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One word summarizes the article: "emo".

It's a long angst-dripping screed lamenting the extreme data connectivity of today, failing to note three critical points: (A) the connectivity is as vital to "life as we know it" as your nervous system is to your body, (B) he lives it by choice, and (C) he can unplug if he wants to.

He fails to notice that "we" is not universal. For high-tech types living in crowded cities, yes, but there are a whole lotta people much less, and even un-, connected to the Web.

He fails to notice that the connectivity he laments is critical to maintaining life as he knows it. What he takes for granted, the symbiotic consequence of extreme data proliferation. Take away the interconnectedness that scares him, and he has few options beyond tilling the ground and harvesting his own food.

He fails to notice the choices he has. Going only so far as locking the door & smashing the phone, he laments the data-driven world still exists just feet away. Newsflash: there is life outside the blue/red[1] border.

He fails to notice that disconnection is an option, to whatever degree he is comfortable with. Log out of Facebook. Avoid HN. Stop viewing social media. Most news is irrelevant. Pay in cash. Accept that disconnection means longer waits and fewer options. Realize that most of humanity throughout history, some 40 billion people, got along to what they considered "fine" without the Web.

While briefly still connected, take a look at these: http://www.zillow.com http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com https://www.google.com/#q=library+near+me http://www.mypatriotsupply.com/Articles.asp?ID=245

Quit whining. If you want to get out, you can. There is an off switch, and the disconnected life is wonderful.

[1] - if you look closely at voter precinct maps and their blue/red Democrat/Republican Left/Right Progressive/Conservative boundaries, you'll see stark & consistent delineation right at the urban/rural boundary. Cities are political archipelagos, and he's lamenting the foliage & ground, longing for the oceans he doesn't realize surround him.
This business practice of hiding secret drawbacks in Terms of Service need be sent to the courts and stopped. In the history of contact law, the practice has come, been outlawed, reinvented, been outlawed again, and repeated with new schemes every 10-20 year or so. Last time it was Hidden fees and surcharges, before that, incomplete prices and hidden costs. The law adapted and with it business practices, but the lure of addition revenue after sale are still going strong.

So instead of hiding costs in contracts, companies now simply takes control of the property they have sold. Same attack vector, same intent as before, and contract law is lagging behind as usually. It is extremely doubtful that this kind of TOS is legal, and without the TOS, Samsung is commercially invading peoples private property. They are not allowed to plant advertisement signs on land they don't own, and a TOS which no one reads or understand should not change that fact.
I think I'd be okay with A4 if it were a bit smaller. Pegging A0 to a sq. meter is the problem. That's just arbitrary.
That's a problem, but not a DMCA problem.
The kernel move was, reportedly, for performance reasons. I think if you use NT workstation at the time, you'd probably notice this compared 95/98. I believe MS also runs http in kernel space under http.sys. There's no backwards compatability there for legacy 8 or 16-bit apps as, you know, the web is younger than those apps and even then a browser would not need to interface with them.

I think MS is eternally hamstrung by performance and legacy issues because those two things are in demand for so many of their customers. Windows fits this market, which is fairly sizeable. Of course now with hardware at the speed its at, you can get a lot more slack. I've found the linux desktop to be horribly slow until the past couple of years where there's a glut of CPU/GPU performance on even the most commodity equipment. I can run, and have run, Win7 on equipment that shipped with XP and its been a fairly pleasant experience. Running, say, a gnome or KDE WM on that equipment is a nightmare. MS, for all its faults, is fairly conservative in many regards, especially performance.

At the end of the day this is yet another security issue that needs to be patched. The larger issue in my mind isn't MS decisions from 15 years ago, but why so much of our software infrastructure is being written in languages that more or less beg for stack/malloc vulnerabilities. These constant tirades about MS are just more "the beatings will continue until morale improves" and not really a constructive conversation about security. I think in the near future we'll be looking at all our stuff written in Rust-like languages and wonder why the hell it took so long to do.

Lastly, Win10 is a technical preview. Finding bugs is exactly what should be going on here. Are we really being this critical on pre-release software? I don't see any other software held up to such a standard.
"a large portion of the uploaded code is copyrighted by the University of Illinois." seems to suggest the homework involved working on an existing codebase.
It seems fairly clear that the repos listed violate the ethical rules that the university has set, and it's entirely possible that it will aid plagiarists.

That said, the DMCA does not prohibit students from encouraging others to neglect their own education, it exists to enforce copyright. IANAL, but their case that they own the copyright over the repos because their syllabus includes the questions being solved doesn't seem very solid.
On big complex projects in "classically-organized" enterprises you can be successful for years without writing any html, js, css, sql or doing any administration at all.

As a backend dev you get your data from web-services which are written by the web-services team (or another company) which in turn receives optimized database queries/procedures from the database team. You pass the data after processing to the template/fronted which is is the domain of the fronted-guys.

Deployment is done by the ops team to servers which are administered by the infrastructure department in the data center.

My first job as junior-developer was in such organization and it is quite enjoyable to have experts for every domain to learn from instead a lot of "Jack of all trades, master of none" people. The other benefit is that you can put all your effort in to mastering your particular domain.

The drawback is obviously that you are isolated in your tier and don`t learn as much as if you would do a project "full stack".
Many universities have this policy, but given that students have to pay (!) to enroll in a university it strikes me as odd that the university would then presume to take control of all the work they produce.
So are they attempting to say that the work done by students as a form of homework, is actually the property of the university?
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Because in silicon valley and the startup scene in general you will see mostly 20 somethings as software engineers. Companies like that they can pay them less and get long hours out of them . (No children, work is #1 priority, etc).
I quite liked this piece to read as art. But there are some pretty simple solutions to the general malaise he is expressing:

1) get out of the myopic SV culture. There are lots of actually interesting problems to solve (even in the very small world of software) and if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn't doing that.

2) if you aren't interested by the data you are consuming, don't interact with it. Don't consume facebook, twitter, HN, et. al. Or more realistically only consume the ones that add value to your life. It's harder to opt out of being collected in the massive hoovering of this data, but in nearly all instances out of sight, really is out of mind.
Your second point is utterly infuriating. That an institution whose mission is to educate people would refuse to allow the observations of a person to refute the obviously incorrect observations of a machine is astounding to me.
However, did they tell you anything of substance when they said to improve your diet? Unfortunately, I know all too well that proper nutrition is tossed aside in medical school. Why? I'll tell you my hypothesis. I think it might just be correct. Proper nutrition would cause most people, especially those with chronic conditions, to get better very quickly and stay that way. Guess who would lose a lot of money if that happened? And guess who also has their puppet strings tied to most parts of the medical industry?
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According to the link below a hammock plot is generalization of a parallel coordinate plot where the lines are replaced by rectangles that are proportional to the number of observations they represent. This plot is different from both the traditional parallel coordinate plot and the hammock plot since the category's width is proportional to it's activity, not the line width. Maybe it's type is still unnamed.

http://www.schonlau.net/publication/03jsm_hammockplot.pdf
> Also, the semicolon key is not working for me. A fun toy nonetheless!

Appears to be Firefox related, when I play with this in Chrome it works
Well of course they fucking are. YOU'RE THE PRODUCT, punters. They're selling you. This isn't new. They've been a bit clumsy this time and you've noticed, but nothing will change.
In CS assignments, there's usually a good amount of starter code that would be copyrighted by the university. As the takedown notices states, "a large portion of the uploaded code is copyrighted by the University of Illinois". It doesn't claim copyright over the student's work, but the portion of the code that is under their copyright.
I think the sentiment was "standardize on the majority", not "everything the US does is wrong".
Yeah, a competing theory that I've included in my original comment. Anyone with a grudge against CB Insights could have registered those accounts.

>Random internet people that decided to sign up to HN just to vent against a company?

Obviously, trolls exist. Copyright/plagiarism/"inspiration" discussions are a feeding grounds for those kind of people.

That's two competing theories. And yeah, it's ironic to state with confidence that someone is "actively running a smear campaign" with no plausible data confirming the statement.
No, often when assignments are given out you'll also give students large chunks of code or libraries to modify or work with.

The DMCA says that is what the infringement is.
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Is anybody aware of the reasoning behind the redacted links? It looks like only one past DMCA in this repo has received similar treatment:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/4e465059012c946abd3f2fa2...

Their README suggests they only redact personally identifying info, but I assumed that was in reference to the submitter (if an individual), as the other repos didn't receive any redaction.
Some thoughts:

+ I think this is a great thing to be passionate about.

+ Though neither OSX or Windows offers full support for Nepali, Windows offers Napali as a display language. [1]

+ Microsoft also appears to have some presence in Nepal.[2] Apple does not appear to.

+ I am not suggesting that Apple isn't better for you. What I am suggesting is that the Microsoft stack may be a better commercial option for someone in Nepal.

+ I'd suggest Linux http://www.nepalinux.org/ as a first choice over Microsoft, even though the projects for a Nepali Linux are not very active because an older stable distro is fine for learning.

Good luck.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/installation/downloads/Pages...

[2]: http://www.micnepal.org/
I think it should have been easily provable that you owned the website and that your code matched, any sort of escalation beyond initial talking with professor should have resolved that. If not that is absolutely ridiculous.
"if you are tired of talking about the same old thing, go somewhere that isn't doing that."

I was getting bored with music a while back, so I did an experiment: I limited the music on my phone to nothing older than five years. To do this I had to remove hundreds of albums.

At first there wasn't much left, so I went looking... for nothing released more than five years ago.

I found quite a bit of new stuff.

Eventually I re-added old stuff I loved, but my musical repertoire had broadened quite a bit.

Part of the problem today is that the amount of signal around us has increased so much that it's overwhelming, and people haven't yet learned that it's okay to tune out a significantly larger amount of chatter than what they had to tune out in previous eras. It feels like ignorance, or being "out of the loop," but it's essential.

I plan on repeating the music experiment regularly. I should probably purge some of my "feeds" too.
os:cmd is still available, and has access to things it should not.
I grew up playing a huge amount of basketball, and therefore have a completely different frame of reference here. In sports, you watch a lot of film and study your competition. You then take the best parts of your competition, and prepare to compete with them. Sometimes you take their best plays. Sometimes you you design new plays to actively exploit the other team.

The point that I'm trying to make is: this is a competition. The fact that CB would even validate this YC company by writing this post - to me - is a defensive move rather than an offensive one.
We're on it, so you'll have alternatives quite soon. What order would you suggest for login, like: email, twitter, fb, G+ ? What's the most painless login option for you?
That's a great link to example of user design patents that proves your point. But reading that I feel like almost all the examples they show are not protecting innovation. It seems like the kind of thing that ought to be protected as trademarks, not patents. If Google makes a page that is distinctive enough to be its trademark and you make a paget that looks clese enough to that page that the average user coudl confuse them, it seems like you are doing the equivelent of infringing on a trademark.

But you are right, it ui is patentable.
"car-as-peripheral"

I have a 2300 pound, 2014 model year, gasoline powered bluetooth speaker, exactly as you suggest. In the showroom they had a "smart nav smart entertainment system" upgrade for only $1200 that was as much of a turd as the typical smart TV. Its hard to buy a dumb-stereo for a car that doesn't have BT pairing today.

Mostly I stream podcasts and audiobooks from my phone. Hit play on the phone, put the transmission in drive, thats my commute.
I wonder what the graph would look like if "Javascript" was broken down by framework, though...
Well, there're people like me, who simply like to drive and treat it as a way of relaxation.. I put my favourite music or an audiobook, set the perfect temperature, sit in a comfy seat, cut out from the outside noise and let my thoughts calm down, focusing only on driving. I don't even want an automatic transmission, because there is something very satisfying in using stick. I'll be honest - I smile each morning when I get into my car and I wouldn't trade that for the convenience of a driverless car.
But that's like suggesting selibacy in a discussion about sex positions.
Backward compatibility, OTOH, is key to a large fraction of upgrade revenue.
The CEO of the YC company apologized in the other HN thread and said they are changing it...why is this still a story.

To be fair, I would be upset and annoyed like CBI, but on a pragmatic level...what more do they want.

No good comes out of publicizing others shortcomings (no matter how much they deserve the public shaming). This should have been handled privately...not through Twitter and HN.

If they insisted on doing something publicly why not spin it in your favor and make a slogan, "Data so awesome, our competitors steal it like a possum."
Right. I find this term most useful in terms of building a team. Do you need to hire one person or two to get the job done?

Now, that's not to detract in any way from people who specialize. A good front-end developer with design skills can often get the job done faster and simpler. A good backend specialist can get performance under control sooner.
Here in Belgium, there are terms that people put in their legal document that shouldn't be present and would be considered invalid (as if they were not present) irrespective of the fact you agreed to them.

Examples that come to mind: prohibit people renting an apartment to have a cat, reduce the time you have to return a product bought online (and get a refund) to less than the legal time, ...
There was actually a very good talk about this at WWDC 2014[0] session 305 Preventing Unauthorized Purchases with Receipts.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/
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I'm doing it now for my first Android app and the JNI isn't as bad as I expected. I'm using juce and it has a bunch of macros that reduce the JNI calls down to 1 line, and there are a classes to convert the types. The UI is all in a webview anyway. It took me under two weeks to learn the Android tools and get a pretty significant app ported.

But I was horrified at how bad the tools and emulator are. I spent more time trying to get things to work rather than porting code.
There's nothing infuriating about it. Students are usually prohibited from posting homeworks and/or solutions online because courses reuse material from previous years. Students can consider themselves lucky if the only fallout from this is the DMCA takedown because at Princeton this would be considered a violation of the honor code, which has very serious implications.
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>but not a DMCA problem.

They do claim this:

a large portion of the uploaded code is copyrighted by the University of Illinois. Therefore, the repositories identified below constitute a violation of U.S. Copyright laws, in particular section(s) 1201(a)(2) and/or 1201(b)(1) of Title 17 of the United States Code, commonly referred
to as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or "DMCA".

What do you think about that?
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Early American dictionaries deliberately set out to simplify spellings (and later editions made more aggressive simplifications that didn't catch on).
Don't worry - it's on read-only chroot and inside restricted linux sandbox.
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"Control of all the work they produce" is an exaggeration. The University asserts copyright to the boilerplate code on which these assignments are based. Nobody claims to own your sophomore year English essays.
Well, buying a couple 100 copies of Finder replacements is not seen as a good use of money. Plus, training is an issue.
Yes, but these are based on how the words were pronounced when the character was created which means there is significant variation in the sounds the same radical is indicating.
I imagine that sports plays are not copyrightable. Web design and code are.
You don't need to go to medieval times for that, though. My grandparents grew up in those conditions, here in Europe.
Would a diff/patch be DMCA-proof then? Or would it fall under derivative works?
I'm wondering how you would feel about 2175 deaths in the Air Industry. There would be uproar. Seriously these are mostly preventable and driverless cars will be 'normal' in 50 years time.

I can see a situation where the only people that know how to drive are commercial drivers.
As a method of preventing plagiarism, it makes sense. Getting the copyright for the code into the university's possession gives them legal standing to do things like this.

Ideally, of course, there'd be a process for getting exemptions - I know I would have been irate if my alma mater had claimed ownership of the year's worth of work I spent on my senior thesis project. But that's also code where the risk of plagiarism is relatively low-impact, what with it being specific to that particular project.

Answers to problem sets, though? Pfft, let them have it. I never had a reason to look at any of it ever again, so the value of retaining ownership to me is virtually nil. Whereas the value of having even a slight incremental improvement in the protections universities use to help me not have to spend quite so much time worrying about whether the kids I'm looking at hiring might have cheated their way through college without ever picking up proper problem-solving skills? Priceless.
You are. I can paraphrase your original comment like so:

"I have tried in the past to explain how awesome the ratio is, but it didn't go well because of dumb people."

You are correct that you're not blaming anyone for being dumb, but you are blaming others for the explanation not going well.
We would like to have a skype interview with that person :)

Sorry for not clarifying, didn't want to overload the title..

I will adapt the title now. Thanks!
Or they use them for getting work done and not for open source projects on GitHub. Clojure seems to be one of those languages where you can be just as productive creating the software yourself from whole-cloth as trying to grok someone else's DSL.

If that's true then large bodies of application specific code would exist off the GitHut radar, I suspect.

Not sure about Erlang.
Why would the juror names need to be revealed?
The fluid measurements analogy doesn't work though because volumes don't behave the same way as areas with fixed aspect ratios. Moreover, the reason why √2 is such a useful ratio is because it maintains the same aspect ratio when the sheet is doubled or halved. That's why his argument was nonsensical.
Love this: a euphemism for a human centipede of marketers selling marketing to marketers for marketing.
What if I have a product with a vulnerability, but I'm not on their platform? How is this better than the researcher emailing the firm directly with the steps to repro?
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What do you get excited about? Be clean this is a family web site. :D

What burns you out? What do you hate about what you do or can't do? If you want to stay with technology, you can. The field is so big, YOUR CAN find your niche that gets you excited.

If you are, let's say, into rescuing animals or even more specific, a certain breed of dog, look at the technology that is being used currently in that field and see how you can make it better. Or, invent a new technology for it.

Use it as a hobby/side job/calling/distraction. Use that distraction to make the regular day bearable. Before you know it people will be coming to you.

I made the switch from Fire/EMS into full time "computers". You can switch too.

What is your dream?
You clearly don't take the M25 to work.
You can't get anything big done without power, and often times that power requires the needs of the group to be greater than the needs of the individual ..
I just had to:

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=getting%20started%20PHRUBYPY

appearantly Google thinks it's Rails :)
I'm guessing that the people who decided that those characters bore any resemblance to a horse or a woman are the same people responsible for naming the constellations.
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I'd have gotten hopping mad about being accused of plagiarizing myself.

Then again, institutional refusal to understand reality is a pet peeve of mine.
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The article's passive-aggressive tone is overbearing. Why can't they simply present the evidence, say they are very disappointed with the YC company for stealing their design and be done with it?
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