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Mornings are great. Yesterday I woke up at 4 and saw that Facebook Hacker Cup is on. I finished all the problems before my work day started - how awesome is that to start your day?

One thing I don't understand is how people can focus on a couple of projects simultaneously. This year I've worked a lot with javascript and backbone, and I have a folder with ~4 open source projects I wrote that I'm not going to publish. Why? Because then I'll shift my focus from delivering the product to delivering open source.

It takes me a few hours every Sunday and Friday to get in the mood of 'this project is going to kick ass'.
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I stumbled on it last month and was surprised that I'd never heard of it before.
Your employer should only own your work outside of work hours only if you have a non-compete, is directly related to the work you perform, is derivative of code that you access from work, or you indentured all of your code contractually.

Anybody know if a GPL versus "we own everything you do" situation has arisen yet in the courts?
OT: Why do surgeons start work at 5 am?
No, there's no distinction, going up to the front of an auditorium and reading the speech is copyright infringement too. According to the law, that speech is not protected free speech.

(by the way, sorry, nitpick: copywritten → copyrighted)
This really is a great project, and has come a long way in the past year since or so since I first came across it.
Love this - a simple personal anecdote/retrospective rather than a self-promotion or "everyone should do as I say" piece.

You could solve the girlfriend + music issue with a nice set of closed-stage headphones. I love my AKGs. But I'd actually A/B test with and without headphones - without the distraction of office noise, no headphones/music might actually be helping you focus as well. I find that even with a solid, no-thought, tried and true playlist of entirely ambient (or even classical) music, I still find music causing my mind to wander from time to time.

I might have to try to sell the girlfriend on this idea soon.
So techies know RIM is in trouble, and Wall Street is pricing RIM as though it is in trouble... The only people who think it isn't in trouble are inside RIM.

RIM is very profitable and growing

Actually the opposite is true: RIM profit drops 27 percent; shipments seen down[1], The Waterloo, Ontario, company said fiscal third-quarter earnings tumbled 71% on a charge related to a disastrous launch of a tablet competitor to Apple's iPad. And it forecast weak smartphone shipments in the current quarter. [2], etc, etc

[1] http://news.yahoo.com/instant-view-rim-profit-drops-27-perce...

[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020402680457710...
With some regular expression magic I extracted the data from Twitter, however, the data was in the wrong order. With this command in Linux, I reversed the order and decoded the data:

tac twitData.txt | base64 -d -i > image.jpg

I've uploaded the image here:

http://iqsecur.blogspot.com/2012/01/sending-files-using-twit...

However, it seems there is an error in the image, I'm not sure if it is the process itself or the image actually has an error. A reverse search resulted in 0 results, so I'm inclined to believe the former.
Netflix and Hulu are working on that problem. Anyone know why Netflix has such a crappy selection?
This article (and most of these Kill Hollywood ones) is just ridiculous. "Hollywood" (what does that even mean?) does not want to break the internet. They do not want to stifle free speech. They are not "mean".

They want to stop people from taking things that cost them a lot of money to make without paying for them.

It's that simple. They want people to either abstain from using their product (not ideal) or pay them for the use of it. This is what every business on the planet wants.

Instead, they invest billions of dollars making things that are in massive demand. They employ millions of people whose livelihoods depend on these products getting a return. They have a moral and legal obligation to protect the interests of their investors and their employees. Although 10 million illegal downloads is not 10 million legal sales lost, it is, without a doubt, some sales lost, and there are many billions of illegal downloads annually. These companies have moral and legal obligations to push for better enforcement against this illegal activity. And they do not have the answer to how to go about that effectively without causing problems in the process. It does not make them malicious people by default. Everyone on this forum knows that there is no perfect solution, and maybe it is a pointless pursuit, but it is just silly to act as if this massive industry, lead by people who feel every bit as responsible for their employees' families having food on their table as any other company's leaders, is supposed to just sit there and watch people illegally take their product without paying for it and do nothing.

Yes, we all want to make sure legislation like SOPA does not pass. But declaring a war on them is not going to help find amicable solutions. Saying you do not like their proposed solutions and then going back to business as usual, not proactively joining the conversation for how to reduce piracy, is not doing anything at all to keep the internet safe from the flawed solutions that they will continue to propose out of obligation to their shareholders and employees.

If you really want to protect the internet, the two best things you can do are stop pirating things you didn't pay for, and start contributing ideas and solutions to the issue of piracy that have as few unintended consequences as possible.
In notepad it takes 4 keystrokes (ctrl+c, ctrl+v). The "mouse hampers productivity" viewpoint seems like a form of neckbeard neo-luddism to me. I mean, I hate visual IDEs (/cough Xcode) and WYSIWYGs as much as anybody. But the mouse was invented because keyboards suck at navigating. I love my mouse.

I like Yehuda Katz for trying to stick with TextMate, when he could have jumped on the emacs/vim bandwagon much sooner than he did. Maybe for a rockstar-ninja like Katz, it does result in a productivity increase.

But for myself (and most of the rest of us, I argue), the bottleneck in my productivity is most definitely not the speed at which I can copy/paste or any other mechanism involved in editing text and refactoring. Even without vim, I can already manipulate text FAR faster than I can think, architect, specify, and code.

The cynical atheist part of me says that emacs/vim is a hipster credential for regular people who just want to feel like rockstar-ninjas.
It's true that the benefits from marriage A can decrease after marriage B. But, they are still higher than if everyone had been single the whole time.

AKA the only time where X and Y getting married lowers their combined benefits if X or Y was married to someone else z before this and where receiving marriage benefits from this.
Neat. I updated one of my VMs running debian Sid from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.2.0-1-686-pae just to see if it would work. It works on the 3.2 kernel. Kind of scary. I checked to see if I had access to any 'real world' servers running and exploitable kernel and none of them seemed to.
Dreamworks and Corman's AIP/NWP both produced films, but that's where their similarities end. The differences between the two can be summarized by "scale" and "intent."

In terms of scale, Dreamworks was designed to compete directly with the majors. They focused on tentpole pictures produced at Big Six scale. Even with their substantial financial backing, this meant that a single flop could (and did) jeopardize their company. Corman's films, on the other hand, with their minuscule budgets needed only draw a fraction of the business of a Dreamworks release to make a profit and so very rarely (if ever) showed up as a "loss" on his books. Corman's films rarely hit it big, but because of their relative costs, they never had to. Modest returns were sufficient for him to draw profit margins astronomically beyond those of the majors.

In terms of intent, Dreamworks was set up primarily to produce and release the films of its founders, who tended to trade in prestige films, and their desire to produce only Oscar-level films tended to paralyze their production ability; excessively high standards ruined them. When they did get a film off the ground, they tended to bet too large (out of desperation) and lost as frequently as they won. The exact same thing happened to Coppola's Zoetrope when he let himself run amok on One From the Heart.

The lesson from Dreamworks (and Zoetrope) is to manage your risk. Never put yourself in a position where a single failed project can ruin you. Similarly, never produce a film that requires broad mass market success to avoid total financial failure.
It doesn't matter. If the original is infringing, every bit in it is also infringing.

The following was pasted from an mp3 of Bangs by They Might Be Giants, rather than typed:

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This is against the law and I should go to gaol.
What's to stop me selling a track I had bought on iTunes track and then re-downloading it after 'selling' it via ReDigi?
wouldn't it be easier to just stick http:// in front of a chunk of data and let the twitter url shortener take care of it for you?
The donate button that goes straight to paypal kinda sucks. Would be nice to have an in-between page to tell us how donations are used and all that other goodness. Also, don't I recall considerable problems for non-charities to collect "donations" via paypal?
When do you write your best code (relative to local time)?
I know when I am coding at my best. Usually it is 3-4pm in the afternoon (know what I want to get accomplished before I leave the office) or 9-10pm at night (know what I want to get accomplished before I go to bed). What is your best coding hours (relative to your timezone) and why?
Table time for the first case of the day is usually quite early, as you want lots of time in case there are complications.
Alright, if discrimination is the main explanation, what's the second most important explanation? The third? Why are you sure they're less important than discrimination?
She was talking about ways which CS could be bettered in general.

From the article: "She said that CS is the only science where the participation of women is getting worse not better. We have a problem. We’re geeks (supposed to be good at problem solving). So let’s figure it out!

I think we should look at:

[The bulleted list from which I quoted some items]"

According to her, these particular items are reasons why women specifically are not participating in tech.

And again - focusing a CS class on algorithms is not discrimination.
Georgia Weidman has a botnet C&C (Command and Control) network running via hidden SMS. But I don't think it can infect via text message.
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> An open internet is more important than security, copyright infringement, terrorism or child pornography.

I'm not sure this sentence does what you want it to do. It implies these things are all a similar level of evil, and it makes it easy for any reader to dismiss the entire text.
This is awesome, thanks so much for this!
Thanks for this post, I will need to try it.

I agree the few times I've been up early to code (even to catch up on some work) its been good, felt like I got extra hours to the day (well, I guess I did!) even before I officially started.

I think then after 5pm going to the gym or relaxing can be a good choice because I've already done my 2 hours on my side project.

It does get exhausting doing extra work after 5pm (after you've taken a break, eaten, done other things etc) so I like the idea of doing it early.

I may wake up even earlier to get to gym in the morning, as I liked that too.

I definitely waste several hours at night just messing around, avoiding going to sleep, which would be better spent being asleep so I can get up early.
Couldn't this be worked into the /w3c/p3p file instead as defined by the W3C in that doc?
This was one of the first projects I donated to on Kickstarter and one that I am sooo happy I did. I use it as an example to other web developers when I mention why I think the Kickstarter model is really the future of creating useful things.
Really? If you have to replace the two CEOs who were there for 20 years, that's admission that things need to change and that's why. Unless they both had personal issues.. simultaneously. He is there on a mission to change the direction of the company. Only foolish people at RIM aren't worried.
I do agree with your first point, and it would basically be a continuation of the status quo, which seems like a pretty reasonable compromise between allowing people to profit from their work without stifling the creativity of others and criminalizing harmless behavior that is going to keep happening anyway.

My rebuttal to your second point is to acknowledge that you have part of a point, but also to draw a comparison between the futility of policing digital sharing and the futility of policing fanwork. Since we're (sortof) making a 'in a perfect world' wishlist, I think we can do better than fall into the same traps that current law/lawmakers/our assorted predecessors fell into, criminalizing behavior that is entirely or mostly harmless and where enforcement has minimal benefits.

With your other examples, I think that there is a case to be made on both sides with regards to the dangers vs the benefits from enforcement. But with those cases, I can more clearly see the arguments that enforcement has benefits that are worth the difficulty (depending on how damaging you think pot, gambling, and car accidents are). So I could see where a person would argue that noncommercial fanwork is severely enough damaging to the creator/rights holder to make enforcement worth it, but I personally don't see it as such and would have a very hard time believing such arguments without strong proof. Car accidents where someone is not wearing a seatbelt, on the other hand, has pretty demonstrable damages.

(I'm not really going to get into pot or gambling, because I think ath this point, the arguments for and against pot criminalization are well-established, and starting to weight every-so-slightly toward decriminalization, and I personally find gambling distasteful and boring and don't have the energy to read up on the damages associated with gambling or the benefits associated with enforcement of anti-gambling laws.)
In the last six or seven years I've been up regularly at 5am or so. I can get an hour of work done before the rest of the household wakes up. It's great.

My inspiration was Gene Wolfe, who wrote _The Book of the New Sun_ in the wee hours, and held down a day job as a technical magazine editor. [I'm not claiming my code is anywhere near as great as the wonderful writing that Wolfe did, but the early hours are definitely some of my most creative time]

A few rules I have:

- No email. This just starts the whole stress machine going. I'd rather not have /any/ human contact, and if something's fallen off and broken in the last eight hours, it can wait another two or three.

- No Reddit or other black-hole-of-surfing sites (though I do check HN -- this may change if HN becomes too Reddit-like).

- Coffee is ready to go (set up the prior evening).
It sounds like you're describing the studio system of early Hollywood (of which I admit I have very limited understanding, most of which comes from watching Singing in the Rain). As I understand it, the directors, writers, and actors were employees of the studios, and studios produced dozens of films on a rapid cycle.

Assuming that really is the best model for the future, how do you prevent the new Hollywood from turning into the old Hollywood again?
In general, you get hired as an hourly employee for summer internships instead of a salaried full-timer. Hence, salaries will vary from company to company depending on their valuation of intern's work so getting a bead on what's "average" will be quite difficult.

Once place to look is glassdoor.com. See if the companies you are applying to have listings there and what people have said about them, and any average salaries. For instance, search for Intern in the jobs category and you should see listings showing average salaries for posted companies, if people provided the info.
Bite the bullet and try it. When I can, I walk to a nearby cafe right after sunrise to get a couple hours of work in and every time I do it I feel great the rest of the day.
It's a great company to work for. Lots of smart, motivated folks with tons of experience both in the energy industry and other connected industries. I'm in the second wave of new hires, working as an architect on the software system that will be managing the scale of the infrastructure as we build out. That said, my knowledge is obviously fairly specific to the software, and the hardware bit that I've come to understand is primarily through osmosis :) To try and answer what I can without violating the usual secret squirrel stuff:

Efficient infrastructure - we're able to charge and discharge at a high level of input to output efficiency. Typically, in the energy storage business, you lose a lot of energy via inverters and other technology. Our secret sauce gets around a lot of this, though I don't think I'm able to disclose exactly how it works. It's incredibly elegant in it's simplicity though, and can plug directly into the wild west of the grid. We're also able to network together a significant amount of capacity in almost any configuration for a very reasonable cost per KW. That means we can take our storage system and sell you 80kw/h discharged over 4 hours (20kw per hour), or 40kw over 2 hours, or just keep adding capacity to change those numbers further. While we're a bit young to be just "plug and play", we'll get there as time goes by.

In terms of battery technology, we have a few tricks up our sleeves and are working with a variety of researchers, but for the most part we just work with what's on the market - meaning high end lead acid (best bang for the buck, and the maintenance story is improving), and lithium ion where people want it. This helps keep purchase and maintenance costs low, but we've also built our own battery management system that lets us plug and play any battery tech on the market today, as well as several that are on the way but haven't hit a decent economy of scale yet.

I can't comment on specifics of the BMS, other than we're building the hardware as well as the software, which lets us play with a variety of models for handling battery input and output.

It's a market that's seeing plenty of entries and new competition every day, but it's also really cool to see how people are approaching the problem and working with partners to drive the cost of energy down. That can only be a good thing for all of us!
That'd be nearly impossible. To build a case against each user, they would have to:

1) Identify potentially infringing files of sufficient value to constitute criminal copyright infringement

2) Identify accounts that uploaded those files

3) Verify that the account holder is a US citizen (jurisdiction)

4) Track down where that user distributed the links in order to collect evidence proving:

a) The infringement was willful

b) The infringement was of commercial advantage or private financial gain

5) Obtain a court order for each account to subpoena the identity of the account associated with the ISP of the uploader's IP address

6) Track down the current copyright holder of each potentially infringing work, and verify that the person identified was not licensed to reproduce or distribute the work (i.e. don't sue the label marketing agent for uploading a demo copy of their artist's song)

Now, you can prepare and file one case.
From what I know of Anon and Lulzsec a lot of what they do isn't actually 'hacking.' The sheer amount of boxes they have lets them DDOS any site pretty easily. If not DDOS they usually do SQL injections.
I don't think he is saying at all to burn down the internet, just that each person who would have watched his wife's film by paying for it, but didn't since a free copy was available instead online hurts their financial situation and also her 'popularity' since these views are never able to be tallied.
I haven't read all 655 (current) comments so correct me if I've missed something. It seems like there are two threads: 1) "how do we reinvent the screen entertainment and distribution business" and 2) "how do we make something that currently exists more popular".

I read the RFS differently. Semantics aside, it seems like the point is to find something better to do with ourselves. It's not to streamline Hollywood, or redistribute the wealth in Hollywood. And it's not to figure out how to make current gaming technology or social networks more popular.

I think a key question to ask is, what did we do for fun 300 years ago? What did we do for fun 700 years ago? How about 5,000? If there was no Hollywood, what would we do for fun 20 years from now? Don't assume the internet or video games will play a part, even though they may. Don't box yourself into that corner yet. Don't assume it means replacing movies with more movies.

Here are just some examples from the sports world that take us out of our element and, for many fans, create mania: FIFA World Cup. The Tour de France. The Superbowl. The Indy 500. Formula One. The Kentucky Derby. Dakar Rally. Cricket World Cup. Wimbledon. French Open. The Masters Tournament. The PGA Championship.

And please don't look at it from the ticketing perspective. I know that sports ticketing is as much of a scam as Hollywood. The point is, how would you create something that excites that mania in people?

Don't limit yourself to something YC would fund, either. Perhaps the internet startup will be dead in 20 years. Think about it.

* Use semiconductor technology to create real-life quidditch.
* Invent hover shoes and create a sport around it.
* Invent the successor to the book (the entertainment/information wise, not medium wise)
* Invent the successor to the skateboard
* Be the next Tim Berners-Lee and invent whatever comes after the web
* Invent a way to make friends with every person on the planet
* Invent a near-instantaneous means of artistic self-expression that doesn't involve more than $50 up front cost and doesn't require a laptop, tablet, or smartphone
* Invent whatever comes after NASCAR
* "Kill (your pet peeve)"
* Invent a game that involves moving your money away from investment banks
* Invent a team sport that a person in any physical condition could excel at and potentially become a highly recruited, highly paid, international star.
* Invent a game that kills internet piracy AND Hollywood.
* Create a movie that creates a game that creates a movie.
* Write a bestselling novel that is optioned by Hollywood and that, by the very creation and production of the film, signals the end of Hollywood, such that Hollywood has no choice but to eat itself.
* Create a race of robots whose mission is to kill Hollywood.
* Convince everyone in Hollywood that they never wanted to be in the movie business: they've always wanted to be lumberjacks.

Or none of those. But just, let's get away from the meme of "Hey, now we're going to do Hollywood internet startup style."
Night time. When the noise has gone down.
I've thought about doing something like this but I've realized I just can't until I figure out a better commuting situation, either having a very short commute or using public transportation. Sitting in traffic for almost an hour on the way to work is rather draining to where if I'm going to do that I can't seem to bring myself to get up any earlier than I have to as I'd rather use the time spent driving to wake up so its not completely wasted
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