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Most faculty just want a simple place to put course documents and announcements and Blackboard (and Moodle for that matter) are just overkill for most of them. The main reason it seems is that they're purchased by committees who make decisions by checking off boxes on a large feature list, where it doesn't seem to matter if anyone actually uses those features. You can tell how bad it's gotten since many faculty are already doing their own thing, i.e. using Google groups, pbwiki or making their own simple websites.

Due to my frustration using WebCT for classes I TA'd as a graduate student, I recently partnered with another student to build a simple alternative in Django. Check it out at http://thiscourse.com It's designed to provide access to the crucial features as quickly as possible. We're always interested in getting feedback and have had a few classes use it successfully so far.
Regarding the principle that a forall exists statement of arithmetic can be translated to one without contradiction, the paper linked right next to your quote is basically a procedure to extract computational evidence from a clasical proof, using a translation based on the kolmogorov interpretation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Heyting%E2%80%9...

Terry Tao has a nice article comparing common proofs by contradiction to its contrapositive versions: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/the-no-self-defeati...
Yuck. For me her explanation just makes the situation worse: 'I forgot what I'd promised, but now that I've been reminded of it, buck up and just spend the $5 to get what I'd told you would be included in your original purchase. I'm not trying to screw anybody over and I'm offended you said I am.' Really?! Shockingly not customer-centric.

Not that this excuses the rude anonymous idiocy against her on Twitter and her blog comments - I never understand why people yell and say ugly things even before asking nicely. Really unpleasant and wrong. But her behavior certainly doesn't make me want to purchase anything she makes in the future, either.
Would depend, what people think is really important.
I come to HN to read about computer related things. I can get everyday news from other sites. Same for the discussions. I wouldn't expect too much special insight from HN people on this specific topic. Even if people live in the area, what should they know, that you can't read on CNN? (This may be different for other topics, yours may just be a bad example)<br />
And I really don't need the kind of "ban guns" discussion that started at /. right now. So I go with user "rewind", just let the community decide.
Is there a company that instills similar fear today? I suppose Facebook inspires a similar fear for any company doing something social, but the thing about MS and Google at their peak was they saw their domain as "software" and "the internet" respectively, so anyone doing literally anything profitable in software or the web had a target on their back back then. Facebook's focus seems a lot narrower.
userland frontier was a a 4gl programming language, object database etc that was greatly damaged when apple released hypercard.
The problem isn't with the source code but with the binary. The GPL doesn't allow additional restrictions on what the user can do with it after getting it, whether it was paid for or not. That's what the developer filed the complaint over.
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Both the GPL and VLC were around long before Apple's store. The developer contributed to a project that had a very clear, existing copyrights and Apple chose not to honour that. Simple as that.

And yes, seeing apple fanboys jump on this guy because he wants his rights honoured is pretty sickening.
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touché ;)
This keeps being brought up, the whole apple not contributing back to FreeBSD, but I would urge you to please look through FreeBSD's CVS history to find all of the places that Apple HAS indeed contributed back (I've made several comments with links to such sources on HN before).

Apple also has an entire website dedicated to the various pieces of source code for their OS, and other tools, and are actively developing clang/llvm (they hired the creator) which is under a BSD license ... WebKit is also a thriving open source implementation of a rendering engine for a browser and is actively used by various different projects.

Your comment brings absolutely nothing to this discussion other than unsubstantiated claims and misinformation.
Is this better? http://bettween.com/dakami/zedshaw
Well what do you think would score better given your tool, a page with basic HTML or google docs? Ok that's not a fair question, but the problem is with the suggestions, it suggests you to move toward a blank page. With nothing on it.

With the exception of maybe letsfreckle, those apps you mentioned are shiny and have some dynamicism, but they are not heavy client side apps. I can't see how letsfreckle performs on your tool given it has a paywall and there's no demo.

Having said that, I do want to read your book. I'll check it out.
The PixelQi screen has four times the resolution in reflective mode, perfect for reading!

I'm waiting for mine, getting in in two weeks, they say.
The core of his point was the degradation of search results. How does that translate to him leaving "selling ads against search" out? I'm starting to think half the people commenting here didn't read past the 4th sentence
If there is a problem with the license, pretending otherwise doesn't seem very sustainable to me. Shooting the messenger might make the mob feel better, but that doesn't make it justified.
She has certainly lost my trust. She made a promise to help her business -- possibly impacting competing products like BowTie who did not make the same promise negatively -- and then fails to uphold it. Not only is this a breach of contract with her customers, it undermines our ability to find viable alternative products.

A promise doesn't mean "I'll do it if it's convenient." That people are rewarding her broken promise is just bizarre.
Whether the gunman is directly tied to Beck or that wing of political rhetoric or not, I think that the point is valid. The polarization and disruptive environment created by the so-called "pundits" will lead to much more instability, whether this man specifically was inspired by that or not. It should be seen as a warning to stop our divisiveness and petty demonization of our peers for money and praise.
This post was written 4 years ago. At that point is was too early to tell. Four years later we know YouTube was a pretty good deal. Myspace looked like a great deal for a few years. Now...not so much. It takes several years to know if things will work out or not.
I doubt TechCrunch really cares that these stories are worthless, after all this is just linkbait deployed to increase their weekend ad impressions.
> If I thought of that license text I would have simply declared this new version 3.0.

Ouch. Despite what I think she's trying to claim, this statement shows that she clearly had no intention of keeping the "free upgrades til 3.0" promise.

Kind of a bum deal for her customers.
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can someone who knows explain us how this device works; knowing similar devices;
These threads are getting nuked by the mods, even though they've shown up several times. (ex: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083724 )
I might even understand if she would say something like "It's not worth it to me and I'm not going to do it... Sorry."

But what baffles me is that she has continued to imply that she hasn't done anything wrong, made a point to say that people are overreacting, and even questioned their sanity. Wow. PR nightmare.
In other words, it's insipid marketing fluff. A silicon valley version of "Just Do It"
Which is why we should stop clicking on & upvoting them.
Yeah, Mint.com is pretty awesome.
Of course the community should decide. The question is, how should they decide?

Are you saying that someone with enough karma to flag articles should or shouldn't flag popular off-topic articles?
Programming is hard, period. Knuth has noted that its so difficult for him that when he is programming he can't teach courses, and he's among the best programmers in history.

Jon Skeet wrote a blog on the topic: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/01/29/program...

Jon Skeet is right. Programming is hard, except the most trivial tasks. And anything that is not trivial is probably broken. But we're OK with things being a little broken, and we've made users bend to our will sufficiently now that we have pushed much of the cognitive load to the users.
I think he got it spot on with the mental model stuff. People fail at programming because they've learned to always use plug-and-play formulas instead of properly understanding what's going on. This approach fails absolutely with programming. There are no shortcuts.
I wonder which order you read the thread in? I read it backwards originally.
A fallacy that could not be used if Muslims openly and harshly criticised their fundamentalist brothers, instead of remaining silent and ocasionally nodding in agreement when others are described as unworthy, because that feeling is most fundamental and hardest to overcome. The core of what binds people together is the united enemy and appeals to hating the enemy are easy. At least they have the excuse that most of them are usually being repressed, by the government or the direct social community, and don't dare voice their opinion.

Moderate American Christians, on the other hand, could easily wipe out the ridiculous overpresence of fundamentalist Christians on national television. This is assuming the majority actually consists of moderate Christians. If that assumption is false, then the feelings of nopassrecover are justified by appeal to the probability that the commenters are actually the type of people that are guilty of this mans death.
If the discussion is just noise (as is usually the case when politics is involved), I have no problem with it being flagged.
I think it really depends on your definition of a great idea. One might think a great idea is a solution to a problem which people will pay for. Other 'great' ideas might not have anything to do with money at all.

What I'm trying to say is, the intention behind the idea requires different ways to come up with it. Some might require a lot of private reflection while others require exposure to the world.
You assume the pundits are responsible for the polarization. Then you assert it will lead to "instability"

Where is your evidence? Are other causes possible?

Is your concern equally distributed regardless of politics? Just curious.
Why doesn't she simply offer App Store coupon codes to existing users? Seems like that would solve her "PR" problems, and they expire after their first use so there shouldn't be any worry of piracy or anything like that, as with serial numbers.
It is not ironic. Yahoo survived 2010.
They actually made a bunch of changes to make the App Store more compatible with the GPL.
Sorry, I deleted my previous response as I wasn't sure it was adding to the discussion - I've added the original text below.

Thanks for the clarification - but how can you be sure that developers would move platforms?

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I'd like to know what your definition of a market and marketplace is.

I'd define a market as a place (or economic 'space') where people sell a related class of products or services.

I'm not defining an iOS or iOS-based device as a market. I'm referring to the market for iOS applications (i.e. the AppStore).

Why is the AppStore not a marketplace?
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I'm very surprised how many people use GoDaddy in any form. To leave your domain name in the hands of some one with such a bad reputation seems risky. eg. http://www.google.com/search?q=go+daddy+stole+my+domain+name

Maybe for YC 2011 we could have a start up compete with GoDaddy. If some one started a trustworthy domain register targeted at start ups I could see it doing well.
The mapping between degree of discontent and aggressiveness is different for different people.

Because of that, listening better to those shouting harder reinforces the notion that "the assholes get what they want".
As far as I know, you only get 50 of those per release.
I will go ahead and claim, that even seemingly trivial programming tasks are astonishingly difficult.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/42sort/

According to Knuth, the first binary search algorithm was published in 1946, but the first published binary search without bugs did not appear until 1962.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/papers/bentley-binarysea...
Well the Star Trek franchise had an episode touching on the ideas of the rest of them...Data playing Sherlock Holmes, a planet run by Nazis, temporary acquisition of special abilities and The United Federation of Planets. [Star Trek is the Kevin Bacon of SciFi]
Can't it be re-released under dual licenses? There seems to be plenty of other software out there that has done this.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021908

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2063616
I was wondering what subfield coined the label $\Pi_2$, specifically. I haven't looked much into the structure of propositions and proofs per se, and I'm curious about what can be said about it.
Something about the way this is written just seems to make it really confusing.
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I hate to say it, but this is why I have a big problem with
the GPL.

Why do you hate it? It's OK, I am disliking GPL (maybe not GPL itself, but the politics around it) more and more.

My take is: GPL was created when a lot was different. The main product was source code, the main users were programmers/admins. The bulk of the source was for tools/infrastructure.

Now we have millions of users who could not care less about source code and modifying it. All they want is to get an app and use it, period. GPL does not fit well into this scenario, IMHO.
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Learned to program when I was around five or six years old, by picking up a book of prewritten programs in BASIC for a Sinclair ZX80 (or ZX81? not sure), figuring out how they worked and writing my own.

I am not sure what the term "inherently hard" is supposed to mean in this context.
You missed that you're not going to be using the same password for each website.

Autho.me isn't a spin-off of OpenID, it's basically outsourcing signing-in/password "storing" for websites that don't want to risk fucking it up. The point isn't to have a single ID to use across all websites.
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Damn. That kind of ruined it for me. Thanks.
llvm, clang, webkit...

Directly benefiting FreeBSD:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

They've contributed infinitely more than "nothing" back. Literally...
I don't fully understand what's going on. However, as long as someone design the black box carefully, I can figure out what it can't and can do.
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It depends on which license the code is in already and what each contributor allows.

If you own the copyright, completely, you can license under virtually any license, ever, at any time. Period.

But if you have an open-source project with tons of contributors, well, they licensed their work under the terms of a specific license. And in the case of the GPL, it explicitly means that their contributions CANNOT be redistributed under ANY terms that conflict with the “freedoms” guaranteed to end users, etc., by the GPL. However, you can at any time release a BSD-licensed work under the GPL. This is part of why the GPL is sometimes called “viral” — once it touches you, it’s hard/impossible to escape, see?

So what would have to happen would be for everyone who ever contributed to VLC to say, “Okay, I’m chill with BSD,” and the code contributed by anyone who refused to do so would need re-written e.g. in a cleanroom to avoid copyright infringement. :-/
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The most extraordinary thing about RB's story is that she aged fewer than 10 years between 1959 and 1998. All while working seven days a week.
can someone who knows explain us how this device works; knowing similar devices;
it has. But I think its important to point out that freebsd and the bsd-stack is not in any way in competition with osx. Apple develops products, and earns money by creating products that average joe can operate with ease. This means that Apple is able to commoditize off open source, by taking and contributing back to their projects of interest. Free Software Foundation have their understanding of what freedom is. Unfortunately the fight for freedom has resulted in a rather complicated GPL v3 opposed to BSD-licenses which demand that your respect copyright and by that restricts you less than the GPLish licenses. It's ironic, but BSD offers more freedom than GPL. Also, it's a shame that VLC - being the most kick-ass videoplayer today - is hindered by legal issues.

As a funny sidenote, one could say that if you choose GPL you need to consult your legal-department. But if you choose BSD you don't even need a legal-department.
I can't tell if it's a PR nightmare or not. A quick look at Twitter shows a ton of people claiming that they're purchasing copies just to support her. Her company is certainly getting lots more press than it has in a while.
Is there a mirror/torrent to download the English version?
I don't understand the difference between this and some kind of "homemade" Activated Carbon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon ).
Who you decide to thank is immaterial. Public investment in infrastructure, education, etc., all public goods, is how you built your wealth. Your wealth is as dependent on society as anyone else. And while your charity is commendable, it is utterly undemocratic.
Gerald C. MacGuire was a $100 a week bond salesman for Murphy & Company. Smedley Butler was retired military and the one who blew the whistle on the whole affair, which most contemporaries and historians dismiss as a cocktail putsch, i.e. wild talk at a cocktail party. I don't think there's a way to spin any military involvement in an attempted, or even contemplated coup in this case.
I believe that in order to do that, they would need to aggregate the copyright or get permission to change the license from each contributor. From what I understand, most projects that have dual-licensed have required contributor assignment of copyright from early on.

Edit: Here's a good overview on it http://opensource.com/law/10/9/copyright-aggregation
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The opening of the note is my favorite part:

"I have the urge to declare my sanity and justify my actions, but I assume I'll never be able to convince anyone that this was the right decision. Maybe it's true that anyone who does this is insane by definition, but I can at least explain my reasoning."

It occurs to me that suicide was widely accepted in many cultures, for a long time, certainly in pre-Christian Europe. Roman generals might kill themselves after their forces were routed, if they feared being captured. Japanese samurai might kill themselves after defeat, even if they evaded capture. Christianity brought in a belief that most of the time suicide was wrong, but many Christian writers allowed for some exceptions. In his book "The Education of a Christian Woman", published in 1547, Juan Luis Vives praises the mass suicide of women in a Greek city whose walls were about to fall to seige. He argued that it was better that they die with their honor intact.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=sy...

I say all this to suggest, the current trend in psychology, which views all suicide as irrational, is perhaps somewhat misguided. There are surely times when a person is in so much pain that, barring any hope of ending that pain, suicide becomes a rational option. We have, in recent years, begun to accept this line of reasoning as it applies to end-stage cancer patients, and others facing terminal diseases, but if you allow that this reasoning is valid anywhere, then you have to allow that it is valid everywhere that certain conditions are met, in particular, a great deal of pain, and no hope for ending that pain.
Suppose you were a news outlet and suppose you were trying to maximize your company's profitability.

Clearly,when folks change the channel away from your program, your profitability goes down. So, you might do a bit of research to find out what tends to make folks change or not change the channel.

Your research could indicate that strong negative emotions, such as anger, sadness or fear tend to make the viewer fixate and not change the channel.

Finally, you might ask yourself, how should the news be presented so as to maximize profits?

In many cases, a news outlet's profitability is directly related to the amount of emotional distress it can generate in its viewers. Sure isn't something I want to support when looked at that way.
But it's edw519!
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4 years from now we might be looking back at Facebook like we look at AOL now
The 'Lean Startup Methodology' is a management fad like any other. It combines obvious advice ("don't waste money", "avoid wishful thinking") with a large dose of folklore.

I run a website that didn't make any money for four years, then unexpectedly took off. If I had been 'ready to pivot' after the initial failure, I would still be broke right now, and I would have no idea that I had even missed an opportunity.

That doesn't mean that 'lean startup' principles are wrong. But they may not be all that right, either. I would urge people to make their own mistakes, and draw their own lessons, rather than listening to too much received wisdom, particularly when it comes from people whose livelihood depends on sounding like they know what they're talking about.
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I actually thought about teaching high school, and in many ways my skill set and temperament are well-suited to that occupation. But public school systems offer zero reward -- and I'm not only or primarily speaking of the financial kind -- for skill or merit. Even the very worst teachers can't be fired for merely being bad at their jobs, as many of the articles I collected here: http://jseliger.com/2009/11/12/susan-engel-doesnt-get indicate.
This hoax has been circulating since 2003.

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/takethat.asp
Sounds a lot like Google Alerts except you can pick the sources and choose how to receive the notifications. Is that accurate?