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> you can certainly bet on copyright remaining as is and/or becoming more restrictive

In the short term, you're right. Gvoernment's aren't going to abolish copyright, or significantly loosen it. On the contrary, the MPAA/RIAA is pushing them to impose a new and more restrictive copyright regime (3-strikes, ACTA treaty, etc).

But, computers and the internet make perfect digital copying machines. And no government can afford to ban them, it it wants to continue to have an economy.

So, over the next 10 years: more restrive copyright, less well enforced, with enforcement becoming totally impractical

Eventually the rise of pirate parties will force governments to scrap the increasingly restrictive copyright laws. But as you say the "powerful, powerful organizations" will fight this every step of the way. Eventually, however, we'll win -- history is on our side -- and in their bones they know it too.
Who reads ComputerWorld, seriously?
its a free country
Thanks! This looks like a great website with a neat way to get things done. I'll check with my boss to see if we're ok with having someone work remotely.
Am I not allowed to state a dissenting opinion online anymore? Shitmydadsays is a brilliant Internet source, and Rules For My Unborn Son strikes me as bigoted and outdated.
It is a cost because you now have to carry around your static function with you wherever you code.

Either you 1. have it in a utils library that adds to the external dependencies of all your java projects. or 2. you copy and paste it everywhere.

Either way it's a cost however small that java has and other languages have.

Additionally your example doesn't really demonstrate the same feature the haskell example did, which was a stream that haskell through laziness handles transparently for you. Your readfile static function breaks the stream because it forces you to read the entire file into memory before returning the contents. That was sort of the point and your counter example in java demonstrates it beautifully.

An example that did what the haskell example did would require significantly more code.
its [sic] a free country

... but if you read the article, you'll see that it apparently isn't a free school system.
Sure, why not. Mind you, it is going to set him up for ridicule and he shouldn't complain about that (especially not if it is a tutu), but I don't see why not.

Girls can wear pants to school, can't they ?
While I can't confirm your interpretation of this particular law, I'm certain that no internet businesses register themselves in every jurisdiction in which they potentially offer their goods for sale. I'm uncertain whether this is a matter of interpretation or enforcement, but practically speaking I wouldn't worry about compliance here. If you go searching for laws that you must obey, you will likely conclude that there is no possible way to run any business legally.
Stack Exchange platform is the best for questions that can be answered precesely. Questions with precise answers are prefered on Science Stack as on Stack Overflow.

A site for controversial issues is slightly different because users are supposed to be separated and drawn toward polar opinions. SE platform might also work for that, but I haven't seen it in such an action.
I actually really think the Linux kernel would benefit from something like this too; it doesn't have to be a freeze for two years, but dedicating maybe every third release to strictly bugfixes and performance and stability improvements and no new features, or something like that, would do a lot of good, imo. Tightening sessions like that where Linux devs ask everyone to pitch in to tightening and accept no major feature additions or alterations would go a long to making things cleaner and faster, and maturing patches before they are merged (because the skipped cycle would allow extra improvement on features before the next merge window).
I'm guessing the guy got hired to be a TV writer because those tweets were written by him and the tv producers liked his writing, and not because they randomly chose some guy who tweeted what his dad said.
True, but he can wear it to school, maybe not in school.

That said, I really think schools have enough of a problem with kids teasing each other to go and invite more of that with cross-dressing pupils.

In plenty of countries they have school uniforms simply to reduce the friction between kids due to wealth differences between parents, a side effect is that there is much less teasing for not wearing the 'right' kind of branded clothing, jewelery and so on.

This kid is just basically demanding something that is not going to give him any real satisfaction, it's just going to cause a bunch more trouble so I think the school is probably right in their decision.

As for the road to school, that's his own problem, he can wear there whatever he wants, but it is quite ok with me if the school asks that their pupils do not engage in dressing up in such a way that it will cause trouble, I'm sure they have their hands full as it is.
This is probably a regulation forced by the unions to ensure pay equality (i.e. people on the same level are paid the same).
Sorry, not sure I get your question...

Are you asking

1) How you could get this is position? If you are interested, you can send a mail to random2718 [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll forward it along. No promises or anything obviously... Note: its probably almost but not quite a deal breaker that you'd need to be willing to live in India. I'm here now (for 3 months so far, lived in the US before) and I'm enjoying it.

2) How to get into working with mathematical models? They come up a lot in finance, so you can look at technology jobs there. There is a difficulty in finding interesting jobs though because a) in large companies the basic models are already in place and I'm not sure how much more you would add and b) in small companies they many not have the need (or understand the power of) a good system for this. If you go the small company route though, be sure to study up some finance first!
The meter is beautiful, the phrasing is eloquent, and the concept is hilarious.

You don't know shit, and you're not shit. Don't take that the wrong way, that was meant to cheer you up.

Sometimes life leaves a hundred dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it fucked you.

We didn't have a prom. Dancing wasn't allowed...What's Footloose?...That's the plot of the movie? That sounds like a pile of shit.

It's identifiable, it's beautiful, and it's poetic.

These are the sorts of phrasings that can only come out of an old and wise and hilarious person. The confidence in forming his thoughts that way; the lazy beat of the language. I spend an inordinate amount of time learning to write dialogue, and let me tell you: If Justin's writing that himself, he's got a career as a screenwriter ahead of him. That's some brilliance right there.

Hopefully the examples I've picked do justice without my having to say too much. If you'd like to press your luck, and feel like spreading your smug cockery online without warrant, then I'll go Communications major on your ass and comprehensively make you look stupid in front of people on a web forum that you won't ever know in real life, but I think that would be a waste of both our times.
The solution is eliminating the dress code entirely and setting up kids to believe there is a "right" and a "wrong" way to dress. Once crossdressing seems natural and acceptable, kid'll stop being immature about it. The more you try to say something's wrong, the most people you'll unintentionally hurt.
andreyf,

Thanks for the guidance... deleting the one-liners
Thats fine until safety becomes a concern, at which point officials need to step in. We don't let kids do things that can harm them (to some degree anyway) and we need to keep a careful eye on the balance there...
"...this sounds to me more like EA deciding that now is a good time to get rid of some underperforming employees and several inherited offices"

Perhaps it is sampling error, but the companies that have downsized that I've known people at have largely said this same thing. There was some financial pain, and economically forced separations mixed in, but for the most part the recession seems to have provided a good political scapegoat to prune net-negative employees without the stigma or guilt of firing someone.
Haskell is beautiful in practice
Never mind that in order to get people to pay for content, they first have to be able to find it.

For new sites maybe... but the WSJ is well known, has a huge user base and will probably continue to for some time.
If everyone wears the same clothes, they'll just use something else as markers of identity (and wealth). Maybe the kind of mobile phone they have, jewelry, or some other minor detail where they're allowed some options.

If someone feels a need to bully someone, they'll find a way and a reason. The solution to the problem isn't to try to remove all the "reasons" for bullying, it's to do something about the bullies (sp?).
I found 'Signup' and 'Create Account' confusing. You may want to work on the text to avoid confusion.
Larry Niven used a solar sail in several stories, e.g. "The Fourth Profession" and "The Mote in God's Eye".

You can leave a "laser canon" on the launch world. That way, you can leave your rocket engine at home, where there are resources to fuel, maintain and improve it

You can tack against the solar wind.

You can - and this is the really cool one - use magnetic flux, if present in that region, to turn (even through 90%), by giving the space craft an electric charge. I've forgotten the details of how you change the net charge of a spacecraft, but I guess you could easily jettison electrons (or protons).
Can anyone compare this Closure package with GWT ?
Video compression - a lot of companies saw it fit to invest into DVD,MPEG2,MPEG4 etc to rip benefits later. Of course if they hadn't done it we would still have video codecs as demonstrated by DivX, XVid and various open-source video codecs. I think the difference here is that the the patents helped video codecs rich mass users faster than would be the case without them, but became a huge drag after some point.

Pretty much like any other investment, if you think of it.
Parables were short. Novels are the aberration.
For #1 - There is Google App Engine.
Where is the $50k family sedan they promised?

Now that would be a game changer, the Roadster is just a playtoy.
How 'bout Max Miedinger?
The reason that kids would bully male students that would wear dresses to school or female students that wear pants to school is precisely because the administration forbids it.

The administration forbidding it is just confirming in their minds that the behavior of these students is not normal and worthy of derision. In cases where those in authority do not treat it as out of order, the students are far less likely to bully the child.
That's an awesome counterpoint! Thanks for sharing! Also brings to mind http://paulgraham.com/essay.html - writing as a way to discover just exactly what's rattling around in there at the current moment...

What I believe is a more appropriate angle to take is that the nature of reading itself is changing. Reading tends to be one-way, whereas human nature tends to crave communication more - hence the shorter stories / tweets / facebook popularity.

But this in itself tends to build a longer narrative - I've been reading HN now for well over a year (much longer than I've spent on a novel) and though the items themselves are short snippets, due to my interest they tend to form chapters of narratives in general directions: programming, hacking the body, start-up life and culture.

And one of the amazing things is that I get to contribute and write part of the story as it is unfolding - often with unexpected results! That is something that you just can't get from a book - the interaction is of an entirely different nature, yet can still very much be 'consumed' in the same way if you choose to

[my two cents worth, and maybe a little rambling - but then it was kinda inspired by the parent link...]
No, this change happened in the last week or so.
Looks sweet.

Is there a reason it has no power steering?
As a computer science professor, I have to say that this misreads the article.

Oh sure, computer science, and especially certain subfields like software engineering and languages, reinvent the wheel all the time. A new fad comes in and its proponents are too egotistical, or too lazy, to be bothered realizing it's the same as an old fad. This happens largely because the literature of computer science is exceptionally broad and not very deep. But this is hardly special to CS: it's common practice in engineering. More to the point, it doesn't have anything to do with what the author was on about.

What the author was talking about is the tendency, in mathematics, for the entire field to become balkanized into small groups with little interdisciplinary crosstalk and a disturbing degree of inbreeding. Many departments consist of specialists who cannot, or will not, talk to one another about their work. Sometimes no one understands what anyone else is doing or talking about. That's the claim anyway, and I have no reason to doubt it from what I've seen myself.

Computer science is nothing like this. Even computer science theory is highly interdisciplinary, application-oriented, and accessible to the mainstream CS audience (or at least to CS academics). In my department, I can talk to every single faculty member, reasonably intelligently, about what they are doing and how it is relevant to others. I can read their papers and more or less understand them. And I'm not some kind of uberprofessor, quite to the contrary. It's just that the field isn't very deep yet.
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This is beautiful. And the main site is built on top of Wordpress? Impressive.

A couple tips:

* Make the writing on your blog (and your other pages) more colloquial. And enable comments on your blog. Feedback is incredibly valuable to a newly formed company.

Example on the main page: "For over seven years, Matter has developed 'better experiences' in products and services. Perq comes from our own fruitless search..."

should be: "Perq was inspired by our own need..."

* Not so much text on the main page. As another commenter said, I don't want to see a list of every feature that you provide. If I'm interested in your product after the first page then I'll want to see a detailed feature list.

* Take the pop-up that comes up when you click "View Details" on the Tour page, and embed it into the page. Put it front and center and let all of the other text fall below it. It's very close to a demo and it speaks much louder than pure text.

* On the homepage, everything below the masthead feels superfluous because it's so bright and small.
I loved maths but life as a mathematician was very depressing. Another point I would like to add is that there are very few mathematicians compared to biologists. Actually, I am not very sure if it's true in the US and Europe but it certainly is in India. The biggest of math conferences here have a 100 or so people and so do the smallest of the biology ones.
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They only counted security problems, not bugs in the implementation of html, css and so on. Otherwise IE would be the worst offender by a wide margin.

p.s.: I use Opera too and the browser market is an amusing market. It is a market where you can have about 3% of 1.7 billion internet users and people still say "no one" is using your software.
It's probably more because the guy owns the rights to the tweets, so he added him being hired as part of the deal. He probably won't do much in the way of writing the actual show.
Possibly to save energy. Possibly to increase performance. Power steering takes juice. It also adds weight, which takes more juice to move, and could reduce the performance. Do many other roadsters have power steering?
Most schools ban jewellery, and mobile phones are not allowed to be taken outside of a student's bag. You're arguing that every single student who wears less fashionable clothes and is bullied or singled out would've been bullied anyway, even if a uniform was made compulsory. My experience is that wouldn't be true in quite a few cases. There doesn't have to be a single golden bullet solution to bullying. Many small ideas put together can be very effective.
I think you overestimate Apple's competence... or, more specifically, the breadth of the fields to which applies.

Apple is very competent at making things for consumers, and not particularly good at working with developers or corporate IT.

I tend to agree that the App Store is being used by Apple as a tool to market more iPhones and not as a way for the iPhone to become a successful software platform for developers. But I think that's more because Apple is flailing to figure out how exactly the App Store should work; remember that it wasn't originally planned to exist at all. Companies need practice at managing developer ecosystems in the same way that individuals need practice at any other skill.

I feel that Apple made the App Store without really predicting or understanding how it would work out. When it turned out to be a great marketing tool for the iPhone but not a very good platform, Apple used the "There's an app for that" slogan. Making the hardware attractive to consumers was the App Store's strongest feature... naturally enough, for a system built by a company that earns alls its money by making hardware attractive to consumers.

When all you have is a hammer, only the nail-shaped parts of your product ever really get done. The rest becomes secondary by fait accompli, not necessarily as part of a master plan.
Exactly - warez group love to show off. Just look at those 'old school' cracks with the tracked music and animation, all coded in raw assembly for the sake of speed and glory.
>There's no way most people would ever see it as a gaming device.

I think that hardcore gamers will probably never see it as a gaming device, but for most people, the iPhone is fantastic. It's something they already carry around, and has bucket loads of quick, simple arcadey games to play to kill some time on the train. The iPhone probably logs more hours of gaming than any other portable device out there.
Opinions, sure. Libel and threats, not so much.

"misogyny, bigotry, and casual discrimination"

"I'll go Communications major on your ass"
Just because Asimov (may have) wished for his children to rake in money off the royalties of his works, doesn't necessarily mean that he (or they) are entitled to such a thing.

One somewhat interesting counterargument: if Asimov had been a grocer, he could have left his children a chain of profitable stores. Why should a writer's legacy to his children be less than a grocer's? If he had created a bank, an advertising agency or a law firm, these too might have outlived him, and no one would question his right to pass his stake down to his family.

I don't necessarily buy that argument, because income from creative works is purely residual in nature, and has no special value in the hands of anyone but the original author (except for whatever a publisher can continue to milk from it.) It's not as if a dead author can experience further incentive to create.
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Ask HN: What trails does a missing person leave behind?
One of my friends is missing for the past two weeks. The Police is trying to find him and all efforts to date were fruitless.

I was just wondering what trails a missing person could leave behind. Some things are obvious like tracking the phone (In my friend's case he did not take his phone with him). But still how accurately can we track a person with a phone?

What other things can we track? Money?

Is there anything that we are overlooking other than phone, credit transactions etc?
They're marketing the iPod touch primarily as a game machine, I don't think Carmack is right — maybe they're just not as extraordinarily enthused about gaming as Carmack is.
Even the business types at Apple know they don't want to compete with the PSP on the PSP's terms. Esp. since you can add a camera, GPS, Skype headset, etc to the PSP now.
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The are very much marketed as devices to enable a lifestyle, tho'. This is the same market that consumer BlackBerry competes in too.
Argh! Tiny white text on saturated green. Tiny light green text on white. Tiny grey text on grey stripes. Also way too much text.

Also be careful with serif fonts. Sure, they are trendy but usually they are harder to read on monitors.

Shouldn't "3 for Free!" rather be "Free for 3!"?
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This is cool. Sounds like you hit on an annoyance that HR managers/administrators have probably be struggling with for a long time. Especially for the companies large enough to have a headache, but not large enough to create a custom software solution.

Care to share some info on how this was created? Some of the technologies behind it, how long it took you, any insight would be cool. Would also love to hear how the launch went - e.g. a nice blog post with some interesting follow-up statistics on all sorts of HN related metrics would be nice to see.

I like how easy it is for me to know immediately what it is and what problem it solves.

Me, personally, I find the green on white copy - right below the main centerpiece of the main page - a bit hard on the eyes. Maybe that green could be a SHADE darker - so there is more contrast?

Just being nit-picky here, I feel like some of the copy is a bit wordy and some of the word choices are a bit awkward. E.g. 'Personable Time Off'....what on earth is that? After looking through the site, I get what you are going for, but I am not sure if that is the best way to say it.

The interface definitely looks nice though, and for the most part the copy is relatively easy to read.

I am also struggling to decide whether or not there is too much information on the main page. At first, I was like 'Whoa!' this is a lot, but I realized that you are just saying the same thing many different ways without me knowing you are saying it many different ways until I understand everything - if that makes sense. So I guess in a way it's good, because before even moving from the first page I understood what the app is about, but I would have preferred if the same could be explained without so many words.

Just my $0.02.
Wave is built with GWT (http://www.techworld.com.au/article/305043/aussie_devs_make_...), which has its own JavaScript compiler.

But do GWT and Closure use the same technology, that I don't know.
Yes -- see the history of all technology innovation for perhaps the most famous example.
I like ewebcounter.com and userfly.com - both have free versions which suit me just fine.

ewebcounter is my google analytics "sanity check" and real time resource, while userfly lets me view recordings of actual user interaction - VERY useful...

Cheers,
Mike
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I'm always amused by people who equate a parasitic existence with a truly independent one.
Some good Russ Ackoff quotes
The 25 most notable quotes in tech history.
http://canyoucopyrightatweet.com/

Lawyer Says: "I have read hundreds if not thousands of Tweets and have yet to read one I believe would be protectable, but the possibility exists."
Most of these systems have "cheat codes" you can enter to unlock them.
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I agree, and while I can appreciate the sentiment of wanting to go 'cashless' (hey, who here doesn't want to run a startup? (too easy)), trading goods and services is the same thing, just a different currency. There's a level of indirection, but the fundamental concepts are the same.
Are you really concerned if Twitter is going to find out how to make money. I have no doubt that Ev will do just fine. :)