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>I sense a hint of bitterness in this article

Me too ;) However I think both kinds of programmers can probably form great teams together. Being able to rapidly build full-featured applications very quickly has become very important. But as the applications evolve, this can come at the cost of scalability and maintainability. Improving that point very often requires knowledge of the low levels of the systems. Same is true for a large class of weird bugs that occur.

Although I'm not sure whether most companies see this the same way. When I went 2 years ago through a number of phone calls with recruiters I realized they were really eager to find young people. Being an advantage for me at same point, this will obviously turn different when I get older. And probably at some point there will be a new kind of developers with a completely different way of thinking and working, while we are still stuck on Github, Stackoverflow and HN.... I wonder how many people are still stuck on Sourcefource, C++ forums and slashdot.org ;)
Their governments could force them, though.
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Jaded? Yes, but possibly not in the way you think.

Compare:

"I know that many people were looking forward to seeing it so I’m sorry to say that it’ll have to be tucked away for now."

With another jaded designer:

http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple
Ah, said by a dude on hacker news. I'm sure that a bunch of people in shitty situations so the west can exploit them will appreciate your inspiring advice. It's naive reductionistic right wing garbage like what you just posted that fucked the world up so bad in the first place.
www.tractis.com is one example of secure and more complete e-signature solution.
In a couple of years I can imagine people going, "back in my days we had to use Ruby on Rails and Django to make websites...you kids have it too easy these days and don't understand a thing about the lower level stuff.."
Good point. Is it possible to create an unambiguous protocol specification that scales to more complex interactions? If so, and if you know how, I guess you would need a different specification language to get expressiveness? Blink has an extensible schema but that won't cut it. Anyhow, we have so far not even tried to do what you want but we hope that there is nothing in Blink that puts limitations on doing that separately. There is a lot more that we don't try to do in the protocol core.
Rename "hellban" to "probation". When on probation, your posts get hidden. If three of your posts get upvoted while on probation, you are restored to normal status. If three of your posts get downvoted while on probation, you get banned permanently. Those who have "show dead" are like the Hacker News PO squad.
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It's absolutely fine. As it's the mechanism for attracting a wider audience to something that benefit is being derived from, reminding them to up-vote the article seems mutually beneficial. You are not forcing anyone to do it.
I'm ok with that: filling the gap by simplifying _one_ type of progress. But it is not, clearly, the solution to the problem: do a esignature easy, automated (if such) and secure.
Great concept, I wonder why it doesn't use browserify[1], as so much of the functionality overlaps. I've been using browserify to bundle my code for PhoneGap applications -- at the very least this could make the loader less obtrusive.

[1] http://browserify.org/
In control systems we learned about positive and negative feedback systems. Capitalism is an example of "positive feedback" and without correct governance (or destruction) is effectively an unstable system, which just leads to a massive divide between people who got rich and those who are stuck being poor.
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Ain't gonna happen. There's no way people will be prevented from traveling with laptops or mobile phones. Do we stop driving with the much higher stakes of tens of thousands of people dying yearly in car accidents? Of course not. Any airline that tried to impose such regulations would face near-immediate bankruptcy.
I don't get why you're down on this they way you are. You're may be right in your assumptions or maybe he likes this kind of environment and will love it. Who knows.

The "moral" of the story though is the fact that he was proactive enough to do something with his spare time. He wanted to attract attention to his skills and it worked. I hear / read every day about computer science graduates who are still working at a dead end job. Maybe if they were proactive and designed something new or redesigned something old in their spare time (like many of us on HN do with our side/weekend projects), they would get more attention and a better job.

From my point of view, this will be a great learning experience for him. He may or may not like it, but bottom line is that he'll learn a lot about himself and will be a better professional for it.
This seems like an intentional misunderstanding for press attention. How do you get from "shipments of lithium-ion and lithium batteries on cargo aircraft" to banning laptops?
I have a 15 hour flight on Cathay Pacific coming up, this is a deal breaker, if true... there's no way I'm going to be away from my laptop for two weeks on account of a carrier's irrational fears.
However, a British Airways PR representative that I contacted said there has been no change to airline policy regarding smartphones, tablets, or laptops, and asked to see the IATA notification. The representative did say that it was conceivable that a change had been made to British Airways’ cargo-carrying regulations — in addition to its passenger service, the company runs IAG Cargo, a commercial cargo shipping service – but had no personal knowledge of any changes as of early Sunday morning.

Article denies the headline... Move along.
Linkbait. There is nothing specific in this to 787 flights and no airline is actually banning passengers taking laptops etc or even saying they are thinking about it, it's just some airlines looking at not carrying batteries as cargo.
Fact: They call themselves gipsies ("cigany") when they talk among each other. You hear it all the time on the subway, and I heard it several times while working there.

You are right, the PC term right now is "roma". But the distinction between these two words here in Hungary is nothing like "black" vs "nigger", so your blaming tone is unjustified.
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It won't happen here in Australia. QANTAS, our national airline, has just deployed iPads to every seat as the new iteration of their in flight entertainment
Article states it's only on cargo planes, not yours. It's also full of unconfirmed statements and I would give no real value to it until someone who can do a proper fact checking talks about it.
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The headline is wrong, it would not be limited to Boeing 787 (which is sensible, as LiIon batteries aren't combustible just on that plane). Anyway, it seems nobody quoted in the article really thinks a ban on the batteries would cover devices which uses the batteries. So I would think the inference the article is drumming up isn't looking very likely at all.
Obviously, the powerful elites don't like this

I don't think so. I know a number of wealthy people, and they are very open about how to make money, how to maintain wealth, and so on. Many of them have even decided that the best way to spend their time now that they're wealthy is to teach others how to get there too.

Of course, teaching 7 billion people how to behave in economically sensible ways is a pretty arduous, long-term task, so it'll take a while for the effect of this to be visible... but I don't think the "elites" are in the way of lifting everyone else up - so long as the method isn't principally to pull them down.

Equalisation by bringing everyone up to the highest possible level is a worthwhile goal. Equalisation by bringing every down to the lowest possible level is not.
People smarter than I will have to figure that out. I'm talking about fairly soon after, before any investigation, we had politicians (McCain, for one) blaming "excess greed." I think this is a straw-man. The people in that job get paid to be greedy. You can't blame that, you have at least recognize that a system (regulations and work flow) is broken if it is so obtuse that people can't even know what decisions are in their own best interest.
See discussion of the headline's inaccuracy in the other submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086720
The biggest problem for me personally is the fact that the progress we're going through kills everything I was ever interested in. There's far less space for curious tinkering and exploring of the system today and tomorrow than what there was yesterday.

As we go up in abstractions, we have less ways to overcome the problems we're facing. The development becomes more streamlined and there's less space for coming up with superior solutions to problems during development. Though, I'm mainly talking from performance considerations, something a modern developer doesn't really care about.

That said, I think the biggest "problem" is that new breed of developers/developing culture is fundamentally very different from how things were 10-20 years ago. Back then what many people did was that they coped with the limitations of the system/industry and got employed that way. They got into it because the system/industry was lacking something. For example 20 years ago being able to understand and write assembly was a crucial skill in many places. It was an essential, just like being able to interface with a remote database is essential today. Now that we've got high-level tools and performance, there's no need to care about assembly. People who originally were valued their weigh in gold because of being able to stretch the limits of the system have become obsolete. This same thing will happen more or less to computer security industry too as we move away from unsecure languages like C and C++, although they aren't the only reason behind local/remote exploits.
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This actually looks pretty cool. Disappointed to see that there's no reference implementation available as a library, however. Is there a plan to release one?
Could be useful if it was interesting. <Reverse>.
> Wait, since when are inline styles a poor development
> practice?

Since always. Well, to be more precise, since <font> had fallen out of style, and separating your content and styling became a best practice.
A possible "solution": Make a database with all the relative position and luminosity of the lights in the glasses. I guess it is easier to identify the glasses than the faces.
I'm not sure which one you're calling a straw man - my jest, or the entire original article. I'm going to assume both. Only one of them is intentionally a straw man.
So, what the op wanted in the end is have a sort of denial that women do not have big amount of karma as most of men...

Interesting, and the motivations for that alone might be a interesting subject.

I had a girlfriend once that wanted to stop working to having kids, other women frequently mistreated her when she voiced that opinion, usually with tones that implied that all women have a duty to be equal to men, even if they don't want to.
There is also copenhagensuborbitals who are attempting to put a man into space on the smallest budget.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
No, "gipsy" is not a denigrating term. At least those "roma" coming from Spain and Portugal call themselves gipsies. It is true that there is strong discrimination in Hungary though.
Ba-dum tsss. But seriously, suppose that this agency needs a new office. What stops them from finding some nice buildings, link them to owners and investigate them just in case? They would be doing their jobs, with the potential bonus of a free office. A true real estate agency.

Yeah, false slippery slope and all but is it really a false one?
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Where can I find large datasets open to the public?
Many of us would like to give you constructive advice. However, we would need more information on what you intend to have your company do in order to provide this feedback.

One suggestion I can give is to find like-minded people. You're not the only one that has an interest in space or a 'space company' ;)
The arguments made by the poster in your link really resounded with me. It goes against my ethics to recommend these courses to people who are actively seeking to jump-start their meditative practice.

As far as being a rationalist goes, I'm not confident that I can always keep my mind free from unwanted social/religious influence, or allow myself to be influenced in a controlled manner. I'm glad that this one off-hand remark about bubble chambers actually awakened me from a cognitive stupor, but I can't be sure that, under slightly different circumstances, I wouldn't have ignored the doubts and the red lights going off somewhere in the back of my head.

Cognitive blind spots are a real thing, and my guess is that many Eastern religious groups are very sophisticated in how they use these blind spots to appeal to intelligent, but unsuspecting, individuals. Eastern techniques of religious indoctrination greatly differ from the guilt-based Christian approach that most of us are familiar with.

I stand by my position: these retreats are not simply meditation courses. They are a religious ritual held by a well-organized religious group. Moreover, they are deceptively advertised as non-religious, and herein lies my problem with them.

If someone wishes to learn meditation from a religious source, I think it is wise to refer to an organization that is overt in its practice and beliefs.
"Well, turns out C and in particular C++ development is going the way of the dodo"

That's not true. It's not remotely true. It's so untrue. C code is everywhere. It's in almost every OS I can think of, it's running my dishwasher, it's in my car, it's the standard language of almost every embedded platform I've ever worked on.

Let's take a look at the TIOBE index which, whilst very unscientific, would show up something going extinct as you suggest.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Hey look, there's C at the top, and there are C based languages in three of the top four places.

I suggest that you have fallen victim to a lack of perspective; maybe you don't use C and C++, and the people you work with don't (because if they did, you wouldn't be working with them), and you extrapolated that to the whole world. While you're coding in your frameworks and APIs, there is a vast industry you're not aware of using C and C++ that is not going to go away any time soon.
I ended up hovering the pointer over it. In its highlighted state, the sidebar was less irritating.
You are right, the Western World is not the rosy place it seems to be.

However, please do not ever forget that if you wrote your comment as a resident of NK, publicly criticizing the Order like that, you, your kids and _their_ descendants would be in a goulag ... forever.

I enjoyed very much reading your comment. Thank you.
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What do you think is wrong with the xbox core engineering (the division he is going into), and why do you think it's despised? Or is this just blind MS hate?
Eric Schmidt's commentary on his North Korea trip
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The problem with the design of Windows 8 is that "inspired by Zune" gave us a big pile of poop. The Win8 concept from the Verge is a much better application of Metro to Windows than what MS officially came up with.
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I sure hope he can affect change. MS is a big company and Xbox does not affect Windows or Office.
John Koetsier of VentureBeat apparently doesn't know how to do research. Quoting from the article, they are "attempting to access a copy of the IATA bulletin." The changes were easy to find: http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Documents/DGR54-Adden...

The changes are even nicely highlighted in yellow.

Note especially the parts "This prohibition does not apply to: ... lithium batteries (rechargeable and non-rechargeable) covered by the Provisions for Dangerous Goods Carried by Passengers or Crew (see 2.3.2 to 2.3.5 and Table 2.3.A)." (That's for Cathay Pacific Airways, but the others are essentially the same.)

The "Provisions for Dangerous Goods Carried by Passengers or Crew", Table 2.3.A is at http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Documents/DG-Passenge... . It says:

You may have "Lithium ion battery powered equipment containing batteries over 100 Wh but not exceeding 160 Wh." as carry-on, in checked-baggage, and on ones person.

You may have "Spare lithium ion batteries with a Watt-hour rating exceeding 100 Wh but not exceeding 160 Wh for consumer electronic devices. Maximum of two spare batteries may be carried in carry-on baggage only. These batteries must be individually protected to prevent short circuits." Note that these are not permitted in checked baggage.

None of this has changed. The only things that have changed are how to handle lithium metal batteries as cargo.

And to the person who posted this, and the people who thought it might be affecting them - the article was oozing with Betteridge's law. There's no information, but the writer ran with it anyway, inserting a "?" for CYA power. "The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bollocks, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."
The author mentions W3Schools in a footnote and you feel you have to refer to W3Fools. Give him a break.

FWIW I think the W3Schools PHP tutorial is one of the best out there. Straight to the point.
http://www.jwandrews.co.uk/2013/01/breaking-the-minteye-imag...

OK, I didn't write the JPEG decoder, but how far do you want me to go?!
I can access their web app. But I cannot upload anything. even a 10 kb files. it says pending.

Seems like they can't handle the load.
Sorry, it was late!
In some traditions it isn't how much you give away but how much it costs you personally that counts.
Some of us wash our hands before using the keyboard.
Start it.

EDIT: Non-snarky response: Some more detail would be nice. What advice can we give to "I want to start a space company"?
another rare photoset has been posted in a older hn-thread
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152223)
the original link doesnt work anymore, but i found the same photo's on a russian site

http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/
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But in any normal design you never put the message length into the same parser, you use it to read the message, and the parser is fed the message when you have received that many bytes.

For the reader a message consists of <length>+<blob>+<length>+<blob>+ etc. It can be in two states, having enough data, so pass the blob on to the parser (and it doesn't have to validate that the blob is length bytes, we know that already); or awaiting more data (you can attack that by dribbling data slowly, but you can do that with any protocol).

EDIT: Ok, I used a flat structure there, it would be different in a recursive structure with length on every element. But a top level reader that reads <length> bytes of the outer wrapper and doesn't muck about with the innards is still a sensible thing.
Looks like he's trying to find out what to do with his life:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755778
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4758669

Never stop dreaming. Don't stop believin'. Hold on to the feelin'.
I am sorry if I am mistaken here since I am not American.
But don't you have a public holiday for him (MLK)? How did the government not secure copyright for his most famous speech? That is almost like the national anthem copyrighted by a corp. Does at least the president keep copyright of his speeches?
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This is a really excellent point, and I think cuts much closer to the truth than a simple lack of technology or capital.

If you think about the great infrastructure accomplishments of Rome: roads, aqueducts and sewer systems, rapid large-scale concrete construction, hypocausts, etc., then it seems to me that almost all of them were essentially scaled-up versions of domicile-level or urban-level technologies. These technologies could be piloted at a small scale and then scaled up if they proved to be worthwhile. The institutional mindset was almost totally civic rather than imperial. The military was something of an exception to this, and of course individual merchants and merchant companies would have been very much focused on keeping the gears of the empire turning. The roads and the granary systems were scaled-up urban technologies that helped the empire to function, but I'm not aware of any innovations at the empire level which didn't have some kind of urban precedent. Presumably there were no political or commercial institutions which were structured to support that kind of investment -- or even to ask those kind of questions.

The British thinking around empires was fundamentally very different. They genuinely thought AS an empire -- a highly distributed network rather than an overgrown city-state. This gave them the insight to support the creation of the semaphore system.

Perhaps a more interesting question, in my opinion, is why didn't the Chinese didn't invent the Internet? I'm not as knowledgeable about Chinese history, but my impression is that they were vastly better at thinking and acting like an empire -- not in the expansionist sense, but in the administrative sense. Presumably they would have had the kind of institutional basis to develop a network of semaphore towers. So what was the obstacle for them?
If you want to do serious commercial development, you’ll have to spend a considerable amount of money on a really good suite of tools to do so, that much hasn’t changed.

Lolwut?

Am I about to go to jail for failing to pay my emacs fee?
> I can't find a link but there's several studies showing that people are willing to do a lot of things for free if they like it, but they see it like work if it's paid and they enjoy it less, especially if for a ridiculous sum of money.

This seems to be the unfortunate result every time a bounty or a prize is offered for a public competition with some meaningful task.

* If the task is obviously unuseful (for example other TopCoder competitions, sports competitions), prizes seem to make it more desirable.

* If the task is useful and there is no prize, people jump on the chance of doing something cool.

* If the task is useful and there is a prize, it is seen as work, and judged based on the typical (Western world) hourly rates.

Plenty of open-source bounty boards have had a similar backlash, even though hundreds of thousands of coders work on fixing open-source bugs just because they like it.

It would be great to come up with a solution that stops people being upset at being offered more than nothing, for work they would gladly do for free anyway. But at the moment I don't have any solutions to propose.

For this particular hackathon, NASA would do better to say up front if this is a space publicity competition (and the results are not useful to them), or if they will use the winner's code on the ISS (in which case bragging rights are worth way more than $10k).
Previous employee of Dating lab here, some info you guys might like: All in-house dev done on linux, content and profile vetting is taken very seriously, there is a dedicated team making sure no one get's scammed and profiles are real people. There is checks and balances to prevent on-line stalking also.
The two-way match algorithm is also pretty beefy and rather impressive. A few of my friends are married to partners they met on one of the datinglab network sites, a few employees also. These guys have been in the business a while, they know what they are doing.