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Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, decided against holding a committee vote that had been expected on Friday. The panel later scheduled a vote for Wednesday, December 21.

The rest is a description of SOPA.
We won't have a situation like the Fall of Rome before we have accepted violence as a means of political change.

What killed Rome wasn't just the corruption but the fall of the Gracie brothers. You can't have Marius and Sulla without that. No Sulla, no Cesar, no fall of Rome.

And while we are at it, there are no barbarian hordes that can ever invade the US -- unless you count those in the backwater areas of the flyover states -- simply because the US is so monstrously huge.
There are also tmux and NX.
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This situation has no parallels with 'the fall of Rome' whatsoever, unless I'm misreading your intent.
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I think you are mixing points though the central cause remains the same. Firstly, medicine nearly always had enough women though as nurses (male nurses are still minority) and them gaining equal role, responsibility and returns was probably a slow process (I wouldn't know, I am not related to the field). The point I was making was because the very basic of the privileges that were pointed out in the article was regarding (1) Easier jobs/promotions for men (2) Men saying that women got it because they are women.

There has been a lot of efforts to bring women at par with men in terms of returns they gain. And there have also been efforts that aim at increasing their count. Both, are required. You are pointed out at the first category of efforts and I am pointed out the consequences of affirmation actions that belong to the second category. There are two forces at play here - (1) Discriminatory, against women. (2) Affirmative action, for women. Now the second point in the privileges is because affirmative actions have a very obvious but mean side effect. It leads to undermining the potential of those who receive benefit from them because affirmative action is done at an expense of some people who otherwise deserved the benefit if standard parameters of judgement are used. This leads to unrest and hence my refute to privilege (2). While my refute to privilege (1) was the overwhelming of discriminatory forces by affirmative actions in my experience from my point of view. This is as biased an opinion as possible, hence you can choose to ignore it. But if many seem to face a similar experience, that would mean that affirmative action needs to be done at a lower level or be stopped for it has served its purpose.
Actually that would be great. As long as the Democrats keep the Senate and the House the entire thing will be locked so tightly that they can't do anything.

Of course with Ron Paul trailing so close to Newt, we might have a very, very interesting time ahead.
>>"tl;dr: both how it looks and how it works are secondary to what if offers the customer"

The product (App/Pizza/Car/Suppository/Whatever) still needs designing; i.e. a problem exists that needs solving. However you want to phrase it, a problem is solved by designing, be it using established patterns or generating new solutions. How it looks and how it works should be intrinsic to what a product offers. None of the elements are mutually exclusive.
> Just like above, here's the same list but using the Windows versions:

> TODO: Need the windows version.

Is there an easy way to contribute to this book? Ideally people could submit patches to be merged by Zed at his own discretion.
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I wrote a response to this:

http://bokardo.com/archives/design-is-not-horsepoop/
When I was in the USA travelling and wanted to call someone on Skype back in the UK, I used the ring once hang up technique to signal for them to get logged onto Skype or text me back to say they cannot. When inthe USA on a UK mobile, it's about $1.50 per minute to make a call, and $0.50 to send a text. It's free to receive texts though so this hack let me communicate basically for free.
What is going on in this country?
Haha...I did write a response, but I tried to not be as baiting...in fact I hate the whole "horseshit" meme...can't we just respectfully debate?
Thanks for the suggestions. I've been meaning to check out tmux, and just today I tried to install FreeNX to replace VNC. I hope my post at least provides a useful starting place and some creative ideas (e.g. SSH+auto-screen) for someone who is just getting into remote work.
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One thing the author is missing is the ssh-copy-id command, which will copy a ssh key to he authroized_keys file and set the correct permissions. No need for complicated and fragile ssh host "mkdir .." commands

I tried to leave a comment, but twas asking complicated things about registering.
What about checking how language implementations solve this for their 'closes' ?
Here's an idea, might be ridiculous: Can you file court papers electronically in the US? What if say youtube, wikipedia, etc had a fully automated SOPA compliance system which automatically filed court papers to have the take down notice 'reviewed' however that works thereby overloading the system. There must be some way to reflect the work back at them and DoS a manual process somewhere in the legal machinery. 'OK we'll do it, but your not going to like it...' fight bureaucracy with more bureaucracy.
The mucky mucks can have their answer today with a random subset of that data: 10,000 accounts and the corresponding addresses and transactions. We'll need map-reduce tomorrow if they want precision in the last decimal point.
In France, they do the same thing but in August, when pretty much everyone is away on their summer holidays. Democracy has become a funny thing.
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Thanks for the link. I've actually been pleasantly surprised by Xvnc over an "ssh -C" tunnel. Additionally, there are some parameters you can set for the vncserver (man Xvnc... one example is "-deferUpdate") that can significantly improve performance for bad connections or awful X applications.
Plus, in Australia at least, the calling party pays a premium to call the mobile phone (essentially charged at a long distance rate, to a separate 'mobile phone' area code). So in reality, spam callers self regulate anyway: they know what area codes are mobiles and they know that those area codes will cost them.
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German here, can somebody explain to me what it means when this passes?

As far as i understand it, the US controlled tld's like .com .net are done. Every time someone posts something on these sites they could be shut down, what is impossible to prevent by sites like Tumblr and Facebook.
Probably for every domain when the company is US based.

So this will result in a more diverse domain landscape and a competitive advantage for non-US internet companies.

Or did i miss something?
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Really depends on how it plays out. My guess is that there will be some favoratism and de-facto lenience towards large companies, because no agency will want to be the one who seized google.com and ruined everyone's day. The downside is that just opens up a large new avenue for corruption and, even when not outright corruption, selective enforcement of laws.
What about wrapping the first solution into a mutex lock ? Then the multithreaded behavior will disappear. And closing the fd might not be the most frequent operation usually so should not have much of performance impact.
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It's not unusual for a Muslim-majority nation to be secular and/or democratic. It seems odd to go just be the number of countries and disregard the population size. Population-wise, the largest of those countries are Indonesia (pop. 228m, 86% Muslim), Pakistan (172m, 97%) and Bangladesh (162m, 89%). Even if you do go by the numbers and give Bahrain (1m) the same weight as the large countries, the word "secular" pops up often in the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countri...
Headdesk moments like these can be irritating, but if you pay attention when your boss says stuff like this and learn to communicate with them on their terms (e.g. communicating through subject lines where possible for this boss) you will see a world of difference in the ease and efficacy of interacting with them.
Also, here's a guy who's looking for collaborators to help fight this by making Facebook apps:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/ng84h/have_you_or_anyo...
An easy way is to just define your functions in a table, and at the end of the file to be required, return the table. This was the pattern used in Lua before 5.1. The source for Luacov provides a clear example:

https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov/blob/master/src/luac...
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Which mutex? What about threads you don't 'own', inside libraries for instance? I don't think you will be able to find "one ring to rule them all"
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I email every single customer within 24-48 hours of purchase and try to engage in similar conversation. I've learned quite a bit about our audience, our product, and our product expectations as a result of that.

I'm not sure adding features on the fly is something I'm into, but I do take all feature requests to heart.

Was it Steve Blank that said something about no product surviving first encounter with a customer?
I don't think lawyers have ever been particularly upset about having more billing clients. I imagine our current glut of law school students would thank them.
For me, the article just ends with the phrase "For each computer that you connect to," but all the rest of the html is still there. Very weird. Google cache works fine.
Its time to stop reusing identifiers in kernels, libraries etc. There is no good reason not to use a uuid pretty much universally?
I disagree with the necessity of having them vote on everything we do being required for democracy. The only case where that is required is if we can't think for ourselves. And honestly if we can't think for ourselves we got no business electing people.

All we need are a few simple rules which limits/prevents the initiation of aggression, courts to enforce contracts and a a small army to prevent invasions. It doesn't require much work -- at most a weekend a month.
Zachary, in the dual system proposal where bitcoin's decentralization is only leveraged for verifiable reserve audits, how does an 'identifiable' (and centralized) currency issuer based on Chaum's blinding protocols located in an 'identifiable' jurisdiction avoid government shutdown and asset confiscation?
Sounds like a real threat to the valley, could this kill the internet startup culture?

I tinker with the idea to get there, but i am really concerned now with all these developments.
When you create something polarizing, usually that's a sign you're onto a good thing.

I wonder how the people who've felt spammed would feel if it were a human GitHub user that had contacted them with the same changes.
Cool project - I think that's really interesting...

It might help if you gave the user some type of feedback that shows why a particular result is included (if you can). I started typing/searching for "blue" and, while a few links had the word "blue" in the title, I couldn't really see why certain songs were picked.

Also maybe make it a bit more obvious that a song is being played. This is silly of me but I had the volume muted when I came to your link. I didn't realize that the volume was muted though and so, when I clicked on a song title, I thought nothing was happening. haha - my fault, I know, but just trying to share a "user experience".
Oh if they use the close direct, too bad. But libraries that launch the starships behind your back with no control left to you are also not the best gift.

Standard's bug aside, I wonder how the practical implementations behave. Is this condition reproducible ?
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> Productivity is lost in communication between team members.

Agreed.

> I hold that a team is always strictly less than the sum of its parts.

But this does not follow.

For example, suppose you are trying to build something that requires solving two hard problems. Moreover, suppose that no individual in the world has the skill and insight to solve both problems, but that for each problem, there is one person in the world who can solve it.

In this situation, a team consisting of either person alone plus anyone else you like could never succeed in building what you set out to build. If you like, its total value is still zero. However, a team consisting of both key people can finish the build, and thus has a total value greater than zero.

Communications overhead within a team is usually a multiplicative effect, which means if the positive contribution is only a summation effect then your reasoning works. However, often the positive side of a team's productivity is also a multiplicative effect as well.

In that case, you can improve a team's performance by introducing even a single significantly above average contributor, but you can also improve the team's performance quantitatively by improving a below-average contributor's performance and improve it qualitatively by introducing an extra contribution where something important was missing entirely.
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I really loved this! I liked the fact that I could read other people solutions.

Is there an equivalent for Python, or any other language?
Interesting, but why require Twitter out of all things? I thought Ruby had the multi-auth thing nailed.
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Thanks for the suggestion... that is much simpler. I added that to the post. Sorry about commenting being so difficult; I'm using Posterous, so it's not by my design.
I assume you're talking about dynamic languages like Python or Ruby. It's common for underlying system characteristics to leak through the abstractions, so something like this isn't necessarily "handled".

In CPython's case, as far as I can tell, it uses bare, unchecked close() calls, and just assumes they succeed.

(It does, however, provide an interface for dealing with signals, and one of the capabilities, as of 2.6, is to specify whether system calls will restart. See some discussion on SA_RESTART elsewhere in these comments.)
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While I agree this is a problem, I think it's as much one of society in general both polarising and demonising. (Context - IT nerd guy, single.)

I've known similarly female-dominated groups where men are automatically regarded as good-for-nothing troglodytes who will lazily eat, drink and watch sports all day with no positive contribution to wider life, while the intelligent, capable, hard-working and long-suffering women get on and do the important things the men simply can't, because they're men. Indeed, this will sometimes be seen openly in popular culture - advertising, sitcoms, soaps etc. I've done quite a lot of voluntary work with children, particularly younger children over the years; in some contexts there is still mild incredulity about the idea that a man can understand and cater well for small children, because that's What Women Do Best.

Sure, we need to watch out for ourselves and try to respect all on their merits, not objectify and stereotype. Equally there's plenty of women who don't fit in with the group I outlined above. But - work to address this problem on all fronts. Fix it when we see it in our behaviour and those of us around us, whether we're the aggressor, the victim or neither.
Not to be blunt, but I never understood why a drunken advocate of a murderous war gets such props no matter what his facility with words may have been.
Maybe they just priced their IPO shares correctly for a change. When the share price doubles on the first day, it means the offering price was too low. That means Wall Street gets the money, not the company and not the pre-IPO investors.

They could have priced it 40% lower, and seen a big runup. But this way the company gets more working capital. That's good.

Maybe that's a positive consequence of Zynga's CEO's need to hang on to so much control and equity.
On the other side: a bipolar genius will hate the small team where everyone knows what he's not doing now, not taking into account that in 1 day out of 10 he deals with 50x the amount of shit that could save the big team where noone cares.
I don't know about you, but if I were writing a law about the internet, I'd probably talk to Google over the RIAA. The problem here is that they're writing a law about the internet to solve a problem somewhere else. So, instead of asking the people that are being affected, they're asking the people who they're trying to help.

But yeah, to answer your question? If it's a law about the internet, you ask Google, just as if it were a law about the Billboard Top 100, you ask the RIAA. For expert advice, at least.
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Oh yes please. Either that or the ability to change the vote afterwards.
If you mean different other languages, that's interesting... Python seems to be completely oblivious to the issue and signals (Modules/_io/fileio.c internal_close() and others). There is SA_RESTART added if possible in Modules/faulthandler.c - but I'm not sure what conditions activate it.
It's a bit weird that they went with goto. It is a much smaller addition than continue + labeled break + labeled continue + switch, but it's still really unusual to see in a scripting language.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant, thank you.
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this terrifies me

Now think about all the libraries and application that end up calling close() and fclose().

Add a few abstraction layers and good luck figuring out if closing a file is safe in a multithreaded Java app.
I remember a discussion on HN where many of the comments have said that the best way to bring women into the industry is to bring women into the industry. Quite true, I definitely agree to it.

I don't know that I'm so sure. Most other professional industries were, at one point, just as lopsidedly male as tech is these days. But as society lifted the more explicit barriers and it became common for women to pursue professional careers, they naturally flowed into all sorts of different roles (the "Jackie Robinson effect", so to speak).

That they haven't showed up in tech (and math and science, though there are slightly more there) means there's something else going on, and I just can't buy the theory that women have stayed away because there are few women, since that has proved to be a relatively small deterrent in so many other cases.

I'm similarly skeptical that sexism in the industry is responsible for this, because it's just as rampant, if not moreso, in most industries (I could tell you some really unbelievable stories about the finance industry, yeegads...). That's not to say that because "everybody else does it" it's right or okay in tech; rather, it's to say that unless there's some clear reason why sexism in tech should push women away more forcefully than it does in other fields (or a shred of non-anecdotal evidence that sexism is more prevalent in tech, which I have never seen, and which I'm skeptical about because if it was true it seems fair to assume that we'd see a greater pay gap than in most other fields, which is not the case), it's hard for me to accept it as the main reason women aren't showing up to the party. And if it's not the real reason that women aren't getting into the field, then we might be missing the actual cause, which perhaps we could do something about.

Or maybe we can't. But we should at least be trying to figure out some better way to find out what's actually going on, rather than just arguing from anecdote and theory (I'm guilty of this, as well).
Only locking the close() is not enough. Another thread could still get the same file descriptor through whatever syscall while you loop around the close(). You would need to lock all syscalls that create or close a file descriptor which is a) infeasable and b) way too slow.

In other words: it's a race condition between allocating and deallocating a fd and not between two deallocations.
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I'm really excited to check it out, but there's no support for Android. I wonder when the change will come that people develop for Android, and then for iOS.
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There's also the catch in the US system.

When you hear the message saying 'blah blah, leave a message after the tone'. Those seconds are charged to the caller.

Add up all those millions of seconds and the networks are rolling.

We all know what to do when the person is not there. I don't need to hear a 15 second message telling me yet again what to do.
is there a better way to do ssh/auto-screen, for example a setting for ~/.ssh/config to do the same thing?
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It does. It's trivial to use as well. https://github.com/intridea/omniauth

Why would you not hook this up to github for auth?

EDIT: The site is great by the way. My tone of disappointment at the authentication system is motivated by how nice the thing is.
I am a tmux advocate and you can get screen based hot keys if you need but it feels cleaner and it's also under a BSD licence.