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Well, aside from the fact that the authors analysis may or may not be wrong, the problem he points out certainly does exist. How does a cyberlocker assert who owns copyright or not. Megaupload certainly was shady, but actually, in germany it might be perfectly legal to rip your sopranos DVD, upload it to Megaupload and share it with friends. We do have legal provision for sharing media with friends (actually, we pay a couple of cents for each empty CD or DVD we buy that is supposed to compensate for that). Sharing an episode with the rest of the world remains illegal, but how can the hoster know?
It's certainly clear that megaupload targeted those users, but actually, so does my cable provider. Practically
noone needs 200MBit connections if not for filesharing.

> If a lawyer started posting here on HN or on a programming forum elsewhere claiming that obviously programming language X is better than Y because X has pointers and Y doesn't we'd laugh him/her out of the room too. Why do we think it's acceptable to do the equivalent to other fields?

Certainly not. If it were a lawyer who needs to be genuinely interested in my field of work because it directly influences his field of work, I'd be willing to put up with a couple of false statements as long as the general questions remain valid. And whether we like it or not, those lawyers that try to put the megaupload staff in jail may be after our own startup just as fast if we stray too close to the border to what interested parties consider illegal. And those interested parties push the border further and further deep into what used to be plainly technical territory. See SOPA/PIPA or other similar laws that try to push for solutions that are obviously (to us) not technically feasible or even damaging to the underlying technology. Thats why we as well need to try and understand what's going on on the lawyers side of things and why we need to assert how we think things may turn out. Certainly, we do make mistakes and may have incorrect ideas of how the law works, but I still think it's important to write that up and put it up for discussion. You're certainly right to point out errors, but that's just part of the process.
I find this attitude really strange. The value in going to Stanford isn't that you get to take the physical classes, it's that you can walk up to Prof. Ng's office (and/or similar caliber profs) and have a chat, and more importantly target yourself to be doing some research under them before you graduate.

Having merely taken a class with someone big in the field (especially a large class) is essentially an interesting point of trivia to bring up at dinner sometime. If anything these online courses are about demonstrating that the scarcity of chairs in a great professors classroom is rather artificial. Having done research under (even if it's pretty trivial stuff you personally do) someone great will really have an impact on your career.

If you're an undergrad and your not spending a good amount of your time talking one on one with researchers you have access to you're not taking advantage of a huge benefit of attending a university.
> you're an outcast if you don't step aboard. If your professional environment standardizes on a platform

Although employment and social circles DO limit your range of actions, you accept the tradeoff voluntarily in exchange for benefits. You can find a new job or people to associate with if the benefits do not justify the cost, without your employer or friends being able to legally threaten you with violence. On the other hand if you refuse to allow surveillance or investigation by the law, they are authorized to use as much force as is necessary to seize your property, imprison you, or execute you. It's completely voluntary in that regard.

"Voluntary" can be viewed as an antonym for "coerced", where coercion implies an underlying threat of violence. Forced denial of an individuals life, liberty, and property can be construed as violence or coercion. Such properties do not presuppose the presence of another person or governing body, so may be considered intrinsic to the individual. However, employers or friends denying the deliverance of their property or empathy to you cannot be construed as violence or coercion. Such exchanges presuppose the presence of multiple people, and therefore cannot be considered the denial of a property intrinsic to one individual.
Or perhaps following the car with a drone.
I once read that this is how MagicJack makes most of their money as well.
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You know, one of the things I realized as I get older is that somethings we are yet to figure out.

I don't know why, but the old adage that hard work soothes the soul is so true. If you're feeling down, or out of energy, for some reason, if you can manage to get yourself working hard on something, anything, you feel better. The task can range in difficulty from fleshing out that new start up concept, to cleaning your room. For reasons beyond me, this makes you feel better - even when you are dead tired, or super depressed. Sometimes this goes against what you would think follows rationally: if you are tired, a good work out and some rest should suffice. But it doesn't.

Similarly, I cannot come up with a good reason why waking up early works. For the past few weeks, I've adopted a new routine. I recently started a 9-5 after shying away from them for years. I wake up at 7, run for 45 minutes (about 4 miles), shower, and go to work. It is unbelievable how good this feels. I'm so addicted to it, that I look forward to my morning run all evening the day before. This is coming from someone who used to feel like shooting himself in the head whenever he had to get up before 9 and who has always suffered from serious sleep issues. (I should clarify that the benefit is not from exercising alone, I used to work out in the evenings when my day was shifted 4-5 hours)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should give it a shot. The benefits go beyond what one can see written on a sheet of paper (i.e., x amount of productivity gained, y amount of sleep gained, etc. etc.) I eagerly await for science to help us understand our complex brains better to understand why these things are so.
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For the average person, entertainment is as much about creating a shared culture as it is about the content itself.

I'd agree with this, the central point of the (very short) blog post.

They want to go to a huge arena filled with people similar to them and enjoy an event together.

This I'm not convinced about. Studies show that people can manage about 150 personal relationships. I'd say it's likely that this also reflects a sweet spot in terms of shared interests. They don't care that 100,000 strangers like the same band, they just want enough people in their own circle to like the band that they can reliably share the experience. And that number is a lot less than an arena-full.
Much of the German military is a social welfare program (more so than the US); national service is traditional and keeps the unemployment figures down, but serves very little defense purpose.
In that case, you probably want to consult a lawyer beforehand anyhow. If you're working on something truly disruptive and innovative to an established market, software licenses might be your smallest concern.
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From the source code: http://www.focusontheuser.org/dontbeevil/script.js

if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
alert(
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return;
}

That's not very nice. Surely this can be made to work for at least IE9 :)
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A couple can be found here: http://www.askgallonlaw.com/labor/2010/03/lower-court-overru...
Anyone know what the licensing is for this icon set?
Old people always say that; I wouldn't read too much in to it. Trivial but revealing example: ask people how they think the murder rate is compared to 15 years ago, and compare it to the statistics.
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Additionally, you can actually make relationships with these folks, which are highly useful in the future for recommendations, etc.
You say that conflict is artificially generated by lawyers and that the war that it starts is in fact unnecessarily, but I disagree. Yes, we may blame lawyers for the most of the current situation, but this is not the only reason that is causing it, nor it will in the future. I see two main reasons.

First, it is the "creative distruction" that comes into equation. Hollywood is big, things change to much around and... I am sorry. It's not pretty sight, but like a lot of other legends of the "good old days", Hollywood ought to understand it's time and place ...in the history! You see, it's not only the technology that is changing (which also happened before, and with some hops and trepidation the classic media industry managed to cope with), but an entire paradigm around it. People are not satisfied with the old ways anymore, and the old ways is what I'm afraid that Hollywood can't and won't get over.

Second, it's a power game. When you get so much money to afford paying millions per year to lobbyists, to afford to change the rules of the entire game in your advantage, well... What we see is not coincidence. It's what was expected to happen. It's what happens in other industries also - just rise you head and look around. When you have power, you use it. You must be a fool not to use it. Even if you had some altruism somewhere inside, power corrupts people and when you are so disconnected like you described, it's just a matter of time till you forget things that would otherwise matter. So, when it comes to make judgments and take decisions, honestly - what is there left for you to consider?
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Please recommend projects for validation by use PVS-Studio.
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Without this, … and use it to browse porn etc.

So their filters are effective at blocking porn? Is the Tor project pornography now?
While I agree that a new education startup could go after something like the University of Phoenix, I'm not sure that Thrun and his crew are going for that.

To me, the University of Phoenix represents a credential factory. People see that all the jobs they want require a college degree, and so they go the easiest route to get that. I don't believe that University of Phoenix (or most of the other big for-profit names) have a strong interest in educating people, nor do I think that their customers are really interested in getting an education - instead they're interested in getting a piece of paper that says they're qualified to do the job they want.

Thrun seems to have far more noble, though possibly less profitable, goals in mind.
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I agree that it takes a certain mindset to understand how to read/write code. However, simply offering it as an option in k-12 education doesn't seem like too bad an idea, so long as it is a child's choice to experience programming for themselves. Of course, the courses would definitely need to be interesting to grab a child's attention.

I know I would have loved programming in my younger years, just didn't have too much access at the time. That's at least my two cents :-)
The people who learnt to program computers in the 70s and 80s weren't taught at school by teachers, they taught themselves (maybe with help from friends).

It's still the truth these days. Of course, we don't have basic installed by default anymore. Instead, I have a desire to make video games and it took me several tries over my childhood until I started to program seriously at age 15.
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Apparently it will be back online when the next build is finished.
I was surprised to see the experiment deemed a failure after only one week. Do most folks feel that one week is sufficient time to ascertain this? One week seems hardly enough to even start propagating a website through Google... ?
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I don't read his comment as actually stating his opinion on the matter, but if we assume he is a libertarian then it sounds like he certainly does think this is a case of government intervention causing problems.
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Thanks Patrick. This was a long time coming.

I can tell you've had quite a personal journey about this topic.
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A link to the W3C spec or MDN page for each tag/feature would be a nice addition.
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Hi iamds,

The error message isn't enough clear, the name should be at least 4 characters. Sorry again.
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So, for what demographics does this publicity stunt improve the perceived legitimacy of Google+? I can't think of any negatives.
Exactly. It's equivalent to someone having half that income in many regions of the USA. Most people who make 6 figures make it in regions where it's about worth half typically than it would be in let's say Reno, NV.
That's a great idea, thanks. Right now the 'star' button just creates a local bookmark, but if you're logged in, it should also send an upvote.
There's ads on the game site, so he must be making some money off of it.
http://www.gerdarntz.org/content/copyright:

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This mirror works: http://php.tonnikala.org/
Where did the notion arise that because USA is a representative democracy, that they are somehow not subject to bureaucrats relentlessly trying to increase and concentrate their powers over their constituents?
This is harsher than it should be, but its been bugging me for a long time. The assumption that geeks are good at everything and that we'll one day take over and everything will be perfect is too often taken as a given.

Geeks can't do law. Its pathetic when we try, but because this kind of thing falls into the general category of "politics" its tolerated.

80% of what I've read about SOPA has been wrong (not that I'm defending it). I'm not even going to go into the commentary regarding how the Megaupload takedown was illegal. Or how 90% of the commentary on here reddit, and slashdot just follow the childish "I want to download anything and if you get in my way, you're the problem" attitude that is not only tolerated but promoted as reasonable.

Also, geeks can't do fiction, comedy, or movies. We're too obsessed with quoting aging one-liners and believe tired old memes are hilarious. Geeks take down Hollywood? Please. I'm not even going to go into geek politics (Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, anti-progressive, anti-federalism). Or this whole armchair revolutionary crap like "Twitter and facebook are responsible for the Arab spring, not people risking their lives in the streets."

We're good with computer crap. Lets stop pretending otherwise. Good self-learning and analytical skills don't mean "instant expert." Funny how the "Learn x in 10 years" rule applies to everyone but us.
Any plans to add Instapaper support? I like your app, and use it often, but I'd like to read HN articles on the train sometimes.
I have one to offer, though I will admit it is reasonably controversial in various dimensions (e.g. sexist, etc.):

- I am /of the opinion/ that young women have greater social intelligence and nuanced sensitivity than young men.

- And, that (IMO) here in America there is a prevalent negative social attitude towards nerds/geeks/intellectuals.

- Matters have certainly improved since the realization that "nerds" can become tycoons, and some are recognized. But it should be noted that this does not indicate a change is societal attitude towards geeks. Linus Torvalds is not a household name. Zuckermann is well known, but he is a business success and celebrated for his business (and yes, social), and not technical, acumen.

- The field, in my experience, is one of the most meritocratic in existence today in our society (which is the primary reason I continue a professional practice). I would code for fun, regardless.

- But, it is certainly true in my experience that the workforce was and remains preponderantly male, although it seems to have improved (but see below).

The summation of above considerations gives support to a thought that is further reinforced by a consideration of the female colleagues I have worked with over the past 20 years:

Every single one was either an immigrant (1 Israeli, 1 Romanian, 1 Pakistani, 1 Brazilian, & recently quite a few Indian and/or Russian/Eastern European women), or, the designated brainiac social minority group that themselves celebrate cerebral members, e.g. Jewish and Asian Americans, etc. In fact, my first female coworker (who happened to also be my boss/team-lead) was a Cooper Union grad and a Chinese American.

Finally, let me tell you a very simple human fact: most of us men in the field would probably be very happy to have a more balanced work environment. So the thought that we would go out of our way to discriminate against women flies in the face of both personal experience (I interviewed and selected the Israeli and the Romanian as the de facto CTO of a startup in '89), and my general understanding of my fellow male geeks.

(Also, note that I made an effort to reach out to a fellow geek (female, of course) that I only know via her github projects. She confirmed that "agism" was what concerned her most.)

None of this is to offer a conclusive explanation, but I am of the strong opinion that:

when the day arrives that (American) society adopts the same social respect/capital towards its cerebral members that it currently affords business, media, and sports personalities, will be the day that will see young cerebral women make the (intelligent and thoughtful) choice to enter into the field (and related fields, such as Mathematics) in greater numbers.

(End opinion)
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Math classes are no different. Only a handful of students will solve a math problem by themselves, others will just wait for teacher to show them what to do, and then repeat the procedure with hardly any understanding what is going on. The exams consist of problems that were already solved in classroom, it's enough to memorize the procedures and apply them to tasks on exams.
You cannot profit legally from a sublet. Some leases may allow you to rent it out for the same amount monthly, or even partially, but you are never allowed to charge more than you pay. AirBnB is actually pretty illegal in NYC, at least the way most people use it.
> when someone gives me the "top 5", I consider it only a trailhead; it's unlikely my top 5 would be the same.

That's a fair point. The important part, it seems, is identifying not just which books to read but why. That information would help you and I find our 20%.
This is really just business 101. Outside of the tech startup world, most businesses aren't launched without significant market research. That's mostly a result of the upfront costs (huge in real-world vs. tiny in tech).

Of course, both approaches have their plusses and minuses.
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This feature list is getting bookmarked as one of those "EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED" moments. I hope the iTerm folks had as much joy writing it as I see imagining my new fabulous and easy life managing remote shells..
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> The people who learnt to program computers in the 70's and 80's ...

I agree, but that kind of programming is very different from the type of programming that will be useful to non programmer kids when they grow up. There is also google, stack overflow and a waltz of easily accessible information on how to do X in language Y that was not online then.

I am drawing a distinction between coding and programming. Let me explain - When I graduated from college in 1999 the career office was very assertive that I should use and describe my ability with the MS Office productivity suite. When and how it had become an important enough to include on my resume doesn't matter, it was an important skill to have for the types of jobs I was going to be applying for. So programming and programmers will always have to dive deep and be able to develop complex systems. I am using the word coding in the same context as what I started with: I worked in a laboratory and collected lots of scientific data. I learned how to automate the tedious parts of manipulating, formatting and emailing out the results to save my time and reduce the errors I made doing it manually. To me, this was a self taught journey to learning to code with vba and even back in the first half of the Aughts there were decent places to figure things our for VBA.

I think in the future, kids or prospective employees in general that are not programmers, being able to put "can write JavaScript and VBA to automate repetitive tasks" will not be required. But, the candidates who can will have a marketable skill that sets them apart from their peers even though they are both trying to get a job in Supply Chain or Regulatory Affairs.

And these days, JavaScript is very easy to get started with, fire up a modern browser, open up the console and type in your program on any web page. It's been a while since I worked with VBA but I assume it is discussed on stack overflow.
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Its not impossible that with even with all of the inefficiencies associated with government action that its still the best course of action. Things like hydroelectric dams and national interstate systems spring to mind.

It should however be the last resort. Its an extremely blunt instrument. Private sector vs government; To quote my favorite author: "Its the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
I'll just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/user/theostation#p/c/880ECFFEF4972939
This type of app is not particularly monetizable. Most people would use the actual website instead of paying $0.99 cents for an app. Plus, it was a fun project to learn iOS and it costs me very little to host or maintain.
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I kinda wanted SOPA/PIPA to pass
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patio11 draws some content from his original "Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice"[1] which you should definitely read.

[1] http://old.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
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