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Devers' response seems to lack perspective. Consider the size of The Gap. Outside of clothing designed in-house and commissioned with subs, The Gap likely buys product lines from various mills around the globe. Any idea how difficult it must be to clear the IP of every photo used on every SKU in the Gap catalog?

Yes, it sucks that his photo was used, but because of the amount of processing done to the photo, it's unlikely that any automated system would have caught the link, if that kind of thing even exists.

I can virtually guarantee that no one from a managerial or corporate level endorsed the theft of Mr. Devers' photo. That's the exact opposite of what managers want, and they're engaged in a battle with their supply chain every day trying to avoid the very thing that has happened here.
There are boilerplate documents, but they need to fit your business. Go find a good, efficient lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing and you can get the whole thing done for under a grand or so. LLC, TOS, PP, and any corporate docs you need.

It's not difficult stuff, but if you're going to do it (and I would), do it right.
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Note that when your account gets limited, your customers get an email which basically says that you are suspicious, and you can't accept any new payment until you get it fixed. I highly recommend that you DON'T launch with paypal unless you have all the documentation sorted out. And no, I don't know what you should do exactly.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the article switches back and forth between serif and sans-serif font?
That's actually a very interesting idea.

Imagine a dating site that you book the date through and only pay for that date. Hmmm.

Maybe jump on to the entire group buying bandwagon and find restaurants that may be willing to give you a discount that you can also pass on to the dating couple.
Am I the only person thinking $50 million seems low?
Does this belong on HN? The post doesn't bring much to community, except some more gossip over what the iPad2 will be. I would expect to find such news on Gizmodo, not HN.
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The "Device Type" on this is horribly inaccurate, in my experience. My MBP with Safari 5 is always recorded as "Opera 10 on Windows XP", everywhere but the "Most Recent Activity" field, which is correct.
As an aside, the website styling is terrible on Firefox.
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I say no more
There's a big difference between copying content and linking to content. I don't think anyone has a problem with Google linking to them: that is after all the purpose of a search engine. But Google doesn't just link, they copy full content into their site, giving users no reason to click through to the original creator.

And Google doesn't let creators opt-out of just the content-stealing part of their scheme. If you want to be indexed by Google, you have to allow them to copy whatever they want from your site. And no one can actually opt-out because Google is a monopoly in search. So they get away with it, stealing pageviews from content creators.
Last week I wrote a 600 line Java class to handle some data import/mangling. Then I spend four days testing, adjusting, running things past stakeholders, figuring stuff out, adjusting some more, and once this code goes in and runs once, it's deleted.

Yesterday (unrelated), I refactored a class. It's slightly longer, but better. I wrote a few lines of helper-methods, but most of the work was done by Eclipse and cutting-pasting blocks.

In conclusion, the question is pointless.
a lot of feminists I've encountered consider rationalism and emotional reserve to be artifacts of patriarchal oppression

For those wondering, he is not making this shit up:

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html

"The feminist 'philosopher' Luce Irigaray is another who gets whole-chapter treatment from Sokal and Bricmont. In a passage reminiscent of a notorious feminist description of Newton's Principia (a "rape manual"), Irigaray argues that E=mc2 is a "sexed equation". Why? Because "it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us". Just as typical of this school of thought is Irigaray's thesis on fluid mechanics. Fluids, you see, have been unfairly neglected. "Masculine physics" privileges rigid, solid things."

Excuse me while I die laughing. I haven't read that in a while. There is the inkling of a valid point there, but it's all thrown away by shit like describing PM as a 'rape manual.'

Just remember: these people are not representative of modern feminist thought!

EDIT: oh shit i forgot about this paragraph:

"The privileging of solid over fluid mechanics, and indeed the inability of science to deal with turbulent flow at all, she attributes to the association of fluidity with femininity. Whereas men have sex organs that protrude and become rigid, women have openings that leak menstrual blood and vaginal fluids... From this perspective it is no wonder that science has not been able to arrive at a successful model for turbulence. The problem of turbulent flow cannot be solved because the conceptions of fluids (and of women) have been formulated so as necessarily to leave unarticulated remainders."
Yes, Linux is a bit of a problem. In case of Android and MeeGo, the distributor or the manufacturer can deal with licensing issues and ship the device with a licensed codec.

The real problem is non-commercial desktop distributions such as Debian or Fedora; it could still check for the presence of x264 or FFmpeg (with h264 support) on the system and use it if it's available, and defer the responsibility of licensing to the user or distributor.
Having been a co-founder of a company that was on the receiving end of IP litigation I can say that I found the whole experience incredibly stressful - I hate to think what it would have been like if it was me personally, rather than the company, being sued.

Fortunately the case was completely groundless - but it still took months of time and quite a bit of money paid to lawyers to make it go away. That's the thing that really sucks about being sued - the chances are that even if you are completely in the right you may well still end up having to spend a chunk of money on lawyers.
eftpotrm below has it right - I'd argue that they provided a platform for the release of Bin Laden's videos, and as I said above, I'd rather have the videos than not, so I don't fault them for doing it. I just get concerned any time an organization gets too close to their source.

I thought this interview was a good look into their policy and goings-on:

http://globalgrind.com/channel/news/content/1903649/the-bin-...
Paypal is a nightmare compared to real merchant accounts. Talking to customer support there is like smashing your hand in a car door.

In the long run you're better off with either Braintree (which is fine all by itself) or Auth.net + Chargify/Spreedly/etc. I would switch to one of those options as soon as you validate the business, as the cost is significant early on.
I feel like the biggest loser posting this, but VBScript + ASP. Not ASP.NET, just vanilla ASP. After building a couple of perl CGI scripts, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Not having to print() all my HTML was like a dream.
> This video contains content from National Geographic,
> who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Bummer.
What he said -- but start a bit slower than six days a week!

Let the body adapt slowly (weeks to months) to a heavy exercise regimen!! You will not feel better if you hurt a should or knee, which is hard to repair.

Edit: My point is not to avoid feeling bad, but to avoid damage which will hinder exercise and/or lower life quality.
A much more accurate title would be "walking shown to reverse the decline in hippocampus size and function after the age of 55".
Krugman's an NYT columnist, the other freakonomics author is Dunbar.
Google Places annoys me
You can add a business freely, much like a wiki, but then Google owns the data and is very restrictive about how you can reuse it.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/

I would like users to at least be given the choice of submitting their data under and open license which would allow reuse.

Anyone else? how could we get Google to listen?
So how long until someone else makes a free, open source version...?
How is this an article so thoroughly under-researched? Why not go a little bit further and investigate if actual people are posting?

Hi $name, thank you for messaging me. I'm new to this site, so can you please tell me the process on how you send me that message, where did you have to click, etc? I am still trying to figure this out, so if you could tell me what buttons you had to press to send the message to me, I'd appreciate it, it would help me get started. Thank you ahead of time, $name. P.S. Have you read any good books lately?

And then, to be even more sure, create a couple more accounts through proxies and see what kind of messages they get. Do deactivate them after.

See, while it does look like some sort of bait-and-switch, at least try to verify it. Maybe at the very least they've got a very persuasive feature where new members do get popped up, and there's a user initiated "Poke" like feature (that appears as a message on your end), so that would put them somewhere in grey-hat tactics out of the black-hat area.
Rings a bell; I remember a similar idea coming up in the past. You could work out affiliate deals with bars and restaurants (or other activities, I hate going on dates to bars).

I think the idea we threw around (it might even have been here on HN) was a sort of clever matched blind date (to avoid the problem of people just bypassing the system :D) rather than a "normal" dating site.

There are privacy/stalker and scale concerns there though.

Certainly worth exploring.
I just set up Braintree and it was very easy. Probably not as easy as PayPal + Spreedly, though. If you want to go with a "real" payment gateway, I highly recommend it.

If anything, using Braintree removed all sorts of restrictions. They keep all the credit card information. Let them worry about PCI Compliance, not me.
> but when you look at the details of any restaurant the link is there with phone numbers and other details.

Yeah, of course I saw that, but there's the second issue with it: Long story short, I used to be directly involved in building a couple of this type of aggregators (or "vertical search engines", as they were called 2-3 years ago), and we were particularly careful to include a direct link to the webpage we were getting the results from on our SERPS, and also we DID NOT display any contact information for the adds in question (cars and real-estate), as that would have just stolen user clicks from the sites we were parsing (what's the user's incentive to click to the website anymore? if he can see the price and all the contact info he needs on our pages).

But mind you, we didn't have Google's lawyers, nor their clout, nor their "don't be evil" slogan, maybe that's the reason why they can do these sorts of things while others think twice about it.
Paypal is horrible (We had this happen so many times...) and there are many cases where they simply stole money without giving reasons or ability to dispute without going to court against a giant, but it's just not possible to go for a competitor, because that would cost you too much sales from clients who don't have/want to use a competitor. And a lot of Europeans at least don't want to use their CC online.

We tried AlertPay which works fine, but the fees are too high, still, they seem a good alternative if you want something that just works for now.
Or alternatively, the Viking picked up a stone, said it was magical, that it told him the sun was "that a-way" and if he was wrong, they died, never to be heard of again.

If he was right, they lived and he got a pretty sweet saga out of the deal.
If one is just dipping one's toes in the programming waters, then Delphi is a good start for native Windows development. It allows one to see positive results very quickly, which is important for beginners.
tl;dr If I recall correctly Will Durant writing in The Story of Civilization stated this as a fact many decades ago. Since his work was based on a lot of research, he must have read it somewhere.
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I would also have voted for assembler if it was on the list, since that's actually the first language I ever used. (On a Magnavox Oddessey 2 game console, no less). I did choose BASIC, because that's the first language that I first successfully used. :)
The topic should be: "Why have we let [the] state become a de facto internet regulator?"

And the answer is: the state can regulate businesses it has authority over. .com domains are lorded over by US companies, therefore the US government (federal or state) can regulate websites and services under .com.

The argument that the government should not regulate the internet is rather new, as few other fields are regarded as off-limits to governmental authority. Even if, ostensibly, there is 'democratic' control, it's still a government exerting authority; potentially, this authority can be turned into censorship. The only thing that can guard against censorship would be an absolute commitment against governmental control over electronic communication.
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Got a reply just then. They told me, and I quote:

"Stella is out of office recent days for holiday. She will follow up the
investigation of your account when she comes back."
Ask HN: The best way of Costumer Development
Hello Guys,
I would like to know what you think are the best ways of doing the Costumer Development.
Me and my co-founders we are going to do in 2 ways.
The first one is a form, with questions about the product. This is good, I think. But do you guys know something better or more "fun"?
The second way is doing a just a picture of what our service would be like, and ask people to use it.
Anyway, I would like to know if you, guys, have something better to do this valuation. Link and blog posts are welcome.
thank you.

Eduardo Rocha
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The jet stream was by far a bigger factor in the successful crossing of the Atlantic during those times.
That's a valid point, but it bears no relation to matter of the current trend -- which is what OP argued about, right? And the seems to be: GOOG price is growing, MSFT price is flat for some years. So what it skyrocketed years ago, when somebody else held the helm and the market was not saturated with countless `me-too' products?

BTW., switch to the 5 year range in WA and you still see the trend.
It was suggested in the 60s and shown to be possible then - not sure what this group have added.
Until the W3C officially adopts a royalty free codec as part of the HTML standard, Google and Mozilla should assume HTML video is dead. They might as well make the <video> tag inoperable by default. Just parse it and ignore it.

Of course, Google owns VP8. So they are pushing it so it might become a defacto standard that later gets officially adopted. Despite meeting the requirements to be part of the HTML spec, without the official backing of the W3C it is no different than any other out of spec extension to HTML.
For the flying long ships ?
Isn't that what it used to be and then was bought by Red Gate?
What about the case of TripAdvisor?

TripAdvisor says "Google, don't copy our reviews for Google places."

Google says "The only way we won't copy your content is if you opt-out of completely."

TA says "We can't do that, you're the only search engine there is."

Google just laughs maniacally.

http://www.tnooz.com/2010/12/08/news/google-places-blocked-f...
http://www.tnooz.com/2011/01/11/news/tripadvisor-content-on-...
The Google cache is gone and Archive.org doesn't have a copy either.

This is the kind of thing that worries me about publishing on the Internet — in print, everyone who had a copy of the article previously would still have it. Pulled from the blog, it's just... gone.
I am so happy for Sam Yagan and team - they've been busting their butts on OKC since 2004 (seriously, the site's that old), and it's good that they can finally take a load off. Hopefully Sam will now become Chicago's #1 angel (it's a low bar, but someone needs to jump over it).
I don't think it was ever open source, just a free software maintained by 1 person.
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I think it is a little bit old. I mean, I think your UI could look more modern, and 2000 way.
Maybe you should inspire yourself in the files of a OS X style.
It is very beautiful and User friendly.
There's a replay via telnet that is easier to follow:

telnet 94.255.168.108
So, having looked into this a few times, my personal opinion is that a quickie instafigleaf will wilt like the fig leaf it is under legal scrutiny. Regardless of whether it is a LC or not, my software business has substantially less in assets than a taco truck, and any tortious behavior it carries out is definitionally certain to have been carried out by me personally. My expectation is that a lawsuit means I get held personally liable and that means bankruptcy. I could drop five hundred bucks tomorrow and be BCC LLC, but that does not change my estimate of risk of bankruptcy.

I would certainly get something formal if I had partners, like you did. I sincerely hope it works out for you.
Reflector is a great tool. They should charge if they can.
Weird. I honestly don't know how that gets messed up, it would be interesting to find out how they're pulling the information. Works well over here..for now, haha.
"It just happens that they get far far less for what they pay."

The health chart is titled "Public and private health spending as percentage of GDP in selected countries, 2002." This relates the spending to GDP, not as a per capita rate. The reference does not support your statement about others ("they get far far less for what they pay").

See: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php, "The Cost of a Long Life." Quote from that: "In 2000, the United States spent more on health care than any other country in the world: an average of $ 4,500 per person. Switzerland was second highest, at $3,300 or 71% of the US. Nevertheless, average US life expectancy ranks 27th in the world, at 77 years. Many countries achieve higher life expectancy rates with significantly lower spending."

See also: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/2/38980580.pdf. Be sure to read section "Health status and risk factors" - it is an eye opener. Quote from that: "The United States spent 7,538 USD on health per capita in 2008, two-and-a-half times greater than the OECD average of 3,060 USD (adjusted for purchasing power parity). Norway spent 5,000 USD per capita, and Switzerland 4,627 USD per capita. Americans spent more than twice as much as relatively rich European countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom. "
http://vlaskovits.com/2010/08/if-youre-not-getting-out-of-th...
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what difference does it make what's in the spec? People will pick the browser that plays the videos they want to see over the one that follows the spec every time.
Wow. It's 2011 and I still haven't gone to Burning Man. Been meaning to go since 1995.

looks at blizzard outside
Yep, also if you just have 1 reputation getting downvoted doesn't cost you anything, you stay at 1. So it doesn't hurt in the least even if this did occur, which I haven't seen myself, either. I often see that SO users will be helpful to new users who seem to be trying to be helpful.
Lol, yup, you are of course spot on about the problems with factory functions - of course when you are using custom JS bindings, you can correct for this by pushing objects with many instances down into the native layer - which I had to do on the project I'm doing at the moment, precisely because it blew out the memory.

I think that what we are looking at here is that there are two different use cases of Javascript that require two different strategies - if you want to produce subclasses of native objects, then you're going to be using factory functions, because no other solution exists in Javascript (well, at least not for JavascriptCore that I'm aware of). If you don't, then the use of a prototypal solution is more efficient.
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The value reddit users get is from viewing new and interesting content and comments.

The value a user of a dating site gets is the PROSPECT of going on a face to face meeting with another person.

If reddit engineers were good enough to make an AI to post great new great content everyday along with insightful comments and analysis, I'd still go. Hell, that might make me want to go even more often.

If I found out a dating site users were doing the same with messaging, that completely precludes me from getting the value I really want from the site, thus its useless.
(For the benefit of the class: the .NET Reflector decompiles compiled .NET binaries back to cross-referenced source code.)

Not very. Lots of shops have nascent versions of the underlying mechanism in Reflector; for instance, if you need to instrument .NET programs for testing, you have a good chunk of it.

On the other hand, Reflector has a very effective UI, and $35 isn't even a rounding error. There will be more free alternatives to Reflector now, but I for one will probably be happy to shell out a trivial sum of money to keep using the best one.
True.. I did feel like a tank ran over me for the first two weeks. :)
Of course Microsoft and Apple support H.264. They both stand to benefit:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
However, you really can't blame Google for pointing out the fact that when you're using Bing, some portion of the time, you're in fact getting stale Google search results.
I live in Ontario and it never even occurred to me to check the scratch tickets for that sort of weakness as I figured they have to have actuaries etc working for them and would never possibly be so stupid as to give information away like that right? RIGHT?

I also like the way this guy was in a position to pass on $600 a day...
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