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1. The problem with implied copyright is that the majority of work is not intended for profit. Implied copyright gives at least 70 year protection to every trivial thing - every written email, doodle, picture and since people don't typically put a permissive license on everything they create that they don't intend to profit from we're left with a ton of work with hard to find authors that can't legally be used by anyone. It also means that services that deal with what people write (which is most online services) have to grant themselves lengthy terms of service conditions in order to operate.

Yes it is a balance between barrier to entry and public content, but I think the default should be the common case that benefits everyone - the public domain. I wouldn't want the registration process to be arduous or expensive though.

2. I agree (and this would solve the biggest problem with implied copyright, it's length).

3. You could claim non-commercial, profitless use of an album and share it freely - albums are a poor way to make money in the internet connected world. In my system they'd be thought of more as promotion for merchandise and tours. The fact that distribution is cheap and sharing is essentially free can be used as advantages. This would be a big difference, but I think the efforts would be better served in working with technology then artificially trying to prevent it from what it does well. I think the old way of doing things is only viable with draconian measures that don't benefit the public.

There's a lot of waste in the current system that doesn't need to be there, but the old distribution channels seem to want to create legislation to necessitate their existence rather than adapt.
Good article. I agree that to slam someone's reputation in public, the ICGA should have had much better evidence. My understanding is that the release of Fruit source code inspired many chess programmers.
I would think the opposite. As a sole trader you're personally liable for the company. Above a fairly low threshold for income you have to be VAT registered as a sole trader anyway, which is the biggest headache. If you already get an accountant to do your books I see no reason at all to be a sole trader.
As long as the takeup of parental leave among men is as low as it is in most places (outside of Scandinavia), current laws are simply sexist. Women are not protected as much as they are stigmatised.

The cost is not spread around much at all. The entire burden is on women who are discriminated against because they cost more to employ and on small businesses that cannot shift jobs around as easily as big corporations can.

My preferred solution would be to exempt small business (those with less than 20 employees) and don't grant any parental leave or benefits unless both parents take equal leave (Obviously single parents have to be exempt).
I am at the point of needing to set up a few new or reconstituted personal (non-business) sites. One had substantial traffic in the past and consisted of user contributed original content. (But long experience has taught me that no amount of rules, guidelines, and policing will stop some users from copy/pasting content from other sites, posing dubious links (all the more pertinent, these days), etc.)

I'm considering the merits and risks of setting them up outside the U.S. (Domain registration and hosting, with a longer term perspective towards establishing and routing payments through offshore accounts. Initially, I might pay in advance for a year or two (or several, if the outfit and local law/regulation looked stable enough), to avoid the risk of future cutoff of payment.)

Since I've mentioned that, I'll add that I'm uncertain as to suitable locations/providers.

+ The Swiss response to the Wikileaks debacle, some recent rulings there, and the general attitude towards privacy has put Switzerland on my list.

+ I have read about some non-logging VPN providers in certain favorable Caribbean countries (though I'm not sure about stability and resistance to real pressure).

+ Sweden used to seem attractive (bomb proof data centers, hmm? ;-), but it seems increasingly apparent that their government is more or less pwned by U.S. interests.

+ I don't have the knowledge to and wouldn't want to attempt the "Wild West" of hosting in some other geographic regions.

I'm not into infringing. I just don't want the hassle and the risk attendant to spurious accusations and prosecutions (something epc mentions in another comment). Then again, as I reside in the U.S., I'm not sure I'd escape the risk, even if the site were less subject to a takedown action.

Longer term, if this goes through, I'll be looking to move my communications activities abroad. The U.S. is becoming a bad place to do business, if you're part of the tritely termed "99%".

(Granted, much of the world has it worse off, both specifically and in general. But the local delta is negative, and it's best to be/act in advance of the changes if possible.)
These numbers don't add up for me. I make just over six figures a year and my effective tax rate at the end of every year is roughly 20% (according to TurboTax). Single, no kids, no house.

As tptacek pointed out you are ignoring that the state tax is federally deductible and that the income tax rate at the 25% bracket is the marginal rate.
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This post brings back a flood of memories. I was on the robotics FIRST team for my highschool (Team 498) for two years and loved it. It was a great way for kids to learn a little bit of everything. Even a basic robot required some basic electronics, motors and gearing, programming and pneumatics systems.

I just watched some of the stream and smiled at the fact that the competition is very similar to my first year. There were many unique robots that had different ways to quickly balance on the bridge. We learned it wasn't really about the ability to balance, but how fast you could do it. Since its the last thing your robot will do in the round you usually have seconds to dash to it and balance it.
This leads to an interesting digression...

My hacker's mind sees society the same way it sees ie software layers, kernels, APIs, libraries, etc. And from that POV, current society practices seem very inefficient and disorganized, and could be improved readily with a dollop of hacker values (eg lazy but smart) and cold hard logic.

One example: I am becoming more and more in favor of a minimum guaranteed income provided by society. Here are some good arguments in favor of that: http://www.xamuel.com/ten-reasons-for-guaranteed-minimum-inc...

Of course a MGI is heresy in today's society because we are still in a mindset where it's crucial that everyone pull their own weight lest other people suffer - a lingering meme from the days when 90% of the population was occupied with food production.

This of course ignores the notions that 1) society is insanely productive thanks to automation and it requires very little labor to pay for the true necessities of life (see for instance http://www.earlyretirementextreme.com - he lives on $7k a year) 2) many jobs today are marginally useful at best - think paper-shuffling mid-management 3) most of our income goes toward consumerist escapism which fails at making us truly fulfilled 4) much of the economy just exists to satisfy society's need for a status stratification mechanism (eg one is considered middle-class because one has such-and-such job title and education - if this classification went away then there would be general status confusion).

Then again, trying to fix society the same way one re-factors code may be hubris on my part...
The problem with implied copyright is that the majority of work is not intended for profit. Implied copyright gives at least 70 year protection to every trivial thing - every written email, doodle, picture and since people don't typically put a permissive license on everything they create that they don't intend to profit from we're left with a ton of work with hard to find authors that can't legally be used by anyone. It also means that services that deal with what people write (which is most online services) have to grant themselves lengthy terms of service conditions in order to operate.

Basically most work is intended for public domain, but not licensed permissively so it's lost.
It's pretty rash for the article to suggest that the RSA algorithm might have been broken. If the key really has been stolen, it seems far more likely that it was breached due to crap IT security than a recently-discovered bombshell weakness in the RSA algorithm.

For example, the RSA corporation's SecurID service (not to be confused with the RSA algorithm) was compromised due to a spear-phishing attack containing an Excel spreadsheet with a Flash exploit. Then Lockheed Martin was breached because they use SecurID[1]. Lockheed Martin happens to make GPS satellites[2], so they might have a copy of the key...

This is completely speculative (in particular, Lockheed Martin claims no data was stolen and I know nothing about how GPS works). But in the past, there have been way more exploits due to insecure systems than to weak crypto (especially well-established crypto like RSA).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID#March_2011_system_compr...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-206
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Same here. I love his stuff and he's posts just enough to be interesting but not obnoxious.

Patton has been around Hollywood long enough to provide a unique view on what content is and how it should be paid for. I'm interested to see what he has to say and how this issue will play out in the week to come.
Why are you so defensive? I've been screwed over by partners in the past. I would be amazed if someone here had not been screwed over by someone they trusted.

It happens. Just because it happens sometimes doesn't mean it always happens. Nor does it mean that cofounders are worthless.

I am not saying being a solo founder isn't viable but I also don't accept your cowboy belief system as absolute.
Healthcare is a good place to start. Using mobile devices to educate consumers on health needs, and to build awareness on any outbreaks of diseases where they live. Think basic needs crucial to survival, not "nice to haves" like an African Facebook.
Improve your recruitment, hire good people. Take advantage of any probation period. In the UK this is generally 3 months, and can be extended. During this period employees are just 'at-will'.

In the UK it can be up to 11months and 3 weeks before the main employment laws kick in.
This year's game is a take on basketball. Game description videos are already on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FRCTeamsGlobal/videos
I'd assume they'd flag anything that gets checked by a consumer. It wouldn't stop everyone, but a pharmacy wouldn't need too many false alerts before customers would start going elsewhere, encouraging distributors to be more careful.

Customers would need to be educated to tear up the code after use, but the pharmacy would probably handle that ("OK, go to this site, look, it's legit, now tear up that code").
The point is that the "social responsibility" produces a better overall society in the cases of the poor unwed mother you describe. The idea is that we all benefit. Those kids don't grow up in isolation and if they turn out to be bad/uneducated/criminal people, everyone else in society is affected.

You say it's a scam, but if so, who manufactured the scam? Are you telling me that those in power got together and decided to build a system which punishes the hardworking and rewards the lazy? Since when do people join a conspiracy to help others and hurt themselves?

You also make gross generalizations in describing the people that benefit from social programs. It's repulsive.
Very cool. I am listening. Tell me more plz :)
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Way to miss the point of the post. This person won't hire anyone because it is too expensive to run a company with employees. The point is, Hungary has created an environment that greatly threatens the profitability, and therefore, sustainability of private companies. If the company doesn't exist, no oneis hired.
Wow! A Kinect completely changes the game for the autonomous time. When I participated it didn't seem like many robots used the time to its fullest potential. In fact, many just sat there because they focused on other abilities instead. I wonder if the robot controller supports other languages now.
Agricultural commodity prices is one - if farmers can figure out how much their stuff is worth, they won't get screwed by middlemen.
org-mode is also software. The difference is just that it runs on Emacs platform and comes with the default distribution.
Out of interest, why did you decide to create a UK company rather than a Greek one - or one in another country for that matter?
Friends of ours in FTC last season balanced on a bridge like that with an opposing alliance robot that accidentally got on their bridge, all in autonomous. They paused for a few extra minutes between autonomous and tele-operated period to let people take pictures of it. Pretty impressive for high school kids.
Also, might there not be legitimate uses for eg "Afribook"?

-Keeping track of displaced relatives

-Organizing for social change

-Spreading info on best practices

-Building connections that might lead to income

-Strengthening communities

Facebook isn't ALL Farmville and teenage gossip, y'know :)
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى و بايرن ميونخ بث مباشر 
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى و بايرن ميونخ بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى و بايرن ميونخ بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى و بايرن ميونخ بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة الاهلى و بايرن ميونخ بث مباشر
I think this problem is a great interview question. It's easy to describe, and it's easy to get started solving it by writing the first few lines on the whiteboard. From there, the pattern should be obvious, and once you've recognized the pattern, you only need to write a few lines of code. The disadvantage is that someone might remember Pascal's triangle from high school math, and will try to "remember" the answer instead of actually solving the problem incrementally. This is worthless because the question is about problem solving ability rather than your memory of exam questions like "Expand (x+3)^27" or "Factor x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3". (I do remember writing Pascal's triangle on these sorts of exams, incidentally!)

Anyway, reading the other comments in the thread, it seems I am alone in liking this sort of question. I think these types of questions are good indicators of programmer quality. Anyone can read a Ruby on Rails tutorial and make an application that stores some records in a database. It doesn't take understanding to do that, it takes practice. That's all very good, as long as you're sure that your work will only be repeating what you've practiced rather than developing new skills. I think that programming work is very rarely like that. Yes, your job involves Ruby on Rails, but it's largely about solving some sort of complicated problem and then hooking the answer into your UI. Your experience with Rails will speed up the UI work, but if you aren't willing to understand and solve problems, you'll never have anything to put in the UI. (The people that can only do the UI part are "code monkeys" and don't get paid very well.)

If you think that you'll never need to understand problem X, it's simply because you are unwilling to understand problem X. Once you understand graphs and algorithms and data structures, you'll see how you can apply your understanding to write better software. You might not think they're very important, but that's because, right now, you have no idea of how those techniques might be important. Learn them and then come back and say "everything in CS class is garbage". You won't, because it's not. Your job will be easier and you won't be navigating the waters blind.

So I guess my point is: algorithm questions are good. There are a lot of programmers who can't solve problems (but can monkey code), and if you want the best programmers, you want the ones who can both solve problems AND write code.
Privacy IS intellectual property
Very cool. Do you know if something like that already exists? :)
This assumes that there are a sufficient supply of men who can perform better than women.
It's like that in FIRST Tech Challenge (the "JV" level of FRC). Unless the team somehow ends up with a kid that loves programming or has FIRST LEGO League alumni (their game is all pre-programmed autonomous), a lot of teams have little or no autonomous mode.
A $300k single family home is a starter home in the upper middle class.

The only deductions I mentioned --- mortgage interest and state taxes --- don't vanish at $50k.
It's disappointing you have to pay to see the original Science paper.
I guess, one easy way to solve this would be to flag whatever has been checked, and let the customer know someone else has checked the code before them.

No one in the original distribution would feel the need to check a code, thus this would alert consumers of something fishy.
The problem with this kind of ad-hoc TODO lists is integration. They are alright as long as you don't try anything fancy but this is inevitably going to happen as soon as something gathers more users. And suddenly you hit a wall in terms of integration and extensibility in most environments. How do I tie in a simple link? Oh, we need links to eMails/files as well. Someone needs more than one kind of TODO. Hierarchical TODOs would be nice. TODO dependencies. Exporters. The list of possible features is endless and every system that does not keep that in mind and plans for it is doomed to fail or only usable for a very small user base, which is fine if that's your goal.
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I don't care if I have a lot of friends. I actually have actively prevented forming potential friendships. I think you are overgeneralizing.
The f*cked up part about GoDaddy and SOPA
My girlfriend is a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner (meaning she can prescribe narcotics, among other things), and always complains that many of the doctors and other NPs she works with prescribe antibiotics even when it is completely unnecessary. They do this because patients demand them, and if they don't, many patients change doctors. Antibiotics have no effects on viruses, but patients do not understand that, or refuse to accept it, even when the doctor tells them. Pharmaceuticals seem to have such a pronounced effect on so many conditions, that people believe they can cure everything.

On a side note, I can see why people could become addicted to pain killers. I was recently hit from behind at about 50MPH, and hurt my back pretty badly. The doctor prescribed narcotic painkillers and muscle relaxers. Because my work is highly intellectual, I took them only when the pain was more detrimental than the effect of the medication. In essence though, the pills are kind of nice.
They are like catching a mild (2-4 beers) buzz that lasts all day, without any nasty side effects like difficulty sleeping or hangovers. They kind of make you a little more relaxed and a little bit happy, with a slight haze on the brain. And they are legal and dirt cheap, even without a prescription plan. If you don't have to think for a living, I can see why you would abuse them. But they seem mostly harmless overall, would it really be so bad to give people that want them some happy pills? It's probably trading one substance abuse problem for another, but that would be ignoring the degree. On the other hand, the only reason I don't smoke weed is because I think it makes people lethargic and complacent, so maybe I'm not the person to ask.
Age does not matter. Skills matter.
This is interesting. Have to lookup whether startups have already hired 50 plus year old guys?
Maybe phd professors!
Hm? The first line on that page links to the book, posted online for free. The whole book is under a Creative Commons license.
Not really. The rot is such that the basic human rights and needs such a platform implies are non existant. Anyways, Facebook already has very high penetration and organizing for change is met with blackberries. A tool akin to twitter but specialized to anonymity and security would be far more useful.
Ask HN: Your experiences building several startups at the same time
After my first successful startup I get too much cofounder suggestions and some of them are incredibly amazing projects. Now I work on 2 of them, and today got a brilliant idea to work with. But I'm so busy, I can't even manage my first startup, legal and bureaucratic issues takes too much time.

Do you have any experiences/advices about building several startups parallel at the same time? Do yo prefer to work one by one or with several at the same time?
I can't tell whether or not you're serious.

What if the woman was not poor or not unwed at the time of conception? What if her husband lost his job? Do you think having children should be a privilege limited only to married couples with at least a quarter million dollars in savings? And if so, do you at least support the state giving out free contraceptives to the "leeches" who aren't in such a financial position?

If a person can't afford their child, what do you recommend? Leave the kid near the dumpster to fend for him/herself? That'll teach a strong work ethic, right? Because we all know maternity leave is just a euphemism for vacation.
In order to afford such a plan, governments would have to impose really high taxes. That would be a much bigger disincentive to production than the safety net itself.
There is a lot of variance in the distribution of phone capability. There is nothing scientific in my survey, just stuff I picked up. Most people have very basic phones about on par with: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php

There are also a lot of feature phones that might have been normal in Europe around 2003-2005.

But there are also a large number of people (millions) who have smartphones. The dominant platform is the blackberry.
Employers typically impose must more stringent requirements than a typical contract. For example, I can have multiple car mechanics, but typically can't work multiple jobs, and have multiple on back up if one falls through.
You can get agricultural market data easily enough. You'd have to figure out transport costs (which could be done using a heuristic and google maps).

The next step is getting them to upload the prices they get, then filtering that (as buyers may try to destroy the system). But that's for version 2.
Hungary is a backwater, and absolutely NOT representative of the EU, probably not even of the old eastern bloc.

Unfortunately, it is. For example, the median salary in the Czech republic (the western-most "eastern Europe" country, also in the EU) in 2011 was around 630 Euro (net), which is about $10k per year (net).

I also cheer for the lofty let's-share-the-social-burden ideals that people present in this thread. But I fear these folks are just blissfully oblivious of how their money is redistributed and where it really ends.
The opt-in button is messy but results are very precise and reliable. Some use cases warrant it, some do not. Maxmind claims 79% accuracy on a city level: is the google api worse? All other things being equal I would be inclined to pick the one that didn't require me to frequently install binary patches or update a database.
A quick google and I found this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010....

This comment is probably the most insightful thing on the page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/71754...
There's something almost pathological about the un-nostalgia behind these projects, but in such a wonderful, persistent, perfecting way. Forgive me for self-linking, but the one I would like to see on the CPC is a less-terrible interpretation of Black Tiger: http://boingboing.net/2011/10/20/8-bit-remakes-fix-the-past....
You've just summarized the philosophy of Ayn Rand, yet you would not have hired her.