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If you want to sell internationally, credit cards are practically the only way possible. If you ask me, there is no standardized way to allow users to pay via wire transfer (internationally and instantly). Heck, even amazon.com does not support international wire transfer.

I think even consumers are getting used to the fact that ordering online internationally is done mostly via credit cards.

Another question is, how would you handle automatic recurring payments?
The clue is in the name: the person who owns the "copyright" is the one who has the right to copy it. This has been the case since the Licensing of the Press Act of 1662, so we shouldn't be shocked by it.

You can't transfer ownership of the IP to the Avengers Movie, because only one person or entity at a time can own it. That's why for example, we license software as developers, instead of selling it to the end user.
> Since we are now in the business of citing wikipedia

The snark is not constructive.
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I really like the website. I have currently got interested in getting more karmas. Anyone has any suggestion as to how to increase karmas quickly?
One of the reasons the Silk Road operates in the relative open with such impunity is because of the absurdly low probability that a small quantity of well-packaged drugs will be detected unless they pass through customs. The USPS is especially good since it extends Fourth Amendment protections to parcels, which the commercial carriers don't need to do.
How do you manage the sweat from a 1hr long bike ride?
I'm sorry, but what? You think iTunes is "too hard" to use? You have a problem figuring our Netflix? Is Amazon more than your tiny brain can take?

This isn't 2002. Online commerce isn't some repellent hellscape of overpriced goods and failed transactions. Aside from outliers like HBO and feature films in the window between theatrical and home release, there's very little that isn't wildly obscure that can't be bought easily, legitimately, and for economically reasonable prices.

At this point, if you're still having "trouble" paying, it's because you don't have money, not because you can't spend money you have.
If that was the purpose, then I think it was a mistake, since they could get the same results with a permanent, non-revocable license, instead of demanding full copyright assignment.
This is not really correct.

Although the government has recently raised the maximum tuition fees that Universities may charge (from around £3000 to around £9000 per year), this has not affected the financial provisions available to first-degree (i.e. undergrad) home students.

The government supplies student loans for both tuition fees and maintenance (i.e. living) costs, which (supposedly) only garner interest at the rate of inflation.

In addition, there is extensive means-tested financial support available from both the government and from Universities. I went to Oxford a few years ago and received full financial support. My income (in addition to the ~£3K tuition fee loan the government paid the university directly) from loans/grants was in the region of £9000, with about £5k of that being non-repayable. Although this was the maximum possible, it was hardly uncommon for people to get it, or to get some proportion of it.

There are also numerous smaller grants handed out by both the university and its constituent colleges on the basis of financial need and otherwise.

(In response to the increase in tuition fees, Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital chairman) donated £75m to Oxford, with the express goal of keeping tuition fees low for disadvantaged students: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18785041)
How did you specify hh? I dont see an option in the UI to specify a name ...
I basically ignore karma these days. It doesn't encourage better writing, it encourages more off the cuff funny one liners.

Here's an experiment of mine from a couple of months ago, on a duplicate news post:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=anthon...

Do I really deserve that 69 points of karma? Is that 20 or 30 or 69 times more valuable than other posts where I've spent a lot more effort?

Perhaps this is where some of the 'snark' is coming from. In the race to get more karma, people are looking for the cheap throwaway one liner that everyone will snicker at and upvote.
The authors of the SIP spec published another spec (RFC4475[1]) called "SIP torture tests", where they seem to take a perverse glee in showing how messed up their "human readable" syntax can get.

They even use the phrase "infer" in several places, encouraging systems to take obviously malformed packets and try to figure out what they meant.

Being liberal in accepting input, apart from security issues, seems to create a worse situation. Implementation A messes up something, but B seems to be OK with it. C then accidentally requires it, while D rejects it. Depending on how large and responsive the vendors behind those implementations are, you end up with a nasty state of affairs, with random hacks here and there.

It's hard enough to create unambiguous, comprehensible, specifications. Telling implementations to be liberal only makes it worse.
This is true only in America, or maybe in the "Anglosaxon" world in general, but certainly not in Europe.
Quite apart from security, Postel's Principle can hurt the capacity to make backwards-compatible feature additions in the future.

For example, if you have a set of unused flag bits documented as "reserved, must be zero", then a receiver that silently ignores non-zero bits allows senders that erroneously set those bits to propagate. This is fine, until one day in a future standard you want to define new behaviour for one of those bits, and find you can't - because there's large numbers of senders out there that erroneously set it but don't have any idea about the new behaviour.
How much does it cost to be Batman?
Many of the best questions on Stack Overflow end up "closed as not constructive." I get that it keeps the site on-topic, but it's a shame when a really productive and amazing discussion gets shut down arbitrarily.
What do you mean? I didn't specify "hh", that's just the paste identifier.
Even if I could create sentient beings, this wouldn't imply the power to declare what is good or true by fiat. 2 + 2 = 4, massive objects attract each other gravitationally, and it's morally problematic to put children in ovens for being Jewish even if a maximally powerful alien or wizard said otherwise. These things cannot be changed by any fiat, and being very powerful doesn't make it any more possible.
Hmm, why not, after you've made a compelling case?
A very good and detailed piece on reversing a game.
That's how I interpreted it. Once you sell a single copy of something you made, there are now two equal owners of it. The new owner worked really hard to make that copy, so it's fair.
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> Arguably, the decision to keep using the C linker and use name mangling and template expansion in the compiler instead of making the linker smarter (or adding a phase between compilation/assembly and linking) was a mistake.

I don't know that it was a mistake per se, but this problem with template compilation overhead is definitely a seemingly inevitable consequence.

> Certainly incremental compilation and linking would be easier if template expansion were performed on object code (or a low-level intermediate representation) rather than source code.

This is effectively what happens... it just happens at compile time instead of link time. Given this template:

<bar.hpp>
template <typename foo>
foo bar(foo x) { return foo; }

a compiler is asked to compile:

#include <bar.hpp> //source code is parsed and intermediate representation generated by the compiler

int x = bar(some_int); //performs template expansion on said object code
float y = bar(some_y); //performs template expansion on said object code
//bar.hpp's source is examined only once!

This is why you can't do some things in templates that you can do with say, C macros (and vice-versa).
Once upon a time, somebody wrote a json parser that used an existing date parser because component reuse is the shizzle. Then somebody updated the date parser to handle more formats because they were using it in a different project. Congratulations, now you have a json parser that eats a multitude of date formats. (Some liberties with facts taken, but building a tower out of flexible components results in a flexible tower.)
Im using the web interface, and every time i save it seems to default to a number (e.g. http://paste.pm/108)
I have to recommend the newer translation by Gregory Hays, which makes the book immensely more readable. I got through it in an evening.

One thing that pops out of the Hays translation that isn't so obvious at first glance in the Long translation, is that _Meditations_ wasn't a philosophical treatise at all, but rather a series of philosophical "Notes to Self" -- the sorts of issues he was struggling with at the time.

When you think about how you'd like your life to be different, it gives you a little bit of perspective to realize that the Emperor of the Roman Empire appeared to be primarily preoccupied with (1) death, and (2) how much he hated his coworkers (the Imperial court). Reflecting on death, he mentions if you lived thousand lives, it would be just be the same stuff over and over again. How true.
Fair enough, I don't think it would need to be updated more than every few months though.
Is there syntax highlighting for shell scripts (.sh)?
See also: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
1. "Not my problem"

3. "They'll figure it out"

4. "Not my problem"

5. "They'll figure it out"

The only legitimate argument I'm seeing there is point (2), and even then, all you're saying is that in absolute dollars the music industry is generating more profit -- ignoring population growth, accessibility to more music (iTunes, Amazon music), etc. -- so it's very hard to say whether the music industry profits grew despite piracy, because of piracy, or independent of piracy. I'm sorry, but that's extremely unconvincing. Given the article in the OP and this reply, I can't really see the difference between your current viewpoint and pure selfishness/FYGM.
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JS-less browsing is either uncommon, or it isn't. It's not something you "think", it's a verifiable statistic.

The most recent data I could find (2010) puts it at around 2% in the US. I would venture that 2% should be considered uncommon.

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...
This is why I was against hiding karma on posts. I suspect that it drives the points reward up for one liners, since there's no way to balance things downwards, ie. not upvote or downvote if you think a post has too many points.

And I think the upvote is pretty much set in stone now. It's essentially "I like this post" or "I don't like this post", there's not much nuance.
Compromise the site itself & gather information. Catch & turn real sellers. Crapflood it with fake buyers/sellers making it less useful. Order drugs & gather forensic info from the packages. Try to trace the money trail via the bitcoin block chain. While bitcoin is nominally anonymous, I believe there was an article a while back about how easy it is to accidentally deanonymize your bitcoins (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses for example). Heck, agree to sell someone drugs and actually send them flour + a GPS/camera if you want to go that route.

For the most part, just go after the weak human links in the chain and use standard anti-network tactics like turning people into informants and isolating everyone via mistrust.

Heck, they could just start scamming folks on the site. Create lots of new sellers, never deliver the promised drugs. BTC aren't revokable, so you can just rob them blind. The marketplace requires trust and there are lots of ways to break that. Yes, they could start building escrow services and the like, but those just create new avenues for attack.

With a little imagination, this could be used by the police as a giant honeypot.
I don't really see the value of translating this into archaic "thy, thou and hast" english.

Have there been any more recent translations. I could understand reading it (untouched) in the original language. But if you're going to translate it anyway...
Generalizing that, I think it's a problem with the Reddit/Digg model of titles only (which HN followed), versus the Slashdot/Metafilter model of short blurbs. The former gives no space to explain why content would be of interest to HN, so is biased towards content where it's obvious from the headline, which in turn both favors fairly linkbaity things, and discourages most people from reading the /newest page at all (because you can't really tell much from it).

I've occasionally found longer articles where I think HN would be very interested in some of the discussion in a way that isn't obvious from the title, and might require 2 or 3 sentences to explain. I rarely submit those, though, because there's no good way to convey that.
This article on its own would maybe have some merit, but any Google search about any of this produces massive antisemitic results, so excuse me for not believing you. "We are judged by the company we keep", and your company is terrible.
Yep, just change the extension in the URL to .sh.
too hard/too inconvenient
"In 2013 you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has disabled JavaScript or is using a browser that doesn't support it"

I and many other people still use lynx/elinks. Which is not to say that I expect every service to work on a text browser, but to dismiss text browsers for a service catering to developers is a bit presumptive
You both are looking at the problem wrong.

The problem isn't decline. Big corporations benefit from inertia before they see real decline.

The problem is that a competitor grows and expands the pie faster and bigger than your slice.
Interesting read, some sections seem incomplete (contain Lorem Ipsum text)
So, what's the 8 characters?
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Thanks! This is the only response that actually answers the question. I'll try Konsole with the linked vim patch.
> is it even possible to grant a non-exclusive, non-revocable license?

...Yes?

IAN(Y)AL. But licences aren't revocable by default. If I grant you a licence by contract, then you have a licence. If I want to revoke it, I have two options.

- One, I can ask you if you'd be willing to waive/vary the contract, in return for some good consideration. But you don't have to accept.

- Two, I can send you a letter saying "I revoke your licence", sue you, and crucially, try to convince a judge to imply a term into the contract that allows me to revoke the license. Which is pretty hard. Terms aren't implied lightly. Especially if I put the word "irrevocable" in the contract, no-one's going to imply a clause saying the exact opposite.

Important thing: "by contract". If I grant you a licence gratuitously, outside of a contract or deed, that's different.
A literal translation, the Stoics having doubtless written in formal Latin, it being so concise, might appear more as riddle than prose to English speakers.
Rarely do the title changes appear to be an improvement.
I'm the author of the article. Someone else kindly posted it here. I just noticed an awful lot of traffic suddenly coming from this link. So thought I'd say thanks! Also, if anyone has any questions please let me know. Happy to help. The article is just based on some research I'm doing for a book called Teach yourself Stoicism, incidentally. You may also be interested in the research on Stoicism that's been going on at the University of Exeter, with which I've been helping a bit. This is their blog:

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/

Regards,

Donald Robertson
But what about soul?
There's a bug in google code prettify which your syntax highlighting also shows:

http://paste.pm/134.sh

relevant bug: https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/detail...
HN is slow enough already. I don't think anything that requires per-user (or per-pair-of-users) weighting is going to fly on most sites.
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Great post. Short, straight to point and useful. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Do you have any advice on how to get exposure on reddit? In other words do you think your karma helped, did you have friends who helped you promote the post up? Did you do anything specific besides posting the blog post? Thanks.
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@niggler Huh, interesting. We're using Ace, though, so it's not related to Google Code Prettify, but still a bug.
How are text browsers (lynx, elinks) counted in the statistic? Strictly speaking, javascript isn't disabled because its not supported in the first place
Amazon on the other hand. Amazon is killing it. In every single field they enter. Nobody can compete with them in any field they decide to enter.

Nobody can compete with them because they are choosing, through their pricing strategy, to make almost no money (relatively speaking). Buying Amazon stock at these valuations is a bet that in the future they will eventually decide to turn some valves to begin diverting floods of profit into their pockets (i.e., your pocket, as a shareholder), or that the stock price itself will be higher in the future for other reasons (i.e., speculation). The big question is whether the mix of "fields they enter" can support profit margins in the future that will be sufficiently large to justify your investment at current prices (low-margin retail vs. cloud services, for example).

Apple, on the other hand, already has those valves wide open, and is gobbling up historic amounts of cash. The mix of fields Apple has entered is well understood; notably, the market wants Apple to define, enter, and dominate new fields, and Apple's opacity in this regard leads to much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. At the same time, would the market also prefer that Apple close those valves a bit (make less money to buy marketshare and customers)? Apple is so big and so widely held that there's a large cohort ready to believe any particular strategy is the wrong one.
That's a nice post, glad you have got the solution for recurring payments. In India we don't have that open yet.
The pathological hate for even a simple mention of Thatcher prevalent in Britain is really quite amusing. When Thatcher took over in Britain, a big, sclerotic, hugely inefficient state was fait accompli. She slaughtered some holy cows and introduced significant reforms (which is all she's take to task for in the article). Was the alternative to these harsh reforms a land of milk and honey? The country was on the brink of bankruptcy (given ~30 years of deeply incompetent governance), something had to give.

The fait accompli in the Nordics is that of a state that never stops growing in size. In Denmark, the political debate, even on the most nutty right-wing fringe, is limited to discussing limiting the rate of growth. The previous liberal prime minister actively boasted the high rate of growth in the public sector. This is a reflection on the voting population: A large majority of voters have a direct financial dependency on the state through employment or by being a benefits recipient.
Here's the general outline.

Vendor A writes a parser that is helpful and is liberal and infers missing quotes and stuff. Vendor B writes something that's mostly to spec, but accidentally doesn't properly quote things. It works fine, because A is liberal and infers these quotes.

Vendor C comes along and builds exactly to spec. But despite being perfectly to spec, it doesn't interop because B sends invalid data! But B is a big vendor, and their stuff works with A.

So now C must add a hack to their parser to deal with the fact that, because A was liberal, B got their implementation wrong.

One example is the loose routing parameter, "lr". It has no value, you just add the name of the parameter "uri;lr" in contrast to other parameters like "tag=bla". Some implementations send "lr=on", and that should be mostly harmless. Except other implementations take that to mean "lr" has a value, and no longer accept just "lr" as turning the feature on.

SIP is full of these things, many of them in the parsing layer alone, let alone actual semantics of what things mean. Browsers are another example: vendor A decides to allow closing tags out of order - how do you do handle such unspecified stuff cross browser?
The standard way of handling recurring payments is to send recurring invoices and have users pay those. I don't see the issue.

(I agree with you that CC's are the only practical way nonetheless.)
What you're describing is equally true of stand-up comedians as entrepreners and technical people.
It's going to get a lot worse over the next decade when the baby boomers begin retiring. All those 2020 plans you're constantly hearing about? Not a random date.
That's a reasonable army for the time period. I don't know how historians make their estimates but often these are just estimates. Many armies in the time period have 30-50-80K men. In Medieval times getting an army of 20K was a huge deal, most armies were 10K.

Different economics, populations, fighting styles, time periods. They probably estimate army size by time period sometimes.
The problem is, an entire industry would spring up to do nothing but separate the dying from their fortunes. We already have churches for that. The FDA is all that stands in the way of an equally massive industry of snake-oil sellers.

The problem is, people want to believe. That's a bug in our mental firmware. The FDA is an ugly, flawed, but arguably vital workaround for that bug. If you want to get rid of it, you need to offer another fix for the bug.
No, it's not advice. It's an item from a bullet-point list of contemplative exercises found in traditional Stoicism and other Socratic philosophies. The meditation on death (melete thanatou) was mentioned by Socrates as an integral part of his approach to philosophy, according to Plato and it's common to many other philosophical and spiritual traditions, even Eastern approaches such as Buddhism. You'd need to read the literature to understand the concept of the exercise, although that doesn't necessarily mean you'd agree with it you won't get a reasonable idea of what it's about just from that one sentence description, and that's not what it's meant for anyway. Still not everyone's cup of tea, though.
I think what Natsu is suggesting is similar to what the film and music industry tried with seeding torrent sites with partial clips, or material unrelated to that which it says it was.

That was thwarted by a simple comment and up-vote system.
Should have posted on reddit!
No surprise, but it doesn't seem to work on the BlackBerry browser.
Filed issue: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues/1235

Next time, click on the "link" link next to a post you wish to reply to, and it will give you a reply option
A war like no other is also a classic on the Peloponnesian War; likewise surprsingly relevant to present day politics and wars.
I agree but I really don't want to see even more crying about "linkbait" titles then there already is.
This sounds great in theory, but how do you deal with individuals that mass distribute digital media to other individuals, say to thousands or even millions, if you live off selling it directly? eventually you are bound to go out of business, as this "mass distribution" becomes more and more popular.
How exactly are the files sent? You mentioned using "GCM as a tickle" are you only using it for routing?