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Child pornography has REAL VICTIMS: children that are being exploited and their lives are RUINED FOREVER.
There is no such thing for copyrights: did J.S. Bach write music in anticipation of licensing revenues? Is he a victim because he had no licensing revenue at that time? Is that comparable to an exploited 7 year old child?
And they should be allowed to infringe on your personal data too because it's digital and therefore easily copied. And now we get to the crux of the argument. Just because everyone will eventually die does not mean you should stop seeing a doctor. Even worse message boards saying you shouldn't even be allowed to go to the doctor!
It's literally the first and second Google result for "child refuses to hit pinata"
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...He's trying to sound more intelligent than the MBA stereotype...

...Gosling is convinced he invented bytecode VMs...

If you have to pretend to be a mind-reader in order to rationalize your irritation, maybe you should just take a few deep breaths and ask if there's some other way you could interpret his statements.
That said we are at least talking about python, which has had better release QA and backwards compatibility than perl....

I'm curious as to your experience here. I've found that Perl has by far the best backwards compatibility and release QA of the major dynamic languages. What did you encounter?
Wow... It felt like using Google 10 years ago. I think you are onto something.
And how do you determine the "top" million sites?
That would be true if we were all rational. But the chicken little behavior of us Americans over the past 11 years really demonstrates that we're not able to correctly evaluate and compare risks of minuscule magnitude.
I believe they forgot to link to the KickStarter page for the product the entire article is about.
I love Ctrl-P! You can use Ctrl-B to search only open buffers.

Ctrl-P is the recommended find plugin from the janus vim distribution: https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
I use most of the other plugins from there and will be trying out the others.
This could be really huge, nice job.
A nice idea, but medical privacy laws would tend to make this difficult to do in practice.
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Wow.. awesome comliment..
I'm sorry, I forgot where I was. (I'm on HN, where things are slightly different)

Imagine being a regular joe employee: no equity, maybe a little bit of stock options, whose seen the price of things go up over the last 4 years little by little. Some things (health care, college savings, potentially rent/housing) costing a lot more than they did... while you see your department friends chipped away because of layoffs.

Maybe even getting your benefits cut little by little: the health insurance plan you had last year covered a little bit more, and was less expensive, than the one you have this year.

Money isn't everything, sure, but more office happy hours is a lot different from "Here's $50 more in your paycheck", or "Here's $5K lump sum as a quarterly bonus, thank you for your hard work"
The Kickstarter model works fantastically well for creative people that already have a following/track record. For someone trying to connect with an audience the first time, not so much.

The restrictive copyright model works fantastically well for creative people that already have a following/track record. For someone trying to connect with an audience the first time, not so much. Even the few musicians who hit it big with a debut album have actually worked very hard beforehand to persuade a record label to sign them, with very little reward.
That would be the case if people are rational. However, people are not rational, and don't like not being in control, even if the chances of them dying are far lower. It may be safer to share the road with self-driving cars, but it's still scarier to rely on a machine that you don't understand.

The most important barriers to adoption are social, not technological, and that means that even one major catastrophe can cause a wave of backlash, regardless of whether or not it's justified.

And that's why it needs to be rock solid.
How did you build this? Are you indexing the entire web yourself? Or are you using Google's index/removing the top 1 million based on domain?
> Social Security Administration overhead ~1% http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/admin.html Compared to 401k http://www.perfectswindle.com/?p=109 vs ~20% of 401k payouts go to administrative overhead.

Thanks. I don't agree it is a valid comparison (SSA puts all money in t-notes, 401k actually has (mostly useless, but non-zero cost) management) - but 1% is, in fact, efficient overhead in absolute terms. I'm impressed.

> Medicare vs. Private insurance http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/administ....

> PS: Medicare pays less in overhead and less for the actual procedure.

Medicare decides how much they pay for most procedures, and the providers cannot refuse (and instead roll the cost onto less leveraged customers), so I'm not sure how can use that as a basis of comparison.

I can't find it now, but I recall a comparison to other systems (UK's NHS and other single payer systems) found that medicare was overall much less efficient (which is again, unfair - the NHS doesn't have to deal with private for-profit hospitals, medicare does).
You do understand "things like Siri" needs search to function; and not only google is aware of it's importance, but they built a competitor much before it launched?
Yep, it does. I use it daily in plain-old terminal vim on ubuntu, so I don't use it in GVim much, but trying it just now worked fine.
They couldn't call it Java. Sun refused to allow Harmony to get a TCK license without giving up field of use rights.

If a distro doesn't pass the TCK, it can't be called Java.
High page rank pages / sites could start holding competitors' pages hostage by linking to them.

Maybe we'd see a resurgence in Flash.
Yeah, this really bothers me about a lot of mainstream news websites. More often than not they don't like to the subject's website. I find it hard to believe they'd be that clueless so is it on purpose? And for what reason?
If Sun didn't want to risk ever feeling this way, they shouldn't have made Java open in the way they did. They purposely made Java so that this kind of thing could happen, and then felt wronged when it actually did.
New York’s Conference Board, a century-old research firm, began studying employee satisfaction and engagement 25 years ago. Their work shows that worker happiness has fallen every year since--in good economic times and bad. Today, over half of American workers effectively hate their jobs.

Well of course. The American economy was reengineered, from being driven by invention, innovation and productivity increases to being driven by just making everyone work harder.

When you deliberately hurt working conditions and cheapen wages as an ideological crusade on behalf of the Protestant Work Ethic and the spirit of capitalism, of course people will hate their jobs!
That would be an argument if it weren't for the fact that J2ME was a complete failure in compatibility and Android is, in fact, the best example of write-once-run-everywhere that Java has ever seen.
> It was argued that professional managers should be rewarded according to the amount they can give to shareholders.

To put a face on this: I had a boss who lectured my team on "shareholder value" and "capitalism" to justify his decisions regarding how he chose to restructure our team, set goals, etc. I left that company within 60 days of that lecture. Not because I fundamentally disagree with the philosophy of shareholder value, but because the outcome of his decisions destroyed my morale. Any attempt to discuss the issue with him was always steered back to increasing shareholder value. He didn't seem to grasp the fact that other things matter, too.
Couple of years back I hiked in Himalayas and there was no access to Internet for 15 days. Not just Internet but no cell phones, TVs, iPod etc. For first 3-4 days when we were still in rural towns of India, we had electricity but after that we had no access to electricity. I must say it was the best experience of my life. I don't think I missed anything at all. As far as author goes, 1 year is a really long time. I'd love to hear after 1 year.
Children will emotionally relate to stuffed animals as well, such that they will get upset if you mistreat their favorite teddy bear. As a child, I remember getting extremely pissed off at my brother when he intentionally threw my teddy bear into a bathtub full of water, nearly ruining the bear.

There's nothing particularly unique about the robot scenario. Even if a stuffed animal doesn't interact like a robot might, a child will often fill that void of personality with their own imagination, bringing the stuffed animal to life in their own mind. Children are obviously capable of intense creative projection.
Today everything SEO is a combination of educated guesses and common consensus. Even with incomplete or flat out wrong information people still successfully manipulate rankings to push good or bad content higher.

There is nobody out there who knows exactly what is going on or whether your redesign is going to help or harm or whether your content is the best it can be. But they will charge you lots of money to apply what they've observed to work before or to automate processes and monitoring and performance.

All of this happens today without any specific clarity into how Google works, I don't think it would worsen the situation if the guesswork was taken out of the equation - sites with no SEO still won't matter, sites with SEO still will, and bad people/sites will still be an on-going game of whack-a-mole.
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Err... No, they won't. Switching ISPs is the most time-consuming thing to do when all you want to do is visit a site that is being blocked. There are many more practical approaches.
The Forbes site is horrendous: interstitial ad before article, broken up in 2 pages (unnecessarily of course with barely any words on pg.2), and linkbait presentation overpowering what little content there is.

That said, this combo of foods is very possible in an Asian diet. Coffee throughout the day during work. Rice for every meal. Red beans in your dessert.
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Thanks! I think so too.

But... From what I've seen so far initial users will create a few images of their friends and then post them back to Facebook. But the incoming traffic from those Facebook links doesn't seem to get people signing up. So in marketing speak the viral coefficient is too low.

Here's an example of the landing page: http://www.memekit.com/im/d1bbe86c-3333-4d0e-bcf0-d0641c57b2...

I need to get more people clicking through to it from Facebook, and more people clicking "Start Meming" on that page. So I'd really love to here from HNers who have ideas.
Java, especially mobile, was NEVER Write Once, Run Anywhere.
I was also surprised by that point re:social [Quote]: Why has Amazon done so little in social?

What does capitalizing, or doing well with social even _mean_? I think Amazon has done quite well in social, and here's why: If I'm looking to gauge the quality of a product, I'll probably look it up on Amazon and read the customer reviews.

The value of that social aspect (i.e. getting the opinions of fellow people) of Amazon is much higher than any amount of likes, re-tweets, or an imaginary Amazon+ social network thingie.

Social is only valuable to a business if you can leverage it in some way. And looking at Amazon's review system, I would say that they have done quite well in social.
As far as I can tell the most unhappy place to develop software is at a bank. I had a friend who was a test-engineer and worked under contract for a bank, with the intention of becoming a salaried worker at the end of the contract; as it was he barely made it through the contract period without going insane.

Others I have known who have worked for banks have had similar issues. I have yet to talk to one person who is part of software development at a bank and have them say a single good thing about their job.
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Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images.

It also implies that they'll open the email, which most average people won't do unless they know the sender or are otherwise expecting an email.
As far as I know, Java is the lingua franca of Amazon and Google. Facebook uses some, but it's not their standard. LinkedIn and Twitter each use some Java alongside their Scala. Only Apple and Microsoft exclusively use C++ or made their own languages. Google also uses a lot of C++, but they're predominantly on Java.
Yahoo, Myspace, Further back AltaVista, AOL. Tech and every non-subsidized "too big to fail" industry is littered with dead or no longer relevant "notta chances".

And you should really work on not letting your biases against the messenger influence your opinion of the message.
I was correcting a bad metaphor and pointing out that the question of legality is important, not just the question of whether censorship is ever OK, I wasn't arguing for or against the legality.

Regardless, what's wrong with discussions about legality. A huge feature of any discussion board is that people can share opinions, debate, and correct each other when wrong.

I'm not sure if I'm mis-remembering you or if you used to have a different attitude on here, because in my head when I see your username I think of someone who's helpful and a good contributor to HN, but lately the comments I've seen from you are snide, snarky and not useful. I hope that either I'm just seeing the bad ones and missing the great ones, or that you're just going through a patch and will be back to your old self. Or perhaps I'm just wrong and being unfair to criticise you, but just calling it like I see it - if it was someone unknown making these comments I just feel they'd be getting downvoted to hell and for the most part ignored.
>purposely made Java so that this kind of thing could happen?

what kind of thing? can you explain a little bit more.
They need search to some extent but they don't need Google. Siri tries to provide answers so it uses Wolfram Alpha, Yelp etc. Previously I had to google a question and wade through blue links. Now, I ask Siri and it gives me the answer direct from a knowledgable source. No Google.

"they built a competitor"

I've never used it but I thought that the Android equivalent of Siri was just voice recognition/dictation?
Especially on the mobile side, where it was already dying at the time. However java was extremely popular on server side and desktops for enterprise projects.
Interesting. I can't comment on the relative volume of hacks in iOS vs. Android. Presumably both have quite a few.

My point was that "worse-is-better" was validated by the success of Android vs. Sun's own mobile efforts as characterized by Sun's executives here. And that despite appearances, the other major successful mobile platform is an application of worse-is-better as well.

I'm surprised the smart guys at Sun—who were themselves beneficiaries of worse-is-better in the Unix workstation market—built their mobile strategy around designing the "one true API". I suppose the (somewhat accidental?) success of Java convinced them it was a viable approach.
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What is the ranking used for the top million sites? A search result for "Australia" returns as the top result http://australia.gov.au, which Alexa ranks as 20,615 globally. Actually, a lot of the queries I tried returned Australian sites.

http://millionshort.com/search.php?q=australia&remove=10...

http://millionshort.com/search.php?q=somalia&remove=1000... -- another Australian site.
You were patronizing when you said "You should..."

If you want to know what the process was, why not just ask? If you don't actually care, then just move on.
IANAL, but wouldn't that be a problem of trademark infringement, and not copyright claim as Oracle is suing them for?
No one is saying nor implying that computer programmers possess a superior moral compass to make judgements on the rule-based systems as you have stated.

The laws are fucked up because of pervasive unethical political practices in the U.S. (and the entire world for that matter) where laws are made from the top down by those with the most money as opposed to the bottom up as our founding fathers intended via our representative democracy. (Side note, the internet is changing all of the above through the forums you denote as irrelevant as well as social media)

In regards to programmers calling the shots, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a group of people as intellectually capable percentage wise to make unbiased judgements on the nature of our laws.

They are certainly more capable that the majority of clowns in Washington.
Ha - what a great solution to such a meddlesome everyday problem.
As I said, the "related regulations necessary to prevent abuse." The FBAR and foreign asset reporting requirements which you are referring to are the direct outgrowth of wealthy Americans using offshore accounts and investments to evade taxes.

Prior to this abuse, investing in foreign assets or using offshore bank accounts was siginificantly less complex.
I think it's important to think about what Google's goals for Android were, and ask whether those were in conflict with getting a Java license. In the trial I read that Sun wanted a lot of "control" over Java on Android with a license. Can anyone explain what that means exactly? Google's goal with Android, in part, is to provide an open and completely free mobile OS. Would that goal have been affected by the kind of control Sun wanted? Would we still have things like Cyanogenmod? Would progress on the OS in general be slowed? (I honestly don't know so I'm hoping someone can fill me in.)
That's pretty much it. North America seems a different place than before this economic shift.
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I think search APIs like Yahoo BOSS allow you pass arguments that contain a black list of domains. I think it's the 'sites' argument that may be used like this: &sites=-google.com
And that's coming from a publication that doesn't quite realize print is dead.
I use vim for coding just about every day, and as a rule, I try not to install plugins unless I really need/want it. Reason being is if, on occasion, I need to do a little editing inside an ec2 instance, or whatever, I don't want to type `vi` at the shell and get a different editor than the one I use every day. So I try to keep it as stock as possible, while allowing enough customization to be productive and comfortable.

Anyway, that said, Ctrl-P makes the cut. :)
You are right. Microsoft has, so far, been ambiguous about the rumors about W8 and WP8 common infrastructure.
That bleeding can cause other problems like anemia, and aspirin can also cause ulcers, which besides the discomfort, can become a serious medical emergency.

This is truly a balancing act, and we really don't know enough to balance it for generally-healthy people at large.
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If your average college lecture was an interactive experience, sure, smaller sizes are better. I don't know about you, but that's decidedly not how my college lectures were - it's the prof talking down to a room full of people madly scribbling.

Which means you had an inferior college experience.

For us, lectures consisted of about 25-50 people after the introductory courses. Even the non-intro weed-out courses had small sections. Larger sections were used to have a better, more specialized professor teach more people due to lack of another equally-qualified professor, as necessary.

Small sections allow for more discussions, more curricula shifts to cover additional subjects, more honors colloquia for dedicated students, etc.
I think it's more accurate to say that the linux community engineered around it. Think about the package distribution systems that have evolved: apt, yum, slackpkg, etc. Installing software on a linux distro is WAY easier than than installing software on my Mac. Compare running aptitude install MySQL to going to the MySQL website, downloading a dmg, and running an installer.

This kind of package management would never have evolved under the One True Dogma of Sun or Oracle. Windows still doesn't have it. Apple has finally put an App Store on OSX, but of course with their usual dictatorial flair.

Java is a dying community. This is 100% Sun's fault. The only flourishing parts of the Java ecosystem (Android and App Engine) are flourishing because they dared to speak heresy.
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Not sure if I found an anomaly or what, but a simple search of "Privacy" returns results from thesaurus.com, merriam-webster.com, truste.com, kelloggcompany.com, and many more that are all in the top few thousand according to QuantCast and Compete.

Great idea though, will definitely try this out some more.
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While its interesting, and I'm sure there are people who will love it, I'm not sure I'd really enjoy interacting with my iPad in a multi-windowed environment. There's something to be said for the simplicity of devoting my attention to one app at a time.
You could see a lot of laws that way.

The point is that it isn't necessarily favoritism as anybody could create copyrighted works so I wouldn't see it as 'unfair' unless you had to apply to the government for copyright or something like that.

Besides copyright is a net benefit if it helps intellectual property get produced.

I am not arguing that IP would not get produced if it were not for copyright as that is clearly not true. However I'm not sure it is to everyones benefit if creatives had to work 8 hours a day at 7/11 and then only produce on nights/weekends or that they had to hope for some kind of handout (which could well just be companies wanting to advertise or politicians wanting to create propaganda).
Right now the filtering is not 100% working for non .com, .net, .org, .co.uk domains. So, .gov.au isn't being properly filtered yet. Soon.
Would you share some implementation details.

What's your source for the top million sites; where do you get your site list from for the other results?
Don't convolve abuse with wage. There are a lot of programmers who are paid very well but are unhappy with their jobs. Being a corporate wage slave is a fast path to unhappiness.

The problem is that so few people are as introspective as the GP to your post. Most will take the bad job because work > no work in most peoples minds.

This is a problem that cannot be fixed at the leaf nodes, it must be fixed at the root. But the root is currently doing very well for themselves and won't see it as a problem (because there are always more workers)

The solution that factory workers came up with to solve this problem was to organize. But that caused more problems in the long term than it solved (it's economically unfeasible)
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And of course, W3Schools still manages to show up, thanks to their multiple crazy subdomains: http://cl.ly/GFup
Hey, you were the one who said molten :-)

I guess you meant something more like blacksmithing. Chamber could add heat by microwave induction. No air to oxidize the surface so you might be able to work trickier metals. We already have power hammers, we already have 6DOF manipulation tables. I'm not entirely convinced that a power hammer could do the work accurately enough, might want to use a milling machine for the final fitting.
If you search for "google" and remove the top million results, you still get google main page (in this case, the one for australia and india...)