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biased or not, the poster tried to make an explicit comparison as he sees it, i didnt read something like that before. posts like this decrease the obscurity.
But the term realtor was invented by the association to describe its members, specifically to differentiate them from other real estate agents. It's more like a "genericized brand name", not a previously existing English word.
A lie is a lie is a lie, in context, means that a small lie (i.e. claiming to know bash even though you never used any of the nontrivial features of bash) is not acceptable.

When you start hiring people, you will quickly realize how many people claim expertise, or even awareness, of languages / systems that they dont know about. e.g. everyone who has used awk '{print $1}' claims to be an awk expert. And its kinda sad that people see such small things as acceptable.
Aren't iPads 16:10? Honestly curious, I can't tell if 4:3 was a typo or if there's something I'm missuing.
Red Bend's attempt at a preliminary injunction was quashed recently, with the court stating that "with insufficient evidence that Courgette infringes on at least one patent claim, Red Bend cannot prove a likelyhood of success",

I'm no lawyer, but this sounds pretty bad for Red Bend.
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I found what you are probably referring to:

http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

I doubt this is in any way an established terminology, sounds again just like a very sloppy metaphor on part of the author - are complex pieces build from simple primitive pieces enough to call for "theorems" and "axioms" ?
> Length of data store: under what circumstances is what data stored, performance data, explict user data, all data, some subset of personal information, access logs, and for how long?

Note that everything in the article is about personal information. It's an obvious question to say "Do you store personal information for more than X months?". It's also very straightforward to say that "If you say you delete all personal information after X months, but store some subset of personal information indefinitely, you are lying."

> whether or not data is shared with law enforcement when not legally required: Nearly impossible to verify, and even if it was verifiable, very hard to stop,

So what? It's "very hard to stop" any privacy violation. Google could turn around and sell every single bit of data they've gathered about you, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. The whole point of privacy laws is to provide a deterrent to such activity and to provide recourse for those who have been wronged by it.

Similar to how the law doesn't stop burglary from happening, instead it provides a deterrent to burglary and an avenue of recourse for those who have been burgled.

Being "very hard to stop" isn't relevant.
I'm surprised they were able to beat it by such a margin.

Technology marches on. I have ideas for improving bsdiff, too.
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Time to grab the popcorn.
Actually, many people quit jobs just so that they can take an extended vacation.
"The purloined info included ... PINS ... "

Shouldn't these be hashed like a password? I suppose it's not common practice, but why not? Maybe the use of Pins started well before the internet made all these breaches so easy, so all that data was considered "safe."
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Minor correction, there is very little cp posted on /b/ anymore. You'll find that stuff more freely on other spinoff chans, but rarely on /b/ specifically anymore. It's a lot more tame tbh.
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Keep your cowardly, sniveling, risk-averse, myopic, GREEDY fucking agenda OFF OF MY INTERNET! You've already done quite enough, thanks.
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I was going to come up with a more level-headed and well reasoned response here, but I guess the first bit really sums it up.

There are days where I wonder if Academia didn't have the right idea with Internet 2.0. Whatever happened with that anyway?
Not to mention, after I die, nobody is going to remember me fondly for the vacations I took, so I could sit in the sun and cook my skin next to a chlorinated pool in another country. They're going to remember me for any work ethic, personality, and accomplishments I had.

If that's all you think vacations are, no wonder you don't take them.

My housemate is in Africa for 10 days with her mother at the moment. Another friend is going to Vietnam for two weeks shortly. Both of these ventures open the travelers up to new experiences and broaden not only their horizons, but mine by proxy. I can guarantee you that I will remember their trips to foreign lands more than I remember them spending another week in their jobs.

I actually find it a little sad that you seem to think that broadening your perspective is worthless (ie: "here I am, why ever look elsewhere?")
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(Speaking about the "Speedy Foundations" section)

Is there some kind of magic in Node.JS and MongoDB that makes application logic fast and scalable?

Am I just a curmudgeon? Am I barking into the wind?

Language choice never implies speed or scalability. Map/Reduce doesn't imply scalability or speed either. Am I wrong about this?

I started thinking about why this kind of FUD bothers me so much (BTW, it bothers me a lot.) It's because it's an apparent willful ignorance of empirical evidence. It hits the same annoyance center of my brain that rapture predictors do.
You miss my point - I don't have a car, nor do I want one, and I'm a complete proponent of urbanism and mass transit.

But once-an-hour does not a transit system make. There's a false dichotomy here - the choices aren't car vs. shitty transit. We can very well have good transit (i.e., arterial mass transit with frequency of every 10 minutes or better).

The problem with infrequent transit, particularly arterial routes, is that it completely wipes out the possibility of transfers. When your frequency is once an hour (with a high variance for on-time performance), people cannot rely on the transit method for making connections. Moreso, decreasing frequency increases total trip time for most people by a factor larger than the actual frequency drop (which is to say, a decrease in frequency of an arterial route results in a very large increase for most whole-trip times). A highly frequent (i.e. every 10 minutes or better) trunk line is the bed rock of any mass transit solution, and is absolutely non-optional.
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…clearly EMI should not have been awarded a trademark on the term "entrepreneur" in the first place.

They didn't get awarded the trademark in the first place.

As the article says, Chase Revel, who started Entrepreneur in the '70s, registered the trademark for "entrepreneur" and began to enforce the mark. The trademark went along with the magazine when it was sold in '87.
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A few people told me I should blog and after a few days thinking about it, I'm following that advice. Blogging is really fun and providing value to HN in this way is the least I could do after getting such sound advice from the brilliant people that make the rounds of this board.

This is one of my very first articles, guys and I hope that you find it enjoyable :)
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iPads are 4:3 (1024x768). Apple's laptops are still 16:10, but iMacs have unfortunately moved to 16:9.
This in accord with the emerging counterforce of various anonymous networking projects that are reaching the state of being usable. These networks are likely to evolve to the point where, instead of using proxies and non-standard protocols, the users actually access a regular IPv6 subnet that simply uses the onion-routed private network such as Phantom or I2P as the carrier.

I say IPv6 because nearly all operating systems do support IPv6 even if it's barely used these days; the address space is big so the addresses can probably be used to store some routing or clustering hints that make the onion network more efficient; and if all you have is an anonymous IPv6 address that isn't directly related to any physical connection then monitoring, governing, controlling and taxing becomes pretty difficult.

In a few years maybe, if Linux distributions shipped with such a client by default and you could download such a "network driver" for Windows to enable you to communicate and share with your friends in a private manner, the userbase will suddenly consist of so many nodes that the lack of performance and content-scarcity of the current anonymous networks will likely become history.
I really don't understand people who come with such propositions. When life is so short, yet the possibilities of freedom limitless, why would you choose to be anything else other than free?
Hackers and Painters is a good answer to this. Is the person who wrote that a "technical person"?
I know full well how new and young she is, that's why I'm less eager to digitally brow-beat her while she gets her lessons in the real world. There isn't much that is constructive that we can do by doing this in public if we're not part of her advisory board.
This is a clear case where we see the idea that governments should represent the will of their citizens break down completely. Every power structure serves its own needs first. In areas where the interest of governmental systems and the citizens are in alignment, democracy can work - but when there is a conflict between the will of a power structure to extend its power and influence and the desires of the citizens, governments almost invariably choose to serve their own systemic interests.

Internet censorship is a dramatic example of this. Even in democratic societies with large majorities in favor of free communication over the internet, the internal imperatives of governments to monitor and control trump the will of the people, no matter who is in power. In the matter of desiring to be able to read everyone's email, the governments of the world are in nearly unanimous alliance against their own citizens.
> It's an obvious question to say "Do you store personal information for more than X months?

still the question is, what exactly qualifies as "personal information", many seemingly irrelevant things can be used to identify you, login ip addresses, session ids, login frequency, Its a term with holes the size of Montana.

> Being "very hard to stop" isn't relevant.

I will concede this point, but uncovering cooperation can be a near impossibility
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What is your burn rate? Take the average of the expenses over the last year. That will dictate how long you can continue without having to worry about outside income.

Now, I assume you have the idea already, so do you expect to turn profitable (or large enough to raise angel/vc money) by the time youve burned through the savings?

Do you have kids? If so, you need to worry much more about the buffer

But even if all of that is squared away, natural instincts will tell you its a bad idea. Especially if you have been in the working world for a long time. This is natural, and expected, that you would be nervous about making the jump. That being said, there are many people (do a search) that have done the same thing on weaker bases.
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As I said elsewhere, if they gave up the trademark, someone else would probably register it and do the same. Thus hate the game.
Take cash up front. Be professional about delivering. Make sure that the rate appropriately values all your weekends and evenings.

Keep your day job.

These guys don't know anything: having their $7000 developer "walk away" is a disaster and they think it's a feature.

What happens in the future is anyone's guess, but the mostly likely outcome is that nothing happens. The next most likely is that something modest happens. Etc. Many of the eventualities will require continued development; you're the first choice and you'll have the upper hand.
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Spending too much time debugging?
They aren't doing fair business. Either they have customers or funding lined up, or you take an even split.

A guy who gets paid $7000 to build the site is not the guy that keeps the servers running, is not the guy that backs up the database, is not the guy who organizes further engineering efforts should the site take off.
No you are right. The modems fanaticism is mostly nonsense. Erlang is better for that approach to concurrency in general, amongst other things.
Was it your first purchase? My first Album purchase had a $2.99 promotion discount or something.
I just saw this:
http://jsonselect.org/#tryit

So putting that in.
i'm reading the manual right now (http://opalang.org/public/book_opa.pdf), it is a lengthy pdf that also features a wiki, advanced chat, web service client and server and a reference of the language.
> still the question is, what exactly qualifies as "personal information", many seemingly irrelevant things can be used to identify you, login ip addresses, session ids, login frequency, Its a term with holes the size of Montana.

"Personally identifiable information" is not some nebulous term that means whatever the writer wants it to mean, it has a pretty strict legal meaning.

"Information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual".
I think the idea is that the asynchronous nature of node helps it scale well. Even if it isn't really faster or more scalable I like that these frameworks are giving developers more options for backend js.
Node js got corrected to modems. Sigh.
While maybe not a completely new concept, this does have some thoughtful features.

Like he says, a picture does say a thousand words. Sometimes there are bugs/behavior that are either difficult to describe or simply much easier to understand when presented with a video. I once recorded a short bug video for Airbnb when I saw odd behavior on their homepage in one browser and not in another, and I used Screenr to do this, which you can see here - http://www.screenr.com/IYq

Using Screenr was simple but does have differences from what he seems to be proposing, namely ease of use and secure sharing. Screenr was easy enough to use but I did have to log-in. To have a typical user provide feedback and even go to the trouble of recording a video, it would make sense to allow anonymous uploads or simple one-step registration. And with Screenr there doesn't seem to be a way to have private videos (like YouTube or Vimeo) so I had to publish it to my profile (at least back in December).

By making it very simple and painless to record and submit a video, and by making submitted videos private only to devs, a service that packages all of this for either software development or consumer facing websites could be a successful endeavor. Best of luck to them!
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0.5% doesn't seem much, but if they succeed in this, many more other patent trolls will come out of the woodwork and all will demand a small percentages. Lots of these quickly add up, with 100 patent trolls parasiting on your App, you lose already half the profit.
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It is astonishing to me that this discussion has gone on for as long as it has without anyone mentioning the work of Robert Axelrod:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation

Axelrod showed that it is not necessary for individuals to share genes in order to cooperate to mutual benefit in an evolutionarily stable strategy.
Yes, I had pretty much the same situation. I finally got a T510.

Previously I had been using an antiglare filter, which works OK but is impossible to apply without leaving bubbles in.
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Every time such thoughts come up, I am reminded of how difficult it is to bring the world to a consensus. Easier said than done, it's pretty comfortable putting a regulation on paper but bringing it to practice can take a toll. Internet regulation does not stop at content policing and stopping malicious activities, it rather extends to creating difficulties in doing online business globally and taking a toll on innovation. China is regulated; how many websites coming to China from outside do a successful business there (enlighten me)! I really doubt if all the members would agree for such pact at the cost of business and innovation; unless there is a pressure from corporates (anon attack on master and visa).
Thanks for this link. That helped me understand why group selection may be intuitive but is most likely wrong. To summarize, group selection can work mathematically, but you must carefully choose the parameters of the mathematical model in order for "grep-selective" behavior (i.e. altruism toward strangers) to be selected. (These parameters define things like the cost and benefits of altruism to the "giver" and "receiver".) The slightest variation in these parameters results in a collapse of altruism and reversion to selfishness. So while it is theoretically possible, in practice the incentives just don't line up in a way that selects group-selective behaviors over selfish ones.
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This article is being misread by almost every commenter on this thread. The author is - very politely to TechStars - pointing out the many good things about Y Combinator, and some of the flaws with the TechStars model.

As currently constructed, TechStars in NYC will benefit a startup that's already built a product and is looking for sales / marketing / fundraising assistance more than a startup that's just beginning to build a product. The relative performance of OnSwipe, Red Rover, and CrowdTwist in the last NYC class serve as examples.

Obviously I don't think TechStars is completely useless for pre-product startups, because I've got an application into TechStars for my pre-product startup. I suspect it'll still be quite helpful. But it would be nice to have a highly-regarded, Y Combinator-style incubator in NYC for those of us who would sooner gnaw off our arm than move to the Bay Area. California is simply not for everybody.
They are free, they just dont want you to have that freedom, and also some people enjoy having power over others. They think that power gives them more freedom.
Very strange, indeed. So you actually spent lots of your precious time in creative endeavours, music, photography, but in the end you decided that you're worthless? That doesn't compute. Did you really were under such a social pressure that you felt obliged to comply?

Your example of music : though I've been a professional pop musician 20 years ago, I'm currently learning Beethoven's 8th sonata. I don't plan to ever play it in a manner "competitive" with any classically trained pianist; I do it just because of the pleasure I get from playing it. I don't give a smoking fuck of what any potential listener would think of my (pretty poor) interpretation.

I've never stopped making music. I understand that people who've been constrained to learn some piano when young abandon it later, because they never really wanted it anyway; but apparently you decided to learn it yourself, then simply throw it away later judging you're not worth it? Doesn't make sense to me.
I suspect the pragmatic answer is that there is at least a weak correlation between the publicized 'formula' for success and actual success

What is the publicized formula for success?

By doing something, you expose yourself to fate.

There are millions that do something with the stock market every week. Why is Warren Buffet the only one with his level of investment success?
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I agree that even the Great Firewall of China can easily be beaten by simply using Tor, however, it is now our democratic duty to prevent this from becoming a necessity in the western world.
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The thing is, cp includes self shots of people under 18. There is TONS of that on /b/, of both genders. It's awfully hard to tell 19 from 17 when you're taking a topless picture of yourself in the mirror.
Oh I get it. You meant the screen/cover which goes till the edges, as in MBP. Yeah, compared to that, matte sounds more touchable.
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Yes, that was my point. Microsoft patented aspects of the iPod BEFORE Apple did, but AFTER the introduction of the iPod. Should it have been allowed? Probably not. I can't find any articles about the settlement, so Apple may have managed to appeal and get it overthrown eventually. I don't remember. Regardless, the reason patenting the crap out of the iPhone was a big deal was that Apple was basically showing it had learned from past mistakes.

via http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-beats-Ap...

> A similar method outlined in a Microsoft researcher's patent application, filed after the iPod was introduced but before Apple sought its own patent.
This article is a sensationalist piece with very little content, the HN headline is misleading (the words "tax" and "monitor" do not appear anywhere on the target webpage), and the comments are impassioned soapbox generalizations.

This is HN at its worst.