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Sneak, if you think the media, especially the NYT, does their job well and reports without bias, you're sheltered and ignorant.

It's also surprisingly bad that you go around defending the media and calling others "erroneous" who call the authenticity of the reporting into question. Agribusiness is one of the largest lobby groups in America. Do you know how lobbyists get their agenda across? One of their most successful ways is to pay journalists. This is simple PR expenditure for them. And it works. And people like you defend them.

And you seem to making some jab at me lacking B12 as if my veganism threatens you. I see this all the time with people who are insecure in their own opinions.
Umad? Stop whining and go make something.
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Stunning result in this case, and with minimal assets (an image, some CSS) - great!

Sadly doesn't obviously transfer well to anything other than a flat glossy object though.
On the contrary, the community decided that text is not worth reading. It's very democratic. If enough disagree with the downvotes they can upvote the comment and make it black again.
The new Samsung phones have no buttons at all on the front. How's that for simplicity?
Box means box. It's a rectangle. Apple can't patent the rectangle.
> I'm getting a bit tired of this fake modern-thinking.

I'm getting really tired of the old stratagem consisting of pretending that social norms are a natural given. Because you know, this old beast have been beaten to death for centuries, time to move on.

Recipe for success:

> There are jobs and social roles that are clearly perused mostly by black and some mostly by white people. That's because black and white are different.

I know, it's quite obvious that men and women are different. But does it count nowadays? Sure, a man is more fit than a woman to push the plough behind a horse, or cart around stones in a wheelbarrow. However these activities are of no relevance in our modern world.

Similarly we could argue that black people are less at risk of skin cancer by exposure to sunlight, and therefore are better fit for street work. See what I mean? It would be so nice of you to reconsider your position to the light of the last 50 years of anthropology and social sciences.
So there's a "Higgs field" that all objects move through and those objects which have inertial mass are affected by this field? And inertial mass is the result of interchanges of the force carriers (higgs particle) between objects with inertial mass?

Inertial mass is ubiquitous. Why does it take so much power to make the Higgs boson detectable? How _do_ you detect it?

Is the Higgs boson one of the hypotheses of Newton's famous phrase "Hypotheses non fingo."?
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If the NY Times has the right facts I'm wondering if the judge was trying to give Mr. Padrick some justice. Anyone know what Oregon's shield law has to say about magazines that are defamatory?
Not that I encourage this particular lifestyle, but some people do manage to do this successfully. John Carmack, for instance, works 40 hours per week on iD, 40 hours per week on Armadillo, and still manages to raise two children.
how are shield laws relevant? shield laws protect journalists sources from subpoenas; they don't give blanket protection against defamation
Also, assuming there are advanced civilizations in our visible universe, none of them have produced a universe destroying event... At least not for the last 14 billion years. We are safe.

everything going on at the lhc has already happened
Near the earth. On the plus side, if something does go wrong, you wont get a chance to worry about it.
Neat idea, but how do you gather any data without actively sending customers to your competitors site?

It's like people are going to know about this shortened trojan URL without the creator of the URL publicizing and promoting it.
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This is very close to my feeling too. The "principled irate male" demographic tends to get upset over the double standard. But it's all a big case of a bad optimization metric.

The point to organiations like this isn't to eliminate "discrimination" in the abstract. It's to eliminate the inequality of opportunity. There is a very large practical and moral difference between being excluded from a single meeting of techincal people and being excluded from (or have limited access to) an entire career path. Spending a few "discrimination" points on the former to reduce the cases of the latter seems like a good idea to me.
Where are the isles of man, guernsey and jersey in that list of constituent "coutries"? That is, where do they fit within the kingdom?
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I think some of the same culture Reddit has, unfortunately spills over to HN. But what do I know....
Is this important to string theory?
Tech companies hire PR firms to do their promotion. They don't give the PR firm a cut of all the revenues the company makes, nor do they give them equity necessarily (it does happen but its not the rule).

The 'labels' have no reason to exist, there is however a great market for Artist PR firms. We need that first disruptive one though, where an artist 'signs' with them meaning that they do the promotion but they don't own the music copyright. And as it is a new business model for the music industry it will take some time to work out.
I have had a lot of trouble remapping Caps Lock on Mac OS X. What's your method?
That, and "or the terrorists win!"
I am almost certain the DMCA take-down request was at least semi-automated via tag searches on youtube and rubber stamped by one of their employees. You can see this yourself by submitting a video with tags that contain artists they have on contract.

I am also almost certain that MegaUpload understood this, and their video was specifically engineered to trigger these bots....
Would it be worth it for open source projects to try and distribute on the app store? Given that there are already examples on Android of open source apps being recompiled, name changed, and resubmitted to the store, wouldn't this kind of thing be even more prevalent on a full computing platform?

I guess it's kind of a moot point if they are put on the store for free, though.
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That's the point, I think: the judge shouldn't have decided the question of whether the shield law applied to bloggers, because it wouldn't have provided a shield in this case anyway.

edit: Though come to think of it, maybe the judge though that was the easier question (wrongly, imo), and so looked at it in the other direction: since we can decide that bloggers aren't journalists, we don't need to unnecessarily decide the question of what behavior the Oregon Shield Law shields.
No there isn't, but if you'll notice I included startups as just a part of the overall drive.

I'm not picking a side, but I can tell you from experience that many of the women I know, who happen to be stay at home moms, do feel embarrassed about what they do.

And I do believe it's a result of career advocacy. I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy, in one side telling the other to stop advocating because it causes difficulty for the former, without acknowledging that the former can use the exact same argument.
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I know a decent number of people I would want to be my first hire, and I think they might be interested. The biggest mental hurdle for me is "How can I ensure that I can pay them every month?"
Thanks brk

What we do is we create a copy of the page's source code onto our database and showcase this code to the visitors. This means, although the user will be able to see click-heatmaps from the site, it will not affect the competitor in any way since the functionality of the page will not change in any way.

Also, at the end of 30 days, we stop tracking and will instead redirect the page to the end URL like any URL shortener. I have a feeling that 30 days could be a bit long. If it indeed turns out true, we can reduce that, or maybe provide this as an option to the URL creator.
So many job adverts ask for creative people, but on the job creativity is discouraged. Employers want employees to implement the employer's creations.

That said, getting along socially is enormously important. Smart, creative people figure this out. The general impression that to be creative one has to be some sort of social misfit is overblown.

As Piccaso demonstrated, great creativity is born aloft by great mastery. It's not that hard to Get a bad haircut and some outlandish clothing to pose as a creative naughty person.
The shadow can translate to a lot of other things, and that's the first thing I noticed.
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This reminds me of a short story I read when I was a kid, where a guy discovered a shape with zero sides. I think at the end he made his boss disappear by folding him into the shape.
I agree, it can be done, but if he is really working 80 hours per week most weeks (it's different if maybe he is constantly taking vacations or something), then I wouldn't really call that raising two children. I'd say his wife is raising them, and he sees them occasionally on weekends. This some kind of value judgment, just looking at the amount of time in a week, and there's no way it's enough for both.
Speaking as a former TA who ran college classrooms for a while...

Classroom management rides the line between order and chaos. You don't want students constantly interrupting, but you don't want them to be silent. Assignment grading is rife with judgement calls - what qualifies as 'correct' work? Some students feel incredibly entitled and challenge any slighting (ie., getting downgraded for being wrong). In these conditions, it's easy to see how rolling out a pigeon hole system becomes the solution to the challenge.

So Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students is a bit of an unsubtle title, full of false dichotomies and ignorant of nuance.
There are two more groups of teachers you missed:

The bad teachers modify the plans in a manner they think suits their students, but works worse than the provided materials.

The terrible teachers completely make up their own system, which simply fails.
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Hey no worries. I completely agree that outsourcing companies (Infosys, TCS etc) suck big time. The services outsourcing companies scrape the bottom of the barrel talentwise and lie through their teeth to their clients, are infested with scummy middle managers and so on. I am not arguing about any of that.

Just saying, don't dismiss a country of a billion people so easily - with so many people, there have to be some smart ones.

Good engineers are a minority in every country.
That said,the USA (and it is a great country) has the advantage of attracting smart people from all over the world to learn, work and settle there, so you have a constant influx of really smart people, an adavantage no other country has(these days, Canada and Australia maybe?). The US also has the finest universities in the world. So I am not surprised that in general, the US has the best tech companies and the best engineers.

But that doesn't mean there aren't good engineers elsewhere. I was only mildly pushing back against your somewhat sweeping generalizations. No insult or harm intended.

If the only Indian devs you've encountered are the lying incompetents exposed to you by the typical Bangalore bodyshop, I am not surprised if people draw conclusions that may not be very flattering.
Answering specific to your question about, "without actively sending customers to your competitors site?", I am not sure if we can get the visitor data from the organic visitors to the original site in any way. So, I guess, a little bit of third party promotion (say via Digg,Stumbleupon) will be required although you will be doing a favor to competition that way.
I don't get the "interactive" part? Can I interact with this? It feels like a static image to me.
I have normal colour vision and I experienced the same thing with those two pictures, a purple to blue shift. (I also saw differences in the others.)
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Practical example:

Lots of professional audio equipment is designed to digitally emulate analog equipment. There have been a number of lawsuits, usually hinging around "passing-off" - companies are justifiably unhappy with their trademark being used on someone else's equipment, even if it doesn't resemble anything they manufacture.

There is precedent for companies being successfully sued for using trademarks on the equipment itself, but precedent to the contrary for those trademarks being used to describe the character of the equipment. It is therefore commonplace to buy a guitar amplifier that has an "American Tweed" setting, but for the user manual and publicity materials to describe that setting as an emulation of a 1958 Fender™ Champ™.
It's also a complex network of scouts, producers, and the like. Sure, plenty of bands produce and self-promote. Plenty of bands put their stuff on sites like bandcamp which (IIRC) give close-to-all the sales to the artists (with MP3 v0 and FLAC options for consumers). Amazon's MP3 store also has similar distribution (albeit at a higher cut for Amazon).

Distribution is solved (even when you throw stuff like iTunes, etc). But, you're not going to get top producers, recording studio sessions (which aren't cheap), and other things necessary for mastering a "high production value" album.

As popular as indie music and listening to Stephin Merritt sing over an 8-track is, popular music is usually heavily produced/mastered. These costs are simply outside the ability of most people.

Sure, you could say they should "bootstrap" it (to use a popular term amongst programmers) or seek "angel investors". But, look at how many programmers work for big companies.

I've seen a few bands here and there promote strictly on MySpace and SongCloud and do well. Word of mouth can be powerful. But, they almost ultimately sign up with a big label to get access to resources.
When I said you were missing my point, I wasn't saying your opinion is wrong. You're actually pointing out another injustice altogether, rather than disagreeing with me. Look back to my original comment. I took issue with the Justin Biebers of the world getting too much of the pie. You took issue with the Louis CKs of the world getting too little. We don't have conflicting opinions here, and they don't need to be mutually exclusive.

Someone (you or another user) is down-modding my comments, and i can't really understand why. I feel they contribute to the discussion (a feeling confirmed by the simple fact that you've engaged with and responded to them). Judging by your profile, it seems like you too are against the idea of down-modding simply because you disagree with an opinion. If you are the one down-modding me, I'd consider that both hypocritical and shameful, but I'm not one to jump to conclusions, and will happily give you the benefit of the doubt.
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Yeah, won't readings of the GPL forbid distribution for the same reasons? Or are the apps distributed by Windows 8 going to be unsigned? Or is that not pertinent in this case?
Use a webkit browser.
I don't think we have to go that far. These particles exist in nature, but not conveniently here on earth in the vicinity of test equipment.

The Universe produces very high energy events all the time -- supernova among others -- and many of these have happened within our light cone, yet have not thrown a wave of new vacuum at us.
Well, you certainly managed to bend your mind to make Apple the good guy.

GPL: You have the right to modify and redistribute the application.

Apple: No you don't.

rbanffy: The GPL forbids redistribution.

Apple restricts you to 5 devices, the GPL does not. Apple restricts you to personal, non commercial use, the GPL does not.
It is a tool for blocking ads but is there a reason why it should be the nuclear option of block all ads everywhere, instead of a block the ads users want blocked, leave the ads the user wants left. If anything this just makes the tool more usable and configurable.
Very sexy. I won't be surprised if I see this on the Apple home page one day.
Agile is snake oil. And I've never seen it done well in either the public or private sector.

All starts with good intentions -- but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Then you discover someone doesn't actually know what they're really meant to be doing.

Agile sucks. I saw a huge team over two years produce absolutely nothing despite the cash being spent on the project.

I did a spot of cowboy coding over a week on this, just for fun (I was working on a different project but understood what their team was supposed to be doing because it had overlap with our work), and had a fully working model up and running with full database and business logic in place ... demoed it and it was extremely well received. Then it was immediately buried to save the dev team managements' face.

I left shortly after that. This is the kind of shit nobody needs.
From my experience working in smaller companies just beyond the startup phase, if the person caught on quick and was able to contribute, even if their contributions had a lot of issues, that was still valuable work. Some people would, however, just get stuck and never seemed to know what to do or what was expected of them, which doesn't work well in a small group but is much more acceptable at a large corporate internship. It goes back to the author's point on who to hire, but my impression is that this is a bigger problem with students who don't have much actual work experience. Work, especially in a startup, is much different than school, where you are shooting for a fairly well-defined goal, work is doled out in carefully measured chunks, and you can often just show up and get your grade if that's your motivation. The point that struck me in this was your 3-4 year figure; I would expect someone to hit the ground running, or at least moving at a steady pace, even if they ran into a few walls along the way.

I didn't really address your question directly, many startup founders are at this same point in their lives, I would be curious to hear from people with direct experience hiring interns in the startup scene.
I hate so much this "repetition into conformity" thing. Making someone to repeat a "credo" is a known trick for installing beliefs into other peoples mind without them realizing that the "free", "peoples though" are orchestrated by the key members in the group.

This is "how to become sheep 101".

I don't like financial abusers but putting this people on power, assemblies in witch "everybody is equal", so experienced, documented and common sense advice is ignored, but with "some people more equal than others"(read Orwell books that talk about what Orwell himself lived) is the worse that could happen to America, Europe, or any other country.
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Carr ends with:

>> Then again, I’ve got some institutional muscle when it comes to how I’m perceived on the Web. All Mr. Padrick had was his good reputation. Too bad there’s no algorithm to measure truth.

I know he's a writer and needs to end with a real zinger, but it's a cheap shot against algorithms and their role in helping us make correct assessments.

1. There are algorithms which can gauge truth and accuracy. There's few modern psychological theories so consistently proven than how algorithms can outperform experts in making judgements.

2. Despite a blanket dismissal of algorithms in general, Carr is of course taking issue with companies like Google. Ignoring that truth-judgement over a body of data as diverse as the web is going to be a very, very tricky problem for computers and humans... is the Google search engine's only directive to find "truth"? Ideally, the top search results contain the truth, but Google makes a philosophical judgment that other factors (such as link popularity and location) need to be considered when retrieving the most relevant results...because relevance is easier and safer to judge than truth.

In the same vein, the New York Times would like to say that the advertisements they run all contain truth. But truthiness is not the main criteria they use when deciding which ads to run: advertisements are printed because companies/interest groups/candidates put their money behind it.
I'd actually expect that Facebook's far deeper penetration would mean that there is a far lower percentage that are willing to jump on the "next big thing".
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I'm with you here, how much cash should I have banked before I hire employee #1?
I'm thinking your best bet is to hire someone to set up a secure server for you. Then you can pick whatever hosting provider you like, but still have a secure, proper setup.
Oh, definitely. But it's difficult to do something like that when the existing labels control access to radio stations, magazines, blogs, etc. Same goes for disrupting any industry, of course.
I think my best way of answering the question is that because some magazine authors don't have per-contributor RSS, I don't follow them and forget them.

Twitter is a very interesting development, but the only site whose RSS it's replaced is Daring Fireball.

However, finding a good RSS client is the biggest pain in the ass, and I don't know what I would have done, if I didn't discover Fever, when Bloglines died and took all my data and saved updates with it.
This is probably the most telling bit of information:

The provisions of ORS 44.520 (1) do not apply with respect to the content or source of allegedly defamatory information, in civil action for defamation wherein the defendant asserts a defense based on the content or source of such information. [1973 c.22 ss.4,5; 1979 c.820 s.2]

So the case could have been won even if she had been ruled a "journalist". This is the problem with the ruling.
I'm not familiar with the topic, but isn't there still room for new discoveries?
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I dont know...

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The argument hasn't been debunked. I don't have the facts to back this up, but I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men.

Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that men get more stuff done. I' be interested in a study that measures the difference in job performance for equal compensation levels between men and women. Even that study might be biased because there's some evidence that if a woman and a man perform at exactly the same level, men get better ratings, but it would be better than simply measuring hours "worked".

I also think throwing in statements that disparage women with the caveat that "I don't have the facts to back this up" is irresponsible and contributes to the sexism problem.