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The problem you've raised is one that actually is addressed by the way that bills become law in the US (whether it works or not is a whole different question...).
Congressional bills go through a committee process where in theory people who've dealt with similar laws before learn about the particular subject matter, hear from experts and then decide on whether the bill should proceed: http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/legislative-branch#....
I'll add to your cognitive dissonance by mentioning that he's a co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP Act.
(I'm a Brit living in the US.)

There is nothing nefarious or stupid going on in the US. In most other countries in the world there is a separate area code for mobile phones. Calling a mobile phone area code is considerably more expensive than calling a land line (for the caller). To get an idea of the difference lookup rates for any international calling card. For example the first one I found charges 1c per minute to UK landlines and 5c per minute to UK cellular. For many countries there is a 1:10 difference in cost.

So now we have established that calls involving a cellular endpoint are more expensive virtually everywhere. In places that have a separate area code for cells it will be the caller paying the additional cost.

In the US (and elsewhere participating in the North American Numbering Plan) it would be virtually impossible to allocate new area codes, so there is no way of knowing the recipient is a cellular phone. The only practical way of dealing with this is to make the recipient pay the extra which is exactly what happens. But someone is always paying! And a lot of people don't mind this, especially when mobile service was new. If you were a plumber on the go you didn't want people to think about calling a competitor on a landline while you had a cell because it was more expensive. Having all calls cost the same significantly reduces friction for people who want to communicate.

Because the recipient is paying for incoming calls and that person is making the purchase of the incoming minutes there is very strong pricing competition. Incoming and outgoing minutes are relatively very cheap in the US. So much so that the carriers have to nickel and dime people on everything else in order to make up the necessary ARPU.
No, but we're not in Ancient Rome anymore.
To see an example of an HN member who holds this misconception even after watching the interview, scroll up. It makes me really sad, both for the HN community and for the FSF.
I think Al's heart is absolutely in the right place. He didn't have all of this mastered when he took office, but he's learning fast and he seems to be doing more things right than anyone else in the Senate that I can think of, on these issues and on various other issues pertaining to citizens' rights.
It's common in law to make a legal argument based on a claim and then to continue a conjectured argument even if that claim is rejected. For example, they say they are not subject to the DMCA (17 512(f)) then claim that even if they were, that the case would still not prevail due to caselaw and requirements of the DMCA.

UMG also cites convincing caselaw arguing that irreperable harm has not been done since the alleged infringing activity has ceased in a relatively short amount of time. What damages can Megaupload quantify?

It seems possible UMG could only be on the hook for a contract dispute with YouTube.
Love the idea (and the pun). But I can't think of many of my non-tech savvy female friends (speaking from NYC) who would not be totally freaked out by this.

Those of us more familiar with data (both males and females) know that if we were to get a message like this, it most likely came from a friend or former friend since it requires knowing your phone #. But in a world of constant social media privacy scares, the average person is going to be hyper paranoid about sending off any kind of personal data to an anonymous requester.

and of course I'm not implying that females are less likely to be tech savvy. I'm implying that in my own set of female friends, there is a higher fear of stalkers than among my male friends)
I don't understand how men wearing dresses works as a comparison to women wearing pants, as there hasn't been an equivalent attempt by men to adopt dresses as everyday attire.
All you have to do is list out all the things you want to say, and the answer becomes clear:

"My photos" v. "Your photos": both seem to work

"We weren't able to complete your request" v. "Someone else wasn't able to complete my request."

"Please enter your valid email address" v. "Please enter my valid email address"

"To (...), you need to upgrade to a Pro Plan" v. "To (...), I need to upgrade to a Pro Plan."

The user is the second person, because sometimes your app or company needs to speak to them using the first person.
> "I've been actively seeking information about the movement."

You've been looking for information, yet never read the original call to Occupy? Or were you just keeping an eye out for more background information in what is provided to you by the press?
One reaction to "evil foreign governments broke in to steal tasty data" would be to get rid of said tasty data.

Another reaction would be to go full-throttle into obtaining and then creating even more tasty data the likes of which have never been seen before. It won't happen again! Oh no.

I think we know which way the wind blows in Mountain View these days.
One step at a time. If we can all agree on the apparently controversial/notable fact that selling your content to fans for money is a viable business for a famous person, we are finally making steps towards a better world for artists and consumers.
I wonder if his garage RAID has drunken-girl-at-party protection now. (He had a party in ~2006 where a drunken friend (female, startup founder herself) started pulling drive trays out of the RAID because it made the lights blink more interestingly.)

Someone asked on LJ "where can I find someone who is an expert at both file system recovery and body disposal" -- Hans Reiser being the obvious answer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser)
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I'm a card-carrying Java-hater (haha only serious) and Lisper, I was pretty damn impressed by this the last time I watched Notch working on a LD thing. I looked it up this time and found out that Eclipse calls it "hot code replacement"

http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_hot_code_replace%3F

There are some limitations (can only change the body of an existing method) so it's not quite as dynamic as Lisp + Emacs + SLIME, but it's still pretty cool. I wish Dalvik supported it somehow because from what I can tell, you can't do this with code running on an Android emulator.
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The former. I just told you that I talked personally to Occupiers. I wonder how many of them are aware that an "original call to Occupy" even exists.
Ok, this is awesome!
I must say that that trivialization of male genital mutilation is particularly sickening. The author very clearly has no actual knowledge on the subject.
UPDATE: I tested this on a male friend yesterday who happens to be in the same area code as my twilio #. Today his wife saw the message and thought some lady was trying to seduce him or have an affair. This is funny.

Funny I actually tweaked the SMS message a few times after some female friends I tested it on got creeped out a bit.

The main feedback was to make it clear that someone close to them initiated it. (close in the social sense)
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Cool. But I think most people would be able to guess who sent the text based on who is likely to be buying shoes for them.
Let's also add that it is 3.5" screen with a 3:2 ratio. If you picked a different ratio by this logic, you could have a different size screen.

I do wonder, going by this logic there probably should be 2 form factors for handhelds: one handed operation, two handed with the device fitting in one hand comfortably. After that you are in tablet territory.
If you were willing to honestly consider the point I was attempting to make, then alternatives to "dress" should have been clear.

Edit: I have owned up to that. I did not previously consider having cleavage to be an essential requirement for wearing a dress (and for the record, I think such an objection is absurd). However, my point above remains. Were you actually attempting to address the point I was clearly trying to make then a skirt would have been obvious. This discussion is not about individual articles of clothing but rather about gender specific clothing in general. You were narrowing your focus because you were not interested in having a real conversation.

You were being overly pedantic and could not see the forest for the trees. You have to own up to that.

Your downvotes and my upvotes should demonstrate to you that I was not expecting anything unreasonable from you. My point was clear to numerous other people.

Regardless, if you are willing to concede my point when I substitute 'dress' with 'skirt', then you have conceded my point entirely. The specifics of my illustrational example matter little. I think we are done here.
Go watch him code and then decide for yourself if there is such a think as a 100x programmer
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That particular list has been around for years. While a recent issue of Playboy may have topless men, it is historically a men's magazine. If you counted the pictures of women and men in the last year, what would you find?

"A woman who has unprotected sex (or for that matter sometimes protected sex) is in a much better position than a man who does the same."

Men who have unprotected sex are expected to pay a state-determined minimum tax essentially to provide for their children. For men, children are abstracted into a financial problem. A woman who has an unexpected child has much more than finances to worry about.
Why would you when justin.tv release the videos as soon as the stream ends?
Yeah I didn't even know of the hackathon until reading Twilio's blog Wednesday. Thought of it then and built it Wed and Thurs night. The hackathon is actually sponsored by Zappos and i think it started on Monday.
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It cost Megaupload $3 million to make this video for their own advertising - quashing that advertising fraudulently seems damaging to me. How you'd quantify it I don't know.
clothes might be neat, but I think there might be some negative reaction to getting a text message asking someone's ring size (or at least it might set an unrealistic expectation to the recipient).
What you are saying is essentially "Start independent DNS servers without filtering, and get browsers to use them by default."

It is the obvious 'solution,' but somehow I think the answer would be more filtering, probably on a lower level.
It's a 2 pair system with DWDM. Their cost is actually basically the fiber and the DWDM gear. They won't launch unless they have enough committed revenue to cover opex, I'm sure, and to project to earn a good return on the cable as laid. The incremental costs to light additional 10GE or 40Gbps waves isn't that high (usually people start out with CWDM on a system, then upgrade the WDM gear once they need to do so).

I'm a little surprised that it's a 2 pair system -- I'd be a bit more comfortable with something bigger, but for a long repeatered fiber, your repeaters get more expensive per-fiber. I'm not sure what the costs would be for 2 pair vs. 8 pair -- I'm a lot more familiar with ~300km repeaterless fiber.

The main innovation here is being a corporate owned vs. consortium cable. I can see corporates, web hosts. etc. directly taking 1-10G capacity on LA-NZ-AU, as well as mobile carriers. Southern Cross, etc. are usually unwilling to sell capacity directly in the form of IRUs to non-members, and members are licensed telcos.

If this happens, I'd be really tempted to set up a business in NZ.
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That was the initial plan (clothes) but I ran out of time. Plus the Zappos API was a little confusing on a few details.

One thing that baffles me is women's clothes sizes ... some things are small, med, large ... others are 1, 3, 5 ... and others 2, 4, 6, etc ... ugh :/
For what it is worth, Google has begun throwing its weight around in politics, although not to the tune of a few hundred million dollars:

This article [1] in the San Jose Mercury News from September reports that Google has ramped up its lobbying spending and notes that 14 lobbying firms have now listed Google as a client:

Google has also ramped up its spending on lobbying, with the company spending $3.5 million in the first half of 2011, according to U.S. Senate records -- a pace that if continued over the course of the year would boost Google's lobbying spending this year by more than a third over 2010.

Google has hired well-connected lobbyists, both on the Democratic and Republican side of the aisle, including the Gephardt Group, the firm founded by former Democratic House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, and a firm headed by the son of Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar.

[1] Google's Schmidt to Testify Before Senate Panel

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18938739
I agree. I actually hovered over the example at first thinking that it might be interactive since there was such a prominent CTA above it.

To the point of the description drawing the most attention, perhaps it should be swapped with the actual signup form–the description can align itself on the left and the form would be centered (which may actually provide a nice balance: description left, example right, and what you actually do right between the two).
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If you're talking about labeling things that belong to the user, and your site or app is supposed to feel like the site or app itself belongs to the user (their space), go with what the user would label them. For photos, what would the user write on a shoebox of their own prints? Most likely “My Photos”, but they also could just “Photos” if nobody else's things are stored anywhere nearby.

If the app or site does not belong to the user, but is clearly a third party the user gives things to in order to process them or perform some action on or with them, label it as a service person would speak to the user. How would the service person at Costco refer to those same prints? Probably “Your Photos” in contrast with "Everyone's Photos". In this case, the label "Photos" would be most likely to apply to all photos, not just the user's own.

Going with conversational style, keeping in mind who is the speaker for a given action, goes a long way to clarifying which stories need which terms.

This gets more complicated in "the cloud" but the same distinction (ownership vs operation, and who is the speaker for an action) can apply.
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How about scraping financial data from public companies and making them available on a web-service/API. Yahoo finance presents key data freely for the US market, but in Norway you have to pay a 3rd company to get access to data that should be free to investors. Not sure how it is in Germany.
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He later changed 'dresses' to 'skirts'. And yes, that completely changes the argument (look at the other leg of this thread).
It was my first job out of college. I was, however, a fair bit older when I graduated and did have a few years of experience freelancing, but this was my first time working in a corporate environment.

The whole company culture was one of distrust. We would be told in meetings, for example, that the we were to lie to the sales team about product details and were regularly encouraged to infringe on copyrights when doing design work.

The ethics were a huge part of why I left the company as well, but it wasn't a battle I was going to win. I'd tried before and failed, so at that point, I just didn't bring it up.
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The article is about astonishment. Everything SVN did was fairly obvious.
Well if I recall correctly his reverse "engineering" consisted of figuring out that the protocol was a plain-text English based protocol (i.e it would be like if you were to reverse engineer FTP by looking at the TCP stream).
NoSQL’s great, but bring your A game
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Exactly! That's my biggest problem with Stallman's beliefs. Let's take Red Hat Linux for example. Anyone can get or modify Linux free. Even Red Hat itself is open source. So Rwd Hat can't really make a buck selling Linux so they make money on training and support. If I wanted Red Hat I could certainly find an ISO somehwere online easily or I could just download Fedora. So for them it's great but what about the guy who writes a cool text editor for Linux? If that's open source then what does he do? Hope everyone sticks to the honor system and pays? How do you make money charging for support with that type of project?

There are far more projects like the example I gave than companies like Red Hat. You're far more likely to find little solo acts who either can't provide support, dont want to, or even if they did wouldn't be able to sell it because it's just not that necessary. Imagine buying a license for support for some text editor you like and calling the support line to ask how to program in some macro or something. It's just not happening.

Why do FOSS folks always equate closed software with evil? Couldnt we simply want to keep our code to ourselves so we can make money? In most cases 90% of the value of a developer's app comes from the fact that no one else has the code. Just because I've closed the source doesn't mean I'm adding back doors and spyware to my app. It just means I'm protecting my income stream. Demanding that all software release code so that people can extend the app to their liking presupposes that people want to modify the code. Of all the FOSS software I've downloaded and used I really haven't ever wanted to modify the app except in a few rare cases. It sometimes seems like this FOSS ideology completely forgets that not everyone is a programmer or assumes everyone should want to be a programmer.
Having a few indicators of being a "loser" on you resume - like, say, being unemployed, can put a damper on your career.
I'm glad to see Google taking this route when adding new features to its social network.

I am _infuriated_ by Facebook opting me in to every new sharing feature when they add it. It is a constant maintenance headache for people like me who want to simply have a presence on Facebook without participating on a day to day basis.
If you actually need convincing that SOPA is wrong and are not just being unnecessarily argumentative, then I really don't know what to say to you... Do you know what SOPA is?
Except there's not necessarily a 'right' to have your video on YouTube, and it's possible that UMG was acting, albeit with bad faith, in the capacity of YouTube curator.

Megaupload's Friday filing seems to imply their current strategy is to hunt for evidence of DMCA takedown requests sent to other sites like Vimeo, as well as expose whatever they can about the agreement between UMG and YouTube.
Yes I don't think it's a failure on your part at all, it's just a very hard needle to thread.

The interconnectedness of technology scares people who don't work in it. My roommate freaked out when she found all her personal info was on pipl, even though she has a Twitter account and her info on various other niche sites, including public records. And no amount of logical argument could persuade her that she was not being personally targeted.
I would use it if it wasn't for the facebook thing, I already use couchsurfing, bewelcome, etc
In a business the money usually comes first, and the NFL is a business in which there is surplus labor available and which has a tradition of replacing broken bodies.

It is the rare game which has no injury which causes at least one player to miss the next game.
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The key differentiator addressed by both Steve Blank and Eric Ries in their definitions, is that a startup is innovating. A company taking an existing, proven business model and attempting to build a business based on it (whether in the tech space or elsewhere), does not qualify as a startup, even if it is aiming for hyper growth.
Ha! Definitely can't argue that point. ;-)
What the other poster is saying is that

> The authors of proprietary software control what you do with that software.

He's fine with this, as are many other people.

And I think that's a fair point: if you really are going into the deal with eyes open, knowing you're going to be locked in and tied down to whatever platform, you should be free to make that choice. Of course, if you're smart, you'll drive a hard bargain, knowing that in the future you won't be able to. Stallman says that choice simply should not exist in that proprietary software should not exist.

The 'sell support' thing has some fairly serious limitations that make it less than ideal. Many software products - especially the end user variety - cost a lot to make. Selling 'support' for a product that works well and doesn't require much of it is not a good way to recoup all those sunk costs.

Since you cite 'countless' companies, how about we actually count a few and look at their revenue models?

* Redhat: first of all, they distribute a lot more software than they produce, which is fine, but the scope for that is pretty limited. Also, they basically use trademark law as an end-run around software freedom. You can't redistribute and call it Redhat, and you can't buy any support unless it's real Redhat, and support is a subscription, not a per-incident kind of thing.

* Mysql: they used the "GPL'ed library code" gig to try and get people wanting to embed the code in their proprietary products to cough up some cash. Legitimate business model, but would not work without proprietary software! Also, most things aren't libraries.

What else?
The same paranoia applies to all photo hosting services that can link photographs to accounts. (shrug)
In Google Scholar, though, the link to your own Scholar page (if you've set one up and are logged in) is "My Citations" in English, so they seem to be using it inconsistently between products.
They do not[1] treat all their vendors the same way. It has been documented that Google provides early access to particular vendors, in order to suit their own desires for the launch of each version of Android. It has been going on at least since the original Droid launch on Verizon.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14836102
save_global_history If set the global history will be saved to ~/.xxxterm/history when quitting and
restored at startup. See the KEY BINDINGS section above for how the global history is
accessed. Global history is not saved to disk by default.

from the manual, the history is a file, if you really want you can merge it manually
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They are not popular, but men wearing them won't have their sexuality judged, so they probably don't have significance to your original point. I think they are not popular because they have a strong cultural association with being Scottish.
Oh, damn, I could've used that to antagonize my New Yawk cousins on Christmas.
I was planning on commenting along the same lines but you've nailed it.

I get sick of these 10 year old successful companies constantly referring to themselves as startups. That's similar to a thirty year old calling himself a teenager.
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Great idea but the Yes/No buttons are non functional on iOS Safari
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There are a few "Oh..." moments here and there, but he seems to get them pretty fast.
Python:

import string

def foo():

s = string.ascii_uppercase

return "-".join([''.join(x) for x in zip(*[list(s[z::5]) for z in range(5)])])

20.41 usec, btw.
Also how the heck, did it took 7 seconds for a script to do this? ( See slowest solution )