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What just blows my mind, is that Adria keeps referring to this as an issue against females. The comment (as clarified by the terrible perpetrator elsewhere) was about a part of male physiology and not directed towards any person, male or female. She just keeps repeating how this is some sort of female issue. I frankly don't see the connection. I do see how some puritanical folks could be upset, because you know, sex is terrible. I could see how the humor is crass. Adria didn't rescue some poor downtrodden female in distress, she took a sexual innuendo that offended her and blew it up publicly.

She mentions a few times playing cards against humanity at Pycon. http://instagram.com/p/W3htw7gaR5/ I'm not sure how "mecha-hilter", "dead babies", "afterbirth", or "eating all of the cookies before the AIDS bakesale" are less offensive than "big dongles". I guess I have to trust her as a the "Joan of Arc" that she is.

I will be honest with you, she scares the crap out of me. Who's next? What's the next juvenile comment that ends someone's job with a publicly posted picture? I don't want to work with her - how do I know my picture won't end up on twitter with some "This guy was talking about mounting his scsi" caption.

This isn't activism, this is emotional terrorism.

As an aside, I feel like the women in tech might misunderstand a lot of us - which is nothing new, who DOES understand us. We didn't grow up the jocks, the cool kids, or the prom king. We larped. We played D&D. We played MUDs. We sat up late coding. We were the dorks. We got wedgies and swirlies. Our chocolate milk was constantly taken by bullies. We got knocked out cold in dodge ball. We were tread on for most of our lives. I think coming into the tech world with the attitude that men need to be stood up to and knocked down is just going to come across to many of us as the same bullying attitude we grew up with. I think if most women in tech sat down with just about any neckbeard I can think of, they would be amazed at how friendly and awesome we are. We are not "the man" you're trying to overcome. We're simply people, who program, and we are happy that other people are entering the field. And really, we don't want to be crass or offensive. We are actually well known for our extremely awkward social skills. Just pull us aside and ask us kindly not to do that - you'd be surprised how nice we want to be.

But what do I know, I'm no longer an engineer, I'm just a (male) housewife. My (female) partner is the software engineer.
> in an ideal Bitcoin economy people wouldn't need to convert to USD

You're describing a situation in which the economy is split into two parts: a dollar economy and a Bitcoin economy. (I will assume that the Feds will come down hard on any "hacks" that make it easy to convert between the two without a license, like they did on offshore gambling sites and AllofMp3.) Experience proves that kind of situation just isn't tenable. Cuba and North Korea just about manage it, but only because there are lots of other barriers separating the two economies.

And anyway, we're talking about the here and now. Do you think the Bitcoin speculators and Silk Road traders are in it for the lols? Dream on.
We should probably realize that the government will find a way to either:

1) Embed itself firmly into the bitcoin process and siphon cash for the bankers who run the government or
2) destroy bitcoin if it's so secure it can run without a government.
Yep! It was a huge hit with HNers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611
That still catches Diablo III, among others.
Illegality doesn't increase demand. It just means that the supply gets provided by shady criminals instead of legal business that follow the rules.
A complete answer to this question is really nothing less than a comprehensive study of the entire field of political science. The reality is that you have two choices: you either defer your right of governance to someone else and just stop caring, or you will never be free of this.

No victory is eternal. There is no such thing as victory.

In a sense, this is actually why it keeps coming up. The reality of governance is such an immense expanse of tedium that a great many people buckle under it and try to imagine themselves as heroes or rebels or old wise men. They go looking for enemies where there are none and make them up to fight, making meaning where none was needed before.

In any case, the answer to your question is, "Until you're dead, and someone else will have to keep it up after that."
I have hired freelancers from US & India for my project via elance,freelancer - Few suggestions/comments -

* Even if the freelancer doesn't have any previous reviews on the site,I'll look for his oss contributions or 'github' projects or contributions to stackoverflow or other forums.

* I don't want to hire 5$ per hr programmer , simply because of their low rate. I prefer good and reliable person even though cost will be little higher.

* Quality of work is important, Though I'm an Indian,I have to admit the fact that US freelancer did great job compared to Indian freelancer.

* If you want to stick to python please don't put Windows admin on your skills page.It will scare people like me.Please concentrate on specific set of 'related'-skills (Python,Web Scraping,jQuery / Prototype,HTML5,CSS).

Best of Luck!

ps: For your first customer begin with 15$-20$ per hr. Once you get reviews,slowly increase the rate :)
The way I understand it, you are required to comply with OFAC and other Treasury programs in any transaction you make.

Some transactions aren't that risky, because people with bigger pockets have validated it already (generally between US bank accounts). But once you get outside that (like, international, or bitcoin) the requirements to prove that you're paying attention get Hard.

If you're HSBC, that's not a problem. But for everyone else...
I will stick with Elnode and its Sinatra clone.
http://github.com/ober/thinatra
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This is simply amazing! And since it's an actual hardware mod, Nvidia can't fix this right? On the other hand, those cruel corporate brats and their money making schemes.
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A lot of people would argue you that, yes, its still widely used. In my experience not so much and its disappearing so quickly that they could have got away with some kind of HDMI + an adapter included on the box. IMHO they should have made the sacrifice.
Once something like this becomes somewhat popular, even if it's killed by acquisition, there will be clones popping up everywhere. I have Swype on my N9 (once considered state-of-the art input innovation) and I remember anticipating it being on every smartphone. That didn't happen, but now you can find dozens of clones in the Android market.

That's how technology moves. Ground-breaking technology becomes a commodity, often laying the foundation for bigger innovations to take place.
The verbs are "set up" and "log in". "Setup" and "login" would be nouns, as in, "Can I see your setup?" and, "What is your login?"

Since you prefer "loginning" to "logging in", do you also prefer "beatupping him" to "beating him up" and "dropoutting" to "dropping out"?
I don't entirely know how I feel about this hack. I feel like this is really similar to unlocking the "Professional" version of a piece of software with a serial key generator.

Although, I understand hardware is dramatically different than software, it's using the same principal -- the same reusable bits to assemble many different products, and then just using tools to mask features unless a user pays for them.

Then again, why should software be any different? Why shouldn't we be able to unlock the hidden features of our software with hex editors, and serial key generators?

What do you guys think?
OK... Having trouble loving this.

I'm an MBP fella but for the past few years Thinkpads have been the PCs for which I've secretly lusted. Lenovo, becoming more Mac-ish only makes long for you less.

Wouldn't a better monitor be a better thing than flipping the logo?
It is pretty much impossible to take down all bitcoin exchanges. If some are taken down, others will pop up. Decentralized systems like Bitcoin are very resilient. This the same reason why the Internet has not found a way to "take down illegal peer-to-peer file sharing".
Hadn't noticed that, could change things... There's a lot of wrinkles in how these laws are actually applied, though. I suppose it will take a while to sort out exactly what each type of entity needs to do.
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Ensure is available over the counter. About 200 calories per dollar, if you want to do the math that way.
Bitcoin Magazine's take - http://bitcoinmagazine.com/fincen-bitcoin-users-not-regulate...
I think that if I own a piece of hardware, I am the sole owner of every single chip and screw on it, including every hardware hack that it may have.

On the other side, usually you don't own the software but only a license that grants you permission to use it.
Wouldn't the fair market value be zero, given that there is no possible way to give the item value under the given scenario?
i know you did. More people should stand up like you did.I think if Aaron had a better support network, he'd still be around.

If you're still on this side of the pond, we should grab a drink.
Yup, I've tried many over the years and Linode is the best I've found. :)
I don't understand your question. From the implementation perspective Python doesn't rewrite things to continuation-passing-style but the end result should be the same.
You're already paying an over-inflated price, and they want you to pay an even greater inflated price. It's the manufacturer's and software developers decision to bundle another product within each other. They are already charging too much for this GPU, and they try to squeeze the most profit they can from every chip.
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Dasher is really cool, but it suffers from two major problems:

1. It's inherently slow. It just takes a long time to get from one letter to the next, even when you're following along the expected path.

2. It's exceptionally distracting to see alternate expected words pop up along your way as you type, and I find it tends to derail my line of thought.
It should be called Y-chromosomal Noah, since he and his sons would all trace through one mans genetics. And well there was genetics from four different women on the Arc... So the Eve makes sense.
Is there an essay coming on your new findings? Not to pry but "How Not to Die" is one of my all-time favorites.
An illegal market is still a market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_illegal_income_in_t...
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"Intermittent fasting is good."

Can you provide a reference for that and define what you mean by "intermittent", "fasting", and "good"?
I think the high point of the Thinkpad line was around the T61/X61t. They were fast, durable and had nice high resolution display.

I was desperately waiting for an update to my X61t w/ 1400x1050 display and no such option come from them and after many years, still none! Such a disappointment.

I saw the photos in the article and then noticed they removed the trackpad buttons. They're moving away from why I liked them before.. that's fine, but they're not making big enough hardware improvements to offset those changes.
That, my friend, is your problem, and I don't mean that facetiously. You owe U.S. taxes (sales, income, property) in U.S. dollars, regardless of what medium you choose to accept payment in. They don't have to accept the payment in BTC, the law is very specific that the only currency that they must accept is USD.

And, to be very clear, the government is not, in any way, saying thst you can't trade your BTC for dollars. What they ARE saying is that you might have to disclose your identity in return to make that exchange ...
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I believe the trackpoint buttons are still there at the top of the trackpad. At least that was my reading of the post:

"We unified the clickpad by integrating the trackpoint buttons into the elegant glass touchpad..."

I sincerely hope they never discard the trackpoint, no matter how many times The Verge laments it's "confusing" presence.
Why aren't liquid foods like this being supplied to under-nourished children in the 3rd world already?

Probably because it doesn't keep or ship well.
So essentially even when it does mutate the chances that something important is overwritten is fairly low.

Does anyone know of an online resource that explains this kind of stuff in easy to digest format? Something like a ELI5 for DNA/Cells.
Firefox with firebug was my first tool for web development.
Now this makes me considering switching back to FF now.
I dunno; I'm not a lawyer. I'm just clarifying what actually happened.
I was at Clojure/west today where Pedestal was unveiled. Here are some answers that I picked up:

- Pedestal doesn't deal with the DB. I just grepped for datomic on the codebase and found nothing. Relevance is one half of Datomic so it's not surprising they've used it in their example docs.

- The idea is to use clojure across the entire stack. As a clojure developer, this is fantastic. It also uses EDN as it's wire format.

- I'm not sure how far the composability goes but I get the impression that it's one of their design goals.

- The routing syntax looks pretty simple to me.

I don't get the opinion that this is Rails for Clojure. It's dealing mainly with asynchronous real-time client server communication with some great client additions. It doesn't enforce any kind of DB integration such as DB migrations which have always been one of Rail's killer features to me.
You can't compare wired Ethernet with the wireless one. The wired one is more reliable, faster and a bit more secure.
Here is some more info on Bitcoin users' demographics:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-10/demographics-bitcoi...

I read somewhere (source unknown, possibly unreliable) that 75% of all BTC are hoarded (ie. not in circulation).
Minimum wage laws price low-skilled people out of the job market; <sarcasm>I'm sure they appreciate that</sarcasm>. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm, the latest I could find), those making at or below the minimum wage (that includes restaurant servers, who also earn money from tips) are only 5.2 percent of those who work for hourly wages. Their median age is 25; how many of them still live at home with their parents?
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Nice game! <no mention of gender, it's irrelevant when all you do is think and type>

Do you plan on only releasing for iOS? I use <different platform> and would love to try your game.

I'm not a fan of Apple and can't see myself buying an iPhone anytime soon so I fear I'll be left out of the fun.

In any case thanks for sharing!

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How do people find hacks like this? Looking at the board, that resistor is one among tons of components.
thanks so much! I didn't realize load time would be such a problem
He just gives nutritional information, not an ingredients list.

In the latest post he mentions that several chemists have figured out how to make his concoction, but he explicitly states he's not making the recipe public yet.
Call it "Crafting a URL for $INTENT" and save all this talking past each other.
That hardware is hardware. if I buy hardware from you can can do what ever I want with it.
How many more million users are needed?
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I'm just starting so to speak, so any advice somebody would give you probably applies to me too.

My current road map could be summarized as the Euler problems, SICP, and some clojure after I get tired of the implementation specific behavior of scheme.

I have no idea if I'm on the right path or not, but then I'm not really sure that anybody is capable of telling me without a lot more information.
So this is basically a change of the PCI device ID. The capabilities are essentially the same; he just changed the device signature. A cool hack nonetheless.

Edit: After looking at the screenshots closer, that seems to be the case.

The device ID 0x11BA becomes 0x118F. Vendor ID remains 0x10DE on both. Memory, CPU and other important stuff are basically the same.

Very cool!
Monopoly of iOS app distribution due to iOS/App Store lock-in, robbing developers of $100 and 30% of all profits.

Also monopoly of iOS devices, monopoly of OSes for iPhone/iPad and control of a large proportion of smartphone market share with their closed locked-in platform.
Yep. Sure. It will come back in a decade or so. And then in another decade. And I actually find that encouraging. That's democracy in action.

But meanwhile, now, - let's do something positive and try to avert that bill that facilitates violations of essential liberties!
You can use Rust references that way to some extent, although the safety check for references will probably prevent you from using it to do what you want in all cases. In general, you need to follow a stack discipline with your references. For example, you can't make a doubly linked list using unique smart pointers and references as the backpointers; the Rust compiler will be unable to prove it safe. (In general, while placing references inside data structures can be done, it requires some knowledge of the how the safety check works—this is where the "lifetime parameters" come in.)

The good news is that the Rust compiler does detect and clean up cycles of `@` smart pointers. At the moment, this is done at thread death only. But Graydon is nearly done with a new tracing garbage collector (written in Rust) that correctly detects and cleans up cycles.
You'll find that adding the resistor changes the ID the card sends to the drivers, and that there is other differences in the hardware (so it doesn't change the 'model' of the card). It just so happens that it enables 3 monitors in Linux (this is already enabled in Windows).
This is a good point. When you buy hardware, you are now the owner of it so they shouldn't be able to stop you from doing it, just like once you buy a phone you should be able to unlock it or install whatever software you want on it.
Ask HN: Advice for some possible founders in a (semi-)unique situation?
So, my friend and I have had (what we think is) an awesome idea for a product. We want to start a company off of it. However, here's the big catch: he's 18 and I'm 14. We're still in high school. Obviously there are some legal concerns because of that, so if you could provide some general counsel off that, that would be awesome. I also have two specific questions:

My first question is whether to file jointly or have him file singly, then immediately hire me and give me 50%. (Apparently there are greater risks to the former.)

My second question is not-so-unique. We've been in touch with an awesome designer who wants in on it, but he lives out of the country. Are there any specific concerns we should think about before actually hiring him?
I've used SAP HANA and it's a fantastic piece of software arguably the best SQL database on the market today.

It also costs an absolute fortune (only approved hardware allowed) and even the AWS instance which costs $3.50/hour is not certified for production deployments. I don't know many startups who can afford $5000 a month for minimum redundancy.
Yep. I got an eMachines 732Z (Asus) for $400 last year.
$80 for 8GB of RAM and $200 for a 256GB SSD (+$20 for an adaptor to put it where the DVD drive was) and I have a dev laptop that'll eat just about everything else for breakfast.
yes! i like this approach.. rather than hitting the blog main page when i click on the header
Mostly like inside or semi-inside info. Obviously anyone with a schematic and datasheet at any of the dozens of OEMs will be able to figure this out. But even without docs there were probably bunches of reference boards shipped out to integrators. It's not hard to visually diff a "Quadro" from a "Tesla" version of the same board.

What I'm more surprised by is the fact that this was done by external resistors at all. Almost all chip configuration like this these days is done with on-die fuses that can't be hacked.
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(B) EXCLUSION - Such term does not include information pertaining to efforts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network of a government or private entity that solely involve violations of consumer terms of service or consumer licensing agreements and do not otherwise constitute unauthorized access.

Why does 2013 CISPA have this proviso and the original draft bill not? Because the intention of CISPA is not to harass people for downloading Photoshop, but rather to give enterprises tools for dealing with botnets. But it's hard to learn that from sites like the one we're commenting on, which go out of their way to lie and say that CISPA is an anti-piracy bill.
On the contrary, most individuals purchase a tangible copy of software in a retail store without any licensing terms attached at the time of purchase. (Granted: App Stores are changing this)

Shrink-wrap licenses attempt to end-run this by making the product unusable unless the user agrees to forfeit his existing property rights. The legality of these sorts of after-the-fact licenses on a traditional retail purchase is very unclear.

It's for this reason that many do not object to cracking or modifying software which they have purchased. Indeed, there's no definitive argument that one shouldn't.
Well, the original reason given by the modder is to unluck the same functionality available under one OS as in another - that is all.
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While this is true, one or more countries ruling btc illegal could quite effectively stop it becoming mainstream and destroy its value.
If you read some of the comments, essentially:
a) looking for resistors that could be placed in multiple positions on the board and
b) following the traces from the resistors: going to GPU? probably not what you want. Going to PCIE interface? Probably correct.
This kind if stuff has been going on for a long time. I remember one of the Nvidia cards from 8 years ago could unlock extra lanes in the GPU just With a firmware flash.

Intel had been using the same dye for multiple CPU SKUs for a long time now. Though people have figured out how to move between the various skus with ease.

The one thing to keep in mind with hardware like this is that the different price points and SKUs are more than just making money. A lot of the time the SKU a card or chip is set at has to do with the yield quality of the pieces as they are manufactured. It's amazing to realize that when a new line of some cutting-edge tech comes around, they are going to have a 50% or less yield rate on their products. Sometimes they can use lower priced SKUs and take features away as the components will operate better without those features.
Thanks for everyone's nice comments! I just made it to be a fun project not sure it's worth charging anything for :)
Using Bugsnag yeah, I'm happy to say I haven't had any crashes yet! It's nice to know I'll see them if I do, plus it's free and really easy to add.
The maximum price that people are willing to pay isn't "dependent on" demand, it is demand. In particular, it has nothing to do with supply; if something is available for much less than the maximum price someone is willing to pay, then that just means that they get it for a lot less, it doesn't change how much they are willing to pay in principle.

(There are a few subtleties here, such as that willingness to pay should be measured in terms of opportunity costs rather than dollars, but all this stuff can be found in an economics textbook.)