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In the Boston / Cambridge area where Stallman is talking about, we have "Spare Change":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare_Change_News

There just are more homeless people that gather there than can viably all sell the newspaper.
I think they fixed that a long time ago: http://blog.workflowy.com/new-workflowy-feature-add-stuff-wh...
Re: responsiveness, I've actually been very impressed by the team. I've emailed them about 3 separate product suggestions, one of which was actually pretty dumb. They got back to me in all cases very quickly and thoughtfully.
It's a small team -- still just two guys, I think -- but they've been doing a great job to improve it quickly.
I bought Shameless since Louis CK is awesome, and also because his advisors wanted him to put DRM and other crap on the shows and he refused.

Totally worth the money.
>I also think they were surprised that the
inventor of #4,555,755 was funny, theatrical, and clever

I respect Rob as a programmer, but that came off as a little too self congratulatory.
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I don't see the relevance. Linux is no good target, because there are not many linux boxes compared to windows/mac and because 100 linux boxes might require 10 different ways to attack them, while 100 windows boxes might require 1 or 2. There is nothing obscure here, just diversity.
I really don't understand why people care so much what the beggar uses the money for. Give him a dollar, or don't. If you do, don't worry that he might use it to buy booze; just feel good that you did something nice for someone. If you don't, don't try to justify it to yourself by saying he might be a liar. Just say "I have the right to not give beggars money because it's my money" and be done with it.

There, I solved all of your altruism problems. You're welcome.
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The other thing is that the login page is http rather than https.
By the way, you cannot zoom in or out on your website using an iPhone. This makes it very hard to read.
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Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, only now I realize how this sounds...

What I meant to say is, men can do almost nothing to prevent violence against them (or at least reduce the probability of it happening), since violence against men is (in my experience) often very random, and happens even in public places with a lot of other people involved.

In contrast, women are almost never a target of physical violence, and they can often avoid being a target of sexual violence using relatively simple measures, e.g. staying with friends and not getting drunk/drugged.

On the other hand, men have better ways of dealing with violence once it happens (fight back), but it doesn't help if things escalate and you get beaten to death (in Slovenia, a man was once beaten to death by club security guards!!).
My understanding of what Apple is likely trying to do with a SIM-less phone is allow you to choose your carrier and change it at any time directly from your phone, without needing to seek out a little piece of plastic and a paperclip.

When I went to Europe this summer with my 3G iPad, it was difficult in some cities to find a place to even buy a SIM card (let alone a paperclip to use to eject the SIM tray). Since my iPad is unlocked, it seemed to be a bit ridiculous that I even had to go through this. My device should just do a network scan, see what networks are available, and let me compare the plans (price/data) and choose one directly from my device.
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If one was to be a smartass, one could say that all code is code that writes assembler. (Possibly with many levels of indirection.)
Interesting points.. but I'm unsure if your use of a question mark in this HN post is a ironic or a coincidence?
It's a psychological reaction to having very little control over anything around you to exert more control in any area you can. It's not ironically funny, it's ironically sad.
My mom taught me never to give money to beggars, only ever give them food. Seemed entirely logical.
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Is there any practical application to this? I'm not one of those silly people who only cares about math if it can make a better lawnmower or whatever, but I'm just curious as to whether this could make certain algorithms easier or something, or if it's "just" a pure number theory result.
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Speaking of usability... your site doesn't scale on my iPhone, so I only see about 30% of the screen width and have to do a lot of scrolling to read anything.
My experience with other wrappers is that's not so, sometimes they're based on Chromium but don't support WebGL, the Web Audio API, etc. etc. I suppose wrapping Chromium is harder than you'd think.
FYI - use two newlines to separate paragraphs. Eg "abc\n\ndef":

abc

def

Other handy formatting:

italics are done by placing * around the text

indented text by putting two space characters before each line.
Useful for code snippets and other preformatted text
Or very long lines of text like this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this
That's a rather ableist point of view. Being shy may be a "habit" for some people, but some of us actually have anxiety disorders.
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I'm co-editor for a niche news site (http://pokerfuse.com) and we strictly do not write any headlines in the "is...?" format. It's a good check before publishing anything - if your headline naturally falls in to this format, it should be a signal that either (a) we shouldn't be writing this story, (b) we should stand by our convictions and write the headline in the affirmative, (c) the story needs more research before publishing. We pass up on some easy pageviews, but we see the upside in more loyal/repeat visitors.

edit:

NewsItem.objects.published().count()

>>> 648

NewsItem.objects.published().filter(title__istartswith='is', title__endswith='?').count()

>>> 2

(a couple of stories do have this format, but they seem like the rare appropriate cases)
It seems to me that ember.js is a better approach to this - much cleaner application model and richer data support with routing and view state.

That said, I'm with you broadly on Javascript+HTML5 on the desktop. Actually just wrote something up around my thoughts on how to do this with Ember.js if folks are interested:

http://bit.ly/LybVgo
It is very unethical. Don't judges have ethical guidelines they have to follow?
Reading your reply, I had an idea...

Maybe women perceive men as being sexually discriminating because they only receive sexual comments from men. When I try to think about it, I (as a man) also receive much more sexual comments from men. Maybe it is simply that men are much more open talking about sex, and when we do it with everybody, men and women alike, but when women hear it, they think it has something to do with them being women...

I don't know if I'm correct, generally, but in my social circles, we joke about sexual stuff a lot. (With friends, of course, not at workplace.)
I like this as an exercise in empathy.

It's important to consider how we treat the "odd ones out" in any group. Maybe we're on snowboarding holiday with friends who are all mad keen boarders, except for one who's never seen snow before, we'd probably adjust our behaviour and hang out on the baby slopes a bit and help out our friend. Or maybe we're organising a work party, and it would normally be a slightly boozy affair in a bar, but we know someone doesn't drink because they're pregnant/alcoholic/religious/don't like it/training for a marathon, so we might do something a bit different, like take everyone for a bbq on the beach. Maybe we own a cafe, and there's a step out the front, we might get a ramp ready, so that if someone in a wheelchair wants to visit they can get in okay.

For whatever reason, at the moment, being a female in tech means you're an "odd one out". The lack of women in tech is not the men in tech's fault, (the men in tech are mostly pretty lovely, certainly I like working with them). The lack of women is no-one's fault, the reasons run deep and are complicated. It's also not a terrible experience being a women in tech, it's a good job. I guess the worse you can say is that it's hard to be different to everyone around you. And let's face it women haven't got the monopoly on that, we all know what that feels like. It's not really about gender, I'm sure there's many men who feel excluded by the whole "brogrammer" thing too.

Sometimes the discourse around the whole "women in tech" thing makes me scared, I feel like it's stirring people to feel accused or hurt or angry or confused, and causing them to divide. It shouldn't really be about women, it doesn't even make sense, we're half of humanity for goodness sake, 3.4 x 10^9 very separate people, why consider us to be such a coherent group? It should be about trying to understand those around us as individuals, who are not necessarilly the same as us, and seeing if there's any small adjustments or accommodations we could make so that they can be themselves, and also a part of our group. And we should be doing this, just because it's right, and that's the sort of world we want to live in.
I would like to respectfully suggest you have it backwards.

I agree a lot of that stuff would be nice with vim, don't get me wrong, but I think we don't need an IDE layered on top of vim, so much as we to do some work on DEintegrating the development environment.

I'm not advocating for getting rid of all-in-one tools, I've seen the power of VS and IntelliJ etal in competent user's hands, they are fine envrionments, if that is your preference and it makes you productive, then awesome.

What I think the programming environment world needs (not just vim) is a standard way for user interfaces to talk to tools. Right now if you come up with a great way to auto refactor code, or do inline static analysis or build tool chains or whatever, you have to target a specific environment, or redo a lot of work to have it work available in multiple tools. However if there was a standard api or protocol, the same code would work for all developers and you could focus your effort on making the tool that much better.

It isn't immediately obvious to me how this would work, and I've been thinking about it off and on for a while now, but I think it could be a major benefit to the world, in the way http/html have freed up a lot of the nonsense around programming interfaces for users in a cross-platform way. My thinking right now is being largely influenced by the git model of "plumbing" and "porcelain" command setup, where the "porcelain" is the editor/environment tool.

Anyway, I probably did a poor job of explaining my thinking, it being saturday morning and all.
If you could do a one click install with no internet access this could have huge potential.

Yesterday, while working with C# and sql compact I realised the need for something like this.

Not that I have anything against C#. Love that thing, but it is complex (.NET).
>The lack of polish with HN is part of the charm really.

I do agree with that. However, there's a big difference between polish and usability.
The lack of polish may be charming, but usability flaws are anything but charming.
Any time I see a headline ending in a question mark, I always think of this SMBC comic - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2075.
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appjs.purpose !== emberjs.purpose

(former gives a cross-platform runtime, latter is merely a JS framework)
The genius in Android's system is not necessarily the navigation. It's the METHOD for performing the navigation. Google parses your email and texts for potential addresses that you can click to launch navigation.

Every other GPS system, including the expensive Navigon package I bought for my iPhone ask you State? City? Street? Number? Oh how I'd love for someone to be able to text me their address while I'm driving and be able to click the link and be automatically routed.

Google's upper hand is in integration. If I had a Tom Tom or a Garmin that could read my email or texts and then start navigating, I'd buy it.
why would you insist on starting with an "Is"? A proper yes or no question can start with "Is", "Are", "Does", "Do", "Have", "Has", "Were", "Did", etc etc. How many of your titles end with a question-mark? It's hard to think of how any of those can be false positives.
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Look, this is about good manners, not censorship. Everything you've just said is trivial and unhelpful. Naming ethnicities this way will only make you look like a fool and undermine the point you're trying to make.
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(to me it's pretty obviously ironic)
There's no shenanigans surrounding the use of CDO's and other financial instruments. Like most of them, they have a valid and legal purpose, the fact that they were abused by banks recently (who misrepresented their value) doesn't remove that use and legality.
To which the counterpoint is "awesome UX". You'll never get that with web tech.

Sandofsky works at Twitter BTW.

You are probably right about most of the problems, though how much of a problem they really are is related to where you place yourself on a purist-pragmatic continuum.

Sandofsky explicitly mentions development: "Today, for high level work, I am as productive using Objective-C as JavaScript." That's my experience as well.
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I have seen enough professional beggars who live well that I pretty much just assume that they're just about all like that. It seems that if you're good at it, you can make quite a bit of money. And this is hardly new: there's even a Sherlock Holmes story that revolves around a man who gives up his profession to become a beggar because the money is better.

If you feel guilty (and why wouldn't you? it's only natural), give money to charitable organizations which help the homeless. They know how to put the money to better use.
(I'm coming from a UK perspective, not a US one.)

Fixed-line broadband is just about as close to a 'dumb pipe connection' as you can get, and I still find it valuable to pay a premium for a better service.

Given all the myriad ways technical investment can improve the user experience of a mobile connection (additional cell sites, properly located microcells, sufficient backhaul bandwidth, sensibly sized buffers, etc), as well as less tangible benefits like better customer service, there will always be reasons to choose one carrier over another. Those still apply even if they all sold an 'identical' product consisting only of connectivity.

(Now, getting your average consumer to care about a technically better service instead of the flashiest subsidized handset for the bundle price? That might be a bit harder. Operators have been trying to differentiate with value-add services for years in the UK, and I don't know many people who care.)

Of course, with only four operators in the UK and a bunch of MVNOs it's a little trickier to find a 'niche, focused on quality-of-service' operator for mobile. In the fixed-line broadband market, I can choose between a couple of hundred ISPs, many of whom run their own infrastructure to a greater or lesser degree.
Well hold on though – there's a big difference between saying "you can change X" and "X is just a bad habit". A habit is supposed to be something you can overcome with a relatively trivial amount of practice and persistence, and that is why there's a stigma about having them.

Yes there are treatments for social anxiety, but labeling a medically recognized disorder as a "habit" is demeaning and not cool.
I see.

Regardless, I maintain it's very far from the case that "most academics believe...". That's all.

Thanks for keeping this civil. Disagreement on HN remains a refreshing experience. :)
No, if you are copywritng.

A question headline attracts the reader to read the sub-headline. And that is the purpose of headlines (and copy). To get people to read smoothly until they take out the CC and buy.

Problem is that if you overuse it in a blog (for example), then your writing style will end up souding like an infomercial.
Mind you, if you see yourself using linkbait to gain eyeballs, then your blog is just not worth reading (or advertising in).
Yeah, people really needed one more reason to dump DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Thanks, government!
I'd like to risk being facetious and suggest that "being good with people" is a requirement for most good jobs, the ones where it's not are the first that get outsourced/replaced with robots/laid off.
The general counsel explains the difference here

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9227080/Mozilla...

and meanwhile Google has joined Mozilla in its criticism,

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57431475-92/google-agrees-w...
Do you really think you can be a good writer without having read any good writers?
I thought you meant HN headlines :D
Squarespace, I've heard, is also very good.
Pokki (http://developers.pokki.com) is a similar platform that builds to Windows and supports WebGL.
> Well duh? Of course you are. It's you working for the financial industry, after all.

Not-so-obviously, if I had qualms about my job I wouldn't be doing it. Some people are for sale, I'm not.

> But in case you're being sincere, here's something to peruse: http://maxkeiser.com/ and http://zerohedge.com

I know these sites. They're rather juvenile but sometimes there's stuff of real value there. There are crooks in finance, and everywhere else, which doesn't mean "finance is bad" by definition.

> You work for an industry whose raison d'être is making money with money. This is vastly different from producing something of value.

There is nothing bad about making money from financial services. If you stretch it a bit, you can call it "making money with money" the same as you can argue that the sole reason for any imaginable job is making money. It's not.
its a survival technique.
IE will be used as a browser widget at API level by third party apps, so using it will be almost unavoidable.
While I agree with your post, you definitely need a password manager app.
The hardest part of all of this is getting a runtime that builds/installs seamlessly across platforms. I just did an 'npm install appjs' as per docs, and it failed (Mac).

I myself have gone through great lengths to create a similar (minus Webkit) runtime for Mac, Windows, and Linux:

https://github.com/arturadib/node-qt

https://github.com/arturadib/node-five

Despite all my efforts there are edge cases where it simply won't install/build.

Keep up the good work though -- this is a much needed project. (Bear in mind too that Mozilla and other companies are coming out with their own runtimes for web apps, so such projects will likely be rendered obsolete by them).
It's working for guns, might as well try the same for DVDs.
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It does support https, such as if you use https-everywhere which now works on chrome.
Ability to edit or delete comments more than a day old. At least let us 'delete' our username on a comment.
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It could be that macros are too low-level for the serializer/deserializer case. What you really want is a definition of the thing to be (de)serialized in some language and two different translations of the same definition. The translator might need to make multiple passes over the same definition in the course of even a single translation.

Another case that illustrates this point: Suppose you are defining a wire protocol between two communicating processes. The tool you want is a language in which the protocol is defined, from which sender and receiver code can be generated. A flexible tool would be able to generate sender and receiver in different languages, or, in fact, in multiple languages. It would be able to generate language-independent documentation of the protocol in multiple formats. It's not easy to see how macros embedded in a single programming language could produce these results.
»Maybe he is just opening up discussions

By this logic (something is good by virtue of the discussions it starts over and above its inherent truthfulness) I could make up BS about any worthy cause and claim that the ends justify the means.

OP asserted the judge is corrupt. Not that there is evidence that he is corrupt, but that he is corrupt. By stepping so far so early he is essentially playing the analogy of the Tea Party card - rally your base, i.e. those who already agree with you, while alienating the centre. It's immature righteous indignation instead of reasoned rhetoric.

It's ironic that OP misrepresents the facts in order to condemn a party for misrepresenting facts.
> But taking the case would have been highly unethical. I really hope there will be an investigation into this.

Yes, doing something "highly unethical" IS corruption. If you are a public official and you do one or more "highly unethical" things, you are corrupt.
Ironically, this thread has degenerated in to exactly what pg is describing. People are binding their identity to their preferred style of social interaction.

"I'm an extrovert..."
"Oh well, I'm an introvert"
Well, when there is a high probability they will use the money to buy drugs - substance abuse is one of the primary reasons for homelessness in the US - then it does in fact matter what they do with it. Giving money to beggars is virtually synonymous with supporting the corner dealer in many cases.
I don't think this article could have made rms look better. He increased attendance to an educational event, while protesting a piece of immoral legislation. Everybody wins!
Distributing by torrent is different from providing a quality download service with purchase. If someone really wants to download by torrent and wait then what's stopping them from paying and then doing that.

Limiting number of downloads protects their bandwidth from would be jerks. Protecting their service is important for their customers to have a quality experience. It's fair, and most people will only ever download once. If they for some reason use up all 4 downloads and want more they should e-mail them. Why wouldn't give more if some had a genuinely good reason for using up their downloads?