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What's so funny about all this is that the distribution constraints of the App Store do not make it incompatible with the GPLv2. Having to pay Apple $99/year for keys is irrelevant, as is the signing of binaries that prevents redistribution between devices (and even if those were problems, there's jailbreaking). Hell, it wouldn't violate the GPLv2 even if there was no way for users to get their code on the device at all (see TiVo, et. al.). It's unfortunate that all the early discussion of this was laser-focused on the irrelevant DRM.

Rémi's argument is that the Apple Store Terms & Conditions constrain your usage rights — "YOU SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO USE THE PRODUCTS ONLY FOR PERSONAL, NONCOMMERCIAL USE." — and downstream authors/distributors are not allowed to "impose any further restrictions" beyond the GPL.

Rémi is technically correct (the best kind of correct!) that the App Store terms are in conflict with the GPL. The clause in question isn't just for apps, its basic purpose is that purchasing a song or movie from Apple doesn't give you public performance rights to it. Apple could pay their lawyers to bloat out the whole usage section so that it'd be difficult for Rémi to pick a fight over it, but they probably won't.

But if people are going to pick fights over minor unenforceable EULA terms, they're going to find them everywhere they look. I mean for fuck's sake you also agree that you will not use iPhone software in the operation of nuclear facilities or for aircraft navigation, like in a great many EULAs. If some ideologue really wants to burn it all down they could probably find a ton of high-profile but ultimately pointless technical GPL violations in this vein.

Wherever a fight is sought it will be found. No copyright license will ever prevent either upstream or downstream from being huge asshats if that's what they want to be.
Facebook will eclipse MySpace for largest percentage of bands with a presence soon enough.

ben - i'm with you. can't believe how fast MySpace has fallen off. Dug this article up: http://gigaom.com/2005/08/06/why-murdoch-bought-myspace/ Did NewsCorp really have plans to compete with MTV?

In general, the collapse of MySpace and Digg epitomizes what I've said about social networks all along: they're not sustainable, just like @tallanvor alludes to below.
It's not CDDL - Apple has shipped dtrace for years now which is CDDL code.

Most likely, ZFS was written off for various technical reasons (large RAM requirements to run well, not optimized for portable hardware, etc.) and if there was a legal issue it was probably the NetApp lawsuit against Sun regarding ZFS.
I think it's quite fruitful to assume that the brain consist of several layers of psychical processes, each at a different level in evolution and not always in tune with each other. It seems to be closer to the truth than assuming we are 'whole', or 'one mind'. I think that's pretty non-controversial, considering what we know about how brain anatomy, but then I'm not an expert.

Also, perhaps the particular language he used was useful in dealing with patients?
Most rubyists use a text editor like TextMate, Vim or Emacs, rather than an IDE. The general opinion is that the heavy weight of an IDE on your computer's memory and performance isn't worth it in Ruby's case.
Congratulations!

How much? ;)
Kudos to any company working on information overflow. I promise to use your product religiously (and pay for it) if you can solve the problem.
Good lord, how did a post like that get an upvote? It's ignorant well beyond the point of normally being considered a troll post.

>The fact is the majority of people aren't successful or really very useful to society.

That's an insanely arrogant thing to say, not to mention complete garbage. The only reason we even have a society at all is because of that majority you dismiss. They are the ones who spend the money, do the mundane jobs that the top 1% can't be bothered to and so on.

>The top 1% of society do most of the work, so they get most of the reward. That's pretty fair IMHO.

Wtf? Citations? Actually I'm not sure what kind of citation could possibly be provided to demonstrate such a statement was anything but full retard. How do you define "work"? Obviously not manual labor. I will venture a guess that you must be talking about CEO's, but there is no metric you could name that you can't find people lower on the food chain who outwork any CEO on.

>Human motivation requires that success be rewarded.

More Rush Limbaugh-esque nonsense. Rewards take many different forms. A college professor might take reward in the results of his research, even though he'll never be compensated like e.g. Larry Ellison who some would qualify as a blot on the IT industry.
I'm looking forward to a web where most "sites" are irrelevant, and hardly ever visited.

I'm tired of having to dig through multiple sites to find the answer to a problem or question, or to visit multiple sites to get a stream of information that I'm interested in.

I'd much rather have a machine-readable web and an intelligent agent to fetch info for me.

I really don't need flashy intros, flaming logos, over-designed background images and a pile of animated advertisements.

If that makes the web bland, then bring it on.
British Library App Brings Dickens, The Beatles, Beowulf to Your Smartphone
Note that the article is from 2005. Also comparing a lamborghini cup holder with syntax of a programming language doesn't make sense at all. The syntax of a language is something you look at and work with for maybe 8 hours a day and is the key part in communicating the language with the compiler and your coworkers.

The reason I, and I guess many other people don't like the lisp syntax is pure taste and psychological. I don't really care about a list of technical arguments why it is good. I don't like reading or writing the syntax lisp is written in and that will not change. That has nothing to do with being openminded or possible technical superiority over C style syntax. Writing and reading source code is far more enjoyable using other syntaxes solving the exact same problems so why should I bother with lisp?

PS: Who on earth would drink coffee in his fancy lamborginhi :D
You've been here less than 3 months. In reality, you probably need to chill out a bit.

To answer your question directly, there is no direct support for deleting accounts. PG might be able or willing to delete it if you email him and ask nicely.
A simpler way than the "Super complex UI, lots of fiddly magic numbers, and no documentation. You're sort of doomed." method in the article: wondershaper. It's in Ubuntu and as easy as wondershaper eth1 9500 9500 (for a symmetrical 10Mbps connection). You'll probably be able to fine tune better settings manually, but this is a good start.
That goes back at least ten years. In a Doonesbury strip from about 2000, when Mike's company isn't able to make payroll, he tells his daughter everybody's working for stock options now. "Do you know what stock options are?" "Sure! They're like lottery tickets, right?" "Shh!"
The remaining question (posed in the top-rated answer) is: Why didn't anyone else build Dropbox first?

At the risk of shameless karma whoring, I hypothesize that the problem had to be attacked by a company of the correct size. Most bigger companies can't build Dropbox because to release a product like Dropbox one has to run a gauntlet of middle managers, and it's hard to get a roomful of software professionals to sign on to something that (a) is difficult to build and requires a lot of painstaking attention to detail, yet (b) can be described in three sentences.

It's just hard to talk about a simple, elegant mission in those ubiquitous meetings. People ask how the project is going, and you have three things you can say:

A) "No, the folder doesn't sync yet."

B) "Yes, the folder syncs."

C) "No, the folder doesn't sync because of this particular small issue with this obscure API call in this obscure library on this obscure version of Linux blah blah blah TECH TECH TECH yes I'm so sorry too much detail I will shut up now."

So pretty much all you can do is smile serenely. This is a big strategic disadvantage. Even a medium-sized company features multiple projects. The projects fight for resources: people, budget, management attention. They may fight in a very friendly and even above-board way, the way siblings fight for attention, but they do fight. And the project that tacks on more and more requirements gets to claim more and more resources, because, hey, requirements are hard! Bigger checklists require bigger teams, and bigger teams require bigger budgets, and more management attention. Add features! Attach a marketing campaign! Bolt it on to a much larger brand!

I need to go read Parkinson's Law again. A work of genius.

Anyway, Dropbox succeeded by designing a company where the mission of "building Dropbox and making it succeed" was both necessary and sufficient.
But what is the point of such a line of discussion? If there are no consequences then of course no one would care. The whole reason such a thing is discussed is because there are indeed very real consequences.
ZFS lets you put encryption/compression/dedupe on a per filesystem basis, and filesystems are extremely light and easy to create in ZFS (one/multiple per home directory or installed app is normal) so it's easy enough to only apply those features where they're needed.

As ZFS checksums every block in the CPU anyway, doing an additional crypto step isn't all that bad, especially in a server environment where there cores are plentiful.
Landing Page Testing - The New Low Hanging Fruit
Where does "deflation" come from? Not the article's headline, and it's not really fair to put a commenter's words in the author's mouth.
This is a good point if you make the assumption that people tend to accumulate wealth as they age as a rule. I think this is likely, but it has not been established as a general proposition.

The shapes of individual "wealth curves" will not necessarily be identical. Here are a few examples to consider:

- A person who is raised in a middle-class home, and has basically the life story in the blog post will have a curve similar to that one.

- A person who is raised in a poor home, is unable to afford college even with loans, and makes a few bad economic decisions early on, though not so bad that he cannot pay for them, will have a similar-looking debt event, followed by little change for the rest of his life.

- A person who is raised in a wealthy home, goes to college without needing loans, and is taught from an early age the value of savings and investment will have a much steeper exponential curve, and a much flatter "retirement decline".

- A person who is raised in a poor home, is unable to afford college even with loans, and makes catastrophic economic decisions will likely either declare bankruptcy or end up in prison. Either event resets wealth accumulation to an unspecified negative value (to account for the stigma and reduced access to various opportunities), yielding a significantly different curve.

- A person who is raised in a rich home, with a trust fund, but whose trust fund was invested in real estate and Bernie Madoff.

- A person living the Equalland scenario encounters a catastrophic financial event at some point (illness, crime, failure of an over-leveraged investment such as a home) and is driven considerably into debt. Servicing that debt will require either a significant portion of income thereafter or bankruptcy.

- A person living the Equalland scenario, except that his chosen field of education is overproduced in his generation, will have a similar curve to the fourth scenario above. The education debt does not necessarily produce benefits thereafter.

I do think the Equalland scenario is likely to be most common, but I recognize that my suspicions are likely influenced by the fact that it is the most common scenario amongst my peers. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that it is the overwhelmingly most common scenario in general, especially with so many different scenarios resulting in a net wealth loss over the course of a person's life.
Why the Verizon iPhone Doesn’t Spell Disaster for AT&T
You're missing my point: it's not duplicate blocks in a single mail archive that I'm concerned about, it's duplicate blocks across multiple versions of the same mail archive.

New mails are typically appended to the end of the archive, but the rest of it remains more or less the same across versions.

Also, a well-written block-level deduplication algorithm will work regardless of boundary shifts. I designed and wrote the proprietary blocklevel algorithm used in Genie Timeline, and can tell you that it saves terabytes of data in corporations for just PSTs alone. And it doesn't rely on block boundaries, capable of detecting slided or shifted data.
Indeed, I added the book to my wishlist. Happy that it's so inexpensive. This is a fantastic way to promote the sale of a book.
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* GNU Emacs
Emacs is a highly extensible, full-featured text editor. Emacs has been in development since the 1970's and continues today.

- [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RubyOnRails][EmacsWiki on Ruby on Rails]]
- [[http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree/master][Technomancy's Emacs Rails Starter Kit]]
- [[http://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs][Peepcode Emacs Episode]]

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You can't short just because you think a stock is over-valued. You can only short when you both think a stock is over-valued and will soon hit a correction. It's that second part that makes shorting dangerous because you can't just call it; you have to call it at the right time.
Random downvotes for perfectly civil comments are by no means due to an "elitist negative voting policy of this forum". I think this is a direct result of some idiots joining HN recently. I call them downvote-trolls, whose only purpose seems to be to elicit reactions such as yours. Please don't leave because of this.
Points 2 and 3 are still strengths in my eyes. Other phones may offer both these features, but nowhere near as well if the primary function for the phone (after phone calls) is emailing.
Ask HN: On present socio-eco-political trends in USA 
Greetings, HNers! This is about present socio-eco-political trends in USA (and it's possible impact on immigrants and businesses in Asia, in the near future).

Disclaimer: I am not an American and I have not been there. Am not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question, but since the sensibility quotient of answers on HN is far better than any other forum, am attempting it. At the risk of being downvoted for irrelevant content, here I go.

Off-late there is a lot of talk about US being obsolete, the near-possible dollar devaluation and a subsequent socio-political breakdown and economic crash that is supposedly lurking around the corner. Should I be bothered if I am a

i) guy working for an Indian IT services company which depends largely on projects outsourced from America and Europe.
ii) guy about to be sent to US, on an outsourced project.

Suppose the USD is devalued, what impact would such a move have on businesses in Asia esp., IT services firms working on outsourced projects that rely a lot on the exchange rate (their local currency vs USD) for their profitability?

Thanks!

endnote: Let me be honest. I am an engineer working for an IT services firm in India for quite some time now (but have not been to the USA or any place abroad, which is like _a_big_shameful_thing_ out here ;)) But looks like it is about to change as I have been offered such a chance. But reading stuff like the impending doom and crash makes me to worry a bit. Hence, the question; so that I can have more views and thoughts on the matter, which would help me a lot to take the right decision.
AIUI = "as I understand it". Sorry for any confusion.

> If epistemological state means anything at all ...

It is clear (to me, anyway) that by "epistemological state" Yudkowsky means "state of beliefs and knowledge" rather than what you say is the only thing it can possibly mean. Why do you think the only thing it could mean is what you state?

(I think he should have said "epistemic" rather than "epistemological".)

> If EY had meant ... then maybe he should have spelled all that out

Maybe. But what he wrote was pretty long already, and "since I am running on corrupted hardware" (which is what EY did write) amounts to much the same thing. There's nothing a writer can do to guarantee that every single reader will understand correctly.

> I reassert that very little new was said in this article

So you do. But you're reading only a portion of it; you make claims about its overall purpose which are clearly contradicted by the article itself (hint 1: "to me this seems like a dodge"; hint 2: "I now move on to my main point", followed by a statement of that point which is not anything like "how can I best respond to trolley problems?" or "our robotic overlords will be vastly superior to ourselves"); you ignore large parts of it altogether. Why should anyone care whether, treating it thus, you find anything new in it?

> and what was said was wrapped in a ton of verbiage

Well, yes, Yudkowsky is not the most concise writer in the world. I think that may be partly because he's found that being terser gets him misinterpreted more often. From your consistently inaccurate paraphrases and summaries here, it seems to me that his main problem probably wasn't excess verbosity.

> that does not seem to jibe with what he actually says: ...

Situations where you're in the sort of epistemic position described in trolley problems are very rare. Situations where you can, and maybe should, harm some people to benefit others are not so rare.

I dare say there are ways in which a superintelligence could "fold all the remaining meat-machines into itself". It's not so clear that any of them would result in there being a superintelligence which is a "version of" any of those meat-machines.

I neither know nor care exactly what your attitude to super AIs is. I do think, for what it's worth, that pretty much everything you've said here on the subject has an unpleasantly sneering tone which you might want to lose if you don't want to give the impression of being "against super AIs or something".
While it's usually not as busy as it is right at 6, there are still quite a few people around after 8PM for most meetups.
"but I shall not be down voted"

Are you also going to stamp your foot and pout too?

How silly to quit something you clearly enjoy and see value in for something as mind-numbingly trivial as karma--

You simply cannot contribute to any community without the maturity to handle the diversity of other people's opinions and views. Some people here will down vote you for something as simple as beginning a sentence with 'but' or using 'a lot' for anything other than an auction.

Vote up, vote down, the sun" will shine tomorrow.
oh, I forgot to add Rinari if you want a rails-mode:

- [[http://rinari.rubyforge.org/][Rinari]]
Q1 in software/hardware release dates is not the same as Q1 in finance, it litterally means the first 3 months of 2011.
I agree, Taiwan is an excellent place to move and run a startup. I moved to Kaohsiung in Southern Taiwan 1 year ago. The cost of living is very low, the people love Westerners, and it's very safe. Not to mention that the weather is very good all year around.

Taiwan is also a great place to learn Mandarin as it's cheap, and the accent is very nice. Hong Kong and Singapore are not bad options, but Taiwan is cheaper.

I manage a Kaohsiung City Guide; http://travelkaohsiung.com which has nice pictures and guides for people thinking of coming to here.

I do like Taipei, but to draw a comparison, Taipei is bustling like New York, whereas Kaohsiung is more laid back like LA.
If I ever start a charitable foundation, I want it to be the kind of charitable foundation that allows the founder to race supercars and doesn't seem to have any other activities. That's my kind of charity.
The same can be said for investing in a long position.
The internet has changed the piracy game completely, copying a cassette tape or ROM was time consuming and required some skill.

Download.com and Tucows basically destroyed the shareware movement, barring a few exceptions.

The upside is that there are now many more people that are using software so the markets are much larger in potential and the area where the app stores shine are convenience.

A few clicks to download and pay for a piece of software is a massive convenience when compared to the hassle that used to be involved in buying licensed software.
What did they do before you came along?
Ask HN: How do you get a user forum off the ground?
A forum can be key to user retention and connection (helping establish that family-like community). Anybody have experience building one from the ground up?

How do you kickstart the conversation? How do you keep it going?

If done properly, I think it can be just like game mechanics, where it may not be the core competency, but it can have a world of impact.
You're absolutely right, I should have been more specific by saying that in the case of the MMR vaccine, trivial side effects are in that lower range, but --as you've pointed out-- that isn't true in all vaccines.
this guy sounds like a barnacle. good for him though.
No, your service isn't "Open" (what's wrong with Social industry)
I was wondering if this was a good option. Thanks. I have TextWrangler which will work great for this.
Making money may not be the primary goal of these apps. I for one have been working on a few things that probably will not make me money but are great experience, are teaching me a lot and hopefully will give me a little notoriety for the day I build my first money maker.
Are people responding well to it in forums? Do you find users promote it among friends?
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Is there any evidence they've "got used to it"?

People got used to paying for ringtones, and then the market pretty much disappeared.

Part of me thinks the app store model is a short term fad.
In high-performance management cultures it is very difficult to avoid developing a cover-up culture. I've seen companies avoid this either by (1) going out of their way to reward early disclosure of bad news, and severely punishing cover-ups, or (2) inculcating a scientific inquiry attitude throughout the organization, as if we are all scientists working in a lab where it is expected that our hypotheses will not always pan out, to the point where failure is viewed as a learning opportunity and those who do not fail every so often are thought of as not pushing themselves hard enough.
"We're pleased to announce that FlightCaster has been acquired by Next Jump Inc. It's a good day here at FlightCaster HQ (freakin' phenomenal day!), and we're stoked about the new possibilities."

How much better an opening statement is that, when compared to generic PR shrill about XYZ Co joining with ABC Ltd to provide blah blah blah leverage. Made me even more excited for the team and FlightCaster users.
CL-JavaScript: add user scripting to your Common Lisp App
I am still baffled by this term:

(i) You may download and sync a Product for personal, noncommercial use on any Apple-branded products running iOS ("iOS Product") you own or control.

Doesn't that mean that you can't make commercial use of iOS apps? Isn't that ridiculous?