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If I were British I would question what our nation's sovereignty actually means. It's not like this kid killed an american and fled back to the UK.

Personally, I would like to see a law that says we will never extradite someone to a country where they could face a harsher penalty than they would at home for the same crime. If nationality can't offer you at least that, what is it actually buying me?
This is why I use the MPL.
My OCD kicks in.

Where does this odd thing come at the end of the article?
"The older brother who accompanied Mr Brierley on the train ride was found dead on railway tracks."

Earlier in the article, it was written that Saroo boarded the train after he got lost. No mention of older brother, which made me think he was alone.
I agree that the tech community is painfully aware of the patent trolls, but for the casual user it may not be as obvious (albeit this blog is aimed at the tech community).

Just look at the coverage that SOPA and PIPA received. I spent about an hour convincing my mom that the poor record companies aren't losing money because of people "stealing" their music, but rather they're not willing to adapt the changing environment.
What about Linux? That said, it might be the exception that proves the rule!
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Surely if the equivalent laws did actually exist in the UK, then he should be tried in the UK.
Rationality can serve whatever values you have. You can rationally optimize the amount of love, happiness, and fuzzy puppies in the world if you want to. You can also rationally strive to keep a company efficient and non-evil. But the bigger it gets, the harder that gets, modulo economies of scale.
Also fuck poverty. I hope we can wipe poverty off the earth soon.
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How is a UK resident reasonably expected to understand foreign laws and judicial processes? One would hope Theresa May, as Home Secretary, is fighting to protect the British people by pulling the plug on the web.
> It's obvious how that should render <em> - with emphasis - but what does it do with "letter-spacing:110%;"?

<span style="letter-spacing:110%;">forever</span>

is better than

f o r e v e r

Especially taking accessibility into consideration.

Typography is relating to the design and appearance of the page. It should still go hand-in-hand with creating semantic markup of the actual page.
No, I was replying to a (now-deleted) comment that was purely about age, written as if this whole thing would be OK if he wasn't so young.
" As the trappings of entrepreneurship were dismantled, derisive talk of the “old Google” and its feeble attempts at competing with Facebook surfaced to justify a “new Google” that promised “more wood behind fewer arrows.”"

Simply put, Google stopped investing in it's future through building entrepreneurship in its engineering ranks. This is bad for Google's future growth prospects, full stop. They've drawn a line in the sand "we're about ads, not technology innovation!" and that is where the company will slowly age and die.

Google is no longer about where it's going, but about how it ages.
Nice one. But we're I think we're talking about referring to Markdown from README (e.g. "our comments system supports Markdown"), not that the content of README is written in Markdown.
A few people have been very vocal about the lack of equity and how "unfair" it is.

Personally, I don't really see their point. It's not an investment, it's a purchase... With a slight bit of risk. Some of the higher tiers are collector's items and a part of history, and unavailable otherwise. The lower tiers have the game for less than it will probably retail for.

I personally feel the risk is very low for both this and Wasteland 2, but others feel differently.
How do you solve the chicken/egg problem with replacing ebay?
If he really wanted to enforce those conditions, all of which have to do with not changing the mark, he could have just used a Creative Commons NoDerivative license (with some exceptions if desired) instead of BSD. Software licenses are better suited to software, whereas this is more like artwork (although the boundary between software and artwork is kinda blurry nowadays).
I'm not offended nor mad about this, but I don't know if this is going to work out well. There are good ideas, bad ideas and terrible ideas. Terrible ideas can't be successful no matter what (startup)dream team is behind it, and bad ideas are the kind that only a black swan event can change into a successful business.

Also consider that while some "ideas" are the classic "twitter for dogs" or some other improvised nonsense others are actually very elaborated and go far beyond the idea and into the "concept" stage. That a concept gets thrown into the garbage bin together with all the dull "twitter for X" ideas is very demeaning to all the teams that spent a long time working on that.

And speaking of teams, is very VERY difficult to build one let alone keep it together without an actual goal (idea->concept->objective). Is next to impossible to keep things going when every session can be summed up as "any ideas?", the sound of crickets and no actual work. I don't know where you guys are but here if you walk into engineering and say "who wants to be in a startup?" followed by "there's no idea yet" you are not going to get the 10X engineers there, not even the 1Xs. The only ones paying attention will be the CS101 guys, and not the ones that learned Ruby by themselves but the ones that don't even know what PHP is yet.

Ideas keep the group together, give the team an actual goal rather than a vague outcome (eg: "we're going to be rich!"). Many like to talk about failed startups, but they rarely mention that the startups that fail the most are those founded by wantrepreneurs with no idea, no concept, very little knowledge and only one clear objective: make lots of money. What's the problem? you're not making any money by just wishing, you need an actual product that gains traction, and then a coherent business plan that actually works (or will work but in that case you better have lots of investors friends).

I don't mind YC is doing it but I think they should change their strategy: 3 months is a very short time to come up with a decent non-half-baked idea considering you also have to <execute it> which is a nice way of summing up all the actual work you'll have to do to get your product out there.
quite right, but "you are the product" is obviously even more true of Google, selling you to advertisers, right?

Microsoft just wants you to want their product. Google wants to know everything about you so they can sell you to advertisers.

More and more, to all companies, especially tech companies, we are commodities to be sold.
What lessons can be learned from managing an open source community that can be applied to a formal corporation?
Nothing wrong with choice. I think it's important that people treat me fairly. That's practicality, IMHO.
Most decisions are made under incomplete information. So the principles that guide you in uncertainty are very important. I think it's quite rational to select principles that guide you well even under uncertainty, even if their immediate conclusions don't seem maximizing. Likewise it's rational to use principles that will be comprehensible to those observing you, so they can predict your behavior and retain trust in your decisions.

To the parent post question, of avoiding deterioration of institutional culture from such principles there are two answers. Best is to align corporate equity interests with long-term interests, which are generally customer interests. That generally means not going public, as stock market attention to short-term interests is a constant distraction from long-term interests. Failing that, be lead by a mutant like Buffett or Jobs, who understand the long-term interests and have the authority to ignore the short-term to get long. But the availability of mutants is unpredictable and it's really best to get the capital structured properly.
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Good to see that google is finally running an efficient PR department :-)
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So, a meaningful solution would be to have a small, but well equipped clinic on board. Required staff can be airlifted in from the mainland within minutes in emergencies - an airport helicopter transfer in NYC costs $1,600, so the cost isn't prohibitive. Regular appointments can be attended by the doctor taking the ferry.

The "avoid making arrests, and throw trouble makers out" approach seems viable. Make sure companies on the boat post a bond for their employees that will cover throwing them out (sending them to their country of citizenship or the ships flag state for trial) if they won't/can't leave on their own.
Ironically, Sleepycat couldn't have executed without the GPL; it's a fundamental part of their business model, which relies on dual licensing.

There's more to the GPL than "religion". When you release code under BSD, MIT, or Apache, you give up all control of it. Anyone is free to commercialize it without adding any value. The better marketing & sales team can and will beat the origin of the software in the market.

If you're not sure whether you might someday want to make money from your code, GPL is the more pragmatic choice. You can always relicense BSD later --- but BSD, once picked, is forever.
Actually worse. Because software patent is pure shit.
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Why should I Buy Replica Art Online?
Museum replica items give art lovers around the globe an opportunity to enjoy the magnificence of original art with low cost. As the cost of original art work can drain anyone's pocket and people cannot afford such masterpieces created by expert painters, replica art makes it possible to adorn your wall with a copy of it.
Well, this should be used like any other email service. I, myself, have 5 email addresses. One of them I use specifically for things I think will eventually attract spammers. I never read those emails unless I need to change the password on my MySpace account or update my GoDaddy information.

So if you're an important person that has accounts with hotmail and ymail and gmail, you could add this to the list and use it specifically to interact with other important people - knowing that your inbox here is never going to have junk in it.
> Social is the future of search

Says who? The fact is that arguably the most hardcore googlers are here on HN, and I would imagine that most of us don't care for, and even dislike, social search.

That's not enough to prove that social isn't the future of search, but it's enough to think twice about it.
Not everybody feels that way about immigration laws.

Outside SV, many regard H-1B Visas as a force that creates downward pressure on wages and working conditions for software developers.

One thing we do know is that immigrants form "networks" in SV and other places. There's no doubt that some of these networks are highly innovative but it's also clear that many immigrants are motivated to bring as many of their friends from the "old country" as they can -- and this consideration might affect their decision and hiring practices more than rational and economic considerations.

The truth is that the social fabric is strained to the breaking point in SF and SV. You can't walk 25 feet in SF without tripping over a homeless hippie. I don't know exactly how, but the overheated venture capital culture has got something to do with it.

Something I never hear about is that SV investors might consider starting a secondary center in, say, Kansas City or Mumbai.
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The situation is pretty pathetic. I'm not at all an advocate for piracy, but big media companies just have way too much control over government.

To me it just serves as a reminder to always act to reduce the power and reach of government.
To Quote Martin Fowler

"Often when you come across something new it can be a good idea to overuse it in order to find out it's boundaries. This is a quite reasonable learning strategy. It's also why people always tend to overuse new technologies or techniques in the early days. People often criticize this but it's a natural part of learning. "

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

It is good to see some studies being done in this area (even if the one in the article is not particularly rigorous). I am convinced that there is tremendous value in the new online opportunities (Khan Academy, Stanford, Coursera, Udacity, etc), but there are limits to what they can accomplish. For one thing, an online course being done individually requires a higher level of student discipline than a learning activity involving the personal interaction of a teacher. My mind is less likely to wander when a teacher is staring me down :).
It can be hard. My dorm's laundry server[1] was actually Slashdotted shortly before someone filed for a patent on the idea of hooking up a webserver to a laundry machine. Luckily, being covered in the mass media does put you in a good position if you get a cease and desist letter, though.

[1]http://laundry.mit.edu/
>A LolCat page could get 250k likes on Facebook easily, but could it consistenly get 5,000 likes a week for a year? Maybe staying power should be more important than overall popularity.

Exhibit A: The Cheezburger Network.
That said, if you change it to work such that it's personalized for every user, so that it only shows emails from people who are important to them, rather than emails from people the system considers to be important, then maybe people will appreciate seeing emails from the LolCat page of their choice.

Also, a better way to measure importance would be to go through the user's sent items history and map out the people they email most frequently. I once wrote a classifier which classified email contacts as important or not important based on the sent items history of the user and it worked pretty well for me.

You could also use Bayesian classification of the contents of the emails the user sends and the emails to which the user replies and use that data to determine if the user would like to see an email, based on it's contents (rather than the sender).
Infuriating. There is not precedent, or even laws in place supporting what the DoJ/ICE are doing here. They are out of control and we need this kid to win a supreme court decision to put them in check.

Sean Fanning did something similar and got his ass sued off, but he DID NOT spend time in prison.

We are prosecuting the people innovating. Why not put Vint Cerf on trial for fucking creating the system that allowed people to access TV-Links?

This shit is so backwards I can't tell if they are being willfully ignorant, or ignorant for pay.
Hopefully the electronic edition will keep going for the foreseeable future; replacing its effect ourselves would be a real pain. Wikipedia just does not replace it; Wikipedia aims to presents consensus of sources on the web (even when it is broadly acknowledged that consensus is wrong), EB aims to present correctness.
This was fairly comprehensively debunked in a talk at FOSDEM 2012:

http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/is_copyleft_being_fram...

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/03/142229/gpl-copyleft...

Black Duck Software don't publish their methodology, whereas John Sullivan does publish his (based on studying the license of Debian packages).
What do non-US hackers listen to when hacking? (radio)
I'm not in the US so turntable.fm isn't an option. By the way, if you haven't heard of turntable.fm, you should check it out so they get more users and are able to expand sooner.
I tend to agree with you. I spend 5-10 minutes a day getting to Inbox 0.

However, the target market seems to have this problem in spades. I don't know any wealthy or famous people who haven't complained about their inbox here or there.
There are definitely cool things that end up shut down. All I can say is that it's an age-old problem: "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all."
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Mr Brierley, at the age of five, was begging at a train station in west India with his older brother.

He got separated from his brother and subsequently got lost.
Relevant: http://cpptruths.blogspot.com/2012/03/rvalue-references-in-c...
It's funny you point to GitHub considering git is GPLv2 licensed itself. I imagine many of the tools which make those projects possible are also GPL licensed.
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Third paragraph of the story: "Mr Brierley, at the age of five, was begging at a train station in west India with his older brother."

Although the article does fail to mention him again until mentioning his death, which seems to warrant more explanation than "guy died on some railway tracks."
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Plus his life was pretty tough. He might have some rather traumatic memories from that first town where he lived in. Life of a beggar aint that comfortable.
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I think your point has merit, but as his sexual behaviour formed part of the plot, it was necessary.
I know there isn't an easy alternative to it, but that Github list is pretty wonky; things like impress.js and Devise are at the top of it, but are clearly not among the most important pieces of open source software. Similarly, I review other people's Rails apps for a living and have never seen a project use that particular top-of-the-list form builder.

I can only conclude that the number of Github users "watching" a particular repository is not a particularly useful metric for how good/important/popular that software is.

Finally, for obvious reasons, Github has a pronounced Ruby/Rails bias, and that community already has settled norms on licensing.
how about Git itself?
Created a SVG version:
http://jsfiddle.net/mofle/9am5u/
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I guess. That's kind of the decision that a lot of console or heavy copy protection game producers make: We want to get paid for every copy of our game that is played.

Then a lot of no copy protection PC game producers make a different decision: We want as many people as possible to play our game. Some will pirate it and not pay us. We hope that many more will do the right thing and pay for it if they like it.
That sounds like a gameshow pitch in the making.
That. GPL is excellent for a "take it and contribute back, or pay my next holiday - either are fine by me!". It's a very fair deal.

I'm not saying everybody should go GPL, I'm just saying it's great for many purposes. I came the other way from the open source zealots. I used to scream "viral effect!" whenever something was GPL, thought it was bad, bad, bad. Nowadays, when something is dual licensed GPL and commercial, I tend to become a happy customer.

Typically, the long-term prospects are lot better than with BSD software slammed on github with a "here you go" note attached. No evidence, btw, just a feeling.
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Vow, first i thought this is the plot from a bollywood movie.
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Currently, managers get in trouble if they deny you 20% time for more than one quarter. This seems reasonable and I've never heard of anyone (in my department) being denied even for one quarter. But you're right, there is a bit too much management in general.

The depressing part is that Google is so far ahead of everyone else that they can fuck up a lot of things and still be the best place to work by light years. (They even pay better than the investment banks now!)

I haven't done a Perf cycle yet, but the only problem I foresee is that nobody really knows what my job title is supposed to do. That hasn't stopped my coworkers from being promoted, though, so I can roll with it :)
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The free software movement aims to protect the freedom of the users, not developers (although the user could be a developer). Developers are in a position to control their users unfairly, so providing them the freedom under a permissive license does nothing but to further endanger the freedom of the user.

This is an important distinction. Those who focus on the freedom of other developers miss the point of the free software movement. Consider an individual looking to rob a bank with a pistol (as opposed to robbing a user's freedom with their own software). Before the robbery, they notice a permissive amory across the street. Your permissively licensed software is that armory. You are empowering that individual to blow a hole through the bank rather than hold someone at gunpoint.

Your software, as great as it is, can also be used to lure in users for exploitation. Nothing like a heavily armed robber with candy!
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Does this make _any_ sense?

Normally you introduce stuff having "profund effect"s on the whole ecosystem _before_ you release something as "stable".

Maybe the Go devs want to repeat the Java generics story ...
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Doing things right / Doing the right things.

They're doing the wrong things here. Firefox is dog slow compared to Chrome.

Firefox: I loved you for a few years, but now I fondly remember Firefox 3.5 as "It was better than I.E" ... my new love is Chrome, because Chrome is at my doorstep asking where can it take me, while you're still getting out of bed in the morning.
There's a significant difference in that Go's "designers" have not been asserting there was no need for in their language.
I wasn't at all arguing in favour of what is happening. The now-deleted comment I replied to was arguing that he was only 18 when he first did it, and then lots of people do foolish things at that age and later regret them.

If he had committed a crime that we all agreed should be against the law, such as murder, at 18 and kept doing it regularly until he was 23, would anybody here be defending him for his age? THAT was my point.
I remember the town I lived in when I was 4 years old vividly. In my case it wouldn't help much because it's been turned into a resort community and everything has changed. I sure hope Google Earth is archiving snap shots over time so people can look back and watch how the world transformed.

My memories before 4 were a blur, but my daughter remembers falling off a Big Wheel and breaking her front tooth when she was 1-1/2. She's 17 now but she can even tell you what outfits she and her best friend were wearing that day. Some people just have sharp memories of their early childhood.
I would strongly advise reading Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy on the subject of emergent culture in sovereign institutions.

These companies are small empires in their own right, creating a lasting and prosperous empire is an monumental undertaking where chasing fads has little effect.

In business circles I find Bosch and IBM to be prime examples of quality in this regard.
What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?
"Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix."

Linus Torvalds' post to comp.os.minix newsgroup.
That's sort of my point: what makes me want to communicate specifically with famous people?