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Thanks for the thoughts here, kbenson.

I like the idea of using a diff be judge the total LOC. That reminds me that before we did the initial commit to Github, we had briefly entertained doing more or less that: we were going to commit the initial boilerplate for each framework as commit #1 and then the resulting tests as commit #2. To save on effort, we ultimately did not do that, but it is possible for us to go back to our original local Git repo to glean that information.

Using that approach, I think even build scripts could be included--that is, if you need to modify the build script and it shows up in a diff, then that line counts.
Tried giving it both my Github user name as well as the URL to my Github profile. It "couldn't find the repo" in both cases. :/
IIRC there are several music theory courses on Coursera. Not sure if they're being offered at the moment though.
Hey there. The book looks pretty impressive! I'd really get someone to do at least a little bit of design on the landing page though.

There are mostly just basic typography and spacing issues, but it can make a big difference in how professional your presentation looks.
Most of the backend and frontend is written in Python and we are working on a Python stack. Stay tuned!
Paper IOUs seem almost ideal, if we didn't have to rely on a central issuing authority to make them universally accepted. IOUs are easy to replicate with blind signatures (see Section 4, Examples: http://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall02/handouts/L15-voting... ) but noone wants to hunt down as many people as they have bills, just to trade the individually-issued digital IOUs... This is what Ripple ( http://ripple.com ) claims to do, though: act as a distributed clearing house to resolve and cancel debt via a social graph. I haven't had a chance to actually use Ripple though, so I am certainly not recommending it specifically, just observing that it seems to address the right problem - that money is just debt - whereas Bitcoin simply creates a finite resource to be fought over.
Much, much worse.

First, my head is typically above the level of cars on my motorcycle and can easily see, with peripheral vision, around 300 degrees, meaning I can have a broader view of what's happening. Situational awareness is critical to staying alive around cages...err...cars.

Second, my cross-section for a car next to me is much thicker than a flag. It is at least the depth of my body and the depth of my fairing.

Finally, a flick of the wrist puts me far in front of the idiot trying to kill me. Acceleration is a crucial tool to staying alive on the streets around cars.

All of those are impacted by a velomobile. It's unfortunate, too, because I'd love to ride on.
This is misleading:

The economy of the last century was primarily based on natural resources, industrial machines and manual labor. Many of these resources were zero-sum and controlled by companies. If someone else had an oil field, then you did not. There were only so many oil fields, and only so much wealth could be created from them.

Today’s economy is very different. It is based primarily on knowledge and ideas — resources that are renewable and available to everyone. Unlike oil fields, someone else knowing something doesn’t prevent you from knowing it, too. In fact, the more people who know something, the better educated and trained we all are, the more productive we become, and the better off everyone in our nation can be.

The economy is still based on natural resources. Oil and electricity generation is still constrained and the economy depends on it. Zuckerberg should know this. The knowledge economy exists only in the context of the resource economy.
We (JSConf organizers) are starting something similar (focused on bridging software/web developers into Makers) with RobotsConf http://robotsconf.com/ Would be happy to collaborate on what works/what doesn't -- handle is the same everywhere! Great job on the launch btw.
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Actually, pit bulls are less or equally likely to attack than most other common dogs, including the golden retriever. Advocates against them roll over this fact by saying that the more powerful jaws make it worse when it does happen. Note, I have two pretty awesome "pit bulls" - an American Staffordshire Terrier and an American Pitbull Terrier.
Because CISPA's definition of a "cybersecurity" threat is too broad. One of the vague terms it employs is "unauthorized access" -- a term we have seen abused recently in the cases of Aaron Swartz and Weev.

My fear is that, like the PATRIOT act, CISPA will grant overly-broad powers to intelligence agencies that will be employed for general surveillance. My view is that any law that curtails liberty should do so minimally. I don't oppose fighting cybersecurity threats, but the bill needs work still.

For anyone curious, the ACLU has several blog posts breaking down the problems with CISPA: http://www.aclu.org/search/cispa?show_aff=1
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Proper trading platforms (TradeHill, CampBX, etc.) were built and then no one used them.
Me too. I was so excited to see some of the best "cars" survive and get better while the rubbish ones were being displaced.

Great program overall; i wish it was open source :(
It has been pointed out that there are many, but no one has explicitly mentioned Newfoundland (UTC−03:30). That has always been the most familiar to me as when I was growing up, television programs would always be advertised with a time such as "9:00pm (9:30 in Newfoundland)."
How so? Everything is perfect on this end
Didn't Google recently file a lawsuit claiming that NSLs which are used to uncover private user information are unconstitutional?

Edit: They did [1].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-04/google-fights-u-s-n...
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I thought about that too, but then realized that even though some (maybe many) of these people have published interviews "out there" for free, each interview stands to hit on some unique insight or thought that a previous one missed. Given all the other "pros" you mentioned above, especially

- supports & encourages a young member of this community

I had no trouble deciding to buy a copy.

I just wish I'd been this motivated when I was in High School. :-)
At this point I'm convinced that they never meant this. It was simply a recruiting slogan to attract all the liberal/libertarian/anti-coporation comp sci students who went to Stanford and Berkeley.
This brings me to one of the ways in which humans fail. People understand that ethical character is important-- far more important than talent-- but it's also hard-to-impossible to assess at an individual level based on real-world imperfection of information, so they fall back on social polish and low-signal bullshit that might even be negatively correlated with genuine moral decency, autism and psychopathy being opposites of a certain spectrum.

People just don't have the tools to assess others' intentions or real character. Instead of admitting that their machinery for doing this is error-prone, they come up with stories about other people that have no basis in reality. The socially marginal or unskilled get screwed.

If anything, I think that people with Asperger's are, on average, slightly better (morally speaking) than the general population. Most people get stuck at Kohlberg's Stage 3 of moral development (although, in the corporate world, they speak a Stage 4 language, dressing social smears up as "performance problems"). People with Asperger's tend to skip Stage 3 (because they fundamentally don't get it) and land early in 4, which means they have an above-normal likelihood of progressing to 5-6.
Wow. I really wish that I had the karma to downvote this incorrect and totally insensitive comment.
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Currently there are several disorders inside the spectrum for high functioning autism (PDD-NOS, Asperger, High functioning classic autism) and the line between them most of the time is very thin, on the other hand therapies for treatment are the same, so DSM just took the obvious decision of put them together in one big umbrella.
What about tracking memory usage? Peak, average, etc.

Previously you tested EC2 vs Local HW. What about adding local KVM virtual machine as well?

I also think a graph showing latency as a function of concurrency would be very interesting.
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Because someone who does read the story is going to then make a summary and that will spread. Which is the nature of news nowadays where tl;dr is the norm and people summarize nuanced and complex topics into little zingers.
Hi! Thanks for the comment! I don't believe there is anything in the book about outsourcing or lessening the time expended on repetitive tasks. Please let me know if you have any other questions!
I ignored the poll but if it comes with a sane font size i'll go vote for over 90 right now.
Zalew, that's a great point but in the force.com environment you must have 75% coverage and as /wrote, I err on the side of caution in my code which can cost me in terms of %. I don't like to change my code for the sake of tests, but layout is another matter.
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>>>The proud new owner is Jack Wang, chief executive of a Chinese company that intends to sell [walnut-sized, flying saucer-shaped] electromagnetic devices that it claims have medically regenerative powers."<<<<
None of the claims are proven yet of-course...
Things which are computationally easy to create are possible to brute force. Bit Coin only works because it is computationally hard to create them. At some point (50 years from now) Bit coins will not be as impossible to compute as they are now, but the exponential increase in difficulty to compute new ones will limit the likelihood that the advances in technology will catch the computational requirement.
That's another thing to consider, but depends on the case: if the domain is left expired, there's 45 days after expiration to renew and another 30 days Redemption Grace Period before it's actually deleted. If the domain is "hijacked" (unauthorized transfer), then the registrar is in violation of ICANN policy[1]. If the registrar decided to shut down for some reason, you can still always move your domain to another registrar.

[1]: https://www.icann.org/en/help/dispute-resolution#unauthorize...
I think if any of the important parts operated on AWS, governments would be quick to take advantage of that to shut it down ("it's used int eh drugztrade~!").
Right. The good agents think long term, not about selling you a house in a month instead of three to get a quick commission.

Like any sales job with the possibility of repeat business, the commission matters, but so does the relationship.
Sure! Let's make the world better, together! :)) And thanks for the kind words
I don't think that using AWS would help them that much. They need to keep very secure (know any banks that use AWS?), and the main trading engine can't be parallelised anyway (because of order sequence and the blockchain).

(Also: Amazon would chuck them out as soon as the first senator reached for their phone, as with wikileaks.)
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Thanks for the feedback and kind words! I agree that the landing page needs improvement, and that's something I hope to work on soon!
> Also, make sure you try the new net monitor in Firefox Nightlies.

I do, and I love it. It's an excellent start.

Let me make it clear, I love what you guys are doing. It's wonderful.
A kid in my CS program and my dorms in college had Asperger's and I'd probably hire him, depending on the company. He is an absolutely brilliant person who would read a textbook in a night and immediately have all of it committed to memory and able to use in a problem. He would program in classes because he already knew everything the professor was lecturing on, only stopping to raise his hand and correct the teacher when they flubbed up or weren't totally clear. (By the end of our program teachers were trying to make sure they didn't have him in their classes.)

He did a few jobs during school and a buddy of mine worked with him at a software development shop. He said that they put him (my co-student with Asperger's), in an office by himself with a computer and a desk phone and gave him assignments of things to code. His code was awesome, but whenever he wanted to ask someone about a project he was working on, people rarely answered him. Being the genius that he was, he figured out how to hack his office phone to be able to transmit his voice through every office speaker in the entire office without anyone having to pick up their phone. They quickly started answering him more.

So my $.02 are the same with working with any individual - understand who they are, what they care about, and give them what they need. My co-student with Asperger's was a total genius in CS (actually he was a CE double major now that I think of it), but ultimately had trouble getting people to just listen to him.
Yes and it's run separately from the rest of Canada's monopoly. Look at the fine print on the prizes in the Ontario McDonald's monopoly which clearly states that it excludes Quebec. Source: I live in Quebec.
While I disagree that responding falsely was a better move than simply not responding at all, I agree with your point about hn quality lamentations.

As someone who came to hn after "the good ol' days", I would much prefer to see constant reminders of "That's not how we do things here" than "Man, things sure have gotten bad".
Entropy is the norm; everything degrades without constant force applied.
Thanks!

Absolutely. It's on our short term roadmap. Coming out in next 2 weeks. It's a highly requested feature. Some discussion about it:

http://moot.it/forum/#!/open-word#additional-language-suppor...

Here is a rough draft of RTL (right to left) support.

http://moot.it/demos/rtl.html
You really hit the nail on the head here and said exactly what I (and probably others here) have been thinking.

As much as it's a very humanly thing to do, I think it's ridiculous to try to lump people into categories, especially when the differences are so minute that it's almost as if there's one way that people should be, and if someone doesn't fit that mold exactly, they must be classified as different. This leads to unnecessary (and unintentional) segregation and gives common folk more reason to disproportionately view and treat certain individuals differently.
Ask HN: Best chat solution for a creative/tech team on OSX?  
We are a team of about 18 and have historically used iChat for our in-office chatting needs. Unfortunately, Messages has become incredibly unstable and multiple times a day, people message without the messages being transmitted. It kind of defeats the purpose of using an Instant Message client because you don't know if the person is just busy or if they didn't receive your message. Our biggest needs are sending screenshots, Audio/video chatting, messaging. Occasionally we need screen-sharing. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the honest reply :) bookmarked for later in case I need some info on the other topics. Best of luck and congrats on the launch.
Its like doing Grafitti in New York with 20 Cops and 3 sanitation workers taking care of the entire city. Of course you can get away with it, and there are plenty of people getting away with it.
Test coverage is a pain, but if you don't cover your exceptional cases the chances are good that your best bugs will be hiding there.

For example, some HTTP client implementations require you to consume any HTTP entity to avoid leaking connections and/or exhausting a finite connection pool. If you missed a ... finally { } block but otherwise do the right thing with your exceptions, you're storing up trouble there.
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Have you read Rob Walling's Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guid to Launching a Startup? Quick read, lots of good info on exactly what you're looking for: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-ebook/dp/B...
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Thank you so much for your kind words and for buying a copy of the book! Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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It wants it in the format username/repo, not just username. So for example, rkuykendall/Simplici7y or moneypenny/GithubFacebook
The coverage cheat is for the platform. I don't control the metrics so sometimes working around them is necessary. I would never fudge something to meet a personal standard, my standards are against nonsensical metrics.
Are you joking or being a nimby type fool?
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just replacing symbols from human-convenient to machine-convenient

Its not quite a one-to-one mapping though.

For example, there are assembly instructions which map to more than one opcode, depending on how it is used and opcodes can have various flags that change its encoding (prefixes and such), like the MOV x86 instruction. Beyond that, it is also rare to find assembly code which does not make use of macros or assembler-implemented pseudo instructions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2546715/how-to-analysis-h...
This would be a great way to read headings from an RSS feed!

Wonder if the feedly guys would consider it as a hidden view?
Non Interactive Zero knowledge proofs as used in that paper are just a set of mathematical equations and values that you check the equations hold for. They are not even close to turing complete.
I tried to create multiple YouTube channels for uploading different types of videos since I didn't want them all bundled in one channel. That now requires making multiple Google accounts. It's not impossible but it's highly discouraged, and they require registering each one with a phone number.
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They very likely come into play whenever a password hash database is leaked and the hashes were not salted/iterated properly.
That's a pretty dramatic post just because 100-300 people said they were 10 or 90. Get over yourself.
Fair, the ForEx role will never go away, but it seems that MtGox has also become a trading platform for the Bitcoins themselves

Wait, whats the difference between those two things? Converting bitcoins into anything else _is_ ForEx.
Technically, in your example you do still need the full dictionary - a one way function mapping to words requires it for operation.
There are advantages to TDD. It forces you to use your code as you write it, which is a very good way to ensure you have a reasonable API. For example, if you hate writing your tests, then there may be something wrong with your code. It also ensures that you have /some/ tests, and bad tests are better than no tests.

But TDD is really about reaching a good design, not about creating useful tests along the way. One of the reasons is exactly what you state. The unit tests that are created in the course of TDD are extremely tied to the particulars of your implementation, and end up being a maintenance pain point in a large application. It is important for your tests to survive a refactor without needing to be changed. So, it is not uncommon for tests created in the course of TDD to be thrown away after you write some good integration tests / feature specs / whatever you'd like to call them for your code.

TDD is not, however, the only way to get to good design. You can also use behavior driven development (BDD) -- which is similar. Or you can just get in front of a whiteboard. Whatever works for you.

At the end of the day what matters is getting to good design and good tests in a way that's efficient and enjoyable for you.
What terrible commit log messages: "le sigh" ?
Absolutely! Thanks for (similarly) taking an awesome risk and putting together what looks to be an epic event. Awesome events are awesome!
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According to the poll, there are plenty of people under 8 on here.
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Zillow list properties that are gutted, abandoned as the same as properties that have been maintained, remodeled or expanded. This information in many cases is reflected in the annual property tax assessment. Since these records are available online gratis, you think Zillow could use them as a part of their figures.
Not with a hack, but you could create 5 accounts and ask the target to connect for some reason. By scripting this, I guess you get enough people where you "know" 5 accounts.
I'm pretty sure that early on (when pb coined the phrase), it was meant like "don't be like the other evil companies we've seen on the Internet in the past") (which presumably at the time meant Microsoft, maybe USG, maybe ITU, etc.) Which Google probably broadly believed internally. (this was in the early 2000s).
Disclaimer--I work as a software dev for a real estate brokerage.

That said, I've spent some time thinking about whether just changing the laws would have an impact. I think the issue is bigger than this.

I think that there are lots of marketplaces have sprung up via the internet, but as far as I know, the significant ones all offer products that have one of these characteristics:

* the consumer buys them often [for some definition of often] (airplane tickets)
* the product is fungible (books, cars)
* the product is relatively cheap (stuff sold on ebay, amazon)

All of these characteristics lower the risk of purchase. Housing has none of these characteristics. And I don't know how it could, short of a real manufacturing revolution or more houses built out of shipping containers.
It may be in poor taste to say it, but if the Native American nations had bought American Dollars rather than trading for goods with "inherent" value, history may have played out very differently.
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Thanks for response! Actually this pop-up behavior is intentional, so that you don't have to aim at the "next" button.
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I can totally see those catching on. Personally, my choice of car has nothing to do with how people perceive me. This is especially true of women who always say tell me they don't care what kind of car I drive, and I really believe that's their honest opinion.

Oh no, I'm late for work -- no worries, rather than walk today I'll just hop on my segway.
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Yes, there are differences, but my point is that people treat bitcoins the way they'd never treat cash. Holding bitcoins in Mt.Gox without two-factor authentication is like having a safe outside in front of your house labeled "CASH" with nothing but a combination lock on it.
Yeah, that happened to me on the first couple of tries. I parsed the '/' as meaning 'or', but of course it means a slash, here.
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I really hope this is successful. I will begrudgingly admit that some patents probably are useful (that's a separate argument), but in the specific case of software, so many were granted at a time when general knowledge was very naive and so were unintentionally made to broad sweeping. Eliminating them is the best course of action.

The fact that it will take an independent committee up to 1 year to do so for each one is rather less encouraging.
GoDaddy supported SOPA basically for the same reason - because it offered hosting providers immunity if they were taking down the sites themselves.
I voted for several age groups accidentally, just started clicking on those little arrows.
Try not to use the term pitbull in that context. It's damaging to the breed and ignorant.
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