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I'd say he will be the most influential economist of both centuries. For those who don't who he is, the man is a fantastic public speaker on top of everything and there are a ton of videos on YouTube to get you familiarized.
tldr; Dodd wanted the best Senators money can buy.
So, if McCain-Feingold was still in effect, and if Google were to hypothetically campaign against Lamar Smith, and if said hypothetical campaigning were to occur in the run-up to an election... it would be illegal?

Is this absurd mix of hypotheticals honestly supposed to be a cogent defense of the Citizens United ruling? It sounds a lot more like a Colbert segment to me.
>There's no real system that helps individuals who want to cut out the middle man effectively convince strangers to watch their content (afaik).

Reddit. Ok, I understand, you meant: long form content =P That one is not afraid to cuddle up to, with a date.
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He's saying that fonts that have multiple weights/styles are also fonts that are more likely to be higher quality.

Personally, I would use this tool to find a font that could be used throughout the page for different elements: such as body text, heading text, quotations, etc. The alternative would be to mix and match different fonts, but this takes a lot more effort and experimentation.
Donate $1.5 to EFF for every $1 spent on movies, music, etc.?
I don't really feel like boycotting the movie or music industry is really practical - the entertainment industry isn't _really_ a free market in the sense that if your favorite artist is on label X and you really hate label X, you're generally out of luck, unless you pirate, but I really don't have the patience to pirate things.

Should I be justified in having a clear conscience by donating $1.5 to the EFF for every $1 spent on movies, music, etc.? Is the EFF really the anti-evil-media-corporation?
Summary: Gowers outlines the extraordinarily oppressive business practices of academic publisher Elsevier, explains why they are able to continue to do so in spite of widespread anger amongst the community (collective action problem), and goes on to explain how we might be able to solve this problem by publicizing the actions of people who've taken a stand.
I highly recommend the video series "Free to Choose", regardless of your politics or background in economics there is something to be learned from it.
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It's not my clients are canadian, it's my company is canadian and Beanstream does not work with non-US. I'll take a look at chargify though :)
I had the same issue and resolved it in the same way. It would allow me to log in, but would not recognize that I was logged in (I was unable to sign the petition and had a button requesting that I log in, even though I was)
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This headline is a good example of the problem with the passive voice. My first assumption when reading the headline was that an Apple lawyer told him that. A better headline would be something like:

"Palm CEO Told Jobs Anti-Poaching Pact 'Likely Illegal'"

In general, using the passive voice in a news context anonymizes the subjects of a particular story. In this case, the headline writer probably did so in order to make Jobs the only subject of the headline, but it hides very important information about the story.

You're probably thinking that the first sentence provides the information, but studies show that a large percentage of news readers read only the headline (I suspect that is especially true about news aggregators), and that there is a precipitous decline in readership in every sentence thereafter.

As a result, newswriters usually pay a lot of attention to making sure that headlines and article ledes have as much pertinent information as possible. As it should be.
Whenever anybody complains about hate, I usually find that what they mean is "don't get mad just because we deserve it."

Usually.
You get upvoted for agreeing with me that some sort of end-to-end verification service protocol is missing. Now there's a schlep if ever there was.
Don't forget the infamous Film Actors Guild.
That enrages me.

For good engineers in the valley, we're easily talking the 110-160k range. So they're definitely not part of the poor, unrepresented masses.

Still, that these mega-billionaires sat in their executive suites and pulled strings to harm and limit careers, it sickens me.
This is well-articulated, but as you say yourself ("high-volume recipient"), you're probably an outlier. The problems and solutions that the kickstarter project talks about really resonated with me (I probably only receive about 50 emails per day).

I could use a little clarification on your exact point though -- sounds like you're saying that your email application isn't your todo list, but your emails become your todo list (just in some other silo than your inbox)? Seems like the same thing to me -- what if the email application was more like that other silo, then you don't need 2 silos.

Finally, in the interest of full disclosure, it's probably fair to mention that you have been Amy Hoy's business partner in the past (not that this implies any dishonesty or discreditation of your point... just sayin').
Along with the oldest profession, the oldest wish is for honest rulers. Look. In Afrikaans we have this saying: "Jy gaan agter die berg om a bobejaan te vang." which literally translated means you're going behind the mountain to catch a baboon. The need to save the Internet and our freedoms is now and it's urgent. If you're hoping to change the way US government works and then use your new honest government to keep the Internet free, you're setting yourself up to fail. Just use it like the manual says to. Pay the man.
I completely agree about 15 years ago. But you can now get a Raspberry Pi for about $30.

Is it the latest and greatest iOS or Android device? No. But it is a platform for exploring, learning and being entertained.

A question to you that I've asked myself, would you rather have less buying power today and access to the Internet in its current form or more buying power and access to the Internet 15 years ago?
Playing with LEGOs equals dream job for some
That video seems to be down. Other videos on their site work though..
The harm that Google could do to themselves by not deleting data that they must delete is far greater than the use they could get out of that data. Villainy does not always maximize profits.
It is a really convoluted argument which fails to live up to its headline.
Distribution is probably the easier part of the problem once you have a quality movie that was funded. Y Combinator could just partner with Youtube and release it worldwide. The hard part is funding the right movies and with as much as they need initially.
Does anyone have any information on the software he wrote specifically did or was called?
One thing to remember: the TV stations may not all agree with us on this and they can refuse to run a commercial. There have been people unable to run their commercials in the past.
I'm not in the US so I can't sign up and see how it works, but from what I understand they're more of a "virtual" bank account (like Paypal) but without the ability to use credit / debit cards? So they're competing with wepay and not Paypal?
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that great papers are always recognized. There's a lot more variety than that.

Some great papers are recognized in manuscript. Some are hailed within the year of their publication. Some are rejected because the reviewer is an archrival of the chairman of the author's department. Some are rejected because the author is of the wrong religion or ethnic group. Some are published to moderate applause and then forgotten about for thirty years, at which point someone accidentally finds them and realizes that the authors were decades ahead of their time. Some would have been immediately given prizes if their authors were half as good at writing as they were at thinking. Some are recognized as interesting, but people with a vested interest in a different viewpoint try to pretend they're not interesting for as long as possible. Some are universally recognized as true but the authors are burnt at the stake anyway...

History is more interesting than fiction. Fiction which doesn't find an audience simply disappears, so it must generally be believable, and it must not make its audience too uncomfortable. History is under no such constraints.
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If you're going to post a story with a pay wall/login wall, please also post the TL;DR.
Even just separate buttons for "funny" and "informative/insightful" would be pretty nice on reddit or HN.

Slashdot's comment moderation system always seemed to work pretty well to me. The general editorial quality is what made me give up on them. (When I checked back recently, most submissions were incredibly blatant flamebait.)
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Two things:

1: give it a rest, you've made yr point and been voted appropriately.

2: do not compare killing hollywood akin to invading another country. You're pushing the point off on to a tangent that does nothing to serve the conversation.

That said, I'm 100% for 'killing hollywood'. Their arguments are bullshit and their lobbying efforts just go to show how corrupt the system has become. How does the mpaa/riaa/copyright cartels equate to "we the people" at all? These cartels hide behind the shield of "jobs will be lost" when in reality, we all know this is just a line of bullshit and translates into 'we need to maintain our dying industry'.

I agree wholeheartedly with the 'pirates', non-pirates, normal folks, etc, when they say kill the dying beast. The world will not end if Spielberg or Lucas can't make another movie again or Metallica can't put out another cd. These are incumbents who have nothing to contribute to society anymore and are living off their legacy.

These industries cripple innovative progress for the common good of all people. They are beyond corrupt in their tactics, government inflict, and like Marco says, they really do hate us. The system has been unfairly been tipped to their favor by money. Because of this, and as an artist myself, I have no problem with people downloading and distributing whatever they want. I'd much rather have an Internet that still works and a thriving society than a society in the iron grip of a few select groups and milked for every cent they have.

Besides taking action like we've done against sopa, we also need to remember to vote with our wallets when needed.

Please, kill hollywood and the music industries as they exist now.
Good question. There are some institutional pressures--the person who lobbied for your appointment happens to be an editor of a paywalled scientific journal publisher. It's also a way to learn about the literature. But increasingly I'm turning down requests to referee for such publishers, in favor of open access journals and conferences. The opportunity cost in refereeing a paper is a subsidy to publishing companies--one I can't afford to pay.
I think you can use Google TV ads for about $1 per 1000 viewers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peqnSTBnTVk
Right, but that's politics since before Ike's farewell speech and the whole reasoning behind the Federal Elections Committee. Things are not so black and white. A donation can be as much freedom of speech as can be bribery. What the FEC and related Acts that define it do is to draw (I hope) clear lines in the sand differentiating the two.

I'm well aware that people don't like it and I'm not sure why people are suddenly surprised by Dodd's attitude toward campaign donations. Politics are all about influence. Simply because he wished his donations affected politics in his way doesn't make it bribery in the legal sense of the term.

If anything is surprising to me, because I'm inherently cynical about the political process (some of my best friends work as Senate aides and analysts and have no shame telling me how truly depraved the creation of a bill can be; to them, PIPA was a third-tier issue destined to be lost in bureaucracy should it have passed) it's that SOPA/PIPA have been effectively killed precisely because many politicians aren't necessarily beholden to their donators, that influence from an outside party made a huge difference.

So really, this shouldn't be a question about this one thing that Dodd or any other lobbyist thinks about their money's influence (or lack thereof) on the political process. We should be questioning the nature of money in politics in general. Ike was right, and things have only gotten much, much more incestual since his farewell address. But, as the saying goes, we get the rulers we deserve, especially when big tech, despite their size and money advantage over Hollywood, seems uninterested in playing the same games that Hollywood plays on Capitol Hill.
Why worry about Chinese workers making iPhones, eventually robots will be making them anyway.

In addition most of the value of an iPhone is in the design and marketing, which is primarily done in the U.S.
I think that qualifies as industrial espionage. There are laws that forbid that behavior. And it is punishable with jail time. I don't know how many CEO's are willing to bet their necks doing that.
Because the tools to manipulate WebM/VP8 don't seem to be as mature yet. It still requires significant hassle to keep FFMPEG-based tools up to date, for example.
If only they had heirarchical reddits...

/r/comp/sys/hp48

... and an archive like DejaNews or Google Groups (back when it used to actually work) to record everything for future reference.
I find David's position to be reasonable. Also, if he feels that Haskell (with a little Objective-C glue code) meets his current business and technical needs better than Scala, that is his decision to make, and based on his technical abilities I would bet that he made a good decision.
"Honestly, what do you think YCombinator can bring to the table that isn't already there?"

The attitude that things are wrong with the industry, and it can/should be done better.
The more that I read about this, the more I get the feeling that there were specific political reasons to target this individual. I don't know how a country like Iran would even know he developed some software. He probably was outspoken against the regime.
The video in the article is a very good summary.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/20/business/the-i...
The video game industry is indeed bigger than Hollywood but that doesn't mean that it cannot become any bigger to harm Hollywood. As long as the content is engaging and fun for viewers, it will eventually eat into Hollywood's revenue pie.

I believe that currently, in order to "kill" Hollywood, the first step is to shrink the role of the middlemen by enabling content creators to distribute and market their content effectively online. In fact, the internet has provided a great way to do just that (it is the perfect distribution and marketing channel)! All of us are constantly sharing and reproducing the content and this helps expose users with all sorts of content. Now if there is a startup which focuses on "following" and "chasing" the content and sell products related to the content itself, I believe that many users will buy the products that interest them. For instance, when we watch "Mission Impossible" we may be interested in the music tracks, the movie DVD, the clothes that the characters are wearing, toys & merchandises etc. If more products are being sold, this is a reflection of the quality of the content itself. Product companies would then want to sponsor and fund for quality content creators to carry on producing content. Apart from that such a platform may allow more quality content to be placed on Youtube where users are abundant!

The next step is to make content interactive. PG mention "what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?" and I thought of the notion of having the viewers of the content to dictate the direction of the show and making the content engaging that it makes me feel like I am part of it. Currently in many games (esp rpg) I decide the route/path that the character follows and this leads to different game endings. This can be applied to movies as well. A movie can have 4 parts and after each part, the movie may request me to buy a certain choice (eg. the character has 3 roads to choose, which do you choose and this will dictate the progression of the story) or product (there are 3 guns to choose, buy 1 from your local store lol! and key in product keycode or something). This can tie in very well with the idea on paragraph 1 where product companies can help sponsor for the video production.

What do you think about these ideas? I am working on idea 1 and I would be keen for some feedback and would love for people to contribute to this startup. Hit me up!
Shouldn't someone suggest credible OA journals to use instead of Elsevier's?
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Not exactly. Check out the Dwolla FAQ:

http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/87210-dwolla...
Why doesn't Apple assemble iPhones here in the USA? It's all in the economics. Cheap skilled labor, fast and easy access to components, unregulated work conditions - none of this is possible in the USA.

A long article that does little to provide any insight into how we can solve this problem.
Thanks. It's a damn shame this didn't make it to the front page. It's a lot of fun.
Online library of research papers.
Cool result. Another reminder that just because something is self-organizing that doesn't make it benevolent.
I read a paper in grad school on the Chord protocol that could be used for implementing a distributed DNS. I'm not aware of any serious attempts to use it in practice.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/papers/paper-ton.pdf
This is quite important. The main lock in effect of a Elsevier journal is the impact factor. Researchers careers are made on the regard for their papers, and the most visible component of that is the citation rate. The academics who can afford to refuse to publish in Elsevier journals are the well known and well regarded ones. So getting the top academics - such as Gowers - to publicly disavow Elsevier is the first step.
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If feds can bust Megaupload, why bother with anti-piracy bills?
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If you go to the nyt home page, you can watch the video for free. Just click the link then the logo.

The video made a very good, straight forward argument, highly recommend watching.
Most of the perceived value of an iPhone is in the design and marketing.

But surely the employment value of an iPhone is still largely in the manufacturing. How many employees at Apple do you think is directly involved in the design and marketing of it?

Versus the number of Foxconn employees building it?
That's what Louis CK did with his web release right?
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I think the reason behind this title it to attract more eyes to the story. Jobs sells. Palm CEO ? Who care what palm' CEO says?

Yahoo News is a notorious example of using the titles to make people read the full story. And I think it's pretty common elsewhere.
I think he meant a third thing, the monetary value. Of every $500 you pay for an iPhone, only $180 goes to China for manufacturing.
Yeah, they are basically a full service marketing firm but they don't think of themselves that way. I've never worked in a label but I have talked to several people who have and they think of themselves more as a grooming service. In other words they prepare the artist on how to be famous as well as make them famous. Every label thinks they are in the mold of Motown. And if you have ever read up on Motown then you know that they had very tight control of their artist. From image, to song selection and everything else in between.

I think that any model that handles the X Factors easily for artist would be the one to beat the record labels. I have a bunch of different ideas in my head competing with each other on what would be the best way to do this. I'm still lost on what is the correct one. I just know that it can be done.
> You're assuming that someone who cc'ed me on something doesn't want a response right now.

I'm just focusing on this, not to argue with you, but to point out something that irks me.

If you want a reply from me, send an email TO me. If you simply want me to be aware of something at some point, CC is fine. But if you want a reply, and you CC me, you've given me no indication without me having to read the email.

I despise the practice of using CC as if the TO field can only contain one email. I make it a point to send an email TO people I want a response from, and CC those who don't need to respond.
Peeked at data - lots of duplicates, lots of errors (ie. missing email, empty line, etc).

So probably ~80k of accounts.

Hopefully someone finds time to do proper analysis.. :)
Would unions come into the equation?
looks like it has all the requirements. I'll dig in deeper and see. thanks.
The plant sophistication there in China is staggering: workers are not treated well, but the factories, infrastructure, and processes are state of the art.

Now, I know I might downvoted (because this is quite touchy subject) but I do want ask this question:

If US does not have sophistication, talent, and infrastructure to make production of iPhone, then how US armed forces can maintain its world's dominance?

This is in relationship to the story about drone begin hacked and down in Iran: it seems to me that US armed forces probably do not even know what they don't know.
It's odd for them to go back and forth between claiming that the US lacks the skills required and talking about a Chinese iPhone factory where thousands of workers hand assemble components during a 12-hour shift they suddenly started at midnight. The average factory job is not rocket science and the average factory worker learns what they're supposed to do on the job.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. It sure raises questions about fair access though. The rhetorical question would be 'what if the TV ad you want to run espouses a point of view antithetical to the views of cable and television broadcast media empires?' I may find out.
Yep. This is the intention to start with. Provide a maximum budget for each day / campaign and target channels that reach the widest audience.
I still don't see how Dwolla is different than a young PayPal. PayPal has offered free, ACH-funded person-to-person payments for 12 years. You only start getting charged 2.9% when you upgrade to accept credit cards; PayPal could drop the fee for ACH-funded payments any time they want to undercut Dwolla.

What is Union Square Ventures betting on?
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Exactly what I was referring to.
I find this interesting:

"Second, it’s irresistible to anticipate the future and expect the problem to grow in a certain direction. Thus code is added to facilitate future changes, which rarely occur. This is a good strategy, but can be put off until the future arrives."

Should we even know what the future is likely to hold? I'm in a big corporate - perhaps that skews things where I am, but we have a relatively clear roadmap for the next couple of months at least, and I am loath to ignore that, although I am mindful of the problem mentioned as well: I don't try to solve future problems before we get there.

Should I cease specifically allowing for them?

NB the organisation I am working in allows approximately 2% of developers' time for refactoring.