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In so much of this discussion, people seem to get distracted arguing whether pirating media is morally reprehensible or not. This is irrelevant to whether SOPA is a good solution to the alleged problem. I perceive two separate debates: whether piracy is a "problem" and whether SOPA solves that "problem."

SOPA is simply an industry of middlemen asking a heavier hand to come down and reinforce a business model the market has allowed to decline. Whether that is because customers demand better options and are not being satisfied or not is largely immaterial. The so-called act of piracy is already illegal, and what is being asked for is not legal recourse for this (that already exists) but a course of action immune from repudiation and challenge. It is a unilateral action without oversight or representation, and for this reason it is contrary to the foundation of the Constitution. Typically, the more egregious offenses carry the stiffest penalties, but all allow for some sort of defense and reasonable trial. If society has deemed that this is a more serious offense than previously evaluated, legislation increasing the penalty can be enacted, but legislation removing one's ability to defend oneself prior to punishment being enacted is unthinkable.

Private entities are being legislatively appointed to enforce public law, and this is unacceptable. It is a conflict of interest, as the public has no means to remove from "office" those serving the public in this manner. In all other aspects of public law, one has a vote somewhere in the chain to reconcile abuse of power. We can not vote on a private company whose enforcement of the law becomes corrupt, save economically, and economically our vote is severely disadvantaged.
I might just give this a try.

I postponed using Puppet/Chef because it didn't seem right that they were Ruby and thus had their own dependency chain.

Seems to me automatic configuration should be as close to whatever is available on a bare install, meaning C/bash.
Some quick math says: ~83h/month = 4.15h/day (conservative approx. - assuming 4 workweeks / month and 5 workdays / week)
I think this rule of thumb works pretty well, factoring in some holidays or illnesses.
There's all kinds of reasons someone would want to refuse a violin. Sudden financial hardship. Learning that new violins are actually better than old violins (I'm not arguing that this is true: someone might become convinced of it in a matter of days). A daughter that suddenly doesn't care about violins anymore. This is an incident and there are numerous explanations to believe someone who is anonymously complaining about what happened.
That Google applies the same rules to itself as to everyone else is commendable. What seems strange is how much of this needs to be done by hand.

In essence, Google is admitting that they're unable to detect spam / low quality content, and therefore their "policy" is to punish the perpetrators when/if they get caught.

This may be needed to enforce the rules, but it's an obvious disservice to Google's users, who are apparently considered "collateral damage".
His complaint is that the website is horrible.

Telling him to redesign it or use Readability doesn't change that.
Though in many ways for them it's like taking money from their left pocket and putting it into their right pocket

But that means they're not taking money from anyone else for that ad spot and putting it in their pocket.
Sat in the UK I don't see anything like a 5 second render time for HN, maybe 1 second at most.

For me:

The top half of the page draws instantly in Chrome, then the bottom half.

In firefox, the page draws incrementally, line by line.

In IE9, the whole page draws pretty much instantly, much quicker than FF or Chrome for me.
We are not interested in meanings here, we are interested in consequences. When it comes to battery life and slowing the OS down, quitting and suspending have exactly the same consequences: both don’t do it.

You are making a distinction without a difference that’s not relevant for what the article is talking about.
I deleted my Facebook account 2 months ago and have substituted it with Skype, email, Twitter, HN & Path.

I love Skype because it is all about one-to-one or one-to-few.
I love email because it is long-form, thoughtful and easier for my busy friends.
I love Twitter & HN because I am always learning something.
I love Path because I have rebuilt my real social network and will not accept people I do not care about.

I hated Facebook.
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Not just that, but only one person can have the book at any one time - unlike our current piracy system where one copy can spawn effectively infinite sub-copies. This means that when a given number of people want to read a book (and particularly if they want to read it in some relatively short period after the book's release), you need to have a substantial number of new book sales to support all those people. This isn't a requirement with modern-day piracy.
Its a bitch. :)
Hang in there.
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The technology makes it a bit more complicated, by enabling almost zero-cost copying. This is very very new and when a lot of rules and laws were created nobody could foresee this case.
I don't advocate piracy, but there is a stupid notion of "lost profit" when every pirated copy is assumed the copy not purchased. Sorry, but it does not work this way.
If someone thinks that the price is to high or simply does not have the money then in the piracy-free world that person would simply not purchase the product.
So, does this kind of person really harm the producer when he pirates in real world?
What if he shows the pirated movie to his friends and they like it so much that they go and buy a copy for themselves?
Then there is the whole "piracy as convenience" thing.
The whole picture is very complicated and will take a long time to sort out.
"Nobody", "by Michael Arrington", "Path (we’re an investor)", and "Just.Me (we’re also investors)"

I think you can draw your own conclusions.
Am I weird if I say that such badly-written presentation make me much less enthusiastic about their content?
I know why I use it less and less - because the more they feel the need to broadcast everything I say and do to all the world, the less I feel like doing anything. also, the ui has just been feeling really tedious to use lately.
The initial problem here is a single PayPal employee that either didn't read the case well enough to understand the item involved or just doesn't care about antiques or violins (or both). Either way: an employee that doesn't actually care about customers and only abstractly cares about getting his job done, which is probably handling hundreds of similar complaints a day. I can't really blame him. The result sucks, but the system necessarily produces some excesses, because guarding against them is too expensive. Welcome to an corporatist, capitalist world with individualistic employees. It doesn't optimize for human happiness, only for added economic value, independent of who benefits from that value.
You can do the same thing in C# that you can in Ruby

new FileEx (SOME_PATH, () => ConsoleEx.ReadLine (), () => ConsoleEx.CurrentLine != "QUIT").WriteAll ();

is equivalent to

using (var file = new File(SOME_PATH))
{
string line = null;

try
{
while((line = Console.ReadLine) != "QUIT")
{
file.WriteLine(line);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw;
}
finally
{
sw.Close();
}
}
"Account for"? The pay reflects the requirements. I never claimed crap pay was a cause. But it is clear it demonstrates that the American system does not prioritize quality in teaching positions.
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$7K is not much. You'll find it burns up way faster than you think. I would definitely save up more before going fulltime. Get another higher paying job. Eg: tutoring kids. You can make a lot of money that way. $100 per hour easily.

(I'm now an entrepreneur after quitting my job 6 months ago.)
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You say I take umbrage from people who say crap like 'Google makes money off other peoples violation of the gpl'.

Which bit of that isn't true? Does Google turn off advert revenue from devices which violate the GPL?
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The title should be "Nobody Goes To Facebook Anymore... I invested in Path and Just.Me please try those services to make them famous and eventually make me some money; Facebook is cool but you know what's cooler? Me making more money".

I know it sounds like I'm a hater but, read between the lines of this article.

Also, this is an edge case, most people don't have the number of "unknown friends" Michael Arrington has. It takes me less than 5 minutes to go over my friends and delete the ones I don't know.
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Maybe. Maybe they don't go through the home page; maybe they go through the Google home page but don't look at it.

But the problem is the same when other companies that make an honest mistake in good faith, get punished in this manner:

1. there wasn't anything they could have done to prevent this mistake (if the Chrome team can't figure out the rules, who can??)

2. the people who end up being punished are Google's users themselves, who won't understand why they can't find BMW when searching for "bmw", and will probably think they did something wrong.

I'm not defending spammers, BTW, or even SEO (which I think is borderline evil regardless of the color of its hat).

What I'm trying to say is that Google should find a way to punish spammers without punishing its own users.
I think this demonstrates that lots of people have a desire to understand code but do not know where to start. 5 years ago I wanted to apply for Computer Science because I knew I loved computers. However, my math is not great and I would never have been accepted so I picked Politics instead. I dropped out after two months.

I am a self-taught coder but I think what I bring to the table is a reasonable understanding of how humans interact with my code. I test all my sites out on my grandma. If she can use it then I know it is easy enough to use.

Computer Science and software design are two very different areas. I think I would have got into coding much earlier if I had been able to apply for the latter.
IMHO, SPDY should be implemented on the frontend servers like varnish, HAProxy or nginx. If you do SPDY on the backend server, you cause a lot of additional problems:

1) your backend servers should use their hardware for actually running the web application, not for encrypting responses.

2) usually, your backend servers only serve the dynamically generated content. SPDY's biggest advantage is that it would allow to handle multiple requests in one connection, but this really shines for static assets (images, stylesheets) which in turn are rarely served by the backend.

3) Even if you want to do SPDY on the backend, your frontend proxies still have to support it, because that's what the clients are talking to.

So as it stands now, having SPDY on the backend server (or even in your application like this project here) doesn't really give you any of SPDY's advantages unless you begin serving all of your site directly from your application servers, which we learned over the last years, just doesn't scale as well.
GOD that's awesome! I like how you can press Up Up Up and it stills keeps the first two Ups. Beautiful code ! (=
Making something illegal that people want to pay for raises the price higher and we probably shouldn't do that. Enforcing laws that prevent people from taking things without paying for them also carries expense, but so does enforcing any laws. Just because the war on drugs is dumb doesn't make paying to enforce other regulations poor economic policy.
Wow. For an article with that topic, that sure was painful to read on an iPad. Since a bunch of content entered the page on scroll (and iPad pauses DOM changes while scrolling), I had to constantly scroll small amounts to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
Even aside of the present article I found this interesting and useful. Thanks for the informative comment.

Its a shame that contracts have these kinds of protections in them that most people are unaware of as they get pummelled by these sorts of contracts.
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What can a hackerspace do to help self learners?
I would like to hear suggestions people have for how to use a physical space and non-technical staff to help people taking the Stanford classes or signed up for codeyear.org be more successful.
The question is: where does your mindset come from?

Promoting a freer market does not mean sacrificing rights. To have my creation used and enjoyed by many would be great. The compensation I think I deserve is only symptomatic of the current economic system under which we live. Don't pretend that you're starting from square one and the OP is suggesting a great shift. It's you too that should explain your motives.
I'm a little too tired right now to comment on the rest but the comparison to abortion-clinic bombers is accurate. They basically pioneered the use of leaderless resistance in the United States (i'm not very familiar with historical use in the rest of the world). I wasn't making the suggestion that Anonymous hates abortion doctors if that's what you're inferring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaderless_resistance#Internet_...

The way you talk about 'Anonymous as a whole' is ridiculous. They don't do anything as a whole by definition. You have to consider their rhetoric in general and whether or not they accept actions taken by members of the group. If one guy says 'we hate Scientology' and the majority of people who identify with Anonymous agree with that guy in principle, guess what? The group has just made an implicit collective declaration. You can't identify as a member of a group and be an active participant in it and then claim no responsibility for the group's actions just because there's supposedly no leader or official stance on anything. You are an accomplice, or if you prefer, a willing participant by association. This wouldn't be the case if the entire idea of the group weren't that there is no central decision-making; you can distance yourself from a voice which no longer represents the majority, but you cannot distance yourself from that which cannot be identified unless you step outside of the ether entirely.

Which actions do you mean? The botnets, sqli sweeps, social engineering or meaningless skirmishes with the jester and other pseudo-blackhat douchebags? I never really paid attention to the early stuff due to a loathing for anything from 4chan. I'm no expert, but one doesn't need to be a scholar to watch kids at play.
Pretty nice. Ends up being similar in structure to classes in coffeescript.

The very last lines worry me a bit though:

// instantiate objects by calling the class
MyClass() // => init!

// allocate blank objects with `new`
new MyClass // nothing logged

Having `MyClass()` and `new MyClass` behave differently is totally unwarranted and will cause lots of confusion.
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The web is not exactly the state-of-the-art in network security and encryption. What GP is suggesting is common in other scenarios.

Since you can't trust the server in this scenario, you can't implement in in (normal) javascript.
Yep, basically my point. But you're formulating it better :-)
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Well my world is nearly 100% iOS and the iOS community I meetup with is probably a 5:1 foreigner:japanese ratio, so I'm not sure how their preferences translate to the native community.

-Some of the guys work for big companies and others in little startups doing contract work on the side.

-I don't know anyone serious about iOS development that hasn't invested 100% in learning obj-c.

-I haven't noticed any popular frameworks mentioned.

As for how popular iOS development is I'm not sure, probably less popular than Android (Android handsets are really common). If you are asking in terms of work possibilities, I get offered at least one or two jobs every HN meetup I attend.
My point is that Letters From Santa is a vitamin, not a painkiller or a cure.
I think this type of business actually lends itself well to a freemium model, if the paid version is worthwhile. That being said, you stepped into a massively over-saturated gift card market.
The contract does not say, for example, "when we, at our sole discretion, toss a coin and arbitrarily decide one way or the other".

I think that tossing a coin and using reason are different, and I believe that a court would uphold my expectation that reason was used. Paypal will then have an opportunity to present their reasons. In this case, IMHO, it would appear that a "reasonable standard" of "reason" was not used.
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That's an interesting point, thanks.
Congressional hearing please.

My only hope is that congress usually destroys instead of fixes whatever it sets it's eyes on, so PayPal would be doomed.
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It does sound similar. I regularly catch myself making pronounciation-based typos even though I definitely know the correct spelling.
I think most people (both in general, but particularly on HN as we make things here) wouldn't bother explaining what we generally take for common sense. However:

- People that make things should be able to charge what they they want for them.

- If people don't like the price that's fine, they're not forced to buy the item.

- Taking something somebody has made without their permission is unethical.

Edit: People convinced that the ability to easily take something making it right won't be convinced otherwise. This is HN - we make apps. Posts that advocate taking them without our permission should simply be flagged.
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You still have to implement the inverse of the arbitrary operation, at some point, somehow.

A programming language can't figure out what the inverse of open() is without someone somewhere telling it to close(). The point of the idiom is to have a library figure that out so that users don't have to. Therefore, Ruby supports it fully (there where API developers are sane, that is).
Just because it only costs $0.00 to make a copy, doesn't mean that's what it costs to make the product.

And just because people talk about lost sales doesn't mean they assume every stolen copy is $.99 out of their pocket. It means that some people who take copies would buy them if they couldn't pirate them.

Whether one wants to justify piracy by saying they wouldn't pay for the product anyway, or they end up buying a lot of products they pirate first, or they help "spread the word" to others who pay, at the end of the day they're all self-serving justifications for engaging in an involuntary exchange of disparate value with the creator.
Point him to Joel Spolsky's Blog http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

There is a reading list on the right, all good reads about software development.
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Halfway in your writing I was thinking this guy must be from India. But no you are from Egypt. Okay its the same story there also. Let me share my story here. I am at the same level of experience as you are 6 and half years into software.

I started in a big software service shop in India. Worked for amazing clients (I cannot name them here). Some of the technology that I have worked on - Java, Lisp (yep got paid for working in common lisp), C/C++, Hadoop, JavaScript, etc. After working for 4 years I decided to move on. But I got Job in one of the news companies. Worked there for more that 1.5 years in (C# and Java). Now working in a banking product based company.

After all these years (not that much though), I have come to the conclusion that - you need to be a techie to survive software industry. I have defined growth as: learn a new language every 6 months. Do something extra like open source. I know, I may not get hefty pay packets like the managers in India but I have chosen this path. I am happy with that.

For you I believe you have identified your areas for improvement. You just need to think deep why the schedule failed? Find and read some books Mythical Man Month and Peopleware. Chances are that people have already been there and done that - so learn from them and try to adapt and apply in your case.

Moreover, before you do anything else just ask yourself what do you really want to be - a manager or a techie. Once you have the answer get going with that flow.
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I think the degrees have an impact at large companies-- at the large company I worked at, developers with bachelors started at 10k less than developers with masters.
Producing and distributing content ought to be decoupled. Distributors don't create content and content creators don't know how to work distribution.

Ideally, I pay the author for the book, album, movie or software and he'll then let me get my copy wherever I deem it's best available in the format I need it.
It depends of the design, but I think generally it takes me longer to design mockups than to implement them.

When implementing you know what you should do, and when know your tools, you can pretty much do it as fast as you can type.

When designing you start from scratch. You try to wrestle all the ideas and requirements with the best practices and the right style, to create something that's new and works.

So I think designing well is much harder than implementing the design well.
How do your alternative examples solve the problem of using a single key (ssh key) to authenticate both using an ssh client and http(s)?
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I develop apps for Android (got some good iOS knowledge too), and I currently charge 40€ - I'm constantly raising that number (last gig was my first paid Android project, for 30€, which I now consider a dumping price). I do have to say that I'm still not sure whether Android development is a good sector to earn good money in - maybe I should start consulting or remote working (Berlin and London seem to be good places).
Interestingly, there is a culture of undercutting hourly rates in the Austrian freelancer community, or so have I experienced people around me ("What? You're leaving us because 30€ is not enough?" said a web-freelancer when I left).
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