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For some reason a large number of people on this site become 'non copus mentis' in regards to Apple, and fall for absurd claims, eagerly swallowing ZDnet tripe.

The whole tone of HN floundering.

If your hoping for Apple to fail you have my sympathies. It is only going to get much, much worse.
No. "Only for that purpose" means that you never use it. This is trivially detected: the OS event logs will report that it hasn't been booted in 6 months, and no files have changed in that time. It's obvious that you haven't been using that system in the time you were out of the country; why did you have it with you?

For this to work, you need to actually use the dummy partition for non-sensitive matters -- and be absolutely religious about separating the sensitive tasks from non-sensitive, which is much more difficult than it first sounds.
I just finished _Dreaming in Code_ Friday night. A deep dive into http://chandlerproject.org/ afterward was one of the more depressing experiences I've had in recent memory: all that effort, abandoned.
Well given the fact I've had SD cards go through washing machines, dryers and even had a DS game get run over by a fully loaded truck and survived.

I guess you could literally eat a MicroSD card and deliver it safely and intact in another country. This would even make it better than smuggling something the old way (swallowing a condom) because an air bubble has the chance of showing up in an x-ray. A MicroSD card would likely be completely invisible. Any copper would obviously show up, but the amount is likely to be indistinguishable from the iron we digest and the iron in our blood that is concentrated around our intestinal walls.
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iBooks kill how many trees? Zero. That is a big win.
$500 million according to what I've read, here in WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020461650...
"You know how a traditional IRA is tax deductible when you invest, and taxed when you withdraw? Just open that up. Money isn't taxed until it's withdrawn, presumably to be spent."

Huh?

You just wrote that money is taxed when withdrawn, then suggested taxing money when it's withdrawn.

Roth IRAs allow you to deduct tax free, because you pay tax on the money before you invest it, generally a good deal for most people, as you don't know what tax policy will be in effect when you come to withdraw it later, but you do know today's tax policies.
Or they could just kill the estate ("death") tax, ensuring that those future billionaires are their descendants.
But eliminate the corporate income tax while you are at it.

Or switch to an integrated tax system like Canada has, where you get dividend tax credits (approximately) equal to the taxes the corporation paid on the revenues which resulted in those dividends.
>With an iPad I get constant light across the whole page all the time.

Hopefully there is a higher-res iPad because my eyes feel more tired after reading an iPad at length. I don't know if that is the main reason (or the backlight) but I suspect it is.

>Page numbers? Page numbers vary per printing of the book depending on its size. It is no better for paper than it is for ebook. In fact, an ebook's word count will be the same across all editions of the book (assuming there aren't any changes).

I keep my books. For example, I still remember my favorite pages in The Catcher in the Rye because I read the same paperback I purchased in HS. It always amuses me to see the notes, in the book, I'd taken during that time.

I don't think that books have lost their romanticism but are giving away to something more efficient.
Maybe the author hasn't read it. He only included the ones he had read.

I'm more surprised that under the title "everyone should read" are three Joel Spolsky books.
From the blogg entry he says:
"I use javascript only for the clock and the jQuery UI Draggable library to have a draggable windows."
Did anyone else have trouble "signing" here? I repeatedly signed in in Firefox 10b, it never let me click the "sign petition" button. Disabled ghostery & adblock, still no dice. Console showed the error "NREUMQ is not defined" but chrome shows the same and it worked there.

http://screencast.com/t/xKdWfW5r3qvE

C'mon whitehouse.gov! Maintaining a user's session: Yes we can!!
Just a quick history on some of America's wealthiest people

Larry Ellison--born to unwed mother, raised middle class

George Soros--poor immigrant to England, worked as a porter and waiter through college

Sheldon Adelson--son of a cab driver and immigrant

Michael Bloomberg--worked as a parking lot attendant to pay his college tuition

Carl Icahn--father was a cantor, mother was a schoolteacher

Leonard Blavatnik--Soviet Immigrant

Harold Simmons--parents were teachers

Harold Hamm--worked his way up from pumping gas and car repair

Andrew Beal--worked through high school fixing televisions

Ray Dialo--son of a jazz musician

Charlie Ergen--started out as a door-to-door salesman

Eli Broad--father was a housepainter, mother was a dressmaker

These are just the people who come from the middle classes and below. Most of the rest had parents who were only doctors or lawyers, or small businessmen (not what I'd call well connected power brokers), and most of them where only 2 generations away from lower class families.
Weight is probably my biggest issue, I have around 2,000 pounds worth of books which makes moving far more painful. After my last move I left most of them in boxes in my closet and if I don't unpack them for my next move I am probably just going to dump them at a library or something.
These are standard interrogation tactics that people need to be prepared for. If you really feel threatened, speak to a qualified layer before you make any decisions, say anything, or agree to anything you don't want to.

Standing up for your rights and privacy isn't always going to be easy. But sitting in detention for a little while is really a small price to pay for your liberty. Plus, you'll waste a lot of public money in the process.
"We are trying to provide a servivce to self-motivated learners."

Ruh roh! :p
> Roth IRAs allow you to deduct tax free, because you pay tax on the money before you invest it, generally a good deal for most people, as you don't know what tax policy will be in effect when you come to withdraw it later, but you do know today's tax policies.

Is there really anything preventing them from changing the way Roth IRAs work, though?
That's a big can of worms. iBooks are assembled out mined materials and in factories that also have an impact on the environment. And think about the conditions for the workers. The conditions in a paper mill in the American northwest are much better than an Apple factory in China. So I guess it depends on what you consider more important, and what you want to support.
Don't hog the karma.

For me, I don't even care so much about the Karma but if one person is submitting 80 stories then it either creates a one dimensional feed (if the user is actually reviewing those articles) or it is automated and there is no guarantee of quality. Either way, I believe that it can only serve to decrease the quality of the site. I would be in favor of submission caps. I mean I read maybe 5 articles a day, that are worth re-posting to a larger audience. So capping it at 5-10 I think would not hurt the site, but stands a chance of improving the new feed (which is where I hang out)
Roth IRAs and 'traditional' IRAs work differently. Roth IRAs are neither taxed or tax-deductible. Traditional IRAs give you a deduction when you invest, deferring the taxes until you withdraw.
doesn't iBooks Author output a proprietary format still? It may be based on ePub but I thought it was still only readable by iBooks.
If you're referring to the "oversubmitting" algorithm,

a) this appears to be turned off by default (line 1535)

b) if turned on it only applies to new users (lines 1539, 1540)

(Disclaimer: this is the first time I'm looking at the source, please correct me if I'm missing something.)
When we notice people doing this we rate-limit them. I just did.
That depends on what your doing. If your coding it's nice to have 50+ books of reference material on hand but I don't want to take that to and from work every day.
should be "and we get 30%" -- you have a typo
I got a kindle 7 months ago and I was given a regular physical book to read this Christmas. I don't know if it's just me but I found it really hard to go back to the book format. Just holding it is much more of hassle. I also love how I can instantly go to the dictionary on my kindle, which also has the serendipity factor! It's not unusual to hop around from word to word on the definitions of the previous one or just finding words which are above or bellow the word I'm looking at! So maybe that serendipity factor isn't all lost after all.
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"Outliers"? Malcolm Gladwell is an entertaining writer, but I really wouldn't take it too serious... extrapolating way too much, and then reaching faux-unexpected conclusions that resonate nicely with what people like to believe.
The license terms are not clear as to whether they lay claim to the output or to anything you create with the app, which would include the content if you use it as your word processor. Certainly a lot of people are giving them a charitable interpretation of it, but if that was their intent, I don't see why they didn't state it explicitly.
New users could start with a 24 hour limit between submissions (86,400 seconds) and get 20 seconds removed for every karma point. Someone with 2000 karma would be able to submit every 12.8 hours. By 4000 you've probably learned that quality beats quantity.
Nobody with "interesting" data (and half a brain) will be physically bringing it across a border.

What's super ironic about this legislation is that it makes local law enforcement's job of actually catching criminals harder. No one's going to get caught at the border with anything but parakeets shoved down their pants. And now criminals are forced to use full-disk encryption and secure delete for everything if they want to travel which will likely lead to more security at home and more obstacles for local law enforcement.
Health insurance is where I care about the fancy perks. If I'm reliant on my company for health insurance, it had better be good health insurance or I'm looking elsewhere.
No, this would be like Apple legally prohibiting you from porting any code you wrote in Xcode to other platforms. It is highly abusive, and sets a dangerous precedent if we allow them to get away with it.
I am not sure if limiting the submissions per day should be our goal. It's obstruction of freedom of speech- which is do not stand for. Even if we limit the user, how are we making the site productive?
The real problem is not that someone has 100K karma, rather, it's that because of this excessive submissions real stories are lost in the mix.

How do we help good stories/discussions come to light?
Karma is a vanity metric, let's look beyond it ya'll
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> Exclusivity is still a very cruddy contractual term for authors, if viewed against the universe of "all possible contractual arrangements", but it is far from uncommon in the publishing world.

It is common in the publishing world to only tell the author about the exclusivity after they've completed their book?
eBooks win big on being able to break the DRM then put it in a speed reading program. Speed reading is a huge time saver, and software support for it is very helpful.

I wonder when they'll allow some decent speed reading GUI option for Kindle or iBooks without breaking the DRM first.
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Ugh...yeah. Just another case of technology confusion.

The bill's bad nonetheless, but one thing's for sure: the ISPs won't be spying on your searches or your banking.
My personal problem with regressive policies is not that it effects peoples quality of life, rather that it affects the lives of their children. People that did not have a choice about which family they are born into.

Consider my own personal story. I come from an upper-middle class family. During high school I wasn't particularly motivated to excel academically and as a consequence didn't get particularly good grades in courses that I should have if I had invested the appropriate time and effort into studying. My parents response to this situation was to hire a tutor and force me to sit down with said tutor and study several hours a week. As a consequence I ended up getting better grades than I should have simply because my parents had the disposable income to spend on tutors. People from disadvantaged backgrounds do not get this same benefit. As a consequence I go on to university and end up getting a higher position on the totem pole because of my parents wealth. The kid who comes from a disadvantaged background and is in the same academic position as me does not get that kind of second chance.

>The next closest "fair" thing to me is a retail sales tax, provided that everyone is provided a stipend to cover the tax paid on basic living expenses.

Consumption taxes are regressive because they penalize the spenders. Bill Gates doesn't spend nearly as much money as he earns and as such pays a lower effective tax rate than someone who makes $30,000 a year and spends it all to support their family.
I'd say something akin to shuffle on an e-reader containing 500 books would approach serendipity.
I might be revealing my stupidity here, but surely your ISP can MITM the HTTPS handshake and decrypt all of your traffic? Unless you have a pre-arranged key that hasn't travelled through their network.
Doesn't do anything on an iPad.
I think it would be fair to say the lions share of comments are not as valuable as the original article. Youtube comments are a perfect example of this.
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There's also the "fair tax" approach. Everyone pays the same tax, but everyone also gets a check from the govt on the amount of tax they're expected to spend up to the poverty level.

The "fair tax" is pitched on the basis of a sales tax. I don't see a reason why this couldn't be off income tax as well.
livefyre does that. If you go to TalkingPointsMemo.com and check out their comment section you can see it in action.

In my opinion it is a little messy only because when you load a page only the top few comments load, but as you scroll down to read more comments, comments that are replies to earlier comments start popping up, and it gets a bit overwhelming trying to follow a comment thread.

I like the idea, I jut think the execution need work.
Music, film industries lobby for the Philippines version of SOPA
The Americans don't realise that proportional representation, compulsory voting, and instant runoff voting is a much better system

I can't comment on instant runoff voting, but my impression from following politics in Europe is that proportional representation creates a situation where all legislators toe the party line, as opposed to still having some degree of independence, as in Britain or the US. This gives an undue amount of influence to a small number of party bigwigs, and the inevitable mess results.

As for compulsory voting, at least in Belgium, it has been credited with fuelling the rise of more extreme parties, notably the anti-immigration Flemish nationalists, since people who feel disenfranchised by the whole system tend to cast a protest vote, without seriously considering the consequences. Also, the notion that you could get fined or jailed for not voting seems to me to be as illiberal an idea as ACTA or the Patriot act.
>they worked for a couple of hours a day gathering food.

It's true there are some climates/geographies that will support some small amount of human life year round with little effort.

There are many others where most of your day will be spent chopping wood, making shelter, and preserving enough food to make it through the winter.
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Is it possible that a website be created that will aggregate thoughtful arguments against such legislation, attach videos, talking points, letter templates and such as well as connect local people that can practically get involved in resisting constant attacks on freedom?

Or is there such a website already?
That seems fair, though it might be better to use average story karma. The bots in question probably have a fair amount of karma just from the sheer number of stories submitted.
Yeah, there's Dimensional package, and I've seen people using algebraic data types, or (RWH) a Units type

http://necrobious.blogspot.com/2009/03/fun-example-of-haskel...

http://flygdynamikern.blogspot.com/2011/04/announce-dimensio...

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/data-structures.html#x...
Right, punish the users for the failings of their government. What are they supposed to do?
Users should be rate limited based on the average score of their last x (say 100) submissions. If their last 100 submissions got an average of 1 (no points) then they should be rate limited to 3 a day. If their average score for the last 100 is above, say, 30, then it's obvious the user is providing real value to the community and their rate limit should disappear.
This is the purpose of certificates.
The Disqus plugin for WordPress can sync comments to your database. That way you still have your comments if Disqus goes down, or you decide not to use it. I still go with native because I prefer the way it looks. :)
"Apple may determine for any reason and in its sole discretion not to select your Work for distribution"

You wouldn't find this in Amazon's EULA? They would publish anything? There's no way Apple would leave that door open.

"And there really isn't anything special or expensive about that software either, there are plenty of free ebook creation software options."

You're selling a different experience here. If you're writing a static book then there is no reason to go this route right now. If you're creating something interactive then this might be something to look into.
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Also, talking to myself now, upon further thought I think the proper parallel here is between employees looking for another job and employers planning on firing/laying off employees. The latter is generally not done in the open, or with any sort of advance notice, thus it isn't clear the former should be either.
They define "Work" vaguely because they're lawyers. Yes, the legal status of the data can depend on how you produced it. No, it's not a problem. Don't first write your book in Apple's app and all your imaginary problems go away. Do anyway and export it as text, your imaginary problem is still there but still imaginary; Apple won't bother you. They just don't want you to sell software produced with their tool on other platforms.
> It is one thing to offer free steaks at lunch (a real perk) vs offering beans and rice every day. [just using it to illustrate a point, not saying Google is serving rice and beans only].

If they just offered (note: it's an offer, not mandatory) beans and rice, then the employees would just go out for lunch, defeating the purpose of the program.

The lunch has to be good enough to keep the employees there.
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"The facility’s central kitchen cooks an average of three tons of pork and 13 tons of rice a day." The massive scale of Foxconn really hit me when I read the amount of food served is measured in TONS per day.
SSL is designed so that only the server with the private key for a specific certificate can complete the handshake correctly for that certificate, and the certificate is tied to the domain name.

The ISP can MITM the handshake and return a different certificate, but unless a certificate authority supported by your browser is complicit, they can't get that certificate signed for the domain you're trying to visit, and the browser will complain.
Your ISP won't be able to get a trusted certificate authority to issue them a cert for "*", which is what they would need to do in order to transparently MITM SSL. They could generate that cert on their own, and maybe install it into the Windows cert store with the "installation CD", but they couldn't intercept your traffic on an unadulterated system.
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Technically no. I suspect it's been around long enough that it may be 'untouchable' like mortgage interest deduction, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's some change in the future which re-taxes x% over your initial base contributions.
someone is a little too self-important lol don't get your panties in a bunch
There are always strings attached. Let's say you give money to support a politician who opposes SOPA. When you give the money you are perfectly free to say "I'm contributing to your campaign because you are against SOPA".

Would it be extortion for you to tell a politician "If you reverse your stance and later support SOPA, I can no longer in good conscience continue to contribute to your political campaign"?
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Buying political influence is generally a high ROI activity. In absolute terms, it may appear expensive, but in terms of "value" its quite cheap.

More importantly, there are other ways to gain political influence outside the DC money flow. The fight against SOPA and PIPA are an example of that.

As for the idea that differences need to be hashed out so a united front can be presented before trying to influence US politics. Even if such an outcome were desirable or possible (I'm not convinced of either), it would be a mistake to wait.

I think, underneath it all, part of the strategy is to create a legislative and regulatory environment that imposes disproportionate costs on upstarts and small players. In such environments, entrenched players can defend their positions.
The thing with certificate is that you have to trust that the certificate authorities won't sell (or give) fake certificate to ISP or government. If they do so, the ISP can MITM you.
Buy it or sue (or don't worry).
You can't ctrl-f a paper book.
biggest downside from my perspective. then again i'm not a typical reader, because it's been far too long since I've read a whole book ( in the sense of reading fiction, or biographies).
to me, the only, but probably one of the most important reasons for still relying on books is that they are less strenuous on the eyes (e ink, is better but less interactive as of now).
This move makes no sense to me. Blocking US users will not stop them from seeking out foreign users uploading 'infringing' content. It's also as easily circumvented as the tactics many Europeans use to access those lame American sites that block Europe.
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