skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Sunde is all about freedom and "sharing". Yet, his site "Flattr" charges a higher service fee than any other service of its kind.

Here is from the flattr site:

"On incoming revenue you keep 90%. When you add money to give to others or withdraw money you earned you only pay a fee to the payment provider you choose."

So, they charge 10%. Paypal doesn't even charge you anything close to this. I also like how they tried to make it sound like it's not that bad, by talking about how much you actually get to keep rather than the fee itself.

I guess you need to make a profit/pay for server/infrastructure costs...so do artists, movie makers, and software developers.

It's so easy to take the hard work of others and in most cases, against the wishes of the original content creator, and just give it out for free. Anybody can buy a couple of servers, index a bunch of content, and put it up in a foreign country.

TPB isn't fighting for your freedom. They are helping in the demise of independent artists. Sure, you will always have a few people that play for free because it's fun, but because of the current state of the Internet (the new generation feels like they are entitled to music and anything else online, for free), it's going to be very difficult to actually make a living unless you are signed to a major label.
I doing agree, it is not a javascript error ! again if i take the array exemple and the following code :

var a = [1,2,3,4]
// now i filter the array
var b = a.filter(function(a){return a<0} );
// b = []
// now do something on b
b.forEach(function(e){console.log(e)})
// will "fail" silently , because it will output nothing

is what i'm doing stupid ? yes, but it is 100% valid from a javascript perspective. It is a coding error , but not a JS error.
That example under the When Tools Make It Worse section - uggghhhhh. Why would anyone actually do that? That isn't DRY refactoring, that's cargo cult refactoring.

DRY is not, was never, and should never be about unnecessarily replacing clean, well-factored code with @$2!% shared mutable state. The goal is to normalize your code, not to micro-optimize for keystroke count. No. Nonononononono. Just no.
No, but depending on use I could certainly see it being good policy.
This is as it should be

EDIT: well maybe not for IE10
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I was recently (a few months ago) at Gordon Ramsey new restaurant in Vegas. They pull out iPads for your wine and beer selection. They would leave it at the table and you could look through the different wines, the regions they came from, how they were made, etc... Same with the beers. It was interesting, but honestly felt like a novelty. Super cumbersome and sort of gave you too much to read. Made the choice harder (for me and my party at least)...
Perhaps. He might make more money in private practice.

But let's suppose you're right. I don't actually think firing would be an disproportioniate rebuke under the circumstances. To use language that Heymann might have used of Swartz, I think it would be great to make an example of him.

All that said, I don't expect it to happen.
Does that qualify as trademark infringement? I can definitely see the case for customers being confused by the similarity to Square.

edit: Can someone please explain why this is being downvoted? I'd like to make sure my contributions are constructive.
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Seriously? That's intriguing... If you wrote a very popular scientific library, how much would that impact your career compared to, for example, a Nature publication?

(I ask this because, for me, I think the former is much more likely than the latter.)
"In the UK there was a problem of people reporting their phones stolen so they could break the contract."

People do this in the states too, for insurance purposes.
I think the first step the author took on the refactoring path was one I wouldn't take. It breaks the "do one thing" rule and the rest of the post is the pain that naturally follows from having an over-generalized method that tries to do too much.
But I bet that the text you're looking at right now on HN is easier to read than the screenshot. Now consider that people might have dense screens, or sit further away from the screen than you do, or have poor eyesight.
The keyboard / mouse combo is the ideal way to control many types of games.

Edit: I was addressing this comment, not claiming that the keyboard is superior in all situations.

>There's a reason PC games are treading water with support for little-to-nothing beyond kb/m and dodgy/partial support for the 360 gamepad here and there.
Does that mean all shapes are off limits now?
That is actually a better way of explaining it I think. Give the majority a safe way to vent and you'll deflate growing sentiment.

My (probably unnecessary) expansion on this is that when you deflate the sentiment, all those who remain angry will become more extreme (just by nature of not being surrounded by less extreme people) and will become easily to marginalize/fire.
The perspective of Google Images:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mitten&tbm=isch
Disagree. Chasing's response does sound a bit prickly, but there's no ad hominem in it, and I can see why he/she took some offense at being told what to do.
The challenge in this space is not the technology, or more cool/useful features.

It's merchant adoption.

It's a massive barrier to entry when a local business has invested upwards of 10's of thousands of dollars on their existing POS system. Or, the flip side of the coin is that they have zero desire to get anything more technical than a $60 register from PriceClub. This is scary stuff to most local merchants.

It's a super long term play to get market share.
I can read it comfortably if I lean in, but I'd rather not. The text here on HN is smaller than your site, and it's perfectly readable from my normal position.
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Umm, 1.5 times?
Surely in many cases the incentive is to get a pre-order of some item, possibly at a reduced price that you might not have had a chance to purchase at all otherwise?
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One question: how do you go about removing human nature from this interesting idea? As is true with most noble ideas, it always falls over because some person is going to twist it to suit their ends. Communism is a fantastic idea until you find out that 'Some animals are more equal than others' How does 'The United Order' deal with this?

Edit: spelling (iPad use in a pub is highly discouraged)
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No.1!

Jeff. This is awesome. So glad to see those late night hours slaving away have paid off. Beers are on me!
The Square register was a huge flop with most merchants (though they are addressing these issues with more recent updates). Most merchants I've interviewed that use an iPad as a POS solution have tried it, and dumped it for something that actually met their needs. Again, they are addressing these issues, but that was the feedback I received less than 6 months ago.
TI-84 here. I actually tried to get into java a few years earlier (like 9 or 10 years old), but ran into loads of problems trying to get a decent tutorial. Everything about TI-BASIC was right there in the manual, which removed all the bullshit of learning a real programming language.
That's not the kind of "free to play" that Valve promotes. The phone apps are much, much more spammy. Valve mostly takes AAA games and can open them for free because the money they make as a facilitator between content creators and consumers pays for the game. The content makers make awesome stuff and get paid, the consumers get awesome stuff and have fun. Valve takes a commission for providing both the entertainment and payment platform. Everyone wins.

It's a one-way street on most phone apps. The devs write a little phone game, and then put 90% of it behind staged paywalls. Quite a different thing than what Gabe has done, and what he discusses here.
On the App Store for instance 30 % goes to Apple.
Target clientele?
So if I use SASS/Compass why would I want to switch? I don't see anything here that the other CSS pre-processors (LESS and Stylus) can't do.
Yeah everybody totally miss the point that tools can only cause as much harm as the hand that holds them will allow.
It's certainly true that many free to play games fall into this category, but definitely not all of them... I don't do a lot of mobile gaming, but I do know there are decent games out there that won't make you hate your life with inane calls to action.

Robotek is an example of a great free-to-play game that does use in-app purchases, but doesn't require them (games that claim not to but basically do if you want to actually get anywhere are horrible).

Anecdotal evidence is crap, I know, and this is only one example (I've played others but can't recall them right now)... but the top earners are obviously always going to be the kind of money-pit BS you're talking about. That's a shame, but putting all free to play games -- with or without IAP/advertising/etc. -- into that category just isn't realistic.
I am 41, and am assuming I will (be able to !) want to retire at 60.. I know Ghandi, Linus Pauling etc. But I suspect I shall be a tiny bit tired by 60.

Who knows. Maybe I have 40 years to go.

Whatever, I am fed up with looking back and thinking "if only" - so I shall try and minimise those by 60.
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Fixed the error. Thanks!
p.s. Now is when the real work starts :)
It sounds like you have a feeling that bitcoin isn't good enough, but don't have any actual reasons for it.
holy moly. It sounds like you don't want to release your code because someone else might find a bug that you missed (and that might have a "deleterious" effect on your journal articles).

You would rather leave potentially incorrect work standing than have a bug corrected?

What the f*ck has happened to science.
We're not necessarily talking about "experienced" developers. I know plenty of people who have set up their own self-hosted WordPress instances for their personal blogs who don't know how to how to self-manage a VPS.

Keep in mind not everyone who uses or even installs software is an "experienced developer".
2: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/dbc0e0c6-bfe9-11de-aed2-00144...

3: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/5714b216-bfea-11de-aed2-00144...

4: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d55926e8-bfea-11de-aed2-00144...

Can't find a transcript for 5.
Show HN: My quirky iPad(s) art project
Not sure if it's updated since you wrote this, but you can do

alrt.io/2m50s

Still %20s in long format URLs though
This document is a fantastic read, highly recommend everybody to check it out
Agreed.

Input devices like this have been common on PC for a while now, just for specialized games.

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/products/trackir5/
I worked with a computer scientist once, and he tested out lots of languages for replacing his VB setup (I know, I was surprised too). JS turned out to be the fastest language for a lot of his tests. If the libraries ever get there, it will be lethal. Presumably there might be a way to compile java libraries to JS using Rhino, but its not something I've ever investigated.
No idea why you were downvoted. That paper looks like it has far more thoughtful things to say than most comments here. :-)
github and add one of several science-related tags
Sure. But it doesn't fit the living room environment very well. You can dispute whether that's where the PC is headed, but it's what Valve thinks, so their logic is at least consistent.
Sort of like dating app for mittens? :)
> TPB isn't fighting for your freedom. They are helping in the demise of independent artists.

I think you've been misinformed about the effects of content piracy.
Indeed, it's disheartening to see people try to defend what is most certainly a crime. No matter what you call it, the artists are not getting paid for their content when they have the right to require payment. That is not right, no matter how you slice it.

I'm tired of people saying "but look how evil the artists/labels/companies are!" I don't care, it's no excuse. You're correct that they're shady, but just because you're correct doesn't make your actions right.
All good points. I can remember being broke as a college student downloading music I didn't even want, and today I only buy music and rarely at that. Once you can afford something, I think many of us take a step back and then ask, "do I really want/need this?". I find I have this exercise not just because it is less exciting to have something you can easily own, but also because owning things has a physical cost. Time to research and buy, maintain, and store.

I'm not rich by any means, but as I've made more and more money, just like you, I've found giving to be infinitely more satisfying than spending on myself.

Truthfully, part of it is just the shocked expression someone can have when doing something that makes them feel special. Another part of it is the "do good" feeling, and the appreciation I have that I'm lucky enough to have the ability to do these things. Hard work means a lot, but I don't kid myself, I could have grown up in a position where my chance of success from child to adult was much lower.
Or you believe in what they're doing enough you want to make sure it happens (or in the case of stretch goals, that the goals happen).

Hell I just saw a KS I'm probably going to throw money in for where the main product is going to be free, the incentives are mostly stickers plus a few webinars/videos around ebook topics

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1371597318/the-peoples-e...
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I believe they intended the 'proper' code to look like:

def global_feed(request):
tweets = Tweet.objects.all()
tweets = itertools.ifilter(lambda t: not t.is_profane(), tweets)
return render(request, 'global_feed.html', {'tweets': tweets})

tweets_per_page = 20
def user_timeline(request, username):
tweets = Tweet.objects.filter(user__username=username)
page = request.GET.get('page', 1)
offset = (page - 1) * tweets_per_page
tweets = tweets[offset:offset + tweets_per_page]
return render(request, 'user_timeline.html', {'tweets': tweets})
I think by input methods he means number of users with the input methods. Every wii user has the wiimote. MS heavily promotes the kinect. Not many users in PC land have joysticks for example and that limits games that would like to use it as a main control mechanism.
Except that, with the price rising, they're making money from that "exposure" on average.

And they obviously believe the price will keep going up, because they're a bitcoin business, and believe in bitcoin. If the price stops going up, their company will fail anyway.

And finally, perhaps you noticed that coinbase is processing thousands of bitcoin purchases now. So I'd say, with all that data, it's not actually that risky for them. If the price starts going down, they'll know it first, because they'll be the ones making the purchases. :P
Uh, these are not monads. These are actually what we might call "wrappers". They just provide a nicer interface for an underlying API (the DOM in jQuery's case, and sql queries in Django's).

What is a monad is JQuery.Deferred, with the `.then(...)` method as the `bind` operator. This has to be monadic, because it wraps a promise of a value that can't be computed synchronously.
The issue you outline is tangential (but still important). The issues I'm seeing are actual exceptions occurring where sites are missing the reference to the GA object, not issues with _link tracking and redirects.
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Absolutely agree :) Add in a social-plugin blocker (if you're not a disable-js person), and the internet moves like 3 times faster. Just preventing e.g. someone's twitter feed from loading often makes the page respond a couple seconds sooner, which is really unforgivably bad.
One rule I try to follow is to avoid refactoring when the shared code is "coincidental." Perhaps this is another way of expressing what the author says about business logic.

I've definitely worked on projects where developers created large, unwieldy, hard-to-grok, buggy abstractions in the name of DRYing code. I'm pretty aggressive about making code DRY, but simplicity and readability are more important.

The effort I'll tolerate in pursuit of DRY also varies by language. I've been doing some Android work lately, and I'm finding that things I would have done DRY in Ruby require too much added complexity to make DRY in Java.
I wouldn't change it. When it is going crazy it only reinforces the power of the Sync tech you are doing.
A monad is an object whose methods return:
either itself if that method is not meant to change the object's properties, like getters;
or a new copy of original monad object with changed properties if that method is meant to change object properties, like setters.
I don't think she's lying. That would imply she knows Heymann's motives but is misrepresenting them. I don't think she knows his motives. If I were going to ascribe fairly venal motives to someone, I'd want to have something to back my claim up.
There is a Star Trek Voyager episode on the idea of dinosaurs leaving earth. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Distant_Origin_(episode)

It is one of my favorite Voyager episodes.
What limit are you talking about?
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"Interesting, but marijuana is used in standard modern medicine already."

First, marijuana is still illegal for doctors to prescribe in all 50 states, so saying that it's already used in modern medicine is a bit dubious.

Any examples of things not used by modern medicine that are shown to have efficacy?"

This largely depends on how you define 'modern medicine' and 'have shown efficacy'. E.g. modern as in modernism, or modern just meaning anything that's currently widely used? Because if you're defining modern in terms of modernism, which would be the most natural use of the word, then by definition no plant medicine can ever be part of modern medicine since it goes against everything that modernity stands for. If on the other hand you're defining modernism as anything that's currently widely used as part of medicine, then you get into the issue of widely used by who? In any event I'm going to take a pass on answering that only because I think it's largely a moot point to begin with, as I was only arguing that naturopathy can be useful and not that it is never used by 'modern' medicine (however you define it).

"Do you have a source to support the concept that the problem with plant medicine is the lack of funding in the face of promising early studies?"

So lack of funding is only one of the problems. Another big problem is 'blobology', which Willoughby Britton explains here:

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2012/10/bg-266-mindful-binge-dr...

The basic concept is that every study is looking at something a little bit different, so even if there are hundreds of studies on some medicine and they are all positive, it still isn't necessarily conclusive. If you google for studies on the efficacy of, say, aloe vera for treating burns, you will see that pretty easily. And it shows up pretty widely, as it's just a problem that's inherent with science right now.

I haven't taken the time to find a great source for funding specific stuff, but just a quick Google search shows that total US biomedical research spending is about 94 billion as of 2003, and the total NIH grants for CAM research (so not just naturopathy) are 441 million. (And presumably the amount of commercial research done on naturopathy is almost zero since plants can't be patented.)
It's strange, since to me that seems like the most reasonable use of KS, not the least as the "not a store" attitude might suggest. The only sort of things I might consider are products that are not revolutionary and have a straightforward path to manufacturing. Things like that salt-gun for shooting bugs. Not stuff like "video games that are going to change the face of education" or whatnot.
CDNs do a whole lot more than that. They allow common resources to be shared between sites. If 10 sites self-host jQuery, you download it 10 times. If they all pointed to the same CDN, you'd download it once, reducing your latency to below lightspeed - the time it takes to check caches on your device.
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No. Square and Cube offer very similar products.

If I started a fruit distribution company and called it Rhombus, there probably wouldn't be an issue.

I can't say whether there is definitive trademark infringement here (Cube seems to offer analytics services and targets a niche market, differentiating its product). However, I can't help but feel that "Cube" is a reference to Square.
If the desktop PC disappears for the average user, I wouldn't be surprised if even ports stopped getting released.
"Everybody knows that" doesn't count as evidence.
Having tried a few games in this category, I generally realized about ten minutes after installation I didn't download a game, I downloaded a money funnel.

The snarky response to this would be to stop downloading bad games.

There are plenty of good F2P games out there. Planetside 2, League of Legends, Path of Exile, etc. On mobile, there are games like Angry Birds that aren't just a money funnel. But honestly, you're going to have a tough time on the mobile space because IMO there just aren't that many games worth playing out there.
It was edited after the fact but before your comment, which makes the conversation moot.
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Obviously the government always carries with it the potential for violence - to properly only be used in response to a crime.

Otherwise the parent is correct. Capitalism requires the removal of violence (as in it's illegal and punished by a judicial system) from the marketplace, and requires that the government act as the final arbiter of disputes (etc) with a monopoly on force when it comes to the enforcement of laws.

In Capitalism if transactions aren't voluntary (ie without compulsion by force), then what you have is not Capitalism. Some people take to adding terms, like free market Capitalism, or Crony Capitalism, but that's ridiculous.
Yeah, that's a big question for me too. To speculate a little bit, the recent Slate profile of Swartz paints him as impatient and mercurial, getting tired of projects quickly and moving on, especially when he finds some aspect of it painful or tedious. Nothing wrong with that in life, I think, but not a great property in an activist. Maybe he just wasn't up for the fight? Edit: and I'll give credit to Byrne on this point.

On the other hand, we should also remember that Swartz is human and not some activist archetype. Sometimes life, shifting priorities, or personal issues get in the way of our goals. Best laid plans, etc. That his followthrough didn't match his initial stab doesn't make the initial stab wrong.
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+1 I met him in Edinburgh last year and he's one hell of a nice guy.