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Very hard in a general sense. Many prisons are giving people walled garden access to legal libraries and video conferencing, but nothing else.

I've done some peripheral work for corrections type people -- they don't adopt paranoid thought processes for nothing.

The average drug convict is not a criminal mastermind, but he is a cog in a criminal enterprise that is controlled by smart people. Drug and gang enterprises are real businesses, and they provide support and resources to their employees. They are capable of anything.
I like templates for code reduction. By using a template, I turned about 12 functions into 1 function once. Makes code maintainability much easier.
I think Louis CK responded to this best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
Is the argument that there should be no sales tax, or that online businesses should be exempt from it? Alternatively, is there some specific compliance issue or formulation in the proposed legislation that is poorly thought out?

I'm genuinely curious, as (in principle) the fact that online businesses have been exempt from sales tax largely strikes me as an anomaly and not some new standard.
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If Chrome didn't offer any way to 'save as' a PDF that it was displaying (really?!?), that's clearly Chrome's problem.
I don't think it really went away, at least for the fans at http://www.reddit.com/r/simcity. It's like a constant steady flow of hate on there, such that I actually feel bad for Maxis after reading a few posts.
Simply because a techy is good with computers doesn't mean he somehow is less able to interact with the real world or understand customers.

Absolutely! But I feel like you're misunderstanding the author's point.

Everyone in a company should talk to customers. Talking to customers is a tiny portion of what a "business person" does.
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I was helping someone with this exact demo a few days ago. They wanted the demo so that it was an image that gets stretched appropriately with the "cloth":

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15661270/html5-canvas-str...

I give a teeny explanation of the structure of the thing, but only enough to understand how to use an image instead of a wireframe.
This is on of the mind opening problems. The whole dynamic programming is mind opening, I'd say.
The title is a bit misleading, as it mostly applies to web daemons configuration, rather than to the servers themselves, and, while being a nice addition to default configuration, is extremely narrow and not really enough when it comes to securing (web or any other) server, while novice reader can get under impression, that it's it.
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It seems to me that this is something that a state law permitting Internet sales tax could (and would have to) work around. E.g. charge a 0.5% lower "Internet sales tax" but have it apply to absolutely everything for ease of bookkeeping.
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This is a pretty dated viewpoint. Many distributed-team collaboration solutions have existed for years. THey are not chat-only (well, maybe the free ones are).
I use {plug alert} Sococo Teamspace, which I help develop. Its always-on doc, audio, vid and yes chat sharing.
Unlike some tools, you have relative privacy when you need it - you can retreat into your office. But others choose to hang out in their standup space, or in a common zone so they can just talk and their team can hear with zero friction.

Monoculture, siloing... these are completely unnecessary symptoms of a broken process. The OP's solutions are not so much solutions but exhortations to 'do something' without much advice. My advice: use something like Teamspace.
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> highly likely that the rocket will get damaged

And because you don't know whether it is damaged or not (sometimes the damage may not be obvious), it's likely that the rocket will have to get a long post-flight inspection to check if it is suitable for another flight. It's something you can almost completely avoid if you land the rocket gently.

I read somewhere, that the costs of recovering SRBs of Space Shuttle from the ocean and then inspecting and fixing them were many times greater than building another pair of boosters.
Maybe some of those people who voted on that age poll would like to step up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
Actually, I'd love to read those sources, since - I have to admit - I read it the same way. At first it felt like total pseudo-science, and then I saw the app and "realized" that this has to be app-spam. So please, if you have actual scientific sources (mostly for the distinct functions of different phases of sleep), do share.
I read this as 'Terrible Cloth Simulation'. Lol.
Very strange indeed - people don't take legal action lightly. I don't understand why a simple email asking to remove the link wouldn't work. And if that fails you can always just use the Google Disavow: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
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I think the point here is that a witch hunt is never ok. In some of the situations you listed, people are asking for help in finding someone who wronged them. In this case the wronged party were not asking for help and it was offered up freely.

I think that the idea of reddit finding peoples stolen bikes, phones, etc is typically less of an issue because of the scope of it. In this case the driving factor was fear and anger, much like what happened after 911.

The point as I see it is that you should never hunt for someone to blame out of fear or anger. And you are right many people did it, Steven Colbert had an awesome skit making fun of the Post. But here, HN is our community and to see that kind of behavior happen here is disappointing. I'd like to see a policy enacted where posts like that are brought down in the future and not allowed to go on.

Witch hunts are a major problem with this means of communication, it just lends itself well to it, and it needs to be stamped out. That's the point.
Adding the business name in front of invoice-2013-... would be nice too.
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Want to treat them like human beings? Don't put them in the damn prison in the first place!

They're in prison because "justice" needs to be done for the crime they committed against fellow human beings. They're in there for _punishment_. Once you start giving them free meals, clothing, warmth, internet, tv - then what kind of punishment is this? Do you seriously want people who have robbed, killed, trafficked, drugged etc to live like that?

Is it good, ideal? No. Is it better than "an eye for an eye"? Probably.

As for rehabilitation, I will not even start to discuss it, prisons and rehabilitation have nothing to do with each other.
Mail-order catalog businesses, which have existed for decades?

You only pay tax in jurisdictions in which you're physically based (for an internet startup, this would be wherever you're incorporated). This axiom has held in US tax policy for about as long as there has been US tax policy.

Kinda ties in with that whole 'no taxation without representation' thing.

Edit: for clarity.
I'd guess you'd need fairly beefy GPU for this. Maybe yours is lacking some features the demo uses.
> this sort of unintuitive convention discrepancy often flummoxes people at the 9th grade level, causing them to drop out of Physics altogether

that's a rather weirdly extreme reaction to a notation, imho. it is just a 'convention', accept and move on. is there something more than meets the 'i' ?
On Windows I've yet to see any PDF viewer that's faster or better than Sumatra. All the in-browser ones are a bit slow and lacking in features.
A minor nitpick: I think the author means simply the airline known as "Norwegian", formally "Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA". "Norwegian Airlines" makes them sound like our main carrier, while they are in fact a (very popular and vastly successful) low cost, point-to-point-only, no-frills one.
I've always felt that there fab division should have been forced to be split off from it's design division. It would be better for the industry if architectures had to compete on their merits and all designs had access to the same quality of fabs.
This is a conundrum. The online Forums taking the vigilante role and ending up as a powerful force begs a question: Is this the forum/platform which has become so powerful, or the forum/platform owners?

You see, the BBC is reporting that Reddit apologized. Do you really think that there is such a thing called Reddit which has a capacity to apologize? Either the owners of Reddit can apologize or nobody. If the owners of Reddit apologized than do we believe that the group of public (which is mostly responsible for the witch-hunt) also apologized? How could they apologize as a collective group when they are not coherent as a visible entity?

The owners of such internet platforms should reflect on when their platform could be abused by the mass and they should interfere before it becomes a monster which cannot be tamed.
People need to take their leads to the police... Sure the police could have an app for that, but just because you have extra energy is not a excuse to destroy peoples lives by falsely accusing them of this sort of crime.
So...when the crowd get large enough, its time to grab the pitchforks as well, for fear of being skewered oneself? It is always when the mob gets cackled that cooler heads need to prevail. Mob action works by social reinforcement, someone needs to be the cobalt rods in the reactor, or you need to stay out of the exclusion zone.

The Feds, for their "credit", have been burned by prematurely releasing investigative material before, and know that it can skew the information the receive...it generates more noise and lawsuits.
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I had this in a previous employment. It's likely they haven't got the funds to pay you so you need to get out.

Check your contract, if you don't have one they don't have anything on you. If you do have one, check conditions. Just because they aren't playing ball with your pay, doesn't mean you can just leave.

In all cases, send them a written letter giving your notice (in sickly nice pen) and count down the days.
I think I do a reasonable job of making that clear with the introductory paragraph, but yes it is something that cannot be understated. They are just three little things that do not constitute a complete security policy.
I also have a few of those sitting in boxes in my garage. Every time I do some cleaning-up, I debate (just for a second!) whether I should dispose of them, but end up keeping them.
Why are CPU's built like CPU's and not like GPU's? I mean this running things on the GPU business clearly means that the CPU does not meet the needs of programmers adequately.

Shoehorning things to run on the GPU seems to me a dirty hack, indicating that there is an underlying problem that could and should be addressed in a better way.
Unless your distribution of choice implements /tmp as tmpfs, which iirc Fedora does! ;) But yes, /tmp works as well!
One of things that helps me is a sleeping cap. Mine is just a thin lightweight hat. I surmise this helps in the same way the article suggests to wear socks to keep your extremities warm. The only thing is, I hate wearing socks to bed, instead I wear the cap! :)

I also like to think the act of putting on my sleeping cap is also a nice subconscious cue that it's sleep time.
An interesting side-point -- Python supports imaginary numbers and uses j:

In [2]: a=5-4j

In [3]: b=1+2j

In [4]: a+b
Out[4]: (6-2j)
When I first read this I thought you were missing the point, then I remembered Musk's ambition to live on mars and the planned landing sequence for the Red Dragon. Good point!
My first startup actually landed me in CA state prison. (Read about my prison sentence and my new project here: http://comebackasap.com/burn_the_boats/ )

Though I "only" served a year, the one thing I missed more than anything --including family, friends, and the touch of a woman-- was internet access. (I love my family, friends, and lady friends but a year away from them wasn't so bad. Fortunately I have no kids.)

I'd literally have dreams about the internet. One dream I remember in particular was winning an imaginary "Inmate of the Month" contest. My prize was an hour of unfettered access to the internet. It was absolute bliss checking my email, Google Voice, Hacker News, etc.) I remember that dream with vivid clarity to this day. It may seem innocuous, but to me it illustrates how we've become so accustomed to an information-driven existence.

While in prison I'd seen numerous sports trivia arguments that resulted in all-out brawls that could've easily been resolved with a 5 second Google search. (Dudes were getting sent to the SHU for as many as 6 months because of a fight that stemmed from an argument over which team Kobe Bryant scored 81 points against. Insane.)

So you may ask, "Why not ask the C.O.'s to look it up on their phones?" It's true, some CO's would do it for us. Others would tell us flat-out "no". But then you have to worry about the dk CO's that would pretend to look it up, then give us faulty information just to stoke the flames of discord amongst us inmates. (I've seen this happen multiple times.)

As you can imagine, there is a lot of storytelling (read: lying) that goes on in prison. Imagine not being able to call a guy out on his nonsense with a couple swipes of the screen. "Oh you're in prison for moving 100 kilos of cocaine? Says here you were convicted for felony DUI." An extreme example but you get the point. In the free world, people simply can't get away with BS when each of us is walking around with miniature super-computers in our pockets.

"Cruel punishment" indeed.
I didn't say that they were dumb, I said that they were incompetent fools. Incompetent for not managing to cause more destruction, fools for not escaping when they had the chance.

It's quite likely that I would be a bad terrorist too, but I would at least study the effects of explosives and explosions and how to maximize the result before trying to use them. It's not like there's not a lot of research in the area, given that it's been a priority for the world's armed forces since forever.
It did have trouble getting its groove back, but it was still better than most other shows of its type. It's a sad day.
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And not a single comment (other than the license header) in that code...
Well, we could go on a witch hunt to hunt the witch hunters...but then who would be hunting us?
> it's a wonder common sense has held out as long as it has.

> I don't want a level playing field.

If you explicitly advocate that some businesses should be treated more favorably than others with respect to taxation, even if they are selling the same goods to the same customers, fine.

But the opposite point of view is surely not "bullshit".
Awesome. I had prototyped this exact same thing out, but was concerned about the security and liability implications.
I do wonder though how different this thread would be if "the internet" actually found the right person.

Anyway, for now places like reddit and 4chan have far less influence than say CNN or Daily News so any damage they cause is far less.

A good crowdsourcing app would maybe have one-way data to "authorities" and not allow people to "gang up" on any individual.
It is not just playing Tetris; it is playing with special goggles that block part of the screen from one eye and block the rest from the other eye.
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yup, but in Spain, a few minutes usually means a couple of hours
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I actually see that as an argument against using j. The meanings of a unit vector in real space and a dimensional unit in imaginary space are different concepts even if it's common to represent both in 2-dimensions plots. It seems to me that this would only cause confusion/ambiguity. When I look at a plot I want to know what it's representing as soon as possible, and the way the axes are labeled is part of what helps me.
Who was still using 'Right click and save as'?
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HBO actively refuses to even think about an Internet-only subscriber model.

They seem happy to offer such subscriber models outside the US, so they're obviously not refusing to think about it. I'm sure they think about it very much every day and have complete plans to roll out such a service in the US as well the second it makes financial sense.
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Well a pretty typical scenario is you are writing a ruby app and run into an area that needs additional horsepower (say a gaming API or something). Being on JRuby would give you more options at that point.
This is backwards for Hacker News and I'm worried that there are new people here that might not see this for what it is: fixed mindset "you wouldn't understand business" indoctrination.

He's not even really bothering to sell it to us, he started the article with a short narrative with himself in a position of confident authority speaking to the low-status, highly-emotional babyish developer who he closes down by condescending with a high-status signal of "You really want to know?" with trademark eyebrow raises.

This whole site, at least until a couple of years ago, was a monument to the idea that Hackers could build and execute technology businesses better than many non-technical business people. This "King" fellow that has decided to come in and condescend us by telling us something that we probably understand on a far deeper level than him: the whole system.

>> These two worlds, in a startup, are intertwined yet run parallel.

You are conflating parallel and intertwined which shows serious misunderstanding. It's by having people that deeply understand both worlds that you are able to create superior products. The world is intertwined! A Hacker is somebody that manipulates systems technical or social; and your separation of the areas is simply an artifact of a broken culture that will cause problems for yourself and others. Never dictate from a position of ignorance.

Edit; There are lots of technical people that understand business, and very few business people that understand technology. It would be far more helpful if you were able to explain the difference between high-leverage technology people and low-leverage technology people to business guys; I suspect this is a frame which might at least show them the utility afforded if they learn how to think about technology.
Woah, great point. I'm amazed that we never realized how terrible the back button experience is for the discovery process. Definitely something that needs immediately attention.

I'm really disappointed in that miss since we put in effort to use the history api to make the back button more pleasant for modals.
"There are or course other ways of forcing file downloads, such as adding certain configuration to your .htaccess file, but I think server-side solutions to front-end problems should be avoided whenever possible."

WOW. So http have the solution for that, but as you are lazy, you want to reinvent the wheel and do it on your own, forgetting that the fronting you are talking about is running over http.

The http header have a few years now (Content-Disposition). It is not related at all with apache (even if you mention a way to configure apache).

You give a service to the client, not just a pile of frontend. If you don't know how to do it, hire some people that knows how the webservers and http world works!. But what you are saying is that without understanding how http works, and without any interest on learning it, you want the world to change to your needs. Isn't it?
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Totally makes sense. Mainstream media screwed up big time (so what if they were hiding the faces on the photographs they quoted). But same is the case with Twitter ecosystem. It all comes down to "professional journalists" becoming unprofessional.

People, the common and all kinds of people, on the other hand, would "talk". Whether online or offline, people talk about all types of things, good, bad or ugly. Reddit is like a platform which provides microphone to common people and it amplifies their talk. Just because people have opinion doesn't mean they should be highlighted in the newspaper.

Reddit and HN etc needs to decide if they are going to editorialize their platform or not. Apologizing after-the-fact makes no sense.
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Are you referring to that neat trick they pulled a half dozen times, where they landed a rocket on its tail in an airless environment with 1/6 gravity? That was still pretty impressive on a bunch of other levels.
There are many rural areas in the US where the physical address is not in the USPS database and as such "does not exist" (the USPS only has PO Boxes). That makes using any address neigh impossible for accurate tax calculations.
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Because they originate from a time where plain text was what you had, and the format was created to be consistent and easy to format by hand. I still prefer my specifications to be in plain text so that I can view them easily and quickly.
I don't understand this line of thinking. People already pay sales taxes in big box stores, so in this case, it's more like the Government is artificially encouraging online businesses and penalizing physical stores. Both kinds of businesses being subject to the same rules is a good thing surely?
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Just yesterday I wrongly typed musicbrainz.com, looking for the powerful open source music tagger. It appears to be in the list. I don't mind grabbing a few bucks from a big Corp when they forgot to get their domains, but I find it a bit vulturish to squat names of open source projects.

It might be the case that Jacques did register this name without knowing, but it seems not very likely.
When silencing Nginx's version number, what is the value in continuing to supply the "Nginx" header to indicate which product it is?