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Hey, remember that one time recently when an MIT student did something cool that MIT didn't know about, where the thing was obviously going to make large amounts of money, and MIT said "sure, we had no idea, and we didn't endorse it, so of course you can own it!"
No?
Neither do I.

It's ethically suspect to pick and choose, and say "well, when you do cool stuff we didn't know about, that we own, but the stuff that may get you in trouble, you get to deal with all that unless we specifically endorsed it".
| when I come across an article like this one, and recall my youthful naivety and enthusiasm, I do worry if I haven't perhaps lost something more important.

A very skilled young carpenter spends 8 hours making a table, which is a perfectly sound and functional, and is proud of his work.

A very skilled master carpenter spends 250 hours making a table, which is one of the finest ever crafted, and is proud of his work.

Someone tasks both carpenters with creating a table in 10 hours. The first carpenter does so and tells them it is the finest table he has ever made. The second carpenter does so and tells them it was the best he could do in only 10 hours.

Which table do you believe will be of higher quality? Has the second carpenter "lost something more important" along the way?
Or just put it on EC2 instances. :P
I don't know (that's my point about pain points being useless - nothing really bothered my on posterous or tumblr)

Their themes are not so great. Their interface looks good but has glitches. The way they built their navigation system is awesome, but nothing that really stands out. This is very subjective.

The vast majority of things people buys have nothing to do with solving problems.

What pain point do moleskine notebooks solve? None. There are a myriad of internet websites that sell the same thing: an idea, an illusion. And people will buy it, happily.

That said, I think you shouldn't concentrate exclusively on solving problems but maybe trying to 'overthink' people and creating something they would pay for.

If you really want to cover some pain point, realize that people are usually numb and do not realize that X could be solved with a service. Asking people about pain points is useless, you need to watch them working.
It seems to run roughly 30% faster on IE10. Interesting.
If a user gets caught leaving a library with photocopies of public, published documents, would you consider that a crime too?
None of what you just said, regardless of whether it is true or not, changes the fact that Microsoft are incredibly relevant, and will continue to be for the immediate future.
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So many holes with your analogy. Rather than wasting my time explaining to you why it is wrong, I rather just tell you that you are showing extreme stupidity.
I don't want to upset anyone or anything but $27K is in the ball part of poverty. I'm glad you are happy that's fine -- everyone is familiar with the idea that money is not the only way to happiness. Simply because you are happy is not really much an indicator, let's be honest. I don't want to call you out, it's not my intention. Some people are perfectly happy to live an acetic lifestyle with no money in a mountain in Nepal. Perhaps you are similar in mindset, that's perfectly OK. But that's neither here nor there; it's anomaly. Because you both have cars doesn't speak to much; we don't know how they were paid, how old they are what happens if their's transmission, whatever. To compare $75K with $75M is almost hard to take seriously.
But the PDF in the data-URL does not seem to open up on IE10.
Dropbox public folders?
I don't know off hand if they use it. I know they do in static analysis tools.
As nice as MS is, they seem to consider compilers solely a cost center. Their compilers produce "relatively good code", but have never really been state of the art.
Ortiz specifically has brought other cases that have made me furious. Check out this one where she is trying to seize a family owned budget motel. There is no complaint whatsoever against the owner, but about once every other year the cops bust some low-level drug deal. The motel is paid-off and owned by the son of the founder and is worth 1.5 million, therefore she saw an easy civil forfeiture target. She is out of control and not helping the people of Massachusetts.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
If only it didn't take a suicide to reach this point where there is finally a conversation and criticism of prosecutorial overreach and looking at the human side of the equation.
You have some good examples there that I personally agree with.

But I think it's important to note that our economic value judgements are our own, and the fact that many of these products continue to be successful means that other people hold contrary subjective opinions about them.

A statement like:

> "LCD and LED displays everywhere is another use of technology where I feel that cost isn’t justified by the returns."

misses the point that the people bearing the cost clearly disagree, or they would stop doing it.

To the extent that we just share our judgements and try to convince other people to share them, it's all good. But real "luddites" go further and try to force their subjective economic judgements onto other people.
It is "id" software, no caps, no periods. It is named for this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego

I used to make similar mistakes years ago, for a long time thinking it was "Eye Dee Software", so I'm posting this to enlighten others, rather than being a grammar commie.

Interestingly, there was a game called iD published in 1986: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_%28video_game%29
There's a great writeup on reddit about "What North Koreans were told about World War II" [1] with a list of books and couple other media buried in the thread.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15lw49/histor...
I guess that is generally done using "convergent encryption". There are many variations and they were done by some peer-to-peer DHT filesystem (I was kinda involved in some "skunk" projects developing it).

The idea is simple: if you have data, then you can generate the key from data itself to encrypt and decrypt than data. Then you use hash of encrypted data to look up if server (or just other side) has the same data. If hash exists, no need to send to server - just tell server to bump references. If hash does not exists, just upload data. The key derived from data needs to be stored locally - if you lose it, you will lose data too.
I genuinely believe this is off-topic; or better yet, it is a "rabbit hole," if you will. I prefer the idea of using Stylish on the Website itself. (And so bear in mind that we're already talking about a 2-degree override. Not to mention becoming dependent on Readability.)

But thank you for the advice.
There are stating in their help page that Firefox allocates as much memory as the size of the downloaded files, which is not very convenient for this kind of application.

> However, some legacy or technically inadequate browsers require the entire file to be stored in memory for downloading (Firefox, IE10, Opera), or for both downloading and uploading (IE9, Safari 5).

At the end, the choice is yours but they are fairly warning you that the UX would be better on Chrome / ium.
OK, I'm not really sure you understand CSS and blogs. Blog posts tend to be self-contained documents where the styles have to be inline, because each post might have completely different formatting, and is often generated by a WYSIWYG tool. It's not a problem, it's just how blogs usually work.

And yeah, the !important should be working. I've never used Stylish, but something's clearly broken -- in any case, your beef should be with Stylish or your browser, not with the author/developer of the blog. If you stick to a user stylesheet in your browser it should be guaranteed to work -- after all, that's the whole point of them, so that people with visual disabilities can override default styling.

So, I don't really get what the problem is. Inline styles are an integral part of the web (and are particularly, and correctly, suited to blog posts), and user stylesheets generally allow you to override them, so you can use dyslexic fonts if you choose.
Thanks for posting this. I liked the part about the newspaper:
"We were given strict instructions that we couldn't fold the newspaper AT ALL - as it had photos of Kim, and that it would be an insult to fold anything containing that.."
Have an upvote. I am curious why you decided to volunteer that. Not a criticism. Do you think it would be better if I (or someone else) asked "What's your gender?" Perhaps that's where I went wrong?
Yeah. By "OS" i mean "open-source" not "iOS". I was thinking it'd be a web app where you can manage multiple lists each one with categories and items. When you are ready to release you just select the repo and milestone from Github and it creates issues for each of the checkbox items.
I can't read this without wondering to what extent it is a response to the death of Aaron Swartz. Particularly considering that Aaron's suicide brought http://scripting.com/2003/06/29.html#When:9:33:43PM back to the attention of a number of people.

In case you entirely missed this subtext, I recommend re-reading it, and seeing how well the glove fits on a possible perspective of Aaron's life.
Why would you imply that this person is lazy? That's offensive. You should apologize.

I'm sorry, but he doesn't have to prove anything to you, really. You read too much into it, he probably has the idea that 500k in profits (not revenue) is modest. That's all.
This could have a somewhat chilling effect on other prosecutors although obviously only in cases against people who are somewhat popular or at least have the potential to become so. Poor people without outspoken friends would still get screwed. And the incentives for the prosecutors to "score big" would still remain.
>It may also be a pedantic truism, but "copyright infringement" and copying generally are semantically and functionally different from "theft." //

Not a pedantic truism by any stretch. Yes I absolutely agree, the tort of copyright infringement is nowhere near the crime of theft. I'd be happy to go with an approximation of "actual damages" in respect of copyright infringement but computer access is about more than just copyright infringement.

We come back, looking at the tort alone in the aaronsw case, to the quid pro quo - JSTOR were potentially set to lose a majority of their income if their entire back catalogue was released for free. On an actual damages basis this tort is huge.

>any trespass or damages against me should be firmly anchored in the land of the real. //

Information is as real as money.
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Because: he could
I'm not complaining that it wouldn't work for me. But you posted your experience in way that I think was really not showing that this is something realistic for most people but kind of as a way, let's be honest, bragging about your acetic take on income. So don't take this the wrong way, but I think it's a little disingenuous given what you were responding to. :)
To be fair, if there's any chance that your password is the same as someone else's, then you have a terrible password.
Safari 6 is excellent. Faster than Chrome on OS X.
None of what is said in your post is factually correct.
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DUI risks lives.

I don't think httpd is 1000-100,000 times more important than the things Aaron helped to accomplish (he did more than just code, btw). An open source web server was somewhat inevitable but I'm not sure rss, creative commons, reddit, or some of the other things Aaron worked on were.
I'm not sure Mother Theresa is a good example for anything, but regarding the general argument you are making here:

There is a huge difference between helping one person (decreasing the general suffering by a tiny but attainable amount) and making one person an example (hoping this changes the status quo somehow).
And deduplication would work since the 2nd person would derive the same key for the data and thus can decrypt it?
> But what exactly does Boyle think should have made the prosecutors sympathetic to Aaron when they brought their charges against him?

The fact that he thought he was acting in the public interest.

Your DUI example is not analogous. Behlendorf could not reasonably have thought his downing several beers was going to benefit the world.
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I am going to ignore most of this because it's just more of the same (even if a fair amount is true) - it's fashionable to dog on ms right now.

But declaring that using Windows RT (and by extension the full NT kernel) as a basis for their tablet line was a fatal flaw ignores a whole raft of significant potential benefits to across their whole product line.

I was surprised when I found out that they were doing a port for their tablet instead of basing it on their mobile code base, but once they announced they were going to be using mainline nt on the phone too it all clicked.

Let's get real: The core NT kernel team is the unheralded jewel of microsoft. They put together a good base when their legacy16/32 base of 95/98 was clearly close to technical self destruction. In 10 years Windows stability on the desktop went from borderline worst to best in class by a notable margin. And while few people realize it, they have been consistently the first major player with modern security features and systems like nx, boot chain validation, driver signing requirements, default auto software upgrades, heavily improved os/browser sandboxing, document version based backups, 1st party FDE, and on and on.

Note I'm taking the NT kernel team. Not microsoft as a business, app developer, marketer, pariah. I have code in the linux kernel, am typing on os x and goog/aapl make my gadgets.

All I know is if I saw tablets/phones as an existential threat to my business and my earlier efforts had clear technical problems, I'd want to put my best team thats proven they can evolve on it. It's a perfect time - phones are shipping 4 cores and 2 gigs, meanwhile my server 2012 domain controller has been running great with 2 vcpus and uses on average 700mb.

At the same time laptops and servers are making a huge push into super low power operation. This requires more than just hardware changes - the mobile os's work hard on freezing workloads that aren't actively being used and it makes a big difference. Traditional desktop OS's are super bad at this because of history and existing applications, but future laptops and datacenters are destined for similar techniques. Even if WinRT dies horribly, the laptops people buy in a few years will be benefiting from microsoft's shared learning there. And of course, maybe that full windows laptop they buy won't be running on an x86 cpu.

I'm not rushing out to buy a surface or lumia it's true, but they certainly have piqued my interest and in my opinion they are currently doing the best technical/product/design work that they've done since... pretty much ever.
I'm glad the coverage of Aaron's death continues to deepen.
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This is why I love HN - the fact that this kind of post can make it to the front page.
Yes, it's very difficult to read. I keep switching context randomly as I try to take in everything on the screen before scrolling down.
If you want to keep interacting with people in this way, it's up to you. I'm just letting you know that it's terribly ineffective.
> The only tangible harm is that it annoys people who attempt to apply logical reasoning to every situation and interaction, even where other human faculties are obviously more appropriate.

You are applying logical reasoning at any given time. What varies only are the assumptions you're concsciously or unconsciously making about yourself and the world.

As time passed by, humanity made various conscious and unconscious assumptions about the structure of the world. These assumptions got captured into language, which enabled passing the assumptions from one generation to the next. This is what happened with words like "soul" and "mind" (which assume possibility of absolute separation between elements). But as scientific revolutions occurred, assumptions were revised, and we created new terms, like "network" (a very important term from the semantic pov, as it assumes connectedness). Unlike thousands of years ago, today (year 2013), we know that the impossibility of absolute separation between elements is a fact of the world in which we live. By subscribing to the older systems of thought, you are going against scientifically (i.e publicly) accepted facts in your thought and actions.

>human mind seems to have no trouble at all with combining arbitrary and contradictory concepts into one big mushy whole.

The "mind"? Yes, maybe. The nervous system? Not so sure.

We know from neurology101 that observations are given by impulses received from the senses and processed in the thalamus. The cortex enables more abstract processing of observations (i.e interpretation, ideas, theories, etc.); the impulses reach the cortex after they have been processed by the thalamus. The entire thing is cyclical [1]. As the brain is one connected whole, it is neurologically important that the cortical and thalamic processes remain coordinated. This means it is undesirable that ideas are in a mushy relationship within themselves and with the empirical observations. If they were, this would essentially disconnect the activity of the brain. A very handy example of this is (my Western understanding of) mantras: they are not words, yet they are treated as if they have meaning (i.e, if I start repeating a mantra, I will deal will purely cortical products, instead of starting from observations and facts – that is, starting with thalamic products, and afterwards proceed by processing those cortically).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7d4ROvZ6I
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hum, is it just me or is there really no way to change the email address and/or the account password?
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> Apart from that, most people have not trouble believing in contrasting theories or living by contrasting morals ;).

Please see my reply to fusiongyro, which is currently below yours.
Anonymous need to get active on her. No one will make her life hell like anonymous can. She will quit by her own will.
From what I gather, that's a heckuva lot of money even for the hn crowd. He wants someone to tell him what to build to get that. He doesn't even want to have to come up with the idea himself. Perhaps I am completely wrong, but that's the impression I am getting here. If the OP wants to rebutt that and explain to me why I am wrong, I am all ears. But your assessment that I am "rude" is not evidence that my assessment is wrong. If my assessment is correct, I don't think it does him any favors to feed his delusion there is some easy answer.
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Thanks ivan_ah! I really didn't expect so much positive response!

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Taren, in her remarks at the service, said that Aaron believed that "the way to change something is to first understand it." Lessig also noted that Aaron had probably read more books than anyone in the room.
If they're of any appreciable size, they're paid for by the people hosting, not downloading. You do know this, right?
Interesting. I just started this, and came back here to post this.

The third question - "Global Variables Intro" in the "beginner" (one by http://madebyknight.com/javascript-scope/) is not quite right.

function() {
a = 3;
alert(a);
}

is not the same as

var a;
function() {
a = 3;
alert(a);
}

Whenever you don't declare a variable with a var, it does not become a global variable, rather, it becomes a property of the global (or host) object.

The main difference here is that you can delete a property -

delete window.a;

But you can't delete 'a' if it were defined by var.

In the same light, the following statement (IMO) is incorrect.

When Javascript comes across a global variable, it needs somewhere to put it. It needs somewhere that everywhere else on the page can access. So, it uses the window object.

Still working through the tutorial ...

Edit - Copy pasted the wrong sentence from the quiz. Sorry
JSTOR sells access to its archive for $50K/year. That seems pretty damn valuable.

I think that if Swartz successfully released the JSTOR archive, their entire business would have withered and died. Once you can buy a DVD on the street for $3 that held the entire thing, it gets harder and harder for university libraries to justify paying $50K/year. Their customer base wouldn't dry up overnight but over a few years, you'd see library departments squeezed for cash (and they all are) killing their subscriptions. With JSTOR access drying up, grad students and professors would make do by torrenting or copying DVDs; it would be an open secret, a technically illegal but universally accepted practice.

I don't think Swartz could have profited from this scheme, but he could have destroyed a large amount of financial value; JSTOR's a $50million/year organization.
Depends on quality. The work should be doable in about a month for someone good and we can spend $4-5k for the same.
I think this is the hardest part. Ortiz is obviously disgusting, but she's not really different than anyone else in her position. These kinds of tactics are employed every day.

So what do we do? I support the demonization of Ortiz purely on the level of revenge. In a world where we typically have no agency, it's satisfying to make someone like her uncomfortable.

But on another level, it's frustrating that it's impossible to put the system on trial. It's unfortunate that by demonizing Ortiz, we play right into the hands of those who appointed her (and will appoint her successor) by making this out to be the fault of an individual. It makes it easier for them to act shocked, replace her, and be done with it.
If you want to build an app for traders, start trading yourself. If you want to build an app for mass email campaigns, look for web marketing work to pay for some R and D. Approach things practically, keeping the theory to a minimum (though it's vital too). Really ask yourself who you have access to (friends, colleagues) and what you are passionate about. Chances are that's the domain your best ideas will apply to.
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If someone asks you to wipe data that is not yours, you need to do it otherwise no one will trust you. This guy is oblivious:

"Carmack had me promise more than a decade ago that I'd wipe the drives if I ever passed them along, and I'd hate to lose any priceless data that's on them."

Second,

Junk is junk, throw it away or recycle.
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I think the most substantive part is where he quotes Alex Stamos, the expert witness who planned to testify in Swartz's defense. Stamos provides a strong rebuttal to claims that Kerr seems to take for granted, about the validity of the legal charges against Swartz.

I would very much like to see a detailed response by Kerr to Stamos' argument.

I think this would have been a very interesting trial.
It just works on so many levels.

It really makes me wish for some kind of federated comments system or unique username so I can go out and find more of his work!
I think it still has the wrong connotations. I think it's reasonable for a reader unfamiliar with the case to interpret "prank" to mean that there was no political motivation behind it. That it is better than "federal crime" is a false dichotomy.