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Good idea...and is one of the biggest challenges in this space. It's great that things like Arduino have made it easier to build something physical and connected, but it does not translate to something that can be manufactured at scale, nor does redoing a design for scale manufacture suffice (also need to get the commit of a manufacturer that can and will work with you). Then you have supply chain, quality control, time, inventory...lots of challenges. Still, all that stuff is getting easier too. Would be a great follow-up post sometime.
> some intervention was clearly needed. Just not the nuclear one

yes, but what profit would the non nuclear option bring ? if there was no forfeiture, then no gain for the prosecutor and police
I'm not buying a new tablet just to use IE10.

I'll just install Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft is paying for their slowness and attempts at being anti-competitive.
I think it is the libertarian foreign policy that is more of a roadblock to the mainstream. Most Americans, left and right support some level of foreign intervention whether it is active military intervention, bases abroad, humanitarian aid, mutual defense treaties, etc... Austrian economics is dry, but pretty plausible and appealing. Isolationism is a tougher sell.
I might be too young to have the regret, but I feel the comparison to others quite often. Honestly, I think this is the realm of professional help if it is debilitating. I think a consequence of being a heavy thinker means we analyze every situation as if we are merely a player in some strange social arena, and we often feel we are losing.

What helped me the most was realizing that money and success wouldn't make me happier, but that investing in the relationships and values I had would. Money and success is merely one social metric, and it's often rather shallow.

Good luck!
What about finding some local business with a poor website and offering to build them a new website for $500 if they help you buy your next computer. Now you have $1,200 to buy a new Macbook.

Don't just think about the cash you have now, think about how you can use that tool to make more...even if it is before you have the laptop.
I'm wondering why no brave hacker finished Aaron's protest. Are those PDFs so well guarded?
Lot of good ideas, but the implementation looks kind of cold and sterile to me. It wouldn't be very comfortable to live alone in.
In the US, wire fraud covers theft via mail or wire communication. If you send an email stating that you are a government employee looking to purchase a helicopter - BAM! Wire fraud.
Was he openly gay/bi? I could see him not wanting to disclose a same sex relationship and outing himself.
More specifically, on r/netsec someone who used that search found a .zsh_history file that contained mplayer invocations with file names that imply child porn. This caused quite a stir.
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That requirement was for the multiple contractors whom they found had unintentionally rather than deliberately hired underage workers, and was a condition of retaining Apple business. This was in addition to required training in how to avoid hiring underage workers, and establishing procedures to avoid this.
Geeks are one of those minorities that isn't even really recognized as a definite group, so while the persecution is usually much milder than ethnic/religious/orientation-driven persecution, the isolation can be worse.

I grew up knowing exactly what it's like to be bullied and severely beaten for being different, and the only thing different about me was that I was modestly intelligent and interested in computers. I'd be surprised if I was alone in my experiences among the HN crowd, but I was definitely alone in my small town. [I feel like even mentioning this is some kind of egregious faux pas.] Thank goodness for BBSes and IRC.

Not to diminish the suffering and needs of more visible and more historically persecuted minorities, but you'd think all the attention given to the "accepted" minorities would get people to generalize to accepting differences of any kind.
You can pick up a 2009 Aluminum Macbook Pro from Ebay for around $550ish.
Lenovo T420. Buy it from their outlet section. If you're quick, you can get one for under $700. Great computers, very sturdy, and easy to repair yourself. Highly recommended. (I own one. This is being typed from it).
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1. While you reflect on the past, you neglect the present - which is the only place you have power/agency. You have none over the past, so focusing on it will give you the impression you are powerless. When you stop exercising your options, you may start to believe you can't exercise them, then you stop looking for options/choices/opportunities, and stop seeing the ones you already have, and finally believe you have no options. You can reverse this by focusing your attention on where you do have power. Like a muscle, exercising your power increases it; by noticing your present options/opportunities, your eyes will get better at seeing them.

2. A way to feel satisfaction from progress in the present is to take a tiny action, and to compare yourself to where you were a moment ago. Tiny steps count and they add up. Add a little to a little and soon you have a big pile. A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step; any journey consists of steps.

This is the approach I try to take when I feel as you do, and it helps me. As others have said, you're hurting, and it's important to take care of yourself. Think of yourself as suffering a physical injury, and taking small steps is physiotherapy. Don't push too hard at first, try for a level that will help strengthen you, not for performance in itself.

Richard Feynman said that nature's imagination is greater than your imagination. You are part of nature, your cells, your mind, your potential. There's more to you than you can ever know.
Fine, I forgot Self, forgive me :p

That's what I'm waiting for anyway, lazy reactive systems
I think they could claim not to have had any knowledge of anything until now. It's much easier to sue over things that the company knew about.
I have no opinion (and have not done research on) whether low risk births are safer in the over-medicalized environment of a hospital, or the less medically prepared environment of a house.

I do have strong opinions on people who try to encourage others to have home births without having those people screened for risk factors that indicate that a hospital is needed. Because when things go wrong in childbirth, they tend to go wrong fast. Historically a lot of women died that way. In today's world where many women have children late, have complicating conditions like diabetes, etc, there are a lot of potentially valid reasons to not give birth at home.

(My wife had two natural births in a hospital setting. As an MD who had done her research, she felt strongly about the advantages of natural childbirth. Again as an MD, she was well aware that her risk factors meant that she needed a hospital.)
The wording of the title is correct – it would be entirely nonstandard to describe him as a "Chinese comedian". But also he strikes me as distinctly Canadian in ways that go beyond having been born here (I'm Canadian). The point that he makes about adaptability to other cultures is salient. And the Darshan character's eager-beaver obligingness is a comedic exaggeration of Canadian "niceness".

It's interesting that none of the people who express annoyance about Darshan in this thread show any recognition of the distinction between the performer and his character – something Rowswell wrote about at length. Perhaps he is intrinsically annoying and his critics are on to something inauthentic in his act, but to a blank slate observer such as myself it seems as likely that his offense is to have over-accommodated the Chinese perspective instead of sticking with certain Western prejudices.

In any case he is an extraordinarily fascinating case study in the grey area between two cultures.
> This is the magic quote: "Now, educators in Wisconsin are offering a possible solution by decoupling the learning part of education from student assessment and degree-granting."

The University of London has offered this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_degree since 1858.
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Anyone who's experienced with this area of the law care to comment?

Does he hold the copyright to the original melody he composed for this song?

Does that fact that he released a karaoke version without the vocals affect anything?

Is his melody considered an "arrangement" of the original considering the original had no melody?

If I write an original instrumental song, do I lose the copyright to the instrumental by releasing a version that includes someone else's lyrics?
Definitely, but fake documents are easily acquired and employment agencies are very sketchy in the export zones. So fraud exists, and I'm sure apple doesn't make the distinction between intentional and accidental violations.
I'm confident VP9 has a much better chance of succeeding this time around. h264 was already widely supported before Apple decided to promote it against Flash. That's not the case with h.265 right now. It will have to start from scratch, which gives VP9 a much larger window of opportunity.

This is from November, where they posted they are about 7% behind h.265/HVEC:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/85/slides/slides-85-videoco...

I've also seen in another document I can't find right now them saying that work on h.265 started in 2005, while work on VP9 started in 2011...and they are already pretty close to matching it, and they are gaining 10% on it every quarter. If that's true it should be at least as efficient or more within a quarter or two, than h.265.

Then it will be just a question of adoption. Software adoption should be much easier. Many have already implemented VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point - [1]), and I'm sure Google will use VP9 for HD Hangouts, and for Youtube. This time I hope they go through with their promise and make it the default codec for Youtube, with fallback to Flash for browsers not supporting it (only about 20% of the users are not supporting VP8 right now, for reference [2]).

That should encourage adoption by other video sites, and also chip makers. And that's I think the biggest hurdle - getting chip makers to support VP9. But now with Android's popularity and virtually every chip maker supporting Android, I think it will be much easier than it was to get support for VP8.

The nice part about VP9 is that it will also come integrated with the Opus codec inside WebM, and that should be a big factor in the adoption of WebM, too.

[1] http://pacoup.com/2012/12/20/vp8-webm-vs-h-264-mp4-december-...

[2] http://downloads.webmproject.org/ngov2012/pdf/03-ngov-vp8-up...
You may think you're a great father, but I don't know you. You're a stranger to me. I don't have any reason to believe you're any better than the last 20 people who tried to offer me contradictory unsolicited advice on how I should raise my children.

There is at this point no faster way to get in my bad books than to put your nose in my affairs and tell me how to raise my children when I didn't ask you to.
Agreed. If I was one of Keith's C level colleagues, or a major investor, I'd be livid with Keith right now. Not reporting this to HR is bush league stuff.
You may want to check out http://www.theprotoshop.com for creation of MVP/prototype.
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How did you feel two years ago? Two years from now you could be in a very different place.
Saw this ten years again. Still use the exactly same optimized structure example.
Wax strips...
This may seem cheesy, but damn. It's 4 minutes long, watch it. You think you are more convinced that things can't get any better than this guy was?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q...
The best advice I got was:

1. Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle
http://www.lifewithoutpants.com/someone-elses-middle/

2. Don't look to the past. It's all dead back there.

Also, one way my accounting friend explains it to me is that anything that's already happened is a sunk cost. Like in business, you shouldn't worry about the "could've. would've. should've." What you evaluate are the future costs/benefits of your decisions. I've been there man, and I still get into that mood now and then. It's normal. It will pass. Smile. Get sunlight. Do something good for someone. And sleep and wake up early. These are the things that help me still.
I'm in the same boat as you. I graduated from a top CS program almost a decade ago. I've only worked at two companies, the first a startup and the second is a cushy corporate job. I had a stepfather who was amazingly successful at my age, but just last year his life ended quite abruptly. It was really hard to not only lose him as a mentor, but as a friend and family.

It really stirred in me that life is what you make of it. I'm actively seeking outside help and hope that going into my 30s will be the biggest step forward in my life equipped with the knowledge of where I came from in my 20s.

To say that the 30+ comments on this thread so far has been incredibly useful to my own personal experience is an understatement.

I thank you OP for making this post. I've been on a bit of a downturn lately but this discussion has made it feel all the more surmountable. I wish you well, you're not alone in this struggle.
Early 30s? You might like this:

“[Julius] Caesar served in 63 BC as a quaestor in Spain, where in Cadiz he is said to have broken down and wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great, realizing that where Alexander had conquered most of the known world at thirty, Caesar at that age was merely seen as a dandy who had squandered his wife’s fortunes as well as his own.”
I also agree that saving up for a MacBook will be worth the money.

My first laptop was a Dell Vostro, which is essentially a rebranded Inspiron. The keyboard and screen were excellent. I had issues with stability (BSOD), the slow 5400rpm harddrive didn't have much kick, the trackpad sucked, and the AC port broke. Luckily, due to my warranty, they sent out a tech to fix the AC port the next day.

Next up was a Lenovo Thinkpad T400. While the trackpad was slightly better, and the laptop itself was built like a brick, the quality of the screen with subpar, I still had BSOD issues, and the overall performance seemed to degrade very quickly. Like you, I wanted some killer battery life, so I went for the 9 cell instead of a 6 cell -- basically, a larger battery that "stuck out" of the back. Brand new, the laptop was getting a solid 8 hours, but within 15 months, it was down to 3 hours. It was really, really disappointing. In addition, the default settings for the laptop being unplugged limited the power to the wireless adapter to 50%. This was buried under several menus, and caused me to have intermittent connectivity issues for the first year I owned it, until I happened to stumble upon that one setting. Lenovo didn't offer and onsite warranty, so I had to yank the harddrive out and send mail the laptop back to them to get it serviced.

Two years ago I got a 15" MacBook Pro, and I'm still very happy with it today. My battery has degraded about 10%, so I get around 4-5 hours unplugged instead of 5-7. I opted for an SSD which was a massive performance gain compared to my old laptops. I haven't had any stability issues, and my performance is just as good as the day I bought it. The only issue is that I've had two power adapter cords break on me, but with AppleCare (totally worth the money) Apple has replaced them with no problem.

In terms of running Linux, you can very easily use VirtualBox (free) or Parallels (paid) to run Linux on OSX, instead of having to boot into one or the other. This makes it super easy to try out different distros, and if you run it in fullscreen, due to OSX's Virtual Desktops, you can assign Linux to your second desktop, and literally three-finger-swipe between OSX and Linux. It's really cool if you want to take advantage of Mac-only apps, but still get to play around with Linux. That said, the 128gb SSD might feel a little cramped a year or two down the line, but it's certainly livable.

Personally, 11" is too small for me, so I'd suggest shooting for a 13". AppleCare is $249, and you can buy it any time within the first year of owning your Mac (IIRC, all Macs have a 1-year warranty). That might make it easier to purchase one now, and deal with the extra cost later.

Really, if you have an Apple store or a Best Buy within driving distance, you should try out a half dozen different laptops. The difference in quality should be very apparent.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118838

(There. Now it's an infinite recursion.)
Yeah this is really lame. Shouldn't they be busy with more "innovative" products? Couldn't they have just hired some non-union union protesters for this?
It certainly is an interesting case study on the finer points of licensing. I agree that unless they used parts of Coulton's actual audio (as opposed to recreating it), Fox is totally in the clear here, by the letter of the law. But still, what a dick move.

Not the first time it's happened, either. Friend of mine had one of her a cappella arrangement "ripped off" without credit too.

Just goes to show... if you're a creative musician, invest that creativity in originals.

Last question - how was Coulton going to get any exposure hit from this at all if there wasn't a stink raised? You'd think the morons over at Fox would do a little spreadsheet analysis and realize that might actually be more profitable to just put his name in the credits as "Guest Arranger" or something.
Aside from the "Some important lessons" section (which seemed very patronizing, although OXO seems to be in the right here considering the expired patent aspect), it seems that OXO handled themselves pretty well. It pointed out Quirky's side of things, and then presented their own side. With quite a bit of citation where appropriate.

Quirky[1] went straight for the "justice" aspect in their post without presenting much info or even a cursory discussion of related patents.

[1] http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2013/01/rise-up-quirky-seeks...
If the government thought he did something illegal, why didn't they charge him with a crime? Aiding and abetting a crime is a crime in and of itself. I can't find a logical reason other than they didn't believe there was any proof there. If they don't believe he was doing committing a crime, why on earth should his property be subject to seizure? The only ones I can see involve corruption.
Coulton stated that he licensed Baby Got Back and wrote an original melody. I suspect that they are very much not in the clear.
Wait...what? The outcome of vocal pressure on Apple to change? There were definitely people pushing for better visibility of the human costs of the electronics industry, but aren't we being a bit circle jerky here? Well-orgaznied and vocal campaigns? I don't know what you're talking about, but suffice it to say I'm not sure this can't be mostly attributed to Tim Cook's increased focus on supply chain and manufacturing and the human consequences thereof.

Ultimately, there's clearly a net positive here: less violations of clear human rights concerns in Chinese factories. I think everyone can agree, that's a good thing. But I can't help but be worried about this notion that this is some massive "win" for a campaign pressuring Apple. This is a problem with the entire industry, and one that needs to be solved. Maybe it's a symptom of being the world's largest company, but too many hugely critical issues to geekdom (patent reform, the costs of cheap mfr labor, etc) get oversimplified in comments like the above into some postured for / against Apple and completely miss the point. It's intellectually cheap and really just getting old and preventing a lot of real good work from getting done...
there is no intrinsic value, but if one produces more than one consumes then one must save their excess production by some means. One could hoard potatoes but thereby deprive some people of eating. plus they have a shelf life. so potatoes are not a good choice.

Gold's value is it's uselessness! It's value is derived from the network effect of other producers willing to trade their services/goods in the future for the gold you have stored.

Currency is for earning and spending. there is no bound to how much currency can be conjured to claim on goods from the real world. When the currency system fails under the weight of debt incurred in that currency - then those holding physical tangible goods will do well against those whose wealth is denominated in an arrangement of 1's and 0's.
The comments over there explain this pretty thoroughly. Short answer is No, he holds no copyright to the original melody.

Interesting final question though - no, you don't lose the copyright to the instrumental, but I'm not sure of the proper way to describe the new arrangement of the song.
I do not think there is anyone in the world who does not have regrets and have not committed mistakes in life.
Best part is, mistakes are best teachers of life.
You are in early 30s, let's say average lifespan of a person is 70 years. So big question is will you let go of your coming 40 years for the lost 30 years? (and i am sure, you have not lost all of your last 30 years, there probably are more positives than negatives if you take a deeper look).
Theory 2 - (as said by Peter Norvig) it takes 10 years to be really good at something.

Which means you have 4 things that you can be really good at in your coming life.
So my friend go claim those.
Mechanical license means that your derivative work's copyright is still owned by the original publisher, including any "original melody".
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I found the Broom Groomer on Quirky's site [1], and what do you know?--the product description says, Patent pending. Well, that must mean there's a patent application in the USPTO system! Sure enough, Quirky's patent application, dated September 7, 2011 (provisionally filed April 18), titled Waste receptacle [2]. Bill Ward is one of the inventors. I am not qualified to judge this patent against the one mentioned by OXO, so I invite others to compare the two.

[1] http://www.quirky.com/products/36-Broom-Groomer-Broom-Cleani...

[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US20120260453
> You may say that I'm not speaking rationally, but reality can validate every one of my worries and regrets.

Depression lies.
> Since the story of Aaron's passing, this site has been home to a lynch-mob asking for Ortiz's head on a plate.

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

Generally when people draw comparisons to a certain European government in the early 20th century, others freak out, trotting out old usenet quotes and declaring that the person has "lost" the argument for making such offensively hyperbolic comparisons.

Why then does this same community seem so accepting of comparisons between calls for resignation of a government official, and the practice of barbaric humiliating murder without trial of underprivileged minorities?

This is hyperbolic bullshit.
Or the person he's dating. I don't think that absolves what is obviously some poor decision making, but I think it makes things a little more complicated than some are perhaps considering.
Jeez, it should have gotten more attention in any case.
It's impossible for us to know all the facts of this dispute, but from the outside it looks like a childish move on Quirky's part, and a mature response from OXO.
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