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I'm opposed to regressive copyright charges - which this sort of arrangement could lead to. Perhaps a percentage of the gross of all items sold under the copyright could be charged. That way if I'm making pin money from a few ebooks I don't have to give up that money so that Disney can be charged [at least] the full cost of the registration/renewal?

One needs to write the law/regulations very carefully and be prepared to strike down extremely hard on corps who will try to manipulate this, eg by saying for a movie that the copyright work is on the DVD and you bought that for 1 cent but the packaging and label cost $19.99 and the work isn't available without those (or saying the customer pays for the TMs used separately or whatever other Hollywood accounting means they concoct).
In general you're probably right. I guess it's finding the exceptions that are out there that's difficult, and as you say, for someone based in the south of England, the middle bit of Scotland is pretty obscure.

There is a body, IIRC, promoting Scotland and awareness of its growing activity in tech as a place to come and live and work. Perhaps not "Mission Accomplished" quite yet :-)
"AOP is certainly less generic than monads, but even with rather specialized tools, it turns out the two "killer apps" of AOP were much better served by runtime support in the VM (logging/debugging) and explicit code (transactions)."

Indeed... beware the tech promoted with the same example over and over again. That's a huge red flag.
Back in the day BitBucket used to be Mercurial-only. Times change, I guess.
For a for-profit shop like Bitbucket, there's probably a business reason for that. I certainly don't have any metrics to back this up, but I can understand how they'd want to primarily appeal to what seems to be a wider git audience.
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My source for the costs of Google:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/07/23/from-...

"Google data centers cost the company more than $5 billion in the second quarter of 2014"

My source for the costs of Bing:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-bing-losing-billion...

"Put differently, Bing is spending $5.5 billion a year to generate $3 billion of revenue." (I divided by four to get quarterly)

GPS data is not really on the same level as Web Crawl data. How often is a street added or changed versus a web page?
The problem with aluminium is its resilience, not its strength. You are right that overall structural performance is governed more by geometry than by material strength (resisting moment is m^4 (area times quadratic distance of center of mass), although there are gotchas like lateral torsional buckling, which require bracing) the main problem with aluminium is that cyclical tensile loading leads to material fatigue with a effective material strength of 0%, while other metals can be counted on for at least 50% strength.
That's a good point. So the image of Mickey is still protected for them.

I am trying to imagine if I created a company like Disney and a cartoon like Steamboat Willy. Would I want it to go into the public domain after I died if my company were still going strong? If it were not for the company then sure. Let the public domain have it. But the company would be like an extension of myself. In that case I am not so sure.
How many times does one get to see the creators of C++ and JS in the same place?
I guess the real question is why the people over at Gawker support white nationalists. After all, why else try to get that message out there on a large marketing campaign?
He simply asserts that the focus should be on scarcity rather than creation

No, he doesn't. He says the focus should be on scarcity because if it's on creation, and if it's applied in a consistent and non-arbitrary way, life becomes impossible, as "as every conceivable use of property, every single action, would be bound to infringe upon one of the millions of past, accreted IP rights."

He actually has almost six pages explaining the problem with the creation-based IP rights, so saying that he "simply asserts" is just incorrect.

His scarcity argument is itself flawed: he focuses on the fact that copies of an intangible good are not scarce, and glosses over the fact the originals definitely are.

That's because the scarcity of the originals is irrelevant to whether the copies should be considered property, any more than it makes me the owner of the light that comes from my light bulb.

The scarcity of the originals is only relevant vis-a-vis the use of the originals.
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If he's medically unable to travel for questioning, he cannot travel for his trial, either.

The trial which by law has to begin two weeks later, at the latest.

Really, we've had that dozens of times on HN now.

https://storify.com/anyapalmer/why-doesn-t-sweden-interview-...

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/09/legal-mythol...

http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...
Excellent idea! I will definitely use this in my next project. Do you have a business plan yet?
I like that the first thing the documentation says is that "class FatRat is Cool". :)

Being cool seems to mean having automatic conversion to and from strings: http://doc.perl6.org/type/Cool
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Hi drglitch!

I appreciate your feedback and complement on the site design/content perspective.

I totally understand your concerns, and we want to do everything we can to avoid sending the message that this is no more in-depth than codecademy or code.org free tutorials. I urge you to take a look at the curriculum (you can contact us from the footer of the site if you'd like a first hand look) and see for yourself. The time it takes a student to complete the course is up to them, but it is much tougher than material you'll find on sites like those aforementioned. Our course covers HTTP, e-commerce, patterns, and many more intermediate to advanced topics. And, you're not just coding partial pieces of code in the browser like other sites - you're actually building real, production-grade applications on your own servers. I won't crowd this post with all the details as they're all viewable here: https://codermanual.com/track-select/12-week-rails-track/

There's a downloadable e-book at the bottom of that page that describes how to handle both technical interviews and non-technical interviews as well (re: your point about comp sci 101 questions).

Thanks!

Rob
bsd.io -- registered it for something like $120 at the time. It lapsed during hard times and the registration fees hadn't yet dropped. Now someone is squatting on it.
We* love kubernetes, and all the other orchestration frameworks, like Mesosphere, fleet, docker swarm, etc. We see flocker, our open-source project for managing data volumes, running beside these orchestrators. In fact, we've just released another open-source tool called powerstrip (https://github.com/ClusterHQ/powerstrip) which makes it possible to write adaptors for the Docker API so that a user can eventually use Flocker with Kubernetes.

Regarding how we are different, we focus only on managing persistent volumes, and as a specialist, will be able to do a lot more than something like kubernetes that is managing the entire application. If I had to guess, what you'd see with kubernetes, mesos, docker, etc is that they all support some basic data movement features, but if you want something more customized, like live migration, or true Disaster Recovery, you'd use Flocker, along side your orchestrator of choice.

*in case it wasn't clear, I work at ClusterHQ
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All the life sciences, much of economics, anthropology, soiology, cognitive sciences, and a fair amount of chem and even physics.

Im not surprised that engineering fields use a lot of calc and diffq. Afterall, they are engineering, not science.

I think I offended a calc teacher or physicist with my last oost, it got down voted.
Ah, this reminds me of a small service I wrote when our load balancing was being finicky to help the business side know if tech was aware of a problem.

http://doestechknowthesiteisdown.azurewebsites.net/

http://doestechknowthesiteisdown.azurewebsites.net/api/Yes/B...
I'd like to use this for my enterprise service, but we have many non anglophone users. Is there any way to get a localized response?
But it is private and it does unlock keys to lines of credit. It is not simply a "primary key" as stated, whether or not that was the original intent is not the argument here however. Recall the LifeLock CEO* plastered his SSN publicly and felt the repercussions. While I won't suggest you do that here - just knowing that if you did the assumption is bad things will happen in due time. Keeping SSNs private today is a risk organizations have to deal with and it does impact people, sometimes to an extensive length.

Also, for clarification, the breach involved all of the information required to establish identity - which was my main point in the protection and monitoring of the SSN, with special regard to children/minors.

* http://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
Why does every tech conference site have to mention drinking beers? I like beer as much as the next guy, which is kind of the problem. It sorta seems like conferences feel like they gotta bro it up.
I like your honesty and your brevity.
The choice of font is terrible...
In the spirit of the article:

If you can write it so that it runs in 1/100th the time, do you even have to worry about it running for 24/7?
So naively...

(0.25 * base salary * (average number of broken hires - 1))

That is the value you can create if you have experts successfully vet new hires (assuming they succeed at this).

How much time would it take for an expert to do this? Not just in the interview part, but the after-service (write-ups)?

I'm sure if they tethered their prices to the value they're actually creating, and they had experts capable of screening clients, then I could see this taking off.
Given the price of Heroku dynos, I'd rather not imagine the total bill :)
$100M valuation by next Wednesday.
Until Disney goes out of business, I think that is just, yes.
Wrapping the command line should be a little bit safer from a security perspective, since a memory exfiltration bug won't transfer across processes. Just don't use the shell between the wrapper and the command.
esquivalience is correct, assuming wikipedia is also correct: http://www.publicdomainday.org/node/39
I was trying to distract myself from bad news here, too. Hard to escape it sometimes. Hope you're doing better now that it's a few days later.
Do you plan to release it as open source in the event of getting acquihired?

On a more serious note, if SaaS APIs are function calls, this is an equivalent of a constant. Let's build a cloud programming language! Anyone wants to write cons, car, cdr, cond, quote and lambda SaaSes?
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I'm interested in seeing the price plan and cost of the 'Pro' account.
We do semi-embedded installs (think teensy datacenters) in medicine. So, on the one hand, I really like the cleanliness of nice service architectures and the HA aspects and whatnot. On the other hand, once installed, that's all the hardware we get to play with for a while, so performance actually matters.

It's an interesting space.
Any chance of getting a writeup for the dev process?
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Did Pol Pot, Stalin etc. Commit these acts BECAUSE they were nonreligious, or was this simply another aspect of their character?

If the latter, one could equally point out that these people were male or non-American, or under six feet tall or liked three sugars in their tea or any other attribute and would be equally meaningful.
Thanks for the perspective. It seems like a viable option for the frontend of my planned product, which I hope to write in Scala + Play.
My point is that do-notation is comparable to macros since it is a kind of syntactic sugar. Monads on the other hand are a type (or design pattern, depending on perspective), not a kind of syntactic sugar. So you can't compare lisp macros to monads.
1) kind of already happens, they can mention but it's not linked, which is laughably enough to prevent a significant degree of mobbing by their own followers.

2) Someone in the atheist-skeptic community made a tool called the blockbot that ostensibly was to automatically block people from a list that you never want to talk to in the first place because the blockbot operator already identified them as trolls. Unfortunately the main reason was that the developer figured out that mass blocks caused an automated response mechanism to suspend that users. It was really an offensive, not defensive mechanism. This has been somewhat changed, but the reason I bring it up is that this has been tried by Twitter and unscrupulous people used it as an attack tool.

3) is similar to 2) but I suspect they are already doing this in some cases.
Ha! Reminds me of something I did a long time ago: http://whatis7times.thenumber6.com/
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I'm a happy SourceTree user as well. I know how to use Git in the terminal but I find SourceTree quicker to use as it lets me quickly visualise what I need to see.
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Yep. My dentist keeps mentioning the need for braces for my children, despite one being age 8 at the time. I hated having my braces, and my teeth ended up shifting at a later age anyways. The pain was terrific, and the idea of putting my kids through that when they don't even have all their adult teeth seems like the worst of scams. Makes me wonder if my dentist gets a referral fee from the orthodontist.
You should have tried searching for GnuPG: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=GnuPG&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

I remember it made the front page (but that might have been during business hours here in europe).
The users on Reddit hate business and any sort of marketing. They don't seem to understand how much it takes to run Reddit servers.

If you like any site too much(even if it's not yours), you will be accused of being a "shill".
Yeah. There's an idea.
That is a good question, actually. In my personal experience, there will always be a few professors who "go by the book" and will test you only from the book and so on. And the people who "read from the book" will get better grades and such.

The idealistic suggestion would be that if you know the material well enough, you will be capable of solving these kinds of problems. In fact, the professor will teach from the book in his class right? At least take notes about the kind of stuff that he covers and study that. Yes, people with the books who have practice solving the same problem will find it easier, but you won't find it impossible either. And the test itself will be more honest, don't you think? :)

That's what I did in college, but I understand that not everyone will want to do the same.
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What is this actually. Can not get the thing. Get request and you get 42. what is the point.
Unhanded exception mate, http://doestechknowthesiteisdown.azurewebsites.net/api/Yes/<

Might want to hire a company to do a security audit on your whole infrastructure
One thing I thought was particularly gutsy is that Disney started making The Jungle Book while the story was still under copyright, releasing it after the copyright expired:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120910/02485220325/disne...
> Don't get me wrong, I'm super grateful to receive their fruits of labor for free, but this looks like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

Its more a case of not all the eggs being put in one basket. Google exploring many avenues to the same broad goal in parallel has been a widely observed phenomenon for a long time.
It's akin to python's magic methods (eg. __len__), only implemented in a separate object. Looks cleaner.
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Given the general scarcity of talent in the business, it should really be trivial for a high end IT security consultancy to pay Werner a €3000/month (ie. enough to live on, if not extravagantly) retainer to be available ~10 hours a month to consult on encryption matters (or something like that).

I wonder if it all really comes down to "Really I am better at programming than this business stuff." or if there is some unstated dogmatism that gets in the way.

It seems to me there's a parallel to someone like Moxie Marlinspike who's vaguely in the same field, but seems to be doing very well for himself.
Very cool MVP, but can this service support Big Data like 42,000,000,000,000?
What is the simplest program out there right now, open-source, that will let me sign binaries with a key?

I'm experimenting to do a dead-simple licensing system using SSL certs and signing--rough idea is, cert is from me, and when it expires, software says "lol no get new cert".

I'm sure this has been done before, but the amount of custom license management code I've seen in the wild makes me wonder...
I'll bite. How else does copyright or patents or any "Intellectual Property" romote progress in science and the useful arts other than by giving creators a limited monopoly in exchange for disclosing the invention or idea or creative work? "Disclosure" is in fact part of a patent application, and a required part, if I understand correctly.

You're splitting hairs, and not adding to the conversation, but I'll correct my statement: If the general, constitutionally-enshrined idea is to romote progress in science and the useful arts, hen don't we have an implied obligation to figure out what term actually does increase the progress in science and the useful arts?
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P.S.: What I call the Bentley-Knuth problem (for lack of a better term) is also interesting. Bentley posed it to Knuth. I read about it in a blog post and wrote solutions for it (unoptimized) in both Python and shell:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-...

The original blog post that I read is here:

More shell, less egg:
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

It has many comments which are interesting.
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So how do we create that if/then statement? If only one ISP in a location, then Net Neutrality? What happens if the location does get opened up to multiple providers? Do the new providers not have to follow the neutrality rules?

As an aside, as anyone been able to show what it would actually cost providers to adhere to a net neutrality standard?
Is this address verifiable on the GPG site?
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Hi sprkyco,

Thank you for your feedback. I do appreciate it.

I understand that a 30 day full time course load from no background sounds ridiculous. That said, with the right guidance, I think one can be ready for an entry-level position in web development in a very short amount of time - we do explain in our FAQ's that the amount of time will vary based on aptitude and eagerness to learn. The only reason a 30 day option is available is because it was a reality for me. I had very little knowledge of HTML and CSS when I first learned Rails - and after 30 days of studying hard (8-10 hours per day) I was able to get job offers of $75-$100k+. It felt ridiculous, but it was awesome and real. I'm not saying that is repeatable for everyone, but I think it is for certain candidates - those with an eagerness to learn. I urge you to view our contents in detail (https://codermanual.com/track-select/30-day-rails-track/) and see what you think. In fact, I know you may not even be interested in learning, but I'm happy to offer you a free look inside if you're curious. I also urge you to read the e-book that is downloadable from the bottom of that page.

I'm aware of bootcamp curricula and I can tell you first hand that all bootcamps are not created equal - and in general, all coding schools/tutorials are not created equal. All I ask is that you take a look and see for yourself. Please don't hesitate to reach out - we can be contacted from the footer of the Coder Manual site.

Ultimately, however, our goal is not to see how fast one can become job-ready - we will likely alter our business model and optimize the curricula over time, but the course-length options are there because of first-hand experiences of the course creators.

Again, thanks for your time and your feedback!

Rob
Irrespective of the language or tier, a developer needs to know how to problem solve. You have to know how to get the requirements even if the customer doesn't know what they want. You have to be good at coming up with what-if scenarios. Then tell me how you pitched your solution to the customer. Did your solution resolve the customer's problem.

Remember, as a developer, everyone who asks you for "help" is your customer. Be it a CIO or your cube-mate.

If I am interviewing you, I want to know how YOU will solve my problem. Tell me about a time when you helped a customer solve a problem. What the problem was and how you gathered the requirements even when the customer didn't know what they wanted. Tell me how you helped a customer think about different what-if scenarios.

By you telling me a few stories like that, it will allow me to dive deeper into areas both soft and hard skills.

Having gee-wiz things in your portfolio is good but if that doesn't help the customer solve their problem, what good was it. Tell me how your gee-wiz things solved a customer's problem.
From what I can see, whatever new functionality is being add to the site works equally well for Mercurial and Git (sans obvious differences in Hg/Git branching models). Pull Requests, Branch Permissions, Notifications, possibly something else, -- all work with Hg too. Yet they promote Git like crazy and leave Mercurial behind.
or... DoesTechKnowDoesTechKnowTheSiteIsDownIsDown >:)
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The public domain provides the raw material for most new works. For example. all of the original Disney cartoons would not have been possible except for the fact that earlier works were in the public domain.

The constitution does not pretend that intellectual property is the same as real property and for good reason. For some reason I don't see anyone who says they are equivalent also saying that copyright holders should also pay property taxes on copyrighted works like they do their house. So even the proponents of this, realize that intellectual property is different than real property.

These giant corporations that are bribing (er I mean lobbying) politicians to extend copyright to infinite terms are destroying our cultural heritage for short term profit.