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You seem to be getting down-voted. Sorry to see that.

My understanding is that SCOTUS could have OK'ed the particular instance (the film "Hillary") without broadly declaring money == speech and providing cover for PACs and super-PACs to keep their list of contributors secret.

I tried to find some links to backup/illuminate this, but I could not, and I may be wrong in my understanding of the actual details of the ruling.

Regarding corporations: My problem is not their size, but that money yields such political influence.

I loath the idea of limiting speech (modulo falsely yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, etc.) but when I read that the best predictor of election outcomes is looking at who spent the most money, I despair.

The best way I can come to terms with one possible solution is to consider that accepting democracy means you're already accepting assorted restrictions on your behavior. The idea of having to make your donors public in political speech, while distasteful, seems a reasonable way to help combat (or reduce) the influence of big money.

Given the nature of mass media and how people get information it's hard to have a properly functioning democracy when people are bombarded with propaganda, and attempts to counter that propaganda (even with other propaganda) require vast finances.

At the very least let people spend as much as they want on political ads but make the source of that money is public.
Your issue is a known issue with LTE. In spotty areas the phone keeps switching from LTE to 4G, and then when in 4G searches for LTE. The searching process, which requires powering separate radios for each protocol, is expensive power-wise. If you keep bouncing in and out of LTE this is bound to happen.
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"I'd argue that auto-complete, one of the major IDE/editor features, is alone responsible for most of the boost I get from coding in an environment. Instantly, thousands of symbols can move out of my brain and into a list that appears as I type."

This is exactly what I had in mind reading this article. My experience with IDEs and languages has been that they are, for the developer, orthogonal to one another. Throughout school I never even touched an IDE - ended up writing a 100KLOC+ program (C compiler) with a text editor and debugging using print statements, no debugger or anything. It was a ball of mud but it worked great.

Where IDEs have really helped me is for larger scale projects, especially where I integrate lots of new-to-me 3rd party libraries. Being able to contextually explore the namespace of the libraries without sorting through all the documentation is a huge time-saver. Refactoring is also a plus; I don't end up using the refactoring tools that often but Eclipse's refactoring beats find-replace any day.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, languages help developers implement algorithms and data structures. These tend to be the 2-by-4s and screws of software development; a high-quality language is a straight, square, well-finished set of building materials that are sized & shaped for the structure you're building. IDEs help explore namespace and refactor, they're your drills and saws. Understandably the building materials can influence how easy it is to work on them with high-powered tools, but from a development perspective, they're complements, not substitutes.
I think so. And it's probably something that will look very dated in a few short years.
The possibility of a ToS change is there, but that's a necessary risk. Right now, I'm in the clear.

The next major iteration of PicDigest will bypass the traditional social layer altogether, giving you a way to connect your loved ones directly to a forthcoming super-awesome camera app. Fully private (or as private as email can be).

Great question!
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That strategy works very well for Jeff Atwood, so I'd say you have something there.
Note that regarding the link part, the judgement specifically requested a link among other links on the UK site:

He proposed that instead of requiring the notice to be on the web page itself, it would be sufficient if there were a link provided from that to the notice. There are some links already provided. All that need be added is a link entitled " Samsung/Apple UK judgment." I think that would be appropriate and proportionate.
Well, the update here just broke 3G and no cellular data is working. Iphone 4. Dunno if it's my network provider's fault or the update's.
Amazing how people switch their principals regarding free markets when it suits them. Especially rich people.

When consumer protection laws are drawn up, they will be the "end of America". When financial institutions have bankrupted themselves, they "need to be protected". It's "progress" to prevent people from bringing food onto private property so that you can massively overcharge them for unhealthy foods. It's "gouging" to allow others to charge more when demand far exceeds supply in an emergency.

I agree that leaning solely on price in all circumstances is a poor way to balance supply and demand. And I don't want anyone to forget how this works when social sacrifices are demanded for "American success" in the future.
My iphone 5 has actually been impressive in terms of battery, lasting several days at a time.

Where are you physically located? I wonder if bad coverage could be affecting your experience.
Love Oliver Steele. His visualizations and work are really under appreciated in the world.

As someone who has crossed this divide (and I'd like to think, successfully) from Tool Maven (Eclipse) to Language Maven, I'd like to say that I much prefer being a Language Maven. As pleasant as navigating static types can be in a well-crafted system, I don't think this automatic navigability is worth the overhead. Taxonomy needs room to evolve, and at any point in time a statically typed system is making an (unjustified) assertion that yes, this time we have it right.

That said, I think there is quite a lot of room for inferring taxonomies from dynamically-typed languages (I'm thinking specifically of JavaScript, but also of Clojure and Python). After all, human programmers infer taxonomy all the time. And indeed, this inference has the great benefit of not even pretending to be set in stone, and is explicitly meta-data about your code, rather than insinuate itself into your code.

The future is bright and I look forward to seeing the new tooling that can give us the best of both worlds across a wide variety of languages. (I heard that Steve Yegge is working on something related to this that at Google.)
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I don't know the technical details, but I know this is trivial to do if you have Asterix setup to manage your POTS line.
> The idea is more to be an IFTTT/Zapier for developers but without limited inputs and outputs by Graphical User Interface.

Is a great description - a very clear value statement there.
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Why can email headers still be spoofed?
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To me its sad that "deep moments" have anything to do with Disneyland or any other manmade attraction, especially one designed to please Wall Street analysts and investors with an ever-increasing stream of profits, extracted from over-commercialized families seeking (corporate) entertainment. Maybe people should just plug into the Matrix for their deep moments and delicious steaks. Soon :)
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Good content. Thanks for sharing it rather than cowering before the self-publishing police.
Uber don't control the cars or employ the drivers, and can't force their drivers to be out on the street. They have a very good mechanism for ensuring supply during high demand: allow their drivers to charge more.

I see that it would be possible for them to have a hurricane fund which they would use to encourage the drivers to come out, but I don't think its fair to expect them to have expected this.

To be honest, I don't see this as gouging. Its a 2-sided marketplace, and there are pretty simple economics at play.
Nice systematic approach:

Draw a grid, with the models/nouns/objects on the one axis and the verbs/actions on the other. Fill in a square if you can perform the given action on the given object...If you can fill in every square, consider that a complete “block”, a good candidate for an API design.
Pretty sure this shouldnt be public...
Posting here because HN generally has responsible members that will handle this with respect

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The bad contracting experience was as a developer with an early-stage start-up. I was living in Canada and they were in the Valley.

That money, plus money saved during my time at Amazon, plus money my husband made contracting, was what we lived on. During 2011 my husband was a student and I stayed at home with my son (which is what most professionals do for the first year in Canada).

BabyList has been paying me a salary for the past year (which is awesome).
What makes apple what it is is the costumers, in essence the "branding strategy". The person holding the iPhone, they could care less about the rest.
I'm curious, what is the revenue model for babylist?
It's a population thing along with limited monetary resources.
This is especially true concerning the mind. The older we get the less open we are to new ideas. Once somebody is fully set in their ways it's almost impossible to change their mind without divine intervention. I just take this as a warning as somebody who is older to be open to change and be willing to embrace new ideas.
In Troxler Electronic Labs v. Pine Instrument Pine waited 5 years before suing, saying he didn't feel motivated to pursue the claim, and the judge found that insufficient reason. Symbol v. Lemelson found that the submarine patents were invalid due to laches.

It's easy to get lost in the law, though, so I'd love some specific citations that go the other way.
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Exactly. This is why I like 10/GUI as a compromise.

http://www.10gui.com/video/
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Err, exactly what makes those awards more real? Just how many people would concede the point?
Meh. What they really need to fix is Maps. In my family-and-friends ecosystem at least, that is the single reason NO devices have been updated to iOS 6 and nobody is buying any iPhone 5's. My rough guess that that represents about at least 30, if not 50 devices.

Is there a website somewhere that is tracking Apple Maps quality vs. Google Maps?

I know tons of people that have put updates and new-device purchases on hold due to Maps. I have a friend who owns a delivery company. All the drivers have iPhones. No updates, hardware or software. Apple Maps would turn his business upside-down.
How do I use typescript? I seem to be getting syntax errors.
I've had a saying recently. I'm making a lot of sacrifices in my 20's so that I'm established and ready to start a family in my 30's.
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My feeling is similar as your, that is, I consider my IDE to be something that helps me understand and inspect my code. Language features, on the other hand, helps me write code.
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Same old story as it is read on the linked site - opinions galore (like mine here of course). Article was not really my cup of joe as nearly all the arguments were speculative to say the least.
Citizens United didn't decide that money == speech. That was decided in a much earlier case called Buckley v. Valeo (1976).
Even if there is no additional supply available, there still could be some benefit.

If the price of gas were far higher, people may not fill up their tank all the way and only purchase what they really need. So instead of the first X people getting full tanks and the next Y people getting nothing from an empty gas station, in some scenarios everyone could get a smaller amount.

However, the issue of poor people not having access at higher prices is still a problem. It may be better served by having the government step in to provide each person $Z in gas money (paid for by a tax on "gouging") rather than an outright gouging ban.
If room-temperature superconducting ever becomes a reality, then each car will be loaded with a SMES unit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energy...) that charges instantly.
Seems like the main alternative to increasing prices is `it's not sustainable for us to run at all until this is cleaned up'.

Is that a suitable alternative?
Hopefully not too many sacrifices though. Life should be about much more than creating new life. The 20s is the time to focus on yourself.
My idea of non-distracted driving is fairly simple - just driving and that is all. A 'old timey' roadster with no radio even would be interesting. Just driving.
They must have had some other differentiator. Looking at the product's home page it looks like they had support from Nike and several well known football clubs to promote and legitimize the app:

http://iamplayr.com/

Now, obviously, they still had to build a compelling product and plan & execute a marketing strategy. They needed to be ready to succeed. Most people don't have a personal or professional network that includes access to decision-makers in large, influential organizations. Even so they still need to be prepared for that opportunity if and when their network expands.
> The older we get the less open we are to new ideas.

I agree with this point of view insofar as that's the behavior we usually observe in most people. I think it's also true that it is possible to stay open-minded your whole life and never get stuck in one way of doing things. It's not easy though, and of course we all develop habits over the course of our lives which can be very hard to shake off.
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> Can anyone explain, or point to a resource that explains, why this is still the case in 2012?

This wikipedia article has a reasonable summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
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Yes you're right, we are already working on this platform for easy API integration to Webshell. News about it soon.

But for the moment you can share with us your API by sharing a WADL of it and make a pull-request on our Github http://github.com/webshell
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The "Supercharger" already works pretty well. It's the first attempt at such a thing. I would expect that maybe subsequent attempts would be even better?

So I don't understand why you are saying "the only way they can possibly make sense" is if the batteries are swappable. There is already sort of an existence proof otherwise, in California, right now.
> I think it's also true that it is possible to stay open-minded your whole life and never get stuck in one way of doing things.

What you do is be open-minded in your 20s. Then you get "set in the way" of being open-minded, never to change that.
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It really depends on how deep these things are. When it comes to certain matters such as faith, family values or even programming habits they're much harder to change. Sure, anybody can try sushi for the first time when they're 50.
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This job is ideal for someone who loves to travel for fun (the position does not require travel, but a fulfilling life does, and one of our great perks is a yearly travel stipend). No arbitrary requirements here, if you are an expert or a least have a hacking willingness to learn and have a good attitude, we want you. Our team is small, and all opinions are considered (and frankly, needed) from product design through delivery.
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This is all moot any ways. Town cars are allowed to pick up any passengers during the crisis. Effectively unleashing a whole lot more supply. As well town cars and yellow cabs are now allowed to pick up multiple passengers going to different locations while continuing to run the first passengers meter. I don't agree with this policy at all. You try getting an Uber car on a Saturday night it's not "surge pricing" when something goes up 3x times, it's just disgusting even more so during the current situation.
I'm hopeful that through Disney the series will get an awesome reboot. Look how good the Marvel Comics movies have been since the Disney acquisition in 2009.

(Iron Man 2, Captain America, The Avengers all awesome)
Oh yeah, I thought of it the other day.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539954
Contra: you only live once. The risk with spending so much of your youth building for a future - in essence, living for the tomorrow you're trying to create - is that you won't want it when you get there.

When you're young, you're at the point at which you most likely have fewer worries of any kind than you will in the rest of your life. And you won't appreciate this until it's gone. A slightly more advanced career is a poor substitute.

I'm not arguing in favour of feckless youth. In fact, you should be serious about one thing - not wasting your time. But building a career that you abandon in your 30s or 40s may also be a waste of time.
Interesting read with some good links. I must confess that I read this headline initially as Freakonomics as An Alternative to Democracy. I clicked through to see what that would have been about. Could have been good times.
It's good for employers they don't have to pay out stored up PTO days and they can keep whatever real soft limit they want in their heads that they set culturally as the management.

It's also good for employees in that I don't have to haggle over PTO whenever I want to take a vacation.

Haggling with your employer over time off is terrible. It's a poor experience--I shouldn't lose 3 days off of Christmas vacation just because my butt wasn't in my chair an additional 8 hours during the previous 11.5 months.
The unfortunate thing is people need to use maps in order for maps to get better. I can already see few locations being corrected. But for now, looks like Apple's got a chicken and egg problem.
Congdon also points out that it is possible to both a language maven and a tool maven. True in theory, just as it’s possible in principle to become both a concert pianist and mathematician, but in practice there may not be enough hours in the day to do both.

Tell that to Tom Lehrer.

Virtually all of the best hackers I can think of eschew IDEs and would be narratized as "language mavens", but they are very particular about their tools, have a set of favored tools, and engage in toolsmithing to extend their reach. Accordingly they select languages in which it is easy to build new tools. (In the past these were usually C, shell, awk, and later Perl; nowadays Python and Ruby are the strongest candidates.)

This dichotomy exists only when you consider programmers whose main goal is to solve problems that fit into a finite number of well-known categories. When a programmer is regularly confronted with problems of unknown scope and complexity and needs a way to dynamically extend his reach, he gravitates to an approach like I described above.