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He said he supports some version of Stop & Frisk. I don't want to get into another semantics argument with you.
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The law already clearly addresses the issue of when invading privacy is allowed. See the concepts of public figure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure) and reasonable expectation of privacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_privacy).
Nobody made AIG accept the bailout. They could have walked away.

It's fortunate that even with the short attention spans of today, the word "AIG" is now synonymous with "fuck up".

They should have waited another year or two.
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> I support the "Stop & Frisk" practice for finding concealed weapons on individuals that shouldn't have them, for all other cases (drugs, etc.) it is not in society's best interest.

So, the practice is OK if in hindsight it turns out that the person being frisked had a gun, but is BAD if it turns out they didn't?
I'm curious if an app like this could have gotten traction if it wasn't put out by a shop like Fog Creek. In other words, if some guy built this in his basement, would anybody have noticed, no matter how great?
strangely refreshing to read this on HN
This was on the homepage less than 24 hours ago but from the New York Times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5024900 — from what I can see they're basically saying the same thing. The whole situation is messed up, if they proceed I'm sure it'll rattle a few birdcages in Washington.
That's gold. I've been using "clear" this whole time and hated it, particularly since I'm used to "cls" from MS-DOS. So, for me, the way to clear the screen was:

cls <enter>
clear<enter>

lol.

I see Cmd + K on the menu now, but I guess I wasn't curious enough to poke around. Thanks a bunch.
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After all, you knowingly are taking money (or the opportunity thereof) from the host, have all the upside of your relationship and then burden no cost, why do you get that right?

Because you chose to present it that way in hopes of maximizing your revenue. Maybe you would be better off using a paywall. Personally, I don't think it's so simple in terms of all upside, since I may jsut as easily visit a content provider only to have my time wasted by copypasta or inaccurate reporting or whatever. Frankly, I would rather consume fewer products of higher quality, and am willing to pay not to have to look at advertising, but no simple mechanism exists for me to opt out from the ad-supported model on most sites.

Lets not specify any particular brand or types of advertising for the sake of discussion, all advertising is just advertising.

Not from my perspective. I'm quite willing to have products or services suggested to me in the form of advertising, but I'm not willing to be shouted at with garish visuals, distracting animations, or misleading taglines. I think there's a great deal to be said for the strict guidelines that Google imposes on adwords advertisers.

You may not distinguish between different kinds of advertising as a content provider, because the revenue it generates is fungible. I care a great deal about it as a content consumer because it imposes a time cost upon, which is highly variable depending on the content of the advertising.
That's the joke ...
No Cyanogenmod for that device? I had a Fascinate which I believe is Verizon's version of original Samsung S, went to Gingerbread and Jelly Bean well ahead of Verizon's OTA updates.
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I bet switching to a different keyboard layout would do wonders. I would wager that doing that would slow down your thought->words output stream enough to alter it.
That's a plausible explanation, but I'm not sure I totally buy it. Chicago is the #2 financial center in the country, arguably the #2 legal center, home to major pharma companies, and just chock full of old industrial money. Yet, real estate in the Northside is a lot cheaper than many cities that are far less dominated by finance/law/medicine money. Houston is full of oil and CEO money and is also quite cheap. What's the difference between Chicago/Houston and say Seattle? Wealth? Or housing regulation?
Patient survives, sues doctor. Happens all the time.
Not so idiotic if you know the owner. It is done by Heroku's Ruby team

http://hone.heroku.com/bundler%20heroku/2012/10/22/rubygems-...
The acceptance of this seems to vary towards the reliability and availability of transport (both personal and public) amongst other factors. Here in London where train frequency can be as little as 90 seconds but compensation payable to punters only if the service is greater than 15 minutes late - "stuck on the tube (with no phone reception)" is almost always an acceptable excuse.

In Tokyo, given as your employer usually pays for your train fare and the train service is notorious for being punctual and reliable, you're expected on time and if you're not, the rail company usually issues on paper an apology like this http://traininfo.jreast.co.jp/delay_certificate/pop.aspx?D=2... .
This is exactly what I was thinking of when I saw the article. I was impressed by how obvious it seemed after having read about it.
For some reason, I never could do the exercises of programming books. When I started them, in the end I had a completely different program that solved something that affects me.

I also could never read a programming book from the start to the end. When I used the language a lot and used the book as reference, I read all the pages somewhen in a several months interval, and in some random order. When I didn't use the language a lot, I just didn't finish the book.

Nowadays the best reference is online, so while books are still good for giving me a start, there is a long time that I don't finish one.
If you want to help fund open source rocket engines (and space capsules, launch capabilities, rockets, etc.) you should consider donating some money to Copenhagen Suborbitals.

They have a pretty good track record, and have actually managed to launch a life-size dummy in a homemade rocket.

http://copenhagensuborbitals.com/
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I have spent a decade or more building up a reputation. Part of that is a good thing. Part of that, I am still trying to live down.

If "make a cool thing" were easy, I wouldn't need to ask. I have done some very cool things. I don't know how to turn that into some kind of "product" (for lack of a better word, because it galls me to use that one since it was a favorite of someone incredibly disrespectful who liked spitting in my face about how my work is "worthless" and "not monetizable", though they found it personally life changing).

I am still trying to wrap my brain around a few things and I am very clear that there are logistical challenges inherent in some of my goals. In other words, some of this is not me, it is the nature of the beast of what I wish to do. I sometimes wish to god I could stop being me and just become some money grubbing type, and to hell with my personal values, etc. But after 47 years of being me, it seems I am very unlikely to stop being me. Besides, it seems sort of boring to take that approach. I think it would be fun to pull off my goals. :-)

But thank you for replying.
It's such a shame that a really well-written and somewhat thought out opinion piece is dragged down by the low quality comments from people who don't know what they're talking about. That and the fact FP force you to create a free account to read an article.
I agree, this is a dangerous sentiment.

Whether money is involved or not, for a framework, developers should either be committed to their products or not.

If this was a different sort of product then that limitation of not getting paid might carry some weight, but when you encourage people to develop on top of your platform and when it is shown to have egregious flaws there is no excuse. You either get to work fixing them or you tell the world to stop using your framework because it's broken and not going to be fixed.

Fortunately, the Rails devs are seriously committed to their product, which is why these fixes came out so quickly.

Edit: The Rails team is certainly deserving of many thanks, but they don't get a pass on problems just 'cause they work for free. Similarly, if someone gives me a free car I will thank them, but if that car starts a fire in the garage and burns down my house I will curse them too.
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At this stage with the vulnerability publicly and widely reported - demonstrating an attack vector that involves seemingly harmless code is perfectly acceptable. Not everyone understands the magic involved and it would be able to spot exploitable code.
I think we would do better to follow Bhutan's lead and start using some metrics along the lines of Gross National Happiness in our analysis of how our country (and world) is doing. Ultimately metrics like GDP are only meaningful to our interests to the extent that they indicate the quality of life and sustainability of improved quality of life for people. We lose sight of where the real underlying value lies far too often.
Installs just fine here on OSX 10.8.2

% uname -a
Darwin xxx 12.2.1 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.1: Thu Oct 18 16:32:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.20.9~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

% sudo pip install howdoi
Password:
Downloading/unpacking howdoi
Downloading howdoi-0.2.tar.gz
Running setup.py egg_info for package howdoi

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyquery in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from howdoi)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): lxml>=2.1 in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from pyquery->howdoi)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): cssselect in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from pyquery->howdoi)
Installing collected packages: howdoi
Running setup.py install for howdoi

Installing howdoi script to /usr/local/bin
Successfully installed howdoi
Cleaning up...

Maybe file a bug with what happens when you try?
The examples you've given for voluntary deals not being OK were for protected classes. There's no such protections for companies who have run their company into the ground and need a bailout. Agreeing to a deal, no matter how onerous the contractual requirements is perfectly legal if you're not a protected class, and AIG was not a protected class.

Even given that, a 14% interest rate and being asked to pay back contractually obligated debt don't seem to be onerous. Companies (and individuals) with poor creditworthiness are asked to do that all the time. It's certainly not a historically onerous agreement, and it's in-line with the returns investors were seeking for similarly risky investments at that time.
Well this should be fun to data mine.
If you never learned it, how do you know if a language is good for solving a problem?

I often choose a random language for solving a small problem, so that I can learn it. It's often not the best language for the problem, but it shows what the language is good for.

For me a monolithic resource is great for getting started in a language, but most books are too deep, so I normaly don't finish them.
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Made me want to watch office space again :P
A number of the sponsoring orgs will grant you access to their zonefiles if you're willing to do a little paperwork (HelloFax is awesome) and have a valid reason for access. Granted it's not the complete list of registered domains (those without nameservers on file won't show up), but it's pretty close.

The list of sponsoring orgs for each TLD is at: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
A harmless payload can be absolutely trivially turned into a malicious payload.

I intend to share some details about this later on, but not so soon after the vulnerability is announced. There has to be a reasonable amount of time allowed for people to patch their servers.
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As a college age person, I'm glad this isn't an issue in tech. As far as I know.
Doesn't the government own 92% of the company? How can the company make any decision they don't approve of? Did they buy 92% and have no voting power?
What do you advise the Chinese government should do in regard to bailing out consistently under performing fiscal entities who blame the person lending them money for their financial woes?
Cost/benefit.

There are always going to be security holes in anything we make. We can be a bank and focus two feet ahead on making sure everything is as secure as possible, or stay aware of security (and not do anything stupid) while moving fast enough that any flaws are irrelevant/fixed when exposed.

It also highly depends on how much risk you're willing to accept. For the average rails app, absolute security is not as important as moving fast. Be an adult and make adult decisions about your tools and processes to suit your circumstances.
I think that this headline a bit misleading. AIG is legally required to consider it because their former CEO is a huge shareholder and is demanding that they consider it. Since it has potential shareholder benefit they have to hear him out.

NPR's Marketplace covered this story tonight and provide a bit of context:

"[Henry Hu, a law professor at the University of Texas and a former SEC regulator] says AIG’s board has an obligation to consider the lawsuit because of shareholder interests, “but they should also consider the costs of this in terms of their relationship with the regulators.”

Don’t forget, AIG is the company that just started running ads saying -- no joke -- “Thank you America.”

A spokesman for the New York Fed said the allegations have no merit because bankruptcy was AIG’s only alternative. That would have wiped out shareholders entirely.

[Phil Angelides, who chaired the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission] thinks the board shouldn’t consider this lawsuit for more than a minute.

...

AIG issued a written statement today saying it will follow the law and consider the suit. In earlier email to Marketplace, an AIG spokesman declined to comment. Though he did say Thank You."

Source: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/aig-thanks-bailou...
GM's is cool too because they have an API that allows you to remotely get vehicle data through Onstar. This allows approved apps to get data like fuel level, vehicle alarm alerts, oil life, fuel economy, remote start/stop, location, speed and direction etc. Not sure Ford has anything like that..
I'm not rich, but I'm old enough not to have to worry about $25 here and there. For this project, I did give $250, which was the amount needed to get it across the line on the last day. Most projects are only $10-$50. Here's my list:

http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/982897515

Personally, I find it very satisfying to give to a worthwhile project. I live near NYC where it costs $30-$40 for two people to go to a movie with refreshments. In many ways, Kickstarter is money better spent.
That's a binary way of looking at it. While what you say is 100% true it is the exact way of thinking that is destroying the music industry.

You cannot make something that can be easily digitized prohibitively expensive and think that it will somehow stop access. That is a laughable notion. Great demand will cause it to be redistributed.

"Forced" is obvious hyperbole and I think you know that.
Anti-vaccination madness?
You can set git up to push to multiple repos.
The problem I have is the study didn't fully factor in road layout/design. Highway 85 here in the Valley spans from the south Valley up to 101 in Mountain View. Within months of opening, it was a recurring traffic jam. Boom or bust in the valley, traffic let up a little in the bust, but the road is congested pretty much from 6:30am until 9:30/10am in the morning. Intersections of 85/280/101/237 at the north end impact traffic northbound in the morning. 85/280 impacts southbound in the evening.

Again - patterns persisted during both the last two booms and busts.

It is more than just a "small group of drivers".
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One possible backup would be Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/).

(I'm not affiliated Bitbucket in any way. I don't profit from them doing well, aside from them sticking around to keep providing free hosting for me.)
>If you have a circumstance where 2 lanes are merging into 1 lane, merge as late as possible. It sounds counterproductive, but it's actually best for traffic as a whole.

I think it's important to stress the caveats of that recommendation.

It applies to heavy, congested (as opposed to flowing or merely partially congested) traffic with a merge that is orderly, zipper-like.

So, don't just merge as late as possible. Rather, when faced with heavy, congested traffic perform an orderly merge, as late as possible.
HTC Thunderbolt here ... but the same problem. I bought what was supposed to be the next big thing, but next time I'll wait and buy what is the big thing.
I used to work with a guy who used to lock the door, anyone who showed up late had to knock on the window and get begged to be let in, it disturbed the meeting enough to chastised the late person with a disappointed frown or jibes from the rest of the team. Very few people arrived late to his meetings, and when you where going to be late you'd let him know.
Deleting a folder will delete everything inside the folder?
If a large shareholder insisted they build a moon base, would they be required to consider that, too?

This is approximately as reasonable.
Good points. I like the common-sense approach. Much better than rigid code guidelines that specify precisely when and where how much whitespace goes. If you read a lot of code you'll read code formatted with a lot of minor differences. It's good to get used to that. There are a lot of right ways of doing it.
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Reminds me of the costly executive conference retreat they took after the bailout:

Less than a week after the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out AIG, executives of the giant AIG insurance company headed for a week-long retreat at a luxury resort and spa, the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California, Congressional investigators revealed today.

"Rooms at this resort can cost over $1,000 a night," Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) said this morning as his committee continued its investigation of Wall Street and its CEOs.

AIG documents obtained by Waxman's investigators show the company paid more than $440,000 for the retreat, including nearly $200,000 for rooms, $150,000 for meals and $23,000 in spa charges

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5973452&page=1#.U...
Clojure Doc is easier since it doesn't require a CA.

IRC (#clojure and #clojure-doc on Freenode) is good for coordinating with other contributors.
Hmm, looking around I am thinking that if you don't want random object instantiation, this monkey-patch:

module YAML; @@tagged_classes.delete('tag:ruby.yaml.org,2002:object'); end

makes user-supplied YAML a lot less dangerous. I am going to poke this into a production application and see if anything breaks - it really really shouldn't <g>
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulner...

Here are some good and experienced Rails developers who apparently had no idea that Rails would automagically suck in XML and YAML and turn it into symbols instead of strings.

Clearly they aren't the only ones who didn't "understand the framework" or we wouldn't have gone a week with the impression that CVE-2012-5664 was only exploitable in specific circumstances.
I imagine fame would give you an initial boost, but it would be only temporary without a really good product. The growth curve might look similar to a non-famous developer, but just start at an earlier point on the curve.
You completely mis-understand my point. I don't think that this is the only person who knows this, that'd be idiotic. They are, however, the only person who posted it in this thread. Giving it more publicity. I don't think that that extra publicity is appropriate.
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When are they going to start hunting them to extinction for delicious, scientific reasons?
Boring jobs exist everywhere even at Intel, Google and NASA.
There are no investors in Kickstarter.
Not yet, at least. There seems to be enough demand for people with STEM degrees at this time that this trend hasn't penetrated (and a good thing too).
Hi there. I'm the one you're talking about. I'm always late. You're right. It's a character flaw. But I swear to you, it's the toughest character flaw I've ever dealt with. For some reason, when I'm deeply immersed doing something, I'm incapable of wrapping up whatever it is that I'm tied up doing and fucking leave. It's stronger than willpower. It truly bewilders me. I feel that dealing with my lateness is 100 times worse than dealing with that other time management disorder, procrastination. At least with procrastination I can realize what's going on and help myself out of it. But let me assure you: I don't mean to be rude, and I'm not at all selfish as I consider myself pretty empathetic with your frustration. And I'm not only late for appointments: I delay eating my meals, falling asleep, going to the bathroom... I guess it's some sort of time-autism: if I'm supposed to be somewhere at 8, only when the clock is about to turn 8 an alarm triggers a switch in my brain (all other alarms are useless) and I get going, with zero chance of making it on time. Like you said, 8 and 8ish
become the same on a daily basis. At 8, when I snap out of it I'm really angry at myself for losing track of time. How did it happen, I ask myself one time after another. It's sickening how often it happens. It feels like waking up in pajamas in a bus stop and realize you just sleptwalk your way there. Consider it some sort of Tourette's. It's not pleasant to be around me, but I just can't help it, I swear.

From what I've been able to observe so far, procrastination precedes my lateness, in a way that one becomes a symptom for the other. Ie. It's morning and I have to do some really important task at work ASAP. Later, at 8pm, I have to meet you for dinner downtown. But I don't start getting work done until way after lunch, having procrastinated all morning surfing HN. So, around 3pm, when my mind finally comes to terms with responsibility, an overwhelming sense of duty takes over me, striking upon the task at hand with great vengeance and furious anger. Concentration is tops and speed is maximum. Code is thorough. Design is sharp. Text is brilliant. Suddenly it's 8 o'clock and, yup, I'm late.
Time is not standing still anymore. I feel awful.

My theory is that the strength I have to build up on a daily basis so that I can overcome procrastination, sleepiness, attention deficit and mild depression is also responsible for my recurring tardiness. To be able to reach such concentration nirvana, my mind has to shut down everything else on the planet earth. On the other hand, whenever I wake up focused and in a good mood, chances are I'm going to be the one ordering that bottle of Pinot.
It should probably use symbolhound.com instead, which does exact symbol queries on stackoverflow content. Google, alas, thinks we are all terrible people for wanting our precious bytes.
I thought there was such a thing as sovereign immunity. How does this reconcile?
Which means that briefly we'll live in a time where a stack overflow vulnerability will cause your car to break or accelerate at very inappropriate times.

Just google for "researchers car software vulnerability" (without quotes) to see what I'm talking about.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229919/Car_hacking_R...