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This is not a good idea for certain packages. For example, if you are using something that is under seriously active development, such as Rails and Ruby, and in another case, SBCL Lisp, and even often Emacs.

Up-to-date security is one seriously important reason.
Great ideas. I hadn't thought at all about modifications to the UI - ie focusing on accessibility concerns for older voters, or supporting multiple languages.

Another possibility: feature that lets people "pledge" to vote by entering their email address. This could be useful to canvassers on the ground trying to catch busy people passing by without the time to fill out a form at that moment. The app could then email the voter to follow up, as well as alert them when their state's deadline is drawing near.
40M in funding makes it easier to stay in business.
while theoretically correct

It is actually practically correct. Theoretically, there shouldn't be errors. But there are.
The Southern accent is probably the strongest and most "famous" regional American accent. That might be why your friend tried to imitate it.
what is pud up to these days?
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This doesn't entirely make sense. Price is inextricably coupled with supply and demand. I mean, you literally cannot graph supply and demand without involving price, because price is one of the axes of the graph.

I don't know about the "unemployed" claim. Is there any data on this? The existence of some unemployed engineers does not mean there is not a shortage of engineers. They could be grossly incompetent. Or they are part of the level of unemployment that is considered normal. That's why 4% unemployment is considered to be "full employment."

Wages have most certainly not stagnated in the tech industry.
He seems exceptionally talented at damn near everything. It's too bad he never got the urge to do comp sci, or we'd have a proof for P=NP by now.
I've heard it referred to as lasagne code, because of its many layers.
Unfortunately, this article was weak on pretty much any technical details.
Daniel Suarez is this awesome writer who wrote "Dameon" which predicts a new form of government and organization that exemplifies this idea.

In a type of augmented reality where you are no longer seen as a person with an age or skin tone, but rather a person with a simple feedback rating based on your previous interactions.
It's responses like Linus' that has kept me out of open source development. Seriously these guys aren't getting paid, they're contributing. Does that give them license to write shitty code? No, but also doesn't give anyone license to be a snotrod about it either. I've found it's much more constructive to help a team recover from an individual's
> Oswald being able to do such a shot was not very likely at best

The man was a Marine. He was a trained rifleman making a shot that, for him, was close range.

> he would have been firing perfect shots

No. He missed once.

You claim to do research, and to know things, but you get basic facts wrong. This is a common thing to find among conspiracy theorists: Their conspiracies rest on factual inaccuracies.
My analysis holds for any implementation for which you can perform O(1) addition and multiplication of integers of some fixed-size. That's just about as platform-independent as you can get, but it still captures the real complexity of the operation in a way that handwavy "pretend you can do arbitrary arithmetic in O(1)" analyses do not.

This isn't simply my viewpoint on the subject; even the very theoretical textbook by Papadimitriou and Vazirani takes this approach to the question (see exercise 0.4 and note that everything is carried out in terms of the complexity of arbitrary-size integer multiplication M(n)).
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The picture example in the article is of an Irish terrorist group. Interestingly, supporters of this group are quite likely to flag official UK government, police and armed forces groups as terrorist web sites.

Then again, an even greater number of people will flag sites like Facebook and Google, for "humour value".

If this does become a "feature", I only hope that they will publish statistics on what has been flagged.
Oh please. "The reason why there is no shortage of food is there are surplus 'Unrealized' meals, i.e., all the things other than food produced by people who could be producing food instead, if only food was more expensive."

(As a side note, I personally have never met or heard of an actually unemployed software engineer, i.e., a person who was able to write code and was looking for a job and couldn't find one. Not only in the US, any of the countries I've lived in. Unemployment in Poland in the early 2000s was at times above 20% and yet I've never heard of an unemployed computer programmer, despite the fact most of the people I was hanging out with were computer programmers.)
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Could be worse, you could have developed everything with Java applets.
I cant believe im the first commentor to call FuckedCompany on this, I am clearly getting old.
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Yeah that's why that whole "job creators" / "we built this" routine doesn't really register with me. Let's call it what it really is, an extremely well-designed (I have to recognize) machine to generate as much money while employing as few people as possible to maximize profit.
Now what they're doing with all that cash, I'm still wondering to this day. If someone has a sensible answer to that question I'd be really interested in understanding the rationale. And this is a serious question, since I always thought that laying off people was a last resort type of strategy.
EDIT: Rephrased to be less inflammatory and more open to discussion.
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There is one but I have been too busy building it that have not posted anything yet. You can always get in touch through email. I like chatting with other hackers.
webOS was my first introduction to mobile computing so it'll always hold a special place in my heart.

Didn't some of the members of the webOS team join the Android team after HP shut down development? I could be wrong, but I remember something like that happening.
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I hear that. Riak docs used to famously suck-out-loud. It wasn't that the information was bad, it's just that no one had the time to devote to making them clean, consistent, or easy to navigate (ie. Info Arch).

Now we have some of the best NoSQL docs[1] around (clearly there's still more to do). A nice side-effect of cleaner navigation is that PRs to our repo[2] have increased dramatically.

[1] http://docs.basho.com

[2] https://github.com/basho/basho_docs
I'm not going to register with my information, and here's why:

1) I don't know what this website is, and why it's collecting my information. Where's the credibility? Now people can use this "open source software" and can modify the where the endpoints are. I'm a little bit worried than anyone who has malicious intent can alter the code.

2) Why isn't it even requiring HTTPS/SSL? I don't want anyone to intercept my sensitive information, especially with someone that can just dump the code anywhere and pretend to be an "official" voter registration. Take that demo app for example.

I know this post was meant for something good, but I feel security measurements are not its strongest points. And I must petition for more security when the app involves with sensitive information that can be collected by any 3rd party website. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Adbrite stringed everyone along until the last minute. They are a fraud. They have not been paying publishers and they owe publishers alot of money. Let that be a lesson. Never trust a Sequoia backed startup. No ethics!
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Yes, and they are hired into a graduate position, if they are lucky. Most are brought on as Juniors because they do not have the required experience.
Awesome design, comprehensive (and cheap) pricing...interesting!
Hopping on that "used Adbrite after getting banned from Adsense" wagon. I think I got banned because after some user requests, I packaged my JavaScript game that the Chrome Store was linking to as a .crx package and left in the ads (the .crx contents are exactly the same as the original website). I was on track to make $60/day with Adsense, ended up making about $50/month with Adbrite :\ Sucks that even that was apparently on the high end for that network.
House panel demands briefing from DoJ concerning prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Sounds like Antigua is threatening the nuclear option over online gambling. I'm not clear what sort of jurisdiction (or influence) the US should have regarding gambling by American citizens in other countries, but it seems the simplest solution would simply be to legalize it in the US.
Alternatively, it could be that the number of non-engineering jobs has been going up.
Let's say they are re-selling this data that says who ad blocks.

And I'm ad-blocking everything.

So advertisers find out that an increasingly growing segment of the population don't abide "traditional" Internet advertising.

This is bad for me why exactly? Honest question.
I personally think of Referly the same way -- I think the model of affiliate payouts directly to the content creators is going to fail. I view it as a really easy/nice way to create lists and editorial value, with the money going to Referly to operate the system.

The amounts of money which go to people seem so low as to be pointless (i.e. I'll help my friend move for free, but I'd be insulted if he offered me $5 for 3 hours. However, free pizza would be a plus). I don't know how Referly could turn the money into "free pizza" instead of $5, though. Anyone making "real" money is more likely to go direct.

If the money goes to Referly and/or charities, that removes the bad incentives, too.
All 26 of them.
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Plan for April :)

Congrats on the book, it's a tenacious endeavor.
A web form that outputs a fully filled out PDF. This could definitely have many uses in both business and government.
I would argue that opinionated design and to a certain extent "magic" on the whole can reduce the amount of security problems.

Compare something like rails with sites that are developed in vanilla PHP.
In my experience it is rare to find a vanilla PHP site that doesn't have a whole menu of vulnerabilities which can be found within ~10 minutes of prodding. Granted this might mean that each site has different vulnerabilities that have to be found on an individual basis rather than some vulnerability that can be attacked by spray and pray tools.

Rails will give you some very sensible defaults that even inexperienced developers get benefit from, just having template HTML sanitised, CSRF tokens and parametrised queries by default stumps a whole load of attacks that you would otherwise have to consider every time you build each web page.
Sensationalist title.

"Antiguan officials say they could make up the money through the operation of a copyright haven, although what that might look like and what its scope would be remains unclear. Antiguan officials have kept details vague and the move has little precedent."

While the U.S. is is a negligible export destination for Antigua ($9.1 million in 2012 [1], or 0.8% of Antigua & Barbuda's GDP), it is a significant source of imports (17% of GDP). This could produce the seed for regulatory innovation. But concluding anything yet is extremely premature.

[1] http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c2484.html
Not sure about them. I bought a "bootstrap" css from them, completely worthless. I would have to re-work all the html because they extended most of the base into their own abstraction.
tl;dr - the implementation I bought didn't use bootstrap.
he is the founder of fandalism, which is doing pretty well i think.
http://www.fandalism.com/pud
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Big deal. If you can't handle it don't become a kernel maintainer. If you think this is bad go try to submit garbage code to the openbsd devs and see what they call you.

If you want to be coddled work for the government or a corporation. This is the hacker way if your skin is so thin you cry to the bullying police you aren't cut out for it. Turn off IRC, join the hand holding php cms dev groups and resume your livejournal pity posts about how cruel the world is
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Just wanted to clarify, since it seems a lot of people seem to think I'm frustrated with being discriminated against. I'm not. It's a fact of life. I got over it pretty early in life. I love being short, it's fucking awesome. If ever you meet me, you'd probably agree I don't have an issue with it.

I wrote this article to illustrate the power of the internet and this industry we work in. I used two examples of actual stories that I've lived through to show a dichotomy. This is not to say there were people set out on destroying me because I was short. That's crazy. I wanted to point out an amazing thing the internet has brought on, and especially how amazing it can be for people who deal in pixels for a living.

That being said, if ever you find yourself telling someone who talks of discrimination that it's their problem, you should probably re-evaluate your stance. This is why discrimination is so difficult to counteract — it's rarely a conscious or malicious process. I discriminate against people every day, and I'm discriminated against every day. To think otherwise is absurd.
I think your concern is legitimate. I imagine that organizations wishing to make use of the app or modify it will imbue it with trust by associating themselves with it - ie a League of Women Voters logo somewhere on the page. As the article points out though, there are a lot of regulations in this space so I'm not sure if that is allowed.

As far as SSL goes yes I think at the very least the production.rb file should declare `config.force_ssl = true`.
@benmmurphy seems to be the only one who knows how to get RCE via Syck (1.8.x YAML parser). https://twitter.com/benmmurphy/status/296025302986014720
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Flat-panel displays killed one of my favorite genres of video games. As far as I know, all attempts at producing an modern, accurate light gun have failed. The Nintento Wii tries to act like a light gun controller, but the accuracy is awful.
Ask HN: Review Habbit - An App to Build Your Ideal Future Self with Habits
Site: www.habbit.me

Some Background: 2 years ago, I was a non-technical college student. At the time, I was homeschooling my younger sister when we had some difficulties with her self-discipline and productivity.

The Problem I'm Trying to Solve: We tried quite a number of productivity apps but they never really worked out in the long run. They were great at efficiently tracking, reminding, or organizing things, but they never really dealt with the psychological problem of motivation and perseverance. Then again, they probably weren't meant to since most developers aren't exactly behavior psychologists and most psychologists share their expertise by writing books, not programs.

And that's how I ended up spending an entire year researching habits, learning to code, and learning to design in photoshop in my spare time. Then it took another year to actually build the app. I managed to take care of all the designs, illustrations, writing, coding, hosting, etc.

First Experimental Solution: And what came out is Habbit, where your main objective is to build your future ideal self (or selves -- you have a future self at every age). And you do that by mastering the habits needed to create that future self, whether it's exercising for future fitness, learning for future knowledge, etc. For more details, there's a walkthrough demo you can try.

Hope you guys can try it out and let me know what works and what doesn't. Ideally, I'd like to make it a useful complement to your arsenal of productivity or self-development tools.
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Letting in immigrants with tech skills would definitely hurt engineering salaries. Would it help the average person who doesn't have a VC fund? Possibly, but deciding that point involves a lot more assumptions about the nature of things.

What assumptions? Do people who are neither software engineers nor VC fund owners not own cell phones? Do they not use Google and Facebook? Etc. etc.
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Can we add an option to open links in new window?
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I find that there's a spot near the base of my thumb when holding with one hand that's hard to hit without worrying about dropping my phone.
It helps if you recognize software as a public good in the economic sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good -- a healthy software ecosystem is much like having good street lights and roads.

Expansive use of nonfree software is like having tollbooths and occasional dark alleys: it works just fine for some, but there's some loss to society when the economics prevent it from being inclusive.
because one way of filtering is by not offering $300K and giving only $100K instead. if the candidate wants more cash upfront, go to wall street. google is testing how much you want to work there. put another way, google attracts engineers who feel that working at google and working on world-changing products is part of the compensation. cash is another part. writing bank software and working in an org where engineers are second class citizens will appeal to fewer developers than writing world-changing software in an org where engineers are first class citizens. banks must pay more to attract engineers of comparable quality as a result.
As a non-American, I've always wondered why online gambling is banned in the US. Is it simply because the casinos and other non-online sources were able to lobby to make it that way?
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Gather an unbiased representative sample of the population. Rate their intelligence and appearance. Plot a graph.

I'll also make the following observations. Girls in a club may appear dumber than they are because they're drunk and having silly fun. Girls in a research lab are quite possibly wearing less makeup than they would wear to a club. It's entirely possible you're looking at the same set of girls, but aren't recognizing that fact because the effects of environment and context are so transformative.
I know some incredibly talented younger people. People who without a doubt will be brilliant developers, much better than me I am sure. Would I hire them into a senior position right now, no chance.

Sometimes being good or even gifted is simply not enough. You need to know when to be pragmatic. When to let someone else win. When to look at everything, not just the lines of code or the pixels but the commercial implications of your decisions.

For example:

> For every hour I worked, the agency billed my time out at a 2,083% markup. To the client (who couldn’t see my height), my time was worth over 20x the amount I was worth to the agency.

That's because they're not just billing for your time. They're billing for the time of the sales person who chased the lead, the time of the team who read the brief and developed the proposal, the time of the people who travelled to the client to deliver the presentation, the time of the secretary who handled the callback and the time of all the people who did all the same things the half a dozen other times where you DIDN'T get the job.
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Oh shit... E-commerce too http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=e-commerce&l=
clickable link: http://www.habbit.me

This is interesting from other productivity apps (namely calendars and to do lists) that I've seen in the past. The witticism in your name reinforces the theme with the story, and the design for 'Mr.Habbit' is also unique. Design aside (which is nice, by the way), the interface is relatively easy to use and I've set a few habits for tomorrow.

edit: Found some areas of improvement, I'll add more to it if I can think of anything.

- The site (mainly images) take some time to load, and vary between three to five seconds. Still an OK waiting time -- not the best. More importantly, it takes some waiting time for logging in and out. The clock animation also lags a bit as it turns and zooms in. I like that it goes from sketchbook / drawing to cg art.

- There isn't an easy way to go to the "future self" section of the site other than manually typing or bookmarking "habbit.me/futureself". The other way is through clicking "Enter Time" at your account's dashboard. Might it be better to start right at the future self page (especially for logged in users), rather than starting at the dashboard every time?

That's pretty much all I can think of, if there's any more I'll add to this post. With a few improvements, I think that you definitely can go far and I wish you the best of luck.
In Firefox clicking a link with your middle mouse button will open the link in a new tab (or window, depending on your about:config setting).

IE 8 opens a new tab on middle mouse click.

A new tab is not identical to a new window, but does mean you don't lose your place on the HN page just because you clicked a link.
Glad to see continuous effort from Apple in battling security threats.

Grumpy to see that this page doesn't render correctly in the latest version of Chrome.
I was fired from a startup, and I was their best developer. Needless to say, they are now going down. Making the engineering team political will doom any startup.
I would have thought all the smart people in India/China/where ever would go to the USA to get a first class education and then head back home to set up a company to service their US customers?
He posts on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
Want someone well known to help you? Ask for help with a really specific issue that should take them less than 5 minutes. Then, include something that demonstrates very clearly you are the sort of person who actually acts on advice.

This alone is so rare, it will get you noticed.
After I read Outliers, I actually believed 10,000 hours myth for sometime until I realized Gladwell is journalist who can convince you with any argument with series of anecdotes as opposed to scientist who gathers data and calculates stats. The turning point for me was mountaineering training which IMO is one of the most demanding "sport". It was very quickly apparent to me that for same amount of conditioning efforts I was no where close in performance to people who were "born with it". As I read more books on mountaineering it was clear that elite or even moderately competent people in this field has significantly larger lung size, fast lactic acid clearance and extremely efficient slow burn metabolism. Most of these comes from genes and with practice you can improve things to some degree and get much better with it but you simply can't climb 8000m without Oxygen like Ed Viester did or do North Face under 2.5 hours like Ueli Steck or speed climb 3 major Yosemite walls in 24 hours like Dean Potter does.

All nature vs nurture debates end in one simple conclusion: It's not neither nor or either or, it's both.
Hey, http-kit can be used to from java directly:
https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit/blob/master/test/java/o...

Not recommended! The API is very lowlevel.

Maybe you can try to tweak the max allowed open file to a larger value. The default is about 1024, that how you just get 1000(I guess). Jetty is quite good at concurrency, you can double check it.

Why not try Clojure? Your web dev's productivity increase by few times instantly.
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Make false flagging illegal! It's always possible to improve a dumb idea with a dumber idea.
Sounds like a job for Greasemonkey/user scripts to me.