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This isn't as complicated as this thread has made it out to be. Look at it from the perspective of a(n American) company that wants to distribute a product with kvazaar. They are prepared to purchase a distribution license from MPEG-LA for each copy sold (read: distributed), and the terms of that license do not include resale (or redistributed). Any customer redistributing their copy must purchase their own license from MPEG-LA. But they're also beholden to the terms of the GPLv2, which says this:

> 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions.* You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

* Including unlimited redistribution in source or binary form as per sections 1 and 3.

Now there's a problem. Guaranteeing the text of the GPL implicitly allows the user to infringe the patent license, while honoring the patent license violates the guarantee of the GPL. Such a binary becomes completely un-distributable. With permissive licenses that have no such clause, there's nothing preventing Company X from distributing the licensed binary and source and telling the user that if they want to redistribute a binary, to buy a patent license of their own. That's why the BSD license would not pose a problem for distribution in the presence of an extra, more restrictive license such as a patent package.
I went through a period where I spent thousands of dollars on ergonomic keyboards and chairs.

I bought the Datahand and used it for a good two weeks. The mouse cursor can only be controlled up/down , left/right with it. With too much graphical work, that cut my use of it short.

Several years later I started a strength training program, and within a few weeks my RSI vanished. At its worst, my arms would be numb when I woke up, I had sustained numbness in one hand for weeks, at one point I couldn't physically hold a mouse more than 15 minutes. It took a quick Google Image search to know I would never do a carpel tunnel release surgery.

After adding up the workout time spent, it was about 4 hours of strength training (no weights or gripping) that ended 5 years of debilitating wrist pain. From what I've been able to tell many years later, it was all from doing pushups -- which likely has everything to do with shoulder and back muscles. That ironic thing was, because the pain was in my wrists and arms, I thought doing pushups would cause too much pain so I had stopped doing them.

Now instead of ergonomics I think of how to be more active while and between working.
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I would say so too!

Buying furniture and fitting them into right category/color and also fitting them into the color/style of your apartment are no easy task.

It takes lots of effort, and does not seem to work at all.

The most annoying part of it is that, there are no good tool for a general public to actually easily use planning tool to design/shop furnitures.

Since good furnitures are mostly quite expensive, there should be a good market fit, and if this is done right, it could be a really nice thing.

Just being a e-commerce site might not be so cool. But giving the ability for the users to compare/design/see the real actions in real time will be the features I would like to use.
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I don't understand why people keep coming to this conclusion. To me it just sounds like MS ducked faster.
It's what the theory of LinkedIn is for. In practice, LinkedIn is a cesspool of useless recruiter spam, from the very people that drove the employers and candidates to try LinkedIn in the first place.

It was destroyed well before it ever became useful to me. I won't even try the next iteration--whatever it's called--until I am convinced that they can keep the bozos out.
The lesson of n_is_stolen is to use 2FA for your domain name
Yeah we did pay for http://sendy.co and admittedly spent way too much time looking at those shiny graphs.

Part of the problem we had with sendy was just general stability with the amount we where sending. All of sudden you need to support a mysql and php db. It was just another thing to worry about. So we thought if we have to worry about it lets write it ourselves.
Yeah, this isn't that kind of regulation. This is purely about transfer of money to prevent money laundering, in FinCEN's eyes. These regulations aren't about the customer.
That's the interesting thing. I made more money than I've ever made last year while working fewer hours than I ever had. Things are going well for all intents and purposes, but building a house and having a kid or two is scary on many levels. Being responsible for yourself is pretty easy. Being responsible for a spouse adds a little bit to it. Being responsible for a kid on top of that (and having the spouse quit working to take care of it) adds significantly more.
From the reviews that I've read, it isn't quite ready. Has anyone integrated one into their development process?
Many years ago, when I was but a fresh faced idiot, the partition that contained the mSQL database which had All The Data filled up. I moved it into /tmp because there was plenty of space.

On a Solaris box.

Hilarity ensued when we next rebooted it.
I use PH daily as well. I posted a side project of mine up there and received a bunch of positive feedback and insightful questions :)
Product Hunt is addictive and fun, but also useful. I've found a few cool things that I've used right away, and more that I've bookmarked for later.
Aside, could you answer this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21436380/how-to-create-pa... ?
Ok, so I have a bunch of domains on Godaddy pointing at a bunch of sites on Digital Ocean and DreamHost. Is it really worthwhile transferring all of them over to Namecheap and setting everything back up? Besides not being Godaddy, i'm curious what the upsides are?
We're not interested in remote workers. We not a software company and the jobs require almost daily interaction with non-developer colleagues (sales team, buyers, marketing, warehouse, accounting).
I don't think this project was created with that in mind. Everything about this just points to an entrepreneur trying to meet the market's demand.
Simple English does not work for non-native speakers and here is why:

Everybody is exposed to some English, but not all people are exposed to the same English. Every non-native speaker is using available media to learn the language, so you'll have people who know bad newspaper English, then people fluent in TV-Drama English and finally those speaking and writing "Broken English" (looking at you, facebook, 4chan, etc.).

So people will be _using_ non-intersecting vocabularies in their own contributions. They would actually have to learn Simple English as another skill first.
Nice. We just launched something like this on http://beta.techendo.co/

Any feedback on how we can make the experience better, just let me know. :)
> Otherwise, you're just an anarchist, burning the system down and denying any contribution to the people who have committed to a certain lifestyle on the guarantees currently provided by society.

This is ridiculous. Believing that IP is unjust is not the same as "denying any contribution."
I really wish that Namecheap would stop reselling under ENOM. It's the one thing that I don't like about them.

Why isn't Namecheap their own registrar? Namecheap IS a valid registrar, but they're still reselling domains from ENOM...
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The bit about 6 months money in the bank sounds good to me (never ran a startup but been made redundant &c)
There are much bigger problems with the US than how religious it is currently. Gitmo is a disgrace, healthcare is a mess, keep running deficits. Being too religious is the least of the problems. The US is flawed, but it is not a theocracy despite what Europeans may believe.
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CFO asks his CEO, “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave the company?” CEO answers, ‘What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”

Variations of that exchange float around the intertubes, but its really true. I saw it first-hand at a defense contractor that mostly reserved enrichment training for those being groomed for bigger things.
Taking frequent breaks, alternating to a standing desk, ergonomic everything has made my awful RSI go away almost completely.

Most important was breaks and not using a laptop keyboard/trackpad while sitting down in a chair, ever, for a long period of time. That causes insta-RSI for me.
The problem are not the patent trolls. If you think, the patent trolls are the patent system biggest trouble, than you are victim of the brain washing, the big corporations give to us all.

Please read my other post in the same forum about "intellectual property" to understand.

All the patent system by itself also does not end human civilization (I did not want to imply that), but the patent system is another symptom of the current state of human civilization and the state of human greed that drives western civilizations down.
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How do you intend to balance the need for high quality with the desire of users to get involved in the community? Are you worried if someone can't post/comment for months after joining, they may lose interest?
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To be fair, many of the people using those services only poorly understand the involved dangers, and many of the people pointing out it harms security, don't.
I would use a site like this to make a shortlist, but then I would go to the shop to try it - so that means 0 affiliate money.
Thanks! Which product was it? Want to link to the discussion thread?
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I'd say you're completely full of shit. Suicide is hard, and, contrary to the propaganda about it, takes a great deal more courage than, say, skydiving.
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How does this compare to http://www.rescuetime.com? I've been using Rescue Time for years now and it's pretty great. I can't see how timecamp improves on this, maybe I'm missing something?
Our desktop app Pinegrow Web Designer (http://pinegrow.com) lets you open a webpage and play with its layout and styling, among other things (main use is to compose the layout like you would in Jetstrap for example and then to also style the page). At the moment Less variables work only in site stylesheet. Giving you the access to Less variables for Bootstrap is in development pipeline.
Agreed - and hosted is where markdownmail.io has potential advantage.

But the graphs are easy to digest, and the generated CSVs (list of people opening the mail etc) are very helpful (at least to me).
> They don't provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs.

I can reverse-search for any picture on Google Images and, with extremely high accuracy, find a picture's origins.

If this is something we deem as problematic, why not solve it at the source by having the service (i.e. Twitter) identify the images that are posted and properly credit them?

That'd be a neat startup idea actually (and it probably already exists in some form?) A service to which you send a picture, and it returns to you its copyright information. You could market it by doing things like writing a Twitter bot (named "HistoryInPicsCredits" or something) that automatically tweets copyright information of images posted by HistoryInPics.
>Have you ever attempted a physical feat as awe-inspiring as this?

http://photos.freerobby.com/Adventures/Denali/i-XCFxjcs/0/X3...

I guess my "Coke and Krispy Kremes Futurama Marathon" doesn't qualify...
I challenge the notion that everything exists.

Even an incremental innovation will separate you from the pack.

You must always see niche markets as opportunity markets where you can fill.

Big companies are great to have around when you are trying to fill a niche market. Grow big enough and they'll buy you out.

Apart from the concept of addressing a niche market, I think you should try keeping this in mind:

"being everything to everyone" is the worst way to start an idea of.

Remember, FB started out as a social network for students, now it's everyones social network, which would explain why smaller niche networks have grown reasonably big (Pinterest, Instagram, etc.).
> for a decent while in America Fascism was mildly popular

Where now politics standing in staunch opposition to liberals, communists and socialists with an emphasis on a ultra nationalism and military power, is thankfully a thing of the distant past.

Oh.

;-)

(I am joking, I'm aware that there are significant differences, particularly regarding the role of the state).
Of course they do, but clearly the Oslo Accords (for which Arafat and Rabin won their Nobel) were a product of US intervention. Concessions to the enemy are rarely a vote winner.
As an owner of the ergodox, I appreciate the efforts and iteration here. Sadly, the ergonomics of most non-split keyboards are hardcoded to a magic number. With the ergodox, I currently have the halves about a foot apart and really enjoy typing that way. (I have also "tented" the halves in the past).

I agree that the ergodox is not perfect and the thumb clusters could be improved, I'm just not sold that the butterfly does that.

Here's an old post with my initial impressions of the ergodox [0]. I need to add an update, but I have since purchased a second unit for home and have been typing with the "Norman" layout since day 2.

(BTW, massdrop currently has the keyboard up for sale, but you need to act fast as there is only a day or so left)

0 - http://hairysun.com/blog/2013/04/02/oh-ergonomic-keyboard/
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Great question! Honestly, that's one of my least favorite parts of Product Hunt. I hate turning away people that want to contribute but to keep the contributions of high quality and not overwhelming, we need to curb our contributor growth.

We will be making product changes to grow the community, opening it to more people.
Fair enough, thanks for the feedback.

Any thoughts on pricing?
So what would be a fair cost? $1,000? Imagine what this blog post would be like with that 'cost': "Strip won't let me sign up unless I pony up a shake down fee of a grand!"
Yes! This is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm in the process of buying furniture too. Another feature that I would love would be if I like a certain style, it would be awesome if you can suggest others like it.
> It would not be far-fetched at the moment to imagine that Google has been explicitly barred from implementing a feature in GMail that would prevent them from being able to provide the contents of a person's mailbox to the NSA or FBI if requested.

Indeed you have to wonder why not one major email provider has offered a paid option for secure mail. As others have pointed out, that still leaves meta-data in the open. But secure-payload plus pseudonymous, deniable identities makes targeting difficult and unreliable. That would be a big improvement.
You're basically saying I'm being too pedantic.

I recognized that in my initial comment as a potential criticism. I did so for precisely the reasons you have brought up. Why? Because I understand terms can have colloquial and technical meanings.

But this does not imply that we shouldn't call attention to technicalities, particularly if it's with respect to an issue one thinks is important.

However, you seem to be arguing that even a technical application of theft is applicable to IP. I don't know how to disagree with that without diving into tedious details about what makes "ownership" a viable concept in the first place. Kinsella addresses it in the source I cited in a previous comment. So I defer.
Strange, cause I see the same essential Chrome I had 5-6 years ago. What has changed? (I don't even run extensions, for that matter).
I think we're in some kind of media bubble when a "news" website publishes stories about people who steal content and Tweet it. This feels like a lot of people chasing each other in circles without really producing any new content.
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I can only vote on Product Hunt and can't comment on the site.

For me, I treat it as a daily digest of cool products rather than a discussion board. I haven't lost interest yet!
What does the peace prize even mean?
You appear to be something of a newcomer to this issue. I can tell you that everything you raise as a concern has been very extensively discussed - certainly in those places which afford legal recognition to gender transition, discrimination protection for trans people, and so on. Systems exist, and, to an extent, they work.

Still, calling somebody by their preferred name and pronouns does not grant them admission to the women's locker room, or anything else like that. It is a matter of courtesy.

The other thing is that often, in order to have a gender change legally recognized, or to access surgery and so on, one has to prove that one has already been living as a member of the appropriate gender. What this means is highly contested, but stuff like "people know me as Alice, not Bob" is part of it. It's difficult enough without people setting themselves up as linguistic gatekeepers, and deciding that they know better than Alice.
"here is black "

but - i'm not saying its black!

yes, you are criticizing both the license and the choice. personally, i disagree both with the cheap way you argument it while defending yourself (its your opinion, stand by it) and that this license is a bad choice.
a) they only offered that later on
b) they offer it so that people who don't like the GPL have an option, which is a fairly standard thing for projects that aren't worried about patents to do, not because the GPL is incompatible with x264
"We live in an age where it's accepted that perfect strangers should rent our house or drive our car"

Well, no. We live in an age where a vanishingly small percentage of the population does these things.
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It is if you use your belief to say "Well then, I won't pay them what they've asked". Too many people seem to think a "belief" is justification for breaking the law (AKA "agreement made by society"). A belief is fine - fantastic even. All big change comes from passionate beliefs. However, we have a system in place for affecting this change. It's "discuss in public fora, create political will, and change the law". Or even "download in public, get prosecuted, take punishment and create public will to change the system based on ridiculous nature of punishment to crime". It's emphatically not "Use anonymising proxies to download Hollywood blockbusters whilst claiming I'm standing up for political principles".
The word "sex" refers to physical realities; "gender" refers to social constructions. By conflating the two words, you are the one diluting our vocabulary.

Now, it wouldn't be totally unreasonable for you to assert that pronouns should be tied to sex, not gender; but that's not what you're saying here.
Expect to see big innovations in this area with the commercial release of the Oculus Rift.

There are two big things the Oculus does:

Adds depth

Creates an enormous large (virtual) work space

Think about instead of sitting hunched over a small laptop in a tiny room, the entire Grand Canyon is your office. You don't need to use the whole thing, but the space is available just in case. You won't have to hunch over, you can move around, may be even run.

This user "okreylos" on YouTube has some really interesting videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/okreylos?feature=watch By combining the Oculus & Hydra with the Kinect, he has a tool to move around an interact with 3D data

There is someone else, who I can't remember, who used the Kinect to overlay images of his own hands in the 3D environment. Curiously, with all of this focus on augmented reality the solution may just be to pull the reality around us in to the digital world.
1. Are freelancers better skilled than usual employees?

This is an impossibly generalized question to answer. It completely varies on which specific freelancer and employee you are talking about. I don't fathom there is a strong correlation between skill and freelance/full-time status.

3. Do freelancers cost less than an employee for a company, including taxes?

Again, totally depends on the particular situation. How high are the freelancer rates? How expensive is a a full-time employee at that company (salary, benefits, etc.)? You'll be able to find both cases. In my experience, full-time employees are viewed as more cost effective "in the long run", especially when you take into account the difference in knowledge retention & continuity between employees and contractors. It really depends on the needs of the company.
Nope. Ain't got nothing that fits my taste.

It wasn't that long ago that I was looking for a coffee table; I browsed through the websites of several of the brands you're scraping and found absolutely nothing. I ended up wandering to the local Dania showroom and found this gorgeous thing made out of two pieces of glass cut into Googieish boomerang shapes, that was only like $250.

Then again I am pretty sure I'm not the typical furniture consumer; I'm an artist, who has very little furniture, and a very specific vision for what she wants her home to look like.
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When I see a website using default bootstrap styles, I give the service/product a test run and see why the reason I came to the site originally was a viable thing for me to continue. If not I don't waste anymore time or money.

But hey, you're choice to spend your time and money on anything you want, and if something is usable but not exactly custom pretty, your choice to not use it.
I think the hope expressed here was that more education could result in a reduction of ridiculous religious ideas that currently take up the same space where the will for social and economic reforms should be.

It's not a theocracy, but it's still a militaristic country run by the religious right. Leading to all the things you complained about, and more.
Yes.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F10+in+base+2

TL;DR: 1/10 has an infinite repeating binary expansion. (think 1/3 in decimal - 0.3333333) The part that really gets you into trouble is that the repeating pattern is 0011, which means it rounds differently depending on how many digits of precision you give it.
I found this division 1/9998 by chance. I was trying to remember the number from a previous HN discussion, that was 1/998001 = 1.002 003 004 005 006 007...: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514721
I didn't mean locked from transactions or logins using existing good credentials - I meant locked from front line customer service reps accessing its details.

If you loose your credentials and the token that you can use to recover your credentials with (credit card number), it's fine, even preferable, that it takes 1-2 weeks to recover them.

Also, people don't seem to be up in arms over PayPal freezing funds on suspicious activity for 1-2 weeks. They seem to be up in arms over funds being indefinitely frozen with no recourse for the unambiguously legitimate account owner.
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Any reason to believe this is real? It seems slightly impossible, like cold fusion.