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GoAnimate files dispute against their own customers?
I subscribed to GoAnimate in July on $79/month plan.

I started using them to create explainer videos for my clients and started to sell it using Fiverr.

I just sold my service to 2 people before my listing was closed at Fiverr.

Reason: Someone filed the copyright dispute against my service.

I emailed GoAnimate and here is the reply that I got from them.
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GoAnimate's compliance team filed the claim because you are selling videos on Fiverr for less than the cost to transfer the commercial rights, and are not also transferring the commercial rights. You can create and sell as many videos as you like, but each video requires a $79 commercial rights transfer fee. If you sell enough of them, you might be interested in our volume discounts program. Would you like to learn more about that?

Regards,
Mark
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I was a GoAnimate subscriber for last 3 months and I didn't knew about this extra fee at all.

If you see the GoAnimate pricing, they simply mention different monthly pricing plans in the table format.
http://goanimate.com/business/videoplans/?hook=header_button.site

Later, I noticed they do mention their terms of usage, but it is right at bottom in small letters and another one hidden behind tooltip.

If GoAnimate is so cautious about the usage terms, shouldn't they clear their pricing?

Shouldn't they mention $79(Recurring) + $79(One Time per video)

They didn't emailed me, they didn't told me anything, they even didn't cancelled my subscription at GoAnimate.

But they secretly went to Fiverr and filed a dispute against me without even letting me know.

Even if they wanted an extra $79, Wouldn't it be better to let the user know about it first, rather than getting their business removed on the basis of copyright claim.

When I asked GoAnimate about dispute, they said they did it and than they have special offers that wanted to sell.

How ethical in your opinion is this thing to do ? What should I do in this case ?
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It seems to me like the TLDR of the article is

1. Energy use per capita cannot grow indefintely. - Agreed

2. The economy cannot grow without energy growth - Disagree (see chart in [0] shows that energy use per capita peaked in the 1970s and we most certainly have had growth since then)

3. Our current economic system is based on growth and would collapse if we didn't have growth. - Disagree (he just kind makes this assumption and doesn't go into details)

4. We should transition to a steady state economy - Disagree (Why should we stop growing now to avoid the potential problemof not growing in the future.)

[0] - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/10/176801719/two-c...
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Its just a shorter line at security. Same security checks though.
According to this http://stackoverflow.com/q/7328295/413180 there's no known way to prevent both Clickjacking and CSRF at the same time in a widget - unless you have an ugly popup asking the user to confirm the like.
The negative comments on here are obviously coming from folks who live in societies where police and court systems are effective. I don't think most on here understand the extent to which police and courts are corrupted or completely ineffective in several countries. Having spent a good amount of time in places like Guatemala makes you appreciate how secure we are in the developed western world.

Imagine living in a place where the is literally no chance of the police helping you out or successfully prosecuting crime. Indeed, imagine living in place where the police often actively work against justice. Imagine living in a country where there is no value to life and everyone has a family member who has been murdered and there is no chance whatsoever of a prosecution because, likely, the person who murdered your loved one is part of a society-wide general corruption of civil institutions.

Just for a small taste of how things are: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113293/900-bus-drivers-de...

So please, spare me your moralizing when it comes to people who turn to self-policing neighborhoods just so they can try and bring a semblance of stability to their lives.
> Perhaps for kids looking for new books that's wonderful, but those of us that use books older than your mom, there are no ebooks.

Project Gutenberg was a thing before Google Books, and those two things aren't the only source of electronic versions of books "older than your mom", or even the only source of free electronic versions, where such isn't legally prohibited by a combination of copyright law and preference of the copyright holder.
There is a lot of new people indeed (both managers and tech.) Quite a few startups were acquihired too. But I think most important factor - management openly concerned about competition and tries to push toward better product. And it appears to be much better timing too - institutions are more open to "cloud" today, than they were 10 years ago.
What he did was to take the economists golden calf, the 3% growth pr annum, and run with it in physical terms. Demonstrating how, if economists managed to maintain that growth curve, the energy requirements would be staggering.
It's not entirely clear when and how we'll hit the theoretical limit of power usage either, particularly if efficiency keeps increasing. All this discussion is about hypothetical situations.
Is there any single person that is so upset over the change that they would install a browser extension to reverse it?

This is mad. It will grow on you, just give it some time.
> enClose is a HTML5 wrapper for iOS and OSX

'Simple and more powerful' at the cost of not being multi-platform.

Life is all about choices ;-)
The decimal mark requires some localisation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Countries_using_A...).

Let's restrict the calculator to whole numbers only.
The law is probably similar, but the technological ability to restrict access is not. Youtube allows you to stream only, not download. That makes it easier to get license holders on board. (Yes, there are workarounds for that, but most users won't bother to go to the trouble, and the quality of the download would be degraded from a purchased copy.) With books, there's no easy way to limit access like that while providing a usable service.
The process of doing that involves getting a technical community to vet your idea and provide perspectives and related work that you hadn't seen, so that by the time you're approaching writing the RFC, you have rough consensus and running code. If you want to call that "whining about it on Hacker News," you're welcome to your choice of terminology, but I'm not sure why you think that's something separate from the process of proposing a new standard.
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like the "master keys" for the nuclear arsenal?
But there is a lot more agricultural/forestry land out there in America than residential. There are more people living in Cook, DuPage, and Lake counties than the entire rest of the state of Illinois. 53% of the population on 3% the land area.

Ted Turner didn't get to own 2M acres of land by buying in Atlanta. Much of that is bison ranches.

There are a lot of people out there that own no more than 0.25 acre, which is pledged as security for a mortgage.

If you own land outright, free of liens and mortgages, whether rural or urban or in between, you're already way ahead of most people. You may not be actual rich, but "rich" by comparison with your neighbors.

Peering under the covers of agribusiness in the U.S. was somewhat enlightening. It would appear that one should not attempt a farming start-up without at least $1M in the bank, and you will only get about an 8% return on it per year, on average. Small farms simply do not make money; you cannot run a small farm as your sole source of income and expect to earn the equivalent of minimum wage.

So the natural conclusion I reached from my cursory research is that the vast majority of raw acreage in the U.S. is probably owned by investment trusts, who lease it for farming, mining, ranching, and logging, to people who barely earn a profit, and mostly just immediately spend 70% of everything they earn on expenses.

There's a good reason why YCombinator invests in tech start-ups instead of plows and cows.
Came here to comment on the same thing. That's hair-raising - everyone will try to crowd the speech time of meetings now instead of taking in what others have to say and only talking when they have something valuable to say.

Of course, if you can't measure value in contributions, you settle for number of contributions. And run into the same problem we created by paying coders for lines of code.
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I think the original headline of the article was "Brewster Kahle, the Creator of the Internet Archive, Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress" and that I submitted it shortened to it's current headline "The Creator of the Internet Archive Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress."
The miles in this trick aren't status miles, so they won't affect your ability to use fast track.

But, that said, fast track security is the exact same security as regular security, it just have more staff allocated (at the airline's expense), so the lines will (usually) be shorter. Also, fast track will have a high percentage of experienced travellers that know to pack their liquids in a plastic bag, to remove their laptops and shoes, and when etc, and especially know the total futility of engaging with the security staff at all, so things tend to flow faster.
Isn't that the point of the RFC process ? It's right there in the name "Request for Comment". The whole point of the RFC structure is that it forces you to lay out what someone would need to implement your RFC, which is what you need to even begin the discussion on a new standard.

A lot of the successful early internet standards followed this path. They weren't written by committee, they were written by one person with an idea to make things better.

And I only consider it whining if you point out the flaws, then don't do something about the flaws using the process for correcting them. The internet was built by the RFC process and its poorer these days because people feel to follow it is "a bit of hard work".
I think that you are misattributing premises to me.

I think that a "combined type", can be safer if well written than a raw pointer. Surely you don't disagree with that? That's not the same as saying all combined types are better.

Similarly, adding abstraction can be good, it can also be bad. C adds abstraction to assembly. I'm guessing though that you would choose C over assembly for many things?

Repeating yourself is a bad thing in general. It could be that to get rid of the repetition we'd have to incur other costs that might be worse. I don't think that's the case here.

I just don't understand your "magical create_contiguous_memory" comment. Do you feel like the sort function is magic, and instead we should write all of our sorts out at the call site? More practically, we write a good sort once, document it carefully. The users of sort know roughly how it works and exactly how to use it. In the rare cases they care, they read the code. make_contiguous is exactly in this boat: you write it once, you write it carefully, and then you use it without worrying about the details every single time. Our brains are just too small to deal with all the details all the time, that's why we're trying to hide complexity that isn't as immediately relevant.

Your post is mostly sweeping generalities which aren't true in general, and as far as talking about the code goes, you mostly just say you don't like it or find it hard to read, and brush aside anything concrete like reusability, testability, bounds checking, etc, specific things that are actually useful.

From an ok, not great programmer with a year's experience, I wouldn't necessarily expect them to fully understand make_contiguous right away. But I would expect them to understand who owns the memory, and the memory layout.
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Reducing the copyright term to something more reasonable would help a lot, too.
I imagine one could have something like a pez dispenser, but that dispenses tiles instead. Randomisation would still be an issue though.
> For books older than my mom, most of which must be public domain

How old is your mom that a book written when she was alive is almost certain to have been written by someone who has now been dead for more than 70 years?
A lot of people do this; you're conflating 'status' and 'earning points' -- none of the miles earned here count towards elite status. You can't get elite status from 'just renting cars'. You generally (with a few exceptions) need to fly 25, 50, 75 or 100K BIS ("butt-in-seat") miles each year.

Security takes time at airports and airlines want to look after their best customers, so they have arrangements with TSA/airport officials to create a shorter line for passengers with status and passengers in premium cabins. Doesn't affect what happens when you get to the end of it.
"The padding oracle is useless because we don't behave differently if decryption fails" doesn't really inspire confidence.

Why is there so much resistance to implementing authenticated encryption? It would literally take 10 minutes to implement, with constant time MAC verification on the recipient's end. That includes the time to unit test it.

Hell, I could send a pull request right now to do it if your team doesn't have the expertise on board.

Better yet: use Libsodium.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/09/how-to-safely-implement-c...
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> The article is about how people into "futurism", like people over at /r/futurism or a large part of HN's userbase, keeps wishing people would stop "concerning" themselves with society and politics to bring technological future faster, have a big blind spot about what really matters and changes our lives.

The article, and you, fail to make the case that this is anything more than a strawman.
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All that means is you get to queue-jump when you get to security rather than wait in the longer general queue. The actual security screening is the same.
Haha start of the year I flew, with 7 other people, SFO-LAX-BOS-DFW-HKG-DFW-SFO in the span of a weekend for $1000 ^_^ walked away with 60,000 mi, top-tier status at American thanks to a now-defunct promo, and 10 systemwide upgrades (each). If you enjoy the hobby, there's really nothing better.

Then, later in the year, I redeemed 75,000mi per person for a round trip in Etihad Apartments to the Maldives ^_^ Both the earn and the burn side can be a great time.

Going back to Hong Kong later in the year, paid $2200 for a round trip business class ticket on AA from DFW-HKG, upgraded to first and thanks to 3 stacked promos, earn 70,000mi and that round trip alone gets me 1/3 of the way to EXP status for next year.
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Maybe it's just my peers :-) but this highlights to me why I've been reluctant to adopt React. I keep getting eye rolls about not using it - but everyone I encounter seems to in the process of still figuring out application and architecture basics? We weren't an Angular shop, so never had the problems that React seems to target with one-way, etc.
You might enjoy this article from Dr. Dobb's: Is Fixed-Price Software Development Unethical?:

http://www.drdobbs.com/is-fixed-price-software-development-u...

Although I think you make the case just as well and more succinctly. :-)
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The UX makes no sense, they obviously don't use their own software or do any sort of user testing.
Why is stack allocation so slow? Fundamentally, it should compile down to a single machine expression (mov stack pointer), correct? Sure, the first time it may cause a page exception to allow the OS to grow your stack, but that should only happen once. What else is happening that I'm missing?

AFAICT, the big difference in the linked code is that the stack allocation code uses the constructor whereas the pool allocator uses a special function called reset(). Is this just a bogus benchmark that is measuring the speed difference between the constructor and reset()?
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One takeaway from this article, for me, was that Avis' customer service, and the agents at these rental places specifically, were __awesome__. This is the kind of experience that would lead a customer like me to choose Avis over their competition when traveling, for example.
Well, I love the irony.

I've been involved in various copyright cases as an expert witness, it's a big money "game".

The irony of a hippie / counterculture festival using lawyer to protect their Intellectual Property is epic. Corporate jets now land at Black Rock City Municipal Airport.
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If you are a litigant in a case, even a pro se one, you get free courtesy copies of the case filings on PACER.
I like httpie a lot personally, but I have also used Bat (if you like Go better than Ruby or Python)

https://github.com/astaxie/bat
At first, I thought the hitbox in front of the player was too large, but then I noticed the asteroid images are apparently being resized, so I suspect the hitbox for the asteroids is assuming the original dimensions, causing collisions in apparently open space. I'm only assuming this is what's happening, since I don't want to wade through that much javascript to find out.

Since this seems to be a demo i'm not going to get too pedantic about the gameplay, but that definitely is something you would want to address in an actual game.
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Demonstrating the influx of web/devops, and how they are generally more interested in social media.
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Gattaca was specifically about genetic testing. Saying that's analogous to checking credit ratings is moving the goalposts.

The government doesn't force or encourage people to take antidepressants or other "mood-altering drugs", except when they are eg incarcerated. Government involvement in the entire population taking such drugs is a crucial and explicit element of the BNW dystopia.
Businesses with the least risk also usually are extremly competitive and offer the least amount of profit.
My favourite was this guy who wrote a script that processed 7000 1 cent donations netted him 380,000 points:

http://www.brw.com.au/p/marketing/nab_taken_for_frequent_fly...
As a Texas Tech grad, I'm not that shocked.
It was possible to boot to single user mode and remount root as read-only prior to systemd, Whether this was the optimal method for achieving this is irrelevant, it was possible, and popular. That specific method no longer works easily as before, while the optimal method does. The commentor was using their preferred (if suboptimal) convention from the prior init system and running into problems. I think that perfectly matches the statement "It actually is a problem of carrying over obsolete conventions from prior init systems."

It is also a case of not knowing the correct/optimal prior convention, but that doesn't make the original statement untrue.
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Is Guatemala in the orient or something?
I wonder if it's not more that we're ignoring the cultural aspects because many of them didn't turn out as good as the predictions (less working hours, more equality for instance)
Sure. Arbitrage. Basically everything that happens over at flyer talk is arbitrage.
Since Etsy is battling to achieve profitability, I'm reluctant to second-guess this move. But as a consumer, I want an exclusively artisanal marketplace.

If you're patient, you can find some outrageously awesome stuff here and there on Etsy, but a lot of merchants game the system by offering the same product under many different listings. Mass-producing merchants will have the incentive and the resources to dump an avalanche of listings for low-margin dreck on the site. I doubt the ability of the Etsy team to counter that effect and maintain the kind of marketplace where someone interested in artisanal goods would want to shop.
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> I would be in favour of less incarceration and more rehabilitation and reinsertion into society as happy/useful participants

While I agree that mere incarceration is often fruitless in terms of helping the person being incarcerated, one must be careful to not replace prison with brainwashing, to put it bluntly. That is, rehabilitation might work with narcotic addictions, but social issues (I am categorizing violence as a social issue, because it necessarily involves interaction between two or more persons) revolve around opinions, beliefs, conscious and unconscious assumptions about others, etc.

I recall movies and TV show episodes revolving around the totalitarian nature of some criminal justice system that seeks to fix inmates's behavior through overt (torture) or covert (therapy, interviewing, social engineering, etc.) means.

> I believe that most people would not commit the crimes they commit if they had access to better welfare/education/neighbourhoods/etc.

This is essentially the idea that poverty causes crime, which is a controversial position. This might be why you have gotten downvoted.
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> hiring someone to do the manual work

I don't know what the terms of the Avis deal was exactly, but FF miles will generally only post to the personal named account of same person doing the activity (taking a flight, renting a car etc) -- this is to protect against the 'improvement' you suggest, but in another shape: Requiring employees to post their miles to the company account instead of to their personal account.
It will be just like those University tutorials where you get grades for participation; Everyone comes in and repeats the same bland statements, purely for the marks, and no discussion is had at all.
Yes, indeed that was a big part of my point!

But also, even if I didn't have a choice and had to write the code in C++, I would do it in the style on the slide, not the style endorsed by the link on this HN thread.

I do agree that copying a line and changing spots is a common mistake pattern. However, I also still think that in many cases that is the best thing to do because it results in the simplest code. So rather than go through contortions in the actual code to try and prevent this, I am wondering if some kind of IDE pattern matching is a better way to catch this class of errors.
Running 9front natively on Thinkpad X230 as well as virtually on Qemu/KVM (9front supports both disk and net virtio). If you configure it as CPU server you can connect to it remotely using drawterm from Linux/*BSD/Windows for example and share files between systems. You can browse web pages unless they're maimed with js or css. Videos you can't view (yet) unless they're gif animations ;-)
I feel like subjecting the brains to six times the pressure you'd find at the bottom of the deepest ocean trench might have some impact on the shape of the proteins. I'm not a scientist though.
I have a professor who uses OneNote on his Surface. projected onto a screen. I'd say it works at least as well as a whiteboard. Scrolling helps a lot.
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