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We need patent violation insurance. This lets companies share risks, but also makes it easier to aggregate defensive efforts and so get economies of scale. Just having this insurance would scare off most trolls who rely on victims to fold easily.

As for the risk that "real" patent violators would disproportionately buy this insurance, we can

- restrict it to software patents, where everyone is a violator, and there is, as far as I can tell, no such thing as a malicious patent violator.

- include a clause exempting malicious violations from coverage. This would have some fairly objective definition supervised by known neutral parties. Because this clause would be in the context of the group insurance rather than a trolls attack, "real patent violation" could be defined sensibly between reasonable people.
This is not the main point of the article and there are more examples of scientists spending a lot of time working and not taking amphetamines.
That's a great idea! Integration with github is on our TODO list, so hopefully we can help with that.

It's not open source, but we're looking at several ways of taking it forward, and that's one of them.

Thanks for the feedback! :)
It forgets to mention that some technologies just dies after the "peak of inflated expectations" and never manage to turn the slope.
Why every project whose name starts with "Open-" is to be considered a future success?
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a programmer with a fair amount of experience managing graphic designers, and I have a pretty good eye for design - if I do say so myself ;)

After not having personally touched any frontend code for a number of years, I recently found myself in the position of having to personally bootstrap an important side project - backend, frontend, design, and mobile - all on a miniscule budget.

The process she outlines so closely mirrored my own that I'm still not entirely convinced she didn't have a hidden camera in my office. This post would have easily saved me weeks of fumbling around, false starts, procrastinating, and looking around for the appropriate resources and frameworks. In my opinion my end product looks much more polished, but she was clearly just putting together a simple demo to support the text, and her design quality is easily sufficient to test out a minimum viable product. Of course, once you get some traction and have a budget to hire a designer, you should because design is sacrosanct blah, blah, blah, etc, etc.

But if you're a programmer on your own with no budget, just trying to get your idea out into the world and not embarrass yourself, this could be invaluable.
These "more efficient" methods are also available without gun regulation, so why doesn't this happen already? Apparently there's something about guns that makes them an attractive weapon for these people.

Another thing here is that gun regulation alone is not sufficient. In the Netherlands guns are heavily regulated, but we still had the incident in Alphen a/d Rijn [1] last year. The shooter was a member of a shooting association and was known to have mental problems. That's just not a good combination.

If guns could be regulated in such a way that they never end up in the hands of violent lunatics that would probably be okay, but I just don't see how you could do that without banning them altogether.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphen_aan_den_Rijn_shopping_ma...
As long as nobody gets the brilliant idea to start questioning Dharmasastra (Hindu) or Sharia (Muslim), things will probably keep working fine. The day that anybody thinks that they should start democratically re-inventing these things, all bets will be off. I seriously suspect that you would not have to wait too long before hell breaks loose ...
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Home of the free, right?
None.
By their nature, measures like this annoy people.
If this was the 12th of September 2001 would your opinion be different and if so, why?
I don't live in the States, I live in Europe. The blog post touched me deeply. However I grew up in a society where owning a gun is the exception. Almost nobody does. Reading the comments to the post, from people who have family experiencing same mental health problems, my heart goes out to them. But stating that guns isn't the problem, only the mental health system needs fixing, to me, sounds absurd. It reminds me of this comedy sketch by Eddie Izzard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsN0FCXw914
Something like this would have helped my mother in setting up her ipad. I had an hourlong conversation on the phone with her, what she has to do. Never having set up an ipad, that was not fun.

OK; I have an old iPhone, so it was possible to do this, but ease of use from the first moment looks different.
Do you really think that a previous record and terrorist acts correlate significantly?
You're thinking of the FBI and CIA... unless you were under the impression that nail clippers and bottles of water were actually dangerous?
It explains how even the academics seen as superhuman still couldn't do what the scientific community expects of the average grad student today, without having to use some extreme measure.
Right now I can understand why it's a gun control problem rather than a health care problem. But what about when one day 3D printer is everywhere? Printing of firearms would be made possible by high-quality 3D printer and it would be next to impossible to control. Just as it is impossible to control piracy. We have to deal with this problem, before it is deemed too late.
Yup, this typically does not work out well. I love science, and in an ideal world would work at it for the rest of my life. However, there's no freedom left in it. You have to go raise money, work on what other people want you to, and put up with most of the private sector crap while not being adequately compensated for your efforts.

When I was a researcher, everyone I knew worked all weekends and evenings. What did they get from this - not much. In the private sector, there's a lot of crap but at least they don't expect you to be fanatically devoted to your job.

The worst part is that academia has little to no security left, and that was always the tradeoff - less money but more security and freedom. I don't actually see how this is going to continue, and these issues will retard science until the funding models and expectations change.
I'm "building" my own laptop by getting a Motorola Lapdock and an MK802 PC-on-a-stick and glomming them together .. oila! Upgradeable laptop! :)
It is interesting to see of the Norway shooting falls in the same statistical category of "mad shooter" or in something like "homeland terrorism". But yes. There seems to be a rise of similar incidents all over the developed world, although access to guns is in the USA a lot easier than elsewhere and that reflects on these excesses. For example, knivings (is that a word?) seem to be more common than shootings around here.
OpenPhoto who? I had never heard of OpenPhoto until now, so I guess that kind of weakens the point of this article by about 50% straight up. Flickr in my opinion while having failed to stay relevant in a world of Instagrams and Facebook, it's still the best place to store your photos and from what I hear Marissa is focusing on Flickr quite heavily recently.

Free might seem better than $25 per month, but $25 per month for actual unlimited photo storage is something not even Dropbox or S3 can compete with. Not to mention Flickr has no barrier to entry, you upload your photos and don't have to worry about paying for a third party service like S3.

It's nice to dream that an open source Mozilla project can steal some of Flickr's thunder, but it isn't going to be happening any time soon.
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Why is it that any kind of attempts to predict future criminal activities is always labeled "1984"?

It seems to me that so long as you don't take it further than "being ready", done right it could be a good thing.
There are days when I think majoring in English would have been more valuable than majoring in business.
For example, that since Clinton also answered fraudulently when challenged, he shouldn't be allowed to fly either. Nixon got caught too -- I presume he also did fly afterwards. But obviously some are more equal; 1984 Was Not Supposed To Be An Instruction Manual.
Perhaps we should ask the next Lord Defender of the Faith if he agrees to separations in his church and his state. I wouldn't mind a choicy piece of Wales and Scotland for myselves ;-)
I think it was because the Hindus preferred "church-state" separation, meaning not to codify Dharmashastra. Muslims didn't want a secular law, so a Muslim-specific law was created for them.
It sucks that this is how it works, but that is what the survey is for. They already know all the answers, they just want to see how you respond.

For eg. they already know the date, your flight number, your passport number, your history - it is all about getting you in a situation where you answer questions and can be analyzed.

The Isrealis are really good at it. They realized that security through innspecting every person and every square centimeter of luggage is too expensive and isn't as effective.

A lot of their security at airports depends on picking out people and just asking them a random question or two ('why are you here') and seeing the response. If you have ever been asked the time, or the directions to the mens room, or about a flight from a tourist looking person at an Israel airport, chances are that they may have been an agent. There is a front-line of plain clothed who look around on the ground and pass on potential targets to uniformed officers.

There was a paper I remember reading sub-titled "Can you really catch terrorist by asking them if they are terrorists" and the conclusion was that yes, you can - and you do - and not because you know they will answer 'no', but by how they answer and their body language, among other factors (much of which modern governments keep secret).

There was sometime in how your brother answered that steered them towards not allowing him in. There are a lot of people who also make similar mistakes on immigration forms and are still let in.
>"OpenPhoto is Free Open Source Software that anyone can download at no cost and run on their own servers"

So, back to the 1990s? Not that it's a bad thing, but aren't php scripts and wordpress plugins to do this kind of thing old hat and pre-date flickr, picasa, skydrive et all?

A well-designed 2013-era take on the problem may be interesting to see, but the mere existence of software to store, present and manage photos on your website is as mundane as can be. So, what's new here?
Yeah, I had the same reaction - I have about 20 different camera apps on my iPhone, and all the typical flickr, pbase, shutterfly, picassa, photostream accounts that shutterbugs tend to pick up.

I read dpreview/techmeme/theverge daily, and I'd never heard of "OpenPhoto" before. I presume I'm the target audience for this new service, so it's probably not a great idea to start off a posting by simultaneously insulting me and losing credibility.
A simple clean cut solution. You can insure everything else from debt to houses, cars, pets, your salary and of course your life so why not some kind of patent violation insurance? I wonder if anyone has attempted to introduce this kind of insurance and if not, why not?
And the http://colorschemedesigner.com/. Two links that may come handy one day isn't a bad return on an investment of 10 minutes of my time. I also bookmarked http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/ but I suspect i may never get around to using it.
I'd say for the insanity plea there would have to be a certain amount of spontaneity about it. Serial killers are mostly methodical people who do plan their actions ahead of time, which is why the insanity plea won't work.

From what I've heard, it doesn't seem like the shooter in this instance had things planned.

I don't know though, lots of questions.
Yet. Don't piss off potential customers. Its business 101.
Apparently, Brazil had its first just last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro_school_shooting
Her kid is also extremely intelligent and seems to have mastered sweetness as a way to get his way still. I wouldn't be surprised if he could behave "normally" for a long stretch of time to get out of whatever institution they put him in. Unless these diagnoses are for life and these institutions are basically a hotel Calofornia.
It good to talk about mental illness, but the debate on guns is still relevant.

Here is a similar incident in a country with no easy access to gun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre

With a truck and a knife, it's 7 deaths instead of 28.
It's only clearly Bootstrap to people who have heard of Bootstrap. 99.999% of your visitors will never have heard of Bootstrap, will never have heard the word 'framework.'
To be honest, CalDAV is shit and doesn't encompass the feature set that either outlook or windows phone support. Microsoft are on the working group for the next gen stuff as are google so I'm sure there will be some convergence in the future.
I didnt read it as design advice but rather a guide to resources. I personally was aware of all the resources mentioned, but think its a great summary of whats out there. So it's not saying 'use this font' or even, 'use a different font', just 'if you want to change the font, get one from here and read this article about choosing between them.

The article seems to have mainly recieved two contradictory responses from HN. a) I already use Bootstrap, this article is useless, and b) this article is bad because it recommends bootstrap, which you should never use, instead devote the next decade of your life to learning design and build something unique and award winning instead.
Is push really that important? Polling every five minutes gets emails to me virtually instantly.

I suppose it would be very useful for maintenance alerts.
The problem I see here is, Insurance is a generic solution and doesn't fit our problem. Maybe we can take the core idea and do it better.
I'll wait to see more viewpoints instead of spamming the thread. I'm already nervous if I broke some HN rules by posting this thread.
This a million times. I just tried it on my WP7 device and to be honest I can't tell the difference between this and my exchange account.
Push is the most crucial feature.

Because my device is already registered, I can continue to use exchange sync, but if it wasn't then I can say goodbye to using email for monitoring notifications.

If my site goes offline, I don't want to know in 5 minutes. I want to know right now.
Mistake is on my side, I apologize. I read what the poster said backwards myself. :) The repeated quote is a true statement: MLE is a special case of GMM.
On a higher level, there's Typeclassopedia http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia.
TIL MariaDB is to MySQL what Jenkins is to Hudson.
Like most politicians, Tony Benn changed with time. Although in the unlikely way: the other way around.

Tony Blair wasn't around Nassau (Trident, the successor to Polaris, was signed off by Thatcher, and it also precedes Blair).

youtu.be/rokTiJfL4WY
Yes. Membership of the domestic terrorist groups in my country
correlates very strongly with a history of juvenile anti-social behaviour. These youngsters frequently come into contact with these groups either when subject to vigilante punishment or 'get taken under their wing'.
Most terrorists aren't university graduates
And what should he be pushing to the people he has to play IT for? Gentoo?
Most of my searches are for content, unfortunately. I'm sure I could retrain myself for some of the queries to operate solely on metadata/subject, but not all of them.

However, it's not like we can't do this now, at least for outgoing mail. PGP encryption works as well with gmail as it does with other encryptions, and you could just delete any non-encrypted incoming email.

On a personal note, there's really nothing in my email that I feel a need to encrypt- at worst, someone might find eight digits of a credit card, or an old password, or an embarrassing email to an old girlfriend. Certainly nothing that would scare me out of the immense convenience of allowing GMail my unencrypted email.
Forget about the developers perspective and consider the users of the software that consume the API itself. Their applications will suddenly stop working and we cannot assume that they can obtain the upgraded version of their software (for various reasons).
Do you have a source for ’virtually no cost'? Often, sometimes intentionally, liscenced formats strongly favour one business model over another.
I'm from Denmark, which like UK has a hereditary head of state as well as an official state church. Neither are really consistent with our democratic ideals, and not something we try to encourage when engaging in state building.
did the same thing, this works. I've learned to enjoy avoiding bread. http://reddit.com/r/keto
Hmm..You totally missed my points and managed to insult me and my work, although the part with puppies was funny :)

* I never said you have to be a snowflake. I know that most men live quite lives of silent desperation, as Thoreau once stated. My first point was about making a network, BEING SOCIAL. And working on something you like.. I am not talking about true passion because for some people they need time to find it. Is it that hard to find something you like and collaborate with other people on it?

* brown noser? I was never nice with teachers. My problem was, since elementary school I mostly did not like my teachers and often times told them what I think. Why is somebody who wants more a brown noser. In my life I had few good teachers and always tried to learn as much as I could from them. I was not like a pest at the lecture or kissing ass. There is a difference. My point was that you alone or with somebody else make a nice project and show it to him or her for example. Not boost on lectures asking stupid questions.

* whats wrong with going to other lectures?

* Of course you have to enjoy your life at the Uni, I did. But also some people do it too much. I just wrote don't do it too much.

My teacher meant crazy because I would stay for all the classes and listen to the all the lectures while other people would goo home after theirs, there were other things as well.. now we come to my profession. I studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, classical guitar with one of the best guitarists today. And I was the youngest student, age 15.
I visited lots of other universities including Juilliard etc. and played in US and Europe. Maybe that will clarify some things and explain the crazy comment. I also did audio programming, jazz, composition with other people as well. And I was crazy about linux, still am. I would argue how better is from windows etc.
In short, avoid me next time you go to the concert hall :) Maybe my style and English is a bit brash but all I wanted was to give some tips based on my insights. Here is my recording from youtube http://youtu.be/n9c48k4FDx8
My sincerity and truth telling is clear from this music.
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The UK has a law called the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, within that is the notion of classes of criminal record being spent.

I don't know the specifics, but you always have to declare the equivalent of felonies, but for misdemeanours you can lawfully not declare them after some period of time in which your debt is considered repaid and the record spent.

The whole of the EU has such laws. I think most people within the EU would regard this as just a part of living in the civilised west.

And the most simple part of that is that if you arrested and never charged, or even charged but acquitted during trial, or even arrested and cautioned... then you never need to declare it. You can quite literally forget about it after some relatively short period of time, I think it's a year or 3.

Going back to my brother. Never charged, never cautioned, never went to trial, released without any impact whatsoever... just a bad day, worth forgetting and after 20 years definitely forgotten.

I think almost everyone I know would've said no to the question quite honestly believing that it's a perfectly reasonable and honest answer.
Still a stupid idea.
Give a government trillions to spend in an era of massive government programs and vast new storage & surveillance technology, and it should be obvious what you're going to get.

The only possible way to stop it is to starve the beast of funds to spend. Cut the government in half, and let's see if they can still afford all the shiny new big brother toys.
WSJ didn't uncover it. It has been talked about since October in the context of the "disposition matrix", which is to be used to search out possible candidates for the extrajudicial "kill list".

>The central role played by the NCTC in determining who should be killed ... the NCTC operates a gigantic data-mining operation, in which all sorts of information about innocent Americans is systematically monitored, stored, and analyzed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-te...
While I don't doubt your assertion, I think the parent was looking for more evidence than a simple "yes".
Having occasional thought about killing isn't unusual - but the article describes having these thoughts far more often than is normal, and acting on them with much less provocation.

An analogy: Any computer will crash when running buggy software - but a computer with a bad stick of RAM will crash much more often. The symptoms of both those problems will be fairly similar.

Likewise, most humans think about killing from time to time - but some mentally ill people think about it much more often. Unfortunately with humans one can't run memtest86+ or swap the ram out and see if the problem goes away.
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Just as I was/am, and probably just as he is.

We are cunningly manipulative from the get-go, any emotional response from that point is just part of the game, even the fits of rage are a last-ditch effort to assert some form of dominance over the situation after we have expelled every last conceivable option/variable to achieve a set/dynamic goal or objective.

It starts with the parent not parenting an autistic child as an autistic child. The article has a few points that threw red flags immediately, that would be regular triggers for me(such as her punishment strategies for just one) also, the way she attempts to have him CONFORM to school rules though, there had clearly been an exemption made for his clothing(he wants to be free to be free, and in this conformal society, that's ludicrous)...

I hope they make it.
You mean, $25/year, correct?
That's actually something topojson will do for you. It stores a translate and scale value that fits so all the values can be simple integers.
Indeed, looking back over that list, I'm surprised by the fact that almost everything on it is - and was at the time - simply wrong.
Flickr Pro costs $25 per year not per month.
No, this is more of a quick reference.

Cheatsheets should be as short as possible, avoiding long explanations. For example, comments might be described as "comments: line: -- ; block (nestable): {- -}"
It depends more on how much religious nuts gain weight on either side. I still have to see a single Hindu preacher asking for a Hindu laws in place while it's not uncommon for Muslim preachers to try to preach sharia down the throats. Muslims are therefore considered uneducated and easily lead to violence. They have their own ghettos (much like Europe) and try to run a state within a state.

Although, number of Muslims educating their children are rising, specially in cities. And such people have no hatred towards anyone on religious lines.

Biggest achievement of India would be to ensure that every child goes to a proper school and get modern education and not some religious BS in early years