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With correct insurance/lawyer-agreements, the poor can set it up so that they have no chance of paying anything.

It's not obvious that loser-pays would prevent them from setting it up as well.
Consider it an extra validation
If you created a product for dog lovers,would you not go on a dog lovers website to promote it? im just reaching out to a smart target audience and in terms of smartness, this place is the bee's knees. Also as I said before, I posted here to get a more business/tech insight from all of you all..
No, it might actually redeem them in the eyes of some. But still, murder seems a little crude for want of a better word.

Remind me to stay on your good side ;)
That negates the purpose of a bandwidth-efficient lossy image format.
Has this ever hurt anyone? (I.e. recognized a name you Did Not Like).
This is some pretty sweet news. This was one of the reasons why I ended up not using AWS ELBs. I wonder if this will make an impact on Heroku's pricing for SSL. I assume they had to somehow get around the technical difficulties themselves.
Thank you, never heard of them before. That keeps bugging me about the web, stuff that exists for years and then suddenly it comes on your path.
Reading Misha Glenny's "The Balkans" will make it pretty clear that you can't simply blame the Yugoslavian wars on the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Wars rarely have simple causes, and the Yugoslavian wars are even worse than most in that regard.

(For example, it's impossible to discuss the Kosovo War without also including the importance of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo in Serbian identity. That battle occurred long before the Austro-Hungarian empire came into existence.)
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the technology is there and has been for a while, problem is it sucks for the punters and it sucks for the DJ. Customers in commercial clubs and at parties want to be able to go up and talk to the DJ, request their favourite song etc.Yes you could do that with a webcam, but it's not the same. From a DJ's perspective there's nothing worse than feeling disconnected from your crowd and this would massively exasperate that feeling.
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I'd argue the case for Venezuela.
Stick a neon bulb in a microwave oven. The result is spectacular ionization resulting in bulk plasma formation, via nonthermal effects.

Funny, the same thing happens if I hold it near a Van de Graaff generator. Do you suppose we should apply the precautionary principle, and avoid combing our hair on a dry day?

The axons of nerve cells are millimeters to meters long.

In a medium that is not distinguishable from the rest of their environment at RF.

This whole thread falls into the "not even wrong" category. I'm sorry I interfered, at this point.
I've also seen this named "ssl offloading" and anecdotally I found responsiveness to greatly increase on my zimbra webmail server once I placed an nginx web proxy ahead of it just to do decryption (this wasn't through AWS).
Emacs sates my needs well - the only downside is how ancient Emacs Lisp is. Haskell is a much more elegant language (and up to date); it would be an excellent replacement, only problem is producing all of the "modes" that I use in Emacs for Yi.
Your writing is clear, at least to this reader, and your point is completely valid.

I think the issue is that the general structure of what you're saying is triggering false alarms in people's bullshit detectors, and so they fail to read for comprehension.

Given that dishonest participants will specifically pretend to take positions counter to their agenda for the purpose of implying validity, authenticity, or just creating doubt, it really makes it hard to make the kind of valid point you tried to without getting misread.

The fundamental problem is that there is just no direct way to win in the face of dishonesty:

"Cellphones cannot cause cancer" -> "What about mechanism X! You can't prove it doesn't! OMG scientists are all liars! (Therefore homeopathy!)"

"Cellphones almost certainly do not cause cancer, as there is no known mechanism, and no epidemiology suggesting that they do" -> "Scientists admit that it's not impossible for cellphones to cause cancer! They admit they don't know if there is a mechanism! They can't prove anything! (Therefore homeopathy!)"

Anyhow thanks for kicking off an interesting discussion, and being a direct example of how dishonest participants have poisoned the discourse even when they aren't directly participating in it.
I believe the last sentence of the text incorrectly specifies the energy savings as 17% : "In this video, Cohen talks about cutting his carbon footprint by 17%..."

At 3:25 he says "... and the overall energy consumption dropped to 17% of the previous situation"
Comments on the list:

(22) ClosedClub -- make the $10k some kind of charitable donation; that way users can feel proud, rather than suspecting they're suckers.
More generally, online variations of the club that prices out the riff-raff seem like a potentially very profitable area, but tricky to get right [and pretty unpleasant, but that's just because I'm a crazy leftie]. There's no non-tacky way of showing wealth online, the way you would in real life with expensive furnishings and an upmarket location. Second Life came closer than anything else, but on the web? Giving users personal assistants/moderators? [unemployed journalists hired as personal chroniclers or proofreaders?]

(25) CustomCrawl: hell yeah, this is a great one

(31) F5News. Like this too. build it on top of digg/reddit/whatever. Perhaps as an independent site pulling the content (in another frame, or whatever). Perhaps as a greasemonkey script or browser addon, that you can click while on the site.

(48) ProofItWasThere -- like it, would use it. Something you could build in a weekend [maybe I will].

(8) Afrux -- a) needs a name change; I read it as 'affreux' ('terrible' in French, which is one of the most commonly-spoken languages in Africa).
b) also, is 'africa' homogenous/distinct enough for this to make sense? [maybe yes, I just don't know] e.g. egypt obviously has more in common with Syria than with Zimbabwe; even if you keep it sub-saharan, what's the common thread beyond language support and working with old hardware?

(56) TorrentLeaks -- there's a lot of space for something in this area. [wikileaks is great but very problematic, and in any case this is a domain where you really don't want a single point of failure]. Not sure how you'd target this specifically towards leaks, rather than all the other things torrents are used for
>you are't encouraging them to play soccer so they can go and play in the World Cup, but rather so they have a fun context to learn about things like hard work, practice, and teamwork

I'm sure many people (parents|teachers|other educators)see things like sports in this way. Personally I'm teaching my kids football because I enjoy kicking a football around and playing the game - it's not a direct proxy for learning something else, that is not the motivation.

The reason I'm teaching my eldest about maths is because I find it interesting, stimulating and often fun; not because I see it as a gateway to being an accountant or whatever.

Having said that I see nothing novel educationally in the article except the very specific combination of movie franchise + ipad + maths. Remember Britney Spears being used to teach physics a few years ago?

Slightly OT: I don't think his reasons as stated indemnify him from a successful claim of copyright infringement. He chose the specific franchise as a promotional tool both for his blog and for, it seems, KnowPro Apps. This was apparently a decision rooted in the profitable promotion of business entities. The fact that the app he mention itself was created for sole personal use is immaterial. If there is a KnowPro paid for this app in any way then I'd expect a successful suit could follow. IANA&copy;L
I'm not sure if those predated 1990. From what I can see, in the US multimedia CDs hit the US around 1991.
I ran into the same gtk2hsC2hs problem while installing yi myself a couple weeks ago, and I eventually got past it, but ... I completely forget how I did, sorry. I think gtk2hsC2hs is actually a non-Cabal-managed native application that needs to be installed separately?
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The package is called gtk2hs-buildtools. I think cairo's cabal file is wrong.
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I think they have been reporting aggregate numbers like this for a while. IIRC TAC as a % of revenue has been consistently decreasing over the last several years.
As far as I can tell, the folks on 4chan are concerned about ACTA, but aren't really riled up about any specific cases of patent trolling. There aren't a lot of lulz involved.
I'm confused as to the reaction to this post. Someone made an offhanded remark about something they think that Catholics do: condemning people to hell. We don't do that. It is important that we don't do that, both internally (salvation is kind of a hot topic in theology) and externally (i.e. anyone with the understanding that Catholics are routinely saying "X is going to hell" is likely to have a poor opinion of us, based off of misinformed prejudice). So I tried replying with the thumbnail sketch of what the Church actually teaches regarding this.
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Most people won't get it, but you're right, that would have been more efficient.
You have no idea what you're talking about. If you recognize it as speculation, please don't do it when actual verification is such a simple process.

Pre-emptive note to readers: Sure "You have no idea what you're talking about" sounds harsh, but is it wrong? Please consider that before acting upon any knee-jerk reactions to my comment.
UK courts have ruled otherwise, and the FA has a copyright troll that specialises in sending c&d letters to webmasters displaying fixture lists and their webhosts.
yup there are a few forums/accounts around with brcx where x is a number I thought of at the time. People probably ponder the significance of the chosen number, but there is none.

I use initials, because, well, I generally always have.
Vegas in "Jesus Land" gave me a good laugh.
Actually, APPLE.COM. and LY. are different. You get the address of the LY. server from a public root nameserver; servers set up solely to provide a starting point for "the Internet". You only find APPLE.COM. because you look in COM. first.

When you choose to use the root nameserver, you are assuming they are making good decisions about who to delegate to. When COM. delegates to Apple's servers for APPLE.COM., that's a good decision. When the root nameserver delegates to the current LY. servers, that's a bad decision, because LY. does not hold up their end of the bargain and properly delegate. VB.LY. should delegate to VB.LY.'s servers. But for some reason, they refuse to do it. So the root server should simply not delegate to it.

Incidentally, nobody is forcing anyone to use "the" root nameservers. If you want vb.ly back, just use a different root!
I've seen a need for both ad hoc (submitting text to you one complete posting at a time) and real-time (chat streams, high-volume forums) handling of text for many of these, plus censorship: both detection (does this text contain banned words) and processing (manipulate the banned words) in multiple languages.
>the fault lies in people willing to do business with a manifestly evil country for the sake of a vanity domain

Regimes may be largely evil but I don't think a country can be.
I feel like this would be better if it were more like Bump. Basically everyone in a specific range could post to other people's devices. Support for iPhone only is lame too.
I have carried a mobile phone practically every day since I was 18. If mobile / cell phones do cause cancer I'm not exactly sure what I could do about it. Every smoker in the world knows smoking is strongly linked with cancer, but they still do it.

I'd probably be the first in line for the low tar...err...radiation iPhone.
Iirc, some of the inside stories on that topic are covered at folklore.org.
Why is

attr_reader :foo

faster than

def foo;@foo;end

Is this in 1.9.x? or 1.8.x? or both?
hell, the technology has been there since the invention of the telephone.

I agree the experience would generally suck, but there are cases where it would work, either as practicality (save on air-fares) or as gimmick. The DJ for your chillout room is up a mountain in Nepal; as well as the music, the scenery is projected onto the wall. Everybody feels peaceful by proxy.
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If you use this, your customers' data is now in cleartext between the ELB and your instance. Now, that may be fine, you're already trusting EC2 if you keep cleartext data on disk. But it's worth keeping in mind.
I'm the founder of KnowPro, creator of the Hermione Granger math app, and writer of the blog. Thanks for your comments.

I agree that my simple app will not help my daughter appreciate the beauty of math. I'm an engineer and I think I've nearly seen the beauty myself, but in the end I'm afraid that finals scared it away.

I'd love to help my daughter attain what has alluded me all these years, but the rote mathematical drills of simple addition are not where she's going to find it. I can only hope that she spends more time practicing and masters these basic skills sooner. That was my intention with this simple app.

Your comments are spot on with many parents. I think many defer their parental responsibilities to the PBS channel on TV or to teachers at school or in their religious organization. I, however, beam when I see how happy my daughter is playing the game, and I cannot wait until she comes home from school so we can play the game together (or more precisely, I can watch her while she plays). I think there's nothing more important than spending time with kids for their development.

It sounds like you and your father had some special times that remain memorable to this date. I hope that every child and parent could share such an experience.

Thanks for your comments. They made me think.
But actually, your editor macros will read almost the same in Haskell as they do in Emacs Lisp. Some things like complicated data processing are better in Haskell, but mostly because of the speed, not the syntax. (Compare your .emacs to your xmonad.hs.)

Emacs Lisp is not particularly ancient anyway, changes are committed every day.
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I thought it was weak until I saw Outer Outer Sunset... nice
Great points. There are 2+ ways to view everything. I appreciate your input! :)
So? It's still predicated upon bullshit.
"Customer Service" on India gave me a good laugh.
"Outer Outer Sunset" and "North Beach East" are both a little inspired.
Is this a modern thing? Pope Pius IX is famous for anathematizing people who advocated the freedom of religious worship.
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Beautiful. The end-user-facing charts would have saved me lots of hours...
So it's Gawker Stalker, worldwide?

I mean...

Well.

These are real people, with dreams and ambitions and parents somewhere. They want to make the most of their startup and their tech with this pivot. I wish them well because what they're doing is hard and I admire it.

They are bigger people than I. I don't know how I could be excited to get up in the morning and advance the state of the art of something as insipid as realtime celebrity tracking. Anything around celebrity is almost always bereft of decency or lasting value. Celebrity masturbation's inconsequential place in the grand effort to move humanity forward, relative to the amount of time, energy and money it receives, fills me with sadness and exhaustion. I try not to think about it. I try to forget it exists. This story has pierced that shroud a bit.

May I be declared an idiot when People Magazine buys them in two years and they're set for their next venture. I just... could not do it.
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Given that he is such a micromanager, I am not sure Steve Jobs would have made a good CEO at the time. Apple was already huge at the time, and as the head of a large company you need to be able to see the entire picture (not just your favorite corner of the picture), as well as be willing to delegate. These things require experience, the taste of failure (sometimes), and maturity. Steve was always brilliant, but I am not sure he was wise enough to be a CEO at 25. Apple was already much more than a garage startup at the time.
I'm kind of glad this happens to Novartis.

Our company (devartis) received an oposition from Novartis against our trademark registration solicitude in Argentina due to the similarity of the names. The funny thing is that they registered theirs in a different category and the similar part is the word "artis" (which is art in latin), and dictionary words can't be owned.

I wonder how many software companies have the word soft in their names.
Ok, I think I know what happened here.

Overwhelming large number of HNers are atheists (according to recent polls), including me. But that alone should not be a reason to downvote a comment about religious beliefs, just because we don't agree with that (or any) religious beliefs.

My first impression from reading your comment was that your were portraying your religious beliefs as universal facts. Maybe my initial interpretation and reaction was wrong, but thats how I saw it. After reading your second comment and going back and reading the previous comment again I can see why you got the downvotes for expressing your (catholic) religious views.

I think it would have been better if you have said "According to catholic belief" instead of "We".

Anyways, nothing personal. As a former very religious Muslim, I can understand where you are coming from.
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Check out his old website

http://www.lisperati.com/

I remember he was also an active contributor when arc was first released[1]. Thanks for all the great contributions. (drcode: I hope you don't mind me posting this info)

[1] http://arclanguage.org/user?id=drcode
No patents, no PARC. No PARC, well, would we have come up with the GUI, the laser printer, ethernet? Maybe so, but it's hard to argue against the merits of PARC, which existed solely because of the photocopying patent held by Xerox.
Courtesy of Evan Phoenix... apparently in MRI, attr_reader doesn't create a method, instead creating a NODE_IVAR in the method table of the class. This circumvents method creation/invocation overhead and is therefore faster.
Thanks for your feedback.

I think the novelty comes in exactly what you state, and I think that the educational system relies too heavily on the status quo. There would be nothing wrong with a classroom posting pictures of Harry Potter and couching a lesson in the Harry Potter clothes in order to drive more student involvement. It's no different than when Jeopardy was popular 10 years ago and Jeopardy-like student challenges spread across schools.

With respect to the copyright infringement aspect, I hope that is not the case. I believe that many people are visual learners and seeing an example can have a much more powerful result than a mere description. It was with that intention that I posted the video. I do not plan to distribute the app as that would clearly be in copyright violation.
I don't think it's as hackable as Emacs. For one thing, you have to recompile Yi after every change. Sure, it's automated, but with Emacs, the change takes place immediately.

(When I write XMonad extensions, I do find the process a little tedious. I have to type my extension, then see if ghci can compile it, then I have to press a key to recompile and reload xmonad, then I can try out my changes. Every. Time. In Emacs, I just press C-M-x and try my change immediately.)

Really, there are two parts to editor extension. Some things are interactive hacks, and some things are structured sub-programs. Things like SLIME and CEDET are sub-programs, and they would benefit greatly from a more expressive (and faster-running language). But everything else benefits from the do-anything-you-want style of Emacs Lisp, because you can develop your development environment interactively. It's really a wonderful experience, even though you don't have closures or classes with multiple inheritance.

One of my plans for the future is to replace the C core of GNU Emacs with Haskell, so that complex extensions can be more easily implemented. But Emacs Lisp will still be around for when "scripting" is good enough.
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I tried getting Amarok 1.4 to build on my mac, but that failed. :(

I really like Amarok 1.4. Don't like 2.x. (Don't like KDE 4, either, so I'm glad Trinity is around, despite its quirks).
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"minipapers is cool, but lots of science is really hard to get without sufficient background. The jargon alone can make a 1 page summary in to a 10 page explanation."

This is a problem -- but an important, widespread, interesting problem, where an innovative service with carefully-tuned UI could make a major difference.
e.g. create interfaces that can expand/contract their level of detail according to the user's background. A term can be expandable into a one-sentence definition, and/or linked to external explanations. A sentence can expand into the corresponding paragraph from the article. many more things along similar lines -- none earth-shattering, but good execution could get you a nice market.
Is there a reason why you cant have one of these forward to an HTTPS port that's using a long-lived self-signed certificate? That way you'd keep things SSL'ed the whole way, but updating your certs becomes easier (upload a new one to the ELB vs distribute it to all your servers).

I haven't tried this myself and the docs dont say if its (im)possible, but it seems like that'd be a good feature.
I am not a legal expert, but I doubt a court would award crippling costs to a little guy who brought a case with genuine merit against a big guy but lost, where the little guy incurred only modest costs but the big guy brought the whole legal team to bear.

That's a whole lot of conditionals. In places where the judiciary is thoroughly corrupted by electioneering (coal interests in West Virginia, for instance), relying on judges to respond non-punitively can be an unsafe assumption already. A libertarian loser-pays movement only slants that further.
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My wife and I agree that we should not reward our children for things we consider a requirement of being a part of our family: education, chores, charity, manners, etc.

That being said, I think there's no reason why kids can't have more fun while they're learning. And if it helps them study/practice longer, what's the harm?

I agree that your title is more exacting. :)
I loved this idea as well.
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after more than 2 years working as freelancer and (hopefully) soon starting my own business i still consider myself kind of inexperienced.
not because i´m a bad programmer, but because there are so many awesome people writing software.

so keep learning stuff every day.
and more importantly start working somewhere!
every waited day costs you time.
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