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This was asked on HN more than a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815

SSL cert issues (according to chrome for ipad)

Copying is all fun and games until Disney comes and "copies" your art in their products. (Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513535 ) Then we get out the pitchforks.

I like the idea of sharing, but unless all the ducks are in a row someone is bound to get hurt, and it's not clear to me if the proposed legal statement is sound.

Why would they acquire him when they could shut him down and replicate the service? It's not like they have much of a reputation to maintain. He doesn't have extremely significant traction (otherwise they would have done something by now) and AFAICT he doesn't hold any patents.

To clarify: I don't mean to disparage him, but acquisitions have to bring some sort of value to the acquirer.

That's not the problem here. The original release must include the license, otherwise the code is not following the terms of the license (in the case of MIT). And as for GPL and Apache, a link to the license must be furnished.

This isn't about subsequent redistribution (and if it were, I'd agree with your skepticism). The primary distribution must also follow the terms.

You can't cherrypick which parts of the license you wish to follow.

A reference to a license is acceptable if and only if the license being referenced recognizes them. Some licenses (like GPL) do recognize certain types of references while others (like MIT) do not.

If you want a C analogy, saying "LICENSE: GPL" or "LICENSE: MIT" is like dealing with a void *.

Updated to reflect that.

Relevant part:

    Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this 
    software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby
    granted, *provided that the above copyright notice and
    this permission notice appear in all copies.*

What happens after the Z release (coming up in 5 years)?

Best bet is to look at local credit unions and regional banks.

It should be noted that pandodaily.com didn't turn down investor money:

"I’ve also raised a bunch of cash from some of the people I respect most in the industry. This includes: Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh, Zach Nelson, Andrew Anker, Chris Dixon, Saul Klein, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Jordan and Matt Cohler, all investing as individuals. Also investing are a handful of seed funds including the CrunchFund, Greylock Discovery Fund, Accel’s Seed Fund, Menlo Ventures Talent Fund, Lerer Ventures, SV Angels and Ooga Labs."

http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/

" starting the Iraq war and ignoring the housing bubble are pretty convincing evidence that he was an idiot in all the ways that count."

Not necessarily. Dick Cheney had financial interests in Halliburton, which benefited greatly thanks to the Iraq War. I imagine Bush had much the same (or if not him directly, then family), which would make the Iraq war a brilliant move for his pocketbook.

degrades to political debate. The content doesn't really lend itself to much interesting startup commentary.

Was posted and killed a few hours ago

>Participating in "red state" leadership activities among white students such as ROTC have been shown to reduce admissions rates in Ivy league by about 50%.

ROTC was only allowed on campus recently:

"Yale, Harvard and Columbia all signed agreements this year [2011] to bring back ROTC"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/rotc-ivy-league_n_1...

It's tough to do ROTC when you have to go to another campus every week.

At the lower levels, sure. But once you start getting into more specialized fields, there are generally more courses and more professors compared to less prestigious counterparts.

It's not that there aren't sharp people at less prestigious schools, but that there are generally more at more prestigious schools.

I'd like to propose an alternate interpretation:

There is some desired heterogeneity of intellect. Elite Colleges aren't just looking for sharp mathematicians. They want to attract sharp physicists, sharp philosophers, sharp linguists, sharp artists, sharp musicians, sharp poets etc.

Now, in my experience there is a set of areas in which asians excel, but that doesn't comprise 100% of all areas. There are many areas where predominantly white people dominate.

If you weight the distribution of ethnic origin along those lines, I suspect asians will be underrepresented relative to the distribution measured by SAT scores.

"The reason you want to go to those schools is not their top-notch academics"

I assume you didn't go to an Ivy League school. Most of the people who are there by academic merit genuinely are at the top of their academic year/class. If you can handle it, you can take math classes with IMO medalists, chemistry classes with IChO medalists, etc. And this holds true for most departments.

This is relatively new (early 2013 retina macbook pro 15", MacBookPro10,1, 2.7 Ghz, 16GB Memory), so I would think WebGL would work in both places ...

You misread my statement. The claim the parent made was that $15 was near cost, and I was stating my experience that the soup-to-nuts cost is closer to $10 (and could be lower)

The original (http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx) feels much more responsive (when feeding the same dimensions -- 114,53 -- as what your version uses), tested on Firefox 19.0.2 and Chrome 26.0.1410.65

Food trucks are here to stay. In NYC, at least, it's the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to get lunch. There's a true structural advantage (much much lower fixed overhead)

especially if it's near the $15 dollar level (which is pretty much cost).

I remember ordering once (this was 7 years ago) at $5-$7 a tee and USPS charged around 2.75 at the time, for a grand total closer to $10

In this project, the tee is $40. In VM the tee is $25.

But I think the soundtrack was seen by Braff as a Big Deal, which is probably why it shows up at a lower price point ($20) than the tee.

Looking back on the veronica mars kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...) I'm surprised to see that most of the largest pledges were hit (1/1 at $10K, 3/3 at $8K, 3/3 at $6.5K, 4/5 at $5K, 10/10 at $3.5K, 30/30 at $3K, 20/20 at $2500, 300/300 at $1000)

In my experience, likelihood of spam content is correlated with number of ads or tracking cookies (the indicator number in ghostery). I expect posts with more than 5 tracking cookies/ads to be spam

(and yes, techcrunch rings in at 15, and almost all of their content is garbage)

You are rewarded for using Ghostery and other anti-spam measures when reading HN

Discussion from a month ago (hit the front page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405371

In the securities industry high salaries are common because they usually are paired with lower percentage payouts. If you want a higher payout, you are generally expected to take a small or no salary (in the extreme case)

Warning: There was a fund that tried to do this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_Capital_Markets) and didn't exactly succeed

You clearly haven't bothered to learn about their service:

"To calculate the exchange rate for US Dollars, we pull up-to-the-minute BID prices from three exchanges. We take the 2 that are closest together and toss out the third, so that a bad feed from one exchange will not affect our calculation. Of the 2 rates that remain, Bit-Pay uses the highest BID price as our exchange rate. "

Companies don't end up changing prices every minute. Gas stations, for example, are prohibited from changing prices too frequently in many states.

A proper solution has to provide more than one minute of price stability. BitPay doesn't provide longer term price stability.