skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can see, Armstrong was jailed not because government wanted to silence him (which would be futile anyway since there's ample ways to communicate from prison and many people do that) but because he refused to turn over some materials after being indicted (and later convicted) for financial fraud, which looks not entirely unlike what Madoff did. So it does not look like any government conspiracy theory is required. Of course, if you have data proving otherwise, it would be interesting to look at it.

The courts in US regularly rule against big banks in various cases, so it is just plain wrong to claim judge will never rule against the bank. The SEC is more problematic, since high knowledge requirements for regulating banks and security industries leads very quickly to the situation when all SEC experts are industry people, and thus defend the industry interests. This is inevitable problem of state regulation - the only way to know what the industry does is to work there, and finding somebody that is both impartial and competent is next to impossible. Yet even SEC regularly issues rulings against banks.

Of course, there's a lot of corruption is US, including the highest levels of government - so, former House Ways and Means Committee chair Charles Rangel was caught fraudulently evading taxes, getting huge donations from companies directly benefiting from rules he was promoting, taking lavish Caribbean trips paid by lobbyists, etc. He finally had to step down from the position and was censured by the Congress ethics committee, but still was reelected. So I think the problem here is the people that vote for corrupt officials as much as the corrupt officials themselves. If the people would refuse to vote for corruption, people like Rangel would not be able to persists in power for as long as they do now.
So does the Apple TV, for half the price.
I concur. I can't understand why everyone is so forgiving to Google. "I don't understand what they are thinking but I'm sure it could be cool". At this point I think Google's new management have decided to kill or monetize the many experiments lying around Google. This one must have been a toss up.
The press is also highly compromised when it consists of and is driven by business interests: Disney/ABC, Time-Warner (CNN), GE (NBC), Murdoch, ClearChannel. Even PBS and PRI see major funding from the Koch brothers, WalMart, Comcast, and other major corporations.

Or oppressive states (curious how RT and XinHua are growing at present).
What does this company want? Money.
Why they hired you? To help them make money.

If you can align your interests (write better code) with their interests (make more money), you may have a chance to rewrite the code. :)

Prove them that refactoring the code can help you create more sites faster. With more sites in less time, they will make more money.
I'm in the same boat as you, but the above advice is good advice. I'm looking for any job so that I can pay my bills while I take online classes and complete Ruby on Rails tutorial.

I also have 2-3 ideas that I want to develop that I can showcase. These projects are just vehicles to showcase my technical expertise. Then I'll apply for positions and use my portfolio I have made to showcase experience.

This is actively working towards your goal. If you can't find a job in the profession you want, you have to generate the opportunities yourself!
Good books:

Programming Clojure (2nd edition) by Stuart Halloway http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj/programming-clojure

Clojure in Action, by Amit Rathore http://manning.com/rathore/

The Joy of Clojure, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser http://joyofclojure.com/
One of the advantages of JVM based languages is that you always have a safety net - worst case you are going to fall back and do parts in Java or some other JVM based language which, while perhaps painful, is not going to destroy your entire company the way locking yourself into a poor technology choice might in other circumstances. Of course, the JVM has its own limitations, but it's been around long enough that at least they are known quantities.
Awesome list for self-study! If you work in a sufficiently large organization, or are well-connected enough to sit and chat with the breakers, get them into a room, and drill them about their processes, their information sources, and their mindset.

Beyond the deep, technical knowledge you'll gain following daeken's recipe, there's a whole set of security thought and security models you'll need to learn. It's hard to figure out and differentiate between threats unless you can think like an attacker, then work a system like an attacker does.
does anything similar exist for native mac apps? i'm building a music player and would love an integrated solution for tracking activity, crashes, etc.
Similar to this, I don't think you should have the user sometimes click on the dialogue box (at the beginning) and sometimes click on others elements. I kept trying to push the mouse icon the first time I went through. Or, alternatively, you could make clicking the dialogue act the same as clicking the buttons. That way even if you do that, it works.
That proves the system is broken (and it is, the whole War on Drugs is America's worst mistake since Prohibition) but not that it is corrupt. To prove corruption, you need to prove that the outcome depends on something else than the (admittedly broken) law. Pointing out that the law gives unjustifiably harsh sentences does not advance this argument.
I agree. I saw some of the videos from WWDC and AirPlay was basically doing what the Wii U is proposing to do: multi player, split views, augmented display or mirroring. I didn't realise it was so flexible.
I was thinking about working on a Reddit clone while making some open source contributions. How does that sound?
They might be technically capable of doing this, but I would enjoy reporting them to the police for possibly having committed criminal offences under the Computer Misuse Act, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and others if they ever tried it on me.

I wonder if the much-hyped US-UK extradition treaty cuts both ways in such a flagrant case of unauthorised access...
As Twitter is archived in the Library of Congress, any tweets and their metadata is, should, and can be public record... presuming your profile is marked public. Information that is not publicly displayed, such as e-mail, phone number, etc, is what should be protected - and it seems the courts have yet again failed us, granting an overly broad request for discovery.

Here's the question I've not seen answered - Were Mr. Harris's tweets private? If not, I really see no problem with identifying his words and the public portion of his location (I believe twitter only presents a few, not the full, significant digits of geodata). It's both more reliable and less invasive than asking local businesses "Did this man shop here?" which is a tried-and-true police tactic.
Stupid, stupid title.

They had an (apparently) free service since 2005, and you're angry they've started charging for it after 7 years?!
"Judges and juries tend to side with cops."

I see that becoming less and less true… A couple of recent examples locally:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cctv-exposes-police-lie-20120705-2...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/tasered-for-not-showing-his-ticket...
Go for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period.

Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to develop my own blog from scratch.

I'm also taking some Udacity classes and Coursera as well.

Lastly, get involved, do some volunteer work (e.g. design a site for a nonprofit, church, whatever..)

Those kids from Standford started programming at a young age, but they built up a nice portfolio, you should do the same.
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Since we are both from Denmark we are included in the Visa Waiver Program which "allows citizens of specific countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program

We will not be working for anybody during our stay. It's simply a business trip so we can network, pitch for investors and hopefully raise money.
On the other hand, this is crucial for things like javascript terminal emulators (which are nice for avoiding the long load time of a java terminal emulator).
>UI elements would be the same size

I understand your point, UI elements would be the same size as if they were rendered on the iphone.
And that's not the same size as they were intended in the first place, if the app targeted the ipad.
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(Fish fish fish) fish. Fish which are fished by other fish themselves fish something unspecified.
"...brilliant project page..."

even the URL!

craig.is/killing/mice
Watching people use the app in person is super important for design decisions. You can see their reactions, ask them questions, and generally just get way more information than you could from a video capture.

I could see tech like this being useful for submitting with bug reports or something? It's a hard sell though, seems a bit like overkill. You need to have decent testers that will use it, gotta deal with big video files, their's privacy concerns and capturing video will eat up cpu/resources and slow down the app.

So again, potentially useful, but I don't think they've made a good case for why it's worth the hassle.
A formalism (layman's definition of "formalism") need not include a statement of its own consistency in order to be valid (including, in order to be consistent).

For example, I know that basic addition and subtraction are valid by observing individual concrete objects in reality, rather than because of some kind of formalism stating that.

I am not very familiar with the kind of "math and philosophy" that went into Godel's theorems, but what I'm saying is that either (a) actual math and logic as such (as opposed to something made up, like a false math where 2 + 2 can equal 5) are ruled out by the giant disclaimer that takes up most of the 2nd theorem (i.e., they are not "formally effectively generated theories..."), or (b) they are, but simply "do not include a statement of their own consistency."
I really like this idea, but is it possible to include an easy way to do screen sharing as well? I want to easily describe the error that I have on my screen to my co-workers.
There's a strategy I see very commonly deployed with open source software: you release your code as open source, knowing full well that competitors will come along and take business from you using your own software. And it works brilliantly.

Why does this make sense? Because as long as they are using your code, you are always going to be one step ahead, and always have a strategic advantage. As long as your marketing and other aspects are competent you only need to be slightly better to get the lions share of the business, and having a controlled but viable entity in second place will keep more competitors from entering the space.

I see a similar aspect to giving your competitors advice.
Author of linked article speaking.

I dislike Clojure because it is a cheap knock-off of Common Lisp, with no upsides that I'm aware of - besides trendiness. The article mentions one serious flaw - Clojure barfs Java stack traces, instead of serious debug information (the way Common Lisp does - with restarts, etc.) Another flaw is the lack of reader macros. But what is the point of listing said flaws? I could go on and on, and no one will care a whit. Why? Because Clojure is a product of immature minds who piss on the past work of serious people (the Common Lisp community) simply for the sake of faux-novelty. In this, it resembles Newlisp and other backwards steps disguised as progress. It is, in fact, best understood as yet another product of the idiotic language-of-the-day mentality which gave us Dylan, Python, Ruby, and the many other shoddy "infix Lisps."

> hates all languages that aren't the Symbolics flavour of common lisp

This is patently untrue, as anyone who actually bothers to read my articles knows well. Symbolics (or rather, the MIT Lisp machine architecture their products were based on) was simply an example of a Lisp system done well. Clojure, a thin veneer on the Java cesspool, is not. To run with your analogy, I am a lover of steak, who is upset by tofu peddlers' success in passing off their cheap trash as real meat.
Don't forget that infoproduct (ebook & class) income is an alternative way to fund product development.

In a way, in addition to being helped to their own sustainable success, revenue from the classes supplants the need for angel or venture money in order to help fuel growth of the software products.

And in the end she owns 100% of her business, all the while fulfilling her mission to help people launch their own businesses that they can own 100% of as well.
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Absolutely - I was just thinkng about wifi because it's sometimes a hassle to always tether your phone. In my experience the tethering isn't always that stable and you have to reconnect.
So, time for technology to fix this, right?
broadening the base of marketing channels available to small biz guys like myself is always welcome... kudos.
I'm genuienly curious how many beta users would actually agree to being recorded this way? Unless it's founder's mom and best friends.
Thank you for killing my novel
Interesting.

I'm wondering how this will differentiate from companies like SiteScout, which provide the same basic service. If the optimization engine is just that good, I'm definitely going to push more of my budget to it.
I don't know if it justifies the "billion" that the other commenter threw out there, but there are a ton of Airport Express wifi devices, which support Airtunes. That's obviously not exactly the same thing, but saying that there are only 0.4 billion devices instead of 1 billion doesn't seem like a particularly strong argument.

Can you clarify how you think needing a separate Android device to control a Q to stream to a TV is the same as needing an Apple TV to stream to a TV? An Apple TV comes with a basic remote, so you don't need anything other than what comes in the box to actually use the device.
Einstein introduced the cosmological constant lambda Λ in an attempt to produce a steady state model of the universe -- in his view the most elegant solution to the problem of our existence was a universe infinite in age.

Later on when the Big Bang was firmly established it came to be seen as an unnecessary mistake.

In a twist of fate, when we discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe in the 90s -- also known as dark energy -- Einstein's cosmological constant Λ was the perfect place to 'absorb' it.
I've been searching for a business co-founder for a while, and this is one of the things that turn me off about some business people. They seem to believe that a business is built with Hype and not a real product. Sure, that is how you might get some funding, but its not how you build a sustainable business.
Lying is a business model for too many businesses; I'm reminded of Go Daddy's wholly-owned subsidiary, Standard Tactics, and how the latter would register expired domains, while Go Daddy would volunteer to "negotiate" with itself (see the whole account here: http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-ho... ).

It's very hard to fight this sort of thing, as an individual, much like it's hard to avoid Barclay's (or its larger competitors, like Bank of America or Chase).
I would imagine it's one thing if they ask you to give them your license, and another entirely if you start reaching for something on your own accord. Unfortunately, being stopped by a LEO (law enforcement officer) can be flustering and you might not stop to think about it. I imagine that the LEO basically needs to treat everyone as potentially hostile until proven otherwise, for their own safety.

I've read whole forum threads discussing how to inform a LEO that you have a concealed carry license and a firearm on your person at a traffic stop, without freaking them out. Once I made the stupidly embarrassing mistake of attempting to exit my vehicle during a stop; the LEOs got hostile very quickly and I ended up getting frisked.
#1 - I understand kanban in the physical (mfg) world perfectly well. It might even have value in some knowledge/creative industries, where there's a solid, predetermined, well defined workflow. Publishing, for instance.

What I'm saying is that the kanban strategy does not apply to software development. Full stop. Does not map. Not applicable. Completely unrelated. Irrelevant. Moot. Nonsensical. Like measuring feline happiness in banana units.

If my employer could effectively chunk my work into itty bitty little stickies, they wouldn't need me.

#2 - When have you seen a scrum iteration planned around the QA/test cycle? Never? The sprints are defined by PHBs, devs grudgingly play along, QA/test can just suck it.

A real QA/test org would say a product is done when its done. I've not seen that happen on any scrum project. Rather, products are done when they've run out of time or juice (eg Yourdon's death march).
I studied Kanban, as it applies to manufacturing, some time ago. I have no idea how it could apply to software development. It seems a poor fit for it.

Kanban is not a queueing system, it is a system for identifying bottlenecks in a supply chain and at all times minimising the amount of components that need to be manufactured. One of the key revolutionary features was that the supply chain extends to each component so different departments become suppliers to others.

What typically happens is that there are a certain number of kanban cards for each component. Each card represents one component. When a client takes a completed component from the stock, the associated kanban card goes to the start of the queue. Someone picks up the card and starts work on the component and the card follows the manufacturing process until the component has been completed. The card stays with the completed component until a client takes the component and the cycle begins again.

The purpose is that by counting the number of cards at the start (number of items requested by clients) and at the end (number of items constructed but not yet claimed by a client) it becomes trivial to identify bottlenecks.

Apart from this then-revolutionary pull-based process, Toyota's process had two other key findings.

1) the same worker should stay with each component until completion. One kanban card = 1 worker. If someone is assembling a car door, they don't half-complete a door and pass it on to someone else, they follow it from the time they pick up all the components to the time that it is completed. They found that this was the most productive way of working.

2) You do not deliver a faulty component to a client. That is, each component must be tested before going on to the next stage.
Ironically this post will result in more headhunters trying to cash in on your co-founder since you told them how good he is etc etc
Two Iowans and the adoption of the Metric System
SaaS.
Friend of mine is making a living off of eCommerce.
My question is why they need to prove the dude was on the bridge? Didn't they arrest him there? Regardless, assuming privacy rights when using a public social network is a bit of a stretch. Even phone records are subject to release with a warrant. If one is worried about privacy, then don't tweet or Facebook your damned location.

The Twitter TOS might be illuminating for this case. If Twitter guarantees privacy then the defendant might have a civil case against Twitter if records are released. Though they do have indemnification clauses..

I'm not too sympathetic to this dude's plight, a reasonable person would expect arrest for blocking the Brooklyn Bridge. How many people were financially harmed by this guy's actions? Protest is one thing, but when his expression of his rights interferes with my right to get to work and earn a living, then he has very little moral ground upon which to stand.
I like the informal agile model versus the heavily formal Agile. It's too bad I've never really experienced anything except the latter in practice.

Might I ask what tools you guys are using to manage this?
" it is not unusual for all natural remedies (Neem leaves to soothe burns) to be classified as "Homeopathic"."

That's unfortunate that in this day and age, there are people who can't distinguish between scientifically proven natural remedies and homeopathy. Natural remedies work because they contain chemicals that have an effect on the body. For example, willow bark contains salicylic acid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin

Science, people!
Not that I know of. There is http://silverbackapp.com but it does not do remote recording.
The phrase A brute-force attack tries every possible combination of characters up to a given length. These attacks are very computationally expensive suggests that the author has not spent any quality time with JTR. Computationally expensive would not be equivalent to cracking billions of passwords per second which is what you can get with sha* and salts.
I came across something about this a little while ago, specifically the Dabbawalla/Tiffin[1] industry in Indian cities. The organisation and effectiveness of the system is quite astounding, especially given how ad-hoc and decentralised it all is. I can't seem to find the original article I'm thinking of, but there's one by the NY Times[2] that looks ok.

My recollection seems to tally with the WP numbers, with hundreds of thousands of deliveries a day, with less than 1 in a million mistakes, despite a multi-party transport network and widespread illiteracy (no written addresses!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/worldbusiness/29...
Maybe just selectively encrypt the audio? Perhaps, if it'd work better legally, some system that encrypts the audio on the fly, with a public half of a keypair where the private key is held by an organisation who never gets the encrypted file, and who will only turn the key over to a lawyer or court? (It'd be nice to think you could set this up so the only way law enforcement can get it without the consent of the uploader would be to have the decryption key made public, so if the cops want it, _everybody_ gets to hear it)

Where I am (Sydney, Australia), recording a police interaction is legal, but showing/playing it to other people may not be. You can't tender your recording as evidence in court without the consent of all the people in the recording, but you _can_ use the recording in court if it contradicts sworn evidence given by someone you've recorded.
The organization would have to put into place a process through which requests for help from members are evaluated. If the lawsuit in question is determined to fit the stated mission, purpose and standards of the organization they take over. There could also be staged levels of paid assistance whereby the organization might handle the case at a much-reduced cost when compared to going through other avenues.

I don't have all the answers. Legal minds far more capable than mine would design a set of rules and options that would make this a true resource and, to use the term again, a "nuclear option" against trolls. I don't have a problem with the reasonable enforcement of legitimate patents, but the bullshit patents need a way to hurt those using them to troll in a major way. All you need is a few cases of trolls getting utterly destroyed in court for the environment to change completely.
Yes, maybe I wasn't clear, I was just rephrasing your comment. I just wanted to point out that the choice of the connector is a red herring.
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Thx for sharing, great numbers. Some questions:
- Via which channel did you communicate with your early users / get feedback?
- Did you collect your user's email addresses from the beginning, upon installing the app - or at a later time?