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There are many alternatives. I am an amateur photographer and have never used Photoshop. Despite its name, it was not designed as a tool for photographers, but for commercial artworkers, and is overkill for most photographers unless you are doing really odd stuff. Lightroom or Aperture or Gimp are find and much cheaper/free.
Why didn't Google release some standard design resources anyway?
Another, in my opinion, great example of the need for subdomains on HN submissions. I surely wasn't the only one who thought this title meant Google were endorsing blackouts?
I wouldn't say that HN is not a business. It brings a lot of exposure to YC and its startups.

So, in some ways, your free speech is moderated by private interests. This is not a critic, just a valid point I think.
Afaik this is all for the 18th January 2012.....or Wednesday as we mortals call it
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> a general possibility to override unpopular laws.

We have to be very careful with this. Sometimes a very popular law is exactly what you don't want. There are vast areas where a law mandating the teaching of creationist superstition in science classes would be immensely popular while a law forbidding it would be very unpopular.
Agreed, I've seen a greasemonkey script that can do it, but honestly I can't see a reason why this isn't adopted as standard!

https://gist.github.com/1522657
http://www.thrillingheroics.com/digital-nomad-academy-–-were... Neat site about Digital Nomadist, and an article on the Academy for it.
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One thing I as a Brit find strange is how the US taxes it's citizens and companies on income from abroad. The UK certainly doesn't do this and I'm not aware of anywhere else that does it either. It seems to me that if you are doing business abroad, say in the UK, you are not benefiting from US physical or legal infrastructure while doing so any more than a brit working in britain, so why are you expected to fund it?

To put it another way I'm sure Apple's operations in the UK are self-funding by now, so if Apple earns money in the UK and moves it to the US it is taxed by the US, where if a UK company transfers money earned in the UK to the US it isn't taxed. What's the justification for that? It seems nuts.
> For example it's paramount to test your software, but whether this is TDD or not is secondary.

If you don't examine your motivations for writing tests, and evaluate whether they're being fulfilled, how do you know their necessity is paramount?
Many people here mention comments. I'm interested in story submissions.

Please, which submissions have you made that you felt deserved more upvotes? And which do you feel got too much attention?

I was surprised that "Invention of Waterloo (Canada tech triangle) got over 100 votes.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3440469)

I was gently surprised that some of my other stories got no up votes at all. The Electronic Landscape in 1986 - while being really poorly formatted for HN, would have been interesting to people born after that era; "Wait, what? You had these online communities who were not part of the Internet? Who were trying to compete with the Internet? And then they offer Internet access as a bonus feature?"

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3087928)

On topic: I comment too much, and I'm reigning it back. ANd I'm trying to increase the signal.
Not enough. I think there needs to be something preventative in place so this sort of thing can't raise its ugly head again.

If they want censorship, let's give them censorship.
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I really don't get that impression.

I do think it's just use of the term "programming", when (while what she did was very impressive for a young girl, from her culture) she didn't appear to do much programming.

Obviously it's misdirected. People should be saying "What lousy reporting, celebrate what she actually did!"
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The relational data model because thought of that the got to solution for data storage and persistence, or did it. Actually, that was something of a fashion which never full took hold (think of IMS) and is now in sharp decline.

Your intro paragraph makes no sense.
If HN has "sticky posts", this thing should be on top at least until 18th of Jan to avoid people from hurting their website's SEO too much for the solidarity action.
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It's also be worth knowing that some insurance deals aimed at small businesses bundle up several of the most useful/legally required types of insurance, including Employer's Liability.

For example, my contracting company took out a policy for the Professional Indemnity cover, but it also comes with some Public Liability and sufficient Employer's Liability cover to meet statutory obligations if we take on employees.

I don't know whether this works out cheaper than finding separate policies for exactly what you need, so obviously please do your homework if you're in a position of needing this type of cover.
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What's new apart from the web front end? I thought every city has had businesses like this for years. Here in Scotland, we have a number of 'Waterless' car cleaning services who will come to your home of place of work.
What I took away from the article is that done right, 503 error, SEO wont be damaged (long term at least) and everything will be back to normality again within a couple of days.
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When Google's employees started to become rich, they were taught the best investment was index funds; that investment firms like Goldman were just out to grab their fees and didn't perform any better over the long run.

http://www.tradersnarrative.com/the-best-investment-advice-y...
Doesn't seem like like it rewrites content, also seems to often use a sentence as the first one that refers to a previously introduced concept in the article that has no context in the summary.

This doesn't really surprise me as in the time he has been working in ai/ml/nlp I don't think there would have been much time to do more than learn up to and implement some of the current state of the art. The named entity recognition for the keywords seems okay.

I did a bit of reading on summarization during my thesis, enough to know it is a big and difficult problem. I hope he keeps at it, seems like a good start but a long way to go.
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I've just watched two of them (8: Data Structures from SICP & Graph Algorithms from Algorithms) and enjoyed them. The format of the videos is nothing special (camcorder on a tripod at the back of the room), but the teachers are very good, presenting complex subjects clearly. The videos alone seem an excellent reference & resource. The accompanying materials (handouts etc) are sparse but good accompaniments. The courses were taught assuming reference to a textbook, so they're not 100% self-contained.
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Until I saw this post, I hadn't even considered the possible SEO implications.
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Amazing how offended some people seem to be by him omitting a few thing - who really cares
One must account for the relative sophistication packed into the Mars Exploration Rover too. Moreover, there cannot be a fair comparison between a probe and a long term rover.

Hundreds of engineers had worked on it. A community's confidence was shattered with this failure. Trying to measure the extent of this failure in terms of money does not do it justice.

Such a failure is a loss to the entire world. Science has no boundaries.
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Actually, moving to REST requires you to change your head around from a procedural point of view to one dealing in objects and operations, so it won't be a direct mapping of SOAP to REST.
I think it is great that Harvard and Stanford open their course material on the internet but can someone explain to me why they would do it? I mean, what is in it for them - a bit of PR and friendly headlines aside? Their name and status alone is enough to stay "in business".
Alternatives to lectures - they don't always work.
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I'll get buried for this, but I don't see HN as a community. To me reddit seems to be able to foster a sense of community with meetups, fund raisers, secret santa etc. HN is just a link aggregator with comments.
I don't understand it either. There even seem to be some screenshots from some complete UI kit on their design website, but no PSD to download anywhere. And I needed the templates immediately, so I had to draw them myself.
OK, thanks. Going back to the drawing board with renewed vigor!
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Also, they have all other things provided for them without actually owning them.
If you happen to be interested in more "minimalist porn", I too made a list of the things I was living with at one point last year.

http://raviudeshi.com/2011/02/75-things

With hindsight, I can say it's not at all about the number, but more the mentality. I don't know about this guy, but so long as you find a hostel/apartment/friend with some basic cooking utensils and Internet, it's not too hard to keep your costs very low.
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> MITM this page, and serve you a bad QR code

You're then reading the QR code on what is assumed to be a trusted device on a trusted network (your mobile phone). The QR code would have to link to a bogus website mascarding as google in order to intercept your username & password. It requires a degree of vigilance on the part of the user at this point to ensure that the login page is genuinely google, but anyone using this auth mechanism must be reasonable security conscious to start with.

By your assertion, the only solution is to not use untrusted computers / networks at all. In the event that you have to this is one way to do so more securely.
> If you're always providing API access through a proprietary library,
> it doesn't matter if it's REST, SOAP, custom binary protocols, or whatnot.

That was exactly my thought. I was looking for reinforcement of the possibility that people will still want the entire REST interface visible and documented even in the presence of wrapper libraries.
If our home was burning the only things I'd be bothered about getting to safety would by my wife and son, then our cats.

Nothing else matters in that context.
Yeah, G+ is eating up the Intenet. Don't understand why people blog there.
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This is very similar to what I've been working on at qrauth.com

Glad to see my concept isn't too off the wall
Thanks for your investigation. Regarding the proprietary mode Apple claims to be required, I guess this mode allows an AirDrop link to be established without disassociating from the (infrastructure mode) WiFi base station by switching between the two links quickly enough.
Obviously Ethernet has no such limitation. Indeed, in my opinion, AirDrop is more useful over Ethernet than WiFi.
> Amazing how offended some people seem to be by him omitting a few thing - who really cares

If I promise to give you 50 bucks for some software you wrote and then I only give you 10, you wouldn't be offended or complain, right?
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> ... conditioned to vote for REST over SOAP.

Yes, I dread to think I'm going through a lengthy project just to address a current fashion trend...
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Google should really provide layout drop-in replacements (XML, Nine-patch, bitmap tiles, selectors, per-element-PSDs) for 2.x Android releases, and some system to support the grid they started in ICS (48dp element height, 4dp/8dp spacing,...).

Offtopic: I like how the OP uses Roboto for the site :)
A name that people would wonder,and would like to try it when they see the name...
python also has this right by introducing named parameters. The same function in python can be written as:

do_send_mail(recipient="some@email.com", cc="another@email.com", subject="Hello!", body="hi!")
Harvard and Stanford (and other big name universities) are in the business of "selling" diplomas, not content. You cannot put on your resume that you "aced" a Harvard iTunes course, but only that you graduated from Harvard. I applaud these institutions for realizing it and allowing others to benefit from the content. Think of it as the public library model -- you can certainly pick up Tocqueville or Newton writing and read it, but it offers no guarantee of your mastery of the material. The diploma (supposedly) gives you that badge.
> easiest country to set up a business in the world

Could you elaborate what your base of comparison is to make such statement? How many countries have you set businesses up in?

Speaking just of Asia, I set up businesses in Singapore and Hong Kong. The latter was easier to setup and proved easier to run, with less running costs over the course of 3 years so far.
I also found Hong Kong to be way more founder-friendly when it comes to getting angel money or VC.

Regarding the police state: 1st time I spent a day in Singapore, in 2005, on a 14h stopover from a long haul flight to Australia, I wanted to take a nap on a lawn in a public park. Two police offers told me I can't and they'll have to fine me but they'd make an exception since I'm a tourist.
I was wearing a tailor-made suit btw., not some daggy traveler attire.

That was when I knew Singapore was not for me.

Don't get me wrong, I have friends living there and they like it a lot. They are a family of four and they do fit in the 'ideal standard' box of people the government there wants to have as citizens.

But be careful if you don't.
Singapore has laws that make homosexuals face legal threats. And you can be fined if someone spots you walking around in your house naked (in your own 4 walls, mind you!).
The word "Piracy" was mentioned so many times in this post that I can't resist:

Copyright infringement is not "Piracy". The special interests that brainwashed the masses into using the term "Piracy" have scored a major win.

Every time you use the term "Piracy" you play by their rules.

The situation is the same with the P-A-T-R-I-O-T act. Every time you pronounce it simply as "Patriot Act" - you are playing by the rules of those who crated it.
Death is generally a touchy subject, if you were commenting on someone that had not just passed away I don't think the comment would have come off nearly as bad.

I agree with the post about thinking before you add something and not being mean for the sake of being mean. I think we also have to be careful here about a culture of groupthink and censoring alternative opinions via very negative feedback.
Can someone explain how to change a site to return a 503 HTTP header?
True about the threaded discussions, i always felt threaded conversations lead to worse quality discussions. Mostly because of the "argument"-thing. I don't think people intentionally want to start an argument many times but since you are always replying directly to someone it can easily be perceived as offensive or defensive even if you are just adding another neutral fact into the conversation.

Actually "conversation" sounds wrong, because there is no conversation or even common red-line of discussion, just replies to individual comments changing order several times per day based on some rating instead of time. Try returning to a threaded conversation a day after you first read it, you will have to reread almost everything again to get back into the loop again.

Flat comment system can also deteriorate quickly when you reach enough users and everything is just lost into a stream of junk like on youtube. I think stackoverflow has a good model with only one level of threading, not sure how well it would work on a discussion forum without strictly right or wrong answers though.
As I would say if I got 5 min to testify before a congressional committee:

"Gentlemen, it has been suggested that, since Google and others have built technology to detect and block pornographically explicit pictures and videos, that they could build technology to block copyrighted pictures. This is simply not true. Please bear with me and I can demonstrate this. [show two pictures] Can you tell which of these is pornography? It's like Justice Stewart said: 'I know it when I see it'. [show two identical pictures] Can you tell which of these is a copyright violation. [pause] You don't have to peer TOO closely, they are absolutely identical. But the author signed contract allowing me to duplicate and display copies of the one on the left, and did NOT allow me to duplicate and display copies of the one on the right. Determining whether something is a violation of copyright requires one to know details how a court would evaluate fair use exceptions, as well as knowing the details of contracts between two third-parties you may not even know. This is not difficult, it is impossible."
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Heh, first post here. Hi.

Although I'm from the UK, I have been following this with keen interest,particularly as US authorities are able to pluck our citizens from our country on mere suspicion.

Just to say, and Im sure you all know it already, you have not won, keep pushing and pushing until there is a law, but a fair just one. I don't want such laws, but there are inevitable. Just be sure they are laws that work fairly and properly.

I think the thing to do now is for the community to create and propose its own law(s) and push that on the politicians. Present a credible alternative. Get the legislation we want, not what they want. Perhaps some one needs to set up a site where the on line community can collaborate in putting together a workable solution.

Any way, congratulations for winning the battle, just remember that we still have the war to win.
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Also, to defend myself, according to this article the top half of the 1% are in fact people in the banking and financial services industry: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...
But we sure can understand why Google employee posts there.
I have no problem creating enriching commercial banks in the short term to stop a credit-collapse, but steps could be taken to correct that distortion later. None have.
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Often you'll buy what's called a 'commercial combined' policy, which will usually cover professional indemnity, employer's liability and product liability (if you sell things), plus extensions such as theft cover.

EL is the only compulsory insurance which applies to all private sector employers, although in certain industries you will have additional requirements (e.g. conveyancers have to purchase professional indemnity insurance).
Yes, I understand that but the question then still is... why would they spend time, money and resources to give you all that material for free? Other institutions in the "diploma business" will surely peek and try to keep up and I do not see or understand the benefit for Harvard, Stanford et al. if we are not talking altruistic purposes.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is fantastic they do it and I applaud them - it is just really surprising and I am wondering about their motives, just my own (economic) curiosity.
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mike@alfa:~$
thanks for the point. I have no background in Python so I didn't take Python into consideration. In my opinion, there are more people like me: coming from pure HTML/CSS/PHP background straight to Objective C
I guess you can apply the 48dp grid to older android apps as well. The grid is not about android version, it's about screen sizes and resolution in my view.
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