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A nice complement to this article is http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm and its earlier piece http://effbot.org/zone/simple-iterator-parser.htm

Also, this page maintains links to many python parsing options - http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html
I disagree. I think it is a good time to do this because it is still largely unregulated and not well understood. The media is already reporting this currency as being "crypto" or "anonymous" -- so Zerocoin is really nothing new to the media. They largely don't know the difference between pseudo-anonymity and the real thing.
Excellent, I'm in some sort of probation--artificial lag. (Multiple accounts, different browsers.)

Let's see if I'm permanently afflicted or if it's a temporary thing.

Is anyone else as curious about HN's opaque, passive-aggressive moderation as I am?
Some of the smart people I've heard of are on YouTube.

(http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/provos/)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUkYJeZtW4)
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Ask HN: How long does it take to setup CI for a new project
I'm going with a process that should be able to

Get sources from repository, update version numbers, label source / checkin to repo

Build the application

Run Unit tests with coverage

Create coverage report

Push the application to package manager

Deploy application on webserver

Email notification
I don't think reducing the number of small acts out there is a bad thing. Let's face it the overwhelming majority of bands suck, and plenty of people are going to do it for free as a hobby or just to get laid. So, IMO convincing the vast majority of starving artists to move on with there lives is probably a good thing.
Since BTC is expected to be regulated like a currency

Citation? The recent FinCEN statement [1] does not support your claim.

[1] http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....
FYI you can get xmpp through fastmail too. That sounds almost exactly like my experience too.
TL;DRzr is now open source! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5535827
Did you try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave?

>Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google originally developed it as Google Wave.[1] It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. [...]

>Development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation which started to develop a server-based product called Wave in a Box.
I think saying that the tech industry is only a small fraction of our total economy (and the world economy in general). It's a huge growth engine, but most of the jobs and companies out there aren't tech related. If we place too much of an emphasis on recruiting engineers, we risk shutting out other skilled (and unskilled) immigrants.

Plenty of immigrants come to America with little more than a strong work ethic and a dream. They may have been too poor or disadvantaged to have afforded college, let alone an engineering degree, in their native countries. Hell, some of their native countries may not even have such opportunities. If we're restricting our search to highly skilled, highly educated workers, we're discriminating against everyone else who wants to participate in the American Dream.

Lest we assume these people are necessarily undesirable, we should be reminded of the fact that many of our most successful and quintessentially "American" companies were founded by originally unskilled immigrant laborers. Andrew Carnegie is perhaps the most famous example. His family emigrated to the US from Scotland, dirt poor and uneducated. His first job was as a messenger boy. He grew, of course, to become one of America's wealthiest and most productive captains of industry. He didn't have the status "captain of industry" before applying to enter the US. He gained that status in the US, via the opportunities afforded by the US to someone of his work ethic and intelligence. (And even the less-than-Carnegian immigrants of the world fill crucial roles in our economy).

Now, I disagree with the author in that he thinks a focus on engineers is necessarily a zero-sum game: that placing an emphasis on skilled workers precludes unskilled workers. It doesn't have to. I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater on Zuckerberg's argument, just because it's limited in scope. There's probably a lot more help than harm done by the sorts of reforms the group is seeking.
yeah i dont understand what the service is

good name though
HTML5 is not standard, certainly not open. Everyone abandoned WebKit for some unknown reason having to do with Apple. Please list these OSS Apps, I would love to know since Google and Wikpedia say nothing like that.
What makes you think the price of Bitcoin will ever stabilize? (You know, somewhere besides zero).
The world is going to really suck when things like this get played out in social media and blog posts each and every time.
compile for 32bit.
When does he get started in the morning?
You could have said literally the same thing about Pets.com stock.
No, it's that the vast majority of immigrants are not working in tech. The vast majority of Americans are not working in tech. We have something like 11 million undocumented immigrants: their staying in the US should not be contingent on them being a part of the new business scene.

Furthermore, why should the US be encouraging technologists to immigrate here, when fundamentally those immigrants are in the business of putting other people (Americans and immigrants both) out of work? Yes, this is great for Silicon Valley, and probably is good for NYC, but what about for Iowa and Nebraska?
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I can understand that difference in opinion, even as I'm firmly convinced it will be ultimately impossible.

Money is, in some sense, a contract between people; or perhaps a better way of saying it is that it's within the public concern. So there _must_ be some human authority backing it.
I'm sure if their employees are told that if they work hard and do good work that the possibility exists.
It's possible that Walmart just repects their customers
a bit more.
Checkout is still around; they just renamed it Wallet to coincide with their mobile app.
Well, MtGox proved me wrong earlier today. :)
Matter of fact, still down now.

Also I still think it would be interesting to see their setup, wrong or not.
I guess it won't be long now before we start coming up with the "Evil Empire" and "Borg" comparisons for Google. No tech monopoly seems to be immune...
According to "Name That Color", your color is (almost) "Moss Green". :)

http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#A7D6AE
Sure they do, look at Coinbase. You can (for example) buy Reddit Gold for $3.99 USD, or the equivalent in Bitcoin, which changes based on some USD-based exchange rate they figure out. Or look at Namecheap, which can refill your account in Bitcoin--but you enter a USD amount before they tell you how much the Bitcoin cost will be. Maybe they don't look at MtGox every day but most merchants without a doubt peg their Bitcoin amounts to some USD exchange rate.
You know what sucks even more overwhelmingly than the majority of indie acts? The mainstream successes.
> When a company is small, such political scaffolding is unncessary.

Politics requires only three people.
But are the other markets as rabid as MtGox? I think that is why alot of people even put up with the higher fees.

Also when MtGox comes back online in ~3 hours I believe we will be in for some more bot action manipulation, especially with the temporary fee waive now.
Likely they are extremely young and can't conceive of why that is a terrible thing to put on a serious commercial site.
Google, more than any other company, has made the web a better place. The web was horrible dumping ground before Google - laced with Portals and flashing display ads, pathetic Search, fragmented content.

Chrome's the best browser, Gmail the best Email client, Google Maps / Earth the best mapping client, there's only 1 YouTube, the Mobile landscape would be a walled garden with every user a hostage if it wasn't for Android, then there's a zillion other apps I use on a daily basis that is best-in-class like Hangouts, Analytics, Google G+ Communities, Groups, etc - and I use them all for free.

The world needs more Google's not less, the web is a much better place for having them.
The exchange rate on services like Bitpay are a smoothed-out version of the current spot price. Nobody will fix a USD/BTC rate for even a day. In dollar-denominated terms, the price of items for sale in BTC floats throughout the day.

I think we're just using the word in two different ways.
> it's a model that works only for the very most popular acts.

Isn't that true of every single model out there?
I probably wrote code to perform at least two dozen of these kinds of tasks for my last business and I'll probably be a customer for my next business. This definitely creates a lot of value for non-technical small businesses.

However, I'm not sure your landing page does a great job of communicating your product's value to non-technical people.
How is it interesting? Credentials matter. They're one of multiple metrics any knowledge-driven company uses to find the best to fill roles. Some community-college educated kid is unlikely to have the right skills to fill roles FB or any other tech company is looking for.

Even if the community college kid did get the interview (and their resume isn't immediately filtered out) good luck on that without advanced education. It wouldn't be impossible but definitely hard. Way hard.
>I hate them because I care.

I am sorry but I can't understand your rationale. Please elaborate? What do you care about and what do you hate? Do you care about Google as a publicly shared company and hate the lack of focus in the growing company? Do you care about the web and hate the growth of walled gardens?

>Google is forcing me away even though they're the best at what they do

What specifically bothers you? If there is one thing I have learned from the Internet, it is that I am never first and I am never unique. Perhaps, someone else has found workarounds for the problems you face?

I don't know why anyone would choose to use Y! Search but Firefox is a great web browser and the iPhone is a great app phone (not that you needed my validation). In any case, wish you all the best. :)
This is an odd argument, suggesting as it does that Bitcoin has some value independent of its utility as a currency. What else could its value be?

I assume you already grok that anything, from toenail clippings to used tissue paper, can spark a speculative bubble. All you need is a story convincing enough to get the ball rolling, and then momentum takes over.
If it is open source. It can be as low as 2 mins with travis-ci
If it is on a in house setup. It may take close to half an hour (depending on the level of sophistication needed). I have successfully setup teamcity in about half hour (4 hosts total).
Sounds like you have it set up like I'd want it. But I live in London so I guess I'll have to wait till you guys expand. Best of luck.
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Fun fact and off topic: "pinto" in portuguese means something like "cock" (in reference to the male sex organ) but is also a very common surname in Brazil, which may cause funny situations (or not).
I dislike how they are playing fast and loose with my personal information and seem to be building their own "walled garden" on the internet by sabotaging open standards like RSS. But if they get everyone to ride in self-driving cars I will forgive them forever. I cannot exaggerate how excited I am about that, it will completely reshape American society.
Zuckerberg is not in a bubble...he has been meeting with immigration policy experts for years. He understands his role in the national immigration debate, and he is playing it very well.

Many people have the goal of comprehensive immigration reform. To get it accomplished will take a lot of pushing from a lot of different directions.

Zuckerberg, as the CEO of one of the most famous "new economy" innovative companies, is in the perfect position to talk about high-skilled workers, which is a component of comprehensive reform that will help Republicans accept the bill. He has a ton of personal credibility on this aspect of immigration. FWD.us aggregates other people with similar credibility.

He does not have a ton of credibility on issues like re-training former textile workers, or low-skill jobs, or illegal immigrants. If he tried to lobby on those issues he would be dismissed as a typical grandstanding California liberal. There are plenty of other people and organizations--with more credibility--pushing on those aspects of immigration reform.
It seems to me that there's a developing consensus even in the deployment ecosystems. Everybody's growing towards what I might call a file-system-virtual environment per application, so you don't get conflicts in the "core" OS, automatic dependency management, etc etc, and it seems like the libraries grow ever closer to each other. What is one year some bizarrely-awesome library in one particular language is two years later copied in all the others. (Which is a good thing.) That whole family of languages is all headed for the same basic local optima, which is the bulk of why I would claim they're all essentially the same language.
Streak, you always amaze me with your clever technical solutions. Your Gmail application is equally as impressive, thanks for sharing this will no doubt come in handy one day.
oDesk offers periodic screenshots of what your contractor is working on. To me this is enough - a sign that they are on task, but no possibility of catching them mid-nose pick.
That and the landing page video — it was both cheesy, and patronizing to both musicians and their fans.

And after watching it I still don't understand the "decrease price by a dollar" pricing scheme.
I don't think you can. The naive answer would be "how many lines of code does the person produce" but I'm sure we'd all disagree with that.

I'd say as long as the person doesn't make the same mistake over and over and (maybe) doesn't ask the same question over and over, the person is fine.
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Cap's breakup rule: you learn more about girlfriends and bosses when you leave than at any other time. This probably applies to boyfriends, too, but I don't have experience there.
Girl Talk is considered the poster child for musical sampling, but in my mind his output is uncontroversial because it's actually just DJing. No one ever sues a DJ for playing their track.

These copyright issues only become interesting when you consider works which assert more transformative power on the samples.
Been playing with this for a few hours. Very interesting stuff!

I'll second what shazow said about auto-saving and resiliancy to internet/browser issues. The page has crashed multiple (7-10) times in Chrome. Fortunately I didn't lose too much, but even losing a couple obscure changes is rather annoying.

The UI for reloading your own species was rather confusing at first. I thought when I reloaded the page I would have my species there already and freaked out when it wasn't! Eventually I figured out I had to Add Team with my existing team.

I'd love to have a bit more robust vector libraries, such as doing vector dot product (vector projection) and vector rejection, in additional to just speedTowards.

It would be particularly helpful during testing & debugging to have a mode with no moons, or perhaps just a single static moon in the center. Continue having the three moons for ladder and competition, but it'd be super to have the more basic map to make it easier while training my geometries how to move and maneuver. Maybe limit the option to when only one team is loaded.

Thanks!
Unit testing a deterministic one is not too bad. Unit testing a stochastic physical system is a nightmare.
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I really agree with you, except for one minor point: You are still thinking of google as if it's the "old google". Definitely before Google+ and probably even before the adwords division started calling all the shots.

That's when google could have been called "one of the coolest companies in the world". Now they are heavily invested in building their own walled garden. Maybe it's not even anyone being "evil", and it's just an emergent behaviour. That doesn't change the fact that google is a giant surveillance machine. Argue that it's benign or that you trust them, but that's still what it is. A non-evil system of ubiquitous surveillance is an oxymoron.

I admit I'm excited by google cars and google glass, but I worry I won't end up being able to use them. Is there any chance they won't report on everything you see and do to google servers to be sold to/subpoenaed by whoever wants it?
Could you point out the problem with such a distribution? It isn't immediately obvious that I cannot satisfy both axioms.

Edit: The helpful explanation linked in a comment on the question you linked is defective because it applies to all continuous probability distributions.
Can you go indept about what you did wrong that allowed payment processors to freeze your accounts? What about your software didn't comply with their terms that it had to be rewritten?
diaspora hasn't ever been a viable product, and the project itself is completely stalled now isn't it?
Your absolutely right on all accounts but you could have presented your argument in a less aggressive manner, despite the rampant fanboy-ism, transparently willful ignorance and fellatious marketing.
I have so far avoided combining my YouTube and Google Plus account. They keep annoying me with random overlay asking me to combine them but so far I've been saying not now. One way I've minimized exposure to this is using the android app instead of the desktop browser version but it may not be for everyone.

I probably don't need to tell you this but just in case: If you have a concern about a Play Store, please contact the developers and give them a chance to fix things. Thank you!
Just to clarify, this is not whole organ decellularization. The brain tissue, with it's neurons, glia, ECM, are left all in tact, along with their proteins, mRNA, etc.

Now, instead of having to slice the brain into micrometer slices just to understand architecture at a localized level, you can understand the architecture of the whole brain's network down to the cellular level, as well as do both immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization to probe what kind of proteins and molecular markers are present throughout the brain. This is nothing short of a revolution in experimental technique not only for neuroscience, but all of pathology.
Perl seems to have gotten left behind as a language. The entire lost decade of Perl 6 is crazy. Sure, Perl can say that it has more modules and it might be a little better as a glue language, but for me I think it's time to adopt Ruby or Python. Except, of course, for when perl -ane '...' is needed in a pinch. :-)

Seriously, developers are dividing their efforts three different ways with three different scripting languages. It's probably better for everyone to learn Ruby and Python rather than have a third.
I really love the idea and the whole premise of an expensive message sending service benefiting a charity, but I'm not sold on the design mockup. I know it's only a mockup, but it feels a little too unrefined. Not trying to degrade the whole idea, just being honest. I really like the idea and I would love to see something like this on a more larger scale, a service celebrities can sign up for and people can message them for cash.
Consider being less condescending. Condescension is like a gigantic flashing neon sign saying "I'm not worth arguing with because I'll just be a jerk to you if you reply". Your original post was absolutely dripping with it, and the one I'm directly replying to isn't really much better.
I guess you're not planning on sharing that reason and you expect me to let my imagination run wild for the benefit of your argument?
should have gone with #bada55

http://ni9e.com/bada55/bada55_can.jpg
Am I the only one pained that none of the favicon, the "KNOOP" title, the links on the right, or the article's hyperlinks matched #FF4A00, or even eachother, even before I saw it? :D :D
> I think you gotta pay the original artist.

That's not going to happen either, under the current system.

> Writing, performing, and recording really good music costs a lot of money, and sampling is virtually free.

Here your own argument comes back to bite you. Really good sampling takes just as much blood, sweat, and tears invested as the other skill sets you cite.

> If it's really worth nothing, then all these DJ's could either produce it or record it themselves.

Black or white or ... gray. Copyright duration has been extended well beyond the average human lifespan. With an effective lockout of fair-use, there is no effective recourse for musical collage artists. As TFA cites, this is completely inconsistent with copyright rulings for other art forms. Why should the music industry should get to be the special snowflake here?

> This is a classic economic externality.

You're complaining about a minor weakening of a monopoly which was created by the government at the public's expense! (Cough, externality, cough.) Quoth Wikipedia[1]: "In economics, an externality is a cost or benefit which results from an activity or transaction and which affects an otherwise uninvolved party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit." To use TFA's example, it's hard to reason that ACDC's revenues suffer because someone samples a few seconds of one of their songs, hit or otherwise. In fact, many cultural icons are greatly reinforced by this kind of use. On the other hand, law and precedent that restricts our ability to work with the cultural artifacts of our own lifetimes flies in the face of the history of the entire history of art and music. How's that for an externality?

As a professional software developer, I can hardly argue against music and audio professionals' ability to make money from their skilled work. But the argument that the pendulum of access and fair use in music has swung too far is compelling, and hardly new to TFA.
Why does everyone hate GoDaddy?
I have my own personal reasons to dislike them, but I'd be interested in knowing some of the key reasons for their almost universal hate in the tech world.
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The article isn't condemning the cause of immigration reform, but rather shining a light on the fact that the most powerful voices are too narrowly focused. Technology visionaries seem to be overwhelmingly focused on self-serving initiatives in the name of economic growth.

The reality is immigration reform needs to be felt throughout the economy, not simply towards engineers and knowledge workers. It's important for business leaders to stand up for immigration reform, but it would be better if they recognized the issue in a more holistic way. The economy is much larger than what is perceived within the Valley.

Om Malik is one of the few journalists I trust within the bubble of Silicon Valley. Part of the reason this article has a lot of resonances is because he's a dissenting immigrant who understands the values of technology and startups.
Thank you for so eloquently pointing out the elephant in the room that I've been too scared to speak about myself.
So if you knew people were double spending the currency, you would just shrug it off and continue trusting that currency?
A cool idea does not equal a business model. That is why I think soooo many startups fail. They build something awesome, amazing, cool whatever, but they don;t stop to ask people, "Will you pay for this? Is this something you think I could charge for?" That is the data I WANT and need.
I think a "No names, no reporting, until a conviction" rule would be really good.

It'd encourage more women to report rape. It'd help to protect men from false allegations of rape. (Because here the reputation damage is crippling).
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