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I remember reading about him a few years back. (I think the link might even have come from memepool.com) His story was and remains my favourite example of practical aid in Africa. Skill, not money. Pragmatism, not ideology. Long-term cure, not palliative treatment. I'm sure you're honoured to count him among your friends.
This is a complete disruption of the equipercussive human transport space.
Maybe this will help?

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/mobile/top-10-web-developm...

Try finding other similar apps on the Play Store. Also I suggest asking in:

http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev
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I wrote an overview of web technologies up for my friend Kate. :) Let me know what you guys think!
Sure it is. And I'll bet if you look through your archives you'll find that you made the same assurances about PHPFOG...
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It is not nearly as pervasive but there are BSDs used in embedded devices (or more commonly, IT "appliances"). Neither of you have offered an actual counter example - such as a BSD/Apache/MIT licensed software that was ruthlessly exploited or that died off because no one would share their code. In fact my experience has been that communities using those licenses are also very open to sharing and they are thriving in that environment.
The Chunnel was also built by governments with contractors, subcontractors, sub-sub contractors and so on.

With SpaceX Elon has demonstrated an ability to reduce costs by a factor of 10 in large part by eliminating the use of contractors. If you look on the PandoDaily interview, just before the Hyperloop is discussed he was railing on about how inefficient the 405 highway expansion is. I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks that he could save an even bigger factor in that kind of public work than he did with SpaceX.

I'm not saying that he's right. I'm saying that his cost projections are extremely unlikely to start with existing construction projects as a base line.
I'm familiar with the ideology, I was hoping for some relevant counter-examples related to "less free" licenses and issues that has caused.
To quote Shakespeare "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Fighting extradition was one thing, but asylum from Ecuador has me fairly convinced there is more to the change than I originally thought.
Surely you've heard of Medicare?
Winning over the masses doesn't necessarily benefit from politeness or moderation, however, depending on the circumstances. Take the example of the French Revolution. The moderates had very little appeal among the masses, but instead appealed mainly to the liberal portion of the educated classes, and some of the very left portion of the aristocracy. This was important, because those classes had money and had some power, but it was hardly mass appeal.

The most popular group among the masses was the most extreme and uncouth, the sans-culotte faction that appealed to the poor working classes who wanted to guillotine the king and all the aristocrats and expropriate their estates. Hence the popularity with the masses of the Hébertist magazine Père Duchesne, which was distinguished mainly by its extremely angry tone, radical demands, and for being the first widely printed publication to use something roughly translating to "fuck" in almost every article. A vaguely representative article, entitled "Fuck the Pope": http://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/hebert/179...

Now that strategy might not work in all countries and eras, and in this case there doesn't seem to be public anger about patents ready to boil to the surface that anyone could tap into. But I'm not sure there's any inherent link between appeal to the masses and polite centrism.
While my credit card company and bank allow me to purchase online without the intrusion and privacy violations that PayPal regularly insists on, I continue to see no reason to use PayPal.
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I usually, in all seriousness, search for "Judge Judy" and "Jerry Springer" on youtube, surf through a few videos, and get some perspective.
And 24-hour Met stakeout outside the embassy, cost running into the millions, is standard for an arrest warrant?
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In the last two or three months I've found it increasingly difficult to find new postings under their titles on my Usenet provider. I wasn't sure initially if it was their search function that was broken/corrupted, but asking Helpdesk doesn't help when they cut you off if you ask for assistance on copyrighted material. Finding another term that doesn't give replies but that should be there, as an alternative, is rather tough.
The SaaS "loophole" which I assume you are referring to (i.e. accessing software through Web APIs) was covered by the Affero GPL (AGPL) but not the plain vanilla GPLv3. Personally, I consider the fact that the GPLv3 didn't try to forestall this type of usage without invoking copyleft provisions a positive. But I realize not everyone agrees.
I have no more ability to control my reality than the phase of the Moon. It's like I cannot control my legs.

God says...
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coping of wax, the bees can cluster and crawl over the comb without
injuring the delicate hexagonal walls. These walls, as Professor Miller
has kindly ascertained for me, vary greatly in thickness; being, on an
average of twelve measurements made near the border of the comb, 1/352 of
an inch in thickness; whereas the basal rhomboidal plates are thicker,
nearly in the proportion of three to two, having a mean thickness, from
twenty-one measurements, of 1/229 of an inch. By the above singular man
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The Supreme Court banned software patents 40 years ago
This could be good news for farmers who could perhaps create a closed loop within greenhouses to draw water from the air that the plants originally exhaled.
I wonder if its because the modulus operator (the obvious way to solve it) isn't something you use all the time for basic CRUD applications?

As an example i'm working on a largish codebase (100,000 lines) right now now and a quick grep shows only 4 uses of it, all of which are in a jQuery plugin.
It's what I call "screening" failure. The wrong person was brought into the interview for the wrong position. When somebody fails fizzbuzz, this is 100% the fault of the hiring company/recruiter. Fizzbuzz is not a test, it's a "Lets get comfortable before the interview starts in earnest" type question. If you are a proficient developer, and you aren't able to nail that in your sleep, then somebody made a huge mistake bringing you in for an interview.

Our company has recently started doing (developer) screening by doing online real time coding, where the candidate get the opportunity to solve some real-time problems in their vertical, with whatever tools/compilers they are comfortable with (Java/Python/C/C++ and MAC Layer, PHY Layer, SQL, UI Frameworks, etc..) before they are brought in for an interview.

Nobody fails fizzbuzz in our interviews, and it means nobody is wasting interviewing time doing screening anymore.
No, we have ideas on how to do this. There will be a lot of engineering and research before it's real and reliable.
> I think one of the reasons the torrent protocol is not built-in is that it's simply more complicated and the user experience is not as good.

That's self-fulfilling - if it were built into the browser, there's no reason you'd really have to know.

(Presumably you wouldn't run into the "zero-seeders" problem if the servers acted as seeders - they're currently serving 100% of the file anyway (without torrenting), so torrenting would only reduce that.)
Should not matter.
The server should only send compressed data if the clients sends a request with the header "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate", which indicates that there is support for compressed responses.
With this approach, how do you ensure that a higher intermediate precision does not result in reduced accuracy due to double rounding?
I solved problem. It's the way the device connects with the USB - as a media (MTP) device. I did it over FTP with an app and when copy/pasting folder/files I needed, it worked.
I think part of the problem is that many of them just get more headlines as a result of their weirdness. There are plenty of people fighting these fights without being insane, Schneier for one.
http://www.schneier.com/

You just don't hear him being accused of raping anyone, that's all.
What's interesting to note is that Sweden doesn't extradite for political crimes. So, legally, there's nothing that Assange has to worry about. Honestly, the more I looked at it the more I started to wonder if he was just being paranoid.
Wow, thanks for the insight. Sounds like an 8A business could be lucrative...
This is awesome, a long time ago I had a series of conversations with a friend who took the time to help me connect the dots all the way from "why are magnets bad for computers?" to the Internet, mapping everything in between. Very nice of you to share your gift with the rest of this, I definitely have some family members who will enjoy it.
Actual paper:
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1170

Abstract: "A consequence of the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle is that one may not discuss the path or “trajectory” that a quantum particle takes, because any measurement of position irrevocably disturbs the momentum, and vice versa. Using weak measurements, however, it is possible to operationally define a set of trajectories for an ensemble of quantum particles. We sent single photons emitted by a quantum dot through a double-slit interferometer and reconstructed these trajectories by performing a weak measurement of the photon momentum, postselected according to the result of a strong measurement of photon position in a series of planes. The results provide an observationally grounded description of the propagation of subensembles of quantum particles in a two-slit interferometer."

Relevant concept: "weak measurement" (wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_measurement ).

I don't know enough quantum mechanics to understand it, but I do know enough to know that the Nature summary is hype.
Sure, but it's not obvious what numbers can be represented exactly and which can't, and since the numbers get rounded on output to look exact, you can easily be misled into thinking that 0.1 can be represented.
Does it work with mobile browsers?
Not without heavy js code
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HN works pretty well ;)

But yeah, promoting the thing is a big part of "the thing", and requires its own strategy.
I like what Cliff Stoll had to say about this... "The first time you do something it’s science. The second time it’s engineering. A third time it’s just being a technician" -- Ted Talks, 18 minutes with an agile mind.
Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history
YC Combinator
We all know that YC doesn't have 100% success rate. Some of those startups fail, which is normal. My question is, what happens to those that fail? Is being a YC alumni helpful to one's career or does it only help when you start your own company?
So I posted this not because I support the post, but because I first took it as satire, but learning from the author and editor that it's meant seriously, I find this horrendously cynical and offensive as someone who is a repeat startup founder. Maybe I am missing something but I cannot buy the idea that startupland benefits from MBAs following this advice from the post:

"Calling or emailing the CEO of a startup — even though he is a complete stranger — and insisting that he meet with you so that you can tell him why his company is fucked without you being part of his life, then demanding a compensation package rife with equity from his ESOP along with a market salary may appear far-fetched…"

Parasitic if you ask me. (and unlike some folks on here I'm a huge fan of PD and find them to be far more startup/entrepreneur friendly than most of the tech media)
Whenever I'm stuck fixing a horrid mess of buggy legacy code, it always strikes me that the code was someone else's idea of "good enough".

That's why I no longer subscribe to that mantra.
we all many things, but most don't apply. Most of the knowledge is common sense but its really not very common.
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So glad you enjoyed it! :) Would love to know any parts you'd like to see further expanded or ways this could be improved.
It's because the government strategically makes example cases of the least sympathetic individuals. Why do you think all of the anti-privacy legislation is deployed first against child pornographers?
I am also a CTO for a small startup in Seattle. We now have an engineering team of 4 and I find myself oscillating between playing these roles. At this stage, I have to make sure I don't ignore either position.

If I ignore coding, I begin to feel detached from the product we are developing. It becomes easy to lose interest in the quality of what is being produced. On the other hand if I ignore the managing aspect, we become a much less effective team.

Sometime later this year we will be growing and I wonder if and when it will be appropriate to drop coding altogether and start developing my management skills with 100% focus.
> - Iowa has voted Democratic in 5 out of 6 presidential elections (now 6 out of 7). - Iowa was the second (or third) state to legalize gay marriage. - First woman lawyer in the US emanated from Iowa. - 4 out 5 Iowans live in cities. - Des Moines was ranked 1st richest metropolitan area and 2nd happiest in the country (not sure by what metric or source here, my apologies)

I am not American but I find it surprising that almost all the things you mentioned seem to have nothing to do with intellectualism (at best, they are weakly correlated).
Except that before "just supporting Linux (and maybe MacOS)" was the thing to do, it was "just support Sun (and maybe HP-UX)". And before that, it was "just support BSD/Vax (and maybe SVR2)".

So, when you take a broader view than "just support what everyone uses", you're not just helping niche platforms -- you're future-proofing.
Great resource. Something that's worked well for me is optimizing landing pages based on the prior page after thorough A/B testing. For example, we determined that most visits through Facebook/Twitter were by teenagers, so we optimized the landing page to appeal to college and high school students with relatable imagery. For visits from affiliate publishers or search, we optimized our landing page with a more general value prop. Etc.
> Grand projects fail all the time. Open source projects die. Web communities die. Clubs wind down. Sporting teams disband. I write this so you can angrily tell me that I'm wrong: tell me what's so bad about a tech startup failing in 2012?

Nobody cares about startups themselves, because they are not people. This story is about a person who failed, not a intangible corporate entity. Have some empathy for a kindred spirit, at a bad point in their (fictional) life.
You manually do what an automated system would do, so it's indistinguishable to users. You are the implementation of the specification of your system - which enables quicker iteration of the specification. If you need responses from users, you can make up a webpage form (e.g. that emails the form details to you).
It’s time to kill ‘online’. And buy clean milk.
The Microsoft .NET framework makes some claims of being like that. There is a grain of truth in the claims, but also some big gaps in practice. You can mix different .NET languages that all compile to the CLR virtual machine. For example, F# code can call C# code and vice versa.

But if you're looking to do cross-language like that, you have to know a lot about both languages and place some constraints on yourself.

I don't really see .NET as a viable implementation of your vision, but I wanted to at least point out that it does make those claims in case you were unaware.
More than the threat of extradition to the US and a Guantanamo vacation?
Shell is general purpose (perhaps even more so than Java or Python), when you look at it from the perspective that programs are simply functions you call and get a result from, or which perform additional computation.
Would a small source url still have benefit when there are thousands of unique domains possible? I think it would be ignored by most people.
if by "route around the problem" you mean "extract money from the broken system" then I would agree. Otherwise I'd need to be convinced with examples.
I've been creating web sites since 1994, but still I learned some new things from this short piece.
Well, to be precise, it's 2.4GHz and 902-928MHz, so, for completeness, you'll want to chase down both of them. (I spend a lot of time on 902-928 MHz at 1 Watt. )
My new interview-screening question will be "solve fizzbuzz without using division or modulus". Because it's still so easy that you don't want to hire anyone who can't do it.
No demo in sight, would love to see this working in a small demo. :)

Edit: Tried this but it isn't working: http://jsfiddle.net/fPTTz/5/
I think it's still a valid viewpoint. "Good enough" is an opinion and just like all opinions, some are more valid than others. There's a range between "good enough" and "perfect" where plenty of very good products exist.

Also, there's the possibility that the horrid mess of buggy legacy code (been there, I feel your pain) wasn't someone's idea of "good enough" in a technical sense but rather "good enough so that my boss doesn't notice." I've had the displeasure of working with those individuals before. They don't care about getting better at coding—they care about flying under the radar and collecting their biweekly paycheck.
Like it's your last chance to do it
Sure, you could try to treat everything like an object and then find out if an integer was an object (the hard way) or you could just RTFM (the easy way).

Don't get me wrong, experimentation is a great for learning about limitations and capabilities; but I personally wouldn't use it as my primary means for learning about the design of something (unless it was very poorly documented, in which case I would try to avoid using it at all).
That's a little callous, no (even if it is a fictional character)? Imagine if everything you worked for over the last 5 year dried up, and you had for some reason to go back to life as a salaryman. Not the end of the world probably, but you'd be pretty depressed.

The lack of empathy in this thread bothers me.
Ignoring scaling issues, I don't see how they could compete with radio, in terms of informational and artistic value. If their premise is that radio is simply content read out loud, then that is a vast underestimation of the polish and narrative structure that radio producers add to a broadcast.

Most radio anchors ARE qualified to be professional voice actors. But a great radio report is not just great writing, but a different form of writing.
I see your point but what I'm trying to do with my site Skim That[1] is actually convey nearly all the information in a source story. So, if you just read the summary and someone else reads the source, you should both be able to have a conversation on the same level.

[1] http://skimthat.com
Or lets the courts do it via CLS vs Alice:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121013192858600#c...
Thanks! I learned some and the parts I knew already I couldn't have put it any better
Exactly this happened to me once (with me playing the role of NG). MG and CC were the same person (a founder).

Hilarity ensued, for very large values of 2.
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Who is Paul Grugman? Did you mean Krugman?
Yes, I think this is absolutely important. Without knowing this, I would assume it was a crazy idea by former news operatives who think only content matters, not the logistics needed to efficiently execute on service. If it's ex-techies, then I wonder if they are misjudging what makes for compelling listening.
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Well, I actually submitted a pull-request almost a year ago but it was rejected for "complexity"...

I didn't understand that decision back then and I don't understand it today. The patch weighs in at about 100 lines which doesn't seem heavy to me. Especially when you consider that without the patch the bootstrap-"modal" is not a modal...

Anyway, here's the fixed bootstrap-modal.js for the version that was current back then:

https://gist.github.com/0d04646ab6cf4df50610

Line 23-82 is the important bit, that snippet is lifted nearly 1:1 from jquery.ui.dialog which fixed this issue ages ago. Beyond that there's only a couple lines of glue code.

Feel free to port this forward to the current version (or better-modal). Personally I've stopped using the javascript parts of bootstrap because I don't want to maintain forks for basic bugs like that.
Is there a non-mathematical version of the FizzBuzz test?
He's not not accused of rape, actually.
I think most of OP's arguments are spot on, but I think it's likely to be an elevated system installed over the center divider of the (mostly very straight and very flat) I-5 corridor. Tunneling that distance just isn't feasible at the stated cost.

(I expound at greater length here: http://franking.tumblr.com/post/36241325898/my-personal-spec...)
Would have been interesting, but no way I am reading anything that requires clicking through some crappy facebook redirector after showing a 'teaser text'.
Ask HN: As a freelancer, how do you ensure clients pay?
What steps do you take to ensure clients pay you on time and what actions do you take when they don't?
This is interesting, and a good read, but I'd suggest that being elected in an election that's nothing more than one gigantic mutual smear campaign is less like succeeding and more like helping someone else fail.

Winning, to me at least, implies that you have done something and that the result of your actions placed you above your competition. These guys didn't compete at anything aside from who could generate the most bad publicity for the "opponent."

That just doesn't strike me as the kind of action deserving of words like "success" or "winner."
I actually do agree with you, especially your last sentence. Certain groups in the government are very organized and they are definitely capable of some of the conspiracies that go around. The problem, in my experience, is most conspiracy theories/theorists accuse this non-existant, single entity called the "government," which is so organized and has control over everything that goes on. If you take 9/11 for example, how many different groups of the government would have to be involved to pull something like that off? I just don't see how it would be possible to have so many people keep their mouths shut, have different departments work together, while pulling off one of the most horrific attacks on the USA.

Wire-tapping and creating digital profiles on the other hand is something that I can totally see happening since nobody is really getting "hurt" and you can split up the work between different groups of people that really have no idea what they are working on. But I do not see something like that happening to satisfy some end-goal like gaining control of the public. I don't think we humans can organize that well. There are too many groups with their own interests in mind to be able to unite an entity as big as our government (or parts of it) to pull off most of the conspiracies that go around.
Today was the inaugural meeting of a software craftsmanship group at my company. One of our members had a strong concern about metrics for measuring improvement. My response was that "improvement" or "getting better" is too nebulous a concept, so it depends on how you measure adherence to a set of values.

Does anyone have a more concrete approach to metrics of improvement? Or a better way to articulate this concept?
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