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> Please don't do this.

Absolutely. Pushing to DMCA'd repos might actually be necessary in some cases, and if this is abused github may be forced to disable this for everybody. Still, pretty neat; thanks for trying it out!
monetized?
Drug dealer raises $20,000 from prison cell via crowdfunding site Pozible
Did you really just shit on the Economist on the whole?
It's crazy to see that a "red" state, you know the champions of free-market and capitalism, would support such laws that restrict any manufacturer from selling directly to consumers. The obstacles being thrown in Tesla's path from the dealership associations fly in the face of capitalism and free enterprise. Before Tesla, I wasn't aware that these types of laws existed.
Did you see the thread in HN yesterday about the legal issues that AirBNB is having with various municipalities? That's nothing compared with what this company (and others like it) will have to deal with. I have to imagine that the health- and food-inspection departments in most states and cities are very tough. Plus, you might need to get insurance for everything from "patrons" getting sick, to kitchen fires. I don't even know if most homeowner insurance would cover the cost of damage if you were using your kitchen for commercial purposes and quantities.

And so on, and so on. As with AirBNB, I expect that we'll eventually find a middle ground between complete anarchy and stifling regulations. But on the face of it, operating a restaurant from your house sounds like a rat's nest (no pun intended) of financial and legal issues to deal with.

This might be an American-only thing, though. In Israel (where I live), many people run small catering companies (albeit not restaurants) from their home kitchens. Perhaps the government has rules about such things, but they aren't ever enforced. and in France, I can't imagine the government stopping people from cooking and serving (and selling) high-quality food.

We'll see, I guess...
Give it time, they'll get there.
The statutory damages you quote are for infringement, not false takedowns. For false takedowns, only damages and fees are recoverable.
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I don't think there's inherently anything wrong with teaching kids that you can do activities just for pleasure, personal improvement and bonding with others.

There's already plenty of opportunities to be competitive as it is and the real world does not always reward super competitive behavior. There is often more value in encouraging and facilitating others than in seeking personal glory.
I don't understand that reaction, one person did it so EVERYONE must be punished? Why not simply fire the person, charge them with theft, and sue them to recover costs making an example of them for anyone else who may consider doing it?
Clips from Fox on Tesla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHkIWkecY8
If I were Google, I'd charge them processing fees...
I'll reiterate my earlier comments about this - many of the ideas behind this "hackathon" are flawed/incorrect, and some of the points are at odds with eachother.

This is not about optimizing the gun purchase process, its about violating the civil rights of americans and not actually stopping crime.
I get this problem too. Understands stuff just fine but semantic and conversational stuff is broke.
The line is almost always one of quantity, but there are other rules.

(1) Will it cause a substantial loss/burden if everyone did what I'm doing. Everyone taking a case of soda home regularly would be a pretty huge burden. Everyone taking a can or two home every once in a while would not. You can apply that to pens, a pad of post-it notes, etc.

(2) Would I be embarrassed if someone saw me taking this item home and knew it was for my personal use. Generally, if you feel like you have to hide that behavior, that's a good point to stop and ask "why". You may not always come back with "I shouldn't do it" but you probably will most of the time.

(3) Assuming the first two aren't true, would my usage of the item embarrass my employer to their customers. This probably doesn't apply to the soda thief but does apply to a lot of other decisions of this nature. The best example I can think is "I ran out of paper, so I'll just use company letterhead to advocate people attend the annual KKK rally at city hall". I'm sure there's less extreme examples, but absurdity goes a long way toward making a point.

As for office supplies which are used for work at home, I'm guessing you mean more than just pens and paper. If the total take is over $20, I'd probably ask permission, but I've never been in this situation. My office supply is my laptop and these were officially given to me for work (and must be returned when I'm done working there), everything else I already have at home.
It's a preservation of money and industry matter.
Could just be his boss being reactive/defensive/'touchy' over the subject. I'm sure that this wasn't the only developer that was upset with it.
My start-up V-BLOOD a vampire themed energy drink received a Trademark Infringement Cease and Desist for using the word "Blood" as related to a vampire themed beverage. The other party was represented by McGuireWoods, a very large and prominent law firm. I sent a response letter challenging the Trademark, a few more letters were sent back and forth, resulting in my drafting a Cancellation of Trademark, then the other party backed down before I filed the same.

(Note: I am an attorney, and the other party's TM "BLOOD" was registered but under the class of "vitamins/supplements" and not "beverages")
The boss didn't take away your wage, she just stopped providing it. Problem?
Sure, but how do modern architectures not fit into the RASP machine model? You can view the cache contents as being part of the state (rather than the memory); you can similarly view instructions as being part of sequences, so that a single instruction can mean different things depending on the state from which it is fetched. Other modern features can be similarly approached (with the exception of CPUs whose behavior depends on environmental factors like temperature, but that is an edge case).

Really, if you doubt that the RASP model is appropriate for modern architectures, you can test it (a typical exercise in an algorithms course) -- see if, as the input size grows, the timing follows the asymptotic analysis. That is basically what the article you linked to does, and the results are not all that surprising -- where things are linear time in theory, they are linear time in practice; where they are quadratic time in theory, they are quadratic time in practice. It is worth pointing out that in all but the last example, the list and vector operations had the same complexity (because of the linear search), so it was really a comparison between constant factors.
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Hi everyone,

As promised, I wanted to share the results of the survey that I posted a couple of days earlier.

In total, we collected a 142 responses, with some very interesting and helpful feedback!

To see the complete rundown of the answers, go here: http://infogr.am/CoCreately-Survey/ (Conclusion and summary at the bottom).

Also, if you want to find out how we're planning on solving these dreadful challenges in finding suitable team members, you can sign up to be notified when we launch at http://cocreately.com (we might even ask you if you want to beta test the thing!).

We are planning on doing another survey soon, to gather some insight on how we can best engage people who are looking for projects to work on that are not their own. We would love to hear your thoughts on the matter!

Love,
Martin @ CoCreately
As someone who has been involved in hiring (and sometimes firing) developers for a few decades now, I have come to the conclusion whatever value advanced degrees in CS have for the recipient doesn't translate into making him a more productive coder. In fact, these individuals tend to get tangled up in trying to zero in on the best solution for problems instead of the "good enough" solution that would have taken a fraction of the time.

We don't pay extra for advanced CS degrees. In fact, we prefer to hire people with EE, physics, and math degrees over CS in general.
No I'm implying that engineers often undervalue themselves, while going on and on and on about free snacks.
Thank you for your suggestion! It seems like there is no private messaging function and I couldn't find your email but I wanted to thank you for your help.
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Oh my goodness, you're almost certainly right about the liquor. There are oodles of laws about who can get a liquor license, as well as what they can serve, to whom, and when. I believe that you're often not allowed to have an establishment that serves liquor within x distance of a church, hospital, or school. Go tell the people at 100 Main Street that they're not allowed to serve liquor to their patrons, but that the people at 150 Main Street are.

Imagine that you're running a Cookening site in your home. Are you allowed to serve wine to the children? (I realize that this is a non-issue in many countries, but it's a very serious one in the US.) What are the penalties for giving wine to the children?
Why do you automobile engineers keep talking to each other about pistons and transmissions, and all that nonsense, it's absurd. I just want a car that gets me from A to B and doesn't use too much gas. I don't see what that has to do with engine seals.
I don't think it makes sense to compare the Xbox One to Google TV, Google TV is very much a side project for Google which is obvious because they aren't putting much effort behind it. While many people already use their Xbox for streaming Netflix and Hulu, the HDMI passthrough is an extension of that.
This is a hard problem to solve. Many people can't reliably detect it either!
Oh, good grief. The 2FA options just showed up for me on Twitter.

You check the checkbox, and it sends you a text message. And then, rather than asking you to type in the message you received (you know, like any sane 2FA setup would do, to ensure it's working), it just asks you if you received the message. If you click "Yes", then it turns on 2FA. Without, you know, actually verifying that the user received a message.

People don't read dialog boxes. They're just going to click the blue button to get the popup out of the way. I expect there will be plenty of people who manage to lock themselves out of their accounts in the near future.

Literally every other 2FA activation everywhere goes something like this:

1. Set up verification

2. Enter the verification code that you see so we can be sure that what you have matches what we have

3. Yay, you're protected with multi-factor authentication and haven't locked yourself out of your account!

Twitter's setup is more like:

1. Check a checkbox and click a button

2. If you didn't actually read the message and verify that you received a generic text message from Twitter, you are now locked out of your account.

Let's not even touch the fact that they didn't add backup codes, Google Authenticator support, and that you have to be in range of a cell tower to log into Twitter with this on now. It's not like mobile number porting attacks have been used to compromise SMS-based 2FA solutions or anything, or that high-profile Twitter users are being targeted by spear phishing attacks.

It's better than nothing, but I'm really kind of put off by how much of an afterthought this seems to be.
I've only used voice search a few times:

1) Look, shiny, let's play with it.

2) Oh god typing out this long thing manually is going to be painful. Let's voice and then do some hand-editing as necessary.

That's it.
Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF'
Getting a hygiene certificate is actually pretty straight-forward if it came to that and supper-clubs have been going fairly successfully for a couple of years now without being shut down as far as I know. I like the idea. In the uk anything that gets people from different social circles together is a great thing - I don't think it happens as much as it should. Good luck to them!
I've never been in the job market yet (still in school), but I have seen some of the hiring process for teachers at my high school.

For every position they are hiring, there would typically be 2 or 3 candidates who spend the day in the school (including teaching a class).

Is getting 2 days off of work really that difficulty (if you plan far enough in advance)?
I see the other pattern - the forgiveness guy grows a rep as the guy who broke stuff, while the "ask permission" guy often finds out people say "yes". The end result is people are happier working with the ask permission guy.

Perhaps I'm an optimist.
What he's done lately? Git.

Two out of three isn't that bad.
It looks like this is a monkeypatching mechanism for Objective C to graft some OSX 10.8 functionality on 10.7 concerning the indexing of arrays and maps.

The author writes: "The Objective-C runtime is the beating heart of a Cocoa application. It’s the low-level bit that puts the “Objective” in Objective-C by teaching C how to be object-oriented." -- but doesn't he mean dynamic instead of object-oriented?
In 2001 we'll all be playing Duke Nukem Forever on our SPARC desktops running GNU Hurd.
So it's your position that Jill Shimabukuro shouldn't have won any awards for the design of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style because it uses FF Tisa for the body text?
I greatly appreciate your suggestion! This looks great for being able to understand my team members better and allowing them to reach their full potential. A personal thank you from me for taking time to give me that suggestion.
No doubt, I have definately gone there, its a lil more
of a PITA :)
Sorry, but I see bad advice here. "Waste of time"? No, it's not.

Academia as a career, unless you're unambiguously one of the top minds of your generation, is a bad idea. That boat has sailed and sunk.

However, a PhD in math or CS will make you eligible for higher-quality jobs more quickly than a Master's degree. There's a certain prestige that PhDs have that someone like me probably won't, and by the time you're 35+, it's almost impossible to go back, due to a combination of financial problems and admissions (you're now what is called "non-traditional").

I left a math PhD program for an internship on Wall Street. It was the right decision for me, especially because it got me on the job market before the Crash of 2008. Would I recommend that for everyone? No, I wouldn't.

By the time you are 40, whether you have a working brain or not will be a function of the quality of work you did in your 20s and 30s. If you do a decade or more of stupid work-- and the work most people get assigned is that-- you'll have lost your edge. On the other hand, if you keep doing exciting stuff, you'll be one of the sharpest people out there (and running circles around young people falling flat on mistakes you've already made). For your future, interesting work matters, and a PhD is a powerful asset (though it doesn't guarantee anything) in the battle for the scarce interesting projects.
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Start with your own network. Past colleagues, friends, friends of friends, etc. See who needs web work done.

Then add on industry events. Go to local meetups and talk shop. This won't necessarily find you clients directly, but it will help you meet other freelancers who can refer you work when it's not up their alley or when they're too busy.

Once you start getting some clients, use them for additional work too. Ask them to recommend you if you've done a stellar job.

It's generally a snowball process. You start small and then start to gain momentum once you start doing some solid, quality work with clients who like you. Word of mouth is insanely powerful in this business.

Also, check out my startup matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). We help web developers find quality work every day.
Well, no point in word games but obviously I read "personal satisfaction" and hear "me" as in personal, and you don't. That's OK, but without a common definition there's going to be confusion.
No generation since the Depression has had to throw so many elbows and jump through as many hoops to carve out a livable career,

As a Gen X-er, I can counter that specific argument, but as to your overall comment, perhaps I can explain:

There was a massive shift in thinking in the late 80s/early 90s in education that valued the promotion of "self esteem" above all other educational outcomes. This drastically changed how children were taught and handled as they were growing up. In many cases, this was entrenched in such practical matters as "not keeping score", "not worrying about spelling", "not being too critical" and ensuring every child understood that "they were special".

Of course, any one person's particular exposure to this line of though and its effects on them varies greatly. Suffice to say that many people saw this as counter productive, and more recent research has shown that in many ways it has been exactly that; or rather, misguided interpretations of fostering self-esteem have led to the creation of over coddled babies masquerading as young adults.

Unfortunately, your generation is saddled with this stereotype whether you like it or not. Even more unfortunate is that it is not hard to find plenty of examples of support. This is no less true than my generation being labeled disillusioned slackers.
If you are doing a PhD in order to earn more, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
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>All told, these little expeditions probably amounted to a few hours every week in not-working time. Had the business been particularly ruthless, they would've noted that perhaps $10-12 every week in drinks could have kept some of their $50K/yr engineers from being useless for a few hours in search of nourishment. I'm not claiming that this was right, and we're more experienced now, but the fact remains.

Are you sure you were less productive overall? When I'm stuck on a tricky problem getting out of the office can do wonders.
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Very true.

Most programmers in NYC could get a raise going to Wall Street. They don't do it because they don't like the abuse.

Most Physics professors could get a raise going to Wall Street. They don't do it for a variety of reasons.

It's about more than money.

But... The core of the story is true. There's a systemic problem with the Phd market. Every school and professor has an incentive to churn out more than the market needs. Like any career choice, people need to go into this with open eyes.
Who said republicans support a truly free-market?
Wi-Fi chip pushes 1.7Gbps over four streams using 802.11ac
Well said. Why is it even a relevant question as to whether PhDs in math/computing earn more/less than their counterparts with masters' degrees? Equating a degree with a level of economic productivity is illogical.
hmm defacto vs dejure if you ask me
Yup. Me too. I recently changed jobs from one that didn't even provide tea and coffee, to one which provides meals all day, soda, snacks etc.

I find that I am far more inclined to actually stay a little later and get stuff done when I'm not ridiculously hungry. Additionally, I can stay later after dinner and still have the same amount of free time when I get back home, which is nice for me, and for the company.
compare and contrast:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+airspeed+ve...
Devils's advocate: if no "private parties profiting from providing access to publicly funded research" should exist, shouldn't you be opposed to "Most research papers are findable via Google.", too? Google is making profits from publicly fundable research, too.

IMO, there is nothing wrong with companies making a profit from providing access to publicly funded research; the only problems are lack of competition and (IMO consequently) profit margins that society finds unjust.

The former, I think, is being settled. More and more new research is effectively open access. The latter, then, will follow.

And to your second point: there used to be companies that had university-like environments where short-time profits do not rule the day (AT&T, Xerox, Philips Natlab, Apple's ATG). Nowadays, Google and Microsoft Research still have similar groups.
Should you ever work for free?
No, they paid back the government loan with stock.

The difference between a 'convertible note' and a 'loan' is that in a convertible note turns into its conversion when 'due.' Basically it turns into stock at the value of the amount borrowed plus interest.

There is a fascinating Convertible Note generator that you can run on the Wilson Sonsini web site [1] which I recommend doing if you are at all interested and read all the text about why or why not you might want choose one set of terms over the other.

[1] http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Display.aspx?SectionName=practice/t...
Hey Michael !

I'll try to answer to you questions:

>-how do you ensure safety on both ends (buyer and seller)?

We do review the hosts manually. For the guests, they have to talk with the hosts in order to make a booking reservation so I guess if they don't get along nothing is going to happen. We also have a review/rating system.

>-why would someone want to use your platform instead of doing their own underground restaurant?
Well, it's not only for money but also for the pleasure to share your food, culture, ... with someone else. And in order to start an underground restaurant you need to get known, it might be kind of hard if it's underground.

>-how do you vet hosts?

Sorry for my broken english, but I don't understand this question.

>-Is there a vetting process for hosts?

Yes

> -how do you ensure a pleasant group meal dynamic?

We have a blog[1] where we are trying to tell our hosts how to organize/... the event and how to deal with the culture difference.

My twitter handle and my email are in my HN profile, you're welcome to ping me !

[1] http://theartof.cookening.com
Sure, that could be what he meant. However, I still think that asking for example "May I know what is available?" sounds much better than "what you have to offer me"
Just to make sure everyone is on the same page, the individuals have legal rights in addition to the AG, it is not as though the AG can not move forward because an individual party is enforcing their legal rights.

As far as resources, you are correct, that is why the troll in this case went after end users, because they are less likely to have the resources to defend or initiate a legal action; however, the manufacturers of the copy machines have standing and resources to protect their IP and business interests that the troll is tortiously interfering with, same with the retailers.
I'd agree with you, on the most part -- but I've worked with folks at the Big Three on their dealership strategies, and trust me: they're strange bedfellows.

Look no further than how TrueCar had to pivot their business model in a short period of time in order to comply with the cold backhand of dealers. It's a juggernaut, sadly.

I'm rooting for Elon to turn it on edge.
>I've been enjoying much of the next-generation gaming experience already.

You can't be serious. Although you can very soon be enjoying the next-generation gaming experience, what's exciting to me about this as a PC gamer is that all next gen games will be designed with x86 in mind, which should make porting trivial compared to this generation.