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Corporations aren't mentioned because they didn't exist yet. A literal reading, or a reading appealing to framer's intent (from either side) is futile, because it tries to put a lot of meaning onto what is effectively an accident of syntax and style that was, at the time, meaningless.

This is not to say that your conclusion must be invalid, just that this line of reasoning is suspect.
I just republished, for Android 1.6 (G1)
At the time that any of the Android people were at Danger, the Sidekick had its own custom OS written from the ground up. There was talk of switching to NetBSD in the distant future but it hadn't happened yet.
Try again for G1. I just republished.
This is pretty close to what you're looking for, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Adages
Are news stands that sell dozens of publications also bad for the newspaper business? I don't goto the New York Times store to buy the paper -- I goto the new stand where the New York Times is just one of many choices. The news stand may only offer a couple dozen choices and not 2,000 but there's a diminishing return at some point. I'm most likely going to pick one of the first 5-10 stories on Google News and that's almost always linking to a popular mainstream publication.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/r6/an_intuitive_explanation_of_quant...

"There's a widespread belief that quantum mechanics is supposed to be confusing. This is not a good frame of mind for either a teacher or a student. Complicated math can be difficult but it is never, ever allowed to be confusing."
I hope you're right.
There are some nice-looking Git clients, but most of them seem to be for OS X. I haven't used them though as I don't have a Mac and I prefer the command-line client.

Part of the problem is that there is not 'git library' last I checked. Git started out as a loosely strung-together set of commands that vary from compiled C-code to Perl scripts to plain shell scripts. Over time the bottlenecks have been ironed out and ported to C and such, but git is under heavy development even now. Just follow the git mailing list for a while to see.

Also do some searching for stuff about JGit which is a git implementation in Java. Last I heard they were having a lot of trouble getting the performance to match the actual git tools because most of the bottlenecks had been fixed in the 'official' tools using highly optimized C-code.

{edit} I guess I should add that the JGit stuff is information I read somewhere, but I don't recall if it was in a blog post/comment/mailing list email/etc.
That paper has been reviewed at one time or another by at least a dozen card-carrying physicists, including Jeff Kimble and John Preskill at Caltech (who are the ones who actually helped me figure all this stuff out). Reactions range from, "Oh my God, what a revelation!" to "Duh. Everybody already knows that." But I have yet to encounter anyone who knows what they're doing who thinks it's wrong.
> ‘‘It’s nice to know the lies are still coming,’’ read one post. ‘‘Is it really worth it?’’ read another.

The relationship issue here has nothing to do with differing opinions on privacy, it's that someone is being passive-aggressive.
I got it from GEB. Hofstadter doesn't attribute it, so I just assumed it was original with him. (And frankly I'd be surprised if you found any references to Zen Master Zeno prior to GEB.)
What would corruption have to do with censoring the Internet?
I don't confuse citizenship with legal person at all.

However, I am assuming the company in the article is thinking it stands a chance, as evidenced by it spending dollars to test how far it can go. Otherwise they're pretty stupid, which they may very well be.
It's amazing to me that anyone could find exposing flaws privately to a company could be construed as hurtful in any way. The mere benefit of having someone tell you about a flaw that you were not aware of could save you millions (if not billions) in lost revenue and PR damage.

If your software has enough attention to garner free QA checks from security firms, I believe you should praise those checks rather than complain.
I've done it a few times with just step 1. I'm not a screen expert, but for whatever reason we didn't need 2 and 3
My impression was that relativity was preserved because the two particles are effectively 0m apart, functioning as the same particle.

Kind of like a VPN for elementary particles; the remote client and its presence on the local network are the same thing, if I'm not stretching my computer-physics analogies too far.
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To answer with an example, a lot of these experiments entangle the "spin" property of two particles. In a two-state system such as spin up and spin down, it is tempting to call, say, "up" 1 and "down" 0, but you won't get too much use out of that. What you'll often read is that when you take two entangled particles and take them to opposite ends of the room (or the universe), and you measure your particle as having spin up, you know at once that the other particle must have spin down. That is a function of conservation of angular momentum, and has a very intuitive classical analog.

Before you make a measurement, though, the particle you measured is in a combination of both states. It's not that you don't know which it is; it really is neither (to the best of modern interpretations). If it has equal probability spin up or down, you are equally likely to measure either one. Once you measure it once, though, and get either up or down, if you immediately measure again, you'll get the same result. That's the hastily abused "collapsing the wave function." If you consider the wave function of the particle with regard to its spin states to be representative of a probability distribution of measuring either state, once you measure it, the state you measured has probability one and the rest have probability 0. The new wave function is just a delta, and has been collapsed.

Now to get on with answering your question-- you've not only collapsed this particle's wave function; you've collapsed the other one's too.Instantly. So, you know what the other guy taking measurements on his will measure. What you have no control over is the information content itself. You can't spin your particle so the other one spins in the opposite way. It just doesn't work that way. Information propagation in relativity comes with a caveat-- causal information travels no faster than the speed of light. Non causal information can travel as fast as it likes. It's not spooky action at a distance because it's not really action. Nothing's different in the tangible world as a result of it, which is why you can't use it to send bits. If you're really interested, I recommend Griffiths' Intro to Quantum Mechanics. It was used in all of my related courses, and the author has a way with the inexplicable.
We can't compress video of that magnitude!
Screen has a hell of a learning curve.

If you're a beginner to screen, consider byobu. It's a user-friendly wrapper around screen with intelligent defaults and a discoverable menu-based configuration system. It's also very pretty :)

Screenshots: http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/11/enhancing-terminals-with...

Project: https://launchpad.net/byobu
I find "Don't reinvent the wheel" to be a terrible idiom. Think about the wheel for a moment. Is the wheel on your bike the same as the wheel on your car, or on a train, or an an airplane? Of course they're all different! The wheel has been reinvented thousands of times, and we're better off for it!

Yes, it can be worthwhile to borrow successful concepts from other disciplines. But in many cases, the concrete implementation NEEDS to be reinvented in order to apply the abstract concept to a new purpose.
Noooo, he's saying that solving the finer points of free-speech issues with an uncritical and literal interpretation of the first amendment is absolutist.

More specifically, corporate personhood didn't exist at the time of the writing of the first amendment. It's somewhat disingenuous to take the lack of qualification in the first amendment as canonical on the matter. It's (arguably) absolutist because it's appealing to the exact wording out of context, when the current import of that wording is a historical accident. A non-absolutist viewpoint needs to acknowledge historical, legal, or social context.
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Sadly, corruption doesn't even need to enter into these issues. The Australian Government can stay well within the law and still manage to screw our Internet nicely.
"I don't confuse citizenship with legal person at all."

OK, but your scenario requires that confusion.

The people in the article are engaging in a stunt. They don't expect or intend to win, and they probably won't spend much or long on the campaign.
Can you name a recent published work wherein the subject is page numbering?
In CoffeeScript, it's a few lines less:

has_methods: (obj, meth_names) ->
name for name in meth_names when obj[name] and obj[name].call
It's possible to feed 50billion. It's just a question of cost.

Consider a skyscraper with a farm on each level (vertical farming). The vFarm is located right next to a nuclear plant that desalinates seawater for irrigation. Your flour will be $10/lb but it's possible.
Australia uses preferential voting for pretty much all elections. "How to vote" cards are handed out at all polling booths by the parties contesting the election. These how to vote cards indicate how to allocate your preferences to the maximum benefit of the party of your allegiance. About 80% of voters mark their votes per the cards.

This means that a party on the left will allocate it's first few preferences to other parties on the left and a party on the right will allocate it's first few preferences to other parties on the right, unless these parties are extremely radical in which case they usually fall to the bottom few preferences.

Senate representation is proportional so that in a simplified election of 5 seats 20% of the vote wins a seat. Proportional representation combined with preferential voting leads to outcomes where fringe senators are elected with less than 2% of the primary vote.

Australia is an effective two party state where elections are generally won by low margins. Control of each house, particularly the senate, often depends on pandering to the whims of fringe parties who hold the balance of power. This, combined with attempts to frame policy so as to draw fringe voters back to the two major parties, results in government policy which seems out of place in a modern democratic socialist nation.

This is one such policy.

Edit: It's worth mentioning that at present both sides of federal politics are chasing the so called "values voters" and are involved in a pissing match to prove who is the most Christian conservative.
Shame. I would have bought a real one. If PG doesn't need the money he can donate it to a ${good cause her cares about}.
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Those are just the "english-y" DSLs. Not all are attempting to read like english. And even for those that are, the point isn't to be writing in english, the point is to be at least halfway readable to a non-programmer reading over your shoulder.
seems to only work in webkit nightly build
Italy is strong in fashion and has a big market for motorcycles and mobile phones. That's it.
I guess I would be concerned about compiling to JS because you're adding another layer of abstraction on an already fussy language (when being interpreted by the browser). It's hard enough to find bugs as it is.

On the other hand, mechanically generating the code you've abstracted away will make sure you only get the same bugs every time. ;)
I'll give it a shot thanks! edit; thanks it works!
What about frequent diner cards? Every 10th meal gets one free? I've seen this at quite a few places, and it seems to be exactly the opposite of what you're saying.
The campaign video makes it pretty clear that this is satire; I find it a bit disturbing that people seem to be taking it seriously.

... on the other hand, if it isn't satire, I am extremely scared.
It's easy... rather than the Ctrl+A key sequence that you use in screen, use Ctrl+B in tmux. And to reattach, rather than screen -r, tmux attach does the trick. That's 90% of the usability difference.
"he's saying that solving the finer points of free-speech issues..."

Which of course requires that one consider this question a "finer point", or that the wording is "out of context". The Internet didn't exist at the time, either, but that doesn't mean free speech doesn't apply to it - or that there's a controversy we should teach on that question. That some people want to restrict speech in any given way does not mean free speech should be up for grabs in any given context.

The general constitutional-law take on civil liberties is that they come before other legal concerns unless one can demonstrate a serious and clear factor that outweighs them. To argue against the civil liberty interest without demonstrating that outweighing factor is far more ridiculous than to stand pat by the civil liberty interest.

That said, I'm not continuing this thread of argument.
It's actually the same length in Python. Just take out the extra line breaks from the gist:

def hasmethods(obj, *meth_names):
return all(hasattr(getattr(obj, m, None), '__call__') for m in meth_names)
Is the "group of humans" a democratic organization, a dictatorship or an oligarchy? Most companies are dictatorships with an oligarch of shareholders. It is really helping democracy to allow a multi-national with majority overseas shareholders to influence USA elections?
More replies like this one, please!
ASKHN: Figures on data usage through Internet protocols?
Given this list of protocols used by the internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_network_protocols#Layer_7_protocols_.28Application_Layer.29
does anyone know any way of getting information on the amount of data (or any other usage measurements) for various ones?
You're right.

Police corruption was rife in New South Wales which resulted in the Wood Royal Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_the_New_S... and also in Queensland see the Fitzgerald Inquiry etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen#Fitzgerald_...

Current government policy is generally not the result of corruption.
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1. Most of those large donors are groups with earnings directly tied to government decisions.
2. Those unions represent an entire class of workers nationwide, while a corporation represents a subset of the market; the contributions of all corporations in an industry combined represent a more relevant number.
None. Even with Java's typesystem you can know whether the thing or things you have in your hand implements some interface or not ("callable" in this case) at compile time. You can't ask this question because you can't not already know the answer.

I'm not speaking to whether dynamic/duck typing is good or bad here, just pointing out that the question is flawed.
[Disclaimer: I don't read Python, but I think the question here is "Which methods from this list does this object implement?" If I'm wrong please correct me.]

My gut check was this should take about eight lines, plus imports and the class boilerplate. Let's try:

http://www.pastie.org/808727

Yep, eight.

[Edit: It occurs to me the Python code might answer "Does this implement all specified methods?" That also takes eight lines in Java. I've appended the implementation above.]
ASk HN the case for going all OpenID Vs. local accounts Vs. Both
We are implementing a user system and wanted to base it entirely off OpenID. We will store some account details, but use OpenID for all authentication and such. We were curious how much pushback we will get from people that don't have OpenID or like have separate accounts for various things. Who want to sign up and make a password on our system. Should we allow both? Anyone with experience with either case?
clearly you need to come to more HN-Chicago meetups ;)

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago
"I think corporate personhood is one of the most egregious mistakes ever committed by humanity"

I think you need to look more deeply into the history of human mistakes.

I'm not sure how to further answer you and similarly-concerned people in the larger sense, though. Of all the legal and political problems in the US, I consider the issue of corporate personhood to be deeply trivial, and I'm dismayed and angered that people would restrict the free speech of actual human beings out of fear of a legal fiction.
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This is 100% correct IMO. astrec also lays out a good explanation for why this situation comes about (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099573)

It may also be worth noting that since the last change of leadership the Liberals[1] went through, we now have an opposition leader who is Roman Catholic (his nick name: "The Mad Monk") and a Prime Minister who is Anglican. This despite a statistic I heard the other day claiming that 9% of Australians actually attend a church on a weekly basis. Fortunately Australian politicians - even the religious ones - tend to retain a greater degree of practicality when it comes to combining religion and politics; compared to what I see from the US. But the fact that we have two guys who are openly religious at the helm has got to factor in somewhere.

I might also point out the relatively recent appearance of such groups as the Australian Sex Party, whose establishment seems to have been a reaction to the apparent ascendancy of this ultra social conservatism that we're seeing right now in Australian politics. Google the obvious keywords if you're interested. From memory, the home page of the Australian Sex Party is marginally NSFW.

[1] Our further right-wing party is known as the Liberal Party... I'm pretty sure this was done solely to confuse Americans. :P
An online TOS is not worth anything unless you can prove to a judge that the user did indeed read and agree to that exact version of the TOS.

For example, a user can edit the html, print it out, and claim that was what he agreed to when he signed up.

Or, after getting involved with a user legally, the website can alter the TOS on their site to better their own position.

Even if you register with a 3rd party (we get the police to date and verify with a signed document everytime we change ours by making them visit our website and printing off the TOS) - however that still is suspect to tampering.

The best way is to make the user print, sign and return the TOS.
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My brain jumps straight to a javascript port of clojure. Potentially one with a websockets bridge between some of the concurrency primitives. Set a future on the server from the browser, use the promise to update an agent on the server again, that kind of thing.

The implementation would be nine kinds of hell but it would make for a fascinating development environment.
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It'd be interesting to see this profiled against the canonical implementation. I wouldn't be surprised if a v8-as-target Arc outperformed one targeting MZScheme, not to mention if the the coming server-side JS wave really materializes this would give Arc access to stuff emerging there, much like Clojure lives in the Java world.
The snippet is imprecise. it should be something like

def hasmethod(obj, meth_name):
"""If it calls like a method it's a method."""

return callable(getattr(obj, meth_name)) if hasattr(obj, meth_name) else False
congrats guys!
I think it depends on a number of things, among them being:

• is your target audience geeky? (that is, will the people coming to your site already know what OpenID is, or will you have to educate them on it?)

• how in-demand do you anticipate your service being? (that is, do you think it'll be so compelling that people will overcome the hurdle of having to sign up for an OpenID / figure out which of their OpenID providers to use?)

• are there other services in the same vein that use OpenID? (that is, is there precedent?)

• is there an alternate form of ID (Twitter? Facebook?) that would make more sense for your anticipated userbase?
Because when any YC startup (or anyone who has an audience with pg) asks him about AcmeVC, he'll tell them to stay away.

Paul is pretty connected, and the community isn't that big.
I believe the question is asking 'if you have an object of unknown type, how do you introspect it to find out if it supports a method with name meth_name'. the test for callability is to determine of the objects member is callable, not if the object itself is callable.

Java's reflection system exists to answer this question. I'm not a Java guru though, so i couldnt forumlate the equivalent code
In newer versions of Ruby you can do proc.(arg1, arg2), which I think is a decent compromise.
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class ObjectUtil {
static boolean hasMethod(Object obj, String... methodNames) {
for(String methodName : methodNames)
if(!hasMethod(obj, methodName))
return false;
return true;
}

static boolean hasMethod(Object obj, String methodName) {
for(Method method : obj.getClass().getMethods())
if(method.getName().equals(methodName))
return true;
return false;
}
}
Using attributes to map url path handlers is VERY cool.
It is true that my answer elides over some things, but the underlying point is that there isn't a real comparison available between languages because in Java you should pretty much never need this. Yes, technically you could work yourself into a position where you might need that question answered and have to go through the reflection, but that is truly a last resort, whereas in Python it's sort of the first.

(I say "sort of" because even in Python this is a weird thing; the traditional answer to the question "can I call this as a function" is to simply try it and catch the exception if it fails.)
Okay, but it's not really all that clear that "sum.should == 3" is actually any more readable than "assert(sum == 3)". (Do you really have non-programmers reading code over your shoulder? I can't think of any case in a 10+ year career where that's happened.)
You can take out another couple if you did a sensible thing like taking a Set<String> as input for method names and returned a Set<String>

But like the other poster said, you're very unlikely to be doing this in Java, making the whole thing take 0 lines and 129.4 fewer insufferable smugness units.
Wow, I actually never knew that it was [index, length]. I usually just pass a range as the key when I'm doing stuff like that, so you can do "hello"[2..3] (2 <= i <= 3) or "hello"[2...3] (2 <= i < 3).
This seems overly harsh. Personal attacks aside, Mixergy does garner a fair amount of respect around here, mostly because the interviews are with actual startup founders who've often built products themselves, both successful and not. I'm actually really impressed with what Andrew Warner's been able to accomplish in so little time.