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If that is the case it should be easy enough to prove in court. Or is it going to be more of the early Facebook, Twitter, Youtube days. Where everyone that played a bit part all of the sudden had great big titles in the founding of the companies.

I'm not sure what what happened but it could also be equally said this guy's code wasn't any good, wasn't used, and so the founders didn't want to pay for it. And the Paypal resolution dispute seems to agree. Something was exchanged but not everyone was happy with what was received.
until something else comes along, as with Textmate
The Fermilab press release the article is based on is dated at today (august 26, 2014): http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Ho...

I've also asked Fermilab directly and they confirm the article is from today, the holometer came online very recently: https://twitter.com/FermilabToday/status/504286464637939712
we are in the same boat, amazon zocalo is our app.collablayer.com ditto , we are adding another set of feature to come out of this nightmare.
Not to worry! Just write it as a request for input or feedback - this is all about startups.
Congrats Julia and Zidisha! Great to see an awesome nonprofit leverage technology to change the game for microfinance.
What like you own what you worked on?!?? Fuck that! Patents and ownership of property is fucking stupid! This is hacker news!

Everyone knows that it's how well you implement, not whether you developed the idea or not. Clearly they implemented your idea that otherwise would have been nothing. If you had never written it someone else would have written is just as well as you did!

That's how the world works nowadays. Right??!?
Thank you for your survey. I appreciate it.
I thought you were going to say "Most HNers could, if they thought through it carefully, create one" and I judged it over-optimistic. How over-optimistic I was!
How was it? Was it only Canadian troops attending, or did our boys convince some Yankees or Limeys to drink the great Canadian Double Double?
Do you know what a more accurate number would be? I'm curious...
dev build is that bad ?
It shows red traffic on every road, due to excessive crashing. (Only joking)
> I wonder what effect this will have on ryanair ticket prices?

Prices will go up. No question about it. Since they are making less profit elsewhere they have to make it up.

It's like how when the US passed the Credit CARD Act prices went up on credit cards, and it was harder to get low cost cards for those people who were already able to avoid the add-on fees.
I can appreciate the frustration you must be feeling. Working with clients seems to highlight the best and worst of humanity.

I believe that you should always lead with your best. A situation such as this can definitely impact your business in a negative way. It's more of a one-sided allegation and your choice of wording is defamatory. At this point, consider hiring a lawyer. They may not be able to tell you what you should do, but they can definitely tell you what NOT to do, which is just as important sometimes.

Good luck.
The remuneration packages and board make-up are very corporate-banking and not 'mutual' in their outlook.

If it still thought of itself as a mutual building society Nationwide would have one of the best interest rates around for their members' savings.
The idea is not the (only) hard part
Anyone have a clue as to what were supposed to be able to do with this "Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe". I'm guessing it's mainly for a shorter exe name to add to your path when launching sublime from the command line, but maybe I'm missing something?
As others have stated, it's to disincentivize abuse. The USPS had a similar problem with scams and fraud, where scammers would send "gifts" to people, then follow them up with a bill. This is now explicitly against the law, but also importantly, if you are sent ANYTHING unsolicited, you may keep it. I'm guessing the second part is the stronger enforcement. Probably similar in this case. See: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/investigations/mailfraud/...
The tech demo from a few weeks ago was much more impressive.
You do have to ask permission of the landowner to hike/camp on their property. But with the size of some of the cattle on the land (I'm thinking of Texas Longhorns) and the presence of common predators/pests like feral hogs and coyotes, it's not always safe to just wander around.

There's also the water issue. If you run out of water in the west while on your hike/tramp, you're in life-threatening trouble. And there's often no cellular service.
iOS version isn't available yet, if that makes you feel better.
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If he did steal the code, and the developer who wrote it sues, the IP suit is going to be civil, not criminal. He won't do jail time for that.
It perpetuates the mythology of classification and information control. If you have clearance, you can lose it by accessing classified information improperly. That would probably mean losing your job. If you don't have clearance, you should be considering all the information you can get your hands on. Not doing so, would be poorly doing your job.
Agreed. Of the "cheap" coffees in Canada, I'd rather drink Country Style or McDonald's. Well, at least Tim Horton's tastes better than Coffee Time.
I'm very excited about this experiment. Even if it completely fails, we're bound to learn something interesting. Spacetime fluctuations haven't been examined at this level before, so anything they find out is new.
> Alcohol is legal because there would be outrage or civil unrest if it was banned.

There is outrage and 'civil unrest' in some sort surrounding other drugs; the difference is the communities in which it manifests.

The war on drugs very disproportionately affects people along lines of race and socioeconomic status[0]. These communities certainly are outraged at how their families and communities are being destroyed (literally) by the prohibition of these drugs and the societal ramifications that go along with the prohibition. The difference is that they're not in a position to voice that outrage as loudly.

Remember why prohibition of alcohol was repealed - wealthy taxpayers were mad that their tax bills went up after the passage of the 18th amendment (the government could no longer make revenue off of alcohol taxes). This is exactly why initiatives to legalize marijuana in Colorado (Amendment 64), Washington, and California (Prop 19) have used the language 'tax and regulate'. It's not some crazy new idea - it's literally the same tactic that succeeded in passing the 21st amendment!

[0] http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindn...
I guess that depends where you fly. In some Eastern European countries Ryanair has pushed out local carriers and now has a monopoly with ridiculous prices.
They do. Note the 2nd and 3rd bullets on this announcement: http://www.spanishfork.org/newsevents/events/view.php?id=520
> - all functions have unique distinct names

Seriously? Is that his solution to package management?
Read earlier today that one of the founders was convicted of drugs trafficking and served four years in the pen. http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/08/21/how-this-...
You won't believe in what way this Twitter account is relevant to this thread: https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick

Ahem. Sorry :)

It "spoils" clickbaity links. I'm not entirely sure whether it's actually useful or time-saving, but I really do like the idea.
Did an admin change the link but forget to take "(2013)" out of the title?
Apple iOS 7.1.1 Jailbreak (tethered) Geeksnow for iPhone 4;
The OP is being overly dismissive, but has a point -- there's a market for Ruby, but in terms of most of the use cases for online bulletin board software, both Rails and Postgres are much rarer than PHP and MySQL.
I would argue that it doesn't If it was 4chan, it would be nazi cp guro car accident.
In cases like this, do investors usually have protections built into their investment contract that if something like stolen IP or possible fraud wasn't initially disclosed they can recall their investment?

I imagine this can't be the first time something like this has come up.
You misread the quote. They said "Europe" not the EU. So presumably they were hoping it would spread to non-EU European countries also.
Missing some obvious LOTR here, "return of the King" and "One does not simply walk into Canada". You even have the competition, Ronald McDonald, as a stand in for sauron.

I've been looking at it like a near startup style pivot. Can't out mcdonalds the mcdonalds company? Well then pivot and try selling unburned coffee and donuts. It could work.
Fraud is still illegal. What this means is that people don't have to prove the practices in question are fraudulent, just that the companies used them.
This seems to be a common failure mode in Australia. Grocery prices follow the same pattern—food is extraordinarily expensive, which you assume might have to do with the country's remoteness until you notice that local foods are just as overpriced. Mangoes grow by the side of the road in Queensland, but sell for $3.50 at the supermarket.

The root problem is duopoly (in the case of grocery stores) or monopoly (Telstra).
Article points it out but to put a little emphasis on it. Its a good idea to implement a software level keep alive instead of relying on the TCP level one. Some ISPs drop keepalives, especially cellular carriers (support is optional and not guaranteed per rfc). Keeping a persistent connection over some of these networks are tricky and require different minimum timeouts... and some charge by amount of data so you want to keep it as minimal as possible in IoT land.
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Withdrawal from alcohol can literally kill you[0]. Withdrawal from opiates can also cause similar withdrawal symptoms, but is not fatal[1].

There are many ways to judge the statement 'most harmful drug', so there's no bright line, but that's a pretty big mark against alcohol.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delerium_tremens
[1] Ibid.
Great! How do I get this in my state?
I've read it long time ago. I've been in this industry for a long time, and unfortunately crunch does work. I can't say whether for everyone, but it works. It's not question whether I like it, whether its good for the people, families, etc.

But it works!
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>> If you drink your coffee "double double", it's fine coffee

If you drink your coffee that way, it's fine coffee flavored sugar. If you drink Tim's coffee as regular, it tastes like water.

>> My hope is that they close some Timmies down to open some Burger Kings.

In the 416/905, we have a lot of Tim Horton's + Wendy's locations left over from when they were owned by Wendy's. I wonder if the Wendy's half of those locations will be converted to BK.
California's smartphone kill switch bill has been signed into law
Didn't Microsoft Research just release the exact same project with the exact same name? How are these related?
"Leave the rest alone" is a massive failure as a blanket statement.

There are some things that should be enforced for everybody, like basic human rights. And there are some things that should be left up to more local governments. But where do you draw the line? There are no easy answers.

The standard example out of US history is, of course, slavery. Would you apply your "leave the rest alone" there? If so, I disagree in the most strenuous manner possible. If not, what makes slavery different from, say, drug laws?

The US Constitution makes states almost like countries, but exactly where the line is drawn has been an extremely contentious issue since before the Constitution was even written, and has remained so up to the present day and for the foreseeable future.
Seems to me that your damages would be limited to the amount you originally agreed to. The fact that they had a funding round and press shouldn't matter.

Payment + chargeback is a bit different than non-payment; complicating the fact is that you received some money from PayPal.

Aside from PayPal, did you pursue any recourse?

Does your contract have a mutual non-disclosure clause? If so, I suspect you just violated it.

I'm sure when you saw their funding event, you were upset. Bottom line: if everything had gone according to plan, you would have been paid, and they'd still have their funding event.
Fascinating contrast to this Backstory Podcast episode about America's relationship with oil: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/black-gold-2/
Because unauthenticated encryption is no good. It only protects communications against passive attackers (mere observers), which, I think, is generally considered to be far from sufficient. Meanwhile, it creates a false sense of security, which isn't a good thing.
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It's just to launch the editor from the command-line.

IT's nothing new - sublime text 2 (at least on OS X) had the "subl" command so you could launch an edit session from the cli.. I assumed the rest had the same.

It's certainly not a new feature or anything to celebrate.
Unless it somehow constitutes violation of parole?
Whole article in a nutshell:

https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick/status/504230235458768896
https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick/status/503974048356130816
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Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227198
> SSL Heartbleed. Nobody reviewed the code change by that guy. Not even the maintainer reviewed it.

I think this is a blatant counterexample actually.

The code _was_ reviewed. It passed the review. This just shows that security is hard and that reviews don't always catch everything.

But the only reason that heartbleed ever came to light was that OpenSSL is open source. Had it not been, such a bug would have been much much more difficult to find. Yes, this is not instant, yes, it takes time and leaves people vulnerable in that time, but it did work out in the end.

If a similar bug were to exist in proprietary software, there's a good chance it would never come to light at all. Save for the extremely dedicated intelligence agencies who may have the people and desire to exert the effort to find it. That's who proprietary security software helps.

The Debian bug isn't a terrible example, but it simply shows that distro-specific patches aren't well reviewed, not projects in general. Most people who want to see OpenSSL code go to OpenSSL, not Debian.

Bugs happen, reviewers miss things or may not look in the right places. Open source does not mean secure by any means, it simply removes some requirements of trust of a sole entity and eases reviews.
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Certainly, but it's going to become more and more so. The right way to do an API is to expose your invariants. Some day that will be a thing—and the distributed problem will still be here.
>even though there are cops everywhere. ... you will be offered drugs ten times a day while just walking down the street. It's all fake, they're just out to scam you and steal your stuff, and they're pretty good at it.

That is a step in the right direction? What was it like before beaten by the cops and robbed 10 times a day?
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Someone educate me. Isn't this farcical at the core? If we are living in a hologram, then why is our world visible inside of structures, even when devoid of light (eg: buildings, dark tunnels, etc).
Experiments have repeatedly shown a solid increase in day-total productivity when going from 10 hour workdays to 8 hour workdays; similarly, there is an increase in total weekly productivity when comparing 6 days a week to 5 day workweek.

I doubt that the people who work[ed] on saturdays had a much different daily routine than those who didn't; but still, working that extra day only results in less work done.
How ironic that the only way to get rid of objectivist libertarians is to give them what they want. Still, it is probably worth it.
I know a lot of people talk up Norway, but I'm not aware of anything that Norway does economically that matters outside of energy production.

What great technology, companies, etc. have they produced in the last 40 years? What big innovations come out of Norway? Do they have the top universities in the world?

They've only won two nobel prizes since oil became the center of their economy, and they became rich. They won four in the 1920s, and four between 1968 and 1973. The oil wealth sure doesn't seem to have spurred great knowledge acquisition.
Why are there still realtors?
It is 2014. A realtor will take pictures of your house, upload them to a website, and someone will purchase your house.
For all of that work, the realtors will walk away with 6% of the value of your home.
Is there a startup trying to destroy this industry?
Proof of concept for multi data center Redis replication
I get this complaint all the time and it's getting old. What's clear to developers is usually not to the user, that the combination of device + hardware + os makes developing "an Android version" a royal pain in the app store.
This seems like a simpler version of what Microsoft demonstrated in the paper. Between the final and original shots in Instigram's demos you can still see much of the original motion. This is especially apparent in the car clip.

What it looks like the Instagram app is doing is selecting and stabilizing individual frames instead of the full 3D scene reconstruction that the MSFT paper described. EG there's no pop in and out of details like the MSFT demos and there's still a small but noticeable judder in some of the videos.
I can understand your feelings but you gotta hire very GOOD lawyer! Keep Calm and Fight Legally!
I love this editor and it makes me sad to see how the project is stalled.

In 2002 the investors behind Blender launched the "Free Blender" campaign. They asked for 100,000 EUR as a one-time fee for open sourcing it. At the time the project was dying as a proprietary product. The investors got the money and today Blender is a healthy open source project.

I would love to see something similar with Sublime Text. The author seems uninterested in continuing with its development while many users want to see it moving forward. I believe it can raise much more money than Blender at the time.
STARTTLS on port 25 is vulnerable to active MITM anyway, so having your certificate signed by a big CA doesn't really get you much. For delivery over port 465 it makes sense, but an active MITM could still block your connection and see if you fall back to STARTTLS on 25. Fastmail have a good summary of the current situation[0]. And, as Sami_Lehtinen said, many servers out there probably have self-signed certs.

[0] https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/ssltlsstarttls.html
Yes, owning land is a big problem in all countries.
Is this a surprise? Microsoft had the Surface like a decade before Apple had the iPhone or iPad, and nothing came of it. Another stupid mistake by not focussing on innovation but instead focusing on how to preserve their Windows monopoly.
Xcode 6 provides better support for third-party frameworks, which certainly makes distributing packages without a third-party took like CocoaPods easier, but it doesn't have anything resembling a proper package manager or dependency resolution tool.

Right now, the state of distributing libraries in Swift seems to be "add it as a git submodule, and either add the xcodeproj and link the compiled framework or just drag in the .swift files, but let's hope the community comes up with something better soon".
Wordpress.com doesn't either (and I was very surprised by this):

http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
A crowdsourcing platform for friends?
This is based off comments someone else had on trying to compile some of my experimental Swift modules.
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Anarchy doesn't really exist. It's just that people want to go back to a state before the current contracts and laws were passed. What would happen? The same kinds of associations, rules, and laws would form again.
In the several incidents you cite, how would the cop have found your weed if you hadn't been up front about it?
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I wouldn't consider ST3 to be stable or usable under Linux since it just wrecks file permissions.
The critiques I've seen of crunch mode always seem to assume that it's a normal state of affairs, and thus leads inexorably to burnout. We'll have maybe one or two weeks of crunch every quarter or so when we have a major release that everyone needs to coordinate on and no one wants to be blamed for holding up. For those one or two weeks out of twelve, we'll work sixty or maybe seventy hours. It's absolutely effective, and while I've felt tired at the end of it I've never felt burned out. It's also offset by having very relaxed working hours the rest of the time.

I get that some firms see the productivity boost that happens during crunch mode and try to make that the new normal, but is this even that common? Do most firms not do as mine does and just crunch when you need to and have normal hours the rest of the time?
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Well since we throw people in prison for avoiding taxes, is it really that unreasonable to 'name and shame' corporations that are basically doing the same thing through clever legal wrangling?
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The 'hologram' in holographic physics doesn't refer to the standard 3d optical illusion things. It's a more general term for 3-dimensional information being encoded on a 2-dimensional surface. Just like the hologram you're thinking of constructs a 3d image out of a bunch of 2d dots, so the entire physics of our 3d universe are constructed out of information on an imaginary 2d surface.

The optical holograms we see often are an example of holograms in general, but they're far from the only ones.
Your argument falls flat simply because the reality on the ground was that existing laws and enforcement wasn't taking care of the problem. These new laws give more powers to consumers to effectively take the law into their own hands.

Additionally fraud (at least in the UK) doesn't impact several of the practices as they weren't misleading, just obnoxious (like adding things to your cart, or fees not on the advert but on the final checkout page).

> A law like this just encourages people to tweak their practices slightly and continue as before.

By that logic why try and do anything at all ever? It is a very defeatist attitude that results in inaction.
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There is no big company here and we don't even have an office. I currently have no ownership in any other businesses or products. Your graph data is never sent to our servers. We plan to make money via a paid software version with more features, for example the ability to monitor multiple remote servers. I agree that it wouldn't make sense to have a product like ours that collects user data.
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I don't see any example video on 1x though. Will it be as good as their accelerated ones?
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Transit prices are generally not published, are negotiated individually, and often include a confidentiality clause. Plus, for a company like CloudFlare with a blended mix of transit providers, it won't be a single price.

(It's also likely CloudFlare buys more transit than most individual sites, so CF pricing wouldn't be meaningful for smaller circuits.)

Transit also varies by factors other than price. Cogent publishes prices, so for Cogent transit, it's pretty much a known quantity.
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