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I'm not sure PG's opinion has much weight in the realm of law and justice. It certainly does with startups and business models.

Linus on the other hand is known for speaking out on issues of law. That probably started in the days of the SCO fiasco, but he has always been vocal and I'm glad to hear him speak out on this issue.
Hi - to wire up the RPi's GPIO to a mains power switch, you need a relay board to toggle a high voltage switch. See this project:

http://www.progetti-hw-sw.it/raspberry.htm
The linked article at least mentions the Polish Bombe.
They don't currently provide ways to force password age rules for corporate google users. So corporate clients that want to use google apps are currently forced to use an IdP that does this for them.
They have the tools to allow for it, we even give corporate customers a way to use Google Apps accounts and force 2-Factor auth and password aging without things like Active Directory.
Also not providing the ability to change session information is, well, a little off putting for some. It's not that it's a war on the password it's just that they don't want their services to be something you actually have to log into (chromebook experience).
Thank you for the information. I was looking for something around $50-$60, but I guess the A15 is that much better that it warrants the increased price?
> The case here is completely contrived; a red-herring. It's not like it's ever typical to do m, err := io.Read... and not use the `m` (if you were, you'd already be writing _, err anyway).

I've been doing some Go recently, and I ran into this exact problem (except the rhs was something else). Ignoring the output of a not-directly-related function while debugging is quite common, in my experience. Like some others here, it didn't rise for me to the level of ranting about it, but it's interesting to see that it's not just me, so I'm glad it did for someone. :)
There's a difference. Fake breasts and makeup fall into the same bucket as actually having a girlfriend. Telling everyone you have a girlfriend when you don't is another bucket.

When a woman surgically enhances her breasts, she has bigger breasts, so she's not lying. She would be if, when asked, she would tell people that they are natural.
Headphones rule! Yeah!
Why don't they just sale their goods at lower prices? No need to fiddle with artificial (non-gold-backed) currencies.
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Unless you're wearing two headphones, in which case, don't.
I'm printing this out as soon as I get to work.
Then draw your wireframes on paper... I do most initial design wireframes in a notebook anyway--it's faster, easy to make changes and serves the same purpose. I believe they call this "paper prototyping" and I'll take that over wireframing apps any day.
I work part-time as a barista, so I'll offer this version of the rule: The Barista's Headphones Rule

Wearing headphones while ordering your drink?

* No headphones, you get your drink as you wish

* One headphone, I make your drink and shoot you a meaningful glare

* Two headphones, I secretly make your drink decaf
> I'm sure she would love to hear from Us, The People who she represents, directly.

Please. We're not very good at double speak here.
I have my own headphone rule: If I can hear your headphones over my headphones, then your headphones are too loud.
So now you're a young researcher and you receive a manuscript for review. It's no good and you pan it mercilessly in review.

Then your review gets published, and it just so happens that the author of the paper is a senior person at the university where you apply for your next job. Oops.

So more-junior academics might start being reluctant to recommend rejection of any paper. Or, if they are told who the author is (which they generally are), reluctant to recommend rejection of any paper whose author might ever be important to their career.

These seem like really bad incentives.
Indeed words have a meaning. If you issue a statement that "the defendant is charged with crimes that carry a maximum sentence of 35 years", then you inherently quantify the gravity of the defendant acts as a 35 year jail time crime. If, instead, you issue a statement that "we are seeking to put the defendant in jail for 6 months", then you quantify the gravity of the defendant acts as a 6 months jail time crime. These are not nearly the same and Carmen Ortiz never issued the second statement in public on the record.

We may further argue that this is how "everybody does this" and "she can't weaken her bargaining hand". To me, a justice system that depends on bargaining instead of truth feels fundamentally wrong. That is the deep issue at stake, and not the political fortunes of one Carmen Ortiz.
Ask HN: Why my graduated friend (BS Electronics) can't find a job?
As mentioned one of my friend has graduated 6 months before and he still has no job. He says he's looking for jobs but can't find one. What would you suggest him to do?
http://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports

The reasons and choices made for this have been fully explained.
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Go ships with a Go parser in the standard library. Among other things it is used by gofix, gofmt and go vet. People from the community have used it for writing various refactoring tools.

It's incredibly useful; I don't want to go back to a language that doesn't ship with a parser in the standard library.

I'd say the Go authors have thought about support for tooling much more than other language authors, not less.
I had a long, snarky comment about how no sane person would do X, Y, and Z on their public profile.

But then I realized graph search shows you to friends of friends. This is a potential shitstorm and I'm not sure I value my facebook account enough to be in it.
Economist articles have no byline as editorial policy.

Can't comment on the rest of your points.
Linus is not dead wrong. This should not be reduced to simple binary. To argue whether or not Linus is technically right or wrong seems pointless to me.

Tangentially, it really bothers me that there is even such a job as Government Prosecutor. Government should not have a self-interest. The system really is fubar, the only solution is probably 'rm -rf /'. At some point in Carmen Ortiz's life, she decided to devote her life to becoming a government prosecutor. That in and of itself speaks of her character. Whether or not she is lying in this particular instance is irrelevant, this is who she is, this is what she does, this is what she chose to devote her life to.

(Of course she's lying! She a prosecutor for chrissakes! AND she works for the government! Did she open her mouth? That means she's lying!)
That would significantly change the meaning, at least in American English. Instead of "rule" being the noun and "headphones" the adjective, "headphones" could then easily be taken as the noun and "rule" the adjective with the change you propose.

"The Headphones Rule" more obviously means "a regulation pertaining to the usage of headphones".

"Headphones Rule" is very common slang meaning "headphones are superior".
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It is not that hard to convert Firm to LLVM or vice versa. If you can read german, a student once implemented this [0]. This allowed libfirm to compile C++ and Fortran code using the corresponding LLVM frontends.

Libfirm (with liboo extension) does not support exceptions, but apart from that there should be little difference in features.

For example, there is an experimental frontend for Java bytecode [1]. It compiles ahead-of-time, like gcj.

[0] http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/uploads/publikationen/liebe1...

[1] https://github.com/MatzeB/bytecode2firm
Max Planck Gesellschaft publication on this:

http://www.mpg.de/6818105/Holocene-gene-flow_India-Australia

> There are more than a dozen mistakes in it.

Could you please point those out?
But this only delays the inevitable and you cannot stretch this game on forever either.
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Bad science reporting again: the Eskimos are back
The whole premise of your post...little
introspection...serious personality disorder

Hate to point this out, but by your own admission, you're the one without the girlfriend and with pathologies. Maybe that sensitive guy shtick ain't working so good. I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean it as a statement of something you might not realize.

Anyway, it's not your whole life, but if & when you want to attract women you are going to put in effort. That effort should be effective; game is about what works. Go ahead though and be a sensitive and non-assertive man who sees counselors and isn't interested in manliness etcetera, no one is stopping you. Or run the experiment, try heartiste.wordpress.com's 16 commandments for three months, and see what happens. We'll be rooting for you.
Here's my trick to using headphones without injuring my hearing over the long term:

Wear earplugs.

Put in some good quality shooter's earplugs to block out most of the room noise. Then headphones. Turn the headphones to the minimum volume necessary to hear the music. So now you have no background noise, and a nice, low soundtrack to help kick out some work.
I'm not the OP, and I haven't read these books, but many people swear by:

Influence: the psychology of persuasion, by Robert Cialdini

http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/00...

One I HAVE read, and I strongly recommend is How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...

Also, I've read many people mention a lot about Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I'm usually skeptical of this stuff, but I want to read about it.

I did read "The Game" by Neil Strauss... while it is not something I want to do, it is really intriguing, and he advocates NLP a lot in that book.

And while I'm nerdish/socially awkward, I have a long-term relationship with my girlfriend so I don't "need" to go picking up girls :) .

I look forward to the original poster's list :)
Well ... if they are male chances of liking porn and guns are so high that you shouldn't bother searching.

And in the last 10 years the notion that everybody is a freak in his numerous personal ways began to take hold anmog the populace. But the institutions became more easily offended and prude.

But I suppose with the inevitable dieout of the current gen of employers the next just won't bother with searching ... it will be like - why bother - I will find crap for everyone.
How would Facebook know who likes porn (except assuming everybody likes porn, obviously)? Those who say so on their Facebook profile are presumably not very concerned about that information leaking out?
> patterns usually deal with the weak spots of the language

Design patterns, as the term is usually understood, do. Using the word "pattern" to refer to organisational structures that arise in practice is useful and distinct than preaching design patterns like some people do for C++.
Try Rejection Therapy: http://rejectiontherapy.com

If you do a search online, you'll find lots of stories and comments of how it's helped people or even changed their life.
In my case, this couldn't be more wrong. One needs only wave their hand in my periphery to get my attention--this encourages others to come to me to bounce ideas, get opinions, etc.

Listening to music is definitely helpful to me when it comes to focusing on the task at hand, but it shouldn't come at the price of diminished capacity for collaboration.
Ortiz is using her position as a stepping stone to further her career. Aaron was to her a conveniently placed cobblestone that she could put her spiked heel on to make it to the next level. I'm pretty sure she regrets this, but only because it damaged her career chances.

"Spiked heel"? Regret over a dead defendant "only because it damaged her career choices"?

You've been fairly rational in most of these discussions, but you're just egging on the mob here.
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The core issue is that the system relies on bargaining instead of truth. But we can't make judgements of the system in abstract. The system is the sum of the actions of its participants. In that sense, it is perfectly fine to call out individual actions "lies", even if they perfectly fit the system. That only illustrates the absurdity of the system.

Back to the facts: Carmen Ortiz (participant in the system) placed an upper bound of 35 years. She never placed any other gravity quantification in public on the record. All that is on the record is that she thought that the crimes are in the 35 years gravity class. Coming back and saying "I really meant 6 months" is a a contradiction of on the record facts, aka a lie.
I don't want to sound mean, but if people aren't smart enough to keep their lives out of Facebook, then let them get burned.

It's not rocket science. I've had a Facebook account for years and there is nothing - absolutely NOTHING -on my Facebook account that I would worry about an employer seeing. That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public, in broad daylight. I will never understand why some people can't get this through their heads.
You could argue the same about Linux. I installed my first distro back in 1998. I wasn't forced to buy a PC with Linux installed in order to start using it, and it was easier than it is today to install any OS in your mobile phone.

How many Linux users are out there? Are all of them "geeks"?

EDIT: with anything I meant any OS
The former are quite flawed but they're still people.

Which is kind of the reason for making a principled stand: They are human, they aren't going to go away anytime soon, they want to be respected or even loved, and extreme shallowness makes it impossible for me to do that. If I didn't have at least a remaining iota of goodwill towards them, I'd exploit them instead of bitching at them.
[edit: Rereading your comment, I think we are talking cross-purposes. I'm talking about heads up games only. You said "Heads up, where there is an optimal strategy, is essentially solved," I replied that "this is wrong, although there is a solution, it's far from solved..." and the conversation went from there. It seems at some point you switched to talking about ring games? On that I obviously agree, Nash does not apply.

So I maintain everything i said before; HU games are far from solved. Much the same that chess is far from solved.]

The game of poker is symmetrical and zero-sum (ignoring rake).

As you say, "Nash is a strategy where no individual has a motivation to change from the equilibrium." If I were playing a GT optimal strategy, the best you can do yourself is play the same strategy - you are not motivated to deviate. This will be EV neutral to both of us in a symmetric, zero-sum game.

Any deviation you make will either be EV neutral and therefore indifferent, or EV negative. If it is EV negative to you, I gain.

Of course none of this applies to multiway games, we're talking heads up.
This. I can't tell you how often I've found that I accidentally shadowed a variable when I meant to use it, and this saves me from banging my head against the table to find the error.
Ask HN: The Hobbit in 48fps, is it better?
Hey,

I want to go watch the hobbit and probably in 48fps (although I don't know why it matters). What is the opinion from those who have already seen it, did 48fps look better to you?
Let me get this straight: Men are being exploited to give their money to a scheme that capitalizes on the unfounded social hollywoodian illusion that "good men get the hot girls". Women make profits out of it in return for a few seconds of their time every day. And that's called misogynistic, as in, it's the women who are being exploited?! Let's apply some basic common sense here ...
I found the arxiv server running costs astounding ($800,000/y). Could any one comment on that? Is that typical?
Isn't the max penalty dependant on what the charges were? Those charges were in the hands of the procecutors. If they really did not wish to come across as threatening, they could have charged him with less (as far as I understand it).
I don't think the OP says people invent fictitious companies, but I see fiction and embellishment in a lot of CVs..

One guy that worked in the backroom sorting correspondence in the company I work for claimed he was "Manager" on his LinkedIn profile.

And all the programmers I work with claim they "led" the projects they were in.

I've yet to see somebody invent a company, but many cite their own freelance "companies" and their roles as CEOs.

I do agree that there shouldn't be a free pass to proceeding straight to black.
Which they went on to say was 2.7Million to move them to other departments in the government.
In addition to looking for a job (ie constantly emailing resumes, going to networking events, and reaching out to everyone he knows), I would strongly suggest tp get involved in side qork projects. If he can code, these come rather easily, or he can just jump into hacking at some opwn source. People notice you and hire that way. What sort of work is he looking for and where?
> You've been fairly rational in most of these discussions, but you're just egging on the mob here.

Feel free to disagree, I call them as I see them. I think her statement is cynical in the extreme, quite possibly to head off any claims by the family and I think that her whole 'tough' stance is just to further her own career goals.

If you have evidence to the contrary I'll be more than happy to adjust my position. Crocodile tears after the fact are not persuasive, not accepting any responsibility at all is very telling.
Only one ear is also weird, it's like half a headphone.

The rule would have been less weird if it was:

no headphones, you can talk to me.
headphones, do not talk to me.
Even if it wasn't 35 years, 6-7 years is plenty long to ruin anyone's life.

If Aaron decided not to accept the guilty plea, his option was 6-7 years and not 6 months. After reading everything that has been written about him, I would assume that he won't choose a 6-month sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to liberating information.
There's a big difference in controlling guns on an island and controlling guns in a country the size of the US.

Also, handguns have nothing to do with this. Some areas (Washington, D.C.) already ban handguns. This is about assault rifles.

The problem is, these are all overreactions to a horrible event. In 2010 or 2011, "long guns" (shotguns, rifles, etc.) only accounted for something like 300 homicides in the US. 300 out of about 300,000,000 people.

Way too much effort for the benfit of cutting that by MAYBE 10-20 percent.
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Did you mean superset instead of subset?

Anyway for my statement I was only interested deterministic polynomial time (perhaps with access to randomness) with or without quantum capabilities.

"Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791v3) is a good read about this---amongst other things.
I truly doubt that Aaron really thought that 50 or even 35 years was a realistic sentence to be honest. Mitnick was charged with wire fraud and illegal possession of computer files and 23 other charges and did 5 years and change. All other hackers that have been convicted by the US have done from months to 4 years, and most have even gotten the supervised release with no computer use null.

Also I really don't see the cruel and unusual here. It's the same procedure that everyone else gets. He should have taken this opportunity to help shape a movement for the change of CFAA and ITERA, enter the list of "elite hackers" that have been wronged by their country (for a great PR boost nonetheless), and bring to the spotlight his main cause of information liberation. He probably didn't take that route and opted for suicide because he was depressed or had some mental issue that was aggravated (but not caused by, I make the distinction) because of the pressure of his conviction and the existing (though very low) possibility that he might actually do hard time.

Don't get me wrong. I'm on Aaron's side, but all the fear mongering and hyperbole lately is unbecoming. We as a community are right now grasping at straws trying to make Carmen Ortiz as this horrible monster, when she was basically just a woman doing her job. She's not Charles Manson. Let's battle the CFAA and try to get things to change instead of focusing on a little woman who will most probably never suffer any repercussion for this, and seriously it's doubtful that she deserves any either.
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Is there any equivalent to Dataclips for non-Heroku databases?
I hope that this will not be only Chrome-ready, and will work on all Desktop operating systems.
Why do you think it's really anything to with being intelligent or not?

When you're using Facebook it feels like a social situation, so you behave as you would with your friends.

The internet's weird because parts of it feel part of your private life, parts your professional.

If you act as a normal human being with a normal social brain and a normal understanding of computers, which, not being mean, you are probably not because you're using HN, it's very easy to get caught like this.
The problem is different for encryption schemes relying on hardness of integer factorization.
Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990
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It's funny because the UK Labour party had a similar change/pivot in the early 1990s to become what is nicknamed "New Labour". They got rid of their previous party consitution which was quite socialist and replaced it with a watered down version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_IV

The US Republicans need a Clause IV moment.
I'm pretty sure that it's a real picture... I could be wrong, though.
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Disclaimer for a start: I'm seasoned UX Designer, who after corporate career decided to change UX tools. I'm founder of http://uxpin.com
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I agree with most of your points. And I totally understand your frustration.

1. The tools are getting in the way - that was one of the reasons I left Axure after years of working with this tool. The interface is too heavy. I expect from a design tool (at this level of granularity) to be context aware and well designed.

Designing tools for designers/tech people is particularly hard. I can't imagine more demanding audience. You should see our user testing sessions ;).

We've spent months trying to figure out design that will fit experienced designers and newbies. Currently in UXPin you can hide all the panels and operate on a clean canvas using search +add function.

2. Too much control

It all depends on the project you have on your schedule. The level of fidelity depends on people you're working with, deadline, type of user testing you're planning etc.

3. Responsive design

I absolutely agree. We need to have tools for designing responsive layouts. Keep an eye on our new release next week.

4. Version control

Absolutely. We've got it. I can't live without it.

5. Export

Personally I don't find it necessery. Having link to a html version is enough for me. Our customers though wanted to export PDF and JPG, so you'll find that in UXPin.

I don't mean to brag, but perhaps there is a tool that fits your needs :)
if you use the standard if _, err := foo(); err != nil {
then the err variable's scope is limited to the if statement (usually correct), and you can then move that if statement where ever you want and it will stay intact, and will not interfere with the external code.
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