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Patent holders can, in some cases, sue for damages for acts that occurred up to six years in the past. But there's no new infringement or damages accruing after expiration.
I just don't understand the argument that we should all just use HandlerFuncs for everything. Python and Ruby have stdlib HTTP facilities that are pretty good. They aren't nearly as nice as net/http, but you could totally build websites with them. People still have written lots of web frameworks, because it makes their lives easier. It lets them express programs in a simpler, higher-level way. I feel like this is even more valid now in 2013 since nearly anyone who's building websites has done so with one of those high-level frameworks, and they expect a similar experience.

Lots of people have abandoned Rails for Sinatra, or Django for Flask. That's totally cool, and there are good reasons to do so. There are also very good and obvious reasons to use something that further abstractions common patterns if the software you are building conforms reasonably well to those patterns.
I really should dig into my analytics to determine the churn rate.

My acquisition costs are basically free for a base line of about 10 signups per day plus sporadic increases from blog or forum posts. But this is nowhere near enough to generate significant revenue.

In future I'll experiment again with advertising and with optimising my site for revenue to know whether I can make advertising profitable.
He should produce a sexy video & start a kick starter campaign...
Generally, safety deposit boxes are considered your property. However, renters in general have a property right in the space they rent, derived from landlord-tenant law. But that property right involves reciprocal rights, liabilities, and obligations. If a bank negligently causes loss of the contents of your safe deposit box, they can be held liable for that loss. When analogizing from safe deposit boxes to the cloud, as many have tried to do (including in legal cases), that whole element of reciprocal obligations is missing.

Do you have a property right in your Google Drive? Do you pay rent? Can you sue Google if they negligently lose the contents? Does Google have any obligations to give you say 30 days notice before they shut down your account? These reciprocal obligations are the difference between renting a garage to store your papers (which would fall within the 4th amendment), and simply leaving your papers in a friends' garage (which wouldn't).
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Would love to know who at HN had the epiphany that their Person of the Year in Tech list left out Marissa Mayer & Sheryl Sandberg. As of 9:38am today it was 100% male; checked back at 10:05 and there they are, tacked on at the end.
Yesterday I was reading an article about this case that stated Newegg didn't even bother to call their witnesses to dispute the amount of damages that would've been caused by their patent violation. It gave the impression that they were so confident that they had roundly destroyed the plaintiff's arguments that they didn't even bother to follow standard operating procedure for how to fight these types of cases.

On one hand, it's yet another nail in the coffin of innovation in our country. On the other hand, shame on Newegg's lawyers for being so hubris.
I don't believe that PHP is faster than Ruby. I think it's just that Ruby on Rails is a rather fat framework.
The easiest way is to add a Dockerfile to your source repository, and use 'docker build' to create a container image from it.

Documentation link: http://docs.docker.io/en/master/use/builder/
It does have value. It's long lasting, pseudonymous, secure, and it costs less to make transfers between two parties. These are qualities that are hard to find in a physical commodity. What gives value to an individual bitcoin is the Bitcoin network. There is real value there.
His proceedings have nothing to do with obscure laws or costumes. He is accused of raping two women. Sweden is a democratic country with established rule of law, unlike China.
The $179 Moto G hits the US early
The government of the United States is responsible, however imperfectly, to the people of the United States, not to those of the planet entire.
Marshall, Texas; population 24,751.

Definitely small enough for the entire town to know and understand that voting in favor of a plaintiff today brings more money to your town tomorrow.
Bill Gates' polio vaccinations caused the paralysis of 48,000 Indian children?
and compared to central London and the UK a 5 mill dollar house isn't that expensive.

In my little commuter town in the UK on the same street as my doctors surgery there is a house going for just under 1.6 Million dollars
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I’m starting up a website called http://www.ubercapable.com/professionals.html, for passive tech professionals that want a buffer between them and recruiters or people who are looking for tech co-founders. It's currently in beta and active.

The way it works is when you sign up we create an email address for you. And when anyone emails you at this email address they will have to pay certain price to reach you. We will then send you a notification in which you could accept or deny this request

When you accept this request we will link you and requester up to engage in conversation with them and the money they paid to talk will be waiting for you.
Yes, it's idiomatic, but typically you will use shared filesystem access rather than shared memory. By default nothing is shared, and you can specify exceptions using shared directories called "volumes": http://docs.docker.io/en/master/use/working_with_volumes/
I totally built a watcher command line app and ditched it because this was more convenient :)

https://github.com/codegangsta/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vim/...
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How do you identify a definition as being "actual"? Why are the Myers-briggs authors the authority on introversion? Many people consider the MBTI to be bunk science, and the term "introvert" has been around for much longer than the MBTI.

EDIT: Also, why does there have to be just one definition anyway?
Recompiling and restarting the server has yet to become a bottleneck in development for me, or at least it hasn't caused enough friction or irritation to compel me to add something using fsnotify or other solutions. If you told me that you were very interested in using the framework but the lack of this feature was a barrier to adoption, I'd definitely think harder about it.
> It's not "common sense" to pull a number out of thin air. The data sheet says 200kW.

Yes, speaking of pulling numbers out of thin air. If this were really a cold fusion device, no continuous input power would be required -- the device could be started once using an impulse of power, then it would become self-sustaining using its own generated energy -- no further input power would be required.

Look at the claims:

* Input power required: 200KW

* Claimed output power: 1 MW

Why isn't 200 KW of the 1 MW output power used to sustain the reaction? What's wrong with this picture? Only someone with no understanding of physics would post this "fact sheet".
Stupid question to those who know the US law: theoretically, would it be possible for Newegg to refuse to do business with residents of Texas, so it is impossible for other conmpanies to sue them in Texas?

To other commentators: no offence meant for people of Texas, if it is how it works, it is just cold-blooded business decision, nothing more.
Will it be possible to run Docker containers on Android? I may be asking this incorrectly. So correct me if I have a mistake. My question might be "Will it be possible to run Docker containers on Dalvik VM?" or "Can I run an Android in Docker container?"
People of course can disagree about what is "reasonable." I personally don't consider my e-mail private, not when a Google engineer has been caught stalking people through their GChats (http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...), and not when the whole business model is built on reading through those e-mails to serve advertisements. I consider that quite different than my cleaning lady incidentally having access to documents in my desk drawer.
So you think you’ve got good company culture?
Correct. Not only because they want a pretty ring, also because it's what their culture demands and has demanded for century's. (India, Asia, heck even Germany with it's 'hard money'-policy finds it's roots in a defense against a debasement of the currency). We should not forget we are the generation that has never seen a currency connected to something intrinsic like gold. (I'm referring to the closing of the gold-window by Nixon in the 70's). We are viewing this through our own culture.
Every so often the idea pops into my head that maybe people are just using HN as a low-risk place to test their corporate communication skills.

Maybe they don't even do it maliciously. The same way a freemium game can A-B test their way into an unaware but disgusting exploitation of human psychology, all while the were just trying to use metrics to discover what's fun.

So I see HN as a chance to practice, or (more specifically) organically stumble upon rhetorical tricks that play to the audience's desire to let reasonable discussion occur while not actually embodying it.

I mean, it's either that or someone is purposefully using a politician's playbook for reshaping conversations.
>22,000 according to wc -l /*.scss (thanks stackoverflow!).

Edit: > 24,000 (counting all files this time ;-)

But I noticed that files missing a newline at the end weren't being counted correctly (missing 1 line in the count).
Don't a lot of national anthems and/or identities claim bravery and freedom?
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/weeks/id469364967
> > all library functions being in the global scope

> Ever used C?

Come on, this is not a good argument. C is a 70's language, we can do better than that, even in 1995 when PHP came out.
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Not really. Arbitrage is already pretty advanced. The analogy to bitcoin mining rigs and mining pools isn't far-fetched.

Some well-positioned people smell it and started refining the process while building up legal machines for consolidating power and squeezing every advantage out of the system.

They also have already moved ahead in protecting interests from retribution of the noble AND pitchfork variety.

Let's also not forget that there are parties shaking hands over a couple few million... and we're just sitting here worrying that someone is plotting a highway tax for when we finally ascend to such neighborhoods.
In my experience the values for UK are sound. When I was working there I was on the lower 20Ks GBP (which living in London just sucks), but it was my first real job.

I still receive various e-mails from recruiters (the kind they spam to every contact they ever had) for mid-level roles and most are between 30-45K, with the finance ones being much more, as you say.

It's kind of depressing thinking that after 7+ years of career the highest salary I ever had was for an internship in the US, before even staring out...
Fair enough, I must of been in one of bad areas. I lived in England my whole life up until I moved to Oz.
The first shipping generators will have an unfortunate bug that caps the output at approximately one-fifth of maximum capacity. The company will promise that, as soon as the bug is fixed and some new parts are installed, the machines will deliver the promised 1 MW.
Modi 2014.
I must be slow as hell, I really can't see what you supposedly detected. Mind explaining to the rest of the class?
Hey, sorry about that. I've fixed the page and it should work now!
UK Internet filters will soon be used to block "extremist views"
If I'm not mistaken people can still find the document with search.
>> Capitalism == free markets == non-coersion

I love how libertarians redefine words to mean what they want!
The test isn't "things you wish to stay private." It's "reasonable expectation of privacy." It's an objective test, not a subjective one.

But if you're going to argue that this objectively means "reasonable expectation that your privacy will be respected in this case" rather than "reasonable expectation that your privacy should be respected in this case" then you have reduced any protection to something meaningless through circular logic. By this kind of argument, anyone can violate your privacy, in any way, for any reason, and it's all OK as long as they make sure you know it's happening.
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I have not tried personally, but I think it should be possible. People already do crazy things with Docker :) For example: http://resin.io/docker-on-raspberry-pi/
The 1 MW output is in heat, not electricity.
Companies in Texas can sue anyone they want as long that other entity is under United States jurisdiction.
The problem with that attitude is that real-world usage is what matters if you're benchmarking or evaluating for your own use.

The vast majority of people who use Ruby for web development are using Rails (because Rails is a large part of what makes Ruby effective and attractive for web development - in general, YMMV), so you can't make realistic performance comparisons without comparing commonly-used stacks.

Otherwise it's just a useless pissing contest.
You're missing the point that, if the claims were real, 200 KW of the claimed output power of 1 MW cold be used to sustain the reaction, thus removing the input power requirement. This kind of "fact sheet" can only persuade people who don't understand physics.
There have been many NSA discussions on HN. Quite a few of the comments give an interpretation of the Constitution. I thought the source could be useful.
Why didn't they touch on why the Hitachi drives weren't the same quality as the other brands with this statement:

"Switching hard drive manufacturers from Hitachi to Seagate and Western Digital. The assumption here is that all drives are the same and as we’ve learned that’s not really the case."

Where is the footnote. Why aren't they the same?
Not entirely true. Pharmaceutical patents can be effectively renewed if a new use for an already patented drug is discovered.
Yeah I'd submit that to /r/glitch_art
Personally, I think that theory is utter crap.

A well-informed jury about the topic at hand is bad for one party of a lawsuit. It's better that a jury is a blank slate so that the lawyers can attempt to convince them their story is the one, true story in the debate. It's why during jury selection they often actively attempt to find a juror that knows nothing about the topic or carries no opinion about it.

Of course, that's not necessarily true across the board. Sometimes one side does want people that know the topic and have an opinion about it but I bet those are mostly criminal cases.

Plus, to me anyway, if the juries did actually have this supposed high-level of knowledge and experience then the results would be more balanced. Because there's no way you can tell me that nearly every single patent troll out there is in the right with these cases. More of these patents should be tossed out for the silliness that they represent.

Lawyers do their best to get into courts and before judges they feel will be sympathetic to their case. To do otherwise is a disservice to their client.
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Edward Snowden is much less about "tech" and a lot more about privacy revolving mobile phones, internet and a lot more, like banking information, centralised processing of CCTV camera footage, etc, etc.
Assange isn't even charged with anything

This is due to differences in the procedural law. Under the Swedish system, he can't be charged until he's arrested and interrogated.

According to Swedish law, a formal decision to indict may not be
taken at the stage that the criminal process is currently at.
Julian Assange's case is currently at the stage of "preliminary
investigation". It will only be concluded when Julian Assange is
surrendered to Sweden and has been interrogated.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html

The "but they haven't even charged him" is just disinformation.

for some reason the police demands that he comes here to Sweden to be questioned.

"Some reason" being that he's a suspect who has evaded an arrest warrant.
Documentation is definitely part of the process :) Apparently the documentation service triggered an incorrect build overnight. Until we fix that you can browse the latest version of the docs from the master branch: http://docs.docker.io/en/master
This would be like living across the bay in Oakland, but much better. Compared to NYC's subway as a general-purpose transport system, BART's more like a commuter rail line that happens to be underground in downtown San Francisco.

Heck, when the MTA decides to strike (which is occasionally, but less frequently than BART) you can walk to Manhattan from Astoria. Try that from Oakland-to-SOMA.
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- Services, factories, constants, values ... they're all just syntactic sugar on top of provider, so that's not really something you just rip out. You just don't use it if you don't need to. And you very rarely do.

- What's problematic with $q, compared to any other promises implementation?

- The future of directives has to be as HTML5 web components, though how that'll happen, I have no idea!
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Crashing for me :( Uploaded crash log to GitHub though... hoping something comes of that.
Interesting, there are several international variations listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#Words_co...
VEry good answer, thank you. So in my scenario, I was thinking of packaging our service apps (which run on JVM) and if I make sure that the OS has jvm and all the needed stuff ready. Shipping a package and deploying the service, is just transferring the Docker container and run it. Which happens to be using the same process models as the OS itself. So in other terms, Docker is a convenience layer (a glorified FS abstraction). I am not saying this to undermine the utility, just trying to figure out if it solves more problems then the complexity it brings (which is one more moving part in your toolchain)
PostgreSQL has native json support now. What else is missing? Just a protocol implementation?

I'd love to see MongoDB give up and become a PostgreSQL consultancy.

Everybody I talk to in the field has the exact same Mongo story: "We love JSON! We use JSON everywhere! We just wanted a DB with native JSON support. We didn't look at the implementation details. We only looked at their marketing. Now we wake up at 3am to fix it every night and lose data every day. Somebody help us. We love JSON."
Really, that's crazy. So is your dad the Chris that went to visit my dad in Asturias, Spain earlier this year?
It doesnt implicate that Hitachi were not the same quality as others. I undestand that the main reason to switch was the availability to price ratio, nothing else. What I think they meant when talking about drives to be different is the variety of sizes you get when purchasing 'a 3TB' drive.
Back when I had just started with web development, I created an online steganography tool. It took an uploaded image, and text. The text was encrypted using a passphrase (from user) and placed in the end of image file which didn't affect the image itself and a link was created for the user. Right now, I am bewildered what kind of dumbness had struck me? but I was really a kid those days :).
Well if you ever want to chat don't hesitate to look me up.
That's sensible when you consider that postgresql used to be a SQL layer over postgres. Not sure if that is the case now.
Please just say use
> But if you're going to argue that this objectively means "reasonable expectation that your privacy will be respected in this case" rather than "reasonable expectation that your privacy should be respected in this case" then you have reduced any protection to something meaningless through circular logic.

That's what the reasonable expectation of privacy test has always meant, so its not reducing it at all. Whether its meaningless or not, well, actual actions by government have been found to violate it, so its clearly not a null protection, even if it isn't what you'd prefer.
I don't see the OP by dalek_cannes arguing that this is a binary affair. It seems to imply quite clearly that there is some sort of balance where freedom and safety weigh on opposite sides. In fact, its main point seems to be arguing against the premise that going right to one extreme of the scale is a good idea.
> The principles behind patents and copyright law make sense in this regard.

I personally disagree strongly with IP in the first place. Of course, this leads to a divisive opposition against the current regime between those who still want IP and those who don't, but it is something I feel strongly enough about I am not willing to concede on. Things are awful right now, and having "better" IP would reduce the likelihood of an open information society because people would be even more complicit if the laws weren't so laughably bad right now.
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Thanks for the helpful error message, Time.

Error (api.go:209) forerunner/api.getPollById: exception: can't connect to new replica set master [ec2-54-225-59-0.compute-1.amazonaws.com:27017], err: couldn't connect to server ec2-54-225-59-0.compute-1.amazonaws.com:27017
>I have more hassle with credit cards than you might, specifically they are always getting flagged for fraud because I'm not where they expect. Yes, this isn't an issue if you live in the states at a permanent address.

I have lived, well more of a stayed for few months than lived for longer period of time, in various countries in EU and I only had one time paypal block my payment with credit card issued in Bosnia. That was when I installed new OS(W8), different browser(trying out FF) and different country(Italy) - it made complete sense to block the purchase. And that was resolved in about 15 minutes after I contacted their support.

>Not sure why you are using quotes

I was quoting the scenario you named where bitcoin has advantages. I probably shouldn't have used quotes though...

>Getting a credit card is pretty annoying and expensive in Rwanda.

I don't know about Rwanda, but in most countries (even the developing ones) you do have access to CC. I'm pretty sure that everyone who can afford PC and internet access can also afford CC.

Of course there are exceptions, but those exceptions aren't really suitable for bitcoin either because it would be more complicated than just using cash - because you need phone or PC to make (normal) transaction.

>The vast majority of people do not have bank accounts, much less credit.

So how do you buy bitcoins? In person transactions? Isn't it worth it then, for someone who makes online payments frequently, to go through annoying process of getting the CC instead of finding people who are willing to sell bitcoins? Or go to a bank and make a wire transfer or WU transfer (which is, I assume, more expensive for large quantity of transfers than paying for CC)?
I hope so. I've become so used to Mongoid's API and I've never really liked the "invisible" properties of Active Record.
That's exactly it.

Patents can affect anyone at any time, whereas copyright laws affect certain individuals that have violated the terms.

Theoretically of course. There have been cases of people being sued for piracy when they don't even have a computer.
They generally only offer free upgrades for 90 days, if that.