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> We perhaps need a different term altogether because really it's not just copyright infringement either.

Why does copyright infringement not work?

> If you take something from me that is meant only for sale to others then it helps me absolutely zero that I still have it.

That still does not make it equivalent to theft. If I somehow started distributing copies of your digital goods and made it impossible for you to distribute the originals, would you say that's worse than me only doing the former and not the latter?

> This is much closer to 'theft' than the old idea of copyright infringement.

No, it is not. From WikiPedia [1]: In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

In no way is pirating something fitting that definition. The only thing that piracy might deny you is potential profits, which are not property by any definition.

> You have a good point about market value but those are economic principles, not moral ones. It's like saying I only took a gumdrop instead of a pallet of candy bars, but either way it's still wrong.

I agree! Piracy is wrong. Does not matter how little or how much you do it, it ends up hurting someone.

Well, it's more complicated. For example, I currently have a song in my iTunes library that I bought from iTunes when they sold DRM encumbered audio. I bought it with an Apple ID I no longer have access to. iTunes refuses to recognize it in any way and I cannot decrypt it, but I did pay for it fair and square. Would it be amoral for me to download that song on a file sharing network? What if I had an LP that I bought in 1979 instead of an m4p file?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
If you have to preface your comments with "I am not sexist," there's probably something sexist about the words that are going to follow. You're hitting a lot of the derailing for dummies points here...
This is normal for Microsoft product-specific APIs. They are as stable as a drunk unicyclist from experience.

Well to be truthful, they last forever but you never know which one you should be using because there are about 3-4 concurrent APIs that do the same thing which may be deprecated at zero days notice.
As a fun but related aside, Wistia are using d3 for a pretty cool background on their developer docs:

http://wistia.com/doc/upload-api

Click on the background to see the voronoi cells, script here:

http://wistia.com/doc/javascripts/voronoi.js
Who Won the Social Media Superbowl 2013?
Add auto-complete to the command line and everyone will start using long form without the need to beg. Imperfectly remembering the flag spelling is a rather large annoyance, short flags avoid this problem at the cost of crypticism, autocomplete actually solves it.
Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring devs in Chicago 
What we do: we sell manufacturer-sponsored grocery and drug deals to consumers and load the deals directly to loyalty cards. We are revolutionizing the business of CPG marketing.

We're looking to add to what is an exceptional dev team here at Aisle50. We work primarily in Ruby, but we know that great devs can quickly adjust to new frameworks - so you needn't be a Ruby blackbelt (you will become one).

The best candidate will have experience touching all pieces of the stack. This person will be instrumental in helping us build new functionalities - like a shopping cart that allows users to checkout with more than one deal - and knitting in new integrations between our app and the APIs belonging to the largest retailers in the world.

We are a small, efficient team; our devs carve off new projects each week and tackle them one-on-one, consulting with other devs as they go. Everybody learns, everybody builds.

About us:
+ We’re the only major grocery brands deal site that exists; it’s hard to do and we do it well
+ We’re in Chicago and so is the job
+ $2.6M VC funded - August Capital is our lead investor
+ We have sales relationships with more than ten companies with revs of $1B+
+ We eat free, healthyish lunch together every day
+ Competitive salary, generous equity awards and full benefits and great people

About you:
+ Agile generalist
+ Entrepreneurial
+ Ruby experience preferred, not required

To apply, email your resume and a few sentences. Github profiles and personal webapps – or examples of anything you’ve built – also appreciated.

Email: corbetscouloir@aisle50.com
Fix spelling in title please ("reasearch" should be "research").
I have a difficult time believing that suddenly, as if overnight, solar is able to compete with coal, even if you take into account the subsidizing of coal/oil/NG vs. solar.

The question is, how much of this deal is government subsidy? If Macho Springs was not subsidized, how much would they have to sell the power for?

If they are heavily subsidized, the cost of that power is much higher than advertised, and the tax payer is picking up the difference, either via higher taxes, or through inflation (caused by government debt or QE), which is a tax on those who can least afford to be taxed: the poor.
" know how to fit the building blocks together "
which is, in essence, finding all the vulns at various levels.
maybe it's just a difference of point of view after all.

I'm thinking that knowing system architecture, and programming with the various languages used by the program is necessary and natural for exploit research, but maybe that's because I've been around that stuff for too long.

And yes, I was hinting at the kind of OSes you're mentioning. When you're left with logic bugs, it's a huge step forward IMO. Most importantly, as long as you're not having all data in one container the failure of one component does not impact the next component unless you made terrible messaging choices, those being generally extremely controlled to avoid these (which arguably browser vendors are attempting to do right now, but that their browser-based-OSes are trying to decouple)
referring to the design of which one?
Ecommerce is a Slog
Icelandic here. What bankers did we prosecute? As far as I know, only two people of minor importance have been prosecuted.

And we didn't "crowd-source" our constitution (which hasn't been changed yet, btw). The committee of 25 people simply maintained a website where they could collect opinions. They had no significance other than being input to the work of that committee. But I suppose many Icelandic are happy to let this kind of misunderstanding propagate, rather than explaining how we messed up the election of those 25 people, how their suggestion for a new constitution is actually only "advice" for the parliament, and how nothing has happened yet as we still have the same old constitution.

We also don't like to mention that there is little wrong with our old constitution. It's pretty standard. The suggestions for the new one, as far as the banking crisis goes, are about more transparency in government. Other changes are about different things (such as ownership of natural resources, etc.)

There is a lot of misinformation and hype in the foreign media around how Iceland has handled the crisis. As an Icelander living abroad, talking about this topic mainly consists of telling people "actually, that's not what happened..".
Very true. Having not really watched the show before, though, I'm really curious what that scene is like with the laugh track still in. They pause so frequently, I wonder if it would still be a little hard to follow?
Why Vine's Going to Grow Into Something Huge
While I haven't observed directly everything you bring up I think you make very good points.

It's funny, when I started reading this I immediately thought "They are doing just fine and their rewards program is quite nice" Then I realized I was thinking of Qdoba. I have completely stopped visting Chipotle because even if the food is not as high quality at Qdoba (Something you suggest Chipotle is slipping on) their customer service is leaps and bounds better.

I went out to eat with my Mom when she was in town last, we went to Qdoba and I swiped my rewards card. It turns out I had a free burrito and so it was used (Yes, I am aware you can turn on a "stockpiling" mode via the website that doesn't auto-spend your rewards points but I usually don't need or want it on). I tweeted about it jokingly, something along the lines of "Damn, it would be when my Mom was paying that I would get a free burrito" and I included a @qdoba in the message. Not 5 min later I got a reply back on twitter asking for me to DM my rewards card number to their main twitter account so they could credit me a free burrito.

They did nothing wrong on their end and I got a free burrito, by all counts (even mine) there was nothing they needed to do to "make this right" it was already right. I'm not saying Chipotle wouldn't have done the same thing but it's just something Qdoba did do that won them my loyalty.
one caveat, any approach like this (one that just uses css) will hide the tooltip if the thing it is tipping (or one of it's parents) is clipped by overflow:auto/scroll/hidden. the only way to get around that is using javascript (the tooltip needs to be inserted into the dom outside of the element with constrained overflow, eg: as a child of body). I've found that in any decent size project I've done, eventually I run into that scenario, so I usually just start with a JS based approach from the beginning (bootstrap, jqueryUI, etc)
I never said that one is bad and the other is good. I'm just trying to explain why nerds frequently prefer Community over The Big Bang Theory, when superficially The Big Bang Theory appears to be a show for nerds.
I would hire the friend since he can actually solve problems.
Oh, so THAT's why the power went out at the Super Bowl.
There might have been, it wouldn't surprise me if they were talking about Chrome to Phone, an extension for Chrome they built for pushing to your Android phone.

The problem is Google never really took it any further and stopped supporting it. Classic example of a project that simply withered without any love.
From an outside perspective, this seems really odd. It was my impression that XNA sparked innovation quite a bit in the indie game development world. Hopefully MonoGame can fill some of the void this leaves.
Assuming there are no other bugs in the CMS in question, and no other apps are installed with access to the same server, and the admins implement good authentication policies, there is no danger from this.

But...

It is rare there is only one app on a server, even a non-shared one, so this information could be used in conjunction with this information in order to cause bother. It is not uncommon to see something like phpMyAdmin installed in a standard location on a given domain and not locked down well - for sites where this is the case this bug is very serious.

It is scary how many people out there calling themselves sysadmins use the same password for everything to do with a given service, or even for everything - for them this is a bigger problem as revealing the DB password also reveals the credentials needed to access other things (perhaps an SSH account with privileged access either directly or via sudo).
Also speaking up.
This is still a good point- Wisconsin or Minnesota are actually in the temperate climate zone. These states might be -10 F in January and 102 F degrees in July. Both heating and cooling are necessary, regardless of their location in the temperate climate zone.
Choice over default
Why do some academic journals cost $20K/yr?
I once ran into this problem of disappearing labels in the input fields leading to incorrect submissions.

The design didn't allow for proper labels, being a standard first name and email address form in a small space, and the client wouldn't budge on it. Often we would see people putting their email address in the first input field. Eventually I used the email address verification Javascript from the second field on the first field. If an email address was found, it alerted to point that out and asked for first name in the first input while moving the email address to the second, correct input.
CBS does this with the 60 Minutes website.
It's so irritating.
McKinsey Quarterly Report emphasis social media skills
Worth noting that outing someone requires an immense amount of courage.

I think the more privilege you have, the less courage it takes.
I don't like TBBT for the same reasons I don't like shows such as Mad Men: they say very little about their subject matter. A friend of mine tried to explain Mad Men by reminding me, "that was the way it was back then." I really don't need to be reminded of that. I'm not nostalgic for all of the sexism, racism, and I'm not really fond of the advertising industry. In a similar manner friends who explain TBBT to me need to remind me, "that's how things are." Geeks are infantile, weird, and still fun to laugh at. Nothing has changed since elementary school then at least.

I might enjoy the show more if its mocking and condescending overtones were at least met by one self-aware character. At least then there would be the chance for satire. Instead it's just a laugh track of predictable tropes: geek says something geeky about math or science that is completely disproportionate to the current, mundane situation. Normal character rolls their eyes. Audience laughs. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Add a dose of the usual, "normal," sexism once in a while and laugh at how "geeks," shrivel like flowers when faced with the objectification of their, "desires." Ha, ha.

The show is hardly any different than any other sitcom on television.
The attacker lets the handshake complete normally and then intercepts the transmission of the encrypted record that contains the secret that they wish to decrypt. (Assuming that the parties negotiated a CBC ciphersuite.)

The attacker can then alter the encrypted record and send it onwards to the server. Because the record has been altered, the server will reject it and close the connection. However, the amount of time that it takes to reject the record reveals something about the plaintext padding. If the client will repeatedly send the same plaintext secret (e.g. HTTP cookie) over many connections (e.g. a web browser repeatedly requesting a resource) then the attacker can learn a little from each connection and, after thousands of connections, start to decrypt the secret.
How big are the "very large files"?
Bollocks - they are just as shit with respect to support.
Ask HN: Tinmanoilchange.com needs a tune-up
This post is for the SEO or SEM pros of HN because I'm in desperate need of some sound advice.

I created Tinmanoilchange.com about 10 months ago to be a hub for oil change coupons but my traffic is on life support and the site, and I, could use your help.

What is Tin Man's value proposition? For small shops, that would be free exposure as they (or anyone really) can upload their best oil change coupon to the site and, thereby, compete with the larger chains. For the consumer, the value lies in having one place where shops of all size compete for their business - lowering the price and increasing the quality of service in the process.

The vision is for the Tin Man brand to be the trusted leader for the very best and latest auto service and repair coupons.

So what have I done to promote it?

- guest posts on a few major coupon sites
- social bookmarking submissions
- article marketing
- press (or media) release distributions (one professionally written and distributed through PRnewswire; this led to a phone interview from a freelance writer hired by Greensheet and the Service Executive)
- the blog was accepted into the Best Of The Web directory

Despite these efforts, my numbers are and have been dwindling on a monthly basis - except for the first month when traffic spiked. Since then, however, my numbers have been on a steady downtrend.

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it? And what can I do for users, and Google, to get excited about what I'm doing again?

One last thing worth mentioning is that this is the one project that I've stuck with the longest because it's the one I believe in the most. This is an accomplishment for me, in and of itself, and another reason why I really want to make it work.

Thanks for reading.
I thought this was going to be about DEVAP http://www.nrel.gov/news/features/feature_detail.cfm/feature... Which can't get here fast enough on the Gulf Coast. Open a window? No way man, only a few days per year.
The post seems to compare the price of this wholesale deal to the retail price of coal-generated electricity. The post also seems to assume that the price is indicative of the cost of production.
It will be profitable, but it needs to be extremely profitable to justify a $1 billion valuation on the company.
clickable: http://tinmanoilchange.com/
How do you figure that a dollar bill has any intrinsic value? The raw materials have some minor value, sure, but the cost of making a dollar note is significantly lower than a dollar.

A dollar bill is a promise of value, conceptually no different to a cheque from the US government. If you believe that money has any value in itself, then I have some Zimbabwean dollars to sell you.
Youngest American Woman Billionaire Found With In-N-Out
Oh for the love of Pete. I love Sheldon. Heck my girlfriend has repeatedly told me she would leave me for Sheldon. This idea that everyone is making fun of nerds must be due to some kind of insecurity. As a geek, I quite enjoy the show.
That doesn't work for graphics drivers as there is a different driver model for Windows 8 than Windows 7.
I used to smirk at people who claimed Microsoft constantly did this but I now see the light.

First silverlight, now this.

Why should I invest in the Microsoft stack? I'm done. Microsoft is no longer a platform I will work on and I will recommend open source products and frameworks from now on.

Can you imagine spending 5 years learning XNA and becomming a guru, only to have them yank the rug from under you?

Oh you have experience in XNA? You might as well have experience in Visual Foxpro.

F-U Microsoft - from thousands of XNA devs worldwide (including myself)
That what practical tests are for. Throw a problem to solve, leave the programmer for an hour and see what he'll produce, while having normal access to the online world.

But you don't want to check encyclopedic knowledge during interview talk. You want to check how well he understands what he's doing, what is his approach to problems, what kind of problems did he solve in the past and how he did it, and lot of other things that don't require the only one correct answer (and cannot even be answered by one).
Meeteor.com Has Shut Down - Post Mortem
It depends how big a chunk of the game is dependant on the programming aspect. Since it is inherently multiplayer it's quite possible that people with technical skills will dominate the game.
It definitely has tremendous broad appeal, but I think the characteristics I mentioned above is what puts it into this category of it's own. Notch has done an amazing design job of baking in advanced gameplay without affecting any of the accessibility.
Exactly. Most media feed from the same trough; and they'd do anything to maintain that status quo. Especially in these tough times, when newspapers are failing and the radio/TV business model is in dire straits thanks to alternative news sources like the Internet.
The last sentences makes me think:

Ask yourself this: If on January 10, Steve Heymann and Carmen Ortiz at
the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office had called Aaron’s lawyer and said
they’d realized their mistake and that they were dropping all charges — or
even for that matter that they were ready to offer a reasonable plea deal
that wouldn’t have marked Aaron as a felon for the rest of his life — would
Aaron have killed himself on January 11?

The answer is unquestionably no.

Is it really, unquestionably, no? If for two years he was enjoying life (As the OP explained) and that he was actively working on a new project (Again as the OP explained), I find it very odd that he committed suicide because of the charges.

It has to have a straw that broke the camel's back. Oh well, I guess so. Or I don't know. But I find it very sad.
> Can a systems administrator really go back into programming?
Of course. You could start by availing yourself of the many opportunities to program as part of your sysadmin job. That will give you plenty of practice and a portfolio of useful tool you've built.

You probably know some devs at your current employer so, talk to them and see if there are any opportunities coming up. Or, you could find a new job at a smaller company or startup where sysadmin skills would come in handy.

Most of all, have a clear reason why you want to become a developer. Mine was (and still is) that I'd rather build products than babysit them. I was a full-time sysadmin before and during grad school (CS). Now I do programming and sysadmin, plus other soft skills like proj mgmt.

A great benefit to being a sysadmin is that you can talk to other sysadmins and get stuff done.
Please don't submit articles behind pay walls.
Apart from ARM that is :)
I'm working on running the tests on 2x Xeon E5-2630 and a Tesla K20c. Will post the results here in a couple hours.
Haha that's exactly right!
It's never confirmed that Sheldon is the smartest of them. You only have his words for that. He's always working on sth big, but never delivers. And there are dozens of other smart people and geeks in the show, most of them likeable. I don't have a problem with show full of geeks, in which one of them is asshole. Seems fair.
Sorry, but this sounds a little like nostalgia colored recollection. There's nothing magical about old architecture. Yes, some designs will stay cooler than others, but you're not getting anywhere close to an air-conditioned home in a Florida summer using old designs (barring absurdities like stone castles).

Florida is similar to Cuba. If you own a home located close to the beach, you're in good shape. You can leave your windows open all winter, and most of the fall and spring. As you move inland you lose the ocean breeze cooling effect very, very quickly though.

I grew up in a turn of the century bungalow home about 3 miles from the beach on the east coast of Florida. The home was built, and lived in, by a contractor who developed much of my home town in the 1900-1915 time period. The homes had many windows with long-ish eaves (for shade) so you could take advantage of the breeze. Back in the early 1900s, that was the only option you had.

Growing up, we only had a window unit air conditioner, and my parents couldn't afford to run it much, so I can personally attest to the difficulties associated with living in South Florida with no air-conditioning. It was never "quite cool" (by air-conditioned standards) in our house during the summer, even though the home was designed specifically for the environment. For most of the day it stayed cooler than it was outside, but on a cloud-free summer day, there was no relief, inside or out.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use innovative techniques to reduce energy usage, but I am contesting the idea that you can build an above-ground zero-energy home in Florida.
Were the walls solid concrete?
Maybe you're not sexist, but I dispute your simple truth. I have been on the same conference speaking circuit that Sarah has for 9 years now, and not once have I been on the receiving end of a similar attack.

I am a male. I have had my ideas challenged, but no one has ever made it personal. Do you really think most female speakers are so lucky?