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I disagree. If some guy can just swoop in with more cash and beat you then you deserve it. Using your argument, no startup would have a chance against Google or Oracle because they have more cash and more resources.

On the same note, more cash != success and that goes for startups. It is all down to execution. If you are not executing, don't have market awareness, and your engineering is not up to snuff then you do not deserve to survive in the marketplace. You should not use draconian laws to offset your mis-execution.
Two weeks ago, I wandered into an Office Depot that was having a moving sale, and just about everything in the store was 50% off. The computers and most of the electronics were only 10-20% off, with one major exception: graphing calculators. They had about 30 Texas Instruments graphing calculators of all kinds from 40-50% off.

I bought them all, 30 in total, and started selling them on Amazon and Ebay, undercutting everyone by a few dollars.

I just shipped the last two off yesterday, and after shipping costs and selling fees, I made just over $1,000.

It's not something that you can do any time, but going-out-of-business sales aren't that uncommon, and suffice to say that I will be on the look out for them from now on.
My parents weren't in IT either. I just went through high school like any other kid. I only decided in the last minute to then go to university to actually study maths.

Sure, it would have been nicer to be surrounded by math people, but I think you overstate the challenge you face just because your parents were not in IT.

It is normal for kids to not have a lot of confidence in all sorts of things. That is why you get to be kid for quite a while before you have to make serious decisions about your life.

Sure, it would be nicer for some things to work in another way. I am very interested in how to properly support kids. But I think you overstate the factor of race in your case.

Actually, just a theory, but I think one problem of racism is that people who are discriminated against end up attributing more of their problems to their race than what is actually true. "Boss didn't trust my opinion? Must be because I am a woman" - but perhaps she was just new at the company so the boss preferred to ask somebody he knows he can already trust. And so on...
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Ask HN: New Evernote 5 UI design - changed for worse?
Is it just me or there seems to be a number of issues with newly released Evernote 5?

1. Navigating notes/notebooks got a lot worse. If in the past user was able to click the top of the notebooks tree and see them all, now you have to click on "All notes" button that sits on top of the notes list for current notebook. I'd say having the button is nice but it shouldn't be the substitute for the root element of the tree.

2. Items in the notebooks tree got a lot smaller, making it harder to hit them.

3. Notebooks tree gets hidden by default and one's got to enable that in some menu which is not intuitive - at first it looks like they've just removed this feature altogether.

4. Navigation buttons have disappeared - I used them a lot, especially when browsing through linked notes. This is a big problem, actually.

That was just a cursory 5-minute glance.
Or if you are not located in USA I guess.
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I don't use Gentoo anymore (mostly because I don't want to break my Macbook Pro's fussy EFI bootsector nonsense) but installing it on machines a couple of times taught me more about Linux (indeed Unix-ness) than any previous activity.
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If I removed my electronics my total possessions would likely be less than that sum, though I suppose my clothes have more monetary worth than I assign them value. And then including electronics, it's shocking highly. Embarrassingly so.
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Of course one of Autonomy's biggest markets was fraud detection software and discovery services for lawsuits...
How horrifyingly random.
fwiw, I don't mind Fx's default UI at all. Thought I'd add my contrary voice in, since everyone else so far has concurred.

I think Chrome is the more awkward of the two. I used Chromium for about two years before switching back to Fx with version 4 (Fx has better extensions and comparable speed, and I like using a browser that's not so closely linked to Google's services). I have been using Linux nearly exclusively for 7+ years.

Will have to check out Australis and see if it makes me feel angry or not.
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Would be great to run another KS campaign to raise Millions to fight, countersue and beat to the punch 3DSystems. Ready?
The Declining Frequency of 'Fact' in Popular Science
I'm quite surprised that you would defend these
practices, but given that you work on 'social
games' I guess that you're just trying to
rationalize your complicity.

I agree with your comments (and up-voted them), but I see no reason to assume that this isn't fragsworth's actual opinion and instead a manifestation of a some nefarious hidden agenda.
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I found, based on my few years of experience lecturing in IT and BIS at a large university (72,000 students), was that very little emphasis was placed on building up IT as a profession based on a body of knowledge.

Really, it just isn't happening. There is a huge disconnect between best known practices, such as those you linked to, and academia.
That was a mirror of his statement that:

> "I suspect you are embellishing your story a bit to rile people up."

That works both ways.
Start thinking about getting clients. It's all that counts for serious investors. If you don't sell anything you haven't validated your business model and that means it will be hard to put a future value on what you own or what you're doing.
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The word "fact" has become unfashionable, or perhaps is no longer being overused, at least in that magazine. But your title makes it sound as though fewer facts are appearing.
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Is there actual research on this?

I can't see this massive Android flood being based largely on OS loyalty.
> it still requires building dependencies that are NOT needed by udev

No, it doesn't: make systemd-udevd
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That's simply not true for a manufacturing start-up.

To develop a physical product takes a long time, with a lot of (costly[1]) trial and error. You'll start with single items, then move on to batch production (10s-100s) on a few versions to test proof of concept. Depending on the size of the market, you may move on to mass production. For each scale increase, the start-up cost is higher, and the unit cost is lower.

If I develop a product, and in doing so show it has great potential, I've done most of the hard work. It's then easy for someone to go straight in at the top end with relatively little investment, because I've already proved the concept and sucked up the risk.

It's fair that people are able to protect their investment for something like this, otherwise it's not possible to compete against larger players.

Physical manufacturing is not the same as software.

[1] Relative to developing software, that is.
I.e. wheezy.web doesn't use middleware + tags for csrf.
It is Python3 without 2to3 crap. And I agree with Aaron Swartz that framework must handle input, output and how to work with server. Logic, templates, databases must be free to choose. Wheezy.web is a set of modules here so we must not install bunch of stuff like Django for something simple. And we can use all of it for something difficult.
You forgot to mention that this filing cabinet was not only unlocked but left unattended, near the road, day and night for months. Yes it had AT&T logo on it and opening and looking inside might be impolite. But a crime? Hardly.

Crime is leaving such a file cabinet in such manner, especially if it contains private data of your clients.
I get the impression that most of patio11's high paying clients are not in Japan (please correct me if I'm wrong Patrick).

Yes, there is freelance work in Japan, but a look at any job board will show that tech salaries are not as high as US/UK jobs. In my experience that seems to affect freelance rates.

I do a mix of US and Japanese freelance work. Personal contacts are the big one for me. Without high level Japanese you may be limited to the foreign tech community.

That community is small but it still can take some time to build up a network. Took me about two years here until I started to get a good amount of Japanese freelance work.

You may both be aware of it already, but if not, the Hacker News Tokyo Meetup is as good a place as any to start: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp

For me the biggest advantages of local work are working with people in person (I got tired of remote only work), and the untapped opportunities in web and software from the US/UK being ahead in those areas.
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The EU is not a national legislature, they do not have unlimited competence to legislate. If they take anti-monopoly action against a company which is outside their powers set out in Article 102 TFEU, the company can get it overturned. If they legislate in an area outside their powers, nation states (or an individual who's directly and individually concerned by the law) can get it overturned. This isn't theoretical - there's a lot of litigation in front of the CJEU, and things getting overturned is not unusual.
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Now that makes much more sense, thanks!
Lotus Notes is one of the worst, most agonizing pieces of software I have had to use.

When I read the headline, I had a glimpse of Hope that Lotus Notes might be discontinued, and that I may stop using that horrible, clunky, unstable, slow UI.
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Apparently it is, pending appeal?
This is awesome. I wonder if there any free open source projects that would let developers implement this sort of front-end for their own services.
The point is made. One will always find people with worse situation than us and who suffer more. Does this help ? Of course not.

Does it mean that if something hurt us we can't tell it, share it or complain about it ? It's not an easy question.

My impression is that saying that something hurts you provides some relief, especially if the people around you have some empathy or offer help. On the other hand, if the people you say it to, suffer as much or more, than it will hurt them. This is the short term effect.

On the long term, the real benefit of sharing such types of feeling is that other people get prepared for the hurting feeling in a similar situation. This generates an inhibition effect which is today best transmitted by films. This is not entertainment. We learn from it and get prepared and accustomed to it.

This doesn't address the question if the hurting situation is unfair, could be avoided and how. There are very hurting situations we can't avoid like cancer or an invalidating accident. But there are hurting situations we could have avoided and so sharing the experience has an education effect. You might not benefit from it, but there will always be one that will profit from the education effect.
That's why i said A/B testing would be nice.
Because now i can tell you exactly the oposite of what you tell me.

I have 18000 mails in my work mail account (no spam amongst them, mostly "real" mail), 43000 emails in my gmail account (which is not even that old) and not a single mail with half-written content or whatever. This includes mails by extremely tech-unsavy people.
I also never did the mistake you mention myself, despite the UI so flawed.

And i've observed that most people start by adding the recipients first, then content, then subject and then maybe in the end they decide to add a CC.
So would a UI with To, then Content, then subject, then CC be better? Don't think so.

Also that interpretation of "the content effects who gets the mail" is REALLY flawed. It certainly effects if you add someone on CC, but not the person who you are talking to.
Atleast i know to whom i write a mail before i even open the mail editor. I also know to whom i want to write a letter before i write a letter. Maybe i am crazy or even psychic, knowing who i want to talk to beforehand :P

In the end i think your ideas try to solve a problem that does not really exist (not in my experience) or even if it exists that the disadvantage of confusing customers would outweight the minor percentage of people that would be helped by far.
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But you can afford to outsource your representation?
I intentionally used 'quotes' and the singular form of the word to mitigate that. Nonetheless, I understand that it could still be misleading.
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Still early to say, but looks like CopyScape has a rising competitor now
Reminds me of http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Ummm...so let's say you upload a couple of private photos from a strip club on Facebook. They were meant to be private, but unfortunately, technically they weren't. Now, I do some googling and I find out that I can view these photos from a couple of unique URLs. Now, I have two options:

1) Just tell you so that you can remove these photos and you alone will benefit from it.

2) Bring this to light so that, everyone like you who have posted their private photos will benefit from it.

Now, what is the best way for me to bring it to light? Contact Facebook?? Yeah, it's a good shot, but Facebook will probably do everything to suppress that this incident even occurred.

So, the only way for me to prove that I DID gain access to your private photos is by proving everyone that I Just did. And that is by posting this info somewhere that will gain media attention.

Now, a couple of points to note here:

I did NOT hack into Facebook.

I did NOT threaten you to provide me those photos.

I just took what was available already and posted it to another online medium, so this will be brought to light.

So, now, please tell me, how was my INTENTION malicious? My intention was good. It's not like I sold your photos and made a ton of money. I actually fought for your privacy and now I'm labelled a Villian. Great!
I think the Lotus Notes as a GUI platform is so horrid that it couldn't possibly be good at anything:

* It comes with a program "Zap Notes" which is supposed to kill it when it hangs (Wat?). A bit funny since "Zap Notes" doesn't even work for me, and I have to use a combination of greps and kills.

* The UI rendering is slow and visible. These guys haven't heard of double buffering. You see little GUI components being rendered slowly. This is extremely annoying and sluggish.

* Every little UI operation you do in this program can take seconds on relatively modern hardware. During these seconds, the UI is of course completely blocked.

* When someone at your corporate IT wants to move a Notes mail server or such -- they actually have to coordinate a reconfiguration of all the users' mail server addresses! You have to go dig in a huge, badly designed preferences dialog to make this change. This is nuts.

The list goes on and on, but I can't fathom anyone liking this software.
And yet you keep us in suspense...
Jquery.interdependencies.js
Is that still defensible if you go out of your way to brute force download as many as you can and you then distribute that list?
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Who is the best Ruby on Rails hacker on HN? 
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> I say let loose the drones

If you're comfortable killing people indiscriminantly then others will be comfortable killing you indiscriminantly. As long as you offer them that bargain they will continue to take it.

Personally, I really don't care what happens in Afghanistan. It's not my problem, I've never been there, and I don't believe I have the right to decide their future. But I find your belief that drone attacks are actually destroying the Taliban fanciful.

Most of the people drone attacks kill are not the intended targets. How would you react if a foreign power killed someone you loved? Would you go away, never to be heard from again? Or would you take up arms against that foreign power? Given your bombast and chest beating I'm assuming you wouldn't stay silent. So what makes you think that the relatives of the people being killed in drone attacks are somehow going to just go away?
> Have you actually played Clash of Clans or Hay Day?

I've tried Clash of Clans, and I was actually surprised at how different it was to the usual farmville-ish clone in that regard:

1. The important currency (the gem thing) can in large part be obtained from in-game achievements. Not in huge quantities, but...

2. It really only works as an accelerator: more builders, instant purchases and (in the last update) work acceleration. And the game does not hammer you with it at all, as opposed to some others I played in the past.

3. The one thing that shocked me the most, as you progress in the game it starts requiring less of your time. A good example is the collector things, they produce at a fixed hourly rate but store their production for collection so you don't have to open the game and click it every 10 mn, but more interestingly the internal storage grows faster than the production rate: the level 1 thing can store 2.5h worth of production, at level 6 it grows to ~15h.

> every action prompts a IAP (wait or pay)

That's not even true, when raising or upgrading buildings for instance there's only one flow, the IAP comes after that by reselecting the building itself after launching the action. There's surprisingly little prompting for consuming the crystal things, and I've yet to see a single in-your-face full-screen dialog suggesting buying these gems explicitly.
Apple’s new Spaceship campus set to open in 2016 as project experiences delays
What about if you walk around and peek under everyone's coat to see if they forgot to wear pants?
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Apart from compatibility problems/old drivers, I would use Windows 2000 today in a heartbeat.

Windows NT OTOH makes even Vista look good. Not that it isn't solid, but it's like driving a tractor.
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> Whatever could it be? Confirmation that there was — or still is — water on the surface of Mars?

For God's sake, couldn't you people learn a little bit about Mars before posting this drivel? Of course there's water on Mars -- easily detected in a frozen state on the surface, and possibly (likely) in liquid state at the pressures and temperatures below the surface.

There's no liquid water on the surface for more than a few seconds, enough time for the water to "boil" away (technically "sublimate") because of the very low surface pressures. And there's plenty of water ice on the surface.

Water is not an issue, therefore it isn't the issue being speculated about. The reason? It's not a discovery -- we already know there's water on Mars. How hard is it to discover this? Try Googling for "water on Mars":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

It's much more likely that the rover has detected organic molecules in the samples processed so far, in its rather sophisticated mobile laboratory. And the caution being exercised is perfectly understandable.

The next time you try to write something about Mars, please -- hire someone who knows the topic.
Not exactly. You have a particular answer to the questions What is morality, and What is moral, and have asserted those answers as true. It is not necessarily the default state of the Universe that some/all actions are immoral, or amoral -- I am contesting your assertion that this action is without moral consequence.

Edit: actually, you claimed without justification to know that the action was moral.

In general, I am highly suspect of anyone who claims to know with certainty what morality is or isn't, or why it exists (or doesn't). People have been contemplating this for hundreds of years. It is very unlikely that you (or anyone) have discovered a new, empirically verifiable truth about morality. It is more likely that such claims are overconfident and unjustified.
He also recently said it's "a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun". That would at least enforce the maglev principle Jacques envisioned. It wouldn't be quite a Concorde in the pressurized tube though. But it's not impossibly far away from that concept, maybe Musk deliberately described it in a bit mysterious fashion. Time will tell.
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"Numerous press reports point to an epic thread on Bluelight (the world’s largest drug forum) posted by a user named Stuffmonger. [...] At one point Stuffmonger mentions that he lives in Belize, in the jungle, beside a river. Connections were made, and people began to believe that Stuffmonger was actually myself, and that I was indeed doing the drugs that I was encouraging others to create.

I am indeed that same Stuffmonger. I, however, do not do drugs [...]. I am, however, a practical joker who does not mind investing months in a given joking enterprise."

Repeat with me: He is a practical joker who does not mind investing months in a given joking enterprise.
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That was my first question too! So I tested it and it comes with December. Actually, it has all of the 12 months - no sacrifices there. Amazing stuff.
After public criticism, Leahy cancels his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill
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> I'm confused as to what fun people see in this...

Maybe they treat it as an asynchronous game, closer to academy of heroes or outwitters than to starcraft? That's what I do anyway: look up my options, queue up a few actions, then go do stuff, check back a few hours later. That's how I tend to play on my phone anyway, so it works nicely, and while it's explicit about the gem things it doesn't bash you over the head with it, and you can get gems through achievements.
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