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> "The terrible point is, basically, "men and women just can't help being sexually attracted to each other", and it permeates the entire article."

What? The author of the article specifically addresses this and does not conclude that the sexual attraction is unavoidable: "But it doesn’t always get in the way." "I don’t see that platonic friendships are actually rare at all or worthy of a lot of winks and nudges." Etc.

> "it's a remarkably heteronormative idea"

Yes, the author agrees: "Close friendships between members of the same sex, after all, are also suspect." He specifically deconstructs the exact issues you seem to be worried about. I'll assume you did actually read the article, because you said you did, but you are radically misportraying the author's claims in order to make your own points as if arguing against his (when actually, he's already made many of them himself).
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Honest Question: Who buys companies for $5M-$15M? What do they do? What makes a company in that range attractive?

I like the idea of doing one of those every 3-5 years for the rest of my life rather than go for the glory IPO and... then what?
I presume those regulations exist for a few reasons:

1) In any wireless device, it is not hard to imagine a bug causing problems

2) In any electronic device carrying oscillating currents, there is EM emission, therefore it is possible for unintended leakage on bad frequencies (e.g. this trace is just the right length to be a broadcast antenna at frequency Y, given normal modes of operation.

3) Some devices may individually not cause problems, even though they are low power emissions on certain bands, but cumulatively they may cause signal degradation in those bands.

4) Having and enforcing them forces engineers to ensure they are met up front, resulting in better, nicer playing devices to begin with, as it is cheaper to engineer it right, than to deal with the consequences of doing it poorly.
>They're as-yet- unchallenged in their market.

TaskRabbit, a 500startups venture.
First thing I thought of: http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html
I don't think the ECPA is/needs to be overridden by this law. That's my point. There's nothing this law allows companies under network (er "cyber") attack to do that they couldn't already do.

I have firsthand experience (and not in my current company) with what Internet service providers are already doing to share the kinds of information contemplated by this bill. CISPA is just a showpiece.

But of course: people love- luv- LUV! this Your Rights Online stuff, so they'll mod up any half-assed attempt to twist any law into "the next SOPA". Like I said: SOPA was a bonanza for the TechCrunches and Panderdailies of the world. I just wish more people would notice that they're being duped into crying wolf, because someday soon one of these bills is going to have actual teeth.
Exactly what "liability" were you thinking of here? There are at least two (very different) kinds of liability people are expressing concern about with CISPA. Which is it for you?
Haskell is very fun, and well tutorialized now (2nd half of Thompson book is very good tutorial(2nd ed, $5), there are small speed bumps:

I needed a little better glossary than book provides for "invariant", "witness", other terms folks sling around. It took me a while to figure out hoogle, and I needed to ignore blog posts about bijective vs surjective functions and category theory as a beginner. Also the ghc instance extensions are probably the most thinly documented corner:

TypeSynonymInstances, -XUndecidableInstances, Flexible, Overlapping, etc
I'm asking because encrypting cookies seems like a pointless exercise, and seemed that way when it was first announced, as well. If you don't encrypt your entire connection, encrypting your cookie seems pointless, no?
s/Obama/any president/g

I suspect the government is no longer (if it ever really was) being run by temporary, rotating elected politicians but by the massive, entrenched, static bureaucracy. Along with huge donors as well. On anything that's not a wedge issue, there's little significant difference between the parties, Presidents, etc.
Whoah, neat, TaskRabbit is in Chicago.

Has anyone used this thingy? I've got a bunch of stuff I'd consider farming out.

Do you think the Marquis Jet positioning is the right way for Kan to go with EXEC?
Linux Tycoon Beta 2 - Create your own Linux ecosystem with new "Scenarios"
> I firmly believe that "there's nothing better then ours" without actually answering the question properly is a rude thing to tell someone who asks for replacing a part

Sorry for being unclear, I asked because I am genuinely curious and I think all the yesod people love hearing feedback. If you check the yesodweb google group, you'll see that Greg and Michael are constantly begging for and responding to constructive feedback.

> Okay, whats wrong with hamlet. It begins on google: "yesod hamlet" does not yield any meaningful documentation.

Yes, documentation sucks, they're working on it.

> I like how you put thought into generating URLs, but thats nothing the templating language should take care of.

All the template does is provide some syntactic sugar with the @{...} notation. The actual URL generation is handled by the dispatch module entirely.

As for templating, shakespeare-text will do plain text, compile time templates. In general, as Greg has said, you can use anything you want.
> Straight men are uncomfortable turning to other men for that kind of intimacy.

I personally don't really want that kind of intimacy from other men. The kind of association I want with other men is more of a "playing on the same team" sort of thing, like you'd get from playing sports together, maybe working on a side project together, or even just forming a group that always meets at the same bar on a certain night. The focus isn't on sitting around talking, it's half having a group identity and half working together towards a common goal.
Absolutely love this. I﻿ would kill for the opportunity for 5 minutes with him. Does anyone have his assistant Tracy's twitter?!
This reminds me of a quote by our friendly neighbourhood enigma, why the lucky stiff: “Attempt to search on Amazon for anything that’s a beginners’ text of, oh, let’s say the 80-page range”. As far as the Little Coder’s Predicament goes, there’s no doubt in my mind that we ought to focus on books that are as concise, fun, and immediately useful as possible. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who already program are not concerned with the Little Coders and their plight, and thus 600-page tomes abound.
you are part of the equation, no?
I love Haskell, but parsing XML with it is a huge pain. Someday I want to write a better XML parsing library, but for now I use HXT. I wrote a blog post a while back that shows some sample usage: http://adit.io/posts/2012-03-10-building_a_concurrent_web_sc....
It's a User Interface, not a Feature Interface
Amazing HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript experiment - Adobe Photoshop clone
Java Threads, an Inconvenient Truth
I can't answer with certainty what the author means, but the next set of features planned for Yesod is to have tighter client-side integration. We also agree that's where web app development is headed, but we wanted to start with a solid server-side framework before branching into the client side.
Strange... maybe it's a US-only issue with their load balancers?
Totally not true - plenty of small startups use AWS and do not have a full time IT staffer. They are the ones who could benefit most from the savings.
PC VGA to TV RCA Video AV Converter Adapter Switch Box USD $21.92
Support Composite VIDEO, S-VIDEO, RGB (Optional) output
Power from PS/2 or USB port. Support 640 X 480@60/72/75/85Hz .800 x 600@60/72/75/85Hz,1024 x 768@60/70/75/85Hz , 1280 x 1024@60 display mode
On Screen Display (OSD) operation status, Zoom, Size
Independent Horizontal Size and Vertical Size adjustment, programmable 2D scaling
Pure hardware design, just Plug & Display. No software driver requirement, compatible with any operation system
A bit off topic, but a question I've been wondering:

How do conduits differ from arrows? They seem to occupy a similar space. Is one more general than the other?
I hope this encourages more like minded hiring managers out there.
My Digital Walden: What does it take to step back in the digital age?
It’s not a bug, it’s a subtle unsupported corner case
Yeah. Well the thing about these smaller towns even up to 20k people or so is that there's this definite good old boy syndrome that exist within the culture. What I mean by this is that while the communities are really tightly knit they also are generally closed off. That's not to say that they are distrustful or completely against outsiders, but you definitely have to make an effort to getting really integrated with the community.

That being said midwesterners are awesome people that will go way out of their way to help out not only their own friends but also complete strangers. All I'm saying is that if you really make an effort to get to know us we're pretty nice people :)
I mean no disrespect to Knuth, but he seems an odd choice to include in this list. Are you saying his books are exemplars of cheap, fast, or practical?
It enables javascript style scoping which I am a big fan of. Basically the 'var' statement defines the depth that a variable is available at.
in the end, nobody can control it, it being, by defininition, a collection of independent networks using some common protocols and whatnot to cooperate and communicate. thats why it exists in the first place.
Will ‘iPad’ Become a Generic Brand Name? Let’s Hope Not
Node-Qt apps are really semi-native since the app itself is written in JavaScript. So you can easily make your app auto-updating, just like a web app. (iOS is an exception due to Apple's restrictions, unless they're OK with QtWebKit which I doubt).
The clientsession package (which is what we use) both encrypts and applies a hash to the payload. Hashing prevents users from tampering with the data, and encrypting prevents inspection of the data. This means that you can even store sensitive data in a cookie without worrying if it's being compromised. (Not to say I recommend that practice, but it is possible.)

There is of course some performance overhead to encrypting, but Felipe's skein package has been highly optimized, and Yesod is still able to achieve ~50,000 req/sec on modest hardware. (Apologies for not having more accurate numbers, I haven't run our benchmark suite on EC2 in over a year.)
Ask HN: Advice whether to start the following open source django project
There are tools like pyflakes and pep8, which tell you if the code you have written meets certain standards of readability.
I wanted to apply the same thought, given a django project test if it meets certain standards or not.
I went through different sources available on the web and came up with some action items(listed below).

I wanted comments/feedbacks/insights from fellow hackers.

Is it worth the effort?

One reason i want to do it is because it will make the project look more organized and easy for someone to read the code and understand. The design guidelines are not my own and have been taken from authentic sources(listed at the end of the post)

One reason i doubt doing it is, people might have different requirements and people should be free to do things their own way.
These are only few generic stuff and an experienced programmer will himself take care of it, as per the needs. Besides i am relatively inexperienced and it will take me some considerable amount of time to code.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Following would be my requirement list:

Templates:

There should be one base.html at the project level, and one base.html at each of the app levels. The app level base.html should extend the project level base.html;
{{ foo }} not {{foo}};

Settings File:
Use relative path in settings.py;
Sensitive things as database password API keys in localsettings;
Custom Middlewares and Context Processors should have try catch;

Urls:
Each of the urls should have a name, corresponding to the view name
There should be one urls.py at the project level, and one urls.py at each app level. The project level urls.py should include each of the urls.py under a prefix.
Do not use primary key in urls.

Models:

Field naming Convention: first_name not FirstName;
Use Model Forms instead of Forms;
There should be a __unicode__ method and use of permalink; Instead of get_absolute_url;
The model of inner classes should be as follows:
db fields
managers
meta class
db fields
managers
unicode
str
save
absolute_url

Following are the sources i went through to make the above list:

1.http://lincolnloop.com/django-best-practices/

2.http://www.sparklewise.com/django-settings-for-production-and-development-best-practices/

3.https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style/

4.http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Django%20in%20the%20Real%20World%20Presentation.pdf
> legal, sovereign bill writing by our duly elected Congress.

What about when lobbyists write the bills and pay/bribe/extort Congress to pass them?
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> Sorry for being unclear, I asked because I am genuinely curious and I think all the yesod people love hearing feedback. If you check the yesodweb google group, you'll see that Greg and Michael are constantly begging for and responding to constructive feedback.

Sorry for being unclear as well: I meant the initial reply by gregwebs but didn't want to start a second comment.

Thanks for the rest of your answers.
Good heavens. What the hell have they done to Google?
Windows Phone Hacker releases Tweaks for Windows Phone (Video)
Two of the major carriers in the US use CDMA (Verizon and Sprint), while the other two major carriers use GSM (T-Mobile and AT&T). I'm having some trouble finding recent market share numbers for them, but it's mostly half and half.
Hanging out with people on a team isn't a friendship. For one, teams are ephemeral. More importantly, people generally don't behave like dogs, humping everything in sight... Some folks find themselves "in lust" at first sight. Others take longer to develop the bond that they share.

I think that in any long-term business or personal relationship between two people, you're going to have a point where at least one of the two has some level of attractiveness to each other. Whether that manifests into a sexual relationship depends on the people and their circumstances.
Everything is too vague and broad. Will they tell stories to my kids? Will they change my grandpa's diaper? Will they break my debtor's knees? I'll be afraid to ask.

OP's design proposes a slideshow showing concrete examples of what exec can do for you. Concreteness trumps vagueness.

I think task rabbit does it better. http://www.taskrabbit.com/
Eight newsrooms around the world will be hosting Knight-Mozilla Fellows in 2012/13. Fellows work in the open, creating innovative open-source projects to help transform journalism. We're looking for talented developers and technologists who are looking for an opportunity to spend 10 months at some of the best news organizations in the world making awesome new things.
Hey, wait a minute: that's not the kind of social proof this mockup included.
No, a singleton still has a constructor though - it's just not public. It's called when the factory method creates a new instance. the factory static method is NOT the constructor.
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An Interview with Square
"Pick your channel, tell your story"

It's a lot easier to articulate what the Internet isn't, and one of those things is channels.
No difference.

A. Fights happen. And they're very very different than a divorce. We're not together just for sex, or just because we never fight.

B. I trust my wife.

C. We've had fights, she's gone to male friends to cool off. They have helped.

What, don't you trust your friends? (edit: of which a wife should be one)
rural manufacturing and farming areas seem to be going through population decline.

I will allow this is the case for some areas. It it not universally true.

It sure isn't where I live.
Flippa has a lot of sales listings of somewhat questionable value. However the "Just Sold" section ordered by descending price is a good place to look for valuable business niches, as it filters out a lot of the spammier listings : https://flippa.com/just-sold?sort_col=price&sort_dir=des....

The Experienced People forums are also a treasure trove of information about dodgy website sellers : http://experienced-people.net/forums/forum.php .
My first Walkman totally changed my relationship with music.
I haven't had time yet to account for lots of different cases. I plan to spend more time learning the API (which is why I built it in the first place!)
Your Best Customers Probably Aren’t
There's a simple way to hire a good programmer: get a good programmer to interview the candidate. Real programmers recognize each other within seconds: it's like vampires. Something about a look in the eye and total arrogance. Hard to explain. But all the really good programmers I've hired over the years have had three-second interviews: it was just obvious. In my experience, if the interview needs to last any longer than that, you'll end up having a problem with the candidate.
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Having grown up in Europe (Germany), I am wondering about this article, too. I have many friends of both sexes, with male friends or acquaintances being a majority as a female in computer science.. Should I be careful about finding male friends as soon as I am in the US in a couple of weeks?
Are you going to release a public API?
Crazy to see how much these sites are going for... I'm always interested in finding some niche sites for sale but Flippa always seemed so..spammy to me. It seems like all of the sites on there are for article writing/spinning, reverse telephone look up, link building, spyware removal or some other cheesy, no value-added type of site. I'm sure people are making money on them but I just don't feel comfortable adding another one of those sites to the internet... maybe it's just me.
What do you suggest for a 'nothing' category?

By 'nothing' I mean that I'm a sysadmin, knows a smattering of PERL, a little BASH, a lot of this and that over the years.
It's $25/hour. There are landscapers that cost that much. Our cleaning service costs way more. Is this really a VIP service? Why would they want it to be? Isn't what makes stuff like this interesting that it uses technology to make personal assistants available to normal people, not just VIPs?
The New Snipt.net
So it can be optimized away?!
Is Anonymous a threat to national security, or just trolling?
How to extract cube roots mentally in less than 5 seconds
If you want to hire a good programmer, get a good programmer to interview the candidate. The interview should take about three seconds: any longer than that, and your candidate's a bust. Real programmers recognize each other on the spot, like vampires. It has something to do with a look in the eye coupled with total arrogance: it's hard to explain, but over the course of my career (30 years) I've found that those programmers I've hired on instinct, just because I recognized what they were immediately, were the only ones who ended up being totally capable.
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" was trying to express my frustration at not being able to insert a little impure code temporarily to tweak behaviour and help with debugging."

Why would you want to do that? Haskell is a functional language. You evaluate expressions, which can be done nicely in GHCI.

When I first learned Haskell, I was also trying to apply my procedural programming habits. Looking back, the pain was a sign of doing it wrong. Once I learned to look at solutions 'functionally', it turned out not to be a big deal, and the resulting code is arguably better. However, it does sometimes become painful going back to procedural languages.
PHP is very much akin to C. I wouldn't categorize it w/Ruby or Lisp.
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A firearm sitting in a shelf doesn't magically go off and cause injury.

People handling firearms without proper care cause accidents.

Hacking tools on disk don't break things. People handling hacking tools break things.
Sorry for the site loading so slow. I submitted this a week ago and thought it got ignored into Hacker News oblivion. Back then, I added a cache plugin, but I guess that's not enough.

I woke up this morning surprised to see it's on the front page a.t.m. I'm going to troublehshoot right now.

I also have the dirt-cheap lowest VPS option on Rackspace -- is that the problem? If anybody has immediate ideas on how to make my server not be so slow, pass them along (and thanks for reading!)
Apple's iPad name could become generic
The positioning works for me. Pricing ($25/h) is prominent and makes it clear that it's in my budget.

It's what Zara and H&M do. High-end design makes customers feel important; low prices let them know they're shopping in the right store.
I don't understand the attractiveness of "no-semicolon" in the sense of "a statement/expression ends at a line end, except if ...", with some arbitrary rules replacing "...". This seems to be a current trend. Why can't we have simple, unambiguous syntax with no pitfalls in new languages?

I want to point at the start of a statement/expression, ask "where does this end?", and get back a single, general answer, like "at the semicolon" or "at the corresponding closing parenthesis".

That is what punctuation is for. Imagine reading an english text with no punctuation, where the author just made sure to end a line wherever he wanted a sentence to end. Do you really want to stop at each line end and have to answer the question whether it ends the sentence?
Well, I think what Carl Sagan was getting at was that, while indeed all our problems and strife are virtually zero in comparison to the awe and majesty of the universe that surrounds us, since this pale blue dot is all we have, we should strive to improve our lot as much as we possibly can. So you really couldn't have missed the point more than you did. I'm not sure those quizzical looks mean what you think.
While your points are valid, I don't feel it's all shouldered on this redesign. The name of the company 'Exec' is already giving the user the notion of 'exclusive' or 'executive', 'high end' services.

The redesign fits the name, but does it fit the product? Without the company's vision/style guide, it's hard to do a redesign. I think it's a great job provided the information gleamed from the current website and the company name.
"Nevertheless, plenty of people are willing to forego those benefits in the case of firearms; why not the same for hacking tools?"

Those people legislate firearms out of fear and mistrust and insecurity...why should they be allowed to rule on hacking tools?
i bought a sony walkman radio in the early 80s. still have it, use it every day, use it in the bathroom where it is subject to hot and humid conditions. it's now over a quarter of a century old and works fine.

in the 80s the build quality of sony was legendary. in the 90s they were still excellent and most people i know preferred them over an alternate brand. but minidiscs and even before that d.a.t. showed they preferred a locked down environment that favoured sony and not their customers. mp3s were the nail in the coffin for many folk that i know and people went elsewhere. i stopped recommending sony back in late 90s. cd and dvd burners speeded up the process when sony products refused to handle them.

the rootkits, lies and lack of security were just nails in the coffin.