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Trying to contact him is one thing. Publishing the current location and employer of a peaceful person who wishes to remain anonymous and private in an article, for no legitimate reason, is totally different. Surely you see the difference? Or do you.
Points well taken. By no means am I trying to discredit what Yahoo has been able to accomplish in their long history on the web. Quite contrary, I'm suggesting that if they've been able to out innovate before than can do it once more. Nevertheless, I think by protecting an idea as abstract as a "Personalizable Profile Page" and then lying in wait until someone is on the verge of rendering you irrelevant in your field of play is bad sport. Facebook has been in existence since 2004 and if I remember correctly having a profile page has always been a part of the site as is the case for multiple sites (Monster.com, LinkedIn, MySpace, G+, all have "personalizable" profile pages) why not go after them while they're irrelevant? I just think its poor sportsmanship and largely will not bode well in the court of public opinion as many of Yahoo's consumers are likely also Facebook users.
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Browsing the broken web: a software developer behind the Great Firewall of China
They're still trying to figure out whether porn reduces rape. If so, that would make porn more useful than the average work of fiction, which is merely entertaining.
I guess you could say the issue is that TypeSafe's seed funding came from academia. It's the same people in TypeSafe who developed Scala, but they developed it as a research language before "exporting" back to the industrial world.
Annie, please do not call yourself a journalist. That is an insult to real journalists. You are not one. You are a hack, and a irresponsible one. You crossed the line. _why is not a dangerous pedophile who changed his name and went into hiding while secretly working as a school teacher and/or pediatrician/youth minister. He is a private individual who clearly wishes to maintain anonymity and privacy, and you published his contact details in your stalking article. For shame. Your actions are why we need to enact privacy laws in the US, to criminalize what you have done here and ensure that justice can prevail.
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BUG: Periods get sliced off the end of links. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network,_LP_v._CSC_Hold....
You got me...I got sucked into playing this tonight :) Very clever, you were able to get me to poke around with things I hadn't tried yet. Thanks for providing the reset option, I made a mistake at level 12 and it really came in handy. I'm now at level 20 and it looks like I'm supposed to add a level to the game ;)
Yes, it is entirely possible for software to break out of a virtual machine and run code on other VMs or the host. Isolating something in a virtual machine does provide rather good security, but none is perfect. Vulnerabilities have existed in many virtualization systems which allowed this to happen.
Some would say Facebook won. I am convinced that Facebook has a quiet strategy of driving up Google payroll costs.
I have lived in rural parts of the US most of my life and I don't see Santorum's positions as being from most of there either. It IS typical of a small subset of people widely dispersed, though, and that includes some Catholics and Evangelicals I know.....
Show HN: The Oink exporter that should have been
I wonder how conservatives would feel about something like reddit gonewild, which is still pron (well, just nudes), but has the distinction of clearly being consensual and positive for the women participating in it.
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Reasons why this is a waste of resources:

1) Detecting piracy is resource intensive. You have to design algorithms to detect infringement and you have to implement them in a way that can keep up with a respectable portion of your backbone bandwidth without significantly degrading performance for consumers.

2) File sharing protocols can adapt rapidly and will most likely make more and more extensive use of encryption. Distinguishing legal file sharing from illegal file sharing will only get more and more difficult. Even if there remain ways to detect infringement, this arms race with file-sharers will feed back into 1 in a big way.

3) As Neil Young famously put it, "Piracy is the new radio". Those who adapt to the "new radio" first will reap the rewards. Those who spend massive amounts of cash fighting the inevitable progress of technology will just fall behind.

What should these dinosaurs do if they want to stay competitive? Stop treating users of the "new radio" like criminals and win them over by providing a superior experience to what the pirates can deliver. e.g. Stop loading DVD's and bluray's up with annoying advertisements, anti-piracy messages, and warnings. Online stores shouldn't sell 720p videos or lossy music files when pirates are giving away 1080p videos and lossless audio for free. Above all, minimize the payment barrier. Make it cheap enough to feel like value is high and make it at least as easy and fast as pirating. In short, stop spending money to treat your customers like criminals and, instead, spend it to ensure that legal purchases are the path of least resistance to the highest quality experience.
Unconstitutional crazy positions are the best ones, because the supreme court gives you a get out of jail free card.
Google Faces New Privacy Probes
I have the same error on mac as well. I don't see anything wrong with the code for interact, it's just a print and gets.
That was one of few acquisitions were Google actually wanted the product, and needed it badly. Mobile was Google's main growth area for years, until the social black hole opened last year or so.
Of course, there are also those of us who know what to make, but don't have loads of seed money to build an ecosystem from the ground up...
Actually,

The existence of systematic secrecy does let us "know for sure" that democracy itself is being made a mockery of, since any democracy worth its name defends itself in the open.

Of course, the secrecy is fortunately not so complete that there are not numerous examples we can cite to flesh out the thesis of the decay of democracy under this regime.
Huh, works pretty well for me. Chrome/Ubuntu 10.10/boring old Core Duo Mac Mini.
HN best practice - link to the non-paginated "View All" page if available: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...
But people won't put it in place unless it provides some advantage immediately, which it doesn't.

I know lots of people who are perfectly willing to design and assemble the hardware, just for the fun of it.
Milk was a rather quick flip, but if you consider a more average 4 year run to acquisition, and also consider the risk factor, isn't so much obviously better than just getting a job with Google salary and stock from the start.
I appreciate Ron Paul in that when he says small government, he means it, including giving us freedoms that social conservatives believe are morally objectionable.

Ok, I wanted to stay out of this political discussion, but I just can't stand
seeing this Ron Paul fawning go uncontested. Ron Paul is a social
conservative, and he legislates as one. He is so anti-choice that he has
introduced the Sanctity of Life Act four times; this act wouldn't just outlaw
abortion, it would outlaw birth control by defining human life as beginning at
conception. Love it or hate it, but please don't claim that Ron Paul is
anything other than a social conservative, legislatively speaking.

EDIT: As pointed out below, I was mistaken (ignorant) of the difference between contraceptive and contragestive; I still stand by my disappointment that the strongest libertarian voice in this country is steadfastly anti-choice, but I was incorrect on the matter of the common forms of birth control.
0.1% of Google's capitalization just to knock out 15 people is not a sustainable strategy.
This is just a relic of the pre-IPO days when Google kept their infrastructure secret because they didn't want anyone being able to guess how big search was.

Beyond that, Google does a lot of things to run their data centers cheaply - things like keeping a higher ambient temperature (at a cost of higher hardware failure rate), the physical arrangement of servers, etc.
A terrorist with a bomb is a threat. Terrorists with rickety flying .22s... That would just be fun to watch!
I'd absolutely bet on it. Short of outlawing encryption such a thing is flat out impossible, even then it's questionable due to steganography. And both of these ignore the fact that, and I want to repeat this for emphasis; These People Are Very Stupid (If You Want To Be Charitable You May Add "In-This-Area" Here).
I concur, Santorum is a sincere candidate compared to Romney. Hitler was sincere too. Sincerity is an overrated virtue.....
I also hate the "forget to add a file" issue in Perforce.

How about trying to rename a file and change the class name at the same time? That always gives me trouble.
Yes, liberals have justifications for their preferred intrusions on personal freedom just as conservatives do.

And in both cases, I believe that their appeals to personal freedom are mostly intellectually dishonest post-hoc justifications for pre-existing beliefs.

A parent and child...

You'll note that in my post, I explicitly referred to consenting adults (just as jmspring did). Is there some reason you believe these two adults are capable of consenting to gay sex on film in return for money, but those same two adults are incapable of consenting to cleaning bedrooms and listening to racial epithets for less money?
This is a very interesting idea. I could imagine a website that purposely copies CrunchBase's look and feel. Players create a startup company with a roster of founders to fill the usual CxO roles. Players score points for every venture round their company wins, acquisition, and (if you're lucky) IPO. :)
You seem to be assuming a gargantuan preference in this case. I thought just 1x to 2x was the max these days.
I'd actually like to back him up on this, at least partially. There is an outcry for developers in the Bay Area, but mostly just in the Bay Area and mostly just for web/mobile developers. The shortage is hyper-specialized, and thus so are the job requirements, thus excluding most of us who call ourselves developers.
As a participant in the market, I have a responsibility to route society's resources to efficient producers. Even when getting ripped off doesn't materially harm me, it's wrong to shrug and let it happen.
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If they weren't using all that power to spy on US citizens, it might be a bit more palatable. You can make a case for being nosy when it comes to people who aren't covered by our own Constitutional guarantees, but when it comes to US citizens, due process is something I consider awfully important. (And no, "national security letters" are not what I consider due process.)

Obviously not everything the NSA does is a problem from a Constitutional standpoint, but still... the odds of being ordered to do something I would find grossly unethical are too high for me to want to work there.

Worse still, I could see myself modifying my own ethics over time for the sake of staying in my employer's good graces. How many people can honestly say they would never fall prey to that temptation?

A shame, too, because I'll bet they still have some of the coolest toys around, even in the present age of commoditized supercomputing.
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Relative to other agencies, the pay is good. Relative to any equivalent job in the private sector, not so much.
Thank you, I will do this in the future.
Because the minimum wage is higher than $3/hour.
What can be damaging is the stigmatization, shame, and self-loathing created by culturally mandated guilt in response to nearly universal biological functions. Look no further than the average conservative city's Sunday paper for references to some study claiming that use inevitably leads to abuse.
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That said, the various security clearances you'd have to pick up would virtually guarantee serious compensation in the private sector, if/when you chose to leave. There are a lot of positions that can't possibly be outsourced or filled with H1-B workers.
Hence the executive summary industry for biz books.
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7 Things Web 2.0 Star Kevin Rose Could Do for Google
In the past, I understand entertainment co's have identified transgressors from looking at the IPs that are making movies available for download, for instance, and then subpoena-ing account holder info for that IP from the ISP. Or similarly, finding the IP that a torrent is being served from, or whatever.

What I read from Ars is that now entertainment co's will have some means of "...monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks" that bypasses the steps required today.

What's that mechanism? And whatever it is, is there anyway that a giving entertainment co's a means of monitoring ISPs customers isn't corrosive to privacy?
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> In fact, to argue against it is by definition to argue for the existence of the supernatural.

There was a relatively recent HN submission regarding a proposal that our memories are stored in molecules that outlive synaptic connections (more or less). One commenter pointed out that the principle author advocated a theory which says that at some deep level our brains interact with quantum mechanics and that this is the source of our consciousness.

Therefore, it seems that there are 3 possibilities depending on your beliefs - physical, quantum, supernatural.

I tried to find the article, the author, and the comment, but my Google Fu is weak when it comes to searching HN.
More of a PR move in that google is trying to get Kevin Rose fans (or whatever you want to call them) in the deal.

If Rose goes into google+ maybe Google wants him as a focus point or part of a public image... these are what I see Kevin Rose as with this but I of course may be wrong.

I don't know however how you got "anyone that hasn't heard of Google has heard of Kevin Rose" from my statement however.
Politicians can and do dictate the law these days, but they can't dictate economics. If the NSA/CIA/Government pulls too much shit the smart people and business will leave. Also, Mormonism is a cult.
'Git-thug'?

Somebody did not think this through, unless this is a project for teaching inner-city children computing.
SpaceX announces a date for first private space dock with space station
I find their criminalization of right-wing radical speech to be pretty repugnant, e.g. jail time for Holocaust denial in Germany. Don't get me wrong, Holocaust deniers are all mad as hatters, but they shouldn't be thrown in jail for expressing an opinion. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Eu...
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood right now, but for whatever reason I find this excerpt really uninspiring. There's no doubt that amateurization of culture and politics is part of the solution, but at the same time it's pretty much a non-answer. He's basically just saying we need to wait 50 or 100 years for the world to change, and even then it's a pretty big leap of faith.
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I can tell you right now that those don't work at all. We've got a few on our feeders with NOTHING else around them and the squirrels still get on them. They only work if you have a single feeder/pole within about 10 feet of each other. Those little fsckers pull some ninja-esque moves jumping from metal pole to metal pole to get around them. It's entertaining to watch but it can get expensive since when they get up there they eat their fill which can sometimes be 1/6th to 1/5th of the feeder at a time.
Clinton was very nearly impeached for the Lewinsky scandal. Don't forget the first rule of American politics: With money, all things are possible.
From that article:

> Individuals who are considered to be limited-purpose public figures remain so as long as the public has an "independent" interest in the underlying controversy.

I would argue that _why's retreat to privacy is no longer a "controversy" of interest to the general public, assuming it ever was.
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In this case, it's not about knowing the law or not, but about knowing which sites have contracts with the right owners.

I can access the laws that say it's illegal, but I don't have access to the contracts (or the absence of contracts…) that can confirm this or that site is legal.

That's what makes this question so interesting.

When you can download a bunch of songs and movies for free, by now you should know that something is up, the same way people get busted when returning from Mexico with a fake Chanel purse, because "common sense" should tell you that you can't buy one for $15, the same way you can't get full albums for free. (though, common sense is of course very subjective)

But the more the illegal sources look and behave like the legit ones, the more difficult it is to know what's going on. I would probably know because I would hear of the companies from TechCrunch or somewhere, but a random user wouldn't.

So I do wonder if that would be a valid legal defense. Similarly I don't know if someone that had paid a few hundred dollars in a legit-looking store in Asia for a fake but good looking Chanel purse could just explain it was in good faith…

Another example would be Spotify vs. Grooveshark.
I'm still confused what would motivate a company to be so secretive about its hardware designs or infrastructure size.

I understand that having more efficient infrastructure is a competitive advantage, but it seems as though just seeing their machines wouldn't provide enough insight to duplicate them. "Hey, Google's servers have fans on the back and the front" or "Hey, Google's servers are 2U, not 1U" don't seem like overservations that would provide a competitor any insight. Is designing the these type of machines not as straightforward and standardized as it seems?

Similarly, say a competitor saw their racks and noticed SSDs instead of physical disks. What information does that really provide? It's reasonable to assume that each company tries to minimize their cost and maximize performance, and that for similar situations they would make similar decisions. Is it for strategic value -- say, knowing where on the price-performance scale Google is choosing to be -- or is it to calculate their operating costs so as to better price their own products?

I'm not even sure why quantity of infrastructure is closely guarded. What advantage would a competitor gain knowing that Google has, say, 2M servers instead of 1M?
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>When you also bring into account the caché of someone like Rose

Caché with whom exactly?
Why not try for some place more respectable and apply to Yahoo instead?
The common mistake people make on game theory is the assumption that people will always use a hill climbing algorithm to find equibrilium, instead of considering the global optima. Hofstadter discusses this with regard to the "hyperrational" solution of cooperation-cooperation in the Prisoners dilemma.
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The post "Calling all machine learning experts (principalcomponentswanted.com)" is obviously either a phishing scam or a job application scam. This company must be a joke since it recruits anonymously with no pride. This is a guaranteed way to get sub-par candidates. Nobody with any reasonable level of talent would want to work for or with others who would fall for such a scam.
He's right about it being historically the case that being a startup employee is a bad gig.

I honestly think the value proposition for startup employees has to come down to risk appetite, the quality of the team you're working with, and getting to work on interesting problems.

Any kind of pure economic calculus that properly accounts for risk is going to favor established companies if you're good at the career game.
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Amazing there are any scenarios remaining in the "plug the overtime loophole" game. It seems there is an article with this, or very similar, headline every year. How many times are they going to have to pass laws to expand the reach of these slave shops?
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Our product is an API paired with elegant visualization tools that lets domain experts apply large-scale learning to their data. The first application of our technology is to battle fraud online. Last year, there was $4B in credit card fraud, 70% of it from organized crime, and it literally kills companies (see http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/brandstack-heads-for-the-deadpool-blames-credit-card-fraud/). Our system uses a combination of supervised classification algorithms, anomaly detection, and good ol'-fashioned feature engineering to ferret out the bad guys, all running on top of open-source tools like Hadoop, HDFS, MongoDB, Vowpal Wabbit, and d3.js.

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Another way to work with ideas is to work on the technology stacks behind them. Want to implement a new kind of service but the underlying technology stack doesn't work well for the idea? Work on that first, possibly in such a way that it can be sold or leveraged.

For example, Ruby on Rails came from Basecamp, SproutCore came from Mailroom, and Redis came from LLOOGG.