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o Whether you can distribute duplicates to others.

Yes and no depends on who produced the duplicate. Each OSX apple produced dvd is a duplicate of the original work.

o Whether you have to provide Attribution on duplicates

Yes

o Whether you can distribute modifications

This is dependent on copyright, but in the case of Apple's stance I would say no.

o Whether you can resell duplicates for $$$

Yes, if they are duplicates produced by Apple. No, if you are producing the "back-ups" and you are just a reseller. The "US" courts have been clear on personal use back-ups before.
> There are very few IT contractors in london making 500k+/year.

Let's not forget that "X per hour" does not simply translate into "Y per year", especially if you're a contractor.
wherein quality is indeed valuable without there being demand for it

Value is derived from demand and supply. If there is no demand, there can be no value. If there is demand, there will be value (per supplied unit) if the supply isn't too plentiful.

This should mean that, in your example, entry level content should be plentiful and cheap, while the advanced content should be scarce and expensive. Hopefully for the producers of advanced content, the advanced audience will get so much more enjoyment per unit of content that they feel the higher price is justified.

To say that more people "should" go through the effort of learning to like the advanced content is pretty elitist, but most of all it doesn't take into consideration everything that they are doing in their lives. Just because some college students think it's worthwhile to learn the intricacies of some obscure tv series it doesn't mean that it's worthwhile for everyone else.
The light bulb and the bridge riddle offer little insight into the problem solving skills of the interviewee: you either "get" the solution or not. There is not much room between the exact right answer and no answer at all.

The Boeing question on the other hand (like many other Fermi Problems [1]) might help you understand how the interviewee approaches a problem he doesn't know the answer to and whether or not he is capable of making sane predictions. But even though I think they are not completely useless, I expect a well prepared candidate to score better than some less well prepared, but in other regards superior candidates.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Break your time down into 1 hour segments, and just think about what you want to achieve during that hour. Be strict: turn off all distractions until the hour is up. It sounds like you have time, but it's the knowledge that you have time that causes you to procrastinate.

Treat it like an important deadline. When you finish, enjoy the sense of achievement, take a break, then start the next hour. The goal ultimately is to be able to concentrate (productively) for 3-4 hours at a time.

Why not put a big countdown clock on the wall (that's what I've done!)
Amazing: Tupper's self-referential formula
If the scheme has been going on for so long that someone has made significant money, it's pretty likely that it's about to fall to pieces.

Pyramid schemes don't "make" money, it's more like stealing from the gullible.
Doesn't really make any difference. Cleaning the RTL takes about 170ms - it's just deleting some files. Build is driven by msbuild, so there is some .NET startup cost in there too.

EDIT: Oh, you mean is it an incremental build? No. It's a full clean build, and that 11 seconds also includes preprocessing some API header files.
Interestingly during a recent trip to SF I was reminded of Three Australia everytime I saw T-Mobile's advertising. The Coca-Cola red/Cadbury purple/Starbucks green/Virgin red are probably more well-known associations though. Incidentally, the visualisations in this article are pretty cool.
Of course, this kind of thing only happens because the government is insufficiently powerful. Obviously, if we were to make the feds responsible for trillions of dollars worth of healthcare spending, Genentech's lobbyists would respectfully decline to meddle in the process. It's just another illustration of the dangers of deregulation and free markets.
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Use mnemomesyne for that: http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/

It is a great tool for learning and works with an efficient algorithm.
Make it a habit for learning every morning or every night.
No, I mean that you could create a Lisp which had fewer forms, but that provided these special forms - that you would program using - except that they would no longer be special, but rather synthesized out of baser forms.
What book should a newbie in neural networks read?
50 has also invested in a few startups! I know one startup where he is a major investor, and I've heard of a few others.
There was a study recently that said people are less likely to achieve their goals when they tell other people about them. Here's an article that discusses it:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/200905/...

And the actual study, "When intentions go public : Does social reality widen the intention-behavior gap?" [PDF]:

http://www.uni-konstanz.de/psychologie/gollwitzer/PUBLICATIO...
I first heard of brain teaser questions from Google, not MS, like how many golf balls fit inside a school bus. I wonder which company was first.
Microsoft was asking brain teaser questions long before Google even existed.
Yeah, I agree it measures preparedness more than skill.

Also, there is a difference between a great physicist with a playful mind asking those questions, and some nameless, annoyed interviewer whose only authority to ask such questions comes from the fact that he already has the job...

In other words, these riddles can be used to encourage creativity when used right. But they can also be used to put down the candidate no matter what the answer (what, you would put the expensive Boeing in water??? you must be crazy!).
tv/movie writing seems to have some potential to crowdsourcing/open-sourcing.so at least this part can become cheap.
Orange did sue EasyMobile over color. I am not sure if they won or not, but obviously they must have felt they had enough of a case to go to court.
Do you have any plans on switching from mzscheme 372 to something else?

I'm just wondering if it makes sense to rely on a platform version that may not be actively maintained much longer.
Well, that depends on the job... but indeed, the interviews most likely to ask these questions are exactly for the more pragmatic jobs. No university will ask prospective professors these things; instead, they will ask about what research they did in the past and what is their vision for future research.
I read a bout a neat "hack" so to speak here on HN some years ago that I've used to some degree of success.

Tense up all the muscles in your body for about 20 or 30 seconds and then relax them. It should trick the muscles in your eye (the ones giving you the eye strain) to relax, too. YMMV, but it's worked for me.
I often feel this way. I try not to tell anyone what I'm working on, because I usually don't finish it—the expectations drive me crazy.

Also, for me, talking about a project is another way to procrastinate actually doing it.
Have you read any of the "colloborative fiction" websites out there? They're generally awful.
Interesting. Though India was also quiet close to socialisms or statism (though not `communism').
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Because the gear movement vectors add up to a vector equal to the applied force, but opposite in direction :-D Remember, the magnitude and direction of a vector are the sum of the magnitudes and directions of the vector components. If you applied a given force to any of the gears, in any direction, you could tabulate the resulting forces and directions and add them up. What you will have then, for the image, is a four quantities of equal magnitude but where the odd numbered quantities have opposite sign than the even number quantities. Classic parallelogram.

Say, you applied a force to the green gear to move it clockwise, let's call it +N (for positive force of magnitude N; we chose +ve to mean clockwise.) All four gears are of equal size, so they have identical torques; they will all move by the same speed. Taking friction as negligible, we can expect any gear to produce a force of the same magnitude as that applied to it, but with opposite direction.

So back to the green gear, when we apply a clock wise force of magnitude N, it gives us back a counter clockwise for of N, which acts of the yellow gear (or the red one, if we choose to.) Yellow one is acted upon by +N, and it in turn gives us -N back (a counter clockwise one.) Feed that to the blue one and you get +N, which acts on red to give us -N.

Now, a force of -N is exerted by red upon green; BUT! we are applying a force of +N to green! What's going on?

The two forces cancel out and you have nothing.
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Important lesson:

Debt markets can do a better job predicting problems than stock markets.
Exactly, this is the point. There are no news reports or history books, it's just the internet and that's live infinitely.

I can't say I know what is the most correct way to integrate old media and new media. I can certainly say I'm in favor of keeping these mens' names unpublished if only that waspossible: their identities are known and can be looked up if needed but IMHO there's no need to have it readily available. I can, also certainly, say that this ideal is impossible on the internet: everything is readily available. And you can't control internet and you shouldn't, because beautiful things will get conceived when the internet is allowed to unravel freely.

Much else can't be said about the court case itself: different nations have different laws and there's no general solution to how two different jurisdictions merge. Germany certainly has no say about the US jurisdiction and US certainly can't enforce their free speech policy in foreing countries.

I assume the outcome is pretty random and I hope it doesn't set any significant precedents either way.
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Is CouchDB really that slow?
Hmm, I don't know if I'm so jaded by bs news attention grabbing at this point or what, but I assumed that it hitting 53% was the news story, hence it being an event (and implicitly, a peak), not a steady-state average.
There was a study recently that said people are less likely to achieve their goals when they tell other people about them.

It's interesting that Robert Cialdini says the opposite; according to his concept of "Commitment and Consistency", if people commit, orally or in writing, to an idea or goal, they are more likely to honor that commitment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#Six_.E2.80.9CWe...).
This is disgusting. Hedgefonds and other similar financial gambling is the root of so much suffering and evil. If you are making money without actually working but by betting on money or even the failure of others you are a pest to society.
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In the end it still boils down to self discipline, but a different quality.

You still have to do the work. You have to be someone that cares what others think of you, and you have to be willing to put a part of that reputation on the line.

I'm sure the example studies are real but I don't think they are of a similar shape.

What I'm talking about is stuff that you have to do either way, you're not going to be able to postpone it for ever. The activities listed in that study sound like they were optional to begin with.

So, the fact that you are going to have to do this stuff combined with damage to your reputation of being able to get stuff done is what drives it, not the fact that you've simply told someone.
Cynical, but likely true. But we shouldn't just throw out everything that's in the congressional record.

If we have "spam detection for members of congress", we'd usefully know who's doing the saying, and what was said that was at the behest of lobbyists. If we have way to recognize who's "clean" and who's not, then we can call them out on it and vote accordingly.

Or else how do we improve the situation?
Failed on the url I picked to test (www.utexas.edu). My initial reaction is this would make a great FF plugin. As a site, there are a lot of limitations -- I'm not going to want to give it the URL of a secured site I'm logged into, for example.

Interesting idea, though, so I wish them success.
It's not so black and white. The world needs investors.

IMO the real problem is with the the Federal Reserve and how it uses taxpayer money to support Wall Street when problems arise. I say let failed companies fail and end the fed.
Ah yes, engagement is the word. Interesting. I'd imagine the query expansion should also work across the author dimension--include and rank matches from the same blog higher, even if according to my history, I haven't read that post.
one form of crowd sourcing is based on prizes , similar to the netflix prize. from what i read , prize based competitions can achieve great results in many areas , with relatively cheap price.
better yet, stand up in front of a hall of some of the best engineers in $country and say you will do something. that really is a driver!
Broken link - try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-referential_for...
But this is what VCs like YCombinator do. They give the money to people who can create value, and get more on average back, thus letting them invest in more people later. And they get rewarded for it.

Isn't this just the same, but more abstract?
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Couldn't Windows 7 Be Backported To XP?  (sorry about the useless link)
Some features, such as the security changes for autoplay on flash drives due to the Conficker worm to XP and the ribbon interface for Vista, have already been backported. Windows 7's Windows Update is also part of Vista SP2 now. One feature that isn't non-trivial is branchcache. My point being that all these new features are all user-facing, non-system features that could be part of XP and Vista. But the HN community probably already knew this.
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I partially credit keeping going on my startup with having told many of my coworkers about it before I left. Well, more accurately I say: "If I hadn't run my big mouth, telling everyone I was doing a startup, and don't want a job..." Yeah. I had no choice but to keep going. Not always the best thing though. Choice is good.
Re 1: I suggest you read the title of the article you're commenting on.
For me it comes down to taste and respect for norms. I've worked in hacking environments where as long as you've got clothes on and showered yesterday you're fine. I also worked at Accenture where the dress code was "smart casual" which meant "tidy, neat, conservative." I prefer hackers but Accenture paid better.

These days I work at a creative agency and although there's no dress code I have to collaborate with co-workers and rich clients. If I wore my most comfortable frayed, discolored, "liberal" clothes I'd feel lots more creative but would fear for my job. I'm not Michelangelo or a scientist, I'm just building web sites. But there are serious artists here who work with me and they dress "tidy, neat, liberal." When they wear shorts and sandals, it looks good. The reason is, they spend their money on beautiful clothes. There's a conscious way to do progressive and then there's a poor, just rolled out of bed, I don't care way.
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Everything that you saw in the "seminar" was staged. Run for your life Rick.
I dont know if I am dumb, but is the river crossing one just 13 minutes? (assuming they all have to cross)

either way it doesnt seem like much of a riddle.
This looks like an example of poor staff work on the part of Congressional staff.

Not that I'm forgiving of any of it. The Congressional Record has long been a swamp of total crap. Stuff appears there that was never spoken -- a nice tactic is to vote against a bill, then insert language in the CR saying how you support the bill's goals. When campaign time rolls around, you can either take credit for the vote or run the blurbs from the CR depending on how the electorate is feeling.

I won't get political, but I will note that the approval ratings of Congress has continually gotten worse and worse over the last ten or twenty years. I can't help but think this is tied to the fact that there's not as much turnover in Congress as there used to be (due to gerrymandering) Incumbents win their re-election bids something like 80% of the time. I guess if you keep seeing the same talking heads saying the same thing (or worse, drifting with the wind) then I'm sure it has to wear on you after a while.

EDIT: Looking at Gallup, it appears that the freefall has been most pronounced over the last 8 years, not 20. http://www.gallup.com/poll/123491/Approval-Congress-Falls-21...
This was covered by Patently Apple a few weeks ago. NY Times is late to the party. To me this is to prevent Google's Chrome OS from being profitable.
The extra abstraction layer Cappuccino provides seems worth it to me. Much as I like jQuery et al., an MVC-style framework for writing desktop-like web apps, along with an Interface Builder clone, blows manipulating the DOM out of the water. IMO, of course.
I've made some notes from DVD I've watched recently. It was made by Dr. Svetlana Troitskaia and is in russian. Just wanted to share with my English speaking friends.

http://dpaste.com/hold/120724/
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It(the business i am mentioning) cannot be deemed illegal because the actually are offering something, a degenerate list of courses related to IT. I have seen the courses, there are even courses for windows 98 and DOS.There is a course for linux, which uses the a redhat distribution so old that even the devs may not have the source of it.

But just for an academic discussion, the name of the company is ebiz.com[1]

[1]www.ebizelindia.com/
I already did run for my life from there. But you know the energy was really very good even if fake.
Bullshit.

Copyright has a lot of problems and the lawsuits aren't doing anything, no matter HOW you decide who to sue.

Professional copyright infringement (e.g. companies using pirated software) is easy to spot and easy to persecute. It's also a serious issue because you're really talking about lost sales here, not just hypothetical sales.

Private copyright infringement (e.g. mom downloading some MP3s) is hard to spot and even harder to persecute. You can't talk about lost sales because the amount pirated is in no relation to the amount that could have been sold -- if you've got a 80/20 distribution between pirated and sold, it's absurd to claim 80% lost sales.

If you're talking about real profit losses for the actual producer (i.e. the artist, developer or whatever), private copyright infringement is negligible.

In fact, the low cost of private copyright infringement could be soothed even more if the producers would allow for easy ways of donation (PayPal, whatever): in many cases the "lost sales" were lost because the would-be-customer wouldn't have paid the amount asked or was simply not willing to take the risk of paying for something before knowing they like it.

Whether you like it or not, private copyright infringement is here to stay (and has been here ever since the invention of copyright law). You can't stop it. You only have the choice between accepting it as a fact of life and trying to work with it (viral marketing, commercial support for Free software, live concerts, etc etc), or ignoring the social costs of your actions and trying to punish all the "evildoers" one-by-one making examples of the students and grandmas you actually manage to draw into courtrooms.

Publishing companies are not going to die over this, but their role will deflate back into what it had been before the record industry / Hollywood boom: as a service provider to the real artists, offering to do the marketing for them, arrange concerts and publish their work in physical form. It's only natural for RIAA and MPAA to try and tear down civil rights in their dying throes, but that doesn't make it any more ethical, no matter what the legal situation says (which they have nicely shaped according to their interests in the past, I might add).

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If you want to master a new technique on your sport, the best way is to repeat it as many times as possible until it becomes second nature for you.

Wrong. The best way is to create as many as possible associations of different kind - abstract, visual, verbal. The net of connected associations (or a mental map) is the key, not a while loop.

Write a list, picture your associations. Read aloud and capture it to a webcam. Then listen and watch yourself. That's much more useful than repeated reading.
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That's exactly why this shouldn't be allowed. There is a very small number colours that the eye can readily tell apart, if we allow big corporations to claim these the rest of us will be communicating in black and white.

If it is a complete colorscheme then I have less of a problem with it.

It's funny how this seems to be a phone company thing, in NL KPN (the old telco monopolist) has a claim on light green.
It says that the ballots have serial numbers. In any transparent election, ballots are made public on request -- I think it was a TV station that did a 100% recount in Florida after 2000?

If I take home a ballot serial number, a vote-buyer would be able to look up my ballot later and confirm my vote.

But as I understand it, vote buying barely registers as a source of fraud -- it's stuffing voter registration lists, keeping voters from going to the polls and stuffing blank ballots.
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Though choice can make unhappy. (See `The Paradox of Choice' or so.)
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Well, you're both right, as you are talking about two different types of memory.

Associations are best with "normal" memory, but with sports (or piano/instrument playing, or touch-typing etc) we're talking about muscle memory, and there is no way around repetition-repetition-repetition
I picked the first one, then looked at the upload. At first I was like "Hey, this is exactly the same!" Then I realized that it was a good indication that I'm probably a bit colorblind. At least now I know why I can't be trusted to chose a color palette.