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Invoking copyright just obfuscates the straightforward moral question. Someone has produced something which they wish to sell on whatever terms they make up. The decision of a potential consumer is to agree to the terms or not.

If you and the musician are face-to-face and she says you can have an MP3 of her music for $1000, it's not right to take it if you think it's too expensive.
(Relatedly: some days I wonder if the single most effective form of unemployment relief would be teaching people that sending out resumes is for suckers.)

The welfare-reform efforts of the past 15-20 years in most western countries have tended to do exactly the opposite, oddly enough. Out of a worry that people were just receiving benefits without really looking for work, you must now demonstrate that you're actively sending out resumes and filling out applications. Some jurisdictions even require you to show up every so often to a center where they help you search job listings and send out resumes.
MongoDB uses btree indexes as well, it just doesn't use Map/Reduce for its regular querying like CouchDB does. See my above comment on differences as well as a writeup I did on new output options in MongoDB's M/R system.
you can google search the article title and click in from there to access the whole thing :)
Soon in a facebook near you!

It might be a good idea to test this in Japan and see how they cope with it. If they can accept this, then anyone can.
I still find it weird that people charge an hourly rate. My company has been doing fixed price projects, with changing scope, guaranteed bug fixes & payment on delivery for the last eight years. We regularly beat out the "big boys" and have never lost money on a project, even though some have gone on longer than we planned.

I don't see the value for a customer in an hourly rate. If I am charging you by the hour, I have an incentive to be slow. If I am charging fixed price, I want to be fast, and if we are "liable" for bugs, we have an incentive for bug free code.

I see it as putting our money where our mouth is. I'm confident that even if your scope changes we will still deliver for this fixed price. Why is this not the norm?
agreed.. everyone i know who has played it says latency is not an issue. my guess is the bigger issue is game content. their selection right now pretty much sucks
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I disagree; I don't believe there is any moral right to "sell on whatever terms they make up". I do think copyright is justified in an ethical sense, as a social contract that encourages the production of more creative works. (I was speaking in the ethical sense; my comment was certainly not accurate as a legal analysis of current U.S. copyright law.)

But I think the proper way to analyze ethical issues involving creative works is, therefore, to see who is upholding or violating the social contract that we call "copyright". I don't think there's any separate moral issue, and it certainly isn't a form of property (due to being non-rivalrous).
I think the bigger picture is that at least in the US, most of these people will never get middle class jobs because they just aren't smart enough to really contribute anything.

If unemployment among youths is around 50% or whatever today, then just imagine what it will be in ten years when gas is $8 per gallon and we're facing food shortages. There is simply no way this is going to solve itself without massive government intervention, and I have trouble seeing that happening considering that there has been basically zero progress made by the federal government since I've been alive.
The Unix-style process model has virtues that the OP doesn't seem to grok. It's sometimes helpful to be able to restart one server from a completely clean memory image without taking the rest of the system down.

Beyond that: the OP sez that "if the whole system is constructed and coded in Lisp, the system is as reliable as the Lisp environment. Typically this is quite safe, as once you get to the standards-compliant layers, they are quite reliable, and don't offer direct pointer access that would allow the system to self-destruct."

But as I write, we've got two Lisp posts on the front page, and the other one[1] is about the performance of code compiled with

(declaim (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0) (space 0)))

That is --- "omit safety checks, just trust me that my array accesses are all in bounds and I'm getting the types right." Code compiled this way is not inherently safer than C, and has to be coded up with equal care.

So, at the very least, the "quite safe" guarantee applies only to code compiled with full safety checks, which typically come with a very large performance hit.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192629
The article says that 23% of students are "college ready" in NYC. That's probably way too low, but what is the goal? I hope it's not 100%. College isn't for everyone, and I think that it's misguided to make college preparation the primary goal of high school (isn't that what prep schools are for?).
Luckily the soil is fertile: All over the world, the hittistes and shabab atileen, NEETs and freeters and boomerang kids are hungry for a chance to thrive.

Hmm, but how hungry? Compared to say people who came of age in the 40s or 50s? I'm not sure hungry is the right word. Restless maybe. Peckish.
You're oversimplifying by applying physical property thinking to this.

I and a musician are face-to-face, and she says I'm not allowed to listen to this particular waveform unless I hand her $1000. It's not right for her to claim monopoly over this non-rivalrous good because she feels like she owns it.
I thought they stopped the drive when the acceleration is zero (freefall). If the acceleration is high, it's probably too late.
i don't understand. the West taught my country that IP is the same as physical property, and it would be stealing to violate IP.

now an owner of a property decided to release the album in the UK on 4th of February, and in the US only on the CDs 10 days later.

what else is the evidence of having rights on the intangible property, if not a right to make such decisions?

i'm confused :)
Very interesting library, I'd like to suggest another similar alternative : Rhizosphere, http://site.rhizospherejs.com (demos at http://www.rhizospherejs.com ).

Compared with Isotope, I think it has some extra features, but also is still missing something.
For N >= 3000 C is significantly faster. My guess is the initial slowness is caused by OMP initialising.
This is precisely why "q" is defined only to accept three digits after the decimal. It's actually not a floating point number, and anyone who parses it as such is just being lazy.

"q" is more properly represented natively as an integer between 0 and 1000.
Ubuntu at work
Doesn't work on my 2010 Macbook Air. I was a little confused until it dawned on me that due to the SSD, Apple had no reason to build in an accelerometer.
As a "not old" Perl programmer, I am puzzled by all these old-timers who feel the need to say they "aren't into Perl anymore." That's fine. I'm not into Windows anymore, but I don't go around telling everyone :)

It seems to me the people who "aren't into Perl anymore" were not the gurus who built CPAN. Maybe it's fair to say that Perl isn't that into you, either? (All in good fun :)
Do you have anything substantial behind this or is it just general "worst generation ever" talk?
That makes a lot of sense. Fun fact: The astronauts on the ISS use ThinkPads [0]. They would have to disable the accelerometer if their laptops had one.

(I’m now just going to claim that zero was the extreme I was referring to.)

[0] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Susan_Helms_...

Edit: The laptop in question — model A31p from 2003 — doesn’t have an accelerometer. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A31p
A really good take on "I have to look myself in the mirror" and where a business leader's responsibilities are. Taking responsibility for having the right employees in the right jobs is a way of helping customers.
Mothers-to-be are getting the [text] message
Biomass is old hat. Wood, peat, ethanol, methane - plenty of energy comes from that stuff. However, I had never heard of non-plant biomass use before, so this is interesting indeed.

The trouble with biomass is that we're not great at extracting the energy yet, so it's not good for energy transport. For the same reason, I don't think we'll be seeing taco-powered robots anytime soon - although vegetable oil and ethanol do show promise as a swap-in for petrol, and cars have been adapted for straight-up biomass in times of crisis.

Here, you might be interested in this: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/juan_enriquez_wants_to_gro...
A comparison of text-based browsers
I've been very careful to craft my resume for the job applied for and to only apply for those where I have a shot.

1 interview out of 3 resumes seems like a good rate. I've only sent three, but that's because I realized the economy wasn't getting better any time soon.

"Ran an advice blog" definitely looks better on my resume than "got really good at writing resumes."

I'll start sending them out again once unemployment drops a couple percentage points, but I've made more money from this blog than I would have lost driving around asking for jobs (which is a double digit number, but still meaningful).

I mentioned this here some months ago in a similar thread, and I'm only more sure of the value in doing this now. :)
Wow, just wow... Not only Asana surprised me as aparently an awesome productivity tool that I hope I might use in my start-up really soon, but the bunch of stupid comments here also surprised me.

The video is long, but you can get a good grasp of the product in the first few minutes. The rest of the video is in-depth discussion on how they started thinking of how to do it, how they think they will reach the companies and also inner workings on how the software work.
there aren't that many new jobs added to all the jobs sites every day, so if you limit yourself just to sending resumes within the closest 100 miles, 15 minutes a day can be as much as you can actually spend.

and yes sending resumes isn't as productive as having connections, but a lot of people just don't have that many connections that they can tap to get them a job
Smalltalk for engineers
> But the failure to launch has serious consequences for society—as Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's overthrown President, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, discovered.

Mmm, what? Don't make it sound like overturning dictators is a bad thing, dude.

Maybe it's much better for "society" to have unemployed young people with not only the courage to fight for freedom but also nothing better to do with their time, than to have people with jobs who tolerate authoritarianism.
John Maynard Keynes did suggest welfare should be employing people to do things, even pointless things like building giant structures and them demolishing them again.

It seems silly, but if we truly recognize that long term unemployment has a horrible way of killing one's ability hold a job, then Keynes idea is rather practical.

The government not as welfare but simply as employers of last resort. Much like the Fed is the lender of last resort.

Obviously this has the danger of government employees lobbying for ever better pay until it is economically irrational for people to seek work in the private sector.
Why being a vegan is kind of ridiculous.
Propeople sessions at DrupalCamp Sofia 2011
In some other countries in Central/South America you'll see pirated cam recordings of anything that came out in the US within days. It's cheaper to buy a DVD like this from a stall at the metro than it is to go to the cinema, so it's a matter of economics. If I am waiting to see a film I am really anticipating to see at the theatre I have to ask friends not to talk about it in front of me, as they've all seen it from a pirated (and not-great-copy) DVD. 3-4 months later the film comes out and the theatres aren't full except for the big 3D films. A different economic issue for sure, and it's interesting to see here because the internet isn't widely adopted to where most people can download a film or TV show so they look out for it at their local bootleggers.
JavaScript Development vs. Flex Development (and why today, web dev sucks)
For one thing, if the VM was JIT-ed, I think your assessment is about 15 years out of date.

For another thing, no one would be building server/back-end infrastructure on top of such a POSIX layer. It would be there for compatibility for end-users. (So everyone could have Firefox, if they happen to need it, which isn't going to be that common anyhow. Most such machines would be headless.) If you want to run things for heavy-duty functionality on POSIX, just put it on another machine in the cluster running Linux. The whole point of such a system would be to code servers and such functionality in Lisp with exposure of the bare-metal as 1st class Lisp entities.

Performance won't be great but for the purpose it would serve, it certainly wouldn't be terrible.
I had an idea for a similar joke website a few months ago, but their algorithm is much smarter than mine. Looking at their code, it looks like they are essentially randomly combining sentence fragments together in order:

var A = ["A new and improved", "A better, faster", "An awesome", "A vibrant", "An innovative", "A faster", "A rapid", "A quick and dirty"];
var y = ["Searchable", "Virtualized", "Cloud-based", "Mobile", "Application-aware", "Viral", "Friendlier", "Online", "Web-based", "Streamlined", "Performance-oriented", "Next-gen", "Revenue-shared", "Professional"];

I attempted to mine Crunchbase profiles and then build "descriptions" of a startup based on a markov chain, but I found that there was too much noise in most of the Crunchbase descriptions to produce text that sounded at all plausible. Their method is a lot smarter (and easier).
Oh I see, thank you, it seems I was misinformed.
True -- however it might also be because iTunes is global that they want to go after the global market rather than really focussing on a specific country.

For example, if you look at the way Spotify operates, they negotiate rights and open up their service on a per country basis. A system like that might be more feasible for a startup.

Licensing content for a couple of EU countries might take less time and be cheaper than for the US.
Hmm interesting; I vaguely remember that, but had forgotten about the concept and term. Looks like it's still a fairly active idea being debated by economists, though not so much by politicians: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22employer+of+last+reso...
If only Italian people were informed enough to know what the rest of the world think of their country...
Apparently not: http://lbolla.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/sbcl-quicker-than-c/#...
The musician has spent part of her life creating this work with the expectation that she will receive the compensation she anticipated. It is not right for you to claim the fraction of her life invested in producing the work because of some zero-marginal-cost rationalization.

Anyway, is my understanding correct that if the artist was selling $1000 tokens to acquire her MP3 and you thought that was excessive, then you would take the token and leave whatever compensation you thought was appropriate?
Berlusconi: Has alleged links to the Mafia, owns most of the popular media in the country, regularly hosts orgies with suspiciously young looking girls, open to more than a little bribery...

Nobody does corruption like Italy.
So how do we franchise this startup ?
I've spoken to a few Chinese about this, where manual workers get more than uni grads (though not as much as successful business owners). Chinese really value education (in the high culture sense), and education (in the sense of meaningless test scores), money, and status. Until a few years ago, degrees were a ticket to riches. Now, they just mean you are overqualified for higher-paying jobs. Their feelings about it tend to be extremely complicated.
The Americans at least that I know who came of age in the 50s as anything close to middle-class weren't very hungry at all. They lived in a world of corporate jobs for life, defined-benefit pensions, comprehensive employer-provided health-care with no deductibles/copays/exclusions, low unemployment, etc. Even blue-collar workers had quite strong unions, high pay, and great pensions/healthcare in the 50s.

Granted, if you meant coming of age in 1947 in Poland, that'd be another matter.
Landing Page Best Practices: the definitive guide (with infographics)
I'm surprised that none of the efforts listed seem to target hypervisors like Xen or KVM.

A few weeks ago, Azul's VM was on HN, and its GC benefits from tight integration with the virtual memory system.
Not true. Classified documents have cover pages explaining that they are classified and warning that you can be prosecuted for distributing classified information even if you haven't made the normal agreements associated with a security clearance. People who do have access, and who have signed the corresponding agreements are open to additional charges as well as pre-emptive extra-legal action for purposes of preventing or investigating security leaks (background investigations, polygraphs, etc.).

Actual prosecutions for people without clearance revealing classified information are generally rare because it's usually done as a form of journalism, which brings first ammendment issues into play. That's probably why wikileaks has made such an effort lately to re-cast themselves as a journalistic organization instead of just a clearinghouse for "whistle blowers."
You would think that all a government has to do is supply assistance to trades people to hire/train apprentices. I had a cousin go into the Navy just to learn a trade which upset me, as in previous decades he could have learnt the same trade by entering an apprenticeship. I belive some countries like Austria still support these programs, I have friends whose teenage boys left school early but were able to enter a subsidised apprenticeship rather than drop out and become unemployable.
It's time for youth to blaze new path to employment.

19 years old like me are trying to build a living on the internet by writing, programming, and selling ads. It's a lot of hard work to find clients and more scary when you're trying to deliver the work.
Ron Paul will ruin the dreams of the 2012 fringe candidates
As you read this, keep in mind that in Socrate's time the money supply was fixed. So any extra coin your pocked was one less coin for everyone else.

With a fiat currency, we tend to "create" money of thin air.
The money supply is intended to grow with the economy. Obviously the speeds of growth don't always match, you end up with inflation or deflation.
So make connections. People with day jobs manage to do this, too: imagine how easy it is with lots of free time.
I bought a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in 1982 and loved it for the great display, windowing system, and awesome InterLisp-D development tools.

That all said, I prefer the modern world of general purpose operating systems with good commercial (Franz, LispWorks, etc.) and free (SBCL, Clozure, Clojure, etc.) Lisp development environments.
Re: #1, great! That means you have 7 hours and 45 minutes left each day to browse the Yellow Pages for companies that employ people in your line of work, look up their websites for job ads, find out who their HR managers are and call them to see if there are non-advertised job openings, participate in online forums where there are people who work in companies you want to work and who could be looking for people, etc. etc. The whole point is that just sending out some resumes each day is the wrong approach to finding a job.
Can you explain why you would use this over, say, Redmine or Basecamp?
It's no more puzzling than the people who keep on trying to bring perl into every conversation, make sure there is some mostly irrelevant perl story on the front page, etc.

I wouldn't expect Hacker News to care much about the language, but rather what's being done. If you built a 10 story house would you be sure to mention what brand of hammer you used? I wouldn't, who cares. It's the act and the result that matters.
Crazy Characters Help Indie Bands Outsmart Google
The trouble is that they might get confused between overthrowing our stalwart allies in the war against terrorism like Mubarek and start thinking that there is no real difference between a dictator for life and a government that relects the same group of millionaire business leaders every year or one where the same bunch of toffs from the same few fancy schools get to be in charge.
"John Maynard Keynes did suggest welfare should be employing people to do things, even pointless things like building giant structures and them demolishing them again."

In his lifetime though we already did this. If you were too poor to get by then you could go live at the town farm where you would receive public assistance in exchange for working.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorhouse
GitHub 500 status page
I see lots of people making these accusations but is it possible that there are just more developers who want to go to the conference and everyone realizes how quickly it sells out so as soon as it went on sale everyone bought up the tickets? I got a pre-sale ticket this year and although I appreciated the free stuff I got last year I'm still going to learn....
Buy an Arduino and start building robots. IMHO, there's a long, rewarding career there.
The problem with Perl is that those that "aren't into Perl anymore." are louder than those who are.
Facebook Fan Page Awareness Is Multi-Pronged
TL;DR: I sometimes need to do some scripting and I use perl because I know it.

So what? Flagged. This is blatant fanboy nonsense. Nothing remotely of interest here.
easier said than done

you have to think outside the programmer mindset where there are lots of opportunities to meet people. For other careers, the only way to meet people in your industry is through a job or a conference.
Mhh, why do they care as long as they're not abusing the service (by phishing for instance)?
I preferred if the money supply is fixed.

Beside, anybody who saved in a deflationary environment benefit.
I like to cite Italy when my Brazilian friends get too negative about Brazil's propects. If Italians can build a rich country why can't we??

It's incredible that the Romans were once the most organized force in Europe, and they were already corrupt!!
Please don't say that. The people who are into it are too loud as it is. If someone popped up every now and then and said "Yea, it was a great ride into work this morning with my horse & buggy." Of course most people's response is going to be "hrm, yea I've rode in one of those before but it doesn't make much practical sense now".

NOTE: I'm not saying that perl is literally as obsolete as a horse & buggy but rather for most programmers to day it may as well be.
What do you mean by "non-rivalrous"?
The rise in availability of entertainment (books, movies, etc) is actually having the opposite effect: the bestseller is more important than ever. With so much to choose from, people are more likely to go on recommendations, and the trend in recommendations has always been that once something (of reasonable quality) gets a little traction it tends to outstrip its competition.

Of course, there's more room for niches (so we might see more domain bestsellers in smaller domains).

Meanwhile, the author of this post, who obviously has a rich marketing background and has used it in this piece, seems to downplay the role of marketing (pretty much all publishers do is marketing) in getting bestsellers going.

As well, any level of anticipation for a title shows that bestsellers are still strong - the post assumes people choose what to buy once they see the shelves, but often they choose before that.
I guess this is supposed to be a discussion-starter. The author talks about some things that are slightly controversial.