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The concept that no ads leads to cultural wasteland is so ludicrously wrong it makes me angry. First ads are the wasteland. Second advertising is relatively new. Somehow culture was able to flourish without ads for thousands of years.
That is pretty awesome, although, I believe "an honor-based converter box" is a far cry from an ATM.
I think the problem is that some ads are so heavy-weight. I kind of wish there were an ad-block tool that would only block ads that are too large (data-wise) or that take too long to load.
Although .... When I lived in London I stopped a guy from beating up his girlfriend (he was, simply put beating her along the street). I had the girlfriend start attacking me with her stiletto

A friend in Amsterdam stopped a guy in the process of beating a woman on the street. He had to disable the guy (with a strike) to get him to stop. The woman promptly attacked my friend.

I think it's very common in domestic violence situations for the receiver to defend the aggressor.
How many mommies would benefit from a photo APP that could ‘tag’ photos?
What a terrible way to die. I think a passerby could have rescued her by slipping a car jack below her neck to spread the bars. If that didn't work though it would take hydrolic cutters.
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Working across teams and developers is one more reason to worry about the quality of the code. Sometimes the code written in not as per our vision and we end up refactoring it. But again, all these things are possible if there is some time at hand. For startup like ours, we are continually iterating and adding code proof points. This makes it difficult to maintain the quality of the code how much ever we want to.
I like your idea of documenting, though again, it's time consuming. We do it with helpful comments, but I think it is not enough.
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I assume you are also allergic to hospital wards, which maintain a concentration of vaporized propylene glycol in their HVAC systems to prevent cross-infection?
I think you'll have better luck with this page: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/
> With China I think maybe you have to keep in mind what a scarring catastrophe Maoism was. Middle class people and values were systematically purged.

Maoism was a resounding success, it was the cultural revolution that replaced the middle class.

I think the lack of trust rises from the fact that the chinese middle class were very recently (< 1 generation) the poor/underclass. There concept of wealth is a lot more transient than the west's, they have a much greater fear of losing wealth (given it happened almost overnight during the cultural revolution). It generates what the west views as a "selfish" attitude, but is probably viewed by Chinese as "prudent".
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On the balance, both of your accounts are new on HN - I can see both possibilities for this post of "I will rally the technically savvy in a false flag operation and nuke the person I stole from off the internet" and "I am informing my fellow community of something that is not right, looking for support / warning others".

However - your account does have one advantage in this: Codecanyon's project pages list the date the project was created on Codecanyon, not a date of the author's choosing. Additionally they do not make it simple to completely re-write some older project on there you might have already had to re-use the timestamp to mask devious deeds.

So far your timestamps win over his. Unfortunately, I still have no access to the code of your project to vet whether one is a copy of the other. Given that your code is sold for profit, it would be hard to verify this without your code getting out without going to trial (or I guess I could give you some bucks on codecanyon to find out what's hosted there).

Edit:

On review of the code in your live demo at https://pure.codeworks.org.uk/ I definitely agree he ripped you off. That's an unfortunate danger when it comes to selling client-side scripting. Good luck taking him down.
I'm not seeing the risk if it's a publicly available address. Analogy:

They tested every door lock in America.

They found that 64,000 door locks are trivially opened.

They put up a website where you can enter your home address to see if you're vulnerable.

If you enter your home address ("123 Maple Street"), they could lie and tell you that you're secure, but then go and rob you.

The thing is that they already knew whether 123 Maple Street was secure or not. They could have robbed you beforehand.

(Also, let's say that they never tested 123 Maple Street, and they tell you arbitrarily that you're secure. In this case, they still haven't gained any new knowledge.)
It's his job not to know and their job not to tell him. It's called plausible deniability.
Wait, are you saying that there are now street bitcoin traders? This reminds of communist times when the government limited foreign currency trading. There was a specific coffee house where you could go and illicitly trade foreign currency.
Why is this in "ask" filter?
That's a possibility; or perhaps the OP is recruiting Hacker News as a vigilante mob to scare off the person whose code he ripped off; or perhaps this is an experiment or a prank to see what sort of internet vigilanteism can be whipped up on Hacker News.

So far, I'm leaning slightly in favour of the guy sending out the DMCA takedowns, in that someone claiming to be him put his code on the internet first by about 6 months, if the internet's timestamps are to be believed, and OP hasn't provided a convincing rebuttal even to that.

Whether these guys are talking about the same code or whether there's some other evidence that clears the OP remains to be seen.
Care to respond to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624094 ? The other guy has provided convincing proof.
Any american-based VPN company should be assumed to be a honeypot—use it to dodge your ISP, not governments.
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I’m a scientist and I agree with this article.
Fact is that the way we incentivize science is what is causing these issues (that and tenure, but that is a longer post).

Science, at least in biology, is just like any business. Both are motivated by $.

The good news is that open science and the impact that the internets is having on science can help this problem.
In my opinion, transparency in science will fix many of these issues.
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I think s/South-East England/London. For values of 'East' which include Oxford, Winchester, and other such towns which offer cosmopolitan amenities and either a strong middle-class labour market (hello, Cambridge) or a plausible commute into London.

As other commenters have commented (in other comments), there are plenty of bits of the UK which are still cheap. And whilst they may be absolutely lovely, they're cheap because they're miles from anywhere that anyone with any money would want to work or go shopping.
Quick investigation suggests the original poster here is in the wrong.

This is a diff of the CSS file from both projects: http://paste.roguecoders.com/p/2f703b39668f1b85ee071ec42ed52...

CodeCanyon clearly puts the release date for the paid version at June 2012, while the supposed open-source version has multiple dates pointing at December 2012.

I temporarily forked the repository on GitHub for posterity. Compare the feature list between https://github.com/lunixbochs/jquery-classyedit/blob/master/... and https://pure.codeworks.org.uk/features.php
Firstly, just because they know your private key - doesn't mean they can log in - just that they can snoop on the encrypted traffic, which is spectacularly unlikely for researchers at UCSD or UoM.

BUT, if one were to assume the presence of a global passive adversary – they would already have your public key, found via snooping the start of any encrypted connection to your secured service, as well as everybody else's public keys captured the same way – and one would assume that they've got _way_ more compute power available than five bucks worth of AWS EC2 time to factor them with.

Which says to me - check your public keys using the tool. If it says you're vulnerable you're probably hosed already and the only sensible option is to take the service offline until you've generated a new key-pair.

Actually, I guess the proper advice is probably to shut down any 1024 bit key protected services right now, and generate 2048 or more bit keys for them. If you've been running any services with 1024 bit keys where sniffing the cleartext of a session would reveal login credentials to anything important, and that key is a known "weak" key, it's probably time to assume the global passive adversary already has root on that box.

Try running:

> wc .ssh/*.pub

if that's returning key files with character counts below 7 or 8 hundred, run:

> ssh-keygen -l -f .ssh/id_rsa.pub

(where id_rsa.pub is the filename of the "short" public key) to determine the actual key length. (there's probably a better heuristic than my "about 7 or 8 hundred characters", I'm seeing 1024 bit rsa keys in the 200-300 char range and 1024 bit dsa keys in the 500-600char range. There's some "random length filler" in each file for containing the email address. I'm not sure what encoding is used to make ascii-representable 512 bit numbers though. )
Well before we jump to conclusions, is it higher than other countries?

There is obviously a lot of selection bias here...
FYI -- don't always assume this. I frequently type posts of this length and detail on my Droid 4 (good keyboard).

Phones with keyboards are a dying breed, however -- that's more interesting.
I'm happy to provide you with the original codecanyon download too, tell me where to send it!
they use radiation to treat cancer tho, so i guess he did
Hey, in Barcelona, that means he's getting home just in time to go out for dinner.
I'll even just go to LocalBitcoins if I want the anonymity (at a premium, but that's a cost of doing business without a fully FINRA-compliant broker, of course LBC is a marketplace so it has no business being compliant).

And if I don't want the anonymity premium these guys make it sound like it's difficult to do instant trades... Meanwhile I've got Coinbase on Instant Trade up to 10 BTC per day, and other exchanges have similar options (if you choose to verify with ID/Bank Info/etc).
I know I'm posting this after this article has peaked, but I did that on purpose. Maybe you won't ever read this. Probably not.

Aphyr I really admired you dude until you decided to post extremely graphic descriptions of your sexual activities on Twitter. I unfollowed you because of it, and I assure you it has absolutely nothing to do with your personal sexuality. I would've unfollowed anyone who posted what you did (hint: it was the 'toilet-cleaning' tweet last week).

And now this blog post. My god. Assault against women is "routine" in STEM fields? It's not routine, it's never been routine, it will never be routine. You live in a social media echo chamber that you need to break out of.

You know what the tech community needs more than anything? Thought-leaders who can teach the rest of us important, practical things about the technology we take for granted every day. What we don't need more of: pandering, condescending horseradish. I honestly will not be surprised if I get attacked personally because of this post as a woman-hating or homophobic bigot. This is the level of discourse now, unfortunately. Ergo why I waited until this post had passed its peak to post.

Break out of your dumb echo chamber, it's decreasing your worth as a teacher.
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This is one time I'm actually hoping for the title to be edited!
Are you talking about the PBX or something else?
Excuse my ignorance but where do the advertisers get the money to pay for the content? They get it from me if I buy their product. So instead giving my money to the advertiser who then gives it to the artist, why wouldn't I just give it to the artist myself (like with Netflix, etc.)?

I don't have the numbers but I am quite sure that movies at the theater woudldn't be that much more expensive either. The advertisers don't invest their own money, they invest the money they get from us the customers obviously. And they only can invest as much as we buy, not more.

Wouldn't cutting out the middleman save some bugs too?
Graduate students are already required to take courses and various tests that don't bring funding or prestige. This could simply be an additional requirement, or replace an existing requirement.

In time, such a program would bring quite a lot of prestige as flaws are discovered and fixed in existing work. It's really the easiest and most immediate way to address this problem since it only needs to involve single institutions (whose faculty presumably care deeply about this issue).

It doesn't seem likely that journals will suddenly start valuing verification work. Similarly, politicians and funding agencies appear uninterested in actual science; they care only about their careers or immediate application to the politically popular cause of the day.
Others are claiming that he did in fact know about it for years:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/104...
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The main thing I do is try to implement very thorough unit tests. I find that the act of writing the tests helps me think through the interface to the code, which in turn helps me isolate the caller from implementation details. It also helps make sure an individual module doesn't try to do too much or too little-- the unit test will start to feel "baggy" in the first case, and will look pretty thin in the other.

If you haven't read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers, I would strongly recommend it. The book officially is about how you get existing code under test, but its techniques orient around moving the code to a better organization.

The book "Large Scale C++ Software Design" by Lakos lists some actual, computable, metrics for assessing how interconnected your code is (and hence how hard to change). Never having used those metrics, I can't recommend them one way or the other; I just know they exist.
> ... read Lou Reed's review of Kanye's Yeezus: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed

Reading that is like watching Lou Reed mentally wrestle himself to the ground. He really doesn't like the record, but keeps rationalizing: the annoying synth sound as a "challenge"; the abrupt changes are challenging and keeping us "off balance. But soon after undermines his own rationalizations to note (correctly, in my view) that the real reason to make music is to make something beautiful, and hope that other people agree with you. And there he truly uncovers what's wrong with Kanye's music, and all that ilk: it's disdain of the listener. Anyone who listens to it is Kanye's bitch, willing to take all of his musical shit and like it, and Kanye knows it. And he definitely likes it.

Here we see clearly: Lou Reed isn't anyone's bitch, even when some egalitarian part of himself perversely really wants to be. We are witnessing, in black and white, his higher principles assert themselves even after he his lower ones sacrifice aesthetics and credibility on their petty alter named 'open-mindedness'. He means well here, but he just can't get away from his own good taste.

Makes me respect Lou Reed more, actually.
I'm going to be laughing my ass off when it's reveiled that the embassy in The Hague is also a listening post. It's a ridiulously fortified building with a near direct line of sight to the prime minister's private offices along the Hofvijver. We were all so gullible...
Perhaps because San Fran, Portland and New York are in the US, which has more onerous regulations.
Mathematical biologist here. There are lots of criticisms of the state of mathematical competence in biology I could offer, but power analysis really isn't one of them-- that is typically the one thing that _is_ taught well, if only because data collection can be so difficult. That is not to say that no clinical trials have ever suffered from badly handled statistics, but the issues are usually subtler than "we forgot to determine how many observations we'd need to detect an effect."
Look, code937.

I will simply say that all that what you say is a lie and was cooked up cleverly. You don't provide a name of yourself, a history about you, nothing. while the guy who wrote the code, has publicitly a name, a history behind ( http://www.class.pm/about/ ). He has a reputation to hold, and because he is a professional, i doubt that he would do such a thing, like appropriating code. He is keeping it quiet, while you have the big mouth.
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I've always found it interesting that prior to us paying for services with our private data, we paid for it with our attention. All of these implicit value transmissions are harmful to audiences, but the effects tend to be distant in time or space.
What anonymity of Bitcoin? Nothing in the design of Bitcoin protects anonymity, nor is it a clearly stated security goal.
You should lawyer up as others advise, but I must be missing something because the problems you listed are definitely not the client's problems. For example, it isn't their problem you didn't filter candidates well enough, etc.

I would lawyer up, but also work on killing them with kindness. Make it right. Gary-Vaynerchuk the heck out of them. (http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/)
Snowden is accused accused of crimes but has been convicted of nothing. Has he even been indicted yet?
In casual conversation many people would describe advil as harmless
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It's the same code; haven't yet found anything to suggest OP is telling the truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624199
This is a very common tactic in the grey-market internet realm. A dishonest proprietor raises "concerns" about the other's business on an open community forum, creates FUD. Then the other comes on with a new account, and accuses the accuser
of xyz. Whoever has a better standing in the community usually wins out.

It's brilliant because it works. It also only works in a market that is shielded from making informed decisions about the service/product/behind-the-scenes shit because the information isn't easily accessible or understood.

Given that this is a business that isn't hiding in the shadows, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

edit: I should add, it works because eventually it becomes a contest of personalities and the argument drifts away from what started it into some other territory. The FUD is never resolved so it winds up being True to the market.

It's also scary because of the amount of forged information, like official documents, lab reports, inventories, invoices, messages etc are forged by the hands of the dishonest proprietor.

Honestly, if it isn't resolved file a civil suit for libel. The internet will not resolve this and will make it worse.
This is an interesting idea. You could implement a compiler that spits out CSS as a proof of concept and then maybe lobby for browser support.
So run your own on ec2 or similar
Thank you pudquick.

Wish i knew why he felt the need to take it this far

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this site has stopped letting me reply to posts because im so new!

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I very much expect he's removed it due to this whole ordeal, you can find it on the waybackmachine cache though.

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=== my reply to consonants ...

It has worked, im deflated and upset, and it absolutely ruined my day. The only reason i was really bothered by it, was because he was taking donations for something that i had coded.

I will probably never understand why he just didnt think "oh i got caught, ill take it down" - end of story.

Why then go on to fabricate this story, make a blog post and add a post onto this form perplexes me.

I'm contemplating uploading all my original correspondence to him, but from the looks of things I've managed to prove my point and he's gone quiet so theres not much point.

It's a shame the outcome of this has been a terrifying ordeal for me sat on a forum trying to set the facts straight, I will have to explain the whole thing again with the marketplace tomorrow - and what tops the biscuit is that its still sat on his website.
> But if the online prices are no better, then Amazon provides no benefit

Speaking only for myself, the vast selection and stock is a huge factor for why I often prefer to buy things from Amazon.

For instance, there's a particular mustard that I like that is hard to find in stores nearby. I don't like it enough to justify going from store to store to find it, but I do like it enough to buy it from Amazon for the same price that I would pay by doing that, and just wait a day or two. Often stores are out of stock of the things that I want. Amazon tells me that without leaving the house. I live in a city where a trip to a store that isn't in walking distance can be a couple of hours or more to haul myself around on transit, but Amazon delivers to my office. I imagine that there are people in more rural areas that if the local store just doesn't have what you're after, you're out of luck. And so on.

My point is, there are plenty of reasons besides price to give up immediacy
I use ad-block.

Ads are polluting my brain. I'm thinking of something while traveling on the bus and suddenly I catch myself reading some silly slogan on a board. Now it's stored somewhere and I might think about it later again. I never wanted to read that thing and feel like it has been forced upon me. How many hours of collective thinking power have been lost to ads processing ?

Ads publishers treat us like a free resources that they can tap into. They hire psychologist and sociologists to know the best way to trigger emotional responses into us. They track our every move on the Internet. TV shows are especially created to dumb us down and make us more receptive to the ad-break. And ads are so omnipresent that they are virtually unavoidable. I don't remember the last time I got convinced to buy by an ad but it must work since they keep doing it.

So yes, I don't feel bad and ad-block the hell of everything and wish I could do it in the real life too.

EDIT: Actually my biggest grief is that the price of ads is not clearly exposed. I need to know upfront how much of purchasing influence I'm expected to spend on average otherwise how can I choose what is cheaper ?
This sounds a lot like rdiff-backup, which uses rsync and hard links to provide incremental backups:

http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html
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From a young age, no other artists expanded the definition of what it meant to fuse creativity, art, & music more than Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground. There are not too many artists that I can honestly say redefined music for me. He was one of them.

Thanks Lou.