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Fundamentally, it comes down to the questions "Do you have the right to keep the fruit of your effort? And do you have the right to dispose of it as you see fit?"

It appears that your acquaintance agrees with having her government take away part of her income and give it to the janitor. She accepts the janitor's claim to part of her property as the janitor's right - i.e. the janitor does not owe her any gratitude, and her act is not a voluntary act of benevolence - she is simply giving him what is already his due.

So where does this right come from? The janitor's need. The question here is whether need can give rise to a legitimate right.

You say that your acquaintance thinks that her giving away part of her wealth helps prevent poorer people from becoming criminals. And that this danger gives them the right to claim part of her wealth. But if you extrapolate this thinking further, you'd get people keeping others hostage by means of a threat - i.e. if you refuse to share with me what you earned but I didn't, I'll turn into a criminal and hurt you. This way of thinking about rights is very dangerous.

My view of happiness is simply the achievement of your values, which you have defined consciously and rationally and which do not infringe on the rights of others. The questions for your acquaintance are "Is she feeling happy because she can buy a protection from criminals", or "Is she feeling happy because she truly loves all her fellow citizens (known and unknown, good and bad, lazy and hard-working)?". Regardless of the answer, the more important question is: "Why does she prefer a situation where she is given no choice, no right to refuse to give away, to a situation where she could give away voluntarily, as an act of kindness?"
WikiLeaks founder Assange talks to '60 Minutes'
In an exclusive interview with "60 Minutes" tonight, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discussed, among other things, his relationship with sources (a crucial legal issue, as the U.S. considers taking court action against Assange), WikiLeaks' vulnerability to government shut down (presumably of concern to Assange, especially since some WikiLeaks supporters have found themselves grappling with various law enforcement agencies), and rumors about an upcoming release of documents embarrassing to Bank of America.
I just spoke directly with Chris Russo over Skype.
He is extremely upset about the whole situation.
I don't want to put any words on his mouth.
He tells his own version of the events on the link above which he allowed me to post on his behalf.
Most of those people aren't current Apple executives. Current execs here: <http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/>;

I count 4 MBAs out of 11 current execs: Cook, Oppenheimer, Johnson, Williams.

By comparison, there's 5 with science or engineering degrees, 1 with a J.D., and 1 with no degree.
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Telling someone they should lock their door, and that you could do it for them (but not necessarily that noone else could, I mean what kind of developer can't fix a SQL injection attack in a couple of hours max?) doesn't seem like extortion to me. Now, if the claims about a stolen data dump held as collateral and threatening media reports are true, it borders on extortion.
What does taking CS have to do with building a website like POF?...
I find myself focus better after 11pm to whenever i sleep. Probably because there's less distractions around this time of the day.
It's a good comment. Did you bookmark that? If so then your list of bookmarked comments could make for an entertaining/educational post for your blog. Couldn't hurt. (Assuming you haven't already written such a post in the past.)
Yes, please upvote http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2160935 instead.
The source of data may be skewed - are these IP addresses that led to a specific article, or at a specific time etc ?

That said - it's freaking awesome: I can confirm I'm the dot on the west of France :)
Thanks cubicle67, it is "grumo" instead, no worries.
I got giddy when I saw 48 fps. Resolution is nice, but I'm one of those people who constantly notices flicker at 24 fps.

It shouldn't be difficult to convert a movie shot on this film to digital, so here's what I'd do: Let Chris Nolan (or whoever's interested) shoot a movie on it, then convert it to digital. Next, do some A/B testing. Select a smallish number of theatres in major markets who would be showing his film on multiple screens and install the needed projectors in one of them. Advertise the choice in those theatres only, and see what happens. If the director likes it, they'll probably talk about it in the press, so that's free advertising right there. If the experience really is that much better, you should see higher viewership for the MaxiVision screenings. After that, it's an easy sell to the studio execs. In all, they spend a trivial amount of money to do some A/B testing and get usable results.

Granted, the studios are conservative and often myopic or flat-out wrong (3d), but even they shouldn't have too much trouble seeing whether it's a good (cheap) investment or not.
Yes. And a normal spade is sufficient.
Many companies have issues finding top management talent and thus why they resolve to accrediting individuals with MBA's as being suited for the job. I've begun to think about a new concept for harvesting this type of talent. What about the following idea:

As a company (or recruiting company) you essentially "poach" people who have gotten into Booth, Wharton, Kellogg, etc. So you approach them once they have received letters of acceptance from these schools and offer them a nice job in your company. The individuals that actually would accept your offer (and of course the offer would be good) would even be in the ideal talent pool of aforementioned top MBA universities. Down the line someone may question "well yes Mr. Smith did get into Wharton, but he never went". My answer would be "Any person smart enough and business minded enough would realize their investment in this offer is much more advantageous to their career than attaining their MBA".

Who wants to create a recruiting business that does this? ;)
The oldest question in your screenshot is 3 minutes old. I think you might be expecting a bit much for them to all have comments and answers!

In my experience, well worded questions do attract answers, even if those answers are a week down the line.
>Norway don't say yes to socialism they say yes to social welfare in a different way than in the US.

But they do say yes to what most people in the US would call "socialism". When it comes to politics the words the US uses don't match what the rest of the world uses.
Mate, before you milk that 'interview' for eye-balls, just go back to the PoF article above and read the new comments.

Chris Russo is there commenting, and it calls your ability to judge character into question. For starters, he has never denied the story about Russians holding his computer hostage and threatening to kill him. He just ignored it. Then he goes for the "race" card and says PoF are suspicious of his intent just because he is in Argentina.
Today's Telus came out of a merger a long time ago between the old Telus and Clearnet. There hasn't been any merger yet, but oddly there are articles floating around speculating that there will be one in the not-too-distant future. Great, just what Canada needs: less choice in telecoms.

Re: the GSM network, I thought it was kind of ridiculous at first for the two carriers to build an entirely new 3G network when their CDMA works just fine. The speculation I heard was (1) they wanted to sell the iPhone (2) roaming revenue for the 2010 Olympics. Neither seemed like enough reason for such huge expense though. I can't find much solid information but I'm willing to bet you're right and their GSM network is available in a few places nationwide.
I have been fighting with this since installing the Beta. Has caused me to stop using skype, and only turning it on as a last resort. Would be curious if anyone has a link for 2.8, as it (unsurprisingly) isn't on their site anymore.
I just spoke directly with Chris Russo over Skype. He is extremely upset about the whole situation. I don't want to put any words on his mouth. He tells his own version of the events on this link which he allowed me to post on his behalf -> http://ow.ly/3N8h8
That's a technicality in my opinion. If the website owner would ask you to fix it that would be one thing, to hack them and then to 'offer to fix it' (presumably for a fee) is across the line. It's a fine one but it's definitely there.

Hacked a site?

Send them a message about it, give them time to respond and time to fix. If they don't respond after a reasonable time has passed go public with it, don't try to translate it in to paid work.
> In fact, the progressive taxation alone incentivizes everyone to _not_ earn more than about 100000 USD a year […]

100k is a lot. Only people who've seriously lost perspective (or living in areas that have collectively lost perspective and have huge local inflation) think it's not enough. I'm quite happy to pay taxes to support social services. The only thing better would be to equalise incomes so that it wouldn't be necessary…
As the developer of a web app that uses the webcam through flash, I am already mentally preparing myself for the flood of support requests that inevitably will come.

Maybe Skype should become classified as malware. This is only the latest in a series of huge bugs because Skype tries to integrate with every application.
So there IS a reason Justice is blindfolded? Ha!
>Disagree. When did people lose faith in education?

Seeing people use the single word "disagree" as sentence is nearly enough to make anyone lose faith!

Seriously, though, the entire article is about education. It's a common mistake to confuse schooling for education, but the two aren't as correlated as some would like to assume. I don't say this as a bitter person who never went. On the contrary, I went twice. First at a very young age, majoring in mathematics, and then again at the normal age majoring in a foreign language. Both times I was able to learn some, but neither were as productive as self study had been outside of schooling.

I regularly meet people who have spent many years formally studying a foreign language and yet struggle to understand television in that language. It's also not that uncommon to find skilled programmers, artists or writers who have not studied their field at a university.

Another common argument for schooling is that it makes well rounded people who have a basic competence in all the most fundamental fields. Sadly, this isn't true either. Most college grads are still pretty shaky on high school math. The same is true for writing.

I'm not saying that schooling is useless. It can be an excellent tool for education, particularly in some fields. However, it isn't the only way of education.
How do you think these generational changes occur to begin with? Education.
How come Russo was not shocked to hear the Russian threat story? It sure seems very suspicious NOT to refute that little nugget, no?
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and I'm assuming you live in the US, UK, Latin America, Africa, or some other countries which LACK a bilateral agreement with HK on enforcement of court judgments. Australia, Israel, Germany, & others HAVE such agreements with HK which invalidate the rest of what I'm saying. Look up Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance. If you want more free advice, I'd suggest asking the guys at http://geoexpat.com instead, there's lots of HK lawyers there.

"Non-exclusive jurisdiction" clauses are put in because of problems with enforcement of foreign court judgments. If you sue someone in your country and win, but he has no assets in your country, you have to go to his country and convince a court there to enforce your country's judgment if you want to get your hands on any of his money.

Contract law differs a lot between countries, but any judge anywhere whom you ask to recognise a foreign court judgment wants to know at least three things: #1: the court which issued the original judgment actually has jurisdiction. #2: there's no more avenues of appeal above that court. #3: you informed the other guy before you sued him. If you can prove any one of those three is untrue, then you derail the enforcement of the foreign judgment. The "non-exclusive jurisdiction" clause makes it impossible to argue about #1.

Signing a contract for "non-exclusive jurisdiction" in HK doesn't restrict you or HKCorp trying to sue each other anywhere in the world you can convince a judge to listen. But it does mean that if HKCorp sues you in HK, wins, and then comes to your country to collect, you can't argue that the HK court was not a proper venue. While if you sue HKCorp in your country, win, and go to HK to try to get the judgment recognised, the HK judge will want to know why you didn't just sue in HK.
>> about the recently released Skype 5 for Mac.

Note that one commenter observes:

"This also affects windows users, its not just Mac."
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OK, I'm going to put my hand up here and say I don't know what I'm on about... but hear me out.

Cereals have iron in them, literally iron shavings are put into cereals to ensure that the population receive a good portion of the RDA.

Iron is particularly susceptible to induction (all metals are, but iron moreso), and iron when exposed to an electrical magnetic field then magnetic hysteresis is going to occur resulting in the iron in the cereals taking on a much stronger magnetic field than is currently natural.

Has this kind of effect been investigated such that this kind of packaging is known not to have any negative effect on the consumers of magnetised food?

Additionally, my second thought concerned the use of RFID for stock check, and whether a shelving system laced with induction systems is going to interfere with RFID in any way?

Basically... I'm trying to invent reasons this might not appear on a shop-shelf soon. I really don't want to enter a supermarket and be presented with something that looks like Vegas.
I think that document raises a lot more questions than it answers, and some of those questions would have me 'extremely upset' too if I was on the receiving side of them.

There is more than meets the eye here imo.
Sums up pretty nicely the situation 17 years later, i.e. today (see EU FP "collaborative/interdisciplinary" projects for some grotesque examples)
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And the stupid thing is that this is the wrong way to get people to watch your commercials.

The right way is to make it so that people want to watch your ads -- look at how many people watch Commercial Breakdown and like it.
I have no idea what Skype was thinking with version 5 of their client. It is atrocious.

There is so much white space, if your Instant Messenger client takes up more screen space than a web browser, you're probably doing something wrong.

Download version 2.8 - http://mac.oldapps.com/skype.php
Bank of America and Paypal will.

Most banks use the "you only get to try three times before your account is locked" method of security. It's pretty hard to bruteforce a password with only three attempts before you have to call customer service. At that point, you might as well print out a fake driver's license, walk into a branch, and ask to close "your" account.
You can get it from: http://mac.oldapps.com/skype.php
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Interesting read, both regarding the attack vector, actual damage and their current plans to get everything back up and running.
His point was that you think Apple hasn't carefully considered if all their SSDs are going to degrade over the next year or two?
Previous Skype extension for Firefox was also causing trouble for many websites. The plugin is common enough to cause a lot of grief.
All the posts are 30 seconds to 1 minute old, how fast you expect to get the answers? They are on front page so people can answer them.
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This is interesting. I tried to do something similar for my PhD (though I ultimately failed). I was particularly interested in making connections between the people who inhabit the same places at the same times: those fellow commuters who are always waiting for the same bus, the people you see each lunchtime in the canteen, etc. i.e., data mining those temporal & spatial relationships.
I wish it turns into something like this: http://java-source.net
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Yeah, that wasn't a very strong defense. Critiquing current practices is one thing some parts of academia should do, but it'd be sad if that were 100% of what it were doing. The strength of the academic enterprise imo is doing hard-to-monetize basic research: developing the ideas and techniques that after several more iterations will produce or enable interesting things. I tend to think of tech-heavy startups as essentially mining ideas and results that are promising but have never been made practical; academia's job is to keep restocking that mine.
Their Firefox plugin has already been blocked: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/
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Oo, I agree 100% with your view. The exact same thing happened to me when using posterous. It's really cool to start with, but I feel I am not really in control thereafter anymore. So I switched to WP, which I think is the best blogging platform available for your metnioned reasons. The wealth of plugins is simply awesome. Only recently I started using Tumblr and you are right, the design is outstanding. Community seems to be far easier to build as well. I can only say, I won't go back to posterous if there is not a big change in what they are doing.
Oh and nice last sentence ;).
Note to self: Markus Frind goes on the "responsible disclosure doesn't work here" list.
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Mountain View - Embedded soft/hardware hacker intern needed. C experience + Bluetooth is preferred. Small startup producing extraordinarily useful wearable electronics. Funded and growing.

Email eric AT pulse-dev.net for more info.
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My second warning remark is that I shall refuse to discuss the academic enterprise in financial terms.

In other words, "shut up and cough up, you ignorant plebs, so I can go on sneering at you from the luxury of my ivory tower".
From AnandTech's MacBook Air review:

"The part number on the Toshiba controller may look familiar to some of you. It’s the same controller that’s in Kingston’s SSDNow V+ Series and the SSDNow V Series Boot Drive. I reviewed the latter not too long ago and found that it was a good drive for the money, and here’s the kicker: the SSDNow V Series Boot Drive was amazingly resilient when written to without TRIM support. Its performance hardly dropped as a result of normal desktop use. This is very important because although OS X 10.6.4 has a field for reporting TRIM support on an SSD, the instruction isn’t actually supported by the OS."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...
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Flash video camera is a disaster, especially on Mac. After spending months working around its flaws, I've vowed never again to use Flash video recorder in my web apps again.

Currently it's completely broken in Chrome on Mac (even broke non facebook.com).

And I bet Adobe wonders what has provoked the wrath of Steve Jobs.
As the lead developer on a dating site myself, I can say that it's ridiculously hard to keep out spam profiles. We block by country, Project Honeypot entries, and HTTP header profiling, use captchas, and use other bot-sniffing tricks, but in the end we still have to manually ban IP addresses every day.

We don't store passwords in plaintext though, sheesh.

Edit: I just upgraded the hashing algorithm on the site from SHA1 to Bcrypt. Paranoia for the win.
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Some SSDs come with internal garbage collection, working around the TRIM issue. No idea how well it works out, though.
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In some way that is the mark of a "real" profession - if you are unhappy with the way someone has performed you can go to the relevant professional body and they will carry out an inquiry and they can be stopped from doing their job.

And yes, for people like lawyers, medical doctors etc. this does happen, for example the MMR vaccine fiasco resulted in this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8695267.stm

Can you imagine that happening with MBAs?
Didn't the article mention that Denmark was number 2 in startups after Norway? So not very different at all. And I suspect Finland is quite up there too.

Along with the fact that Norway saves all its oil in a fund for a rainy day, I don't think oil figures that much.
I hate to be that guy but does this really need to exist here instead of on Digg/Reddit/Fark/etc?

Flagged for now.
This guy still sounds like a scumbag. He's complaining they responded to someone threatening to post people's private info by saying they'd post info on the person doing it? Boo-hoo.

If Chris wasn't going to post the info publically (ie, extort POF), then he had nothing to worry about.

As an observer this certainly doesn't make Mr Russo seem any better.

Edit: per below, removed work extortion as posting people's private data might be done for other reasons rather than to make money.
My apologies. I got his version of the events after I read Marcus blog post. My opinion at that point was based only on the information I had a the moment.
Then Chris Russo himself emailed me his version of the events which I posted on my blog with his permission.
Lesson, don't take sides until you hear both sides of the story, understood.
http://posterous.com/switch/

Huge copy saying "Switch your site to the simplest publishing platform on the planet" but just look below at the cluttered long-winded over-complicated advertising below, does it feel like you're on a 'simple' site?
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It does even out after a few years. When I think of the half a dozen or so people I know at the Googleplex who I would most want on my team for a startup, they graduated from: Virginia Tech, UT Austin, UMich Ann Arbor, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and perhaps Brown.

I've noticed that the MIT interns are noticeably ahead of interns from other schools, and that fresh grads from top tier schools tend to be ahead of other fresh grads (actually, fresh grads from state schools tend not to end up at Google - nearly everyone above except the Brown & Stanford grads came to Google after work experience elsewhere). But that advantage fades after a year or two, and the long-term top performers are often folks who blew off college or went on tour with their punk-rock band.
+1 for giving the link to the previous version.

It is in fact atrocious, for a mainstream piece of software. Many of us gave them feedback that the new client is WAY too generous with the space, at least for us with more than 5 contacts online. They did very little from the beta to the general release.
Germany and Switzerland have insurance-based UHC systems. More market-oriented, and somewhat more expensive than the other European systems. In fact Switzerlands system is very expensive indeed, running at almost 66% of the USAs costs per head. But the results are on par with the other European systems. Social securities are fairly good.