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Yeah, property rights are a core values, and I shouldn't be taken as saying copyright law is not valued. It just seems like the folks I talk to think that the fines / imprisonment / tactics are really out of whack compared to other law breaking. The thought a music pirate could get more years than a child molestor is a bit problematic.

I don't think you can convince Republicans that IP != property. Truthfully, if more property law actually applied to IP some things would get a bit easier (e.g. transfer of property).
FYI, in case the author sees, on MacOSX the key combo Right + Ctrl switches desktops, so shooting fireballs doesn't work.
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I don't know anyone who carries pepper spray that's become less risk averse because they carry it. Isn't that kind of like saying carrying condoms makes you more promiscuous?

The question is pepper spray vs. no pepper spray, I think for the rest of your drawbacks it's pretty clear that having a deterrent available is an improvement over not having one.

There's quite a lot of literature about this, and I guess you could ask any cop what they think about it too.
What about a double buffer system? Make two players, one hidden. The hidden one loads the next song. Switch players when the foreground one ends.
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Political shifts don't "occur", people make them happen. If strong-copyright stances caused congresscritters to take heat in their primary campaigns, you would see them change their tune real quick.

The Republican party in particular is moved forward largely through insurgent campaigns of right-leaning outsiders discontent with the mainstream GOP (see: the Tea Party). A few Silicon Valley hackers could form a copyright liberalization insurgency fairly easily, especially in a state like California where the GOP is a skeleton.
Interesting. I've never really looked into it, I just get over the fact I have to check-in at the airport, and over time it's become less embarrassing since I just expect to see the assistants face drop in panic, and be pulled to the side.

It's never been mentioned to me either. I'm not actually a US citizen, so perhaps it doesn't apply. I'll look into it further, thanks for the advice.
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what did you use to take pictures from your webcam periodically? If it's a python script, could you please share your code with us?
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Depends on if any backlash comes against the current leadership for their heavy handiness with committee assignments. I get the feeling that some groups are gearing up for a 2014 fight.
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European Libel laws are much more...liberal than they are in the US. Frequently, truth is not a defense to libel as it is in the U.S. In much of Europe, the primary element is that the defendant suffer harm to his reputation. See, for example, the British aristocrat who was truthfully outed as a Nazi sex fetishist...but won a judgement against the tabloid that published the pictures.
It's way more efficient to use gas to heat the water, anyway, assuming the electricity is generated from fossil fuels.
I didn’t mean to come off as elitist or anything. It’s definitely interesting to see the line of thinking, and to learn about the formalisms used along the way. But it would benefit, in my mind, from a stronger conclusion: “Look at this system I have derived for physics, using pure mathematics. Observe all its glorious juicy detail. Now look at how elegantly I can express it using type theory.”
Today I just launched a new app that acts as a portfolio/resume for programmers and other people who build things. If you are unsatisfied with linkedin, maybe it's worth checking out: http://www.mycelial.com
I'd argue that excessive play causes a very serious "detrimental problem" to those who are not employed, aren't in relationships, and don't have children. Someone in that situation is already facing a serious disconnect from society, and excessive play presents a major barrier to resolving that.

This might be a secondary issue in the way of some underlying problem, or it could be the main problem itself. It's a problem either way, and one that has to take priority.
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"Blah blah phi sigma kappa"

really didn't expect to see my college frat in a comment on HN today, or any day really!
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Lifestylists.
(Not people doing businesses around users' and customers' lifestyles, but people doing businesses FOR their own lifestyle).
Also known as dilettantes.
Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article whole, instead of broken into five parts:

http://www.devx.com/print/opensource/Article/42778
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The Republican Party isn't stupid, it's inept. It's slogans are rooted in political battles that took place 80 years ago. Do young folk even care about "small government"? No, we care about "good government" and "innovation". Dear Mr. Romney, you are pitching to the anti-Roosevelt faction of the country and it is rapidly shrinking.

If the GOP pushed an "innovation" platform, they would be much better suited for the next 50 years of politics (copyright reform, low regulation, low taxes, greater skilled immigration).

Of course, like 0 GOP people read Hacker News, so I should be leaving this comment elsewhere.
I had an idea once to make a brainfuck web framework as an April fool's day joke along the lines of Cobol on Cogs.

The trick, I figured, would be to make a simple basic-like language, and actually write the framework in that, and then make a compiler that translated it to brainfuck.

I wonder if that's what this guy did. :)
There are safe areas, where you cannot be attacked by the opposing faction unless you hit first. If you are into end-game (raiding) you can play without ever seeing an opposing faction character.

If you are questing you are forced into non-secure zones, but as I said, people playing end-game can avoid this completely.
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that sort of attitude is no less antiintellectual than "math is hard, let's go shopping". if philosophy is not your cup of tea well and good, but don't put down people who are into it.
We tried washing our hands with it instead, but that worked out even more poorly. :P Don't worry, the milk (and quite possibly sugar) kills the taste of the black tea nicely.
TideSDK handles the packaging and bundles everything into packaging native to the platform. You don't have to worry about what to include because it is gathered and packaged for you.
Very interesting.. can anyone comment on the differences between this and node-webkit/adobe air/appJS ??

Can source code (ie. JS) be completely private (ie could not be reasonably accessed by a competitor?)

Does it have 'custom' jumplist support on windows (eg. media player buttons)?

Global hotkey support??
Regarding your latter point, I think this comes from the exposure of technology increasing every day.

I've built and operated a helpdesk for a 150,000 employee organisation with a high security requirement.

People bash the IT guys because they think they understand it, but they don't.

Users really are absolute fucking criminals most of the time purely due to either ignorance or arrogance.

IT departments are primarily focussed on protecting people from each other, the internet and from making massive fuck ups. Every user who comes whinging to the helpdesk over a trivial issue or a brick wall is usually unaware that it's there for their own protection. It is the thing that is probably stopping that secure document pissing off out of the building on a USB stick.

The 150k member organisation in question eventually had to lock their PCs into custom built frames with a hole for a finger to turn them on, all USB ports epoxied up, MAC address locking on all switches and oodles and oodles of cable ties and body search on entry and exit to stop USB sticks, phones etc being taken in.

That's the front line for you. They need defending and I stand up for them regularly.
The productivity gain I had from using RescueTime was well worth the scary thought of having a spy on my computer.
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT032V4S...

SSDs are now $51. I don't see this as an academic means of optimization; I see it as a practical business value. Why would I pay a developer to spend 8 hours on optimizations when I can pay a developer to spend 8 hours on features and bug fixes? Meanwhile, I can drop $50 today (as opposed to $200 8 days ago) and get SSDs for the database, web server, and two developer machines?

If SSDs were down to $1 for 64 GB, would you still claim throwing hardware at the problem is an academic solution?
I believe his point was that calling attention to someone's race (or location) is extraneous information that's not necessarily important. One might mean it as simply clarifying ("that young african american kid, not the long-haired kid next to him"), but it's easy to misunderstand that as some implication that it's notable that they're a ____ person (poor, female, foreign, different-colored-skin) rather than that what they did is notable in its own right.

In this case, I think it's very interesting that this young man has had the creativity to make such a site, and prepare his message so well. I admire the degree of preparation he's put into this: he clearly seems to understand the visa process. I like his "let's make sure we are right for each other first" message, as well.
I dunno. I think a nil container is neither empty nor full, it's nil. But trying to reason about 3VL in an environment that doesn't support it is … trying.
To be fair, that only leaves 10 hours a day for the person to do anything else, and presumably 6 - 9 of that is sleeping. Optimistically, that leaves 4 hours a day to do things like eating, grooming, chores, job hunting, etc. So the extreme amount of gaming may start as a "symptom" as you say, but I just can't see how that person could really ever effect any change in their life when they spend literally almost all of their time gaming.
Yes, that's the value of LinkedIn. Turning Cold prospects into warm ones. Its wroks very nicely in enterprise situations. When you know who your target entry point is (meaning, the person you are leveraging to sneek in your pitch) things go much smoother. Its just a matter of finding out more about them and easily creating a profile around their likes. You can't really fail at rapport if you know what the person likes. And rapport is how you open sales negotiations.
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webkit is mandatory only for this specific website. Using http://betterinternet.co you can modify websites without webkit dependency or even create time.com Flipboard style that doesn't require webkit.
What worries me about endorsements the most is that there is no stopping someone from listing a bunch of the hottest skills, and then asking his friends to endorse him for it. At least with the people endorsement you have to write a small blurb about why you are endorsing the person, but with the skills endorsement I just need to click a link.
I always thought that one of the hardest thing to sell must be fighter airplanes. A (normal) country only buys new ones maybe once every 25-30 years. It is a long selling process!
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Is that a real frat?! Sorry if so, didn't mean to slight it :) Was just throwing out random greek letters. (Not sure why you've been DV'ed for that comment either.)
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A very beautiful way to combine together lots of tiny snippets of data. Great fun!
My top endorsement on LI is Salesforce.com. My first action at any employer where I had sufficient authority would be get rid of Salesforce.com. I hate the software.
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Hmm. The video says it's from the 1967 movie. I wonder what movie? 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968.

#pointlesspedantry
Consider talking to eddiemonge or one of the other team members on freenode about this:

Getting involved (http://docs.jquery.com/Getting_Involved):
Additionally most of the jQuery core development team can be found in the #jquery-dev IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
It's kind of an interesting thing. The Tegra store isn't a separate store. It's sort of a searchable link warehouse that sends you on to the Play store to do the actual buying. They even throw up an info screen about this the first time you launch it.
I have anecdotes on the opposite side of the argument. I have friends who have played crazy amounts while unemployed (but they found time to look for work) and as soon as they got a job they went back to normal levels.

Personally I've played about 2 hours in the past 9 months (thanks Steam for tracking that), because I rank gaming lower in importance than work (which has been a lot lately) and offline social life, however if I decided to leave (or was kicked out of) my job, or even if I just happened to free up a bunch of time, I'd have no problem spending a few days playing solidly, but equally I'd have no problem going straight back to no gaming again. Is this an addiction? (I've been addicted to a few different things and based on those experiences I'd answer the question with a no.)
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pretty awesome - but that's just the UI for HAL a full replica :p
Already, two of my Facebook friends have reported they have been hit with this vulnerability.
for a moment I tought someone from czech republic made it to top of HN
This is how I use LinkedIn:

When I'm scoping out a position/company, I see who's on the team that I'll be working with ie: Design. Then I hopefully, there's a link to the blog/portfolio/Dribbble/Twitter. This is to get a sense of their work and style, though it doesn't have to match the style of the company itself, but you can an idea of experience of those people.

Then I look at employee insights - which shows those who left the company recently. Again, I dig through till I find the ex designers. I also pay attention to the duration - ie: if the company are churning out alot of ex employees who stay no longer than 3 months, then I'd pay closer attention.

And I never initiate contact though LinkedIn. Twitter, email is the way to go for me, which you can easily find as you dig through their profile.

In short, I don't use LinkedIn to find jobs. I use it to find out more about the company, somewhat culture and its people.

Also I do it all when I'm not logged in - it gives you more info when you're not logged vs logged in (they'll put up upgrade/pay walls). Really, really dumb.
Except the effects of it is still there, as evident in for example this map: http://wiki.dickinson.edu/images/8/85/Europe-GDP-PPP-per-cap...
how close you can get to edges

This is an incredibly deep and fascinating topic in the context of the original Super Mario Bros. The answer to how close you can get to a wall edge is one or two pixels inside it. This is actually very important for SMB's playability, vastly increasing the tolerance for moves like jumping up in a narrow shaft or bending a jump to get on top of a block you're currently under.

The game then needs a mechanism to eject Mario out of those walls if he ends up inside. Among many emergent behaviors, this gives rise to the famous entry to Negative World, which occurs by fooling the game into ejecting Mario in the macroscopically wrong direction. (BTW, we hackers should know World -1 is really World <Blank>-1, accessed by entering a warp zone pipe before it initializes.)

Fascinating reading on the topic: http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/SuperMarioBros.html

This sort of detail is absolutely key to making a Mario clone that feels right.
These lack the real advantage of HTML/CSS/JS apps though, which is that you can make one responsive app and package it for all desktop and mobile platforms.
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He is the product, so he only needs to make one sale to succeed. Quantity of sales is a poor metric for high-priced goods.

For example, a Walmart needs to turnover the equivalent its entire inventory every week to be profitable; a Lamborghini dealership or Saks can be profitable selling one item a month.
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ResidenSea did this, but it was priced at a point where only the super rich could afford it, and those people were so rich that they treated it as a part-time vacation residence.

I've looked at this (from even the mid-1990s), and it's really hard to make the economics work. Ships are expensive, both in capital costs and especially in operations costs. You can buy used ships, but they're never very efficient or suitable, and retrofitting them is expensive.

People who would be comfortable living out of a tiny cabin with limited services are almost always better off just renting a place on land for a period of time and flying in between destinations. It's only if you need a large, constant space that it makes sense, and doing that with a ship is expensive.

There's also a horrible scale problem -- you could maybe make this work on a per-user cost with a $10b world's largest ship, but a $100mm ship is probably 10x less efficient, and a $1mm boat is another 10-50x less efficient.

There's also the loss of freedom with a large ship. I'd rather just make enough to buy a $5-10mm boat of my own (or, ideally, $100-200mm), and have some guests sometimes, vs. try to coordinate when people get on or off or where it goes as a collective.

There's the regular cruise ship industry on the low end as competition, too. You can get deals and just book 90 days on cruise ships if you want, and get the scale advantages of a large ship; the downside is boredom and being around a bunch of old people (usually) or sometimes drunk college students. Block-booking (how most "gay cruises" or other special interests are done) works. Geekcruises did some of this.

What might make sense is a bunch of ships going on a specific route, with transferability across them, or big fixed platforms at sea where people can go to/from by air, boats, or bigger ships. Of course, now you're looking at many billions of dollars in capital and a very large minimum scale; it's really hard to be incremental in this market.
Can you expand on that? I'm using Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m on Windows 7 Pro and it looks fine to me. The visual display is legible and very clear.
It isn't true at all that 0 GOP people read Hacker News. A lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included in 'small government').
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant "I've never heard of that method, so I looked it up in Xcode and it turns out it is not a method on NSString (and why should it be if !isEqualToString: achieves the same purpose?) which leads me to believe that this comment is sarcasm, if it isn't can you please clarify?"
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14 hours being the high end certainly pushes the limits, but of the remaining 10 hours it would be possible for only 4-6 to be sleep (4 hours a night may not be great for you, but they might sleep exactly the same amount with or without gaming), an hour for eating/grooming/etc., if they live with parents they may well have few/no chores/cooking/etc.... So perhaps not for everybody, but it certainly isn't possible to play 14 hours a day and spend a few hours looking for work. Even more so if you are at the 10 hours a day rather than 14.
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So they "copied" http://rapportive.com/ for Gmail?
Oh boy. When has it become fashionable to quite X and announce it to the whole world?

LinkedIn is just a tool - it's usefulness depends on what your current needs are. It's useless today and useful tomorrow. Just like any other tool - i.e. take hammers for example.

Would it sound absurd for someone to announce that they quit hammers tomorrow? Does any of this make sense?

- Yeah, hammer was really useful to me when I hanged that picture on the wall last year. Not so much any more, I should quit it!

- I'm past hammers - electric drill with screws can do 90% of it does and for the 10% it does not I should really re-assess whether I'm doing the right thing in the first place.

- I tried to make a cereal with a hammer this morning, but it did not work! WTF???

- I watched this movie where someone was killed with a hammer. What an evil tool, I should quit it as it stains my karma!

- I don't use it any more, but every time I pass by the toolbox it reminds me that I still have it and I get this strong urge to get rid of it. It depresses me so much, that I want to throw away the whole box or move out of the house!

Don't mean to be harsh on Cap Watkins, I'm just tired of reading this kind of posts. Oh wait, I know - I should quit the Internet!
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I don't disagree with you, but on the flip-side:

I was unemployed/underemployed for nearly a year in 2009-2010 when companies (especially here in Michigan, with at-the-time highest in the nation unemployment) just weren't hiring. I don't know what the situation is like in this man's region of China, but I played Guild Wars (free to play minus the initial cost, I couldn't afford a monthly fee) after I had put in a set number of applications per day. When I did find a job, it was only between 10-15 hours per week, leaving me still plenty of time to keep applying and play Guild Wars.

It wasn't an addiction in my case, it was that there was literally nothing else going on in my life of any value. Of course I had friends and family telling me I was wasting my life playing this game rather than working. But no company was hiring anyone in my profession for any price, and even Wal Mart and McDonalds had 1000 people lined up to get an interview.

These days with a full-time job and a girlfriend, I find only my lunch break offers time for a little bit of Angry Birds and Wordament. That's as much gaming as I can get in.
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It's a useful data point, but owing to patio11's unique situation, his friends are probably very non-representative of the general population.

Though, it's also important to keep in mind the opposite bias: if someone happens not to live the described lifestyle, it's also fairly possible that that non-transient person also doesn't have a representative sample of the general population among his or her friends.

It seems difficult to even design a way to scientifically study this and how widespread it is, too.