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The longest contempt detention I'm aware of was a very bizarre case involving a guy named Richard Fine who was jailed for something less than 18 months. It was a civil case, and as far as I know he never argued that the information he was being ordered to produce would incriminate him in a criminal matter. His attempts to secure his release involved some conspiracy-theory-level ranting that probably contributed greatly to higher courts ignoring him.

A local judge ultimately decided Fine was irrational and keeping him in jail didn't accomplish anything but taking up of jail space and resources.

In a criminal matter involving even a hint of self-incrimination, I'm disinclined to think a contempt sentence would be allowed to continue indefinitely by US courts absent an immunity deal.
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No love for Zynga here; the bulk of my rent for the past reasonable stretch of time has been paid for by a Zynga competitor, and a lot of office time has been spent ripping on them for their various tactics. There are many things to hate Zynga for, especially if you've actually talked to people that work there (or that have jumped ship, or they've tried to recruit).

But I really don't buy the idea that gamblers are the target market. I know that demo very well, as my previous life was spent running numbers for an online gambling company (my experience with market analysis in that context got me most of my recent work), and I've always been a bit of a poker junkie myself. The Facebook crowd is far more casual, far more female, and far less into tangible, liquid rewards than the gambling crowd.

Mistaking the motivations of this crowd is a serious mistake, and if you are under the assumption that the Facebook gaming crowd is made up of Pokerstars castoffs, for the sake of your business I strongly encourage you to reevaluate the situation. While there may be surface similarities in the addictive natures of these games, the people that spend money on gambling are almost always looking for real life gains; this stands in strong opposition to the typical motivation of a Facebook gamer, who is in it for the fantasy alone.

I'm not saying that Facebook would not make a great market for real life gamblers, but at the moment, it's not feasible because they don't allow actual gambling. And the real gamblers know the difference - they won't even play on fake money poker sites, for the most part, even the ones that are quite badly addicted to poker. I seriously doubt that they're the same people that sink money into Facebook games to buy virtual goods that let them decorate their farms or give their avatars new haircuts...
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The impression I got from the article was that cold triggered distinct brown fat deposits in particular places (neck, back, etc.) to burn fat (and sugar?) as a way to increase temperature. By contrast, the article implied that exercise turned “white” fat into “brown” fat, spread throughout the body rather than in particular isolated spots. It wasn’t clear what the purpose of this exercise-related brown fat was.
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game mechanics cannot be copyrighted. some of the best games out there are blatant copies of other games. still I feel for the team that made tiny tower.
GitHire is a spammer and doesn't deserve our attention.

http://lookfirst.com/2012/01/githirecom-is-spammer.html
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> Trying to create a declarative language is a way of making it extraordinarily opaque as to what the machine is actually going to do. It looks great in four lines, it crashes and burn on any real sized problem,

Erlang, Haskell and Ocaml are examples of declarative languages, and they all have been used to solve very real-sized problems: telecommunication switches, compilers, trading systems, a window manager, etc.

It amazes me how the argument above is still repeated (often followed by "but those systems don't count, give me an example of X".)
The web has a serious problem today. I never know how a site will work on my browser. I feel like the web has become a guessing game. Whereas with mobile apps, I know that if you're in the app store then you'll work as expected.
It is, with IE9 handling just over 7,000 operations per second (based on the jsPerf test: http://jsperf.com/long-selectors-vs-data/2) vs. 25,000 in Chrome. Don't go all out I'd say, but in most scenario's even that number of operations will be acceptable.
I know it was just an example, but Tiny Tower is nothing like Sim Tower.

Sim Tower is an elevator/people flow simulation. It's also much more fun than Tiny Tower.
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I have a Software Eng job offer from Cisco in the Bay Area. Would anyone know what the pay ranges are for the following Cisco pay grade levels. I have about 6 years work experience in another successful networking company in the Bay Area.

Grade 8

Grade 9

Grade 10

They are offering me in the Grade8 level with signing bonus. Their offer matches my current base salary compensation $ for $ which I thought was surprising since I gave them my current compensation + my stock benefits. They do not offer options/RSU unlike my existing company. It doesn't make financial sense for me to take the offer. Hence, I am wondering if I have room for negotiation based on the pay-grade ranges.

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I have a 'shortcuts' directory under my personal directory, and have added it to my PATH variable. I put various things in there - links to apps, documents, even the shortcut directory itself.

One trick with autocomplete - if you edit the Internet Explorer options -> Use Inline Autocomplete it'll auto-complete on Win-R, so you'll usually just type (using your example) 'to' and [enter] (after it's linked the shortcut to the text the first time).
Frankly, your sentence doesn't make much sense. HTTP is a way of sending text and data, so UDP would never be used. The data needs to arrive, be in order, and be correct (exactly what TCP does). Also, the fact that a new HTTP protocol is being used has no effect on javascript, since the protocol is essentially abstracted away.

As for your real question, when will javascript have UDP socket support, that is an interesting question. The feature would definitely be handy for multiplayer games and video/audio streaming. In light of this, I'm sure something will come down the pipe eventually. There could be security worries though, for example it could be used to build a webpage that performs a DDoS (not that they can't be built already).
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Or see a movie, up to 30 images per second!

In many cases a quick glance is not enough to tell what's a picture about, do you select by overall color, or what?
> You could argue Tiny Tower ripped off Sim Tower etc.

About the only thing Tiny Tower and SimTower have in common is the word "Tower".
I think it should be pointed out that both OS X and Android are based upon Linux. That point probably makes the discussion about who gives more to who a lot more complex.
Have you identified any books for the "starting a business", "online marketing", and "personal branding books"? From my experience, it seems unlikely that there are enough quality books about those things to read one book per week and get anything from the experience (perhaps that's why you've included software architecture).
This seems to be more a comment on GitHire's core strategy and business model than it is an insight into the hiring market. Their model, while bold and innovative, seems to be incapable of delivering on its promises.

Recruiting is ripe for disruption, but I don't think GitHire got the formula right. Kudos to them for trying, but it appears to be a non-starter.
Hi LatchKey,

I'm really sorry that we sent you that email. We just launched a little over a week ago with this crazy idea, and were extremely surprised at how quickly we were overwhelmed with orders.

We made a bad judgement call in sending some emails to people asking if anyone is interested in jobs.

If it makes you feel any better, you can see that we aren't finding very many talented engineers, and we will likely need to refund a lot of money in a few days.

We are honestly trying to be a great service for software developers and employers. We need feedback from people like yourself to learn how we can be the best service possible to reshape the hiring industry.

We actually sent you an email, but never heard back. Please let us know if you're interested in continuing this discussion further on or off of a public message board.

Thanks for keeping us honest.
I don't think there's any inherent problem with stuff being declarative. We just need the software to be smart enough to handle it well. We might have a long way to go till we can do this effectively.

I'd suggest looking at 'declarative' from the point of view of delegation (not in the technical sense, but the usual sense of getting someone else to do a task for you). Ideally you want to specify what you want to be done and you shouldn't care about how it's done. Software is meant to be a labor saving device.

I assume you're ok with the idea of delegating tasks to people. If the software was smart enough I think it'd reasonable to delegate to it as well.
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When I was in middle school, I had a short black and white photography class. For one assignment, we developed black and white images and then colored parts of them using kool-aid. I shot a stop sign and colored it red. The idea that http://davidsutherland.photoshelter.com/image/I0000jSgkaCbPa... would somehow infringe on my copyright because it's the same subject matter and coloring is absurd. It's not my picture.
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Not true. Marc Cuban has written an excellent blog post on this: http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-s...

Dividends reward you for holding a stock. Buybacks you when you sell the stock. I'd much prefer dividends, and if we had a better tax policy on them, I think you'd see companies do a lot less crazy #&*$ to expand into markets that they have no business in.
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Hmm.
Perhaps the reverse way to look at the situation is that job adverts are so uninformative about the place where one might work, that it is the employers who should present a video about why one might want to work for them. It shouldn't be one of those glitzy HR ones, but rather one made with a cameraphone introducing the people the prospect will be working with, and some idea of what type of problem is being solved.

The other thing that jumps out at me is that instead of a cute challenge, it's probably more useful to provide a bug in 50 lines of code that you expect to "jump out" effortlessly for the qualified candidates, while less qualified might struggle a little.
I was contacted by GitHire regarding a Lead Python Developer opportunity. My GitHire stats estimate that I'm in the top 5% of Githubbers (whatever that means). I'm flattered, but as a college student with just a few years of work experience under my belt, I can't imagine being in the top 5%.
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No. You're thinking imperatively. The pure form would express something like: "given the property sorted(s) defined in this way, let s be a set such that for all elements e of s, e is an element of the program input. Then let the output of the program be the list l such that sorted(l) is true.
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Might defeat the purpose but you should add top comments as well. Part of the fun of browsing is the added contextual humor :)
IMO, the real reason for this comment is to avoid sounding anti-competitive.

Even innocuous comments about market position or market leadership can come back to bite a company in an antitrust lawsuit.
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This is to discourage back-and-forth arguments and to give people time to cool down. (You can circumvent it by clicking "link"; a reply box appears beneath.)

I'm with you on the inappropriately triggered jerking-me-round neuron. I am definitely there from time to time :-). You put it well. When in that state, I don't really believe that someone in the real world is messing with me - but inside my world, I believe someone is. I think that I can't quite see the real world in that state (or don't want to). Funny thing is, if I find out someone is messing with me, I also feel less angry...

Oh man, that's awful. And that "limited to 8" dialog pops up for each checkbox. Seems a really badly designed interface in general. I wonder why the limit? Maybe they keep languages separate, because effective pagerank criteria differ across languages/cultures; and they're limiting internal bandwidth needed to combine the results from distant databases.

I was going to say you could just include the languages you can read (and where you often found useful info before); but I appreciate your point about seeing the whole web (I guess, the www), across languages.

I've had a play with google translate, and I noted that untranslated words seem to pass through, unaltered (using the text-based one, eg: http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto|en|Je%20n... ) You could probably see by trying example pages til you find a word it doesn't know. It seems much more useful to include an untranslated word than to omit it, so hopefully they do it that way.

Given the 8 limit, this seems the best option for seeing the whole web - and if the translation is any good at all, it might be better. I might try this (though I recall reading something that I didn't notice was auto-translated, and after reading for a while, suddenly becoming aware that I had no idea what it meant...)

I wonder if just plain more information about a situation reduces anger, because anger relies on one's internal view of the world? The more acquainted we get with the real world, the harder it is to sustain anger. (Aside: The Buddhists say all negative emotion is based on ignorance or misconception - of seeing something as 100% absolutely negative - and so negative emotion can be reduced by deeper understanding.)
I love the idea of this, but one of the problems with building products like this is that it's basically other people's content (or other people's other people's content...) and is probably hard to scale a business around properly.
Well, the lumping together of WoW and Farmville is pretty bizarre and makes me think you have no idea what these games are actually like. Reminds me of Tipper Gore.

Then you go on to say "we agree the gambling industry needs checks and balances", which is pretty damned presumptuous. Have you completely failed to notice the strong libertarian bent of HN?

In many ways, I'm practically a socialist, but I cringe outwardly at the thought that government should regulate the behavior of consenting adults.

Yes, gambling can be seriously problematic for some people and their families/loved ones, and I'm not against government efforts to educate people and help treat problem gamblers, nor am I against things like requiring casinos to post odds, but go any further and you quickly get way outside my comfort zone.

Think of drugs and take a guess at how many people on HN actually support the "war on drugs". The number people who agree with special regulation of gambling is probably quite similar, and quite small.
`@primaryButtonColor`, a less variable is by default set to `@blue`: http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/less.html#Conponents .

You can always change and recompile.
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Thanks for posting this - I was having enough nostalgia for Sim Tower that I started looking around for this Tiny Tower. Unfortunately there's almost no information from the developer other than the iTunes download page, so I put it off.

Now I can properly procrastinate by figuring out how on earth to run Sim Tower on a 3-month-old Mac. Thanks again!
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...especially when "Use a Mac" is an equally effective solution, with pretty much equivalent user-friendliness (arguably more, given that so much hacker-friendly software is *nix friendly [and in fact developed on a Mac] and won't run on Windows at all).
The thing about the halting problem, though, is that it doesn't say "You can't write a program that can determine if another program will terminate". It says "You can't write a program that can determine if any other program will terminate."

Case in point: Resharper will tell me "This function never returns" in cases where it obviously wont return, and also offer to simplify methods that only ever return a single value despite what looks like a complex set of if-statements.

So, if it is possible to write a program to determine if a specific subset of all possible programs will terminate, is it possible to write a program that can generate a subset of all possible programs from a specific subset of all possible specifications?

I can't be perfect. But might it be useful?
I was thinking about the same thing. My view is: building applications on top of heterogeneous nodes (in the cloud) and then coupling them all together via ZeroMQ.
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Just want to say this is an excellent response, humble, taking responsibility and genuinely saying sorry. Please carry on like this.

I do believe that latchkey mentioned some very valid points though, perhaps taking those on board and changing your strategy would be a better way to entice talent.
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You may be able to get a sense of the salary ranges by looking at Glassdoor.com and browsing through the salaries posted for Cisco. If I was in your position and you feel comfortable doing it, I'd play your current employer against Cisco by asking them if they want to make a counter offer. I've seen many people dramatically increase their salary by allowing a few companies to counter offer against each other.
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This exact problem happened to me. Do you know what Apple did? They took my computer, replaced the case and did a full diagnostics on everything to make sure it was in perfect working order. I had the computer back at the end of the day.
Search is declarative and works well.
I just opted out, but now I get an error when I try to opt back in.
Hmm isn't it too early to write this off? Their about page states that they have 30 days to find 5 people for your job listing. Almost every page has more than 20 days left to find these 5 people, and although the current results do not look promising (based on the few introductions made) this page does not tell me anything about their review process. It is obvious that some aspects need to be tweaked (spamming issues aside) but everyone tends to make mistakes when they are creating a new product or service. Until they consistently can't meet their obligations I would not write off this business model.
I'm just guessing as wildly as Doc Brown's hair, but it seems logical that the "white" fat is the storage form of fat, while the brown one is the kind that body uses to do actual useful stuff. Like in a gasoline engine -- the gas is stored in concentrated form, but it's diffused and mixed with air moments before the actual combustion, as that's more efficient.

So body creates the exercise-fat to have a ready source of energy required for physical activity (remember, while humans were evolving there were no exercise, only physical activity needed to survive).
It sounds like he's saying that Zynga's business model will plateau, with 'the new suckers born every minute' replacing their fed-up customers that leave.
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I think GitHire is a great idea but I am not sure they have quite reached the status of "economic indicator". That would be like saying my new blog (http://www.kiteandcode.com) is the pulse of the blogosphere. It is not.
Misleading title. Better to use a term such as "venture capital" because "investing" is much broader.

Regarding the article, VCs might get disrupted by a large number of smaller groups pooling together to provide the same amount of massive risk capital. But what will not be disrupted is the need for massive risk capital to fund startups such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. There will be startups with tremendous growth where its monetization engine is non-existent or takes longer to develop and start running.
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> For example, iCloud (all it offers) could have been implemented on top of AWS.

Not just "could have". It actually IS implemented on AWS. iCloud uses AWS and Windows Azure as its backend.

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/03/icloud-azure-amazon/
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