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This is one hundred percent a personal opinion, but I suspect its one that I'm not alone in.

I use iCloud and Dropbox, I don't even really see how they're competitors from my perspective. iCloud does things like sync my iCal calendars and Safari bookmarks, and Dropbox allows me to maintain a shared filesystem between all my computers.

Dropbox is a form of free form backup/sharing, while iCloud is just a convenient way to keep defined, structured data together for me.
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We use this script: https://raw.github.com/37signals/37s_cookbooks/edefbd17eeb8f... to check spamhaus, abuseat, sorbs, etc.
I know you use it as a general example, but do some very basic research on what it would take to start a farm... and not go broke within a year. You will feel differently.
I've also never had Airdrop work properly. Back To My Mac is finicky as well, and there's insufficient transparency in how it works for me to figure out exactly what I'm doing wrong.
Looking for: Internship, summer 2012

Keywords: Python, Visualization, Numerical Analysis, Machine Learning

Name: Pratik Mallya, Graduate Student of CS @ UIUC.

Area: anywhere in contiguous US

Github: https://github.com/pratikmallya

Homepage: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mallya2/www/index.html

Beginner, but I learn quickly. Interested in any work which requires creative and original thinking (and better if a lot of math as well :) . I'm a moderate level Python programmer, but I'm learning continuously. I'm familiar with visualization software such as VTK, ParaView etc. In my last internship, I rewrote a plugin for ParaView that allowed a visualization to be run on a laptop instead of a SGI Altix Supercomputer, and I did this in 2 weeks with no prior knowledge of ParaView or C++ (I do know C very well though)

contact: mallya2@illinois.edu
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Thanks, gents. I think this really nails it (I second your sadness).
The sentence contains misspelled words. The errors in those words happen to make them collide with other existing words. That doesn't change the category of the error.
Just to clarify, that URL is about annual income whereas the list of Forbes billionaires is about net worth.

annual income != net worth (aka wealth)
iCloud's main draw is that provides MobileMe sync features for free. Anyone who expects it to be a serious dropbox competitor when the folder based filesystem is still prevalent isn't seeing why people are using iCloud.
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Murdoch's right, the lobbyists are running Washington. His mistake was pointing out the wrong group. The tech industry's only spent 1/5th of what the entertainment industry is spending.

http://maplight.org/content/72896
The British have been trying to replace that rifled gun with the German L/55 smoothbore, too, but they don't have the money. It wasn't clear at the time the tank was designed, but the rifled barrel turns out to have been a mistake. The round for which it was primarily designed (High Explosive Squash Head, or HESH) hit a sort of technical dead end with the introduction of spall liners and layered composites in tank armor.

Read the comment by Steven Den Beste, who explains the situation pretty well (aside from getting the HESH acronym wrong):

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20...
Hi, I'm Matt Hippely in Erie, CO (near (Denver/Boulder).
This is my second career and I am a web programmer. (php/JavaScript/css/html).
I have worked for several of the boutique web companies around Boulder doing things like: legacy bug fixes and enhancements to Zend applications, writing PHPUnit tests for an existing application, design and implement a customer catalog that can 1) be administered with a (simple) custom cms and also takes advantage of localStorage when users iOS device is offline. Other web stuff includes debugging cross brewer functionality and display issues. For database stuff I have always used MySql.

I have also done basic sys admin stuff - compiling ffmpeg for web and iOS optimized videos, integrating LibreOffice into an application for converting MS Office documents. I am comfortable on the command line and use emacs to edit most files.

I'm also open to remote but don't have any real experience on remote teams.

My previous career was in Biotechnology. I worked in the small molecule/drug discovery department of a large company and ran an LC-MS/MS instrument, collected data and compiled spreadsheets. That is where I learned about the power of automation with VBA to generate my run reports and set up my email releases to the team.

While at the large biotech company I did go back via night classes and get a second degree in comp sci; with regards to programming, I am self-taught.
It is not a bug as far as I know. However, you can change who shows up in your chat list.

In Google+ go the the chat section and press the little arrow pointing down. Then go to privacy settings and select which Circles you want to show up in your chat.
How is this guy NOT in jail over the phone-hacking scandal? Why do people like him get away with crimes?

A kid in UK links to torrents and is being extradited to the US[1]; and this jerk commits felonies over years and gets to roam free?

[1] http://boingboing.net/2012/01/13/british-man-who-hosted-site...
I'll concede my claim requires a belief in an absolute morality, which I don't necessarily, but take it my claim in the following form:

1. You believe that copyright infringement is a "wrong" committed by one party on another party (the victim).

2. A British national commits copyright infringement where the victim is in the United States.

3. The United States conceivably has a moral right to seek punishment against that British national.

I mean, to say otherwise would be to say that copyright existed within a border. We have treaties explicitly so that isn't so - if there were a place in the world where copyright law didn't apply, you couldn't post things on the Internet and expect it to retain its copyright.

I don't support extradition in this case. Don't get me wrong. I don't believe in an absolute morality, and I'm not even sure I believe that intellectual property is a good idea on balance, but the moral argument can be made if you're willing to speak in more concrete terms (i.e., if you're willing to accept the premise that copyright infringement is a global "wrong")
Indeed, it's not that the conclusion of the article is wrong; the top 1% (whether measured by wealth or by income) are actually a pretty diverse group of people (in terms of occupations). However, the top 0.1% or even 0.01% are possibly a much more monolithic group, perhaps largely involved in the financial services and banking industries? This may be the more relevant group to discuss.
I was a juror on a court case, and we had a court reporter who typed in steno. Witnesses, lawyers, the judge all spoke fast, regularly interrupting each other -- and our reporter got it all down, perfectly.

It is easy to glaze over a figure like "255 WPM" and not realize how impressive it is. In the courtroom, once I thought for a second about what she was doing, I felt as if I were watching a magician at work.
Perhaps you could give each section/paragraph it's own URL and link the 'per-page/resource' comments to that?
It's really a misnomer to call this thing a rifle. Yes, it has a rifled barrel. But it's a grenade launcher, not a rifle in common parlance. It replaces the 40mm grenade launcher in use.
Yes this can be normal. Give it your best shot. If nothing else you'll learn a lot.
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No, it's spell-checking. Use of the word "reel" in this sentence, for instance, is definitely a spelling error. There's no grammatically valid form of the word "real" spelled with two 'e's. The fact that "reel" happens to be a valid word doesn't mean that its presence in the sentence is due to a grammatical error - it's just an accidental collision.

That no spell checker might be able to catch this specific class of error doesn't change the type of error it is.
I've never been asked to something like that for a company in my region (northeast), but from what I've read in the many interviewing threads on HN, this is not uncommon in Silicon Valley. Braintree just had a front page post about their interview process here last week and it said they also have a several hour coding task which they review with the applicant in the next interview.
I don't know about running shoes, but Tim & Mary just sent me another pair of ~$500 order made custom leather shoes last week. They have a waiting list about a year long and make everything by hand.

Sure, they're not running shoes and they're not selling things in volume (they probably only make 50-60 pairs per year), but it's not exactly impossible to sell shoes for those prices.
very likely their thinking, agreed.
I think Joel is 100% correct in saying that this law will fly right over the heads of the average TV viewer if it's debated on technical merit alone.

Regarding the lying: you're going to have to expect that. This is a fight the media industry feels is worth winning at the expense of the truth. When confronted with it however it will always look best to give a level-headed and reasoned response. You have the moral high ground and you should keep it.

The same point above applies to being interrupted etc. I think you'll look much more in control and certainly more comfortable if you keep to the format. Having to run interference while your opponent is making their point looks weak. Wait your turn and look professional.

Keep up the excellent work Alexis!
Who else was expecting to open up the diagram and find a bright red box in the top left with Finance written on it? How surprising it was to see that the 1% that everyone is complaining about are faceless managers, doctors and lawyers... Naturally, I'll need to see the .1% diagram, so that the hateful Financiers are in the position they deserve.

(I'm paraphrasing some of the other comments on this topic)
I'd be fine with syncing "data" vs. files, too, but no apps I use or care about support iCloud.
SV is a very small world in my experience.
1. Alexis (and the other dude) tried to get to it, but got talked over: It only applies to non-US websites as far as piracy goes, but US websites that contain content describing how to get around the blocks, or US websites that decline to take down links to blocked websites are liable.

2. As Alexis said, it introduces penalties to US citizens for using foreign-hosted sites deemed to be in violation of the act.

3. the notion that it only applies to "wholesale" piracy is garbage. that might be what the NBC dude thought it would mean, but there's no way to unambiguously define what is wholesale piracy and what is casual or inadvertent piracy, and it is ultimately up to the courts to decide who the law applies to and who it doesn't. If some judge wanted to, he could probably use SOPA to take down just about any website with user-generated content. a good law isn't one that's broad and over-reaching and you just hope that it's implemented fairly. a good law is one that is specific, targeted, and difficult to abuse.

4. the point that i'm disappointed that nobody made: the pirate bay is a .org (and nominally a .com), which technically makes it a US site. the NBC guy's prime example of why we need SOPA is immune to SOPA.
The main app is an ASP.NET MVC application on IIS. The download server is an nginx proxy cache running on Debian.
It's not necessarily the norm but I don't think you should be skeptical based off of this one factor either. The company has to figure out how to evaluate you and decide whether you're a good fit for the job. Talking on the phone and viewing past projects is great but perhaps they're newer to hiring and doing their best to realistically evaluate you.

When you say the task seems similar to what you'd be doing for them, do you mean you're concerned you might be doing some actual work for free that they'd use even if they didn't hire you?

I did a 2-3 hour evaluation for my job and had similar reservations but it turned out great. Assume that they're acting in good faith to evaluate you even if the actual method seems less than ideal.

You're the only one who has all the information to make this decision though, so make one you can be happy with.
No, because if you made a good faith claim that thesun.co.uk exists primarily to infringe copyrights, the judge would lock YOU up for perjury. What you can do, right now, is sue them for copyright infringement. That's already illegal, of course.
On a similar vein: for those of you who have not yet seen it Cory Doctorow's talk "The coming war on general computing"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg] is definitely worth viewing.

The most dangerous part of SOPA in my opinion is not the damage it'll do immediately but the incredibly shortsighted legal precedent it'll make for future legalization to use as reference.
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"To get and defend a trademark you need to actually use the mark in commerce"

Actually there is 1b "intent to use" as well as supplemental register and state trademark registration. In varying degrees any of the above (combined with the right specific non-infringing circumstances) can be used to win a UDRP action.

As only one example even having just applied for a trademark before being approached by a trademark owner is enough to give you a leg to stand on with many panelists. At that point, if the application is 1b, you don't even have usage. Although you might because maybe you just didn't have your backup materials and decided to put the application in and change at a later date.

Now of course all of the above depends on 1) the domain name 2) the other party 3) how famous the mark is among other things.
That still doesn't explain why Google is opposed to the bill.

I think there's a better explanation that is linked to the enforcement of situations such as "someone googles Pirate Bay and gets a link to the site". SOPA puts Google at fault for this, and I assume the enforcement mechanism could very much harm a US company (Google). Unfortunately, time ran out on the segment right as they were getting to this point.
I completely agree. Alexis was dominated in this in a few ways.

1. The exec was a complete ass and Alexis didn't call him out for being rude and condescending of alternative interpretations. There was a lot of potential to completely bankrupt his opinion using other perspectives from individuals with less at stake in the fight then this executive.

2. As you pointed out, his counter points were too dense for natural consumption by "average" americans. Its not just DNS but the internet in general is mostly an entertainment to most Americans. You critique of the language modifications that have to happen is dead on.

3. Mr. Cotton had one point and Alexis seemed to wander all over. Judicial process + wholesale theft + non-domestic vs. (Alexis') dense and theoretical arguments revolving around feasibility and implementation.

As tech people, we can all agree that this is important. With out the soundbites, we'll never get the critical mass to prevent this. Alexis did do a good job of maintaining his composure with the really inconsiderate tactics. Just needs to put together a few key "talking points" and hammer. Thats the way this works in these news formats.
Sounds like a good way to counter this sort of weapon would be to have human shields. I'm not sure if that's an improvement on the situation if they start to adopt those sort of tactics.

Enemies will simply adapt to new weapons they face. Much like a bucket of paint would be quite effective against and remote control mini tank.

Whilst the engineering feat is impressive, it is still important to note that at the receiving end of such ingenuity is a writhing half dead corpse so it is with hesitation I would ever celebrate such innovation.
Not really, same applies to Smalltalk, and I'd guess Lisp as well.
I unfortunately agree. I thought it was a very strong showing on Cotton's part, and he had a very clear talking point that he hammered home a dozen times ("This will only affect foreign companies with wholesale copyright infringement").
If you string together the cases of Appletalk, iChat, ping, FaceTime, and now iCloud (photo stream in particular), the Apple model of 'communication' seems always limited to the apple ecosystem. Apple doesn't seem to understand that even if I have a full-Apple setup, people I want to communicate with may not. As long as they don't see this as a fundamental issue, folks like Dropbox need not worry. Once they do see it, though, and they decide to bring their design sense to it all ..... hmmm I must be dreaming.
Is this worth learning for programmers?
How she envisions stenography would be used for programming:

http://stenoknight.com/WritingCoding.html

Programming is especially suited for steno, because there's so much boilerplate to write again and again, even in an eloquent language like Python. If I want to define a function, I have to type:

def someFunction(arg): stuff.

That's eight strokes just to get started, plus 20 more strokes to write "someFunction", "arg", and "stuff". In steno, on the other hand, you could write something like DFD in a single stroke, and it would put in the def, the space, the parentheses, the colon and the carriage return automatically, then jump you up to the space after the def to write your function name and arguments, then then drop you back down to the body of the function, all in four strokes. Best of all, once you defined that function name in your steno dictionary, you wouldn't need to worry about remembering to write out the name in camel case each time. Just use a single stroke like SPHUPBGS (pronounced "smunction"), for instance, and start thinking of it as just another word, instead of two words mashed together in a lexically unnatural way.

I love the way Vim has mapped a useful command to each key of the qwerty keyboard. It's immensely powerful once you get used to it. But it's only got 26 keys to choose from, and it takes a long time to learn which key does what, since the correlation between "move one word forward" and the "w" key is pretty abstract and arbitrary. In steno, you could certainly keep using just the w key, if it's what you're used to, but you could also, say, map the "move one word forward" command to a single stroke like "WOFRD" (pronounced "woffered"). That's mnemonically much more useful than just "w", and an even bigger advantage is that the number of possible one-stroke commands is almost infinite. Instead of one stroke equalling one letter, steno lets one stroke equal one syllable, which is about five times more efficient quantitatively. As a qualitative improvement, the advantage is inestimable.
Disagree. I think Cotton clearly won the debate. His "The law only affects foreign companies involved in wholesale piracy" talking point is persuasive and was never refuted.
Exact same feeling here. Perhaps it should be 'Occupy Your Doctor's Office' rather than Wall Street.
an obvious question..have you applied to Google yet?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't a brute force attack, its a dictionary attack. A brute force attack would go through every iterattion, like 00001, 00002...
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Depends on the panelists and the actual page. There are udrp cases where a page of links and a search box has shown use so the claim is denied. But I've also seen cases where this hasn't happened.
It was the same way with my startup. I had no idea how Hollywood or fashion worked, but I had a problem [1] and when I asked people if they knew how to solve it, they just gave me back a similar problem they once had [2]. At that point, I figured this was a good company to build.

If it's even possible, the entertainment and fashion industries may require even more schlepping than the banking industry. Instead of dealing with lots of regulation and paperwork, now you're frequently dealing with self-obsessed, anti-technology narcissists who are completely unwilling to help you do anything.

But we muddled through and did the work that everyone else doesn't want to do. And that's why we're launching this week.

[1] I wanted to buy my girlfriend the sunglasses that Bella was wearing in Twilight, but couldn't find them anywhere.

[2] Johnny Depp's sunglasses in Blow, a necklace from Real Housewives, etc.
I already type way faster than I can compose code or prose. 255 WPM would be pure stream-of-consciousness, but I suppose that would be nice to have in some situations.
CEOs are also managers :)
GPG doesn't offer deniability
Along similar lines: http://geophile.com/osh
So I'm going to play devil's advocate: The main talking point of the NBC exec is "This law will only effect foreign companies engaged in wholesale theft".

It was never refuted on the interview, and I don't see it refuted in this comment thread anywhere. Is this actually true?
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Brecher (not "Breacher") doesn't know any more about war or geopolitics than you or I.

The fact that this particular weapon isn't useful in an IED attack doesn't mean that it's not useful for what it's designed to do. You seem to be under the impression there's no shooting going on in A-stan. This is definitely not the case.
Not all successful games share these traits. Paying to skip a level is sketchy. What if you make a level impossible to beat? How would you expect a player to tell?
Yes and I would have lost out. I think what you are missing is that Apple and Google are 2 companies out of a 1000 or more that didn't make it. One top of it, in the beginning stages it is virtually impossible to know if you are in a winner or not... a friend of mine was employee 300 something at Google and thought the company was going to go nowhere. He took the job as a filler job with intentions of jumping to something better when it came along.

Equity is very similar to the lottery... a few will win hugely large while the masses will mostly receive nothing. Thats how the system works. Ive taken equity and cash at different times over the years. Its not a scientific breakdown but through experimentation the decision to take cash over equity has been reinforced over and over again. Additionally despite my one very fortunate friend, everyone else I know in the industry is far from struggling financially but generally agrees from their experiences that equity is very much just a lottery ticket. (And even if your company does end up being 'the one', you still risk getting screwed out of your shares.) I'd rather have cash.
For what it's worth, I've got my own Disqus alternative: https://github.com/alexandru/TheBuzzEngine

You can see it in action here: http://thebuzzengine.appspot.com/

However, on my blog I have switched back to Disqus. Mostly because the only thing bothering me about Disqus is its bloatness which makes the page take a performance hit, but other than that it works great and you can export your comments at any time.
Does SOPA actually require that you state that claim under penalty of perjury? I didn't think it did, but I might be wrong or I might not have seen the latest version or whatever.

I've also never heard of a case where the analogous DMCA perjury provision was actually enforced, so I wonder sometimes.
The tech community is pretty small and Silicon Valley is even smaller. As a general rule, in any business, it is a bad idea to burn bridges. It's too small a world to do so and you are ultimately bound to bump into the people you wronged.