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You are right, but personally I feel that the GPL is inviting abuse: it is THE license that made the dual-licensing business model possible, and the reason why companies are requesting copyright assignments (even if they don't plan to do anything with it right now, but just in case).

So you can talk about "the spirit of GPL", but this spirit is too tainted with a political agenda that made it a double edged sword.

Heck, the biggest supporters of AGPL are companies that sell web-related platforms or libraries for a living and slapping an "open-source" label on such packages is good marketing.

Here's some food for thought: if OpenJDK would've been licensed with Apache version 2, a fork would have already happened. GPLv2 was chosen for a reason ;)
parallel is intended to work on arbitrary commands.
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The music industry isn't going anywhere. The successful startups related to the music industry will be the one's which adapt and change with a growing market
If you have a kindle change your zone in the kindle settings page and add an US adress (pick one on the yellow pages). I am in france and use that method to download us only kindle ebook. It's work perfectly :) (amazon dont verify the postal adress)
That would work if I asked how to make myself feel good.

But my point is that publishers could move their asses and start selling worldwide instead of bragging about piracy.
Groupon and the like don't promote customer loyalty. They promote disloyalty. Why go back to the same restaurant when I can try another restaurant for 50% off?

Each vendor would have to evaluate with ROI with Groupon and no one really know how good or bad it is because it is likely to be kept secret. No one likes to be shown to be a sucker if it is bad, and no one will share if it is great.
Does that rocket under Drawing remind anyone else of Adobe LiveMotion?
The Kiko price is known because it was sold on eBay.

Also, the "date" column doesn't sort properly. It sorta alphanumerically instead of chronologically.
Whoah. I thought it requires credit card on "delivery" address. Thanks.
Here's some insta-feedback (if that's what you were looking for).

I read the first paragraph and thought, "wow that sounds great, as an avid ebook reader I understand exactly the problem you are trying to fix, sounds great!"

Then I read the second paragraph and thought, "I have no idea what Booki.sh is."

Then I clicked on the 'example' and thought "oh right this is neat i guess. It's not entirely intuitive how to get back to chapters. And your ajax isn't plumbed in to my forward/back buttons".

Then I posted here.

Hope that's useful.
That's my blog post, I'm currently feeding my data to Jed, so hopefully the combined data will be a bit more accurate. I haven't updated it in ten months or so, so any changes since then won't be included.
Hmm, I think there's a slight misunderstanding here. If your registrar goes down it shouldn't affect you in any way other than your ability to renew and transfer your domain.

Your host yes, your registrar no - they're not the same thing.
It has for years, Reddit has only come close to it fairly recently.
http://mixergy.com/airbnb-chesky-gebbia/

Here is the interview Andrew did with the founder.
Rumor has it that someone built a robot to place a sticker reading "Drink. Let the robots drive" on the outside of the glass on walkway between Wean Hall and the new building.

I wonder if that one got counted...
Weird, I saw it before it was [dead], seemed like an OK project, if a bit unpolished. I was going to make some suggestions (sort results by rating, etc).

Here's the url: http://www.notanewyorker.com/

One thing I would suggest to the OP: use a more descriptive title. Instead of "Are you a New Yorker?" maybe something like "Show HN: My one-day GAE project for New Yorkers".
You've got a misleading title there. You don't need to read this book, you just (in your own words) "want to read it."

So, of course you have a choice. Read something else.

The universe doesn't owe you a constant stream of your preferred reading material in the cheapest and most convenient way possible. There are 50 used and new copies for sale on Amazon.com. You're telling me not a single one of them could be bribed into shipping internationally for you? There's not a single Lithuanian book shop that will do a special order? Lithuania has blocked BonVu.com?

I think what you mean to say is that you didn't feel like paying extra for a book or waiting for it to arrive. So really, you pirated out of convenience rather than necessity.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800925
TextMate is horrible for writing prose. Unlike programming, where you perform discrete edits (like adding/refactoring a function, changing a constant value, etc.) changes to prose are continuous; ideally, every action (add character, backspace, move cursor) should be a separate "micro-commit." Similarly, syntax highlighting is almost guaranteed to screw up when one tries to write prose with it; I have yet to see a text format (HTML, Markdown, Mediawiki markup...) where you can paste in the current plaintext draft of your novel, and the second half of the book won't become highlighted entirely in green because it's "inside" an unpaired asterisk.

Ideally, a prose editor would be a minimalistic WYSIWYG editor, where each formatting option mapped to a feature of Markdown. The "document format" would, internally, be a Markdown document stored in a git repository—but actual Markdown text would be escaped if pasted into the editor itself, so this would just be an implementation detail (except if you tried to copy-and-paste from the editor to a plain textarea—then you'd get Markdown, which is better than losing formatting altogether.) The editor would auto-commit each and every change; undoing and then typing something else would create a branch.

Other people could work on a document/repo with you; the editors would P2P-send operational transformations when they knew that others had the same document open in the editor, with eventual consistency guaranteed by committing the changes to the repo asynchronously (where each user is committing their current view of the operationally-transformed state, so no git-level non-fast-forward merges are needed, unless the users are actually working on purposefully-made separate branches.)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_0... for the underlying law, or some other source if you want something that's been updated since the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 was passed.
So is make.
The people who made the nasty posts aren't representative of the HN community in any sense.

I didn't see the posts you describe, but, if they did say what you're describing, good riddance at them being removed. Moderators exist for a reason, although its better when they don't have to do anything.
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I assume if he wanted to go the authorize.net route he would have already done so.

If the sandbox is your only problem with Paypal then stick with them. There aren't a lot of good alternatives out there.

If time is critical, why not just test on a real account? The payments are small and it sounds like you should be able to accomplish what you are looking for without a ton of testing. You will lose money in fees, but that might be a small price to pay compared to going with a much more expensive or generally a crappy alternative.
They do have at least one - it's featured on one video. I am not sure if it boots or if they could use both to make one that boots completely.
I find your answer deeply dissatisfying.

If there are systems set up that cut off knowledge from certain parts of the world, or even make it much harder to get it, I think that is injustice. I regard it as a basic human right to have access to the same information everyone else does. That's why we have public libraries.

In the U.S., we regard free speech as sacred, and I would argue that the reverse of free speech - the right to hear others - is equally as vital.

This idea that someone owns unique configuration of words and sounds is old and dying. You can own distribution platforms, own objects, and hire people who can make streams of words. But you can't own an idea.
It's funny. So many people come to HN to get their daily dose of commoditized inspiration. And yet, when it's their turn to help someone out and give real inspiration, they do things like this.

I don't think HN is getting worse, really, but I do think it's getting faster. Sometimes posts get lost in the flood of new stuff. Or sometimes posts just get stuck with a bad crowd who happened to click.

And it is a bad crowd, too-- it's one thing to give bad feedback; it's another to actively go on a site to misuse it only to insult the creator. Who does that?

That said, most of the time you still get the usual HN crowd, the good crowd, when you post things like this. And maybe those things boil down to "Your site sucks," but it's delivered in a helpful, constructive fashion.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/ but we have to be quick.
I know what you mean. On the one hand, stealing is wrong, generally speaking.

On the other, I'm in Australia. We speak English, have a Free Trade Agreement, and are generally as available a market to the US as the US is. And yet, we pay FAR more then our fair share, we don't get releases at the same time, and generally get shafted.

And, the only reason why is often one of profit. It's more profitable to charge us more, because we'll pay it. It's more profitable to delay launches here, because then they can have big-bang style launches.

Which, as you've no-doubt noticed, leads to piracy as the means of obtaining something. It's a dilemma I've not quite resolved, myself.
Was the original post listed as an "Ask HN/Review" type thread which theoretically invites constructive feeback, or just a "check this site out" submission? I'm wondering why it went dead.
I can't imagine a situation where I would add Boost to a project.

Sure, it drags C++ by its angle bracket into a higher abstraction level, if you want that. But adding the core of Boost to any project is like a snake swallowing an elephant made of source files. Even worse, they're practically all template header files. This is not a virtue. I just can't see myself really wanting to make that tradeoff.
> I think there's a large opportunity cost to dismissing concurrency & parallelism at this moment.

I'm not dismissing the idea, nor claiming that it is not valuable for any application. Clearly that parallelism would have value to a significant number of projects, which perhaps don't make best use of the host hardware today. I'm just trying to keep the multi-core idea in perspective, relative to other ways our programming languages might improve.

Better multi-core support can get you a constant factor speed-up in computationally expensive work, but Amdahl's Law tends to spoil even that. On the other hand, a language with a type system that allows you to prevent entire classes of programmer error could lead to a step change in security or robustness. A language expressive enough to capture the developer's intent in ways that today's programming models do not could lead to entirely new techniques for keeping designs flexible, supporting new rapid development processes, or it could create opportunities for optimisers that bring the performance of more expressive languages to a level where they compete with lower-level languages used in the same field today for speed reasons. I suspect that across the field of programming as a whole, such improvements would be far more widely applicable.
Ask HN: What are the best podcasts about startups/entrepreneurship?
I remember listening to a great podcast a couple of years ago that Stanford was producing, but other than that I haven't had great success finding educational podcasts about the startup world. Since I have an hour-long commute and am a recent owner of an iPod FM transmitter, I'm looking for programs like this that might be interesting.
What does this extension actually do? Allow for unicode to be used in mediawiki?
When the hell did HN turn into Digg? Or 4chan, for that matter?
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Is it OK to "steal" stuff that is very hard to obtain in legal ways?

With all due respect, I'd suggest you're just being lazy and looking to justify something that you seem to know is ethically dubious.

Book Depository has the book for $18US with free shipping to Lithuania http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780446563048/Delivering-...

http://www.abebooks.com/ top two results both offer shipping to Lithuania, less than $25 total cost.

As the other user pointed out, ebay sellers have the book with shipping to Lithuania, total cost ~$25US again.

I can think of three worthwhile points here, though:

* Outside the US, getting legitimate digital content is still much much harder and/or more expensive than getting pirated content. I live in Australia, so somewhere between US & Lithuania in convenience stakes, and we get the same "not available in your region" BS. I spent some time in NYC last year, and the ease & availability of digitally delivered content blew me away. Bring it on!

* There _are_ countries where piracy is the only sensible option. You own a Kindle, so I'm assuming you can afford a $20US hardback book. I used to live in Indonesia, where my housemates earned ~$60USD a month. Although they didn't have their own computers (or Kindles), some of our neighbours had computers (P2-era in 2004) and every piece of software was pirated. I don't even know where they would go to buy legit copies if they wanted them.

I think you can make a case for piracy in these circumstances. In fact, even Microsoft did - they gave the Indonesian government licenses for all of the Microsoft software on their computers, in exchange for them agreeing to pay for more licenses (at reduced rates) in the future.

Thankfully, Linux is (or was) growing in popularity in Indonesia as an alternative free (and ethical) option.

* Finally, I would say that this shows there exists a market for a site like http://booko.com.au/, targeted to ex-USSR countries. Hint hint. :)
They could transcribe it to VHDL so it could be burned to an FPGA.

I would love a desktop Alto to play with.
linode for dev, test and launch and then dedicated hardware at 100tb.com or the like when needed.
I would have went with RapidXen instead of Linode. Better service, and the guy who owns it is a pretty well known FOSS coder.
No worries, let me know when you're successful ^_^
I don't want to rain on your parade here, but the story of stranded African American woman (Mrs. Nat cole king) is a myth or work for fiction. Just because of that, your other 4 stories have lost credibility as well.
The important thing is to treat people as you want to be treated. Don't use incorrect or made up stories, because in the end it has the same effect as if you lied to people about having cancer to get their sympathies and money from them. People get tired of being taken advantage of, and they start to question everything and in the end become mean spirited because they think every one is lying to them, and they have to keep their guard up. Cynical, is what they become.
This post only has entertainment value, just like reading a magazine article which may be a work of fiction.

While I realize your intentions, this is not the right way to go about it.

sean
As HN's population grows, the social motivation for "let's help is each other make stuff" shrinks. Maybe there should be a dedicated subsection (or a different site) devoted to that.
it does seem like moderators are taking a heavy handed approach. But then again, take a look at the new page and see how much crap they have to deal with.

personally I think, HN needs to put some filters in place to stop newly registered spammers. Even a simple 200 point requirements to submit new posts should be enough to trim the "check out the awesome prices on this nikes!" posts.
My contract actually bans me from discussing compensation. I was trying to come up with a single, reasonable explanation for doing so, and I couldn't.

It basically enshrines the idea of employees not being treated fairly. If you can't discuss your pay, you can't know you're getting gypped.
I remember seeing some Xerox computer with a portrait display. Don't know if it could be a model besides this one.
I deal with this issue sometimes, particularly getting digital content in America while living in Japan. My solution is that one of my VPSes runs a Virtual Private American: Apache running mod_proxy. Any web request proxied through the Virtual Private American appears to originate from a computer in St. Louis... because it does. I use a proxy switching addon in Chrome and Firefox to magically turn American whenever e.g. Amazon gives me guff about it. Then I can pay for the content of my choice using my American credit cards. (If you don't have one, you can fake it with a stored payments card.)

Morally, it isn't my finest hour (it is technical breach of contract with Amazon, it makes a minor imposition on the eventual rightsholder of the Japanese version, possibly retards the ability of the content to licitly reach Japan, and possibly transgresses a secular law which enjoys a presumption of moral legitimacy), but it is a much less grave offense than theft.
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I remember reading the same post and Instapapering it to give feedback when I got home. As the community grows (I'm still relatively new here, 1 year) this will become a bigger problem. I just hope we collectively solve it.
It has always seemed to me that "let's help each other make stuff" is the agreed-upon "definitive purpose" of HN. The news, and the articles, and everything else posted here are just tools and information we share to help each other make stuff. In fact, I would define a "Hacker" to be "one who makes stuff." This is not Slashdot, and we are not "nerds"; we are makers all. Thus, shunting the "part" of HN that focuses on helping hackers (i.e. all of it) somewhere else wouldn't leave anything (except perhaps TechCrunch articles.)

If we want to keep HN purpose-focused, then perhaps we should just stop growing (or perhaps shard/undergo mitosis evenly, rather than dividing along topic lines and creating us/them enmity.)
and if you run out of space in misc.txt, there's always stuff.txt too.
His project reminds me of this great passage from Colson Whitehead's Colossus of New York: "No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge. That before the internet cafe plugged itself in, you got your shoes resoled in the mom-and-pop operation that used to be there. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now."

I suspect that same sentiment speaks to quite a few HN'ers as well.
Perhaps its not possible, but I think communities should aspire to never split like that.

If helping eachother build cool projects is a tenant of the community, then it should be included in everyone's feed. If it isn't, than we should not have such postings. Having splits of sections splits the community as well.
This is an interesting take on applying your own personal ethics to a situation which is still technically illegal.

download a copy safe in the knowledge that you have actually paid for it, with the karmic bonus of having donated it to a library.

It would seem like you are double-dipping here. You can decide personally that the one act ethically offsets the other, but I don't know if you can claim good about both things at once. :)
I believe Belgian corporations are not taxed on the sale of shares.
I think the argument is as much about copyright assignment as it is about proprietary Ubuntu add-ons. Seriously, I couldn't care less if Canonical built a proprietary web service or two. After all, they've got to make money. But if they took my code and made it proprietary, I'd be very angry.

According to the author, this is exactly where Canonical is headed, because (1) Canonical demands contributors to assign copyright to them, (2) the terms of the copyright assignment offer no protection against Canonical making the code non-free in the future, and (3) Mark Shuttleworth seems to imply that making code non-free is exactly what he's going to do with code that was contributed by others.
As you allude to, work-life balance is something we tend to need if we aren't able to make our work something we believe in wholly. I spent the past year hoping to trade my day job for my dream job, but I think I've come to the conclusion that at least for me, the only way I'll ever find it is to make that job myself. It's liberating and daunting.
Here - I rewrote your post to be a little more constructive:

Perhaps you could try to find a book shop that will do a
special order? I found 50 copies on Amazon.com. You could
look into getting it shipped via bonvu.com if nobody will
ship internationally.

If all that fails and piracy really concerns you, remember
you don't *have* to read the book.
Ask HN: What should I build (for OSX)?
I'm looking to build my fledgling Cocoa skills and I want to build an OSX app. What should it be? Here are my ground rules:

1. It must be genuinely useful, not just an academic exercise.

2. It must be small enough in scope so that a competent OSX developer could build it in about one month full-time.

3. Bonus points if it's something I can sell.

So what should I build?
At my High School, the custodian was Mr. Snodgrass. He was middle-aged but had an amazing mane of shock-white hair, with a shining beard down to his chest. He looked like a total mountain man. His hobbies were civil-war reenactments and painting. Most of his paintings were of the reenactments or of nature scenes. He had a small side-business as a craftsman selling his paintings at the sites of reenactments. He was a gentle giant to us kids - always there with a twinkle in his eye and a friendly word. I'm glad to have known him even a little bit. If I had dismissed him as "just the janitor" my world would now be a more impoverished place.
This looks similar to thathigh.com. You might want to talk to the guy who built that (just search for thathigh on HN - he's posted about it a few times).
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> Join a startup

I'd love to do this, but there are so few late-stage startups in Australia that I'm finding doing this rather tough.

Heck, finding companies that are product-focused shops (instead of consulting shops, like design agencies) is really tough as well.

I'd love to get involved with building an awesome product. I'm going to keep looking, but if anyone is here in Oz and has some pointers as to how to find these people, I'd be very grateful.
As an example here's the author's own Github page, viewed through this dashboard:

http://minimal-github.gilesb.com/gilesbowkett
Is that new? I never saw it.
Have I told you guys how much i love electrons lately?
No one group of drive-by downvoters, flaggers, or downbeat commenters is representative of the HN community as a whole -- especially over weekends and times of thinner attention.

So it's fairly common for some initial votes/comments to be negative, and occasionally even legitimate articles get auto-killed by a group of grumpy flaggers before sufficient upvotes arrive. But then in time, the sentiment rises as other more good-natured people pass by. (It seems harder to reverse a hair-trigger auto-kill, though -- maybe upvotes are no longer counted and it requires an admin intervention?)

Some of the grumpiest people have the most time on their hands, so can constitute the first unrepresentative wave of downvotes/flags!
Sorry, my original post wasn't clear. The comments I mentioned took place on the submitter's site (notanewyorker.com), not on HN.
web-programming with coroutines has been around.

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/flow/continuations.htm... for one example, but that was still based on prior art.