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Sure, then Congressmen just get cut in for equity. Or some other crazy loophole that will be left open.

Here's the problem: the Federal government has too much power. So long as it retains that power, people and corporations will figure out a way to influence the people who hold that power, through salaries, bribes, equity, favors, lobbying, or whatever.

The only real solution is to reign in Congress.
Ah, I was aware of the AP's recent switch to "website", but I wasn't aware that it did not include a change to "web". Thanks for pointing that out!

You make a good point about "Internet", but I always feel somehow unclean when I write it that way. Perhaps it's just this generation's aversion to capitalization in general. Here's one interesting argument against that form: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/08/64596. Food for thought. :-)
And I'm just saying the opinions of people not personally involved in these kinds of equity decisions are of limited value, and that our discussion has easily reached that limit.
Actually, no they didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power...

Yes, all systems fail. Fukushima was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a 10m tsunami, which is about the worst environment imaginable and it almost survived intact. Most newer technologies would have been unaffected, or at least shut down into a safe state.

And yes, you can come up with nightmare scenarios for every technology. Fukushima experienced one in a dilapidated state and just about came through unscathed. Add in another 30 or 40 years of science and engineering and the chances of a nuclear disaster effectively become zero.

Compared with the pollution and deaths associated with coal, I know which side I'd rather be on.
It's almost like your customers are pointing out business opportunities to you for free. And you thank them with lawsuits.
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For me, best take-away advice: 1. it is easy to start with DynamoDB and later move to Cassandra, taking advantage of DynamoDB's ease of getting started with. 2. Cassandra does not scale down well to small apps, but DynamoDB does.
New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

OK, that is not flexibility and manufacturing know how. That is too much power in the in the hands of the job providers.

As jobs continue to grow eventually even China will start to go short on workers and then things will start to change.
The "pressure" I'm talking about is the existing bad PR. That is, what's happening right now. And it is getting results, because Apple itself is auditing its suppliers.

I most certainly do not advocate starting any wars. I'm not even talking about government pressure. Frankly, the economic pressure from Apple, which doesn't want to take crap for factory conditions in China, may do more good than anything the US government is likely to try.
Interesting snippet from article to test if http response code is between 200 and 299 "http_status / 100 != 2". Never seen that before..
My understanding (can't find a reference, sorry) was that there was around $1B of private money in Solyndra before the U.S. government added a little over $500M. So while the taxpayers definitely lost, the VCs lost more.

But I agree with you about the carbon tax.
Link to the single page version, for those who do not want to read an article chopped up into two pieces:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/muscling-...
This has been exactly my conclusion for years now. I am very happy to see someone else so clearly shares my understanding of matters.

There's a lot of cool ideas out there, but the tech needs time & research. Classic example is wave power. It gets talked up like crazy; yet many wave power demos produce less than 1W. Yes, I see that you can harvest energy from the ocean- now tell me how that thing is going to power an entire city.
Interestingly, you don't need to add a "full set" of bytecodes for unsigned arithmetic support - just four (udiv, ludiv, urem, lurem). All the other arithmetic operations are bit-identical with the existing signed versions.

It's also worth noting that existing Jazelle implementations don't do everything in hardware, they already call into a software piece to handle any opcodes they come across that they don't interpret natively. So improving those to handle new opcodes is just a software upgrade, same as anything else.
Link to the single page version, for those who do not want to read an article chopped up into parts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/in-antipiracy-deb...
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The only problem with your derivative works proposal is that it won't work. Fans will make fanwork of things they are fans of, regardless of the legality involved. Akin to the culture of digital sharing, that horse has already left the barn, it is pointless to try and close the door now. If you wanted to ban only commercial derivative works for a longer period, that might work, but non-commercial fanwork isn't going anywhere.
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I think that's kind of the point, isn't it? Make elected office unattractive to those motivated by the thought of megabux.

Of course, such lavish pensions would still create gravity for the self-serving types who just don't think as big.
Politics aside, how does Pastebin manage to keep up its business?

They seem to have become one of the very few reliable communication hubs for individuals with, let's say very strong personal views (i.e. Anonymous, Hackers, Etc).
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You mean 'the British grid', since if the hydro plant is in Wales it is by definition not English.

This is kinda like referring to a project in Texas as Mexican.
> Create a legal doctrine that merely linking is protected free speech

I disagree with this one. How about this instead?

* Create a legal doctrine that linking is legally the equivalent of a citation in a printed publication

If something is protected free speech in a book or magazine or newspaper or flyer, it should be so on the internet. If something would not be protected free speech when published in a book, etc., then I don't see why merely being published on the internet should make a difference.

In other words, the internet is just another publication medium. In most areas it does not need different laws. The ones we have for other media are fine.
You keep talking about "employers", but that isn't what you mean, and it's dishonest. The generic "employer" has few restrictions at all. In most jurisdictions, I am quite free, as an individual acting in my personal capacity, to hire and fire, for example, a maid, with very few restrictions at all.

What you are talking about are corporations. Corporations are artificial constructs that exist at the whim of society. They have no inherent rights, property or otherwise. They have those privileges which we choose to explicitly bestow upon them.

Your next point will be that corporations are made up of people and invested in by people. This is true, but irrelevant. The corporation is a distinct entity, and the epic disaster that is limited liability ensures that its effect on the market is skewed from that of a human being.

Corporations are not people, and should not be treated as such.
I have absolutely nothing in common with anyone who subscribes to r/wtf or r/all, and several other sub-reddits. I am on reddit specifically because I can avoid a ONE culture.
You are correct that radiation exposure does statically increase the risk for cancer. A handful of emergency workers did receive exposures above the level where the increased risk could be statistically detected compared to regular cancer risk rates.

So it is possible several people may face an earlier death than they would have if Fukoshima did not occur. But when talking deaths we are still short by 3 to 4 orders of magnitudes to the direct deaths from the earthquake.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/iaea/radiological-briefing-11-0505
[2] http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I'm not entirely sure why HN doesn't just display the full hostname. Displaying only the domain and TLD is actually harder than just displaying the full hostname, and I don't think there's a major risk of spammers using the hostname as some covert advertising mechanism.
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The "confession" [1] was posted to vimeo.com. The claim is that he operated under the pseudonym "Siavash Hosseinkhani" (apparently the operator of a avizoon.org) [2]

He was kept in solitary for 1 year in Evin prison and tortured. Use your imagination...[see 4,8]

And he is not the only one from Aryamehr University of Technology (now called Sharif by IRI) currently held by Islamic Republic of Iran. Omid Kokabee[3][4][5], a young physicist (just look at him; he is one us, a geek) is also currently held in IRI dungeons.

It is a terror regime that terrorizes its own citizens. Plain and simple. [6]

All this talk about nuclear program, etc., while for 30+ years the West and East have been /quite happily/ under the table doing business with this gang. It is business. The rest that we get to see is show business. They could have been toppled years ago. Even today, they push just enough to get business concessions, then they back track.[7]

[1]: http://vimeo.com/16593462

[2]: http://revolutionaryfesenjan.blogspot.com/2010/12/solidarity...

[3]: http://utexas.academia.edu/OmidKokabee

[4]: http://features.kodoom.com/en/iran-politics/iran-imprisons-p...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kokabee

[6]: https://duckduckgo.com/c/Prisoners_and_detainees_of_Iran

[7]: http://www.rferl.org/content/sarkozy_warns_attack_iran_chaos...

[8]: https://persianbanoo.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/shocking-accou...
Yes, but I reckon that a person with such delusions and skills to acquire 100,000 accounts would at least be able to generate a message that doesn't sound so retarded as this one. Or realise that google translate is actually useful.
Are there any ZDnet that aren't link bait? It seems that every article from there is low on content and high on sensationalism.
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It appears there is already support for this on a case by case basis. See, for example this post linking to wordpress: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494340
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Man, if I had the spare cycles to do it, I would love to build this as a browser based service that just calls a (cloud) back end compiler and produces output files. Ajax UI design plus templates would seem like an ideal basis to build trivial apps, and maybe a Chrome plugin or native code conduit to let you talk to the connected USB device and walk you through configuration thereof.

Configuring Android development on the desktop is not terribly complicated, but it's a high bar for new adoption as compared to "install and launch Dreamweaver".

I guess that's sort of the market for Titanium Appcelerator, but that's still a beast by comparison to "this should all be doable in a browser environment". But I don't delude myself that this would be a small project :)
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Regardless of why people choose a browser that has WebM, WebGL, or any other feature, the fact that they have that feature means that developers can start targeting it, thereby giving people more of a reason to want that feature.
More like referring to the USSR as "Russia."
> Displaying only the domain and TLD is actually harder than just displaying the full hostname

Perhaps it just reuses the result of some work it's already doing in order to cluster karma/number-of-replies/something else on a per-domain basis, for some sort of convenient analytics. Just a charitable guess.
As others have said, I think it would be nice if it always included the subdomain except when the subdomain is 'www'. Are there really any places where that would be undesireable?

True, fixing just plus.google.com would take care of about 99% of current complaints, but if we're going to take up PG's valuable time, we might as well ask for the more thorough fix.
Here is an old Fog Creek software management reading list:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum...

And, an old Joel Spolsky reading list on programming:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navlinks/fog0000000262.html

These are terrific lists, I've learned a ton from them and haven't yet gotten further than halfway through either.

But I submit that the politics of the United States of America are every bit as complicated as software. We have _one_ fundamental problem, and that related to the TV ads? Um, how likely is it that so broad and general a statement about software development would be true, never mind helpful?

We will not understand our country's politics until we give them the same attention we give our profession. We shouldn't be silent before we've checklisted some reading list -- but maybe we ought to speak as if perhaps this is a big and complicated system about which we have a lot to learn.
Ultimately these "hackers" are all script kiddies, no surprise they talk & think like kids too.
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Actually, it's a win-win because the more thorough fix will also take up less of PG's time.
I for one would be willing to part with all of those, in exchange for a world without copyright.
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Some sites put SEO terms in subdomains, which gets noisey, but they aren't the sort of site that gets posted here.
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I very much disagree that what Hollywood thinks is killing them now, is not killing them.

It is!

There are two parts to Hollywood:

1. Being the distributor.

2. Being a source of funding.

That's it!

The internet has been disintermediating (fancy economic term for killing middle-men) industries since it began.

Piracy often offers not just a lower price but a far better product. How many stories do we all know of people willing to pay who can't because of how shitty the distribution of Hollywood is? People frustrated by all their legal options to the point of seeking out pirated content despite their ability and willingness to pay. I am one of those people!

Better distribution is one half of killing Hollywood.

The other part is financing. Big Hollywood studios are in the well known business of managing high risk investments. You spend a lot of money on developing movies, shows, etc, on most you lose money, on some you make a bit, on a few you make all the profit you need to keep going.

Who has the same business model? VCs! Also video game publishers.

So all you need to kill Hollywood is a tone of cash to fund talent, attract better talent by giving them a better deal and then distribute it better.

But here is the catch, a company like that would exist with much lower profit margins than a traditional Hollywood company. It has to! Because that's what killing the middle man is. You take his share of the profit and drop it. Prices of the end product drop, end consumers have more money, the middle man is out of luck.

And that is why you can't hasten the end of Hollywood. It's going to be ugly and painful and they know it. That's why they are lobbying like they are going out of business, because they are.

The only thing you can do is limit the damage. We should aim for an equal and opposing lobbying arm. If we libertarian minded, super individualistic, detail obsessed, disagreement loving, intellectual bunch of geeks can make that happen, I highly doubt. But I don't see any other way out.
Why is a representative going to listen to our lobbyist over the MPAA's lobbyist? We can raise enough money to hire someone to work in Washington for us, but I somehow doubt we can consistently raise enough money to make matching campaign contributions so that our lobbyist is taken seriously. Even if we could, it feels fundamentally wrong that we need a self-imposed tax on citizens for their representatives to represent them. Attacking the incentive structure of the system by not having campaigns financed by corporations and interest groups is probably a better place to invest our effort.
This is too funny. I wrote out a comment on the G+ article on the homepage that basically said something along the lines of "now don't go complaining about subdomains," but I didn't post it because I felt it wouldn't be necessary this time. Sure enough, you've proven me wrong.

Just mouse over the link. If you're on your mobile, hold your finger on the link until the modal pops up with more details. Hacker News...

Edit: I am pro-full-domain. I think it would be an excellent change, however...

It's such a trivial change in the code that I can't imagine pg hasn't thought this one through. With as many times as people have complained about it he has definitely heard this side of the argument already and it's not changed his mind so far. So why are we revisiting this? Is there a canonical 'this is why' for this feature that we can just point to and be done with it?
Don't forget paying Alec Baldwin to get kicked off a plane while informing everyone who listened that he just couldn't put down words with friends.
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> After ten years all code should be made open-source.

Long digression. Which may not even be totally true, but close enough to make the point.

This isn't actually that far from the original intention of patents. It used to be that things were kept as trade secrets and hence lost to the ages, which is why no one knows how to make Damascus steel anymore. On the other hand, if someone leaked your trade secret, you could sue them for breach of contract or something, but once the secret itself was out, it was just free speech and free enterprise for people who didn't sign an NDA with you to go ahead and use it. So trade secrets were both ineffective for the secret-holder (unless they kept them very, very well) and bad for society as a whole (since none of us could use any of the secrets that didn't leak out.)

So the patent was invented. Now you had a choice: either your trade secret could remain secret or it could become a patent. If you patented, for instance, your revolutionary manufacturing process for steel, no one in the entire country could legally use that process themselves--at least not until the patent term was up. On the other hand, the process itself was published, and once your patent expired, everyone gained your knowledge.

Copyright enters the picture with software in a funny way. If you documented the process of, say, manufacturing steel, the document itself would be copyrighted. Anyone could read that document and then implement the process with no problem. The same is true for, say, the plans to some machine or appliance--the plans themselves would be copyrighted, but that wouldn't prevent you from assembling an actual device. Obviously with software this is different.

I actually think that with software, both traditional patents and the copyright process don't really work. Rather, I think software should be subject to the same kind of social contract patents successfully imposed on pre-software inventions: no copyright protection on source or executable code (copyright on documentation or string or graphic resources are acceptable), source and executable code can be "patented", which entails a limited-term (5-10 year) monopoly on the use of that source code, but after 5-10 years the code is effectively public domain, and published in perpetuity by the government.
Abolishing copyright completely is an extreme position even here, I think. What most people are pulling for is shortening copyright from it's currently obscenely long term.
Your exactly right. Once you unsubscribe from the default subreddits and start subscribing to subreddits that have more moderation (against memes, etc) reddit becomes a much better place. You end of with subreddit's like AskScience where you can have though provoking conversations without memes.

That's what makes reddit great, if your not into the memes, you can easily "turn them off".
Hey everyone. I'm actually the founder & lead developer of We The Lobby. I just got home and saw this hit HN.

I was planning on (and still may) posting the site asking for everyone's thoughts but... while I'm here if anyone has any suggestions, comments, questions, whatever - I'll respond right now.
If HN shows the domain, it should at least be useful. Why do the work when I can have toe computer do it for me? HACKER News :)
Oh java, how I miss your state machine objects with strange initialization patterns.

Only in Java would it make sense that you need to call getInputStream before you can check a result code.

I wonder what would happen if one called getInputStream twice.

Coding inJavaMakesMeWantTo() throws up {
throw new up("The punctuation I ate for breakfast on to the screen");
};
I believe patent expiration varies from industry to industry; certainly copyright expiration could too?
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Can crowd sourced lobbying compete against the deep pockets of corporate interests? That's my biggest concern.

I like this idea a lot though. Hopefully it gains traction.
Surely, that's all the more reason to be able to see those so we can flag them? Sadly, most of the time I visit new, there's almost nothing to upvote and a lot to flag... :(
If you could choose freely for no cost between, perhaps, the first subdomain appearing versus not, would you really opt for not?

Mousing over the link seems like unnecessary work when subdomains could be added without sacrificing the readability of HN at all.

Whether it's worth the time investment, I'm not sure. I can't imagine it would be too hard to grab the first subdomain from the link, but perhaps I'm ignoring some significant edge case.
Well that depends on your flavor of open-source, doesn't it? Didn't Microsoft use some BSD code for their TCP/IP stack once? (I'm sure it's long been rewritten.)