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Campaign finance reform and biased media coverage are different beasts entirely. Murdoch owns Fox whether corporations are people or not, and he loves your disparaged argument. Besides, I'd rather be lied to in the face by the news that have my senators bought and sold behind closed doors.

Also, all of the plan you propose is already happening. It's called the creative process. I bet a large portion, if not the majority, of your entertainment is now facilitated by self published content given away for free on the internet. Youtube videos, remixes, wikipedia, flickr, twitter, facebook updates. All of this stuff is 'High Quality' culture that is available to you for free.

Copyright is great. It's necessary. It facilitates things like Creative Commons and the GPL. Abusive copyright holding organizations on the other hand are not so great. They exist only to exert control over their holdings and have recently risen to unprecedented levels of power because of the money we directly give them.

To call a boycott against these organizations futile is to miss the point of the boycott. It's not about putting them out of business. It's about awareness and slowly changing the overall public perception of an issue so fundamental and important as copyright reform and voting with your dollars.

So try not to get so discouraged and remember you give them the power. Seriously. Vote with you dollars (and with a ballot).
You know what the next bill will be called, don't you? Probably something along the lines of "Saving the Internet Act". There actually is one called OPEN, which I do believe was a more offensive way to make SOPA retreat made with good intentions by those who fought against SOPA, but it's one of these "compromise bills", and there are still problems with it. I don't think it's ok to cut the financing of a site before it can even defend itself. You can't just "streamline" the justice process. Everyone needs a fair trial if they are accused of something. The Feds have already abused their power with M
Counterfeiting & piracy cost 1000s of #jobs yearly #pipa

If he wants to protect or create jobs, he should introduce a bill banning the use of computer graphics. Then we can all go back to the 1980s when thousands of low-skill people were employed to organize and manipulate sets and tiny models.
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Ctrl-[ is escape, so if your caps lock is a control key you only need to move your pinkies a tiny amount to hit escape.
Sure, I prefer the 9-10% ABV side of things because they tend to be sweeter and 5ounces @ 10% = 1 standard drink equivalent so I can just use the chart. Still, I think people are pushing up the alcohol content to compensate for weighing more.
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This is how it looks without AdBlock.

http://imgur.com/3pOyK
Yeah I agree about the location directive's magicalness being impossible to keep in my head for more than a couple minutes. I spend a fair bit of time configuring nginx and I constantly refer to this page:

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location

I still love it compared to Apache though in terms of ease of configuration.
So is SOPA Dead? Not Exactly
It also gives them time to squeeze more money out of the relevant lobbying groups.
Assuming this is correct, there is an obvious issue: is the movie industry employing a lot of low-skilled people who would be jobless if tech were favored?

Flagged for being really low quality, anyway.
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This is what people use Pinterest for so this site might be a bit too specific to attain a large enough user base. Might want to make it Pinterest for travelers or something instead rather than bucket list... make it broad.. there's already plenty of social sites for traveling, so that means there's a need.
I am not a NetBSD developer. I put in the title what I felt, but did not intend to initiate a flame-war on licenses, and therefore edited the title.

I don't think the NetBSD community complains anything about such issues. (At least I don't see it anywhere in their discussion forums).
Google search has ads on the top, but it isn't top-heavy.
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About the author:
At Facebook, he was technical lead in charge of Facebook's Pages, Facebook's "Like" button, and was responsible for Facebook Beacon

I guess I am just not seeing "greatness" here.

In the pickup artist world, there is a phrase called "keyboard jockey" used to describe people who love to type ideas and tips about meeting women but in reality, they are just recycling ideas they have read and spend very little time actually talking with women. Keyboard jockeys are not respected and called out on.

I'd argue the tech world is increasingly getting filled with keyboard jockeys - folks who can write and preach seemingly-inspiring shit all day but don't actually eat their own dog food. /rant
You use Adblock, yes? That's kinda the whole point.
Here is the problem with this solution...the sacrifice is too large, from too many people. If I and the entire HN crowd (say 1,500,000 people?) decide not to watch any more movies - while that may depress their earnings a bit...I would think the net effect would be about a 20% reduction in earnings. The vast majority of HNers probably don't buy every single movie they watch.

So, the real solution needs to be one that is incremental and can be adopted more mainstream. I don't know what it is, but I don't see 'stop watching all movies' as a realistic goal.
Talking points on news stations are not free. Elections are popularity contests, the more money you have to buy airtime the more chances you get to get citizens to vote for you.
Google's money comes from providing things to click that are relevant. Sometimes those are ads, but most times those are search results. If you click a search result and see nothing but ads, you're less inclined to continue to use Google. A balance has to be made between advertising and non-advertising, and all ads is not the right balance.
Media blitzes in battleground states don't pay for themselves. Since records have been kept, the presidential candidate who raises the most cash has won 94% of the time.
I wonder how much Android royalties have to do with this. Which is especially perverse given Google's below-forecast earnings. Heh.
Untrue statement: "The online theft of American intellectual property is no different than the theft of products from a store. It is illegal and the law should be enforced both in the store and online."

It is theft, but it's not quite the same.

If somebody downloads a movie that they could have gotten on a Blu-Ray disk for $20, that doesn't mean the industry is out $20 -- if the person had to pay full price, they might not have gotten the movie at all. Downloads probably do displace purchases to some extent, so it's fair to say that this costs the industry some lesser number, say $5.

This has to be seen in the context of the ecosystem too. I've neither bought nor stolen music in the last year -- I just haven't been looking for music than I haven't already got. This is bad for the music industry, but I'm not stealing from them.

If a person goes to the theatre with his kids every other week and buys an optical disk every so often and also illegally downloads a movie from time to time, the movie industry might not be getting 100% of the cash they want, but they've got an engaged customer who's spending $80 a month on their products and who's always telling his friends about movies he likes. If the music industry tried to tighten the screws on this person because they think they can get $120, they may end up getting $0, just like the music industry ends up getting $0 from me... not because I'm a pirate, but because I'm disengaged.
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> Furthermore, I don't want experience in that, because I recognize that I'm far better off focusing on my strengths than my weaknesses (something eschewed by the self-improvement crowd, but a well-demonstrated fact).

Exactly right. The self-help "guru" scene is based on very little fact (or should I say, based heavily on cherry-picked facts) and instead focuses on "mind over matter", e.g. if you just try harder you'll get it sooner or later (and be damned good!). Absolute snake oil.

> This whole thing stinks of confirmation bias to me.

That's all self-help has ever been: one guy says he has a process, a method, another guy agrees that the first guy was on to something, but he has a slightly different remix that maximizes its effect. Rarely is this stuff based on actual research or science.

Further, I don't really think pg's point was that you can somehow follow a guide to resourcefulness and become resourceful, rather he was making an observation about the quality of "resourcefulness" in some founders, i.e. the founders that ended up being most capable and noting that such people who have said aptitude need but a word to get going. I don't dispute that; I have no experience with it. But I do dispute the notion that you can come up with some method that will make me magically better and base it on nothing but conjecture and confirmation bias.

Edit: Consider this, after ten-thousand hours of practice you might master some craft: but the implication isn't that I can sit idly at my computer, hitting the keys here and there and then after some set amount of time I've magically mastered it. No. Mastery only comes after countless hours, days, weeks, months, years, even decades of passionate and careful dedication; no guide is going to make you suddenly better at something you lacked talent in without significant investment. And well, once you're investing passion and time, what do you need some guide for?
Adding transposition I've thought about, and received a number of requests for, but never got around to doing it. The reason isn't performance, but doing a change like this would get quite involved with the guts of the library, and I simply don't have the time...
I like Python, but how do they plan on teaching recursion with a language that doesn't optimize tail recursion?

Oh, I see, just give them trivially small data sets: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/labs/lab8/lab8...
Why do you expect the ITC to do any better? Remember this story from last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371392 ?
Because they like their job and want to continue to have it next January?
He's talking about campaign funds. $1 Billion is a little high though.

According to Wikipedia for the 2008 presidential election, Obama raised $779 million and McCain did $383 million. There were 148 canidates and all total the 2008 election raised $1.64 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_for_the_2008_United...
DDG is far from solving the problem of generating useful results. It is mostly just wikipedia plus some chaff.
This is the reason why we need to reframe this bill to being about rent-seeking.

The money leaving the industry isn't resulting in many lost jobs. It is resulting in lost revenue from rent-seeking activities. How much is highly debatable.

TBH, we need to be addressing the issue of rent-seeking activities in general. My favorite explanation of rent-seeking that highlights the problem with it is that rent-seeking is when someone seeks to take a bigger slice of an existing pie, instead helping make that pie bigger.
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To add to point #1 above, not only are most teachers willing to help out students, but do you really want to be recruiting reviewers who are trying to make $10 a pop?

My gut feeling would be that people reviewing student work because it means something to them would do better work than those who are in it for a token amount.
I am sorry if I didn't made it clearer. Of course, you don't need to know Haskell to follow this tutorial in particular.

But it is clear in my mind, you must know Haskell to do something useful with it. And in particular, make a web application, even if using a web framework.

As you stated, Haskell is not a language you could learn in 3 hours like I learned the bases of Python. It takes a very long time to learn, particularly when you're not used to functional programming.

But an intent of this tutorial was to promote Haskell. Clearly, if someone want to do something a bit more useful, he will very soon realize he must understand Haskell.

I added a specific advice in my conclusion similar to yours and pointing some essential resources.
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(I am so gonna get dinged, now :-))
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From the comments, it seems the passwords were hashed but they're (rightly) still concerned.

Unfortunately, there still seems to be some confusion about when/if the password reset has taken place, and whether users should change them now, wait for Dreamhost, or both (and then update them again after the reset!)
also, an HN'er posted his notes on Andrew Ng's class on ML...I learnt more from this than from the videos, as the videos take much too long.

link: http://holehouse.org/mlclass/
From Smith's statement:

"“The problem of online piracy is too big to ignore. American intellectual property industries provide 19 million high-paying jobs and account for more than 60% of U.S. exports. The theft of America’s intellectual property costs the U.S. economy more than $100 billion annually and results in the loss of thousands of American jobs."

I would really love to see him break those numbers down and describe how they got to those exact numbers. Many of the politicians are throwing some big numbers around so surely they have some type of formula that led them to that result. If anyone here has any idea please let me know!
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Seriously, though, they might need to look at getting chip manufacturers to up the low-power-core count on each chip to make these packages fit together more efficiently.
i'm pretty amazed that they didn't do this a long time ago... sites with no content above the fold have been a problem for a long time...
It's not theft. It's copyright infringement.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theft

The phrase "intellectual property" is a misnomer. It's like saying "corporate personhood".
I've seen a lot of evidence that Googlebot evaluates Javascript in a page. For one thing, I've got a site that has Facebook Connect on it, and I see Facebook's bot following on the heels of Googlebot. They work together just like those crabs that work in teams to cut up starfish...
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Coming from lisp/scheme, this is my least favorite corner of Python.
A "SOPA exemption" isn't going to protect you if you are hosting in the US. You need a DMCA exemption. And if you're reaching audiences the size of YouTube's or Megaupload's, Vivendi will see you in court.

If you have no US-based servers, and if Bananastan has no treaty cooperation with the US on IP infringement and extradition, then shutting you down is not so easy for Vivendi (FBI/DOJ) to accomplish.

For that they need more than what they have now (DMCA) to work with.
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Different is risky. Consider, for example, lighttpd, another lightweight Apache alternative. It was chosen for a certain project at a former workplace of mine. Not too very long afterward, significant problems with memory leaks started occurring on the deployments that used it, and I found myself tasked with fixing them.

I was unprepared and somewhat astounded to find that lighttpd does not support sending "large files" over CGI, FastCGI, or proxy connections, and the maintainers don't care (cf. http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/1283 ...)

Besides the waste of engineering time, customers were impacted.
This change also needs to penalize pages with full screen ads that are not always being shown (NY Times among others do it). Can anyone at Google confirm or deny whether these types of pages are being penalized?
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Informal poll: is it within a teacher's rights to forbid the use of such a service on their assignments? You know, "I want to see YOUR work, not an underemployed English major's work." If I were a teacher and I thought my wealthier students were turning cash into better essays not thru tutoring (learning) but simply paying someone to spruce it up, I'd do what I could to ban the practice. It's not fair to other students and it makes it difficult or impossible for a teacher to accurately gauge a student's own skills.
English is my first language, and I have no idea of what he's talking about.
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Here is a document describing git best practices which has been liked by some of the most knowledgeable git users out there.

Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices https://gist.github.com/1540906
Thanks for your kind words about http://www.essayjudge.com While it's true that our service is free, it does come at the cost of the publication of one's essay. I had several (<15) requests last semester for private essay reviews (which I did) for a fee (which I turned down). Since I'm reaching a relatively small number of students (<20k/month), there may still be a viable market for OP's service. Whether OP has the price point right, I don't know. I don't see how cost of advertising/teacher pay/etc. doesn't outstrip profit at $12/essay. Perhaps it could work if OP is an seo magician. In any case, I applaud jjets for not just creating another cheater site. I can share some experience and maybe stats with you (jjets) if you are interested; you can email me at bbquigley using google email.
This is actually a fantastic article, I'm glad I stumbled upon it.

"If, however, you've got very limited savings, and failure will propel you back into a corporate environment and a job you hate, then it might be better to focus on achieving survival and comfort first. That's easier with an idea that's within your reach." pretty much describes my situation!

Daniel, do you have an article where you're recommending a path for a solo entrepreneur that might eventually lead him to attracting cofounders? Anything in the pipeline perhaps? I imagine it'd be along the lines of "work on what's within your reach, have both the idea and your own execution so far be attractive enough that someone will want to join forces with you".

Also, if your idea reach is for 1 person worth of work, why would you even need a cofounder?
if you just try harder you'll get it sooner or later (and be damned good!). Absolute snake oil.

I'm willing to say that, yes, if you focus on something long enough, you probably will make great strides toward competency in it. The 10,000 hour thing seems pretty valid. But the question, to me, is: why? The opportunity cost is quite high. Am I better off spending 500 hours focusing on learning to schmooze and network, or spending that 500 hours focusing on my technology skills and, notably, creating valuable product in that time? Improving a weakness for the sake of eliminating that weakness is what strikes me as snake oil. You're not invalidated simply because you're weak in an area, and often it's far more valuable simply to be aware of a weakness than it is to eliminate it.

Further, I don't really think pg's point was that you can somehow follow a guide to resourcefulness and become resourceful

I agree. My takeaway from pg's essay was that founders who are both technical and socially/schoozily/network-ily gifted will be more successful than those which are merely technically gifted. That was sort of a "no duh" for me, but perhaps there's an insight there that I'm not seeing.
I'm wondering if job losses among high schoolers and teenagers are even a problem we should be concerned with.

I may be completely off base here, but with the exception of gas money in suburbs, I imagine that most of the income from jobs performed by people in high school is discretionary income spent on entertainment (because food and housing are still provided by someone's parents). Now I know this is not universally true, especially in low income communities, but I imagine that loss of discretionary income among this segment of society is adequately replaced by cheap or free internet content.

I would even suggest that society shouldn't even worry too much about the loss of discretionary income that is mostly being spent on goods whose price is falling together with the loss in purchasing power for those goods.
I apologize in advance for the nitpick, but this is one of those things that just bugs me.

Accuracy and precision are not synonyms. Accuracy refers to how close you are to the true value. Precision refers to how narrow your claimed value is.

As applied to history, the statement that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor at 9:33:12AM Mountain Time on July 4th, 1953 is extremely precise, but horribly inaccurate. Meanwhile, the statement that the Japanese attacked Pearl harbor in 1941 is accurate, but not very precise.
I saw this statement in a guy's sig a few years back, which made me realize why I got into programming in the first place:

"The computer is the game."
Seven drinks in four hours, at a nice restaurant with friends? Of course he didn't get into a fight.
"and your ready to roll"

seriously?
All sorts of things become more efficient over time. Less people are employed in accomplishing them as technology is deployed.

This is not a bad thing. It is the reason we have the standard of living that we have.

So waving a jobs number around as a justification for something is somewhat dubious. What matters is the benefit derived for the cost of doing it.

If something were invented that healed all illness instantaneously, health care would be over as an industry. But the resources freed up would be spent on other things, with jobs in those areas increasing.

The same thing happened when we automated farming, manufacturing, basket weaving. Its how an economy evolves.
No idea why this was downvoted but it rings true to me. I can't imagine myself as a (co)founder, even employee #1/2 is pushing it. And still I'd rather get screwed over financially in a startup hacking on stuff I find interesting than slaving away at a MegaCorp doing "enterprise" CRUD apps.
Campaign money also comes from people though, so if enough people care about an issue then even politicians who only care about raising money will respond. A quick google search shows that a large amount of Obama's money comes from individual donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/10/grassroots-donors-sw...) so he has a strong incentive to do popular things.

Someone else posted that people who raise more money tend to win elections, but this could also be caused by the more popular candidate raising more money. People might also be more willing to send money to a candidate if they think that candidate will win since no one wants to waste money on a losing candidate.
You're right, my apologies for going overboard with a non-justified argument. When I succeed in looking further than my tech-savvy like-minded friends, I fall into the trap of thinking about other people about my age.

I don't know about you, but my facebook stream has been polluted with dozens of messages crying over what happened to megaupload (and not because they had there work uploaded on it), which (wrongly, I know admit) let me to think that everybody knew about megaupload shadiness.

Now as you and others rightly pointed out, I forgot about the rest, maybe the majority of people who used in a totally legal way.

Anyway, point taken !
somehow i dropped the words 'not' out of 'a community i personally completely identify with'. I blame acute lack of caffeine. my shipment of Tonx coffee was delayed 2 days on account of MLK day and the local postal worker.

my apologies.