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Unix pipes are effectively the same thing as using text streams in C.

Granted not quite the same thing, but raw bits are often used in lower level languages. Take Windows Win32 APIs, there's a lot of instances where styles are defined by adding constants with values being exponentials of 2. Thus creating a binary array of boolean states.

Another example I used to run into was Windows' controller (joystick et al) API (again Win32). Each bit would represent a different controller button and the 'on' state was if the button was depressed. But as the value was returned as an unsigned long int (if memory serves), it was up to the developer to write their own parser to convert what would otherwise been a random number into a meaningful array of bits. (or at least I did - there is a chance I overlooked another function as this was before I made the switch to DirectX6 - so many years ago!)
The majority of HN readers seem to have assumed that the author is male. I assumed the same thing for most of it, before getting suspicious at the non-joking use of "sobbing". I wouldn't be surprised if these Twitter posters made the same assumption.
As long as you're linking a specific post, go for it. I've made mistakes.

But I'm going to hope it's not just a post you disagree with. Just like I hope you don't call code bad because it uses OTB or omits semicolons. It should be failing to solve the problem it sets out to solve, and in an interesting manner. (Note: I have not looked at the code tweeted about.)

Edit: Wait how did THIS post get downvoted? I can understand the earlier posts but I can't even imagine what's objectionable about this one.
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I have met MM. We had an extensive discussion, first in person and then via email, about a programming language he was (maybe still is) designing called Watt. He seemed to me to be reinventing many wheels, and doing it badly. But what struck me most was that he actually seemed to take pride in his ignorance. Here's a relevant excerpt from our correspondence:

"Therefore, the M-FCCN [metacircular functional content-centric
network - Ed] problem is if nothing else an interesting excuse
to revisit the foundations of programming languages with an extreme
emphasis on precision and simplicity. I felt it would be a big
mistake to start this effort by learning either a Lisp or one of the
"PL theory" languages, like Haskell, as it would sacrifice the
enormous advantage of not knowing either. I found it much more
interesting to recreate functional programming from scratch in more or
less a clean room."

I think he approaches economics and politics with the same philosophy. It kinda drives me nuts that he attracts so many followers.
True, but not quite. The first thing zrange does is look for the starting point, which is an approximately O(log(N)) for a skiplist (which is how it's implemented). An iterator's next() operation should be O(1). If I need to iterate over a gazillion elements, it would make a huge difference. Or course you could zrange chunks, and it would be more efficient, but what's wrong with a simple START and NEXT semantic?

BUT this is all a moot point - a Sorted Set is not the type of structure that something like SQLite4 needs anyway. The keys should be sorted lexicographically, not by score. I think a Skip List fits the bill perfectly, and Redis already contains an implementation of it (as part of Sorted Sets), why not expose it as a standalone type?
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Announcement on CIC site:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2013/...

And a bit more info:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/...

I'm happy.
> "that's called being an asshole"

There's a difference between "being an asshole" and "sometimes acting like an asshole". We all do the second thing sometimes.

A snarky comment and a bad apology may be an instance of the second thing. But they don't imply the first.

Compare another toxic noun, "racist". There's a difference between "being a racist" and "making a racist comment". If people could apologize for the latter when it happens, understanding that it does not imply the former, the world would be a better place.
This isn't new. This has been happening for a while.

Whether or not you love or hate the music, hip hop is one of the most meritocratic facets of the music industry. Look at Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kanye West -- all people who got their starts on the blogosphere.
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Most religious people (in the USA) believe in "micro-evolution" but not "macro-evolution" (both terms have been made up by religious people).

They accept that evolution can cause variations within species (anti-biotic resistant bacteria being a very clear example) but don't accept that evolution causes speciation.
I have no problem with that. Quality is subjective, love is subjective, technical ability isn't.
If it is the title of the article how does that make it less relevant?
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If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them as much as I can/know. I'm a programmer by trade and I would've done this project myself if I wasn't running my newly established startup myself.
Is this inaccurate? http://www.androidauthority.com/brazil-carriers-stop-selling...
If the original comments about replace were motivated by "Diagnosis and error correction" or "Improvement", I don't see it.
There are 30+ exchanges in two dozen countries that would benefit indirectly from other exchanges being taken down.

The notion that these exchanges would shut down voluntarily just when things are looking up for them is ridiculous.
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Why does everything in SF stop at midnight? This city is lame.
That just makes my question stronger! So why continue the antibiotic till you create bacteria at the 98th percentile?

Stop the antibiotic as early as possible.

It's not like you're going to wait to infect people till you're done with the antibiotic, so the "starts with the 85th percentile" scenario still happens. But by taking even more antibiotic all you do (as far as I can tell) is make even more resistant bacteria.
I'm curious how he was able to become so popular so quickly. What music blogs promoted his album? Did he already have relationships with the blogs or did he just submit his album like everyone else and the quality spoke for itself?
Regardless of whether this is or isn't free use, the author clearly doesn't understand the most basic principles of copyright. That ignorance could easily sink a small company. No hire.
That's pretty neat. Good job with it.
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Down-vote me but his music is commercial. I am saying this as a professional musician. Even the pompous title says it all.. "unsigned white rapper changed music industry". I do not understand how this post gets so many up-votes.
Listen to Damu the Fudgemunk for example, a young bright kid who does his thing with Y Society.
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This happens all the time. Some former companies were 'acquired' this way. Portal Player and Transmeta for example. In Transmeta's case, they were acquired for $255M in cash, and Transmeta had $255M in cash. The only cost to the acquirer (in this case Intellectual Ventures) were salaries till the deal closed and executive golden parachutes - totaling about $11M.
As it is today you're absolutely right. If there were a campaign equal to those "rock the vote" campaigns, it could be interesting.

I'm also realistic. If voter turnout was even 1%, it would still be considered a legitimate election. It wouldn't matter if any law on the books says otherwise.
All those guys were heavily promoted by Big Music though, the new thing is that aside from a spot in the Freshman class at XXL (which is probably a huge negative in 2013), Macklemore is almost entirely an internet phenomenon and unlike everyone else you named is completely unaffiliated with Big Music. The point is not that blogs are popular, it's the degree to which they are popular.
Why not buy it on iTunes?
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My point is that without government regulation cartels wouldn't arise in the first place. Cartels are vulnerable to competition from outside. No industry has a high enough barrier of entry these days, since many huge corporations shoot all over the place for new business opportunities.
Wonder why you can't get anything done?
Kanye was a producer for Roc-a-Fella before blogs were even a thing.
> there could still be quite a large population that would still be killed by completing the course of treatment.

That's perfect! That means if you stop there then what you have left is un-resistant bacteria. That's excellent, you avoided breeding resistance.

So why do you want to keep taking antibiotics that narrows down the bacteria till only resistant ones are left?
I hear it locally in Grand Rapids, MI non-stop. So it is, at least in some areas.
Someone has a Kerouac fetish... Romanticizing this way of life is fine, but it's just that. Real life creeps back in and you remember why you needed those keys, and that you left your sunglasses in your bag, and wandering aimlessly makes you look a little strange!
Your post is missing the asterisk in the key listing -- it ended up italicizing the text.
Is it illegal to unlock your phone in France?
Gets pretty regular play on my local (SF Bay) hit music station: http://997now.cbslocal.com/playlist/
Exactly, although you need a function to make the number look precise. (ex. $97 million but NOT $100 million)
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> but the FSF/Richard Stallman doesn't the DWG library on the earlier version of their own open-source license.

I think they an important word.
Ugh.

From Macklemore's single White Privilege:

> Now I don't rap about guns so they label me conscious
> But I don't rap about guns cause I wasn't forced into the projects
> See I was put in the position where I could chose my options
> Blessed with the privilege that my parent's could send me to college

Pretty much everyone in hiphop is rapping about things that matter. You probably just don't like a lot of black hiphop.
Does this actually work, though? I was under the impression that most phones sold in the US have incompatible GSM frequencies to those sold in Europe.
ditto for every site that uses that piece of junk. Onswipe has to be the worst thing to happen to the web in years.
Well the FSF purports to be an organization that advances the cause of free software, so it's worth calling them on their bullshit. Not everyone thinks of them as a zealot organization even though it's headed by a zealot. Perhaps they should.

Also I think this issue might be fixable if there's enough outcry about it. And they really are in a tough situation because of this.
> [T]his is what zealots do.

This, and rebelling against the Roman occupation of the Holy Land.
Why are they bound to GPLv2? It was my understanding that original authors had the ability to relicense as GPLv3.
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I hear that Carmen Ortiz is already gearing up her office to enforce this. Unlock your phone, get charged with 13 felonies and up to 50 years in jail. But you'll be able to plead guilty and get away with just 6 months or so.
Because people go to sleep so they can get up and invent the future.
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OF's deal is way different than those others though, it was basically a 2 album deal and the label has to more or less stay away from what I understand. Probably more like the deal Wu-Tang signed in the early 90's. Even though Wu-Tang was technically signed to a label, the only rights the label had was basically to make money off them because none of the rappers individually or as groups were bound by the deal. Of course I may be misinformed.
I don't know much about bacteria and antibiotics, but the strategy you described is the reason HAART is so effective and HIV patients live much longer lives than they did even 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS
I think a free N. Korea would be different than a free Iraq. While it would be a burden on S. Korea, I would imagine that a unified peninsula is of interest to them.

China is something else and continues to prop up that government. N. Korea would've broken up by now without China, much like the communist bloc countries did without the USSR.
I would argue that the beauty of web is experience and not semantics. Semantics are just a means to an end. Responsive design in its current form gives the designer/developer complete control over the experience. If you take that away, and allow the browser to define the experience than I think we are losing something important.
jcampbell1 and pg are bringing up a conversation from a another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110270.
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Copying a popular blog theme for your blog is obvious, and lacks creativity. Spoofing an actually-not-that-aesthetically-pleasing design intended for a completely different purpose, and filling it with quirky details is rather different.

It's the same reason why Android handset manufacturers got accused of "ripping off" the iconic design of the iPhone, whereas in an earlier era people thought Salvador Dali was being artistic when having the considerably more original idea of designing a telephone handset to look like a lobster.
Not if other dependencies are GPLv2 only, which is what TFA suggests.
While reading the article I personally found it being closer to the Newton for some reason.
Buying some useless plastic that goes in the trash in order to support an artist is really flawed logic, and if a musician is still relying on that method then they are setting themselves up for a sad, obviously losing battle.

You might as well donate to a kickstarter campaign, or buy a poster or something. Go to the concerts. Anything. But this expectation that fans are going to buy useless outdated junk in order to show their support is a nostalgic pipe dream
Yes, but if you foresee that you would need to travel, couldn't you just buy an unlocked phone? (I normally just buy an entirely different phone, a cheap Nokia brick handset, for travel use). This law doesn't prevent people from using unlocked phones, it prevents people from taking advantage of the carrier subsidy.

Carriers agreed to give you a shiny new smartphone for a massively subsidized prize in return for you being locked to their network.

It seems rather exploitative to take advantage of this quid pro quo by breaking free from that agreement. All this law seems to do is to prevent people from taking without giving.
> LibreCAD is GPLv2 licensed since it came out of code from the QCad Community Edition product from Ribbonsoft. It's bound to GPLv2.

The GPL has an upgrade clause.

> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Why doesn't this apply?
This is for Organic certified livestock, not general livestock.
Has anyone heard news of any other changes to Canada's immigration policy?

I know when the new minister got in (last year?) they said big changes were coming, but as yet we have not seen much.

I just became a permanent resident, though my brother didn't qualify and was forced to leave... he'd love to come back if he can find a way.
RapGenius is also a big factor in the meritocratic rise of quality hip-hop. A track like Kendrick Lamar's Keisha's Song[1] would have been inaccessible and quickly discarded by a human like myself had it not been for the RapGenius page[2] for that track.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpX--7xb2IA
[2] http://rapgenius.com/Kendrick-lamar-keishas-song-her-pain-ly...
I honestly don't see that. It insults their coding ability, or at least their focus when coding that particular thing, but disparaging a single skill that a person has is not being demeaning to that person. At least in my mind.
Norway does: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-6014559.html

And it works.

EDIT: Actually, Norway's success in reducing resistant infections is due to their limiting of antibiotics use in humans.
Well, there's no force that makes traffic "rise to fill roads"; there's externalities to having increased traffic capacity that may cause transportation needs to increase. We still have a lot of underutilized roads.

The main difference in terms of capacity, I think, is that once we have majority- and fully-autonomous roads, the system will actually not allow the road to exceed capacity. Individual vehicles will respond to signs of lower throughput by getting off of the potentially congested road, while centralized signaling systems will help coordinate routes and departure times to optimize-- and due to the non-Newtonian nature of traffic, keeping throughput high actually increases road capacity.

So if you get into your car at 9am and say, "Take me to work," it's not going to say, "Time with traffic: One hour," it's going to say, "We should depart in twenty-five minutes." Even better, if you are subscribed to a service like most Americans will be, you'll instead tell them the day or week or month before, "I need to be at work by 9am," and they'll say, "There will be a fifteen dollar capacity fee. Would you rather arrive at 8:30 or 10?" And let you and your work decide exactly how much of the economy's money it's worth for you to be there at exactly the same time as everyone else in the time zone.
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I think it spread because the song is just so catchy, the video is quite quirky and weird, and so it's really just something that's likely to be shared casually. Very established social-networking sites enable even quicker sharing and spreading of these videos than just a few years ago. Same deal as Gangnam Style pretty much.
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I don't know if this help but I couldn't get a plan at some companies in Canada because my french phone had different frequencies.
Wonder if amazon prime works here.
Wonder if amazon prime works with here.
females being often underrepresented in tech conferences due to rampant sexism

But females aren't underrepresented due to rampant sexism, there are fewer women at tech
conferences because there are fewer women in tech period. Creating a preference/quota system
(i.e. affirmative action) that tries to correct a imbalance due to lack of participation will only serve to further stigmatize and reinforce whatever negative attitudes exist about the group supposedly being helped. It may not intend to create tokens out of them but it does none the
less. Although it does seem to make proponents of said system feel better about
themselves which many will claim is its actual purpose.
"If the author was named Henry instead of Heather"

I'm going to have to strongly disagree, I honestly didn't know the author was a girl until I saw the name, well after I had read comments and was intrigued overall with the topic. I think the jump to misogyny or gender bias is a bit premature, but I can't really offer up much evidence other then my own perceptions and interpretations of what I've read.

Simply put, the topic is really interesting in itself and hasn't really been discussed much on HN in this specific way, unless I've missed some previous threads. I think add the fact that the negative comments were from some decently well known people, which all responded to it as well, and I think you have all the explanation you need for it being a popular post outside of any sort of need to resort to guys going to to a girls defence explanation.
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That is something that runs counter to the rest of the Immigration process and not at all healthy, IMHO
I believe the joke is about him complaining about Fedora, then switching to Ubuntu and now announcing that he's leaving Linux world a day later because of Canonical.

See his last few posts https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts
The advantage of programming long enough is that your 'primary' language changes several times, and each time you get less zealoty about it.

Having learned a bunch of languages myself i would recommend beginners to learn a language thoroughly before moving on. Otherwise you don't assimilate the style of a language and end up writing fortran in c, or c in c++. The qualitative differences between languages don't become obvious until you understand why their common style is what it is.
Cisco must be happy about this. It's got to be the largest real world rendering of their logo anywhere!

This looks beautiful, going on the video. Its similar to light shows in other world class cities (Like in London, and the Eiffel Towel in Paris)

The ultimate screensaver!
I'm not getting that from Thrift Shop, I like Thrift Shop, I think the rest of the album is preachy.
Can you share some info on what you built?
As stated out by another user this not an accurate metaphor. With yours Shell loses out on potential revenue if you go to another gas station. To buy a subsided phone it is in contract that you must stay with that said company for a period of time. If you break that contract you have to pay full price for that phone. Unlocking a phone does not in anyway alleviate you from your obligation to abide by that contract and pay your bill. Unlocked or not unlocked you still have to pay.
I get the feeling this sort of resume is aimed at companies that don't look at hundreds of resumes a day. Recruitment filters work both ways
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I forgot to mention the international travel angle. I think that I will get my old iPhone 3GS unlocked for use in Europe if I need it in the next couple of years.
Bell Systems phones ("telephonic instruments") were owned by the Bell System, not by you.

You were prohibited from modifying it in any way. That included moving the phone from room to room or attaching any kind of accessory to the phone.
Now if CIC can just get their act together on speeding up spousal sponsorship, I'd be a happy man.

Disclosure: I'm a Canadian in the US. Got married here (my wife's from Asia) - now I can't move back to Canada until I figure out my wife's residency. From what I've read, this takes 12 months+. Makes life very hard to plan.

Some context: the Canadian govt recently started a crackdown on fraud-marriages. Unfortunately, it seems the CIC takes the view that you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
When did the FSF change it from GPLv2 to GPLv3? It should be possible to go back to that version and fork it. Or is it applied retroactively?
The name is marketing and I'm sure we're all more likely to remember because we all have a real world association with that name and back to the future.
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The line you quoted doesn't appear in the terms of the license; projects can use that language to apply GPLv2 or any later version, but they don't have to do so. Many projects explicitly use version 2 only, most famously the Linux kernel.
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> But females aren't underrepresented due to rampant sexism, there are fewer women at tech conferences because there are fewer women in tech period.

Do you not think that there are fewer women in tech because of rampant sexism?