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Seriously, are you supposed to use this thing to scan your own credit card? What problem does that solve? It's not getting the number that's hard, it's all the beurocracy and middle-men that you have to deal with afterward.
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Hacker News is not the place to share your "funny people kissing pig photos" blog.
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I hope, instead of merely listening in, the insurgents start to jam and crash the drones.

Sorry, but a different view needs to be represented. To a lot of people the foreign occupation of Iraq is a grave injustice, not just some big game.
There's nothing about REST that requires you do use GETs for everything, quite the opposite in fact (read up on how the Rails REST API is designed for some inspiration).

Then again, unless you want to make a given function/input combination into a resource, you might be better of with a less RESTy approach.
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Gossip and rumors are almost all business on the agenda. More society, the voices more pervasive. The secret is the mill management is the most prolific voice. Even under conditions of greater change within the organization and / or volatility in the external environment, all contribute to the creation, dissemination and maintenance of items.
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There is no such thing as free affiliate tracking. Maybe you'll find some shoddy free software, but that's only one piece of the puzzle. To run the program yourself, you need to factor in the time it will take you to:

- Recruit and sign up affiliates

- Collect W9s and other tax forms from each new affiliate and organize/file those documents safely and securely

- Monitor the affiliate sales daily for signs of fraud and abuse from people trying to do things like earn a commission for sales that didn't occur, cookie stuff people with hidden images in forums and adware to steal legitimate affiliates' commissions, etc.

- Keep the books on all affiliate commissions due

- Cut and mail the checks to affiliates all around the world

- Handle customer support for the affiliate program -- how to use your affiliate software, how to set up the tracking links, what your cookie policies are, payment policies, delayed and lost payment checks, terminating people that violate your terms and handling their complaints afterwards

- File the 1099-MISC forms with the affiliates and the IRS at the end of the year

In the end, letting an affiliate network take care of all that might be worth the small fee they charge. I can highly recommend Shareasale for one, which charges 20% of the commission (not 20% of the sale) you pay to affiliates as their commission. For example, if you are paying a 10% commission on sales, and someone buys a $50 item, the affiliate earns $5, and you pay Shareasale $1. In return for that $1, they take care of everything in the list above.
That's probably the spirit that got VLC where it is now. Not having the time or the skill to contribute is one thing, being willing to contribute but only if there's money involved is another.
My favorite supporting argument:

Simple Direct Media Layer also has a cross platform atomic operations API in SDL 1.3.

That is like using Duke Nukem Forever as supporting reference when discussing game design. :)

Note that this is very tongue-in-cheek; I'm just frustrated that SDL 1.3 seems to never arrive.
nothing happens at the same time on a single core

Not always true. There are multiple levels of parallelism in modern CPUs and cores is only one of these, eg instruction-level parallelism, hyperthreading etc

Anyway, theres more to concurrent programming than doing multiple things at once in parallel - theres also the use of threads to turn a synchronous blocking call into an asynchronous one, like you said.
I agree, it's an extremely useful feature to have.

The way I set it up is that the user must first log in to an administrator-level account before they can impersonate another user by entering a username or ID.
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A loop isn't expensive, but swapping your interpreters code out of registers and cpu cache for each js instruction may be. Anyway, this method doesn't really get you much in the way of JIT compiling your JS either..
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Isn't this just Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'?
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the example implies that a donate button below the fold is a big barrier to conversion but recent studies seem to indicate it is not - certainly not worth designing for <750x300.
...and if we moved away from the annoying-and-awkward shared memory model, then this becomes even less of a problem still.
All rifles do this a bit; snipers/designated marksmen get very accustomed to their personal weapons, and need to take time to re-acclimatize with any other rifle. For a regular line infantryman in a modern army who is mainly using his rifle for suppressive fire it doesn't significantly reduce his effectiveness.
An interesting possibility for Palm is an acquisition by Microsoft, which has been struggling with Windows Mobile.
This is the mistake that allowed the Serbs to shoot down a Stealth bomber; aircrews communicating on open channels.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x...

"At times, they acted like amateurs," Dani said, listing some ways the Serbs managed to breach NATO communications security, including eavesdropping on pilots' conversations with AWACS surveillance planes.
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That sounds a bit silly though - as you said, a false choice. Surely you wouldn't want to pave over the whole continent. There are other ways to save the children than to destroy everything. It's also a question if humans have to expand everywhere.

If it all is such a no-brainer for you, I wonder what other choices you make in your life to save lives in 3rd world countries? For example CO2 consumption? To be honest, I don't buy your no-brainer attitude.
It is a brain hack. Stealing is easy if you don't know who you're stealing from. This is why shoplifting is a common crime and stealing from corporations/banks isn't looked down in the same way as stealing from an old lady is. This trick breaks down that barrier and imbues personality onto the potentially stolen item.

It wont work agaisnt a hardened thief but it will on someone who just found the camera and is thinking of just keeping it.
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I don't know the backgrounds, but I thought that essentially having DDT in the food chain is undesirable.

Would you spray your backyard with DDT to save an African kid? Granted, if it was the only way, maybe, but overall I personally would rather not (then I would rather put up a tent for the African kid and relocate it to my DDT free backyard).
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For my bicycle, since it's more likely to be stolen than lost, I have little bits of paper inserted into lots of places that bike mechanics are likely to find.

"If this bike has not been brought into your shop by [insert your name] then it is stolen, please call me immediately on [insert your number]".

These little pieces of paper are in places like the stem, the bars, under the bar tape, in the bottom bracket, under the inner tubes, under the rim tape, in the hubs. Literally anywhere I can put them where they are likely to survive undetected by a casual user of the bike but that is likely to be discovered the first time the bike is taken into a shop for servicing. Obviously I use little bits of plastic and a permanent CD marker for the places likely to get wet (the ones under the innertubes).

I don't expect to get the bike back days after a theft, but weeks or months later I think it would work well.
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Actually, you can get it with just an ABN - doesn't have to be a full registered business name. You could register yourself as a sole trader, for example, it's free.

I don't mind the system actually. That, and the far higher prices, mean that there's actually a decent chance any given domain is available.
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War machine sending data through unprotected channel? In XXI century? After two world wars and a cold war?

How?
A .co.jp can only be registered by a proper company, yeah. You know .. .COmpany.JP :)

A plain .jp, however, has no such restrictions; individuals can buy them.

Seems reasonable to restrict any of them to their intended registrees. Just because the USA didn't enforce it (and now the namespace is an absolute mess) doesn't mean other countries shouldn't.
Those few hours can be critical when you're trying to stay ahead of the news cycle, because you have to race with news deadlines (at newspapers, PR wires, tv stations, etc.)

The difference of a few minutes can be the difference between a minor story of "Microsoft withdraws website over legal issue" and a major story "Scandal: Microsoft rips off competitor; ignores allegations".

Geeks embbeded in a 24-hour web-newscycle often forget that most of the worlds news cycle still revolves around newsroom deadlines.
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Actually "Camera Hack: How to find a lost memory card"
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What if copyright infringement were made completely impossible?
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Ruby community has its own traits. The "gem for Java" probably does not exist because not too much people need it (otherwise it would have been written already). In pure Java it's hard to use REPL, and you have to build your project anyway before running it, so maven suits better here.
I'm guessing this is why the Riflemen's Creed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifleman%27s_Creed) is so important?
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Ask HN: Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season?
Just curious what you think on whether it is a good idea to launch a startup/product/tool during a time everyone is in a mood to holiday? Or is it wise to wait for the season to pass? Any specific experiences or advice?
In Turkey, there is a similar process for com.tr domain names. You have to provide some sort of business or trade mark registration documents to be able to register com.tr
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Plurk’s official response to Microsoft’s apology
If you are going to incur expenses and your potential customers will not be available due to preoccupation, then you should wait until you have the full attention of your customer.
agreed. flash is a pain to handle with crawling and indexing. would love to see a trend away from flash, not to it.
> if you get enough vitamin D, holes in teeth repair themselves

I'm interested - do you have a citation for that? I've read that teeth can repair themselves to some extent in Weston A. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Now that everything has died down ...

This seems to be a good spot to quietly mention a project I worked on for a client recently. It's the standard photo gallery fare, etc. -- but their primary complaint was that it didn't look right at different screen resolutions.

I integrated two different frameworks I've built and developed a website that always adjusts to the user's browser window size. Check it out! http://messersmith-homes.com/landhomes/bigoak

I'm currently quietly adding features and polish to the two frameworks involved.
Nikon, Canon, and others allow tethered shooting and sell gadgets to replace the wire with radios. Search for wireless tethering.

There's often cheap alternatives too.. e.g. http://petetek.blogspot.com/2009/05/50-wireless-tethering-so...
Geez, os x is completely riddled with tricks you 'have to know', usually achieved by some obscure key combination. Which UI book did they get this out of ? ...
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"People familiar with the matter" has been WSJ's phrase for an unnamed source for years.
There's one point though you're discounting, Plurk was used in China, it's known there and it's completely possible that they are thinking of reentering the Chinese market.
Not good.

First of all, sending out a press release saying that you are still considering all your options is a bit silly. "We're thinking about it" isn't really news.

But more importantly, that fact that they are still considering legal options is a bad sign. The fact that Microsoft responded with a quick and unequivocal apology bought them a lot of good will. Even if Plurk were to succeed in a lawsuit, it will be a big distraction and might possibly hurt the brand.

If I were in Plurk's shoes, I'd be sitting down with the Microsoft China folks to discuss acquisition/partnership. Clearly Plurk has something Microsoft wants, and now might be the best time to get them to pay for it. But you're not going to do that by holding the threat of a lawsuit over their heads.
Or rather, 30% of sites which already have some other security issue also store passwords in plain text.

Frankly, I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher if the sites are badly maintained enough to let this guy in through another exploit.
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What does it do? If it's family-oriented, it might be a great time. If it's business-y, not. Context matters.
Another version of this already exists, OpenLazlo. (http://www.openlaszlo.org/ ), and it's already used on websites, including the internet radio, Pandora. The nice thing about OpenLazlo is that that it can produce both Ajax and Flash from the same code.
To be fair, he doesn't seem to understand if/how _anything_ he wrote applies to the GIL.
So the debate is whether Causation causes Correlation, or if they are merely correlated?

Welcome to meta-land.
Short summery of his conclusion: People would use permissively licensed content and commercial content publishers would die if they wouldn't adopt.

Well, I wouldn't be bet on that.

Maybe, the author of this piece would do so, and maybe quite a few others. But some would switch to something completely different while the majority would simply pay for the content -- just like they did before it was possible to make illegal copies.

Free (whether in beer or speech) is not the only criterion for making buying decisions.
Even I, as a co-founder of Plurk, have to write this press release myself.

You poor dear. Look guys, quit while you're ahead. Everyone knows you are not going to sue Microsoft because the legal fees would be bigger than your market cap.

The smart thing would be to take this down and say only that you're 'discussing it with them. Let MS takes you out on a date and give them some room to make it up to you. Sometimes the best negotiation strategy is to keep your mouth shut and let the other side do all the talking. This missive sounds petulant.
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> Fish oil contains a higher ratio of omega-3 to omega 6 than other sources (flax seed).

NO.

On the contrary, flaxseed oil has more v ω-3 than ω-6.

Flaxseed oil: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fats-and-oils/7554/2 RATIO: 43
Salmon oil: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fats-and-oils/632/2 RATIO: 23 (allegedly the best fish oil for ω-3)
Cod Liver Oil http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fats-and-oils/628/2 RATIO: 21.5
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fats-and-oils/629/2
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fats-and-oils/633/2
...
Ask HN: Finding hackers with the entrepreneurial virus
I'm a software engineer with lots of experience in web app. development and would like to meet smart people that share my passion about startups and innovation. The problem is that although I do have my share of friends, none of them share are really attracted by entrepreneurship, risk taking and the startup lifestyle.

I currently have a couple of startup ideas that I'd like to brainstorm over, but have no one in my network to do so. It's too early yet to go after a co-founder since I am not even sure at this point which of my ideas has the biggest potential (if any does at all).

Where can I find like minded people that are willing to discuss & brainstorm?

PS: I know there are sites for finding a co-founder, but that's not really what I'm trying to do. My approach is to first meet people, brainstorm and eventually become their co-founder.

I know this isn't the right place, but in case anyone else is in my situation, you are welcome to add me on msn / email me: olalonde at gmail.com
There are studies with pure DHA, EPA, and ALA. The source shouldn't matter the result of those studies.
Absolutely agreed. I wrote a series of posts regarding Capitol Records's suing Vimeo yesterday that says something similar. (http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/286389590/vimeo-sued-by-capi... and http://marinich.tumblr.com/post/286413219/amanda-lyn-ferri-s...)

It's not even that people are sheep who're getting screwed over by record companies. It's that, much as we may dislike them, record companies are providing quite a lot of value, and they're doing their best to preserve the value of the content they're providing, however flawed their approach may be. While I don't think they're doing a service to musicians, the strategy espoused here and by others — make music valueless and profit by other methods — doesn't sit well with me at all. Even if it is inevitable, and I'm still not entirely certain that it is, I think it would be a great loss if people started seeing music as intrinsically worthless.
"Not alone" is the semantically correct way to say it, but I suppose you're technically right.
intrinsically worthless

I think the term you're looking for is priceless, not worthless.
Your right; the writer is making the crucial mistake of assuming that the majority want free stuff because of an ideology they hold.

When really they are just after a free lunch :)

I'm sure most would just go onto pay content. And those currently on pay content anyway wouldn't see a difference.
could you provide links to those studies? thanks!
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hah these guys are burning through their sympathy pretty damn quickly.
What an idiotic statement. A judge would look at the actual damages; launching the site for an extremely short time in a country that they are not allowed to operate in just couldn't have caused them much actual financial damage.

How much are the actual damages? Zero (what seems likely without more information) times whatever punitive multiplier you can think of isn't much at all.

I'd say they fully deserve to lose a legal battle that drains tons of money, so that MS can buy their then nearly-bankrupt company for pennies on the dollar, if they aren't smart enough to drop it when they have already benefited from the situation.
This isn't a smart move at all.

I can empathize with his "pain"; and it certainly leaves a bad taste to let this just slide straight off.

But the problem is I think that there are considerations: such as the fact it was ripped off by a Chinese contractor (which as has already been discussed at length, is something not uncommon), the fact that Microsoft obviously screwed up - but dont appear to have done this maliciously.

If anything I would approach it with discussions to license to code; MS now have a user base in a market that Plurk is banned. That is commercially viable for both parties.
Nope! "Priceless" means you're incapable of deciding what one ought to pay for something. "Worthless" means you've decided something is not inherently valuable. That's the meaning I wanted to use.

When you think it's okay to use a copyrighted song in its entirety in a video just because you're an amateur, what you're saying is that you're fine with releasing somebody else's work to the world without anybody making a dime. The people complaining about this lawsuit are saying they're mad because using somebody else's work without compensation should be completely fine. That devalues music.

It would be like if I stole the source code to Basecamp to release a free application, then defended myself to 37signals by saying I wasn't making money off it. I'm not more innocent because I was hypothetically releasing my work for free. In fact, in a way it's even worse because I've suddenly devalued Basecamp, which makes money off people who think it's worth something and have no choice but to pay if they want it.

(Actually, looking at Marco's post before this, I think I misinterpreted him: He agrees with my belief that the Vimeo thing is copyright infringement, and simply is saying that Creative Commons will let musicians flourish without breaking laws.)
...right. They're too poor to afford a copyeditor for their press releases (freelancers do this for cheap), but they're gonna sue Microsoft?

This has just gotten embarrassing now.
It requires Flash 10, which is a good thing if you want to avoid your elitist community being infiltrated by random Internet users.
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I recently came across the same question via OnStartups.com. Here: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/4794/is-launching-ju...

I personally think the right answer would have to take into consideration the context of the launch and the product. However, I think that if there is no expense to launch, then do it. Do it now.
Nope! "Priceless" means you're incapable of deciding what one ought to pay for something.

What is the Mona Lisa worth? You'd say it's priceless, of course. Yet you can find free images of it--legally--online. Does that mean the Mona Lisa is worthless?

Something can be priceless despite reproductions of it being available for zero cost.
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I've got the feeling that this is going to be one of those David vs Goliath battles where Goliath breaks the neck of David after five seconds without breaking a sweat and then everyone goes home with a sad face.
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