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Along these same lines, I'd like to quote another fan of Cinkle's from Metafilter:

"The thing about this that fascinates me is there is no pose here, no ego and none of those horrendous qualities that you see in a lot of the young people who seek out attention on the Internet. She was never supposed to be famous. Cinkle was just a friend of Black's who was invited to be in the video, and given practically no direction. When all of this unearned and decidedly negative attention crashed down on her, she turned it into something entirely positive -- most of her FB and Tumblr followers are people who started out making fun of her (myself included). How many people could manage to do that at any age?

I was won over when someone asked her 'Why are you so awkward??' and she responded:'Um, because I'm 13 (:'"

posted by hermitosis at 3:34 PM on June 25
http://www.metafilter.com/104932/The-REAL-Queen-of-the-Inter...
The "graduated response" deal: EFF analyzes the MOU behind it
The innovate part of the patent system was meant to encourage people to create the patents and protect their ideas. It's meant to prevent competitors from trying to steal or go around your idea since you're supposed to be the one who invested the time/money to create it.

Of course, that's the concept. Whether or not it lived up to those ideals is another thing.
I've noticed that borders has made some moves at diversification (they have Legos on the shelf now, etc.) but I think it was pretty clearly too little too late. The history of the company is just one poor move after another once the original owners got out.
>To keep that fresh-off-the-line feeling, our bundles are packed with a sprig of organic lavender in a muslin pouch.

Great care seems to be taken with the laundering process to reduce allergens and be generally baby friendly... And then a hepatotoxic flower, allergen, and estrogen mimic is thrown in.
Instead of thinking only about the money, think about it like this:

Book costs $5, but I could get it for free online. Hrm... If I have a physical book sitting on my nightstand staring at me, am I more likely to actually read the material? If yes, is the difference between not reading and reading the material worth $5 to me?
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How could one enter the business of imports/exports?
Hey guys I'm very interested in this field and I am fluent in several languages that are very central to a lot of import/export hubs.I'm very interested in the business and was wondering where I could start with this. I just want to export/import large amounts of whole sale products.

Are there any sites that I should check out in particular?

Also is there any sort of website that hosts a lot of Chinese manufactures? How do I get in touch with them?
Don't expect the discounts to be that good the first weekend...I mean, the first weekend I went to one of the closing stores I could get most items cheaper on Amazon still. By the time they got to sufficient discount numbers anything I was interested in was already gone.
Even more importantly, this is playing the ball and not the man.

How much money has Obama printed? Last year's fed audit said $9 trillion.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/01/news/economy/fed_reserve_dat...

A government can seize resources in an above ground way with the guns of the IRS, or it can do it in the dark of night by printing money and devaluing currency. Printing money is the ultimate tax, a concept that is exactly the same as VC dilution.

If one only sees tax and not inflation, you are not seeing the full picture.
To everyone posting a variant of, "Ew, I don't care if it's been laundered.. who wants to use pants that were on some weird stranger's baby?" .. I have to ask: Do you bring your own sheets and towels when you stay in a hotel?
I've thought a high tax would be more effective than a ban. It would allow for the continuation of a niche market while encouraging transition to more efficient bulbs.

But "tax" is anathema, in the U.S. ("Banning", OTOH, fits well into our "Puritan heritage".)

As an aside, if we must have mercury laden bulbs, they should be protectively encased, as are the more expensive but safer and easier to handle bulbs I now purchase. I still don't feel comfortable with them. With the unencased models, I've had defective units start to come apart in my hands. And as for breakage, I've no idea -- nor confidence in -- how the person before me has cleaned up an accident.
That's not the comment you replied to.
The ultimate app finder: announcing on HN you're launching an app that does the thing you want.
The patents are from 1994 and 1996. They have nothing to do with the iPhone or Android. They are just used to supress competition today, when technology advanced in at way where the claims would match at lot of distributed systems and software. The patent system is not designed for todays speed of technological evolution.
tl;dr - At CodeLesson we got sick of people whining about how to find a technical co-founders and realized that at least some percentage of people with the drive and focus to get an MBA should be able to learn enough code to put together a functional prototype. So we put together eight of our most popular web development courses together into sort of a do-it-yourself technical mentorship series. And there you go.

OK, maybe that was tl;dr as well. Anyway.
I'm not sure that it should be the professor's job to handle appeals. It should be the same sort of process that schools use to handle appeals for missed tests and work.

You miss a test, you get a zero. You go to the office of the dean with a note or explanation, get them to sign off that you should be allowed to retake, reweight, or whatever else it is that is needed, and then you go to the professor to deal with it.

The same sort of process should probably be put in place for plagarism. The professor flags you, and if you want to appeal, you go to the dean's office, they review the possibly-plagarized paper, and if they feel that the professor was in error, or that the student deserves the benefit of the doubt, they allow some sort of corrective action.
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This is the best trolling I've seen yet in this thread.
I agree with you that Django is a great framework, but to be fair, at least a part of the reason why there are so many bad Rails coders is that there are more of them - law of large numbers. I've also met far fewer junior-level Django developers.

> ...the general "I did something clever and unreadable so I'm awesome" attitude seems to permeate the ruby-verse.

I don't think it's as pervasive as you make it out to be, I haven't encountered this much.
If Recurly had some issues in their beta/early after beta days, that's understandable. But Paypal has been screwing users for 10+ and counting. I have myself heard at least 20 horror stories about PayPal freezing money for no reason. It happened to one of my businesses just half a year ago. They've decided to freeze all payments, and only after a month they've decided to "verify" whether we're a legitimate business or not by calling our customers and asking whether they've received the product or not. Thankfully, after that they unfroze the money, but for a young business, that was almost a death blow.

It's not about percentages, but about total numbers. Paypal fucked over tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands merchants. If you want some reading material, go to http://paypalsucks.com/

And with all due respect, building in-house billing may not be as easy as you think. I run a software development company, and I recommend my clients to use Recurly.
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Let us not forget though, that if you see a foreign worker, then you will more likely than not have come across someone that has decided to do something different than the rest of his/her peers, often times leaving friends & family behind in their home country. The goal? To make money/open up to different opportunities, perhaps with a vision to one day return. Thus you will see people more motivated, because the ones that aren't have stayed home.
As for people respecting honest work, the shortage of "traders" can be seen in Central & Eastern Europe as well and is being filled by people from beyond the region. There is not an overproduction of these skills in CEE.

Also, I see it as a great opportunity (for say the UK) to have people from the rest of the EU. I mean, you did not have to pay for 18 years of their education and health care. That is not bad for the taxpayer.

Disclaimer: I am Czech and used to work as a fruit picker during Summer months :)
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There is a lot of middle-class people in the third world. Also, don't forget every market benefits from cheaper smarter phones and a software stack everyone can contribute to and benefit from is a huge gain in efficiency.
adding something like this at the grammar level is a massive hack... we can just use coros
In the article, Jose Ranye was making about $20/hr. He may not be typical (the best picker), but his wage is certainly not underclass.

There are so many safety nets in this country that people have a viable choice of doing nothing instead of going out in the field and working hard. None of the parolees even lasted until noon.

When I was 15, I picked sweet corn for my neighbor. It was terribly hard work, but it was my only option to earn money (for a car). The next summer I was able to drive to get a better job. Its all about options and motivation.
Speaking as a student, I'm confused as to why you think your predecessors will give you their textbooks in good condition, or even at all!

Some students mark up their textbooks. Others (like me) have a lot of books that will be valuable long after I graduate.

The problem isn't that we don't need new textbooks every year, it's that we don't need new editions every 3 years with updated numbers for the homework problems and a new picture on the front. That system invalidates used books that are in perfectly good shape, and should be abolished by professors who will stand up to the bookstore and let them know that they don't want the new edition.
Cool! This seems to be stylistically related to what you can do with http://www.contextfreeart.org/
"a third party application that isn't baked into the framework." In what way is this a bad thing? South has excellent support, code-quality and usage. The only thing that would change by building it into Django would be to tie it's release schedule to that of a much larger code-base.
For me, growing up in Ann Arbor, Border's was the locally owned, independent bookstore. Then one day in the 90s, living in Palo Alto, I read that a local, independent movie theater (the Varsity) was closing down to make room for -- wait for it -- a Borders. That was the first I knew they had become a chain.

A strange journey: from local indie, to indie killer, to dead.
The original post suffers from poor titling. Phill MV would have been better off taking a page from TechCrunch's confrontational naming style.
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Patent 5,946,647 (filed on February 1, 1996) seems to cover automatically scanning/recognizing data, creating links for identified data and then providing a way to act on those links. It sounds similar to contemporary technology that created HTML archives from email which scanned data and created http and mailto: links which were then acted on by browser and email clients. Hypermail is one package that did this and was initially released on July 30, 1994.

Ref: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q...
Actually, in my recent job hunt (in Chicago no less) I saw a very even distribution in RoR and Django centric jobs. I believe outside of the Chicago area, it may even move towards a more Django dominant role. I am unsure of whether this is due to the abilities of the framework or if Python is more accessible and widely used a language than Ruby.
If we had gold standard:
1. There would be deflation.
2. Deflation would mean that rich investors would hoard dollars instead of spending them, meaning that very little investment would be done.
3. China wouldn't be able to produce as much, meaning that they wouldn't be able to build many factories, etc.
4. China would be a subsistence farming economy. America would be the source of computer manufacturing, but only the rich could buy them.
tl;dr: Doom clones, RTS' and games with penguins in them.

Too bad this game wasn't mentioned, it has cute graphics, interesting gameplay, and no penguins:
http://joyridelabs.de/game/
"is this something I should downvote?"

Just tell yourself to be very stingy with downvotes. Then only the most egregious posts will call attention to themselves.

Be stingy.
Yeah I wasn't sure if he was being sarcastic when he said that.
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This. I've been downvoted so many times for EXPLAINING why something is (stupid,silly,useless). Want to offer a counterpoint? How about REPLY instead of just downvote (which doesn't add anything to the conversation, as has been mentioned already).
Not strictly hacker news, but the implications of this are potentially large enough to affect nearly everyone.
I agree with you, this change would be very beneficial to the US. I've always felt a points-based system (like Canada or Australia) would make more sense. Nobody is happy with the current system - seriously, not a single person thinks the current US immigration system makes sense. The problem is there are so many competing visions for how it should be that reform is nearly impossible.

Keep in mind, if I wrote a post arguing for a cap of 1.2 million a year, some people would upmod me because it's high, others would downmod be because it's too low, others would down mod me because it's too high, others would upmod me because it sets a firm limit. The number of strong opinions on this topic is bewildering (but not at all surprising).
Several games I hadn't heard of before are in this list, some rather interesting.

However, it is a bit disheartening to see so many games that are ported engines for old commercial games, or improved clones of the same, rather than new, creative ideas. I suppose it's easier to build a game that's "like SimCity, but better" than to design and create something completely new.
Beg to differ. I'd say that if you're not feeling pressed, that you have too little time left, then you don't have anywhere near an adequate view of the plausible future. A golden age lies ahead, of glittering marvels to make all that has come so far pale to insignificance. But unless we step up to the plate and master biotechnology a lot faster and better than is presently managed, all of us reading this now will miss both that future and lives of health and transcendence lasting centuries in which to enjoy it.

As I put it here:

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/07/13/longevity-science-needs-...

"We all express the symptoms of a fatal, inherited degenerative condition called aging - or so the joke goes. It's a dark joke, but there's truth to be found in it, as is often the case in black humor. Unfortunately, all too few people think of themselves as patients suffering aging, and fewer still would call themselves patient advocates, agitating for research leading towards therapies and cures for aging. This is a sorry state of affairs: given that our time is limited and ticking away, the tasks upon the table should always include some consideration of aging. What can we do about it? How can we engineer a research community, funding and support to make real progress within our lifetimes? If you don't spend at least some of your time on this issue, then you're fiddling while Rome burns. Time is the most precious thing we have, and we live on the cusp of technologies that will allow us to gain more of it - but those advances in medicine won't happen soon enough unless we work at it."
They would not infringe this stupid patent.
Ah, but the Dylan reference was TOO GOOD TO PASS UP.
> while assigning extra weight to upvotes proportional to the voter's karma

if you make power users too powerful you end up with digg.
I thought lulzsec said they were done after their 50 day mission? Guess they had to come back for this.
Here in India, I was able to get an Android smart phone for half the price of an iPhone. I can also build Android apps on my Debian Linux machine without incurring any additional costs.

The fact that the devices cost lesser(even before the phone company subsidizes it) and yet have GPS and an accelerometer enables me to at least attempt certain kinds of applications that target the mass market here in India.

Also, the ability to read the source code allows me to learn about a smartphone operating system in the same way I got know about a PC operating system by reading Linux's source code.

I would never want Android to be like OLPC. Android is more like a free market. OLPC was charity.

Apple has every right to protect its intellectual property. I think it is equally important for Americans to debate about, and review, the American patent system (where required).

Overall, if HTC can pay royalties to MS, then I guess they can do the same with Apple.
> My advice, go for Ruby On Rails or Bottle. Leave Django alone.

Bottle has far fewer features than Django. It's hard to believe that Django is tripping you up if you aren't using its advanced features. You're welcome to discard the Django ORM, auth, models, and even have middleware return requests before it gets to django's router in some places.

I've had similar sentiments before, but ultimately I realized that I would have to fight with this kind of frustration no matter what tools I picked. The details would have been different, but my immaturity as a programmer would have been the same.

As time goes on I get better at substituting custom functionality if a framework doesn't do what I want. This can mean custom css, overriding templates, subclassing, or just placing my own objects in place of inbuilt functionality.

Finally, for a counter-example - not sure why convore split up and slowed down, but they were absolutely crushing it with Django when they first started. They were having Django handle some requests and a more low level server handle other requests (can't remember if it was Tornado or Twisted). There are countless other counter-examples.
If you could afford $1,500 in 1982 for a computer for yourself, then your family was well off. There is a level of income you seem to miss above poverty and below what you had. A level where the family was fed and clothed, but $1500 would have been for a car, not a computer. Working the summer or picking can is not going to get to the $1,500.

The thought that stealing is "finding a way", but raising honest kids results in missed opportunities is appalling.
I've met a few of the creators of both the Rails and Django frameworks and noticed that their communities are very much a reflection of the creators.

DHH and crew tend to be very vocal and opinionated about their software.

The Django community (like the python community) tends to shun this type of behavior and prefers to let the code speak for itself.
Interesting - that's close to what I understood of Nietzsche philosophy : define your own goals, try to reach them and that's the process where happiness is found - not in some temporary "status" like money/vacation/home etc.

I could be wrong, but so far it seems to work.

My method : I keep a list of objectives, which are defined after some introspection about what I like and enjoy. They are then redefined as "goals to tend to".

I guess I could say I let my reptilian brain decide on the goals, and the advanced cortical functions design the strategy and plot the right path :-)
FYI, in Britain deaths are handled somewhat differently from in the US. For the police to say they do not suspect foul play means that there are no obvious signs of a murder. However, any questionable death (including a suicide) can become the subject of an 'inquest'; this is an inquiry conducted by a coroner who has wide-ranging legal powers to gather evidence or compel testimony, although not to prosecute. If an inquest finds that a death was in fact a homicide, then the coroner's findings are handed over to the Crown Prosecution Service, which operates similarly to an American prosecutor's office. In short, law enforcement officers do not have the say on whether a death is or is not a homicide; their remarks in this case only indicate a lack of certainty that is is.

Hoare was known to have had a long struggle with substance abuse and it's entirely possible that he just drank himself to death...but there will be an inquest, possibly a public one given the circumstances.
I've got to disagree with you.

It's clumsy, inflexible and restrictive.

Pretty much anything can be swapped out with custom code. Need a custom auth backend? Just write a class. Need custom session backends? Just write a class. Need to customise a certain view of an application? Just override the url. Don't like the ORM? Just use something else. Have special caching needs? Write a backend.

A look at the release notes are full of good things and following them is definitely worth it. Since 1.3 you've got class based views that make it dead easy to create RESTful views for example. There's new logging support, you can have multiple databases with different backends.

The community is pretty much dead.

It's true that there was a lot more blogging happening in the earlier days. I suspect that the community is simply busy building new things - but a look at the CheeseShop shows on any day a healthy amount of new and updated Django components. Right now there are 7 Django projects on the main page.

All my Django projects ended up being a big mess, and I had to undjango my way out of the various restrictions it placed on me.

I'm a big fan of how Django creates structure through its applications. It makes it very easy to build parts of functionality on a plug and play basis and use them across projects.

Django offers a lot of functionality and it can be difficult to pick the right ones being a newcomer. But once you get the hang around applications and repositories and start working with "advanced" Django and Python features and apps like the built in signals, Celery, Fabric, GUnicorn, etc building and deploying apps becomes a breeze.
So the only reason you aren't a trillionaire is scruples?
Or with partisan hackery and tech-buzzword flavoring:
"cron effortlessly disembowels nytimes.com temporal perception"
Give your taste buds a break. You would rather buy fruit shipped halfway across the world (i.e., fruit designed for survive storage rather than taste good) rather than visit the local farmer's market? WTF.

I make it a point to not buy fruit from Chile, because I am voting with my taste buds that I want good fruit not cheap fruit.

My favorite fruit is the peach, and I wait for summer and farmer's markets so that I can get some ripe fruit (ever noticed how the supermarket peaches are usually unripe and never really ripen? they seem to go directly from unripe to rotten).

Maybe you live in North Dakota or some such remote place and Chilean fruit is all you get.

Anyway, just an excuse for me to sing the praises of California peaches. :)
I'm really concerned about the Varsity now that Borders is going for good.

I don't know whether the building has any historical protection, however, I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears given the suddenness of the Cal Ave tree snafu a couple of years back.
I wonder if barnes n noble would pick off the highest sales locations from the liquidators and convert them for markets where they weren't dominant yet.

Wonder what type of place could survive and be profitable at the size of the typical borders stores (20-30k sq feet)?