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Start by building it around a rock solid, beautifull GUI toolkit. :) maybe the rest will come naturally.
You misunderstand copyright law. I can use Burning Man as much as I want as long as I don't use the name to make money.
With RVM you can change the rubygems version for an installed ruby interpreter. Is something like these possible with rbenv too? i use rubygems -v 1.3.6 for ruby-1.8.7 and rubygems -v 1.8.6 for ruby-1.9.2. I remember i had problems using rubygems 1.8.6 with ruby-1.8.7
They should have an optional curation step whereby the recipients choose their 15 (or more; upsell time!) themselves.
From the article:
"In addition, numerous BART police officers and other BART personnel were present during the planned protest, and train intercoms and white courtesy telephones remained available for customers seeking assistance or reporting suspicious activity."

So, to answer your question, BART police would have detained him, or someone would have used one of those phones to call for help.

Regarding your first question, what are you implying was their motive for doing this, if not for safety?
NASA is all about space, right? No? What then?
Serious flaw in Mortgage Calculations for Refinance
Yeah, let's not do this again any time soon...
Doesn't quite belong on Hacker News, but still hilarious.
For the love of god, never ever let your private keys leave the devices they were generated on. That defeats more or less one of the key features with key-based authentication, you cannot easily remove access to a lost key.
Same story. My greatest passions had been sore areas of chronic evasion and it frustrated me immensely. Amphetamine changed my life.
again, usually cell towers are lease-based and not rented, and the company is in charge of their own electrical power for the tower. The power comes from the street and they have a meter. That being said, maybe BART is different.
How would Apple know about a new iOS device or Mac signing into your iTunes Store account? It learns of the device the first time you successfully login on the device. Besides doing some sort of pre-registration or requiring an iTunes Store ID to simply buy the device there's no easy way around that. They'd also have to end all used/third party sales of Apple products or require resellers to activate every iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone and Mac they're sold. It's completely unrealistic to do a default deny on new devices.
Congrats guys! Berkeley I School & CS FTW :)
There is no "the public". There are people with rights going places, which may be publicly or privately owned.
A logarithmic graph is the right way to graph money? Why is that?
>Regarding your first question, what are you implying was their motive for doing this, if not for safety?

Disrupting protest would be an obvious motivation. The less effective the protest, the less bad press for the transit authority.
Developing your marketing may help you make the impression (stake your claim) that you are that service- the others just echo your operation. But if someone doesn't know to think of you first when they need your service, you're easily usurped. Making a strong impression to your market matters as much as tour technology sometimes.

Best of luck...
The moment before your code looks like this, you use Sass.
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One success measure for academics is how long their ideas survive their passing. (As the Physicists perversely say, "The revolutions don't wait for the old professors to retire, they wait for them to die.") It's a testament to the deepness of EWD's ideas that they are still relevant in the field despite all that's changed.
The posting generally complies with the OP's request for a lack of hyperbole.

The OP indicated that if the hyperbole were removed, he/she would potentially be interested in finding a new job!
Yeah, a mutex to protect refcounts? That's ridiculous. (If you want low-overhead locks, David Bacon's thin locks (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/thinlocks-publicati...) is a good place to start.)

I also question the logical premise offered here that data structures must be thread-safe. It's not something guaranteed by most languages (eg. Java), so why should Python guarantee it?
How many articles can people write as spin-offs of this same theme? I'm just getting a little tired of the countless "Android vs iOS", "Android vs iOS" market share articles out there. Maybe it's just a slow news day and they have to find 1000 words about something for their article...
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Rich people toying with the emotions of the proletariat? I am truly shocked that such a thing happens in America!
>And bitcoin's exchange rates are fluctuating pretty rapidly

Not that rapidly. When pricing in Bitcoin most buyers are okay with prices being based on recent pricing. Add a bit of padding to your Bitcoin price to allow for normal fluctuations and you're fine.

>What happens when you have $5,000 in bitcoins, and the bithurf.com goes down and suddenly you only have $500 in bitcoins?

You wait a couple of days for the value to go back up (at least that's how it played out when Mt. Gox crashed). Significant non-short-term pricing movements in Bitcoin land don't happen overnight.
Mini turbines are going to be expensive. High rpm turbines have to be pretty damn close to perfect not to fly apart. Not only that, they are very noisy. I hope they can engineer their way out of the hurdles they are going to come across.

If they can put these in cars, maybe they can be put in homes too.
I hope that your workers aren't solving CAPTCHAs for hire, but that's probably a vain hope.
One problem I find with these tracking applications, at least for the average users, you actually have to remember that: (1) you have one installed and (2) your credentials.

It's kind of a problem, if you have all your other data stored using something like 1Password.

I know for sure I have a tracker installed on my laptop, but since it's running in "stealth" mode, I have no clue what it is or where to find it. I guess I am not hacky enough.
The OP is interested in a lack of hyperbole in the sponsored YC.news links. This is the comment section of hackernews, not the sponsored link section.
I setup SaaSaholics.com a month or so ago, got it seeded with a bunch of content, but never got around to getting it posted here to get some users. Everything is ready to go, I really strongly believe a SaaS forum could be a useful thing for us to all collaborate at.

I'll host the site for free with no ads for the indefinite future in the interest of getting it going. I think a submission here would potentially get it rolling, but it ultimately is in that awkward "who talks first" mode...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Filed To Patent Airbags For Smartphones
I hope they followed this up with a QR code which decodes to a treatise on the rise of infographics.
You're equivocating. If it is a social experiment, then it is not a good will fund. It cannot be both. Social experiments (like, say, Chain World: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/15/the-cult-of-minec...) are morally neutral; good will funds have an expectation of moral imperative by those involved. It's the difference between, say, a PvP and PvE server—both allow you to play a game, but what in one is called "bad behavior" is in the other called "emergent gameplay."
The police aren't going to report to you every step of the way, (why would they?), but that does not mean you can't find that info out. You could even talk to the police officers involved, they would be happy to tell you, if they know.
I don't own a company. This is from the perspective of a programmer.
Pandora for snacks: awesome tagline and concept. This would make a great gift for kids (of all ages).

One suggestion: change the look of your site. Add pictures of candies. Make my eyes burn from the hot neon colors. Turn up the fun dial on the design!
I think you should focus on the relationship with your founder. Finding people you can work with is rare. It's actually very difficult.

Have a honest face to face talk with your cofounder. Have you read "crucial conversations"? It's $10 on amazon. Download it and read it. Then sit and talk with your founder. The book will help you communicate in a way that doesn't screw up your relationship. He might be feeling the same way.

The book is paramount though. It really does make difficult conversations easier on both parties even if only one as read the book!
The logo makes me nostalgic for my days as a BeOS user:

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/34752/128/beos_people_...

UPDATE: If I remember correctly, the original BeOS icons were all 32x32 pixel art. I didn't find the original in my first quick Google search, but I found the above link instead which appears to be from an open-source stock icon set based on a vectorized version of the BeOS artwork. It also happens to match the image used on the MobileWorks site.
Here are some of the original icons from BeOS: http://dsandler.org/entries/images/2007/beman.png and http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/feb00/images/beos_1.l.gif

I didn't mean to imply that MobileWorks was copying anyone (or for my off-hand comment to get voted to the top of their launch announcement discussion). Their web site may be a licensed use of this stock art, which itself is an inexact copy/interpretation of the BeOS art.
Isn't it fitting that the comments on a post that's just about plugging the poster's own startup are all just about plugging the commenter's own startup.
Every Python object has a backing dictionary, so if any object has to be shared between threads in a threadsafe fashion, then dictionaries need to be threadsafe.
love the comments about memory usage. it's the low memory usage that allows us to run on mobile devices.
I dunno. As an experiment I set my default search to duckduckgo about 3 weeks ago and I'd say I end up running about 30-40% of my searches a second time with the "!g" command to forward to Google instead.
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It’s bizarre, but I’ve had this experience as well. Last October, I started raising the price of my app by $1 every week or two. The total number of purchases per week varied very little, so I ended up leaving the price at $9.99 (the highest I tried).
"So much work is being lost that the researchers recommend employers consider screening staff for ADHD and providing treatment for those affected, because it would be more cost-effective for their businesses."

It would be cost-effective to match people to the kind of work for which they are best suited.

I used to be in management, and one of the things I learned was how to reward or punish people. And the funny thing was that what was a rewards for one person was punishment for another.

For example, doing inventory on all the first-aid kits in a building. There are some types who love this. They get great satisfaction form the easy predictability and sure measure of success. Others hate it, find it mind-numbing (that would be me). That first person, if you give them a task with loosely-defined goals and a subject measurement of success, get antsy and tense.
BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service
That is one of the issues with Mechanical Turk. In fact up to 40% of the tasks hosted at turk are spam tasks. Our goal is to be entirely spam free. We train our workers to report all tasks that ask for email addresses, creation of accounts or tasks that look similar to CAPTCHAs.
In the UK pop-up restaurants are usually run by regular people and not professionals:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_dri...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/26/pop-up-re...
The G+ link just lifts out some choice paragraphs. It links to the full article at the end. For your convenience: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/07...
"Do you have a source that supports you claim that CS has some of the best funding in academics and the most students? That doesn't seem likely to me."

When I was a Big Ten prof, looked that way to me. From MIT, about all I hear about is the CS. Then some AI. Then some control theory. Then some optimization. For the math, is the department still there?

When I was in grad school, the CS and EE departments were big deals, with lots of students and profs, and the math department hardly had the lights on.

For students, the CS departments get lots that just want to learn programming to get jobs; the math departments nearly never get any such students.

Physics tries to do math, but how badly they do it, and how they insist that students work effectively with physics with really bad math, is a solid part of the 'culture'. E.g., there is the Feynman statement about a particle uniformly distributed everywhere; sorry, Dick, no such can exist! There is also the joke, not far wrong, that in an appropriate math book, can do all the physics just in the footnotes. Net, nearly all the challenge of mathematical or theoretical physics is in the math, just the math. For such math, the math departments are way ahead; they hold all the big cards but refuse to play them!

Your statement about logic and discrete math meaning that math should be part of computer science is like saying that painting in fine arts should be part of chemistry. Yes, math can be regarded as the 'logic' of just pushing symbols around, and maybe eventually more of such research will be automated via computers, but so far the symbol pushing doesn't have the real work. Or the joke is, the difference between algebra and analysis is that algebra is just pushing symbols around and analysis has some real ideas behind it. It's the ideas that are important.
Right. I think that backing dictionary could probably be replaced with a more thread-friendly implementation, even if we have to offer reduced guarantees.
One of the founders here.

We do a number of things to maintain quality. We do managed crowdsourcing, which means we provide support to our crowd. They can ask us when they do not understand a particular task. Also, our crowd is loosely forming a community both online and IRL. So, people help each other.

On top of that we have developed algorithms that check the crowd's answer against each other. Our algorithms also make sure that the right task is routed to the right person.

We also believe in paying our workers fairly. Happy, more productive workers leads to better quality work.
Or every Python object's backing dictionary needs to use the special threadsafe implementation.
>>"We saw people who were clearly ready to take action, with backpacks and tools. It was a recipe for disaster."

I'm not sure what he means by tools, but backpacks seems like a pretty common site on any mass transit line I've seen.
? Who mentioned "images of smoke-filled rooms secretly steering our lives"

Again, who?

How is this relevant to the article above? Did you read O'Reilly's article?

It would be really cool if folks read the article before commenting. Sehr kool.
But I thought everybody giving according to their ability, and taking according to their need would work out just great?
How did Facebook make it to now without this controversy- or did they?
Claiming it's for safety is what we in the business call "bullshit".
What does http://krasin.github.com/naclwtf/ say?
Never seen this one before though I did play around with Haiku at one point. I will let our co-founder and Chief Design Officer know.
>Someone who can down a can of Coke and a box of Mentos and then go on to devour a four-course meal of web-scale challenges the likes of which no other startup has ever faced.

what happened to the 6pack of beer and a pack of filterless Camel? Sounds like technology has profoundly changed.
Obviously I mean a remotely activated keylogger - the computer goes online and checks a website to see if it should start the keylogging
And from reading the comments here, I think people don't realize that the reason Google is insisting on real names is so they can be a central identity management and login service which Facebook is trying to do now.
You can't get married to the stack. When you've been to the rodeo a couple of times and you work with an experienced team, flaws in technologies (Ruby) will become apparent from the start and your requirements will force you to fall back on what's tried and true. Unfortunately, sexy things are often pushed aside in favor of conventions and you have to have a common sense approach towards providing a solution that solves the myriad of problems you're facing.

Locking yourself into a technology choice is a hard decision to make, but if you're living the dream and need to attract a certain kind of person to make that possible and it makes financial sense in the short term, which is what you're probably after, then you have to go with it. Rails and Node.js are a perfect fit for a low-level technology service provider, but beyond that they lack mainstream credibility and when you're dealing with recruitment issues, which hopefully you will, it's always easier to hire someone who has versatility over a guy who just does one thing.

Good luck and I hope to checking out your work some time soon.
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Awesome, sounds like you automated and crowd-sourced quality control. Will definitely check it out.
You forgot the part where you ensure that the ssh-key for user@myserver.com can only be used for this particular reverse-tunnel and not to, say, login to myserver.com...
This being London and with their libel laws the author could indeed be setting himself up for trouble.
Server-side javascript injection? There's no such thing. Node doesn't work like that. It doesn't accept and execute javascript over HTTP at all.

Same concerns as any web stack: CSFR, DB injection, leaving sensitive data/files exposed over the web, allowing remote DB connections, etc.
But we're building a Facebook for bartenders and hairdressers as soon as Dispora releases something that works and we can theme it with ads. It's not the Moon landing, but how is that not newsworthy?
Because you almost always care about proportional changes not absolute changes. If you buy at stock a $1 and it goes to $10, you have made a ton of money. But if I then buy in at $10 and it goes to $20, I have merely doubled my investment. Logarithmic graphs convey this clearly. Linear graphs make our returns look too similar.

It is very common for inflammatory articles to use absolute numbers that (intentionally or not) ignore inflation, changes in GDP, etc... because it is both simpler to explain and more effective for inciting outrage.
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One very glaring example of this phenomenon is how entrenched power (mostly those getting rich from prisons, law enforcement, alcohol and tobacco, etc.) have managed to create drug laws so at odds with the free market forces that the entire country of Mexico is profoundly unstable... and it may come crashing down.
I tried using BeOS back in the day, but it was a BeOtch to get the drivers working.

Linux in it's many flavours ended up being enough to scratch my geek itch.
I guess it is just hard for some people to not force their particular values on other people
Well, there are also companies that use full on market based systems internally. For example Alcoa has an 'internal market structure' for sourcing materials, and shuttering inefficient subsidaries if they cannot compete on price internally.
The concentrated wealth that influenced the housing bubble came from a variety of places:

- the building trade (obvious)

- the defense industry (less obvious... in order to "sell" an expensive war, the masses have to feel rich, thus there was pressure on the Fed to let the housing market heat up, and on the SEC to ignore Fannie and Freddie so that Joe Homeowner felt rich enough not to worry too much about extremely high gas prices. There was virtually no talk about the actual cost of the war (short or long term) other than deliberately misleading statements by the leaders trying to sell the war.

- financial services industry (heat in the housing market improves consumer credit ratings and ends up giving free money to banks (b/c the homeowner whose house appreciated now has A+ credit and lots of collateral... and the boom created lots of such homeowners)... all the while the losses are socialized b/c the government will try to prevent large scale housing market price declines.)
Unfortunately, this is the beauty and the beast of a capitalistic economy. One the one hand, you have incredible opportunity to achieve success. While on the other, you end up with a concentration of wealth and power to a small group of individuals or corporations.
Very cool. Had definitely been wondering about how possible this was or wasn’t, but too lazy/busy to read up on the standard and give it a go. My hat is off to everyone involved in these bits ’o trickery!
This is tricky because dictionaries need to call __hash__ which can run arbitrary Python code, so it's non-trivial to make the dictionary threadsafe.
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Unless the returns are sold as used/refurbished
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Well, nobody is talking about "business versus government", so please don't just cherry-pick or take parts of these comments out of context. We're talking about key concepts in Political Economy (PE) and I'm clearing saying that I disagree that Central Planning takes place in the way the author implies. The author tells us that the widening income gap is leading to ... central planning. And I say that's totally not true, it's a false causality. A terrible income gap exists, but Central Planning = Government decides and industry follows, like in China. Our system is the opposite, with industry deciding and government getting out of the way. That's Corporatism, not Central Planning. I'm saying that Corporatism creates the income gap, so Central Planning, if it exists, has nothing to do with it. Here's another way to say it: a circular block will fit into a much larger square hole, but that doesn't make it a square ;)
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__eq__ as well
Google would have created DoubleClick+
Yes, threads are pains in the ass, but many people appear to enjoy them nonetheless. That's pretty much the entire reason that languages have threading support.
Read what happened last time there was a protest by this group:
http://sfist.com/2011/07/12/bart_protesters_chant_vandalize_...

This is not your typical peaceful protest - BART was probably more concerned about preventing trains from being blocked, vandalism, and safety. And about safety - in this case, it's not some euphemism for control. These are train stations where people stand on a platform inches away from trains going at high speed. A rowdy crowd in a space like that is definitely a threat to safety.

I think of it BART taking away one of its amenities in order to maintain its core services and responsibility to safety than a draconian abuse of force. It's like a coffee shop that turns off its wifi because of abuse. Cell 'towers' placed in BART tunnels and stations are provided for the convenience of customers (as previously pointed out, not for safety).

For what it's worth, I ride the BART twice a day, every week day. I would choose train service over underground cell service any day.