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> Apple should have just completely created their own format . . .

I don't think being scapegoated for ePub's eventual fate is going to affect their bottom line very much, so it probably wouldn't have been worth creating a new format over one that already works.
Yes, you are only forbidden from redistributing the ibook file you produced with apple's software.
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If society can get the same productivity with ever fewer people, then it starts making sense to have a Guaranteed Minimum Income.

http://www.xamuel.com/ten-reasons-for-guaranteed-minimum-inc...

The notion of full employment is not necessarily good or realistic. Sooner or later, a hi-tech society is going to have to answer the existential question of "what to do with life?".

Low-tech societies can get away with answering it with "work!" because they truly need everyone to do that.

Point is: if productivity keeps increasing more and more, why is it such a God-given thing that the point of our lives should be to work? We need to start thinking about how to achieve personal fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
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If you need it IW10 can now be implemented on Windows Server 2008 R2 see - http://www.andysnotebook.com/2011/11/increasing-the-tcp-init...

Jim Gettys article "IW10 Considered Harmful" is worth a read too - http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gettys-iw10-considered-harm...
Are any of these standalone HTML5 or is some of the game logic on the webserver serving them?
Lifestyle businesses are not to be sneered at. Small, cash-flow businesses that can be run at any hour of the day give you freedom. I am currently living in South Africa for 4 months just kiting and coding. Next stop Norway and then San Francisco. I work 3-12 hours a day depending on wind, friends and plans. Tim Ferriss's 4-hour work week is very possible and, as I have discovered, very enjoyable. I know that I want to build a meaningful company when I have found a concept that I can happily commit a decade of my life to. I can say that about my kiting but not about any business idea I have found so far.

I would love to continue the conversation here or on Twitter if you like: http://twitter.com/ricburton
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Thanks for the link. I started to read the court case and to be honest, the wording and descriptions really rubbed me the wrong way. I only read the first 7 or so pages.

The more I read about the case, the more I feel that Megaupload did not break the law.

Here's the best evidence against Megaupload that I can see:

* Questionable characters (criminal background)

* Obnoxious Lifestyle (Kim DotCom, license plates, etc.)

* Loads of illegal content available

The only one of these items that could be a crime is whether the site broke the law in providing incentives to reward popular content which often happened to be illegal.

As far as I can tell, the following is true:

* Megaupload rewarded popular content even if it was illegal

* Megaupload took down all illegal content upon request following DCMA

* The Megaupload employees did not seek out or upload illegal content.

If my reasoning is correct, then Megaupload did not break the law. They followed DCMA.

The scariest thing for me about this is the wording of this complaint and the ease at which its participants were criminalized.
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I bet VCs are running on a pretty fast treadmill. They need the 10x investments to do a few things. First to offset all the duds they invested in. Second they need to beat market indexes constantly to justify their existence to their investors/partners. Finally they need the money to pay themselves a ton of money.
Not so revolutionary to me.
Won't use such a tool. Smart programming/peer reviewing is the way to go.
I call these shodoos, as in, "You know what you should do..."

My response is always, "Please, tell me your idea." but the response in my head is always, "Yes, I do know what I should do. I've been thinking about this for several years, not just the 10-20 seconds you have."
That explains distrubuting abandonware, but what about recreating it/porting it to another platform and charging for it?
Banks do that.

VC money is for the high-risk. A lot of their punts fail (companies die), so you need to make enough money off the ones that succeed that you cover all your losses and still make a great pile of money on top for future investments and profits.

The only way to make that stash of cash off the winners is to exit for high returns, and in the case of backing a winner to increase the stake over time so that your high returns are multiplied by the stake size.

This shouldn't be news to anyone. Did you think VCs were your friends?
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That was exactly what i thought when I read that call: they are aiming for the wrong enemy. I thing you should add Old Media along with lobbying, they are both dinosaurs. The way to go about it is this: divert the public's attention from major mass media, give them easy access to information about politics, and promote public discourse. Make politicians unable to hide their actions and intentions, but also train the voters to look into the substance of matters, not superficialities.
Ivan Illich's vision for education may finally come to fruition.

Matt could have expanded his risks a bit more, at least to point out that no system will ever be perfect, and, ultimately, every student is different. Completely razing the current system may not be a great idea, because some students need the classroom setting (of course, as Matt points out, many of these students are left behind anyway because the playing field is often tilted toward the strongest students). That said, I suspect many other students would do very well in a more open setting (or, ideally, some combination of the two).
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Actually, that sounds reasonable!

From my experience a good bargainer will always win more then you, but he will often also help you in ways you didn't imagine were possible. Because he is good at finding what is really important to people and how to get things done. If he wants something from you, he will also give you solutions to some of the harder problems you have in exchange. So I don't think a strong bargainer is a dick.

Of course there are people who bargain to trick you. And even normally fair and strong bargainers will sometimes use their powers more to their advantages then they should. But in my eyes it's not the common situation. Between sticking-to-the-first-number and tricking-each-other-out-of-money there is a big range of good and bad bargaining which actually solves the good purpose of finding each others priorities, a good range for the value bargained, and a result both parties can agree to.
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Python, Ruby and PHP are converging so much it's becoming totally pointless to keep up with more than one of those, other than availability of tools and runtimes. Looking forward to production-ready Perl 6.
Duplicate : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504180
I recently read a quote, don't remember the citation :

If early to bed and early to rise would make you successful, the most successful people in the world would be : Newspaper men and Milk men.
No. They were taken down because the site's only purpose was to profit from piracy.
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> The truth of statement may be something that functionalism or parallelism advocates don't want to hear - the so called Parallelism Revolution will never come, at least not in it's current incarnation.

Do you want to bet everything on a possible advancement of technology, rather than invest in developing better parallelization paradigms? Even now, the state of the art is far beyond manually managing locks and so on.
That's probably not feasible these days. Commercial porn sites only offer licenses for streaming, not downloading.
No, assuming you mean high entropy. (You need a qualifier with "entropy", e.g. high or low.) Roughly, high entropy means disorder, information means order:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(statistical_views) Look at the coin toss example.
Interesting piece.

A few points.

Firstly I entirely agree that having access to a video of a lecture is much better in many ways than attending live. I have a terrible attention span and I remember sitting in classes paying attention then having my mind slowly drift away for just a few seconds, by the time I'd snapped by I'd sometimes completely lose the context of the example the professor was explaining and it was really hard to mentally catch up, sometimes I couldn't and I'd just end up with a set of half comprehensible notes to revise from.

Of course your not going to raise your hand and say "sorry I wasn't paying attention could you please repeat", but a video does not judge you like that. Pause it or rewind and get yourself a coffee , look up something you didn't quite understand on wikipedia for an alternative explanation then return to the video.

Of course there is no reason for lectures to be an hour long either, simply break it into 2 half house sessions with space for questions in between which could be done via a chatroom which the lecturer answers when they return.

I'm sure I would have got much better grades at university had I had access to all of the lectures via video, whenever I want to brush up any CS I just watch youtube videos from MIT , Berkeley etc and I learn so much more per hour than I did from my "traditional" education.

Another point.

This part raised a question to me:

"Presumably the idea is that if you can't get through a course in the 12-to-13 week semester then you deserve to fail, regardless of whatever is going on in your life and whether you could have learned everything over a longer time span, or with more help, or whatever. "

How much of your university degree is there to prove what you know and how much is there to prove your capacity for learning?

I've often struggled with some concepts that others have found easy and sometimes vice versa, but I can get a bloodymindedness that I will get to grips with something even if it takes me 10x the time.

How much should learning speed be represented vs sheer determination? Sometimes in the real world you will run into situations where you need to learn something very quickly because there simply isn't the time.

Should someone who takes 5 years to get a degree be considered lesser than someone else who does the same degree in 2? Assuming they get the same marks awarded.
Universities work because there's an ongoing belief that they lead to a reward. We are now seeing that break down.

A replacement is needed. But what could be a better system for providing high level skills with a measure of ability?
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I disagree with his points.

Beginning with his "failure #2";

>The common argument is that we need grades in order to differentiate the "good" from the "bad" students.

No, no its not. Its to show that you've learned the material. He goes on to say:

> Presumably the idea is that if you can't get through a course in the 12-to-13 week semester then you deserve to fail, regardless of whatever is going on in your life and whether you could have learned everything over a longer time span, or with more help, or whatever.

12-13 weeks is plenty long to learn the material for a course. A student is at a college to learn. It should be their top priority to learn the material during the course.

As for "failure #3", lectures have been used for hundreds of years because they work. You gain insight from someone very knowledgeable in a field that you might not get at first without it being pointed out to you.

He also seems to miss the fact that for science courses, you need labs. You cannot do chemistry labs online. You won't be able to do field work in biology by watching a video.

A somewhat agree with point #1, but more so to the fact about how expensive college is. That needs to be changed.

You lose the overall atmosphere of a learning environment through online courses, and that is not something I'd want to give up.
Are articles with questions in their link-bait titles nothing but baseless speculation?
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A few months ago there was this discussion on HN - Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3247925).

Unfortunately Perl doesn't have a Sugar Daddy :( However it does have a few benevolent Uncles :)

Here's the breakdown of the last 12 months contributions...

$10,000 Jun 2011 Vienna.pm
$10,000 Jul 2011 Booking.com
$10,000 Jul 2011 cPanel
€100,000 Jan 2012 Booking.com
$100,000 Jan 2012 Craigslist

ref: Figures by trawling TPF website. Hopefully I have this correct! http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/06/viennapm-donates-up-t... | http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/07/bookingcom-sponsor-p5... | http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/07/cpanel-sponsor-p5cmf.... | http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/bookingcom-sponsors-1... | http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/craigslist-charitable...
I understand that point , but surely if there is a lower risk then you can afford to not get a higher pay off.

I mean surely there's a case for investing in say a consultancy business and rather than worrying about a high ROI in 3 years simply take a small % per year throughout the life of that company?

Either that or consultancy businesses in general have a crappy risk/reward ratio in which case I am surprised they are so popular.
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"Why in the hell is this nonsense being posted to HN?"

I think it's a very interesting business model.
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Even if you pay U$3k a month in rent, that's U$64k to live on.

It's not unusual for rent/mortgages to eat up 30-50% of someone's income in most of the world.
should that not be "It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a Lab coat" CFD Programmers would of course add Wellies.
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This is a far too conservative approach for a debt free new grad. If s/he can take a step back and look around, he could be in a place he wants to be in in a fraction of the time the current employer will (assumingly) take.
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Let's not forget that universities are among the oldest institutions we know.

They have managed to adapt many times before. So while their current methods might be slightly outdated, I doubt they will be becoming obsolete anytime soon, they will merely change their mode of operation to include new technologies.
Looks like mostly building scripts (documentation, tests ..)

Guess they expect all platforms to have Perl and Python these days..
Probably the biggest barrier to the success of online universities is convincing others that the credentials from a online university are worth their weight. If someone could come up with a good, reliable way to prove that, then I think we'd be well on our way to the true meritocratization (is this even a word?) of education.

If standardized testing and related work are good enough for college admissions, would something similar be sufficient for more specific course work?
It's just a humorous way of saying they were stuck in the past (probably because they didn't integrate other language advances into basic).
The right thing would be to train the new guy while looking for other options and telling your boss you're planning on leaving.
> One can claim they forgot the password. The judge might not believe them, so they can just slap contempt of court charges one after another? What the person has actually forgot the password? How can they prove that they forgot something.
Shouldn't the court be the one proving stuff? Having to prove you have forgotten your password is like being guilty before being proven innocent.

Obviously, there are many cases where it seems extremely unlikely to us that someone has just forgotten his/her password, but as far as I'm concerned that does not constitute proof. (Otherwise, I think this would be one of those cases where people can get convicted just for being not very smart.)

> Not a bad idea in theory. However if the judge/jury can be convinced that you set up your password retrieving system specifically so that a search would destroy the password, they can still slap obstruction and contempt charges on you. I think that is the problem -- inability to convince the judge that you can't decrypt vs that you don't want to....
Except that one could argue that you have been using this system for a long time (as you have) in case people who were not authorized to use your computer stole it. They can't prove you've set up this system specifically to disrupt their case.

This doesn't solve the problem when law enforcement simply asks you to hand over your computer, of course, but when they come stomping through the door and take away your stuff, you can say "neener-neener, you should've just asked." (I suggest not using those exact words.)
A compressed file has a bit pattern that clearly identifies it as compressed. It has statistical structure. Either way, a court couldn't compel her to uncompress a file either, as it would still constitute testimony.
I have been looking for gigs here to for a while but I realy feel that most of the action is still back in Calgary, where I moved from. One thing you can try out is to go to the coworking spaces downtown and around to meet others like yourself. A search for coworking spaces should pop up some results. It's really taking off now in Toronto.
I am inclined to think that this is one of those cases where people feel uncomfortable for some time.

...and then they get used to it.
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I didn't get a sense of any racist undertone in this article (nor was there any in the Planet Money podcast about this either). Certainly the author could have gone into more detail as to why the company doesn't feel that they can find enough skilled labor in China or Mexico to make it worth their while to move production there, but that's not the point of the article, so why focus on it?
> Moore's Law says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double every two years, and that has fairly consistently held true and continues to do so.

This may be getting close to a wall, too. The smallest process currently viewed as being practical is in the region of 10nm; we're not that far off.
It's not a "reduction to the absurd". It brings up the point that there is no "essential law enforcement" interest that overrides the right to avoid self incrimination. No matter how badly someone wants to convict you, you have a right to not give testimony against your self against your will.
I rather like this, especially the quote:

[Jim Buckmaster] added, "It was unclear at first how best to give something back to Perl. Fortunately there was more than one way to do it."
Because everyone keeps letting it happen. It's not illegal (yet) and the actors go for it. Acting is like gambling... Lots of people dream big, but only a few actually make it. Most of the dreamers are willing to risk everything for that chance. They'll sign any contract that gives them a chance at making it, and they think not signing a bad contract will mean they'll never work. (And that's probably true.)

The music industry works the same way, in regards to the actual content producers.
Hard to find, unfortunately, but NET-A-PORTER (disclaimer: I work there) also donated $10,000. As well as LOVEFiLM, Oslo.pm, and Dijkmat donating various amounts. Source: http://www.perlfoundation.org/previous_homepage_news
Your use-case would work so long as both sides use general-purpose computers. We've made our app work for Windows, and we believe it can be made to work under Mac OS X and Linux.

There's a big problem getting it to work for sandboxed devices like the iPhone because you can't write an app that reads from or writes into another app's GUI.

I agree with you that short demo video would help explain the operation better. As I haven't done this before, can someone recommend an easy-to-use program that can create a video clip of a Windows/XP app and also supports voice-over?
Some examples of typical service offerings you're planning / providing would be nice.
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Because a key part of the plan is that you aren't buying it for 99c. To buy the content and watch it many times, you'd have to pay more, but he doesn't address that. (He should, though.)
This is an illusion that appears real to you. If you look at the biggest 5 web companies during the first 6 months of their inception you would have said the same thing. If you think you can judge success by hearing the idea then what would you have said about farmville? Angry birds? Twitter (when we already had Facebook status)? My point, in the beginning all companies seem like a feature, and ideas are nothing and execution is everything.
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