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by kevinpet 15y ago
If only someone would come up with a collection of standard licenses covering all the reasonable scenarios with both good legal language and an understandable summary.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I visit arXiv maybe five times a year, and every time I do the same "where the hell is the link" search. The problem is that the box with downloads appears to be part of the page chrome, not part of this particular entry.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This article completely misrepresents the email. Chamath Palihapitiya seemed to take the most issue with the fact that the deal was structured with most of the money going out as a dividend. It's not about the founders taking money out, it'
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by kevinpet 15y ago
You can't talk about javascript without talking about the execution environment, object system, and so on, which happens to be shared with javascript, but there is no more reason to discuss javascript when talking about coffeescript than to
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Right now it's tomorrow in Australia. I find it convenient to talk about things I did "on Thursday" at work, rather than the things I did on the local day that spanned Thursday night to Friday morning.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
A naming convention, if it were eligible for IP protection, would be in the realm of patent or trade secrets. It would not be under copyright. Here copyright is claimed.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I was excited when I saw the title, disappointed when I started reading the book. I'm hoping someone with sufficient expertise can write a guide to coffeescript that doesn't defer to "just like javascript, except X". That is, something that
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by kevinpet 15y ago
The top level comment starting this thread seems to be a valid enough question to have generated some discussion, but it's showing grayed out to me.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This would be more interesting if it concentrated on Youtube and the government censorship than on the creative legal theories the person supposedly being censored is pushing. As it is, the only actual content here is "this video isn't avai
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Always amused when I am unable to read an article about the new best practices in web design because the page renders with strange overlapping text. I think the table of short terms near the top is supposed to be an example of icons, but I
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by kevinpet 15y ago
My first thought was "is there any actual content in among the buzzwords". My second thought was "what's he trying to sell". Apparently, cloudability is a service that allows you to track your "cloud" spending, which seems totally useless t
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by kevinpet 15y ago
The free prime streaming is only a subset of their catalog. It's also confusing. You'll click through to a movie and it will give you options to buy, rent in HD or stream with prime for free.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Paper's page is http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6234.html Abstract "We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities - San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that fi
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by kevinpet 15y ago
MAC address, store security tapes, cell phone geo tracking data. I mean, you're right, face in a huge crowd is potentially more security than hidden really well, but it's not perfect either.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Then they'd have to show that spoofing your country was actually illegal, as opposed to just against their policies. Don't fall into the trap of equating terms of service with laws.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I presume that you will be around to cry foul every time someone claims women are better at dealing with interpersonal relations? It's a debatable empirical question whether men or women have any innate advantage (or are statistically more
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I think what he's getting at is that there's this value "c" that's really important to physics appearing in equations like e=mc^2 and determining the absolute upper bound on speed, and by the way, we used to assume that photons traveled at
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by kevinpet 15y ago
1. This isn't arbitrage. Arbitrage has a specific meaning (profiting from price disparities in the same item in different markets). This could be described as a carry trade, but it's mostly just an inconvenient way to get a business loan. 2
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This is incorrect. Phil Welch gives the most precise answer.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Don't know about the legality, but you're correct about the reality. There are number sliding and rotating parts in the lower receiver that determine whether it fires single shot, burst or fully automatic. Modern M-16s have single shot and
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Indeed. The medium defeats the message, when you're offering web design advice on an unreadable site.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I don't understand holding up the checkbox as well executed. The primary text on the "is this is a gift" is "somebody special". If you're going to use smaller lighter type near large bold black type, then the bold section needs to convey th
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Nanex makes a good case that it was HFT that caused the flash crash. http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrashFinal/FlashCrashAnalysis_Theo...
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by kevinpet 15y ago
HFT is about making money by supplying liquidity or making money by exploiting the portions of the system which are designed to supply liquidity. You don't want to end up with a position. You want to net out the day with no position in any
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Anyone in climate science who does not understand why their work is controversial is living in a cave or willfully ignorant at this point. 1. Many climate scientists claim authority to make policy recommendations, something which is outside
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by kevinpet 15y ago
One is in dollars, the other in dollars per time unit.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
The first half of your comment is idiotic and unworthy of HN. Find me someone who has actually stated that the poor deserve their lot. The Tea Party's primary gripe is that the government is picking winners and losers and the best way to ge
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by kevinpet 15y ago
"debt exceeded income in 2001" I read until I find a fundamental error like comparing two values with different units. Only if it doesn't make any fundamental errors do I consider whether it's valid or makes any subtle errors.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Parasitic HFT that doesn't actually provide liquidity is a consequence of rules that are designed to provide liquidity. Think of what you would "expect" if things were working right. Am I going to try to sell something at the exact moment a
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Bitcoin is not designed to be anonymous. From bitcoin.org: "While the Bitcoin technology can support strong anonymity, the current implementation is usually not very anonymous."

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