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Ugh, I really hate newspapers and the like that stretch out words and letters randomly just to have it make a perfect block. Random spacing to meet your criteria of prettiness does not improve readability. This person centers too much is his problem, I think. Just left align, read down the page with every line starting in the same spot, stop when done. Yay. Most web readers don't even read every word anyway, they skim, and you are producing something anti-skimmable by not keeping a nice solid left line where all the text starts wherever possible.
Ask HN: TOGAF
Any opinion regarding TOGAF Certification? Currently at a "plateau" of my career (14 years in Java+Web) and am considering moving forward. Thoughts?
I don't think that there is any double standard here. I think most of us who have driven in most countries have noticed that there are some truly incompetent human drivers on the road who raise risk for everyone. It's enough for self-driving cars to reduce the risk of traveling from place to place. If I must travel, why not let the machine do the driving, while I think about my work with full attention or engage in undistracted conversation with fellow passengers? You are of course entitled to travel only by means like commercial airlines or railroad lines that will not be self-driving as soon as some cars will. I think the regulators of highway traffic in each country will make reasonable trade-offs about the timing and conditions under which self-driving cars will be allowed on the roads I travel. I look forward to that day, having seen how local human drivers drive.
Ok, thanks for the advice.
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An SD storage slot is not equivalent to having more space on the internal disk drive. It might be fine for storing a large music library or something like that, but for applications where disk latency or bandwidth really matter, there's just no comparison.
An even better ploy would be a large effort of people publishing e-books of short stories all with the term space marine in the title and the text.

IANAL, but I believe the more widely used and genericized a term becomes, the more likely the trademark is to become unenforceable unless Games Workshop is willing to sue everyone who gets involved.
I thought it looked familiar. I remember when this came out in 2008.

It's a shame it's not updated...
Imagine that some crazy schizophrenic-paranoid-whatnot-wacko manage to create a botnet made of 100 000 autonomous cars and decide to make them accelerate simultaneously and crash into each other...

Note that we're living in a world when hardly a day passes by without some major security exploit being discovered and hardly a day passes by without hearing about some foreign goverment taking control of domestic computers. What if Iran manages to gain control of all the autonomous vehicles? Isn't that worth a thousand atomic bomb?

And, yes, there's a psychological problem when there's no human to blame but just a computer or a software (and, actually, ultimately the entire chain up to politician that allowed such car to be used on the road and software programmers to write that software). It's alienating to society as a whole and it's a real issue. People are trying to find solution to deal with this problem.
Rye looks cool, but the main pull of using jQuery (or a jQuery "module" as I would like) is the sheer amount of battle every single line of the library has seen, as the OP said.
All mobile first means is that instead of scaling CSS down for smaller devices, we start from there and work our way up instead. So far it's smarter defaults, little bit less code, etc.
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Also MySpace was a failure?? It sold for $500 Million. Ask Tom Anderson what he thinks about it.
Clickable link: https://www.gauthify.com/
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Surprising reasons apps get rejected from the Apple App Store
Yeah, this is pretty standard stuff for artist statements. One of my favorite part about going to art shows is finding the pieces with the most pretentious descriptions.
On my shortlist of people who I read/think about any time I might feel complacent about my own development.
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But Apple's SSD doesn't have 128 GB of usable space; it has 121 GB. Other companies that advertise 128 GB give you 128 GB of usable space.
You mean like domestic broadband routers?

How many of these are part of botnets? A huge lot.

Software ain't secure yet. I'm not saying it can't be. But we're simply not there yet.
Holy ignorance about layout.

Balancing headlines and the like is complete standard everywhere. Abusing letter spacing has nothing whatsoever to do with it and is generally frowned upon. If you see that someone made a mistake.

You are clueless.
Interesting quote by Zawinski in the comments:

Third: obviously I got Kelly’s joke about “streams of
bytes”, uh, that’s why I quoted it. It’s funny, and it
makes the point (which I fully agree with) that the
decades-old Unix “pipe” model is just plain dumb,
because it forces you to think of everything as
serializable text, even things that are fundamentally
not text, or that are not sensibly serializable.
Here is one example, marijuana for muscle spasticity:

http://blog.norml.org/2010/02/17/%E2%80%98gold-standard%E2%8...

The vast majority of commonly used plant medicines have undergone at least some scientific testing. The efficacy of specific drugs for specific conditions varies from extremely beneficial to completely useless or outright dangerous, the same as with any other medicine. And as with other medicines there are a lot of gaps and uncertainties in the research, although with plant medicines its usually because of lack of funding rather than because of bias stemming from the funding mechanisms.
I only see it being used on startup projects.
ditto the mona lisa
The simplest starting point for C++/Java programmers is the question:
"what if the ';' was an infix operator that you can redefine?"

Then most of them start to understand the power of the concept.
My mistake, I thought the question was about standalone applications in C, not libraries.
Well there's one hour and three seconds I'll never get back.

Neat idea - will be great for timing board games.
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Edward talks about the monad laws, especially the associativity one. But that is kind of simplistic, because the domain over which the laws apply can be shaped quite complexly, leading, for example, to IO or State being "monads". I fail to see how the associativity law is very useful in reasoning about IO / State. All I can see is that, syntactically, the parse tree (a; b;) c; executes the same as a; (b; c;) under a left-most evaulation rule.
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NASA isn't a public corporation – although it seems rather unlikely that a disaster getting Congressional attention would be much easier – but Thiokol was a private business and would thus theoretically have a strong incentive not to lose a key contract due to failures in their components.

The problem was that they perceived the risk of perceived flaws as high enough that they chose not to act. Market incentives aren't always as simple as they might seem at first glance.
> GPL guys feel ignore[d], BSD guys feel elated.

Well that's quite a big "speak for yourself" if I ever saw one.

If you're only in it for being recognized, ANY project you embark upon will be a huge disappointment, at least for quite a long while. On the contrary, I think most FOSS projects solve a need, particularly (and yes, sometimes only) for the lead developer. If it solves the needs of others, they will jump in. The license doesn't really enter into that part of the equation. It's only about whether or not you want to make a call on what that community around your work looks like and evolves.

You're very much forcing the argument by making it all about the attention of "large proprietary software companies". But there are... other entities besides large proprietary software companies and I rather enjoy seeing where those people are going.
This was a really good read for me: The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy (link: http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html)
Interesting he left out capitalism in his list of ideology -isms in spite of its imposition, maintenance, and exploitation by force and violence that is simply more covert and pernicious. Once we are on the way to understanding that violence is not only the clobbering someone over the head, but also the institution and system in place that advantages one over another, then we will be getting somewhere.
Petitioning to have a government official fired is the same as trying to collect money to hire mercenaries?

This idea that people in the government are unfireable is a disease. If you fuck up in the public sector, you get sacked. Expecting the same of the government is not equivalent to torture and murder.
I'm constantly entertained by the number of people that endorse me either for (1) skills I wouldnt claim to have or (2) skills that I may have but they would not be in a position to judge.
I think the author is proposing moving more words down to latter lines, not increasing white space between the words.

Edit: check out their demo to see what I mean: http://adobe-webplatform.github.com/balance-text/demo/index....
First of all, start reading here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userex...

(It's important to have at least a basic understanding of the platform's UX guidelines, even if you leave the detailed work for someone else.)
I'm surprised it's not obvious that Obama is leftist, but...

He supports raising taxes over cutting spending. He placed two leftist justices on the supreme court. He has cut military spending significantly. Supports gun control. Repealed don't ask don't tell. Supports gay marriage. Supports carbon taxes. Favors expanding social welfare programs. Favors debt and inflation over balanced budgets. Raised the minimum wage.

Conversely, issues where he falls on the right side of the spectrum are few and I would challenge someone to come up with a list.

Also, don't confuse his accomplishments with his political alignment. For example, I'm sure he would have created a single payer healthcare system if he could.
There's an important difference between matlab and R: in matlab matrices & arrays are the most important data structure, while in R data frames are the most important. There is no "array language" underlying R - working with arrays and matrices in R is usually painful, and your life is much easier if you stick with data frames. (This is something that could be fixed in R by a package, but no one has done so yet)
Generally it is considered good form to release PoC exploit code that illustrates the weakness without causing significant harm.

The buffer overflow is the demonstration. There is enough other work that shows how to create payloads.
This is awesome! Any idea what size of the market this is?
It isn't legal. They weren't interested in the insurance, they just wanted to use that phone on a different provider or to get a new phone.
Just a note about his 4G/LTE base station project, you can replace that relatively expensive USRP with one of these: http://www.nuand.com
People in India spent an average of 11 minutes to make one cent? I must be reading those statistics incorrectly. I know work is cheap on MTurk but it's not THAT cheap.
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It all depends on the type of game.

Not everyone does AAA games.
You can't access my tank without a key. The indicator won't show unless the car is on. How do you know my gas is running low and fill it without my key?
If you want to actually learn something about Galileo, try this.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8fKBZlKmU&feature=relmfu
" it's the job of any state to regulate actions that cause serious harm to people."

Shooting someone is already a crime and always has been.

Posessing a magazine with more than 7 rounds is not an action at all, and does not harm anyone.

The reason the parent used the word "nanny state" is because he's describing laws that prohibit things for which there is no victim.

Possessing a magazine does not cause harm to anyone. There are already laws against causing harm to people.
That assumes that the cars have some mechanism to wirelessly communicate over very large distances. Are you sure these cars are being designed with mesh-style communications?
There are certain restrictions thought.

If you need to interact with Android, all APIs are done via JNI and certain audio APIs have only Java APIs available.
About 0.5% I think. Plenty of room to grow. And Bitcoin should grow a lot more, too.
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If you enjoy this movie you should also watch http://www.stealthisfilm.com/
For many, this was never an argument, but a wish.
Wouldn't that make sense, given the youth of the language (3 years old) and the (justifiable) reluctance of a company to switch its codebase to another language? Most tech companies that have started in the last three years are probably in the startup category.
What a Difference a Few Years Makes
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We haven't announced it yet, but we're working on this as part of what we're doing at BootstrapHero - http://www.bootstraphero.com

We were targeting to have it out more for 2.x to 3.0 as that will be a bigger jump.
Crazy to think BTC have doubled in price since August. I wonder how many people are just buying up BTC and waiting
The same way the system allows you to type in 0213 without blurting out a big error the moment you type 02. Just don't validate the input while the user is still inputting it.

Secondly, remember this is for credit card expirations and not normal dates. You can probably make an assumption that 11/30 (November 2030) isn't currently valid input either. I have never seen an expiration date further than 10 years in the future. Although more research on the topic would be needed to figure out the true restrictions.
Demonstrating a precedent for prudent scepticism about collective action on the Internet.
Nice project. I have several questions :

1. Does this

`Asset Rack is not a build a tool. It never writes files to disk, there is no "build step". Everything happens "just in time".`

means that it will compile my assets on every request with no cache?

2. Can you be more specific how can someone contribute to your project by creating external modules? Your tutorial link is 404.

https://github.com/techpines/asset-rack-new/tree/master/lib#...
Since birds are dinosaurs, I wonder what the evolutionary history is of the big birds like emus and dodos. Did they come from medium-sized dinos?
I'd recommend you to read _coders at work_ from Peter Seibel. It's some interviews with top programmers such as jwz, Peter Norvig, etc.
Is the medium particularly important? Would you feel better if it were all organized with newletters over the postal system?

Or are you just afraid of collective action in general?
That was really great, thanks.
On a second thought I'm thinking about something: everybody here seems so convinced that AI is so advanced and computer software so secure that the benefits here far outweight the drawbacks (including the loss of more and more individual liberty at the benefit of giga-corporations)...

So what if there are actually zero dead? The car so good, with a feedback loop so fast that you simply can't have accidents anymore...

Will the speed limits be then raised to 100mph in the street and 200mph or more on the highway?
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> Does anyone here really think that SOPA was indefinitely tabled because Congressmembers suddenly read the bill and had a change of mind? Or was it because their offices received more calls and emails in than they likely did in the run-up to the Iraq and Afghan wars combined?

Or, alternatively, because the executive branch believed it already had the authority the bill would have provided (since they shut down MegaUpload the very next day).

I'm very cynical about things like 'awareness', because it's all too easy for politicians and lobbyists, who think about these issues every day, to slip something else by eventually. Most of the policy changes that we deride today as regressive were themselves not a 'first attempt'.
The economics won't support it being your car for long, at that point.

When you can just ask for a car to pick you up and one will arrive, corporate robo-taxi fleets will have economies of scale over family cars sent off to earn their keep. With ordinary people not needing to buy a car, facilities for maintaining and supplying them will dry up too, as the manufacturing effort shifts to taxi-ready cars for fleets. And the price will shift up out of your range to reflect the earning potential.

The robo-car will end the private car as anything but a hobby comparable to the classic car.
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I don't know about you, but I'd watch the heck out of a dramatization of his Pi speed breaking record.
Just got the reply, thanks!
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IOS - UITableView sticky search bar and section header behavior
Compare that number to the 1,500,000 times a year, according to the DoJ, that guns are used defensively by intended victims to stop violent crime. Constantly talking about how many people have been killed while ignoring how many have been saved is profoundly dishonest.

The rate of violent crime in the USA is around 640 per 100,000 while in the UK it is closer to 2,500 per 100k.

Clearly banning guns doesn't lower violent crime. In fact, in the UK, after they banned guns, violent gun crime skyrocketed.... because the criminals knew that their victims were disarmed.
For the sake of discussion, I'm going to throw some fuel on the "should you go to college?" fire. One of the things that's evident in Bellard's achievements is that he has a tremendous depth of domain specific knowledge, especially in signal processing. This is unsurprising, because he studied at Ecole Polytechnique, France's premier engineering school, specializing in telecommunications. See page 4-6 of this PDF: http://www.freearchive.org/o/55dfc9935a719fc36ab1d1656797273....
Holy hell this software looks gorgeous, as does their website.
I don't have any specific thoughts on TOGAF Certification per-se, but my overall thought is this: Any certification is only as valuable as some set of potential employers find it to be. If you can identify a set of employers, that represent organizations that you would want to work for, that value TOGAF, then it might be worth it.

Another thought is: Despite what you might get from the HN echo-chamber, I believe that there are very few situations where a certification is going to hurt you. The question is more, "does it help enough to pay for itself?"

Do you have any certifications now? What kind of roles are you looking to move into? I'm guessing you are thinking "architect" type roles?

Some other things to consider as ways to expand your career, depending on your current situation and where you want to go... project management, agile methodology type certifications? How about what used to be called SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect)? Or, if moving into management is on the table, how about starting to take business classes (not necessarily an MBA, but something to give you a "hook" into the business side of things) or something along the lines of Six Sigma or Lean training / certification?

Do you want to be a CTO eventually? CIO? CEO? Something else?

Also consider the "elephant in the room" here on HN: entrepreneurship. Maybe you could forget TOGAF and all this stuff, and jump straight to CEO by starting your own company. Have any project ideas sitting on the back burner? Could you identify some problems you've seen in your 14+ year career and come up with some novel solutions?
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Matte LCDs (like the outdoor HP and Lenovo screens) are much less reflective than others, although they can't do direct sunlight.

eInk in all its variants (including PixelQi) is out of the question for my use, as I need to display a live video feed as part of the application.

There's no technical problem to make sunlight readable LCDs - the technique behind the 3M "privacy screens" would work perfectly for that. In fact, I would have been able to use those privacy screens against sunlight, if they weren't embedded in glossy film :(

The market apparently does not exist - the only sunlight readable LCDs one can find come with super-hardened computers that can swim in water and withstand falling from the 6th floor. They cost $3,000 or so, and have a Core 1 Duo, if you are lucky.
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> The police actually can do very little without a warrant, and that's for a reason.

That used to be the case, but not so much anymore - [very] unfortunately.
I do see reference to the petitions in news stories though. When reporters write, "... and already well over 25,000 people have signed the petition to the White House..." I think it lends credibility to the story. If these petitions are good for nothing else, they stand as a monument to public outcry.
The run-time of that particular implementation of the Knuth-Plass algorithm is quadratic in paragraph length, which is too slow for web browsers (which might have to deal with very long paragraphs). However, the algorithm can be implemented to run in O(n) for large n, or O(n log n) with smaller fixed constants. Though you might have some issues with the line breaks made by the browser.
Technology improvements that enable decreased price combined with massive demand should cause competition and price drops.
I'm sure longevity is good for taking photos. I bet it wouldn't be so great for compiles on a dev box. Of course, no one would ever do that. It would be just too slow.
Robo-cars in taxi mode won't stop, they'll go from one job to the next, and they won't park except at times of low demand. Unlike drive-it-yourself cars, they won't eat up urban space for parking lots, and the total car fleet will be much smaller because the allocation only has to be "one per currently travelling commuter", more or less, rather than "one per human".
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Do you really believe that if all guns disappeared tomorow, those who want to kill themselves would not find another way?

Because thats what most "gun related deaths" are-- suicides.

But it pads the statistics to make people who aren't paying close attention more fearful to talk about "gun related deaths" than "murders with guns", and it also helps avoid the fact that the murder rate in countries where guns have been banned is much higher-- even if they have to use knives to do it. (how often have you seen the murder rate in Britain brought up vs. the number of "gun related deaths" brought up there in this debate?)
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> So, it's okay for tens of thousands of human drivers to be killed while driving, but inconceivable for tens of people to die at the hands of a computer?

I think you summed it up nicely. That's the way the general public will react.
I think Bit Coin is a fad... it will be replaced. Canada's 'Mint Chip' is catching up quickly and it is a superior product/currency.