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>> "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission"

This is true in many cases (and is fine for Flattr) but in other cases I've seen (AppGratis for example) their business is in serious trouble. If your entire business relies on an interpretation of the rules it's better to ask for permission because if you aren't forgiven the consequences could be serious.
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Even that link concedes - "There's really nothing new about Medium."

I'm really not trying to hate on Medium - it looks really clean, but I'm just trying to figure out it's placement in the content publishing space.
Why? It's a silly comment on ExtJS. It's a huge framework but in the right context, it can be exactly the right tool for the job.
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From the top 10 airports in this list one which I frequent often is Zurich Airport.

I'd like to say that one of the things I really like about it is that it's really intuitive and a person can navigate easily to the gate he needs to be and the personnel is really kind.

And when I enter the EU through this airport, as a Non-EU citizen, in average I pass this checking procedure in 5-10 minutes (there is always more than one agent and long lines don't form).
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They say this is caused by nitrates, but aren't nitrates what are bad in things like hotdogs?
I have worked as a software developer for a very large company (Ericsson) for nine years, and for smaller companies (Tilgin, Symsoft) for eleven years, and I too prefer small companies.

The biggest difference for me is the impact ypou have. In a small company, your own contribution is a much larger part of the total output, and that is very satisfying. Frequently it also means faster turn-around time - what you do gets deployed much quicker.
I do agree with you on the fact that the most interesting technical work is indeed done in large organizations, but it has (at least in my own experience) always been the case that the companies strive to get lots of clients instead of trying to choose the ones where they think they could do something awesome with. You know?

I suppose I came out a bit aggressive on the fact that it's about small vs. large organizations only, but this was just my own personal opinion based on (only) a few years of experience in the field.

I'm not ruling out large organizations, and large organizations can also be all up for the new and interesting stuff, but that's not the case in the bureaucracy companies (which I'm ruling out) where everyone is stuck to the standard in-house CMS, programming language, or framework.

There's always exceptions to every rule. I agree with that.
(FWIW) The UK govt seized much more power in the years following 9/11 than related to the IRA period.
Typical hackernews binary thinking. Trust is a spectrum not a binary.

I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity. Or I'd trust them more than the seedy psuedo-organized crime operator of my local gas station. Or the supermarket checker, again, juvenile and judgement proof.

Would I date/marry/have kids with linode? Well probably not that much trust. Luckily rather than sharing precious bodily fluids with them, all I've been sharing is a 16 digit number which if lost can be replaced at no cost to myself other than some time.

Where it gets fuzzy is something in the thousands of dollar range. Would I trust linode with the keys to my car? Well... it is insured, but the deductible is about a kilobuck because for me that's (more or less) pocket change...
If there were a better balance of stories in the media then this would be much less of an issue. In the west most of stories about the rest focus on the "barbaric" aspects. FGM, despotic dictators, Islamic extremists. If there was an equal representation of all of the kind, loving Muslims working for peace, and all of the compassionate rural mothers and grandmothers that make up the majority of Africans then people would be less sensitive on these issues. It's not about judging individual practices, it's about our subconscious application of those values to a much broader set of people than what is true or just.

I don't think that censorship is the right word. But for every time you write about FGM, find a story about an inspiring African grandmother and write about that as well.
PS. If you're unhappy about this change you can tweet to the offical @twitter account with the hash #bringbackflattr, please be polite, thanks all.
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> open and cross platform

Fail to see how this is anymore open and cross platform then NPAPI.

> content locked to specific software that only runs on specific platforms.

that is exactly what this delivers.
That one, while passionate, feels too radical and just not connected to building allies. It reads as very "angry".
How can it be a 0-day vulnerability if it was addressed in a patch that came out more than a day ago?

I understand patch cycles and I'm not hating on them for not having the latest update when it's been less than a week but still...
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It reminds me of Django book's early days when it was being written (http://www.djangobook.com). Each paragraph could be commented upon and it led to a really fantastic collaboration.
You've assumed that everyone involved has the entire passphrase.
> Are we supposed to make the general category suffer because some 20 generations back a ancestor of their made a mistake.

So what's your proposal here? I would love that each generation we had the wealth allocated on a purely merit basis but the world does not work like that, I know a fair share of mediocre people with fortunes who can send their children to better schools and some smarter poor fellas that can't, and besides I live in Brazil and ignoring the past did not produced a really better alternative.

EDIT: Text was bad
Out of curiosity, is this token generation sufficiently general or is it tied to a specific bank/credit card provider? (Basically is it easy to switch providers without having all your customers enter their cc information again?)
"barbarian" is a highly pejorative term and should never be use outside of demagoguery.
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I have a 2012 13" air (i7, 8gb ram) at home and I use a 15" pro (2.3i7, 16g ram) for work. The screen on the pro is amazing, as is the speed (as you'd expect given those specs). I use a cinema display at the office but can work just as well on the laptop screen (my work is coding, so Xcode most of the day) and haven't found anything that caused the pro to struggle (I've not noticed any UI lag either).

That said, I still love (and probably slightly prefer) the air because its so small and light (ergonomically i prefer a 13" laptop), and the difference in power for most tasks is not that big (though its definitely noticeable when using Xcode on the air). If you took them both away and told me to get one, I'd get the air again.
Do you routinely carry 29 grams of cannabis through airports? I don't.
I've been chewing on what you said.

Absolutely.

I make no defense of Obama, or any other elected. I just want to understand the game better, to play it better. So I'm more curious what it'd take to close Gitmo.

Not my issue, so I haven't looked. But key policy makers (blocking no votes) would have to be identified and moved. And that would take sustained years long local action, eg me and 100 of my friends camping in my Senator's or Representative's office. Ditto probably 40 other local groups. Hard to pull off.

Sen. Henry Waxman's book The Waxman Report relates how his office has worked on some issues for decades, what it takes to move the needle. Very pragmatic, so in a way very optimistic.

I'm currently chewing through The Politics of Attention, which melds Stephen Jay Gould's theory of punctuated equilibrium with social influence (power ranking). The basic idea is that policy makers have limited attention and stuff changes all at once when an issue rises above the noise.
@mdisraeli

Rae is angry that organizations enforce quotas-- this stance is what feminism might call "backlash" against the movement: that the people working for change ARE the cause of the problem.

"...backlash posits the women's liberation movement as the source of many of the problems alleged to be plaguing women..." -Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Shanley is angry that tech-employed women are complacent. According to Shanley, the problem needs to be addressed by women. These could be seen as opposing views.
I speak as someone who spent several years as a freelance magazine columnist and got quite a close look at how the news is made. What makes you think I'm insulting journalists?

Moreover, a short sound bite isn't the place for nuanced analyses of how the media works. But it is maybe the right place to try and help people who're feeling overloaded right now by the glut of bad news spinning up around the bombings in Boston. Not to mention the other bomb deaths of April 15th -- Iraq (55), Afghanistan (37), Somalia (30), Syria (18), and Pakistan (4).
I have not tutored but I can offer you my experience from being tutored. My classmate tutored me in C++ last year. He was part of a peer tutor program at my school.

Things I liked:

-Flexibility in hours to meet up

-Signing up for a certain amount of hours (keeps the
commitment there)

-Being patient with me

-Answering my questions without speaking over me

-He asked me to prepare specific questions or code to go over before we met up

-Before the first session, we talked about specific goals I wanted to achieve

Things I didn't like:

-It was hard staying on topic sometimes because we were also friends

Good luck with your tutoring business!
Cubans have no trouble getting into the US across the sea, nor do Mexicans have any trouble getting in over land. The idea that the US is a impenetrable fortress is just not true.
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UK Borders is managed by the Government, BAA then pays the UK Border Agency for staff costs, etc.
Let's put things in perspective. The seller is suing the buyer for defamation for reporting accurately that not enough postage was paid.
It's not about censorship so much as what leads to real change on the ground versus what leads to riled up westerners. If we want them to change we need to lend them a hand. This is an especially complex issue... women become women in these societies, by joining the other women, in this 'rite'. We need to understand them, then help them.
I just want to thank you for doing these. We teach the basics of stuff like password security (and while I find security fascinating it's really not my area of expertise) and this will be great for our kids to help them understand (the bit on salting certainly helped me!).
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>"Being aggressively questioned now."

I hope this isn't PC for "being tortured".
I'm in Australia, actually. Thanks for the names, I periodically lose track of everyone who comes and goes.
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I'd disagree in that:

1) No signal = the primaries have gone off and the area is swarming with panic evacuees and rescue personnel and full of news cameras = almost the definition of the perfect time for the secondaries to go off.

2) If the purpose of the attack is terror, what better way than shutting off communications then creating an intense demand for communications? And you get to make the authorities feel guilty about it?

3) This also fits in with jammer mentality. So if a jammer protects against IEDs, the obvious counter response is a weapon against jammers. So next year's run, if there is one, will have a motorcycle pace vehicle with a very highly publicized jammer mounted on it for the purpose of security theater, the pace cycle/jammer rides past the trivial to imagine and design jammer detector, and ...

It all boils down to I can't figure out a realistic alternative way for the good guys to help the bad guys more effectively than shutting down the cell network.
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Why isn there a live demo?
So strange that tye dont put up a live demo!
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After some of my only 5 year old cd-s containing family photos died I started looking more carefully into how to preserve digital photo archive.
Found that even if I i made a million copies of my archive using different media and left it untouched, data failure probability after 10 years is rather high for all available media.
And how often can the mistake be repeated before I can blog about it without being sued? Two times? Three times?
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> This would be nice if not for the pagination

I came here to say that. The web already has a way of dealing with the situation where the text doesn't fit on the screen: it's called scrolling. Scolling is a much better solution than pagination, firstly because it's what people expect (and is therefore easier to use) but also because it gives the user more control over what part of the text they see.
>Facebook and YouTube were both created later, and in PHP

youtube was always done in python as far as I understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lGCC4KKok

But yeah, back in 2002-3 coldfusion was an option.
ICBW, but no, I don't think it does, except it perhaps a narrow set of circumstances.

Compulsory Licensing[1] is maybe what you're thinking of, but from what I can tell seems to apply mostly to drug patents, or things {the,a} government wants from you. It has a wider applicability in copyrighted forms of IP, I believe.

Patents that are part of some organised standard are often required to be placed under 'FRAND[2] (Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory)' compulsory licences to allow for interoperability whilst still allowing the patent holder to receive (reasonable) royalties if they wish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_licensing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
This is the sort of frivolous lawsuit that makes a complete mockery of legitimate torts. There needs to be some way to make courts award damages to the defendant in ridiculous cases without making it difficult for small parties to sue large ones over legitimate grievances.
Package and dependency management (with npm) are two things that do come included with the node distribution these days. I would also argue that npm is one of the primary reasons why the node ecosystem is thriving in the way that it is.
Where do you keep your knowledge base?
As a developer, I find myself documenting those edge cases I see (or just something new I learn) every now and then in my own knowledge base. Google Sites seems like a good place to keep these details but I was wondering where most people would keep them.
This might look like a failure for Flattr, but if you compare them with the flood of micro-payment services that sprang up 5 or 6 years ago, 99% of which vanished without a trace, then clearly it marks a kind of success for Flattr that people are still talking about them, and still thinking about their business model. Of all the micro-payment and/or donation sites that tried to make something like this work, Flattr has been the most successful so far. As a point of comparison, look at Kachingle, which so far has failed to gain any traction, and which has attracted more derision (and lawsuits) than praise: http://kachingle.com/
He wasn't trying to spread terror. He was trying to literally kill the next generation of people who fundamentally disagreed with him politically.
I agree with your general position and I just want you to know I take none of your criticism or remarks personally.

I suspect that if it ever gets a mention on HN, someone will say something like "Jacques Chester tries to patent logins" or "Jacques Chester tries to patent apache weblogs" or any number of things that don't at all describe what I developed.

Part of the trouble is that patentese is hard to read. While developing the technology to be submitted I wrote and refined what amounts to an RFC. It's a few thousand words with about a hundred lines of pseudocode near the middle.

This in turn blew out to about ten thousand words and 5 diagrams with ~200 reference numbers.

When my first examiner's report came back he'd found and rejected two candidates for prior art; in both cases it took me about an hour to make heads or tails of what was described.
When Facebook tries to drive engagement to their site, is there "meaningful content" qualifier that management uses? Because as far as I can tell, things like "frictionless sharing," "sponsored stories," reposting old likes and even harvesting them from user messages & mere brand mentions in updates have absolutely ZERO to do "meaningful content."

As far as I can tell, Facebook wants users on their site constantly: clicking, and interacting with it in just about any capacity, even an automated one.

Perhaps, mission statement-speak aside, these ads show facebook at its most honest, if even in an idealized way.
Only the "less" package is the one you care about. The rest of them aren't alternatives, they're extensions. Isn't that... a good thing?
No, a patent implies that you publicly disclose the knowledge behind your discovery immediately, in exchange for the property of this knowledge being guaranteed† to be yours for a limited time, and its use guaranteed to become free when this time runs out.

The alternative is not to disclose it, with the risk for you that nobody will reverse engineer or discover by themselves, or the risk for everyone else that this knowledge could be lost forever.

† pending approval, and unless successfully challenged in court (where the patent applies).
The rules are arbitrary and capricious. I'd say, "don't rely on a single platform for your business especially if it has a track record of draconian policy."
Good question. It depends on the field, I guess.

In academia there are a lot of ad hoc scientific simulations, and yes, many people still prefer C++ over Matlab, R or Numpy (because of speed or because they feel more comfortable with it). In those cases, you'll write a few medium-sized programs from scratch, and will probably be free to use the new features.

In videogames you will likely develop new code over an existing engine, which means that C++11 may be available, but the engine will probably be written in an older version of C++, and C++11 maybe won't be allowed during engine maintenance.

When maintaining big ancient systems, which are all over the place, chances are that you will be restricted to C++03 or maybe an even older version, but it's not the only possibility, so you may get lucky.

In any case, C++11-ready compilers should accept C++98 and C++03 code, so there is always the option of starting to use modern compilers, and when every potential problem is solved, you can use the C++11 features. Just hope your boss is not too averse to changes, and keep in mind that mixing modern style C++ with older style may result in poorly readable code.

As for web development, well, there actually exist a few people using C or C++, but the only languages from the C family you're likely to find on a web server are Java and C#, and they're less and less prevalent nowadays. You're more likely to find PHP, Python or Ruby. In the client you're obviously restricted to javascript, but beware: despite the syntax, it's very different from the C family. If you want to learn javascript, that surely won't hurt, just keep in mind that it carries a few paradigm changes (lack of static typing, object modeling and inheritance through prototypes, and A LOT of quirks about the syntax).
Although if I remember rightly it wasn't in 2004, isn't CF now Java-powered under the surface?
Kachingle made a big bet on getting a business method patent and (last year) they lost that bet. They also bet big on getting the New York Times to sign up and, when it didn't happen, took an ... unhelpful ... tone about the subject afterwards.
Abusive. Barbaric. Evil. Wrong.

These are all words I feel confident in saying are accurate when applied to coerced female genital mutilation. While I appreciate Amnesty International's position - it's obviously impolitic to call someone these things while sitting at the table having a dialog - it's inappropriate to sacrifice our own moral clarity everywhere else.
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works for me on OSX 10.7.5, with opencv @2.4.4_3+python27 installed via macports.

I did have to downgrade to the ffmpeg (ffmpeg @1.2_1+gpl2+nonfree) port (from ffmpeg-devel) due to build errors in opencv, but worked ok after that.

Couple of the openMDAO packages didn't install either, but didn't seem to harm anything.
I beg to differ. If it was a Java based solution maybe they would have migrated more easily.

For example, Struts was released around 2000 (now we have much more choices regarding Java Web frameworks). Since then they could've migrated to Struts 2, and after that for example migrate to Spring MVC, or even stick with Struts 2.
Yes that's rite, I've turned down two VC, now entered our 11th year with 6 companies.
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Ruby isn't an acronym. Neither is Java. JVM is though, and the entire first page on google for JVM is about the java virtual machine. Had they called it MRI for java viRtual MachIne, it would still not be all over the front page.
Not all exploits are zero-day exploits. As I understand it, a zero-day exploit is one that is used in the wild before it is disclosed. Plenty (most) vulnerabilities are only disclosed once a fix has been implemented.
I think if India can get past the "Entrepreneurs are losers because they're not doctors or engineers" social aspect, they'll have a lot of advantages that SV doesn't have. Mainly because they're natural crowd-funders.

What I've observed is that friends in India are very tight -- they'll do almost anything for each other. And if you have a friend with a startup, you'd certainly lend them some money.

So, they may not need VC money, and may not need angels, but they do potentially have a lot of "micro-angels" to raise funds through.
What business model is this? Give gamers blue balls and then wait until they inevitably ram down your door with money trucks?
Actually weren't these bombers incompetent? How many people were running in this marathon? As far as I understand, if the bombs would have went off about 10 minutes earlier it would have been really bad.
Yes, I know. I worked with Kachingle very briefly. The amount of internal chaos and fighting was amazing, much worse than what I've seen at other startups.
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