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Photographers will argue that 90% of a photograph is composition, not the subject.

Even though a pixelated adaptation of a photo is different, it's got the same composition. For example, that Miles Davis photo perfectly lines up his head and hands to fill the square CD cover. It also uses light and shade to make the subject's features really stand out. So through a the lens a photographer sees through (horrible pun), it's very derivative.

A pixel artist will disagree, of course. They will say that composition isn't as important as getting the pixels just right.

(Actually, bean is interesting because it actually changes the composition).
Is the US in denial over its $14tn debt?
Yeah, if you wanted to put Zuck on a 30 under 30 list it wouldn't be "30 people under 30 to watch" it would be "30 people under 30 who you cannot avoid seeing in some way every couple of months"
What if a business on the edge goes bankrupt because their internal web apps stop working?
I, for one, was glad to see an Internet celebrity whacked by an individual artist. As somebody else pointed out, the $32.5k he got probably went straight to the artist's lawyers. It was pretty telling that Baio licensed the music but not the cover art. The blog article never explains why his chiptune versions of the music don't count as fair use. And he admits he didn't accept the copyright infringement claim immediately but stalled for seven months.

I am almost certain a different, happier arrangement could have been worked out if he'd agreed to license the artwork right at the beginning.
Hm... the way I read it, the user has to tell the ISP. It's opt-in.
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See also :)

android.glitz

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thr...
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As I already said, newlines[1] are vanishingly rare in filenames (most file manager UIs treat attempts at introducing a newline into the name as as committing the file rename), so I find it useful, so I wrote the utility, which only I use.

How you figure my solution to my problem is only symptomatic treatment, with technical drawbacks I already mentioned but treat as acceptable, is beyond me.

[1] As I mention in a cousin comment to this one, my utility handles all usual ASCII forms of newlines - \r, \n and \r\n (and \n\r for good measure).
I'm not sure what you think I mean. People fighting for liberty are fighting i.e. killing and and maiming, not things we normally consider good. Yet we — often rightfully, I think — justify such actions. My attitude is mostly one of practiced humility: I don't presume to know when doing wrong in the name of a larger good is justified. To be a moral — and not merely a moralizing — creature is to be acutely aware of such conflicts. There are different philosophical systems of assessing the morality of action because no single one is satisfactory.

I for one was not dancing in the street when Osama bin Laden, not Obama, was reported killed; I thought it a somber occasion, but I didn't think those who were celebrating morons. I don't presume to know the correct way to feel about the death of the person who planned the 9/11 attacks.
I am almost certain a different, happier arrangement could have been worked out if he'd agreed to license the artwork right at the beginning.

Maisel has said that he would never license this artwork for that purpose. So there would have been no licensing deal.

"And it's worth noting that trying to license the image would have been moot. When asked how much he would've charged for a license, Maisel told his lawyer that he would never have granted a license for the pixel art. "He is a purist when it comes to his photography," his lawyer wrote." [1]

1. http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
A private office with a door that can close.

A private office with a door that can close.

A private office with a door that can close.

A copy of Peopleware for every employee.

...

Well, you did ask for a fantasy.
Yes ... but as ESR argues, it's unfixable: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3035

Edited to add: when I say 'unfixable' I mean without either hyperinflation or defaulting.
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You could also say not setting up the right infrastructure to stop such an attack is malicious of the owners of the site.
I'm not really convinced that would be sufficient; if you paint a duplication of an existing painting you are really stealing the likeness and profiting solely by distributing someone else's creative work. I think if someone did your example, if they could prove that your intent was simply to reproduce your creative work you would still be infringing even if you don't simply copy paste it.

If you paraphrased Harry Potter and published it, it would probably still be copyright infringement even if no single sentence in the novel remains unchanged.

It seems to me that it comes down to whether the work you made is a derivative work of someone else, particularly if you are directly taking their creative vision and adding nothing. Reproducing something in another medium easily could be the same thing as photocopying a book or selling prints of someone else's painting.
I am not sure that is true any more.

As an example. Run something like Test 262(http://test262.ecmascript.org/) which is the official test suite for JavaScript 5 and you'll see how many compatibilitiy issues there are just for this single spec in Firefox. It's in the hundreds.

Anyone of these could potentially break an app. And that is just for one of the many specs in Firefox.
Anyone know what the reputation of seeking alpha is? I've read a number of their LinkedIn articles and I can't figure out if they are a bunch of well informed day traders or pros or a huffpo style mishmash site.
It's hard to blame the straw when the camel's back breaks.
Oh man, I missed the most obvious part...the title actually uses the word "badass". I know it's a disgusting word, but to me (and i'm going to guess a lot of folk), "badass" == "douchebag".
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I think he should make an open apology to the FBI.

People really have to understand that "the government" isn't after you and that Western society has generally had a really good track record of not abusing their power as compared to most places around the world. The FBI simply doesn't walk into data centers or your homes and try to disrupt things. There are real American people who work in the government and police agencies who do good work. You have to realize that when they do something they shouldn't be doing, they have to answer to the court of law just like you and I with presented evidence.

I'm sorry if you disagree with me. But I don't think it's fair to assume corruption on part of the police.
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Buy an iPod Touch and use VOIP over WiFi for calling. You probably have WiFi coverage at home and at work.

What you are really paying for is the inbetween places. If those don't matter, then you are all set.
I hadn't heard of this, wow. Oddly, the last time I was in Chicago I saw a police officer helping out by taking a photo of a group of girls in front of "The Bean" as I was taking photos of it as well.
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I suspect you are probably right. What this leads me to believe more and more is that there is no natural right to art. I'm really feeling more like copyright needs to just go.
Completely different cases. The GPL covers binary distributions as well, and if your source compiles to the mostly-the-same binary that doesn't make it different enough, and you're bound by the GPL to release the modified source.

I think the concept of derivative work is more important here. IANAL but I suspect there's a difference between copying someone's Skip List class (maybe modding it a bit) vs. writing your own even if your own compiles to mostly-the-same binary. Your own wasn't derivative even if the end result was very similar.
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This was not the best way to ease users into the new Firefox versioning and the associated benefits.

If there had been something subtantial in 5, it might have worked. But it seemed more like an update for the sake of versioning.

They could probably have gotten away with this later, but first turn of the crank just opens them up for complaints.
At least they weren't asking for ninja pirate rockstars or whatever...
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Also tell us who you are and what you do.
First telco in Asia using Facebook Credits to reward subscribers
I'm sure they'll be glad of the advice :)
Anyone with expertise in dark matter care to comment? I love pop physics but I never got beyond E&M in college
Goldman Sachs Is Firing Employees In The US So It Can Hire 1,000 In Singapore
Who cares?

I sort of liked it because I do have tons of experience and I often see job postings that make me think that my experience would not be appreciated. If I lived around there and was considering a move I'd apply.
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A revolution in the field of cameras–Lytro Picture Revolution.
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I think you missed the point of Everything is a Remix. He's not positing that remixes are bad... He's describing out how art gets created.
Thanks. Can you tell me if my impression of his older stuff ("Felt Like a Kiss" aside) still applies to to this one though? Or has he changed his approach now?
I wish that there was a place where, as an experiment, intellectual property was entirely disallowed. No trademarks, no patents, no copyrights, no trade secrets, nothin'. Just to see what happened.
The Moe's burritos in Tallahassee has a series of photos on the wall that appear to be famous photos of musicians (eg. John Lennon, Slash, Bob Marley), but if you look closely it's a lookalike and there's a small caption beneath that says something like "Bob Smith, from Denver".
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Benford's law makes a lot of sense if you consider that many of the numbers are derived from counting up from 0. The scale of these things is exponentially distributed, and therefore the leading digits are more likely to be 1 than 9. This is related to social media -- once your userbase gets big enough it starts growing or shrinking proportionally to its size, i.e. exponentially. This is also somewhat related to the value of a social network ... Metcalfe's law seems to be too optimistic. THe value is probably more like nlog n
On the kilogram: "I dislike having a prefixed unit as the base reference. What a horrible decision. Why don't you just have it go to ten and make ten a little louder?"

Exactly right.
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Slackware. As usual, takes the good bits out of both RedHat's and Debian's run-parts. It allows .{whatever} but ignores obvious, well-known suffixes like .bak etc.

From man run-parts:
run-parts automatically skips files with certain suffixes that are generally associated with backup or extra files. Any file that ends in one of these will be silently ignored: ~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave, .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp
You give some good feedback but maybe you could have struck a stance of, "Hey, do you know you could be alienating a large fraction of your readers with the style of your job posting? Here is why."

These guys are trying to do a startup. It's a hard thing to do. Why grouse at them? Perhaps their posting is unprofessional because they are unprofessional, in the sense of not having had lots of professional experience yet. Maybe cut them some slack instead instead of increasing the concentration of venom in the commons.
Meh. IMO the 'pixelated' 'art' isn't nearly pixelated enough, and not unique enough to qualify as art. Arguments based upon particularly bad selections of photoshop filters are not sufficient. The photo in question was beautifully captured, and the flippant way it's being treated is rather sad.
While I'm not saying that a cheaper "lite" iPhone version is not possible, anyone else feels that this could be a fabricated rumour by Apple to rat out internal leaks?

I once came across a (half-drunk) guy in a bar who apparently works for Apple and according to him, Apple does at times release fake rumours or have multiple versions of a product and monitors which one gets "leaked out".

Not sure how true his statement is but this rumour somehow doesn't feel right. Or maybe it is just me.
As do they all.
This new release policy just doesn't make any sense.

Speaking as a Mozilla developer - sure it does! We release every 6 weeks, and don't hold new releases for features. In the past, we ran into far too many cases where new feature X that wasn't ready held up a release for all the other features that were ready. Now, we'll just remove or disable that new feature and ship.

OSX and Ubuntu release like clockwork. People appreciate consistency.

Two things: 1) OS X releases at the whim of Apple, not "like clockwork." 2) Every 6 weeks is "like clockwork"! :)
The rules for taking pictures of The Bean were loosened soon after that article. Wikipedia says:

"The city first set a policy of collecting permit fees for photographs. These permits were initially set at $350 per day for professional still photographers, $1,200 per day for professional videographers and $50 per hour for wedding photographers. The policy has been changed so permits are only required for large-scale film, video and photography requiring ten-man crews and equipment"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate#Reception
I think this means it is a very good job posting,

Some companies sit and write down a job post making sure they accurately describe the positions, cross all the t's and make sure not to say anything that may seem unprofessional.

Some companies write it on the back of napkin, have no qualms about coming off as "unprofessional" and want to make sure whoever they hire is a good fit culturally.

There isnt a right and a wrong way, someones professionalism is another persons beige, being open about your company culture is the best way to make sure you hire people that will fit in to the company.
Companies that can maintain relatively high margins operate in niche markets. Groupon is anything but. I think what will be Groupon's downfall however will be against someone who can market to as large a group of "local and interested" people at the same cost.
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You're right. Don't overthink this.
Yes. We make no guarantees whatsoever on binary compatibility between versions.
You can use the same reasoning in reverse if you're in your 20s or younger. I don't believe I'll die when I'm only 60 or so, even if I'm super unhealthy, and by then they'll be able to fix all my supposed problems anyway.
I haven't seen much indication that I should stake my life on fringe AI pioneers estimating accurate timelines.
This blogger.com profile is squatting YC founder's names
Also whenever a job post says "competitive salary" that can usually be interpreted as saying "average salary". Even jobs with below average salaries use that bullet point.
> Maybe I'm wrong and your format is attracting exactly who you are hoping it is.

Either way re-posting the same crappy ad so soon doesn't make sense. If it worked the first time around, why would they feel the need to re-post it? On the other hand if it didn't work, why would anyone expect an unchanged re-post to fare any better?
I was too busy cracking up at GRAVITY_THE_ISLAND, defined as 4.815162, to notice the Death Star reference.
You phrased this wrong. Correlation absolutely implies causation; that is, it's a nice indicator that one should look closer at these things. As opposed to throwing darts in the dark. The correct phrasing is "Correlation is not the same as causation."
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Matt this is awesome. Nginx is becoming the standard for front end load balancing for many high traffic sites and this helps. We only have one nginx front end load balancer (even though we do over 4000 http req/s) but we'll be migrating to a cluster soon so I'll give this a whirl.
I agree with the OP. It reminded me of one of those high volume tech recruiters who pester hiring managers about their "rock star developer who just came available out of Myspace". The tone was juvenile. Boasting about how you "killed it" with the VC's in a public forum certainly sets an interesting tone with candidates.
Not to take away anything from the GroupOn Critique (which might be able to stand on it's own) - but I've been unable to vet the following statement made by the author:

"Commerce One's model was to act sort of like a toll booth, charging companies a fee as transactions passed through these exchanges and eventually expected to make billions collecting toll."

That was certainly one of a number of random ideas tossed about, but it wasn't (as far as I can verify from ex-Commerce One employees) the business model.

Any CommerceOne Alumni recall the company changing to this model? Anybody know Gupta from that time?
i agree this is subjective. I have a feeling this posting will appeal to some people. I just think it'll put off at least as many.

I do think it would be really neat if they posted a 2nd one that was the complete opposite and did some analysis of the results.
What are the advantages of using this book over the online tutorials that are available on the python website or even using some of the MIT OpenCourseWare courses?
So, to sum that up:

If you live healthy, you die healthy.
Give it time... Third time is the charm, right?
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It's probably worth reading up on this topic: http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/ip_photography.htm
The second time it was posted, that's when I decided to click. Sometimes it takes something to be seen twice before it registers. Maybe the fact that there were two ads (one on top of the other) told my brain to stop and click.

Also, OP is definitely helping them spread the word ;)
Is there another story you're getting this from?
There is a search at the bottom of HN now
You might or might not be surprised: in some countries, such as Italy and France, taking pictures of copyrighted buildings leads to derivative works.

See, for example, the last paragraph of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Derivat...
IANAL or a finance guy so forgive me for not knowing the specifics of this, but can't you issue dividends that are taxed significantly lower than payroll which requires income tax? Or is this only capital gains?
Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is that I'm not quite sure what these postings are…

Are they ads? Kind of. Are they posts? Kind of. Are they sponsored / paid for? No idea. I can't comment on them. I can't even permalink to them. I can't even know who posted it. I don't know how or if my vote is going to count.

It's obviously some kind of yc-/pg-sanctioned promotion for YC startup, but I think it needs to either be more transparently an ad, or more transparently a posting. It looks too similar to a normal posting to be an ad, but it has this uncanny difference that makes me very uneasy.
Facebook hires George Hotz, famed PlayStation 3 hacker known as Geohot
I wonder what Andy Warhol would say about this situation, half his stuff was "theft".
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A very large dry-erase board in every office - a nice one made out of tempered glass.

Variable height desk.

A window in every office.

Even though I do not own or desire a pet, I do appreciate places that are tolerant of their presence.
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Posts on this site are:

<surprising statement> ... What do you think?

We are hitting the bumper. Let us bounce off and move towards the middle.
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"Easy rapid access" to what?
If you live and work in suburb it's truly easy access with 5-10 minutes drive in low traffic.
If you work in downtown most of the time it's 20+ minutes brutal commute.

Aren't benefits of "food trucks" unavailable in suburbs?
So because you don't use C commonly, you propose that we avoid making it easier to others to do so and collaborate?

This is just language trolling in thin disguise.
What motivates people to answer questions on Quora?
I've read a few of his blog posts and I thought they were very interesting. I think he makes a lot of good points and a lot can be learned from what he says.

What I really like about him is that he doesn't just talk about business. He talks about life and his theories on how to go about it.
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It's nothing to do with dark matter physics directly. "just" a hard deconvolution problem: improving the image-analysis of ellipticity in (telescope) images. Dark matter is inferred from this apparent ellipticity, as evidence of gravitational lensing.
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Not entirely true. TCP is certainly decent, but it's not designed to deal with networks where the delays are extremely transient and the capacity is variable. It's not designed for heavy buffering. And so on.

It can be fixed with congestion control protocols tacked on the side, I think, but it's designed for wired networking with slow transients in the performance profile.

It IS, however, better than anything that I'd be able to hack together quickly.
Its subjective, but if it attracts the type of developers they are looking for, then its a success.

From my perspective, it seems like they made a mistake, and didn't get feedback from a mentor who has hired before. Hiring is hard. Don't screw it up. And if you do screw it up, fail quick and listen to the feedback. I would listen to the HN community and reconsider the approach.
You aren't in their mind though.

They are doing a startup. They are 110% focused on their startup and only their startup. They exist. You don't exist unless you can help them. They need help, so they'll stand on the side of the HN highway with their poorly written cardboard sign every day until Woz 2011 emails them to work for minimum wage + large empty option grant.

It's exciting. Not only is it exciting -- it's pure excitement. They live on concentrated adrenaline, weekly beans, user stats, and the approval of their other startup peers.

It even has its own entry in Axis II of the DSM IV.