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Please don't actually call this GitLaw. A better name conversion would be LawHub since most lawyers have no idea what Git is.
I have always seen education as the most important gift that one can give because once its given excluding fatal accidents its something that can never be taken away or lost and is useful throughout you whole life, whether at a job or simply to allow you to see the world through different perspectives.

It is great the the university was able to provide a discounted education to Filipaj and allow a man that wanted to keep studying to do just that.

Just as a side note, i feel that the coursera subjects to be just fantastic, free education from some really great lecturers on some really interesting topics just can't be beat
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Sure but in the private economy it is self correcting. Businesses that waste money go out of business.

Governments that waste money just raise taxes, borrow more money, or print more money. Corrections when they do come are often catastrophic in nature.
Yeah I actually thought this was pretty funny, I was about to post the same thing myself. Maybe it's British humour.
Stop Following The Rules
As msarchet stated it was a rewrite. The game wasn't built by Mojang but an external studio (http://4jstudios.com / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4J_Studios).
The worst things about the demise of SOPA is the FUD and scare mongering that it has given way to.

The linked "article" is about the Trans Pacific Partnership. It is a trade regulation not an act of congress. The EFF's page is here:

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

And the EFF action page is:

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KE...

It is interesting to note that the neither the link nor the EFF's page compare TPP to SOPA. They do compare it to ACTA a trade treaty. It seems the submitter is either unaware of the difference between a trade agreement/treaty/regulation and an act of congress, caught up in the anti-SOPA hysterical rage or just looking for a ticket on the anti-SOPA karma train.
I don't cite anyone because I myself was doing the admissions at Essex at the time and I saw the figures and I had put 1+1 together. However, it is difficult to quantify how many didn't apply because of what they had not seen and so my colleagues preferred to bury their heads in the sand about this. One also gets the feeling that people are getting afraid to speak up against such 'morally and politically correct measures'.

More generally, it is hard to prove that/how someone didn't achieve something important because censorship denied them the crucial information. It is a very real negative effect nevertheless that was clearly demonstrated by the gradual stagnation of the Soviet Block and should not need repeating. This is precisely why censorship is a lot more pernicious than most people seem to realise.
Ford is one of many car manufacturers, Facebook is a de facto monopoly when it comes to social networks.
Well a fun game can make anyone sit down to enjoy it I guess.
>And it'd take millions of dollars, and have no conventional ROI, so no one's going to do it.

Your pessimism is unwarranted. There is already one user on GitHub that scrapes the US Code and mirrors it. He even tags
the changes so you can diff them quite easily.

https://github.com/divegeek/uscode
Thanks to Heroku, the reach with stage 1 is now much, much larger: you can scale out an app to millions of users with a few reasonably talented developers, rather than a god-like dev-ops team.

Really, an amazing company.
How do we start doing this? Is anyone willing to put some time to build this? Of course this would be non-profit. Maybe if we get enough people interested, we can start pressuring different organization to help us (Wikimedia comes to mind).

There would be a need for people writing the laws into text and coders for implementing different aspects. Maybe crowdfunded. I don't know, just throwing ideas to see if anyone is interested.

We don't need the government to do this. We have the data (or most of it). We need to start changing it from the outside.
Consider for example a message with a double in it. A double in msgpack is 9 bytes (according to their spec[1]). In json it is just however many bytes it takes to represent the "number" in ascii. So if the number happens to be a very small double, such as 3.0, it may be just 3 bytes to store the double in json (depending on the encoder?), as apposed to 9 bytes for msgpack. Something similar could be said for large intergers too. '3' is only one byte in json, but would be 5 bytes in msgpack when trying to encode an int32.

That something similar is occurring to the messages in the talk, is the only explanation I could think of anyway... Looking at the thrift description, it does appear that there are int32s and doubles in the messages.

[1]: http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification...
Do FTE's bypass admissions? Combined w/ free tuition, that sounds like a better deal than student loans, esp if the position allows studying on the job (e.g., security). Might lengthen your stay, but you graduate debt free.
>Is the free-tuition-for-employees thing unusual?

It's certainly true for Toronto and Waterloo universities here in Canada.
Seems like this would be better as a subscription web app, ie., $20/month. Reach out to YT directors directly, giving them a 1 month free subscription.

Mobile app should be free for people with a web app subscription.

But I would validate the need for this product by doing some customer development.
The option to enable filtering should be with the customer. I can not see any rational argument for any other system.
There are an amazing number of vertical apps that still use win 3.1/dos/even win95.

Heck, a number of ATMs run on recent OS/2 incarnations.

There might be hope...
key point in the article - he was studying law before he came in the 90s. he may have a job as a janitor, but he was definitly college material.
I have some personal knowledge about /involvement one of the projects underway. Theres some really interesting mathematical and algorithmic challenges that pop up from the get go in trying to create interesting product/service and build software that works™ (I'm talking problems where the perfect information versions with deterministic outcomes are NP-Hard, but then you add an online new info component and probability on top of that.).

Anyone who'd like to learn more about that stuff and is in NYC (and not affiliated with other companies in the same space), drop me a line and I'm more than happy to chat about the space in more detail :)
The FDA advisory panel recommended last week that Truvada be approved for prevention of HIV[1]. Low molecular weight heparin (enoxaparin) has been approved for the "prevention of deep vein thrombosis" for years.[2]

In other words, the following:

> The only way that testing and approval can proceed is for it to be applicable to the treatment of a specific disease, and prevention doesn't count. (emphasis mine)

... is not true.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57432491-10391704/tru...

[2] http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
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Bontq's features include issue tracking, project management, wiki, repositories hosting and much more.

It even offers a dedicated app for video recording, screenshot capturing and an integrated team chat.

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I agree with what you're saying, but there's a crucial difference: in software, the "boring run-of-the-mill stuff" can be automated. There's an interesting problem there, even if the application is macroscopically boring. If someone has a genuinely boring job (as opposed to an ill-matched job, or possibly a job not worth doing) then that indicates a lack of automation-- perhaps the programmer's fault (he's not skilled or courageous enough to do it) and possibly a manager's fault (for not budgeting time to do things properly).

That, I think, is the hardest thing about managing programmers, in which I include the increasingly important long-term job of managing one's own career. There are very few macroscopic indicators of what work is actually interesting (and more importantly, what projects fit which individuals).

If you asked me, at age 19 when I knew very little about software, whether it'd be more interesting to work on a game or work on an OS or a compiler, I'd have said the game based on the project's macroscopic attractiveness. Of course, most experienced programmers would prefer to work on the OS. If you're trying to hammer some C++ legacy garbage from another project into usefulness, the fact that it's "for a game" doesn't mean very much.

What I actually find is that there's only a very slight correlation between macroscopic and day-to-day "interestingness" in work (which is why it's so hard for managers to tell which projects are interesting). More important is the work environment-- whether you have the autonomy and creative control to solve problems in a decent way and make the work interesting.
Adoption is the problem. The US Code already is on GitHub — https://github.com/divegeek/uscode — but it's only a mirror. There's also the Sunlight Foundation's OpenCongress http://www.opencongress.org/ which provides a nice way to track a bill and its participants. But without the authors actually using something like git in their process of writing the laws, this doesn't really help people participate directly.
If you have a Canon digital camera, you are an MS-DOS user.
Ever heard of a Digital Rectal Exam?

And the origin of the word is very helpful: Behaviours we think of as civilized are precisely those which are necessary in order for cities to function.
Spend 20-30% of it to buy gold coins (not the collectables). Rent the cheapest apartment you can get. Sell all the crap you dont need and wait out the coming storm. Then, after the storm, buy up everything you can on the cheap and profit by doing something with what you buy. Much eaiser than learning how to code and rolling the dice, dont let this whole "web and app paradise" fool you. Im running away from the mob, what about you?
NBC Universal has done pretty well with an advertising funded business model, very valuable for a long time. Facebook does have a product. It is just intellectual, not physical. Also, they have good information, AND a stage to sell advertising. This is, and will continue to be, a killer combo that I would want my money in.
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As someone that only really learned about minecraft fairly recently, that old tech demo video of minecraft from 3 years ago was rather interesting. Is anyone aware of perhaps a series of videos that document its progression?
Based on various stories that popped up due to this blog post I'm starting to suspect either Joel has an Autopen or an intern that does nothing but sign his name on things.

Could he really be signing letters sent out in "stacks"? One would assume that many more schools than just Penn State got such stacks. And then on top of that he's sending out hundreds of these hand-signed letters to top members of all the different new SE sites?

Even if he isn't really signing each personally, there's still a good message here, but I'm now curious as to whether or not he's really signing all that stuff.
I think it could be a bit more declarative.
I tried but could not change the URL.
Successful startups and Minecraft seem have quite a bit in common: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-...
Relevant discussion from 3 years ago on Slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/03/06/1451216/congre...
Why? If it works why do they need to upgrade? The problem is that they're trying to use the machine to do something else, which they shouldn't.
Germany is reacting, if it weren't the current crisis would look like a minor annoyance.
It was more the cases where I was wrong, rather than right. Some feedback indicating that the form could not be submitted, and one needed to press "forfeit", would have been appreciated, if only because it is not the way web forms work.

It's a small thing (and I did like it once I realised how it worked) but when doing things in an unusual way a little bit more guidance is required at first.

Enjoyed the quiz!
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I actually like this channel. British news channels have got a bad habit of either depressing the viewers with endless stories about murder and child abuse etc., or bombarding you with 'high-brow' political commentary which is actually devoid of usefulness. RT gives an interesting cross-section of the world news and their panelists are a bit more lively.
These is completely a political move. The history of this is that for many years, the UK ISPs told the Government that implementing filters was too difficult and expensive. Last year TalkTalk broke ranks and launched their HuaweiSymantec-based filtering product for all their customers for free. Since then, they've been very cozy with the 2 main MPs who've been pushing this, Claire Perry and Lynne Featherstone. These MPs wanted "Active Choice" whereby everyone should decide on sign-up whether they wanted automatic porn filters.

At some point, they decided that most people do not change often enough so would not be forced to make this Active Choice. TalkTalk again leap to the rescue by making all current customers do it.

So this is completely a political move to keep ahead of the other ISPs and on the best side of the Government and media.

For those who are a little interested in how good the TalkTalk filter is - it's terrible. They only block HTTP so bypassing is as easy as adding an "s" into your URL bar. Also, they don't block any VPNs or other proxies.

To make it even more useless, it doesn't even block a lot of the HTTP versions of some major porn sites. Reddit NSFW section is one example.

TL;DR: Talktalk are riding a political wave. Their product sucks.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how many other universities offer such programs.
ZTE phones are very popular in China. I'm looking out for the Chinese reaction to this is.
20 grams? http://www.delfly.nl/?site=DIII&menu=&lang=en is almost an order of magnitude lighter.
Is this in almost-alphabetical order?

I have clicked "forfeit" approximately 10 times, and all returned languages were AAABABBBCBCCCCC-esque if you know what I mean?
7 billion people on the planet already, and you want us to fund keeping them alive longer? What a fantasically stupid idea. You're given a decent amount of time on this Earth, already make it count and move on.

Not to mention the idiocy of calling it a 'war on' anything. That pretty much guarantees it'll fail, like all of the other 'war on' something efforts.
No, this was downvoted because this is HN, not reddit. Comments are supposed to add to have quality content. This joke was not quality content.
> much better open source software, software that I actually use

Whether or not you use something doesn't determine whether it's high quality. Yahoo definitely releases some quality OSS.
Why isn't this part of the national defense budget? You know, we've sunk >$1.5T over the past decade into preventing our citizens from becoming casualties of "terrorism", which account for ~0% of all fatalities in a given year.

I don't know about you, but I'd feel much better about our leadership if that money would have been spent on something more relevant to the health of the average citizen, such as anti-aging research.
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"Nope, they were not fortunate. If you think that's luck, you should spend your time playing lottery."

Everybody who succeeds is fortunate. They were fortunate to be born into a well-to-do family(if they were) in, perhaps, a developed country, or at the very least fortunate not to have starved in an undeveloped one, fortunate to attend school and be educated, most of all, fortunate enough to be endowed with a highly intelligent brain that was shaped and molded and cultivated by the people around them. If you think you did anything alone in your entire life, you are sorely mistaken.

Nobody succeeds alone. Everybody around you deserves respect because they co-authored your life
Facebook is a de facto monopoly when it comes to social networks.

Didn't that used to be true of MySpace?
I think there will come a time when people will look back and find it quaint and impractical that we tried to interpret our massive legal system by hand, rather than leaving that sort of thing to computers.
Thanks for the response. I agree that some functionality currently handled by package managers is hairy, even for other package managers. To some extent, I don't think this functionality should be managed by package managers. It would hurt usability because the user would need to set up configuration files, hook the package into the init/upstart system, and fix breakages across updates. On the other hand, I've never been a fan of running 'sudo apt-get install apache2' on a development machine and exposing a public port and running an application I don't always need every time I boot up.
eh. He chose to try anyway. That isn't ignoring advice, it's just being unable to apply it.
"You're given a decent amount of time on this Earth, already make it count and move on."

I hear this all the time, but I still can't wrap my head around it. If you value life, why wouldn't you want to sustain it? If you're content to die, why don't you get it over with?
Since the early 20th century in the U.S. it's meant something like "social liberal", market-oriented but in favor of a welfare state, more like what the SDU is today. And the opposite of "conservative" on issues like same-sex marriage, abortion, etc. Vaguely the same meaning of "liberal" that applies to the UK's Liberal Democrats. Actually not that far off, in terms of policies, from the meaning of liberal used by the German Freiburg-school ordoliberals, and their idea of the "social market economy".
Thank you for your cynicism, it's super productive. Let's not discuss or try to improve upon the idea. Let's just tell him why we think he's wrong.

/rant

Continuing with OP's thought. Making the legislator who introduces the bill commit the bill would be an awesome piece of information and might make some legislators think twice about what they introduce and how they title it. And all the statistics that could be run on a repo of laws would be a ridiculously useful resource.
Minecraft is one of the few modern examples of Gave Design triumphing over Graphics. That alone is enough to make me cheer wildly for every positive news I hear about Minecraft.

I want to thank Notch and the team for making/extending this game, and the players for making it popular. It brings me hope that this counterculture can grow stronger in the years to come.
Instead of starting a half-baked "war on aging" we should perhaps consider trying to improve quality of life for people of all ages. Quality not quantity, people!
It's really simple to make mom a card and can be sent across the country without paying postage!
My thoughts exactly. I'm so annoyed by these form over content discussions. Look, people, Linus gave us Linux, he's shown he is incredibly selfless through his actions, and you're judging him for his words?!?
Douglas Crockford wrote "that is insanely stupid code", he did not call anyone a moron for having written it. "Criticize the code, not the developer"
He did. From http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html:

> ...I consider it a pretty good set of rules for safety critical and performance critical code. If you do embedded systems programming, you should consider it. Caveat: I had a hand in the formulation of these rules, so you could consider me biased...
Is there trusted hardware a company could buy that is completely open-source, including hardware design and checks, so white-hats could identify any mishaps with it?
What the hell these game developers did with your kickstarter money
I think I got every esoteric one correct but knew only a handful of actual languages. Guess I should change my priorities.
Words are action. Linus wrote the words, then posted the comment (two actions write there).

I hate to break it to you, but everything counts.
Thanks for the clarification Chris. As I said, I didn't watch the show. Apologies to Graham Kennedy for confusing him with Doug Mulray.
What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.)
You wouldn't be able to collect enough energy, solar energy is very diffuse, and those wings are tiny.
Not likely.

Startups are bootstrapped, meaning founders would rather DIY than pay someone to do it. I completely agree some (or many) engineers may struggle with communicating their startup's value over social.

Honestly, though, if an engineer struggles to promote itself on social media, it likely points to a more fundamental problem with the startup's go-to-market strategy and audience segmentation.

You may find startups more willing to pay you to manage their marketing campaigns than only their social media campaigns. And since many startups want to bootstrap anyway, you can tell them the most efficient tactic for marketing at their stage is social media.
But even people who don't "succeed" by the standards of the modern society are fortunate. Many "failures" live in developed countries, or in countries where the standard of living has improved dramatically over the last 100 years. They are fortunate not to have been killed when they were young. They have many things to be grateful for.

Why should the "successful" people be grateful any more?

And, furthermore, what if you define success in a different way? Perhaps all that Linus has forever wished in his live was for a specific girl to love him, and he just wasn't that "fortunate"?
Yes, but you are still at the mercy of whoever is statically building (and packages) your binaries. Bad for binary linux distributions, worse for proprietary software.
>Nobody succeeds alone. Everybody around you deserves respect because they are the co-authors of your life.

While "nobody succeeds alone" is true, the conclusion you draw is not.

Some of those "co-authors of your life" write the _bad_ chapters.

Also, that nobody succeeds alone, does not mean that you succeed BECAUSE OF everyone of the other people. Some people you succeed DESPITE OF (and even despite their best efforts to bring you down).
A war on aging would be 1000 times more constructive than our current 'wars'. The war on terror cost us fundamental rights and the war on drugs didn't change the percentage of people who abuse them.

It would have many positive outcomes; technology, healthcare, jobs and understanding of the human body. Even if it doesn't reach its goal of extending lives.
I read exactly what you wrote. You used a characterization of media sharing as "piracy", as "people who feel entitled to consume an arbitrary amount of music/movies without paying the creators anything". As I said, this is an incorrect and vastly oversimplified view of the issue.

It's not just about heavy handed law enforcement, or about the excesses of DRM, it's also about sharing. If we eliminate sharing (of music, movies, books, etc.) from the world in an effort to fight "piracy" we will have made a grave mistake. Indeed, I think the rampant levels of impersonal sharing we see today with things like bittorrent are probably better for content creators than more traditional levels enabled by libraries and friends and restricted by physical media forms.

The important point I'm trying to make here is that the idea that everyone who reads a book, watches a movie, or listens to a song needs to have engaged in some economic transaction prior to doing so (through either direct purchase or subjection to advertising) is a wholly wrong and dangerous notion. We can, and do, live in a world where content creators are rewarded bountifully for the work and yet unregulated sharing runs wild and free.