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I thought I was going to have to comment on HN basically with the verbatim text of the post, until I clicked through and read it.
I consider Qt to be more a framework than a library per se. The fact of being written in C++ is probably irrelevant, since you usually don't link to it from other projects (say ncurses, gtk based), you use it to build a Qt application or extend it (like the KDE project).

With boost you usually pick and choose and include parts of the (templated) libraries directly into your project directory, so you don't have to embrace it in full.
If you don't pay the financial penalties your assets are seized and you go bankrupt... or not even that, in most cases, thanks to the concept of LLC.

People don't go to jail for breaking workers' rights like holiday entitlements, let's not make it more dramatic than it is.
It won't work either way, my comment was not intented to be serious. According to the theory, the larger part of mass is originated in sea quarks which form and annihilate from the binding energy of the "real" valence quarks in very short time spans - how to approach those?

There will be other problems too.. gravity is the weakest force, but it still plays a role. If it is taken away, the chemistry of our ship (and us) could change critically.

Additionally, if there is no mass, electron and nucleons will all have the same mass (none), and all elements will have the same mass - uhoh. If you're lucky you might get an entire new set of particles, or maybe try hydrogen plasma..

I agree, we'd be far to busy figuring this out. But imagine, maybe overhigging would be possible as well and we'd have gravity generators! (Low g is one of the big health problems in space.)
> Internet companies have made billions of dollars in an unregulated market but have not paid off Congressmen/Senators through campaign contributions, lobbyists, creation of significant PACs, 527 committees -- things which all appeal to a politician's self-interest.

This is completely false; Internet companies are regulated by the DMCA, which provides them safe harbor from private lawsuits related to copyright infringement. If the DMCA did not exist, they would have been sued into oblivion by the content companies long ago.

There are a lot of reasons to oppose SOPA but let's not pretend that the Internet is unregulated.
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I don't think Bill was targeting all Ruby users with his response. If anything, RoR is the poster child for what he describes as a "standard and time-tested" technology. As long as you're actually building something with your stack -- whatever it may be -- you probably don't fall into the "hipster" camp.
An email I received from Jimmy Wales regarding SOPA
Oh man, Fake Grimlock is the man! Er... Giant bird robot.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. I did not mean to imply that Ron Paul or the average Libertarian intends to completely dismantle the Federal Government. However, it does seem that for many important issues, they wish to defer to the State level.

By “strong central government” I did not mean an economy centrally managed to the point at which Washington would be dictating how many widgets are made in a given month. I meant to imply a government that acts in the best interest of the population. Is it unreasonable to have minimum national standards for education, welfare, safety, and pollution? Every successful OECD country has these because they are necessary to prosper in the complex modern world. Would the US be more successful if we had policies such as centralized healthcare? Insurance is a HUGE burden on business in the US (not to mention on the individual – my wife was seriously ill earlier this year, even with insurance the total out of pocket cost will be ~$30,000. I can assure you that this burden is NOT helping my own attempts to start a business).

The freedom for people to tinker, fail, experiment and hopefully succeed comes from living in a society that educates, has some form of a social safety net, and provides reasonable economic legislation – i.e. the stable conditions necessary for capitalism to flourish. It is disingenuous to ignore the role that government has played in the success of the US and every other successful country.
Can't find the quote either, but there's a good take by Linus on cat-v.org: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

...and by others, including PG: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
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So do we just invoke "SOPA" for any little hiccup now? Spam blacklists are not exactly a new issue on the Internet.
One might think that just b/c entrapment is forbidden by US law that honepots are not used. All the law means is that the evidence directly gathered via entrapment can't be used.

Unregulated things like Craigslist and Tor likely offer law enforcement and intelligence agencies more "honeypot value" than they "cost" in terms of petty illegal behavior.
For people using bootstrap, someone's been working on some nice looking progress bars there: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/699
This kind of thing would require large scale industrialization of space (in orbit around various places). If we are doing that, why not create a black hole starship?

Microscopic black holes have been theorized as power sources for starships. The power source is the Hawking radiation that is intense for microscopic black holes, with a mass of around a million tonnes according to calculations in [1].

Apparently, creating a black hole "would require millions of times less energy than a comparable amount of antimatter" [2]. We would need to learn more about quantum gravity first though.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.1803
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
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Wow, I really like the literate style. Great stuff.
The title is very misleading. The article mentions a twelve year old boy, not, as the title says, a "little girl".
Exactly. We need to put up some opposition to this in court, but eventually just decentralize all levels of the internet. The real fight is when using that code (Namecoin, TOR, etc) is becoming illegal. Then we have a final legal battle to fight.
Is this really worthy for the HN frontpage, sure it might be a good product, but it seems more like advertising spam...?
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Tellurium's not a rare earth element though. It is currently produced only in very small quantities, but my understanding is we just don't know much about how much of it's available due to the fact that we didn't really use it for anything until CdTe photovoltaics came along.

Worth noting too that this is only one of a number of thin film solar technologies, and that silicon rather than thin film still accounts for the vast majority of all production.
This is a really cool idea, but the name makes me wince.

The "real" Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is described as being a singularly unhelpful book. It "contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate," but is profitable because of its affordability and the friendly words on the cover. It is as likely to lead you into danger as to help you out of it, which shouldn't be surprising since its editorial staff spend most of their time partying and making up facts to put in the book. Arthur (like the reader) is initially enamored of its space-age technology, but other characters refer to it as "oh, that thing". It's a tabloid rag-- more like a for-profit Encyclopedia Dramatica than Wikipedia.

I know, it's a silly nit to pick, but I often feel like people kind of miss the point of the series.
It's not a new idea. I had - among others - a SQL Server 2000 book that had the ebook (either HTML or CHM) on it.
Even without the romanticism of reading, there's one thing I can't do with a Kindle book, that I greatly enjoy doing:

Lending it to other people.

It doesn't matter how many fucking awful Facebook plugins you write, there is nothing as convenient as "Have you read [X]? I have a copy, here, let me get it."

Until I can lend my Kindle books to people - with no restrictions, I will continue buying physical books.
Plan 9 from User Space is active; it both tracks mainline Plan 9 distribution and includes own improvements. I'm using it daily, both at work and privately; I especially love using Acme over networked X11 protocol -- great performance for a GUI app.

Go see for yourself: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/changesets
I love ebooks, but I hate the kindle way that ties me to Amazon and makes it hard for me to share my books. Effectively, I no longer own books, I only borrow them from Amazon.

Every now and then I get weak anyway and buy a kindle book. But often Amazon tells me I first need to switch my account from Amazon.com to Amazon.de. That is the reminder of what is wrong with it. Why does it matter where I buy my ebook? I want to buy my ebook wherever and whenever I want, and just have a device that can handle all my books. I know it is possible to get other books onto the kindle, but it is very cumbersome (I don't own a kindle, so the email transfer does not work). And they won't sync between devices, either, afaik.

I find this very depressing, because it seems unlikely to change in the near future. Everybody wants to own their customer, nobody is going to deliver a reader that is simply a good reader. Not the least because it would also require titanic negotiations with book publishers to make their content available somehow.
and if you're a programmer we will donate $5 if you solve our programming puzzle on http://fightsopa.org
Switzerland is really not a model when it comes to racism. Until very recently, its government was blatantly organized along ethnic lines, with clear glass ceilings for some groups. Public opinion is very conservative on this matter, and most laws are enacted in clearly racist terms.
> As a result, demand outside China now outstrips supply by some 40,000 tons per year

This statement doesn't square with an understanding of basic econ 101. It renders the rest of the article pretty suspect, if it wasn't already due to the breathless tabloid tone.
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Thinking about how things happened in technology over last 3 decades with Microsoft playing around, I decided to share my thoughts about Windows Phone's penetration to the market.
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Yes, of course you wouldn't directly use an H bomb, the idea was that the quantities of fissile materials needed to propel a 100kg interstellar probe to 0.2c are easily within reach of several nations. Controlled fusion can be achieved in very confined spaces:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohlraum

I agree that communication equipment is a major problem. The best way to solve it is probably to oversize the local equipment: a dedicated space telescope and a powerful orbital laser. This may let you get away with a very lightweight emitter/receiver pair on the probe itself.
That's my point exactly. Even in poor countries branding may trump economy and undercut Android's price advantage.
To be fair, recommending a book to someone is easier now in a different way, with ebook readers. You can gift them the book or they can buy the book right there on their Kindle, without having to go to a store and locate a physical copy. This is part, though certainly not the entire appeal of being lent a book - reducing the friction of reading something you were recommended. It's just gotten more expensive to do this now.
I'm enjoying the mental pictures :) And know little about the details, so I'm finding this fascinating.

Now I've got a mental picture of lifting something light, cranking up its higgs-bosonity, and dropping something far heavier. As long as it uses more energy to raise the effective-mass than it can produce, we don't create a perpetual-motion device, but there could be tons of fun to be had :) Winning those hammer-and-bell challenge things at fairs, for instance - crank up the mass, thus inertia, as you swing down. Handy for destruction in general, too.
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Well, I suppose I could have done so, then reinserted the handle. Then there'd be thoroughly disinfected organic material somewhere inside of the head of my spatula. ;) This would probably not be fatal, but it was distasteful.

Or I could have attacked the problem with Q-tips and patience.

But another, different problem is that I anticipated the spatula coming apart again. I do a lot of stirring of dough with spatulas, and it's annoying when you have to constantly guard against pulling them apart. I guess I could have gotten into the whole "which glue holds wood to silicone?" materials science problem but it was easier to just switch to Zyliss.
And I really agree with you too.

Adding to that, AWS does have its own PaaS: Elastic Beanstalk. We've been using it for several months now without a single hiccup. It's Java only, but it just works: load-balancing out-of-the-box, auto-scales beautifully and replaces dead instances in a couple of minutes. You can easily launch new environments for testing new features and app updates are a breeze. And you're still close to all the AWS services like S3 and CloudFront which adds a lot of value to the package.

This sounds almost like a commercial but, yes, being used to manage our own servers, this was one of the greatest moves we did. We still have a server hosted at Hetzner (mentioned by the OP), but have moved pretty much everything to the cloud. It's good to know that updating MongoDB is now just a matter of sending an e-mail to the guys at MongoHQ (which also runs on AWS) and they do it in a few seconds.

It may not work the same for everyone but from our experience it does pay off even if we're burning a few more dollars every month, as we're not spending long unexpected hours on server management anymore. And for a small team trying to focus on product development, that's gold!
The author mixes work as a contractor and work as a full time employee in the same article. Further, there is no evidence he is working (or has worked) as an employee.

"As a programmer, I treat contracts that pay me $200/hr differently from jobs/contracts that pay me $65/hr [...]." (emphasis mine)

FWIIW, I work as an employee and I do a huge amount of self-education nor do I charge every hour I work (if I punched a timeclock, I would find many days I work more than 8 hours, but some days I don't). As a full time employee, I expect a level of employment stability and, more importantly, I expect others in the company to do stuff I don't particularly care to do (benefits / insurance shopping, billing, accounting, payroll including all the rules and tax crap, marketing, etc.). I'm happy to trade off a sizable per-hour amount for someone else to remove those hassles from my life.

As a salaried worker, I am making enough money for my family to live comfortably. Where I am in life, I could be making more money, but my quality of life would be worse. For me, for now, the answer is salary at a competitive market rate.
In general I agree with you in regards to accusations vs. due process. But in a plagiarism case like this, it's hard to imagine a situation in which the accusation isn't true. If the essay was factual, the student could claim that the similarity between the essays was coincidental, but an essay which just happens to contain the same made-up facts as the original? That's proof enough for me.
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I believe there should be a law, or at least some economic disincentive to motivate Amazon (and other ebook providers) to export/import collections from their proprietary readers onto competitors. Ereaders should not be tied to a given collection -- it is an insane state -- imagine buying a CD or DVD that could only be played in players belonging to a single company or an appliance that would only run on selected utility systems. Why is this considered a natural and beneficial state for books?
And the government would post it... why?

<conspiracy theory> To discredit Anonymous and Stratfor at one go. Look at all the negative press this is going to generate about Anonymous. </conspiracy theory>
Certainly there is a continuum in such matters. Some accusations deserve to be kept out of the public eyes. But I don't think it's at all reasonable to imagine that we can, or should, live in a world where all of our shames are private and outed only through a laborious and secretive trial process.

The flaws of the "court of opinion" are many and worthy of concern, but they shouldn't be used as an excuse to hide any mention of blatant wrong-doing.

This essay isn't a public denouncement, it's merely presenting information. Is this a call to a lynching? "Aaron Kerzner of Boston, I blow my nose at you."
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Assuming there's no microscopic debris in space and it's pretty empty, wouldn't it be possible to accelerate faster than c relative to Earth and get there sooner in terms of body age? I mean gradual increase of acceleration, of course.

I understand that Earth will just see the ship time flow more slowly.
I use progress bars from time to time on quizzes. this is a nice and simple implementation I'll be adding to my bag-o-tricks bookmarks. thanks.
Never been to the Alamo, but I imagine the process of kicking someone out who is using his/her cell phone during a movie must be quite distracting to everyone else, no?
If the teacher didn't bother enough to read the paper and fail him, maybe he deserves the degree that he got.

Though someone stated that (not sure if this is fact) there is no statute of limitations on plagiarism, I feel like when it comes to college papers there should be.

Regardless of the fact that legally, college students are adults, they are still very prone to making mistakes. I see no reason to punish this one simply because he had the misfortune of copying a paper from an internet blogger.
Much like time travel if it was possible.
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You're just flat out ignorant regarding the nature of Stratfor.

It's not a think tank! It's not a big corporation! Stratfor serves medium and small corporations!

Hack the CFR. Hack the Brookings institute. Hack the RAND corporation. Hack the DoD. Hack the Tavistock institute and the Club of Rome and the Heritage foundation. Hack the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller foundation and hack Harvard and hack Yale and hack the New York Times. Hack Monsanto and KBR and Blackwater and GM and GE and News Corp. Hack the RIAA and hack AIPAC. Hack Blue Cross and Pfizer. Hack Goldman Sachs and Timothy Geithner.

Stratfor does not fall into this category. They are an unbiased high quality news source that serves small and medium businesses. They are not directly attached to the military industrial complex.

What you're clueless about is Stratfor. It's a small business with 70 employees. It's not a think tank and it's work even exposes the influence of the megacorps that run your country. It exposed the influence that international finance was having on the Euro crisis in a completely unbiased way, for instance. The rest of the media wouldn't even touch the Euro crisis with anything resembling a realistic appraisal. Stratfor just cut right to the heart. High quality journalism for about the same price as The Economist.

Stratfor was on the good team. Anonymous just committed a friendly fire incident.
I find an exchange like the following hard to imagine:

Technical Cofounder: We can't realistically do <foo> because it'd have to process a huge amount of data and it'd take way too long.

Ignorant Non-technical Cofounder: I don't believe you! You're just a dumb programmer.

Enlightened Non-technical Cofounder: Oh, you're right. I can see that it's O(n^2).

My advice, for what it's worth, is to find a technical cofounder you trust, and then give him the benefit of the doubt on any features he says are unimplementable.
I'm using both QT and some gnome/gtk C libraries.

Both work but the c libraries have a more inconsistent object model and require multi-stage processes for the construction of their c-objects.

Once a c-based project is large enough that it needs objects in user space, not have a c++ interface is counter-productive and backporting to c++ project to c would doubly counter-productive here.
it's actually a USA tech year. The world is a bit bigger than that.
There are some C++ libraries that are perhaps more complex than the equivalents in other languages, but tr1::regex's are pretty much the same as regexes in any other language, if you discount the static typing stuff.
Paul Christophoro is bipolar, and currently undergoing a manic episode. He needs medical attention.

See this reddit comment [1] by his sucessor as PR guy for the maker of the Avenger Controller.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nw1vm/ama_the_guy_who_...
But you'd be lucky if the ebook hardware keeps working even a decade after your death. And there's no way to inherit your grandfather's books to use them on another reader; he owned a license to read them and it's not transferrable when he dies.

This one aspect of the lack of ownership that I find problematic, but you don't see discussed as much. The way things are going, you won't even be able to inherit someone's kitchen table because they'd bought a $500 license for their immediate family to eat off of it. Died? Factory repossesses it.
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Plagiarism is sometimes punished with the academic death penalty. If you were a journalist who plagiarized in the last 10 years then your career is over.
I disagree that it has anything to do with the language.

For example, I just recently started using Boost. Holy smokes, it is BEAUTIFUL, at least the parts that I've used. It just works. I've never worked with a library where I look at the example, make a guess as to how it should work, and it just works. On the other hand, the company I work at uses Boost in a completely illegible, unmaintainable way. It has nothing to do with Boost, it's whoever uses it.

To say a language such as C++ is responsible for overly complicated interfaces is just plain dumb. It's not the language it's the implementer. I can take the same $200,000 violin as Joshua Bell and make horrendous sounds from it. It doesn't mean that the violin is a piece of crap, it just means that I have no idea how to play a violin.
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Much of it is due to C's Biggest Mistake:

http://drdobbs.com/blogs/architecture-and-design/228701625
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