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>The biggest problem with website-defacing movements is their cowardice (no one in Anonymous seems courageous enough to go to prison) and lack of perspective (they complain about first world problems that they mischaracterize as important problems for the common people).

I think you're missing the point, here. I like what's going on in the majority of your post -- there is a lot we can learn from other successful reform movements, but the problem here isn't "cowardice". Quite the contrary, if you can find a way to disseminate your message without being harmed or incarcerated, more power to you.

The problem is that skiddie stuff like website defacements make the movement look stupid and the activists look like common criminals. It doesn't convert anyone to your side when you hack a website like the USSC. Okay, maybe a handful of teenagers are impressed, but the majority of the country is taken aback. And the important point: anyone who is impressed by this was already on our side.

If you're reading this and disagreeing, imagine for a second that the USSC had been defaced not by Anonymous but by, say, eco-terrorists a la Edward Abbey. Sure, a card-carrying member of PETA might be happy to see such a thing, but you and I aren't likely to be converted to the cause.

One of the most important things in any sort of public debate -- even though it might seem unfair -- is the way the debate is framed. Actions like this help the government frame the debate as "order v. chaos", which is exactly the way it works best for them. If you want to win the hearts and minds of the people, focus more on exposing injustice and corruption, and less on banging that drum.
What? I don't get the analogy.
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The only thing FB has from me that is real or accurate is my birthday. All the other things you listed are either totally false or out of date. (Then again, I don't "friend" my family… IRL or online.)

Until now-ish (or the near future), FB had no way of verifying that, or forcing me to!
Writings of natural selection co-discoverer Alfred Russel Wallace go online
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The Great De-coupling of the US Economy (Dr. McAfee, MIT)
...and change output depending on the computer you ran it on and what year...
This is pretty awesome and I can't quite explain why. It seems to have a similar quality to the things the people in /r/asmr like.

The only thing I miss is the ability to view more if I find something interesting. Perhaps this restriction is exactly why its so effective, though.
Dear Bill Gates. Here's yardstick to measure residual value of your efforts:
If you'd stop doing whatever you're doing, will the world continue benefit from your past efforts for ages to come?

Compare "buying food for the hungry" and "teaching the man to fish" - which effort carry more residual value?

You developed DOS, and then Windows. Even when you stopped - the world continued rolling with your software and building more and more great stuff on top of it.
Even Ballmer with all his powers couldn't derail your past efforts.

Dear Bill Gates, please stop taking consequences for causes, stop fighting with shadows. See where you can turn on the light so it will shine when you'll be long gone.
Money + creativity goes the long way. It's time to add creativity. You can do that! You can do that!
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How to use your iPhone, iPad or Mac to borrow ebooks from the library
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Are you sure?
I'm an IP lawyer, and even i'm not sure of the answer.

1. There is a very weird set of rights around music/sound/synchronization built into copyright law
2. I would never trust random commenters on the internet, even those experience in music, to know the answer.

Why?
Because of how this stuff actually works in practice.

People assume that "Fox surely did this right before they did this", except, you know, they often don't.

When they want to use a track, they just use it, and then throw it on the uncleared list and get around to figuring it out later.

This is because they've made a licensing/etc scheme that is so convoluted, that often nobody knows who to contact to get all the rights necessary (ASCAP/NMPA et al are sometimes helpful, sometimes not)

In some types of cases, there are compulsory licenses, in some, there aren't.
These apps, albeit being really "cool", make me uneasy.
I agree that it uses negative reinforcement to help you get your sleeping habits in shape, but I do not like the idea of an app punishing your laziness by making a mockery of you in front of your friends and the world. Is sleeping not supposed to be a private affair? Do we really want to notify the world of our sleeping habits?

Moreover, would you really like to see YOUR wall flooded with "Your friend, "XYZ" is a lazy-ass!" feeds as soon as you wake up?
Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal. http://wh.gov/yA9n
It doesn't. Ebay asked me for a scan of my passport a while ago. I changed all of the details, including my name, and they accepted it.
If anything needs to grab my attention, 6 seconds is probably overkill. Twitter did it with 140 chars - they're doing it with 3/6 secs whatever.

Hell, C pointers have been doing it with 4 and 8 bytes for ages! :)
What's the status of multicore programming in Haskell?
I wonder how this will affect things like Walmart's Bluebird? It seems like, given the economy, the debit style cards offered by alternate sources than the banks might grow.
yeah yeah yeah NEW... will stay on Chrome, sorry M$. BTW, I'm using your Office!
"You might not remember us" - as a matter of fact, I do, and it's not a very happy bunch of memories. It's the horror of the times when pages proudly proclaimed "Designed for IE 4; ActiveX required." Is that somehow supposed to be a Good Thing, nowadays? Or is that "sorry, I the browser have grown up, and won't beat you again (too much). Oh, except you need Win8, and it's two almost-identical browsers now, and one of them can't play Flash (just like the 90s, yaaay)"?

IMNSHO, someone at MS has just read "induce nostalgia in your target audience, never mind your barely tolerable product" from a DYI Marketing 101 handbook. I remember all that crap they've pushed at me in the 90s, are they sure they want me to recall all those memories?
I like to imagine Mark Zuckerburg sits in his five star hotel strumming "career of evil" while he practices his smile in the mirror.

At some point you have to start attributing actions to malice.
Getting a single page app to be sensibly indexed by Google is not easy.

I think this is the most important point when people are deciding whether they should move their entire frontend layer to the browser in their new projects, and frankly, a lot of guys pushing (or developing) for single-page webapps don't get that.

While it is possible to have a mix of client-side routes/pushState/server-side generated template, it's actually non-trivial. So I really don't see a lot of cut and dry separation of layers anytime soon until Google can start indexing sites that fetches data after the HTML structure has arrived.

Big full-stack webapp frameworks are here to stay, tho we might see more webapp frameworks that are great at doing API first to emerge.
When he said the ideas were hidden (and before I realized you just refresh the homepage), I just started trying random urls. This was my favorite:

http://www.badstartupidea.com/no-satisfaction
> So far as I'm aware, the Gates Foundation does nothing in regard to the world's biggest problem, which is aging

I'd say aging and, yes, death are two related things that have helped us evolve from organic Carbon molecules to a species that is thinking of colonizing other planets in the Solar system. And I also do believe that if "we" as a species (or an evolved species based on our own) ever are to go beyond our Solar System we would only do that if we let this process of evolution continue.

To say nothing of the fact that you cannot have a non-dying and increasing in numbers species such as ours without resorting to eugenics. Eugenics is bad.
Huh? I've heard complaints about KIPP, but never anything about any sort of metaphorical enslavement. Could you expand?
> However, we revolve around and are dependent on animals, insects and plants to provide us life.

That's because we are predators. There's no shame here; it's a simple truth.

> Nature will fight back

The way you put it sounds like nature is a person. Instead, nature is a set of rules that we don't fully understand yet. One day, we may understand those rules and control nature. OR, our bets fail and we are dead.
I actually agree with you on this point. I was more reacting to the "White mans burden" comment.
Meritocracy is bullshit
Referring to the Russian revolutionary period of 1905-1917, it becomes clear that provocation inspires hardline response on both sides. Each time one side does something aggressive to the other side, it is used as justification for the next, even more aggressive, counteraction. It is a pendulum that does not naturally dampen except without some kind of definite change.

So I expect see another Operation Sundevil beginning to play out, as the DoJ sees itself under attack and gains whatever authorizations to go after Anon hackers. This will doubtlessly inspire some level of strikeback, and etc etc etc.

Personally, I don't believe Anon's style of DDoS/hacktivism really resonates with the non-tech public. Anarchism is not a dance that most people like to dance to. I would suggest that uncovering clear evidence of corruption and crime, then bringing it to light via the New York Times/Guardian/etc (i.e., respected news sources) would have a much more profound impact on the general public. You have to understand the system to effect change on it. You have to understand the nature of the broad crowd and, yes, pander to what they will be energized by.

Phrased this way: No one "outside" cares about the GPL allowing rights to muck about with your computer code, it's all lawyer eggheadery. But if you frame that in a "repair" sense, it is obvious, of course you should be able to hire someone to fix your software. It's all about framing it to make it relevant to the audience. So it goes with political movements.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that criticisms of attempts to eradicate disease and suggestions that AIDs is a good thing because a tiny fraction of Africans participate in the ivory trade shows a lot more inhumanity than participating in the ivory trade (to feed ones family) itself.
The fact that Apple's products are more profitable on a unit basis, and can fund more expensive lawyers for longer periods of time, does not mean it is a good strategy.

I can't see any real benefits that have accrued to apple from their patent wars. The shortest evidence of this is that Android has now >50% market share. if the patent wars were a good strategy, this would not have happened.

Having more money does mean you can afford to waste more money, but it still doesn't make wasting money wise.
Significant promotions have input from far up the management chain, as well as from HR (independently). There will be a board that meets to debate the qualifications of this year's crop of promotion candidates. As the promotion gets more senior, the board will be less ad hoc and more formal, with members from farther across the organization, chosen by highly placed engineers/managers.

So, the board has considerable power. If the relationship is not open, the board may end up with members with conflicts of interest (COI).

The promotion process at my large (5000 employees) California-based organization was changed a few years ago so that HR has input into every promotion, even junior developers. The board used to have pretty much the last word, but now HR has independent input into the decision, partly to put a check on potential COIs like the one I mentioned above. (There are other reasons too.) There was considerable grumpiness from engineering management, and there is foolishness resulting from the change.

HR: "From what you sent us, it seems like the candidate has a significant role in project X, but not a highly significant role...could you provide additional material to document a highly significant role?"

I assume lawsuits from unhappy employees were the reason for these changes. Large organizations are really afraid of large settlements and bad PR from employee lawsuits. All these questions would be decided by a jury, in a setting ripe for David vs. Goliath thinking.
You're on to something here. Leave it. I wouldn't even tweak it. Just let it go and get the word out. I honestly believe this will be huge.

Man, I love this.
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If your doctors do "pre-treat" patients, please be very careful! If patients are regularly pre-treated, then the 1:1 connection between donor and patient could be seen as less pure (if the surgery already happened, it isn't 100% clear that the users' donations funded that specific surgery - as opposed to just being a general donation to a Medical Partner's operating budget).

A similar criticism was made of Kiva, as covered by the NYT here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/global/09kiva.htm...

It's really important to disclose the date of any surgeries. And if a surgery has been performed prior to the profile being fully funded (or even prior to posting), the date of the surgery should be displayed and the profile should be labeled as pre-treated.

Just want to make sure you guys avoid some of the growing pains of Kiva! (I used to run Marketing over there for a bunch of 2010/2011.) Good luck!
India's recent economic model is largely capitalist.[201] India has been a member of WTO since 1 January 1995.[203]

source: wikipedia
There's cost involved with handling cash and checks not to mention the risk costs. Checks can bounce and have to be transported to a bank. Cash can be stolen and requires secure transportation to a bank. Cost of doing business should be factored in the price. We are moving towards a pricing structure where the advertised price is not the price you pay. Just look at your cell phone bill.
I don't see Facebook on either list.

http://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ict.html

http://www.iqt.org/portfolio/alumni.html
In the 1500s we invented Humanism.

Now, finally, in this post-modern world we have invented Anti-Humanism. This allows truly clever humans to signal how truly clever they are. Because it takes a truly clever human to recognize the value of Anti-Humanism.

Simple folk still think humans are a good thing.
The potential problem is that you've just described a malware author's dream.

I know it's probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't believe that we should be distributing APKs outside of the Play channels. It takes us back to the PC distribution model, with all of the associated security and usability problems.
does that mean you the http server is like a tracker / UDP hole puncher?
What does the humiliation on Facebook look like?
This. Plus, if the service your using wants your ID, theres no point trying to trick it. Supporting them is like drinking poison then stomach pumping a few ounces of it and leaving the rest.
Wondering what programming language to learn in 2013?
Interesting. I was the someone who wrote the snippet about my app becoming a zeromq => Websockets routing layer and I've been thinking that the correctness, speed and fluency doing anything stream related of haskell for this layer would be perfect. When you add in being able to share datatypes between the server and client via Fay it seems ideal!
Threats of violence or physical harm, if any were posted, are wrong and beyond the pale.

But some of the comments you criticized above are far tamer than much of what passes for discourse in American politics nowadays:
"Someone needs to be held accountable. Ortiz is someone."
"Carmen Ortiz needs to go. She's a publicity hound"
"Someone needs to be held accountable. Ortiz is someone."

Nothing wrong with saying any of those things. If you have a high-profile position in the U.S. government (Ortiz was confirmed by the Senate), you should expect scrutiny if you screw up. If Ortiz wants to restore her "mental well-being," one option would be to resign and take that lucrative law firm gig. That she has not done so suggests she assumes she can weather this storm and criticism of her will eventually die down. HN readers have the right to challenge that assumption.
Reminds me of Affordable Care Act's health insurance mandate and how the Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
Looking at MVC, a common recommendation is to put the business logic into the model. "Fat models, skinny controllers"

IMHO the JS frontend should contain almost no business logic. Rather it should be handled either by "the" backend or if it is really that complex, by a separate web service. (Self-speaking that this service can be written in any language that makes sense.)

(On the other hand, the success of node.js proves that medium sized applications can be written in pure JS.)
>I am saying you do not have a right to call it "Cowardice".

HN is is located in the U.S. so he has the right to say anything he damn well pleases.
He appears to be referring to the phrase, ""When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
One of the main components of the program is extending both the school day and the school year, so that schooling is 10 hours a day and 11 months a year or whatever. Why? The logic is basically that low-income minorities can't be trusted to raise their own children, so the government needs to step in and separate them from their kids.

Paul Tough (the NYT's main KIPP advocate) has an article here explaining it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/magazine/26tough.html?_r=0

The basic idea is summed up in this quote from the article: "Can the culture of child-rearing be changed in poor neighborhoods, and if so, is that a project that government or community organizations have the ability, or the right, to take on?" In other words, kids need to be in school 24/7 in order to "change their culture."

There a variety of problems with this, e.g.

- Not supported by data.

- Not being allowed to do stuff on your own prevents you from developing executive function.

- The program revolves entirely around extrinsic motivation, which will prevent most of these kids from actually maturing into adults and being able to handle anything beyond minimum wage jobs.

- Even if these kids do have improved reading and math scores on standardized tests, which there is not yet data to support, it's nowhere near clear that this would outweigh the other problems with the program.

KIPP makes a lot of sense if your goal is to take kids who would normally join gangs and give them enough skills to work at McDonald's, but as a compulsory government program (where you go to prison and literally become a slave if you don't participate) I think this is highly dubious.
Thanks, I had not heard of ebay as a place to sell a website. Will give it a try.
Am I the only one that gets uncomfortable when white people are treated as an undifferentiated, malevolent mass?
To be exact:

I am weak willed. I set an Alarm for [ 03:06 PM ] but instead I have decided to snooze ( this is an automated message from BetterMe: www.bettermeapp.co )
Is this actually just only for startups, or is anyone eligible who might get under 500 mentions a month? I work for a mid-sized company that isn't really startuppy anymore, but I think the marketing folks would love to try this out. I don't think we get >500 mentions a month, but if we did, I could definitely see them making the investment.
From the phrase "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

The author is saying that when he is "in Rome" he finds himself not doing what the Romans do, but rather doing what the Parisians do or what the Berliners do, since he has spent so much time in his metaphorical Paris and Berlin.
Whatever man , i call these so called "designers" bullshit, because they think they can teach people anything about design when their own design makes no sense at all, and frankly sucks. If i had a blog like this and if potential clients would see that , they sure arent going to hire me, as all the blog design feels ridicule and sloppy.
My thoughts exactly. They also look like hypocrites and thieves. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Flippa seems like it deals in small wordpress style sites focused on niches. I think we are trying to sell a business. We have put it up on Flippa, but haven't had much traction so far. Do you know of any other sites like Flippa, but more for bigger sites?
It's predictable that you'd be downvoted by the hivemind. Overpopulation is still taboo to discuss, even though it's obviously the world biggest problem, and the root cause of a multitude of other big problems.
> What they can do is have more sex because they don't have the money to do anything else.

Not sure why you're trolling so hard, but that did make me laugh. Access to entertainment has killed sex!
content which is barely readable on my laptop , it's not content focus as i have to scroll to get past the illustration.
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I used to volunteer for one of the world famous named-after-desease organization.
They organizing yearly events collecting funds for "research".
While events are fun and people are happy to gather together - no one knows what exactly this "research" does and what outcome of it. People just assume that someone somewhere researching something and then one day magic solution will appear as a result of this research and that disease will disappear forever. I think doing the same thing all over again and expect a different result is just plain stupid.

So on next even the management of this organization arrived on three brand new, shiny SUV's bought using donated funds.

The only good thing coming from these fundraisers is that people are getting together, socializing and participating in decent activities.
The reset of it - in particular - "collecting funds for research" is a bullshit bordering with scam.
Sadly, most people who are arrested or punished because they exercised their rights have no recourse in this country. A legal battle is pricey, risky, and the damage is often done long before anyone sees a courtroom.
I've also successfully implemented Zakas' [1] approach after watching his presentation "Scalable Javascript Application Architecture" [2] and abandoning Backbone.Aura [3]. Aura theoretically implements this, but in practice we found that it made some assumptions that were incompatible with our needs. Consequently, we rolled our own implementation.

[1] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/about/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjVFPosQHw

[3] https://github.com/aurajs/aura
Nice idea, But definitively nothing for me. That's just not how i use the snooze.
This is a good thing. Currently the credit card companies can basically charge whatever fees they like because (1) the customers who choose a card don't see the merchant fees (2) most shops can't afford to not offer credit card payments.

By making the fees explicit to the customers ("you pay $1 extra for Visa/Mastercard / $2 extra for Amex / debit card is free") many customers will choose what's cheapest for them, forcing the credit card companies to compete in the area of merchant fees.
Some locales refuse plastic below a certain threshold. I may prefer a POS surcharge to hunting around for an ATM and paying one there anyway.
Barron's: Are Apple's Glory Days Over? (Answer: No)
Is this targeted to the US, UK or general housing market?
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Same miserable b!7ch who was reponsible for this:
http://ij.org/massachusetts-civil-forfeiture-release-1-24-20...
Get rid of her.