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Re-introduce cheap, accessible, well-funded public universities that people can study out, without subsidizing for-profit or even private universities. Public options allow the market to work while overcoming the underprovided nature of education.
> most of the people in Beijing are migrant workers who do not have hukou; they are basically excluded from the community

That's not so simple. They belong to their own community of migrant workers and most are able to get community support when needed. They also become acclimated to Beijing and it is not unlikely their offspring will be Beijingers. I have a direct experience of that, our nanny is a typical migrant worker. has very good relations with our neighbors, who are of the oldest Beijing brand (they are Manchu). Disclaimer: we live in the hutong. It is very possible that life in new places is different.
I've been doing robotics work as a passion/hobby for a bit more than 20 years. The coolest thing about robots is that they combine three things, mechanics, electronics, and software. All three are essential for autonomous robotics, mechanics and electronics are critical for teleoperated equipment (and battlebots :-). If you wanted to get a degree in something useful I'd shoot for something called 'Mechatronics' which is as close as they come to a robotics degree.

There are four primary robotics markets ranked in order of 'most money' to 'least money' -

The military. This includes UAVs and things that kill you as well as things that disarm explosives. Generally these guys want Phds.

Manufacturing. This includes pick and place machines, work cells, automated line handling, and industrial automation.

Toys & Entertainment. These are quadcopters, programmable tanks, animatronics (robotically animated characters) and educational things like Lego Mindstorms. I tend to put combat robots here (its really an entertainment biz) as well.

Research & Personal Robotics - this would be robots which do things for people, Willow Garage's PR2 for example, the Neato or Roomba vacuums, robotic guard dogs etc.

Different industries have different requirements on education, most really appreciate electrical engineers and computer scientists.
Something like a cut, only we call it dcut? Actually sounds like a pretty good idea - that way those who don't want to switch to the new format don't have to, and you can pipe it through this program to create the new style structured output...
would be nice if our tutorials mixed with familiar story/fables. just like i tried to mix up jquery and 'Hare and tortoise'

http://lixonic.blogspot.in/2012/08/once-upon-time-jquery-wen...

Whats your opinion?
Got you covered in terms of web apps: http://libreprojects.net
What about providing a filter that converts to whatever format you can think of? e.g. outputs in JSON or XML
That's odd. If nothing else, his wife has a huge social media following. Doesn't seem like he'd have trouble getting the word out if he wanted to.
Interesting. I had not heard of that, and since I have anxiety disorder (I have had panic attacks about other things), I always assumed it was just part of the same thing, and it certainly feels similar. I guess that makes sense given that panic attacks are a feedback loop; maybe the vasovagal response was just a trigger.
I wonder how well gzip would compress this?
Thanks. I came across fabric from this article. very useful for us.
That's clearly not the case in all situations though. If its simply a userid there would be no reason to use pickle. JSON or simple string storage would be sufficient. Clearly people are storing far more than just a userid in their client side sessions.
Making a "code" is like building a habit. Maintaining the code might be tiring at first, but consistently caring about others, just like consistently brushing your teeth, will inevitably get easier. If you truly are feeling exhausted/insane after treating people well for a day, its unlikely you think people are worth treating well to begin with.
I've been suspecting their success rate might go up as more people become comfortable with the idea. A lot of small projects should be very do-able if their community is familiar with kickstarter.
Islamic finance is a fairly complicated subject. As someone who has no background in finance, I have been trying to understand some basics.

But overall, what I understand is that for a bank to give out loans, they must also provide every opportunity to help those who are borrowing money.
For example, they can extend the payment, provide advice etc

The main thing about Islamic finance is that it is all asset based. You can take a loan to buy a car, but you can't take a loan to renovate a house etc. This is to stop people from borrowing when they can't possibly pay back.
There are few models for unsecured loans. But, as I said, its very complicated.
Sure it costs nothing until you are compromised and any valuable data you have is taken. Remote code exploits are extremely dangerous. And mitigating them with a small amount of i/o overhead seems like a fair trade off.
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What's wrong with sed and awk? This may be the Stockholm Syndrome talking, but I like awk!

As for the sorting, what's wrong with using the -k flag? I only use cut when I really don't care about that field.
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I find the idea of a bricked Curiosity horribly depressing. Let's make sure to wait a FULL FIVE MINUTES before rebooting, ok guys?
My advice: drop the "the".
see for the leaked messages here:
http://privatepaste.com/f9dd332518/weqwewqesada
https://privatepaste.com/942ba3fa3d/asdasdwqe
(source: http://cryptogon.com/?p=30775)
There is truly nothing interesting about this observation, and pretty much a juvenile insight. Yes, give a shit about what you do, it'll be apparent in your work, yadadada.

As for the whole 'care about other people', that's just so ridiculous, I'm not even sure how this is on the frontpage.
From their site:

> App.net will only be funded if at least $500,000 is pledged by MONDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11:59PM PDT.

Why is this? They aren't going through Kickstarter, it's their own fundraising system and a deadline chosen by the App.net folks themselves. It's just an arbitrarily chosen deadline? A self imposed constraint that they can seemingly modify at will?
My father's a chiropractor and I just asked him about this. Apparently checking insurance eligibility is a "pain in the ass" and involves a phone call with wait times.

I'm excited to see if I can quickly put something together for him.
You also might want to check out https://github.com/tantaman/Strut, it’s more modular and active in development than Impressionist.
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On this topic, Beaker cookie sessions are encrypted and are great; however, neither Ben or I have much time/interest in maintaining Beaker, as the caching is now modernized in dogpile.cache and neither of us agree with Beaker's server side session approach.

Might someone adapt Beaker's secure cookie session into its own pypi package and include a flask adapter with it? It's time we all got behind a best practice for sessions (which IMHO should be cookie based, encrypted, and very small/only basic identiication with more significant data stored in the DB).
So if I'm understanding correctly, the lowest hanging fruit to providing medical care to those in need is...paperwork?

Sounds like we're working on a band-aide, not a solution.

Again, progress is progress. I guess I wonder whether or not these efforts could be focused on the root. I'm probably sounding like a pretentious douche with all the answers...it's not intentional. On a very base level, I cant help but wonder what all this potential could achieve if the focus weren't money. As I understand it, the benefits you proclaim would be a side effect of a successful (read: profitable) implementation.

As always, I might be misunderstanding.
How would that change the net amount of money changing hands?
Well I'm not going to learn a new tool to solve imaginary problems. Is there anything in the real world, a simple scenario where this would be handier than tools that have existed for 20+ years?
Tim = INTERN GOD.
Yeah I agree that 40 hours seems to be a good number for a week's consumption. On weekdays, the max I can think it taking is 2 hours for commuting, and 3-5 hours of TV. I am nowhere near this number myself, but I can see it being the norm for a lot of people. That's about 7 hours a day for 5 days. Weekends are completely random for me. On most summer weekends I didn't think I consume anything at all, but I can see how it could be quite high for some people. Overall, I think a hard cap of 40 hours is probably sufficient for most people.

I am sure that the MPAA would try and argue that internet access should be included in this, which is probably where the whole problem starts.
How would a column contain a newline?
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That's unrelated.

You can store data in cookies without using a potentially unsafe serialization scheme. Baby != Bathwater.
Yes, me too. I can't possibly understand why anyone would crowdfund another for-profit, proprietary, centralized platform.

edit: crowdfund
Same here. And I was thinking: "wait a minute, that warm, unfeeling server really does care about those bytes--quite ironic actually."
"Even something as basic as numerical sorting on a column gets quite complicated."

sort -g -k field_num
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Hes been very productive!
Or 14.
Fortunately they have redundant machines. I suspect they'll figure it out.

It does sound funny that they wouldn't just have thrown a few more SSDs on there, but then again this is a space probe. When my SSD fails I get mad because I'm forced to waste three whole hours traveling to the Apple Store for warranty service. Curiosity's Apple Store is a bit farther away.

Their storage has to be radiation-hardened, guaranteed to last through the mission, have minimum weight, consume minimum power, avoid overheating under extremely weird environmental conditions…

It's also effectively required to be quite a few years old, in order to have had plenty of time to be baked in to the hardware and software platform. Curiosity was designed years ago, and it was based on designs that are far older, and on a mission like this it's more important to preserve the well-tested platform and hard-won expertise than to try something new. You spend the risk budget on more important things.
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> was thinking more in terms of the little guys who have at most a 1-2% ownership stake in the company.

They get 1/10th the money that folks who own 10-20% get.

What do you think should happen?

There's only 100%. Some investors have liquidation preferences over others.

The buyer, of course, is free to give money to people post-deal as it sees fit.
Sounds like a big waste of money for me. Too bad AI is so hard, and we are experimenting with a human flagging system. Unlike DMCA notices in business sector, this apparently doesn't even seem to depend have context to the significance of the transgressions, as it appears to depend on automated content collection from whatever sources they can muster.

I wish it was a big conspiracy by the EVIL GOVERNMENT. But alas, it is probably a huge waste of the taxpayers' money.
Not to be rude, but it sounds like you're just unfamiliar with standard procedure.

"We designed the mission from the start to be able to upgrade the software as needed for different phases of the mission,"

>I wouldn't have thought that programming code would take significant space

It doesn't. I bet it takes just as much space as you imagine it does. The rover just have that little space to work with. These aren't last year's FPS gaming rigs with hundreds of gigs on SSD available. These are hardened, turn-of-the-millennium embedded computers.

>the potential for screw ups just seems way too high

Both Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft have been sent software updates, without fault. MSL was designed from the get-go to have software updates mid-mission.
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It is getting harder to tell who is actually suffering from paranoid delusions and who is on to something. :(
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Internet Archive now seeds torrents of all new content, at honkin' speeds. But weren't these files released in February? Or is this a new set?
> While I am reluctant to suggest that the courts require specific performance (continuing to work) for employment contracts, awarding damages to the other party does not seem terrible.

Why are you assuming that "employees" will sign such contracts?

Suppose someone shows up to work. How does the court determine whether they're working per contract? (If someone says "I don't have any patentable inventions this month", do you think that they should be penalized?)

CA allows non-competes in certain circumstances.
Thanks for the comment. To add to that, http://www.voxeu.org/article/why-india-lags-behind-china

The most important factor that still holds back large firms from entering these products is a set of draconian labour laws in India. Under these laws, it is virtually impossible for a firm with 100 or more employees to fire the workers even in the face of bankruptcy. It is equally difficult for the firms to reassign the workers from one task to another. These provisions impose very low worker productivity or a high real cost of labour. Large-scale capital-intensive sectors such as automobiles, where labour costs are a tiny proportion of the total costs, can profitably operate in such an environment. But the same is not true of large-scale labour-intensive sectors labour. Few foreign manufacturers are willing to enter India outside of a small subset of capital- and skilled-labour intensive sectors.
That is a terrible idea: sometimes the app can take advantage of a constraint to minimize work done.

In your example, if we just wanted to filter for a particular user, dps would have to print out ALL of the information and then you could pick at it. This doesn't seem bad for ps (because there's a hard limit) but in many other examples the output could be much larger than what is needed. That's why having filtering and output flags in many cases is more efficient in generating everything.

As a side note: To demonstrate a dramatic example, I tried timing two things:

- dumping NASDAQ feed data for an entire day, pretty-printing, and then using fgrep
- having the dumper do the search explicitly (new flags added to program)

Both outputs were sent to /dev/null. The first ran in 35 minutes, the second in less than 1 minute
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> These loans should be absolvable in bankruptcy

The current bankruptcy rules wrt student loans came out of some experience with different rules. (For example, speciality MDs had some cute hacks to dump their undergrad loans, which were very old by the time they had money.)

How does your knowledge of those rules and that experience inform your proposed policy?
You should add a little callout link to that "starter" info dump somewhere on the home page. Best of luck!
Waste can be evil as well.
Insightful point. I came here to say, "How is it going without the binary blobs?", but RMS certainly manages.

Even as a Linux user, I doubt I could ever go completely FOSS. (Or that I would ever want to.)
Also check out http://webp2p.org, we have a mailing list and an irc channel #webp2p for discussion on WebRTC and more peer-to-peer web technologies.
It's a MongoDB objectid. It's guessable. Still not seeing the problem yet, as you haven't bothered to explain it.
Using Trello for Project Management
If for any reason the introduction header of the page gets erased (it's a wiki), here it is:
Hi! I just posted this on Hacker News because I wanted some help to define how Trello can be used for project management. I made my own take on it and I'd love if people could help me and add some of their own concepts on the list. Feel free to add, edit or remove anything.
Thanks!
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Your comment about cable news made me think. The fact that he chose a political axis, and later
mentioned working on a project to make typing unecessary almost make me wonder if the choice of political axis was intentional (to stir discussion or push an agenda later).

Why not choose less loaded terms like formal/expressive like art uses?
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> Individual donations from non-profit education employees are not lobbying on the part of an industry. They're citizens playing an active role in politics.

Yeah right.

Interestingly enough, no one makes that distinction when it comes to oil company executives.

> For profit schools are student farms, churning them out and providing predatory loans to their uneducated students.

You seem to think that everyone at a non-profit works for free. They don't. They benefit from the money that comes in.

The only difference between non-profits and for-profits is whether the investors get any direct dividends. There's no difference wrt the employees.

And, non-profits do figure out ways to indirectly compensate their donors.

For example, they arrange for and vigorously defend various tax breaks.

In fact, they lobby for high tax rates to make deductible donations more attractive. Gee thanks - I'm paying for your donation.
wow, dude, you thought you broke through and have a higher level of understanding. Ya missed the next layer of meaning man! Go back and get yourself a nice size project with a nize size team, preferably 50% contracters from everywhere. Hand out no coding standard, go through some scrum cycles, see what you get.
in that ballpark, yep.

It took me 6 years to get through, with going part time and dropping out for a while.
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If for any reason the introduction header of the page gets erased (it's a wiki), here it is:

Hi! I just posted this on Hacker News because I wanted some help to define how Trello can be used for project management. I made my own take on it and I'd love if people could help me and add some of their own concepts on the list. Feel free to add, edit or remove anything.

Thanks!

Tommy Bergeron
http://brainpad.org
Wow must of took a real hammering from being on the number spot.
Goodluck!
Is there MP3 download?
There must be some amateur radio people out there able to receive these signals, no? With the protocol stacks mentioned in the other comments, I wonder if they're able to extract the encrypted data. Which leads me to think there have got to be people/governments trying to figure those out.
So what stops me from changing the user ID cookie to another user and impersonating them?
> Seeing as the non-profit schools are supposed to be public institutions created to better the country, it's appropriate for them to receive federal funding.

Shouldn't we ask whether they actually do better the country at some point? And, suppose that other institutions also "better the country", shouldn't they get money too?

> That makes their product worthless.

Really? Where do you think that your auto mechanic learned his trade? How about the plumber? And so on.

The for-profits tend to serve people that the non-profits have largely abandoned. Why don't those people count?
Hi Paul, thanks for your information and I will definitely check it out when it is ready.
On the other hand, to really get much more out of it than what you'd see in nano or pico, you do need to learn stuff. It's true it's not as bad as Vi in that it doesn't make you drink from the firehose, which I think was your real point. But if you just use Emacs as a glorified TextEdit, why bother?
> Set the limit as a function of incoming links - Wikipedia will get a high limit, spam site with low incoming links from the current crawl will get a lower limit.

There are span sites with more incoming links than Wikipedia....

Designing crawl policy is a lot like designing security policy. The opposition is very well-funded, smart, experienced, and very motivated.

If you're just smart, they've got you beat.
I don't see where you're getting "emotional arguments" from, the entire piece seemed more about scratching an intellectual itch more than anything else. On the other hand, it seems quite apparent he pushed the wrong emotional button on your end.

I mean his reframing is "dangerous"? Seriously? Who is in "danger"? And in danger of what? Having a contradictory viewpoint?
I went ~1 year using just one binary blob[1], and it's been about ~.5 years since I replaced the WiFi card that it was for, and have gone 100% FOSS.

I'm extremely happy with Parabola GNU/Linux (one of the FSF endorsed distros), both as an OS, and as a community.

[1] It was for the iwl3495, and it was actually the only blob on my system--I was manually patching a Linux-libre kernel to re-add that one blob.
For my part, it wasn't so much that plugins weren't available as it was trying out multiple versions, installing them, configuring them, and troubleshooting them. Sometimes they'd make Vim much slower, or break altogether.

Much of what I wanted out of Vim worked right out of the box in ST2, and with minimal fuss.
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in particular CA courts will enforce non-competes against the owners of one company who sell it to another. This means that the acqui-hired can be subject to an enforceable non-compete by the acquiring company.
Personally I appreciated this article (and the ensuing discussion) as a good overview of the philosophies behind Haskell.
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... Grows a Beard.
So maybe you, rich old white man, should avoid contributing irrelevant noise to this discussion?

The problem is statistical. There just aren't enough jobs, an irreconcilable jobs gap. While it's nice that you had the incredible luck to pivot into a completely different field, that just doesn't matter here. You can't base an economy on every worker flipping heads ten times in a row.
> That's what I'm saying. Nobody in the pc OEM game has done that lately, that's why it has been so easy to be a OEM.

You're wrong. You seem to think that PC OEMs just order some parts and slap them together. That's no more true than "buy a bread slicer and you've got a biz".

Being a PC OEM has always been hard and the ones that have survived have innovated. (Consider Starbucks. Pouring coffee isn't their biz.)

Never confuse "I don't know what they do" with "they don't do anything".
This article is pure trash. App.net costs money, which naturally means that the service exists so that rich white men can use their considerable means ($4/month) to avoid poor people. The fact that this author turns the App.net project into a negative race and class argument is, quite frankly, mind-numbing.
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I find the tendency to repeat Microsoft's mistakes deeply disturbing. Even if, in this case, the author acknowledges PoweeShell goes too far, his own idea goes too far.

I'd be all in with flags that make ps or ls spit JSON or XML, but this typed nonsense? What when I want to output a color? Will I need a new type?

Oh... and the sort thing... its not hard to sort numerically.