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" if colorful language is the price I have to pay for their contributions to society, that value proposition is still a no brainer."

Except that you're not paying any price at all. It's the Thunderbird community paying that price and there is no reason for them to do so. If your list of his accomplishments included making Thunderbird a great piece of software, we might be having a slightly different conversation. Also, kicking him out of Mozilla's bug system very likely has zero impact on your emacs and core GNU software.

IMO, being a hero on one project does not give you the right to be a bully on another.
I definitely understand that, but I think that's only one use case. The case I am most familiar with is mine. I moved to Canada 4 years ago, right at the beginning of high school, and right at the beginning of FB going big mainstream. This meant that I met a lot of people since then, and since it was the period when FB was getting big, I would just friend people on Facebook. Before FB chat came out, if I needed to chat with them afterwards, I would get their email from their profile, or if it wasn't listed I'd ask around. When Chat came out, I stopped doing that and I would just chat with the people I didn't have on MSN/Gtalk on FB. I'm sure there's tons of people in the same/similar situation that I had.
I should have added /sarcasm to the end of my last reply.
The submission title is the same as the title of the original Salon article. Or maybe I'm not picking up on undertone of sarcasm.
It was not simply two bug reports a year apart. There were many more reports and multiple warnings given. I highlighted some of the most egregious but it's not an exhaustive list.
I like it but shouldn't it do similarity instead of producing a unique bot? For example, "similar" strings should produce similar bots.
'Old people'? You mean citizens who paid taxes to finance social security and medicare for previous generations of retirees? Scandalous - how dare they.
What if instead of a stick – no reeslection for you! – we used a carrot? What if the sitting lawmakers who voted for a balanced budget eventually get a giant financial bonus? (To minimize monkeybusiness, we could require it to have been balanced in retrospect, say via assessment 2-10 years later.)

People – even Congresspeople! – respond to incentives.

Let's assume that the goal – the fiscal stability of a balanced budget – would be a noticeable boost to our $14-trillion-plus economy. Then the incentive could be quite huge – perhaps a million dollars per congressperson per year in balance – and still pay for itself, many times over.

Other interests are making millions per year from the legislative 'generosity' that results in a perpetually out-of-balance budget. Why not pay directly for the alternative result we prefer?
Thanks sgrove. It's probably because we're all engineers and only now starting to understand that focusing on building a great product is not enough. You have to learn how to make it known to the world :)
This is where the final spec apparently lives, but seems to be down now: http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html
I've been looking forward to this since I saw the awesome insight a couple of days ago, and you guys totally delivered! I love the twitter dashboard too!

Great designer(s) you have on your team, please keep analyzing :)
Saw you guys when I was in Singapore. I think this could be pretty cool, it's definitely very pretty already.
This is an excellent article, and fascinating to read. However, 5/6 of the way down the page, a blue share bar appears on top that I cannot click out of. It is quite annoying.
The Italian government should worry about throwing Berlusconi in prison before they worry about Anonymous.
I wonder if future forms of government will even require congressmen to vote on legislation on our behalf, since the Internet would make it feasible for citizens to represent themselves.
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Doable now with OStatus, is it not?
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I agree, it's pretty amazing just how far above their weight the entertainment industry punches in that respect.
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Thanks! We'll be on the lookout for the next big social media event - ready to crunch the data. Appreciate the comment!
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RE: Working harder is not correlated to more money

But what about working smarter? Sure, such a thing is harder to measure, but it's pretty much the only gauge when you're talking about meritocracy. Working harder, not smarter, is the make-work bias.
I guess I'm stating the obvious here, but showing the world that you "don't tolerate censorship" by taking down a public website is a just a wee bit silly.
No, the size of the House is fixed at 435 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929).

The apportionment of the seats to the various states is based on population, but the overall size is not.
Great feel good story, hard not to see a ton of potential in the 1st world market too though. Imagine a comprehensive self-diagnosis app?
OK, where are the answers?
Life carries risk. Sooner or later you're going to die. But if you spend your entire life trying to avoid any possibility of death, not only will you die, but you will die never having lived.

Toronto is an enormous city. Even incredibly rare risks will show up on the evening news there once a month. Don't organize your life around the bullshit that shows up on the news. If you want to reduce risks, start with some statistics.
In Germany 2/3 in words TWO THIRDS of the kids are not German, I don't there is a need to offer anything ..
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Hope they've considered the fact that the sample will need to be cleaned off.
I can't believe I didn't see this coming. It's so obvious in retrospect.
Fair enough if they're doing that. My point isn't so much about who is storing the shared secret, but that someone else must be storing the shared secret. This is a fundamental issue with any shared secret -based cryptosystem.
The study from 2009 is indeed a publication from 2009. When I trace it to yet another web site, I find that the citation for the US figure is from a study of 1998. But it mentions "social construction", so I guess it's scholarly.
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Next, the application’s user simply has to know the difference between a healthy blood sample and one infected with malaria

So...it's a microscope lens for a smartphone? Isn't that something already developed? What about this app "detects malaria"?
Obama's answers? They were way too long to include in an infographic, but you can watch them at http://askobama.twitter.com
"It could be done in 1 line of C when he left out the line-breaks."
Yeah, exactly. It's incredibly silly when people "count" lines of code like this. If you want to talk about lines of code in any kind of practical way, the code you're referring to really needs to be at least somewhat sanely formatted according to the conventions of whatever language you're in. Otherwise, any given sample of code can be in {1,2,3,...,# of characters in program} lines of code. You should just count characters (which is the more appropriate thing to do when you're trying to write a compressed program anyway). A metric of lines of code = ceil(characters/80) is weird because a) it's relatively arbitrary (in that it has nothing to do with languages but with the conventions of terminals), and b) it goes against the more common understanding of "lines of code".

/rant

I think compressed (edit: golfed - new word of the day :) code in general is pretty cool, though.
It is actually spelled Buffett.
The fact that it's a smartphone, or that it's running Windows 7, or that it was developed in Silverlight doesn't seem to have anything to do with the fact that we're looking at a glorified microscope.

Surely there's a cheaper way to get a microscopic image of a blood sample in Africa than flooding villages with Windows smartphones.
The similarity between http://robohash.org/yes

and http://robohash.org/no

is striking.
Part of the problem is that UTF-8 makes things really, really simple, and bulletproof, and then people have to go and create problems again.

Listen. Any time you use an encoding other than UTF-8, you are creating incompatibilities. If your stated intention is to facilitate communication, you are failing. You are a bad person. Stop doing it. The only possible excuse for using a non-UTF-8 encoding is to frustrate communication.

(It's too fucking bad HTTP mandates that the default charset is ISO-8859-1.)
BTW, this is running on an AWS micro instance (cpu and memory comparable to a cellphone) but it doesn't matter because it's just a static html page using a jsonp API.
I am neither female nor an awesome typist. Actually, I failed to remember the alt-key combination for the é, and then just pasted it in from charmap instead. I wonder why it is that my cellphone had more advanced text input facilities than my desktop. I know there are 3rd party utilities for bringing up special characters if you hold down a key and so on, but you'd think this sort of thing would have been standardized by now.
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That's exactly right. We do have a word cloud at the bottom generated from a transcript of all of his answers, however.
I think it is also unfair to compare working hard between different industries. That is like comparing apples to oranges, surely a harder working software engineer will make more money than a lazy one.
I argued that we can't fight human nature and therefore we should find policies that utilize it for the good of everyone. You argue that we as human beings have to change first before we can accept any such policy.
Of course it will be a little bit of both, but seeing as me or anyone hasn't even defined any such new policy, I find it hard to see how you can oppose it yet with religious or philosophical concerns. It may very well be possible today. In fact, it's highly likely because the strategy behind the policy is based on human nature.
Robohash looks great. As the 'inventor' of Identicon, I've been meaning to revisit the subject with animal (identimal) or robot (identibot) themes in mind so it's nice to see your rendition of the later. Well done, sir.
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No, kd0amg is right. Here's a simple example of a recursive regular grammar:

S → aS | ε

This grammar is right linear (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_grammar).
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between the United States and the Soviet Union to join the dark side of the moon, where an alien spaceship crashed. Bay has its spin any number of times before the camera in any number of outfits happen to drive home this point.
This essentially eliminates the votes of anyone who doesn't care enough. This is bad because it massively empowers the fanatic fringes.
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Maybe I am misreading your argument, but it seems like you are saying the cause of the US deficit problem is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes has gained control of the system. If that were true, and this faction were really just concerned with entitlements, there would be an obvious solution to the deficit: raise taxes. This may be every bit as horrible as you imagine, but it wouldn't involve a debt crisis.

The problem as I see it, is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes and the faction that trades tax breaks for votes are both simultaneously in control. The low taxes people win all the fights about taxes, and the high spending people win all the fights about spending.

The bug in democracy that led to our deficit problem is the lack of anything to prevent us from voting to have our cake and eat it too.
Even so, their trademark in that case was on the windowing system. Not on the UI elements generally called "windows".
Oh, sorry! I often fall victim to the same phenomena -- people don't understand when I'm being sarcastic.
Yeah, but apparently they are busy and will get around to it in a few years
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Regarding your second edit. It doesn't provide end to end encryption, which is what people immediately think of when PGP encryption of email is discussed. End to end encryption is still the best possible option, but it requires both parties to be involved. What it does provide however is the next best thing, for people who receive non-encrypted email.

It protects your mail content even if your IMAP account details are compromised. It protects your mail if the mail server is compromised, and it protects your mail if one of your mail clients is taken.
Since I can't bring my cellphone into work, I'd been considering buying a watch, but couldn't decide what kind. Now I realize it needs to be a Rolex Submariner. Or perhaps a novelty plastic watch shaped like a submarine.
>So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user?

I only used it on a Mac, before I discovered plugins that did Facebook integration for iPhoto (and later, that was baked in). And on OS X, no, it was not slow. I'm assuming it would be equally fast for windows.

Also, its not so much lumping the start up cost to "the OS" so much as "The OS Starting Up". How often do people reboot their machines nowadays? Once every six months? With that in mind, it's a pretty negligible trade off.
Because when they complain about being sexually harassed or uncomfortable with the attention they get by being seen as a pair of tits, men invariably say or imply that they're being unreasonable for being offended, which doesn't solve the problem itself (which is that they're offended)?
Well, given the look of the two slides, it seems like it wouldn't be the most difficult problem in the world to do some image analysis to determine.
The scattering problem is one that confused me, too. At a light-year or several dozen away, there's no way you could find and piece together all the photons that bounced off the moment you're looking for. Am I misunderstanding something?
...and to infrastructure and public services and creation and maintaining of them.
(thats gillion dollars, not g-forces)
Are you saying you should be allowed to use racial slurs because disallowing people to say them doesn't make them less racist?
Only partially. A comprehensive social networking protocol isn't available yet.
Sounds like it would be a pretty good "did I type my password correctly?" indicator.
> Enter Cy Khormaee, a Harvard Business School student, and his team at Lifelens.

I believe you mean "HBS Student Takes Credit for People who Created an App to Detect Malaria".
Since when is a business refusing to provide service (Nimbuzz) "censorship"?
Thanks -- I corrected my post.
Until just now, I always thought this was a silly practice. My line of reasoning was "What difference does a 30ms ping make?" I guess I hadn't thought about it too much though.

Now, after reading a comment elsewhere in this thread, which talks about how a cpu can execute six instructions in the time it takes the light from my monitor to reach my eyes, the data center thing seems a lot more reasonable.
What $random industry doesn't operate by exploiting $random people? It's the same for programmers and rock stars, unless you go the DIY/startup route.
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First, correctly written code can be bad practice. Regexes are a powerful tool, and have appropriate uses. I disagree this is one of those cases, but at -4 on my previous comment, I guess most don't agree. Second, I would bet the majority of programmers are mediocre with regular expresssions at best, and even worse at reading regexes written by other programmers contributing to code maintenance issues.

Finally, I may have been "incorrect" but "disingenuous" is an insult. I'll be charitable and assume you're using the word wrong.
Actually, watching the video now rather than just reading the text, the software does do image analysis to determine whether or not malaria is present.
That's mostly uncorrelated, too, unless you're talking about working the meta-game smarter.

Example: If you are a competent programmer, ranking up your programming skill (or otherwise increasing the quality of one's work product) is one of the least effective things you can do to increase your income in terms of ROI on time.

Let's say you're a fairly typical programmer who makes $80,000 a year working for an insurance company. Your goal is to make $100,000 a year and you are willing to use any legitimate means to get there. Should you attempt to program better, such that your bosses reward your increased productivity every year with a 4% raise instead of a 2% raise? No, that is poor strategy. First, your bosses are likely incapable of measuring the delta between you at present and you after improving skills. Second, you could likely get the same amount of perceived improvement for far less work just by improving your communication/political skills and getting the credit for the work you are already doing. Third, even if you're successful, you're going to spend the next six years of your life working to achieve something you could in about an afternoon: apply for new job, negotiate aggressively on salary.

I don't like sounding mercenary: you can apply this to almost anything else you value. Want to spend more time with your kids? Being a better programmer will probably not get you home any faster at night, or get you more days off. Want to have your job have more impact on the lives of poor immigrants in your community? Process improvements in programming at your insurance agency are not likely to get you there. etc, etc
Flex is used by the GNU System, but it is not GNU. It is incorrect to call it "Gnu's Flex". http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/
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Math is pretty far down the drain now, I don't know if there is a better one but if you are a math enthusiast r/math has gone to the mob.

This is in comparison to a year or so ago where it was a middle ground between http://mathoverflow.net/ and where it is now.
I agree with the sentiment, but nobody is talking about organizing life around not risking death, we are talking about whether to go out of our way to confront people we assume are criminals.
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Yes they do, but Denso allows you to bookmark across a lot more sources and they also allow you to get your bookmarked videos onto any iOS device using a custom podcast.
"white knighting"? This is HN not Fark.

I find a lack of compassion for the difficulties of other people or their exclusion because of dogmatic rules not very helpful to the world. It is quite a lot like the proposed change to the WoW forums to require real names. The "it works for me" brand of design is not a good one.

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Covered adnauseum in the 'iPhone prototype left in a bar' thread. Sorry, I haven't learned to search HN history for articles.

It does seem bizarre, doesn't it? Sometimes petty legal issues are resolved using precedent and it can seem arbitrary, probably because it is.

For instance, its accepted in the US that in a rear-end collision its the car in back that is at fault. In Austria I've been told the car in front is at fault!

Both sides could be argued. But like in baseball with the infield-fly rule, a rule gets made to settle it once and for all, and it is really arbitrary.
That would be an interesting article, but as far as I can tell this thing is nothing but a microscope.

You're going to need a trained human in the loop just to handle the blood and apparatus in a sanitary way.

Humans are inherently better than any app at the image task, so why not just let the human do it?

This looks like a non-solution to me.
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Hi, I have been dealing with the issue of programmer burnout for the last few weeks. The problem is that I cannot just stop working for a week or so.

I think its affecting my productivity on all areas and am looking to make adjustments in my life to help cope with the burnout, at least while there is so much work to do.

Things competing for my time: full time job, part-time work as a co-founder, wife + kid, physical exercise, friends, sanity.
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I'm launching an App soon that People will hopefully pay for. What is the best way to implement an online payment system? Best as in ease of use, reliability and scalability.
Nah, they would like totally never do that! ;)
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I think that's exactly Patrick's point: There is no such casual relationship. Perhaps the harder working engineer will be better disposed to eventually earn more, but if the lazy one has better communication skills and knows how to play the politics, the balance could easily come out in his favour.
Good. Just keep poking those heads up out of the foxhole. That will start working any time now.
Really poor reasoning based largely on "I have no will power".

If you really cannot control your credit card spending then dropping them may be a good thing.

However, if you have some sense then the rewards programs, while increasingly shitty, are better than nothing. I still get about $75 worth of books from Amazon thanks to my rewards (and that after including the annual fee).

Using the card also makes it easier to see where I'm spending my money. My bank gives me a nice report breaking down my card usage; saves me a lot of time and trouble.

Rather than cancel your credit card, spend some time finding one with decent perks and pay it off on time each month so you don't have to think about the interest rate.
You are correct. I should have said "the proportion of Congressional representation is a function of local population densities." I knew that the representative to population ratio had been shrinking, but I didn't know they had since set a fixed limit.
what a cool thing to watch. i got a little teary-eyed, remembering my dreams of being an astronaut as a kid. but a bunch of people gathered around my cube at my new desk job, so it wasn't all a sad experience :)
The bill further limits administrative subpoenas to the US Marshal service that are investigating child pornography cases.

I think the argument people have is that the US Marshal service could abuse this mechanism to blindly issue reams of subpoenas and see what sticks.

The law should protect against that by requiring good cause to obtain the subpoena. Whether or not it does is the sticking point.
That's a snarky statement, but you're right, there was an entire team involved: http://thelifelensproject.com/blog/who
OK, that makes more sense now.
This co.uk issue was just fixed in github and a new version should be on it's way.
This is basically the a C equivalent of a JAPH. A JAPH is a usually short bit of perl code that prints "Just Another Perl Hacker", but it isn't obvious that that's what it does. Trying to figure out how it works without cheating is part of the fun.