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I'd like to offer up a different scenario:

Craig Newmark, the Guy with Fuck You Money

This guy is customer support. Yes, he's more than that, but he has enough money to focus on the part of the business he likes - sitting in his walled garden, pruning the content. God that has to be fulfilling.

Why criticize him for that?
That's nice rhetoric, but when you disregard the truth in order to keep up in the arms race of lies that you claim the other side started, you become as reprehensible as them.
A generally good post, but the claim that Newmark "refuses to take responsibility" for "breaking" newspapers is something of a howler. Newspapers do not have a monopoly on watchdog or investigative journalism, and even if there is less of that sort of reporting nowadays (a claim itself worthy of investigation and fact-checking), it can't be blamed on any one guy, no matter how successful his business.
The specs are listed on the Kickstarter page now.

Technical specs of the Dev Kit (subject to change)
Head tracking: 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) ultra low latency
Field of view: 110 degrees diagonal / 90 degrees horizontal
Resolution: 1280x800 (640x800 per eye)
Inputs: DVI/HDMI and USB
Platforms: PC and mobile
Weight: ~0.22 kilograms
That's a very fun idea you have there :)
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What on earth is the purpose of the "August 1, 2012" date in the title, other than to be confusing?

EDIT: And I mean the title of the blog post itself. I understand that the link here is just echoing the post's title.
For those of us trying to catch up, what are some good reasons to oppose CISPA?
It's just an annoying convention around here. My best guess is because the street address can be one of 5 or 6 cities (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Wake Forest, Morrisville, Apex, etc) and so people talk in terms of the metropolitan area which is Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill or the "triangle".
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This misses the philosophy which I have been told is behind craiglist's behavior: a sort of extreme localism. They want to try to keep craigslist informal, encourage bartering instead of sales, etc.

I think there are some insights buried in this philosophy, it's just that in this case craiglist is very wrong. If you actually want to understand the man and the organization (rather than just bad-mouth them) you need to address this issue.
They aren't going to care about one or two or even 100. When the majority of Padmapper's listings were scraped from CL, that is how we end up with this ToS change. CL told them to knock it off, so Padmapper did an end-around thinking they were ok. CL still didn't think it was kosher so they tightened up their ToS to effectively close the loophole.

Do you really think CL is just going to politely ask?

They can politely ask the poster and see if they posted it elsewhere. If yes, nothing else needs to be done. If no, they are probably going to find out the extent the external website has gone to.
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Well I'm glad it took them less than a year to add another condition to their sql query.
I seriously don't understand the Craigslist drama.

It's an incredibly basic service that is astounding because of its network effect.

So if you want to compete with it, make a BETTER service. Don't rely on them. Adoption isn't going to be instantaneous, but if PadMapper's approach really is so much better than why do they need to bootstrap themselves with Craigslist-affiliated data?
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And now Buckmaster owns your posts for the benefit of the community, sounds perfectly fitting with someone who describes themselves as communist.

Soon they will roll out a special section of craigslist apartments that looks like Jony Ive designed it but it's only for party members.
Grandparent obviously meant the entrenched-but-ultimately-mediocre sort of monopoly.

What Microsoft has individually gotten hand slapped for isn't as important as the history of their character.
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I agree with this. Giving money to a kickstarter is like Angel investment. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. The running idea is here "if its a bad idea, it won't get funded." Clearly in our industry that isn't true.

And if you ask me, if a bunch of Kickstarter projects fail to deliver and the money is simply squandered, that says more about the "kickerstarters" than Kickstarter itself.
I've just noticed on my iPhone 4S on Verizon I can enable personal hotspot and not get some warning about being charged anymore. But I very much doubt any changes have gone into effect this quickly.

Some questions:

Has anyone contacted Verizon Wireless to get official word if the free tethering has gone into effect?

Has anyone gotten official word from Verizon Wireless if CDMA tethering will be free, also?

Note: I am aware these are 700mhz restrictions. Note my use of "official word" above.
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Windows RT is Windows for the ARM processor. Software for Windows RT must be compiled specifically for the platform, and software for Windows 8, whether Metro or not, will not run in Windows RT.

Why would a developer spend time working on Windows RT software when there are zero customers for it, rather than for iOS or Android? Those Nexus 7 tablets you mention are flying off the shelves faster than Acer or Asus or whoever can make them. You can't even get a Windows RT device to test your software on yet.
Craigslist is a business. Once you stop thinking of it as a non-profit, everything Craig does makes sense.

Do you think PadMapper (if they were to overtake CL) or AirBnb or Google or anyone else will let anyone crawl their data and disrupt their revenue stream without putting up a fight? Of course not.

The cognitive dissonance here is simply caused by people thinking CL is a non-profit, which he has shown it is not.
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I agree that it's better to ascribe the responsibilities for Craigslist's recent actions to the company, not Craig Newmark.

That aside, the company's actions clearly merit calling them jerks. Their customers are trying to sell, rent and employ. Craigslist forbids them to do so via any other means. Acting against the interests of its customers makes a company a jerk.
Keep in mind, KS is not a pre-order system. It's a way of funding something you want to see accomplished. Often the product itself will be a "reward" for a certain pledge level, but not always.
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And if a large corporation invested in it, their fiduciary duty to shareholders would likely require them to make it exclusive or charge fat licensing fees. The product launch costs would be many many times more than the dev kit production, and the reputational costs might not be justifiable. Cheering it from the sidelines makes sense; even if it's flawed, $300 is not a big loss for any one developer and puts more hands on the problem.
posting to hn probably accounts for much of their advertising revenue.
I don't feel the need to defend the research. There is a lot of it and it does address your obvious concerns. My point about funding was demonstrating that like Abstinence only education the is that it's treated as a political issue where actual evidence is irrelevant. The proper result of a study that you disagree with is to look for flaws and then do more research or change your stance, not to cut funding.

Anyway, did you read the any of the studies or are you filtering new evidence though your basis in such a way that you don't need to reconsider your stance? In proper Bayesian reasoning you need to consider how much this information even if flawed adjusts your probability estimates. Deciding that the risks of some activity is worth it is one thing, deciding that some activity is good and therefore ignoring the risks is not. I just linked a specific case where someones owning a gun resulted in there being shot by that gun so the situation exists. The question becomes how common is it and how common is it to defend yourself with a gun and then compare them. And to do that you need actual evidence not a hunch.

Yes, being shot with your own gun is a rare event, so is using your gun to defend yourself. And at the level of paranoia where spending money on a gun so you can defend yourself becomes reasonable you need to consider other low probability events. The largest downside is how having a gun tends to escalate the violence of a situation, but when evaluating types of guns that takes a back seat to losing control of it.

PS: I am pro gun despite the expectation that it reduces safety. Arthur Kellermann overestimates the risks, but he is a good starting point for the research.
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They are showing a reality. It just happens to be virtual.
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I seriously doubt that the nsa is worried about hiring mathematicians with psychological control under mental duress. That's more like cia agent training.
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Yes. People need to not think of Kickstarter as a store- because it isn't. At a store you buy something and then own it. With Kickstarter you back a project, and then hopefully have one sent to you.

Of note, money is often squandered in startups too :)
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Your false dichotomy is an enjoyable bit of fiction.
when you compare it with oauth2 you can see the difference
This is just creating a database of informed CISPA dissenters. Wake up sheeple! </tinfoilhat>

On a more serious note, this could have been presented much better. This gave me the same feeling as that semi-attractive girl in college stepping into your personal space to tell you all about how unjust mandated meal plans are.
Anyone can sit and judge on anything they wish, you can judge someone's business, their politics, their religion, whatever. You might think it is impolite, however there isn't any hard and fast rule that says anyone has to be polite either.

You are judging that other people aren't allowed to judge someone else on the service they provide. Why do you feel that you can tell them the terms of what is reasonable behaviour while in the same breath tell them that it is not their place to do the same to others?
agree with you on (1), hence surface rt launching same day I guess.

as for (2), I imagine everyone who does any sort of work on a pc is in the same boat on this. but I’ve found (been using the previews for a while now) that metro has a lot to offer beyond being a touch-optimized ui..

essentially, in using windows 8, the entire desktop has turned into a ‘work’ app (as well as ‘file manager’ and ‘advanced settings’ apps). I still can do everything I could before on the desktop, and still do when it comes to work-related tasks, but much of my other use has shifted to metro. things like casual web browsing, email, messaging, and music have all become metro experiences for me, and all those experiences have become markedly better (the interface just lends itself better to consumption-related tasks). in addition, it’s also pretty nice to have the ability to play a casual game here-and-there, and checking-in on news via apps is much more enjoyable then the web.

that’s just my take on it. I think when people stop thinking about it as windows with metro tacked-on, and rather as a whole new experience + a very powerful ‘app’ that holds all functionality of classic windows one click away, they can better appreciate it. I think this will become more apparent once it's been out in the market and more apps are added so that people can spend more time in the metro environment.
but how asking oauth guys to fix something can be a project? do you propose to fork oauth?
Agree on all points, how I wish there more OO programmers like this in the world.
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And it conveniently provides plausible deniability.

Regardless, it's craigs list and he can never be removed from us outsiders mentally connecting him with what CL does.
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> if PadMapper's approach really is so much better than why do they need to bootstrap themselves with Craigslist-affiliated data?

Because as you said: (massive) network effects. The claim is that they are effectively a monopoly. You can't tell someone "Sure it won't be instantaneous, but if you think you're so much better than Standard Oil, just go out-compete them."
> "...this Kickstarter is pretty much certain to succeed"

They why not do it? Honestly, I cannot understand the viewpoint you seem to hold. This is a massively easy way to get a lot of attention, early money and get developers thinking about what to do.

Do you really believe all those folks in the video would risk their reputations by putting their name to it without believing it? I bet there are ton of folks at Valve right now who've pledged. Are they wrong to do so?
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Do you only consider hiring those that have contributed to the core?
Not thinking correctly? Or not thinking the way you think he should?
Some people seem to think that they're entitled to hitch a ride on the huge network effect craigslist has acquired through years of patient effort. The folks are shocked,shocked that craigslist isn't thrilled to let them do so.
> I'm always fascinated when companies make that one decision which seems to lead to their downfall -- and everyone seems to be able to see it, except the company itself.

I just don't see this being the downfall of Craigslist.

Fact of the matter is, if I'm posting something on Craigslist then the important thing to me is that it show up on Craigslist. If I wanted it on some other service then I'd post it there. In fact, I'm surprised they haven't had that clause in there from day one. As a user of the site it would be disconcerting to get a response from a person using a site I've never heard of before.

The more I think about it, the more I'm siding with Craigslist on this.

Turn the tables a bit. If Craigslist started it's own rental mapping site using PadMapper's data (HTML, CSS and Javascript files...) they'd clearly be in the wrong. PadMapper is using different data from Craigslist, but I dont' see how it's any less wrong.
> Reasons for not learning functional programming

It's a fad, a hype* - already beyond the "Peak of Inflated Expectations", quickly moving towards the "Trough of Disillusionment".

*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle