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my point exactly, yet in a free market economy the rich have a lot more money to 'vote' than the poor. Wealth is inherited (for no valid reason).

Poor families stay poor, rich stay rich.

In our political metaphor, it is the same as totalitarianism, the powerful stay powerful through use of force, and weak stay weak.

Why do the same people advocate polar opposites regarding politics and economy?
> 2. Make assumptions, like that HN's readers are predominantly male. Sure, the probably are, but who knows for sure? If I was asked for my gender when I signed up, I responded randomly. Reliable demographics are simply not available.

It's well-documented that men significantly outnumber women in the software industry (and other high-tech industries). Why is it unreasonable to expect that HN reflects this imbalance? It would seem more odd for there to be an imbalance in the industry in general but perfect equality on HN.
The same also happened in Finland, and piraattilahti.fi was created. Subsequently that domain was amended to the court order to be blocked. After that the domain was set to point to local EFF's site, but it remains blocked.

The court ordered also 3 IP addresses to be blocked, so it's not just a DNS block. In my opinion, IP blocking is way more serious than removing a few DNS entries.
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If you have open-source projects on github, you should really checkout travis (http://travis-ci.org/). Travis is also able to run tests in different php environments and can be hooked into github to tests whenever you commit! :)
I did not mean to say it is not major. I just intended to clarify that this is an injunction against the companies, not a block at the national level as is the case with the Great Firewall of China and SOPA. This being an article written in Dutch and HN being in English :)
There are many computer training center around today
In today’s age there is a crunch of time and money and in such a scenario one needs to act smart and grasp the best possible way to utilize both. Focusing majorly on the younger generation who nowadays are following the pattern to multi-function, having to study and probably work or help in various indifferent ways.
I expect the trend of anti-piracy blocks to be on the rise for the next 5-10 years. In that time, it should become apparent to everyone that it's a futile practice and hopefully the internet will become more free. The alternative is that we will live in a totalitarian society and I certainly hope that won't happen.

The internet was engineered to withstand a nuclear war, it's not going to be brought down by a few politicians and lobbyists.
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There is nothing wrong with openID. just that it has not taken off on a large scale as one would want. I suspect OAUTH to have become more prevalent.
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I've done basically exactly the same thing. Much of the webapp is written in python, but the core performance critical part is written in C++. There basically wouldn't be any other way to make that particular app work, and this approach worked really well.

That being said, I never felt particularly inclined to write the whole things in C++.
Our Design/Technology teachers took a similar approach - we had a checklist of "How to get 100% in your coursework by ticking the boxes" parts to rush through, and then a real focus on building something cool and learning DT properly. Again, a private school.
I don't think he said that $6,612 is the cost of licensing its photo. He said he considers $6,612 the "replacement value", should someone publish it in a magazine without licensing first. So it's more akin to distributing for profit a movie you don't own any rights too.

I don't see why he would use this value as a basis for damages incurred though, since even someone publishing his photo without licensing it, hasn't taken (stolen) the photo from him. "Replacement value" has no meaning in this digital context.

In my opinion, there's no relation whatsoever between the cost of taking the photo and the damages he should seek. I think the damages should be correlated with the licensing value of the photo, majored appropriately for not acquiring licensing prior to using it.
No, only G_D may sell photos of nature.
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What if the photo was crap, would he not deserved to be paid?
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I'm also a photographer, and I don't really buy into this particular philosophical argument.

The problem with photography is that you're never dealing with ORIGINAL ART. When John or I give a JPEG to a magazine or website, we're not _losing_ anything. This is the same argument that the RIAA and MPAA have tried to spin for over a decade.

I sell prints of my photos, and as long as no one else sets up shop and starts selling cheaper copies, I don't see a problem with sites and magazines using my photos.

The basic gist is: You have spent $6k. You can either have your photo in some magazine, or not. You can have that free publicity, or not. The only way you are 'losing' money is if the magazine would've paid you in the first place -- but again, for a non-original piece of art that they're (almost certainly) not getting an exclusive license on... the going rate isn't very much anyway.
I think you have a valid point but from the yes/no discussion that is happening here do you have any recommendations for alternatives? in terms of best practices for Flask App Structure
Actually, and maybe I'm missing something, they are quite wrong. Yes you pay a VAT on components, but as a business you reclaim it and pass it down the line.

Import components -> (pay VAT) build item (reclaim VAT) -> (pay VAT) wholeseller (reclaim VAT) -> (pay VAT) retailer (reclaim VAT) -> (pay VAT) buyer.

As long as you are engaging in commerce you never pay VAT on the items you for your business. Also, there are electronic schemes to speed up the reclamation process. If you have a business ¿TaxID? number some resellers will drop the VAT for you knowing they'll reclaim it anyway.
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I believe that more than the fact that researchers don't care, is that researchers are evaluated largely by their publications, both on number and on 'impact'. I just so happens, that the journals with most impact are those that have been long established. These have a track record, a respectable editorial board, and thus researchers try to save up their best work for these types of publications. Disrupting this cycle would require new open journals (or conferences with relaxed copyright policies for their proceedings, especially in the CompSci field) with high quality standards and a respected editorial board. The problem is that there is no real incentive for this to happen, and a strong incentive to publish in the well-respected venues. Hence, the status quo persists...
No, you understand that you want to be rewarded.

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Administrating servers over IPv6 without having to put a public IPv4 address on the server is pretty damn awesome.
Awesome.

I just cant describe how awesome Moglen is.

A "journalist" wants a story, a complete article, so she doesnt have to think - get this she says " I was hoping you might be ableto help me think about this particular" - she wants him to think for her! She could as well have told him to please write the article for her in full, but she will take the credit and money. Then he still serves her an idea and a very fruitful thesis which she could write several articles about if she would pull her finger out of her ass for once.
A replacement value is only relevant if it has to be replaced - if I use his photo without permission in a magazine or a website, he still has the photo, no replacement needed.

While I am not denying him of the photo, I would of course be denying him of the revenue he would have earned had I licenced it from him, and would be entitled to demand that, and some more. If he had said that he would sue for $6k in punative costs, fair enough. Or even if he had said that he values his art at that price, and therefore that is what he charges for a single license.

Take Hollywood as an example, when they go after someone for illegally downloading a film they don't ask for the cost of a cinema ticket, or a cost of a DVD, they want a lot more than that. They don't however say "this film cost us £40m to create, that is it's replacement value, you now owe us £40m for downloading it".
Does he expect to receive $6,612 each time anyone buys the photo, or $6,612 is the total amount needed to release the photo into public domain?
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IRC.

I worked for home for 18 months. What made the most difference for me was having an IRC session open all the time with my 8-9 colleagues. We only talked about work issues there (more-or-less). It gave me what I missed, which was:

- the casual non-formal interaction mechanisms with my colleagues (like just popping over to their desk to ask something),

- it made me feel less alone

- gave me a reason to get up and start work in the morning (as others would see when I logged in, a bit like when others see when you get to the office in the morning)

- it made me feel part of the team.
Indeed. It's not about (power-hungry) programmers. Programmers are important right now because they make things possible, but in the end it's about humans connecting to humans in ways, and at a scale, never before possible. People are suddenly connected across borders, bypassing and outmaneuvering the old, slow, hierarchical institutions. Though I don't think traditional politics will go away any time soon, this is bound to have far-ranging unexpected effects in the future (what we're seeing right now is only the beginning).
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So what if three magazines commit copyright infringement on the same photo? Does it cost $19836 now? Ridiculous.

Guess what, here's[1] 325000 photographs of sunsets anyone can use on their magazine for free. You've just been priced out of the market.

[1]: https://secure.flickr.com/search/?l=comm&q=sunset
Is he paying Frou Frou royalties for streaming their song on his professional [1] for-profit website?

[1] http://www.johnbmueller.com/index2.php?v=v1
Rick Santorum is not attacking a straw man, he is stating his honest, if misguided, beliefs.

Moglen is not attacking a straw man, he is stating his honest, if misguided, beliefs.

You could now attack a point completely unrelated or only superficially related to his rants about gay marriage and that would be a straw man. You could also, however, argue for or against his points with your own argument.

This is true. Additionally, one could point out the good things about gay marriage. That's a perfectly reasonable approach.

Specific to the Moglen argument, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to argue against his points because I agree with a lot of them. However, I think the benefits are more important and I won't sit still and let only one side of the argument be presented.

How would you suggest I should present benefits of social networking without you calling me a troll or saying my argument is a strawman?
He's being slightly facetious, I'd think, but: $6,612 is the amount he claims it would take the 'thief' to recreate the photo on their own. (Of course, he's only talking about material costs; he could easily claim $300,000 and get away with it, but anyway.) Thus, if the thief uses the photo inappropriately, since it "should" have cost 6k, that's what the lawyer will charge. In theory.
I think he expects to receive $6612 every time someone commits copyright infringement by using the photo without a license.
Maintaining and building strong relationships across three social networks is a difficult task for time poor engineers.

How do tech personalities best handle the time split between Twitter, Google+ and Facebook accounts. Do they have a favourite account and copy posts to the other two? Or are each fulfilling a role unique enough to warrant individual attention.

Sometimes it seems the easiest way out is to shut down the least favourite account and focus 100% on the remaining.
A nuanced position is exactly my point.

In this article he only presents the negatives.
Indeed! I have been quite pleasantly surprised lately with the more constructive discussions around PHP related items. The LOLPHP posts have been at a minimum (I don't mind genuine criticism).
Unfortunately, I really agree with this analogy. I can see this move to programming being beneficial for England's IT sector but I don't think it will be popular when implemented in schools. I hope it is though! Many students will really love learning to code but I can see a far greater proportion of others taking a real dislike to it. Overall, I guess it depends on the methods in which it is taught.
"On the other hand, it allows quicker and easier communication than ever before, and contributed to the Arab Spring to the point where the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are known as "the Facebook revolutions""

From an interview by an 17 year old Tunisian protester when asked how did social media influence the protesters actions:

"Only after we organized and burned down a third of the police stations in less than a day, foreign media asked us about these social media networks. By then it was already to late to use them, they where shut down. We kept burning the remaining police stations."
I think the Google Search, plus Your World explanatory video has some pretty concrete examples on how social can improve search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8...

I especially like the example of Chikoo - a type of fruit, but also the name of someone's dog. By Google knowing that you and your family have a bunch of photos with Chikoo in the caption, it will show you those pictures instead of the fruit.

My dog's name is Milo: http://www.google.co.za/search?q=milo
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They could let those people become teachers without having to go through the rigmarole of largely useless training. The next academic year is nearly eight months away; that's /bags/ of time.

The barriers to entry to teaching are just another reason why so few good people go into teaching.
Bit late to the conversation, and somewhat pedantic, do forgive -

Going from :
>>This is a non-judgmental conclusion. One doesn't have to say that the market state was good or bad, or that the regulated state is good or bad. Simply that a regulated market differs from a free market. That's it.

to

>>Now, given that the system is highly regulated, it's clear that the regulators have screwed up.

is making a jump.

It is not a necessary that the regulators messed up - it is also possible that the parties being moderated, are actively subverting the system.

/pedant

I will agree with your point behind it all - ie that in such a system it is LIKELY that there is fault by the regulators.
This type of fault, the extent of responsibility for the final outcome, these are complex questions which need more than just stating that the regulators were out of line.

You could say that X and Y are responsible for crime A. The punishment/responsibility would depend on a variety of factors. That is the question that requires answering.
I'm currently experimenting with a hybrid of this and K&R style, that would look like this:

while ((len = getline(line, MAXLINE)) > 0)
if (len > max) {
max = len;
copy(longest, line);
}

if (max > 0) /* there was a line */
printf("%s", longest);

So far I'm finding that it gives good readability, doesn't waste too many lines on braces, and doesn't run into many issues of accidentally leaving braces out.

I started it after having started writing lisp and python, and I'm getting used to just ignoring the braces and going by indentation, which this style emphasises.
The photographer has gone about this the wrong way - the cost is actually his experience and time.

It's like the 'Picasso Principle' where a woman approached Picasso for a sketch, he did something in 5 minutes and quoted her $10,000.

She said 'it only took you 5 minutes' and his response was 'no, it took me a lifetime'.

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Thats insane, why not just port cocos2d itself (I think there might have been an effort before) - after all the original cocos2d was python, so it's been ported across languages before.
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> He said he considers $6,612 the "replacement value", should someone publish it in a magazine without licensing first.

Which is still so obviously moronic, that I don't even know why I bother pointing this out. Replacement value of a photo has to include the price of the camera it was taken with? This would be true if he used a brand new camera for each photo.
How can I use this to better wake up in the morning, instead of groggy with "sleep inertia"? Set an alarm 90 minutes before I want to wake up, plus one when I want to wake up?
> 1) Unable to change content types 2) Funneled into the "Blog" post type, which is simply called "Posts", with no easy way to kill this off and create your own

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_... ?
This seems like an echo chamber counter-example to me. I know where to look for photos of my dog. I Google for things I don't already know.
Just yesterday, however, we had Newt Gingrich of all people saying that capitalism shouldn't benefit the few at the expense of the many, and that the reckless pursuit of profit at the expense of people is a perversion of capitalism. Were it not for OWS, we would never be hearing that (and certainly not from Newt).

I disagree. I think it only has to do with Romney's status as the front-runner. Romney portrays himself as a businessman that knows how to create jobs. Newt is trying to paint Romney as an 80s-style corporate raider. I am fairly certain OWS has nothing to do with it. If Newt was the front-runner, he wouldn't be bringing it up.
He forgot to add the cost of the sun. It took billions of year to make. And the clean environment. I hear that's priceless.
This is something the British actually did during World War II in order to confuse possible invading forces and spies[0].

[0]: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019014
Not all photos of sunsets are equal, just as the huge number of portraits of women doesn't price the Mona Lisa out of the market.

If people decide that this photo has a particular merit, then that is worth something. Of course, that's an entirely subjective issue and will vary from person to person.
I can see OAUTH working for apps/mashups - but not sure how that goes for humans.
Yes, but only because no one wants his crummy photos. Piracy solved! :)
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> Programmers suck at politics. Always have, always will. Programmers are so far removed from the wants and needs of the average human we need translators (managers) to even speak with them

My thought exactly. I was going to read the original article but then I saw something about visualising binaries with space-filling curves and read that instead. I think this is one reason programmers suck at politics.
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> Are financial services ready for the cloud now?

I'm not really sure what you are thinking of with this question, but, AFAIK you can't say that finance has high standards with their IT, I don't think the quality of service and software of a 'cloud' solution can bring any problems per se. Making the whole thing working seamlessly with the 'corporation culture' is another question.
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I would add that nobody trusts the intelligence service here. For example if you are a journalist, or just a public figure, and say something against the government they can tamper your phone as if you were a possible terrorist.
To put it succinctly: "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it."

I agree with it but I'm also inclined to agree with the defeatist attitude the quote represent. Your comment does point out the problem (which is a step in the right direction), but I fear there's no "sustainable in the long run solution" for the problem.

Opinion based news, short attention span, easy consumption of wide array of opinions, consumerism and the resulting sensationalist attention-grabbing behavior of companies/corporates/politicians is disconcerting to common populace and I, very much, count myself in this population. I've been swayed by one or more of these tactics more than I'd like to admit.

Citizens used to be apathetic, will it be better/worse if they become confounded?
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This is actually entirely untrue given the way that Facebook is set up.

The most insidious thing that Facebook has done, is litter the web with their "Like" buttons. Oh sure, they're not the ones who have put up "Like" buttons around the web, all they've done is insist that websites who do want a "Like" button have to use file assets & scripts from their webserver.

Well, by tracking where the "Like" button gets loaded, they can tell what you've been watching out on the web, even if you don't touch the "Like" button. Loading the button is enough. And on that basis, anyone who's set their pages up to use the "Like" button is informing on you. And in turn, your very use of the web becomes part of Facebook's surveillance.
Good news, although it saddens me a bit that this should _be_ news
Hey, no problem. I just don't want to be misunderstood, dude ;-)
Moglen may not have the right to judge but we need noisy people that remind us there is a problem

On HN we sometime need people to remind us there are benefits, too.
And Adobe must like him a lot, since apparently he buys a new copy of Photoshop for each photo he edits.
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Thank you. Even legally buying the film on DVD, he'd be cheating them out of millions with his logic.
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This post reminds me of many a childhood argument I had.
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