skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that the text of the bill is COMPLETELY irrelevant. It's that the big companies will use their newfound powers in ways that fall into a gray area in the bill and of course the government will choose not to prosecute them for doing so, or judges will allow it because it's a gray area and not EXPLICITLY disallowed.
Poll: OS X users, what is your favorite release?
Since what is assumed to be the last OS X release is going to be released this year, I thought it would be nice to take some time to reflect upon past releases, and see which one is preferred by all users.<p>Please only vote once; let's keep this poll accurate.
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Of course.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
Most awesomest thing of the day.
This will severely degrade performance in almost every scenario. I don't recommend doing it by default, though it is a nice feature to have. Sometimes you want to be able to call console.log a few times per frame in a game without your framerate dropping into the single digits.
Dialing is "out of band" everywhere except analog phones, and dialtones are just the reverse channel giving feedback to the user (just because there's only audio information, a "single band").

The TL;DR of the article probably is: The invention of a separate channel for out-of-band signalling, which the original short-message-services use, was related to the idea to have fully prepared phone-number in a call-setup message to the network.
Following your example, the act of transferring bitcoins from wallet1 to wallet2 is made public, as part of the blockchain.

Put simply: when sending bitcoins, you must send from the address that received them. You cannot, for example, receive bitcoins on one address, create a new address, and then send those same coins from that new address. You have to essentially "pay" that new address from the first address, and that action is public and traceable.
After clicking around on the website, I have no idea what Eachscape does. It is a development shop or an IDE?
Add another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvbcQHbgPwE
Bought. Nice job, looks really interesting.
Facebook really doesn't want us to run Home
Really cool!

I don't want to sound nitpicky buuuuuut in text based emails folks have been using bold, /italics/, _underlining_, and {{{ preformatted }}} text for a long time with slightly different syntax. How attached are you to the one you chose? Would you be open to accepting a patch to use the older syntax?
"Case 1 says it might be infinitely many, case two says it might be none."

What? Case 2 says that all the balls will be put back in. In both cases, there will be infinitely many balls back in the barrel after midnight.
Who are "the haters?"
It's just _why being _why. If you're late to the party, try reading: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...
These are the CSS attr's they accept

["background", "border", "color", "font", "line", "margin", "padding", "text", "-webkit-background", "-webkit-border", "-webkit-font", "-webkit-margin", "-webkit-padding", "-webkit-text"]

Try this:

console.log("%c ", 'background: url("http://placekitten.com/200/200"); padding: 5000px')

edit:
put my code snippets in code blocks
> We're developers. We make. You buy. That's how it's worked for ages and ages and ages now.

I don't know about you, but I actually like the idea of reducing the knowledge gap between users and developers.

Computers are so important in the modern world that I think it makes sense to require all educated people to know something about programming, just as education includes some knowledge of mathematics and science.
https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/commit/4b65250ac...

Has anyone converted IDEAs to an image yet?
I would edit that into the post. Right now, "It's hard to say whether this was due to the startup or because the competitor was a female and thus had more attention to detail" sounds quite different.
Why Microsoft is involved I don't know. I know their market share of windows phone is a bit crappy [1], but posturing themselves as opponents to Android isn't going to help their image either to the industry or the public and therefore their market share.

I would have thought they'd get the point by now and stop acting like asshats.

Oh and unsurprising SCO mention. This crap has been going on behind the scenes forever.

Watching the corporate battleground is tiresome and makes me drift away from all parties.

[1] I own a windows phone before anyone marks me up as a hater.
> But with out patents there is no incentive for innovation.

In some areas, perhaps, but not when it comes to software.

This is easy to show. Software was not always patentable or was rarely patented, and innovation was no less rapid than it is now.

The underlying reason is that the marginal cost of R&D for software is lower than in any other field. In principle, it just requires a person and a computer (which is what you need for any kind of R&D). No expensive labs, no clinical trials, etc. If you have a person and a computer, you're a potential inventor; if you have a bunch of them, you're virtually guaranteed to invent something. If you have a bunch of such companies (or college departments), you're virtually guaranteed to constantly reinvent what somebody else has already figured out.

When Oracle sued Google, almost all of their patent claims were thrown out on reexamination; and those weren't trivial patents. It just so happened that practically all of them had already been figured out by somebody else; and we only know because Google was willing to throw a few thousand hours at researching prior art.

This is why reinvention in computer science is so common; this is also why patent trolls can flourish: Because reinvention is common, they have plenty of victims to target. If innovation were not so easy in computer science (at least relative to the standards of the USPTO), patent trolls in their current form could not sustain themselves.
For those interested, Citizen Engineer (http://www.citizenengineer.com/) did the same thing a few years ago. The video was produced by Phillip Torrone and Ladyada, and includes additional notes.
That was the first thing I tried, but apparently that opens Mail for some reason.
Your standard contrarians, I guess.
I believe he was stating that it's exponential as designed when used P2P. Large exchanges acting as banks reduces this, but by reducing some of the benefits of the design/protocol.
The White House Doesn't Love CISPA, But It's Not Hating On It, Either
I'm struck by the similar tone in Jennifer's statements and those of Shirley Hornstein [1]. I am also struck by the way these folks interact with the rest of the community.

I went to school in LA (Univ. of So. Calif) which has a lot of connections with the movie business (and Hollywood in general). There were lots of people who were desperate to be "part of the action" and were willing to set aside a number of principles in order to achieve that. I thought it was nice that technical people weren't like that.

Then in the dot.com boom we were overrun with MBAs who had decided we were too stupid to pick the money up off the floor. They went around destroying things with rent-seeking monetization models and other schemes to defraud those who didn't understand what they were buying (or being charged for).

Now we have people more like the Hollywood groupies and less like the MBA types. I guess that is a side effect of hiring "rockstars" (har har har) but really? Is this some weird revenge desire of the socialites in high school trying to make up for the fact they shunned nerds in favor of football players or something?

If you had said you could make a Silicon Valley soap opera I would have laughed at you, but apparently you can make one now (except it would be based in San Francisco I suppose). Strange times indeed.

[1] http://shirls.me/post/41790389190/shirley-hornstein-no-more-...
...and for a facebook `likebot'?

Facebook's endless stream of other friend's posts are often a chore to read through and thumbs-up `like'.

A first-order dumb app is to like `em all.

Your Chatbot could possibly offer a modest, relevant, and positive comment?

Is there a Facebook API offering a hook into `liking'?
I've seen these magnetic power cords on water boilers for a long time. We got one from Asia in the 90s. http://www.zojirushi.com/products/cvdyc

That may have merited a patent (if it wasn't already invented, and I suspect it was), but Apple's implementation does not.
Awesome. See you on the 18th!
Ahh, this is a good point. Thanks.
Not all businesses are created equal.

The OP couldn't find a way to build a profitable business (edit: profitable enough for them) with developers commanding a Canadian salary, but was able to with developers commanding a lower one.

In comparison, I work for a small company that's been profitable from pretty much day one and they pay the prevailing rate for developers in San Francisco, which is roughly double the Canadian salary the OP is bemoaning.

I'm sure there are some businesses that would fail even at the rate the OP is paying. Think of all the opportunities that would open up if we could pay developers $1/hour.
Definitely. The book didn't really cover the "why" around why landlines had a dialtone but my suspicion is that the systems failed frequently enough that they wanted to signal to the user that the phone was ready for use. I may be entirely wrong.
>We're working on a general style guide here: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-style-guide*

Better than that would be a goftm like tool, that applies the style guide.

People (including me) love that about Go. (I've actually never read a negative comment about it and many possitives).

It puts an end to all issues with formatting, really.

I don't know how reusable the parse is -- it would make something like this even easier.
I think this is an important issue. I didn't think about fumes when I got the printer. Someone who sat next to me started getting headaches. Also, another colleague was concerned about the effect of burning ABS on reproductive health (she pointed me at a study which I don't have a pointer to now). To run these devices in a corporate environment, it isn't enough that I be satisfied with a scientific paper (rightly so .. I'm a computer scientist and this is not my expertise).

Edit: Thank you for the link. It helps to educate myself on the topic!
How much more can you trust a profile pic and a real-ish name than "someguy443"?
I haven't done this, but I'm under the impression you can discount a lot of the profits of US business provided the business is done outside the US and you living outside the US for at least 300 of 365 days in a year. Now this is with a standard US business (maybe an LLC even).

Unless you have oversea connections family (maybe really close friends) I have been told the costs don't represent the hassel. It's cheaper to go with an LLC in state with no corporate tax, then to deal with all the costs overseas.

Apple and Google are big they can justify the cost(additionally the use several loop holes).
Moreover, we should expect the zerocoin strategy to "solve" the traceability of stolen funds.
Here's a video on the subject, same exact response you had.

http://vimeo.com/44824447

(Warning, some photos that are pretty rough...)
i've had a big problem with the site on my Blackberry for a looooong tyme, it only started working yesterday...!:(
I've bookmarked your comment. I'm gonna be forced to move back to commandline when gmail finally foists the new compose on me (fuckers[1]).

[1] Some of us want to, you know, use email for longer messages than a tweet. It's hard to do that when PgUp/PgDn are so janky. And don't even get me started on S-PgUp and S-PgDn.
Just another exploitation of creative labor if you ask me. The people competing for prises may be doing it for fun, but as you can see in the industries using it, these are serious big money applications. Of course, nobody is blind to this and a majority of applicants are going to try to go for the cheapest and easiest solution for a shot at the gold.
It is 100% offshoring, people from his local community do not get jobs, it does not help Canada and in a way insulting for Canadians. I'm surprised to see this article making 1st page :(
I guess you're right. Even when "people" sue companies, they typically just settle out of court.
I, too, am interested in this domain. Please email :)
> I get that it's difficult to incentivize the development of truly difficult abstract ideas, but mathematicians and physicists have been doing exactly that for centuries and they appear to be doing alright.

So I was an aerospace engineering major in undergrad. For my professors, financial support came from: 1) government; 2) tuition and fees from students looking to get jobs at Lockheed, Honeywell, Raytheon, etc.

The former is mostly subsidized by the military, while the latter is subsidized directly and indirectly by companies who definitely do leverage patents and trade secrets laws to monetize their developments.

So its a "pick your poison" situation.
How did you get into houses to view them without an agent to open the lockboxes? How did you assmble all the paperwork required for your states contract? I've long seen agents as unnecessary and would like to avoid one to make my offer stronger.
How did people know/figure out that it was a PCL file?
>This is inevitable with any language that looks like C. As there are already numerous styles for C/C++/Java that people have strong feelings for and they'll just carry them over to Rust.

Not really. Go solves this with gofmt.

You might insist on your own style (as you say) but for most people it's a command line away to format it in the standard way, and all GitHub projects etc will be gofmt'ed anyway.
I'm still running 10.4! True, I miss out on modern browsers (stuck on Firefox 3), and can't watch Netflix (Silverlight updates crash the browser), but at least I don't have do deal with the silly Mac App store!
I liked everything in the article except for the "Canada" part. It's not like he hired exclusively in NYC, SF, Chicago, or Boston. He really means "The Third World, where salaries are low and expenses are lower."

He doesn't elaborate, but I suspect that when he says "Europe," he isn't talking about London, Paris, or Berlin.
Russia reveals plans for new $50 billion space program
My understanding is that's more an artefact of how the Internet is physically laid out, rather than as something inherent to the TCP protocol itself. If we took all the machines on the net and put them in one huge building, we could construct a far more decentralised network architecture.

Regarding my last paragraph, both the English language and TCP/IP could be broadly said to be protocols for distributing information, but are also obviously so completely different it makes little sense to draw any parallels between them.
Wow that's an asinine elitest sounding statement. So reinventing the wheel to feature test or browser test pieces of javascript code for rudimentary differences within browsers, that will probably be around less time than the jQuery library, is the only way to progress, as a "professional software engineer" your programming world view is very narrow.

The point of the original article is valid though, you can't have modules including jQuery, just not gonna scale.
FWIW, pngquant compresses the png to 18kb without any visible (to me) artifact.

If you are not using pngq/pngquant and the likes to compress alpha png I advise you to try them out.
Freedom from choice, or why less is the new more
"Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well
I'm inclined to agree: As other comments have noted, the author had all of the upside in the business and in my reading seemed not too concerned about the potential downside for his employees should the venture fail.
Enforcement's not so terribly hard. Look at the US campaign against online gambling; when they want to crack down, they can cut off the flow of money to customers in the US.
Mostly people who were understandably pissed off that along with wiping out his blogs, twitter, etc., he took down his github and abandoned his projects without helping to oversee a transition of stewardship. This included a few high-profile rubyists.

And then presumably also some people who always thought his whimsy was a detriment to the ruby community (by making it seem less professional or something).

(Not my opinions, just information)
I upvoted this post as a way to say thank you for a polite debate.
I don't live in Canada, I live in the states, and I have to say, I find this insulting.
>Why does Valve make a fortune selling virtual hats

Because of the perceived social status conferred on them for having a rare or "cool" hat. It has nothing to do with the narrative vs mechanic question.
tptacek: Two points. First, if an employee has a history of writing bad code, you may scrutinize their efforts more closely in the future. Same with Congress. I was making a historical point for context that based on rdl's mention below.

Second, I'm not aware that anything ACLU EFF EPIC said that's intentionally false re: CISPA. As you correctly say, other groups may not be as careful (although even then, you could have unintentional falsehoods, and I rarely like to speculate about motives).
Why maintain the extra line?
*>"Needs Foxes?" (http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png)

Yes please :)

Reference: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=why%20the%20luc...
Sounds like a lot of us here fit the description pretty well.

I'm not convinced this is anything more than the various styles of potential people. Take for example that I don't read or watch fiction. I haven't been able to cope with it my whole life. I read non-fiction and much prefer it.

Is that a preference? Is that some meaningful indication about who I am?

I don't know. I am hearing the spectrum answer from a lot of people. That sounds like an answer with no way to refute it, so the value of it is meaningless.

I really don't know much about this topic, and haven't given it the time to learn. My input is not particularly valuable in this discussion.

However my best guess is that this is trying to explain the range of human possibility with a diagnosis as opposed to simply thinking that there are different people with different traits, and that's all okay.

I used to be "unable" to do a lot of tasks of a business professional and just coded and worked alone.

Then I was promoted until I was unable to do what I was good at, and has to learn how to do the business tasks. Now I am doing them.

It wasn't that I was unable. I just didn't desire to do it on my own, and wasn't in a position where I had to regardless.

I sort of think of all of this like ADHD. The majority of parents I know tell me their kid has ADHD, and many are on medication for it.

And I watch them feed their children coke regularly.
The first developer you hire shares in your risk, but with a fraction of the potential gain, and you're worried that you can't pay him what he's worth?

Exploitation of depressed markets is a viable option, but it's not the right option.
There are a lot of different ways to be exiled. From what I gather, his privacy was violated so he left. Whether his privacy was violated out of excessive fanboi zeal or as an expression of lack of trust/attempt to verify something or some other reason, it was a form of hostile event which drove him off. He was not being accepted on the terms he wished to set, in essence.
Hackers are about creating things.

Arguing about "using your own style" with regards to braces and such is not hacking, it's bike-shedding.
"The author blames recent graduates for wanting to be paid a decent wage" ... 75k is not an entry-level/recent grad salary.
Nice read!

On a slightly related note, I wonder why some cell phone service providers are dishonest about a "ringer-tone" (for lack of a better word). The other day in a poor cell reception area I placed my friend's AT&T phone next to mine and dialed her number from my AT&T phone. From my phone we could hear the other phone "ring", however my friend's phone wasn't actually ringing. It then went to voicemail after a few rings.

I found it very strange since this is not how cell phones connect in India, for example. I wouldn't have heard the other phone "ring" if it weren't actually ringing on an Indian cell phone service provider.
Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube
It's not really fair to say that a particular business could have done something because yours did. Comparing two arbitrary businesses is really apples and oranges.
How many of the names on CISPA were in Congress for Clipper? Answer: Frank LoBiondo. That's it, out of a long list of names. Congress is not one monolithic thing.
I'd probably include the people who were trying to figure out his real life identity.
in reply to tptacek below (I think I'm still within the too-many-nested-replies thing)

I don't know if it's possible to limit CISPA, while keeping it useful, enough to keep civil libertarians happy. The best solution is probably to take a page from my much more seriously followed personal legislative issue: gun rights.

I'm actually in favor of universal licensing/background checks and such for firearms, if implemented correctly (not building a registry, using a technical solution to make it possible to trace ownership of a gun without enumerating all guns owned by a person, etc.)

But, the gun lobby/gun owners rightly fear any new regulations are just there to kick them down the slippery slope, so they dig in their heels and oppose everything.

The way around it, I think, is to have a good background check bill proposed which ALSO eliminates a bunch of ineffective existing regulations (allow import of 1968+ MGs, non-sporting-use weapons, no 922(r) parts count, sale of transferable new post 1986 MG under existing NFA rules, removal of SBS/SBR/suppressors from NFA, potentially CCW reciprocity). There's enough pro gun stuff in that to make up for the risk/fear of the new licensing regulation.

Maybe do the same thing with CISPA -- information sharing, but at the same time address the NSL issue, fix anti-circumvention in DMCA, potentially limit CALEA (I hate that it applies to anything but POTS telephony), etc. I'm not sure what specific concessions should be made, but the idea of trading some relaxing ineffective or bad existing law for new law seems like the best way forward.
Except it doesn't work.

Here's what really happens:

PatentHoldingShellCompany60852, Inc. files a lawsuit. They have no products and no services and so cannot be countersued for any conceivable infringement. Even if you do manage to sue them successfully, the company's only asset is the patent. It declares bankruptcy, nobody involved in setting it up gets hurt, and tomorrow PatentHoldingShellCompany60853, Inc. is filing in East Texas to try to shakedown somebody else.
Do Nothing But Your To-Do List
> Actually, its worse than that; they seem convinced that their patents have actual intrinsic value, which kind of makes sense. They spend a lot of money doing research and development, so of course they want to believe that a legal mechanism for preserving the value of that R&D is legitimate.

Is it not? Should Apple, Google, etc, do the industry's R&D for free? Google's self-driving car is patented. Should Kia be allowed to come along and reverse-engineer the firmware and free-ride on their efforts?

I'm not being confrontational, I'm genuinely interested to hear your viewpoint.
PCL is a well-known format and _why (or whoever is controlling the domain) did this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015087
This sounds like a very difficult situation! I didn't realize it was this complicated; I always wondered why pension fund managers were so gullible.