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You gotta wonder whether the encumberances that this may create on IP would be similar to two-tier stock plans, where the market prices in a discount because of the restricted rights you get by buying the patent (or stock). If I still have the right to veto a use of an asset I no longer own, that's worth something to me (i.e., a lower sales price for the asset). Also seems like it will add to the legal overhead of IP transactions. Perhaps the benefits will outweigh the costs, but by no means a clean kill of this problem.
Sorry, what I was trying to ask is going to an unfamiliar niche be the only solution now since "scratch my own itch" is already crowded?
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I agree that that is their goal, but I still don't like rights violated without a warrant or something similar.

As an aside, I find it funny that your name is roc, since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characterist... is a good tool to measure accuracy in systems like this.
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Larry Wall's original is better:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
I agree with all of this, but also want to note that as a backer, your risk is significantly smaller than that of a VC.
Looking at the Wikipedia page for SNI it's actually Google that's holding back the secure web. Android 2.x doesn't support SNI and according to the Wikipedia webstats that's more than 90% of the Android mobile web users (25% of the total mobile web usage). That's for a product released in 2009, after XP stopped being sold.
Many markets had more than one media outlet. You could choose to read other opinions.

With everybody bubbling, that options is disappearing.
"Whatever this project needs me to be"

I'll never put in 80 hours in a week for you. I'm sorry, but there are more important things in life than programming. Maybe I'll never be the best programmer, but I think I'll be a better person.
In the past I've thought about overlaying Twitter on live TV but don't watch live TV enough these days to be particularly motivated to follow through.

I even picked up a "Breakout Board for MAX7456 On Screen Display" http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9168 which combined with a networked Arduino should be enough to get something happening.

(I am available for consulting if you want someone else to do all the fun work for you. :) )
Uh, your solution is to retry after random delay? That's jitter.
Its http://betali.st/

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Had one of first Compaq iPaq GPRS sleeves, ordered directly from Hong Kong before US availability. (Late 2001, early 2002.) And Handango was my "app store" of choice.

The 5 years from 2002 to 2007 were interesting, but in hindsight seem to share so little with post iPhone industry.
I honestly think this is a stupid idea. Feels as if it's another case where someone at the top with no understanding of how the web works has decided to lay down their 'authoritah' with no regard for it's outcome. The whole political system is a shambles when it comes to anything web related. We need people with real, cast iron experience of the web to help make decisions which don't have such negative impacts.

First SOPA, now this.
"if Kickstarter doesn't allow changes in pricing once the project is set, it might not be the best option."

Can not change current reward level's, at least not after they have a purchase. But you can always add more levels. So as much as that does not alleviate the fixed prices, I think if the prices are well thought out, then more reward levels were added based on demand of the market, at that point I think it becomes a pretty successful platform for a startup or commercial activities. Although there are definitely exceptions.

"Why not simply set up a personal pre-selling page, accepting payments via PayPal or any other service?"

Awareness. If I started a new company that sold shoes, set up a seperate page. I would not have the instant credibility or the traffic that kickstarter has. As much as there is a small chance if the market demanded what I had, that I could push it viral without kickstarter. I do believe that the kickstarter platform has proved itself over the last few months. Multiple projects being pushed over the million dollar barrier, projects spanning from pure hardware to pure software. I think there are plenty of cases where kickstarter should be a last option. You're still preselling product, instead of equity, all while gaining awareness/free publicity while not taking very much risk.

On top of that, with not using kickstarter, you're losing not only the traffic, but the impulse buys. At least a lot of them. At the discounted prices, people jump on bandwagons. For instance, if I see something that has taken off, I will in a lot of cases "back" the project, even projects where I didn't think I wanted or needed before logging on to kickstarter.
No, patents are sold encumbered by their previous licenses. Another entity may acquire the patents, but the portfolio would still be subject to this agreement.

The issue is the ambiguity of "defensive" action gives the assignee of the patent relatively broad license to act without the consent of the inventor - and the inventor can be suborned later, too. (Trust me, that happens.)
They don't own the patents for use in offensive actions so the patents would serve no use to a patent troll. It would take the originator's consent.
Yes, it happens in traditional media too, albeit more crudely. After all, all of the incentives are already there.

Run stories about rare but terrible crimes -> more people watch your news -> ad revenue goes up -> run more stories about even rarer but more terrible crimes -> even more viewers -> wash, rinse, repeat -> everyone thinks the govt should be "tough on crimes" even though our society is the safest ever.
I thought Pinterest was a site where people bookmark pretty pictures, not Consumerist or Yelp.
I don't get the 416 reference?
I think you've got the point I was trying to make the wrong way round. If I set up half a dozen REST services with SSL on a single IP, clients which don't support SNI will experience problems. Last time I checked, libwww in Perl, urllib in Python (until 3.2) and the WebClient library in C# all didn't support SNI.
Speaking strictly to my tastes, David mentioned something that caught my eye:
"With the exception of a few lottery winners, the independent artists that seem most successful under this new digital model seem to fall into two categories:

"1.Established recording artists recently freed from major label contracts.

"2.Artists playing to a specific non-commercial niche. For example Black Metal."

Perhaps I'm being a little selfish here, but is that /really/ such a bad thing? While bands on average may sell less now, how many active bands are there now than there were in, say, 1998? While sales numbers dropped, has the pool of musicians grown? (That's the impression I get from reading random interviews.) And if so, why should it? If the economics are so bad, then why would more people bother getting into music?

Other stuff -

Cost of professionals: I wonder sometimes whether all this expensive top notch talent is really necessary. Like, if we're talking about trying to sell to the mass market, we're talking about selling music that's played through stock ear buds on loud CTA train rides. There's no appreciation for dynamics, the choice of amplifier, mic placement, etc. to be had. So why make this a sticking point when practically none of your customers care? Just how valuable can those skills be when practically nobody notices? Put another way, if we tolerate companies putting together dodgy applications with shoestring and duct tape, why doesn't the same idea of cheaper means extend to music production? We're not talking film scores here, so what's wrong with a bedroom mix? (Refer to yewweitan's mentioned act, Animals as Leaders.)

Sales -- direct vs. via iTunes, Bandcamp, etc.: One definite turnoff to buying directly from the artist (via foomusic.com) is the possibility of a, er, suboptimal payment processor and web host, not wanting to create yet another account somewhere, unwanted mailing list subscriptions, etc. Ever visit a merch page, add something to your cart, and then discover the SSL cert long expired, page pulls in insecure content, etc.? Did you follow through with the purchase or just turn away?

Traffic phagia: I understand YouTube. I _don't_ understand Facebook. As in, yeah, I expect Facebook to be one of the first place someone looks, but assuming Facebook users are getting to the tracks via the band's FB page, not via user submission (haven't seen FB since 2009-2010), what's wrong with a simple link to the Bandcamp page? After streaming a few things, are FB users just not clicking through?
Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, iTunes U, YouTube University, OpenCourseWare...

Seems like we need a service just to keep a handle on all the content out there.
I'm not sure if you're asking about the use of those specific literals or about the extensible reader, but there was a short interview with Rich Hickey about the new extensible reader and there was valuable discussion on HN about it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831803
It's in the article (see google cache). They were about to be valued at $500M in the next round of investment, during the next week. Zuck had to move fast, and he did. He bought them 2 times the supposed valuation, which is probably what Instagram expected.

(PS: Negotiation 101, start with a number 2x bigger than what you expect)
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Put in 80 hours a week on someone elses project - sure, totally get this attitude.

But if you aren't willing to put extra hours into your own project (or others who you believe in) - then you will never be great.

I work 40 hours a week at a day job with a local startup. I'm not a founder, nor employee one - I do have some decent stock but really I just work for the salary.

My passion comes in the extra projects I take on for myself. I do it because it honestly interests me and isn't work - it's a hobby as well.

This whole "never work over 40 hours" is very humorous to me. Work what you feel like - no one else gives a damn what you do.
That's what I plan to do and I'm assuming that the materials will remain available once the course is over like they were for the ML course, but there could be a better way to deal with left-behind students (which I believe are a big %) than making them circumvent a good chunk of the class experience (grades, email certificate), in particular I'm demotivated to do projects because instead of feeling rewarded for the work I did, I feel penalized for being late on some imposed schedule.
JWT in Brazil turned filling out timesheets into something fun
No, patents are sold encumbered by their previous licenses.

Do you really believe that will happen? When investors are asking why some pinhead inventor is holding up their profits? You can't force everyone involved in a company to think this is a good idea, and therefore, it isn't.

Edit: (For some added color, imagine Kevin O'leary of Shark Tank fame sitting on the board of a company with some of these patents).
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They're just adding more default literals to the language. Clojure already has strings "like this", characters \l \i \k \e \t \h \i \s, numbers 1234, regex #".*". Now you can have dates, times, or presumably some other literal that's applicable to your domain.
There is a fair bit of people who considers the euro to have been planned to cause a crisis to driver deeper integration in the Euro zone.

Spain is grim BUT it's important to understand how big the black economy is here. A lot of the unemployment numbers are colored by people actually working on the side while putting the dole in their pockets.

Also GDP debt is not that bad and the government seems able to actually push through reforms in comparison to Italy or Greece.

I would prefer to see the percentage of people on the "ajuda" that is the only thing available after you loose the unemployment benefits.

Living here there is one massive obvious issue. The property prices have not dropped as massively as in the states. My theory is that the banks are not selling property as they don't have to mark to market. If they had to write the market value of all that property I figure the whole Spanish banking system would be bankrupt.
The question I have that I really, really, really want the answer to be "yes" for is this:

I've created a couple things that are "patentable" (not that I would want them to be, but they are) so can I email someone at Twitter and essentially say the following:

"Hey, I want these things patented, but I have no money. Can you patent them for me, giving you the defensive rights and me the licensing rights? I will never allow them to be used offensively"

Because that would be balls-to-the-wall-hella-fucking-awesome.
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I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me? Yes of course there are various definitions and measurement methods of 'IQ' and 'intelligence' and one can define all of them in various ways. Exact definitions aren't interesting for the current purposes. What I said was, some people are smarter than others, even when considering orthogonal traits. If we hypothetically consider 'intelligence' as a combination of trait A, B and C, and we choose A, B and C carefully enough so that we can score or normalize each of them to a scale of 0-10, then Alice with a score of 8 on each of them is more intelligent than Bob who scores 4 on each of them. Now in the margin you can argue who is more intelligent when the scores are 5-8-4 and 5-4-8 but that doesn't take away from the point.

It's not like we're talking about one specific methodology for measuring IQ. The whole argument is in the context of the OP arguing that correcting for intelligence is necessary for making a meaningful comparison between wages earned (basically, it's discounting for opportunity cost). Which is totally reasonable and obvious.
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What are some things you'd like to see added to the language that's not yet there?

Seems like a lot of the core features first get added to a language and once it's mature, most new features are enhancing the API. Hell, even Microsoft released "Object Fortran" in the 90s :)

I get the idea that the clojure language feature list seems about as complete as mature languages like Scheme and LISP, but I might be totally wrong to assume that. So, are there clojure language features that you desire which we don't have already?
It makes sense to me. The language is designed to be as small as possible.. everything else can be built from macros or reader macros. There's not too much in the actual language itself: http://clojure.org/special_forms
I was gonna post a comment saying what they meant was obvious, but then I just went "ohhhh." * That's actually quite an annoying little problem there.

One work-around might be to add rules to the exchange forbidding the placing of multiple bids by the same entity at the same price, and then allocating randomly.

This is also reminding me of the Talmud's descriptions of how to pay off debtors when there isn't enough money to go around: http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/06/10/how-game-theory... Such a system could work for exchanges too, although it still encourages over-bidding.

Surely also over-bidding has its own risk/reward curve so it would be reasonable to allocate pro-rata and let people work out how much to over-allocate.

* And realised what the implications were.
Incognito mode in chrome seems to evade whatever form of tracking they are using.
Microsoft has always, always held back the web.
Ask HN: What technical countermeasures are there for the UK's snooping agenda?
The UK plans to intercept all electronic communication. They currently don't plan to snoop on content, but as noted elsewhere connection data is just as invasive.

To me this is both a civil liberties and business risk problem. I view my list of business contacts as confidential information and I don't trust the government not to leave this information on a train somewhere.

Legal solutions are one thing, but the snoops keep raising their heads, so my feeling is that we need to actually find a way to make this sort of thing technically impossible.

Content encryption is already largely solved, although for email we still need a critical mass of people using PGP or similar.

VPNs just seems to push the problem to another jurisdiction, and if this is an agenda all governments will one day pursue, this will become decreasingly useful.

What can an individual do to protect content and connection data? Onion routing for mail servers? Do technical solutions rely on everyone doing it and so are unlikely to get much traction?
Where does it say that 501's are actually productive and produce good bug-free code?

Being a little bit of a dick here, but programming is art and science and there are aspects of it that require dedication beyond a 9 to 5 mentality. I, for one, prefer to hold reasonable hours and come home to the kids. At the same time, I am no stranger to 18 hour days, seven days a week. Sometimes inspiration and problem solving require you to stay on task longer in order to get things done.

And then there are those bug-hunting missions that sometimes never end. I once spent six months tracking down a software bug in a hardware design (Verilog, FPGA). High-speed digital designs can be notoriously difficult to troubleshoot. The problem was caused by a rounding error in an Excel spreadsheet used to calculate parameters plugged into the code months earlier. We used "ROUND()" instead of "ROUNDUP()". Though I digress, the point is that programming sometimes is about recognizing when you need to do a little (or a lot) more than watch a clock.

I'm not proposing that all programmers ought to work ridiculous hours. Whenever I've done 18 hour stints it took me out of the game for weeks. And that's OK so long as there was a point to exerting yourself to that extent.

The bottom of the manifesto says: "To us it is just a job, but we still do it well."

That, to me, is a guarantee to not being hired. That it is "just a job" means that they might as well be welding, at least to me. I don't want people like that in my team.

Having said that, I am the first one to tell someone to get the hell out of the office if they need to go see their kid perform at their school event at noon. Get the hell out and go enjoy the day with your family. Need to take a four day weekend when it isn't an official holiday? Do it! Send pictures. The point is that you build a team and everyone looks after everyone else while having one hell of a time creating a product. Respect, dedication and consideration. 5:01? How about not coming to work to go fly a kite with your kid? I like that.
That wouldn't surprise me, because the distribution of development work that companies need done is very different from development that is fun. CRUD apps are often necessary to the business, and tolerable if you enjoy programming, but not terribly good at satisfying intellectual curiosity.
The problem is that people do give a damn.

People automatically assume that because I don't want to work over 40 hours means that I'm just in it for the money/job/whatever. They automatically assume that because I don't have 20 projects on github, I'm not active on twitter, nor do I have a blog that's updated twice a day that I'm not passionate about my profession. They automatically assume that because I don't go to 4 meetups a week nor contribute to their favorite open source software every other day, that I don't don't care about the community. Just because I don't do these things, it does not mean I'm not a passionate programmer.

People are also confusing the difference between work and pleasure. Just because I'll only put in 40 hours of work in a week, does not mean that I'll not program on the nights/weekends.
Did post this earlier today.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3857082
I see your point in theory, but in practice it doesn't seem to apply.

Even regular bank transfers, i.e. transferring money from one checking account to another checking account, usually take a day to clear over here. I am talking about regular bank accounts in Germany, by the way. The economy manages to run just fine with this system.

As long as something as basic and fundamental as simply moving money from point A to point B is that slow, I really don't buy the argument that the real economy needs transactions on financial markets to clear that quickly. What's the point of having a trade clear in milliseconds if it takes me a day to transfer the money to a different account?
Well done!

I had assumed that that comparison graph used the same measure for all cities. Its Santa Fe value matches that described in http://www.santafenm.gov/index.aspx?NID=168 : "The City of Santa Fe computes its per capita water use as the daily average of annual total water diversions from all sources of supply, less bulk water deliveries to the County of Santa Fe and Las Campanas, divided by the estimated customer population served." That's what you were using for Melbourne, but it seems that that's not what the Boston plot was using.

But Santa Fe has little in the way of industry. "Of the 8,500 acre-feet
billed, the single family residential sector used 4,530 acre-feet (53%), the multifamily sector used 878 acre-feet (10%), and the commercial sector used 2,743 acre-feet (32%). Irrigation use accounted for 330 acre-feet (4%)."

At 5408 acre-feet per year, with a service population of 80,000 people, that's about 230 liters per day of residential use per person, which is still more than Boston's residential use. I think that's attributable to how Boston gets much more rain; 41.5"/1050mm vs. Santa Fe's 13.8"/350mm.

How much rain did Melbourne get during those 10 drought years? It looks like around 650mm, so you can see how Melbourne is a somewhat wetter place than Santa Fe. Santa Fe encourages rain barrels, and I can understand how they would also be effective in Melbourne.

(I also don't know how private well usage affects these numbers.)

(Edit: Ooops! Mixed up Melbourne and Sydney - now corrected.)
This does a pretty good job of describing my response to the post too. I think work/life balance is extremely important, but so is enjoying what you do during the day, and continuing to learn about your work and the world at large.

I typically try to work 8 hours a day. I'll work longer during crunch times, sometimes 12-14 hours... but if "crunch time" becomes the new normal I'll abandon ship without embarrassment.

When I'm home, a lot of the time my hobbies are technical: I'll play with personal programming projects, or try out new sysadmin tools, or mess around with a friend's web site. I'll also read books about physics, go fencing, take walks with my wife, play with the cats, go drinking with friends from outside of work, play the trumpet, read ridiculous amounts of science fiction... I know my work/life balance is being impacted when those things are being marginalized.

But I'll keep programming at home, too.