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You don’t even need that much justification.

http://www.samefacts.com/2002/12/secrecy-in-government/shhhh...

[quote]

When I was young and irresponsible, I worked for the Justice Department, analyzing drug policy. In that capacity, I was put through the full security mumbo-jumbo and received a Top Secret clearance and, on top of that, clearances for various very highly taboo Codeword categories.... Having been cleared, what did I learn that it would then have been a felony for me to reveal? Nothing that would have helped the Russkis or the narco-bad-guys. But I did learn the names of assorted corrupt high-level officials in various of the Carribean banking havens Jeff MacNelly once lampooned as “Rinky-Dink and Tabasco.” No elaborate spying had been required to learn the names; apparently it was routine cafe gossip in the countries involved. So why, I asked, is this material classified? Not that I had any desire to reveal it, but I was curious.

The senior security guy in the Criminal Division set me straight: Yes, everyone knew that the Rinky-Dink-and-Tabascanese Finance Minister, or Central Bank president, or whatever it was, was crookeder than a dog’s hind leg. He knew, we knew, the Prime Minister knew, the Prime Minister knew we knew, we knew he knew we knew, ad infinitum. Maybe the Rinky-Dink-and-Tabascanese voters didn’t know; that was their lookout.

But it was our policy to make nice to Rinky-Dink and Tabasco (honest, I forget which contrylet we were talking about). If it were revealed publicly that the US Government had knowledge that Mr. So-and-so was on the take, that would embarrass the Rinky-Dink-and-Tabascanese government, thus impeding U.S. foreign policy. Ergo, properly classified.

[unquote]
It could depend on the reviewer, or the app could have been grandfathered in before that policy went into effect? All I know is our client's app got rejected with that as the reason (ours was rated 9+)
Thanks. That helps a lot. I didn't realize this whole backstory was public.
I don't think you're following me. You can't correct Coda. He doesn't care. All you can do is take the thread in one direction or another. I think this is a bad direction for our threads to go.

Also: I don't think you can talk about "de-escalation" when you brought the issue up on the thread.
I'm a CS graduate, and I read the Friedl book on regular expressions in high school. I don't seem to remember learning anything about automata from it, and I know for certain that my automata course in university didn't make me any more competent at understanding or applying regular expressions.
The current assumption is that every donor is willing. It's not clear to me how receiving payment changes anything. Your scenario would only be prevented if organ donation were banned altogether.
I'm sorry, but that sounds like FUD to me. We ALREADY have commercial JVMs.
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Was the university itself really involved in the business itself, giving lots of assistance to Brin/Page? I mean I know it hosted the original site or whatever, but I was under the impression that they weren't super-involved in the business side.
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Done, though I would appreciate a response to my earlier questions.
What ever happened to "no"?
How does being available on x86 limit availability on ARM? Why should they artificially limit the usefulness of the OS?

A few months ago I put together a 23" android device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8lHdgHQmvc

Devices like that make much more sense on x86 than ARM.
And 9 days later, I've got it here. Seriously great service for overseas shipping!
I read the article, and I simultaneously liked the idea and was fundamentally disturbed by it. At the same time, Smalltalks cascading messages never disturbed me.

So after going through the initial two reactions I have to every thought-provoking blog posts (#1: OMG - raganwald is insane!, followed by #2: OMG - raganwald is brilliant!), here's what actually doesn't work for me:

It is overloading whitespace with both control flow and data flow. Smalltalks cascade neatly introduce a different symbol to sidestep that.

So, ultimately, I'd rather see cascades introduced into CS than overloading the meaning of whitespace.
I don't think they were intended to really change anyone's perspectives, but rather just clarify a private conversation accidentally made public.

If anything, I just find it really odd that a company feels the need to have an official statement on what programming language they use/will use/might use.
"Cloud" email? Seriously? If I have to endure someone calling something "the cloud" one more time I'm going to shoot myself! Since when did the web turn into the cloud? It's still nothing but a bunch of damn servers! That just bugs me.

Anyway, thanks for the price info and thanks to the guys from Postmark and Mailgun for explaining why their pricing looks so skewed in this post.
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How difficult is it to find matches for patients? Anybody know what the odds are for the average patient in need? I ask because I registered a couple years ago but haven't ever heard anything since.
Overall ZeroCater is pretty good. Although I do think they can step up their customer service.
Stanford owns the PageRank patent and licenses it to Google.
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Looks like it's actually at least 20nm now: http://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/229401647/int...
> but retain some for 'technical' reasons

Probably the thing about databases getting fragmented, so they delete large swaths of data and optimize all at once, rather than piecemeal when the users delete it. It's well known that when you "delete" a photo from Facebook, if you save the direct link to it first, you can still access it (go ahead, try it). But the one time I tried it, the photo did finally disappear after about a week (although I have seen some people claim that they could access deleted content via direct links for up to 6 months).
I find this a little... disquieting... I know the story behind a dozen or so of these little icons. Like any traumatic event, they'll come to mind from time to time (some are more memorable than others, for some reason). Being reminded of all of them at once is actually a little overwhelming.

It's also a bit of a disconnect seeing the chaos and trauma of some of those scenes reduced to a tiny graphic.
If you´re not going to donate, fine. But I think it´s not so invasive to justify creating a Chrome extension for this.
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He's not presenting it as evidence, but saying that it can help to illustrate a pattern of behavior. There's still the larger, more important task of showing that that pattern of behavior exists in the world, but this allows exemplars of this pattern of behavior to be internalized. The internalization process is obviously dangerous, but ultimately I'm not smart enough to make rational judgments on most things, so I need to rely upon intuitive understandings of things.

(Though one could argue that stuff like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhFXkvugLM&feature=youtu... can be used as evidence of showing how leading language can work, if you can feel your own opinion being swayed, as Bernard talks. The extent to which one can rely upon one's own feelings of their opinions is another matter... but it's a stab in the right direction.)
At least in the case of blood, all donations are already screened anyway. In US, the American Red Cross has actively fought the blood ban claiming it is "medically and scientifically unwarranted." John Kerry has also led opposition to it in the Senate (unsuccessfully).
My mom is about to do stem cell transplant - her siblings are something like 1 in 20, and my brother and I are something like 1 in 100.
I'm not sure if that analogy works. Wouldn't a country with no secrets like an organization whose source code is open AND all of whose encryption keys are public?
In 2005, my friend Rich went to the hospital because of headaches that had been lasting for months. He was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, went through treatment, and went into remission in January of 2006. Later that year he went on to start a foundation to raise awareness about the disease and make it his mission to educate people about the urgent need for donating blood, and even more so, bone marrow.

I joined the bone marrow database and encourage everyone I know to do the same. The donor card comes with me everywhere I go. Whenever I hear about someone like Mr. Gupta, I try and think of every person possible that might not know one of two very important things:

1. Becoming a donor is not as painful as you grew up beleiving it was.
2. A single day of your discomfort could give someone the rest of their life.

Over the course of the next several years, Rich pretty much kept his immediate condition to himself except with his family and few very close friends. This did prove difficult for him since he was someone who was "notable" (a term those of us on HN would understand), but upon publication he would always see the silver lining since it helped promote his foundation.

On September eighth, 2010, Rich was only 36 years old when he passed away after suffering a stroke secondary to leukemia.

Please, do what you can. Every day, do what you can.

http://marrow.org/
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Only an unintended consequence if you accept the article's premise that a non-trivial number people actually went to McD's and only bought the toy, and those people will continue to go for the toy but buy the happy meal to get it. And feed it to their kid.

Seems dubious to me.
Ah very good then. Well since the CDC now says that blacks and women are the most at-risk for HIV, we should probably change the rules with the times then, right?

What's that? It now sound horribly offensive, erroneous, and bad policy? Well sorry about that! Gotta be consistent you know.
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I wonder if there is some political philosophy to describe my thoughts on this - but I never understood why government just didn't set up taxes on things it didn't like, and directly allocate the revenues from those taxes to the opposite side of whatever stance it took (versus going towards general expenses).

For example with this, tax the happy meal and other fatty kids foods, allocate revenues earned from that tax directly to childhood obesity prevention campaigns.
McDonald's still makes money, kids still can get happy meals, and childhood obesity is reduced through funding effective programs.
Would you prefer SaaS, or web service? Will that soothe you?
With the exception of Google TV (which is Honeycomb/x86 at the moment), I don't think Google is focusing on the x86 platform for Android themselves. I think they're just happily accepting AMD's and Intel's contributions for a few reasons:

1. A good Android/x86 port will give them the option of offering an Android simulator (like Apple's iOS simulator) to developers as an alternative to the much-maligned emulator.

2. If Intel or AMD gets anywhere with x86 smartphones and/or tablets, it is better for Android if it is involved (or at least prepared).

3. They'd rather have the android/x86 work take place under the official umbrella, rather than be an external fork (especially if the existing external fork(s) would otherwise get high-profile sponsors like Intel and AMD).
Coda was obviously not thrilled that @jodastephen apparently (from updates written at the top of his post) decided to

(1) widely publish personal correspondence that wasn't meant to be sent to him,

(2) mirrored it when Coda removed his copy from the net,

(3) insinuated it was a public statement by yammer, whereas it was private thoughts from Coda, and

(4) wasn't even classy enough to contact Coda before publishing it.

Maybe I'm particularly sensitive to (3) because an jerk on HN insinuated that my posts here were representative of the company I worked at, but none of those four things are particularly nice on @jodastephen's part. Note also that, depending on your employer, (3) can get you in quite a bit of trouble. @jodastephen claims he found the email on HN or twitter, but that doesn't mean he has to repost it. Just like when you see accidental tits photos sent from someone's phone, you can either close the tab or repost it to spread it to the world.

That said, it's obviously interesting that the build situation for larger projects seems to be a shitshow, but still, an email to Coda before posting wouldn't have hurt.

The context also matters -- as Coda mentioned, this email was only in regards to the negatives with scala and doesn't mention any of the positives.
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Why would someone who doesn't give a shit say something like

"I’d rather suck a dog’s nose dry than lend a hand to the nerd slapfights on Hacker News."[1]

That sounds like the attitude of someone who very much does give a shit about HN enough to not like it.

And besides that, while I may agree with what you're saying in principle, in practice it's bad business to go around insulting such a large number of potential clients/employees/partners. It's better to keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

[1] http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/
This is correct. Why isn't the question "Have you had unprotected sex in the last 3 months? Can we give you a blood test today?"

This seems a lot more sane than "There's this group that we used to consider high risk for HIV. We're not willing to scientifically test for it. Are you a part of this group?"
To be fair, though, Django is not thread safe. Now while I respect Rails for taking the effort in making it thread safe (IIRC, it was a Google Summer of Code project) - it doesn't seem to be a must-have to have your framework be thread safe.
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Keep telling yourself that. Most of the time these days when people talk about HN like that, it's because they've become accustomed to pointing at it and laughing amongst their friends.

Meanwhile, the rest of your comment: due respect (really), but who cares? He doesn't. What are you trying to prove? Who are you trying to convince? Let's definitely keep burning thread space on this dumb metadrama, now that we've started.
You don't have to choose what dishes you get.

You don't even have to choose what restaurant you get food from.

You tell them "6 vegetarians, 2 vegans, 1 person with a peanut allergy, 12 other people, we need food wednesday and friday for lunch at noon" and they make it happen.
I think the issue is that Facebook makes the same mistake repeatedly, indicating that it's not even close to a mistake. It does something its users don't like (erodes privacy, design changes, automated sharing, etc), claims it's good for them, then partially backs off.
Does this address any of the issues people have with SparkleShare? (Another dropbox clone based on git - http://www.sparkleshare.org/)
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Could it be that MacDo just called the SF city council's bluff? I'm not sure this is evidence that the city council sucks at intervening: the council did something straightforward to communicate their intent. The company brazenly thumbed its nose, so they must believe the council to be utterly weak-willed or powerless.

If the city council is not bluffing, they'll push for more restrictive laws. And in another time and place, perhaps health, safety, and zoning commissions would come knocking.
Ahhhh...the scalpers will be happy! :)
I have some theories, but not a lot of proof - as is the case when arguing the effects of policy.

If you look at the job openings in software in Canada, you will find a lot of US satellite offices hiring. Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, et al all have significant presence across Canada, but the pay for Canadian positions is inevitably far, far less than their American counterparts.

Part of it is the lack of entrepreneurialism in the field, I think. Because of the lack of startups, and the lacklustre VC scene, the industry doesn't have lot of domestic legs to stand on. A huge part of the software industry's identity in Canada is "like America, but cheaper" - there aren't enough homegrown companies to counter this trend.

The software jobs are also dominated by fields where it's a cost centre, not R&D. The biggest employers of software engineers in Canada are banks and telcos, not "pure" software companies. In this environment, the majority of openings are IT monkey jobs, not high-level engineering positions.

There's a lot of talent coming out of Canada, the majority don't stay though, and they won't so long as the US offers more interesting jobs that pay double, triple the Canadian rate. More professional satisfaction, way more money? I'm not made of stone!
They tried this with the tobacco taxes / settlements and just decided to spend it any way they wanted.
/Counting/ delimiters isn't necessarily any easier for our brains than measuring indentation.

However, it is (at least for me) much easier for your eyes to line up two delimiters then a keyword/function call/literal/whatever and the end of the block it introduced when that block's termination is implicit from indentation. With the delimiters, I have two similar things to line up visually. With indentation-significant, I have to line up a delimiter with blank space, which is difficult.
Lesson number one:

drafts of emails at startups get LEAKED!

DUH!
You're wrong on the facts part, as of this month the CDC still states "men who have sex with men (MSM) of all races and ethnicities remain the population most severely affected by HIV", with their estimated stats being that 2% of the US population are MSM, and they accounted for 61% of new HIV infections in 2009. MSM accounted for 49% of HIV infections in 2008. (Those years are most recent available data.) For more details check out their PDF at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/PDF/us.pdf

(I'm not black or a woman, but am gay - for my own selfish sake I'd love what you said to be true.)
> just seeing the Slashdot mention in such a document is awesome.

I think this is the right attitude towards patents, if they do what they're supposed to: advance the state of the art, be inventive/non-obvious/clever/original and so on. (IMO) cmdrtaco is saying that he's happy that an advance in the state of the art builds on his inventiveness - google is standing on the shoulders of him. If only software patents really were what they're supposed to be.

I wish patents were a celebration of inventiveness, as they are in other fields, instead of often obvious and consequentially hated in ours. Inventiveness is the highest ideal of our field; and patents, really, should be about that.

A secondary problem is that the description isn't intelligible to him - who invented prior art for it. One of the requirements of a patent is that someone skilled in the art is able to construct the invention. If the originator of slashdot, who is cited as prior art isn't "skilled in the art", who is? Software patents have truly lost their way.
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In an Objective-C "@interface" the names for parameter variables don't really matter. In fact, they can all be exactly the same name, and different from the "@implementation", which is useful in header files.

Method names are almost always descriptive enough. If parameter names are identical, there's less to maintain; I like using a single underscore "_" for all header-file parameters.

Here's an example of a method that has lots of parameters, where the parameter names are kind of pointless:

@interface UIView : . . .

+ (void)
transitionWithView:(UIView *) view
duration:(NSTimeInterval) duration
options:(UIViewAnimationOptions) options
animations:(void (^)(void)) animations
completion:(void (^)(BOOL finished)) completion;

They could actually have just said this (changing all names to "_"):

@interface UIView : . . .

+ (void)
transitionWithView:(UIView *)_
duration:(NSTimeInterval)_
options:(UIViewAnimationOptions)_
animations:(void (^)(void))_
completion:(void (^)(BOOL finished))_;
Well, it's probably much simpler. And it relies on fsevents to do the pushes. But, aside for that, what issues are people having with sparkleshare?
My brother is working through Learn Ruby The Hard Way, which is not written by Zed, but is based on his Python book. He has no programming experience and seems to be enjoying the work and learning Ruby pretty quickly.
I'm sorry, but don't .edu domains have to prove they are an academic institution to qualify to use that TLD?
Or by ceasing to make stupid laws.
They would do the test on your blood regardless (they do it on all blood).

Regarding the 3 months: the UK only just changed it from a lifetime ban for MSM to 12 months - they feel that 12 is safer, many people have argued that this is still over the top. I'm not a doctor, and I'm not well enough informed to tell you who is right on this. Countries that do have a lifetime ban certainly need their policies updated.

Regarding unprotected: the argument is that even protected sex isn't 100% safe. I don't have any stats to argue for either side here, and I don't have an opinion for that reason.

So, it's not entirely a case of "we can't be bothered to test", but at the same time many countries have out of date policies. And even those, like the UK, with better ones, there are still some people who argue they are too strict against MSM, and others who argue that any less strict would be too dangerous.
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Absolutely right, ask anyone who was a kid during the initial (79 + 80s) Star Wars toy craze who went from store to store chasing the Jawa figure. Or you can ask my Dad and he will have a long critique of the situation.

Only time I ever heard my Dad utter MFer was after months of looking for the Jawa, which only one kid in the neighborhood had, we turned the corner at a K-Mart and found a whole isle of them.
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I fully support Wikipedia running a donation campaign as I find it to be a really valuable resource. However, I find the image staring at me to be really distracting, and somewhat embarrassing if I use wikipedia at work; from a distance, it feels less like I'm researching something and more like I'm looking at a cheesy site. I just don't find the tactic tasteful.

I'm not the author of this extension. If I had the time, I'd actually make a better extension that only hides the image, while leaving the donation bar. It's only the mugshot that I find obtrusive.
I wonder how bad a developer you have to be in order to get someone, who is only following along in "bits and pieces", really concerned for the startup that hired you.
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