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I think you're conflating two things. I'm a proponent of abolishing copyright and other so-called intellectual property. I do believe that information, once made public, should be unrestricted.

This is orthogonal to the notion that private communications should stay private. What this article is really about is the definition of public vs private, and has very little to do with intellectual property issues.
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I'm afraid this thread's commentators are not inclined to go there. This is a very PC thread, with main culprits being 'powerful moneyed interests'.
How can entropy be reversed?
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You don't gain anything what you lose is a bunch of overhead. It's the same advantages/disadvantages you get from sinatra vs. rails.
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My mistake, not knowing python's variable interpoltion well, I thought that the $0 was expanded by it, not the shell. Which, if it were the case, would indeed be vulnerable.

Isn't it a bit harsh to downvote to -1 a comment which links to two completly on-topic libraries?
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Do you have evidence that deterrence works?
I don't like this kind of thinking police, sound too 1984ish to me.
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I think that removing the power of prison guard unions is something that will need to be addressed first.

Fore example:

Correction officers’ unions are powerful forces in states like California and New York; they push for the construction of more prisons and for longer sentences for criminals (so that there are more people for correction officers to guard). Their activities in California are a case in point. In the last eight years they have spent $10 million on state politics — either in direct contributions to politicians or in spending on ballot initiatives relating to crime and punishment. They have mounted full-scale political campaigns. For instance, the California corrections union has attacked public officials, such as the Los Angeles district attorney, who supported an alternative to the union-favored “three-strikes law.” Indeed, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in February of this year noted that “the three-strikes law sponsor is the correctional officers’ union and that is sick!” In 1999 the union even successfully opposed a proposal to permit the California attorney general to prosecute brutality in prisons.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/432...
It should really be pointed out that it wasn't the same company. Sony BMG was never a part of Sony, it was simply partially owned by Sony. It's like blaming Apple for something that Pixar did because Jobs owned a substantial portion of both. Doesn't make the act itself any better, but we should stick to the facts.
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Well this is embarrassing. I checked and somehow it was disabled. Thank you.
Why is this being upvoted? The info page for this error is:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607

which says that the issue is that Windows Vista and above don't support that format. If someone is still using Windows XP, which was released 10 years ago, then the least they can do is do a quick google search and easily find the relevant support page.

I mean I switched to a Mac last year and love it, but this is just unnecessary bashing.
My point is that posession would still be punishable by law.
I admit I've only skimmed the article and the comments on HN, but I don't think that either have mentioned the CCPOA (California Correctional Peace Officers Association). It's basically a union of prison guards who are heavily pro-incarceration. The quick version is that stricter laws produce more prisoners which leads to more money for prison guards and their organization. The story is better told here:

http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/05/the-role-of-th...

The phrase "prison-industrial complex" leads to some interesting reading, as well.
I was talking about discovering correlations which aid in potentially discovering relationships between behaviors and results. If you have a sample size which includes everyone in your study, that's as good as you can get on your confidence interval... you can use a different subset of the data for each experiment if you'd like, and that would be functionally equivalent to running individual experiments with a subset of the population each time.
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tidbit: in my high school I was given a math book and told to read the book at night, and do the homework in the classroom the next day. There were students at every level sitting at long tables. The two teachers roamed the aisles in case we had questions. They verified our work and pulled a few of us aside if we all seemed to be stuck at the same place.

Sounds amazingly like the 60 Minutes story I just heard.

Funny thing is, my high school did this in 1978, and the school was Berkeley High EAST Campus. Further, it was considered a punishment to be forced to go there.

Result: I did the 9 month Geometry course, developed at Berkeley High, in 3 months and passed the required exam.

I'd say, this works and I'm living proof.
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IMHO:

Society's Big Problems today are largely political and structurally economic, not softwarical. No consumer-facing app or website will ever eliminate unemployment, for example. Nor will it desalinate and clean water.
Transferring an H1B to a company that the government thinks is legitimate is very straightforward. I was just hoping to outline the steps to getting a company considered legitimate. So if you can get your company off the ground and considered legitimate (the hard part) then you can have your visa transferred to that company (the easy part).

There are certainly employment contract issues -- moonlighting clauses, non-solicitation, and non-compete agreements. But those all apply to anyone building something on the side while employed full-time.
The hard part of guava is deciding what to include and exclude and they base those decisions mostly on what is useful at Google. The code is easy and handing them a patch is pointless.
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I wasn't talking about the grammar in what was written, I was talking about the content which implied that the person would be male.

any barrier, taboo, or artificial distance between what one think and what one write.

How was this case -- implying the person would be male, vs being gender neutral -- a barrier between what one is thinking and what one is writing?
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didn't have access to anti-depressants so she became addicted to crack? That is quite a leap.
That's a poor definition which you won't find repeated in any other reference (really, take a look). The entirety of the meaning of the idiom concerns the misperception of ones opponents.
LinkedIn is definitely doing something with your searches. I've searched for old high school/college friends (sure, ex-girlfriends too, you got me), only to have them pop up in the recommendation box a few months later.

Who's to say that LinkedIn isn't adding those people to some secondary network for you and later making recommendations off the people they are searching for?
.net is incredibly well optimised for web apps, with built-in connection pooling and countless other goodies. For anything non-trivial I'll bet that a normal .net application will blow this out of the water in terms of performance.
I had never thought of giving custom stylesheets a one-off top test like this. Great idea for instant gratification!
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I'm in my third year working on a programming language. Probably this coming summer or fall I will inshallah be a graduate student, but so far I've only gotten something like two papers' worth of research ideas out of this language. Furthermore, I damn well want to get paid for work I do.

Language: http://code.google.com/p/decac (It's been on HN and LtU before)

Me: semi-poor graduate-student-to-hopefully-be. I've just been turned down for a job at an awesome start-up because I wasn't completely sure I didn't want to "do academia". This has become a pattern, I'm fed up with having to at least fake total commitment to NOT seeking a PhD before even having the option to work, and besides I'd like to make a go of what I love best.

TypeSafe is doing it. How can I do it?
Billions are flowing to tech companies, founders of tech companies, and the tech companies themselves. The companies will all need exclusive digital content. News stories. The kind of stuff produced by news organizations. Like the NYT.

I seem to recall this logic reaching its nadir when AOL got its peanut butter mixed up with Times-Warner's chocolate.

I also seem to recall that it destroyed billions of dollars of shareholder value because it was a dumb idea at the time, was a dumb idea before the time and remained a dumb idea for the times that followed.

This kind of vertical strategy would work if somehow Twitter (to use the example given) could supply news at a lower price than its competitors. But people already pay literally nothing (well, no marginal price) for the news they already receive.

Or it could be a lockin value-add play. Except that this too is daft. Is Twitter seriously going to pay "strategy tax" and lock out non-NYT sources? Please, be serious, it's Monday and I'm at work.

Twitter and Google and Facebook don't need an NYT. They don't produce content, they mediate it. Any one source they buy can quickly be replaced by another. And if they try to lock you into their source, they may find themselves being disintermediated.

Disclaimer: I am of the opinion that my own modest little startup will render internet-economic questions such as these moot, so I may be a teensy bit biased.
I think the point @karterk was trying to make is that it might be illegal for you to do any paid work at all at your own startup (or any other company other than your original employer), regardless of whether your original employer allows moonlighting or not. I'm not sure how H1B works in the U.S., but a lot of countries have rules like that attached to work visas. So until your visa has been transferred to your startup, your startup can't pay you any salary.
I actually think Martijn does understand that many patches will still get rejected - but he would like to still see some community contributions getting in (as opposed to the current message of 'stop contributing').

I personally think that a project with source available under an OSI Licene but no effort to respond to or build a community is not really an open source project.
The apps normally make reading comments much more difficult by a) enforcing a very large font size and/or b) only showing a single level of comments at a time. AFAIK news:yc does both of these things.
My parents were very anti-vaccination and are part of a 'religion' that exempts us from it... all we needed was a note from a 'religious leader' and its done... I'm not vaccinated for anything. The religion is 'The Universal Congregation of Wisdom' (its very chiropractic, my dads a chiropractor... the 'religious doctrine' is pretty entertaining...)

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What does it mean for a project to "get out of hand" in this context?
Do you guys have some sort of analytics system in place to determine how many users are actually accessing the audio-only versions? It sounds like you'll get these for free through Google Analytics on the website due to use of a UIWebView.
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Twenty-odd years ago, a friend and I were discussing entropy with our physics teacher and my friend related this story. He couldn't remember where he had read it. I have wanted to read it ever since.

However many times classics are resubmitted, they will still find new and appreciative readers. Thank you lisperforlife & HN.
The Soviet Union had a population of 189 million people in 1953 according to Wolfram Alpha.
There is something wrong with it if you're going to toot your horn, bragging, and want attention, praise, and free promotion... for what? for copying a couple CSS/JS files into a website?
I always say:

Think big. Plan in meticulous detail. Then shelve your plan and just do it. Come back to your plan a year later and see how you are doing. Business plans are great exercises for thinking through issues. However, don't let it stop you from picking up on important opportunities down the road. Prepare a new plan every year. Again, don't look at it during the year.
An email thread started by the author gives some more information on targets and characteristics: https://groups.google.com/group/numpy/t/ad48cbce6002da9e
Unfortunately for most nowadays a conservative and a dogmatic neo-con are the same thing. Only two parties, remember?
I think it's also likely that curiosity correlates with being a good hacker:

- Is there a better way to do this: Another language? Another algorithm?

- What's the real cause of this bug?

- Has someone already solved this problem?

- What problems are my co-workers working on?

- What does that unfamiliar bit of syntax do?
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A more serious attempt at this was Manos de Mono which has also since been abandoned. With Node getting a lot of love from MS there's little need for a clone.

https://github.com/jacksonh/manos
For an incarceration rate of 0.9%.

This also assumes the Soviet Union sent everyone to the Gulag, and had no local jails, etc. I don't know if this is actually true, can anyone comment?
A lot of misinformation in this article regarding Peter Thiel's position on higher education in America, but the posters here have addressed that. What I find surprising is that this course, at least from what I read, will not be available online. I know that an online option would require a greater effort on his part, and that he would also have to be a little less personal/direct in his lectures to make it work, but if Peter Thiel believes that self-learners using online educational resources are the future, he should do his part to contribute to that future by doing something like this (a class on startups) in the future for a virtual classroom, perhaps through Udacity.
I didn't downvote you, fwiw.
"your kind" sure has a nuance in English that doesn't mean something good...
I presume the connection opened to AWS on boot is just for tracking purposes, yes? :)
Some comments:

1) I've heard many (non-physicist) people argue/think that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is a law in the sense that, say, General Relativity or Conservation of Energy is a law. That is not true. As explained here (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4201/why-does-the...) the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric, i.e. there's no currently known fundamental reason that entropy behaves the way it does.

2) I've read this story 20+ times, yet each time it gets me. I think the force of the story comes not from the scientific predictions but from the poignant depiction of humanity's futile fight against oblivion. Aren't all monuments erected for this purpose? The fact that the story is very light on the tech details paradoxically increases its punch.

3) The described technology is a curious mix of far-sight and ridiculous backwardness: In describing harnessing the power of the Sun, Asimov may have had in mind something like a Dyson sphere, which Dyson described in 1960. However, the technicians still use a teletype to communicate with Multivac in 2061!

4) One thing that I think Asimov got wrong fundamentally is that researching the "final question" should have taken all of Multivac's CPU capacity. It's stupendous that Multivac just runs that question on a separate thread while doing everything else. The Hitchiker's Guide gets this right: when Arthur asks a very powerful AI (the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser) to make tea it totally paralyzes the machine.

5) I've never been able to find a good interpretation of Cosmic AC's response "NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRCUMSTANCES."
publishing in its present form is dying, How many publishers would last to the next decade is the question.

Apple and Amazon is creating marketplaces for content creators(authors, musicians, app developers, trainers, film makers) and they are more efficient in distribution, reach and money made by authors themselves.
I believe one of the co-founders is Navneet Dalal, who, along with Bill Triggs, developed the "Histograms of Oriented Gradients" (HOG) features that are widely used across all of computer vision†. Thus, I'm guessing that there's some serious vision in use for this app, which is pretty awesome!

(My apologies to the other co-founders, who are likely just as talented!)

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram_of_oriented_gradients
Except that mere-mortals, like myself, had no idea that "Sony" was not "Sony".

If Sony reaps brand benefits from naming a "partially owned company" "Sony xxx", then Sony should also suffer when one part of the whole does something damaging to the brand.

Can't have it both ways.
Great app. Looking forward to support for more gestures!
Note that the author says: "It is proof of concept stage only at this point (use it only if you are interested in helping develop the code at this point)."
Not all of Google is that way. The Chromium project, I think, is a notable exception. Gerrit Code Review is happy to accept outside contributions. And technically the Git maintainer (Junio Hamano) is a Google employee these days.

Sadly, Kevin doesn't sound too good here:

And here's the last thing. Be honest: if you were going to sign yourself up for doing all that work above... wouldn't you at least want to have the pleasure of writing the code for it yourself?

Code is code. (Well, as long as it's not awful/ugly code.) I'm as happy to marshal through someone else's code as write my own.
Maybe I'm alone in thinking this but having been in the position of reviewing more than a few non-trivial bugfix patches myself I think I might tend to agree with Kevin.

Sure it's great people are excited and want to contribute but all that excitement is due to the love and care people sweated in to making every single line in that codebase as perfect / performant / easy to understand as possible.

Patches almost never add to something like that. ESP not on such a small focused library. Truth be told most of the time on open source projects you're accepting patches simply to get more community involvement and acceptance. Guava doesn't need acceptance, it has been lovingly accepted already. If you want open armed love go to apache commons.

If you want perfect performant code you can use and trust consistently go to guava.

I'm grateful and happy that it exists and it is a pleasure and delight every time I incorporate a little bit more into my codebase, slowly.
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Yes (see @achival's post), but if you ever want to naturalize (get a green card), you'll have serious problems.

My father's in the process of working through the 'serious problems', please email me (in my profile) if you want more details.
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It's actually quite lethal. These have been around for years, and well within the public eye. Looks like they'll be gearing them for riot control soon :-\

These heat rays would literally cook anything they want to if they turn the dial up. These can cook humans inside of armored vehicles, and fry/melt electronic circuits.

If you were to "turn it up" on a crowd of people, they would "pop" from the inside out...

It IS lethal IF they want it to be...

Just sayin...
Not significantly so in comparison to Korea, Finland, Canada, or New Zealand; anyway the more meaningful comparison among countries based on PISA data seems to be the comparison found in the PISA document I linked above. It would be worthwhile also to include more Caribbean countries in the data set.

http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/26/48165173.pdf

After edit: I just saw this possibly relevant link in the local newspaper:

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/142258375.html
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I'm not sure, but this looks like a good starting point?
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Am I the only one disappointed by this move? They moved to a registrar so split between their role as registrar and their stance as anti-piracy that they couldn't even take a stand on SOPA?

http://startupdispatch.com/analysis/analysis-9-of-top-500-we...
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No it's not. Code as patch becoming code now becomes immediately your problem and headache. Unless it's exactly how the core devs would write it.

Don't even get me started on what I think about accepting or submitting patches for code I don't actually plan on using on a day to day basis.
I think you hit the nail on the head!
Isn't this data highly dependent upon who signs up for LinkedIn? The busboy at a local restaurant seems less likely to sign up for LinkedIn than a software engineer would -- which seems like it would skew the data.
Well, no, it's not like that. It was a private venture 50 percent owned by Sony itself, not merely a public venture with a shared big stockholder. Sony had substantial control over the company, which was made substantially of labels spun off from Sony, and which are now fully owned and controlled by Sony. Sony is the successor in interest, getting all of these labels' assets, including their goodwill or lack thereof.

Mainly, though, this corporation, which began with Sony and ended with Sony, fit very well with the Sony culture of abusing consumer trust for additional profit.
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I'm Gatlin; details in profile and email rokenrol+sxsw@gmail.com

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Adopting Node's callback style seems like a very strange choice for C# where you have native async/await support.