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I don't think the Supreme Court wants to reiterate its judgement in even clearer terms. They said even in Benson that they felt Congress should clarify the whole business.

I laid out clearly why I think what I think about Benson, Flook and Diehr in http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2011-07-28 and I have yet to see a similar outlay of the arguments for an opposing view.

If I've neglected a question about standards of review, I apologize. Please repeat it.
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Dumb question though...

There's no such thing as a dumb question, only people too dumb to take every available opportunity to learn. ;-)

In C, "if (foo)" means "if (foo != 0)" if foo has integer type, so that line means "if (rehash(H) != 0)" or (since rehash only returns 0 or -1) equivalently "if (rehash(H) == -1)".
My favourite part is that NULL is now (void *)
It might be best to leave the calculus in the calculus lessons.
Did you notice there's a Facebook Like button?

So Facebook knows when you go to a government site.

I imagine Facebook also knows which petitions you sign, or at least which ones you click on. I say imagine, because although I'm signed in, it still asks me to sign in before I can sign the petition, and signing in while I'm signed in leads to a 404.
I can't take this site seriously, for some reason. Like, I don't want to think about it. I wonder why.
Yes, of course, but there is a general aim and focus among the developers of the three main flavors, that is prevalent in the capacities of said flavors:

NetBSD - portability.
OpenBSD - security.
FreeBSD - performance and usability.

With that said, no, that definitely does not mean that each flavor can't stand out in the other two fields. Heck, I used OpenBSD as my desktop OS for 2 years on and off, so I know very well how capable it is "off field", and looking at the most popular flavor in BSD-powered server parks we see FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD contrary to what logic might try to dictate.
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git submodules can handle the basics of this decently well.

You can include any git-hosted project pretty easily with `git submodule add`

You can easily switch which commit/branch/version of the project you want to have included. So if you want to be using the latest version of Project X + one special bugfix that you made, just fork the project on GitHub and switch your submodule to point at your latest commit.

`git submodule update --init --recursive` to update all the package/submodules in your project at once.
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Her original Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lwtna/family_law_judge_beats_own_daughter_for_using/
Thanks so much Colin, I'm learning a lot today. :)
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Have you seen this paper: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/ ? It touches on many of the same issues.
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At the time the petition was submitted, the threshold was only 5,000.
> surely that gives me as much of a right as anybody to claim to be Anonymous

Now it doesn't.
Really? No Linux SA that I know...and I know a lot...is using iproute2 over ifconfig.
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Phoenix, AZ INTERN REMOTE (US citizens only)

I'm a developer/entrepreneur looking for help from a talented intern in building an online pencil-and-paper-style RPG. I also have a handful of other projects that you may end up working on. US timezones preferred. I'll be laying out the high-level architecture, you'll be working with one other part time entry level developer to fill in the pieces.

Required familiarity or experience:
HTML, JavaScript (mostly jQuery), Java, Strong google-fu, Google AppEngine, Google Web Toolkit, GWT-Platform, Pencil and paper RPGs, specifically Dungeons and Dragons 3.5

Bonus round:
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Compensation:
You'll be a 1099 contractor, paid hourly at $7.25/hr, up to 70 hours per month (read: part time), but possibly less.

Email to jeff@jeffrodriguez.com, mention "Zero One Intern" in the subject:
Resume, Any projects you're involved in, open source or otherwise. Social profile URLs (Github, Stack Overflow, FB, G+, twitter). Any other information you think might be relevant.

Thanks!
So basically it turns json into html?
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If I may ask, what is your credential in? There seems to be quite a mess in regards to how to get in to the field since there doesn't seem to be a computer science credential, and coming in with a math credential will almost certainly get you assigned to teaching math classes and math teachers are always in demand.
I do wonder; he was a multi billionaire personally, and Apple was a multi tens-of-billionaire as a company.

So what was the most causative bottleneck stopping more new products and creations? Clearly not financial limits. Apparently not a lack of ideas. Was it logistical organisation of stuff? Managerial organisation of people? Which was the most constrained resource? Had anyone studied it or tried to optimise it?
I use J/K to browse so much that I sometimes forget it's not built into all websites. "What do you mean I can't hit the letter "O" to open that link??"
As a kid, Star Trek was my concept video.
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It's a typo: iheartquotes.com is up.
It also makes it rather difficult to deny it if accused.
Decent evidence often isn't. Remember those 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq? 4,482 dead American soldiers and counting.

I'm not saying these gangs aren't full of horrible people, and I'm not saying all branches of the US government and military aren't perfectly good intentioned and well-meaning people, but mistakes do get made - which is why we need some judicial oversight here.

We've already got one war on an abstract concept where the president can order the extrajudicial execution of a US citizen based on secret evidence. That's more than enough for me.
When I'm dying (and probably not especially lucid), I don't want to have to cope with the pressure that any set of words could be my last

'Pressure'? Exactly what are you afraid of happening if you screw up your last words??
IMO the most valuable is knowing when to walk away from a side project. Start a side project or hack on an idea you enjoy but when you start becoming stressed by it or realize it's not panning out as you expected, take a breath and kill the project. Harder to do with work projects but still possible. Scope the MVP to somthing that can be "done" and then allow management to iterate and see if this is the direction they want to go in.
I'm uncomfortable with having both 'H' and 'h' in the same function

To be honest, I don't like that either, and normally wouldn't do it. In this case I decided that the benefits of consistency with other code ([H]ash table structure; [h]ash of some data) outweighed the ugly near-collision.

How is someone looking at only this function call supposed to determine if rehash() returns an integer or a pointer?

If it returned a pointer, that line would have been "if ((foo = rehash(H)) == NULL)" -- I don't return pointers which aren't going to be used, and I don't write "if (pointer)". Again, it's a matter of knowing the house style.

I think even better would be to return KV_SUCCESS or KV_FAILURE (defined however you choose) and check explicitly

If it was just a matter of one function, that might be reasonable. But applying that to the entire project I'd have LBS_STORAGE_SUCCESS, LBS_WORKER_SUCCESS, LBS_DISK_SUCCESS, LBS_DISPATCH_SUCCESS, KVLDS_DISPATCH_SUCCESS, KVLDS_SERIALIZE_SUCCESS, BTREE_FIND_SUCCESS, BTREE_MUTATE_SUCCESS, BTREE_SUCCESS, BTREE_CLEANING_SUCCESS, BTREE_NODE_SUCCESS, MUX_DISPATCH_SUCCESS, NETBUF_SUCCESS, PROTO_LBS_SUCCESS, PROTO_KVLDS_SUCCESS, EVENTS_SUCCESS, WIRE_READPACKET_SUCCESS, WIRE_WRITEPACKET_SUCCESS, WIRE_REQUESTQUEUE_SUCCESS, UTIL_SUCCESS, ELASTICQUEUE_SUCCESS, PTRHEAP_SUCCESS, SEQPTRMAP_SUCCESS, and ELASTICARAY_SUCCESS. Plus all the _FAILUREs.

Much simpler to just say "0 is success, -1 is failure" once.
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Or end the futile prohibition on drugs and tax them instead. Worked for alcohol.
How about "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

A Republican constructing some argument based on a God-reference is not that much of a new phenomenon.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8

The company that brought it to me wasn't AT&T.
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Me too. I thought it was going to be a tutorial on using squash/rebase.
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The article is about someone who works a steady non-contract job who signs up for personal side projects and research stuff at work, I'm not sure how you think "increasing your rates" applies in the situation.

(FWIW, if you're a contractor who has more work than they can complete, I absolutely agree with your analysis)
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I disagree. I don't have any data to base this on, but I think it would be easier for a new programmer to learn logic first and then worry about what goes on under the hood. There are plenty of reasons to learn C aside from just to know what goes on at a lower level.
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Google Apps users, is there any way to permanently get rid of that black strip on the bottom right advertising the marketplace and now, the new look?
Yeah, that's not what that rule says. My post is not a story about politics, it's an opinion. I'm not breaking the story, or the rules.

Don't vote it up if you don't like it.
Its not down for maintenance. Its to prevent the system from being taken advantage of by Internet users and put the rest, which is the vast majority at a disadvantage.
My issue with CouchDB is the basic approach. Instead of maintaining indexes, the goal of CoachDB is to pre-cache all search functions with the actual result, for all records. This takes a lot of disk space for certain use-cases. This difference makes MongoDB a more attractive choice than CouchDB.
If it is anything like last year:

iTunes Connect will be temporarily shut down from Thursday, December 23 to Tuesday, December 28 for the winter holidays. Access will resume on Wednesday, December 29.

I can survive 5 days.
One major problem is that Facebook's privacy model for a long time was "trusted with everything"/"trusted with little", and the criteria for entering the inner circle was "the user adds you as a friend." Combine this will social pressure to reciprocate friend requests, and you have a mess.

I wonder what effect allowing assymmetric contacts will have. Will users get used to people "subscribing" to them without reciprocating, or will we all try to achieve the ultimate high score by "friending" everyone we can get ahold of?
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I had this happen at work. I admin a Google Apps domain and someone tried to delete several hundred thousand emails at once. We ended up having to do some account name switcharoos and he lost everything that was in the old account because Google was moving too slow. Best of luck to you.
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The site seems somewhat odd in relation to the story. Sure they have some API for pulling quotes, but using this for Facebook scraping seems a bit out of proportion.
Has that ever worked? In the U.S. anyway, gangs only seemed to disappear after pretty intense FBI work. I'm thinking of stuff like http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/itali... but maybe there's much more militarized approach that's been effective that i'm forgetting.
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Typical Microsoft - Just another concept video.
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Books I would recommend for beginners:

Evidence Based Technical Analysis:
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Pairs Trading:
http://www.amazon.com/Pairs-Trading-Quantitative-Methods-Ana...

Quantitative Trading:
http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic...

An Introduction to High Frequency Finance:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-High-Frequency-Finance-Ra...

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners:
http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur...

I also wrote a couple of very introductory articles, sadly I never got past part #2:
http://www.bitcortex.com/2008/12/28/pragmatic-automated-trad...
http://www.bitcortex.com/2009/01/04/pragmatic-automated-trad...

I am could mentor 1-2 HN readers that are serious about getting into quant trading. Just let me know you are interested :)
The bots used the quotation site to generate dummy content, not for scaping.
For values of 'worked for alcohol' that include 'moved world's largest criminal organisation into non-alcohol-related activity without impacting its organisational capacity one jot'.
I think the temptation to down-vote on disagreement is simply too strong. I wonder if a system that explicitly has two ways of voting might be better.
It's not a solution to the racism or discrimination problems, but it is a solution to the low self-esteem and self-worth problem of being from a marginalized minority.
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That is an over-simplified solution to a complicated problem. Organized crime would change, not cease to exist. Countries where prostitution is legal still see organized abuses in the industry, like brothel owners not following regulations, etc. Moreover, marijuana has the highest likelihood of being legalized of any drug (still not likely) and yet, it is the lowest profit margin for organized crime. Cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, etc. are much more profitable, and legalizing these would be socially irresponsible, if fiscally lucrative.
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Ask HN: Fixed Point Programming References?
Does anyone know any good books or tutorials for fixed-point programming? Something that would be suitable for a beginner, but also cover more advanced subjects. Thanks!
Disagree. Fogbugz gives a greater and greater savings per employee as your employee count goes up.

Here's a Perl script I wrote to visualize the idea. Feed the output into gnuplot and you'll see what I mean.

use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.010;
use POSIX qw(ceil floor);

# Let's start at 100 employees and walk up by 25.
for(my $count = 100; $count < 1000; $count+=25)
{
# Flat rate for fogbugz/kiln.
my $fb = 15000 / $count;
# ceil(number of users / 20) * blocks of 20-seats to buy.

my $gh = (ceil($count / 20) * 5000) / $count;
say "$count $fb $gh";
}

This asymptotically trends towards about $20/employee for Fogbugz; GitHub hangs around $250 per. At no point in these calculations is GitHub cheaper per than FogBugz.

Now, in the < 100 employee range where the different FogCreek pricings apply, I am not sure who wins, I'd guess it trades off back and forth depending on the # of employees.

edit: awkward formatting. Also, if I've biffed my formulas, let me know and I'll update it!

edit2: forgot to comparatively do analysis
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Perhaps it is time for distributed RDBMS with datastores purely in RAM.
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I couldn't sign the petition (two petitions actually) with Firefox.

The maddening thing is that I was already logged in (the telltale at the bottom said so), but the Sign button was disabled.

Sent a complaint.
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I dunno, RoR is so widespread now compared to where it was in 2006. I think, because it is widespread now, people don't have to search for "ruby on rails" because they don't know what it means. You are going to be searching for something more particular now. I guess that's sort of my point of what could be happening with CouchDB (I don't use it... so I have no real idea).
Maybe you have never heard of the anti-trust investigation into Google, where various sites have suggest Google manipulate their index already.
You have to take into consideration developer time, because often you are paying more for your staff than for your servers. Python and Ruby applications are known (unsourced) to have faster, more rapid development cycles than PHP applications. The ecosystems there tend to be friendlier for people looking to plug and extend existing libraries to put together a minimum viable product quickly.
There aren't criminal organizations in the USA which can credibly threaten state governments, let aloe the Feds.

This is different in other countries. Hence, law enforcement to solve crime in the USA; targeted killings in Mexico.
Great comment. I love a good, nuanced look at racial issues. Generally smart people seem unable to use their analytical skills when it comes to race or other social issues. It's disappointing.
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Luckily, everything from /ref= on is optional, and the alphanumeric code that comes after product is an actual product code. Replace it with the 9-digit ISBN for a book, and you'll get the book, for example.
It makes me kind of sad that we won't see something like the Courier. The biggest problem with the current tablet market is that it's the iPad and a bunch of devices that are emulating the iPad - they're all dumb-terminal content-consumption devices, basically. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it isn't a full computer-replacement experience (no matter how much Apple wants you to believe it is).

A tablet form-factor device geared at content creation would fill a major gap in the tablet market, I think. My iPad is great for watching Netflix in bed or for reading Flipboard feeds on the can, but using it to create anything longer than a 2-sentence reply to an email is just a chore. A "digital notebook" would be a really welcome addition to the market space. Something that would let me take notes, write easily, capture and annotate photos, tinker with design tools, or maybe even write code on the go, which could then be easily transferred back and forth between my workstation and "notebook" would get my money in a heartbeat.

The closest analog is the Macbook Air, not the iPad, but I think there's a place between the Air and the tablet that we could see some neat progress in.
"Within two weeks, 976, or about 19 percent of the requests, were accepted.

Of the 3,517 users who received the second round of requests, 2,079, or about 59 percent, accepted."

It seems to me that either people are really indiscriminate in who they accept as their 'friends', or the 'randomly selected "people"' were actually other socio bots :-D
>issue a dividend (and pay both corporate taxes /and/ capital gains taxes

This is only true if you're a C-corp. I know on HN most folks are creating a C-corp because it's easier to invest in, but if you're doing a small business, a partnership, S-corp, or LLC filing as an S-corp are likely the best options for you.

In all three of the latter cases, taking money out only causes you to be taxed once.
I am liking the way their new design is going. In my opinion it is getting better and better. Conversations are much cleaner now and easier to read.
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First, I love Redis :-)

Second, this functionality seems to be a stop gap to support old users who may be using old clients. So they need an array of 300 million elements each containing an integer of 12 million or less. Assuming 32 bit values (24 would work but.. efficiency), that's a 1,144MB array which, in theory, could be stored as a file and cached through the filesystem cache.

I wonder how the performance of that would stack up against Redis. The convenience of Redis being a network daemon out of the box is potentially the big win here, though the memory usage even in the optimized case seems to be around 4x given that it's doing more than the task necessarily requires (from my interpretation of it - I could be wrong!)
Starting things is easy. Finishing is hard. Most people start various side projects. Very, very few have the resolve to finish them.
Is that stealing? Not to get into a "data wants to be free thing", it just seems like the automatic scraping of (effectively) public information, by an algorithm which can't be held to terms of use.
It makes you wonder what private data sources actually have of the facebook graph (Not including facebook). Does someone have the whole facebook social graph downloaded or a large portion?
Good idea. Last year I joined the Nov one and launched an app. Launched another app couple months later. I'll join this year as well. Good motivation to turn side project ideas into products.
This is a technology demo, not a concept video. The difference being that stuff demoed here has been built, and is somewhere between the concept & product stage.
Maybe a good time to show these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJcABbtvtA
I have Gtalk and Tasks. I don't see why I can't put them on the same sidebar though. There should be an option for that?
That's probably a good idea for layman. For us nerds, hopefully we can change the setting so that we can see the changelog before updating.

It's always lovely to see the latest reviews saying how broken a new update is.
I hope you do not interpret this as a troll but what did you find too confusing about debian? I have been a debian user for 14ish years now so my viewpoint is a little biased.

As far as "learning about debian" goes what distro specific stuff did you have to learn that you have not needed to bother with in Arch? Whenever I have flirted with other distros there is always a little learning curve at first; gentoo/emerge, *bsd/ports, redhat/rpm, etc.
This is very focused on the basics of fixed-point arithmetic, but it's been helpful to me in the past when working through fixed-point filter design and related topics.

http://www.digitalsignallabs.com/fp.pdf
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OneNote is such an amazing piece of software I owned Gateway's M285-E just for it. See this pic on the right:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/167988348_fb452a3ad2_z.jpg

Hacker News likes VisiCalc, and in the same vein, for handwritten notes on the iPad, try VisiCalc author Dan Bricklin's "Note Taker HD". That said, you'd have to blend Note Taker HD with Evernote to get OneNote.

OneNote's amazing. It would be a fascinating story to share how it managed to get traction at Microsoft and how it lost its prominance once the tablet PC push died out.

That said, Note Taker HD is also amazing, as are Evernote, OmniGraffle, Keynote, Pages, iA Writer, Index Card, Tiffen Photo fx Ultra, Snapseed, PhotoForge2, Inspire Pro, Sketch Book Pro, Garage Band, iMovie, OmniFocus, Textastic Code Editor (compatible with TextMate syntax definitions and themes), and the list goes on.
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I thought this was going to be about someone meticulously doing git commits after every tiny little change.
Exactly. Crime would adjust itself, or find a new market. Compromising by legalizing something which has a purpose in being illegal is detrimental to solving the problem.
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The issue is your being denied a spot in a pickup game doesn't hinder your ability to thrive financially. Potential racism in tech absolutely will. This isn't something to "live with".
Nice graph, but why does it need to be so much cheaper per seat as the business gets larger? Many items in the budget don't get much cheaper per seat as the business grows. A company that buys 1000 MacBook Pros doesn't pay half as much per MacBook Pro as a company that buys 10.