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One thing this reflects is the growing uniformity within parties. Democrats have had the Senate for the entirety of Obama's term, so objectionable bills have hit a previous roadblock. Looking at GWB's vetoes, all but one occurred with a Democratic Senate. Similarly, all of Clinton's vetoes occurred after the Republicans took the Senate in 1995.

Edit: To clarify a bit - The Northeastern secular Republican (Lincoln Chafee, Arlen Specter) and the Southern culturally conservative, pro-social program Democrat (Zell Miller) are both largely casualties of a system where increased awareness in the modern news cycle makes it much easier to paint an individual for the all the actions of their party, leading to a more ideologically pure Senate where all bills that pass reflect the controlling party's ideology.
What's going on is that Alexey probably something to run away from, probably monetary: hence "fuck off to Costa Rica" and references to $200,000-$300,000.
Well, Valve owns Steam, their publishing arm/store/DRM. And like EA now sells their games with their online store/DRM "Origin", Valve does the same with theirs, Steam!

Yeah, they get more by shoehorning people into Steam than they would lose from not selling DRM-free versions.

There may have been a point to stop this from growing into what it's become early on... But it's too far gone to be broken free of save a major scandal. And even then, it'd probably take a few. It's just by far and large a non-invasive tool. They've worked out many kinks.

I'm not saying it's perfect, nor am I saying we should be happy with it. But it's avoided the major problems most other DRM efforts see in "making things more difficult for legit users than pirates". I haven't had any issues with any aspects in years.
Good idea! Thanks for the input.
I'm actually surprised that this hasn't already been done. Laser technology has been available for a while.
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With an empty workflow, this is the result of `drake --version`.

$ time drake --version
Drake Version 0.1.0
Target not found: ...
drake --version 5.42s user 0.18s system 188% cpu 2.969 total

For short scripts that you should be running in the shell, this is really bad. I expect basic make commands on small projects to be effectively instant. Compilation might take a bit longer, but 5.4s to print the version points to a 5s overhead on all executions.

I'm guessing this is due to the JVM overhead, so that pretty much says this project isn't suited to the JVM. The JVM is great for long running processes, and applications where the overhead is a very small percentage of the total running time, but if it takes 5s longer than `make` to print it's version, that's really not a good sign.

This is a fantastic idea, and I will definitely be using it. But this overhead needs fixing.
Fitting things together is important, but it exists entirely for the purpose of creating things, which is ultimately in service of end users. Fitting things together is mostly an implementation detail.
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I agree with your entire post except for this one clause

> cruelty and anonymity go hand in hand

Anonymity and cruelty are orthogonal concepts - there is nothing about anonymity that implies or requires cruelty, and the connection runs the other way just as often, but as human beings, we find it easier to focus on and remember the negative more so than the positive.
Oh, I know. The main reason I'm aware of it is from having to work around and disable it!
I stopped worrying much about so-called bad code a long time ago. Reading eye-watering, mind-numbing code is practically a pre-requisite for working on any non-trivial enterprise system at a business of any reasonable size. In many ways, you come to enjoy the challenge of it. I've had to read code written in an almost obfuscated manner in languages I'd never previously worked with before. You get used to it. You learn to read and grok just about anything.

On the topic of massive Perl scripts, I once worked on implementing a system that was an unholy maze of Perl, Pro-C, Pro-COBOL, Oracle Forms, Java, and PL/SQL. It was the first time I'd ever had to read and write Perl and Pro-C. I even remember reading Pro-COBOL at one point to debug a problem. Good times.

Since the above is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I'll clarify that I certainly think we should strive to write excellent code and constructively help each other to that end. We should probably be very slow to dispense judgement but quick to share carefully considered, contextually relevant advice. You really do need to understand the context under which something was written to make any useful statements about goodness or badness (which is still probably not that helpful a measure). Something that looks bad at first may be fantastic work considering the circumstances under which it was written.
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I think airport body scanners and abuse of webcams by school personnel are memories too fresh in the public's mind for this idea to gain traction.
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Ask HN: What's your blog?
So along the lines of a "Ask HN: What's your startup", I'm sure a lot of us have blogs that we write on that don't get a lot of exposure. So link your blog here with a short description about your topics.

I'll go first:
http://devcomsystems.com.au/blog
Main topic at the moment is documenting the journey of building a web app for the web app challenge. Creating a $5k/mo web app in 6 months.
That's really not what I'm saying, actually. I think Google continues to be a fabulously innovative place. I loved my time there, and fully expect it to continue being revolutionary and transformative.

But the constraints of keeping a billion people's needs in the back of your mind are real, and they impose limitations on what you consider worthwhile. It just wouldn't make sense for Google to study Chicago Public School utilization data, for instance - it's waaaaay too small a focus - but I find it deeply fun and meaningful, and not having to make something bulletproof for 1/6 the planet to potentially use just means it gets out the door quicker.
Cost - whatever.

Safety delay time can also be worked out. Maybe there can be a Rambo setting for people who need it to work instantly. It could include a "black box" chip to keep track of when Rambo is turned on and when Rambo is turned off (to keep track if the user is diligent about safety or not).
Unrelated concepts, maybe, but by definition they are not orthogonal in the real world, unfortunately. Statistically, I'd be willing to wager people act worse when they think nobody is looking. Anonymity just extends this effect elsewhere.

People are much less likely to be cruel when people they appreciate could be made aware of it.
Handy tool to check if Java is installed/enabled on your machine.
So how is the mystery of observed isotopic decay rate variations (with Earth/Moon/Sun spin/orbit period correlations) going these days?
That's now two solid results that indicate things we thought were constants, are not.
What's the bet they are related?
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Shrug. I don't usually take Facebook's side on things, but Twitter should expect this kind of response after shutting out third party developers themselves.
As someone who sold around a million dollars last year on Amazon through my company, I can add something to this. Amazon's margins on me are great. Amazon collects 20% of every sale we make through them at no effort. At the same time, marketplace revenue is their fastest growing revenue source and is already enormous. We also pay them more to fulfill a certain percent of these orders for us through FBA.
Most code that I didn't write is ugly. I think everyone feels this way.
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On Amazon, you are supporting small retailers! Anything not sold directly by Amazon has a great chance of being sold by one the hundreds of thousands of small businesses on amazon marketplace, mine included.
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They made really bad bets on consumer products. For Linksys they bought it to get into the entry level / small business market as well. Another bad bet. The competition has been stepping it up to the point where these products overlap with Cisco's existing platforms. Spending the money to develop a separate hardware/software platform doesn't make a lot of sense. They can just downsize/license option their existing platforms into that space and save themselves a ton of money.
I say "booooooo!" not because I'm some user-first purest, but because I think this is just a bad idea. Facebook and Twitter DON'T need to be at war. They just don't. They're different, and they always will be.

Twitter deserves no sympathy, but I don't think Facebook needs to be doing this, with Instagram OR to Vine.
Out of curiosity, what country are you from?
This is the exact kind of blocking I was thinking of. Merely blocking the domain would be enough to prevent access from basic users but maybe not knowledgeable pirates, similar to what has happened with The Pirate Bay in the UK and ISP's blocking access to it.
The US will eventually legalize online gambling and capture their market. Then the WTO will end the suspension of copyright and then the US wins.

For good gambling discussion: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation/
I think it goes to show the incredible depth of engineering in the U.S. to go from start in 2002 to humans in 2015, 13 years, with all new tools, designs, engineering and manufacture with so few people and such little monetary investment. It's astonishing...
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Side note, I weirdly got to use Vine in its pre-alpha testing 6 months ago because my friend used to work with the founder at their previous company. One day, when he was showing it to me, we noticed a new user (there were only like 12). His user name: "Jack".

The were acquired the next day. Just a fun side story.
Apple is now doing app sales. Devs, go for it.
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A few reasons...
1) Mobile is hot right now and skilled developers are still hard to come by. Employers who need a mobile developer are in a sellers market.
2) High quality apps can be built with a single skill set, if you know your SDK. The good web guys I know need to be experts at multiple languages, architectures, and services. I have one skill that I'm good at, but because no one else has it my career has gotten a nice jump to it compared to my classmates.
3) There is room to be disruptive. The web is 20 years old. iOS development is 4 years old and Android is three. There's a lot less baggage in mobile and a lot more room for a small team of developers to impact the platform.
4) It's cheap to get started with. For under $750 you can put together a serviceable lab to work in.

The bottom line is there are low barriers to entry and a high rate of return.
>You are not your code.

The code is the code. Not the person.
I always thought Friday was a fantastic deconstruction of the genre, whether intentional or not. The banality of the lyrics are in truth not significantly worse than the lyrics of the average pop song. How many song lyrics boil down to the same lame refrain "we went to a club, got so drunk, danced so much, and had so much fun, yeah, partying! whoo!"? Most, but not all, songs of that genre dress up their banality in slightly more interesting turns of phrase but ultimately it's the same thing. Compare "Friday" to "Like a G6", for example.
True, and I still haven't heard anybody explain what the original objections to it were.
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It's good that you haven't had any problem with your Time Capsule, especially overheating. Due to poor engineering and industrial design, there are a lot of people that have had issues with that and had to physically modify the case [1].

In general Apple has a solid history of various problems (I'd speculate mostly due to design decisions taking over engineering concerns) with their hardware - "antennagate", Mac Mini overheating, dust inside DVD drive slots, Time Capsule and Apple TV overheating [2].

I guess there are more, but these are the problems people around me have actually stumbled upon.

Not exactly what I would call a manufacturer of durable hardware.

[1] http://leonidas.org/2012/04/13/time-capsule-reborn/

[2] http://olitee.com/2010/04/overheating-apple-tv/
Didn't they make a lot of money and then spend it on new fulfillment centers? Nothing wrong with investing capital into your business. If you just accumulate cash and sit on it, your company won't grow.
Defeost, I like you. That was a really good reply, I completely agree with all of your points. I would love to be able to play a more important part in shaping the direction of this country's morals especially on topics such as copyright infringement. It's a very complex and definitely hard thing to debate, there are pros and cons no matter what side you choose to stand on. Definitely agree on the problems front. Indigenous health is something that definitely has a long way to go and is very much a serious problem worth more time and consideration as opposed to a first world problem which at this stage hasn't even happened yet.
While cool, note that this seems to be both incomplete and not up to date. The full list can be viewed with a search like http://www.legislation.govt.nz/all/results.aspx?search=ta_al... and the results are easily spidered - I did it a few years ago and ended up with ~5000 files totalling ~375MB.
Hi from Jonathan (cofounder). Thanks for the awesome detailed feedback. We hear you and are already working on (or have it on the near-term roadmap) almost all of this. I apologize for any frustration thus far. I really do.

Perhaps this will help until then: (1) You can click anywhere that isn't the splash screen (any dark area) to dismiss it. (2) You can jump straight to parts by URL https://circuithub.com/parts or (3) by the big button on the splash screen in the lower right.
Wow. This is why HN is incredible, I ask a random question and someone with a related PhD answers! Thank you for your time, that was interesting and enlightening.
Kudos to Fedora for making such a bold move. Oracle's commitment to MySQL is questionable. So, even though MariaDB does not have MySQL's 'brand' recognition, it's completely backward compatible with MySQL (at least till now). And I think most people can just switch to MariaDB without any issues.
Speaking as a willy-enabled educator, getting male viewpoints on getting more girls into tech would actually be pretty valuable. I just spent a couple of weeks in another state talking to women who were involved with evangelising tech to girls, but I feel that their approach wouldn't be as successful for me. This is one of the things that I want to focus on in the future; we have so many smart girls coming through in the math and science areas that tech could be really good for, even if it wasn't their main focus.

Also, "pink data" - jebus.
This is basically the case where you don't (or it's infeasible to) capture the dependences fully, so you want to rebuild everything from target onwards after some change.

In that case: "rm target; make target"
Thanks for pointing that out, much appreciated :)
My Netgear WNR3500L has been nothing but rock solid since I bought it. The router is advertised to be compatible with Tomato, DD-WRT, and Open-WRT. I think I have had to reboot the router a grand total of one time, and it was completely my fault.
Obviously an 18 year felony is much more serious but I wonder how tech companies view misdemeanors such as DUI, Possession of Marijuana, Domestic Battery, etc?
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It seems like it may be available: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/178aev/valve_pushes_o...
Growing up I was friends with a kid who was a pathological liar. It was very frustrating. He would deny it even when you called him out.
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I guess karma is a bitch. I have no sympathy for Twitter as they've pulled similar moves that have screwed over third party developers as well. What goes around, comes around and it's Twitter's turn to get a taste of their own medicine.

This isn't a deal breaker for me using Vine, I've found it to be a really fun application I think is going to take off. and definitely compete with Instagram.
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Yep, it sure is...I still have it just for the torch :)
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Or just a Beta on Linux before other platforms.
You didn't limit it to Asperger's but you basically limited it to Asperger's-like syndromes. (i.e. "due to the way their brains are wired".) References to bullying and whatever else are superfluous when you're basically chalking it up to equivalent syndromes (regardless of the particular names).

And yes, there are some individuals who legitimately have Asperger's or some other disorder that affects their interactions. However, this is a rarity, and it's unhealthy that our industry talks about these things as if they are the normal case. It does the industry a disservice when we accept inappropriate behavior and don't call it out as inappropriate and unacceptable. Most people who act like jerks do not have any kind of diagnosable disorder. In fact, most people who act like jerks are just normal people who are not normally jerks, but occasionally act that way for various reasons.

I disagree that your proposal is meaningful. I say this partly because you didn't actually propose anything concrete, but mostly because this is only useful for someone who wants to change the way they interact. This requires that these people admit that their behavior is inappropriate, so we should start there. Then we can move to conversation about how to change if they agree that they should.

Imagine if we were having this conversation about racism or sexism. Would you be dismissing the behavior as a result of a syndrome or bullying or whatever? Would you propose that we should be suggesting a "pragmatic mental model"?

As for the "fundamental attribution error", you're just as guilty as anyone else. "He's doing that because he's got Asperger's" is no more situational than "He's doing that because he's a jerk". A situational explanation might involve the anonymization of Internet interactions or the dehumanization that comes from discussing a person's code vs the person.
I don't think your post is sincere enough, you should reach out to him personally. You come off as a bit too pleased as well, tone a down a notch.
Valve has Dota 2, which at this point is pretty much a license to print money. Steam is going to be around for a _very_ long time.
Node.js didn't bring anything new to the table. We've had event loops and non-blocking code for almost half a century.

Don't lump JS into this.
Tech companies in the bay area would probably wonder WTF you got arrested for marijuana or other minor drug offenses.

DUI I think would be a more serious issue, depending on the area. In the Bay Area, DUIs are pretty frowned upon, since there are other transportation options. I think they're much more accepted in rural areas.

I know plenty of tech people who have convictions for assault (bar fights), drugs, computer crime (particularly as kids), etc.
My son and I played so much of HL and the mods, AHL was awesome! This is so cool. I even bought a new gaming PC, first time in years, couldn't get it without Windows 8 but it won't be running that. It will be running Ubuntu just like this machine and my laptop. Thanks Valve! Take my money!
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They're not at war from a user-facing product sense, but they are completely at war from an advertising and brand promotion standpoint.

Each wants to make their own social platform more attractive for advertisers. Things like this affect that notion.

But I agree in that they certainly are being more aggressive towards each other.
Relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

This has actually been studied academically (the "online disinhibition effect"). Anonymity definitely seems to correlate with poor behavior, even if it's not a causal relationship.
One of the reason why I keep my mouth shut in code reviews unless something is very critical is precisely this reason. One of the easiest ways to ruin your relationship with your colleagues, or any one for that matter is to comment on their work.

Heck developers are still fine, try talking to a doctor about some other doctor's work, even if all you utter is a minor work of praise for the other guy you will receive nothing short of total angry response loaded with utmost display of ego possible.

Never needlessly criticize someone's work or praise a competitor in front of the person. Unless something big is at stake.

Everything is subjective and everything is personal. That's how human beings work.
Hey, thanks for trying out our tool!

First of all, --version shouldn't try to run any targets. This seems like a bug. Thanks.

Yes, you guessed correctly - this is the JVM startup time. I just hate JVM for that. We experimented with Nailgun and Drip to eliminate it - Nailgun is problematic because it uses a shared JVM for all runs, and it can get quite hairy sometimes. In the long run, Nailgun is almost certainly not an answer, since it assumes things we have no control over (i.e. Clojure runtime) don't do destructive tear down. Drip is a bit more promising, but we didn't succeed running Drake under it (simpler things worked fine though).

So, we're still looking into it, and we're looking for other ideas, too.

In the meantime, you could run Drake under REPL:

(-main "...")

The only problem is that Drake calls System/exit but we can add a flag ("--repl") that would prevent it from doing so, and you'll stay in REPL.

Thoughts?

P.S. JVM is unfortunate but Clojure is a fantastic language for something like Drake.
I attended a session on SequenceL today at RTECC today [1] and was fairly impressed.

Some questions I have:

1. What are the licensing costs like for the compiler/runtimes?

2. Do you know how it works behind the scenes?

3. How much speed-up can be expected? I understand this is very specific to the application/algorithm at hand, and this is where #2 above helps.

4. Are there other such languages/systems?

[1] http://rtecc.com/
Thank you! I thought I had seen Otherside somewhere. Since it was a bit back, I never would have equated such an emotional / well produced song with the same artist as Thrift Shop (also exceptionally produced, but such a different emotive affect).

I'm always interested in when artists can "recreate" quality versus a single one-and-done, i.e. can they continually output "hits" versus just a singular confluence (luck, the right creative spot, a band member, who knows).
AT&T has been unlocking off-contract iPhones for less than a year (of the over 5 years they've carried it):

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/6/2930642/att-sim-unlock-ipho...

And who knows if they'll change their mind again in the face of T-Mobile's spectrum refarming?
Now we know who to 'blame'
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Very true,

Everything in this world is subjective. When you talk about someone's work you are inevitable bringing some degree of comparison into it, and human ego has huge troubles dealing with that.

Nobody ever forgets an insult, it comes back sooner or later.