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In that case, could you please name a few artists that you believe did exactly that? I'm honestly interested in finding more of such art. But before you do, let me rephrase what I wrote above, because it's easy to misunderstand one short sentence (and I'm definitely guilty of not explaining very well what I mean): When I talk about art around and about software, I mean

a) art, i.e. not just something beautiful or well-crafted, but something which explores the human condition with an artistic purpose

b) around software, i.e. art that uses code as an integral part of the artwork (not just a painting about programming for example)

c) about software, i.e. it does not only use code to convey something, but code itself is the subject (Code for Code's sake)

I'm honestly not aware of anything that fits this description before _why's work (or at least of nothing that I would consider as art, and yes, that's somewhat hard to define). More concretely, I would exclude any works that simply praise mathematical / structural elegance, perfection or purity. Even though their creators may be artists and use artistic methods, I would hesitate to call such works "Art" with a capital A.

So, games/demos/processing sketches/audi-visual programming/software patterns/etc all do not fit these criteria. They may be very skillful works of art, but none of them tackle the subject of software & code at their core. While many focus on the mathematical perfection in code, _why focused on human imperfection and a creator's struggle while writing code.
Because it would change a massive amount of infrastructure and get about 10 hits a day.

(OK, 10 hits a day is probably an exaggeration but shockingly little of one.)
Unfortunately I don't think this knowledge is transferable! I recently changed a friend's toddler, and nothing worked. She was a kicker, where my son tends to twist his legs around to gain leverage and flip over. I think it's all stuff you figure out by trial, error, error, and more error.
For the Federal law, it's $455 per week, so a vast majority of people make enough. I wouldn't be surprised if CA had a higher minimum, since their laws are tend to be more worker friendly than the rest of the US.
Give me a statically typed Python and a type system that can handle external hardware poking around in its memory and I'm in ;)

I'm sort of a fan of Haskell already, to tell you the truth.
If he hasn't accessed any of these systems since he was terminated, he could state that it was for "emergency" access to remote systems upon other compromises. Since most of these systems are likely headless, then remote access is the only way to get in. A lot of remote exploits will nuke SSH, and other access tools, so having a "backdoor" is often a good idea.

That said, it's still likely that this guy is just a douche with a bad attitude, and deserves everything he has coming. Big difference between this, and "stealing" a bunch of reports that were government funded, and open to any and all users on the school network they were accessed from.
Ask HN: Anyone use Dart JS on a production app?
I am very intrigued by Dart mainly the dart2js route, however I couldn't find a 'Who uses it' page. I always find it interesting to see other services that use a technology and what they were able to achieve with it.
The problem is that most local governments that want a tech hub are either focusing on tech already and will think they don't need this, or are on the other end of the spectrum and simply don't care.

The key is to find a city on the cusp of making a serious decision to pursue becoming a tech hub. Google Fiber could be an incentive, or it might make them complacent, who knows? Maybe Provo? You can't really aim too small, small towns have serious conservative budgets and for good reason.

Austin would be nice, I'm not sure how insecure they feel about their status as a tech city compared to NYC and SF. What I can tell you for sure is that they are seriously affordable. You can trivially get a house for less than $200k in a decent neighborhood. That they're already competing for the tech city thing is a bonus.

Google Fiber in Austin could end up bringing in some fresh blood, even if it doesn't make that much of a difference on its own.

Austin has a $3.1 billion budget, which makes this more feasible for them than a sub-$1bn budget city. $25mm planning and development budget.

https://assets.austintexas.gov/budget/12-13/downloads/Vol_I_...

See here to see their job development efforts.

Anything involving as much money as this does is going to have be sold as a job development play. I don't know if that argument can be made yet or not, I'd need to discuss it.

Disclaimer: I'm headed to Austin as soon as I'm freed up in my consulting work to do a startup.
Another story is that you may end up with something like:

Just x -> something x
Nothing -> halt_and_catch_fire # impossible

In Haskell there is even a standard library function fromJust which does exactly that.

One introduces this hack knowing that this particular variable will always be Just and having absolutely no way to deal with Nothing and later somebody else sees the type Maybe Foo and figures that it must be OK to put a Nothing in there.
Feds Seize Barrett Brown’s Legal Defense Fund
%| You serious? A dude backdooring several system utilities, giving him access to 2700 customers' data and applications, and you're defending him with 'it's just all a mistake' nonsense?
The medium is the massage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_The_Massage
I found the process of ctrl+c, open dropbox/<folder>, ctrl+v, alt+f4, somewhat annoying, so created this.
Created this a few months back. Have been using it since then, recently pushed on Github. Maybe useful for some folks.
No installer as of now, if you need one, I can happily create one.
Ripple's Solution For Creating Network Consensus
Since you are taking close to the same risks as the founders, you should be getting close to what they get.
I understand that (now), however, PGR has often been recommended as an introductory book to Ruby, while it should be considered a piece of art in the first place. I guess _why should have chosen a bit more esoteric language as a vehicle. Luckily, there's plenty of them floating around ever since the fifties. :)
Yeah, there is even a comment that links to this article by ars technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-wan...
which talks about Project Paperless LLC, and several other spin off entities which now do this kind of patent trolling, along with the site "Stop Project Paperless" trying to gather support against the Patent Troll.

What I find troubling is that there is no larger site to check up on past history of patents by patent number and whether there are reports of patent trolling using these patents. If there were, it could be used to interconnect business owners to put money together to contest the patent in question. I mean this particular troll in the article I linked was demanding 130k USD from Blue Wave, and the USPTO estimates the cost of an inter partes review at about 193 thousand dollars per patent. Which means if they attempt to extort more than 200k from each patent spread over different businesses, it would make sense for these businesses to pool their resources for an IPR. That would kill the patent and likely, as patent trolls cast their nets large, be cheaper for the individual businesses.

But then I'm neither an expert on the topic nor a lawyer, so this is milkmaid patent advice really.
link please??
Though I've switched to ag, I still miss Ack's selection and deselection flags. Those are much sweeter than ag's -g and -G and it looks like they've improved further
It's OK to have two similar tools in your toolbox. When you need the --output option, for example, you use ack. When you want crazy speed, you use ag.

You don't have to choose one over the other. That's why I changed the name from "betterthangrep.com" to "beyondgrep.com". There's no need to have a ranking of "I use this over that."
Creating a thread-safe C++ Singleton Instance with TBB
It works surprisingly well.
Also, take a look at http://beyondgrep.com/more-tools/. There are a dozen other tools on there as well that you might well like as much as ack and ag.

An abundance of tools is good.
Sure. You're not wrong.

I'm not a programmer. I'm barely even a member of this community. You're far more involved in this world than I am; you know names and see projects that never cross my path. My understanding of your world is shallow. I wouldn't blame that on the community, actually; that's all my fault. :-)

Let me argue from a different, slightly better-thought-out angle. It's not that no programmers do artistic things. Indeed, there are fascinating people using code pretty much everywhere, and there have been for decades. What made _why unique was that many of his projects were aimed at introducing new people to programming, in a plethora of different ways which felt more organic and intimate than your average "learn to code" resource. Codecademy, which enjoyed a tremendous success over the last year, struck me as a slightly less whimsical version of _why's TryRuby, which always struck me as particularly ingenious.

Plenty of interesting programmers don't concern themselves much with reading out to amateurs, whereas _why had the (Poignant) Guide and TryRuby and Shoes. And _why wrote, not just about the code itself, but about the culture; some of the most interesting parts of the (Poignant) Guide concerned not the Ruby language, but the Ruby culture, which he made out to be particularly enthusiastic and welcoming. (While he was a member of the community, he did a fantastic job of encouraging young idiots like myself; I received an email from him 5 years ago while I hated my environment and what I was doing and it helped me out tremendously.)

It seemed, and still seems now, like he was making an incredible effort to reach out to a sort of person that normally was turned off by the way programming worked, and convince them to give programming a try anyway. At the same time, the things he said which were critical about the community rang true with those of us who didn't feel like proper parts of it – I, as I've already admitted, am not really a programmer and my approaches to building things tend to run contrary to how most programmers work. Yet with him, and with people who were especially inspired by his work, my way of doing things has felt like a valid and worthwhile approach to making things, and I've been able to feel like a bit more part of a community because of it.

I wish there were more people like _why doing that. The programming world still feels like a cold and forbidding place to those of us who aren't already within it. It's a shame that it feels that way. I don't think that it has to be.
I definitely see that happening. The big question in my mind is how they're going to interact with Utopia. Both Orem and Lindon have Utopia already. So will they go head to head with them? Or are they just going to skip those cities and hit all the other ones?
I'm not from Europe at all.

I'm from one of the Developed countries that ranks above the US in every major category that counts.

http://www.oecd.org/statistics/

It's always so interesting to see Americans who interpret "make it better" as "taking pot shots"

What's so inherently wrong with admitting there are problems and working towards improving them?
If you had that sort of experience, wouldn't it have been easier to write SQL instead of Linq?
According to MS guys this is not an error, SSL is supported at https://ssl.bing.com/ which is what their tools use.
Every time a lazy and narrow-minded admin causes a browser user to click through a certificate error to access a site, God kills a RAID array.
> In our generation you can find tons of people doing performance art with code and custom hardware. The music scene is positively bursting at the seams, as is the gaming community.

This is specifically addressed in the top post. You're attacking a strawman. Nobody is saying that this stuff isn't valuable, it's just fundamentally different from what this post is talking about.

I won't go so far as to say that you're wrong, but you're really being an asshole right now.
You are not a founder. The risk is on their shoulders, not yours. If they can't pay then too bad. Tell them to fuck off or pay.

Realize something:

These people, no matter if they are "friends" are going to fuck you if they get a big paycheck. How do I know? They are already fucking you. The role of the founder is to get enough cash flow so that the business is able to function. The role of the employee is to work as long as they are getting paid. You mentioned them having a pattern of late payments. Guess what? Its never going to change. When you pay your employees late, it means that their involvement in the business is temporary. A founder that values an employee will make all he can to pay on time (or at least pay in some kind of structured agreement with you). By you posting publicly means that you are getting the run-around.

So, I suggest to talk with these people. Demand your money in a firm manner. Or demand that you be made into a co-founder. Get ready to bail out, because this seems like a sinking ship.

Startups, much less tech ones, rarely ever make it. Move on.
(Not necessarily responding to the parent comment directly.)

The wall between STEM and the humanities is, if not artificial, quite porous, and it's in the interest of every intelligent person to bring it down.

In general, there's been quite a bit of interest in quantitative approaches to the humanities lately. Try googling for J.E.H. Smith's proposal for a data-driven survey of world philosophy, or look into Franco Moretti's work on "distant reading" in Graphs, Maps, Trees. The latter was even profiled in the New York Times Magazine several years ago.

I also like to trot out the example of Hugh Kenner, a protege of Marshall McLuhan who was one of the 20th century's great scholars of Modernism, particularly of Joyce and Pound — and who was also a contributor to Byte.
A previous employeer used Spector 360[1] on the majority of workstations. It would monitor everything including taking a screengrab every 5 seconds that you could then watch later.

They'd sit down employees and playback fast-forwarded video showing how much time was wasted on Facebook, personal email, shopping, etc. It's horribly invasive but it meant everyone was too scared to use work computers for personal things.

[1] http://www.spector360.com/
Ask HN: What is the best way to handle student loans as an entrepreneur?
I dropped out of law school after year after hating it. It left me with roughly $40K in loans. My monthly payment is manageable with my current income, and I could reduce it by changing my repayment plan to one of the lower monthly payment options, but I doubt I could get it below $200/month. I'd really like to join a startup in its early stages, potentially one that only pays me in equity and my absolute necessity bills (housing, food) to begin with (I have one in mind that is promising). Has anyone on here started a company with student loans and not had the income to repay them? Is starting a company "unemployed" for the purposes of loans, since I won't have an income?
This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it?
The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
Don't forget that this is a big marketing opportunity for Provo as well. As someone that is house hunting in Utah county the announcement of Google Fiber is the only thing making me consider Provo itself as a viable option.
It's amazing to me that most financial services don't offer two factor authentication for their accounts (Scottrade, Schwab last I checked).

Meanwhile, a lot of games (mmos) and email services provide two factor authentication.
But as you said, if you don't back out you could end up going bankrupt in two months. Don't let a sinking ship drown you.

I have been at a failed startup, ignored the warning signs, and "stuck with it" to the very end, to the very last day when they cut everyone. The smart people saw the signs and had already exited. They all landed softly, and may of them stepped up in their careers. Leaving was the best thing they could have done.

I hope you are formulating options.
It does seem a little crass. But perhaps it's not such a bad thing to stimulate a little bit of competition between the genders when there's a mismatch in the level of participation in a given field.
Maybe I'm naive here, but I think most software engineers (especially good ones) are careerist enough to want to produce something useful. That doesn't mean that there won't be some good-faith failures, but I think most engineers are already naturally aligned toward wanting to add value.

Top engineers aren't that way when a company takes 100% of the proceeds and a boss takes all the credit; but this is still allowing engineers to get a 62.5% cut.
Riak checking script in use at Voxer
Sailfish has the backing of China's largest mobile phone retailer D.Phone Group, with 2000 stores and 150 million customers. That can be much more valuable to get the OS in the hands of real customers than a good brand name in other IT sectors.
It's not an opinion, it's forbidden by the language specification so it's not portable.
I have noticed that Bing is actually getting better. However, I still prefer Google for most things. Google "assumes" what you are looking for, this can be good or bad depending on what you are searching. Bing on the other hand is like the early version of Google, literal search with minimum assumption. I am glad it is there as a fallback from Google. If the Google servers go down or if they pull some crap like ban Google search from windows phone, Bing is a decent alternative.

One thing I really appreciate from Bing is catching upto Google maps. Throughout the whole Google Maps and Windows phone fiasco, I din't miss GMaps a bit, between Nokia Maps[1] and Bing Maps [2], there isn't much I missing out from not using Google maps. Infact, I would to love Google to catch up to Nokia by offering offline maps.

Another mention is their Bing Flight [3] search, similar to kayak minus their cookie/OS price manipulations. It also comes with an awesome price prediction.

Overall, Bing has some great products but if they really want to compete with Google Search, they really need to improve their algo.

[1] http://here.com
[2] http://maps.bing.com
[3] http://flights.bing.com
have I just been 0day'd ??
All of the major companies have a decent presence in Utah. Adobe just opened up a 1,000 shop in Lehi (15 minutes north of Provo). Utah is one of the larger growing secondary tech hubs in the nation. No where close to Silicon Valley or NYC, but still growing and doing quite well.

http://www.siliconslopes.com/sites/default/files/silicon_slo...
Apple had to wait two decades “for their true market to emerge”
The website just got updated. So now you don't see the offer..
King of Pong: How a Drexel professor turned a skyscraper into an Atari
Boston bombing identification attempts on social media end in farce
Did you misunderstand?

do x <- a
y <- b
return $ x + y

can result in Nothing if either a or b is Nothing, but

(fromMaybe 0 a) + (fromMaybe 0 b)

will always result in a number, with 0 being used in place of Nothing. If only one of them is Nothing, you'll get the value of the other, the Nothing having been treated as 0.
> An energy-based theory of value

Hm. I certainly wasn't suggesting that anything be pegged to the kJ, or whatever.

I do think that someone with twice the available energy is, to a first approximation, twice as well off, and that reducing the amount of energy it takes to do whatever you want to do also makes you better off, since both of these make you able to do more of the things you want to do (or have more of the things you want to have).

It's true that there is an enormous amount of things we can do now that fall below a cost floor such that we can have however much we want, but in general I'm far more concerned with lowering costs and increasing options than with figuring out what the "value" of something is. Is a Kindle download as "valuable" as a physical book? I'm not sure that that has any objective answer. Is the cost of production lower (either in pounds or dollars or energy)? Enormously so. And that makes us all richer in comparison.
Git never forgets: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/commit/ebbfa228f...
None of these things are obscure. At all. It was an immediate fail to begin with an explanation of indexing as pointer arithmetic. This is known to any C or C++ programmer beyond an absolute beginner level.
I wished if Youtube videos were allowed under https. Currently, it just redirects to an error. If it didn't, this will put an end to ISPs throttling the Youtube streaming.
Defining instances for both someone else's class and someone else's type is considered bad and GHC will warn:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3079537/orphaned-instance...

There are occasions where it can be useful to have a module export an orphan instance for compatibility before it makes it into the more appropriate spot in the standard libs.

And you're right you can't have multiple instances for the same type; a newtype wrapper is required.
I'm sure productivity skyrocketed /s
You can see all of the content of the update in this commit:

https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/commit/ebbfa22
Indeed! We've started with polyglot.js[0], an i18n helper for Node.js and client-side javascript, but there's definitely a lot going on besides this.

[0] https://github.com/airbnb/polyglot.js
Real world assets are not immune to fluctuations in value either. The idea that gold or some other physical asset has a fixed intrinsic value is an unfounded opinion.

As an example, in the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced a large bubble in the value of... tulips.
It would be fun to see the people's productivity on that system. And who of the tech people will try to break it as a sport.
And this is the video it links to... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-cOmaaBgQ
Did anyone here buy /something/?
Wow, he actually patched 'netstat' and 'ps'. It must have been to hide certain processes and port numbers from showing up. I wonder how may one go about understanding if they are using a 'hacked' version of something as non-trivial and comprehensive as 'ps' and 'netstat'. I mean, if I'm not suspicious, I wouldn't give it a second though and trust the output of these commands.
You may be executing code on the UI thread. Take a look at Loader for a construct designed to preserve state across component lifecycle events: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/loaders.html
The page has changed since this was posted. Originally it was in the style of a kickstarter campaign, offering 'something' to anyone who paid $20. He made a self-effacing joke about capitalising on his recent exposure. He said He could ask 25 or 30 but that would be too much, and 20 is the base. There was an actual PayPal button. At least one person paid, but received a refund. Now it says everyone is getting a silver comb, but I expect the page to change again soon :)
a) There might already be something like that. A local guy sold Great Plains to MS years ago for over a billion dollars, and has done a lot to renovate the downtown area and has a local venture fund.

b) impossible
Solar power accounted for 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March 2013
I'm actually looking for such a thing for quite a while, thanks for this! Installer would defintely be helpful though.
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