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We use QR codes extensively where I work. We use them in print ads and on TV commercials and I have a re-occurring nightmare that we'll use the 'wrong' QR code somewhere disastrous... like printing a link to our competitors on 10,000 brochures or something like that.

I insist that I check all QR codes before they're sent out, and I scan them with 2-3 different QR scanning apps.

As another commentor mentioned, I often send our QR codes to a redirector URL - either a branded redirector service I built, or to a WordPress site with the redirection plugin, or even to it's very own domain name which is configured for forwarding.
Lots of people break laws every day. People drink underage, people smoke pot, people speed in their motorcars, people cheat on their taxes, people drive their bicycles on the sidewalk.

Lots of people break laws every day. Why and when they do it is an internal calculus driven by many factors: my need, the damage inflicted of the person I'm harming, my convenience, the likelihood I'm getting caught, the punishment that will be meted out if I get caught.

If you want to curb piracy (eg: stop illegal activity), you need to affect all the parameters. Content creators have done a poor job on many of these fronts. So far, rights holders have almost exclusively tried to criminalize their customers. In my opinion, that's a really stupid way to go.
Maybe it's because English isn't my native language, but I didn't understand half the worlds in this article.

I mean, 'sedimentation'. What?

I find this a bit odd given that the article is about understandability and accessibility for the layman.
I've considered it, but I wonder whether I don't better buy a whole new laptop instead of cobbling this one up, but that's a lot of money and this one works fine, so I keep postponing it.

But really, buying more RAM is only a temporary solution. I sometimes feel like the memory demands of web browsers are out of line and I wonder what causes that.
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He already indicates in the paragraph just before that he technically could redirect the traffic -- that he offered to send all IPs from Belgium to some Belgian company which had accidentally used his QR code in actual advertisements. (And that they declined because he asked too much money.)

There is no technical barrier to redirection. What he actually says is "What does that mean? I’m guessing they think I can somehow magically cause that QR Code (which they accidentally used in something printed?) to redirect to another URL. I don’t think they understand that the QR Code IS the URL."

Notice the word order. He's "guessing what they think", and his guess is that they think he can "magically cause the QR code to redirect to another URL" -- the object of the sentence is not his domain, and not his URL, but the QR code. (He's saying that they've phrased it as if there is a QR code database where the code must be looked up.)
I think maybe 3 is a little bit narrow. I agree that it needs something that sets it apart from the giant online tubes where all books come from but it doesn't necessarily have to be as much a specialty, it can be an editorial perspective. For instance, one of my favorite book shops ever: Green Arcade in downtown San Francisco. It has a pretty general selection but all somewhat skewed to a particular social perspective. I'm not sure I'd call this specializing per se as adding a human touch that, if you agree/are aligned with his perspective on things, will allow you to have a lot more faith in the book you're about to drop $30 on.
How about the more likely version: http://qrserv.clearcast.com/?adid=239af932e which redirects to http://airbnb.com/?
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> Browsers have sub second back buttons, how much pre-rendered ram space do you think that takes up?

I'm sure the os & browser devs are all good and great. I'm sure the web devs are all fine and accurate; that the subject is a complex one and we're already all doing the best we can.

But that's not my point: I'm worried that one day we'll run out of RAM because we're designing our webapps as if client RAM was no longer a finite resource, we simply forgot it even existed in the first place.
There's a large grey area between "illegal" and "immoral" though. And the legal system has a long history of playing catchup to changes in public mores, and being dictated by people who don't have the public interest at heart (slavery/segregation, prohibition/legalization, communism).
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This would be interesting to know. With patent cases it seems more about the case law precedent than the actual law, because the actual law is so broad as to be interpreted any way the court likes. See also Interstate Commerce and General Welfare.
I would be curios to see a LinkedIn graph showing (and proactively finding) evidence of this whole saga.
That is, I would expect to see less movement of employees with certain talents, between conspiring companies.
Pretty naive implementation. This is no more than a wrapper around Bing image search. As far as I can tell, no further logic happens in the app.

Not quite sure how useful this is. However, if you can create a facial mash-up by first names... Now that can be interesting.
The NeXT acquisition was totally about the product. Apple's product line today is built almost entirely on what NeXT brought to the table.
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what stack are you guys running?

I'm running ubuntu 11.10 with awesome wm, I have chrome open with 11 tabs, thunderbird, and pidgin and rhythmbox running. a number of terminals.

I'm using 1 gig of ram according to htop.
True, but not really a very good argument against the merge.
"What would be the impact of such a database, if it became widely available, say, from a company whose mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful?"

More ad buys from the covered companies.
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How about blocking all motion picture and record company sites too. It's not as if they actually contribute anything of value to the Internet.
yes may rename this to "torn edge"
So, why is this a closed-door meeting? Collusion?

Why the fuck isn't it out in the open, where they public can heard and evaluate what's being proposed?

I don't take kindly to people whispering behind my back. All the more so when it is about me. And I get positively paranoid when it's about what the want to do to... erm, "for", me.

I think these people may soon top a final rise to find themselves at cliff's edge. And no way back.
I have friends in NY that say they can never get enough talent to move there (Paul Graham actually says that as well)....if anyone lives there confirm???

PG http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

"Nerds are a distinct subset of the creative class, with different tastes from the rest. You can see this most clearly in New York, which attracts a lot of creative people, but few nerds. [5]
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To me this is very impressive. Their efficiency, growth, and margins are just staggering. I hope they succeed, but do so responsibly and ethically. And with an attention to quality and relevance.
Morality and legality often intersects, but one does not imply the other. In other words, that something is legal or illegal doesn't make it moral or immoral.

It does not follow from your ancestors hardships that downloading a TV show is inherently immoral, any more that is follows it is moral.

What I consider very interesting in the discussion of the morality of downloading TV series in particular is in the comparison with DVRs:

Legal: DVR'ing a free-to-air broadcast TV show and skipping the commercial breaks.

Illegal: Downloading the same TV show, with the commercial breaks edited out.

The only substantial difference in the two scenarios is timing - whether you will be watching a Christmas special at Christmas or in May, two years later (as is more often the case with US shows in Europe).

Further noting that the the fact these TV shows airs on such a long delay reflects the practicality of how the TV show market work, not some particular desire of the copyright holder, what is the moral principle being breached here?
>Require registration of works with the copyright office

Yaay - more bureaucracy and competitive advantages for the established business that can afford the fees/process. Kill open-source copyright claim validity in the process ?

>Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work

Yaay - taxes on top of taxes !
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I guess the point is that there is a certain amount of comfort to be had if the url is http://www.domainname.com/ because at least then you know that any redirects are intended for the entire world: no one is shuffling you though ad trackers making you feel like a pawn.
I have all apps disabled, so couldn't "like" even if i tried. did not see "already liked us" until i saw your comment, thanks.
Thank you. I had an initial look the articles the other day, and I'll tackle the video this weekend.
You should "turn off" a full-name when it already has a photo.
Avoiding getting 20 photos of the same person if the name is not really used.
It would give the "app" much more dimension.
Little style with the typed search, the results given etc... would be cool too.
"I think for hobbyists it's a great time, but for making money, it's not so good out there, especially because of technology"

Again - I 100% disagree, for all of the same reasons I listed above. I respectfully will just tell you flat out that you are wrong - 100% wrong. Hobbyists who aren't worth a crap - yes, it's tough for them to make money. True musicians who can play and write amazing music can make more now than ever before. There are more avenues to make money today also - it's not just CD sales and live shows anymore. Now it's merch, DVDs, writing, lessons, television/movies, internet collabs.

You are just naive or willfully obstinate if you tell us that you think differently.

Sorry - I have no desire to check out your site since we see things so differently. I wish you the best but I don't see why I would check it out.
The words in the article aren't particularly difficult for a native English speaker — certainly not 'sediment' — with the exception of 'palimpsest', for which he linked to the Wikipedia entry. With respect, I don't think it odd at all.
It's down at the bottom of the article, but this:

> Penney will use whole figures when pricing items. In other words, you won't see jeans with a price tag of $19.99, but rather $19 or $20.

is actually my favourite part of the whole thing. Taken together, it's a major overhaul that says, hey, sorry, over decades we'd gotten wrapped up in all these little marketing tricks to increase our sales and bottom line, but we decided it was time to treat y'all like grownups for a change.

I hope it works out for them.
QR codes are a massive phishing scam waiting to happen. I'll just go cover up the one at my bank with a sticker of the same exact size that links to my own site that looks exactly like the bank's site. Or maybe I'll put one on the ATM and see how long I get traffic before someone takes it down.
Interesting, my problems back then were actually ZMQ-related.

Though to be fair, we were making it a bit complicated by suspending/resuming the OpenVZ containers. From that we sometimes got dead ZMQ connections that were black holing all traffic (incredibly hard to debug - ended up switching because of it).
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The feature implementation and details have seen some refinement, so it's much less of a mess in its current state (e.g. the directories are symlinked, not the files): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

You get wins on packaging (don't need to worry about where to scatter executables, although this doesn't affect many packages), as well as "all software is under /usr", so everything the package manager touches except config file updates is under a single directory. This makes both centralized updates and pre-update snapshotting much more feasible.

I'm really looking forward to this feature. With appropriate support from the file system and yum, it seems like it brings us one step closer to truly transactional multi-package system updates/software installations. Yes, some of this was already possible with snapshotting support in a plugin for Yum, but I think the consolidation will likely make implementing such features simpler and more robust.
"Can we all agree that the word Evil has a more sinister use - ie knowing endangering lives, environmental damage, maybe closing press freedoms? And, therefore, we should be more selective in its application?"

Using that version of "evil", makes it a completely empty marketing statement. Surely no company does "real" evil on purpose.

Actually, you'd be hard pressed to find a legit company that does "real" evil even by accident.
The name has a safety-net-assurance embedded into it.

"No worries, it's only an experiment. So what if the money is lost?"
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I used to be a Sun field engineer. I had a foldable static mat with wrist straps in the pockets. It literally took me less than 30 seconds to unfold the mat, slide on the strap, and throw whatever system board I was repairing on the mat. The mat was padded as well, so I didn't have to worry about finding a safe surface to drop a 10 pound system board on.

The reason why the Dell techs are not using wrist straps is because they are lazy, and they know that even if ESD causes a component failure, some other poor tech will get the follow up service call and just come replace another part, or replace the same part again.

Have you ever wondered why a lot of replacement parts, after being installed without ESD protection, somehow are DOA (dead on arrival)? The factory that manufactures them surely tests them before shipping.

Are you seriously arguing that static charges of several thousand volts can't damage integrated circuits?
yes that goes well beyond non poaching
You acknowledge copyright infringement is a separate act from theft, yet go on to provide an emotive example of the latter as an apparent means of vilifying the former?
Copyrights should not trump human rights. I think that's the next big struggle of the digital age.

No more censoring for copyright.
No more jail terms for copyright.
No more searches for copyright.
No more extradition for copyright.

Human rights are more important.
Actually it reminded me of http://xkcd.com/981/

But i do remember seeing /usr/share/bin and /usr/share/local/bin and thinking wtf... But then i play around too much with my OS to reliably blame it on the distro...
You are probably more right than you know... I've always suspected something like this; although mainly that's just from my personal experience when I haven't used ESD, sometimes I've given a board a bad shock and it still miraculously worked afterwards. I've even seen people plug in power supplies backwards, smoke a component on a board, and have the computer still miraculously boot afterwards. No idea if the computer was stable long term, but it's surprising sometimes how much damage these components can take. Then again, on the other hand, sometimes they stop working when they are in a clean room where everyone wears Intel bunny suits and is grounded 24/7.
There is a very clearly featured "Alternatively click here" link.
You write "For distances over 20 miles, if you can't beat car travel for a family of 4 (about 8 cents per mile per person) you suck at your job."

Like many other critics of cars, you seem to implicitly consider the value of travellers' time to be negligible, so that you don't need to consider it even in a context where they are talking about a cost meter ticking at 8 cents per minute or so.

There are annoying rhetorical tricks in the other direction employed by fans of cars, like pointedly ignoring the cost of pollution or pointedly pretending that expensive required-by-law facilities (notably parking) are not costs. But as much as those pro-car rhetorical tricks distort reality, they seldom seem to distort the reality of the situation as badly as the anti-car trick of treating the value of the traveller's time as negligible. Across the people who can afford to travel by car, "negligible compared to $4.80/hr" is an extremely bad approximation for the value of time.
Although the new Final Cut Pro X eats RAM for breakfast. Our editing Mac Pro at work regularly uses 16GB+ when working in FCPX with multiple projects and events. Frustrating at times, to say the least.
I had to come look at the comments here to figure out what this thing did. I'd suggest adding a red circle around the "ripped off" area to highlight what's actually happening.

I had to think way too hard to puzzle out "Two for One" was.

Don't ask me to like something before you've given it to me. Lame.

Swap the order of the steps: first I upload my photo, then let me toggle between effects.

Make the effect copy actionable. "Tear off the bottom edge" rather than "Rip Off". "Match my profile pic to my timeline photo" rather than "Two for one." Communication > cuteness.
> But what if some random e-mail client prefetches the image and the e-mail end up never being read or whatever? This is not robust.

The whole point of not loading images is the privacy concern, so if your email client (which is any email client with any kind of traction in the past decade) offers (and defaults to) not loading images, it will indeed not hit the URL.
Just to further underline the divergence between morality and legality, it's worth noting that under current copyright law, it is illegal in the United Kingdom to record (i.e. 'DVR') any television broadcast.

It is also illegal to rip a copy of a CD you own to listen to on a computer or copy to a portable music player...
The app is predisposed towards images of attractive people.
Incredibly interesting read. Great writing style. Perfectly captures the essence of our world and our place in it. I could read this all day long. Thanks for sharing!
To get better performance the operating system will use as much as the RAM as possible. Why only use 4GB when you have 16GB to use? Cache as much of that as possible. Remember locality in CS and how it relates with caching, this is exactly the reasons why your OS does this.
Absolutely. I bet there is a huge statistical relationship there.
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So let's say I am running a startup with two employees. A friend of mine is also running a startup and needs to hire people. Is it wrong for me to ask him not to hire my employees?
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In the results for 'James', I find 'James King' to be less offensive than 'James Carpinello'.
Relevant comment on reddit by the author of MurmurHash:

Hi, I'm the author of MurmurHash (let me know if verification is needed) and helped review the design of CityHash (I work at Google now).
CityHash has higher throughput and is more complex, MurmurHash has lower latency for very short keys and is relatively simple.
Both are more than adequate for any sort of hashing needs you might have and should be virtually identical to a random oracle for any keysets you might throw at them.
I'm happy to answer questions if you have any.

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thanks for your thoughts - will definitely implement some changes. doing the "like to download" as an experiment, may well take it off
Exactly, OP does not understand the role RAM plays in computers.

It is a disappointment for me to see the link get so many points in this community where you would expect the baseline of knowledge of technology to be 'above the average'.
Nice implementation of an image search engine. I would love to be able to share faces and maybe star them.
It just occurred to me that when I told Intel I wouldn't be returning after my internship, HR was very pushy about where I was going. I'm glad I was going to a company outside the agreement or I would probably have had no job.
Is there a way to get this information off of LinkedIn?

I am guessing it would be possible to pull it out of Google+ profile pages, but I am not sure it has historical data, or been around long enough for that matter.

Facebook would surely have it but I doubt this information is accessible.
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Interesting username. Kind of reminds of me something... oh yeah, low orbit ion cannon, a DOS tool I have battled in the past.

Looking forward to your explanation.
No problem. It's a cool idea that could gain some traction. Don't be discouraged, HN is a tough crowd :)
> did not really think through the implications of what we were doing

But the part about stealing someone else's work and passing it off as your own obviously had some thought put into it. One could only imagine what other parts of your app were repurposed from third parties.
Most services allow you to use your account immediately but only for non content creation actions in order to prevent abuse.
Spammers can provision an unlimited number of email addresses, so you won't stop a spammer by requiring him to validate an e-mail address.

I can think of three reasons you want to validate an e-mail address like this:

- Confirming that you've typed your e-mail address correctly and that it is reachable

- Preventing you from impersonating someone else

- Opt-in for sending you e-mails. Not really to prevent you from spamming/harassing/annoying someone else (there are many ways other ways to do this), but to prevent the service from having e-mails marked as spam.

I'm sure the last one is the strongest, as being blacklisted from one of the big e-mail providers would really hurt most online services.
You're invoking a tired ends justifies the means argument for ... consumer devices? Not societal survival, not space travel, not some other grand enterprise, but ... iPods?
Very curious - are they actually effective? Do people use them? What's the "click-through" rate like?
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In my experience, it's usually way off because the people in charge change the specifications at the drop of a hat.
Every company I've worked for has done this. No matter how much you plan and try to stick to that plan, things always change. Many times, even with these changes, you are expected to get the project done in the original time-frame.

At my last company, they needed an e-commerce site done. I had the coding finished in roughly 3 months and we were just waiting on the design. We went through 3 artists and a design by committee (the boss rounded up everyone in the company once a week to give their feedback). 2 entire finished designs were also scrapped. In addition to all of this, the boss would change his opinion of it on a daily basis (I think it depended on his mood).

A year into the project, they questioned me as to why the project wasn't finished. This was after I had been telling them for months why we couldn't run a project this way. A year after this, the project was finished.
What infuriates me is that a company like this is still making money. Every aspect of the company was run like the above scenario. Over time, every good person they ever had left in frustration (including me).
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