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> Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA?

> The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we’re seeing the development of legislation seeking to regulate the Internet in other ways while hurting our online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone.

> On January 18, we hope you’ll agree with us, and will do what you can to make your own voice heard.
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FWIW, since people don't seem to know this: Dead tree letters >> phone > fax >>> email >>>>>>> any online petition, in terms of how motivated staff are to convey your sentiment up the totem pole. (Anecdotal from brothers' service with a few congressional reps.)

[Edit: Sorry, checked on my screen but didn't realize my resolution was too high to show me if it broke lines.]
I'd wager SO's main source of traffic is Google
You're right about Germany and Russia of the 1940's being different from the USA of today. And we'd like to keep it that way. Ergo, the very low tolerance for the kind of constitutional disregard that's going on.

Something else to keep in mind; unlike nearly every other country in the world, the US does not have a single, coherent, cultural, ethnic, or religious identity. There are dominant groups, to be sure, but none entirely so. This is a pluralistic country. There's an inherent fragility to that which demands increased respect for the law, given the absence of deep unifying tradition.

And when it comes to cancer, a tumor is deadly from the moment it appears. The sooner it's removed the better, otherwise it really will get out of hand. By American standards, what's happening is bad. Those standards may be tighter than standards elsewhere, but relative to the country it's a real shock. Plenty of intelligent people are really taken aback by the response to 9/11, which, in retrospect, has been vastly more damaging to the country than anything Bin Laden did directly.

Unlike Bin Laden, the people who are pushing for a total surveillance state are not dead. Nor are they retreating. And yes, what they are building is evil. Not because of anything that it's being used for presently, but for what it represents, in that it marks a shift from a government that is bound by the law to one that isn't, and simply asks that you trust it not to abuse its now-unchecked liberty. That is the precise opposite of what our Framers intended. To date, respect for that principle has spared us from a great deal of misery.

On this, we may disagree. But I appreciate your thoughtful reply. And I apologize for my personal remarks.
Depending on what you mean by open access, all NIH grants already do come with such requirements. Any publications resulting from NIH-funded research must be deposited, in full text, including figures, into PubMed Central.
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I'll probably be getting work done without the reddit, wikipedia, etc. distractions.
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Would somebody please do a startup to provide an alternative to these evil people? It shouldn't be difficult to disrupt them, as you literally need a printer and a webserver.
His method of coding works for him because he’s introverted.

"As (odd?) as that may be, being around other people seems to really drain my energy and sap my creativeness. Despite my best efforts, I just don't have the same energy around other people as I do by myself."

That's the real definition of introversion. It's not just being shy. Some people feel energetic when they work with other people in a bullpen (extroverts).

There was an Atlantic article posted here that explained more.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561311
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Well written critique, much better that the up voted one that is just mean.
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In fairness the comment about teachers in suburban districts was that two teacher salaries would be near 200k, not over 200k.

As far as the original comment about teachers, that's just basic statistics. There are lots of teachers. If you assume that people who earn >$400k or so marry people from other occupations more or less uniformly, you'd expect close to 1% of teachers to show up on this chart, which would be a big box. In practice, only 0.9% of teachers show up, but the real takeaway is that teachers are relatively well-educated and so not unlikely to actually be marrying people who end up with high salaries. There are plenty of occupations on that chart in which a lot less than 1% of the people in the occupation end up in the top 1% of households.

So as far as comparing box sizes, you have to balance better pay for programmers against the fact that there are a lot fewer of them than there are teachers...
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I'm pretty sure Microsoft's VHD file format has built-in support for sparse volumes... maybe it was a case of since they didn't need it, they could trim everyone else's advantage.

Since ReFS doesn't look to be in the client version of Windows 8, though, i don't think it'll make much difference to applications - and i expect they'll add some of these features back before Windows 9. Hopefully they have a more transparent versioning system than NTFS this time around
I'd be cautious of that method. Google is not a fan of cloaking, and you might wind up with a penalty for much longer than the blackout.
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Haven't looked at the project yet, but some thoughts based on OP:

"Even lock-free algorithms will not be parallel enough. They rely on instructions that require communication and synchronization between cores’ caches."

Azul's Vega 3 with 864 cores/640GB mem (2008) with Azul JVM apparently works fine using lock-free java.util.concurrnt.* classes & would appear to be a counter point to the very premise of the OP.

It is also probably more likely we will see new drastic rethink of memory managers and cooperation between h/w and s/w designers (kernel /compiler level). Right now, everything is sitting on top of malloc() and fencing instructions. What is more painful? Write non-deterministic algorithms or bite the bullet and update h/w and kernels and compilers? See Doug Lea's talk at ScalaDays 2011 ([1] @66:30)

And this is not to mention anything about FP and STM approach to the same issue.

[1]: https://wiki.scala-lang.org/display/SW/ScalaDays+2011+Resour...
That's only "marketing" cores. It's a 32-core GPU.
Exactly. The only thing holding academics back is themselves. The current state of academic publishing is ridiculous. I recently submitted something that I had to perform full copy-editing and formatting for. I know this is standard practice in engineering, but that's what publishers used to get paid for.

In the end I'll have done the research, the writing, the editing and the formatting but of course the end product will in all likelihood be behind a paywall (this is sort of my own stupidity for rushing to get something published under the advice of a prof). There's no reason individual academic communities can't decide that they should establish there own reputable and open access journals.
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Ask HN: Capitalizing on the blackout tomorrow?
With Reddit and Wikipedia going dark, a lot of people are going to have a lot of extra time on their hands, time that they'll most likely waste on Facebook if they don't have other means with which to fill it. Who's launching/promoting their fledgling community sites tomorrow to capitalize off of this opportunity?
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Yes, I just posted about it! Suck!

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This is the user, but I'm having a rough time trying to identify the offending edits:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kane123/edits

Has Google released any statement beyond the one that said "We were mortified to learn that a team of people..."?

I'm overly curious on the results from Google's investigation.
I can see the connection with Mocality being mentioned, but vandalizing seems odd.

I would venture that this is coincidental.

Pick any branch office of a large enterprise or government and run a search for the IPs they use to access the internet.
You'll find vandalism on Wikipedia, ancient guestbook messages, mailing list postings, etc.

I'm certainly not a Google apologist, but this just seems fishy.
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Client-side encryption with end-user key management is not yet practical for the average end user. Until it is (I'm hopeful we'll get there), the average service will require some sort of administrative back door that is controlled by process and people.
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Companies like Microsoft have worked with ISPs to take down botnet command and control. All this without needing new regulations.
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Yes, I also thank you.

A digression coming up! You've been warned!

I have a BA from a pretty highly ranked university in Canada, and excelled in academics. However, I always thought it was a breeze for anybody to do really well in. I always thought the Arts were stupidly easy compared to the Sciences. So, I always down-played my performance, because I always knew that, in the end, I had accomplished something very insignificant, despite being in the top 5%; and even despite various professors suggesting I could do really great things and one going as far as telling me I shouldn't be in university "since I already knew all the material".

Long story short, I graduated and, basically, failed in every other aspect of my life, including landing a good career and was getting paid minimum wage for the 2 years after graduating. I left the country, am doing OK now, but learning to program and interested in more of the sciences (lo and behold, right?).

But it is funny how now that I am surrounding myself more with science people and CS/IT people, I feel I have strong proof of how excelling in one subject or area can get to someone's head. I'm glad I never let it get to me. And I think back at the times I wasn't humble when trying to explain some esoteric concept to someone, or when someone didn't explain something properly or simply did not have the knowledge to fully make an adequate generalization of a given concept, and I was very indifferent and critical; I think back and feel bad and hope never to be like that. I'm much more of a humanitarian now, though, and feel a lot more compassion for humanity; for those who act in both bad and good faith.

I apologize for the long rambling post!

Thank you, again.
I found the statistics to be quite interesting. The conclusions drawn by the author, however, left a lot to be desired. Most of them were not directly (or even indirectly) supported by the data, and consisted primarily of random opinions that left me feeling negatively about an otherwise interesting post.

I would have also like to see data on the mean for some of the statistics, and not just the median. In some cases, one or the other can provide very misleading statistics, and providing both to compare would have helped smooth over concerns there.
Issa is a sponsor of the OPEN act which is almost as bad as SOPA/PIPA.
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"being around other people seems to really drain my energy and sap my creativeness." sums up why I don't enjoy other programmers and why I like to program alone. If i'm programming on a team and we have dudes who are anti-social, can't take a joke, don't like to talk to you, don't eat lunch with you, etc, etc, it sucks. I don't care how good they are.
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Wow thanks a bunch for that. That sure does sound like unschooling to me. The 6 years old part is the wild part of course and really thrilling.

I related to my spouse your story about tapping on your stomach and getting the same number of taps back; she was amazed and loved it.
SOPA/PIPA seem to be dead in their current forms. Lawmakers are going to route around this public awareness by waiting a few months and renaming the legislation. I think Wikipedia should have waited until the next threat emerges.
Being through a similar situation. My advice would be shut shop, suck up the losses and start fresh. At the end, whatever you and learned in this process is the most valuable thing with you, and so it is with your co-founder.

If you have IP involved, either write if off or agree that both of you an use it without any liability on each other.

The longer this will go on the worse it will get, so just face the reality that this partnership is not working out and start taking corrective action. Good luck!
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This is a pretty interesting thread.

I remember early in my career, before I had the chance to really build an application of any major size, I was given the opportunity to look at the source code of an application that I used frequently. I always felt like it was built by geniuses working well beyond my skillset, but once I saw the code, I remember thinking "that's it?" It wasn't the flawless work of art I imaged. It seemed like something I could have probably written myself.

Google has always had the same aura to me. It feels like the people there are working on things I could never comprehend, building flawless works that I could only dream of writing. Even though by your description I think I might actually be a really good fit, the idea of working at Google remains intimidating for some reason.
"On my team, people start showing up at 10. By 7, nearly everyone is gone. (Dinner starts at 6, so most people stay for that.)"

If they don't compensate by bring work home and continue doing it at home, than this is definitely a good thing.

"Ultimately, nobody monitors when you are in the office. All that matters is what you get done."

This is a better attitude than micromanagement, but it can still be abused if you are expected to do so much work that it forces you to work long hours, even if you are not explicitly told to work long hours to do it.

On the other hand, if you are skilled/smart enough to get done in a few hours what it would take someone less skilled to get done in 10, then you should (in theory) be better off under such a system -- except your managers could always compensate by giving you yet more work.

At a healthy workplace, the amount of work you're expected to do will fall within the range of what you are capable of doing and what you want to do.

I am getting the sense that Google is in fact such a place, and don't expect there are many deathmarches there. If there were, I doubt Google would be able to retain the caliber of talent it attracts.
One can include arbitrary amounts of data in binaries. I don't see this for ELF systems, but consider all the Windows installers that package entire applications into a single .exe.
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I found your story very interesting. Some might question how you made it so far without a plan, but I get it.

So, what would you do if you had no debt, and no obligations? What do you do on weekends? Any hidden career desires?
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Playing devil's advocate for a second: The fact that the internet can be almost entirely anonymous and unaccountable is something of a historical accident. There aren't many places as impervious to governmental interference on this planet as the internet.

Having a right to privacy is one thing. Having a right to unaccountability in the face of a legal warrant obtained through due process is another entirely.

Inasmuch as the global, distributed nature of the internet makes executing a warrant near impossible, I am not opposed in principle to legislation enabling technical measures for enforcement. That said, I am vehemently opposed to hamfisted solutions that waive due process in favor of "good faith" takedown notices to ISPs.
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"I get the impression from outsiders that they hear a lot about how great Google is and then assume that they can't work at Google, so they then decide that what Google does is actually bad."

That certainly wasn't my motivation for expressing my concerns. I guess I've just been bitten by having worked at too many dysfunctional corporations, and aren't as ready to believe the constant startup/corporate cheerleading that tends to go on at these places.

I've worked with too many people who work themselves to death for more money, or because they can't stand being with their family, or because they really just have no life outside of work -- their job has become their life.

It would be one thing if they were doing something really fulfilling and worthwhile, such as working for a charity or NGO that tries to help people, but it's quite another when their entire function in life comes down to helping the corporation make more widgets or sell more ads so it can make more money.

If you are fulfilled working your ass off in such an environment, you'd better be working on some terribly fascinating problems every day, or there is something wrong.
> You're making a donation, not buying something.

I'm not making a donation, I'm buying a product in advance that hasn't finished being developed.
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Wikipedia shutting down is not good news..Its very useful and needed everyday...May be they can make the each page load delayed by 1 minute or so to mark the protest....
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-S...
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If these are the same as the Mocality people, I wonder how long before Google audits and fires them? I also wonder if we'll find out about any more wrongdoing.

Hopefully Google shuts them down soon.
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What you need above all else is a reputation and that is much harder to get than a printer and a webserver.
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