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The internet blurs the lines, though. If I was in Scotland raising money and Americans came to Scotland to invest, there would be no SEC issues (assuming I wasn't marketing to Americans; of course, this may imply qualified investors anyway). The problem is what it means to "come to Scotland" and to "market to Americans" has changed with the internet. So the question becomes how to differentiate actively courting US investors from local investors, and it's an important question to keep any government (especially the US, unfortunately) from overstepping it's sovereign rights and encroaching on another country's.
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Thanks Andrew, I am updating the posts as I learn more. We're all still learning.
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What I see in Brazil, that is a culture that is reputed to tolerate late people: the same folks that want to be forgiven if they are late do get very angry if someone leaves them waiting for more than 30s.
At 22 MPH? Probably not considering it has to be light enough to be a balloon payload in the first place.
I played around with this last night. Woke up this morning, visited raneto.com again, noticed that the website claims that for "commercial" projects, it requires a per-domain license. Except the source code on Github is licensed under MIT. I'm not sure how to reconcile those two things.
http://docs.raneto.com/commercial-licensing
We've tried both in house and via agency (Fiksu). They've just relayed the message back to us that dating ads are now restricted. We will try reaching out to Nanigans, thanks for the tip.

I agree with you about the larger advertisers with the bull horns - but this isn't some local TV station - Facebook spent the last 5+ years building out a sophisticated self-serve ad platform for this very reason, which has been wildly successful for them. Have they lost all confidence in their ability for their platform to filter out racy boob pictures and the advertisers who push the envelope?
I consider my lack of vacationing to be a serious problem, something I need to change.

Frankly, one of the causes is that my wife and I don't vacation well together. We want different things from vacations. She travels a lot more than I do. And part of it is a couple of years of contracting, when I feel guilty for not getting paid if I'm not working, even though it's theoretically rolled into my rate.
What if there's a recall of those widgets? What if the company's DB is compromised and they need to notify you of a possible privacy breach? There has to be some leeway for contacting someone with whom you've done business online.
That's an excellent solution for big problem in my country (not at PhD level though) namely plagiarism. Make students to use such system, turn autocommit on and you can see their progress and all deviations (big chunks of text appearing from nowhere etc.).
I am a Chinese student, some of my friends and I hold something like a hangout every year about June 4th to in memory of this event. But most of students nowadays in Chinese university have no idea what happened at 1989.

What's more, It is very hard to figure out what happened exactly because although many articles like this provide some limited information, many of the statements have no hard backing evidence and are not persuasive.

But I think the action GFW blocks google every year about this time contribute conversely to making many young people with high education get to know the Tiananmen because many of them would like to know why the government is doing this.
1. It is indeed disrespectful to consciously "taking up other people’s time" (the Chinese way) without their consent.

2. The real world works asynchronously. Either if you are a jerk having no regard for other people's time, or you are a very punctual person getting out of your way to be on time for others (by coming earlier), there is wasted time to be expected. One can prepare for that and act like a functioning piece in a loosely coupled system, or to just blame others.
Its like gardening. No point really, other than hobby.
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Yep, I instinctively clicked on one of the pages to see it bigger.
It seems that one of the primary issues here is the productivity. Why you should be all the time doing something or being productive? If you have a train ticket or to somewhere. So what if the train is delayed 24 hours. You'll just go out, see the city, enjoy nice meal, book a hotel, etc. Arrive again tomorrow to see if the train goes or not. Who needs schedules, bus will drive this road roughly daily, schedule is quite open. After waiting for 48h on stop, it's quite probable that you're getting your ride.
Problem doesn't seem to be the understanding of time, but the insane(?) need to be so productive. Is the time wasted if you're not doing business, but you're enjoying relaxed life?
This is excellent question, because I'm obsessed with productivity, and at sometimes I really question if there's any sense in it at all? So what if I had tasks booked for this week. Maybe I decided that I'll watch my favorite TV show for this week and consider doing those tasks next week, or maybe I'll find something better to do before that time arrives.
Slowly gaining traction it seems. Has been posted before without even getting comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6763123) and then some comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996692) but already has more points now :]
The SEC doesn't really care how the payment is carried out, if that's the only difference. The actual medium of exchange could be dollar bills, gold coins, euros, baseball cards, rare watches, gemstones, bitcoin, used books, etc. (Though some of those are treated differently for capital-gains purposes.)
They're both KHTML to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
Yeah, the non-western concept of time is so picturesque, laid-back and "non-linear", so different to that ugly "monochronic" concept of the western world. Until shit gets serious. Until a patient in an emergency room requires an urgent treatment and a punctual surgeon.

Important, critical things depend on a rational approach to time.

I was irritated by the author's romantic view of the non-western concept of time.
BTW, part 2 is here: http://jamesonquave.com/blog/developing-ios-apps-using-swift...
Whilst not as slick as the JS version, I did much the same thing with mine: https://vimeo.com/76969179 when bored one day. I couldn't find any tools to create exactly what I wanted, so knocked up https://gist.github.com/archgrove/6766129, https://github.com/archgrove/PDFProofSheet, and a bunch of shell scripts to generate a folder of images. Fed this lot into iMovie, and voila.
I would honestly pay $25 or $50 more to have a dual booting macbook pro with no headaches. I waste about a day a year fighting OSX closed hardware, and I still don't have microphone support on this thing.

Edit: But your point totally stands. They need more sources of revenue besides desktop linux.
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Grasshopper is petitioning Congress to make National Entrepreneurs' Day an official, federally-recognized holiday like Mother's Day or Father's Day. We want this holiday to happen every year without a Presidential Proclamation. Would be great to get the support of the YCombinator community on this.
And it's not just about abuse of power - 60-hour-workweek companites would simply rather quickly outcompete those that had 40 hour weeks, except in rare cases.
If that's the case, someone's Doing Something Wrong™. Two versions should be different import paths.
> And if the bulk of big AAA game ports to Linux are badly-wrapped Windows games, or even well-wrapped Windows games, then it seems hard to see what will motivate more than a small portion of gamers to leave Windows.

There are many ways to develop games nowadays for multiplatforms. If you use C++/SDL it will run on all systems in the very same way and you don't need to spend time porting. If you use Unity3D you can export for all formats including Linux (x86). If you use Unreal Engine, CryEngine you can now export to Linux as well.

Seeing the massive amount of support for Linux in the middleware/engine area, I'd be very surprised if most future Linux versions are not Linux native ones. Of course Witcher 2 was developed way before this current state of things so it could not benefit from the same tools and it was anyway built for Windows in mind in the first place.
"But the furore has not died down - the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), one of the groups that made the initial complaint, still insists it will press for prosecution should he ever return."

I think that we should be petitioning Pope so he would tell this CFS to cease, desist and disassemble. He may issue Papal bull, for example.

I don't remember catholics being eager on self-proclaimed wonders.
Since it's probably past the point of being editable, I just want to put the standard "conflict of interest"/"shameless plug" disclaimer on this parent comment, since it was posted by one of my colleagues at famo.us. We'll make sure to better disclose these things next time.

That being said, the approaches we're exploring with famo.us (a retain-mode scene graph) is absolutely essential for allowing web apps to compete with native apps. This approach is often overlooked by web developers who grew up on the web and are not familiar with how native windowing and retain-mode UI systems function.
> One of my very biggest complaints about the economic climate today is that all of the productivity gains go to the owners, and very little to workers.

The solution to this is to become an owner. Now, creating and operating a company is probably harder than working for it, for it it weren't, why wouldn't people just become owners if it pays better?
In my own experience, the traditional anthropological take on time seems more and more outdated these days. There are some differences. But I get the impression that almost anywhere you go people's senses of time are not all that differentiated by country, even if this might have been the case in the past. The main differences in perception of time that I have seen have been between different socioeconomic groups within a country.
Lucky you. A lot of us were left with massive paperweights after 10.9.2 dropped: https://www.google.com/search?q=osx+10.9.2+monitor+site:disc...
Yes you are, because _this has nothing to do with factors of ten vs factors of two_. This is nothing to do with US customary units vs metric. _The units are irrelevant._ That's what you're not getting. What is relevant is that the same page width/height ratio is maintained between the different page sizes.
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There has been a case-sensitive variant of HFS+ supported for a decade now.
NOT related with their ssl campaign but : What are the other trust able alternatives to Namecheap?

I love them but after they "updated" their design, every time i try to buy/renew domains I'm having nervous breakdown :

* It's impossible to find what I'm looking for.

* Facebook style panel menu ( I don't know how they calling it ) makes only sense on tablets/phones, on desktop it's just pain...

* New design uses screen real estate really bad. My screen filled with big buttons, big texts and senseless images... Information that I'm looking for is lost between them.

* Gray text on white background... Not so readable...
> I'm sure SOMEBODY does, and anyway that's a bit of a strawman

You'll probably have to explain to me how having more games being developed and released for the platform is going to attract LESS gamers in the future. It can only go up, and more so when the Steam Machines are out. Maybe it will go to 2% only, maybe 10%, who knows, but betting on it stagnating is not very credible.
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I don't get it. Who pays the wages of the newly hired to compensate for lost productivity?
This is awesome and I didn't know this. Thanks for posting it - I don't have much swift experience so I assume there are several things in the code that will be shown to be non-standard.
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The "Intelligence Community" needs to be careful throwing around concepts like "stays within legal boundaries". Since the NSA/CIA/FBI is doing things that would definitely upset a majority, they just might taint the idea of "legal boundaries". Sort of like how the Nazis gave racism a bad name.
The design of it certainly helps- I imagine that the switch will get warm on its own. Attaching boards to that must surely make a lot of heat.
And the github project is here: https://github.com/jquave/Swift-Tutorial
Thanks.

Would it still be legal if there was evidence that they had deals with Zoosk and Match.com to keep smaller advertisers off their platform?
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I thought I would take a clue from the submission and provide a response to people who have been silently downvoted.

1. Personally (and I imagine that this is true for many HN folks) I find the lack of "hillarious trolling" to be a feature. You and I just have different viewpoints, what you see as academic and robotic I find to be mature and well reasoned discussion. I do not think culture is a minor thing, if you do not like the culture here I imagine that you will be unhappy if you stick around for any period.

2. This is an often repeated complaint. Infact I bet it comes up once a week in a discussion of one of th top ten or fifteen submissions on the front page. Personally I don't have any problem with the design. Sure it might be better if it was a little more fluid on mobile but that is it. Most people are probably tired of hearing this complaint and or feel that the culture makes up for whatever minor annoyances they may have with the UI.
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While you mention that you are hesitant to release the content of the dissertation prematurely, could you instead release the build tools you used to make your "flatplans"?

It would be a huge help to those of us about to write our dissertations :-)
So, you enjoy spending months ramping up new developers in your language of choice? That's not a task that falls to managers, it falls to the other developers on the team. There's still ramp up on the codebase, but at least I don't have to ramp people up on the basics of the language itself. That's a huge win.

If you think team productivity only matters to managers, that's kind of sad.
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If you go look at what companies are running in the cloud, and what companies are hosting their clouds on, Canonical and Ubuntu are the 800lb gorilla in the cloud market. If you were talking naively about where Canonical should focus to make money you'd have to favour cloud tech over the desktop. It's not a simple as that though, those two facts aren't separate - Ubuntu got to be the platform of choice for the cloud not just by being their early and investing in it, but also by being a great choice for the people developing cloud tech in over companies. Ubuntu in the cloud is a success story already and both the Ubuntu Desktop and Server are integral to that.
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In this strawman of the US, it is. ;-)

I do see this in some of the startups in the bay area though.
that's when the last black hole evaporates due to the hawking radiation. the moment when all usable sources of thermodynamics potential are used up is much earlier.
Good to see Blek on there. One of the most interesting and unique games I've played in a while, and it's absolutely beautifully designed.

I haven't seen too many people talking about it on HN even though it's been near the top of the charts in the app store recently: definitely check it out if you have a chance!
Oh god, I’d blocked from my mind the pain of ring dropping. We had MAUs for the servers, but for some reason ran the rest of the office on CAT-5 TR gear from Madge without any MAUs. Just took someone to unplug and that section of the office would lose network connectivity.
I don't get it - if you're not allowed to take any sick days, how can people take more sick days than when they were allowed to take a week off sick?
Since when is it called a "hamburger menu"? I had no idea what it meant until actually reading the article. Names for generic things should be able to convey their own meaning. It smacks of trying too hard to be a person who coined a phrase.

My app has more than 4 views and one of the views needs to have as much of the screen available to it as possible, because a big chunk of the screen will be taken up by the keyboard. One menu button is better than trying to fit everything into 4 or 5 screens and having 5 buttons constantly taking up space at the bottom of the screen.

And I don't think that's "rare". It might be "rare" if your conception of apps is Facebook and SnapChat, but there there is a huge gap in the market for apps of real value that enable users to do real work in ways they can't do with a larger computer. Apps focused on helping users do work rather than selling ads to users will probably always grow in features over time. You can't get all of that to fit in 4 or 5 screens.
If you're talking about the traditional 8-bit AVR Arduinos, the answer is almost certainly no. The AVR boards like the ATmega328 (on the Uno) only have a few kbyte of RAM available. But MicroPython apparently can run on some pretty tiny and inexpensive boards: namely the Arm Cortex microcontrollers.

They are a bit more expensive than the chip in the Arduino, but well under $20 per chip. You can buy very nice evaluation Cortex boards for ~$10 from ST and Freescale[1,2].

Incidentally, Arduino now makes a board that uses the Arm Cortex chip: the Arduino Due[3]. I believe it's around $30.

1. http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-46626/l/element1...

2. http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/PF252...

3. http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardDue
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> Sherlocked:

> To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update.

> It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.
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Add another column to your life ledger: satisfaction. If you're not getting the time with your spouse you should, then that column would show it. Personally I value my time with family at about 2X my rack rate. So I resent work interfering with my vacation and not the other way around.
> Yeah, but without the vanguard of the proletariat or its like

Yeah, but vanguardism was part of an effort to divorce Communism (as articulated by Marx) from a key element of its theoretical foundation, in which it must be grounded in an advanced capitalism, some Communism without it is, just, well, Communism.
The Parallella is a testbed for their chips, to let people experiment with the platform. The real value is for embedded use (of the chips, not the whole current design), and as they scale up the chips - their roadmap is for chips with thousands of cores.

Compared with your GPU, there's also another important factor: These are entirely independent cores. For stuff that your GPU does well - that is, stuff where you're doing the exact same manipulation of a large number of values in parallel - it's likely to keep beating the epiphany chips. For stuff it doesn't do well, that is, stuff where you need indpendent threads of execution for each data stream, the Epiphany chips may become a better fit.
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You obviously suffer from the Dunning-Kreuger effect.
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I like the approach to this article, and the demos it provided. I think there's a place for both, but I don't think that the "more" in the basement navigation is anywhere near as good as an actual menu. The problem is still that many people don't know that the hamburger icon is a menu icon, but with it's growing use I think that will change quickly.

Unrelated, but did anyone else think the title was related to food? That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read "hamburger menu"
I know dozens of companies using Ubuntu on servers, in the cloud, as VM hosts, etc. I don't know anyone using it on the desktop.

Linux on the desktop is a tough sell to non-technical users (who don't need support, etc.), but technical users operating server clusters is big money.
In the United States, poor and working people in Los Angeles performed similar actions around this time of year back in 1992. They were concerned with the brutality of the local police, and how the government was unaccountable for it. The US government sent the army and the Marines in and killed some people. This is also unknown to most students in the US nowadays. If it is brought up they say the people were thugs, rioters, gang members, criminals etc. It must have been a lot of criminals since it took thousands of heavily armed police, national guard and military to get back control.
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The hamburger menu experiments by James Foster are interesting, but the problem is that they assume the primary goal is navigation clicks. Rarely is a navigation click a bottom line business metric for a company. Almost always you want the user to convert into a customer for whatever you are selling. A more compelling experiment would be one that shows results for both a primary action of new visitor to customer as well as nav click conversions. The fact that fewer users click on the navigation is not necessarily a bad thing.
Not every social interaction has to add value to ones live and one shouldnt feel obligated to think about "doing more productive things" all the time, that's not healthy.

I always try to help people when they ask me for help, even if it has near zero value for me (like helping out relatives with PC trouble). Yes it wastes my time, but at least i could do something good for someone else.
Thank you for the impressive quote.

I realized this recently while pondering "The Wisdom of the Crowd/Cloud":

Using a (inter)net to fish out all the wisdom of the crowd mainly brings all the most common opinions up to the level of common sense. It's only additive to that niveau; it doesn't extend to brilliance. The wonderful human collaborations, like GNU/Linux? Those are created by a concentrated coterie, just as most other impressive creations. Surely, the web has catalyzed them, but they were strong anyway, not the result of amplified ignorance. Expecting a shotgun approach to advance beyond common sense means using a additional filter to except those ideas which do not rise to the level of common sense, and therefore, is more work.

I'm sure humans, pre-media, exchanged numerous opinions about things for much of their days and evenings, but they weren't work. Work was toil, solitary endeavors, and collaboration with mostly familiar people and a few strangers (imagine a marketplace with travelers). Now, with "social media," opinions have become work, and as you say, exhausting.
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Not a bad list, but I think many of those are not unique to Rails and just look like common anti-patterns.