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This technique works in other contexts, too, and is extraordinarily underutilized. (Other options include displaying "house ads" for e.g. pitching "Join our mailing list to get X" or "Our best articles" or "Subscribe to our RSS feed" to convert search-driven transients into recurring visitors.)
Oops, I deleted my post above because I thought better of speculating, but looks like it got a reply before I managed to. =]

My speculation was more or less: the RIAAness may or may not have been a factor, but my guess is that the main criterion was a consensus pick that avoids a confirmation battle, because it's not what Obama wants to expend energy on currently. From what I can tell from the law-blog reactions, Verrilli is a well-known / well-regarded lawyer in DC appellate-practice circles, and liked by both conservatives and liberals, which makes him a good choice from an ease-of-confirmation perspective. He already picked up an endorsement from prominent conservative lawyer Miguel Estrada, so if that was the strategy, it seems to be working.
The curation job still needs paying for, but I think it's pretty clear that the ACM and others have strayed from that to trying to squeeze the long tail for as much money as they can can get.
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Considering that Facebook has multi-billion dollar valuation, makes money selling users advertising, and makes money selling analyses of user information, my view is that the users are kindly donating Facebook their information, not that Facebook is kindly donating their service.
While users may benefit personally from the service being available, Facebook are the ones benefiting financially.

Users do not give Facebook money directly, but they contribute something valuable to the company just by using the site. I see it as a business relationship the same as if I was paying money for the service.
But the title states it will never work. But I think over time the software will enhance. So editing 3D movies will be just as easy as 2D movies.

The part about focus of the eye is much more difficult to overcome. I think it has to do with resolution. And maybe a movie with a resolution of let's say 16.000 x 9.000 will give a better result because your eye can focus on details just like in real life.
That's a better comparison.

3D is like smell-o-vision would be - a gimmick, distracting, and adding nothing to the story.
"Industry" is the clear term here, I think, indicating precisely who and what is dying.

Will music suffer? Certainly not. Is there anyone who thinks we rely on the music industry for... well, music?

The only sense we rely on the music industry is in that we let it tell us what to like. And there are advantages to that (I do not mean to sound so tinfoil'd).

But I can go down to a blues bar and hear talented musicians that the music industry ignores.

When I hear the headline "Music Industry Braces for the Unthinkable," I think "Music Industry tries to come to grips with its coming demise."
You've never been poor have you? And I don't just mean "Oh, I guess I have to eat Ramen more than I used to" poor. I mean "Damn, how am I going to pay rent this month?" poor or "How do I feed my kids?" poor.
I do this often, to clear stale tabs. I'll start from the left (or where I know stale tabs start from) and repeatedly click.
I don't like the cases he was involved in either, but I don't think Verrilli was part of those settlement-demand letters, or in litigation against individuals. He's an appellate and Supreme-Court practice attorney, and the cases he's been involved with have been appeals of the RIAA's suits against content-hosting companies and P2P companies. For example, he argued their side in the Viacom v. Google case and in MGM v. Grokster.

I don't like the positions he argued in those cases, either, but I don't think representing MGM versus Grokster, for example, was a breach of professional ethics or scammy. In fact it seems the position he argued was correct as a matter of law, according to a unanimous Supreme Court (the main problem is that Congress shouldn't have passed the law in question).
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Car analogy time.

My car was stolen. It was then found at 10pm near some bus station.

Which lawyer would have the guts to go to court and order compensation damages for my car, for the nascar tournament I would have won with it had it not been stolen that day, for every single passanger that was at that bus station at 10pm?

Yes. It sound completely idiotic to people who know how cars and buses works. And that's how riaa scams sounds to most people here.
Same goes for posts starting with 'Why' without asking a question imho.
You got it. Canberra[1], the bush capital. Come for the CDSCC, stay for the relaxed prostitution and pornography laws.

1. Despite what Wikipedia says, it's actually more commonly pronounced "Can-bra" because Australians are lazy.
I will upvote you, because I'm the OP and you are making comments useful to the discussion I hoped to provoke. Too bad about the downvotes for my comment "laughing is evil" (which was said sarcastically, ftr)
Why not just use NoScript (and disallow googlesyndication.com)?
As soon as you start protecting yourself from the dangers of the unidentified dumbfool programmer, you get exactly this. In that case you can't do pretty much anything without wrapping it around read only collections or iterators or accessors first, whereas what you really want is just to return a list of damn things.

Java seems to be the breeding pit for such practices: it's a supposedly secure virtual machine that allows you to hide stuff so deep in your rear end that you can barely access it yourself any longer without a delicate assessment of numerous design patterns. That sort of capability allows you to get on that encapsulation-road far enough that it might not be feasible to ever back down and rewrite things in a sensible way.

But the truth is, all you need is the array holding the important values and all you need to do is document the function appropriately. "Don't modify the returned list" would be a good start.

Then you want your developers have the skills to understand each part of that sentence. On the other hand, if someone won't it's not your problem since you documented the behaviour.

Some languages, such as C, allow you to tell that more explicitly with the 'const' keyword and even have the compiler act as a gatekeeper. The developer can still write the returned value into a non-const variable and mess around with that but he's already broken the contract by that time. In Java, it should be more than sufficient to cast it into a type denoting a read-only array or collection but I don't see a common, real reason to not eventually return that single array.
If that is all you are doing, even if it were not legal, I do not think anyone would have any worry, but you mention that you might want to take away the annoying ads from the content, which, changes everything completely and probably makes it illegal.
Neither side is 'kindly donating' their portion. Both are getting back more than they give, in a voluntary mutually-beneficial transaction. Or they'd each do something else instead.
Come on. We're all adults here. It's not like every Grandpa and Gramma on penny pensions would've taken the advice of Joe Random Blogger.

We need to stop treating investing as if people who aren't professionally on a trading floor are basically handling spent fuel rods while rollerskating naked passed Mt. Vesuvius. It's putting money down on a hunch, however educated or ignorant or risky or safe. There is no sure thing. It's either "slow money" or "gambling". There's n+1 bloggers doling out endless advice on everything from where to buy a home to how to haggle for a car. No one is going to look at one data point and say "you know what? That random-ass person makes sense. I'm cleaning out my accounts right now putting it all on ARMH!"

Also, "I still don't feel qualified to give good financial advice" is a bit disingenuous when you, in just a paragraph above it, said you used to.

In other words, let's not obsess over the very things that Jim Cramer does with panic-button sound effects and sweaty, dancing evangelism on a nightly basis. It's all advice, we're all aware. Take it with a grain of salt, etc.
One or two weeks ago I submitted an article[1] I posted to my blog to both HN and Reddit. I also added a Google Ads block hidden in the sidebar (admittedly not the best spot) to get some experience with Adsense since I had never used it before. So far I'm on 6000 page impressions and 5 clicks with the estimated earning of a pack of chewing gum.

So extrapolate from this what you will if I had plastered more ads in more prominent places.

[1] http://aerique.blogspot.com/2011/01/baby-steps-into-genetic-...
Noted. I'll think about that, or a better link.
What's interesting is that companies were already creating incentives for people to like a page, check-in to a place, post to a wall ...

Now, not only do they have to create incentives for these actions to take place, they have to pay Facebook for the right for these actions to be displayed prominently.

It is like double taxation.
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From a couple of years ago: We're all ops people now
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You don't have any numbers to prove this.
Any reasonable charting code is far more complex than FFTs, of which there are basically only two ways to straightforwardly implement. Of course there are lots of complications you can add such as cache-awareness which change that picture, but that's probably not 40 lines of C (though 40 lines is far more than necessary for a simple FFT)
When did they back peddle? All the cases I heard of where someone decided not to settle and went to court, the RIAA went along and crushed them.

Most cases settled because most people the RIAA went after were guilty, and knew it, and realized the the minimum damages they would owe if they lost in court were quite a bit higher than the RIAA's settlement offer.
I think that I ended on that point because it's rather telling how we still manage to take upvotes and downvotes seriously, making us much more similar to reddit than we could ever be different.
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..that would make things like phone to phone payments possible..

Maybe I'm missing something, but, why couldn't Square do something like this on their own already?
'in tension' is one thing. 'in ugly contradiction to your message' is another.
Or to put it another way, "considered harmful" is a dumb internet meme which just happens to be almost as old as the internet.
First it was NS4 that was "non-compliant", then IE6...
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But, if that's what you specialize in, you can pretty much dictate your compensation, since so few EE's go for power engineering...
I'd assume they measured it with real user usage.

You're much more likely to close recently opened tabs though.
Hi David,

Interesting take on it, your HTTP verbs seem to be pretty well used. I'm not sure that expressing commands with a query string would be very easy to remember though. The advantage of /COMMAND/ARG0/ARG1.../ARGN is that you can pretty much type a redis command like you do in telnet, replace spaces with slashes, and have an answer.

I also maintain the phpredis extension for PHP, and having method names that differed from Redis command names has annoyed people a lot (e.g. lGetRange instead of LRANGE). phpredis now has method aliases with the same name as the underlying Redis command so that users don't have to go back to the documentation all the time.

Some people mentioned that GET should always be usable for Javascript apps. It could be interesting to create a list of commands with their respective verb recommendations, and send that recommendation with the response. A strict mode could also for the right verb and disable write commands with GET requests.

Thanks for those suggestions!
Maybe they'll do to the credit card companies what they're did to the music labels and doing to the cell phone cos. There's plenty of cash in that 3%.
Old, but here’s Ian’s initial Acid4 plans: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/004/
It was a user called Asqueela, although I suppose that could still be Limi.
This is even more applicable to personal relationships. It just doesn't seem like you care about meeting if you suggest hanging out then don't follow up with a time.

If you say, "Let's hang out this week" and leave it at that, unless they really want to meet up it won't happen. If you say "Let's hang out, how about Thursday for lunch?" then it likely will happen.
Add to that all ‘Web Standards’ – the W3 aren’t an official standards body and as such only make recommendations.
Wow, can you possibly try /any/ harder to by a license douchebag?
3 of the last 4 posts on the WebM blog ( http://blog.webmproject.org/ ) have been about upcoming hardware support. Sooner rather than later I’m sure.

Course, these seem to be mostly discrete parts. For real success WebM needs to make it into SOCs.
I'm glad that somebody other than me has come out and complained about the darkness of the image - I ask other people and they act as if it isn't the case, but it was really striking when I went to see Avatar. Major drawback...
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>>He (or she) who writes the code, determines the license.

>I don't think anyone disagrees with this.

You picked a minor point that was just a part of his train of thought to get to his real point? Really?

>I think some people feel that they're not comfortable with GPL code. It's odd because I've literally had devs at conferences yell at me because I've said, "nah, I'll pass, I don't use GPL". Just as the author of said code determines the license, I'm free to pick software that uses a license I prefer. I'm 100% fine with people using a GPL license. I'm just not fine for me using it in my code.

You are having an argument that nobody started (except yourself).

>And I think its fair to say that no one should be abused for using a license of their choosing, and likewise one shouldn't be abused because they don't use software/code that uses a specific license.

You are argueing against your own experiences - which are not the topic of this discussion, are not verifiable for us and don't add anything but saying "I didn't like this one time when somebody was rude to me".

Actually, I have no idea what you're trying to say at all.
When I am I going to get paid to wear the labels on the outside of my clothes?
I've had a thought recently that bonds are quirky in that - unlike other investments - they behave like a utility. I've just seen that expressed in your comment.

You didn't say you were chasing a particular return, but that you were chasing safety. Bonds have a special property in that they combine being very flexible and are considered to be very safe. I think this creates a demand for them due to that combination, rather than due to their return on investment.

I don't see the evidence that they are that safe. Certainly, history shows many examples of governments which have spiraled into debt and inflated or defaulted.

But so long as there's a population that acts along this logic, it would seem that bonds will function as a nice, flexible store of value.

> ETFs make it relatively easy now.

I suspect some of them are vulnerable to the same flaws as the financial system. For example, some ETFs don't keep physical holdings of the asset they represent, and have positions that are exposed to counterparty risk. For example, I read about an ETF that allowed people to borrow its stock for shorting.

If I was investing in that sort of ETF, I'd be concerned about upside. Holding commodities can be nice in a black swan event. But ETFs with counterparty risk may themselves fall over at such a time.
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The reason "you'll be forced to give away the code" probably comes from the circumstances where taking down a product while rewriting all GPL parts from clean table is a worse problem, financial or otherwise, than GPL'ing the whole source code.

Given that you wish to keep using the GPL parts, too, then the truth really is that you will be forced to give away your code. It seems that many do. How many times have you seen in the news that "Initech taking their MongrelSuite(tm) off the market for the time being because of violations of the GPL" versus "Initech forced to relicense their MongrelSuite(tm) in open source due to viral GPL licensing"?
Conventional wisdom is to drop the ads from a piece when it first goes live so that Reddit/Digg/HN/Stumbleupon can jump on it without distraction. Those sites come with a 0% clickthru anyway so you're not losing anything.

Then, a week later, you can put the ads back in place. All the linking has been done, so now you get people flowing in thru organic SEO. Those people are more likely to stick around and possibly click ads.

Done right, everybody is happy.
his position is [...] that social skills are not skills that can be learned through formal education.

How would we know? I am not aware of any mass formal education system, state supported or otherwise, that makes more than a very token nod in this direction. The closest analogue I'm aware of is social skills training for people with autism spectrum disorders. I know that works if the participants apply the theory outside the classroom, I've seen it. Hell, it even helps a little if you don't, because your modelling skills get better once you have some idea what's going on.
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It's a pretty common optimization. They had a good plan, and executed well, but let's not get carried away; other people were working on similar ideas. I'd bet that data stored in s3 are deduplicated in a similar manner.

Another plus to their setup is the hash for the file is calculated on your machine, so you pay them so you can calculate the hash on your own files and only upload them if they haven't seen them before.
Unfortunately the situation is far worse in other fields of knowledge. Nature magazine got in a big fight with the University of California last year when they tried to charge more than $1 million for the institution's subscription[1] (this for a journal written and refereed by volunteer labor), and the individual subscriptions are also outrageous.

It costs a lot of money to be able to stay on the forefront of human knowledge, even though the producers of that knowledge don't see a red cent.

[1]http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/university...
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I've decided to create something that doesn't really exist out there. It's a program that makes it easier for IT departments and small networks to install software on many different Windows computers. Say you have a company with 20 windows computers... you don't want to manually install Skype, Flash and all the other free 3rd party apps... you want something that does it automatically for you. So I created uDeployer.<p>But I'm just a developer - the website sucks, the program UI sucks - and I'm lost with marketing... maybe the price for it is too much? I have spent a lot of time working on it (almost one year).<p>Any ideas?
Man, working out is awesome. I used to do two hours of weight lifting every day, but eventually stopped due to monetary reasons connected with protein powders and gym membership fees.

These days I have a short 15-ish minute routine every morning and do two hours of boxing thrice a week. It's painful and sometimes horrible, but my god it is awesome!

Sure wish my sexy would come out of all this flab though, but that would require too much care with diet.
Maybe the author should try something else than going to the gym. I do bouldering and besides being tons of fun, it has improved how my body looks immensely.
Well, not a single copy. They would want some sort of redundancy, even if the are just reselling aws services.
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Yea, but is it $20 awesome? That seems a bit steep for a terminal emulator with unknown features. Especially given that iTerm2 beta is free and has neato things like split screen. Just my $.02 (not $20) worth.
I based my comment on this Krugman quote:

"Consider: A corporate leader who increases profits by slashing his work force is thought to be successful. Well, that’s more or less what has happened in America recently: employment is way down, but profits are hitting new records. Who, exactly, considers this economic success?"
True, but the formatting options aren't very good. I know, I'm picky, but it just doesn't cut it. It works, but isn't perfect.
Try reducing the price?
Make your download and buy buttons bigger. They look like 10px in size- are you ashamed of charging?
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"The languages that use arrays efficiently for parallel programming (i.e. GPU languages) aren't general-purpose programming languages"

I disagree. Typically these languages are supersets of general purpose languages like c. That is, they are c code with additional annotations (OpenMP) or use annotations with some initialization API (GPU languages). On top of that, there are purely array based general purpose languages (APL, J, K, NESL, etc).

"it's very hard to take a program in a language such as C#, where mutation is interspersed throughout the code, and parallelise it automatically."

I agree with qualifications. It's not so much the mutation that is fault, but the over specification of dependence. For example, map() makes clear that the iteration is data parallel. It is trivial to convert map() to pmap(). for() does not say anything about the iteration being data parallel, so to convert this to par() the compiler must do an analysis. Depending on the program this may require an alias analysis. While this may be possible, and perhaps even easy for common cases, to do so in general requires quite complex analysis.

In any case, I think it's perfectly possible to create a parallel mutable language. In fact, the agent model readily encapsulates mutability in a parallel and distributed way. So while I agree with the critique in the context of C#, I don't agree with how the author generalizes it to the topic of languages as a whole.
Never, as long as other people are willing to pay to do the same thing :)
It is essential to an extensive A/B testing first. Otherwise how can you possibly know that 11px is better than 10px?
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