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Complex? For some certain tasks perhaps it's verbose, but I do like that the API is structured in a Java-like way.
With wrappers like these I need to constantly consult the docs to find out what arguments to pass to the constructors.

With the google maps api I just create a new object and can use the various setters and getters to set and retrieve values. Everything is mostly self-descriptive as well.

You can place an extern file so that you can get additional help via intellisense in an IDE as well.
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Yep, right, nothing can be done -- no patent, nothing, just execution (let the fittest win, I know, it what makes the difference =) ).

CLONED, because they used pictures I took, pretend to have the product I sell (it's original art, so I'm pretty sure they don't have another copy) and re-used without changing the tag-line I used.

In this context, my question would be: what's the strategy to follow to interact with them?
Not really. Demonte's is a much thinner wrapper and have a totally different API. This is a brand new (and nicer to use IMHO) solution to the same problem.

Disclaimer: I commited the "staticMapURL" method to gmaps.js
I get where you're going, but it doesn't change the equation.

This is basically a conversation about project scope and management. Assuming this is more complex simply because it's a government agency is flawed thinking, though. I can certainly perceive complexity due to expectations or maybe the participants themselves (I've worked with some fed agencies), but that should have zero bearing on addressing the project itself.

But in reference to some of the specifics of how this is different (sensitive data, system load, system attacks, worst-case-scenario) -- this is begging for an iterative project approach as opposed to a waterfall basis. In spite of the fact that these aren't unique issues to government agencies, the context of addressing those issues might be (I have some idea of the technical capacities of our government.) I can accept there may be a learning curve in this project, but believing this project yields unique problems that haven't been dealt with elsewhere -- respectfully, that's just wrong.

If this is all very new to these federal agencies, that simply suggests a smaller initial scope that can grow after multiple iterations. Teams can learn about requirements, refine their APIs, shore up their operation, etc. Not to over-simplify, but this is basic project management.

Again, the context of the government's perview may be different than little-startup-dot-com, but the process of getting from A to B isn't really all that different.
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If they're using pictures that you took, and thus have the copyright to, then you'd presumably have grounds for a DMCA takedown request to their hosts.
We are seriously looking into that.

I don't believe it would be wise for movies.io itself to engage into business (and profiting from content we don't own would definitely be unethical, from my point of view), but what we could do is work with a third-party platform that allows the financing of small productions (Movies, TV shows), and have a partnership with us so they are featured / show up in our results etc.

Exciting stuff happening there with the right partners, please contact us if you have leads.
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058057

We're looking into it.
Yes , i was thinking about the same, those 4 minutes(more or less) to load the 48k programs and the way it sounded different when it loaded the opening screen graphics or the rest, the headless blocks and all, down to memory lane.
For those who don't know, these are called prepared statements. Instead of mashing strings together, you define variables in your sql string, and associate a value and type with each variable. Of course this doesn't stop bugs in the implementation, as in this case.
I was surprised to see that an entrepreneur like Peter Thiel could just go on stage and openly talk about possibilities life extension at a top university like Stanford. Is it common in the Silicon Valley to just go around talking about life extension as an "important business opportunity"? I have heard Aubrey de Grey talking about escape velocity of longevity etc. But I am strangely happy as well startled that one could just walk into a class room and talk about life extension. You guys must be living in paradise ;-). I admire that liberty more than the feasibility or not of life extension itself.
OT: Please fix the title. The unpaired quote makes me feel uncomfortable. ;)
From Collusion.

RE: The Pen Hardware. A few details (beats guessing eh?), we're working in partnership with Byzero of Korea with respect to the pen and receiver, and we are getting excellent results optimising hardware and software.

RE: Real world lag 'issues'as apposed to 1/2 speed video issues: We've publicly tested Collusion with about 100 people with a VERY early POC release - the same software as used in the video (which is now 3+ months old) very few commented on lag as being an issue - and that was with no serious attempt at lag optimisation on our software. As you can see some of these kind folk have come to our defence on this forum (thanks fellas). We are extremely anal about squeezing every last drop of performance out of our software and iOS for release to make using a pen on the iPad as good as it can be. We're confident that we're getting it right, and look forward to our next open invitation test catchup to show people first hand how Collusion is evolving, and yes we'll shove a video camera in there, and post links here:)

To those who have a problem with our name, we have dedicated a special FAQ just for you. See http://collusionapp.com/faq/#a1

Guys (that is an Australianism that includes all the female posters here too) - we recon we have the pen thing in hand - was that a pun (assume for a second it is)... there is a LOT of brainpower here (hacker news), please turn your attention to other things we are working on... please - its seriously cool stuff - if you think Collusion is just a note taking squiggly drawing app - look a little deeper.

I'll say this the pen is simply and enabling technology, a gateway to far far more interesting stuff. We know people fixate on the pen, and thats fine, but we think people once they have it, will stick will Collusion for what it does.

Final note, pen input on tablet is as important as a keyboard or mouse to a PC: Really important till the point where it 'just works' then hardly noticed thereafter. We've hardly noticed the pen for a while now;) You dont use your computer for the keyboard, and we've not built Collusion for the pen.

There are some big ideas in Collusion - we've updated our Kistarter page text to hint at them a bit more strongly. Please have a read.
Sensory deprivation has already been used as a form of torture by the US. See the case of Jose Padilla for instance.
There are also musical bundles, i.e. pay-what-you-want for bundle of albums from independent bands, like musicrage.org (full disclosure: I'm founder of musicrage.org)
Scary, because Turkey aims to join the EU. I hope they won't be accepted as long as such things are going on.

Sadly I think some countries that are dominated by radical Christians have already joined :-(
Talk to the couchsurfing guys about how being cloned for profit feels.
True story: first time I'm at San Jose Diridon waiting for the Caltrain to SF, I notice the platform specified in the ticket was closed. I go to the counter, and the guy there tells me to "go through that door, walk to the left, the train should depart from that platform".

I follow his instructions and can't find the platform, so I come back and ask him (very politely) "Hmm, I couldn't find the platform, was it through that door there?". His answer? He looks at me as if I had pissed on his lunch and asks "Sir, are you asking me a question, or questioning my reply?".

WTF? What had I done to piss him off? I'm obviously new to the place, I've asked similar questions in countless train stations/airports/bus stations around the world and never ever has anyone treated me like that. All I told him was "I was asking for confirmation, but thank you, I'll go ask someone else."
How is that social engineering? It doesn't seem like human behavior played any role in this at all. The hacker interacted only with automated systems.

This is a security bug that was exploited. It should not be possible to reset a password without the 2-factor auth code, period. If that is possible, then that the 2 factor auth is broken.
If you're questioning the grandparent's notion that Gmail is "crappy" compared to expensive email products, I'd agree with you.

For me, the answer to what justifies a cost for email is deliverability. Of course, having recipients receive your email promptly, and receiving theirs promptly. But more importantly, receiving next to zero spam in my actual inbox, and misclassifying absolutely zero ham in my spam folder.

The only solution I've found that accomplishes this at any price is GMail / Google Apps.

Not only does it easily keep 12 - 18 year old email addresses that have been on usenet spam free, it happily handled over 3000 spam per second per box while letting through valid emails for sex.com. The owners could actually use their addresses on Google Apps. They hadn't been able to on email systems costing 4 and even 5 figures. Refreshing the spam label while seeing the inbox stay empty, day after day and month after month, was astonishing.
" ... It's clean and modern, it's content instead of chrome, it's crisp and legible ..."

I'm also an MS employee, and I really hate it when I see fellow MS employees talking like this on forums. It's soulless corporate marketing jargon, devoid of content.

The link you posted is good and helpful, but it doesn't matter, because the preceding paragraph marked you as a phony in the eyes of the current audience.
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The Zuckermonster...heh...
libgarbagecollector - http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/libgarbagecollect...

libgarbagecollector is a plug-in garbage collector library designed to be used by high level language implementors. It's used in the Io programming language.
Actually Christianity is the crybaby of religions.

Islam prefers violence (to the extend a religion can prefer anything).
This. The ongoing "Ergenekon" case is the poster child of jail without prosecution.

We think you're guilty, so we'll toss you in jail. But we can't come up with your charge right now because we're in the process of writing it. But you're a flight risk so it's okay.

I'm fine with people being punished for crimes but a lot of people were kept in for years before they were even charged. Some of them barely maintained their health and sanity. This is the sort of fascist-style suppression AK and Erdogan regularly engage in to make an example of people.

This is not very comprehensive but okay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergenekon_(organization)#Debat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suspects_in_the_Ergene...

Meanwhile, I get extremely angry when Erdogan and his gang enjoy hero status in the Western press because they have taken steps to allow headscarves in government institutions. They did this not because of human rights, they did it to appeal to their heavily anti-secular constituency. Never mind the Ergenekon case and other horrors that AK is part of!

For a long time, he's vocally sought to increase tax on or ban alcohol, he's also suggested that everyone have multiple children, and recently his administration has spoken out against abortions, saying that he shall ban them. Whether this will happen is doubtful but I hope it sheds some light into what sort of people we're dealing with.
Requires jQuery. Strange that this is not mentioned anywhere in their website.
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He's an atheist, so nothing wrong about it for those in 'MURICA.
Github has wikis.
Here's a list of alternatives, and discussion.

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=64118
There's Boehm, MPS (http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/) Apple's AutoZone, and others.

As mentioned above, I'm regularly talking with Ravenbrook about liberalizing the license on MPS and doing some work on modernizing it. I've hopes that that might happen this year.

And some of the language specific ones are pretty good ... SGen in Mono seems interesting. The GC in ClozureCL is interesting as well.
Thanks for taking your time and clearing things up. Although I'm happy with either decision. :)
The private diary issue is different - it's wrong to read someone's diary without their permission even if you don't disseminate the information. Same with trade secrets, there are separate protections for those.
Facebook now offers "Promote". Pay to have your status more visible.
I guess this is the facebook IPOs way of making money. I don't think it will go well with the user community though.
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Ask HN: where for cheap animated video for my landing page?
Do you know any cheap service creating animated videos for landing pages? My idea for startup is actually quite simple so this video could be 20-30 seconds long. Is it possible to create something like this good quality for less than 200$?
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It can happen here.

I made a joke over Twitter and the cops seized a $15k firearm collection and I racked up $15k in legal bills.

No warrants, no charges, no actual investigation. Lots of tricks, lies to my lawyer, backtracking, etc.

I'd love to have my day in court because the joke was taken out of context from a long discussion of Just War Theory (which was being read and enjoyed by dozens of people, including some First Ammendment lawyers), but even in the US the authorities have the ability to leave you hanging in limbo for years.

Footnote:

http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-am-tjic.html
What happens when you insult the Bible? Actually the pianist is not accused of insulting Islam. Say faces charges of inciting hatred and public enmity, and insulting "religious values.
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-282207-turkish-pianist-charg...
I'm a citizen of Turkey and in this lovely country the religion has often been used as a tool for achieving secular aims. That's just another example of it.
Aha. Someone posted this up here. That's why I've gotten a huge burst of comments on the site in the last couple hours.
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Has anyone compared this to Leaflet[1] or Mapstraction[2]? Leaflet was a big help on a quick project, but the abstraction was somewhat leaky and there were annoying bugs switching between maps.

[1] http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/
[2] http://mapstraction.com/
I believe the parent was mocking Ruby for its dynamic typing, rather than what you're discussing.
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Those guys are "porters" and essentially make their money from tips. I always just drag my gear inside.
Don't judge the US by our government workers, please.

We can't stand them either.
The reason that the Marines are considered to have developed a spec ops teams last is largely due to the military having a different definition of special operations than the average person.

To an average person like me (and I was a Soldier) when I think of special forces, I consider pretty much anyone who went to one of the military's most elite schools. The SEALS, Force Recon, and the actual U.S. Army Special Forces all seem to have a similar level of ability. Each of these groups has taken the absolute best soldiers that could be found and trained them to an extreme degree.

When the government thinks of special forces, they think of organizations that fall under the Special Operations Command. When the U.S. wanted Force Recon to fall under SOCOM, the commandant said "no." This is part of the reason that the Marine Corps didn't officially have special forces until recently.
IIRC, it was supposed to put Iran's nuclear program behind by several years, but because it escaped into the wild---and thus endured far greater public scrutiny than it would have otherwise---the Iranians found out about it much earlier than they were intended to, so it didn't have quite the impact that the US/Israel were hoping for.
> It's only when you get into strip-mall-landia where things start appearing incredibly boring and monocultural

A famous economist / foodie has written an entire book about how you've got it EXACTLY backwards:

http://www.amazon.com/An-Economist-Gets-Lunch-Everyday/dp/05...

The best food, he asserts, is in strip malls. You just have to know a few tricks to find it.

Great book. Go read it.
the ethical issues were highlighted for me when, during the discussion, the business of fitness was noted as being orthogonal to the institution of medicine. I got an image in my head of uber-shiny, more-or-less immortal rich kids with awesome super-sneakers against a backdrop of global poverty.
There was a flaw in the system that Google uses to allow the transfer of control from an account. Two-factor authentication wasn't compromised itself, but the attacker was able to bypass it to access it. That flaw, they tell us, has since been patched on their end.
Isnt Windows Phone 8 a completely different codebase (namely WinRT) from WP 7.5?
Has he been reading Steve Yegge's redacted post?
> In the UK even small villages often have an Indian take out.

Amazing how a minor thing like running India as a colony for 400+ years can have that effect!

Similarly, I imagine that Tex-Mex is a bit more common here than in Wales...
It uses the search API (http://www.hnsearch.com/api) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post.

It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investigate when I get a chance. Usually things are up there realtime.
Yeah, using OpenLayers here too-- I was about to say almost the exact same thing. My PM is one of those GIS-type folks; I'm not, and there's some frequent pain. I've actually been messing with layer switching this morning, we have our own control UI for it. The native OL controls are generally pretty lame (especially compared to GMaps). We're progressively throwing out most of them, opting for a different direction that fits more with our filtering/search features.

Code-wise, I've found OL pretty awkward. It stinks of Java to me: over-organization, unnecessary complication in the name of feature completeness, confusing function sigs, overuse of `new`, etc. Feature-wise, I have little to complain about, but GMaps.js's look a lot more idiomatic and nicer to write code against, though I bet there's still comparatively a lot missing...
Yes you right. Turkey is a secular country. And government type is republican perliamentary democracy.
I don't have the bandwidth right now to manually curate. However, this sounds like a good idea for someone to do as a dedicated tumblr/posterous blog.
> Is oblivious to how many times their cubicle-mate has gone for coffee, the bathroom, or the hospital

> Substantial refactoring on the eve of a deadline

> Fondness for films directed by Stanley Kubrick

> Commits changes to the repository that consist only of comments

> Pauses "The Andromeda Strain" at the part about the sliver of paper getting between the bell and the ringer and grins like a madman

> Has the German versions of "Der Kommissar" and "99 Lufballons" on their iPod (and, er... their native language is English)

> Giggles when someone says the phrase "This is recorded on sticky-tape and rust"

> Willingly throws away weeks or months of work in order to adopt another programmer's superior code

> A cubicle or desk populated with toys that came from ThinkGeek

I hate to be the first comment and be a negative comment but there is _WAY_ too much subjective/whimsy/useless filler in this article. Apply your coding standards and cut this article down to 10% of its original size.
To expand on that, the new (now 10 years long) party in control of Turkey's government has been fining and jailing media companies, journalists, and prominent businessmen who don't toe the party line. A common technique is to charge "unpaid taxes" that exceed the value of the person or company's assets.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/16/turkey.press....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41935210/ns/world_news-europe/t/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/business/turkey-seizes-219...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/26/idUSL2690587920070...

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&...

http://www.economist.com/node/17155758

They have popular support for this. They have been re-elected twice, gaining millions of votes each time.

The crackdown on dissent in the military is important because under the 20th-century regime, the military had the duty of maintaining the secular character of the state and would regularly overthrow governments that seemed to become Islamic. The charge that people in the military are planning to overthrow the government is immediately
believable, but so many people have been arrested and the evidence against them is so thin that it appears like a partisan purge. Here is some commentary:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/burhan-gurdogan/turkey’s-ergene...

http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/12/güleni...

Soner Cagaptay has been the most prolific writer on the subject:

https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=soner+cagaptay+ergenekon

Turkey has recently begun also arresting officers involved in the 1997 coup against the same Islamic party. They waited ten years to collect the power to do this.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world-article.php?yyyy=2012&...

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-279788-saner-the-impaler-amo...

Turkey's military has since surrendered its command.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/8671...

Meanwhile in Parliament, a member of the ruling party can assault an opposition member and the legislature will vote to approve of the attack.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-parliament-sees-fre...

Turkey is currently the base of operations for the rebel forces of Syria who are largely Islamic fascists. I do not believe this to be a coincidence.

http://content.usatoday.com/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/11762/wjc_analysi...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/10/22/scoop-obama-adminis...

http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.com/2012/03/christians-expelle...

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/06/save-syria-demand-...
Thanks for that reference, I will use it with students next year.

I already use one esr link for new programming students. I have no patience for students who say they want to learn programming and then start talking about hacking school computers and hacking facebook etc. I give them a brief description of what hacking really is, maybe with an example about hacking on the facebook api. If they insist on talking about cracking, I send them to esr's piece "What is a Hacker?" [1]

Then I treat my classroom sort of like a buddhist monastery. If they show up one day and show that they have a clear understanding of what good, hard hacking is, they are accepted into the class. If they try to go on about cracking, they get the metaphorical door slammed in their face. Most students come around when they see that neither I nor the more experienced programming students take them seriously at all, as long as they are going off about cracking.

[1] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
I was using him as a reference because he experienced first hand the discrimination that the special operations community faced from many high ranking officers and even politicians.

I wasn't trying to say that the SEALS were the first SF unit, I guess I wasn't very clear. Most of the SF type units were around in some form well before the Vietnam War. Even the SEALS were around in the 40's, they just weren't called SEALS yet.