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My trust with nvd3 pretty much ended when they pulled their finance part of the library out few months ago without any notice. That tells me they are capable of doing it again in the future.

EDIT: Now that I thought about this more, since they pull out the finance part of the library before, it is very likely that they _did_ know about the library being open sourced. Makes it much harder to believable the story.
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Appart from the fact that the analogy isn't nice, you seem to misunderstand the process of haggeling. I personnaly don't like to haggle or people who try to haggle with me just for the sake of efficiency. But in some places or with some people haggeling it is a must do if you don't want to end the day as a chikken without feathers. In north Africa and Middle Est it is common practice. So in south of France where many north Africans are living, haggling is an expected practice when making deals from person to person. If you are not doing this, then you are considered to be an idiot.
Don't VPNs use public-key authentication like one can do with SSH? If they do, it's immune to MITM attacks.
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The problem discussed here isn't the use of CSS prefixed properties -- it's the use of ONLY CSS prefixed properties. Include prefixed properties and the official properties and when browsers drop the prefixes everyone is happy.

Well, unless their initial implementation was non-standard. But even if that is the case, if you don't update your CSS, including the non-prefixed property won't hurt your design more than leaving it out will.
Was monitoring election fraud part of this project?

In 2004, Bush had ties to Diebold's CEO Walden W. O'Dell, and there was evidence of voting fraud in Ohio -- the exit polls weren't matching the results (http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio...). Later it was confirmed that Diebold voting machines could be hacked remotely (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045086). A programmer even admitted to being directed to create a software "prototype" that could rig the machines (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs).

This time around one of Romney's companies had ties to the company that owns the Hart Intercivic voting machines used in Ohio and Colorado, and there were reports of potential fraud from installing uncertified software patches on the machines (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/mia-in-voting-machi...).

Eric Schmidt is on the Obama technology team, and Google Ideas creates software for monitoring election fraud (http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/03/the-20-most-innovative-peop...). I'd be curious to know how the campaign monitored election fraud and what type of countermeasures were put in place.

Karl Rove's election-night meltdown shows he was clearly shocked Romney didn't win Ohio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSiVhJq4tos).
Why the hell doers everyone think a libertarian government would be pushing the ideology to the extreme? It doesn't happen with the other two parties, and it definitely wouldn't happen with libertarians at the helm.

They would compromise because it's just impossible to do otherwise.

IMO, they have a lot of great ideas that Reps and Dems don't even consider (which is why they probably label Libs "crazy").
It's highly questionable whether a company has the legal authority to retroactively revoke an open source license.

The legal doctrine of promissory estoppel is generally considered to protect open source licensees. If you license something for free, and people come to rely on that free licensing, they generally have a right to keep using it, even if you change your mind and try to revoke it later. You can, however, stop licensing the software to new parties.

Novus seems to be trying to get around this by claiming that the license was never valid to begin with, because it was issued by a rogue employee. However, I would argue that the doctrine of apparent authority applies here. That is, to a potential licensee, there was no reason to believe that the open source licensing was anything but company-sanctioned. (The rules for apparent authority are actually a bit more nuanced than that, but the main point is the same.) Thus, even if the employee did indeed act without authorization, I think Novus would still be bound by the license.

Novus seems to be on shaky legal ground, and I find its cease-and-desist questionable. Unfortunately, it would appear that the recipients of the cease-and-desist opted to comply rather than risk a fight. So the scary thing is not that companies can arbitrarily revoke an open source license--in fact, they can't. Rather, it's that a letter containing vague legal threats can have such a strong chilling effect.
> Ron Paul has been, in most policy dimensions

Except, of course, when it comes to reproductive rights. In that instance, he almost immediately repudiates most voters who possess two X chromosomes.
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Fairly certain it was our video. We didn't see the specifics of what they want until it was too late.

our video was scripted and cheesy.. Wasn't genuine. There was also some editing done. We also didn't mention our product or vision at all... We had a separate demo video for that as its an iOS app ( which wasn't even watched).

I'm guess our team video pretty much turned them off, and they didn't even bother with the demo. Which is a shame as we feel ( and have been told) we are doing something really disruptive. Oh well, we will still move forward and depending on where we are in development there is always next time.
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I don't know the back story behind this, but I just want to say that this is by far the most respectful and reasonably-worded takedown request I've ever seen.
There are numerous differences between Safari and Chrome. The two have diverged quite a bit even if they are both technically 'webkit'.
You can still use Webkit without requiring your browser to be bleeding edge. You can still update at the same glacial pace that IE has updated by using Webkit, shaking all the bugs out of it, and then releasing it.

There is no requirement that it be exactly like Chrome. Look at Safari on OS X, that Webkit engine is not the same one that goes into Chrome. By the time that Safari is released Chrome is already several Webkit versions ahead.
I was able to gather the following links which may be interesting:

* IRC log of W3's meeting, where Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft bring up the possibility of being forced to support -webkit prefixes: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0313.h...

* Article on Opera and -webkit prefix adoption: http://www.netmagazine.com/news/opera-confirms-webkit-prefix...

* Mozilla's analysis of -webkit usage on the web: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708406 There's a lot of data there. Raw data is here: https://bug708406.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=601... . Some processed data in a spreadsheet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=599084 . You may want to view others as well.

I haven't personally looked for sites that do this, but I use Firefox and have a Windows Phone, and in both cases I have found that I've ran into sites that were either Chrome only or simply looked terrible in my browser, not because of technical limitations, but because the developers had really only tested on Chrome. In some cases, I've ended up spoofing Chrome's UA in Firefox and found that sites still worked.
Thanks for bringing this up. The present trend of prefixing everything with "full disclosure" seems to me to misunderstand the whole issue, and dilutes the legitimate cases where disclosure is needed.
Charter school vouchers are an inflated ideal; what percentage of charter schools provide higher quality (and, in states where the science pedigree of the curriculum is in question, a more truthful) education?

Don't spout rhetoric; provide sources. If my recollections are accurate, more charter schools fail at this than succeed.
I am very concerned that due to github relying on private repositories for revenue; it has been all too eager to comply with this very legally questionable take down request. Do we need an "open" github; that is truly on the side of open source software?
>What about countries that don't allow class action lawsuits?

Maybe you should take issue with those countries' laws rather than anarcho-libertarian law.

>What if the will happens to be there but the country just can't afford to pay for the damages it caused?

Sometimes we can be faced with a situation where a destitute criminal causes more damage than he will ever be able to repay. Insurance is a possibility in protecting victims faced with such a circumstance. I am not sure what else you think we could do though, or how this is supposed to be a valid objection to anything I've said, even granting for the sake of argument that climate change can be directly attributed to certain perpetrators.

Hold on a second though Al Gore. I am not so much a climate change denier as a believer in science. For any model in the natural sciences to have validity, that model needs to be able to predict. As much as it is repeated that the current science is beyond questioning, climate change scientists still lack a single accepted model which is able to predict anything.

If you had one then we might be able to attribute a certain amount of damage to one individual from their seaside home being washed out to myriad CO2 emitters. Certainly this would be a massive clusterfuck if you actually had valid science, way more than a region would have to deal with sorting out the horrible situation with typical pollution governments have caused, but I can't give perfect answers on how people might sort this hypothetical out.
Here's a million: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip
Turkish, living in Istanbul here. I absolutely hate the bargaining culture. Not so much in the blood after all :)
It was sort of mentioned. Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft all brought up that as being something they may be "pressured into" doing.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0313.h...

"Discussed problem of WebKit monopoly on mobile and the consequent pressure for other engines to implement -webkit- properties."

For IE on WP7, Microsoft originally planned to support -webkit-text-size-adjust: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/archive/2010/05/10/javascri... , but later decided not to.
Quite impressed with this; only thing 'wrong' with it is that the gray/black color should erase rather than add. Thanks for the source link Void_.

I do a fair bit of generative music stuff, so I'm impressed with that part as much as the pretty colors: http://new.weavesilk.com/?czw6
Probably because they - or their bosses - might actually know how probable is finding any explosive there. 99.99999% of what they confiscate is water bottles and nail clippers. Who needs wells for that?

Actually, last time I flew (last month) I forgot a bottle of water in my carry-on luggage twice (I always have some water with me, so unless I remember to take it out it's usually there) and unlike previous times, nobody cared. I think most of the TSA workers know exactly what they are doing.
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That's nothing compared to when one of the issuing banks @replied to the person doing it, telling them to remember to set up online account access.

Yes, I'm serious.
Please no. There are already numerous free options for hosting your own git repos, we don't need another.
It would be great if you could easily set the picture as your desktop background.
Works really good on the Android browser where things like this usually lag out (Galaxy S3). Smooth.
> I do not even how you can call paper dollar a currency. You cannot use something as a currency if [...]

Currency is based entirely on concensus. Anything (ivory, sheep, even bits of paper) could be currency; the only requirement is that there are people willing to use it as a basis for trade. In other words, it doesn't really matter if you don't believe in paper currency as long as everyone else does.
So sub "using airport WiFi" with "using airport without a public-key encrypted VPN" or "using airport WiFi with a public key encrypted VPN, but from a new device were the key isn't listed yet". The point is, people make mistakes.
What degree that might that be anyway? Master of Arts of Genital Touching? Bachelor of Beeping Stick Sciences? I don't think there's any degree that adds anything to what TSA is doing.
You'll probably like Borderlands: http://www.borderlands-granular.com/app/

I'm a hardware guy, but that tempts me to pick up an iPad.
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Should a single man really have to subsidize care for a woman with breast cancer, or a six year old with an inoperable brain tumor?

Shut the fuck up. Healthcare choices are to the individual and the doctor, not to the insurer or the government.

If you don't want to subsidize health, go live in Somolia.
A lot of the "privatization" today is no-bid contracts given out to corporatist entities. Nothing like today's situation would exist in a libertarian society, also because so many prisoners are drug offenders. Unfortunately this scan is kind of bad, but this is an excellent book on various topics on privatization: http://www.scribd.com/doc/64560944/Benson-1990-the-Enterpris...
previously on HN, the non-new url

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089615

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101422
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All I get is a parked domain on gravitypaint.com
Probably referring to you calling the US health care system free market...
The american patriot missiles from the first gulf war were facing cold-war era Russian SCUD's. Their success rate was rather low. Most of what the Palestinian militants are launching are Katyusha class rockets that are basically the same design as Russia was using in WWII (Germany had far better designs even then). These are much more primitive than SCUD's. The Iron Dome also has the benefit of twenty years of technological progress to draw upon vs the Patriots. A higher success rate here should not come as a surprise.

What is interesting is how little we hear about this system from the media. While it's probably a great thing to drum up PR about domestically, it probably isn't in Israel's interests for this system to be highly publicized in foreign media since it makes Israel's response to a rather toothless rocket threat look disproportionate.
Eh. Most, though not all, of those were published in the 80s. And it's shitty, but it was a long time ago. I'm honestly much more disconcerted by RP's shifty treatment of them without adequately apologizing and taking responsibility for them.

People f'up sometimes. A lot, even. If I'm willing to give Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton a break for Jew-bashing in the 80s and GWB a break for driving drunk and Romney a break for high school bullying, I can't see a reason not to give Ron Paul one too.

If, of course, he were willing to own up to making a mistake...
> "if cron fails completely"

How often does this happen, and why? If this problem is inherent to cron, are there alternatives that are [possibly] better suited to server work?
How you reached this conclusion? Is there any limit of what one person is allowed to be worried about and I was unlucky to get only one worry subject allotted to me?

It is fascinating how people may misconstrue the plainest topics to turn them into something completely different. The subject of Fed creating the money has very little to do with current topic, and I did not express any indication that I somehow not worried about it (if you want to know so badly, yes, I am worried, very much, are you happy now?). However both nature of this problem and its causes are completely different from the topic at hand - and I specifically only compared bitcoin to gold and not paper money to avoid any temptation to this completely irrelevant turn. Of course, I was destined to fail.
That's true, but usually being a technical leader of a large project implies managing the people on it, if only because it's good for people to have managers that actually know what their day-to-day accomplishments are. I do know of exceptions. There are a few people who get to staff and even beyond without managing people, but I've heard it's very hard and usually involves TLing a project of the scope of Google Instant (and then you frequently get made a manager afterwards, unless you really strenuously object).

TLing is a completely different skillset from engineering anyway - it's much more interrupt-driven, people-focused, and basically involves being a mentor, teacher, and shit umbrella. When I've TLed projects, I usually find myself spending about 30% of my time coding and 70% communicating with other departments, debugging obscure bugs, managing up, and making sure all the critical parts are covered. Coworkers that are staff+ and TL larger projects usually find it's 0% coding and 100% dealing with politics & coordination.
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> People aren't stupid; they'd notice the contamination and act.

Is this behavior guaranteed, and would the public necessarily choose to stay informed? Free markets are dependent on rational, informed actors; humans are neither rational nor informed 100% of the time. Some other thing would have to step in (an organization, a government, whatever) at some point.

> Your argument implies a lack of faith in a single person or a small group of people to effect change

If I owned the polluting company, I would likely have much more power than the poor sap I'm poisoning. Money seems to speak louder than actual words. Compared to some tycoon, a normal person is basically insignificant and is much less likely to cause any change.

> Do you believe that only government has the ability to keep our water clean?

I don't know what the right answer is, but to put it bluntly, your approach seems like a deeply flawed one to me.
I blame Wall Street. Endless growth ($), forever.

I like the open web you allude to. However, bills gotta get paid.
Are you sure? How do you know it is not an image processing/edge detection algorithm running? If they were indeed constructing a 3d-model, I'd be interested in seeing it, even if it is a low-poly approximation...
Once they can reasonably prove that is was done without authorization, could you personally sue the rogue employee for damages, I wonder?
The entire Internet is a MiTM. SSL protects against such an adversary (unless you click your browser's ignore button when given the popup).
fwiw, very hard for me too (I am astygmatic), at +1 zoom it's better
Yea, that's not a bad idea. But who knows what their actual revenue or capital situation is. Just like Facebook, transparency is an issue.

I participate in these services, but I know full well whatever I post is market research.
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Hi everyone,

We have created an iPad app that is pretty unique.. There are other tools like this on the desktop, but as far as we are aware we are the first to do this on the iPad.

But how secretive should we be? We a still about 4-5 months away from launching.

Up until recently we haven't told anyone what we are doing.

We attended some local conferences and showed off what we are up to and got some great feedback. But these are really small events with only a few hundred visitors.

So with Macworld coming up, we are thinking if it is worth spending the money to get a booth in the app section if we are still 4-5 months away from release.

At the local events we kind of felt awkward being there as every time someone would ask "awesome, now where do I get it" we would respond with sorry, check again in spring.

BUT with an event like Macworld, it may be a great way to get some press to take notice and may help with getting some publicity once we are actually ready to launch.

just like to hear some thoughts on this topic, as I am sure there have been others in similar situations.

Thanks for reading.
The typical way to fund your startup in Europe is to spend four to six months trying to find one or two gentleman of advancing age, willing to hand you EUR50k each or more. As European angels are more interested in supporting brick and mortar or revenue producing businesses than in investing in risky internet plays this is quite the challenge. US style angel group rounds are semi-nonexistent, but when Sander Nagtegaal, co-founder at Peecho, explained to us how they had pulled of a combination between crowd and angel funding, we speedily grabbed the opportunity.
Any idea when late applicants usually hear about the interview decisions?
Found this dc.js library reading the thread. Looks interesting.

http://nickqizhu.github.com/dc.js/
One approach is to use LinkedIn or similar and go friend-of-a-friend. On the downside, you could end up with a board of people who are all on the same page to the extent that they don't challenge conventional wisdom or ask the hard questions.

Why not make contact through your firm's lawyer? People will always pay attention to contact from a law firm or general counsel, and your lawyer will be able to give you some good advice on appropriate compensation, obligations, conflicts of interest etc. etc.
Wow. So, I'm one of the least PC people you'll meet, and hoped that upon clicking through I'd be proved correct that the link was benign, in good jest, and conference safe. AYFKM? Big surprise OP is working for a daily deals company and not for real tech.
I spent many years working in shopping malls, and while I was there I learned a few fun things about the kiosk folks. It's apparently really common for them to only come to the US for the last few months of the year, set up the kiosks in malls, make a bunch of money, and then go back home. I'm not sure why, but Israel seemed to be a really common country of origin. The mall management in the malls I worked in were okay with the aggressive sales tactics (including following after people) from the kiosk people because they made so much money for the mall itself.

The best way I learned to deal with the kiosk people was to just not make eye contact and keep walking if they said anything to me. Rude, but effective.
It's kind of funny you mention that, because RP supporters literally kept track of people who spoke ill of their prophet. There was a giant controversy on reddit about them spamming every major sub with off-topic political garbage and manipulating the vote system.
They could provide trident so corporations can safely live in IE6 world until they die or grow up and webkit by the default for rest of the users.
I am sorry, but what am I missing - where is the interaction? I can't interact with the art I create. What is the difference between this and Photoshop (or any other image editor for example) except for it being browser based and playing some sounds in the background?

It is very well done, and what you can make with it is very impressive. Good work!
NVD3 leaked memory terribly. For us creating and removing a small number of charts quickly ate memory in the tens of megabytes. While the code was readable, it was not a very efficiently written library. I also took issue with how it used a global shared function to throttle chart generation. This feature did not seem to work very well but I did not spend much time with it once I saw the memory footprint.

NVD3 is one of many chart libraries that placed more emphasis on design than robustness. Having gone through many charts I wonder if any of these developers have heard of the Profiles tab on web inspector.

Something like NVD3 can be used on a static page that isn't live updated for a short time. But a long living application will have problems.

In other words don't worry. NVD3 wasn't very good. Go look at the d3 basic chart examples on the d3 example's site. It is not hard to build graphs with d3. You don't need NVD3.

Having said this, I thought the NVD3 editor was pretty cool. Better than the actual library.
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