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There's nothing wrong with helping one particular group, when that group needs it. Every charitable organization has to choose some particular problem to address, and by extension, choose NOT to address other problems. If they have too wide of a focus, then they risk losing effectiveness (particularly if their resources are small). By focusing on one distinct group, which is clearly underrepresented in the CS world, this group has a higher chance of success than one with a more vague "let's help everyone" mentality.
If you're a casual user, sure. If you're serious, the lack of adjustment layers alone will cause you to rip your hair out. Gimp is fine for Joe Bloggs making a banner for their site; but honestly it's pretty mediocre, with a horrid interface and missing functionality.

(To be fair, some of that last bit is due to Adobe patents)
Facebook EDU: a school-managed Facebook account with parental controls. I wonder how long it will be before this happens. I like your idea, but I'm not sure how I would feel if Facebook operated it.
The stuff that I've mixed up (not real Soylent, but from the HackerSchool recipe) has a significant amount of flour, which makes it very thick. The way I mix it it's more like a milkshake, and it feels very hearty. Whether or not I get hungry after mostly depends on how bored I am - I would have snacked anyways.
I don't know whether the copyright period should be 14 years or forever. But what really pisses me off is that the new copyright period is always applied retrospectively. By extending the copyright retrospectively the government is giving wealth to the copyright-holders by taking it away from the non-copyright-holders.

When Walt Disney made Snow White in 1937 the copyright period was 56 years. That means he implicitly agreed to a contract with the public that said, "Mr Disney will get an exclusive right to publish and distribute this movie for 56 years, after which time anyone can do it". Like any contact that is freely entered into, it should not be altered. Arbitrarily extending the exclusivity period on this contract is just as wrong as reducing it.

If the government reduces company tax rates, does it refund companies that have paid the higher rate in previous years? No.

You want to make copyright last for 100 years? Fine, but it should only apply to works which are created from now on.
I appreciate your insight.

Let's do a very back of the envelope oversimplified calculation...

Let's say assume the following:
- Semester system
- Each teacher teaches 5 classes per year (2 one semester, 3 the other)
- Each student takes 10 classes per year
- Each class is 20 students (assume very low - liberal arts college)
- Each teacher earns 100K in total comp
- Each teacher requires an assistant making 40K in total comp
- Each teacher and assistant pair carries an admin making 100K in total comp
- Each course costs $5K

The math I get says:
- 50K total tuition per student
- 20 students = $1mm revenue
- 20 students = 200 course-students = (20 teachers/class * 5 classes * 2 teachers) = 2 teachers + 2 assistants + 2 admins
- Staffing cost = 200K + 80K + 200K = 480K

In this oversimplified model of small classes, tuition covers the teachers, their graders and admin overhead 4 times over. Are buildings really that expensive in rural America?

Even if all the classes are 10 people each the #s don't add up. Are people really getting 50% discounts? Are football stadiums for these colleges so expensive?

The astounding ratio I follow is tuition divided by fully loaded faculty salary. If it's 1/2, that tells me something is wrong in how the faculty are spending their time.
Google was granted a patent in 2009 for a floating data center

Sigh, there is a patent on floating data centers? For fuck's sake...
Didn't you know? Transferring money is generating money!
@papa_bear I just came across eatthismuch.com and I love it! Thanks
Replying to the comment from sejje:

It's called negative externalities - the free-market unfortunately doesn't account for all costs.

If I smoke a cigarette - I only pay for the cigarette - but it's those around me that also get sick from the second-hand smoke. That's why the government taxes them.

Likewise, if I buy a gas-guzzling SUV, which churns out black smoke to all my neighbours around - I only pay for the gas - but it's those around me that also suffer.

Basically, if we apply your logic, then we would live in a every-man-for-himself society, where we'd do whatever we could to get ahead, and not care about the impact on those around us.
I combine public transport with a bike, its about picking the moment when biking is faster than public transport.
For me that is right when I get off the train.
public transport time 1h 15m, combo time: 45mins.
I know that by car it takes less than 1h 15 mins but more than 45 mins.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion

Not enough depth in the Bay for OTEC, though. (You need a bigger temperature gradient)
Indeed, and Red Hat may have taken it a step farther (I'm not familiar enough with SuSe to know whether it's actually different) by providing different entitlements, which are really just repo subscriptions. Want access to the advanced server stuff, not the standard workstation utils, purchase that entitlement and you'll have new packages available to you. Install, use their configuration utilities, etc.
Disney's abysmal. Who cares? This is the same as the "artists who let people torrent their songs will crush the RIAA" argument. Go ahead and let the RIAA be crushed by these new artists. Everybody hates Disney, but yet cares very strongly that Disney be forced to make new material instead of just fading away.

I have no idea how your second paragraph relates to my comment.
Very true, I received the email twice, insult to injury.

"We are working on a way to export your data, So long suckerss!!!"
You have stated this more beautifully than anyone else here. This is why I left the US. Mile after mile of suburban hellscape, mandated by law, and full of lazy shits who are too dumb to even know there's another way of living.
> Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social media network that is most important to teens, according to Piper Jaffray's semi-annual teen market research report. Twitter is the new king of teens, with 26 percent naming it as their "most important" social site.

(emphasis mine)
Why is shared memory better than mmap(2) here? With the latter, you get persistence for free.
>For example, I need to eat 6 meals a day @ 40g protein / 40g carbs / 20g fat in each meal.

The importance of meal frequency is pretty much regarded as bro-science these days.
Absolutely. It is a complete misunderstanding if they're considering services like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat as somehow mutually exclusive.

You can only really compare Facebook with services like Google+, Myspace, and Orkut; and even then, many people have active accounts on multiple of those services.
There are some current wave-powered generators (such as http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/) - but mainly focused on (networks of) smaller buoys
Noticeably absent in this comment, the words: innovation, invention or creation.
Breathing exhaust imposes hardship on me and everyone else, but no one seems to care about that.
That's what democracy is all about. The majority rules, unless the majority is wrong, then the minority rules.
That's a good way of keeping track of who owns what and getting stuff out into the public domain if it's an orphaned work.

But it doesn't do anything to stop the infinite copyright of books or movies or music. There's no reason that I couldn't write a book and assign the rights to a corporation which could then pay $1/year on it for as long as the US continues to exist.

I think there needs to be some kind of mechanism that eventually forces copyrighted works into the public domain. And it should probably be less than a lifetime.
> But they probably wouldn't be less motivated by longer expirations.

Sure they would be: properties that are valuable more than a handful of years after they are first published are rare enough that the chance of achieving that is a minor factor in motivation, but the existence of such properties under extended protection both reduces the potential for and reduces the market value of new works, reducing the motivation for new creators more than the slight chance of producing such a work increases it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't; Do you want useful features rolled out on a regular basis, or you want peace of mind that the company involved is dedicated to working directly with K-12 institutions as their primary concern, without alternate revenue streams and business needs getting in the way.
The entire west side of SF has no train service! It is pretty bad, and the cities you mentioned are even worse.
There has been something of a pendulum swing in feminist thought. The second wave was all about reducing barriers to women from being full participants in society. Along with that came an ideology that essentially said that gender was social constructed, and that if only we didn't impose them on children men and women could be essentially interchangeable.

The efforts were largely successful (albeit not completely) but in the third wave* there has been a severe backlash against the ideology and the social pressures that it raised. That's what your are talking about in your comment. There's was a movement to say -- it's okay to want to be a homemaker, it's okay to wear clothes that make you feel sexy, it's okay to want men to hold the door for you.

I think it's swung too far the other direction. While it was originally "okay" there's a lot of voices out there saying, implicitly or explicitly, that it's "natural" to want to play all those traditional gender roles. That women who run companies, or nations, or work 80 hours a week are unnatural, ruining it for everyone else, or lying to themselves. That if you are a successful single women you nonetheless have a duty to the sisterhood to fight for mothers' issues because of your gender.

In other words, I think it's time for a backlash to the backlash.

*ignoring for the movement the race/class/international/gay aspects of third wave feminism
Hear hear; it's not like Volvo didn't make the 240 to drive in winter.
How does performance compare to Kyoto Cabinet?

http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/
You may care about how a knowledge worker's society has changed the inherent fitness and gender roles - but all your built-in mechanisms that judge attractiveness of potential mates, evaluate beauty and cause warm fuzzies or disgust - they don't care, and they haven't changed since that time.

Mating is a core activity of any lifeform, and our actual behavior preferences for that aren't really chosen by the rational part of your brain, but heavily influenced by much more direct chemistry. If in a future society 100 year old eunuchs with purple skin would be the super-best-fit for life companionship, 30-year old men would still rather feel attracted to 20-year old women unless they're genetically altered.
This article misses an important point. The reason that Sonny Bono was interested in extending copyright is that he was a scientologist, and the Church of Scientology is deathly afraid of their works reaching the public domain. If I remember correctly, they were among the main lobbyists for the last extension.
I have a hard time understanding why some people hate Medium so much. It's probably not ideal for full-time bloggers who wish to monetize their work and have total control, but it's a great platform for casual bloggers and readers. The content there is usually pretty good.

Maybe I'm just missing something obvious, I don't know.
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I'm sure there are thousand of those 'social networks'… except that who will want to be part of that?

At least when I was her age, I didn't want to pass time where teachers were.
Same issue here: pre-teen kids asking about why so-and-so has 100's of Instagram followers. The school system encouraged social networks by introducing Edmodo[1]. Signed our pre-teen up with a private / restricted account but that level of restriction isn't the norm. The photo stream seems like a mix of LOLcats and 4chan/v but with a ton of snarky comments that puts HN'ers to shame.

[1] https://www.edmodo.com
Installing freeways and building roads with no sidewalks affects millions of people but nobody seems to care about that.
Oh, they would use it if it was a valuable resource for asking for help with homework, communicating with other students and teachers, the only way to contact some of their friends (which aren't allowed on other networks), or in any way mandated. Parents would like it for the control it offered, and kids aren't in total control of their choices.

Kids might also want and indeed use other social networks, but I would feel much more comfortable as a parent telling them no if I knew they had this to fall back on.
Probably. Though it would be inaccurate to say it is in any way equivalent to Redis.
I still don't really get Medium. My current mental picture is that it's something like Pastebin with nice formatting - if you want to post something but you don't want to go to the trouble of setting up somewhere to host it, chuck it on Medium. I can see that being a useful service, but it seems likely to become a commodity (look at all the pastebin alternatives out there), and not vastly easy to make money from.
The only time I've heard about two mouse pointers at the same time is the Amiga version of the game Lemmings. It had a two-player mode with a split screen, and each player had a mouse which would control the cursor on his side of the screen.
Thanks for the link. The issue is discussed repeatedly in that thread, and according to some posters the "license" they want is needed to show the content on their site in the first place. Interesting.

Still. The company that manages my server has no terms like that. It's all my responsibility, to roam all of freedom-land until I'd reach a border called the Law, with no lecturing on rules in-between (if you read around the terms & service page)!
Is there any kind of distinguishment between characters and singular works? While I can see both sides for characters remaining copyrighted, I don't see much of a good reason why a singular work like steamboat willie should still be under lock and key.
If you're doing it on another day, the inventory (and thus price) probably changed. The price of a seat on a plane is dependent on how many other seats have been sold.
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You really don't have to eat that much protein (maybe two grams per kg of lean body mass) just make sure that you are eating several hundred calories over your maintenance every day and you are lifting consistently, with good intensity and incorporating progressive overload.

A lot of this stuff (very high protein, high meal frequency) is out there because it keeps supplement companies in business.
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When you commit fraud or print fake dollars, you're interfering with other people's property rights in fairly clear ways. It's an obvious harm. When you sing Happy Birthday to your grandmother, or make a mix tape for your girlfriend, you're creating value through the use of your property. Property rights are especially relevant when you're not affecting others in any way in your own privacy, but copyrights can even interfere with that.

It's not just property rights that copyrights interfere with, of course, there are also other basic fundamental rights being diminished. Freedom of speech is an obvious example.

This isn't an argument against all copyright. It's merely pointing out that there's a tradeoff, and every now and again we should ask "is it worth it?"
I'm a Salesforce admin and I never understood why Salesforce didn't do more to integrate Do into their platform. The only thing they did was a half-assed AppExchange app which was nearly useless and had no direct integration with the core functionality (why have a collaboration platform if you can't feed it into your organization's data?).
Then again, they probably just bought it mainly for the domain name.
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Hum. I guess you're right; thinking of people I hired as people I don't trust does change the mindset a lot. I would hate to work for a place like that, and would feel awful about helping build that kind of place. Probably very "hacker" of me. :)

Of course, technically, I can conceptualize that in my own company, I would set up a stock Puppet-based configuration that controlled Debian workstations, build computers, etc. Firewall rules, access rules, login rights, etc - all via puppet.
In my case, it's not hate. There was just an endless stream of trite posts that got linked on HN too much.

But if there's real antipathy, it's probably the same mechanism as with Svbtle - except that the more talented bloggers were already on Svbtle, not on Medium. If you make an exclusive platform like that, the perception is that it's made for self-absorbed people by even more self-absorbed people. That's not a good impression to leave behind.
> So far I've found one protein shake I can stomach for long periods of time, the others I get sick off after about 2 weeks.

Which is that, if you don't mind my asking on matters of personal curiosity?

I have similar eating habits insofar as finding some foods off putting if I eat them too regularly.
The difference between NYC and SF was smaller than I expected
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If you want to get pedantic, then the Facebook corporation is the most popular social network corporation. We're talking about platforms here, not the parent company.
Thank you for your courage!
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Depending upon your objections about Chrome, you can use a non-Google Chromium binary.
Asana is poised to own the task management space.
> I'm assuming there is a background process that monitors the folder for changes.

I would assume its the same Google Drive background process that syncs changes made to files in the folder back to Drive, just using special handling for the case of "you moved a file that is a link to content in a Google web service and rather than a normal file".
When people come up to me in the middle of dinner and tell me I should not be with my fiancee due to our respective skin colors, it is pretty difficult even for me not to think about it sometimes. And I think I have a fairly sheltered position in society relative to your average young black girl.
Thanks, I learned that form mrkurt's link to a previous discussion below. Over there they also suggest that Medium's license is a bit more far-reaching than wordpress' license.

Still, maybe a wake up call to check what all those "licenses" and "contracts" that we click-to-agree on all the time mean, and to see if we can't roll our own every now and then.
Isn't the estate tax essentially a way for a portion of that to go back to the people? People die, and have to pass their belongings on, and pay a tax when they do. Corporations don't die, so they have an unfair advantage over people.
While not thrilled with the BART strike, it is generally the most reliable of the options in the area. MUNI buses, on the other hand, are frustratingly bad at times.
Interesting to interpret in that context. Maybe a data center intended to work best exactly when other centers would be experiencing losses in connectivity?
I'd be worried about the burden this places on teachers (if they are policing it). The normal age 15 cut off seems reasonable. Kids can just deal with it (or resourcefully sneak around if so inclined).
Oats do not contain appreciable enough amounts of gluten to bother anyone except those with celiac disease. Even some celiac sufferers eat oatmeal that has been processed to remove that last .01% of gluten. Doesn't regular soylent use oat flour anyway?
also this: http://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Red-Mill-Gluten-22-Ounce/dp/B003L...
but how do you confirm the validity of the reports
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It's still a bad comment.
but this one day, or one week, or maybe perhaps two weeks of not being able to bike means I should never ever touch a bike!
Not to start about hills... but boy those hills sure are a challenge. Men are made to be going uphill in car, not on bike. I also live in a place where there are no downhills just uphills no matter where you go.
-- Sorry! but I had the urge to use large amounts of sarcasm just to make a small point, there are people -not necessary lazy- that don't want to change their easy comfy ride into a bike ride.
Interesting. As an active (but young) researcher in distributed-memory computing, I wouldn't say that the funding has been turned off. I would instead argue that many-core/GPU/MIC and MapReduce approaches took over as the parallel computing topics du jour.
They stop growing so fast.
Holy cow, how can you live in NYC and never take public transportation?
Edmodo is mainly for augmenting the classroom and isn't designed and used for student-to-student social networking outside of topics in the class. It's a great tool though for educating kids with what is considered appropriate/inappropriate behavior online.
>clearly the answer should be b

I didn't say that it should be B, I'm saying that unfortunately it is B. I can guarantee few women in the US want to support a man. However, I think the inverse is making more ground. Meaning I think less men are interested in highly dependent women.

The leveling of the double standard is happening not by women accepting dependent men, but by men expecting an independent woman.
Yep, that's me - I'll send you a follow up email in a couple minutes
It stored plain objects, they are persisted to disk so memory shouldnt really be a concern, it uses idb in firefox / chrome, websql in others (or leveldb in node)
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This approach is the same as for 'Nigerian inheritance' scams - the whole point of an aggressive start is to ensure scaring away people who aren't going to fall for it, so you don't waste time on them.

Spammers deliberately make horrible e-mails that only the gullible will reply - with credible emails they have to waste time on 'unproductive' leads, there is research on that. The parent poster is perfectly happy with scaring away girls that want their emotional needs taken care of, since he's looking for something different anyway.
You are incapable of buying more milk? Bananas can be frozen, everything else has a shelf life of months.
I had come across it a few days ago too, and I am currently going through a couple of chapters. Not for the faint-hearted, or for cursory reading.
VPN is on another layer, the packets should still have valid IPs. 'V' stands for virtual (not Vendetta), there is no actual private network existing on top of the internet.
That's really interesting. The article claimed the Google structure wasn't likely to be office-space, because there was little-to-no exterior-facing lighting, though. This project seems to have a lot of windows. Not the same thing?
And unsuccessful men can go die in a war for the successful men who'll remarry multiple times.
The incentives still exist in the present, even given a future when the creative artists are long dead. The ability to pass the rights down to descendants and the increase in the value of rights for the purposes of selling them to obtain cash can be significant incentives in the present.

That Disney is hypocritical in their support of extended copyrights is irrelevant. What we are left with is a law, which independent of how it was passed exists now. As rayiner points out -- what is the motivation for repealing it. Once we consider copyrights a form of property, it seems tenuous to put arbitrary limitations on them that do not apply to other forms of property.