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I was at Bell Labs when the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal broke out. Before the scandal, many of us were convinced that he was headed for a Nobel. (The fellow across the hall won a Nobel while I was there, so this was not an insane proposition.) After the scandal: First disbelief, then wanting to know the truth. After it was fairly well-established, it would have suited me to have him keel-hauled for two reasons:

1. Cheating in science makes most of us want to hurl,

2. Selfishly, I don't want anyone of that ilk anywhere near my organization.

Compare that to banking, in which cheating behavior earns huge bonuses. (Witness the MBS meltdown of 2008.)

/rant
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my friends and I at the gym say that the guys who do that are on the "barbershop workout" plan. All talk, no work :)
C# is also a compiled language, so you wouldn't be able to get anything to run with a typo like that hanging around. I find it surprising that there are so many commits making that mistake!
I lold a lot!
Quite some time ago I went through Morris' first person interview series. Very interesting stuff but also very odd characters. Especially the Murray Richman episode stuck with me as one of the very view interviews that I still can remember years after watching it.
The distinction with the NatWest Three though is that the Enron situation meant that there were grounds for the US to have a stake in the prosecution. I can't see in this case how the US have a stake.

I realise that having such a stake is not required by the Treaty, but perhaps it should be?
So... urge the Brits to prosecute. A violation of US law, committed outside of the USA, by a non-American, is none of the USA's business.

Since it's illegal in Britain also, would it not make more sense (and be way less sketchy) to prosecute the guy in Britain?
When rights of Imaginary Property ("IP") are upheld more vigilantly than the rights of due process (see: Manning, NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, OPEN, etc), you know the system of checks and balances is broken.
Which is why I said many and not all.
Ask HN: programmer asked to sign 2 year non compete being 3 years full time.
a friend works full time as a software engineer for a healthcare company and specialize in very niche software. Now 3 years later all of sudden bunch of people are being let go just weeks after signing a new agreement. The new agreement holds that for 2 years from the moment of being let go or quitting, you cannot work for a company in the same field. My friend being programmer with unique healthcare knowledge would never sign an agreement like that in the first place but now 3 years on the w2 job the company is "forcing" him to do so.

what would you do? is it reasonable/normal to negotiate for some additional perks given this new very uncomfortable position??

thanks.
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It may also be worthwhile to go to the track and practice a pace. After you run 100 laps at a certain speed, it's easier to find that speed again.
Thanks! Yeah, if I could keep my eating right I could probably get there. I am much stronger with my weight over 200lbs, but life has been so busy I'm down around a lean 185-190 right now. For me finding time for the gym has been the easy part. Figuring out how to eat enough through the day has always been the problem.

And yeah, progression slows and waivers depending on current bodyweight, current emotional state, time of day, etc... It can take months to add another 5lbs onto the bar.
Except saying bad things about the Chinese Government isn't illegal in the US. Yet. But still, you've misread the original post.
I don't see how the infographic format adds any value in this case. Infographics are good containers for data visualization. This is just a bullet point listing of data with pretty pictures and a few BIG NUMBERS. Save the bits! End the infographic plague!
Geoloqi was a dedicated SimpleGeo customer, and when we heard SimpleGeo would be shutting down their service, we had to build our own to replace what would be shut down. We figured others might also have the same issue, so offered a simple importer.

As for pricing: there's more to putting pricing up on a website. We have to calculate our own people and server costs, as well as build and integrate a billing system into the site. In addition, developers need a way of knowing how many API calls they've used, and a way to pay for the service.

In conclusion, simply putting pricing up and then having to change it later because we rushed to put it up in the first place would be worse than just waiting until the date we planned on releasing the site. I hope this makes sense, and we really appreciate your comments and concerns.
This is democracy in action. If the bills don't get passed now, we must remain vigilant to them being buried in later legislation.
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The link to the previous entry is broken. Here it is: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock...
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/sl09.pdf states:

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before you can file a suit for copyright infringement, and certain remedies, such as statutory damages and attorney’s fees, are available only for acts of infringement that occurred after the effective date of registration.
Caffeine, at least, is not a placebo, there is ample evidence showing that it improves workout performance.

https://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&...
His lawyer tried to argue that his offense was not illegal under UK law, among other arguments including that it was disproportionate to his crime to be extradited.

The ruling spends several pages discussing it, and the ruling concludes "Accordingly in my judgement I am satisfied the conduct alleged in the instant request meets the dual criminality test and would be an offence in this
jurisdiction."

In other words, he only has to obey British law. The only reason the ruling was in favor of extradition was because the crime he committed is also a British law punishable by at least one year.
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Of course, once this exists, they can start selling QoS levels. Then the towers will only aggressively adjust for those people who are paying for the privilege.
Bodybuilding takes a particularly long time because you need super high reps to encourage muscular hypertrophy.

Just getting strong or fit can be done in much less time, though it may leave you without the beach muscles, if that's what you're after.
Didn't have a specific example in mind; there is definitely opportunity for Github to help with education and adoption.

For some reference material check out:

http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_hooks.html
http://progit.org/book/ch7-3.html

And a couple simple examples:

http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-git-commit-hooks-to-prevent-stupid-mistakes
https://github.com/ReekenX/git-php-syntax-checker
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Uhm. Why is this annoying, other than the fact that it shows up in your git commits?
Are any of the other candidates on record re: SOPA?
If he'd travelled to the USA and committed a crime, that would be one thing.

But he's a British citizen in Britian. He's not subject to US laws, he's subject to British laws.

If the British government can't be bothered to protect its citizens against this kind of overreach, isn't the british government failing at the most basic purpose of a government-- to protect people's rights?

The idea that a .NET or .COM domain name subjects you to US laws is asinine beyond belief. The only degree to which this is true is domain disputes or the management of that domain name. Nothing else.

A big part of the problem here is that US judges have become errand boys for the federal government, and are inclined to let federal prosecutors get away with asinine arguments like the claim that ".COM means US presence.".
How about that the deal is void if the company lets him go.
I am talking here of the communication between the parent process and the child process, not between child processes (which by design should be isolated). For those processes, actually there is a lot of communication and coordination. For example, graphics buffers are stored in shared memory (to avoid huge copies), caches of many forms need to be synchronized, etc. It takes a lot of work to make a multiprocess browser because of the complex communication, but this is a standard thing nowadays.

Are you really saying that the actor model and in general message passing/no shared state is "essentially unworkable"?
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I think those theories are missing the main point. Going to the gym is not fun, because gyms have a crappy user experience.

So let's say you join a gym, but don't know very much about working out. You walk into a room with hundreds of machines, and are expected to know how to structure a work-out, how each machine works, be familiar with all the muscle groups and exercises, and also really care about planning out and recording every exercise you do to track your progress on the gyms website. It's the biggest turn-off.

Why can't a gym hold your hand and treat you like somebody who wants to start working out but doesn't know anything yet? "Express tracks" are a good start, where 10 machines are set up in a row, and if you do 3 sets on each one, you have a good work-out session. That's easy to understand and do. And maybe later, once people have created their habits, they are more likely to learn the finer details. But expecting every new member to care about putting a ton of effort into learning everything about working out is a killer.
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However, he hasn't been prosecuted in the UK. Why not?

There's a saying that, if your dog must be shot, it is best to do it yourself. Farming it out makes the act worse, not better.

If a UK citizen is suspected of committing a crime in the UK, (s)he must be tried in the UK under UK law and, if found guilty, punished in the UK. The suspect should never, ever be extradited to a foreign power and punished by them.
Show HN: Threaded, long-form Twitter discussions
Twthread is a twitter app that allows you to create discussion threads that are also posted on twitter. Your replies are displayed in an organized, orderly way, and they can also be longer than 140 characters.

Example thread: http://twthread.com/8/

Hope someone finds it useful :)
It shows up in comments and variable names frequently.
Also worth a mention:

http://www.oneswarm.org/

http://www.alliancep2p.com/
NetPlenish works on more or less exactly this idea: creating subscription service for delivering common products. Their service launches pretty soon, let's see how much traction it gets.
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I believe Harry Frankfurt had something to say about that.
A quick google for "compound annual growth rate mobile data" turns up numbers around 100%, so 30% would take 4 or 5 months and 50% might be 7 or so. You're right, an exaggeration to call 4-7 "a few", but certainly not much of one.
Bada and Tizen will be merged.
Exactly. I will also add that having one "winner takes all" is not necessarily a bad thing. Think about Wikipedia. The reason it is so useful as a tool is because it is the central portal for information retrieval and submission.
Other examples of beautiful code: Lua, LuaJIT, SQLite, tmux (I've heard)

Other examples of ugly code: screen, Perl (5.x)
It's a dumb strategy, anyway. You should go for the convex hull. It has a smaller circumference. Or is that prohibited, too?
If you haven't been, /r/weightroom has a bunch of guys that are lifting in your ballpark or greater, and might be a useful resource.

It's much more useful for lifters than /r/fitness is. http://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom
Which seems to underscore his point.
I very much agree. Your idea sounds great.

However, I can guess why it isn't common. What you suggest would be labor-intensive, and thus expensive. Some people don't want to pay for the hand-holding. So the gym would have to offer multiple plans: cheap do-it-yourself and expensive hand-holding. My guess is that this has been tried, and the number of customers for the high-end plan is not enough to justify offering it. Alas.
Quite despicable. Potentially ruining somebody's life because of alleged, highly questionable, loss of profit.

I wonder what would have happened had a smaller country made the same request.
its pretty straightforward written: for any reason on any side.
I don't think it's a matter of data access. I would argue that Bing has parity with Google in most respects (they have the same Internet to crawl, partnerships with some data providers for things like flight search, etc.), and they even have decisive advantages in other areas, like access to huge piles of social data. So why aren't they as good or better?
The Crown Prosecution Service looked at the case and decided it wouldn't be in the public interest to proceed with a case. They decided there wasn't enough evidence, indeed the Crown Prosecution Service has been denied access to the evidence that was supposedly used to extradite him.
If you use Vim from the terminal to edit text (which I do), trailing whitespace shows up as big white blocks. It's slightly visually distracting, but it's really just an OCD thing.
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I agree, I don't think your churn rate is so bad that you need to offer any more levels. I would put all your work into acquiring new subscribers first. Every business is going to have churn, but the only way to grow is with new customers.
Well, maybe we have a slightly different definition of complex. Browser interprocess communication is IMO relatively simple and/or not performance critical, more so all those structures already must have a serializable format because they're persistent.

Sometimes you deal with something that is more time-critical and serialization of objects (like a complex graphs of objects) would kill a lot of performance benefits. I'm sure it takes a lot of effort to make a browser (not to mention a multiprocessing one), but a lot of those complexity are not because the task at hand it's hard -- quite the opposite it's just lots and lots of easy tasks crammed together in a big pile, usually C++ pile with tons of history on top of it.
Clustering can be visualized quite well and there are several families of algorithms that could be run over similar data, such as k-means clustering or DBSCAN.
Google is back in China, but it looks like they are somehow not censoring themselves there: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020343690457715....
For what it's worth, when I joined my gym they gave a free personal trainer session, and said trainer walked me through some things. (It was obviously an attempt to upsell me, by showing what a personal trainer would keep on doing for me, but it was still a helpful newbie service.)

Also, all the machines have little informative placards on them explaining which muscles they work and how to use them. I think they're also laid out in a way such that by going from one end to the other they'll give you a fairly decent all-over workout.
Fantastic. If you use vim, you should have this in your .vimrc:

" Remove any trailing whitespace that is in the file

autocmd BufRead,BufWrite * if ! &bin | silent! %s/\s\+$//ge | endif
I see no slippery slope in his argument. Singing Happy Birthday in public is actually a copyright violation, right now.
lazy link: http://twthread.com/8/
I'm the author of this post. It would be interesting to see if one could find some objective way to measure a correlation between defects and stylistic sloppyness. A few years ago, I whiled away some time by extracting a huge amount of data from Github projects and writing a post showing some interesting differences between languages:

http://corte.si/posts/code/devsurvey/index.html

It shouldn't be too hard to use the same sort of technique in this case. One idea would be to use the number of unclosed bugs on Github per line of code as a proxy for software defects. Then you could ask if there's a correlation between unclosed bugs and, say, inconsistent indentation or formatting. There are all sorts of sampling issues here, but it might be interesting to play with - if anyone wants to collaborate on something like this, drop me a line.

As for mechanisms and causation, this is of course harder. It's not difficult to come up with hypotheses - it seems trivially obvious that code that is harder to read would cause coders working with it to make more mistakes and address issues more reluctantly. Proving it is something that probably should be tackled somewhere more formal than a blog post, though.
Resign without signing the agreement.

About the only way I would sign such an agreement would be if the company put two years’ salary in escrow for payment to me during the two year period.
I'd love a better way to read Twitter conversations. Just posted hoping a few pals sign up and try.
I would really urge everyone to read the above linked (by njs12345) PDF of the ruling. It's written very clearly in the main, and, for me, really threw a lot of light on what this case meant (and, I admit, changed my opinion somewhat - the media reports seem to be really diminishing how commercial the operation was).

However you expect you'll react though, it's well worth a read to get the whole story.
As a founder of a company being acquired, I was ok signing an agreement that had a 1 year non-compete.

As an employee of a regular job - hell no (unless they agree to pay me a substantial portion of my salary for that 2 years)

Depending on the location, this may actually be un-enforceable, but he'll need a lawyer to verify this and fight it if necessary.
and it's not focused on countries where the majority of population doesn't use english sites (Latam, some in asia)...

I wasn't comparing pinspire to pinterest in any way, btw
Manning is being court-martialed under the UCMJ, like any other soldier would be, for leaking classified information. I don't see how either IP or lack of due process apply here. Manning is being given due process, and his offense had nothing to do with IP any more than that of Julius Rosenberg or Jonathan Pollard.
Does your API have context data, such as neighborhood, urbran area and county given a specific lat, lng.
Next thing you know we're gonna be extradited to Britain for insulting the queen.

I don't believe that's an offence in the UK. (Thailand has a law like that). Remember Parliament in the UK can despose and appoint a new monarch, so I doubt they'd make it a crime to insult the monarch.
My own utterly unscientific data suggests that this is a form of hyperbolically discounted loss-aversion - the 'loss' of the discount on additional units is felt more acutely than the more real loss of units purchased but never used.

Combining this principle with a time-limited offer can be staggeringly effective, I imagine by enhancing the sense of impending loss. I've seen orders-of-magnitude difference in revenue from such "new customer only" discounts.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to have a bath in acetone to sluice off the shame.
So people can be jailed for copyright violations now? What happens to a corporation when it violates copyright? Seems we should all become corporations simply as insurance.
Instant-runoff voting. It's already used by many state and local governments, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to implement nationally.
I think the reality is that most people just don't care much about going to the gym. There is a real societal pressure to feel obligated to 'get fit,' but that's not enough to create behavioral change, and it shouldn't be.
You hold him down, choke him; and find the burning shoe or underwear. There's usually water in the form if bottles to throw on someone.

In the end, you fight back and don't deal with idiocism.

It reminds me when I was working at Starbucks. We had a long-ish line. A guy who we knew would cause problems shows up, and a Japanese barista tried to take his order. He then starts yelling at her, for repeating it wrong (it was right, but he couldn't understand the accent).

Then a guy 2 people behind says out loud, "either order or get the hell out!" A lady behind him then said "Be nice to her, or leave"

Once one person had the courage to say something, more did. And the customer eventually left without ordering anything. We baristas did nothing but stand there, trying to get the order.
Fair enough, we just mean different things by "complex" I guess. Obviously the message-passing model isn't good for everything. It is good for a lot of real-world stuff though, which is why I was surprised by your statement before.

Note that serialization is not necessary in this model, for example you can have actors in the same process, and transfer ownership of objects. So there is no shared state, and they are logically passed as messages, but there is no copying cost to doing so or need to implement serialization.
"Monotonic music is boring. Real music is polytonic..."

"Ego Trip", MacDara Ó Raghallaigh. An hour of solo fiddle and foot tapping. Best album I have heard in heard in ages. But then, he occasionally double-stops, so I guess it's not purely monotonic...
Nothing free, as far as I know. Just an excel spreadsheet, some research, and a well-organized email inbox.
You might try once a month. Do a poll and see how people would react. you have been so honest thus far, I think continuing to say that it will be very difficult to continue with the existing profit margin will allow subscribers to take a hit. Example: they pay $15 for one shipment per month. You will most likely keep most subscribers and potentially gain the cheaper ones who don't want to pay $24 for Japanese candy
> I actually kind of like the GIL. It allows me to write threaded code in a "lazy" way sometimes

As far as I understand, this is exactly the reason why the PyPy team went for the STM route: they want to guarantee the same semantics of CPython with the GIL, but with more parallelism.

The idea here is that most of the time threads do not conflict, which means that they do not mutate objects while other threads are accessing them. Based on this assumption, you can optimistically run a snippet of code assuming that no conflict will happen, but if there is such a conflict all the effects of the code (the "transaction") are rolled back and the code is run again.

Since the interpreter can decide where to put the transaction boundaries, it can do it where CPython would acquire/release the GIL. This would give basically GIL-equivalent semantics.
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I'm actually pretty good about going to the gym, but I'm overweight anyway. The reason is that I'm good at doing what I should do, but bad about not doing what I shouldn't do.

A hard workout takes a while, but then you're done, and you feel great. Not eating the donut takes a while, but an hour later, you aren't done not eating the donut. Oh no, not at all. It still beckons.
For some reason in video game source code I see the word 'hierarchy' in comments spelt wrong a lot in every project I've been on.