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Could someone with graphic design background explain why colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel would look like "part of a family" any more than erratically spaced colors? I think the old colors were far more attractive.
Hi Sentient. We actually mainly work with political campaigns, which are exempt from the regulations. I don't think we benefit from the uncertainty; it makes it difficult to explain to potential customers what is and isn't legal, and we turn away clients sometimes because they aren't familiar enough with the laws to know what's legal and what's not.
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I saw that, and I still think it's quite excessive. Perl modules often come with POD documentation in-line with code, but it's usually just to document something like a function or method with maybe an example or two. (And yes, POD is not literate programming, but it's more like the comments you'd see in a normal program source code)

I suppose this is up to the individual, but I don't like literate programming partly because it interferes with a dynamic that coders around the world have. Most people include comments only when it's necessary. It signifies something important to take note of and clarifies unusual behavior. Literate programming partly strips that away without giving you a really long-term benefit... It seems useful to me mostly for the initial implementation and ends up making maintenance a chore.

If I can modify my original comment a bit for literate programming: Make a comment at the beginning of your function with a bullet list of how the function will work, step by step, and then just write the code. Easier to read and you still have your [mostly-]literate program.
Can you imagine the privacy issues of Facebook owning a browser? I'd be afraid to install the damn thing.

Edit: For those who point out Google, I would argue that Google has demonstrated only a desire to show me ads (which I actually like). Facebook has demonstrated a desire to show everyone everything.
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>You don't understand the IPO process.

>Normally, it is a company with more opportunity than capital.

Although this was of course the original rational for IPOs, this looks more and more like a historical footnote these days. Now that so many IPOs are late-stage it's hard to see them as anything other than liquidity events for founders and investors and employees.
Put me in as a nut job then. I've seen plenty of users who make no distinction whatsoever re case of characters in passwords. One day their password is working, the next day it isn't, and the organization ends up spending the custom care money to deal with it just because they started typing "af" at the end of their password instead of "Af" or whatever.

If you need more complexity in a password, better to just encourage them to use a phrase with the words being the individual complexity rather than the characters. Like it or not, we live in a world where 80% of end users can't turn their wifi radio on and off on their phone, and we need to make systems that are a pleasure to use for them.
I think you're right that Python will be faster than Haskell when it's calling blas/lapack for matrix operations.

Found this old comment relevant: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2720#comment-40694
Firefox = bloat and I don't like it.

Safari is affiliated with Apple and I won't touch products of a company whose products and way of running business are antithesis to openness, freedom and hacker culture.

Chrome.. no special reason. I don't particularly like it, nothing I could point the finger at, but.. blah. Is there a way of disabling plugins in Chrome, as in: a placeholder is displayed on the page and the plugin is activated when I click the placeholder?

IE, on the other hand, has "suggested sites" feature which I'd like to test more. Maybe it helps me with discovering some new content on the net.
I don't even think it was Bing who asked for those links to be removed, it was actually the X-Box division trying to prevent piracy of games on their platform. If anything, Bing probably is much slower and less adept at being able to block these results when compared to Google hence the discrepancy.
I don't think its you. I've talked with various folks about the events playing out and the split between amazed enthusiasm and barely cognizant is not smooth at all. There is a noticeable number of people who don't care at all.

I think that is in part that a lot of people don't understand the significance of what has just occurred. Even now there are people in government who are 'alarmed' that a private company has this capability. After all, its a technology we're attempting to deny the North Koreans and now Elon Musk's company has all of the parts it needs to build an intercontinental weapons delivery system. The Dragon capsule can be 6 tons. Even neophyte nuclear weapon designers could probably make a device that is less than 6 tons. What is worse is the company won't just die a horrible death if our government pulls all of its contracts.

So where does that leave us? In a very very interesting spot. We are approaching a point where orbital launch technology will be available to 'everyone' and we have to deal with everyone having it. If you were around for the 'great super computer panic' that was when our government realized that there were no microprocessors they could constrain from export that would allow bad guys to build their own super computer using clustering techniques.

Its a similar problem but with the twist of being actionable (or being able to exploit it against the national interests of the US more easily)

Its also one of the reasons I've been following the progress of SpaceX trying to build their own launch facility in Texas. You might see how that combination (private space craft company + private launch facility) would exacerbate the problems for people who wish to keep this particular genie contained as long as possible.
Thanks to Voice over IP, this is pretty much impossible to regulate any more. The telephone networks were built on a trust model that VoIP destroyed. Now, you can originate a call on the internet that's nearly impossible to trace.
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Sometimes you need to do things simply to exercise yourself.

Would you rag on joggers because for all their running they always end up back in the same place?
There is a bit of an issue amongst the Python community about support between 2.7.x and 3.x.x

Lots of things still only target/support the 2.7 releases, and 3.x.x stuff is only slowing coming around.

I had read (via a link here on HN months ago) someone explaining that Python used to have a solid versioning strategy for these changes, but I'll have to leave it up to those more qualified to explain exactly what the issues behind 3.x.x adoption are.

It's definitely a pain, as I always want to install the newer version, but practically every library I want to use seems to target 2.7

Also, on that Python download page, they actually do tell you which one to use if you're not sure:

"If you don't know which version to use, start with Python 2.7; more existing third party software is compatible with Python 2 than Python 3 right now."

It's just above the download links.
There is no problem with private economic interests consulting government. It is in the interest of society for government officials to hear what is best for the economy from the major economic organizations.

Lobbying is berated because economic organizations should not be granted larger influence on governmental officials than the people en mass in a democratic republic, and most people would argue that is the current state in the US.
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It's not, unless you disagree with the ends the lobbyist is lobbying for.
That's refreshing -- we're sending things into space from a readable 31-page spec (with pictures!). RFC authors, take note.
Here's the source link for those of you not wantint to give TNW pageviews: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45795/facebook-browser-opera...
I don't believe that it is.

I was just saying that if that is your position, then you must object to it for all parties.
Anyone else surprised that the use of "bitch" as a verb is suddenly acceptable journalism?
But you have to admit the "guy insists on doing things unnecessarily complicated and falls on his face" trope has a strangely entertaining aspect to it :)
That's why I didn't sue for any of the calls after I talked to a rep - only the automated calls, and the call that came after I asked to be on the DNC list.
A lazy analysis but look at revenue they're getting from payments. From their S-1:

Mar 31, 2011: $94MM
Mar 31, 2012: $186MM

Obviously it's only two data points but payment revenue has grown 100%. Payments revenue only represents 10% of their total revenues.

WRT to this, the question becomes whether they could ramp up payments. I'm guessing that their main driver for payments revenue is games.

They recently launched offers. That could potentially drive revenue.

I think that Facebook should take on Square and enter the payments market. They're in a unique position to create Facebook Wallet.

The biggest barriers I see from this is that Zuckerberg would have to drive this kind of strategy and it doesn't seem like a move he'd take.
I know this is probably a few days late but just came across this article. Now this is an interesting perspective, I am deaf as well - and I have a bilateral cochlear implant. Now I have been working in the IT industry for over 16 years as a developer, infrastructure support guy and more. I have worked for companies such as IBM, Shell Oil Company which of course required alot of interaction. One thing though we the deaf individual have to be proactive and we can't be reactive. Most of the time the hearing counterparts really do not know what we can or can't do. Unless we become a bit more assertive. Now but one thing I am a bit puzzled, you indicate you don't want to be a part of the deaf community - but what about organizations and individuals who are part of HLAA? Hearing Loss Association which is really more geared to "oral" deaf individuals but not necessarily in an ASL format. I am not really understanding this part. I am very involved in the deaf community, as well interact with people from HLAA and as well part of the hearing community. But I have to be proactive to make things happen. And don't look as one or two people from the deaf community and think they ALL are like that because they aren't. It would be like everyone reading your article right now and thinking all of us are like you - but we aren't. I chose NOT to think in a negative light and think positively. It is a tiring job but it is the only way we can educate our peers otherwise we get lost in the limelight. And honestly society nowadays are much more sensitive and understanding about people with disabilities than in the past. I admire your passion to really get out there - and admire the fact that you wrote an article on this. But the same time - think positively life is too short! :) And also - the talk about getting with a deaf or hard of hearing girl and having deaf/hoh babies is unrealistic. It has to come from the genes (like mine - my parents are deaf) but if you because deaf because of sickness or something else and if you hook up with a deaf/hoh lady who also became deaf because they were sick or non-genetic reasons your chances of having deaf babies are VERY VERY slim. I have seen so many CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) who have succeeded well in life - my kids who are CODA - all three of them are in Honors Program (and they all three are hearing) and their first language was ASL. Again as I said, think positive you will go far!
"The only way to apply for the job was to solve a trivial programming problem. Solving the problem gave you the email address to send your portfolio to."

That's genius. Great idea!
What about the very first call? That's certainly a violation as well.
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> Plus, they don't read my mail to sell me ads like Gmail does.

The primary reason I am interested in them.
That number doesn't make any sense. Facebook only sold about 16% of its shares to the public on Friday. What is the 57% referring to?
You can host blogs on github?
This is not actually the interface that is used on the Dragon. This is a docking mechanism, which allows autonomous connections between two spacecraft. The Dragon uses the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) which requires assistance from a manipulator arm to mate the two spacecraft.

One of the reasons the CBM was chosen for the resupply ships (including Dragon) is that the CBM has a larger inside diameter and so larger pieces of equipment (such as standard equipment racks) can be delivered through it, while the docking connectors cannot pass them.
Er, wow. That's horrendous. How in the world can they still blame the first Diablo when they made such a big deal about "Battle.net 2.0" recently? Why do they need to lump the new stuff together with legacy systems using broken security practices?
Sorry, good point. Thanks for pointing it out. I am not good at reading instructions that aren't blatantly in front of me. I stopped at, the current production versions are Python 2.7.3 and Python 3.2.3
He most certainly sued:

> I wrote back giving them the dates and caller IDs of the calls, and when I didn’t hear back in a week, I filed my suit.

He just settled out of court before appearing in front of a judge.

> Wish I could find the nerve to do this myself.

Why don't you? What do you have to lose, aside the time trying to track them down?
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After all, none of the other data-hungry vendors address bars behave exactly like a keylogger (cough Chrome)
"The underwriters , not Zuckerberg, are in place to judge investors' ability to absorb shares, yet it appears he was unwilling to listen."

I love how he fails to consider that the underwriters and Facebook might have different financial interests. The higher the offer price the more money Facebook makes and the less money the underwriters make.
solid win for google - but HUGE loss for HP.
I think this is the opposite reason to do them. I don't know anyone looking for developers who really needs a gatekeeper. "I get lots of great candidates but it's so hard to find their resumes in this pile of recruiter emails!" .. is not the problem.

The upside to the puzzles as I can see it is that it may signal that the company is development focused, or even run by developers (attractive to developers), and that it might actually sort of trick people into applying who wouldn't have otherwise. There are legions of folks that are 'comfortable' where they're at but might be enticed into solving a puzzle, and might further take a meeting and see if there's something to this new opportunity.

That's the value I see, anyways. That said, I've not gone this route.
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> I am not making a criticism

I did not interpret your post as a criticism. Why do you think I did?

> I would like to know how I can actually use it for something

You can use it as a source of ideas for implementing operating system and network services. That may not be useful for you, but everyone is not like you. Others have found it useful to use directly(coraid).
When I first read your comment I thought you had a good point, but now that I've thought about it for a few hours, I disagree.

Takedown notices slow progress throughout our industry, whether legally justified or not. If you look at the comment threads below this one, many are asking questions like, "I want to start a website, should I worry about this?" to which the replies are, "yes, hire a lawyer". That's good advice in this legal climate, but it slows progress tremendously.

If someone just wants to share their weekend project, they're out a few hours and ten bucks a month to host the thing. But they're exposing them to potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal liabilities; perhaps they miss some takedown notes while they are away on vacation. That's a pricey lawsuit should someone be inclined to pursue it. (And there's no indication that rightsholders won't.) The initial legal consultation regarding a site you want to launch is not cheap either -- an hour with a lawyer buys you a year of Amazon EC2 CPU time.

The end result is that people that want to share their programming work won't because they decide it's too legally risky. Sites like The Chilling Effect Clearinghouse let us see what sort of takedown notices are currently popular and plan our services accordingly. If that happens to discourage rightsholders from enforcing their rights, well, that's fine with me. I want to see new ways of using the Internet, even if it comes at the expensive of the big copyright holders.

As for removing spam from search results; that's actually a warming effect. Because Google removes spam results, small companies have the opportunity to compete with or compliment Google here. All they need to do is create an "uncensored" all-spam-site web index and offer that to the wider Internet community. The people that want to search spam sites will then be able to, creating value and a new business model. (Look at how successful DuckDuckGo has been, and all they do is wrap Bing's results. A new index could be amazingly successful.)
> Who hired these irresponsible politicians to steward us? We did.

Isn't there some value in making people more aware of what these "irresponsible" politicians are doing then, so that we don't keep lazily voting them in again and again?

Yes, those who care about the law are probably already involved. Shouldn't we be trying to get more people to care, though? More people getting the information from the source instead of having their opinions formed for them by the news anchor is a good thing, IMHO.
You mean the photos of the footprints?
BBC R4 programme "In Our Time" releases archive for free download
The BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" (' Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas ') has released the archive - 2004 'till now - for free download.

Many of these episodes will be of interest to HN readers. You may need weird methods to listen / download if you're not in the UK.

Landing page:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl)

Antimatter:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00808w8)

Artificial Intelligence 2005:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9fc)

Artificial Intelligence 1999:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545h7)

Asteroids:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9kh)

Theories of Everything:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y24b)

There is far too much to list here.
My intuition agrees too, this is just a goof. But it's important to note that this isn't merely hypocrisy. By offering useful search results that Google doesn't, Microsoft makes Bing a more attractive search engine. This process certainly could be abused if MS wanted -- XBox and Windows cracks are clearly desired content.
The process is interesting but heading the wrong way IMHO.
CS6 branding lost the quality they tried to improve.
Far too rainbowy , eye-candy iconified. The color derivation gives a shallow neon glow appearance, the splash textures are distracting, I have to look to see what product it is.

To me CS3/CS4 theme is almost centered, future redesigns are diminishing returns guaranteed, unless a disrupting stroke.
Phantom cell phone vibration (or I am not going insane after all)
He was in the middle of legitimate conversations with you.

You have a product yourself, if I contacted you and implied I was interested in becoming a customer, and we got to talking about it over the phone, would you look up your DNC list every single time before calling me just in case I had, since we last spoke, contacted a colleague of yours to be put on it?
No less than with Google owning Chrome, and people seem to be quite used to that.
Thanks. And again I have nothing against Python. I just don't know which production version I should use. The regular one or the X86-64 Installer.
Seems to be a spreading practice for services with huge userbases; Facebook does it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...
Nonsense. It has nothing what so ever to do with science. All the analysis depends on rules that all the other players also know. If someone went in and changed some fundamental entry in their rule book (e.g. "testing from the bottom") the rules that the stocks themselves seem to follow would change overnight.
Main culprits in this nonsense are the phone companies who profit off it at their customers' expense. It's basically like cable tv where you're expected to pay to watch commercials.
I think it is becoming increasing clear, especially with the Yahoo patent suit, that Facebook desperately needs a patent portfolio. Additionally, what makes you so certain Facebook doesn't needs patents? Please, explain.
It's funny how so many coders take offence at such trivial things. I always get annoyed by cuddled elses, although I don't suppose I could give a rational explanation for this!
It'll be like the gold rush, stake a claim, file it with the regulating agency, shoot anyone that trespasses.
Is it completely beyond the bounds of possibility that they're storing the password as originally entered (salted & hashed), but trying all combinations of upper / lower case at login-time (only after the entered password fails)? It would only be for a small subset of logins, and for the majority of passwords, a manageable number of combinations (2^num-alpha-chars-in-passwd). I believe Facebook do something similar.
Colors that are equally spaced should look like less of a family.

The old, chromatically clustered colors staked out thematic areas of the color wheel, and by not using the whole thing, retained some degree of ownable identity. The CS6 color palette barely even qualifies as a palette.
Condescension about idiot users is never a very persuasive way to make a point.

> we live in a world where 80% of end users can't turn their wifi radio on and off on their phone

But they still manage to properly enter their case-sensitive password to buy new apps.
like this. i was bothered by a caller so much that I had to switch my phone to a new number. yes I'm on the do-not-call list, but the calling company, or more likely some agent it contracts, does not care.
the company is named italkBB and i was also getting calls from dish network for months after i ended the contract with them. there is Dell too, after i bought laptop from it i started t o get calls from them, I told them I'm not interested in their calls, but once a while i still get the call, guess it's because i was a customer?
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Ruby seems to have a larger following for web application development, Python has a larger set of libraries for math, science, and analytics.

Both will do the same jobs however, it is a matter of preference - yours and/or a perspective employers.
I agree that 1 or more calls were improper. And threatening to sue for that and getting money is fine. Maybe it doesn't matter that the last X calls weren't if the first Y calls were...still seemed worth pointing it out.
If you have a 64bit PC, use the one with 64bit on it. If not, use the "Regular" one.

If you're unsure if you're 32bit or 64bit, right click on "My Computer" and go to properties. In there the OS will identify itself with 32 or 64bit.
I mainly think you did because of you saying you did: "You're missing the point if your criticism of it is that it doesn't run your favorite database."
I think they let the valet actually park it. ;)
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