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When it comes to finding novel and unique ideas for web design, it can be easy to get into a rut. So much has been done, so many sources of inspiration exploited, that it sometimes seems that there’s simply nothing new under the sun, leaving you to build what little you can upon the design ideas of others.
This is pure evil, and morally worse in my opinion than going after Swartz. At least he almost certainly actually violated a law. Trying to fill government coffers by seizing the assets of innocent bystanders is ridiculous.
They have no qualms about ignoring the WTO's judgement. I'm not sure why they would quietly comply with it now. The USTR (you know, the people who negotiated ACTA) seem likely to be very against this sort of thing.

What they will do, however, remains an open question.
Great to see Ortiz's office crash and burn, but innocent taxpayers are also losers here. They now have to refund the defendant's legal bills - around $600k in total.
Yes, you're right. The suit apparently alleges that the relationship itself was not consensual. However, that almost necessarily means that acts within that relationship, if they were seen as "necessary to keep the relationship going", would be non-consensual.

I don't mean rape (or else I think Keith's response would have a different approach). How Keith describes it, it could be anything relationship-related, just as sexual harassment does not necessarily involve sex.
They were legal and they did pay ROMS who can legally license any content from any artist as stated by international agreements and Russian law. This is how radio stations work but nothing prevents a website from getting the same deal as long as ROMS agrees to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Organization_for_Multi...
> Alternatively, it's not too uncommon for people to be homophobic either because they don't understand their sexuality, or because they understand it but want to hide it from other people.

That is exactly what I thought after reading the articles on this, his response, and the Standford news article.
But we didn't change anything here; is just a website that says: "Select the file you want to print" and that's it.
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Same happens in Firefox 18 on Linux
A great site for millionaires to visit when they're bored or have lost their purpose.
Will there be some kind of illness directory? Or a way I could keep track of or sign up for notices of new listings? What about a widget that I could embed on my site for specific kinds of illnesses that readers/users might be interested in donating to? Congratulations on all of this, really great idea/implementation.
It's not at all difficult to build. However, if you really want the LEDs controlled individually, the problem will be the large number of connectors and wiring.

If we assume that, as in your other post, you want to connect 100 RGB LEDs, then you need 100 four-terminal connectors. Assuming you are using 0.1" spacing (I find smaller spacing connectors to be unreliable), each connector will require at least 0.5"x0.75" of PCB space (you need to leave room to be able to plug/unplug the connector). Next each LED will also require a mating connector and 4x whatever length of wire you need and a mounting method.

The first time I had a client who asked me to make up wire harnesses of 60+ wires, 4 feet long, it was a huge surprise just how labor intensive it was to build a dozen of them. And copper is heavy
And many women recall every horrific detail. Seriously, you sound like you are advocating that any potential rape victim should just shut up and take it. My guess is it would be because your (already stupidly safe) life would be a bit safer without (legal) weapons around.

My wife, for what it's worth, will put a bullet in a rapist and not think twice. I told her to put more than one. If that seems 'crass' or 'tacky' or 'unenlightened' or whatever else to anyone here, I really don't care. It's not your body and life we're talking about here, and it's not like she has the ability to fend off a motivated 200+ pound attacker without one.
Wasn't there a post yesterday about how gaming sites reference sources because others do (without any due diligence)?
You are not necessarily disagreeing. The ad can still be good regardless of how you feel about the product.
When temp jobs and underemployment become your only option, a company has created a de facto way to avoid providing benefits that would normally be considered standard to any other kind of employee. The growth of temp jobs and unpaid internships shows that companies will exploit the demand for any kind of employment this way and it is hugely unethical.
And you think the owners of the printers really enjoy others using them like that? That all those IPs are set up like this on purpose?
For people who don't know Clojure, the reason this is a critical difference is because Clojure's map function is "lazy", in that it simply instantaneously returns an object which, if you attempt to iterate on it, only then attempts to execute the code involved.

To make this more concrete, if I take the former expression, and make it go to 1000, or 10000, or 10000000000000, it seriously takes the same amount of time on my system. By passing the result to doall you are forcing the entire seq to be iterated and executed.
For restful HTTP...

I like to keep my API strict resources, and nest them if necessary. Also avoid using more than 4-5 verbs per resource.
https://github.com/seivan/DocumentationExample

POST, PUT, GET (member), GET (collection) and DELETE on a resource and nothing more.
If a resource needs different kinds of colletions (say a filter) I'd use query parameters.

This makes working with API's as a consumer so much easier, especially as a iOS developer. :-)

Very Rails like, I know. I tend only to use the resources and/or resource method keywords. No custom matches and etc. Not for the API anyways.
Just my two cents.
The story writes as "The innkeeper’s complaint follows the suicide of hacker Aaron Swartz" and it is inevitable that average Joe will think that aaronsw hacked people's bank accounts &c.
WTO sanctioning wouldn't prevent MPAA, or even the US government labeling it as a pirate website. US probably could ban importing IP from Antigua, thus making downloading stuff from there as illegal as conventional pirating.
These incremental advances have been appearing for at least 20 years, and eventually we will have self-driving cars even without an organized effort (either by the government or a company like Google with massive resources). But that's a very slow option.
Oh, I see. Now that the server has recovered a bit, the image is loaded, too, and it shoves the content even further down. All I can see now is the lower half of the site title and the upper half of the article headline.

There is a certain artistic consistency in that, but from a usability standpoint I would call this only a partial improvement over the situation with the missing image.
Great point. It's all about personal opinion. There are currently tons of organizations that enable people to fund a cause, but nearly none that let you fund something as specific as an individual treatment. We're providing a new, more direct and transparent, alternative.

Oftentimes there is institutional support for specific "mainstream" conditions (e.g. HIV, TB, etc.) and as a result, some patients who are in unique situations (e.g. have a rare condition, need a slightly expensive treatment, need referral care, etc.) often fall through the cracks. Watsi provides an opportunity to those patients by enabling them to tap into the crowd.

While there are pros and cons to each approach, it's important to note that they are complementary. Charitable giving is not a zero sum game, and we're working hard to expand the pie, not take a piece of it.
You say that as if its a bad thing, smali is a pleasure to read/reverse compared to a lot of other "assembly".

On top of that, using this approach you can edit and rebuild the apk. jd-gui and company are nice, but often times I prefer to just skip ahead to the smali and really know whats going on.
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I hope this was an ironic attempt to demonstrate the sexism inherent to that kind of argument against self-defense.
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/243/
Guns: Provably better than snark at preventing and stopping rape.
Order of magnitude performance improvement isn't going to be possible. That basically requires that over 90% of your cycles are currently being wasted by the OS somehow. Maybe this project could get 20% improvement.
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> What would actually help stop a rape is some pepper spray. I don't know the legality of that in India, but I have to say a lot of places in the US make it way too difficult to acquire this very basic and effective self defense item.

Self defense gear isn't a great systemic solution to sexual assault and rape, esp. when it occurs with great frequency and police do not take such cases seriously. Even in the US most sexual assault cases will never see an arrest or prosecution and most people are assaulted by someone they know, not by a random stranger on the street.
With 'they' I was referring to the 'third-party' who were the ones which licenced without the 'or later' to begin with.
mmmm, that is a good point, but it seemed like OP was trying to make this another "women in tech" thing, which in this case it was not.
If so, there's not much I respect more than that.
Most people are sexually assaulted by someone they know and have a level of trust with already, guns do not solve this problem. Also, a lot of people aren't comfortable with owning or using a gun anyway and there is a class issue with having to purchase equipment.
"I don't want to be mean."

Is mean.

Classic.
What you're saying makes sense. But it's kind of difficult to own a home when the cost of housing is so high and continuing to increase. From what I understand [1], there are laws that prevent high-rises (high-density residential buildings) from being built. With lots of people wanting to move there, simple supply-and-demand dictates that prices soar.

1: http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/01/san-francisco-can-become-a-...
Not saying it's incredibly common, by any stretch.

FWIW, wiktionary.com and thefreedictionary.com have the usage, Merriam Webster does not. Don't know about OED (don't have access).
86000 is certainly a _rough_ estimate of, um, 17.
Reading the release linked by jorgeortiz85 I think my first suggestion seems more likely - he wrote a letter confirming what he had shouted saying "The intention was for the speech to be outrageous enough to provoke a thought of..."
No. I'm not.

I'm advocating that telling a rape victim that she could have/should have done more to defend herself is stupid and disgusting.

I'm fucking thrilled if your wife has the capacity to do that. That's great. I really fucking hope she does.

Thinking that every woman can do that, or that it would be possible in every situation (or even most) is absurd.
It'd be interesting to set up a wildcard dns *.some-experiment.example.com, and send various http://links-via-gmail.some-experiment.example.com/somepath , http://links-via-skype.some-experiment.example.com/anotherpa... through a bunch of services, and see which domain names and which full URLs show up in the logs!
It's a first world notion because that's part of being a first world country. We invest in infrastructure that provides protection. Self-defense has shifted to the much more efficient system where by individuals don't walk around armed because we pay into a system of government that provides both police forces and military defense.

The absurd idea that we all each take self defense into our own hands is just ridiculous, just as you don't build your own water supply, or generate your own electricity, or train to be a doctor just in case you get sick.

I can't imagine a more dangerous society where we all take self-defense into our own hands. It wouldn't be the first world if we did that. Let's not start spouting the gun toting nonsense here, the audience on hn is too smart to buy that.
No. Coal and oil are vital, practical sources of energy. And there are literally millions of things that are made from oil, many of which are vital for the operation on a university. Think of all the plastic that's absolutely necessary to conduct biomedical research: we can't use glass or pyrex in our lab because the safety risks are too great (we work with pathogens you have heard of and definitely do not want). Think also of what it takes to feed everyone on a campus of 50,000 people, keep them warm, etc. You can't do that without oil, natural gas and coal.

Also, look at how these fuels make the human environment cleaner: it takes energy to filter water to make it safe to drink. It takes energy to vacuum the floor to keep the room you're in from filling up waist-high with dust mites and dead skin cells. It takes energy to construct buildings to shelter us from natural, harmful solar radiation. It takes loads of energy to store and cook food free from naturally-occuring and carcinogenic mold (especially aflatoxins) and soot (primitive peoples cook their food over open fires - if they'd get a lot more cancer if they didn't die early so much from other causes).

It's true that the use of oil is an important ethical question. What isn't true is the conventional answer given by environmentalists. Since the purpose of ethics is to guide man so that he may enjoy himself and live, the answer to whether we should use oil or not is a resounding yes.

And if it's right to use oil and coal, as I've shown, it's also right for companies to do it, and for universities to invest their money in oil stocks.
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Ah sorry, I must have missed that quote, but how does that connect to THAT blog?

[edit to add the question]
It wouldn't matter, prosecutors have absolute immunity, instead of the qualified immunity a government official normally gets while doing their job.

If you want to start to change the way they act, start there.

Edit: Since a lot of folks seem to not be familiar with terminology, things like "absolute immunity" or "qualified immunity" refer to civil liability, not criminal. At least in the US, the main method of policing government civil rights violations is through civil lawsuits for damages, not through officials being arrested.

(This of course, is also a larger issue, but a more difficult one :P)
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I can corroborate this: in the large video game project I worked for once, we definitely had a different notion of "physics frames" vs. "render frames", and they updated at different rates. If nothing else, the graphics system is not necessarily deterministic in speed, and missed frames should just get dropped, but a physics simulation is often something where if you skip a frame you might miss a collision.
>Edit: I'm thinking 'are you maybe just an emotionally sensitive person' may have come off as offensive? Sorry if it did, I'm not sure how else to phrase it, you probably know what I mean here.

I think it is more to do with familiarity of the culture of compute Q/A sites. My dad recently was looking around the internet for a solution to his computers overheating problem . He remarked to me about how rude everyone on the internet forums he looked at was (he did not post, just read existing threads). As someone who has used this type of site for a long time, I look at the answers and see valuable information relevant to the question asked. But, I can see how someone not familiar with the culture would find it rude or offensive.

Looking at this case in particular, the question was
"Every time I save my code in Sublime Text 2, all of the lines end up highlighted as seen below. It's pretty annoying, and I would love to disable it, but I'm not sure what triggered it in the first place or what to Google. Any ideas?"

And the full response was:
"The cause is SublimeLinter plug-in and its PEP-8 filter

https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter

Your code does not conform PEP-8 style guide:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Learn to write Python code properly according to the style guide – PEP-8 filter highlights only bad code and in your case the whole file is badly written."

Looking at it as someone fammilar with the culture, I see:
A statement of the cause. Links to the technical resources relevent to the problem.

The 'mean' part of the answer starts "Learn to write Python code properly according to the style guide", Which I read as advice saying, you should learn to write Python code following the style guide (which is both good advice (in my opinion), and directly relevent to the problem being discussed).

The rest of the answer reads:
"PEP-8 filter highlights only bad code and in your case the whole file is badly written."
I read this answer as a concise description of the problem ' PEP-8 highlights bad code, and your whole file is bad by its standards [because it does not conform to the style guide]'

Again, this is all coming from the perspective of someone familiar with the culture. The problem isn't so much that SO (and simmilar sites) is unwelcoming to women, than it is that they are unwelcoming to new people. The problem is that we want consise answers, and writing consise, non-offensive answers is difficult and time consuming. So, as a culture, we evolved to view such answers as non-offensive.

EDIT: as an aside, the original answer has since be edited to be less offensive, and offer more explanation as to why learning PEP-8 style is a good idea. Personally, I would prefer getting the original answer as it is easier to read and parse out the important info.
Under the normal US definition, the only things that are workplace sexual harassment are quid pro quo and hostile work environment. IANAL, but I believe that while sexual assault can be used as evidence of a hostile work environment, I don't think that sexual assault is itself a criminal form of sexual harassment.
These jobs are all things I would outsource to Amazon MTurk for cheap. (and you can specify US ONLY too)

Yet no one claims using the MTURK API helps others "develop employable job skills"... website testing, cheap content writing and data entry aren't exactly the types of skills employers are unable to find when hiring.
After spending the past week thinking about monetizing ads, the next social/local/mobile app, etc... that all seems so minor compared to Watsi. It's awesome to see people doing so much social good - best of luck and amazing job!
Oh, wow, this is great.
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I really like padrino except one thing. The lack of automatic HTML escaping in templates in the rails style. Is there any plan to implement that?
Not exactly the same, but in Ohio the only person not from the state with the authority to arrest the county sheriff is the county coroner (how did that come about?).
Maybe that's his therapy for coping. Would you rather him tear his clothes and put sackcloth on his waist?
> Order of magnitude

Are general purpose operating systems really that inefficient?

I've thought about "boot into JVM" before, and I think it's enticing for technologists since it's so "clean", but all the projects aiming for this seems to have died from lack of interest (e.g. BEA Virtual JVM/JRockit Virtual Edition).
I wonder if everyone who has come across both options (broad vs. specific) choses one and sticks with that, or whether some people like both and split their donations?

While you'd obviously always prefer to expand the pie rather than just take a piece, there's nothing wrong with the latter - like you said, your approach can help people who slip through the gaps, so even if the pie doesn't expand, your taking a piece of it can still be a good thing.

Keep up the good work.
"If the browser doesn’t know the intermediate CA, it must look for it and download it."

Is that accurate? Where is this behavior specified? RFC 2246 states "If the server is authenticated, its certificate message must provide a valid certificate chain leading to an acceptable certificate authority." No mention of a client doing behind-the-scenes magic to fill in the missing intermediate certs.

It's been my understanding that cert validation will simply fail if there are missing intermediate certs, and my experience is that this is the case. However, if there's something I'm missing that would allow a browser to synthesize the cert chain, I'd be interested in reading about it.
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Of course it's not possible to arm every potential rape victim and say "now it's on you!". But it's either something you choose to do, or something you don't.

You don't tell them what they should have done to prevent it. But when someone does prevent it, do you tell them they shouldn't have had the ability to?
Paul Graham, or anyone "in the know", may we please hear a bit about what the equivalent of a term sheet looks like for a Y Combinator non-profit investment? Is Y Combinator giving a grant? Is Watsi issuing debt to Y Combinator? What's the financing model here?
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Are you arguing my point or conceding it?
Interesting to read his note after this infamous story:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/06/masters-their-do...
Then why even bother sending a pallet of toner? Lots of other invoicing scams "invoice" for non-existent stuff.
For those advocating arms (pepper spray, taser, gun, etc.) as a solution, please get some basic facts straight.

* Most people who are sexually assaulted know their attacker and are not attacked randomly on the street. This makes self defense scenarios unrealistic, as there is already some level of trust between an attacker and the survivor

* Most sexual assaults will go without arrests and prosecution. There have already been cases where women have been arrested and sent to jail for self defense (CeCe Mcdonald's case comes to mind), including the Marissa Alexander case where someone fired a warning shot at their abuser and was sent to jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Corey#Marissa_Alexander_...

* Sexual assault and rape aren't just about incidents, it is about a culture that supports rapists and demonizes survivors and dismantling that culture is the best way to defeat sexual assault
I've always found A List Apart something of a contradiction: a lot of their articles are better than average, but their design and usability have always been weak. Mostly, I drop in every few days to see if there's a new feature article, and don't even notice anything else on the site. So while I dislike just about everything "arty" about the new design, for many of the same reasons as you, I'm hoping the quality of the articles will stay up and I'll still get something interesting to read every couple of weeks.
As I said over on DN, great job!
Wow, I'm really taken away the fact that you're using PayPal. First of all, you're in YC, where's the brotherly support of using other YC companies? You got WePay and Stripe, and you're not using either.
I agree with you that there are many forces that shape options, but my original point was that temp work is an option. My original reply was to someone that threw out a blanket statement that all temp work was bad in the long term. Surely there are some temp workers that can benefit in the long term from the skills that they will learn and the additional income.
Better fuel efficiency is bad. Welcome to bizarro world!
Generally nice work. I'd use it but I avoid theaters. Loads fast on my crap PC. Only problem I have is the design of Upcoming Movies. Should be a nice grid, with the buttons aligned underneath the JPEG. Rather a confusing mess as-is.
http://tomdale.net/2013/01/my-ios-7-wishlist/

His iOS 7 wishlist: Google Now.