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when you share an idea and the public adopts it into their culture, it is no longer the author's thing

Yes it is, and one of the major failings of US copyright law is that it doesn't require the original author to be acknowledged.

a successful copyright holder will be provided ample money for several lifetimes

Most copyright holders don't enjoy anything like that degree of financial reward. You're basing your entire argument on the tiny percentage of artists that make it big and get very rich. What about the much larger percentage that just scrape by, or who don't enjoy any success for years before enjoying modest success? This is a far more common pattern in the arts.
I understand that it's not a priority right now, but how hard would it be to port Rethink to other unix-like operation systems?
Is that not just giving them a reason to rebel?
> The problem is that I'm bordering on clinical depression (so my doctor tells me). The reason is that I'm hyper-focused on tech: I'm glued to my iPhone, read HN all day, read books on programming, hack on nights and weekends.

I'm not telling you not to trust your instincts, but be aware that it's really really common for people your age to be diagnosed with clinical depression due to biological/hereditary reasons.
Not surprising since MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL; daemon names don't even change.

Not sure how the original developers can create a fork of a product they sold for 1 billion? Oh well, better in their hands than Oracle's.
> Kinect 2 makes Kinect 1 look like a childs toy

Using the Kinect generally does.
Conspiracy theorists tend to miss obvious things like that.
You could achieve something like that using https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs
Pharmaceutical patents need to be reworked. It's nice for pharma companies to be able to make money, but it's not acceptable to have life-saving drugs locked behind a paywall and indiscriminately allow people to die for two decades, based on any criteria which the patent holder may set up, just to make sure a corporation makes large profits on successful products.

Don't mind patent terms on inventions that are non-essential, but we need to treat medicines differently. The public needs to recognize that IP protection is a gift we give authors to make their authorship more feasible, and that they cannot hold the life and health of either the populace or the culture hostage for their exclusive profitability.
Are you defining 'real' as 'cattle breed X raised in method Y at location Z'? Because location shouldn't matter; I couldn't care less what the 'Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association' thinks.
yeah, they should've chosen something more pronounceable, like "PostgreSQL" </sarcasm> ...seriously now, the only db with a "decent" name (easy to pronounce, nice sounding and actually meaningful) is Oracle, and maybe this was a reason for their success.
Twist: He earns all his money by selling nespresso capsules. There has never been any consulting or AP business. It's all coffee.
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Only if you apply the loose criteria conspiracy theory wingnuts apply. Like with anything else, you should ask yourself 'what's the evidence? how reliable/well-sourced is this story?'. In this particular case, the answer to the latter is 'very poorly'.

A reasonable common-sense question is also - what use is a database with 8 million records in a situation dire enough to necessitate invoking continuity-of-government procedures/martial law/etc. Who exactly is going to go out and check up on 8 million 'potential threats' in case of, say, a nuclear attack?
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At the risk of getting way off topic. I also like Windows 8 on the desktop. Yes, it is very slightly annoying that I have to click a large desktop icon after booting up, but after that it is simply a slightly faster, slightly better version of Windows 7. I can't think of any touch interaction aspect that I even see when using it in desktop mode.

I miss it when I'm at work using Windows 7.
And yet this program was reported set up under that champion of limited government, Ronald Reagan.
Yes, but that's a hack, and not nearly as well-studied as HMAC or SHA-3. If you decide to do it this way, at least be sure to make it very obvious that "upgrading" to SHA-512 completely breaks your cryptosystem.
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It's fixed by now, but everything on http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/guides/drivers/ was wrong. The old driver e.g. took several arguments, the 1.6 one takes a hash.

The old version basically looked exactly like the python code.
From the parent's Onion article link from Jan 2001:

> During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

"You better believe we're going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration," said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. "Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?"

On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession, which would necessitate a tax hike, which would lead to a drop in consumer spending, which would lead to layoffs, which would deepen the recession even further.

I don't know if this Onion article was prophetic or if wars and recessions are just cyclic and inevitable, but either way I am spooked right now.
This is even worse than spying on people because it makes industrial espionage really easy. This is reason to ban US internet companies outside US. US goverment do everything to split internet into local parts.
Racial politics aside, 5 million people is a lot of potential MS customers.
It's possible to attempt using OSX on a PC through VMware, but I can attest to the fact that it works very poorly. We tried to do this at one of my jobs, and for development in Xcode, it was for all practical purposes unusable.
I have a problem with the idea of conversations on HN reifying speculation that Google or Facebook are defrauding their customers; I also have a problem with bullshit stories clouding the very real problems we do have with overreaching surveillance.

Agreed. For future, I encourage you to state your objections plainly. Like this (above). And perhaps focus on the issues, facts, details and less about the players.
Another thought is: what effect do laws such as this (and others which tip the scales in favor of women in areas such as divorce and domestic violence) have on the dating and mating pools?

I've known men who've been entrapped by women into having kids (she went off the pill, didn't tell him ...). The one I'm thinking of should have finally been freed of his childcare obligations a year or two back. Her moving across the country meant he had virtually no access to the child. She's gone on to scam a few other men. And that's only one story.

I've known men (and women, for what it's worth) who've fallen prey to the immigration green-card marriage scam. Makes you think long and hard about getting involved with someone who doesn't have permanent residency (itself a significant pain in the US now). The good news is that you're fairly safe from risks in this case so long as you don't get married.

And of course, there's the divorce situation. One joke making the rounds after the 2008 financial crisis was: "It's worse than a divorce: I've lost my house, my car, and, half my retirement, and I've still got the wife". Divorce isn't easy on anyone, but the financial hit can be severe. Even in states with formulas for asset distribution, one vengeful party can drive legal costs through the roof.

The decreased level of financial security facing both men and women today may also be having a negative effect on relationships and marriage. Marketplace Radio is running a special program this week (which I hope they extend) called "Consumed", asking questions about our consumer economy, starting with "is it sustainable" (spoiler alert: no). On Wednesday's show, a story focused on a 43 year old adjunct art teacher. Working part-time, one of the sacrifices she's made is having a family: "At some point I had to think about having kids, and it's not been financially feasible for me to support anybody besides myself."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/consumed/pa...

I've also known quite a few families who have tried to live like it was the 1980s all over again, with mortgages and credit cards and HELOCs. For many of them, _that_ path is ending in bankruptcy, divorce, extra jobs, and/or little or no retirement savings.

We're seeing the cracks all over the place, but you can't apply pressures as we have without them appearing in multiple places.

Including on the dating and mating pools.
Both MariaDB and MySQL are named after Monty's daughters. He has a daughter named Maria and a daughter named My.
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>Should JK Rowling not have been receiving money from the first Harry Potter book (published in '97) for the last 6-11 years? Sure she's rich enough already... but why should she lose out on that money which she arguably earned?

She can continue to earn money by making a competitive product. A copyright is a short-term monopoly granted to ensure that authors can recoup expense before the rush comes in. It's not meant as anything more than that. Whatever she makes in the first five years since publication is all she "earns" simply by holding a copyright. The rest of her money must be earned by contributing further to the progress of science and useful arts (perhaps by writing a sequel, which would have its own copyright term...) and/or competing on the open market with everyone else.

If the public takes the time to integrate your story into its culture, if they read your book and pore over the characters and develop their own interpretations and feelings, they should be able to share these commercially within a reasonable timeframe. When you publish something, it's not your own anymore.

I think Joss Whedon had a cool quote from a reddit AMA a while back. It was something like "Art is not a pet that you keep forever, which follows you around loyally without criticism until the end of its days. Art is a child, and it grows up and moves out and talks back to you." The real quote is probably better, but that was the concept.
Maybe, but Microsoft/Xbox One was not the relevant subject, Steam was.

Am I the only one who actually read the comment I originally replied to?

By the way, even the top 10% of South African households have an average income of just US$15,000, so the actual potential customer base is still smaller than you think.
Not sure how the original developers can create a fork of a product they sold for 1 billion?

Product was GPL licensed. For many years before Oracle bought it.
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About DLC, those can't be resold, plus they're useless if you don't have the original game any more. So they are kind of a lock-in tool. Which is, by the way, why I abhor them.
I don't think Oracle is the easiest to pronounce because of the c + l. There are certainly better names. DB2 is a simple one. Nothing fancy of fuzzy about it.

If you want a word then, how about Firebird.
Just two days ago somebody was attacked for referring to a group of people, essentially lumping all mac lovers into one group.

It was argued that one shouldn't do that; that it was better to call people out directly.
Web Workers are a good example of those new technologies that the HTML5 Javascript APIs expose to programmers that we don't really have found a real-life use for as of now...

Just like WebSockets really, you can feel the obvious potential but I have yet to encounter a good example of how Web Workers will help the average web developer to solve his problems in a more efficient or elegant manner.

The fact that they can't manipulate the DOM in a simple way is probably one of the reasons why they haven't crossed the mainstream line. That or the still approximative support across browsers.

Or maybe it's just that they're too much of a game changer and we've yet to wrap our heads around their power. I don't know...
I remember how Blizzard servers would often lag or go down for maintenance and there would be no LAN option to play SC2 with friends. It sounds good in theory to some people (just be online all the time!), but it's placing blind trust into a third party. I did not buy the SC2 expansion. I literally went back to playing Brood War over LAN with coworkers. (I beat them 1v3)
They claim not to record any data, so there's no worry about gov't requests.
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So then you're not a Popperian. Understood.
Related and just as daft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Hon#.22Hon.22_as_a_tradema...
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My experience was something in between Microsoft and Mozilla, we never just hacked to get things done, but we neither were allowed to contribute back to the OS community.
"Firebird" is non-trivial outside of english and it doesn't mean anything. Most European languages at least have a word that not only sounds a bit like "Oracle" but also means the same thing.

I agree that DB2 is fairly simple and to the point.
>Yes it is, and one of the major failings of US copyright law is that it doesn't require the original author to be acknowledged.

This position does not make any sense to me at all. If you think something up, you deserve some credit, but all the thought and investment that others put in using that concept as a base or jumping off point is surely more extensive if you get any significant recognition. Why is the single concept of the author greater than anything it's capable of spawning? Why shouldn't those greater ideas be allowed to propagate and flow organically? Why is the author entitled to constant, perpetual control and flow over this work which they chose to publish publicly, aware of the human impulse to remix, experiment, and learn freely without artificial limitation? Giving the author a fair head start is great, but we need to be careful not to make the system too unnatural and one-sided here.

>What about the much larger percentage that just scrape by, or who don't enjoy any success for years before enjoying modest success? This is a far more common pattern in the arts.

What about them? If there is no demand for their work, a copyright won't do them much good. In fact, if their work enters the public domain it may get additional exposure, which in the long run may be more beneficial to their career than keeping each piece under lock and key for 100+ years from the date of publication.
Oh wow. I didn't know this.

Interesting. This could become a real competitive advantage for them.
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It is not that MariaDB is any better, it is that Oracle is much bigger.)

Edit: It is all about InnoDB engine, which is now developed and fixed by Oracle. Others, notably Percona, have its own set of patches which adds some features to what Oracle releases, while MariaDB is mostly re-branding.
The actual attacks. What led up to it, and the aftermath.

And before you go that route, I just meant that it does not make sense or hold up to scrutiny, not that it is in any way 'fun'. Obviously.
That depends on your definition of "startup".

Before raising any money or selling something, there's little point in a finance person being involved. Startups should be concentrating on building a product and putting it in front of people, defining a strategy for putting it in the market somewhere and doing everything they can according to that strategy. NOTE: That's not a business model. You can't really have a business model until you know who wants the product. You can guess at one, but that's pretty worthless in my opinion because you'll just throw it away once you get some market data.

Once you have a product and some knowledge of how it fits in the market though, then you can start doing financial projections and business modelling. That's when a financial advisor is very useful. Still not much point in hiring someone though because there isn't that much to do and most startups can't afford the tools to do it. Advisors bring their own tools.

Then one of two things happens - investment or sales (or both). If there are sales after the product gets some traction, then a financial controller is a very good idea. The thing is though, then the company isn't really a startup. It's a "proper business". If the startup goes down the investment route though, then there's very little for a financial controller to do outside of the actual capital raising exercise - so they should still only be an advisor.

tl;dr There's not much value in a financial controller unless you have sales, at which point the business is beyond what I'd define as a startup.
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I'm not sure it's a good thing to do. Because this can happen: https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/european-...
Maybe because Rowling is crap writher but amazing worldbuilder so the world she created shouldn't be confined to her mediocre writing style only.

The problem is that we are moving in winner takes all IP economy. So the copyright that made sense a 100 years ago just doesn't fit our fast moving world. The winner takes all now and will take a lot in the future. In the current world visibility is the problem not the copyright.

Also we are able to lose works this way - which is scary. Even if 95% of everything that is crap it is still worth preserving. Right now NOLF - one of the best games ever is in limbo - no one knows who owns the damn rights.

But I do feel that for works from single author it makes sense to be lifetime. But not for corporate ones.

In 10 years you won't have the hardware to run the game you will hold the rights to for the next century. It is absurd.
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Honestly it took them a bit too long and serves ALL kinds of suspicious aspects, it really could be.
From the comment that explains a lot, but misses the point completely (exchange of oxygen between the bubble and the sea to replenish oxygen in the bubble):

Don't ask a chemistry question on a physics board ;-)
Related:

http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?id=63
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It's a moot argument since we do not live in the past. The context has changed, technology has advanced, and we don't have to replicate strictly identically the structures of the past.
> Do a lot of these just get initial funding, get an office, work on their stuff, and if it doesn't succeed, it just shuts down?

I'd assume that a lot of these do it in a different order: they work on their stuff (a prototype) first, then get funding when they have something to show off.

(that's how it worked for me anyway)
> The author contributed the tune, It's a cheesy tune, but it's clearly enormously popular. You're basically arguing that if enough people like something they should just get it for free.

I'm saying that the reason why it's popular doesn't obviously have much to with the tune itself. Popularity is often pretty arbitrary.

This sort of intellectual property law is intended to (1) provide incentive for people to put the work into being creative, because that benefits society, and (2) satisfy intuitive notions of fairness (if somebody puts a great deal of effort into something, people feel that he "deserves" some reward from that).

For trivial works, neither (1) nor (2) is really justified: There's no significant effort to reward, society does not benefit significantly from it (because in such cases popularity does not stem from the work itself, any other work would have served just as well), and intuitive notions of fairness do not tend to consider great reward from little effort as justified.
It could just as easily come down to simple costs.

If it's less expensive to ask someone to hand over the data (in bulk) rather than burn CPU cycles cracking SSL (again: in bulk), then go for it.

Even if it's feasible to crack SSL for a few crucial messages, it's likely not so for the volumes of data the NSA are capturing.
I use MariaDB in production. It was totally trivial to drop it in as a MySQL replacement and usually gets slightly better performance. Not to mention not relying on Oracle who one can imagine might not want to give MySQL as much love as it needs given their other database. So I can see why Redhat would want to do that.

As for the name, MySQL was named after Monty's daughter My. MariaDB was named after another daughter Maria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius). I think its sort of sweet. Maybe someone has a kid called Postgre? ;-)
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50 years would still be far too long. We shouldn't forget that we are talking about our cultural heritage. Which we are currently damaging by such extensive and draconian copyright law.

I'd say 20 years would be good. That way the owner can in most cases still utilise the full commercial potential. But it still enters our cultural heritage fast enough to have value attached to it.
the driver doesn't seem to be threadsafe and just locks once I start using it in threads :(
And in a comment to that comment:
"Using imperial measures in a discussion on Physics?"
hehe :-)
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Erdogan refers to the Gezi Park protesters as terrorists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/jun/13...
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Good grief, please hire a copywriter. I'm sure your polling app is great but you are undermining it with such poor grammar on your landing pages.
I'm pretty sure you've seen this already: http://adioso.com/blog/2013/06/responsifying-adioso/

I'm reviewing both currently to see what the differences in your approaches are.
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> What were you paying for Chrome Frame?

They can't have it both ways: if everyone thought like that, nobody would have uses Chrome Frame.
You should read their privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s5
Should be self explanatory. What would companies in say the manufacturing industry want? ... access to sensitive foreign competitors data stored on the cloud.

Industrial espionage plain and simple. It's in the interest of both the US government (to increase domestic economic activity) and said business to share this information.
And? Rioting is not the sole source of "threats to national security".

Indeed older people often form the intellectual leadership for all sorts of movements/organisations, good and bad. Especially in cultures that have maintained their respect for elders.
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also, median sales tax in the US is around 9.5% (all-inclusive)
The bit that seems to me more poorly sourced is the purpose of the list - the idea that it is there for the investigation, detention or as someone has made the leap to Stalin level purges.

If you're planning for Continuity of Government you aren't looking to handle detaining whole swathes of your surviving population. However you may want a database to be able to check people coming forwards to be involved in civil society after such an event.

Surely there are enough people on here who have watched Jericho and Revolution to understand that civil society is really vulnerable in the aftermath of a catastrophic event.