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Unfortunately that will never, ever happen. Law makers don't care about technology because their world is only politics.
Same like engineers don't care about beauty products but we create database products that we think they might like to use.

If someone did actually make a law like that then nothing would be passed because nobody would be able to understand everything anyway. Fact is, even if they pass this law then there will just be more creative ways to get around it... it's the guiding principal upon which the internet is based.
This post is probably a hard-sell for people who hate math, but I bet developers will come back to it when the next post on cryptography hits HN.

Good job presenting modular arithmetic as clock arithmetic. The concept is easy to understand. When you start generalize it is when the magic of Abstract Algebra will happen.
I've heard this complaint for years and years, but we're living in a golden age for non-specially-formed pieces. You can buy the builder sets, order arbitrary quantities of pieces online, or just buy by the bucket at Lego stores (that's what I do).
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You are likely correct. I doubt it relies on GPS for complete navigation, but it might rely on GPS to correct drift in an inertial system in which case if you spoofed GPS a little bit for a while (hours?) you might be able to trick the drone into thinking it was somewhere near where it should have been.

Given that Iran and Afghanistan have a border and the Iranians say it was captured in the NE of Iran then it's not impossible that they simply managed to get it to drift off course into their territory and land.
If you really wanted to attack their vuln-investigation processes, you would simply let them conduct business as usual since it seems they don't know how to triage potential vulnerabilities. If you force the issue by conducting a DDoS, they will respond by developing a better triage system that de-prioritizes crank vuln reports more quickly. Not only will this defeat your DDoS attempt, but it will make them more effective at handling vuln reports going forward.
Box2d as a measure of web runtime performance.
The person responsible for this, and much of the modern world, is Edward Bernays, the "father of public relations". He got most of his ideas from his uncle, Sigmund Freud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
hey look. i'm skeptical about this whole "designer co-founder" thing in the general case. i think other people who know more than me are also skeptical. Things like this are interesting to explore, but I haven't seen any solid reasoning from the set of people pushing this, um, cause. I basically see a lot of designers who think they should have higher valuation on their contributions.

Lets see some articulate arguments and stop the hand-waving, yeah?
How are you defining value creation? Why are investment sizes listed, but not earnings, or even revenue?

Oh, that's right. It's 1999 all over again.
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By the same token...

SOPA is horrifying. No doubt about it. But it's funny how many people I meet who share this view, yet think giant multinationals are the best suited institutions for running the world. Because media conglomerates have our best interests at heart. Like our rights. Those things are universally respected. </SocialDemocratThursdays>

Yeah, yeah, libertarians don't believe corporations should corrupt the political process, reign supreme, etc. For that matter, though, neither do people on the Left think government should make bad corrupt laws.
Does some type of meeting place exist for backend + UI/design founders to meet up? I'm having enormous trouble trying to find a design co-founder for my own startup they're a rare bird out in the wild. (I know this is a selfish post but I'm acutely feeling their worth)
Seems everything that isn't a direct question/answer gets closed. Seems like they miss an opportunity with the discussion questions. They have really smart community that can't really converse on the site of something doesn't fit into he narrow question and answer definition.
If SOPA's passed, what kind of example would the United States set for the rest of the world, especially after all our criticism of China's internet censorship?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/07411217009/chines...

The effects of this won't just be confined to the USA.
... and just deleting the version of Java they have installed is somehow more reasonable? Honestly, the fact that this is even being seriously considered by Ubuntu is pretty much a death blow to me ever trusting a package update from the project again... what's next: a security update that uninstalls Apache from my web server, or one that uninstalls Exim from my email server?
They won't stop at US borders. They'll just use it as an argument in other countries. Eventually the Congress would be convinced to pass laws to punish foreign nationals -- deny visas, seize domains on US DNS servers and so on.
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It's also worth mentioning that the bigger problem here is that the breakneck pace of technological advancement has left legislators behind just due to age. They did not grow up with the Internet. Hell, they barely grew up with television. But we went from radio to the Internet in 70 years, less than many a human lifetime. That's going to cause some pendulum swinging. Obviously I think we should oppose SOPA with all of our hearts and all of our voices, but let's also not despair that this is how it will always be. Call me an idealist, but 5-10 years from now, when people start getting elected who were young when the Internet changed everything, I think we'll see a swing of the pendulum back away from this madness.
Who is talking about quotas? ICS has revolutionized Android, but you wouldn't know it from reading DF. That's already a failure by Gruber, as a tech journalist.
Defaulting to no is just common sense. It's a lot easier to undo a no than to undo a yes.

In a similar vein to Heinlein's idea of creating a house of legislature whose only power it is to repeal laws, I have thought that one of the underlying problems we have with government is this one-way trap of legislation; once a thing is enacted, it pretty much stays enacted forever. There's virtually no equivalent way to get something off the books. It's no wonder we just have more laws and more laws and more laws; how would the opposite result occur?
I'm sorry, but Joshua Topolsky is turning this into class warfare on his own. I can understand how one might make the jump to class warfare when comparing a Honda and Mercedes in a different context, but in this case the reviewer was talking about the quality and attention to detail put into the car (which of course means it costs more, they put more time and effort into creating it).

When I read MG's statement out loud, it made perfect sense to me. When I read Topolsky's immediate jump to class warfare, my gut reaction was that HE was the one who sounded absurd and should be embarrassed.

I do not disagree that Gruber and MG are most definitely flying Apple flags, but I think this article is a complete overreaction.
Somehow no one seems to have mentioned food (at least source material for the printers has been mentioned).

So yes, resupply flights will still be required because for now at least, the operators of the printers and the actors who take their results and replace parts of the space station and then do science on the space station still need to be fed in food produce on earth.

This will help but I don't think it warrants the title's conclusion or the opening paragraph that we can so do away with constant resupply flights to ISS
I had a bit about the irony of Gruber quoting PG's "Trolling" essay, but took it out. It really seems like Gruber trolls for views and ad money at this point.
Always open to learn more about how people are tackling inefficiencies in their service businesses
What about 'pirated' copies of Windows? I presume they're not getting updates at the moment.

(All the same, this is still a good thing.)
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> Oh, that's right. It's 1999 all over again.

I've read this same comment so many times over the last 4 years on hacker news my instinct is to downvote it automatically.

Sure you made a good point about the article mentioning capital raised, not revenue/profit.

But how does constantly comparing now or last year or 2008 or 2007 to the dotcom boom adding any value to this or any discussion?
I agree that the feedback loop between corporations who contribute to political campaigns with money and politicians that can regulate/deregulate and who need money to run their campaigns to get (re)elected is corrupting. They are extorting each other for money and regulatory influence. This does not mean that rich corporations, regulation or money in political campaigns are inherently corrupting.

It just means that the way it works need to be adjusted.

"For example, to borrow an idea from Yale’s Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres, if elections were funded by what we could call “democracy vouchers,” where citizens could allocate up to $50 to any candidate and candidates could receive money only from citizens in their districts, then a dependency upon voters might well be the same as, or close enough to, a dependency upon contributors."
http://bostonreview.net/BR35.5/lessig.php
Eh? SOPA has a private right of action.
...so we are saying that the person in charge of running security updates on production servers /is/ in a position to make a conscious decision on the (apparently now high) risk of installing what seems like a simple update, and possess the technical knowledge to figure out why suddenly nothing works anymore?...

I mean, this isn't even something they could easily undo: the old packages won't be able to be distributed anymore. They would either have to manually install the SDK themselves in a way compatible with the Ubuntu package distribution, or install OpenJDK and hope for the best (which, as you yourself point out, is unlikely to work, as there is likely a reason they installed the Sun JDK in the first place).
There's no "class warfare" here Josh.

The only people that read either of your words are just us nerds of a feather fretting over which miracle of technology is more perfectly refined.

So give us all a break.

But I clicked dammit, and that means you got paid, and get positive reinforcement to engineer more drama.
The title made me think of some scenario from the movie "Cube"
They used the word "nerd" frequently, but it wasn't really meant derisively, and a few people self-identified as nerds. (The tech-savviest man in the room used to run an ISP, I believe he was one such "nerd".)
I've actually had similar thoughts about Lego in the past. When I was younger I used to love playing with the generic "space" Legos or the generic "castle" legos. Looking back, it was great because those sets where generic enough that you could imagine your own story for them. You wouldn't just be building sets, you'd be building universes.

Much of that is lost with movie-themed Legos. If a kid sees Star Wars and then goes to get the Star Wars Lego set, then the Luke Skywalker figure will always be Luke Skywalker, and the Vader figure will always be Vader, and you'll always need a Millenium Falcon around to join the party. Media tie-ins seem to greatly restrict (though of course not totally destroy) the potential for a kid to make up his own adventure. The universe is already imagined for you; in a sense, you become a participant, not a creator.
When I entered through KLIA, I wasn't asked about currency. The only customs/immigration questions were agriculture and health quarantine related. There were no further customs checkpoints either. They did take my fingerprints though. No questions about how much liquor you are bringing in or anything.

Exiting was more interesting. There they ask you to declare money you are taking out of the country and they don't let you take very much out. Moreover they will only let you buy up to 2 L of liquor duty free because of Malaysian customs. And yes, they take your fingerprints again.

Maybe the rail crossings are different?
Raymond explains why the vulnverability investigation took so long, in his reply in this comment: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/12/15/10247...
Just to let you know, that is a quotation, but it wasn't meant in the derisive manner (as you decided to interpret it). On the contrary, the reasonable members of the House understand they need more technical people to weigh-in and are pushing for another hearing with such people present.
They do say they couldt find the vulnerability right away, that doesn't mean or doesn't exist though. If they don't investigate even the flimsiest of claims, it could cost quite a bit in cleanup.
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The whole of F# is open source AFAIK. Used on Linux and in schools a lot.
That sounds like good behaviour for the browser plugin, but removing the entire JDK would be annoying if you used Eclipse. I suspect that non-plugin use of the JDK would not be as impacted by the security issues.
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If I put a HILARIOUS comic of my own on my website, there is a really good chance that it won't generate any traffic. Nobody reads my website and submitting it to reddit or whatever may or may not give me the eyes it needs to go viral.
One example is http://builditwith.me their tagline is "Connecting Designers and Developers". Good luck.
I'm not sure I understand--isn't defending a preference one way people relate to certain other people?

If by "other people" you meant all other people--I don't think that's actually true or evidenced here. All of these people have professional stakes which are in play in a heated debate they're having with a very small number of other people who also have professional stakes. But I'm sure Gruber and Topolsky and others go home and have lots of relationships with people that do not involve any of this.

I feel similarly about "think about": as heated as this language is, I don't know that we can easily characterize what Topolsky thinks about Gruber and Siegler overall.
3D printing food: http://www.good.is/post/the-food-printer-how-mit-is-taking-t...
Ohhh...that would be so fun. Is Anonymous still up and running, they should take the case.
To be clear, nobody bribed anybody on PATRIOT; it's just that the folk in congress apparently lack the rest of the country's visceral suspicion of the phrase "national security".
The article says it's an extrusion printer, so gravity isn't needed. Current machines would probably work without further modification (e.g. as others have noted, the RepRap can print upside down).

In terms of what parts can be made, multi-material machines are commercially available[1] that allow a selective distribution of material properties throughout the printed object. This gives the ability to print quite advanced objects, not just dumb plastic parts. Add to that the developing abilities to print electrical circuitry, and you'e approaching a very useful ability and source of replacements.

[1] http://www.objet.com/3D-Printer/Objet_Connex_Family/
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> 1. Understood. Gotta figure something out

Have a chat with Christian of http://www.disenolopez.com/

He's a really nice guy and he just did a logo for me (as part of a work swap we arranged on weekendhacker.net) and I was very happy with the result. He might do you a good deal if you mention Charlie recommended him to you.

Just a suggestion. Good luck!
i'd have to imagine it started with newspapers doing it to save space on the page
You've also probably seen thousands of variants on "what ever happened to do no evil?" posted to myriad Google articles over the years, as well. Such is the nature of discussion. Sometimes the same idea in a slightly different context is unique enough to qualify for positive value. Does my comment qualify? I don't know.

I will just note that some of us lived through the dot com bust, and we remember quite clearly what the mentality was like, especially for insiders. For us, the environment today is damn near identical to what it was like then; we just had slower connections and hardware. When we post semi-snarky comments like this, we do it partly as a warning. Profits do matter. At some point, the kids will realize it.
You're right, my mistake. I should have said "to not support" instead of "to drop support for".
I don't think design alone, or technical skills alone are enough to get it done. Both are commodities. Anyone can throw up a spiffy iPhone app or web app with Node.JS in the backend. Not everyone, on the other hand has domain expertise, and can create a product with market fit, and sell it.

If you rely too much on your design skills, you'll end up creating something like Gowalla - something noone wants. if you rely too much on technological sexiness, you'll end up like SimpleGeo.. I bet they got 100,000+ lines of code altogether all for naught.
They just decided they didn't want to a polling site. I think the programmers stack exchange is where these questions go now, but who can tell? Generally I just post my questions somewhere obviously wrong and wait for someone to tell me where they go.
Oracle isn't demanding Ubuntu actively remove Java from user's computers: Ubuntu has simply decided to do so; they could keep distributing the old version, or even distribute no version at all. Meanwhile, the driving factor behind the license change is "use OpenJDK instead", which would be a step in the right direction with regard to RMS's issues with Java. Oracle is not the problem here: Ubuntu is.
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The Internet is not commerce. It is a medium of communication.

You might as well call writing in a newspaper commerce, or a telephone system, or a city plaza.

That commercial acts transpire through the medium does not make the medium an actualization of platonic commerce.
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The generated code is not compatible and there are other issues. We have some stubs vs dwarf debug information issues with gcc. The code generated by gcc is not as optimized as the vendor supplied compilers. This is if you are telling the compiler that you only want to support sparcv8+ or pwr5+ so it can take advantage of the newer CPUs. And even if gcc was the same or better, there is the issue of support. We only use the vendor compilers because we meet with them regularly and they will fix any bugs immediately (at least start working on them) and are open to enhancement requests. I'm not aware of any company willing to provide awesome service for gcc on these platforms.

Edit: Not to say we don't use gcc. The entire codebase does of course build using gcc on all of the platforms.. it is mainly the support issue and tweaks needed to build the binaries the way we want on each architecture.
I didn't really mean all. I did say between strangers and especially when the two are not face-to-face. Two other qualifiers: 1) when "good funds" need to be transferred immediately and 2) for dollar ranges from around $10 to $1,000. This makes up the vast majority of retail commerce for which credit cards are so well suited and widely used.

Best approach is to look for areas where credit cards are not widely used instead of trying to displace them in areas where they work really (really, really) well.
People who work at corporations have consciences. They are not run by robots yet. Corporations consist of people with kids of their own. They are human beings. They are not without blame just like the parents.
A terrible one. So bad, I hope, that the rest of the world says to themselves "those Americans and Chinese are all nuts! We shouldn't trust them with too much of the internet's infrastructure."
Thanks for the feedback :)

Cryptography entry is coming this weekend :D
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More specifically, the Internet is a channel or instrumentality of interstate commerce, both of which the US Supreme Court has held fall under the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
If Mel Watt can not evaluate the testimonies of conflicting experts and come to his own conclusion, he simply should not be in Congress.

That's the whole job!

If he can't do it, get him out of it.
And the PATRIOT Act, and the DMCA.
There's no need for fancy engineering to prevent driving to a protest. Most cities already have traffic control mechanisms in place - bridges, toll booths, tunnels - that are far simpler and harder to work around. I believe New York City has shut down various passages into Manhattan in response to threats or protests over the past few years.
Did you read below the infographic? We laid out some reasoning...long story short it's about collaboration and multi-disciplinary skills necessary to ship, titles are actually not that important... Have you read the software design manifesto?... agree got to show with data and prove value of course, like the recent FAB funding round with strong emphasis on design
I can't think of a better way to erode Americas international influence. If you can't go there and your web sites can't be viewed there, and they won't let you watch any of their popular media, or even import your products for sale there, what the hell good are they to anyone?

I expect the makers of SOPA et al think they're dictating terms to the world. I think will turn out to be just isolationism in disguise.
For more JavaScript awesomeness on par with what's already presented, see http://wtfjs.com/ =)
For sure, it's about a critical mass of engineering, design and business skill...it's a constant re-balancing act as you iterate
This claim is often made, but it seems rather dubious.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/21/space-shuttle-...
Defaulting to no is just common sense. It's a lot easier to undo a no than to undo a yes.

Except that in that case, it wasn't no to the law but no to an amendment to the law. By saying no, they were actually agreeing to more things in the law. It would have indeed be easier to later on add "block a site by IP address" to the law… (though that still wouldn't have made sense)
Maybe I'm off, but I think Topolsky interprets it as a class thing because Mercedes are expensive and many people can't afford them.

Do you think your average Honda owner would upgrade to a Mercedes if the money was the same? I do.
Identifiers with blanks:

http://tibleiz.net/zinc/

(not that strange, but not so common)
It might be more beneficial to try to get them to improve llvm support for their respective os+archs. It'd be less diversity of compilers but is probably a better investment for them than shoe-horning a poor/incomplete C++11 implementation into their aging compilers.
The warning goes out to anyone who is or will be owed money by Dwolla (ie, mainly the merchants, or payers who pre-fund their Dwolla accounts).

PayPal performs a similar service but backs it with a credit card.

The risk is fraudsters setting up phony bank accounts, piling up a bunch of Dwolla credit, paying themselves and disappearing.
And to make things even more fun, each individual compiler usually comes with baggage it has collected over the years. In xlC alone the -qnamemangling option can be set to: ansi (don't let it fool you), v11, v10, v9, v8, v7, v6, v5, v4, v3, or compat so even code build with the same compiler isn't always compatible.
According to the BLS, San Francisco's unemployment rate is 9.1%[1] (lower than the 15% I had misquoted earlier), California's unemployment rate 11.7%[2], and the national unemployment rate is 8.6%[3]

1 http://bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm
2 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST06000003
3 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000