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They just rammed a bill through congress to make Monsato above the law. They have drones scouring the globe for vans filled with people they can drop bombs on if they think they may associate with "bad" people. If you talk about it you're a conspiracy theorist. Which means you go onto a list. Gotta watch what you're doing now. They try to disarm the public in the name of safety while arming themselves to the teeth and solving every problem they have with the threat of violence.

Think this is crazy talk? Well that's my point. It's become crazy to even mention some things. Frankly, the stuff is getting outright creepy and they better be careful because they are playing with fire.
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It's https://github.com/Atmosphere/atmosphere for me.

I'm also looking for a good alternative to Hibernate.
Why not require video cameras be installed in factory farms, and have footage independently reviewed? I feel like a lot of this abuse is due to poorly educated workers in a stressful environment and no observation.
I think you're making an interesting argument about bias amongst us, but the support you give is unpersuasive.

It comes down to a difference between a non-performing entity and a business. Apple and Microsoft employ people to attempt to develop novel solutions to real problems for the purposes of creating products. Trolls do not.

Now, this does not excuse Apple or Microsoft for BS patents. And that's a good discussion to have. But it isn't "monkey see, monkey do."
Same with the Norwegian version. I also agree on your point about this being free and all that implies.
I respectfully disagree. If you don't treat test code with the same respect as production code, rot sets in. Rot in the test suite discourages programmers from trusting, augmenting and maintaining it, until it eventually stops being used altogether.

The most common type of rot in test code is caused by lazily copy/pasting vast blocks of setup code. The reason this is bad is that when subtle architectural changes break that setup process, somebody has to waste hours fixing 50 tests. Refactoring such code into a setUp method is the usual way of avoiding this.
Inside Vert.x. Comparison with Node.js.
I wonder what would have happened if this kind of legislation was in place for the guy who filmed the Mitt Romney "47%" video.
All this hype and speculation gives me a bit of pause, and worries me about actually mining. However, I keep wondering, what opportunities are there left to "sell the shovels" ?
Yeah, I found the deletion really weird too! Good that it's back though.
All of them died, sometimes half-completed, after I learned what I wanted. I never had the expectation that I could finish a full product by myself, I've always tried to do projects in order to learn a specific thing.
Thinking about writing a book? I wrote one. You can write one too.
Newsflash: it's extraordinarily unlikely that you live in a country with stronger protection of freedom of speech than the US. In fact, if you live in Europe you almost certainly don't.
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I disagree heavily.

Refactoring tests is as important as refactoring "production" code. Following the four elements of simple design (http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-four-elements-of-simple-...) you can use test refactorings to find better names and detect need for abstractions.

Tests with lots of duplication, for example in the test setup, get hard to maintain and developers tend to abandon them more easily (my own experience).
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Reasons why translations are never simple #5322, Polish edition:

"You have won..." -> "Właśnie wygrałeś..."

Wygrałeś is fine if the player's a man. Otherwise, for a woman, wygrałeś needs an A instead of the E: wygrałAś

There are lots of pitfalls like this in Slavic languages, and I imagine in many others.

Speaking as an English developer, the first time you implement a proper translation can be a painful - not to mention enlightening - experience.
It's estimated due to the way bitcoin works.

A transaction can be made up of a different number of inputs, if the inputs don't exactly match the output (the amount you want to send), there is "change".

The change is sent to a new address (belonging to the sender). So blockchain.info and this site are guessing as to which of the outputs was the intended sending amount and which was the change.
Web-of-trust schemes are effective. The usual way we find out about stuff like this happening is word-of-mouth. Infrastructure for the process would automate it - after all the only thing you need is a way to say "this is what the certificate's hash should be".
$4.99 would be to high. That price range is right for apps like Snapseed (pre Google aquisition) that are billed as serious photo editors (tools in genreral can command a higher price.)

When you are at that price range, it also helps to have a lot of big published reviews behind it so customers can evaluate the purchase more easily. Popsicolor doesn't have any of those, and probably won't receive any, because it doesn't solve a particular problems other than being fun unto itself.
There is a specific process to de-classify materials and wikileaks isn't it. It is still classified.
"What kind of immoral, capitalistic people are in charge in the US?"

The Lesters of course.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
That's Adi Shamir, an Israeli cryptographer. You might know him as the S in RSA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir
>I'd love to get an economist studying why the value of bitcoins goes up.

Great sarcasm there!
There is no 'j' in italian (for 'Congratulations')

They probably mean 'Congratulazioni'

Oh and the Portuguese column is fine, but don't try it in Brazil, go for the 'Brazilian Portuguese' instead
So does all Polish software ask for you gender the first thing you do when you log in?
I thought it was just an FTP client, but, apparently, it works as a file browser, too. I should try it.
I find this bit to be on the 'oh-please' side of crazy:

>They try to disarm the public in the name of safety while arming themselves to the teeth and solving every problem they have with the threat of violence.

because I have a friend who used this basic argument to say gun control increases the likelihood of a nuclear strike on DC by North Korea.
Except it is not a counterargument to that at all. If anything it reinforces that argument by treating Bitcoin as an asset rather than a currency.
Legal in what sense? Wikileaks cannot de-classify materials regardless of how much they "analyze and assess" it.
Animal Farm also comes to mind, but that's awfully literal.
The tab join seems visually weird to me. But I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
Yes. I saw that one just yesterday :D He makes great points, but his presentation makes me feel like I've walked into an appliance store and the salesman is trying to convince me to buy the most expensive fridge in the shop.
Some kind of crowdfunding platform could work better here. Something like fundhub.org or gittip.com
So does all Polish software ask for you gender the first thing you do when you log in?

I don't know - one of these days I'll finally get the guts to change my laptop's language to Polish.

Fortunately, this rule only applies to the past and future tenses, so you're safe if you can keep to present tense.

The only translations I've worked with have been Facebook-based, where, by and large, the person's gender is already known.

Elsewhere, I've seen things written in a bit of a hacky manner, e.g. the above written as: Właśnie wygrałeś/aś.
Putting the issue of legality of such legislation aside, it kinda surprised me that the farm-owners/workers were not more concerned about the kind of cruelty going on in their property. Do these people not find the videos incredibly unsettling? How can they allow these things under their watch?
Sounds like paper maps will make a comeback :-)
Ask HN: Does your company have an employee health & well being coordinator? 
Hi HN, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in having someone coordinate employee health programs for their startup or small tech team. My wife is incredibly talented, well organized and highly knowledgeable as it relates to human well being and health. She has a biology degree and a masters of health science. She is also a certified personal trainer and an educator of 6 years.

I've been wondering if many startups have any sort of employee well being programs in place and if this is possibly something she could do remotely with occasional travel. My thoughts are that startups would benefit greatly from having someone that could help employees make good health choices and encourage them through incentive plans, programs and awareness campaigns. Considering the long hours at the office/computer chair I know first hand that it is easy to fall into a sedentary lifestyle when focusing so hard on work. A healthy team is ultimately going to be a much more effective, efficient and happy team.

Any thoughts or suggestions for how my wife could get into something like this would be greatly appreciated. I could see this as a contract position for multiple companies or a full time position for a slightly larger team.
People with big guns always say they are trying to make peace. Doesn't mean that trying to make peace is a bad thing.

And by "disarm" I presume in the terms of rights/finances/influence....rather than literally in terms of guns.
Funny. That TED Talk is sponsored by Goldman Sachs.
References to what? The fact that Europe has lots of laws restricting free speech?
A big fraction of the Ember community uses ember-rails, and tests using standard Rails tools.

For those of us not using Rails, here's a jsFiddle that shows how to test an Ember.js application: http://jsfiddle.net/ekidd/hCsws/

This includes both unit tests (for models, views and controllers) and full integration tests (using jQuery and chai-jquery to drive the GUI). There are one or two rough edges, which are documented, and which I plan to submit bugs about soon.
I would add postage to the protocol, as well. Spam consumes so much resources because it's basically free -- adding required computational complexity to send a mail (or, even better, an escrow based real money postage system) would go a long way towards cutting the legs out from under the spammers.

Network effects mean that all this is idle speculation, however.
The problem I see is that this is really just your perspective of the project. It could very well be that the 0.5 gamma curve is really a hyperbolic sine (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicSine.html). If it is, are you going to have energy at the end to take that next mountain?
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I've added Spectacle to the post. It's pretty cool that it's open source.
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>That still leaves the wp-content directory and everything in it, including other plugins, writable by the web server.

You don't have to have the wp-content directory writable by the web server. I certainly don't on the WordPress installs that I maintain. I also do not have FTP open and listening. Users can SSH/SFTP files up if they wish, but I don't let the web server write into the Wordpress area for specifically that reason.
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I think you, like many people, are conflating Darwin with Malthus.
Europe has almost no laws. We are not like the US.

The EU does enforce a bunch of laws. So does the EEA.

So I would like a good example of a law from a european country that is not the UK or eastern europe.
This is the first I had heard of this particular story although I am aware similar stories like this exist. This follows on from another story on HN (can't find the HN link) about a UK armed forces member being denied boarding on a Virgin flight because she was wearing her uniform [1]. It seems to me that any form on questioning is now being taken as non-compliance, leaving customers with little choice, - comply or prepare to be inconvenienced when you are denied permission to fly.

Of all the flights I have personally been on the only time there has been a real issue of passenger safety is when the drunk who wont sit down or or demands to get off the plane mid-flight and yet they continue to make alcohol available on flights.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290462/What-way-tre...
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You can't just "brand" yourself a journalist. You need a licence and accreditation.
Do you also recommend that a Taurus should avoid Libras?
If the English column is full of mistakes... how can you rely on the translations?
Yes, but if legislation lije this passes in the U.S., these claims will hold in court here.
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"Myres Briggs was not based on science, but Jungian pseudo-science. It's since morphed from an interesting theory (which happened to be mostly incorrect) to a pop-culture superstition."

Just because something starts from intuition, does not make it non-science. (Although, I suppose that's usually the case... there's plenty of pseudo-science to go around.) I've heard that Maxwell was motivated by "elegance" when he came up with Maxwell's equations.

The question is: does it stand the test of scientific rigor?

You said that Jung's theory "happened to be mostly incorrect". Do you have links to research on this? I am genuinely curious.

I think that the Myers-Briggs temperament sorter can and should be subjected to scientific scrutiny.

Let me propose a hypothetical personality test: "Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke?" From here, we can do simple statistical correlations. Suppose we dug a little deeper and discovered that: 62% of the people who prefer Coke prefer going to movies over sports games on Friday night. 71% of the people who prefer Pepsi prefer going to sports games over going to the movies on Saturdays. (This is a hypothetical example that I just invented in my head.)

There might be a deeper reason for this... Coke advertises at movie theaters like crazy, and Pepsi advertises at sporting events like crazy. Or whatever.

So... if you are oblivious to the underlying science of the questionnaire, and if you answer honestly, then I can use basic statistics to guess something about your personality, at above chance levels.

(BTW, these are just preferences. Just because you prefer Pepsi doesn't mean that you don't occasionally enjoy a Coke, etc.)

Likewise, there could be a study of the Myers-Briggs temperament sorter. (For those who don't know, the Myers-Briggs temperament sorter has four dimensions: Extrovert-vs-Introvert, iNtuitive-vs-Sensing, Feeling-vs-Thinking, Perceptive-vs-Judging.) We can do plain-old statistical correlations between people's answers on the test and their life choices. Are "SJ"s more likely to become police officers or school teachers? Are "NT"s more likely to become programmers or scientists? (And/or, if they don't become those things, do they wish that they did?)

It's a straight-forward question to put this onto rigorous scientific grounding. I'm curious if this has been done yet... (you said that it "happened to be mostly incorrect"... do you have links to research papers?)
Excessive risk taking could have structural/physiological root causes.
http://www.mendeley.com/catalog/impulsivity-risk-taking-beha...

The authors experiences about gaming seem to be dramatizations of fairly common first world teenage problems - which are exaggerated here for advertising.
To crystallize the point: how is this not, on its face, textbook First Amendment material?
why not simply use jabber and its buildin conference rooms? i don't see the point to use a web app (which normaly runs in a web browser) to chat. a standalone chat application/programm can better fit the usage of its user. notifications from a website are ignored or annoys the hell out of me.
Anecdotal evidence, but I find that part of being an introvert is that you have fewer, but deeper, relationships. There might be research / articles to back this up.

People are social beings, so both introverts and extroverts need friendships. The difference lies in the quantity and quality.
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I wasn't aware that was the case, can't anyone be a self proclaimed investigative journalist?
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a bit like smashing up your car so no-one steals it

More like not putting all your server room and home entertainment system equipment (televisions, ipads, etc.) in your car, sitting on the front seat with the doors unlocked.

Your car needs to get you places. If you make it the central storage location for all the cool/expensive stuff in your life - don't be surprised when people open your doors or break your windows to take it. If in the process of storing all your junk and having it broken into - don't be too surprised when your car is no longer functioning as simple transport.
I would like to see https everywhere, but the cost of certs is still an issue.
Isn't this a privacy issue? Going in to someone's private property and filming/recording them without their knowledge doesn't seem like it would have anything to do with the first amendment.
It's quite common to write in asexual form, like 'Wygrana!'.

Also there are a lot more pitfalls regarding slavic languages, for example in polish, there are few plural forms (2 users, 8 users = 2 użytkownicy, 8 użytkowników, etc).
I'm from Poland, and I've got quite a lot experience in using Polish software. Using male forms is the norm, nobody writes "wygrałeś/aś" within the software.

Americans might consider it sexist, but it's the only practical solution to the issue. So, "Właśnie wygrałeś" is actually correct.
Redis as the primary data store
There are two aspects to it:

As epaga points out, if you lose access to your wallet (forget password, hardware failure without backups, somebody dies without leaving the password to their heirs) there is no way to retrieve that money.

Secondly, if a transaction is made to a valid-according-to-the-protocol address that nobody owns, that money is lost with no possibility of getting it back.

You could argue that these are problems that can be solved with more technology on top of Bitcoin, so you could have Bitcoin banks that:

1) Guarantee that your wallet is stored securely. The idea is that you need to trust that the bank is better at not doing stupid things than you.

2) Control access to it. Like modern banks, you would need to trust these banks, for they would have access to your wallets.

3) Make sure that payments are going to the right place. To make a payment, the bank that controls the wallet that the payment is being made to could be required to notify via another protocol that the address is real and belongs to a certain person/organisation. If this was widely used (so that payments to raw addresses was considered dangerous), it would also prevent a hacker from breaking into, say, EFF's Twitter account and tweeting "we're now accepting donations on this address...".
The more "secure" a nation tries to become the more tyrannical it becomes. It seems most people fail to forget that governments are made up of people, who like all their predecessors throughout history, will behave in a very predictable fashion if given power where there is no counter balance to their actions.
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UK shows strong support for petition to ban Bitcoin
Can we, as a hacker community, do something about this kind of abuse - irregardless whether taping animal cruelty becomes illegal or not?

My idea would be to set up some kind of wiki leaks for those videos, where animal rights militants would be able to anonymously post their videos.
I think letting anyone submit an idea is interesting but will quickly fail unless they pump a lot of money into ensuring crank stuff doesn't get in.

The difference between science and pseudo science can be hard to tell at times. Unless you have a barrier of entry like for instance being asked to do a talk, then pulling it off, you will get a lot of noise. Even with this TEDx is still getting into issues for instance.

Maybe mooonshot is meta in this regard.

This seems to currently be on the front page(Link broken), which is interesting....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHLNjWn68g
I'm still surprised how used we all got to the modern, somewhat simplistic file management metaphors. Icon/list view plus "shortcut" panel, wherever you look. I still remember that for years after Windows 95 came out, one of the first applications everyone installed was a better file manager, quite often some GUI Norton clone. Then there was the "spatial Finder" hullaballoo, echoed by GNOME, too, if I remember correctly. But in recent years, that market niche seems to be on the verge of extinction.

Probably for the same reason why keyboards are getting increasingly worse: No "hardcore" users. Pictures, music and similar files are "managed", lots of other stuff is exclusively accessed via a single application and its open dialog, leaving maybe the all-purpose Documents folder to be the target for occasional visitation.

And the desktop. Oh heavens, the desktop...
I'm translating a lot of the Dutch blank spots. I hope it will be helpfull for at least one person.
By that logic, don't we already have an enormous apparatus of laws that exist to protect the property owner? What would these bills add?
Microsoft have Language Portal with a lot of technical terms translations in a multiple languages. It gives you the translations in different context too.

http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
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Oblig.: "Water is used by hackers and other people trying to evade the law (child pornographers, terrorists, etc.). Therefore it should be made illegal."
RIP, the Great Iron Lady. You were a big inspiration to me. There would never be anyone like you and late Indra Gandhi. The two Maiden-de-People of mid-80s.
Ask HN: APIs for Music Play & Purchase?
I've long wanted to integrate various features into the products that I build that allow one to listen to a _and purchase_ a piece of music, while earning a commission on the sale. So far, I've come up empty handed in finding such a thing. Amazon MP3 doesn't seem to offer a listening API, YouTube doesn't offer a purchase API, iTunes doesn't seem to have any API, etc.

In a specific example, writers on [RolePlayGateway](http://www.roleplaygateway.com) often [associate theme songs with their characters](http://www.roleplaygateway.com/avalon-dawn-t78127-20.html#p1843788) or [pivotal moments in story](http://www.roleplaygateway.com/roleplay/the-multiverse/characters/joruv-komfeiv?start=0#roleplay2324177). Readers should be able to click a single button to play the full song while they read the post, and have the ability to purchase the track for their own library. Ideally, commission would be awarded for such purchases.

What APIs exist for easy search, play, and purchase of music?
Your comment adds nothing to this discussion, you didn't even link to the previous comments as the other poster did. What are you trying to achieve?