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scary... if ISP's sniff packets, isn't that illegal wiretapping?
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My wife and I are moving to Auckland, New Zealand. I have Work-to-Resident Visa. Departure will be on the middle of May this year.

I am very productive with Wordpress. You won't regret hiring me.

My CV is available on my blog (see profile for link).
Wow, this is exactly the list of improvements IMO that would make GitHub a perfect code review platform. Especially push on comment threads.
You are right, the article's definition of tragedy of the commons was poorly and bizarrely written, but you were downvoted because your criticism wasn't clearly expressed. You complained about the article but didn't specifically cite or correct its error.
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You're entitled to your opinion...

More seriously I can see that it might well be a love it or hate it kind of book, sometimes the ability to provoke strong responses can be as important as the polarity of the response. Although by that measure teenage vampire lit has merit...
> tl;dr: Exactly what value did the layperson add to this thing?

They made it happen. The site would simply not exist were it not for the dream/passion/drive/whim/fantasy of the OP. In a more deserving context, the following story could be referenced :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

That said, I'm not going to defend the merits of the site itself. It looks awful, adds seemingly no value and isn't something I would think of actually using.

However, we should not trivialize the act of bringing ideas to fruition. That's what it's all about, after all.
Clinton was nearly impeached for perjury, not the scandal itself. Unfortunately, the one bad thing Santorum doesn't appear to be is dishonest.
There was a popular post a few years back about an algorithm for optimum learning (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157).

I found this while browsing around the org-mode site, and thought this might interest people who turned off by (1) the horrible supermemo UI and (2) the lack of incremental reading support in the majority of other spaced repetition programs.
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If it's at-will employment, then by definition it's not slavery.

And it's not a de-facto slave system either. Programmers are in extremely short demand, so leaving a job you are uncomfortable with is very highly feasible.
vpn tunnel. then there's no way they can tell what or where you are going.
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but by doing this they ARE giving up their safe-harbour provisions.
I think the govt has already broken quite a few of its own rules, yet smart people from around the world flock to Google, MIT, and the like. National security letters, the Patriot Act, illicit war.

I would love to live in Berlin, but my family is here in the states, and the NSA would still intercept my communications in Germany, anyway.
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They're doing the same kind of monitoring they used to do. It might be better, because now I think they're required to document how their monitoring works and (supposedly) independent experts can comment on the accuracy of these systems.
> "it would outlaw birth control by defining human life as beginning at conception"

Most forms of birth control prevent conception ("contraceptives"). Only a few types act after conception ("contragestives" [0], which prevent implantation). A law of the type you described would not affect most forms of birth control.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contragestive
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FYI: this has been going on here in South Africa for some time... The first I heard of someone being issued a warning was around 2008, not sure exactly how long it has been going on though.

One thing to note is that by and large the ISP just emails you to say 'we are obligated to inform you that Warner Bros is getting uppety' ...I have friends who have received several of these over the years without any further action having been taken.
They're not sniffing anything.
Nothing about that posting screams phishing or scam. This is very normal for companies trying to keep a low profile before launch. They've provided enough information that would appeal to a candidate interested in machine learning.

* product details : bringing machine learning to the masses...The first application of our technology is to battle fraud online.

* technical details : 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.

* funding situation : We're fresh out of this summer's YCombinator batch, raised funding from top angel

* team info : Our team includes two former CTOs, the tech lead of Android voice input, and the tech lead of Google's A/B test analysis framework and IP geolocation teams.

If I wasn't already working on something interesting I'd jump on this.
>But the blog post sounds like Andy already turned this thing into a billion dollar company and now bows down to the mere mortals to share the wisdom he gathered. On his heroic journy to fame and riches.

Well yeah. He worked in finance. That's how they think in finance.
I don't think you'll feel that way about the full book. Send me an email (info in my profile) and I'll send you a complimentary copy. If you enjoy it, you can amend your comment; if not, no foul.
Licensing almost always includes a legal commitment to specific ethical behaviors, fiduciary duty and the like. That is one of the main differences between licensed professionals and flea market vendors. Doctors, lawyers, and engineers all make specific ethical commitments in order to win authorization to practice.
No offense to Prof. Lessig - but he's sort of like someone trying to restore the Roman Republic in the age of Nero.

The reality of Washington is that politics (ie, democracy) matters a little, but not very much:

http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employm...

If politics has negligible power over government, electorates have negligible power over government. So why do we need to "get money out of politics?" The reality of Washington is (IMHO) that voters could elect a President and Congress as pure and holy as the Dalai Lama, and it wouldn't matter at all - because they'd have about the same real power (over the permanent government) as the Dalai Lama.

Lessig is yanking with all his weight on a wheel that isn't connected to the rudder. If there's any rudder at all...
> "Religion hold that the nature of this outside system will never be known"

Many religions claim to already know (some part of) the nature of whatever it is outside the physical universe. They just claim that the information comes from something other than observation of physical processes.
Well here's two choices: http://www.quantopian.com/
The above lets you do algo trading online.

And there's: http://tradingclearly.com
That's doesn't do paper trades, but it could help you with your real-life trades.
Since there are fees involved, wouldn't it make sense to collect the money, sit it on it for a month (or some period of time) to earn interest, and just send the other party a check?
>the big bang was a huge violation of conservation of energy

Really? There you go! Solved! Thanks!

A few questions, since you seem to know it all (I certainly don't):

How does religion explain 250,000 people dead from a Tsunami in Indonesia?
Or, how about a similar number in Haiti?
Or, how about the six million Jews?
And the two million Armenians?
Darfur?
How about the 48 million people dead in WW2?
Or the 21 million in WW1?
And the 20 million dead during the great Chinese famine?

The numbers are staggering. It's sickening:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_...

OK, so god is powerful enough to create the Universe in seven days and explain the big bang by a supernatural act of unimaginable proportions. Yet, he/it can't be bothered to at least save just the children of the aforementioned disasters and genocides?

But, he/it will help someone not loose their home, pass a final exam, hit the jackpot or win Suvivor because they prayed? While, at the same time letting a child die from cancer across town?

And he/it, while being ever-present, all-knowing, all-loving and omnipotent can't be bothered to stop hundreds of millions of his people from death, horrible illness, famine, genocide and, let's not forget being raped by priests. And, while we are on that subject, why haven't any of these priests been struck by lightning?

Either he/it doesn't give a shit or he/it is indifferent or he/it is petty and nasty and can't be bothered or he/it is not omnipotent or he/it is less powerful than the devil or...

Or better yet, he/it does not exist.

Please. Spare me the bullshit.

The thought of having someone like Santorum in the White House scares the crap out of me. Such ignorance is hard to fathom in this day and age.

And thanks for the down-votes. Keep them coming.
>What kind of traffic inspection are these ISPs doing that would enable to identify infringement as it's happening?

As I understand it, there's no actual monitoring being done by ISPs. The monitoring is done by the record and movie companies. When they see a torrent of their content being shared, they record the IP addresses of everyone seeding that torrent and then send warning requests to the ISPs whose users are uploading. Those IPs then relay that warning to the actual users associated with those IPs. Once a user gets six of these warnings, the ISP is obligated to cut off the user.

At least, that's the way it was reported last summer, and that's how Ars Technica is describing the enforcement system now.
The problem you describe infects all public corporations, not just in the finance industry. It is why management of big public companies tend to pillage, not produce.
I had seen all those previous threads except for raganwald's "Worse is Better" link. I admit that link does make a decent case for the sock-puppet theory. However, I still think that nickb was a real person. I was an avid reader of New Mogul (great site, well done), and nickb's contributions there, as you know, were very extensive. The sheer volume of Nick's combined activity on both HN and NM casts doubt on the sock-puppet theory in my mind. Furthermore, in addition to finance, Nick seemed genuinely interested in B2B enterprise software sales strategy. I corresponded with him on email about that subject a few times. If you follow PG you know that is a subject that he takes no interest in and in fact encourages all the YC companies to eschew enterprise sales. Also I remember someone during one of the "where's nickb" discussions here or on NM around the time of his disappearance saying that he knew that Nick lived in Ottawa and was going to try to check up on him in person. The idea that Nick lived in Ottawa was corroborated by other comments that Nick or others had made in the past...I believe he might have been a professor there. Anyway my point is that there was so much effort behind nickb's contributions and enough detailed differentiation between him and PG that if he were indeed a sock-puppet the ruse would seem to go beyond being a joke and cross into the realm of split-personality, and for me that is a bridge too far. Then again I did always wonder why PG pulled him off of the leaders board after he disappeared:

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

And as far as I remember PG never really commented on his disappearance. Either way, sock-puppet or no, I would very much like to know the rest of the story. Perhaps Ms Lowrey will one day solve the mystery for us.
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Haven't read the wiki entry you linked but the description reminds me of Sybase IQs bitwise indexes... Super fast for queries, not so much for inserts. First encountered these in 2005.
I understand that you get your info from CNN, but a mesh network will work. See the research into ant colonies for more info. There was a headline today about a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication.
So basically it's reclassifying IT workers as indirect labor, subject to the same overtime laws as engineers?
Thanks – that all makes sense... of course, the lesson there is just grab the mac of your voip box, right? =)

(this is mostly somewhat academic for me – I don't pirate, but I do wear a tinfoil hat at times)
Salesforce's CEO, Benioff, is the classic idea guy. He kept a few coders in a dank apartment grinding on salesforce, then rode it to billions. Of course, he's a great salesman and made it big.
That's true, almost every license for any profession (including everything from accountants to sports agents to, in some states, interior decorators and hair braiders) has an ethics component.

My point is that it's trivial to find examples of unethical behavior by folks with licenses, so clearly the license alone isn't sufficient. Many bankers are already licensed, and licensing won't change the behavior of the ones inclined to take huge risks. Maybe it helps at the margin, but it's not a cure all by any means.
This is a great point. I would much rather have a president with a handful of crazy, completely wrong, clearly unconstitutional ideas than a president with a handful of just slightly wrong ideas that might actually pass. Congress and SCOTUS will block the truly crazy stuff; it's the borderline stuff that's dangerous.
Some websites don't offer this explicitly but they have a print button feature which does the same thing.
The moment a provider throttles my internet based on "piracy" is the moment I begin investing all of my free time into making a free and invincible p2p solution.
Don't think, just do.

The measure of you being good enough isn't whether you get into YC.

The measure of you being good enough is creating a successful business that is profitable and will hopefully run itself when you leave it.

You're not going to get there without failing a few times and learning some hard lessons, but you can get there if you give it a shot. So what if your first, second, or third business doesn't get accepted into YC? Don't run a business with the goal of getting into YC. Run it because you love the idea and would rather do that than anything else; anywhere.

Like I said earlier... Don't think, just do.
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My almost entirely uninformed idea was that observation of the universe by something that is external to the universe might somehow interfere with the conservation of energy or in some other way produce phenomena that contradict the laws of physics.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
You nailed it. I'm a Republican, but the candidates this time around are really depressing. I don't identify with the Tea Party ("angry" does not a political platform make,) but wish Ron Paul would win the primaries. I don't think he will.

If Santorum manages to win the general election, ritual suicide will become a serious option.
I've been streamlining my commit histories this way for several years now, and it's worth the effort.

I do it pretty much the same way the author does (only I use Emacs and Magit mostly). The reason I do it is because my work has to make sense to other people, and also to me six months later. So I think of my commit histories as stories that must tell people how my software got from point A to B, and tell them clearly.

The chronological history of how I wrote some batch of code is just the first draft of the story. It's messy. It contains WIP commits, false starts, backtracking, and all sorts of cruft that tells more about the noise of software development (and when I stopped for dinner) than about how the software logically moved from one sensible point to another.

Once I've got a chuck of work all figured out, all that noise has to go. It must be edited away before I publish the work upstream. Otherwise, I'm just weighing down everybody who has to understand the work later (including me).
Ask HN: Looking for a great personal hosted blog alternative
I've been around town. I've done Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr and finally Posterous. With Posterous' recent acquisition by Twitter, I would like to move my blog once again.

I'm looking for a hosted solution (but I will settle for a self-hosted one if necessary), preferably simple but allowing you to modify the style/layout of the page/blog. I think Calepin is a cool idea, but I'm still exploring other ideas.

The blog would have code snippets and other rants. Is there anything anyone would recommend?
The sky is not the universe. NASA mapped(took pictures of) the infrared sky. Sensational title aside, it's a pretty awesome and humbling accomplishment. Plus, being NASA it's all in the public domain.
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I am always amazed at how incredibly smart people can be seemingly unable to connect freaking dots.

Sorry, tptacek, but this is 100% related. If you, or anyone on HN, is concerned about ISPs being able to sniff the intent/payload of your traffic, then you're fucking stupid.

Why? Because the NSA has been doing it for YEARS. Here is a MAIN STREAM story on their institutionalizing of this activity in Utah which is NO SECRET!

It doesnt even matter "how ISPs actually identify file sharing traffic" -- it is TOO late.

File sharing is a ruse, a red herring, who the fuck cares about file sharing. This is about TIA (total information awareness) they don't care if you file share!

They use file sharing and copyright to enact laws that make binary wiretap both trivial and legal.

They want to know EVERYTHING you do - and by claiming you are a criminal via file sharing, they can install stupid ass gateways in the last mile, which just makes it seem like they follow some due process - there is NO LAST MILE. THey have every single bit, already!

They have already compromised the ISP, this is just a scare tactic to keep out the fluff. The fluff are those would would think that their stupid file sharing is alerting the feds, such that they refrain from doing so.

So, in closing, what the NSA is doing, on mass scale, is FAR more pertinent than what you would think.
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not becoming a has been I guess. He's also passionate about startups and tech.
I have the beta. It's pretty awesome to behold, but the gameplay isn't significantly different than d1/d2.
I'm very impressed by the year over year continued refinements and improvements to Instapaper. Back in 2008[1] Marco mentioned he only spends a few hours a week on it. I wonder how many hours a week he spends on it these days.

[1]: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/60070053
Let's be clear about something: she did not out _why. Some other people did that years ago, and I've known his true identity for longer than that but the people who were his real fans never outed him even though they knew, too. _why was a little like Santa Claus in that way.
I didn't downvote you, but my guess is that your (pre-edit) comment adds little to the conversation, and could nearly as easily have been expressed by upvoting the parent (which, IMO, also fails to add much to the discussion).
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I got hit with a dire legal warning in college from these anti-piracy-crusader guys. Apparently I had been heavily uploading Beyonce songs on Limewire. This was strange, as I have never used Limewire and don't much like Beyonce's songs. I had to go to some office and fill out papers to say that I was innocent, because someone made a completely spurious (and probably automated) accusation against me.

These people are scum.
An extremely active longtime contributor to this site who dropped off the map a few years ago.
Time to roll out a 170 year old joke.

Slavery might not be that bad. If your employer owned you then they would at least have some incentive to take care of you.
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Just because you didn't know about it, or didn't care to find out, doesn't mean that she outed him. In a similar manner, if a tree falls in the forest and you didn't hear it crashing down, that does not indicate that the tree is still standing. I find your logic problematic.
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He left Tumblr back in 2010 to work full-time on it.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/marco-arment-instapaper/
It took me about a minute too long to realize this was a joke.
Well, it's the same in Pakistan, but here they will kill you or at best beat the hell out of you. You get treated the same way as non-Muslims get treated in Pakistan. Oh btw, if you're a Muslim and plan to switch, you pretty much tell everyone to axe you.

So much for being an awesome religion.
How would this be better than a vagrant box and a github or bitbucket repo?
SQL Server has been one of my favorite software products of all time.

I feel the same way about PostgreSQL, along with the bit about learning all the features. I suspect that most decent RDBMS's are this way.

At user groups I hear a lot of people saying they selected MongoDB because "They had millions of rows and SQL just couldn't keep up" and to me it just sounded like no one in their organization had any solid SQL experience.

hahahaha. I have customers with db's with 10's of millions of rows (And I expect hundreds of millions or rows in the foreseeable future) and I can't imagine MongoDB keeping up in terms of reporting......
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Interesting. I'm just waiting for the ISP's to get sued for breach of contract for throttling customers internet. If a neighbor (for example) logs onto router and starts downloading, I can imagine there'll be lots of false positives. And lawyers love false positives.
Please take the time to read the guidelines [0], and show respect the Hacker News community by following them. We do not take kindly to violations.

Of specific note, from the guidelines:

- "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

- "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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