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Forget about all of that, you're just feeding the troll. The troll's premise is that correlation is causation, i.e. that large economies generally have patent systems and therefore that patent systems cause or are necessary to maintain large economies.

This logic leads to the conclusion that an ostentatious capitol building is necessary for economic prosperity, because most major economies have an ostentatious capital building. It's pure rubbish.

Try asking it to prove that the economic prosperity is caused by the patent system rather than merely correlated.
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Yeah, I have to agree. Photography can be used as a communication tool now, thanks to Treehouse and Snapchat? Thanks, Mr Curtis, for the insightful wizardly pronouncement to the masses. I'm sure photojournalists of the last 100+ years will be pleased to know that there now is a reason or platform for their efforts.

Seriously? Curtis lauds people writing a comment on a scrap of paper, taking a photo of it as a means to circumvent the lack of a commenting system on a website and hails it as "Photography's Third Act"? Wow, just... wow.
Hi,

I'm curious, how big, do you think, is the medical IT market in Singapore?
Probably because the original post states "He is relevant and he created svbtle, but that's all I know."
Only 12 more days until the arbitrary date by when Archive.org wanted to raise $150,000.
The site that you reference is nothing but a placeholder that says "I now write at dcurt.is".
He did a couple of things. Svbtle aside, he was the first guy I know of to tell people to follow him on twitter at the end of every blog post. The practice has subsequently spread to the rest of the web.
http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....

You can see his submissions over time on HN to get an idea of how he's known in this community.
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=dus...
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I was also talking about properly calibrated displays. I should know. I’m using one. (Though realistically, no one uses a calibrated display. They can be ignored for all intents and purposes.)

I find that if you use a good display, straight black on straight white is just too harsh for me. Slight reductions in contrast do most certainly not and never will lower the contrast below acceptable levels on those displays. They do have the ability to display plenty of contrast for the human eye to work with.

(Did you only want to annoy me with your pedantry or what’s going on with you?)
Great job guys - really impressed with where you are and where you are going.
Not sure how Ireland was "in deeper": they were under no obligation to make up for the private losses of the banks.

How did being part of the Euro require the Irish state/tax payer to bankrupt the state in order to bail out the banks, or rather, their creditors?
Most of what you've named are what I meant by "generalized as journalism", i.e. as objective documentation of one form or another. I was just trying to point out that art as self-expression wasn't and has never been photography's primary "use". Good point though.
TF2 also has microtransactions so it will also earn them money in the short AND long run as well.

Quite a smart business decision and I'm glad they brought TF2 over - I always thought this would be the first game to publicly release.
Works for me: http://i.imgur.com/M7PZy.png
It's cool, but the output needs to be totally exportable, not just hosted. Perhaps I'm a bit of a throwback, but I'm willing to pay for tools that get the job done and give me the output that I need. As it stands, hosted output is NOT what I need, and I don't think I ever will need it.
Thanks for the great feedback.

We actually do allow you to upload in wav, aiff, flac but you can only download in those formats if the tracks were uploaded in the same.

Using the WebAudio API we should be able to apply effects to the master bus. This is our first test of the concept and it expects that you will do most of the work in your DAW using the site for sharing. In future versions we want to add more in browser editing if we get enough requests for it. Thanks for all the suggestions!
If someone is able and willing to do that, wouldn't that person likewise be able to extract the full fonts from a website using such a font? If so, I'm not sure what your point is.
I already outlined the mechanism in my first post. Kissing and ACs are not the reason you get these organisms inside you. They are already everywhere. Just by moving through life, you're exposed to a huge variety of enterobacteriae. You wouldn't believe how everything is just covered with E. coli, for example. It's not a matter of staying away from dirty surfaces, or of wiping everything down with disinfectant. These organisms are omnipresent, and it's normal for them to live inside your gut as well. In fact, the majority of them are endosymbionts, and are regulated by their environment. This means whatever comes into your colon determines which bacteria get to thrive on it. This is not my claim, it's basic biology.

I invite you to do the following experiment at home. Get yourself a petri dish and fill it with sterile Agar. Then wash your hands. After that, make some fingerprints in the Agar. Incubate for a few days. You'll be surprised.
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I'm actually very lost regarding your reasons for preferring PayPal to Stripe (Except USPS integration, which is clear and I know nothing about).

"I'm going with Paypal just because it's so much easier and cheaper."

Really?

For me, integration w/ PayPal's IPN's took DAYS and still wasn't sturdy. Stripe? 3 hours the first time, 30 minutes the second.

Admittedly, PayPal is marginally cheaper with heavy volume. I'm not at that point and, quite frankly, it would probably never be worthwhile for me to switch due to cost of said dev time.

But this $27 module? I don't know what requires that but I've never needed it.

I tried PayPal on one project and switched that site to Stripe within a week of them launching in Canada. Zero regrets.
Not an arbitrary date -- the supporter will stop matching the donations after December 31st. The goal could be argued to be arbitrary -- $600k for 4 more petabytes of storage.
Pinch to zoom is awesome for web browsing, but you kind of have to hold your phone in a weird way for it to be optimal (cradling in three fingers to free up your thumb and index finger to pinch).
Google Maps does that on Android too.
There are a few decent open fonts now (and then a whole lot of novelty display faces, and a fair number of knockoffs), but it is unlikely that the "open font movement" is going to displace H+FJ or the like any time soon.

That's an unfortunate example. H&FJ do excellent work, but a lot of people simply can't use it (legally, at least) because of their archaic licensing. You can't use their fonts on the web with @font-face. You can't even embed them in PDFs you're going to distribute, without paying for some mysterious extension to the standard licence.

They displaced themselves from those markets, and given that there are now some free web fonts available that are very good by any standards, I suspect H&FJ will never establish themselves in that market in the way they could have. Perhaps from a commercial point of view it doesn't matter to them, if their focus is the high-end, money-no-object-for-our-brand customers that I suspect they rely on for the bulk of their revenues. If you count people like the President of the United States among your customers, I imagine that makes up for quite a few Joe Webmasters.
Please spare us this trite bullshit.

I posted it not because I agree with his assertion (I'm not sure I buy everything he's saying) but because I thought it would spark interesting discussion. Since "knowledge worker" is roughly synonymous with "white-collar office worker" (not necessarily programmer) I am inclined to agree with him.

I'm willing to bet many of us, especially here on HN, routinely get admonished for "forgetting" to do menial, time wasting tasks in favor of doing what we love.

Sure, we do. Most programmers and especially most white-collar workers don't. They waste their time instead because it's the more comfortable way of dealing with management, which means they never improve and we have to clean up their messes and deal with their shitty code. It becomes everyone's problem.
Makes sense, it is not irresponsible to refuse to entertain debts to shady creditors. One is responsible for the fate of one's investments, but not when the investment itself is betraying certain ethical and business standards that would be impossible to consistently audit of every investment one made. So unless future investors in Iceland are planning to skate the line between legal and illegal, there's no reason to doubt the future economic potential of Iceland.
This seems like a rather unreliable way of protecting information on a laptop. I have a vague recollection of a program that uses Bluetooth to link a cell phone to a laptop. If the cell phone gets too far away from the laptop (if you walk away from your laptop, or someone runs away with your laptop), the program locks the laptop, requiring the password to unlock it.
If someone was proposing to somebody, I think they would prefer that they break the news to the girl rather than Facebook and/or their friends.
Not so fast: Greek "prosperity" for the last decade has largely rested on indirect transfers due to being able to borrow at "German" interest rates, which they did with abandon.

So Greece was able to spend way beyond what they produced.

For a while.

There was never any way this could go on indefinitely, spending had to come down at some point, because you can't spend more than you take in in the long run - so called "austerity". And that's even without taking into account that you usually have to pay back debts.

The fact that this hits the little people rather than the tax-avoiders at the top is an internal Greek problem.

Although they should not have been admitted to the Euro, leaving it now would not improve things: their debt is valued in Euro, so if they return to the Drachma and then devalue their currency, their debt goes up even more!

Of course, they should never have been admitted to Euro, and it turns out that the so-called Euro crisis (which is yet another banking crisis) was precipitated by Goldman Sachs letting slip that there was "something fishy" with Greece.

How did Goldman Sachs know this? They were the ones who had cooked the books for the Greek government in order to gain entry to the Euro.

IMHO, the EU should seize Goldman Sachs assets in order to pay for the Greek bailouts.
Someone went wild with that bar graph bevel.
I think you underestimate the Internet's ability to find things to misquote and complain about.

The predominant backlash to Google's recent ToS changes come to mind as an example of selective content being reported out of context.
Given his portfolio I'd be thinking more along the lines of oracle.

You're taking it all too seriously though. All he's saying is "stop bringing me hyper local social mobile, we rode that trend into the ground" while trying to not sound that cynical and trying to get the kids excited about it, which isn't the easiest thing in the world.
>By the time the food you eat gets to the bacteria, there are no sugar, fat or protein left

You realize those bacteria are living off the fat, sugar and protein you consume right? They are essential to our ability to utilize the chemicals we get from these macro nutrients.

>Refined/processed food should be eaten in minimal quantities because it spikes blood sugar and causes insulin fatigue, which in the long run causes Type II diabetes.
True, but this also an increasingly old school and one dimensional way of thinking about how type II develops. There are a host of genetic and environmental factors that effect an individual's response and eventual tolerance to insulin.

Sadly, being in med school does not guarantee you "know what you're talking about", in fact, even after you get to wear that white coat you'll probably realize you know way less than you could ever imagine. The perception that kind of attitude creates only narrows our minds and hurts our patients.

I'm done with med school.. and I realize on a daily basis I still have no clue what I'm talking about :)
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Agreed, I nearly laughed out loud when I read that line. Ironically, this is a situation where one of those useless college degrees everyone here loves to hate (Art History, for example) would come in rather handy.
They will be enabled by default as they are working. We already have the issue of some platforms having it and others not. Some Android devices have it with Firefox for Android and some don't for example. Linux distro's could enable the GStreamer backend and gain it while others don't as another.

For detection sites should use the API "canPlayType" and similar functionality to detect if the browser supports playback.
I updated to post to reflect what I really meant.

The first non-commercial uses of photography were for experimentation and artistic portraiture. I don't understand why you disagree with me.

I'm not saying there's no future for artistic photography; I'm saying that there are new use cases that haven't yet been fully developed.
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Obviously I'm not referring to the process of handing in a patent application when I talk about risk. I'm referring to the process of inventing the invention that's patented, which presumably takes a lot of time and money in R&D.
The China example is some terrible reasoning and also doesn't really play into your narrative. China is growing faster because 1) it's sacrificing lots of things Americans are too rich to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of growth; 2) it's in a much earlier phase of development and thus capturing low hanging fruit. Re: innovation, the Chinese aren't known for strong patent enforcement, but they're also not known for innovation either. They have lax IP enforcement because their technology sector depends on copying technology from the US. Indeed, China has been stepping up IP enforcement as of late, which has been correlated with an increased willingness of American companies to invest in China. As China develops, it has been hiring American legal experts to help them develop a sophisticated, American-style legal system, because that helps attract foreign investment. The facts don't fit your narrative and indeed suggest the opposite one.
How is this better than Notepad++?
Greece is paying, as Italy and Ireland are doing. Not sure for how long and what will happen, though. Whenever, back in history, populations are pissed off the hard way for reasons they are not accountable for or not even understand, bad things happen. I don't know what's the feeling up in Ireland, but for what I see in Italy and Greece, there will be sooner or later a breaking point.
Sorry, I probably should have focused it more on this

"In most systems, you have to close the web browser and find your own way back to the email program..."

which isn't really a true statement other than iOS.
How did the daily mail get this simple fact wrong you ask? Well its the daily mail!
Support for HTML's playbackRate API was landed a few weeks back. See bug 495040 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495040

This means that sites that control playback speed using the HTML media API should work.
People who accuse others of "whining" are usually doing the same. They're expressing indignation at the possibility that the other side might have standing in some kind of negotiation.

The technique is to divert attention away from what is being said by complaining about how it is being said.
Bluetooth is a decent way of doing it too. However merely locking the laptop is insufficient for protecting the data on the hard drive, since even when the screen is locked, the encryption key of the hard drive is still in memory. The solution is to securely wipe memory and shut off.
To add a counterpoint; everyone in college uses SnapChat.
Because as part of the Eurozone your national bank and sovereign state has monetary and fiscal obligations to the ECB and Eurozone creditors.

From a naive perspective, reneging on any of these obligations would put your Eurozone membership at risk.

In practice, the situation is almost the reverse. It is/was far easier to maintain the status quo as long as possible to enable the use (abuse?) of monetary policy transmission mechanisms of the ECB and other EU state bailout facilities than to take unilateral action like elective default.

Elective default would have meant any Eurozone state would almost certainly be required to leave the Eurozone, including rescinding ECB support and incurring the huge upfront cost of reintroducing their own currency.

TL;DR. Comparing Iceland's situation directly to any Eurozone state is an economic fallacy, especially since the Eurozone has no mechanisms at all that support leaving it (e.g. transition to a parallal ECU2-like currency while retaining access to ECB or other Eurozone facilities).
This is still prety far off base, historically. The most important contemporary art (as a genre) right now is photography. Its most popular movement, loosley called the 'New Topographics.' The 'origins' of 'topograpgic' photography, as a style, date well back into the 19th century, however. I think that says enough.
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Regarding #3 I think they want the patent holder to prove he is actually using the invention for a (commercial) benefit. If you invent a copy protection scheme they want to see you actively sell it to third parties or actively use it in your own product.
I think that makes sense to be honest, people shouldn't be able to sleep on an invention until they find a suitable company to sue for high profit margins.

Edit: This is in reply to points about software patents only.
> Medicine isn't a business.

but the reality is that it's a very big business, otherwise these discussions about how to 'game the system' for profit wouldn't exist.

not trying to disrespect either one of you, just making an observation.
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The sequel that nobody asked for. It looks likely the original game probably contributed to their current financial situation in the first place. It wasn't a bad game, but certainly no Saints Row. They should definitely get their priorities right if they want to get through this Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Focusing on Saints and CoH are probably decisions they should seriously consider.
Wow, second Show HN posted today that does that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944334

I hope this isn't a trend.
The end user shouldn't care or know what version the browser for anything but troubleshooting anyways, to them it's just "Firefox" and "Chrome" no more of this stupid bullshit like IE6/7/8/9/10 that will held back progress for the last decade and will continue to do so for the next decade to come.
Same here (I thought it was something he made up, but I was wrong - http://www.snapchat.com/) and weirder... since he didn't link to it, and just kind of mentioned it out of the blue, I thought I missed the part where he told me more about it. I read it again and found I was wrong once again.
Where did non-commercial come from? You think artistic portraiture was non-commercial? Heyy.. what's going on in this drawing by Bruegel http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/buyer.jpg ???
Just FYI, with most CC processors, chargeback fees are in addition to reversing the original charge. So you would be out $25 if you were to get a chargeback. And if you won you would get the $10 back but still loose the $15 chargeback fee putting you at -$5 overall (that's not even including transaction fees that stack on top of everything).

Most CC companies have a 90 day limit on charges that can be contested. Amex is the only one that I know of that goes further back (1 year IIRC but it may be longer).

Stripe has decided to change that and will refund the $15 if you win. It's a nice change but in my experience the vendor rarely reverses chargebacks.
I'm thinking of easy ways for kids and newbies to join in the remixing process with little prior musical training.
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the harsh truth of being a eurozone member is that the country's taxpayers are not necessarily intended to be involved in a decision to default on debts. Case in point, there was swift and sound backlash when the former Greek prime minister proposed a referendum on one of the many Greek bailout packages.
Habitable Zone not too far away
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Firebase looks really cool, but my first impression the moment I see that you end up building everything in a way where it is tightly coupled to the servers of a startup that does not have years of profitability yet (or even published pricing), is that there's no way I'd put anything but toy/demo's on it for a long time.

It seems like the type of thing that'd do great with the option of a self-hosted server, and it also seems like the type of thing that'll see open source clones of pretty quickly, though. But I'd actually be vastly more comfortable paying Firebase to host my apps if I knew there was an open source fallback for their server component.
Seems like the cargo culting of a successful social media startup.