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fired? No, he is doing everything he's been hired to do.

Getting him and MPAA prosecuted/fined by the DoJ for his remarks that amounted to admission of bribery? You betcha
I do think you have a fair point.

I suppose that some of the more mercenary universities (or those that can't attract a lot of physically present students) may do the math and realise that they can make more money in total by going for the "pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap (on the internet" approach.
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congrats - what are you trying to learn with your first launch?
> Feature request: Bribes to those in appointed positions for special favors. Thanks.

That would constitute a felony.
Maybe someone should write a bot that replays these tedious discussions, freeing up people to do more productive work.

M-x libertopians-vs-lefties

Or something like that.
Fithian represents NATO, the theater owner trade association.

He has zero interest in promoting anything other than theatrical distribution.
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A lot of naïvety in this post. Expense tracking sucks, but there are IRS regulations that both employees (contractors included) and businesses must follow.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc511.html
Calling BS. The author cited Dice, which is questionable at best.
What would be your ideal implementation of such an abstraction?
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for... unit tests?
The difference between Black Swans, Flying Green Monkeys, and Unicorns
They should have rather integrated Google Code Search into Google search so that we can use regexp for the whole web!
Finding a single regression in a defense in depth strategy does not an exploit make. Software can select whichever input it wants, regardless of whatever settings you may have set. This is one of many things that are simply a best effort to protect the computer. Root access or even access as an Administrative user could bypass this setting easily.
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There's a business opportunity in this article.

At the end they talk about digital-to-the-theater distribution and indie filmmakers hooking up with indie theaters.

A marketplace portal that facilitated that connection on a global basis could do well for itself.

A lot of schlepping, but a very viable market.
To illegalize lobbying permanently, we have to clean house as a nation (easier said than done). That amounts to doing at least three things on a permanent basis:

1. Purge congress, and rehab it with genuinely honest legislators (not career politicians) --- for each and every state (or at least the vast majority of them).

2. Purge at least 5 corrupt Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) members, and replace them with honest, real justices. But you can't just fire SC justices (unless we change the law, that is; see #1, above)... so this process could take time (i.e., not overnight). And two more things relating to SC justices: first, we need to remove or rehab the corrupt farm system of justices which feeds corrupt ones to SCOTUS candidacy in the first place (and probably the farm system for politicians for #1, above), and second: ...

3. We need to purge the executive office of corruption, including the political party running as both democrats and republicans --- and rehab our political system to create real choice, honest Presidents and cabinets, and select honest SCOTUS justices (i.e., second part of #2, above). Only then should we expect to make any real progress as a nation, or more to the point, only then should we expect to have any chance to derail our current national train wreck.

So, your observation and point are spot on, but we have our work cut out for us. We need Democracy to work, but ours has not been so resilient under pressures of wholesale internal corruption. Can we recover our democracy, or, as far as our national political will is concerned, are we already the walking dead (harsh, but perhaps true)?

Bottom line: we need to rehab our democracy, our nation, our culture, our political expectations, and our political will, and perhaps our political science education system (i.e., from missing in action to addressing organized corruption head-on in curriculum), and then have a go at rehabbing as a nation.
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I wanted to keep the site as non-partisan as possible.
Another 'watershed moment' in American politics is Dodd's shameless and unapologetic shakedown of the US Congress for not staying bought.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/19/exclusive-hollywo...
You can also get extra exposure through the chrome web store. It's not a lot, but every bit matters.
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Well yea, I didn't notice anything "bad". It took some adjustment initially to move my clock, but I pretty much get up at 5:30-6:00 AM and can get out of bed alert and refreshed.

I am still getting 8 hours of sleep a day. I can only assume that night owls who fail to switch, who wake up groggy and tired, are actually sleep deprived.
I've always been confused by this. Does "as a US company" mean that it's HQ is in the US? Or that it is incorporated in the US? Or just that it does business in the US?
Look, even if we enacted every single liberfantastic idea on shrinking government, there's still more than enough to make it worth bribing people. Really, all you need is to have a legislature, are you proposing we get rid of that?

The way to fight corruption is by fighting corruption, not by giving us things like the Citizens' United ruling (which is in fact less government, yet eminently more bribable).
Just let the analytics be public to everyone in the name of transparency.
I think the US election system is fundamentally flawed.

Why wouldn't a UK like approach work of limiting campaign budgets?

Focus more on politics and not lobbying/fundraising.
He even gets basic facts incorrect. The author assumes his Macbook Pro doesn't have a dedicated audio input. It does. Every Macbook Pro does. (The Macbook Air is the only Mac shipping without a built-in audio input).

Really, what I see is a software update that fixes a user interface bug. System Preferences no longer offers disconnected audio inputs as a selectable option, because it's just plain smarter that way. Could there any possible confusion for an average user between "Internal Microphone - Built In" and "Line In - Audio Line In" when looking at their sound input options? Seems like a design decision made in the interest of removing irrelevant choices.
Are those considered good numbers?

Feedback:

- the search button isn't aligned properly

- why everyone have 5 stars? and why are the stars gray? they look sad.

- clicking on the category name should check its box

- why can't I click on the top categories on the main page?
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I like how he thinks that Netflix and Redbox are also ripping him off. It's like he expects each person who sees the movie to pay for the entire production. Anything less is ruining the industry.

I disagree with this, though. I think it should be legally required for everyone to pay for the movie, regardless of whether or not they see it. That way, nobody can steal his hard work!!
Even if that's the case, it's not really relevant. If the concern is that an attacker will listen your mic, the only 100% solution is to physically extricate the mic from your laptop. If an attacker is able to install software (with administrative privilege) on your computer, they can do anything you can do, including re-configure your audio devices and mic volume levels.
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Then fix "our" Constitution.
Apple and the American economy
"Doesn't that ensure that we will be, optimally, second best?"

No, it doesn't. Keep the things that work for us, and then take a look at the things that we're having problems with (lobbying, healthcare) and steal any solutions that look better.

Just because Apple stole the GUI from Xerox didn't mean they had to steal Xerox's business plan for it, or their management structure. And I don't think anyone's claiming they wound up 2nd best to Xerox.
Lobbyists are a necessary and good part of...

...getting 90% of your money stolen by those who have money.

I hope you have absolutely no damn idea how delusional you are. Lobbyism is the cancer of this society and of this planet, and it will destroy it if not stopped.

It's a simple equation: do you know what you get, if you add an "interest group", less than 100% systemic transparency, and give it some time? The best term for the result is "organized crime".
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I know plenty of you have taken advantage of joining the Hacker News Circle on G+. If you aren't familiar, you can check out the following:

https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts

I've noticed that there are a ton of people who've added me that are not on the shared circle. Being a G+ noob, I spent an hour or more manually adding each person to a circle from the notifications page. Here's a much quicker solution if you've got a backlog of people to add to your Hacker News circle:

* Step one is to add each part (1-3) of the
original Hacker News shared circle
* Go to https://plus.google.com/circles
* Click on the tab "People who've added you"
* Change "sort by" to "Not yet in circles"
* Drag around the entirety of people not added
* Drop into your Hacker News circle

Note that you max out at adding 1000 people a day. You can span a few days to get everyone added.

Oh yeah, you can add me too :)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111080417137844075348
A nice intermediate step is to attach a small light directly to the mic/camera, so that the light is on whenever they are being used.
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When something gets shelved it pretty much means it's dead. The president even said he was against it and we are in an election year.

Chances are greater that they would hide this in another significant bill so it can get passed.
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Because there's too much money to be made from campaigning. TV networks alone are rolling in the cash during these prolonged primaries & campaigns.
IANAL, and possibly a blinding glimpse of the obvious (BGO), but without some kind of parody get-out-of-jail card, the site already meets the test of bribery, paying an official to do something.

More serious comment... not sure what people have against so-called czars. The president (or congress-critters) have staffers who focus on specific issues, talk to affected constituents, recommend policy. Ultimately, the elected official makes decision based on recommendations. Is that a bad thing, is he supposed to make all decisions on his own in a vacuum?
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The site was inspired by a thread a few months ago on what books HN recommend. I'm a self-taught programmer and I would also like to know if the skill set in creating a site like this would be enough to qualify me for an entry level position at a web company for more learning experiences. Thank you.
How would I verify that this source was actually used?
Hopefully these friendlier sites won't follow Google and Facebook's lead.

This is weird, isn't it. It makes me wonder what problem Google and Facebook are trying to solve with "social networking". They're basically sites that you go to because you're you, rather than other sites on the Internet that you go to because the content interests you. The rest of the Internet doesn't care what your name is. If you abuse your posting privileges (or whatever), you just get banned, end of story.
Richard Branson's idea to invest in youths.
Bad laws are stopped when citizens participate in the political process. I think people are realizing this. Social networks like twitter, facebook, reddit and hacker news makes organizing easier. They also make it easier to hear alternative voices (e.g. Lessig, Tim O'Reilly) and criticisms of the mainstream media. The best way to handle bad actor lobbyists is to counter them with large numbers of organized, informed citizens who participate.

I'm hoping Dodd was right and this was a watershed moment.
Changing your sound configuration is useless against anyone who has obtained admin rights on your operating system. Windows, Linux, Mac, or otherwise. If they have root/admin, they can override any setting you change at the most basic levels.

If you're still OCD and concerned about it, install Soundflower [1] and you can easily configure Soundflower as your default input, but not feed anything on to the Soundflower bus, thus making the default input silence. This is, in effect, the same as the author's suggestion of setting the default input to line-in and plugging in a stub; also pointless, as a line-in jack has no ability to convert acoustic wave forms to electrical signals.

I feel less-smart for even addressing this question.

http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
Let it never be said that the people at Ubuntu are trapped by convention...
Not so long ago, people had secretaries. In fact, my father had a secretary and it wasn't unusual at the time, and he wasn't paid any more than me. I'm not suggesting we bring back secretaries.

There's surely an opportunity here for a start-up with an AI background to analyze what I'm doing at any moment in time and ...

(a) track what I'm doing

(b) help me (intelligently, not clippy)

(c) schedule my time

(d) suggest improvements (it's time for your run!)

This would have to be private software under my control, but if I give you that, you are free to look at everything I do (type, view), use the webcam to see what I'm doing, even follow my cellphone around.
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2012 is the year of the tablet: Android, iPad, and Win8. It doesn't matter what Flash does better than HTML5 or that browser support is still an issue. If you are building today and you want your content to display on mobile, then you can't use Flash.
You do know that the site is a joke, right? Its parody. The argument is made through absurdity. Some bribery is legal, others not. Its funny because its absurd.
> The religious people were right all along. Given all this uncertainty and almost pointless nature of existence, the only rational course of action is to creatively speculate on what values you want for your life and why.

And it was going so well. The first sentence has no relation at all to the second.

Knowing you have a finite life doesn't make you do any less good, I'd argue it does the opposite. Religious or not, you can consider your values. sigh
It's about small government vs. large government when it should be about good government, regardless of size.
I'm not sure that trying to emulate the [other] wealthiest countries is the best of goals.

You don't have to mimic, but it does give a very strong indication that size of government isn't the problem.

[Outlaw political campaign advertising is] just another way of saying "Throw out the 1st Amendment and outlaw freedom of speech".

Nice try. No, this is "access to media." And currently it's controlled by the wealthy when it should be more democratically controlled.

What makes you think that the electorate as a whole can do any better.

That's funny, because the entire history of the world has been a ruling class not wanting to give up power because they don't "trust" the commoners, when all evidence has been that the greater the democracy, the greater the success. You can take the king; I'll take the people, every time.
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I've been a season ticket holder for the Boston Bruins a few years.

It's hard to attend all 40-something home games (plus playoffs), so I frequently sell off my tickets on craigslist or to friends.

This requires a ridiculous amount of work in coordinating with interested buyers, sharing personal information and meeting up with strangers (who often bail without notice).

I built BoxRowSeat as a way to sell my tickets quickly, securely and without any interaction on my part as the seller.

And I'd love your feedback :)
It is hard to agree or disagree with you when you don't say exactly what your eligibility criteria would be.

I, for one, find felony disenfranchisement to be deplorable.
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Clickable links mentioned above:

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People Who've Added you - https://plus.google.com/circles/addedyou
Nested DEFUNs is not the best idea...
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Congrats - looks great and learning Ruby well enough in 8 weeks to build this is inspiring. Another reminder that there is no excuse to not learn myself. Good luck.
Its actually not the "czars" per se, that I have a problem with. Its more the persistent, appointed, un-elected positions that span administrations but still have the full force of the executive branch.
This article says absolutely nothing. OK, there's a new Basecamp coming. Some people are going to complain when they see it, some people are going to love it. Can we see some details? Maybe a screen shot.

A green field "version 2" isn't exactly breaking new ground either.

Serious question. Is there a "next page" link on this article that I'm just not seeing?
> There. Now you just have to worry about the bugs the Agents put all over your house.

Physical bugs are expensive. Malware is cheap.
I think you've missed the point. "The religious people were right" refers to each individual having to make value decisions based on incomplete information, not conformity to an external value system. We completely agree.

I figured people would misread that section. I rewrote a couple of times, but in all honesty people see the word "religion" and then the conversation is over, as you have demonstrated. The problem is that the driver of religion -- creatively speculating on the unknown -- is a completely different thing than the application of these common myths in some kind of social structure. But the word has both meanings.

Sorry about that. I'll think about how to word it better.

EDIT: Reworded it a bit to try to clear it up.
I am not talking about x86 vs. ARM. I am talking about computers that don't have CPUs connected through a bus to a single memory space.

Someone else in this discussion mentioned the idea of fusing memristor memory with processing engines within the memory itself. That's the embryo of a very interesting idea - imagine hardware assisted memory deduplication, just to start.
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Interesting idea, but a huge security nightmare. Essentially you're opening the door for anyone to send and receive arbitrary ZeroMQ messages to any address via your server, bypassing any outward-facing firewall that might be in place.

One way to make this a bit less of a nightmare is to give the addresses via a server name, and have the proxy map that to an address. That way, the Javascript code can only access specific services known by the proxy.
OK, this is the best title I've seen in a while so I grudgingly apologize for the upvote just because of that. The company does look kinda cool, but it'd be a hellish commute from the midwestern US.
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For an architect ought not to be and cannot be such a philologian as was Aristarchus, although not illiterate; nor a musician like Aristoxenus, though not absolutely ignorant of music; nor a painter like Apelles, though not unskilful in drawing; nor a sculptor such as was Myron or Polyclitus, though not unacquainted with the plastic art; nor again a physician like Hippocrates, though not ignorant of medicine; nor in the other sciences need he excel in each, though he should not be unskilful in them. For, in the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

Still, it is not architects alone that cannot in all matters reach perfection, but even men who individually practise specialties in the arts do not all attain to the highest point of merit. Therefore, if among artists working each in a single field not all, but only a few in an entire generation acquire fame, and that with difficulty, how can an architect, who has to be skilful in many arts, accomplish not merely the feat -- in itself a great marvel -- of being deficient in none of them, but also that of surpassing all those artists who have devoted themselves with unremitting industry to single fields?

http://gutenberg.org/etext/20239 (The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio)

Vitruvius is famous for asserting that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas -- that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful. According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. As birds and bees built their nests, so humans constructed housing from natural materials, that gave them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building, the Ancient Greek invented the architectural orders: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. It gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in understanding the proportions of the greatest work of art: the human body. This led Vitruvius in defining his Vitruvian Man, as drawn later by Leonardo da Vinci: the human body inscribed in the circle and the square (the fundamental geometric patterns of the cosmic order).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius (Vitruvius)

EDIT: I would like to point out, with relevance to HNers, that Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla were close friends.

http://genevolution.net/documents/twain%20and%20tesla.pdf (Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: Thunder and Lightning by Katherine Krumme)(2000-DEC-04)(PDF, 5 pages, 22KB)
Your gripe about locks seems quite exaggerated. At least compared to my own experience. Locks are a problem, yes, but not more so than most systems.

Most modern SQL databases support MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) which means they do not have to take any read locks, so your arguments really only applies to UPDATE where I do not think any database supports explicit order for the locking.

Deadlocks in databases are generally detected which causes one transaction to abort. So they are not as harmful as in some other environments.

Databases always in MVCC: PostgreSQL, MySQL+InnoDB, Oracle (if I remember correctly)

Databases with optional MVCC: MS SQL, SQLite

EDIT: Fixed some typos.