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> it was in the service of a company and the corporation is responsible for it.

This a million times over. When I write code, or do a quick Google Image Search for a stupid icon to clean up a UI while I'm at work, I'm doing so in service of the company I work for. If my actions result in me and my company infringing upon someone else's copyrights, it is ultimately my company that is responsible for those actions. My company may retaliate against me (I'm pretty sure there's a "don't fuck up" clause in my work agreement), but my company cannot wash their hands and allow another company or individual to sue me directly for the violation anymore so than I can remove all the code I've written in their products on my last day of employment the same way I pack up the nic-nacs on my desk.
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You'd think efficiency is what most readers would want to hear about at this point because everything else sounds pretty great.

It's necessarily less efficient than coal power without CO2 capture. From these slides [1] they estimate 35%, vs. 39% for a conventional coal plant, and 29% for a different type of CO2 capture (post-combustion CO2 scrubbing with monoethanolamine [MEA]).

...but it is unclear if this is mostly due to the price of extra coal or the equipment itself.

Mostly equipment/capital [1].

[1] http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/12/co2captu...
> Yes, commercial use is allowed, but the LGPL requires attribution.

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

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

Where does it say that, I can't find the word attribution on there?

Do you maybe mean the creative commons license?
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I cannot see how this could ever bootstrap. As it is open source what is to stop me creating my own ledger and handing out all the free cash I've just created to people who want to come on my trusted network? (ps: I'll give you more imaginary cash than the founders will! ;) Who would ever pay real money for my imaginary cash? Am I missing something?
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What exactly do these petitioners expect? A) there are far more important things to do, IMHO, then spending time wrestling telco companies over this, and B) the White House has to do zilch but respond.

I love petitions, but people getting angry over e.g. repeatedly not legalizing marijuana after 0.03% of americans signed something I find confusing and frustrating.

It's almost as if people are easier to ignore if they solely protest through these petitions....
You essentially cannot, in the United States, get a group of doctors together to form a hospital as of the passage of Obama's healthcare reform act. (Technically, you can, but that facility cannot become Medicare certified, which is usually a death knell.) [1]

[1] = http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/06/28/gvsa0628.htm
I think it's more just about covering the discrepancy between "child's wrist" and "adult's wrist". i.e. making sure the display doesn't try to render to a fixed size, when substantial portions of the 'band' may overlap.

I doubt they'd ship enough material to actually attach to a leg. And hopefully they're not just shipping an iSlapBracelet: a wrist computer needs to stay in place. Not spin around your wrist freely. Good luck to them in weighting such a device and getting it to stay in place.
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The webpage does not work in Opera. The top image with search is missing and the bottom ones are just empty image tags.
I think SalesForce has the potential to be the new spreadsheet. I know this sounds curmudgeonly, but SF makes it so easy to change the system that you end up with the primary maintainers of SF being people who don't understand how to design a 'system', or how to structure a solution in a sustainable way.
Found a Buzby: http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=174.0788...
"Yes, Scala has Lift but it can’t match the maturity of Django. This overrode the benefits of some of the other libraries/tools that Scala/Java have on offer. Python gets ahead again: 2-1."

How does one come to the conclusion that the maturity of an 8 year old web framework, beats out the benefits of the almost 20 year old battle tested Java ecosystem. Not to mention the Scala Ecosystem is included as Icing on the JVM cake. OP also compared Lift to Django. How does OP not mention Play? Although an argument about the better of the two would be based strictly on opinion, from my view Play has more momentum in the race for the premier Scala Web Framework.
I'm sorry - I disagree. If you went with such a system (and especially if it was combined with the "No showing comment scores" model), then there's no context with a comment whatsoever. I like to know the user name b/c I know certain people IRL or from being here for 5+ years. Like Peroni said, I seek certain people's comments out b/c I respect their take on things.

I think that the worst part would be how such a thing would affect the "Ask HN" questions. How would you know the advice you were receiving was from a 40yo who has cashed out in 5+ ventures or from a 14yo kid who "talks a good game"? Sorry - I like that context for helping determine the good from the BS.
No flash plugin.

That was a hard to solve problem for me I would love to pay for. What they are offering does not look competitive.
I thought at first it was a positive introduction: "the company who created Audio CDs".
Obvious developer is being Obvious.

If you are developing for Linux deployment, it doesn't make sense to develop on Windows. This is a no brainer. Likewise if I was to develop for IIS/SQL Server I wouldn't do so using my Linux environment.
That looks like a setup, the One Show is a simple early evening show.
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It unclear where all of the carbon dioxide goes after they capture it. Does the process actually use the carbon dioxide for a second reaction? Or do they just put it in a tank somewhere? If it's the later, this would be difficult to do at scale.
This is a great idea. I was actually working on something similar yesterday! The beauty of this is that it has so many uses! I think all the haters need to chill and think about this for a minute. Yeah, it's probably a wrapper around webkit2png but outside of HN people...

1. Don't know how to use the terminal

2. Can't install webkit2png themselves (there are a lot of things that can go wrong - just ask me because they all went wrong for me yesterday. Everything from QT4 libs missing to $DISPLAY not being set, to the PIP package not installing correctly, to X-server connection problems)

3. Even if they had webkit2png they wouldn't know how to write a wrapper that took a damn screen shot, then resized it as a thumbnail, and changes the screen size so you can see a preview for multiple devices.

4. Don't have a Linux (or even POSIX compliant) machine locally or hosted somewhere.

This may seem simple here (well, to me it's more intermediate) but outside HN people will probably go nuts over this. Shameless sorta plug: I just started a project yesterday that does a very similar thing except it's meant for designers to take and store screenshots for inspiration and then plop them into a pretty UI/gallery. I'm going to open source it and host it though.
Seems like it, though that could come in handy.
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Is this running on phantomJS? Looks like webfonts aren't supported.
You should contrast the cost of a CT/MRI here vs in other countries like India or Japan.

The funny thing is, I ask healthcare professionals the same question and it is always just chalked up to the broken economics.
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You get a green name if your account is under 2 weeks old, had to ask my friend who got me onto this site the same thing =)
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>>In the context of software, "piracy" has come to mean downloading and distributing copyrighted material.

Odd, I thought if I downloaded, say, a game from a warez site I would be branded a pirate even if I didn't distribute it afterwards.
Yup; crackles abound. I pulled it up in Chromium 24.0.1312.70 to see if the sound was any better, and (most of) the crackles are gone. When > 4 notes play you still get a bit of crackle, but it's far, far better.

It's sad that everything HAS to be re-invented, but I am frequently excited to see what can be done with ES5. I'm eager to see what ES6 brings us.
I think the OP may have been referring to 4a:

a) Give prominent notice with each copy of the Combined Work that the Library is used in it and that the Library and its use are covered by this License.
For a single-purpose app like this, at least it could do a better job at rendering the screenshots, if you ask me. I tried it out on my site (no custom web-fonts, pretty standard stuff) and the font-rendering looks awful:

http://cl.ly/image/3S2E3Z3i412n
The latest comparative performance of 2D drawing in one runtime vs another doesn't have anything to do with my argument.
You are right that "mastering out" is not the same thing as failing out, so I may be overcounting here. Universities do also use the trick of admitting aspiring PhD students as MS students first, so that it doesn't affect their numbers when they fail to enter the doctoral program later. So there is also a possibility of undercounting as well.

I need to think a little more about this, but you're certainly correct in pointing out that it is more complicated that what I wrote - especially in engineering or CS, where an MS makes sense as a terminal degree goal.
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coal isn't burned with fire, but instead chemically combusted

I'd like some clarification on the difference between "fire" and "chemical combustion"
By the time you've paid for the server, the time to write the wrapper, and the cost of maintaining it, $10 per month is actually pretty good if screengrabs are an inconsequential part of your UI.
I am a bit curious about that as well. I am speculating that they are trying to price discriminate between various customers.
That's some very tasty jpeg compression you got here.

ps: the github stat troll made me chuckle. https://github.com/will
very perceptive. We are currently running a pricing experiment with our sales team. We operate with an inside sales model so not publishing the prices (currently) provides latitude for our sales team to run the experiment.
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The grass is always greener on the other side, if its a rousing success then you are an idiot for not taking additional stock but when the shoe is on the other foot you are a fool for taking the stock.

You should work for a company you are passionate about, take it's stock and assume it will be worth next to nothing and hope for the best.
IMO The probablity of a given page being well formed, or being non-well formed in a manner that will not completely screw the parser is probably very low. Therefore, you should use a dedicated html parser for parsing html.
3-D Printing Pen. Yes, this is a thing.
That is such a terrible attitude. "I pay - I'm entitled to service".

You are guest on board a plane. They treat you like a guest, but they are busy and concerned people so do not overstay your welcome. That's the social contract around air travel.

And the payment? Treat it as entry fee to a nice party. You have to pay to enter but you have no right to be there if you can't behave.

And getting railed up by someone in power misrepresenting something about you that's unverifiable? Well... OP tells how it turned out. It usually turns out that way.

OP broke the rule (photographed equipment), when gently reminded about the rule, he made no efforts to make up for his violation (he didn't delete photos) and indulged his need to explain why he felt entitled to breaking that rule without clearly stating that he won't do it again but with using word 'terrorist' instead. Then he was asked to leave the plane.
"Brilliant marketing play"

Maybe, but where the idealism gone? Both on HN, in tech circles, and, yes, at Google, there was some healthy dose of idealism. You know, this thing that make people do thing for something else than money, for the better good of humanity for example.

Idealism (and anger) brought us Linux, Vim, the Web, etc.

And it is killing me to see Google follow the normal evolution of mammoth corps, doing all for the brand idol, trying to launch a vast fishnet and catch as much fish as they can to feed the idol.

Brands are not bad per se. In the old times, a good label for wine was just the name of a family who knew how to craft wine, and same for clocks, cars, and on. The brand was a simple hook to hang a carefully pampered reputation vis-a-vis your clients. The core was craftmanship.

Now the reputation has become an end by itself, and one spend more time or money building a "reputation" than crafting and selling useful (or useless) tools. And the more reputation you have the more you need, just like power.
No. They're a rails shop.
It's funny how you have to petition to have lawmakers pay attention to an issue, when by definition, those people are there to represent the interest of the majority in the first place.
Hey, Iconfinder here :-)

We care a lot about stating the license clearly since it's essential to our business. Also if there is anything copyright infringing on our site we'll remove it immediately.
As far as I can tell, this icon is created by the Oxygen team and the license information is correctly presented on our site.
One definition of "fire" demands "oxygen from the air":

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+fire&oq=define+fi...

The fuel here doesn't react with air, but with a solid oxidiser (Fe2O3). It's a solid-solid reaction, whose products are gases (CO2 and H2O). Just like a solid-fuel rocket.
as is Windows Phone

From a pure financial basis I would wager good money that Android is more expensive for manufacturers than Windows Phone is, not even including the Microsoft patent tax (where it most certainly is more expensive for any vendor who signed on), in the same way that Linux was actually more expensive for Dell to put on a laptop than a full copy of Windows was.

When Samsung or Motorola or HTC or LG decide to go with Android they commit themselves to significant software engineering expenses. Those who try to under-fund those activities suffer in the market (Motorola and Sony being two prime examples).

Windows Phone, in contrast, is built to put the vast majority of the software engineering costs on Microsoft's side, and the activities required by a hardware vendor are dramatically reduced.

I only mention this because there's a recurring, very detached from reality theme that vendors choose Android because it is "free" (excluding the possibility that vendors have to license the non-ASOP Google apps and services). That might be true for the cheapest of the cheap devices, but it is completely untrue for the top tier makers.
> However, it's likely that any extraterrestrial intelligence capable of maintaining life on it's home planet, will have an understanding of their fellow life forms, which is more than we have.

That's quite the assumption. Right now, our sample size of one shows the opposite.
Off-topic Why racket is not more popular than other lisp dialects?
It seems like copy&paste are a challenging computer science problem [irony]. I remember how the crowd applauded when Steve Jobs presented this feature in iOS.

Fast forward a couple of years and even Google Chrome in Android has bugs in a textbox when you remove characters with backspace (it swaps characters, move the cursor).
It is a misconception that JQuery no longer supports IE7.

> First of all, let’s be very clear: The jQuery team does “worry about” IE 6/7/8, with jQuery 1.9. We’ve created a legacy-free jQuery 2.0 in order to address the many situations where older versions of IE aren’t needed. Some glorious day in the future, jQuery 2.0 will be the only version you’ll need; until then we’ll continue to maintain jQuery 1.9.

http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/14/the-state-of-jquery-2013/
With the PS3 they removed PS2 hardware and a there was a die shrink, but naturally this wouldn't reduce physical size?
Do you really need an app for that?
You mean "were" a rails shop? (Or am I misunderstanding this news?)
Java was Sun.
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In the early years of Groupon it was seen as coupons moving online to create a new business model that was going to drive retail.

The sites had off the charts growth, huge revenue dollars that were growing just as fast and the land was up for grabs.

Even Google got suckered into this when it tried to buy Groupon for billions in cash, I can see where the investors were coming from, well at least before 2011.
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Wouldn't the dust just slowly deposit itself? 10,000 years sounds a bit much. The moon does have some gravitational pull, and there being no air resistance or viscosity, my guess would be much shorter than 10,000 years... maybe just hours or days. (Talking about the moon, not small asteroids - for these I guess dust can even escape them).
Here's the thing. That header is huge and still exists on the docs pages.

I'm sure it looks great on a iMac, but on a 13" screen it takes up 1/3 of the space. Every page click on the API docs requires a scroll down to get to the juicy content below. My finger gets tired.

I love the PHP.net site docs. No header, just meat.

Edit: A quick look around and as a reminder to myself, best I could find (fast + useful + instant search): http://www.jqapi.com/#p=width
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I know how to get Flash working in case you're interested. I'm assuming here that you (and they) are both using Webkit2png. In that case what you do is install Flash ([package-manager] install flash-plugin) then...

Well, the gist of it is that once you have Flash installed you need to enable plugins (-F plugins -F javascript) as well as set the wait ('-w 10' for 10 second wait before shot's taken) option so that the Flash has time to load.

This article helped me quite a bit. Apparently there's a problem with the wait time so you may need to dig into webkit2png's source to fix it. http://gfdsa.gfdsa.org/2012/08/making-web-pages-screenshots-...
Just some states. I think California is the most interesting of them.

But most are freeriders. I don't give a damn about Alabama's tech.
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I've seen the same type of scenario played out from a business perspective. "Wait, why are you spending $2,000/month on SEO? Why don't you just partner with Company X." My favorite, though, was when I showed a ticket broker friend of mine how to plug into existing affiliate markets. One quick switch and his revenue jumped 1,000% at no cost to him.
AFAIK, HN is done in Arc.
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Could also be someone from a Unix background that also knows specifics of how to optimally manage typical Linux business deployments (usually RHEL, SLES, etc). I can't tell you how many long-time Unix admins I've worked with that didn't know anything about how to create a start/stop init script that was chkconfig compliant (chkconfig originated from Irix I belive), and end up making symlinks in /etc/rcX.d manually. Or be able to debug boot problems (requires knowledge of at least some kernel boot parameters, the initrd, order of the various startup scripts, etc).
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I am also interested to know how it compares to Clojure.
If all 100k people chipped in a $100, it would have more effect than this petition. We live in a time where it takes money to get elected.
It's probably related to linux font rendering.
Sorry for the beginner questions, but how did the remote port change from 80 to 4007? Are you NATed on both ends? And, how did you go about getting the IP:port of your local router? Are you using some tool, or do you have root on your office router?
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If only there was a website where voters could see how every politician voted on every vote they've ever made when in power. It would cut right through any BS.
Most of the Java ecosystem you'd be using is not 20 years old.
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Filter noise? You mean like concerns of citizens instead of concerns of lobbyists?

A Kickstarter might be more useful than a petition in getting the attention of the US government.
It's meant to be injected underground.
Great to see companies looking for solutions to the patent systems mess. It gets really frustrating when the system that protects IP causes more trouble than good.

I still cant believe amazon were able to patent the one click sales process they offer on their website. Maybe one of the car makers will patent their air conditioning button? =(
This is really amazing, but I wish these two browsers would be pushing for a FOSS version of PDF instead.

I do not think openXPS is entirely FOSS but it is a good place to start looking for an alternative.

Here is an xps file on the web to see how your browser handles it: http://www.rosebudschooldist.com/images/Feb%20Cal%202013.xps
I use PhantomJS for something and they aren't supported, I believe there are a few workarounds though bu injecting additional js into the page.
Google's working on a new protocol
http://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/quic/

(HN did not like the +)
This is something that I like in Brazillian laws, in Brazil carriers are supposed to always provide "portability", this mean that you can keep your phone numbers when you change your carrier.

The "portability" laws, also say that the carriers themselves have to unlock your phones if you want to change carrier.

This ensures that a carrier cannot make you locked to them by using phone lock or number lock. It is highly interesting. Maybe facilitated by the fact that all carriers here use GSM (people think that CDMA is shit, and like the fact that GSM chips are harder to clone than CDMA phones).
I guess it's to British for average American taste.
Is my mind wired completely different from the speaker's, or are all his analogies really that bad? I just couldn't bear it after 15 min, my mind hurt after all the magic wells / documents / princesses / programs - they pushed my intuitions in the wrong directions and then made me feel like I have to fight my own thoughts to turn my mind to what he was explaining. He gets to the idea of Racket as a platform for DSLs in such a convoluted way... I'm really sorry for his students, at least if they have my "kind of mind"!

On the side, I find Rich Hickey's and other Clojure videos very inspiring and atuned to my "intuitions" (that's how you sell a Lisp!) and same for the SICP lectures from the 80's with their "processes as spirits inside the computer" metaphors.
Exactly! That's why this is totally worth it. Not only do most people not have the skills but it's also not so important to their core product that they need to spend all that time and effort on rolling their own. You have (or maybe you do have) no idea how many things can go wrong with these sorts of things. Both wkhtmltopdf and webkit2png are two pieces of software that have given me more trouble overall than all the time I've ever spent maintaining production and dev environments for any other purpose. This site is totally worth the $10 bucks like you say.
On that same note, most of the Django ecosystem isn't as mature as Django either. What point are your trying to make?
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where are the people ? No one seems to be living in any apartments.
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That's my favorite nano-absolutely the perfect running ipod. I truly miss it.
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