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I know what a network is and I know what a line of code is.

The underlying concern being addressed here is not invalid.

We are not doing "just fine" protecting ourselves from "cyber threats". In fact, I don't know a single credible person working in software security who believes that. If anything, things in 2012 are far worse than they were in 2001: more critical systems than ever are networked, either directly to the Internet, to open GSM networks, or to proprietary RF. Those that aren't are virtually always one hop away from someone using completely vulnerable clientside software.

Organized hacking syndicates in China are also not a made-up problem.

I probably share your confidence in the Administration's ability to address the problem top-down, but comments like yours actually subtract value from the discussion. Any debate where you lead the opposition to things like CISPA dies immediately, because you've chosen to attack a totally valid premise instead of the specific arguments this bill or Obama's makes.
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7) I don't think there really is any intellectual property currently since the world says this cannot be done.

8) I haven't seriously thought too much about competition. If people get well and need less medical care, I am potentially displacing doctors, pharmaceutical compnies, etc. But I don't expect it to be a big enough impact for them to care about my activities. Most people are very unlikely to completely walk away from drugs like I have. I would be happy to just see people needing less medication even if they don't get off it completely.

9) We are human beings, not specimens in a petri dish. The cumulative impact of all our daily choices can outweigh the impact of a few bottles of pills. If the battlefield is the human body, nuking it into oblivion is not the way to win this war.

10) Current mental models claim this cannot be done and it flies in the face of everything everyone knows to be true. Finding a means to adequately explain and educate which does not offend is extremely hard. These people want their battles and their knowledge and intelligence respected. They feel I am calling them stupid when I try to suggest there might be a better answer. And they want to feel the torture they have endured or subjected a loved one to was justified. Validating them while simultaneously encouraging them to entertain a new idea is incredibly tough.

11) Heck if I know.

12) Yes. It is far cheaper than conventional treatments and gets people healthier. It is far more viable than current treatment modalities. The big challenge is that people are incredulous and that there is no financial support for eating better and living differently. Few people will willingly follow me into bankruptcy, never mind that the current treatment regimen leads to financial ruin as well plus worse things.

13) The CF community is tiny. But a wellness model can be applied to any person. It is hardly unique to people with CF. For example, my blood sugar is more stable than it has ever been. People with CF are at high risk of developing CF related diabetes. It is very likely that any form of diabetes would benefit from the rubrics which helped my blood sugar issues.

14) Yes.

15) As said above, I see no reason why humans generally cannot benefit. Preventing infection, eating better and so on can benefit anyone. There are as many potential customers as there are human beings, though granted that may be more realistically limited to humans with internet access who speak English.

16) There is a recession on. The 30,000 people with CF in the U.S. today receive roughly $3 billion dollars in medical care annually and are frquently unemployed, retired on disability at a young age, etc. Aside from the horrific suffering they endure, they are a net drain on the economy as their very expensive medical care mostly comes out of insurance, state aid, federal aid and so on -- I.e. other people pay for it. Getting them healthier is not only the right thing to do but the pragmatic thing to do.

Well, I think I am burned out on trying to answer these for now. Maybe later. Or maybe not.
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Dan may be awesome, but I don't really see a spare 10% or 20% in there for an employee.

But if "Dan" (insert any developer here) gets them to their overall goal (exit?) than why shouldn't he get a piece of the pie.
Build up your own rolodex and be on the list of names people turn to when they need programming work done. Most developers I've met don't really care that you know Rails but not Node. They care that you're a good programmer. It's really only HR departments and lazy companies that strictly adhere to "5 years experience in Node only!"

It also isn't one culture that permeates through all of programming. Go find a place with the right cultural fit for you.
Thanks, I'm glad Standford and Berkeley students can find something in common (haha)

I haven't heard of kinodynamic planning, I'll definitely look into that! I've done some basic particle filtering and inverse kinematics, but it seems that this might be exactly what we are looking for in terms of future work. Thanks again
Speaking as somebody who works on a reasonably large project,yes, the world needs it.

Null build [^1] with cold cache & make: 40s
Null build with cold cache & ninja: 12s
Null build with hot cache & make: 20s
Null build with hot cache & ninja: < 1s

Ninja saves me 20 seconds every single time I build something. Let's say I kick off about 30-40 builds a day, that's 10-15 minutes each day.

[^1]: I.e. nothing changed
Perhaps regardless (or irrespective) of their gender, too. </pedantry>
I believe the answer is yes, you need to first register before filing suit. If the offending work continues to be published, you can register and then sue.

An exception is foreign works, whose owners can file a suit without first registering, since treaty obligations don't allow the U.S. to subject foreign holders to "formalities". However foreign holders are limited to recovering "actual damages" in such suits, and need to register to be eligible for per-copy statutory damages.
Kudos for open sourcing it!
"It’s like getting a degree at Berkeley. Okay. It’s not Stanford. You can a complicated story about how you had to do it because your parents had a big mortgage or something. But it’s a hard negative signal to get past."

I agree that YCombinator is head and shoulders above its competitors but is Stanford really considered that much better than Berkeley? Honest question.
I know some people taught by Christian recently who couldn't praise him highly enough. I'm told he is not only highly skilled but also personable and really knows how to get a concept across. I think this is a really great program and hope there are some courageous woman out there ready for this. It's hard work with little sleep in an intensive course, but so rewarding.
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The word used is "passions", plural, which makes it clear to me that the passions are unspecified things outside of programming that can be made more useful and exciting with software. I think the rest of the website backs up this reading.

Even if we take your misunderstanding of what was written, I'm disappointed by what seems to be a "well, if <minority-representation group> actually wanted to be more represented, they'd just hurry up and fix the systemic problems that are keeping them outside the group themselves without us having to do anything" snark. That's not how barriers to entry work.
No. I'm a REAL PyCon organizer and I DO want people who lack basic judgement to present at the conference!!
Team Breezy is very excited about this as we've been working for a long time to make this happen.

See the FedEx press release here - http://news.van.fedex.com/node/18308
Suggested title for all self help submissions to Haxor News: "How I discovered the one and only one secret to being incredibly awesome at everything".
I saw this on KickStarter. It's great to see people doing hi-tech hardware projects. I'm not sure they're going to make it but 100 people @ $50 and someone can build a bigger rocket engine.
I think we have gotten to the point where "irregardless" is acceptable, it's been used for 100 years and is in just about every dictionary.
> All day: Three litres of water, two coffees (with soy milk)

Some research has shown that soy decreases testosterone in men. It does not seem to be a decided question, though a nutritional epidemiologist I trust believes it is. You might replace with rice milk to be on the safe side.
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Groklaw made it's named reporting about a one sided case against a clear fraud.

This bred a mentality that it's ok to be an open source cheerleader in all future cases but frankly that hasn't worked out as well.

In the case of this article we get a one sided headline, some interesting and good analysis, a straw man caricature of Oracle's argument that amounts to "Derp! I guess we lose" and at the very end an offhanded link to Oracle's actual response (which reads pretty strongly) but no analysis.

I'd love for Groklaw to live up to the "expert legal analysis of the IT scene" side of it's heritage as opposed to being another "legal propaganda arm of the FSF" but that's up to them.
The article posted here on HN cheats by including an important sentence from the DropBox TOS and sneakily omitting the corresponding sentence from the Google TOS.

DropBox: You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services.

Google: The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.
He is not some 'random blogger', he is paid by Oracle to present himself as an expert on patents and put an Oracle-positive spin on the case. In effect he is an Oracle spokesperson.
Killing threats is innovation?
You're right, it doesn't matter what gender you are. The imbalance of the genders in engineering is pretty skewed and we want to improve that. We think a women exclusive fellowship is a great start.
Serving hyper-targeted ads on pins?
Congrats, the app is cool and is a great example of how cool the Parse platform is. You can build really nice Apps very fast with a great backend.
Love pinboard. Has suited me very well for my bookmarking needs.
Text adventures rocked until dungeon master came along and nuked the genre. They may be nice to code, but life's too short and I would not play one again.
As far as I know, the answer to your first question is "yes". (I haven't tested it myself but I have seen it used in apps to display a custom photo picker. E.g. in Camera+)

See documentation for ALAssetsLibrary: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Assets...

"An instance of ALAssetsLibrary provides access to the videos and photos that are under the control of the Photos application.

The library includes those that are in the Saved Photos album, those coming from iTunes, and those that were directly imported into the device. You use it to retrieve the list of all asset groups and to save images and videos into the Saved Photos album."
Sadly this will be seen as a clever example to emulate, rather than the critique it should be.

Do you want to play poker or build a better world?
CISPA Just Got Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
There's two areas where Microsoft have at least some advantage over Apple:

1. The NT kernel has a very sophisticated security model, and in the past few years MS have actually started to take advantage of it rather than shipping with a promiscuous default policy. Darwin's security mechanism is less unified, though the default Unix-y policies have been an advantage for a long time.

2. The secure lifecycle effort. MS have really gotten very serious about thinking about security all the time. They still have decades of cruft to clean up, but ... so does Apple.
I read it as a joke just playing to the audience (ongoing good-natured rivalry, etc).

It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can tell a complicated story about how they like cats and populist rage politics, but it's a hard negative signal to get past.
Can you do it automatically whenever the iPhone camera app takes a picture?
I'm all for supporting IE8, but it's suspicious that someone on HN would notice that you weren't supporting it.
Every US Citizen that reads & participates in Hacker News needs to protest this. This will impact all of you if this goes through & is signed by the President.

America, the home of the free & brave. This is no longer true anymore.
Maybe in the future the box model will be one `dsl` in a larger rendering system that borrows from stack based 2d, matrix based 3d. So you can use what fits best when it fits best.

edit : Traces of this are in place, js based advanced layouts , webgl, canvas. It's just non composable right now.
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Ask them some basic coding exercises. Mind you, I don't mean testing them on specific knowledge of a language (e.g. "does java always pass by reference?") but rather testing how they solve a specific problem. Iconic, overused example of this is reversing a linked list, though by now I feel like everyone has memorized how to do it because it's such a common interview question.
I'm curious. I'm not sure equity in lieu of salary is a good deal, but equity to "sweeten the deal" seems reasonable.

What do you personally consider reasonable?
This how it works with VC funded companies, you either need to sell them or go public. The VCs need to get a return on their investment. Since there are only 1,000 companies or so going public per year, selling to another company is your best bet. And if you do that you might as well do so for the best possible price. I don't think this is bad per se.
So now how do you get a bill like these repealed, and after how much time? Imagine if SOPA passed like this. I think a lot of people just give up after a bill like this is passed. Plus it's simply much harder to repeal it afterwards - could be a decade or more. Just look at the Patriot Act.

No wonder the politicians wants to pass some bills before Christmas or other vacation. They know once it's passed quickly, the population will do nothing serious about it, and it's over.
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Oh, here we go... not this shit again. FFS.
The short version is that ninja is declarative while redo is imperative. And I'm not sure that battle will be resolved in my lifetime :) Personally, I prefer imperative stuff most of the time, but lots of smart people disagree.

ninja config files, as I understand it, are designed to be produced by some other tool, because purely-declarative languages are typically a pain for humans to write by hand. So it's one layer in a multi-layer system, hence the integration with cmake.

redo removes layers; you can quite easily write your whole build system in redo, without first translating your configuration from one file type to another. The down side of that design is it's hard to guarantee your build system is "hygienic"; since every .do script is a program, the program might go do things it shouldn't be doing or which might be insecure. In ninja, that sort of thing would be easier to detect/prevent, and in turn it ought to be easy to implement shared caching, distributed builds, etc in a transparent way. It can be very powerful to manipulate declarative structures like ninja's. (Not that you couldn't do those things with redo, but it would be trickier.)

For similar reasons, ninja is probably more portable to Windows than redo is. (redo can run on Windows, but you need a Unix-compatible sh to do it with, which is obviously rather un-Windowsy.)
A broken clock is still right twice a day.

The oddest secret of success is that you never feel successful. You feel someone else is always almost about to dethrone you. Imagine if you had unlimited funds to defend your delusions.
Works beautifully on my Asus EeePC 1000HE. At the login screen it should default to Unity 2D, but check to make sure before logging in.
Is the main site down for anyone else?
Just to clarify this is not my brother. I met Spencer and we have something in common through programming. I simply copied and pasted his last words.
Creating Magic Thumbnails: The art of manipulating PNG gamma
A program that creates images that manipulate the png gamma metadata to display different images depending on how you view them. Like http://funnyjunk.com/channel/ponytime/rainbow+dash/llhuDyy/15#15
Ummm...so the only example where an HFT has helped someone out is the one where the HFT screwed up and lost money?

In other words, the better an HFT gets, the less benefit they're providing. This isn't doing much to convince me.

Yes, in that case, it would suck to be Fry. But the problem at that point is that the price dropped before Fry got his order in, and that's a price of doing business in the stock market. Considering that an HFT would do all in their power NOT to be helping Fry in that case, it doesn't really support your position. You're not in this to try to help people like Fry; you're in this to AVOID helping people like Fry as much as possible.

>If you want to take that risk, place an ALO order at the bid or ask price.

ALO? How does that differ from a limit order? I only ever use limit orders when buying or selling stock -- and pretty much every bit of investment advice I've read recommends that you only ever use limit orders, though advice on where to place your limit varies. If "most people" use market orders, well, most people also lose money in the stock market.
Marc kicked off an information sharing revolution the likes of which humanity has never seen prior. Even if someone had come along a year later and made a browser the masses could use, that's still tantamount to a civilizational change delayed a year. Felix the Hater should reconsider.
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Yeah, down for me, wanted to find out more about their product, didn't pay attention the other day.
Why exactly would you want to repeal CISPA? Fast forward 1 year, at which time CISPA is in effect, repeal CISPA, and then fast forward again 1 day. How is that day different than the one before it? Be as specific as you can.
Until the 1840s, teachers were primarily men. I trust PBS pretty thoroughly. http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html
Thanks Doug. I am a former student and Christian helped teach the first cohort of Dev Bootcamp. It is an incredible program and inspiration to us. There are more and more options out there to help train people to become developers, it is a powerful movement and I think it's going to change the world.
You can't innovate through fear - it kills creativity. When you're afraid, you tend to get tunnel vision and can't see beyond the threats, and everything you make becomes a derivative of them.

To the extent that Google manages to innovate (and we don't always - we've caught a lot of flack for that lately), I suspect it's because of the layer of middle-management whose only job is to stand between the paranoia of the executives and the creativity of the engineers & PMs. Well-functioning teams here always seem to have a strong leader that basically takes all the shit from above and lets only the high-level direction from the executives reach the engineers, filtering out all the fear and capricious whims.
Thanks for this detailed information. It's great to know what kind of traffic to expect from an HN launch.
Don't forget to thank your Congressperson if they voted NO.
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Good point, and most likely not.

I'm not very familiar with the background process APIs, but from my understanding of it, I'd be surprised if you were able to do that. In my comment I was mostly thinking of automatic upload as the user uses the app itself: opens Dropbox to check out a document and it automatically gets the new pictures without the user having to remember to do it.
How do you know your congressperson doesn't favor some worse intervention than CISPA? Because by HN standards, the Administration's favored course on "cybersecurity" is way worse.
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Some concrete examples of ways that HFTs inhibit, disrupt, or defraud market participants:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html#com...
Pausing sync doesn't make it any better, either.
The passions they're referencing aren't software development. You're right that if your passion is software you'd already be doing it.

There are lots of markets that are underserved due to the homogeneity of geek culture. I myself am male but also a sports fan and that market is woefully underserved. All the sports apps I've seen don't have the slightest bit of creativity and tend to be terribly constructed.

Adding more women with software development skills will open up new markets to be disrupted simply because those markets are not interesting/invisible to the current group of software professionals.
It's as much a word as anything else in the dictionary. Whether a redundant double-negative is truly "acceptable" is debatable, but hey, that's the English language for you.
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I think it's good that they're trying to get young people into software development, but I don't think it's a problem that there is a gender imbalance. With that said, if there is a way to get a certain group involved, then more power to them.
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Go team Breezy! This is HUGE!
That quote was the highlight of the class :)
He's not only playing the audience-- In an earlier class (class 3 or so), Peter Thiel justified his views on Stanford vs. Berkeley based on their track record with creating successful companies. Maybe someone can find the exact quote, but he said that between the two, vast majority of successful companies start at Stanford and that he's only aware of 1 or 2 that started out at Berkeley.
Nice.I was thinking about something similar for a while. I like that it works for all browsers.
Is there any way to avoid retyping list of sites to block after running it again?
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Stripe, Chargify, Recurly, Litle or Braintree?
We launched a new B2B SaaS app called Crisply recently. Free accounts are being setup and people also want to pay us. Which subscription management and payment processor should we use?
Augment Intelligence - Brain Stimulation Makes the 'Impossible Problem' Solvable
Uhh... is this illegal? While including sex as a weight in the decision process is fine, I think creating a "women exclusive" scholarship may be tricky. See Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Also, the Civil Rights Act (Title VII) may come into play.
This is amazing. Clearly tDCS can be made to augment general intelligence. Tell me, can you solve the problem presented?
The second paragraph does say:

"now with Dropbox you can automatically upload from just about any camera, tablet, SD card or smartphone — pretty much anything that takes photos or videos!"

So it was confusing.

I looked through the iPhone app and there isn't anything about it. However I updated the desktop client and it recognizes plugged cameras or phones and ask if you want to import the pictures from it.

This help age is clearer in terms of what it does and how to get the extra space: https://www.dropbox.com/help/287

So that's where the automatic upload happens. At least for iPhones.