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Noam Chomsky once noted that the problem of the soundbite age is that some questions don't have simple answers that fit inside 30 seconds or 2 minutes.

The main problem with SOPA is that it is not possible to solve a market problem with legislation. Copyright infringement is a market problem, and markets are a lot more effective in delivering solutions than Governments. Consequently, SOPA will utterly fail to prevent copyright infringement, resulting in even MORE draconian laws sometime in the future.

Specific to the problem of music and film is that these markets are highly regulated oligopolies that use their market power to engage in price fixing. Unlike efficient markets, in which there are a range of different prices, the music and film markets only have two prices: Idiotically expensive and free (illegal).

Personally, I would LOVE to pay $1 per episode to watch my favourite HBO series at a time, and in a place of my own choosing. Sadly I cannot. Hence, I either don't watch it at all, or I obtain it by 'other' means. Monopolies/oligopolies only offer one price, and they are free to gouge their customers as long as they can prevent any competition in the market.

In other words, SOPA is NOT about preventing piracy (because that is a hopeless cause, much like the war on drugs), but about protecting the music and film industries illegal, anti-competitive price fixing practices (by way of preventing any other production/distribution of that type of media). Illegal price fixing is a small price that all Governments will gladly pay, as music and film support the propaganda/mythology creation industry of Government.

The simplest solution to prevent piracy would be to open the music and film markets to competition, but that is exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are trying to prevent.
It's true that some people are genetically more intelligent than others. What matters is what you do with your intelligence, which only makes the work easier or harder, and the amount of improvement. People can get much better or worse, regardless of their genetic characteristics. After all anything genetic has been simply given for free..
You are missing Cerf's point. It may be a desirable but its not a human right. What you are describing is negative freedom: no one should stop me from doing X. But this is very different from a human right: something that is inalienable and fundamental to human existence.

The right to bear arms is a political right (in the US at least) as well as a negative freedom. It is not however, a human right. If it was, the nearly every other country in the world would be violating fundamental human rights by denying their citizens the opportunity to carry a weapon that kills with such ease.

Access to the internet wasn't fundamental to human existence 100 years ago when it didn't exist or even 10 year ago when it did. Its still not fundamental to our existence today - its just very useful.
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> Inri137's doing the Buddhist thing and trying to shake people awake. These are skills that you can acquire.

You are right, but I didn't say that you couldn't acquire these skills. I was trying to be particular with my choice of words: "You can mould yourself [...through what] you had to start with".
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> there are such things as kids that knowledge comes easier to

Of course, if it's possible to learn how to learn--that is, if you can learn more efficient study methods--one would expect to see this disparity (effort expended per unit of knowledge acquired [not that you could measure this]) even in a hypothetical population of genetic clones raised in different environments.

As to why downplaying genetic potential could be a good thing, I've got this excellent pg quote fairly well seared into my brain:

"I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right." - http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
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It would have been a bold move, if Damien had left the "Couch" name with Apache CouchDB, and released his CouchBase product under another name. Also, this would have liberated him from having to distance himself from CouchDB, Erlang and Apache, when promoting his new product.

CouchDB is dead, long live Apache CouchDB.
Yes, they sell our privacy. But I just want to know if the social networks can combine with the B2C websites, like amazon. Can it works? What will happen?
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What are the main problems?
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For me, this read like a manifesto for making your hamster wheel spin as fast as the other hamsters. The OP's core message (i.e., that intelligence is not in-born, but is earned by self-discipline and hard work) seemed very myopic to me, and bound up in the self-congratulatory world of academia. It starts from a position that rests on conclusions about the value of formal education that are no longer dogma for me.

At first, I felt depressed after reading it and all the fawning responses to it. Then, I remembered this parable about how knowledge comes from people, not places:

> "At a gathering of divines, the Mullah was seated right at the end of the room, farthest from the place of honor. He began to tell jokes, and soon people were crowded around him, laughing and listening. Nobody was taking any notice of the greybeard who was giving a learned discourse. When he could no longer hear himself speak, the president of the assembly roared out: ‘You must be silent! Nobody may talk unless he sits where the Chief sits." "I don’t know how you see it," said the Mullah, "but it seems to me that where I sit is where the Chief sits."

After recalling this parable, I realized that I had initially misunderstood the OP's insight. His message was really the same as the Mullah's in many ways.
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I think it, complete, was about US$ 160. What really hit me was the Brazilian import tax. :-(

It hits me all the time, BTW.
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I've started another thread on remote working in order to compile differente experiences and solutions

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428195
The bankruptcy rumours surprised me, since I remember reading years ago that Kodak shut down most of their film business etc. because of the market changing. I thought they just logically trimmed the business to what was feasible and they would be small and operate off some royalties and some of their newer products and perhaps brand licensing, perhaps in a way that Atari functioned for a while. Seems like they mismanaged this approach.
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> Sci-Fi basically didn't exist before 1940.

Um, seriously? What genre would you place either of The War of the Worlds or 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, then? That the books manage to get a lot of things wrong doesn't really alter the fact that they were early, very popular examples of science fiction (and there were a lot more dating back to before WWII, when SF really took off.)
Ask HN: What is wrong with my implementation of DJBX33X hashing function in C#?
I implemented DJBX33X hashing function in C# like this:

public static long hash(string str)
{
long hash = 5381;
for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
{
hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) ^ (int)str[i];
}
return hash;
}
but if I compare results of my function with the following C implementation
uint32_t hash(const char arKey, uint32_t nKeyLength)
{
uint32_t hash = 5381;
for (; nKeyLength > 0; nKeyLength -=1)
{
hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) ^ arKey++;
}
return hash;
}
I get different results for the same input:
C#
t = 116(<<172192+177573) -> 177617
t = 116(<<5683744+5861361) -> 5861253
u = 117(<<187560096+193421349) -> 193421392
U = 85(<<6189484544+6382905936) -> 6382905861
'ttuU' => '6382905861'

C
t = 116 (<<172192+177573) -> 177617
t = 116 (<<5683744+5861361) -> 5861253
u = 117 (<<187560096+193421349) -> 193421392
U = 85 (<<1894517248+2087938640) -> 2087938565
'ttuU' -> '2087938565'
I work remotely as a freelancer and my experience has been nothing but awesome.

I'm from the CET timezone and the people I usually work with are either in PST or EST so there's a 6 to 8 hour time difference. Here are some of the benefits I've observed:

- I'm a night owl, so I can directly communicate with the people paying me

- even though I like long mornings, I still have at least 5 hours to work before employers wake up (makes for efficient-er communication because I already know what I need)

- the US is full of cool startups working with technologies I actively follow and take an interest in. (locally I've been smashed into teams still on svn ... on new projects)

- sad but true, in Slovenia nobody pays you the next day after sending an invoice, you are legally mandated to allow up to 14 days for payment and everyone takes that way too seriously (and often even overshooting) - US people have so far always paid me the day after invoicing
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Some of the very best people I've ever hired have no degree.

We hire based on experience, talent, and culture fit.

Our problem when hiring is that those things are so hard to determine from a CV. We need some mechanism to filter the literally hundreds of applicants down to <50 so we could feasibly scan the CVs and then interview some.

At that point, saying "compsci degree" on the job spec helps. But, for me and for the people I've always worked for: It's never been a requirement, if you can code well and can communicate effectively... APPLY FOR THE JOB.

Anyone who wouldn't hire you isn't worth working for, for they aren't hiring the best candidates who in turn make the best colleagues and create the environment which is really satisfying to work in.

Just understand that hirers need filters, and the degree is one of them... and tests are just microcosms to give an indication of your approach to a problem (the answer is frequently less important than seeing the way you approach the problem).
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Seems to me a better idea is that you put in a code, which locks your account for a few hours and displays a "this ATM is broken" message, taking it offline for a few mins.
It (or, rather, something very like it) was an actual product at one time, but it needed to be a per-camera product to make it work properly. The 135 format standard says how big the frames should be and how many sprocket holes per frame, but not how the frames align with the sprocket holes or exactly how much distance there should be between the film canister and the lightbox. Getting the sensor aligned with the lightbox (and the viewfinder) basically meant a different model for each of the various SLR cameras out there. The sensor itself was pretty low-rez and had little in the way of dynamic range. Oh, and since things were so inefficient at the time, you needed to butcher the camera (drilling a hole in the baseplate) to feed power to the canister-cum-senor (and, if I recall correctly, to get the data out). It didn't make it past the "floating a trial balloon" stage in the marketplace.
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Do you work from home or do you go to some co-working space? One of the main concerns i find for a remote employee is that people somehow need to socialize with their coworkers, feel part of something., and that part may be missing if you work from home
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As you can think about, there is certainly not much to say or mock, let alone expose
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I bet a Fortran unit testing framework is something the HN readership has been waiting for.
Shame. I really like CouchApp. It felt like CouchDB was one rails moment away from being a whole new way to develop web apps, where the DB, the client, and the application were all part of the same glorious union rather than being a bunch of ugly parts bolted together.
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I work from home mostly, sometimes from coffee shops. Used to like a coworking space, but then it got too serious and office-like and drained all the fun out of itself. All the mojo was gone.

Socializing with people happens over twitter and at college, sometimes at a events, I make sure to go partying at least once every two weeks etc.

The only problem with working from home is the "But you're home anyways, you can take care of this and this and this" syndrome.
> America and Australia disagree about what "Eastern Standard Time" mean

EST = Eastern Standard Time (East US)

AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time (East Aus)

Occasionally we use "EST" as a shortened form of "AEST", but it's rare.
There are tons of semi-technical job positions. Its very important though to get a good grounding in CS. My recommendation would be to either complete your degree if you're close to it or get a strong minor as someone else said.

My story: I did a BS in CS from a pretty strong tech school. My goal upon graduation was to hack the UNIX kernel. This was no easy feat in the early 90s, so I took a job as a sysadmin upon graduation. When I finally got a chance to kernel hack in 1995 I found I hated being in front of a monitor for 8-10 hours at a time. Even though I loved contributing to open source/Linux etc in my spare time. Eventually ended up in technical sales/PM. Still dive into code once in a while, but couldn't be happier with the way its turned out.

Although I still complain once in a while, just because :-)

Good luck with any path you decide to take.
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Actually, I want freedom of speech so that I can speak freely. I view it as a good in and of itself.
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I am a remote cakephp developer from the Philippines. I have been at the most productive stage of my career. I do invest to make my work the highest possible quality. A home office so I can concentrate, I buy new equipment (iMac 24") and I have two internet connections.

My main problem right now is getting burned out. I stay at home most of the time and it is quite depressing sometimes.
I think this post has important implications for business just as academia. It's about not falling back on the "I'm not smart enough to do that" excuse.
I've been working almost exclusively remotely for 1.5 year (2 weeks on site in 2011) and I really like it as a freelancer. My clients are happy too :)

Just like setting a price, requiring remote work filters out the clients I would not enjoy working with. People with remote working habits I've worked with tend to be good at communicating, sharing issues (even psychological ones), giving visibility overall etc. Otherwise you're in trouble.

So yes: the future is now - if you wish :)
Well, you cared about the post and so did Mike Elgan.
this is like captcha with faces though.. good idea.
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They were ahead of the game, but Dalsa picked up the high end of the market (Hasselblad and Leaf/PhaseOne) and Sony the low end (Nikon, Pentax -- and their own cameras, of course) over the past couple of years. It'll cost some money to leapfrog them, and if the company doesn't have financial room for an R&D-only business phase...
I believe that Google itself will end up being the 'Google killer'.

I used to enjoy google products because they had very little branding footprint (or maybe I just thought they did), but now I'm constantly trying to avoid branded/sponsored content in order to get the real thing I wanted.

I'll be slowly migrating away from google products from now on because of that. Like the post puts it, I'm tired of being the product. If search and social web won't change it's ways, then I'll be changing away from it.
Stross will agree that some of his dead tree books (Jennifer Morgue in UK) are full of typos / errors.

I'm baffled why the Kindle doesn't allow crowd-sourcing to mark these errors for fixing in later versions, and then allow people to download the new version over their old version.
I'm not following your train of thought here. It seems like you have serious issues with academia, which is fine. But what does the assertion that intelligence and ability is honed by hard work and practice vs innate talent have to do with academic dogma? This is equally applicable to all human endeavor.
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Working as a data scientist with a remote boss: communication was much more difficult. No telephony or software solution came close to standing on front of a shared whiteboard. Which sucks, because I really wish it did. Maybe what we need is actual <$5k shared whiteboards.

The biggest win I've seen is with ops teams. I hope I'm not betraying any confidences, but a previous employer had an international ops team so as the americans were going to bed the ukranians came on. It made ops a lot less shitty -- I do not like being tired, it makes me cranky and pissed. The issues may still be annoying but at least you aren't being screwed by bad software at 3am, etc.
How about this slight modification: "SOPA is the equivalent of allowing the US Government to shut down a restaurant because Disney thinks a customer may have drawn Mickey Mouse on a napkin."
I wish people talking about their products on HN would include some kind of link to those products in their profiles.

Please - it's acceptable to do so. It is polite to do so.
This is known as a "Duress Code" and it's sometimes found in alarm systems as a code which will disarm the alarm and still call the police.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_code
That is a weirdly accurate description of how Traditional Publishing works.

Believe it or not, a typical trad publisher's profit after handling production and distribution overheads for a typical midlist book is roughly the same as the author's. Because publishing books is not, in fact, terribly profitable, because with vanishingly few exceptions most books have on the order of a few thousands to tens of thousands of consumers. (Traditionally the way publishers got large was to publish lots of stuff, and be prepared to follow through on the one in a hundred or one in a thousand titles that broke big.)
Simmering SOPA: Will a proposed law prevent piracy—or stifle free speech?
that was my answer!
I work from home too. I make sure to detect when it goes bad, and focus more on well-being when it does.

Things like: going out one or two times a day (walking, biking), taking a regular yoga course (I do that), having periods where you stop working earlier, periods with no computers, reading books etc, seeing people, cooking...
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You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get 70% out of of Amazon. In particular, you give up all pricing control -- not only do you have to agree to a ceiling and floor price, but you have to agree not to sell for a lower or higher price elsewhere, and to allow Amazon to change their selling price at will. Which means if AMZN decide your book would make a really cool free promotional item, they can give away some tens of thousands of copies to draw customers in and pay you bupkis. Your book gets to be a loss-leader, and you're the loser.
Also if you feel smart and you think you can coast through life maybe you can, but you're equally foregoing your full potential.
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How does that work on a device like Kindle where people can change page orientation; font size; line spacing; column sizing; from condensed to not condensed; and change from serif to sans serif?

I notice lots of rivers on Kindle.
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Actually Inri137 (MIT advice guy) says the following:

"He showed me some of those tools, but what I really ended up learning was how to go about finding, building, and refining my own set of cognitive tools."

Sadly, he does not mention anything else about those tools (of his mentor at MIT), nor how he went about building his own set.

In life, you learn bit by bit from others(in person, through books, net, etc.)

Unfortunately,his post does not provide any real hard information, just good inspiration, which of course is nice.
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Yes, it is closed source.

The German gov is involved?! Ha ha, the North Koreans as well?
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I agree. I feel some people on reddit don't realize that reddit has a gazillion users & that everyone who's on reddit isn't part of some borg utopia collective. This is actually a problem with a lot of user generated content sites where the site gets more credit than the users who create the content that powers the site.
Any experience as remote employers?
>Reddit is down.

Perfect, maybe they'll actually get studying done.
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