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It was written to turn copyright on its head. While it's true that eliminating it would weaken the GPL, it would also be less necessary, because freedom would be the default.

That said, I think RMS wrote an essay talking about why certain 'reforms' could be dangerous, in that we might end up with a weaker GPL but little else to show for it. I can't remember it clearly enough to find a citation for that right now, though.
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Selectively reporting for facts is. That is not to say that I believe this one is. Another down reported story in American media is the Russian protests.
I regard Math as a Science, although I do understand the controversy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_scie... is a pretty good summary.

(Although if economics is Math then that is even better: economics is something that can make predictions, and isn't just the black magic that some seem to think)

The scientific method applies is deciding what statistical experiments to do.
"If the URL auto-completes to a site you’re very likely to visit, Chrome will begin to prerender the page," so I guess the interesting question is how the "likeliness" algorithm looks like.
I think everyone ought to go to a great college and at least try it out. I live in a country where the universities are fairly awful, and I don't know if it's worth people's time to study at them (I dropped out), but I totally get why most companies require a bachelor in computer science, even though it means that I will never be able to get those jobs.

I wonder what it means in terms of getting US visas, too, but I guess I'll just have to adapt. I'm glad to be in a position where my main interest at the moment is so location- and language-agnostic, so I don't have to stay in any specific country, as long as I can communicate with people in their preferred language.
> How do you go about keeping track of any "excess topics?"

I usually have 2-3 posts going at any one time. I use a text editor to write my drafts and keep them in two local folders -- "posted" and "drafts." (I think there purposes are self-evident...). I'm sorry to say my system is neither sophisticated nor original but it works.
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Doesn't Chrome already do this to a certain extent ? I've seen server logs myself where Chrome has tried to fetch URLs that I have not finished typing.
That wouldn't be cryptography (hidden writing). It would be cryptology (hidden speech, from "logos" rather than "graphos") or alogy (lack of speech).

/pedant

(sorry)
PHPStorm still isn't able to handle autocompletion for cascading class / folder structures, where there is more than one class/file with the same name (but in different folders) such as Kohana or FuelPHP:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-2457?projectKey=WI...

That's one reason for me to keep using Netbeans, which I think is great for PHP.
complaining with bias is not exactly reporting fact either
Prefetching has been around optionally since dialup days (Wikipedia says at least 2001). Around March 2005, Google instructed Mozilla browsers to prefetch the first search result URL. The sky is not falling.
Change must come from within though. You can bet your bottom dollar that those youthful, liberal Iranians will be the first to join the resistance movement in the event of an invasion just like I'm sure many HN users and other young Americans would swell to defend their homeland if they were attacked by an equally imperialistic and foreign entity, say China or
I know the obvious solutions for very low level profiling are xhprof and xdebug, but there is a time and a place for doing one off profiling. I can also recommend PHP Quick Profiler, released by Particle Tree a few years back, if you enjoy shiny things.

http://particletree.com/features/php-quick-profiler/

This bad boy has one added benefit over the others: console logging. Along the same token, you could be using a combination of Firefox with the FirePHP plugin if you like the idea of logging PHP directly to your firebug console:

http://www.firephp.org
I was pretty sure that Chrome already does this (maybe it was a flag though, actually). I switched it off after a while because it got irritating... luddite that I am.
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From the article:

>> A conservative cleric blogger based in the holy Shiite city of Qum, Ahmad Najimi, said in his blog last week that the government was paying hackers hired in the network known as the "Cyber Army" the equivalent of $7 per hour to swarm the Web with positive comments about the Islamic Republic and post negative comments against dissidents.

So we ask ourselves, are comments here that are mitigating Iran's actions here - or ones that divert the conversation to say SOPA - getting paid by the hour?

but wait - if we assume _all_ positive comments are paid for, then we're denying those that are unpaid to voice valid counter arguments.

Oh my head, my poor head....
Is anybody aware of similar projects that target databases instead of operating systems?
Google did something similar themselves several years ago as an add-in to internet explorer. It was called web-accelerator or something like that. (correct me if i'm wrong, it might have been for firefox or even chrome itself).

It prefetched links you were likely to click on a website but it had to be abandoned because some GET-links also issued actions, such as removing blog-posts, on way to many web-pages causing havoc.

I fear this will have the same problem.
Mikko Hypponen reblogged a tweet mentioning it, so it has to be legit. :)
Setting up a load balanced system and front-end web cache brings "zero value" to end users? You may as well make the same argument over design or for that matter development.

Learning how to program a loop is a total waste of time which brings zero value to the end user. If I can hand that drudgery off to someone else, I'll be adding features and stealing your customers while you're giddy about nesting your loops.

Learning how to use photoshop is a total waste of time which brings zero value to the end user. If I can hand that drudgery off to someone else, I'll be adding features and stealing your customers while you're giddy about reducing your PNGs.
Pretty much all FLOSS licenses would be unenforceable. They only work at the moment because copyright prevents works from being distributed without permission, and the only permission you get for distributing such works is through the FLOSS license. If you don't adhere to the license terms (e.g. providing source, attributing authors, whatver...) you have no other way to distribute without breaching copyright.

So BSD licenses would be just as pointless if there were no copyright.
>a 'propaganda war' much akin to the one we saw before Iraq and Afghanistan is slowly coming to life.

Yep, it's been going on for a month or two now. Preparing the public for another brilliant war that we can definitely afford. I'm fairly sure we (the US and UK, probably the french) are already at war with iran already, in the form of the various cyber attacks, assassinations and embassy closures that've been in the news in recent months.

Here's a couple of articles on the subject, from the point of view of the war-weary and somewhat disbelieving british left. Trust me, we can't fucking believe they're doing it again either.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/06/iran-war...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/07/iran-war...
I think people tend to work alone because of the pressure they feel to come up with something independent and original. I went through this process and eventually realised how much more I enjoy working closely with others on hard problems. It's far more productive as well.
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I think politcorrectness is the ultimate kind of bigotry of them all.
Just like kids growing up in sterile environments start to have all kinds of allergies PC is already starting to show similar effects. Sterility screws up the immune system of our body, PC screws up immune system of our minds.
The worst part is it does not help to fight those issues, on the contrary — it just discourages even think about those issues.
And there is huge difference between joking about some particular subset of humanity and actually disliking that subset.
Then there are people who just get "offended" by everything — those should really get their heads examined. They most likely don't even know why something offends them. Just because it is "offensive". Why is it offensive? Who knows. Some picture of naked tits offends you? Really?
What absolutely amazes me, that showing people being killed, heads exploding, limbs ripped off is ok and not harmful. But god forbid someones dick will be visible for a fraction of the second—that's a major scandal. Don't you think it is weird, that depiction of people killing people is wildly advertised and easily accessible, while depiction of people making love is almost (and in some places truly) outlawed?
Yeah, I'm absolutely not advocating an invasion. Best thing that can happen is a successful revolution. It seems to have been close last time so there's still hope.
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The quoted line is a good point, but your take on it is completely wrong, I believe. The main point in college is to get a degree. You don't spend approximately $150,000 in order to "not have regrets later on". You spend it to increase your net worth and hiring price in whatever field you wish to work within.

Don't forget that PhD student in most departments get paid a stipend; they aren't accruing debt during their graduate career.

(For what it's worth, I received my PhD and soon thereafter left academia as well, for many of the reasons outlined in the article above.)
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Yep. Telecomix is the perfect place to start if you want to help.
Although it's clearly based on the traditional critical/severe/major/minor/enhancement list, this one is a lot more accessible to people who haven't been trained in bug-tracking and issue-management. It's a lot more objective, too!
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Blogspam.

Here's the actual announcement: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/speed-and-security.html
This seems like a neat accomplishment, but why would I use it? There is mountains of work for standard configurations including security hardening, monitoring, configuration management, etc.

What about this product makes it better than the other options?
Does anyone know of anything that will parse the output of strace or dtrace. What I'd like to do is generate a graph of my pipeline showing which program calls which other program, how long does it take to get back, which files it uses, etc.

I think it would be a great visualization to go along with my documentation.
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What would the legal liabilities of this site be?
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It always did, and it always got deleted and the people were banned. The problem wasn't just the content, but the fact that some people took over the mods in a "coup" and were trying to fuck it up. Of course the CP wasn't deleted and they had to act.

They still could've deleted just the CP and restored the mods, but considering they had already moved to r/teen_girls, that probably wouldn't make much sense.
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... I am lost as to why that is a blatantly illegal question. I am interviewing for a au-pair right now and it's a very relevant question, as I sure it would be for any job that it's critical to have people present for (ie if I know you have kids, then I can make sure if you have a family emergency, I can cover it) etc etc.

However.. "are you planning to have kids ?" ... now that is a different matter.
In the bad old days of Firefox, I used to see it taking 500MB, 800MB, sometimes even a gigabyte of RAM.

It's gotten a lot better since then. I'm running Firefox 11 (on the Aurora channel) right now, and with a fairly typical tab load, about:memory tells me Firefox is using less than 300MB. I'm impressed.
These kinds of ideas are clear to everyone who has thought about the topic. But if I can interject some personal experience ..

I've had an open source text up for more than a decade http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra . It is easy to find; if you google "linear algebra" today then it is the third item. But although I have said on the page that I welcome contributions, I have had very few, and those few mostly bug reports-- which I am glad to get but they are not what I imagined I would get when I first put it up. (I will be putting it up soon in a public version control repository but let me note before I get emails that for most of the life of this project the best option really was to offer a .zip of the LaTeX source.)

The text if fine but I could in a minute list many shortcomings. For instance, it could use with a graphic designer, it could use with the skills of a person who can do illustrations, I would be delighted to get ways to interact with Sage, I would be glad to get tests from people who have taught the course, I would be glad to get help with e-readers (I don't own one myself). Etc.

I am currently doing an update that has taken my between-semesters break, and that threatens to spread into next semester. So offering such a thing is a lot of work. Some of it I am qualified to do but some of it I really am not. However, to this point, I have seen very little evidence that others will help so if it is to be done then I have to do it.

In short, more productive than listing the failings of others may be to pick a promising project of interest to you, and contribute a solution.
I'm just gonna quote what I said when this was on Metafilter a few months back:

"Anyway, yes, the fundamental problem in these questions is not how people think -- it's that the question they want the respondent to think they're asking, and the question they claim they're actually asking, are two different things.

The lawyer/engineer one is a classic example of this; what they hope is that you will read it as "how likely is it that these personality traits correlate to an engineer", so that they can then swoop in and say "what we were really asking is the mathematical definition of a percentage!"

Which ultimately tells us very little about the respondents and quite a bit about the people conducting the quiz..."
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> But honestly: when and why should you be able to cash in on coffee mugs showing disney's rendering of the seven dwarfs?

I think your question is backwards; it puts the burden of proof on the wrong side. Freedom is not what needs justification; rather, restrictions on freedom need justification.

A better question would be, "When and why should you not be able to cash in on coffee mugs showing Disney's rendering of the seven dwarfs?" And if no adequate justification is found for restricting freedoms, then they ought not to be restricted.
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The link in TFA takes you to a torrent freak article that explains it all with links

http://torrentfreak.com/and-when-even-the-death-penalty-does...

From the article:

"The King responded by introducing penalties for pirating these fabrics. Light punishments at first, then gradually tougher. Towards the end, the penalty was death by public torture, drawn out over several days. And it wasn’t just a few poor sods who were made into public examples: sixteen thousand people, almost entirely common folk, died by execution or in the violent clashes that surrounded the monopoly."

original article in swedish (sources in the comments)
http://falkvinge.net/2010/11/04/och-nar-dodsstraff-heller-in...
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Great that you've learned things, but nothing you've mentioned there is specific to GAE. Many people learned abour sharding and such well before GAE even existed (indeed, perhaps even before Google existed).

This is akin to saying "Rails made me a better developer", which in and of itself is not bad or wrong, but isn't really terribly useful as a datapoint when deciding which framework to choose. Frameworks by their very nature (almost always) force concepts on you that improve your code. So too with GAE - by limiting some of what you can do, they can provide a more focused service.
me too! and I am quite surprised to see his comment. Infact some blog posts came explaining why Chrome takes more memory than Firefox
«They are basically coercing everyone to do what they want or else.»

To be more precise, they are coercing everyone with a fragile economy like Spain is suffering right now.

China has much less respect for intellectual property than Spain does, yet USA doesn't dare to threaten and pressure them in such an arrogant way.
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I've noticed that as well. For the RoR jobs at least, they list a bunch of gems that they use, as if this is the only thing you can or ever use, or else we won't hire you. Sure, in some cases you need a specific toolset, but it's not always the case.

I think the job postings from startups with the random other stuff are more well thought out about what's involved (or could be) in your day to day.
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This feature differs from instant in that the pages will be pre-fetched (pre-rendered) in the background. Pages will still appear after you hit return, the difference is that they will appear quicker.
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The fair comparison would be a developer with a bachelors and two years good work experience and a developer with a Masters. Depending on your area (and thus the size of the salary involved) $10K might be a mediocre raise for your first two years; heck, if you are making $100K, that means you haven't even been making 5% a year.

I don't know if it's normal, but in my career, raises came much harder and faster (at least percentage wise) earlier rather than later.
Instead of learning to admin a server, and then follow up with admin for the rest of your life, you can hand that duty over to experts. Should hundreds of thousands of people be engaged in doing essentially the same thing.
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Yep. Everything I've ever taken up in life I'm still doing X years later. I've never ever transferred a job to someone else, outsourced a task I learned, or hired someone to do what I do. Nope. 100% of the time I'm doing everything I ever used to. Still. WTF?

I think most cell phone service is shitty and overpriced, but it doesn't mean anyone can just set up a competitor - it's extremely capital intensive to compete at that scale.

Yeah, I forgot that GAE never goes down.

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231001916/google-app-engine-cl...

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-not...

Reddit is one of the top 1% of the 1% in terms of traffic. I suspect GAE would probably have trouble with Reddit on a global 24/7 basis. Perhaps not as much as Reddit's having themselves at times, but nothing's perfect. And I suspect Reddit's pocketbook wouldn't be able to afford the marginal benefit GAE would provide.
They should send a special HTTP request header along with pre-load requests so site owners can choose to block them.

Eg web browser sends a request with the header:

X-Page-Preload: Something

I configure my webserver to 403 any requests with that header.
then again... it did suggest: "YCombinator for Car Repair"
You could say the US problems are partly due to African Americans in bad areas - the problem is socioeconomic, not an issue with the health system.

You could also say that the UK cooks its data more, trying to look good.

But you can't dispute that the US spends a lot on healthcare, and it's hard to believe that they get much more value for money.

Of course, doctors in the US might work harder, as they have better incentives (working at a higher hourly pay). Or maybe they have less incentives to work hard, as they are already time poor and cash rich, and giving them more flexibility and a higher hourly pay will just make them cut back on hours. (Paradoxical results are often assumed to be impossible, given certain assumptions in economics, but those assumptions just don't work).
The importance is the order and context of the questions, both questions basically equates to a: Would you gamble with $1000 and b: Would you gamble with $100.

If only given question b and some time to think you would probably answer no (depending on your risk-preference). But because of question a, the amount and probability in question b seems insignificant which decreases your risk-averseness.
One thing that bothered me about instant, and will probably annoy me about this, was when using chrome to test REST api's. Hitting my local development server in debug mode with half constructed URL's used to drive me crazy. In general for surfing around - I think the feature is great, but I would love to be able to exclude a given site from pre-fetch/instant.
> * And crowd-sourcing is definitely not one of them.*

I agree, but crowdsourcing would be handy for fixing errors or improving clarity. If a bunch of people highlight a passage that they think is confusing, and give reasons, that gives the author (or others) an opportunity to clarify.

Yes, that is something that teachers could be doing, but why not make the books as good as they could be?
Of course, these security holes are not so hilarious to WhatsApp users who think their chats are encrypted on route to WhatsApp's servers :)
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