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What about Hemingway, T.S. Elliot, etc?

Practically any copyrighted material still being consumed after, say, 30 years is of significant cultural interest.
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The more interesting question is what is Instagram planning to do that caused this change in terms of service. I would bet that they are going to group photos together that show off a product or to attach advertising around your photos based on location or what the photo shows. I think that they are doing this soon.
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Firefox OS is developed on GitHub. You can submit a pull request. Android is developed behind closed doors; they do not accept patches, and code dump a couple of times a year. But they don't want/accept any community contributions (and indeed, they don't think anyone outside of Google is smart enough to contribute anyways). Android is open-washing.
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Are you joking? You have got to be joking. What have you contributed to society that amounts to 1/100000th of Mark's recent contribution? You're going to sit here and write an internet comment about how a guy who just donated $500 million dollars to charity is evil because you don't like the way he handles privacy settings on the $100 billion dollar company that he started single-handedly

You have some serious soul-searching to do, guy. Go out there and build something, or do anything useful with your life. Then come back and tell me who you think is good or evil.
Perhaps the censors believed its topic was aimed at Britain, or the West, and didn't look hard at its (arguably distorted) philosophic viewpoint against fascist totalitarianism. I haven't seen the whole movie (prefer to keep my memories of the graphic novel intact, and I trust that when Alan Moore says it strayed from his vision, it strayed).

The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someone realized its philosophic disposition was anti-totalitarianism. Could be sort of the same thing...
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Regular copyright law perhaps. Unless they protected those emails via some technological mechanism that you had to circumvent to publish, the DMCA isn't relevant.

That said, if nothing else there is a strong argument fair use argument for posting excerpts from the communications along with your rebuttals. It's not my money of course, so I understand the reluctance to do so.
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As someone with a background in both mathematics and typography, I'm still trying to figure out how people come up with that sort of nonsense.

There are times when constants like the Golden Ratio are relevant and the exact value matters or some useful property doesn't apply. This is not one of those times. There is absolutely nothing "perfect" or "optimal" about the typography you'll create from this "solid mathematical basis", no matter how much TeX you use to typeset your equations or how many colours you put on a chart. In fact, with a lot of popular web fonts today, you'll get very dubious results.

That entire article is just a glorified troll, which I'm only responding to in case anyone impressionable reading your post otherwise thinks it's worth anything.
I advice everyone on HN to view this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nif01WZ9aI

Maybe this won't change anything, but there's more in life than just getting funded with millions of dollars. I feel pretty bad for people who get depressed or worse because they didin't made it in SV...that's so superficial about life and things in general. Do we all really need millions of dollars and IPO to be happy and be considered "successful" ? What does that even mean ?

Do what you love, that's my advice.
My girlfriend is a nurse and when people are in their dead bed, she said that the thing most people regret is not doing what they loved, spend time with their families, going on trip around the world.
And that hospital is used mostly by high class people, with lots of money.
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It looks like the anchors (is there a better word for these?) for your your footnotes are missing.
The problem are the consoles. Both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are absolutely ancient. Let's not even talk about the Wii.

I think I might prefer something like a Steambox, where upgrades would be more frequent. I generally prefer PC gaming, but I like being able to play from the couch with a controller.
Commercialize up front. Have your pro version ready as soon as the service is out of beta. Otherwise you are just asking for trouble.
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That's true, I forgot you could can run their app environment, aka firefox, on Android. Still won't help iOS though.

I understand they are submitting them for standardization, but do you really think Apple is going to implement a standard which competes with their app store?
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> I don't think you have a right to "share"

But you should.

> when that "culture" is purely commercial.

You dont need a justification at all. You want to share with your fellow people, thats it. People love other people and love to share things they have with them. Sharing is caring. Suppressing that inherently human feeling and urge simply to make somebody make more money is insane.

The problem with the whole copyright debate is that the so called "democracy", aka will of the people, is completely and utterly disregarded. The process of law making is completely and utterly driven by special interests and enforced against all public resistence from top down. The issue of copyright is closed up in a dictatorship bubble and fiercely guarded against democracy.

The people, and _only_ the people (like in a direct referendum) should decide what they value more: their natural, human right to share useful information with their fellow humans, or to collectively enforce a kind of for-profit censorship in order to incentivize commercial production. No single authority should be able to make such a far-reaching and intrusive decision for them.

Such a referendum has never been held, and therefore such laws are undemocratic, and for that single reason alone I and a lot of other people do not feel obliged to obey copyright laws. It is as simple as that. Requirig people to obey and respect copyright restrictions simply because some special interest calls it a law makes as sense as requiring them to obey and respect ius primae noctis only because some special interest calls it a law. To be respected, a law has to be widely agreed upon, and copyright is as widely agreed upon as ius primae noctis.
I think it's important not to reason in absolutes. Taking an obviously multi-person, multi-year project like Starcraft and arbitrarily setting a 2-month deadline "because some code is there from Warcraft II" is not good use of crunch-time. If you and a friend have an idea and can pull out a prototype in a week, then overworking that week may be not a bad thing (as long as it's not followed by another such week).
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While timing is important, I think the OP made a great choice in targeting an underserved, niche market. That's where a lot of great opportunities still exist, IMO.

The game market by comparison is much more highly competitive and has quite different dynamics, I would hesitate to use 'failed' games as a counter-example.
"Facebook really couldn't have been more generous to this guy." Yes they could have. They could have not banned him for building a browser extension.
Is it a part of firefoxOS? It could be a great way to push browserID adoption.
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The nice thing about paying customers (besides the money) is that they will tell you what's wrong with the product, so you can fix it. Nonpaying users are much more likely to just walk away.
The book is worth a read. Alarming large numbers of economists base work working up from these models and theories based on them.

You might have noticed a little recent global credit crunch which was not predicted by most economists but was predicted and modeled by the author of the book I linked who is an economist (so I don't lump them all together) but the overall level of the state of economics is so poor as a discipline at understanding the overall economy it should be embarrassing to them.

I am genuinely interested if someone has a critical analysis of the Debunking Economics book that points out how and where it wrong but when I last looked I couldn't find any serious attacks online (minor nitpicks only) but I think it is largely being ignored by those who disagree so I haven't found their counter arguments.
I'm not going to start a general argument with you, but Android does in fact, accept patches from the community.

They certainly think plenty of people are smart enough to contribute (though that was a nice ad-hominen attack on the Android team).

Open-washing. Now there is a great phrase. As if there was a "one true definition" of open, and Android was abusing it.
Could you let me know who controls this definition?

I've been contributing to open source and free software projects for 14+ years now, and they all have had different levels of openness. So I guess half of them were just "open washing"?

It's really great that you can speak about this as if there was general agreement in the community on what it means for a project to be open. Instead, from where I sit, there are different people who think it means different things.
With google controlling the app store, it wasn't like they had much of a choice.
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Purity user here. Love your product but think perhaps it's time to let go. Attacking you personally with lawyers will end badly for you. Their goal is not to "win" but just to delay, frustrate and (if you keep it up) bankrupt you because of all the costs. It's the standard strategy followed by lot's of big companies with deep pockets. Purity rocked and so do you. I'd put those talents to good use on other ideas.
I'm not sure. I do know that games like World of Warcraft would make you agree to the terms each time you had a patch or they changed. It seems like Instagram is doing what you are describing. I would definitely be interested in hearing a lawyer's opinion of it, since just changing it at any time without any specific action required on the part of the user seems to not be a valid contract in my eyes.
Gah. The old site and old pages will come back -- part of the shift that pmoz mentions above is that different teams ran the 2010 site and the 2012 version, and so we're learning (a bit late) how to build in permanence into the site structures).
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So nobody can criticize people who are homeless without being labeled a bigot? That doesn't seem productive.
"...there's nothing to stop him from continuing work using an alternate account..."

Actually, there is. He's been informed by Facebook that they have revoked his right to use their site, which is their right. Any update that he issues to to the plugin would be solid evidence that he had been back on Facebook. In a US legal system that regularly bows to the will of large corporations, he could not only be sued, but also charged with a crime under the CFAA (unauthorized access) should he simply open another account.
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This was bound to happen.
I'll echo other people's sentiment in that it sounds like you actually probably are a very good programmer, but just a very harsh critic of yourself. That can be a good thing because it can vault you ahead of other people who have falsely inflated opinions of themselves, but it can also be a bad thing because it will prevent you from putting yourself out there.
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Love your fathers lesson. Just goes to show us that the moment we choose to stop learning is the moment we've chosen to fail.
Unfortunately, social convention evolves independently rather than being dictated. If convention evolves in the direction of Facebook events and newsfeeds instead of mass SMS invitations and e-mail, one is forced to choose either to use Facebook or to become a social outcast.
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Wow, that's some humility. You are less of a fool than when you started. Based on what I've been reading lately a few things stick out above all others:

>did not look for a market very well

>did not try to sell the product, I've just build it

>my job is not programming. My job is delivering value using programming

Because, really, would the project have been a success with more Backbone?
now they also claim to own the letters fb

Hmm, I wonder how people are going to refer to a casual, recurring sex partner now!
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If we're talking about natural human tendencies, I'd argue that any supposed "urge to share" is weaker than the evident urge to control the products of one's own labor. People who know nothing about intellectual property still get extremely upset when they perceive that someone else "stole their idea" or "ripped them off."

Also, claiming the copyright regime is not the product of democracy is utterly ludicrous. If people cared so much about this "natural right to share" they would vote out the people who pass restrictive copyright legislation. But they don't. Claiming that the results of the democratic process are in fact not democratic for various hand-wavey reasons is the last-ditch argument of people who don't like the outcome of the democratic process because it didn't come out their way.
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> I see the usage as legitimate in any event - as he is using the term 'FB' in a descriptive manner to help to describe the purpose of the product. There is nothing wrong with this in trade mark law generally provided in good faith (see nominative usage[0]).

Agreed. Trademark law seems to be aimed at preventing companies from pretending to be some other company. This clearly doesn't apply to generic names, like "Sofa Vacuum" or "Photocopier Repair". But Facebook is something that's become de facto ubiquitous, a service almost universally used in the US - more ubiquitous than many generic things.

Surely, then, in the case of companies that provide services that relate to Facebook, there's justification to make direct reference to FB in their names? The major consideration is whether there's much likelihood of these companies being mistaken for the original company - but a name like "Purity for Facebook" (or even "FB Purity") seems like it wouldn't be confused as being from Facebook itself.

Companies are obliged to defend their trademarks, but I hope sanity prevails in the courts, and people get to call their applications "Windows RegistryMaster" or "Mac Backpack" or anything else that isn't confusing or misleading. I'm probably underestimating how messy it'll be to sort out justified (descriptive) usages from the ones that are just piggybacking, though.
Because that's how a business works. You provide value and the customer pays you for it.

And "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late." -Reid Hoffman
blantonl, appreciate any insight you can provide - sounds like you've got great control over your environment. From the sounds of it, 100tb.com provides bandwidth @$0.33/megabit.

I suspect it is C) - the simple reality is that most Web hosting use cases don't consume bandwidth at rates that saturate an unmetered port, other than those that violate the TOS from 100TB.com (i.e. running a CDN reseller)

We've never, ever had a single issue with 100TB.com. The servers we have with them are solely in place to provide MP3 streaming capabilities, and we certainly do get our money's worth.
It has nothing to do with Google Chrome - same issue happens with IE. This is a faulty DNS configuration of the site.
This is actually the solution Facebook has taken. I'm an avid FB Purity user and almost every single update is a workaround for minor code changes on the site that serve no purpose except to break FB Purity.

Maybe there wasn't one guy whose full time job was to break FB Purity, but it was definitely one of their goals.
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What should people do to acquire career capital fast? Work hard at their assigned stuff, or invest in self-directed labor?

Cal Newport wrote a book on this[1]. The short answer is "acquire rare and valuable skills."

If you have a track record of applying NLP to massive data sets today, that makes you extremely valuable. Combine two or more valuable, but not necessarily complementary, skills and it makes you a unicorn.

You'll almost never acquire rare & valuable skills by doing your assigned work. That's because entry level employees do commodity work. You might acquire valuable skills that way, but not rare ones.

My preferred method: survey the land. Try to figure out what skills are one notch above where you are today. Come up with a side project that's beneficial to your employer and would teach you those skills. Depending on the level of autonomy you have, you might be able to get that project approved as part of your official work. A few iterations of this should put you in a position to get a promotion or a better job.

The danger in doing something purely on the side, and not as part of the company, is that you don't have concrete results you can show at your next job. You might have mastered Hadoop/NLP/Machine Learning on your own, but all things being equal I'd hire the guy who used NLP to earn his company millions of dollars.

By the way, one of the easiest ways to get a rare and valuable skill is to aim to be 80th percentile at two things, as opposed to 95th percentile at one thing. My current aspiration is a strong understanding of user interaction/psychology + a strong understanding of Machine Learning. The combination of the two will put me in a very unique position when designing analytic software, even if I'm not the best at either individual skill.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-ebook/dp/B0076DD...
I was going to pick you up on 'infinite' - eyes clearly see at a certain framerate (just look at the spokes on helicopter blades or the spokes of a spinning wheel to see the results of that) but I guess it depends on the person.

That's quite an interesting thought actually, how many fps do human eyes see at?

To answer that you I imagine you'd need to get into how the human eye works (rods vs cones), how moving images are created, and how interlacing works on movies and things compared to game engines which don't interlace.

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm
If your opinion is as boneheaded as the parent's, then yes.

Edit: This was uncalled for, and I apologize.

What I mean to say is that anybody who builds things of value for a living quickly develops a more nuanced sense of morality than the parent displays. I do think that, when talking of the moral character of great people, the experience of having gone through the struggle yourself is rich with perspective. The fact that the parent deems Mark "clearly immoral" because Mark changed the parent's Facebook UI is absolutely the most revolting type of perspective in my eyes.
Not true. Big companies do not always win just because they are big. I wonder in what kind of world you live. When somebody has more money then you, you bow down no matter what he wants from you? Common. A bit more courage!
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I remember seeing this a lot after Saving Private Ryan: For action scenes film makers would actually lower the frame rate to convey a sense of chaos.
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Instagram issued a clarification statement about the TOS changes

I only saw a statement of their intent to issue a clarification in the future- a statement that seemed to be a lie.

I don't use these services, but I am pleased that the professional and serious amateur photographers I know are either leaving or preparing to leave the service. It sends an important message: we're not going to tolerate douchy behavior.
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I don't see why other people can't test his software for him.

I'd do it. FB Purity is the only thing keeping me on Facebook, so I have no qualms about risking my account for it. I'm gone as soon as it stops working anyway.
edit: clarification

I wholeheartedly agree with you; some personal other side of the story regarding the link in OP's article.

Lack of listening? That's not my experience with Bado. I know him in real life and I've worked together with him at a very young company/startup right when he came from Turkey to the Netherlands. That was a blast, both on a professional and a personal level. I also got to experience the Turkish hospitality when I had to work for three weeks in beautiful Istanbul myself. After both of us moving on to greener pastures we kind of lost contact though.

Last time I met him (and another former co-worker) was several months ago in Amsterdam; we had a great night; much booze was had and we bounced around from pub to bar to nightclub. But we also bounced back and forth all these ideas on entrepreneurship and all that. I remember telling him I was worried that he had a lot on his plate and that especially with his potential visa problems he was quite vulnerable.

But then again; you shouldn't take everyone's advice either. If Larry and Sergey had done that they wouldn't have started a search engine either ("too hard; Yahoo is king already"). But carefully weighing outside's viewpoints is a good idea.

In my personal experience Bado never acted like the smartest man in the room; he was always willing to learn and exchange books/ideas with me. But when starting to go down one road with your company one might close itself off a bit though. Sometimes it does pays to be stubborn though :)
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I'm not sure how that works out.

Do 36 days of acceleration at the beginning (or spread it over a year to reduce peak acceleration) -- go from 0 to 0.1c or whatever the cruise speed is.

Coast for ~100 years.

Spend the last year going from 0.1c to 0.

It does mean you have to carry twice as many bombs, and carry half of the bombs for 149 years, but bombs are really lightweight relative to the ship. It also means you can't just jettison the pusher plate, which is probably a bigger deal.
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You should get over the "i implies Apple" bias.

iGoogle (Wow, Apple made a Google service?)
iRobot (iRobot Roomba, etc. - 1990)
iBrowse (Amiga browser, 1996)
iPlayer (BBC)
iVideo (http://www.ivideoapp.com/)

A little googling (heh) will find lots more.

Trademarks need to be chosen from non-generic words and symbols, or must be qualified by a non-generic name (e.g., "Microsoft Windows" vs. "X/Windows").

Allowing one company to co-opt a letter of the alphabet pollutes the global namespace far too much.
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