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Not only small laws, in the eyes of the feds. I highly recommend reading Harvey Silverglate's (veteran of the EFF, ACLU and the FIRE) book "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent." He discusses the issues of vagueness in federal felony statutes.

Think about it this way, the efforts to convict Jeff Skilling (yes, of Enron) of "Honest Services Fraud" would make reading HN from work a federal felony. Note that after the book was published, the Supreme Court threw out Skilling's conviction for honest services fraud on the basis of vagueness. But many other issues remain.

For example, I design my billing cycles on the principle of minimizing invoices of greater than $10k. Is this a federal felony? By some interpretations, it might be. Part of the reason is I don't want lots of my payments from customers being reported to the federal government. Part of the reason is that larger numbers of smaller invoices make cash flow a little easier to manage. Part of it is that I have found that banks don't like seeing a lot of large transactions and therefore my life is easier vis a vis the banks if I keep those to a minimum. But I think such statutes will have to be read narrowly.

>I am gonna be completely honest, I am scared to express myself any longer on the Internet in any fashion. I don't trust it any longer. I don't trust the police, I don't trust the FBI, I don't trust the federal government, and I also don't trust, nor have faith, in the justice system in the United States.

The internet is for marketing yourself, not expressing yourself.
>Fullscreen Mode will still only allow you to use a single physical screen.

Oh, the humanity! How about using NON fullscreen mode then? Like, say, _maximize_?

Complaining about the full screen feature "being broken in multi screen mode", when other platforms don't even offer it in a single screen?
Posner pointed out that a smartphone may well contain (and violate) thousands of patents. That right there is a sure sign that something is rotten in the state of the patent system.

This sentence has made me think that there seems to be an amazing parallel between the patent industry and medicine. In the past, patents were quite simple and few, and one could see how things should go in patent disputes. Patents did not get complicated at a granular level because the level of knowledge necessary to identify how complex things can actually get did not exist yet.

For medicine as well, symptom analysis and disease diagnosis was very limited to our level of knowledge. As our knowledge increased, the complexity of our treatment strategies increased, such that there is a large overhead for diagnosis and treatment, just like there is a large overhead for patent disputes.

edit: great example: http://xkcd.com/931/

The difference is that for patents, it probably doesn't need to be as complex as it is, while for medicine, it probably does need to be as complex as it is.
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Agreed on keyword args. I maintain Requests for PHP [1] which has a very similar API to Python Requests, and at the moment, you have to use an array as the options parameter.

$options = ['timeout' => 0.5];
$r = Requests::get('https://api.github.com/', $headers, $data, $options);

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They have to pay licensing fees for the IP, according to that article. Its kind of weirdly phrased - don't know how you own code without owning the IP in that code.
I thought about it, but honestly, I think it's important to try to fight against all the sanctimony and handwringing that surrounds security. People should feel comfortable talking about security as a tradeoff without diluting the argument with gratuitous qualifications and apologies.
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The issue with bitcoin (at least, now) is that it does not easily allow to make recurring charges (which is what gittip about)
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The irony here is that the above user was created five minutes before the comment was posted.
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There indeed was no consensus on the topic of strict typing and on some other topics - but it's only natural, people have different opinions and sometimes there's just no agreement between them. Especially if you are advocating wide regard for all people in the community, you have to accept that sometimes there would be no way to reach a decision that is agreeable to everyone. In the strict typing case that is what happened, there was no approach that was satisfactory to all, so the decision was to remain with the status quo. I don't think this makes PHP internals somehow hostile or "poisonous" - disagreement is a natural part of the process in such a diverse community, and in case there's no agreement on a new feature the natural way is to remain with the status quo.
Probably the investors with preferred stock.
Does HTML/CSS count? If so, then mine was "Head First (X)HTML and CSS". It was an awesome book that really managed to get me excited about the subject. That ended up being my gateway into JS, PHP, Python, etc.

And yes, that was relatively recently (only about 4-5 years ago), which dramatically reduces the cool/nostalgia factor there.
> - you are not in mirror mode: the primary display is irrevocably the built-in one. DVD Player goes fullscreen on that 13", while you can enjoy 42" of glorious Lion linen. Of course you don't want to close the screen, unless you have both fed the laptop with AC and have an external peripheral at hand to control Apple Remote, an external keyboard or a Magic Trackpad, which is a ludicrous situation.

You can change which screen is the 'primary display'.
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It sounds like your friend got trolled. We don't call users whom we suspect are criminals, and we certainly wouldn't call someone we suspect of being a terrorist. Especially on the grounds of a terrorism joke - believe it or not, we do have a sense of humor.

I work for Facebook's User Operations team and, as the Reuters article says, this specific tool targets the (thankfully) rare cases of adults trying to use the site for the purpose of grooming kids.

We use advanced technical systems to specifically identify grooming situations and strive for a low false positive rate. We have strong internal controls around these tools to prevent misuse or abuse, and stringent guidelines for the way we cooperate with law enforcement.

For whatever it's worth, I have been at Facebook for several years, and I am so amazed every time we're able to help a child avert an absolute worst-case scenario. These cases are rare, but they do happen, and I'm grateful we have the tools necessary to keep the worst of the worst from unfolding in the real world.
Seems like this will always be the case since social media isn't tangible anyways.
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500K is too low for 100%. What likely happened is betaworks got 50-60% with the agreement they invest on the future of the site. Best deal for current shareholder, who still keep 30-40%.
The 500K were not to buy the company, but to pay out some people who didn't want the new deal.
Ah, yes, thanks, that isn't obvious. No need to be snotty about it.
I really like the head first books...I've got a couple of them too.
Definitely curious to hear what folks think about this.
What you mean "unreliable"? It is completely reliable and described in the documentation. It doesn't fit some use cases, in these cases you could use other facilities provided by the language, PHP can not have separate language construct for every use case.
exactly. if only google didnt think they needed to capture the / for their search (in the main site, gmail etc), this extension wouldnt be required.
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I use to have a subscription to 3-2-1 Contact as a kid. The had these short one or two line programs in the back. I think there was an Apple magazine called Nibbles that had something similar.
MySQL has a huge network of support and we were
pretty sure if we had a problem, Google, Yahoo,
or Facebook would have to deal with it and patch
it before we did. :)

I am fairly certain Google is running its own (patched) version that's fairly different than the off-the-shelf MySQL.
I don't have anything against dreaming big.

My main observation, also from personal experience, is it's possible for someone who is otherwise content and on the right track in life to become confused by the kind of rhetoric utilized in this article.

I'm all for saving money and working on side projects until you have the stability to undertake a dream without significant risk.
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Mine was actually similar: http://www.lemon64.com/manual/

(except it was the dead tree edition)
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You can hold the copyright on the code but still have no rights for the patents used therein.
Tricks Of The MS-DOS Masters. I remember the guy at the computer store telling me not to bother because "in ten years we'll be speaking regular english to computers.". Fantastic book though. Glad I didn't take his advice.
Don't return null from that function. Return NullObject which has __call() { return $this; } - then you could chain as many such calls as you want and they'd be OK with nulls. Then you could check for NullObject as easily as you could check for null - if($result instanceof NullObject) etc.
> "And why does FB even want this responsibility?"

Maybe Facebook wants to cultivate the appearance of being a "safe place", as a precursor to opening its services to younger users? That would certainly be a way of growing their user base.

I agree that whatever the reason they're doing this is, it's misguided and creepy.
Oddly enough, it doesn't work with F12 on Lion.
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I don't care if 50% of Facebook profiles are fake as long as the long-term ROI of the advertising is positive. Measure the impact on actual goals, not intermediates like number of likes. Facebook's worked for me; I've been advertising there consistently for about a year now.

http://i.imgur.com/r0RQ5.png

As far as disproportionate responses from the Phillippines and Egypt, if you don't limit the audience you show your ad to, you're gonna get bad results everywhere, not just Facebook.
Patent experts - how exactly does this work with Reddit / HN / a million other vote up content sites? Are they infringing?
My point is not that there should be consensus. My point is how the discussion went (and many similar discussions, not just one). Poison comes from how community members treat each other, not whether or not they can agree on something.

I've spent major time in 3 open source projects, gcc, Mozilla and PHP. All of them suffered from similar disagreement, from old code, from old decisions they need to move away from. The difference was that Mozilla and gcc manage to do it without being poisonous.
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I think Kevin Rose is doing OK. He has FU money.
How did this even get to the front page of HN....
You didn't really bother yourself with all that thinking stuff before posting this one, now did you?
In the people app you can choose what online accounts to display in the options for the people app.
60 Problems You Can Solve in BASIC, or something close to that. It was orange. Google doesn't know about it.

My dad paid me a dollar for each one I solved. I think I did about 40 of them. Now that I think about it, that was also my first paid programming job.

Edit: Those giant Creative Computing books full of BASIC games might have actually been before that, but that 60 Problems one was the first that was explicitly about learning to code.
Actually now that you phrased it that way, it makes total sense. The fact that the source of the code and the IP is the same made it seem bizarre.
Very likely. The domain and traffic alone are worth way more than that.
I did not know that, that's useful thank you.

I still stick to my guns: the default behavior is insane. Focusing on one task (ie: one screen, window, app etc) at a time is the common use case, when I want to show two screens at once it's the exception. Current behavior is based on a philosophical concept of carrying through the "desktop" metaphor, and SJ's obsession with showing off his stacked windows, which mac was first to have, rather than on how humans actually want to use computers.
There's a talk about Dropbox scaling at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/winter-schedule-20112012... .
Better yet, file an RFC and a pull request.
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What exactly do you want?

I really have no idea what you even mean with a "developer version". Memristors are just circuit elements. They are laid out in the billions on a wafer and connected together with copper interconnects -- just like normal transistors or the floating gate ones used by flash. They could give devs early memory devices or something that uses memristors for logic, but other than having the word memristor on the top, they would not differ from similar devices built out of transistors and silicon.
Okay, maybe you didn't see how this related. I should have made it clearer. There are a lot of discussions on this page about how Vim's advantage comes from the muscle memory adaptation, relegating text editing to a subconscious, effortless activity rather than something that requires active thought.

I was expounding on this concept with an idea of my own and speculating about its potential benefits using analogous logic to that used in the reasoning about Vim's efficiency.

Better?
I was once informed by an FB employee that federal agents are ensconced at the FB premises to monitor users' communications and shut down / censor FB groups and venues for "hate" speech and terroristic threats.
One of those C64 books that goes from "how to plug in cables and switch the computer on" all the way to tweaking memory values with PEEK and POKE. I read that when I was 6 and loved it. Now, computer books and manuals have a tiny fraction of the scope, and yet they still considered too complicated for many full-grown adults.
It would be covered under the Stored Communications Act. Unfortunately reading the act it looks like it is up for debate as to whether they are breaking the law. The Stored Communications Act allows voluntary disclosure when two things are true:

1) The communications were inadvertently obtained and
2) The communication appears to pertain to commission of a crime.

I don't think you can classify this as inadvertent. So I wonder if Facebook can be sued.

There is one way to find out. Create a decoy post, hear from law enforcement, and sue Facebook.
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So the story is the same:

"Digg the Web Property" sold for ~$500k which is tragic, good luck running that without a team.

The new info is that the "Digg the Team" was acquired for $12mil (whatever acquiring a "team" means, sounds like stock options executed and hiring packages all around) and bizarrely, "Digg the Technology Patents" were apparently worth about 8 times what the site is worth and went for about $4mil. I'm assuming that "Digg the Web Property" has some perpetual free license to the patents as part of the deal.

The Patent deal is probably overvalued as well (since it includes worthless patents like "click to upvote something", but probably represents LinkedIn trying to recoup some of it's massive lost investment. I wouldn't be surprised if the purchase value was an attempt to make the patents look like they are worth more than they are in prep for an eventual second sale to other parties.

All told, "Digg" sold for around 35% of its total investment, with 75% of that being the staff acquisition by WaPo, which essentially means that the actual "Digg" properties, patents, code, viewership, business deals, social network reach, ad network etc. was sold for about $4.5mil or less than 10% on the investment.

note that in a strange demonstration of why if failed as a social news site, the news of Digg's own sale has yet to show up on Digg's front page
Hmm, this is currently down: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1310720) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/jps/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 597
But the domain was sold for just 500k. That's what surprising to me.
I don't like this one bit. The end of it will be that somebody would have a brilliant idea along the lines "so, we're kind of cash strapped, why don't we sue the whole world to make them pay each time they put a button on a webpage?" and it'll cause a lot of grief to many people.
I chose vim because it was radically different than anything else.

All text editors have crazy shortcuts that do magic, but only vim has the ironically named NORMAL mode with its verbs, movements and registers...

I treated it like a new game to learn. Sometimes I will write a macro because it is more fun, even though it might not save me raw time.
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This was pretty much my experience with a co-worker. We both thought we were vim gurus, but I was shocked at all the tricks he did that I didn't know, and vice versa. I'm beginning to think that I know less than 1% of vim, but it still helps me be very productive.
Used to visit Digg daily. Then less and less after every redesign, now I suddenly I realize it is years now.
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That's kind of what the article is pointing out...
yeah, server crashed under the weight of hackernews...working with tech to try to patch up a solution :-(

EDIT: Upgraded my hosting plan a couple notches and tech support is monitoring memory usage. Hopefully that takes care of things...
Not really an expert, but they probably are, but the patent would probably also get overturned pretty easily.
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I started using it. I liked it. But, I use Space button to scroll down. You are eating that away. Felt very irritating. Your 'shortcuts' should not mingle with the existing ones, at least, the most used shortcuts like SPACE button.
I always found those "in 24 hours" books to be amusing in that there was no way in hell you were going to work through a book that size in 24 hours
My first book was an awesomely illustrated games programming book for BASIC that my dad gave me when I was around 7 or 8.

It had a number of games in each book, and they provided the entire source for the game in text on the pages that you could type into the computer and play the game. Each game had great illustrations and had an explanation of the game itself.

The next logical step for me was to start hacking away at the games, first changing variables to modify the game, and eventually writing my own simple games.

I'm a full time developer now and I owe a lot to my dad and to those books. I've been completely unable to find information on the books, and would love to get some copies of them now. If anyone knows the names of these books and / or where to get them, I would absolutely love to hear.
Nothing surprising. Just visit Fiverr.com and you can buy 100+ facebook likes for $5. And you will get likes from US, UK too.
we used iPads b/c we're working on an app for iPads and it was a great way to instantly tell people what we're doing and it's just plain cool. most of your technical points are valid, but we wouldn't have enough power to run nine monitors at our booth. most importantly, no one would look twice at a massive monitor wall at comic-con. they're a dime a dozen and all of the big players have jumbo-tron style walls. we had loads of people comment on the iPad wall today and ask us how we did it. we even had the av guys from one of the big jumbo-tron companies come talk to us about how we built it.
Be careful: there does not exist an easy_uninstall. So if you have to use it, you had better only use it in a virtualenv (it won't be nice if you install something on the system Python which hoses anything, because you won't be able to uninstall).

Also, hope that nothing mysteriously goes wrong, because the error messages tend to be really cryptic and unhelpful.

New users should be pointed to pip by default.

eggs are really the only feature of easy_install. However, it is easy to think they are more indispensable than they really are. For example, the article implies that eggs are the only cross-platform install method. There is no reason why pure-Python source distributions should not be completely cross-platform. (This also allows you to run on PyPy, etc.) This is really about making binary packages work on Windows. But most major packages have available EXE installers which use Windows' native package management.

So eggs are pretty much one approach to a problem that faces Windows, not a uniquely cross-platform solution.

I am tired of the politics in Python which is always making people use broken software when there are clearly better alternatives. It is a major people problem with the language and it holds it back in so many ways.
> note that in a strange demonstration of why if failed as a social news site, the news of Digg's own sale has yet to show up on Digg's front page

What are you talking about? It's on the front page: http://digg.com/news/business/betaworks_is_buying_digg_for_5...