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A short summary of CISPA:

-- any large internet company can share your data with the government; they can't be sued for it. The U.S. will end up with large data hoses stuck into all large internet companies.

-- any large internet company can share your data with the RIAA/MPAA/private copyright police; they can't be sued for it. The copyright police will end up with large data hoses stuck into all large internet companies.

That's about the start and the end of it. If you think it's great that the RIAA/MPAA will end up with the ability to suck down everything that Google/Facebook/Twitter/Verizon/Comcast/etc. know about you, with no subpoena or other legal process required, based on their allegation that you are infringing their copyrights, then you should be cool with this bill. If you think it's great that the NSA will end up with the ability to suck down everything those companies know about you based on their allegation that you are a threat to national security, again with no legal process required, then you should be cool with this bill.

If you don't think that's great, you should probably oppose this bill.
Exactly. I'd say this site is even more useful avoiding traffic and transit delays during home games.
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There was a UX video a while back, quite a long video, and there were IDE features shown off that were slightly similar to this. You could trace code and modify it while it's running and visualize the results. I feel that it would have inspired or complement this concept very well.
The training sequence sounds like 56k to me ;)
And Australia slams [insert countries] for not buying Australian goods.

If most of the traffic is from Australia, it makes sense to keep it within Australia. Then we have what others have mentions: Patriot Act and the likes.
We make no claim that the service will be free. It won't be. We'll charge based on usage, in the same way other PaaS type providers do.
Ah, but business should be product-based...
Goroutines are threads though (in the sense of preemtively scheduled concurrent execution sharing memory), they just aren't OS threads.
Does IETF have any way of enforcing such policy?
Great Article !!!
If you've not done a lot of javascript, then your first priority before considering doing a framework like node.js should be to learn javascript, correctly.

Read "Javascript: The Good Parts" and then continue on to any of the recommended books/readings from there (Javascript Patterns, High Performance Javascript).

jQuery is great for DOM manipulation and XHR, but it hides a lot of the implementation details from the developer, and it'll be frustrating if you try to do anything advanced in javascript without fully appreciating the language.

So, you should be able to explain and fully comprehend:

- Variable Scope
- Object.prototype
- .call, .apply, and .bind
- Closures/Lexical Scope
- Anonymous functions
- Function Hoisting

Once you get down most of that, then you can consider using javascript as a primary language. Otherwise you'll be very frustrated. I'd personally recommend getting comfortable with something like jQuery + backbone.js with your current stack before diving into 100% javascript.

Also, don't worry much about scale, worry more about building something and then identifying the bottlenecks later to scale.
It's a much easier way to get a answer, quickly since the mlb sites are fairly busy and not great on mobile.
Sounds good. I just want to add that sometimes it's not about "wanting to write closed source apps", sometimes it's more complicated than that. Like, the app integrating with other systems that can't be GPL'ed, or just lawyers not willing to take a chance in cases where it's not immediately obvious what's GPL compatible.

Sometimes companies who love and contribute to open source just can't use GPL'ed software, for technical reasons, for lawyer reasons, for FUD, etc.

I, for one, think it would be an awful shame for your cool tech to not achieve the adoption it deserves, just because of GPL.
The MPAA has become very aware that it is in a position that could go quite south for them at any moment, so they are quite literally desperate to get any "data" to support their positions, up to and including re-contextualizing/redefining core concepts of how technology is perceived and used.

They were a client of a company I worked for in a past life, and they were fairly out of touch, but seemed to be aware enough that they were not going to "win" by pure technology alone (they grokked that DRM had limited, if any, real value). They are a policy farm at root, and they are going to leverage that as strongly as possible from here on out.

My honest suggestion is a scorched Earth campaign against them. Follow the money and start real GOTV/support candidates who refuse to give in to the nonsense.

Yes, I understand the argument about where linked content could be perceived as violation based on pecuniary interest (but as stated elsewhere, a reference to a source is not a source, even if it provides the full access to that source), but I personally see that as a tenuous position and certainly lacks merit overall in terms of the generally inchoate state of copyright law these days.
I really like this. A very simple way to see your reps if you want to contact them.

Might I suggest taking the idea a step further: Perhaps finding a way to list key legislation and their voting records? The philosophy section is decent, but most organization names are so vague as to simply be noise.

It'd be even more interesting if you could somehow "rate" how inline a rep's views are to your own (in a percentage basis).
..are they entitled to? To trot out the old Heinlein quote:

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

-- Life-Line (1939)
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I think it'd look a lot like Resolver One:

http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/

It's not necessarily clear but the spreadsheet UI generates an IronPython program and you can hack the Python if you so desire. I've only used it lightly a couple years ago but I still think it's neat.
"There's the fact that you're dealing with cell references rather than variable names"

Excel has named ranges - allows you to give a meaningful name to single cell or a range of cells - a pretty widely used feature.

"it's a single line text field"

Excel's formula editor can be as large as you want.
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How 'bout this: have a file system which can contain aggregating symbolic links, with configurable ordering schemes. We can edit functions in their own files and tell the compiler to compile the aggregation. This would be usable for C & C++ as well.
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The "non-shitty" software the author works on is an ad-serving platform. Advertising is only one or two steps above TPS middleware.
@rglover, You'd think it'd be a no brainer right? Even though it may be logical and your user's have been asking for it, it is more I think cognitive dissonance, cuz you see "mobile/social apps" winning and everyone around you is doing cool consumer stuff and you get sucked into that vortex even though you know fully well you are an "enterprise app" but again there is that whole idea of making enterprise sexy and what else is more sexy right now than mobile/social....again cognitive dissonance. As Entrepreneurs it is ok to make decisions based on what your surroundings are telling you as long as you are fast enough to realize what aspects of your product work and which ones to cull and iterate onward.
This and that are different, languages like Go and Erlang use m:n mapping to map their m lighweight threads/processes onto n kernel threads (where n is usually the number of physical cores on the machine) to benefit from hardware concurrency.

But the presentation is about concurrency and parallelism not being the same thing, and more concurrency not necessarily leading to more parallelism.

> Don't make excuses for your language.

There's no excuse made.

> Just solve the problem!

There's no problem to solve. If you're asked to count from 1 to 100, you can't parallelize it: it's a purely sequential task, each step has a hard dependency on the previous step. So there is no possible parallelism.

But it is possible to do something else at the same time, or to have one process handling the counting and sending the current count to an other process printing it. That's concurrency: you've got two things running at the same time.
When Go was first presented Rob said the term "Goroutine" was introduced precisely to avoid this kind of confusions, but old habits are hard to kill and seems that even Rob himself still falls into this trap from time to time :)
Thanks! Those features are definitely in the pipeline -- the data is all there, especially at the federal & state levels. There are sites and APIs that collect this data, but we think we can aggregate it from different sources and personalize it for the user in a way that hasn't been done already.
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Yes, I do. More prospects contacting our company in the last few days.
A few months ago there was a rumor about a Google X AI project that passes the Turing Test 93% of the time in an IM conversation:

http://www.webpronews.com/is-google-x-all-about-highly-intel...
They're essentially reducing the value of the shares of stock. Each share of Google stock has a value as a portion of the overall company and also includes the right to vote in board elections and exercise voting rights on any measure put to shareholders.

To simplify, let's say I own 10% of Google, what this stock split does is leave me with a 10% ownership stake in Google, but only in possession of 5% of the voting rights in a board election - effectively taking away half of my oversight of the company by fiat.
I agree. I subconsciously knew that WebGL is capable of something like this, but it really reinforced it to see it in my face like this.
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Moves like this that consolidate power in the hands of large shareholders have precedent. From what I've read, small shareholders tend to be poorly treated under such arrangements, or so they claim. On the other hand, I like the out-there projects. I want them to create self-driving cars, re-usable space vehicles, strong AI, nanobots, and the rest, and as a shareholder I don't mind losing some profit to take that chance. However, this assumes power isn't abused over time, and without checks in place, one has to worry a bit.
Russ Cox must be a code name of the team working at Google on various projects?
If Smalltalkers really believe their environment is the right way to code, their attitude should not be one of "we did this first, meh"

That was totally not the spirit in which I meant my post. It's more like, "I told you so!" (My mind works differently, I guess. I present facts that challenge people's model of the world, hoping the curious absorb the information and run with it. Many people seem to take these as some kind of attack.)
Its a cool concept, but do you actually send the resume in all these formats when you apply? I find that some of the non-tech people seem to get confused if you send them more than 1 format so I just keep it simple, I've also found they will but absolutely 0 effort into retrieving a resume, so even if I send them a url where I have it downloadable in a bunch of formats they won't go to the url and instead will just demand that I send it to them via email
I think you are purposely misreading what he's writing.

What's the difference between building a separate mobile-optimized site and a separate experience for mobile users? Consider that this shouldn't require you to change anything on the backend. Your basically saying that a mobile-optimized experience is good... but only if it's on the same site?

> Why does the URL for the mobile-optimized site need to be different from the regular site?

It doesn't. He's saying if a user comes to your site, display him the mobile site.

> As it turns out, there are usability issues in having separate URLs for mobile and regular sites. For example, if I email or bookmark a link from my phone and later open it on a desktop computer, I get the wrong site.

That's a site issue. A site can easily render a different display based on the device.

> "create a separate mobile-optimized experience"

Your essentially arguing that he didn't use those exact words, and be damned the meaning.
OP, you said you won't pivot, but why not pivot slightly? This appears to be the perfect time to try to take the best of what you wrote, modify the parts that need work even if it results in something only slightly different. For example, instead of bands/music- how about politicians or something else that has polls you could mine from various places? Politics are going to be a big deal shortly at least in the U.S. with the next election, and you could be on top of it.
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> There's the fact that you're dealing with cell references rather than variable names, so all of your expressions look like ($K4 - $S$1) rather than (principal - payment).

In Excel, use the "Name Manager" dialog and the "Name Box" on the formula bar. They re somewhat hidden, but discovery of them forever changed my spreadsheets!
On the other hand, I see this as a win for user privacy and a blow to the kind of keyword-stuffing SEO that I hate. There's more than one perspective here.
horse-and-cart didn't stop working when the automobile came around. The proposal here is that we shoot all horses and burn all carts because somebody somewhere has started driving an automobile.
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It's not a power grab so much as maintaining their current power. Without this provision, the stock split would result in the founders' voting power being cut in half, in which case they would of course elect not to split the stock.

If I misunderstand, please correct me. As I see it, instead of splitting 10x voting stock held by the founders, they are issuing non-voting stock to everyone.

I'm curious to know how they will differentiate between voting and non-voting common shares in the stock market - it seems one is worth at least marginally more than the other.
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Hi all,

Sqardius is a new photo-sharing service where pictures are only shared in 1Km Radius, so that people can only view pictures around them, we think it could be a great service when used for community meetups, concerts, sport events .etc.

Please let us know what you think about it and if you have any feedback, we are here, we accept any kind of feedbacks: critics, suggestions, remarks,...

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It's tyranny of the majority shareholders. If you own 49% of Google's stock, you don't have 49% of the power. You have 0 power because whatever Larry and Sergey says, goes.
Is it normal business practice to use ultimatums instead of negotiation?
One thing in favour of the idea of professional-body approved programming qualifications is that we could take them away from people who do this. Anyone who implements "no-scaling" and anyone who worked on a browser that pays attention to it.

It's awful for usability, and behaviourally as obnoxious as letting the caller decide what ringtone a callee's phone should play and how loudly, or breaking the 'back' button, or having a 'you can't close your browser or power off your device while looking at this website' option.
Two favorite quotes:

"Can you name a great consumer brand that was built by someone completely rational?" - CEO of CarMax

"Never tell me the odds." - Han Solo
Great idea. Opera browser made this a long time ago. The innovator that everybody else copies.
Appsembler? Looks like PAAS + SAAS eg WAT
YC should hire this dude as their designer in residence. This and the Exec facelift he did last week are gorgeous.
Since my team and I started working on our startup and build our product, I actually began to like the fact that I hated my day job. It energized me to work harder into getting our project launched and have people use it in the real world. Finance is just not for me. I want to build and create things...much more fulfilling!
This seems like it could be cool, but for it to replace Skype for me it needs to have screen sharing.

Also, I don't really like being pestered to connect Facebook and LinkedIn at every turn. I'm wary of annoying my friends, and I especially don't want to send invites to everyone on Facebook and LinkedIn without trying out the app first. When I do send invites, it will only be to a few co-workers not all my contacts so uncheck everyone by default please.
Sounds like you should sell your GOOG shares then if you think this is a problem. Yes, it is about maintaining power for the current cabal running the company but they are being very open about this fact. If the value of the shares will truly be diminished by the loss of voting rights then I expect the market price of those shares to reflect this and now would be a good time to sell.
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node.js has real-time guarantees?
I wonder if the ordering of who represents you should be handled differently. Sorted starting from local is in many ways more relevant. Obama represents everyone in the USA, and everyone knows that, whereas the local city councillor is more likely to be the person the user isn't familiar with.
Could you explain why they are cartels? I don't disagree (I say, for the benefit of my comments history); just looking for info.
A key element of the chinese room experiment though, is that it excludes the biochemical properties of the brain, which Searle strongly believes is the foundation of human consciousness.

Searle's main point: A deterministic, symbol-manipulating machine can never give rise to the equivalent of human consciousness because traits essential to human consciousness are rooted in the biochemical properties of the brain
Ah, understood. Tone threw me off and it's all too common to see the attitude I outlined above when old ideas are given fresh paint. Apologies for misrepresenting your view.
GOOG is down about 4% today.
I was expecting state-level officials to appear in the list considering that information on federal officials is already available in many places and having state information would be a good way to distinguish the product, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there was data on city and county officials as well.

Granted, Charles Meeker isn't actually mayor of Raleigh anymore, the current mayor is Nancy McFarlane. But this is a step in the right direction.
In my book, ibdknox is in the early lead for clojure hacker of the year. He has been putting out some very useful software. Thanks!
From the beginning I've understood mongodb to be built with it's approach for scaling, performance, redundancy and backup to be horizontal scaling. They recently added journaling for single server durability, but before that replication was how you made sure you data was safe.

It seems to me when I see complaints about mongodb it's because people don't want to horizontally scale it and instead believe vertical scaling should be more available.

Just seems to me people don't like how mongodb is built, but if used as intended I think mongodb performs as advertised. In most cases I don't think it's the tool, rather the one using it.
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If i'm using "secure" search, I would expect my queries to not be sent to an analytics system.
The default behaviour at these trade show/exhibit hall events (stand behind a table, look pretty and hand out swag) has always struck me as a colossal waste of time and money. This sort of slightly-different format seems like a good way to shake things up a bit. Have others tried different creative tactics to get (and hopefully give attendees) more value from these events?
Why don't you give them real feedback? This site thrives on collaboration not "one-liners" like what you provided.
I'm really glad to see you responding to this, and I'll definitely keep tabs on Meteor to see how things play out. My sense is that you'll need to alter your business model; "talk to us to discuss pricing" is only really viable if you have a very niche product or a very large sales team. I'd recommend taking a look at companies like Sencha and 10gen to see if their kind of business models would work for you.

Best of luck with Meteor in any case!
Why will people buy these intellectual and aesthetic goods? And with what money will they buy them?
It wouldn't make new connection sounds while searching though.
I remember reading about Microsoft having a Program Manager job title, which sounded exactly like what you're looking for. Might be worth approaching them, or looking to see whether other companies have something similar?
What I wanted to do was strike-out the word Ninja, but HTML tags are usually not supported in titles for most blogging and other systems.
This is not just a work of art, but also a labor of love. It deserves to become a museum installation.
Great advice. Similar to you, the main vexation has been "what comes next". Being a developer, you can scale your knowledge vertically and horizontally, constantly improving yourself and growing. Being a "shit umbrella", though, doesn't seem to lend itself to such growth opportunities.
If the stock is split, the founders' stock will also be split, and their share of the whole will remain constant (assuming there is only one class of stock in existence).

Listed companies have different tickers for each class of shares.
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This is the perfect article for a Friday.
FYI: The ASCII art was produced by figlet, using the font Georgia11, which was designed by Richard Sabey.
What's a real-time guarantee?
From your link: "The third is the shoemaker (or some other tradesman), whose labour suffers proportionably by the same cause. It is this third person who is always kept in the shade, and who, personating that which is not seen, is a necessary element of the problem. It is he who shows us how absurd it is to think we see a profit in an act of destruction. It is he who will soon teach us that it is not less absurd to see a profit in a restriction, which is, after all, nothing else than a partial destruction."

I note that the absurdity of profiting through restriction sounds a lot like today's implementation of copyright and patent laws, which can be seen as a partial destruction in its not-seen effect on the economy. Also, the section on Algeria seems applicable to most of the enormous spending done by the US abroad. I like reading works from more than a hundred years ago, especially when the authors seem to be speaking now.
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