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I like the similarity, but you have to make it more honest:

You're a writer, but don't have a good typewriter. Apple is willing to lend you one for free. The only issue is that if you then want to sell your book, you have to sell it through Apple's store. If you don't sell a single copy, Apple won't charge you for the use of the typewriter. If you sell a lot of copies, Apple gets a cut, both for the book being in their store (publicity) and the use of their typewriter. You're still allowed to use different typewriters, and you can even sell books written on a different typewriter in Apple's store, though they'll still take a cut.

Doesn't sound terribly unreasonable to me
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I thought that Stewart made the congresspersons on the Nerds clip look all look like ignorant supporters of SOPA.

The last speaker, Jason Chaffetz, who said "maybe we ought to ask some nerds what this really does" was in opposition to SOPA.

Chaffetz has spoken out against SOPA since at least December 7th. See this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQJrNpAcT84 , where he also uses the term "nerds", but he's saying it in opposition to SOPA. And this clip about keeping the internet open, which dates back to 12/7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0Pl83_Apo .

So, yeah, Jon Stewart is funny, but he'll use clips to make his point. This sometimes leaves the viewers with an unfairly tainted view of the person in the clip.
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or birth control

edt: i meant this to appear underneath the comments with other pretty meaningful inventions that caused huge social change
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In a sense that's exactly what top-down design is. You work on the big ideas and then come back to the barriers. It helps not just with the mindset but also helps you figure out which barriers matter.
I trust them with my business. So do millions of other businesses -- more than all the other companies in this thread combined. So do major YC companies like Weebly and Carwoo.
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Does it just go without saying these days that jQuery is required? Trello uses it, as well as jQuery UI, date.js, and highcharts.js far as I can tell.

I mention it because they mention other parts of the client stack (Backbone.js for ex), but not said libs.
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I'd argue that this generation is seeing a larger change than any before.

So long as we continue on our trend of exponential technological growth, this will be tautologically true.
Can even connect to an Amazon instance or similar. There was a submission a while back about someone who did this for a month (IIRC), but the editor was on the remote machine.
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No. You are guilty of the copyright violation and the break in. As long as you don't steal anything, it's not theft.
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> how do you approach a problem domain in which you know nothing, and manage to gain enough of a map of the territory so that you listen to someone's one-word suggestions and instantly grasp the implications?

You don't necessarily need to instantly grasp the implications. You need to listen, and if you don't grasp everything, you need to ask probing questions and learn. And you need to make sure you chase down any implications afterwards.

The first thing is to figure out what you don't know.

Note the part about glassed over eyes? If you listen actively, inject comments and questions and think about questions, most people can get a rough idea of quite complex areas they previously knew nothing about relatively quickly, and you won't be that guy with glassed over eyes.

The problem is not taking time to process something. The problem is when people are listening to the words but not the meaning, and then trying to find a way to force the words to mean something that fits into your existing world without changing it.

If someone gives you advice and you realize you don't understand it or it bores you or you don't agree with what's being said, and so you zone out, then you lose out. If you realize you don't understand something, or you disagree, and you use that as a signal to pay more attention and make an effort to understand or to figure out the cause of your disagreement, then you win.
You shouldn’t need to know Haskell.

Don’t pay attention to all the syntax.

If you are curious you can take a look at Applicative Functor.

This is a nice, whirlwind tour, maybe the opening benchmarks and jab at node are superfluous. All haskell tutorials hit the speedbump of how to bootstrap haskell understanding, where to make forward references and when to say "Trust me" but code shown here: do blocks, ($), <- and return would be confusing if you didn't know any haskell
Other way around - the app store does not allow distributing the source along with the app. So, strictly speaking, publishing GPL software in the App Store is in violation of the GPL.

If you - as a rights holder - are okay with having the source downloadable at another location, you can definitely publish GPL software using the App Store. Case in point: Battle for Wesnoth.
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Extradition and co-operation between national police forces is not new. They probably broke laws in New Zealand aswell.
Last time I checked, Ireland was still part of Europe :-)
That's it. I'm puzzled.
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What's not that simple? I didn't say anything was, just citing a reference. Did you mean to reply to the parent?
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Oh, trains are pretty fundamental and changed a lot. But a device so small it fits into your pocket, let's you communicate in real time with almost everybody, takes pictures and even movies (and sends them around the world), precisely calculates not only time but your location on the whole earth, can recognize speech, songs, books and other stuff, is able to translate fast between common languages, oh, and it let's you access the whole knowledge of our entire species wherever and whenever you want...

I mean, I love railways, I really do, but compared to a thing like our cell phones? It would even be possible (altough quite cumbersome), to entirely live just from this thing! (Do some programming/webdesign/consulting/whatever to make money, order food and everything else online and you don't have to do anything else.)
Yes, those are almost slightly related. Facepalm.

Yes, the erosions in US justice over the past decade and change are rightly cause for great concern, but they are orders of magnitude from the total absence of the rule of law in Iran.
> It's not complicated to distribute public keys. They're public keys, so put them in a public S3 bucket.

AViD's answer on this security stack exchange is useful.

(http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/406/how-should-i...)
I had javascript turned off :S

They were only using a javascript blocker.
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Michelin-rated food is rife with cream, salt, carbs and worse for the pleasure of frittering away $4,230[1] while simultaneously contributing to chronic heart disease, diabetes and adipose tissue. Make your own food, skip an early grave and save some runway (and avoid giving away more equity) in the process.

[1] conservatively, say $30 with tip for a $$ place [$-$$$$] 3 times a week * 47 weeks per year.
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If I hand someone a task, and then the next day have to ask for progress and get told that they don't know how to proceed, and have to explain to them what the next step is, go away, come back and have to repeat the process, often while having to explain the same things or "obvious" consequences over and over, that is hand holding.

If I hand someone a task and they ask me follow up questions, go away, do some real work tracking down more information or carrying out tasks, then comes back to me and asks more questions about new things based on stuff they've learned since last time, and repeat the process, that is not handholding to me.

The difference is who is driving the process forwards and whether or not they are absorbing the information they are given and taking initiative.
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That's why I said Romania. Most online content is usually blocked for me. Even YouTube wouldn't allow me for a long time to create an account tied with Google Apps, as the feature wasn't available in my country.

That's why I said it is funny - usually these websites are excluding everything but the US with maybe Germany and UK added later. However in this instance I think they've got a black list - as in, allow everyone except these countries, like Ireland (allow all versus disallow all + exceptions).
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Agreed; this is not a generational issue, but a world-view issue. Centrally controlled versus free (as in freedom) and distributed. Centralized versus decentralized.

The same kind of "battles" are happening this very moment around:

- Food (organic/independent versus bio-industry)

- Radio spectrum (free-for-all versus monopolies)

- Currency (many distributed ones versus one central controlled world currency)

- Identity (pseudonymous/anonymous versus centralized identity)

- Equality (equal rights versus centralization of power)

- Wealth (equally distributed versus concentrated to a few families)

- Software (open source versus closed source)

And so on... last decades, the trend seems to be toward centralization in each of them. However, for people to go along with that requires trust in the controlling entity. For example, trust that it is guided by a fair democratic process, or by "enlightened self-interest".
Actually, this article reads like a play book for the next group who wants to create 'MegaUpload2'.
1) Secure your servers
2) Encrypt your email
3) Keep a low profile
4) Hide your identity
5) etc
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... unless it's a false flag.
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You are giving them a cut partly because your application will contain parts of their source code. I think it's not a good/exact comparison.

I think the ownership is about the output format, not the contents itself, so it could be better compared to InstallShield, for example. It is used to package and easily distribute/install your Windows programs.

If it was free but they'd requested similar conditions to those in the iBooks EULA (that you can only distribute it in their own channels, that they might reject your program if they don't like it, etc.), would you still consider them for distribution?
> The advancement of technology and its ensuing freedom will trump any current setbacks. When the older generations move on and those who have grown up with the power of technology at their fingertips are in power, who have relatively open minds and understand the freedoms that technology provides, I think we'll really see some accelerated progression in both tech and overall quality of life for everyone.

I'd like this to happen, but this seems to me very similiar to each past generation idee fix.

First christians in Rome in first century thought when everybody will convert, there would be obviously no sins, and it will be almost haeven on earth. They were right with conversion dynamic, but wrong with the social implications.

The same for revolutionists, romantic nationalists, liberals, communists, hippies, and now it's our turn. Every time the change happened, but the consequences were not exactly as bright, as young idealists predicted.

I'd put my money on this time being exactly the same.
FYI downvoting mostly affects posts with no content or poor reasoning (usually both). I don't agree with you, but I will not downvote you because of that.

I'll only answer one point:

> Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests

[not even arguing whether it's true or not]

As far as I understand, people who are not residents of the US don't have to comply with DMCA requests any more they have to comply with Iranian request to take down something that insults Islam. I even personally think that insulting Islam is genuinely more harmful than copying copyrighted content, so it would be very hard to argue that DMCA requests are "good" while Iranian gov ones "bad".

The only reason why I can think it's wise to comply with DMCA is because US has 43% of world's military budget and it's a very scary thought because it attack independence of everyone else.
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"human history" covers a lot of territory. in terms of fundamental changes, nothing comes close to agriculture (let population densities skyrocket, enabled pyramid-style social setups) and writing (let knowledge accumulate rapidly from generation to generation).
I don't know how I came to this site, but has hundreds of short interactive presentations about many different topics.

Can't be compared to iBook 2 in terms of UI, but the simple content explanation and the way it's disposed (not linear like a normal book) is excellent.
| I wonder how much the in-house expertise of developing Chrome is contributing to the GoogleBot analysis stuff

If anything, I expect the contribution worked the other way, with the rendering engine being developed purely for search, and then fleshed out into a full browser. There was an interesting post about this a few months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182579
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I think it's fair to say there's a difference between 'hand-holding' and 'asking for advice' in PG's scenario. Hand holding would be having to constantly be checked up on, much like a child. This would be the person who receives the number to a VC and doesn't bother to figure out how to capitalize on it, if they even attempt to reach out at all. However, being resourceful would at least be able to figure out a rough game plan and think up a few broad questions for advice so they can take full advantage of the situation. Utilizing resources to have an advantage on other candidates.
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I agree with your assessment, and I think in many ways one of the critical parts to learn is how to assess when it is ok to "turn off" the critical eye and be brash and confident and aggressive.

Some of my most valuable experiences stemmed from just throwing myself in on the deep end instead of waiting to analyze all the implications. But at the same time those experiences were terribly _hard_, and carried a great deal of risk. E.g. my first company was an ISP. Started it with some friends at 19. Knew nothing about running a business or about setting up a large scale WAN, or about accounting, or sales, or configuring Linux servers. A year later I'd had hard, brutal and effective lessons in all of that and more.

If I'd spent time carefully trying to figure out the risks and implications beforehand, I doubt I'd have started that company. It didn't make me wealthy, but it was definitively worth it in terms of what I learned, and the connections I made also led directly to my next job and overall it has been pretty vital to my career.

On the other hand, there are many situations where not stepping back and being careful and considered and chasing down the implications up-front would've had disastrous consequences.

The problem isn't being cautious, if you know when not to be, but not taking action. Being cautious because you want to chase down and understand the implications is very different from being timid about addressing weaknesses in your knowledge. Whether you address those weaknesses with research or by trying is less important than avoiding paralysis.
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So Locality-sensitive hashing has basically the opposite goal of a cryptographic hash function, where a single bit change in the input should result in a significant change in the output?

What if there's a legitimate, private file uploaded to Megaupload's hypothetical successor, but someone uploads a highly-similar file publicly that gets a takedown notice?

The problem with forcing digital locker sites to remove content by hash rather than by URL is that it's impossible for them to know whether some of the URLs that point to a given hash are legitimate (e.g. a FLAC file being transferred by a musician to their CD pressing company and a select set of friends, but someone leaks the FLAC files and they get re-uploaded and deduped). This problem would be exacerbated by using a fuzzy or locality-sensitive hash rather than a cryptographic hash.
This small leaflet contains timeless wisdom about discs.

They are talking about the typical 13xx discs of that time, that weight 10 pounds and had a capacity of 2MB or 7.5MB.
haven't finished reading the whole content, but the zoom in zoom out effects are very annoying.
Why do you think multiplexing multiple independent streams at the application layer instead of the transport layer is a good thing? Now that people are using it they find they have to re-implement the other things the other things the transport layer does (like demuxing the stream and sending each part to the correct backend service)

Yes, replacing or modifying TCP would be a long, slow process, but so is re-implementing all its functionality at the application layer. Google introduced SPDY over two years ago (Nov 11, 2009), and as the article points out, there is still a whole lot of work that needs to be done before it lives up to its promise.
I think Steve Losh, who's written a series of insightful posts on the differences between Git and Mercurial, has a great one on Mercurial Queues: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercu.... From what I can see, Mercurial Queues look very useful.
Great writeup, I wish more companies did this: be open about their tech stack and experiences.

This inspired me to write about how I think, they could've gone even further: http://wuher-random.blogspot.com/2012/01/single-page-web-app...
Clearly mobiles enable much faster communication - but in terms of societal change I believe the railways were much more important. Not only did it enable news/mail to travel much more quickly, but for the first time large numbers of people could easily visit areas beyond their immediate neigbourhood, and goods could be transported large distances within a day. It revolutionised farming and enabled the growth of cities.
Should I add a link to this article[^1] for people confused by the Haskell syntax?

The opening is not really an attack. This is the way I myself started to be interested in Haskell web programming.

[^1]: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/
To me, they're clearly describing a network boot setup.

Both "to me" and "clearly" will get you into serious trouble when dealing with legal matters. The likely outcome is that, if Apple decided to file a civil suit, or a prosecutor found grounds for criminal copyright infringement prosecution, the prosecuting attorneys would use whatever interpretation is in their favor.
Are you talking about the zoom in when you click on some code block? I was thinking to remove them.
Google's results are context dependent, varying based on your location and based on your user profile.

Also, Google's ranking is very complex and takes into account such things as the article's publishing date, if it can be inferred. I'm also sure they are also returning results based on recent trends. So it isn't unlikely that at some point Google returned 20 million results on him, given that he was in the center of world wide news after those leaks.

And while I think his statistic is flawed, 4.2 million pages is still a freakishly huge number. It's also obvious that authorities and the world don't give a crap about him allegedly raping somebody and the probability of him being framed is too high considering how he pissed so many governments and institutions that are above the law.

We live in a world where democracy and transparency are slowly becoming fairy-tales that we'll tell our children, just like parents at some point tell their kids that they won't die (after the child understands the concept and starts crying) ... pretty sad really.
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