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If, by the time they found out, I was already getting media attention and positive reviews for "my compilation", I'm 100% sure they'd "contact me first" not "asking me to take down or else …", but with a _demand_ to desist immediately and notice of impending lawsuit with stonkingly huge punitive damages claimed.

They would most certainly _not_ contact me first, their first contact would be with their lawyer.

For individuals without a copyright-specialist lawyer on retainer/speed-dial - a ranting blog post is a poor but possibly only substitute. (And who knows, perhaps the OP _has_ lawyered up, and the ranting blog post is an intentional tactic to publicise this so they can demonstrate widespread knowledge of the OPs work in court to increase the plausible damage claim...)
That's a two way street. I'm guessing the Bitcoin Foundation might have overlooked some of its due diligence obligations; it looks to me like CA is 'piercing the corporate veil' if you're familiar with that legal term.
It wasn't a big deal either way, I'm just nerding out.
Indeed, Wolfram seems to feel that if his name is on the software (which of course, it is), then it is his creation. The reality is that this is far from true. Additionally, as an above commenter pointed out, his arrogance is not limited to software but also his claims to scientific progress which are not rightly his own discoveries. In general he seems like a bit of a braggart. Photoshop is a fantastic piece of software, but the CEO of adobe doesn't go around throwing his weight. The same could be said of MatLab, R, pretty much any software really. The way he behaves is perhaps the norm in some industries, but in software (especially software backed by dev teams large or small), that kind of personality doesn't come off well.
Since the gov't won't comment on this in order to protect Snowden's privacy, is the person who leaked the revocation being investigated?
I found wikipedia's section on "The mathematics of color perception" very, err, illuminating. It made me realize just how complicated the topic is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception#Mathematics_of...
I'm sure some of them understand the irony but they have to (blindly) obey to authority.

see related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Ahhhh, a subliminal message, to seed the idea the the EFF is puppet of the NSA too.

Spooky...
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>What is this bigoted nonsense doing on HN?

I was about to ask something similar. What is your comment, a content-free mix of accusations and insults, doing in HN?

As for your accusations:

What exactly is "bigoted" about what I wrote? People from cultural backgrounds less developed with regards to women's issues (as one example), don't magically become tolerant and feminist when they immigrate to another country.

Honour killings are a real thing -- I can point you to tons of articles on the issue. Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyunVoRKL8k

And they are related to muslim communities [that's what the police reports say]. Europeans, especially in rural areas, might have done similar things back in the day (nearly a century ago), but not many (actually none) modern Italians, Frenchmen, Dutch etc even consider the notion appropriate, much less practice such things as honour killings in 2013.

>PS. Most Muslims don't want to beat their wives or deny their daughters an education, nor do they want to engage in 'honor killings'.

Did anybody say it was "most muslims" doing it? And does it have to be 51% or close for it to matter? I don't even want 5% doing it.

Not to mention that there ARE muslim countries in which most people DO "deny their daughters and education".

But besides those things there are other issues, such as: the role of women, attitudes towards sex and sexual imagery, attitudes towards civic law, freedom of speech (including religious satire), etc. If they were totally OK with civic law in a democratic society, they wouldn't push for separate religious (sharia) courts in Western countries.

>Those of you up-voting this should be ashamed of yourselves.

Condescending, pro-censorship and abusive. That's your answer to my "bigotry"?
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Judging by romance flicks set in modern times, teen pop songs, advertising, and women’s magazines, Western culture says ‘no’ — the guy is supposed to pick up on non-verbal hints and take the wheel. (In reality, she’s already put the car into ‘Drive’, but she wants to give the guy the idea he’s in control)

I would agree. Until now, I've always considered the physical fact of the girl being "into it" as consent. I've never been wrong yet.

I suppose it's possible that a girl could physically participate in moving a sexual interaction forward while simultaneously not wanting to do so, but that suggests immaturity, inconsistency, and possible mental illness rather than any kind of behavior that should be recommended for anybody.

Now, over time I’ve become fairly religious, and last year I’ve vowed not to have sex before marriage, but even with a girl who shares my faith, she expects me to try something (everything up to actual sex). Otherwise, she thinks I’m not into her (no sexual chemistry = no marriage).

That's a bit different from "mainstream" culture - it's interesting to hear that expectations are similar (aside from actual PiV sex).
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That press release is priceless. FWIW that is how you play the game of getting what you want while not getting in trouble. The whole "Well we are still waiting for the correct forms to be filed in the correct way oh and meanwhile he decided to leave."
Good point. I deleted "management" from the post. The best orgs (and also the most successful) are those where everyone has a voice. Maybe you will keep reading now and let me know if anything else in the post really tweaks you the wrong way.
You mean a symbol of freedom not oppression.

I am aware of how jealous the Arabs are of Israel, and how they wish they could also have those freedoms. It's of course part of the reason that the Arab administrations demonize Israel so much - so that their own people don't complain about their own countries.

But that's exactly why the US should support them so strongly, this is what America was founded on. Even if there is no benefit.

> greatly increases the risk of terrorist attacks against the US.

No it doesn't. America is also a symbol of freedom, just like Israel and they hate America just fine, even without mentioning Israel.

But you are wrong about the benefits though, just for the consumer an enormous amount of technology comes out of Israel. And for America to turn away from Israel would be the same as renouncing the principles America was founded on. I hope to never see a day when America doesn't at least try to uphold these values (even if the actions aren't what they should, at least the ideal is there).

I'm sure you've head the saying about trading security for liberty. And the same is true for ideals. Sometimes you have to fight for your ideals. Even if there is a cost. The downsides of having no ideals at all is just not worth it.
I don't know of any credible way to implement any part of a C++ compiler with regex.
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I meant related to the processes behind migraines (specifically migraine aura). Not that migraines cause visual snow. IIRC, there is currently research being done on visual snow at the UCSF.
I think it would be more honest and open to have the government working via people actually in the government, yes. That would be more amenable to developing some kind of oversight and some policies. When someone spends their whole career in the NSA, at least you can plan for that. When someone is moving back and forth between the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton, I think you only complicate any accountability.

Perhaps it does raise the likelihood of defections, as this case indicates, which is one possible safety valve. But those are not supposed to be part of the planned-for strategy.

I have a similar viewpoint on using private military contractors like Blackwater, rather than regular career military staff. I think once you start outsourcing these kinds of security jobs, you are just weakening oversight, both formal oversight and any attempt to develop a culture of rule-following. Not to mention the ethical problems that come from having people who are literally mercenaries working for your armed forces.
That sounds interesting. Do you have a link you could share?
I think looking at a popular open source project in C++ like LLVM may prove valuable http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html. Google has a C++ style guide http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x....

I could see a C++ project with many people being difficult without some basic guidelines. Sometimes style guidelines are less about the "best" way and more about consistency for people to be able to work with code they didn't write.
I know, it's like you want all the benefits and none of the costs.
Well, firstly Naughty Dog ARE a large company. 240 people, according to Wikipedia. OK, compared to General Electric, they might not seem like much - but 240 is plenty large by game studio standards. Regardless, my comment about corporate entities has nothing to do with size! Whether made up of 1 person or 10,000, a business can and should be held to a higher standard of behaviour than an individual. (Don't worry, businesses aren't alive, so they're unlikely to feel unfairly put upon.)

Anyway: it doesn't really feel like an individual is being "attacked" here, just the company as a whole. What's unreasonable about that? It's the company's responsibility to ensure that they release a product that (amongst other things) doesn't infringe copyright. It appears that this time they have failed to do that, and they're being called out on it.

The closest thing to an attack I could see was the suggestion that "they" did a google image search to find the image - which, to my eyes, quite apart from being obviously merely a supposition, hardly sounds like anybody is being singled out.
I highly doubt he got MBTA approval for the use of their trademark. That said, it's not like he's selling posters of it, in which case his product could conceivably be mistaken for licensed MBTA merchandise.
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I hate articles like this more than anything. If you really want to help product managers, do you have to spend the first half of the article telling them that you're so much more important than them? It takes two hands to clap.
Do you have a link to the keynote where he mentions this perhaps? Would be very interested in it and my google powers didn't find anything.

While I haven't done it, I have recommended it to various people to lie on their resumes if they think it is the resumes preventing them to get a job. I was lucky to enter the work world in a time that they accepted just about everyone, but I see very smart folks nowadays scrapping for a job because they don't 'cheat' the interview process.
Yeah he's selling copies of it; http://www.cambooth.net/for-sale#bostonrail
Use more buzzwords, please.
At some point you & your partner will argue over who said they'd wash the dishes. Don't fret. Just call your NSA rep and have him read the transcript.
While this would be lovely, it could be applied to tons of software (stretching the "important for humanity" piece as necessary and feels a bit fallacious. As scrumper says below, sometimes a piece of software is too large or expensive of an endeavor to be done for free. I don't think we can fault Wolfram (the company) for that. Also consider that in any other industry, this would be a crazy request (except perhaps for the pharmaceutical industry, but that's its own can of worms). We're lucky that in software, some people will oblige our request to use what they make for free and change it too.
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I know someone who is doing this course. I can understand both the desire to do this course (get a deeper understanding of the C++11 spec) and why this is the course matter (building a compiler will give you a deeper understanding of the spec).

Still, as others have noted, C++ is a daunting spec, probably the most complicated of any language. Perhaps they resolved this with C++11 but previous versions of C++ were also ambiguous in certain corner cases [1].

What I don't really understand is why you can't publish your code before or after. I guess I understand why: they want to offer this in later years without prepackaged solutions being on github but is that really avoidable?

So you have to invest a massive amount of effort into building this. Sure you get some technical knowledge but you don't get any code you can really use at the end.

All of this makes me appreciate the relative simplicity of the grammars of, say, Go or Lisp. I see the need for C++ but I can't help but view is as a hideous Frankenstein of a language nonetheless.

[1] http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/research/dsrg/fog/FogThesi... p148
This is where i say USA lost the fight against terrorism. USA became the evil it claimed it was fighting.
Why are you ignoring the first leak, the Verizon order?
Speaking of irony, have you seen the ABC News interview[1] with General Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA? He is specifically (and brilliantly) asked if he is confident that the NSA has not broken Hong Kong law (in it's cyber espionage activities). His answer is a mumble about the NSA not violating US law.

Under those circumstances I'd be somewhat careful with the word 'disappointed'... :)

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/nsa-chief-keith...
When you start to look back, things like this start making a lot more sense in the present context: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...

Maybe there isn't a plan to infiltrate existing big-data companies, but it seems like an awful coincidence that we see things like the above link and the headlines of today.
Puppet does add some significant runtime lag unless you add in other orchestration tools. additionally if operations include cross host dependencies puppet is probably the wrong tool to use.
> The only way to provide some relief is for ALL drivers to travel in groups/packs with large gaps in between the groups/packs. The gaps can obsorb slow downs.

You see this being done with traffic lights where the green lights are timed to move each group through subsequent sections. Cars that get too far ahead or behind the group get reformed into other groups when they come to a red.
For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930324
As someone who's worked in production. Mostly likely someone was told to find an image for FPO purposes, and it escaped QA rounds OR the production dept said something and a manager told them to "fuck off no one is going to notice". That's an actual quote from an old manager.
From a terminology standpoint, usually when people talk about visual field deficits, they are referring to reductions in a visual field, rather than unusual visual phenomena within an otherwise functional visual field.

Anyway, visual field deficits can be brain-lesion-driven, as you say (e.g., the classic bitemporal hemianopsia in pituitary tumors).
I guess that US knows that it is not great at all, and people will HAPPILY stay exiled (like for example, Bobby Fisher... that after being exiled in this way was very happy to take a Iceland citizenship and dump his US one)
Well I won't mind telling if i know about it.
If true, "honest mistake" is an acceptable answer. But it's not one you bring up with the person whose work you appropriated. It's one you bring up with your insurance company when they're following up on the errors and omissions claim (E&O) you filed in order to cover the losses incurred by your own negligence.

Protip: When you're in this situation DO NOT blame an intern. Interns - by definition - are unskilled, unpaid, and uninvested. If your insurance company finds out that interns are the only thing standing between them and damages for an IP lawsuit, they'll strongly consider yanking your insurance altogether, at which point you've got a snowball's chance in hell of finding a distributer.

That's because copyright law allows rights-holders to sue not just the author of the illegally derivative work, but the author's distributors. Since the distributors have no way to be absolutely certain that the authors they buy from have actually cleared every single underlying right, they insist that the authors carry insurance that will cover any losses suffered by the distributer in cases just like this. In any human enterprise, a certain number of errors will happen. That's normal. But if a production company develops a history of recklessness, it may find itself uninsurable, and that's the end of commercial viability.

Handling Rights & Clearances is work that is both skilled and tedious, meaning it should pay well. Employers that "inadvertently" screw artists by cutting this particular corner deserved to get hit as hard as the law allows.
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I am not sure what your point is. Where in the blog post does it say that I am more important than they are? My career has been defined by being a PM and I have made all of those mistakes myself. In fact, our new company -- Aha.io -- is built for PMs.
>Conservative religious beliefs aren't exclusive to Muslim immigrants.

Of course not.

But, outside the US (or just the US's Bible-belt), they are pretty much relegated to an insignificant minority in modern secular Europe. Even catholic Italy, with it's Vatican et al, could not care much about having a PM that openly hangs around with prostitutes and models (sometimes two at a time) in coke fuelled parties (how's that for a indifferent look towards "conservative religious beliefs"?).

They are, however, everything BUT a minority affair with regards to muslim immigrants.

It's like only having a 2-coast US and then adding an influx of Bible-belt population (only worse). The bible-belters might end up a bit more liberal than when they were alone, but the previous 2-coasts-only country will skew to the conservative.
In general, quite good and I agree with it.

Minor nit: (1) you used the term "executive team" and I hate that phrase. Don't get me started on teamism. I hate this cargo-cult bullshit where every group of people is called a team. Executives are a court, in the medieval sense.

Also, I still sense that you're writing from a closed-allocation perspective. (I'm not even sure that proper open allocation would have a PM/engineer distinction. Why not hire people who are willing to do both?) Closed allocation is doomed to produce garbage and no amount about of telling other people to be better will correct for its foundational problems.
But I think "filing cabinets in the office" is a lot more specific. I think an equivalent would be "emails that contain the phrase X", or emails from these addresses, et cetera.
Phone repair and insurance is a huge business. This seems alright. A intelligent consumer can find a deal better than 200$, but convenience is the more important to a lot a people. Some people don't care how expensive it is, they need their phone the next day.
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Interesting. Looks like he still thought it out, though: The T logo is missing in the wall prints.
Dissing "cyber-anarchist hero worship" is awesomely ironic. ;)
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Nope - it's the audio equivalent of bicycle commuters wearing GoPros or the Russian dashboard camera phenomenon. There are things that happen rarely, but who's consequences are serious. At some stage it becomes worth recording _everything_ to ensure that you've got a record of those rare-but-important events.

Apart from the possible legal consequences of using something like this, I can see it being a useful idea.
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But they're not worried about the fact that more people are seeking political asylum from western countries? Is this our Roman Empire moment?
As an American who eats out a lot, I have to admit I loved going to Iceland where tipping is not expected whatsoever. Tipping feels like prostitution; when cash is exchanged it's hard to believe you're getting authentic service.
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"Closed allocation is doomed to produce garbage and no amount about of telling other people to be better will correct for its foundational problems."

I've been thinking on this lately, it does make sense. Never been in a position to try it until now.
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>Iceland had 0.00021 UNHCR refugees per capita in 2013. same number for sweden was 0.0097 (almost 50x). I think its fair to say that iceland could take a bigger reponsibility internationally.

Why do they have a "responsibility" in the first place?

What about the responsibility of those responsible for the refugees, including Western countries fucking up the refugee countries (igniting conflicts, maintaining colonies and neo-colonial pals as leaders, putting diplomatic pressure, helping topple and de-stabilize those places, etc) to install their lackeys and grab their resources, to stop doing it?
You have to wear clothes to "fit in" with the crowd. It is like camouflaging to your environment: "Sometimes you guys get a bad rap," Alexander said. "From my perspective, what you're doing to figure out vulnerabilities in systems" is great."

It is great because we need to recruit hackers like you to join NSA and find vulnerabilities to gather "intelligence" on everyone!

>The country also needs better sharing between private companies and the government, something that proposed cybersecurity legislation can help fix

Translation: We need to "fix the sharing of data" by forcing private companies, namely, Google, Apple, Facebook, Verizon and Microsoft to hand over all their data on users through legal means.
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"However, the reality is that you need engineering more than they need you."

Whatever. I like the article, it makes some good points.

It's hard to write an article explaining one side of a situation like this without 'taking sides'.

I think the the PM role/title has become such a generic position that articles like this one are really taking a stab at anyone non-engineering, not that I am upset by it.

As a startup founder, meshing technical teams and non-technical teams is extremely difficult to do. The work environments, thought processes, personalities, etc. are so different.
As a though experiment, what do you think Americans would do if the government banned SAT prep courses? I know this isn't exactly a parallel; but consider that in many ways those courses are a leg up for the with it and able families.. just as this racket sounds like it was.
When there are laws that attempt to force people to do things they do not wish to do you get a push back - you get something like Bitcoin or Tor or I2P, etc. Law is always a step behind.

What you see right now is Law trying to play catch up. However, it seems quite obvious that the people involved in creating Laws don't quite know exactly what Bitcoin is fully. We'll see a bunch of really dumb bills being introduced in retaliation then, like always, they will adapt slowly and find a way to take control.

Bitcoin isn't exempt, you're right. Though, Bitcoin can be changed or something new will come out.
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