Google homepage; Android's UI is outright hideous, and while 99% of what matters in a search engine is results, a smartphone is too multifaceted in function to neglect a clean, working, uniform UI to organize the chaos of features into something that people can figure out.

I suspect this is why Android hasn't moved beyond the fellow nerds in my circle of friends.
It looks like something that was thrown up quickly. If you have 'mental stress' because some pictures and text lacks design, the problem may be you, not the website.
Thanks for the info. Clearly we have to read the fine print rather than relying on product names.

Congrats Sony, you thought you'd force your customers to repurchase their favorite games didn't you? Instead you made enemies of an upcoming generation of gamers.

If only they could have heard the tears of the small children on Christmas morning upon finding out that they would not, in fact, be able to use the dance pad and the older Dance Dance Revolution which had the actual anime songs that they had saved their allowance to buy and they would only be able to dance to Lady Gaga instead...

(that's only slightly an exaggeration)
I'm not a huge Rose fan. However, I think that this is a really good idea.

I would much rather pay $4 per month for exclusive content, so I'll likely wait until it's free.

However, this resurgence of e-mail newsletters (of sorts) is timely and valuable.

Someone should build a mailchimp clone that makes it easy to distribute and charge for audio and video in addition to text.
Looking at GeoHotz accolades on his Wikipedia page makes me feel like a terrible underachiever.
Eventually, high-end consumers are meant to buy Sandy Bridge-E on the LGA2011 platform.

The vast majority of LGA1155 users are going to use that integrated gpu. Producing it as a separate chip would be much more expensive -- on-die it can share expensive resources, notably the memory controller, and moving it away from the chipset means there only has to be one high-performing piece of silicon in the whole system.

Using a quarter more die does not mean that the cpu is a quarter more expensive -- the fabrication costs are a minuscule amount of the sale price, and if this move allows Intel to reduce the total amount of different high-performing chips made, it could well result in a reduction of total costs, potentially making the CPU less expensive -- even to people who do not use the integrated GPU.
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Nah, not strong AI. A person in a car is much simpler than a full-out person. You have fewer motivations, fewer actions, fewer /states/ (he's confused / drunk) - unless you're playing Death Race 2000 or something. If worse comes to worst you could have human drivers label the worst situations, letting the machine figure out the characteristics letting it predict such a state, and probably there are just a few reactions to many states anyway.
Vizio to launch an Android tablet and back it up with its own app store
I hope they are further away. For me a bus is self driving car, but driving a car is also a pleasure not only the means to get from a point A to a point B.
That's part of the complaint. The main complaint though is that it's harder to verify the source of the source because it's nonstandard for your distribution. Ideally, if you're building on a Debian derivative, anything you install comes in through apt-get, with a signed package. If you're on Red Hat, yum. And so on. RVM is not only unsigned, it brings in considerably things to do than apt-get install.
Just added the database server locations. All use Amazon EC2, but MongoLab also offers databases on the Rackspace cloud.
Basically the Wave protocol modeled real-time communication in a way that Google Wave Bots & Gadgets could be deployed to add value to conversations among groups. Google Wave was intended to be a playground where humans and AI algorithms could meaningfully share information.
You won't get the 30 minute old version unless you want to.

Frankly, I do not want to care. I want the latest stable version with security fixes. With a busy work schedule, I do not have time to maintain a stable set of Ruby modules. It's a matter of economics: you could let every user find out a stable combination of modules, and everyone will end up doing a lot of duplicate work. Or the distributor could do it, saving 95% of the users who do not have specific needs many hours of work. And as a bonus, we all get the collaborative testing and bug reporting that was done in Debian Unstable and Debian Testing.

This approach works well for many interpreters and compilers in Debian (as someone else pointed out, Python is well-integrated in Ubuntu and Debian).
You really think you've seen all the stupid names and URLs, and then Rose drops something like http://foundat.io/n in your lap.

Aside from that, it sounds like a very interesting project that, as compelling and simple as it sounds, I don't see a lot of people pulling off but Rose.
Available online, even:

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/DeluxeMonopoly.pdf
I've bought some Google shares as an insurance, in case they develop true AI. I hope the robots spare me if I can prove that I financed their creation.
Note that the area StackOverflow is in has been a "bad neighborhood" for a long time... StackOverflow has played a big role in cleaning up.

About six months ago, just about any question about "doing X" with Windows or .NET would come up to some page on ExpertsExchange that would promise to give me the answer... if I paid. Yeah right.

It's no wonder the spammers in this space are fighting back against S.O.
But isn't it the responsibility of the sub-investors to do their own due diligence? After all, the entire purpose of accrediting investors is to get them to acknowledge that they are being given less protection from the SEC.

It's a process where the SEC asks the investor, "OK, you have a million dollars. Are you sure you know what you're doing?" And the individual says, "Yes, I'm willing to accept the additional risk that comes along with less oversight (ie. more flexibility)".

If an investor is putting money into the pot based on just the "Very Good Valuation" argument, and they've acknowledged the risks, they are not eligible for certain protections (because those protections also limit certain financial vehicles).

In a similar vein, I feel no sympathy for the majority of the people who gave their money to Bernie Madoff. I do, however, believe that there should be legal consequences for money managers who make those types of investments without proper due diligence.
To generate income, Google prefers visitors that click on AdWords links. Do links to content farms cannibalize AdWords links? I don't think so.

Content farms are producing profitable responses to search queries in the present.

The negative impact of links to content farms to Google's bottom line is not due to visitor behavior during the current search but on the reduced likelihood of that visitor using Google to search again. It's possible that the average visitor is more satisfied with the results with content farms included than they are without content farms.
There is a good amount of demand for software jobs in T.O. Between the GTA, Waterloo and Ottawa, we're seeing a good surge of tech in Ontario centered around Toronto. It's got to the point in the past few months where finding available, good folks is touch-and-go.

However, I wouldn't limit your scope to development jobs. This sort of "chat roulette" for pre-screening is a very powerful idea.

Personally, I'd be focusing on the restaurant industry if this was my baby. They spend countless dollars on HR and if there was a way for an assistant manager to sit in an office to pre-screen for real interviews... it would be on fire. Restaurant chain owners are also very willing to spend money on technology like this. I don't think that you'd have a hard time finding low rate, non-intrusive funding from a small group of them to get the entire whitelabel thing off the ground in a hurry.
HN's "voting based on commenter" at work? This is probably single most useful comment in the entire thread, and Matt's "thank you" note had higher votes than the content? Sorry about the derail.

I've personally not seen efreedom ranking above stackoverflow. I've seen it 2 places down or one down. So this is a very valuable comment. IMHO. YMMV.
I've used it to build parts for a RepRap printer, interestingly enough: http://www.heatsynclabs.org/wiki/Phoenix_RepRap
No, but a company that has a monopoly cannot manipulate a market by making a product selectively crappy, like a search engine that fails to find its competitors or a program that fails to run on a competing, compatible OS (early win3 on DR-DOS).
Tried to do registration but got an Internal Server Error. Not sure if my registration went through or not. (My e-mail is in my profile).
Sorry about that, just deployed a fix to make it less likely for session identifiers to collide. Shouldn't happen again.
There are data retention laws in other parts of the world (many european countries for example).
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GHC (Haskell) compiles to a Haskell program modelling C--, a subset of C. From there, it is rendered as actual C and compiled using GCC.

I believe there's more recently an option involving LLVM, though I'm not sure if this replaces the C-- step or is an alternative to GCC.
As a Caltech alumni I'd like for a Caltech prank to hold the title of World's Greatest, but I'm afraid that should go to the Berner's Street Hoax. Here's the description from Wikipedia:

The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City
of Westminster, London, in 1809. Hook had made a bet with his friend,
Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any house in London into the
most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out
thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54
Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance.

On 27 November, at five o’clock in the morning, a sweep arrived to
sweep the chimneys of Mrs Tottenham's house. The maid who answered
the door informed him that no sweep had been requested, and that
his services were not required. A few moments later another sweep
presented himself, then another, and another, 12 in all. After the
last of the sweeps had been sent away, a fleet of carts carrying
large deliveries of coal began to arrive, followed by a series of
cakemakers delivering large wedding cakes, then doctors, lawyers,
vicars and priests summoned to minister to someone in the house
they had been told was dying. Fishmongers, shoemakers, and over
a dozen pianos were among the next to appear, along with "six stout
men bearing an organ". Dignitaries, including the Governor of the
Bank of England, the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury
and the Lord Mayor of the City of London also arrived. The narrow
streets soon became severely congested with tradesmen and onlookers.
Deliveries and visits continued until the early evening, bringing
a large part of London to a standstill.

Hook stationed himself in the house directly opposite 54 Berners
Street, from where he and his friend spent the day watching the
chaos unfold.

That would be an impressive prank today. To pull it off in 1809 when it had to be organized by letter, each likely hand written, in a week, is astounding. Note the care in timing, getting similar arrivals to happen around the same time to magnify the absurdity of the situation. Pure genius.
Actually, I have seen that - one of our websites got infected with a particular hack that did this to our Google cache and search results.

They redirect search engines to the fake pharmacy pages, while still leaving regular users able to see the normal content. This has been happening a lot, especially on self-hosted Wordpress blogs, it seems.

If you're interested, I decoded the hack on my server and posted the translated source online: https://bitbucket.org/arianb/pharmahack/src

More details here: http://www.pearsonified.com/2010/04/wordpress-pharma-hack.ph...
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