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"... point out that imported wood is now a Big Deal, and potentially very dangerous to work with ..."

Shipping timber has consequences. Tall timber, hardwood in particular is the flora equivalent of the Rhino, Elephant and big Cats. Hunted to extinction, chopped up, chipped & poorly used.

"... The woodlands & forests that had once ringed the entire Mediterranean & provided a home for a rich population of animals had now largely gone. They survived only places for which no soldier bothered to fight, where no forester found it possible to haul out timber, & no farmer thought it worthwhile to make a field. ..." David Attenborough, "The First Eden: The destruction of the forests", Pt3, p173.

Learn the lessons of the past.
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Every time you make a new post, you invalidate all thousand (ten thousand? 100k? million?) older pages. It's absolutely moronic. Google has no chance of keeping up. You make one new post and Google has to re-index thousands of pages.

You shouldn't be allowing Google to index /page/2, /page/3, /page/4; that content is obviously going to change, and no user is ever going to search for "page 9 of the archives of example.com."
Clever trick, but would this violate the ToS?
This reminds me of run-sequence and lag plots:

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/runseqp...

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/lagplot...

The field of Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is full of great techniques. See the root of the above guide.
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Flagged because this is shamefully ripped off from Labnol.org.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/
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>That's why I openly described the algorithm the day I came up with it instead of patenting it.

AFAIK this is what patents were supposed to do, instead of people locking away their inventions they would give incentives for people to share their knowledge so everyone would get the results but the owner would be able to benefit from publishing. Now it's "property", and people start talking mortality and trying to take moral high ground, starving artists and equating it with stealing, or some perverse economics rationalization focusing on profit as objective. Frankly I don't think I ever heard anyone saying that he read a patent to understand/learn something - although some papers were probably published after they got patents, I know two of those, but I would argue that those patents were blatantly obvious anyway, since I started working on the same problem and arrived at the same solution independently - found those papers after solving the problem/colleague pointed me to them - without even being an expert in the field - they did develop their ideas fully but I'm sure if I kept working on it, or someone else did, they would solve it, and both of those have immediate applications/have been developed for a product so the R&D would have to be done for product development, having it patented provided was not required for the investment.
I did both but didn't get any additional achievement, what am I doing wrong?
You would think so, but at least tumblr isn't restricting it: http://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+/page/300
So called "Intellectual Property" is not really property from either a moral or a legal standpoint.

Intellectual property is a form of government granted temporary monopoly, supposedly in the name of encouraging progress and the common good.

It is clear that "Intellectual Property" is counterproductive regarding the goals it had. It is time to abolish it.
They are so much worse without those hard core porn sites that I can sense the sexual tension from thousands of kilometers away. Also it's funny to see Iran's porn banning when Rick Santorum wants to do the same. Do we have some credible studies about the current internet censoring in EU/US ?
Patents are artificial government granted monopolies. Such monopolies are in no way good for consumers.
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The point of patents is not to protect anyone, but to encourage innovation. It has become quite clear that patents make innovation harder (is impossible to create anything anymore without taking a big risk of infringing someone else's patents, and those with patents only use them to slow their progress by their competition, and to avoid having to compete/innovate until their patent expires).
Please set rule for map pop-ups, only one at a time - open popup closes upon clicking on other pin. Is the Hostgator paid? It is a bit distracting, and that's the line to walk: balancing 'building users' vs hitting them with ads early on.
I believe that hole was closed quite some time ago, wasn't it? Do you have any specifics on how you could accomplish that today?
To expose yourself to positive black swans you have to take on this psychic toll. This is why it's human nature to prefer to bias for small regular wins and the occasional catastrophe.

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
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It's sad that arresting someone for openly filming police during the conduct of their duty was something that police ever thought it was acceptable to arrest so done for, or that a prosecutor would ever consider bring criminal charges in a case like this.
Pintrest is very much covered under the DMCA safe harbor. As for users, to get real damages under copyright law, a copyright owner need to register your copyrights with the Copyright office AND prove monetary loss. Almost no one does the former and the latter ain't easy. 2) Any photographer who doesn't want someone "pinning" their photos is far more likely to just use a DMCA takedown notice.

Furthermore, there's also two controlling rulings on fair use - Perfect 10 v. Google and Perfect 10 v. Amazon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,.... These make it clear that there's a very fine case for Pinterest sharing to be legal for USERS.

Let me now reiterate - pinning a copyrighted photo isn't going to get you sued or destroy your life savings. Both the photographers whining about Pinterest and the non-copyright lawyers penning self-agrandizing "zomg, copyright law is crazy" blog posts need to get over themselves.

No court is going to award damages for pinning a photo, when the DMCA makes it simple to take them down and Pinterest users aren't making money off the photos.

Which is to say even though U.S. copyright law is dumb, it ain't that dumb and the hysteria over Pinterest needs to stop.
After three years, you get to keep some production licenses as well as all the software you downloaded for free. You get four Windows Servers and two SQL Servers. This really is a great program. You can read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/About/Graduation.aspx
Name a single YouTube user who has gotten "really screwed." They get their submitted vids taken down via DMCA notices and occasionally banned.
You are quite right. Time and space is the important point here. There's no way of saying "Give me page 6 as it was when I bookmarked it two weeks ago."
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I agree. It seems to me that a bubble exists where there are expectations disproportionate to performance. I don't see why ANY of the points the article mentions rules out a tech bubble.

Granted I dont think we are in the same sort of tech bubble we were before the .com crash, but you can only learn so much from studying history. Events rarely repeat themselves exactly. All you can get are general cautions. One caution is to be careful about business models and so forth, and I think that this means being caution about Groupon, Pandora, etc.

Yes, I think we are in a tech bubble, just a different stage and a different sort than last time.
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That said, Microsoft got one thing very right: active directory. If someone were to develop a similar solution which could manage both platforms, I'd buy it tomorrow.
Ah, you're correct. I can only speak of the code in there I have myself used for self study, which was great, but I see now that a lot is missing. I wouldn't mind contributing to such a project myself, but I'm afraid my python is not as uber-"pythonistic" as Norvig's is...
If they take the 'i' out, it would be easier to remember.
2) What if I build a redirect engine that doesn't redirect to an affiliate page at first and then turn on the redirect after your engine completes the permalink check? For example, if you do the permalink check when the story is published, I would have my engine wait 5 minutes or so before changing the destination of the URL to my affiliate page.
Some people aren't in a position to take on the risk of entrepreneurship. Counting those with significant medical conditions among them doesn't strike me as abnormal.

If society is geared to reward risk takers who succeed, it seems that if society were then to eliminate a good deal of that risk, something in the arrangement would be lost.

How is universal healthcare any different to start ups than a government funded insurance policy that pays a modest amount when your startup fails?

My friend drives a nice sports car. He's outraged at the cost of dental work. He thinks dental care should be free to Americans. How is that any different that government subsidized sports cars?
It's not anti-viral; I tried it out with my significant other to see how it worked, and I'll recommend it to people who travel frequently or are in long-distance relationships. Obviously, I won't be using it with them, but that's different.
I've not written code on windows for years now, but today for started off with a .NET project - for an course assignment (.NET mandatory). I wasn't that bad - looks things can be completed fast enough here, however kept feeling itchy all the time that finally saying yes to closed source platform ... Came back home and now its open source. Thank you!
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Yeah, there's a common misconception that there's a big bill coming at the end. There isn't - you get to keep the software you used during the 3 years for no charge and you get discounts if you need to buy more.
Are all those languages' searches really going down since 2004?
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I was under the impression that the iOS kill-switch was exclusively for rogue apps/malware.

Has it been used for legally questionable apps before? A bit of Google-fu didn't turn anything up immediately.
You are incorrect. It does not bypass adblock on firefox. Yes, the ad shows, but that's because it does not trigger any of firefox's blocking rules (assuming Fanboy's list. I didn't check the others). He triggers chrome's by the element of name="google_ads_try". Firefox does not block elements of that name. Firefox's much more powerful plugin architecture allows Adblock Plus on firefox to actually prevent ads from loading; it doesn't insert css to hide them. As such, javascript to try and prevent css injection does absolutely nothing against adblock plus.

As a proof of concept, visit this site (it's his modified to hit adblock plus's Fanboy's List by adding ?bannerid=100 to the end) http://pastehtml.com/view/bstgyxtln.html . Turn on and off adblock and notice how, even though I left his anti-adblocking code in, it's helpless to stop firefox actually blocking it.
Who else is with me on this? Fucking MS Office.
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One at a time. There are only 24 hours per day. It takes a lot of work to make one work.
Sometimes it takes an odd sequence of commands that needs to be run in just the right order to get things going. Invariably I waste hours on the internet searching forums every time I do this, getting more and more frustrated the whole time.

I have found this to be the case for any system that I've had to deal with for a decent amount of time. Simply change odd sequence of commands to odd registry changes (or xml files in IIS), or click these random guis and see if it works. One thing I like about the linux CLI though is that generally once I find the command it really does work.
Ben Horowitz a man who stands to make money on inflating the bubble is trying to convince others about the soundness of startup economics through rap lyrics? Hmm, not exactly convincing - rather the opposite.
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I wrote a web series about Internet censorship in the US. Seeking feedback.
> every program of substantial size necessarily uses multiple different patented techniques

Do you think that this is not true of other engineering disciplines? For instance, can an auto maker build a new car without infringing tons of patents? What about robot makers? Airplane manufacturers? Do you believe that nothing that e.g. SpaceX (or your favorite innovation shop) is working on is worthy of patent protection?

> Do you think this is the way property rights and software ought to work together?

This consequence is clearly horrible. However, let's say there was an innovative physical device (with no software) at play instead. Then we'd say that's exactly how property rights work. We'd presumably be happy that in a few years the rest of society would have access to the device without paying the monopoly rates. The point is the monopoly is an incentive that helps an inventor take an idea from concept to useful product. If the idea had value by itself, we could use my idea for a cancer cure and be free of it tomorrow. (Unfortunately, I am missing the useful -- patentable --parts of the cure.)

What specifically is so different about software that would make it unique among engineering pursuits as the only one unworthy of patent protection?
Unfortunately, they can afford the lobbyists and lawyers necessary to buy life support for their business model.
I have run into those kinds of problems, and it doesn't seem to be a huge burden to make a new component. My complaint is that Xcode is a POS but I have to use it.
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"To a further extreme you could argue to take money from the wealthy to pay the medical bills of the needy."

That's hardly an extreme - it's what happens in many advanced nations with universal healthcare. Taxes are collected, and part of them go to paying for medical treatment for everyone, rich or poor.

"property and rights are principles the United States is built upon."

That doesn't say anything about how long the temporary monopolies granted for patents and copyrights should last, or whether everything in every context should be patentable (e.g. software and UI design).

Intellectual property rights are important, insofar as they "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". When this goal is no longer being effectively promoted by the current implementation of the patent/copyright systems, then it's time to consider re-engineering them.
"Stupid and superficial" is a good description of today's low-need, low-investment, small-problem start-up environment.
I would love to see a comparison to Depict, which was really popular a year or two ago, and now seems much less well known than this "Draw Something" that people started talking about.

(edit: Ugh, and Draw Something apparently has a "choose a username" feature, rather than using your name from Game Center or allowing multiple people to have the same username, so of course someone chose my username, because they knew it would cause a lot of people to try to play games with them.)
And yet the new purchaser ends up spending more under this model than they would under a paid upgrades model. New user pays $40 for features X, Y, and Z. User of a previous version, containing X and Y, would pay $10 for the new version.

Under the in-app purchase model, both customers have to pay $50 for X, Y and Z, which provides a high barrier to entry, a poor customer experience, and poor reviews for the app.

There are ways around this scenario, but none of which are as user friendly as allowing previous owners to purchase new versions at a discounted price.
Ask HN: What happens to startups with legitimate A players?
I've worked at half a dozen companies over the course of a decade, and at each one there are 2-3 guys who are head and shoulders better than everyone else. I'm wondering what would happen if you stuck 10 of these "A" players in the same room for 3 months? And no, the ivory tower mouth breathers at google/amazon/apple don't count as "A" players.
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Any chance you'd describe your process / tools used for the site?
You are wrong. And for simple reasons:

1. Society defines what is property and who has rights. This can change at any time. That is, there is no absolute notion of "property".

Not too far back humans were property. Some would say the abolition of that notion of property is a principle the United States was built upon.

2. Software is different from other patentable ideas. It completely fails the non-obviousness test. That is, people can easily independently develop or use ideas as part of their own creation since at core it is just mathematics applied to a problem domain. This is similar to the underlying reason why (pure) business processes are not in general patentable outside the U.S.

3. There is no corollary to other social systems, at least not the for derivative health metaphor that you made. You cannot give up something (wealth) that you never "owned" in the first place. Further, anyone can fall sick or be hurt at any time for any reason, regardless of wealth or circumstance. So, there is always a social cost come what may. Whereas, you have to create an idea and choose to follow it.

Innovation is an "option" and therefore easily blocked. This was an objective reason for having a patent system in the first place (whether it has succeeded in that is a different question all together).

You cannot even argue software patents are the most efficient enablers of innovation since some of the most innovative and useful software known to exist either easily predates software patents or were explicitly made available for free (many even while software patentability was available) and never encumbered at any point.

TL;DR. It is only a question property and rights if a society deems it. It does not have to be this way. As easily evidenced by lack of software or business process patents for most of the rest of the world...
The problem with this is that, unlike traditional Googlebombing which relies on lots of links to a certain page, "Romanians are smart" will quickly drop off the search suggestions as soon as this campaign loses popularity. Gaming search suggestions requires constant upkeep effort.
Identity Management and SSO are two area that once one can install them successfully, that's pretty much mark the point of no return :D.

Consultants love these kind of projects!
Yeah ScottH has done a great job. ScottG hired him, plus a bunch of other community advocates over the past few years. Some have since moved on, but MS really did a great job of listening to devs who build on MS platforms.
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Is there any solution can

1) keep anonymous for both payer and receiver

AND

2) takes care of PCI compliance also?

Thanks a lot!
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Here's a graph of the S&P, YTD: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#chart...
Does anyone know exactly why it's illegal to take down Sality?
As Sephr notes above, I believe AdBlock Plus fully blocks resource loading in Chrome with the WebRequest API.

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/webRequest.ht...

Does anyone know why it fails here then? It looks like there might be some other issues with the dev version, so maybe the new method of blocking just hasn't moved into the full version of ABP for Chrome yet?
If I were to seriously analyze every EULA or ToS I've agreed to, I would never use anything.

Like the legal system in a third-world country, we're expected to intuit the right and wrong ways to act and hope for the best.
"People don't argue that patents are good for consumers because they aren't. People argue about if they're good for inventors and technical progress"

And the point of technical progress is to benefit the public (i.e. consumers) in the long run. So it all comes down to that.

The issue is in the implementation and outcomes. As you say, do inventors only innovate+share when provided with the monetary benefit of a patent? It would probably depend on the field, but I suspect innovation would still occur even with shorter patent protections for software design.
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Thanks! I'll definitely keep this in mind when I need it. Your startup is a awesome blend of design, technology, and craftsmanship. Best of luck.
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Is this really a problem though? It would seem "Romanians are ___" is a rare search term as it is--the negative terms are likely old and low-frequency, especially in comparison to this recent surge in positive queries.
Healthcare isn't a right. End of story.
What keeps you going?
For all of you out there who are working on start ups, or have, be they successful or not, how do you get over those humps where you just want to throw in the towel or move on to another project? I am not in this particular slump at the moment, in fact quite the opposite, I am more energized and optimistic than ever, but I have been a few times, and worked through it. What are your personal strategies that help you move through a demoralizing/demotivating period in your pursuit?

This is an open ended, "what makes you tick" question, just to get some interesting pov, not an invitation for negative jackassery.
Yes. To put it bluntly, when I see features priced that way it looks like artificial price inflation to get more money. Especially in software that already has a purchase price.
The "takedown" technique presented works by exploiting the botnet's functionality to have all the machines remove themselves from the botnet - actually carrying out the removal requires you to hack into at least one third-party server, and it would probably count as gaining unauthorized access to each of the machines in the botnet as well.
I'm using the other Adblock extension. Does this affect it?
ah, found the blog :)
What an awesome idea to tile your floor with the city map in wood veneers. I wonder how durable it would be.
the c&c servers are sites hacked by the owners of the botnet. you would have to hack them yourself and upload your own payload to take down peers
Sounds like the author figured out a SQL injection vulnerability in the website the bot downloads logos from, and a way to give the removal tool as the image in a way that infects Sality itself. This would distribute the removal tool very quickly. The hacking of the website seems to be the legal issue here.