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This is exactly right. Phabricator is the best code review tool I've ever tried, and it completely blows away GitHub, Google's Gerrit/Rietveld, etc.

It's just an awesome experience using it, and huge thanks to Evan Priestly for creating it.
My biggest issue with pull requests was lack of syntax highlight. I managed to fix that though[1]. It would be nice to have it as a native feature though.

[1] https://github.com/danielribeiro/github-diff-highlight#githu...
Several decades ago, in a Galaxy not very far away, a high school student mentioned to his friend that he had an M-80 he'd stashed in his locker for a while, and it was time to do something with it.

The firework was lit and tossed into one of the steel barrels used as garbage containers on campus. The two walked down the hall, noted the several seconds of absolute silence which settled over campus following the blast, and walked into the classroom of a teacher they both had, which was generally open during lunch. The teacher looked at both of them, shook his head and said, "Gentlemen..." with a slight smile.

One of the students retyped spirit copier forms (this was several decades ago) for a teacher following lunch. The typewriter used sat in the vestibule to the principle's office. He listened that hour while the yard patrol supervisor and secretary discussed "the bomb" which had gone off, as the faint smell of burned garbage wafted through the building. That day's work had more than the usual share of errors.

Nothing more ever came of it.

My, how the world has changed.
Even if that's all she did, it doesn't warrant an expulsion or a felony charge.
I work on an app with a lot of custom UI - custom UIControls, heavily custom UIViews, etc. Storyboard is a complete no-go for us because of this. Its primary strength - the nearly-WYSIWYG preview, is completely gone, and what's left is the insane XIB system and lack of scriptability.

The app I work on also does a great deal of custom drawing instead of relying on a truckload of assets. This has given us incredible speed and flexibility where we can tweak, refine, and polish without tiresome trips to our designers for assets (perk: your designers don't hate you for the endless grunt work). None of this fits well into a Storyboard-based workflow.

There is, IMO, a lot to be said for proceduralizing your UI instead of a reliance on a massive bundle of assets. It's a topic I do not see being covered in the iOS community but confers incredible speed and flexibility (and download size, oh man the download size).
Several years ago, I was reading a blog by a well known tech entrepreneur. He was describing his new project, a way for people to post their everyday life actions in 140 characters or less, so they could tell their friends they were going to the store, or what they had for lunch. I thought, what a stupid idea, only the vainest self-absorbed people would share such minute details of their life. His project was called Twitter.
This is ridiculous! At our school we were over enthusiastic with a thermite experiment that burnt through the workbench, the floor and into the room below - with no consequences for anyone involved (though the teacher probably never ran that experiment again).

I expect I would have been charged with WMD possession in the States?

Sickening.
Do "we" make browsers to be usable, or to be pretty? If any random hack came up with that idea, it would be a random, hackish idea. But because it's Apple we have to abide? I dare say nahhhh...
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Fun fact: Even though Adobe sits on the TIFF standard for more than 20 years, Photoshop doesn't support layered TIFF images.
I believe it was more like "wanna see something cool? I'll make this cap fly to the roof". Like Menthos + Coke on steroids.

Seems the "science experiment" part was just a cheap excuse, to try to get a free pass. Ironically, it may have made it worse for her..

I did similar things as a kid, just not in school. Bad judgement, but expelled from school and facing trial is just ridiculous.

If my kids were in that school, I'd seriously consider moving.
Am I wrong in thinking that this is some sort of "freedom of speech" and that it isn't necessarily wholly different than Bitcoin's sense of "hands off, let it be, decentralization, no one can control/stifle/limit/etc"?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
I don't recall there being an open source graphical Smalltalk in 1992.
As far as I know, employers aren't prevented from using Google?
I wrote a pretty extensive post on Quora about how to build hardware products. Here's an excerpt...

Designing for mass manufacturing is essentially impossible to learn without actually building several products. The challenges of negotiating with suppliers, verifying components, orchestrating supply chain logistics, and maintaining quality standards will swiftly kill a cash-constrained startup. But there's good news: unless you're on the cutting edge of a specific technology (like Apple with displays or metalwork), the problems you encounter at scale have very likely been solved by others. So the task then becomes to find those individuals or companies and hire them quickly.

PCH International is probably the most well-known of these firms. They notably make Kindle, products for Jawbone, and all the accessories for those dudes in Cupertino. Because they often work with big players, they're able to leverage large contract manufactures' (CMs) quality standards and economies of scale for smaller production runs. Currently PCH is also aggressively going after hardware startups and recently launched PCH Accelerator, which is essentially a strategic investment group to fund partnerships with startups.

Another option is Dragon Innovation, who works with Pebble, Makerbot, Sifteo, Leap Motion, and others. They're based in Boston and have recently partnered with the brand-new hardware accelerator/investor BOLT. They're certainly less flashy than PCH, but still know how to deliver.

HAXLR8R (Shenzhen) and Lemnos Labs (San Francisco) are other startup "accelerators"-- kind of like a hardware-flavor of YC. They seem to be more focused on the R&D stages (pre-Kickstarter) than production. For some personal anecdotes by others, see What startup incubators exist for hardware companies? [link]

One way to think about contract manufacturing in China is with the "smile curve" popularized by Acer in the early 90s. It's essentially a graph of a product's extractable value as a function from creation to sale. On the left is brand, high-level design (IxD, ID, PD) and any specialized R&D. In the middle you have component sourcing, supply chain management, manufacturing, assembly, and shipping. And then on the right you have distribution, retail sales, marketing, and partnerships.

... it goes on with more examples. Full post: http://www.quora.com/Michael-Grinich/Posts/Product-manufactu...

Funnily enough, Liam Casey actually often calls PCH the "APIs for manufacturing."
There was a startup featured on HN a few days ago (forget the name) that aims to do similar things. Essentially, they wanted to provide native linear algebra and associated data analysis tools for large data sets by providing the user with a Matlab/R like interface, and running appropriate Hadoop/MapReduce code in the backend. They are backed up by some of the biggest names in the machine learning community, including Tibshirani of EOSL fame.
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Riemann is top of our list to be implemented in an environment made up of PostgreSQL, Memcached, Python (Django) and Go.

But as Hekad has plugins for all of the above (except Go - but I'm sure it's possible): http://heka-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/architecture/inde...

Well I guess we'll now be evaluating whether Hekad looks like it might be a more promising fit.

I particularly like the bullet points on aggregation counters, filters and transformations. We'll have to see how they work in practise though. The docs are very pretty, but as is usual with early releases it seems a little difficult to picture the whole and how it will actually work in practise from the soup of detail that Sphinx spits out.
Yeah, I think there is actually WIP to do something along the lines of what you worked out.

However, I'm not sure what good identifying "suspicious transactions" is going to do. They're not reversible. You can't really make any attempt to "blacklist" them - you'll almost surely lose.
omg that is horrifying - everyone needs to read the wikipedia article linked above

So many lives ruined before even becoming teenagers.

Where are their lobbyists?
I agree except the cigarette example. I'm not a smoker, and think that smoking in public is annoying and it harms our health.

But at the same time, I personally love smoking tobacco when I go to a park for camping. Recommend you to try it smoking tobacco from a pipe with properly steeped ceylon tea in the middle of a forest where you can only hear the the nature and enjoy good tobacco.
It sounds like a drano bomb: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp
Nobody does. I promise. My conviction made lots of news as well; has never come up since I got it expunged.

Typical BigCos get a standard background on you (these are measured in dozens of dollars), and any further investigation that involves a human being is reserved for a very, very rare candidate. HR and operations are expensive at scale.

Since everybody rational considers this news item ridiculous, I think we can safely say this girl will be alright. The expulsion is the thing she'll have to work around, but even a felony conviction is not a life-ender. Many companies specifically hire felons because they're a tax break if filed properly.
Thanks for sharing the article!! The link is worth reading.
Fred Wilson wrote a similar experience with Airbnb [1], he's more sincere about it, detail is very thorough. Regard to this article, I only find personal remorse and popular startup names.

[1] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
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As a lobbyist, he headed the National Cable Television Association, and later the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Why might cable TV operators, cell operators and Internet providers would pay someone good money to lobby for more government regulation? What business purpose could that possibly serve?
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Nice knowledge shared.
But 1btc/day is >$100/day. They don't make that much on a single client showing ads. More like $0.10 at most, or 0.001btc (which takes much less mining power).
Suppose you want to know, not just the fact that dev is failing, but why it's failing. The particular commit that caused it to fail.
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Immediately citing racism as the reason for her punishment isn't grasping at straws, it's ignorant.

Did you read the part where she was creating _explosives_ on school property? Especially within two weeks of a major bombing involving household materials!?
If that's the case then I agree - but since I don't trust the article, I have no way of knowing what really happened.
Oh, I thought they took it down! Thanks for saying this, the second try worked.
I started a small 2 person "multi media" company using Macromedia Director. Had a few cool clients who did some Quicktime3D accelerator cards... That was around 1994
Drinking age, handgun ownership age, age of consent,cigarette smoking age have all moved up to either 18 or 21.
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Improv. The only way to genuinely cure (as opposed to merely assuage) stage fright is performing improv, completely unprepared, in front of an unfamiliar audience repeatedly. Eventually, you'll be as or more comfortable on stage as you are within a person-to-person conversation.
Communications can, in fact, kill people. High-intensity electromagnetic emissions. Those cell towers in the middle of the city have to be very thougthfully planned and installed.
Big fucking deal
This makes sense to me. The keynote is for the most part a press event with product announcements. Journalists probably prefer to collect all the headlines in one event, and Google can focus on us developers for the rest of the conference.

Edit: If it was for me, Google would sell separate Tickets for the Keynote and the rest of the conference. This would make it easier for developers to get tickets.
How is this any different than a government declaring bitcoin illegal for whatever legal reasoning they can come up with?

It's not practical to shut down everyone with a bitcoin database any more than it's practical to raid every server with wikileaks data. If they're going to declare this nuclear war on bitcoin it's not going to be on the basis of some piece of data which by the point it's in the blockchain is out of the bag anyway.
A great way to hone your public speaking skills is to join a Toastmasters group in your city.
That's definitely what it was from the description - household chemicals in a plastic bottle that went boom and gave off smoke.

This guy here makes a very good argument that it is a reaction and not an explosion under ATF guidelines defining how strong something has to be to be an explosion:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110928103240AA...

He also notes that 2Al + 3H2SO4 -> 3H2 + Al2(SO4)3 is not on the prohibited list of reactions that are federally impermissible without a license.
The "encoding method" is ASCII text. The data can be extracted by running "strings *.dat" on the block chain on any UNIX system. After that you can grep through the output.

This is not like XORing data, or as some people have said "everything occurs somewhere in the digits of pi". The blockchain in no sense encodes all possible values, or a fraction thereof, the data is trivial to extract.

This is much more like, it's sitting on the webserver, but not indexed by google. It's actually even worse than that because you can still just grep through the blockchain and find what your interested in.

This may or may not be a problem for bitcoin, but I think it is legally problematic at the moment. This may move us toward a world where it's not illegal to store any particular data or even distribute it. The illegal act might be the viewing or "distribution with intent" or the data. I think that would be an interesting development.

Personally as a user of Bitcoin I've deleted the standard qt client, I personally don't want that data on my computer. I now use a blockchainless client (Electrum).
Yes, you're right. What I meant to say was that only the copyright claims were ruled on, but even that is not strictly accurate. (And in fact, a conspiracy claim was also dismissed, so doubly inaccurate.)

To clarify, my meaning was that among the various potential legal impediments to scraping and displaying website contents, this judgement would set precedent for copyright only, if anything.
McDonald's may not be healthy, but I've never had anything from one that was gross.

(As an aside, many restaurants aren't necessarily any healthier than fast food.)
Veridian is indeed a Credit Union and a member of the NCUA.
That was then... Most of the stuff we did as kids would get my son locked up or doped up (often both) today.
Well the main competitor was Netscape 4, which was even worse.
The file extension actually makes a difference here, CBRs are RAR compressed archives.
Especially considering in America that's nearly equivalent to losing your citizenship.
Agreed... go with Toastmasters!
Yeah, the question I keep asking myself is, "what possible scenario could _possibly_ be a better case for charging this kid as a child?"
Another happy user of phabricator here, i introduced it as a single alternative to the usual set of tools we were using to track bugs, doing reviews, maintain a wiki, etc... and my coworkers seems to like it too.

There are really a lot of additional modules (internal blogs, pastebin, images directory, polls and recently a web layout review tool) that are not really needed in a "traditional" setting, but the base functionalities are there and the tool can be adapted to different workflows. So, if someone is evaluating alternatives for an internal infrastructure, i'd give it a try.

Edit: And in such "traditional" workplace, you'll likely need the option 'phabricator.serious-business' => true in your config file (it replaces button names with saner alternatives).
How did a law against murder prevent murders from happening?
Collecting and using my private info to, say, recommend friends in their UI is something I could imagine a product manager doing on purpose. Creepy, but you can see why they would think this is helpful. Spamming every number in my phone book with texts about photos that don't exist at 6am is not something I could imagine a product manager doing on purpose.
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don't get me wrong, regardless of ideology preached. Speech Methods used by JFK were top notch. This can be proven by the fact, that his acceptance speech is part of linguistic/rheatoric courses around the world.
This is actually a big issue for bitcoin, I don't think we should avoid it by saying it's the "standard bullshit".

We also not really talking about small amounts of data (at least at the moment) a few megabytes is relatively significant...

I think the fact that it's "unextraordinary" to possess this data is the interesting thing. That may force a legal distinction which in itself pushes us toward a different understanding of "illegal data" and that perhaps the legal system has to give up on that and move towards accessing or "distributing with intent" being the illegal rather than just possession.
un-f*ing-believable!
Is there a "defense fund" to contribute to? Any other constructive actions to suggest?
She could have very well mixed vinegar and baking soda and sealed the result in a weak bottle. Given the right amount of each ingredient, this mixture would "explode".
They could still offer another tier or two above that, including an unpriced enterprise tier. They've effectively put a $200/yr cap on earnings from a given client.
Ooooohohohohoho you would SO get expelled for that, since it's a much more violent reaction than what happened here. K-12 schools are largely totally unreasonable organizations run by completely unreasonable individuals who wouldn't make it in the real world.
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I was wondering who else immediately leaped to Banyan Vines!
Ignorant? You're going to say someone else is ignorant while comparing some mild gas expansion in a closed bottle to devices designed to maim and kill. It's almost like, why am I even writing this comment...
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Interesting the act of marking coins with messages is not new. In Ireland coins used to get marked with political messages from the UVF and others, I believe it was quite common for a time.

http://www.cointalk.com/t195082/
>"No wonder we asians are talking up the good jobs in America, if this is the policy for such out-of-box thinking."
I don't feel that race is relevant here.
Well, in the jamming case, Verizon would probably jam AT&T back. So neither is getting any revenue, and they are left to work out a truce or face bankruptcy.

There exists swathes of practically unlicensed spectrum, such as ham radio and 2.4GHz. While regulation exists, large scale enforcement is pretty much unheard of, yet it works pretty well.

The big cellular telecom standards (GSM and CDMA) assume a very orderly environment (contrasting the 801.11x standards that are more adaptive), so they would probably look different in a world with unregulated airwaves.

EDITED to add: For the purpose of such a thought experiment, It's not practical to imagine what would happen if the current GSM 2G and 3G spectrum just became unlicensed overnight. There is a huge infrastructure investment, both on the carrier and consumer ends that would become worthless, and this is clearly undesirable. Rather, imagine a block of airwaves (say, ex-military or analogue broadcast TV) being released with zero or minimal regulation (no exclusivity, basically).
> She will be tried as an adult.

I don't know much about US law, but how tf could this be even possible?!
Dear lord that is depressing, even more so this article linked to from wikipedia:http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/August/12-crt-993.html

Quote:

The department’s investigation showed that the agencies have helped to operate a school-to-prison pipeline whereby children arrested in local schools become entangled in a cycle of incarceration without substantive and procedural protections required by the U.S. Constitution. The department’s findings show that children in Lauderdale County have been routinely and repeatedly incarcerated for allegedly committing school disciplinary infractions and are punished disproportionately, without constitutionally required procedural safeguards. Children have also been arrested at school for offenses as minor as defiance. Furthermore, children on probation are routinely arrested and incarcerated for allegedly violating their probation by committing minor school infractions, such as dress code violations, which result in suspensions. The department’s investigation showed that students most affected by this system are African-American children and children with disabilities.
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I'm sorry. I don't understand your post.
To be fair, those were actually fairly progressive and disruptive industries when was involved in lobbying for them.
I think putting baking soda and vinegar into a bottle and then closing it. Coke and menthos is also a possibility, but the article speaks about 'household chemicals', not candy and fizzy drink...
The ISM bands are vastly less regulated. It's some of the most useful spectrum because of that.
> I am willing to be a real asshole for the first time on HN because I just don't get this type of comment. This is constantly garbage and it makes me so frustrated to see people who think they are better than someone else because they decided to pursue what they think is right whether or not they are actually right.

Do you ever stop to think what the impact of technology on society, and human relations, is? It's not 'garbage' - it's not proven right either, as society hasn't disintegrated any further than the 17th or 18th century, but I do see an impact in how little people talk to each other, in the addiction to feel-good gratification (or instant gratification - why else am I reading HN?), and in attention span.

To my reading the OP doesn't think they are better than others. When you've had a chance to reflct I'd be interested to know the reasons behind your reaction.
This is an interesting problem, I wonder if Photoshop or The Gimp actually do something fancy here.
There shouldn't be much of a problem replacing files when the files never get bigger and uncompressed ZIPs are used (compressed would make any sense for PNGs and JPGs anyway).
Small variations in file size could be compensated with some kind of padding, but it seems to me that we are approaching a point of complexity here, where we should just use another kind of filesystem, one that supports fragmented data.
If you've been paying any attention at all to the West, TX, story, you'd be aware that the regulators were largely defundend and eviscerated by anti-regulation interests.

Gov. Perry got a little steamed when his "Business is Booming" campaign was highlighted:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/perry-disgusted-by-ca...

Edit: better story link to cartoon.
But then, what about if that goes down?
It's not every day I say this to a Republican -- in fact, I'm not sure I ever have before -- but seriously keep up the good work. We're all counting on you. :-)
you probably have to mount those.