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> If their works were able to be lent to anyone and everyone in the world they wanted higher prices for their books to be charged, just like what libraries have to pay since they can also lend to anyone off of the street.

1. They don't.

2. I don't either, I can lend physical books to whoever I damn please even in an other country if I want, and the author won't get any more direct money out of that.

3. Hell, companies can buy a book for all employees to read, they're not charged more because they're companies.
The hypocrisy of your posts is almost overwhelming.

That said, my original constructive criticism got me hellbanned (as happens to nearly all people who post sentiment that could be construed as anti-libertarian), whereas your idiotic and unaware hypocrisy got you nothing.

Unshocking, given the faggotry of you and this site.
Thanks for reminding me I have an expiring domain to transfer away from them!
When startup don't work out. pt 2
More discussions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4382214
I changed as soon as I could. Ads don't bother me as I have Adblock Plus installed, and I hate missing out on new features.
Yea. A good workplace is one in which calling "that one is my fault" is a natural part of your work flow and doesn't cost you points (unless you become to frequent).
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Title should be "Everything you know about CSS specificity is wrong (again)".

Either that, or all I apparently ever knew about CSS was a practical but not precisely accurate base ten points system.
>Who are you to tell any person that they're misprioritizing their personal information and the value of privacy?

As soon as someone puts their thoughts out on the internet for everyone to read, they become valid targets for critical discussion. So in short, "I am" just like any other commenter on any other blog. Who are you to, with such righteous indignation, tell me what I can and cannot talk about?

>You can't wrap your head around why someone would not wish to share these things and offer an argument from ignorance

Ah, stop. I said it was getting old. Nothing more. There was no "argument" here. Exasperation, not an attempt to convince anyone. Besides, usually you don't convince people of anything by telling them you're sick of hearing their opinion.

I am quite willing to be convinced though - I just haven't had anyone tell me why I should care that advertisers target me. At least, not in any way that wasn't based squarely on a slippery slope fallacy straight into a dystopian future that wouldn't look out of place in a Stephenson novel.

So please, enlighten me. I am genuinely curious why this seems to bug so many people so deeply.
"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it."

Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.
Oh, the rent-seeking. What are taxi medallions for if not graft and log-rolling?
That video should be available within a few weeks, so stay tuned.

Also, Anthony Molinaro from OpenX will be speaking at RICON, the distributed systems developer conference we're hosting i October. Tickets are still available :)

http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/
This is massively badass. I think this may be the best tool out there for learning programming.

One issue I am having here in Chrome in Ubuntu on my computer is that some of the videos are giving me minor playback problems where some visual features are not visible. For example, in the intro to drawing tutorial the rectangle seems to turn into a line because three of the sides are not visible. This is probably just what I get for using Linux though.

Anyway, I was wondering: have Mr. Khan and the rest of them put any thought into how the new interactive programming environment might be applied to learning math or other concepts taught by Khan Academy besides Computer Science? Like specifically taking some of the math or other lessons and presenting applications to tweak that would demonstrate those concepts. Maybe lessons in those other areas could sometimes include a link to a programming experiment.

Also, other question: are there any plans to try to cover a broader range of computer science or maybe even software engineering topics, for example things like Objects/Classes, components, unit testing, QA, feedback loops in general or for example between the developers/analysts and the users or between the developer and his test suite?
Yes, it's great to be able to attract a lot of consumer attention by telling a good story -- the "United Breaks Guitars" guy certainly proved that! There is an even better option that I would be fascinated to hear whether this blogger used: the Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement Airline Service Complaint form, or the "DoT complaint", http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/problems.htm.

Domestic airlines treat statistics about these complaints as a core KPI. As a result, filing a DoT complaint has a few distinct advantages over just writing a blog post and hoping it catches on: (1) it guarantees you a response from a senior executive, (2) you can present the facts exactly the way you want (something this blog post complains was impossible when asking a customer service rep to file an internal complaint), (3) aggregate statistics about DoT complaints become public record and can help other people make informed decisions about where to spend their travel money.

In my experience, when you file one of these forms, you get a response within a week from a senior executive in Houston who has read your entire complaint, has investigated the problem, and is empowered to fix it.

It's good for other consumers to file one of these complaints, in addition to writing a blog post, because the aggregate information the DoT publishes can help consumers make better decisions. We actually have data to show that this person's horrible experience was not an isolated incident of a few misbehaving staff who did not represent the company; instead, the data suggest a pattern of increasingly scary service delivery failures. In the first half of 2012, United's DoT complaint numbers doubled year-over-year, according to the DoT's latest Air Travel Consumer Report. (See discussion at e.g. http://consumerist.com/2012/08/united-airlines-now-responsib...).

To loop things back around: the "United lost a ten-year-old" headline would be totally unnecessary in a DoT complaint, because it would rapidly reach an expert who understood the real problem and knew how to fix it.
>"Over time, FundersClub plans to operate liquidity services for private companies, including employee liquidity program management for private companies, and eventually a trading platform for private companies that wish to provide ongoing private market liquidity to their shareholders."

These guys are in it for the long haul, so I hope they have some serious backing. I'm talking like years and years.

But, comments here are right, this isn't crowdfunding. This is just access to YC companies by proxy.
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Including the word "religion" and asserting a position on it via gross generalization is two things. Going through the thread it is just a shame to find you repeat the same mantra (no pun intended) over and over in the every comment without providing a substantial source or proof to back it up. In other words just like a typical discussion you find over at r/atheism.
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It is entertaining to me that you would presume Facebook doesn't "have a right" to change the way your profile looks.

This reminds me of when SearchKing sued google because they position on SERP's dropped. At some point, people forget that there are multinational corporations behind these massive service. They have no obligation to delight you, or remain consistent in appearance/functionality.
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Sorry about the edits. And yes, I was trying to underscore the difference between patrons and customers. There is a profound distinction between them, just as there is a profound difference between a commercial business and an organized charity, and they relationships they have to the people who give them money.

What bothered me so much about the original comment is that the poster was so sloppy about this distinction. He'd treat the exchange like it was charity when that suited him, turn around and demand the very different regard that accrues to a customer when that became preferable, only to switch the frame back to a charity when that was most beneficial to him. It had a slipperiness that is transparently self-serving and one-sided. The guy, quite frankly, comes across like a weasel.

I'm not saying that people don't make money in the current environment, or that many people who would never have had opportunities in a more closed system aren't finding ways to do really great work now, or that ultimately, things can't work out for the best for artists and audiences alike. I'm just saying that this guy, in particular, has a problem with his ethics.

If you recognize that you're a patron, be sensitive to the serious inequality that comes with that status, and aware of the special deference to artists that is required to maintain a modicum of balance. And if you see yourself as a mere customer, then have the decency to behave like one, and actually pay. Every time. Not just if and when you happen to feel like it. But don't cherry pick the best of both - the status of one and the detachment of the other - while dodging the kind of clear definition that leves you with anything less than the upper hand at all times, because that's just being a dick.
FWIW "www.cloudflare-watch.org" currently resolves to an IP address used with a DSL connection (adsl----.dsl.snantx.swbell.net).
I know Google+'s user stats can be misleading because gmail users are forced into Google+ accounts, but is there something similar going on with Outlook.com accounts? 10 million people in 14 days is pretty impressive.
This sounds like a great way for big employers to require what would otherwise have been on-the-job training be completed in advance of even applying. Which is undoubtedly fantastic for employers, but probably less so for the unemployed.
Right, because the concerns we have today primarily is high-performance uniprocessor computing. Or maybe not. Does it seem to anyone else that almost all of the people creating new languages lately are generally tackling the wrong problems?
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Actually, there have been numerous cases where Ryanair has decided to not cover expenses for cancelled or delayed flights, something they are required by EU law to do. (You'll find posters stating those rights put up by the aviation authorities at most airports, and most other airlines abide by them.)

Many of the fees and extra charges can't be avoided (like an internet booking fee and credit card fee) yet they're usually not included in the advertised price.

And many of the extra charges (like if you forget to print your boarding pass but have it on an iPad) seems almost designed solely to get more money out of people.
> There's always plenty of room for improvement - in your code, in your abilities, in you.

I just saw an amazing movie about a man that embodies this philosophy: "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"[1]. This man's dedication to further mastering his craft is unparalleled. Even though he is widely regarded as the best Sushi chef in the world, he is still singularly focused on becoming better every day.

I highly recommend watching - it's very inspiring.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi
Other than the cost of execution, how can you argue that more bandwidth is bad?
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> Further, wet lab protocols are subjective enough that I'd imagine most labs would ignore a negative result as having been performed incorrectly.

That kind of illustrates the usefulness of replication! If the effect is so finicky that it cannot even be replicated in another lab, in what sense is that result interesting, useful, - or even real?
Essentially I want a system where the configuration files are generally transparently editable by non-programmers. Most of the information is simple configuration information.

Lua, Javascript, VBA and other such languages might be called "configuration languages" but they're really object-automation languages. They allow a user to write standard-imperative-programming macros which address the underlying objects of a given system. They don't provide simple, clean facilities for just assigning default values to objects.

And what I have my configuration doing aside from assign default value is more-or-less filtering into and put, specifying tree-transformation commands for various inputs and output using one big, recursive loop and a bit of if-else logic. Basically, I'm producing a system which can take multiple web API sources and have them look like a single source. I began using XSLT but when I started having to also transform json, having my own transform system looked just as easy as transforming json to XSLT and then further adapting XSLT for my purposes.

I could use json or XML for my underlying data storage format but it is too verbose for easy human readability so instead I use simple ini format with just a bit of syntax added and it works quite well.
Two tickets were apparently issued:

(i) For operating an unlicensed livery service

(ii) For using a non-approved mechanism for metering the ride

The C&D at issue here covers (ii). At its heart, the complaint is that Boston has standardized on a way of metering passengers, and Uber has replaced that standard with GPS. Presumably, cab drivers in Boston could not simply choose to replace their meters with GPS monitors, and thus, says Cambridge, neither should Uber.

(I might be wrong, that's just my read of the complaint).

I'm torn. Uber is pretty neat. Some (maybe most) of cab regulation is rent seeking. But not all of it is. Municipalities should find a way to make Uber lawful, but I'm not sure Uber should be able to make that happen by fiat.
Din't think it was a real product, thought it was something they rigged up for the show. Thanks for the link.
You know, my mistake -- I somehow just skipped over the last line of your paragraph ("it's scary to me...").

In that way, I certainly see what you're saying. It'll be interesting to see what new problems emerge if this continues as a paradigm for teaching how to program.
Since you got a non retina MBP you can upgrade your storage to a SSD and at a discount.
If the headline were not so ridiculously conceited, I would agree with you entirely.
Traffic and pricing control...
> I'm having the same problem with my cofounder. He refuses to work via phone calls--it has to be email only.

he wants to have in written everything you say so he has stuff on you. in other words, he doesn't trust you. otherwise, a follow up email with notes about phonecall agreements would be more than enough.
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"No one but the recipient will ever be able to access your files."

Why can I directly access and download the file shown in the demo video? Why is it transferred in the clear via HTTP?
http://www.sendrail.com/file/516885724/ResumeTemplate.docx

Just wondering why there isn't some type of authentication/authorization going one. i.e. If your delivery method is to a Facebook friend, why not require authenticating them to Facebook before granting access to the file?

Is the only security in place knowing a 9-digit number + filename?
I have a workfit-S at home and at work.

http://www.amazon.com/WorkFit-S-Single-HD-Sit-Stand-Worstati...

Cheaper than the kangaroo, fully adjustable, and the weight limit will sustain a 30" monitor or a 27" imac.
Strongly typed languages aren't good introductory languages, but that doesn't mean any language that isn't strongly types is a good introductory language.
So the lenders wanted protection.

They are now 100% guaranteed to make money by lending it to uninformed children.

Crazy.
I feel minimal performance hit is an understatement. Assuming that screen captures are taken at a much lower frame rate, there's still disk write operations involved and writing 15x per sec to disk is definitely not minimal.
I had a similar experience with a programmer Dad, so you're not alone.
That is really incredible work! I bet Codecademy is happy they already received their $10m round...
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These are good entrepreneurs and programmers, and they are using great tools, but I don't think they are qualified to say they are redefining teaching basic Computer Science.

Interactive platforms and approaches have been constantly introduced by CS educators to teach introductory programming. Educators are very aware of the value of interactivity and reactivity in teaching and learning. The only new thing here is the utility of cool new tools equipped with latest web-based technologies. Further, their approach is limited to programming, which is a large part but not the only approach to Introductory Computer Science. For example, they can't touch approaches such at MIT or Rice (I think), among others, which employ cool physical robots to teach coding, thinking, programming and robotics.

So this is not so much redefining, but rather a little enhancing CS education with cool tools.
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Looks like they developed it behind closed doors without asking a single person.
I don't think he should delete his comment. It's helpful to see it explained in more detail from other contributors.
13rules, are you getting 10 results on a page or 100? I can't see if there are more than 10 or see the url. The problem is only happening when displaying more than 10 search results on a page.
In short, ANI seeks to break out of the shackles of imperative programming -- a stale paradigm which for four decades has produced hundreds of clones of the same fundamental feature set, none of which offer intuitive hands-off concurrency, and differing only in what lengths they go to to sugar-coat the embarrassing truth that they're all just increasingly high-level assemblers at heart;

Haha. The entire point of programming is to tell the hardware what to do. Any programming language that is not 'high-level assembly' has severe leaky-abstraction problems. The reason C and C++ still enjoy so much success despite limited syntax is that they stay true to the hardware and don't force another layer of abstraction on you.
Agree that it doesn't limit the temperature, although it makes the thermodynamics / statistical physics more complicated. You can certainly keep pumping more and more energy into the system even if the particles' mean velocity approaches c.

And yes, these are well above biologically-friendly temperatures. :)
I don't see mention of GMail integration on the site, and when I click "Get Started" or "My Files" it takes me to Facebook. So I assume then that Facebook is required, and gmail contact integration is in addition to Facebook contacts. Is that right?
This article was not about Surface but the OS that other OEMs will use to build their tablets/laptops. So if there was price coming, it would come from the OEMs and not Microsoft.
I don't think being a startup should grant you immunity from the law or absolve the requirement to follow local regulations and licensing statutes. Lawyers, doctors, electricians they all have to follow the law too.

Why is Uber a special case?
I have been long time user of 1and1 for domains. Their initial product offering is always sweet (free, 1$ domains) etc. Their renew rates are not bad as well.

But the place where I hated them most was NS change propogation, it took 24 hours to get that done.

Also their admin panel is awfully slow.

If you guys don't already know it, here are some of the links to help

To transfer/cancel domains you must go through : http://cancel.1and1.com

Admin: http://admin.1and1.com
Direct links for downloading Mac OS X versions (*.dmg)

JRE: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u6-b24/jre-7u6-...

JDK: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u6-b24/jdk-7u6-...
I think that pretty much sums it up correctly. The City of Boston placed a sting operation on one of the Uber drivers in the issuance of ticket (i), where once they saw the driver had used an unauthorized meter, they made him pull over where a police officer was already waiting.

It's unfortunate that Boston has issued a cease and desist on the service though. I live in Boston, and Uber is great as it's almost impossible to find a cab at 4:00 in the morning after you work late, not to mention the fact that waiting around for one in sketchy neighborhoods is dangerous.
poe's law?

In all seriousness though. That is kind of the correct answer to the parent. There's kind of this weird attachment to a whole bunch of weird 'best practices' in the design front. Many of them conflicting, many of them not well thought out. (There are some good ones coming out).

It's similar to twitter's bootstrap. Designers think it's horrible, if you believe the kind of blog with grey text on a grey background. But I can't believe people would recommend against it when they've seen the alternative.
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"I can't recall the last time in 15 years that I thought "this code has too many comments!""

I've thought that every time I see a source file that contains an automatically generated header built from the revision history.
Those "learn to code" guides are the equivalent of "learn how to take care of your car" that teach you how to change the oil. It's enough for a casual user who wants to automate some repetitive tasks or customize his blog. It's definitively not enough if you want to be serious about the craft and become a mechanic/build real software.
https://www.open.ac.uk/ offers a "Computing and IT" degree and mathematics degrees, which I believe you can study from outside the UK. I'm not sure how much CS there is in them, though.

stonnyfrogs (hellbanned) suggested:

http://www.umuc.edu/
I (really) wonder how many of these 10 million share my use case -

I haven't used my hotmail email since gmail came out. But it is still active as I use it to 'try out' all these MS services when they come out. The day Outlook.com was released, I quickly logged in, checked it out, shared the news with some friends, logged out. Haven't logged back in since then (and don't plan to)
the Division of Standards is claiming that until the National Institute of Standards and Technology has guidelines in place for GPS location technology

Is not as though GPS is some brand new thing that they have never heard of before. This whole tone of this makes me think of Central Services from the movie 'Brazil'. Uber should ask the Division of Standards for a 27b/6, just to keep things official.
Why isn't there a link to Coco[1]? Or its Kickstarter page[2]?

[1]: http://cococontroller.com/games/

[2]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/games/the-coco-controlle...
The idea that static typing is better than any other tool for preventing bugs is a contentious dogma, not essentially different from iPhone vs. Android flame wars - just more intellectualized.

Don't flatter yourself that your position on a matter of hotly-argued opinion is technical and that other positions are not technical.
128 bit GUIDs give pairs of 256 bits -- too large to mount an efficient brute force.
FYI: So does Citicards.
Get a kitchen island. You can hack away during the day and dine at night.
HN has been doing that to a lot of people as well, myself included.