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In practice, they use the 5% threshold in Germany to keep the number of parties down to a reasonable limit. Israel doesn't have this limit. I don't know whether they have a limit at all, or whether it's just rather low.

I don't like the arbitrariness of the 5% threshold. But it seems to work.
I had the same experience (but after only about five years). I landed on Code Complete a couple years after devouring The Pragmatic Programmer (and requiring my developers to read it), and generally found some good ideas of varying quality buried on mountains of text. I think most of it is right, but after having some experience in the field, it seemed it was targeting all audiences at once, from the newbie to intermediate programmer but also to organizations, managers, and others related to code. It's hard to make a book that's to the point if the book lacks focus.

That said, I've still used it for my research ... although I can often find other sources that say things better, CC2 has made a good starting point for ideas on how to present ideas about code.
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Exactly what I said in the last thread. :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746005
You've never been unemployed for a long period of time, have you? Unemployment makes you realize how few principles really are important. At the end of the day, I'll value being able to eat over some abstract sense of morality. But if you have been unemployed for a long period of time and kept to your principles, more power to you.
Although I haven't followed the Forrst tale very closely, I always got the feeling that Forrst would not be very susceptible to acquisition. Had that smokey kind of campfire flavor to it. As a Forrst lurker, I'm glad I'll have the same familiar place to lurk.
Offering him a phone (presumably a Windows one) seems to be entirely missing the point.
Our plan is to not make any broad changes immediately. I think too often acquirers do that and fuck things up. Kyle & team are staying on and we'll work together to make Forrst a valuable place for designers & developers to share ideas, get feedback and learn from each other.
This is what @export (and the related functions in the library for if you are not using annotations) are for. In the context of Closure, this is clumsy. But I expect that not all other minifiers offer the same flexibility.
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I vote for a pre-paid per-MB pricing. And fair pricing, but yeah.

I think it is comparable to a gas station: You drive more, you pay more. You drive less, you pay less. There are many reasons to feel raped by the oil companies, but that there is no gas flatrate is not one of them (I dont want to share a flatrate with people who use way more gas/data than me).
Negativity can be bad. Grinfucking always is.

HN offers a certain type of feedback for new ideas. When it was a smaller community, it offered a different type. This probably had some advantages when someone needed encouragement. The downside was that feedback was closer to the fiends and family end of the spectrum. Now a shared idea will see a broader range of opinions, and this probably means more people who will see the idea as pointless, trivial, or just plain dumb. The upside is that the idea will see more diverse debugging.

The issue with many "new idea" posts is that there doesn't seem to be a specific purpose behind them. So many are, "here's my site" followed by "yeah, I know the landing page sucks" and "thanks for letting me know that not everyone wants to log in with Facebook."

General requests for feedback illicit general responses.

Sometimes, I read "My great idea" threads and my impulse is to debug it. That means ruthlessly pointing to problems or possible problems - e.g. the person whose "startup idea" is a lifestyle consultancy which doesn't scale well and probably will never attract outside investment.

While one of the things I appreciate about the HN culture is "think about what you would say face to face," there's a certain way in which it doesn't apply - in person, I would know if sandwiching was productive, online, I assume that it isn't.

The reason I assume it isn't is because online comments are not just for the individual who asks the question -- this comment doesn't start "Dear Devrim." This comment is more or less standing on a soapbox in the public square, as are most in an online forum. In a public forum sandwiching adds noise and tends to ignore the context.
With this I agree. While I think the point of "Windows Phone does things faster" is true for some sets of "faster", "faster" needs to be clearly defined as "not taking up your time" as opposed to actually running faster. "At a glance" might be the correct phrasing, the live tiles show you the information you need without needing to open the app.

That being said, I was merely replying to the OP's assertion that knowing the weather in two places at once isn't a good use case. It's no different than having clocks for two timezones.
Lots of our customers are using Exec as a way to provide their team members with more leisure time. The way I normally pitch it is that if you want to go grocery shopping to get ingredients for a special meal you are going to cook and you will enjoy, then by all means, go for it. If grocery shopping is a chore that you don't look forward to, then outsource it. You should outsource the things you don't want to do to leave more time for the things you want to do.

Personally, I dislike having errands that require me to physically leave the office disrupt my work day, especially on days where I need solid chunks of time programming. Our goal with Exec for Companies is to help teams spend more time doing what they want to do.
Not to mention that there's eclim for full-scale Eclipse completion and ctags which provides almost the same functionality (though not as intelligently).
Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Diskworld series, in which weird phenomena are often explained by "probably 'cause of quantum".
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That's probably one of the main goals of the plaintiff - to loudly claim: "I'm not that bad guy with the same name".
The jobs page doesn't say where Duolingo is geographically.

I see Carnegie Mellon being mentioned in the "terms" section, though.
Because algorithms aren't arbitrary physical laws, they're created deliberately by people.

"My spambot sends spam because the algorithms it follows tells it to, so it's out of my hands," wouldn't fly, and I don't think it's an appropriate defense here, either.
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Baloney. This has nothing to do with security. Even if you're chatting with me and you link to www.pleasegivemeviruses.com, nobody at MS should overrule that piece of conversation. Maybe I wanted the link. Maybe we're both security researchers. Or maybe I'm gullible. Who's to decide?

I've chosen to chat with you, and you've chosen to say something. Normal human trust mechanisms apply. Censoring our conversation because you think you know what's best is ridiculous.

The minute I thought a chat client was actively thwarting my conversation, I would uninstall it.
Ha! Awesome! There is nothing more satisfying than doing something "successful", hating it and leaving it behind (well, if you really don't like it). It's like a beautiful, perfect counterpoint to all the success-oriented, soul-sucking, BORING corporate-speak we hear so much of.

Of course, one could adopt a more practical self-improvement oriented outlook and say, well, someone with a talent for figuring out what people need (or stumbling on it) would surely come up with something even better that you'd like doing, but hey, just enjoy your liberation.
In the article it says she finds other victims of the crash, still strapped in their seats.
Essentially no safety margin. I wonder what's normally considered reasonable.
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You have links that point to https://parse.com/pricing which is a generic rails 404.

I remember a frontpage 97 feature that scanned your site for broken pages. Seems like we need a web 2.0 version of that (because I've noticed a new/small sites with dead links recently that should have been [automatically] caught).
RBAC is garbage... developers and such need to write complicated rulesets for n solutions of RBAC systems. A less painful solution would be what FreeBSD currently has - capsicum.
Yes, this is more general and might be useful for other stuff. For an actual slime alternative for vim there is slimv, Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 I have been toying with Common Lisp using slimv quite successfully.
That is but one of the challenges they use. This one might not be of interest to you, but what if the challenge was "open an IDE and create a 'hello world' application"? Microsoft's TouchDevelop just may win out on that.
> A price-per-MB that falls during the course of the month as you use more and more.

I sort of disagree with his pricing model. I think this is the best model for both data and voice:

Charge me an account fee (say $10 per month for a phone with every feature enabled. Caller id, voicemail, data, text messaging etc, etc) and then charge me per minute of call time, per text sent and per MB of data. Here's the important part: Charge a reasonable amount for each one of these.
She describes her planning method in a post linked from the submission [0] and it has quite a lot in common with the Snowflake method.

[0] http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/how-i-plot-nov...
If you try to forbid every case of stupid behavior in legal system - legal system would be totally unmanageable.
If you click on the jobs themselves they do indicate they are in Pittsburgh, PA
I know the point is to discuss style, but I wish he had done it in a way that didn't include a textbook example of floating point programming that can yield inaccurate results. An accurate way wouldn't be so difficult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation#Floating_poi...
Justin, I love the idea of Exec.

What have been biggest challenge to get it working so far?
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I would wait for the second edition, the first edition has too many errors and typos. The errata is very long.
In the Madoff case his company was put under receivership, not seized: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-293-order.pdf
And ownership wasn't transfered of anything: he was enjoyed from transferring or disposing of value.
Can't we just get rid of physical SIM cards all together and just make the auth data easily loadable into mobile phones like SSL certificate or SSH private keys? Making them smaller seems heading the wrong way. Remind me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744268
This. It's what I've got, pretty much, on my ADSL: 50Gb/month (doubling (again) next month) with a sensible per-gigabyte never-expiring top-up if I need more.
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Agreed, but the original poster didn't mention standard of living, only how "rich" the country was. That sounded more like overall GDP than GDP per capita to me (saying "Luxembourg is richer than the USA" sounds a little wrong, right?), though it admittedly it was just a guess as to what he or she meant.
I've been curious how they handle indexing given that they allow ad-hoc queries. In the feature list they say that they provide "smart indexing". I wonder if they simply log all queries and generate sparse-indexes (they use MongoDB) on the fly? I wonder if "file storage" counts index space?
Maybe the type of tree makes a difference? A lot of trees we plant in North American cities have fairly rigid branches all the way to the top, and the foliage is relatively thin. I don't know what kind of trees grow in Peruvian rainforests, but I wouldn't be surprised if the branches were softer and covered with much thicker foliage, like human-sized leaves you could just slide off of.
fuzzypickle: The most successful companies in the trading business are the one's who don't trade! For example, thestreet.com makes most money with their recommendation systems (doubt if they even make a penny with their own trades). So if you are thinking of aggregating things and providing a service, it is a good idea - but if you are thinking of using it to your own algorithmic trading, it may be an overkill. Remember the trading world has some of the smartest people (doing machine learning, statistics etc) and you are competing with them in the zero-sum-game.

Also as full disclosure, I have setup a fully automated algorithmic trading (using IQFeed for realtime feed + IBAPI), but it wasn't HFT - but medium frequency intraday. I shut it down because it wasn't profitable. But if you are thinking algorithmic trading, you need to get into machine learning and statistics space (most of the info is just noise in this space). I have myself thought about the aggregation as a service, but never got around doing anything in that direction and would love to chat if interested.
My bad. =)
This is pretty cool. What about a sidebar with a queue? I would love to load a playlist or collection then get back to work.
You're correct. That's why the first version was written in Ruby :)
I worked at one of the national labs and the books I'd see on shelves were usually ones from when folks were still students. The pristine unread books were either bound copies of the person's dissertation, or books he authored.
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Actually, it was started a few months before the police raid on the Pirate Bay raid. Membership exploded at that point though.
The economic (not political, not legal) rationale for the individual mandate?
I agree with you regarding the former.

However, the latter to me is just plain insanity. It is a serious flaw in that it is the opposite of WYSIWYG but applied to the most critical of institutions that forms the foundation of your society.

In addition, there is likely a high level lack of transparency and consistency because parties can internally organise themselves however they like and change it whenever and how often they like. Information and transparency changes are always slow to propagate in social systems, especially in time for the next elections. To argue voters should be better informed and act accordingly is ... systemically optimistic, to say the least. There is also the huge opportunity cost of going independent or forming another party.

So, this is, like the OP said, effectively handing over a huge amount of democratic power into a few controlling hands.

For example, even if someone left the political party or were never part of it but simply a powerful patron, they could still retain enormous control over a political party. Do you really want a George Bush, Tony Blair, Berlusconi or some economic magnate or ideologue controlling representation and policy from "political retirement", for example? :)
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Youtube is a popular site to view unreliable, low-quality streaming versions of unlawfully shared videos. Nobody thinks Youtube is a substitute for (say) a Hulu+ or Amazon Prime subscription.

People also shared legitimate content on Napster. Once in a blue moon, someone will use BitTorrent to transfer a Linux kernel. But we all know why those services were or are popular.

Nerds appreciate good hacks, and are also infuriated by how fuzzy and nondeterministic the legal system is. So they tend to vigorously adhere to arguments like "how can you prove a DVDRIP of The Muppets wasn't a lawfully-created backup of a purchased DVD stored for entirely legitimate reasons", or, "how can you claim a service like MegaUpload is a gigantic scam that milks millions of dollars out of piracy when people obviously do use it to store Linux kernels". If the legal system worked the way nerds want it to, these arguments would be totally convincing: if you can't prove as if to a programming language runtime that something is criminal, well, you shouldn't even be able to get an indictment.

Of course, that's not how the legal system works. A gigantic portion of almost every criminal case hinges on the question of intent, which involves proving to a jury what someone was thinking. That's a head-explodey concept, because you can't write a computer program to evaluate it. But it's also the basis for many centuries of western law.

Similarly, if you find some awesome, clever scheme by which you can profit from piracy without ever touching pirated content, the law is not going to evaluate your culpability simply from the bits on your hard drive. The totality of the circumstances involved in your scheme will be used to make a case as to your interest in and promotion of piracy, much of which will involve trying to read your mind based on tea leaves like "what sites did you choose to run your ads on".

Similarly, the DoJ is required to spend their time on cases they believe they can win. It can be considered unethical for them to prosecute cases they don't have a reasonable shot at. So as audibly as the pattern engine in the nerd cortex may ring with recognition at the similarities between Youtube and MegaUpload, they fact that Youtube isn't being prosecuted is irrelevant. The DoJ will start with the cases it can win.
For those of you not familiar with TouchDevelop (like me):

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchdevelop/
No, the majority of that overhead is from the use of `iostream`s (which are known to be pretty bloated compared to `printf` and friends), the use of exceptions (try/catch is a morass of stack-unwinding code), and the added bloat of class information (RTTI and symbols in particular).

If it were compiled with full optimizations and the final binaries stripped, they'd be much closer in size. Moreso if exceptions are disabled or if the class is replaced with a simple function taking/returning tuples.
Fixed! Thanks for the note :)
If I had to bet i'd bet on a mistrial due to an error by the prosecution.

Someone in a previous comment did a rough analysis of why it's not certain that 100% of the 25 petabytes of data on mega uploads servers was unlicensed material.

Depending on the defense skills they definitively can win this outright. You've seem to have already made your mind but you can't tell me that you are sure that they are criminally guilty of copyright infringement beyond reasonable doubt. If I was in the jury and you explained to me all the details such as safe harbor provision, DMCA take down requests and compliance... You bet I'd have some doubts. This stuff is not black or white.
Whether or not you are a C++ fan, templatized algorithms ARE often faster than their C-based, generic counterparts. Any decent C++ compiler should be able to inline generic code while C often relies on function pointers. I'm not saying this is always the case, but often. std::sort beating qsort is a typical argument, though I'm not sure the two algorithms are equivalent excepting language-specific constructs (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4708105/performance-of-qs...)

As for size, you're absolutely right, though for many scenarios that appears to be less and less a pressing concern. Perhaps the biggest drawback is compilation time.
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Saw this tweet over the weekend: https://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/184079333323837440

I was curious how many of those apps are technical vs non-technical. (not applying, but just really curious about the latest 'no idea' apps)
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I am a software tester who is fascinated by computers a lot. I love mobile as well as web technologies. I want to move to software development from my current testing job. I have 5 years of experience in testing. I want to ask my fellow hackers -

1. What are the chances to make this move?
2. How to do it?

as a starter, I have started learning Python (From Udacity and MIT courses). I know Java and brushing it up now a days by waking up at 5 am and coding. I know a little about Android development also. I believe that input from hacker society on hacker news will give me a direction.

Thanks,
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I really don't know - it's an idea I've been thinking about.

It may have the opposite affect - having a monetary barrier will force applicants to only apply to jobs they want / are qualified for vs the current state where they apply to everything remotely close to where they want to work.

The number of applicants will definitely be 1/10 or even 1/100 of what it was before - but you will get folks who want the job enough to pay for it, and are definitely qualified for it.

Free for recruiters and you'll get plenty advertising their vacancies, which should entice more applicants.

Then again, the system now works and has been this way for decades - not sure if a role reversal would work at all.
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I really like the approach of trying to reduce friction as much as possible. The main problem that I have with TaskRabbit, fiverr, etc is that while those services might be able to help me outsource things I don't want to do myself, they create additional, new work for me in making me draft a proposal, vet people, and so forth, which is (partially) self-defeating.
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I'd say that there is a volume of data above which infringement-knowledge (your point 'a') is impossible.
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Very simple app, more of an excuse to play with a particular tech stack than anything (Heroku, Redis, MongoMapper, Sinatra and running multiple threads on Heroku)

There is a demo video on the site which does a good job of explaining the app. Please feel free to leave comments.

It's a complete code spike, so YMMV on the stability. If there is enough interest I'll put some time into making it better.
Why would you prefer pre-paid over being billed at the end of the month? The former is lending your carrier money at zero interest on a monthly basis.
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I've found that simply reading the documentation[1] was enough to get started. The package reference[2] was pretty easy to understand after going through it. I would also make sure you're running the current RC and using the information at http://weekly.golang.org/ as it's the most up to date and has some substantial differences compared to the stuff at http://www.golang.org/

[1]http://weekly.golang.org/doc/

[2]http://weekly.golang.org/pkg/
I didn't know the phrase "cast aspersions", so I went to look it up. It means "to slander".

I'm sorry I slandered your slander.