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It's my understanding that that's already illegal in the US.

http://www.genome.gov/24519851

+State laws:

http://www.genome.gov/PolicyEthics/LegDatabase/PubSearchResu...
For some reason, I first read this url as: "Facebook ipod a yc losing price"
See here for more information on the distinction between free (gratis) vs free (libre) as it relates to software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
It's up to the end user - if the GNU movement is somehow planning on restricting the ability of the user to use DRM'd software on their own systems, then they've gone completely off the rails.
This is amazing. Thanks for posting this.

I await the Bastards Book of Haskell with great interest. ;)
Was thinking that the smiley face was not much of an addition, but then clocked that you are probably the author of the piece, in which case the smiley face was probably fairly tactful.
As others have said, there is not a lot of substantiation in the talk to shed new light on frequently-discussed topics.

It feels intellectually shaky to assert that the economy will go back to growing, if only the middle class can go back to spending, which we can achieve by giving more money to the government.

Here's a different and more TED-like viewpoint: Perhaps economic growth actually requires movers and shakers. The US has had a good share of them. These people aren't going to be your archetypal rich fat cats, nor your average Joe living paycheck to paycheck. If they are rewarded with wealth, that is a good thing. And sure, some of that wealth can go into a pot to use for the common welfare.

If we want more consumer spending, let's give people better things to spend money on, things that help them in their own quest of fulfillment and creating value.

If businesses are reluctant to hire, it's only because they need to make correspondingly more money to make the hire worthwhile. As we know from start-up land, many tasks can't be done better by throwing more people at them, especially creative tasks. We're still trying to solve the problem of how individuals can cooperate and merge their individual strengths towards big goals. A full-time human ought to be a very valuable asset to a company, though, and many companies can be viewed as engines that take human effort and turn it into value, creating money.

Economic growth is not to be taken for granted. It requires innovation, optimism, and positive energy that comes from individuals. There are many things rich and non-rich people can do with their time and money to help, besides just giving their money to the government. Take something you're good at and provide a service, or make something and sell it. Lend a cup of sugar to your neighbor. Earn what you're worth. Invest in good businesses. Pay someone to do something for you. And on and on.
"If you want freedom, one requisite for it is not having these games on your computer."

I feel like restricting the definition of freedom fairly narrowly goes against the very definition of freedom itself... but then again he's free to do that too.
Although not a fascinating topic nor anything new, I think the main point of the article is a good one, and one that everyone should consider before name-calling, yelling, or interrupting for that matter. Many use these techniques to supposedly win arguments just because the other shuts up, or is offended.
Off-topic! This isn't reddit...
The incentive is more legal than economic. Everything terrorists do is within the law until they take the specific act of trying to kill people. Joining a terrorist organization is not illegal. Recruiting people into a terrorist organization is not illegal. Speaking out in support of a terrorist organization is not illegal. Wanting to kill innocent people because they're the wrong race or religion and talking about it day after day after day is not illegal. There are good reasons for this.

So basically, nothing that terrorists do is illegal until they actually go out and try to kill someone. The FBI can use a person's history of lawful activities to find people who match the profile of someone who is highly likely to commit a terrorist act in the near future and offer them a fake bomb and a ride to the nearest synagogue. When that person pushes the button, that establishes the intent to commit a crime. It's no different than going up to a guy the police think is a drug dealer -- because of the clothes and the way he acts and other lawful activities -- and asking if he'll sell them any drugs. It's not entrapment unless the police really screw up their approach.

As for the economics, consider the alternatives. Waiting to see if the terrorist would use a real bomb carries a high risk, and the terrorist would be less likely to be convicted than in the case of a FBI-provided fake bomb. The court system has exonerated terrorists with strong evidence against them like Sayyid Nosair and Sami al-Arian because they claimed to have been oppressed and persecuted for being Muslims and found sympathetic juries. The fake bomb plots with their careful establishment of identity, motive, and criminal action have all gained convictions.
He's right - smart people know others are stupid.

Seriously though, people do Stupid Things. And I call them stupid when they do them. Change lanes without signaling, without looking - maybe you're not an idiot all the time, but at that moment you're acting like an idiot and endangering other people.
The recent dropbox get link feature basically solves this ...
Nonfree? Okay.

DRM? Groan.

But really, who cares, let the user decide. Why does the freeness of the OS have to predicate the distribution, license or otherwise of the software used on it?
Holy cow, thanks for sharing! I'm spending this week and next driving my motorcycle to an internship in Seattle from Iowa via the Southwest. Apparently it's perfectly viewable from the Grand Canyon the day after I'd planned to visit. Guess I'll move that stop back a day. :-D Thanks!
The baby boomers start hitting full retirement age in 2012. Will be interesting to see the same stat in 5-10 years.
In an ideal world with infinite time for arguing with... well, I'll avoid an ad-hominem when responding to an argument about ad-hominem attacks, but... in an ideal world it would be worthwhile to drill down through the onion layers of rationality, irrationality and emotion which drive any argument we disagree with, every time.

Sometimes this spelunking is both constructive and instructive.

Sometimes though, dismissing the assertion that the earth was created 6000 years ago or that the world will be ending next month with a quantitative assessment of the intellectual capacity of the asserter is a completely appropriate shorthand.

The key is judicious application. ;)
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Yes, but it is just about to zoom up as the baby boomers start retiring over the next 20 years. It is a double wammy to the budget because they will switch from paying in to pulling out.
Nowhere does GNU or the FSF advocate preventing the user from doing as they please; the user is more than welcome to use a DRM-infected system if they choose to do so.

We simply discourage it.
"That’s why saying “I don’t know” is usually smart, because it’s refusing to jump to a conclusion."

Define usually. More often than not when I hear "I don't know" it is offered as an excuse/explanation for laziness and shirking responsibility.
True, though Reagan somewhat planned for that with the 1983 Social Security tax hike, which was designed to pull in ~20 years of higher baby-boomer Soc. Sec. tax revenue to pay for their retirements. Hence the huge surpluses Soc. Sec. has been running for some years, to accumulate a few trillion out of which to pay for their retirements (if it weren't for that, Soc. Sec. tax could've been a lot lower over the past 20 years purely to break even year-to-year).
The dictionary defines stupid as: Adjective:
Lacking intelligence or common sense.

and intelligence as The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Perhaps the author does not often meet people who lack the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Basic programming is fundamentally formal logic in executable form. Learning it provides people with a basic understanding of how the machines around them work, what might go wrong when they break, and teaches them what is fast becoming the new global language (binary, sort of, this analogy is kind of being stretched). The point is not for everyone to enter the computer industry, the point is for everyone to have at least some level of awareness the same way we teach the scientific method in schools.
You were able to implement this over a weekend??? That's really fast and I must be doing simething wrong!
For a lot of people - Node allows them to do a lot of things that was previously non-trivial in Ruby or Python land. From comet based applications to using socket.io for real-time notifications. It's not that these things can't be done in other platforms.

One of the problems I have with the hype around Node is that people seem to gloss over the fact that asynchronous IO is only really dramatically more useful for the particular case of wanting to have a lot of connections that are open and idle most of the time. Many people, instead of saying “Node is great for comet because of asynchronous IO” say “Node scales really well because of asynchronous IO”, when in fact those 2 statements are very different.
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There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid.

The same could be said about almost all behaviors, such as courage, promiscuity, or whathaveyou. However, over time people tend to display consistent patterns of behavior. As a consistent picture emerges, we tend to switch from thinking of people as acting a certain way, to thinking of people as being a certain way. Whether you want to say someone is acting stupid all the time, or someone is being stupid is just semantics.
Makes me think about programming IN a foreign language. One time we had to fix some code a Turkish client had added to our system. The spec and the code were in Turkish (imagine Turkish COBOL if you will). We somehow got it done by trial and error (Is THIS what you want? No? How about THIS?) I have no idea whether this means anything, but we came away saying "Berklat bokari" to each other at random moments on future assignments. Those words or something like them kept appearing in the Turkish code.
Smart people don't think others are stupid merely because of the beliefs they hold. That is, being a [Southerner, Northerner, Republican, Democrat, Indian, American, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Tauist, Piist, vi user, emacs user, ...] does not mean a person is stupid. There are smart people who really have thought things through and ended up at each of those positions for good reasons.

But smart people might conclude some specific individual is stupid because of consistently erroneous patterns of thought and analysis which do not improve with experience. There are a few individuals who I've spoken to on a variety of topics over the course of years who, as a rule, develop beliefs based on sketchy evidence and then retain those beliefs even in the face of mountains of contrary evidence. Even when they hold essentially the same views as I do, it's often for bad reasons; there isn't really a coherent thought process or a body of evidence that got them to that point. Such people really are stupid.
What do you mean by "no callbacks"?
I suppose that is true. Indexing is something I deal with but I guess I don't really think much about the underlying storage mechanics.
When a smart person says "I don't know", It's usually followed with a "give me a second to figure it out." or "let me look that up real quick.".
I've been trying out the Linux Mint LMDE edition (which is based on Debian) and I'm totally impressed with the Mate desktop. First of all, and like all other things Mint, it's a beautiful implementation, with a nice mixture of greys and accent colors. Next, and more importantly, Linux Mint with Mate desktop eschews all current rage of making your desktop look like a mobile phone, and gives users back the ability to do cherished things like customizing their panel and menu that we all grew to love under Gnome 2.

Users can select either the main distro (current release 13), based on Ubuntu, or the rolling LMDE spin, based on Debian Wheezy. Unless you are very comfortable with Linux, and specifically with Debian, I highly recommend the mainline Ubunty-based variety (Linux Mint 12 and now 13).

So if you are sick of the Unity and Gnome 3 madness, and just want your desktop back, give Linux Mint with Mate desktop a try.
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thanks for your appreciation and feedback, I think there must be a way to prevent dragging selecting, i've added it to todo, and will implement it soon.
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I used to use the original flot, but lately, we've been playing with jqplot. How do you feel this compares? I like the plug-in system in jqplot and recently we added 2D plots (heatmaps) in our local version.
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I believe that it is unethical to knowingly sell something that is harmful.

At the core of food are plants that have a set of easily copiable and modifiable DNA. Apparently, biotech corps think that they have DRM on plants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
I don't think that's their position actually, only that it's unethical to sell someone software they have no control over and no legal right to alter or work to understand, particularly if the software is actively undermining the user in various ways as DRM would.

It's a black box so to speak. Someone else pointed out the food comparison, it would in fact be unethical to sell someone food without telling them how it was produced and what was in it, and I think that's a reasonable take on the software situation.

However, one could argue that the GPL makes it almost impossible to build a traditional software sales business if the product is GPL licensed. The first person who buys it gains a legal exception to copyright to give it out freely, but that happens whether its GPL licensed or proprietary, we just call it piracy in the latter case.

So in some respect they're working against the idea of traditional software sales as a side effect of upholding the freedoms they promote.
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I'd give good odds that joshu already knows this, but I'd like to point out that a lot of work has gone into making freebase's schema machine readable. The schema is stored and constructed in the same way as all other data in freebase (as are metaschema, such as http://www.freebase.com/view/type/object/type and so on).
Purdy! But yah that's a lot of bloat for eyecandy.
"My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm."

Did rms just admit that proprietary software can theoretically have benefits? What's this world coming to lol
I looked into this, and apparently flotr2 is forked from flotr. flotr was "inspired by" flot, but uses Prototype instead of jQuery. Note that flotr2 removed the Prototype dependency so:

flot: the original uses jQuery
flotr: inspired by flot uses Prototype
flotr2: branch of flotr no dependency
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It is more accurate to say that the difference between stupid people and smart people is that smart people can be proved wrong.
I kinda miss the previous design, I thought it was more distinctive:

http://mikekus.com/archive/kicksend-homepage-page-design/
But people tend to fixate on their first impression of others. It's very common to see someone do something stupid once, and then assume they're stupid forever-or the opposite. It's definitely worth recognizing the first impression bias, and doing your best to fight it.
Thanks for asking, the backend is built on Ruby on Rails, and we use spinejs as frontend MVC framework, and obviously, bootstrap and jquery is indispensable, the rest are our dirty code, and also we use coffeescript, i think it save much of time for us instead of writing js directly.

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Trigger.io looks interesting but I am not sure I understand the pricing. Do you need to pay them if you want to distribute an app? Do you need to pay them just when you are developing the app or the whole time the app is for sale?

This from their FAQ does not clear it up for me:
"The monthly payments are a license to use the cloud build service and to distribute our native bridge with your applications with enhanced support,"

So the fee is for support?
Why is this app better than What'sApp/Viber/etc? Is it more reliable? I've always found these data messaging apps to be somewhat flaky.

I'm still looking for an iMessage replacement for Android - a completely functional SMS app which sends via data if available, reliably and invisibly. It should be able to send SMS to people who don't use the same app as well - I don't want a separate app for data and SMS messaging. GoSMS for android attempts this, but I find it often doesn't work, which is exactly the opposite of what I want for an SMS app.

edit: Looking at the app description, I can see why it's so popular. Free SMS to anyone within US and Canada is great (sadly, I'm in Australia). Perhaps the website should be clearer about the features?
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Only if you think people paid all of it without writing anything off.
Perhaps OT because of the age involved, but... as a kid, I was 'gifted' (not sure if that label is still used today or not). I would get people (adults or other kids) saying "you're so smart", and I would naturally try to deflect/downplay that - was never really told how to react to statements like that as a 7 year old. "Thanks" just sounds so bland, but, I didn't even think that far ahead.

Instead, I would usually protest some - "no, I'm not really". But eventually I adopted the attitude that yes, there was a difference between me and many other kids in my classes, but it wasn't that I was smart - it was that they were dumb. Relative to me, most of them were. But it wasn't so much a 'dumb' as in 'you're a lesser person', it was just hard for me to realize people didn't retain as much info as I did, nor could they make mental connections like I could, nor as fast.

I do remember having that line of thinking for a few years, and it wore off by early high school age.
thanks for your feedback, we'll try to make the trial processing simpler in next.
Great post, Jon. I hope I can connect with my daughters and teach them to code when they get older. Very inspirational.
RMS is pretty reasonable! He gets a bad rap, I think. It's like people watch his every move like, "Oh man, what's that craaaazzyyy old man going to do next?" Of course, he's actually right 4 times out of 5.

I thought the point he made in this article was a balanced one.
The most amazing thing I take away from that chart, having lived in both Europe and the U.S., is how little the U.S. taxpayer gets for their money in comparison, I'm guessing because spending crept up slowly without any real planning. For example, the U.S., Canadian, and Norwegian governments each spend about 40% of GDP, but somehow Norwegians and Canadians get a much stronger set of social services (including state-provided healthcare and much cheaper education) within the same budgetary level.

It seems U.S. spending has gotten to similar levels without actually having any sort of solid planning, so taxpayers are left in the worst of both worlds: 40% of GDP spending, but somehow you still have to buy everything yourself (like health insurance or college), because the state hasn't figured out how to provide it for that price. There are some exceptions; e.g. healthcare for the elderly is covered, and the interstate highway system is good. But not as much as I would expect for that size budget.
Relevant answer I found on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Who-creates-wealth-Entrepreneurs-invest...

The world is more complex than a lot of the arguments that people have on this issue.

One side appears quite facile and naive in their hero worship of entrepreneurs/investors at seeing/creating the future (when the chances are they merely bump into it along with many others).

These are almost universally young people who are nurtured/protected by their families/society or already successful people who think they are the sole cause of their success (it's usually a combination of internal AND external factors).

The other side is too oppressive and cynical, stating that entrepreneurs don't create jobs, but extract wealth. These are usually unprotected people, the poor, and the unsuccessful who just don't understand why they are trodden upon and treated like vermin to be ignored.

The world isn't black or white. It looks like it is extraordinary complex with many shades of gray.

Hence the best way to look at this issue is thus: If you were the down trodden upon, the poor, the unlucky, the unhealthy - How would you like the tax system to treat you?

Would you like them to say:

No, your situation is ALL your fault - the rich matter, we shouldn't tax them and let them create jobs for little all you.

OR

Yes, the rich are extraordinarily lucky to have what they have, and it would be best to share that around.

Because as you all know: You had a 50% chance of being born in the rest of the world, in the darkest poverty, where nothing you did, said, or who you are meant anything because of your situation.

Born in America: Billionaire.

Born in Afghanistan: Your dead.

What you can achieve has doesn't correlate strongly with what actually happens to you - you are made by your situation.

We float with the times and environment around us - not the other way around.
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The answer is yes. There are multiple (non-VPN) ways to do it, all variations on a common theme. It's been done, multiple times over the past 10 years. But not much effort has gone into making these solutions user friendly and giving them the marketing push of something like this venture.

Obviously if you release somethng like this you run the risk of triggering the usual "illegal file sharing" issues.

But you absolutely do not need cloud storage to move large files. There are other ways to do it.
The half-life of "cool" is very short. Facebook started out as a hangout for college kids, and then it became the cool alternative to MySpace. But now, when parents and grandparents are using Facebook, is it really cool anymore? If boring corporations like enterprise software companies have a presence on Facebook, that would also seem to detract from its coolness. At some point, when everyone is on Facebook, not being on Facebook will become the cool new thing.
Can't say I understood what it does from that post, so here's another description:

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/generalsiblingselector
I think it's definitely competitive if you look across all the entrants in this space (or similar/adjacent) ones. That doesn't necessarily make us the lowest priced however ;-). Roughly speaking a million measurements costs $2.00 with our current list pricing. We do have progressive volume discounts (described in the FAQ) that kick in at higher measurement counts.
But current one has a ballsy

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