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I hate to even post this, because I agree with everything else the OP has to say but this part:

>> Beyond that, the public domain was once the default in the United States: unless you put a proper notice with a copyright sign and the year, and sent in a registration form and fee, your essay or film or recording or picture would never carry copyright restrictions at all.

...I don't like. And maybe that's just because I've never created anything of interest, or of value, or maybe simply because I don't understand the implications. But it seems to me that it's better, or at least more efficient, to assume everything is copyrighted once it has been created rather than requiring everyone to file a form with an associated fee for everything that a person ever decides to create ("What if somebody decides they would use it in a commercial??).

Of course I would like to see the above coupled with extremely short default copyright lengths, and then perhaps an escalating fee for subsequent extensions. And given our current copyright climate, I suppose I would still side with the author. But I think there's a middle ground where content creators aren't spending their time filing forms and paying fees, but rather creating.

But maybe if that creative work isn't popular immediately, you move on to other creative endeavors. And the copyright-free diaspora of your previous work serves as advertising or "proof of merit" of your new works, if you're truly creative. And if you're not (like me), but you happened to have one and only one monetizable work that happened to be extremely ahead of its time... well then maybe at that point you should just be happy that humanity eventually discovered what a genius you were.

I look forward to hearing about where I'm wrong about this particular aspect, because I feel like I must be overlooking something.
To my understanding - yes, all "assets" are typically included. In most of the cases though, all assets (textures, geometry, sounds, camera paths) are generated during runtime. More information can be found, for example here: http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
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Umm okay, but that rather misses the point.

The point of this library is that it provides the same behavior (for 99.99% of cases) and the same abstraction (so same readability / maintainability) as the functions it replaces, but with significantly better performance (for wildly varying degrees of "significantly" depending on usage).

I don't think the idea is that you profile your code and then micro-optimize it using this library. If you're doing that (which you should, for varying definition of "should"), then yes you will want to consider sacrificing the abstraction / brevity for performance.

However, this library seems like a handy way to maintain the abstraction, while gaining performance essentially for free without sacrificing anything worth mentioning. Then you profile (if you were going to / had time to / cared enough to) and optimize from a better starting point. Don't see anything wrong with that.
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Edinburgh. I was once and I fell in love with the city. It is not as big as the big capitals, the people is really nice, has a great culture heritage, is the UNESCO City of Literature and more more more.
This OP works on the front lines at the EFF. Most nerds are smart enough to be disillusioned by the plutocracy we live in. If by "do something" you mean sit-ins, marches, protests, and whatnot, you have only to look at the Occupy movement. I don't think people, or "nerds" specifically, are as passive as you think.

We just know the fight, who it's against, and the apathy of the general public that constitutes the fight before the fight.

I wouldn't call being mass-pepper-sprayed while sitting down at an Occupy movement that much different from being hosed down during the Civil Rights movement. Different cause, different day - same fortitude.
thanks for the heads up :D saw similar things to gmail too https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js/tree/master
But that's much harder than spamming the top results from a google search and acting like you're better than OP.
Jim Lovell via http://apollo13.spacelog.org/page/02:07:55:19/ - "Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT."

Jim Lovell as played by Tom Hanks via http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112384/quotes?item=qt0476805 - "Houston, we have a problem."
Well either they (a) don't believe in fast, country wide internet or (b) they are grossly incompetent.

Either way the IT industry and consumers are going to massively suffer in the decades to come. It is all one tragic joke.
Sorry but that's the price to pay today when one puts content on third parties.

There are enough open source projects outthere to allow anyone a bit tech saavy to host his own stuff.

Dont use soundcloud,youtube,or whatever and you wont have to deal with all these automatic take downs. For the record i've been victim of abusive DMCA td requests on music i've produced MYSELF since then I host my own stuff,period.
Correct me if I am wrong, I guess only on the condition that everyone is using that service, that theory will apply.

If only 10% of air-bnb users are using it, they will certainly benefit from it.
Lack of mentoring is also a huge problem. I know of an Australian B2C SMS startup which had a killer value proposition and secured over a year's worth of runway funding.

Unfortunately they chose the wrong tech stack to deliver - Enterprise Java instead of something nimble - and didn't have the correct focus on building traction.

With a bit of mentoring and tough truth they could easily have hit a home run.
I think you are wrong. I will abbreviate the article wrote on this very subject found here: http://fritzw.com/2013/12/03/theres-little-doubt-about-amazo...

Amazon’s devices will be used for a single purpose they will be optimized in ways we have never seen in the multicopter industry. Their delivery scheme will be completely computer controlled, and will account for weather, airspeed, air density, and flight path, because they will have to.

Octocopters have demonstrated their amazing flight stability and capability in the hands of tinkerers and hobbyist, and there is some question of whether a billion dollar corporation can achieve this? As soon as Amazon mentioned this, FedEx, UPS, and USPS started forming their R&D for the exact same programs.

This is one of the largest, most high-tech, most optimized and automated companies in the world, and some of us are doubtful? Amazon will do this because humans are the problem. With robots, you eliminate the most irrational, chaotic, unreliable and expensive element from the equation.
The following comment isn't strictly on subject, but it speaks to the cultural mindset toward all of this that seems pervasive even among the fastidiously anti-corporate.

The attitude of content creators today scares me a bit. I was in a conversation with two artists the other day, one professional and one amateur. They both firmly agreed, that drawing someone else's characters as a commission was morally wrong and legally grey, and when I asked why, they say, "Because they're taking my money."

"But you wouldn't have gotten money there anyway, if they had never produced the art." I argued. They countered by saying, it was stealing. "But what would it cost you?" Nothing, they said, but it wrested control from them, and potentially could lose them the rights to the work. "Wait- howso? You retain ownership, you're simply letting others use your work as inspiration and get paid for their efforts. It in turn, draws more to your story, your world- who loses?" They argued that was the 'exposure' angle, and I didn't really know what to say- I mean, I wouldn't have watched Sherlock if not for the legions of fanart of it on Tumblr, or listened to Jay-Z if not for the works of Girl Talk.

They argued, all content should be original- but I can't fathom that. Is art, similarly to science, not an iterative process based on the input of dozens, hundreds, thousands of people that came before us? Are we all not standing on the shoulders of giants, pushing just a few steps forward more, both because we like what came before us but want to see it go someplace new?

I wish we'd all stop feeling so threatened, I suppose.

EDIT: I should emphasize, I admitted they had the right to request no one use their characters, and if anyone did they clearly were an asshole. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't think doing so was a mistake.
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The "laws of the municipalities" in most cases were bull shit regulatory capture created distorted market and offered terrible service for the consumers in favor of the old holders of capital (see: token systems)
Maybe you don't want to get all those features for free. Maybe you want the opposite: to not have those features at all.

If you are going to build a Lisp processor, then you probably don't want a Lisp compiler or interpreter in the traditional sense, which is what Racket gives you. Maybe what you want is an interpreter in hardware.
> the system where passengers rate their drivers is unfair

Why is that?
"Basically, for startups it’s super expensive to do business in Australia compared to other big cities—wages, compliance, tax and even software costs are high, and to make it even more tough, there’s typically less funding available to meet these costs."

This is what happens when government gets too big and the labor unions are mandated by law.
>unless all vendors who run their own stores publish sales statistics.

They do, thats one of those things that companies that are traded publicly are required to do.
You can be very nimble with Enterprise Java. Plus you get the benefit of the biggest library bar none. The issue isn't the technology it's the mindset.

Look at technologies like Dropwizard or Vert.x.
If Oculus is into acquisitions, it'd be cool to see them acquire Oblong, to add some UI & interaction technology.
Your position is privileged beyond belief. That you don't see that is both amusing and scary.

Uber is not in the tech industry, they're in the taxi industry, driving cars. This us/them elitism is the scourge of the tech industry. Just pray you don't become as expendable as the drivers are.
this guy needs to learn more Verilog

That's not a bad thing.

Maybe this is why a Lisp processor doesn't exist. Not only do you have to know Lisp well, which only a minority of programmers do, but you also need to want to know hardware. Which is something software people don't want to do. This guy already has a leg up.

For some strange reason I can't explain it's easier to imagine a software guy building hardware than a hardware guy writing a Lisp.
What do you guys think about org-mode once you get over the initial learning curve?
There's a big difference between a 20-50 pound quadcopter travelling at 10-20mph and a 1500 pound Cessna flying at 150mph.

Regulations for airplanes are strict primarily because the consequences of failure is loss of human life. Secondly to prevent damage to property due to crashes. Given that drones are unmanned, it would mean to me that the regulation on them should be less than what a manned aircraft requires. I would imagine it would be more similar to rocketry rather than airplanes.
From what I recall, @derwildemomo (OP) has experimented with this, but the current smartphone stacks are a bit fragile for that kind of workload. I'm sure he can go a bit more into detail once it's not in the middle of the night in Germany :)
"The end product he's producing will save humanity."

If that could only be true. Even with the most noble intent, unfortunately it's all the producing (of everything) that is destroying us. We can't produce our way out of this, anymore than I can drink my way out of alcoholism.
I listen to a lot of mashups. Previously a lot of mashup artists hosted their tunes on SC. Lately. SC has been deleting the entire profile of many of these artists, or just removing all/many of their songs. Some of these people only used SC for hosting so it is an unfortunate loss.

Still quite a grey area if mashups are fair use. (Girl Talk has an album for sale on iTunes)
It's still interesting to ask, when fatigue sets in, what degradation looks like. When decisions still must get made, how are they made (differently). They are more instinctive, and out instincts are often selfish and vindictive, and sometimes honest (less mental effort than lying)
Want to add an anecdote here. Even though there are multiple options to get free songs, I still renew my Nokia Mixradio (earlier Nokia Music) every quarter. It feels good to be a legitimate user and the convenience is welcome(if only mixradio+ with 320kbps downloads starts working, things would be perfect). So, if YouTube offers a similar well priced service, I would happily pay, regardless of if there was a free way to get that mp3/4. Dirt for Safari Books.
I have not thanks for the link!
For the ambitious youngsters: do not wait until there's a Hacker News story about how easy startups are in <Scenario X>.
Dynamic typing in hardware seems like one of the best kept secrets. It's probably easier for a software guy to think of adding dynamic typing in hardware than it does a hardware guy to want to program in a dynamic language.
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> Unionism has done good things, but I don't believe it has a place in a high tech industry.

Since when was driving a car a high tech industry? Every industry uses high tech, but that doesn't mean they should be subjected to Silicon Valley's poor labor practices.
It would be interesting to see Amazon revamp their warehouses to use these drones.
Uber drivers aren't invisible. It wouldn't take much effort to use the app to flag one down, note the license plate, and give them a nice little talking to. I doubt many part-timers would stick with it if they thought there was a chance for trouble.
"Illegal digital downloads disrupted everything, and cut profits substantially"

Only because a decade beforehand the RIAA decided that instead of working on ways to monetize the Internet, they would work on ways to make computers less useful for music distribution. Basically the recording industry's shortsightedness and failure to embrace the greatest communications revolution since the printing press led to everything else you described.

To put it another way, the RIAA could have pushed for Congress to set up a micropayments system for music downloading, before most people even knew about music downloading. Instead they lobbied for the DMCA and spent their money developing DRM schemes that failed before they were ever deployed. Their "bad karma" is a result of their response to the complete failure of those efforts: abuse of the legal system on a massive scale.
Despite ebay's initial "Svpply is not going away" claim, this took about a year longer than I expected.

Fancy.com is my alternative of choice.
I think the implication is that a military drone is flying over the enemy. But taking a more realistic approach, a drone failure/crash in any current military theater is unlikely to hit anybody. We're not doing much flying over heavily populated/urbanized areas as far as I'm aware.
What's your motivation for making this comment? Do you actually think that this approach will change anyone's opinion on a subject you (clearly) feel very strongly about? Or are you just trying to post what you think the most passers-by will agree with, as loudly and as noticeably as possible?
I was actually surprised by how big some of these guys are. Romelu Lukaku in particular, 6'3" and 208lbs, that is much bigger than I would have expected a striker to be.
I've had success mixing Rogaine foam (for blood flow) with max-strength hydrocortisone cream (for local immunosuppression) and applying 2-3x/day to the affected spot.

Best prevention I've found is to minimize stress levels, though. Haven't had any issues since I left my old job a couple years ago (used to find a new bald spot once every few months).
What type of nonsense is this ? It's super expensive to do business in Australia because it's super expensive to do anything in Australia. It has a high cost of living, high salaries, high property prices, small population and it located far from everyone.

We've seen over the last few months what a smaller government looks like. Moving to a "user pays for everything" model means less take home wages with a flow on effect of less money for startups.

Labor unions are not mandated by law and for all intents and purposes irrelevant for 99.9% of startups. They do serve an incredibly valuable part of society being the only counterweight to large corporations who are easily able to buy their way into politics.
It's connected with the citizen number and it's applied to personal currency exchange only.

I think you may ask for a higher limit but usually you just use family accounts.

Paying with a multi-currency credit card has nothing to do with this limit.
What significant networking vendor runs OpenBSD? And I don't mean the low-end, low-support, OpenBSD on an embedded board from China stuff (so, no, Soekris isn't a significant vendor in the router space). I can't think of a single business or enterprise class one that does.

Cisco doesn't use it (IOS is home grown, IOS XR is QNX, NX-OS is Linux), Juniper uses FreeBSD, Arista uses Linux, HP uses (I think) Comware (linux), Intel & Broadcom are pushing Cumulus (linux) on their reference networking platforms, Dell/Force10 is NetBSD based (and older Dell is VXWorks, I think), Pretty sure Brocade is Linux, but they've also used VXWorks.
Don't know what Hauwei uses (that wasn't stolen from Cisco, or course).

Not that this is authoritative, but I've talked to a couple of execs at companies who were using OSS platforms for their networking devices (Nokia, Juniper, Force10, Arista) and all of them basically said OpenBSD wasn't a consideration because of the open hostility the people leading the project had towards commercial enterprises. No one was interested in betting the company with the threat of a "DARPA funding" moment hanging over them, much less someone who was more interested in dictating terms and making "statements" than cooperation on business relationships.

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Good way to think about it. Human interaction I could work on, should work on. The verification unfortunately, for what they want to do and the purpose of doing it, the current method is best. There might be other aspects of the job I could turn in the a positive direction though
did you ever google for fartscroll?
> billions to infrastructure

Oh, what's this? I think it was the sound of Tony Abbott on Jon Faine's program back in February last year lambasting Labor for treating the NBN like an infrastructure project instead of a broadband project.

Between this and ensuring that the maximum guarantee they'll have on upload speeds will be all of 1 Mbps I can assure you that the coalition's idea of an NBN is much more geared towards a video delivery mechanism for FOXTEL than anything else.

Apparently Microsoft upped their storage plans to 1 TB for a pretty cheap price, but forget about using even a fraction of that capacity here in Australia. What matters is that Murdoch gets a free extension of his HFC network and FOXTEL can use the spectrum on that liberally for free forever. And then they'll just call all the lines, regardless of technology, "Fixed line" (oh waitaminute, they already have) and just tread it all the same way to make sure FOXTEL will and Telstra will always have a leg up.

Those FTTN nodes? Those tens of thousands. Only Telstra's hands will be on those, and the coalition has put enough Telstra share holders on NBN Co's board to ensure that'll forever remain the case.

This isn't about agreeing or disagreeing. The coalition's policies are so pants on head stupid ass-backwards that there's hardly a word that could be said that isn't immediately pointing out its idiocies.

If people can't even put together ten words about the coalition's "NBN" policies without sounding stupid, then that's not a surprise.

And, if you haven't noticed, the coalition has already abandoned the pretense that it's going to be a national network.

http://delimiter.com.au/2014/01/06/abandoning-national-broad...

So, it's not agreeing or disagreeing, nor is it slander. It's an object fact that it's not a country-wide Internet project any longer.

By all means, try me. If you have anything to say about the coalition's "NBN" policies I'll be happy to dismantle anything that's been presented to you as an actual thing but is really just a ridiculous pretense.

tl;dr: The coalition ain't interested in country-wide Internet. They're interested in delivering a "video entertainment system" because that's synergetic to Murdoch's interests and because it smells similar to the average drooling FOXTEL-subscribing moron in an election period to an actual broadband network that they've kept up the appearance of building. But when you get down to it, to the physical layer it's 1 Mbps for guaranteed coalition upload speeds vs. 1244 Mbps for Labor with fairly tiny contention to make it a little worse than that. All for about the same amount of money in peak funding and you don't want to know how much worse the coalition's is beyond that.
I hope he can get Soundcloud to add the option 'this work is in the public domain' to their choices.
"it seems to me that it's better, or at least more efficient, to assume everything is copyrighted once it has been created rather than requiring everyone to file a form with an associated fee for everything that a person ever decides to create"

More efficient for what, exactly? Because it is much more efficient for me to just assume that nothing is copyright when I creating something new that incorporates the work of others. It is overwhelmingly more efficient to just ignore copyright on the Internet -- our computers are the greatest copying machines ever made, and spending our time trying to figure out if some data is copyrighted is nothing but a retarding force.
Y says "The reason X is bad is because !Y did Z"

Its pretty much as if the political parties and their supports dont even read each others policies, they just take the opposite position because thats the easy route.

My personal opinion is that Australia needs to let the private market run the country, rather than the government who regardless of who is in power seems only to focus on job creation (in the form of mineral extraction). If the government wants to do something it should be limited to tax reductions / removal for particular industries while they get going. Unfortunatly this would probably only work if Australia could also be shifted around 10+ hours closer to America (the continent), until then it'll be driven by the needs of Asia, which is simply energy.

Edit: I wonder how unpopular this comment will turn out to be...
Nothing grey here.

Since when one choose the license of the product one uses?

Not getting caught violating a license=/= grey area.

If you write a software and state one must pay 100$ to use it, and you find that software sold on ebay without the seller giving you a cent,or in a torrent , would you call it "grey area"?

So why things have to be different with music or movies?

If you ask me ,did I ever pirate something,i'd answer yes of course I did like most of us.

But I would never try to justify my actions by saying "Oh but you know it's kind of grey".It's not,i'm violating a license by enjoying something i got through illegal means.There is no grey area here. Let's stop the hypccrisy.

Mashups are not fair use.Would be like saying sampling is fair us,it makes no sense.If you dont have the explicit authorization from the artist or the label you cant just use something you didnt created that is not public domain.There is no grey area here.
Since we are sharing Anecdata, my experience is quite the opposite of yours. SSDs might be the middle path here.
This is a phenomenon the "better competition" should probably pay attention to, then.