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qBittorent is great. I started using it about 2 years ago not because I had an ideological problem with utorrent, but because it had much better performance on my laptop. For some reason utorrent would utilize 100 percent of my hard disk speed, and freeze my PC.

I've tried Transmission (on Linux) and Deluge, but I prefer the more familiar and simpler interface of qBittorent.

My only gripe with it is that in utorrent I could sort the torrent column by "last finished" or something like that. In qBittorent it's harder to find the last torrents that you downloaded, which can be annoying when you have a few dozen in the list.
Ask HN: Should I drop out of uni?
At the time of writing this, I should be attending an exam.

I'm currently in my fifth semester, so in theory I should pass my bachelor's degree in another 6 months. That will not be the case.

Some months before starting to study, I co-founded a company. No really exciting startup, just building products for clients. We pretty much bootstrapped and have 5 employees now, making a decent amount of money. But I haven't been to uni for the last 1.5 years, because I was rather working. I haven't told anyone yet that I haven't passed or even attended a single exam after my second semester.
I'm not sure what exactly I'm asking for, but what are the Pros and Cons of completely dropping out of uni in favor of the secure job / the company?
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I think hyperbole was pretty obvious in my original comment but I don't have a citation other than experience. We're working hard to remove GPL code in some of our products.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding about what the GPL license embodies, the harms it intends to mitigate and the motivations behind using such a license as a opposed to the BSD or MIT license which capture your less nuanced sentiment.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
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It was a good read. The most interesting parts were the backstory behind how MySpace got started. In particular, how the company pivoted a number of times before getting the social network idea to really catch on. It was fascinating to see how they went from selling these cheap toys at kiosks in the mall to becoming a tech media network.

I'm just finishing reading another book called Click by Bill Tancer written around the same period. And Myspace had 3 out of the top 10 searches for brand websites (myspace, myspace.com, and www.myspace.com). Facebook had just appeared on the scene and was in the 10th search spot.
Yeah, I wonder if Elixir's superficial similarity to Ruby was actually a mistake. It makes some people think they can just write Ruby and have it run faster, only to become frustrated, and others scoff at it due to prejudice against Ruby. On the other hand, I think it has a really nice syntax that works very well for its semantics, so from a purely technical standpoint it was a good choice.
People occasionally build things like https://opencorporates.com/ , but generally you're talking about maintaining a lot of information whose maintainers need to be paid somehow.
I can't find them again, but I remember seeing design diagrams from djb's qmail. His approach to system design is pretty great IMHO, it's pragmatic, minimalist, language/paradigm agnostic.
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> - No hinting at smaller pixel-sizes, meaning that you'd need different SVGs for different pixel-sizes in order for them to look pretty at small sizes.

One always assumes that SVG is infinitely scalable. Thanks for brining up this counterpoint. I guess "not everything is awesome".
I take a pragmatic approach. I'm cool with BSD license for most of user-level application code, because if someone wants to make a binary-only application, I usually have options I can choose from. But in kernel space, a binary-only driver or kernel means that open source of any kind is locked out of the hardware, because it's hard to write drivers without specs. In that space, the GPL is one of our few tools for getting device makers to give us what we need.
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Hm yet its leaky, buggy and low-feature. Useful for casual use but nowhere near professional. When will they drop it, or break it? Like some gmail features got broken this week.

Lesson: don't hang anything important on Google apps.
I'm quite happy with CrashPlan [0]. Though I fortunately didn't need it a single time in the 2 years I've been using it, I've heard good words from friends. The downside is that it's an ugly-as-hell Java app, which is an upside at the same time, since it's running basically everywhere.

[0] http://www.code42.com/crashplan/
It's worth noting that plagiarism is a separate concept, and not really a legal issue (unless of course you are bound by contract not to plagiaries, which I'd imagine most academics and journalists are in their employment contracts). This is also why the MIT license needs an attribution clause.

Karl Fogel proposed an experiment, that legislators introduce a bill proposing a right to attribution, essentially making plagiarism illegal, to gauge the media industry's reaction. His prediction was that they would balk at the proposal.
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I've got a little experience with both. I went full bore into DRF, and found myself wrestling with the framework too much. I wanted to use the framework (ModelSerializer), but found it difficult to find the hooks to customize some behavior. Then going down a layer of abstraction felt like I had to do too much. This is probably the reality of any framework, not necessarily the fault of DRF.

Right now I'm using django-restless. I'm sticking with it for now. It uses Django forms for validation, which works ok even though they weren't meant for validating json input. Now I'm wondering if it would be best to just use Django, and be restless in style. Perhaps DRF, restless or some other libraries would have some pieces that I could use in a more library fashion if I wanted them.
If a software author wants for people to use/distribute his software under a specific license, that's his prerogative.

We're discussing the merits of particular licenses, particularly their impact on the software world, so this is kind of tautological, don't you think?

In any case, I was not aware of that difference between Apache and BSD, so you have my sincere thanks for pointing that out. I've got a few things on Github to modify methinks...
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I thought the E in MEAN was for the Express server. [1] I think they both have a strong hold on the market nowadays in terms of usage.

[1]: http://mean.io/#!/
We use github enterprise and I've only heard complaints about its search capabilities.
Never, ever exercise options unless you have a market to immediately sell into OR otherwise have means to cover the potentially significant tax bill. This bit so many people in the dot-com boom. Options should be exercised and a portion of the received stock immediately sold to cover the tax which will be due on the exercised vs strike price. This is one reason that restricted stock in the US is MUCH better tax wise. In the US you can file an 83-b election and receive tax treatment on the basis at time of purchase, which for most startups is effectively 0.

NEVER EVER exercise options unless there is a real market in which you can realize value from the received stock directly UNLESS you REALLY know what you're doing (read: have money and a good accountant/lawyer).
Sure. And its a crap shoot even then. Multiple startups are essentially based on the same observation, with more or less equivalent solutions. Then its ALL about marketing.
I'm still having trouble understanding why it isn't, and could do with an example. Especially as pixel size isn't necessarily related to screen size.
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PaperclipJS is actually a template engine. You can use it with any framework such as Angular, Ember, or Backbone.
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This really has nothing to do with it at all. In fact, an LLC can elect different forms of tax treatment, including being taxed as a C or S corporation.
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"No list like this would be complete without a book about design patterns."

If this is true, then no such list is complete without the Antipatterns book AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis (http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch...).

The thesis is that if good software, projects and teams are noted for using good patterns, then bad versions of any of the above will be marked by bad patterns, and one won't have the other. This can also be a lot more useful in practice, since we seldom get complete greenfields to play in, and therefore antipatterns with prescriptions to fix them more often match what we find in the real world.

I note there are a number of other antipatterns books; this was the original, and now seems to be back in print without needing any changes are updating.
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Has that really worked, though? It seems like, in the case of things like video cards, the GPL means that we have the full-performance, 3d accelerated, proprietary and closed driver, which is the one you're going to use unless you have a moral stance against it, and the objectively inferior (slower, at least) Libre version of the same thing to talk to the same hardware.

What if a working computer is your primary concern, not the political status of the code?
That seems a bit drastic. If the GPLv2 doesn't do what you want it to do, perhaps another license will work better?
Good point = upvote, I've heard it both ways, but yeah they both have a role to play.
Great article but it misses an essential difference between MySpace and Facebook. Facebook was built for Mark Zuckerberg and MySpace was built for News Corporation. Zuckerberg understood the interests and tastes of his generation. MySpace only understood the interests of their advertisers.
Built this to replace a Shopify store over the last few months. Moving toward selling bundles in future builds.

We're a small team of three working to find indie game devs and publishers to partner with us. We're active on social media. And our current site is the foundation and first iteration of our sales platform.

Would love some feedback.
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Yeah, LICECAP is great. I have taken to using it for providing UI/UX feedback on Design. Just make the GIF, drag into github discussion for the issue or Pull Request. Done. :)
It removes a lot of hassle of reproducing the errors for designers from verbal or written instructions. Keycastr is also a good addition to the set of tools, as it can show the exact commands you were entering too.
I'm going to assume you're not being literal, but FYI, I sat on a kidnapping jury that was essentially this. Don't trap people, even for a moment; it's quite illegal.
Which way would you vote, if you needed to prioritize?
I think I understand what you are trying to say, but when you describe values as “luxuries,” I think we’re standing on opposite sides of a chasm shouting at each other.
Part of the problem is that the set of people who need intricate decorative wood carving and the set of people who think they need intricate decorative wood carving are very different. In fact, one is much larger than the other.
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Not quite. Nate Silver's book is good on this, and a sibling mentions LTCM. The way you make a lot of money in a rising market is either (a) write a lot of out-of-the-money put options, like insurance that pays out if the market goes down or (b) leverage up as much as possible and buy any vaguely rising asset. In both cases you're making a lot of bets that will bring in a small amount 99% of the time and lose more than you invest the remaining 1%. It's just that all the 1% events are correlated with a market decline.
The only one of the counterarguments that interests me is that it defeats caching. I mean, if 100 users in a large network want to access the same video or other large resource from the Internet, it seems pretty ridiculous that the connection must use 100 times as much bandwidth as it would if they could just install a simple caching proxy, especially if it's just some cat video or online game, which is probably the common case. True, not all large resources are as innocent, and there is no real way around encrypting and not caching everything if you don't want devices on the network to tell the difference... but the result is just so pathological. The price of freedom?

[For the record, YouTube seems to use HTTPS by default for video content, so this is already the case for some large percentage of the types of large resources typically accessed from shared networks.]
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Just negate the lesson. Teach them that people say "moss on trees can be used for navigation" and that it's not completely accurate.
Yeah, I'd still prefer Wireshark but this is useful to know about for a variety of situations where it'd perhaps be worthwhile to see something.. if only Microsoft just exported to pcap :P
Ask HN: Did your perspective about Microsoft changed?
Just out of curiosity, did your persepctive / hatred towards MS changed since they made .NET framework open source and uploaded on Github?

I'm fairly neutral towards language / framework / OS, but some ppl around me hated MS for being closed, and .NET framework only work on MS (still work only on Windows, need to rely on Mono for other OS) and not open source.

They still hated for just because Windows (I do hate some parts of it, but I think some parts are better on Windows, compared to OS X e.g. native window management without app) and MS.

Thoughts?
edit: should have read the whole link before posting :)
If I understand you correctly, you have already dropped out in practice, and you're wondering if you should go back and finish it. Without knowing much about your particular situation, in general I would encourage you to find a way to do so, particularly if your major is in a field with "hard" employability benefits (i.e. not "studies"). Of course there are exceptions where brilliant people didn't complete their education and achieved great success in business, but it's a huge gamble. Essentially the situation looks like trading long-term benefits for short-term ones. My advice would be for you to talk to your family and friends about this to reach a decision. They probably can help you in unexpected ways.
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In my experience people who actually interact with government sites regularly dislike the gov.uk changes. People inside the tech bubble don't actually use many of the government sites, so their opinion is mostly based on the fact that the new sites look prettier and are built with a fashionable stack.

A lot of the people who use government sites are those who try to keep government to account: journalists, charities, campaigners and so on. For those types of people the news sites are worse because they contain less information and have made it a lot harder to find the information you want (which also often happens to be information that the government department doesn't want people to know…).

As an example: http://markavery.info/2014/10/21/awful-gov/

>I want to make a serious point here. This one single government website is less informative and less easy to use than its multiple predecessors. If you were the least bit suspicious of this government then you might think it had been done on purpose to obscure government actions and policies from the taxpayers who pay for it and the voters who might well choose another bunch of politicians in future.

>This government has done away with watchdogs and independent commissions who had the time and wit to question what government was doing on the environment and now it has obscured its own actions on its own website.

>This is highly reprehensible. I suggest you send FOI and EIR requests to Defra on any subjects that you wish to know about and say that you can’t find the information on the government website. I also suggest that you write to your MP on this matter – I certainly shall.

Also of note is the fact that the sites for non-departmental bodies like Natural England that are supposed to act at arms length from government have been taken over by the cabinet's gov.uk site. That's a rather large power grab by central government.

Sadly it seems like too much money (and ego) has been sunk into this project to reverse it, so I'm not sure things are going to improve much when we get a new government. I wonder if all the information that exists on the old sites has even been archived.
Sorry you don't like it! I guess it is a personal thing. We've had a lot of positive comments about the visuals though.

For what it's worth (not that it'll sway your view), the font choices were a conscious decision to make the medical technology look a bit outdated, because you know what hospitals run by administrators are like.

Also, the mix of cartoon visuals and the real-life pictures was again a deliberate decision. you may notice they never appear on the same screen together, and everything in-world (portraits, bodies) are cartoon style. Reference pictures are real-life.

But anyway, like you say, it's personal preference.
One can verify the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McMillen#References

Pages without references get pruned pretty quickly.

In your scenario, you'd have to get published first, then put this fact in the appropriate page, then reference the published research.

Of course, some things fall through the cracks & editors of some pages are more vigilant than others.
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Champagne was an incredibly important trade region in its day, and a large source of wealth for the kings of France. One artifact of that is the unit we use to measure the weight of gold: the Troy ounce comes from the city of Troyes, of which Lavau (where the tomb was discovered) is a suburb.
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It's neither fast/memory efficient nor easy to configure. Back when we created our email infrastructure (10yrs ago) we deeply evaluated qmail and postfix. Postfix beats qmail on both counts by a huge margin.

The rest of the qualities do stand. We kept tinydns from that evaluation, and gladly so. It's a marvelous piece of software, never breaks on its own, requires near zero maintenance.
> That uncertainty plus the viral nature of the GPL means that there's no way to know for sure that you won't be forced to open your whole codebase at some point in the future.

That doesn't happen. A violator would be ordered to pay compensation and remove the offending code, though they could reach a settlement to do something else.
Fair enough, I edited the comment.
Well, it's also that it's not consistently applied across the board.

In the actual definition of notability, it is made clear that the policy is purely about verifiability: something is notable when we can say more than a couple verifiable things about it. However, because the policy is named notability, the AFD (articles for deletion) threads very often contain systematic mention of how noteworthy an effect is "within the [whatever] community".

I never really followed up on it, but I wanted to see whether I could game the system in the reverse way. Coming from a physics background, in college I wrote up some drafts about a fake physics concept, including some thought into using @cornell.edu emails to create a fake arxiv.org LaTeX article or two. The idea was to combine this with links to 404'ed pages, some fake blog articles across the Internet authored by me, and some

The actual concept was going to be something like "Tenacity (science)" which was going to explain that NASA researchers had discovered some unexplained and hard-to-causally-model (but extremely predictable) force which makes orbital rocketry more energy-expensive than "the calculations" would give you. Models would be proposed requiring, say, Kerr metric general relativity solutions to Earth's gravity (hence trying to determine whether the core of the Earth was actually a spinning black hole) or strange drag forces going like v^1.5 or v^3 or something. The joke was that the actual genesis of the phrase was a 2005 Homestar Runner cartoon where a character named Strong Bad is sitting in a foil-lines cardboard box pretending that he is involved in a space program. "Got to... escape... Earth's... tenacity..." he says as if straining under a heavy weight.
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Hah, that could work too :).
I'm not an information scientist, so this maybe a lay understanding, but as I understand it there is a limit to how much you could theoretically compress any piece of content without losing information. So take that 4.7 bits per character: well, not every letter is equally likely, so we could construct an encoding which takes frequency into account, but then not every word is equally likely, so we could use that information to make a tighter encoding, and so on. At some point we would reach a theoretical minimum.

At that limit, the size of the compressed data has one bit per bit of information.

So, scaling back up, the estimate is (and it has to be an estimate, I guess, since we can't construct the actual theoretically smallest encoding) 1.5 bits of information per character.

I searched for this value, and didn't spend long figuring out if it was well calculated, so take it with a big googly pinch of salt.
Well it's not me, the other households handle those parts carelessly and the aluminum is easly dented, scratched. But the point is, such parts should be made of anything else, such as copper, suitable type of iron, anything but aluminum. Also, considered in terms of value a $20 toast machine does have aluminum pressing plates, too.
It is not about weakening copyright. It is about reducing uncertainty about what the GPL means. GPLv2 is not very well drafted in terms of linking and derived works, and v3 is not much better. And software like Linux is stuck with GPLv2 pretty much forever.
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A friend of mine once played an elaborate prank where I got a Wikipedia page. He made me a Faroese cricketer. It was pretty great, but eventually things spiraled out of control when I spontaneously combusted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...
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You can't necessarily offset the tax bill from the gains with the tax savings from the loss. That's the horrible "gotcha" scenario that makes everyone worry, and is in fact a real risk in these scenarios.

I looked around to find a overview of how this works with some case study examples, and this is the best I could come up with in 5 minutes of googling: https://www.sharespost.com/docs/the_stock_option_tax_dilemma...
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Came across this in my Arizona section of Google news. Really this is more about the linked Google spreadsheet than the article.

Among other things you can find jobs with titles like "Web Site Designer/Developer, Senior" getting paid $41k.

Seems weird.
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