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This is indeed a very common scenario. Danish people move to Sweden for a period of time, just to be able to get a residence permit for their foreign spouse. My wife is well educated, but due to her Russian nationality, getting her to the country legally will require a 6 months detour to Sweden.

This case about Gus is, sadly not a surprising story. The Danish authorities is with one hand constantly speaking about attracting foreign expertise, while pushing qualified foreigners out of the country, with the other.

Just last year, we attempted to get a 1 week visa for a Ukranian developer who was supposed to visit Denmark and meet with a client. We had to pay for a plane ticket and hotel in order to be able to apply for his visa. 2 days before his scheduled arrival, we got a rejection for his visa on the grounds that he was from a "high-risk" country.

Fingers crossed for Gus.
Anyone care to post a short jist on what this 52min video includes ?
And better even yet, allow you to spend more karma points to give it a higher initial score.

And still better, when a thread gets archived (when the comment thread becomes read-only; happens after some N days), add its current score delta (the number of points it has now, minus the number it had when you initially invested yours) back into the user's karma, times some coefficient (possibly just 1.)

And finally, allow anyone to do this (invest karma; reap eventual score-delta rewards), not just the initial poster.

Bam: average-sized link futures market.
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I've had to stop using this now because the indents seem completely broken and all over the place. Replies appear threaded in a completely incorrect order.
As long as Denmark has a growing "Danish People's Party" (3rd largest at 13.8%) in a government supporting role, with the one-trick pony voter's appeal of immigration (thus they have to tighten and tighten it), I have 3 advices for anyone contemplating Denmark:
1) Do not move to Denmark or start a company in Denmark
2) Do not get an education in Denmark
3) Do not fall in love with a Dane (if you are a non-EU citizen)

Danish educational institutions and companies go to a great extent to convince their surroundings, that they are international & business oriented, but the matter of fact is that this is not supported by the parliament. It is as simple as that. So don't get lured by their marketing. Stay out.
CTR for badges was like 8% with all the timing and randomness tweaks. Since coupons are not used to drive traffic to other sites we also measured newsletter signup and the engagement was mindboggling 3.5%
The difficulty I have found interviewing people who have been through the mainstream Indian educational system is they say "yes" to everything.

Me: Have you used technology X?
Them: Yes
Me: Tell me how you used it
Them: I used it every day
Me: What did you use it for?
Them: I used technology X every day to do my job. It is a very good technology.

This goes on for a bit, and I can see them getting flustered, and they almost seem to resent me, as if I'm deliberately and maliciously trying to humiliate them by asking a question "that's not on the test". Whereas "no, but I used technology Y" would be a perfectly acceptable answer.
Von Braun's plan, while spectacular, was never particularly feasible - it's more like colonizing Mars on the first trip than anything else. You don't need to send your crew in a 3000+ ton spacecraft towards Mars - you can send the crew on a smaller craft and send habitats, vehicles, supplies and all other stuff in advance in low-energy orbits (because food is less sensitive to radiation than astronauts). Von Braun's plan did not rely on automation (we can land a robot on Mars) and thus required every supply ship to be manned.
Where you see crazy, those cunning Danes see "forward planning". For some of those (now married) Danes living overseas, coming home (without bringing the wife) might seem like an incentive...
Honest question: do you think that if this catches on, and will be seen on more and more websites, users will eventually get tired and stop bothering to click the coupons?
I've refined the allegation to not sound libelous. Thank you for bringing it up.

@omervk
I can't access the page, it's blocked by an ipad app commercial.
This is a common fear in a lot of western countries. I really would like to see numbers on how many fake marriages have actually been avoided by the drastic policies in place, and see how that compares to the cost of enacting these policies.

I am in a relationship with a foreigner (Chinese) in a country that has very strict laws on spousal visa (France). I dread the moment after we get married when we have to go through the whole process of the government checking if this is a real marriage...
I'll gladly take that kind of hit if it means I can use Firebug.

Heck, I'd gladly pay a few hundred bucks for it if it was a commercial product.
> Regardless of the viral nature of any behavior, a mere participant in the network should not be responsible for the behavior of others.

I don't think it is fair to dismiss the viral nature so lightly. For example, it is not completely unreasonable to consider in law that the first person to share material is ultimately responsible for everyone who subsequently copies it, since without their action, the other copies would not have been possible. By the same argument, it is not completely unreasonable to hold each person in the network responsible for the future distribution that occurs based on the sharing they did.

Now, that might not be very practical, if you have to demonstrate the number of copies that were ultimately made base on a single original. Moreover, in some cases, it might lead to large damages awards, which we might or might not consider sensible given the relative power of the parties involved and the nature and consequences of the illegal act.

On the flip side, the bottom line is that the copyright holder is the one who is not breaking the law in these cases, and if you don't provide a practically effective way for them to enforce their rights under the law, then the innocent party is losing out. (I am not contending that Big Media are saints or that they should not be held accountable for any legally or ethically dubious practices they might adopt. I just think that is a separate debate.)

> I think this raises a larger question: in the modern technology-enabled world, where large-scale crimes can be committed in a distributed fashion and in most cases there is no kingpin to take down, what is the law to do, and what are the people to do, since each individual person is causing very little of the total damage?

Exactly. It is a difficult question. I just don't personally buy the theory that the wronged party, who typically has practical access to redress only via civil lawsuits that probably cannot be cost-effectively brought under many western legal systems today, should be the one that loses out.

I think the presumption should be that the network are collectively liable for the actual damage caused, that in the absence of ability to read minds it is reasonable to assume one actual (not hypothetical) copy has a value equivalent to the cheapest legitimate purchase price, and that the proportion of the cost paid by any individual member of the network should be such that a copyright holder can expect to regain their actual losses (but no more than that) through reasonable legal means.

That basically means that if you infringe but it is possible for the copyright holder to trace the consequences with reasonable effort, you will personally only be responsible for the damages that can be proven attributable to your own sharing, which will probably be a significant deterrent but won't be bankrupting most people with the kinds of silly awards we see today. On the other hand, if you actively choose not only to break the law but to do so via an anonymising network that can cause unknown damage with the intent of concealing your own and your accomplices' identities, then if you're the guy they catch, it sucks to be you.
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It might be the most powerful that can be used now, but
it is not the most powerful ever ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia could lift up to 100 tons to LEO in the tested configuration and up to 200 tons in Hercules configuration (which never tested though).
As a Dane I can only say I don't understand it either.
But I can give you a couple of small hints as to why it (unfortunately) is like it is.

1. Denmark has a very beneficial social welfare system.

If you break your leg in Denmark visiting, we will pick up the bill through our taxes (there is talks about changing that now)

If you get approved to stay here you gain access to more or less all social welfare.

Some people feel that this is being misused by immigrants. When they normally talk about immigrants they talk about arabs, africans etc. And there is some truth to that.

If you marry someone not from the EU they will gain access to all social welfare.

Because the nineties where ruled by a government that "just took people in" it created a backlash as problems started arising with ghettoes. This among other things lead to a (european style conservative) government backed by Danish Peoples Party a political party critical towards immigrants.

Since they secure the parliamentary power they have been able to get a lot of cases through.

One of them being the 24 year rule which basically is meant to hinder forced marriage between muslims living in Denmark and their spouses living in a country outside of EU.

This has been criticized by both left and right side of the political spectrum and is why some people move to sweden because they are much more lax about these things.

Personally I am a proponent of an open borders closed boxes policy and is voting for the only true liberal (semi american style) party that exist right now (form an ideological point of view) and I am sad to see every time people like Gus get's en trouble because of the splash damage that some of these laws result in.

Good thing is that Denmark is a small country and there is an election year. I am pretty sure that this will be taken up by the newspapers in Denmark and hopefully make it's way into the political debates on television. It's a perfect case for that.

I am also pretty sure Gus will be able to stay. The current government simply don't want to run the risk of angering their political base.
Welcome to Sweden, I hope you like it here :) On a more serious note, I hope that it works out for you and your wife.

Sweden is not always the best either, but at least spouses tend to get residency and AFAIK foreign expertise can typically get a work permit. Qualified migrants are such a net economic win, that I just don't see how one could actually be against it.
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That wasn't an IQ test. It was a direct test of firefighting knowledge. While the test was never released to the public, a couple of questions were.

They were mostly stuff like: "You are entering a burning factory which appears to be made primarily out of concrete. What sort of saw blade do you attach to your buzzsaws? a) Steel b) diamond coated steel c)..."

The court ruled that the test results should have been applied simply because the de-facto procedure of:

1) Promote people based on a test, BUT

2) If black people don't do well, ignore the test.

was racist in favor of blacks.

(Another question famously related to NYC geography, since the test was lazily copied from NYC.)
There are a lot and the actual 24 year rule have actually resulted in two things.

1. Fewer forced marriages
2. More muslim women are taking higher education

So it has some benefits although I am not as such a huge fan of that rule.
> The court basically found [...] that DP knew this the whole point of the new scheme was to continue segregation.

The court didn't actually find quite that. From the judgement:

The Court of Appeals held that the Company had adopted the diploma and test requirements without any "intention to discriminate against Negro employees." 420 F.2d at 1232. We do not suggest that either the District Court or the Court of Appeals erred in examining the employer's intent; [...]

Incidentally, your WP URL didn't work for me, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v_Duke_Power_Co does. (And yet it then displays the title with "v." rather than "v", saying it's redirected. I don't know quite what's going on there.)
Agree with all the points about Denmark; as a Swede I'm happy that we at least are somewhat better at making it possible to immigrate.

I'm very curious as to what impact this campaign can have on the Danish authorities. I would guess none if it doesn't get picked up by the Danish (print) media and since Gus isn't a classical victim (meaning poor, uneducated, a child and so on) I don't see that happening. Unfortunately.

That said, it's nice to see someone putting down actual work in creating a web site for a friend instead of the usual "create a facebook group" or "retweet to show support" which to me feels like the most lazy way to show that you care.
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Might have a go later at making one that works with urxvt, hopefully that should get it working with xterm.

With that said, if it's not working with urxvt/xterm, what is the Xdefaults working with?
Heh I made Ragechat :D

I took it down because it was a bit of a time sink, but I am going to put it back up at some point (because everyone loves rage faces :D)
One other thing to consider about the big market hypothesis is: how accessible is it to a capital efficient startup. To take an extreme, the power generation market in the US is second only to health care, but it is quite unlikely that you can crack that as an entrepreneur. Similarly, even if you can get into a big market, the amount of margins available to subscale players is often a deterrent in and of itself (you can't for instance become a subscale ISP these days even though Internet access is a huge market as well). Outside of chasing a fad, going after inaccessible markets is the second biggest mistake I see.
Drupal also sends plaintext passwords out of the box (at least in Drupal 6), although it does hash the password in the database. One of the first things I do is change the wording of the welcome email.
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Indeed, this sounds like a case to present to an ombudsman...

Someone like this: http://www.ombudsmanden.dk/english_en/
Why do hackers care what opinions are held about them by an ethically-challenged bronze-age cargo cult?
[I attempted to reply to this, got a weird error code from HN, tried again, saw two copies of my reply both marked as "dead", and am now very confused. I'm trying again in different words in case there's some dupe-checker thing at work.]

> The court basically found [...] that DP knew this the whole point of the new scheme was to continue segregation.

No, not quite. The WP article (which incidentally I couldn't get at with your URL, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v_Duke_Power_Co worked) quotes the judgement as saying that they didn't question the company's motive, but that its policies were illegally discriminatory regardless of motive.
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It sounds crazy and difficult, but I can't condemn them for it. Here in America, we're three hundred million people in a country bigger than all of Europe combined. The more people that move here, the better. Our culture is built on blending other cultures together and changing from generation to generation.

Denmark is a tiny country, home to just five and half million Danes. Danish culture doesn't exist anywhere else. If it disappears, it's gone forever. You have to be more careful with it. What works in one country doesn't work everywhere.
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Here is what is wrong after having been taught in a decent engineering college in India.

1) One studies hard trying to get into a decent engineering college. If they are even wee bit good, they get into a decent college.

Sidenote: For anyone who says they did not get into a good college and are doing great in life now (at least intellectually), here is what happened.

You were not so great or smart when you gave that exam. You got to learn through self learning, fear of not being able to do great stuff in life and a lot of experience or got away to US in a decent college because your family could afford it.

2)Once they get into the college, the freedom, the fun, the energy, the beer, the drugs often bring the worse out of them. If none of the above they probably trade lectures for Counter Strike sessions (I mean 6-7 hours of continuous sessions everyday) or Poker or some new shit.

The sad part is these people are still doing the right thing since the guy taking the class most probably knows nothing about the subject too and if they do are either bad teachers or too obnoxious to be able to impart knowledge to a mind that is vulnerable to wandering off to butterflies or scribbles at the back of notebook or tweeting (the hot new stuff).

3) So even if you were the CS guy in school, the agony of being taught by people who were not the best people for the job leaves one disappointed. Something as cool as programming no longer is exciting because you have to do exactly what is expected of you. [Anecdotal evidence: I actually was never much of a programmer. I kept passing every exam by just writing logic and pseudocodes. I did write a simple factorial using something other than recursion and the lab in charge got the better out of me. Then on I left bothering myself, so by the time we were being taught data structures, I had lost my ground.]

The people who are the toppers in a class are those who attend every lecture (does not matter what they get out of it) and show utter respect for the profs. 100% attendance and you are bound to get a decent score in the end sems. That is when studying loses its charm.

4) At the end of college getting a good job means getting into a consultancy. Many smarter companies just do not allow Non CS people to sit for programming jobs even when they prove to be great. [ Anecdotal Evidence: A friend of a friend from a non CS degree got into Facebook US, before being not allowed to sit by Google India and MS India]

So call it lack of opportunities, self belief, hard work of students, peer pressure, you end up being just a graduate. Not an engineer in any sense of word.
Pretty basic overview and not very techy, but the last paragraph is worth the read:

"A question I'll often hear is, "How do I dump the data back out of Memcached?" If you're asking that question it usually means you're not thinking about Memcached correctly."
I'd say you're probably right. I usually only need 8 hrs sleep, but when I'm sick, for example, I often find myself easily sleeping for 12+ hours (like this morning, oops! :).
Sure there's plenty of node.js chat systems out there, but this is quite a nice demo of Faye and how easy it is to build with it.

The Node.JS examples shared previously have been more complete systems from what I can tell, this is a very minimal app designed as basis for you to build something bigger and better. Rather than complaining about needing extra features, fork the code and build something fun and worthwhile.
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There's something to be learned from that model, as well. What makes users want to pay for something instead of use a free/open alternative? From my experience, it's ease of use.

Users don't want to waste time, so they try to find the quickest way to the solution. It's immaterial whether that means pirating software instead of going through the hurdles of purchasing and registering it or buying software with free/open alternatives with a higher learning curve. It seems like the most important factor is the time it takes to solve a problem.
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Yeh you are right on both points (HN mungs the period on the end of the URL... grr).

The WP article was a bit of a mess so I've been rewriting/sourcing it - and, yes, the court carefully states that it didn't believe it was deliberate discrimination. That part of my comment was incorrect. :)
They won't. As long there are good deals on coupons, ppl will want to uncover them.

I even beleive that a site with a good marketing team could get rid of banners and use only coupons, which would kindly benefit the site visual complexity.
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yeah, I rather stupidly didn't think to add any XSS protection initially because this was a simple tech demo. And yes, I managed to balls up the regex for a while.

It's working nicely again now.
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler helped me make the jump from small systems built for myself to large, sophisticated systems built for others.

The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks really helped me learn to think about large projects from a personnel and planning perspective. There are some ideas there that have become part of the CS canon; "no silver bullet" and the slightly sexist but accurate metaphor for throwing more people at an overdue project, "nine women can't make a baby in one month." The Mythical Man Month was written in 1975, but it holds up remarkably well.