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It fossilizes a framework of copyright laws that was created before the Internet. Each country that signs ACTA commits itself to preserving the existing system of intellectual property protection, which many consider to be antiquated and out of touch with the digital world. It ensures that no alternative ideas for managing intellectual property will arise in those countries, which is of course the goal of the United States government and the rightsholders that lobbied for this treaty.

In addition to limiting the flexibility of individual countries without giving them anything in return (other than a pat on the back from Uncle Sam), ACTA contains a number of vague provisions that could lead to more stringent IP regulations. For example:

"ordering the alleged infringer (...) to provide information on any persons (...) involved in any aspect of the infringement" (notice the broad scope)

"endeavoring to promote cooperative efforts within the business community to effectively address trademark and copyright or related rights infringement" ("encouraging" ISPs to "voluntarily" cut off users?).

ACTA also contains provisions that go beyond what is currently law in many of the countries that are about to sign it. For example, it introduces broader anti-circumvention laws that are currently in effect in Poland. It also provides that prosecutors must be able to act out of their own initiative (ex officio) on copyright cases -- even if the rightsholder does not complain.
How do you make it easy for me to update the app once it's live (or do I still have to do that by hand)? Do I have to submit a new app to the stores every time I want to push an update?
True dat.
In many companies as soon as there is even the slightest hint of passioned discussion you will get someone who tries to step in "defuse" the situation and remind everyone of the "respect in the workplace" policy or some such.

This will then often lead to the intervening party trying to broker a "compromise" between the two parties where the emphasis is more on how to resolve the dispute without anyone getting their feelings hurt.

As long as the argument hasn't gotten to a point where you think someone is likely to get punched or it has got personal or so far off track that it doesn't look like it will ever end I think it's usually best to just leave people to argue it out.

In the end even the "winning" party is now likely to be more mindful of the potential pitfalls of their idea when it is being implemented.

If you are working with other people I think you should aim to have an argument a day.
Re: point #2, IIRC on iOS devices this isn't possible. I believe that Apple allows third parties to register pseudo-protocols ("myapp://<content-id>"), but doesn't allow apps to receive links for certain patterns of HTTP URLs.
I didn't see any discussion about the cost of driving around town all the time to pick stuff up. Still, depending on his average distance, if he averages three items per day he might not be much worse than a lot of people's average commutes.
never had the call to do it myself. Just something I keep in the back of my mind for a rainy day. The benefits would be application specific, I don't think it's something that you balance against POST to the collection in the general case and do one approach exclusively. I have used POST to collection extensively and PUT for create never. One example I can think of is you are making one of those sign up forms that does AJAX to check that the username is free or not. You could use a PUT in a case like that because you've already done the extra server trip as part of a usability improvement.
In ruby (irb):

require 'bigdecimal';
BigDecimal.new(1).div(998001, 2997)
If you're looking for an iPhone app, I use a tool called Momento to do this. It's nicely designed, is fairly functional, and works well so far. The only major downside is its inability to sync with external services like Dropbox to back up your data (you can do that manually through iTunes, but it's a pain).
I think the most succinct response to this question I've found comes from the Starcraft II casting archon, "Tastosis" during one of those filler periods where nothing is happening in the game:

Tasteless: I'm a philosophy major, man.

Artosis: Hmmmm? That's good.

Tasteless: You major in that, people are like: "What are you going to do with a philosophy major?" ::outraged mumble:: I'm like: "I dunno, properly navigate the world with my mind? Geez!"
Yes. They will take a lesser fraction of the value in cash when there is a positive value in getting rid of it. Small items are easy to get rid of anyway (you could just throw it in the trash), and if they have value they may be willing to store them and wait.

My overall reaction to the article, though, was that he's doing a fair amount of work for a pretty so-so return, and it looks hard to scale it upwards. (That $1,000 for the week doesn't come with any fringe benefits, like insurance.)
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I work in information security for a company that uses content filtering, let me explain the standard reasoning (with the disclaimer that I don't speak for my company or yours, etc).

Your work computer and Internet access is governed by a policy that all employees have to sign. Among other things, this policy says that your time at work is supposed to be used doing work-related things. The only way to enforce this policy is to filter out things that are not business-related. This policy at many companies is usually pretty lax and ad-hoc, really only blocking categories of sites, not individual sites themselves. The categories usually include pornography/extreme content, games, etc.

Other categories are blocked due to the fear of data leakage. Google Docs/Dropbox is common for this. The last thing you want your employees doing is putting sensitive information onto the Internet where competitors or ill-wishers can view them. The goal here is to make it more difficult to share, not impossible (knowing that email/removable media is still an option).

We want you to do your work. We understand there are times when you need Internet access. But no, we don't trust you, because you're on Hacker News right now (as am I). If the world were a better place, we could trust the security of the company to the users/employees. You and I both know this isn't true. While you're at work, your company owns your time under the terms of your contract. It's not censorship because private organizations have no responsibility to ensure your freedoms.

TL;DR try complaining to your CIO that you can't get to iheartchaos.com. S/He'll tell you to get back to work.
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I'd still prefer ssh keys over a strong password. I don't know anyone who is perfect with regard to password sharing. Once you've memorized a wicked good password, there's a strong temptation to use it.

Say you've committed a really strong password to memory. One day, you find yourself setting up an account for some related service that you want to be super secure, but you're going to have to access it regularly. You decide to use your strong password. A year goes by and some hacker gains access to the said service's user database. Your super-strong password is now useless.

The great thing about ssh-keys is that the private key should be on your computer only. Generalized attacks don't go after single private keys, because you're only getting one set of credentials. If you're under focused attack, there are much easier attack vectors than trying to swipe a priv key from a dev's machine. If you can convince your dev to use passphrases on their ssh keys, you mitigate that attack vector as well.

Neither is perfectly enforceable, but using a passphrase with ssh-keys and ssh-agent is trivial. It's not perfect, but it's better than password auth.
How do you know they got it? Did you send it in a way that they had to sign for it? If so, would not serve as proof of delivery to prevent the chargeback? And if not, how do you know that the customer is not telling the truth?
Whole-heartedly concur.

Another issue that my programming students (university sophomores/juniors in a business school) often have trouble with is the concept of = being used for assignment rather than equality testing. It's as natural as breathing for programmers, but a weird shift from the type of math they're used to.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/invigilation

It's actually a real word! Never heard it before.
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As a YC reject, I can only say the same. I'm convinced that just going in for interviews to was the best thing that happened to us. Our original idea wasn't going to work and making the trip to California opened our eyes.

So if you're wondering whether you should apply, the answer is yes. Even (especially?) if you get rejected.
"The unlived life is not worth examining."
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Cool; I'll try to cover the things you raised in part 2 or 3.

>>On a side note, amazing job with the redesign. The new hittail landing page looks great.

Thanks!

>>One thing I noticed however was that you have an extra checkmark on the last row of the pricing page that doesn't seem to correlate with anything. Done on purpose?

LOL...that's awesome. I'm not sure how no one else (including me) has noticed that. Removing it now; thanks for pointing it out :-)
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If you want a little honest feedback on your application before you submit it, feel free to contact me. I was the first engineering hire at justin.tv, I'm the cto of ZeroCater now, and I love talking about startup ideas.
There is a partial description here: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/archive/core-transformation.htm...
If only the bill had a Hawaii themed name, like SURF'S UP:
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I'm curious how he's able to move giant appliances / half-ton loads of steel out of people's homes by himself.
The xbox was a cash burner and now it's a profitable division and the top console in many markets.
It's IE8. Get the same with your front page: "IE cannot display the page"
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Standardized Tests shouldn't count as 'practical use cases.'
It's a legal wording of an implicit social contract. When Google says, "you can't use our service if you are under 18", they mean, "you can't blame us for showing your kid porn".

It's the same reason illegal drugs are illegal. When you overdose, the government doesn't have to spend any money investigating why you got contaminated drugs.
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It's been proposed that municipalities that want to increase density in a particular district convert their property taxes to land taxes in a revenue-neutral way.

That makes it much more painful to leave real-estate in a less-than-maximally-productive state.
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This is looking really interesting. I'm a web developer and dabbled with Phonegap/Appcelerator before - would happily trade complexity for simple command line tools and speed. Being able to output browser plugins from the same code is a nice extra too.
At the risk of coming off as a fanboy, I'll say that pg's essay on philosophy is my favorite of his writings:

http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

It matches my experience of getting a B.A. from a SLAC quite closely, and I regularly share it with non-techies.
What's the history of the aptitude and apt-* family of commands? Why do they both exist?
Actually MIT points out "in follow-up lab experiments, the researchers found that men are more willing to spend money quickly in social settings with marked gender imbalances." So they're looking at multiple studies. But I agree that the conclusions seem unwarranted, e.g.

Seeing more men around them in these environments activates a competitive mindset, which leads to a short-term, spend-now approach.

Um really? Maybe men prefer to spend money in the presence of other men. Or they're afraid of being taken advantage of by women if they flaunt their money. Or any number of other, completely unwarranted conclusions you want to jump to.
I don't think it uses the golden ratio, except for the 2nd column maybe. It seems a little distracting.
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Now that YC has gotten bigger (=more competitive), does an application without a prototype still have a shot? I'm incredibly paranoid about getting exposed to IP-related problems (working for a large corp and not in California). I suspect a few other people are in the same situation.

The sad thing is that when I think about it, I wouldn't fund someone without a prototype (if the roles were reversed). It is only when you build something do you realize if the materialized idea has any wings. Quite the mess I'm in :(
The way to scale it is to open a thrift store and increase his inventory on hand by buying in bulk.
The rhetorical shift needs to be greater, conjuring up different images than cages and locks. People put locks on things they own, they don't necessarily want to support people who can bypass them. I think things need to go in the direction of "completion" or "empowering"--bad choices themselves but grafting onto that connotation allows you to change the way the argument is structured as well. You are giving yourself a more complete access to your device by jailbreaking, rather than rebelling against an authority.
I'm personally interested in finding out what these people will be leveraging in order to emulate a prediction? Simple statistics of past page views, site page rank/number of back links, social media analytics, or a combination of these things?

Or is there some secret sauce I'm missing?
rest is how the web works.

if you used a browser to write that comment, I would say rest is working pretty well.
I'm thinking he gets a little bit of free labor out of his kids :)
The greatest part of this story is what Ryan accomplished personally. From reading, he went from someone who consistently had great trouble professionally, to someone who is successfully able to support himself and his family financially.

Ryan, if you're reading this, congratulations! This appears to be a major personal accomplishment and milestone for you. Best of luck as you grow into your next level of success.
wow, I'm intrigued. it must be an experience just watching someone like that work!
This'll actually be pretty sweet with SPYW, assuming my coworkers and programming buddies are diligent plus-one'ing the choice SO threads.
You probably already know this, but apt-get defaults to installing recommended packages since Debian Lenny. Ubuntu may have been doing it for longer. To disable this, you have to set 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' in apt.conf
For starters, drchrono offers a completely free version (in a freemium model) with the free version being a full EMR that qualifies doctors for $44,000 from Medicare in Meaningful Use incentives.

drchrono has also been building on the iPad exclusively since the iPad was first launched in April of 2010 (much longer than any other company). So drchrono on the iPad is more advanced with features like realtime speech to text, customized templates, and automatic note generation and billing features that have evolved over the last 2 years.
But it would lack... just kidding.

Another way to get the real consecutive numbers is to make a rest so we avoid that annoying increment at the end:

1/998001 - 1e-1000
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> Greeks have specific needs that Facebook and other sites do not meet.

Online recruitment tools, online bill pay tools (LOTS of money here), Online chapter management tools (Email/SMS blasts, calendars, philanthropy hours tracking, event planning)

> At UPenn, the average budget is ~$125,000 a semester, and that's money each house MUST spend.
> > Perhaps, but what fraction of that do they spend on software, social networking or otherwise? A frat budget of $125K becomes less interesting if they spent $110K of that on Natty Light.

Please don't fall prey to common stereotypes, not every dollar we collect goes to alcohol, in fact 0% of my chapters budget goes to alcohol. Also "Frat" has negative connotation, please refer to them as Fraternities.

> CollegeACB had 900,000 hits its 2nd day, now its down.

I never had and never will support CollegeACB/JuicyCampus type websites as all they are used for is spreading rumors and hate. Any idiot can throw up a copy-cat website in a few hours and slap ads on it to make a few bucks.

There is plenty of money to be made marketing to Fraternities and Sororities as most of the companies operating in this sector are are doing a horrible job and are years behind tech-wise. I would be happy to work with anyone who wants to write web apps for Greek's.

-Josh Strange
University of Kentucky
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True, this only works for places where people don't normally drive manual transmissions. Once the populace learns, this will no longer be effective.

I'm all for making driving more involving. If you have to use both feet and both hands to drive, it gets harder to eat a burger and apply your makeup and type on your laptop and wank all at the same time.
That's really generous of you, thanks for offering.
Interesting. I'm going to take the trial for a run shortly, may write a review about it in the future.
So, like a 100th Monkey strategy?
A bigger problem is team, if you can show you're a solid team which has built stuff together then it matters less that you don't have a prototype.
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We have a post on it as well on our blog:

http://weblog.bocoup.com/startup-data-trends/
$1000 per week is actually quite good, remember this guy was unemployed and was getting occasional construction jobs so he didn't have any money and insurance in the first place. The experience he is gaining running a successful business also has a lot of value. I know a similar guy who started dealing in used items, after working for 25 years he is one of the biggest antique and scrap metal dealer in town.
Shouldn't post stuff like this, it invites competition.
Yes. Pre-Internet, I was happy reinventing the wheel because I didn't know the wheel even existed yet.

Now, whenever I have a bright idea for a fun side projects, I do a few searches and see that it's already been done to death. Then I feel discouraged.
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Yes, of course. We care more about the founders (both individually and their relationship) than the idea.

Incidentally, YC hasn't gotten as much more competitive as you might think, because we've grown as the number of applications has. We consistently end up funding about 3% of applications. Not as a conscious strategy; it just always works out to about that. Applying to YC has grown somewhat more competitive though, because the top 3% keep getting better as we get better known.
I've said this before, and so have many others, but it's worth repeating: Choosing to apply to YC was one of the best decisions of my life.

Some reasons I love YC:

- My cofounder and I were in the Summer 2010 batch. We've changed our idea, made mistakes, and failed repeatedly. Yet in all that time, pg and co have had and continue to have our backs 100%.

- One thing I've learned in life is that who you choose to surround yourself with matters immensely. Doing YC means surrounding yourself with great people.

- Every single YC partner is a genuinely lovely person. The other week we got a heartwarming and encouraging email from Kate, YC's architect.

- The YC network is unparalleled. In the past week, I've relied on it half a dozen times.

- I don't know how to put this, but YC has taste. Where others are political or indirect or care about appearances or do things without thinking about them, pg and co are the opposite: Direct, thoughtful, and good. YC is good in much the same ways pg's essays are good, if that makes any sense.

I cannot recommend YC highly enough.

(Sorry if that was too effusive.)
No, I meant basically what jgmmo said, the AV scanners pick up a lot more than the virus they were written to prevent. Anything that triggers virus-like behavior will let you know you're infected (might not be able to clean it though). That's one of the points made in the article about false positives.
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PG might be more concerned that you still work for a large corporation than not having a prototype.

There will be a ton of startups applying where the founders left their jobs/schooling ahead of time.
Google now encouraging teens to share personal information online - trajectory officially becomes asymptotic to the creepy line.
The blog post you linked says ACTA contains a three-strikes provision. That used to be true, but it isn't anymore. Just read the final text.

Furthermore, I see nothing in ACTA that contradicts the ECJ ruling (ACTA does not say anything specific about ISP filtering) and I haven't seen any serious source claim that this ruling makes ACTA illegal.
Yes, without patents nobody is ever gone invent anything again.
Awesome for switching between languages, but not so good for absolute beginners. I forwarded this to a PhD biologist friend who wants to learn the basics of programming (to possibly apply to the bioinformatics field), and she said "...what?!"
Either corrupt, or ass-kissing douches that have no idea why they are there. Many of them probably have no idea what they signed for.

Sorry for the language, but I'm really pissed off that my country is on that list.
The line between innovation and duplication is when someone outright copies every aspect of your game, like Zynga did with Dream Heights.
Using a fake filesystem as a cache
Hand truck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_truck is a very simple machine and is part of any movers toolkit.
What you've just described is known in the planning field as suburban sprawl, and is not without traffic problems of its own.

If you start with an assumption of auto-dependence, then your conclusion follows, but the article is really arguing against making that assumption in the first place.
I think there's a perception that aptitude can be to smart for its own good. From the Debian Reference:

"Although the aptitude command comes with rich features such as its enhanced package resolver, this complexity has caused (or may still causes) some regressions such as Bug #411123, Bug #514930, and Bug #570377. In case of doubt, please use the apt-get and apt-cache commands over the aptitude command."

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.h...
You are one step ahead though. How can you address a resource if you don't know beforehand the representation of its identifier? Say, you want to create a new Employee under /Employees. Do you just issue a 'GET /Employees/1234' and assume '1234' is a valid identifier when you get a 404? What if the system expects a MongoDB _id such as '47cc67093475061e3d95369d'?

A workaround, as was suggested by an other poster, is that the client interrogates the system for a valid identifier and then proceeds. This especially makes sense when, as noted, you are dealing with resources that belong to no collection.
I really like this kind of stuff. Have you looked at iDoneThis (https://www.idonethis.com/)? Similar in concept but a couple differences, namely that iDoneThis entries can be done through email.
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How is that relevant? Did I say Winsupersite was popular?

A bad Alexa rank causes the site to be banned on HN?
Transistors that outperform silicon aren't especially rare. The hard part is finding ones that can be outmanufactured compared to silicon.