skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet works better when content exists in resources with URLs, and not bound inside clunky proprietary data formats like Flash.
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Bitcoin is available in all countries; maybe people should look into that instead of waiting for stripe to arrive.
Email sent :-)

Perhaps we should all use the title "UK beta" to help you filter them.
I'll be doing that when I eventually move to some remote Bulgarian village. There are people that steal there (mostly gypsies), but out of desperation, not because they want to. As I intend to continue working in IT, albeit remotely, I'll be making way more money than I need to live - so I'll put up a notice that reads: "Don't steal - come in and take whatever you need. Maybe we can even have a drink if I have time." I hope this means I won't get my computer stolen, and what I can't eat - I don't need, so they're welcome.
The connection speed test is also far too small, so repeating the test gives vastly too small, and probably doesn't ramp TCP up enough on most connections.
A subset of European countries use the euro of which Denmark is not one of that subset.
> Typical crud apps don't have complex problem domains

I beg your pardon, but I think you're forgetting that there are plenty of business apps that have very complex requirements due to legislation, a myriad of cross-cutting concerns, and audit requirements. Domain complexity is a very real thing, and it often necessitates architecture beyond cramming everything into this week's CRUD framework.
I love that he talks about writing with pens and paper. Too many people overlook how useful this can be, I think.

When I was writing my dissertation, I followed this cycle:

+ Morning: Write new material, always by hand on legal pads, with the same pen (a relatively heavy, but thin Lamy ballpoint - good balance and weight, fine but clear ink, never clogged). Edit: I still have a callous on my finger from those two years of writing.

+ Lunch + shoot pool for a few hours (no books, clear head)

+ Afternoon: Type up what I hand wrote in the morning, edit old pages (on a screen or from print outs, that would vary) and take notes on articles and books.

Having time to think is what makes writing by hand so useful I think. It's like the (apocryphal?) Truman Capote response when he heard about Kerouac's automatic writing style: "That's not writing. It's typing." Too much of what we do is just typing rapidly, without thought.

Maybe more disciplined people can work slowly enough at a keyboard, but I find it difficult still. When I really want to think about something, I still start with paper.
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If it were not for those fanatical religiously-motivated phobias that you decry, that kid would have been murdered before he was ever born.
Internet didn't work, all I got was a Lego brick with a X on it.
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Y U no understand how free software works
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I don't think your point about the AMA is entirely accurate; I know people that have been practicing medicine for 40 years and they would disagree about the increase in hours per week; in fact, residents now have a cap on the number of hours per week they can work, something that didn't exist in the past.

A bigger problem with the AMA is that it's made up almost entirely of academics and yet wields a massive amount of power over the government's decisions regarding clinical practice.

The thing you might not realize is that in order to maintain board certification, doctors HAVE to read periodicals and go to conferences. There's a continuing education requirement so that they stay current.
My problem with Lua DSLs is the verbose function syntax (`function foo() return end`). I'm thinking about experimenting more with Metalua to see if it helps in that regard.

One thing that positively impressed me were coroutines though. You can do some very interesting DSL things with it.
I was using both a Nexus 7 and a HTC Wildfire S (Android 2.3.5) to test my app. To start with, I used just my N7 and the app was using the Holo Theme. Then when I installed it on my HTC, something changed somewhere and the default theme changed to the old one. I hadn't really looked at themes, and didn't really know what had happened, or why it affected subsequent installs on my N7, so I decided to write it off for now, and change it in an update later on.

Do you think that it makes it look really old? If so I'll bump the theme update up in my priority list. Thanks
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Depends on what "well" means. :)
Not if you want to actually have a meaningful amount of sales (unless you're selling something illegal).
I agree that, in general, you don't want to maintain a fork because that's a lot of work (or more work than contributing the changes so they're included and maintained upstream), but I don't like the idea of losing the benefits of open source customizability because upstream don't want your changes (sometimes it happens, for different reasons).

So yes: avoid forking when possible, but don't be afraid of maintaining a fork if the benefits are worth the effort.
+1, Except that the articles mainly deserve the design they have...
I was saving the private URL's (e.g. http://bitino.com/uQWyylFetc...) to go back to and withdraw my cash later. (My browser cookies clear upon exit). The pages show the correct bitcoin balance, but they're not letting me withdraw! It says I haven't played a game, so even when I go ahead and play another, it still says "You haven't played yet!"

Could you fix this ASAP because I actually put a decent amount of money in this...
Imagine someone came up to you and said "I want to paint a picture as good as the Mona Lisa. What's the minimum I need to know about art?"

Would you say learning to mix paint is as important as understanding perspective?

It rather depends what you're trying to accomplish. For example, if your mockup requires something computationally heavy (or impossible) you're really going to struggle.
Does anyone know why the link has changed from TNW (http://thenextweb.com/uk/2013/03/01/stripe-uk-europe-launch/) to TechCrunch?

It's not really important, just curious if this is some kind of mod preference for TC? :)
He's got a point, until point 4

> 4. What if someone publishes a book with all your content and makes a million dollars off it? I hope they at least give me credit. And my deepest desire is that they give some of that money to a good cause.

I don't believe him, and even if he thinks this way, he is the minority. Do you know the story about the bum who killed himself after seeing someone getting rich and famous from the song HE was playing in the streets? (my way)
1,008 free videos is what I'm talking about
There's a video where fine sandpaper's used. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHj_AH1Fp5A) Said that the Mont Blanc cartridge even wiggles less than Pilot's own cartridge.

What is the advantage of Mont Blanc? G2 ink smears easily on the Moleskine, so I found them unusable together. (Not that I can justify to myself the premium for Moleskine, but I did buy one once. :) How does Mont Blanc ink fare?
The auther gives a very important advice, but takes it to an unhealthy extreme.

I fully agree that you should always try to contribute the changes you make to a Free Software project. This has not only the advantage of less maintainance work in the long run. It also means that your changes will be reviewed - by people who know the code you're modifying very well. So contributing also means to get a good quality assurance.

However, it makes still a lot of sense to keep a local fork in addition to contributing. And here the author argues too one-sidedly when he recommends that you should do that only for security fixes. There are many other scenarios in which this makes sense:

1) The change may be important for you (e.g. to make the code compile on some strange OS), but not be accepted by upstream (e.g. they don't want to support that strange OS in the long run).

2) The review process, as well as the next release, may take some time. And you certainly don't want to make your own release schedule totally depending on other projects' release schedules.

In the first case, you have no choice but to keep a local fork as long as the project maintainers don't change their mind or provide a better solution.

But even in the second case you'll have a long-term fork, at least if you are contributing regularly. But that's not a bad thing, because everytime the upstream project releases a new version, you can remove some of your (contributed) local changes from your fork. So yes, you'll have a long-living fork, but it will only differ from upstream by the last few patches not yet accepted by them.
Customise your site's T&Cs for your target audience
It game me a warm, fuzzy feeling to see that somebody took the effort to explain the T&Cs in target audience's language. Well worth it, in my opinion.

"These terms form a legally binding agreement between you and CalvinAyre.com in relation to your use of the Site – don’t just go “yeah, yeah” – read them! We mean it.

People who enter contracts without reading them shouldn’t leave their house unsupervised."
I've managed this with a couple of projects. With one, it was C source, pretty discrete set of modifications so used git to do the leg work - one remote was our own repository, the other was upstream. I can't recall seeing a conflict when rebasing from upstream branches.

The other project explicitly allows for code modifications and accomodates them in a separate directory you can keep in revision control. Again, no memory of major conflicts in stuff we did correctly - i.e. used the provided overlays or callbacks.

So, when is it a bad idea? When you step outside certain constraints (like our callbacks example above) and override or replace or modify directly the project's own code in some significant fashion.

So, modification of open source for your own needs is a major plus if the project accomodates it sanely or the scale and nature of the changes are controllable.

edit Removed "and only if" in last paragraph, attempts to preclude people from providing better ideas.
>With all of the EU being integrated

Only for the next 2 years.
The trouble is you cannot make a business out of this. Imagine if Valve did this. I brought Half Life 3 for £30. I then launch a web store and sell it for £15. I make a few hundred thousand selling a half price copy of a full price uncopyrighted game.

I think a lot of content owners are aware of piracy, copyright infringement and its benefits. The Game of Thrones director(?) was talking about the benefits of piracy recently.

A lot of content owners don't enforce their copyright, don't send out the hounds and I think a lot of content owners actually benefit from this. I have seen software creators detect pirated installs and instead of shutting them down talk about their small studio and ask when you have the money to buy the software. For some companies this is far more effective than adding a kill switch. For others it really isn't.
Not a fan of Flash either, but the Internet is not the Web.

You say "The Internet works better" without formats like Flash. To my knowledge the Internet does not discriminate between proprietary and non-proprietary data fromats of its content whereas the basic functions of the Web do (URLs, hyperlinks,...).
What is funny is that VFX costs have been going DOWN

Today, I can do professional VFX in a "cheap" computer (of course, you want to shoot for the high end), together with software easily acquirable.

Compare that to the beginnings of ILM for example.

This smells much more of bad business plans + companies tolerating studio's abuse (payment delays, overstaffing to meet deadlines, etc)

" In order to compete, VFX houses in Southern California have to charge way less, leading to slim-to-none profit margins"

Aah there you go. The absurd of housing prices (and everything) in California. Like you need to be close to your customer in this times of internet and FedEx, you can set shop in Seattle maybe and cut your costs
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Exactly. The term the article should be using for it is "social engineering." It would only take a minimal amount of research to create a legitimate-looking email to a Coca-Cola executive or whoever. Emails claiming to contain coupons for free sexual performance enhancers won't exactly work for most people, so a little research isn't a stretch at all.
There is significant debate as to whether public domain even exists except through copyright expiry. Indeed, the text of Creative Commons's "CC0" pseudo-public-domain declaration largely consists of admissions of this.

Why not use a public license like CC0 or CC? It'll accomplish the same thing and is widely recognized as valid.
Any plans for Germany?
I build little things without a plan or theory (or at least, without a coherent one) fairly regularly, to see what I can learn from them (and because it's fun.)

But building something big? Without a plan or theory, it's hard to justify the time and cost of doing that.

(Kind of reminds me of the film Contact: the engineers just kind of built a machine from the plans that the aliens sent, without seeming to do any research at all into what the purpose or theory of operation of it was. My reaction to that was complete incredulity.)
LOL.

You can bend your statement to your language, or your language to your statement. All essays look the same, regardless of the statement being made. English, Chinese, Persian.
Could be because TNW is a rag. Half their article is just plugging more of their own articles about a different company.
No, you can't give up your copyright in the US, no matter how hard you try.

All works are automatically copyrighted when they are set down so you can't somehow avoid it or opt out. There's just no mechanism. So view a "dedication to the public domain" as what it is, an "irrevocable" license (which means "permission" not "contract") to the entire universe to use the covered works in any way without permission. While this license exists, if the author tries to sue anyone the defendant merely needs to wave around the license. This is as good as the public domain, right?

Nope. An author can always revoke a license that purports to be irrevocable after a set time. This is known as copyright "termination" or reversion. The law is very, very clear on this. There is nothing that an author can do, no agreement that he can make, that waives this right. You can pay an author a billion dollars to take ownership of a work and set it all down in an ironclad 50-page contract she can just go ahead and take it back anyway.

The purpose of this is to protect authors against signing their lives away when they are young and lack leverage. One effect however is to make all transfers and licenses contingent which in turn makes it impossible to actually dedicate things to the public domain in as real a sense as one would like.
But the thing is, you can. You can reproduce it verbatim and you can call it your own. That's "stealing" of a different nature.

If he's full-on rejecting copyright then I can (with his blessing) take his entire body of work, s/zenhabits/choult/ and profit.

I'm not sure that the author counters/confronts that concept enough for me to accept that that is something he would acquiesce to.
ah - got it.
Govt subsidies are (in theory) an investment; you invest money in X so that you can make more money (or value) from Y.

In that sense, for example, there's a train of thought that if creating VFX in the USA becomes untenable then its move to other countries may drag money with it, then know how, then creative talent, then innovation, then production, then the entire industry and then it associated power for cultural dominance.

The entire sequence can be debated and argued and nitpicked to death (and I don't know enough about it to even try), but the underlying idea is valid.
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The guy in question is not destitute, if he were broke, he would probably care a lot more about people reselling his work or making money off his labors without recompense.

You are probably right that no one likes to see their work dragged through the mud, or have someone else get credit for it, or whatever the situation may be, but he is clearly stating he will take the good with the bad, because it is all worth it.

You can’t steal what is given freely.
Yes, he still holds the copyright to the media, he has just declared a free, non-exclusive, unlimited license for the entire world.
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Not according to some:

"The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity. In this freedom, it is the user's purpose that matters, not the developer's purpose; you as a user are free to run the program for your purposes, and if you distribute it to someone else, she is then free to run it for her purposes, but you are not entitled to impose your purposes on her."

The Free Software Definition
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Well damn. Now I have to wipe these tears off my keyboard.
Use a browser that's not on your machine.

See, for example, https://www.authentic8.com
OK, but real life (low budget) scenario is:

1. aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
2. ask yourself, if your system is vulnerable now
3. feel the good hope and go ahead.

If I had the budget / time to research every single CVE I would probably not trust repositories at all...

do YOU trust repositories?
BGP is so broken. So many unfiltered prefixes
If the algorithms have been published in a peer-review paper, you are free to implement and improve on them.

Ethically, if you make improvements it would be proper to publish your updated algorithm.
Surely this is a case book example of the free market in action.
I currently like using Bootstrap for web apps and Foundation for designing web pages.

Apps using Bootstrap benefit from the larger community of 3rd party controls and libraries and, why not, from a consistent UI look that I don't have to mess with (no, I don't mind that my buttons look like everyone else's, I quite enjoy it actually).

Sites using Foundation benefit more from the mobile-first approach (Bootstrap is indeed catching up to this) and from easier customization (SCSS) and blander default styles, leading to a more distinctive look.
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> It's true. Groupon's accounting gimmickry is extensive, and began pre-IPO (recognizing full purchase price of coupon when they are only acting as an "agent" (middleman) not as a "principal" (i.e., making the food, owning the spas for the massages etc.), which as a CFO I can tell you is Accounting 101.

How this is supposed to be an accounting issue and not fraud is beyond me.
How is something caused by government intervention an example of the free market in action?
At some point in your life, or not, you might realize that money < life.
Until then you wi
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Yes, but the Web is in the Internet. What's in flash in Web is in flash in Internet, and is often annoying.
I don't think Stripe have any technical problems launching in India, it's pretty much all about navigating the regulatory hurdles.

They'd quickly get bashed into submission by the Reserve Bank of India guidelines, which is what happened to Paypal. The RBI will force all payment processors to be regulated as banks, or conduct business entirely through banks.
I agree. I know many scientists who put half their time to reading and reviewing papers, but I can't say the same for any other profession.
Can we add maxlength="80" to the "title" field for new submissions?
It's annoying to have to guess at how much I need to edit my title to make it fit
Good question - I was the original submitter and didn't change it, so must have been one of the mod's. I preferred TNW's version as there is more context in it.

Also TNW had the story first - Mike Butcher was late on stage after Patrick's announcement because he was furiously writing up the story for TC :)
Scott Hanselman has an interesting podcast interviewing someone who works on the azure services that power Halo 4 http://hanselminutes.com/358/halo-4-services-in-azure-with-c...
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The date today is 1 Mars, 2013 (in Quebec, anyway). I tweeted this to Elon, but I guess he's pretty busy launching spacecraft. I'm so excited for this launch! The more routine these get, the better.
> According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, recognizing rule of law as the authority is only the fourth of six stages.

Where does "I will keep the promises I make to other people" fall into there?
I have been following his blog since the beginning and I can tell you when he went the uncopyright route he wasn't selling courses. He started doing it only recently, he might have written commercial books though. I found one of his book on torrent site when googling for review (google didn't penalize pirate search results during that time) and emailed him about it. He basically said he doesn't care and pointed me to his uncopyright page.
That doesn't matter, if Apple can invest that money the returns on that investment are also taxed lower. Giving the cash back says they have no way to make you a better return.
My advice is to focus on learning aspects of software engineering at the expense of learning computer science.

Specifically I would focus on: requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, and software deployment... Working with people (communication, management, working with non-technical customers), processes for developing software, and how to measure and analyze the software product and the software process[1]

[1] http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~djanzen/secsdiff.html