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I fear that if we let complaints about comments, concern about comment quality and long threads going back and forward defending the legitimacy of parody comments in comments, humour, humourless responses and expressions of concern about the complaints dominating the discussion, HN will become boring.
That can't be right. I fondly remember playing it on impossible, and almost all of the aliens started with heavy plasmas, and aside from that even the smaller ufos had twice the number of regular units.
This would be challenging to do fairly. Visual redesigns are almost always received negatively because they force users to learn a new UI, but they are very necessary because otherwise your product starts looking very dated compared to competitors, which prevents non-consumers from adopting it. On the other side, niche features are usually received very positively because it's easy to make a product that suits every user's needs when you only have a few users. (This is behind YC's advice to "do things that don't scale" when you're small.) Internal refactorings and cost/performance improvements aren't user-visible at all.

What's good for the customer isn't always what's good for Google as a company. Usually when Google has done things that piss off a lot of users they've been alerted by significant internal feedback that users will be pissed off, and done it anyways for other reasons. (The one exception I can think of was Buzz, which was beloved internally and reviled externally.)
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The main issue with the wired article is that it's factually inaccurate. Ted has written a point by point rebuttal to it, which you can find with a cursory search.
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With all due respect, I will disagree with your advice to a large degree. I've tried what you are suggesting, literally for years. No success, and it's not for lack of talent or skill on my part, aesthetically speaking.

In my local area (I've lived several places), there is so much competition for the "small jobs", and so few local small businesses that actually care about the value of amazing design (or who can afford to pay the fees needed for a designer to actually be in business) - no matter how much you try to educate them - that it's really not worth it to go after such small fish.

If I'm going to spend my time and effort educating potential clients on the value of and need for branding, I want it to be on those businesses that 1) have growth potential, 2) are at the beginning stages of their lives, when the need is greatest and 3) run by people who have the greatest probability of "getting it", i.e., actually able to comprehend that there is a value to excellent, well-thought-out creativity and that sometimes that value justifies a little bit higher price than $99.

Joe's Body Shop or Jim's Plumbing or Karen's Flower Shop or Martha's Nail Salon are frankly not an adequate target audience for most designers who aspire to make some major impact, and in most cities those kind of businesses are at least 50% of small business (excluding national franchises/chain operations which dominate in many cities). They are perfectly content to have their name plastered on the side of their truck and leave it at that. I want to create solutions for businesses that are a little bit more meaningful. Once I do a couple of those, I think the word of mouth will build from there.

And maybe some of these other kinds of businesses will see what I do, and that it's awesome, and that it has the potential to help drive revenue by helping build respect and credibility with the public, and those businesses will then try to convince ME that their business is worth MY time, instead of the other way around.

I am encouraged by my self-promo efforts so far, but I'm always looking for ideas from people who have a knowledge of the startup scene.
> Google was the defendant in this case

No they weren't. In fact, the decision linked at the top of the thread specifically refers to Google and Google Canada as "non-parties".
There isn't much (any?) transgenic farming anywhere in Europe, is there?

Also - the biggest, nastiest, most pesticide intensive greenhouse vegetable farming in Europe is not in The Netherlands but in Spain.
This wouldn't fly in the USA:

"It is clear from the record that Google was never named as a party to the suit, was never served with process, never waived or accepted process, and never made an appearance in the suit before the expunction order was entered. Nothing in the record establishes that Google stands in privity to the commission or to Jackson. Accordingly, we hold that Google was not a party to the suit and that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter orders against Google." [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07402727525/texas...
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What happens if Google just says no? Fines?
> Because that's what the consumer wants. Apparently.

People do not make Perfect Decisions based on Perfect Information, and this is a fine example of the wrong conclusions drawn from implicitly assuming they do.
Mandatory unsubscribe is totally fine, obviously.

But CASL includes making confirmation, welcome and update emails opt-in, or else risking an up to $10 million dollar fine.

Yes, really.

Even if you're not a Canadian business, this will apply to you if you email Canadians.

Yes, really.

Say goodbye to your opt-out email drip courses.
Unless I found some kind of miracle jackpot with the stock reports I've read so far, 100% of them have a section purely devoted to discussing executive/board compensation that is extremely detailed. I know those thick books you get in the mail are daunting, but they do contain a lot of info if you're willing to take the time to read them.
Found the same here. Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Windows
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What about EMPs or communication attacks?
What gives you that impression? My impression is that it's fantastically hard to get funding these days if you haven't first proved your ability to execute.
Another comment completely bereft of any.. actually, fair point.
There was a release in 1993, a complete open source release of all code developed during the 80s at autodesk in 1999, a release around 2003, a windows demo in 2007, and this latest release. There were some intellectual-property-related delays, mostly related to either unfiled patents (wherein the ideas were under trade secret protection until the patent applications were filed) or due to the difficulty of convincing all developers involved to agree to a release.

Having too many developers and not getting them to agree to a license or design beforehand bit him in the ass several times.
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People* like to belong to something.

Quite a lot of people like to delegate their worries to a leader with an answer. Other people like to feel that they're "in the know" (gnosis), that they know something other people don't that grants superiority. This goes for spirituality, politics, and JS frameworks alike.

There used to be essentially one option for meeting these needs: attend your local church.

Population growth, mass communication, and intellectual freedom have resulted in a huge explosion of things one can belong to and things one can be gnostic about. It's not that there aren't cults any more - Scientology is still strong, Mormonism arguably qualifies - but there are so many things you can cling to (mostly "fandoms" these days) that there's no reason to put up with a bad cult. Or a difficult or demanding one.

It's still too early to call the death of religion until the shooting has stopped in the Islamic world, though.

(*"I don't" is not a useful reply to this; I'm talking about people in general)
Site is still under development, but I found this useful for preparing for technical interviews. Cool idea.
> but you also know that your laws are supposed to stop at your borders

There's a number of jurisdictions where that is not strictly true. Including the US (US citizens are subject to US tax law regardless where they live), and a number of European countries.
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I'm Dutch too and having lived in other EU countries I must say that he is 100% right.

The meat that is sold at AH is of average quality.

It's good that it doesn't have any antibiotics in it but at the same time French, Spanish, Italians know how to produce a better quality meat without antibiotics too.
Listing by megapixels would make me happy. The number of diagonal inches has been the least helpful indicator of screen quality over the last decade, and the WUXGA nonsense is too hard to keep track of as well. Adopting a MP number would do more to get us high res screens than any other change.
I've used Mod_Security previously and I must tell you it is quite efficient against basic types of attacks. Being a penetration tester, I would suggest that you implement mod_security preliminary and test your product for vulnerabilities.
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Jurisdiction does not (necessarily) follow national borders.

The US claims jurisdiction over US citizens worldwide for certain tax matters, for example.

And Norway has laws intended to let Norwegian courts pursue residents that travel abroad to take advantage of legal systems that are bad at pursuing sex crimes against children even though the crime takes part outside Norwegian borders.

Many countries have laws for which the courts jurisdiction is either worldwide, or substantially different from the national borders.
Where can I get some of that moolah?
It's not that the consumers cared more about physical size, it's that they literally didn't know any better.
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I say it was handled quite badly, IKEA doesn't need the extra revenue but the site dominates a growing niche that IKEA might no longer be wishing to be associated with as they try and push upmarket....

Dumb idea all round to act like this, and good luck to IKEAHackers.net
such hack.
Advocacy tracking/detection/whatever would be a great feature for ddg.
That this is not REST api level session/state.

It's an auth session, which is orthogonal (and transparent) to the REST api (e.g with cookies).
You might enjoy reading "Eating Animals".
That would just lead to a shareholder lawsuit and more traffic to DDG, Bing and Blekko.
86000 Indian Rupee equals to 1425.021 US Dollar, according to Google.
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You can also just click "close and read Quora" (or similar text) at the bottom of that popup. That's what I did.
As an old-school UNIX user, I recommend feed2imap -(http://home.gna.org/feed2imap/) which does the same thing.
PERFECT! Thanks a lot =-)
Hey, it works. Neat trick, thanks.
Please consider the following scenarios, all of which are things that really happen.

1. The best-paid job you can get pays just barely enough to keep your family in decent conditions. So you take that job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life, but the benefit is that your spouse and children get not to starve or live in squalor. Wasted?

2. You give a substantial fraction of your income to charities that save the lives of desperately poor people in Africa. You take a well-paid job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life, but the benefit is that every year you're working one more poor African gets to live instead of dying.

3. You have a choice between a job you like pretty well, and a job that's merely OK but pays a lot more. You take the well-paid job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life (or, more precisely, 1/3 of your life is somewhat less satisfying than it could have been), but the benefit is that you retire at 50 instead of 60 and have an extra decade of (according to taste) leisure, or working for the public good rather than for money, or starting your own business with the security of knowing you won't starve if it fails, or whatever.

All of these involve working "for the money". The only one of these people I'd feel sorry for is the first -- and not (as in your remark) because s/he is making a tragic mistake, but because s/he is in a difficult situation where no course of action is satisfactory.
The details on the set of markup features is rather sketchy.
The collaboration part looks nice, but can it do math well?

I'm not trying to be a spoiler here, but something like github can be used for collaborative editing as well. So maybe this is just for the technically challenged?
For a JIT for a complex dynamic language like Python and Ruby, emitting the machine code is not a significant part of the problem. The problem is in choosing which instructions to emit, and other things like transitioning between different stacks and how you store your objects. I don't think DynASM helps with those problems.
In fact I wonder why they do not have the problem yet.
This is a very risky strategy if your boss is easily threatened by talent.
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Funny. As a fan of Microsoft that uses their development tools and happily owns a Windows Phone, the best thing Microsoft could do is create a fork of Chromium and call it Internet Explorer 12. They seriously just need to start over completely. I've read all the advantages of IE11 but Chrome and Firefox just blow it away in speed and lack of hassle. They'd probably go back to 90% browser share if they built in a fork of Chromium to the OS that they didn't modify in any significant way (ex: don't try to make it support ActiveX, just let that technology die).
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It works for Apple.
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Maybe. Am I involved in a lawsuit with my wife or my boss or my ex-partner? Perhaps a lucrative divorce option?

If so, I think she/he can afford to spare a few thousand dollars to some recovery service to read my drive.

But you started talking about this being a "privacy" feature, and now that they told you it's not really protective, you go on about how it's good enough for one's "wife". As if that's where privacy concerns end...
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I've done that a few times, but I don't want to clutter my current system with the wine + winetricks packages again for the upteenths time. I was hoping to find an accessible way now that Linux is first class citizen for Steam.
Why single out iPhone?

How's that different from using an Android phone?

Or for that matter any brand of phone + the prevalent mobile surveillance of messages, locations, etc?
Well Google is the only one that matters. Sure Bing and DDG exist and you can sometimes bump into a person using either of those, but for majority of the population, Google is the Internet, for better or worse.
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The ruling is very clearly written, and does an excellent job of explaining the difficulty the British Columbia Supreme Court is was faced with in this decision.
>Is that as good as "open source all the way down"? Of course not. But it is a hell of a lot better than the "opaque binary blobs all the way down" offered by most of the alternatives.

I fail to see how. It's not like a partial binary blob is better than a full on binary blob. The opaque part might do anything too...
Why would a normal jet fare any better in an EMP attack than a drone? Communication attacks, maybe, but there's no reason you couldn't have some limited level of autonomy to bring it back home automatically in the event of a comms failure.
I'm reminded of the short story "Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke:

http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html
The dirty little secret in the USAF is that everyone knows drones are superior for fighters because of the human imposed G limit being removed, but its an organization run by former pilots and they hate the idea.

This is also why they require drone operators to be actual pilots despite the fact that there is zero need for that level of training. Its just a way to protect their idols.
I don't think it's any of the things you listed.

I think the biggest difference is that cults (as the article mentions) generally are run by people who don't actually believe in what they teach. That does occasionally happen in established religion, but it is not common.

The other thing about cults is that they are mainly about the personal gain of the leaders, while at the same time requiring members to devote much or all of their money to the cult continue to be a member. This is unlike most established religion, which is generally giving is always optional and often more transparent (all of the religious organisations I work with supply full budgets to all the members). Sadly, of course, there are exceptions here too (but those exceptions often are heading towards cultishness).
Did they write a whole article on the subject without mentioning Larry Niven's role?

Per Wikipedia, "Not Long Before the End" was first published in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Goes_Away

That said, I must confess that there was a difference between his concept and the modern computer-RPG one -- his mana was present in the environment in general, rather than being specific to any one spellcaster.

(I am permanently ashamed that I didn't see the close connection to Nevinyrral's Disk until it was pointed out, but the I generally don't quickly see backward spellings. E.g., it took me about a week to understand the name of the "Alucard" vampire build in Elder Scrolls Online.)
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tl;dr British Columbia Supreme Court determines that Google is conducting business in British Columbia, despite no servers, facilities or employees in the province, and can be ordered to remove links that infringe on the plaintiff's intellectual property rights.
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It reminds me of brackets notation, a plain-text compatible way to correct: https://github.com/raphaelbastide/brackets-notation
Inserted in edit, lest people think this submission by jcr is just the same thing hashed over ... it's not.

jcr adds that the two papers linked from this article are new. One was just published this month, June 2014, and the other will be published later this year, in August 2014. For more details, see his comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909458

Hat tip to him for responding so positively to my finds and cross-referencing - thank you.

========

This submission contains new information and new links, but there has previously been significant discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733850

I've checked to see if all these really are the same story. They mostly are, although some have since gone missing, and, and mentioned above, this new submission has new results. Here are previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486220

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919117

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3731259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734186

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735493

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3764775

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4405800

Different, but related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4250128

And then something with a similar title, but completely different:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115072
With Chrome the BehindTheOverlay extension adds a button to remove overlay windows like this. Sites like quora becomes useful.
In a potentially related story, BBC News reports a 300% increase in 10 years of younger prople being admitted with Crohn's Disease. Got it at 38 myself and, like others I suspect my exposure to large doses of antiobiotics may have contributed (For adult acne in my case - it's thought antibiotics deplete bacteria in the digestive tract which can lead to IBD following an infection, mine kicked off after food poisoning)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27810066
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Is it possible to share the content somewhere else where it is public? I'm not going to register to quora.
As I understand it, if copyrighted material goes up on Youtube as things stand, the copyright holder has the option of either requesting a block/takedown or entering into the ad revenue scheme for a cut of the ad clicks.

That choice is being revised to: either requesting a block/takedown or entering into the ad revenue scheme for a cut of the ad clicks for free views, and a cut of subscriptions for premium views. Premium views will be worth less to the label than free views, so this will mean a cut in revenue (of course, if 'Youtube+' tanks, then it will be a trivial cut in revenue). So the first option looks better for the indies than it did before. It seems some of them have decided that it looks much better.

I don't think it fits nicely into the Google is great/Google is evil dichotomy, simply because it's an understandable business decision from Google's point of view, but it genuinely is the case that it shafts the indies. (Revenues from streaming services are pitiful for anyone outside the sacred circle of mega-labels.)

Everybody loses. sigh
I think the future of "SSGs" is that they're going to end up as programs running on the server that watch data from various feeds - databases, RSS feeds, APIs - and generate output from those. Basically, a streaming processor framework. The output would likely be in a "semi-baked" format so that they can contain processing instructions that are executed at request time, or otherwise lazily.

These won't be static site generators any more, and will lose out on the "you can throw it up on Github Pages" benefit, but they'll be far more powerful, and it'll be easier to develop dynamic, data-driven websites.
Freelancers how do you feel being called donkeys?
>meaning the US will demand their chlorine-rinsed chicken, and hormone/antibiotics filled beef be allowed in the european markets.

Is there no chance of it being the other way around?
We're working on a test suite for implementations, which will hopefully help with some of the basics, but it will be challenging to get full coverage.

https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/webaud...
yeh Microsoft definitly is inspired by Google in this regard... http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-p...
It's built by Boeing.

It was designed jointly by McDonnel Douglas and Northrop and is an evolution of the earlier Northrop YF-17 which competed against the F-16 in the Lightweight Fighter Program.

The YF-17, in turn, was actually an evolution of the even earlier Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter.

Not trying to be a pedant, honestly. The F/A-18 just has a fairly interesting design heritage, and that heritage is pretty much entirely outside of Boeing. They're just the ones that ended up with the production after industry consolidation.
The premium ad-free service is already here: youtube-dl.
Given that the doge community has tended to be relatively "nice" rather than every-man-for-himself-libertarian, is there any chance of organizing a blacklist for these coins or some such?
6.95 on Firefox Mac, 12.95 on Safari

Might just be A/B testing.
Anyone care to provide a better translation?

"In U.S. states like Florida and Alabama have already decided Gay Villages in France, a plan was launched last year." is comically bad, but makes it difficult to take the rest of the article seriously.
That's around 180k USD at the current exchange rate.