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Of course there's limited commercial value in holding intellectual property without legal protection, because there's limited commercial value in holding any type of property without legal protection. But that's completely beside the point of the natural law argument.

For what it's worth, I don't actually agree with this argument; I was just pointing out that it's possible to use natural law to argue in favor of intellectual property rights.
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Totally agree. I liked posterous. I've also wondered out loud whether a similar thing will happen to workflowy as well, which I also love.

Nothing against the guys, they're just optimizing, but it sucks to be on the receiving end. Is web 4.0 going to be a DIY world where vps-es are the only "services" you'll need and other products will have to plug in to what you host on your own vps just like normal purchased desktop software?
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I wrote a rebuttal

http://csswizardry.com/2012/03/hacker-news-rebuttal/
They would like a book that hasn't been released yet?
My chief concern is that the security agencies have often been known to lie and/or be technically incompetent when it comes to such things. Case in point: I still remember when we were being told that going through the xray machine doesn't damage film. It does, but it took them YEARS to admit it. So now we're being told that this machine (when being operated correctly and when working properly and when it has been properly calibrated) merely poses "acceptable" risks to health. We know the people running the machines are largely idiots and we have reason to suspect the machines aren't entirely idiot-proof - because almost nothing is. Frankly, I wouldn't trust the TSA to operate a blender safely; they're the last people I want giving me an x-ray scan.
I know that the real world is not ideal or how it should be, but I'm saying the potential for disruption/more efficient alternatives is there. Since they seem to think that they are entitled to trick (a rather harsh word, but not that far from the truth) their customers, that means there is an opening for an alternative - whether that's more "honest" competition, or straight out piracy to "test" the product beforehand.
I definitely want to add more interpolants. The only limitation really is that it has to be possible to do the calculation lazily. As I understand Fourier interpolation, this should be fine with that. I am less familiar with Chebyshev interpolation.
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> To my knowledge, all desktop browsers ignore this spec and treat each pixel as a pixel.

Not really. Most desktop browsers support pixel scaling with Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus or user preferences, and they may even remember this setting for each domain.

So not only is a CSS pixel not always a device pixel, but it may be a different (fractional) number of device pixels on different websites.
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Most of my work is done in Ruby or Python and deployed via Heroku or EC2. I would look for someone who can either work in those frameworks, or can rewrite it in their language of choice.
I rarely upvote things to boomark them, but this is exactly the kind of thing that I like to read about.

We are building a platform for groups of people come together, kind of like grouper does for 3 guys and 3 girls, but a different approach. And psychology is a huge part of it! Making people want to do what you want them to do, or not want to do what you don't want them to do, is an art. But it is also a science, and there should be some sort of knowledge base of psychological tactics, in social apps or otherwise.

Anyone know of anything like that?
Well, to call anyone a socialist outside the domain of political science is being a bit facetious. However, a loose analogy could be made. Socialism is about the government owning the means of production. The analogy would be "the base of existing software" = "means of production" and "Free Software Foundation" = "government". Stallman appears to want the copyright for all software to be held by the FSF and licensed as either GPL or AGPL. The analogy breaks down in the sense that, unlike a government, the FSF has no coercive power (beyond the value of their code base). Given the FSF's (relative) lack of coercive power, I don't think anyone should take seriously people/organizations that raise alarmist concerns about it.
Not trying to suggest either is better. Just thinking through why people (including me) might react to them differently.
If these events drive people towards open source, Godspeed! <3 opensource. One other really nice benefit is a lot of these companies themselves further the open source community (see twitter bootstrap, patches to rails by various startups, etc)
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>This remains true until everyone decides it's better for Fred to spend all his time designing hats rather than hunting

Specialization of labor became widespread around 3500BC, with the appearance of civilization. After that point, potters, goldsmiths, tailors etc. kept on freely copying designs from each other and "got away" with it for over 5000 years. (In times when punishment for theft was often physical mutilation.) If there was something obviously immoral about "stealing" intellectual "property", someone would have noticed, I think.
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I'll bite. How does it prove that I am a creep?
Perhaps it's because acquired companies tend to be more useful and more popular than companies that fail. So the cumulative disruption is greater for the acquihires than for the failures.

Or in other words, I would sacrifice many many startups to get EtherPad back again.
Very cool, this reminds me of D3.scales https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Scales good work!
Because it compiles to js and can run in either.
Do you just need someone from time to time or full time?

Regardless, I'd recommend githire, if you want to find someone here provide more information and I'm sure you'll get dozens of emails (put your email address in your profile).
> Using statute law to impose restrictions and obligations on others in order to protect some imagined entitlement to a positive return amounts to externalizing your risk and forcing others to bear it for you.

Copyright is no such thing; most copyrighted works don't have a positive financial return. The only "entitlement" being asserted is literally the right to copy: if I create a book, which is the fruit of my intellectual labor, I then have the right to exchange or extend or license the right to copy that book on whatever commercial, ideological, or personal terms are mutually agreeable to others, and to copy my book without such an agreement is to violate that right.

Again, I'm not saying this is my argument or my personal opinion about copyright. My approach to these issues is more pragmatic and realpolitik and less natural law. I am saying that there is a credible natural law argument to copyright.

Your argument--that an author still has the right to possess and enjoy the book that he has written--is insufficient as a response, since nearly all property rights extend beyond mere possession and enjoyment. That was the point of the house example. If I make a capital investment in building a house in hopes of selling it, and the state seizes my title without compensation but offers to let me live in the house rent-free in perpetuity, John Locke and most proponents of the natural law theory would be very displeased about the situation. On the other hand, if I make a capital investment in building a house in hopes of selling it and I end up losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because it is the year 2010 and the housing bubble burst in the middle of construction, John Locke and most proponents of the natural law theory can only shake their heads and tell me I'm screwed.
You can rearrange icons in iTunes. The "wiggly" interface us completely redundant. I agree it is not discoverable; I've had to show each of my kids. It just isn't a comparable example.

I would put the original MacOS eject behavior as much closer. That was horrible.
Royalty payments? Can someone chime in here on the difference between the royalties Facebook is paying Yahoo versus what fees they want recompensed the lawsuit?

From the article "The company adds that Facebook has been “free riding” on Yahoo’s intellectual property and that royalty payments alone will not suffice."

Isn't there a contract drawn up for a company to pay another company money (i.e. royalties) so that they can't litigate against one another? It just sounds like Yahoo had undervalued or misconstrued how Facebook was going to use their patent tech.
NAP allows for defensive violence; i.e. if someone is violating your rights you can defend yourself.

Stopping a serial killer & pollution are both cases where someone's rights have been violated.
Sometimes when I have a great big idea, I do this too. But I mainly do think while brainstorming outloud.

When I do this to my co-founder, sometimes he'll say "I get it, you don't need to try to sell me on it." In reality, I'm not, I'm just trying to navigate to more common waters--but it's a reflex that's not always helpful.

This sounds like what I do sometimes, only to your boss.
"Working out doesn’t matter. Dating doesn’t matter. Eating nice meals doesn’t matter. Sleeping doesn’t matter."

Here's my advice, as someone who's been self-employed for 5 years and recently sold a startup:

Eat well, sleep right, exercise daily, go on dates. You'll be happier and more productive.
that's good idea. i have written a bunch of my own guidelines which i'm going to beef up with some of these. the problem with creating a list of the 'relevant' suggestions is that it differs for every developer, project and company. someone's 'relevant' may be another's 'pointless'
Via links and hat tips help me find other "curators" who I might be interested in. It's a service to the reader, and in addition directs traffic to blogs that the hat tipper has clearly found useful at least once. Consider it federation, if that helps; an aid to discovery.
I always asked myself why there isn't a KIDS category in the AppStore.
In that case, if you use Emacs, perhaps you'd like to see the Emacs Lisp that I have bound to my tab key (which however has not been made to work with non-Lisp-syntax languages).

If you write "(a (b (c (d (e (f" RET, TAB indents just as many spaces as it would if you had written just "(a" RET.
I'm actually surprised they are doing this as when the OWS protesters left, the problem literally went away. I'm not defending or criticizing the OWS people, but the government's involvement at this point seems to be like someone who believes they have the duty to punish people who inconvenienced them in some way after the fact. From what I know of human nature, if the government keeps pursuing this, the only way I think the OWS camps will reappear in the spring when the weather warms up. It is a shame if it does because the unemployment was dropping and I believe it was the real cause of the OWS activities.
well, that is exactly what we are using.

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They are under major load - just check out the tweet stream: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/stashmarks
Really nice and would be even better if it covered information theory too.
For Fourier, given an N-dim vector you would compute the N Fourier coefficients in Nlog(N) time, stored in memory, then whenever a new x-value is requested it takes linear time to evaluate the point (add up the basis vectors with the stored coefficients).

Chebyshev polynomials are more accurate than Fourier. In fact they are the most accurate interpolating polynomials in general. They're not as wildly known, but often used in numerical analysis. The problem with Fourier is that if your function is not periodic, the coefficients do not converge quickly, making the interpolant less accurate for a given number of nodes. Chebyshev gets around this problem, but instead of using equally spaced points, points are spaced out along the uneven "Chebyshev nodes". So to get an interpolated point, say 2.5, 2.5 no longer falls halfway between the 2nd and 3rd Cheb node, you would first have to figure out the value of 2.5 in the nonuniform Chebyshev distribution of points, and then compute the interpolating value in linear time at this point.[1]

Both Chebyshev and Fourier are "global" interpolants. As opposed to cubic splines and your other ones. If you change a single value in your vector, the entire interpolant is affected and needs to be recomputed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_polynomials
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Love the idea and it's great to see various perks from popular services.
No, it should set off "this guy knows how to run a business and market things properly" alarms. In short: this guy knows what he's doing!

1. The price comparison? It's called anchoring. And you're supposed to do it. Moreover, it works, both for the customer and the seller.

2. You're really saying that offering to refund your money if you don't like it actually makes it suspicious?? The logical contortions here make my brain hurt…
The fact that this post only has 4 comments 7 hours after posting speaks to its simplicity and brilliance.

Really nice job teaching me something today. I wish you were in Boston, I would buy you a beer.
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Your service looks very cool, but your logo is fantastic! Did you guys design it yourselves, or did you hire someone?
Thanks for the encouragement! I think the discussion about values and work is very important and I appreciate that you brought it up on your blog. Hopefully, a bit got through on HN before it degenerated...
how about everyone else involved on Path?
The conciseness with which an idea can be expressed is in no way related to the amount of work that went in to developing the idea, or the potential value of the idea to society.

FYI, trademark law is not based on the same constitutional foundation as copyright and patent law, and serves a different purpose, and is typically dealt with much more pragmatically than copyright and patent issues, so it's seldom relevant to the same discussions.
"The sales tactics on that page are also used by people trying to scam you"

Who are these alleged people, where have you met them, how do you know they're scammers, and more importantly, have you ever met one doing this alleged scamming with programming books?

"Offering a full refund is something scammers do. Then they give you your money back. Run away!"

If you are so afraid of being scammed that you think a refund offer makes something suspicious, it's probably a good time to evaluate your buying habits…
Awesome...thanks. So I suppose these should be used instead of the originally posted pdf? Thanks again!
Some great general rules here, although I don't employ all of them personally, will definitely be using some to beef up my own guidelines. Cheers!
Minefold doesn't actually do anything with that permission, so feel free to disallow it. At the moment you can choose to receive an email when a friend starts playing in one of your worlds and we thought Facebook may be better for that so new friends can jump in too. I get how certain spammy "social" games have conditioned us to feel nervous about app permissions and we don't want to ever let Minefold get like that.
The purpose of property rights is to efficiently utilize scarce resources.

Scarce resources include: air on the moon, land, time, physical goods. For example if there is only one potato chip left in the bag me eating it prevents you from eating it.

Data and information are not scarce resources. A copy of software on my computer in no way diminishes the usefulness of the very same software on your computer. In fact both of us having the software may increase the efficiency of scarce resources like our computers or our time!

That's why property rights for data/information/movies/music/software do not improve economic efficiency and make us all worse off.
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Whether or not Joe blow's download of avatar for free is unfair against the store that stocks the DVD, the trucker who moved it, the actors, producers and supporting staff or the media ads that promoted it is another question.

Ummm no.

If Joe downloads avatar for free, he is not ripping off anyone who may have been involved in the production, distribution and sale of a DVD - he is ripping off those involved in the production, distribution and sale of a digital copy of avatar.mp4

The value lost is NOT that of the physical copy because no physical copy was stolen.
my personal piece of advice is exactly the opposite of "Working out doesn’t matter. Dating doesn’t matter. Eating nice meals doesn’t matter. Sleeping doesn’t matter. Being 'seen' doesn’t matter."

if you follow this advice, you'll probably be outpaced by someone that is seen more than you (and thus grabs the spotlight), that has more energy due to a healthier lifestyle (and thus outlasts you in the long run) and the most important of all - keeps his sanity and morale by, you know, dating and having friends (thus avoiding burn-out).

success is much more frequently achieved by ones who are simply more visible, have a bigger network of supporters and/or can work steady in the long run. As they say it's a bloody marathon, not a sprint...
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It'd be the first time founders were wrong, right?

Obviously once Posterous took the A & B $10 million in venture funding, their clock was seriously ticking. The founders no longer had real control over the company or its future. It wouldn't surprise me if they were diluted down to 10% or less ownership each, which wipes out the incentive to continue with a situation where you're going to see nearly zero payout due to VC terms unless you build an absolute monster company.

No matter what they did, due to the VC they took on, they were unlikely to have a long term time horizon unless they were 'beating' Tumblr. It was get extraordinarily big or go home, because apparently #500 wasn't big enough.

So they bailed, and it probably made perfect sense for their situations.
<meta discussion about voting>

I worked out a while ago that the comments I expended least effort on were the ones that were most likely to get significantly upvoted (and also downvoted) - longer comments get way fewer votes. My theory is that a single, almost throwaway sentence is easier to agree (or disagree) with, and hence earn a reflexive vote-click. When I write a few paragraphs (or more) as a comment, particularly with researched links and/or data, and thoughts/commentary on those links/data, I get way fewer votes, either up or down.

My initial reaction to this "discovery" was to decide to post shorter and more concise comments. But a few moments of reflection revealed that for me that's a pointless change of behavior for two reasons: 1) I don't comment with the aim of getting voted up, and shouldn't change my comment behavior just because there's a metric to be gamed, and 2) because at least for me, the bulk of my karma has come way more from fortuitously being first to submit a popular link (mostly assisted by my non West Coast GMT+10:00 timezone) - since the karma to be gained from a several hundred upvoted submission is _way_ less effort than writing thoughtful comments - and it's clear people are gaming that to pump karma (who was it that posted a while back about seeing bots stalking their rss feeds to autosubmit new posts? patio11 maybe?)

As you can see, I'm rambling all over the place with this comment - almost certainly in a way that makes it more difficult for readers to chose whether to up or down vote, and I'll guess resulting in neither.

Possibly stupid idea floating around my head right now - what if the voting system allowed you to not just up or down vote a comment, but to selectively up or down vote paragraphs or sentences or sentence fragments? Maybe I could choose to upvote your "the article author's claim that the function mapping real pixels to CSS pixels is nonlinear (which I think is just a misreading of what the spec intended.)" and possibly downvote another bit (there's not actually any of your post I'd choose to downvote, but maybe for example the "I suspect I know why I was downvoted"), then choose how to split my 1 unit of vote between the bits I want to vote up and the ones I want to vote down, so I could say 2/3rds for the up vote and 1/3rd for the down vote giving you a total of +1/3rd of a unit of karma - and more importantly, giving you feedback on why you're seeing the voting numbers you are…
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Yeah, I did not foresee that; it's actually quite critical you use Facebook.

Anything requiring the users to confirm they don't know the name of the other party slows the process quite some and removes the laissez-faire element.
I couldn't disagree more with the linkage some have between companies only using patents "defensively" and/or financially rewarding employees to file patents. The two are unrelated.

Yahoo is dying. It has been for some time, arguably the better part of a decade. At some point all such companies end up in hands of management and/or a board who simply want to extract every last dime. Much like how some dying stars go supernova, large dying companies often explode in a conflagration of litigation. We saw it with SCO. Now it's Yahoo's turn (apparently).

But to argue that this is a product of acquiring patents is ridiculous. Not doing so will do nothing but hasten your demise. Software patents are ridiculous and should be declared invalid (wholesale) but until that happens, that's the system we live in.

If anything, the more ridiculous patent lawsuits we have, the more it hastens the onset of commonsense and (hopefully meaningful) patent reform.
I have been longing this sort of service! Is this available in Japan as well?
That sounds like it's true, but I don't think it is.

People have been making music for as long as we have recorded history, why would that change now?
I read a great comment on an article once that described this exact idea in regards to CSS3. The gist of the comment was "By the time the browsers implement the trendy design elements of today, the trends will have already passed."

Then again, I'm a developer, not a designer...maybe these trends (such as the apple-esque image reflection with a fade) will actually stick around long enough to be useful in the CSS3 spec.
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Hey, I'd love to talk more about this in detail if you're interested!

Mind sending an email to dave@minefold.com?
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All the chapters are available for free on Bob Kraut's website, I didn't realize that the book hadn't come out yet.
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