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I suppose that according to current copyright legislation they did "steal" the Mario character.

Maybe the point is that the copyright laws are wrong.

If the website is correct, and Mario debuted in 1983, it means he has been a character for 30 years now. Mario (the character/the game) is part of our collective culture.

If anything, the website was an expression of that.

I don't think anyone is arguing that Nintendo doesn't have the legal right to shut down the website. The question is should they have that right?
right on. a large of big companies don't have things like automated testing
in terms of hardware what has valve done? Make an awesome controller which is still an iteration of today's generation of controllers? Yeah, they have things in the pipeline, but some of those may fail, like virtual boy. Or they may be successful. But, to say valve is innovative and nintendo is not is just saying something bizarre.
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Let's try to get an order of the probability... Let's say the parts land on earth with an an angle of more than 45 degrees. I'd take 1 sqm for each human, understanding the angle would reduce that number. Which makes around 10000 sqkm, counted generously. The earth total surface is around 510 millions sqkm. So that's one in 51000 chances for any human to be hit (calculated high). So quite makes sense that no one was impacted yet, but this seems not impossible as well - of course depending on how many satellites impact earth each year. Not counting that people are often in buildings, but one impact could kill more than 1, etc.
Personally, I take this number for negligeable still. It would rather be hard finding anything build by humans killing less people.
There's a difference between documentation for w/e you are working on and documentation for this cool new framework you saw on HN that has little to do with your duties.
What's the rent for a 1BR apartment in a nice part of town?
Thanks that's important to point out. My experiences were only in Ireland, France, Belgium and Austria. As someone living in the north of Ireland using Sterling I experience the price difference often every time I travel south and the jumps aren't insignificant.
That might be a good strategy to spend more wisely, and save up the 'extra' money that comes up twice a year.
Nope. Actually in Athens it may be more important to be a good hipster. Mission hipsters are amateurs compared to those I knew and loved in Athens.
I would add a question about vacation policy as a signal about whether you want to work there.

Wrong answers: two weeks, or "unlimited" (because everyone knows there will be peer pressure not to use vacation time).

Right answer: four weeks, use it or lose it (as in, we want you to check out for a proper vacay a few times a year).

The definition of vacation = I am going to be on a beach/wherever, not checking email, probably drinking, and definitely not thinking about work.

Location is also important. If you have a 2-3 hour round trip commute each day, you'll hate your job no matter how interesting the work is.
I think it's because it rarely directly affects the majority of people in a negative way, so it's hard to notice what the problems with over-surveillance might be. Also, we hear about the good that comes from surveillance - such as preventing and punishing crimes - more than we hear about the bad that comes from it.
Then you can put your tests in a `check` block and move them elsewhere. You don't have to use `where` except when it makes sense.
Currencies are not chosen by the population. They are forced upon them via specific organizations.

The USD Gov allows to you to pay taxes in USD, not in BTC. Even if BTC get taxed you still will have to pay your taxes in USD.

If and when the US gov will start accepting taxes in BTC all this reasoning might have a solid ground. Until then, it's a utopia.

ps. The above, will never going to happen though. It's insane/stupid/unthinkable for a state to give such power to unknown people (%98 of BTC are located in 2% of portfolios) instead of controlling it's own currency by a central authority (FED, ECB, ...).
He's talking about http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...
There is very little acceleration by the head when the bag senses an eminent collision and deploys as the car hits the rear wheel and the person starts to go back.

I do not think or trust they can design a sensor that would deploy when it needs to without misfiring all the time. And if it fires, you have to buy a whole other one.
I understand the application process to US colleges was designed to weed out minorities (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618574581/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_QWQFsb...).

But in this modern day and age, when such discrimination is considered faux pass (or so I hope), maybe it's time to make the admission system be based on standardized tests, instead of the unquantifiable feel of an admission officer.
While such tests have their own set of problems, they would remove some of the discrimination hidden in the current process.
The language is in use in introductory courses, with a gradual introduction of these topics. It's no different from using any other modern programming language in education.

Our goal is to eventually create language levels, pioneered by DrRacket, based on what we learn from observation. This is a research project in addition to a development one, where the research is into human factors.
Are the Brits tapping undersea cables off Cyprus?
Some of the commentators on the original article also pointed this out.

We've been facing domestic and foreign terrorism for a very long time. We found our societal balance for freedom and security some time ago.

If anything the Internet and commercial surveillance for marketing purposes are the things that have disturbed the balance rather than the previously accepted concept that we are surveilled by the state in every public and private forum.

Written down it sounds terrible but it works in practice.
Rather than a break up fee, perhaps it's worth charging them consultancy rates for explaining what you're doing to them - after all, they can't unhear that information so why not charge it at rates matching the value to them in their conversations with the next company if you end up not coming tot terms?
You can ask the question the other way: Is it ethical for your employer to expect you to obtain the knowledge to solve a work-specific problem on your own time and without pay?
What innovative things has Nintendo been doing besides the Wii?

Of top of my head and I am sure there are plenty more.

- D-Pad (1982 on donkey kong)

- L-R buttons on SNES

- redefining handheld console as we know it today (gameboy)

- Analog stick on a joypad (N64 had it first)

- Rumble actuator on a joypad (N64 had it first)

- revitalization of game and game console market with NES

- Touch screen interface on handheld consoles with dual screen (before iphone)

- portable handheld console with 3D without glasses

- 'portable' 3d console (virtual boy)

- (re)defining 2d platformer genre as we know it today

- (re)defining 3d platformer genre as we know it today (N64 super mario)

- vast collection of super brands of games and characters

- Wii and that whole thing with motion controller

- Wii U with separate screen on a controller

.... many many more

So, what has Valve done exactly? They created a marketplace for games which has revitalized PC gaming (debatable on revitalized - more like set direction) and several popular games. Don't get me wrong, Valve is successful and likable company now (remember when everybody hated Steam?). They are just not in the same category with Nintendo as far as innovation goes, not technically nor creatively. Maybe some day they will be, but they are definitely not there yet.
I play in a multi-winner space if you play it one way; a winner-takes most space if you play it another way so I'm not too worried about competition. They're actually worried about another competitor who just got in so they want to build out something similar (is my guess).

Do you think that this in any way helps me to be able to raise money or would real investors just brush it aside (i.e. does it provide any real validation of concept)? Thanks!
Pure HTML/CSS3 Binary Clock represented in 3D as each of the RGB values
This is somewhat standard practice. At Google/Facebook campuses you have to agree to an NDA in order to print out your guest badge.
Does github get a pass based on safe harbour laws?

Do those laws apply even now when github are going to be on very thin ice arguing they had no knowledge of the infringement or their hosting of copyright infringing content - seems like they'd be an easy target for a contributory infringement suite?

A cynic might imagine that they're waiting for the usage statistics to go up so as to inflate the claim.
Yes. Don't know how much he ever got in donations, but at least it was a good showcase for him.
Many of us don't willingly accept the level of surveillance that we now know is happening. Unfortunately, our electoral system is very much an all-or-nothing proposition, and therefore who holds power tends to be dominated by how the major parties deal with a very small number of issues that can each have a big effect on a lot of people.

Other than right after an event like the 7/7 bombings, neither national security nor civil liberties get anywhere near the top of most people's lists. Those people are too busy hoping they have a job next week, or trying to get the best possible education for their kids, or worrying about the quality of care that sick or elderly family members are receiving, or wondering if they'll ever be able to buy a home somewhere they really want to live.

All the main political parties in the UK obviously understand this, and that means policy on other issues is dominated by concerns other than the immediate will of the electorate. In some cases, it's special interest groups. In this particular case, there's probably some of that going on, but there's also the politics of fear, where no-one wants to be the guy who didn't vote for something security-related if the next horror happens on their watch.

This is a horrible situation if you are a citizen who believes the threats are overstated or the privacy concerns are dangerous, but it's a rational response -- indeed, it's probably the only rational response -- under our current political system, and that's why basically every major party here is reluctant to oppose these kinds of infringements too strongly.
Montenegro is a quite nice place for a freelancer, beaches/good weather/very cheap prices and rent
I'm spreading this to everyone as a lesson in Applied Arse-Kicking.
Go, Robot, Go Golang for Robotics.
Then the yuan exchanges will pick up the slack. I'd dump my dollars for yuan and btc, as would other people. The USG would be slitting its own throat if it made btc > $ exchanges outright illegal.
From someone who has a strong culture & tech ecosystem balance bias:

- Berlin: It's the perfect combination of cheap living costs and OKish (growing) tech community

- As mentioned pretty much everything from Paris to Kiev gets really dark & cold in winter, and not in a NY/Chicago cool way.

- More and more people (especially British) move to Spain, mostly Barcelona. Not as good in terms of startup community as Berlin, but at least equally cheap & decent regarding arts.

Personal bottom line if you want to spend the whole year in Europe: Barcelona in Winter, Berlin in summer, and using LCC fares to get to London for interesting meetups etc.
Easier understanding of the Debian OpenSSL bug
There is spam, scam, phishing...

And it is just question of time before 'personality nuke' will appear. Give us list of your competitors and negative traits they should be associated with. In just three days we will make sure none of them will pass.

There is only solution: send ling to facebook and twitter profile together with your application (in email signature). Personal PGP certificate should be also norm.
"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" is real though. Or rather I personally can't eat most things at chinese restaurants and this article was the first time I heard that this is actually a named thing, i.e. this is the first time I hear of CRS. Though I think it's more to do with the fat they use to fry rice in -- there is one place around here which serves chinese-style stir-fried noodles, but eating there reliably does not trigger any symptoms. They are also the priciest noodles around. Maybe CRS should just be named "bad cheap fried food syndrome". It's not a TLA, but you can just smush all the words together and call it bacheff syndrome.
> Step 1: make Bitcoin exchanges illegal to operate. There is no Step 2.

Step 2 is moving my Bitcoin business to a country that's not afraid of Bitcoin.
'Don't panic': One-tonne satellite falling to Earth
Thanks for the insight! Please let me know if there is any way for me to be able to reach out to your buddy.
See this great talk by Chef David Chang on MSG & Umami. http://www.madfood.co/david-chang-3/
They're entire job is making a decision about an applicant where only a percentage is based on objective data. They read your personal statement and make a host of judgements, so I don't see how this would be any different.
Cardiff, Wales. Not only a great place to live but also has a vibrant and growing digital community:

http://cardiffstart.com
http://cardiffdigital.com
I'm OK with it, as long as it's directly relevant to work. I spend a lot of time coding at home on work-related projects, so it evens out for me.

I'll even go so far as to say that reading HN (the tech stuff, not the political discussions, though those are interesting to me too) has been very helpful. I know people tire of MongoDB vs. SQL, CoffeeScript vs JavaScript, etc. etc., but for those who haven't been exposed to why such controversies exist (which is, pretty much everyone straight out of school and anyone whose work is limited to legacy codebases), these topics...for a time...can be incredibly useful in widening your scope and changing the way in which you assess your own domain, even if it's not necessarily about moving to a new technology.

(it's not that HN is in itself useful, it just happens to be one of the best aggregators for such material)
After being captivated by a "company" named East India Company for 200 years the governance in 70's and 80'a in India makes perfect sense to me.

Remember post independence India was a broken nation. Not even a needle was manufactured in the country. India was in dire need of building massive infrastructure and strengthening its defense to deal with Pakistan and China.

Where do you think the money to do all this come from ?
The priorities at that time was different.

Now, India is an independent nation capable to defend itself and have relatively a stable economy.

India is opening up its economy and focusing on creating more opportunities which are entrepreneur friendly (look at the growth of the -obvious- IT sector).
No, it's both - note that Josh marketed the hell out of himself (and that he provided a concise and easily-followed how-to for that is why this page is brilliant) and hit the tutorials really hard and do one real-world project so he did in fact have the chops to say "I am a junior developer who is worth his salary."
This statement is completely ridiculous. Go to Midtown Atlanta on Pride Weekend and get back to me on that opinion, if you ever escape from the traffic jam.
My thoughts exactly. Additives like MSG are inevitably used to cover up bad food. I avoid MSG because I would rather know if what I'm served is bad after the first bite, than an hour later with indigestion.
>They can't go after everyone downloading the source code //

They could. But it's highly unlikely and probably in some jurisdictions they would fail.
Is it for your current job or the one you are applying for?
How will people reliably get to healthcare.gov from a friendly scammer's web site...? The system has to be built for ordinary people who seldom if ever look at URLs unless entering them.

For your second point, I posit a scammer simulating all of that, right down to sending out authentic looking enrollment snail mail. Or just disappearing after getting your first, up front payment.

My point here is that we need something like what you describe in your last paragraph, with people like you putting on white hats to design the system and people like me putting on black hats to break it in principle. And of course trading hats as we see fit, etc. This most damning article yet, from the Washington Post, points out how unopen, often the point of secrecy, the process was, even to the point of suppressing release of architecture diagrams to the state exchanges: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogge...
OTOH, taking up with the Scientologists is probably not the ideal part of that to emulate.
Stodgy, predictable, strategic research? It doesn’t need to be
I shouldn't?

Maybe you need to provide a complete frame, because I'm not sure I follow.

ps. I have a deep respect for Anarchism, as I have for Communism (Marx/Engels), although I don't endorse their views about society. That said, believing that bitcoin is in any way close to anarchy because you don't pay taxes is wrong. As Prof. Shamir (the 'S' in RSA) showed some time back, 98% of BTC is controlled by 2% of portfolios. If you have a financial background you can see how this is deeply flawed and extremely centralized.
Having been friends and intimately involved with several Catholics in Georgia I'm really curious where this statement comes from - because it's literally the first time I've heard it.
Hey Anil,

An "Undo" function would be nice. While editing, I clicked on an "x" in the Home button by mistake, which removed the entire button, and now I have no idea how to restore that button.
The fundamental point is what you're getting paid to do. Is the company paying for your experience or aptitude?

If it's the latter, becoming a better programmer is part of your job, and choosing to read books instead of writing code is just a choice of priority, just like choosing to work on one feature of the project over another.

If it's the former, ask yourself if you really want to be working for this company.
haha. love it. if that job pays 200k a year with 1m+ option vesting over 3 years... i'd have to think about it for a day. otherwise, it'd be npv negative for the risk i've already undertaken to do a startup in the first place!
I'm an erstwhile (amateur) blacksmith, now a programmer. Funny to see the two together. Blacksmithing and programming are both areas where practitioners make their own tools. Compilers and tongs can be bootstrapped.
We picked France's Charente Maritime (http://goo.gl/maps/rIFK6) to bootstrap and do remote freelancing: rural, the sea is nearby, great food/wine/cheese, weather is warm (but not overly hot in the summer). You can find houses around 600€/mo, we bought our 150k€ including swimming-pool.
Spike in suspicious traffic and TOR usage, says threat report
Ljubljana, Slovenia is really nice. It's a mix of east & west, uses Euros/EU, and rent is fairly inexpensive. I met a few ex-pat Americans that were working in tech / IT.

No one will ever expect you to learn Slovenian too, it's such a complicated language that unless you were a native speaker, it's next to impossible to speak correctly.
103% tax rate? Now that is on the wrong side of the Laffer Curve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
You can expect this sort of thing to be automated at some point, and then it could be used well outside of the most competitive schools.
And face a $150,000 claim for statutory damages for the wilful infringement?

It's easy for a general to consider the optimal strategy for storming a fortified position. He's not going to be the cannon fodder who gets sent in first with little chance of survival.
This feels bizarre. Maybe HNers don't actually play videogames?

The Wii U is dead. It completely flopped. The original Wii may as well be ancient, in terms of game industry time.

Nintendo was innovative. But they haven't been for awhile. When they have to resort to lawyering their fans, it's a bad omen. And they don't seem to have anything else up their sleeve right now, as Yahtzee elucidates: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation...

It's interesting that most people aren't recognizing what Valve's controller represents. The future of console gaming is Valve. I'll be happy to refer back to this comment in five years. Shall we bet $10?
Whatever they will do, it seems likely they have already done: there have been many dozens of altcoins, but most have come and gone without a trace and wound up being simple pump-and-dump schemes.
Agreed. This is the only part of the situation that has been surprising to me.
The force of the US military is not what props up the value of the USD, look at all the other currencies around the world with almost no offensive military. How do you explain the value of CHF or JPY? The value of a currency is based on the network effect of everyone who uses it and how much they trust it not to devalue (ie trusting they won't print too much too fast).

We trust the USD because everyone we have ever met in the US has trusted it for their entire life, and their parents, and grandparents, ... . And the network effect is so large that people growing up in countries with weak currencies trusted it more than their home currency, it was stable and everywhere.
It can be answered by reversing the question. Would it be ethical for your current employer to ask you to do a job outside of the scope he explicitly hired you for ?
I.e. would you do photoshop work in a pinch, even if you're paid as a database engineer ?
Would you help brainstorming the UX of a product while you were brought in to deal with performance bottlenecks ?

If you think you should put your whole knowledge and skillset to solve any problem coming your way, no matter what's written on your contract or business card, you should allow yourself to expand this knowledge and skillset during work hours as long as there is no direct damaging effects to the things you work on.
I've had some prints done of shaders I've written that were beautiful, and the next step for me is to put the code right along with the images. I see an odd kind of beauty in tying the two together, like seeing the palette next to a painting. Just need to figure out how I'm going to present it.
Cheating is not a boundary that deserves to be pushed & rewarded :/ .
Are you unfamiliar with the detail that "free speech" refers to governmental reaction to speech, or are you just ignoring it?
I am a time traveler from rhe future here to beg you to stop what you are doing
It really embarrases me, as a Brit, that the majority seems so apathetic about the surveillance in place. Though nobody I know seems to understand the sheer scale of what's going on. Personally, any attempts I've made to try and explain things have fallen on deaf ears...
Disclosure: I am long bitcoin and have no plans to initiate any positions within the next 48 hours.
> The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are minimalist because we spend 1/18 of the US budget

Yes, I agree. Terrorism in US falls under basic "create problem and offer solution" category.

The odds of dying in a terrorist attack would be even smaller, had we never gone to Iraq, never started Afghanistan war and did thousands other things throughout the history of US that got most of the world pissed off, starting from hard core terrorist from Afgan mountains all the way down to the WW2 veterans (american citizens) being pissed off because Gov closed national parks.

So why don't you stop all those shady operations around the world and eventually, as a result, keep that 1/18th of the budget that you so desperately need to spend on "keeping civilians safe" in your/citizens own pockets.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with any way in which Nintendo was losing money here though.