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How is this IDE vs the other (few?) IDEs that can be used "in the cloud?"
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Regulatory agencies are supposed to, by charter, look to the public interest in overseeing companies.

If they are captured by the companies they regulate, and serve the companies' interests rather than the public's, by definition their mission has been corrupted.

Your question is highly disingenuous.
Try again. I just download r3132 and it doesn't give me that message.
One reason why patio11 suggests the whole "coffee" angle is that a coffee meeting is a better way to provide personalized advice. Otherwise we're reduced to playing HN Twenty Questions. ("Startup or not a startup? Bay Area or not Bay Area? Is your CV bigger than a breadbox?")

Having said that, "are you looking for your dream job in Zanesville, Ohio, or in SoMA?" is a fine entry in the Twenty Questions game. My own contributions would be:

A) "Could you put some contact information in your HN profile?"

B) "Can you describe something you've actually built? And if you haven't built anything yet, could you build something this week and send us the link to its Github page?"

But, of course, this is Twenty Questions, so either of these could turn out to be silly questions once we know the context.
When I was growing up in Chennai I would lean out the bus doors (with one hand) primarily to impress the young hotties walking along the side of the road.
the link is cool and all but why don't you tell us why you like it?

I use it constantly and have invested quite a bit of time in my .xmonad.hs file but I'm interested in hearing why other people like it as well.

For myself I love that I can basically code my own wm and make it what I want. It's like a wm toolkit.

I also like that it keeps my haskell chops from rusting too much.
Ask straightforwardly. And if they don't reply, it's either because spam trapped it and they'll never see it or they didn't think enough to just say No. Don't annoy.
Are there any freelance jobs which aren't web-related?

I am a software engineer specializing in robotics systems, and I find it really hard to find contract work that doesn't involve Javascript/PHP/etc, let alone one that involves engineering systems.
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I didn't get it immediately after downloading r3132. It prompted me to upgrade, so of course I pressed OK. The upgrade must've been to the paid build though.
Two things:

It definitely helps to have some sort of scaffolding or small seed program to help get you started. If you're looking at other people's projects you don't see all of the small choices and decisions that they made, just the final product. That always seems a lot more complex and intimidating than whatever it is you're currently working on. (If they're on github, you can sometimes go back to revision 1 and see what they started with, then roll forwards and watch them work)

The second thing is that programming is a lot like maths, in that learning it in and of itself is pretty dull. Having something that you want to do, with programming being the tool that you apply to help you get there, is a lot more motivating (and seems to be the tipping point experienced in the article)
We should not forget that ACTA was not just terrible concerning Films and Music. It was botched on a much larger level. Like "protecting" poor people in third world countries from fake medicines... that could be harmful to them... but actually are just generic version of over-protected medicines sold for a fortune by richer countries, and works just fine at a much lower cost.

So even without the article 27, it should have been stricken down (with small exceptions like brand protection etc). Let's not have a fight just to save what concerns us most directly, but for a new conception of copyright, patents and the entire intellectual property landscape.
I don't think that most people wish to make more money only so they can buy more things. This may have been true for the baby boomer generation, but peoples' attitudes towards money has changed quite a bit recently. When the realization that owning a home wasn't the ATM machine people always thought it would be, that changed most everyone's perspective on money.

I would argue that people wish to make at least enough money where they aren't struggling from paycheck to paycheck. That way they can easily afford to put food on the table, put clothes on their kids' backs, pay for their kids to go to college, and go on a family trip every once in awhile.
I would love to have that option. Unfortunately the only unpaid leave that's allowed is FMLA, and even then you must burn up any built up PTO before it transitions to unpaid leave.

The work, environment and people are quite good at the company, but the leave policies are annoyingly stingy.
I've taken the exact same approach through the years as I've gradually started working on more complex projects. So, it's sort of comforting knowing that I'm not alone in the "just get something working, no matter how ugly/bad it is" camp. This sort of mentality, no matter how good/bad, was really helpful because it forced me to take a look at what I had made objectively, as I began to look back on old code/projects I wrote and finally ssee not only how "ugly" it was, but more importantly, why it was ugly.

I'd then move on to a more challenging project, proceed to find some horrific, hacky solution, then talk and show it to people smarter than me and who could point out better ways to do things. I think if you're able to look at things you've made from years back and say "wow, I was a much worse programmer then, for these reasons", that says a lot about how much you've learned so far.
Read the article. It's said that the main lasting problem is that no one actually said what the limitations are. So at the end of the day this could be all bullshit... but the author of the article hopes that the limitations will live to the expectations.
"That's the way it is" is indeed unacceptable. What you have to consider, though, is the fact that many (read most) have no concept, no idea that there is another option.

On a very base level, when you opt-in to a service of convenience, you are handing over your data--your information. As such, it should not be a surprise--given the current circumstances--when that data is used against you.

I am not saying don't fight it--quite the contrary. But I question whether fighting it on this level is more or less productive than fighting the issue at root, whatever that is.
If it requires changing your company compensation rules, you have different problems at hand. Great developers don't cost more in dollar signs so much as they do in operating in an environment with other great developers, working on great challenges.
My question is: why are they storing the data anyways? Pass it along and don't keep it on the servers! Ignore all requests not authorized by a Warrant issued by a Judge.
Agreed. The moment you consider yourself at the top, you no longer are curious/hungry to learn more.
I think one thing that's become obvious to me over time, and was only briefly touched on at Uni, is how important the supporting ecosystem around a language is - in particular, the build tools. When I first started programming, all I'd do is grab the compiler, and run with it (javac, python, ghc, whatever). Now, however, I've become aware that I should always be using build tools - cabal, leiningen, rebar, go (has one provided with the language), maven, sbt, django-admin (kinda), etc.

I think this is something that needs to be better communicated and understood. When you pick up a new language, you also pick up its tools, and the landing pages for languages need to better communicate which build-tool is "blessed".
from your third point above I immediately wanted to be able to write 'maybe' clauses, like 'if door is red then maybe door opens' :)
+1. Surround yourself with smart people always.
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For those people facing financial ruin, having more money eliminates the immediate fear caused by not having enough. Once life's necessities are taken care of though, what else can money really buy? Wouldn't happiness plateau at some point?
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Link for TinyWM: http://incise.org/tinywm.html
> With regard to the "giving", I wonder what theories there are about why many people feel good when giving things up to benefit others.

Imagine two cultural scenarios: one where everyone is looking out for themselves and helping no one, and another where people are genuinely concerned with each other and eager to help when needed. Which culture would you want to live in?

I think we tend to by default project our motivations onto others (especially in the absence of data). So if we are primarily selfish in our motivations, we think the people around us are selfish. So my guess is that being generous makes us feel like the world is a generous place.

Also, our parents probably taught us that sharing with others is good. So we get a little psychological "stroke" of affirmation about our inner goodness by being generous.
You can also see them here:
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Sure, but you can get an MSP430 dev kit (stripped down IDE for C; USB dev board with a programmer and a few buttons and LEDs; a couple devices in DIP packages) from TI for $4.30 plus shipping.

Also, most microcontroller companies provide all the specs you need to roll your own end-to-end software for the device. Aside from specifying the machine language (so you can write your own compiler), they also have app notes for programming the onboard flash via JTAG or another interface. With programmable logic, it seems like the only parts that don't require the vendor's own programmer and synthesis software are legacy SPLDs like 22v10s.
There are definitely freelance jobs that don't involve the web - I know folks who have them, doing e.g. optics design - but they're rarer, just because the potential customer base is so much smaller. And obviously in robotics systems it will be harder to telecommute.

The usual advice is to specialize in something that's specific but in demand. For example, you could get really good at setting up a particularly common type of robotics system, or setting up systems for a particular type of problem. Perhaps try approaching the sales folks for a robot company and seeing if their customers are often looking for experienced freelancers: If so, would they be willing to recommend you? (Of course, if the robotics company has its own consulting division you might not have much luck with this plan…)
It's not about runtime performance as much as programmer performance.
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I'm not assuming anything. I'm questioning what is the definition of adequate here, because whatever is the definition will determine whether or not I agree with the original statement.

Whether or not those housing conditions lend themselves to proper sanitation or not, missionaries decided to go native in spite of the high mortality, also knowing the mortality rate of their peers (until modern medicine came about to make things like malaria a much smaller concern). I don't see your point. Missionaries had a crazy high mortality in the tropics? So what? It didn't stop their decisions to go native. And they certainly didn't have a crazy high mortality rate after the arrival of modern medicine. What are you saying no to?
On HN a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4089114

Curiously the submitted URLs are identical. HN's dupe detection broken or changed to allow dupes after a certain amount of time?
Collide: An Open Source "Collaborative IDE"
The problem that India faces are summed up quite nicely in towards the end:

Obviously, I’m no Mother Teresa. And it’s just as well, Mother Teresa couldn’t save this society from itself. Sometimes human systems become so large that they hurt people, not by design, but by inertia. And it’s beyond any of our ability to grasp, let alone control.
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"Paired with a keyboard, the Nexus 7 could easily serve as a mobile work solution just as the iPad can."

I'd really like to believe this (and thus justify getting one), but I can't picture it. How would one prop up the screen? What keyboards are available and are they any good?

I feel like Apple has reached a local maximum with the iPad as a consumption-oriented device and I'm just waiting to see who delivers the first tablet geared towards getting things done. MS appears to be promising this with Surface, but it remains to be seen how successful they are.

To anyone on HN who has used an Android tablet for productivity purposes (writing, coding, etc), how has it gone?
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TLDR: Second law of thermodynamics still in effect. However, food is not the limiting factor in developed countries so being fat is really a question of eating behaviors and there are relationships between food types and eating behaviors in both the short and long term.
Why is this HN thread the only Google result for "LR gyro" ?
You seem to believe that Nokia's having open-sourced some software confers on users and re-distributors of that software some sort of protection against Nokia's patents -- that certain behaviors that would have been infringement in the absence of the open-source license are somehow no longer infringement. If that is what you believe, I disagree.

Sometimes a corporation will grant a license of any patents need to run a piece of open-source software -- IBM did that in the 1990s in regard to Linux -- but I do not know of any open-source licenses that incorporates such a patent licensing. Certainly GPL 2 does not.

In other words, sometimes a patent holder will make a legally-binding promise not to sue any user or re-distributor of an open-source software for patent infringement, but all the open-source licenses I know restrict themselves to copyright and, to the first order, are silent on patents. (The qualification "to the first order" is necessary because IIRC GPL 2 includes language to the effect that if you try to use patents (or any other means -- but the language was added to address software patents) to discriminate among the recipients of your GPLed "changes", you lose the right to re-distribute the changes at all -- but note well that this language does not prevent a contributor of some changes from using its patents to stop the re-distribution of the changes altogether.)
"Selling hardware cheap—in hopes that more money can be made elsewhere—is not a new game." This has been my thought all along regarding this tablet. I wonder if it actually cost Google more than $200 to build.
Technology that works to encrypt all data when it goes to the cloud and decrypt it when it comes back would be a big step in the right direction. Simply make it impossible to compromise your privacy without a warranty for the private key. Makes it much easier to tell overreaching governments to politely "go fuck themselves."
This just screams "bad development practice", IMO.

Maybe I've only worked with amazing super hero developers (not likely), but the type of bugs avoided by Haskell's type system just aren't a big problem in any of the projects I've ever worked on.

The difficult bugs are almost always mistakes in the requirements and design errors, which become even more difficult to fix when you have a bunch of code.

On the other hand, I guess I could see type errors being a problem if you often write hundreds of lines of code before trying to compile and run it...
I am actually surprised that this is the first public accounting of its kind in US. I live in South Korea, and Korea Communications Commission publishes these numbers broken down by request types in accordance with Electronic Communications Privacy Act. This has been the case since 2005.
I highly recommend Orin Kerr's article, The Case For The Third Party Doctrine, on this issue (available here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138128).

A much different constitutional analysis when the data is requested from a cellular service provider, versus when it is gathered directly by state actors (police).

Kerr is simply fantastic on these issues. Worth reading more of his Fourth Amendment writing if you are interested.
Tangentially related: Smashing Magazine recently did an outstanding article on readable web typography. (See http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/02/applying-macrotyp...). They say 8-12 words per line is ideal, though their example exercise seems to average closer to 15.
Google seems to be getting all of the credit, yet the device's manufacturer, Asus, has consistently made the best Android tablets all along.

The Transformer tablets have all enjoyed an excellent build quality, great design aesthetics, and cutting edge hardware. They aren't perfect, but what tablet is?
"Also, just to point out, don't base your comparisons on a blog post."

As opposed to what you are basing you opinions on; "My sister lives in Troy. When she was new to Detroit, she choose a wrong route while driving to downtown Detroit. While passing through a certain area (don't remember the name, will call her and ask) some gangsters tried to stop her car and rob her. Luckily she escaped."

Down vote me all you've want... but unless you actually been to Detroit, recently, you are taking out of your ass.

From PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/is-detro...

I'll quote a part so you don't have to browse it:
"Last weekend, the New York Times featured a story in its Style section about the onslaught of hip, young urban pioneers streaming into downtown Detroit. These “creatives,” as they are being called, are taking advantage of low rents and the opportunity to recycle this abandoned, blank slate of an urban landscape into something new and exciting. There are restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of all stripes living alongside environmentalists and urban farmers. ..."

If you want I can post many other links.. but i assume you can do your own google'ing.

Edited: typos.
Sane discussions of weight, like sane discussions of aging, are ever clouded by the large constituencies with large marketing budgets who benefit from selling you on things that are both useless and popular. e.g. you can become fit without much effort, just buy our product. You can turn back aging, just buy our product. You can eat as much of our product as you want and not get fat like those other slobs, so go ahead and fill your plate.

Here's an experiment you can run on yourself. Eat the same diet as you are now, but less of it. Take up alternate day fasting, or just skip a meal every day. Be rigorous - keep track of how much your eat, and eat less than you were. Do it for a couple of months.

You will, absolutely, definitely, without a doubt, lose weight, largely adipose tissue mass.

Everything else is either (a) discussion of nutritional quality with regard to what you are eating, which is a rat-hole that never ends and you will never do better than a good 80/20 result no matter how much time and energy you spend on it or (b) the self-delusion of people who don't want to give up their capacious eating habits.
Why are they running benchmarks on a tablet?
Well, then why complain about it? When tourists come to US they may go to Disneyland, the Statue of Liberty etc. Most tourists don't take pictures of American ghettos, prisons etc.

Why is it that when you guys go to other countries you constantly focus on why that country is somehow different in a bad way? India: too filthy and chaotic. China: no freedom. Middle East: too oppressive. I could go on.

I've noticed that Europeans have a more nuanced approach to the world compared to Americans. They seem to appreciate differences instead of being smug in their superiority.
If you read the article, they point out that Google has stated they're basically selling the unit at their cost. (That is, likely how much Asus charges them.)
Cost of living varies by a factor of 3x or more across the USA. This fact is ignored every time the meaningless "$75,000" figure is trotted around.
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When Sleeper was released 39 years ago, I thought this was a cheap joke. But every few years I think about it when there is yet another reversal in what we think we know about nutrition.
If a company really wants to get serious about a tablet designed for productivity, they will make one with an 11.6" or a 12.1" screen. 11.6" seems to be the smallest device size that you can attach a usable keyboard to.

I understand that no one wants to risk making larger tablet, out of a fear that it will be too heavy, but each generation has brought us thinner, lighter devices. I'd gladly take an 11.6" screen over the current standard of 9-10 even if it added an extra couple of ounces.
Why not? It's a decent way to ascertain how powerful a device is. (Although maybe not Linpack -- it doesn't really correlate to real world performance, in my experience. Vellamo or Quadrant would be better, but they don't have iOS equivalents, IIRC.)
LIBOR is supposed to be determined adversarially; it theoretically represents the equilibrium of supply and demand for overnight liquidity. It's subject to manipulation because the number of participants in the market is necessarily small.
Or maybe it's time for phones to adopt PGP for text messages? You could collect your friends or colleagues public keys and then the telephone companies haven't the slightest idea what you're texting back and forth.

If you're using iMessage or BBM, they already can't provide any of that data to law enforcement. I'm not sure how Apple or RIM handles requests for users data from law enforcement though.
Interesting responses.

I urge fellow Indians to check out theuglyindian.com. A bunch of guys (some are friends of friends) have got together to make an impact. These little grass roots efforts are working.

Lets participate and clean things up.
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I've read many attempts to explain Monads by now, but this is the first time I think I actually "got" it. Well done!
How did Zuckerberg value Instagram at $1B?
As Doug Fisher said at JavaOne, "hardware without software just generates heat".

Asus can make great hardware all day; but without the right marketing and the right software, it will never be successful.

Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is the first arrival of a real competitor to iOS in my opinion.

Google floundered about quite a bit trying to get the UI right (honestly, it seemed like they were ignoring it completely for a while); and 4.0 and 4.1 are the first versions I've used that feel "right". I'm actually pretty torn between iOS and Android at this point from a user / developer standpoint.

Although Apple still has the better developer tools for now.
This article is devoid of any content except mentioning 2 companies which are "successful".

Why is this article on the front page of HN?

These are privately owned companies. The author does not even quote sources for the billion rupee "turnover".
Yes. Now I got it. It does(can be) prevent if CSRF happens. Since Referer header is not sent by all the browsers, Origin can be used. - http://people.mozilla.org/~bsterne/content-security-policy/o...
Funny story? Back in the mid-1960s the Feds said there'd be a shortage of scientists. Then in the early 1970s the Apollo program ended, and 40K+ people with years of hard experience were dumped on the market.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.