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I think the optimal solution might be to post a link to the comment on a previous version of the article, where the discussion's been had before?
I agree on your premise, but think you got the os completely wrong. Why would iOS be any different for them? If they developed it for blackberry or Windows he would have had much less competition and may have found success.
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I've had the same experience. I've submitted several sites and pages to their Paid Discovery program but none have been approved. Oh well.
Stupid question but, if that's true, then wouldnt that destroy the credit of the people who setup shell companies to begin with?

That is unless they are all setup illegally I guess?
I agree, very ballsy art. I don't believe I have ever explicitly seen a law here in the US (I know this is UK, just comparing) forbidding cameras within a package, but I would think there would be some law on the books somewhere they could apply (not saying that is a good thing, esp in light of recent events).
Its not an URL. Its an IP.
I can think of examples where it works well to be distributed and ones where it doesn't.

PostgreSQL is a very distributed development group. There are small clusters of developers in many places throughout the world, but even then generally don't gather more than once per month. Sure, there are plenty of user groups and conferences, but it's not an every-week kind of thing.

And the postgres project really delivers. A strong release once per year with a variety of features; balanced between new innovations, performance, robustness, manageability, etc. It's hard to beat that.

I think the worst situation to be in is where you have very strong clusters and a few satellite developers or groups of developers. What happens is that the satellite developers are simply out of the loop, and don't even know what decisions are being made.

Either delegate components very clearly between remote groups, or go all distributed, or completely local.
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That's a good parallel. The only difference I see is that accessing an open source repo doesn't usually require access to your cable network.
Strictly speaking, it was less pedantry and more... okay, I give up.
It is called "piercing the veil" - go after the assets of the individuals running a shell company to limit their liability. It is possible but not easy to do if they structure and operate the "company" properly. You would spend a lot of money trying to get them to pay...
Let's assume the absolute worst: video games have caused mass shootings. Do we ban video games?
It's not really "P2P" if it's going through a central authority...
looks like just an ip to me: http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=ptr%3a54.243.29.3...
>> You had been blacklisted before that, because your nuclear weapons pissed off the world (don't blame the world).

Yeah Right, Its perfectly alright for us to have nuclear weapons but not others because they are irresponsible and undeserving (Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyone?)
My point was never that we should be as vague as possible. My point was that you could never be specific enough to not require context. The mere possibility of exigent circumstances guarantees it.

I don't think we're actually in disagreement. Maybe my analogy was just that badly thrown together?
Handguns were outlawed in 1958 and new rifles since 1971. Shotguns are available but heavily regulated.

"I really can't see"

The point I was making was pretty obvious but I'll repeat it here again: it is actually very possible to make it hard to obtain a gun. Japan is hardly the only exhibit.
What about "Use java code to output C code; compile C code; run C code."?
Example URL: http://54.243.29.30/public/ASSANGE/2013/01/16/20130116204737...

The filename s in the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.jpg - you could probably guess the path to past images if you wanted to, or even knock up a script that would download them all.
Video games are interactive. TVs are not. Now I am not a behavioural psychologist so I don't know to what extent interactivity affects changes in behaviour. I doubt you do either.

That is why studies are important.
1.) General consensus is "too many outside contractors, not enough QA." Outsourcing taken too far, essentially.

2.) No.
alright took the plunge! So far using the site, feel like the whole thing is 'in development' -not a finished product yet. Hopefully it will reach the critical mass soon.
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Can you elaborate? When you say it costs the taxpayer and enormous amount of money, are you saying that something about the monopsony caused the taxpayers to pay more than they would have otherwise? Or are you talking about some hidden costs?
Yeah, very similar, but I like it even more than svbtle.
Unrelated to discussion, but I proof read your article for you: http://pastebin.com/Hd3YyqA6
A lot, yes, but not "virtually all".

As a counter-example, one of the biggest logistical problems that eBay had early on was opening envelopes full of cash fast enough.
It's a normal URL, but with an IP address in the domain part.

Your browser normally uses a DNS server to resolve the domain name portion of a URL to the hosting server's IP address — news.ycombinator.com resolves to 174.132.225.106, for example — but it skips that step if it sees something that looks like an IP address itself.

(In either case, it tells the server what the original hostname was, so that it's possible to host more than one website at a single IP address.)
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Why would you believe that a "free" market is necessarily "proper" ? Markets are good at setting prices. I'm not sure they are good at providing incentives for expensive, high-tech research that can be undercut within six months due to the costs of reverse engineering (or espionage) being much less than costs of research.
It'd be surprising if a high profile place such as an embassy didn't have its own off-site mail sorting facility. Many high profile non-government places already do this. It's fairly easy to evacuate a mail facility full of contractors (from Pitney-Bowes or other) every time you receive a suspicious package or your systems detect harmful chemicals; to do the same with your corporate HQ would be far more disruptive.
This game looks great.

Unfortunately, it plays horribly.

* There is no easy way to see when all of one number have been found.

* It is very easy to accidentally click the wrong number (thus losing points).

* Only one level is available without purchasing

What does this game even provide over the dozens of free Sudoku games? As far as I can see- nothing, aside from some pretty graphics.

I wouldn't be paid $2 to play this Sudoku game.
I personally don't think so. But it could just mean adjusting ratings and making sure that proof of age is required when purchasing classified content.

I think everyone would agree that certain types of content should not be available until you have reached a certain level of maturity.
Small bug in the demo: When I click for a text box the scrollbar on the right of the page disappears. This causes the entire display of the page to shift right by (half of?) the scrollbar width to remain centred. It's pretty visually disorientating.

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Anyone else want to see assange giving a thumbs up and rapping at the end of this?
We here at Wello use Balanced as well and those guys are great to work with.
A lot of the foundation of Agile is improving communication. Communication works better face to face. Whether there are mitigating factors such as not being able to get really awesome people to participate is another question, but I've no doubt that my #1 problem with developers is how to facilitate their communication.

You can only get so many people to communicate well on a team anyway. 10 at most and you're into the Mythical Man Month. That being the case, you find the 10 best people who have good chemistry together, that's job #1. Job #2 is to colocate them if you can, but let's say it is a less significant digit than Job #1.

BTW, developers also need to be able to concentrate. That's another thing that fights with the communication imperative. I'm all in favor of at least 2 of the 5 week days being work at home days.
Externalities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality) undermine the operation of the "free market" and much of the legal system exists to deal externalities. Tort law exists to manage risk externalities, environmental law exists to manage pollution externalities, etc.

The theoretical justification behind IP isn't just "hey the government decided to come along and create some monopolies." You can model intellectual developments as positive externalities which are subject to free-rider effects that reduce or eliminate the incentive to create.
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We should probably ban cars and unhealthy food also, of course.

Lest we go into how the pros/cons of said bannable things - one could argue that shit food is the only option of the poor, and cars allow people to travel, but then, games are another piece of the puzzle that distract people enough that they don't need to think about the fucking delusion they buy into.
"The only way fiat currency fails is if the global economy goes so far down the tubes that gold isn't worth anything either, compared to nonperishable food and bullets."

There are countless examples of fiat currencies collapsing throughout history. It doesn't imply the collapse of civilization, just the collapse of an overburdened government.

Governments and banks would like us to believe that civilization will collapse alongside them if we let them fail. It's very convenient for them--they can get away with anything. But civilization has bounced back from much, much worse.
That's a great way to ensure poor people don't sue you and can't get legal representation.
A lot of jurisdictions, e.g. England, have a 'loser pays' rule (as the default anyway, it's usually at the discretion of the court), and don't seem to be particularly less fair to malpractice victims etc. than the US.

One reason may be better legal aid. But also, a claimant who wants to avoid the risk of paying the defendant's fees if he loses can easily do so, by doing what anyone does when they want to avoid risk: taking out insurance (here, against losing the case).

So if you lose, the insurance company pays the costs order instead of you. If you win, you pay the insurance premium out of the costs award you get. It's called ATE (after-the-event) insurance. So you can basically use an insurance company to nullify the loser-pays rule should you choose to.

Cost orders are on a standard basis, so don't change depending on whether a lawyer is working on a conditional fee.
> wouldn't we have seen a spike in archery attacks last year?

But there has been an increase in people taking up archery.

You seem to be missing the point though. People who commit mass killings are trying to kill as many people as possible before they are caught. Bows are ill-suited for this purpose.
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What do you think is the best way to market android apps for kids?

I'm finishing an app for kids and want to boost my downloads from the beggining, spending some money in marketing.

What is the best suggestion you have?
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Sorry, clarification: When I mouse over the textbox itself. If I click on an existing comment or click to create my own new one, it doesn't do it until I mouse over the textbox to enter text.

It is only when the mouse cursor is on the textbox too, once the input is on the textbox I can move the mouse off it and the page scrollbar returns, yet I can still keep typing as it's the active input still.
I've found a mixed bag, for sure, with extensive C and C++ experience. Of course, recruiters love sending things that don't even make sense - bringing me in as a permanent employee in a language I don't know well is probably fine; I'm smart, I learn well, I won't have bad habits. Bringing me in on a 3 month contract on a language I haven't touched, not so much...

Regarding your Ruby-outside-work experience, is it on publicly visible projects?
a) The executive branch has exactly zero control over this

b) This has a hard-luck story attached, and those are almost never as simple as they seem
> is anyone else absolutely astounded that someone as intelligent as The President would say something like "If even one child’s life can be saved, then we need to act."?

Someone as intelligent as the president would never say this on Hacker News, no. Someone was intelligent as a president looking to get anywhere in politics, would.

Sad, but there's one solution: actively support the rights of people you otherwise disagree with. The right-wing backlash in ~2001-2004 was immense and "justified" with statements "well, you guys didn't speak up after Ruby Ridge[1], so why should we speak up for you?"

In ~12/14-12/16, my Twitter stream was full of variation of "you right-wing nuts did not support 4th amendment rights after 9/11, why should we support 2nd amendment today?"

Reminder: "eye for an eye" leads "we're all blind!" more often than "people we don't like have one eye punched out too!".

[1] "I don't think it's fair to entrap someone in order to make them spy on a neo-Nazi organization, then lay siege and kill their wife if they don't" does not equate to "I support their black helicopter conspiracy theory views".
yay, easier fraud and still no guarantees against chargebacks or merchant protections
OK, I'll set that up while you amend the constitution.
How long it takes depends critically on what we say and do.

"Fundamental problems"? I guess one man's applied metallurgy is another's fudamental research, but the problems are better characterised as engineering ones, not science ones.
A similar analogy but from a different angle: http://blog.212labs.com/?p=53

I argue recruiters should act MORE like car salesmen =)
How will this compare to Typed Racket and Typed Clojure? In particular, Typed Clojure works with Clojure's multi-methods, I believe.

Also, you should have a look at Andrew Wright's work on Soft Scheme, which also used row polymorphism to statically analyze and check Scheme programs.
It's not a sign of the pending downfall of our civilization. The 787 project tried some new things and suffered some mismanagement. It uses more premade components (like dashboards and controls and seats and frames) than other Boeing aircraft, so Boeing (an engineering company) is having to solve logistical problems.

Being a long-term Washington resident, I've grown up hearing about Boeing's problems. In the past, though, they were supply/demand issues, like airline order demand, union negotiations, massive layoffs, etc.
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Well, some of the answers to your points are:

Don't buy a target gun, buy one specifically made to looser tolerances for self-defense. The design is very forgiving after all, it was for the field and back in a period when ammo was often marginal (hence its grossly overpowered mainspring, Mauser style positive feed and claw extractor, etc.).

I've never had to adjust any of mine to prevent jams or other problems once I got past one obnoxious one of my Kimber Pro-Carry flinging its brass into my face (slow and careful filing of the ejector fixed that). They can also get pretty dirty without needing cleaning. But, they are self-defense models, not target ones, they aren't super tight, although they're more accurate than I am with a handgun.

As for your other suggestions: moving can be a good idea but you might stil be tracked down, a dog can be killed (it was recently joked that the police could solve their ammo shortages if they just stopped shooting dogs), a shotgun is a really, really bad idea for weapons retention. Someone can grab it outside of your grip and rip it out of your hands, as I demonstrated to a nephew who's bigger and fitter than me. If a M1911 is too advanced for someone to learn I do recommend an external hammer DAO design (since carrying is a consideration striker fired guns are right out due to the holstering accidental discharge problem (not being able to detect that until it fires)).

And following the church of Martin Fackler, I recommend going for the biggest diameter that works for the person, i.e. .45 ACP > .40 S&W > 9 mm.
> Is this a sign our civilization is in technological decay and we're losing our ability to build advanced machinery?

Yeah, that's probably why we (as in, humans) were able to build the largest plane ever with the A380. Talk about decay.
That really won't solve anything - most (perhaps all) patent trolls use shells so that they have no liability.

It's been a couple of years since I first had an idea, and realized I'm definitely not the first who thought about it: IP Tax. If IP is property, it should have property tax (a discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855835 ).

While I'm not for taxes in general, among all the suggestions that I've found (loser pays, shorten patent period, refuse granting more software patents, etc.) this is the only one that:

a) puts newer and older patents on equal footing (thus, no "grandfathered trolls" get a free pass), meaning you can implement it as quickly or gradually as you want without being unfair to either existing or potential patent holders.

b) makes shell games and international games much less appealing and useful[1]: If you want to sue in some jurisdiction, you have to have a skin in the game, both financially (proportional to how much you will be able to extract with a lawsuit), and jurisdictionally - you have to have a tax paying nexus.

I'm still looking for other suggestions, and this one isn't "good", but it's the best I can find.

When you are criticizing (and I welcome criticism), please try to remember that the most relevant alternative is "existing patent regime" (and the need to switch from it to a new regime), then other suggestions such as loser pays, shorter terms, etc - and only finally "no patents at all" - because it seems most criticism I received so far assumes we're starting from a "no patents at all" world.

[1] this is the game played by IV and their friends: set up tens of companies, each owning the next, and each in a different jurisdiction (e.g. NY owns dutch owns british owns cypriot owns turkish owns Delaware owns hungarian owns french owns .... owns dutch owns turkish owns ... owns US corporation that owns patent suit rights). The cost of setting up this structure is less than $1000/company/year (in many jurisdictions, and especially if you do this en masse, down to $100-$200/year). However, piercing it is an exercise in futility and is more of the order of $10000/company - and if you try anything more than discovering ownership chain, more like $100,000 company)
For starters, on NPR I heard the scientist who measured the Fukushima cesium in fish. He said the level of radioactivity was a small fraction of the amount naturally in the fish. But to your question, the answer is yes, MSRs would pollute less in the worst scenario.

It's true they will generate cesium, because that's one of the things left after you fission atoms. However, since it's liquid fuel, the cesium can be removed continually and taken away to storage. (I think the idea is to encase it in glass and bury it.) The amount of cesium in the reactor at any given time is much smaller than for solid-fuel reactors.

Also, fission products like cesium are chemically contained in the molten salt. If something breaks open the reactor, the salt will escape, quickly cool, and solidify, containing the cesium. You'll get hot rocks at the reactor site but no radioactive cloud over your community.

Many of the engineers claim the reactor wouldn't need water cooling, so it wouldn't have to be on a shoreline. Put it in the desert if you want.
This may seem like a funny question, but how do you find staring at blue all day long? It just seems like too much of a single colour too me.
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> EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test.

I like how American employers think everyone in the US is sane, smart, and educated, unlike the rest of the world.
This question really only makes sense to me from a Stallmanesque standpoint though (unless you don't have much money for some reason, in which case the financial considerations come into play.)

Surely unless you have some ideological reason to pick a FOSS editor, you'll simply use the best one available.
Amen. The best teams I've ever worked with were all distributed.
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Furthermore, if you do it in a series of shells in different jurisdictions (think countries and continents, not just states), it becomes effectively impossible to pierce - it can cost millions or even tens of millions to pierce a series of 50 companies, even though setting them up and maintaining them can be done for as little as $100K.
> That you could go away and learn what color the middle wire is is great. But the guy next to you has been fixing wiring in distributor caps for years. And right now, I need people that know what color the middle wire is.

And more often than not there is absolutely no relationship between the color of the middle wire and knowning how to fix the distributor cap.
You may want to follow this on twitter instead of using the IP Address given in the link.

I only say this in case it's just one server behind this IP address, and the camera / phone is posting it's images to it as well. Viral traffic could potentially ruin the entire experiment.
There is precedent:

"Thatcher—who was kept apprised of the situation by Whitelaw—determined that British law would be applied to the embassy, despite the Vienna Convention, under which the embassy is considered Iranian soil."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege
I dont know if I would call it zencoding. Zencoding is a different package entirely.

Emmet is kind of version 2 of zencoding. But for as far as you should concern yourself they are two different plugins.
I'm also interested in this question. Any tips about marketing apps for kids?
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Actually, the Antonov An-225 Mriya is generally acknowledged as the largest plane in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
I've yet to find one of these types of services that you can't access by spoofing the MAC address of a real customer.

A while back, Intel removed MAC address spoofing from some of its wireless cards through a driver update, citing vague "security" concerns. I felt very up in arms about it for a while (why on Earth would you hobble your customer's products so you can make sure they can't violate your moral code!), but eventually decided I couldn't really complain, since the only reason I could think of that I might want such an ability would be to steal internet access.