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I've always been quite surprised by how everyone reacts to child pornography. Is it bad per se?

Adult pornography isn't bad unless there's a real rape. I don't see why this wouldn't apply to minors.

Is it bad to take a picture of your chidren in its bath? No.
(There's plenty of pictures of baby-me in the tub at my parent's house)

Is it bad to post it on the Internet? No.

Is it bad to wank to a picture of a child? No.

Is it bad to violate a child? Yes, as it his with adults.

In fact I think there's a giant stigma around paedophilia. Somehow, today it's okay to be gay (sexual deviation), but not okay to be a pedophile (another sexual deviation). Unless there's rape or abuse, these people should have the same respect as homosexuals.

"Did they give consent, and did they understand the full implications of that consent? Did they get paid? Did they sign a contract?"

Usually it is the responsability of the parents to support the child and take some decisions for him. They could loose this if they do something to endanger the child, but taking pictures of him without clothes does not constitue a danger in my book. In fact, it's pretty much as harmless as it can be.

"If god had wanted us to run around naked, we would have been born that way"
Not a bad idea. My personal M.O. is to just skip the services bit.
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I think most people here on HN also believe in gun rights

What makes you think that?

If I had to guess, I'd say ~30-40% of people on HN support the US concept of "gun rights". "Gun rights" support probably around 50% in support in the US[1], but 80-90% against outside the US. Given the large international audience HN has I think that would move the average significantly.

(I agree with the rest of your comment, though)

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/23/gun-control-po... says in the US 44% support the status quo and 11% support less strict laws.
Loser's attitude. Yes, it might be impossible to be the best just by putting in hard work. But hard work and belief that you can accomplish is prerequisite to ever finding out if you can be the best.
There are many different ways to salt and hash, some more secure than others (bcrypt and DES crypt() being two examples with vastly different levels of security).
The difference is they are risking other people's money.
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Do you have any examples of excessive conciseness?
Well the things you describe as good about Facebook could be replaced with say Email or Google Plus and you would still get to do all those things .... Facebook is just a glorified noticeboard.

What would you replace self-driving AI, google glasses and google fiber with?

Taxis, AR iPhone apps, and DSL? Ridiculous, yes, but no more so than saying Facebook could just be replaced by e-mail.

Heck, you could even claim that e-mail itself is "just a glorified noticeboard" or a fancy version of the Postal Service. You can glibly disparage nearly any innovation this way if you want.
"dumbest blog ever" would be a pretty easy point to see. Seemed constructive to me...
With regards to security, I'd rather not read into subtext. Hopefully they can provide a definitive answer.
OS X-style Mouse Acceleration/Feel for Windows 7?
There is an array of options for OS X that are meant to replicate Windows' mouse acceleration/feel under OS X; however, I can't seem to find the opposite, meaning any utilities for Windows 7 that mean to re-create OS X-style mouse acceleration under Windows. Does such a thing exist?
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Not pointing this out for any reason other than it might useful for some: http://sup.rubyforge.org/

More generally, though, I last used mutt in the late 90s so I have no clue but.. it doesn't allow for a vim-style of extension by third party addons?
"Pretty much every YC company risks money"

Ideally intelligently.
Also keep in mind that older engineers tend to have family and kids. NYC and SF are not exactly regions that people with kids are quick to relocate to. This somewhat explains the shortage in these regions while there isn't a problem in other more suburban regions.

If you have a spouse and kids, you need a much greater increase in income to move to an urban area. One big mitigating factor is the school system in these areas. Most schools are either excellent or terrible and most parents don't want to move unless they can be sure that they can put their kids in the best schools (often you only get this choice by paying for private school).
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Every time I see a Dropbox update I hope it is:

* Added ability to sync arbitrary directories

And I'm let down. Every single time.
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Good writing takes time and resources, unless you are really good. Writing a good (academic) paper that is concise and coherent takes me a few weeks along with eyeball help from colleagues to point out what I didn't smell myself. I usually don't have those resources to spend on a blog post or even a short hacker news post; its in a different league.
Wow these responses are pretty shocking to me. To me this reads much more like the Steinbeck quote of “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

We end up talking about how amazing it is that these people have accomplished what they have but don't bother to consider that there are others who could not possibly have gotten that because they don't have the advantages the other person did.

I'm not super familiar with Phelp's backstory, but I assume he swam a fuckton when he was younger, his parents drove him around the country to events, etc. Many people don't have the time, money and resources to do these things. Telling a poor kid "just do what Michael Phelps did" while ignoring the vast, vast difference between their situations is completely ridiculous and kind of the way our society now works.

Not successful because you couldnt afford to go to school because you had to bring home money to help your parents pay the rent? Hearing "just work as hard as I did" from some white republican kid who got a trust fund is basically the same thing you guys are saying everyone should just overcome.
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well to be fair there is some constraint in how much of a site afresh impression is going to look at and the average screen size they will be using. The grid is a less applicable but there's still some advantages to displaying all of your important bits in a semi clean fashion on the landing page with out flowing to far in any direction.
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Be concise.

(It's directed at everyone and therefore includes Tech Bloggers)
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You might have already verified your Gmail when you first signed up for the Microsoft account.
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If you want to securely hold on to these quality business sales leads then you have to put in not just more effort, but also more feelings on your next lead generation campaign.
I think the UI is cool but sending pictures around doesn't sound "amazing" to me. Besides the fact that you could have still traded pictures via the web without Facebook, a self-driving car AI is on the fringe and can be applied to society in some pretty cool (at least to me) ways that can still make your life easier even though you live in the city.(better trains for one)

Maybe I'm just starting to get old, and the idea of certain elements from all those cheesy movies about the future I watched as a young kid coming true just isn't as "cool" as it used to be.
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This is so funny. I just moved into my new place today; downloaded a tethering android application and got online by tethering through my Verizon phone. First website I open? HN. First article I see (on top)? This one. The point is that I wasn't quite sure if I would be charged for this or not -- guess not!
First, I think the blog post is grasping at something important which is that we have this "just do it" mentality which has some obvious deficiencies. However I still agree with you. I think one has to start with reasonable limits and accept that no matter how good you are there will always at least sometimes be someone better than you. That's not a problem though. The difficulty is in forming a way of thinking about the world that allows us to become extraordinary.

One major deficiency in the blog post is that it emphasizes natural advantages too much. One major pitfall there is that emphasizing natural advantages over effort means that success becomes more like an innate trait rather than the product of a lot of effort at improvement. Natural advantages do exist, but improvement is the key still and this takes effort.

My view is very different, abstract, and metaphorical. I think that a person's attitude should be seen like an aviator's attitude (if you don't get the reference, see http://www.marvgolden.com/bad-attitude-t-shirt.html). It's not how you react. It's your direction and where you are headed. The "bad attitude" T-shirt is funny because the bad attitude is flying at a bad angle towards the ground.

Another way to look at it is to borrow the old person-as-chariot metaphor found both in Plato and the Mahabharata, and update it for the times: I am the charioteer. My body is the chariot. My emotions are the horses. My thoughts are the reins. But, I am the charioteer.

One can also borrow the person-as-tree metaphor found in Greek and Norse myth. Grow like a tree and be not afraid of shadows: become grounded in the darkness of the earth below and then reach up towards the light above.

The nice thing about these metaphors is that they can be repurposed as needed, but doing that right depends on "attitude."
This is why I'm disappointed that end user open source software is in such decline right now. These kinds of "long tail" user needs will never be met by the proprietary software world. Well, this particular one might, but for every need that gets implemented, 10 more obscure needs will spring up behind it.

Dropbox is making fistfuls of money, and, like all proprietary software companies, they need to stay focused to maintain momentum.

Although it might not feel like it to most people, I think we're in still in the dark ages of software. Not quite as dark as the Microsoft era, but dark nonetheless. We just don't have the tools, infrastructure, and culture necessary for open source to really be a viable space for the typical, scattered programmer to spend their time. I'm optimistic that will change, but I'm not sure how long it will take.
I personally like magazine style layouts, but the layouts need to be context sensitive like you would see in a magazine or newspaper. Stories that are more prominent in the design should be more popular. Stories should also be grouped sensibly.

Zite does this extremely well. Pulp, on the other hand, does it pretty poorly. Doing this on Digg's homepage is going to be challenging to not look schizophrenic. But on Digg's sub-topics, this type of layout will work well. I find scanning through tabular data to be fatiguing and I often scan over items out of boredom.
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That is what a password is.
I think the point is that dozens of other tools online let you do those things. Name somebody else making a serious go at autocars, AR glasses or cheap fiber.
"You can't win the lottery if you never buy a ticket." Doesn't mater how hard you work at predicting the winning numbers, if you didn't play those numbers, you don't win.
I had a Sprint 4G hotspot with unlimited data. Until one month they decided to change my plan to 5GB with big overage charges. They "announced" this change by slipping a notice in the PDF ebills I never once downloaded. After $200 in overage charges (which I disputed for hours, only to be repeatedly told I was given "valid" notice) I cancelled the service. Fuck Sprint.

I should mention this occurred right at the same time they were making a big advertising push about how their unlimited data plans were truly unlimited. The fine print was that only phones got unlimited data. Hotspots and other data devices were pushed onto a limited plan even if you started out unlimited. Fuck Sprint some more.
are you seriously saying a photo-sharing site is at the same level of innovation as a driverless car? EHLO!
On my plan, not only do I have to pay for tethering on my "unlimited" plan, I am also limited to 3 or 5 gig of tethered data depending on how much I pay for tethering! The data on the phone is unlimited, tethered data is not.

That's a hell of a rent-seek for "-j MASQUERADE" at the bottom of it all. Sigh. jailbreak. This sure is going to seem quaint to our kids.
Right, because students struggling with "for all P there exists Q" won't have any problem with higher-order logic?

It's always seemed to me a more sensible road to both simpler and more rigorous calculus courses would somehow involve reducing the scope of functions under consideration, since most of the exercises involve analytical functions anyway. Then, when students are ready for analysis, it can be more about "how to reduce nasty cases to problems you know how to solve, and how to recognize the truly pathological specimens where you can't" rather than "everything you thought you knew is wrong."
And the same Yuri Milner that owns significant stakes in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Spotify, and Groupon...
You'll note that document is divided into Good, Interesting, Troubling and Fail sections.

It certainly is less than ideal, but I guess that is true of most compromises.
The biggest problem I have with this article is it offers absolutely NO alternative.

So, "just do it" is bullshit. Okay, say we buy that point (which I didn't). If that's the case, what are we supposed to do, just sit around and be pissed we can't swim a 50m in a nanosecond?

Sure, you're not guaranteed success if you try to do it, but you're sure as hell not going to do ANYTHING at all if you just sit around and complain how everyone has more advantages than you.

EVERYONE has a particular set of disadvantages - some people just choose to let theirs limit them more than others.
Is it OK to like this?
No. I am saying that Facebook is nothing to sneeze at. It it were so easy to invent Facebook, you would've invented Facebook.
I see your Socrates and raise you a Benjamin Franklin: "Do well by doing good." In other words, make money through businesses that make people's lives better. That really is the point/goal/aspiration of Capitalism, but some people try to make money through the backdoor of cheating, amorality, etc.
And that's relevant to Microsoft ARM tablets how? x86 devices don't have locked bootloaders, and Windows ARM tablets don't exist, so the reason you were downvoted isn't Microsoft fanboys, it's that you're wrong and seemingly quite proud to be so.
Maybe some people are illiterate. ;-) Though more likely, they probably noticed the difference but the packaging and the images looked so much like the iPad that they thought it'd be the same. Only to realise when they opened it, that it wasn't the same.
The original digg didn't have comments at launch either, they were added a couple of months after.
TBH, every time I think of Zynga employees I think of that discussion in Clerks where they discuss contractors that went to work on the Death Star. That discussion is directly applicable here. There are good people working at Zynga, but they cast their lot in with Zynga, choosing to accept the salary, stock and options offered. They knew the risk. They knew what kind of company they went to work for. The upside on the stock was great because the executives were effective mercenaries. They failed to take into account the downside due to the fact that those executives were effective mercenaries.

I once worked for a guy who turned out to be a scumbag willing to screw anyone out of a dollar. Once I realized that I left because although there was financial upside there, I also knew there was risk of being dicked over eventually by him as well.

If you don't own a controlling share of equity and the owners think short term, then you really can't be surprised when something happens with the cap table, valuations and offers that dicks you over as a minority shareholder.

I recall back in the day that many people were offered X number of stocks without ever understanding what percent that raw number of stocks/options represented. That was a massive sign that rank-and-file employees would be among those they are willing to dick over.
Well if no one opted out of any data type then it would be just like the some systems we have today. If most relays opted out of a data type x then the result would probably be that data type x would be less anonymous then other data types. It would take fewer conspirators to subvert the system for data type x. Similar to anonymity from government Z is effectively lost if they control m% of the nodes on tor.

Though I do not study cryptograph professionally that would be my current guess.
It's like they forced Facebook and an email client to mate.
I've noticed people will say "we won!" (when they mean the team they supported won), yet it is "they lost!" (when they mean the team they supported lost).

I've noticed no such thing- people seem to say "we" in both cases in the majority of times, in my experience. They often take losses to heart very strongly.

Even the whole supporting a team thing seems strange to me.

There's nothing wrong with that, but honestly, if you're starting from such a point of being unable to relate, it isn't worth examining in much deeper detail.
Trust is far and away my highest priority when deciding on online services, and if it isn't yours... well good luck friend, you're going to need it.

Your email is likely to be an important part of your life's documentation, containing an awful lot of very personal information. An unscrupulous provider could use it in all sorts of horrible ways - off the top of my head, how about a lucrative employment screening service that lists of how often you've mentioned getting wasted the night before, or throwing a sickie, or dissed a colleague... let alone the value of strategy, customer communications and other immensely valuable commercial conversations.

This is why many here refuse to use email services they don't control. I myself use Gmail, because I trust Google. Not because they say "Don't be evil", but because I think they understand how their entire business depends on trust. Compare this to Facebook, for whom privacy seems to be an afterthought. Their business is being badly hurt because they continue to trample over their user's trust.

And what about Microsoft? For me, the rorts Microsoft have carried out in the past twenty years (cynically stacking standards organisations with their minions to bulldoze their document format through was the last straw for me) counts them out. I'll never use another MS operating system or online service, end of story. No matter how much better than the competition.

So for me, particularly for online services, trust trumps functionality - absolutely.
Please. You act as though Google is doing something revolutionary. It isn't.

Everyone from universities to BMW and Mercedes are working on self driving cars, Google Glasses aren't AR and better attempts have been made previously and as for cheap fibre well countless countries have in reality what Google is just talking about.

In many respects Google is like Apple - taking existing ideas and making them more polished.
HNers likes to believe they're superior, just like redditors before them and diggers before that and etc.
And it then went on to several more version over the years, so even if it started at 0 (which is ridiculous, this is version numbers not arrays) it would still end up at more than v1.
I think you're the only person that "got" that from this article.

He didn't put forth a solution - he simply complained about what he didn't like/felt was unfair - which is what most people are annoyed with.
this is very very impressive
On one hand - Yay!

150k for struggling startups - Horay!

On the other hand he is a close business associate of Alisher Usmanov, who's commonly considered to be, basically, the mafia boss of modern Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
I bet Zuck is starting to regret spending $1B on Instagram right about now. Still... Facebook has a very strong monopoly on the social graph, and the eyeballs of most computer and smartphone users. There's significant value there if they can look beyond simply optimizing advertisements. How about taking a page out of google's book and getting into search? They could call it Facebook+ :D
Thank god the government is here to tell private companies what they can and cannot do. The FCC spent $336M of your money last year on such activities.

> During the last two decades, the FCC has manufactured the idea that the electromagnetic spectrum used by wireless devices is scarce. Spectrum auctions became another way to restrain trade. Deep pocket operators, like AT&T and Verizon Wireless, overbid for spectrum and then pass along high costs to the consumer in the form of $40 monthly fees and cryptic calling plans. It's a longer conversation, but with the right network architecture, smart devices can be programmed to share huge swaths of spectrum without interfering with other users. If we do it with Wi-Fi for data, we can certainly do it for phone calls.

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> Name somebody else making a serious go at autocars

Kinze plans to release their fully autonomous agriculture tractor to the buying public later this year. I realize the field is not quite the highway, but it is still pretty exciting to see this kind of stuff come into production already.
I'm on Aurora (16.0a2 (2012-07-23)) on OS X 10.7 and the two examples look identical.
"You can do anything passably" is not nonsense though. Anyone without a major disability can learn how to write working code. Anyone without a major disability can learn how to play the piano a bit. Anyone can learn how to make a knife, a sword, or a bow, or a pair of shoes.

You may never beat Phelps, but you can still learn to swim and have fun doing it. It might even save your life.

You may never be world class at most of these things regardless of what you put into it, but you can do it well enough to contribute to happiness in your life and in the end, that's really what matters.
It was a mostly stock deal, so probably not.
When are email addresses going to be considered something that should be protected as well. Obviously you can't one-way hash these, but you can secure them, and definitely not leave them in project documents.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/175/en and a symlink?
Not sure if they still do this, but they used to give each new employee a physical object and say "This is your 1,000,000 users. Try not to abuse them - too much."
I felt that the article glossed over his accomplishments in the tech community. It reads like theoretical physics PhD somehow got rich, and is now awarding a fundamental physics prize.
Facebook is cool like email, SMS & IM is 'cool'. It's a relatively simple, but foundational piece of software.
It's probably because such utilities aren't necessary. You can just configure the acceleration curve in Windows.

http://superuser.com/questions/278362/windows-mouse-accelera...