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Don't get too excited. The jobs will likely be focused on India and other cheap destinations where the hiring process is quick. Red Hat is a pretty average company. Having nearly all of the talent drained into first-tier companies (Google, Twitter, Amazon) and second-tier companies (Oracle, VMware, IBM) it's closer to a third-tier company now.
It's probably cheating a little to just grab an existing Javascript interpreter written in C++, compile that with emscripten and call it a Javascript interpreter in Javascript. When you compile C++ code, do you say that the program is in Assembly?
There was a TechStars company called http://grouptalent.com who sponsored the last Seattle Startup Weekend. They're a high-end job board positioning themselves to help people finance their bootstrapped startups.
I think there is a similarity; smart marketing.
Well, there are similarities, but I think the dissimilarities are kind of the point.

This distribution model worked in one instance for a big name. The Dooley's are leveraging the similarities--super easy distribution, no DRM, very low bars for the audience--and seeing if they work for a different kind of artist.

Content distribution models are broken, experiments are good, and I think this is a great one. I'm listening right now and will certainly throw in a few bucks--it's nice music, and Nick's got chops.
I love what Louis C.K. has done, but if you read his description of the process you'll note he says he spend about 35k on the platform he used to sell his video.

I'd love to see an open source version of this, so that other people can do the same without having the 35k up front to pay a web developer.
when the program parses the ibniz string, it seems to look for a character AFTER v. if v is the last character in the string, then when it does this , it gets undefined, attempts to get the char code for it, and thus throws an error since undefined isn't a string with a charCodeAt method. This is easily fixed by guarding that section of code to make sure that it always returns a string and never returns undefined.
Certainly they could. How often does government give up a power like that though?

Another possibility is that if used, the law could (and likely will) be challenged on constitutional grounds.
The latest example I know of happening is the seizing of the laptops of a blogger who runs a climate-science related website. His blog was one of the handful that the 'climategate' links were posted on.

So the outcome was that a warrant was given to search his house, 6 armed officers entered, took two laptops and left (to my knowledge, they still haven't been returned). He wasn't charged with a crime or wasn't a suspect in a crime, he merely had a link posted in a wordpress-hosted blog that he runs by the person that distributed the zip file containing the emails.

It's pretty bad that you can lose hardware and have it inspected by unknown persons for unknown reasons simply because you had an anonymous poster put something on your blog.

This story, to me, really brought it home that the biggest threat to computer privacy probably isn't theft but rather falling foul of a political position.

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/tallbloke-towers-r...
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Looks great, and kudos on releasing open source code as well. As a developer who has specialized in making web-based maps, I've been dreaming of something like this coming a long, and here it is.

I had seriously considered working toward the same goal, but gave up because I wasn't sure about what kind of customers I might find. I'm still convinced that there are a lot of customers out there for this type of thing, and I hope you guys make this into something big!
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its also interesting to see the variance in percentage stakes for the various roles.
I don't think it worked for Louis CK simply because he's popular. It worked because he's a great performer. And I hope this doesn't come across as too harsh, but the out-of-tune moments, like "find" at about :47 into "When I Find Claire" are why it's tough for other people to do the same.

Louis CK put out a $200k production at $5 / pop, not including editing time (since he edited it himself). This is not the musical equivalent of a $200k production.

I hope your dad makes a few bucks because it's important to support local artists, but this isn't particularly well produced, so comparing this with Louis CK's production isn't going to safely lead to general conclusions about the approach to sales.
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To add to this, note that while Louis C.K. experimented with distribution, he experimented very little with marketing. He hit the same late night television shows he would regardless, and the word of mouth of his existing fan base propelled it even further.

This, on the other hand, is an experiment in both marketing and distribution, and barring any significant innovation in the former, it will probably fail.
There are remote employees who work from home full or part time, but you will have to ask them if you are eligible.
A similar operation is ongoing (?) in Athens ATM.
http://www.illegalsigns.gov.gr/?p=611

The even made an iPhone app for reporting those things.
Everyone got thrilled at first, but now it looks like it's grinding to a halt (econ. crisis and all).

The city is indeed cleaner (at least the main avenues).
Also, we had many road accidents involving drunk drivers hitting on those huge ad poles (now, at least, somebody might have a chance for survival hitting something else other than metal).
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I'm a bit confused. Uber said:

and you will ALWAYS know if there is a price increase before you request an Uber.

But I infer from the post that the potential cost was not known to the author prior to accepting the ride? Obviously, getting hit with a large bill after the event is pretty uncool but if the rate is clear in advance, you can either take it or pick up a regular cab.
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When your location is being found, e.g. by the TomTom app running in the background, a purple arrow appears on the top of the screen near the battery meter. In my experience, it's pretty obvious what app is using the background GPS.
If his IQ were any higher, he might have considered intentionally doing poorly on the IQ test. I guess he's just in no man's land.
We pair a fair bit at Square. We require that all code either be paired on or go through code review, but let each team decide their own process. Some of the teams pair 90+% of the time, and some pair only infrequently.
Ironic how despite all this, the american government finds it fit to support this repressive regime, while demonizing countries like Syria where citizens (or at least women) enjoy greater freedoms. One could say it all depends on your stance vis-a-vis Israel. The fact of the matter is that, countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, old Egypt, North Korea etc. have normalized or at least neutral relations with Israel (despite the hypocritical rhetoric to appease the masses), and hence are supported or allowed to have their way (even their bombs).

I think this hacking incident is a mere accident, and the ruling Saudis will be quick to repress it and assure Israel none of this will happen again.
I am, admittedly, attacking a straw man, though in the case of RMS and a few others, it's not far off from reality.

> In one sandpit, everyone shares their toys. In the other sandpit... who cares what they do?

That's the attitude I mean. The fact is, a lot of people care: engineers, customers, and investors are making really interesting things happen in that sandpit. For FOSS advocates to avoid the development happening there is a hindrance to progress, not in aid of it. Maybe if RMS let himself own an Android or iPhone (perhaps with SIM removed), he would understand why these new platforms are a big deal, and be better equipped to create truly open equivalents, instead of insisting on living in his purist tech world of the 70's (wget-ing web pages? really?).

Closed source isn't evil. It's selfish. And we expect a certain level of selfishness from both individuals and companies. I fully support shifting our values in tech and elsewhere to a greater esteem for community and the commons. But calls for all software to be open and free is unrealistic: many people can't or won't create value without a selfish incentive. Time spent advocating against closed platforms is better spent making open platforms better.
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* Also, how exactly do you determine if this ban was a "success"? *

Before the vote, polls indicated that the majority of "paulistanos" wanted the ban. Now, 5 years later, a poll done by a local paper showed that over 90% of residents approuve the results and want it to continue.
Thanks, Andrew, for posting a transcript of the interview as well as a summary of some of the things Zaarly did to reach 100k members. From reading the transcript, it appears that being featured in the Apple and Android app stores was also extremely helpful. I was surprised to see the press exposure didn't really help, though.
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I'm pretty sure Amazon will let you do this. Kindle Singles might be a good place. You can then do whatever to promote them with Amazon as the channel.
Simple answer : no. Even at massive scale where everyone did it, the tiny, tiny differences in power consumption wouldn't be a rounding error in power generation.

Power stations are built to supply x amount of energy for y time. They aren't like a car engine where switching off the air-con makes a noticeable difference.

This kind of meme gets going because of the campaign to switch appliances off at the wall, thinking it is going to make some type of differences. Every analysis I have ever seen is that (1) the difference is so small it makes no difference and (2) whatever minute drop in demand is found will quickly be used up in industrial users expanding consumption into the lower demand period. Just running one arc-furnace or aluminium smelter for 1 hour longer is going to negate most domestic level fine shavings like switching the TV off at the wall.

Mostly this stuff is promoted to make people feel like they personally are involved and making a difference.
Such a warm and friendly invitation to debate:

This post made it to the first page on Hacker News. Some of the comments have been great and informative. Some comments on HN and here on my blog have been down right idiotic. Some people have made false assumptions and some I am convinced didn’t even read what I wrote. Either way, I appreciate all the people who took their time to comment on the post.

I wish I had time to read any farther, but I've suddenly remembered a vitally important prior engagement.
When I went to Israel a few years back I could not believe my eyes when I noticed that my entire CC number was printed on every receipt.

I don't imagine online CC security being much better..
The critical factor is always publicity, rather than distribution models.

Louis didn't get publicity because he put stuff on the internet, but rather because he had built a following with his previous work, and used that to publicize this effort. He could have spent three months in a glass box suspended on the Hudson river and sold the tape at some random street market, and he would have probably received the same amount of money and attention.

The OP knows this very well, and is actually just trying to get publicity by arbitrarily linking his dad's stuff with Louis' name. To be honest, it's quite disgraceful.
I think you have it backwards. Wikimedia has a business model. Jimmy Wales looks solemnly at you, and then you give them money.

Why aren't you guys looking for ways to scale this up? If Jimmy Wales was solemnly looking at me when I went through the turnstyle, would fare evasion drop?[1]

Think big, man: Jimmy Wales as a Service. JWaaS.

[1] Actually, psych research suggests it would: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9424-big-brother-eyes-...
America benefits from the innovations of other nations, but Americans are worried. Looking at history, America's rise to prominence in the 20th century seems to have been largely fueled by being the innovator, the inventor. The worry thus being, what will happen to them when they aren't anymore?
Huh? Dogs are brought so that the police can then do the search themselves. The police signal the dog to bark, and because of the barking justify their search. Not sure what the news here is.
Assuming this is corroborated by more studies, I wonder how long this would take to result in a change in the acceptance of dog sniffs as probable cause. Does anyone know of any precedent or previous situation where such a change happened?
There are many freedoms. I suspect Stallman would be happy if he achieved all his free software goals, even if he lost freedoms that most other people consider more important.
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Not perfectly fine if you use MySQL. Adding an index to a table on MySQL locks the entire table, which can introduce hours of downtime if the size of the table is large.
I would argue that the purpose of allowing anyone to call themselves "Anonymous" places the group's identity on their actions, not who they say they are. It's kind of the whole point of calling themselves "Anonymous" and leads right into the "we are legion" bit. There is no individual, only the movement.

However, by performing actions that are contrary to the Anonymous ideology the Saudi attackers distanced themselves farther from Anonymous than any name could
Agreed, it's partially cheating, although a lot of work went into getting it to compile to LLVM and patching it work with Emscripten. That's not where it stops though. The plan is to make the library work just like the SpiderMonkey JS API, which will require wrapper scripts in JS.
I'll attest to this. When I worked for SourceForge.net we removed tons of ads only AFTER a/b testing showed that fewer more prominent (i.e., "engaging") ads increase click-thru and revenue.
I'd like to know - on what non-advertising models is Facebook working?
Yesterday was the first day I'd blocked Hacker News to get work done, ironically it was the moment when I needed something like this the most. Oh well, seems really cool. I'm glad the flash, closed alternative Prezi has a rival as this seems far more responsive.
I'm not terribly familiar with free market Austrian-school economics, could you expound on what you mean?
I'm fairly certain that if I run "Words With Friends" once, if I don't kill it after I'm done, it will kill my battery roughly twice as quickly as normal. Has anyone else seen this, or am I simply wrong?
But what is "Anonymous' ideology" if anyone is part of Anonymous?

Maybe Anonymous should have chosen a different name. Other groups could then remain anonymous, without being assumed to be Anonymous.
This article, like Roboto, is barely readable. :)

I was wondering why I had so much trouble reading this screen full of text, and it turned out the entire thing is typeset in Roboto. Argh.

Roboto is not (that) interesting. People need to stop going on about it.
Does bandcamp have a 'random' radio feed? I was unable to find it. (radio.bandcamp.com leads to a particular band).
I can't help but imagine that whoever has the bad luck of fighting against against the drones and robots of US will feel much like in Terminator 3, except the drones and robots won't attack on their own, but will be manned or sent by the US military instead.
If you're interested in good references for being able to produce `visual stories' I suggest you have a look into the R package `ggplot2' [1].

It's a great way (although a little challenging at first) of being able to produce almost all of the types of plots you're interested in creating. The author of the package also wrote a great book [2] on the package which is worth a read.

A note though, most information on `ggplot2' isn't really aimed at informing you which is the most appropriate plot, merely that a type of plot can be quickly produced.

[1] http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387981403?ie=UTF8&tag=...
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Here is the site: http://www.websitemobilizer.com

Backstory: I used to build websites for a living and recently some of my old clients asked if I could build them a mobile site. After doing a few manually I took some time to write a "mobilizer" script to try and automate this process. It works well on some sites but not so well on others :)

The site is very simple right now as I'm trying to see if there is demand for the product first (there has been a good amount of leads but not a lot of conversions). Let me know what you think!
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It would require a court to change the precedence since probable is determined by the courts. It could happen fairly quickly if the right case was argued in the right court. Best case would still take years. I personally think it will take decades. Courts don't move quickly without pressure to change and police don't like to give up the powers they have.
Good grief. Hassling the populace with a run of the mill credit card theft is not TERRORism. Terrorism is either violence or the threat of violence. Get a grip.
Your cynicism has accurately predicted the gist of this article, but it may be news for others who see dogs as objective sensors.
I think the term is 'sectarian'.
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I need something more "freehand" and Ortelius is what I need;
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The point is to make such laws unworkable through practical measures, not to generate political anger in the uncertain hope that that will balance the efforts of proprietorial lobbyists and state security extremists indefinitely.
Yes, presumably. I guess I'm wondering what level of evidence/studies courts typically want in these situations before overturning precedent. Obviously it varies from court to court, though :)
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Completely unrealistic.

It can take up a couple of years to get a frequency allocation for your satellite to communicate on.

Amateur HAM radio satellites operate under fairly strict rules that could be revoked by the powers that be at any time.

There are few technological artifacts more vulnerable than a satellite.
Being cognizant of storage and indexing implications is important, but I would still probably go the char/varchar route; a distinction should be made between numeric data and text data that happens to be comprised only of numeric values. In addition whether talking about SSNs, product numbers, whatever, if you try and use a numeric field you run the risk of coming across a value that exceeds the upper bound of numeric type.
Not sure. I would imagine one good expert witness with a good lawyer and a few studies could make headway if there was sufficient public pressure. Court cases don't happen in a vacuum. :)
> I have a very hard time resolving how this type of attack could fall under the umbrella of Anonymous

Well the hackers have not identified themselves by name so they are ... anonymous. Isn't that the idea behind Anonymous, that anyone who is anonymous can claim to be Anonymous?
Clever idea to use the logic boards as wings.
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If you use TrueCrypt properly, most unused space on your hard disk will be filled with random bits, whether or not you have a hidden OS in there.
But, they don't have to allow them to be launched in the first place.

Unless this goes through official channels, it becomes a ballistic missile proliferation issue, which the powers that be are somewhat twitchy about.
That's funny, I enjoyed the music because of the production (and talent), not in spite of it.

Ever heard Hasil Adkins' self-produced tapes that he made in a shack in the 1950s? Giving them big studio production values would have been totally inappropriate.

The thing about music is that there's no one-size-fits-all approach to how it should be produced. I'm not saying this singer should be compared to Hasil Adkins, or that he's a musical equivalent of Louis CK. I'm saying that you should look at what it is on its own merits.

All I got out of this was that he was taking the same approach as Louis CK by skipping all the complicated stuff and just selling as directly and simply as possible. Just because it's not on the same scale doesn't mean it's not in the same spirit.
You can only copyright ... game assets.

What do you think the tanks are? He made his game's tank assets identical to their tank assets. It doesn't matter if he ripped them from a rom or modeled them up himself he copied their assets.
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Take a look at the links here for info on anonymous publishing: http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/how-maintain-your-ano...

For accepting payments, a PayPal Business account will display a business name instead of your name on the payment confirmation page. For setting up an anonymous business, I've read that New Mexico has the most privacy-friendly LLC requirements, allowing you to use a registered agent as the only identifying information provided anywhere within your official documents, and requiring no annual report detailing membership within the LLC.
> Can we call it a cyber terror attack?

We can. How will that help? It won't put the cat back in the bag.
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Important to note is that the Author had taken classes in Java previously, but had no Objective-C experience (his primary language seems to be C#.) Spoiler: the iOS app took 2x as long to build.
I'm mostly certain no one could really give you a determining answer pertaining the legality of just browsing trough the list.

From my own experience in this matters, security forces may eventually get the logs, but are then going to cross check them against other information before even asking an ISP about information pertaining the IP addresses they get. If I were worried that someone with powerful connections in security forces would be determined enough to get me into trouble, I would use Tor to open them from a securely wipeable VM and won't save them in my hard disk.

I always click them from my PC... but in any case things get nasty I am currently working for a recognized information security company, and clicking this stuff is sort of part of my job.